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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: Don't stop no matter so Zach hurt my voice. So

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Speaker 1: you're gonna have to bring no. I'm my hen bank

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Speaker 1: like bred. Nothing I can do it, ny Y, Yeah,

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Speaker 1: stop for real. Come a big show, a big shout,

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Speaker 1: a big shout of praise. Ah, Pray for us. We're

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Speaker 1: getting happy in quarantine. Pray for us. We believe that

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Speaker 1: Jesus Christ is Lord of lords. We came to crown

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Speaker 1: him today. How many came to crown him? Take about

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Speaker 1: twelve seconds and find the crown emoji. Just let everybody

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Speaker 1: in the chat. No, this is what I came to do,

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Speaker 1: to worship him, to declare the praises of him who

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Speaker 1: called me out of darkness and into his marvelous light. Well,

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Speaker 1: I think we've got comments from people saying that right

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Speaker 1: now all over the world. In Brazil. What was the

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Speaker 1: name of that I missed it? Pasit Pause it Ukraine,

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Speaker 1: keep it going. This is where we speak life today.

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Speaker 1: We speak life, we speak life, we speak blessing. Posit,

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Speaker 1: pose it, pose it, let it roll. I don't see

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Speaker 1: any Spain. I see Spain. I see pose it, posit,

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Speaker 1: pos it. All right, let it run again. I see

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Speaker 1: I see posit. I see Columbia, Columbia with a oh, Chris,

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Speaker 1: don't get too happy. This ain't Carolina. This is you

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Speaker 1: got to have your passport Columbia. Welcome all over the world.

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Speaker 1: Thank you Jesus. It is release weekend. This is the

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Speaker 1: This is the day that we declare the life of

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Speaker 1: God to every situation. And I don't even care what

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Speaker 1: it is. It might stink where you are, just like

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Speaker 1: it stunk where Lazarus was. The stink doesn't scare Jesus.

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Speaker 1: He is attracted to what others back away from. So

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Speaker 1: I know some of you haven't had your shower yet,

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Speaker 1: you didn't brush your teeth, But that's all right. God

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Speaker 1: doesn't care about your bad breath. Let everything that hath breath,

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Speaker 1: minty breath, fresh bread, bad bread. If you got breath,

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Speaker 1: if he lets you see another day, shout aladd that's

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Speaker 1: my best. That's I'm getting back to bases. I'm getting

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Speaker 1: back to basics. Co the hole, tell them all, come

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Speaker 1: liey co hey, come live, co author of life. We

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Speaker 1: give you praise today. We returned back the breath that

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Speaker 1: you gave us as a gift, and we all for it.

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Speaker 1: We offer you this breath, We offer you a thought.

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Speaker 1: We offer you our hearts. We don't feel like they're

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Speaker 1: very worthy, but you said you wanted to live there.

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Speaker 1: We don't feel like our praise is very magnificent, but

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Speaker 1: you said you wanted to inhabit it. So come and

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Speaker 1: do that now. God. Somebody said I'm watching church, but

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Speaker 1: they were wrong. They're not watching anything when they worship

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Speaker 1: You and the beauty of holiness. You set up shop,

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Speaker 1: if it's in a kitchen, if it's on a futon,

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Speaker 1: Thank you Jesus, I speak another vitamin D deliverance. God,

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Speaker 1: would you set the captives free today? Do what only

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Speaker 1: But you do, Lord. I pray that that would be

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Speaker 1: the testimony of every person today when when we get

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Speaker 1: I thank you for what I feel standing in an

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Speaker 1: and right now I confer my faith to join with

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Speaker 1: for you, So do the impossible, the unimaginable. We give

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Speaker 1: you all that we are. We focus our hearts on you,

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Speaker 1: to worship you, and we honor your presence in Jesus' name.

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Speaker 1: And everybody in the chat, come on, y'all, break the chat.

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Speaker 1: Say amen, Say amen in all caps. I wonder can

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Speaker 1: we break YouTube today? I want to? I want to

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Speaker 1: So here we are here, You are here, I am.

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Speaker 1: What's up? How you do? And take another bite of

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Speaker 1: your bagel and get ready for the Word of God.

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Speaker 1: How many are grateful that he turns graves into garters?

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Speaker 1: What else does he do? He turns mourning to dance

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Speaker 1: He wept with me. He is the god who sees

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Speaker 1: and knows. Y'all need to sit down, feel I feel

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Speaker 1: so spontaneous. If y'all don't get a stool, we're never

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Speaker 1: gonna get to the word. Welcome to week three of

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Speaker 1: a series called Looking Forward to Normal, And I feel

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Speaker 1: this one in my bones. I'm already sweating right through

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Speaker 1: my limited edition exclusive Graves into Gardens jacket. Don't even

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Speaker 1: ask where you can buy it. It is not for sale.

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Speaker 1: This is special, This is the pastoral edition, This is

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Speaker 1: the founder's right, and we do just want to make

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Speaker 1: sure that you're listening to these songs. You know, one

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Speaker 1: of the things that I'm gonna speak about today and

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Speaker 1: help you focus, and that's going to be important for

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Speaker 1: my message today. You'll see. Really, that's what we're talking

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Speaker 1: helping you keep your New Year's resolutions right now because

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Speaker 1: Less plug. Oh yeah, I plug stuff. I believe in.

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Speaker 1: I plug stuff with a purpose. Somebody put it in

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Speaker 1: with a purpose, pastor touch seventeen people and you know,

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Speaker 1: And yet I found out that a lot of times

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Speaker 1: So what I want to focus on instead is the

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Speaker 1: fruit and what has happened to me get this. Beneath

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Speaker 1: the surface, God is growing something greater than our minds

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Speaker 1: can imagine. Something's happening in the soil. Something is happening

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Speaker 1: in the soil. Something is taking root in your heart

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Speaker 1: right now, in this season of my life, God is

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Speaker 1: giving me a root system. In this season of my life.

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Speaker 1: God is teaching me to focus. In this season of

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Speaker 1: my life, remember, I'm looking forward to normal. God is

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Speaker 1: pruning some stuff out of my life right now to

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Speaker 1: make me ready for what's next. Can I get one

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Speaker 1: witness in this room that God is rooting me, establishing

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Speaker 1: me so that I can bear more fruit. Well, we

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Speaker 1: like the fruit, right, but the roots kind of boring,

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Speaker 1: kind of not too sexy, kind of ugly when you

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Speaker 1: get down to it. You ever put roots in a

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Speaker 1: vase and handed them to somebody for Valentine's Day? Now, one,

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Speaker 1: what's on the other side? We all want what's on

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Speaker 1: the other side, on the other side of the Red Sea.

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Speaker 1: I'm gonna give you praise Lord God. When we get

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Speaker 1: back to church. I saw y'all on Instagram. I've been

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Speaker 1: going through your Instagram post everybody that tagged me or

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Speaker 1: Elevation Worship singing a song. I scrolled through them. Ask Abby,

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Speaker 1: ask Graham. We spent three hours last night just scrolling

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Speaker 1: through y'all. Some of y'all couldn't sing on key, but

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Speaker 1: we still enjoyed seeing you sing these songs. I saw

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Speaker 1: so many people say when we get back to church,

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Speaker 1: oh man, watch out, well, why wait? Why wait? I

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Speaker 1: thought you were church. I thought the Holy Spirit lived

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Speaker 1: in you. Jordan, if you were at Riverwalk, you'd be

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Speaker 1: standing up shouting me down. Why you need a crowd

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Speaker 1: to shout me down? I thought the spirit of God

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Speaker 1: lived in you. So now look, we love to shout

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Speaker 1: over fruit, but fruit without root doesn't last long. I

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Speaker 1: want something sustainable in my life. I want not only

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Speaker 1: the blessing of God, but I want him to build

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Speaker 1: me up so that I can bear up under it.

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Speaker 1: I want to yield my fruit in season in season,

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Speaker 1: in season in season. There is a time for everything,

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Speaker 1: Solomon said, there is a season to mourn. So if

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Speaker 1: you're mourning right now, that's the root. But you will

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Speaker 1: rejoice in the morning, that's the fruit. And I'm not

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Speaker 1: focused on what I'm going through. I'm focused on what

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Speaker 1: God is doing through and focus on the fruit. Focus

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Speaker 1: on the fruit, Focus on the fruit. How was your week? Well,

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Speaker 1: it depends what part about it do you want to know?

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Speaker 1: When I almost strangled my kids or when I hugged them.

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Speaker 1: I did both, the part where I was walking around

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Speaker 1: the house cussing under my breath or the part where

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Speaker 1: I was singing Man. Because from the same mouth the

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Speaker 1: fruit of lips that profess his name and the fruit

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Speaker 1: that will tell you other stuff too. So listen out

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Speaker 1: of this this great season of uncertainty, somebody put put

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Speaker 1: again in the chat, I do not know you are

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Speaker 1: allowed to say that. I don't know what makes people

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Speaker 1: think that preachers know stuff that we don't know. People

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Speaker 1: will ask me the weirdest stuff. If a cat dies

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Speaker 1: in the middle of the night and the owner went

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Speaker 1: to church the day before it, would it get to

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Speaker 1: heaven or does it have to pray? I don't know

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Speaker 1: about your cat. In the Book of Revelations, where it

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Speaker 1: talks about the horse and the Da Da Da and

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Speaker 1: the heavens and the earth and decide, I said, I

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Speaker 1: didn't break open the scroll. The lamb did that. I didn't.

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Speaker 1: I'm not the lamb. I'm a dumb sheep like you.

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Speaker 1: You you e w eu insdeed y'all wake up. We

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Speaker 1: don't have law. And so knowing that I don't know

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Speaker 1: what a powerful what a powerful concept. Knowing that you

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Speaker 1: don't know makes you open to wisdom. Knowing that you

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Speaker 1: don't know. I talked to Craig Grochelle yesterday about when

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Speaker 1: church is going to open, and this and that and

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Speaker 1: the other, and all the states are different, and I

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Speaker 1: don't know if our governor is ever going to let

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Speaker 1: us out the house again or not. But certain states

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Speaker 1: in the United States of America open up. Certain nations

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Speaker 1: are more open than others, and we're all on different

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Speaker 1: ways dealing with coronavirus. If you're watching this in a

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Speaker 1: time capsule. In twenty thirty two, things were weird. This

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Speaker 1: was not like elevation. Church had a bad growth season.

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Speaker 1: We weren't allowed to come okay, But I was like,

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Speaker 1: what do you think, man? Another month, another six months,

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Speaker 1: another twelve months where we go to church and come

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Speaker 1: back to D D D D. And we went back

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Speaker 1: and forth, just talking, just burning up our data plan,

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Speaker 1: talking to each other. And finally I said, do you

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Speaker 1: know what the most small ardest thing that we've said,

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Speaker 1: the most smartest thing we said on this whole call

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Speaker 1: was when you said, three minutes ago, I don't know,

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Speaker 1: that's the smartest thing either of us have said. And

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Speaker 1: so here's what's really cool about right now. We are

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Speaker 1: all idiots at the same time. We are all equally

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Speaker 1: ignorant of what comes next. Nobody's got a crystal ball.

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Speaker 1: I know your uncle's cousin's friend worked for the Pentagon.

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Speaker 1: Shut up hearing from everybody. When my dad went to

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Speaker 1: college with doctor fouche, shut up. Nobody knows. Paul didn't know.

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Speaker 1: Nobody knows. Are my kids ever going to have a

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Speaker 1: real teacher again? Nobody knows. Then they might send them

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Speaker 1: to school, and they might send them back right, Nobody

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Speaker 1: knows when is the Nobody knows, Nobody, nobody, nobody, nobody.

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Speaker 1: All the depths of the wisdom of the riches and

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Speaker 1: knowledge of God, how insearchable is passed beyond tracing out

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Speaker 1: who has known the mind of the Lord, and who

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Speaker 1: has been as counselor. This is Romans eleven, right before

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Speaker 1: Romans twelve, where it says, be transformed by the renewing

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Speaker 1: of your mind. He says, Oh, the depths of the

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Speaker 1: wisdom of the riches and knowledge of God, how unsearchable

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Speaker 1: his pathways? Beyond tracing out? Who has known the mind

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Speaker 1: of the Lord? Who knows not me, not me, not

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Speaker 1: you not Paul. Paul always had an answer. You know,

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Speaker 1: he was one man said he was seldom he was.

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Speaker 1: He was often wrong, but seldom in doubt. Do you

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Speaker 1: know anybody like that? That was Paul. Paul always knew

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Speaker 1: And look you can to see him. He starts this passage,

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Speaker 1: he says, I want you to know brothers and sisters

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Speaker 1: verse twelve, and then by the time he gets to

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Speaker 1: verse twenty two, he says, I do not know, So

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Speaker 1: how are we supposed to know if you don't even know? Right?

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Speaker 1: I love this because the truth is in the tension

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Speaker 1: hermeneutical principle one oh one. The truth is in the tension.

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Speaker 1: So the presence of faith does not eliminate uncertainty. In fact,

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Speaker 1: it operates by uncertainty. Can I preach like I? Like

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Speaker 1: I saw it in the text? He said, I want

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Speaker 1: you to know that the Gospel is going forward. That's

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Speaker 1: the important thing, And as a result, it has become

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Speaker 1: clear verse thirteen throughout the whole palace. Guard Wait a minute,

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Speaker 1: Wait a minute. He's talking about clarity, but he's still

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Speaker 1: not defining the outcome. His clarity is not about the outcome.

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Speaker 1: His clarity is about God's presence in the process. What

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Speaker 1: a word. I'm focused on what God is doing in

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Speaker 1: me right now. I can't control what politicians do. I

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Speaker 1: can't control how long this prison sentence is. There is

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Speaker 1: something outside of my control. But this is what I

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Speaker 1: told Elijah in the Pound the other day. Graham, I'm

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Speaker 1: giving him life lessons, and I think this has to

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Speaker 1: be number one. Just if you strip it all away,

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Speaker 1: and I don't even need a Bible verse for this,

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Speaker 1: but if you strip it all away, this is what

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Speaker 1: I taught him. The only thing you can really control

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Speaker 1: is your focus. What you're gonna do, make it sonny,

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Speaker 1: what you're gonna do, make it rainy, what you're gonna do,

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Speaker 1: make people nicer, You're gonna make people stop being crazy.

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Speaker 1: What are you gonna do. You're gonna do. You're gonna

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Speaker 1: pray away the virus. Look, man, I'm praying just as

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Speaker 1: hard as anybody for stuff that I can't control. That's

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Speaker 1: all I can do. But what I can control is

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Speaker 1: my focus. I can control my focus. Not me pastro feurdics, feuritic.

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Speaker 1: I can't control my focus. I'm a ADHD. I'm not.

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Speaker 1: I am not talking about physical focus. I'm talking about

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Speaker 1: emotional focus. I'm talking about spiritual focus. I'm talking about

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Speaker 1: focusing your priorities. Now. The fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace,

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Speaker 1: patient's kindnes, goodness, faithuless gentlemen, and self control. Galatians five,

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Speaker 1: twenty two, twenty three. Cross reference for your Bible study.

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Speaker 1: The fruit of the Spirit is joy. The fruit of

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Speaker 1: the spirit is joy, but the root of the spirit

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Speaker 1: is priorities. What you are planted in what matters to me.

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Speaker 1: This is Paul's message. He's writing back to the church

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Speaker 1: that he founded in Philippi. He led that purple cloth

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Speaker 1: dealer Lydia to the Lord, and the city was never

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Speaker 1: the same. He got locked up with Silas in prison

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Speaker 1: in Philippi for preaching the gospel. Remember that story. Most

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Speaker 1: people don't know that he is writing a letter to

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Speaker 1: the same people who only have a church in their

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Speaker 1: city because Paul was thrown in prison. Did you hear me?

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Speaker 1: The only reason there is a book of Philippians is

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Speaker 1: because Paul was thrown in prison. The only reason that

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Speaker 1: he writes, I can do all things through Christ who

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Speaker 1: strengthens me Philippians four thirteen. Mountain was able to do. Wait, No,

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Speaker 1: that's Ephesians three twenty Philippians four nineteen able to do

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Speaker 1: And that's Ephesians three twenty two. What's the one in

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Speaker 1: Philippians four nineteen, No, No. Four thirteen is I can

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Speaker 1: do all things? Philippians for nineteen nineteen nineteen, I want,

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Speaker 1: I want for nineteen I know what that through your

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Speaker 1: prayers and God's provision. No Verse nineteen says, my God

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Speaker 1: will supply all your needs. But yet Paul is saying,

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Speaker 1: I don't know how this ends. But yeah, he's saying,

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Speaker 1: my God will supply all my needs. But I don't

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Speaker 1: need to know how it ends. To know that I'm

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Speaker 1: going to see the glory of God in the middle

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Speaker 1: of it, some things I don't need to know. I

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Speaker 1: don't need to know. That is why I am encouraging

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Speaker 1: you to limit your intake of the news. You do

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Speaker 1: not need to know everything up to the minute. Amen.

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Speaker 1: You do not need to know the things that you

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Speaker 1: cannot directly affect. You do not need to know all

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Speaker 1: the detail to take your next step. Just ask Abraham.

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Speaker 1: You do not have to know the ten year plan

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Speaker 1: for your life to give God your best today. You

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Speaker 1: do not have to know how long until there is

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Speaker 1: a vaccine for a virus. To praise God and worship

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Speaker 1: God for the life that he has given you in

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Speaker 1: this moment and releasing my need to know is the

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Speaker 1: hardest thing because I thought that information was the key.

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Speaker 1: But yet Paul says, there is a confidence that goes

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Speaker 1: beneath knowledge. Let me sit back down because I got

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Speaker 1: more to say about this. In fact, I haven't even

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Speaker 1: started my sermon yet, Paul said, because of my chains,

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Speaker 1: most of the brothers and sisters verse fourteen have become

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Speaker 1: confident in the Lord and dare all the more. I'm

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Speaker 1: gonna praise him all the more. Oh, thank you Devil

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Speaker 1: for challenging my fate. It's gonna make me more grateful.

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Speaker 1: Thank you Lord for pruning my branches. It's only gonna

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Speaker 1: make me more fruitful. More fruit, more fruit, more fruit,

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Speaker 1: more fruit. I don't know who it's for, but you're

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Speaker 1: gonna have more fruit, even if you got a little

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Speaker 1: less money. Right now, I'm gonna bear more fruit. Somebody

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Speaker 1: say more fruit, Come on, bring LB back next week.

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Speaker 1: I need some help out here. More fruit, more fruit,

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Speaker 1: more fruit in the chat, more fruit. Say it out

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Speaker 1: of your mouth, more fruit. Because my roots are going deeper.

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Speaker 1: Because I'm humble and I'm open, and where I am

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Speaker 1: not a closed system, God can sow the seed of

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Speaker 1: his word and bring forth something that my mind could

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Speaker 1: never conceive. Now it is true verse fifteen that some

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Speaker 1: preach Christ out of envy and rivalry, but others out

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Speaker 1: of goodwill. The latter do so out of love. This

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Speaker 1: is all the stuff Paul can't control. He's like, yeah,

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Speaker 1: some people are talking about me. Yeah, there's some idiots

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Speaker 1: out here. Yeah I got trolls too. Yeah. I just

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Speaker 1: block them and move on. Isn't it crazy how you

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Speaker 1: just focus on the one thing that's against you. Do

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Speaker 1: you do this too, or okay, pray for me? This

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Speaker 1: is what I do. I focus. I have a thousand

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Speaker 1: people say something nice to me, one person say something nasty,

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Speaker 1: and I will. I will snuggle up to nasty. What

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Speaker 1: am I doing? I'm being immateure that's immature. It means

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Speaker 1: I'm not rooted enough yet in love to know that

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Speaker 1: God is for me, who can be against me? Paul

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Speaker 1: knew that. He knew that. He actually wrote that if

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Speaker 1: God is for me, who could be against me? So

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Speaker 1: he knew it. He wrote it. He said it came

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Speaker 1: from within him. He knew it because it came from within.

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Speaker 1: I almost called this message. She hates when I do this,

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Speaker 1: She says, just give it one title, don't give it

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Speaker 1: the alternate titles. But here's the alternate title for this message.

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Speaker 1: Prison sentence, Prison sentence, because we hang up Philippians four

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Speaker 1: thirteen in a weight room. I can do all things

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Speaker 1: through Christ, who strengthens me. Paul wrote that sentence in

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Speaker 1: a prison prison sentence. I wanted to know what's gonna

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Speaker 1: come forth out of your life in this season of frustration.

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Speaker 1: Prison sentence. I could do a whole series on prison sentences.

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Speaker 1: It has a double meaning. I don't know how long

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Speaker 1: I'm gonna be here, but I'm gonna bear some fruit

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Speaker 1: while I do. I am like a tree planted by

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Speaker 1: the streams of water. I don't know how long, but

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Speaker 1: I know how high, how wide, how deep, how unsearchable

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Speaker 1: is the love of Christ. I know that it is

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Speaker 1: beyond my comprehension. I do not know, but I know

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Speaker 1: there's more fruit, more favor, more faith. So he said,

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Speaker 1: I'm gonna ignore what I can't control. I'm going to

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Speaker 1: ignore what I can't control. Yeah, but Paul, don't you

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Speaker 1: need to be informed. You think you get informed by

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Speaker 1: watching the news. You think you get informed by receiving

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Speaker 1: fragmented information. No, no, no, Paul said, focus on the fruit,

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Speaker 1: the fruit. You will know the tree by its fruit.

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Speaker 1: We should step all the way back real quick before

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Speaker 1: we get to this really good part of the passage.

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Speaker 1: I still haven't gotten to the good part. Man. I

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Speaker 1: just feel like I know something that you don't know yet,

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Speaker 1: and I can't wait to show you. But I know

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Speaker 1: that you don't know yet. It's so good. It's so good,

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Speaker 1: it's so good. But for now, let's go back a

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Speaker 1: couple thousand years, real quick, let's go back to normal. Okay,

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Speaker 1: everybody wants to get back to normal. Let's get back

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Speaker 1: to normal for a minute. Adam and Eve are naked

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Speaker 1: in a garden and they can eat anything they want

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Speaker 1: and they don't have to uber eat, to do or

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Speaker 1: dash it. It's just there, and that was normal. It

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Speaker 1: was normal. Some of us are so used to scarcity

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Speaker 1: that abundance doesn't even feel normal to us, and when

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Speaker 1: God brings it, we reject it because we've never known

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Speaker 1: it before. Deeper, God will send someone to love us,

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Speaker 1: but if they love us too much, we will push

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Speaker 1: them away because we are not used to receiving fully,

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Speaker 1: and so we do what Adam and Eve did. Do

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Speaker 1: you remember what they called the Tree of the Remember Abby,

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Speaker 1: the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, of

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Speaker 1: the knowledge of the knowledge. And do you remember what

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Speaker 1: the snake told Eve? He said, you eat it, you'll

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Speaker 1: be like God knowing the difference between good and evil. Y'all.

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Speaker 1: They didn't get in trouble because God didn't like apples.

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Speaker 1: They got in trouble because they lost focus of all

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Speaker 1: the things God had given them to eat, of all

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Speaker 1: the choices that God has given us. Like we have

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Speaker 1: a choice, how we spend this time? You made a

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Speaker 1: good one today. You know all the crap you could

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Speaker 1: be watching on YouTube and you're in church. Give yourself

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Speaker 1: a clap hand emoji, just just right now, just to

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Speaker 1: thank God. I made a good choice today, a quality

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Speaker 1: choice today. I'm gonna plant myself by streams of water

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Speaker 1: this week, not by stagnant cons of misinformation and speculation.

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Speaker 1: So I'm gonna plant myself today. I'm getting my roots right.

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Speaker 1: That's what Holly said to me. She was going to

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Speaker 1: the beauty shop. Remember beauty shop. She said, I'm gonna

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Speaker 1: get my roots right. Put it in the chat. I'm

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Speaker 1: getting my roots right. That's what I'm doing today. I'm

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Speaker 1: getting my roots right. I'm getting my roots right. I'm

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Speaker 1: getting my mind right, I'm getting my belief system right.

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Speaker 1: I'm getting my priorities right. I'm finding out what really

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Speaker 1: matters right now, I'm gonna do it in this prison cell.

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Speaker 1: I'm gonna see something. God's gonna show me something. The

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Speaker 1: gospel is going to advance through this season. We're getting

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Speaker 1: our roots right. And yet Adam and Eve they wanted

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Speaker 1: to know. They wanted to be God. They wanted to know,

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Speaker 1: they wanted to be God. Our need to know is

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Speaker 1: what keeps us from receiving. That's what was so bad

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Speaker 1: about that tree. Nobody even knows what fruit they ate.

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Speaker 1: I hope it was delicious, because it really was expensive.

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Speaker 1: He'd had to put her clothes back on. Just imagine Chris,

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Speaker 1: how it could have been. I called this message option

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Speaker 1: number three. When naked was normal, Adam and even just

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Speaker 1: walking around nothing to hide. It is what it is.

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Speaker 1: We are who we are. We're loved by God. We

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Speaker 1: walk with Him in the cool of the evening. We

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Speaker 1: just take pluck what we want, just anytime we want.

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Speaker 1: Just you know, naked was normal. Didn't have to hide

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Speaker 1: behind fig leaves, didn't have to create a covering, didn't

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Speaker 1: have to create a persona, didn't have to create a

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Speaker 1: pretension of good behavior and pretend to be somebody that

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Speaker 1: you're not. Didn't have to try to bear somebody else's

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Speaker 1: fruit with plastics, so you could be impressive to get

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Speaker 1: people to like you, just walking around because God made me,

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Speaker 1: because God breathed in me, because I am who God

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Speaker 1: says I am. When naked was normal, When naked was normal.

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Speaker 1: But now it's more normal for us to hide. It's

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Speaker 1: more normal for us to hide, cover ourselves, compare ourselves.

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Speaker 1: The first thing God asked Adam is the thing I

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Speaker 1: want to ask you today. When Adam felt the shame. Remember,

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Speaker 1: Shame is what makes you cover. Shame is what makes

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Speaker 1: you shrink. Shame is what makes you pull back. Shame

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Speaker 1: is what makes you believe, well, maybe I better not try.

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Speaker 1: Shame is what makes you start staying up in the

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Speaker 1: middle of the night thinking that maybe it's all going

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Speaker 1: to catch up with me. But Christ died to take

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Speaker 1: away my shame. And yet the first thing Adam did

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Speaker 1: when he believed a lie was to hide. And God said,

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Speaker 1: and I want to say, who told you that you

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Speaker 1: were naked? Who told you that you were naked? Who

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Speaker 1: told you that you had to do something else, or

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Speaker 1: be something else, or have something else? Who told you

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Speaker 1: that it took something extra for you to be accepted?

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Speaker 1: Who told you that life has to be perfect for

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Speaker 1: you to have a praise. Who told you that what

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Speaker 1: you've known is what's normal? Who told you that question?

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Speaker 1: Who told you that, yeah, well, I'm just not good

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Speaker 1: with money. Who told you that, yeah, well, I'm just

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Speaker 1: not very good with I'm just I'm a set, a

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Speaker 1: teenager free, I'm just not good with girls. Who told

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Speaker 1: you that you could fake some swags so quick and

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Speaker 1: have them lined up when the quarantine is over. I'm

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Speaker 1: telling you right, Who told you that? Who told you

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Speaker 1: that I'm just an introvert? This is the time where

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Speaker 1: God is trying to get us to prune ourselves of

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Speaker 1: perspectives that did not come from heaven. Who told you that?

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Speaker 1: Did it come from God? See? Because in this season

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Speaker 1: of my life, I have got the focus on what

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Speaker 1: he is speaking, prison sentences. I've got to let his

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Speaker 1: word get in my life, my heart, my mind transformed

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Speaker 1: by the renewing of my mind, not conformed by my situation.

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Speaker 1: Watch this, transformed by my revelation. Situation revelation. Now, Paul

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Speaker 1: saw it one way, y'all see chains, I see opportunity.

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Speaker 1: Paul saw it one way, y'all see limitation. I see

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Speaker 1: an opening. Paul saw it one way. Y'all see captivity,

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Speaker 1: I see freedom. I see what God said, and I'll

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Speaker 1: speak it over your life. Focus on the fruit. Focus

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Speaker 1: on the fruit, not the frustration. He could have spent

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Speaker 1: every sentence in Philippius. How would Phlippians four thirteen be,

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Speaker 1: I really have a headache right now and I'm sick

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Speaker 1: of this. Would you quote Philippians four thirteen if he

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Speaker 1: didn't focus on the fruit. He said, no, I'm going

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Speaker 1: through stuff, but I can't do. What I went through

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Speaker 1: showed me what I can't do because Christ is in me.

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Speaker 1: Focus on the fruit. Because Paul said, I don't know,

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Speaker 1: I don't know. Isn't it funny how he's so used

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Speaker 1: to call him the shots that he's still talking like

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Speaker 1: he has a choice. When you've been in charge a

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Speaker 1: long time, You know, my dad thought he could beat

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Speaker 1: me up. When he was sick in his bed and

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Speaker 1: he couldn't move, he still said, boy, I'll whip your

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Speaker 1: so and so and stuff like that to me. I

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Speaker 1: was I was walking around with muscles and stuff and

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Speaker 1: he was laying in the bed. He was so used

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Speaker 1: to being bigger and stronger than me. Paul is almost

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Speaker 1: like that he's waiting on a verdict do you live

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Speaker 1: or die? And then look what he says and are

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Speaker 1: you ready for verse verse seventeen. Okay, he said, the

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Speaker 1: former christ have sef termpiation. I SI said this spose

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Speaker 1: they served tim for me changed? What does it matter?

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Speaker 1: What does it matter? What does it matter? What does

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Speaker 1: it matter? What does it matter? What does it matter?

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Speaker 1: What actually matters? When you get that clear, it'll set

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Speaker 1: you free. When you get that clear what actually matters? This?

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Speaker 1: One woman told me the best parenting advice is don't

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Speaker 1: spend your whole life chasing clean carpet, only to wish

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Speaker 1: when your kids went to college that they could come

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Speaker 1: back and mess it up one more time. She said

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Speaker 1: her biggest regret was she spent her whole life chasing

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Speaker 1: clean carpet. What actually matters? Do this in worship? Right?

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Speaker 1: I don't care if you hit the note right. I

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Speaker 1: care if the note hits your heart right. I don't

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Speaker 1: care if we have a mistake. I don't care. I

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Speaker 1: don't care. Let me tell you about this sermon. I

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Speaker 1: don't care if I'm grammatically correct. Who cares? I care

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Speaker 1: if the spiritual fruit As a matter of fact, and

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Speaker 1: this is this is probably this is Yeah. I'm gonna

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Speaker 1: say I'm say I'm saying. I'm saying, I don't really

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Speaker 1: care if you like this message. I don't care. I

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Speaker 1: mean I do. I want Okay, I want you to

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Speaker 1: like the message. I wouldn't post it on Instagram if

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Speaker 1: I didn't want you to like it. That's literally how

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Speaker 1: the system works. But I care more if this message

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Speaker 1: bears fruit in your life than if you like it.

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Speaker 1: I hope you fight me today in your mind. How

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Speaker 1: dare he say it doesn't matter this and that he

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Speaker 1: doesn't know what I'm going through? No, I don't. That's

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Speaker 1: why I'm so glad I called Paul to preach because

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Speaker 1: Paul went through the stuff Paul went through that this

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Speaker 1: isn't fair. Paul was trying to do right. I don't

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Speaker 1: think anybody help people. I don't think anybody was smarter

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Speaker 1: than Paul. That's why I was so surprised. You said,

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Speaker 1: I don't know. I'm like, what that's like one of

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Speaker 1: my kids saying thank you. I'm like, what's happening right now?

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Speaker 1: I said, the rapture can only imagine. But he said,

848
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Speaker 1: I know what's important? Do you? Yeah? Most of us,

849
00:55:31,600 --> 00:55:35,279
Speaker 1: don't most of us. It takes our whole life. What

850
00:55:35,320 --> 00:55:40,879
Speaker 1: if this season is fast forwarding us into the correct priorities?

851
00:55:41,560 --> 00:55:45,960
Speaker 1: Would it be worth it? Would it be worth it?

852
00:55:48,320 --> 00:55:53,200
Speaker 1: What if we're going to get fifty years of wisdom

853
00:55:53,400 --> 00:55:58,200
Speaker 1: the fruit of a season of frustration. Can I show

854
00:55:58,239 --> 00:56:04,360
Speaker 1: you something else? Paul said, go to Romans eight. Focus

855
00:56:04,400 --> 00:56:08,640
Speaker 1: on the fruit. Or you can focus on all the

856
00:56:08,680 --> 00:56:12,760
Speaker 1: things you don't know. You can spit ignorance with everybody else,

857
00:56:13,360 --> 00:56:16,880
Speaker 1: conspiracy theories. I saw a UFO the other day. It

858
00:56:16,920 --> 00:56:19,200
Speaker 1: barely even registered because the world is so screwed up

859
00:56:19,280 --> 00:56:24,560
Speaker 1: right now. So you can, you can. You can focus

860
00:56:24,600 --> 00:56:31,920
Speaker 1: on the UFOs, the the unknowable faith outcomes. I'm playing.

861
00:56:33,280 --> 00:56:35,000
Speaker 1: I love y'all so much. I wish all we're here.

862
00:56:35,840 --> 00:56:38,040
Speaker 1: I wish we're here one day we'll get back together

863
00:56:38,080 --> 00:56:41,160
Speaker 1: when I don't know. But in the in the meantime,

864
00:56:41,280 --> 00:56:43,040
Speaker 1: let me speak. Let me speak this over your life,

865
00:56:43,080 --> 00:56:47,359
Speaker 1: because Romans eight, how much do you want? Because I've

866
00:56:47,360 --> 00:56:49,279
Speaker 1: got like ten verses and I got two verses, I

867
00:56:49,320 --> 00:56:51,360
Speaker 1: can do it either way. Let's take a vote in

868
00:56:51,360 --> 00:56:54,480
Speaker 1: the chat on a scale of tend to to how

869
00:56:54,560 --> 00:56:58,319
Speaker 1: much of God's word do you want today ten ten

870
00:56:58,400 --> 00:57:04,440
Speaker 1: two to ten two to ten. Man, you'll ot to

871
00:57:04,480 --> 00:57:07,080
Speaker 1: be sharing this message right now. You ought to be

872
00:57:07,080 --> 00:57:10,600
Speaker 1: sharing this link right now, because see, the gospel can

873
00:57:10,600 --> 00:57:13,359
Speaker 1: bear fruit only if it's sown. You got to share

874
00:57:13,400 --> 00:57:15,920
Speaker 1: this message when it's over. We have other services all

875
00:57:15,960 --> 00:57:17,880
Speaker 1: through the day. You got to tell somebody catch it

876
00:57:17,920 --> 00:57:19,680
Speaker 1: when it comes on again. You need to You need

877
00:57:19,720 --> 00:57:23,360
Speaker 1: to receive this word. That's how we sow the gospel. Okay,

878
00:57:23,400 --> 00:57:27,040
Speaker 1: I only see tens block everybody who said to block them,

879
00:57:27,120 --> 00:57:30,040
Speaker 1: Ban them from the chat, ban them from the chat,

880
00:57:30,400 --> 00:57:34,360
Speaker 1: kick them out the church. So Roomen's eight is really

881
00:57:34,360 --> 00:57:38,720
Speaker 1: good for perspective. I consider verse eighteen that our present

882
00:57:38,840 --> 00:57:43,320
Speaker 1: sufferings are not worth comparing with the glory that will

883
00:57:43,360 --> 00:57:48,080
Speaker 1: be revealed in us. Both are a focus suffering and

884
00:57:48,160 --> 00:57:51,320
Speaker 1: glory at the same time. What do you want to

885
00:57:51,360 --> 00:57:56,720
Speaker 1: focus on? The frustration or the fruit? I am convinced,

886
00:57:57,400 --> 00:58:01,320
Speaker 1: I am persuaded. I have met aid up my mind

887
00:58:01,800 --> 00:58:05,080
Speaker 1: that what I am going through is nothing compared to

888
00:58:05,200 --> 00:58:08,439
Speaker 1: what is going to come forth from it, because I've

889
00:58:08,440 --> 00:58:11,400
Speaker 1: seen God do it before. Read the verses. Faster verdict

890
00:58:11,680 --> 00:58:16,480
Speaker 1: for the creation waits in eager expectation for the children

891
00:58:16,520 --> 00:58:19,880
Speaker 1: of God to be revealed, for the creation was subjected

892
00:58:20,120 --> 00:58:24,080
Speaker 1: to frustration. But I'm not focused on the frustration. I'm

893
00:58:24,080 --> 00:58:28,520
Speaker 1: not focused on the frustration. I'm not focused on the fear.

894
00:58:28,880 --> 00:58:31,680
Speaker 1: I'm not even focused on the facts. Not of its

895
00:58:31,720 --> 00:58:34,120
Speaker 1: own choice, but by the will of the one who

896
00:58:34,160 --> 00:58:38,080
Speaker 1: subjected it in hope that the creation itself will be

897
00:58:38,200 --> 00:58:43,600
Speaker 1: liberated from its bondage. Somebody shop, God is setting me free, free, free,

898
00:58:43,640 --> 00:58:46,560
Speaker 1: free from the bondage of the kay and brought into

899
00:58:46,600 --> 00:58:49,640
Speaker 1: the freedom and the glory of the children of God.

900
00:58:49,880 --> 00:58:51,720
Speaker 1: You want me to keep going. This is good to

901
00:58:51,800 --> 00:58:57,960
Speaker 1: me because we know, we know, we know some things.

902
00:58:58,000 --> 00:59:01,840
Speaker 1: I just know something. I just know in my soul.

903
00:59:02,360 --> 00:59:05,640
Speaker 1: Some things I can prove from a book, some things

904
00:59:05,680 --> 00:59:09,320
Speaker 1: I can't google. Some things I can't get from the news,

905
00:59:09,760 --> 00:59:13,120
Speaker 1: some things I can't learn from Twitter. Some things they

906
00:59:13,160 --> 00:59:16,200
Speaker 1: can't teach me in a classroom. But I know in

907
00:59:16,240 --> 00:59:20,240
Speaker 1: my spirit that the whole creation has been groaning, as

908
00:59:20,280 --> 00:59:23,240
Speaker 1: in the pains of childbirth, right up to the present time.

909
00:59:23,600 --> 00:59:33,520
Speaker 1: Not only so, but we areselves who have the first fruits. Fruits, fruits, fruits, fruits, fruits.

910
00:59:33,560 --> 00:59:37,240
Speaker 1: Focus on what the fruit, the fruit of the spirit

911
00:59:37,360 --> 00:59:41,360
Speaker 1: is what love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gu

912
00:59:41,520 --> 00:59:43,959
Speaker 1: self control. What God is doing in me right now

913
00:59:44,160 --> 00:59:49,160
Speaker 1: is setting me free from everything that doesn't look like him.

914
00:59:49,200 --> 00:59:54,680
Speaker 1: I got the first fruits, the first fruits, the first fruits,

915
00:59:56,360 --> 01:00:00,480
Speaker 1: first fruits. What you focus on? Focus on the fruit.

916
01:00:01,960 --> 01:00:05,720
Speaker 1: That's why I still tithe in a recession. You think

917
01:00:05,760 --> 01:00:07,520
Speaker 1: I'm not going to bring back to God what he

918
01:00:07,640 --> 01:00:12,480
Speaker 1: gave me. He is my source. And yet there's this groaning,

919
01:00:12,520 --> 01:00:17,040
Speaker 1: there's this tearing, there's this, there's this groaning. He said

920
01:00:17,040 --> 01:00:21,200
Speaker 1: that words can't explain. There's this, there's this tension, there's

921
01:00:21,240 --> 01:00:27,439
Speaker 1: this unsettled there's this it's the three am stuff, it's

922
01:00:27,480 --> 01:00:31,320
Speaker 1: the three pm crash, it's another day of this. It's

923
01:00:31,440 --> 01:00:35,120
Speaker 1: the I'm so sick of these people around me. And

924
01:00:35,200 --> 01:00:38,480
Speaker 1: yet if I focus on the fruit, he said that

925
01:00:38,520 --> 01:00:43,480
Speaker 1: my present suffering isn't even worth comparing to the glory

926
01:00:43,520 --> 01:00:49,080
Speaker 1: that will be revealed. Can I keep going? Not only so,

927
01:00:49,240 --> 01:00:51,640
Speaker 1: but we ourselves, who have the first fruits of the

928
01:00:51,680 --> 01:00:56,360
Speaker 1: spirit grown inwardly, as we wait eagerly for our adoption

929
01:00:56,480 --> 01:00:59,560
Speaker 1: to sonship, the redemption of our bodies, For in this

930
01:00:59,680 --> 01:01:04,600
Speaker 1: hope we were saved Hope is a focused people, not

931
01:01:04,680 --> 01:01:12,440
Speaker 1: a feeling. Hope is a focus. Hope is a focus.

932
01:01:13,680 --> 01:01:17,080
Speaker 1: Hope is a focus. I'm focusing on the fruit. I'm

933
01:01:17,080 --> 01:01:22,240
Speaker 1: focusing on the character. Perseverance builds character, Focus on the fruit.

934
01:01:22,960 --> 01:01:26,000
Speaker 1: Look what God is doing in you right now, He said,

935
01:01:26,040 --> 01:01:29,080
Speaker 1: in this we hope even though we don't. We don't know.

936
01:01:29,200 --> 01:01:32,320
Speaker 1: There's an instability in the world. There always has been.

937
01:01:32,480 --> 01:01:35,680
Speaker 1: But hope that is seen is no hope at all.

938
01:01:35,840 --> 01:01:39,640
Speaker 1: For who hopes for what they already have. See, if

939
01:01:39,640 --> 01:01:41,280
Speaker 1: I know it, I don't have to hope for it.

940
01:01:42,360 --> 01:01:46,840
Speaker 1: That's where my faith grows. That's the soil. That's where

941
01:01:46,880 --> 01:01:49,880
Speaker 1: the seed breaks apart. That's where you are right now.

942
01:01:50,080 --> 01:01:54,240
Speaker 1: That's what God is doing in this season, Thank you Lord.

943
01:01:56,080 --> 01:01:57,800
Speaker 1: But if we hope for what we do not yet have,

944
01:01:58,640 --> 01:02:02,000
Speaker 1: we wait for it patiently, the same way the spirit

945
01:02:02,040 --> 01:02:09,959
Speaker 1: helps us in our weakness. We do not. No. Come on, Paul,

946
01:02:11,280 --> 01:02:15,960
Speaker 1: come on, Paul, make it rhyme, make it ring, Come on, Paul,

947
01:02:16,440 --> 01:02:18,880
Speaker 1: give me the facts. Come on, Paul, set it up.

948
01:02:19,440 --> 01:02:22,680
Speaker 1: Come on, Paul, you can preach better than that. We

949
01:02:23,440 --> 01:02:32,320
Speaker 1: do not. No, that's the soil where hope springs forth

950
01:02:32,520 --> 01:02:40,920
Speaker 1: and buds like faith and looks like resurrection. You alone, Lord,

951
01:02:41,040 --> 01:02:45,040
Speaker 1: no if these bones can live. But in the same

952
01:02:45,080 --> 01:02:50,640
Speaker 1: way Verse twenty six, the Spirit helps us in our weakness.

953
01:02:51,040 --> 01:02:57,240
Speaker 1: We do not no what we ought to pray for,

954
01:02:57,320 --> 01:03:02,440
Speaker 1: but the Spirit himself intercedes for us through wordless grounds.

955
01:03:03,800 --> 01:03:07,840
Speaker 1: I don't even know what to pray. God said, I'll

956
01:03:07,880 --> 01:03:13,800
Speaker 1: take it from here. I'll finish the sentence. Paul's in prison.

957
01:03:15,440 --> 01:03:18,680
Speaker 1: God said, I'll finish the sentence. Even if the devil

958
01:03:18,720 --> 01:03:23,240
Speaker 1: started it, I'll finish it. I'll finish it. I'll finish it.

959
01:03:23,280 --> 01:03:26,800
Speaker 1: He began a good work in you, will be faithful

960
01:03:26,840 --> 01:03:31,240
Speaker 1: to complete it. I'm focused on the fruit. I'm focused

961
01:03:31,280 --> 01:03:34,120
Speaker 1: on the fruit because God is helping me and he

962
01:03:34,360 --> 01:03:38,280
Speaker 1: Verse twenty seven, who searches our hearts knows? He knows,

963
01:03:38,640 --> 01:03:42,960
Speaker 1: He knows. You. Remember Jeremiah, they were in captivity to Babylon.

964
01:03:43,240 --> 01:03:45,960
Speaker 1: He said, it's going to be seventy long years. But

965
01:03:46,080 --> 01:03:50,280
Speaker 1: God said, I know the plans I have for you,

966
01:03:51,280 --> 01:03:54,920
Speaker 1: and you're not supposed to know them all. There are

967
01:03:54,960 --> 01:03:58,240
Speaker 1: some things you're not supposed to know, because that's where

968
01:03:58,240 --> 01:04:06,160
Speaker 1: faith grows, that's where hope grows, that's where maturity takes

969
01:04:06,160 --> 01:04:13,760
Speaker 1: truth and the spirit intercedes for God's people in accordance

970
01:04:13,800 --> 01:04:17,880
Speaker 1: with the will of God. Here comes my favorite verse,

971
01:04:19,440 --> 01:04:23,440
Speaker 1: And we know. Have you ever heard Roumins eight twenty eight?

972
01:04:24,840 --> 01:04:28,320
Speaker 1: Oh you can. You can put this anchor down in

973
01:04:28,400 --> 01:04:32,959
Speaker 1: the deepest water and get through the storm. That all

974
01:04:33,040 --> 01:04:36,600
Speaker 1: things work together for the good of those that love God.

975
01:04:36,600 --> 01:04:38,280
Speaker 1: Wait a minute, Wait a minute. That's where people stop.

976
01:04:38,680 --> 01:04:42,479
Speaker 1: Finish the sentence. Somebody say, finish the sentence, like Paul

977
01:04:42,560 --> 01:04:45,680
Speaker 1: in prison. I'm staying I'm not. Do you know that

978
01:04:45,760 --> 01:04:49,160
Speaker 1: when Paul and Silas were in prison, the doors opened,

979
01:04:49,200 --> 01:04:52,720
Speaker 1: but they didn't leave. Why we still got work to do.

980
01:04:53,160 --> 01:04:57,160
Speaker 1: I'm gonna finish the sentence. I'm gonna see the goodness

981
01:04:57,280 --> 01:05:00,320
Speaker 1: of the Lord. Don't let the devil cuts you off now,

982
01:05:00,880 --> 01:05:04,760
Speaker 1: don't let him speak fear while God is building faith.

983
01:05:05,080 --> 01:05:09,080
Speaker 1: Finish the sentence, Finish the work, Be strong and courageous,

984
01:05:09,480 --> 01:05:15,200
Speaker 1: take the land, for we know that all things work

985
01:05:15,280 --> 01:05:18,200
Speaker 1: together for the good of those who love him. I

986
01:05:18,240 --> 01:05:20,360
Speaker 1: don't know much, but I know I love you Lord.

987
01:05:20,960 --> 01:05:23,600
Speaker 1: That may be all I need to know. I know

988
01:05:23,760 --> 01:05:27,600
Speaker 1: I love you, I know I'm called, I know I'm appointed,

989
01:05:27,880 --> 01:05:35,360
Speaker 1: I know you spoken, I know you're Abel. But finish

990
01:05:35,480 --> 01:05:39,960
Speaker 1: the sentence. All things work together for those who love

991
01:05:40,000 --> 01:05:44,880
Speaker 1: God and are called according to His purpose. That's the fruit.

992
01:05:47,000 --> 01:05:51,640
Speaker 1: Focus on the fruit, because if you don't focus on

993
01:05:51,680 --> 01:05:53,360
Speaker 1: the fruit of what God is doing right now, you

994
01:05:53,400 --> 01:05:57,800
Speaker 1: will die in the frustration as you wait. So I

995
01:05:57,840 --> 01:05:59,560
Speaker 1: want to give you a choice, Paul said, I hadn't.

996
01:06:00,280 --> 01:06:03,560
Speaker 1: I hadn't decided yet. What I want to do is

997
01:06:03,600 --> 01:06:08,640
Speaker 1: like Paul, this is not Applebee's. There is no menu, y'all.

998
01:06:08,640 --> 01:06:12,760
Speaker 1: Remember Applebee's. It was an American food chain that existed

999
01:06:12,800 --> 01:06:18,560
Speaker 1: before the plagues. Paul, this is not Morton's. You're not

1000
01:06:18,720 --> 01:06:24,120
Speaker 1: deciding steak or chicken. This is prison. Nobody's asking you

1001
01:06:24,120 --> 01:06:30,240
Speaker 1: if you want to live or die. Yet, Paul still

1002
01:06:30,280 --> 01:06:36,120
Speaker 1: had a choice. You still have a choice. The choice

1003
01:06:36,200 --> 01:06:40,440
Speaker 1: is your focus. Focus is always chosen. How are you

1004
01:06:40,520 --> 01:06:42,120
Speaker 1: going to start this week? How are you going to

1005
01:06:42,200 --> 01:06:44,720
Speaker 1: start this day? How are you going to start tomorrow?

1006
01:06:44,880 --> 01:06:47,880
Speaker 1: Where are you going to look at? Focus is chosen.

1007
01:06:49,480 --> 01:06:52,760
Speaker 1: That's the only thing you can control. That's the only

1008
01:06:52,800 --> 01:06:57,120
Speaker 1: thing that will really create peace. In a storm, Peter

1009
01:06:57,200 --> 01:06:59,440
Speaker 1: didn't fall down when he got out the boat because

1010
01:06:59,480 --> 01:07:03,360
Speaker 1: the water out wetter. He didn't fall down because of

1011
01:07:03,400 --> 01:07:07,560
Speaker 1: strong wind. He fell down because of broken focus when

1012
01:07:07,560 --> 01:07:10,280
Speaker 1: he took his eyes off Jesus. Now that's what happens

1013
01:07:11,160 --> 01:07:13,920
Speaker 1: when we go by sight when we need to know

1014
01:07:14,040 --> 01:07:17,480
Speaker 1: too much. And give me Verse twenty one again, because

1015
01:07:17,520 --> 01:07:20,400
Speaker 1: I'm not done with this and I intend to mind

1016
01:07:20,400 --> 01:07:22,920
Speaker 1: every drop out of this word God gave me. Focus

1017
01:07:22,920 --> 01:07:26,080
Speaker 1: on the fruit. If God is squeezing you right now,

1018
01:07:26,160 --> 01:07:29,000
Speaker 1: something productive is coming from it, I promise you it

1019
01:07:29,160 --> 01:07:32,600
Speaker 1: is for we know that all things work together for

1020
01:07:32,600 --> 01:07:34,960
Speaker 1: the good of those love God. But check this out. No,

1021
01:07:35,040 --> 01:07:38,320
Speaker 1: that's not the one. It's maybe twenty two. No no, no,

1022
01:07:38,360 --> 01:07:41,200
Speaker 1: it's yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, No no no, go back,

1023
01:07:43,040 --> 01:07:47,840
Speaker 1: Go to the one before, Go to the one before. Yeah.

1024
01:07:47,960 --> 01:07:52,840
Speaker 1: The creation waits Romans eight nineteen. Is it on the screen?

1025
01:07:52,960 --> 01:07:56,600
Speaker 1: The lower third? Read this with me. For the creation

1026
01:07:56,680 --> 01:08:01,400
Speaker 1: weights in eager expectation for the children of God to

1027
01:08:01,440 --> 01:08:09,080
Speaker 1: be reviewed. The creation waits for a revelation, waits eager expectation.

1028
01:08:09,680 --> 01:08:14,439
Speaker 1: What does that look like eager expectation? It doesn't look

1029
01:08:14,480 --> 01:08:25,960
Speaker 1: like certainty. The Greek word chunks is three words. Appo, kara, dokia, appo.

1030
01:08:26,160 --> 01:08:31,840
Speaker 1: Everybody say appo, not the dog food appo. Listen what

1031
01:08:31,880 --> 01:08:37,080
Speaker 1: it means. The prefix means to turn away, ignoring other interests.

1032
01:08:37,280 --> 01:08:40,240
Speaker 1: The English word is not trans you can't translate it

1033
01:08:40,280 --> 01:08:43,880
Speaker 1: with one word. So they put eager expectation. Because there

1034
01:08:43,960 --> 01:08:46,639
Speaker 1: is no way to describe humanly the kind of hope

1035
01:08:46,640 --> 01:08:50,280
Speaker 1: that Paul had. You can't put it in just a word.

1036
01:08:50,479 --> 01:08:54,240
Speaker 1: He actually made his own word up, and you can

1037
01:08:54,280 --> 01:08:58,040
Speaker 1: only find it in early Christian literature. Nobody in the Empire,

1038
01:08:58,040 --> 01:09:01,160
Speaker 1: the Roman Empire said the word apple kara Dokia. Paul

1039
01:09:01,200 --> 01:09:05,360
Speaker 1: made it up. It was a prison sentence. It was

1040
01:09:05,439 --> 01:09:08,360
Speaker 1: something he could only get when he was going through.

1041
01:09:08,640 --> 01:09:11,320
Speaker 1: There is some fruit that can only be born when

1042
01:09:11,360 --> 01:09:18,000
Speaker 1: you're going through. But you have to focus. Apple's the prefix,

1043
01:09:18,880 --> 01:09:21,080
Speaker 1: and I could preach a whole sermon on that prefix

1044
01:09:21,920 --> 01:09:25,840
Speaker 1: appo to turn away ignoring other interests. It means I

1045
01:09:25,840 --> 01:09:29,160
Speaker 1: have to choose my focus right now, moment by moment.

1046
01:09:29,320 --> 01:09:31,439
Speaker 1: What will I look at? Will I look at the waves?

1047
01:09:31,520 --> 01:09:33,400
Speaker 1: Or will I look at the one who created the

1048
01:09:33,439 --> 01:09:36,120
Speaker 1: waves and the wind? To subject to his word? What

1049
01:09:36,240 --> 01:09:39,840
Speaker 1: will I look at right now? If I look away

1050
01:09:39,840 --> 01:09:41,880
Speaker 1: from Jesus, I'm gonna fall. If I look at what

1051
01:09:41,920 --> 01:09:43,920
Speaker 1: it feels like, I'm gonna fall. If I look at

1052
01:09:43,920 --> 01:09:47,559
Speaker 1: what I don't know. I'm going to go crazy. If

1053
01:09:47,560 --> 01:09:50,679
Speaker 1: I keep looking at my phone, I'm gonna fall. God

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Speaker 1: show me something greater on the inside. Apple Kara Kara

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Speaker 1: is simple. It just means head, which is significant, right.

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Speaker 1: It's significant because the only thing you really control is

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Speaker 1: what goes on in here. That's the only domain that

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Speaker 1: I can control. Right now, you can't have my imagination, devil,

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Speaker 1: you can't have my you can't have my meditation. I'm

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Speaker 1: not going to dwell on sentences of unworthiness. I'm not

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Speaker 1: going to dwell on what was spoken over my life

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Speaker 1: by people who didn't even like me. I'm not going

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Speaker 1: to go off of what the world is saying. I've

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Speaker 1: got a new mind. Don't you wish they made a

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Speaker 1: mask for your mind? I would buy it, sell it,

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Speaker 1: wear it, declare it. I put an elevation logo on.

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Speaker 1: I'd make a fortune if I could keep all of

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Speaker 1: the thoughts from coming out of my mind. But it

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Speaker 1: doesn't work like that. You've got to focus. Watch this

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Speaker 1: appo Karadki a Dokia. Dokia is the most annointed part

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Speaker 1: to me, because after I've turned away. That's why he said,

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Speaker 1: the creation waits in apple Kara, Dokia. The only other

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Speaker 1: time this word is in the Bible is in Philippians

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Speaker 1: chapter one. That's the only other time it's in the Bible.

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Speaker 1: When Paul was in prison, and if he looked at

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Speaker 1: the chains that were on his hands, he'd get depressed,

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Speaker 1: and if he looked at the situation he was in,

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Speaker 1: he'd get depressed. So he said, I can't look at

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Speaker 1: that right now. Come on, close your eyes. You've been

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Speaker 1: looking around too much. He said, I can't look at

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Speaker 1: that right now. Apple, turn away, ignoring what I could

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Speaker 1: focus on. I could focus on the pain, but I'm

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Speaker 1: focused on the purpose. I could be petty, or I

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Speaker 1: could give praise. I'm turning away from what I could

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Speaker 1: complain about. I've got a reason to be grateful. Apple kara,

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Speaker 1: head mine, Dokia. To stretch forward. Did you hear it?

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Speaker 1: Paul said, I'm looking forward. I don't know how long

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Speaker 1: I'm gonna be here, but I'm looking forward to my

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Speaker 1: fruit on the other side. I'm looking forward to glory.

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Speaker 1: On the other side, I'm looking forward to a greater

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Speaker 1: annoying thing, a brighter day, a peaceful heart. I'm looking

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Speaker 1: forward to a purpose because i know not all things

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Speaker 1: work together for the good them that love him. I

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Speaker 1: love I've got a purpose. I know he's got a

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Speaker 1: plan and I will said times. You better give it.

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Speaker 1: Fraggs and potes praising body. He's doing shoo to the

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Speaker 1: ra Yes, yeah, please come on in a secret, you two.

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Speaker 1: He's doing it right now, in your home, your heart,

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Speaker 1: in your mind, You mar your side, you leave. Okay,

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Speaker 1: this is the word of the Lord. You are in

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Speaker 1: a season where you must focus on the fruit, your fruit.

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Speaker 1: He will be like a tree planted by the streams

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Speaker 1: of water, which will yield its fruit in season. All

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Speaker 1: you gotta do in this season is yield your fruit,

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Speaker 1: and you will make it. You will see it now. Caution,

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Speaker 1: if you focus on your fears, you can die on

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Speaker 1: the other side of something that God had for you. You

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Speaker 1: You really can. As a matter of fact, give me

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Speaker 1: number thirteen, and I promise, y'all, I'll go eat a

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Speaker 1: I'll go eat a scrambled egg or something somebody put.

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Speaker 1: Focus on the fruit. Focus on the fruit. Focus on

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Speaker 1: the fruit. Focus on the fruit. Y'all can't touch each other,

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Speaker 1: but tell each other focus on the fruit. Focus on

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Speaker 1: the fruit. Don't touch your neighbor, not at your neighbor.

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Speaker 1: Stretch your head towards your neighbor, like Apocara Dokia. Stretch

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Speaker 1: your head. Come on, this is the new thing. We're

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Speaker 1: going to replace the handshake in the hug with the

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Speaker 1: head nod. All right, just head, nod your head right now.

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Speaker 1: Nod your head right now. You see me, not not

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Speaker 1: you. You You are gonna make it. You are going to

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Speaker 1: come through. You are going to see it if you

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Speaker 1: focus on the fruit. Because we've been preaching about Egypt.

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Speaker 1: Egypt is what they were leaving. When the children of

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Speaker 1: Israel were focused on where they had left and what

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Speaker 1: they had lost, that generation died in the wilderness. And

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Speaker 1: here's why. Look at numbers, Chapter thirteen, verse twenty seven.

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Speaker 1: They told Moses, the spies who went into the land, said,

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Speaker 1: we went into the land which you sent us, and

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Speaker 1: it does flow with milk and honey. Watch this stay

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Speaker 1: right here. Here is its fruit. They were carrying a

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Speaker 1: cluster of grapes on a pole. It took it took

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Speaker 1: Zeke and Brandan to carry the pole. Y'all like, y'all

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Speaker 1: are carrying something between you right now, Just walk, don't

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Speaker 1: come to close six feet six feet apart. This pole

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Speaker 1: is six feet apart, and they walked and they walked,

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Speaker 1: and they're telling, here's the fruit. Look at the next verse.

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Speaker 1: This is sad. Look at it. It's a focus. It's

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Speaker 1: so focused. But the people who live there are powerful,

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Speaker 1: and the cities are fortified and very large. We even

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Speaker 1: saw the descendants of any there. They were so focused

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Speaker 1: on what they had to fight. They were so focused

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Speaker 1: on what they feared that they did not even eat

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Speaker 1: the fruit that they carried. They were so focused. Duck

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Speaker 1: and stop. Now that was excellent, thank you and promptu illustrations,

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Speaker 1: quarantine sermons. God said, right now in this season, I

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Speaker 1: need you focused on the fruit. Faith comes from focus,

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Speaker 1: but so does fear. The land does flow, but you've

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Speaker 1: got to focus. There is a flow, the administration of

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Speaker 1: the Holy Spirit. Receive it through the screen. Right now.

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Speaker 1: There is a flow, but you need a focus. Here

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Speaker 1: is it's fruit, but there's giants. But there's insecurities. But

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Speaker 1: there's uncertainty. Are you really going to let what you

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Speaker 1: don't know become greater than the God that you do

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Speaker 1: you know him? Focus on that. God, show us the fruit,

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Speaker 1: the grapes, the promises, the blessings enlarge in our minds

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Speaker 1: the reasons that we have to have faith and help

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Speaker 1: us Like Paul, maybe we can't move our feet or

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Speaker 1: our hands like we want, but we can stretch our faith.

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Speaker 1: We thank you Lord that in this season, even if

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Speaker 1: you are pruning our branches, we will be more fruitful

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Speaker 1: on the other side. It's in Jesus' name that I

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Speaker 1: pray everybody who receives this word, say amen, I'm focused

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Speaker 1: on the fruit. I'm focused on the fruit. I'm focused

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Speaker 1: on the fruit. I'm focused on the fruit. I'm focused.

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Speaker 1: I'm focused. I'm turning my head away, no distractions. I'm

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Speaker 1: focused on the fruit. God is doing a great work

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Speaker 1: in you. I don't know if you felt that like

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Speaker 1: I felt it, but you can see my voices left

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Speaker 1: the building. But I gave it all I had to

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Speaker 1: preach that message focus on the fruit. That's easier said

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Speaker 1: than done, but we can do it. We can sew

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Speaker 1: to the spirit and just on this Bible. And I

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Speaker 1: wanted to read you one more verse before we go.

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Speaker 1: And Paul prayed one time in Philippians chapter one, verse

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Speaker 1: nine that he prayed that your love may abound more

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Speaker 1: and more in knowledge and depth of insight. Verse eleven,

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Speaker 1: filled with the fruit of righteousness that comes through Jesus

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Speaker 1: Christ to the glory and praise of God. And he

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Speaker 1: thanks the Philippian Church for their partnership. You know many

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Speaker 1: are just watching and consuming this content, many of your partners.

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Speaker 1: You partner with us in prayer, you partner with us

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Speaker 1: in the gospel, you partner with us financially. I want

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Speaker 1: to thank you for sowing the gospel is bearing fruit,

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Speaker 1: like Colossians one says, because of your generosity, because of

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Speaker 1: your trust. So thank you for your faithful giving in

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Speaker 1: this time, for not holding back, for stretching the tent

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Speaker 1: curtains wide so we can keep taking the gospel to

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Speaker 1: people in this crazy time. And make sure that you

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Speaker 1: sow the seed of the word too. You know it

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Speaker 1: really helps when you share the message and you share

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Speaker 1: the link on social or even just text it to

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Speaker 1: a friend or talk about it. That's one way we

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Speaker 1: share the gospel. I want to thank you for your partnership.

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Speaker 1: Make sure you subscribe. I want you to get every

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Speaker 1: message that we have for you, and we're here preaching

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Speaker 1: Jesus Christ, believing God for great things in your life.

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Speaker 1: Thank you for being a partner. Love you