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Speaker 1: Hey, this is Stephen Ferdick.

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

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

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

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

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Speaker 2: in your life.

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Speaker 1: Enjoy the message.

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Speaker 2: I want to let you know if you don't live

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Speaker 2: near Charlotte, but you've always wanted to come to Elevation Church,

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Speaker 2: we figured out a way to come to you.

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Speaker 1: Elevation Nights Fall Tour twenty.

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Speaker 2: Twenty five coming up October twenty first through October thirtieth.

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Speaker 2: Saint Paul, Minnesota, Omaha, Nebraska, Saint Louis, Missouri, Louisville.

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Speaker 1: Kentucky, Dluf, Georgia.

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Speaker 2: We might as well say Atlanta, And if some of

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Speaker 2: you from Charlotte want to drive to Atlanta, that'll be great.

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Speaker 2: There will be no traffic. There never is any traffic

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Speaker 2: on I eighty five. It'll take you nine hours to

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Speaker 2: drive there, but you should do that. Tampa, Florida, Miami, Florida,

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Speaker 2: where my beautiful I grew up.

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Speaker 1: Y'all give it up for Holly and Orlando, Florida. Go

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Speaker 1: to Elevation Nights dot com.

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Speaker 2: Happy eleventh anniversary to our Raleigh campus.

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Speaker 1: Help me celebrate them better than that.

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Speaker 2: Come on, Happy eleventh anniversary Raleigh, Raleigh Campus.

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Speaker 1: We're praying for a great next year of ministry.

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Speaker 2: It's our twentieth year of ministry as a church, and

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Speaker 2: just we'll continue the celebration all year. Thank you to

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Speaker 2: all the wonderful guest preachers who filled this pulpit and preached,

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Speaker 2: and all of our home team that preached.

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Speaker 1: But my middle son Graham looked at me the other

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Speaker 1: day he said, it is time. We want you back.

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Speaker 1: All these speakers have been great. We want you back.

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Speaker 1: I'm back.

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Speaker 2: I want to share with you today a scripture that

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Speaker 2: the Lord gave me during our break.

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Speaker 1: Our break was very unusual this year.

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Speaker 2: Part of the time is just rest, part of the

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Speaker 2: time is study, songwriting and all of that.

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Speaker 1: The first half we spent in an unusual way.

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Speaker 2: Our oldest son, Elijah had a surgery and he was

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Speaker 2: recovering from that. It was a pretty major surgery, and

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Speaker 2: then he got infected and we ended up back into ICU.

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Speaker 1: For quite a while after that, and he's doing all

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Speaker 2: In fact, the Lord healed him, and he's clipping my

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Speaker 2: sermon for TikTok right now as I preach it in

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Speaker 2: a back room somewhere. So let's give God phrase for that.

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Speaker 2: I told him before I came to preach us. I'm

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Speaker 2: going to be very clippable today. I must say good stuff.

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Speaker 2: I'll make your job easy. But in our Bible reading,

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Speaker 2: as we were going through some of that for the

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Speaker 2: better part of a month as a family, we came

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Speaker 2: across Psalm seventy seven and there was a verse I

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Speaker 2: knew I wanted to share with you when I got

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Speaker 2: back with you, and it's going to lead us into.

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Speaker 1: A series today.

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Speaker 2: So remain standing for just when I read this one verse,

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Speaker 2: just one verse? Can you stand for one verse? It's

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Speaker 2: in Psalm seventy seven, verse nineteen, And I'll read this

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Speaker 2: and then work backward from there to give you the

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Speaker 2: message for today. And the Lord's going to help us

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Speaker 2: in some remarkable ways. Psalm seventy seven, verse nineteen. The

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Speaker 2: Psalmist says to God, your path led through the sea,

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Speaker 2: your way through the mighty waters, though your footprints were

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Speaker 2: not seen, and had a beautiful scripture. And the Lord

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Speaker 2: really used that in my life. I believe he wants.

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Speaker 1: To use it in yours really underrated scripture too. Maybe

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Speaker 1: it'll be your favorite.

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Speaker 2: At the end of today, he says, your path led

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Speaker 2: through the sea, your way through the mighty waters, though

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Speaker 2: your footprints were not seen. And just turn to the

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Speaker 2: don't see it, God is working, tell him even if

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Speaker 1: God is working.

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Speaker 2: Let's put our hands together and praise the way Maper

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Speaker 2: in this place. Come on, praise the way Maper in

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Speaker 1: I thank you for every mountain.

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Speaker 2: You've brought me over, every valley you've brought me through.

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Speaker 2: It was nobody but you, and I praise you today.

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Speaker 2: Speak now through your word.

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Speaker 1: Use me as a vessel. I'm willing and available and open.

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Speaker 2: Give me the courage, give me the clarity, the confidence

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Speaker 2: you may be seated. Well, boys, bring out my teaching screen.

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Speaker 2: Let's get this series started properly. As I announced to

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Speaker 2: you our title for the next six weeks at least,

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Speaker 2: and maybe even beyond that, because this is such a

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Speaker 2: title of the series it doesn't come exactly from the

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Speaker 1: Show you where it did come from in a moment.

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Speaker 2: And before you judge my handwriting, just know that Abby

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Speaker 2: has made fun of my handwriting so much. And today

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Speaker 1: Out here, and she said, this is harder than it

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Speaker 2: I'm so sorry for how I spoke of you, father,

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Speaker 2: But what I want to talk to you about for

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Speaker 1: The title of the series is and you're gonna like

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Speaker 1: this phrase because you could say it with attitude. Okay,

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Speaker 1: we're gonna talk about that's what I thought.

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Speaker 2: You know, you got to look at your neighbor and

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Speaker 2: say it like you were just right and they were

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Speaker 1: Tell them, that's what I thought. That's what I thought.

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Speaker 2: Like you were certain and you were proved to be correct.

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Speaker 2: There is no better feeling. Then, that's what I thought.

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Speaker 2: Or that phrase is so elastic that we use it

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Speaker 2: also to mean that our bias was confirmed, like.

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Speaker 1: Well, that's what I thought. Let's check it out. Mean, sure,

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Speaker 2: But we want to really use that phrase today to

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Speaker 2: deal with the thoughts that we think, because honestly, not

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Speaker 2: only pastorally but personally, ninety percent of the problems that

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Speaker 2: I have faced in my life have not come from

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Speaker 1: Or from what others said about me.

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Speaker 2: The biggest problem that I have over and over again

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Speaker 2: trying to do what God wants, or the biggest obstacle

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Speaker 2: called my bracelets are catching the screen. Oh Lord, that's

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Speaker 2: like for this, let me try it over here. Yeah.

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Speaker 2: The biggest problem for me over and over again it

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Speaker 1: Trapped in what I thought. This is gonna drive me crazy?

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Speaker 2: Over here, Welcome back Verdick who sabotaged my screen while

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Speaker 2: I was on brick?

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Speaker 1: Was it Robert Madu did he mess up my screen?

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Speaker 1: Was it Torn Wells who messed up my screen? The

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Speaker 1: biggest obstacle?

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Speaker 2: And somebody shout, if you know what I'm talking about

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Speaker 2: when I say that the biggest problem that I seem

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Speaker 2: to have over and over again, it's not necessarily the

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Speaker 2: enemies that I face, but it's.

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Speaker 1: What I thought.

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Speaker 2: It's not necessarily what my life is at this moment

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Speaker 1: It's what I thought my life was going to be

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Speaker 2: It's not necessarily who I am as a person that

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Speaker 2: to be based on what I saw that other people

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Speaker 2: showed me from who they are, but I didn't see

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Speaker 2: frustrated about where I am, not because of where I am,

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Speaker 2: but because of what I thought. I'm not frustrated because

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Speaker 2: I'm not married at this age. I'm frustrated because I

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Speaker 2: thought I would be. I'm not frustrated because I'm dealing

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Speaker 2: chance to prepare for it. And over and over again,

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Speaker 2: in my life, the biggest enemy to what God wants

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Speaker 2: to do is what I thought he was going to do.

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Speaker 1: Now, I want you to get a.

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Speaker 2: Time in your mind where you were what I like

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Speaker 2: to call confidently wrong, and I don't know if you

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Speaker 1: If you've blocked all of that out selective memory.

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Speaker 2: I asked everybody in my family, and if y'all know

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Speaker 2: any way to fix that while I'm not using the.

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Speaker 1: Screen, that would be awesome.

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Speaker 2: If not, we'll all work around it and all of

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Speaker 2: the OCD people will ignore that part of the screen

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Speaker 2: that is not supposed to be like that.

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Speaker 1: Now, listen, I asked everybody in my family.

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Speaker 2: I said, I need an opening illustration for my new

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Speaker 2: series called That's what I thought, And I need you

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Speaker 2: and you were so sure you were right. And everybody

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Speaker 2: my family, I'll have to get back with you, And

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Speaker 2: none of them got back to me with you. The

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Speaker 2: means they can't remember one time where they were completely

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Speaker 2: means that there's nothing really harder in life than to

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Speaker 2: Now, when we say that Jesus takes away our shame

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Speaker 2: And there's almost nothing more difficult than remembering and admitting when.

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Speaker 1: You were just so wrong.

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Speaker 2: I had one this week. I have fresh examples of

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Speaker 2: being confidently wrong. I did it at the dinner table.

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Speaker 2: One of our kids said something, and I just came

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Speaker 1: Just confidently wrong.

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Speaker 2: Now I have about a twelve hour expiration dosage cycle

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Speaker 2: for me to digest my dumb and then apologize. So

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Speaker 2: twelve hours later, I found myself saying I was so.

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Speaker 1: Wrong for that. Now that's hard, isn't it.

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Speaker 2: This is what you get back when you send out

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Speaker 2: love vanished forever? I thought it was through. I thought

445
00:23:50,880 --> 00:23:55,960
Speaker 2: it was gone. I didn't see his footprints in the sand.

446
00:23:56,880 --> 00:23:59,800
Speaker 2: Y'all ever seen that little poster on the thing, did

447
00:23:59,800 --> 00:24:01,320
Speaker 2: you ever see butt prints in the sand.

448
00:24:02,760 --> 00:24:04,560
Speaker 1: That's another one. You can look that up another time.

449
00:24:05,600 --> 00:24:07,480
Speaker 1: He says, I felt rejected.

450
00:24:09,000 --> 00:24:11,600
Speaker 2: I thought it was never gonna come again. Now that's

451
00:24:11,640 --> 00:24:16,159
Speaker 2: strong saying never. That's strong when you think that he

452
00:24:16,240 --> 00:24:19,320
Speaker 2: will never show you favor again. And he said, I

453
00:24:19,320 --> 00:24:22,480
Speaker 2: thought his love had vanished. And they call these the

454
00:24:22,560 --> 00:24:25,600
Speaker 2: three piece of negative thinking because they're traps. And it's

455
00:24:25,600 --> 00:24:28,119
Speaker 2: when you take something that happens to you and you

456
00:24:28,200 --> 00:24:40,080
Speaker 2: make it personal rejection. It's when you make it permanent never,

457
00:24:41,640 --> 00:24:50,040
Speaker 2: and it's when it becomes pervasive, vanished everywhere. It took

458
00:24:50,200 --> 00:24:52,600
Speaker 2: everything away. It's completely ripping through.

459
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Speaker 1: Your whole life.

460
00:24:53,000 --> 00:24:54,640
Speaker 2: Because one thing to have a problem, and you've got

461
00:24:54,640 --> 00:24:56,320
Speaker 2: it in a corner. And this is the one thing

462
00:24:56,320 --> 00:24:58,600
Speaker 2: that I'm dealing with in my life. But you know,

463
00:24:58,880 --> 00:25:01,960
Speaker 2: the enemy has you in an I thought when it

464
00:25:02,040 --> 00:25:06,320
Speaker 2: becomes personal, the Lord rejected me, there's something wrong with me.

465
00:25:06,800 --> 00:25:10,119
Speaker 2: It's fine to be disappointed because somebody didn't want to

466
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Speaker 2: be your friend. It is another thing to assume that

467
00:25:13,240 --> 00:25:16,560
Speaker 2: they are worthy to be the Olympic figure skating judge

468
00:25:16,960 --> 00:25:17,639
Speaker 2: of your life.

469
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Speaker 1: And then you stop.

470
00:25:18,760 --> 00:25:21,920
Speaker 2: Putting yourself out there because you think that somehow they

471
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Speaker 2: have the stamp of approval to give the human race,

472
00:25:25,160 --> 00:25:27,520
Speaker 2: and that they know just from their virtue, of their

473
00:25:27,520 --> 00:25:29,720
Speaker 2: own goodness, whether or not you're worthy.

474
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Speaker 1: And now you've.

475
00:25:30,600 --> 00:25:33,840
Speaker 2: Got yourself isolated because you took it personal. And there

476
00:25:33,840 --> 00:25:35,600
Speaker 2: may have been something that they were going through that

477
00:25:35,720 --> 00:25:37,240
Speaker 2: was so dark that if you would have known that,

478
00:25:37,280 --> 00:25:38,760
Speaker 2: you would have given them a hug and said, I'll

479
00:25:38,760 --> 00:25:43,119
Speaker 2: send you a Christmas card. But now you've got it personal, permanent,

480
00:25:43,440 --> 00:25:47,160
Speaker 2: it's never coming back. It's always going to be this way.

481
00:25:47,400 --> 00:25:50,359
Speaker 2: It will never change. I'm never going to be able

482
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Speaker 2: to go a week without doing this. I am never

483
00:25:52,760 --> 00:25:55,640
Speaker 2: going to find anybody who gets me. It's permanent, it's

484
00:25:55,640 --> 00:25:58,760
Speaker 2: going to stay this way forever, and it's pervasive. It's

485
00:25:58,800 --> 00:26:01,240
Speaker 2: when you can't celebrate the kid that's doing good because

486
00:26:01,240 --> 00:26:03,439
Speaker 2: of the one that you're worried about. It's when you

487
00:26:03,480 --> 00:26:06,159
Speaker 2: can't celebrate the health in your body because.

488
00:26:05,920 --> 00:26:08,560
Speaker 1: Of the hell in your mind. It's because you're in.

489
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Speaker 2: An eye thought. He said, I thought it was through.

490
00:26:18,320 --> 00:26:20,520
Speaker 2: I thought the dream was through. I thought the vision

491
00:26:20,640 --> 00:26:22,760
Speaker 2: was through. I thought the relation. I thought my joy,

492
00:26:22,800 --> 00:26:27,640
Speaker 2: I thought my very joy in life was through.

493
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Speaker 1: It's an eye thought. And if you're there today, let's

494
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Speaker 1: start there.

495
00:26:33,320 --> 00:26:37,119
Speaker 2: I thought it was through. There are some things in

496
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Speaker 2: your life that may very well be through. That's why

497
00:26:39,520 --> 00:26:40,280
Speaker 2: you can't dwell on.

498
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Speaker 1: I thought about the former days.

499
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Speaker 2: That's why you can't watch Andy Griffith reruns and wish

500
00:26:46,160 --> 00:26:49,119
Speaker 2: again for wholesome entertainment, and curse this Love Island. That

501
00:26:49,160 --> 00:26:51,919
Speaker 2: this crap these kids are watching and the devil is

502
00:26:51,960 --> 00:26:53,280
Speaker 2: taking over a generation.

503
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Speaker 1: This is an I thought. But the Lord y'all are

504
00:27:02,480 --> 00:27:04,000
Speaker 1: laughing like y'all been watching it too.

505
00:27:06,280 --> 00:27:09,080
Speaker 2: I thought it was true. I thought the best days

506
00:27:09,119 --> 00:27:12,480
Speaker 2: were behind me, I thought. And I want to show

507
00:27:12,480 --> 00:27:15,320
Speaker 2: you something this really helped me. Is something that he

508
00:27:15,359 --> 00:27:20,800
Speaker 2: said in verse two, and yeah, yeah, yeah, he said

509
00:27:20,960 --> 00:27:27,119
Speaker 2: when I was in distress. Everybody say distress. Distress is

510
00:27:27,160 --> 00:27:29,440
Speaker 2: a normal part of the Christian life, just like it's

511
00:27:29,480 --> 00:27:33,320
Speaker 2: a normal part of the human experience. Distress in and

512
00:27:33,320 --> 00:27:36,560
Speaker 2: of itself is not a problem. When I was in distress.

513
00:27:37,359 --> 00:27:39,760
Speaker 2: The promise that God makes is not to protect us

514
00:27:39,760 --> 00:27:42,879
Speaker 2: from distress. The promise that God makes is not to

515
00:27:42,960 --> 00:27:45,520
Speaker 2: keep all pressure from coming on our lives. The promise

516
00:27:45,560 --> 00:27:47,960
Speaker 2: that God makes is not to make sure that He

517
00:27:48,040 --> 00:27:50,600
Speaker 2: always takes us the long way around any problem.

518
00:27:51,800 --> 00:28:00,000
Speaker 1: The problem is when the distress becomes despair. There's a difference.

519
00:28:01,840 --> 00:28:08,800
Speaker 2: Distress is this hurts, but I have hope. Despair is

520
00:28:09,840 --> 00:28:12,800
Speaker 2: this hurts and I have no hope.

521
00:28:13,240 --> 00:28:14,840
Speaker 1: Despair is dangerous.

522
00:28:15,440 --> 00:28:21,439
Speaker 2: Despair is hurt minus hope. Despair is looking at the

523
00:28:21,480 --> 00:28:29,040
Speaker 2: situation saying never vanished, rejection, personal, permanent, pervasive.

524
00:28:29,600 --> 00:28:32,040
Speaker 1: I thought the psalmist said.

525
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Speaker 2: Not that this is just a difficult season and I

526
00:28:33,840 --> 00:28:35,919
Speaker 2: got to get through it, because we all have those.

527
00:28:36,320 --> 00:28:37,840
Speaker 1: Not this is just a bad day.

528
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Speaker 2: And if I can make it till five o'clock without

529
00:28:39,560 --> 00:28:41,840
Speaker 2: cussing anybody out, I can keep bringing home a paycheck

530
00:28:42,080 --> 00:28:43,800
Speaker 2: and not get kicked out of this house that I'm

531
00:28:43,800 --> 00:28:44,560
Speaker 2: behind a month on.

532
00:28:44,640 --> 00:28:47,719
Speaker 1: Anyway, It's not if I can get through this, it

533
00:28:47,800 --> 00:28:50,040
Speaker 1: is is this all there is?

534
00:28:51,080 --> 00:28:56,360
Speaker 2: Despair is it's never going to get better.

535
00:28:57,840 --> 00:28:59,160
Speaker 1: That's where the devil wants you.

536
00:29:00,040 --> 00:29:03,840
Speaker 2: It's never going to get better, and you'll always lose

537
00:29:03,880 --> 00:29:07,920
Speaker 2: your temper. It's never going to get better, and you

538
00:29:07,960 --> 00:29:12,040
Speaker 2: will always be a failure. It's never going to get better,

539
00:29:12,240 --> 00:29:14,680
Speaker 2: and you are always gonna be too loud, and you

540
00:29:14,720 --> 00:29:17,360
Speaker 2: are always gonna be too quiet, and you were always

541
00:29:17,440 --> 00:29:20,040
Speaker 2: gonna be too short. Did you ever think maybe God

542
00:29:20,080 --> 00:29:22,160
Speaker 2: made you short so you could fit through little doors?

543
00:29:23,000 --> 00:29:30,920
Speaker 1: Okay, now, if this is where the psalmist starts, we

544
00:29:31,080 --> 00:29:31,760
Speaker 1: have got to.

545
00:29:31,760 --> 00:29:37,200
Speaker 2: Do something today to get you out of this. If

546
00:29:37,240 --> 00:29:41,600
Speaker 2: despair is dangerous, and distress is and dangerous, you can

547
00:29:41,680 --> 00:29:44,520
Speaker 2: go through a lot of things. You've been through a

548
00:29:44,560 --> 00:29:47,600
Speaker 2: lot of things. You've put up with a lot of things.

549
00:29:48,000 --> 00:29:52,080
Speaker 2: Tell your neighbor, I'm tougher than I look. Tell them again,

550
00:29:52,080 --> 00:29:53,080
Speaker 2: I'm tougher than I look.

551
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Speaker 3: To love.

552
00:29:54,920 --> 00:29:57,120
Speaker 2: I'm pretty smileful of you. I'm tougher than I look.

553
00:29:58,440 --> 00:29:59,600
Speaker 2: I'm tougher than I look.

554
00:30:00,040 --> 00:30:00,520
Speaker 1: I took a.

555
00:30:00,600 --> 00:30:03,600
Speaker 2: Licking and kept on ticking. I'm tougher than I look.

556
00:30:03,960 --> 00:30:06,600
Speaker 2: I'm like a weevile. I wabbled, but I didn't go down.

557
00:30:07,000 --> 00:30:11,480
Speaker 2: I'm tougher than I look. I've had some challenges to

558
00:30:11,560 --> 00:30:13,960
Speaker 2: my faith. I've had some questions about God.

559
00:30:14,360 --> 00:30:16,400
Speaker 1: I'm still here praising in.

560
00:30:16,280 --> 00:30:19,320
Speaker 2: Fact, that's my two word testimony when I can't think

561
00:30:19,360 --> 00:30:20,960
Speaker 2: of anything else to praise him for.

562
00:30:21,720 --> 00:30:28,160
Speaker 3: Still here, somebody shouts, still here in a funk, still here,

563
00:30:28,800 --> 00:30:32,440
Speaker 3: down in it, still here, wondering about it, Still here.

564
00:30:32,960 --> 00:30:35,080
Speaker 1: Piece isn't all.

565
00:30:38,920 --> 00:30:41,640
Speaker 2: So what you've got to do, child of God is

566
00:30:41,800 --> 00:30:48,240
Speaker 2: never allowed distress, which is temporary, to become despair, which

567
00:30:48,280 --> 00:30:54,360
Speaker 2: says forever. And the devil specializes in turning distress into

568
00:30:54,440 --> 00:30:58,560
Speaker 2: despair to get you so clouded by one conflict that

569
00:30:58,600 --> 00:31:00,080
Speaker 2: you have forgotten your call.

570
00:31:00,680 --> 00:31:02,440
Speaker 1: Who am I preaching to today?

571
00:31:02,960 --> 00:31:07,680
Speaker 2: God sent this word to disrupt your despair?

572
00:31:08,760 --> 00:31:09,160
Speaker 1: Hear me?

573
00:31:09,760 --> 00:31:14,120
Speaker 2: God sent this word to disrupt your despair. Every I

574
00:31:14,360 --> 00:31:16,760
Speaker 2: thought that has been telling you you will not make it,

575
00:31:17,000 --> 00:31:19,240
Speaker 2: every I thought that has been telling you you are

576
00:31:19,240 --> 00:31:21,760
Speaker 2: not worthy of God's love. The Cross made you worthy.

577
00:31:22,000 --> 00:31:24,000
Speaker 2: What does it have to do with your behavior? What

578
00:31:24,120 --> 00:31:26,360
Speaker 2: did it ever have to do with your behavior? It's

579
00:31:26,400 --> 00:31:29,080
Speaker 2: about his blood. I call you worthy in the name

580
00:31:29,120 --> 00:31:32,160
Speaker 2: of Jesus. I call you healed by his stripes. I

581
00:31:32,200 --> 00:31:35,760
Speaker 2: call you forgiven. And His favor is coming to your

582
00:31:35,880 --> 00:31:41,160
Speaker 2: situation right now, into your room, into your home, into

583
00:31:41,200 --> 00:31:45,800
Speaker 2: your wound, into your family, into your business, into that.

584
00:31:45,880 --> 00:31:53,880
Speaker 1: Thing that the devil told you is through is through.

585
00:31:53,960 --> 00:31:57,120
Speaker 2: Give up is through. Quit fighting is through. Don't go

586
00:31:57,160 --> 00:31:59,160
Speaker 2: back to rehab is through. Give up on it. Just

587
00:31:59,280 --> 00:31:59,840
Speaker 2: manage the ad.

588
00:32:01,360 --> 00:32:04,880
Speaker 1: It's through. It's through, Just walk away from it is through.

589
00:32:05,160 --> 00:32:07,480
Speaker 2: Just move to another city and start over the same

590
00:32:07,520 --> 00:32:08,760
Speaker 2: stuff all over again, till.

591
00:32:08,680 --> 00:32:11,360
Speaker 1: It catches up with you. Is through leave is through.

592
00:32:13,400 --> 00:32:15,760
Speaker 2: Well. I found something for the trap. I found a

593
00:32:15,960 --> 00:32:22,200
Speaker 2: truth for the trap for everybody who has been in

594
00:32:22,240 --> 00:32:26,360
Speaker 2: an I thought, and I know you know the one

595
00:32:26,400 --> 00:32:31,240
Speaker 2: I'm talking about. Don't make me start prophesying it, tee.

596
00:32:31,280 --> 00:32:34,680
Speaker 2: I thought, the one that starts with you and ends

597
00:32:34,680 --> 00:32:36,400
Speaker 2: with misery. You know, every thought that it starts with

598
00:32:36,440 --> 00:32:39,640
Speaker 2: me ends in misery eventually if it doesn't involve God.

599
00:32:41,920 --> 00:32:44,480
Speaker 2: So what I noticed from what I read from Brugemont

600
00:32:44,520 --> 00:32:47,160
Speaker 2: and some of the other theologians that I was looking up,

601
00:32:47,920 --> 00:32:51,520
Speaker 2: he said, I thought about the former days, and I

602
00:32:51,560 --> 00:32:56,680
Speaker 2: thought it was personal, permanent, pervasive. I would ask God

603
00:32:56,720 --> 00:32:58,720
Speaker 2: to help me with the problem, but God was the problem.

604
00:33:00,000 --> 00:33:00,960
Speaker 2: I didn't know where to go.

605
00:33:03,280 --> 00:33:06,160
Speaker 1: Now. I kind of lied to you when I set

606
00:33:06,160 --> 00:33:06,719
Speaker 1: the sermon up.

607
00:33:07,280 --> 00:33:08,680
Speaker 2: I said, I was going to share a verse that

608
00:33:08,720 --> 00:33:10,120
Speaker 2: I read that meant a lot to me right after

609
00:33:10,160 --> 00:33:12,640
Speaker 2: alleged got out of the hospital, and I am, but

610
00:33:12,680 --> 00:33:14,080
Speaker 2: it wasn't the one I read you when I started

611
00:33:14,080 --> 00:33:22,800
Speaker 2: a servant. It's one it's a little sniper verse. It's

612
00:33:22,800 --> 00:33:26,760
Speaker 2: a little sniper scripture. It's like you could just gloss

613
00:33:26,840 --> 00:33:28,440
Speaker 2: right over it. But remember how bad of a state

614
00:33:28,480 --> 00:33:30,920
Speaker 2: this guy was in. What's going to turn it around

615
00:33:30,960 --> 00:33:32,840
Speaker 2: for you? What's going to turn it around for us?

616
00:33:32,880 --> 00:33:36,360
Speaker 2: What's going to break us out of these patterns and

617
00:33:36,400 --> 00:33:40,400
Speaker 2: traps of thinking that the devil says never all? What's

618
00:33:40,400 --> 00:33:42,560
Speaker 2: going to break us out of this limited view of

619
00:33:42,560 --> 00:33:44,880
Speaker 2: your situation that can't find God in it because you

620
00:33:46,200 --> 00:33:46,960
Speaker 2: have gotten so.

621
00:33:48,800 --> 00:33:50,920
Speaker 1: Blurry in the battle.

622
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Speaker 2: And so I told my mom, I said, I'm going

623
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Speaker 2: to be reading from Psalm seventy seven to preach this week.

624
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Speaker 1: And she likes I give a little headstart.

625
00:34:01,120 --> 00:34:02,920
Speaker 2: Well, she send me like a picture of her Bible

626
00:34:03,600 --> 00:34:05,600
Speaker 2: open to Psalm seventy seven.

627
00:34:06,400 --> 00:34:11,879
Speaker 1: She's like, already beat you to it, preacher. I'm trying

628
00:34:11,920 --> 00:34:12,520
Speaker 1: to do her voice.

629
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Speaker 2: When I do that, I already beat It was a text,

630
00:34:14,239 --> 00:34:15,319
Speaker 2: but that's how she would have said it.

631
00:34:17,320 --> 00:34:18,759
Speaker 1: And I said, bring that Bible because I want to

632
00:34:18,760 --> 00:34:20,840
Speaker 1: show you something. I give my camera.

633
00:34:22,360 --> 00:34:25,359
Speaker 2: This is not Psalm twenty three. Everybody knows Psalm twenty three.

634
00:34:25,400 --> 00:34:27,359
Speaker 2: The Lord is my shepherd. I shall not want It's

635
00:34:27,360 --> 00:34:30,960
Speaker 2: a relatively obscure Psalm. You see how she had that circled.

636
00:34:38,400 --> 00:34:41,719
Speaker 2: Sometimes it takes a minute to see it. That's like

637
00:34:41,760 --> 00:34:48,319
Speaker 2: the Lord, Well, this illustration isn't really working too well either.

638
00:34:51,200 --> 00:34:52,680
Speaker 1: But what I wanted to show.

639
00:34:52,480 --> 00:34:54,400
Speaker 2: You that I can show you direct me, man, do

640
00:34:54,440 --> 00:34:55,439
Speaker 2: I need to stand somewhere different?

641
00:34:55,480 --> 00:34:57,359
Speaker 1: I do whatever, and you do that's better.

642
00:34:59,640 --> 00:35:04,000
Speaker 2: She has that Psalm seventy seven circled like a serial killer.

643
00:35:05,480 --> 00:35:08,520
Speaker 1: That's like a.

644
00:35:07,520 --> 00:35:10,840
Speaker 2: Right and I realized why she's got it all underlined.

645
00:35:10,880 --> 00:35:12,520
Speaker 2: I said, bring the Bible to church. I got to

646
00:35:12,520 --> 00:35:17,320
Speaker 2: show the people something. She's circling everything in this Bible

647
00:35:17,960 --> 00:35:22,560
Speaker 2: all the way down to has his unfailing love vanished forever?

648
00:35:22,600 --> 00:35:25,520
Speaker 1: Has his promise failed for all time? And then on

649
00:35:25,560 --> 00:35:30,000
Speaker 1: her Bible that's the part where that page ends. I

650
00:35:30,000 --> 00:35:30,319
Speaker 1: told her.

651
00:35:30,360 --> 00:35:33,520
Speaker 2: I was like, that's not the best part of Psalm

652
00:35:33,560 --> 00:35:36,919
Speaker 2: seventy seven. She's said, yeah, that's what I was reading

653
00:35:37,000 --> 00:35:40,040
Speaker 2: right after your dad died. Thanks a lot. I was like,

654
00:35:40,160 --> 00:35:42,000
Speaker 2: you know, that's a good part of Psalm seventy seven too,

655
00:35:42,040 --> 00:35:45,600
Speaker 2: obviously when you're going through things. But I said, read

656
00:35:45,640 --> 00:35:47,440
Speaker 2: the rest and hit me a couple hours later. Now,

657
00:35:47,440 --> 00:35:52,000
Speaker 2: my dad died of als. It was over ten years ago,

658
00:35:52,200 --> 00:35:57,319
Speaker 2: and it was in June of twenty thirteen, and this

659
00:35:57,400 --> 00:35:59,600
Speaker 2: psalm meant a lot to her during that low.

660
00:35:59,440 --> 00:36:00,360
Speaker 1: Time of her life.

661
00:36:00,800 --> 00:36:02,920
Speaker 2: And so she was reading it like we do, and

662
00:36:03,320 --> 00:36:05,560
Speaker 2: we come to this place. I thought it was through.

663
00:36:05,560 --> 00:36:08,799
Speaker 2: And she had just lost her husband. She had just

664
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Speaker 2: lost him after caring for him. It was an atrocious,

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Speaker 2: atrocious disease. But what I want to show her and

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Speaker 2: you today from Psalm seventy seven is in verse ten,

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Speaker 2: May this change your life, made this break your pattern?

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Speaker 2: May this bring you out of the trap. Because he

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Speaker 2: said I was stuck in. I thought, watch this. Then

670
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Speaker 2: I thought, that's the whole sermon. Then I thought, circle

671
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Speaker 2: it on the screen, justin. Then I thought, no circle.

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Speaker 2: Then I thought, because the first thought wasn't the right thought.

673
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Speaker 2: Then I thought, I thought, I thought, I thought, and

674
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Speaker 2: I got stuck in a loop of I thoughts.

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Speaker 1: Then I thought.

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Speaker 2: Verse ten is the hinge where everything changes for this Psalmist.

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Speaker 2: Verse ten is the hinge where everything can change for

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Speaker 2: you and I. Verse ten is the hinge that depression

679
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Speaker 2: doesn't want you to know about.

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Speaker 1: Verse ten is the hinge that.

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Speaker 2: The devil wants to hide and delete off of your

682
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Speaker 2: Bible lap.

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Speaker 1: Verse ten is the hinge that the.

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Speaker 2: Devil doesn't want you to turn to because after all

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Speaker 2: of that which is real, after all of that which

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Speaker 2: is a part of being you, after all of.

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Speaker 1: That, I thought it was through. After all of that,

688
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Speaker 1: he says.

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Speaker 2: Then I thought, let's see what he thought next to this,

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Speaker 2: I will appeal the years when the Most High stretched

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Speaker 2: out his right hand. I will remember the deeds of

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Speaker 2: the Lord. Yes, I will remember your miracles of long ago.

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Speaker 2: I will consider all your works and meditate on all

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Speaker 2: your mighty deeds. Go back to verse ten. Then I

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Speaker 2: thought to this, I will appeal the years when the

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Speaker 2: Most High stretched out his right hand.

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Speaker 1: Go back to verse two.

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Speaker 2: When we started with these eye thoughts, he was saying,

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Speaker 2: when I was in distress, I sought the Lord at night.

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Speaker 2: I stretched out untiring hands, who stretched out I stretched out. Ah,

701
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Speaker 2: I can't do this much longer. I don't care how

702
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Speaker 2: many interior raises you do in the gym for your shoulders.

703
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Speaker 1: You can only do this so long.

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Speaker 2: And is it possible that the reason you are so

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Speaker 2: faint in your faith, and so weary in your worship,

706
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Speaker 2: and so discouraged about your destiny.

707
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Speaker 1: And the reason that you think that it's through.

708
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Speaker 2: Is because you have been so focused on this God,

709
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Speaker 2: I can't give any more.

710
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Speaker 1: I can't do anymore. I already feel so stretched God,

711
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Speaker 1: I feel.

712
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Speaker 2: So empty, I feel so unseen, I feel so uncelebrated.

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Speaker 2: I keep stretching out my hands, I keep putting myself forth,

714
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Speaker 2: I keep taking my next step, but you're not there.

715
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Speaker 1: Then verse ten, then verse ten.

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Speaker 2: Then I thought, I'm gonna appeal to a higher court

717
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Speaker 2: instead of thinking about how I'm doing this, let me

718
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Speaker 2: think about the years when God stretched his hand. And

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Speaker 2: when I start thinking about how he's stretched his hand,

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Speaker 2: and I forget about my hands. Suddenly my hands go

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Speaker 2: up in worship because.

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Speaker 3: I remember that the bow is not mine, but it

723
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Speaker 3: belongs to the Lord.

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Speaker 2: Fifteen seconds of praise for everybody who needs a.

725
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Speaker 3: Then I thought, Then I thought, well that's annoying. Yeah,

726
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Speaker 3: high five your neighbors say.

727
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Speaker 1: Then I thought, I thought over and over, I thought,

728
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Speaker 1: Then I thought, oh yeah. Then I thought I thought

729
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Speaker 1: it was through. Then I thought I might as well

730
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Speaker 1: throw in the towel.

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Speaker 2: Then I was very focused on all the reasons I

732
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Speaker 2: had not.

733
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Speaker 1: To go forward. Y'all, slow, y'all are real, slow, y'all,

734
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Speaker 1: slow like molasses in the south.

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Speaker 2: Then I thought, let me think about his hand, let

736
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Speaker 2: me remember his deeds.

737
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Speaker 1: He does it in a quartet.

738
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Speaker 2: He talks about the mighty deeds of God, the works

739
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Speaker 2: of God, the awesome deeds of God, the deeds of God.

740
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Speaker 1: He lists them off and wrap them off. Because he said,

741
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Speaker 1: I thought it was through.

742
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Speaker 4: And then after I had gotten done with all of

743
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Speaker 4: my questions. Then after I had poured out all my complaints,

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Speaker 4: then after I had considered all the reasons that I

745
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Speaker 4: had to be afraid.

746
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Speaker 1: I thought it was through. But then I thought it through.

747
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Speaker 1: I thought about saying, all right, devil, I quit. Then

748
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Speaker 1: I thought it was through. But then.

749
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Speaker 3: I thought it through, and I decided I would have

750
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Speaker 3: despair unless I have to leave. Then I what see

751
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Speaker 3: the good this?

752
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Speaker 1: I'm the lord in the land of the livings.

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Speaker 3: Hot five seven people say, I thought it through.

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Speaker 1: I thought it through. I thought it through. I thought

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Speaker 1: it through.

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Speaker 3: I thought it through.

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Speaker 1: Now let me tell you what I mean.

758
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Speaker 2: In verse nineteen, let's go right back to the top

759
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Speaker 2: of the sermon. He said, when I thought about the

760
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Speaker 2: way God works, don't sit down.

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Speaker 1: You're about to shout again. You might as well just

762
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Speaker 1: save yourself a calorie burn. You might as well just

763
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Speaker 1: save yourself a cardio. Just go ahead and.

764
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Speaker 2: Jump up now by faith and get ready to celebrate.

765
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Speaker 2: He said, your path lead.

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Speaker 1: Circle the word through.

767
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Speaker 2: Let's do Bible study. I wanted you to take me

768
00:43:00,560 --> 00:43:04,160
Speaker 2: around it. I wanted you to carry me over it.

769
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Speaker 2: I wanted you to give me a boat. But instead

770
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Speaker 2: of a boat, I got a mighty hand.

771
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Speaker 1: And an outspread farm. Your path, your path led through.

772
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Speaker 2: Tell your neighbor, I thought it through, your way through

773
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Speaker 2: the mighty waters, through the mighty waters. Though your footprints

774
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Speaker 2: weren't seen. Why didn't I see God's footprints? Because he

775
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Speaker 2: was working with his hand at a higher level. He

776
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Speaker 2: was driving back waters that I didn't know. He needed

777
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Speaker 2: depart so he could drown Egyptians that were chasing me

778
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Speaker 2: and trying to bring me back into captivity. What am

779
00:43:52,120 --> 00:43:56,560
Speaker 2: I trying to say? Think it through? You just keep

780
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Speaker 2: thinking the same eye thoughts and you're like, I.

781
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Speaker 1: Do think it through. I'm an overthinker. Just because you

782
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Speaker 1: think it again doesn't mean you thought it through. You underthinker.

783
00:44:13,840 --> 00:44:19,200
Speaker 2: You you think like this, Oh, well, the devil's attacking me.

784
00:44:19,280 --> 00:44:22,759
Speaker 2: I guess God's not with me. What if you thought

785
00:44:22,760 --> 00:44:30,000
Speaker 2: that through God must be so with me. This is

786
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Speaker 2: how you think it through.

787
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Speaker 1: God.

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Speaker 2: I went to my in laws fiftieth wedding anniversary the

789
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Speaker 2: other day.

790
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Speaker 1: Clap your hands for that.

791
00:44:43,360 --> 00:44:47,719
Speaker 2: And it survived betrayal, and it survived addiction, and it

792
00:44:47,800 --> 00:44:51,520
Speaker 2: survived special needs, and there were times where they thought

793
00:44:51,560 --> 00:44:56,040
Speaker 2: it wouldn't make it. Then I thought, the challenge is

794
00:44:56,120 --> 00:45:00,439
Speaker 2: you can't see the path in the present. W it's

795
00:45:00,480 --> 00:45:03,760
Speaker 2: only in retrospect that the Red Sea looks like a blessing.

796
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Speaker 1: I'll show you what I mean.

797
00:45:07,080 --> 00:45:10,360
Speaker 2: Go to Exodus fourteen when the Israelites came up on

798
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Speaker 2: the Red Sea. You know the story. You know the story.

799
00:45:13,920 --> 00:45:15,840
Speaker 2: They came up on the Red Sea. They were leaving Egypt.

800
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Speaker 2: They had been slaves for four hundred and thirty years,

801
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Speaker 2: and God was leading them out.

802
00:45:18,800 --> 00:45:20,799
Speaker 1: They were happy, They were ready to dance. They even

803
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Speaker 1: pecked their tambourines.

804
00:45:22,400 --> 00:45:25,520
Speaker 2: And as the tambourines are jingling in their suitcase, oh no,

805
00:45:25,600 --> 00:45:26,480
Speaker 2: here comes trouble.

806
00:45:26,680 --> 00:45:28,560
Speaker 1: What is the sound of that very hot pitch.

807
00:45:28,600 --> 00:45:31,640
Speaker 2: It doesn't sound like a tambourine, It's an Egyptian chariot.

808
00:45:31,840 --> 00:45:34,120
Speaker 1: Oh no, the Egyptians are coming after us.

809
00:45:34,120 --> 00:45:36,719
Speaker 2: So watch what they thought, because I'm trying to get

810
00:45:36,760 --> 00:45:40,680
Speaker 2: you to see that you might be wrong. You might

811
00:45:40,719 --> 00:45:44,640
Speaker 2: think the attack means it's through. That's an I thought

812
00:45:44,760 --> 00:45:48,480
Speaker 2: they thought. Watch this Exited fourteen, the Lord said, Moses,

813
00:45:48,800 --> 00:45:50,000
Speaker 2: the stretch your hand over the sea, that the waters

814
00:45:50,040 --> 00:45:51,279
Speaker 2: going to go to full back over the Egyptians and

815
00:45:51,280 --> 00:45:54,279
Speaker 2: their cheers and horsemen most stretches hand over see day break.

816
00:45:54,440 --> 00:45:56,439
Speaker 2: The justians of fleetwary, the Lord swipped them into the sea.

817
00:45:56,440 --> 00:45:58,440
Speaker 2: Oh so the Israelites didn't die. The Egyptians did go

818
00:45:58,480 --> 00:46:01,239
Speaker 2: to verse twenty eight to flow back and cover all

819
00:46:01,360 --> 00:46:04,680
Speaker 2: the chariots and horsemen. Now that all sounds so wonderful.

820
00:46:04,719 --> 00:46:06,600
Speaker 2: God drowned their enemies, right, And I know I'm rushing this.

821
00:46:06,600 --> 00:46:07,160
Speaker 1: I don't have time.

822
00:46:07,200 --> 00:46:07,360
Speaker 2: You go.

823
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Speaker 1: Come back next week for part two of this. But

824
00:46:11,840 --> 00:46:13,719
Speaker 1: what's crazy to me about.

825
00:46:13,400 --> 00:46:17,840
Speaker 2: This scripture is the scripture says that when they got

826
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Speaker 2: to the edge of their escape route in Exodus chapter fourteen,

827
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Speaker 2: verse eleven, they said to Moses, was it because there

828
00:46:32,920 --> 00:46:35,000
Speaker 2: were no graves in Egypt that you brought us to

829
00:46:35,040 --> 00:46:40,680
Speaker 2: the desert to die? They thought that water was going

830
00:46:40,760 --> 00:46:47,239
Speaker 2: to kill them. That's what they thought, now, look at

831
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Speaker 2: chapter fifteen, verse one, when they got to the other

832
00:46:50,000 --> 00:46:53,000
Speaker 2: side and the Egyptians were all dead behind them, and

833
00:46:53,040 --> 00:46:55,440
Speaker 2: the thing they thought was gonna kill him Exitus fifteen,

834
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Speaker 2: verse one. Exitus fifteen, verse one, and circle the word.

835
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Speaker 2: Then Moses and the Israelites sang this song.

836
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Speaker 1: To the Lord. I will sing to the Lord.

837
00:47:07,160 --> 00:47:10,200
Speaker 2: That's fine, But you got to sing that same song

838
00:47:10,200 --> 00:47:13,520
Speaker 2: on the other side so you can get through this.

839
00:47:18,000 --> 00:47:19,560
Speaker 2: Somebody say, then, I thought.

840
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Speaker 1: It is the.

841
00:47:21,640 --> 00:47:24,480
Speaker 2: Hinge of the scripture for the people of God.

842
00:47:24,520 --> 00:47:25,960
Speaker 1: They remembered their exodus.

843
00:47:25,960 --> 00:47:29,600
Speaker 2: This deliverance motif sets the entire story for Jesus, who

844
00:47:29,640 --> 00:47:31,960
Speaker 2: would be the greater Moses, who would bring us out

845
00:47:31,960 --> 00:47:34,359
Speaker 2: of the slavery to sin. It's all set up here,

846
00:47:34,360 --> 00:47:36,920
Speaker 2: and the Psalmist is looking back and saying, when I

847
00:47:37,000 --> 00:47:41,279
Speaker 2: could not see your footprints, I remembered that your hand

848
00:47:41,400 --> 00:47:46,759
Speaker 2: was working in the night. And you've been looking at

849
00:47:46,800 --> 00:47:50,200
Speaker 2: the wrong level, and you have been thinking at the

850
00:47:50,200 --> 00:47:55,279
Speaker 2: wrong level. And God's thoughts are not our thoughts, and

851
00:47:55,320 --> 00:47:59,400
Speaker 2: his ways are not our ways. And what if the

852
00:47:59,480 --> 00:48:02,400
Speaker 2: attack is against you is actually sent to remind you

853
00:48:02,520 --> 00:48:06,560
Speaker 2: how valuable what you carry actually is. Think it through

854
00:48:07,920 --> 00:48:11,720
Speaker 2: think it through. The devil is not omnipresent. The devil

855
00:48:11,760 --> 00:48:14,839
Speaker 2: does not have unlimited ammunition. So if there is an

856
00:48:14,880 --> 00:48:17,680
Speaker 2: attack against your life, if there is an attack against

857
00:48:17,719 --> 00:48:20,560
Speaker 2: your family, if there is an attack against your mind,

858
00:48:20,880 --> 00:48:24,240
Speaker 2: there is something in your future that Hell has recognized.

859
00:48:24,680 --> 00:48:25,320
Speaker 1: Think it through.

860
00:48:25,360 --> 00:48:25,920
Speaker 3: What is it?

861
00:48:27,360 --> 00:48:30,279
Speaker 2: What is it that Hell knows about my family that

862
00:48:30,440 --> 00:48:32,160
Speaker 2: I forgot about my family?

863
00:48:32,640 --> 00:48:33,919
Speaker 1: Then I thought it through?

864
00:48:39,200 --> 00:48:43,400
Speaker 2: And even more, what is it that God knows I

865
00:48:43,440 --> 00:48:45,640
Speaker 2: need to learn that He would let me go through this?

866
00:48:47,440 --> 00:48:49,160
Speaker 2: And if you really want to get out of the

867
00:48:49,200 --> 00:48:52,319
Speaker 2: I thought, what is it that He's going to use

868
00:48:52,360 --> 00:48:56,920
Speaker 2: this for in somebody else's life? Did I really suffer

869
00:48:56,960 --> 00:48:59,719
Speaker 2: this much to stay silent about what he taught me

870
00:48:59,760 --> 00:49:00,600
Speaker 2: as as a student.

871
00:49:04,640 --> 00:49:07,840
Speaker 1: So the word of the Lord is think it through.

872
00:49:09,640 --> 00:49:10,239
Speaker 1: Think it through.

873
00:49:12,000 --> 00:49:15,000
Speaker 2: It never comes like you thought it would come, not

874
00:49:15,080 --> 00:49:18,319
Speaker 2: when it comes from God, because if it came like

875
00:49:18,360 --> 00:49:19,840
Speaker 2: you thought it would come, then your thoughts would be

876
00:49:19,880 --> 00:49:20,680
Speaker 2: God right.

877
00:49:22,920 --> 00:49:24,799
Speaker 1: And he says, my ways are not your ways. Neither

878
00:49:24,840 --> 00:49:26,040
Speaker 1: are my thoughts your thoughts.

879
00:49:27,560 --> 00:49:29,360
Speaker 2: And it just blessed me to think about all of

880
00:49:29,400 --> 00:49:34,160
Speaker 2: the people in here who, instead of giving up on

881
00:49:34,200 --> 00:49:37,600
Speaker 2: this pursuit of Jesus instead of giving up on your purity,

882
00:49:37,640 --> 00:49:38,840
Speaker 2: instead of giving up.

883
00:49:38,680 --> 00:49:40,480
Speaker 1: On the impact God has called you to make.

884
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Speaker 2: Instead of thinking it was through, You're going to think

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Speaker 2: it through today so that the song you have to

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Speaker 2: sing on the other side reflects the faithfulness of the.

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Speaker 1: God who split the sea.

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Speaker 2: One moment, it looked like the sea was going to

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Speaker 2: kill them. The next minute they realized, Wait, God didn't

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Speaker 2: bring us this far to drown us. He didn't bring

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Speaker 2: us out here to leave us. He didn't bring us

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Speaker 2: out here because He's not with us. He brought us

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Speaker 2: out here because the enemy can't swim.

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Speaker 1: Thank you for joining us.

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Speaker 1: Is because of you that this ministry is possible.

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