WEBVTT - I Thought It Was Through

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<v Speaker 1>Hey, this is Stephen Ferdick.

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

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<v Speaker 1>I wanted to thank you for joining us today. Hope

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<v Speaker 1>this inspires you. Hope it builds your faith.

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<v Speaker 2>Hope it gives your perspective to see God is moving

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<v Speaker 2>in your life.

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<v Speaker 1>Enjoy the message.

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<v Speaker 2>I want to let you know if you don't live

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<v Speaker 2>near Charlotte, but you've always wanted to come to Elevation Church,

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<v Speaker 2>we figured out a way to come to you.

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<v Speaker 1>Elevation Nights Fall Tour twenty.

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<v Speaker 2>drive there, but you should do that. Tampa, Florida, Miami, Florida,

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<v Speaker 2>where my beautiful I grew up.

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

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<v Speaker 1>to Elevation Nights dot com.

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<v Speaker 2>Happy eleventh anniversary to our Raleigh campus.

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<v Speaker 1>Help me celebrate them better than that.

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<v Speaker 2>Come on, Happy eleventh anniversary Raleigh, Raleigh Campus.

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<v Speaker 1>We're praying for a great next year of ministry.

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<v Speaker 2>It's our twentieth year of ministry as a church, and

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<v Speaker 2>just we'll continue the celebration all year. Thank you to

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<v Speaker 2>all the wonderful guest preachers who filled this pulpit and preached,

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<v Speaker 2>and all of our home team that preached.

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<v Speaker 1>But my middle son Graham looked at me the other

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<v Speaker 1>day he said, it is time. We want you back.

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<v Speaker 1>All these speakers have been great. We want you back.

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<v Speaker 1>I'm back.

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<v Speaker 2>I want to share with you today a scripture that

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<v Speaker 2>the Lord gave me during our break.

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<v Speaker 1>Our break was very unusual this year.

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<v Speaker 2>Part of the time is just rest, part of the

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<v Speaker 2>time is study, songwriting and all of that.

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<v Speaker 1>The first half we spent in an unusual way.

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<v Speaker 2>Our oldest son, Elijah had a surgery and he was

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<v Speaker 2>recovering from that. It was a pretty major surgery, and

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<v Speaker 2>then he got infected and we ended up back into ICU.

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<v Speaker 1>For quite a while after that, and he's doing all

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<v Speaker 1>better now.

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<v Speaker 2>In fact, the Lord healed him, and he's clipping my

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<v Speaker 2>sermon for TikTok right now as I preach it in

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

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<v Speaker 2>I told him before I came to preach us. I'm

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<v Speaker 2>going to be very clippable today. I must say good stuff.

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

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<v Speaker 2>as we were going through some of that for the

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<v Speaker 2>better part of a month as a family, we came

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<v Speaker 2>across Psalm seventy seven and there was a verse I

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<v Speaker 2>knew I wanted to share with you when I got

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

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<v Speaker 1>A series today.

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<v Speaker 2>So remain standing for just when I read this one verse,

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<v Speaker 2>just one verse? Can you stand for one verse? It's

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<v Speaker 2>in Psalm seventy seven, verse nineteen, And I'll read this

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<v Speaker 2>and then work backward from there to give you the

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<v Speaker 2>message for today. And the Lord's going to help us

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<v Speaker 2>in some remarkable ways. Psalm seventy seven, verse nineteen. The

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<v Speaker 2>Psalmist says to God, your path led through the sea,

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<v Speaker 2>your way through the mighty waters, though your footprints were

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<v Speaker 2>not seen, and had a beautiful scripture. And the Lord

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<v Speaker 2>really used that in my life. I believe he wants.

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<v Speaker 1>To use it in yours really underrated scripture too. Maybe

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<v Speaker 1>it'll be your favorite.

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<v Speaker 2>At the end of today, he says, your path led

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<v Speaker 2>through the sea, your way through the mighty waters, though

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<v Speaker 2>your footprints were not seen. And just turn to the

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<v Speaker 2>person next to you and tell them, even if you

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<v Speaker 2>don't see it, God is working, tell him even if

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<v Speaker 2>you don't feel it.

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<v Speaker 1>God is working.

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<v Speaker 2>Let's put our hands together and praise the way Maper

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<v Speaker 2>in this place. Come on, praise the way Maper in

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<v Speaker 2>this place. God.

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<v Speaker 1>I thank you for every mountain.

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<v Speaker 2>You've brought me over, every valley you've brought me through.

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<v Speaker 2>It was nobody but you, and I praise you today.

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<v Speaker 2>Speak now through your word.

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<v Speaker 1>Use me as a vessel. I'm willing and available and open.

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<v Speaker 2>Give me the courage, give me the clarity, the confidence

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<v Speaker 2>to speak to your children today. And may they receive

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<v Speaker 2>it and obey it. For it is in Jesus name

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<v Speaker 2>that I pray and believe and call it done. Amen,

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<v Speaker 2>you may be seated. Well, boys, bring out my teaching screen.

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<v Speaker 2>Let's get this series started properly. As I announced to

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<v Speaker 2>you our title for the next six weeks at least,

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<v Speaker 2>and maybe even beyond that, because this is such a

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<v Speaker 2>big topic that we're going to talk about, and the

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<v Speaker 2>title of the series it doesn't come exactly from the

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<v Speaker 2>verse that I read you, but I'll.

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<v Speaker 1>Show you where it did come from in a moment.

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<v Speaker 2>And before you judge my handwriting, just know that Abby

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<v Speaker 2>has made fun of my handwriting so much. And today

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<v Speaker 2>I made her try to write on the screen before

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<v Speaker 2>we came.

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<v Speaker 1>Out here, and she said, this is harder than it

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<v Speaker 1>looks like.

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<v Speaker 2>I'm so sorry for how I spoke of you, father,

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<v Speaker 2>But what I want to talk to you about for

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<v Speaker 2>the next few weeks.

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<v Speaker 1>The title of the series is and you're gonna like

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<v Speaker 1>this phrase because you could say it with attitude. Okay,

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<v Speaker 1>we're gonna talk about that's what I thought.

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<v Speaker 2>You know, you got to look at your neighbor and

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<v Speaker 2>say it like you were just right and they were

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<v Speaker 2>just wrong, and you tried to tell them but they

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<v Speaker 2>wouldn't listen.

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<v Speaker 1>Tell them, that's what I thought. That's what I thought.

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<v Speaker 2>Like you were certain and you were proved to be correct.

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

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<v Speaker 2>Or that phrase is so elastic that we use it

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<v Speaker 2>also to mean that our bias was confirmed, like.

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

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<v Speaker 1>that's what I thought.

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<v Speaker 2>But we want to really use that phrase today to

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<v Speaker 2>deal with the thoughts that we think, because honestly, not

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<v Speaker 2>only pastorally but personally, ninety percent of the problems that

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<v Speaker 2>I have faced in my life have not come from

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<v Speaker 2>what the devil did to me.

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<v Speaker 1>Or from what others said about me.

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<v Speaker 2>The biggest problem that I have over and over again

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<v Speaker 2>trying to do what God wants, or the biggest obstacle

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<v Speaker 2>to God doing what he wants in my life over

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<v Speaker 2>and over again seems to be this tricky little thing

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

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<v Speaker 2>like for this, let me try it over here. Yeah.

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<v Speaker 1>Yeah.

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<v Speaker 2>The biggest problem for me over and over again it

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<v Speaker 2>just happens over and over again, is that I get.

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<v Speaker 1>Trapped in what I thought. This is gonna drive me crazy?

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<v Speaker 2>Over here, Welcome back Verdick who sabotaged my screen while

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<v Speaker 2>I was on brick?

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<v Speaker 1>Was it Robert Madu did he mess up my screen?

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<v Speaker 1>Was it Torn Wells who messed up my screen? The

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<v Speaker 1>biggest obstacle?

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<v Speaker 2>And somebody shout, if you know what I'm talking about

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<v Speaker 2>when I say that the biggest problem that I seem

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<v Speaker 2>to have over and over again, it's not necessarily the

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<v Speaker 2>enemies that I face, but it's.

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<v Speaker 1>What I thought.

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<v Speaker 2>It's not necessarily what my life is at this moment

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<v Speaker 2>that's making me sad.

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<v Speaker 1>It's what I thought my life was going to be

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<v Speaker 1>at this season.

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<v Speaker 2>It's not necessarily who I am as a person that

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<v Speaker 2>makes me insecure. It's what I thought I was supposed

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<v Speaker 2>to be based on what I saw that other people

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<v Speaker 2>showed me from who they are, but I didn't see

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<v Speaker 2>their flaws, and so now I'm comparing my future to

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<v Speaker 2>somebody whose flaws I have never seen. And now I'm

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<v Speaker 2>frustrated about where I am, not because of where I am,

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<v Speaker 2>but because of what I thought. I'm not frustrated because

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<v Speaker 2>I'm not married at this age. I'm frustrated because I

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<v Speaker 2>thought I would be. I'm not frustrated because I'm dealing

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<v Speaker 2>with this situation. I'm frustrated because I didn't have the

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<v Speaker 2>chance to prepare for it. And over and over again,

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<v Speaker 2>in my life, the biggest enemy to what God wants

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<v Speaker 2>to do is what I thought he was going to do.

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<v Speaker 1>Now, I want you to get a.

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<v Speaker 2>Time in your mind where you were what I like

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<v Speaker 2>to call confidently wrong, and I don't know if you

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<v Speaker 2>can think of one, or.

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<v Speaker 1>If you've blocked all of that out selective memory.

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<v Speaker 2>I asked everybody in my family, and if y'all know

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<v Speaker 2>any way to fix that while I'm not using the.

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<v Speaker 1>Screen, that would be awesome.

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<v Speaker 2>If not, we'll all work around it and all of

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<v Speaker 2>the OCD people will ignore that part of the screen

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<v Speaker 2>that is not supposed to be like that.

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<v Speaker 1>Now, listen, I asked everybody in my family.

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<v Speaker 2>I said, I need an opening illustration for my new

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<v Speaker 2>series called That's what I thought, And I need you

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<v Speaker 2>to tell me a time when you were so wrong

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<v Speaker 2>and you were so sure you were right. And everybody

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<v Speaker 2>in my family said, can't think of one. Everybody in

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<v Speaker 2>my family, I'll have to get back with you, And

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<v Speaker 2>none of them got back to me with you. The

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<v Speaker 2>means they can't remember one time where they were completely

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<v Speaker 2>wrong and assured that they were completely right, or it

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<v Speaker 2>means that there's nothing really harder in life than to

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<v Speaker 2>going back and admitting remembering when you were wrong. You

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<v Speaker 2>just hit the lead on those times in your life

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<v Speaker 2>like don't want to remember them, And the problem with

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<v Speaker 2>that is then you can't grow from.

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<v Speaker 1>Them as you go forward in the future.

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<v Speaker 2>Now, when we say that Jesus takes away our shame

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<v Speaker 2>and our sin, that doesn't mean that he wants to

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<v Speaker 2>cancel out the lessons that we learned from our mistakes.

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<v Speaker 2>It means that he frees us from the penalty of

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<v Speaker 2>it and the bondage to it. But it doesn't mean

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<v Speaker 2>that Jesus wants us to live our lives just to

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<v Speaker 2>continue to be wrong in all the ways that we

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<v Speaker 2>were wrong a year ago, five years ago, ten years ago.

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

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<v Speaker 1>You were just so wrong.

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<v Speaker 2>I had one this week. I have fresh examples of

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<v Speaker 2>being confidently wrong. I did it at the dinner table.

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<v Speaker 2>One of our kids said something, and I just came

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<v Speaker 2>back with something, and I didn't listen to the rest

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<v Speaker 2>of their sinence and I completely missed the spirit of

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<v Speaker 2>what they were trying to say.

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<v Speaker 1>Just confidently wrong.

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<v Speaker 2>Now I have about a twelve hour expiration dosage cycle

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<v Speaker 2>on the dumb things I do. It takes that long

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<v Speaker 2>for me to digest my dumb and then apologize. So

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<v Speaker 2>twelve hours later, I found myself saying I was so.

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<v Speaker 1>Wrong for that. Now that's hard, isn't it.

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<v Speaker 2>That's hard, isn't it to say I was wrong to

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<v Speaker 2>talk to you like that. I was wrong to assume

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<v Speaker 2>that about you. I was wrong to judge you like that.

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<v Speaker 2>I was wrong to put you in that position. I

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<v Speaker 2>was even to admit dumb things like I was wrong

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<v Speaker 2>when I said that song sucked. The first time I

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<v Speaker 2>heard it, I thought it sucked. Now I realize it's

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<v Speaker 2>a bop, and I feel dumb because I like it,

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<v Speaker 2>But I can't admit I like it because the first

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<v Speaker 2>time I heard it, I thought it was silly. That

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<v Speaker 2>actually is a banger. I've been wrong about songs that

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<v Speaker 2>I've written before. We wrote a song in this church

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<v Speaker 2>one time, and I thought it was good, and then

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<v Speaker 2>we went to record it. And after the recording, I

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<v Speaker 2>turned to Holly and I said, well, I thought that

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<v Speaker 2>song was good, but it's not good.

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<v Speaker 1>She said, I thought it was pretty good. I said,

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<v Speaker 1>it wasn't good.

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<v Speaker 2>You could tell the people didn't like it, that people

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<v Speaker 2>didn't care about it, and it's not going to go

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<v Speaker 2>anywhere after we record.

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<v Speaker 1>Oh, come to the altar.

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<v Speaker 2>That's how wrong I can be about a song, and

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<v Speaker 2>I'm glad I was wrong because it means there might

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<v Speaker 2>be something else in my life right now that I

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<v Speaker 2>think sucks, but it's actually going to be an amazing thing.

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<v Speaker 2>If I'm wrong about that, then I might be wrong

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<v Speaker 2>about this.

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<v Speaker 1>It is the utter relief.

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<v Speaker 2>Of realizing that you were wrong and admitting it and

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<v Speaker 2>growing from it. But the only thing more difficult then

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<v Speaker 2>remembering when you were wrong and admitting you were wrong,

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<v Speaker 2>which I know is in a very good way to

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<v Speaker 2>start a sermon. None of us want to talk about that.

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<v Speaker 2>The only thing more difficult than remembering and admitting I

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<v Speaker 2>was wrong is to realize I am wrong. If it's

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<v Speaker 2>that hard for everybody in my family and everybody watching

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<v Speaker 2>this sermon to go back and remember I was so wrong,

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<v Speaker 2>how could I have been so wrong to think what

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<v Speaker 2>I thought, or to say what I said, or to

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<v Speaker 2>believe what I believed, or to assume what I assumed.

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<v Speaker 2>The only thing more difficult than remembering it because it

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<v Speaker 2>doesn't feel good, is realizing.

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<v Speaker 1>That I am wrong.

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<v Speaker 2>Right now, If we don't even want to admit that

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<v Speaker 2>we were wrong, how much less do we want to

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<v Speaker 2>realize that we are wrong or might be wrong or

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<v Speaker 2>could possibly be wrong. Just see if you can get

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<v Speaker 2>it out out of your mouth. I may be wrong

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<v Speaker 2>about that. And when you get to that point in

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<v Speaker 2>your life, you realize that a lot of us in

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<v Speaker 2>here we have iPhones.

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<v Speaker 1>How many of you have iPhones?

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<v Speaker 2>Hold up your iPhone right here at this part of

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<v Speaker 2>the sermon iPhones.

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<v Speaker 1>I want you to realize that not only do you

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<v Speaker 1>have iPhones, but you also have I thoughts.

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<v Speaker 2>And it's possible that the devil has you trapped in

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<v Speaker 2>an eye thought right now in your life.

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<v Speaker 1>And I thought in the.

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<v Speaker 2>Psalm we just read, the Psalmist says something so incredibly

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<v Speaker 2>miraculous and wonderful. He says God's path led through the

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<v Speaker 2>sea and his way through the mighty waters, though his

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<v Speaker 2>footprints were not seen.

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<v Speaker 1>But to understand the process.

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<v Speaker 2>By which he arrived at that thought, I want to

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<v Speaker 2>take you all the way back to the beginning of

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<v Speaker 2>Psalm seventy seven, and journey with me now for a

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<v Speaker 2>moment while I build this thought out for you. That's

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<v Speaker 2>what I thought. The Psalmist is lamenting here. There are

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<v Speaker 2>four different types of psalms in your Bible. There are

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<v Speaker 2>psalms of praise, songs of thanksgiving, psalms of wisdom, and

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<v Speaker 2>psalms of lament.

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<v Speaker 1>The mint is where they're just telling God their trouble.

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<v Speaker 2>Lament is where they are being honest with God, realizing

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<v Speaker 2>that why would you hide it from him? It's not

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<v Speaker 2>like he didn't see the whole thing, Realizing that you

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<v Speaker 2>can say something to God and He's big enough to

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<v Speaker 2>handle your brokenness. This is a psalm of lament, but

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<v Speaker 2>I want to show you how it goes from a

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<v Speaker 2>psalm of lament to a psalm of wisdom, and over

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<v Speaker 2>the course of the next several weeks, I want to

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<v Speaker 2>help you with your thoughts because some of your eye

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<v Speaker 2>thoughts are wrong. Some of your eye thoughts about people

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<v Speaker 2>are wrong, some of your eye thoughts about what is

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<v Speaker 2>still ahead of you in your life are wrong. And

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<v Speaker 2>you could be confidently wrong, and you can be completely trapped.

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<v Speaker 2>That's the situation for the psalmist in Psalm seventy seven.

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<v Speaker 1>It's not David writing this time.

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<v Speaker 2>It's one of the sons of Asaf, the musical leaders,

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<v Speaker 2>and he's poor out his heart to God.

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<v Speaker 1>He says, I cried out to God for help.

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<v Speaker 2>I cried out to God to hear me when I

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<v Speaker 2>was in distress. Circle the word distress please, I sought

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<v Speaker 2>the Lord at night. I stretched out untiring hands, and

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<v Speaker 2>I would not be comforted. I remembered you, God, and

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<v Speaker 2>I groaned. What a strange thing to say. I thought

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<v Speaker 2>it was. I remember you, God, and I was grateful.

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<v Speaker 2>I remember you God, and I praised. I remembered you God,

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<v Speaker 2>and I was encouraged. I remembered you God, and I rejoiced.

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<v Speaker 2>He said it was so bad. I remembered you and

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<v Speaker 2>I groaned. The reason Psalm seventy seven is special and

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<v Speaker 2>you might want to study it is because a lot

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<v Speaker 2>of times when they wrote psalms, they were asking God

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<v Speaker 2>to deal with external enemies. We've got this giant facing us,

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<v Speaker 2>this army coming against us, this sickness that we're dealing with,

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<v Speaker 2>and it was an external enemy. Or in the case

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<v Speaker 2>of Psalm fifty one, David is praying about his own sin.

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<v Speaker 2>He's saying, creating me a clean heart, O God, I

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<v Speaker 2>did something horrible, and I need you to make me new,

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<v Speaker 2>and I need you to raise me up, and I

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<v Speaker 2>need you to give me a second chance. But this

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<v Speaker 2>is not a psalm about enemies, and this is not

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<v Speaker 2>even a psalm about sin. In this psalm, the primary

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<v Speaker 2>problem for the psalmist is not an external enemy or

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<v Speaker 2>even his own sin.

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<v Speaker 1>His problem is God. His problem is God.

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<v Speaker 2>And more specifically, his problem is God, Where did you go?

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<v Speaker 1>His problem is God? When are you going to help

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<v Speaker 1>me feel something again?

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<v Speaker 2>God?

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<v Speaker 1>When are you going to answer this?

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<v Speaker 2>I'm holding out my arms to you, and you seem

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<v Speaker 2>to be standing at a distance. I'm not even sure

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<v Speaker 2>you're in the room. I'm not even sure you hear this.

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<v Speaker 2>And so as he's recounting this, I want you to

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<v Speaker 2>understand the heaviness of it, so that when I encourage

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<v Speaker 2>you in just a few moments, like I plan to

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<v Speaker 2>do with God's health, you will understand the place this

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<v Speaker 2>psalm starts at he has a problem with God. And

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<v Speaker 2>when you have a problem with bills, somebody can pay

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<v Speaker 2>them for you. When you have a problem in your body,

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<v Speaker 2>you can go to a doctor about that. When you

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<v Speaker 2>have a problem even in your mind, you can have

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<v Speaker 2>a therapist for that. But what do you do when

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<v Speaker 2>your problem is with the one.

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<v Speaker 1>Who has no boss?

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<v Speaker 2>What do you do when your problem is with the

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<v Speaker 2>one who has no supervisor?

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<v Speaker 1>That you may ask to speak to.

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<v Speaker 2>What do you do when you're in a situation where

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<v Speaker 2>what God did is so much different than what you

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<v Speaker 2>thought he should do.

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<v Speaker 1>That is Psalm seventy seven.

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<v Speaker 2>I remembered you God, and I've grown, not shouted, grown,

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<v Speaker 2>not clap, grown, not danced grown.

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<v Speaker 1>I remembered you God, and I growned, I meditated, and

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<v Speaker 1>my spirit grew faint.

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<v Speaker 2>People will tell you all the time how much they've grown,

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<v Speaker 2>but they won't tell you how much they groaned so

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<v Speaker 2>they could grow into the place where they are today.

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<v Speaker 2>This is the process of becoming a person that God

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<v Speaker 2>can use, and it is not easy. He said, my

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<v Speaker 2>spirit grew faint. You kept my eyes from closing. I

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<v Speaker 2>was too troubled to speak. And then verse five gives

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<v Speaker 2>us the entire problem, not only with the Psalmists, but

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<v Speaker 2>with ourselves. I thought, everybody say I thought, I thought.

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<v Speaker 1>About the former days. Justin do I even have to

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<v Speaker 1>say it? Circle?

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<v Speaker 2>I thought, Circle it for everybody in here who's having

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<v Speaker 2>doubtful thoughts. Circle it for everybody in here who's having

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<v Speaker 2>fearful thoughts. Circle it for everybody in here who's having

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<v Speaker 2>jelly pettis, petty jealous, petty jelly thoughts, jelly thoughts were.

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<v Speaker 1>Calling them right now.

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<v Speaker 2>Circle it for everybody in here who is dealing not

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<v Speaker 2>within that external threat and maybe not even.

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<v Speaker 1>A personal sin, but with a eye thought. Now, when I.

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<v Speaker 2>Read this at first, you're gonna be like, he did

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<v Speaker 2>the right thing.

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<v Speaker 1>This is what you're supposed to do.

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<v Speaker 2>This is what we teach in church that you're supposed

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<v Speaker 2>to go back and remember. If you're in a season

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<v Speaker 2>right now where you don't know what God is gonna do,

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<v Speaker 2>just remember what he did.

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<v Speaker 1>And that's what it sounds like on the surface. But

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<v Speaker 1>I want to dig a little bit.

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<v Speaker 2>Because I've been leaping two months to preach this message.

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<v Speaker 1>And I'm gonna preach it today.

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<v Speaker 2>I thought about the former days when my genes fit

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<v Speaker 2>a little looser. I thought about the former days when

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<v Speaker 2>my hamstrings weren't so I thought about the former days

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<v Speaker 2>when I didn't need these readers to look at my

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<v Speaker 2>Bible and this size sixty seven font in order to

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<v Speaker 2>preach it to you.

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<v Speaker 1>I thought about the former days, the years of long ago.

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<v Speaker 1>I remembered my songs in the night.

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<v Speaker 2>My heart meditated, and my spirit asked, what's wrong with

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<v Speaker 2>any of this?

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<v Speaker 1>It's an eye thought.

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<v Speaker 2>I remember verse six, please my songs in the night.

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<v Speaker 2>My heart meditated, and my spirit asked, now, watch what

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<v Speaker 2>happens when it starts with me.

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<v Speaker 1>Verse seven.

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<v Speaker 2>This is what you get back when you send out

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<v Speaker 2>an eye thought. This is what you get back. And

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<v Speaker 2>you know what, You can't block an eye thought, not

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<v Speaker 2>with your fingers.

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<v Speaker 1>You have to deal with it. And the Psalmist is putting.

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<v Speaker 2>It all out there for us today, which gives us

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<v Speaker 2>permission to know that we can feel emotionally confused and

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<v Speaker 2>still get spiritually strong. Watch what he says. It gets

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<v Speaker 2>worse before it gets better. Will the Lord reject forever?

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<v Speaker 2>Will he never show his favor again? Has his unfailing

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<v Speaker 2>love vanished forever? Has his promise failed for all time?

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<v Speaker 2>Has God forgotten to be mercif? Has he, in anger

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<v Speaker 2>withheld his compassion? I thought, and that's what came back,

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<v Speaker 2>and what I heard the psalm is saying today. And

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<v Speaker 2>I wonder if it's true of you, he says. I

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<v Speaker 2>thought I suffered, and I thought I thought it was through.

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<v Speaker 2>I thought back over the best days of my life,

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<v Speaker 2>and I thought they're behind me. I thought about the

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<v Speaker 2>things that I would love to see God do for

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<v Speaker 2>me that he's done for others. And I thought, well,

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<v Speaker 2>I guess he just doesn't want to do it for me.

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<v Speaker 2>I thought, I thought. I thought it was through. I

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<v Speaker 2>thought that my experience of God had completely dried up.

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<v Speaker 2>I thought he didn't love me anymore. The Psalmas said

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<v Speaker 2>that I didn't. So, if you've ever felt that, you're

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<v Speaker 2>in the Bible. I thought that God had taken his

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<v Speaker 2>hand off my life. I thought he had just given

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<v Speaker 2>up on me because others did.

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<v Speaker 1>I thought it was through.

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<v Speaker 2>And you see in this passage what they call the

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<v Speaker 2>three peas of negative thinking. I'm going to be talking

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<v Speaker 2>to you over the next six weeks about I thought,

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<v Speaker 2>I'm gonna be talking to you about three ways of

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<v Speaker 2>negative thinking that you may recognize in your life. They're

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<v Speaker 2>all here in the psalm and we'll come back to

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<v Speaker 2>them a few times, but I just want to point

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<v Speaker 2>them out to you. He says, Will the Lord reject forever?

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<v Speaker 2>Will he never show his favor again? Has his unfailing

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<v Speaker 2>love vanished forever? I thought it was through. I thought

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<v Speaker 2>it was gone. I didn't see his footprints in the sand.

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<v Speaker 2>Y'all ever seen that little poster on the thing, did

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<v Speaker 2>you ever see butt prints in the sand.

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<v Speaker 1>That's another one. You can look that up another time.

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<v Speaker 1>He says, I felt rejected.

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<v Speaker 2>I thought it was never gonna come again. Now that's

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<v Speaker 2>strong saying never. That's strong when you think that he

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<v Speaker 2>will never show you favor again. And he said, I

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<v Speaker 2>thought his love had vanished. And they call these the

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<v Speaker 2>three piece of negative thinking because they're traps. And it's

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<v Speaker 2>when you take something that happens to you and you

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<v Speaker 2>make it personal rejection. It's when you make it permanent never,

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<v Speaker 2>and it's when it becomes pervasive, vanished everywhere. It took

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<v Speaker 2>everything away. It's completely ripping through.

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<v Speaker 1>Your whole life.

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<v Speaker 2>Because one thing to have a problem, and you've got

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<v Speaker 2>it in a corner. And this is the one thing

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<v Speaker 2>that I'm dealing with in my life. But you know,

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<v Speaker 2>the enemy has you in an I thought when it

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<v Speaker 2>becomes personal, the Lord rejected me, there's something wrong with me.

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<v Speaker 2>It's fine to be disappointed because somebody didn't want to

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<v Speaker 2>be your friend. It is another thing to assume that

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<v Speaker 2>they are worthy to be the Olympic figure skating judge

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<v Speaker 2>of your life.

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<v Speaker 1>And then you stop.

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<v Speaker 2>Putting yourself out there because you think that somehow they

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<v Speaker 2>have the stamp of approval to give the human race,

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<v Speaker 2>and that they know just from their virtue, of their

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<v Speaker 2>own goodness, whether or not you're worthy.

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<v Speaker 1>And now you've.

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<v Speaker 2>Got yourself isolated because you took it personal. And there

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<v Speaker 2>may have been something that they were going through that

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<v Speaker 2>was so dark that if you would have known that,

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<v Speaker 2>you would have given them a hug and said, I'll

0:25:38.760 --> 0:25:43.119
<v Speaker 2>send you a Christmas card. But now you've got it personal, permanent,

0:25:43.440 --> 0:25:47.160
<v Speaker 2>it's never coming back. It's always going to be this way.

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<v Speaker 2>It will never change. I'm never going to be able

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<v Speaker 2>to go a week without doing this. I am never

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<v Speaker 2>going to find anybody who gets me. It's permanent, it's

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<v Speaker 2>going to stay this way forever, and it's pervasive. It's

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<v Speaker 2>when you can't celebrate the kid that's doing good because

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<v Speaker 2>of the one that you're worried about. It's when you

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<v Speaker 2>can't celebrate the health in your body because.

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<v Speaker 1>Of the hell in your mind. It's because you're in.

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<v Speaker 2>An eye thought. He said, I thought it was through.

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<v Speaker 2>I thought the dream was through. I thought the vision

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<v Speaker 2>was through. I thought the relation. I thought my joy,

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<v Speaker 2>I thought my very joy in life was through.

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<v Speaker 1>It's an eye thought. And if you're there today, let's

0:26:31.960 --> 0:26:32.480
<v Speaker 1>start there.

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<v Speaker 2>I thought it was through. There are some things in

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<v Speaker 2>your life that may very well be through. That's why

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<v Speaker 2>you can't dwell on.

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<v Speaker 1>I thought about the former days.

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<v Speaker 2>That's why you can't watch Andy Griffith reruns and wish

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<v Speaker 2>again for wholesome entertainment, and curse this Love Island. That

0:26:49.160 --> 0:26:51.919
<v Speaker 2>this crap these kids are watching and the devil is

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<v Speaker 2>taking over a generation.

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<v Speaker 1>This is an I thought. But the Lord y'all are

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<v Speaker 1>laughing like y'all been watching it too.

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<v Speaker 2>I thought it was true. I thought the best days

0:27:09.119 --> 0:27:12.480
<v Speaker 2>were behind me, I thought. And I want to show

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<v Speaker 2>you something this really helped me. Is something that he

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<v Speaker 2>said in verse two, and yeah, yeah, yeah, he said

0:27:20.960 --> 0:27:27.119
<v Speaker 2>when I was in distress. Everybody say distress. Distress is

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<v Speaker 2>a normal part of the Christian life, just like it's

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<v Speaker 2>a normal part of the human experience. Distress in and

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<v Speaker 2>of itself is not a problem. When I was in distress.

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<v Speaker 2>The promise that God makes is not to protect us

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<v Speaker 2>from distress. The promise that God makes is not to

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<v Speaker 2>keep all pressure from coming on our lives. The promise

0:27:45.560 --> 0:27:47.960
<v Speaker 2>that God makes is not to make sure that He

0:27:48.040 --> 0:27:50.600
<v Speaker 2>always takes us the long way around any problem.

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<v Speaker 1>The problem is when the distress becomes despair. There's a difference.

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<v Speaker 2>Distress is this hurts, but I have hope. Despair is

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<v Speaker 2>this hurts and I have no hope.

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<v Speaker 1>Despair is dangerous.

0:28:15.440 --> 0:28:21.439
<v Speaker 2>Despair is hurt minus hope. Despair is looking at the

0:28:21.480 --> 0:28:29.040
<v Speaker 2>situation saying never vanished, rejection, personal, permanent, pervasive.

0:28:29.600 --> 0:28:32.040
<v Speaker 1>I thought the psalmist said.

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<v Speaker 2>Not that this is just a difficult season and I

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<v Speaker 2>got to get through it, because we all have those.

0:28:36.320 --> 0:28:37.840
<v Speaker 1>Not this is just a bad day.

0:28:37.720 --> 0:28:39.520
<v Speaker 2>And if I can make it till five o'clock without

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<v Speaker 2>cussing anybody out, I can keep bringing home a paycheck

0:28:42.080 --> 0:28:43.800
<v Speaker 2>and not get kicked out of this house that I'm

0:28:43.800 --> 0:28:44.560
<v Speaker 2>behind a month on.

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<v Speaker 1>Anyway, It's not if I can get through this, it

0:28:47.800 --> 0:28:50.040
<v Speaker 1>is is this all there is?

0:28:51.080 --> 0:28:56.360
<v Speaker 2>Despair is it's never going to get better.

0:28:57.840 --> 0:28:59.160
<v Speaker 1>That's where the devil wants you.

0:29:00.040 --> 0:29:03.840
<v Speaker 2>It's never going to get better, and you'll always lose

0:29:03.880 --> 0:29:07.920
<v Speaker 2>your temper. It's never going to get better, and you

0:29:07.960 --> 0:29:12.040
<v Speaker 2>will always be a failure. It's never going to get better,

0:29:12.240 --> 0:29:14.680
<v Speaker 2>and you are always gonna be too loud, and you

0:29:14.720 --> 0:29:17.360
<v Speaker 2>are always gonna be too quiet, and you were always

0:29:17.440 --> 0:29:20.040
<v Speaker 2>gonna be too short. Did you ever think maybe God

0:29:20.080 --> 0:29:22.160
<v Speaker 2>made you short so you could fit through little doors?

0:29:23.000 --> 0:29:30.920
<v Speaker 1>Okay, now, if this is where the psalmist starts, we

0:29:31.080 --> 0:29:31.760
<v Speaker 1>have got to.

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<v Speaker 2>Do something today to get you out of this. If

0:29:37.240 --> 0:29:41.600
<v Speaker 2>despair is dangerous, and distress is and dangerous, you can

0:29:41.680 --> 0:29:44.520
<v Speaker 2>go through a lot of things. You've been through a

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<v Speaker 2>lot of things. You've put up with a lot of things.

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<v Speaker 2>Tell your neighbor, I'm tougher than I look. Tell them again,

0:29:52.080 --> 0:29:53.080
<v Speaker 2>I'm tougher than I look.

0:29:54.640 --> 0:29:54.840
<v Speaker 3>To love.

0:29:54.920 --> 0:29:57.120
<v Speaker 2>I'm pretty smileful of you. I'm tougher than I look.

0:29:58.440 --> 0:29:59.600
<v Speaker 2>I'm tougher than I look.

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<v Speaker 1>I took a.

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<v Speaker 2>Licking and kept on ticking. I'm tougher than I look.

0:30:03.960 --> 0:30:06.600
<v Speaker 2>I'm like a weevile. I wabbled, but I didn't go down.

0:30:07.000 --> 0:30:11.480
<v Speaker 2>I'm tougher than I look. I've had some challenges to

0:30:11.560 --> 0:30:13.960
<v Speaker 2>my faith. I've had some questions about God.

0:30:14.360 --> 0:30:16.400
<v Speaker 1>I'm still here praising in.

0:30:16.280 --> 0:30:19.320
<v Speaker 2>Fact, that's my two word testimony when I can't think

0:30:19.360 --> 0:30:20.960
<v Speaker 2>of anything else to praise him for.

0:30:21.720 --> 0:30:28.160
<v Speaker 3>Still here, somebody shouts, still here in a funk, still here,

0:30:28.800 --> 0:30:32.440
<v Speaker 3>down in it, still here, wondering about it, Still here.

0:30:32.960 --> 0:30:35.080
<v Speaker 1>Piece isn't all.

0:30:38.920 --> 0:30:41.640
<v Speaker 2>So what you've got to do, child of God is

0:30:41.800 --> 0:30:48.240
<v Speaker 2>never allowed distress, which is temporary, to become despair, which

0:30:48.280 --> 0:30:54.360
<v Speaker 2>says forever. And the devil specializes in turning distress into

0:30:54.440 --> 0:30:58.560
<v Speaker 2>despair to get you so clouded by one conflict that

0:30:58.600 --> 0:31:00.080
<v Speaker 2>you have forgotten your call.

0:31:00.680 --> 0:31:02.440
<v Speaker 1>Who am I preaching to today?

0:31:02.960 --> 0:31:07.680
<v Speaker 2>God sent this word to disrupt your despair?

0:31:08.760 --> 0:31:09.160
<v Speaker 1>Hear me?

0:31:09.760 --> 0:31:14.120
<v Speaker 2>God sent this word to disrupt your despair. Every I

0:31:14.360 --> 0:31:16.760
<v Speaker 2>thought that has been telling you you will not make it,

0:31:17.000 --> 0:31:19.240
<v Speaker 2>every I thought that has been telling you you are

0:31:19.240 --> 0:31:21.760
<v Speaker 2>not worthy of God's love. The Cross made you worthy.

0:31:22.000 --> 0:31:24.000
<v Speaker 2>What does it have to do with your behavior? What

0:31:24.120 --> 0:31:26.360
<v Speaker 2>did it ever have to do with your behavior? It's

0:31:26.400 --> 0:31:29.080
<v Speaker 2>about his blood. I call you worthy in the name

0:31:29.120 --> 0:31:32.160
<v Speaker 2>of Jesus. I call you healed by his stripes. I

0:31:32.200 --> 0:31:35.760
<v Speaker 2>call you forgiven. And His favor is coming to your

0:31:35.880 --> 0:31:41.160
<v Speaker 2>situation right now, into your room, into your home, into

0:31:41.200 --> 0:31:45.800
<v Speaker 2>your wound, into your family, into your business, into that.

0:31:45.880 --> 0:31:53.880
<v Speaker 1>Thing that the devil told you is through is through.

0:31:53.960 --> 0:31:57.120
<v Speaker 2>Give up is through. Quit fighting is through. Don't go

0:31:57.160 --> 0:31:59.160
<v Speaker 2>back to rehab is through. Give up on it. Just

0:31:59.280 --> 0:31:59.840
<v Speaker 2>manage the ad.

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<v Speaker 1>It's through. It's through, Just walk away from it is through.

0:32:05.160 --> 0:32:07.480
<v Speaker 2>Just move to another city and start over the same

0:32:07.520 --> 0:32:08.760
<v Speaker 2>stuff all over again, till.

0:32:08.680 --> 0:32:11.360
<v Speaker 1>It catches up with you. Is through leave is through.

0:32:13.400 --> 0:32:15.760
<v Speaker 2>Well. I found something for the trap. I found a

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<v Speaker 2>truth for the trap for everybody who has been in

0:32:22.240 --> 0:32:26.360
<v Speaker 2>an I thought, and I know you know the one

0:32:26.400 --> 0:32:31.240
<v Speaker 2>I'm talking about. Don't make me start prophesying it, tee.

0:32:31.280 --> 0:32:34.680
<v Speaker 2>I thought, the one that starts with you and ends

0:32:34.680 --> 0:32:36.400
<v Speaker 2>with misery. You know, every thought that it starts with

0:32:36.440 --> 0:32:39.640
<v Speaker 2>me ends in misery eventually if it doesn't involve God.

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<v Speaker 2>So what I noticed from what I read from Brugemont

0:32:44.520 --> 0:32:47.160
<v Speaker 2>and some of the other theologians that I was looking up,

0:32:47.920 --> 0:32:51.520
<v Speaker 2>he said, I thought about the former days, and I

0:32:51.560 --> 0:32:56.680
<v Speaker 2>thought it was personal, permanent, pervasive. I would ask God

0:32:56.720 --> 0:32:58.720
<v Speaker 2>to help me with the problem, but God was the problem.

0:33:00.000 --> 0:33:00.960
<v Speaker 2>I didn't know where to go.

0:33:03.280 --> 0:33:06.160
<v Speaker 1>Now. I kind of lied to you when I set

0:33:06.160 --> 0:33:06.719
<v Speaker 1>the sermon up.

0:33:07.280 --> 0:33:08.680
<v Speaker 2>I said, I was going to share a verse that

0:33:08.720 --> 0:33:10.120
<v Speaker 2>I read that meant a lot to me right after

0:33:10.160 --> 0:33:12.640
<v Speaker 2>alleged got out of the hospital, and I am, but

0:33:12.680 --> 0:33:14.080
<v Speaker 2>it wasn't the one I read you when I started

0:33:14.080 --> 0:33:22.800
<v Speaker 2>a servant. It's one it's a little sniper verse. It's

0:33:22.800 --> 0:33:26.760
<v Speaker 2>a little sniper scripture. It's like you could just gloss

0:33:26.840 --> 0:33:28.440
<v Speaker 2>right over it. But remember how bad of a state

0:33:28.480 --> 0:33:30.920
<v Speaker 2>this guy was in. What's going to turn it around

0:33:30.960 --> 0:33:32.840
<v Speaker 2>for you? What's going to turn it around for us?

0:33:32.880 --> 0:33:36.360
<v Speaker 2>What's going to break us out of these patterns and

0:33:36.400 --> 0:33:40.400
<v Speaker 2>traps of thinking that the devil says never all? What's

0:33:40.400 --> 0:33:42.560
<v Speaker 2>going to break us out of this limited view of

0:33:42.560 --> 0:33:44.880
<v Speaker 2>your situation that can't find God in it because you

0:33:46.200 --> 0:33:46.960
<v Speaker 2>have gotten so.

0:33:48.800 --> 0:33:50.920
<v Speaker 1>Blurry in the battle.

0:33:52.800 --> 0:33:54.560
<v Speaker 2>And so I told my mom, I said, I'm going

0:33:54.600 --> 0:33:57.400
<v Speaker 2>to be reading from Psalm seventy seven to preach this week.

0:33:58.560 --> 0:33:59.960
<v Speaker 1>And she likes I give a little headstart.

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<v Speaker 2>Well, she send me like a picture of her Bible

0:34:03.600 --> 0:34:05.600
<v Speaker 2>open to Psalm seventy seven.

0:34:06.400 --> 0:34:11.879
<v Speaker 1>She's like, already beat you to it, preacher. I'm trying

0:34:11.920 --> 0:34:12.520
<v Speaker 1>to do her voice.

0:34:12.520 --> 0:34:14.240
<v Speaker 2>When I do that, I already beat It was a text,

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<v Speaker 2>but that's how she would have said it.

0:34:17.320 --> 0:34:18.759
<v Speaker 1>And I said, bring that Bible because I want to

0:34:18.760 --> 0:34:20.840
<v Speaker 1>show you something. I give my camera.

0:34:22.360 --> 0:34:25.359
<v Speaker 2>This is not Psalm twenty three. Everybody knows Psalm twenty three.

0:34:25.400 --> 0:34:27.359
<v Speaker 2>The Lord is my shepherd. I shall not want It's

0:34:27.360 --> 0:34:30.960
<v Speaker 2>a relatively obscure Psalm. You see how she had that circled.

0:34:38.400 --> 0:34:41.719
<v Speaker 2>Sometimes it takes a minute to see it. That's like

0:34:41.760 --> 0:34:48.319
<v Speaker 2>the Lord, Well, this illustration isn't really working too well either.

0:34:51.200 --> 0:34:52.680
<v Speaker 1>But what I wanted to show.

0:34:52.480 --> 0:34:54.400
<v Speaker 2>You that I can show you direct me, man, do

0:34:54.440 --> 0:34:55.439
<v Speaker 2>I need to stand somewhere different?

0:34:55.480 --> 0:34:57.359
<v Speaker 1>I do whatever, and you do that's better.

0:34:59.640 --> 0:35:04.000
<v Speaker 2>She has that Psalm seventy seven circled like a serial killer.

0:35:05.480 --> 0:35:08.520
<v Speaker 1>That's like a.

0:35:07.520 --> 0:35:10.840
<v Speaker 2>Right and I realized why she's got it all underlined.

0:35:10.880 --> 0:35:12.520
<v Speaker 2>I said, bring the Bible to church. I got to

0:35:12.520 --> 0:35:17.320
<v Speaker 2>show the people something. She's circling everything in this Bible

0:35:17.960 --> 0:35:22.560
<v Speaker 2>all the way down to has his unfailing love vanished forever?

0:35:22.600 --> 0:35:25.520
<v Speaker 1>Has his promise failed for all time? And then on

0:35:25.560 --> 0:35:30.000
<v Speaker 1>her Bible that's the part where that page ends. I

0:35:30.000 --> 0:35:30.319
<v Speaker 1>told her.

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<v Speaker 2>I was like, that's not the best part of Psalm

0:35:33.560 --> 0:35:36.919
<v Speaker 2>seventy seven. She's said, yeah, that's what I was reading

0:35:37.000 --> 0:35:40.040
<v Speaker 2>right after your dad died. Thanks a lot. I was like,

0:35:40.160 --> 0:35:42.000
<v Speaker 2>you know, that's a good part of Psalm seventy seven too,

0:35:42.040 --> 0:35:45.600
<v Speaker 2>obviously when you're going through things. But I said, read

0:35:45.640 --> 0:35:47.440
<v Speaker 2>the rest and hit me a couple hours later. Now,

0:35:47.440 --> 0:35:52.000
<v Speaker 2>my dad died of als. It was over ten years ago,

0:35:52.200 --> 0:35:57.319
<v Speaker 2>and it was in June of twenty thirteen, and this

0:35:57.400 --> 0:35:59.600
<v Speaker 2>psalm meant a lot to her during that low.

0:35:59.440 --> 0:36:00.360
<v Speaker 1>Time of her life.

0:36:00.800 --> 0:36:02.920
<v Speaker 2>And so she was reading it like we do, and

0:36:03.320 --> 0:36:05.560
<v Speaker 2>we come to this place. I thought it was through.

0:36:05.560 --> 0:36:08.799
<v Speaker 2>And she had just lost her husband. She had just

0:36:08.840 --> 0:36:11.439
<v Speaker 2>lost him after caring for him. It was an atrocious,

0:36:11.520 --> 0:36:16.160
<v Speaker 2>atrocious disease. But what I want to show her and

0:36:16.239 --> 0:36:21.960
<v Speaker 2>you today from Psalm seventy seven is in verse ten,

0:36:22.840 --> 0:36:27.880
<v Speaker 2>May this change your life, made this break your pattern?

0:36:28.200 --> 0:36:30.560
<v Speaker 2>May this bring you out of the trap. Because he

0:36:30.640 --> 0:36:34.920
<v Speaker 2>said I was stuck in. I thought, watch this. Then

0:36:35.680 --> 0:36:43.480
<v Speaker 2>I thought, that's the whole sermon. Then I thought, circle

0:36:43.520 --> 0:36:47.840
<v Speaker 2>it on the screen, justin. Then I thought, no circle.

0:36:47.880 --> 0:36:52.480
<v Speaker 2>Then I thought, because the first thought wasn't the right thought.

0:36:53.239 --> 0:36:59.160
<v Speaker 2>Then I thought, I thought, I thought, I thought, and

0:36:59.200 --> 0:37:02.000
<v Speaker 2>I got stuck in a loop of I thoughts.

0:37:02.680 --> 0:37:04.280
<v Speaker 1>Then I thought.

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<v Speaker 2>Verse ten is the hinge where everything changes for this Psalmist.

0:37:09.880 --> 0:37:12.600
<v Speaker 2>Verse ten is the hinge where everything can change for

0:37:12.680 --> 0:37:15.960
<v Speaker 2>you and I. Verse ten is the hinge that depression

0:37:16.000 --> 0:37:17.160
<v Speaker 2>doesn't want you to know about.

0:37:17.880 --> 0:37:19.760
<v Speaker 1>Verse ten is the hinge that.

0:37:19.640 --> 0:37:21.879
<v Speaker 2>The devil wants to hide and delete off of your

0:37:21.880 --> 0:37:22.520
<v Speaker 2>Bible lap.

0:37:22.920 --> 0:37:24.680
<v Speaker 1>Verse ten is the hinge that the.

0:37:24.640 --> 0:37:27.680
<v Speaker 2>Devil doesn't want you to turn to because after all

0:37:27.760 --> 0:37:30.800
<v Speaker 2>of that which is real, after all of that which

0:37:30.840 --> 0:37:33.520
<v Speaker 2>is a part of being you, after all of.

0:37:33.400 --> 0:37:37.319
<v Speaker 1>That, I thought it was through. After all of that,

0:37:37.560 --> 0:37:38.080
<v Speaker 1>he says.

0:37:38.800 --> 0:37:44.480
<v Speaker 2>Then I thought, let's see what he thought next to this,

0:37:45.160 --> 0:37:48.560
<v Speaker 2>I will appeal the years when the Most High stretched

0:37:48.560 --> 0:37:52.200
<v Speaker 2>out his right hand. I will remember the deeds of

0:37:52.200 --> 0:37:55.839
<v Speaker 2>the Lord. Yes, I will remember your miracles of long ago.

0:37:56.840 --> 0:38:01.880
<v Speaker 2>I will consider all your works and meditate on all

0:38:02.280 --> 0:38:04.880
<v Speaker 2>your mighty deeds. Go back to verse ten. Then I

0:38:05.000 --> 0:38:08.359
<v Speaker 2>thought to this, I will appeal the years when the

0:38:08.360 --> 0:38:11.040
<v Speaker 2>Most High stretched out his right hand.

0:38:11.600 --> 0:38:12.600
<v Speaker 1>Go back to verse two.

0:38:13.239 --> 0:38:15.720
<v Speaker 2>When we started with these eye thoughts, he was saying,

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<v Speaker 2>when I was in distress, I sought the Lord at night.

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<v Speaker 2>I stretched out untiring hands, who stretched out I stretched out. Ah,

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<v Speaker 2>I can't do this much longer. I don't care how

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<v Speaker 2>many interior raises you do in the gym for your shoulders.

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<v Speaker 1>You can only do this so long.

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<v Speaker 2>And is it possible that the reason you are so

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<v Speaker 2>faint in your faith, and so weary in your worship,

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<v Speaker 2>and so discouraged about your destiny.

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<v Speaker 1>And the reason that you think that it's through.

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<v Speaker 2>Is because you have been so focused on this God,

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<v Speaker 2>I can't give any more.

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<v Speaker 1>I can't do anymore. I already feel so stretched God,

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<v Speaker 1>I feel.

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<v Speaker 2>So empty, I feel so unseen, I feel so uncelebrated.

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<v Speaker 2>I keep stretching out my hands, I keep putting myself forth,

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<v Speaker 2>I keep taking my next step, but you're not there.

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<v Speaker 1>Then verse ten, then verse ten.

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<v Speaker 2>Then I thought, I'm gonna appeal to a higher court

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<v Speaker 2>instead of thinking about how I'm doing this, let me

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<v Speaker 2>think about the years when God stretched his hand. And

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<v Speaker 2>when I start thinking about how he's stretched his hand,

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<v Speaker 2>and I forget about my hands. Suddenly my hands go

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<v Speaker 2>up in worship because.

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<v Speaker 3>I remember that the bow is not mine, but it

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<v Speaker 3>belongs to the Lord.

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<v Speaker 2>Fifteen seconds of praise for everybody who needs a.

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<v Speaker 3>Then I thought, Then I thought, well that's annoying. Yeah,

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<v Speaker 3>high five your neighbors say.

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<v Speaker 1>Then I thought, I thought over and over, I thought,

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<v Speaker 1>Then I thought, oh yeah. Then I thought I thought

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<v Speaker 1>it was through. Then I thought I might as well

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<v Speaker 1>throw in the towel.

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<v Speaker 2>Then I was very focused on all the reasons I

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<v Speaker 2>had not.

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<v Speaker 1>To go forward. Y'all, slow, y'all are real, slow, y'all,

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<v Speaker 1>slow like molasses in the south.

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<v Speaker 2>Then I thought, let me think about his hand, let

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<v Speaker 2>me remember his deeds.

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<v Speaker 1>He does it in a quartet.

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<v Speaker 2>He talks about the mighty deeds of God, the works

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<v Speaker 2>of God, the awesome deeds of God, the deeds of God.

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<v Speaker 1>He lists them off and wrap them off. Because he said,

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<v Speaker 1>I thought it was through.

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<v Speaker 4>And then after I had gotten done with all of

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<v Speaker 4>my questions. Then after I had poured out all my complaints,

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<v Speaker 4>then after I had considered all the reasons that I

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<v Speaker 4>had to be afraid.

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<v Speaker 1>I thought it was through. But then I thought it through.

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<v Speaker 1>I thought about saying, all right, devil, I quit. Then

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<v Speaker 1>I thought it was through. But then.

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<v Speaker 3>I thought it through, and I decided I would have

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<v Speaker 3>despair unless I have to leave. Then I what see

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<v Speaker 3>the good this?

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<v Speaker 1>I'm the lord in the land of the livings.

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<v Speaker 3>Hot five seven people say, I thought it through.

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<v Speaker 1>I thought it through. I thought it through. I thought

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<v Speaker 1>it through.

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<v Speaker 3>I thought it through.

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<v Speaker 1>Now let me tell you what I mean.

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<v Speaker 2>In verse nineteen, let's go right back to the top

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<v Speaker 2>of the sermon. He said, when I thought about the

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<v Speaker 2>way God works, don't sit down.

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<v Speaker 1>You're about to shout again. You might as well just

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<v Speaker 1>save yourself a calorie burn. You might as well just

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<v Speaker 1>save yourself a cardio. Just go ahead and.

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<v Speaker 2>Jump up now by faith and get ready to celebrate.

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<v Speaker 2>He said, your path lead.

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<v Speaker 1>Circle the word through.

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<v Speaker 2>Let's do Bible study. I wanted you to take me

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<v Speaker 2>around it. I wanted you to carry me over it.

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<v Speaker 2>I wanted you to give me a boat. But instead

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<v Speaker 2>of a boat, I got a mighty hand.

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<v Speaker 1>And an outspread farm. Your path, your path led through.

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<v Speaker 2>Tell your neighbor, I thought it through, your way through

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<v Speaker 2>the mighty waters, through the mighty waters. Though your footprints

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<v Speaker 2>weren't seen. Why didn't I see God's footprints? Because he

0:43:37.480 --> 0:43:40.880
<v Speaker 2>was working with his hand at a higher level. He

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<v Speaker 2>was driving back waters that I didn't know. He needed

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<v Speaker 2>depart so he could drown Egyptians that were chasing me

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<v Speaker 2>and trying to bring me back into captivity. What am

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<v Speaker 2>I trying to say? Think it through? You just keep

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<v Speaker 2>thinking the same eye thoughts and you're like, I.

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<v Speaker 1>Do think it through. I'm an overthinker. Just because you

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<v Speaker 1>think it again doesn't mean you thought it through. You underthinker.

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<v Speaker 2>You you think like this, Oh, well, the devil's attacking me.

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<v Speaker 2>I guess God's not with me. What if you thought

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<v Speaker 2>that through God must be so with me. This is

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<v Speaker 2>how you think it through.

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<v Speaker 1>God.

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<v Speaker 2>I went to my in laws fiftieth wedding anniversary the

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<v Speaker 2>other day.

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<v Speaker 1>Clap your hands for that.

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<v Speaker 2>And it survived betrayal, and it survived addiction, and it

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<v Speaker 2>survived special needs, and there were times where they thought

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<v Speaker 2>it wouldn't make it. Then I thought, the challenge is

0:44:56.120 --> 0:45:00.439
<v Speaker 2>you can't see the path in the present. W it's

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<v Speaker 2>only in retrospect that the Red Sea looks like a blessing.

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<v Speaker 1>I'll show you what I mean.

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<v Speaker 2>Go to Exodus fourteen when the Israelites came up on

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<v Speaker 2>the Red Sea. You know the story. You know the story.

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<v Speaker 2>They came up on the Red Sea. They were leaving Egypt.

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<v Speaker 2>They had been slaves for four hundred and thirty years,

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<v Speaker 2>and God was leading them out.

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<v Speaker 1>They were happy, They were ready to dance. They even

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<v Speaker 1>pecked their tambourines.

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<v Speaker 2>And as the tambourines are jingling in their suitcase, oh no,

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<v Speaker 2>here comes trouble.

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<v Speaker 1>What is the sound of that very hot pitch.

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<v Speaker 2>It doesn't sound like a tambourine, It's an Egyptian chariot.

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<v Speaker 1>Oh no, the Egyptians are coming after us.

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<v Speaker 2>So watch what they thought, because I'm trying to get

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<v Speaker 2>you to see that you might be wrong. You might

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<v Speaker 2>think the attack means it's through. That's an I thought

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<v Speaker 2>they thought. Watch this Exited fourteen, the Lord said, Moses,

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<v Speaker 2>the stretch your hand over the sea, that the waters

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<v Speaker 2>going to go to full back over the Egyptians and

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<v Speaker 2>their cheers and horsemen most stretches hand over see day break.

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<v Speaker 2>The justians of fleetwary, the Lord swipped them into the sea.

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<v Speaker 2>Oh so the Israelites didn't die. The Egyptians did go

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<v Speaker 2>to verse twenty eight to flow back and cover all

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<v Speaker 2>the chariots and horsemen. Now that all sounds so wonderful.

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<v Speaker 2>God drowned their enemies, right, And I know I'm rushing this.

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<v Speaker 1>I don't have time.

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<v Speaker 2>You go.

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<v Speaker 1>Come back next week for part two of this. But

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<v Speaker 1>what's crazy to me about.

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<v Speaker 2>This scripture is the scripture says that when they got

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<v Speaker 2>to the edge of their escape route in Exodus chapter fourteen,

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<v Speaker 2>verse eleven, they said to Moses, was it because there

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<v Speaker 2>were no graves in Egypt that you brought us to

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<v Speaker 2>the desert to die? They thought that water was going

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<v Speaker 2>to kill them. That's what they thought, now, look at

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<v Speaker 2>chapter fifteen, verse one, when they got to the other

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<v Speaker 2>side and the Egyptians were all dead behind them, and

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<v Speaker 2>the thing they thought was gonna kill him Exitus fifteen,

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<v Speaker 2>verse one. Exitus fifteen, verse one, and circle the word.

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<v Speaker 2>Then Moses and the Israelites sang this song.

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<v Speaker 1>To the Lord. I will sing to the Lord.

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<v Speaker 2>That's fine, But you got to sing that same song

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<v Speaker 2>on the other side so you can get through this.

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<v Speaker 2>Somebody say, then, I thought.

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<v Speaker 1>It is the.

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<v Speaker 2>Hinge of the scripture for the people of God.

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<v Speaker 1>They remembered their exodus.

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<v Speaker 2>This deliverance motif sets the entire story for Jesus, who

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<v Speaker 2>would be the greater Moses, who would bring us out

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<v Speaker 2>of the slavery to sin. It's all set up here,

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<v Speaker 2>and the Psalmist is looking back and saying, when I

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<v Speaker 2>could not see your footprints, I remembered that your hand

0:47:41.400 --> 0:47:46.759
<v Speaker 2>was working in the night. And you've been looking at

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<v Speaker 2>the wrong level, and you have been thinking at the

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<v Speaker 2>wrong level. And God's thoughts are not our thoughts, and

0:47:55.320 --> 0:47:59.400
<v Speaker 2>his ways are not our ways. And what if the

0:47:59.480 --> 0:48:02.400
<v Speaker 2>attack is against you is actually sent to remind you

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<v Speaker 2>how valuable what you carry actually is. Think it through

0:48:07.920 --> 0:48:11.720
<v Speaker 2>think it through. The devil is not omnipresent. The devil

0:48:11.760 --> 0:48:14.839
<v Speaker 2>does not have unlimited ammunition. So if there is an

0:48:14.880 --> 0:48:17.680
<v Speaker 2>attack against your life, if there is an attack against

0:48:17.719 --> 0:48:20.560
<v Speaker 2>your family, if there is an attack against your mind,

0:48:20.880 --> 0:48:24.240
<v Speaker 2>there is something in your future that Hell has recognized.

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<v Speaker 1>Think it through.

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<v Speaker 3>What is it?

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<v Speaker 2>What is it that Hell knows about my family that

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<v Speaker 2>I forgot about my family?

0:48:32.640 --> 0:48:33.919
<v Speaker 1>Then I thought it through?

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<v Speaker 2>And even more, what is it that God knows I

0:48:43.440 --> 0:48:45.640
<v Speaker 2>need to learn that He would let me go through this?

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<v Speaker 2>And if you really want to get out of the

0:48:49.200 --> 0:48:52.319
<v Speaker 2>I thought, what is it that He's going to use

0:48:52.360 --> 0:48:56.920
<v Speaker 2>this for in somebody else's life? Did I really suffer

0:48:56.960 --> 0:48:59.719
<v Speaker 2>this much to stay silent about what he taught me

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<v Speaker 2>as as a student.

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<v Speaker 1>So the word of the Lord is think it through.

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<v Speaker 1>Think it through.

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<v Speaker 2>It never comes like you thought it would come, not

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<v Speaker 2>when it comes from God, because if it came like

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<v Speaker 2>you thought it would come, then your thoughts would be

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<v Speaker 2>God right.

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<v Speaker 1>And he says, my ways are not your ways. Neither

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<v Speaker 1>are my thoughts your thoughts.

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<v Speaker 2>And it just blessed me to think about all of

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<v Speaker 2>the people in here who, instead of giving up on

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<v Speaker 2>this pursuit of Jesus instead of giving up on your purity,

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<v Speaker 2>instead of giving up.

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<v Speaker 1>On the impact God has called you to make.

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<v Speaker 2>Instead of thinking it was through, You're going to think

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<v Speaker 2>it through today so that the song you have to

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<v Speaker 2>sing on the other side reflects the faithfulness of the.

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<v Speaker 1>God who split the sea.

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<v Speaker 2>One moment, it looked like the sea was going to

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

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<v Speaker 2>bring us this far to drown us. He didn't bring

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<v Speaker 2>us out here to leave us. He didn't bring us

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<v Speaker 2>out here because He's not with us. He brought us

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<v Speaker 2>out here because the enemy can't swim.

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