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Speaker 2: It's so good to be back. I love it.

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Speaker 3: I'm excited today because I'm starting a brand new sermon series.

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Speaker 2: That's right, That's right. I didn't even tell anybody.

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Speaker 3: I hardly even told Holly. I put something down in

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Speaker 3: my phone over a year ago, and I've been saving

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Speaker 3: it for the season that I felt that the Lord

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Speaker 3: wanted me to release it, and that season is here.

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Speaker 2: So from now.

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Speaker 3: Until Easter, We're going to be in a special sermon.

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Speaker 2: Series, and the series is called Seeking Jesus. Seeking Jesus,

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Speaker 2: Praise the Lord.

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Speaker 3: Something to help us get past all of the distractions

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Speaker 3: that are in our life, and seek Jesus something to

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Speaker 3: help us tune out all the noise, and seek Jesus

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Speaker 3: something to help us stop scrolling so much, and start

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Speaker 3: seeking Jesus. Stop digging through the dumpster to find a meal,

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Speaker 3: and start seeking the bread of life.

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Speaker 2: Seeking Jesus.

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Speaker 3: Stop groping around in the darkness looking for wisdom, and

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Speaker 3: start asking the one who is.

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Speaker 2: Wisdom what to do with our lives. Seeking Jesus.

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Speaker 3: I'm believing that he's going to speak to you, and

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Speaker 3: I'm excited about these.

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Speaker 2: Next few weeks.

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Speaker 3: I want you to go ahead and be seated as

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Speaker 3: the worship team is dismissed as we set up.

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Speaker 2: Our scripture.

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Speaker 3: And the title of my first message for this new series.

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Speaker 3: It may sound backwards when I say it, but I

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Speaker 3: promise you it'll make sense by the end. Today I

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Speaker 3: want to teach you how to begin with amen. Begin

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Speaker 3: with amen. Thank you so much, LJ. We're going to

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Speaker 3: be in John chapter one, and throughout the course of

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Speaker 3: the series, I hope to be able to give you

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Speaker 3: several pictures of Jesus from the New Testament that will

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Speaker 3: help you to see him for who he is. When

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Speaker 3: I was in my thirties, I did a series called

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Speaker 3: Savage Jesus. I guess I'm getting soft in my old age.

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Speaker 3: Now I'm preaching about seeking Jesus. Now, when we say

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Speaker 3: seeking Jesus, as you find John chapter one, verse forty

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Speaker 3: say seeking Jesus, we're seeking someone, not something.

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Speaker 2: Here's the difference. The other day, Holly lost her ring, and.

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Speaker 3: I could see she was getting frustrated, and I said,

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Speaker 3: move aside. The professional is on the job. I paid

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Speaker 3: for it. I guarantee you I'll find it. Will I'll stick.

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Speaker 3: I'll stick my hand through your nostril to find it

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Speaker 3: if I have to. Ring was expensive, and I said,

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Speaker 3: seeking a thing and you get it, you finished seek fine,

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Speaker 3: Someone, let's use the context of marriage again. I gave

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Speaker 3: So when I found my wife, I didn't stop seeking.

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Speaker 3: you go deeper and deeper and deeper and deeper. An

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Speaker 3: you're still getting your notes out. Just right at the

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Speaker 3: top of your page, right seeking Jesus week one, and

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Speaker 3: then put in your notes just say, begin with AMN.

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Speaker 3: We're studying the beginning of Jesus's ministry on Earth in

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Speaker 3: John chapter one. And if I was about twenty years younger,

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Speaker 3: And in John chapter one, verse forty three. Let me

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Speaker 3: the next day Jesus decided to leave for Galilee. Finding Philip,

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Speaker 3: Can anything good come from Nazareth? Nathaniel ast come and see,

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Speaker 3: said Philip. When Jesus saw Nathaniel approaching, he said to him,

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Speaker 3: if you know it. And these are not Bible versus either.

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Speaker 2: No wind to fold them.

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Speaker 3: By the way, you can play along online to just

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Speaker 2: Let's do another one. You're gonna get a little harder. Now.

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Speaker 2: You've got to crawl before you can.

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Speaker 3: Two for two, you got to crawl before you can walk.

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Speaker 3: How about this one.

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Speaker 2: You've got to see it to believe it.

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Speaker 3: That's true, that's true. Sometimes, you know, I just need proof.

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Speaker 3: I'm not picking on anybody. But if you tell me

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Speaker 3: I said no, I would have to see it to

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Speaker 2: And secondly, never mind, He said, what do you mean.

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Speaker 3: I said, well, it just to be honest with you,

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Speaker 2: And then he goes, oh, yeah, well no, I can't

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Speaker 3: The man was fifty two years old and still has a.

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Speaker 3: Look like you graduated too. You got to see it

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Speaker 3: One of my relatives the other day said, I heard

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Speaker 2: They said, I heard they're selling CBD.

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Speaker 3: And that's not a bad thing to live by, even

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Speaker 3: when it comes to this church. Some of y'all who've

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Speaker 3: But you can't believe it because you saw a picture

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Speaker 3: Desk of our ministry, well, I saw the picture, but

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Speaker 3: There's a sense I get in John chapter one where

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Speaker 2: And so to seek Jesus. This is all I'm trying

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Speaker 3: By my first point, you have to follow to find out.

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Speaker 5: You have to follow to find out. Put that into

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Speaker 3: Oh, I preach that better than your responded through him,

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Speaker 2: God will do things. Now. I'm not saying I've seen

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Speaker 2: all of it, but sometimes you have to believe it

445
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Speaker 2: to see it. So if the enemy can keep you

446
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Speaker 2: from believing.

447
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Speaker 3: It because you've never seen it, he can keep you

448
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Speaker 3: from ever seeing it and experiencing it. And he can

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Speaker 3: keep you from seeing it if he can keep you

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Speaker 3: from believing it. Wow, not Nazareth. Nothing good can come

451
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Speaker 3: from Nazareth. Somebody say, not Nazareth. Now for Nazareth, just

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Speaker 3: put whatever in the blank. You don't think God can

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Speaker 3: use not heartbreak, not Nazareth. No, no, no, Nothing good

454
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Speaker 3: can come from a broken heart. The Bible says a

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Speaker 3: broken in a contrite heart, he will not despise. He

456
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Speaker 3: will dwell in what you despise. Not Nazareth. I know

457
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Speaker 3: you didn't want to get a divorce, and now you're

458
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Speaker 3: saying not after a divorce. God can't use me. I

459
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Speaker 3: got a word for you. Follow him and find out.

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Speaker 3: One man said fool around and find out, but this

461
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Speaker 3: is the church version.

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Speaker 2: Follow him and find out. I don't care what they

463
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Speaker 2: called you.

464
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Speaker 3: I don't care what they said about you.

465
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Speaker 2: I'm gonna come over on this side. I always come

466
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Speaker 2: down that wrong side of the steps.

467
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Speaker 3: God is looking for somebody today who will follow him

468
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Speaker 3: and find out.

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Speaker 2: No, God can't use me. I'm an alcoholic.

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Speaker 3: Follow him and find out what if God gives you

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Speaker 3: that same passion for his presence that you used to

472
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Speaker 3: have for a substance. Follow him and find out I

473
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Speaker 3: speak to somebody who's a drug dealer. Right now, you're

474
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Speaker 3: about to be a disciple, and you're about to turn

475
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Speaker 3: the chain of supply and demand on his head, because

476
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Speaker 3: when you get hooked into this vine, there's an unlimited supply.

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Speaker 3: And I don't care what they set about you, and

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Speaker 3: I don't care what you've said about yourself.

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Speaker 2: I don't even know what you've been.

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Speaker 3: Labeling your kids. I don't even know what the doctor

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Speaker 3: told you to say.

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Speaker 7: So follow him and find out.

483
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Speaker 3: He's a healer, he's a wave maker, he's a shame breaker,

484
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Speaker 3: he's a stone roller. Yes it is. And he came

485
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Speaker 3: from Nazareth. So if you're gonna seek Jesus, you might have.

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Speaker 2: To look in Nazareth.

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Speaker 3: You might have to look in a dirty place. You

488
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Speaker 3: might have to get honest about what you're going through.

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Speaker 3: You might have to get authentic and quit pretending like

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Speaker 3: you have it together, and stop saying, praise the Lord,

491
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Speaker 3: We're fine, and pick up the phone and call a

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Speaker 3: counselor and say I need help, because the help might.

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Speaker 8: Come from Nazareth, Nazareth, Nazareth, Nazareth. I kept saying it

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Speaker 8: wrong all week, Nazaus, like I was saying, Lazarus and Nazareth.

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Speaker 2: And the Lord said, well, what did the two things

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Speaker 2: have in common?

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Speaker 3: I said, both were situations where everybody thought it was over,

498
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Speaker 3: and both were places where God displayed his glory. You

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Speaker 3: better follow him and find out. I know when the

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Speaker 3: Lord's speaking, I'm not moving. I am not moving to

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Speaker 3: my next point.

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Speaker 6: It would be a shame for you to let the

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Speaker 6: shame of where you came from.

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Speaker 3: Stop you from seeing the glory of who you came from.

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Speaker 3: I gotta shown verse four bed, I gotta show him.

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Speaker 3: Verse verse fourteen says the Word became flesh and made

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Speaker 3: his dwelling among us, and we have seen his glory,

508
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Speaker 3: the glory of the one and only Son who came

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Speaker 3: from the Father.

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Speaker 2: Can anything good come from.

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Speaker 3: Nazareth, Nazareth, Nazareth and Lazarus Now now can anything good

512
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Speaker 3: come from that? Well, it depends because before he came

513
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Speaker 3: from Nazareth, he came from the Father. Everything that God

514
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Speaker 3: allowed to happen in your life passed through his hands,

515
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Speaker 3: and it has to go back through his hands. And

516
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Speaker 3: we have seen his glory. Now they say you have

517
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Speaker 3: to see it to believe it. But back up to

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Speaker 3: verse twelve, John Chapter one.

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Speaker 2: Verse twelve.

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Speaker 3: Yet to all who did receive him, to those who

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Speaker 3: believed in his name, he gave the right to become

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Speaker 3: children of God.

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Speaker 2: See it.

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Speaker 3: Circle the word believed, justin believed in his name, verse fourteen. Again,

525
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Speaker 3: and the word became flesh that's Jesus, and made his

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Speaker 3: dwelling among us. We have seen his glory circle the

527
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Speaker 3: word scene. Sometimes you have to see it to believe it.

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Speaker 2: I get that, but sometimes you have to believe it

529
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Speaker 2: to see it.

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Speaker 3: See if I don't believe that God is my provider,

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Speaker 3: I won't see the provision.

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Speaker 2: You get it. It's a complete inversion.

533
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Speaker 3: That's why jesus kingdom is upside down, but it's actually

534
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Speaker 3: right side up because it's a complete inversion.

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Speaker 2: The Gospel of John is not just about miracles.

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Speaker 3: The Gospel of John is not just happy meals being

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Speaker 3: fed to a crowd of five thousand. The Gospel of

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Speaker 3: John is not just water walking in storms. The Gospel

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Speaker 3: of John is not just unique conversations. The Gospel of

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Speaker 3: John is themed around belief. Belief in the Son of God,

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Speaker 3: belief in Jesus, not just what he did, but who

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Speaker 3: he is. It is the theme of the gospel. Believe, believe, believe.

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Speaker 3: And he said to those who believe, you see the glory.

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Speaker 3: So when you believe God is a provider, it opens

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Speaker 3: your eyes to see provision that you were walking past

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Speaker 3: just to day before.

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Speaker 9: And if I remind you today that he's a provider,

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Speaker 9: and if I force you by faith to follow him

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Speaker 9: and find out in your next step of your life,

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Speaker 9: you may see that He has already made the plan

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Speaker 9: to provide for the thing that you're praying about.

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Speaker 2: And he may have already.

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Speaker 3: Worked out the situation that you are so worried about.

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Speaker 3: And I have found it to be true that if

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Speaker 3: I do not believe that he's my provider, I won't

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Speaker 3: see the provision.

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Speaker 2: Old Testament example, let's do this class real quick.

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Speaker 3: In Second King's four, a woman came to Elisha. He

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Speaker 3: was the prophet said, my husband is dead. I need

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Speaker 3: you to help. I need you to provide for me.

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Speaker 3: The prophet said back, what do you have in your house?

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Speaker 3: How can I help you? She said, nothing except a

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Speaker 3: jar of oil. What happened the moment that she believed,

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Speaker 3: because the prophet said, you have something in your house,

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Speaker 3: she could see what she was unable to see before

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Speaker 3: she believed. So when I believe that God is my provider,

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Speaker 3: it opens my mind and opens my eyes to begin

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Speaker 3: to consider some of the things that He's given me

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Speaker 3: in my life that may be in seed form right now.

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Speaker 3: But just because it's a seed doesn't mean it's not supply.

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Speaker 2: Can I give you another example.

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Speaker 3: If I don't believe that God has the power to

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Speaker 3: do what I need him to.

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Speaker 2: Do, I will not see his power operate. That's true.

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Speaker 3: Think about in the Old Testament Book of Joshua, chapter six,

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Speaker 3: and you see this group of people that has been

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Speaker 3: marching around a wall in.

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Speaker 2: A city called Jericho for six days. Now.

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Speaker 3: On the last day they march, they start shouting, and

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Speaker 3: you walk up to this army and say, what are

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Speaker 3: y'all shouting about? Because you would expect to see something

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Speaker 3: that they would be shouting about but nothing has happened yet.

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Speaker 3: They had to believe that the walls could fall. Shout

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Speaker 3: in faith to find out, I said, they had to

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Speaker 3: shout to find out. You can figure out. You can

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Speaker 3: count the walls, You could measure the walls. You could

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Speaker 3: climb the walls. Could you could come up on the

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Speaker 3: walls and pray over the walls and anoint the walls

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Speaker 3: with oil. And you can take a seminar about the walls,

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Speaker 3: and you can have a Bible class about the walls.

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Speaker 3: But nothing is going to happen to those walls until

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Speaker 3: you believe.

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Speaker 2: That they can fall. And the proof of your.

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Speaker 3: Belief is in your shout. So when you shout, look,

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Speaker 3: I know not everybody shouts in church.

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Speaker 2: And that's you don't have to You don't.

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Speaker 3: Have to shout out loud in church to get the

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Speaker 3: content and the substance of what I'm saying.

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Speaker 2: But even when I preach, okay, listen to me.

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Speaker 3: Even when I preach, once in a while, you ought

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Speaker 3: to say amen.

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Speaker 2: Every once in a while when something hits you.

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Speaker 3: And you believe by faith even if it's hard to hear.

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Speaker 3: I used to have a preacher that I sat under

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Speaker 3: and he'd always said, if you can't say amen.

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Speaker 2: You ought to say out.

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Speaker 3: I got all these country preacher snanagains, I could pull

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Speaker 3: him out anytime, all this Baptist preacher Sannan against one

609
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Speaker 3: guy used to say.

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Speaker 2: I don't preach for the praise of men. Amen, Amen,

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Speaker 2: God arone Amen. I went.

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Speaker 3: I went to church one time with my dad. My

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Speaker 3: dad was I think most of y'all know about my dad.

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Speaker 3: He was kind of from a Nazareth situation. His dad

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Speaker 3: committed suicide. He dealt with alcoholism not only in his

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Speaker 3: family but in his own personal experience, and his life

617
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Speaker 3: was very rough as a boy.

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Speaker 2: And I won't tell you the story all over again,

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Speaker 2: because I know you come every week and you've got

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Speaker 2: all my stories and memorized.

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Speaker 3: But one time my dad wanted me to go to

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Speaker 3: church with him, and he was so excited to go

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Speaker 3: to church because the Lord turns his life round. And

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Speaker 3: we went out to this little.

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Speaker 2: Church and place like Nazareth, just little town.

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Speaker 3: Four hundred people lived in Nazareth, by the way, well

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Speaker 3: there couldn't have been four hundred people in this town.

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Speaker 2: And we pull up to the church and I'm like,

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Speaker 2: what are you.

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Speaker 3: Bringing me to and it is like independent Baptist fundamentalists,

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Speaker 3: you know, just absolute condemnation turned up.

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Speaker 2: To level eleven. Like everybody was going to hell.

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Speaker 3: The president was going to hell, the Senator of the

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Speaker 3: state was going to hell.

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Speaker 2: Mickey Mouse was going to hell.

636
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Speaker 3: Y'all remember when the Baptist hated Mickey Mouse for a minute.

637
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Speaker 2: It was a whole moment, cultural moment.

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Speaker 3: Is yelling at everybody, and he's preaching so hard, and

639
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Speaker 3: everybody in the church is in and everybody's saying, Amen,

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Speaker 3: that's right, and preach it and all this stuff. And

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Speaker 3: one little boy, he couldn't been more than eight years old.

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Speaker 3: He stands up on the pew while the pre preaching,

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Speaker 3: and he shouted something I never heard in my life.

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Speaker 3: He didn't say Amen, he didn't say Praise the Lord,

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Speaker 3: he didn't say preaching. He hollers at the top of

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Speaker 3: his lungs.

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Speaker 2: And this is what he.

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Speaker 3: Says, Let the wild hog e, my man with a

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Speaker 3: trade march shout. I don't know what it meant, but

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Speaker 3: I felt it in my bones. I'm like, yes, let

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Speaker 3: the wild hog eat. Indeed, somebody shout amen, amen. And

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Speaker 3: when you shout amen, realize what you're shouting means, so

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Speaker 3: be it.

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Speaker 2: When you shout amen, it doesn't mean.

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Speaker 3: Preach pastor Stephen. When you say amen, you're not talking

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Speaker 3: to me at all. You're talking to the one that

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Speaker 3: the word came from. So when you say amen, you're

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Speaker 3: saying God, let it be like that.

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Speaker 2: In my life.

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Speaker 3: God, what you just spoke to me. I don't care

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Speaker 3: that my kids on drugs. If you say they'll be saved,

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Speaker 3: they'll be saved. So be it. Somebody shout Amen, God.

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Speaker 10: If you say I'm coming out of this, I'm coming

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Speaker 10: out of this, so be it. If you say the

665
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Speaker 10: fire won't burn me, my clothes won't even smell like smoke,

666
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Speaker 10: so be it.

667
00:36:23,200 --> 00:36:23,960
Speaker 2: Shout Amen.

668
00:36:27,640 --> 00:36:31,120
Speaker 3: I'm gonna turn this into a Pentecostal church by the

669
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Speaker 3: time it's all said and die. But it's not just

670
00:36:34,160 --> 00:36:38,240
Speaker 3: gonna be for the people who have an outward expressing personality.

671
00:36:38,680 --> 00:36:42,680
Speaker 3: It's gonna be for everybody who's been fighting against insecurity

672
00:36:43,000 --> 00:36:46,920
Speaker 3: and fighting against lies and fighting against the enemy. Telling

673
00:36:46,960 --> 00:36:51,040
Speaker 3: you that's all it's ever gonna be. Nazareth, Can anything

674
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Speaker 3: good come out of Nazareth? Well, if God says something

675
00:36:54,880 --> 00:36:58,040
Speaker 3: good can come out of this, then amen to what

676
00:36:58,200 --> 00:37:01,840
Speaker 3: he says, and let every man be a liar because

677
00:37:01,880 --> 00:37:02,640
Speaker 3: I got my own.

678
00:37:02,719 --> 00:37:15,400
Speaker 2: Amen. I love the worst. Say amen. But if you

679
00:37:15,480 --> 00:37:16,680
Speaker 2: want to take it to the.

680
00:37:16,600 --> 00:37:21,319
Speaker 3: Next level, and you just might, then you can do

681
00:37:21,400 --> 00:37:23,839
Speaker 3: what Jesus did in.

682
00:37:23,920 --> 00:37:26,080
Speaker 2: John chapter one, verse fifty.

683
00:37:26,600 --> 00:37:30,920
Speaker 3: You know, Nathaniel comes towards Jesus, and I love Jesus

684
00:37:30,960 --> 00:37:36,000
Speaker 3: because watch this. He sees the best in me. I'm

685
00:37:36,040 --> 00:37:41,759
Speaker 3: grateful that he knows the worst of me, but he

686
00:37:41,840 --> 00:37:46,359
Speaker 3: sees the best in me. You can't say that about

687
00:37:46,400 --> 00:37:50,239
Speaker 3: anybody else, You're say, can my mother? She don't know

688
00:37:50,280 --> 00:37:57,640
Speaker 3: the worst, not the worst, not the worst. I'm not

689
00:37:57,640 --> 00:38:00,120
Speaker 3: talking about what she caught you for when you're in

690
00:38:00,160 --> 00:38:03,480
Speaker 3: tenth grade. I'm talking about what you still deal with.

691
00:38:04,840 --> 00:38:07,480
Speaker 3: And God knows that that was Nathaniel's issue with Jesus.

692
00:38:07,520 --> 00:38:08,600
Speaker 2: He said, how do you know me?

693
00:38:08,960 --> 00:38:11,000
Speaker 3: I thought about doing an illustration, but I didn't have

694
00:38:11,000 --> 00:38:13,680
Speaker 3: time to work it out in advance, where I was

695
00:38:13,719 --> 00:38:16,280
Speaker 3: just gonna walk up to somebody random that I didn't

696
00:38:16,320 --> 00:38:20,080
Speaker 3: know and start saying stuff about him. You know, how's

697
00:38:20,080 --> 00:38:23,759
Speaker 3: your daughter? She doing good over there at Sanford University.

698
00:38:24,360 --> 00:38:27,920
Speaker 3: How's that new Honda Civic treatment you like it? I

699
00:38:27,960 --> 00:38:30,560
Speaker 3: was gonna find out from somebody else, and then just

700
00:38:30,640 --> 00:38:32,879
Speaker 3: so I was gonna walk down and there's no way

701
00:38:32,920 --> 00:38:34,440
Speaker 3: I could know all this and just.

702
00:38:34,400 --> 00:38:35,040
Speaker 2: Freak them out.

703
00:38:36,840 --> 00:38:40,480
Speaker 3: And that's what it must have been like for Nathaniel,

704
00:38:40,800 --> 00:38:43,480
Speaker 3: because he's like, we'll see about this Jesus of Nazareth.

705
00:38:43,480 --> 00:38:44,680
Speaker 2: I never heard of Jesus from now.

706
00:38:44,760 --> 00:38:46,440
Speaker 3: The Bible doesn't say, gess come from Nazera, say he's

707
00:38:46,440 --> 00:38:47,840
Speaker 3: come from battle him And I know my Bible, so

708
00:38:47,880 --> 00:38:49,720
Speaker 3: he from Well, he did come from Bethlehem.

709
00:38:49,800 --> 00:38:55,239
Speaker 2: You just didn't dig deep enough. So now Nathaniel he's

710
00:38:55,280 --> 00:38:57,560
Speaker 2: got kind of like a cynical or skeptical attitude. He's like,

711
00:38:57,880 --> 00:39:00,320
Speaker 2: I got to see it to believe it. Showed me

712
00:39:00,400 --> 00:39:03,760
Speaker 2: this Jesus, Now this is crazy. He's like, I gotta

713
00:39:03,840 --> 00:39:05,600
Speaker 2: see it to believe it. Verse forty seven.

714
00:39:07,560 --> 00:39:13,479
Speaker 3: When Jesus saw Nathaniel approaching, he said of him, how's

715
00:39:13,520 --> 00:39:14,759
Speaker 3: that Honda Civic working out?

716
00:39:14,960 --> 00:39:17,080
Speaker 2: How's your daughter doing there at Samford University?

717
00:39:17,520 --> 00:39:20,080
Speaker 3: Here truly is an Israelite in whom there is no deceit.

718
00:39:20,120 --> 00:39:23,640
Speaker 3: He knew something about him that he shouldn't know. And

719
00:39:23,760 --> 00:39:24,960
Speaker 3: Nathaniel said, how do you know me?

720
00:39:25,080 --> 00:39:29,480
Speaker 2: Are you a staler? Or a savior.

721
00:39:31,920 --> 00:39:33,880
Speaker 3: Jesus, I saw you while you were still under the victree,

722
00:39:33,920 --> 00:39:39,040
Speaker 3: before Philip called you, before Philip called before, before.

723
00:39:40,520 --> 00:39:47,480
Speaker 2: Before they called you, I knew you. Oh that's good news.

724
00:39:49,080 --> 00:39:51,640
Speaker 3: I'm so glad God picked me before I was born,

725
00:39:51,640 --> 00:39:53,360
Speaker 3: because after that he might not have wanted me.

726
00:39:53,960 --> 00:39:55,839
Speaker 2: I've done some dumb stuff since then.

727
00:39:56,400 --> 00:39:59,760
Speaker 3: I'm so glad he knit me together in my mother's womb.

728
00:40:00,200 --> 00:40:02,759
Speaker 3: I'm so glad he chose me, and he saw me

729
00:40:03,840 --> 00:40:08,200
Speaker 3: under my fig tree. Under the fig tree was a

730
00:40:08,239 --> 00:40:11,919
Speaker 3: euphanism in Judaism. It wasn't a literal term. It meant

731
00:40:12,160 --> 00:40:14,719
Speaker 3: when you meditated. You know how, we might say I'm

732
00:40:14,760 --> 00:40:18,040
Speaker 3: in the lab. That doesn't mean you're a scientist.

733
00:40:18,120 --> 00:40:18,959
Speaker 2: That just means I'm.

734
00:40:18,880 --> 00:40:21,200
Speaker 3: Working on something. You know how, you might say I'm cooking.

735
00:40:22,560 --> 00:40:26,360
Speaker 3: You're not really making spaghetti. You mean I'm working on something.

736
00:40:26,680 --> 00:40:29,840
Speaker 3: Under the fig tree was the way they would describe

737
00:40:30,160 --> 00:40:33,640
Speaker 3: meditating under the fig tree. It could have been physical too,

738
00:40:34,000 --> 00:40:37,759
Speaker 3: but there is rabbinic evidence to suggest that Nathaniel was

739
00:40:37,840 --> 00:40:40,600
Speaker 3: meditating and Jesus is saying, I know what you've been

740
00:40:40,640 --> 00:40:41,200
Speaker 3: thinking about.

741
00:40:42,680 --> 00:40:45,320
Speaker 2: In other words, I know what's in you.

742
00:40:47,560 --> 00:40:52,960
Speaker 3: And Philip may have found you, Jesus says, but who

743
00:40:53,040 --> 00:40:57,239
Speaker 3: do you think found Philip? This is the funniest thing

744
00:40:57,320 --> 00:40:59,200
Speaker 3: I've ever seen in the Bible. Y'all have been preaching

745
00:40:59,239 --> 00:41:01,759
Speaker 3: at this church for twenty years. I preached for ten

746
00:41:01,840 --> 00:41:05,000
Speaker 3: years before that, and I never laughed harder reading the

747
00:41:05,040 --> 00:41:07,960
Speaker 3: Bible than I did this week. Did you see in

748
00:41:08,400 --> 00:41:12,120
Speaker 3: verse forty five where it says Philip found Nathaniel and

749
00:41:12,280 --> 00:41:13,839
Speaker 3: told him we have found.

750
00:41:13,560 --> 00:41:15,319
Speaker 2: The one Moses wrote about in the Law.

751
00:41:15,680 --> 00:41:18,719
Speaker 3: I laughed when I saw that, because he said, we

752
00:41:18,880 --> 00:41:19,919
Speaker 3: have found the one.

753
00:41:20,239 --> 00:41:21,520
Speaker 2: We found Jesus.

754
00:41:22,840 --> 00:41:24,120
Speaker 3: But all you got to do is back up to

755
00:41:24,320 --> 00:41:27,600
Speaker 3: Versus de see why I laughed verse forty three. The

756
00:41:27,680 --> 00:41:31,040
Speaker 3: next day, Jesus decided to leave for Galilee, finding Philip.

757
00:41:33,160 --> 00:41:38,920
Speaker 3: How quick we forget that I didn't find him? Uh huh.

758
00:41:40,200 --> 00:41:42,400
Speaker 2: I didn't choose him. He chose me.

759
00:41:43,840 --> 00:41:46,560
Speaker 3: You want to know why I'm here today? Not because

760
00:41:46,640 --> 00:41:50,040
Speaker 3: I found Jesus. The truth of the matter is some

761
00:41:50,239 --> 00:41:53,840
Speaker 3: of us weren't even looking, but he was. Some of

762
00:41:54,000 --> 00:41:56,440
Speaker 3: us weren't even seeking, but he was.

763
00:41:57,120 --> 00:41:59,399
Speaker 2: Some of us didn't even want to come to church.

764
00:42:00,239 --> 00:42:01,640
Speaker 2: Something made you come, didn't it?

765
00:42:02,080 --> 00:42:02,319
Speaker 4: Why?

766
00:42:02,560 --> 00:42:04,600
Speaker 3: Because you had to get this word.

767
00:42:09,160 --> 00:42:10,760
Speaker 2: Philip didn't find Jesus.

768
00:42:11,360 --> 00:42:14,560
Speaker 3: Jesus found Philip, and the same is true of me.

769
00:42:15,080 --> 00:42:19,720
Speaker 3: It's my story is not the story of Stephen seeking Jesus.

770
00:42:20,360 --> 00:42:22,960
Speaker 2: My story is Jesus sought Stephen.

771
00:42:24,000 --> 00:42:24,719
Speaker 3: He found me.

772
00:42:25,480 --> 00:42:28,400
Speaker 2: And the reason that's good news is if I.

773
00:42:28,640 --> 00:42:31,600
Speaker 3: Found him, that means I could lose him again.

774
00:42:33,400 --> 00:42:38,520
Speaker 7: But if he found me, I said, if he found me,

775
00:42:39,760 --> 00:42:43,319
Speaker 7: that means there's no valley too low, no mountain too high,

776
00:42:43,880 --> 00:42:45,520
Speaker 7: no road too far, no.

777
00:42:45,680 --> 00:42:49,960
Speaker 3: Nather too small, no sin too great, no saying too strong,

778
00:42:50,520 --> 00:42:51,799
Speaker 3: no grain too deep.

779
00:42:53,120 --> 00:42:57,960
Speaker 2: He found me. That's why I'm happy.

780
00:42:58,480 --> 00:42:59,840
Speaker 3: That's why I'm excited.

781
00:43:00,320 --> 00:43:01,680
Speaker 2: That's why I'm confident.

782
00:43:04,400 --> 00:43:07,920
Speaker 3: The psalm is set in Psalm twenty seven, verse thirteen.

783
00:43:08,560 --> 00:43:12,839
Speaker 3: I would have despaired unless I believe that I would

784
00:43:13,120 --> 00:43:17,040
Speaker 3: see the goodness of the Lord in the land of

785
00:43:17,200 --> 00:43:17,680
Speaker 3: the Living.

786
00:43:18,080 --> 00:43:18,919
Speaker 2: Check out the verse.

787
00:43:19,320 --> 00:43:23,839
Speaker 3: I would have despaired, given up, quit no hope unless

788
00:43:24,080 --> 00:43:28,600
Speaker 3: I believe that I would see You say see it

789
00:43:28,920 --> 00:43:32,160
Speaker 3: to believe it, God says, believe it to see it.

790
00:43:32,520 --> 00:43:34,520
Speaker 2: And if you believe, the walls can fall.

791
00:43:34,840 --> 00:43:37,319
Speaker 3: And if you shout while you're still staring at him,

792
00:43:37,600 --> 00:43:41,000
Speaker 3: and if you start declaring over my family my family

793
00:43:41,160 --> 00:43:45,239
Speaker 3: is blessed. I know everybody's acting dysfunctional right now, but.

794
00:43:45,400 --> 00:43:49,280
Speaker 2: My family is blessed. The roots are blessed, the branches

795
00:43:49,360 --> 00:43:49,960
Speaker 2: are blessed.

796
00:43:50,360 --> 00:43:55,040
Speaker 3: My body is blessed, my mind is blessed. Depressed but blessed,

797
00:43:55,440 --> 00:43:56,680
Speaker 3: stressed but blessed.

798
00:43:57,040 --> 00:43:57,560
Speaker 2: Confused.

799
00:43:57,800 --> 00:44:00,719
Speaker 3: He sees you under the fig tree. He sees what

800
00:44:00,880 --> 00:44:04,480
Speaker 3: you're crying about. He sees what you're confused about. And

801
00:44:04,680 --> 00:44:09,520
Speaker 3: he calls you anyway, and he calls you while you

802
00:44:09,640 --> 00:44:14,680
Speaker 3: are still under the fig tree.

803
00:44:16,840 --> 00:44:20,120
Speaker 2: And he told Philip, come and see.

804
00:44:20,160 --> 00:44:21,080
Speaker 3: And he told.

805
00:44:21,560 --> 00:44:28,560
Speaker 11: Nathaniel, Nathaniel, you think me seeing you under that tree

806
00:44:28,600 --> 00:44:34,000
Speaker 11: as a reason to believe Nathaniel, you ain't seen.

807
00:44:35,440 --> 00:44:35,800
Speaker 2: Nothing.

808
00:44:37,320 --> 00:44:39,359
Speaker 3: Yeah, think about all the things Jesus could have said,

809
00:44:39,360 --> 00:44:41,360
Speaker 3: I'm not done yet. Think about all the things Jesus

810
00:44:41,400 --> 00:44:46,799
Speaker 3: could have said to Nathaniel. He could have said, when

811
00:44:46,880 --> 00:44:48,960
Speaker 3: Nathaniel came, look at it. In verse forty seven, jaid,

812
00:44:49,600 --> 00:44:53,680
Speaker 3: he could said, he's I'm approaching, and he knows that

813
00:44:53,760 --> 00:44:55,879
Speaker 3: he just talked about about Nazareth. That's his hometown, y'all.

814
00:44:56,200 --> 00:45:01,440
Speaker 3: He could have said, oh, here he comes, Oh Nathaniel,

815
00:45:02,760 --> 00:45:09,759
Speaker 3: Oh Nathaniel, that doesn't all negative. Nate aren't you glad

816
00:45:09,800 --> 00:45:12,440
Speaker 3: He sees the vest in you. He could say, oh,

817
00:45:12,600 --> 00:45:15,279
Speaker 3: messed up, Matt, but.

818
00:45:15,360 --> 00:45:16,319
Speaker 2: He don't see messed up.

819
00:45:16,320 --> 00:45:21,400
Speaker 3: He sees a miracle. I don't know I'm preaching too.

820
00:45:21,480 --> 00:45:23,239
Speaker 3: But he called you while you were still under the

821
00:45:23,280 --> 00:45:26,560
Speaker 3: fig tree. He called you right in the middle of

822
00:45:26,640 --> 00:45:28,360
Speaker 3: the messed up mine. He called you right in the

823
00:45:28,400 --> 00:45:33,040
Speaker 3: middle of the mess Nazary. Can anything good come from Nasary?

824
00:45:33,880 --> 00:45:37,280
Speaker 3: Follow me and find out. That's what he's saying.

825
00:45:39,440 --> 00:45:41,120
Speaker 2: He don't call him negative, Nathaniel.

826
00:45:42,560 --> 00:45:44,800
Speaker 3: You know how we nicknamed the Bible characters according to

827
00:45:44,880 --> 00:45:50,720
Speaker 3: their absolute lowest point. Doubting Thomas, what you mean, doubting Thomas,

828
00:45:50,800 --> 00:45:54,880
Speaker 3: Thomas said, I'll go and die with you. Yeah, doubting Thomas.

829
00:45:55,000 --> 00:45:58,239
Speaker 3: More like honest Thomas. If we could read your mind,

830
00:45:58,239 --> 00:46:00,399
Speaker 3: if we could get under your fig tree, everything going

831
00:46:00,480 --> 00:46:06,160
Speaker 3: up under daring that good either. By the way, I

832
00:46:06,320 --> 00:46:08,360
Speaker 3: just felt the Lord drop this in my spirit, so

833
00:46:08,440 --> 00:46:10,880
Speaker 3: I say it. Some of you need to remember this.

834
00:46:11,640 --> 00:46:15,200
Speaker 3: Who are raising kids who are lost right now? The

835
00:46:15,280 --> 00:46:16,400
Speaker 3: Lord knows where to find him.

836
00:46:26,080 --> 00:46:29,239
Speaker 2: He found you, didn't he He found you.

837
00:46:30,880 --> 00:46:35,799
Speaker 3: That's why I called the sermons seeking Jesus, because I'm

838
00:46:37,400 --> 00:46:39,640
Speaker 3: I realized that I'm not really the one seeking he is.

839
00:46:42,200 --> 00:46:42,600
Speaker 2: He is.

840
00:46:44,320 --> 00:46:51,960
Speaker 3: The seeking Jesus, not just the saving Jesus, not just

841
00:46:52,080 --> 00:46:53,080
Speaker 3: the healing Jesus.

842
00:46:53,440 --> 00:46:54,840
Speaker 2: He's the seeking Jesus.

843
00:46:55,040 --> 00:46:58,000
Speaker 3: And he's looking for one who's lost, and he'll leave

844
00:46:58,080 --> 00:46:59,000
Speaker 3: ninety nine to get him.

845
00:46:59,600 --> 00:47:01,480
Speaker 2: And he came up to me the other day and

846
00:47:01,600 --> 00:47:03,080
Speaker 2: she gave me a.

847
00:47:05,280 --> 00:47:05,919
Speaker 3: I brought one.

848
00:47:06,080 --> 00:47:06,640
Speaker 2: She gave me a.

849
00:47:08,320 --> 00:47:16,359
Speaker 3: Little Jesus. You can't even see that, Kenyon. I said,

850
00:47:16,400 --> 00:47:20,800
Speaker 3: that's nice, thank you. I said, what am I supposed

851
00:47:20,800 --> 00:47:24,000
Speaker 3: to do with this? She said, no, just for the

852
00:47:24,120 --> 00:47:26,480
Speaker 3: love is cute. And I'm like, it is cute, thank you.

853
00:47:28,600 --> 00:47:32,720
Speaker 3: And I'm not hating on this, I mean, but something

854
00:47:32,760 --> 00:47:46,600
Speaker 3: about it, something about something about many Jesus. And then

855
00:47:46,640 --> 00:47:48,560
Speaker 3: she told me, she goes, they're cool. You can hide

856
00:47:48,600 --> 00:47:51,520
Speaker 3: them different places and people can find them. And I

857
00:47:51,640 --> 00:47:54,680
Speaker 3: was preparing this message, thinking like, that's how we think

858
00:47:54,719 --> 00:47:55,880
Speaker 3: about him sometimes.

859
00:48:01,680 --> 00:48:05,640
Speaker 2: Yeah, Oh, isn't that wonderful. Well, let me remind you

860
00:48:05,719 --> 00:48:07,000
Speaker 2: what to think of when you look at it.

861
00:48:07,440 --> 00:48:09,880
Speaker 3: Remember every time you pick it up, remember that this

862
00:48:10,080 --> 00:48:13,600
Speaker 3: is just a reminder that I'm not holding him.

863
00:48:16,920 --> 00:48:20,800
Speaker 2: He's holding you. I let's see.

864
00:48:22,560 --> 00:48:29,440
Speaker 3: You, and I'm not interested in shrinking Jesus down to

865
00:48:29,520 --> 00:48:33,880
Speaker 3: where I think, see when my life really runs up

866
00:48:33,920 --> 00:48:36,399
Speaker 3: on the types of battles that I have to fight

867
00:48:36,480 --> 00:48:37,160
Speaker 3: as a Brown man.

868
00:48:39,480 --> 00:48:43,160
Speaker 2: I don't need many Jesus. I need a mighty Jesus.

869
00:48:46,680 --> 00:48:50,600
Speaker 3: You ain't seen nothing yet, Nathaniel, you think that's something?

870
00:48:50,960 --> 00:48:51,359
Speaker 2: He says.

871
00:48:51,400 --> 00:48:55,480
Speaker 3: In verse fifty one, he says, verily or truthfully, I

872
00:48:55,600 --> 00:48:58,680
Speaker 3: tell you the truth. You will see Heaven open, you

873
00:48:58,800 --> 00:49:02,480
Speaker 3: will see angels. A sending and descending on the Son

874
00:49:02,560 --> 00:49:05,760
Speaker 3: of Men. He's prophesying from Jacob in the Book of Genesis,

875
00:49:06,000 --> 00:49:09,360
Speaker 3: but he's prophesying about the Cross. He's prophesying about salvation.

876
00:49:09,719 --> 00:49:11,919
Speaker 3: He's saying, you see nothing yet.

877
00:49:13,120 --> 00:49:13,799
Speaker 2: Put it back up.

878
00:49:14,200 --> 00:49:18,160
Speaker 3: Verily, I say unto you. The King James says, very truly,

879
00:49:18,239 --> 00:49:20,080
Speaker 3: I tell you very true.

880
00:49:20,200 --> 00:49:20,719
Speaker 2: Woo ooh.

881
00:49:20,840 --> 00:49:24,320
Speaker 3: You need the original language to really get this. In

882
00:49:24,400 --> 00:49:27,000
Speaker 3: the original language, he doesn't say very truly, I.

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Speaker 2: Tell you no. He says amen, Amen.

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Speaker 3: He says it twice twenty five times in the Gospel

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Speaker 3: of John, not.

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Speaker 2: In Matthew, not in Luke, not in Mark.

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Speaker 3: In John alone, Jesus is recorded twenty five times.

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Speaker 2: He says amen, and then he says it again now,

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Speaker 2: let's break this down, he said, very truly. I say

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Speaker 2: to you, you ain't seen.

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Speaker 3: Nothing yet, Nathaniel, you are only getting started. You want

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00:49:57,080 --> 00:49:59,200
Speaker 3: to see what it looks like to walk by faith.

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00:49:59,480 --> 00:50:02,680
Speaker 3: Follow me and find out. Follow me with questions, follow

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Speaker 3: me with doubts, Follow me with impurities.

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Speaker 2: I'll work them out.

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Speaker 3: Follow me with sin, I'll wash it away. Follow me

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Speaker 3: just just seek me for who I really am. Just

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Speaker 3: follow me and you will find out. Amen. Amen, I

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Speaker 3: tell you you will see heaven open. But what is

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Speaker 3: interesting about a man in this culture is not just

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Speaker 3: that he said it twice. It's that he said it

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Speaker 3: for himself. Normally, when someone makes a statement of truth,

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Speaker 3: someone who is listening will say amen in response. But

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Speaker 3: when Jesus, when Jesus, I'm.

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Speaker 2: Gonna put this one up here with you, LJ, I

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Speaker 2: don't need him right now. When my great big water walk.

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Speaker 3: In Jesus, when he speaks the thing, he doesn't wait

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Speaker 3: to find out if you agree. If he said it,

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Speaker 3: that settles it. Nobody shout amen.

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Speaker 10: He set up here, he set I'm free, He's set,

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Speaker 10: I'm forgiven.

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Speaker 2: He said, I'm right us.

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Speaker 3: He said, I'm clits. He said it's done. It is vital,

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Speaker 3: it is finished, it is settled, It is rickedid amen

915
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Speaker 3: a met again? Amen? Amen? Who amen? Amen Hot five

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Speaker 3: three people say amen and amen, Amen and amen, Amen

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Speaker 3: and amen, amen and amen.

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Speaker 2: And I got something for you lowest watch this.

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Speaker 3: Not only did he say it twice, which means it's

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00:51:43,719 --> 00:51:46,840
Speaker 3: a covenant. Not only did he say it for himself,

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Speaker 3: which means he'll fulfill it. He said it before the

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00:51:51,880 --> 00:51:56,240
Speaker 3: truth that he spoke when he said it, because Jesus

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Speaker 3: doesn't need to wait for the amen.

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Speaker 2: He is the amen of God.

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Speaker 3: In the beginning, where's my band? What's the word? And

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Speaker 3: the word was with God?

927
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Speaker 12: And the word what God?

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Speaker 3: He said, Amen, whatever comes after it is true, he said, Amen.

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Speaker 3: Nothing could cancel it. He said, Amen, it's as good

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Speaker 3: as done, So be it.

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Speaker 2: Amen, Amen.

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Speaker 3: The first words of John's gospar in the beginning, the

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Speaker 3: last words that John writes in Revelation twenty two to

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Speaker 3: twenty one on the island of Patmos, the grace of

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Speaker 3: the Lord.

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Speaker 2: Jesus be with God's people. Amen.

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Speaker 4: And if you believe, you will see Jesus, not little Jesus,

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Speaker 4: you will see King Jesus.

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Speaker 2: I want to start a series today called see King Jesus,

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Speaker 2: the one who was and is.

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Speaker 3: And is the calm.

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Speaker 2: So bid and amen.

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00:53:38,480 --> 00:53:43,359
Speaker 3: When the King speaks a word, it cannot be overturned.

944
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Speaker 3: Now I need the whole church to receive this song.

945
00:53:53,000 --> 00:53:56,240
Speaker 2: You stand up right where you are, and you throw.

946
00:53:56,080 --> 00:53:59,120
Speaker 3: Your hands in the air right now, and you say

947
00:53:59,200 --> 00:54:03,040
Speaker 3: amen to go God. Amen. I'm not waiting till us

948
00:54:03,120 --> 00:54:06,400
Speaker 3: over to say Amen God. I come into agreement with

949
00:54:06,520 --> 00:54:09,480
Speaker 3: you right now. In the beginning, what's the word? And

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00:54:09,560 --> 00:54:13,080
Speaker 3: in the end of see amen, I'm starting with an Amen.

951
00:54:13,640 --> 00:54:18,080
Speaker 3: I'm starting with the one who called me, because when.

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00:54:18,000 --> 00:54:22,000
Speaker 2: The Kings's me the word, he cannot be over touch.

953
00:54:22,239 --> 00:54:28,640
Speaker 2: It's as good as amen. When Heaven touches a thinking rand,

954
00:54:28,680 --> 00:54:33,359
Speaker 2: it be reversed. It's the King. So get the liars out,

955
00:54:34,080 --> 00:54:35,200
Speaker 2: lies away.

956
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Speaker 12: They don't have the fun safety.

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Speaker 2: I want to see King Jesus.

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Speaker 12: Every word he.

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Speaker 3: Spaces Yes, ay Amen, So celebrate the victorya daniel.

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Speaker 10: God, everybody say simple, you're sec greater things.

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Speaker 2: He said that he has done me.

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Speaker 12: It is done, So be God Man, so big.

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Speaker 2: Sue the one on the floor, and you not be.

964
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Speaker 12: You don't leave.

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Speaker 3: You go.

966
00:55:18,840 --> 00:55:23,160
Speaker 12: See the last see the first the universe.

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00:55:24,120 --> 00:55:26,920
Speaker 3: Gonna let me our phone days, gonna see.

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Speaker 12: The alphone day. That's how many a day through the

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00:55:30,680 --> 00:55:37,080
Speaker 12: main man, Jason, you, the other gang hear their mother pass.

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00:55:38,920 --> 00:55:46,000
Speaker 12: Let's go. God is over top my test and molds

971
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Speaker 12: is done. Maybe if he said that he is done

972
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Speaker 12: and he's starne so b God so.

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Speaker 3: The me the no.

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Speaker 2: Nowhere we go the corey from speak so beeg from

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Speaker 2: me something something, Come on, let's go there.

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Speaker 12: So's to cruise.

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Speaker 2: Such a flood from that.

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Speaker 6: CRUs your jeep crucified.

979
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Speaker 12: Nails.

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00:56:41,120 --> 00:56:45,600
Speaker 3: You gotta believe it. You sees you stop bowling and believe.

981
00:56:47,520 --> 00:56:54,080
Speaker 12: That is it propheside Daddy was.

982
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Speaker 3: Not be.

983
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Speaker 12: What you sees.

984
00:56:58,800 --> 00:57:00,440
Speaker 3: So it's.

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00:57:01,880 --> 00:57:04,640
Speaker 2: You said, right of things.

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Speaker 12: May names blaze blade blaze not blaze blase, Jesus Hesus

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Speaker 12: not Jesus. Some say, s I said it start it's

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Speaker 12: still sob.

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Speaker 2: Who it's good?

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Speaker 12: Said soth.

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Speaker 3: Say not again.

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Speaker 12: So let's go at that time he sid us men,

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Speaker 12: he said, then he said that see you said hell me,

994
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Speaker 12: he said, you listen to me, he said, he say,

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Speaker 12: she would say that'll be my day, bynn.

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Speaker 3: My do.

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Speaker 12: Bye Holly, Holly, I s I so fare we signed

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Speaker 12: slow so fair.

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