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Speaker 1: And they rebelled by the sea, the Red sea, which

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Speaker 1: My sermon title today is green Light at the Red Sea.

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Speaker 1: I didn't tell him. You got to turn the air

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Speaker 1: conditioning off before you back it up, or it cuts off. Please, ma'am,

427
00:26:30,560 --> 00:26:33,840
Speaker 1: please don't fail him. It's my fault, ma'am. It's my fault.

428
00:26:33,880 --> 00:26:36,840
Speaker 1: He's on the cross like Jesus upon him for my sin.

429
00:26:37,119 --> 00:26:39,560
Speaker 1: It's my fault. I didn't tell him how to back up.

430
00:26:39,720 --> 00:26:41,760
Speaker 1: I didn't tell him how to back up, because every

431
00:26:41,760 --> 00:26:47,480
Speaker 1: time I put it in reverse it didn't work. And

432
00:26:47,560 --> 00:26:51,720
Speaker 1: she said, I'll give you one more chance. And when

433
00:26:51,760 --> 00:27:00,920
Speaker 1: I turned off the air conditioning, the Red Sea party.

434
00:27:01,880 --> 00:27:06,879
Speaker 1: I cruised through Highway seventeen A. I parallel parked the Jimmy.

435
00:27:07,800 --> 00:27:10,439
Speaker 1: I pulled it back in the parking lot and I

436
00:27:10,440 --> 00:27:17,600
Speaker 1: got my license. Come on. It was exciting at the time.

437
00:27:17,920 --> 00:27:20,360
Speaker 1: It was big at the time. It was huge at

438
00:27:20,359 --> 00:27:27,160
Speaker 1: the time. But it didn't work every time I put

439
00:27:27,160 --> 00:27:30,560
Speaker 1: it in reverse. I almost didn't get out of the

440
00:27:30,640 --> 00:27:36,040
Speaker 1: parking lot to take my test. I almost failed to

441
00:27:36,080 --> 00:27:42,120
Speaker 1: test in the parking lot because I put the car

442
00:27:42,640 --> 00:27:47,280
Speaker 1: in reverse. When God brought his people out of Egypt,

443
00:27:48,359 --> 00:27:51,800
Speaker 1: he was bringing them into freedom and he was getting

444
00:27:51,880 --> 00:27:55,680
Speaker 1: his glory for himself. But the first thing they did.

445
00:27:56,040 --> 00:27:57,959
Speaker 1: I want to show you this in Exodus fourteen. Now,

446
00:27:58,040 --> 00:28:02,320
Speaker 1: now you're ready for Exodus fourteen. As Pharaoh approached first

447
00:28:02,320 --> 00:28:07,800
Speaker 1: in the Israelites looked up and there were the Egyptians.

448
00:28:07,800 --> 00:28:12,679
Speaker 1: What do the Egyptians represent? Something more powerful than them.

449
00:28:12,840 --> 00:28:15,520
Speaker 1: It represents their past, and really it represents their way

450
00:28:15,520 --> 00:28:19,000
Speaker 1: of life, all that they've known. It also represents the

451
00:28:19,040 --> 00:28:24,399
Speaker 1: provision that they've grown accustomed to receiving. But now what

452
00:28:24,440 --> 00:28:27,720
Speaker 1: they used to depend on is chasing them. All they

453
00:28:27,760 --> 00:28:31,240
Speaker 1: can see in front of them is a red sea.

454
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Speaker 1: Remember I told you this is not a creek m

455
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Speaker 1: and you can't doggy paddle through this. And let me

456
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Speaker 1: be clear, some of you are there right now. The

457
00:28:46,440 --> 00:28:48,840
Speaker 1: red Sea can represent anything. I know. Some people think

458
00:28:48,840 --> 00:28:51,080
Speaker 1: that the Bible is mainly a history book. I don't

459
00:28:51,080 --> 00:28:54,440
Speaker 1: think that. I think that the Bible uses history to

460
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Speaker 1: teach theology, and so it uses the example of a

461
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Speaker 1: body of water to get meet to think about things

462
00:29:02,720 --> 00:29:04,800
Speaker 1: in my life that I'm looking at going. I don't

463
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Speaker 1: see how. I just really don't see how. I was excited.

464
00:29:11,720 --> 00:29:14,080
Speaker 1: I was dressed for battle. I had my under armour on,

465
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Speaker 1: I got my gym membership. I was ready. I had

466
00:29:16,520 --> 00:29:18,760
Speaker 1: my Bible reading plan. I was ready. I was going

467
00:29:18,840 --> 00:29:20,520
Speaker 1: to do it. This was going to be a new year.

468
00:29:20,680 --> 00:29:23,880
Speaker 1: A knew me all that stuff. I thought I was ready.

469
00:29:25,080 --> 00:29:28,239
Speaker 1: I was ready for the Promised Land. But I was

470
00:29:28,280 --> 00:29:32,680
Speaker 1: not ready for this Red Sea. I was not ready.

471
00:29:32,760 --> 00:29:35,600
Speaker 1: I thought I was. I talked to somebody the other day.

472
00:29:35,640 --> 00:29:39,400
Speaker 1: They were like, growing old is not for whimps. I

473
00:29:39,440 --> 00:29:42,560
Speaker 1: just didn't know. I thought I was ready to age gracefully.

474
00:29:42,640 --> 00:29:44,440
Speaker 1: I always said I won't be this kind of person.

475
00:29:44,480 --> 00:29:46,560
Speaker 1: I won't be that kind of person. I thought I

476
00:29:46,680 --> 00:29:51,080
Speaker 1: was ready, and I was ready in a sense, but

477
00:29:51,200 --> 00:29:53,719
Speaker 1: I wasn't ready for this barrier. I wasn't ready for

478
00:29:53,760 --> 00:29:57,160
Speaker 1: this test. And the first thing that you do when

479
00:29:57,200 --> 00:29:59,680
Speaker 1: you come up on something that you were not ready for,

480
00:30:00,120 --> 00:30:04,000
Speaker 1: not ready at all, no training, no expertise, no swimming classes,

481
00:30:04,320 --> 00:30:08,440
Speaker 1: no boat, no floats, no vehicle to get you across.

482
00:30:08,960 --> 00:30:11,680
Speaker 1: And God said, you've been feeling that way lately. I

483
00:30:11,680 --> 00:30:13,080
Speaker 1: don't know who you are. I don't care if it's

484
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Speaker 1: three of you or thirty thousand. But God said, you're

485
00:30:16,080 --> 00:30:19,240
Speaker 1: standing in front of it right now, and it is

486
00:30:19,280 --> 00:30:23,880
Speaker 1: what stands between you and freedom. It's what stands between

487
00:30:23,920 --> 00:30:28,680
Speaker 1: you and freedom. And God's gonna get his glory as

488
00:30:28,800 --> 00:30:39,480
Speaker 1: you go through, as you go through. So now the

489
00:30:39,520 --> 00:30:43,520
Speaker 1: word gets really deep because it says as Pharaoh was

490
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Speaker 1: approaching them from behind, the people turned to Moses and

491
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Speaker 1: say verse eleven, was it because there were no graves

492
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Speaker 1: in Egypt that you brought us to the desert to die?

493
00:30:52,640 --> 00:30:57,080
Speaker 1: Watch them put their faith in reverse? What have you

494
00:30:57,160 --> 00:31:03,680
Speaker 1: done to us by bringing us up out of Egypt?

495
00:31:05,040 --> 00:31:08,840
Speaker 1: They are barely out of the parking lot church, They

496
00:31:08,880 --> 00:31:14,480
Speaker 1: are barely out of Egypt. They are barely used to

497
00:31:14,560 --> 00:31:17,360
Speaker 1: the idea or the concept that they are a mighty

498
00:31:17,440 --> 00:31:22,320
Speaker 1: nation and the car cuts off. The first thing they

499
00:31:22,320 --> 00:31:24,680
Speaker 1: do is to blame. The first thing they do is

500
00:31:24,720 --> 00:31:27,520
Speaker 1: to shift responsibility. The first thing they do, and we

501
00:31:27,560 --> 00:31:30,320
Speaker 1: can understand it, is to want to return to what

502
00:31:30,520 --> 00:31:34,360
Speaker 1: wasn't even working in the first place. I would rather

503
00:31:34,520 --> 00:31:37,360
Speaker 1: serve them than die at their hands. This is exactly

504
00:31:37,440 --> 00:31:39,840
Speaker 1: what they say. Let me teach you the Bible lesson.

505
00:31:40,000 --> 00:31:42,640
Speaker 1: We've always heard the Red Sea as a story of

506
00:31:42,680 --> 00:31:46,480
Speaker 1: great faith. But before they had great faith, watch at

507
00:31:46,480 --> 00:31:50,120
Speaker 1: their fear. Great faith doesn't look like you think it does.

508
00:31:51,200 --> 00:31:53,680
Speaker 1: I don't care what anybody tells you about how long

509
00:31:53,800 --> 00:31:56,880
Speaker 1: they pray, or how much they believe God, or how

510
00:31:56,880 --> 00:32:00,240
Speaker 1: they taught their children how to knit quilts and pray

511
00:32:00,280 --> 00:32:03,440
Speaker 1: for missionaries at the same time. That's all wonderful, But

512
00:32:03,560 --> 00:32:07,719
Speaker 1: I promise you that their testimony had a stage of terror.

513
00:32:10,400 --> 00:32:14,280
Speaker 1: It's been terrorizing you, hasn't it. It's been terrorizing you

514
00:32:15,240 --> 00:32:16,880
Speaker 1: some things you did in the past that you wish

515
00:32:16,880 --> 00:32:20,400
Speaker 1: you could get back. It's been terrorizing you some things

516
00:32:20,400 --> 00:32:22,360
Speaker 1: you didn't do to prepare and now you're not ready.

517
00:32:22,440 --> 00:32:26,160
Speaker 1: It's been terrorizing you, hasn't it. It's been chasing you,

518
00:32:26,200 --> 00:32:28,959
Speaker 1: hasn't it. It's been making you want to give up

519
00:32:29,000 --> 00:32:33,240
Speaker 1: on you, hasn't it. It's been making you sabotage yourself,

520
00:32:33,280 --> 00:32:36,360
Speaker 1: hasn't it. It's been making you think maybe there's not

521
00:32:36,400 --> 00:32:38,560
Speaker 1: a reason for me to go through at all. It's

522
00:32:38,560 --> 00:32:40,080
Speaker 1: been make you want to turn around and go home.

523
00:32:41,880 --> 00:32:48,680
Speaker 1: It doesn't work in reverse. You can't go back there.

524
00:32:50,960 --> 00:32:54,040
Speaker 1: And Moses is in a difficult dilemma because now they

525
00:32:54,120 --> 00:32:56,920
Speaker 1: want to go back to Egypt and they're making crap up.

526
00:32:58,120 --> 00:33:02,480
Speaker 1: They're making crap up. They're just this didn't happen. Didn't

527
00:33:02,520 --> 00:33:04,680
Speaker 1: we say to you in Egypt, leave us alone? This

528
00:33:04,760 --> 00:33:08,040
Speaker 1: is Verse twelve, Leave us alone, let us serve the Egyptians. No,

529
00:33:08,160 --> 00:33:10,640
Speaker 1: you didn't say that to him in Egypt. They never

530
00:33:10,720 --> 00:33:12,800
Speaker 1: said that in Egypt. If you find it, put it

531
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Speaker 1: on some social media and I'll I'll meet up with

532
00:33:15,800 --> 00:33:18,240
Speaker 1: you there. It's not out. You can't find it. They

533
00:33:18,280 --> 00:33:22,240
Speaker 1: didn't say that. This is a revision is history. Ah.

534
00:33:25,960 --> 00:33:29,600
Speaker 1: Now I feel really bad for Moses, even more than

535
00:33:29,600 --> 00:33:31,000
Speaker 1: I feel bad for them, and I feel bad for

536
00:33:31,040 --> 00:33:33,760
Speaker 1: everybody because I you know, I would be saying the

537
00:33:33,800 --> 00:33:36,760
Speaker 1: same stuff. I would be having the same thoughts. I'd

538
00:33:36,760 --> 00:33:38,000
Speaker 1: be wanting to go back to I do it all

539
00:33:38,000 --> 00:33:44,240
Speaker 1: the time, but Moses has to motivate them to keep moving.

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00:33:45,800 --> 00:33:49,600
Speaker 1: In fact, in verse thirteen, he answered, the people, do

541
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Speaker 1: not be afraid. Stand firm, and you will see the

542
00:33:58,280 --> 00:34:06,160
Speaker 1: deliverance the Lord will bring you today. The Egyptians you

543
00:34:06,320 --> 00:34:13,959
Speaker 1: see today, you will never see again. The Lord will

544
00:34:13,960 --> 00:34:20,040
Speaker 1: fight for you. You need only to be still. Now.

545
00:34:20,120 --> 00:34:23,440
Speaker 1: Part of that is true, the Lord will fight for you.

546
00:34:24,800 --> 00:34:27,880
Speaker 1: But part of it is false. You don't get to

547
00:34:27,920 --> 00:34:34,120
Speaker 1: be still. In fact, the moment Moses gets his motivational

548
00:34:34,200 --> 00:34:39,000
Speaker 1: speech out of his mouth, God corrects him, I wonder

549
00:34:39,040 --> 00:34:40,880
Speaker 1: did you ever read this about the green light at

550
00:34:40,880 --> 00:34:44,040
Speaker 1: the Red Sea? I wonder did you ever really think

551
00:34:44,080 --> 00:34:47,120
Speaker 1: about this? Because Moses is saying, Hey, God's got this.

552
00:34:48,400 --> 00:34:50,719
Speaker 1: He told us to come through the Red Sea. He's

553
00:34:50,760 --> 00:34:54,359
Speaker 1: gonna do it. He's God, he's faithful. He brought us out.

554
00:34:54,520 --> 00:34:56,120
Speaker 1: He didn't bring us as far and leave us. Just

555
00:34:56,200 --> 00:35:00,279
Speaker 1: stand still, no, watch God. In verse fifteen, then the

556
00:35:00,280 --> 00:35:03,120
Speaker 1: Lord said to Moses, why are you crying out to me?

557
00:35:05,120 --> 00:35:15,160
Speaker 1: Tell the Israelites honk honk, move on. That's God honking.

558
00:35:16,719 --> 00:35:23,520
Speaker 1: That's not Pharaoh chasing, that's God honking. That restless thing

559
00:35:23,600 --> 00:35:26,920
Speaker 1: inside of you. This letting you know you can't stay

560
00:35:26,920 --> 00:35:29,879
Speaker 1: in these excuses and just be who you were ten

561
00:35:30,000 --> 00:35:36,160
Speaker 1: years ago. That's God honking. Be beep beep by resent

562
00:35:36,200 --> 00:35:41,440
Speaker 1: be beep, that's God honking. That's a bet beep. Now,

563
00:35:41,520 --> 00:35:45,200
Speaker 1: God will give you a courtesy honk before he lays

564
00:35:45,239 --> 00:35:48,560
Speaker 1: on the horn. And this is a courtesy honk from God.

565
00:35:48,800 --> 00:35:53,200
Speaker 1: This word, this message today from God through me to you.

566
00:35:53,520 --> 00:35:56,400
Speaker 1: This is a courtesy honk from God. Because if you

567
00:35:56,680 --> 00:36:00,320
Speaker 1: stay here in this dry spot and feel so sorry

568
00:36:00,440 --> 00:36:04,600
Speaker 1: for yourself, or blame others, or spend your time in reverse,

569
00:36:04,880 --> 00:36:08,879
Speaker 1: you're not gonna make it out the parking lot. You're

570
00:36:08,880 --> 00:36:11,240
Speaker 1: not gonna get to see the manna. You're not gonna

571
00:36:11,280 --> 00:36:13,839
Speaker 1: get to taste the grapes. You're not gonna bring down

572
00:36:13,880 --> 00:36:20,520
Speaker 1: the giant. This is God hanking. He said, if you

573
00:36:20,600 --> 00:36:25,880
Speaker 1: stand there and stay in your feelings. I don't know

574
00:36:25,920 --> 00:36:29,080
Speaker 1: if you noticed, but it said they were terrified. I

575
00:36:29,120 --> 00:36:33,160
Speaker 1: guess they were. Well, see, I wouldn't because the Lord

576
00:36:33,280 --> 00:36:37,600
Speaker 1: fights my battles. Shut up, Shut up. I don't want

577
00:36:37,640 --> 00:36:39,759
Speaker 1: God to strike you for lying while I'm preaching. I'd

578
00:36:39,800 --> 00:36:42,520
Speaker 1: have to call the ambulance. And all of that don't lie.

579
00:36:43,920 --> 00:36:54,640
Speaker 1: But the miracle is not in your feelings. The miracle

580
00:36:54,680 --> 00:37:01,319
Speaker 1: is in your feet. It's not in your feelings, just

581
00:37:01,360 --> 00:37:06,520
Speaker 1: in your feet. What you've got to do is move, move, move,

582
00:37:06,760 --> 00:37:10,480
Speaker 1: beat beep is green. You've got the go ahead from God,

583
00:37:10,600 --> 00:37:12,640
Speaker 1: even though it doesn't look like it, even though you

584
00:37:12,640 --> 00:37:14,879
Speaker 1: don't see it, even though this is kind of an

585
00:37:14,920 --> 00:37:17,400
Speaker 1: off road season for you, and you've never been this

586
00:37:17,480 --> 00:37:20,120
Speaker 1: way before, and you've never figured this out before, and

587
00:37:20,160 --> 00:37:23,160
Speaker 1: you weren't educated for this, You've got a green light.

588
00:37:24,360 --> 00:37:26,120
Speaker 1: And if you sit at this green light in this

589
00:37:26,239 --> 00:37:30,680
Speaker 1: intersection long enough, look, God will give you the green light.

590
00:37:30,719 --> 00:37:37,480
Speaker 1: But he's not gonna drive the car. Oh oh, looks

591
00:37:37,520 --> 00:37:40,040
Speaker 1: like I hit a nerve. Y'all were singing, Jesus take

592
00:37:40,080 --> 00:37:45,360
Speaker 1: the wheel. He's like, nope, yavo. I walk through the

593
00:37:45,440 --> 00:37:48,000
Speaker 1: valley of the Shadow of Death. I will fear no

594
00:37:48,160 --> 00:37:54,040
Speaker 1: evil because you're with me. Okay, okay, okay, okay, okay.

595
00:37:54,280 --> 00:37:58,759
Speaker 1: It's in my feet. He enables me to go through

596
00:37:58,800 --> 00:38:01,120
Speaker 1: the valley. That's what he gets me grace for, not

597
00:38:01,800 --> 00:38:06,160
Speaker 1: to make it so that I never experienced a valley.

598
00:38:06,560 --> 00:38:10,760
Speaker 1: Quit looking to external means of testimony. To the goodness

599
00:38:10,800 --> 00:38:14,560
Speaker 1: of God. You gotta get a green light on the inside.

600
00:38:15,480 --> 00:38:17,640
Speaker 1: You gotta get a green light on the inside to say,

601
00:38:17,719 --> 00:38:19,759
Speaker 1: you know what, I know. God is calling me to

602
00:38:19,840 --> 00:38:22,480
Speaker 1: love this person even though they get all my last nerves.

603
00:38:24,080 --> 00:38:26,239
Speaker 1: That's what I mean by a green light at the

604
00:38:26,280 --> 00:38:29,319
Speaker 1: Red Sea. When God enables you to do something that

605
00:38:29,400 --> 00:38:31,879
Speaker 1: you could note you could never do apart from Him,

606
00:38:32,000 --> 00:38:34,960
Speaker 1: apart from me, you can do nothing. But I can

607
00:38:35,000 --> 00:38:38,080
Speaker 1: do all things. Through Christ too strengthens me, and I

608
00:38:38,120 --> 00:38:43,400
Speaker 1: can do this too. God's gonna get his glory. But

609
00:38:43,480 --> 00:38:48,000
Speaker 1: you gotta go. You've gotta go. I don't mean running

610
00:38:48,000 --> 00:38:50,800
Speaker 1: from stuff. I don't mean moving cities. I mean walking

611
00:38:50,840 --> 00:38:55,680
Speaker 1: by faith, not sight, to pass through the sea. That's

612
00:38:55,719 --> 00:38:58,279
Speaker 1: the reason He brought you to the Red Sea, because

613
00:38:58,320 --> 00:39:05,200
Speaker 1: the Egyptians can't swim that far. Oh God, too much

614
00:39:06,680 --> 00:39:10,440
Speaker 1: should have been a series. All I came to prophesy

615
00:39:10,520 --> 00:39:16,920
Speaker 1: today is you've got green and you gotta go. You

616
00:39:17,000 --> 00:39:21,080
Speaker 1: gotta go. So where should I move? With Tampa Atlanta?

617
00:39:21,320 --> 00:39:28,239
Speaker 1: You keep thinking it's about geography. It's not about geography. Yeah,

618
00:39:28,360 --> 00:39:29,839
Speaker 1: I walk through the valley of the Shadow of Death. Yeah,

619
00:39:29,960 --> 00:39:32,439
Speaker 1: I walked through the Valley of the shadow of death.

620
00:39:32,800 --> 00:39:36,480
Speaker 1: I will fear no evil, though I walk through. I

621
00:39:36,520 --> 00:39:39,040
Speaker 1: will fear no feeling. Well, I feel fear, but the

622
00:39:39,080 --> 00:39:44,600
Speaker 1: miracle is not in my feelings. This is I fear

623
00:39:45,920 --> 00:39:49,239
Speaker 1: and you know what else? Song twenty three says, he

624
00:39:49,320 --> 00:39:56,000
Speaker 1: maketh me lie down. He knows when it should be read,

625
00:39:57,520 --> 00:40:01,120
Speaker 1: He knows when it should be green. He maketh me

626
00:40:01,840 --> 00:40:06,640
Speaker 1: lie down? In what pastures? Did you just say green?

627
00:40:09,040 --> 00:40:13,239
Speaker 1: Does my whole sermon go together to get you to

628
00:40:13,280 --> 00:40:18,080
Speaker 1: realize that you've got green even in the valley, that

629
00:40:18,160 --> 00:40:20,360
Speaker 1: he will feed you. He will feed you in the

630
00:40:20,400 --> 00:40:23,400
Speaker 1: low place. Yeah, yeah, you're depressed, Yeah, yeah, you're anxious,

631
00:40:23,480 --> 00:40:25,880
Speaker 1: Yeah yeah, just girt up? Yeah yea, yeah you did it.

632
00:40:26,080 --> 00:40:29,600
Speaker 1: But he's still a break you through anyway. Where's the argain?

633
00:40:29,840 --> 00:40:33,920
Speaker 1: Where's argain? I need to celebrate. I need the celebrate.

634
00:40:34,280 --> 00:40:37,920
Speaker 1: I need this celebrate. I need the celebrate. It is

635
00:40:37,960 --> 00:40:48,840
Speaker 1: all by myself. Whoa whoa, whoo, whoo, whoa, whoa whoa.

636
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Speaker 1: I got that go through annoyting. I got that anyway, annongtain,

637
00:40:54,080 --> 00:41:00,319
Speaker 1: I got that red sea revelation. He let me through

638
00:41:00,320 --> 00:41:04,120
Speaker 1: the depths, through the depths like it was a desert.

639
00:41:04,280 --> 00:41:07,560
Speaker 1: He brought me through dysfunction. He brought me into destiny.

640
00:41:07,800 --> 00:41:10,279
Speaker 1: He led me through the desert. He led me through

641
00:41:10,280 --> 00:41:12,800
Speaker 1: the desert. He led me through the desert. The proof

642
00:41:12,840 --> 00:41:14,800
Speaker 1: that God is leading you is not that it's easy.

643
00:41:16,200 --> 00:41:19,760
Speaker 1: He prepare at the table for me in the green Valley,

644
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Speaker 1: in the presence of my enemies. He's leading me. I'm

645
00:41:24,600 --> 00:41:27,959
Speaker 1: not going the easy way. I'm going through the sea.

646
00:41:28,280 --> 00:41:32,799
Speaker 1: I've been baptized in water. I've been baptized in the

647
00:41:32,800 --> 00:41:38,040
Speaker 1: fathered love. I've been baptized by fire. Had up facom forth,

648
00:41:39,160 --> 00:41:43,680
Speaker 1: that's go, that's go. I'm coming out of this for

649
00:41:43,680 --> 00:41:46,480
Speaker 1: a fine I'm coming out of this for a storm.

650
00:41:46,920 --> 00:41:52,840
Speaker 1: I'm coming out of this for the revelation. Because I

651
00:41:52,880 --> 00:41:57,640
Speaker 1: got a green light at the Red Sea. I asked

652
00:41:57,680 --> 00:42:01,359
Speaker 1: the Lord in coming to preach this message, what did

653
00:42:01,360 --> 00:42:03,680
Speaker 1: he want to give you to get you through? And

654
00:42:03,719 --> 00:42:06,080
Speaker 1: I said, show me, Lord what you want to give

655
00:42:06,640 --> 00:42:10,040
Speaker 1: to get them through? Because he gave Moses a staff.

656
00:42:12,760 --> 00:42:16,240
Speaker 1: And I'm like, well, surely you can give them something

657
00:42:17,520 --> 00:42:21,040
Speaker 1: that rod and thy staff. They comfort me. When Moses

658
00:42:21,080 --> 00:42:24,080
Speaker 1: had a staff, David had a staff. God of Moses

659
00:42:24,080 --> 00:42:29,600
Speaker 1: got to David, what did he give Annabelle. What was

660
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Speaker 1: your name again, Lady that I said, I was going

661
00:42:31,080 --> 00:42:37,360
Speaker 1: to preach to Kathy. What did he give Kathy? So

662
00:42:37,400 --> 00:42:40,239
Speaker 1: I'm praying you. And the first thing God said he

663
00:42:40,280 --> 00:42:42,680
Speaker 1: want to give you as you go through this right

664
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Speaker 1: to see shout it again. You got green, you got green.

665
00:42:47,360 --> 00:42:49,279
Speaker 1: I want to see green light emojis all in the

666
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Speaker 1: chat when I watched this message water this week, because

667
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Speaker 1: the first thing he said he wanted to give you

668
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Speaker 1: was grace. Grace. Grace not just any kind of grace,

669
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Speaker 1: because we put that before we eat the casserole. Let's

670
00:43:04,760 --> 00:43:09,440
Speaker 1: say grace, not that kind of grace. He said, he

671
00:43:09,480 --> 00:43:17,040
Speaker 1: wanted to give you grace for your greatest embarrassments, for

672
00:43:17,120 --> 00:43:20,799
Speaker 1: the thing you won't talk about, for the thing you

673
00:43:20,960 --> 00:43:25,560
Speaker 1: pretend like you got through but you're really drowning in it.

674
00:43:28,760 --> 00:43:30,719
Speaker 1: I won't stay here long because you'll pretend like you

675
00:43:30,760 --> 00:43:32,160
Speaker 1: got to go to the bathroom and get up and

676
00:43:32,160 --> 00:43:35,600
Speaker 1: walk out, if like you're talking about this, but this

677
00:43:35,760 --> 00:43:40,640
Speaker 1: between you and God. And he told me to say

678
00:43:40,680 --> 00:43:43,440
Speaker 1: it just like that, he said, tell him. I want

679
00:43:43,480 --> 00:43:48,799
Speaker 1: to give them grace for their greatest embarrassment, for their

680
00:43:48,840 --> 00:43:56,319
Speaker 1: most spectacular failure, for their most idiotic mistake. Remember, and

681
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Speaker 1: I need to show you this again in someone because

682
00:43:58,400 --> 00:44:00,839
Speaker 1: I never saw it quite this way before. I thought

683
00:44:00,840 --> 00:44:04,279
Speaker 1: the Red Sea was about faith. I didn't know us

684
00:44:04,320 --> 00:44:10,960
Speaker 1: also about failure. They rebelled, please one more time in

685
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Speaker 1: the back end, I'll stop. I just want you to

686
00:44:13,239 --> 00:44:15,920
Speaker 1: see this one more time. Would y'all be happy if

687
00:44:15,960 --> 00:44:19,799
Speaker 1: I picked this up next week too? Would you be

688
00:44:19,840 --> 00:44:26,359
Speaker 1: happy if I let me know in the chat? Because

689
00:44:26,400 --> 00:44:28,600
Speaker 1: I think we need to keep talking about this idea

690
00:44:28,760 --> 00:44:31,160
Speaker 1: that God will give you a green light, the strength

691
00:44:31,280 --> 00:44:33,960
Speaker 1: and the assurance and the calling to go through something

692
00:44:34,080 --> 00:44:38,160
Speaker 1: that you've never seen anybody else go through, and that

693
00:44:38,200 --> 00:44:40,359
Speaker 1: you've convinced yourself. I was telling my friend the other day.

694
00:44:40,360 --> 00:44:42,200
Speaker 1: They were saying, well, you're gonna get better at this,

695
00:44:42,280 --> 00:44:44,200
Speaker 1: and you're gonna develop that. I said, I'm forty one.

696
00:44:44,239 --> 00:44:47,640
Speaker 1: I don't believe you. Stop lying. If I'm not all

697
00:44:47,680 --> 00:44:50,640
Speaker 1: those things by now, I'm never gonna be I didn't

698
00:44:50,680 --> 00:44:52,920
Speaker 1: want to hear it, you know. I want to put

699
00:44:52,960 --> 00:44:59,040
Speaker 1: it in reverse. Always been this way, So now I'm

700
00:44:59,040 --> 00:45:02,920
Speaker 1: gonna be stuck in the park. I'm gonna be stuck

701
00:45:03,080 --> 00:45:06,520
Speaker 1: outside of the peace of God because I want to

702
00:45:06,520 --> 00:45:10,879
Speaker 1: go back to Egypt. My dad's running the crowd. Give

703
00:45:10,960 --> 00:45:15,719
Speaker 1: him another chance. Please, he's breathing heavy. Thank God for

704
00:45:15,800 --> 00:45:28,040
Speaker 1: second chances. You better voluntarily testify. Third chances, four chances,

705
00:45:28,840 --> 00:45:34,759
Speaker 1: fifth chances. Because it said, it said, it said, they

706
00:45:34,800 --> 00:45:39,640
Speaker 1: did not remember verse seven, So they rebelled. When you

707
00:45:39,640 --> 00:45:45,960
Speaker 1: don't remember, You rebel when you don't remember who God is,

708
00:45:46,080 --> 00:45:47,920
Speaker 1: what he's done, what he's called you, what Jesus has

709
00:45:47,920 --> 00:45:50,560
Speaker 1: done for you on the cross. When you forget that,

710
00:45:51,680 --> 00:45:53,960
Speaker 1: your sole focus becomes what's in front of you. And

711
00:45:54,000 --> 00:45:56,440
Speaker 1: the Red Sea is big, so of course you want

712
00:45:56,480 --> 00:45:57,520
Speaker 1: to go back. Where else are you going to go?

713
00:45:58,400 --> 00:46:00,200
Speaker 1: But you just saw the nile turn to blood. You

714
00:46:00,239 --> 00:46:02,200
Speaker 1: just saw frogs cover the land. You just saw the

715
00:46:02,200 --> 00:46:05,840
Speaker 1: firstborn of Egypt struck dead. Because God will get his glory.

716
00:46:06,520 --> 00:46:15,480
Speaker 1: He's committed to it, and God is committed to your freedom.

717
00:46:15,600 --> 00:46:19,640
Speaker 1: They rebelt. They rebelled by the sea, by the Red Sea.

718
00:46:19,680 --> 00:46:21,520
Speaker 1: I knew they rebelled in the wilderness. I knew they

719
00:46:21,560 --> 00:46:23,600
Speaker 1: rebelled at sign. I remember they built the Golden Calve,

720
00:46:23,719 --> 00:46:25,759
Speaker 1: dancing around and taking their clothes off and all that.

721
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Speaker 1: But they rebelled before they even got out. They almost

722
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Speaker 1: failed to test the faith in the parking lot on

723
00:46:32,000 --> 00:46:36,399
Speaker 1: their way to the Promised Land. But what really got

724
00:46:36,440 --> 00:46:42,640
Speaker 1: me was the word yet in verse eight, Yet he

725
00:46:42,760 --> 00:46:55,080
Speaker 1: saved them for his name's sake. Don't you know? He

726
00:46:55,200 --> 00:46:59,000
Speaker 1: leadeth me in paths of righteousness for his name's sake,

727
00:47:00,680 --> 00:47:09,120
Speaker 1: green pastures, stillwater. They rebel, Yet he saved them for

728
00:47:09,160 --> 00:47:12,200
Speaker 1: his namesake, to make his mighty power known. I wonder

729
00:47:12,239 --> 00:47:15,160
Speaker 1: if God brought you to the Red Sea to give

730
00:47:15,160 --> 00:47:21,719
Speaker 1: you a green light, to kill off the insecurities, to

731
00:47:22,840 --> 00:47:30,160
Speaker 1: kill off the arrogance, to kill off the idols, to

732
00:47:30,239 --> 00:47:33,759
Speaker 1: kill off the Egyptians. I wonder if He brought you

733
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Speaker 1: to this not to kill you, because it wouldn't make

734
00:47:36,719 --> 00:47:39,600
Speaker 1: much sense if He did all of that to bring

735
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Speaker 1: you out of Egypt and sent his son to spare

736
00:47:41,360 --> 00:47:43,040
Speaker 1: you and then left you here at this red sea.

737
00:47:43,080 --> 00:47:51,200
Speaker 1: Would have They rebel. But my soul got happy when

738
00:47:51,200 --> 00:47:55,520
Speaker 1: I read what he did. Verse nine. He rebuked the

739
00:47:55,560 --> 00:48:02,160
Speaker 1: Red Sea. See the symmetry of the text. They rebelled.

740
00:48:03,400 --> 00:48:11,759
Speaker 1: He rebuked. That's what God will do. Okay, I'm gonna

741
00:48:11,760 --> 00:48:15,560
Speaker 1: preach it boldly. God's gonna do it for you anyway.

742
00:48:17,600 --> 00:48:21,839
Speaker 1: God's gonna do it for you. Anyway. But don't list

743
00:48:21,880 --> 00:48:24,200
Speaker 1: your resume of all the good things you did, of

744
00:48:24,239 --> 00:48:26,359
Speaker 1: why God should help you. Right now, you won't need

745
00:48:26,400 --> 00:48:29,720
Speaker 1: any of that. It's not what you did that's gonna

746
00:48:29,719 --> 00:48:33,120
Speaker 1: get him to do what only he could do. He's

747
00:48:33,160 --> 00:48:37,319
Speaker 1: gonna do it in spite of it, in spite of it,

748
00:48:38,400 --> 00:48:42,080
Speaker 1: in spite of your stupid in spite of your stubborn

749
00:48:42,280 --> 00:48:47,000
Speaker 1: He's gonna give you grace for your greatest embarrassment, and

750
00:48:47,120 --> 00:48:50,080
Speaker 1: your kids will live to tell of it, and your

751
00:48:50,120 --> 00:48:55,920
Speaker 1: grandkids will know about it. He's gonna save you anyway.

752
00:48:57,920 --> 00:49:01,839
Speaker 1: I declare it. You gotta read life, but you gotta go.

753
00:49:07,600 --> 00:49:11,680
Speaker 1: You got green, you gotta green, You got green, but

754
00:49:11,760 --> 00:49:15,160
Speaker 1: you gotta go. I don't know. I don't know what

755
00:49:15,200 --> 00:49:17,680
Speaker 1: grace you need, but God said, I'm gonna give you

756
00:49:17,719 --> 00:49:26,200
Speaker 1: grace for your greatest embarrassing. But that's not all the

757
00:49:26,239 --> 00:49:30,880
Speaker 1: infomercial used to say. But wait, there's more. Yeah. I

758
00:49:30,920 --> 00:49:32,880
Speaker 1: don't know who would leave at this point in the sermon,

759
00:49:33,040 --> 00:49:34,920
Speaker 1: but I encourage you to stay for this last thing

760
00:49:34,960 --> 00:49:39,440
Speaker 1: I'm gonna give you. I'm telling you right now, God's

761
00:49:39,480 --> 00:49:42,160
Speaker 1: spirit is in this place. The Word of God is

762
00:49:42,200 --> 00:49:47,480
Speaker 1: alive and active. I'm preaching this. Whoever you are, the

763
00:49:47,560 --> 00:49:50,840
Speaker 1: Lord said, is green. It's green. It's green. It's green.

764
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Speaker 1: It's green. You will make it. You will make it.

765
00:49:54,160 --> 00:49:56,800
Speaker 1: You will make it. You will make it. You will

766
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Speaker 1: make it. So, he said, grace for your greatest embarrassment.

767
00:50:07,280 --> 00:50:11,440
Speaker 1: He said he wanted to give you resource for your

768
00:50:11,560 --> 00:50:17,360
Speaker 1: deepest need. Not the one you think you need, it

769
00:50:18,520 --> 00:50:23,000
Speaker 1: the one he knows you need. If that's peace, you're

770
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Speaker 1: gonna have it. It's going to be green in the valley.

771
00:50:26,840 --> 00:50:30,719
Speaker 1: It's gonna be dark, but it's gonna be green. He said,

772
00:50:30,760 --> 00:50:34,920
Speaker 1: I'm gonna give you resource for your deepest need. Do

773
00:50:34,920 --> 00:50:37,319
Speaker 1: you know what else? He said? And I know when

774
00:50:37,360 --> 00:50:39,279
Speaker 1: I hear God and when I'm just making stuff up,

775
00:50:40,320 --> 00:50:42,160
Speaker 1: But all of these, he said, he wanted to give

776
00:50:42,160 --> 00:50:50,600
Speaker 1: you today. He said, he wanted to give you energy. Well,

777
00:50:50,680 --> 00:50:54,760
Speaker 1: you need it, I can tell. He said. He wants

778
00:50:54,800 --> 00:51:00,600
Speaker 1: to give you divine power to demolish strongholds and a

779
00:51:00,760 --> 00:51:04,640
Speaker 1: fresh feeling of the Holy Spirit. Fill your horn with

780
00:51:04,760 --> 00:51:08,440
Speaker 1: oil and be on your way. It's great. You gotta go.

781
00:51:12,800 --> 00:51:16,960
Speaker 1: Thank you, Jesus. He said. He wanted to give you

782
00:51:17,200 --> 00:51:24,200
Speaker 1: energy for your most draining relationships. Don't look at anybody

783
00:51:24,280 --> 00:51:27,879
Speaker 1: right now. Do not look at anybody right now. They

784
00:51:27,920 --> 00:51:31,680
Speaker 1: will not like that, they will not like that. But

785
00:51:31,840 --> 00:51:37,680
Speaker 1: just receive it. Just receive it. Just receie that I

786
00:51:37,719 --> 00:51:39,879
Speaker 1: wrote these down because I knew i'd forget the fourth one.

787
00:51:41,520 --> 00:51:46,040
Speaker 1: What was the fourth one, Lauren? Oh? Yeah, he said

788
00:51:46,080 --> 00:51:55,960
Speaker 1: he was gonna give you evidence. Whoo whoo. He said,

789
00:51:56,000 --> 00:52:04,120
Speaker 1: I'm gonna give you evidence is for your most stubborn unbelief.

790
00:52:05,680 --> 00:52:09,160
Speaker 1: You see that staff in your hand, that's evidence of

791
00:52:09,200 --> 00:52:13,760
Speaker 1: God's faithfulness. You're gonna point back to this red sea.

792
00:52:14,239 --> 00:52:16,640
Speaker 1: I told Graham this morning, I'm gonna write a song

793
00:52:16,680 --> 00:52:20,879
Speaker 1: called Grandkids. It's gonna say I'm gonna tell my grandkids

794
00:52:21,080 --> 00:52:23,640
Speaker 1: about what God did. I don't know how the melody

795
00:52:23,719 --> 00:52:26,279
Speaker 1: is gonna go yet, but that's what I'm saying. God

796
00:52:26,360 --> 00:52:29,239
Speaker 1: is gonna give you evidence that will serve for a

797
00:52:29,320 --> 00:52:34,919
Speaker 1: future generation to know the Lord. Wow, and to prove

798
00:52:34,960 --> 00:52:40,480
Speaker 1: to you that he can be trusted. And the final thing,

799
00:52:40,480 --> 00:52:44,520
Speaker 1: because I was like Lord, that almost the first letter

800
00:52:44,560 --> 00:52:48,759
Speaker 1: of those almost spells green, the grace, and the resource

801
00:52:50,680 --> 00:52:55,200
Speaker 1: got any ease, Yeah, energy and evidence. I said, there's

802
00:52:55,200 --> 00:52:57,200
Speaker 1: not a lot of words that start within Lord. We

803
00:52:57,239 --> 00:53:00,000
Speaker 1: gotta spell green here so they can remember this, because

804
00:53:00,040 --> 00:53:04,160
Speaker 1: I want to tell the people you got green. You

805
00:53:04,200 --> 00:53:05,920
Speaker 1: got green. You don't have to stay here and die

806
00:53:05,960 --> 00:53:08,520
Speaker 1: just because you feel afraid or just because you feel ashamed.

807
00:53:09,880 --> 00:53:12,920
Speaker 1: So the Lord spoke to me another driving word. He said, navigate.

808
00:53:21,360 --> 00:53:29,320
Speaker 1: He said, I'm gonna help you navigate your most complicated places.

809
00:53:30,239 --> 00:53:32,080
Speaker 1: So that's what we mean about a green light at

810
00:53:32,080 --> 00:53:36,560
Speaker 1: the red sea. The red Sea's not gonna move. God's

811
00:53:36,560 --> 00:53:40,359
Speaker 1: gonna give you grace for your greatest embarrassment. You don't

812
00:53:40,360 --> 00:53:42,960
Speaker 1: think Moses was embarrassed that he killed an Egyptian and

813
00:53:43,000 --> 00:53:45,160
Speaker 1: now he's having to deliver people who only know him

814
00:53:45,200 --> 00:53:48,279
Speaker 1: as a murderer, and God gave him grace for that.

815
00:53:50,080 --> 00:53:54,360
Speaker 1: Think about the resources that were needed. Hey, did you

816
00:53:54,400 --> 00:53:58,400
Speaker 1: ever see in John chapter six when Jesus fed the

817
00:53:58,440 --> 00:54:01,399
Speaker 1: five thousand with the little boys life? Did you see

818
00:54:01,440 --> 00:54:03,879
Speaker 1: it before? One thing I don't know if you ever

819
00:54:03,960 --> 00:54:07,680
Speaker 1: saw is said that they didn't have enough food. Can

820
00:54:07,719 --> 00:54:09,279
Speaker 1: you put that verse up there? They said, here's a

821
00:54:09,280 --> 00:54:11,479
Speaker 1: boy with five small barley loaves and two small fish,

822
00:54:11,480 --> 00:54:13,600
Speaker 1: But how far will they go among so many? So

823
00:54:13,640 --> 00:54:15,080
Speaker 1: you don't have a lot of bread, But watch what

824
00:54:15,120 --> 00:54:17,479
Speaker 1: they did have verse ten, Jesus that have the people

825
00:54:17,520 --> 00:54:20,840
Speaker 1: sit down. There was plenty of grass in that place.

826
00:54:22,560 --> 00:54:30,640
Speaker 1: That's a weird detail to point out there's plenty of green. Yeah,

827
00:54:30,760 --> 00:54:34,240
Speaker 1: just sit down in it for a second. Yeah. God's

828
00:54:34,239 --> 00:54:37,080
Speaker 1: going to give you somewhere to sit. He's going to

829
00:54:37,160 --> 00:54:40,600
Speaker 1: give you something to sit in in this season. I

830
00:54:40,680 --> 00:54:42,960
Speaker 1: know it in my spirit. I declare it to your spirit.

831
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Speaker 1: Do you receive it? Are you receiving this? I didn't

832
00:54:46,000 --> 00:54:48,000
Speaker 1: come here to perform a speech for you. Do you

833
00:54:48,080 --> 00:54:56,440
Speaker 1: receive this in your spirit? So listen, he said, I'm

834
00:54:56,440 --> 00:54:58,920
Speaker 1: going to meet the deepest need. You've been asking me

835
00:54:59,000 --> 00:55:01,560
Speaker 1: for more friends, but I want to fix what's on

836
00:55:01,600 --> 00:55:03,759
Speaker 1: the inside of you that doesn't reach out to the

837
00:55:03,840 --> 00:55:07,839
Speaker 1: ones you already have. Yes, So I'm gonna I'm gonna

838
00:55:07,840 --> 00:55:11,520
Speaker 1: give you resource for your deepest needs. I'm gonna give

839
00:55:11,560 --> 00:55:15,560
Speaker 1: you energy for your most draining relationships. You're gonna be

840
00:55:15,560 --> 00:55:18,440
Speaker 1: putting up with people. I'm gonna show you how to

841
00:55:18,440 --> 00:55:20,920
Speaker 1: dodge them some too, so you can save your energy.

842
00:55:21,600 --> 00:55:23,560
Speaker 1: God's going to do this for you. He will do it.

843
00:55:24,440 --> 00:55:27,000
Speaker 1: He will do it. You got a green light at

844
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Speaker 1: the Red Sea. He's going to give it to you

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Speaker 1: and You're going to have the rest of your life

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Speaker 1: when you pass through this season the evidence of His faithfulness,

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Speaker 1: and you can preach to your unbelief tell him who

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Speaker 1: Jesus is to you, Tell him what God already did

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Speaker 1: for you. You're gonna be able to preach about this

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Speaker 1: for the rest of your life. What you're going through

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Speaker 1: right now, you receive it. That's God honking b b H.

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Speaker 1: But if you stand still, you die. You die inside.

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Speaker 1: So that's why God's gonna help you navigate. There's no way, Buck.

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Speaker 1: I want you to come take this because I know

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Speaker 1: what you're going through, and I had it in my

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Speaker 1: heart for you to hang that up on your mirror

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Speaker 1: and just remember that. All right. I want you to

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Speaker 1: show that to Miss Tammy too. But just look, just

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Speaker 1: just just lift your hands for a moment. Lift your

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Speaker 1: hands for a moment. Lift your hands for a moment.

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Speaker 1: The spirit of grace, we need you. It's deep waters

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Speaker 1: ahead and fierce enemies behind them. We got a green light.

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Speaker 1: Let us know we can do all things. And greater

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Speaker 1: see that is in me than he that is in

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Speaker 1: the world. So I speak to your people not to

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Speaker 1: run away from problems today, but to move forward into

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Speaker 1: your promises, confident of your presence. Now, Lord, your word

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Speaker 1: has gone forth. Today, your word has gone forth. You've

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Speaker 1: fed us the bread from heaven. We're just taking this

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Speaker 1: moment with our hands lifted, just to let you know

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Speaker 1: that we know that this sea doesn't part unless you speak. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: So when we ask you to make a way for us,

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Speaker 1: we're not asking you to drive the car. Finally, Lord,

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Speaker 1: before I close my time of ministry, I want to

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Speaker 1: pray for the person who has put it in reverse.

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Speaker 1: They've been going back, but I see you running across

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Speaker 1: the parking a lot. Heavenly Father, I'll see you run

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Speaker 1: it across the parking lot, talking about give them another chance,

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Speaker 1: another chance, a greater grace, and a new beginning. I

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Speaker 1: declare it over your life today in Jesus' name. Amen. Well,

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Speaker 1: if you enjoyed today's podcast, there are a couple of

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Speaker 1: things I'd love for you to do. Make sure to subscribe, rate,

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