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Speaker 1: Hey, this is Stephen Ferdick.

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

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Speaker 2: I wanted to thank you for joining us today.

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

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

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Speaker 2: in your life.

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Speaker 1: Enjoy the message.

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Speaker 3: Come on, clap those hands and bless the Lord.

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Speaker 2: The devil never should have let you find out that

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Speaker 2: God was for you and not against you. That's going

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Speaker 2: to change everything. That's going to change the way you walk.

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Speaker 2: It's going to change the way you talk. It's gonna

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Speaker 2: change the way you weep. You're not going to sorrow

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Speaker 2: without hope because you know that God is not against you.

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Speaker 1: It's going to change the way you celebrate because.

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Speaker 2: You know that it wasn't your own strength or your

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Speaker 2: own might. But if it had not been for the

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Speaker 2: Lord fighting for me, how many have a testimony that

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Speaker 2: God brought you this far?

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Speaker 1: Praise the Lord.

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Speaker 2: And as amazing as it is for us to remember

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Speaker 2: that God is for us, we also need to know

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Speaker 2: that there are people who are also for us. In

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Speaker 2: a divided world. There's real power in unity. So I

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Speaker 2: want you to make a connection with the person on

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Speaker 2: either side of you either grab their hand or touch

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Speaker 2: their shoulder, depending on your level of germaphobia and faith.

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Speaker 2: If you're watching online, we welcome you. We connect with

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Speaker 2: you now by the Holy Spirit. And even if you're

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Speaker 2: watching alone, you're not alone.

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Speaker 1: There is no distance in the spirit.

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Speaker 2: Heavenly Father, I thank you for what I feel in

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Speaker 2: this moment, the faith that is rising in my heart

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Speaker 2: on behalf of the people that you're going to speak

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Speaker 2: to today.

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Speaker 1: Lord, I ask now not only.

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Speaker 2: That you would speak, but that we would hear, because

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Speaker 2: those two have to happen at the same time for

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Speaker 2: results to be produced.

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Speaker 1: And there may be things that would keep us from

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Speaker 1: hearing what you say today.

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Speaker 2: There may be distractions, There may be things in our

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Speaker 1: Now, we just want to do that one.

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Speaker 2: Needful thing, and to sit at your feet, to learn

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Speaker 2: from you, to be with you, to receive from you,

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Speaker 2: to worship you, to praise you, to glorify you. Your

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Speaker 2: word says that if two of us would agree concerning

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Speaker 2: anything in your name, it would be done. We come

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Speaker 2: together two or three twenty thirty thousand, two or three

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Speaker 2: million strong, all across the world today, believing for breakthrough,

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Speaker 2: believing that anything is possible. And we clap our hands

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Speaker 2: and celebrate in advance.

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Speaker 1: What you're going to do in Jesus' name.

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Speaker 3: Amen, somebody shot, Amen shot, Amen again.

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Speaker 1: Glory to God. Good to see you.

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Speaker 2: Welcome, Welcome to week four of our series Through the

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Speaker 2: New You.

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Speaker 1: Let's clap our hands. We made it to week four.

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Speaker 2: I want to walk you back through really quickly the mindsets.

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Speaker 2: I'll have you say them out loud, and then we

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Speaker 2: are going to get into a good one today.

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Speaker 1: Got something for you today, But let's catch up. Number one.

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Speaker 2: Say I'm not stuck. All right, You're gonna have to.

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Speaker 2: I know the devil stole an hour asleep, but you're

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Speaker 2: gonna have to. You're gonna have to caffeinate real quick

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Speaker 2: or something. Say I'm not stuck. Touch your neighbors. Say

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Speaker 2: deep breath and say Number two, Christ is in me.

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Speaker 2: I am enough. Say it again, Christ is in me.

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Speaker 2: I am enough. Number three. With God, there's always a

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Speaker 2: way and by faith I will find it. Look at

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Speaker 2: somebody say it might be hard to find, but I'll

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Speaker 2: And today we came to talk about something so fundamental

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Speaker 2: I want you to repeat it after me, and then

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Speaker 2: we'll spend our entire time together today giving a lesson

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Speaker 1: Repeat after me.

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Speaker 2: God is not against me, but he's in it with me,

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Speaker 2: Clap your hands like you know, yeah, yeah.

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Speaker 1: That's the right response.

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Speaker 2: Thank you Jesus, and you may be seated, Smile at

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Speaker 2: somebody on your way to your seat. I will take

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Speaker 2: you now to Jeremiah thirty eight. Jeremiah thirty eight. I'll

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Speaker 2: share with you a story that I'll let you decide

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Speaker 2: whether it's an uplifting story or not. But it is

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Speaker 2: a story that pulled at me in a serious way

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Speaker 2: with you. The Bible says in Jeremiah thirty eight, let's

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Speaker 2: but I will give you the backstory as a backfill

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Speaker 2: So they took Jeremiah and put him into the cistern

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Speaker 1: Yeah.

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Speaker 2: So I want to speak to you today from this

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Speaker 1: I want to just call the message this.

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Speaker 2: I want to call it instead of uh, rags to riches,

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Speaker 2: I want to call it rags to righteous, rags to righteous.

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Speaker 2: And as I move further into this talk with you,

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Speaker 2: I just want to tell you something that my family

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Speaker 2: picks on me about.

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Speaker 1: As you settle in and prepare to take notes on

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Speaker 1: this sermon. They call me safety Steve.

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Speaker 2: The reason is that although I pride myself in being

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Speaker 2: somewhat of a risk taker in ministry to reach people

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Speaker 2: I'm a little bit of a whimp. I'm a little

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Speaker 2: bit fearful. Out of my loving heart, sometimes I go

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Speaker 2: a little overboard. I'm not a helicopter parent exactly, but

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Speaker 2: I do require bicycle helmets on every bike ride, even

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Speaker 2: for Holly. And I'm not saying you'll never catch me

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Speaker 2: without a bicycle helmet, but I will usually have on

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Speaker 2: a bicycle helmet if you see me, because the shield

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Speaker 2: of faith will not stop me from crushing my head

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Speaker 2: on the pavement with the way some of y'all drive.

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Speaker 1: So I need protection. Everybody say protection.

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Speaker 2: How funny thing about my kids is sometimes they confuse

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Speaker 2: my protection as punishment.

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Speaker 1: I remember clearly one.

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Speaker 2: Time we were on vacation and we were getting on

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Speaker 2: I said, where's your helmet? And he said, Dad, do

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Speaker 2: I really have to wear a helmet? I'm thirteen. By

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Speaker 2: the way, happy birthday to my newest thirteen year old

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Speaker 2: Abigail Faith Thirday.

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Speaker 1: Today is her birthday.

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Speaker 3: I said, today is her birthday.

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Speaker 2: Watch this beard go totally gray over the next few weeks.

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Speaker 2: So when he turned thirteen, of Liife just said, do

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Speaker 2: I really have to wear a helmet? And I said, yeah,

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Speaker 2: you really have to wear a helmet? And he said,

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Speaker 2: and I quote, but Dad, you're ruining my fit. He

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Speaker 2: I said, son, I don't know if I said it

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Speaker 1: I'm not worried about your fit. I'm worried about your future.

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Speaker 2: I would like you to live more than I would

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Speaker 2: like you to look good. Somebody say amen, because I'm

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Speaker 2: really not talking about bicycle helmets right now. I'm talking

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Speaker 2: is always for us. But sometimes what he wants for

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Speaker 2: you is so much greater than what you want for you.

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Speaker 2: Because God thinks legacy while you think lunch. God thinks

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Speaker 2: destiny while you think desire.

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Speaker 2: God knows what he's walking you into, and so sometimes

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Speaker 2: God is trying to protect your future. Therefore, we cannot

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Speaker 2: assume that when we say God is not against me,

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Speaker 2: We cannot assume that that means that God will always

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Speaker 2: be in complete agreement with us, any more than I

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Speaker 2: understand the context of the scripture that I read you.

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Speaker 2: Because God has a prophet named Jeremiah. Everybody say Jeremiah.

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Speaker 2: I'll probably have you talked back to me a little

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Speaker 2: before we finish it today. Jeremiah, of course, was a

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Speaker 2: priest who ministered to the southern Kingdom of Judah just

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Speaker 2: They were destroyed not because it was their destiny, but

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Speaker 2: because they were disobedient. You ever notice how a lot

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Speaker 2: of things that we call destiny, really, if we look

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Speaker 2: and don't deny it, Really, what we call destiny sometimes

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Speaker 2: It would surprise you where some of my sermons come from.

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Speaker 2: my sermons that I've preached to you. I got them

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Speaker 3: I could hand you this helmet so I can tell you.

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Speaker 2: Remember when he was mad because I made him wear

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Speaker 2: I don't want you to have to suffer the consequences

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Speaker 2: And if you can't be complete in Christ, nobody can

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Speaker 1: See, you gotta get.

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Speaker 3: But when you've been stuck in something and you finally.

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Speaker 2: I thought if you worked for God, he would work

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Speaker 1: I could say other stuff, but I pray for me.

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Speaker 2: I don't want this message to get so muddy that

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Speaker 1: They would have been the president. First of all, they

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Speaker 2: Apparently, I told you it's getting money, it's getting muddy.

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Speaker 1: I can't talk like this.

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Speaker 2: In Philadelphia. We're talking about Jeremiah, God's man in the Mud,

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Speaker 2: Now, I'm just going to minister this for a moment,

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Speaker 2: Now I see why he was sinking because he was

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Speaker 1: He had an assignment.

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Speaker 2: Do you understand that about your life, that your assignment

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Speaker 2: your assignment to make a difference in the lives of others,

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Speaker 2: God is not against me. He's in it with me,

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Speaker 2: working through me. Fighting for me was written by me

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Speaker 2: one morning driving to this church to preach to this

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Speaker 2: to preach will often create in me a fear that

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Speaker 2: I begin to say to myself, God, I thank you

446
00:27:13,400 --> 00:27:18,480
Speaker 2: today that you are working through me as I preach,

447
00:27:19,600 --> 00:27:21,879
Speaker 2: and that you want me to do a good job.

448
00:27:23,440 --> 00:27:26,760
Speaker 2: In that amazing thought, why would I even have to

449
00:27:26,760 --> 00:27:30,439
Speaker 2: tell myself that? Well, let me tell you. The reason

450
00:27:30,440 --> 00:27:32,360
Speaker 2: I have to say, God is not against me. He's

451
00:27:32,400 --> 00:27:34,119
Speaker 2: in it with me, working through me, fighting for me,

452
00:27:35,200 --> 00:27:38,240
Speaker 2: is because just because God doesn't ever line up against me.

453
00:27:39,119 --> 00:27:42,919
Speaker 2: Just because God is not against me doesn't mean that

454
00:27:42,960 --> 00:27:43,840
Speaker 2: nobody else is.

455
00:27:46,240 --> 00:27:47,880
Speaker 3: There have been times in my life.

456
00:27:47,640 --> 00:27:50,240
Speaker 2: And ministry where people have uttered an unkind word or

457
00:27:50,240 --> 00:27:55,680
Speaker 2: two in my direction. Therefore, if you are not intentional,

458
00:27:55,720 --> 00:28:00,879
Speaker 2: you will begin to assimilate the hatred of peoples, of people,

459
00:28:01,720 --> 00:28:07,080
Speaker 2: the opposition of people, or even the trials of your life,

460
00:28:07,200 --> 00:28:08,960
Speaker 2: and you will begin to think that since they are

461
00:28:09,080 --> 00:28:14,040
Speaker 2: like that, and since life is like that, God is

462
00:28:14,080 --> 00:28:18,480
Speaker 2: not like that. When we say God is not against me,

463
00:28:19,760 --> 00:28:21,520
Speaker 2: perhaps it seems to you unnecessary.

464
00:28:21,560 --> 00:28:24,199
Speaker 1: Perhaps you've never had the thought that God was against you.

465
00:28:25,640 --> 00:28:27,760
Speaker 1: But is it possible that.

466
00:28:27,720 --> 00:28:33,320
Speaker 2: While confessing God is for me, that life is coming

467
00:28:33,359 --> 00:28:36,359
Speaker 2: against you in a way that is making you wonder,

468
00:28:37,800 --> 00:28:42,160
Speaker 2: if God is with me, why is there only mud.

469
00:28:43,320 --> 00:28:43,920
Speaker 1: In this pit.

470
00:28:46,880 --> 00:28:49,719
Speaker 2: I don't know if you noticed, but the one thing

471
00:28:49,760 --> 00:28:51,760
Speaker 2: that was never mentioned in the chapter that I read

472
00:28:51,800 --> 00:28:59,440
Speaker 2: you was the presence of God. It does not say

473
00:28:59,560 --> 00:29:01,320
Speaker 2: that Jeremy I was thrown into the pit, but God

474
00:29:01,440 --> 00:29:02,920
Speaker 2: was with him in the pit. It says that about

475
00:29:02,960 --> 00:29:04,960
Speaker 2: Joseph in prison and the Old Testament, But this is

476
00:29:05,000 --> 00:29:05,680
Speaker 2: a little different.

477
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Speaker 1: This is one of.

478
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Speaker 2: Those moments where Jeremiah must have been thinking as he

479
00:29:10,160 --> 00:29:14,000
Speaker 2: was sinking, where are you God? We know that he

480
00:29:14,040 --> 00:29:17,640
Speaker 2: thought this way because in the Book of Lamentations, I mean,

481
00:29:17,680 --> 00:29:19,800
Speaker 2: think about the name of that book. Jeremiah wrote that

482
00:29:19,840 --> 00:29:24,680
Speaker 2: book lament It means to grief, it means the question.

483
00:29:26,200 --> 00:29:28,160
Speaker 2: And in that book as well as the book that

484
00:29:28,200 --> 00:29:30,560
Speaker 2: bears his name, many times he would speak the word

485
00:29:30,560 --> 00:29:37,400
Speaker 2: of the Lord, but he would also question within himself, God,

486
00:29:37,440 --> 00:29:43,720
Speaker 2: if I'm your man, what's up with this mud? This

487
00:29:43,760 --> 00:29:46,280
Speaker 2: is his third imprisonment for preaching the word of the Lord.

488
00:29:47,640 --> 00:29:47,920
Speaker 3: God.

489
00:29:47,960 --> 00:29:53,640
Speaker 2: If I'm your servant, why am I in this cistern? God,

490
00:29:53,680 --> 00:29:56,720
Speaker 2: you called me to be a prophet. You told me

491
00:29:56,840 --> 00:29:59,720
Speaker 2: before I was born that you knew me in a

492
00:29:59,720 --> 00:30:04,400
Speaker 2: point to me. And yet he's learning, as we all

493
00:30:04,480 --> 00:30:09,720
Speaker 2: must learn, that just because you are appointed doesn't mean

494
00:30:09,760 --> 00:30:10,920
Speaker 2: you'll never be attacked.

495
00:30:13,160 --> 00:30:14,160
Speaker 1: I'm gonna say it again.

496
00:30:15,280 --> 00:30:18,239
Speaker 2: I know you don't want to wear this helmet, but

497
00:30:18,360 --> 00:30:21,000
Speaker 2: I don't want your head to crash on the pavement

498
00:30:22,040 --> 00:30:24,479
Speaker 2: that you think just because you have a purpose and

499
00:30:24,520 --> 00:30:27,840
Speaker 2: a promise from God that there will be no pits.

500
00:30:29,040 --> 00:30:32,120
Speaker 2: Because if I preach this, but I don't tell you

501
00:30:32,200 --> 00:30:37,640
Speaker 2: about the pitstops on the way to purpose. You will smash,

502
00:30:37,800 --> 00:30:41,440
Speaker 2: you will splatter, you will smudge, you will stop, You

503
00:30:41,520 --> 00:30:42,840
Speaker 2: will feel stuck.

504
00:30:42,600 --> 00:30:44,880
Speaker 1: In the moments when the feeling goes away.

505
00:30:46,040 --> 00:30:50,560
Speaker 2: And yet the time to sing, God is not against me.

506
00:30:50,840 --> 00:30:51,560
Speaker 1: That's pretty good.

507
00:30:52,000 --> 00:30:54,480
Speaker 3: God is not against me.

508
00:30:55,240 --> 00:30:59,080
Speaker 2: The time to sing it.

509
00:30:57,760 --> 00:30:59,000
Speaker 1: Is not when you see it.

510
00:31:03,560 --> 00:31:06,480
Speaker 2: Let me tell you when you need to sing, God

511
00:31:06,800 --> 00:31:08,240
Speaker 2: is not against me.

512
00:31:08,480 --> 00:31:09,280
Speaker 1: Singing a minute.

513
00:31:09,400 --> 00:31:11,800
Speaker 3: God is not against me.

514
00:31:12,760 --> 00:31:21,600
Speaker 2: Sing it when you're sinking. Sing it when you're sinking.

515
00:31:22,400 --> 00:31:26,360
Speaker 2: Tell your neighbor. Sing it the next time you sink.

516
00:31:27,960 --> 00:31:30,040
Speaker 2: So this is how it's gonna work in your life.

517
00:31:30,640 --> 00:31:34,160
Speaker 2: When you start to sink into the pit of your

518
00:31:34,160 --> 00:31:37,440
Speaker 2: own problems. When you start to sink, God feel annointed

519
00:31:37,440 --> 00:31:40,240
Speaker 2: to help somebody up today. I see you've been sinking.

520
00:31:40,560 --> 00:31:42,640
Speaker 2: I see you've been going down in it. I see

521
00:31:42,640 --> 00:31:45,040
Speaker 2: you've been going back to past habits that are beneath you.

522
00:31:45,320 --> 00:31:47,720
Speaker 2: I see you've been going into memories that you need

523
00:31:47,760 --> 00:31:48,640
Speaker 2: to leave in a room.

524
00:31:48,440 --> 00:31:49,360
Speaker 1: But they keep coming out.

525
00:31:49,640 --> 00:31:52,120
Speaker 2: I see you keep going into self pity. I see

526
00:31:52,200 --> 00:31:55,080
Speaker 2: you keep going into old ways of processing. I see

527
00:31:55,080 --> 00:31:57,760
Speaker 2: you keep going into despair. I see it keep going

528
00:31:57,800 --> 00:32:00,680
Speaker 2: into suicidal thoughts. I see it keep going back to

529
00:32:00,680 --> 00:32:03,520
Speaker 2: toxic relationships. I see it keep going back to the

530
00:32:03,560 --> 00:32:05,880
Speaker 2: things that break your heart. I see it keep going

531
00:32:05,920 --> 00:32:08,000
Speaker 2: back to the things that pulled you. I'll see it

532
00:32:08,080 --> 00:32:10,760
Speaker 2: keep going back to the things that offer you temporary relief.

533
00:32:11,120 --> 00:32:15,560
Speaker 2: And I see you sinking, but I see you singing

534
00:32:16,120 --> 00:32:17,280
Speaker 2: as you're sinking.

535
00:32:18,240 --> 00:32:19,960
Speaker 3: Love lifted me.

536
00:32:26,320 --> 00:32:31,200
Speaker 1: They doesn't mean I won't sink. It means I won't

537
00:32:31,240 --> 00:32:36,720
Speaker 1: stay there. Yeah, I was about to look for my band.

538
00:32:36,800 --> 00:32:39,280
Speaker 1: I didn't know if y' went to sleep on me.

539
00:32:40,440 --> 00:32:43,520
Speaker 2: But high five somebody and say I'm sinking, but I'm singing.

540
00:32:45,880 --> 00:32:48,920
Speaker 1: Please do not let our songs.

541
00:32:48,600 --> 00:32:52,520
Speaker 2: Confuse you into thinking that we never sink. Of course,

542
00:32:52,560 --> 00:32:56,960
Speaker 2: we have low moments. It's called human experience. It's called

543
00:32:57,000 --> 00:33:00,000
Speaker 2: being born of a woman. It's called having a name.

544
00:33:00,160 --> 00:33:03,160
Speaker 2: Sure that was given to us by Adam, but was

545
00:33:03,200 --> 00:33:08,560
Speaker 2: redeemed by Christ. And when I was sinking, he reached

546
00:33:08,600 --> 00:33:10,320
Speaker 2: down and rescued me.

547
00:33:12,480 --> 00:33:13,640
Speaker 1: I need somebody.

548
00:33:13,360 --> 00:33:19,560
Speaker 3: Who's been rescued to get up and rejoice that he

549
00:33:19,720 --> 00:33:24,760
Speaker 3: rescued you. Then we're getting there. We're getting there.

550
00:33:25,520 --> 00:33:31,920
Speaker 2: We're getting there, We're getting there, We're getting there. I'm

551
00:33:31,920 --> 00:33:36,920
Speaker 2: not rejoicing because the enemy never resisted me. I'm rejoicing

552
00:33:37,000 --> 00:33:40,560
Speaker 2: because when he resisted me, God rescued me.

553
00:33:45,840 --> 00:33:48,800
Speaker 1: And it is never mentioned. Y'all sit down, let me teach.

554
00:33:49,400 --> 00:33:54,560
Speaker 2: It is never mentioned in this scripture that God intervened.

555
00:33:54,560 --> 00:33:58,080
Speaker 1: But I'm gonna show you something. Who Thank you, Jesus.

556
00:33:58,120 --> 00:33:58,920
Speaker 1: Thank you Jesus.

557
00:33:59,360 --> 00:34:02,720
Speaker 2: Never write up it before went to cemetery seminary, went

558
00:34:02,760 --> 00:34:04,160
Speaker 2: to Bible training school.

559
00:34:07,760 --> 00:34:08,840
Speaker 3: You never ride a bouttle.

560
00:34:09,040 --> 00:34:12,239
Speaker 2: I read about Jeremiah, but look what happened.

561
00:34:11,920 --> 00:34:12,520
Speaker 1: When he was sinking.

562
00:34:12,560 --> 00:34:13,880
Speaker 2: And this is what's happening in your life right now,

563
00:34:13,880 --> 00:34:15,160
Speaker 2: whether you realize or not, whether you see it or not,

564
00:34:15,160 --> 00:34:16,480
Speaker 2: whether you feel it or not, whether you believe it.

565
00:34:16,520 --> 00:34:17,880
Speaker 1: Right now, you're just sing i' HIPing peopleup because I

566
00:34:17,880 --> 00:34:19,160
Speaker 1: got to gi himdenergy. And that's what I do on

567
00:34:19,160 --> 00:34:20,960
Speaker 1: Sunday morning. That's not this what I do on Sunday morning.

568
00:34:20,960 --> 00:34:22,360
Speaker 1: This is what I do on Monday morning. This is

569
00:34:22,360 --> 00:34:23,759
Speaker 1: what I do on Tuesday morning. This is what I'm

570
00:34:23,760 --> 00:34:24,600
Speaker 1: do on Wednesday morning.

571
00:34:24,640 --> 00:34:26,160
Speaker 3: This is what I'm doing out in my own.

572
00:34:26,000 --> 00:34:29,600
Speaker 2: Money moment so I can encourage myself in the law.

573
00:34:31,840 --> 00:34:33,920
Speaker 1: Why y'all looking at me like you work security.

574
00:34:37,080 --> 00:34:40,680
Speaker 2: You look suspicious of this, and yet I am telling

575
00:34:40,719 --> 00:34:42,799
Speaker 2: you that I sink.

576
00:34:44,080 --> 00:34:44,560
Speaker 3: Safety.

577
00:34:44,600 --> 00:34:47,279
Speaker 1: Steve is also.

578
00:34:47,040 --> 00:34:55,040
Speaker 2: Sinking Steve, and speaking Steve is authoritative sinking.

579
00:34:55,040 --> 00:35:00,080
Speaker 1: Stephen has to remember, no, no, no, he's not against me.

580
00:35:01,400 --> 00:35:06,640
Speaker 1: Life is, trolls are aging is.

581
00:35:09,520 --> 00:35:12,840
Speaker 2: But God's note. You know what Peter showed me in

582
00:35:12,840 --> 00:35:14,360
Speaker 2: the New Testament. And then I'm about to show you

583
00:35:14,440 --> 00:35:18,440
Speaker 2: something that's gonna blow you away. Peter showed me in Matthew,

584
00:35:18,480 --> 00:35:20,600
Speaker 2: chapter fourteen, verse thirty. I think I gave them the scripture.

585
00:35:20,640 --> 00:35:22,040
Speaker 2: Put it up there if I gave it to you,

586
00:35:22,360 --> 00:35:24,080
Speaker 2: and y'all clap if they put it up on the screen, Mathew.

587
00:35:24,080 --> 00:35:27,480
Speaker 1: But okay, I can say, right, Peter's walking toward Jesus

588
00:35:27,480 --> 00:35:27,879
Speaker 1: on the water.

589
00:35:27,960 --> 00:35:29,880
Speaker 2: Right, walking toward Jesus on the water. He has a

590
00:35:29,880 --> 00:35:32,760
Speaker 2: path toward purpose. Right, he has a path toward purpose.

591
00:35:32,920 --> 00:35:35,200
Speaker 2: And then all of a sudden he saw the wind

592
00:35:37,040 --> 00:35:42,799
Speaker 2: which was against him, and he was afraid and beginning

593
00:35:43,080 --> 00:35:47,640
Speaker 2: to sink. He cried out, Lord save me. That's the

594
00:35:47,680 --> 00:35:51,200
Speaker 2: only verse you need for your sinking moments. That's what

595
00:35:51,320 --> 00:35:55,400
Speaker 2: you need. We'll put it backup, put it back up.

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00:35:55,400 --> 00:35:59,920
Speaker 2: I'm not doing it yet. He started sinking because of

597
00:36:00,040 --> 00:36:03,160
Speaker 2: what he saw. The wind was against him. Sometimes what

598
00:36:03,239 --> 00:36:05,200
Speaker 2: you see is against you, so you forget what is

599
00:36:05,239 --> 00:36:11,680
Speaker 2: in you that is for you, and beginning to sink.

600
00:36:13,040 --> 00:36:14,960
Speaker 2: So Peter doesn't sound like this when he cries, don't

601
00:36:15,000 --> 00:36:21,160
Speaker 2: go oh, you're not gargling anything. I don't even think

602
00:36:21,160 --> 00:36:23,759
Speaker 2: he was up to his waist. He said, oh, no,

603
00:36:23,840 --> 00:36:25,880
Speaker 2: I'm not going all the way down there when Jesus

604
00:36:25,920 --> 00:36:26,399
Speaker 2: is right here.

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00:36:28,040 --> 00:36:29,000
Speaker 1: I want you to get that.

606
00:36:28,920 --> 00:36:35,960
Speaker 2: Mentality about your day. I'm not gonna do it after

607
00:36:36,040 --> 00:36:39,719
Speaker 2: I drink, ain't ate glasses. I'm gonna cry out when

608
00:36:39,719 --> 00:36:44,120
Speaker 2: I start to sink. I'm not gonna do it after

609
00:36:44,160 --> 00:36:46,680
Speaker 2: I've already gone off on everybody in my phone and

610
00:36:46,760 --> 00:36:47,960
Speaker 2: ruined all my friendships.

611
00:36:49,000 --> 00:36:52,680
Speaker 1: When I start to sink. Put it up one more time.

612
00:36:52,840 --> 00:36:58,480
Speaker 2: He started to sink, and he said, what do you

613
00:36:58,640 --> 00:37:07,000
Speaker 2: say when you start to sink? God is not against me.

614
00:37:07,920 --> 00:37:11,200
Speaker 2: So you start to sink, the wind is against you.

615
00:37:13,080 --> 00:37:22,520
Speaker 2: Remind yourself, God's not. God's not. They might be God's not.

616
00:37:23,640 --> 00:37:29,960
Speaker 2: It might be God's not. Somebody say, God's not. If

617
00:37:30,040 --> 00:37:32,759
Speaker 2: every demon in Hell is against you, I'm done with

618
00:37:32,760 --> 00:37:39,040
Speaker 2: the verse. Now God's not. God's not done with you.

619
00:37:41,160 --> 00:37:45,840
Speaker 2: God's not fed up with you. God's not gone. And

620
00:37:45,920 --> 00:37:48,520
Speaker 2: I'll show you this from Jeremiah thirty eight. Now we're

621
00:37:48,560 --> 00:37:52,560
Speaker 2: ready for Jeremiah thirty eight, verse seven. He was sinking

622
00:37:53,760 --> 00:37:55,920
Speaker 2: down in the mud verse seven.

623
00:37:56,440 --> 00:38:04,440
Speaker 1: But yeah, you missed a shout. Go to verse six.

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00:38:04,480 --> 00:38:05,040
Speaker 1: We'll do it again.

625
00:38:05,760 --> 00:38:07,840
Speaker 2: I know, always catch up class. I've been going a

626
00:38:07,840 --> 00:38:10,000
Speaker 2: few weeks, so you don't have my rhythm right now.

627
00:38:10,120 --> 00:38:16,280
Speaker 2: Let's do it again. And he sank down into the mud.

628
00:38:17,800 --> 00:38:22,040
Speaker 1: But let's do it again.

629
00:38:24,280 --> 00:38:33,720
Speaker 2: He sank down into the mud. But I'm not shouting

630
00:38:33,760 --> 00:38:41,600
Speaker 2: about the mud. I'm shouting about the butt. I'm sinking

631
00:38:42,600 --> 00:38:46,920
Speaker 2: into the feeling of anxiety.

632
00:38:47,600 --> 00:38:48,080
Speaker 1: You got it.

633
00:38:49,200 --> 00:38:51,640
Speaker 3: I'm sinking into the old way of doing it.

634
00:38:53,840 --> 00:38:56,359
Speaker 2: One of the best scriptures that you'll ever see is

635
00:38:56,880 --> 00:38:58,880
Speaker 2: we were dead in our transgressions and sins.

636
00:38:59,360 --> 00:39:02,359
Speaker 1: But God, but God.

637
00:39:03,280 --> 00:39:04,439
Speaker 3: And yet the Bible.

638
00:39:04,120 --> 00:39:07,280
Speaker 2: Doesn't mention God in this passage, does it.

639
00:39:07,280 --> 00:39:10,880
Speaker 3: It says he was sinking in the mud.

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00:39:11,680 --> 00:39:19,360
Speaker 2: But Ebed Melic, baby name possibility right here, Ebed Melick,

641
00:39:20,320 --> 00:39:23,840
Speaker 2: your child will be the only one in class raising

642
00:39:23,880 --> 00:39:29,720
Speaker 2: their hand if your name me bed Melic, Ebet Melik,

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00:39:31,120 --> 00:39:31,720
Speaker 2: and eat.

644
00:39:31,560 --> 00:39:34,920
Speaker 1: The Olpion says here Kushite. It also says.

645
00:39:34,640 --> 00:39:38,600
Speaker 2: A official in the royal palace, but that's not specific enough.

646
00:39:38,600 --> 00:39:43,600
Speaker 2: He was a eunuch, a eunuch who was brought over

647
00:39:44,320 --> 00:39:48,720
Speaker 2: as a slave and was put in a position of service.

648
00:39:49,680 --> 00:39:55,920
Speaker 2: In fact, the word ebed melick. Ebed means servant, Melick

649
00:39:56,440 --> 00:40:04,319
Speaker 2: means king. But ibad Melick, that's your cue.

650
00:40:04,320 --> 00:40:05,080
Speaker 1: Put it on the screen.

651
00:40:05,160 --> 00:40:11,320
Speaker 2: Voice, But Ibad Melick a kushite, a eunuch.

652
00:40:12,440 --> 00:40:15,640
Speaker 3: The eunuchs, when they were brought over to serve, were castrated.

653
00:40:16,600 --> 00:40:19,680
Speaker 1: The Levinical law forbade anyone who was.

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00:40:19,640 --> 00:40:22,440
Speaker 3: Castrated from entering the assembly of the Lord.

655
00:40:23,520 --> 00:40:26,360
Speaker 2: So I want you to get the preciousness of this

656
00:40:26,560 --> 00:40:31,160
Speaker 2: partnership and the unlikeliness of this deliverance is that a

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00:40:31,239 --> 00:40:35,440
Speaker 2: man from Ethiopia, who was brought to a land that

658
00:40:35,560 --> 00:40:39,160
Speaker 2: was being ravaged by enemies, who was serving a king

659
00:40:39,239 --> 00:40:45,439
Speaker 2: who had no courage, speaks up and steps up as

660
00:40:45,560 --> 00:40:50,320
Speaker 2: Jeremiah sinks in a cistern in a pit, he speaks

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Speaker 2: up as a servant in the palace. God is working

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00:40:54,480 --> 00:40:58,120
Speaker 2: in places you can't see. God is working through people

663
00:40:58,160 --> 00:40:59,399
Speaker 2: you don't know about.

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Speaker 1: God is working through people who you think don't belong

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00:41:02,680 --> 00:41:03,360
Speaker 1: in that position.

666
00:41:04,320 --> 00:41:07,040
Speaker 2: I'm pointing it out to you because some people have

667
00:41:07,160 --> 00:41:10,239
Speaker 2: let you down. Maybe some people have been like the

668
00:41:10,280 --> 00:41:13,680
Speaker 2: men in this passage who threw Jeremiah in the pit. Oh,

669
00:41:13,800 --> 00:41:16,680
Speaker 2: thanks a lot. I was just trying to help. But

670
00:41:16,800 --> 00:41:19,880
Speaker 2: while they were throwing him in the pit, God was

671
00:41:19,920 --> 00:41:24,080
Speaker 2: already preparing somebody in the palace to steak up on

672
00:41:24,200 --> 00:41:28,719
Speaker 2: his behalf. So I'm preaching this word to somebody who

673
00:41:28,760 --> 00:41:33,080
Speaker 2: feels forgotten. You are not forgotten. God is just going

674
00:41:33,160 --> 00:41:38,239
Speaker 2: to use something foreign. I said, God is going to

675
00:41:38,400 --> 00:41:39,760
Speaker 2: use something foreign.

676
00:41:42,200 --> 00:41:44,120
Speaker 3: Think how wild this is.

677
00:41:45,040 --> 00:41:48,759
Speaker 2: God needs somebody to move to get Jeremiah out of

678
00:41:48,760 --> 00:41:52,480
Speaker 2: the pit. Who does he choose to use somebody who

679
00:41:52,600 --> 00:41:58,000
Speaker 2: wasn't even allowed to come worship. You're gonna have to

680
00:41:58,000 --> 00:42:02,239
Speaker 2: watch this message twice to get it, because it's going

681
00:42:02,280 --> 00:42:08,320
Speaker 2: to remind you that no matter who betrays you, God's

682
00:42:08,360 --> 00:42:09,319
Speaker 2: always got a butt.

683
00:42:10,960 --> 00:42:12,840
Speaker 1: Ebed melick.

684
00:42:15,719 --> 00:42:17,960
Speaker 2: Yeah, let's pause and give.

685
00:42:17,880 --> 00:42:18,640
Speaker 1: Him praise.

686
00:42:20,160 --> 00:42:30,279
Speaker 2: For every ebed melic. And he not only comes to

687
00:42:30,320 --> 00:42:35,200
Speaker 2: the king, but he confronts the king. This kind of

688
00:42:35,200 --> 00:42:38,520
Speaker 2: courage that you have when you know that God is

689
00:42:38,640 --> 00:42:43,600
Speaker 2: not against me, but he's in it with me, working

690
00:42:43,640 --> 00:42:50,880
Speaker 2: through me, fighting for me. Isn't it amazing that you

691
00:42:50,920 --> 00:42:53,759
Speaker 2: would stand up to a king and he is not

692
00:42:53,840 --> 00:42:58,080
Speaker 2: even considered a true worshiper, not by that culture.

693
00:43:00,200 --> 00:43:01,120
Speaker 1: Is who he wants to use.

694
00:43:03,880 --> 00:43:05,239
Speaker 2: I want to talk to everybody who doesn't even have

695
00:43:05,280 --> 00:43:06,280
Speaker 2: a high school education.

696
00:43:06,880 --> 00:43:09,680
Speaker 1: God uses who he wants to use. I want to

697
00:43:09,719 --> 00:43:10,880
Speaker 1: talk to everybody who's.

698
00:43:10,600 --> 00:43:12,319
Speaker 2: Had an abortion and people try to make you feel

699
00:43:12,360 --> 00:43:13,080
Speaker 2: terrible about it.

700
00:43:13,280 --> 00:43:15,480
Speaker 1: God uses who he wants to use, and he's going

701
00:43:15,560 --> 00:43:17,760
Speaker 1: to give you something in your future to help somebody.

702
00:43:17,960 --> 00:43:21,000
Speaker 2: And so let's turn those tears into testimony so you

703
00:43:21,040 --> 00:43:24,800
Speaker 2: can help somebody, so you can hand somebody a helmet.

704
00:43:26,480 --> 00:43:29,000
Speaker 1: I want to speak to everybody who has been.

705
00:43:28,800 --> 00:43:41,640
Speaker 2: Cast out, cast aside, cast graded and left any crazy,

706
00:43:41,840 --> 00:43:44,040
Speaker 2: that the one who was left out is the one

707
00:43:44,080 --> 00:43:45,040
Speaker 2: who lifted up.

708
00:43:48,960 --> 00:43:50,600
Speaker 1: Sinking in loneliness.

709
00:43:50,080 --> 00:43:55,480
Speaker 2: Right now, Oh, but Ebed Melick, I've been spending time

710
00:43:55,480 --> 00:43:56,359
Speaker 2: with this guy all week.

711
00:43:57,640 --> 00:44:00,520
Speaker 1: The more I studied them, the more I touched me.

712
00:44:00,600 --> 00:44:01,080
Speaker 1: What he did?

713
00:44:03,120 --> 00:44:06,480
Speaker 2: He heard they put Jeremiah into the cistern, and the

714
00:44:06,600 --> 00:44:08,440
Speaker 2: king is sitting in the gate. Now, I want to

715
00:44:08,440 --> 00:44:11,600
Speaker 2: point something out. The King is in the palace, Jeremiah

716
00:44:11,680 --> 00:44:14,719
Speaker 2: is in the pit. God is not with the king.

717
00:44:15,840 --> 00:44:20,040
Speaker 2: God is with Jeremiah. No, no, no, get this, get this,

718
00:44:20,120 --> 00:44:27,000
Speaker 2: get this. The palace does not prove God's presence. The

719
00:44:27,120 --> 00:44:29,080
Speaker 2: pit does not prove his absence.

720
00:44:32,600 --> 00:44:34,600
Speaker 1: Stop looking at the circumstances.

721
00:44:34,840 --> 00:44:36,400
Speaker 2: Every time you get out there, you go, well, it

722
00:44:36,480 --> 00:44:38,480
Speaker 2: must not be God's will. It didn't work out, well,

723
00:44:38,520 --> 00:44:40,520
Speaker 2: it must not be God's will. It's really hard. Well,

724
00:44:40,560 --> 00:44:42,680
Speaker 2: it must not be working. We've all felt that way.

725
00:44:43,960 --> 00:44:47,960
Speaker 2: But if you're serving while you're sinking, and if you're

726
00:44:48,000 --> 00:44:51,440
Speaker 2: sinking while you're serving, know that God has an Ebed

727
00:44:51,560 --> 00:44:57,480
Speaker 2: Melick position in the palace. Verse eight. Ebed Melick went

728
00:44:57,560 --> 00:45:00,720
Speaker 2: out of the palace and said to him, my lord

729
00:45:00,760 --> 00:45:03,640
Speaker 2: the King, these men have acted wickedly, and all they've

730
00:45:03,640 --> 00:45:05,839
Speaker 2: done to Jeremiah the prophet, this is not right.

731
00:45:06,560 --> 00:45:08,080
Speaker 1: They've thrown him into a cistern.

732
00:45:08,640 --> 00:45:11,480
Speaker 2: He will starve to death when there's no longer any

733
00:45:11,520 --> 00:45:14,200
Speaker 2: bread in the city. And the king commanded he bed

734
00:45:14,239 --> 00:45:17,440
Speaker 2: Melik the Kushai, all right, take thirty men from here

735
00:45:17,560 --> 00:45:24,840
Speaker 2: with you. Thirty this is overkill. He be Melick, like,

736
00:45:24,880 --> 00:45:28,160
Speaker 2: I don't really need thirty. No, take thirty, Take thirty.

737
00:45:28,600 --> 00:45:31,239
Speaker 2: Here's what I want to prophesy. When God does lift

738
00:45:31,280 --> 00:45:34,560
Speaker 2: you out, there is going to be more than enough

739
00:45:34,560 --> 00:45:42,040
Speaker 2: strength to do it. Yeah, I'll tell you why God

740
00:45:42,120 --> 00:45:42,879
Speaker 2: is a show off.

741
00:45:44,680 --> 00:45:46,680
Speaker 1: God wants to show his glory.

742
00:45:47,480 --> 00:45:50,040
Speaker 2: God sends thirty men for a task that three could

743
00:45:50,040 --> 00:45:53,480
Speaker 2: handle them. But not only do they have extra resource,

744
00:45:53,560 --> 00:45:56,160
Speaker 2: not only does God have more than enough power to

745
00:45:56,200 --> 00:45:58,879
Speaker 2: pull you out of the pit, but the Bible says

746
00:45:58,920 --> 00:46:02,399
Speaker 2: he told him to take a rope and go down

747
00:46:02,400 --> 00:46:05,680
Speaker 2: there and get him out of the cistern before he dies.

748
00:46:06,480 --> 00:46:10,480
Speaker 2: In other words, he's sinking, but he's not all the

749
00:46:10,520 --> 00:46:15,520
Speaker 2: way sunk. He's sinking, but something stopped him from sinking.

750
00:46:16,200 --> 00:46:16,920
Speaker 1: Did you ever.

751
00:46:16,840 --> 00:46:20,080
Speaker 2: Wonder why God still left you here after all you've

752
00:46:20,080 --> 00:46:23,880
Speaker 2: been through. Did you ever wonder why what came against

753
00:46:23,960 --> 00:46:25,319
Speaker 2: you didn't take you totally out?

754
00:46:26,239 --> 00:46:27,160
Speaker 1: I believe it's.

755
00:46:27,000 --> 00:46:30,560
Speaker 2: Because God has something more for you that he wants

756
00:46:30,600 --> 00:46:35,239
Speaker 2: to do through you. After all, we were singing a

757
00:46:35,239 --> 00:46:39,120
Speaker 2: minute ago. He's in it with me, working through me.

758
00:46:40,080 --> 00:46:42,320
Speaker 2: And I want to ask the question today, not only

759
00:46:43,600 --> 00:46:46,440
Speaker 2: what do you need to be lifted out of, but

760
00:46:46,520 --> 00:46:53,279
Speaker 2: who have you lifted lately? Maybe God put you in

761
00:46:53,360 --> 00:46:57,400
Speaker 2: a position to lift somebody. Did you ever think about

762
00:46:57,400 --> 00:47:01,279
Speaker 2: the fact that maybe the reason you're in your pit

763
00:47:02,719 --> 00:47:05,680
Speaker 2: is because you won't lift anybody else out of theirs.

764
00:47:11,160 --> 00:47:13,359
Speaker 3: I want God to be in my pit with me.

765
00:47:14,480 --> 00:47:17,960
Speaker 2: But what if he is using me to visit somebody

766
00:47:18,000 --> 00:47:21,680
Speaker 2: else in their pit. I want you to start using

767
00:47:21,760 --> 00:47:25,240
Speaker 2: everything you go through for God's glory. The moment something

768
00:47:25,320 --> 00:47:27,759
Speaker 2: bad starts happening to you, I want you to go

769
00:47:27,800 --> 00:47:30,440
Speaker 2: on a counterattack. I want you to say that if

770
00:47:30,440 --> 00:47:32,480
Speaker 2: the enemy is gonna come against me, he's gonna learn

771
00:47:32,520 --> 00:47:36,520
Speaker 2: that it's gonna cost him a little bit. So every

772
00:47:36,560 --> 00:47:40,520
Speaker 2: time you discourage me, devil, just know I'm gonna send

773
00:47:40,560 --> 00:47:43,440
Speaker 2: three texts to encourage somebody else.

774
00:47:44,680 --> 00:47:47,520
Speaker 3: Or you want some Oh, you want some.

775
00:47:48,760 --> 00:47:49,640
Speaker 1: You want to put me.

776
00:47:49,680 --> 00:47:50,520
Speaker 3: Down in the pit?

777
00:47:51,480 --> 00:47:53,400
Speaker 1: Wants me lift somebody else up?

778
00:47:54,400 --> 00:47:57,560
Speaker 2: With the strength I do have, with the gift I

779
00:47:57,680 --> 00:48:01,360
Speaker 2: do have, with the skill I do have, with the

780
00:48:01,480 --> 00:48:04,880
Speaker 2: life I do have, with the opportunity I do have.

781
00:48:06,000 --> 00:48:08,799
Speaker 2: I thought somebody and say I came to lift you up.

782
00:48:10,560 --> 00:48:13,200
Speaker 2: If you don't have faith, borrow mind, if you don't

783
00:48:13,239 --> 00:48:15,000
Speaker 2: have joy, borrow mind, you.

784
00:48:15,000 --> 00:48:17,080
Speaker 1: Can surf on my way for a little while.

785
00:48:17,440 --> 00:48:20,080
Speaker 3: You might be going through something, So hitch on.

786
00:48:20,160 --> 00:48:22,759
Speaker 2: To me and let's get out of this pit to

787
00:48:22,880 --> 00:48:29,720
Speaker 2: get up. I'm looking for a lifter in this house,

788
00:48:31,080 --> 00:48:35,680
Speaker 2: an unlikely lifter. You've been through help, but you're praying

789
00:48:35,760 --> 00:48:36,640
Speaker 2: for other people.

790
00:48:39,719 --> 00:48:40,840
Speaker 1: You're trying to hold.

791
00:48:40,640 --> 00:48:44,040
Speaker 2: Your own life together, but you're a source of comfort.

792
00:48:44,040 --> 00:48:44,480
Speaker 1: After all.

793
00:48:44,520 --> 00:48:48,319
Speaker 2: The famine was affecting the bed Melick too, and he

794
00:48:48,440 --> 00:48:52,560
Speaker 2: found the strength to lift Jeremiah.

795
00:48:52,600 --> 00:48:55,880
Speaker 1: And I got to show you one more thing because

796
00:48:55,920 --> 00:48:58,760
Speaker 1: when I rean in, I thought, what a beautiful story.

797
00:49:00,200 --> 00:49:04,680
Speaker 2: How sometimes life puts us in a pit, and we

798
00:49:04,719 --> 00:49:06,439
Speaker 2: don't always feel God's presence.

799
00:49:06,080 --> 00:49:06,440
Speaker 1: In a pit.

800
00:49:07,200 --> 00:49:11,120
Speaker 2: And sometimes when God sends a person to bring us

801
00:49:11,160 --> 00:49:16,440
Speaker 2: out of our pit, we don't recognize him.

802
00:49:16,560 --> 00:49:17,640
Speaker 1: It's not what we expected.

803
00:49:19,840 --> 00:49:21,840
Speaker 2: And I thought, that's a great story, because everybody in

804
00:49:21,880 --> 00:49:26,000
Speaker 2: here either needs to be more like Jeremiah and don't

805
00:49:26,000 --> 00:49:29,840
Speaker 2: die in the pit, or be more like Ebed Melick

806
00:49:30,719 --> 00:49:35,360
Speaker 2: and come get somebody out of a pit. And the

807
00:49:35,400 --> 00:49:37,080
Speaker 2: Lord said, and he didn't say it like this, but

808
00:49:37,400 --> 00:49:43,640
Speaker 2: the Lord said, dummy, how did he do it? And

809
00:49:43,680 --> 00:49:48,680
Speaker 2: I read about the ropes It said that the King

810
00:49:48,680 --> 00:49:50,560
Speaker 2: told him take thirty men from here and lift Jeremiah

811
00:49:50,640 --> 00:49:52,560
Speaker 2: of the systern before he dies, and Ebed Melick took

812
00:49:52,600 --> 00:49:54,840
Speaker 2: them in with him verse eleven, and went to a

813
00:49:54,920 --> 00:49:56,600
Speaker 2: room under the treasury in the palace, and he took

814
00:49:56,640 --> 00:49:58,360
Speaker 2: some old rags and worn out clothes from there and

815
00:49:58,440 --> 00:50:02,840
Speaker 2: let them down with ropes to Jeremiah in the cistern.

816
00:50:02,880 --> 00:50:06,240
Speaker 1: Now you're Jeremiah.

817
00:50:06,320 --> 00:50:10,959
Speaker 2: You've been sinking, you've been starving, and something starts coming

818
00:50:11,000 --> 00:50:14,120
Speaker 2: down into the cistern, and you've been down here and

819
00:50:14,160 --> 00:50:15,320
Speaker 2: you've been wondering.

820
00:50:15,480 --> 00:50:16,800
Speaker 1: Am I done?

821
00:50:16,920 --> 00:50:18,640
Speaker 2: And we can all relate to this, even if not

822
00:50:18,719 --> 00:50:20,919
Speaker 2: this extreme example, that we are the prophet of God

823
00:50:20,960 --> 00:50:22,080
Speaker 2: to the nation in the time.

824
00:50:21,960 --> 00:50:26,320
Speaker 1: Of backsliding and wickedness. We can relate to these moments.

825
00:50:27,360 --> 00:50:31,040
Speaker 2: In the pit where we do not feel sense or

826
00:50:31,080 --> 00:50:34,040
Speaker 2: discern the presence of God, and all of a sudden

827
00:50:35,160 --> 00:50:40,560
Speaker 2: here comes the rope. But not yet, for the Bible

828
00:50:40,560 --> 00:50:42,680
Speaker 2: says in verse eleven that e bed Melick took them

829
00:50:42,719 --> 00:50:45,200
Speaker 2: in with him, and on his way to the cistern,

830
00:50:46,080 --> 00:50:47,640
Speaker 2: he has to make a pit stop.

831
00:50:48,840 --> 00:50:52,839
Speaker 1: Wat watch off. He stops by the.

832
00:50:52,840 --> 00:50:56,120
Speaker 2: Treasury in the palace, And if you're one of the

833
00:50:56,120 --> 00:50:58,879
Speaker 2: thirty men with him, you are thinking, no doubt, Oh,

834
00:50:58,880 --> 00:51:02,160
Speaker 2: he's going to get some gold or some silver, and

835
00:51:02,200 --> 00:51:04,880
Speaker 2: we're going to buy Jeremiah out of the pit. But

836
00:51:04,920 --> 00:51:07,560
Speaker 2: look at verse eleven. He doesn't go into the room

837
00:51:07,560 --> 00:51:11,000
Speaker 2: where the riches are. The Bible says, he went to

838
00:51:11,080 --> 00:51:15,560
Speaker 2: a room under the treasury. The treasury is where the

839
00:51:15,640 --> 00:51:20,600
Speaker 2: valuables were stored. The treasury was the room that accessed

840
00:51:20,600 --> 00:51:22,839
Speaker 2: all of the spices and all of the relics, and

841
00:51:22,920 --> 00:51:26,000
Speaker 2: all of the valuables and all of the memorials.

842
00:51:27,520 --> 00:51:28,520
Speaker 1: He doesn't go in that room.

843
00:51:29,560 --> 00:51:34,720
Speaker 2: He went to a room under the treasury in the palace,

844
00:51:35,920 --> 00:51:38,160
Speaker 2: a room that he knew how to get into.

845
00:51:39,400 --> 00:51:40,520
Speaker 1: What kind of room is this?

846
00:51:40,600 --> 00:51:42,560
Speaker 2: And why are we stopping on our way to a

847
00:51:42,600 --> 00:51:48,799
Speaker 2: rescue to go into a room under the treasury? So

848
00:51:49,080 --> 00:51:58,560
Speaker 2: he stops. He goes into a room, and he emerges

849
00:52:00,320 --> 00:52:08,680
Speaker 2: sometime later with an unexpected resource. Because this room under

850
00:52:08,719 --> 00:52:13,839
Speaker 2: the treasury is not where they kept the riches. That's

851
00:52:13,880 --> 00:52:20,560
Speaker 2: where they kept the rags. And on his way to

852
00:52:20,680 --> 00:52:25,879
Speaker 2: rescue Jeremiah, God's man in the mud, who has been

853
00:52:25,880 --> 00:52:29,040
Speaker 2: sinking and starving and can't spare another second.

854
00:52:29,360 --> 00:52:34,600
Speaker 1: Put the verse up, please. He goes into the room.

855
00:52:33,719 --> 00:52:40,280
Speaker 2: And took some old rags, some old rags and worn

856
00:52:40,280 --> 00:52:41,160
Speaker 2: out clothes from.

857
00:52:41,040 --> 00:52:44,840
Speaker 3: There, and he let them down with ropes.

858
00:52:46,320 --> 00:52:51,040
Speaker 2: To Jeremiah in the sister and verse twelve says the

859
00:52:51,040 --> 00:52:53,879
Speaker 2: welcome voice of he Bed Melick echoed and said to Jeremiah,

860
00:52:54,120 --> 00:52:58,919
Speaker 2: put these old rags and worn out clothes under your arms. Jeremiah,

861
00:53:00,360 --> 00:53:05,839
Speaker 2: we've come to help you. I'm Ebed Mellick. I'm an Ethiopian.

862
00:53:07,000 --> 00:53:08,840
Speaker 2: I'm not the kind of person that you're used to.

863
00:53:10,080 --> 00:53:13,320
Speaker 2: But God has put me in a position, and he.

864
00:53:13,160 --> 00:53:17,440
Speaker 3: Heard your prayers. And we're here, Jeremiah.

865
00:53:17,480 --> 00:53:21,640
Speaker 2: And I got thirty of my boys, and we're about

866
00:53:21,680 --> 00:53:22,719
Speaker 2: to get you out of this pit.

867
00:53:24,280 --> 00:53:28,200
Speaker 1: I said, we're about to get you out of this pit. Jeremiah.

868
00:53:28,440 --> 00:53:31,799
Speaker 2: We're about to get you out of this pit. We

869
00:53:31,920 --> 00:53:33,279
Speaker 2: got enough power to do it.

870
00:53:34,160 --> 00:53:34,640
Speaker 1: We've got a.

871
00:53:34,680 --> 00:53:37,840
Speaker 2: Heart to do it. It's the purpose we came here for.

872
00:53:38,840 --> 00:53:43,760
Speaker 2: But Jeremiah verse twelve, Please, Jeremiah, before we pull.

873
00:53:43,640 --> 00:53:48,880
Speaker 1: You out of this pit, put these rags under your arms,

874
00:53:49,880 --> 00:53:52,760
Speaker 1: and put these clothes under your arms.

875
00:53:53,640 --> 00:53:57,440
Speaker 3: I know they're old, I know they're worn out.

876
00:53:58,800 --> 00:54:03,760
Speaker 2: But I brought you something, Jeremiah, that you didn't expect.

877
00:54:04,760 --> 00:54:07,960
Speaker 2: But I'm gonna drop it to you now. I'm going

878
00:54:08,040 --> 00:54:11,960
Speaker 2: to drop you these rags before I drop you this

879
00:54:12,120 --> 00:54:16,480
Speaker 2: rope I'm going to These rags came from our house.

880
00:54:18,600 --> 00:54:22,280
Speaker 2: I was on my way out this morning, and before

881
00:54:22,320 --> 00:54:25,359
Speaker 2: I came to preach to you, it crossed my mind

882
00:54:25,400 --> 00:54:25,800
Speaker 2: to make.

883
00:54:25,640 --> 00:54:28,680
Speaker 1: A pitstop because I wanted to.

884
00:54:28,640 --> 00:54:31,960
Speaker 2: Stand in this sermon in the moment and speak to

885
00:54:32,000 --> 00:54:37,239
Speaker 2: everybody who's waiting for the ropes to come, waiting for

886
00:54:37,320 --> 00:54:41,800
Speaker 2: the ropes to pull you out, and knowing that God

887
00:54:41,880 --> 00:54:46,520
Speaker 2: has the power to pull you out of it, every stronghold,

888
00:54:47,120 --> 00:54:53,240
Speaker 2: every wicked thing, every low place, every spiritual demonic force

889
00:54:53,320 --> 00:54:56,440
Speaker 2: that is pulling you down. God is greater than the

890
00:54:56,480 --> 00:54:59,600
Speaker 2: gravity of that, and he asked the power to pull

891
00:54:59,600 --> 00:55:04,120
Speaker 2: you out. But I heard the voice of Ebed Melick saying,

892
00:55:05,760 --> 00:55:09,839
Speaker 2: before you grab those ropes, I.

893
00:55:09,800 --> 00:55:11,080
Speaker 1: Want to give you these rags.

894
00:55:12,960 --> 00:55:16,719
Speaker 2: And I know they don't look like much, and I

895
00:55:16,760 --> 00:55:20,440
Speaker 2: know you don't see the purpose in them. And I

896
00:55:20,480 --> 00:55:23,760
Speaker 2: know that this is something that normally people would throw away.

897
00:55:24,360 --> 00:55:29,839
Speaker 2: But Jeremiah, I brought you a rope, and I brought

898
00:55:29,880 --> 00:55:30,640
Speaker 2: you some rags.

899
00:55:32,719 --> 00:55:44,759
Speaker 5: The rags always come before the rope. The rags always

900
00:55:44,920 --> 00:55:48,239
Speaker 5: come before the rope.

901
00:55:48,719 --> 00:55:51,080
Speaker 2: And I'm saying this because you've been in a pit

902
00:55:51,440 --> 00:55:54,360
Speaker 2: praying for God to provide for you, and he is.

903
00:55:57,520 --> 00:56:03,239
Speaker 2: He's given you rags right now, Jeremiah, I'm gonna drop

904
00:56:03,280 --> 00:56:03,920
Speaker 2: these rags.

905
00:56:04,800 --> 00:56:07,759
Speaker 3: I work in the treasury, and I know about.

906
00:56:07,480 --> 00:56:10,719
Speaker 2: A secret room where they keep the old cloths and

907
00:56:10,800 --> 00:56:13,880
Speaker 2: the old rags and the discarded clothes.

908
00:56:14,320 --> 00:56:16,480
Speaker 1: And I came to bring you something.

909
00:56:16,960 --> 00:56:21,040
Speaker 2: That people would throw away, but that God is going

910
00:56:21,080 --> 00:56:26,279
Speaker 2: to use so that when I drop this rope, it

911
00:56:26,360 --> 00:56:32,080
Speaker 2: will not kill you. So that when I drop this rope,

912
00:56:32,280 --> 00:56:35,319
Speaker 2: when I pull you out of this pit, when you

913
00:56:35,440 --> 00:56:39,759
Speaker 2: take these rags and put them under your arms, when

914
00:56:39,800 --> 00:56:43,920
Speaker 2: the ropes pull you up, when the ropes bring you out,

915
00:56:44,400 --> 00:56:48,000
Speaker 2: because of the rags that I'm dropping now, the ropes

916
00:56:48,040 --> 00:56:51,040
Speaker 2: are going to do what they're supposed to do. If

917
00:56:51,040 --> 00:56:54,680
Speaker 2: I didn't give you the rags, you couldn't handle the ropes.

918
00:56:55,640 --> 00:56:59,600
Speaker 2: So you're praying for ropes. But God has given you rags.

919
00:57:00,280 --> 00:57:05,960
Speaker 2: And it is the same hand of Almighty God. It

920
00:57:06,080 --> 00:57:13,560
Speaker 2: is Jesus Christ, the Alpha, the Omega, the lamb of

921
00:57:13,719 --> 00:57:23,120
Speaker 2: God is the lion. The one who wore the rags

922
00:57:24,240 --> 00:57:28,880
Speaker 2: is the one who holds the rope. And I'm telling

923
00:57:28,920 --> 00:57:32,080
Speaker 2: you this right now because I see God dropping stuff

924
00:57:32,360 --> 00:57:36,000
Speaker 2: into your pit, dropping stuff you took for granted, I

925
00:57:36,080 --> 00:57:38,920
Speaker 2: don't even know what's in this basket, but God does,

926
00:57:39,320 --> 00:57:41,920
Speaker 2: and God is sending it, and God is giving it,

927
00:57:42,080 --> 00:57:45,280
Speaker 2: and God is supplying it, and God is answering, and

928
00:57:45,480 --> 00:57:49,200
Speaker 2: God is giving, and God is supplying, and God is saying,

929
00:57:49,600 --> 00:57:53,480
Speaker 2: when you take those rags that look like nothing, and

930
00:57:53,560 --> 00:57:56,680
Speaker 2: you'll get ready for what I'm about to do. When

931
00:57:56,720 --> 00:58:01,280
Speaker 2: I say, three, Jeremiah.

932
00:58:00,160 --> 00:58:02,480
Speaker 1: Pull you up out of every can.

933
00:58:03,320 --> 00:58:04,800
Speaker 3: I'm to pull you up.

934
00:58:05,440 --> 00:58:09,840
Speaker 2: Oudam generation poverty about to pull you up out of

935
00:58:09,920 --> 00:58:13,240
Speaker 2: despair on bree Let's.

936
00:58:13,080 --> 00:58:15,200
Speaker 3: Praise him for the rags.

937
00:58:15,640 --> 00:58:28,560
Speaker 6: What dude, free the rash, for the rags, for the rags.

938
00:58:32,840 --> 00:58:34,880
Speaker 2: The rag is not the rope. The rag is what

939
00:58:35,040 --> 00:58:39,480
Speaker 2: gets you ready for it. And I feel God getting

940
00:58:39,640 --> 00:58:45,439
Speaker 2: somebody ready for your next season, your next assignment, your

941
00:58:45,560 --> 00:58:54,480
Speaker 2: next endeavor, your next moment, your next move. That's the

942
00:58:54,600 --> 00:59:02,080
Speaker 2: message of the Gospel, not rags to rich, but rags

943
00:59:03,400 --> 00:59:04,120
Speaker 2: to righteous.

944
00:59:06,680 --> 00:59:15,280
Speaker 1: Because he became sin who knew no sin Romans five

945
00:59:15,440 --> 00:59:16,040
Speaker 1: twenty one.

946
00:59:16,160 --> 00:59:20,520
Speaker 2: I hear you calling me, he became sin who knew

947
00:59:20,560 --> 00:59:21,040
Speaker 2: no sin.

948
00:59:22,360 --> 00:59:27,240
Speaker 3: He dropped his rags that I might become righteous.

949
00:59:29,760 --> 00:59:34,640
Speaker 2: And I speak today by the spirit of God that

950
00:59:34,720 --> 00:59:39,760
Speaker 2: the thing you've been overlooking. That's your rag, the thing

951
00:59:39,800 --> 00:59:42,840
Speaker 2: that you've been waiting for it to be over. That's

952
00:59:42,880 --> 00:59:46,640
Speaker 2: your preparation, the thing that you've been praying God to

953
00:59:46,680 --> 00:59:51,600
Speaker 2: take away. That's how he's getting you ready. And when

954
00:59:51,640 --> 00:59:58,240
Speaker 2: you're ready, here, calm the ropes here, Calm the ropes here,

955
00:59:58,760 --> 01:00:00,320
Speaker 2: calm the Roman.

956
01:00:01,640 --> 01:00:08,360
Speaker 1: Touch. Three people say, here come the ropes and the

957
01:00:08,480 --> 01:00:14,320
Speaker 1: rose wrapped in. And you say, but, Beessor Stephen, I

958
01:00:14,400 --> 01:00:15,560
Speaker 1: have no e bed Melick.

959
01:00:17,040 --> 01:00:22,320
Speaker 2: Oh, you haven't met him yet. Be means servant, Melick

960
01:00:22,400 --> 01:00:25,760
Speaker 2: means king. Have you not met the servant king?

961
01:00:29,120 --> 01:00:31,520
Speaker 3: Have you not met our Emanuel?

962
01:00:33,360 --> 01:00:36,920
Speaker 2: Have you not met the one who laid aside his

963
01:00:37,120 --> 01:00:41,680
Speaker 2: crown is king and wrapped himself in the rags of

964
01:00:41,840 --> 01:00:43,560
Speaker 2: flesh to.

965
01:00:43,640 --> 01:00:49,040
Speaker 1: Make you righteous? You haven't e beed Melick. His name

966
01:00:49,120 --> 01:00:49,720
Speaker 1: is Jesus.

967
01:00:51,320 --> 01:00:55,440
Speaker 2: For every pit you've ever been in, Jesus was my

968
01:00:55,600 --> 01:00:56,400
Speaker 2: ebed Melick.

969
01:00:57,000 --> 01:01:02,360
Speaker 1: Jesus was my fourth man. Jesus as my rescuer. Jesus

970
01:01:02,520 --> 01:01:03,400
Speaker 1: dropped these.

971
01:01:03,280 --> 01:01:13,840
Speaker 7: Rags and washed my feet and made me righteous.

972
01:01:15,360 --> 01:01:19,760
Speaker 2: I'm speaking to everybody today who's in a pit, and

973
01:01:19,800 --> 01:01:21,000
Speaker 2: I want you to watch.

974
01:01:22,240 --> 01:01:23,440
Speaker 1: For the rags.

975
01:01:24,640 --> 01:01:28,720
Speaker 2: To the rescue it's going to be the rags. Do

976
01:01:28,920 --> 01:01:32,480
Speaker 2: you understand what I'm saying to you. It's gonna be that.

977
01:01:32,600 --> 01:01:34,320
Speaker 2: You're like, but I don't want that. I want to

978
01:01:34,400 --> 01:01:38,800
Speaker 2: rope and God's like, this will get you ready for that.

979
01:01:40,040 --> 01:01:44,120
Speaker 2: And if it's not that, it's this. So take this sin.

980
01:01:44,800 --> 01:01:48,960
Speaker 1: Get ready because the ropes are coming. The ropes are coming.

981
01:01:49,520 --> 01:01:51,320
Speaker 1: The ropes are coming. The ropes are coming.

982
01:01:51,680 --> 01:01:54,360
Speaker 3: The ropes are coming. The ropes are coming. The ropes

983
01:01:54,400 --> 01:01:54,880
Speaker 3: are coming.

984
01:01:55,640 --> 01:02:02,640
Speaker 1: He has the power to pull me out. What you're

985
01:02:02,720 --> 01:02:06,560
Speaker 1: gonna do with these rags? I know what I'm gonna do.

986
01:02:07,760 --> 01:02:12,040
Speaker 2: I learned it from Proverbs twenty four to sixteen. The

987
01:02:12,080 --> 01:02:21,160
Speaker 2: Bible says that the righteous may fall seven times. I

988
01:02:21,240 --> 01:02:27,840
Speaker 2: might be in the mud seven times, but they rise again,

989
01:02:29,040 --> 01:02:34,160
Speaker 2: they rise again, they rise again.

990
01:02:35,400 --> 01:02:36,640
Speaker 1: So chid to God.

991
01:02:37,840 --> 01:02:43,080
Speaker 2: I just wanted to encourage your heart that God is.

992
01:02:42,920 --> 01:02:45,720
Speaker 1: Not against you. He's in it with you.

993
01:02:46,800 --> 01:02:51,840
Speaker 2: He's working through you, He's fighting for you. Somebody shout,

994
01:02:51,960 --> 01:02:55,760
Speaker 2: God is not against me. God is not against me.

995
01:02:56,840 --> 01:02:57,520
Speaker 3: Now high five.

996
01:02:57,560 --> 01:03:02,960
Speaker 2: Everybody you can reach us, say help us on the way.

997
01:03:03,520 --> 01:03:07,040
Speaker 3: He'll got the rocks, He'll.

998
01:03:06,840 --> 01:03:07,560
Speaker 6: Come the eyes.

999
01:03:07,680 --> 01:03:12,480
Speaker 3: So the cat he's sitting with.

1000
01:03:12,680 --> 01:03:18,000
Speaker 6: Me working through working threw me, fight and fall hay, call.

1001
01:03:17,960 --> 01:03:23,080
Speaker 3: Me God, it's not a catte. He's hitting with me.

1002
01:03:24,520 --> 01:03:26,439
Speaker 2: He's working, droning aroundy.

1003
01:03:26,160 --> 01:03:30,720
Speaker 3: Baddy, you already for me. He's got that's all get

1004
01:03:30,840 --> 01:03:32,720
Speaker 3: ready already he's.

1005
01:03:32,520 --> 01:03:37,040
Speaker 6: Hitting with me. Tell my working through you already there

1006
01:03:37,600 --> 01:03:38,680
Speaker 6: fdny fock.

1007
01:03:38,560 --> 01:03:42,560
Speaker 3: We got all this out cast me. He'll pull you out.

1008
01:03:42,640 --> 01:03:43,720
Speaker 3: He's hitting it with me.

1009
01:03:44,400 --> 01:03:45,120
Speaker 1: Don't want the help.

1010
01:03:45,360 --> 01:03:46,280
Speaker 3: Work and threw me.

1011
01:03:46,440 --> 01:03:48,400
Speaker 1: I'm gonna try not for.

1012
01:03:49,880 --> 01:03:54,840
Speaker 3: You're body cat he com he's sitting with me. I'm

1013
01:03:54,960 --> 01:03:59,680
Speaker 3: so holdly work you threw me and come, series of men.

1014
01:04:00,240 --> 01:04:05,240
Speaker 3: He's not a Cassie. Lift alof you with me, Lift

1015
01:04:05,280 --> 01:04:05,760
Speaker 3: about my.

1016
01:04:07,640 --> 01:04:07,920
Speaker 6: Left.

1017
01:04:07,960 --> 01:04:11,040
Speaker 3: That the day love me guy, he's not the.

1018
01:04:11,160 --> 01:04:12,240
Speaker 2: Day offhe.

1019
01:04:13,400 --> 01:04:14,560
Speaker 6: He's doing with me.

1020
01:04:16,040 --> 01:04:19,840
Speaker 3: You're working roomy. He's fighting for me.

1021
01:04:20,120 --> 01:04:26,920
Speaker 6: God, he's not Cassy. He's in it with me. Ready

1022
01:04:27,120 --> 01:04:33,280
Speaker 6: for me, God, I gusty.

1023
01:04:34,920 --> 01:04:39,640
Speaker 2: Bow your head, close your eyes, say thank you Jesus.

1024
01:04:40,800 --> 01:04:47,400
Speaker 1: For being in this pit with me. Oh, your presence

1025
01:04:47,520 --> 01:04:48,600
Speaker 1: is wonderful.

1026
01:04:48,120 --> 01:04:52,120
Speaker 3: Lord, even more intensified when we don't feel it.

1027
01:04:52,920 --> 01:04:59,959
Speaker 1: You are the God of rags to righteousness.

1028
01:05:01,320 --> 01:05:04,240
Speaker 2: Thank you for what you've done in our lives. Thank

1029
01:05:04,280 --> 01:05:07,640
Speaker 2: you for cleansing us. Now I want to pray for

1030
01:05:07,720 --> 01:05:10,320
Speaker 2: somebody who needs to receive.

1031
01:05:09,960 --> 01:05:11,200
Speaker 1: The gift of.

1032
01:05:11,240 --> 01:05:13,040
Speaker 3: Jesus Christ, the gift of salvation.

1033
01:05:13,400 --> 01:05:15,840
Speaker 1: It is a gift you can't earn it.

1034
01:05:16,960 --> 01:05:19,360
Speaker 2: In fact, the Bible says that our own righteousness is

1035
01:05:19,440 --> 01:05:21,080
Speaker 2: like filthy rags.

1036
01:05:22,320 --> 01:05:23,520
Speaker 1: So that means you don't sit.

1037
01:05:23,400 --> 01:05:25,400
Speaker 2: Here and say, Okay, God, I'm gonna get my life together.

1038
01:05:25,440 --> 01:05:27,280
Speaker 2: I'm gonna be better. I'm gonna stop cussing, I'm gonna

1039
01:05:27,280 --> 01:05:29,360
Speaker 2: stop drinking, I'm gonna stop doing all the bad stuff.

1040
01:05:29,360 --> 01:05:32,560
Speaker 2: No stop, you're just gonna sink deeper thinking that way.

1041
01:05:33,160 --> 01:05:36,840
Speaker 2: You need an ey beed Melick to rescue you. You

1042
01:05:36,920 --> 01:05:40,040
Speaker 2: need a strong arm, you need a God. You need

1043
01:05:40,040 --> 01:05:43,160
Speaker 2: a savior. Right now, in this moment, the savior of

1044
01:05:43,200 --> 01:05:46,200
Speaker 2: the world is in this place, wherever you are.

1045
01:05:46,280 --> 01:05:48,720
Speaker 1: I'm not saying just this room. I'm saying wherever you are.

1046
01:05:49,560 --> 01:05:51,360
Speaker 2: God knows how to go into the rag room of

1047
01:05:51,400 --> 01:05:55,160
Speaker 2: your life and turn it into something wonderful. Right now,

1048
01:05:55,200 --> 01:05:56,720
Speaker 2: I want to pray for those who need to give

1049
01:05:56,760 --> 01:05:59,280
Speaker 2: your life to Jesus for the first time, or you

1050
01:05:59,320 --> 01:06:01,880
Speaker 2: need to recommit your life to trusting in His grace,

1051
01:06:02,360 --> 01:06:04,240
Speaker 2: repent of your sin, turn.

1052
01:06:04,080 --> 01:06:07,840
Speaker 1: To Him and live and live. I'm going to lead

1053
01:06:07,840 --> 01:06:08,960
Speaker 1: you in a prayer right now.

1054
01:06:09,400 --> 01:06:11,320
Speaker 2: We're going to pray it out loud for the benefit

1055
01:06:11,360 --> 01:06:13,480
Speaker 2: of all those who are coming to God for the

1056
01:06:13,520 --> 01:06:16,880
Speaker 2: first time, are coming back to him. You pray this prayer,

1057
01:06:16,960 --> 01:06:19,400
Speaker 2: and God will lift you from the pit. You pray

1058
01:06:19,440 --> 01:06:22,400
Speaker 2: this prayer. God will hear from heaven. He will turn

1059
01:06:22,440 --> 01:06:25,200
Speaker 2: you around. This is your moment, and you know it.

1060
01:06:25,240 --> 01:06:30,560
Speaker 1: Repeat after me, Church, family, Heavenly Father. Today is my day.

1061
01:06:31,080 --> 01:06:34,440
Speaker 1: I humble myself that you may lift me up.

1062
01:06:35,640 --> 01:06:39,960
Speaker 2: I believe that Jesus Christ is the Son of God

1063
01:06:40,800 --> 01:06:44,800
Speaker 2: and the Savior of the world. And today I make

1064
01:06:44,920 --> 01:06:47,960
Speaker 2: Jesus the lord of my life.

1065
01:06:48,200 --> 01:06:49,360
Speaker 1: I repent of my sin.

1066
01:06:50,760 --> 01:06:56,120
Speaker 2: I believe Jesus died that I would be forgiven and

1067
01:06:56,280 --> 01:07:02,720
Speaker 2: rose again to give me life. Receive this new life.

1068
01:07:03,360 --> 01:07:07,120
Speaker 2: This is my new beginning. On the count of three,

1069
01:07:07,160 --> 01:07:09,919
Speaker 2: shoot your hand up. If you prayed that one, two, three,

1070
01:07:09,960 --> 01:07:12,640
Speaker 2: shoot him up all over the room, shoot him up.

1071
01:07:13,680 --> 01:07:20,800
Speaker 1: God, bless it, God, bless it. Beautiful, a beautiful thing online.

1072
01:07:21,320 --> 01:07:24,000
Speaker 3: Just say in the chat I received Jesus, I received.

1073
01:07:23,920 --> 01:07:26,920
Speaker 2: From un Let's clap our hands all over the room.

1074
01:07:27,000 --> 01:07:30,080
Speaker 1: Let's retoic us all over the room, gloy.

1075
01:07:29,920 --> 01:07:33,120
Speaker 3: To God, hallelujah.

1076
01:07:33,840 --> 01:07:41,080
Speaker 1: But wow, say it. He's in it with me, working

1077
01:07:41,160 --> 01:07:45,800
Speaker 1: through me, fighting for me. Hug. Somebody say, God is

1078
01:07:45,840 --> 01:07:46,440
Speaker 1: not against you.

1079
01:07:48,760 --> 01:07:50,960
Speaker 2: Let's clap our hands and thank God for his presence

1080
01:07:50,960 --> 01:07:53,200
Speaker 2: today Campus fastors.

1081
01:07:53,240 --> 01:07:56,360
Speaker 1: Do what you need to do. I'm closing at Valentine's.

1082
01:07:56,400 --> 01:07:59,720
Speaker 1: Stay right where you are. Did you receive a word from.

1083
01:07:59,560 --> 01:07:59,920
Speaker 3: The Lord to.

1084
01:08:03,000 --> 01:08:06,400
Speaker 1: Rags to righteous?

1085
01:08:07,400 --> 01:08:09,720
Speaker 2: Keep this purple thing and remember what I told you today.

1086
01:08:10,360 --> 01:08:12,919
Speaker 2: When the devil tells you you're not the righteousness of God,

1087
01:08:13,280 --> 01:08:15,800
Speaker 2: wave it in his face and say, I know, but

1088
01:08:15,920 --> 01:08:17,560
Speaker 2: I have any bed melic.

1089
01:08:17,520 --> 01:08:20,880
Speaker 1: I have a savior, I have a redeemer. Just wave it.

1090
01:08:20,960 --> 01:08:23,800
Speaker 2: Every time you want to go back to the old way,

1091
01:08:24,040 --> 01:08:27,720
Speaker 2: just wave that thing. No, I've gone from rags to righteous.

1092
01:08:27,920 --> 01:08:30,760
Speaker 2: If anyone is in Christ, he's a new creation, the

1093
01:08:30,880 --> 01:08:35,960
Speaker 2: oldest gone, the newest calm. And look, I hope they

1094
01:08:36,080 --> 01:08:40,679
Speaker 2: keep this online because I think this is good. Brag

1095
01:08:40,760 --> 01:08:46,040
Speaker 2: about your rags, not about your sin. Brag about what

1096
01:08:46,200 --> 01:08:50,639
Speaker 2: God did for you that seems like nothing, not your sin.

1097
01:08:51,560 --> 01:08:53,919
Speaker 2: Brag about what He did to pull you out.

1098
01:08:53,800 --> 01:08:58,080
Speaker 1: Of your sin. Tell the story and tell your testimony

1099
01:08:58,840 --> 01:09:03,840
Speaker 1: that God has the power to pull you out. Thank

1100
01:09:03,880 --> 01:09:04,479
Speaker 1: you Jesus.

1101
01:09:05,800 --> 01:09:09,840
Speaker 2: It's painful sometimes just because he has the power doesn't

1102
01:09:09,840 --> 01:09:10,719
Speaker 2: mean there won't be pain.

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Speaker 1: But God is pulling you. You can feel it.

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Speaker 2: You can feel him bringing you higher, you can feel

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Speaker 2: him bringing you aboveet.

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Speaker 1: You can feel it.

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Speaker 2: And I'm gonna seal it right now with the prayer,

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Speaker 2: join hands one more time. If you hadn't caught something

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Speaker 2: from them already, you're not going to. But this won't

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Speaker 2: make any difference.

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Speaker 1: Now. God is not against me. I want you singing that.

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Speaker 2: I want you singing that when it feels like the

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Speaker 2: wind is against you. No, no, no, you worship and

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Speaker 2: you say God is not a Oh, I'm gonna make

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Speaker 2: a choir today.

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Speaker 1: I'm gonna make a choir. You want to be in

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Speaker 1: the choir.

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Speaker 2: Come out next Sunday. We're gonna record some new songs. Sunday,

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Speaker 2: March seventeenth, we're gonna be here. That's next Sunday, Chris,

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Speaker 2: we're gonna be singing new songs. We're not gonna be

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Speaker 2: singing this one that night. We're gonna sing it tomorrow. God,

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Speaker 2: God is not Yeah, I'm gonna see.

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Speaker 1: Which section believes it the most? Before we close, this

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Speaker 1: is your chance.

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Speaker 2: Ready three of ten, welcome back to you.

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Speaker 1: Said I'm gonna check y'all out. Yeah they did it.

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Speaker 1: Watch them in the middle. You won't believe how good

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Speaker 1: this sounds. It sounds like professionals against God, not.

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Speaker 2: God. Yeah, God, it is not a gas me God,

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Speaker 2: it is not a good.

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Speaker 6: God.

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Speaker 1: It's not a me. I'm gonna join the prise team now.

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Speaker 2: And to him who is able to pull you up,

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Speaker 2: who is able to do in that than you ask for?

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Speaker 2: Imager to a he big lie.

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Speaker 1: Through Christ Jesus head the churns.

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Speaker 2: Now at whatever somebody's said, come inside.

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Speaker 1: Against Thank you for joining us.

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Speaker 2: Special thanks to those of you who give generously to

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Speaker 2: this ministry. Is because of you that this ministry is possible.

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Speaker 2: You can click the link in the description to give

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Speaker 2: now or visit Elevation Church dot org slash podcast for

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Speaker 2: more information and if you enjoyed the podcast.

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