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Speaker 1: Hey, this is Stephen Ferdick. I'm the pastor of Elevation

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Speaker 1: Church and this is our podcast. I wanted to thank

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Speaker 1: you for joining us today. Hope this inspires you. Hope

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Speaker 1: it builds your faith. Hope it gives your perspective to

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Speaker 1: see God is moving in your life. Enjoy. The message

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Speaker 1: kind of unintentionally went into a mini series from Philippians.

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Speaker 1: I want to share from chapter four, Holy Spirit, give

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Speaker 1: me accuracy and precision to speak this word. May it

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Speaker 1: get through my mouth, but may it come from your

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Speaker 1: heart Jesus Name, Amen, Philippians, Chapter four, and I want

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Speaker 1: to link this message with the other messages from Philippians. One.

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Speaker 1: I'm not going to be dragging anybody across the stage

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Speaker 1: in a chain this week. I figured it's a bad pattern.

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Speaker 1: But I do want to go to this great passage

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Speaker 1: of scripture that was originally like a ps that Paul

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Speaker 1: put in his letter to the Philippian Church, and he

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Speaker 1: thank them for the gift that they sent to help

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Speaker 1: him with his defense, his legal defense, and from a

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Speaker 1: prison cell, he writes, and he's like full of joy,

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Speaker 1: which is counterintuitive that you'd be in jail and have joy,

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Speaker 1: or lose your job and still trust God and call

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Speaker 1: him your provider, or be single but still know that

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Speaker 1: you're not alone. Or maybe be wronged, but know that

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Speaker 1: God is even using that to ultimately bless your life

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Speaker 1: and to use you. And all of this is taught

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Speaker 1: in the Book of Philippians. But I find myself coming

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Speaker 1: only a PostScript to use an old letter writing term,

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Speaker 1: but also it's a perspective shift. So we're going to

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Speaker 1: see the power of a perspective shift today. Philippians, chapter four,

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Speaker 1: verse ten through nineteen. I rejoice greatly in the Lord

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Speaker 1: that you at last renewed your concern for me. I

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Speaker 1: was laughing when I read that. He's like, thanks, I

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Speaker 1: got your gift. It's about time. I didn't think that

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Speaker 1: was very good etiquette, very good thank you note etiquette.

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Speaker 1: I got the gift finally, But then he clarifies, indeed,

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Speaker 1: you were concerned, but you had no opportunity to show it.

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Speaker 1: I'm not saying this because I'm in need, for I

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Speaker 1: have learned to be content, whatever the circumstances. Just touch

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Speaker 1: the person next to you and say I'm good, I promise.

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Speaker 1: I know what it is to be in need, and

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Speaker 1: I know what it is to have plenty. I have

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Speaker 1: learned the secret of being content. I wasn't born this way.

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Speaker 1: I was born screaming my head off. I was selfish

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Speaker 1: when I was two. But I'm maturing and I have

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Speaker 1: learned to be content. I've learned that you can complain,

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Speaker 1: So I'm learning amen to be content, whatever the circumstances,

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Speaker 1: who gives me strength. I call that the international bingch

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Speaker 1: press verse where you see these posters in every Christian

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Speaker 1: a little deeper meaning than that. It's about the sufficiency

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Speaker 1: of God's spirit in every situation. And I just feel

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Speaker 1: this message. Verse fourteen. Yet it was good of you

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Speaker 1: to share in my troubles Moreover, as you Philippians know,

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Speaker 1: in the early days of your acquaintance with the Gospel,

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Speaker 1: when I set out for Macedonia, not one church shared

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Speaker 1: with me in the matter of giving and receiving except you.

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Speaker 1: Only you were there for me. You were there for me,

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Speaker 1: and I won't forget it, for even when I was

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Speaker 1: not that I desire your gifts. What I desire is

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Speaker 1: pleasing to God, and my God will meet all your needs.

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Speaker 1: me alone. How many want to say this to your

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Speaker 1: And I want to speak to you today about need meeters,

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Speaker 1: need meeters. Some things you learn about your spouse very

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Speaker 1: quickly after marriage. Some things you know going in, Some

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Speaker 1: things you find out progressively. I will never forget on

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Speaker 1: our honeymoon learning. Uh. I learned a lot about Holly

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Speaker 1: and I've heard her say this to our kids, but

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Speaker 1: I want to say publicly, Holly, Yes, Yes, I need

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Speaker 1: You know. I almost thought that's where Paul was going,

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Speaker 1: there's often an expectation, on realistic expectation, that He's going

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Speaker 1: same needs, but they are now met in a different way.

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Speaker 1: In other words, you still have the same need for approval,

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Speaker 1: good for men to be alone. But loneliness, if left untreated,

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Speaker 1: And Paul says, My God shall supply all your needs,

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Speaker 1: but according to his. And I'm I'm glad about it.

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Speaker 1: be afraid? Listen, Blakeney, when the wicked, even mine enemies,

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Speaker 1: he doesn't take the need away. He becomes what I need.

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Speaker 1: a little bit and let's talk about your need meter.

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Speaker 1: You know, spell it different, just if we spell it

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Speaker 1: give me, get me, get me, give me, give me, grace,

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Speaker 1: give me, give me, give me me, get me, get me,

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Speaker 1: get me, give me, give give give me, chill bumps,

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Speaker 1: give me, give me, give me, gain me, gain me,

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Speaker 1: give me. I don't like the song. God give me, me,

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Speaker 1: get me, get me, get me, get me, give me,

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Speaker 1: give me, give me, gim me, get me, give me,

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Speaker 1: get me, get me, give me. And Paul, there's no

436
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Speaker 1: evidence that he's praying that. But I'm just I'm imposing

437
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Speaker 1: what I would be doing on Paul. I'd be praying, God,

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Speaker 1: give me, give me, give give me, direction, give me,

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Speaker 1: give me, give me, give me, gim me, give me,

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Speaker 1: give me, give me, give me, give me, give me,

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Speaker 1: and give me, give me me. And God gives him

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Speaker 1: a need of a man standing and begging him come

443
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Speaker 1: over and help us. No, Paul needs help. So God

444
00:27:42,960 --> 00:27:47,360
Speaker 1: helped Paul. And the way God helps Paul is by

445
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Speaker 1: showing him someone who needs help. Y'all are quiet, y'all

446
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Speaker 1: want me to get back to and my God, we'll

447
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Speaker 1: meet all your needs. I wasn't saying that about himself.

448
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Speaker 1: Paul was in prison thinking about somebody else's needs because

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Speaker 1: he knew if I focus on my needs right now,

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Speaker 1: I'm gonna be depressed because I am going to shrink

451
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Speaker 1: my spirit to the size of my situation. So God,

452
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Speaker 1: instead of focusing on what I need, what I think,

453
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Speaker 1: what I want, what I don't, give me, give me,

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Speaker 1: give me, give me, give me, give me, give me,

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Speaker 1: give me. I'm changing my prayer. Show me, show me,

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Speaker 1: show me, show me, show me, show me, show me,

457
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Speaker 1: show me. Show me what you're doing in the world,

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Speaker 1: Show me what you put in my kids. Show me

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Speaker 1: what you're calling me to be in the season that

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Speaker 1: I'm in. Show me who I can bless, Show me

461
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Speaker 1: who I can encourage. Show me ten people I can

462
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Speaker 1: text and tell them you got this, because I'm waiting

463
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Speaker 1: on somebody to tell me you got this. But maybe

464
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Speaker 1: the way I'm gonna get it is to give it.

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Speaker 1: Give it, and he shall be given unto you good measure,

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Speaker 1: press down, sick it together, and run over if you

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Speaker 1: want joy, rejoice if you want purpose, give praise, Give

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Speaker 1: it if you want it. I don't mean to holler

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Speaker 1: at you. Sit down, and I've caught up in the moment.

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Speaker 1: Give me him me, give me, give me, give me,

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Speaker 1: give me, give me him and the men came in

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Speaker 1: the dream. And then it makes an interesting turn. How

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Speaker 1: many you love the little details that we slow down

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Speaker 1: and point out in the Bible. When you read this

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Speaker 1: thing slow and stop skimming, you'll be amazed. How to

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Speaker 1: come alive. You can't read this like BuzzFeed. The Bible

477
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Speaker 1: is not BuzzFeed. When you treat it like that, you

478
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Speaker 1: miss the blessing of it. Slow down and watch what's

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Speaker 1: happening here? Watch what's happening here? Verse seven, when they

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Speaker 1: came to the border of Mysia. That's where they wanted

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Speaker 1: to go. Look at verse ten. After Paul had seen

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Speaker 1: the vision, we got ready. Why did he shift from

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Speaker 1: day to we? This is when Luke, who wrote the

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Speaker 1: Book of Acts, got on board with the mission when

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Speaker 1: Paul saw the vision. And what got me was it

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Speaker 1: took faith for Paul to go out on a mission

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Speaker 1: after seeing a vision. How much more faith did it

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Speaker 1: take for the people who didn't even see the vision

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Speaker 1: Paul saw to go with him. Sometimes it's hard to

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Speaker 1: follow something that you can't see for yourself. And Luke's

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Speaker 1: like Paul said, he saw a man in Macedonia. So

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Speaker 1: we packed up and went. We didn't debate. How many

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Speaker 1: of you would have at least asked God for one

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Speaker 1: confirmation before you got back out on the sea. Paul,

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Speaker 1: you had a dream. And I think there's a blessing

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Speaker 1: in immediate obedience when we set straight out and just give.

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Speaker 1: I don't understand people who I'll meet and they'll go

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Speaker 1: I've been coming to the church four years. Do you serve? No,

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Speaker 1: you're in a group. No, you invite your friends. No.

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Speaker 1: I don't usually ask them if they give it's a

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Speaker 1: little too personal. You know, that's a weird thing to

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Speaker 1: ask in that. But then they say, let me know

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Speaker 1: if you ever need anything, And I'm like, do you come?

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Speaker 1: Do you see the people that God is bringing each week?

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Speaker 1: You see how some of them come in with a

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Speaker 1: look in their eyes like they might not make it.

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Speaker 1: Do you see how God is unifying this church from

508
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Speaker 1: so many different backgrounds, not just skin color, but even

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Speaker 1: belief system, ideology, and how God is centering us on

510
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Speaker 1: Christ in a culture that has never been more divided?

511
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Speaker 1: Do you not see the needs? The harvest is here

512
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Speaker 1: and the laborers are few? What do you mean if

513
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Speaker 1: I need anything? It's right in front of you. Let's go,

514
00:32:09,160 --> 00:32:20,640
Speaker 1: let's steal this, let's build the charts. Have you brought

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Speaker 1: a friend with you in the last couple months, invited

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Speaker 1: somebody to come with you to share it with you? Go.

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Speaker 1: God's not gonna meet your needs independent of you. He's

518
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Speaker 1: gonna meet your needs through your willingness to meet someone else's.

519
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Speaker 1: I want to spend the rest of my life preaching

520
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Speaker 1: like this to help us see that My God will

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Speaker 1: meet all your needs according to his glorious riches. Paul

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Speaker 1: said that after he thanked the Philippians for meeting his needs,

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Speaker 1: he said, now that you've met somebody else's needs, God

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Speaker 1: is going to meet yours. And I just couldn't get

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Speaker 1: over it. How they had the faith to go out

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Speaker 1: to Macedonia. There's like three hundred thousand people in Macedonia.

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Speaker 1: And Paul saw one man in a vision. He's like,

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Speaker 1: let's go, let's go find that man that I saw

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Speaker 1: my vision. How tall was he? I don't know. This

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Speaker 1: is his eye color, I don't know. Gotta show, gotta

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Speaker 1: show us when we get there. So they go. So

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Speaker 1: they go, and Verse eleven describes it from Troe as

533
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Speaker 1: we put out to sea and sailed straight for Simothrus,

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Speaker 1: and next day we went to Neapolis. Side note, God

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Speaker 1: doesn't take you there all at once, It's little stops

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Speaker 1: along the way. Is this? It is this? It is this?

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Speaker 1: It is this? It is this? It How many can testify?

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00:33:44,240 --> 00:33:46,520
Speaker 1: God doesn't just take you there all at once, and

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00:33:46,560 --> 00:33:48,440
Speaker 1: he doesn't meet every need all at once, because then

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Speaker 1: he knows you'd start thinking you didn't need him. So

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Speaker 1: what he does is he leads you step by step,

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Speaker 1: little bit of light. Thy word is a lamp unto

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Speaker 1: my feet. Watch me walk, and a light onto my path.

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Speaker 1: Next step, next step, next step, next step. I'm gonna

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Speaker 1: been down and buck on my shoe back because that's

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Speaker 1: going to annoy me and it's probably been driving somebody

547
00:34:08,280 --> 00:34:11,160
Speaker 1: crazy on the front. Row is just the little things,

548
00:34:11,480 --> 00:34:14,640
Speaker 1: and God speaks through the little things and he meets

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Speaker 1: big needs. Watch this through small acts of obedience. We

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00:34:19,360 --> 00:34:22,080
Speaker 1: went here, we went there. What you're looking for, Paul?

551
00:34:22,239 --> 00:34:24,640
Speaker 1: I saw a man in Macedonia and I'm looking for

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Speaker 1: him and they end up. Watch this from there. Verse twelve.

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Speaker 1: We traveled to Philippi, Philippians. That's the city, that's the place,

554
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Speaker 1: that's where the first church in Europe or the Western

555
00:34:39,120 --> 00:34:44,640
Speaker 1: world was started. This is how it started, this right

556
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Speaker 1: here through someone you've never even heard of. I know

557
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Speaker 1: you've heard of Paul. I'm really not here to preach

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Speaker 1: about Paul today. I'm gonna show you somebody who doesn't

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Speaker 1: get listed, Samson. All he ever did is get a haircut,

560
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Speaker 1: and we preach about him all the time. No, I

561
00:35:04,040 --> 00:35:08,600
Speaker 1: want to introduce you to a woman. Let's hear it

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Speaker 1: from the women. This is this is like the ultimate

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Speaker 1: women's Bible. Holly write a Bible study about this, because

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Speaker 1: the Bible says that they traveled to Philippi, a Roman

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Speaker 1: colony where a lot of the Roman generals would go

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Speaker 1: to retire. About twenty to thirty thousand people lived in

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Speaker 1: this one city, and then there's four districts of Macedonia.

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Speaker 1: So Paul's really looking for a needle in the haystack.

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Speaker 1: And there's not a lot of not a lot of

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Speaker 1: Christian If there are any believers here, they're hiding. And

571
00:35:46,960 --> 00:35:48,920
Speaker 1: there's not that many Jews either. I'll show you how

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00:35:48,960 --> 00:35:51,279
Speaker 1: I know that in a moment. But he gets there

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Speaker 1: and God uses a need to lead him there. Lead me, Lord,

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Speaker 1: How did God lead with the need? How is God

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Speaker 1: going to lead you into what he has next for

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00:36:04,120 --> 00:36:07,759
Speaker 1: your life? With a need? How is God going to

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00:36:07,880 --> 00:36:10,520
Speaker 1: choose who he uses through the people who are broken?

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00:36:11,440 --> 00:36:13,600
Speaker 1: He can't meet a need through someone who doesn't have

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Speaker 1: a need. And He will often use you to alleviate

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Speaker 1: the same pain that you yourself are experiencing. Because God

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Speaker 1: leads with me. God is leading me. What do you

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Speaker 1: mean when you say that you mean you feel good

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Speaker 1: about it. Jesus didn't get to the cross feeling good

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Speaker 1: about it. In fact, he prayed, Father, if it's possible,

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Speaker 1: take this cup from me. I don't want to do it.

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Speaker 1: I don't feel like doing it. But lead me, Lauren.

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Speaker 1: If this is what they need to be redeemed, then

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Speaker 1: let's do it. If you need me in philip I,

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00:36:45,120 --> 00:36:47,359
Speaker 1: I wanted to go to Masia, I wanted to go

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Speaker 1: to Asia. I wanted to be married. I didn't want

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Speaker 1: to be in this situation. I don't even like this

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Speaker 1: right now. But God lead me, show me the need

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Speaker 1: and lead me through the valley of the shadow of death.

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Speaker 1: God being my leader doesn't mean I won't go through anything.

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Speaker 1: It means he won't leave me alone. And there's a

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Speaker 1: reason I'm going through what I'm going through. God knows

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00:37:17,400 --> 00:37:24,279
Speaker 1: what I need. And so he says. We ended up

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Speaker 1: in Philippi, the leading city of that district of Macedonia,

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Speaker 1: and we stayed there several days, and he doesn't talk

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Speaker 1: about what they did over those couple of days. And

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Speaker 1: I wonder, you know, what do you do when you

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Speaker 1: get to philip Hi. It's twenty thirty thousand people in

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Speaker 1: the town and you saw one man in a vision?

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Speaker 1: Do you walk around looking for him, like, hey, I

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Speaker 1: saw a man, are you? Are you him? What do

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Speaker 1: you do? One time me and Buck went on a

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Speaker 1: mission trip in Buck's on staff. Now he's been on staff.

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Speaker 1: God guess about coming up on eight years on staff.

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Speaker 1: But we've been friends since college. We were on this

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Speaker 1: mission trip and he's a Bucks Bucks, a funny guy,

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Speaker 1: but he doesn't like to show it a lot. He

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Speaker 1: reminded me of this guy that we went on the

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Speaker 1: mission trip with. This dude was country. Oh no, I

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Speaker 1: don't mean like Monks corner country. This dude was from

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Speaker 1: Louisiana and he was big country and he would walk

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Speaker 1: up and talk to anybody and he had these little

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Speaker 1: country sayings that I still don't know what they mean.

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Speaker 1: He used to We be getting ready in the morning

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Speaker 1: and be like you're ready, and he say waiting, no

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Speaker 1: men backing up. And the first part was understanding what

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Speaker 1: he actually said, like please say that again, And then

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Speaker 1: he'd say what he said, if you're waiting on me,

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Speaker 1: you're backing up, And I still wouldn't know what it

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Speaker 1: meant even though I understood what he said. But I

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00:38:44,719 --> 00:38:47,560
Speaker 1: had this flashback preparing this message. We were at a

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Speaker 1: gas station and there was another guy named Clint that

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Speaker 1: was on the team, and he was from Australia, but

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Speaker 1: he wasn't with us at the time. They were somewhere

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Speaker 1: else and a vanful of people rolled up and this guy,

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Speaker 1: Bob in case he watches he's a pastor now. And

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Speaker 1: Bob just walk up and talk to anybody. And they

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Speaker 1: didn't understand a word he was saying. But he just

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Speaker 1: walk up and talked to anybody. And he's walking up

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Speaker 1: to him, where are you all from? And they said Australia, mate,

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Speaker 1: And he liked that to him, that was exotic. You know,

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Speaker 1: a van full of foreigners. I just got back from Australia.

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Speaker 1: So that's the best accent. I can do a kind

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Speaker 1: of Australia. If you want to do Australian accent, just

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Speaker 1: leave off random syllables all the times. They just leave

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Speaker 1: crap off all the time and shorten everything. Australia, mate,

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Speaker 1: he said, Australia. Hey, Australia. Y'all know a guy named

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Speaker 1: Clint from Australia, And the poor guy driving the van goes,

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Speaker 1: Australia is a pretty big place, mate. There's more than

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Speaker 1: one Clint. So Macedonia is a big place, you know.

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Speaker 1: It's not. Faul sees this vision, but he's not exactly sure.

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Speaker 1: You ever noticed how many times you're not exactly sure,

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Speaker 1: like you since God is leading you to do something,

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Speaker 1: but it's a needle, ooh, a need, a needle in

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Speaker 1: a haystack. So I'm here, but I don't know what

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Speaker 1: I'm looking for. I'm raising these kids, but I don't

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Speaker 1: know if I'm doing it right. I'm trying to discipline

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Speaker 1: them and be their friends. Sometimes I don't know which

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Speaker 1: one to be at each which time. And I want

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Speaker 1: them to love me, but I need them to fear me.

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Speaker 1: So I don't know which one to be right now.

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Speaker 1: And I'm trying to be patient, but I'm also trying

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Speaker 1: to be proactive. And sometimes I don't know what's waiting

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Speaker 1: on God and what's pushing ahead because I hear both.

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Speaker 1: I hear step out the boat and I hear stay

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Speaker 1: in the boat, and I don't know what to do

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Speaker 1: with boat and boat. I don't even have a boat

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Speaker 1: running like the water. So you got to look for

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Speaker 1: a synagogue, right That's where Paul would always start his preaching.

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Speaker 1: And to have a synagogue, you need everybody, say need

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Speaker 1: you need ten men at least but there's not ten

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Speaker 1: Jewish men to form a synagogue in Philippi. That's how

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Speaker 1: desperate the city is for what Paul had. And that's

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Speaker 1: why God had to tell him no about my sea

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Speaker 1: and know about Asia, because there was a more desperate

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Speaker 1: need somewhere else. I wonder if God told you no

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Speaker 1: for a reason. I wonder if God left you there

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Speaker 1: for a reason. Paul's looking. You've seen Clint Clinton this

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Speaker 1: big place. Mate. I saw a man in a vision,

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Speaker 1: and they go out one Sabbath and watched this since

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Speaker 1: they knew that there wasn't a synagogue Verse thirteen. On

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Speaker 1: the Sabbath, we stayed outside the city gate to the river,

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Speaker 1: where we expected to find a place of prayer. You'll

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Speaker 1: find what you're looking for. By the way, if you

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00:41:43,680 --> 00:41:45,719
Speaker 1: look for a place God is working, you will find

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Speaker 1: it in every situation. Ask Lanny if God will show

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Speaker 1: up in a hospital room. Ask him if God will

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00:41:52,719 --> 00:41:56,440
Speaker 1: show up in a desperate situation. Oh yeah. God will

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Speaker 1: show up at a custody hearing. Oh yeah. God will

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Speaker 1: show up in a bankruptcy. God will show up in

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Speaker 1: a divorce. God will show up in a broken heart.

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Speaker 1: God will show up in a season of despondency. God

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00:42:07,200 --> 00:42:09,640
Speaker 1: will show up in a crisis. God will show up

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Speaker 1: in national turmoil. God is here. I'm just looking for it.

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Speaker 1: So Paul says, I didn't find what I expected, and

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Speaker 1: I didn't get what I wanted, but my God will

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Speaker 1: meet all my needs. Now here's what God knew. I've

692
00:42:26,920 --> 00:42:28,960
Speaker 1: been waiting all week to show you this. So please

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Speaker 1: be merciful if I'm too excited and you don't like

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Speaker 1: my level of energy, because I've had all week to

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Speaker 1: get ready for this. There was a woman, let's hear

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Speaker 1: for the women one more time, who was what the

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00:42:41,800 --> 00:42:45,040
Speaker 1: Old Testament called a god fearer. Now, a god fear

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Speaker 1: is a gentile who believes in the Jewish God. So

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Speaker 1: she's ready to receive the message about Jesus Christ, the Messiah,

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Speaker 1: but she needs somebody to explain it to her. Well,

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Speaker 1: good news. There's somebody in Philippi who need somebody to

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Speaker 1: preach to. So somebody who needed the message got together

703
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Speaker 1: with somebody who needed a congregation. God is a need meeter.

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Speaker 1: God is a matchmaker. God knows how to put you

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Speaker 1: where you need to be to release what He gave

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Speaker 1: you to care. Don't leave yet, I'm not done. And

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Speaker 1: some of you needed this word today, and that's why

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00:43:35,080 --> 00:43:38,520
Speaker 1: you almost didn't get to church. That's why you almost

709
00:43:39,760 --> 00:43:42,560
Speaker 1: could go to the line. No, you needed this word.

710
00:43:42,840 --> 00:43:45,200
Speaker 1: So you got in your car and you got to

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00:43:45,280 --> 00:43:48,640
Speaker 1: this church because you have a need. Well, God gave

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00:43:48,719 --> 00:43:51,680
Speaker 1: me the word, and he gave you the need. And

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Speaker 1: I declare that my God shall supply all your tearing

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Speaker 1: up my stuff. So said that we expected to find

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Speaker 1: a place of prayer, but I bet they didn't expect this.

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Speaker 1: We sat down and began to speak to the women

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Speaker 1: who had gathered there. What did Paul see in his vision?

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Speaker 1: A man from Macedonia? What did he see when he

719
00:44:29,000 --> 00:44:34,239
Speaker 1: got to his assignment a woman. God's not going to

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Speaker 1: do it how you thought he was. It's not going

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00:44:41,160 --> 00:44:44,120
Speaker 1: to feel like you thought it would feel. He's not

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Speaker 1: going to do it who through you? Who you? He's

723
00:44:46,360 --> 00:44:48,000
Speaker 1: not going to do it through the people that you

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00:44:48,480 --> 00:44:50,600
Speaker 1: wanted him to do it through, because then you'd worship them,

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00:44:50,600 --> 00:44:56,319
Speaker 1: not him. No synagogue. Let's find a place of prayer.

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Speaker 1: That's where they could gather informally, and they would do

727
00:44:58,600 --> 00:45:01,399
Speaker 1: it by the river. Let's go to the river. Let's

728
00:45:01,400 --> 00:45:04,840
Speaker 1: go to the place we didn't find what we wanted.

729
00:45:04,960 --> 00:45:07,960
Speaker 1: But God's going to give us what we need. Remember

730
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Speaker 1: when can I do a Bible study with JJ real quick?

731
00:45:10,719 --> 00:45:12,359
Speaker 1: I want you appreciate a sequel to this. Next time

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Speaker 1: you're want to pumpet, do it from onet Ting seventeen.

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Speaker 1: Do it from the Widow at aera Fath. Elijah needs food,

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Speaker 1: she needs food. He sends somebody with the need to

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Speaker 1: somebody with the need. When he gets there, he says

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Speaker 1: to the widow, meet my need. She said, no, you

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Speaker 1: meet mine. And then Elijah says something that we can

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Speaker 1: learn from when you meet my need, God will meet

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00:45:34,960 --> 00:45:39,000
Speaker 1: your needs. Doesn't that sound like Philippians for and my God,

740
00:45:39,400 --> 00:45:42,160
Speaker 1: I got what you sent, I got what you supplied.

741
00:45:43,400 --> 00:45:47,840
Speaker 1: And now my God is gonna meet your needs because

742
00:45:47,880 --> 00:45:50,440
Speaker 1: you stopped thinking so much about your needs and focused

743
00:45:50,480 --> 00:45:58,040
Speaker 1: on somebody Else's my God. We'll meet all your needs.

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Speaker 1: And there's one woman and we need to put her

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Speaker 1: in the list. You know, good for Daniel, good for Noah,

746
00:46:04,440 --> 00:46:08,520
Speaker 1: that old drunk boat building drunk. But let's put let's

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00:46:08,560 --> 00:46:13,600
Speaker 1: put Lydia in the list because one of the people listening.

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00:46:16,440 --> 00:46:23,360
Speaker 1: There's always somebody listening. You never know who's listening. You

749
00:46:23,400 --> 00:46:26,160
Speaker 1: see how I'm preaching today, like I'm fighting something or

750
00:46:26,200 --> 00:46:30,360
Speaker 1: like you see see it? Because I never know who's listening.

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00:46:31,719 --> 00:46:37,000
Speaker 1: I never know who's listening. And this week, somebody very

752
00:46:37,000 --> 00:46:39,200
Speaker 1: famous was texting me about a message that I preached,

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00:46:39,200 --> 00:46:41,719
Speaker 1: and one of my kids was like, how cool is that.

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00:46:41,800 --> 00:46:44,000
Speaker 1: I was like, it's really cool. You never know who's listening.

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00:46:45,360 --> 00:46:48,399
Speaker 1: But it might not be a celebrity that God wants

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00:46:48,440 --> 00:46:52,240
Speaker 1: to speak to the most today. It might be somebody.

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00:46:52,680 --> 00:46:54,160
Speaker 1: I'm not going to ask you to raise your hand,

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00:46:54,160 --> 00:46:56,719
Speaker 1: but if I did. Ninety percent of this church has

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00:46:56,760 --> 00:47:00,400
Speaker 1: never heard a sermon about Lydia, and yet I weren't

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00:47:00,440 --> 00:47:03,000
Speaker 1: for her, there would have been no church in Philippi.

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00:47:05,640 --> 00:47:08,719
Speaker 1: It was just as important who was listening as it

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00:47:08,840 --> 00:47:12,160
Speaker 1: was who was preaching. And we've got to do away

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Speaker 1: with the celebrity culture, where God only uses people who

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00:47:16,520 --> 00:47:20,000
Speaker 1: have a certain number of followers or who have reached

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00:47:20,000 --> 00:47:24,880
Speaker 1: an elevated status in the world's eyes. We are not

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Speaker 1: all Paul. I'm not Paul, You're not Paul. But there

767
00:47:29,320 --> 00:47:31,520
Speaker 1: was a woman named Lydia, and God was shown me

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Speaker 1: this week in my study. You've got a church full

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Speaker 1: of Lydia's some men, some women, but they're unlikely. People

770
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Speaker 1: who see themselves as unlikely, but they are the missing link.

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Speaker 1: And when they begin to see themselves as a vessel

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Speaker 1: and not just a receptacle. And when they begin to

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Speaker 1: see themselves as the conduit through which I want to

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00:47:57,680 --> 00:48:00,840
Speaker 1: bless the people around them, the earth will not be

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Speaker 1: able to contain the increase of the measure of the

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00:48:02,800 --> 00:48:07,640
Speaker 1: glory of the Lord. God is looking for Lydia. God

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00:48:07,719 --> 00:48:11,799
Speaker 1: shut down a whole Apostolic tour because he was looking

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Speaker 1: for Lydia. Paul didn't know her name, but he went

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Speaker 1: where he thought he was supposed to go, because sometimes

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Speaker 1: all you can do is obey the best you know how,

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00:48:22,719 --> 00:48:25,200
Speaker 1: let that set you free. Paul didn't even know what

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00:48:25,239 --> 00:48:27,320
Speaker 1: he was looking for, but he was doing his best

783
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Speaker 1: to be obedient, are you, because if you will, you'll

784
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Speaker 1: always find a Lydia. Lydia was a woman verse fifteen,

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Speaker 1: excuse me fourteen from the city of Thiatyra, formerly known

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Speaker 1: as the Kingdom of Lydia. So her name probably wasn't Lydia,

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00:48:49,760 --> 00:48:51,360
Speaker 1: but that's where she was from, and that's how they

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00:48:51,440 --> 00:48:56,480
Speaker 1: often referred to women in those days, and she was

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Speaker 1: a dealer in purple cloth. So purple's the expensive stuff.

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00:49:03,760 --> 00:49:07,960
Speaker 1: If you deal purple claw, you make bank. And I

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Speaker 1: know it's cringey what I just said, Elijah, I don't

792
00:49:09,760 --> 00:49:12,680
Speaker 1: even need to hear about it. After the sermon, Lydia

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00:49:12,719 --> 00:49:18,440
Speaker 1: didn't need money. She needed a message. Paul had the message.

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Speaker 1: She had the money. And when his need and her

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Speaker 1: need met, the Church in the West was born. Because

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Speaker 1: God is a need meeter. But God does not meet

797
00:49:33,760 --> 00:49:39,600
Speaker 1: needs independently of his people. He uses us. There's a

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00:49:39,680 --> 00:49:42,279
Speaker 1: tendency in a church this size to look around and go,

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00:49:43,880 --> 00:49:46,600
Speaker 1: I don't think they need me here. So then you

800
00:49:46,600 --> 00:49:49,400
Speaker 1: get all focused on yourself. You know, how is the

801
00:49:49,400 --> 00:49:53,960
Speaker 1: sermon today? Yeah? A little long, It's all right, what

802
00:49:54,000 --> 00:49:57,480
Speaker 1: do you talk about? Some guy named Philip? I think

803
00:49:57,560 --> 00:50:02,840
Speaker 1: his name. Give me, give me, give me, give me,

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00:50:02,840 --> 00:50:04,040
Speaker 1: give me, give me, give me, give me, give me,

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Speaker 1: give me, give me. But there's a perspective shift, there's

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Speaker 1: a ps there's a Paul said, my God will meet

807
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Speaker 1: all your needs. He said, I didn't even need the money.

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00:50:17,400 --> 00:50:26,320
Speaker 1: You needed the message. And so Paul shows up. Lydia's

809
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Speaker 1: sitting down. He saw a man in the vision, but

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Speaker 1: he sees a woman by the river. God shows up

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Speaker 1: how he wants to show up, through disappointment, sometimes through

812
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Speaker 1: what seems to be a setback, sometimes through unexpected people.

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Speaker 1: A dealer in purple cloth, she was a worshiper of

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Speaker 1: God or a God fear She was close. You know,

815
00:50:48,120 --> 00:50:49,800
Speaker 1: there's people in your life who are close to the

816
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Speaker 1: kingdom and they're waiting on somebody who would have the willingness.

817
00:50:55,680 --> 00:50:59,160
Speaker 1: There are people in your circle who need the presence

818
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Speaker 1: of God, and God put you in their life. And

819
00:51:04,600 --> 00:51:06,719
Speaker 1: you're part of a church. At many of our locations,

820
00:51:06,719 --> 00:51:10,480
Speaker 1: we have so many seats available. Everybody could bring somebody

821
00:51:10,760 --> 00:51:14,320
Speaker 1: next weekend we'd be full of everybody found one person

822
00:51:14,320 --> 00:51:17,600
Speaker 1: who needed Jesus last week, our church would double in

823
00:51:17,640 --> 00:51:20,880
Speaker 1: one week. And not even thinking about the impact of

824
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Speaker 1: our Etham that's watching online. I mean we use social

825
00:51:25,120 --> 00:51:29,680
Speaker 1: media to spread everything. Why not the message of the

826
00:51:29,680 --> 00:51:32,919
Speaker 1: only name that saves. Why would you sit on a message?

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Speaker 1: Why would you sit on something that has the power

828
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Speaker 1: to say? Paul took the message across the sea. And

829
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Speaker 1: sometimes I'm burdened that we just come to get our

830
00:51:45,560 --> 00:51:49,160
Speaker 1: needs met and we don't get them met. Because God

831
00:51:49,200 --> 00:51:53,000
Speaker 1: doesn't meet your needs. Through thinking about your needs, You've

832
00:51:53,040 --> 00:51:55,920
Speaker 1: got to get outside of yourself and outside of your customs,

833
00:51:56,000 --> 00:51:59,120
Speaker 1: and outside of your traditions, and outside of your expectations,

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Speaker 1: and outside of your entitlement. Paul said, it's not even

835
00:52:03,160 --> 00:52:07,840
Speaker 1: about me and this woman Lydia. I don't know a

836
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Speaker 1: whole lot about her, except for I'm thankful for her.

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Speaker 1: And I feel like there are many Lydias watching me

838
00:52:15,520 --> 00:52:19,960
Speaker 1: today whose names may never be known, but whose purpose

839
00:52:20,560 --> 00:52:24,080
Speaker 1: is important. And watch what happened when Paul's need to

840
00:52:24,120 --> 00:52:30,160
Speaker 1: preach met her need to hear. This woman who was

841
00:52:30,160 --> 00:52:32,560
Speaker 1: sitting by the river, it says, the Lord opened her

842
00:52:32,600 --> 00:52:36,840
Speaker 1: heart to respond to Paul's message. That means she decided

843
00:52:36,880 --> 00:52:39,400
Speaker 1: to become a follower of Christ. And when she and

844
00:52:39,440 --> 00:52:42,440
Speaker 1: the members of her household see it's never just about you,

845
00:52:43,719 --> 00:52:46,319
Speaker 1: It's not just about you. The first thing she did

846
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Speaker 1: when she was touched by the power of God was

847
00:52:49,920 --> 00:52:53,520
Speaker 1: to think about somebody else. God, Who have you connected

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Speaker 1: me to that needs You, that needs hope, that needs Jesus?

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Speaker 1: And I love the language, it says. After those who

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Speaker 1: were in her household were baptized, the people closest to her,

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Speaker 1: she invited us to her home. If you consider me

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Speaker 1: a believer in the Lord. She said, come and stay

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Speaker 1: at my house. And she persuaded us, and the Lord

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Speaker 1: told me like this, he said, I opened her heart

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Speaker 1: and she opened her house. And some of the people

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Speaker 1: that you've preached to, I've opened their heart and I've

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Speaker 1: blessed them, but they haven't opened their house yet. And

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Speaker 1: they're in this big church just thinking about me and

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Speaker 1: my nees. And it's so easy to do, and I

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Speaker 1: do it all the time, and so we sing about

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Speaker 1: breakthroughs and blessings and it's good. It's good, it's good.

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Speaker 1: I promise, man, I help write the song. I know

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Speaker 1: a breakthrough is coming. By faith. I see you, my God.

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Speaker 1: God told me to tell you, be the breakthrough. Be

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Speaker 1: the breakthrough, Be the breakthrough, Be the breakthrough. Be the

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Speaker 1: breakthrough for somebody else, and watch how God will break

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Speaker 1: through for you. Be the breakthrough for someone else. It's

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Speaker 1: time to turn the pain. You've been rehearsing it over

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Speaker 1: and over again. It's time to release it and ask

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Speaker 1: God to use it. God lets you go through that

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Speaker 1: for something. God didn't just keep you through all of

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Speaker 1: that so you could just be a survivor. You are

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Speaker 1: to be an agent of change and the world needs

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Speaker 1: what we have, but we've got to give it and God,

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Speaker 1: God is looking for Lydia, and I want to pray

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Speaker 1: for you right now. I was intentional about this message

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Speaker 1: going into my new series because it's going to be

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Speaker 1: so helpful for people who are fighting demons. They don't

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Speaker 1: even know they're fighting, they don't even know how to name.

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Speaker 1: But the best thing we can do is not just

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Speaker 1: come and get our needs man, but ask God to

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Speaker 1: open our eyes to the needs of those who are

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Speaker 1: around us. The harvest is plentiful, and I want to

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Speaker 1: take a moment as the pastor of this church. This

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Speaker 1: is not a performance. This is a partnership. I'm gonna

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Speaker 1: say it again, this is not a performance. And I

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Speaker 1: can't do this by myself. This church was built on

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Speaker 1: sacrificial people Dan Horner and Eric Miller and guys that

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Speaker 1: have been with me for a long time who are

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Speaker 1: willing to open their lives and say, yeah, there's people

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Speaker 1: in my life who need Jesus, and there's things I have,

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Speaker 1: and there's resources and the answers yes. And I want

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Speaker 1: to stand you up right now with no one leaving

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Speaker 1: and disrupting the moment for someone. And I want you

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Speaker 1: to get someone on your mind at every location. Campus pastors,

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Speaker 1: I want you to get near the stage so you

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Speaker 1: can agree in faith with this prayer. And I want

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Speaker 1: to agree with you in faith concerning someone in your

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Speaker 1: life who needs Jesus, someone who needs the Lord that

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Speaker 1: God has put you in contact with. And I want

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Speaker 1: to pray that you would have the eyes to see

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Speaker 1: other people's need this week, that this week God would

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Speaker 1: open your eyes. Oh God, forgive us. We've been praying

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Speaker 1: to meet my needs, and you've been trying to open

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Speaker 1: our eyes to see the blessing that we already have

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Speaker 1: in You. The only way for our needs to be met,

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Speaker 1: or to meet the needs of the world that you love.

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Speaker 1: And God, we ask you now to use us. We

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Speaker 1: want to see what you can do through us. We've

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Speaker 1: seen what you can do for us, and we lose

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Speaker 1: sight of it when we close our hearts. And so

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Speaker 1: we offer ourselves to you as instruments. God puts somebody

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Speaker 1: on their heart this week, somebody that they work with

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Speaker 1: or live next to, or something in Maybe they'll have

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Speaker 1: to ask a few times, but which you bring people

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Speaker 1: here next week for this new series who need you

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Speaker 1: and use us to meet those needs. We can't save them,

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Speaker 1: that's not our job, but we can be a link.

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Speaker 1: We could be a Lydia. We ask right now that

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Speaker 1: you would do a great work through us in this series,

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Speaker 1: that you would supply and meet every need according to

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Speaker 1: your glorious riches. Well, I hope you enjoyed the podcast today.

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Speaker 1: If you did, there are just a couple things I'd

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Speaker 1: love for you to do. Number One, subscribe to our show.

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Speaker 1: That way, the most recent episode will always be in

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Speaker 1: your feed, waiting for you ready when you are. And Secondly,

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Speaker 1: if this ministry has impacted you and you'd like to

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Speaker 1: help us continue to reach others, you can click the

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Speaker 1: link in the description and you can give now and

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Speaker 1: I'll see you next time on the Elevation Podcast