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Speaker 1: Hey, this is Stephen Furtick.

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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. I

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Speaker 2: hope this inspires you. I hope it builds your faith.

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Speaker 2: I hope it gives you perspective to see God is

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Speaker 2: moving in your life. Enjoy the message. I love worshiping

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Speaker 2: the Lord with you. I don't need you with me

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Speaker 2: for me to worship, but I prefer it.

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Speaker 1: Because it's so amazing.

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Speaker 3: One thing I want you to get better at is

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Speaker 3: weaving worship into your week. I want you to not

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Speaker 3: wait until you get here to see what songs we're

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Speaker 3: going to sing to worship. I want you to begin

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Speaker 3: to weave worship into the difficult parts of your week,

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Speaker 3: the weary parts of your week. We'll talk a little

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Speaker 3: bit about that a little more in the sermon, but

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Speaker 3: for right now, just hug 10 people and tell them,'

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Speaker 3: It is well with my soul.' Welcome to all of

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Speaker 3: our campuses. Welcome to Elevation Blakeney, celebrating a 16-year anniversary.

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Speaker 1: Wow.

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Speaker 3: Happy 16th anniversary, Elevation Blakeney. Are y'all going crazy over

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Speaker 3: there at Blakeney right now?

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Speaker 1: Come on, Blakeney. Make some noise. Oh, Elevation Blakeney to

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Speaker 1: all of our campuses.

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Speaker 3: Elevation Columbia, Elevation Concord, Elevation, wherever you are. Hey, if

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Speaker 3: you're watching online, I'm watching from Elevation, and then put

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Speaker 3: the name of your city or your town.

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Speaker 1: We have 90 of our eFam.

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Speaker 3: Volunteer leaders here with us today.

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Speaker 4: See, that's why the room feels so good.

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Speaker 5: You came all this way to give God praise, and

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Speaker 5: you're not going to waste a single minute Somebody over

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Speaker 5: here came to give God praise, and they're not waiting.

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Speaker 3: Just one question to those of us who are local.

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Speaker 3: What if we were that excited every week when we

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Speaker 3: got here? That's amazing. Thank you. Thank you for all

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Speaker 3: you do to serve in this church. I'm so honored

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Speaker 3: that you would consider this your church, even though some

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Speaker 3: of you live in other countries, other nations like Texas.

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Speaker 3: Such a dumb preacher joke. Even just to be together

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Speaker 3: today … You know God unites us by his Spirit,

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Speaker 3: I'm so excited about what he's going to do. As

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Speaker 3: the comments are coming in right now, I want us

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Speaker 3: to get ready for the word of the Lord. I

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Speaker 3: would like for you to remain standing. I'm going to

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Speaker 3: be back in John chapter 21.

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Speaker 4: This is probably the last.

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Speaker 3: Week I'll be in John 21. I'm kind of stuck

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Speaker 3: in John 21. I didn't plan to be stuck in

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Speaker 3: John 21 for three weeks.

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Speaker 1: I wish I could tell you.

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Speaker 3: There was some deep reason that I'm in John 21,

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Speaker 3: like this is our 21st year of ministry. So I'm

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Speaker 3: finishing the year in John 21. It wasn't anything smart

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Speaker 3: speaking to me. And I just want to read a

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Speaker 3: few verses. We read them last week, but we weren't

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Speaker 3: really able to focus on them because we were talking

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Speaker 3: about some other things. But in John chapter 21, Jesus

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Speaker 1: Him his next assignment.

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Speaker 3: And is such a happy moment for Peter because he's

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Speaker 3: also preparing Peter to feed others. After he gives him

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Speaker 3: that assignment, he says something kind of strange in verse 18.

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Speaker 1: It's going to sound depressing, but it's not.

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Speaker 3: When I unpack it, you'll see it's not fatalistic.

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Speaker 3: He says in verse 18, John chapter 21, Very truly

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Speaker 3: I tell you, when you were younger, you dressed yourself

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Speaker 3: you will stretch out your hands, and someone else will

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Speaker 3: to go. That's why I let Abby pick out my

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Speaker 1: But that's not what it means, obviously.

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Speaker 1: Think about that for a moment. He's preparing Peter for that.

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Speaker 1: Death by which Peter would glorify God. Then he said

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Speaker 1: to him, Follow me. This is surprising. In verse 20,

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Speaker 3: And saw that the disciple whom Jesus loved was following them.

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Speaker 3: This was the one who had leaned back against Jesus

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Speaker 3: This is what we said last week. We said that

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Speaker 3: you can't follow Jesus while you're facing John. We're seeing

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Speaker 3: in this moment Peter is making decision. When Peter saw him,

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Speaker 3: he asked, Lord, what about him? Jesus answered, if I

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Speaker 3: want him to remain alive until I return, what is

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Speaker 3: that to you? You must follow me. That's where I

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Speaker 3: want to take off and preach from.

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Speaker 1: You must follow me.

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Speaker 3: Now, last week my message was called, The Best Is

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Speaker 3: Not Behind You. No matter what you've been through, the

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Speaker 3: best is not behind you. No matter how uncertain the

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Speaker 3: future is, the best is not behind you. So as

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Speaker 3: a follow-up message to that, you would think I would preach,

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Speaker 3: you know, the best is ahead, right?

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Speaker 1: That's what I thought too.

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Speaker 3: And then I prayed about it, and I thought, well,

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Speaker 3: you know, that's what I want to say.

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Speaker 1: But what the Lord.

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Speaker 3: Gave me to say today is a message called, the

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Speaker 3: best is in between. The best is in between. not

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Speaker 3: behind you, not yet ahead, but the best is in between. Lord,

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Speaker 3: I thank you for what you showed me. Help me

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Speaker 3: to feed your sheep as you have fed me. I

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Speaker 3: give you all the praise for what you speak in

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Speaker 3: this pulpit today. In Jesus' name, amen. The best is

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Speaker 3: in between. Tell three people on your way to your seat,

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Speaker 3: the best is in between. Now, again … That's not

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Speaker 3: what I want to call the message. I want to

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Speaker 3: call it, The Best is Yet to Come. I love

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Speaker 3: all that Ephesians 3.20 energy. Now unto him who is

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Speaker 3: able to do immeasurably more than we ask or imagine.

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Speaker 3: Fidelity to the text required me to call the message today,

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Speaker 3: The Best is Inbetween. Honestly, the experience of my life

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Speaker 3: led me to preach this message called the best is

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Speaker 3: in between. I hate it, because that's my least favorite

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Speaker 3: place to be, is tween. I don't want to be

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Speaker 3: between in anything. I don't want to be in traffic.

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Speaker 3: That's between where I left and where I'm going. I

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Speaker 3: don't want to be in a midlife crisis.

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Speaker 1: At least let me have silver fox.

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Speaker 3: Wisdom or something like that and dashing good looks. Don't

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Speaker 3: call it a crisis. I don't want to be in

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Speaker 3: the mid-crisis. I want to be in between. I don't

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Speaker 3: even really like the part where I get my message

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Speaker 3: I get to preach it.

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Speaker 1: That's the hardest part for me.

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Speaker 3: If I could just get the message and then We

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Speaker 3: could just magically throw up the Elevation logo, bat signal

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Speaker 3: into the sky, and everybody could descend upon the church.

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Speaker 3: The hardest part for me sometimes … It's holding something

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Speaker 1: I have this word from the.

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Speaker 1: Between now and then. It's the between. That's where my

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Speaker 1: battle is. It's the between. That's why I have to

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Speaker 3: When I'm in a good mood, because I might not

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Speaker 3: then I'm not going to go. But if I've already

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Speaker 3: my mood changed, because I have to fight this battle

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Speaker 3: that hated in between, but pray for Holly. Y'all pray

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Speaker 3: for Holly. Y'all think she's perfect, and y'all spend all

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Speaker 3: your prayers on me, but Holly said the worst hot

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Speaker 3: take the other day. She said this out loud. She

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Speaker 3: She said, fall is the most overrated season.

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Speaker 4: Blasphemy.

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Speaker 3: Fall is my favorite season. How many, like your pastor,

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Speaker 3: have discernment from the Holy Spirit and know that fall

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Speaker 3: how can you hate? this season of change and possibility

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Speaker 3: that you celebrate called summer.

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Speaker 1: I said, it's so pretty. How could you not like it?

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Speaker 3: She said, but it's only like three days that fall

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Speaker 3: I realized why she doesn't like fall. It's an in-between

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Speaker 3: it represents the end of summer, the beginning of winter.

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Speaker 3: sad because I like the leaves. So you get three

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Speaker 4: So dramatic.

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Speaker 1: Pray for her. Just enjoy the beautiful colors. So dramatic.

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Speaker 3: But in between seasons can make you feel that way. Certainly,

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Speaker 3: it can make you feel that way when you are

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Speaker 3: more to your in-between. That's why I said weave worship

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Speaker 3: into your week, because I can't do everything for you

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Speaker 3: that needs to be done for you on Sunday in

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Speaker 3: one concentrated dose of 40 minutes.

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Speaker 1: Let's be honest.

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Speaker 3: Fifty-five minutes.

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Speaker 1: But even if I.

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Speaker 3: Spent the entire day preaching to you, you need God

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Speaker 3: in between. This is not in my notes, so it

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Speaker 3: must be supposed to come out right now. You are

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Speaker 3: spending too much of your time between Sundays without God

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Speaker 1: Work like that.

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Speaker 3: But we understand that God is in every season, and

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Speaker 3: but there are certain seasons that feel in between, which

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Speaker 3: is why when Jesus says to Peter something that on

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Speaker 3: the surface sounds like it's very morbid. When you were younger,

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Speaker 1: Someone else will dress you where you do not.

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Speaker 3: which Peter would glorify God. Then he said to him,

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Speaker 3: this is the important part, follow me.

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Speaker 3: better than. I was feeling pretty good about my life

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Speaker 3: until I saw their car, and it was better than mine.

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Speaker 1: Sometimes I feel pretty good.

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Speaker 3: About a sermon, and then I mess around and watch

446
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Speaker 3: one of my friends preach, and their sermon was better

447
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Speaker 3: than mine. I have certain friends I have learned not

448
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Speaker 3: to watch on Monday, because whatever I tried to do

449
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Speaker 3: up here, they did that in the first five minutes.

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Speaker 3: I need to keep my peace a little bit, because

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Speaker 3: I preached the best I knew how. If I get

452
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Speaker 3: on there and start scrolling … That's why I told

453
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Speaker 3: you not to put Instagram back on your phone.

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Speaker 1: You're too susceptible right now.

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Speaker 3: When you're walking through things in your life and you're

456
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Speaker 3: off balance in certain seasons, the worst things you can

457
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Speaker 3: do when you're off balance is look back Now you're

458
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Speaker 3: off balance and looking back, and this is why the

459
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Speaker 3: comparison game is killing you. It's not because your life

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Speaker 3: is bad. It's because you're looking at something you think

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Speaker 3: is better than the life you have.

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Speaker 1: But what if better than is just a.

463
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Speaker 3: Frame of mind? What if their life isn't better? What

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Speaker 3: if they don't have.

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Speaker 1: A better life?

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Speaker 3: What if they just have a better filter? What if

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Speaker 3: they don't have a better life? What if they just

468
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Speaker 3: put a better part? I'm seeing too many people who

469
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Speaker 3: God has blessed, but you're looking at something you think

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Speaker 3: is better or imagining a future you think is going

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Speaker 3: to be better or looking back at a past you

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Speaker 3: think is better. Don't scream.

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Speaker 1: Save your voice.

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Speaker 3: But my Bible says that Jesus is superior to the

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Speaker 3: old covenant. That means that as Peter is walking through

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Speaker 3: his next step of his life, As you are walking

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Speaker 3: through this next season of your life, you cannot afford

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Speaker 3: to be distracted by something God has not given you

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Speaker 3: that you think is better.

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Speaker 1: The Devil is tripping you up over better.

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Speaker 3: You're looking at somebody else. They have a better opportunity.

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Speaker 3: They have a better job. They have a better husband.

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Speaker 3: Holly has never said that. They have a better wife.

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Speaker 3: Come on. They have a better gift. Their gift isn't better.

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Speaker 3: Their life isn't better. Their job isn't better. Let me

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Speaker 3: tell you how I know that. Because what God gave

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Speaker 3: you is what God will.

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Speaker 1: Sustain you for. You must follow Jesus.

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Speaker 3: Y'all got enough on point one, distracted disciples? Touch somebody

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Speaker 3: and say, it's a distraction. It's a distraction. It's not bad,

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Speaker 3: but it's a distraction. It's not a bad thing. It

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Speaker 3: doesn't have to be a bad thing to be a distraction.

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Speaker 3: The moment that you start turning around between steps to

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Speaker 3: see how God is.

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Speaker 1: Leading someone else. Look at me.

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Speaker 3: You have to parent your children the way God calls

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Speaker 3: you to parent your children. Well, they're homeschooling their children.

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Speaker 3: Perhaps I should homeschool my children. Perhaps there would be

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Speaker 3: homicide if you.

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Speaker 1: Homeschooled your children.

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Speaker 3: Have you ever thought about that? I'm just using examples

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Speaker 3: as they come to my mind. Pray for me that

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Speaker 3: I don't say anything inappropriate. I didn't plan on saying that.

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Speaker 1: It just sounded similar. Homeschool homicide. It sounded like one

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Speaker 1: thing could lead to the other. If you're trying to

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Speaker 1: look at John, you're going to.

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Speaker 3: Fall over, because you were not intended to do it

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Speaker 3: that way. It's not bad, but it's a distraction. I

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Speaker 3: found myself judging somebody so much this week. so much,

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Speaker 3: and the Lord rebuked me for it. It was just

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Speaker 3: in my heart. Why are they saying that? Why are

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Speaker 3: they doing that? The Holy Spirit spoke to me. They,

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Speaker 3: that person that you are so quick to think you

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Speaker 3: know about their motives, they have to follow me, and

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Speaker 3: so do you.

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Speaker 4: So it was as if the Lord said to me,

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Speaker 4: I'll use them how.

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Speaker 1: I want to.

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Speaker 3: I'll everybody that you're jealous of that's making more money

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Speaker 3: is paying more taxes.

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Speaker 1: You're like, I'd like to try that.

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Speaker 3: I'd like to volunteer to follow that path. Your path

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Speaker 3: reflects God's purpose for you, and it reflects your personality,

524
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Speaker 3: and you are so distracted right now. Look at me confused,

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Speaker 3: but I know you are distracted right now. Looking back

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Speaker 3: at John … Remember, Peter made John his problems. but

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Speaker 3: God wanted John to be his partner. You see what

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Speaker 3: I'm saying? You can be distracted by bad, or you

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Speaker 3: can be distracted by better and be blind to the

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Speaker 3: thing that God has put right there. Why was John

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Speaker 3: following Jesus and Peter? I kind of wondered that myself.

532
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Speaker 3: I thought, that's kind of stalker behavior. Jesus and Peter.

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Speaker 1: Having a conversation. John's back there just creeping back there like,

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Speaker 1: talk about me.

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Speaker 3: Then Peter … So, we have distracted disciples. Number two,

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Speaker 3: we have divine disruption.

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Speaker 1: Write that down, please.

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Speaker 3: If you're watching this on YouTube or at a later time,

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Speaker 3: put the points in the comments. Distracted disciples and divine disruptions.

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Speaker 1: You see what it is?

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Speaker 3: It's Jesus interrupting what Peter has always been to make

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Speaker 3: him what he was called to be. He's between a

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Speaker 3: fisherman and a shepherd. How many would say that's a

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Speaker 3: career shift? One is in water, and one is on land.

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Speaker 3: One you catch them and clean them and eat them,

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Speaker 3: and one you care for them. He said, feed my

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Speaker 3: sheep when Peter is used to fishing.

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Speaker 1: What's Peter? In between.

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Speaker 3: Everything significant that happens in your life.

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Speaker 1: Is going to be in between. You think in between

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Speaker 1: is bad.

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Speaker 3: Why?

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Speaker 1: Because I don't like the way this feels. I don't

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Speaker 1: like the way … I like how this feels, but

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Speaker 1: I'm ready for you. Come at me right now. Come on,

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Speaker 1: right now. Come on, right now.

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Speaker 3: I'm ready for you, but if you catch me like

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Speaker 3: this … Sometimes we are so afraid of this that

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Speaker 3: we just do this, and we don't follow Jesus.

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Speaker 1: We don't take the next step. Who am I preaching to?

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Speaker 3: We get stuck in an in-between season because we won't

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Speaker 3: take the next step.

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Speaker 1: But what I.

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Speaker 3: Love about God is that as Peter is transitioning, John

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Speaker 3: is right behind him. These are two very different people.

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Speaker 3: John is the one leaning back on Jesus' breast at

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Speaker 3: the Last Supper. Peter is the one cutting off Malchus'

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Speaker 3: ear in the garden. Jesus is like,' Y' all two need

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Speaker 3: to work together.' because I need one person who can

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Speaker 3: cut it off, one person who can put it back on,

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Speaker 3: one person who can lean, one person who can lead.

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Speaker 3: Here are Peter and John.

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Speaker 1: Notice that Jesus says, Peter, this is how you did

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Speaker 1: it when you were young. This is how you're going

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Speaker 1: to do it when you're old. He doesn't give any

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Speaker 1: details about the in-between. Just two words. Follow me.

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Speaker 4: Just two words. Follow him.

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Speaker 1: That's it.

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Speaker 3: That's all you get for this season. That's all you

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Speaker 3: get for this step is to take the next one.

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Speaker 3: But the beautiful thing about God is that he had

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Speaker 3: already forecasted Peter's future into every step with which he

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Speaker 3: had commanded him to follow.

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Speaker 1: So, when Jesus says, follow me to Peter, he sees.

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Speaker 3: Everything that's going to happen in Acts 1.

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Speaker 1: When Peter looks at.

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Speaker 3: The whole group and says, We have to replace Judas.

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Speaker 3: We need to get busy. The psalm says another needs

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Speaker 3: to take his place. Jesus said, Follow me, and he

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Speaker 3: saw all of that. Follow me, because I have something.

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Speaker 1: For you to do in Acts 1.

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Speaker 3: Jesus, when he says, Follow me, sees Peter in Acts 2.

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Speaker 4: When they were waiting in between when.

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Speaker 3: Jesus ascended into heaven and the Holy Spirit had not

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Speaker 3: yet been given. He saw Peter standing up among the twelve,

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Speaker 3: and he saw Peter standing up in front of the

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Speaker 3: crowds on the.

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Speaker 1: Day of Pentecost. and preaching.

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Speaker 3: He preached so hard, and he preached so convicting, and

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Speaker 3: he preached so much with the Holy Spirit's power that

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Speaker 3: 3,000 were saved that day. Peter saw none of that.

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Speaker 3: Jesus saw all of that. Peter knew none of that.

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Speaker 3: Jesus knew all of that. Peter is going, I'm not

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Speaker 3: so sure about that. Jesus is going, Come on.

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Speaker 1: Next step.

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Speaker 3: Come on.

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Speaker 1: Acts 1.

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Speaker 3: Come on.

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Speaker 1: Acts 2.

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Speaker 3: Come on.

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Speaker 1: Acts 3.

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Speaker 3: Peter did not see John, chapter 4, when they would

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Speaker 3: throw him in prison because of a miracle he was

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Speaker 3: a part of. But Jesus saw Peter getting out of

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Speaker 3: prison saying.

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Speaker 1: We have to obey God, not men.

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Speaker 3: I have to preach the gospel, not listen to y'all.

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Speaker 1: Peter didn't see that. Jesus saw that.

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Speaker 3: Peter didn't see in Acts, chapter 5, when there would

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Speaker 3: be an opportunity for sick people to be brought down

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Speaker 3: the street. and Peter's anointing was so powerful that they

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Speaker 3: couldn't get people to meet Peter, so they would lay

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Speaker 3: them out on the streets in hopes that Peter's shadow

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Speaker 3: would pass by and cast over them and they could

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Speaker 3: be healed. Peter was unsure, but Jesus already saw the

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Speaker 3: potential in Peter's shadow. that even the shadow of his uncertainty,

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Speaker 3: even the shadows God can use, Jesus sees all of

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Speaker 3: that in me in John 21. Peter did not see

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Speaker 3: that in Acts 9 he would look at a man

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Speaker 3: who had been bedridden for eight years and say,' Get

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Speaker 3: up in the name of Jesus,'.

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Speaker 1: And it would work.

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Speaker 3: Peter did not see that when a lady named Dorcas

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Speaker 3: would die, who had been good to the Lord's people,

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Speaker 3: that Peter would say, which sounds like, which is what

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Speaker 3: Jesus said.

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Speaker 1: When he healed a little girl.

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Speaker 3: But this was a different example of the same power

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Speaker 3: that walked with Jesus when he walked the earth. Peter

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Speaker 3: didn't see that in Acts, chapter 12, he'd be praying

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Speaker 3: on a roof, and the Spirit of the Lord would

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Speaker 3: call him to go into the home of a Gentile

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Speaker 3: named Cornelius and bring the good news beyond barriers. Peter

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Speaker 3: didn't see that he would be sleeping in prison, and

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Speaker 3: an angel would open the doors, and he would come

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Speaker 3: out of the prison, and the gate would open by itself.

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Speaker 1: All he knows.

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Speaker 3: In John 21.

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Speaker 1: Is follow me. So, I share this with you because

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Speaker 1: the best is in between.

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Speaker 3: It may not feel the best, but that's when you

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Speaker 3: get to know him the best. Are y'all bored or

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Speaker 3: introspective right now? It kind of feels the same.

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Speaker 1: We're processing, Pastor. Okay.

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Speaker 3: Process, but give me a little amen every now and

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Speaker 3: then so I can know.

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Speaker 1: Okay. In between. In between. In between. You've been in between.

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Speaker 1: You've been in between.

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Speaker 3: And now you're trying to go to back then, but when,

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Speaker 3: better than.

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Speaker 1: No, no, no, no, no.

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Speaker 3: God promises to be in between. Because the first miracle

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Speaker 3: that they did without Jesus in Acts chapter 3 starts

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Speaker 3: this way. One day, Peter and John. So, the thing

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Speaker 3: that he was distracted by, God used because Peter and

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Speaker 3: John were going up to the temple at the time

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Speaker 3: of prayer.

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Speaker 1: Watch this.

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Speaker 3: At three in the afternoon. This verse could be a series,

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Speaker 3: because everything in it is in between. Everything in Acts

671
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Speaker 3: chapter 3 is in between. For one, they're going to

672
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Speaker 3: the temple. That was the old place of worship, but

673
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Speaker 3: they're carrying the gospel. That's the new covenant. So, now

674
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Speaker 3: you have two men going together to a temple that

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Speaker 3: no longer works.

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Speaker 1: But it's the place they have to go. Have you

677
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Speaker 1: ever been there?

678
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Speaker 3: Have you ever had something inside of you change, but

679
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Speaker 3: the situation hasn't reflected that yet? Going up to the

680
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Speaker 3: temple together. So we've come a long way now. The

681
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Speaker 3: Spirit has been given. God is about to do a miracle,

682
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Speaker 3: but watch where the miracle is going to be. It's

683
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Speaker 3: going to be in between. The miracle is going to

684
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Speaker 3: be in between. In your life, the miracle is going

685
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Speaker 3: to be in between. It's not going to be when

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Speaker 3: you get there. It's not going to be back where

687
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Speaker 3: you came from. It's not going to be like it

688
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Speaker 3: used to be. It's not going to be like you

689
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Speaker 3: think it's going to be. It's not going to be

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Speaker 3: like your imagination. Your imagination is idolatry. You have made

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Speaker 3: a future that does not require God. You have made

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Speaker 3: a future in a carbon copy of your past. That

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Speaker 3: is not God telling you that your life is going

694
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Speaker 3: to be easier. That is God telling you, follow me,

695
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Speaker 3: and I'll be with you. Not only is follow me

696
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Speaker 3: a command, follow me is a promise. If he says,

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Speaker 3: follow me, that means he's going to be there every

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Speaker 3: step of the way. So I declare over whatever doctor's

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Speaker 3: appointment you have this week, God is going to be

700
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Speaker 3: in the doctor's office. I declare over what conversation you

701
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Speaker 3: have to have with your kid. Everything is in between.

702
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Speaker 3: Peter is a fisherman who is learning how to become

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Speaker 3: a shepherd.

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Speaker 1: They're going to a temple, but they're carrying the gospel.

705
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Speaker 3: They've got Jesus a new and living way, but they

706
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Speaker 3: have an old community.

707
00:39:56,930 --> 00:39:59,110
Speaker 4: Everything is in between, and we.

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Speaker 1: Expect a rival in our lives? No. The best is

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Speaker 1: in between. That's where God reveals himself. Not only are

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Speaker 1: they going to the temple, but notice the time. Three

711
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Speaker 1: in the afternoon.

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Speaker 3: That is my least productive time of the day. At night,

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Speaker 3: I can sleep. In the morning, I have coffee. At

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Speaker 3: three in the.

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Speaker 4: Afternoon, I can't drink the coffee, because now I'll be

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Speaker 4: up all night.

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Speaker 1: I'm telling you all middle-aged problems.

718
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Speaker 4: I can't drink the coffee, because I'll be up all night.

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Speaker 4: Three in the afternoon? That's not morning. That's not night.

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Speaker 3: That's in between.

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Speaker 1: They're going to the temple.

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Speaker 3: Okay, I'll act it out. If y'all would be nicer,

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Speaker 3: I wouldn't have to act this stuff out. I'm just

724
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Speaker 3: doing this to get this point across to you. I

725
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Speaker 3: don't really want to do this. But they're going up

726
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Speaker 3: to the temple at the time of prayer, three in

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Speaker 3: the afternoon. Verse 2, now a man who was lame

728
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Speaker 3: from birth was being carried to the temple gate called Beautiful,

729
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Speaker 3: where he was put every day to beg from those

730
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Speaker 3: going into the temple courts. When he saw Peter …

731
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Speaker 3: John was about to enter. He asked him for money.

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Speaker 1: What's that? That's a distraction?

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Speaker 5: No.

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Speaker 1: That is a divine disruption.

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Speaker 3: Because this man … Watch what's about to happen. He

736
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Speaker 3: is about to be the first miracle that is going

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Speaker 3: to be performed by the apostles without the physical presence

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Speaker 3: of Jesus.

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Speaker 1: It did not happen when they got to the temple.

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Speaker 1: It happened while they were on the way.

741
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Speaker 3: In other words, the miracle was in between. Boy, when

742
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Speaker 3: we get to the temple, we're going to pray. Boy,

743
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Speaker 3: when I get this house paid off, I'm going to celebrate.

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Speaker 1: You better praise him on the way. You better praise

745
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Speaker 1: him with every payment. You better praise.

746
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Speaker 3: Him with every good … You better praise him with

747
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Speaker 3: every sunny day.

748
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Speaker 1: You better praise him with every day you don't take

749
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Speaker 1: a drink.

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Speaker 3: You better praise him with every good conversation.

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Speaker 1: You better praise him on the way. You wait until

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Speaker 1: you get there. That's an illusion. You better praise him

753
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Speaker 1: on the way.

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Speaker 3: Watch what God does on the way. High-five.

755
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Speaker 1: Three people say, it's on the way. It's on the way.

756
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Speaker 3: That's where God does it.

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Speaker 4: On the way.

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Speaker 1: It's in between. It's not when you get there. It's

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Speaker 1: not where you came from.

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Speaker 3: It's on the way. They're on the way, and there's

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Speaker 3: something in the way while they're on the way. But

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Speaker 3: what God put in the way while they were on

763
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Speaker 3: the way feels.

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Speaker 1: Like preaching a sermon. I'm trying awful hard, trying to

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Speaker 1: contain myself.

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Speaker 3: This is really like.

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Speaker 1: Five sermons in one sermon.

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Speaker 3: This is really like a conference message.

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Speaker 1: This is really like a breakthrough word, because I came

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Speaker 1: to tell somebody, it's on the way.

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Speaker 3: God is not through. Die! Next step, it's.

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Speaker 1: On the way.

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Speaker 3: Next breath, it's on the way. Next phrase, it's on

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Speaker 3: the way. High five three more people and say, it's

775
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Speaker 3: on the way. Three people for Acts, chapter 3.

776
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Speaker 4: Acts, chapter 1, 2, 3.

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Speaker 3: Now it's 3 in the afternoon in Acts, chapter 3.

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Speaker 1: I have Peter and John.

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Speaker 4: That's two.

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Speaker 1: But I have Jesus. That's three.

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Speaker 3: So now I'm in the middle of a transition where

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Speaker 3: they're going to the temple, but they're filled with the Spirit.

783
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Speaker 3: They're going to the temple, but they're carrying the gospel,

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Speaker 3: and they see a man who looks like a distraction,

785
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Speaker 3: but he is actually a divine disruption.

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Speaker 1: Verse 4 on the screen, please. We're getting there. No,

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Speaker 1: I'm not going to rush it. I'm not rushing nothing.

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Speaker 1: I studied way too much, because you want some Chipotle.

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Speaker 3: I'm supposed to wrap this sermon up. You'd better eat

790
00:44:20,739 --> 00:44:23,440
Speaker 3: something out of your purse. You'd better get a snack

791
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Speaker 3: in between.

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Speaker 1: You don't have time. We're telling the church, we're going

793
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Speaker 1: to pray. You're in our way. We're going to pray.

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Speaker 1: This man was in their way.

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Speaker 4: They're going to pray.

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Speaker 3: But see, Jesus saw Peter preaching while Peter thought he

797
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Speaker 3: was going to pray. Verse 4. Peter looked straight at him,

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Speaker 3: as did John. Then Peter said, Look at us. So

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Speaker 3: the man gave them his attention. That's the most powerful

800
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Speaker 3: exchange of currency, by the way, attention.

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Speaker 1: Distracted disciples.

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Speaker 3: Do you think this miracle would have happened if Peter

803
00:45:19,120 --> 00:45:21,390
Speaker 3: and John had just got an iPhone duo and they

804
00:45:21,410 --> 00:45:23,549
Speaker 3: were coming to the church at the time of prayer?

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Speaker 1: They wouldn't have even seen the man.

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Speaker 3: We're distracted disciples, but the Lord brought you here today

807
00:45:32,469 --> 00:45:37,070
Speaker 3: for a divine disruption, a disruption of your thought patterns

808
00:45:37,110 --> 00:45:39,890
Speaker 3: that are staying stuck in back then, a disruption of

809
00:45:39,910 --> 00:45:42,770
Speaker 3: your thought patterns that are projecting out to but when,

810
00:45:43,130 --> 00:45:44,390
Speaker 3: or the better-than thing.

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Speaker 1: Now we have Peter and John working together. We don't

812
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Speaker 1: see in John.

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Speaker 3: Chapter 21, that Peter follows Jesus, but we see it

814
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Speaker 3: in Acts.

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Speaker 1: This first miracle happened with two.

816
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Speaker 3: Men, Peter and and John through a man who wasn't

817
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Speaker 3: even at the gate yet. Everything is in between. The

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Speaker 3: best things happen in between. Peter said, Look at us.

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Speaker 3: So the man gave them his attention, expecting to get

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Speaker 3: something from them. One time, 15 years ago, I preached

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Speaker 3: on he was expecting change, like he was shaking this

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Speaker 3: cup expecting change.

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Speaker 4: Oh, he got change all right.

824
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Speaker 1: Watch this.

825
00:46:29,600 --> 00:46:34,069
Speaker 3: Tell somebody, I'm expecting something.

826
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Speaker 1: I'm expecting God to do something.

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Speaker 3: I don't know what it's going to be, but I'm

828
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Speaker 3: expecting God to move in my situation. I'm expecting God

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Speaker 3: to work this out. I don't know how he's going

830
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Speaker 3: to work it out.

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Speaker 1: I don't know when.

832
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Speaker 3: It looks like he's a little late right now. I

833
00:46:45,000 --> 00:46:46,520
Speaker 3: feel like I've been calling on him a long time.

834
00:46:46,540 --> 00:46:48,020
Speaker 3: It feels like it's not going to change, but I'm

835
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Speaker 3: expecting something.

836
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Speaker 1: I'm not there yet. I'm in between, but I'm expecting something.

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Speaker 1: I don't have it all figured out yet. I'm in between,

838
00:46:54,610 --> 00:46:55,710
Speaker 1: but I'm expecting something.

839
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Speaker 3: I'm not completely free of it yet, but I'm expecting

840
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Speaker 3: God to break a chain so I can break them

841
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Speaker 3: for my children, so I can break them for the

842
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Speaker 3: next generation, so I can have a testimony that, look

843
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Speaker 3: what the Lord has done. I'm expecting something in between. See,

844
00:47:12,440 --> 00:47:15,000
Speaker 3: you expect it when you get there. You expect it

845
00:47:15,040 --> 00:47:17,500
Speaker 3: where you came from, but he.

846
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Speaker 1: Was expecting something. Then Peter said … Silver or.

847
00:47:22,890 --> 00:47:24,690
Speaker 3: Gold I do not have, but what I have I

848
00:47:24,750 --> 00:47:27,029
Speaker 3: give you in the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth. So,

849
00:47:27,050 --> 00:47:51,239
Speaker 3: I don't know what's next, but I know Jesus. And

850
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Speaker 3: he met me on the shore after I fished all

851
00:47:53,880 --> 00:47:57,650
Speaker 3: night and caught nothing. And he told me to walk.

852
00:47:58,510 --> 00:48:01,790
Speaker 3: And he walked with me through Acts chapter 1. And

853
00:48:01,830 --> 00:48:04,910
Speaker 3: he walked with me through Acts chapter 2. And he

854
00:48:04,989 --> 00:48:09,310
Speaker 3: walked me to this gate. And now Peter declares, in

855
00:48:09,370 --> 00:48:18,620
Speaker 3: the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, walk, walk. Walk.

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Speaker 1: Take a step right now in your seat.

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Speaker 6: Walk.

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Speaker 1: Put your foot down.

859
00:48:23,250 --> 00:48:25,850
Speaker 4: On something right there in your seat and walk.

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Speaker 3: This is what it means to be in between. The

861
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Speaker 3: man did something absolutely amazing, church. When he took him

862
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Speaker 3: by the right hand and helped him up, it says

863
00:48:42,650 --> 00:48:48,609
Speaker 3: that instantly the man's feet and ankles became strong.

864
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Speaker 4: And he jumped. He is doing the most.

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Speaker 3: Because when you've never been able to walk before …

866
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Speaker 3: Come on. When you've never been able to walk before,

867
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Speaker 3: when you've watched everybody else … That's why y'all are

868
00:49:11,560 --> 00:49:13,540
Speaker 3: praising God better, because.

869
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Speaker 1: You don't get to come in.

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00:49:14,469 --> 00:49:15,850
Speaker 4: The room every Sunday.

871
00:49:16,410 --> 00:49:19,830
Speaker 3: But when you get here and God meets with you …

872
00:49:20,400 --> 00:49:22,060
Speaker 3: and this is the place where he.

873
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Speaker 1: Touched your life.

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00:49:27,070 --> 00:49:31,029
Speaker 3: So he said, in the name of Jesus Christ of

875
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Speaker 3: Nazareth ….

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Speaker 1: That's what I see you doing this week. I see

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Speaker 1: you walking.

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00:49:37,870 --> 00:49:41,230
Speaker 3: I see you walking toward your next season. I see

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Speaker 3: you walking even though it's uncertain, even though it feels

880
00:49:44,510 --> 00:49:48,250
Speaker 3: off balance. I see you walking with your eyes on Jesus.

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00:49:48,750 --> 00:49:52,350
Speaker 3: When have we seen Peter walking with his eyes on Jesus?

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00:49:52,860 --> 00:49:57,540
Speaker 3: Was it not during a storm when he saw someone

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Speaker 3: across the waves?

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Speaker 1: And a voice said, Come. Peter said, I'm coming. I'm unstable,

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Speaker 1: but I'm coming. I'm off balance, but I'm coming.

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Speaker 4: Because this is a divine disruption.

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Speaker 3: This is a moment in your life when the Holy

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Speaker 3: Spirit has got you in between He's changing you. He's

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Speaker 3: working on you. He's rearranging some things. He's making you new.

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Speaker 3: He's transforming you into the image of his beloved Son.

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Speaker 3: He's making you more like Jesus. He's teaching you to

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Speaker 3: depend on Jesus. He's teaching you to trust his heart,

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Speaker 3: not just his hand.

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Speaker 1: He's changing something in my life.

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Speaker 3: The leaves are falling off the trees, and there may

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Speaker 3: be a winter, but every winter yields to spring.

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Speaker 1: He's changing something. He's doing something.

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Speaker 4: I'm just in between right now. He jumped to his

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Speaker 4: feet and began to.

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Speaker 3: Walk.

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Speaker 1: Then he went with them. into the temple courts, walking, jumping,

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Speaker 1: praising God.

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Speaker 3: Verse 9 says, when all.

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Speaker 1: The people saw him walking and praising God ….

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Speaker 3: I'll show you one more thing. They recognized him as

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Speaker 3: the same man who used to sit begging at the

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Speaker 3: temple gate called Beautiful, and they were filled with wonder

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Speaker 3: and amazement at what had happened to him.

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Speaker 1: This is what I leave you with. Verse 11.

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Speaker 3: While the man held on to Peter and John, all

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Speaker 3: the people were astonished and came running to them in

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Speaker 3: the place called Solomon's Colonnade. So when the passage started,

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Speaker 3: he was begging at the gate. When the passage ended,

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Speaker 3: he had one arm around John. one arm around Peter.

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Speaker 3: He was standing in between. The people.

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Speaker 1: Came running to see what God did.

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Speaker 3: With the man in between. I want to say to

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Speaker 3: you today, you're not broken.

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Speaker 1: You're just in between.

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Speaker 6: You can hold on to him, because this is an

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Speaker 6: undeniable demonstration.

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Speaker 3: You know, if Peter would have preached, maybe it would

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Speaker 3: have been effective.

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Speaker 1: Maybe it wouldn't.

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Speaker 3: But when everybody came running, and saw the man who

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Speaker 3: was in between, the man who used to beg but

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Speaker 3: started to walk. The Bible says that their number increased

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Speaker 3: to 5,000 that day because of something in between. I

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Speaker 3: can't help but wonder, what are you in between today?

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Speaker 3: Whatever that is, I declare there will be glory.

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Speaker 1: After this.

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Speaker 3: We are so fixated on how it's going to be

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Speaker 3: when we get there. We are so focused on how

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Speaker 3: it was where we came from, but in between is

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Speaker 3: the place where Jesus promises to be.

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Speaker 1: So, in the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth …

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Speaker 1: Stand up. Like, literally.

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Speaker 3: Not symbolically, like, yes, I'm standing for the Lord. No, like,

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Speaker 3: stand up right now. And declare to the person next

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Speaker 3: to you, the best is in between. Come on, just

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Speaker 3: reach around and tell about seven people, the best is

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Speaker 3: in between, the best is in between.

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Speaker 1: You think God won't be in between? You are absolutely crazy.

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Speaker 3: Ask Moses, standing in the Red Sea, if God will

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Speaker 3: be in between. God will send an angel in between

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Speaker 3: you and your enemies. God will be in between. Do

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Speaker 3: you think God won't be in between? Ask Daniel if

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Speaker 3: you're looking at a lion's fangs. Won't God get in

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Speaker 3: between you and the lions so that you never feel

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Speaker 3: their teeth? I'm telling you God will be in between.

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Speaker 3: You think God won't be in between? Ask Shadrach, Meshach,

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Speaker 3: and Abednego about a fourth man walking around a fire.

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Speaker 4: God will stand between me and the fire.

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Speaker 1: You think Jesus won't be in between? Ask the thief

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Speaker 1: on the cross.

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Speaker 3: There wasn't just one cross that day. There was one

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Speaker 3: for the future and one for the past and one

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Speaker 3: for Jesus who stands between them saying, Today, you will

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Speaker 3: be with me. Today, today in paradise.

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Speaker 1: The man held on to Peter and John.

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Speaker 3: Why? Because just like Peter was.

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Speaker 1: Walking and following Jesus, I don't know how but I

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Speaker 1: know who.

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Speaker 3: God, I thank you today that even when we're on

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Speaker 3: the way and even when we're not there yet and

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Speaker 3: even when the residue of where we have been is

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Speaker 3: still weighing us heavy with the regret of yesterday, that

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Speaker 3: the best is in between. Because you are on the boat,

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Speaker 3: and you sleep through the storm, not because you don't care,

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Speaker 3: because you already know what's on the other side.

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Speaker 1: I know you, God.

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Speaker 3: I know you because I've seen you in my own

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Speaker 3: life time.

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Speaker 1: And time again.

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Speaker 3: Do what I couldn't do, and I pray that in

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Speaker 3: the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth.

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Speaker 1: Who I know, that we will walk forward.

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Speaker 3: Take a screenshot and share it on your social stories

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Speaker 3: and tag us at Elevation Church.

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Speaker 1: Thanks again for listening. God bless you.