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Speaker 1: Hey, this is Stephen Ferdick.

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

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

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Speaker 2: this inspires you. Hope it builds your faith. Hope it

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Speaker 2: gives you perspective to see God is moving in your life.

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Speaker 2: Enjoy the message. Blessings upon you today. Grace and mercy

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Speaker 2: to you in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ,

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Speaker 2: who has blessed us with every spiritual blessing in heavenly places.

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Speaker 2: May the God of all Comfort comfort you today. May

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Speaker 2: the God of all Peace guard your heart and your mind.

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Speaker 1: I'm glad you're here.

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Speaker 2: If you're watching online, I'm glad you chose.

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Speaker 1: To watch this video.

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Speaker 2: God knows, there's a lot of other stuff you could

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Speaker 2: have watched on the internet. Here you are listening to

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Speaker 2: a holy ghost preacher. Today, God might just speak to you.

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Speaker 2: This word might just make you chump.

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Speaker 1: Your phone might heat up with this word today.

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Speaker 2: The presence of the Lord is in this place. I

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Speaker 2: got five people that agree with me at Valentine. How

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Speaker 2: about Universities City, Matthews, how about.

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Speaker 1: Y'all up here in the top section.

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Speaker 2: Do you believe that con can does something amazing today.

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Speaker 1: Glory to God. I'm fired up.

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Speaker 2: I got the Holy ghosts. I'm burning up. Tell your

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Speaker 2: neighbor if you brought cold water, don't pour your water

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Speaker 2: on me. Tell him I got the Holy ghosts and

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Speaker 2: I'm burning up. Anybody burning up today?

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Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, I don't need a son of the burn up.

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Speaker 2: I got the spirit of the Lord. I feel it

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Speaker 2: heating up right now. This is an amazing day in

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Speaker 2: your life. And I need you to know that if

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Speaker 2: you need to get a record of who you were

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Speaker 2: before this series, you need to take a selfie right now,

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Speaker 2: because you will be.

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Speaker 1: Unrecognizable seven weeks from now.

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Speaker 2: What God is about to do in your life. No,

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Speaker 2: I declare it, I decree it, and I choose to

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Speaker 2: believe that. Today I'm releasing to my church my first

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Speaker 2: new book in eight years, Do the New You.

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Speaker 1: Can you get it first? That's right. This is written

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Speaker 1: so I can come home with you. Sound kind of weird.

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Speaker 1: This is where I get to coach you.

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Speaker 2: This is where I get to be a voice in

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Speaker 2: your life that reminds you that you are the righteousness

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Speaker 2: of God in Jesus Christ, the voice in your life

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Speaker 2: that helps you realize that you are more than the

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Speaker 2: math of what is against you, that you are more

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Speaker 2: than the mistakes that you have made, that the great

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Speaker 2: I am lives in you, and whatever he is, you

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Speaker 2: are too who. I feel a flow coming, Give me

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Speaker 2: an acoustic guitar ready for when I finished reaching. I

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Speaker 2: feel fresh oil, I feel fresh songs. I feel a

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Speaker 2: fresh word. Come into your house today. I'm excited and

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Speaker 2: we've been going absolutely crazy. I'm gonna read you the

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Speaker 2: scripture in a moment. So stay standing if you are standing,

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Speaker 2: and stand up if you're not, because I want you ready.

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Speaker 1: We've been really overdoing it.

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Speaker 2: I think I told Holly, we've got so much content

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Speaker 2: coming your way. Next week you'll get to hear about

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Speaker 2: our e group study your very own Holly Ferdic has created.

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Speaker 1: For you with our team.

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Speaker 2: Let's thank God for her. Yeah, to walk you through

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Speaker 2: each week what we're doing. Take it further so you

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Speaker 2: can get the book, you can get the audiobook. The

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Speaker 2: audiobook is that's the one. Yeah, that's the one. And

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Speaker 2: then I've also put together a masterclass for you with

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Speaker 2: a friend of mine who is a personal development and

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Speaker 2: also performance coach, and we get into it from the

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Speaker 2: Biblical side. But then how many know if you have

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Speaker 2: the truth but you don't have the tools to put

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Speaker 2: the truth into practice. Sometimes it's like a seed that

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Speaker 2: doesn't take root and bear fruit in your life.

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Speaker 1: So that's going to be available.

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Speaker 2: I sat down with my oldest son, Elijah and JT

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Speaker 2: and recorded for the Youth Nation podcast a special conversation

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Speaker 2: that's been eighteen years in the making, ever since Elijah

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Speaker 2: was born, and that will be dropping later this week,

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Speaker 2: and the book is available. But today I want to

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Speaker 2: want to go to the scripture that started it all,

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Speaker 1: Oh, I'm excited. Jeremiah Chapter one. Jeremiah Chapter one.

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Speaker 1: I got more verses, but I could stop right there

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Speaker 2: The word of the Lord came to me, saying, First

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Speaker 2: of all, the word is perpetual. It came to me,

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Speaker 2: doesn't just come once. When God said let there be light,

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Speaker 2: there can still be light because he's still speaking.

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Speaker 2: The word of the Lord came to me.

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Speaker 2: And this is where we want to get today. Verse five.

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Speaker 2: But the Lord, this sounds like an interruption of your insecurities.

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Speaker 2: Would you let God interrupt your security in your insecurities

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Speaker 2: But the Lord, somebody say, but the Lord said to me,

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Speaker 2: So the Lord said to me, do not say I

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Speaker 2: Then the Lord reached out his hand and touched my

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Speaker 2: our brand new series, Do the New You.

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Speaker 1: Is God chose you. Will you.

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Speaker 2: Put that in the comments right now? God shows you now,

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Speaker 1: You're with me in Jesus' name. Amen. Amen, you may

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Speaker 1: be seated. Wow.

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Speaker 2: You feel like we could go home on that, but

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Speaker 2: from what I see as a pastor, you do too.

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Speaker 2: And the first step to this, I would contend, does

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Speaker 2: God who changes you. And the God that changes you

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Speaker 2: is the God that created you. Start taking notes at

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Speaker 2: want this message to be special. So I got all

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Speaker 2: I'm not the most technological person, and I'm going to

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Speaker 1: How many of you are visual learners? Uh huh?

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Speaker 2: And how many of you are what's the other auditory learners?

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Speaker 2: You are using that device far beneath its full potential.

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Speaker 2: It was absolutely anathema to him, the curse of Lucifer himself,

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Speaker 2: And he looked at it and said, I wish I

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Speaker 2: uniquely you. Here's what it means, that part of you

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Speaker 2: that is being corrupted by its deceitful desires. And the

445
00:25:55,400 --> 00:25:59,600
Speaker 2: problem with you being you is that sometimes what you

446
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Speaker 2: think you want is in conflict with who you really are.

447
00:26:06,200 --> 00:26:10,640
Speaker 2: You will find yourself in many different states throughout any

448
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Speaker 2: given day. And I'm not calling you schizophrenic. I am saying,

449
00:26:15,840 --> 00:26:19,680
Speaker 2: by nature of the fact that you are a spirit

450
00:26:19,760 --> 00:26:23,720
Speaker 2: that lives in a body, sometimes your body will try

451
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Speaker 2: to get you to sell your birthright for a bowl.

452
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Speaker 2: Help me preach, would you please? Graham heard the story

453
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Speaker 2: about Jacob and Esault.

454
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Speaker 1: I shared with him.

455
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Speaker 2: How Jacob all of his life was trying to get

456
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Speaker 2: a blessing that wasn't his by pretending to be something

457
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Speaker 2: that he was not. And he didn't have to because

458
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Speaker 2: God wanted to bless Jacob. But I even shared the

459
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Speaker 2: part where Jacob was blessing and he grabbed his father's

460
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Speaker 2: right hand and put it on his head because the

461
00:26:52,920 --> 00:26:54,440
Speaker 2: right hand was the right hand of blessing.

462
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Speaker 1: And he crossed his father's right hand and received the.

463
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Speaker 2: Blessing that was reserved for the firstborn. And I stole

464
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Speaker 2: it from Esau and I told him that story. And

465
00:27:03,240 --> 00:27:05,840
Speaker 2: that night I was praying with Graham and Elijah before

466
00:27:05,880 --> 00:27:08,840
Speaker 2: they went to bed, and I thought Graham's hand grabbed

467
00:27:08,840 --> 00:27:10,960
Speaker 2: my right hand and he put it on his head

468
00:27:11,520 --> 00:27:16,040
Speaker 2: and he said, just call me Jacob Sucker. And he

469
00:27:16,200 --> 00:27:22,720
Speaker 2: was five, and I started praying for him. And he's

470
00:27:22,760 --> 00:27:27,480
Speaker 2: an amazing boy, and I see good things in his life,

471
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Speaker 2: and I believe he has a birthright. And I coach

472
00:27:32,520 --> 00:27:35,480
Speaker 2: my boys, and I coach my daughter, and I have

473
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Speaker 2: to coach myself. And I coach you this way that

474
00:27:41,040 --> 00:27:45,240
Speaker 2: when you give up what you want most for what

475
00:27:45,280 --> 00:27:51,840
Speaker 2: you want. Now you're not doing you You're being deceived.

476
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Speaker 2: And I can tell you're being deceived. When people say like, well,

477
00:28:00,640 --> 00:28:04,480
Speaker 2: that's just how I am, I just go off, that's

478
00:28:04,520 --> 00:28:08,199
Speaker 2: just how I am. I just say what I think.

479
00:28:09,040 --> 00:28:15,000
Speaker 2: That is a bad strategy. Have you ever cataloged your thoughts?

480
00:28:15,440 --> 00:28:21,240
Speaker 2: Not all of them are FDA approved. And I believe

481
00:28:21,320 --> 00:28:27,320
Speaker 2: this message is important to a generation that is running

482
00:28:27,359 --> 00:28:32,840
Speaker 2: around saying things like live your truth, because if he

483
00:28:33,000 --> 00:28:37,000
Speaker 2: lives his truth, he's gonna find himself in moments where

484
00:28:37,000 --> 00:28:40,120
Speaker 2: it will feel true to him that this temptation.

485
00:28:39,840 --> 00:28:43,600
Speaker 1: Is stronger than my faith, but it's not. There will

486
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Speaker 1: be moments where.

487
00:28:44,360 --> 00:28:48,080
Speaker 2: It'll feel to him like popularity is more important than calling,

488
00:28:48,520 --> 00:28:52,400
Speaker 2: but it's not. There will be moments where he will

489
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Speaker 2: feel that something is true.

490
00:28:54,440 --> 00:28:56,320
Speaker 1: But what if what you feel.

491
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Speaker 2: Is true is actually a trap. Warn your neighbor real quick,

492
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Speaker 2: touch him and say it's a trap. It's a trap

493
00:29:06,280 --> 00:29:09,080
Speaker 2: to act outside of the character that God has placed

494
00:29:09,120 --> 00:29:12,000
Speaker 2: inside of you and call that you. It's a trap.

495
00:29:12,920 --> 00:29:15,080
Speaker 2: The enemy has some of you trapped and you don't

496
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Speaker 2: know it. He has you trapped in the prison of

497
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Speaker 2: what you call your personality. So now you run around

498
00:29:22,160 --> 00:29:24,760
Speaker 2: saying things like, well, that's just the kind of person

499
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Speaker 2: that I am. Well, if the kind of person that

500
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Speaker 2: I am doesn't match the kind of God that he is,

501
00:29:30,920 --> 00:29:33,120
Speaker 2: I've got to change some things and.

502
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Speaker 1: Choose some things.

503
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Speaker 2: Come on, God didn't tell Jeremiah, do you? God said,

504
00:29:46,600 --> 00:29:54,280
Speaker 2: I knew you. Steve Jobs has nothing on God. Steve

505
00:29:54,400 --> 00:29:59,440
Speaker 2: Jobs made an iPad. God made watch this a resurrection.

506
00:30:01,480 --> 00:30:05,080
Speaker 2: And the Bible says that the same power that raised

507
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Speaker 2: Christ from the.

508
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Speaker 1: Dead lives in you.

509
00:30:08,720 --> 00:30:13,400
Speaker 2: Touch your neighbors say he's talking about you. And so

510
00:30:13,680 --> 00:30:16,520
Speaker 2: one time I remember being in high school. I don't

511
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Speaker 2: know if I told you this story before. Maybe I

512
00:30:18,040 --> 00:30:21,400
Speaker 2: told you ten times. And everybody was getting high and

513
00:30:21,440 --> 00:30:23,480
Speaker 2: I had never been high in my life, and I

514
00:30:23,600 --> 00:30:25,960
Speaker 2: was that night planning to get high. And I remember

515
00:30:26,000 --> 00:30:27,800
Speaker 2: feeling like, I'm sick of being a good kid. I'm

516
00:30:27,840 --> 00:30:29,400
Speaker 2: sick of being alone on Saturday nights.

517
00:30:29,480 --> 00:30:31,560
Speaker 1: I'm sick of this. I'm going to actually do it tonight.

518
00:30:31,680 --> 00:30:33,800
Speaker 2: And I remember when I grabbed it and I went

519
00:30:33,840 --> 00:30:36,840
Speaker 2: to smoke it, and my friend slapped it out of

520
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Speaker 2: my hand and he looked at me and said.

521
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Speaker 1: This isn't you. And I came.

522
00:30:47,160 --> 00:30:53,080
Speaker 2: I came to Valentine, North Carolina today to tell you.

523
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Speaker 1: That's not you.

524
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Speaker 2: Everything that's sabotaging you.

525
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Speaker 3: I slap it out hand and I declare, that's not you.

526
00:31:04,680 --> 00:31:06,560
Speaker 3: Henry Habit, that's not you.

527
00:31:07,560 --> 00:31:10,200
Speaker 2: Look at your neighbors, say that's not you.

528
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Speaker 1: Go slap them.

529
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Speaker 2: I don't want to start anything, but when I feel

530
00:31:13,280 --> 00:31:15,520
Speaker 2: it rising up in me to take me down, I

531
00:31:15,680 --> 00:31:16,239
Speaker 2: slap it.

532
00:31:16,440 --> 00:31:21,240
Speaker 1: I demolish strongholds. The weapons of my warfare are not carnal,

533
00:31:21,520 --> 00:31:22,960
Speaker 1: but they're mighty through God.

534
00:31:23,320 --> 00:31:24,920
Speaker 3: Because this isn't you.

535
00:31:28,720 --> 00:31:29,760
Speaker 1: Nothing new you.

536
00:31:31,480 --> 00:31:35,320
Speaker 2: But see we're confused because we think that if it's automatic,

537
00:31:36,080 --> 00:31:47,400
Speaker 2: that makes it authentic. I am not what I feel.

538
00:31:49,600 --> 00:31:55,760
Speaker 1: I am not what I do. I am what God's

539
00:31:55,880 --> 00:31:57,240
Speaker 1: word says.

540
00:31:57,000 --> 00:32:00,320
Speaker 2: I am, and he is the great I am. This

541
00:32:00,440 --> 00:32:04,560
Speaker 2: changed my life because I wrote down the phrase do you,

542
00:32:04,640 --> 00:32:09,040
Speaker 2: and then I said, no, the new you. Jeremiah one

543
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Speaker 2: to five, give it to me the you that God

544
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Speaker 2: says he knew.

545
00:32:16,000 --> 00:32:21,120
Speaker 1: So maybe we should spell it different. Maybe doing the

546
00:32:21,200 --> 00:32:34,360
Speaker 1: new you man's doing the new you.

547
00:32:35,840 --> 00:32:42,760
Speaker 2: Thank you Jesus, you make all things new. Because let's

548
00:32:42,760 --> 00:32:44,440
Speaker 2: say I preach this to him and I'm like, okay,

549
00:32:44,600 --> 00:32:46,760
Speaker 2: so don't just do what you want to do, do

550
00:32:46,840 --> 00:32:47,320
Speaker 2: what God.

551
00:32:47,120 --> 00:32:48,960
Speaker 1: Tells you to do. So then you get out of

552
00:32:48,960 --> 00:32:49,240
Speaker 1: the trap.

553
00:32:49,320 --> 00:32:51,720
Speaker 2: Right, everybody say trap, because I really think it's a

554
00:32:51,760 --> 00:32:54,080
Speaker 2: trap to have an experience, form it into a belief

555
00:32:54,120 --> 00:32:57,520
Speaker 2: and then call it your truth. That's a trap. That's

556
00:32:57,520 --> 00:33:01,960
Speaker 2: a trap. That's the track. But then let's say you

557
00:33:01,960 --> 00:33:04,600
Speaker 2: get out of the do you trap? Only to not

558
00:33:04,720 --> 00:33:08,800
Speaker 2: bring my next illustration out? And this if the bull

559
00:33:08,880 --> 00:33:10,960
Speaker 2: took a while, so this might really take a while.

560
00:33:14,160 --> 00:33:15,520
Speaker 2: Bring it on out. And now you're about to find

561
00:33:15,520 --> 00:33:22,080
Speaker 2: out why I brought Graham up for the illustration. Because

562
00:33:22,160 --> 00:33:24,080
Speaker 2: let's say you get out of the do you trap?

563
00:33:24,200 --> 00:33:26,120
Speaker 1: I'm just doing me. I'm just being me. That's just

564
00:33:26,160 --> 00:33:30,160
Speaker 1: how I am. Then you get out of the trap,

565
00:33:31,280 --> 00:33:34,080
Speaker 1: the do you trap? Just do you? Boo boo? Do you?

566
00:33:34,160 --> 00:33:36,600
Speaker 1: Just do you? You get out of that trap, You're like,

567
00:33:36,600 --> 00:33:39,680
Speaker 1: all right, I'm gonna change. And now that the devil

568
00:33:39,720 --> 00:33:40,920
Speaker 1: sees you're out of the trap.

569
00:33:40,680 --> 00:33:42,080
Speaker 2: And you want to change and you want to get

570
00:33:42,120 --> 00:33:44,080
Speaker 2: better and you're not happy with it exactly what like

571
00:33:44,120 --> 00:33:47,200
Speaker 2: it is? You get out of the do you trap

572
00:33:48,440 --> 00:33:54,920
Speaker 2: and you get onto the future? You treadmill? How many

573
00:33:54,960 --> 00:33:56,480
Speaker 2: didn't know this was a treadmill. You thought it was

574
00:33:56,480 --> 00:34:01,959
Speaker 2: a code rap. That's all how you use And this

575
00:34:02,040 --> 00:34:06,040
Speaker 2: is why I brought Graham on the stage. Now he's

576
00:34:06,080 --> 00:34:10,040
Speaker 2: out of the trap. But now let's say that self

577
00:34:10,080 --> 00:34:18,520
Speaker 2: discipline and religion puts them on a treadmill where he

578
00:34:18,600 --> 00:34:20,120
Speaker 2: starts looking at Okay.

579
00:34:19,960 --> 00:34:20,920
Speaker 1: I'm gonna do the new me.

580
00:34:21,800 --> 00:34:25,520
Speaker 2: I'm gonna wake up at five am. My friend wakes

581
00:34:25,600 --> 00:34:29,360
Speaker 2: up at six am. I'm gonna get up at five am.

582
00:34:29,680 --> 00:34:33,560
Speaker 2: I'm gonna read five books of the Bible today, five alive.

583
00:34:35,320 --> 00:34:37,640
Speaker 2: How many of y'all started with a real new year's

584
00:34:37,760 --> 00:34:40,880
Speaker 2: energy going into a new twenty four and we realize

585
00:34:40,920 --> 00:34:44,360
Speaker 2: we just take it a day at a time. I

586
00:34:44,360 --> 00:34:46,120
Speaker 2: think the crazy thing is and I would do this

587
00:34:46,160 --> 00:34:47,000
Speaker 2: illustration myself.

588
00:34:47,040 --> 00:34:52,479
Speaker 1: But I'm wearing these boots. They're new.

589
00:34:52,600 --> 00:34:55,880
Speaker 2: I can't increase these. These are my new book boots.

590
00:34:55,880 --> 00:34:58,920
Speaker 2: I'm not messing these up. They're heavy, and I'm not

591
00:34:58,960 --> 00:35:00,800
Speaker 2: called to the cardio man anyway.

592
00:35:01,200 --> 00:35:05,560
Speaker 1: I've told you all that before. So now here we go,

593
00:35:05,840 --> 00:35:08,680
Speaker 1: do the new you and go.

594
00:35:09,280 --> 00:35:12,720
Speaker 2: And so now the devil's got some of us out there,

595
00:35:12,800 --> 00:35:14,080
Speaker 2: not settling.

596
00:35:14,680 --> 00:35:21,600
Speaker 1: But striving, because to do you.

597
00:35:23,040 --> 00:35:25,000
Speaker 2: Just do? You? And not let God have his say,

598
00:35:25,120 --> 00:35:27,400
Speaker 2: and to commit and put yourself in concrete for what

599
00:35:27,440 --> 00:35:29,279
Speaker 2: you've been up to this point is a trap. I

600
00:35:29,280 --> 00:35:32,000
Speaker 2: know it looks like a bull is a trap, and

601
00:35:32,040 --> 00:35:33,640
Speaker 2: I know this looks like walking, but.

602
00:35:33,640 --> 00:35:34,719
Speaker 1: He's not going anywhere.

603
00:35:41,000 --> 00:35:44,520
Speaker 2: To just do you is to live your life cheated.

604
00:35:44,640 --> 00:35:49,319
Speaker 2: Everybody say cheated, But to get this idea in your

605
00:35:49,320 --> 00:35:53,279
Speaker 2: mind that there is a future you that God would

606
00:35:53,280 --> 00:35:56,919
Speaker 2: love more, or there is a future you that God

607
00:35:56,960 --> 00:36:00,719
Speaker 2: could use, or that there is a future you that

608
00:36:00,760 --> 00:36:03,919
Speaker 2: would be worthy of love in a relationship, or there

609
00:36:03,960 --> 00:36:06,560
Speaker 2: is a future you that could feel good about yourself

610
00:36:06,760 --> 00:36:07,480
Speaker 2: and your life.

611
00:36:07,600 --> 00:36:11,480
Speaker 1: And is just one accomplishment away.

612
00:36:12,760 --> 00:36:16,520
Speaker 2: Is to get out of the trap and onto the treadmill.

613
00:36:17,880 --> 00:36:21,440
Speaker 2: And as good as long as it's good, and it works,

614
00:36:21,480 --> 00:36:22,520
Speaker 2: as long as it works.

615
00:36:24,040 --> 00:36:26,040
Speaker 1: And I wonder are there some people here who.

616
00:36:25,880 --> 00:36:29,799
Speaker 2: Have been cheated because you've settled for what you thought

617
00:36:29,800 --> 00:36:33,120
Speaker 2: you were? But I also wonder are there some people

618
00:36:33,160 --> 00:36:38,279
Speaker 2: here who are chasing chasing something that you think you

619
00:36:38,360 --> 00:36:41,120
Speaker 2: need to be because you saw somebody else be it,

620
00:36:43,080 --> 00:36:47,200
Speaker 2: chasing something that you scrolled past and thought it was

621
00:36:47,239 --> 00:36:50,160
Speaker 2: the full story of what a happy family looked like.

622
00:36:50,960 --> 00:36:55,959
Speaker 1: Chasing after future you so goes like this, like, yeah, boy,

623
00:36:56,440 --> 00:36:57,879
Speaker 1: you're gonna be great one day.

624
00:36:58,320 --> 00:37:01,440
Speaker 2: All you gotta do is get through high school and

625
00:37:01,480 --> 00:37:03,520
Speaker 2: then you go to college. Now all you got to

626
00:37:03,560 --> 00:37:06,480
Speaker 2: do is get this degree. Now all you got to

627
00:37:06,520 --> 00:37:10,280
Speaker 2: do is find somebody who's actually hiring with that expensive

628
00:37:10,280 --> 00:37:12,560
Speaker 2: degree that you're going to be paying off for the

629
00:37:12,600 --> 00:37:17,240
Speaker 2: next fifty years. Come on, and so now I'm chasing,

630
00:37:17,520 --> 00:37:20,319
Speaker 2: and I'm coughing and I'm running, and I'm so glad

631
00:37:20,360 --> 00:37:22,400
Speaker 2: I had kids so they could do this part of

632
00:37:22,400 --> 00:37:25,600
Speaker 2: my illustrations. Now that my beard needs to be dyed.

633
00:37:26,040 --> 00:37:29,040
Speaker 2: Come on, and so now I'm chasing, and it's great.

634
00:37:29,280 --> 00:37:32,960
Speaker 2: But not only is it getting faster and faster and harder,

635
00:37:33,000 --> 00:37:35,560
Speaker 2: but I look around and I realize I don't think

636
00:37:35,600 --> 00:37:39,319
Speaker 2: I'm ever going to be anything but me. And here

637
00:37:39,360 --> 00:37:42,000
Speaker 2: I am thinking.

638
00:37:41,680 --> 00:37:43,040
Speaker 1: That somehow.

639
00:37:44,200 --> 00:37:46,239
Speaker 2: This collage watch, because here's what we do. We get

640
00:37:46,239 --> 00:37:48,600
Speaker 2: a collage, right, and then we get the person with

641
00:37:48,719 --> 00:37:51,280
Speaker 2: all the money, We get the person with all the girls,

642
00:37:51,360 --> 00:37:53,919
Speaker 2: We get the person with all the success, with all

643
00:37:53,920 --> 00:37:54,680
Speaker 2: the followers.

644
00:37:54,800 --> 00:37:57,040
Speaker 1: Oh, if I had a thousand followers, now you need

645
00:37:57,080 --> 00:38:00,480
Speaker 1: ten thousand. Just went up, just went up. Here comes

646
00:38:00,520 --> 00:38:02,920
Speaker 1: to incline. Now we got social media.

647
00:38:03,080 --> 00:38:05,799
Speaker 2: I didn't even have Twitter when I was a teenager, and.

648
00:38:05,680 --> 00:38:08,640
Speaker 1: It's not even called Twitter anymore. And my beard is

649
00:38:08,680 --> 00:38:10,919
Speaker 1: gray and I'm still chasing going.

650
00:38:11,080 --> 00:38:13,759
Speaker 2: Well, maybe if I turn fifty, I'll have wisdom, and

651
00:38:13,840 --> 00:38:16,239
Speaker 2: maybe if I get through this, I'll be happy and

652
00:38:16,280 --> 00:38:18,520
Speaker 2: I'm gonna wrest win and I'm gonna feel good about

653
00:38:18,520 --> 00:38:20,400
Speaker 2: myself when and before you know it.

654
00:38:20,440 --> 00:38:22,200
Speaker 1: No, I'm going up. I'm going up. I'm going up.

655
00:38:22,320 --> 00:38:24,319
Speaker 1: I'm going up. I'm going up. You're holding on.

656
00:38:25,400 --> 00:38:30,280
Speaker 3: But the bindeple says, give me Jeremiah one to five.

657
00:38:30,719 --> 00:38:33,680
Speaker 3: The word of the Lord came to me and said,

658
00:38:33,800 --> 00:38:35,560
Speaker 3: before you were farmed.

659
00:38:37,120 --> 00:38:39,800
Speaker 1: I noon.

660
00:38:41,840 --> 00:38:41,920
Speaker 2: You.

661
00:38:44,880 --> 00:38:48,680
Speaker 1: The word of the Lord came to me. The word

662
00:38:48,719 --> 00:38:50,000
Speaker 1: of the Lord came to me.

663
00:38:50,960 --> 00:38:53,720
Speaker 2: The word of the Lord is coming to you right now.

664
00:38:54,880 --> 00:38:59,800
Speaker 3: Out of the trap, off of the treadmill, and into

665
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Speaker 3: the truth.

666
00:39:01,440 --> 00:39:02,759
Speaker 1: Until the truth.

667
00:39:02,480 --> 00:39:08,160
Speaker 3: Gets it to you and you recognize, I've been running

668
00:39:08,200 --> 00:39:14,959
Speaker 3: after something that's already mine. I've just been living when

669
00:39:15,000 --> 00:39:21,440
Speaker 3: me that potential. I'm already clean bias flood. I'm already

670
00:39:21,560 --> 00:39:26,120
Speaker 3: saved by his grace. I'm already redeemed by his liberty.

671
00:39:26,760 --> 00:39:31,520
Speaker 2: I'm already to the praise of His glorious grace. Why

672
00:39:31,719 --> 00:39:35,520
Speaker 2: because I refuse to live cheated and I refuse to

673
00:39:35,600 --> 00:39:36,560
Speaker 2: live chasing.

674
00:39:39,280 --> 00:39:44,880
Speaker 1: Because I'm chosen, chosen. Say it. Get that word in

675
00:39:44,920 --> 00:39:49,600
Speaker 1: your mouth. Chosen, chosen, chosen, chosen.

676
00:39:49,760 --> 00:39:51,640
Speaker 2: I love you, Holly, but I didn't pick you for

677
00:39:51,719 --> 00:39:55,520
Speaker 2: that illustration. I didn't pick you for that illustration because

678
00:39:55,520 --> 00:39:57,480
Speaker 2: I didn't know if you could last long enough on

679
00:39:57,600 --> 00:39:59,680
Speaker 2: twelve for me to get the scripture of And I'm

680
00:39:59,719 --> 00:40:01,800
Speaker 2: not pick on you. You do a lot of amazing things.

681
00:40:01,960 --> 00:40:06,200
Speaker 2: I didn't pick you for it. I picked somebody. I

682
00:40:06,440 --> 00:40:10,800
Speaker 2: chose him.

683
00:40:08,840 --> 00:40:13,799
Speaker 1: Because I knew that if he had to, he could

684
00:40:13,800 --> 00:40:17,759
Speaker 1: beat me up. He's in wrestling shape.

685
00:40:17,880 --> 00:40:21,759
Speaker 2: I'm telling you, God shows you. I'm telling you God

686
00:40:21,800 --> 00:40:27,359
Speaker 2: shows you, and I'm saying he knew you. See.

687
00:40:27,400 --> 00:40:29,040
Speaker 1: I want you to see the difference. Close your eyes.

688
00:40:29,480 --> 00:40:32,120
Speaker 2: You know you've been chasing after something that you think

689
00:40:32,160 --> 00:40:33,719
Speaker 2: when you get it, when you get there, I'm gonna

690
00:40:33,719 --> 00:40:36,319
Speaker 2: do the new me, new year, new me, No new year,

691
00:40:36,440 --> 00:40:44,400
Speaker 2: same nose. Yeah, But what if you've been running after

692
00:40:44,480 --> 00:40:52,680
Speaker 2: something that is already yours. Perhaps perhaps the addiction is

693
00:40:52,680 --> 00:40:56,879
Speaker 2: something that the enemy planted in your life because there

694
00:40:56,960 --> 00:41:02,560
Speaker 2: is something so amazing inside of you that he wants

695
00:41:02,560 --> 00:41:06,040
Speaker 2: your birthright and you gave it away for a bowl.

696
00:41:08,239 --> 00:41:11,719
Speaker 2: Perhaps God really is Now I'm a minister this because

697
00:41:11,800 --> 00:41:12,160
Speaker 2: this is me.

698
00:41:12,239 --> 00:41:14,000
Speaker 1: This is me right here, watch it, because I sit

699
00:41:14,040 --> 00:41:14,319
Speaker 1: there and.

700
00:41:14,239 --> 00:41:17,080
Speaker 2: Go, well, I'm somebody who goes for it.

701
00:41:17,160 --> 00:41:18,680
Speaker 1: I'm somebody who doesn't settle.

702
00:41:18,760 --> 00:41:21,120
Speaker 2: I'm somebody who really demands the best out of myself.

703
00:41:21,160 --> 00:41:22,960
Speaker 2: I'm somebody who wants to improve. That's fine, It's called

704
00:41:22,960 --> 00:41:27,040
Speaker 2: self righteousness. Because when I talk like that and I

705
00:41:27,080 --> 00:41:32,319
Speaker 2: don't receive by grace, I end up like grandmamost was

706
00:41:32,320 --> 00:41:33,360
Speaker 2: he still breathing heavy up here.

707
00:41:33,400 --> 00:41:35,440
Speaker 1: Don't let him fool you with this close mouth. I

708
00:41:35,480 --> 00:41:37,879
Speaker 1: hear him breathe in running.

709
00:41:37,600 --> 00:41:39,879
Speaker 2: After something that How long can I keep this up?

710
00:41:41,480 --> 00:41:49,080
Speaker 2: And I'm chasing, but I'm chosen. You don't have to

711
00:41:49,160 --> 00:42:02,080
Speaker 2: chase it. When you're chosen, you can walk in it.

712
00:42:02,960 --> 00:42:04,840
Speaker 2: And I mean really walk, not on a treadmill of

713
00:42:05,520 --> 00:42:08,120
Speaker 2: boy God. You can walk with God, walk through your day,

714
00:42:08,200 --> 00:42:11,000
Speaker 2: walk through your life. Your father will speak to you,

715
00:42:11,000 --> 00:42:17,319
Speaker 2: your father will slap stuff out of your hands. Your

716
00:42:17,360 --> 00:42:19,879
Speaker 2: father will look at you going so hard because oh,

717
00:42:19,960 --> 00:42:20,880
Speaker 2: and I wrote this book.

718
00:42:20,880 --> 00:42:21,280
Speaker 1: I thought.

719
00:42:21,680 --> 00:42:23,360
Speaker 2: I don't want people to just see the title go

720
00:42:23,440 --> 00:42:26,279
Speaker 2: another one of those do the new me? What's so

721
00:42:26,320 --> 00:42:29,120
Speaker 2: wrong with the O me? No, no, no, you're just

722
00:42:29,160 --> 00:42:39,959
Speaker 2: not going back far enough. God told Jeremiah, I'm gonna

723
00:42:40,000 --> 00:42:41,600
Speaker 2: call you to do a new thing. How many cents?

724
00:42:41,680 --> 00:42:44,520
Speaker 2: God is calling you to stretch your faith in new

725
00:42:44,600 --> 00:42:47,279
Speaker 2: and unique ways that are nuanced to you.

726
00:42:47,520 --> 00:42:50,640
Speaker 1: And this message just put in the chat a new thing,

727
00:42:50,800 --> 00:42:55,360
Speaker 1: A new thing, all right? But but see, but see,

728
00:42:55,840 --> 00:42:58,320
Speaker 1: God says, before I called you to do the new thing.

729
00:42:59,040 --> 00:43:07,160
Speaker 2: Before you were bull, I knew you, which takes the

730
00:43:07,200 --> 00:43:10,839
Speaker 2: pressure off of me because it lets me know that

731
00:43:10,880 --> 00:43:15,840
Speaker 2: God is very, very comfortable with my process.

732
00:43:17,200 --> 00:43:20,720
Speaker 1: And that he is partnering with me in the process.

733
00:43:22,040 --> 00:43:24,960
Speaker 2: And I am not chasing after a God who might

734
00:43:25,080 --> 00:43:28,399
Speaker 2: love me when I kick this habit. And I am

735
00:43:28,440 --> 00:43:31,480
Speaker 2: not chasing after an achievement that might make me feel

736
00:43:31,480 --> 00:43:34,760
Speaker 2: like my life is worthy. And I am not listen

737
00:43:34,800 --> 00:43:37,399
Speaker 2: to me everybody who's not married right now. I am

738
00:43:37,440 --> 00:43:40,560
Speaker 2: not chasing another person thinking they will make me whole

739
00:43:40,600 --> 00:43:48,040
Speaker 2: and fulfilled. I am not chasing an opportunity to collaborate

740
00:43:48,160 --> 00:43:51,200
Speaker 2: in my business thinking that that will somehow then set

741
00:43:51,239 --> 00:43:59,360
Speaker 2: me free. I'm already free, and I'm choosing. I'm choosing

742
00:43:59,400 --> 00:44:04,080
Speaker 2: to walk away from the ball. I'm choosing because God.

743
00:44:05,719 --> 00:44:11,640
Speaker 1: Chose you. I believe God chose me to do this.

744
00:44:13,280 --> 00:44:14,080
Speaker 1: I struggle with it.

745
00:44:14,120 --> 00:44:16,960
Speaker 2: I doubt it sometimes, y'all. I was reading Jeremia last

746
00:44:17,040 --> 00:44:19,719
Speaker 2: night for our Bible Club. Shout out Elijen Kelsey. We're

747
00:44:19,719 --> 00:44:23,800
Speaker 2: there in Lynchburg watching right now, and we're in Jeremiah

748
00:44:23,880 --> 00:44:25,880
Speaker 2: right now over about the fourteen fifteen.

749
00:44:26,160 --> 00:44:26,960
Speaker 1: By the way, if you read.

750
00:44:26,880 --> 00:44:29,520
Speaker 2: Jeremiah, chapter one, verse six is about the high point,

751
00:44:29,560 --> 00:44:32,200
Speaker 2: it gets really dark for the next ten chapters. And

752
00:44:32,280 --> 00:44:34,080
Speaker 2: that crazy God was calling him to do something hard.

753
00:44:34,120 --> 00:44:35,920
Speaker 2: He said, I know it's gonna be hard. I know

754
00:44:35,920 --> 00:44:37,520
Speaker 2: you're gonna get up to speak sometimes and we're not

755
00:44:37,560 --> 00:44:38,160
Speaker 2: all called to speak.

756
00:44:38,200 --> 00:44:44,480
Speaker 1: But watch this, we're all chosen. You need proof. Ephesians

757
00:44:44,520 --> 00:44:45,120
Speaker 1: one four.

758
00:44:46,360 --> 00:44:50,160
Speaker 2: Put it on the screen, for He chose us in

759
00:44:50,280 --> 00:44:56,120
Speaker 2: him before the creation of the world. Whoa He told Jeremiah,

760
00:44:56,160 --> 00:44:59,719
Speaker 2: you were chosen before you were born. Paul takes it

761
00:44:59,760 --> 00:45:03,360
Speaker 2: from he said, you were chosen before the world was born,

762
00:45:05,320 --> 00:45:08,359
Speaker 2: before God made what I see, He had a plan

763
00:45:08,440 --> 00:45:08,719
Speaker 2: for me.

764
00:45:09,560 --> 00:45:11,640
Speaker 1: Go to verse eleven. They don't believe me. Yet takes

765
00:45:11,680 --> 00:45:13,520
Speaker 1: a lot of scripture to convince these people. They're kind

766
00:45:13,520 --> 00:45:18,160
Speaker 1: of stubborn. Gram In Him, we also were chosen. That's

767
00:45:18,160 --> 00:45:20,919
Speaker 1: fine for Jeremiah, I'm not called to speak in him.

768
00:45:21,160 --> 00:45:26,200
Speaker 2: In Jesus, we were also chosen, having been predestined according

769
00:45:26,239 --> 00:45:30,200
Speaker 2: to the plan of Him who works out everything in

770
00:45:30,320 --> 00:45:32,240
Speaker 2: conformity to the purpose.

771
00:45:32,360 --> 00:45:33,160
Speaker 1: Of his will.

772
00:45:33,600 --> 00:45:37,080
Speaker 2: I'm worried that some of you are walking and running

773
00:45:37,239 --> 00:45:39,480
Speaker 2: on a treadmill after things that aren't even in.

774
00:45:39,520 --> 00:45:52,000
Speaker 1: God's will for you. Wow, so say I'm chosen. God

775
00:45:52,120 --> 00:45:59,640
Speaker 1: chose you. Now comes to question, will you which you?

776
00:45:59,719 --> 00:46:00,600
Speaker 1: Will you choose?

777
00:46:01,880 --> 00:46:03,480
Speaker 2: Because I have to decide this every day I wake

778
00:46:03,560 --> 00:46:06,440
Speaker 2: up in my life. Am I going to choose to

779
00:46:06,520 --> 00:46:09,840
Speaker 2: me that I've seen so far? Am I going to

780
00:46:09,880 --> 00:46:12,080
Speaker 2: be open to the surprise of the Holy Spirit of God?

781
00:46:12,080 --> 00:46:13,440
Speaker 1: You can probably sit down now. Didn't he do a

782
00:46:13,440 --> 00:46:16,279
Speaker 1: great job? I don't want to make him say all day,

783
00:46:16,719 --> 00:46:18,160
Speaker 1: come on, he did a great job.

784
00:46:20,360 --> 00:46:22,880
Speaker 2: A sixteen year old helping his dad preach.

785
00:46:24,200 --> 00:46:27,840
Speaker 1: I was sixteen when I really got serious about my faith.

786
00:46:27,840 --> 00:46:29,520
Speaker 2: That my mom raised me and made my commitment to

787
00:46:29,560 --> 00:46:31,600
Speaker 2: cry sixteen years old. So when I look at him,

788
00:46:31,640 --> 00:46:33,440
Speaker 2: I think about that makes me want to cry. All

789
00:46:33,440 --> 00:46:36,400
Speaker 2: the things God could do through them. But don't ever

790
00:46:36,920 --> 00:46:41,520
Speaker 2: chase what they say you can be. If we did,

791
00:46:43,280 --> 00:46:48,120
Speaker 2: I probably wouldn't be standing here today. Because when I

792
00:46:48,200 --> 00:46:51,280
Speaker 2: was sixteen, Chris Dixon invited me to join the Voices

793
00:46:51,280 --> 00:46:54,279
Speaker 2: of Unity Choir at Berkeley High School, where his mom,

794
00:46:54,280 --> 00:46:58,080
Speaker 2: Martha Dixon, was the director and his cousin Arturo, was

795
00:46:58,120 --> 00:47:01,600
Speaker 2: the lead soprano. And Arturo was a boy had the

796
00:47:01,640 --> 00:47:03,880
Speaker 2: highest voice of any boy that I've ever heard in

797
00:47:03,920 --> 00:47:07,240
Speaker 2: my life. But here's the interesting thing about being invited

798
00:47:07,280 --> 00:47:09,719
Speaker 2: to join the Voices of Unity Choir is that when

799
00:47:09,760 --> 00:47:12,120
Speaker 2: I went to join the Voices of Unity Choir, y'all

800
00:47:12,160 --> 00:47:13,440
Speaker 2: might remember the old show that said one of these

801
00:47:13,440 --> 00:47:14,799
Speaker 2: things is not like the other. One of these things

802
00:47:14,800 --> 00:47:17,560
Speaker 2: just doesn't belong. The only white guy in the Voices

803
00:47:17,600 --> 00:47:22,520
Speaker 2: of Unity Choir was me, And I turned to Chris

804
00:47:22,560 --> 00:47:26,880
Speaker 2: and said, you sure you want me in the choir?

805
00:47:27,440 --> 00:47:30,120
Speaker 2: Because I noticed when everybody would start to rock one way,

806
00:47:30,800 --> 00:47:35,319
Speaker 2: I would naturally rock the wrong way, and I'm like.

807
00:47:35,400 --> 00:47:36,000
Speaker 1: Are you sure?

808
00:47:36,600 --> 00:47:40,160
Speaker 2: I loved it, but I wanted to do it, but

809
00:47:40,200 --> 00:47:43,239
Speaker 2: a few of my white friends were like, hey, what

810
00:47:43,280 --> 00:47:45,960
Speaker 2: are you doing over there with them.

811
00:47:46,840 --> 00:47:48,360
Speaker 1: See this is the problem with live in your truth.

812
00:47:50,640 --> 00:47:52,600
Speaker 1: Racists think they're right.

813
00:48:01,040 --> 00:48:02,759
Speaker 2: And the people were telling me you don't belong in

814
00:48:02,800 --> 00:48:06,360
Speaker 2: the choir thought they were right. The white people, the

815
00:48:06,360 --> 00:48:08,080
Speaker 2: black people were glad to have me in the choir.

816
00:48:08,520 --> 00:48:15,840
Speaker 2: They actually simplified the march into the spring concert so

817
00:48:15,880 --> 00:48:16,800
Speaker 2: that I could be a part.

818
00:48:17,480 --> 00:48:19,000
Speaker 1: They were very happy to have me.

819
00:48:24,719 --> 00:48:29,560
Speaker 2: Now when they asked me, how do you have a

820
00:48:29,640 --> 00:48:31,080
Speaker 2: multi cultural church?

821
00:48:36,680 --> 00:48:43,600
Speaker 4: I'm glad. Chris said, we want you. We want you

822
00:48:43,760 --> 00:48:48,920
Speaker 4: to sing with us. Calm, sing with us. No, not

823
00:48:49,000 --> 00:48:50,719
Speaker 4: the one in the three, the two in the four.

824
00:48:51,080 --> 00:48:54,840
Speaker 4: Calm clap within us. And if you would ever.

825
00:48:54,760 --> 00:48:58,239
Speaker 2: Get with God and get in agreement with God and

826
00:48:58,400 --> 00:49:02,200
Speaker 2: stop listening to what everybody else thinks can be, you

827
00:49:02,280 --> 00:49:03,239
Speaker 2: might find.

828
00:49:02,960 --> 00:49:07,640
Speaker 3: Out that God put something in you that eyes have

829
00:49:07,840 --> 00:49:11,080
Speaker 3: not seen, that ears have not heard, that has not

830
00:49:11,239 --> 00:49:12,640
Speaker 3: it and into the heart of a man.

831
00:49:18,560 --> 00:49:25,400
Speaker 1: I wonder what's in you? You? You?

832
00:49:25,400 --> 00:49:25,480
Speaker 2: You?

833
00:49:25,640 --> 00:49:27,520
Speaker 1: And the white people mess up the clap. We couldn't

834
00:49:27,560 --> 00:49:28,920
Speaker 1: even keep it going five seconds.

835
00:49:30,000 --> 00:49:35,200
Speaker 2: But I love how this church is filled with uniqueness.

836
00:49:35,560 --> 00:49:38,480
Speaker 2: And some of us praise loud, and.

837
00:49:38,400 --> 00:49:40,600
Speaker 1: Some of us prays quiet.

838
00:49:40,560 --> 00:49:43,600
Speaker 2: And some of us pray in tongues, and some of

839
00:49:43,719 --> 00:49:46,800
Speaker 2: us pray in a journal, and some of us sing

840
00:49:47,000 --> 00:49:49,799
Speaker 2: fast songs, and some of us worship the Lord to

841
00:49:50,160 --> 00:49:54,040
Speaker 2: contut us, and some of us are fluid in the scriptures,

842
00:49:54,239 --> 00:49:55,600
Speaker 2: and some of us are new.

843
00:49:55,480 --> 00:49:58,560
Speaker 1: To the scriptures. But I know one thing about this church.

844
00:49:58,960 --> 00:50:03,719
Speaker 1: You are a chosen people. You are a royal priesthood.

845
00:50:04,080 --> 00:50:09,160
Speaker 2: You are a holy nation, a people belonging to God.

846
00:50:09,640 --> 00:50:13,920
Speaker 1: To declare the praises. Come on to declare the praises.

847
00:50:16,080 --> 00:50:20,439
Speaker 1: Let's take ten seconds and declare the praises. My God

848
00:50:20,560 --> 00:50:21,240
Speaker 1: is awesome.

849
00:50:22,760 --> 00:50:24,240
Speaker 4: He rules in power.

850
00:50:25,600 --> 00:50:28,920
Speaker 1: He makes the seas fall, he makes.

851
00:50:28,640 --> 00:50:31,319
Speaker 2: The wave rules, he makes.

852
00:50:31,000 --> 00:50:34,760
Speaker 5: The breakers nash, he makes the storm cease.

853
00:50:35,440 --> 00:50:38,320
Speaker 2: He's making my enemies like a footstool.

854
00:50:38,960 --> 00:50:49,440
Speaker 5: It makes me like now in great pastures.

855
00:50:49,880 --> 00:50:52,759
Speaker 1: Look at you acting crazy. I thought I knew you.

856
00:50:53,280 --> 00:50:59,279
Speaker 1: Maybe there's more in you than you knew. So now

857
00:50:59,280 --> 00:51:00,000
Speaker 1: we got work today.

858
00:51:00,440 --> 00:51:06,480
Speaker 2: We gotta do Jeremiah one, Chapter one, Chapter one, verse nine.

859
00:51:06,719 --> 00:51:10,960
Speaker 2: Put it on the screen because after Jeremiah got done

860
00:51:11,040 --> 00:51:12,640
Speaker 2: doing his excuses, and I'm gonna give a preview of

861
00:51:12,680 --> 00:51:14,279
Speaker 2: next week's message, you better be back here next week

862
00:51:14,320 --> 00:51:16,120
Speaker 2: because I'm not even into it yet I'm not even

863
00:51:16,200 --> 00:51:19,360
Speaker 2: into you are shouting over the syllabus right now. Imagine

864
00:51:19,400 --> 00:51:21,680
Speaker 2: what the class is gonna be when we really get

865
00:51:21,719 --> 00:51:26,040
Speaker 2: into this and get your mindset on things above. Y'all,

866
00:51:26,080 --> 00:51:28,080
Speaker 2: remember how I was up here with the guitar two

867
00:51:28,120 --> 00:51:30,760
Speaker 2: weeks ago talking about tuning to truth.

868
00:51:30,960 --> 00:51:33,319
Speaker 1: That's what we're gonna do. We're gonna get practical. I

869
00:51:33,360 --> 00:51:34,919
Speaker 1: took six mindsets.

870
00:51:35,200 --> 00:51:37,840
Speaker 2: I didn't even realize God was setting this up, but

871
00:51:37,960 --> 00:51:42,960
Speaker 2: he knew. And there are six strings on an acoustic guitar.

872
00:51:43,320 --> 00:51:46,040
Speaker 2: And there are six mindsets that I will be sharing

873
00:51:46,080 --> 00:51:47,200
Speaker 2: with you over.

874
00:51:47,000 --> 00:51:49,040
Speaker 1: The next six weeks.

875
00:51:49,280 --> 00:51:51,280
Speaker 2: And I'm gonna give them to you, and I'm gonna

876
00:51:51,280 --> 00:51:52,000
Speaker 2: preach them to you.

877
00:51:52,200 --> 00:51:54,040
Speaker 1: And next week I'm gonna talk to you about.

878
00:51:53,840 --> 00:51:58,520
Speaker 2: How to agree with God, how to agree with him

879
00:51:59,000 --> 00:52:01,680
Speaker 2: about who he says you are, how to agree with

880
00:52:01,800 --> 00:52:04,400
Speaker 2: Him about what He says is still possible for you

881
00:52:04,440 --> 00:52:05,080
Speaker 2: at this point.

882
00:52:04,920 --> 00:52:05,600
Speaker 1: In your life.

883
00:52:05,680 --> 00:52:09,520
Speaker 2: How to agree with God about his priorities, how to

884
00:52:09,560 --> 00:52:15,600
Speaker 2: agree with God about his values, stop agreeing with your limitations,

885
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Speaker 2: and stop arguing for your past. And to do it,

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Speaker 2: we got to get these six mindsets not only in

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Speaker 2: your heart, but watch this verse nine, the Lord said.

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Speaker 1: I am putting my words in your mouth.

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Speaker 2: I sat down last year as I was teaching Do

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Speaker 2: the New You Beta version to the church, and I

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Speaker 2: realized God was doing something and I'm closing. So y'all

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Speaker 2: don't have to sit down. And if you stand it

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Speaker 2: and make me close quicker. So you decide, And everybody's

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00:52:55,120 --> 00:52:59,239
Speaker 2: doing it because I begin to write what are the

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00:52:59,280 --> 00:53:03,520
Speaker 2: things that God says are true? And I was basing it.

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Speaker 2: Ye stand up. That's enough for one way, But over

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Speaker 2: the next six I want to take these six sayings

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Speaker 2: Jeremy one four again. Please, the word of the Lord

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Speaker 2: came to me saying, what are you saying? Better question?

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Speaker 2: Are you saying what God sees when you look in

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00:53:32,120 --> 00:53:37,080
Speaker 2: the mirror or what you see? What? Don't want to

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00:53:37,080 --> 00:53:40,960
Speaker 2: walk you through in this message as we gather together

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00:53:40,960 --> 00:53:42,000
Speaker 2: as an online community.

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Speaker 1: I mean, we got resources, but I want to give you.

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Speaker 2: The six declarations to make over your life so that

906
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Speaker 2: not only do we get your mind right, but we

907
00:53:52,480 --> 00:53:57,160
Speaker 2: get your mouth right, so that you begin to say

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00:53:57,200 --> 00:54:01,120
Speaker 2: what God sees until you see it too, the New You.

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00:54:02,640 --> 00:54:07,440
Speaker 1: I'm bursting to share this with you. Do you feel like.

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Speaker 2: I'm about to blow up and be on little pieces

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00:54:10,840 --> 00:54:11,920
Speaker 2: all over the fourth row.

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00:54:11,760 --> 00:54:12,280
Speaker 1: Of the church.

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00:54:12,320 --> 00:54:16,839
Speaker 2: I am because this is in me, because I need this,

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00:54:18,280 --> 00:54:25,520
Speaker 2: because I hold bulls sometimes, and I'm cheated, cheated out

915
00:54:25,560 --> 00:54:26,799
Speaker 2: of what I could be, cheated out of what I

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00:54:26,800 --> 00:54:28,880
Speaker 2: could see, cheated at the example I could set, cheated

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00:54:28,880 --> 00:54:30,800
Speaker 2: of the freedom I could experience, cheat them of the chain.

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Speaker 1: That could break.

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00:54:32,560 --> 00:54:34,160
Speaker 2: But then I put that ball down and boy, and

920
00:54:34,160 --> 00:54:39,600
Speaker 2: then I start Jason until I fall out and realized

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00:54:39,640 --> 00:54:41,640
Speaker 2: that it is by the grace of.

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00:54:41,600 --> 00:54:43,640
Speaker 1: God that I am what I am. Did you know

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00:54:43,719 --> 00:54:45,919
Speaker 1: Paul said that by the grace of God, I am

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00:54:46,840 --> 00:54:53,759
Speaker 1: what I am. So I'm choosing to live chosen God

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00:54:53,840 --> 00:55:01,640
Speaker 1: chose you, will you will you will? You choose you

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00:55:01,760 --> 00:55:05,560
Speaker 1: even though you know you. I'll be honest.

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Speaker 2: If I was picking somebody to make a difference in

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Speaker 2: the world, I probably wouldn't pick me.

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Speaker 1: But God did.

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Speaker 2: I wonder what he knows about my brokenness that he

931
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Speaker 2: can use to bring a ball. And I'm looking at

932
00:55:18,640 --> 00:55:23,720
Speaker 2: lives today that looked like iPads brand new out the box,

933
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Speaker 2: and I'm wondering what could it be if it got

934
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Speaker 2: in the right hands. The six mindsets go like this

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Speaker 2: and shout out to my man Dave Ulrich, who've got

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Speaker 2: an early copy of the book, and he put them

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00:55:39,800 --> 00:55:41,560
Speaker 2: on his mirror, and he sent me a picture and said,

938
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Speaker 2: this book is gonna change lives. Pastor, let's go put

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Speaker 2: that picture up that Dave sent me. He wrote each

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Speaker 2: of them out on a post It note. He didn't

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Speaker 2: even know. We have a stack of post it notes

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Speaker 2: for all of you today with these six mindsets on them.

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Speaker 1: You're gonna get it. If you're here, if.

944
00:56:00,880 --> 00:56:02,799
Speaker 2: You're online, you better write them down right now and

945
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Speaker 2: make your own post It note.

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Speaker 1: Repeat after me. Mindset one. I'm not stuck unless I stop.

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Speaker 1: We're gonna talk about that next week.

948
00:56:15,040 --> 00:56:17,680
Speaker 2: What's blocked you from becoming, what's blocked you from believing?

949
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Speaker 2: We're going to talk about that from the scriptures, and

950
00:56:19,719 --> 00:56:22,600
Speaker 2: the Holy Spirit will minister it to you. The second

951
00:56:22,640 --> 00:56:25,520
Speaker 2: one says, oh you've heard this if you've been around

952
00:56:25,520 --> 00:56:26,400
Speaker 2: my church for a while.

953
00:56:27,280 --> 00:56:28,160
Speaker 1: Christ is in me.

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00:56:29,840 --> 00:56:32,799
Speaker 2: I am enough. I hope you're repeating these in the

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Speaker 2: comments right now. I want you to say it out loud.

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00:56:35,040 --> 00:56:36,320
Speaker 2: I want you to type it. I want you to

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00:56:36,360 --> 00:56:38,480
Speaker 2: write it. I want you to receive it. Christ is

958
00:56:38,520 --> 00:56:44,080
Speaker 2: in me. I am enough. Here's one you've heard before.

959
00:56:45,320 --> 00:56:45,840
Speaker 1: With God.

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00:56:47,040 --> 00:56:52,040
Speaker 2: Come on, with God, there's always a way, and by faith,

961
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Speaker 2: I will find it. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, you're gonna

962
00:56:57,040 --> 00:56:59,120
Speaker 2: find it. You're gonna find it. You think there is

963
00:56:59,160 --> 00:57:01,319
Speaker 2: no way, you just have seen it. Yet the word

964
00:57:01,320 --> 00:57:04,759
Speaker 2: of the Lord is coming to you. This is what

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00:57:04,840 --> 00:57:07,080
Speaker 2: I tell myself before I preach to you. Number four.

966
00:57:09,080 --> 00:57:12,880
Speaker 2: God is not against me, but he's in it with me,

967
00:57:14,320 --> 00:57:17,160
Speaker 2: working through me, fighting for me.

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Speaker 1: We might write a song about that already. Dude.

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00:57:22,960 --> 00:57:26,240
Speaker 2: Number five say my joy is my job.

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Speaker 1: You might not like that week, you might want to

971
00:57:30,120 --> 00:57:33,840
Speaker 1: skip that week. Put the responsibility on you next week,

972
00:57:33,880 --> 00:57:37,480
Speaker 1: that week and then this is really.

973
00:57:38,920 --> 00:57:46,840
Speaker 2: Really important to believe that God has given me everything

974
00:57:46,920 --> 00:57:49,880
Speaker 2: I need for the season I'm in.

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Speaker 1: Now.

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Speaker 2: If we get you tuned to this.

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Speaker 1: This truth, you will never be the same.

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Speaker 2: I want to pray for you right now. The word

979
00:58:08,960 --> 00:58:12,800
Speaker 2: of the Lord came to you today, isn't it.

980
00:58:11,640 --> 00:58:12,320
Speaker 1: Came to me too?

981
00:58:13,880 --> 00:58:18,880
Speaker 2: Saying before I formed you, I knew you. I feel

982
00:58:18,880 --> 00:58:20,720
Speaker 2: like we need to connect. Would you just either grab

983
00:58:21,000 --> 00:58:22,640
Speaker 2: the hand or put your hand on the shoulder of

984
00:58:22,680 --> 00:58:32,560
Speaker 2: the person next to you. First of all, Lord, we

985
00:58:32,600 --> 00:58:37,280
Speaker 2: thank you that we're not chasing your love, acceptance, or grace.

986
00:58:37,840 --> 00:58:40,240
Speaker 2: It has been given to us by your son, Jesus Christ.

987
00:58:41,520 --> 00:58:43,760
Speaker 2: We thank you, Lord that this is the last day

988
00:58:44,600 --> 00:58:48,080
Speaker 2: that we will believe the deceitful desires. We may still

989
00:58:48,080 --> 00:58:50,320
Speaker 2: struggle with them, but from this day forward we are

990
00:58:50,360 --> 00:58:57,320
Speaker 2: oriented toward truth. Your truth will make us free and God. Today,

991
00:58:57,320 --> 00:59:01,280
Speaker 2: we thank you that we are chosen by you, and

992
00:59:01,320 --> 00:59:06,480
Speaker 2: now we chose. We chose to put ourselves in the

993
00:59:06,520 --> 00:59:08,040
Speaker 2: path of your power.

994
00:59:08,080 --> 00:59:12,040
Speaker 1: Today. Because we did, you spoke a word, and this

995
00:59:12,120 --> 00:59:15,080
Speaker 1: word is now received in our hearts.

996
00:59:16,080 --> 00:59:18,840
Speaker 2: I declare rain for the seed that was sowed today

997
00:59:19,560 --> 00:59:20,880
Speaker 2: for the words that were spoken.

998
00:59:21,680 --> 00:59:23,280
Speaker 1: I decree and declare.

999
00:59:23,080 --> 00:59:29,800
Speaker 2: An increase of righteousness, peace and joy in the Holy Ghost.

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Speaker 2: And I thank you that our eyes have not seen,

1001
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Speaker 2: nor have our ears heard, nor has it entered into

1002
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Speaker 2: the heart of a man what you have prepared for

1003
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Speaker 2: those who love you, but you have revealed it by

1004
00:59:41,560 --> 00:59:45,640
Speaker 2: your spirit. I thank you for revelation, and I thank

1005
00:59:45,680 --> 00:59:48,440
Speaker 2: you for grace to change. And I thank you that

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00:59:48,520 --> 00:59:51,680
Speaker 2: you are making all things.

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Speaker 1: New in Jesus' name.

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Speaker 2: Amen, would you clap your hands at every location.

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01:00:09,160 --> 01:00:09,880
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01:00:10,240 --> 01:00:12,640
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