WEBVTT - God Chose You… Will You?

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<v Speaker 1>Hey, this is Stephen Ferdick.

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

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<v Speaker 2>I wanted to thank you for joining us today. Hope

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<v Speaker 2>this inspires you. Hope it builds your faith. Hope it

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<v Speaker 2>gives you perspective to see God is moving in your life.

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<v Speaker 2>Enjoy the message. Blessings upon you today. Grace and mercy

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<v Speaker 2>to you in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ,

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<v Speaker 2>who has blessed us with every spiritual blessing in heavenly places.

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<v Speaker 2>May the God of all Comfort comfort you today. May

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<v Speaker 2>the God of all Peace guard your heart and your mind.

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<v Speaker 1>I'm glad you're here.

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<v Speaker 2>If you're watching online, I'm glad you chose.

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<v Speaker 1>To watch this video.

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<v Speaker 2>God knows, there's a lot of other stuff you could

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<v Speaker 2>have watched on the internet. Here you are listening to

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<v Speaker 2>a holy ghost preacher. Today, God might just speak to you.

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<v Speaker 2>This word might just make you chump.

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<v Speaker 1>Your phone might heat up with this word today.

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<v Speaker 2>The presence of the Lord is in this place. I

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<v Speaker 2>got five people that agree with me at Valentine. How

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<v Speaker 2>about Universities City, Matthews, how about.

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<v Speaker 1>Y'all up here in the top section.

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<v Speaker 2>Do you believe that con can does something amazing today.

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<v Speaker 1>Glory to God. I'm fired up.

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<v Speaker 2>I got the Holy ghosts. I'm burning up. Tell your

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<v Speaker 2>neighbor if you brought cold water, don't pour your water

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<v Speaker 2>on me. Tell him I got the Holy ghosts and

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<v Speaker 2>I'm burning up. Anybody burning up today?

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

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<v Speaker 2>I got the spirit of the Lord. I feel it

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<v Speaker 2>heating up right now. This is an amazing day in

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<v Speaker 2>your life. And I need you to know that if

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<v Speaker 2>you need to get a record of who you were

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<v Speaker 2>before this series, you need to take a selfie right now,

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<v Speaker 2>because you will be.

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<v Speaker 1>Unrecognizable seven weeks from now.

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<v Speaker 2>What God is about to do in your life. No,

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<v Speaker 2>I declare it, I decree it, and I choose to

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<v Speaker 2>believe that. Today I'm releasing to my church my first

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<v Speaker 2>new book in eight years, Do the New You.

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

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<v Speaker 1>so I can come home with you. Sound kind of weird.

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<v Speaker 1>This is where I get to coach you.

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<v Speaker 2>This is where I get to be a voice in

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<v Speaker 2>your life that reminds you that you are the righteousness

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<v Speaker 2>of God in Jesus Christ, the voice in your life

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<v Speaker 2>that helps you realize that you are more than the

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<v Speaker 2>math of what is against you, that you are more

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<v Speaker 2>than the mistakes that you have made, that the great

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<v Speaker 2>I am lives in you, and whatever he is, you

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<v Speaker 2>are too who. I feel a flow coming, Give me

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<v Speaker 2>an acoustic guitar ready for when I finished reaching. I

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<v Speaker 2>feel fresh oil, I feel fresh songs. I feel a

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<v Speaker 2>fresh word. Come into your house today. I'm excited and

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

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<v Speaker 2>scripture in a moment. So stay standing if you are standing,

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

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<v Speaker 1>We've been really overdoing it.

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<v Speaker 2>I think I told Holly, we've got so much content

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<v Speaker 2>coming your way. Next week you'll get to hear about

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<v Speaker 2>our e group study your very own Holly Ferdic has created.

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<v Speaker 1>For you with our team.

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

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<v Speaker 2>each week what we're doing. Take it further so you

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<v Speaker 2>can get the book, you can get the audiobook. The

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<v Speaker 2>audiobook is that's the one. Yeah, that's the one. And

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<v Speaker 2>then I've also put together a masterclass for you with

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<v Speaker 2>a friend of mine who is a personal development and

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<v Speaker 2>also performance coach, and we get into it from the

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<v Speaker 2>Biblical side. But then how many know if you have

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<v Speaker 2>the truth but you don't have the tools to put

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<v Speaker 2>the truth into practice. Sometimes it's like a seed that

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<v Speaker 2>doesn't take root and bear fruit in your life.

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<v Speaker 1>So that's going to be available.

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<v Speaker 2>I sat down with my oldest son, Elijah and JT

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<v Speaker 2>and recorded for the Youth Nation podcast a special conversation

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<v Speaker 2>that's been eighteen years in the making, ever since Elijah

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<v Speaker 2>was born, and that will be dropping later this week,

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<v Speaker 2>and the book is available. But today I want to

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<v Speaker 2>put this thing in three D for you, and I

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<v Speaker 2>want to go to the scripture that started it all,

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<v Speaker 2>for Jeremiah and for me as this concept do the

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<v Speaker 2>new You comes to life.

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<v Speaker 1>Oh, I'm excited. Jeremiah Chapter one. Jeremiah Chapter one.

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<v Speaker 2>I got some surprises for you over the next seven weeks,

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<v Speaker 2>and this will be a foundation today for us to

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<v Speaker 2>build on. One more page, Okay, Jeremiah chapter one, Verse four,

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<v Speaker 2>let's go. The word of the Lord came to me saying,

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<v Speaker 2>I'm not going to do it, y'all. But I could

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<v Speaker 2>preach the entire message off of that verse. I'm not

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<v Speaker 2>going to do it.

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<v Speaker 1>I got more verses, but I could stop right there

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<v Speaker 1>and preach.

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<v Speaker 2>The word of the Lord came to me, saying, First

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<v Speaker 2>of all, the word is perpetual. It came to me,

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

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<v Speaker 2>there can still be light because he's still speaking.

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<v Speaker 1>Not only is it perpetual, but it is personal.

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<v Speaker 2>The word of the Lord came to me.

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<v Speaker 1>Somebody say, speak to me.

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<v Speaker 2>Lord.

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<v Speaker 1>Now turn to your neighbor and say you need it,

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<v Speaker 1>And I hope he does speak to you.

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<v Speaker 2>It's perpetual, it's personal. But watch this, it is also predestined.

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<v Speaker 2>And this is where we want to get today. Verse five.

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<v Speaker 2>Before I formed you in the womb, I knew you

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<v Speaker 2>before you were born. I set you apart, I appointed

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<v Speaker 2>you as a prophet to the nations. All that sounds good,

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<v Speaker 2>Sovereign Lord, I said, I don't know how to speak.

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<v Speaker 1>I am too young.

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<v Speaker 2>But the Lord, this sounds like an interruption of your insecurities.

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<v Speaker 2>Would you let God interrupt your security in your insecurities

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<v Speaker 2>if he wanted to?

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<v Speaker 1>Today?

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<v Speaker 2>But the Lord, somebody say, but the Lord said to me,

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<v Speaker 2>do not say I am too young. Y'all, whatever you

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<v Speaker 2>put behind the world words I am is a direct

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<v Speaker 2>reflection on your maker.

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<v Speaker 1>Because that's his name.

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<v Speaker 2>So the Lord said to me, do not say I

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<v Speaker 2>am too young. You must go to everyone I send you.

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<v Speaker 2>Say whatever I command you. Do not be afraid of them,

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<v Speaker 2>for I am with you, and we'll rescue you, declares

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<v Speaker 2>the Lord.

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<v Speaker 1>And let's camp on verse nine today.

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<v Speaker 2>Then the Lord reached out his hand and touched my

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<v Speaker 2>mouth and said to me, I have put my words

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<v Speaker 2>in your mouth. The title of our first message for

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<v Speaker 2>our brand new series, Do the New You.

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<v Speaker 1>Is God chose you. Will you.

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<v Speaker 2>Put that in the comments right now? God shows you now,

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<v Speaker 2>will you? That's what we're going to decide and speared

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<v Speaker 2>of God, I declare over each and every life who

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<v Speaker 2>connected with this message that you have already decided and

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<v Speaker 2>destined who they will become.

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<v Speaker 1>Now, God, I come into.

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<v Speaker 2>Partnership with you to speak your words over your people,

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<v Speaker 2>and I expect a great success from it because.

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<v Speaker 1>You're with me in Jesus' name. Amen. Amen, you may

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<v Speaker 1>be seated. Wow.

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<v Speaker 2>You feel like we could go home on that, but

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<v Speaker 2>we won't. It's good to go over this material. I've

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<v Speaker 2>spent a year writing this book. Do the New You

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<v Speaker 2>do thenew you dot Com. That's do thenew you dot

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<v Speaker 2>com Yeah, I'm promoting it because I believe in it,

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<v Speaker 2>and I believe in it because I need it. And

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<v Speaker 2>from what I see as a pastor, you do too.

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<v Speaker 2>You do too, seeing all the people that we get

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<v Speaker 2>to meet and all of the precious people that we

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<v Speaker 2>get to partner with in ministry who are silently asking

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<v Speaker 2>the same question but may be afraid to say it because.

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<v Speaker 1>It makes them sound like rookies or complainers.

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<v Speaker 2>And the question is how do I change?

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<v Speaker 1>How do I make changes to stay? How do I change?

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<v Speaker 2>And the first step to this, I would contend, does

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<v Speaker 2>not start with you at all. It starts with the

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<v Speaker 2>God who changes you. And the God that changes you

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<v Speaker 2>is the God that created you. Start taking notes at

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<v Speaker 2>any time. None of this is in the book. I'm

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<v Speaker 2>flowing in the Holy Ghost right now. It reminded me

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<v Speaker 2>go ahead and bring that screen out. I got a

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<v Speaker 2>bunch of toys coming to day because I think I

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<v Speaker 2>want this message to be special. So I got all

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<v Speaker 2>the stuff that I'm planning to bring up here on stage, but.

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<v Speaker 1>That screen out. Now.

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<v Speaker 2>I'm not the most technological person, and I'm going to

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<v Speaker 2>bring up my scriptures, some of my scriptures on the

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<v Speaker 2>screen and draw on the screen just for visual learners.

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<v Speaker 1>How many of you are visual learners? Uh huh?

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

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<v Speaker 2>And how many of you are still trying to figure

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<v Speaker 2>out what style you are because you're fifty and you

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<v Speaker 2>still haven't learned everything that you think you need to know.

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<v Speaker 2>Good Anyway, it just reminded me from when they were

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<v Speaker 2>bringing this out, when the iPad first came out, before

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<v Speaker 2>you were born, when the iPad was was just an

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<v Speaker 2>arrow in the quiver of Steve Jobs. I remember how

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<v Speaker 2>excited I was to have my first iPad. I was

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<v Speaker 2>flying somewhere to preach and I had the iPad out

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<v Speaker 2>because I wanted to preach for my iPad for the

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<v Speaker 2>first time, and I was excited. And this's got next

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<v Speaker 2>to me on the plane. I'm not judging him, but

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<v Speaker 2>he looked kind of nerdy. He looked like a guy

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<v Speaker 2>who knew a lot about technology. Is that a better

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<v Speaker 2>way to say it. He looked very techy. He looked

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<v Speaker 2>like a nerd. And he looked at my iPad and

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<v Speaker 2>he started the lust and he was like, how do

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<v Speaker 2>you like it? Because at that time it was relatively

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<v Speaker 2>new technology. And I said, I love it. I just

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<v Speaker 2>got it as great, and he goes, what do you

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<v Speaker 2>do on it? I said, well, like I said, I

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<v Speaker 2>just got it, but I mean so far. I'm a preacher,

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<v Speaker 2>so I'm putting my Bible notes on here for my sermon,

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<v Speaker 2>and play Angry Birds on it with my five year

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<v Speaker 2>old fruit and ninja. So all of a sudden his

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<v Speaker 2>facial expression changed.

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<v Speaker 1>I watched it.

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<v Speaker 2>He went from excited to disgust. It shook his head

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<v Speaker 2>and he looks back at me. I'll never forget what

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<v Speaker 2>he said. This has been over a decade ago, and

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<v Speaker 2>I remember exactly.

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<v Speaker 1>What he said.

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<v Speaker 2>You are using that device far beneath its full potential.

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<v Speaker 2>And he didn't want to talk the rest of the flight.

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<v Speaker 2>It was absolutely anathema to him, the curse of Lucifer himself,

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<v Speaker 2>to be sitting next to somebody on a plane who

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<v Speaker 2>had something so powerful, who had something with so much potential,

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<v Speaker 2>And here I am putting a slingshot.

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<v Speaker 1>At some birds and a sword on some watermelons.

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<v Speaker 2>And he looked at it and said, I wish I

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<v Speaker 2>could get my hands on that iPad. You got more

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<v Speaker 2>money than you do. Good sense, If that's all you're

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<v Speaker 2>doing with that iPad? Do you know what I could

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<v Speaker 2>do with that iPad? I could sure cancer with that iPad,

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<v Speaker 2>and I guess he could. We didn't speak the rest

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<v Speaker 2>of the time. I should have asked him, I should

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<v Speaker 2>ask him what will it do?

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<v Speaker 1>I should have.

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<v Speaker 2>Asked him, But I felt kind of embarrassed at that

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<v Speaker 2>point to be sitting with something that was so amazing,

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<v Speaker 2>and I knew it was amazing, but to be so

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<v Speaker 2>limited in my ability to access the potential of something

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<v Speaker 2>that was so powerful, and to not know how I

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<v Speaker 2>should ask him. He said, you are using He lectured

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<v Speaker 2>me the class I didn't ask for.

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<v Speaker 1>You are using that device. I wonder if God ever

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<v Speaker 1>looks at.

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<v Speaker 2>What he made YU can help me preach anytime. Don't

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<v Speaker 2>go Episcopalian on me. My first Sunday of my new

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<v Speaker 2>book series. I wonder if God ever looks at what

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<v Speaker 2>is in your spirit, if God ever looks at the

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<v Speaker 2>gifts that are in seed.

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<v Speaker 1>Form in the soil of you.

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<v Speaker 2>I wonder if God ever looks at the hand you've

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<v Speaker 2>been dealt, and the skillful hands you've been given, and

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<v Speaker 2>the opportunities and the open doors and the amazing ways

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<v Speaker 2>that he has made for you, and the amazing personality

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<v Speaker 2>that He has endowed you on that you apologize for

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<v Speaker 2>because it wasn't.

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<v Speaker 1>Just like your brother's growing up.

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<v Speaker 2>I wonder if God ever looks at what he gave

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<v Speaker 2>you and says you are using what you're holding far

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<v Speaker 2>beneath its full potential. Now, of course, the phrase you

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<v Speaker 2>do you.

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<v Speaker 1>Is a controversial phrase, and.

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<v Speaker 2>That's obviously I don't want to assume that you know

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<v Speaker 2>what I'm trying to say.

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<v Speaker 1>Here's when people usually they're.

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<v Speaker 2>Trying to say, I would never in my lifetime wear those, but.

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<v Speaker 1>You do you? Like I think you look ridiculous. They

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<v Speaker 1>don't say that part. They go, hey, you do you?

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<v Speaker 1>Or in a more positive sense.

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<v Speaker 2>It's what I told Holly when she was first trying

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<v Speaker 2>to figure out how to preach. She was like, but

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<v Speaker 2>I'm not preachy. I'm like, you don't need to scream.

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<v Speaker 2>We got microphones. I just screamed because I got issues.

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<v Speaker 2>Be calm, do you? People will actually be thankful that

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<v Speaker 2>they don't have to listen to me scream that week

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<v Speaker 2>when you get up and sell them very softly and

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<v Speaker 2>you can their butts in a whisper. Do you do

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<v Speaker 2>you look? At somebody say do you? And it's good,

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<v Speaker 2>And I know it's a little bit old, it's a

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<v Speaker 2>little cliche.

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<v Speaker 1>Do you.

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<v Speaker 2>The only problem I have with the advice do you

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<v Speaker 2>is that would be good advice if you knew you.

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<v Speaker 1>But do you?

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<v Speaker 2>I'm gonna have fun all by myself this week. Come on,

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<v Speaker 2>I turn for forty four next Monday. I'm too old

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<v Speaker 2>and not enjoy this.

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<v Speaker 1>Yeah, do you?

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<v Speaker 2>And you know, I think that's a wonderful piece of

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<v Speaker 2>advice that you're talking to somebody who's going to do

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<v Speaker 2>a new hairstyle.

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<v Speaker 1>Right.

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<v Speaker 2>If you ever watch an anniversary sermon from the church,

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<v Speaker 2>you will notice the number of hair expressions that I

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<v Speaker 2>have gone through in the years, and I apologize for

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<v Speaker 2>none of them, every single one of them.

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<v Speaker 1>I did. Every hairdo that I did at the time

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<v Speaker 1>was good.

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<v Speaker 2>And then a woman got online the other week and said,

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<v Speaker 2>I'm very disappointed that you're dying your beard. I thought

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<v Speaker 2>you were going to grow gray gracefully and show that

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<v Speaker 2>the age of the Lord is a blessing. And I'm

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<v Speaker 2>very disappointed to see that you begin to color your beard.

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<v Speaker 2>So now you can't even die you and do you

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<v Speaker 2>without somebody telling you come on, I'm a diet for

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<v Speaker 2>a little while. The Bible says die to the old,

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<v Speaker 2>So that's what I'm trying to do.

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<v Speaker 1>Yeah, do you.

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<v Speaker 2>And if it goes gray, you'll know I'm ready to

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<v Speaker 2>try new me. Very helpful advice if you're saying, hey,

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<v Speaker 2>don't feel the pressure to perform like you saw somebody

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<v Speaker 2>else perform.

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<v Speaker 1>Do you singing your range.

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<v Speaker 2>Use your gift, say it how you say it, that's great,

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<v Speaker 2>or you know, get it. Get the mohawk. Everybody should

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<v Speaker 2>do it once in their life. Get a mullet. I'm

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<v Speaker 2>halfway there right now thinking about it. And if that's

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<v Speaker 2>what I want to do, I should do it. But listen,

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<v Speaker 2>I don't really come here to talk to you about

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<v Speaker 2>mohawks and mullets, did I. I came to talk about mindsets.

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<v Speaker 2>I came to talk about your mindset. What I am

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<v Speaker 2>concerned about for the people that I pastor, And this

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<v Speaker 2>doesn't have to be every pastor's burden, but I am

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<v Speaker 2>concerned that the way we read Jeremiah chapter one, verse

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<v Speaker 2>four through nine is different than how it happened.

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<v Speaker 1>And I'm going to read it again, and I'm going.

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<v Speaker 2>To read it as if it were written with our

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<v Speaker 2>just do you mentality that we bring to a lot

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<v Speaker 2>of the situations in our life. Here's how it goes,

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<v Speaker 2>Jeremiah one, verse four, Please put it on the screen.

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<v Speaker 2>The word of the Lord came to me, saying, before

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<v Speaker 2>I formed you in the womb, I knew you before

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<v Speaker 2>you were born. I set you apart. I appointed you

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<v Speaker 2>as a prophet to the nations, a last sovereign Lord.

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<v Speaker 2>I said, I do not know how to speak. I

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<v Speaker 2>am too young. And the Lord said to me, just

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<v Speaker 2>do you. You'll know how to speak. Don't speak now,

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<v Speaker 2>that's cool. I thought I made you, but no, you

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<v Speaker 2>do you. I thought I was the sovereign god who

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<v Speaker 2>put you together. I thought I was the one who

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<v Speaker 2>spoke you out of nothing before you were formed in

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<v Speaker 2>your mother's room. That doesn't tell Jeremiah, upon his excuse,

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<v Speaker 2>just do you look what he says.

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<v Speaker 1>Verse seven.

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<v Speaker 2>Read it how it actually says. But the Lord said

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<v Speaker 2>to me, do not say I am too young. You

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<v Speaker 2>must go to everyone I send you to and say

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<v Speaker 2>whatever I command you.

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<v Speaker 1>So this verse tells me, do you.

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<v Speaker 2>Do?

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<v Speaker 1>Let me show you on the screen.

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<v Speaker 2>I think this is very powerful, because here we are.

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<v Speaker 2>I got the whole Bible on the screen.

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<v Speaker 1>Y'all.

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<v Speaker 2>That guy on the plane would be so proud of

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<v Speaker 2>me if he could see me today.

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<v Speaker 1>Come on, some people.

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<v Speaker 2>Are just watching this looking for Taylor at the super Bowl,

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<v Speaker 2>and I'm preaching the whole prophecy of God on a

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<v Speaker 2>flip sideways TV screen. I'mu do me. Hey, hey, y'all

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<v Speaker 2>think she's gonna make it back from Japan in time.

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<v Speaker 2>I'm praying for Taylor. I like seeing her out there.

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<v Speaker 2>I think she's great. Now, look at this when we

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<v Speaker 2>get to Jeremiah. Here we go Jeremiah chapter one all

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<v Speaker 2>the way to the verse, and I thought the little pin, Yeah,

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<v Speaker 2>where'd I put it back?

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<v Speaker 1>Here?

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<v Speaker 2>This is gonna take a second for me to get

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<v Speaker 2>used to this. At the hunt at the top is

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<v Speaker 2>by the book, the other book. I only got one book. Graham,

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<v Speaker 2>come get it for me, y'all, give Graham a hand

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<v Speaker 2>as he comes.

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<v Speaker 1>Where'd it go? Oh?

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<v Speaker 2>Hey, it was hidden underneath the word of God. No, no,

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<v Speaker 2>you didn't hear me. It was hidden beneath the Word

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<v Speaker 2>of God. That means that I thought it wasn't there,

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<v Speaker 2>And it wasn't that it was gone, but it was

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<v Speaker 2>hidden underneath the word of God.

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<v Speaker 1>I wonder what word.

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<v Speaker 2>God has spoken over you that is hiding something that

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<v Speaker 2>you need in this season.

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<v Speaker 1>Now, y'all give it up for Graham one more time here.

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<v Speaker 2>I love how the Lord corrected Jeremiah's very brilliant how

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<v Speaker 2>God does it?

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<v Speaker 1>The Lord said, do not say I am too young.

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<v Speaker 2>You must go to everyone I send you to and

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<v Speaker 2>say whatever I command you.

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<v Speaker 1>Do not be afraid of them, for I am with you.

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<v Speaker 2>Do you takes on a little different significance when I

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<v Speaker 2>am it's with me, stylus drop.

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<v Speaker 1>Now, why I really called him up here wasn't to

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<v Speaker 1>help me with the stylus.

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<v Speaker 2>We had an agreement before he came up here that

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<v Speaker 2>he would help me with this sermon. You may recognize

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<v Speaker 2>Graham from such sermons as God's Got your Back Part one.

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<v Speaker 1>And don't Fight your future.

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<v Speaker 2>Last time we were on the stage together, I let

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<v Speaker 2>him get down on top of me and hold me

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<v Speaker 2>down to represent all the things that hold us down

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<v Speaker 2>in our life, and he enjoyed that.

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<v Speaker 1>Today. I'm gonna do a different illustration.

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<v Speaker 2>Turn the tables a little bit today because what we

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<v Speaker 2>talked about is, you know this idea that you just

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<v Speaker 2>do you assuming that you've met you, factors out what

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<v Speaker 2>God knows that you don't, and so I want to

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<v Speaker 2>share with you something that he did when he was

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<v Speaker 2>real little. I was telling them the story of Jacob

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<v Speaker 2>and Esau, and I was telling them how Esau was

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<v Speaker 2>grabbing Jacob's heel trying to get the birth or Jacob

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<v Speaker 2>was grabbing Esau's heel rather trying to get the birthright

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<v Speaker 2>and the blessing. Y'all know this story. Okay, I'll tell

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<v Speaker 2>you the whole story one time, but I can't tell

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<v Speaker 2>you the whole thing right now. I was telling him

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<v Speaker 2>about the part where Esau was coming in from hunting

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<v Speaker 2>and he was very hungry, and Jacob, his brother, was

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<v Speaker 2>a good cook, and so Esau came in hungry from

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<v Speaker 2>hunting because apparently wasn't very good hunter because he didn't

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<v Speaker 2>kill anything, or if he did kill something, he still

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<v Speaker 2>wasn't cooked yet. So he's hungry, and Jacob's like, hey,

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<v Speaker 2>I got a bowl of beans. Bring me the bowl.

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<v Speaker 2>I got a bowl of beans that you can have.

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<v Speaker 2>All you have to do is sell me your birthright.

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<v Speaker 2>So they're bringing me a bowl right now. Y'all got it?

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<v Speaker 2>Thank you, Thank you, let's give it up for the

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<v Speaker 2>brother with the bull. Yeah, so I brought this from home.

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<v Speaker 2>Many Ramen noodles have been cooked in this very bowl.

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<v Speaker 2>If you only knew. One time we destroyed a microwave

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<v Speaker 2>cooking Ramen noodles.

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<v Speaker 1>In a bowl. I don't know how Elijah did that,

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<v Speaker 1>but in exchange for a bowl of.

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<v Speaker 2>Beans, Esau, who was the firstborn, sold his birthright to

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<v Speaker 2>his brother and forfeited a blessing that God intended.

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<v Speaker 1>For him to have, all for a bowl of beings.

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<v Speaker 2>My contention with a lot of us, not just young people,

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<v Speaker 2>but a lot of us who have been Christians for

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<v Speaker 2>a long time, is that we sell birthrights for bolls.

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<v Speaker 2>Now we call it things that sound really good. You

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<v Speaker 2>might have heard this called living your truth. I personally

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<v Speaker 2>do not say that phrase. Although I have nothing against

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<v Speaker 2>the phrase. I just want to qualify it. Where do

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<v Speaker 2>you get your truth from? Because if living your truth

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<v Speaker 2>means repeating your experience, you are not a candidate for wisdom.

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<v Speaker 2>Wisdom will always interrupt your experience to show you that

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<v Speaker 2>what you always thought you were you actually were not.

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<v Speaker 1>But God had put a put a seed.

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<v Speaker 2>Inside of you that had not reached maturity yet your life,

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<v Speaker 2>and Esau, out of his immaturity as a grown man,

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<v Speaker 2>sold what he.

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<v Speaker 1>Could have been for a bowl. Now by the time you.

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<v Speaker 2>Get into the New Testament, Paul calls it something different

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<v Speaker 2>in Ephesians chapter four, verse I believe about number twenty two,

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<v Speaker 2>give me that on the lower thirds police.

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<v Speaker 1>Ephesians chapter four twenty.

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<v Speaker 2>Two says you were taught, with regard to your former

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<v Speaker 2>way of life, to put off.

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<v Speaker 1>Your old self.

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<v Speaker 2>That doesn't mean don't go down memory lane. That doesn't

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<v Speaker 2>mean don't be who you were uniquely created to be.

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<v Speaker 2>That doesn't mean don't enjoy the things that make you

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<v Speaker 2>uniquely you. Here's what it means, that part of you

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<v Speaker 2>that is being corrupted by its deceitful desires. And the

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<v Speaker 2>problem with you being you is that sometimes what you

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<v Speaker 2>think you want is in conflict with who you really are.

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<v Speaker 2>You will find yourself in many different states throughout any

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<v Speaker 2>given day. And I'm not calling you schizophrenic. I am saying,

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<v Speaker 2>by nature of the fact that you are a spirit

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<v Speaker 2>that lives in a body, sometimes your body will try

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<v Speaker 2>to get you to sell your birthright for a bowl.

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<v Speaker 2>Help me preach, would you please? Graham heard the story

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<v Speaker 2>about Jacob and Esault.

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<v Speaker 1>I shared with him.

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<v Speaker 2>How Jacob all of his life was trying to get

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<v Speaker 2>a blessing that wasn't his by pretending to be something

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<v Speaker 2>that he was not. And he didn't have to because

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<v Speaker 2>God wanted to bless Jacob. But I even shared the

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<v Speaker 2>part where Jacob was blessing and he grabbed his father's

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<v Speaker 2>right hand and put it on his head because the

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<v Speaker 2>right hand was the right hand of blessing.

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<v Speaker 1>And he crossed his father's right hand and received the.

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<v Speaker 2>Blessing that was reserved for the firstborn. And I stole

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<v Speaker 2>it from Esau and I told him that story. And

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<v Speaker 2>that night I was praying with Graham and Elijah before

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<v Speaker 2>they went to bed, and I thought Graham's hand grabbed

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<v Speaker 2>my right hand and he put it on his head

0:27:11.520 --> 0:27:16.040
<v Speaker 2>and he said, just call me Jacob Sucker. And he

0:27:16.200 --> 0:27:22.720
<v Speaker 2>was five, and I started praying for him. And he's

0:27:22.760 --> 0:27:27.480
<v Speaker 2>an amazing boy, and I see good things in his life,

0:27:27.920 --> 0:27:31.840
<v Speaker 2>and I believe he has a birthright. And I coach

0:27:32.520 --> 0:27:35.480
<v Speaker 2>my boys, and I coach my daughter, and I have

0:27:35.560 --> 0:27:40.960
<v Speaker 2>to coach myself. And I coach you this way that

0:27:41.040 --> 0:27:45.240
<v Speaker 2>when you give up what you want most for what

0:27:45.280 --> 0:27:51.840
<v Speaker 2>you want. Now you're not doing you You're being deceived.

0:27:58.280 --> 0:28:00.640
<v Speaker 2>And I can tell you're being deceived. When people say like, well,

0:28:00.640 --> 0:28:04.480
<v Speaker 2>that's just how I am, I just go off, that's

0:28:04.520 --> 0:28:08.199
<v Speaker 2>just how I am. I just say what I think.

0:28:09.040 --> 0:28:15.000
<v Speaker 2>That is a bad strategy. Have you ever cataloged your thoughts?

0:28:15.440 --> 0:28:21.240
<v Speaker 2>Not all of them are FDA approved. And I believe

0:28:21.320 --> 0:28:27.320
<v Speaker 2>this message is important to a generation that is running

0:28:27.359 --> 0:28:32.840
<v Speaker 2>around saying things like live your truth, because if he

0:28:33.000 --> 0:28:37.000
<v Speaker 2>lives his truth, he's gonna find himself in moments where

0:28:37.000 --> 0:28:40.120
<v Speaker 2>it will feel true to him that this temptation.

0:28:39.840 --> 0:28:43.600
<v Speaker 1>Is stronger than my faith, but it's not. There will

0:28:43.640 --> 0:28:44.560
<v Speaker 1>be moments where.

0:28:44.360 --> 0:28:48.080
<v Speaker 2>It'll feel to him like popularity is more important than calling,

0:28:48.520 --> 0:28:52.400
<v Speaker 2>but it's not. There will be moments where he will

0:28:52.480 --> 0:28:54.080
<v Speaker 2>feel that something is true.

0:28:54.440 --> 0:28:56.320
<v Speaker 1>But what if what you feel.

0:28:56.080 --> 0:29:02.240
<v Speaker 2>Is true is actually a trap. Warn your neighbor real quick,

0:29:02.280 --> 0:29:05.080
<v Speaker 2>touch him and say it's a trap. It's a trap

0:29:06.280 --> 0:29:09.080
<v Speaker 2>to act outside of the character that God has placed

0:29:09.120 --> 0:29:12.000
<v Speaker 2>inside of you and call that you. It's a trap.

0:29:12.920 --> 0:29:15.080
<v Speaker 2>The enemy has some of you trapped and you don't

0:29:15.120 --> 0:29:17.719
<v Speaker 2>know it. He has you trapped in the prison of

0:29:17.720 --> 0:29:22.080
<v Speaker 2>what you call your personality. So now you run around

0:29:22.160 --> 0:29:24.760
<v Speaker 2>saying things like, well, that's just the kind of person

0:29:24.840 --> 0:29:27.360
<v Speaker 2>that I am. Well, if the kind of person that

0:29:27.440 --> 0:29:30.440
<v Speaker 2>I am doesn't match the kind of God that he is,

0:29:30.920 --> 0:29:33.120
<v Speaker 2>I've got to change some things and.

0:29:33.160 --> 0:29:34.200
<v Speaker 1>Choose some things.

0:29:36.480 --> 0:29:46.280
<v Speaker 2>Come on, God didn't tell Jeremiah, do you? God said,

0:29:46.600 --> 0:29:54.280
<v Speaker 2>I knew you. Steve Jobs has nothing on God. Steve

0:29:54.400 --> 0:29:59.440
<v Speaker 2>Jobs made an iPad. God made watch this a resurrection.

0:30:01.480 --> 0:30:05.080
<v Speaker 2>And the Bible says that the same power that raised

0:30:05.160 --> 0:30:05.920
<v Speaker 2>Christ from the.

0:30:05.920 --> 0:30:07.440
<v Speaker 1>Dead lives in you.

0:30:08.720 --> 0:30:13.400
<v Speaker 2>Touch your neighbors say he's talking about you. And so

0:30:13.680 --> 0:30:16.520
<v Speaker 2>one time I remember being in high school. I don't

0:30:16.520 --> 0:30:18.040
<v Speaker 2>know if I told you this story before. Maybe I

0:30:18.040 --> 0:30:21.400
<v Speaker 2>told you ten times. And everybody was getting high and

0:30:21.440 --> 0:30:23.480
<v Speaker 2>I had never been high in my life, and I

0:30:23.600 --> 0:30:25.960
<v Speaker 2>was that night planning to get high. And I remember

0:30:26.000 --> 0:30:27.800
<v Speaker 2>feeling like, I'm sick of being a good kid. I'm

0:30:27.840 --> 0:30:29.400
<v Speaker 2>sick of being alone on Saturday nights.

0:30:29.480 --> 0:30:31.560
<v Speaker 1>I'm sick of this. I'm going to actually do it tonight.

0:30:31.680 --> 0:30:33.800
<v Speaker 2>And I remember when I grabbed it and I went

0:30:33.840 --> 0:30:36.840
<v Speaker 2>to smoke it, and my friend slapped it out of

0:30:36.840 --> 0:30:40.000
<v Speaker 2>my hand and he looked at me and said.

0:30:40.080 --> 0:30:45.400
<v Speaker 1>This isn't you. And I came.

0:30:47.160 --> 0:30:53.080
<v Speaker 2>I came to Valentine, North Carolina today to tell you.

0:30:54.600 --> 0:30:55.400
<v Speaker 1>That's not you.

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<v Speaker 2>Everything that's sabotaging you.

0:30:58.920 --> 0:31:02.720
<v Speaker 3>I slap it out hand and I declare, that's not you.

0:31:04.680 --> 0:31:06.560
<v Speaker 3>Henry Habit, that's not you.

0:31:07.560 --> 0:31:10.200
<v Speaker 2>Look at your neighbors, say that's not you.

0:31:10.200 --> 0:31:10.880
<v Speaker 1>Go slap them.

0:31:10.880 --> 0:31:13.280
<v Speaker 2>I don't want to start anything, but when I feel

0:31:13.280 --> 0:31:15.520
<v Speaker 2>it rising up in me to take me down, I

0:31:15.680 --> 0:31:16.239
<v Speaker 2>slap it.

0:31:16.440 --> 0:31:21.240
<v Speaker 1>I demolish strongholds. The weapons of my warfare are not carnal,

0:31:21.520 --> 0:31:22.960
<v Speaker 1>but they're mighty through God.

0:31:23.320 --> 0:31:24.920
<v Speaker 3>Because this isn't you.

0:31:28.720 --> 0:31:29.760
<v Speaker 1>Nothing new you.

0:31:31.480 --> 0:31:35.320
<v Speaker 2>But see we're confused because we think that if it's automatic,

0:31:36.080 --> 0:31:47.400
<v Speaker 2>that makes it authentic. I am not what I feel.

0:31:49.600 --> 0:31:55.760
<v Speaker 1>I am not what I do. I am what God's

0:31:55.880 --> 0:31:57.240
<v Speaker 1>word says.

0:31:57.000 --> 0:32:00.320
<v Speaker 2>I am, and he is the great I am. This

0:32:00.440 --> 0:32:04.560
<v Speaker 2>changed my life because I wrote down the phrase do you,

0:32:04.640 --> 0:32:09.040
<v Speaker 2>and then I said, no, the new you. Jeremiah one

0:32:09.080 --> 0:32:11.680
<v Speaker 2>to five, give it to me the you that God

0:32:11.720 --> 0:32:14.320
<v Speaker 2>says he knew.

0:32:16.000 --> 0:32:21.120
<v Speaker 1>So maybe we should spell it different. Maybe doing the

0:32:21.200 --> 0:32:34.360
<v Speaker 1>new you man's doing the new you.

0:32:35.840 --> 0:32:42.760
<v Speaker 2>Thank you Jesus, you make all things new. Because let's

0:32:42.760 --> 0:32:44.440
<v Speaker 2>say I preach this to him and I'm like, okay,

0:32:44.600 --> 0:32:46.760
<v Speaker 2>so don't just do what you want to do, do

0:32:46.840 --> 0:32:47.320
<v Speaker 2>what God.

0:32:47.120 --> 0:32:48.960
<v Speaker 1>Tells you to do. So then you get out of

0:32:48.960 --> 0:32:49.240
<v Speaker 1>the trap.

0:32:49.320 --> 0:32:51.720
<v Speaker 2>Right, everybody say trap, because I really think it's a

0:32:51.760 --> 0:32:54.080
<v Speaker 2>trap to have an experience, form it into a belief

0:32:54.120 --> 0:32:57.520
<v Speaker 2>and then call it your truth. That's a trap. That's

0:32:57.520 --> 0:33:01.960
<v Speaker 2>a trap. That's the track. But then let's say you

0:33:01.960 --> 0:33:04.600
<v Speaker 2>get out of the do you trap? Only to not

0:33:04.720 --> 0:33:08.800
<v Speaker 2>bring my next illustration out? And this if the bull

0:33:08.880 --> 0:33:10.960
<v Speaker 2>took a while, so this might really take a while.

0:33:14.160 --> 0:33:15.520
<v Speaker 2>Bring it on out. And now you're about to find

0:33:15.520 --> 0:33:22.080
<v Speaker 2>out why I brought Graham up for the illustration. Because

0:33:22.160 --> 0:33:24.080
<v Speaker 2>let's say you get out of the do you trap?

0:33:24.200 --> 0:33:26.120
<v Speaker 1>I'm just doing me. I'm just being me. That's just

0:33:26.160 --> 0:33:30.160
<v Speaker 1>how I am. Then you get out of the trap,

0:33:31.280 --> 0:33:34.080
<v Speaker 1>the do you trap? Just do you? Boo boo? Do you?

0:33:34.160 --> 0:33:36.600
<v Speaker 1>Just do you? You get out of that trap, You're like,

0:33:36.600 --> 0:33:39.680
<v Speaker 1>all right, I'm gonna change. And now that the devil

0:33:39.720 --> 0:33:40.920
<v Speaker 1>sees you're out of the trap.

0:33:40.680 --> 0:33:42.080
<v Speaker 2>And you want to change and you want to get

0:33:42.120 --> 0:33:44.080
<v Speaker 2>better and you're not happy with it exactly what like

0:33:44.120 --> 0:33:47.200
<v Speaker 2>it is? You get out of the do you trap

0:33:48.440 --> 0:33:54.920
<v Speaker 2>and you get onto the future? You treadmill? How many

0:33:54.960 --> 0:33:56.480
<v Speaker 2>didn't know this was a treadmill. You thought it was

0:33:56.480 --> 0:34:01.959
<v Speaker 2>a code rap. That's all how you use And this

0:34:02.040 --> 0:34:06.040
<v Speaker 2>is why I brought Graham on the stage. Now he's

0:34:06.080 --> 0:34:10.040
<v Speaker 2>out of the trap. But now let's say that self

0:34:10.080 --> 0:34:18.520
<v Speaker 2>discipline and religion puts them on a treadmill where he

0:34:18.600 --> 0:34:20.120
<v Speaker 2>starts looking at Okay.

0:34:19.960 --> 0:34:20.920
<v Speaker 1>I'm gonna do the new me.

0:34:21.800 --> 0:34:25.520
<v Speaker 2>I'm gonna wake up at five am. My friend wakes

0:34:25.600 --> 0:34:29.360
<v Speaker 2>up at six am. I'm gonna get up at five am.

0:34:29.680 --> 0:34:33.560
<v Speaker 2>I'm gonna read five books of the Bible today, five alive.

0:34:35.320 --> 0:34:37.640
<v Speaker 2>How many of y'all started with a real new year's

0:34:37.760 --> 0:34:40.880
<v Speaker 2>energy going into a new twenty four and we realize

0:34:40.920 --> 0:34:44.360
<v Speaker 2>we just take it a day at a time. I

0:34:44.360 --> 0:34:46.120
<v Speaker 2>think the crazy thing is and I would do this

0:34:46.160 --> 0:34:47.000
<v Speaker 2>illustration myself.

0:34:47.040 --> 0:34:52.479
<v Speaker 1>But I'm wearing these boots. They're new.

0:34:52.600 --> 0:34:55.880
<v Speaker 2>I can't increase these. These are my new book boots.

0:34:55.880 --> 0:34:58.920
<v Speaker 2>I'm not messing these up. They're heavy, and I'm not

0:34:58.960 --> 0:35:00.800
<v Speaker 2>called to the cardio man anyway.

0:35:01.200 --> 0:35:05.560
<v Speaker 1>I've told you all that before. So now here we go,

0:35:05.840 --> 0:35:08.680
<v Speaker 1>do the new you and go.

0:35:09.280 --> 0:35:12.720
<v Speaker 2>And so now the devil's got some of us out there,

0:35:12.800 --> 0:35:14.080
<v Speaker 2>not settling.

0:35:14.680 --> 0:35:21.600
<v Speaker 1>But striving, because to do you.

0:35:23.040 --> 0:35:25.000
<v Speaker 2>Just do? You? And not let God have his say,

0:35:25.120 --> 0:35:27.400
<v Speaker 2>and to commit and put yourself in concrete for what

0:35:27.440 --> 0:35:29.279
<v Speaker 2>you've been up to this point is a trap. I

0:35:29.280 --> 0:35:32.000
<v Speaker 2>know it looks like a bull is a trap, and

0:35:32.040 --> 0:35:33.640
<v Speaker 2>I know this looks like walking, but.

0:35:33.640 --> 0:35:34.719
<v Speaker 1>He's not going anywhere.

0:35:41.000 --> 0:35:44.520
<v Speaker 2>To just do you is to live your life cheated.

0:35:44.640 --> 0:35:49.319
<v Speaker 2>Everybody say cheated, But to get this idea in your

0:35:49.320 --> 0:35:53.279
<v Speaker 2>mind that there is a future you that God would

0:35:53.280 --> 0:35:56.919
<v Speaker 2>love more, or there is a future you that God

0:35:56.960 --> 0:36:00.719
<v Speaker 2>could use, or that there is a future you that

0:36:00.760 --> 0:36:03.919
<v Speaker 2>would be worthy of love in a relationship, or there

0:36:03.960 --> 0:36:06.560
<v Speaker 2>is a future you that could feel good about yourself

0:36:06.760 --> 0:36:07.480
<v Speaker 2>and your life.

0:36:07.600 --> 0:36:11.480
<v Speaker 1>And is just one accomplishment away.

0:36:12.760 --> 0:36:16.520
<v Speaker 2>Is to get out of the trap and onto the treadmill.

0:36:17.880 --> 0:36:21.440
<v Speaker 2>And as good as long as it's good, and it works,

0:36:21.480 --> 0:36:22.520
<v Speaker 2>as long as it works.

0:36:24.040 --> 0:36:26.040
<v Speaker 1>And I wonder are there some people here who.

0:36:25.880 --> 0:36:29.799
<v Speaker 2>Have been cheated because you've settled for what you thought

0:36:29.800 --> 0:36:33.120
<v Speaker 2>you were? But I also wonder are there some people

0:36:33.160 --> 0:36:38.279
<v Speaker 2>here who are chasing chasing something that you think you

0:36:38.360 --> 0:36:41.120
<v Speaker 2>need to be because you saw somebody else be it,

0:36:43.080 --> 0:36:47.200
<v Speaker 2>chasing something that you scrolled past and thought it was

0:36:47.239 --> 0:36:50.160
<v Speaker 2>the full story of what a happy family looked like.

0:36:50.960 --> 0:36:55.959
<v Speaker 1>Chasing after future you so goes like this, like, yeah, boy,

0:36:56.440 --> 0:36:57.879
<v Speaker 1>you're gonna be great one day.

0:36:58.320 --> 0:37:01.440
<v Speaker 2>All you gotta do is get through high school and

0:37:01.480 --> 0:37:03.520
<v Speaker 2>then you go to college. Now all you got to

0:37:03.560 --> 0:37:06.480
<v Speaker 2>do is get this degree. Now all you got to

0:37:06.520 --> 0:37:10.280
<v Speaker 2>do is find somebody who's actually hiring with that expensive

0:37:10.280 --> 0:37:12.560
<v Speaker 2>degree that you're going to be paying off for the

0:37:12.600 --> 0:37:17.240
<v Speaker 2>next fifty years. Come on, and so now I'm chasing,

0:37:17.520 --> 0:37:20.319
<v Speaker 2>and I'm coughing and I'm running, and I'm so glad

0:37:20.360 --> 0:37:22.400
<v Speaker 2>I had kids so they could do this part of

0:37:22.400 --> 0:37:25.600
<v Speaker 2>my illustrations. Now that my beard needs to be dyed.

0:37:26.040 --> 0:37:29.040
<v Speaker 2>Come on, and so now I'm chasing, and it's great.

0:37:29.280 --> 0:37:32.960
<v Speaker 2>But not only is it getting faster and faster and harder,

0:37:33.000 --> 0:37:35.560
<v Speaker 2>but I look around and I realize I don't think

0:37:35.600 --> 0:37:39.319
<v Speaker 2>I'm ever going to be anything but me. And here

0:37:39.360 --> 0:37:42.000
<v Speaker 2>I am thinking.

0:37:41.680 --> 0:37:43.040
<v Speaker 1>That somehow.

0:37:44.200 --> 0:37:46.239
<v Speaker 2>This collage watch, because here's what we do. We get

0:37:46.239 --> 0:37:48.600
<v Speaker 2>a collage, right, and then we get the person with

0:37:48.719 --> 0:37:51.280
<v Speaker 2>all the money, We get the person with all the girls,

0:37:51.360 --> 0:37:53.919
<v Speaker 2>We get the person with all the success, with all

0:37:53.920 --> 0:37:54.680
<v Speaker 2>the followers.

0:37:54.800 --> 0:37:57.040
<v Speaker 1>Oh, if I had a thousand followers, now you need

0:37:57.080 --> 0:38:00.480
<v Speaker 1>ten thousand. Just went up, just went up. Here comes

0:38:00.520 --> 0:38:02.920
<v Speaker 1>to incline. Now we got social media.

0:38:03.080 --> 0:38:05.799
<v Speaker 2>I didn't even have Twitter when I was a teenager, and.

0:38:05.680 --> 0:38:08.640
<v Speaker 1>It's not even called Twitter anymore. And my beard is

0:38:08.680 --> 0:38:10.919
<v Speaker 1>gray and I'm still chasing going.

0:38:11.080 --> 0:38:13.759
<v Speaker 2>Well, maybe if I turn fifty, I'll have wisdom, and

0:38:13.840 --> 0:38:16.239
<v Speaker 2>maybe if I get through this, I'll be happy and

0:38:16.280 --> 0:38:18.520
<v Speaker 2>I'm gonna wrest win and I'm gonna feel good about

0:38:18.520 --> 0:38:20.400
<v Speaker 2>myself when and before you know it.

0:38:20.440 --> 0:38:22.200
<v Speaker 1>No, I'm going up. I'm going up. I'm going up.

0:38:22.320 --> 0:38:24.319
<v Speaker 1>I'm going up. I'm going up. You're holding on.

0:38:25.400 --> 0:38:30.280
<v Speaker 3>But the bindeple says, give me Jeremiah one to five.

0:38:30.719 --> 0:38:33.680
<v Speaker 3>The word of the Lord came to me and said,

0:38:33.800 --> 0:38:35.560
<v Speaker 3>before you were farmed.

0:38:37.120 --> 0:38:39.800
<v Speaker 1>I noon.

0:38:41.840 --> 0:38:41.920
<v Speaker 2>You.

0:38:44.880 --> 0:38:48.680
<v Speaker 1>The word of the Lord came to me. The word

0:38:48.719 --> 0:38:50.000
<v Speaker 1>of the Lord came to me.

0:38:50.960 --> 0:38:53.720
<v Speaker 2>The word of the Lord is coming to you right now.

0:38:54.880 --> 0:38:59.800
<v Speaker 3>Out of the trap, off of the treadmill, and into

0:38:59.880 --> 0:39:00.640
<v Speaker 3>the truth.

0:39:01.440 --> 0:39:02.759
<v Speaker 1>Until the truth.

0:39:02.480 --> 0:39:08.160
<v Speaker 3>Gets it to you and you recognize, I've been running

0:39:08.200 --> 0:39:14.959
<v Speaker 3>after something that's already mine. I've just been living when

0:39:15.000 --> 0:39:21.440
<v Speaker 3>me that potential. I'm already clean bias flood. I'm already

0:39:21.560 --> 0:39:26.120
<v Speaker 3>saved by his grace. I'm already redeemed by his liberty.

0:39:26.760 --> 0:39:31.520
<v Speaker 2>I'm already to the praise of His glorious grace. Why

0:39:31.719 --> 0:39:35.520
<v Speaker 2>because I refuse to live cheated and I refuse to

0:39:35.600 --> 0:39:36.560
<v Speaker 2>live chasing.

0:39:39.280 --> 0:39:44.880
<v Speaker 1>Because I'm chosen, chosen. Say it. Get that word in

0:39:44.920 --> 0:39:49.600
<v Speaker 1>your mouth. Chosen, chosen, chosen, chosen.

0:39:49.760 --> 0:39:51.640
<v Speaker 2>I love you, Holly, but I didn't pick you for

0:39:51.719 --> 0:39:55.520
<v Speaker 2>that illustration. I didn't pick you for that illustration because

0:39:55.520 --> 0:39:57.480
<v Speaker 2>I didn't know if you could last long enough on

0:39:57.600 --> 0:39:59.680
<v Speaker 2>twelve for me to get the scripture of And I'm

0:39:59.719 --> 0:40:01.800
<v Speaker 2>not pick on you. You do a lot of amazing things.

0:40:01.960 --> 0:40:06.200
<v Speaker 2>I didn't pick you for it. I picked somebody. I

0:40:06.440 --> 0:40:10.800
<v Speaker 2>chose him.

0:40:08.840 --> 0:40:13.799
<v Speaker 1>Because I knew that if he had to, he could

0:40:13.800 --> 0:40:17.759
<v Speaker 1>beat me up. He's in wrestling shape.

0:40:17.880 --> 0:40:21.759
<v Speaker 2>I'm telling you, God shows you. I'm telling you God

0:40:21.800 --> 0:40:27.359
<v Speaker 2>shows you, and I'm saying he knew you. See.

0:40:27.400 --> 0:40:29.040
<v Speaker 1>I want you to see the difference. Close your eyes.

0:40:29.480 --> 0:40:32.120
<v Speaker 2>You know you've been chasing after something that you think

0:40:32.160 --> 0:40:33.719
<v Speaker 2>when you get it, when you get there, I'm gonna

0:40:33.719 --> 0:40:36.319
<v Speaker 2>do the new me, new year, new me, No new year,

0:40:36.440 --> 0:40:44.400
<v Speaker 2>same nose. Yeah, But what if you've been running after

0:40:44.480 --> 0:40:52.680
<v Speaker 2>something that is already yours. Perhaps perhaps the addiction is

0:40:52.680 --> 0:40:56.879
<v Speaker 2>something that the enemy planted in your life because there

0:40:56.960 --> 0:41:02.560
<v Speaker 2>is something so amazing inside of you that he wants

0:41:02.560 --> 0:41:06.040
<v Speaker 2>your birthright and you gave it away for a bowl.

0:41:08.239 --> 0:41:11.719
<v Speaker 2>Perhaps God really is Now I'm a minister this because

0:41:11.800 --> 0:41:12.160
<v Speaker 2>this is me.

0:41:12.239 --> 0:41:14.000
<v Speaker 1>This is me right here, watch it, because I sit

0:41:14.040 --> 0:41:14.319
<v Speaker 1>there and.

0:41:14.239 --> 0:41:17.080
<v Speaker 2>Go, well, I'm somebody who goes for it.

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<v Speaker 1>I'm somebody who doesn't settle.

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<v Speaker 2>I'm somebody who really demands the best out of myself.

0:41:21.160 --> 0:41:22.960
<v Speaker 2>I'm somebody who wants to improve. That's fine, It's called

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<v Speaker 2>self righteousness. Because when I talk like that and I

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<v Speaker 2>don't receive by grace, I end up like grandmamost was

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<v Speaker 2>he still breathing heavy up here.

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<v Speaker 1>Don't let him fool you with this close mouth. I

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<v Speaker 1>hear him breathe in running.

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<v Speaker 2>After something that How long can I keep this up?

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<v Speaker 2>And I'm chasing, but I'm chosen. You don't have to

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<v Speaker 2>chase it. When you're chosen, you can walk in it.

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<v Speaker 2>And I mean really walk, not on a treadmill of

0:42:05.520 --> 0:42:08.120
<v Speaker 2>boy God. You can walk with God, walk through your day,

0:42:08.200 --> 0:42:11.000
<v Speaker 2>walk through your life. Your father will speak to you,

0:42:11.000 --> 0:42:17.319
<v Speaker 2>your father will slap stuff out of your hands. Your

0:42:17.360 --> 0:42:19.879
<v Speaker 2>father will look at you going so hard because oh,

0:42:19.960 --> 0:42:20.880
<v Speaker 2>and I wrote this book.

0:42:20.880 --> 0:42:21.280
<v Speaker 1>I thought.

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<v Speaker 2>I don't want people to just see the title go

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<v Speaker 2>another one of those do the new me? What's so

0:42:26.320 --> 0:42:29.120
<v Speaker 2>wrong with the O me? No, no, no, you're just

0:42:29.160 --> 0:42:39.959
<v Speaker 2>not going back far enough. God told Jeremiah, I'm gonna

0:42:40.000 --> 0:42:41.600
<v Speaker 2>call you to do a new thing. How many cents?

0:42:41.680 --> 0:42:44.520
<v Speaker 2>God is calling you to stretch your faith in new

0:42:44.600 --> 0:42:47.279
<v Speaker 2>and unique ways that are nuanced to you.

0:42:47.520 --> 0:42:50.640
<v Speaker 1>And this message just put in the chat a new thing,

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<v Speaker 1>A new thing, all right? But but see, but see,

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<v Speaker 1>God says, before I called you to do the new thing.

0:42:59.040 --> 0:43:07.160
<v Speaker 2>Before you were bull, I knew you, which takes the

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<v Speaker 2>pressure off of me because it lets me know that

0:43:10.880 --> 0:43:15.840
<v Speaker 2>God is very, very comfortable with my process.

0:43:17.200 --> 0:43:20.720
<v Speaker 1>And that he is partnering with me in the process.

0:43:22.040 --> 0:43:24.960
<v Speaker 2>And I am not chasing after a God who might

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<v Speaker 2>love me when I kick this habit. And I am

0:43:28.440 --> 0:43:31.480
<v Speaker 2>not chasing after an achievement that might make me feel

0:43:31.480 --> 0:43:34.760
<v Speaker 2>like my life is worthy. And I am not listen

0:43:34.800 --> 0:43:37.399
<v Speaker 2>to me everybody who's not married right now. I am

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<v Speaker 2>not chasing another person thinking they will make me whole

0:43:40.600 --> 0:43:48.040
<v Speaker 2>and fulfilled. I am not chasing an opportunity to collaborate

0:43:48.160 --> 0:43:51.200
<v Speaker 2>in my business thinking that that will somehow then set

0:43:51.239 --> 0:43:59.360
<v Speaker 2>me free. I'm already free, and I'm choosing. I'm choosing

0:43:59.400 --> 0:44:04.080
<v Speaker 2>to walk away from the ball. I'm choosing because God.

0:44:05.719 --> 0:44:11.640
<v Speaker 1>Chose you. I believe God chose me to do this.

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<v Speaker 1>I struggle with it.

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<v Speaker 2>I doubt it sometimes, y'all. I was reading Jeremia last

0:44:17.040 --> 0:44:19.719
<v Speaker 2>night for our Bible Club. Shout out Elijen Kelsey. We're

0:44:19.719 --> 0:44:23.800
<v Speaker 2>there in Lynchburg watching right now, and we're in Jeremiah

0:44:23.880 --> 0:44:25.880
<v Speaker 2>right now over about the fourteen fifteen.

0:44:26.160 --> 0:44:26.960
<v Speaker 1>By the way, if you read.

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<v Speaker 2>Jeremiah, chapter one, verse six is about the high point,

0:44:29.560 --> 0:44:32.200
<v Speaker 2>it gets really dark for the next ten chapters. And

0:44:32.280 --> 0:44:34.080
<v Speaker 2>that crazy God was calling him to do something hard.

0:44:34.120 --> 0:44:35.920
<v Speaker 2>He said, I know it's gonna be hard. I know

0:44:35.920 --> 0:44:37.520
<v Speaker 2>you're gonna get up to speak sometimes and we're not

0:44:37.560 --> 0:44:38.160
<v Speaker 2>all called to speak.

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<v Speaker 1>But watch this, we're all chosen. You need proof. Ephesians

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<v Speaker 1>one four.

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<v Speaker 2>Put it on the screen, for He chose us in

0:44:50.280 --> 0:44:56.120
<v Speaker 2>him before the creation of the world. Whoa He told Jeremiah,

0:44:56.160 --> 0:44:59.719
<v Speaker 2>you were chosen before you were born. Paul takes it

0:44:59.760 --> 0:45:03.360
<v Speaker 2>from he said, you were chosen before the world was born,

0:45:05.320 --> 0:45:08.359
<v Speaker 2>before God made what I see, He had a plan

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<v Speaker 2>for me.

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<v Speaker 1>Go to verse eleven. They don't believe me. Yet takes

0:45:11.680 --> 0:45:13.520
<v Speaker 1>a lot of scripture to convince these people. They're kind

0:45:13.520 --> 0:45:18.160
<v Speaker 1>of stubborn. Gram In Him, we also were chosen. That's

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<v Speaker 1>fine for Jeremiah, I'm not called to speak in him.

0:45:21.160 --> 0:45:26.200
<v Speaker 2>In Jesus, we were also chosen, having been predestined according

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<v Speaker 2>to the plan of Him who works out everything in

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<v Speaker 2>conformity to the purpose.

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<v Speaker 1>Of his will.

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<v Speaker 2>I'm worried that some of you are walking and running

0:45:37.239 --> 0:45:39.480
<v Speaker 2>on a treadmill after things that aren't even in.

0:45:39.520 --> 0:45:52.000
<v Speaker 1>God's will for you. Wow, so say I'm chosen. God

0:45:52.120 --> 0:45:59.640
<v Speaker 1>chose you. Now comes to question, will you which you?

0:45:59.719 --> 0:46:00.600
<v Speaker 1>Will you choose?

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<v Speaker 2>Because I have to decide this every day I wake

0:46:03.560 --> 0:46:06.440
<v Speaker 2>up in my life. Am I going to choose to

0:46:06.520 --> 0:46:09.840
<v Speaker 2>me that I've seen so far? Am I going to

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<v Speaker 2>be open to the surprise of the Holy Spirit of God?

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<v Speaker 1>You can probably sit down now. Didn't he do a

0:46:13.440 --> 0:46:16.279
<v Speaker 1>great job? I don't want to make him say all day,

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<v Speaker 1>come on, he did a great job.

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<v Speaker 2>A sixteen year old helping his dad preach.

0:46:24.200 --> 0:46:27.840
<v Speaker 1>I was sixteen when I really got serious about my faith.

0:46:27.840 --> 0:46:29.520
<v Speaker 2>That my mom raised me and made my commitment to

0:46:29.560 --> 0:46:31.600
<v Speaker 2>cry sixteen years old. So when I look at him,

0:46:31.640 --> 0:46:33.440
<v Speaker 2>I think about that makes me want to cry. All

0:46:33.440 --> 0:46:36.400
<v Speaker 2>the things God could do through them. But don't ever

0:46:36.920 --> 0:46:41.520
<v Speaker 2>chase what they say you can be. If we did,

0:46:43.280 --> 0:46:48.120
<v Speaker 2>I probably wouldn't be standing here today. Because when I

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<v Speaker 2>was sixteen, Chris Dixon invited me to join the Voices

0:46:51.280 --> 0:46:54.279
<v Speaker 2>of Unity Choir at Berkeley High School, where his mom,

0:46:54.280 --> 0:46:58.080
<v Speaker 2>Martha Dixon, was the director and his cousin Arturo, was

0:46:58.120 --> 0:47:01.600
<v Speaker 2>the lead soprano. And Arturo was a boy had the

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<v Speaker 2>highest voice of any boy that I've ever heard in

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<v Speaker 2>my life. But here's the interesting thing about being invited

0:47:07.280 --> 0:47:09.719
<v Speaker 2>to join the Voices of Unity Choir is that when

0:47:09.760 --> 0:47:12.120
<v Speaker 2>I went to join the Voices of Unity Choir, y'all

0:47:12.160 --> 0:47:13.440
<v Speaker 2>might remember the old show that said one of these

0:47:13.440 --> 0:47:14.799
<v Speaker 2>things is not like the other. One of these things

0:47:14.800 --> 0:47:17.560
<v Speaker 2>just doesn't belong. The only white guy in the Voices

0:47:17.600 --> 0:47:22.520
<v Speaker 2>of Unity Choir was me, And I turned to Chris

0:47:22.560 --> 0:47:26.880
<v Speaker 2>and said, you sure you want me in the choir?

0:47:27.440 --> 0:47:30.120
<v Speaker 2>Because I noticed when everybody would start to rock one way,

0:47:30.800 --> 0:47:35.319
<v Speaker 2>I would naturally rock the wrong way, and I'm like.

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<v Speaker 1>Are you sure?

0:47:36.600 --> 0:47:40.160
<v Speaker 2>I loved it, but I wanted to do it, but

0:47:40.200 --> 0:47:43.239
<v Speaker 2>a few of my white friends were like, hey, what

0:47:43.280 --> 0:47:45.960
<v Speaker 2>are you doing over there with them.

0:47:46.840 --> 0:47:48.360
<v Speaker 1>See this is the problem with live in your truth.

0:47:50.640 --> 0:47:52.600
<v Speaker 1>Racists think they're right.

0:48:01.040 --> 0:48:02.759
<v Speaker 2>And the people were telling me you don't belong in

0:48:02.800 --> 0:48:06.360
<v Speaker 2>the choir thought they were right. The white people, the

0:48:06.360 --> 0:48:08.080
<v Speaker 2>black people were glad to have me in the choir.

0:48:08.520 --> 0:48:15.840
<v Speaker 2>They actually simplified the march into the spring concert so

0:48:15.880 --> 0:48:16.800
<v Speaker 2>that I could be a part.

0:48:17.480 --> 0:48:19.000
<v Speaker 1>They were very happy to have me.

0:48:24.719 --> 0:48:29.560
<v Speaker 2>Now when they asked me, how do you have a

0:48:29.640 --> 0:48:31.080
<v Speaker 2>multi cultural church?

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<v Speaker 4>I'm glad. Chris said, we want you. We want you

0:48:43.760 --> 0:48:48.920
<v Speaker 4>to sing with us. Calm, sing with us. No, not

0:48:49.000 --> 0:48:50.719
<v Speaker 4>the one in the three, the two in the four.

0:48:51.080 --> 0:48:54.840
<v Speaker 4>Calm clap within us. And if you would ever.

0:48:54.760 --> 0:48:58.239
<v Speaker 2>Get with God and get in agreement with God and

0:48:58.400 --> 0:49:02.200
<v Speaker 2>stop listening to what everybody else thinks can be, you

0:49:02.280 --> 0:49:03.239
<v Speaker 2>might find.

0:49:02.960 --> 0:49:07.640
<v Speaker 3>Out that God put something in you that eyes have

0:49:07.840 --> 0:49:11.080
<v Speaker 3>not seen, that ears have not heard, that has not

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<v Speaker 3>it and into the heart of a man.

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<v Speaker 1>I wonder what's in you? You? You?

0:49:25.400 --> 0:49:25.480
<v Speaker 2>You?

0:49:25.640 --> 0:49:27.520
<v Speaker 1>And the white people mess up the clap. We couldn't

0:49:27.560 --> 0:49:28.920
<v Speaker 1>even keep it going five seconds.

0:49:30.000 --> 0:49:35.200
<v Speaker 2>But I love how this church is filled with uniqueness.

0:49:35.560 --> 0:49:38.480
<v Speaker 2>And some of us praise loud, and.

0:49:38.400 --> 0:49:40.600
<v Speaker 1>Some of us prays quiet.

0:49:40.560 --> 0:49:43.600
<v Speaker 2>And some of us pray in tongues, and some of

0:49:43.719 --> 0:49:46.800
<v Speaker 2>us pray in a journal, and some of us sing

0:49:47.000 --> 0:49:49.799
<v Speaker 2>fast songs, and some of us worship the Lord to

0:49:50.160 --> 0:49:54.040
<v Speaker 2>contut us, and some of us are fluid in the scriptures,

0:49:54.239 --> 0:49:55.600
<v Speaker 2>and some of us are new.

0:49:55.480 --> 0:49:58.560
<v Speaker 1>To the scriptures. But I know one thing about this church.

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<v Speaker 1>You are a chosen people. You are a royal priesthood.

0:50:04.080 --> 0:50:09.160
<v Speaker 2>You are a holy nation, a people belonging to God.

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<v Speaker 1>To declare the praises. Come on to declare the praises.

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<v Speaker 1>Let's take ten seconds and declare the praises. My God

0:50:20.560 --> 0:50:21.240
<v Speaker 1>is awesome.

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<v Speaker 4>He rules in power.

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<v Speaker 1>He makes the seas fall, he makes.

0:50:28.640 --> 0:50:31.319
<v Speaker 2>The wave rules, he makes.

0:50:31.000 --> 0:50:34.760
<v Speaker 5>The breakers nash, he makes the storm cease.

0:50:35.440 --> 0:50:38.320
<v Speaker 2>He's making my enemies like a footstool.

0:50:38.960 --> 0:50:49.440
<v Speaker 5>It makes me like now in great pastures.

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<v Speaker 1>Look at you acting crazy. I thought I knew you.

0:50:53.280 --> 0:50:59.279
<v Speaker 1>Maybe there's more in you than you knew. So now

0:50:59.280 --> 0:51:00.000
<v Speaker 1>we got work today.

0:51:00.440 --> 0:51:06.480
<v Speaker 2>We gotta do Jeremiah one, Chapter one, Chapter one, verse nine.

0:51:06.719 --> 0:51:10.960
<v Speaker 2>Put it on the screen because after Jeremiah got done

0:51:11.040 --> 0:51:12.640
<v Speaker 2>doing his excuses, and I'm gonna give a preview of

0:51:12.680 --> 0:51:14.279
<v Speaker 2>next week's message, you better be back here next week

0:51:14.320 --> 0:51:16.120
<v Speaker 2>because I'm not even into it yet I'm not even

0:51:16.200 --> 0:51:19.360
<v Speaker 2>into you are shouting over the syllabus right now. Imagine

0:51:19.400 --> 0:51:21.680
<v Speaker 2>what the class is gonna be when we really get

0:51:21.719 --> 0:51:26.040
<v Speaker 2>into this and get your mindset on things above. Y'all,

0:51:26.080 --> 0:51:28.080
<v Speaker 2>remember how I was up here with the guitar two

0:51:28.120 --> 0:51:30.760
<v Speaker 2>weeks ago talking about tuning to truth.

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<v Speaker 1>That's what we're gonna do. We're gonna get practical. I

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<v Speaker 1>took six mindsets.

0:51:35.200 --> 0:51:37.840
<v Speaker 2>I didn't even realize God was setting this up, but

0:51:37.960 --> 0:51:42.960
<v Speaker 2>he knew. And there are six strings on an acoustic guitar.

0:51:43.320 --> 0:51:46.040
<v Speaker 2>And there are six mindsets that I will be sharing

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<v Speaker 2>with you over.

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<v Speaker 1>The next six weeks.

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<v Speaker 2>And I'm gonna give them to you, and I'm gonna

0:51:51.280 --> 0:51:52.000
<v Speaker 2>preach them to you.

0:51:52.200 --> 0:51:54.040
<v Speaker 1>And next week I'm gonna talk to you about.

0:51:53.840 --> 0:51:58.520
<v Speaker 2>How to agree with God, how to agree with him

0:51:59.000 --> 0:52:01.680
<v Speaker 2>about who he says you are, how to agree with

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<v Speaker 2>Him about what He says is still possible for you

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<v Speaker 2>at this point.

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<v Speaker 1>In your life.

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<v Speaker 2>How to agree with God about his priorities, how to

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<v Speaker 2>agree with God about his values, stop agreeing with your limitations,

0:52:17.360 --> 0:52:23.279
<v Speaker 2>and stop arguing for your past. And to do it,

0:52:24.400 --> 0:52:26.680
<v Speaker 2>we got to get these six mindsets not only in

0:52:26.760 --> 0:52:32.080
<v Speaker 2>your heart, but watch this verse nine, the Lord said.

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<v Speaker 1>I am putting my words in your mouth.

0:52:39.560 --> 0:52:42.440
<v Speaker 2>I sat down last year as I was teaching Do

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<v Speaker 2>the New You Beta version to the church, and I

0:52:47.200 --> 0:52:49.920
<v Speaker 2>realized God was doing something and I'm closing. So y'all

0:52:49.920 --> 0:52:51.759
<v Speaker 2>don't have to sit down. And if you stand it

0:52:51.760 --> 0:52:55.120
<v Speaker 2>and make me close quicker. So you decide, And everybody's

0:52:55.120 --> 0:52:59.239
<v Speaker 2>doing it because I begin to write what are the

0:52:59.280 --> 0:53:03.520
<v Speaker 2>things that God says are true? And I was basing it.

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

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<v Speaker 2>the next six I want to take these six sayings

0:53:16.800 --> 0:53:20.600
<v Speaker 2>Jeremy one four again. Please, the word of the Lord

0:53:20.640 --> 0:53:28.680
<v Speaker 2>came to me saying, what are you saying? Better question?

0:53:29.840 --> 0:53:32.120
<v Speaker 2>Are you saying what God sees when you look in

0:53:32.120 --> 0:53:37.080
<v Speaker 2>the mirror or what you see? What? Don't want to

0:53:37.080 --> 0:53:40.960
<v Speaker 2>walk you through in this message as we gather together

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<v Speaker 2>as an online community.

0:53:42.000 --> 0:53:43.959
<v Speaker 1>I mean, we got resources, but I want to give you.

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<v Speaker 2>The six declarations to make over your life so that

0:53:48.920 --> 0:53:52.400
<v Speaker 2>not only do we get your mind right, but we

0:53:52.480 --> 0:53:57.160
<v Speaker 2>get your mouth right, so that you begin to say

0:53:57.200 --> 0:54:01.120
<v Speaker 2>what God sees until you see it too, the New You.

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<v Speaker 1>I'm bursting to share this with you. Do you feel like.

0:54:07.400 --> 0:54:10.800
<v Speaker 2>I'm about to blow up and be on little pieces

0:54:10.840 --> 0:54:11.920
<v Speaker 2>all over the fourth row.

0:54:11.760 --> 0:54:12.280
<v Speaker 1>Of the church.

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<v Speaker 2>I am because this is in me, because I need this,

0:54:18.280 --> 0:54:25.520
<v Speaker 2>because I hold bulls sometimes, and I'm cheated, cheated out

0:54:25.560 --> 0:54:26.799
<v Speaker 2>of what I could be, cheated out of what I

0:54:26.800 --> 0:54:28.880
<v Speaker 2>could see, cheated at the example I could set, cheated

0:54:28.880 --> 0:54:30.800
<v Speaker 2>of the freedom I could experience, cheat them of the chain.

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<v Speaker 1>That could break.

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<v Speaker 2>But then I put that ball down and boy, and

0:54:34.160 --> 0:54:39.600
<v Speaker 2>then I start Jason until I fall out and realized

0:54:39.640 --> 0:54:41.640
<v Speaker 2>that it is by the grace of.

0:54:41.600 --> 0:54:43.640
<v Speaker 1>God that I am what I am. Did you know

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<v Speaker 1>Paul said that by the grace of God, I am

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<v Speaker 1>what I am. So I'm choosing to live chosen God

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<v Speaker 1>chose you, will you will you will? You choose you

0:55:01.760 --> 0:55:05.560
<v Speaker 1>even though you know you. I'll be honest.

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<v Speaker 2>If I was picking somebody to make a difference in

0:55:08.000 --> 0:55:09.160
<v Speaker 2>the world, I probably wouldn't pick me.

0:55:09.200 --> 0:55:09.759
<v Speaker 1>But God did.

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<v Speaker 2>I wonder what he knows about my brokenness that he

0:55:14.680 --> 0:55:18.600
<v Speaker 2>can use to bring a ball. And I'm looking at

0:55:18.640 --> 0:55:23.720
<v Speaker 2>lives today that looked like iPads brand new out the box,

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<v Speaker 2>and I'm wondering what could it be if it got

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<v Speaker 2>in the right hands. The six mindsets go like this

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<v Speaker 2>and shout out to my man Dave Ulrich, who've got

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<v Speaker 2>an early copy of the book, and he put them

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<v Speaker 2>on his mirror, and he sent me a picture and said,

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<v Speaker 2>this book is gonna change lives. Pastor, let's go put

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<v Speaker 2>that picture up that Dave sent me. He wrote each

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<v Speaker 2>of them out on a post It note. He didn't

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<v Speaker 2>even know. We have a stack of post it notes

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<v Speaker 2>for all of you today with these six mindsets on them.

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<v Speaker 1>You're gonna get it. If you're here, if.

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<v Speaker 2>You're online, you better write them down right now and

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<v Speaker 2>make your own post It note.

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<v Speaker 1>Repeat after me. Mindset one. I'm not stuck unless I stop.

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<v Speaker 1>We're gonna talk about that next week.

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<v Speaker 2>What's blocked you from becoming, what's blocked you from believing?

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<v Speaker 2>We're going to talk about that from the scriptures, and

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<v Speaker 2>the Holy Spirit will minister it to you. The second

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<v Speaker 2>one says, oh you've heard this if you've been around

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<v Speaker 2>my church for a while.

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<v Speaker 1>Christ is in me.

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<v Speaker 2>I am enough. I hope you're repeating these in the

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<v Speaker 2>comments right now. I want you to say it out loud.

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<v Speaker 2>I want you to type it. I want you to

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<v Speaker 2>write it. I want you to receive it. Christ is

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<v Speaker 2>in me. I am enough. Here's one you've heard before.

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<v Speaker 1>With God.

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<v Speaker 2>Come on, with God, there's always a way, and by faith,

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<v Speaker 2>I will find it. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, you're gonna

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<v Speaker 2>find it. You're gonna find it. You think there is

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<v Speaker 2>no way, you just have seen it. Yet the word

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<v Speaker 2>of the Lord is coming to you. This is what

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<v Speaker 2>I tell myself before I preach to you. Number four.

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<v Speaker 2>God is not against me, but he's in it with me,

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<v Speaker 2>working through me, fighting for me.

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<v Speaker 1>We might write a song about that already. Dude.

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<v Speaker 2>Number five say my joy is my job.

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<v Speaker 1>You might not like that week, you might want to

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<v Speaker 1>skip that week. Put the responsibility on you next week,

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<v Speaker 1>that week and then this is really.

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<v Speaker 2>Really important to believe that God has given me everything

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<v Speaker 2>I need for the season I'm in.

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<v Speaker 1>Now.

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<v Speaker 2>If we get you tuned to this.

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<v Speaker 1>This truth, you will never be the same.

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<v Speaker 2>I want to pray for you right now. The word

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<v Speaker 2>of the Lord came to you today, isn't it.

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<v Speaker 1>Came to me too?

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<v Speaker 2>Saying before I formed you, I knew you. I feel

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<v Speaker 2>like we need to connect. Would you just either grab

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<v Speaker 2>the hand or put your hand on the shoulder of

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<v Speaker 2>the person next to you. First of all, Lord, we

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<v Speaker 2>thank you that we're not chasing your love, acceptance, or grace.

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<v Speaker 2>It has been given to us by your son, Jesus Christ.

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<v Speaker 2>We thank you, Lord that this is the last day

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<v Speaker 2>that we will believe the deceitful desires. We may still

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<v Speaker 2>struggle with them, but from this day forward we are

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<v Speaker 2>oriented toward truth. Your truth will make us free and God. Today,

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<v Speaker 2>we thank you that we are chosen by you, and

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<v Speaker 2>now we chose. We chose to put ourselves in the

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<v Speaker 2>path of your power.

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<v Speaker 1>Today. Because we did, you spoke a word, and this

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<v Speaker 1>word is now received in our hearts.

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<v Speaker 2>I declare rain for the seed that was sowed today

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<v Speaker 2>for the words that were spoken.

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<v Speaker 1>I decree and declare.

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<v Speaker 2>An increase of righteousness, peace and joy in the Holy Ghost.

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<v Speaker 2>And I thank you that our eyes have not seen,

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<v Speaker 2>nor have our ears heard, nor has it entered into

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<v Speaker 2>the heart of a man what you have prepared for

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<v Speaker 2>those who love you, but you have revealed it by

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<v Speaker 2>your spirit. I thank you for revelation, and I thank

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<v Speaker 2>you for grace to change. And I thank you that

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<v Speaker 2>you are making all things.

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<v Speaker 1>New in Jesus' name.

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<v Speaker 2>Amen, would you clap your hands at every location.

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