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Speaker 1: Hey, this is Stephen Ferdick.

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

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Speaker 1: I wanted to thank you for joining us today. Hope

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

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Speaker 1: gives your perspective to see God is moving in your life.

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Speaker 1: Enjoy the message. I do want to say, welcome to

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Speaker 1: our worldwide church family.

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Speaker 3: Let's welcome our e fam one time, come on Elevation

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Speaker 3: in Valentine.

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Speaker 1: Let's thank God for all of those who are joining

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Speaker 1: us online.

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Speaker 3: Also since his Veterans Day weekend, I want to thank

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Speaker 3: all of you who have served our country.

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Speaker 1: In any branch of the service. Thank you so much.

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Speaker 1: We can do better than that.

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Speaker 3: I know you're holding your Bible, but kind of get

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Speaker 3: those hands free. I thank the Lord for each and

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Speaker 3: every one of you. I'm excited about.

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Speaker 4: What he will speak today.

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Speaker 3: John seven, verse one through sixteen. The Bible says after this,

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Speaker 3: Jesus went around in Galilee. He did not want to

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Speaker 3: go about in Judea because the Jewish leaders there were

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Speaker 3: looking for a way to kill him. But when the

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Speaker 3: Jewish festival of Tabernacles was near, Jesus's brothers said to

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Speaker 3: him leave Galilee and go to Judea, so that your

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Speaker 3: disciples there may see the works you do. No one

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Speaker 3: who wants to become a public figure acts in secret.

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Speaker 3: Since you are doing these things, show yourself to the world.

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Speaker 3: For even his own brothers did not believe in him

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Speaker 3: wow verse six. Therefore Jesus told them, my time is

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Speaker 3: not yet here for you.

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Speaker 1: Any time will do. The world cannot hate you, but

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Speaker 1: it hates me because I testify that its works are evil.

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Speaker 1: You go to the festival.

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Speaker 3: I am not going up to this because my time

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Speaker 3: has not yet fully come. It's a good thing to

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Speaker 3: know that you're right where God wants you to be,

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Speaker 3: and it's a good thing when you know that not

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Speaker 3: to move, no matter what anybody says to you about it.

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Speaker 3: He said, my time has not yet fully come. After

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Speaker 3: he said this, he stayed in Galilee. However, after his

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Speaker 3: brothers had left for the festival, he went also, not

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Speaker 3: publicly but in secret. Now at the festival, the Jewish

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Speaker 3: leaders were watching for Jesus and asking where is he.

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Speaker 3: Among the crowds, there was widespread whispering about him. Some

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Speaker 3: said he's a good man, others replied, no, he deceives

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Speaker 3: the people, but no one would say anything publicly about

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Speaker 1: Not until halfway through.

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Speaker 3: The festival did Jesus go up to the temple courts

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Speaker 3: and begin to teach. The Jews there were amazed and asked,

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Speaker 3: how did this man get such learning without having been taught? Well,

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Speaker 3: that's an ironic question. The one who is wisdom is

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Speaker 3: being questioned as to where he got it. But verse

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Speaker 3: sixteen is where we're gonna begin our sermonic journey today.

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Speaker 3: Jesus answered, my teaching is not my own, It comes

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Speaker 3: from the one who sent me. I want to give

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Speaker 3: you one more scripture from Isaiah, chapter fifty four, verse seventeen.

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Speaker 3: In the New King James, no weapon formed against you

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Speaker 3: judgment you shall condemn. This is the heritage of the

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Speaker 3: servants of the Lord, and their righteousness is from me,

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Speaker 3: says the Lord. I want to talk to you today

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Speaker 3: about the war of whispers, the war.

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Speaker 1: Of whispers, Father, I thank you for what you spoke.

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Speaker 3: Help me to give it to them like you gave

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Speaker 3: it to me, not watered down, not weakened, but just

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Speaker 3: like you gave it to me, and I know that

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Speaker 3: it will bless them because you blessed me with it.

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Speaker 3: If there is someone today who needs this word online,

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Speaker 3: block out all distractions. I pray that their kid would

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Speaker 3: just fall down and take a nap right now so

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Speaker 3: they can focus on this word in the name of Jesus.

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Speaker 3: If there's somebody who's focused on something else that's going

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Speaker 3: to happen tomorrow, we block it out right now. The

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Speaker 3: Lord is in this place. We ask you to speak

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Speaker 3: a word. We are listening in Jesus's name. Amen, you

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Speaker 1: The war of whispers.

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Speaker 3: this Bible story that represent four different pressures that Jesus

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Speaker 3: we go along. In this passage, there are four pressures

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Speaker 3: under tremendous pressure as he fulfilled his purpose.

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Speaker 3: For us as a model of what to do for

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Speaker 3: I'm going to give you all four things, all four pressures,

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Speaker 1: They all start with the letter A. They will be

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Speaker 1: easy to remember.

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Speaker 3: Number one amazement, amazement, Number two abandonment, abandonment, Number three

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Speaker 3: these four pressures and more. I mean Jesus, the Son

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Speaker 3: not because he was sin, but he became sin so

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Speaker 3: that we might become the righteousness of God, who had

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Speaker 3: then only three years to fulfill the mission of his ministry,

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Speaker 3: which would lead him ultimately to the cross, where he

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Speaker 3: would die and pay for the penalty of our sin,

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Speaker 3: experienced tremendous pressure, not only on the cross, where the

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Speaker 3: pressure was so great that it actually caused his lungs

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Speaker 3: the garden of Gethsemane, as he prayed such a heavy

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Speaker 1: His sweat became like drops of blood. That's pressure.

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Speaker 3: And I know you're going through a lot too, But

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Speaker 3: your capillaries haven't burst like blood yet, have they? And

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Speaker 3: so it helps us in times of our humanity, when

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Speaker 1: Now that's the difference between me and Jesus.

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Speaker 3: He was under pressure and I'm under pressure, but he

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Speaker 3: always stays focused on purpose, and I don't. I get

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Speaker 3: When I'm under pressure, I start eating things that I

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Speaker 3: said I wouldn't eat under pressure, speaking things that I

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Speaker 3: in my pressure state, I am often vulnerable. And so

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Speaker 3: this moment in the life of Jesus is very interesting,

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Speaker 1: He got there, they were amazed at the way he taught.

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Speaker 1: They were amazed. I don't know if you noticed that.

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Speaker 3: In verse number eighteen, it says the Jews there, excuse me,

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Speaker 3: verse number fifteen. They were amazed, and they asked, how

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Speaker 3: did this man get such learning without being taught. They

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Speaker 3: didn't teach him, so they couldn't understand how he could

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Speaker 1: I told you this a few weeks ago.

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Speaker 3: But my son Graham, who wrestled for three years in

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Speaker 3: when I used to start wrestling, I'm amazed how much

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Speaker 3: you taught me with how little you knew.

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Speaker 1: Which is a compliment kind of.

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Speaker 3: He means, it's not like you were some kind of

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Speaker 3: great wrestler, but somehow you were always coaching me. And

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Speaker 3: when you were coaching me in the early days, I

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Speaker 3: thought you knew so much more than you did.

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Speaker 1: But you were.

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Speaker 3: Basically just yelling the same three things over and over again,

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Speaker 1: Three things over and over again.

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Speaker 3: And there's something about this moment in your life that,

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Speaker 3: if you're honest about it, even though there are some

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Speaker 3: pressures that you're under in some problems that you're facing,

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Speaker 3: it's amazing that you're doing as well as you are

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Speaker 3: considering where you've come from.

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Speaker 1: How many of you would say Pastor.

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Speaker 3: Stephen, you would be shocked how loud I sang today

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Speaker 3: if you knew how hard my week has been.

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Speaker 1: Wave at me, Well, look at you, just feeling sorry

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Speaker 1: for yourself. I'm kidding. I'm kidding. I baited you for that.

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Speaker 3: The fact of the matter is, in Jesus's case, he

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Speaker 3: came from heaven, and so he had the knowledge that

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Speaker 3: came from being at the right hand of God. Eternally,

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Speaker 3: he was the word of God. He didn't just speak

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Speaker 3: the word of God, and so the knowledge that he

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Speaker 3: had reflected the place that he came from. Yet the

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Speaker 3: Jewish leaders were very amazed. Keep that word in your mind,

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Speaker 3: Jesus, and when they see him, they're amazed at him,

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Speaker 3: and they are amazed about the things that they are

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Speaker 3: hearing that he is doing. Jesus, at this point in

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Speaker 3: his ministry, has been doing amazing ministry.

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Speaker 1: In the region of Galilee.

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Speaker 3: He has been turning water into wine at weddings when

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Speaker 3: his mom told him to do it. Yeah, that's John

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Speaker 1: That's amazing.

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Speaker 3: Anytime you have somebody who can create overflow where there

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Speaker 1: Everybody say it's amazing.

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Speaker 3: and Jesus was busy, so he didn't go to his house.

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Speaker 1: He just sent his word and healed him.

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Speaker 3: He didn't even go to his house, he just sent

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Speaker 3: his word and heal him. Maybe the word of God

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Speaker 3: with some things that you've been going through because of

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Speaker 3: the word that you heard while you were here. You

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Speaker 3: because God can speak something in one whisper that can

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Speaker 3: do more than all of your human wisdom. You could

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Speaker 1: That's why I value the word of God.

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Speaker 3: That's why when I come to church, I'm not checking

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Speaker 3: to see who just buzzed me in my back pocket.

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Speaker 3: They can buzz me all they want to buzz me,

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Speaker 3: But while I'm in here, the Bible is buzzing me.

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Speaker 3: God is speaking to me. I've got a text message

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Speaker 3: alert from Heaven. There may be something God wants to

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Speaker 3: say to me about why I'm stressed out. God might

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Speaker 3: want to speak to me about the root of my

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Speaker 3: on in my life. God might actually want to give

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Speaker 3: maybe He's going to show me something that I haven't

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Speaker 1: God might give me a date night.

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Speaker 3: Idea while Pastor Stephen's preaching. God might show me the

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Speaker 3: Like just get up here and go what y'all want

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Speaker 1: Could you bring butter with it too?

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Speaker 3: This time I appreciate the pescatarian miracle, But this time, could.

445
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Speaker 1: We get a rib eye Jesus.

446
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Speaker 3: Could you find somebody with a hamburger and touch that?

447
00:24:41,960 --> 00:24:44,840
Speaker 3: And Jesus said, no, I'm not doing it. Eat my

448
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Speaker 3: flesh and drink my blood, or you have no part

449
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Speaker 3: in me. You came because you had the miracles, and

450
00:24:49,480 --> 00:24:51,560
Speaker 3: you got your fill. But the work of God is

451
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Speaker 3: to believe. And look at one of the saddest verses

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Speaker 3: in the Bible. This is one of the saddest verses

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Speaker 3: in the Bible. After one of the happiest miracles, John

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Speaker 3: chapter six, verse.

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Speaker 1: Sixty six, look at this.

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Speaker 3: From this time, many of his disciples turned back and

457
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Speaker 3: no longer followed him.

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Speaker 1: So Jesus was amazing, but he was also abandoned abandonment.

459
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Speaker 1: As amazing as.

460
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Speaker 3: He was, there were disciples who said, we don't want

461
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Speaker 3: to follow you where you're going next.

462
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Speaker 1: Now, this is the question I want to ask you.

463
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Speaker 3: If Jesus had people leave his life and he was perfect,

464
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Speaker 3: if Jesus had people leave his life and he was

465
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Speaker 3: all knowing, If Jesus had people leave his life and

466
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Speaker 3: he was the savior of the world, how do we

467
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Speaker 3: expect that we're going to make get through our life

468
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Speaker 3: without ever being betrayed, abandoned, rejected. And I know this

469
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Speaker 3: really hurts to put it here, but I felt the

470
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Speaker 3: Lord speaking to me that there is a whisper he

471
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Speaker 3: wants to give you about the people who have abandoned you. Now,

472
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Speaker 3: as I step on this, I tread tenderly, because it's

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Speaker 3: one thing to talk about the people who were in

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Speaker 3: your life in high school that are not in your

475
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Speaker 3: life now that you're seventy three.

476
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Speaker 1: It is one thing to talk about abandonment in.

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Speaker 3: A theological capacity that will help you to understand how

478
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Speaker 3: it relates to God, who will never leave us or

479
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Speaker 3: forsake us. But there are sometimes where the fact that

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Speaker 3: people are leaving you. Causes you to feel as if

481
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Speaker 3: God did too. And we don't say that, but we

482
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Speaker 3: begin to feel that way. Think about jez Bread multiplying

483
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Speaker 3: water to wining, healing Jesus who was trying to be

484
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Speaker 3: killed by the leaders. So he's got leaders that are

485
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Speaker 3: trying to kill him. He's being consumed by the crowd

486
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Speaker 3: because they only want what he has to give, not

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Speaker 3: what he has to teach. He's trying to be killed

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Speaker 3: by the leaders, consumed by the crowd. But verse five

489
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Speaker 3: really got me. It said even his own brothers did

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Speaker 3: not believe in him. So he's got a crowd trying

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Speaker 3: to kill him. He's got leaders that are trying to

492
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Speaker 3: crucify him. He's got disciples who don't really get him.

493
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Speaker 3: The disciples never fully got Jesus. I'll prove it to you.

494
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Speaker 3: Lazarus died. Jesus said, he's sleeping. I'm going to wake

495
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Speaker 3: him up. He was speaking in code. The disciples said back, well, Lord,

496
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Speaker 3: if he sleeps, he'll get better. And the Bible says,

497
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Speaker 3: then Jesus told him plainly, Lazarus is dead. Have you

498
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Speaker 3: ever had to explain things to people more than you should?

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Speaker 3: At this point, that's John chapter eleven. By John chapter eleven,

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Speaker 3: I should not have to tell you everything, but Jesus

501
00:28:21,080 --> 00:28:24,760
Speaker 3: has got a leadership team that's trying to kill him,

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Speaker 3: a crowd that's consuming and taking from him, and disciples

503
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Speaker 3: who don't get him, and even his own brothers don't

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Speaker 3: believe in him.

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Speaker 1: So I share it with you like this.

506
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Speaker 3: When I was preparing for ministry, they prepared me to

507
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Speaker 3: preach the Bible.

508
00:28:41,760 --> 00:28:43,840
Speaker 1: And how to take a text and how to get

509
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Speaker 1: the history of it.

510
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Speaker 3: They taught me how to even grow a ministry and

511
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Speaker 3: how to have strategic initiative so that you get out

512
00:28:50,160 --> 00:28:53,680
Speaker 3: ahead of the plateaus and create new growth surges, and.

513
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Speaker 1: You get out of this and you get out of that.

514
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Speaker 3: I even had one professor who took us to a

515
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Speaker 3: church and taught us how to baptize. He made us

516
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Speaker 3: do it in the water. He made us get in

517
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Speaker 3: the tank. He was like, this is important. This is

518
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Speaker 3: somebody's life that's being represented. You don't need to be

519
00:29:06,040 --> 00:29:08,760
Speaker 3: practicing on somebody, So practice on each other. And when

520
00:29:08,800 --> 00:29:11,040
Speaker 3: I did, I did the first one, and I dropped

521
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Speaker 3: the guy in the water, and I never dropped anybody

522
00:29:14,440 --> 00:29:18,440
Speaker 3: again in any baptism because I learned so much that if.

523
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Speaker 1: I'm baptizing you, you are coming up out of this

524
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Speaker 1: one way or the other.

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Speaker 3: If I have to knock the tank over, I am

526
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Speaker 3: not dropping you in this water. They taught me how

527
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Speaker 3: to baptize. They taught me how to context your lives.

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Speaker 3: They taught me how to theologize. They taught me all

529
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Speaker 3: of that. But one class I do not remember getting

530
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Speaker 3: is this. They never told me what to do when

531
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Speaker 3: the people who are supposed to believe in me.

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Speaker 1: Be leaving me.

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Speaker 3: No. I used to think that if they left me,

534
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Speaker 3: they were leaving the Lord. I don't think that anymore.

535
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Speaker 3: I think that God moves people along. Also learned that

536
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Speaker 3: sometimes I allowed the fact that they left me. I'm

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Speaker 3: going to say, like this, the Lord said, don't let

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Speaker 3: them leaving you keep you from believing in me. It's

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Speaker 3: significant to me that at this moment in Jesus's life,

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Speaker 3: when his brothers are like, hey, you need to go

541
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Speaker 3: do something. You need to show how powerful you are.

542
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Speaker 3: You need to go to Jerusalem at the festival and

543
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Speaker 3: make a show, because you know you want to be

544
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Speaker 3: this big public figure. You want to be a big deal.

545
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Speaker 3: Isn't this something that they're trying to teach Jesus how

546
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Speaker 3: to be a big deal. They're trying to teach the

547
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Speaker 3: Alpha and Omega how to make a statement. They're trying

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Speaker 3: to take the one who published the Sunrise how to

549
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Speaker 3: run a pr campaign. They're trying to teach the one

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Speaker 3: who was in the beginning with God how to make

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Speaker 3: a splash when he gets on the scene.

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Speaker 1: They're trying to get the one who chose to descend.

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Speaker 3: From a throne to a cross to die for our

554
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Speaker 3: sin how to be more like the people, and how

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Speaker 3: to be amongst the people, and how to make a statement.

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Speaker 1: They are trying to teach the Word of God how.

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Speaker 3: To make a statement, and they do it at his

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Speaker 3: most vulnerable time. Remember this, The enemy will come to

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Speaker 3: try to push you out of your position at the

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Speaker 3: times where you feel lonely and vulnerable, and he will

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Speaker 3: use those moments when you feel abandoned to get you

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Speaker 3: to feel bitter and to get you to start doing

563
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Speaker 3: things that aren't even you. And if possible, the enemy

564
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Speaker 3: will use people who disappointed you to cause you to

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Speaker 3: doubt the God.

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Speaker 1: Who never will Who am I preaching to?

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Speaker 3: I refuse to just preach this like it was just

568
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Speaker 3: for me and Jonathan Joseph's who am I preaching to

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Speaker 3: the other day, we were out on Elevation Nights tour,

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Speaker 3: and the Lord really gave me this beautiful picture that

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Speaker 3: I wanted.

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Speaker 1: To share with you.

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Speaker 3: I was watching one of our sermons from back when

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Speaker 3: the church was pretty empty during the pandemic, and I

575
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Speaker 3: was looking at how you know, back in those days,

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Speaker 3: I felt very abandoned by you during that time.

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Speaker 1: You're like, it's your fault. You wouldn't let us come.

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Speaker 3: To church, I know, but it was still lonely. And

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Speaker 3: yet in the middle of that preaching, I listen, get

580
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Speaker 3: this picture. In the middle of that preaching, I looked

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Speaker 3: up there on that stage and I was just going

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Speaker 3: for it, like if it was a you know, two

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Speaker 3: thousand people in the room, but up on the stage

584
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Speaker 3: was you know, you had Chris and Jenna and John

585
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Speaker 3: sal and LJ and Scottie and all the team.

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Speaker 1: And we went out there. We were about to go minister.

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Speaker 3: This is crazy, We're about to minister to twenty thousand

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Speaker 3: people or fifteen thousand people or however many people were

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Speaker 3: there that night. And I realized that the same people

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Speaker 3: that were about to go out there and minister with me.

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Speaker 1: In that big arena. Were the same people that.

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Speaker 3: Had my back in an empty room. Now, the Lord

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00:33:23,960 --> 00:33:28,120
Speaker 3: really checked me on this because he said, sometimes you

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Speaker 3: get so sad about who left.

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Speaker 1: That you start missing who's left.

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Speaker 3: I know that they left you, but God didn't let

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Speaker 3: go of you. I know that they should have treated

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Speaker 3: you better, but God has treated you better than you

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00:33:53,520 --> 00:33:54,800
Speaker 3: could have ever deserved.

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Speaker 1: I know that they.

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Speaker 3: Didn't give you what you needed or what you could

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Speaker 3: have rightfully expected from them, But you have got to

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Speaker 3: release that now in order to receive that in this

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Speaker 3: season of your life.

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Speaker 1: Your wisdom is coming from.

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Speaker 3: God, and it's going to be amazing because even though

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00:34:11,719 --> 00:34:14,880
Speaker 3: many left Jesus, the ones who stayed ended up building

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Speaker 3: the church that we're a part of.

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Speaker 1: I can't wait to see.

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Speaker 3: What God is going to do through what is left

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Speaker 3: in your life. I can't wait to see when you

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Speaker 3: finally forgive the fact that it's not like it used

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00:34:27,560 --> 00:34:29,759
Speaker 3: to be, when you finally forgive the fact that they

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00:34:29,760 --> 00:34:31,880
Speaker 3: were a jerk, when you finally admit the fact that

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Speaker 3: you were sometimes too, when you finally forgive the fact

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Speaker 3: that they did not stay for the whole journey when

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Speaker 3: you finally make peace with the fact that not everybody

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Speaker 3: was meant to be in the whole movie.

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Speaker 1: Some people were therefore a scene.

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Speaker 3: Some people were there for a lesson, some people were

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Speaker 3: there for a blessing.

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Speaker 1: Some people needed to be released because God has something

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Speaker 1: else for them.

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Speaker 3: And when you release that, when you let that go,

625
00:34:59,320 --> 00:35:02,920
Speaker 3: when you let God be God, and you just follow

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Speaker 3: Jesus with what you have leved, you will realize. The

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Speaker 3: greatest truth that I ever realized is that wherever people

628
00:35:17,920 --> 00:35:22,839
Speaker 3: leave as face, God does a miracle. Wherever people leave

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Speaker 3: a vacuum, wherever people leave a need.

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Speaker 1: God steps in to meet it.

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Speaker 3: And I can stand before you today, honestly, by the

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Speaker 3: grace of God and say that some of the greatest

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Speaker 3: times that I have felt His presence in my life

634
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Speaker 3: is when people were absent.

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Speaker 1: Some of the.

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Speaker 3: Greatest times that I have felt His favor over my

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Speaker 3: life and really experienced this deep thing with Him was

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Speaker 3: in the secret place.

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Speaker 1: Do you know about? The secret place?

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Speaker 3: Is when people stop calling you, and people stop texting you,

641
00:35:56,920 --> 00:35:59,640
Speaker 3: and people stop checking on you, and you can either

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00:35:59,680 --> 00:36:02,640
Speaker 3: get bitter about it or you can get blessed about

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00:36:02,640 --> 00:36:05,160
Speaker 3: it and realize that this is a season where God

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00:36:05,239 --> 00:36:11,520
Speaker 3: is drawing me closer to himself. And when they go quiet,

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00:36:11,600 --> 00:36:15,600
Speaker 3: he speaks, and sometimes he lets it get real quiet

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00:36:15,680 --> 00:36:20,400
Speaker 3: so he can whisper. And Jesus says something all so powerful.

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Speaker 3: What he says to his brothers, he says, you go,

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Speaker 3: I'm good in Galilee. Somebody shout, I'm good in Galilee.

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Speaker 4: Oh.

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Speaker 3: That's the greatest thing you can ever decide in your life.

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00:36:35,680 --> 00:36:38,800
Speaker 3: Is that where God has me right now is where

652
00:36:38,840 --> 00:36:40,880
Speaker 3: I want to be. Because if he had wanted me

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00:36:40,960 --> 00:36:44,200
Speaker 3: to be somewhere else, I'd be somewhere else. If he'd

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Speaker 3: wanted me to be someone else, I'd be somewhere else.

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Speaker 3: So somebody declared, they say, I like my life.

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Speaker 1: I like my life.

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00:36:52,320 --> 00:36:55,000
Speaker 3: I like all the banged up little things on my car.

658
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Speaker 3: I like all the scratches on my car. I love

659
00:36:58,080 --> 00:37:00,799
Speaker 3: all those little marks all around my house where we

660
00:37:00,840 --> 00:37:01,759
Speaker 3: need to repaint it.

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Speaker 1: I like my life. I like my crooked second toe.

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Speaker 1: I like my life. I like my male pattern baldness.

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Speaker 1: I like my life. I like my grays in my beard.

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Speaker 1: I like my life. I like my free time. I

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Speaker 1: like my life. I like my busy I like my life.

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Speaker 3: Say it.

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Speaker 1: I like my life. Tell your neighbor. I like my church.

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00:37:23,239 --> 00:37:26,919
Speaker 3: Tell him I like my pastor, I like my son,

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Speaker 3: I like my wife.

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Speaker 1: I like my wife. I love her cooking. It's amazing.

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Speaker 1: Can I talk to you for a moment about a rival.

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Speaker 1: It's our third point is a rival.

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Speaker 3: Because see they're trying to get Jesus to go somewhere,

674
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Speaker 3: but he already is what they're trying to be.

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Speaker 1: Look at verse four. Let me teach this. Say I

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Speaker 1: like my life. Maybe we'll make that the title of

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Speaker 1: the sermon when we put it on YouTube. I like

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Speaker 1: my life. Click bait everybody, you know, rage bait them.

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Speaker 1: You know, I don't like my life.

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Speaker 3: It's easy for you to say if you had my life,

681
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Speaker 3: you wouldn't like it either. You know. People want to

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Speaker 3: try to make you be miserable like they are. Say

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Speaker 3: I like my life now, Jesus. Jesus had every reason

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Speaker 3: not to like his life. Jesus had every reason to.

685
00:38:29,719 --> 00:38:32,440
Speaker 3: Jesus had every reason to feel bitter, but he didn't.

686
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Speaker 3: He he is tempted in every way. Like how you

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Speaker 3: get bitter, how you start thinking? Man, that would be

688
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Speaker 3: that's not fair. How they're doing that for me. Jesus

689
00:38:38,680 --> 00:38:40,839
Speaker 3: had every reason to think that too. But he was

690
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Speaker 3: tempted in all points as we are, and yet without sin.

691
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Speaker 3: That's why he's our example. And in verse four, what

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Speaker 3: the brothers said to him, I got to show you

693
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Speaker 3: this so powerful how it was worded. They said, no

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Speaker 3: one who wants to become a public figure acts in secret.

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Speaker 4: Jesus, you need that blue check mark annointing.

696
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Speaker 3: But for real though, the keyword to that, no one

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Speaker 3: who wants to become public figure as secret is.

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Speaker 1: Not secret, it's become.

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Speaker 3: Jesus doesn't need can I can I say it with

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Speaker 3: bad grammar.

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Speaker 1: Jesus doesn't need to become nothing. He was and is

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00:39:29,719 --> 00:39:30,560
Speaker 1: and is to come.

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00:39:35,280 --> 00:39:38,919
Speaker 3: So when you know that you've already got what they're

704
00:39:38,960 --> 00:39:42,600
Speaker 3: trying to get you to chase, the temptation isn't so

705
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Speaker 3: great anymore.

706
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Speaker 1: He's like, no, I'm good, y'all, go, I'm good. Because

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Speaker 1: Jesus knew what he was, so he knew what he

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Speaker 1: didn't have to do. Jesus knew.

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Speaker 3: John's Gospel gives the seven I am statements of Jesus.

710
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Speaker 3: I am the Bread of life, I am the true Vine,

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Speaker 3: I am the Gate. I am the good Shepherd. I

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Speaker 3: am the Resurrection and the Life. I am the door.

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Speaker 1: I am.

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Speaker 3: I forgot the seventh one, but y'all can look it

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Speaker 3: up later.

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Speaker 1: I am. Somebody shout I am.

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Speaker 3: But I think one of the most powerful things Jesus

718
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Speaker 3: said in John wasn't one of the seven I am statements.

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Speaker 1: It's in verse eight, and I want.

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Speaker 3: To show it to you so you can say it too,

721
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Speaker 3: because when you know who you are.

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Speaker 1: Jesus said, you go to the festival. I am not going.

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Speaker 3: Justin circle that phrase because Jesus said, I am the

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Speaker 3: true Vine, I am the good Shepherd. I am the

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Speaker 3: Resurrection in the life. I am the Door. I am

726
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Speaker 3: the Way, the Truth, and the Life. I got the

727
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Speaker 3: seventh one too.

728
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Speaker 1: I am all that.

729
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Speaker 3: But since I know who I am, I also know

730
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Speaker 3: what I am not. And sometimes the power of knowing

731
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Speaker 3: your purpose is being able to say, I am not

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Speaker 3: going watch this, teenagers, I am not going to that party.

733
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Speaker 3: I know everybody else is going to be at that party,

734
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Speaker 3: but I don't care about where everybody else is going

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Speaker 3: because I am not going. Because I am a child

736
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Speaker 3: of God. I don't care if everybody is talking nasty

737
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Speaker 3: on Facebook. I am not going to talk like the

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Speaker 3: world when I'm a citizen of.

739
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Speaker 1: The Kingdom of God. I am not.

740
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Speaker 3: I don't care if everybody else is having sex before

741
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Speaker 3: they get married.

742
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Speaker 1: I am not giving something.

743
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Speaker 3: That was blood Boss for something that is Gertie.

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Speaker 1: I am not. I am not.

745
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Speaker 3: I know the devil wants me to complain and lay

746
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Speaker 3: down and die, but I am.

747
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Speaker 5: Not going to. I am not going to quit. I

748
00:42:08,120 --> 00:42:10,839
Speaker 5: am not going to give up on this. I am

749
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Speaker 5: not going to bury my dream. I am not going

750
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Speaker 5: to become a cynic. I am not gonna drink a

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Speaker 5: pain away. I am not gonna drunk and dumb it

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Speaker 5: with another drug. I am not going.

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Speaker 3: We can have a whole e group up of this

754
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Speaker 3: one point. Just tell somebody I am not going. I

755
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Speaker 3: am not going. I'm good in Galilee. I'm not gonna

756
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Speaker 3: try to prove it. I'm not gonna try to make

757
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Speaker 3: you believe it. I'm not gonna try to make you

758
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Speaker 3: accept me.

759
00:42:40,719 --> 00:42:42,759
Speaker 1: I'm not compromising my values.

760
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Speaker 3: I am not Oh I feel political annoying, it.

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Speaker 1: Not gonna do it. You don't remember that you were

762
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Speaker 1: in Canada. But tell somebody, I am not. I am not.

763
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Speaker 1: I am not.

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Speaker 4: Whisper, whisper. He says, sh I'm gonna do something secret.

765
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Speaker 4: Sh I'm going secretly. You know God is doing secret

766
00:43:14,400 --> 00:43:18,480
Speaker 4: stuff in your life right now, don't you?

767
00:43:18,480 --> 00:43:18,680
Speaker 3: You know?

768
00:43:18,800 --> 00:43:22,520
Speaker 4: The Lord sees what you're doing secret? Don't you?

769
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Speaker 3: You know the one who sees in secret rewards openly?

770
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Speaker 3: Don't you You know? You might already be there, but

771
00:43:29,800 --> 00:43:32,239
Speaker 3: you just don't have anybody to tell you how good

772
00:43:32,280 --> 00:43:33,040
Speaker 3: you're really doing.

773
00:43:35,400 --> 00:43:37,840
Speaker 4: So let me be that one today.

774
00:43:39,080 --> 00:43:44,239
Speaker 3: You're already there, and if you were supposed to be

775
00:43:44,360 --> 00:43:46,800
Speaker 3: further along, God would have sent you a faster car.

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Speaker 1: You're already there. I know you got a long way

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Speaker 1: to go.

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00:43:52,760 --> 00:43:55,520
Speaker 3: The Bible says Jesus went, but he went when he

779
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Speaker 3: was supposed to.

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00:43:58,360 --> 00:44:02,480
Speaker 4: He went and he was supposed to, and when he

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Speaker 4: got there.

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Speaker 6: Look at verse twelve that it says there was widespread

783
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Speaker 6: whispering about.

784
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Speaker 3: Him, and there always is, there always is.

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Speaker 1: Some said I like.

786
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Speaker 3: Him, he's a good man, and others said, we've seen

787
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Speaker 3: this show before.

788
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Speaker 4: M hm, he's a deceiver.

789
00:44:33,200 --> 00:44:35,680
Speaker 3: But what's crazy to me is Jesus didn't respond to

790
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Speaker 3: either because both were limited.

791
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Speaker 1: He wasn't a good man, he was the god man.

792
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Speaker 3: And Jesus did not answer to their whispers because he

793
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Speaker 3: walked in his father's will. So what I realize about

794
00:44:58,280 --> 00:45:00,759
Speaker 3: everyone I'm preaching to today is there is a war

795
00:45:00,840 --> 00:45:04,960
Speaker 3: happening in your heart. It's not loud, there's no bombs

796
00:45:05,000 --> 00:45:07,200
Speaker 3: going off. Nobody can see it, and you look really

797
00:45:07,239 --> 00:45:11,400
Speaker 3: beautiful in your church clothes. But underneath that purple sweater,

798
00:45:12,680 --> 00:45:16,040
Speaker 3: underneath that beautiful smile, underneath those lifted hands that you

799
00:45:16,160 --> 00:45:19,120
Speaker 3: raised sincerely because you love the Lord and you worship him,

800
00:45:19,280 --> 00:45:24,719
Speaker 3: there's a war going on and there's a whisper. A

801
00:45:24,760 --> 00:45:27,480
Speaker 3: while back, Hollywood was giving me some affirmations. That's my

802
00:45:28,719 --> 00:45:31,080
Speaker 3: final point. I want to talk about affirmations and agreement.

803
00:45:32,120 --> 00:45:33,759
Speaker 3: You don't need to sit down. If you're standing up,

804
00:45:33,800 --> 00:45:35,520
Speaker 3: it'll just make me think I need to talk longer.

805
00:45:39,480 --> 00:45:42,000
Speaker 3: But something very strange happened to me, and it took

806
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Speaker 3: me a few days to analyze it, and then it's

807
00:45:43,880 --> 00:45:46,000
Speaker 3: taken me several months to process it so that I

808
00:45:46,000 --> 00:45:49,080
Speaker 3: could share it with you. But it came back to

809
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Speaker 3: my mind when the Lord told me to talk to

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Speaker 3: you about the war of whispers. You know, when I preach,

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Speaker 3: by the way, there are the words that I'm speaking,

812
00:45:56,840 --> 00:45:59,000
Speaker 3: and then there is the whisper that comes after that

813
00:45:59,040 --> 00:46:02,120
Speaker 3: word either moves you from the word that you heard

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00:46:04,719 --> 00:46:07,960
Speaker 3: or tells you to obey it. Yeah, and if you

815
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Speaker 3: obey it, if you obey the word, peace will be

816
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Speaker 3: the product. But if the enemy whispers it. The Bible

817
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Speaker 3: talks about how sometimes the devil will snatch a seed

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Speaker 3: of the word of God that is.

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Speaker 1: Sown because the enemy will whisper. And so.

820
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Speaker 3: Cognizant of this fact that as I'm speaking, the enemy

821
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Speaker 3: is whispering, and so is God.

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Speaker 1: And it's a war of whispers. See there's two whispers.

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Speaker 4: Right. He's a good man, Ah, I don't think so.

824
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Speaker 4: He's a liar. You've got this.

825
00:46:41,680 --> 00:46:44,800
Speaker 6: You might as well give up. It doesn't matter anyway.

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Speaker 6: You know, you really could, and you really could confess

827
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Speaker 6: that sin.

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Speaker 4: They would forgive you. Yeah, but then they'll think I'm

829
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Speaker 4: weak and they'll take advantage of me.

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00:46:53,880 --> 00:46:57,280
Speaker 3: It's a war of whispers. You don't say that stuff

831
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Speaker 3: out loud. It just goes on in the night. And

832
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Speaker 3: the reason I know, oh it is because it happens

833
00:47:01,160 --> 00:47:04,160
Speaker 3: to me too. When I finished preaching to you, I

834
00:47:04,239 --> 00:47:09,040
Speaker 3: am in a vulnerable place. Why will you run around

835
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Speaker 3: a room screaming at the top of your lungs for

836
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Speaker 3: an hour, and see how you feel afterwards, and talking

837
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Speaker 3: to people about abandonment and deep issues, and then just

838
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Speaker 3: come off the stage and try to eat a pancake.

839
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Speaker 4: The devil comes in behind it, and he discouraged it.

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Speaker 3: So Holly was sharing with me one time, in a

841
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Speaker 3: particularly vulnerable state, some affirmations.

842
00:47:32,120 --> 00:47:33,279
Speaker 1: She was saying things to me.

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00:47:33,239 --> 00:47:37,120
Speaker 3: That were so kind and so rooted in scripture, very

844
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Speaker 3: soft voice.

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Speaker 1: You're man of God.

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Speaker 3: You shared what the Lord gave you to share today.

847
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Speaker 3: God is proud of you. Now, as she was speaking,

848
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Speaker 3: I was having thoughts. I believe they were from the enemy.

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Speaker 3: I believe they were from the enemy, but they didn't

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Speaker 3: sound like the devil's voice. In fact, it was a

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Speaker 3: thought that came as the exact opposite of everything she

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Speaker 3: was saying to me.

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00:48:05,880 --> 00:48:08,080
Speaker 1: So she would say, you're.

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Speaker 3: A man of God, And while she was pausing to

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Speaker 3: let that sink in, the enemy was answering it.

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00:48:16,280 --> 00:48:18,520
Speaker 1: And everything that would come back through my mind. It

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Speaker 1: wasn't an out loud.

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Speaker 3: Voice, it was just it was the space between her

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Speaker 3: words were filled by whispers from the enemy. So if

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Speaker 3: she said you are a man of God. The thought

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Speaker 3: would come back that was the exact opposite of that.

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Speaker 3: And I won't tell you what those thoughts were because honestly,

863
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Speaker 3: they were so raw and so terrible, I.

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Speaker 1: Would not repeat them to you.

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Speaker 3: Okay, So they're coming back to me and she's saying,

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Speaker 3: God delights in you, and the answer that would come

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Speaker 3: back as a thought or an impression or an argument

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Speaker 3: with what she just said would be the exact rhythm

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Speaker 3: of what she just said.

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Speaker 1: It was almost like it was a songwriting session. It

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Speaker 1: was like ba ba ba bah bah bah.

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Speaker 3: Bada, and it matched it almost exactly, except it was

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Speaker 3: the exact opposite.

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Speaker 1: And it was intense.

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Speaker 3: I've never had anything like this happen before in my life.

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Speaker 3: The next day, I was reflecting on it because I

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Speaker 3: didn't even know how to tell her what happened, because

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00:49:28,560 --> 00:49:30,960
Speaker 3: it was it was, honestly so.

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Speaker 1: It was so dark to feel something like that, you.

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Speaker 3: Know, And I was I was praying about that and

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Speaker 3: asking God, what was that like? What was that thing

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Speaker 3: that was going on in in in my in my

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Speaker 3: mind while my wife was speaking such beautiful words over me.

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Speaker 3: After I just preached your words to people, and he

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Speaker 3: said uh. It is enemy's whispers, and it's not important

886
00:50:01,200 --> 00:50:04,640
Speaker 3: that you get it to go away. It's just important

887
00:50:04,680 --> 00:50:17,600
Speaker 3: that you never agree with it. It's a war of whispers.

888
00:50:19,120 --> 00:50:21,279
Speaker 3: One is saying God's got you right where he wants you.

889
00:50:21,360 --> 00:50:24,359
Speaker 3: It's going to be okay. Hold on, the others saying,

890
00:50:24,360 --> 00:50:26,080
Speaker 3: you've screwed up so bad. There's no way that God

891
00:50:26,080 --> 00:50:28,279
Speaker 3: can redeem this situation in your life. You might as

892
00:50:28,320 --> 00:50:33,319
Speaker 3: well give up. One whisper is saying, you slipped up.

893
00:50:33,400 --> 00:50:35,319
Speaker 3: Let's get back on track. Come on, we can get

894
00:50:35,320 --> 00:50:37,200
Speaker 3: this back together again. You don't have to go all

895
00:50:37,200 --> 00:50:39,000
Speaker 3: the way down just because you slipped a little bit.

896
00:50:39,280 --> 00:50:41,400
Speaker 3: Another is saying, well, you've already blown it now, and

897
00:50:41,440 --> 00:50:43,600
Speaker 3: you've already broken the street, and you might as well

898
00:50:43,640 --> 00:50:44,399
Speaker 3: just go all the way.

899
00:50:44,680 --> 00:50:47,239
Speaker 1: It's a war of whispers.

900
00:50:48,840 --> 00:50:51,360
Speaker 3: But what was true of Jesus is true of you

901
00:50:51,440 --> 00:50:55,920
Speaker 3: and me, because in verse sixteen, Jesus says, you're amazed

902
00:50:55,960 --> 00:50:57,880
Speaker 3: by my teaching, and you want to know where it

903
00:50:57,920 --> 00:51:01,280
Speaker 3: came from. My teaching is not my own. It comes

904
00:51:02,040 --> 00:51:08,440
Speaker 3: from the one who sent me. Listen to the whisper

905
00:51:09,239 --> 00:51:10,080
Speaker 3: of the one.

906
00:51:10,320 --> 00:51:11,040
Speaker 4: Who sent you.

907
00:51:13,000 --> 00:51:16,960
Speaker 3: Because God, who sent you into this assignment for your life.

908
00:51:17,200 --> 00:51:20,520
Speaker 3: God who sent you to be the leader of that family.

909
00:51:20,600 --> 00:51:24,359
Speaker 3: God who sent you into this city. God sent you here.

910
00:51:24,600 --> 00:51:27,319
Speaker 3: God sent you into this church. God sent you to

911
00:51:27,360 --> 00:51:30,239
Speaker 3: be the teacher in that classroom. God sent you to

912
00:51:30,320 --> 00:51:33,640
Speaker 3: be the manager of that division. The God who sent

913
00:51:33,719 --> 00:51:38,279
Speaker 3: you can whisper to you, and he can whisper to

914
00:51:38,360 --> 00:51:41,560
Speaker 3: you a word that can pivot your whole life.

915
00:51:41,560 --> 00:51:43,400
Speaker 1: It's a war of whispers. Right now.

916
00:51:43,600 --> 00:51:47,400
Speaker 3: They were whispering about Jesus, and they will always be whispering,

917
00:51:47,640 --> 00:51:49,399
Speaker 3: and the voices will always be.

918
00:51:49,440 --> 00:51:50,880
Speaker 1: Speaking opposite things.

919
00:51:51,120 --> 00:51:53,319
Speaker 3: And one voice will always be telling you you're not

920
00:51:53,400 --> 00:51:55,640
Speaker 3: going to make it, and another voice will be telling you,

921
00:51:55,640 --> 00:51:57,960
Speaker 3: come on. God has seen you through this far. And

922
00:51:58,000 --> 00:52:00,719
Speaker 3: it is not important which voice is the lot. It's

923
00:52:00,800 --> 00:52:04,600
Speaker 3: important which one you agree with, and the one that

924
00:52:04,640 --> 00:52:07,480
Speaker 3: you lean into is the one that will lead you forward.

925
00:52:07,719 --> 00:52:10,239
Speaker 3: I don't know who I'm prophesying to right now, but

926
00:52:10,320 --> 00:52:12,839
Speaker 3: it's so strong on me right now, because it's been

927
00:52:12,880 --> 00:52:15,120
Speaker 3: back and forth in your mind, and you're like, what

928
00:52:15,360 --> 00:52:17,680
Speaker 3: is this? And you came to church today and the

929
00:52:17,719 --> 00:52:20,120
Speaker 3: whisper has been there the whole time I've been preaching,

930
00:52:20,320 --> 00:52:22,200
Speaker 3: and you just turned this on and you're like maybe.

931
00:52:21,960 --> 00:52:23,160
Speaker 1: God can speak to me. I don't know.

932
00:52:23,280 --> 00:52:25,080
Speaker 3: It's chaotic in my mind right now. I can't make

933
00:52:25,160 --> 00:52:27,360
Speaker 3: sense out of it right now. And God is saying,

934
00:52:27,400 --> 00:52:29,680
Speaker 3: go with the whisper of the one who sent you,

935
00:52:30,080 --> 00:52:32,600
Speaker 3: the one who knows you, the one who died to

936
00:52:32,760 --> 00:52:36,000
Speaker 3: save you, the one who intricately knit you before you

937
00:52:36,080 --> 00:52:39,359
Speaker 3: were formed in your mother's womb, the one whose words.

938
00:52:39,040 --> 00:52:41,120
Speaker 1: Spoke your life into existence.

939
00:52:41,480 --> 00:52:50,400
Speaker 6: Listen to that whisper, because the whisper now you listen

940
00:52:50,480 --> 00:52:58,360
Speaker 6: to it is the one that winds.

941
00:53:10,400 --> 00:53:13,560
Speaker 3: When I get done in a minute, the enemy's gonna

942
00:53:13,560 --> 00:53:14,160
Speaker 3: whisper to me.

943
00:53:14,680 --> 00:53:16,680
Speaker 1: You shouldn't have told them that story at the end.

944
00:53:17,200 --> 00:53:18,320
Speaker 1: That was too personal.

945
00:53:22,560 --> 00:53:26,040
Speaker 7: I set it for somebody who has been dealing with

946
00:53:26,160 --> 00:53:36,960
Speaker 7: it in your own life.

947
00:53:37,840 --> 00:53:43,319
Speaker 3: Maybe we just thought it called the sermon. God is

948
00:53:43,360 --> 00:53:47,360
Speaker 3: whispering over my life. I cannot afford to get distracted

949
00:53:47,960 --> 00:53:52,040
Speaker 3: by other people's opinion right now. I cannot even afford

950
00:53:52,080 --> 00:53:55,560
Speaker 3: to be distracted by my own shame right now, because

951
00:53:55,600 --> 00:54:01,480
Speaker 3: the grace of God is whispering a better word. I

952
00:54:01,520 --> 00:54:03,040
Speaker 3: want you to stand, and I want you to be

953
00:54:03,120 --> 00:54:13,320
Speaker 3: still in this moment, and I want to be quiet

954
00:54:14,680 --> 00:54:15,879
Speaker 3: so you can listen.

955
00:54:17,480 --> 00:54:18,200
Speaker 1: For the whisper.

956
00:54:21,440 --> 00:54:24,719
Speaker 3: It won't be the only voice you'll hear, because one

957
00:54:24,800 --> 00:54:26,320
Speaker 3: voice is gonna be telling you.

958
00:54:26,320 --> 00:54:30,920
Speaker 4: You know, you know, there's your stomach growling, sh stomach.

959
00:54:30,920 --> 00:54:34,480
Speaker 4: We're gonna eat, We're gonna eat. You're gonna get filled

960
00:54:34,520 --> 00:54:35,200
Speaker 4: in a few minutes.

961
00:54:35,200 --> 00:54:36,600
Speaker 1: But right now I need my soul for.

962
00:54:39,840 --> 00:54:43,120
Speaker 3: It's not important that you get that other whisper to

963
00:54:43,239 --> 00:54:44,520
Speaker 3: go away.

964
00:54:45,239 --> 00:54:52,200
Speaker 1: It's important that you don't agree with it. So Lord

965
00:54:52,200 --> 00:54:52,960
Speaker 1: fill the space.

966
00:54:56,160 --> 00:54:58,520
Speaker 3: Some people that are listening to me preach today, they've

967
00:54:58,520 --> 00:55:03,239
Speaker 3: been left by others because they ate the loaves and

968
00:55:03,280 --> 00:55:07,480
Speaker 3: had their fill, and they left, And now.

969
00:55:07,280 --> 00:55:09,320
Speaker 1: They've been believing the whisper you're all alone.

970
00:55:09,520 --> 00:55:14,000
Speaker 4: Sh I'm not alone. God is with me.

971
00:55:15,600 --> 00:55:15,880
Speaker 1: Say it.

972
00:55:15,920 --> 00:55:16,600
Speaker 4: God is with me.

973
00:55:17,960 --> 00:55:19,239
Speaker 1: That's the whisper you agree with.

974
00:55:19,360 --> 00:55:20,000
Speaker 4: God is with me.

975
00:55:20,160 --> 00:55:21,800
Speaker 3: If I'm feeling me, he's with me. If i'm seeing

976
00:55:21,800 --> 00:55:23,160
Speaker 3: the he's with me. If I can't prove it, he's

977
00:55:23,200 --> 00:55:24,919
Speaker 3: with me. If it doesn't work out, if it doesn't

978
00:55:24,920 --> 00:55:25,759
Speaker 3: get better, he's with me.

979
00:55:25,800 --> 00:55:26,319
Speaker 1: He's with me.

980
00:55:26,760 --> 00:55:29,560
Speaker 4: That's the whisper that I agree with.

981
00:55:32,920 --> 00:55:34,719
Speaker 3: I want to speak to the whisper that's been telling

982
00:55:34,760 --> 00:55:39,319
Speaker 3: you it's too late, too late. Maybe your kids are

983
00:55:39,360 --> 00:55:41,959
Speaker 3: grown now, or maybe you're about to graduate high school

984
00:55:41,960 --> 00:55:43,200
Speaker 3: and you didn't really live for the Lord.

985
00:55:43,840 --> 00:55:46,000
Speaker 1: It's not too late for anything God.

986
00:55:47,120 --> 00:55:51,879
Speaker 3: God can save the best to last, and God can

987
00:55:51,920 --> 00:55:55,480
Speaker 3: give you a fourth quarter, last two minute victory that

988
00:55:55,600 --> 00:55:59,600
Speaker 3: will shock you. God can knock the devil out and

989
00:55:59,600 --> 00:56:01,960
Speaker 3: make the last five rounds insignificant.

990
00:56:02,239 --> 00:56:03,120
Speaker 1: You listen to this.

991
00:56:03,080 --> 00:56:12,520
Speaker 4: Whisper, it's not over. It's not over, not for you.

992
00:56:12,520 --> 00:56:18,120
Speaker 4: You're still breathing while it is still gold. Today. You

993
00:56:18,239 --> 00:56:21,880
Speaker 4: let go of what didn't happen. You let go of

994
00:56:21,920 --> 00:56:25,680
Speaker 4: who didn't stay. God is with you. It's not over.

995
00:56:28,320 --> 00:56:31,360
Speaker 3: I want to come against the whisper that's telling you

996
00:56:31,400 --> 00:56:36,359
Speaker 3: that you'll never change. Who you've always been is who

997
00:56:36,400 --> 00:56:41,160
Speaker 3: you're going to be. I declare over you that greater

998
00:56:41,280 --> 00:56:42,680
Speaker 3: is he that is in you than he that is

999
00:56:42,680 --> 00:56:46,440
Speaker 3: in the world. And not only are you where you're

1000
00:56:46,480 --> 00:56:49,560
Speaker 3: supposed to be, you are who you are supposed to be.

1001
00:56:51,680 --> 00:56:57,120
Speaker 3: You're not too much or not too little. You are

1002
00:56:57,320 --> 00:57:02,279
Speaker 3: just right for this assignment. Somebody say I am enough

1003
00:57:04,000 --> 00:57:08,400
Speaker 3: now This week, Lord, we're gonna listen for your whisper.

1004
00:57:10,280 --> 00:57:14,399
Speaker 3: We're gonna resist the whisper that's telling us that this

1005
00:57:14,440 --> 00:57:17,919
Speaker 3: is all ridiculous. We're gonna resist the whisper that tells

1006
00:57:18,000 --> 00:57:19,840
Speaker 3: us we might as well stay down. We're gonna resist

1007
00:57:19,840 --> 00:57:22,000
Speaker 3: the whisper that tells us that our past is greater

1008
00:57:22,040 --> 00:57:22,720
Speaker 3: than our future.

1009
00:57:25,720 --> 00:57:29,280
Speaker 4: We're gonna listen for your whisper.

1010
00:57:31,000 --> 00:57:31,280
Speaker 1: Today.

1011
00:57:31,320 --> 00:57:33,480
Speaker 3: Lord, I believe that as I'm preaching, you are drawing

1012
00:57:33,520 --> 00:57:34,680
Speaker 3: somebody to be saved.

1013
00:57:35,720 --> 00:57:38,000
Speaker 1: This is their day to give their life to Jesus.

1014
00:57:39,520 --> 00:57:41,600
Speaker 3: I believe that you stand at the door and knock,

1015
00:57:41,680 --> 00:57:45,120
Speaker 3: like Revelation three and twenty says, if anyone will open

1016
00:57:45,160 --> 00:57:48,240
Speaker 3: the door, you will come in, and you will sit down,

1017
00:57:49,400 --> 00:57:52,840
Speaker 3: and you will make your throne in their heart. Right now,

1018
00:57:52,880 --> 00:57:55,840
Speaker 3: if you're here today and you've never really given your

1019
00:57:55,840 --> 00:57:59,640
Speaker 3: life to Jesus, or maybe you used to be close

1020
00:57:59,680 --> 00:58:02,920
Speaker 3: with the life and lately you've been very far away,

1021
00:58:03,840 --> 00:58:06,600
Speaker 3: and you hear that whisper, the Lord is.

1022
00:58:06,600 --> 00:58:07,520
Speaker 4: Saying, come back to me.

1023
00:58:08,440 --> 00:58:10,120
Speaker 3: The Lord's saying, give me your life, Give me the

1024
00:58:10,120 --> 00:58:12,440
Speaker 3: broken pieces, give me all the broken dreams.

1025
00:58:12,480 --> 00:58:14,240
Speaker 1: I see all of it. I'll make you new.

1026
00:58:15,640 --> 00:58:19,440
Speaker 3: I'll turn this broken all this clay in this broken vessel,

1027
00:58:19,480 --> 00:58:21,240
Speaker 3: and I'll turn it into something amazing.

1028
00:58:22,440 --> 00:58:25,400
Speaker 1: It's going to be amazing in his hands today.

1029
00:58:25,440 --> 00:58:28,040
Speaker 3: If that's you and you're ready to give your life

1030
00:58:28,040 --> 00:58:30,160
Speaker 3: to Christ, I would love to lead you in a prayer.

1031
00:58:30,920 --> 00:58:32,800
Speaker 1: This prayer is not magical.

1032
00:58:33,080 --> 00:58:35,520
Speaker 3: But if you'll pray it from your heart. The Bible

1033
00:58:35,560 --> 00:58:37,680
Speaker 3: says that if you confess with your mouth that Jesus

1034
00:58:37,720 --> 00:58:40,280
Speaker 3: is Lord, and believe in your heart God raised him

1035
00:58:40,280 --> 00:58:43,840
Speaker 3: from the dead, you will be saved. It's a promise.

1036
00:58:43,880 --> 00:58:47,320
Speaker 3: So right now, as a church family, I want you

1037
00:58:47,360 --> 00:58:50,040
Speaker 3: to repeat after me for the benefit of those who

1038
00:58:50,120 --> 00:58:53,520
Speaker 3: are coming to Jesus for the first time or coming

1039
00:58:53,600 --> 00:58:58,720
Speaker 3: back to God. Repeat after me, Heavenly Father, today is

1040
00:58:58,800 --> 00:59:04,400
Speaker 3: my day of salvation. I am a sinner in need

1041
00:59:04,400 --> 00:59:09,920
Speaker 3: of a savior, and I believe that Jesus Christ is

1042
00:59:09,920 --> 00:59:13,400
Speaker 3: the Son of God and the savior of the world.

1043
00:59:14,160 --> 00:59:18,480
Speaker 3: And today I make Jesus the Lord of my life.

1044
00:59:19,480 --> 00:59:23,760
Speaker 3: I believe he died that I would be forgiven and

1045
00:59:23,920 --> 00:59:29,520
Speaker 3: rose again to give me life. I receive this new life.

1046
00:59:30,440 --> 00:59:35,800
Speaker 3: This is my new beginning. I am a child of God.

1047
00:59:36,640 --> 00:59:38,560
Speaker 3: On the count of three, if you prayed that, shoot

1048
00:59:38,600 --> 00:59:40,680
Speaker 3: your hand up one, two, three.

1049
00:59:40,760 --> 00:59:41,720
Speaker 1: I want to celebrate you.

1050
00:59:41,800 --> 00:59:42,000
Speaker 3: God.

1051
00:59:42,000 --> 00:59:42,600
Speaker 1: Bless you man.

1052
00:59:43,360 --> 00:59:47,800
Speaker 3: God, Bless you man, God, bless you, sir, God bless

1053
00:59:47,800 --> 00:59:51,480
Speaker 3: you in the fact the black shirt God bless.

1054
00:59:51,200 --> 00:59:52,880
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1055
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1056
00:59:59,280 --> 01:00:02,120
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1057
01:00:02,440 --> 01:00:05,400
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1058
01:00:05,440 --> 01:00:07,880
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1059
01:00:08,400 --> 01:00:12,280
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1060
01:00:12,800 --> 01:00:15,440
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1061
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1065
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Speaker 4: God bless you.