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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: Be sure to.

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Speaker 2: Subscribe so we can get you these new sermons every week.

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Speaker 2: I hope you're blessed today. Holly already announced everything, so

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Speaker 2: I don't have to do it. I can just get

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Speaker 2: straight to the word. I preached a message last week

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Speaker 2: called Challenge the Shadow.

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Speaker 1: That message was about how we don't just accept.

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Speaker 2: The natural pattern of things because we are people of faith.

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Speaker 2: So when the enemy says you're going down, you don't

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Speaker 2: go down without a fight. That's what God gave you

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Speaker 2: your faith for. And that message is online. Now you

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Speaker 2: can take that message and put it together with this

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Speaker 2: message because I am going back to the life of

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Speaker 2: Hezekiah to bring you what we might sort of call

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Speaker 2: a preaching prequel, to show you something else that happened

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Speaker 2: in his life.

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Speaker 1: Now I like to do this, Okay.

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Speaker 2: I was telling my oldest son this week, I loved

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Speaker 2: Oh yeah. By the way, hey, everybody online, I love

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Speaker 2: to take the Bible and make sure that we get

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Speaker 2: the historical context of what was happening, but not leave

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Speaker 2: the Bible in the historical context, but make it helpful

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Speaker 2: for your life. And that's something I really believe in.

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Speaker 2: One of my seminary professors who trained me told us

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Speaker 2: that our job isn't to apply the Bible to people's lives,

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Speaker 2: it's just to teach them what happened in the Bible.

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Speaker 2: Couldn't disagree with that. More people are going through too

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Speaker 2: much hell for me to preach that way. Come on,

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Speaker 2: just to give you a lesson about something that happened

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Speaker 2: three thousand years ago, and that Hey, have a good week.

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Speaker 2: Hope the custody battle goes okay, hope you don't die,

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Speaker 2: Hope you make it back the next Sunday, and I'll

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Speaker 2: give you another history lesson.

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Speaker 1: I can't do that. It's not in my heart to

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Speaker 1: do that. That's not how God wired me.

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Speaker 2: And so when I come to the scriptures, I'm always

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Speaker 2: asking a couple questions, what happened here, and then what's

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Speaker 2: happening in the lives of those that you've called me

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Speaker 2: to help?

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Speaker 1: Lord? And so that's kind of how I pray.

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Speaker 2: Now this week, we're coming to an issue in tewod

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Speaker 2: King's chapter nineteen in the Life of King Hezekiah, where

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Speaker 2: you know he last week he almost died, and the

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Speaker 2: prophet said, you're gonna die, and he's like, wait, I

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Speaker 2: got more to do. And the Lord's like, all right,

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Speaker 2: around the same time in his life, just before that happened,

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Speaker 2: I want to show you something that happened, and then

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Speaker 2: I want to talk to you about some things that

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Speaker 2: are going on in your life too. In Tewod Kings,

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Speaker 2: chapter nineteen, verse fourteen, the Bible says Hezekiah received the

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Speaker 2: letter from the messengers and read it, and then he

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Speaker 2: it out before the Lord, and Hezekiah prayed to the Lord, Lord,

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Speaker 2: the God of Israel, enthroned between the Cherubim, You alone

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Speaker 2: have made heaven and earth. Give ear, Lord and hear

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Speaker 2: open your eyes, Lord, and see. Listen to the words

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Speaker 2: Senecareb has sent to ridicule the Living God. It is true, Lord,

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Speaker 2: that the Assyrian kings have laid waste these nations in

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Speaker 1: By human hands. Now, Lord, our God, deliver.

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Speaker 2: God said. Actually, I like verse thirty two too much

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Speaker 2: him all of these scriptures, so this one is really good. Therefore,

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Speaker 2: this is what the Lord says in response to Hezekiah's

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Speaker 2: That night the angel of the Lord went out and

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Speaker 2: After that one hundred and eighty five thousand of your

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Speaker 2: today and we'll talk about it. But he said to

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Speaker 2: tell you this, God is going to cover the spread.

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Speaker 2: Anybody received that just by faith, like even not knowing

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Speaker 2: that God is going to cover the spread. Lord, your

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Speaker 2: word never returns void. Whoever it's for, God, shoot it

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Speaker 2: straight into their heart. May it go down deep deeper

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Speaker 2: than disappointment, defeat, discouragement or despair, and give your people

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Speaker 2: making business in Jesus' name. Amen, He's going to do it.

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Speaker 2: He's going to cover the spread. This message is called

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Speaker 2: cover the spread. Last week was challenged the shadow. This

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Speaker 2: week is cover the spread. I'm so glad we sang

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Speaker 2: that song make Away that went so good with this message,

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Speaker 2: like the Holy Spirit wanted it all to just go

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Speaker 2: right there together so you could get it. There's a

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Speaker 2: line in that song, I really love this because you

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Speaker 2: are God. No matter the odds, the outcome is always

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Speaker 2: the same. So we win. We don't know when, but

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Speaker 2: we win. God's gonna cover the spread. How many of

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Speaker 2: you know that term cover the spread from the sports

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Speaker 2: betting world.

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Speaker 1: Lord, we pray for these sinners, these hell bound.

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Speaker 2: Philistines, these uncircumcised philistines betting on sports. Far as I know,

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Speaker 1: It said, cover the spread means.

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Speaker 2: I bet one time on a basketball game, the only

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Speaker 1: I lost three hundred dollars.

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Speaker 2: And I bet on the Oklahoma City Thunder because my friend,

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Speaker 2: Pastor Craig Rochel lives there, and I thought he had

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Speaker 2: a strong enough annoying pull me through, and I lost

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Speaker 2: the money. Sound do anymore but cover the spread? I mean,

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Speaker 2: and so if that team that's favored by seven points wins,

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Speaker 2: they didn't cover the spread. And somebody who bet on

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Speaker 2: by seven points didn't cover the spread, and so the

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Speaker 2: game can be completely over. But somebody's sitting there praying

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Speaker 2: whatever the spread is. So that's the term in the

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Speaker 2: betting world. But this is Sunday morning, and this is

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Speaker 2: not the betting world. This is the Bible world. I

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Speaker 2: would like to suggest to you that the term has

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Speaker 2: a completely different relevance for your life as it did

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Speaker 2: for hezekiahs. If you are a betting man, you are

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Speaker 2: betting against Israel in this particular predicament.

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Speaker 2: The fiercest dude who has ever occupied the throne of

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Speaker 2: Assyria named Seneca Rib. Anybody a pregnant looking for a

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Speaker 1: Taken, you, kidd, to be the only one. You're welcome.

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Speaker 2: This guy, when he would take his enemies right to

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Speaker 2: send a message to everybody else, he would often he

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Speaker 2: would often not only hang them from trees, but he

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Speaker 2: trees that's the kind of guy we're talking about here

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Speaker 2: in tewod King's nineteen just to give you the picture,

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Speaker 2: and not only to mention that, but he was a

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Speaker 2: trash talker that made Connor McGregor.

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Speaker 1: Look like mister Rogers.

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Speaker 2: If you follow mma, I'm using all the worldly analogies

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Speaker 2: today Graham. But he is occupying the throne of the

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Speaker 2: fiercest kingdom that has already taken the northern part of Israel.

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Speaker 1: If you studied the Old.

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Speaker 2: Testament even a little bit, you'll remember that the kingdom

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Speaker 2: was divided. Well, that's already happened, and the northern part

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Speaker 2: away into captivity. So now Senekareb is coming for Hezekiah,

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Speaker 2: who was a good king. I told you last week.

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Speaker 2: But now Senekareb is sending some messages to Hezekiah, going

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Speaker 2: you're next, and Hezekia is like, no, please, uncle daddy,

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Speaker 2: what do you want me to say?

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Speaker 1: Don't do it to me, you know, just just leave

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Speaker 2: We've seen what you're capable of We know you're undefeated, undisputed,

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Speaker 1: So what do you want? You want some gold?

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Speaker 2: Hezekiah starts stripping the gold off the doorpost of the temple.

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Speaker 1: That's how bad it was.

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Speaker 2: It would have to be bad for you to take

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Speaker 2: your enemy to go away. But when the enemy messes

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Speaker 2: with you enough, you will start stripping very valuable things.

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Speaker 2: You will start stripping very valuable things and giving away

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Speaker 1: The problem with this is Senecareb is in't.

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Speaker 2: It's not like you just give him a little bit

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Speaker 2: he takes a kilometer.

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Speaker 1: It's worldwide ministry.

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Speaker 2: So now Sinekareb is coming back talking about you know what,

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Speaker 2: I know, you've got an alliance with Egypt. In fact,

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Speaker 2: figure out is he gonna leave us alone? Is he

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Speaker 2: gonna take us too? Are we next? Is he gonna

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Speaker 2: neighbors to the north. What's gonna happen? Because we know

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Speaker 2: Sannekareb is absolutely unbeatable.

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Speaker 4: Now, so the field.

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Speaker 2: Commander starts speaking about what saneka Reb can do, and

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Speaker 2: they're saying stuff like you're gonna end up eating your

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Speaker 4: Is in the Bible?

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Speaker 1: They say that they recorded.

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Speaker 2: I can't imagine what they didn't put in the Bible

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Speaker 4: And Hezekayah hears.

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Speaker 2: That, and he knows that the odds are against him

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Speaker 1: Himself against Senekariv.

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Speaker 2: In the letter, will God really deliver you? That's what

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Speaker 2: to get in your head. In your head? How many

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Speaker 2: The reason those of us who are in our heads

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Speaker 3: Somebody has to think, for y'all, oh, we're never going

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Speaker 2: Holly's so good for me because I'm in my head

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Speaker 2: all the time. She's in the moment. Take that however

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Speaker 2: And our marriage in many ways has been a merger

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Speaker 1: Know what we're gonna do. We're gonna go for a walk.

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Speaker 2: When she said I know what we're gonna do, I

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Speaker 1: It's not that deep. We're going to walk. You're gonna

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Speaker 2: When I'm in my head, the problem that I'm considering

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Speaker 2: Appears to me that I have no assistance available. When

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Speaker 2: I'm in my head. Every text message that somebody sends

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Speaker 3: Why'd they say it like that? Why'd they use a comma?

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Speaker 2: Reading into everything when you're in your head. Oh man,

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Speaker 2: It's completely ridiculous for.

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Speaker 3: You to think that everybody in that video game called

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Speaker 2: But yet we do that when we get in our head.

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Speaker 2: Why? Which one's my main camera. I can't remember the

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Speaker 4: Have you been stuck in your head this week?

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Speaker 2: Is that what's been happening in your life? That God

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Speaker 4: Even a part of this planet.

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Speaker 2: This king, named Hessekiah, gave us a pattern for what

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Speaker 4: Aren't you glad for.

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Speaker 4: I need to know how to do battle in my brain.

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Speaker 6: I need to do I need to know what to

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Speaker 4: How to respond to senecarev.

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Speaker 2: They are my personal fears, they are not yours. My

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Speaker 4: So the challenging thing for me today can I preach?

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Speaker 2: Is that I know what this Bible says, but I

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Speaker 2: don't know what your letter says. I know what this

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Speaker 2: and what he can do, and what faith is, the

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Speaker 4: You know that company where.

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Speaker 2: You can't fire anybody. I don't know what your letter says,

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Speaker 2: but Seneka rebtold Hezekai, I'm gonna kill you.

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Speaker 1: I'm gonna wipe you out. It's gonna be humiliating.

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Speaker 2: Sometimes the letters that the devil sends me to get

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Speaker 2: Holy Spirit will read your mail.

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Speaker 1: Today. We came to see what we need to do.

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Speaker 2: When we're holding a letter in our hearts of condemnation

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Speaker 1: Just messing with him, that's my dude.

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Speaker 2: And sometimes we feed ourselves the raw material, and then

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Speaker 2: And then sometimes it's more passive than that. Sometimes it

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Speaker 1: To pass it along to you today. You want it

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Speaker 1: Verse four.

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Speaker 1: Some of us we don't deal with anything that we feel.

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Speaker 2: Holy Spirit said to me, you're trying to rebuke the

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Speaker 1: And make better ones. Am I reading your mail? Is

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Speaker 1: that what that feels like? Yeah?

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Speaker 2: So he didn't rip up the letter because I think

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Speaker 1: Well, the truth is there are some things that we

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Speaker 2: This is not a king who's receiving a threat that

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Speaker 2: he can just ignore. He actually does have to respond

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Speaker 3: I don't focus on the negative. I'm an optimist. You're

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Speaker 3: gonna be a dead optimist. It's gonna be an optimist

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Speaker 3: with a crown on is what You're gonna be, Hezekiah

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Speaker 2: But there's gonna be no head on your shoulders. It's

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Speaker 2: opt a headless optimist, a dead optimist, and a lot

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00:26:51,320 --> 00:26:52,920
Speaker 2: of people are like that when it comes.

440
00:26:52,680 --> 00:26:55,560
Speaker 1: To their faith. I rebuke this bill.

441
00:27:02,320 --> 00:27:05,520
Speaker 2: The power company doesn't cut it back on because you said,

442
00:27:05,600 --> 00:27:06,400
Speaker 2: let there be light.

443
00:27:07,400 --> 00:27:10,160
Speaker 3: You can put Genesis one over the power bill all

444
00:27:10,240 --> 00:27:11,920
Speaker 3: you want in the dark.

445
00:27:14,440 --> 00:27:17,800
Speaker 1: So so watch his response.

446
00:27:18,280 --> 00:27:22,280
Speaker 2: He doesn't rip up the letter saying, well, that's not true.

447
00:27:22,320 --> 00:27:25,080
Speaker 2: You're not powerful, you can't do that. Yes, yes, it

448
00:27:25,200 --> 00:27:26,400
Speaker 2: is true. It is real.

449
00:27:27,080 --> 00:27:28,640
Speaker 1: That's the reality of the situation.

450
00:27:29,800 --> 00:27:31,879
Speaker 2: The second thing that I noticed that he didn't do,

451
00:27:32,280 --> 00:27:35,399
Speaker 2: and I'm telling you what he didn't do, so that

452
00:27:35,440 --> 00:27:37,360
Speaker 2: when I show you what he did do you will

453
00:27:37,359 --> 00:27:41,320
Speaker 2: have something to compare it to. He received the letter. Remember,

454
00:27:41,480 --> 00:27:43,840
Speaker 2: I'm gonna kill you. I'm gonna kill you just like

455
00:27:43,920 --> 00:27:47,160
Speaker 2: I killed everybody. I'm gonna kill your family. I'm gonna

456
00:27:47,160 --> 00:27:49,679
Speaker 2: take your kids out. Your kids are gonna end up

457
00:27:49,720 --> 00:27:52,800
Speaker 2: on drugs. Your kids are gonna end up divorced. Your

458
00:27:52,840 --> 00:27:57,120
Speaker 2: kids are gonna end up workless because you yelled at.

459
00:27:56,960 --> 00:28:01,600
Speaker 1: Them this morning. That's it goes for me, is spiral's

460
00:28:01,600 --> 00:28:02,119
Speaker 1: real quick.

461
00:28:03,240 --> 00:28:05,160
Speaker 2: I would just be a little too harsh with the kids,

462
00:28:05,200 --> 00:28:07,400
Speaker 2: and the devil will be like, that's why you're gonna

463
00:28:07,400 --> 00:28:10,160
Speaker 2: be bailing them out of jail right there. They're gonna

464
00:28:10,160 --> 00:28:12,080
Speaker 2: have a needle in their arm right there. And it

465
00:28:12,200 --> 00:28:16,800
Speaker 2: all started with you. It can spiral real quick.

466
00:28:17,800 --> 00:28:18,080
Speaker 1: Now.

467
00:28:18,640 --> 00:28:21,879
Speaker 2: So this is the second thing that Hezekiah didn't do.

468
00:28:21,960 --> 00:28:24,720
Speaker 2: When he got the letter from Seneka rev. They're like, hey, King,

469
00:28:24,920 --> 00:28:26,600
Speaker 2: we don't know what to do. We can see you've

470
00:28:26,600 --> 00:28:29,280
Speaker 2: already ripped your clothes. It is a bad situation. But

471
00:28:29,359 --> 00:28:32,080
Speaker 2: he sent another letter. So he received the letter verse

472
00:28:32,080 --> 00:28:38,960
Speaker 2: fourteen again, and he read it, watched this, and he

473
00:28:39,040 --> 00:28:44,240
Speaker 2: read it again, and read it again, and read it again,

474
00:28:45,320 --> 00:28:47,320
Speaker 2: and read it again, and read it over and over

475
00:28:47,360 --> 00:28:51,720
Speaker 2: and over until he had memorized it. And then he

476
00:28:51,760 --> 00:28:56,040
Speaker 2: gathered the whole nation and recited the letter for them

477
00:28:56,280 --> 00:28:58,800
Speaker 2: that their enemy had written. And then he had it

478
00:28:58,880 --> 00:29:04,000
Speaker 2: translated into thirty different languages so that everybody could.

479
00:29:03,840 --> 00:29:06,760
Speaker 1: Hear in their own language the threat of the enemy.

480
00:29:07,320 --> 00:29:08,960
Speaker 2: And then he began to study it, and he broke

481
00:29:09,000 --> 00:29:11,640
Speaker 2: it down into different syllables, and he made songs around it,

482
00:29:12,000 --> 00:29:14,840
Speaker 2: and he began to sing the songs of Senekareb.

483
00:29:17,160 --> 00:29:21,360
Speaker 1: That's not in the verses it. I can't prove this,

484
00:29:22,520 --> 00:29:23,400
Speaker 1: but I think when.

485
00:29:23,200 --> 00:29:26,400
Speaker 2: It says, please put the verse back up, that he

486
00:29:26,520 --> 00:29:32,520
Speaker 2: received the letter and he read it, that he only

487
00:29:32,560 --> 00:29:38,640
Speaker 2: read it once. And after he read it once, look

488
00:29:38,680 --> 00:29:43,440
Speaker 2: what he did next. He read it and then he

489
00:29:43,520 --> 00:29:49,360
Speaker 2: went up to the temple of the Lord. You don't

490
00:29:49,480 --> 00:29:52,560
Speaker 2: even know how annointed. That is what I just showed you.

491
00:29:54,440 --> 00:29:57,320
Speaker 2: That's what stopped me in my tracks. When I read

492
00:29:57,400 --> 00:30:04,080
Speaker 2: that verse. I stopped and I said, oh, that's my problem.

493
00:30:04,360 --> 00:30:08,080
Speaker 2: When I get a letter from the enemy, I read

494
00:30:08,120 --> 00:30:13,560
Speaker 2: it over and over and over. When he puts a

495
00:30:13,640 --> 00:30:17,400
Speaker 2: thought in my head to draw me away from my hope,

496
00:30:17,720 --> 00:30:20,920
Speaker 2: I play it over and over and over. When I

497
00:30:20,960 --> 00:30:24,040
Speaker 2: have an experience where I make a mistake, I play

498
00:30:24,080 --> 00:30:28,680
Speaker 2: it over and over and over. But when I get

499
00:30:28,720 --> 00:30:32,040
Speaker 2: a word from God, I listen to it once and

500
00:30:32,120 --> 00:30:38,800
Speaker 2: I go to lunch. So my problem is, watch this.

501
00:30:40,280 --> 00:30:45,600
Speaker 2: I'm giving more attention to Seneca Rip's letter than the

502
00:30:45,760 --> 00:30:53,160
Speaker 2: spirit's message in my life.

503
00:30:54,400 --> 00:30:58,880
Speaker 4: So he read it. Somebody shout. He read it, he

504
00:30:59,040 --> 00:30:59,520
Speaker 4: dealt with it.

505
00:30:59,600 --> 00:31:02,120
Speaker 2: He faid did he accepted it, He acknowledged it.

506
00:31:02,360 --> 00:31:06,160
Speaker 4: I'm in debt. I'm I'm overweight, I'm I'm stressed out,

507
00:31:06,200 --> 00:31:06,720
Speaker 4: I'm busy.

508
00:31:06,800 --> 00:31:10,320
Speaker 2: I'm I'm torn apart right now. I'm not in the

509
00:31:10,360 --> 00:31:12,760
Speaker 2: position I need to be in to make the difference

510
00:31:12,800 --> 00:31:13,880
Speaker 2: in the life of my kids.

511
00:31:14,080 --> 00:31:15,560
Speaker 4: I'm not the example I want to be.

512
00:31:15,960 --> 00:31:21,160
Speaker 2: Okay, I read it, But after he read it, he

513
00:31:21,240 --> 00:31:26,120
Speaker 2: didn't stay down in it. Because if I stay down

514
00:31:26,280 --> 00:31:29,720
Speaker 2: in it and memorize it, then I'm gonna get more

515
00:31:29,840 --> 00:31:36,160
Speaker 2: of it. But come on, y'all, twenty twenty three, let's

516
00:31:36,280 --> 00:31:38,240
Speaker 2: follow Hezekiah.

517
00:31:37,880 --> 00:31:40,840
Speaker 4: And do what hes Akaya did. What did he do?

518
00:31:41,160 --> 00:31:45,760
Speaker 2: He read it, and he went up, and I came

519
00:31:45,800 --> 00:31:47,760
Speaker 2: to call you out today.

520
00:31:49,280 --> 00:31:51,520
Speaker 5: And tell you it's time to go up to the

521
00:31:51,600 --> 00:31:56,280
Speaker 5: temple and see what the Lord says about this situation.

522
00:31:58,120 --> 00:32:02,720
Speaker 5: Because if you stay in your head, you're dad. If

523
00:32:02,760 --> 00:32:05,840
Speaker 5: you stay in your head about this, you are gonna go.

524
00:32:05,880 --> 00:32:09,680
Speaker 2: Through hell over this, and the enemy won't even have

525
00:32:09,720 --> 00:32:12,120
Speaker 2: to shoot a single arrow because he will defeat you

526
00:32:12,160 --> 00:32:14,480
Speaker 2: by getting in your head and causing you to forfeit,

527
00:32:14,560 --> 00:32:17,320
Speaker 2: the very thing that you couldn't lose if you would stand.

528
00:32:17,080 --> 00:32:24,760
Speaker 1: Firm and see what God has said. He went up,

529
00:32:26,320 --> 00:32:29,040
Speaker 1: he went up, say it. He went up, He went

530
00:32:29,160 --> 00:32:29,680
Speaker 1: up to the.

531
00:32:29,640 --> 00:32:32,640
Speaker 2: Temple, and he took the letter with him, just like

532
00:32:32,720 --> 00:32:35,720
Speaker 2: you came to elevation today and you brought your letter

533
00:32:35,760 --> 00:32:38,080
Speaker 2: with you. Oh yeah, you don't get to leave it

534
00:32:38,120 --> 00:32:41,280
Speaker 2: at home. You take it with you everywhere you go.

535
00:32:41,880 --> 00:32:44,920
Speaker 2: It is tattooed on your heart, the thing you really

536
00:32:44,960 --> 00:32:47,640
Speaker 2: deal with, the thing you really worry about, the thing

537
00:32:47,720 --> 00:32:50,320
Speaker 2: you struggle with, the insecurity.

538
00:32:49,640 --> 00:32:51,040
Speaker 1: That talks nasty to you.

539
00:32:51,440 --> 00:32:53,680
Speaker 2: I put in that detail about the excrement and the

540
00:32:53,840 --> 00:32:57,400
Speaker 2: urine because as although you were grossed out about it, one,

541
00:32:57,560 --> 00:32:59,560
Speaker 2: I wanted to take your appetite down so you could

542
00:32:59,560 --> 00:33:01,760
Speaker 2: sit through the sermon longer and not be hungry for lunch.

543
00:33:02,040 --> 00:33:04,600
Speaker 2: And number two, I wanted us to think about the

544
00:33:04,960 --> 00:33:05,680
Speaker 2: crap that the.

545
00:33:05,600 --> 00:33:15,600
Speaker 7: Devil really says to us. Senecrab literally talked crap to Hezekiah. Literally,

546
00:33:16,240 --> 00:33:16,720
Speaker 7: and I'm not.

547
00:33:16,720 --> 00:33:18,360
Speaker 1: Using that word like people do when they use it

548
00:33:18,400 --> 00:33:21,680
Speaker 1: to mean the exact opposite of literally. I literally died.

549
00:33:23,000 --> 00:33:26,480
Speaker 4: Figuratively opposite were.

550
00:33:30,640 --> 00:33:39,880
Speaker 1: It's a little pet pee.

551
00:33:36,240 --> 00:33:42,160
Speaker 2: He tells you stuff that you are trash, that you

552
00:33:42,280 --> 00:33:45,120
Speaker 2: are done. Holy Spirit won't do that to you.

553
00:33:46,600 --> 00:33:49,720
Speaker 1: The Holy Spirit testifies of Jesus. Jesus is righteous, Jesus

554
00:33:49,760 --> 00:33:50,080
Speaker 1: is in you.

555
00:33:52,640 --> 00:33:54,880
Speaker 2: The Holy Spirit will catch you the next morning and

556
00:33:54,880 --> 00:33:56,800
Speaker 2: start talking to you about last night and how you

557
00:33:56,840 --> 00:34:02,200
Speaker 2: want to do that different in the future. But he

558
00:34:02,240 --> 00:34:03,719
Speaker 2: won't talk to your. Spirit won't talk to you like

559
00:34:03,720 --> 00:34:08,200
Speaker 2: Saekaeb will. So that's not the spirit. That's not the spirit.

560
00:34:10,520 --> 00:34:15,200
Speaker 2: This gave me a picture of what we so often do.

561
00:34:15,400 --> 00:34:17,680
Speaker 2: If we don't just rip up the letter. Now I'm

562
00:34:17,719 --> 00:34:20,319
Speaker 2: using it as a metaphor to say, if we don't

563
00:34:20,360 --> 00:34:23,680
Speaker 2: just deny it, or if we don't just go over

564
00:34:23,719 --> 00:34:28,520
Speaker 2: it and over it again in our minds, then often

565
00:34:28,560 --> 00:34:35,400
Speaker 2: what we do is just we stuff it, almost to

566
00:34:35,440 --> 00:34:40,560
Speaker 2: the point where we don't even realize that the enemy

567
00:34:40,640 --> 00:34:44,759
Speaker 2: is talking to us, but he's using our voice to

568
00:34:44,840 --> 00:34:50,600
Speaker 2: do it, and so we just stuff it, right, We

569
00:34:50,719 --> 00:34:53,719
Speaker 2: just stuff it, and we keep it rolled up and

570
00:34:53,800 --> 00:35:00,440
Speaker 2: scrunched up. And so if we take the things that

571
00:35:00,480 --> 00:35:04,920
Speaker 2: the enemy speaks over our lives and we stuffed them,

572
00:35:06,360 --> 00:35:07,400
Speaker 2: then guess what happens?

573
00:35:08,760 --> 00:35:12,160
Speaker 1: They spread inside of us.

574
00:35:13,840 --> 00:35:17,719
Speaker 2: To the point where now it's not only oh, I

575
00:35:17,800 --> 00:35:21,920
Speaker 2: did that wrong, it's there's something wrong with me, and

576
00:35:21,920 --> 00:35:26,480
Speaker 2: there always has been and there always will be. They

577
00:35:26,480 --> 00:35:31,000
Speaker 2: say that the three habits of negative thinking are you

578
00:35:31,080 --> 00:35:33,560
Speaker 2: make it personal, you make it permanent, and you make

579
00:35:33,600 --> 00:35:38,160
Speaker 2: it pervasive. When you make it personal, it's not I

580
00:35:38,320 --> 00:35:40,800
Speaker 2: was wrong when I did that. It's I am wrong,

581
00:35:40,920 --> 00:35:43,200
Speaker 2: and I always do that, which is permanent.

582
00:35:43,320 --> 00:35:46,279
Speaker 1: I always That's how I've always done it. That's how

583
00:35:46,280 --> 00:35:47,399
Speaker 1: I did it five years ago.

584
00:35:47,640 --> 00:35:49,680
Speaker 2: And you've edited out all the times you got it

585
00:35:49,760 --> 00:35:52,319
Speaker 2: right because you just say I always do it like that.

586
00:35:53,800 --> 00:35:56,239
Speaker 2: And then pervasive, of course, is just a fancy word

587
00:35:56,280 --> 00:35:58,320
Speaker 2: to say, like you make it everything.

588
00:35:59,440 --> 00:36:02,480
Speaker 1: It's all like this, and I'm always like that.

589
00:36:04,360 --> 00:36:07,000
Speaker 2: When you take it and you put it inside like that,

590
00:36:08,239 --> 00:36:12,600
Speaker 2: and you don't find a way to process these these

591
00:36:12,640 --> 00:36:15,719
Speaker 2: patterns of thinking and these problems and the sin.

592
00:36:17,160 --> 00:36:18,520
Speaker 1: That we all still have to deal with.

593
00:36:22,080 --> 00:36:26,080
Speaker 2: It starts to spread not only inside of your heart,

594
00:36:26,120 --> 00:36:28,920
Speaker 2: but it starts to sabotage the decisions in your life,

595
00:36:30,760 --> 00:36:33,960
Speaker 2: and you find yourself losing good people who are trying

596
00:36:34,040 --> 00:36:39,520
Speaker 2: to love you because of an insecurity that was in

597
00:36:39,560 --> 00:36:41,640
Speaker 2: the form of the letter that the enemy sent you

598
00:36:43,040 --> 00:36:46,719
Speaker 2: that you didn't know what to do with, so you

599
00:36:46,880 --> 00:36:51,879
Speaker 2: stuffed it and it spread, And if nothing is there

600
00:36:51,920 --> 00:36:54,680
Speaker 2: to stop the spread of that, you will continue to

601
00:36:54,760 --> 00:36:59,600
Speaker 2: change external things in your life. But everything that you

602
00:36:59,760 --> 00:37:06,160
Speaker 2: touch while you are walking in that insecurity, the insecurity will.

603
00:37:05,600 --> 00:37:09,640
Speaker 1: Spread to the next opportunity.

604
00:37:10,520 --> 00:37:13,160
Speaker 2: So you'll spend ten months happy at a job until

605
00:37:13,200 --> 00:37:15,440
Speaker 2: the old system of how you show up for the

606
00:37:15,560 --> 00:37:20,319
Speaker 2: job catches up with you at the new one, and

607
00:37:20,360 --> 00:37:25,960
Speaker 2: it spreads until your children see that mom and Dad

608
00:37:26,320 --> 00:37:29,359
Speaker 2: can't have a healthy conflict and work through it, and

609
00:37:29,400 --> 00:37:32,319
Speaker 2: they carry a template with them into their marriage one day,

610
00:37:32,680 --> 00:37:35,640
Speaker 2: and you spend years and years of your life saying,

611
00:37:35,719 --> 00:37:39,960
Speaker 2: I wish that I had known how to deal with this,

612
00:37:40,840 --> 00:37:43,040
Speaker 2: because the last thing I wanted to do.

613
00:37:43,680 --> 00:37:47,600
Speaker 1: Was to pass this on to them.

614
00:37:47,680 --> 00:37:51,279
Speaker 2: And we stuff it and we hallelujah over top of it,

615
00:37:54,239 --> 00:37:57,920
Speaker 2: and we get little scripture versus that we quote, thinking

616
00:37:57,920 --> 00:38:00,799
Speaker 2: that they will counteract. I don't know of our own

617
00:38:01,040 --> 00:38:05,319
Speaker 2: meditation in our heart, but it doesn't because if we

618
00:38:05,440 --> 00:38:11,839
Speaker 2: stuff it, it's spreads. But who do I tell? Who

619
00:38:11,840 --> 00:38:16,160
Speaker 2: do I tell what I really feel inside? And this

620
00:38:16,239 --> 00:38:18,160
Speaker 2: is an important thing for me to stop and say

621
00:38:18,200 --> 00:38:23,799
Speaker 2: right now, because You can't just take that stuff and

622
00:38:23,880 --> 00:38:30,319
Speaker 2: spread it anywhere. You can't just use other people like

623
00:38:30,440 --> 00:38:31,040
Speaker 2: they are.

624
00:38:32,520 --> 00:38:35,600
Speaker 1: I don't know how to put this, Like they are.

625
00:38:35,480 --> 00:38:43,040
Speaker 2: Your dumping ground, like they've got a hazmat suit on

626
00:38:43,080 --> 00:38:45,959
Speaker 2: and they can just handle whatever you want to say.

627
00:38:46,160 --> 00:38:49,839
Speaker 2: And what encouraged me about Hezekiah was he couldn't tell

628
00:38:49,920 --> 00:38:51,319
Speaker 2: anybody because he's the king.

629
00:38:53,040 --> 00:38:56,879
Speaker 4: Are there any dads in here that you just wish

630
00:38:57,400 --> 00:38:58,240
Speaker 4: for once?

631
00:38:59,320 --> 00:39:01,160
Speaker 1: For one and I'm gonna get to the moms in

632
00:39:01,200 --> 00:39:02,560
Speaker 1: a minute.

633
00:39:02,200 --> 00:39:05,799
Speaker 2: For once your kids would be like, it must be

634
00:39:05,960 --> 00:39:11,799
Speaker 2: so hard to be you. It is amazing what you

635
00:39:11,920 --> 00:39:16,239
Speaker 2: carry for our family. It is amazing you bring home

636
00:39:16,320 --> 00:39:19,800
Speaker 2: the bacon, and you taught me to throw a baseball.

637
00:39:20,000 --> 00:39:23,160
Speaker 4: You're my hero dad? How do you do it all?

638
00:39:24,640 --> 00:39:28,160
Speaker 2: But who do you tell when you're trying to seem

639
00:39:28,320 --> 00:39:31,319
Speaker 2: strong that this strength that.

640
00:39:31,360 --> 00:39:34,640
Speaker 4: You see is costing me.

641
00:39:35,640 --> 00:39:40,239
Speaker 2: My own strength And I've got my own issues and

642
00:39:40,440 --> 00:39:43,799
Speaker 2: I still feel like a thirteen year old sometimes.

643
00:39:45,239 --> 00:39:46,600
Speaker 1: I yelled at Elijah one time.

644
00:39:46,640 --> 00:39:48,760
Speaker 2: He's my oldest, so I have him a separate therapy

645
00:39:48,800 --> 00:39:50,440
Speaker 2: fund for all the mistakes I make on him that

646
00:39:50,480 --> 00:39:52,560
Speaker 2: I learned and then don't do with other kids. So

647
00:39:52,600 --> 00:39:55,080
Speaker 2: I save that with the college fund therapy fun college fund.

648
00:39:55,080 --> 00:39:56,319
Speaker 1: I'm doing both at the same time.

649
00:39:57,280 --> 00:40:00,239
Speaker 4: And I just yelled at him, this is my first.

650
00:40:02,200 --> 00:40:03,320
Speaker 1: What was I talking about?

651
00:40:04,040 --> 00:40:07,040
Speaker 2: It's your first time being a teenager, it's my first

652
00:40:07,040 --> 00:40:12,080
Speaker 2: time raising one, and now I'm confronting all of the

653
00:40:12,160 --> 00:40:15,160
Speaker 2: teenage me that I didn't deal with before. That's staring

654
00:40:15,200 --> 00:40:17,440
Speaker 2: at me and you, So please be patient with one

655
00:40:17,440 --> 00:40:24,560
Speaker 2: another and bear with one another, and tell your therapist

656
00:40:24,640 --> 00:40:28,040
Speaker 2: I'm sorry.

657
00:40:28,920 --> 00:40:31,320
Speaker 1: So what's hard about this.

658
00:40:32,800 --> 00:40:37,440
Speaker 2: Is that I know what my letter says, but I

659
00:40:37,440 --> 00:40:39,480
Speaker 2: don't know where to share it.

660
00:40:41,840 --> 00:40:45,120
Speaker 1: Do I share it with my E group or would

661
00:40:45,120 --> 00:40:49,000
Speaker 1: they kick me out or would they look at me different?

662
00:40:50,719 --> 00:40:52,279
Speaker 2: Do I share it with my wife or will she

663
00:40:52,320 --> 00:40:55,719
Speaker 2: think I'm weak?

664
00:40:56,400 --> 00:41:06,120
Speaker 1: Do I just to the Lord in prayer because honestly,

665
00:41:06,840 --> 00:41:09,439
Speaker 1: right now, I don't know if he's really up there.

666
00:41:12,719 --> 00:41:15,919
Speaker 2: I love the moment where y'all act like y'all don't

667
00:41:15,920 --> 00:41:17,960
Speaker 2: know what I'm talking about when I say stuff in church.

668
00:41:18,920 --> 00:41:22,560
Speaker 1: No, he's always there, Steve, always for me. He's there.

669
00:41:32,520 --> 00:41:34,560
Speaker 2: Sometimes for me. I don't know what that means. To

670
00:41:34,600 --> 00:41:38,680
Speaker 2: take it to the Lord in prayer, I don't know

671
00:41:38,719 --> 00:41:43,960
Speaker 2: what that means. Well, Hezekiah gives us a way to

672
00:41:44,000 --> 00:41:48,680
Speaker 2: go to God that I really think is going to

673
00:41:48,719 --> 00:41:51,000
Speaker 2: help you with the letter that you carried in here today,

674
00:41:51,000 --> 00:41:57,640
Speaker 2: whether it's condemnation, temptation, whether it's an insecurity, or whether

675
00:41:57,680 --> 00:42:00,120
Speaker 2: it's an actual attack from the enemy that's happening in

676
00:42:00,160 --> 00:42:03,960
Speaker 2: your life right now that only you know about. This

677
00:42:04,000 --> 00:42:06,440
Speaker 2: would apply to any addiction you're dealing with, any problem

678
00:42:06,480 --> 00:42:07,320
Speaker 2: that you have today.

679
00:42:08,160 --> 00:42:09,319
Speaker 1: Watch what Hezekiah did.

680
00:42:10,000 --> 00:42:13,960
Speaker 2: He received the letter from the messengers and read it,

681
00:42:14,760 --> 00:42:18,560
Speaker 2: and then he went up to the temple of the

682
00:42:18,640 --> 00:42:26,160
Speaker 2: Lord and he spread it out before the Lord.

683
00:42:26,840 --> 00:42:27,640
Speaker 1: He spread it.

684
00:42:27,600 --> 00:42:32,359
Speaker 8: Out before the Lord. Physically he did that. He took

685
00:42:32,400 --> 00:42:37,320
Speaker 8: the scroll I liked it out, this would be the scroll,

686
00:42:38,719 --> 00:42:45,640
Speaker 8: and he spread it out before the Lord.

687
00:42:46,800 --> 00:42:48,920
Speaker 2: Because if he carries it inside of himself, if he

688
00:42:48,960 --> 00:42:52,080
Speaker 2: stays in his head, he doesn't know what to do.

689
00:42:53,680 --> 00:42:56,920
Speaker 2: But he really doesn't know what to say either, So

690
00:42:57,040 --> 00:43:01,960
Speaker 2: he spreads it out. Somebody say, spread it out before

691
00:43:02,000 --> 00:43:06,960
Speaker 2: the Lord. Both of those are so important. One tells

692
00:43:07,000 --> 00:43:09,840
Speaker 2: me what he did and one tells me where he

693
00:43:09,880 --> 00:43:12,280
Speaker 2: did it, and both are important.

694
00:43:13,239 --> 00:43:15,799
Speaker 1: The first thing he did was he spread it out.

695
00:43:16,800 --> 00:43:19,520
Speaker 2: He's like, God, I'm not going to read this over

696
00:43:19,520 --> 00:43:21,480
Speaker 2: and over and over again and imagine all the horrible

697
00:43:21,520 --> 00:43:23,120
Speaker 2: things that can happen here.

698
00:43:24,480 --> 00:43:24,719
Speaker 1: Here.

699
00:43:26,680 --> 00:43:28,840
Speaker 2: And you need a space in your life for this

700
00:43:28,960 --> 00:43:31,320
Speaker 2: season that you're in, for these challenges that you're facing

701
00:43:31,320 --> 00:43:34,640
Speaker 2: that you've never faced before, for these Seneca ReBs that

702
00:43:34,680 --> 00:43:37,239
Speaker 2: are going on inside of your psychological state.

703
00:43:37,280 --> 00:43:39,080
Speaker 1: Because I think this is a mental battle more than

704
00:43:39,120 --> 00:43:39,680
Speaker 1: it's anything.

705
00:43:40,800 --> 00:43:43,719
Speaker 2: You need a space to be able to spread it

706
00:43:43,760 --> 00:43:48,880
Speaker 2: out before the Lord, and often we don't because when

707
00:43:48,960 --> 00:43:52,920
Speaker 2: anxiety comes on us, it has a way of pushing

708
00:43:53,040 --> 00:43:57,280
Speaker 2: us back down, so we can't even sit with anything

709
00:43:57,440 --> 00:44:00,480
Speaker 2: very long without sinking in to it.

710
00:44:01,760 --> 00:44:02,880
Speaker 4: To spread out.

711
00:44:02,680 --> 00:44:05,759
Speaker 2: Something before the Lord means that you can sit with

712
00:44:05,880 --> 00:44:10,719
Speaker 2: him in an uncomfortable feeling, that you can sit with

713
00:44:10,880 --> 00:44:14,200
Speaker 2: him even as the temptation is coming like a wave,

714
00:44:14,960 --> 00:44:17,120
Speaker 2: that you can sit with him. And some of us

715
00:44:17,120 --> 00:44:20,399
Speaker 2: have been convinced by the enemy that you can't sit

716
00:44:20,520 --> 00:44:24,959
Speaker 2: with what you feel, So anytime you feel something uncomfortable,

717
00:44:25,239 --> 00:44:28,399
Speaker 2: you just run from that. You just strip some more

718
00:44:28,440 --> 00:44:32,880
Speaker 2: gold off the temple and say, here's Sanekareb. I don't

719
00:44:32,960 --> 00:44:36,040
Speaker 2: like this feeling of being attacked, so I'll just do

720
00:44:36,160 --> 00:44:39,440
Speaker 2: it the enemy's way. That's what a lot of addiction is.

721
00:44:39,960 --> 00:44:44,759
Speaker 2: Whether that addiction is to thinking, pills, food, you name it.

722
00:44:45,080 --> 00:44:48,560
Speaker 2: Any of our addictions are often traced to something that

723
00:44:48,640 --> 00:44:51,799
Speaker 2: we will not sit in because I don't like how

724
00:44:51,840 --> 00:44:52,640
Speaker 2: this feels.

725
00:44:53,080 --> 00:44:55,920
Speaker 4: So I'll just give the devil my gold. I'll just

726
00:44:56,040 --> 00:44:58,759
Speaker 4: give the devil my peace. I'll even give him.

727
00:44:58,680 --> 00:45:01,880
Speaker 2: My whole family if you will just stop making me

728
00:45:02,160 --> 00:45:06,680
Speaker 2: feel this way. We do not resist him, because somewhere

729
00:45:06,680 --> 00:45:08,520
Speaker 2: along the line.

730
00:45:07,960 --> 00:45:10,080
Speaker 4: You have bought the lie.

731
00:45:09,760 --> 00:45:12,840
Speaker 2: That this is bigger than you. Well, it might be,

732
00:45:13,239 --> 00:45:15,040
Speaker 2: but guess what I know about it.

733
00:45:15,120 --> 00:45:22,800
Speaker 5: Whatever it is, you know where I'm going, How big

734
00:45:22,880 --> 00:45:23,120
Speaker 5: is it?

735
00:45:24,800 --> 00:45:28,040
Speaker 4: How big is this problem? How big is this in

736
00:45:28,120 --> 00:45:30,040
Speaker 4: to me? How big?

737
00:45:30,880 --> 00:45:34,200
Speaker 2: You're like, it's really big, preacher, like, really really big.

738
00:45:34,600 --> 00:45:35,440
Speaker 4: How big is it?

739
00:45:35,840 --> 00:45:41,120
Speaker 2: Well, that depends what it's up against?

740
00:45:46,239 --> 00:45:46,719
Speaker 1: Here we go.

741
00:45:48,160 --> 00:45:50,800
Speaker 2: You're like, nah, I'm going through some real stuff.

742
00:45:51,000 --> 00:45:53,640
Speaker 4: You don't even know. You're just up here preaching. I'm

743
00:45:53,680 --> 00:45:56,840
Speaker 4: going up against something that's real. Somebody shout is real.

744
00:45:57,680 --> 00:46:00,680
Speaker 2: Okay, it's real, But it's also a relative.

745
00:46:04,040 --> 00:46:05,440
Speaker 1: Everything is relative.

746
00:46:06,440 --> 00:46:09,439
Speaker 4: I found this out watching my dog, our dog.

747
00:46:09,600 --> 00:46:11,680
Speaker 1: I say, my dog, I don't do anything for him.

748
00:46:11,719 --> 00:46:12,400
Speaker 1: It's their dog.

749
00:46:13,040 --> 00:46:16,480
Speaker 2: Their dog is a Boston Terrier named bo Do. Y'all

750
00:46:16,520 --> 00:46:18,640
Speaker 2: remember when I told the whole church, I'm getting the

751
00:46:18,640 --> 00:46:19,360
Speaker 2: family a dog.

752
00:46:19,920 --> 00:46:20,279
Speaker 4: I did.

753
00:46:21,560 --> 00:46:26,600
Speaker 2: He not too big, But when he was meeting his uh,

754
00:46:27,040 --> 00:46:31,319
Speaker 2: his cousin, I guess Holly's parents dog.

755
00:46:31,440 --> 00:46:35,319
Speaker 1: What would that make them a relation? Anyway? What kind

756
00:46:35,320 --> 00:46:36,120
Speaker 1: of dog is? Yo Yo?

757
00:46:38,600 --> 00:46:43,080
Speaker 2: Chihuahuah was a yo Yo and Coco. I'm gonna work

758
00:46:43,080 --> 00:46:48,640
Speaker 2: this out, y'all in a million a morky? What's a morky?

759
00:46:49,680 --> 00:46:55,640
Speaker 1: All right? Coco is really little? Bo is big when

760
00:46:55,640 --> 00:46:58,280
Speaker 1: he's with Coco. Bo met Coco.

761
00:46:59,160 --> 00:47:03,520
Speaker 9: Bo was a bully because he was big.

762
00:47:04,880 --> 00:47:10,080
Speaker 2: Then Bo met Toby. Their dog. Toby is a Golden doodle,

763
00:47:10,760 --> 00:47:15,200
Speaker 2: bigger than a Boston Terrier. Y'all got the picture. Bo

764
00:47:16,480 --> 00:47:18,280
Speaker 2: Coco Toby.

765
00:47:19,280 --> 00:47:24,720
Speaker 9: Bo was a bully with Coco because Bo was big

766
00:47:25,120 --> 00:47:31,399
Speaker 9: with Coco. Bo with Toby was not a bully. Bo

767
00:47:32,360 --> 00:47:41,120
Speaker 9: was a sweetheart. I don't want to get canceled. I'm

768
00:47:41,160 --> 00:47:46,560
Speaker 9: only forty thirty. Bo was really nice. Bo was on

769
00:47:46,640 --> 00:47:52,120
Speaker 9: his best behavior with Toby. Because watch this, how big

770
00:47:52,200 --> 00:47:54,960
Speaker 9: it is, it's.

771
00:47:54,880 --> 00:47:58,400
Speaker 4: Relative to what it's up against.

772
00:48:00,239 --> 00:48:04,400
Speaker 2: So when the devil is ticking on you, that's a

773
00:48:04,520 --> 00:48:09,200
Speaker 2: sign you haven't reminded him lately what he's really up

774
00:48:09,239 --> 00:48:16,000
Speaker 2: against me. When he starts telling you there's no way

775
00:48:16,080 --> 00:48:19,799
Speaker 2: out of this one, that's because you didn't take him

776
00:48:19,800 --> 00:48:23,400
Speaker 2: to the God of Moses lately, who opened up in

777
00:48:23,480 --> 00:48:26,160
Speaker 2: ocean to get his people through.

778
00:48:27,400 --> 00:48:29,440
Speaker 4: When he's telling you you're going down.

779
00:48:30,600 --> 00:48:32,040
Speaker 2: You didn't show him the God.

780
00:48:31,920 --> 00:48:35,719
Speaker 4: Of David lately, who can take a rush.

781
00:48:36,000 --> 00:48:40,000
Speaker 2: Tend of renegade, tent a rag and knocked down a

782
00:48:40,080 --> 00:48:44,600
Speaker 2: whole army, and he's telling you.

783
00:48:43,719 --> 00:48:48,000
Speaker 4: You're not gonna make it. You haven't reminded him lately.

784
00:48:48,920 --> 00:48:54,320
Speaker 4: Because he is God, so thad the odds, Yeah, God

785
00:48:54,840 --> 00:48:57,560
Speaker 4: is we wear head.

786
00:49:06,920 --> 00:49:12,480
Speaker 2: The way Baker is in the house, Hume, the Oddsmaker

787
00:49:12,600 --> 00:49:13,400
Speaker 2: is in the house.

788
00:49:14,760 --> 00:49:18,200
Speaker 4: You might be down by one hundred and eighty five.

789
00:49:18,040 --> 00:49:22,960
Speaker 5: Thousand soldiers, but God said, I'll cover.

790
00:49:28,440 --> 00:49:30,200
Speaker 3: Who what.

791
00:49:31,680 --> 00:49:31,719
Speaker 2: What?

792
00:49:33,640 --> 00:49:35,440
Speaker 4: Watch out if you want to be home.

793
00:49:35,239 --> 00:49:38,600
Speaker 2: In time for dinner, because I won't preach this thing

794
00:49:39,120 --> 00:49:40,760
Speaker 2: to that Boston Terrier.

795
00:49:41,239 --> 00:49:44,600
Speaker 4: That's beniffit. It's your belief. Benip it at.

796
00:49:44,480 --> 00:49:49,399
Speaker 2: Your future, benipping at your sanity, benipping.

797
00:49:48,880 --> 00:49:50,000
Speaker 4: At your sobriety.

798
00:49:50,440 --> 00:49:55,360
Speaker 2: Pblic ride back every settle with the Mexico.

799
00:49:58,200 --> 00:49:59,719
Speaker 4: Say, hung in a high.

800
00:50:01,000 --> 00:50:05,279
Speaker 2: They stretched them lies, he saw my sin.

801
00:50:06,520 --> 00:50:07,920
Speaker 5: He stat is good.

802
00:50:09,120 --> 00:50:12,879
Speaker 4: They could it end up your house? Somebody set off?

803
00:50:13,480 --> 00:50:21,200
Speaker 4: Cover just spread, come run, come, just stats you up.

804
00:50:22,040 --> 00:50:25,360
Speaker 4: I know you're not enough. I'll cover it. I know

805
00:50:25,560 --> 00:50:28,879
Speaker 4: you're not enough. I'll cover it. I know you don't

806
00:50:29,000 --> 00:50:30,440
Speaker 4: happen by Do.

807
00:50:40,560 --> 00:50:46,960
Speaker 10: You have no idea who you're up against? Stephanel and

808
00:50:47,120 --> 00:50:51,239
Speaker 10: it's not me. I'm a multi pood.

809
00:50:51,280 --> 00:50:59,400
Speaker 1: What'd you say? It was a mortie? Oh I'm a morkid.

810
00:51:00,840 --> 00:51:02,040
Speaker 4: But have you met my master?

811
00:51:03,400 --> 00:51:04,640
Speaker 2: Ha ha ha ha?

812
00:51:06,120 --> 00:51:09,320
Speaker 4: Where you're life? Come on, let's get ready.

813
00:51:10,080 --> 00:51:14,880
Speaker 2: Let's get ready to tell sinnemarea that the Agel is coming.

814
00:51:15,520 --> 00:51:17,840
Speaker 4: The Agel of God is coming, the.

815
00:51:18,000 --> 00:51:21,080
Speaker 2: Agel of God over your family, the Angel of God

816
00:51:21,160 --> 00:51:26,240
Speaker 2: over your finances, the Agel of God over your physical diagnosis.

817
00:51:25,920 --> 00:51:26,680
Speaker 4: The ael.

818
00:51:32,680 --> 00:51:35,680
Speaker 1: So much I want to say to you so much.

819
00:51:35,719 --> 00:51:36,560
Speaker 1: I want to say to you.

820
00:51:39,600 --> 00:51:45,520
Speaker 2: You've been giving God your problem and that's good. But

821
00:51:45,640 --> 00:52:06,120
Speaker 2: let's change a little bit. Well, you say, I ain't

822
00:52:06,160 --> 00:52:07,000
Speaker 2: a mooki over there?

823
00:52:07,040 --> 00:52:14,960
Speaker 1: What'd you call it? Moi? Moulah Morki? That's a that's

824
00:52:15,000 --> 00:52:18,400
Speaker 1: a man of God right there now, Help me. Appreciate this.

825
00:52:19,400 --> 00:52:21,479
Speaker 1: I'm gonna give you this for the rest of your life.

826
00:52:22,360 --> 00:52:24,160
Speaker 2: You listen to me good, and you listen to me young,

827
00:52:24,200 --> 00:52:25,640
Speaker 2: and you listen to me now, and you'll play him

828
00:52:25,800 --> 00:52:27,520
Speaker 2: back this when he's a little older.

829
00:52:28,080 --> 00:52:28,560
Speaker 1: Listen to this.

830
00:52:29,480 --> 00:52:32,759
Speaker 2: You can give God your problem, but make sure you

831
00:52:32,920 --> 00:52:42,719
Speaker 2: also give your problem God, because.

832
00:52:42,480 --> 00:52:43,480
Speaker 1: I think that's what it is.

833
00:52:43,719 --> 00:52:43,879
Speaker 9: Right.

834
00:52:46,000 --> 00:52:51,080
Speaker 2: You've been spreading it out before everything and everybody but God.

835
00:52:54,480 --> 00:52:56,440
Speaker 2: And watch what has a guy did. He spread it

836
00:52:56,480 --> 00:52:58,600
Speaker 2: out before the Lord. And now remember it's not just

837
00:52:58,719 --> 00:53:00,960
Speaker 2: what he did. He spread it out because this is

838
00:53:01,000 --> 00:53:02,480
Speaker 2: going to be some of y'all. Right, you're going to

839
00:53:02,520 --> 00:53:04,640
Speaker 2: take this message. You are going to pull out that

840
00:53:04,920 --> 00:53:07,520
Speaker 2: overdrawn bank account balance on your app.

841
00:53:07,440 --> 00:53:11,719
Speaker 1: And say, here, God, I did what he said.

842
00:53:14,440 --> 00:53:18,960
Speaker 2: Here's my scroll, God, I am scrolling to this balance

843
00:53:19,040 --> 00:53:21,640
Speaker 2: on my bank account and I'm bringing it to you

844
00:53:22,440 --> 00:53:25,640
Speaker 2: here God, and the Angel won't come. But here's what

845
00:53:25,760 --> 00:53:29,160
Speaker 2: he did that I thought was so significant when he

846
00:53:29,239 --> 00:53:30,720
Speaker 2: spread it out before the Lord.

847
00:53:32,160 --> 00:53:39,040
Speaker 1: Verse fifteen. Please he prayed, He prayed, Lord, the God

848
00:53:39,080 --> 00:53:41,800
Speaker 1: of Israel, enthrone between the Cherubim. What's that about.

849
00:53:42,719 --> 00:53:45,719
Speaker 2: Well, if you remember, in the temple was something called

850
00:53:45,719 --> 00:53:47,840
Speaker 2: the ark of the Covenant, which was overlaid the kasha

851
00:53:47,880 --> 00:53:51,200
Speaker 2: wood and gold on the top. On the top where

852
00:53:51,239 --> 00:53:52,920
Speaker 2: the gold was two and a half cubits, there were

853
00:53:53,600 --> 00:53:56,799
Speaker 2: two angels, one on one side and one on the other.

854
00:53:58,360 --> 00:54:02,520
Speaker 2: Those angels had wings that were spread up, and those

855
00:54:02,560 --> 00:54:04,080
Speaker 2: wings touched in the middle.

856
00:54:04,120 --> 00:54:07,000
Speaker 1: Exodus chapter thirty seven gives the details.

857
00:54:08,200 --> 00:54:15,239
Speaker 2: When Hezekiah was spreading out his problem before God, he

858
00:54:15,480 --> 00:54:19,120
Speaker 2: was looking at the ark of the Covenant, where those

859
00:54:19,239 --> 00:54:28,600
Speaker 2: angels had spread their wings over him. Where those angels

860
00:54:28,680 --> 00:54:32,280
Speaker 2: wings on the cover, the golden cover of the wooden

861
00:54:32,360 --> 00:54:36,960
Speaker 2: box that house the symbolic presence of Almighty God. Those

862
00:54:37,040 --> 00:54:44,640
Speaker 2: wings were touching to remind Hezekiah that while you're giving

863
00:54:44,719 --> 00:54:49,040
Speaker 2: me your problem and reminding me of what you need,

864
00:54:50,440 --> 00:54:52,680
Speaker 2: make sure you remind your problem.

865
00:54:53,960 --> 00:55:01,120
Speaker 1: Of who I am, so.

866
00:55:05,680 --> 00:55:10,040
Speaker 2: Which spread am I preaching about today? The problem that

867
00:55:11,520 --> 00:55:17,960
Speaker 2: you could spread out before God, or the promise that

868
00:55:18,120 --> 00:55:24,640
Speaker 2: He has spread over you? And which one will you

869
00:55:24,760 --> 00:55:32,440
Speaker 2: focus on in this moment of your life. When Hezekiah

870
00:55:33,000 --> 00:55:37,040
Speaker 2: read the letter, he read it. Once he confronted the issue,

871
00:55:37,680 --> 00:55:41,759
Speaker 2: he spread it. He read it, and he spread it,

872
00:55:42,880 --> 00:55:46,680
Speaker 2: and as he did, look at me church, God was

873
00:55:46,760 --> 00:55:53,640
Speaker 2: already spread over him. But you don't see that when

874
00:55:53,680 --> 00:55:58,200
Speaker 2: you're just right here. You know, they tell us all

875
00:55:58,280 --> 00:56:01,080
Speaker 2: of this horrible stuff about what's gonna happen to our

876
00:56:01,160 --> 00:56:03,840
Speaker 2: kids these days, and how there's no more hope for

877
00:56:03,960 --> 00:56:05,120
Speaker 2: this generation in the world.

878
00:56:05,200 --> 00:56:13,279
Speaker 1: To hell with that. I don't want to see that.

879
00:56:16,400 --> 00:56:18,560
Speaker 2: I'm gonna say my kids are gonna have bumps and bruises.

880
00:56:18,600 --> 00:56:20,440
Speaker 2: Yours will too, and none of us can foresee any

881
00:56:20,440 --> 00:56:31,319
Speaker 2: of that. But when I see, yeah, the odds are

882
00:56:31,360 --> 00:56:34,200
Speaker 2: against us. But God said, if you'll seek me, I'll

883
00:56:36,719 --> 00:56:41,360
Speaker 2: cover the spread. I see you keep spreading out all

884
00:56:41,440 --> 00:56:43,920
Speaker 2: your problems and all your reasons, but if you be

885
00:56:44,080 --> 00:56:49,520
Speaker 2: grateful to me, I'll cover the spread. I see the

886
00:56:49,640 --> 00:56:52,800
Speaker 2: distance between who you are and who you want to be.

887
00:56:53,760 --> 00:56:55,480
Speaker 2: But if you'll let my grace in, I sent my

888
00:56:55,600 --> 00:57:07,000
Speaker 2: son for you, and I'll cover this friend. And it

889
00:57:07,040 --> 00:57:11,000
Speaker 2: is just like God to give us a term from

890
00:57:11,120 --> 00:57:17,160
Speaker 2: Vegas and use it as a heavenly vision. I know

891
00:57:17,320 --> 00:57:19,160
Speaker 2: the odds are against you right now, and I know

892
00:57:19,280 --> 00:57:21,520
Speaker 2: that it feels like it's very impossible for you to

893
00:57:21,600 --> 00:57:25,200
Speaker 2: make progress in this area. I get it, But to

894
00:57:26,640 --> 00:57:29,120
Speaker 2: spread it before the Lord and to say Lord, you're seated,

895
00:57:30,520 --> 00:57:32,640
Speaker 2: You're seated above all of this.

896
00:57:34,280 --> 00:57:37,400
Speaker 1: This is not abstract, y'all. You can do this as

897
00:57:37,440 --> 00:57:38,960
Speaker 1: a daily practice. And I want you to.

898
00:57:39,040 --> 00:57:42,840
Speaker 2: I want you to take that problem, that persistent one

899
00:57:42,920 --> 00:57:46,120
Speaker 2: that has become personal, pervasive, and you think.

900
00:57:46,000 --> 00:57:48,760
Speaker 1: It's permanent, and I want you to get a vision. Now.

901
00:57:49,040 --> 00:57:50,840
Speaker 2: I'm speaking to you by the spirit of God. This

902
00:57:50,960 --> 00:57:53,360
Speaker 2: is not coming from my head right now. This is

903
00:57:53,480 --> 00:57:55,480
Speaker 2: from God's heart through my.

904
00:57:55,640 --> 00:57:58,520
Speaker 1: Mouth for you. He said, I want you to spread

905
00:57:58,560 --> 00:58:00,560
Speaker 1: it before me.

906
00:58:02,320 --> 00:58:05,120
Speaker 2: Maybe if the apostle Paul could join in, he'd say,

907
00:58:05,480 --> 00:58:12,080
Speaker 2: do not be anxious about anything, but in every situation

908
00:58:12,240 --> 00:58:17,560
Speaker 2: Philippians four, verse six, let's teach this by prayer and petition,

909
00:58:18,960 --> 00:58:25,640
Speaker 2: with thanksgiving. Ah present your requests to God. And that's

910
00:58:25,680 --> 00:58:30,480
Speaker 2: what Hezekiah did. He spread it before God so that

911
00:58:30,560 --> 00:58:32,680
Speaker 2: he wouldn't spread it to the rest of the nation,

912
00:58:33,280 --> 00:58:35,920
Speaker 2: so that fear wouldn't spread, and get the best.

913
00:58:35,760 --> 00:58:38,880
Speaker 1: Of his heart. That's what he did. That's what we do.

914
00:58:41,480 --> 00:58:46,919
Speaker 2: You turn your problem into a petition and you ask

915
00:58:47,160 --> 00:58:51,040
Speaker 2: God what I do about this, and when he shows you,

916
00:58:51,520 --> 00:58:53,600
Speaker 2: even if he only shows you a little bit, you

917
00:58:53,760 --> 00:58:55,760
Speaker 2: do that and you leave the rest.

918
00:58:55,600 --> 00:59:03,040
Speaker 1: To the angels. Because they've got you. I don't know

919
00:59:03,080 --> 00:59:04,160
Speaker 1: about you, but I'm covered.

920
00:59:07,040 --> 00:59:09,760
Speaker 2: I'm not going to cower in fear over these things

921
00:59:09,800 --> 00:59:11,000
Speaker 2: that are happening in the world.

922
00:59:11,280 --> 00:59:11,920
Speaker 1: I'm covered.

923
00:59:13,320 --> 00:59:16,200
Speaker 2: I will not give my mind to an algorithm or

924
00:59:16,240 --> 00:59:18,720
Speaker 2: a news cycle because I'm covered.

925
00:59:22,520 --> 00:59:23,160
Speaker 1: I'm covered.

926
00:59:25,680 --> 00:59:27,760
Speaker 2: Just this week, I was having one of these attacks.

927
00:59:27,800 --> 00:59:29,800
Speaker 2: You know, you just get these thoughts from the enemy, right,

928
00:59:30,160 --> 00:59:32,720
Speaker 2: And it was really my ego, But at the time,

929
00:59:32,800 --> 00:59:34,880
Speaker 2: I felt like, man, what just happened? That was very

930
00:59:34,920 --> 00:59:39,240
Speaker 2: offensive and I was very self righteous about it. And

931
00:59:39,560 --> 00:59:41,320
Speaker 2: Holly asked me about it because we didn't get to

932
00:59:41,360 --> 00:59:43,440
Speaker 2: talk because it happened. It wasn't a big thing. If

933
00:59:43,440 --> 00:59:45,160
Speaker 2: I told you what it was, it would just waste time.

934
00:59:45,200 --> 00:59:47,360
Speaker 2: That's why I'm not telling you, because it wasn't that big.

935
00:59:47,440 --> 00:59:48,840
Speaker 2: But it felt big in the moment, you know what

936
00:59:48,880 --> 00:59:51,440
Speaker 2: I mean. And so some little thing happened to me

937
00:59:52,160 --> 00:59:54,240
Speaker 2: and it became this whole thing in my heart, like

938
00:59:54,360 --> 00:59:58,240
Speaker 2: it triggered this old insecurity and I even know what's happening. Dang,

939
00:59:58,280 --> 01:00:00,600
Speaker 2: Why am I so mad about that? And when we

940
01:00:00,720 --> 01:00:03,160
Speaker 2: got done, she goes, how'd you feel about that?

941
01:00:03,240 --> 01:00:06,880
Speaker 1: What happened? And I started to talk about it. But

942
01:00:07,040 --> 01:00:10,440
Speaker 1: I realized if I said what I felt in that moment,

943
01:00:11,760 --> 01:00:12,560
Speaker 1: I would spread it.

944
01:00:14,800 --> 01:00:19,240
Speaker 2: I wasn't ready to talk about it yet. The next

945
01:00:19,320 --> 01:00:21,240
Speaker 2: morning I woke up, I was still thinking about it.

946
01:00:21,600 --> 01:00:24,680
Speaker 2: I couldn't stop thinking about it. Woke up thinking about it. Wow,

947
01:00:24,720 --> 01:00:29,840
Speaker 2: I was that about And I took my little notebook.

948
01:00:30,840 --> 01:00:32,520
Speaker 2: I don't have a temple to go to, all right,

949
01:00:32,560 --> 01:00:35,360
Speaker 2: I don't have an arc of the Covenant. I got

950
01:00:35,400 --> 01:00:36,720
Speaker 2: my notebook and.

951
01:00:36,760 --> 01:00:38,880
Speaker 1: I wrote, Holy Spirit, show me how I need to

952
01:00:38,920 --> 01:00:43,800
Speaker 1: see this. And I sat there and I don't won't

953
01:00:43,800 --> 01:00:45,400
Speaker 1: to even sit there. I'm like, man, I'd rather be

954
01:00:45,480 --> 01:00:49,480
Speaker 1: doing burpies right now that they're sitting here. This sucks. WHOA.

955
01:00:51,600 --> 01:00:55,600
Speaker 2: Sometimes you got to let the anxiety pass through because

956
01:00:55,640 --> 01:00:59,080
Speaker 2: on the other side of that anxiety, on the other

957
01:00:59,200 --> 01:01:03,240
Speaker 2: side of that anxiety is an awareness that you can't

958
01:01:03,320 --> 01:01:05,360
Speaker 2: get if you just run every time it shows up.

959
01:01:07,920 --> 01:01:10,840
Speaker 2: And what the Lord showed me next was so powerful

960
01:01:10,880 --> 01:01:13,560
Speaker 2: to me. It was one of the craziest things that

961
01:01:13,640 --> 01:01:16,160
Speaker 2: he ever located for me. He showed me exactly why

962
01:01:16,240 --> 01:01:18,440
Speaker 2: I felt that way about it. He gave me a

963
01:01:18,520 --> 01:01:22,400
Speaker 2: better story to tell myself about it, and we went

964
01:01:22,480 --> 01:01:25,600
Speaker 2: and had the best breakfast, and we ended up talking

965
01:01:25,600 --> 01:01:29,840
Speaker 2: about our future in a very deep way. But if

966
01:01:29,880 --> 01:01:36,200
Speaker 2: I would have spread it to her before I spread

967
01:01:36,240 --> 01:01:42,600
Speaker 2: it before him, I wouldn't have even known what to

968
01:01:42,720 --> 01:01:43,240
Speaker 2: talk about.

969
01:01:44,400 --> 01:01:48,040
Speaker 1: Now. I know it's not always that simple, But.

970
01:01:48,160 --> 01:01:49,880
Speaker 2: Do you have something in your life today that you

971
01:01:50,000 --> 01:01:51,960
Speaker 2: need to spread before the Lord that you've been holding

972
01:01:52,040 --> 01:01:53,840
Speaker 2: on the inside and fighting in your head?

973
01:01:53,880 --> 01:01:54,320
Speaker 1: Stand up?

974
01:01:56,520 --> 01:02:01,240
Speaker 2: Yeah, this is a place where you can spread it

975
01:02:02,240 --> 01:02:07,000
Speaker 2: before the Lord. And I hear God saying this, Spread

976
01:02:07,040 --> 01:02:13,680
Speaker 2: it before its spreads, before it just eats up all

977
01:02:13,800 --> 01:02:15,880
Speaker 2: of your resources and all of your energy.

978
01:02:16,440 --> 01:02:19,360
Speaker 1: Get it before him. He can show you things, Church,

979
01:02:19,440 --> 01:02:20,040
Speaker 1: He really can.

980
01:02:20,200 --> 01:02:24,760
Speaker 2: He's really alive, he's really loving, he's really personal, he's

981
01:02:24,840 --> 01:02:28,760
Speaker 2: really active, he's really willing, he's really wise, he's really kind,

982
01:02:28,800 --> 01:02:29,440
Speaker 2: he's really good.

983
01:02:31,560 --> 01:02:35,560
Speaker 1: And so now we see the Angel of God.

984
01:02:37,640 --> 01:02:42,400
Speaker 2: That as we spread it before him our problem, he

985
01:02:42,520 --> 01:02:45,200
Speaker 2: spreads his protection over us.

986
01:02:47,880 --> 01:02:54,080
Speaker 1: Say I'm covered wire. We come to you today knowing

987
01:02:54,160 --> 01:02:56,240
Speaker 1: that everybody is holding their own letter written in.

988
01:02:56,600 --> 01:03:02,080
Speaker 2: Its own tongue, speaking specifically to the troubles and trials

989
01:03:02,160 --> 01:03:04,600
Speaker 2: of each individual child. Holy Spirit, I ask you now

990
01:03:04,680 --> 01:03:09,760
Speaker 2: come manifest yourself through these human minds. So that we

991
01:03:09,800 --> 01:03:11,480
Speaker 2: can recall what it is that we need to bring

992
01:03:11,560 --> 01:03:15,480
Speaker 2: to you. But as we bring it to you, we

993
01:03:15,640 --> 01:03:20,760
Speaker 2: declare that You're bigger than it. Yes, Lord, I hear

994
01:03:20,840 --> 01:03:25,480
Speaker 2: you saying, we're looking at the wrong spread. We have

995
01:03:25,600 --> 01:03:29,640
Speaker 2: forgotten the God who fights for us, to focused on

996
01:03:29,720 --> 01:03:30,760
Speaker 2: the fighting that we're doing.

997
01:03:30,880 --> 01:03:33,680
Speaker 1: So Lord, now you called us into your presence. You

998
01:03:33,720 --> 01:03:35,320
Speaker 1: brought our etham from around the world.

999
01:03:36,280 --> 01:03:39,040
Speaker 2: You brought your sons and daughters to our twenty church campuses,

1000
01:03:39,920 --> 01:03:42,400
Speaker 2: to all of the men and women and boys and

1001
01:03:42,440 --> 01:03:47,000
Speaker 2: girls who will hear this message. I thank you that

1002
01:03:47,080 --> 01:03:59,280
Speaker 2: you are spreading your feathers, spreading your faithfulness, spreading your favor.

1003
01:04:00,400 --> 01:04:02,760
Speaker 2: I want you just lift your hands as why as

1004
01:04:02,800 --> 01:04:08,919
Speaker 2: you can lift them, and just say, here it is God, Yeah,

1005
01:04:09,040 --> 01:04:12,439
Speaker 2: here it is. Here's the questions that I have, Here's

1006
01:04:12,520 --> 01:04:15,920
Speaker 2: the regrets that I have. Here's the anxiety that I

1007
01:04:16,040 --> 01:04:22,880
Speaker 2: keep fighting. But I'm spreading it before you. And there's

1008
01:04:23,120 --> 01:04:27,080
Speaker 2: nothing that is in that letter from the enemy that

1009
01:04:27,280 --> 01:04:29,959
Speaker 2: is greater than what is written in your word.

1010
01:04:33,040 --> 01:04:37,320
Speaker 1: Say, greater is he that is in me than he

1011
01:04:37,480 --> 01:04:40,720
Speaker 1: that is in the world. Again, Now, greater is he

1012
01:04:42,000 --> 01:04:44,920
Speaker 1: that is in me, Then he that is in the world.

1013
01:04:46,120 --> 01:04:49,200
Speaker 1: Say it again. Greater is he that is in me

1014
01:04:50,360 --> 01:04:52,800
Speaker 1: than he that is in the world. If we start

1015
01:04:52,880 --> 01:04:55,160
Speaker 1: rehearsing the right things, we'll start believing the right things.

1016
01:04:55,200 --> 01:04:57,320
Speaker 2: If we start believing the right things, we'll start becoming

1017
01:04:57,360 --> 01:05:01,640
Speaker 2: the right things. Greater is he that is in me,

1018
01:05:02,800 --> 01:05:06,400
Speaker 2: then he that is in the world. Somebody hot fives,

1019
01:05:06,480 --> 01:05:09,720
Speaker 2: somebody next to you say, he's greater, He's greater, He's greater,

1020
01:05:09,920 --> 01:05:10,680
Speaker 2: He's greater.

1021
01:05:11,360 --> 01:05:11,880
Speaker 4: He's greater.

1022
01:05:13,480 --> 01:05:18,400
Speaker 5: Angels of God inhabiting this space right now, setting over

1023
01:05:18,520 --> 01:05:20,640
Speaker 5: a canopy over his beloved right now.

1024
01:05:21,120 --> 01:05:25,120
Speaker 2: Greater is he that is in me, then he that

1025
01:05:25,320 --> 01:05:28,840
Speaker 2: is in the world. The clear it seven times a day.

1026
01:05:28,960 --> 01:05:32,800
Speaker 2: Greater is he that is in me, then he that

1027
01:05:33,000 --> 01:05:36,360
Speaker 2: is in the world. Tell senek av Greater is he

1028
01:05:37,640 --> 01:05:40,760
Speaker 2: that is in me, then he that is in the world.

1029
01:05:41,680 --> 01:05:43,320
Speaker 4: Come on, let's works of him together.

1030
01:05:43,440 --> 01:05:44,360
Speaker 1: Let's work of him.

1031
01:05:45,680 --> 01:05:48,160
Speaker 2: Hey. I hope you enjoyed the podcast, and if you did,

1032
01:05:48,800 --> 01:05:51,360
Speaker 2: make sure to share it and subscribe so we can

1033
01:05:51,440 --> 01:05:54,000
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1034
01:05:54,040 --> 01:05:56,760
Speaker 2: they're available. I also want to take a moment and

1035
01:05:56,920 --> 01:05:58,680
Speaker 2: thank all of you who are a part of Elevation.

1036
01:05:59,200 --> 01:06:02,480
Speaker 2: Whether you support us financially, or serve with us, or

1037
01:06:02,960 --> 01:06:05,640
Speaker 2: just share these messages. It's because of you that we're

1038
01:06:05,680 --> 01:06:08,600
Speaker 2: able to reach people all around the world. And if

1039
01:06:08,640 --> 01:06:11,120
Speaker 2: you want more information on how to be a part

1040
01:06:11,160 --> 01:06:15,040
Speaker 2: of Elevation, click the link in the description. Thanks again

1041
01:06:15,120 --> 01:06:18,000
Speaker 2: for listening. Make sure to leave a review, share the message,

1042
01:06:18,120 --> 01:06:18,880
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1043
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Speaker 1: God bless you.