WEBVTT - Cover The Spread

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

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

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<v Speaker 1>Be sure to.

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

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<v Speaker 2>I don't have to do it. I can just get

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<v Speaker 2>straight to the word. I preached a message last week

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<v Speaker 2>called Challenge the Shadow.

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<v Speaker 1>That message was about how we don't just accept.

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<v Speaker 2>The natural pattern of things because we are people of faith.

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<v Speaker 2>So when the enemy says you're going down, you don't

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<v Speaker 2>go down without a fight. That's what God gave you

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<v Speaker 2>your faith for. And that message is online. Now you

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<v Speaker 2>can take that message and put it together with this

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<v Speaker 2>message because I am going back to the life of

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<v Speaker 2>Hezekiah to bring you what we might sort of call

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<v Speaker 2>a preaching prequel, to show you something else that happened

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<v Speaker 2>in his life.

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<v Speaker 1>Now I like to do this, Okay.

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<v Speaker 2>I was telling my oldest son this week, I loved

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<v Speaker 2>Oh yeah. By the way, hey, everybody online, I love

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<v Speaker 2>to take the Bible and make sure that we get

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<v Speaker 2>the historical context of what was happening, but not leave

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<v Speaker 2>the Bible in the historical context, but make it helpful

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<v Speaker 2>for your life. And that's something I really believe in.

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<v Speaker 2>One of my seminary professors who trained me told us

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

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<v Speaker 2>it's just to teach them what happened in the Bible.

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<v Speaker 2>Couldn't disagree with that. More people are going through too

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<v Speaker 2>much hell for me to preach that way. Come on,

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<v Speaker 2>just to give you a lesson about something that happened

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<v Speaker 2>three thousand years ago, and that Hey, have a good week.

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<v Speaker 2>Hope the custody battle goes okay, hope you don't die,

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<v Speaker 2>Hope you make it back the next Sunday, and I'll

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<v Speaker 2>give you another history lesson.

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

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<v Speaker 1>do that. That's not how God wired me.

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<v Speaker 2>And so when I come to the scriptures, I'm always

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<v Speaker 2>asking a couple questions, what happened here, and then what's

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<v Speaker 2>happening in the lives of those that you've called me

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<v Speaker 2>to help?

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<v Speaker 1>Lord? And so that's kind of how I pray.

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<v Speaker 2>Now this week, we're coming to an issue in tewod

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<v Speaker 2>King's chapter nineteen in the Life of King Hezekiah, where

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<v Speaker 2>you know he last week he almost died, and the

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

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

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<v Speaker 2>you get fifteen more years. And he flipped a shadow

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<v Speaker 2>around to show him what he was capable of. And

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<v Speaker 2>around the same time in his life, just before that happened,

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<v Speaker 2>I want to show you something that happened, and then

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<v Speaker 2>I want to talk to you about some things that

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<v Speaker 2>are going on in your life too. In Tewod Kings,

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<v Speaker 2>chapter nineteen, verse fourteen, the Bible says Hezekiah received the

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<v Speaker 2>letter from the messengers and read it, and then he

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<v Speaker 2>went up to the temple of the Lord and spread

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<v Speaker 2>it out before the Lord, and Hezekiah prayed to the Lord, Lord,

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<v Speaker 2>the God of Israel, enthroned between the Cherubim, You alone

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<v Speaker 2>are God over all the kingdoms of the earth. You

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<v Speaker 2>have made heaven and earth. Give ear, Lord and hear

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<v Speaker 2>open your eyes, Lord, and see. Listen to the words

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

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<v Speaker 2>that the Assyrian kings have laid waste these nations in

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<v Speaker 2>their lands. They have thrown their gods into the fire

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<v Speaker 2>and destroyed them, for they were not God's but only

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<v Speaker 2>wood and stone fashioned.

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<v Speaker 1>By human hands. Now, Lord, our God, deliver.

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<v Speaker 2>Us from his hand, so that all the kingdoms of

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<v Speaker 2>the earth may know that you alone, Lord, are God,

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<v Speaker 2>and God answers him. Skip all the way down to

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<v Speaker 2>verse thirty four, so you can see in action what

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<v Speaker 2>God said. Actually, I like verse thirty two too much

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<v Speaker 2>to skip it, so go to thirty two. I gave

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

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<v Speaker 2>this is what the Lord says in response to Hezekiah's

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<v Speaker 2>prayer concerning the king of Assyria, who is Hezekiah's enemy.

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<v Speaker 1>He will not enter this city or shoot an arrow here.

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<v Speaker 2>He will not come before it with shield, or build

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<v Speaker 2>a siege ramp against it.

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<v Speaker 1>By the way that he came, he will return. He

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<v Speaker 1>will not enter this city, declares the Lord.

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<v Speaker 3>I will in this city and saved for my sake

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<v Speaker 3>and for the sake of David, my servant.

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<v Speaker 1>Watch this verse thirty five.

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<v Speaker 2>That night the angel of the Lord went out and

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<v Speaker 2>put to death one hundred and eighty five thousand in

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<v Speaker 2>the Assyrian enemy camp. When the people got up the

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<v Speaker 2>next morning, there were all the dead bodies. So Senekareb

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<v Speaker 2>the enemy King of Assyria broke camp and withdrew.

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<v Speaker 1>I bet he did.

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<v Speaker 2>After that one hundred and eighty five thousand of your

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<v Speaker 2>soldiers dead will make you go home. So the Lord

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<v Speaker 2>told me to give you a message from that story

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<v Speaker 2>today and we'll talk about it. But he said to

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<v Speaker 2>tell you this, God is going to cover the spread.

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<v Speaker 2>Anybody received that just by faith, like even not knowing

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<v Speaker 2>who Snekareb is yet, but you receive it by faith

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<v Speaker 2>that God is going to cover the spread. Lord, your

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<v Speaker 2>word never returns void. Whoever it's for, God, shoot it

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<v Speaker 2>straight into their heart. May it go down deep deeper

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<v Speaker 2>than disappointment, defeat, discouragement or despair, and give your people

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<v Speaker 2>faith to believe that you are still in the way

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

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<v Speaker 2>He's going to cover the spread. This message is called

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<v Speaker 2>cover the spread. Last week was challenged the shadow. This

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<v Speaker 2>week is cover the spread. I'm so glad we sang

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<v Speaker 2>that song make Away that went so good with this message,

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<v Speaker 2>like the Holy Spirit wanted it all to just go

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<v Speaker 2>right there together so you could get it. There's a

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<v Speaker 2>line in that song, I really love this because you

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<v Speaker 2>are God. No matter the odds, the outcome is always

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

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<v Speaker 2>we win. God's gonna cover the spread. How many of

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<v Speaker 2>you know that term cover the spread from the sports

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<v Speaker 2>betting world.

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<v Speaker 1>Lord, we pray for these sinners, these hell bound.

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<v Speaker 2>Philistines, these uncircumcised philistines betting on sports. Far as I know,

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<v Speaker 2>not by experience, but I just asked chat GPT.

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<v Speaker 1>It said, cover the spread means.

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<v Speaker 2>I bet one time on a basketball game, the only

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<v Speaker 2>time I ever bet on sports, only time I ever

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<v Speaker 2>bet on sports, and.

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<v Speaker 1>I lost three hundred dollars.

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<v Speaker 2>And I bet on the Oklahoma City Thunder because my friend,

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<v Speaker 2>Pastor Craig Rochel lives there, and I thought he had

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<v Speaker 2>a strong enough annoying pull me through, and I lost

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<v Speaker 2>the money. Sound do anymore but cover the spread? I mean,

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<v Speaker 2>you heard it before, but maybe you're too holy to

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<v Speaker 2>know what it means. When they make the odds in Vegas,

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<v Speaker 2>then one team is favored by say like seven points,

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<v Speaker 2>and so if that team that's favored by seven points wins,

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<v Speaker 2>but they don't win by more than seven points, then

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<v Speaker 2>they didn't cover the spread. And somebody who bet on

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<v Speaker 2>the other team can win their bet even though that

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<v Speaker 2>team lost because the team that was favored to win

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<v Speaker 2>by seven points didn't cover the spread, and so the

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<v Speaker 2>game can be completely over. But somebody's sitting there praying

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<v Speaker 2>just that the team that they bet on doesn't lose

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<v Speaker 2>by more than twenty one points or twenty eight points,

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<v Speaker 2>whatever the spread is. So that's the term in the

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<v Speaker 2>betting world. But this is Sunday morning, and this is

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<v Speaker 2>not the betting world. This is the Bible world. I

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<v Speaker 2>would like to suggest to you that the term has

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<v Speaker 2>a completely different relevance for your life as it did

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<v Speaker 2>for hezekiahs. If you are a betting man, you are

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<v Speaker 2>betting against Israel in this particular predicament.

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<v Speaker 1>Not only are they up against.

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<v Speaker 2>The fiercest dude who has ever occupied the throne of

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<v Speaker 2>Assyria named Seneca Rib. Anybody a pregnant looking for a

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<v Speaker 2>baby name Seneca Rib not.

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

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<v Speaker 2>This guy, when he would take his enemies right to

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<v Speaker 2>send a message to everybody else, he would often he

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<v Speaker 2>would often not only hang them from trees, but he

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<v Speaker 2>would flay their skin and hang their skin from the

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<v Speaker 2>trees that's the kind of guy we're talking about here

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<v Speaker 2>in tewod King's nineteen just to give you the picture,

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<v Speaker 2>and not only to mention that, but he was a

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<v Speaker 2>trash talker that made Connor McGregor.

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<v Speaker 1>Look like mister Rogers.

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<v Speaker 2>If you follow mma, I'm using all the worldly analogies

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<v Speaker 2>just to hook the hook the hook the people in

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<v Speaker 2>today Graham. But he is occupying the throne of the

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<v Speaker 2>fiercest kingdom that has already taken the northern part of Israel.

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<v Speaker 1>If you studied the Old.

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<v Speaker 2>Testament even a little bit, you'll remember that the kingdom

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

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<v Speaker 2>of the kingdom, those ten tribes have already been taken

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<v Speaker 2>away into captivity. So now Senekareb is coming for Hezekiah,

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<v Speaker 2>who was a good king. I told you last week.

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<v Speaker 2>He was a good king. He followed God, he trusted God.

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<v Speaker 2>But now Senekareb is sending some messages to Hezekiah, going

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<v Speaker 2>you're next, and Hezekia is like, no, please, uncle daddy,

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<v Speaker 2>what do you want me to say?

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<v Speaker 1>Don't do it to me, you know, just just leave

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<v Speaker 1>us alone.

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<v Speaker 2>We've seen what you're capable of We know you're undefeated, undisputed,

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<v Speaker 2>and we don't want it with Senekareb.

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<v Speaker 1>So what do you want? You want some gold?

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<v Speaker 2>Hezekiah starts stripping the gold off the doorpost of the temple.

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<v Speaker 1>That's how bad it was.

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<v Speaker 2>It would have to be bad for you to take

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<v Speaker 2>the temple where God lives and start taking stuff off

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<v Speaker 2>of the doorpost of the house of God to get

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<v Speaker 2>your enemy to go away. But when the enemy messes

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<v Speaker 2>with you enough, you will start stripping very valuable things.

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<v Speaker 2>You will start stripping very valuable things and giving away

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<v Speaker 2>parts of yourself that are very very important, just to

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<v Speaker 2>get him to leave you alone.

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<v Speaker 1>The problem with this is Senecareb is in't.

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<v Speaker 2>It's not like you just give him a little bit

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<v Speaker 2>of gold and he goes away. You give him an inch,

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<v Speaker 2>he takes a kilometer.

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<v Speaker 1>It's worldwide ministry.

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<v Speaker 2>So now Sinekareb is coming back talking about you know what,

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

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<v Speaker 2>he sends these field commanders, these messengers to Hezekiah's messengers,

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<v Speaker 2>and they meet up at this aqueduct that's going into

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<v Speaker 2>this field, and they're they're like gathering around trying to

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<v Speaker 2>figure out is he gonna leave us alone? Is he

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<v Speaker 2>gonna take us too? Are we next? Is he gonna

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<v Speaker 2>completely decimate us? Is he gonna knock down the whole temple?

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<v Speaker 2>Are we gonna have to keep stripping stuff and shipping

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<v Speaker 2>it away? Or are we next to go like our

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

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<v Speaker 2>Sannekareb is absolutely unbeatable.

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<v Speaker 4>Now, so the field.

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<v Speaker 2>Commander starts speaking about what saneka Reb can do, and

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<v Speaker 2>they're saying stuff like you're gonna end up eating your

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<v Speaker 2>own excrement and drinking your own urine.

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<v Speaker 4>Is in the Bible?

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<v Speaker 1>They say that they recorded.

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<v Speaker 2>I can't imagine what they didn't put in the Bible

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<v Speaker 2>that these boys said.

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<v Speaker 4>And Hezekayah hears.

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<v Speaker 2>That, and he knows that the odds are against him

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<v Speaker 2>being able to defend.

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<v Speaker 1>Himself against Senekariv.

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<v Speaker 4>So he tears his clothes.

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<v Speaker 2>Which is a sign of mourning, humility, and repentance, and

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<v Speaker 2>he begins to seek God about it, but nothing seems

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<v Speaker 2>to change. So after he saw God for a little while,

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<v Speaker 2>he hooks up with the King of Egypt and he's like,

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<v Speaker 2>will you help me fight this guy.

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<v Speaker 1>And the king of Egypt is like, all right, well,

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<v Speaker 1>Senecareub hears.

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<v Speaker 2>About that, and he's like, it's still doesn't matter because

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<v Speaker 2>I'm Senekarev.

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<v Speaker 4>Have you heard of me? Have you seen what I've

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<v Speaker 4>done to all the other nations?

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<v Speaker 2>And he sends a letter to Hezekiah and he asked.

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<v Speaker 1>Him a question.

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

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<v Speaker 2>was in the letter. In the letter, he lists all

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<v Speaker 2>the other kings that he's defeated who tried to stand

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<v Speaker 2>up against him. He says, none of those nations were

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<v Speaker 2>able to be saved. What makes you think you're any different?

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<v Speaker 2>Where are the kings of Leir and Cephar, Vm and

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<v Speaker 2>Hennah and Eva. I can't pronounce these names, y'all, but

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<v Speaker 2>he puts all that in the letter. Now, when you

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<v Speaker 2>get to verse fourteen, I want you to understand this

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<v Speaker 2>picture that God gave me when it said that. When

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<v Speaker 2>Hezekiah got this letter, which would have been on papyrus

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<v Speaker 2>on a scroll, you know, like letters were back in

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<v Speaker 2>the day. When he received the letter verse fourteen from Senecorid,

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<v Speaker 2>he ripped it up and said, no weapon formed against

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<v Speaker 2>mebel prosper.

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<v Speaker 1>But the scripture back up, because I want you to

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<v Speaker 1>see that's not what he did at all.

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<v Speaker 2>All right, because I feel like there are some people

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<v Speaker 2>who are listening to me preach today, and you are

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<v Speaker 2>carrying a letter of your own that was sent by

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<v Speaker 2>an enemy into church today. I can't see it, and

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<v Speaker 2>it's not on papyrus. But some of us have what

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<v Speaker 2>I would like to call emotional scrolls that we carried

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<v Speaker 2>into church with us today. It's rolled up so no

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<v Speaker 2>one can see it.

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<v Speaker 1>It's tucked away.

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<v Speaker 2>Not a letter that was written by human hands, perhaps,

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<v Speaker 2>but a letter that is written in your heart. The

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<v Speaker 2>words of the enemy that he has spoken. Senekareb loves

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<v Speaker 2>to get in your head. In your head? How many

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<v Speaker 2>of you tend to be a lot of times in

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<v Speaker 2>your head too much?

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<v Speaker 1>Now.

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<v Speaker 2>The reason those of us who are in our heads

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<v Speaker 2>too much are in our heads so much is because

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<v Speaker 2>all of the people who are in their heads too little.

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

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<v Speaker 3>to get these bills paid.

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<v Speaker 2>Holly's so good for me because I'm in my head

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<v Speaker 2>all the time. She's in the moment. Take that however

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<v Speaker 2>you want. I'm not saying that I'm smarter. It's just

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<v Speaker 2>like she's so good for me, though, Like this used

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<v Speaker 2>to annoy me in our marriage. You know how they

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<v Speaker 2>say in marriage, opposites attract and then after marriage opposites attack, and.

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<v Speaker 1>So it used to make me so mad.

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<v Speaker 2>I'll be telling her something so deep, like if he

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<v Speaker 2>watches over every spau and I think she wasn't looking listening,

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<v Speaker 2>and she'd be like, I'm like, what are you think about?

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<v Speaker 1>She's like the grocery list.

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<v Speaker 2>But I liked eating, so I was glad that she

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<v Speaker 2>was thinking about something kind of practical while I was

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<v Speaker 2>thinking about something ethereal, abstract and spiritual because.

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<v Speaker 1>I don't want to fast.

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<v Speaker 2>And our marriage in many ways has been a merger

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<v Speaker 2>of her style of processing and my style of processing,

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<v Speaker 2>which I'm in my head a lot, and she's really

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<v Speaker 2>good to get me out of my head.

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<v Speaker 1>I was on the.

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<v Speaker 2>Brink of meltdown like four years ago with some stressful

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<v Speaker 2>stuff that was happening with the ministry, and she goes, I.

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<v Speaker 1>Know what we're gonna do. We're gonna go for a walk.

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<v Speaker 2>When she said I know what we're gonna do, I

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<v Speaker 2>thought she was gonna give me the solution. There's like

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<v Speaker 2>a complicated situation, and I'm like walk, She's gonna go,

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<v Speaker 2>she says, She goes, Yes, as people do.

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

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<v Speaker 1>feel better. She was right. When I'm in my head.

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<v Speaker 2>When I'm in my head, the problem that I'm considering

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<v Speaker 2>seems completely unsolvable.

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<v Speaker 1>When I'm in my head, it.

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<v Speaker 2>Appears to me that I have no assistance available. When

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<v Speaker 2>I'm in my head. Every text message that somebody sends

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<v Speaker 2>me has a secret, covert, malicious intent to it.

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<v Speaker 3>Why'd they say it like that? Why'd they use a comma?

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<v Speaker 3>Why is there no period? Why does that EMOCHI have

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<v Speaker 3>drool coming down his mouth? Now that is weird. I

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<v Speaker 3>should look into that. But you know, you start.

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

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<v Speaker 2>why do they say it like that? Why do they

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<v Speaker 2>look at me like that? They weren't looking at you.

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<v Speaker 2>It's completely ridiculous for.

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<v Speaker 3>You to think that everybody in that video game called

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<v Speaker 3>Your Life is a NPC and you're the main character.

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<v Speaker 2>But yet we do that when we get in our head.

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<v Speaker 2>Have you been stuck in your head this week?

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<v Speaker 4>Is that?

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

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<v Speaker 2>top one. Okay, okay, have you been stuck? Let me

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<v Speaker 2>start over.

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<v Speaker 4>Have you been stuck in your head this week?

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<v Speaker 2>Is that what's been happening in your life? That God

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<v Speaker 2>took me all the way back thousands of years before

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<v Speaker 2>you were even born, before you even got in this

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<v Speaker 2>battle that you're in, before you even started feeling these

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<v Speaker 2>symptoms in your body, before you even started feeling this

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<v Speaker 2>that has you completely wound up and unable to.

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<v Speaker 4>Deal with your life? Is that why God had.

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<v Speaker 5>Me studying about a king who thousands.

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<v Speaker 2>Of years ago, before you and I were ever even

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<v Speaker 2>a thought, before you and I wherever even a shimmer

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<v Speaker 2>in our mama, in our daddy's eyes, before you and

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<v Speaker 2>I were ever.

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<v Speaker 4>Even a part of this planet.

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<v Speaker 2>This king, named Hessekiah, gave us a pattern for what

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<v Speaker 2>to do when the enemy tries to get in your head?

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<v Speaker 4>Aren't you glad for.

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<v Speaker 2>The strategy of God? Because honestly, I need a strategy.

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<v Speaker 4>I need to know how to do battle in my brain.

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<v Speaker 6>I need to do I need to know what to

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<v Speaker 6>do when what I believe about God is telling me

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<v Speaker 6>one thing, and what I see in my life is

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<v Speaker 6>saying another, I need to know.

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<v Speaker 4>How to respond to senecarev.

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<v Speaker 2>I've got my own senecarebs, and they send me letters.

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<v Speaker 2>They are my personal fears, they are not yours. My

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<v Speaker 2>fears speak differently than your fears, because my devil is

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<v Speaker 2>custom designed to defeat me according to my weaknesses and

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<v Speaker 2>my strengths, and so is yours.

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<v Speaker 4>So the challenging thing for me today can I preach?

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<v Speaker 1>Can I preach?

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<v Speaker 2>Is that I know what this Bible says, but I

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<v Speaker 2>don't know what your letter says. I know what this

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<v Speaker 2>word says about what God is and who God is

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<v Speaker 2>and what he can do, and what faith is, the

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<v Speaker 2>substance of things hope for and the evidence of things

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<v Speaker 2>not seen, and what his word is, the everlasting seed

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<v Speaker 2>which produces change. I know what his word says. I

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<v Speaker 2>don't know exactly what your letter says. And I don't

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<v Speaker 2>know if your letter is something real that you're going

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<v Speaker 2>through and it really is a diagnosis, or if it

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<v Speaker 2>really is just something that you're imagining that hasn't happened yet.

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<v Speaker 2>I don't know if your letter is something that's going

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<v Speaker 2>on in your industry, your company, something going on in

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<v Speaker 2>that corporation, called your family.

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<v Speaker 4>You know that company where.

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

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<v Speaker 2>but Seneka rebtold Hezekai, I'm gonna kill you.

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<v Speaker 1>I'm gonna wipe you out. It's gonna be humiliating.

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<v Speaker 2>Sometimes the letters that the devil sends me to get

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<v Speaker 2>in my head is he tells me that something in

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<v Speaker 2>my life is going to happen to cause me great shame.

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<v Speaker 1>And let me tell you another thing.

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<v Speaker 2>The day we live, then you don't even have to

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<v Speaker 2>do anything wrong to be publicly shamed. So that can

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<v Speaker 2>feel like a real threat, can't it. When things are

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<v Speaker 2>going good in my life, Seneca rev tells me it

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<v Speaker 2>won't be this way long. When things are going bad

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<v Speaker 2>in my life. He've lives the script, it's going to

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<v Speaker 2>be like this forever. Sometimes when I preach, they'll say,

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<v Speaker 2>it was like you were reading my mail, and the

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<v Speaker 2>Holy Spirit will read your mail.

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<v Speaker 1>Today. We came to see what we need to do.

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<v Speaker 2>When we're holding a letter in our hearts of condemnation

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<v Speaker 2>for our past that is behind us and forgiven by

0:24:03.200 --> 0:24:05.159
<v Speaker 2>the blood of Jesus, But we don't feel forgiven, so

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<v Speaker 2>we keep repeating it. We came to find out what

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<v Speaker 2>to do when we're handed a letter of impending doom,

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<v Speaker 2>even when there's no clear indication that it's going to happen,

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<v Speaker 2>but you imagine it. And I'm gonna tell you why

0:24:19.359 --> 0:24:21.800
<v Speaker 2>to keep imagining it. You need to stop listening to

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<v Speaker 2>so many serial killer podcast chunks.

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<v Speaker 1>Just messing with him, that's my dude.

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<v Speaker 2>And sometimes we feed ourselves the raw material, and then

0:24:33.359 --> 0:24:35.960
<v Speaker 2>the enemy makes our letter out of what we feed him.

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<v Speaker 2>And then sometimes it's more passive than that. Sometimes it

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<v Speaker 2>is things we didn't consciously choose. But whatever the situation is,

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<v Speaker 2>it stopped me in my tracks when I saw what

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<v Speaker 2>Hazekiah did about the letter that he received, and it

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<v Speaker 2>helped me so much that I wanted.

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<v Speaker 1>To pass it along to you today. You want it

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<v Speaker 1>Verse four.

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<v Speaker 2>He received the letter from the messengers, and he didn't

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<v Speaker 2>rip it up and pretend that it didn't exist, because

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<v Speaker 2>that's one way to handle it, right.

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<v Speaker 1>Some of us we don't deal with anything that we feel.

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<v Speaker 2>We don't deal with anything that we think, We don't

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<v Speaker 2>deal with anything that we need to work on. We

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<v Speaker 2>don't deal with anything that's stressing us out. We just

0:25:24.040 --> 0:25:26.520
<v Speaker 2>rebuke the devil of stress. But if you rebuke the

0:25:26.560 --> 0:25:29.080
<v Speaker 2>devil of stress without fixing the source where some of

0:25:29.080 --> 0:25:35.879
<v Speaker 2>your stressful situations are coming from. I was trying to

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<v Speaker 2>rebuke the devil one time, and it was like the

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<v Speaker 2>Holy Spirit said to me, you're trying to rebuke the

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<v Speaker 2>devil when you need to rebuke your decisions and reverse them.

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<v Speaker 1>And make better ones. Am I reading your mail? Is

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<v Speaker 1>that what that feels like? Yeah?

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<v Speaker 2>So he didn't rip up the letter because I think

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<v Speaker 2>that's a lot of times how we're taught to do

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<v Speaker 2>this fate thing right like just to now, No, I

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<v Speaker 2>believe God's gonna make it better, and it doesn't matter

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<v Speaker 2>what the enemy says.

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<v Speaker 1>Well, the truth is there are some things that we

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<v Speaker 1>have to deal with.

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<v Speaker 2>This is not a king who's receiving a threat that

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<v Speaker 2>he can just ignore. He actually does have to respond

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<v Speaker 2>to this threat because, as we read at the end

0:26:18.160 --> 0:26:21.360
<v Speaker 2>of the chapter, there's one hundred and eighty five thousand

0:26:21.800 --> 0:26:25.359
<v Speaker 2>Assyrian soldiers waiting to take him out. So if he

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<v Speaker 2>gets the letter saying hey, we're coming in and just goes.

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

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<v Speaker 3>gonna be a dead optimist. It's gonna be an optimist

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<v Speaker 3>with a crown on is what You're gonna be, Hezekiah

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<v Speaker 3>optimist with a crown.

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<v Speaker 2>But there's gonna be no head on your shoulders. It's

0:26:45.280 --> 0:26:46.879
<v Speaker 2>gonna be rolling on the floor. You're gonna be an

0:26:46.880 --> 0:26:51.320
<v Speaker 2>opt a headless optimist, a dead optimist, and a lot

0:26:51.320 --> 0:26:52.920
<v Speaker 2>of people are like that when it comes.

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<v Speaker 1>To their faith. I rebuke this bill.

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<v Speaker 2>The power company doesn't cut it back on because you said,

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<v Speaker 2>let there be light.

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<v Speaker 3>You can put Genesis one over the power bill all

0:27:10.240 --> 0:27:11.920
<v Speaker 3>you want in the dark.

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<v Speaker 1>So so watch his response.

0:27:18.280 --> 0:27:22.280
<v Speaker 2>He doesn't rip up the letter saying, well, that's not true.

0:27:22.320 --> 0:27:25.080
<v Speaker 2>You're not powerful, you can't do that. Yes, yes, it

0:27:25.200 --> 0:27:26.400
<v Speaker 2>is true. It is real.

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<v Speaker 1>That's the reality of the situation.

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<v Speaker 2>The second thing that I noticed that he didn't do,

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<v Speaker 2>and I'm telling you what he didn't do, so that

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<v Speaker 2>when I show you what he did do you will

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<v Speaker 2>have something to compare it to. He received the letter. Remember,

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<v Speaker 2>I'm gonna kill you. I'm gonna kill you just like

0:27:43.920 --> 0:27:47.160
<v Speaker 2>I killed everybody. I'm gonna kill your family. I'm gonna

0:27:47.160 --> 0:27:49.679
<v Speaker 2>take your kids out. Your kids are gonna end up

0:27:49.720 --> 0:27:52.800
<v Speaker 2>on drugs. Your kids are gonna end up divorced. Your

0:27:52.840 --> 0:27:57.120
<v Speaker 2>kids are gonna end up workless because you yelled at.

0:27:56.960 --> 0:28:01.600
<v Speaker 1>Them this morning. That's it goes for me, is spiral's

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<v Speaker 1>real quick.

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<v Speaker 2>I would just be a little too harsh with the kids,

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<v Speaker 2>and the devil will be like, that's why you're gonna

0:28:07.400 --> 0:28:10.160
<v Speaker 2>be bailing them out of jail right there. They're gonna

0:28:10.160 --> 0:28:12.080
<v Speaker 2>have a needle in their arm right there. And it

0:28:12.200 --> 0:28:16.800
<v Speaker 2>all started with you. It can spiral real quick.

0:28:17.800 --> 0:28:18.080
<v Speaker 1>Now.

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<v Speaker 2>So this is the second thing that Hezekiah didn't do.

0:28:21.960 --> 0:28:24.720
<v Speaker 2>When he got the letter from Seneka rev. They're like, hey, King,

0:28:24.920 --> 0:28:26.600
<v Speaker 2>we don't know what to do. We can see you've

0:28:26.600 --> 0:28:29.280
<v Speaker 2>already ripped your clothes. It is a bad situation. But

0:28:29.359 --> 0:28:32.080
<v Speaker 2>he sent another letter. So he received the letter verse

0:28:32.080 --> 0:28:38.960
<v Speaker 2>fourteen again, and he read it, watched this, and he

0:28:39.040 --> 0:28:44.240
<v Speaker 2>read it again, and read it again, and read it again,

0:28:45.320 --> 0:28:47.320
<v Speaker 2>and read it again, and read it over and over

0:28:47.360 --> 0:28:51.720
<v Speaker 2>and over until he had memorized it. And then he

0:28:51.760 --> 0:28:56.040
<v Speaker 2>gathered the whole nation and recited the letter for them

0:28:56.280 --> 0:28:58.800
<v Speaker 2>that their enemy had written. And then he had it

0:28:58.880 --> 0:29:04.000
<v Speaker 2>translated into thirty different languages so that everybody could.

0:29:03.840 --> 0:29:06.760
<v Speaker 1>Hear in their own language the threat of the enemy.

0:29:07.320 --> 0:29:08.960
<v Speaker 2>And then he began to study it, and he broke

0:29:09.000 --> 0:29:11.640
<v Speaker 2>it down into different syllables, and he made songs around it,

0:29:12.000 --> 0:29:14.840
<v Speaker 2>and he began to sing the songs of Senekareb.

0:29:17.160 --> 0:29:21.360
<v Speaker 1>That's not in the verses it. I can't prove this,

0:29:22.520 --> 0:29:23.400
<v Speaker 1>but I think when.

0:29:23.200 --> 0:29:26.400
<v Speaker 2>It says, please put the verse back up, that he

0:29:26.520 --> 0:29:32.520
<v Speaker 2>received the letter and he read it, that he only

0:29:32.560 --> 0:29:38.640
<v Speaker 2>read it once. And after he read it once, look

0:29:38.680 --> 0:29:43.440
<v Speaker 2>what he did next. He read it and then he

0:29:43.520 --> 0:29:49.360
<v Speaker 2>went up to the temple of the Lord. You don't

0:29:49.480 --> 0:29:52.560
<v Speaker 2>even know how annointed. That is what I just showed you.

0:29:54.440 --> 0:29:57.320
<v Speaker 2>That's what stopped me in my tracks. When I read

0:29:57.400 --> 0:30:04.080
<v Speaker 2>that verse. I stopped and I said, oh, that's my problem.

0:30:04.360 --> 0:30:08.080
<v Speaker 2>When I get a letter from the enemy, I read

0:30:08.120 --> 0:30:13.560
<v Speaker 2>it over and over and over. When he puts a

0:30:13.640 --> 0:30:17.400
<v Speaker 2>thought in my head to draw me away from my hope,

0:30:17.720 --> 0:30:20.920
<v Speaker 2>I play it over and over and over. When I

0:30:20.960 --> 0:30:24.040
<v Speaker 2>have an experience where I make a mistake, I play

0:30:24.080 --> 0:30:28.680
<v Speaker 2>it over and over and over. But when I get

0:30:28.720 --> 0:30:32.040
<v Speaker 2>a word from God, I listen to it once and

0:30:32.120 --> 0:30:38.800
<v Speaker 2>I go to lunch. So my problem is, watch this.

0:30:40.280 --> 0:30:45.600
<v Speaker 2>I'm giving more attention to Seneca Rip's letter than the

0:30:45.760 --> 0:30:53.160
<v Speaker 2>spirit's message in my life.

0:30:54.400 --> 0:30:58.880
<v Speaker 4>So he read it. Somebody shout. He read it, he

0:30:59.040 --> 0:30:59.520
<v Speaker 4>dealt with it.

0:30:59.600 --> 0:31:02.120
<v Speaker 2>He faid did he accepted it, He acknowledged it.

0:31:02.360 --> 0:31:06.160
<v Speaker 4>I'm in debt. I'm I'm overweight, I'm I'm stressed out,

0:31:06.200 --> 0:31:06.720
<v Speaker 4>I'm busy.

0:31:06.800 --> 0:31:10.320
<v Speaker 2>I'm I'm torn apart right now. I'm not in the

0:31:10.360 --> 0:31:12.760
<v Speaker 2>position I need to be in to make the difference

0:31:12.800 --> 0:31:13.880
<v Speaker 2>in the life of my kids.

0:31:14.080 --> 0:31:15.560
<v Speaker 4>I'm not the example I want to be.

0:31:15.960 --> 0:31:21.160
<v Speaker 2>Okay, I read it, But after he read it, he

0:31:21.240 --> 0:31:26.120
<v Speaker 2>didn't stay down in it. Because if I stay down

0:31:26.280 --> 0:31:29.720
<v Speaker 2>in it and memorize it, then I'm gonna get more

0:31:29.840 --> 0:31:36.160
<v Speaker 2>of it. But come on, y'all, twenty twenty three, let's

0:31:36.280 --> 0:31:38.240
<v Speaker 2>follow Hezekiah.

0:31:37.880 --> 0:31:40.840
<v Speaker 4>And do what hes Akaya did. What did he do?

0:31:41.160 --> 0:31:45.760
<v Speaker 2>He read it, and he went up, and I came

0:31:45.800 --> 0:31:47.760
<v Speaker 2>to call you out today.

0:31:49.280 --> 0:31:51.520
<v Speaker 5>And tell you it's time to go up to the

0:31:51.600 --> 0:31:56.280
<v Speaker 5>temple and see what the Lord says about this situation.

0:31:58.120 --> 0:32:02.720
<v Speaker 5>Because if you stay in your head, you're dad. If

0:32:02.760 --> 0:32:05.840
<v Speaker 5>you stay in your head about this, you are gonna go.

0:32:05.880 --> 0:32:09.680
<v Speaker 2>Through hell over this, and the enemy won't even have

0:32:09.720 --> 0:32:12.120
<v Speaker 2>to shoot a single arrow because he will defeat you

0:32:12.160 --> 0:32:14.480
<v Speaker 2>by getting in your head and causing you to forfeit,

0:32:14.560 --> 0:32:17.320
<v Speaker 2>the very thing that you couldn't lose if you would stand.

0:32:17.080 --> 0:32:24.760
<v Speaker 1>Firm and see what God has said. He went up,

0:32:26.320 --> 0:32:29.040
<v Speaker 1>he went up, say it. He went up, He went

0:32:29.160 --> 0:32:29.680
<v Speaker 1>up to the.

0:32:29.640 --> 0:32:32.640
<v Speaker 2>Temple, and he took the letter with him, just like

0:32:32.720 --> 0:32:35.720
<v Speaker 2>you came to elevation today and you brought your letter

0:32:35.760 --> 0:32:38.080
<v Speaker 2>with you. Oh yeah, you don't get to leave it

0:32:38.120 --> 0:32:41.280
<v Speaker 2>at home. You take it with you everywhere you go.

0:32:41.880 --> 0:32:44.920
<v Speaker 2>It is tattooed on your heart, the thing you really

0:32:44.960 --> 0:32:47.640
<v Speaker 2>deal with, the thing you really worry about, the thing

0:32:47.720 --> 0:32:50.320
<v Speaker 2>you struggle with, the insecurity.

0:32:49.640 --> 0:32:51.040
<v Speaker 1>That talks nasty to you.

0:32:51.440 --> 0:32:53.680
<v Speaker 2>I put in that detail about the excrement and the

0:32:53.840 --> 0:32:57.400
<v Speaker 2>urine because as although you were grossed out about it, one,

0:32:57.560 --> 0:32:59.560
<v Speaker 2>I wanted to take your appetite down so you could

0:32:59.560 --> 0:33:01.760
<v Speaker 2>sit through the sermon longer and not be hungry for lunch.

0:33:02.040 --> 0:33:04.600
<v Speaker 2>And number two, I wanted us to think about the

0:33:04.960 --> 0:33:05.680
<v Speaker 2>crap that the.

0:33:05.600 --> 0:33:15.600
<v Speaker 7>Devil really says to us. Senecrab literally talked crap to Hezekiah. Literally,

0:33:16.240 --> 0:33:16.720
<v Speaker 7>and I'm not.

0:33:16.720 --> 0:33:18.360
<v Speaker 1>Using that word like people do when they use it

0:33:18.400 --> 0:33:21.680
<v Speaker 1>to mean the exact opposite of literally. I literally died.

0:33:23.000 --> 0:33:26.480
<v Speaker 4>Figuratively opposite were.

0:33:30.640 --> 0:33:39.880
<v Speaker 1>It's a little pet pee.

0:33:36.240 --> 0:33:42.160
<v Speaker 2>He tells you stuff that you are trash, that you

0:33:42.280 --> 0:33:45.120
<v Speaker 2>are done. Holy Spirit won't do that to you.

0:33:46.600 --> 0:33:49.720
<v Speaker 1>The Holy Spirit testifies of Jesus. Jesus is righteous, Jesus

0:33:49.760 --> 0:33:50.080
<v Speaker 1>is in you.

0:33:52.640 --> 0:33:54.880
<v Speaker 2>The Holy Spirit will catch you the next morning and

0:33:54.880 --> 0:33:56.800
<v Speaker 2>start talking to you about last night and how you

0:33:56.840 --> 0:34:02.200
<v Speaker 2>want to do that different in the future. But he

0:34:02.240 --> 0:34:03.719
<v Speaker 2>won't talk to your. Spirit won't talk to you like

0:34:03.720 --> 0:34:08.200
<v Speaker 2>Saekaeb will. So that's not the spirit. That's not the spirit.

0:34:10.520 --> 0:34:15.200
<v Speaker 2>This gave me a picture of what we so often do.

0:34:15.400 --> 0:34:17.680
<v Speaker 2>If we don't just rip up the letter. Now I'm

0:34:17.719 --> 0:34:20.319
<v Speaker 2>using it as a metaphor to say, if we don't

0:34:20.360 --> 0:34:23.680
<v Speaker 2>just deny it, or if we don't just go over

0:34:23.719 --> 0:34:28.520
<v Speaker 2>it and over it again in our minds, then often

0:34:28.560 --> 0:34:35.400
<v Speaker 2>what we do is just we stuff it, almost to

0:34:35.440 --> 0:34:40.560
<v Speaker 2>the point where we don't even realize that the enemy

0:34:40.640 --> 0:34:44.759
<v Speaker 2>is talking to us, but he's using our voice to

0:34:44.840 --> 0:34:50.600
<v Speaker 2>do it, and so we just stuff it, right, We

0:34:50.719 --> 0:34:53.719
<v Speaker 2>just stuff it, and we keep it rolled up and

0:34:53.800 --> 0:35:00.440
<v Speaker 2>scrunched up. And so if we take the things that

0:35:00.480 --> 0:35:04.920
<v Speaker 2>the enemy speaks over our lives and we stuffed them,

0:35:06.360 --> 0:35:07.400
<v Speaker 2>then guess what happens?

0:35:08.760 --> 0:35:12.160
<v Speaker 1>They spread inside of us.

0:35:13.840 --> 0:35:17.719
<v Speaker 2>To the point where now it's not only oh, I

0:35:17.800 --> 0:35:21.920
<v Speaker 2>did that wrong, it's there's something wrong with me, and

0:35:21.920 --> 0:35:26.480
<v Speaker 2>there always has been and there always will be. They

0:35:26.480 --> 0:35:31.000
<v Speaker 2>say that the three habits of negative thinking are you

0:35:31.080 --> 0:35:33.560
<v Speaker 2>make it personal, you make it permanent, and you make

0:35:33.600 --> 0:35:38.160
<v Speaker 2>it pervasive. When you make it personal, it's not I

0:35:38.320 --> 0:35:40.800
<v Speaker 2>was wrong when I did that. It's I am wrong,

0:35:40.920 --> 0:35:43.200
<v Speaker 2>and I always do that, which is permanent.

0:35:43.320 --> 0:35:46.279
<v Speaker 1>I always That's how I've always done it. That's how

0:35:46.280 --> 0:35:47.399
<v Speaker 1>I did it five years ago.

0:35:47.640 --> 0:35:49.680
<v Speaker 2>And you've edited out all the times you got it

0:35:49.760 --> 0:35:52.319
<v Speaker 2>right because you just say I always do it like that.

0:35:53.800 --> 0:35:56.239
<v Speaker 2>And then pervasive, of course, is just a fancy word

0:35:56.280 --> 0:35:58.320
<v Speaker 2>to say, like you make it everything.

0:35:59.440 --> 0:36:02.480
<v Speaker 1>It's all like this, and I'm always like that.

0:36:04.360 --> 0:36:07.000
<v Speaker 2>When you take it and you put it inside like that,

0:36:08.239 --> 0:36:12.600
<v Speaker 2>and you don't find a way to process these these

0:36:12.640 --> 0:36:15.719
<v Speaker 2>patterns of thinking and these problems and the sin.

0:36:17.160 --> 0:36:18.520
<v Speaker 1>That we all still have to deal with.

0:36:22.080 --> 0:36:26.080
<v Speaker 2>It starts to spread not only inside of your heart,

0:36:26.120 --> 0:36:28.920
<v Speaker 2>but it starts to sabotage the decisions in your life,

0:36:30.760 --> 0:36:33.960
<v Speaker 2>and you find yourself losing good people who are trying

0:36:34.040 --> 0:36:39.520
<v Speaker 2>to love you because of an insecurity that was in

0:36:39.560 --> 0:36:41.640
<v Speaker 2>the form of the letter that the enemy sent you

0:36:43.040 --> 0:36:46.719
<v Speaker 2>that you didn't know what to do with, so you

0:36:46.880 --> 0:36:51.879
<v Speaker 2>stuffed it and it spread, And if nothing is there

0:36:51.920 --> 0:36:54.680
<v Speaker 2>to stop the spread of that, you will continue to

0:36:54.760 --> 0:36:59.600
<v Speaker 2>change external things in your life. But everything that you

0:36:59.760 --> 0:37:06.160
<v Speaker 2>touch while you are walking in that insecurity, the insecurity will.

0:37:05.600 --> 0:37:09.640
<v Speaker 1>Spread to the next opportunity.

0:37:10.520 --> 0:37:13.160
<v Speaker 2>So you'll spend ten months happy at a job until

0:37:13.200 --> 0:37:15.440
<v Speaker 2>the old system of how you show up for the

0:37:15.560 --> 0:37:20.319
<v Speaker 2>job catches up with you at the new one, and

0:37:20.360 --> 0:37:25.960
<v Speaker 2>it spreads until your children see that mom and Dad

0:37:26.320 --> 0:37:29.359
<v Speaker 2>can't have a healthy conflict and work through it, and

0:37:29.400 --> 0:37:32.319
<v Speaker 2>they carry a template with them into their marriage one day,

0:37:32.680 --> 0:37:35.640
<v Speaker 2>and you spend years and years of your life saying,

0:37:35.719 --> 0:37:39.960
<v Speaker 2>I wish that I had known how to deal with this,

0:37:40.840 --> 0:37:43.040
<v Speaker 2>because the last thing I wanted to do.

0:37:43.680 --> 0:37:47.600
<v Speaker 1>Was to pass this on to them.

0:37:47.680 --> 0:37:51.279
<v Speaker 2>And we stuff it and we hallelujah over top of it,

0:37:54.239 --> 0:37:57.920
<v Speaker 2>and we get little scripture versus that we quote, thinking

0:37:57.920 --> 0:38:00.799
<v Speaker 2>that they will counteract. I don't know of our own

0:38:01.040 --> 0:38:05.319
<v Speaker 2>meditation in our heart, but it doesn't because if we

0:38:05.440 --> 0:38:11.839
<v Speaker 2>stuff it, it's spreads. But who do I tell? Who

0:38:11.840 --> 0:38:16.160
<v Speaker 2>do I tell what I really feel inside? And this

0:38:16.239 --> 0:38:18.160
<v Speaker 2>is an important thing for me to stop and say

0:38:18.200 --> 0:38:23.799
<v Speaker 2>right now, because You can't just take that stuff and

0:38:23.880 --> 0:38:30.319
<v Speaker 2>spread it anywhere. You can't just use other people like

0:38:30.440 --> 0:38:31.040
<v Speaker 2>they are.

0:38:32.520 --> 0:38:35.600
<v Speaker 1>I don't know how to put this, Like they are.

0:38:35.480 --> 0:38:43.040
<v Speaker 2>Your dumping ground, like they've got a hazmat suit on

0:38:43.080 --> 0:38:45.959
<v Speaker 2>and they can just handle whatever you want to say.

0:38:46.160 --> 0:38:49.839
<v Speaker 2>And what encouraged me about Hezekiah was he couldn't tell

0:38:49.920 --> 0:38:51.319
<v Speaker 2>anybody because he's the king.

0:38:53.040 --> 0:38:56.879
<v Speaker 4>Are there any dads in here that you just wish

0:38:57.400 --> 0:38:58.240
<v Speaker 4>for once?

0:38:59.320 --> 0:39:01.160
<v Speaker 1>For one and I'm gonna get to the moms in

0:39:01.200 --> 0:39:02.560
<v Speaker 1>a minute.

0:39:02.200 --> 0:39:05.799
<v Speaker 2>For once your kids would be like, it must be

0:39:05.960 --> 0:39:11.799
<v Speaker 2>so hard to be you. It is amazing what you

0:39:11.920 --> 0:39:16.239
<v Speaker 2>carry for our family. It is amazing you bring home

0:39:16.320 --> 0:39:19.800
<v Speaker 2>the bacon, and you taught me to throw a baseball.

0:39:20.000 --> 0:39:23.160
<v Speaker 4>You're my hero dad? How do you do it all?

0:39:24.640 --> 0:39:28.160
<v Speaker 2>But who do you tell when you're trying to seem

0:39:28.320 --> 0:39:31.319
<v Speaker 2>strong that this strength that.

0:39:31.360 --> 0:39:34.640
<v Speaker 4>You see is costing me.

0:39:35.640 --> 0:39:40.239
<v Speaker 2>My own strength And I've got my own issues and

0:39:40.440 --> 0:39:43.799
<v Speaker 2>I still feel like a thirteen year old sometimes.

0:39:45.239 --> 0:39:46.600
<v Speaker 1>I yelled at Elijah one time.

0:39:46.640 --> 0:39:48.760
<v Speaker 2>He's my oldest, so I have him a separate therapy

0:39:48.800 --> 0:39:50.440
<v Speaker 2>fund for all the mistakes I make on him that

0:39:50.480 --> 0:39:52.560
<v Speaker 2>I learned and then don't do with other kids. So

0:39:52.600 --> 0:39:55.080
<v Speaker 2>I save that with the college fund therapy fun college fund.

0:39:55.080 --> 0:39:56.319
<v Speaker 1>I'm doing both at the same time.

0:39:57.280 --> 0:40:00.239
<v Speaker 4>And I just yelled at him, this is my first.

0:40:02.200 --> 0:40:03.320
<v Speaker 1>What was I talking about?

0:40:04.040 --> 0:40:07.040
<v Speaker 2>It's your first time being a teenager, it's my first

0:40:07.040 --> 0:40:12.080
<v Speaker 2>time raising one, and now I'm confronting all of the

0:40:12.160 --> 0:40:15.160
<v Speaker 2>teenage me that I didn't deal with before. That's staring

0:40:15.200 --> 0:40:17.440
<v Speaker 2>at me and you, So please be patient with one

0:40:17.440 --> 0:40:24.560
<v Speaker 2>another and bear with one another, and tell your therapist

0:40:24.640 --> 0:40:28.040
<v Speaker 2>I'm sorry.

0:40:28.920 --> 0:40:31.320
<v Speaker 1>So what's hard about this.

0:40:32.800 --> 0:40:37.440
<v Speaker 2>Is that I know what my letter says, but I

0:40:37.440 --> 0:40:39.480
<v Speaker 2>don't know where to share it.

0:40:41.840 --> 0:40:45.120
<v Speaker 1>Do I share it with my E group or would

0:40:45.120 --> 0:40:49.000
<v Speaker 1>they kick me out or would they look at me different?

0:40:50.719 --> 0:40:52.279
<v Speaker 2>Do I share it with my wife or will she

0:40:52.320 --> 0:40:55.719
<v Speaker 2>think I'm weak?

0:40:56.400 --> 0:41:06.120
<v Speaker 1>Do I just to the Lord in prayer because honestly,

0:41:06.840 --> 0:41:09.439
<v Speaker 1>right now, I don't know if he's really up there.

0:41:12.719 --> 0:41:15.919
<v Speaker 2>I love the moment where y'all act like y'all don't

0:41:15.920 --> 0:41:17.960
<v Speaker 2>know what I'm talking about when I say stuff in church.

0:41:18.920 --> 0:41:22.560
<v Speaker 1>No, he's always there, Steve, always for me. He's there.

0:41:32.520 --> 0:41:34.560
<v Speaker 2>Sometimes for me. I don't know what that means. To

0:41:34.600 --> 0:41:38.680
<v Speaker 2>take it to the Lord in prayer, I don't know

0:41:38.719 --> 0:41:43.960
<v Speaker 2>what that means. Well, Hezekiah gives us a way to

0:41:44.000 --> 0:41:48.680
<v Speaker 2>go to God that I really think is going to

0:41:48.719 --> 0:41:51.000
<v Speaker 2>help you with the letter that you carried in here today,

0:41:51.000 --> 0:41:57.640
<v Speaker 2>whether it's condemnation, temptation, whether it's an insecurity, or whether

0:41:57.680 --> 0:42:00.120
<v Speaker 2>it's an actual attack from the enemy that's happening in

0:42:00.160 --> 0:42:03.960
<v Speaker 2>your life right now that only you know about. This

0:42:04.000 --> 0:42:06.440
<v Speaker 2>would apply to any addiction you're dealing with, any problem

0:42:06.480 --> 0:42:07.320
<v Speaker 2>that you have today.

0:42:08.160 --> 0:42:09.319
<v Speaker 1>Watch what Hezekiah did.

0:42:10.000 --> 0:42:13.960
<v Speaker 2>He received the letter from the messengers and read it,

0:42:14.760 --> 0:42:18.560
<v Speaker 2>and then he went up to the temple of the

0:42:18.640 --> 0:42:26.160
<v Speaker 2>Lord and he spread it out before the Lord.

0:42:26.840 --> 0:42:27.640
<v Speaker 1>He spread it.

0:42:27.600 --> 0:42:32.359
<v Speaker 8>Out before the Lord. Physically he did that. He took

0:42:32.400 --> 0:42:37.320
<v Speaker 8>the scroll I liked it out, this would be the scroll,

0:42:38.719 --> 0:42:45.640
<v Speaker 8>and he spread it out before the Lord.

0:42:46.800 --> 0:42:48.920
<v Speaker 2>Because if he carries it inside of himself, if he

0:42:48.960 --> 0:42:52.080
<v Speaker 2>stays in his head, he doesn't know what to do.

0:42:53.680 --> 0:42:56.920
<v Speaker 2>But he really doesn't know what to say either, So

0:42:57.040 --> 0:43:01.960
<v Speaker 2>he spreads it out. Somebody say, spread it out before

0:43:02.000 --> 0:43:06.960
<v Speaker 2>the Lord. Both of those are so important. One tells

0:43:07.000 --> 0:43:09.840
<v Speaker 2>me what he did and one tells me where he

0:43:09.880 --> 0:43:12.280
<v Speaker 2>did it, and both are important.

0:43:13.239 --> 0:43:15.799
<v Speaker 1>The first thing he did was he spread it out.

0:43:16.800 --> 0:43:19.520
<v Speaker 2>He's like, God, I'm not going to read this over

0:43:19.520 --> 0:43:21.480
<v Speaker 2>and over and over again and imagine all the horrible

0:43:21.520 --> 0:43:23.120
<v Speaker 2>things that can happen here.

0:43:24.480 --> 0:43:24.719
<v Speaker 1>Here.

0:43:26.680 --> 0:43:28.840
<v Speaker 2>And you need a space in your life for this

0:43:28.960 --> 0:43:31.320
<v Speaker 2>season that you're in, for these challenges that you're facing

0:43:31.320 --> 0:43:34.640
<v Speaker 2>that you've never faced before, for these Seneca ReBs that

0:43:34.680 --> 0:43:37.239
<v Speaker 2>are going on inside of your psychological state.

0:43:37.280 --> 0:43:39.080
<v Speaker 1>Because I think this is a mental battle more than

0:43:39.120 --> 0:43:39.680
<v Speaker 1>it's anything.

0:43:40.800 --> 0:43:43.719
<v Speaker 2>You need a space to be able to spread it

0:43:43.760 --> 0:43:48.880
<v Speaker 2>out before the Lord, and often we don't because when

0:43:48.960 --> 0:43:52.920
<v Speaker 2>anxiety comes on us, it has a way of pushing

0:43:53.040 --> 0:43:57.280
<v Speaker 2>us back down, so we can't even sit with anything

0:43:57.440 --> 0:44:00.480
<v Speaker 2>very long without sinking in to it.

0:44:01.760 --> 0:44:02.880
<v Speaker 4>To spread out.

0:44:02.680 --> 0:44:05.759
<v Speaker 2>Something before the Lord means that you can sit with

0:44:05.880 --> 0:44:10.719
<v Speaker 2>him in an uncomfortable feeling, that you can sit with

0:44:10.880 --> 0:44:14.200
<v Speaker 2>him even as the temptation is coming like a wave,

0:44:14.960 --> 0:44:17.120
<v Speaker 2>that you can sit with him. And some of us

0:44:17.120 --> 0:44:20.399
<v Speaker 2>have been convinced by the enemy that you can't sit

0:44:20.520 --> 0:44:24.959
<v Speaker 2>with what you feel, So anytime you feel something uncomfortable,

0:44:25.239 --> 0:44:28.399
<v Speaker 2>you just run from that. You just strip some more

0:44:28.440 --> 0:44:32.880
<v Speaker 2>gold off the temple and say, here's Sanekareb. I don't

0:44:32.960 --> 0:44:36.040
<v Speaker 2>like this feeling of being attacked, so I'll just do

0:44:36.160 --> 0:44:39.440
<v Speaker 2>it the enemy's way. That's what a lot of addiction is.

0:44:39.960 --> 0:44:44.759
<v Speaker 2>Whether that addiction is to thinking, pills, food, you name it.

0:44:45.080 --> 0:44:48.560
<v Speaker 2>Any of our addictions are often traced to something that

0:44:48.640 --> 0:44:51.799
<v Speaker 2>we will not sit in because I don't like how

0:44:51.840 --> 0:44:52.640
<v Speaker 2>this feels.

0:44:53.080 --> 0:44:55.920
<v Speaker 4>So I'll just give the devil my gold. I'll just

0:44:56.040 --> 0:44:58.759
<v Speaker 4>give the devil my peace. I'll even give him.

0:44:58.680 --> 0:45:01.880
<v Speaker 2>My whole family if you will just stop making me

0:45:02.160 --> 0:45:06.680
<v Speaker 2>feel this way. We do not resist him, because somewhere

0:45:06.680 --> 0:45:08.520
<v Speaker 2>along the line.

0:45:07.960 --> 0:45:10.080
<v Speaker 4>You have bought the lie.

0:45:09.760 --> 0:45:12.840
<v Speaker 2>That this is bigger than you. Well, it might be,

0:45:13.239 --> 0:45:15.040
<v Speaker 2>but guess what I know about it.

0:45:15.120 --> 0:45:22.800
<v Speaker 5>Whatever it is, you know where I'm going, How big

0:45:22.880 --> 0:45:23.120
<v Speaker 5>is it?

0:45:24.800 --> 0:45:28.040
<v Speaker 4>How big is this problem? How big is this in

0:45:28.120 --> 0:45:30.040
<v Speaker 4>to me? How big?

0:45:30.880 --> 0:45:34.200
<v Speaker 2>You're like, it's really big, preacher, like, really really big.

0:45:34.600 --> 0:45:35.440
<v Speaker 4>How big is it?

0:45:35.840 --> 0:45:41.120
<v Speaker 2>Well, that depends what it's up against?

0:45:46.239 --> 0:45:46.719
<v Speaker 1>Here we go.

0:45:48.160 --> 0:45:50.800
<v Speaker 2>You're like, nah, I'm going through some real stuff.

0:45:51.000 --> 0:45:53.640
<v Speaker 4>You don't even know. You're just up here preaching. I'm

0:45:53.680 --> 0:45:56.840
<v Speaker 4>going up against something that's real. Somebody shout is real.

0:45:57.680 --> 0:46:00.680
<v Speaker 2>Okay, it's real, But it's also a relative.

0:46:04.040 --> 0:46:05.440
<v Speaker 1>Everything is relative.

0:46:06.440 --> 0:46:09.439
<v Speaker 4>I found this out watching my dog, our dog.

0:46:09.600 --> 0:46:11.680
<v Speaker 1>I say, my dog, I don't do anything for him.

0:46:11.719 --> 0:46:12.400
<v Speaker 1>It's their dog.

0:46:13.040 --> 0:46:16.480
<v Speaker 2>Their dog is a Boston Terrier named bo Do. Y'all

0:46:16.520 --> 0:46:18.640
<v Speaker 2>remember when I told the whole church, I'm getting the

0:46:18.640 --> 0:46:19.360
<v Speaker 2>family a dog.

0:46:19.920 --> 0:46:20.279
<v Speaker 4>I did.

0:46:21.560 --> 0:46:26.600
<v Speaker 2>He not too big, But when he was meeting his uh,

0:46:27.040 --> 0:46:31.319
<v Speaker 2>his cousin, I guess Holly's parents dog.

0:46:31.440 --> 0:46:35.319
<v Speaker 1>What would that make them a relation? Anyway? What kind

0:46:35.320 --> 0:46:36.120
<v Speaker 1>of dog is? Yo Yo?

0:46:38.600 --> 0:46:43.080
<v Speaker 2>Chihuahuah was a yo Yo and Coco. I'm gonna work

0:46:43.080 --> 0:46:48.640
<v Speaker 2>this out, y'all in a million a morky? What's a morky?

0:46:49.680 --> 0:46:55.640
<v Speaker 1>All right? Coco is really little? Bo is big when

0:46:55.640 --> 0:46:58.280
<v Speaker 1>he's with Coco. Bo met Coco.

0:46:59.160 --> 0:47:03.520
<v Speaker 9>Bo was a bully because he was big.

0:47:04.880 --> 0:47:10.080
<v Speaker 2>Then Bo met Toby. Their dog. Toby is a Golden doodle,

0:47:10.760 --> 0:47:15.200
<v Speaker 2>bigger than a Boston Terrier. Y'all got the picture. Bo

0:47:16.480 --> 0:47:18.280
<v Speaker 2>Coco Toby.

0:47:19.280 --> 0:47:24.720
<v Speaker 9>Bo was a bully with Coco because Bo was big

0:47:25.120 --> 0:47:31.399
<v Speaker 9>with Coco. Bo with Toby was not a bully. Bo

0:47:32.360 --> 0:47:41.120
<v Speaker 9>was a sweetheart. I don't want to get canceled. I'm

0:47:41.160 --> 0:47:46.560
<v Speaker 9>only forty thirty. Bo was really nice. Bo was on

0:47:46.640 --> 0:47:52.120
<v Speaker 9>his best behavior with Toby. Because watch this, how big

0:47:52.200 --> 0:47:54.960
<v Speaker 9>it is, it's.

0:47:54.880 --> 0:47:58.400
<v Speaker 4>Relative to what it's up against.

0:48:00.239 --> 0:48:04.400
<v Speaker 2>So when the devil is ticking on you, that's a

0:48:04.520 --> 0:48:09.200
<v Speaker 2>sign you haven't reminded him lately what he's really up

0:48:09.239 --> 0:48:16.000
<v Speaker 2>against me. When he starts telling you there's no way

0:48:16.080 --> 0:48:19.799
<v Speaker 2>out of this one, that's because you didn't take him

0:48:19.800 --> 0:48:23.400
<v Speaker 2>to the God of Moses lately, who opened up in

0:48:23.480 --> 0:48:26.160
<v Speaker 2>ocean to get his people through.

0:48:27.400 --> 0:48:29.440
<v Speaker 4>When he's telling you you're going down.

0:48:30.600 --> 0:48:32.040
<v Speaker 2>You didn't show him the God.

0:48:31.920 --> 0:48:35.719
<v Speaker 4>Of David lately, who can take a rush.

0:48:36.000 --> 0:48:40.000
<v Speaker 2>Tend of renegade, tent a rag and knocked down a

0:48:40.080 --> 0:48:44.600
<v Speaker 2>whole army, and he's telling you.

0:48:43.719 --> 0:48:48.000
<v Speaker 4>You're not gonna make it. You haven't reminded him lately.

0:48:48.920 --> 0:48:54.320
<v Speaker 4>Because he is God, so thad the odds, Yeah, God

0:48:54.840 --> 0:48:57.560
<v Speaker 4>is we wear head.

0:49:06.920 --> 0:49:12.480
<v Speaker 2>The way Baker is in the house, Hume, the Oddsmaker

0:49:12.600 --> 0:49:13.400
<v Speaker 2>is in the house.

0:49:14.760 --> 0:49:18.200
<v Speaker 4>You might be down by one hundred and eighty five.

0:49:18.040 --> 0:49:22.960
<v Speaker 5>Thousand soldiers, but God said, I'll cover.

0:49:28.440 --> 0:49:30.200
<v Speaker 3>Who what.

0:49:31.680 --> 0:49:31.719
<v Speaker 2>What?

0:49:33.640 --> 0:49:35.440
<v Speaker 4>Watch out if you want to be home.

0:49:35.239 --> 0:49:38.600
<v Speaker 2>In time for dinner, because I won't preach this thing

0:49:39.120 --> 0:49:40.760
<v Speaker 2>to that Boston Terrier.

0:49:41.239 --> 0:49:44.600
<v Speaker 4>That's beniffit. It's your belief. Benip it at.

0:49:44.480 --> 0:49:49.399
<v Speaker 2>Your future, benipping at your sanity, benipping.

0:49:48.880 --> 0:49:50.000
<v Speaker 4>At your sobriety.

0:49:50.440 --> 0:49:55.360
<v Speaker 2>Pblic ride back every settle with the Mexico.

0:49:58.200 --> 0:49:59.719
<v Speaker 4>Say, hung in a high.

0:50:01.000 --> 0:50:05.279
<v Speaker 2>They stretched them lies, he saw my sin.

0:50:06.520 --> 0:50:07.920
<v Speaker 5>He stat is good.

0:50:09.120 --> 0:50:12.879
<v Speaker 4>They could it end up your house? Somebody set off?

0:50:13.480 --> 0:50:21.200
<v Speaker 4>Cover just spread, come run, come, just stats you up.

0:50:22.040 --> 0:50:25.360
<v Speaker 4>I know you're not enough. I'll cover it. I know

0:50:25.560 --> 0:50:28.879
<v Speaker 4>you're not enough. I'll cover it. I know you don't

0:50:29.000 --> 0:50:30.440
<v Speaker 4>happen by Do.

0:50:40.560 --> 0:50:46.960
<v Speaker 10>You have no idea who you're up against? Stephanel and

0:50:47.120 --> 0:50:51.239
<v Speaker 10>it's not me. I'm a multi pood.

0:50:51.280 --> 0:50:59.400
<v Speaker 1>What'd you say? It was a mortie? Oh I'm a morkid.

0:51:00.840 --> 0:51:02.040
<v Speaker 4>But have you met my master?

0:51:03.400 --> 0:51:04.640
<v Speaker 2>Ha ha ha ha?

0:51:06.120 --> 0:51:09.320
<v Speaker 4>Where you're life? Come on, let's get ready.

0:51:10.080 --> 0:51:14.880
<v Speaker 2>Let's get ready to tell sinnemarea that the Agel is coming.

0:51:15.520 --> 0:51:17.840
<v Speaker 4>The Agel of God is coming, the.

0:51:18.000 --> 0:51:21.080
<v Speaker 2>Agel of God over your family, the Angel of God

0:51:21.160 --> 0:51:26.240
<v Speaker 2>over your finances, the Agel of God over your physical diagnosis.

0:51:25.920 --> 0:51:26.680
<v Speaker 4>The ael.

0:51:32.680 --> 0:51:35.680
<v Speaker 1>So much I want to say to you so much.

0:51:35.719 --> 0:51:36.560
<v Speaker 1>I want to say to you.

0:51:39.600 --> 0:51:45.520
<v Speaker 2>You've been giving God your problem and that's good. But

0:51:45.640 --> 0:52:06.120
<v Speaker 2>let's change a little bit. Well, you say, I ain't

0:52:06.160 --> 0:52:07.000
<v Speaker 2>a mooki over there?

0:52:07.040 --> 0:52:14.960
<v Speaker 1>What'd you call it? Moi? Moulah Morki? That's a that's

0:52:15.000 --> 0:52:18.400
<v Speaker 1>a man of God right there now, Help me. Appreciate this.

0:52:19.400 --> 0:52:21.479
<v Speaker 1>I'm gonna give you this for the rest of your life.

0:52:22.360 --> 0:52:24.160
<v Speaker 2>You listen to me good, and you listen to me young,

0:52:24.200 --> 0:52:25.640
<v Speaker 2>and you listen to me now, and you'll play him

0:52:25.800 --> 0:52:27.520
<v Speaker 2>back this when he's a little older.

0:52:28.080 --> 0:52:28.560
<v Speaker 1>Listen to this.

0:52:29.480 --> 0:52:32.759
<v Speaker 2>You can give God your problem, but make sure you

0:52:32.920 --> 0:52:42.719
<v Speaker 2>also give your problem God, because.

0:52:42.480 --> 0:52:43.480
<v Speaker 1>I think that's what it is.

0:52:43.719 --> 0:52:43.879
<v Speaker 9>Right.

0:52:46.000 --> 0:52:51.080
<v Speaker 2>You've been spreading it out before everything and everybody but God.

0:52:54.480 --> 0:52:56.440
<v Speaker 2>And watch what has a guy did. He spread it

0:52:56.480 --> 0:52:58.600
<v Speaker 2>out before the Lord. And now remember it's not just

0:52:58.719 --> 0:53:00.960
<v Speaker 2>what he did. He spread it out because this is

0:53:01.000 --> 0:53:02.480
<v Speaker 2>going to be some of y'all. Right, you're going to

0:53:02.520 --> 0:53:04.640
<v Speaker 2>take this message. You are going to pull out that

0:53:04.920 --> 0:53:07.520
<v Speaker 2>overdrawn bank account balance on your app.

0:53:07.440 --> 0:53:11.719
<v Speaker 1>And say, here, God, I did what he said.

0:53:14.440 --> 0:53:18.960
<v Speaker 2>Here's my scroll, God, I am scrolling to this balance

0:53:19.040 --> 0:53:21.640
<v Speaker 2>on my bank account and I'm bringing it to you

0:53:22.440 --> 0:53:25.640
<v Speaker 2>here God, and the Angel won't come. But here's what

0:53:25.760 --> 0:53:29.160
<v Speaker 2>he did that I thought was so significant when he

0:53:29.239 --> 0:53:30.720
<v Speaker 2>spread it out before the Lord.

0:53:32.160 --> 0:53:39.040
<v Speaker 1>Verse fifteen. Please he prayed, He prayed, Lord, the God

0:53:39.080 --> 0:53:41.800
<v Speaker 1>of Israel, enthrone between the Cherubim. What's that about.

0:53:42.719 --> 0:53:45.719
<v Speaker 2>Well, if you remember, in the temple was something called

0:53:45.719 --> 0:53:47.840
<v Speaker 2>the ark of the Covenant, which was overlaid the kasha

0:53:47.880 --> 0:53:51.200
<v Speaker 2>wood and gold on the top. On the top where

0:53:51.239 --> 0:53:52.920
<v Speaker 2>the gold was two and a half cubits, there were

0:53:53.600 --> 0:53:56.799
<v Speaker 2>two angels, one on one side and one on the other.

0:53:58.360 --> 0:54:02.520
<v Speaker 2>Those angels had wings that were spread up, and those

0:54:02.560 --> 0:54:04.080
<v Speaker 2>wings touched in the middle.

0:54:04.120 --> 0:54:07.000
<v Speaker 1>Exodus chapter thirty seven gives the details.

0:54:08.200 --> 0:54:15.239
<v Speaker 2>When Hezekiah was spreading out his problem before God, he

0:54:15.480 --> 0:54:19.120
<v Speaker 2>was looking at the ark of the Covenant, where those

0:54:19.239 --> 0:54:28.600
<v Speaker 2>angels had spread their wings over him. Where those angels

0:54:28.680 --> 0:54:32.280
<v Speaker 2>wings on the cover, the golden cover of the wooden

0:54:32.360 --> 0:54:36.960
<v Speaker 2>box that house the symbolic presence of Almighty God. Those

0:54:37.040 --> 0:54:44.640
<v Speaker 2>wings were touching to remind Hezekiah that while you're giving

0:54:44.719 --> 0:54:49.040
<v Speaker 2>me your problem and reminding me of what you need,

0:54:50.440 --> 0:54:52.680
<v Speaker 2>make sure you remind your problem.

0:54:53.960 --> 0:55:01.120
<v Speaker 1>Of who I am, so.

0:55:05.680 --> 0:55:10.040
<v Speaker 2>Which spread am I preaching about today? The problem that

0:55:11.520 --> 0:55:17.960
<v Speaker 2>you could spread out before God, or the promise that

0:55:18.120 --> 0:55:24.640
<v Speaker 2>He has spread over you? And which one will you

0:55:24.760 --> 0:55:32.440
<v Speaker 2>focus on in this moment of your life. When Hezekiah

0:55:33.000 --> 0:55:37.040
<v Speaker 2>read the letter, he read it. Once he confronted the issue,

0:55:37.680 --> 0:55:41.759
<v Speaker 2>he spread it. He read it, and he spread it,

0:55:42.880 --> 0:55:46.680
<v Speaker 2>and as he did, look at me church, God was

0:55:46.760 --> 0:55:53.640
<v Speaker 2>already spread over him. But you don't see that when

0:55:53.680 --> 0:55:58.200
<v Speaker 2>you're just right here. You know, they tell us all

0:55:58.280 --> 0:56:01.080
<v Speaker 2>of this horrible stuff about what's gonna happen to our

0:56:01.160 --> 0:56:03.840
<v Speaker 2>kids these days, and how there's no more hope for

0:56:03.960 --> 0:56:05.120
<v Speaker 2>this generation in the world.

0:56:05.200 --> 0:56:13.279
<v Speaker 1>To hell with that. I don't want to see that.

0:56:16.400 --> 0:56:18.560
<v Speaker 2>I'm gonna say my kids are gonna have bumps and bruises.

0:56:18.600 --> 0:56:20.440
<v Speaker 2>Yours will too, and none of us can foresee any

0:56:20.440 --> 0:56:31.319
<v Speaker 2>of that. But when I see, yeah, the odds are

0:56:31.360 --> 0:56:34.200
<v Speaker 2>against us. But God said, if you'll seek me, I'll

0:56:36.719 --> 0:56:41.360
<v Speaker 2>cover the spread. I see you keep spreading out all

0:56:41.440 --> 0:56:43.920
<v Speaker 2>your problems and all your reasons, but if you be

0:56:44.080 --> 0:56:49.520
<v Speaker 2>grateful to me, I'll cover the spread. I see the

0:56:49.640 --> 0:56:52.800
<v Speaker 2>distance between who you are and who you want to be.

0:56:53.760 --> 0:56:55.480
<v Speaker 2>But if you'll let my grace in, I sent my

0:56:55.600 --> 0:57:07.000
<v Speaker 2>son for you, and I'll cover this friend. And it

0:57:07.040 --> 0:57:11.000
<v Speaker 2>is just like God to give us a term from

0:57:11.120 --> 0:57:17.160
<v Speaker 2>Vegas and use it as a heavenly vision. I know

0:57:17.320 --> 0:57:19.160
<v Speaker 2>the odds are against you right now, and I know

0:57:19.280 --> 0:57:21.520
<v Speaker 2>that it feels like it's very impossible for you to

0:57:21.600 --> 0:57:25.200
<v Speaker 2>make progress in this area. I get it, But to

0:57:26.640 --> 0:57:29.120
<v Speaker 2>spread it before the Lord and to say Lord, you're seated,

0:57:30.520 --> 0:57:32.640
<v Speaker 2>You're seated above all of this.

0:57:34.280 --> 0:57:37.400
<v Speaker 1>This is not abstract, y'all. You can do this as

0:57:37.440 --> 0:57:38.960
<v Speaker 1>a daily practice. And I want you to.

0:57:39.040 --> 0:57:42.840
<v Speaker 2>I want you to take that problem, that persistent one

0:57:42.920 --> 0:57:46.120
<v Speaker 2>that has become personal, pervasive, and you think.

0:57:46.000 --> 0:57:48.760
<v Speaker 1>It's permanent, and I want you to get a vision. Now.

0:57:49.040 --> 0:57:50.840
<v Speaker 2>I'm speaking to you by the spirit of God. This

0:57:50.960 --> 0:57:53.360
<v Speaker 2>is not coming from my head right now. This is

0:57:53.480 --> 0:57:55.480
<v Speaker 2>from God's heart through my.

0:57:55.640 --> 0:57:58.520
<v Speaker 1>Mouth for you. He said, I want you to spread

0:57:58.560 --> 0:58:00.560
<v Speaker 1>it before me.

0:58:02.320 --> 0:58:05.120
<v Speaker 2>Maybe if the apostle Paul could join in, he'd say,

0:58:05.480 --> 0:58:12.080
<v Speaker 2>do not be anxious about anything, but in every situation

0:58:12.240 --> 0:58:17.560
<v Speaker 2>Philippians four, verse six, let's teach this by prayer and petition,

0:58:18.960 --> 0:58:25.640
<v Speaker 2>with thanksgiving. Ah present your requests to God. And that's

0:58:25.680 --> 0:58:30.480
<v Speaker 2>what Hezekiah did. He spread it before God so that

0:58:30.560 --> 0:58:32.680
<v Speaker 2>he wouldn't spread it to the rest of the nation,

0:58:33.280 --> 0:58:35.920
<v Speaker 2>so that fear wouldn't spread, and get the best.

0:58:35.760 --> 0:58:38.880
<v Speaker 1>Of his heart. That's what he did. That's what we do.

0:58:41.480 --> 0:58:46.919
<v Speaker 2>You turn your problem into a petition and you ask

0:58:47.160 --> 0:58:51.040
<v Speaker 2>God what I do about this, and when he shows you,

0:58:51.520 --> 0:58:53.600
<v Speaker 2>even if he only shows you a little bit, you

0:58:53.760 --> 0:58:55.760
<v Speaker 2>do that and you leave the rest.

0:58:55.600 --> 0:59:03.040
<v Speaker 1>To the angels. Because they've got you. I don't know

0:59:03.080 --> 0:59:04.160
<v Speaker 1>about you, but I'm covered.

0:59:07.040 --> 0:59:09.760
<v Speaker 2>I'm not going to cower in fear over these things

0:59:09.800 --> 0:59:11.000
<v Speaker 2>that are happening in the world.

0:59:11.280 --> 0:59:11.920
<v Speaker 1>I'm covered.

0:59:13.320 --> 0:59:16.200
<v Speaker 2>I will not give my mind to an algorithm or

0:59:16.240 --> 0:59:18.720
<v Speaker 2>a news cycle because I'm covered.

0:59:22.520 --> 0:59:23.160
<v Speaker 1>I'm covered.

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<v Speaker 2>Just this week, I was having one of these attacks.

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<v Speaker 2>You know, you just get these thoughts from the enemy, right,

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<v Speaker 2>And it was really my ego, But at the time,

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<v Speaker 2>I felt like, man, what just happened? That was very

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<v Speaker 2>offensive and I was very self righteous about it. And

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<v Speaker 2>Holly asked me about it because we didn't get to

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<v Speaker 2>talk because it happened. It wasn't a big thing. If

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<v Speaker 2>I told you what it was, it would just waste time.

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<v Speaker 2>That's why I'm not telling you, because it wasn't that big.

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<v Speaker 2>But it felt big in the moment, you know what

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<v Speaker 2>I mean. And so some little thing happened to me

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<v Speaker 2>and it became this whole thing in my heart, like

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<v Speaker 2>it triggered this old insecurity and I even know what's happening. Dang,

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<v Speaker 2>Why am I so mad about that? And when we

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<v Speaker 2>got done, she goes, how'd you feel about that?

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<v Speaker 1>What happened? And I started to talk about it. But

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<v Speaker 1>I realized if I said what I felt in that moment,

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<v Speaker 1>I would spread it.

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<v Speaker 2>I wasn't ready to talk about it yet. The next

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<v Speaker 2>morning I woke up, I was still thinking about it.

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<v Speaker 2>I couldn't stop thinking about it. Woke up thinking about it. Wow,

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<v Speaker 2>I was that about And I took my little notebook.

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<v Speaker 2>I don't have a temple to go to, all right,

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<v Speaker 2>I don't have an arc of the Covenant. I got

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<v Speaker 2>my notebook and.

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<v Speaker 1>I wrote, Holy Spirit, show me how I need to

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<v Speaker 1>see this. And I sat there and I don't won't

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<v Speaker 1>to even sit there. I'm like, man, I'd rather be

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<v Speaker 1>doing burpies right now that they're sitting here. This sucks. WHOA.

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<v Speaker 2>Sometimes you got to let the anxiety pass through because

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<v Speaker 2>on the other side of that anxiety, on the other

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<v Speaker 2>side of that anxiety is an awareness that you can't

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<v Speaker 2>get if you just run every time it shows up.

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<v Speaker 2>And what the Lord showed me next was so powerful

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<v Speaker 2>to me. It was one of the craziest things that

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<v Speaker 2>he ever located for me. He showed me exactly why

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<v Speaker 2>I felt that way about it. He gave me a

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<v Speaker 2>better story to tell myself about it, and we went

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<v Speaker 2>and had the best breakfast, and we ended up talking

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<v Speaker 2>about our future in a very deep way. But if

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<v Speaker 2>I would have spread it to her before I spread

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<v Speaker 2>it before him, I wouldn't have even known what to

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<v Speaker 2>talk about.

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<v Speaker 1>Now. I know it's not always that simple, But.

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<v Speaker 2>Do you have something in your life today that you

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<v Speaker 2>need to spread before the Lord that you've been holding

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<v Speaker 2>on the inside and fighting in your head?

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<v Speaker 1>Stand up?

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<v Speaker 2>Yeah, this is a place where you can spread it

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<v Speaker 2>before the Lord. And I hear God saying this, Spread

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<v Speaker 2>it before its spreads, before it just eats up all

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<v Speaker 2>of your resources and all of your energy.

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<v Speaker 1>Get it before him. He can show you things, Church,

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<v Speaker 1>He really can.

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<v Speaker 2>He's really alive, he's really loving, he's really personal, he's

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<v Speaker 2>really active, he's really willing, he's really wise, he's really kind,

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<v Speaker 2>he's really good.

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<v Speaker 1>And so now we see the Angel of God.

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<v Speaker 2>That as we spread it before him our problem, he

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<v Speaker 2>spreads his protection over us.

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<v Speaker 1>Say I'm covered wire. We come to you today knowing

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<v Speaker 1>that everybody is holding their own letter written in.

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<v Speaker 2>Its own tongue, speaking specifically to the troubles and trials

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<v Speaker 2>of each individual child. Holy Spirit, I ask you now

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<v Speaker 2>come manifest yourself through these human minds. So that we

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<v Speaker 2>can recall what it is that we need to bring

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<v Speaker 2>to you. But as we bring it to you, we

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<v Speaker 2>declare that You're bigger than it. Yes, Lord, I hear

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<v Speaker 2>you saying, we're looking at the wrong spread. We have

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<v Speaker 2>forgotten the God who fights for us, to focused on

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<v Speaker 2>the fighting that we're doing.

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<v Speaker 1>So Lord, now you called us into your presence. You

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<v Speaker 1>brought our etham from around the world.

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<v Speaker 2>You brought your sons and daughters to our twenty church campuses,

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<v Speaker 2>to all of the men and women and boys and

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<v Speaker 2>girls who will hear this message. I thank you that

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<v Speaker 2>you are spreading your feathers, spreading your faithfulness, spreading your favor.

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<v Speaker 2>I want you just lift your hands as why as

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<v Speaker 2>you can lift them, and just say, here it is God, Yeah,

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<v Speaker 2>here it is. Here's the questions that I have, Here's

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<v Speaker 2>the regrets that I have. Here's the anxiety that I

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<v Speaker 2>keep fighting. But I'm spreading it before you. And there's

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<v Speaker 2>nothing that is in that letter from the enemy that

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<v Speaker 2>is greater than what is written in your word.

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<v Speaker 1>Say, greater is he that is in me than he

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<v Speaker 1>that is in the world. Again, Now, greater is he

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<v Speaker 1>that is in me, Then he that is in the world.

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<v Speaker 1>Say it again. Greater is he that is in me

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<v Speaker 1>than he that is in the world. If we start

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<v Speaker 1>rehearsing the right things, we'll start believing the right things.

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<v Speaker 2>If we start believing the right things, we'll start becoming

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<v Speaker 2>the right things. Greater is he that is in me,

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<v Speaker 2>then he that is in the world. Somebody hot fives,

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<v Speaker 2>somebody next to you say, he's greater, He's greater, He's greater,

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<v Speaker 2>He's greater.

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<v Speaker 4>He's greater.

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<v Speaker 5>Angels of God inhabiting this space right now, setting over

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<v Speaker 5>a canopy over his beloved right now.

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<v Speaker 2>Greater is he that is in me, then he that

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<v Speaker 2>is in the world. The clear it seven times a day.

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<v Speaker 2>Greater is he that is in me, then he that

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<v Speaker 2>is in the world. Tell senek av Greater is he

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<v Speaker 2>that is in me, then he that is in the world.

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<v Speaker 4>Come on, let's works of him together.

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<v Speaker 1>Let's work of him.

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