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Speaker 1: Hey, this is Stephen Ferdick.

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

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

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

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Speaker 2: Hope it gives your perspective to see God is moving

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Speaker 2: in your life.

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Speaker 1: Enjoy the message.

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Speaker 2: Thank you Lord for breath and my lungs today.

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Speaker 1: Thank you Lord for waking me up this morning. Thank

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Speaker 1: you Lord for feeding me. Thank you Lord for keeping me.

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Speaker 1: Thank you Lord for loving me. God is so good.

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Speaker 2: I want to call your attention to a few things

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Speaker 2: remain standing. For one moment, we'll be beginning our.

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Speaker 1: Elevation Night's tour very very shortly. Let's clap our hands

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Speaker 1: and thank God for that. I want to see you.

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Speaker 2: If you're near Fort Worth, Texas, Tulsa, Oklahoma, It'sburgh, Pennsylvania, Toronto, Canada, Detroit, Michigan, Hartford, Connecticut.

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Speaker 1: Newark, New Jersey, or Washington, DC.

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Speaker 2: Go to Elevation Nights dot com.

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Speaker 1: Limited tickets are available.

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Speaker 2: That'll be Tuesday, February twenty fifth through Thursday, March sixth

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Speaker 2: I can't wait to see you. We will be singing

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Speaker 2: all kinds of songs and we'll be preaching and.

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Speaker 1: Be sharing in God's presence together, and I'm grateful.

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Speaker 2: I also want to let you know that that song

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Speaker 2: we were just singing, I know A name is available

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Speaker 2: anywhere you stream.

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Speaker 1: Music, so you can get it and sing it and

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Speaker 1: just walk around the.

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Speaker 2: House singing the name of Jesus. Sing it off key,

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Speaker 2: on key, sing it loud song, whatever you got, just

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Speaker 2: call on his name. I was reading in the Psalms

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Speaker 2: this week where David said when I kept silent, the

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Speaker 2: attack continued, And I think that's what the devil wants

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Speaker 2: to do sometimes, that's shut us up inside of our

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Speaker 2: own heads, in our own minds.

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Speaker 1: So even just all of y'all that sit there in.

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Speaker 2: Church and don't sing anything you're missing out, open your

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Speaker 2: mouth wide and I will fill it.

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Speaker 1: Say it the Lord.

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Speaker 2: I'm gonna give you one more chance to praise them

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Speaker 2: before I move into this world.

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Speaker 3: Is today.

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Speaker 1: Wordy to God? Now?

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Speaker 2: Today might just be the most important day that we've

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Speaker 2: ever been here, because this is our first sermon of

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Speaker 2: our official twentieth year.

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Speaker 1: Of ministry as a church.

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Speaker 2: I want to share with you something from Luke chapter

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Speaker 2: twenty two, And as you find that in your Bible,

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Speaker 2: or just fasten your eyes on the screen for a moment,

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Speaker 2: and I call your attention to it.

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Speaker 1: I want you to just get in your posture like

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Speaker 1: you would get in if something important was about to

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Speaker 1: happen in your life. Just your physical.

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Speaker 2: Posture, your emotional posture, if something important was about to

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Speaker 2: happen in your life. Even if you're watching this at home,

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Speaker 2: or even if you're watching this in a I don't know.

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Speaker 2: You might not even made it out the bed today.

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Speaker 2: And yet I want you to just get in the

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Speaker 1: And listen to this.

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Speaker 2: In Luke chapter twenty two, verses thirty one through thirty four,

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Speaker 2: this is Jesus speaking Simon. Simon, Satan has asked to

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Speaker 2: But I have prayed for you, Simon, that your faith

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Speaker 1: But he replied, Lord, I'm ready. I'm ready. Let's go.

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Speaker 2: I'm ready to go with you to prison and to death.

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Speaker 2: Jesus answered, I tell you, Peter, before the rooster crows.

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Speaker 1: Today you will deny three times that you know me.

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Speaker 2: Very heavy text, but let's focus on verse thirty two

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Speaker 2: for a moment. One more time. I have prayed for

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Speaker 2: you simon, that your faith may not fail, and when

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Speaker 2: I want to speak to you about a specific prayer

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Speaker 2: for your life. And the title of my message today

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Speaker 2: is the prayer that repairs.

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Speaker 2: We talk about it today, I believe the Lord will

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Speaker 1: Will you pray with me one more time? Father?

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Speaker 2: Fix it in Jesus's name, Amen, and you may be

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Speaker 1: Y'all like that, Father, fix it? Somebody shout, Lord, fix it? Yeah,

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Speaker 2: I don't always share with you why I picked certain

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Speaker 2: scriptures that I want to preach, but if it's helpful,

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Speaker 2: I do, And today, I think is one of those

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Speaker 2: occasions where letting you know why I selected this text

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Speaker 2: may help you receive it a little bit better. I

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Speaker 2: want to help you hear the voice of God more

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Speaker 2: in your daily life. I want to help you tune

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Speaker 1: God's voice when he talks.

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Speaker 2: I don't want you to be confused by all the

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Speaker 2: the God who made you. I said a whole lot

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Speaker 2: so confused by the noise that's surrounding you that you

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Speaker 2: his voice. Jesus said one time, my sheep know my

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Speaker 2: was going through my Bible just thinking about how great

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Speaker 2: it would be to begin this twentieth year of ministry

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Speaker 2: in our church to show you about different people who

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Speaker 2: it happens all through the Bible, so it's kind of

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Speaker 2: spoke to somebody and said their name, not once, but twice.

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Speaker 2: I thought it was interesting. It reminded me of how

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Speaker 2: sometimes you have to do that to get your kids attention.

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Speaker 2: Say Abby, Abby, the second one is because your gracy

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Speaker 2: means I don't care that you can't pause your video

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Speaker 2: There are a few thousand under the sound of my

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Speaker 2: I'd like to remind you something about pivotal moments in each.

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Speaker 2: you can make a small adjustment. But if I were

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Speaker 2: number of steps that I took would multiply the importance

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Speaker 2: of the decision that I made to pivot. What I

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Speaker 2: mean is it doesn't make much difference as long as

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Speaker 2: I'm up here, But the longer I walked in that direct,

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Speaker 2: I would end up in such a different destination, all

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Speaker 2: because of a pivot. My oldest son, Elijah, my middle

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Speaker 1: Abby are all here today with us.

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Speaker 2: We're all happy, We're all happy because Elijah is home

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Speaker 1: We're happy because Abby stays happy.

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Speaker 2: We're happy because Graham is on the second row with

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Speaker 2: his buddies who are back to back state champions in

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Speaker 2: the sport of wrestling.

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Speaker 1: I was of yesterday. He asked for that shout out

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Speaker 2: And my oldest son, Elijah, was asking me recently about

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Speaker 2: someone that he follows on social media. It's not a

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Speaker 2: they made a big statement or commitment to Jesus Christ, and.

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Speaker 1: Ways like other people do. Ever again, and they would

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Speaker 1: never struggle with what other people struggle with. Again. I've

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Speaker 1: told my son Elijah, watch out for the big.

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Speaker 2: that doesn't mean that the faith that you have is invalid.

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Speaker 1: It just means that you need to think steps not swings.

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Speaker 1: Think steps not swings.

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Speaker 2: And sometimes when it comes to hearing God's voice and

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Speaker 2: knowing God's voice, you'll see people who they swing really

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Speaker 2: hard and really far. God spoke to me, and I'm

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Speaker 2: never gonna wear pink again. Why I never gonna wear

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Speaker 2: pink again? Because the Lord told me that purple is

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Speaker 2: the color of royalty. It's like, this is a little

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Speaker 1: God spoke to me, and I'm never again. I'm not

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Speaker 1: gonna drink out of any plastic bottles.

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Speaker 2: I'm gonna take communion every morning at four, but I'm

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Speaker 2: three am, and I'm I'm gonna get up and I'm

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Speaker 2: a pray.

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Speaker 1: I'm gonna pray at two am.

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Speaker 2: Then I'm gonna read my Bible at three and then

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Speaker 2: I'm gonna take communion at four. But I'm not gonna

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Speaker 1: For the environment. And we're pink. I'm wear purple because

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Speaker 1: it's the color of royalty.

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Speaker 2: And when I see somebody swinging that hard in anything,

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Speaker 1: And say it twice. Chris, Chris, say your name out

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Speaker 2: You need a switch sometimes we need to get back

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Speaker 1: What does? What does sal? What is Saul doing? This

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Speaker 2: else y'all got? Why y'all are guests and touch your neighbors?

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Speaker 2: Say better, call Saul? What else you got?

445
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Speaker 1: Guns n' roses?

446
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Speaker 2: Oh Moses, Moses, I worldly pray for me, Moses, Moses.

447
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Speaker 1: That's right.

448
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Speaker 2: Take off your shoes, Moses, because you're about to pivot.

449
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Speaker 2: Take off your shoes, Moses, because the place you stand

450
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Speaker 2: is holy. This is a pivotal moment. This is a

451
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Speaker 2: personal moment, Moses. When God calls your name once, that's personal.

452
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Speaker 2: When he calls your name twice, that's pivotal. When he

453
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Speaker 2: calls your name once is powerful. When he calls your

454
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Speaker 2: name twice, it's a pattern. There are some of you

455
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Speaker 2: under the sound of my voice, and God is trying.

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Speaker 1: To get your attention. He is repeating patterns in your life.

457
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Speaker 2: And it's not just that you keep seeing range rovers

458
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Speaker 2: on the road so you think you need to buy one.

459
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Speaker 1: It's deeper than that. God keeps sending you the same

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Speaker 1: message different ways. Saul, Saul, Moses, Moses. Have you got

461
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Speaker 1: another one? Samuel? Samuel.

462
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Speaker 2: That's my favorite of them, because this is when he

463
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Speaker 2: was learning to hear God's voice, and he was a

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Speaker 2: little boy.

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Speaker 1: And some of you, since you've been a child, God

466
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Speaker 1: has been calling you, and he keeps calling you, and some.

467
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Speaker 2: Of you you even spent half of your adult life

468
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Speaker 2: running from the God that was calling.

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Speaker 1: You when you were a little kid.

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Speaker 2: And he kept calling, and he kept calling, and he

471
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Speaker 2: kept calling.

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Speaker 1: Samuel, Samuel.

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Speaker 2: He had to come back to him and say it

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Speaker 2: again because the first time he thought it was the

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Speaker 2: voice of his mentor Eli, So he said it again, Samuel, Samuel,

476
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Speaker 2: you got another one? Martha Martha, Martha, Martha. I didn't

477
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Speaker 2: think anybody would get that, did you get that?

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Speaker 1: Nicole?

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Speaker 2: Nicole Nicole Martha Martha Luke Chapter ten.

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Speaker 1: Talking about Martha Martha, You're worried and distracted.

481
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Speaker 2: You keep trying to do dishes while your sister Mary

482
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Speaker 2: is having a devotion.

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Speaker 1: Martha Martha.

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Speaker 2: I know why he said her name twice because she

485
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Speaker 2: wasn't listening the first time.

486
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Speaker 1: She was too busy running the vacuum cleaner.

487
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Speaker 2: Martha Martha, Martha middle name.

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Speaker 1: I don't want to spend time with you. I want

489
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Speaker 1: to be with you.

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Speaker 2: I don't want you to just run around so consumed

491
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Speaker 2: by what you can do for me. So I'm gonna

492
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Speaker 2: say your name twice because I'm more concerned about your

493
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Speaker 2: person than your plans.

494
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Speaker 1: What's another one? Well, that one doesn't count. I guess

495
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Speaker 1: that makes eight. My God, my God.

496
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Speaker 2: But it's technically true because when Jesus was on the cross,

497
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Speaker 2: he was God. So God said to God, my God,

498
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Speaker 2: my God, by and prepare that one.

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Speaker 1: Is that Orangeburg? In the house is Orangeburg? In the house, Ormsburg, Orangeburn.

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Speaker 1: I got so much family in Orangeburg. I do.

501
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Speaker 2: The one I really struggle with this Abraham, Abraham, because

502
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Speaker 2: that's where God called Abraham and said, go to the

503
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Speaker 2: place I will show you. And then when Abraham set out,

504
00:27:55,280 --> 00:27:57,399
Speaker 2: he didn't give him.

505
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Speaker 1: The exact GPS pen.

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Speaker 2: You know how sometimes you just feel like you're taking

507
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Speaker 2: a step, not a swing, just a step. And when

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Speaker 2: he called him, he called him Abraham. But then he

509
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Speaker 2: called him to do something very difficult. Now sometimes and

510
00:28:12,880 --> 00:28:14,720
Speaker 2: you're like, God will call you to give up something

511
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Speaker 2: you love. God will call you to give up something

512
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Speaker 2: that you love. Usually when we come to God in prayer,

513
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Speaker 2: we ask him to take away the things that we

514
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Speaker 2: don't like.

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Speaker 1: Anyway.

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Speaker 2: See, prayer is two ways. It's not just me talking

517
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Speaker 2: to God, it's me listening.

518
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Speaker 1: When I was.

519
00:28:35,680 --> 00:28:38,479
Speaker 2: Taught to pray, I was mostly taught to pray a

520
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Speaker 2: prayer list.

521
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Speaker 1: So I start naming all the things that I want

522
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Speaker 1: God to do, like I'm giving him his checklist for the.

523
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Speaker 2: Day and the date I need him to do it by.

524
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Speaker 1: But prayer is not just listing, it's listening. It's listening, and.

525
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Speaker 2: Sometimes what God says is hard to hear. When he

526
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Speaker 2: said Abraham, Abraham, now in this specific case, God had

527
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Speaker 2: called Abraham to sacrifice his only son, Isaac, that he

528
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Speaker 2: waited twenty five years for. He tied him down and

529
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Speaker 2: he was going to plunge the knife in obedience to God.

530
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Speaker 2: And just as the knife was raised, there was a

531
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Speaker 2: pause that led to provision, and God said, don't lay

532
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Speaker 2: a hand on the boy. There's a ram in the bush.

533
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Speaker 2: You passed the test. I didn't want you to kill

534
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Speaker 2: your son. I wanted you to trust me. And he

535
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Speaker 2: sacrificed the ram instead. And at that pivotal moment, just

536
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Speaker 2: before Abraham was about to do it, God said, Abraham, Abraham,

537
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Speaker 2: and he called it twice.

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Speaker 1: Now.

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Speaker 2: I think we ought to go through all of these

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Speaker 2: over the next few weeks in church. Each of these times, Abraham, Abraham, Moses, Moses.

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Speaker 2: I didn't even tell you about Jacob, Jacob, but I

542
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Speaker 2: will how he was going to Egypt to see his

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Speaker 2: son Joseph, that he thought was dead, and he had

544
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Speaker 2: so given up on Joseph being alive that he had

545
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Speaker 2: resigned himself to the despair. And God had to call

546
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Speaker 2: his name twice, Jacob Jacob, to tell him that Joseph's

547
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Speaker 2: own hands would close his eyes. That the thing that

548
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Speaker 2: you thought was dead is very much alive. I said,

549
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Speaker 2: The thing that you thought was dead was very much alive.

550
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Speaker 2: I said that the thing that you thought was dead

551
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Speaker 2: is very much alive.

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Speaker 1: Jacob, Jacob.

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Speaker 2: And today we find ourselves in a pivotal moment for

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Speaker 2: Jesus in a pivotal moment for an apostle named Simon Peter,

555
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Speaker 2: and don't you wonder why in Luke chapter twenty two,

556
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Speaker 2: verse thirty one, and I'm almost there, Holly, Holly, Holly,

557
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Speaker 2: I'm almost to the part that inspired me to get

558
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Speaker 2: up and preach this text.

559
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Speaker 1: Because as Jesus is.

560
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Speaker 2: Speaking to all of the disciples, telling them, I must suffer,

561
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Speaker 2: while he is.

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Speaker 1: Telling them you are going to rule one.

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Speaker 2: Day, while he is preparing them for what the cross

564
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Speaker 2: and the kingdom will be, he pivots his attention from

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Speaker 2: the entire table the twelve to one man, and when

566
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Speaker 2: he calls his name, he says, verse thirty one, Luke,

567
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Speaker 2: chapter twenty two, right back where we started, Simon Simon. Question,

568
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Speaker 2: does Simon have another name? What's Simon's other name? Talk

569
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Speaker 2: to me out loud, shout it like you're mad at him?

570
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Speaker 2: Why Simon, Simon?

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Speaker 1: Why not Peter Peter. In this moment.

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Speaker 2: Of pivotal and necessary instruction for the disciples, and specifically Peter,

573
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Speaker 2: Jesus does something very interesting and to really tease out

574
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Speaker 2: of the text the truth that is lying just under

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Speaker 2: the surface. Go back to Luke chapter six In Luke

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Speaker 2: Chapter six, verses twelve through sixteen, the author Luke, with

577
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Speaker 2: meticulous detail, tells us that one of those days Jesus

578
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Speaker 2: went out to a mountainside to pray. What did he

579
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Speaker 2: go to do to pray? This is at the very

580
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Speaker 2: beginning of his public ministry. And he goes to pray,

581
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Speaker 2: and he spent the night praying to God. When morning came,

582
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Speaker 2: he called his disciples to him and chose twelve of them,

583
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Speaker 2: who he also designated apostles, Simon whom he named Peter,

584
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Speaker 2: and his brother Andrew, James, John, Philip, Bartholomew, Matthew Thomas,

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Speaker 2: James son of Alpheus, Simon who was called the zealot,

586
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Speaker 2: Judas son of James, and Judas Ascaria, who became a trader.

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Speaker 1: But there's a sandwich here.

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Speaker 2: Because if you go back to verse fourteen, the first

589
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Speaker 2: one that it names is Simon, who he named Peter.

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Speaker 1: And this is a very curious conflict as we study

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Speaker 1: the text, because if.

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Speaker 2: Jesus named him Peter, and it's recorded in Luke Chapter six,

593
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Speaker 2: and if he's referred to as Peter all throughout Luke's gospel,

594
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Speaker 2: then why at the most pivotal moment in his life.

595
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Speaker 1: When Jesus turns his attention from.

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Speaker 2: All the twelve at the table to focus on the

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Speaker 2: one and to give a personal word, does he not

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Speaker 2: address him as Peter Peter. That would be the way

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Speaker 2: to build confidence in the one that you called Peter.

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Speaker 1: Peter.

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Speaker 2: Don't remember, don't forget to remember when we get to

602
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Speaker 2: the cross, You're the rock. Don't forget to remember when

603
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Speaker 2: we get to the cross, You're the one. Don't forget

604
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Speaker 2: to remember when we get to the cross, how I

605
00:33:36,840 --> 00:33:39,520
Speaker 2: helped you walk on water. Don't forget to remember when

606
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Speaker 2: we get to the cross, how I called you by name.

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Speaker 1: Don't forget to remember how we fed five thousand Peter,

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Speaker 1: Peter Peter.

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Speaker 2: But he doesn't say Peter twice. He doesn't even say

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Speaker 2: Simon middle named Peter. He says Simon, Simon.

611
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Speaker 1: So let's look at the cast of characters for.

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Speaker 2: A moment, shall we? Simon, you got Satan and you've

613
00:34:04,960 --> 00:34:09,360
Speaker 2: got the Savior, And I believe Verse thirty one really

614
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Speaker 2: describes where a lot of our church is at today

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Speaker 2: all over the world. I don't mean our church just

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Speaker 2: in this one room. I mean our church all over

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Speaker 2: this world. Verse thirty one says Simon. Satan has asked

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Speaker 2: to sift you, and so what's about to happen? Let

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Speaker 2: me set it up for you. Over the next night,

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Speaker 2: over the next few days, is going to be Simon

621
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Speaker 2: versus Satan, Simon versus Satan, and spoiler alert, Simon doesn't win.

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Speaker 2: As a matter of fact, when it comes to the

623
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Speaker 2: most crucial moment of Simon's life, when he will deny

624
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Speaker 2: Jesus Christ, he does not only deny his power, he

625
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Speaker 2: denies the relationship altogether. He says, I don't even know him,

626
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Speaker 2: and Jesus looks him in his eyes and says Simon, Simon,

627
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Speaker 2: Satan asked to sift you. The answer that we would

628
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Speaker 2: expect from Jesus if Satan asked to sift, and let

629
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Speaker 2: me just slip in here.

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Speaker 1: He doesn't get to do it without permission. Whatever the

631
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Speaker 1: devil does to you, he had to go through Jesus

632
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Speaker 1: to do it. So even if Jesus.

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Speaker 2: Didn't do that thing for you, it had to go

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Speaker 2: through Jesus before it got to you, which means that

635
00:35:21,440 --> 00:35:25,719
Speaker 2: sifting is a process of separation. We don't sift that

636
00:35:25,880 --> 00:35:28,239
Speaker 2: much in our daily lives, so maybe we can't really

637
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Speaker 2: imagine this, but this word used for sift when he

638
00:35:31,239 --> 00:35:33,080
Speaker 2: said Satan desires to sift you.

639
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Speaker 1: This is the only time that word is used.

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Speaker 2: In the whole Bible, because it is a shaking so violent,

641
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Speaker 2: it's only used one time. It's shaking out the stuff

642
00:35:44,719 --> 00:35:47,719
Speaker 2: that shouldn't be there to leave the stuff that will

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Speaker 2: produce the bread that can feed. And I was interested

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Speaker 2: in the fact that Simon Peter was a fisherman and

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00:35:54,960 --> 00:35:57,799
Speaker 2: Jesus is sifting a fisherman. I thought it was a

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Speaker 2: mixed metaphor until I remember that Jesus told Peter feed

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Speaker 2: my sheep in John twenty one. So that makes me

648
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Speaker 2: think that he's trying to turn a fisherman into a shepherd.

649
00:36:09,640 --> 00:36:13,760
Speaker 2: And before a fisherman can become a shepherd, before somebody

650
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Speaker 2: who catches fish can become somebody who feeds sheep, there

651
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Speaker 2: must be a sifting.

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Speaker 1: Sometimes the sifting in your life is a sign.

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Speaker 2: It is a signal that this is a pivotal moment

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Speaker 2: that God is changing the season and the stage of

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Speaker 2: your life. And before the season shifts, there is a sifting.

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Speaker 2: The interesting thing about the sifting, and y'all, I'm so

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Speaker 2: full of this word to preach for somebody.

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Speaker 1: Is because it doesn't say that Jesus sifted Simon. It

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Speaker 1: says that Satan sifted Simon.

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Speaker 2: But no matter who sifted him, the one who sifted

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Speaker 2: had to get permission to do it. So it means

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Speaker 2: that even if I'm being attacked by the enemy, even

663
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Speaker 2: if I'm being attacked by anxiety, even if my body

664
00:37:02,160 --> 00:37:05,360
Speaker 2: is under attack right now, the attack didn't have to

665
00:37:05,400 --> 00:37:09,400
Speaker 2: come from God for the grace to be received by faith.

666
00:37:10,120 --> 00:37:14,360
Speaker 2: It means, simply put, that this sifting season in your.

667
00:37:14,200 --> 00:37:26,920
Speaker 4: Life is only that a season. News flash.

668
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Speaker 1: The more gifted you are, the more sifted you must be.

669
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Speaker 1: Because why Simon Simon? Why not Bartholomew Bartholomew? Why not Judas? Judas?

670
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Speaker 1: Why not Philip? Philip?

671
00:37:47,520 --> 00:37:52,640
Speaker 2: Why not Nathaniel Nathaniel? Why Simon Simon? And this is

672
00:37:52,760 --> 00:37:55,759
Speaker 2: the critical thing for you to understand. Oh, if you

673
00:37:55,760 --> 00:37:58,759
Speaker 2: could understand this, you wouldn't be like, why am I

674
00:37:58,760 --> 00:38:01,560
Speaker 2: getting picked on? Why is my life so hard? Why

675
00:38:01,640 --> 00:38:04,320
Speaker 2: is this happening to me? It would still be heavy,

676
00:38:04,600 --> 00:38:07,360
Speaker 2: it would still be hard, but you would understand this

677
00:38:07,480 --> 00:38:10,720
Speaker 2: simple principle of the kingdom. And it's this the reason

678
00:38:10,800 --> 00:38:14,040
Speaker 2: that he pivoted to Peter in this moment and called

679
00:38:14,120 --> 00:38:17,759
Speaker 2: him Simon. Is because Simon was the most significant one

680
00:38:17,800 --> 00:38:24,520
Speaker 2: sitting at the table. The reason he was singled out

681
00:38:24,680 --> 00:38:28,799
Speaker 2: to be sifted is because he was singled out to

682
00:38:28,840 --> 00:38:35,480
Speaker 2: be significant. This sifting in my life?

683
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Speaker 1: What is it about? What is a sifting about? In

684
00:38:39,560 --> 00:38:42,719
Speaker 1: a sifting season, you will notice your motives are exposed.

685
00:38:44,040 --> 00:38:46,760
Speaker 2: In a sifting season. You will notice that fake friends

686
00:38:46,880 --> 00:38:51,120
Speaker 2: are exposed in a sifting season of your life. You

687
00:38:51,160 --> 00:38:55,520
Speaker 2: will notice that dependencies are exposed. In a sifting season

688
00:38:55,560 --> 00:38:57,960
Speaker 2: of your life. You will notice that things that used.

689
00:38:57,840 --> 00:39:01,000
Speaker 1: To work don't work anymore, and you will wonder is

690
00:39:01,040 --> 00:39:04,000
Speaker 1: this the end? And yet, to think that this is

691
00:39:04,040 --> 00:39:04,680
Speaker 1: the end.

692
00:39:05,080 --> 00:39:08,719
Speaker 2: When you're still sitting at the table and Jesus knows

693
00:39:08,760 --> 00:39:10,799
Speaker 2: you're going to be preaching on the day of Pentecost

694
00:39:12,400 --> 00:39:17,520
Speaker 2: is to miss the message of the gospel. I don't

695
00:39:17,560 --> 00:39:20,680
Speaker 2: think the disciples knew the pressure that Jesus was under.

696
00:39:21,719 --> 00:39:25,200
Speaker 2: While he's busy breaking bread and pouring wine, He's preparing

697
00:39:25,239 --> 00:39:28,520
Speaker 2: his heart, and they really didn't see it until he

698
00:39:28,640 --> 00:39:31,000
Speaker 2: knelt in the garden of Gutsemone. Now I gotta tell

699
00:39:31,000 --> 00:39:33,239
Speaker 2: you about guestsemony because Guesthsemone was the place of the

700
00:39:33,280 --> 00:39:35,200
Speaker 2: olive press, but it was also the place where the

701
00:39:35,239 --> 00:39:39,600
Speaker 2: Savior prayed. And in Guessemone he prayed something very powerful

702
00:39:39,640 --> 00:39:43,200
Speaker 2: to prayers. He prayed, Father, if it's possible, take this

703
00:39:43,280 --> 00:39:46,239
Speaker 2: cup from me, write this down in your notes. That's

704
00:39:46,239 --> 00:39:53,360
Speaker 2: called the prayer that prevents. Sometimes prayer prevents. Sometimes in

705
00:39:53,400 --> 00:39:56,279
Speaker 2: the Bible, will see somebody pray and what was going

706
00:39:56,320 --> 00:40:00,040
Speaker 2: to happen didn't happen because they prayed. It's important that

707
00:40:00,080 --> 00:40:03,160
Speaker 2: we pray and plead the blood of Jesus over our lives,

708
00:40:03,920 --> 00:40:05,960
Speaker 2: because there are some things that your prayers can stop.

709
00:40:06,920 --> 00:40:10,080
Speaker 2: There are when Moses prayed to God, God said, i

710
00:40:10,120 --> 00:40:12,719
Speaker 2: am not going to wipe out the Israelites even though

711
00:40:12,719 --> 00:40:17,319
Speaker 2: they sinned, because you prayed and it prevented it. Moses said, God,

712
00:40:17,360 --> 00:40:20,880
Speaker 2: if you wipe them out, it will defame your glory.

713
00:40:21,800 --> 00:40:23,239
Speaker 2: God said, I'm going to do what you asked, and

714
00:40:23,280 --> 00:40:24,799
Speaker 2: I'm not going to kill them because you asked. You

715
00:40:24,840 --> 00:40:27,560
Speaker 2: can pray things for your children, you can pray things

716
00:40:27,560 --> 00:40:30,200
Speaker 2: for your friends, you can pray things for those you love.

717
00:40:30,480 --> 00:40:35,760
Speaker 2: You can pray things for your own life. But Jesus

718
00:40:35,760 --> 00:40:38,000
Speaker 2: came to drink the cup, and so the father didn't

719
00:40:38,000 --> 00:40:38,680
Speaker 2: take the cup away.

720
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Speaker 1: So after he moves past the prayer that prevents.

721
00:40:42,400 --> 00:40:46,840
Speaker 2: He moved into the prayer that prepares. There is a

722
00:40:46,840 --> 00:40:49,879
Speaker 2: prayer that you can pray that will prepare you. There

723
00:40:49,920 --> 00:40:51,799
Speaker 2: is a prayer that you can pray that God would

724
00:40:51,840 --> 00:40:53,799
Speaker 2: enlighten you. There is a prayer that you could pray

725
00:40:54,360 --> 00:40:56,400
Speaker 2: that God would show you the doors to go through.

726
00:40:56,560 --> 00:40:58,840
Speaker 2: There is a prayer that you can pray before you

727
00:40:58,920 --> 00:41:01,520
Speaker 2: leave your house in the morning. There is a prayer

728
00:41:01,520 --> 00:41:03,840
Speaker 2: you can pray in the bathroom at the office before

729
00:41:03,880 --> 00:41:05,560
Speaker 2: you have to come back out for the next meeting.

730
00:41:06,480 --> 00:41:08,879
Speaker 2: Sometimes you better dead bolt the bathroom door and tell

731
00:41:08,920 --> 00:41:12,080
Speaker 2: the Lord, please clean out my mouth, please cleanse my thoughts,

732
00:41:12,320 --> 00:41:13,719
Speaker 2: Please help me go back in here.

733
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Speaker 1: God give me a.

734
00:41:14,600 --> 00:41:17,360
Speaker 2: Supernatural smile, because I hate every single one of these people.

735
00:41:17,560 --> 00:41:19,200
Speaker 1: There is a prayer that you can pray that will

736
00:41:19,200 --> 00:41:22,680
Speaker 1: prepare you, And sometimes we miss it because I'm gonna

737
00:41:22,680 --> 00:41:24,759
Speaker 1: just be honest, We don't really give the day to God.

738
00:41:24,800 --> 00:41:26,480
Speaker 1: We just get caught off guard by the day.

739
00:41:27,320 --> 00:41:29,080
Speaker 2: Just get caught off guard by the fact that your

740
00:41:29,080 --> 00:41:30,399
Speaker 2: back hurts when you get out of bed.

741
00:41:30,400 --> 00:41:32,480
Speaker 1: Your back hurts every day. Just pray about it.

742
00:41:32,640 --> 00:41:35,839
Speaker 2: And get up and do a stretch and pray and

743
00:41:35,880 --> 00:41:38,960
Speaker 2: pray and prepare. There is a prayer that prepares, and

744
00:41:39,000 --> 00:41:42,279
Speaker 2: so Jesus moves into that prayer. Next he prays, God,

745
00:41:42,280 --> 00:41:44,440
Speaker 2: if it's possible, take this cup from me.

746
00:41:44,520 --> 00:41:46,000
Speaker 1: But God does not remove the cup.

747
00:41:46,080 --> 00:41:50,320
Speaker 2: So then he says, nevertheless, not my will, but yours

748
00:41:50,920 --> 00:41:51,399
Speaker 2: be done.

749
00:41:51,440 --> 00:41:55,280
Speaker 1: What's that. That's the prayer of preparation. It's the prayer

750
00:41:55,280 --> 00:41:57,759
Speaker 1: that gets him ready. It's the prayer that some of

751
00:41:57,800 --> 00:41:59,640
Speaker 1: you have to pray right now. God, this is gonna

752
00:41:59,640 --> 00:42:00,000
Speaker 1: be hard.

753
00:42:00,120 --> 00:42:03,000
Speaker 2: What's coming up next is gonna be heavy, What's coming

754
00:42:03,080 --> 00:42:03,560
Speaker 2: up next?

755
00:42:03,920 --> 00:42:06,440
Speaker 1: This is not going to be easy. What I'm walking into.

756
00:42:06,880 --> 00:42:09,239
Speaker 2: I'm gonna have to walk into this knowing that it's

757
00:42:09,280 --> 00:42:12,000
Speaker 2: going to be painful and it's going to be costly,

758
00:42:12,280 --> 00:42:14,440
Speaker 2: and there is no easy way around this.

759
00:42:14,560 --> 00:42:16,040
Speaker 1: I'm just gonna have to go through it.

760
00:42:16,080 --> 00:42:19,640
Speaker 2: So God, prepare me, like Paul prayed for the church

761
00:42:19,680 --> 00:42:23,719
Speaker 2: at Ephesus, Strengthen me in my inner man, that the

762
00:42:23,760 --> 00:42:26,680
Speaker 2: eyes of my understanding may be open, so I can

763
00:42:26,840 --> 00:42:30,600
Speaker 2: understand the inheritance that I have in Him, so that

764
00:42:30,640 --> 00:42:33,839
Speaker 2: when I'm up against the impossible demands of this situation.

765
00:42:34,320 --> 00:42:34,799
Speaker 1: I have a.

766
00:42:34,760 --> 00:42:38,080
Speaker 2: Supply to draw from and a resource to reach for.

767
00:42:38,719 --> 00:42:42,319
Speaker 2: So I'm prepared for this. So when Goliath gets up

768
00:42:42,360 --> 00:42:44,920
Speaker 2: in my face tomorrow, even though I don't even know

769
00:42:45,040 --> 00:42:48,120
Speaker 2: his name yet, I know a name that is greater

770
00:42:48,200 --> 00:42:50,920
Speaker 2: than a giant, and that can bring him down with

771
00:42:51,080 --> 00:42:54,600
Speaker 2: a single stone. Because I've been killing bears and i've

772
00:42:54,600 --> 00:42:57,600
Speaker 2: been killing sheep. I've been keeping sheep, and I've been

773
00:42:57,680 --> 00:43:01,400
Speaker 2: killing lions, and I'm prepared for this. And as a

774
00:43:01,440 --> 00:43:03,840
Speaker 2: matter of fact, that's why I had to come in

775
00:43:03,960 --> 00:43:07,800
Speaker 2: church today even though the rain was pouring sideways.

776
00:43:08,360 --> 00:43:10,640
Speaker 1: I don't even know what was happening, but.

777
00:43:10,520 --> 00:43:14,160
Speaker 2: The Lord dump dumped a bucket of rain sideways out

778
00:43:14,160 --> 00:43:17,840
Speaker 2: of heaven. That's the meteorological explanation for today.

779
00:43:18,320 --> 00:43:20,560
Speaker 1: But some of y'all had to come anyway.

780
00:43:20,520 --> 00:43:24,279
Speaker 2: Because I came to prepare for the fight that I'm in,

781
00:43:24,640 --> 00:43:30,080
Speaker 2: for the season that I'm stepping into, because I'm being

782
00:43:30,200 --> 00:43:31,320
Speaker 2: shaken right now.

783
00:43:33,080 --> 00:43:35,719
Speaker 1: But upon this rock I will build my church.

784
00:43:40,960 --> 00:43:44,080
Speaker 2: Somebody shall God get me ready.

785
00:43:44,800 --> 00:43:47,280
Speaker 1: God get me ready. I don't know what's coming next,

786
00:43:47,320 --> 00:43:52,799
Speaker 1: but God get me ready. It's the prayer that prepares.

787
00:43:54,400 --> 00:44:00,000
Speaker 2: But then sit down, my sermon is about the prayer,

788
00:44:01,800 --> 00:44:11,359
Speaker 2: not that prevents, not that prepairs, but the prayer that repairs.

789
00:44:11,400 --> 00:44:13,200
Speaker 1: And this is for all of you who weren't ready

790
00:44:13,200 --> 00:44:16,200
Speaker 1: for it. This is for all of you who didn't

791
00:44:16,239 --> 00:44:19,080
Speaker 1: see it come in. This is for all of you,

792
00:44:19,600 --> 00:44:25,080
Speaker 1: Simon Simon, who hit a point in your life and

793
00:44:25,239 --> 00:44:27,000
Speaker 1: you didn't pray about it.

794
00:44:28,440 --> 00:44:31,200
Speaker 2: See the thing about Jesus's words in this situation, when

795
00:44:31,239 --> 00:44:35,799
Speaker 2: he says, Simon Simon, that is so meaningful to me

796
00:44:36,880 --> 00:44:38,880
Speaker 2: is that when Satan asked to sift him as we,

797
00:44:39,880 --> 00:44:45,600
Speaker 2: Jesus didn't tell him no. And even standing on the

798
00:44:45,640 --> 00:44:50,640
Speaker 2: eve of Peter's disappointment, Jesus prophesies his destiny.

799
00:44:51,200 --> 00:44:52,200
Speaker 1: Look at verse thirty two.

800
00:44:52,239 --> 00:45:01,160
Speaker 2: Please, when you have turned back, strengthen your brothers.

801
00:45:01,760 --> 00:45:11,200
Speaker 1: When not if, when not if you turn back.

802
00:45:11,560 --> 00:45:13,560
Speaker 2: Jesus knew in that moment that there would come a

803
00:45:13,600 --> 00:45:17,160
Speaker 2: point in your life, a pivotal point, when the pressure

804
00:45:17,200 --> 00:45:20,640
Speaker 2: would be too great, when the future would be too uncertain,

805
00:45:21,200 --> 00:45:23,440
Speaker 2: when you would not be able to do it like

806
00:45:23,480 --> 00:45:26,520
Speaker 2: you used to do it. And he said, in that moment,

807
00:45:26,640 --> 00:45:31,359
Speaker 2: when you turn back, not if you turn back. When

808
00:45:31,400 --> 00:45:33,319
Speaker 2: you turn back, he knew that there would be a

809
00:45:33,360 --> 00:45:36,920
Speaker 2: moment where you would pray and say, God, fix it.

810
00:45:38,280 --> 00:45:41,319
Speaker 2: I made a mess of this. I have made a

811
00:45:41,440 --> 00:45:43,040
Speaker 2: complete mess of this.

812
00:45:43,960 --> 00:45:44,440
Speaker 1: Fix it.

813
00:45:44,800 --> 00:45:47,640
Speaker 2: And that's the moment he's been waiting for. When my

814
00:45:47,760 --> 00:45:50,680
Speaker 2: kids were very small, I made up a little lie,

815
00:45:50,840 --> 00:45:52,799
Speaker 2: and you could judge me for it. But anytime they

816
00:45:52,800 --> 00:45:54,879
Speaker 2: would get hurt and they would come to me about it,

817
00:45:55,120 --> 00:45:57,480
Speaker 2: I would tell them, Oh, if it was a minor injury.

818
00:45:57,800 --> 00:45:59,600
Speaker 2: If it was a major injury, see your mom. If

819
00:45:59,600 --> 00:46:02,399
Speaker 2: it's a I'll say, don't worry about it. I can

820
00:46:02,440 --> 00:46:05,480
Speaker 2: fix it. And whatever was hurt on their body, I

821
00:46:05,520 --> 00:46:08,080
Speaker 2: would pretend like I knew how to fix it. I'm

822
00:46:08,120 --> 00:46:11,920
Speaker 2: talking when they were very small. So my elbow hurts, Oh,

823
00:46:11,960 --> 00:46:14,480
Speaker 2: come here, I'll fix it. I went to elbow school.

824
00:46:17,320 --> 00:46:20,800
Speaker 2: Oh your big toe hurts. I went to big toe school.

825
00:46:21,000 --> 00:46:23,600
Speaker 2: I went to pinky toe school also, but big toe

826
00:46:23,680 --> 00:46:25,120
Speaker 2: school is the one you need right now.

827
00:46:25,400 --> 00:46:27,160
Speaker 1: Big toe school is what you get.

828
00:46:27,560 --> 00:46:32,240
Speaker 2: Oh your ear hurts, I went to ear school. Oh,

829
00:46:32,280 --> 00:46:34,399
Speaker 2: and if it was a minor injury, I'm telling you.

830
00:46:34,640 --> 00:46:39,160
Speaker 2: Every time it would work. Every time they'd stop crying.

831
00:46:39,920 --> 00:46:42,000
Speaker 2: One time, Graham looked at me and said, you went

832
00:46:42,080 --> 00:46:43,600
Speaker 2: to a lot of schools.

833
00:46:46,320 --> 00:46:50,480
Speaker 1: I went to ear school, I school hand school, every school.

834
00:46:50,600 --> 00:46:53,200
Speaker 2: I went to every school, And even though I didn't

835
00:46:53,239 --> 00:46:57,680
Speaker 2: really have the competency to fix it, their faith made

836
00:46:57,719 --> 00:47:02,760
Speaker 2: them feel better. I didn't even really have the ability

837
00:47:02,800 --> 00:47:06,319
Speaker 2: to fix it. Just their faith that I could was

838
00:47:06,440 --> 00:47:09,000
Speaker 2: enough to make the pain go away.

839
00:47:09,640 --> 00:47:11,320
Speaker 1: If I, as a father.

840
00:47:11,800 --> 00:47:15,439
Speaker 2: With no ability to fix it, can make my kid

841
00:47:15,520 --> 00:47:19,919
Speaker 2: better just by telling them I went to school, how

842
00:47:20,080 --> 00:47:25,840
Speaker 2: much more can your mother, who didn't just go to school,

843
00:47:26,280 --> 00:47:29,160
Speaker 2: he started the university.

844
00:47:29,880 --> 00:47:33,279
Speaker 1: How much more can your father, who.

845
00:47:33,040 --> 00:47:36,200
Speaker 2: Knows how he puts you together, who knows how he

846
00:47:36,280 --> 00:47:41,200
Speaker 2: made you, who knows your temperament, knows your personality, knows

847
00:47:41,280 --> 00:47:47,280
Speaker 2: your background, knows your insecurity, knows your resume, knows your hope,

848
00:47:47,320 --> 00:47:51,080
Speaker 2: nobody find out abouts knows everything that you carry on

849
00:47:51,120 --> 00:47:56,880
Speaker 2: the inside of you. Call your name and say, Simon, Simon.

850
00:47:57,880 --> 00:48:01,040
Speaker 2: I see who you were, I see who you're gonna be.

851
00:48:01,640 --> 00:48:03,840
Speaker 2: And I stand in the middle to let you know

852
00:48:04,520 --> 00:48:09,440
Speaker 2: that Peter is how I see you, and Simon is

853
00:48:09,520 --> 00:48:12,520
Speaker 2: how I found you. And for the next night you

854
00:48:12,560 --> 00:48:15,640
Speaker 2: are gonna be in a Simon state of mind, and

855
00:48:15,680 --> 00:48:21,360
Speaker 2: you're gonna deny me Simon Simon, and you're gonna betray me, Simon, Simon,

856
00:48:21,600 --> 00:48:25,120
Speaker 2: and you're gonna let me down, Simon Simon. But when

857
00:48:25,200 --> 00:48:29,600
Speaker 2: I look at you, I still see Peter, because that's

858
00:48:29,640 --> 00:48:32,319
Speaker 2: the name I gave you, because that's the name I

859
00:48:32,480 --> 00:48:37,960
Speaker 2: called you, because that's the name I chose for you. Now,

860
00:48:38,000 --> 00:48:40,160
Speaker 2: help me preach. Tell your neighbor. He knows your name.

861
00:48:41,760 --> 00:48:45,279
Speaker 2: He knows your name and your other name. He knows

862
00:48:45,320 --> 00:48:47,960
Speaker 2: your name you bring to church and your other name

863
00:48:48,000 --> 00:48:48,840
Speaker 2: you're taking home.

864
00:48:49,200 --> 00:48:52,360
Speaker 1: He knows your name, Simon, Simon.

865
00:48:52,800 --> 00:48:55,399
Speaker 2: Just to remind you that he will speak to your

866
00:48:55,520 --> 00:48:57,640
Speaker 2: Simon until you see your Peter again.

867
00:49:04,239 --> 00:49:12,240
Speaker 1: Praise Ray. So give me a little more vogues.

868
00:49:13,239 --> 00:49:17,480
Speaker 2: Yea, what I'm trying to say, Okay, what I'm trying

869
00:49:17,520 --> 00:49:23,440
Speaker 2: to say, watch this, Simon.

870
00:49:23,120 --> 00:49:27,560
Speaker 1: Is what you're acting like. Peter is what God called you.

871
00:49:28,400 --> 00:49:35,839
Speaker 2: The two are a pair, a pair, everybody say pair

872
00:49:36,960 --> 00:49:40,799
Speaker 2: like boots. They are a pair, like earrings, they are

873
00:49:40,800 --> 00:49:43,040
Speaker 2: a pair, like gloves.

874
00:49:43,120 --> 00:49:44,640
Speaker 1: They are a pair.

875
00:49:45,200 --> 00:49:49,720
Speaker 3: And so when Peter doesn't prevent it, when Peter doesn't

876
00:49:49,960 --> 00:49:53,680
Speaker 3: persevere through it, when Peter isn't prepared for it, and

877
00:49:53,840 --> 00:49:58,480
Speaker 3: Simon sings slow, watch what happens.

878
00:49:58,360 --> 00:50:08,040
Speaker 1: Next, Jesus said I prayed for you, Simon.

879
00:50:12,120 --> 00:50:17,160
Speaker 2: So if this is Simon's faith versus Satan's attack, Satan wins.

880
00:50:18,560 --> 00:50:21,720
Speaker 2: But apparently this is not a fight between Simon's faith

881
00:50:22,640 --> 00:50:27,520
Speaker 2: and Satan's attack. This is a fight between Satan's attack

882
00:50:28,520 --> 00:50:36,920
Speaker 2: and a savior's prayer. And this is not just any prayer.

883
00:50:37,880 --> 00:50:43,880
Speaker 2: This is the prayer that read pairs. This is the

884
00:50:43,960 --> 00:50:48,360
Speaker 2: prayer not that you pray, because sometimes you can't pray,

885
00:50:48,680 --> 00:50:51,880
Speaker 2: and sometimes you don't pray, and sometimes you didn't pray.

886
00:50:52,200 --> 00:50:56,080
Speaker 2: This is not the prayer that prevents, because Peter went

887
00:50:56,120 --> 00:51:00,560
Speaker 2: on to deny Jesus. But when it doesn't prevent, and

888
00:51:00,600 --> 00:51:04,480
Speaker 2: when it doesn't prepare, Jesus says, I got a prayer

889
00:51:04,480 --> 00:51:07,319
Speaker 2: for you, not the one that you pray, the one

890
00:51:07,360 --> 00:51:11,200
Speaker 2: that I prayed. When you are acting like Simon, but

891
00:51:11,360 --> 00:51:12,560
Speaker 2: I know you to be Peter.

892
00:51:13,560 --> 00:51:14,640
Speaker 1: It is the.

893
00:51:14,440 --> 00:51:19,719
Speaker 2: Prayer that Rea pears, the prayer that reminds you who

894
00:51:19,760 --> 00:51:22,680
Speaker 2: you really are, the prayer that reminds you what he

895
00:51:22,800 --> 00:51:23,919
Speaker 2: really spoke.

896
00:51:23,960 --> 00:51:25,680
Speaker 1: The prayer that calls you back to.

897
00:51:25,600 --> 00:51:28,600
Speaker 2: The essence of His spirit and his presence, away from

898
00:51:28,680 --> 00:51:31,600
Speaker 2: the dictates of your flesh. The prayer that brings you

899
00:51:31,640 --> 00:51:34,200
Speaker 2: back to your right mind, the prayer that, like the

900
00:51:34,239 --> 00:51:37,759
Speaker 2: prodigal son, says, how am I starving to death when

901
00:51:37,800 --> 00:51:40,879
Speaker 2: my father has enough food to feed an entire household

902
00:51:41,120 --> 00:51:44,319
Speaker 2: and every employee. I will arise and go back to

903
00:51:44,360 --> 00:51:48,920
Speaker 2: my father. I will repair you. I will bring you

904
00:51:49,080 --> 00:51:53,320
Speaker 2: back into alignment. I am praying for you. I am

905
00:51:53,360 --> 00:51:58,000
Speaker 2: pairing you, because as long as Jesus is your prayer partner,

906
00:51:58,440 --> 00:52:00,759
Speaker 2: your prayers are gonna get in third.

907
00:52:08,760 --> 00:52:11,960
Speaker 1: It is the prayer that repairs.

908
00:52:12,400 --> 00:52:15,759
Speaker 2: So Chris, come here, Come here, So Chris, Chris, come

909
00:52:15,840 --> 00:52:16,640
Speaker 2: up on the stage.

910
00:52:16,920 --> 00:52:20,720
Speaker 1: Chris, Chris. How many of y'all think that Chris lifts?

911
00:52:23,960 --> 00:52:28,480
Speaker 1: How many y'all think Chris lifts? Chris? Chris lists lists,

912
00:52:29,520 --> 00:52:30,200
Speaker 1: and as.

913
00:52:30,000 --> 00:52:32,200
Speaker 2: He is lifting, the Lord gave me a very specific

914
00:52:32,280 --> 00:52:35,880
Speaker 2: picture of this to make it make sense. When he

915
00:52:35,960 --> 00:52:41,799
Speaker 2: is lifting weights, he is hopefully lifting more weight than

916
00:52:41,840 --> 00:52:46,200
Speaker 2: he can successfully complete repetitions for which is called lifting

917
00:52:46,239 --> 00:52:49,640
Speaker 2: to the point of failure for hypertrophy, so that he

918
00:52:49,680 --> 00:52:53,480
Speaker 2: can have muscle gain. When he is lifting weights, to

919
00:52:53,640 --> 00:52:56,960
Speaker 2: the average eye, it appears that he is building muscle,

920
00:52:57,320 --> 00:53:01,360
Speaker 2: but that is not technically true. He does not build

921
00:53:01,440 --> 00:53:06,200
Speaker 2: muscle when he lifts weights. He builds muscles after he

922
00:53:06,239 --> 00:53:10,880
Speaker 2: has lifted weights to the point of failure and goes home.

923
00:53:11,600 --> 00:53:13,880
Speaker 2: While he is lifting weights, not only is he not

924
00:53:14,040 --> 00:53:17,759
Speaker 2: building muscles, he is actually doing the opposite in that

925
00:53:18,000 --> 00:53:21,759
Speaker 2: the muscle fibers are tearing, little micro tears that are

926
00:53:21,760 --> 00:53:23,120
Speaker 2: tearing the muscle fibers.

927
00:53:23,560 --> 00:53:25,319
Speaker 1: So now he's got a tear in there.

928
00:53:25,920 --> 00:53:28,200
Speaker 2: And so when he goes home, his body starts talking

929
00:53:28,239 --> 00:53:30,680
Speaker 2: to itself, saying, we got to do something about this.

930
00:53:31,239 --> 00:53:32,880
Speaker 1: Did you see what he just put us through?

931
00:53:33,280 --> 00:53:36,520
Speaker 2: He made us curl sixty pound dumbbells today, he made

932
00:53:36,600 --> 00:53:38,440
Speaker 2: us do six, seven, eight reps.

933
00:53:38,719 --> 00:53:40,839
Speaker 1: Last time we only did nine. Today he made us

934
00:53:40,880 --> 00:53:41,400
Speaker 1: do ten.

935
00:53:41,640 --> 00:53:44,160
Speaker 2: And he barely got there and he struggled and he

936
00:53:44,200 --> 00:53:46,920
Speaker 2: couldn't get the last one. So since he got to

937
00:53:47,040 --> 00:53:53,279
Speaker 2: that point and started shaking and started shaking, three of

938
00:53:53,360 --> 00:53:55,480
Speaker 2: y'all are listening to my sermons, so I'll preach it

939
00:53:55,560 --> 00:53:59,560
Speaker 2: for three. Since he got to that point, because this

940
00:53:59,600 --> 00:54:03,800
Speaker 2: is the that repairs. Since he got to that point

941
00:54:03,840 --> 00:54:06,799
Speaker 2: and started shaking and couldn't do another one and drop

942
00:54:06,880 --> 00:54:10,239
Speaker 2: the weight, then the body sends a signal to itself

943
00:54:10,520 --> 00:54:13,360
Speaker 2: and it starts sending out satellite cells to the torn

944
00:54:13,440 --> 00:54:16,640
Speaker 2: fibers with the little microtel cells and all the stuff

945
00:54:16,640 --> 00:54:17,840
Speaker 2: that I went to school learned about.

946
00:54:19,200 --> 00:54:22,839
Speaker 1: I went to muscle school too, and I was about

947
00:54:22,880 --> 00:54:24,000
Speaker 1: said the Bible said.

948
00:54:23,960 --> 00:54:27,440
Speaker 2: But the body says, we gotta send more cells to

949
00:54:27,480 --> 00:54:28,320
Speaker 2: build that back.

950
00:54:29,600 --> 00:54:32,960
Speaker 1: Now, I know what Jesus meant in verse thirty two.

951
00:54:33,040 --> 00:54:36,040
Speaker 2: Put it on the screen, please, he said, I prayed

952
00:54:36,080 --> 00:54:38,720
Speaker 2: for you, Simon, that your faith may not fail.

953
00:54:38,880 --> 00:54:39,479
Speaker 1: But it did.

954
00:54:40,600 --> 00:54:48,120
Speaker 2: No, it didn't. It didn't fail. It was broken down

955
00:54:49,640 --> 00:54:50,600
Speaker 2: to be built back up.

956
00:54:53,320 --> 00:54:56,160
Speaker 1: Because after you've finished that lift, why y'all take my

957
00:54:56,239 --> 00:54:59,520
Speaker 1: verse down, give me my verse back. I prayed that

958
00:54:59,640 --> 00:55:01,560
Speaker 1: your faith would not fail.

959
00:55:02,440 --> 00:55:09,439
Speaker 2: And when you have turned back, strengthen your brothers. This

960
00:55:10,480 --> 00:55:16,560
Speaker 2: is the prayer that repairs. Is that after you have

961
00:55:16,640 --> 00:55:21,560
Speaker 2: been broken down, after you were surprised what came out of.

962
00:55:21,520 --> 00:55:28,120
Speaker 5: Yourself, after you made the mistake, you say, God, strengthen

963
00:55:28,200 --> 00:55:33,800
Speaker 5: me for this, And Jesus says, all right, I'm already

964
00:55:33,840 --> 00:55:40,760
Speaker 5: praying for you, and I'm already sending satellite cells all.

965
00:55:40,360 --> 00:55:44,759
Speaker 2: To your torn muscles, all to your broken heart. I'm

966
00:55:44,800 --> 00:55:46,440
Speaker 2: already sending new cells.

967
00:55:50,880 --> 00:55:54,719
Speaker 1: But I'm not just gonna build it back. I'm gonna

968
00:55:54,719 --> 00:56:00,480
Speaker 1: build it back better. On the other side of this night,

969
00:56:00,600 --> 00:56:04,880
Speaker 1: Peter will go on to preach the first sermon that

970
00:56:05,040 --> 00:56:07,600
Speaker 1: was called a sermon in the New Testament Church.

971
00:56:09,040 --> 00:56:10,840
Speaker 2: And I got to think that while he was shaken,

972
00:56:12,960 --> 00:56:16,319
Speaker 2: he didn't feel very strong. I gotta think that while

973
00:56:16,360 --> 00:56:20,600
Speaker 2: he was shaken, while he was sifted, he felt like,

974
00:56:20,680 --> 00:56:21,239
Speaker 2: this is it.

975
00:56:22,680 --> 00:56:24,160
Speaker 1: But Jesus said, Peter, this is.

976
00:56:24,120 --> 00:56:31,680
Speaker 2: Not about your prayer, Simon, It's about my prayer. As

977
00:56:31,680 --> 00:56:34,120
Speaker 2: long as you keep thinking it's about your faith versus

978
00:56:34,120 --> 00:56:36,480
Speaker 2: Satan's attack, you will always feel weak.

979
00:56:37,560 --> 00:56:41,319
Speaker 1: Chris, Chris, I'm done with you coming back down. But

980
00:56:41,400 --> 00:56:44,920
Speaker 1: the moment you realize that this is not.

981
00:56:47,360 --> 00:56:53,680
Speaker 2: Simon's faith versus Satan's attack, this is Satan's attack versus

982
00:56:53,719 --> 00:56:56,959
Speaker 2: the Savior's prayer, the.

983
00:56:56,880 --> 00:57:02,560
Speaker 1: Prayer of repair is his prayer. He's saying, I see you, Simon,

984
00:57:03,520 --> 00:57:07,759
Speaker 1: I see you, Peter. I am repairing you. I'm reminding

985
00:57:08,640 --> 00:57:09,600
Speaker 1: I'm going to use you.

986
00:57:10,320 --> 00:57:12,520
Speaker 2: And don't you think for one moment that when you

987
00:57:12,560 --> 00:57:14,399
Speaker 2: get to this point, you're going to always.

988
00:57:14,040 --> 00:57:15,279
Speaker 1: Be Peter Peter.

989
00:57:16,880 --> 00:57:20,400
Speaker 2: At best, you're going to be Simon Peter, and sometimes

990
00:57:20,400 --> 00:57:25,280
Speaker 2: you're Simon Simon. But don't you love to know that

991
00:57:25,440 --> 00:57:30,280
Speaker 2: the Savior prayed for simonyes That just hit me, man.

992
00:57:31,200 --> 00:57:36,120
Speaker 6: That the Savior prayed Simon. Simon, stand to your feet

993
00:57:36,200 --> 00:57:40,400
Speaker 6: so I can pray for you, the prayer.

994
00:57:41,680 --> 00:57:46,200
Speaker 1: That repairs. See how me and Holly are standing together

995
00:57:46,280 --> 00:57:46,520
Speaker 1: like this.

996
00:57:48,160 --> 00:57:53,120
Speaker 2: We're a pair, We're a couple. That's a visual illustration

997
00:57:54,040 --> 00:57:58,040
Speaker 2: for you and Jesus. If any of you would want

998
00:57:58,080 --> 00:58:00,680
Speaker 2: to come after her, you would.

999
00:58:00,560 --> 00:58:03,040
Speaker 1: Have to go through me, and you might be able

1000
00:58:03,040 --> 00:58:03,480
Speaker 1: to do it.

1001
00:58:04,560 --> 00:58:08,960
Speaker 2: But I promise you I'll pick up a chair, and

1002
00:58:09,040 --> 00:58:11,160
Speaker 2: if the chair didn't do it, I got three state

1003
00:58:11,240 --> 00:58:14,760
Speaker 2: champions on the second row and a full security team,

1004
00:58:15,120 --> 00:58:18,640
Speaker 2: and I want you to know I would do everything

1005
00:58:18,760 --> 00:58:24,360
Speaker 2: in my power to keep you from getting to who

1006
00:58:24,440 --> 00:58:28,320
Speaker 2: I'm paired with. You keep thinking that you are paired

1007
00:58:28,360 --> 00:58:31,320
Speaker 2: with people, and so when people leave, you think it's over.

1008
00:58:32,240 --> 00:58:39,000
Speaker 2: You are a joint heir with Jesus. And in the

1009
00:58:39,000 --> 00:58:44,400
Speaker 2: Book of Hebrews, I got to give them Hebrews seven

1010
00:58:44,520 --> 00:58:47,000
Speaker 2: day because they'll think that Jesus just prayed for Simon,

1011
00:58:47,440 --> 00:58:49,920
Speaker 2: but they won't believe that he's praying for them. In

1012
00:58:49,960 --> 00:58:53,360
Speaker 2: the Book of Hebrews, Chapter seven, verse fifteen or verse

1013
00:58:53,480 --> 00:58:57,800
Speaker 2: twenty five, the author says Therefore he is able to

1014
00:58:57,840 --> 00:59:03,720
Speaker 2: save completely those who come to God through him because

1015
00:59:03,760 --> 00:59:05,640
Speaker 2: He always lives.

1016
00:59:06,920 --> 00:59:11,680
Speaker 1: To intercede for them. What does it mean that he's interceding.

1017
00:59:12,280 --> 00:59:16,760
Speaker 2: He is standing in your shaking place saying, if you

1018
00:59:16,840 --> 00:59:23,000
Speaker 2: want to get to them, you've got to go through me.

1019
00:59:23,960 --> 00:59:25,080
Speaker 1: That's Jesus speaking.

1020
00:59:27,720 --> 00:59:34,600
Speaker 2: Now. There is the prayer Graham helped me down from

1021
00:59:34,640 --> 00:59:41,640
Speaker 2: this chair. There is the prayer that prevents. There is

1022
00:59:41,680 --> 00:59:44,280
Speaker 2: the prayer that prepares. But I have a feeling I'm

1023
00:59:44,280 --> 00:59:47,000
Speaker 2: speaking to a few people online today and even if

1024
00:59:47,040 --> 00:59:50,600
Speaker 2: you in the room who prayer didn't prevent it, prayer

1025
00:59:50,640 --> 00:59:55,480
Speaker 2: didn't prepare. And like Simon, Simon, you are going through

1026
00:59:55,520 --> 00:59:58,240
Speaker 2: something right now, or you've been through something where you

1027
00:59:58,280 --> 00:59:59,280
Speaker 2: need the prayer that.

1028
01:00:01,680 --> 01:00:02,800
Speaker 1: And the prayer that repairs.

1029
01:00:02,880 --> 01:00:09,520
Speaker 2: Is this, Lord, if everything else goes away, if everything

1030
01:00:09,560 --> 01:00:15,320
Speaker 2: else is sifted, don't let this trial take my faith.

1031
01:00:17,280 --> 01:00:20,040
Speaker 2: Because if my faith doesn't fail, I can make it.

1032
01:00:20,880 --> 01:00:23,920
Speaker 2: If my faith doesn't fail, I can come back from this.

1033
01:00:24,640 --> 01:00:28,200
Speaker 2: If my faith doesn't fail, I can get resourceful. If

1034
01:00:28,200 --> 01:00:30,880
Speaker 2: my faith doesn't fail, I can reach out. If my

1035
01:00:31,040 --> 01:00:36,040
Speaker 2: faith doesn't fail, I can pivot. And so, just like

1036
01:00:36,120 --> 01:00:40,680
Speaker 2: the Savior, pray for Peter, we want to write now

1037
01:00:40,760 --> 01:00:44,480
Speaker 2: pray for you, those of you who are Simon.

1038
01:00:44,720 --> 01:00:45,160
Speaker 1: Simon.

1039
01:00:46,240 --> 01:00:48,720
Speaker 2: Oh I followed him at a distance. Oh I let

1040
01:00:48,760 --> 01:00:51,520
Speaker 2: the pressure get the best of me. But this is

1041
01:00:51,560 --> 01:00:55,640
Speaker 2: the prayer that repairs. This is the prayer that brings

1042
01:00:55,640 --> 01:00:59,320
Speaker 2: you back to God right now. I believe there are

1043
01:00:59,560 --> 01:01:03,320
Speaker 2: many today who have never made the decision to make

1044
01:01:03,440 --> 01:01:04,120
Speaker 2: Jesus the.

1045
01:01:04,080 --> 01:01:06,040
Speaker 1: Lord of your life.

1046
01:01:06,160 --> 01:01:08,360
Speaker 2: I want to lead you in a prayer right now,

1047
01:01:09,120 --> 01:01:12,280
Speaker 2: and this is the prayer not only that repairs, but

1048
01:01:12,360 --> 01:01:13,880
Speaker 2: this is the prayer that saves.

1049
01:01:14,880 --> 01:01:16,680
Speaker 1: The Bible says that if you will.

1050
01:01:16,480 --> 01:01:20,040
Speaker 2: Call on the name of the Lord, you will be saved.

1051
01:01:21,000 --> 01:01:24,160
Speaker 2: He knows your name, and now it's time for you

1052
01:01:24,240 --> 01:01:28,560
Speaker 2: to call his name, the name of Jesus. There is

1053
01:01:28,640 --> 01:01:31,479
Speaker 2: no other name in heaven, or on earth or under

1054
01:01:31,520 --> 01:01:33,600
Speaker 2: the earth by which man must be saved.

1055
01:01:34,120 --> 01:01:35,080
Speaker 1: It is in this name.

1056
01:01:36,240 --> 01:01:38,160
Speaker 2: So right now, if God is speaking to you, and

1057
01:01:38,240 --> 01:01:41,920
Speaker 2: you realize in your heart, this is my day to

1058
01:01:42,000 --> 01:01:43,920
Speaker 2: come to God. This is my day to give him

1059
01:01:43,920 --> 01:01:46,560
Speaker 2: my life. I want you to pray this prayer with

1060
01:01:46,640 --> 01:01:49,480
Speaker 2: me out loud, and repeat after me. And if you

1061
01:01:49,520 --> 01:01:52,360
Speaker 2: mean this with your heart. The Bible says that if

1062
01:01:52,400 --> 01:01:56,480
Speaker 2: you confess your sins. He will forgive you of all unrighteousness.

1063
01:01:57,040 --> 01:01:58,960
Speaker 2: So right now, if you're ready for a new beginning,

1064
01:01:59,240 --> 01:02:00,800
Speaker 2: I'm by you to pray this prayer with me.

1065
01:02:00,880 --> 01:02:05,760
Speaker 1: Heavenly Father. I am a sinner in need of a savior.

1066
01:02:06,960 --> 01:02:11,360
Speaker 2: I believe that Jesus Christ is the Son of God

1067
01:02:12,320 --> 01:02:16,240
Speaker 2: and the savior of the world. And today I make

1068
01:02:16,360 --> 01:02:20,360
Speaker 2: Jesus the Lord of my life. I believe he died

1069
01:02:21,280 --> 01:02:25,439
Speaker 2: that I would be forgiven and rose again to give

1070
01:02:25,480 --> 01:02:31,200
Speaker 2: me life. I receive this new life. This is my

1071
01:02:31,320 --> 01:02:34,120
Speaker 2: new beginning. Throw your hand up on the count of three.

1072
01:02:34,120 --> 01:02:37,280
Speaker 2: If you prayed that one, two, three, we celebrate too.

1073
01:02:43,800 --> 01:02:46,800
Speaker 1: That's amazing. Let's clap a little louder.

1074
01:02:46,840 --> 01:02:51,240
Speaker 2: Please, let's welcome leave into the family of God.

1075
01:02:58,400 --> 01:02:59,520
Speaker 1: Can you give the Lord.

1076
01:02:59,280 --> 01:03:02,240
Speaker 2: A praise if he let vote something to you today?

1077
01:03:03,920 --> 01:03:08,560
Speaker 1: Take Lord, Amen.

1078
01:03:09,200 --> 01:03:12,960
Speaker 2: I think we're gonna do another one next week. Another one.

1079
01:03:13,000 --> 01:03:18,560
Speaker 2: I don't know. It'd be Abraham, Abraham, Moses, Moses, Jacob Jacob.

1080
01:03:18,760 --> 01:03:21,600
Speaker 2: Let's take a church vote right now in the comments,

1081
01:03:21,640 --> 01:03:22,840
Speaker 2: which one do you want next?

1082
01:03:23,880 --> 01:03:26,120
Speaker 1: Make some noise if you want Abraham.

1083
01:03:25,600 --> 01:03:34,680
Speaker 2: Abraham, Moses, Moses, Jacob Jacob, Martha, Martha.

1084
01:03:37,200 --> 01:03:45,720
Speaker 1: Saul Saul, Samuel Samuel. It's a close call. We'll have

1085
01:03:45,760 --> 01:03:48,880
Speaker 1: to come back and see. All over the room.

1086
01:03:48,920 --> 01:03:51,800
Speaker 2: People are receiving orange Bibles at each of our campuses.

1087
01:03:51,880 --> 01:03:53,520
Speaker 2: Less thank God for every new beginning.

1088
01:03:55,520 --> 01:03:58,240
Speaker 1: Raise the Lord. That's so good man.

1089
01:04:03,120 --> 01:04:04,960
Speaker 2: One more thing I want to tell you before our

1090
01:04:05,000 --> 01:04:07,840
Speaker 2: campus pastors take it. I got such a good illustration

1091
01:04:07,960 --> 01:04:10,520
Speaker 2: today of this message that I thought I would give

1092
01:04:10,520 --> 01:04:13,680
Speaker 2: you as a take home. It was raining really hard

1093
01:04:13,720 --> 01:04:16,960
Speaker 2: today in Charlotte. The rain, as I mentioned earlier, was

1094
01:04:17,000 --> 01:04:20,400
Speaker 2: coming so hard and coming from such a strange direction

1095
01:04:21,280 --> 01:04:23,920
Speaker 2: that even in my back room there was water that

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Speaker 2: came under the doors.

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Speaker 1: Now these are good doors, these aren't cheap doors.

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Speaker 2: It's not like we have a budget crisis at the

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Speaker 2: church and we have to put some weak doors. They

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Speaker 2: just weren't prepared for what came in in that direction,

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Speaker 2: and so they didn't prevent it. So they weren't prepared,

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Speaker 2: they didn't prevent There's water on the floor, and I

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Speaker 2: hope they cleaned it up while I was preaching, But

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Speaker 2: I didn't slip the thing about it is as silly

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Speaker 2: as it would be for me to never come back

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Speaker 2: to church again.

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Speaker 1: Didn't stop the water from coming in.

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Speaker 2: That would be how ridiculous it would be for you

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Speaker 2: to let some stupid storm keep you from fulfilling what

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Speaker 2: God has for your life and for your family. So

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Speaker 2: what am I gonna do? Close down the church? Never

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Speaker 2: come again. No, we're gonna fix the doors this week,

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Speaker 2: because if they didn't prevent and they didn't prepare, we're

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Speaker 2: gonna repair them.

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Speaker 1: So I call you back to your right self. I

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Speaker 1: call you back to your right mind. I call you

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Speaker 1: back to your childlike faith. I call you back to

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Speaker 1: your sincere spirit. Thank you for joining us.

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Speaker 2: this ministry. Is because of you that this ministry is possible.

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