WEBVTT - I’m Going Through But I’m Running Over

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

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

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<v Speaker 2>Hope you're blessed today.

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<v Speaker 1>Grace and anal jests.

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<v Speaker 2>Like you to grab the hand of the person next

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<v Speaker 2>to you or put your hand on their shoulder, make

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<v Speaker 2>a connection.

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<v Speaker 1>No one untouched.

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<v Speaker 2>Father, We thank you for your presence and the permeation

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<v Speaker 2>of your grace in this temporal moment. In these are

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<v Speaker 2>mortal bodies, we invite the fullness of the Godhead in

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<v Speaker 2>Christ flow through us. Now, living water, saturate every parched place,

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<v Speaker 2>quench and phil to overflow every thirsty soul.

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<v Speaker 1>Here's our cup, Lord, We lift it up. Lord, I

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<v Speaker 1>pray for the person on my right and on my left.

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<v Speaker 2>Fill them, feed them until they want no more. We

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<v Speaker 2>declare this done in the mighty name of Jesus, and

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<v Speaker 2>we clap our hands.

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<v Speaker 1>Anticipation of your reign is in our hearts. Ay man

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<v Speaker 1>hed night Lord the God.

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<v Speaker 2>Alright, well, what a special presence of God? How many

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<v Speaker 2>appreciate his presence when He touches you? And nobody can

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<v Speaker 2>touch you like God can. There's no place like the

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<v Speaker 2>presence of God. Amen, no place like home. I hope

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<v Speaker 2>you feel at home here. Those of you who are

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<v Speaker 2>visiting for the first time, those of you who come

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<v Speaker 2>every week, I hope you feel at home here. Those

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<v Speaker 2>of you who are watching online, I hope you feel

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<v Speaker 2>at home here. And so we're excited to bring God's word.

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<v Speaker 2>There is a pop up in La today. He La.

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<v Speaker 1>I'll tell you what, if you could see this weather

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<v Speaker 1>in Charlotte, you'd wish you were here. We get it all.

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<v Speaker 1>It's we could be seventy and seventeen in one week.

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<v Speaker 1>Here we drive in variety, here the forecast.

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<v Speaker 2>Shout out to our pop up, shout out to all

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<v Speaker 2>of our locations.

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<v Speaker 1>I don't take the time enough.

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<v Speaker 2>We have twenty locations meeting all across the region, in

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<v Speaker 2>different parts.

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<v Speaker 1>Of the country, in the world.

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<v Speaker 2>Less thank God for all of them, our evam around

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<v Speaker 2>the world.

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<v Speaker 1>We're all getting ready, so much to prepare for.

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<v Speaker 2>Ask you to stay standing for just a moment, because

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<v Speaker 2>after I get through these announcements, I'm going to read

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<v Speaker 2>my scripture and I want us to stand in honor

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<v Speaker 2>of the Word of God. But I want to underscore

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<v Speaker 2>that our Christmas services will begin Friday, December twenty second

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<v Speaker 2>through Sunday to twenty fourth. There are too many times

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<v Speaker 2>for me to list specific to each location. It gets

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<v Speaker 2>complicated with time zones and building capacities.

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<v Speaker 1>So you'll just go to Christmas at Elevation dot com, Christmas.

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<v Speaker 2>At Elevation dot com like that, and they'll give you

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<v Speaker 2>the times and locations.

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<v Speaker 1>On December thirty first, church will.

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<v Speaker 2>Be online only, and then we'll be back in person Sunday,

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<v Speaker 2>January seventh. Now before we give God praise for Christmas.

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<v Speaker 2>All right, now, before we get to any of that,

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<v Speaker 2>We've got our year end offering next Sunday, December ten.

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<v Speaker 2>Give God praise for that. Come on, we live to

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<v Speaker 2>get got so excited I went ahead and wrote my

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<v Speaker 2>check Thursday and put it in the offering.

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<v Speaker 1>Get it in the ground early in case it rains.

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<v Speaker 1>I want it to be ready and I love doing it,

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<v Speaker 1>and I hope you do too. No pressure to you.

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<v Speaker 2>You can come every week and never give anything we'll

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<v Speaker 2>give to you. But if you believe in this, if

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<v Speaker 2>this gospel saved you, if you want to help us

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<v Speaker 2>get it all around the world, then show up next

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<v Speaker 2>week with an offering and sew it in faith so

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<v Speaker 2>that people far.

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<v Speaker 1>From God can be raised to lie.

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<v Speaker 3>Let's build up the kingdom together. Let's week, Let's lit

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<v Speaker 3>up Jesus together, Holly.

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<v Speaker 2>That will be awesome. It's our declaration of trust. We're

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<v Speaker 2>calling our trust offering. That's the subtitle, our expansion, our outreach.

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<v Speaker 1>It will be amazing.

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<v Speaker 2>And guess what today I want to read you the

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<v Speaker 2>most famous Bible verse on trust in the whole Bible,

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<v Speaker 2>other than Proverbs three to six, second most famous, and

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<v Speaker 2>I want to share it with you. Now.

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<v Speaker 1>This word for you may feel very personal.

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<v Speaker 2>Don't be surprised if it does, because the Lord gave

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<v Speaker 2>it to me, and he knows what you're going through.

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<v Speaker 1>So don't get worried.

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<v Speaker 2>Does past our half cameras in my house when I

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<v Speaker 2>start saying some of this stuff. I don't know what

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<v Speaker 2>you're going through, But God does. He gave me this

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<v Speaker 2>word I believe for you. Actually, before we read Psalm

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<v Speaker 2>twenty three, I want to do it out of order.

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<v Speaker 2>Give me second Corinthians eight one and two. Then Psalm

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<v Speaker 2>twenty three Paul speaking. And now, brothers and sisters, I

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<v Speaker 2>want you to know about the grace that God has

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<v Speaker 2>given the Macedonian churches in the midst of a very

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<v Speaker 2>severe trial, their overflowing joy and their extreme poverty welled

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<v Speaker 2>up in rich generosity. Beautiful. Now saal, I'm twenty three

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<v Speaker 2>four and five. Yea, though I walk through the valley

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<v Speaker 2>of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil.

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<v Speaker 2>For thou art with me. Thy Rod and staff they

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<v Speaker 2>comfort me. Thou preparest a table before me in the

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<v Speaker 2>presence of mine enemies. Thou anointest my head with oil,

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<v Speaker 2>my cup, runneth over. Clap your hands for that, for

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<v Speaker 2>that promise, that timeless, ageless promise from Almighty God. Now

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<v Speaker 2>let me give you the message title repeat after me.

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<v Speaker 2>I'm going through, but I'm running over. Tell your neighbor

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<v Speaker 2>two things at once. Say I'm going through, but I'm

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<v Speaker 2>running over. Hallelujah. You feel that, say it. I'm going through.

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<v Speaker 2>Tell your neighbor you look like you're going through. You

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<v Speaker 2>look like it too, but you look like you're running over.

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<v Speaker 1>Oh yeah, oh yeah, oh yeah, oh yeah. Bressed out

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<v Speaker 1>shakings again. All right, y'all be seated. I'll be seated. Yeah,

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<v Speaker 1>I'll be seated. Be seated. How many married people in

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<v Speaker 1>the house. You better put some enthusiasm on that will.

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<v Speaker 1>How many would agree marriage changes everything.

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<v Speaker 2>It changes everything, and they don't tell you that marriage

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<v Speaker 2>not only changes everything in your relationship to the person

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<v Speaker 2>you're marrying when you commit to be with them all

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<v Speaker 2>the time. But the thing that surprised me about my

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<v Speaker 2>relationship with Holly is how much my relationship with her

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<v Speaker 2>changed my relationship with other things, not just my time, like, oh.

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<v Speaker 1>Well, now I've got to be home, you know, the

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<v Speaker 1>old ball and chain. We don't feel like that. I

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<v Speaker 1>don't feel like that about her.

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<v Speaker 2>At all, But over time, how her preferences have assimilated

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<v Speaker 2>into me, and now her references have become the prism

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<v Speaker 2>not prison prism through which.

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<v Speaker 1>I experienced so much of life.

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<v Speaker 2>And so the way that my wife feels about things

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<v Speaker 2>changes the way that I feel about so many things

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<v Speaker 2>in my life. My relationship with my wife changed my

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<v Speaker 2>relationship with so many other things in my life. I'm

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<v Speaker 2>sure she'd say the same about her relationship with me.

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<v Speaker 2>For the twenty one years we've been married, I've been

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<v Speaker 2>advocating to her that rock music is God's music, for

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<v Speaker 2>the Bible says he is a rock But I wonder

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<v Speaker 2>over slowly from her having the perspective of that rock

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<v Speaker 2>most rock music was annoying, and now she knows it's annointed.

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<v Speaker 2>Her relationship with me changed her relationship with the genre.

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<v Speaker 2>One of the first times I knew that being married

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<v Speaker 2>to this person was going to change me and change

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<v Speaker 2>my orientation towards simple, elemental, basic things.

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<v Speaker 1>Early when we were married, we woke up one.

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<v Speaker 2>Morning and it was raining outside, and I looked over

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<v Speaker 2>at her and she was awakened.

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<v Speaker 1>She was smiling.

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<v Speaker 2>She said, I just love a good rainy day, so relaxing,

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<v Speaker 2>so cozy, and I'm like, oh, you're one of these people.

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<v Speaker 2>Rain to me is depressing. I know it shouldn't be.

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<v Speaker 2>The joy of the Lord is my strength. Pray for me.

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<v Speaker 2>My sanctification process is still in progress. I'm buffering, and

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<v Speaker 2>she's like, oh, what a blessing a rainy day. Now

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<v Speaker 2>we can just you know, relax and all of that.

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<v Speaker 2>So through her eyes, over the last twenty one years,

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<v Speaker 2>I've kind of come to see it. It can be relaxing.

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<v Speaker 2>Rain can be relaxing. I never knew that. So what

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<v Speaker 2>I'm trying to say, just as a basic illustration to

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<v Speaker 2>set this up, is that my relationship with her changed

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<v Speaker 2>my relationship to something as simple as rain, just by

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<v Speaker 2>being with her. It didn't make it rain more or

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<v Speaker 2>less because we're married. It changed my relationship with the rain.

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<v Speaker 2>I saw Larry Brye on a video earlier as he

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<v Speaker 2>in the room.

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<v Speaker 1>Yeah, yea yeah. Remember when it rained early one Sunday.

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<v Speaker 2>About the third or fourth week we had this church yall,

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<v Speaker 2>and the attendance momentum was going good. It rained, The

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<v Speaker 2>attendants dropped by thirty percent. I found out people don't

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<v Speaker 2>need much to stay home from church, and I was

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<v Speaker 2>mad about it, and I went back just kind of

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<v Speaker 2>disappointed in all because in those days we were just,

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<v Speaker 2>you know, really trying to survive week the week.

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<v Speaker 1>This goofball is smiling, just grinning ear to ear.

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<v Speaker 2>I don't know if you know him, but he's just

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<v Speaker 2>a very over the top personality.

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<v Speaker 1>I said, what you're smiling about? Silly?

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<v Speaker 2>Had we had twenty percent? Did you not see all

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<v Speaker 2>those empty seats for the rain? He said, did you

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<v Speaker 2>not see our greeter team? He had bought these umbrellas

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<v Speaker 2>with elevation logos on him and he was waiting for

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<v Speaker 2>a rainy day he got to use his umbrellas. He's grinned.

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<v Speaker 2>He's in the grin and like Mary Poppins, I'm like

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<v Speaker 2>Ebenezer Scrooge, and it's just about you know.

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<v Speaker 1>And really.

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<v Speaker 2>I bring that up because I wanted a simple way

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<v Speaker 2>to say something that's kind of deep and kind of

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<v Speaker 2>hard to talk about. Is that your relationship with Christ

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<v Speaker 2>should change your relationship with adversity. You like the metaphor

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<v Speaker 2>better about the rain, didn't you? The rain was cute? Yeah,

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<v Speaker 2>my relationship with Christ. You know how we say Jesus

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<v Speaker 2>changes everything, true, but needs some explanation. Jesus didn't make

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<v Speaker 2>me sick foot three when he saved me.

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<v Speaker 1>He didn't change everything.

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<v Speaker 2>Jesus isn't fixing this bald spot on the back of

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<v Speaker 2>my head. I'd have to pay somebody in Miami to

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<v Speaker 2>do that. He's not gonna change everything.

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<v Speaker 1>Jesus, not Jesus.

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<v Speaker 2>Jesus changes. Jesus changes the way I see everything. Therefore,

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<v Speaker 2>Jesus changes everything by changing me. And as he changes me,

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<v Speaker 2>having him, knowing him, walking with him, being in relationship

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<v Speaker 2>with him, like my relationship with Holly, it changes the

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<v Speaker 2>way I.

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<v Speaker 1>See the rain.

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<v Speaker 2>When you see these leaves falling off the trees around here,

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<v Speaker 2>if you're the one who has to blow them out

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<v Speaker 2>of the driveway, they're a nuisance. But if you're the soil,

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<v Speaker 2>those are nutrients. Is it a nuisance or is it

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<v Speaker 2>a nutrient. It depends on whether you're the soil or

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<v Speaker 2>whether you're the person who's responsible of lawn maintenance and

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<v Speaker 2>making it look esthetically pleasing.

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<v Speaker 1>Now, Paul says, and I'm finally to the text. I

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<v Speaker 1>want you to know about this church in Macedonia.

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<v Speaker 2>They are amazing, but they are not affluent. They have

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<v Speaker 2>an abundant mentality in a scarcity situation.

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<v Speaker 1>Many of us are the opposite.

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<v Speaker 2>We have an abundant situation, a scarcity mindset, whether it's

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<v Speaker 2>because of our over commitment to all of the things

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<v Speaker 2>that we've done to impress people or get people to

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<v Speaker 2>like us. And it doesn't even really work because the

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<v Speaker 2>moment that you stop doing it, they stop liking you.

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<v Speaker 2>So they didn't really like you, they liked what you

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<v Speaker 2>were doing for them. And now you've run yourself ragged

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<v Speaker 2>for somebody you don't even have a real relationship with,

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<v Speaker 2>and it can leave you feeling depleted.

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<v Speaker 1>Paul says, just the opposite.

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<v Speaker 2>Always thought this scripture was a paradox not a contradiction.

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<v Speaker 2>A paradox a contradiction to things that can't.

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<v Speaker 1>Both be true, can't both be true?

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<v Speaker 2>Paradox doesn't look true on the surface, but dig beneath

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<v Speaker 2>it a little bit, it's true. I'll give you a paradox.

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<v Speaker 2>Less it's more. No, more is more unless it's not.

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<v Speaker 2>And no, that doesn't mean I'm only going to preach

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<v Speaker 2>for twenty minutes this week because less it's more. But

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<v Speaker 2>there are times where your silent presence will mean more

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<v Speaker 2>than your best advice. You know that you ever had

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<v Speaker 2>somebody on what they didn't say was a blacks so

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<v Speaker 2>less was more. That's a paradox. How About the paradox

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<v Speaker 2>of your personality? How About the paradox of your purpose?

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<v Speaker 2>How about the paradox of the provision in your life.

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<v Speaker 2>I'll go through all three of those. Your personality, the

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<v Speaker 2>fact that there are times where you are very outgoing

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<v Speaker 2>and there are times you want to be left alone.

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<v Speaker 2>That doesn't make you a hypocrite, makes you a human.

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<v Speaker 2>How about your purpose? The fact that sometimes you're very

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<v Speaker 2>sure God told you to take that job, and other times.

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<v Speaker 1>You feel the Lord might be in the moving truck.

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<v Speaker 1>Ministry sometime in twenty twenty four.

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<v Speaker 2>Huh, how about the paradox of purpose and then the

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<v Speaker 2>paradox of provision, which is really central to this text.

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<v Speaker 2>Paul said, there was a church in Macedonia and out

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<v Speaker 2>of their poverty. It's unclear in this situation exactly what

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<v Speaker 2>was happening to them, other than it was the effect

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<v Speaker 2>of persecution. Now they're giving an offering to the Church

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<v Speaker 2>at Jerusalem and they don't have themselves many basic needs met.

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<v Speaker 2>Paul says, out of this is a miracle. And I

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<v Speaker 2>believe that one of the things christ enables us to do.

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<v Speaker 2>And I want you to shout or clap or throw

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<v Speaker 2>something at me if you don't disagree with what I'm

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<v Speaker 2>saying too much, is that we should never let an

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<v Speaker 2>event become our identity.

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<v Speaker 1>Ever.

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<v Speaker 2>Watch me work this out now, because I'm talking about

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<v Speaker 2>our adversities and our achievements. No event should become your identity.

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<v Speaker 2>That is a fragile, flawed foundation to build your house on.

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<v Speaker 2>One storm can knock it down. No achievement. It should

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<v Speaker 2>be me in my mind. No achievement, no talent, no

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<v Speaker 2>ability should be conflated with my character.

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<v Speaker 1>As I decide who is it that I am? I

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<v Speaker 1>remember a lady told me one time, I grew up

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<v Speaker 1>in the Low Country where you did. And she said,

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<v Speaker 1>I have a bone to pick with you.

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<v Speaker 2>I said, a bone to pick with me? You are

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<v Speaker 2>from the low country talking like this, let's pick. She said,

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<v Speaker 2>I got.

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<v Speaker 1>A bone to pick with you.

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<v Speaker 2>She said, I listened to your sermons, and you don't

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<v Speaker 2>talk like where you come from.

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<v Speaker 1>She had a deep Southern accent.

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<v Speaker 2>She said, why don't you talk if you're from Monk's Corner,

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<v Speaker 2>South Carolina? Why can't I hear your Southern accent when

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<v Speaker 2>you preach?

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<v Speaker 1>I said, lady, I don't know. I didn't take a class,

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<v Speaker 1>I didn't have it cast out.

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<v Speaker 2>I don't know. I can put it on anytime I

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<v Speaker 2>want to, but I don't know.

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<v Speaker 1>It just kind of fell off along the way. And

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<v Speaker 1>it's a good question, right, Like what she asked me, why.

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<v Speaker 2>Don't you talk like where you come from?

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<v Speaker 1>I got a bone to bid with a lot of believers.

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<v Speaker 2>How our mouths speaks so much about what we're missing,

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<v Speaker 2>and we claim to have Christ as the center of

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<v Speaker 2>our life.

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<v Speaker 1>I feel like preaching.

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<v Speaker 2>In the beginning was the word, and the word was

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<v Speaker 2>with God. And the word was God, and through him

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<v Speaker 2>were all things made that were made. Colossian says, so

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<v Speaker 2>the beginning was the word. The word was Jesus. Jesus

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<v Speaker 2>is in you. If Jesus is in you and you

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<v Speaker 2>came from him, then why do you say you can't

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<v Speaker 2>make it? If Jesus is in you and you come

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<v Speaker 2>from him, and all the fullness of the deity dwells

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<v Speaker 2>in Jesus, not baby g Jesus. I'm talking about reigning Jesus.

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<v Speaker 2>I'm talking about Christ in you, the hope of glory.

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<v Speaker 2>Touch your neighbors, say, talk like where you came from.

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<v Speaker 1>Come on, let's practice.

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<v Speaker 2>Say I'm blessed, I'm highly favor I'm anointed for this.

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<v Speaker 2>I'm absolutely dead smack in the center of God's will

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<v Speaker 2>for my life. He woke me up this morning. My

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<v Speaker 2>cup is overflowing. Hi oe him the praise. You know

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<v Speaker 2>where I come from. And I wonder, did you forget

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<v Speaker 2>where you came from.

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<v Speaker 1>Because of what you went through? Yay, though I walk.

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<v Speaker 2>Through the valley of the Shadow of death, but that

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<v Speaker 2>Psng'm twenty three verse four. We're not there yet. David

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<v Speaker 2>started this whole thing off by saying the Lord is

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<v Speaker 2>my shepherd identity I walk through the valley event. Flip

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<v Speaker 2>the whole thing around and you'll feel better. Flip the

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<v Speaker 2>whole thing around and you'll be able to breathe again.

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<v Speaker 2>Flip the whole thing around and you might be surprised.

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<v Speaker 2>What you see about your situation is that no success

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<v Speaker 2>makes me who I am. No failure limits what I

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<v Speaker 2>can be. Because the Lord is my shepherd, I shall

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<v Speaker 2>not want. We could go home, but we're not going

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<v Speaker 2>to because some of y'all are going through It would

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<v Speaker 2>shock you what someone on your row might be going through.

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<v Speaker 2>I had two conversations in the last twenty four hours.

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<v Speaker 1>That shocked me.

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<v Speaker 2>People I have been around and had no idea what

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<v Speaker 2>they were going through. People I was in regular contact with,

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<v Speaker 2>and I had no idea their family member committed suicide.

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<v Speaker 2>They didn't tell anybody, didn't even tell their pastor didn't.

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<v Speaker 1>Know if they could, felt ashamed about it.

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<v Speaker 2>I had a conversation with someone that I loved very

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<v Speaker 2>much the other day and they made a statement that

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<v Speaker 2>I believe expresses the sentiment of many of us, spoken

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<v Speaker 2>or unspoken. He was in the middle of a spiraling

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<v Speaker 2>emotional state and he said to me.

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<v Speaker 1>I hate myself so much right now. I hate myself

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<v Speaker 1>so much right now.

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<v Speaker 2>I didn't say anything because that kind of statement needs.

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<v Speaker 1>A little bit of space.

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<v Speaker 2>But after he had said it as much as he

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<v Speaker 2>needed to say it, I said, let's say it a

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<v Speaker 2>little bit differently this time.

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<v Speaker 1>Let's say it, but let's say it different. Let's say

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<v Speaker 1>it like we know where we come from.

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<v Speaker 2>Not. I hate myself right now. I hate how this

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<v Speaker 2>is making me feel right now. You see it now

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<v Speaker 2>I'm talking to addicts. Not I hate myself because I

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<v Speaker 2>do this. I hate how this sin change me to

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<v Speaker 2>the me that I don't have to be anymore. That

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<v Speaker 2>is pattern, program based, not potential conscious. I hate this event,

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<v Speaker 2>but the event is not the identity.

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<v Speaker 1>So now I can fight it because I am not it.

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<v Speaker 1>Say this. I am not it. My mama told me.

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<v Speaker 2>Pick the best one, and I.

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<v Speaker 1>Am not it. Give God praise that you're not it.

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<v Speaker 4>I did it, but I'm not it. I'm in it, Oh,

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<v Speaker 4>but I'm not it. It's with me in church this morning,

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<v Speaker 4>but I'm not it. It came with me, but it's

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<v Speaker 4>not gonna get in me.

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<v Speaker 1>And even if it's in.

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<v Speaker 4>Me, it's gonna get out because I'm not built.

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<v Speaker 2>Right. So my relationship with Holly changed the way I

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<v Speaker 2>saw the rain. My relationship with christ then therefore changes

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<v Speaker 2>my relationship with what I'm going through?

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<v Speaker 1>What are you going through? That nobody really knows?

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<v Speaker 2>Don't say it out loud because you won't say the

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<v Speaker 2>real one. I don't need a single one of you

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<v Speaker 2>to put it in the chat because what it really

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<v Speaker 2>is doesn't belong on YouTube, does it?

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<v Speaker 1>What are you going through? Going through?

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<v Speaker 2>My friend texted me this is probably like four years ago,

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<v Speaker 2>and he said that was a great sermon. What are

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<v Speaker 2>you going through? I said, what you mean? He said,

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<v Speaker 2>nobody preaches like that unless they're going through something. And

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<v Speaker 2>that is one thing about adversity, isn't it adversity. I'm

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<v Speaker 2>gonna tell you three things that adversity is. If you

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<v Speaker 2>know Jesus. Okay, if you don't know Jesus, adversity is

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<v Speaker 2>a closed door that you can't get past. If you

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<v Speaker 2>don't know Jesus, it's a Jericho wall you can't get over.

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<v Speaker 2>If you don't know Jesus, adversity is an endpoint of

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<v Speaker 2>a dream. If you don't know Jesus, adversity is a

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<v Speaker 2>reason for you to throw your hands up in disgust,

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<v Speaker 2>feel sorry for yourself, and eat three.

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<v Speaker 1>Gallons of ice cream and let's just get in shape.

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<v Speaker 1>January one.

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<v Speaker 2>If you don't know Jesus, but if my relationship with

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<v Speaker 2>you changed my relationship with the rain, maybe my relationship

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<v Speaker 2>with Jesus can change my relationship with adversity. The first

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<v Speaker 2>thing that it won't do. I'm gonna give you three

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<v Speaker 2>things that it does do. But the first thing that

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<v Speaker 2>it won't do is it wont make you avoid. And

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<v Speaker 2>if it would, then David wouldn't say yay though I

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<v Speaker 2>walk through the valley. You can't avoid certain adversity. I

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<v Speaker 2>should say this through wisdom, all right. And I want

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<v Speaker 2>to let that sink in because sometimes I think, I

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<v Speaker 2>think sometimes in church we glorify adversity as if it's

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<v Speaker 2>always God's first way.

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<v Speaker 1>But sometimes God gives.

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<v Speaker 2>You a command as your first school of learning and

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<v Speaker 2>adversity as your summer school. Does that make any sense,

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<v Speaker 2>y'all looking at me?

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<v Speaker 1>Kind of weird? I can't decide if yeah, it won't

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<v Speaker 1>because if it said yay though.

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<v Speaker 2>I look at the valley of the shadow of Death

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<v Speaker 2>and God.

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<v Speaker 1>Air lifts me out I will fear no evil. Yea,

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<v Speaker 1>though I.

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<v Speaker 2>Glide over the valley of the Shadow of Death, I

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<v Speaker 2>will fear no Well, I bet you won't. You're gliding

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<v Speaker 2>over it.

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<v Speaker 1>Somebodys they go through.

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<v Speaker 2>So when you go through adversity, whatever that adversity is,

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<v Speaker 2>and I don't mean to say that in a generic way.

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<v Speaker 2>The Lord specifically gave me that word adversity, and he

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<v Speaker 2>told me to focus on that adversity in your life.

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<v Speaker 2>The first thing that adversity is when you put it

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<v Speaker 2>in the hands of Jesus, it is an adjuster. Adversity

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<v Speaker 2>in the hands of God serves as an adjuster. Not

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<v Speaker 2>all adversity comes from the hand of God. It al

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<v Speaker 2>must passed through the hand of God. Whatever you're going through,

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<v Speaker 2>it had to go through God before it got to you,

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<v Speaker 2>and before it's over, it has to go through God

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<v Speaker 2>again so he can work it for the good in

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<v Speaker 2>your life.

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<v Speaker 1>Shout about that. Shout about that.

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<v Speaker 2>You should and watch this not all the time, But

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<v Speaker 2>Paul said, sometimes our tendency is to get too high

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<v Speaker 2>to identify ourselves with our achievement. So Paul said, this

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<v Speaker 2>is later in Second Corinthians. I just remember the scripture

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<v Speaker 2>he said. Therefore, to keep me from becoming conceited, there

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<v Speaker 2>was given me a thorn in my flesh, a messenger

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<v Speaker 2>of Satan sent to buffet me.

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<v Speaker 1>Buffett is not like Warren.

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<v Speaker 2>This sitting a stock in his account.

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<v Speaker 1>It beat me, but it didn't defeat me.

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<v Speaker 2>It was an adversity sent to get me grounded in

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<v Speaker 2>God's grace. Sometimes God will allow adversity even if he

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<v Speaker 2>doesn't send adversity to adjust you in your life, because

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<v Speaker 2>he knows right now you're moving a little fast.

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<v Speaker 1>He knows right now you're looking down on people a

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<v Speaker 1>little bit.

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<v Speaker 2>He knows right now, if I give it to you,

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<v Speaker 2>you'll eat it, you won't sow it. So I've got

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<v Speaker 2>to get you in a place where you can recognize.

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<v Speaker 1>That I'm your shepherd. It's an adjuster.

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<v Speaker 2>God will use adversity to adjust you.

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<v Speaker 1>You still the kids all the time when they were

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<v Speaker 1>very little. Stop growing up. Stop it. You're so cute

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<v Speaker 1>right now, Stay really cute like this.

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<v Speaker 2>Stay at age nine where you think I'm smart, only

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<v Speaker 2>like seven years away from you.

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<v Speaker 1>Thinking I'm an idiot and being right. That's the worst part.

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<v Speaker 1>You're gonna be right. You're gonna think I'm an idiot,

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<v Speaker 1>and you're gonna be right and abby. You say same

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<v Speaker 1>thing every time I say stop.

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<v Speaker 2>Growing up, and she'd go, I can't, but spiritually you can.

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<v Speaker 2>Physical growth you have no choice about. Spiritual growth is

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<v Speaker 2>a choice.

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<v Speaker 1>I'm saying.

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<v Speaker 2>You don't always get to choose what you go through,

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<v Speaker 2>but you have to choose to grow through.

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<v Speaker 1>What you go through.

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<v Speaker 2>All right, three people in the back, I'll come appreciate

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<v Speaker 2>to you. All growth is chosen in the spirit, not

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<v Speaker 2>in the physical. You know, as it relates to our

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<v Speaker 2>height and certain things about our bodies, certain certain parts

0:30:09.600 --> 0:30:13.600
<v Speaker 2>of that are not chosen. But growth spiritually is. So

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<v Speaker 2>I would ask you the question about the valley.

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<v Speaker 1>In your life. Remember, David said, I walked through the valley,

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<v Speaker 1>Paul said.

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<v Speaker 2>The Macedonian Church, out of their severe affliction or adversity,

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<v Speaker 2>welled up generosity.

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<v Speaker 1>They learned how to give through what they lacked.

0:30:32.160 --> 0:30:36.360
<v Speaker 2>They were brought into a place of abundance by their adversity.

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<v Speaker 2>That's the way it works, if you choose to allow

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<v Speaker 2>God to do it through you. Adversity can often be

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<v Speaker 2>an adjuster. The second thing that adversity does, and I'll

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<v Speaker 2>give you a.

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<v Speaker 1>Few scriptures to prove this. It says that the Lord

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<v Speaker 1>is near to the broken hearted.

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<v Speaker 2>It says that God is a very present help in

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<v Speaker 2>the time of trouble. David's said, He's with me in

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<v Speaker 2>the valley. So the second thing that adversity will do,

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<v Speaker 2>it will give you access. Access. Adversity is an all

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<v Speaker 2>access pass to the places in God you can't get

0:31:14.960 --> 0:31:20.280
<v Speaker 2>any other way. Adversity is a like when we go

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<v Speaker 2>out on Elevation Nights, let me stop real quick in

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<v Speaker 2>do an advertisement. February twentyeth through twenty ninth Elevation Nights

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<v Speaker 2>dot com.

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<v Speaker 1>We can't wait to see you there when we go out.

0:31:29.720 --> 0:31:31.400
<v Speaker 2>When we go out, I have do a little advertisement,

0:31:31.600 --> 0:31:35.600
<v Speaker 2>little product placement when we go out. The team that's

0:31:35.960 --> 0:31:38.960
<v Speaker 2>working on Elevation Nights, they have a pass. They can

0:31:39.000 --> 0:31:42.240
<v Speaker 2>go anywhere in the State Farm Arena, anywhere.

0:31:41.880 --> 0:31:43.960
<v Speaker 1>They want to go. If it says access all areas,

0:31:43.960 --> 0:31:44.880
<v Speaker 1>they can go anywhere.

0:31:45.960 --> 0:31:47.280
<v Speaker 2>I said to one of them one time, isn't it

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<v Speaker 2>funny if we tried to come back here tomorrow night

0:31:50.480 --> 0:31:54.840
<v Speaker 2>and just walk in, you know, and Florida Georgia line.

0:31:54.840 --> 0:31:56.520
<v Speaker 2>They don't even play together anymore, do they? Honey to

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<v Speaker 2>update the reference me going to Taylor Swift or something

0:32:01.960 --> 0:32:02.320
<v Speaker 2>like that.

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<v Speaker 1>Hey, I'm here.

0:32:03.680 --> 0:32:05.920
<v Speaker 2>They let me in at the last one on elevation nights.

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<v Speaker 2>I can go anywhere, right, No, no, no, you.

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<v Speaker 1>Got to have a pass for that.

0:32:10.160 --> 0:32:13.360
<v Speaker 2>And the fact that I'm here for this event gives

0:32:13.360 --> 0:32:17.920
<v Speaker 2>me access to certain areas. When you go through certain things,

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<v Speaker 2>you will discover a grace that you only get when

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<v Speaker 2>you go through those things. And even though the thing

0:32:27.440 --> 0:32:29.800
<v Speaker 2>is not what you would have chosen to go through,

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<v Speaker 2>it is going to, I declare prophetically and biblically.

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<v Speaker 1>It is going to give you grace.

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<v Speaker 2>So that adversity is the access point by which the

0:32:41.960 --> 0:32:46.000
<v Speaker 2>extra grace will be released by God. You will go

0:32:46.040 --> 0:32:48.840
<v Speaker 2>through things in your life, and when you get through them,

0:32:48.880 --> 0:32:51.479
<v Speaker 2>people will say how did you get through that, and

0:32:51.520 --> 0:32:54.080
<v Speaker 2>you will only be able to say, I don't know.

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<v Speaker 2>God gave me a grace for it. A grace for it.

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<v Speaker 2>Shout like you know the shepherd, say I got a

0:33:03.000 --> 0:33:06.560
<v Speaker 2>grace for it. Come on, tell your neighbor, I got

0:33:06.560 --> 0:33:12.080
<v Speaker 2>a grace for it. I'm going through it, but I

0:33:12.120 --> 0:33:14.840
<v Speaker 2>got a grace for it. And if I've got to

0:33:14.920 --> 0:33:18.760
<v Speaker 2>go through it, it is guaranteed grace. God will never

0:33:18.840 --> 0:33:21.000
<v Speaker 2>make me go through what He will not give me

0:33:21.120 --> 0:33:21.840
<v Speaker 2>grace for.

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<v Speaker 1>So if you're going.

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<v Speaker 2>Through something that you hadn't been through before, you're about

0:33:28.200 --> 0:33:32.120
<v Speaker 2>to get a grace that you've never had before. I

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<v Speaker 2>feel like preaching You're about to.

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<v Speaker 4>Receive an annointing overflowing like you've never known it before.

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<v Speaker 1>God'll feel you for this.

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<v Speaker 2>Elbow, your neighbors say, he'll feel me for this. This

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<v Speaker 2>is an event. This is an event. This is an event.

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<v Speaker 2>I'm getting through this. This is an event. I'm not

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<v Speaker 2>living here. Don't put this as my permanent mailing address.

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<v Speaker 1>Your one Valley road.

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<v Speaker 2>Don't come visit me in the valley next December, because

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<v Speaker 2>I'm going through this.

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<v Speaker 1>Yay.

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<v Speaker 5>Wow.

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<v Speaker 2>Yeah, I'm talking about the kind of grace that'll make

0:34:17.160 --> 0:34:20.120
<v Speaker 2>you say yay as you go through the valley.

0:34:20.360 --> 0:34:30.880
<v Speaker 1>Somebody saw yay, got a freach one name. Yay. Nobody

0:34:30.920 --> 0:34:33.040
<v Speaker 1>says yay when the bill's overdue.

0:34:33.800 --> 0:34:39.359
<v Speaker 2>Yay. That's crazy. David said, yay. I know it, manute

0:34:39.400 --> 0:34:40.719
<v Speaker 2>a little different. Let's have some fun.

0:34:40.760 --> 0:34:44.520
<v Speaker 1>Come on, come on, come on, say yay. I wish

0:34:44.520 --> 0:34:48.200
<v Speaker 1>you would confuse the devil this week. He's got you

0:34:48.239 --> 0:34:51.800
<v Speaker 1>in the valley. You know when they.

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<v Speaker 2>Call you and tell you the bad news and you

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<v Speaker 2>just say, hang on a second, mute, yay. You know

0:35:05.760 --> 0:35:09.200
<v Speaker 2>how she broke up with you in October and you

0:35:09.280 --> 0:35:10.320
<v Speaker 2>thought you'd spend.

0:35:10.040 --> 0:35:12.840
<v Speaker 1>The rest of your life alone. I want you to

0:35:12.880 --> 0:35:16.600
<v Speaker 1>go back to October in your mind. Let God anoint

0:35:16.680 --> 0:35:17.680
<v Speaker 1>your head with oil.

0:35:18.239 --> 0:35:21.000
<v Speaker 2>Change the way you think about that thing, and realize,

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<v Speaker 2>if that was meant to me, it would be meant

0:35:24.280 --> 0:35:27.040
<v Speaker 2>to be. If it was meant for me, it would be.

0:35:27.560 --> 0:35:29.880
<v Speaker 2>But if it went away, it couldn't stay.

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<v Speaker 6>Somebody say yay shay, whoa.

0:35:37.440 --> 0:35:42.200
<v Speaker 2>I feel Jesus on this. I feel Jesus on this.

0:35:43.880 --> 0:35:47.040
<v Speaker 2>Jesus got to the tomb of Lazarus. He said he's dead,

0:35:47.680 --> 0:35:51.960
<v Speaker 2>and I'm glad. Somebody shall yay. Well, why would you

0:35:52.080 --> 0:35:55.760
<v Speaker 2>be glad? Because these are his friends and he's about

0:35:55.760 --> 0:35:58.960
<v Speaker 2>to show them something nobody else has ever seen.

0:35:59.400 --> 0:36:01.120
<v Speaker 1>I need you to get happy.

0:36:01.120 --> 0:36:04.280
<v Speaker 2>Not about the valley that you're going through, but about

0:36:04.280 --> 0:36:07.120
<v Speaker 2>the grace of God that is coming to you.

0:36:07.840 --> 0:36:15.320
<v Speaker 1>Somebody shout yay, yay, yeah, yeah.

0:36:17.280 --> 0:36:17.520
<v Speaker 2>Whoo.

0:36:20.239 --> 0:36:23.760
<v Speaker 1>I'm not afraid because yeay yay.

0:36:25.160 --> 0:36:27.440
<v Speaker 2>Now I'm telling you this message is real to me.

0:36:27.800 --> 0:36:30.720
<v Speaker 2>I was shouting like this at five forty five this morning.

0:36:31.000 --> 0:36:33.160
<v Speaker 2>I was scared I was gonna wake the dog up

0:36:33.360 --> 0:36:35.200
<v Speaker 2>and happy, said he pete on the couch.

0:36:35.520 --> 0:36:36.440
<v Speaker 1>I think I made the.

0:36:36.440 --> 0:36:39.239
<v Speaker 2>Dog Pius passed because I was walking around.

0:36:39.000 --> 0:36:43.520
<v Speaker 1>My living room at five forty five saying, yay, yay,

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<v Speaker 1>yay goes.

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<v Speaker 2>That's so in tears, we'll reaping joy.

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<v Speaker 4>Yeah, I'm gonna get up now.

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<v Speaker 1>Yeah.

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<v Speaker 6>Yeah, this is today the Lord today in.

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<v Speaker 1>My shepherdsy so he enables me.

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<v Speaker 2>You can't minimize people's pain like this, pastor Steven. I'm

0:37:16.600 --> 0:37:20.239
<v Speaker 2>not minimizing nothing. I'm just trying to reframe the way

0:37:20.280 --> 0:37:24.840
<v Speaker 2>you see the rain. I'm trying to get you to

0:37:24.920 --> 0:37:29.480
<v Speaker 2>rethink the leaves. Did you have somebody leave you? What

0:37:29.560 --> 0:37:30.799
<v Speaker 2>if that's nourishment for.

0:37:30.760 --> 0:37:32.720
<v Speaker 1>Your next season in the soul of your life.

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<v Speaker 2>I said, I'm going through, but watch this I'm going through.

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<v Speaker 2>Don't let what I'm going through fool you. I'm going through,

0:37:42.880 --> 0:37:46.120
<v Speaker 2>but I'm not dry inside. I'm going through, but I'm

0:37:46.120 --> 0:37:49.080
<v Speaker 2>not without a witness. I'm going through, but God is

0:37:49.120 --> 0:37:52.040
<v Speaker 2>speaking with me. I'm walking through this valley, but I'm

0:37:52.040 --> 0:37:53.839
<v Speaker 2>not walking through it by myself.

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<v Speaker 1>Yay, though I walk, I walk. You notice in the

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<v Speaker 1>text in verse five, in verse five, is this good

0:38:08.280 --> 0:38:12.239
<v Speaker 1>to y'all? The Lord said, ten people will love this message.

0:38:12.640 --> 0:38:15.680
<v Speaker 1>Ten people will love this message. He said.

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<v Speaker 2>In verse five something was running and it was the coup.

0:38:21.640 --> 0:38:25.839
<v Speaker 2>He said, my cup runneth over. But in verse four

0:38:25.960 --> 0:38:31.360
<v Speaker 2>something was walking and that was you. Yay, though I walk,

0:38:33.560 --> 0:38:40.960
<v Speaker 2>I walk, and the cup runs. I need y'all to

0:38:41.520 --> 0:38:43.960
<v Speaker 2>help me today because my voice is a little bit weak,

0:38:45.160 --> 0:38:46.719
<v Speaker 2>and I don't know what I was doing just now

0:38:46.960 --> 0:38:50.720
<v Speaker 2>pushing it because all week, every day I was recording

0:38:50.760 --> 0:38:52.879
<v Speaker 2>my book by audio and.

0:38:52.840 --> 0:38:55.759
<v Speaker 1>I did not hold back. I did not put my

0:38:55.800 --> 0:38:57.480
<v Speaker 1>late night FMDJ voice on this thing.

0:38:58.360 --> 0:39:01.040
<v Speaker 2>This was not boys to men intros like tone level,

0:39:01.120 --> 0:39:02.960
<v Speaker 2>voice level, This is no base in it.

0:39:03.440 --> 0:39:07.240
<v Speaker 1>I preach that thing all seventy thousand words.

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<v Speaker 2>Let me put an advertisement my new book, Do the

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<v Speaker 1>Advertisement. And I did it.

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<v Speaker 2>I did it all week, and one thing I noticed

0:39:25.360 --> 0:39:28.400
<v Speaker 2>when I was doing it, when I would rush, I

0:39:28.400 --> 0:39:32.640
<v Speaker 2>would mess up because you want to get done, because

0:39:32.640 --> 0:39:34.200
<v Speaker 2>you get tired of hearing yourself talk. How many of

0:39:34.239 --> 0:39:37.400
<v Speaker 2>you'd like to hear yourself talk? It's not fun, okay,

0:39:37.480 --> 0:39:40.080
<v Speaker 2>So I do this out of love for you. I

0:39:40.120 --> 0:39:41.520
<v Speaker 2>don't like to hear myself talking more. You like to

0:39:41.520 --> 0:39:43.080
<v Speaker 2>hear yourself talk. And so I'm saying it. Listen myself

0:39:43.080 --> 0:39:44.439
<v Speaker 2>talk for like the second third day, and I start

0:39:44.440 --> 0:39:46.040
<v Speaker 2>trying to a little fast like that, and I'll make

0:39:46.080 --> 0:39:49.239
<v Speaker 2>ten mistakes, and every time it got hard.

0:39:49.960 --> 0:39:56.680
<v Speaker 1>The secret to getting through was to slow down. That's

0:39:56.680 --> 0:39:57.040
<v Speaker 1>why I.

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<v Speaker 2>Said that wait on the Lord will walk. Yea though

0:40:02.120 --> 0:40:08.120
<v Speaker 2>I walk, slow down. You're worried because you're trying to

0:40:08.160 --> 0:40:12.040
<v Speaker 2>get there too fast. You're worried because you're trying to

0:40:12.080 --> 0:40:14.960
<v Speaker 2>do it all in one day. You're worried because you're

0:40:14.960 --> 0:40:16.920
<v Speaker 2>trying to keep up with people who are ten years.

0:40:16.719 --> 0:40:18.319
<v Speaker 1>Older than you.

0:40:18.320 --> 0:40:20.800
<v Speaker 2>You're worried because you're trying to keep up with people

0:40:20.960 --> 0:40:22.000
<v Speaker 2>who are more messed up.

0:40:21.960 --> 0:40:24.800
<v Speaker 1>Than you are. They just hide it better. You're worried.

0:40:26.239 --> 0:40:28.279
<v Speaker 2>Because you're trying to take in all the information and

0:40:28.320 --> 0:40:31.000
<v Speaker 2>the human history all in the same device at the

0:40:31.000 --> 0:40:35.440
<v Speaker 2>same time. Slow down, shut down, and walk through the

0:40:35.520 --> 0:40:37.400
<v Speaker 2>valid you want to get out of the valley. I

0:40:37.480 --> 0:40:42.160
<v Speaker 2>understand well the way through it is to walk. When

0:40:42.160 --> 0:40:44.960
<v Speaker 2>you run to something else to escape it, you don't

0:40:45.000 --> 0:40:50.759
<v Speaker 2>become stronger through it. You can't run over if you

0:40:50.800 --> 0:40:56.600
<v Speaker 2>don't go through. That's the paradox of provision. You can't

0:40:56.640 --> 0:41:01.160
<v Speaker 2>run over and have wisdom to give others if you

0:41:01.200 --> 0:41:03.680
<v Speaker 2>do not go through the weakness.

0:41:03.640 --> 0:41:07.360
<v Speaker 1>With God for yourself. That's what the season has been about.

0:41:08.600 --> 0:41:12.399
<v Speaker 2>The enemy has been lying to you, telling you that

0:41:13.000 --> 0:41:17.480
<v Speaker 2>the valley, the shadow, and the enemies at the table

0:41:18.360 --> 0:41:19.480
<v Speaker 2>represent the end for you.

0:41:19.719 --> 0:41:23.400
<v Speaker 1>They don't. None of those things do for you.

0:41:23.440 --> 0:41:26.799
<v Speaker 2>See there's a cast of characters in Psalm twenty three,

0:41:27.680 --> 0:41:34.600
<v Speaker 2>including a valley, a shadow, and enemies.

0:41:36.200 --> 0:41:37.560
<v Speaker 1>Yay, though I walk through.

0:41:37.719 --> 0:41:41.640
<v Speaker 2>The valley of the shadow of death, I'll fear no evil,

0:41:41.680 --> 0:41:42.279
<v Speaker 2>for thou art with me.

0:41:42.560 --> 0:41:44.799
<v Speaker 1>Thy rod and staff they come from me, aren't you glad?

0:41:44.840 --> 0:41:45.640
<v Speaker 1>God has a rod.

0:41:47.440 --> 0:41:49.640
<v Speaker 2>The staff is how he brings me back. The rod

0:41:49.719 --> 0:41:52.560
<v Speaker 2>is how he keeps everything away that threatened to devour me.

0:41:54.000 --> 0:41:58.880
<v Speaker 2>I need both of those. So then sometimes he'll use

0:41:58.880 --> 0:42:01.879
<v Speaker 2>an event to bring me back to him. Sometimes he'll

0:42:01.960 --> 0:42:03.840
<v Speaker 2>use an event to keep a wolf away from me.

0:42:06.719 --> 0:42:08.719
<v Speaker 2>But his identity is the lens through which I've view

0:42:08.719 --> 0:42:10.640
<v Speaker 2>every event. In my life, not the other way around.

0:42:11.840 --> 0:42:14.960
<v Speaker 2>Once I've decided he's the shepherd. That means I'm settled

0:42:15.000 --> 0:42:19.120
<v Speaker 2>in this and my cup is running over? Well, where

0:42:19.200 --> 0:42:24.240
<v Speaker 2>is the cup on the table? Where is the table?

0:42:26.320 --> 0:42:29.840
<v Speaker 2>We have this misconception that when we get through stuff,

0:42:31.080 --> 0:42:35.560
<v Speaker 2>it's going to get better. Now I'm going through right now,

0:42:35.560 --> 0:42:40.280
<v Speaker 2>but man, I can't wait for twenty twenty four. That's

0:42:40.280 --> 0:42:45.320
<v Speaker 2>gonna be my year. You've been saying that since nineteen

0:42:45.520 --> 0:42:46.240
<v Speaker 2>forty seven.

0:42:47.840 --> 0:42:48.560
<v Speaker 1>Elvis had a.

0:42:48.600 --> 0:42:50.640
<v Speaker 2>Number one song on the chart the last time you

0:42:50.680 --> 0:42:55.600
<v Speaker 2>said that. And then we have this misconception, don't we

0:42:57.280 --> 0:42:59.560
<v Speaker 2>that the adversity that we're going through will prevent us

0:42:59.560 --> 0:43:02.640
<v Speaker 2>from being blessed right now? And I think that's the

0:43:02.680 --> 0:43:04.319
<v Speaker 2>thing I really wanted to put us. The core of

0:43:04.360 --> 0:43:08.160
<v Speaker 2>this message is that it's one thing to say, when

0:43:08.239 --> 0:43:15.279
<v Speaker 2>I get through this, then I will be happy, hole successful,

0:43:15.440 --> 0:43:17.839
<v Speaker 2>reach there I will be when I get through this,

0:43:18.200 --> 0:43:20.799
<v Speaker 2>I will be at peace, amount of.

0:43:20.760 --> 0:43:22.840
<v Speaker 1>Money I'll be secured, and you won't.

0:43:24.239 --> 0:43:29.760
<v Speaker 2>Because it's never there, he said out of their trial.

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<v Speaker 2>In the midst of it welled up a rich generosity,

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<v Speaker 2>and David said, my cup runs over at the table

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<v Speaker 2>in the presence of my enemies in the shadow of

0:43:47.560 --> 0:43:51.759
<v Speaker 2>the valley of death. I want to walk through all

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<v Speaker 2>three of those very quickly. There are three symbols in

0:43:55.239 --> 0:43:59.759
<v Speaker 2>this text of adversity. Each of them represent adversity. Number

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<v Speaker 2>one is the valley. You're in the valley.

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<v Speaker 1>You're going through.

0:44:04.000 --> 0:44:07.399
<v Speaker 2>The valley you are going through. You will not live there.

0:44:08.600 --> 0:44:12.000
<v Speaker 2>You will not live there, you will not die there.

0:44:13.000 --> 0:44:16.440
<v Speaker 2>You will not move your kids and grandkids into that

0:44:16.520 --> 0:44:19.600
<v Speaker 2>spot in the valley. That's why you're going through it.

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<v Speaker 2>They won't have to go through it quite like you do.

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<v Speaker 1>I believe my.

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<v Speaker 2>Dad broke the spirit of suicide off of my life

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<v Speaker 2>by not killing himself because his dad did so.

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<v Speaker 1>Number One, it's a valley, but I'm passing through.

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<v Speaker 2>My friend Brandon Lake was telling me a couple years

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<v Speaker 2>ago he just wrote a song.

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<v Speaker 1>I said, was it good?

0:44:40.320 --> 0:44:42.200
<v Speaker 2>He said, that's just a song about the valley.

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<v Speaker 1>I said some advice.

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<v Speaker 2>Said yeah, valley represents hard things in our life. I said,

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<v Speaker 2>Brandon Lake, you have to explain to me what a

0:44:48.360 --> 0:44:50.600
<v Speaker 2>valley represents in the Bible. You think I'm an idiot.

0:44:50.719 --> 0:44:52.520
<v Speaker 2>I went to cemetery seminary.

0:44:52.680 --> 0:44:57.239
<v Speaker 1>I know about the valley well.

0:44:57.239 --> 0:44:59.560
<v Speaker 2>A valley is a metaphor in the Bible, and it

0:44:59.600 --> 0:45:00.319
<v Speaker 2>means any thing we.

0:45:00.320 --> 0:45:01.400
<v Speaker 1>Go through that we don't quite understand.

0:45:01.440 --> 0:45:02.920
<v Speaker 2>The low moments in a motion said man, I don't

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<v Speaker 2>know what the valley is.

0:45:03.520 --> 0:45:09.799
<v Speaker 1>Same as I know what the valley is. Do I

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<v Speaker 1>really do I really.

0:45:16.520 --> 0:45:21.000
<v Speaker 2>Hadn't gone through what some of you gone through. Do

0:45:21.080 --> 0:45:25.680
<v Speaker 2>I really know the valley? Do I really know the shepherd?

0:45:26.960 --> 0:45:32.480
<v Speaker 2>Until I've really known the valley? Can I really run

0:45:32.520 --> 0:45:37.919
<v Speaker 2>over until I go through and go through and walk through.

0:45:39.920 --> 0:45:43.920
<v Speaker 2>You don't get the cup full lying down? Did you

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<v Speaker 2>notice the whole sermon will be you don't get the

0:45:48.200 --> 0:45:49.680
<v Speaker 2>cup filled lining down? He said, He makes me lie

0:45:49.680 --> 0:45:51.200
<v Speaker 2>down in green pastures, but then I had to get

0:45:51.280 --> 0:45:53.359
<v Speaker 2>up and walk, and then he filled my cup.

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<v Speaker 1>You will go through this. You will go through through

0:45:59.200 --> 0:46:02.520
<v Speaker 1>seasons where you're quite to your sanity. You will go

0:46:02.560 --> 0:46:03.680
<v Speaker 1>through seasons.

0:46:03.360 --> 0:46:05.160
<v Speaker 2>Where you quote train up a child in the way

0:46:05.160 --> 0:46:05.959
<v Speaker 2>that should go in when.

0:46:05.840 --> 0:46:07.640
<v Speaker 1>They're old, they won't depart from it. And you will

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<v Speaker 1>go through.

0:46:07.960 --> 0:46:11.399
<v Speaker 2>Seasons of thinking, well, they're not going to get old,

0:46:11.920 --> 0:46:14.719
<v Speaker 2>so I'm gonna kill them before they get old, and

0:46:14.719 --> 0:46:16.120
<v Speaker 2>then they're going to depart from the earth.

0:46:16.840 --> 0:46:17.319
<v Speaker 1>And you will.

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<v Speaker 2>He said, there's a shadow in the valley, the valley

0:46:24.719 --> 0:46:28.760
<v Speaker 2>of the shadow of death. You won't always see yourself

0:46:28.800 --> 0:46:31.840
<v Speaker 2>correctly Jesus, correctly your situation or your next step.

0:46:31.880 --> 0:46:32.240
<v Speaker 1>Clearly.

0:46:32.440 --> 0:46:34.960
<v Speaker 2>All these people that always know everything God spoke all

0:46:34.960 --> 0:46:37.400
<v Speaker 2>the time, check their medicine cabinet.

0:46:39.760 --> 0:46:41.359
<v Speaker 1>I'm gonna say stuff now, because you know.

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<v Speaker 2>What, when you're really in a valley and people are

0:46:45.800 --> 0:46:48.640
<v Speaker 2>very mountain shouting cute stuff to you about it, and

0:46:48.680 --> 0:46:51.480
<v Speaker 2>you're in the shadows and people are on their turning

0:46:51.520 --> 0:46:52.960
<v Speaker 2>their iPhone light trying to tell.

0:46:52.840 --> 0:46:57.720
<v Speaker 1>You stuff, the valley has a shadow.

0:46:59.239 --> 0:47:02.040
<v Speaker 2>And in that place, listen to me, child of God,

0:47:02.880 --> 0:47:06.279
<v Speaker 2>as you walk through that valley, as you moved through

0:47:06.320 --> 0:47:11.120
<v Speaker 2>that shadow, he said, there's a table, and there's enemies.

0:47:12.680 --> 0:47:14.319
<v Speaker 2>And at this point you want to turn around, but

0:47:14.360 --> 0:47:23.440
<v Speaker 2>you shouldn't, because that adversity valley, that shadow valley, those enemies,

0:47:23.440 --> 0:47:27.440
<v Speaker 2>insecurities and things that you've been going through, whether they

0:47:27.440 --> 0:47:29.920
<v Speaker 2>were launched from Hell or whether they came from your

0:47:29.960 --> 0:47:34.160
<v Speaker 2>own decisions, those things represented in this passage, that valley,

0:47:35.440 --> 0:47:42.200
<v Speaker 2>that shadow, those enemies, they all represent adversity.

0:47:43.080 --> 0:47:44.360
<v Speaker 1>But the Lord showed me something.

0:47:44.400 --> 0:47:57.879
<v Speaker 2>He said, all of those adversities are advertisements. For there

0:47:57.920 --> 0:48:02.520
<v Speaker 2>to be a valley, there have to be two mountains.

0:48:07.880 --> 0:48:12.040
<v Speaker 2>For there to be a valley, there has to be

0:48:12.080 --> 0:48:15.640
<v Speaker 2>the mountain I came from, which is the last time

0:48:15.840 --> 0:48:19.640
<v Speaker 2>God did it for me, and the mountain He's taken

0:48:19.719 --> 0:48:23.960
<v Speaker 2>me to, which is my next testimony and my next

0:48:24.080 --> 0:48:32.160
<v Speaker 2>level of effectiveness. The valley is advertising the next mountain.

0:48:33.560 --> 0:48:41.279
<v Speaker 2>How about the shadow, which is advertising. For there to

0:48:41.360 --> 0:48:47.839
<v Speaker 2>be a shadow, there must be a sun. Since I

0:48:47.880 --> 0:48:52.560
<v Speaker 2>can't stare directly at the sun. When I see the shadow,

0:48:53.520 --> 0:48:56.799
<v Speaker 2>I assume that the sun is where it's supposed to

0:48:56.800 --> 0:49:01.280
<v Speaker 2>be and an object is blocking its path. So every

0:49:01.360 --> 0:49:04.920
<v Speaker 2>shadow in your life, every wicked thing in your life,

0:49:05.480 --> 0:49:08.600
<v Speaker 2>is proving the presence of a God's grace that is

0:49:08.640 --> 0:49:15.719
<v Speaker 2>greater than all your sin. The valley is telling you

0:49:15.800 --> 0:49:20.600
<v Speaker 2>there's a mountain. The shadow is telling you there's a sun.

0:49:21.520 --> 0:49:25.280
<v Speaker 2>And when you see your enemies, look for a table,

0:49:25.920 --> 0:49:29.160
<v Speaker 2>because if there are enemies in your path this week,

0:49:29.880 --> 0:49:33.760
<v Speaker 2>that means this supper time baby your enemies.

0:49:35.320 --> 0:49:40.000
<v Speaker 1>Oh God, He's a very present help in the time

0:49:40.080 --> 0:49:43.680
<v Speaker 1>of trouble. No weapon formed against me. I told you

0:49:43.760 --> 0:49:44.920
<v Speaker 1>I wanted to preach.

0:49:44.960 --> 0:49:48.720
<v Speaker 2>Will prosper so if I've got an enemy, that means

0:49:48.760 --> 0:49:49.600
<v Speaker 2>there's a table.

0:49:49.960 --> 0:49:52.800
<v Speaker 1>If there's a table, that means there's a cup.

0:49:53.040 --> 0:49:56.239
<v Speaker 2>And if there's a cup, it's about to overflow.

0:50:00.280 --> 0:50:05.720
<v Speaker 1>Somebody. I find somebody say, I'm running over. I gotta

0:50:05.760 --> 0:50:06.840
<v Speaker 1>get to this table.

0:50:07.239 --> 0:50:11.359
<v Speaker 2>I'm running over. I gotta get to this miracle. I'm

0:50:11.480 --> 0:50:17.960
<v Speaker 2>running over. I was scrolling the other day. I was

0:50:18.000 --> 0:50:20.239
<v Speaker 2>watching something. I showed it to my kids. I said,

0:50:20.239 --> 0:50:22.680
<v Speaker 2>isn't that great? They said, no, Dad, that's sponsored content.

0:50:23.680 --> 0:50:25.560
<v Speaker 2>I said, what you mean sponsored? They said, right there,

0:50:25.600 --> 0:50:28.080
<v Speaker 2>paid promotion. I said, no, this is a good video

0:50:28.160 --> 0:50:30.719
<v Speaker 2>for fitness. They said no, he's trying to sell you

0:50:31.000 --> 0:50:34.200
<v Speaker 2>a twelve week course for nine hundred and ninety eight

0:50:34.280 --> 0:50:36.480
<v Speaker 2>dollars and some protein powder.

0:50:36.600 --> 0:50:40.359
<v Speaker 1>It's an AD. I said, it's an AD. They said, yes,

0:50:40.360 --> 0:50:42.719
<v Speaker 1>an AD. That's not a class. That's an AD. He's

0:50:42.760 --> 0:50:45.040
<v Speaker 1>just trying to get you. They hide it. They put

0:50:45.080 --> 0:50:50.400
<v Speaker 1>it there where you can't see us. An AD hide it,

0:50:51.719 --> 0:50:53.440
<v Speaker 1>you'll know it's an AD.

0:50:55.320 --> 0:51:05.319
<v Speaker 2>The devil puts suff in a shadow, an adversity, an

0:51:05.360 --> 0:51:12.240
<v Speaker 2>extreme trial, a stubborn child, a breakup, a broken heart,

0:51:13.239 --> 0:51:15.839
<v Speaker 2>something that causes you to think you're going to lose

0:51:15.880 --> 0:51:20.320
<v Speaker 2>your mind. But you won't because the next time it happens,

0:51:20.360 --> 0:51:21.040
<v Speaker 2>you're gonna pray.

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<v Speaker 1>God anoint my head with oil.

0:51:25.680 --> 0:51:30.400
<v Speaker 2>Show me how to see this in a different way.

0:51:31.239 --> 0:51:33.840
<v Speaker 1>Everybody puts your hands out like this. Put your hands out.

0:51:33.719 --> 0:51:36.680
<v Speaker 2>Like this, like you're ready to receive a running over blessing.

0:51:36.920 --> 0:51:40.200
<v Speaker 2>Like you're ready to receive a running over blessing. All right, now, pray,

0:51:40.360 --> 0:51:44.880
<v Speaker 2>Lord fill my cop Well, the Lord said, before I

0:51:44.920 --> 0:51:47.840
<v Speaker 2>can fill your hands, I've got to fix your head.

0:51:52.719 --> 0:51:56.520
<v Speaker 1>He annoints my head with oil so I can see.

0:51:56.760 --> 0:51:58.000
<v Speaker 1>Is this good to you?

0:52:02.440 --> 0:52:05.160
<v Speaker 2>The next time is a valley moment in your life.

0:52:05.480 --> 0:52:07.880
<v Speaker 2>The next time it's a valley low in your emotion.

0:52:08.280 --> 0:52:09.080
<v Speaker 1>The next time you.

0:52:09.080 --> 0:52:12.759
<v Speaker 2>Go, oh, oh God, where's that come from? Realize it's

0:52:12.800 --> 0:52:19.359
<v Speaker 2>an adversity and it's an advertisement. It means that this

0:52:19.560 --> 0:52:24.920
<v Speaker 2>valley is pointing at another mountaintop experience that you will

0:52:25.000 --> 0:52:29.920
<v Speaker 2>stand on and see God's goodness and proclaim his faithfulness

0:52:30.200 --> 0:52:37.360
<v Speaker 2>to another generation. It's an ad The next time you

0:52:37.440 --> 0:52:41.040
<v Speaker 2>see a shadow, realize there could not be a shadow

0:52:41.400 --> 0:52:43.960
<v Speaker 2>if there were not a sun. So God, I thank

0:52:44.000 --> 0:52:48.360
<v Speaker 2>you for the revelation that is ahead of me. And

0:52:48.440 --> 0:52:53.440
<v Speaker 2>the next time you see enemies, get your napkin.

0:52:55.560 --> 0:52:59.160
<v Speaker 1>You're fork. This is the preachy side of the church.

0:52:59.160 --> 0:53:03.000
<v Speaker 1>I'm on the wrong side of the church. The next time.

0:53:04.520 --> 0:53:10.320
<v Speaker 2>You see your enemies, the next time you see your adversary,

0:53:11.080 --> 0:53:14.440
<v Speaker 2>I want you to see an advertisement that he would

0:53:14.480 --> 0:53:16.040
<v Speaker 2>not be fighting you like this.

0:53:16.960 --> 0:53:18.239
<v Speaker 1>He would not be fighting you.

0:53:18.239 --> 0:53:19.640
<v Speaker 2>Oh yeah, we're gonna fight him.

0:53:19.719 --> 0:53:22.440
<v Speaker 4>We're gonna fight him, because he wouldn't be fighting me

0:53:22.680 --> 0:53:23.080
<v Speaker 4>like this.

0:53:23.840 --> 0:53:27.080
<v Speaker 1>He wouldn't be fighting you like this. He wouldn't be

0:53:27.239 --> 0:53:29.360
<v Speaker 1>fighting The Lord is my shepherd.

0:53:33.200 --> 0:53:33.719
<v Speaker 2>I so.

0:53:37.040 --> 0:53:43.440
<v Speaker 1>Na one, annoying her mind. Yeah, you over here, over here.

0:53:43.440 --> 0:53:46.800
<v Speaker 2>Annoying her mind, annoying her mind, annoying her mind.

0:53:52.960 --> 0:53:57.680
<v Speaker 1>I don't understand the emotionalism. I'm not going through anything.

0:53:58.320 --> 0:54:00.560
<v Speaker 1>You better save this message on a book mark.

0:54:00.680 --> 0:54:04.600
<v Speaker 2>You better put this message on a favorite cous The miracle.

0:54:04.280 --> 0:54:09.080
<v Speaker 1>The miracle, if you really look back on.

0:54:09.080 --> 0:54:13.640
<v Speaker 2>It, it's not that I went through and then I

0:54:13.719 --> 0:54:17.960
<v Speaker 2>was running over. It's that I was running over while

0:54:18.000 --> 0:54:22.440
<v Speaker 2>I went through. And I don't know how, and I

0:54:22.480 --> 0:54:26.200
<v Speaker 2>don't know how, and I don't know why he did it.

0:54:26.239 --> 0:54:27.759
<v Speaker 2>But I want you to know about the grace God

0:54:27.800 --> 0:54:32.839
<v Speaker 2>gave the Macedonian Church. I want you to know about

0:54:32.840 --> 0:54:36.279
<v Speaker 2>the grace God gave me. When I think about him

0:54:36.320 --> 0:54:39.640
<v Speaker 2>and how He got me through some of the things

0:54:39.640 --> 0:54:42.960
<v Speaker 2>that looked at the time like the adversary had me

0:54:44.040 --> 0:54:45.360
<v Speaker 2>it was advertising.

0:54:45.719 --> 0:54:48.239
<v Speaker 1>How could I get you to see it? That's what

0:54:48.960 --> 0:54:50.280
<v Speaker 1>it's a product placement.

0:54:51.800 --> 0:54:54.960
<v Speaker 2>God wants you to know today that the thing you're

0:54:54.960 --> 0:54:58.160
<v Speaker 2>going through is pointing to what you're going to be

0:54:58.239 --> 0:55:06.200
<v Speaker 2>running over with. Oh God, Oh God, Oh God, I

0:55:06.320 --> 0:55:13.280
<v Speaker 2>need you to fill me in the valley if.

0:55:13.160 --> 0:55:16.160
<v Speaker 1>I get through this. No, no, no, as I go

0:55:16.239 --> 0:55:16.800
<v Speaker 1>through this.

0:55:20.440 --> 0:55:25.480
<v Speaker 2>Right here, right now, and the presence of an adversary

0:55:26.480 --> 0:55:33.080
<v Speaker 2>does not mean the absence of the Lord. You just

0:55:33.120 --> 0:55:36.600
<v Speaker 2>got to do it with anxious feelings. Yay, though I walk,

0:55:37.440 --> 0:55:40.080
<v Speaker 2>you don't have to run. Your cup will.

0:55:45.920 --> 0:55:46.200
<v Speaker 1>Walk.

0:55:48.320 --> 0:55:57.840
<v Speaker 2>Why I got goodness and I got mercy.

0:56:05.200 --> 0:56:07.200
<v Speaker 1>If you have a Hallelujah, this is where it goes.

0:56:07.680 --> 0:56:13.560
<v Speaker 1>O God and I God, nurse.

0:56:15.840 --> 0:56:17.520
<v Speaker 2>Man. God.

0:56:17.520 --> 0:56:19.359
<v Speaker 1>It's gonna help you get your mind right. He's gonna

0:56:19.360 --> 0:56:26.520
<v Speaker 1>annoy your head with oil. I God, stay down like that.

0:56:26.600 --> 0:56:27.000
<v Speaker 2>I like that.

0:56:29.560 --> 0:56:33.200
<v Speaker 1>Yeah, just like that, like a worship, like a worship.

0:56:36.840 --> 0:56:43.560
<v Speaker 2>Yeah, the good sad bird leads me to the ward.

0:56:48.760 --> 0:56:56.760
<v Speaker 1>What's that next part seven, he annoys me. That's it,

0:56:56.800 --> 0:56:57.520
<v Speaker 1>annoys me.

0:56:57.719 --> 0:57:01.520
<v Speaker 5>Lads, they.

0:57:06.040 --> 0:57:10.759
<v Speaker 1>Sing the next one. Chris, now my call? How many

0:57:10.800 --> 0:57:11.719
<v Speaker 1>gotta running off?

0:57:11.719 --> 0:57:12.120
<v Speaker 5>Her heart?

0:57:12.239 --> 0:57:17.840
<v Speaker 1>Hes brothering, No, God, we're thankful today, Hovey, Yeah, I'm thankful.

0:57:19.240 --> 0:57:20.680
<v Speaker 5>Yay.

0:57:21.320 --> 0:57:28.840
<v Speaker 2>Hey, Tabo, I can see it, jee No, but I

0:57:28.880 --> 0:57:29.560
<v Speaker 2>don't fear it.

0:57:30.080 --> 0:57:38.600
<v Speaker 4>Hobby Telfy twelve.

0:57:40.480 --> 0:57:49.360
<v Speaker 1>It's time smoothing, Holly small a little man.

0:57:49.720 --> 0:57:53.640
<v Speaker 3>Let's have some charts now, Holly, Yeah.

0:57:55.160 --> 0:58:13.960
<v Speaker 5>And I got Percy ays right there, right there.

0:58:17.520 --> 0:58:18.360
<v Speaker 1>This is what I pray for.

0:58:18.440 --> 0:58:22.000
<v Speaker 2>You lift your hands, annoyed their head with oil, Lord,

0:58:23.840 --> 0:58:28.000
<v Speaker 2>to see the things in their way as opportunities for

0:58:28.040 --> 0:58:29.040
<v Speaker 2>you to make them better.

0:58:31.520 --> 0:58:35.400
<v Speaker 1>Somebody say, annoy my head. Lord. That's where my real

0:58:35.480 --> 0:58:36.480
<v Speaker 1>challenge is.

0:58:36.240 --> 0:58:41.480
<v Speaker 2>Is in believing you and trusting you and thinking like

0:58:41.560 --> 0:58:45.600
<v Speaker 2>you think. God, I thank you for everything you brought

0:58:45.600 --> 0:58:50.160
<v Speaker 2>into my life. God, I thank you even for the

0:58:50.200 --> 0:58:54.320
<v Speaker 2>things that may leave my life, because I understand this

0:58:54.440 --> 0:58:59.320
<v Speaker 2>valley is an advertisement, this shadow.

0:59:00.400 --> 0:59:01.440
<v Speaker 1>Is an advertisement.

0:59:02.280 --> 0:59:08.560
<v Speaker 2>These enemies are preparing a table for me to demonstrate

0:59:08.640 --> 0:59:13.880
<v Speaker 2>your glory. God, I say the best part for last, Joe,

0:59:14.480 --> 0:59:19.920
<v Speaker 2>look at me second Corinthians four sixteen, give you the

0:59:19.920 --> 0:59:23.520
<v Speaker 2>heart of my message one more time. Therefore, we do

0:59:23.600 --> 0:59:32.400
<v Speaker 2>not lose heart, though outwardly we are wasting away. I'm

0:59:32.400 --> 0:59:35.000
<v Speaker 2>not trying to talk about your wrinkles and saggy this

0:59:35.200 --> 0:59:36.240
<v Speaker 2>or that, or mine or either.

0:59:36.280 --> 0:59:45.240
<v Speaker 1>But I'm going through. But inwardly we are being renewed

0:59:46.920 --> 0:59:50.840
<v Speaker 1>day by day, step by step.

0:59:53.480 --> 0:59:56.919
<v Speaker 2>I see you walking in confidence this week that He's

0:59:56.960 --> 1:00:00.040
<v Speaker 2>with you, because the valley and the shadow and the

1:00:00.080 --> 1:00:02.400
<v Speaker 2>enemies all conspire to advertise one thing.

1:00:02.960 --> 1:00:09.440
<v Speaker 1>He's with me. He's with me, and he is my shepherd.

1:00:10.720 --> 1:00:13.960
<v Speaker 2>And if he advertises himself as a good shepherd.

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<v Speaker 1>There's got to be grass. God is as advertised.

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<v Speaker 2>If he advertises himself as water, there will be a rock.

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<v Speaker 1>God is as advertised.

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<v Speaker 2>If he advertises himself as bread, you will.

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<v Speaker 1>Not go hungry. He is as advertised if he said

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<v Speaker 1>I'm the great, I am whatever you need him to be.

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<v Speaker 1>He is. I'm running over.

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<v Speaker 2>I know you can't see it right now, but I'm

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<v Speaker 2>running over. I know I can't feel it all the time,

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<v Speaker 2>but I'm running over. Might take my emotions a little

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<v Speaker 2>while to get with the program and catch up, but

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<v Speaker 2>God says, I'm running over now with your head bowed

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<v Speaker 2>and your eyes closed that you've heard the message. I

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<v Speaker 2>want you to say the title again. See if it

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<v Speaker 2>feels different. I'm going through and I'm running over. You

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<v Speaker 2>got what you need. Absolutely, you're going through. You follow

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<v Speaker 2>through with this.

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<v Speaker 1>Father.

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<v Speaker 2>I never ever, ever like to make stuff up on

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<v Speaker 2>the spot. I feel like for somebody in this room,

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<v Speaker 2>if they don't give their life to you right now,

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<v Speaker 2>this might be their last chance.

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<v Speaker 1>I pray right now for that person. God, as I

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<v Speaker 1>lead into this moment of invitation, I want my whole

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<v Speaker 1>church praying with me.

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<v Speaker 2>There is somebody who is in here right now who

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<v Speaker 2>God has been speaking to and they have been running

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<v Speaker 2>and today in this message, the Lord spoke to them

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<v Speaker 2>and said it is time for you to give your

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<v Speaker 2>life to Christ right now.

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<v Speaker 1>I want to pray for that person.

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<v Speaker 2>Those people there may be many, I don't know, but

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<v Speaker 2>I want to pray right now. I want our entire

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<v Speaker 2>church to agree with me and to pray out loud

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<v Speaker 2>after me repeat this prayer.

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<v Speaker 1>It's not a magic prayers, not a magic pill.

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<v Speaker 2>But the Bible says that if you will confess with

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<v Speaker 2>your mouth that Jesus is Lord, and believe in your heart,

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<v Speaker 2>God raised them from the dead. You will be saved

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<v Speaker 2>and you will receive His grace. Right now, I'm calling

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<v Speaker 2>you to Jesus to leave your sin, to leave your excuses,

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<v Speaker 2>to leave your past, and to come into his arms.

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<v Speaker 2>They're open wide in this moment. Repeat after me, Heavenly Father.

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<v Speaker 2>I believe that Jesus Christ is the Son of God

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<v Speaker 2>and the savior of the world.

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<v Speaker 1>And today I make Jesus the lord of my life.

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<v Speaker 2>I believe he died that I would be forgiven and

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<v Speaker 2>rose again to give me life.

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<v Speaker 1>I receive this new life. This is my new beginning.

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<v Speaker 1>I am a child of God.

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<v Speaker 2>If you prayed that with me, lift your hands on

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<v Speaker 2>the count of three, one two degree every location, every location, put.

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<v Speaker 1>Among Praise the Lord. Praise the Lord. Praise the name

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<v Speaker 1>of Jesus. Praise the name of Jesus. Going through. I'm

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<v Speaker 1>going through, but I'm running over. Clap those hands. If

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<v Speaker 1>you receive the word to them.

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<v Speaker 2>I love him. If you just prayed that prayer to

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<v Speaker 2>give your life to Jesus Christ, please see someone at

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<v Speaker 2>the tents on your way out. We don't want you

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<v Speaker 2>to leave before we have the opportunity to give you

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<v Speaker 2>a Bible. Pray with you. And celebrate your decision to

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<v Speaker 2>follow Christ. Holly, join me on the stage. My love,

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<v Speaker 2>your little rain lover. I got her love in rock

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<v Speaker 2>music now everybody. She still thinks food fighters are better

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<v Speaker 2>than Nirvana, But I'm working on him have his way.

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<v Speaker 2>I got her to love two things, boiled peanuts and

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<v Speaker 2>smashing pumpkins.

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<v Speaker 1>Isn't God good?

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<v Speaker 2>I want your relationship with Jesus to change the way

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<v Speaker 2>you go through your week.

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<v Speaker 1>I do. I want it to change the way you

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<v Speaker 1>see your challenges.

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<v Speaker 2>I wanted to change the way you talk about yourself

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<v Speaker 2>and the way you speak to others. I want it

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<v Speaker 2>to change the way we drive in traffic. We are

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<v Speaker 2>horrible in our cars, y'all. I want it to change

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<v Speaker 2>the way you feel about uncertainty. I want it to

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<v Speaker 2>change it.

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<v Speaker 1>Jesus changes every day everything.

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<v Speaker 2>Say it again, I'm going through, but I'm not alone.

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<v Speaker 1>I'm running over. Now. What you tell your neighbor?

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<v Speaker 2>You look so much better than you did an hour

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<v Speaker 2>ago when he started preaching. You look full now. You

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<v Speaker 2>look kind of empty of an hour ago, but you

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<v Speaker 2>look full now. Hey, everybody, when we bring our offering

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<v Speaker 2>next weekend, let's bring our best online Etham.

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<v Speaker 1>You be a part two. Let's bring our best. Let's

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<v Speaker 1>honor daughter. You never go wrong putting God first. He

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<v Speaker 1>will not be OutGiving everybody leaving. I understand. I ran over.

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<v Speaker 1>That's right, I get it.

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<v Speaker 2>Grab hands repeat after me. The Lord is my shepherd.

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<v Speaker 2>I shall not want. He leadeth me, He maketh me.

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<v Speaker 2>He provides for me, and He is with me. Would

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<v Speaker 2>you hug three people and tell him God is with

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<v Speaker 2>you this week.

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<v Speaker 1>I'll see y'all soon. I love you.

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<v Speaker 2>Have the best week of your life. God is with

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<v Speaker 2>you in the middle of it. Praise the Lord. Everybody,

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<v Speaker 2>look at somebody say yay, yes's God be good.

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<v Speaker 1>I'll see y'all soon.

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<v Speaker 7>Thanks for joining us today. We pray that God has

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<v Speaker 7>spoken to you in a unique and power way through

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<v Speaker 7>the message.

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<v Speaker 2>Well.

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<v Speaker 7>We are in our year in offering season as a

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<v Speaker 7>church where we get the opportunity to reflect back on

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<v Speaker 7>all the ways that God has been faithful to our

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<v Speaker 7>ministry this year, but also to look ahead at what

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<v Speaker 7>we're believing God for in the upcoming year and each

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<v Speaker 7>year as a church. We get to come around a

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<v Speaker 7>special offering and offering that contributes to both outreach efforts

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<v Speaker 7>in local and global cities and as well as the

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<v Speaker 7>expansion of our ministry continuing to reach people all over

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<v Speaker 7>with the hope of the Gospel. And we'd invite you

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<v Speaker 7>to take part and participate in our year end offering.

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<v Speaker 7>To do so, you can go to Elevationchurch dot org.

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<v Speaker 7>Just click the banner there at the top, and then

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<v Speaker 7>you'll be able to see everything that you need to

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<v Speaker 7>be a part of.

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<v Speaker 1>Our year end offering.

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<v Speaker 7>You'll see two options. The first is to begin tithing.

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<v Speaker 7>Maybe you've been wanting to prioritize God in your finances,

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<v Speaker 7>but you haven't taken that step to make a commitment

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<v Speaker 7>to doing so. This is a great place to begin.

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<v Speaker 7>Or perhaps you've been giving consistently in this season, God

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<v Speaker 7>may be challenging you to stretch above and beyond the

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<v Speaker 7>tithe to give a sacrificial gift to our year end offering.

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<v Speaker 7>If you're part of one of our physical lowe you

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<v Speaker 7>can choose your campus there, or if you're part of

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<v Speaker 7>our online ministry, of course you'll choose Epham or online

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<v Speaker 7>and then enter the amount that you'd like to give.

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<v Speaker 7>We are believing for all the ways that God is

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<v Speaker 7>going to stretch our faith in this season through our

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<v Speaker 7>year end offering and we can't wait to see what

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<v Speaker 7>God does through you. God bless and we'll see you soon.