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Speaker 1: Hey, this is Stephen Ferdick.

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

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Speaker 2: Be sure to subscribe so we can get you these

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Speaker 2: new sermons every week.

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Speaker 1: I hope you're blessed today.

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Speaker 3: Welcome everybody.

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Speaker 4: This is the day that the Lord has made. And

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Speaker 4: not only is it a new day, y'all, this is

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Speaker 4: the first Sunday of our.

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Speaker 1: Next decade of ministry. Together, let's give the Lord a

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Speaker 1: praise for a new day.

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Speaker 4: And a new decade. Promise you one thing, everybody who's

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Speaker 4: in on this right now, You're about to see God

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Speaker 4: do some great things. Sometimes I look in the mirror

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Speaker 4: I see all these gray hairs coming up in my beard,

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Speaker 4: and I feel like gray and greater go together, so

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Speaker 4: I feel like the greayer I get the greater.

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Speaker 1: Anyway, I'll work on that. Before I make a T shirt.

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Speaker 4: I want you to hug somebody, especially if they look

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Speaker 4: like they almost didn't come to church, but they found

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Speaker 4: that wrinkled shirt.

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Speaker 1: And put it on and got here.

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Speaker 4: Anyway, Hug for me twenty one people for our twenty

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Speaker 4: first year of ministry.

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Speaker 5: You'll have to move around a little bit, but get

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Speaker 5: it done.

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Speaker 1: Welcome to all, of our campuses.

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Speaker 5: Welcome to our EPAM all around the world.

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Speaker 4: I'm sending you a hug across the internet, a worldwide hug.

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Speaker 1: Let us know where you're joining from.

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Speaker 4: Would you just put your city in your state and

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Speaker 4: your name, maybe your favorite candy I don't know, put

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Speaker 4: on the list, if you had a good Valentine's weekend,

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Speaker 4: if you celebrate that kind of pagan holiday.

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Speaker 1: I was playing. I was playing. I'm just playing.

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Speaker 4: You know, as we move into this time of worship,

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Speaker 4: I want to make sure that everybody has the opportunity

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Speaker 4: to join us for Elevation Nights twenty twenty six coming

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Speaker 4: up on February twenty fourth through Thursday March fifth. Now

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Speaker 4: here's where we're going to be headed. And if you

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Speaker 4: know somebody, if you're part of our local church and

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Speaker 4: you know somebody in one of these cities, let them know.

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Speaker 1: But maybe you live close enough to get there.

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Speaker 4: Hershey, Pennsylvania, Brooklyn, Indianapolis, Milwaukee, Grand Rapids, Knoxville, Columbus, and Chicago.

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Speaker 1: So help me get the word out. We're going to

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Speaker 1: be taking We're going to be taking our team.

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Speaker 4: Elevation Worship, Elevation Rhythm Me Holly the whole family going

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Speaker 4: out on the road to bring the good news of

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Speaker 4: the resurrect of Jesus Christ to.

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Speaker 5: A city near you. Tickets are limited. Go to Elevation

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Speaker 5: Nights dot com.

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Speaker 4: Also Friday, when you wake up, you're gonna feel a

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Speaker 4: little tired.

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Speaker 1: You're gonna have gone.

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Speaker 4: Through a whole week, and you know, people getting on

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Speaker 4: your nerves, things that happen during a normal week.

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Speaker 1: But if you'll go over to Apple Music.

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Speaker 4: Or Spotify or Amazon Music or Pandora and you'll put

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Speaker 4: in Elevation Worship, you'll find a brand new album waiting

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Speaker 4: for you on Friday, February the twentieth, and you'll be

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Speaker 4: singing I Call God on the Mountain, all these songs

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Speaker 4: that we've been singing for months, and you've been watching

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Speaker 4: the bootleg YouTube videos that these online pirates put out

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Speaker 1: Well the wait, tell somebody, the weight is over.

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Speaker 4: The worship is here Friday, get it, so be it.

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Speaker 4: I think it's our best album yet.

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Speaker 6: Yeah, yeah, yeah.

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Speaker 1: How many came for a word from God today?

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Speaker 4: Make some I want to draw your attention while you're

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Speaker 4: standing to John chapter nine. Please, I've got a brand

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Speaker 4: new Bible chunks of Namy gave me a brand new

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Speaker 4: Bible for our twentieth birthday, So let's take it for

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Speaker 1: I was insulted they gave me a large print Bible.

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Speaker 1: I'm like, what is that supposed to me?

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Speaker 4: So since it was a large print Bible, I thought

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Speaker 4: i'd preach about the blind Man and John Chapter nine.

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Speaker 1: I'm so thankful that you're here. John.

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Speaker 4: It's a great chapter, and you may do well to

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Speaker 1: I'm going to deal with the first half of this story.

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Speaker 1: The scriptures are coming on the screen.

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Speaker 4: As he went along, he saw a man. Jesus saw

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Speaker 4: Jesus sums up an entire theological library.

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Speaker 1: In one word, neither you both Both options are stupid.

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Speaker 4: Neither this man nor his parents sinned, said Jesus. But

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Speaker 4: He told him, wash in the pool of siloon.

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Speaker 1: This word means sin.

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Speaker 4: So the man went and washed and came home seeing

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Speaker 1: He went and washed, and came home.

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Speaker 4: Seeing his neighbors and those who had formerly seen him begging.

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Speaker 4: How then were your eyes open, they asked, He replied,

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Speaker 4: Literally, he made some mud and put it on my eyes.

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Speaker 4: So I went and washed, and then I could see.

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Speaker 4: I want to talk to you today about when waiting

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Speaker 1: When waiting isn't.

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Speaker 4: Working, Put that in the chat please, or the comments

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Speaker 4: When waiting isn't working, nothing's changing, no doors opening. I

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Speaker 1: And I gave the message a subtitle too.

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Speaker 4: The subtitle is muddy Moves, Muddy Moves. Tell somebody I

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Speaker 1: Yeah, Father, bless your word in Jesus' name. Amen, you

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Speaker 4: How long would you sit there? If I just came

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Speaker 1: I mean, they don't even stay till I do my.

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Speaker 4: Invitation, half the time, tripping over people in the back

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Speaker 1: No, really, how long would you sit there? You know,

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Speaker 4: When I first met Holly, she was on a dating probation,

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Speaker 4: a probationary period. And the thing was, she just wanted

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Speaker 1: Right.

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Speaker 4: And I think that's great because I can attest to

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Speaker 1: Is absolutely worth the wait.

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Speaker 4: But I was in line, and I cut in line,

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Speaker 4: And here we are twenty seven years of being Valentines.

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Speaker 4: Twenty seven years. You learn a lot about love in

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Speaker 4: twenty seven years. You learn a lot about Valentine's Day.

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Speaker 4: You learn to go out two days before Valonstine's Day

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Speaker 1: How do you not know after all these years of

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Speaker 4: But I've got to do the work that God called

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Speaker 4: I've got to do the work that God called.

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Speaker 1: It doesn't take me long.

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Speaker 4: And I want to remind somebody today, and maybe this

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Speaker 1: That it doesn't take God long.

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Speaker 4: It doesn't the one who created the world in six

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Speaker 4: That means sent. Back up, Jesus was sent from heaven.

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Speaker 4: He spit in the mud, and he sent a man

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Speaker 4: to a pool. That represents that he was sent from

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Speaker 4: heaven to get down in the mud, to send a

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Speaker 4: man to a pool, to show him that he was

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Speaker 4: sent from above, to reach down in the dirt, to

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Speaker 4: send a man to a pool. And he told him

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Speaker 4: wash in the pool siloon. So the man, and here's

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Speaker 4: where I'm going to take a little liberty. The man.

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Speaker 1: Waited. The man waited.

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Speaker 4: Now this is the part where many of us have

458
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Speaker 4: fallen in love with the concept of waiting on God.

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Speaker 4: I want to underscore again that when God has called

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Speaker 4: you to wait, the only thing worse than waiting on

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Speaker 4: God is wishing that you had. The only thing more

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Speaker 4: difficult than waiting on God to bring a desire to

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Speaker 4: pass is doing it in your own strength, doing it

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Speaker 4: in your own knowledge, doing it in your own sight,

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Speaker 4: doing it in your own.

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Speaker 1: And then wishing.

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Speaker 7: Oh, if I had just listened to that check in

468
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Speaker 7: my spirit, I would not still be paying this off.

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Speaker 7: If I had just listened and not tried to impress people,

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Speaker 7: I wouldn't have this mountain of debt. If I had

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Speaker 7: just waited until I got my house in order, if.

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Speaker 5: I wouldn't have gotten ahead of myself.

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Speaker 4: The only thing worse than waiting on God is wishing

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Speaker 4: that you had. But when God has given you a word,

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Speaker 4: waiting will not change your situation.

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Speaker 1: Only washing will.

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Speaker 4: Because if this man have received the sanctified spit of

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Speaker 4: the Savior of the world on.

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Speaker 1: His eyes, now imagine it.

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Speaker 4: He's standing, he's blind, he's listening, he's willing.

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Speaker 1: And Jesus spits in.

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Speaker 4: The ground and rubs mud on his eyes, and so

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Speaker 4: he decides, you.

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Speaker 1: Know what, I know he told me to go to

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Speaker 1: the pool, but.

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Speaker 4: I'm gonna sit here for a minute because it will

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Speaker 4: be easier for me to get to the pool if

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Speaker 4: I can see my way there. So I'm gonna wait

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Speaker 4: for what he did to set in, and then I'll

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Speaker 4: set out for where he told me to go.

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Speaker 1: And I got a picture.

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Speaker 8: Of a lot of us who have claimed we are

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Speaker 8: waiting for God, and we even write songs about it.

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Speaker 1: In the church.

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Speaker 4: We even have a song about waiting on God, and

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Speaker 4: I love it. The song is called I'm Gonna wait

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Speaker 4: on You.

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Speaker 1: Do you know that song? Do you know the song

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Speaker 1: I'm Gonna wait on You? Yeah?

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Speaker 4: You can't sing that all the time. You can't sing

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Speaker 4: I'm gonna wait on you. At a green light, they

502
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Speaker 4: are gonna honk at you and they should.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, listen to me. I'm gonna what if the

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Speaker 1: what if the blind man? Just imagine with me, Just imagine.

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Speaker 4: With me, what if the blind man would have said, Okay,

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Speaker 4: this is great man, whoever this guy is. I've heard

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Speaker 4: things about him. I've heard that he has unique ways

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Speaker 4: of working. I heard the ripping off roofs to come

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Speaker 4: and see him. I heard that he has a word

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Speaker 4: that's not like the fair season the Sadducees.

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Speaker 1: Maybe he could do it. I heard that he does

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Speaker 1: great miracles.

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Speaker 9: So I'm gonna I'm gonna wait on you. How long

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Speaker 9: would you wait? I'm gone, wait on you? Did you

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Speaker 9: hear me, Lord, I'm gone, Oh, wait on you. I

516
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Speaker 9: wonder if the Lord ever sings back to us. I'm

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Speaker 9: going on, wait on you.

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Speaker 10: Imagine this, Jesus said, go to the pool and wash,

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Speaker 10: and the man's like, yeah, I'm gonna do that right

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Speaker 10: after I get this mud off my eyes, right after.

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Speaker 4: This mud disappears. I'm not going through these streets muddy

522
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Speaker 4: like this. It's embarrassing what I'm supposed to go through

523
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Speaker 4: the streets. And you got to realize the pool he

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Speaker 4: sent him to was at the southernmost part of the city,

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Speaker 4: so it wasn't a short distance.

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Speaker 1: And the moment Jesus touched his eyes, the healing.

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Speaker 4: Began, but it did not unfold until he got to

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Speaker 4: the place of obedience.

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Speaker 11: So imagine it with me. I know it's corny, but he.

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Speaker 4: Goes, I'm gon wait on you, and Jesus goes.

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Speaker 1: I told you what to do.

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Speaker 5: This is the remix how many will download this.

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Speaker 4: If I put it all a lie, I told you to.

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Speaker 5: Do it, you better get moved man.

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Speaker 1: Huh huh.

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Speaker 4: That's the remix for all of us who are claiming that.

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Speaker 1: We're waiting, when you know God already gave you a word.

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Speaker 1: You just didn't like what he told you to do.

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Speaker 4: You didn't want to forgive, So you're waiting for God

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Speaker 4: to heal a heart that you have so clogged up

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Speaker 4: with bitterness because.

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Speaker 1: You don't want to wash. You want to wait. You

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Speaker 1: don't want to wash off the residue of what they

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Speaker 1: did to you.

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Speaker 7: You would rather rehearse it and nurse it and curse it,

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Speaker 7: and rehearse it and nurse it.

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Speaker 1: And curse it. But waiting will not fix what only

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Speaker 1: washing can remove. Where are my amens?

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Speaker 4: Are we going into a decade of y'all looking at

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Speaker 4: me like Episcopalians? I mean, God bless every denomination. But

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Speaker 4: I thought this was Elevation Church. And I found out

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Speaker 4: that when God says move, when God says washed, when.

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Speaker 1: God says go, when.

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Speaker 4: God says step, when God says change, when God says

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Speaker 4: let it go, when God says take it up, when

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Speaker 4: God says throw your rock, imagine David waiting on God

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Speaker 4: in the face of Goliath.

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Speaker 1: So well, if the Lord wants to take him down,

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Speaker 1: the Lord will take him down.

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Speaker 5: The Lord already showed you he wanted to take him down.

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Speaker 4: That's why the lion went down and the bear went down.

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Speaker 4: Because God was incrementally revealing to you the capacity of

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Speaker 4: his power in a way that you would not doubt

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Speaker 4: him when you face this challenge.

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Speaker 1: You've already seen enough. Or Moses. I thought about Moses standing.

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Speaker 4: At the Red Sea, saying, stand still and you will

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Speaker 4: see the salvation of the Lord. No, stand still and

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Speaker 4: you will be slaughtered by the Egyptian armies because they're coming.

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Speaker 4: I'm going to wait on you, and the Lord wants

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Speaker 4: you to know today that you cannot replace obeying with waiting.

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Speaker 1: That's a walk off statement right there. That is a

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Speaker 1: walk off statement right there.

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Speaker 4: Because the truth is, I already preached enough words from

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Speaker 4: this pulpit that went somewhere in a notebook or a phone, and.

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Speaker 1: God told you to do it.

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Speaker 4: But you tried to microwave that miracle, and you tried

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Speaker 4: to think that hearing would change you. But hearing the

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Speaker 4: word of God does not change you. The value is

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Speaker 4: in the application. It's like mud on your eyes.

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Speaker 1: God has to get it on you, and then you

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Speaker 1: got to get it off you. Whatever it is in

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Speaker 1: the season of your life. Who am I preaching to

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Speaker 1: guiltiest charge your honor?

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Speaker 4: I have been waiting for God to show up and

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Speaker 4: not going to the place that I know he sent me,

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Speaker 4: because I know God didn't send you into that addictive behavior.

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Speaker 4: I know God didn't send you into that messed up

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Speaker 4: relationship for the fourth time. You're going back to him

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Speaker 4: for the fourth time because.

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Speaker 5: You don't want to be lonely and you're waiting on

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Speaker 5: him to change.

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Speaker 4: We're going to talk about this today because I am

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Speaker 4: not having you leave this church and be the subject

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Speaker 4: of a debate when God wants to display his glory

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Speaker 4: in your life. So I present for your professional and

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Speaker 4: personal consideration in those areas of your life three times

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Speaker 4: where waiting won't work. I've seen it in my own life.

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Speaker 4: I've seen it in my own hypocrisy. I've seen the

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Speaker 4: times where the devil knew I wouldn't disobey God if

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Speaker 4: I labeled it as disobeying. So I almost see Satan

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Speaker 4: having a strategy meeting. Let's tell them they're not disobeying.

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Speaker 1: They're waiting. Yeah, tell them they're waiting, because that sounds spiritual.

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Speaker 11: Yeah, tell them they're waiting.

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Speaker 4: And meanwhile, keep them from calling their friends and admitting

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Speaker 4: that they're struggling, the friends that could actually help them

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Speaker 4: and give them some companionship. No, no, tell them they're

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Speaker 4: waiting on the Lord. I jotted down three things to

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Speaker 4: give you that you can pray about and see if

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Speaker 4: you might be waiting instead of washing, you ever waited?

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Speaker 4: Instead of washing, prayer doesn't take away bad breath, kolgate

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Speaker 4: does me and praying that away. So I want to

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Speaker 4: take from this miracle briefly and subcainely.

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Speaker 1: Listen. I told you it doesn't take God long. I

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Speaker 1: didn't say it doesn't take me long.

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Speaker 4: It takes me a little while to preach how I

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Speaker 4: want to preach, y'all here for it.

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Speaker 1: I want to talk about what Jesus used, and.

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Speaker 4: Then I want to talk about where he sent the man,

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Speaker 4: and then I don't want to talk about when he

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Speaker 4: did it. And I want to talk about three things

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Speaker 4: that you might be waiting on, and it won't work,

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Speaker 4: and then you wonder what is Jesus real? Because he

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Speaker 4: did this thing, but it didn't work well. You waited

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Speaker 4: instead of washing. And here's three things we wait on.

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Speaker 4: I give them all to upfront. We wait on perfect,

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Speaker 4: we wait on people, and we wait on pain free.

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Speaker 4: Put all of those in the comments you're watching online.

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Speaker 4: Are you waiting when God said wash? Are you waiting

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Speaker 4: on perfect? Are you waiting on people? Are you waiting

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Speaker 4: on painfree? Are you waiting on perfect? Because a lot

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Speaker 4: of times I do. The Bible says in Ecclesiastes, he

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Speaker 4: who regarded the wind will never sow means if you

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Speaker 4: wait for conditions to be right, you'll never get it done.

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Speaker 4: If you wait for the perfect time to do it,

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Speaker 4: you'll never do it. If you wait till you feel

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Speaker 4: ready to step into it, you'll never step into it.

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Speaker 1: Isn't that the truth? And the fact that Jesus.

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Speaker 4: Made a miracle out of the mud reminds me that

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Speaker 4: I made.

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Speaker 11: Of what the miracle came from.

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Speaker 4: This very act mirrors Genesis two seven, when God made

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Speaker 4: you from the dirt.

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Speaker 1: And here's what I can't understand.

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Speaker 4: For perfect not only in our lives, not only in ourselves,

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Speaker 4: but in others.

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Speaker 1: We wait for perfect. Now, let me ask you a question.

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Speaker 4: When God started to make you, he started with dirt.

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Speaker 4: Now you're expecting God to send you something that starts

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Speaker 4: with perfect when you started with dirt. I had a

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Speaker 4: unique experience the other day in a restaurant. I was

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Speaker 4: trying to listen to what Holly was telling me, but

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Speaker 4: I was very distracted by the conversation at the table

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Speaker 4: behind us because they said our name, they said elevation,

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Speaker 4: and I couldn't tell if it was being said positively

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Speaker 4: or negatively, So I just I said, leaned back in

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Speaker 4: the booth a little bit, and all I heard was

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Speaker 4: the lady said, are you still going to Elevation? The

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Speaker 4: other lady said yeah, and then the friend started telling her, well,

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Speaker 4: you may want to check out some other.

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Speaker 1: Well, now, I thought, she may right.

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Speaker 4: This is not the only church, so that may be

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Speaker 4: a good idea. But what got me the more that

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Speaker 4: I Yeah, I listened to the whole thing, the parts

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Speaker 4: I could pick up. The mature Christian who was talking

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Speaker 4: to the other lady who had been going to Elevation.

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Speaker 4: She starts going down this list of how you can

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Speaker 4: find the perfect church.

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Speaker 1: Now, if that's what the lady was looking.

669
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Speaker 4: For, she should never come back to this one again.

670
00:39:39,120 --> 00:39:41,080
Speaker 4: But when she went through all of the things, I

671
00:39:41,080 --> 00:39:41,880
Speaker 4: heard her say.

672
00:39:41,840 --> 00:39:43,240
Speaker 1: You know, you might want to go to one.

673
00:39:43,160 --> 00:39:46,400
Speaker 4: Church, go there a couple months, go to another church,

674
00:39:46,800 --> 00:39:49,839
Speaker 4: go there a couple months, go to another church, go

675
00:39:49,880 --> 00:39:53,239
Speaker 4: there a couple of months. And I realized, you're confused

676
00:39:53,360 --> 00:39:55,560
Speaker 4: because you think you should pick a church like you

677
00:39:55,640 --> 00:39:58,520
Speaker 4: pick off this menu when you want salmon or steak,

678
00:40:01,760 --> 00:40:02,840
Speaker 4: and you want to find.

679
00:40:02,600 --> 00:40:06,160
Speaker 1: Out is it medium well, is it well done?

680
00:40:06,400 --> 00:40:09,160
Speaker 4: Is it seasoned? Just like I Like I saw one

681
00:40:09,200 --> 00:40:11,600
Speaker 4: the other day. This was crazy. This wasn't the lady

682
00:40:11,600 --> 00:40:14,680
Speaker 4: behind me, but I saw one the other day that

683
00:40:14,760 --> 00:40:17,160
Speaker 4: I screenshoted to tell you a lady was on a

684
00:40:17,160 --> 00:40:20,080
Speaker 4: forum talking about wanting to find a church.

685
00:40:20,200 --> 00:40:21,280
Speaker 1: Search for a new church.

686
00:40:21,680 --> 00:40:26,920
Speaker 4: And don't laugh at me making this font bigger. If

687
00:40:27,000 --> 00:40:28,920
Speaker 4: y'all laugh at me making this font bigger.

688
00:40:28,680 --> 00:40:30,840
Speaker 1: I will prophesy about your secret sins.

689
00:40:32,160 --> 00:40:35,360
Speaker 4: Yeah, she said, this is what's important to us, Bible

690
00:40:35,400 --> 00:40:39,320
Speaker 4: based Jesus the Savior. Okay, great, robust kids program, awesome,

691
00:40:39,440 --> 00:40:43,080
Speaker 4: small to medium size, maybe around one hundred members. Oh well, yeah,

692
00:40:43,120 --> 00:40:44,799
Speaker 4: you get kind of You know what if the Lord

693
00:40:44,840 --> 00:40:46,359
Speaker 4: wants you to be a part of a big church. What'

694
00:40:46,320 --> 00:40:47,680
Speaker 4: you're gonna do when you get to heaven? And it's

695
00:40:47,760 --> 00:40:49,120
Speaker 4: kind of big by the way. You want just a

696
00:40:49,160 --> 00:40:51,280
Speaker 4: little church, you're gonna.

697
00:40:51,120 --> 00:40:56,799
Speaker 1: Leave, You're gonna check out the other place you're gonna

698
00:40:56,800 --> 00:40:57,440
Speaker 1: shop around.

699
00:40:57,480 --> 00:41:01,000
Speaker 4: Now, you want to see what's behind door number two

700
00:41:01,360 --> 00:41:04,640
Speaker 4: when you walk in, and it's every tribe and tongue

701
00:41:04,840 --> 00:41:08,359
Speaker 4: and nation, and it's white people and black people, and

702
00:41:08,400 --> 00:41:12,800
Speaker 4: short people and tall people and skinny people and asthetic people,

703
00:41:13,040 --> 00:41:14,160
Speaker 4: and it's all kinds.

704
00:41:13,920 --> 00:41:27,400
Speaker 3: Of people praising the label God.

705
00:41:29,040 --> 00:41:34,680
Speaker 1: She's not done yet. We need members in the same

706
00:41:34,719 --> 00:41:35,879
Speaker 1: walk of life as us.

707
00:41:35,960 --> 00:41:40,319
Speaker 4: Why you need some people older than you that aren't

708
00:41:40,320 --> 00:41:41,200
Speaker 4: as dumb.

709
00:41:40,960 --> 00:41:43,160
Speaker 1: As you and all the people that you've been running with.

710
00:41:45,000 --> 00:41:48,520
Speaker 1: We're looking for a community. We want other thirty somethings.

711
00:41:48,520 --> 00:41:50,959
Speaker 1: That's fine to I get it. But then the next

712
00:41:50,960 --> 00:41:54,600
Speaker 1: thing is progressive, diverse and inclusive. So I want everybody

713
00:41:54,640 --> 00:41:59,959
Speaker 1: to be just like me diversely. You see what I'm saying.

714
00:42:01,080 --> 00:42:05,480
Speaker 4: I want everybody thirty and different than me, so that

715
00:42:05,520 --> 00:42:07,920
Speaker 4: they're just like me, but different.

716
00:42:10,360 --> 00:42:17,440
Speaker 1: And then she wanted also decent worship. Yeah, yeah, she.

717
00:42:17,400 --> 00:42:19,279
Speaker 4: Gonna give you a little grace on the worship you know

718
00:42:21,160 --> 00:42:22,920
Speaker 4: now you say this is mean reading this list. I'm

719
00:42:22,920 --> 00:42:26,440
Speaker 4: not saying her name. I don't know this person. I

720
00:42:26,600 --> 00:42:29,240
Speaker 4: just thought, how could it make it on your list

721
00:42:29,960 --> 00:42:34,000
Speaker 4: in the same category as worship and Jesus as Lord,

722
00:42:34,560 --> 00:42:44,200
Speaker 4: as gluten free communion. I gotta make a preacher want

723
00:42:44,239 --> 00:42:50,720
Speaker 4: to retire. And I want the people to be holy

724
00:42:51,000 --> 00:42:55,879
Speaker 4: but real, not judgmental, but spiritual.

725
00:42:56,960 --> 00:42:58,640
Speaker 1: I want them to be advanced in.

726
00:42:58,640 --> 00:43:05,600
Speaker 4: Their discipleship but still very tender to my developing, blossoming spirituality.

727
00:43:06,560 --> 00:43:08,040
Speaker 1: And I kind of wanted to turn around in the

728
00:43:08,160 --> 00:43:10,319
Speaker 1: restaurant and ask the lady, the other lady that I

729
00:43:10,360 --> 00:43:10,960
Speaker 1: was telling you about.

730
00:43:11,960 --> 00:43:13,680
Speaker 4: It's cool if you want to search for a church,

731
00:43:14,800 --> 00:43:16,160
Speaker 4: but can we put you through.

732
00:43:15,960 --> 00:43:17,560
Speaker 1: The same test you want to put us through when

733
00:43:17,600 --> 00:43:18,040
Speaker 1: you come.

734
00:43:24,960 --> 00:43:28,400
Speaker 4: Can we try you for three months, and try another

735
00:43:28,400 --> 00:43:31,640
Speaker 4: one for three months, and try another one for all.

736
00:43:32,080 --> 00:43:35,040
Speaker 4: This is my third decade. I'm a say it like

737
00:43:35,120 --> 00:43:37,640
Speaker 4: I want to say. And now I'm not a fly

738
00:43:37,800 --> 00:43:39,319
Speaker 4: by night verdick no more.

739
00:43:39,840 --> 00:43:40,960
Speaker 1: I'm old and gray.

740
00:43:41,239 --> 00:43:46,440
Speaker 4: I've never seen the righteous forsakered, and I've never seen

741
00:43:46,480 --> 00:43:50,920
Speaker 4: a perfect church. And if you ever find the perfect church,

742
00:43:51,080 --> 00:43:53,239
Speaker 4: don't join it because you're ruin it.

743
00:43:57,239 --> 00:44:00,440
Speaker 1: And bring your own glut and free communion. You can

744
00:44:00,600 --> 00:44:01,839
Speaker 1: do that for yourself.

745
00:44:02,080 --> 00:44:03,120
Speaker 6: Are you serious?

746
00:44:06,480 --> 00:44:14,480
Speaker 1: Never heard of whole foods? Are you waiting on perfect.

747
00:44:15,680 --> 00:44:22,439
Speaker 4: When the Savior specializes in mud. Jesus healed the man

748
00:44:23,160 --> 00:44:31,400
Speaker 4: with mud, not magic, but we want magic abracadabra glory. Hallelujah,

749
00:44:31,600 --> 00:44:35,120
Speaker 4: rub a dub dub. I'm gonna wait on you, not

750
00:44:35,280 --> 00:44:36,439
Speaker 4: without dirty work.

751
00:44:36,440 --> 00:44:42,920
Speaker 1: You're not. That's why I drive a jeep because the

752
00:44:43,080 --> 00:44:45,000
Speaker 1: jeep looks good with dirt on it.

753
00:44:46,680 --> 00:44:52,360
Speaker 4: That's why I love Jesus, because Jesus looks good.

754
00:44:53,040 --> 00:44:56,080
Speaker 1: With dirt on him. And I want you to.

755
00:44:56,080 --> 00:44:58,719
Speaker 4: Know he'll touch your life today. I want you to

756
00:44:58,800 --> 00:45:01,719
Speaker 4: know he'll walk right up to you today. Oh, your

757
00:45:01,719 --> 00:45:05,080
Speaker 4: little dirty self, you better come into the presence of God.

758
00:45:05,440 --> 00:45:09,480
Speaker 4: You better listen to this man from Galilee who turns

759
00:45:09,600 --> 00:45:13,000
Speaker 4: water into wine and dirty into diamonds.

760
00:45:15,080 --> 00:45:19,760
Speaker 5: Hallelujah, hallelujah, hallelujah, hallelujah.

761
00:45:19,920 --> 00:45:24,800
Speaker 4: Stop waiting for perfect and praising for progress, Stop waiting

762
00:45:24,840 --> 00:45:27,760
Speaker 4: for perfect and praising for proximity.

763
00:45:28,320 --> 00:45:34,400
Speaker 1: Just to be in his presence is a blessing. You

764
00:45:34,440 --> 00:45:36,240
Speaker 1: know how many times I've.

765
00:45:36,040 --> 00:45:39,080
Speaker 4: Been so fixated on one area of my life that

766
00:45:39,280 --> 00:45:42,960
Speaker 4: wasn't working, that I would not even worship God for

767
00:45:43,000 --> 00:45:44,359
Speaker 4: the ninety nine that were.

768
00:45:47,440 --> 00:45:50,719
Speaker 1: You are waiting on God, No you're not. You're focused

769
00:45:50,719 --> 00:45:53,680
Speaker 1: so tightly on what you don't have that you're blind

770
00:45:56,520 --> 00:46:01,920
Speaker 1: to what you do. When will it be enough for

771
00:46:02,000 --> 00:46:06,239
Speaker 1: you to praise God? When will it be? I mean seriously,

772
00:46:06,560 --> 00:46:11,440
Speaker 1: when will it be enough? Does that have to be perfect?

773
00:46:12,880 --> 00:46:15,120
Speaker 4: How can you wait for perfect when you have a

774
00:46:15,160 --> 00:46:20,000
Speaker 4: God who started with dirt. I'm saying that about your

775
00:46:20,080 --> 00:46:26,279
Speaker 4: spouse too. Man, you really are gonna fuss about that

776
00:46:26,480 --> 00:46:27,960
Speaker 4: in your marriage.

777
00:46:28,239 --> 00:46:30,600
Speaker 1: Your a little picky perfection of self.

778
00:46:32,680 --> 00:46:36,279
Speaker 4: And somebody else would somebody else would give anything to

779
00:46:36,400 --> 00:46:39,400
Speaker 4: have what you're about to throw away because it's not perfect.

780
00:46:40,600 --> 00:46:41,600
Speaker 1: You aren't perfect.

781
00:46:43,360 --> 00:46:46,920
Speaker 4: I will interview everybody in your family to prove this

782
00:46:47,080 --> 00:46:51,399
Speaker 4: point if I have to. It's an amazing thing when

783
00:46:51,400 --> 00:47:02,400
Speaker 4: you stop searching for perfect and start accepting presage.

784
00:47:05,520 --> 00:47:06,720
Speaker 1: There are no perfect people.

785
00:47:08,000 --> 00:47:10,560
Speaker 4: And one reason that Jesus opened this man's eyes and

786
00:47:10,600 --> 00:47:13,520
Speaker 4: send him to the pool is because he had to

787
00:47:13,520 --> 00:47:15,680
Speaker 4: get him away from all the people who knew him before.

788
00:47:17,400 --> 00:47:18,120
Speaker 1: Think about it.

789
00:47:19,520 --> 00:47:21,680
Speaker 4: If he opens his eyes and all he sees is

790
00:47:21,719 --> 00:47:24,880
Speaker 4: the people around him. They don't even recognize him, and

791
00:47:24,920 --> 00:47:26,239
Speaker 4: they definitely don't respect him.

792
00:47:26,800 --> 00:47:28,000
Speaker 11: I don't know where it is. I think it's around

793
00:47:28,040 --> 00:47:29,080
Speaker 11: verse thirty three or something.

794
00:47:29,520 --> 00:47:31,400
Speaker 4: But when they finally catch up with the man and

795
00:47:31,400 --> 00:47:33,680
Speaker 4: see what he does, the religious officials are mad at Jesus.

796
00:47:33,680 --> 00:47:35,120
Speaker 1: Watch this because he healed.

797
00:47:34,880 --> 00:47:39,120
Speaker 4: The man on the wrong day because the communion wasn't

798
00:47:39,160 --> 00:47:39,960
Speaker 4: gluten free.

799
00:47:40,040 --> 00:47:41,120
Speaker 1: They didn't want to take it.

800
00:47:44,040 --> 00:47:46,880
Speaker 4: God bless you man, but this is too picky that

801
00:47:47,000 --> 00:47:48,640
Speaker 4: man has never seen before.

802
00:47:48,800 --> 00:47:51,080
Speaker 1: And all you can see is what day Jesus did.

803
00:47:51,080 --> 00:47:55,160
Speaker 4: And on God moves when he wants to, and it

804
00:47:55,200 --> 00:47:56,200
Speaker 4: doesn't take him long.

805
00:47:57,600 --> 00:47:59,560
Speaker 1: And if he made a rule, he can transcend the

806
00:47:59,640 --> 00:48:03,080
Speaker 1: rule for a person that he loves. But you've got

807
00:48:03,080 --> 00:48:04,760
Speaker 1: to be careful waiting on people.

808
00:48:04,840 --> 00:48:06,719
Speaker 4: The first thing that you're waiting on is perfect, but

809
00:48:06,760 --> 00:48:10,360
Speaker 4: the second thing you're sometimes waiting on is people. And

810
00:48:10,480 --> 00:48:13,040
Speaker 4: notice the exchange in the text is kind of funny,

811
00:48:13,080 --> 00:48:15,239
Speaker 4: but you can miss the richness if you laugh at it,

812
00:48:16,080 --> 00:48:19,719
Speaker 4: because they can't figure out could it be him? You know,

813
00:48:19,800 --> 00:48:21,920
Speaker 4: when you first start living for God, people around you're like,

814
00:48:22,040 --> 00:48:24,800
Speaker 4: is this for real? You're like, oh yeah, they're not

815
00:48:24,840 --> 00:48:26,480
Speaker 4: going to change this is just they're just digging on

816
00:48:26,520 --> 00:48:26,960
Speaker 4: a kick.

817
00:48:26,840 --> 00:48:29,520
Speaker 1: About every time. In the first of the year. They'll

818
00:48:29,560 --> 00:48:30,640
Speaker 1: be done with this by March.

819
00:48:31,800 --> 00:48:35,919
Speaker 4: They start doubting what God has done, and no one

820
00:48:35,960 --> 00:48:38,239
Speaker 4: can blame them because no one has ever heard of

821
00:48:38,280 --> 00:48:39,880
Speaker 4: the healing of one blind from birth.

822
00:48:40,000 --> 00:48:41,520
Speaker 1: There are others heel of blindness in.

823
00:48:41,520 --> 00:48:45,120
Speaker 4: The scripture, but not from birth, so nobody expects it

824
00:48:45,160 --> 00:48:48,480
Speaker 4: to happen. And so Jesus sends him to the pool.

825
00:48:48,520 --> 00:48:50,600
Speaker 4: One reason that I believe he put mud on his

826
00:48:50,680 --> 00:48:53,439
Speaker 4: eyes was to keep the man from being comfortable where

827
00:48:53,440 --> 00:48:53,840
Speaker 4: he was.

828
00:48:56,120 --> 00:48:57,320
Speaker 1: If Jesus had sent.

829
00:48:57,239 --> 00:49:00,359
Speaker 4: Him to the pool with no mud on his eye,

830
00:49:00,680 --> 00:49:03,359
Speaker 4: he may not have gone because he had nothing to

831
00:49:03,560 --> 00:49:08,440
Speaker 4: wash off. Sometimes God uses messy situations to move you

832
00:49:08,800 --> 00:49:10,600
Speaker 4: and send you where you're supposed to be.

833
00:49:16,280 --> 00:49:19,080
Speaker 1: And that man went to the pool, and I almost

834
00:49:19,080 --> 00:49:20,280
Speaker 1: could see it in my mind.

835
00:49:20,480 --> 00:49:23,320
Speaker 4: I almost could see the movie of the man going

836
00:49:23,360 --> 00:49:26,520
Speaker 4: all the way to the pool, and he's moving, but

837
00:49:26,640 --> 00:49:30,320
Speaker 4: it's muddy moves. And the more I saw the man,

838
00:49:30,560 --> 00:49:33,800
Speaker 4: the more I saw you. You're making moves right now,

839
00:49:33,960 --> 00:49:35,280
Speaker 4: but they're muddy moves.

840
00:49:36,600 --> 00:49:37,640
Speaker 1: Their muddy moves.

841
00:49:37,800 --> 00:49:41,239
Speaker 4: These are not calculated times in your life. These are

842
00:49:41,280 --> 00:49:45,920
Speaker 4: not sure steps that you're taking. These are not clear

843
00:49:46,120 --> 00:49:50,200
Speaker 4: pads that you're trotting, These are not obvious decisions that

844
00:49:50,280 --> 00:49:52,880
Speaker 4: you're making, And it is difficult for you to know

845
00:49:53,000 --> 00:49:54,319
Speaker 4: if you're doing the right thing.

846
00:49:54,680 --> 00:49:56,279
Speaker 1: But if you are moving in.

847
00:49:56,280 --> 00:49:58,839
Speaker 4: The direction of what God has told you to do,

848
00:49:59,200 --> 00:50:01,719
Speaker 4: if you get ahead him, he can close the door

849
00:50:02,000 --> 00:50:04,560
Speaker 4: if you disobey him and call it waiting. If you

850
00:50:04,680 --> 00:50:07,480
Speaker 4: disobey him and wait another year for things to change.

851
00:50:07,520 --> 00:50:11,960
Speaker 4: People say time heals all things. Time doesn't heal all things.

852
00:50:12,280 --> 00:50:14,280
Speaker 4: Time hardens all things.

853
00:50:16,160 --> 00:50:16,680
Speaker 1: And if you.

854
00:50:16,840 --> 00:50:19,840
Speaker 4: Stay with the mud on your eyes, waiting to see

855
00:50:19,880 --> 00:50:23,640
Speaker 4: the change, waiting to move until you can see, waiting

856
00:50:23,680 --> 00:50:26,520
Speaker 4: to know the outcome. By the way, Jesus didn't even

857
00:50:26,560 --> 00:50:28,240
Speaker 4: tell the man you're going to get healed.

858
00:50:28,719 --> 00:50:31,640
Speaker 1: Find it in the text. He didn't even.

859
00:50:31,440 --> 00:50:34,480
Speaker 4: Promise him an outcome. He just gave him an instruction.

860
00:50:34,880 --> 00:50:38,640
Speaker 4: But something about the way his voice folk resonated with

861
00:50:38,760 --> 00:50:42,680
Speaker 4: the man, I gotta move. It's money, but I gotta move.

862
00:50:42,920 --> 00:50:44,720
Speaker 4: I gotta start this Bible study.

863
00:50:44,800 --> 00:50:47,640
Speaker 1: I gotta move. I can't wait for an invitation. I

864
00:50:47,680 --> 00:50:48,400
Speaker 1: gotta move.

865
00:50:48,640 --> 00:50:50,759
Speaker 4: I don't know if this is the right counselor, but

866
00:50:50,840 --> 00:50:52,879
Speaker 4: it's a counselor I gotta move.

867
00:50:53,120 --> 00:50:55,200
Speaker 1: I don't know if it's the right e group, but

868
00:50:55,320 --> 00:50:57,200
Speaker 1: it's a group I gotta move.

869
00:50:57,480 --> 00:50:59,880
Speaker 4: I don't know if it's gonna work in this program,

870
00:51:00,120 --> 00:51:03,160
Speaker 4: but it's a step. I'm making muddy moves in this

871
00:51:03,239 --> 00:51:06,960
Speaker 4: season of my life. I'm obeying the best I know how,

872
00:51:07,160 --> 00:51:09,960
Speaker 4: And if I get it wrong, he'll speak again. And

873
00:51:10,040 --> 00:51:12,600
Speaker 4: if I get off track, he knew that too. But

874
00:51:12,800 --> 00:51:17,120
Speaker 4: I'm making muddy moves. These are not pretty steps. These

875
00:51:17,160 --> 00:51:21,160
Speaker 4: are not dance moves. These are not fancy moves. These

876
00:51:21,200 --> 00:51:25,920
Speaker 4: are not step team competition moves. These are muddy moves.

877
00:51:26,280 --> 00:51:27,600
Speaker 4: But I am making them.

878
00:51:27,920 --> 00:51:30,120
Speaker 8: And I saw the man who got to the pool,

879
00:51:30,239 --> 00:51:32,360
Speaker 8: and he would have known when he was there because

880
00:51:32,360 --> 00:51:35,279
Speaker 8: he would have heard the sound of the water. And

881
00:51:35,440 --> 00:51:38,080
Speaker 8: Jesus has healed this man, and he said, I gotta

882
00:51:38,160 --> 00:51:41,160
Speaker 8: do it while it's bayed, because night is coming when

883
00:51:41,280 --> 00:51:44,680
Speaker 8: no one can work. And so this man, bending down

884
00:51:44,719 --> 00:51:47,600
Speaker 8: to the water because he had no other option but

885
00:51:47,719 --> 00:51:52,080
Speaker 8: to obey, begins to wash the mud.

886
00:51:53,320 --> 00:51:54,040
Speaker 1: From his eyes.

887
00:51:55,760 --> 00:52:00,239
Speaker 4: And you're asking why Jesus spit in the mud, But

888
00:52:00,280 --> 00:52:05,160
Speaker 4: that's not what I'm asking. I get that because Jesus

889
00:52:05,239 --> 00:52:07,560
Speaker 4: wanted to touch that man and let him know I

890
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Speaker 4: am not ashamed to be identified with you. What I

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Speaker 4: wanted to know is why did he send him all

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Speaker 4: the way to the pool?

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Speaker 1: Why not just wash it off on the spot.

894
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Speaker 4: But I realized something about pools of water in the daytime,

895
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Speaker 4: as the light shimmers off of the pool, is that

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Speaker 4: this man has never seen before. And so Jesus wanted

897
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Speaker 4: to give him a pool, not only to remove the mud,

898
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Speaker 4: but to reflect the face.

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Speaker 1: And the first thing that the man saw.

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Speaker 4: After a whole life of being stepped on, when he

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Speaker 4: got the mud off of.

902
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Speaker 1: His eyes, Jesus said, the first person.

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Speaker 8: I want you to see is yourself.

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Speaker 1: So he didn't send him to people.

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Speaker 4: He sent him to a pool so that the dirt

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Speaker 4: could be removed, so that his true.

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Speaker 1: Self could be revealed.

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Speaker 4: Powerful, you haven't even seen yourself yet, And before you

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Speaker 4: can see Jesus, you've got to see yourself. Long enough

910
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Speaker 4: other people defining you by what you did long enough,

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Speaker 4: long enough, beating the hell out of yourself, because what

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Speaker 4: you did six years ago, long enough, long enough of

913
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Speaker 4: you taken earthly measurements to try to qualify heavenly dimensions

914
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Speaker 4: long enough, long enough, you hear me, long enough, long

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Speaker 4: enough guilt.

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Speaker 1: Guilt will not.

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Speaker 12: Wash it away. Shame will not wash it away. The

918
00:54:03,840 --> 00:54:06,640
Speaker 12: water of the word will wash it away. And God

919
00:54:06,760 --> 00:54:10,000
Speaker 12: is washing some things away. And I came with an instruction,

920
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Speaker 12: you got to wash it off you. Now, you gotta

921
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Speaker 12: wash it off you.

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Speaker 1: Now.

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Speaker 4: I know it's been a long time. I know you've

924
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Speaker 4: never seen yourself clearly. But the man called Jesus told

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Speaker 4: me to wash.

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Speaker 11: And I went and I washed, and I came home seeing.

927
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Speaker 4: I went and I washed, and I saw myself for

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Speaker 4: the first time. I saw myself for the first time.

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Speaker 1: I saw what I could be for the first time.

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Speaker 4: And God brought you here today to give you a

931
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Speaker 4: mirror to wash away the mud so you could see yourself.

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Speaker 4: Not to go to other people. Who do you think

933
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Speaker 4: I am? Who do you think I can be? If

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Speaker 4: you wait in this season for other people to confirm

935
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Speaker 4: your obedience, will stay blind, You will stay broken, You

936
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Speaker 4: will stay isolated. But Jesus said, I'm sending you to

937
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Speaker 4: a spot so you can see yourself.

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Speaker 1: And you cannot wait.

939
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Speaker 4: You must wash, which means you can't wait till it's painfree.

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Speaker 4: I hear a lot of people talk about their testimonies

941
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Speaker 4: how God delivered them out of depression, and I praise

942
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Speaker 4: the Lord that he does that. I hear a lot

943
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Speaker 4: of people share their testimonies how the Lord delivered them

944
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Speaker 4: from anxiety, and I.

945
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Speaker 1: Praise the Lord that he does that.

946
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Speaker 4: And I pray that if you struggle from depression or anxiety,

947
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Speaker 4: or any other blindness in your life, any other thing

948
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Speaker 4: that keeps you from being where you should be and

949
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Speaker 4: who you should be and seeing and thinking and feeling.

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Speaker 1: Your way, clearly I pray for that deliverance in your life.

951
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Speaker 4: But I wanted to remind you to wait for perfect,

952
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Speaker 4: not to wait for a person.

953
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Speaker 1: You've got it so narrow that you think.

954
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Speaker 4: Unless this specific person thinks you're valuable, you're not. Unless

955
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Speaker 4: this specific person.

956
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Speaker 11: Loves you, you are not lovable.

957
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Speaker 4: Unless the pain goes away, you can't move forward. But remember,

958
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Speaker 4: the man did not see until he washed, and he

959
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Speaker 4: couldn't wash till he went, which means I've got.

960
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Speaker 13: To make muddy moves even Jesus. Even Jesus did.

961
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Speaker 11: Not perform miracles in a pain free environment.

962
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Speaker 4: Just before Jesus healed the man, he had been proclaiming

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Speaker 4: to the Jewish authorities.

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Speaker 8: I am the light of the world, John eight, verse twelve.

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Speaker 8: And they were so outraged by his claim to be

966
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Speaker 8: equal with God, which he was, that they took him

967
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Speaker 8: to the edge of the city.

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Speaker 4: And John chapter eight, verse fifty eight says when he

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Speaker 4: proclaimed before Abraham was I am They the people picked

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Speaker 4: up stones to stone him, But Jesus hid himself, slipping

971
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Speaker 4: away from the temple guards.

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Speaker 1: That was the context of Jesus' situation when John chapter nine,

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Speaker 1: verse one happened.

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Speaker 14: And as he went along, he saw a man blind,

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Speaker 14: and he did not let the fact that he almost

976
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Speaker 14: got stoned keep him from seeing a man who needed

977
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Speaker 14: to be healed.

978
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Speaker 4: And I came to say, don't let us stop. You

979
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Speaker 4: do not let us stop. You don't let the fear stop.

980
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Speaker 4: You don't let the feeling stop. You don't let the

981
00:58:03,640 --> 00:58:07,000
Speaker 4: shaken stop. You don't let the sleep apnea stop. You

982
00:58:07,320 --> 00:58:10,360
Speaker 4: don't let the bankruptcy stop. You don't let the credit

983
00:58:10,440 --> 00:58:14,200
Speaker 4: problem stop. You don't let the lawsuit stop. You don't

984
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Speaker 4: let us stop. You God, he.

985
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Speaker 1: Will be dead, how good work.

986
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Speaker 4: In You will be thankful to performance.

987
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Speaker 1: But still gotta do.

988
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Speaker 4: And so while you've been waiting for God to take

989
00:58:33,320 --> 00:58:34,120
Speaker 4: the pain away.

990
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Speaker 1: How many have been praying in this season of your life?

991
00:58:37,360 --> 00:58:40,200
Speaker 4: God, take it away, take it away, take it away.

992
00:58:40,400 --> 00:58:45,840
Speaker 4: He may take it away, but sometimes he doesn't. Paul

993
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Speaker 4: had a thorn in his flesh. A messenger of Satan,

994
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Speaker 4: sent to buffet me, sent to beat me, sent to punnel.

995
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Speaker 5: Me, sent to punish me, sent to.

996
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Speaker 1: Get me off course.

997
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Speaker 4: And Paul said three times Ye two Corinthians twelve eight.

998
00:59:02,680 --> 00:59:06,560
Speaker 1: I prayed to the Lord to take it away from me.

999
00:59:07,880 --> 00:59:10,520
Speaker 4: And so when people used to say that they were

1000
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Speaker 4: delivered from anxiety, delivered from depression, delivered from poverty, delivered

1001
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Speaker 4: from delivered from I thought that always meant that the

1002
00:59:17,800 --> 00:59:24,120
Speaker 4: Lord would take it away. I found out that sometimes

1003
00:59:24,160 --> 00:59:35,520
Speaker 4: he does, and sometimes he makes away. So sometimes he

1004
00:59:35,560 --> 00:59:39,600
Speaker 4: takes away, sometimes he makes away.

1005
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Speaker 1: And he says to you what he said to Paul

1006
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Speaker 1: in verse nine, My grace, my grace, that's what you're

1007
00:59:50,120 --> 00:59:51,800
Speaker 1: gonna get, my grace.

1008
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Speaker 5: And it's gonna be enough, and it's gonna be sufficient,

1009
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Speaker 5: and it's gonna be enough for tomorrow, and it's gonna

1010
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Speaker 5: be enough for Tuesday, and it's gonna be enough for

1011
01:00:03,520 --> 01:00:06,200
Speaker 5: next year, and it's gonna be enough for the battle,

1012
01:00:06,200 --> 01:00:08,240
Speaker 5: and it's gonna be enough for the storm, and it's

1013
01:00:08,240 --> 01:00:10,440
Speaker 5: gonna be enough. Somebody say it's gonna be enough.

1014
01:00:11,720 --> 01:00:14,320
Speaker 4: Reach around and encourage five people, tell him it's gonna

1015
01:00:14,320 --> 01:00:14,760
Speaker 4: be enough.

1016
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Speaker 5: It's gonna be enough. It's gonna be enough. It's gonna

1017
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Speaker 5: be enough. My grace is sufficient. So I'm not gonna

1018
01:00:23,520 --> 01:00:24,680
Speaker 5: take away.

1019
01:00:25,280 --> 01:00:30,560
Speaker 4: I'm gonna make away, and you'll have to wait for

1020
01:00:30,600 --> 01:00:34,320
Speaker 4: the pain to go away. But I'm looking for sixteen

1021
01:00:34,400 --> 01:00:37,600
Speaker 4: hundred people who will praise.

1022
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Speaker 5: Him right up in the.

1023
01:00:39,400 --> 01:00:43,840
Speaker 1: Middle of it, who will praise him.

1024
01:00:43,440 --> 01:00:47,920
Speaker 3: With little eyes, with questions in my heart.

1025
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Speaker 6: With pain in my soul. I praise him, Father.

1026
01:00:58,960 --> 01:01:03,000
Speaker 1: I thank you and Jeezna for the mud on my eyes.

1027
01:01:04,080 --> 01:01:06,280
Speaker 1: I thank you for the healing that is.

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01:01:06,160 --> 01:01:10,280
Speaker 4: Happening from this pulpit today, all the way from this

1029
01:01:10,480 --> 01:01:13,760
Speaker 4: room to a hospital room, all the way from a

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01:01:13,800 --> 01:01:17,439
Speaker 4: hospital room to an apartment, to a college dorm room

1031
01:01:17,680 --> 01:01:20,920
Speaker 4: to a prison cell, right here to the third row,

1032
01:01:21,240 --> 01:01:23,080
Speaker 4: to our Riverwalk campus.

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Speaker 1: To our Uptown campus. Your word is flowing. It doesn't

1034
01:01:26,520 --> 01:01:28,960
Speaker 1: take you long. When you speak, you heal.

1035
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Speaker 4: When you instruct, you interrupt, when you do a thing,

1036
01:01:32,720 --> 01:01:34,600
Speaker 4: you do it swiftly.

1037
01:01:35,080 --> 01:01:35,880
Speaker 1: And it's time.

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Speaker 4: Thank you for the pool that you've given us to

1039
01:01:41,000 --> 01:01:43,320
Speaker 4: wash in today.

1040
01:01:43,320 --> 01:01:44,800
Speaker 1: The water of your word.

1041
01:01:46,160 --> 01:01:48,360
Speaker 4: How I thank you for the times in my life

1042
01:01:48,400 --> 01:01:49,680
Speaker 4: that you open my eyes.

1043
01:01:51,360 --> 01:01:53,560
Speaker 11: How I thank you for the eyes that you're opening

1044
01:01:53,640 --> 01:01:54,120
Speaker 11: right now.

1045
01:01:58,600 --> 01:02:01,080
Speaker 4: God, Today I pray for the p whose eyes are

1046
01:02:01,120 --> 01:02:03,040
Speaker 4: closed spiritually.

1047
01:02:03,800 --> 01:02:08,240
Speaker 1: And they need to see Jesus. They don't need to

1048
01:02:08,280 --> 01:02:15,960
Speaker 1: see me, they need to see Jesus. And you can

1049
01:02:16,040 --> 01:02:17,760
Speaker 1: see him today.

1050
01:02:18,760 --> 01:02:21,360
Speaker 11: The Bible says that we walk by faith, not by sight.

1051
01:02:21,680 --> 01:02:25,560
Speaker 4: You can see him today, but in order to see him,

1052
01:02:25,600 --> 01:02:27,200
Speaker 4: you must surrender.

1053
01:02:28,200 --> 01:02:31,520
Speaker 1: Who you thought you were, who you thought He was.

1054
01:02:32,920 --> 01:02:36,560
Speaker 4: Right now, with your heads bowed and your eyes closed,

1055
01:02:38,200 --> 01:02:41,640
Speaker 4: I want to offer you this gift of eternal life.

1056
01:02:42,000 --> 01:02:44,120
Speaker 1: The savior of the world did the work so that

1057
01:02:44,240 --> 01:02:48,960
Speaker 1: you could be saved right now, in this moment.

1058
01:02:49,000 --> 01:02:51,840
Speaker 4: If you're saying, man, I don't know what's next in

1059
01:02:51,880 --> 01:02:53,520
Speaker 4: my life.

1060
01:02:53,720 --> 01:02:57,880
Speaker 1: I'm not perfect, I'm muddy, I'm dirty, that's great.

1061
01:02:58,760 --> 01:03:03,560
Speaker 4: God loves to start with dirt, He loves to do

1062
01:03:03,680 --> 01:03:06,960
Speaker 4: miracles with mund The Lord brought you here.

1063
01:03:07,000 --> 01:03:07,280
Speaker 1: You know.

1064
01:03:09,160 --> 01:03:13,200
Speaker 4: This is your opportunity to receive him.

1065
01:03:13,400 --> 01:03:14,360
Speaker 1: That's all you got to do.

1066
01:03:15,960 --> 01:03:19,919
Speaker 11: All you gotta do is wash.

1067
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Speaker 1: He already provided the blood.

1068
01:03:21,760 --> 01:03:24,800
Speaker 4: All you gotta do is wash right now with your

1069
01:03:24,800 --> 01:03:26,000
Speaker 4: heads about and your eyes closed.

1070
01:03:26,160 --> 01:03:27,280
Speaker 1: If today is your day and you.

1071
01:03:27,280 --> 01:03:29,040
Speaker 4: Know you're coming back to God or coming to Him

1072
01:03:29,080 --> 01:03:31,200
Speaker 4: for the first time through Jesus, I want you to

1073
01:03:31,240 --> 01:03:32,480
Speaker 4: repeat this prayer after me.

1074
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Speaker 1: We're going to pray it out.

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Speaker 4: Loud for the benefit of those who are coming to

1076
01:03:36,040 --> 01:03:39,120
Speaker 4: God or coming back to God as a church family.

1077
01:03:39,160 --> 01:03:44,400
Speaker 4: Repeat after me, Heavenly Father, I am a sinner in

1078
01:03:44,440 --> 01:03:49,200
Speaker 4: need of a savior, and I believe that Jesus Christ

1079
01:03:50,280 --> 01:03:53,880
Speaker 4: is the Son of God and the savior of the world.

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Speaker 1: And today I make Jesus the lord of my life.

1081
01:04:00,200 --> 01:04:04,640
Speaker 4: I believe he died that I would be forgiven and

1082
01:04:04,800 --> 01:04:07,640
Speaker 4: rose again to give me life.

1083
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Speaker 1: I receive this new life. This is my new beginning.

1084
01:04:14,440 --> 01:04:18,240
Speaker 4: I am a child of God. On the count of three,

1085
01:04:18,320 --> 01:04:20,000
Speaker 4: shoots your hand up in the air. If you prayed

1086
01:04:20,000 --> 01:04:23,480
Speaker 4: that one, two, three, I want to celebrate with you personally.

1087
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Speaker 5: God, Bless you, sir, God bless you, ma'am.

1088
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Speaker 1: That's a beautiful thing. Come on, it is your birthday today,

1089
01:04:32,960 --> 01:04:33,760
Speaker 1: It's a news day.

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Speaker 14: Today.

1091
01:04:35,720 --> 01:04:39,960
Speaker 4: Let's celebrate all these who just made.

1092
01:04:39,400 --> 01:04:45,240
Speaker 1: The greatest decision. Come on, we got a Bible coming

1093
01:04:45,320 --> 01:04:48,160
Speaker 1: around to you. Let's give it up for all of

1094
01:04:48,200 --> 01:04:52,400
Speaker 1: our Bible totors. They're gonna give you that word.

1095
01:04:54,880 --> 01:04:58,880
Speaker 4: Hey, that Bible that they just gave you, that's your

1096
01:04:58,920 --> 01:05:01,880
Speaker 4: new pool of silo. You go to that and you

1097
01:05:01,960 --> 01:05:04,840
Speaker 4: look in that Bible every day and you see yourself

1098
01:05:04,880 --> 01:05:07,360
Speaker 4: for who God says you are, and you begin to

1099
01:05:07,400 --> 01:05:10,640
Speaker 4: see I am the righteousness of God in Christ Jesus.

1100
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Speaker 5: I am more than a conqueror through Him who loves me.

1101
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Speaker 4: I am who God says I am. And you keep

1102
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Speaker 4: coming back because God is not finished working on you. Hey.

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Speaker 2: I hope you enjoyed the podcast, and if you did,

1104
01:05:26,320 --> 01:05:28,920
Speaker 2: make sure to share it and subscribe so we can

1105
01:05:28,960 --> 01:05:31,560
Speaker 2: get you all of these new messages as soon as

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Speaker 2: they're available. I also want to take a moment and

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Speaker 2: thank all of you who are a part of Elevation.

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Speaker 2: Whether you support us financially, or serve with us, or

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Speaker 2: just share these messages, it's because of you that we're able.

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Speaker 1: To reach people all around the world.

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Speaker 2: And if you want more information on how to be

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Speaker 2: a part of Elevation, click the link in the description.

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Speaker 1: Thanks again for listening.

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Speaker 2: Make sure to leave a review, share the message, and subscribe.

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Speaker 1: God bless you.