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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 3: I wanted to thank you for joining us today.

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

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

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Speaker 2: in your life.

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Speaker 1: Enjoy the message.

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Speaker 4: Welcome everybody.

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Speaker 1: This is the day that the Lord has made.

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

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Speaker 4: is the first Sunday of our.

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Speaker 1: Next decade of ministry.

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Speaker 4: Together, let's give the Lord a praise for a new day.

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Speaker 3: And a new decade.

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Speaker 4: Promise you one thing, everybody who's in on this right now,

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Speaker 4: You're about to see God do some great things. Sometimes

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Speaker 4: I look in the mirror, I see all these gray

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Speaker 4: hairs coming up in my beard, and I feel like

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Speaker 4: greater and greater go together.

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Speaker 1: So I feel like the greayer I get the greater.

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Speaker 3: Anyway, I'll work on that.

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Speaker 4: Before I make a T shirt, I want you to

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Speaker 4: hug somebody, especially if they look like they almost didn't

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Speaker 4: come to church, but they found that wrinkled shirt and

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Speaker 4: put it on and got here. Anyway, Hug for me

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Speaker 4: twenty one people for our twenty.

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Speaker 1: First year of ministry.

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Speaker 4: You'll have to move around a little bit, but get

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Speaker 4: it done.

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Speaker 1: Welcome to all of our campuses, Welcome to.

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Speaker 3: 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 3: Would you just put your city in your state.

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

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Speaker 4: put 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: Let's play it. I'm just playing. I'll just playing. You know.

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Speaker 4: As we move into this time of worship, I want

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Speaker 4: to make sure that everybody has the opportunity to join

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Speaker 4: us for Elevation Nights twenty twenty six coming up on

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Speaker 4: February twenty fourth through Thursday March fifth. Now here's where

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Speaker 4: we're going to be headed. And if you know somebody,

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

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

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Speaker 4: maybe you live close enough to get there. Hershey, Pennsylvania, Brooklyn, Indianapolis, Milwaukee,

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Speaker 4: Grand Rapids, Knoxville, Columbus, and Chicago.

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Speaker 1: So help me get the word out.

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Speaker 4: We're going to be taking we're going to be taking

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

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

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Speaker 4: of the.

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Speaker 1: Resurrection of Jesus Christ to a city near you. Tickets

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Speaker 1: are limited.

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Speaker 4: Go to Elevation Nights dot Com. Also Friday, when you

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Speaker 4: wake up, you're gonna feel a little tired. You're gonna

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Speaker 4: have gone through a whole week, you know, people getting

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Speaker 4: on 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.

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Speaker 5: You'll be singing I Call God on the Mountain, all

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Speaker 5: these songs that we've been singing for months, and you've

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Speaker 5: been watching the bootleg YouTube videos that these.

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Speaker 4: Online pirates put out before we're ready to release it.

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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. Yeah, yeah, yeah,

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Speaker 4: how many came for a word.

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Speaker 1: From God today? Make some.

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

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Speaker 4: John chapter nine.

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Speaker 3: Please, I've got a brand new Bible.

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Speaker 4: Chunks and Amy gave me a brand new Bible for

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Speaker 4: our twentieth birthday. So let's take it for a spin

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Speaker 4: and see how it preaches. I was insulted they gave me.

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Speaker 3: A large print Bible. I'm like, what is that supposed

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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.

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Speaker 4: John chapter nine is a great chapter, and you may

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Speaker 4: do well.

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Speaker 1: To read the the whole thing when you get home.

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Speaker 4: I'm gonna 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 3: As he went along, he saw a man.

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Speaker 4: Jesus saw a man blind from birth. Come, we preach

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Speaker 4: saw a man blind from birth. The man didn't see Jesus,

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Speaker 4: but Jesus saw the man. Yeah, we could preach a

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Speaker 4: whole sermon on that about how when you weren't even

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Speaker 1: His disciples. Verse two asked him, Rabbi.

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Speaker 4: Who sinned this man or his parents that he was

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Speaker 1: Neither neither Jesus.

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Speaker 4: Jesus Jesus sums up an entire theological library. In one word,

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Speaker 4: neither you Both both options are stupid. Neither this man

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Speaker 4: nor his parents sinned, said Jesus. But this happened so

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Speaker 4: that the works of God might be displayed in him.

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Speaker 4: As long as it is day, we must do the

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Speaker 4: works of him who sent me. Night is coming when

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Speaker 4: no one can work. While I'm in the world, I

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Speaker 4: am the light of the world. After saying this, he

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Speaker 1: This word means scent.

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

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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, asked.

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Speaker 3: Isn't this the same man who used to sit and beg?

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Speaker 1: Some claim that he was.

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Speaker 4: Others said no, he only looks like him. But he

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Speaker 4: himself insisted, I'm the man.

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Speaker 1: It's me. How then, were your eyes open? They?

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Speaker 4: He replied, the man they call Jesus made some mud

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I no it wasn't pretty. I know, I didn't

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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: if you're watching later, when waiting isn't working, not getting better,

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Speaker 4: no doors are opening. I want to talk about that today,

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Speaker 4: subtitle too. The subtitle is muddy moves. Muddy moves. Tell

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Speaker 4: somebody I make muddy moves. Yeah, Father, bless your word

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Speaker 4: in Jesus' name. Amen, you may be seated. How long

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Speaker 4: would you sit there? If I just came up here

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Speaker 4: made you wait? Now, we need to have an altar

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Speaker 4: call for Lyon. For all of you who said all day,

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Speaker 1: Invitation, half the time, tripping over people in.

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Speaker 4: The back of the parking lot, time out all day?

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

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Speaker 4: Sometimes it's worth the weight.

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Speaker 1: Sometimes it's not.

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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 4: with somebody who may or may not share those values, right.

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Speaker 1: And I think that's great.

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Speaker 3: Because I can attest to the fact that she is.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, And here we are.

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Speaker 4: Twenty seven years of being Valentines.

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Speaker 1: Twenty seven years. You learn a lot about love. In

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Speaker 1: 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 4: Valentine's Day, we go out on February twelve, and yet

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Speaker 1: So when we were going out on our.

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Speaker 4: I came upstairs after my workout, and you know, I'm

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Speaker 3: Like I can take a shower, get dressed, write a song.

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Speaker 4: Support a missionary in the time you can put on

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Speaker 4: It amazes me in the scripture how much Jesus did

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

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Speaker 1: But when Jesus.

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Speaker 1: It doesn't take me long. And I want to remind

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Speaker 4: And maybe this will be the whole reason you came for,

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Speaker 4: the message that it doesn't take God long. It doesn't

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Speaker 1: It doesn't take.

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Speaker 4: The one who can make the walls fall a project

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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.

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Speaker 3: And he told him wash in the pool siloon. So

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Speaker 3: the man and here's where I'm going to take a

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Speaker 3: little liberty.

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Speaker 1: The man waited. The man waited.

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

455
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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.

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Speaker 1: 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 1: Doing it in your own and then wishing.

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Speaker 4: Oh, if I had just listened to that check in

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Speaker 4: my spirit, I would not still be paying this off.

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Speaker 4: If I had just listened and not tried to impress people,

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Speaker 4: I wouldn't had.

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Speaker 1: This mountain of debt. If I had just waited until.

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Speaker 4: I got my house in order, if I wouldn't have

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Speaker 4: gotten ahead of myself. The only thing worse than waiting

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Speaker 4: on God is wishing that you had.

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Speaker 1: But when God has given you.

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Speaker 4: A word, 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 had received the sanctified spit of

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Speaker 4: the safe of the world.

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Speaker 1: On his eyes, now imagine it.

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

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Speaker 4: and Jesus spits in the ground and rubs mud on

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Speaker 4: his eyes, and so he decides, you know what, I

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Speaker 4: know he told me to go to 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.

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Speaker 1: My way there.

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Speaker 4: So I'm gonna wait for what he did to set in,

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Speaker 4: and then I'll set out for where he told me

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Speaker 4: to go.

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Speaker 1: And I got a picture of a lot of.

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Speaker 4: Us who who have claimed we are waiting for God,

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Speaker 4: 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.

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Speaker 1: The song is called I'm Gonna wait on You. Do

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Speaker 1: you know that song? Do you know the song I'm

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Speaker 1: Gonna wait on You? Yeah? You can't sing that all

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Speaker 1: the time. You can't sing I'm gonna wait on you.

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Speaker 4: At a green light, they are gonna hank at you

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Speaker 4: and they shine. Yeah.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, listen to me.

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Speaker 4: I'm gonna what if the what if the blind man?

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Speaker 4: Just imagine with me, Just imagine with me. What if

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Speaker 4: the blind man would have said, Okay, this is great man.

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Speaker 4: Whoever this guy is. I've heard things about him. I've

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Speaker 4: heard that he has unique ways of working. I heard

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Speaker 4: the ripping off roofs to come and see him. I

508
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Speaker 4: heard that he has a word that's not like the

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Speaker 4: fair season the Sadducees.

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Speaker 1: Maybe he could do it.

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Speaker 4: I heard that he does great miracles. So I'm gonna

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Speaker 4: I'm gonna wait on you. How long would you wait?

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Speaker 4: I'm gonna wait on you. Did you hear me, Lord?

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Speaker 4: I'm gone, Oh, wait on you. I wonder if the

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Speaker 4: Lord ever sings back to us.

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Speaker 1: I'm gonna you imagine this.

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Speaker 4: Jesus said, go to the pool and wash, and the

518
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Speaker 4: man's like, yeah, I'm gonna do that right after I

519
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Speaker 4: get this mud off my eyes, right after this mud disappears.

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Speaker 4: I'm not going through these streets muddy like this. It's

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Speaker 4: embarrassing what I'm supposed to go through the streets. And

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Speaker 4: you got to realize the pool he sent him to

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Speaker 4: was at the southernmost part of the city, so it

524
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Speaker 4: wasn't a short distance. And the moment Jesus touched his eyes,

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Speaker 4: the healing began.

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Speaker 3: But it did not unfold until he got to the

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Speaker 3: place of obedience.

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Speaker 1: So imagine it with me. I know it's corny, but he.

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

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Speaker 4: told you what to do.

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Speaker 1: This is the remix. How many will download.

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Speaker 4: This if I put it on lie I told you

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Speaker 4: to 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

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Speaker 4: that we're waiting when.

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Speaker 1: You know God already gave you a word. You just

538
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Speaker 1: 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 clocked 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.

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Speaker 4: You don't want to wash off the residue of what

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Speaker 4: they did to you.

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Speaker 1: You would rather.

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Speaker 4: Rehearse it and nurse it and curse it, and rehearse

547
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Speaker 4: it and nurse it and curse it.

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Speaker 1: But waiting will not fix what only washing can remove.

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Speaker 1: Where are my amens?

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

551
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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.

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Speaker 1: Throw your rock.

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Speaker 4: Imagine David waiting on God in the face of Goliath.

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Speaker 4: So well, if the Lord wants to take him down,

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Speaker 4: the Lord will take him down.

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Speaker 1: 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 1: Because God was.

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Speaker 4: Incrementally revealing to you the capacity of his power in

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Speaker 4: a way that you would not doubt him when you

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Speaker 4: 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 4: That's a walk off statement right there. That is a

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Speaker 4: walk off statement right there. Because the truth is I

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Speaker 4: already preached enough words from this pulpit that went somewhere

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Speaker 4: in a notebook or a phone, and God told you

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Speaker 4: to do it.

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Speaker 3: But You tried to microwave that miracle, and you tried to.

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Speaker 4: Think that hearing would change you. But hearing the word

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

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

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Speaker 4: to get it on you, and then you got to.

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Speaker 1: Get it off you.

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Speaker 4: Whatever it is in the season of your life.

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Speaker 3: Who am I preaching to guiltiest charge your honor?

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Speaker 1: I have been waiting for.

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Speaker 4: God to show up and not going to the place

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Speaker 4: that I know he sent me, because I know God

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

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Speaker 4: didn't send you into that messed up relationship for the

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

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Speaker 4: time because you don't want to be lonely and you're

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Speaker 4: waiting on him to change. We're gonna talk about this

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Speaker 4: today because I am not having you leave this church

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Speaker 4: and be the subject of a debate when God.

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Speaker 1: Wants to display his glory in your.

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Speaker 4: Life, so I present for your professional and personal consideration

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Speaker 4: in those areas of your life. Three times we're waiting

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

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

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

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

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

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Speaker 1: They're waiting.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, tell them they're waiting because that sounds spiritual.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, tell them they're waiting, And meanwhile, keep them from

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Speaker 4: calling their friends and admitting that they're struggling the friends

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Speaker 4: that could actually help them and give them some companionship.

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Speaker 3: No, tell them they're waiting on the Lord.

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Speaker 4: I jotted down three things to give you that you

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Speaker 4: can pray about and see if you might be waiting

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Speaker 4: instead of washing, you ever waited Instead of washing, prayer doesn't.

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Speaker 1: 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 succinctly.

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Speaker 3: Now, listen, I told you it doesn't take God long.

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

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Speaker 3: It takes me a little while to preach how I

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Speaker 3: want to preach, y'all here for it.

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Speaker 4: I want to talk about what Jesus used, and then

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Speaker 4: 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 alta upfront. We wait on perfect, we

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

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

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

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Speaker 4: Are you waiting on people? Are you waiting on pain free?

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

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Speaker 4: I do. The Bible says in Ecclesiastes, he who regarded

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Speaker 4: the wind will never sow means if you wait for

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

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

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

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Speaker 4: to step into it, you'll never step into it. Isn't

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Speaker 4: that the truth? And the fact that Jesus made a

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Speaker 4: miracle out of the mud reminds me that I made.

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Speaker 1: Of what the miracle came from.

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Speaker 3: This very act mirrors Genesis two seven. When God made

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Speaker 3: you from the dirt. And here's what I can't understand.

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Speaker 4: We wait for perfect not only in our lives, not

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Speaker 4: only in ourselves, but in other we wait for perfect.

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Speaker 1: 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, wait, man.

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Speaker 1: Leaned back in the.

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

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

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Speaker 4: 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 churches.

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Speaker 1: Well, now, I thought, she may right, this is not

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Speaker 1: the only church, so that may be a good idea.

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Speaker 3: But what got me the more that I Yeah, I

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Speaker 3: listened to the whole.

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Speaker 1: Thing, the parts I could pick up.

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Speaker 4: The mature Christian who was talking to the other lady

669
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Speaker 4: who had been going to elevation. She starts going down

670
00:39:23,080 --> 00:39:29,120
Speaker 4: this list of how you can find the perfect church. Now,

671
00:39:29,160 --> 00:39:32,880
Speaker 4: if that's what the lady was looking for, she should

672
00:39:32,880 --> 00:39:34,280
Speaker 4: never come back to this one again.

673
00:39:35,960 --> 00:39:38,040
Speaker 1: But when she went through all of the things.

674
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Speaker 3: I heard her say, you know, you might want to

675
00:39:39,520 --> 00:39:40,080
Speaker 3: go to one.

676
00:39:40,000 --> 00:39:43,200
Speaker 4: Church, go there a couple months, go to another church,

677
00:39:43,600 --> 00:39:46,680
Speaker 4: go there a couple months, go to another church, go

678
00:39:46,719 --> 00:39:47,080
Speaker 4: there a.

679
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Speaker 1: Couple of months.

680
00:39:47,840 --> 00:39:50,720
Speaker 3: And I realized, you're confused.

681
00:39:50,160 --> 00:39:52,360
Speaker 4: Because you think you should pick a church like you

682
00:39:52,440 --> 00:39:54,240
Speaker 4: pick off this menu when.

683
00:39:54,080 --> 00:39:59,280
Speaker 1: You want salmon or steak, and you want.

684
00:39:59,080 --> 00:40:03,000
Speaker 4: To find out is it medium well, is it well done?

685
00:40:03,200 --> 00:40:06,000
Speaker 4: Is it seasoned? Just like I Like, I saw one

686
00:40:06,040 --> 00:40:08,399
Speaker 4: the other day. This was crazy. This wasn't the lady

687
00:40:08,440 --> 00:40:11,520
Speaker 4: behind me, But I saw one the other day that

688
00:40:11,600 --> 00:40:13,960
Speaker 4: I screenshoted to tell you a lady was on a

689
00:40:14,000 --> 00:40:16,479
Speaker 4: forum talking about wanting to find a.

690
00:40:16,640 --> 00:40:18,120
Speaker 1: Church, search for a new church.

691
00:40:18,520 --> 00:40:23,759
Speaker 4: And don't laugh at me making this font bigger. If

692
00:40:23,840 --> 00:40:25,799
Speaker 4: y'all laugh at me making this font bigger, I will

693
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Speaker 4: prophesy about your secret sins. Yeah, she said, this is

694
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Speaker 4: what's important to us, Bible based Jesus the Savior, Okay,

695
00:40:33,840 --> 00:40:37,759
Speaker 4: great robust kids program, awesome, small to medium size, maybe

696
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Speaker 4: around one hundred members. Oh well, you can kind of

697
00:40:40,840 --> 00:40:42,080
Speaker 4: You know what, if the Lord wants you to be

698
00:40:42,160 --> 00:40:43,520
Speaker 4: a part of a big church, what' you're gonna do

699
00:40:43,560 --> 00:40:45,000
Speaker 4: when you get to heaven and it's kind of big

700
00:40:45,040 --> 00:40:47,640
Speaker 4: by the way, you want just a little church. You're

701
00:40:47,640 --> 00:40:53,359
Speaker 4: gonna leave. You're gonna check out the other place. You're

702
00:40:53,400 --> 00:40:56,880
Speaker 4: gonna shop around. Now, you want to see what's behind

703
00:40:56,960 --> 00:40:59,880
Speaker 4: door number two when you walk in, and it's every

704
00:41:00,120 --> 00:41:04,759
Speaker 4: tribe and tongue and nation, and it's white people and black.

705
00:41:04,440 --> 00:41:08,240
Speaker 6: People, and short people and tall people and skinny people

706
00:41:08,520 --> 00:41:12,160
Speaker 6: and Aspanic people, and it's all kinds of people graising

707
00:41:12,280 --> 00:41:24,240
Speaker 6: the lamb of God.

708
00:41:25,880 --> 00:41:31,520
Speaker 1: She's not done yet. We need members in the same

709
00:41:31,560 --> 00:41:32,719
Speaker 1: walk of life as us.

710
00:41:32,760 --> 00:41:37,160
Speaker 4: Why you need some people older than you that aren't

711
00:41:37,160 --> 00:41:39,319
Speaker 4: as dumb as you and all the people that you've

712
00:41:39,360 --> 00:41:43,399
Speaker 4: been running with. We're looking for a community. We want

713
00:41:43,440 --> 00:41:46,719
Speaker 4: other thirty somethings. That's fine too, I get it. But

714
00:41:47,239 --> 00:41:49,799
Speaker 4: then the next thing is progressive, diverse and inclusive.

715
00:41:50,560 --> 00:41:53,120
Speaker 3: So I want everybody to be just like me, diversely.

716
00:41:56,000 --> 00:41:56,920
Speaker 1: You see what I'm saying.

717
00:41:57,880 --> 00:42:02,319
Speaker 4: I want everybody thirty and different than me, so that

718
00:42:02,360 --> 00:42:04,720
Speaker 4: they're just like me but different.

719
00:42:07,200 --> 00:42:10,320
Speaker 1: And then she wanted also decent worship.

720
00:42:12,239 --> 00:42:15,880
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, she didn't get a little grace on the worship.

721
00:42:15,920 --> 00:42:19,200
Speaker 4: You know, now you say this is me and reading

722
00:42:19,200 --> 00:42:21,680
Speaker 4: this list. I'm not saying her name. I don't know

723
00:42:21,719 --> 00:42:25,200
Speaker 4: this person. I just thought, how could it make it

724
00:42:25,280 --> 00:42:29,520
Speaker 4: on your list in the same category as worship and

725
00:42:29,680 --> 00:42:40,360
Speaker 4: Jesus as Lord, as gluten free communion. Gotta make a

726
00:42:40,440 --> 00:42:47,000
Speaker 4: preacher want to retire. And I want the people to

727
00:42:47,000 --> 00:42:54,120
Speaker 4: be holy but real, not judgmental, but spiritual. I want

728
00:42:54,160 --> 00:42:58,040
Speaker 4: them to be advanced in their discipleship, but still very

729
00:42:58,080 --> 00:43:02,400
Speaker 4: tender to my up in blossoming spirituality.

730
00:43:03,400 --> 00:43:04,840
Speaker 1: And I kind of wanted to turn around in the

731
00:43:04,960 --> 00:43:07,160
Speaker 1: restaurant and ask the lady, the other lady that I

732
00:43:07,200 --> 00:43:07,800
Speaker 1: was telling you about.

733
00:43:08,800 --> 00:43:10,520
Speaker 4: It's cool if you want to search for a church,

734
00:43:11,600 --> 00:43:13,520
Speaker 4: but can we put you through the same test you

735
00:43:13,520 --> 00:43:22,080
Speaker 4: want to put us through when you come? Can we

736
00:43:22,160 --> 00:43:25,520
Speaker 4: try you for three months and try another one for

737
00:43:25,560 --> 00:43:28,399
Speaker 4: three months and try another one for all.

738
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Speaker 1: This is my third decade.

739
00:43:30,880 --> 00:43:32,840
Speaker 4: I'm a say it like I want to say, And

740
00:43:32,960 --> 00:43:35,400
Speaker 4: now I'm not a fly by night.

741
00:43:35,280 --> 00:43:37,800
Speaker 1: Verdick no more. I'm old and gray.

742
00:43:38,080 --> 00:43:43,280
Speaker 4: I've never seen the righteous forsakered, and I've never seen

743
00:43:43,320 --> 00:43:47,760
Speaker 4: a perfect church. And if you ever find the perfect church,

744
00:43:47,880 --> 00:43:55,000
Speaker 4: don't join it because you're ruining, and bring your own

745
00:43:55,080 --> 00:43:56,560
Speaker 4: glute and free communion.

746
00:43:56,920 --> 00:43:59,840
Speaker 1: You'll get do that for yourself. Are you serious?

747
00:44:03,280 --> 00:44:07,680
Speaker 3: Never heard the whole foods?

748
00:44:09,280 --> 00:44:11,160
Speaker 1: Are you waiting on perfect.

749
00:44:12,480 --> 00:44:19,279
Speaker 4: When the Savior specializes in mud. Jesus healed the man

750
00:44:20,000 --> 00:44:28,200
Speaker 4: with mud, not magic, But we want magic abracadabra glory. Hallelujah,

751
00:44:28,400 --> 00:44:31,960
Speaker 4: rub a dub dub. I'm gonna wait on you, not

752
00:44:32,120 --> 00:44:33,560
Speaker 4: without dirty work. You're not.

753
00:44:36,040 --> 00:44:37,040
Speaker 1: That's why I drive a.

754
00:44:37,120 --> 00:44:41,840
Speaker 4: Jeep because the jeep looks good with dirt on it.

755
00:44:43,520 --> 00:44:50,040
Speaker 4: That's why I love Jesus, because Jesus looks good with

756
00:44:50,239 --> 00:44:51,880
Speaker 4: dirt on him.

757
00:44:52,040 --> 00:44:54,520
Speaker 1: And I want you to know he'll touch your life today.

758
00:44:54,880 --> 00:44:56,840
Speaker 4: I want you to know he'll walk right up to

759
00:44:56,920 --> 00:44:59,560
Speaker 4: you today. Oh you little dirty.

760
00:44:59,280 --> 00:45:01,920
Speaker 1: South, you better come into the presence of God.

761
00:45:02,280 --> 00:45:06,320
Speaker 4: You better listen to this man from Galilee who turns

762
00:45:06,440 --> 00:45:16,600
Speaker 4: water into wine and dirt into diamonds. Hallelujah, hallelujah, hallelujah, hallelujah.

763
00:45:16,760 --> 00:45:21,240
Speaker 4: Stop waiting for perfect and praise him for progress. Stop

764
00:45:21,280 --> 00:45:25,400
Speaker 4: waiting for perfect and prais him for proximity. Just to

765
00:45:25,520 --> 00:45:31,560
Speaker 4: be in his presence is a blessing. You know how

766
00:45:31,600 --> 00:45:35,359
Speaker 4: many times I've been so fixated on one area of

767
00:45:35,360 --> 00:45:38,399
Speaker 4: my life that wasn't working that I would not even

768
00:45:38,480 --> 00:45:41,200
Speaker 4: worship God for the ninety nine that were.

769
00:45:44,239 --> 00:45:46,359
Speaker 3: You are waiting on God, No, you're not.

770
00:45:46,760 --> 00:45:49,680
Speaker 1: You're focused so tightly on what you don't have that

771
00:45:49,840 --> 00:45:54,120
Speaker 1: you're blind to what you do.

772
00:45:56,320 --> 00:45:59,840
Speaker 3: When will it be enough for you to praise God?

773
00:46:00,960 --> 00:46:04,120
Speaker 1: When will it be? I mean seriously, when will it

774
00:46:04,320 --> 00:46:08,280
Speaker 1: be enough? Does that have to be perfect?

775
00:46:09,719 --> 00:46:11,920
Speaker 4: How can you wait for perfect when you have a

776
00:46:11,960 --> 00:46:16,879
Speaker 4: God who started with dirt. I'm saying that about your

777
00:46:16,920 --> 00:46:23,080
Speaker 4: spouse too. Man, you really are gonna fuss about that

778
00:46:23,280 --> 00:46:27,480
Speaker 4: in your marriage, your little picky perfection of self.

779
00:46:29,480 --> 00:46:31,960
Speaker 3: And somebody else would, somebody else.

780
00:46:31,760 --> 00:46:34,560
Speaker 4: Would give anything to have what you're about to throw

781
00:46:34,600 --> 00:46:35,640
Speaker 4: away because.

782
00:46:35,320 --> 00:46:38,360
Speaker 1: It's not perfect. You aren't perfect.

783
00:46:40,200 --> 00:46:43,839
Speaker 4: I will interview everybody in your family to prove this.

784
00:46:43,920 --> 00:46:44,840
Speaker 1: Point if I have to.

785
00:46:46,920 --> 00:46:51,240
Speaker 4: It's an amazing thing when you stop searching for perfect

786
00:46:52,680 --> 00:46:55,120
Speaker 4: and start accepting presence.

787
00:47:02,320 --> 00:47:03,520
Speaker 1: There are no perfect people.

788
00:47:04,840 --> 00:47:07,400
Speaker 4: And one reason that Jesus opened this man's eyes and

789
00:47:07,400 --> 00:47:10,360
Speaker 4: send him to the pool is because he had to

790
00:47:10,360 --> 00:47:12,520
Speaker 4: get him away from all the people who knew him before.

791
00:47:14,239 --> 00:47:14,959
Speaker 1: Think about it.

792
00:47:16,320 --> 00:47:18,520
Speaker 4: If he opens his eyes and all he sees is

793
00:47:18,560 --> 00:47:21,719
Speaker 4: the people around him, they don't even recognize him, and

794
00:47:21,760 --> 00:47:23,040
Speaker 4: they definitely don't respect him.

795
00:47:23,640 --> 00:47:24,799
Speaker 1: I don't know where it is. I think it's around

796
00:47:24,880 --> 00:47:25,920
Speaker 1: verse thirty three or something.

797
00:47:26,360 --> 00:47:28,200
Speaker 4: But when they finally catch up with the man and

798
00:47:28,239 --> 00:47:30,440
Speaker 4: see what he does, the religious officials are mad at Jesus.

799
00:47:30,520 --> 00:47:32,640
Speaker 3: Watch this because he healed the man on the wrong.

800
00:47:32,480 --> 00:47:36,760
Speaker 4: Day because the communion wasn't gluten free.

801
00:47:36,880 --> 00:47:37,840
Speaker 1: They didn't want to take it.

802
00:47:40,840 --> 00:47:43,640
Speaker 4: God bless you man, but this is too picky that

803
00:47:43,800 --> 00:47:46,640
Speaker 4: man has never seen before, and all you can see

804
00:47:46,719 --> 00:47:48,120
Speaker 4: is what day Jesus did it on.

805
00:47:48,400 --> 00:47:52,520
Speaker 1: God moves when he wants to, and it doesn't take

806
00:47:52,600 --> 00:47:53,000
Speaker 1: him long.

807
00:47:54,440 --> 00:47:56,440
Speaker 4: And if he made a rule, he can transcend the

808
00:47:56,480 --> 00:47:58,040
Speaker 4: rule for a person that he loves.

809
00:47:59,280 --> 00:48:01,600
Speaker 3: But you've got to be careful waiting on people.

810
00:48:01,640 --> 00:48:03,560
Speaker 4: The first thing that you're waiting on is perfect, but

811
00:48:03,600 --> 00:48:06,040
Speaker 4: the second thing you're sometimes waiting on is people.

812
00:48:07,120 --> 00:48:07,919
Speaker 1: And notice the.

813
00:48:08,040 --> 00:48:10,080
Speaker 4: Exchange in the text is kind of funny, but you

814
00:48:10,120 --> 00:48:13,240
Speaker 4: can miss the richness if you laugh at it because

815
00:48:13,280 --> 00:48:16,560
Speaker 4: they can't figure out could it be him? You know,

816
00:48:16,600 --> 00:48:18,799
Speaker 4: when you first start living for God, people around you like,

817
00:48:18,880 --> 00:48:21,640
Speaker 4: is this for real? You're like, oh, yeah, they're not

818
00:48:21,680 --> 00:48:23,239
Speaker 4: going to change. This is just they're just to get

819
00:48:23,239 --> 00:48:25,319
Speaker 4: on a kick about every time.

820
00:48:25,360 --> 00:48:26,759
Speaker 1: In the first of the year. They'll be done with

821
00:48:26,800 --> 00:48:27,440
Speaker 1: this by March.

822
00:48:28,600 --> 00:48:32,759
Speaker 4: They start doubting what God has done, and no one

823
00:48:32,800 --> 00:48:35,040
Speaker 4: can blame them because no one has ever heard of

824
00:48:35,080 --> 00:48:36,680
Speaker 4: the healing of one blind from birth.

825
00:48:36,840 --> 00:48:38,800
Speaker 1: There are others heel of blindness.

826
00:48:38,280 --> 00:48:41,840
Speaker 4: In the scripture, but not from birth, so nobody expects

827
00:48:41,840 --> 00:48:45,280
Speaker 4: it to happen, And so Jesus sends him to the pool.

828
00:48:45,360 --> 00:48:47,440
Speaker 4: One reason that I believe he put mud on his

829
00:48:47,480 --> 00:48:50,239
Speaker 4: eyes was to keep the man from being comfortable where

830
00:48:50,280 --> 00:48:50,680
Speaker 4: he was.

831
00:48:52,960 --> 00:48:53,880
Speaker 1: If Jesus had.

832
00:48:53,760 --> 00:48:56,279
Speaker 3: Sent him to the pool with no mud on.

833
00:48:56,280 --> 00:48:59,680
Speaker 4: His eyes, he may not have gone because he had

834
00:48:59,719 --> 00:49:04,680
Speaker 4: nothing to wash off. Sometimes God uses messy situations to

835
00:49:04,840 --> 00:49:06,359
Speaker 4: move you and send you.

836
00:49:06,320 --> 00:49:07,440
Speaker 1: Where you're supposed to be.

837
00:49:13,120 --> 00:49:15,880
Speaker 4: And that man went to the pool, and I almost

838
00:49:15,920 --> 00:49:18,120
Speaker 4: could see it in my mind. I almost could see

839
00:49:18,120 --> 00:49:20,799
Speaker 4: the movie of the man going all the way to

840
00:49:20,880 --> 00:49:25,600
Speaker 4: the pool and he's moving, but it's muddy moves. And

841
00:49:25,680 --> 00:49:29,160
Speaker 4: the more I saw the man, the more I saw you.

842
00:49:29,160 --> 00:49:33,600
Speaker 4: You're making moves right now, But they're muddy moves, their

843
00:49:33,680 --> 00:49:37,240
Speaker 4: muddy moves. These are not calculated times in your life.

844
00:49:37,680 --> 00:49:41,640
Speaker 4: These are not sure steps that you're taking. These are

845
00:49:41,680 --> 00:49:46,160
Speaker 4: not clear pads that you're trotting. These are not obvious

846
00:49:46,200 --> 00:49:49,400
Speaker 4: decisions that you're making. And it is difficult for you

847
00:49:49,440 --> 00:49:51,960
Speaker 4: to know if you're doing the right thing. But if

848
00:49:51,960 --> 00:49:54,839
Speaker 4: you are moving in the direction of what God has

849
00:49:54,880 --> 00:49:57,200
Speaker 4: told you to do, if you get ahead of him,

850
00:49:57,480 --> 00:49:59,960
Speaker 4: he can close the door if you disobey him.

851
00:50:00,160 --> 00:50:00,960
Speaker 1: Call it waiting.

852
00:50:01,160 --> 00:50:03,760
Speaker 4: If you disobey him and wait another year for things

853
00:50:03,800 --> 00:50:07,760
Speaker 4: to change. People say time heals all things. Time doesn't

854
00:50:07,800 --> 00:50:13,440
Speaker 4: heal all things. Time hardens all things. And if you

855
00:50:13,680 --> 00:50:16,640
Speaker 4: stay with the mud on your eyes, waiting to see

856
00:50:16,680 --> 00:50:20,480
Speaker 4: the change, waiting to move until you can see, waiting

857
00:50:20,520 --> 00:50:23,359
Speaker 4: to know the outcome. By the way, Jesus didn't even

858
00:50:23,360 --> 00:50:25,920
Speaker 4: tell the man you're going to get healed. Find it

859
00:50:25,960 --> 00:50:29,440
Speaker 4: in the text. He didn't even promise him an outcome.

860
00:50:29,719 --> 00:50:33,080
Speaker 4: He just gave him an instruction. But something about the

861
00:50:33,120 --> 00:50:36,960
Speaker 4: way his voice folk resonated with the man, I gotta

862
00:50:37,040 --> 00:50:38,480
Speaker 4: move it's money.

863
00:50:38,480 --> 00:50:41,560
Speaker 1: But I gotta move. I gotta start this Bible study.

864
00:50:41,600 --> 00:50:44,440
Speaker 4: I gotta move. I can't wait for an invitation. I

865
00:50:44,480 --> 00:50:47,280
Speaker 4: gotta move. I don't know if this is the right counselor,

866
00:50:47,480 --> 00:50:50,400
Speaker 4: but it's a counselor. I gotta move. I don't know

867
00:50:50,440 --> 00:50:53,120
Speaker 4: if it's the right e group, but it's a group.

868
00:50:53,239 --> 00:50:54,040
Speaker 1: I gotta move.

869
00:50:54,280 --> 00:50:56,759
Speaker 4: I don't know if it's gonna work in this program,

870
00:50:56,920 --> 00:50:59,920
Speaker 4: but it's a step. I'm making money moves in this

871
00:51:00,120 --> 00:51:01,640
Speaker 4: season of my life.

872
00:51:01,760 --> 00:51:03,279
Speaker 1: I'm obeying the best I.

873
00:51:03,280 --> 00:51:06,400
Speaker 4: Know how, And if I get it wrong, he'll speak again.

874
00:51:06,640 --> 00:51:09,040
Speaker 4: And if I get off track, he knew that too.

875
00:51:09,360 --> 00:51:13,480
Speaker 4: But I'm making muddy moves. These are not pretty steps.

876
00:51:13,719 --> 00:51:17,560
Speaker 4: These are not dance moves. These are not fancy moves.

877
00:51:17,800 --> 00:51:22,720
Speaker 4: These are not step team competition moves. These are muddy moves.

878
00:51:23,120 --> 00:51:25,680
Speaker 4: But I am making them. And I saw the man

879
00:51:25,880 --> 00:51:27,879
Speaker 4: who got to the pool, and he would have known

880
00:51:28,000 --> 00:51:30,359
Speaker 4: when he was there, because he would have heard the

881
00:51:30,400 --> 00:51:33,759
Speaker 4: sound of the water. And Jesus has healed this man,

882
00:51:34,040 --> 00:51:36,239
Speaker 4: and he said, I gotta do it while it's bayed,

883
00:51:36,280 --> 00:51:39,680
Speaker 4: because night is coming when no one can work. And

884
00:51:39,719 --> 00:51:42,759
Speaker 4: so this man bending down to the water because he

885
00:51:42,840 --> 00:51:47,800
Speaker 4: had no other option but to obey begins to wash

886
00:51:48,200 --> 00:51:54,120
Speaker 4: the mud from his eyes. And you're asking why Jesus

887
00:51:54,120 --> 00:51:58,200
Speaker 4: spit in the mud, But that's not what I'm asking

888
00:52:00,200 --> 00:52:03,440
Speaker 4: that because Jesus wanted to touch that man and let

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Speaker 4: him know I am not ashamed to be identified with you.

890
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Speaker 4: What I wanted to know is why did he send

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Speaker 4: him all the way to the pool? Why not just

892
00:52:16,600 --> 00:52:20,800
Speaker 4: wash it off on the spot. But I realized something

893
00:52:20,840 --> 00:52:24,719
Speaker 4: about pools of water in the daytime, as the light

894
00:52:24,800 --> 00:52:28,239
Speaker 4: shimmers off of the pool, is that this man has

895
00:52:28,280 --> 00:52:33,520
Speaker 4: never seen before. And so Jesus wanted to give him

896
00:52:33,520 --> 00:52:37,319
Speaker 4: a pool, not only to remove the mud.

897
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Speaker 3: But to reflect the face. And the first thing that

898
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Speaker 3: the man saw.

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

900
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Speaker 4: got the mud off of his eyes, Jesus said, the

901
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Speaker 4: first person I want you to see is yourself. So

902
00:53:12,719 --> 00:53:15,759
Speaker 4: he didn't send him to people. He sent him to

903
00:53:15,840 --> 00:53:21,000
Speaker 4: a pool so that the dirt could be removed, so

904
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Speaker 4: that his true self could be reviewed.

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Speaker 1: Powerful.

906
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Speaker 4: You haven't even seen yourself yet, And before you can

907
00:53:30,920 --> 00:53:38,600
Speaker 4: see Jesus, you've got to see yourself long enough other

908
00:53:38,640 --> 00:53:42,879
Speaker 4: people defining you by what you did. Long enough, long enough,

909
00:53:42,920 --> 00:53:45,000
Speaker 4: beating the hell out of yourself, because what you did

910
00:53:45,120 --> 00:53:49,160
Speaker 4: six years ago. Long enough, long enough of you taken

911
00:53:49,200 --> 00:53:52,120
Speaker 4: earthly measurements to try to qualify heavenly dimensions.

912
00:53:52,160 --> 00:53:55,719
Speaker 3: Long enough, long enough, you hear me, long enough, long enough.

913
00:53:56,360 --> 00:53:59,680
Speaker 4: Guilt will not wash it away. Shame will not wash

914
00:53:59,719 --> 00:54:02,080
Speaker 4: it away. The water of the word will.

915
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Speaker 1: Wash it away.

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00:54:03,000 --> 00:54:05,959
Speaker 4: And God is washing some things away. And I came

917
00:54:05,960 --> 00:54:08,760
Speaker 4: with an instruction. You gotta wash it off you. Now,

918
00:54:09,080 --> 00:54:10,279
Speaker 4: you gotta wash it off you.

919
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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

921
00:54:13,000 --> 00:54:17,000
Speaker 4: never seen yourself clearly. But the man called Jesus told

922
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Speaker 4: me to wash.

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Speaker 1: And I went and I washed, and I came home seeing.

924
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Speaker 4: I went and I washed, and I saw myself for

925
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Speaker 4: the first time. I saw myself for the first time.

926
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Speaker 4: I saw what I could be for the first time.

927
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Speaker 4: And God brought you here today to give you a

928
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Speaker 4: mirror to wash away the mud so you could see yourself.

929
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Speaker 1: Not to go to other people. Who do you think

930
00:54:49,239 --> 00:54:51,080
Speaker 1: I am? Who do you think I can be?

931
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Speaker 4: If you wait in this season for other people to

932
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Speaker 4: confirm your obedience.

933
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Speaker 1: You will stay blind.

934
00:54:58,760 --> 00:55:04,200
Speaker 4: You will stay broken, you will stay isolated. But Jesus said,

935
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Speaker 4: I'm sending you to a spot so you can see yourself.

936
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Speaker 1: And you cannot wait.

937
00:55:12,719 --> 00:55:19,400
Speaker 4: You must wash, which means you can't wait till it's painfree.

938
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Speaker 4: I hear a lot of people talk about their testimonies

939
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Speaker 4: how God delivered them out of depression, and I praise

940
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Speaker 4: the Lord.

941
00:55:27,040 --> 00:55:27,799
Speaker 1: That he does that.

942
00:55:28,880 --> 00:55:31,960
Speaker 4: I hear a lot of people share their testimonies how

943
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Speaker 4: the Lord delivered them from anxiety, and I.

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Speaker 1: Praise the Lord that he does that.

945
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Speaker 4: And I pray that if you struggle from depression or anxiety,

946
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Speaker 4: or any other blindness in your life, any other thing

947
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Speaker 4: that keeps you from being where you should be and

948
00:55:45,120 --> 00:55:48,240
Speaker 4: who you should be and seeing and thinking and feeling

949
00:55:48,320 --> 00:55:53,640
Speaker 4: your way, clearly, I pray for that deliverance in your life.

950
00:55:53,760 --> 00:55:55,120
Speaker 1: But I wanted to remind you.

951
00:55:56,760 --> 00:56:01,160
Speaker 3: Not to wait for perfect, wait for a person.

952
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Speaker 4: You've got it so narrow that you think unless this

953
00:56:06,560 --> 00:56:12,000
Speaker 4: specific person thinks you're valuable, you're not. Unless this specific

954
00:56:12,080 --> 00:56:16,720
Speaker 4: person loves you, you are not lovable. Unless the pain

955
00:56:16,880 --> 00:56:21,879
Speaker 4: goes away, you can't move forward. But remember, the man

956
00:56:21,920 --> 00:56:25,400
Speaker 4: did not see until he washed, and he couldn't wash

957
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Speaker 4: till he went, which means I've got to make muddy.

958
00:56:30,080 --> 00:56:41,040
Speaker 7: Moves, even Jesus. Even Jesus did.

959
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Speaker 4: Not perform miracles in a pain free environment. Just before

960
00:56:47,680 --> 00:56:51,160
Speaker 4: Jesus healed the man, he had been proclaiming to the

961
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Speaker 4: Jewish authorities.

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Speaker 3: I am the light of the world, John eight, verse twelve.

963
00:56:56,320 --> 00:57:00,520
Speaker 4: And they were so outraged by his aim to be

964
00:57:00,600 --> 00:57:04,520
Speaker 4: equal with God, which he was, that they took him

965
00:57:05,040 --> 00:57:07,879
Speaker 4: to the edge of the city. And John chapter eight,

966
00:57:07,960 --> 00:57:14,560
Speaker 4: verse fifty eight says when he proclaimed before Abraham was

967
00:57:14,719 --> 00:57:20,920
Speaker 4: I am they the people picked up stones to stone him,

968
00:57:21,120 --> 00:57:25,360
Speaker 4: but Jesus hid himself, slipping away from the temple guards.

969
00:57:25,760 --> 00:57:30,919
Speaker 4: That was the context of Jesus' situation when John chapter nine,

970
00:57:31,000 --> 00:57:33,640
Speaker 4: verse one happened. And as he went along, he saw

971
00:57:33,640 --> 00:57:39,600
Speaker 4: a man blind, and he did not let the fact

972
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Speaker 4: that he almost got stoned keep him from seeing a man.

973
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Speaker 1: Who needed to be healed. And I came to say,

974
00:57:50,840 --> 00:57:54,520
Speaker 1: don't let us stop. You do not let it stop.

975
00:57:54,560 --> 00:57:57,240
Speaker 4: You don't let the fear stop.

976
00:57:57,280 --> 00:57:59,280
Speaker 1: You don't let the feelings stop.

977
00:57:59,320 --> 00:58:01,360
Speaker 4: You don't let the shaken stop.

978
00:58:01,400 --> 00:58:02,360
Speaker 1: You don't let the.

979
00:58:02,440 --> 00:58:06,080
Speaker 4: Sleep apnea stop. You don't let the bankruptcy stop. You

980
00:58:06,280 --> 00:58:09,160
Speaker 4: don't let the credit problem stop. You don't let the

981
00:58:09,240 --> 00:58:12,800
Speaker 4: lawsuit stop you. Don't let us stop you. God, he

982
00:58:12,880 --> 00:58:16,920
Speaker 4: will begad how good work in you will be thankful

983
00:58:17,000 --> 00:58:18,000
Speaker 4: to performance.

984
00:58:18,240 --> 00:58:19,280
Speaker 1: But still gotta do.

985
00:58:26,840 --> 00:58:30,120
Speaker 4: And so while you've been waiting for God to take

986
00:58:30,160 --> 00:58:32,680
Speaker 4: the pain away, how many have been praying in.

987
00:58:32,960 --> 00:58:35,640
Speaker 1: This season of your life? God, take it away, Take

988
00:58:35,680 --> 00:58:36,960
Speaker 1: it away, take it away.

989
00:58:37,240 --> 00:58:42,640
Speaker 4: He may take it away, but sometimes he doesn't. Paul

990
00:58:42,720 --> 00:58:46,800
Speaker 4: had a thorn in his flesh. A messenger of Satan,

991
00:58:47,200 --> 00:58:50,760
Speaker 4: sent to buffet me, sent to beat me, sent to

992
00:58:50,840 --> 00:58:54,200
Speaker 4: pummel me, sent to punish me, sent to.

993
00:58:54,160 --> 00:58:55,360
Speaker 1: Get me off course.

994
00:58:55,440 --> 00:58:59,600
Speaker 4: And Paul said three times Second Corinthians twelve eight, I

995
00:58:59,680 --> 00:59:03,400
Speaker 4: pray to the Lord to take it away from me.

996
00:59:04,720 --> 00:59:07,360
Speaker 4: And so when people used to say that they were

997
00:59:07,360 --> 00:59:12,520
Speaker 4: delivered from anxiety, delivered from depression, delivered from poverty, delivered from.

998
00:59:12,320 --> 00:59:13,800
Speaker 1: Delivered from I thought.

999
00:59:13,560 --> 00:59:17,160
Speaker 3: That always meant that the Lord would take it away.

1000
00:59:19,360 --> 00:59:25,000
Speaker 4: I found out that sometimes he does, and sometimes he

1001
00:59:25,160 --> 00:59:36,440
Speaker 4: makes away. So sometimes he takes away, sometimes he makes away.

1002
00:59:36,640 --> 00:59:38,600
Speaker 3: And he says to you what he said to Paul

1003
00:59:38,640 --> 00:59:39,320
Speaker 3: in verse.

1004
00:59:39,200 --> 00:59:46,800
Speaker 1: Nine, My grace, my grace, that's.

1005
00:59:46,640 --> 00:59:51,760
Speaker 8: What you're gonna get, my grace, and it's gonna be enough.

1006
00:59:52,760 --> 00:59:55,720
Speaker 8: And it's gonna be sufficient, and it's gonna be enough

1007
00:59:55,720 --> 00:59:59,280
Speaker 8: for tomorrow, and it's gonna be enough for Tuesday, and

1008
00:59:59,320 --> 01:00:02,040
Speaker 8: it's gonna be anough for next year, and it's gonna

1009
01:00:02,080 --> 01:00:03,960
Speaker 8: be enough for the battle, and it's gonna be enough

1010
01:00:04,000 --> 01:00:06,320
Speaker 8: for the storm, and it's gonna be enough. Somebody say

1011
01:00:06,360 --> 01:00:09,320
Speaker 8: it's gonna be enough. Reach around and.

1012
01:00:09,360 --> 01:00:11,600
Speaker 4: Encourage five people, tell him, it's gonna be enough.

1013
01:00:12,040 --> 01:00:15,520
Speaker 1: It's gonna be enough. It's gonna be enough. It's gonna

1014
01:00:15,560 --> 01:00:16,000
Speaker 1: be enough.

1015
01:00:16,360 --> 01:00:18,600
Speaker 4: My grace is sufficient.

1016
01:00:19,400 --> 01:00:21,520
Speaker 1: So I'm not gonna take away.

1017
01:00:22,080 --> 01:00:27,360
Speaker 4: I'm gonna make away, and you'll have to wait for

1018
01:00:27,440 --> 01:00:31,120
Speaker 4: the pain to go away. But I'm looking for sixteen

1019
01:00:31,240 --> 01:00:36,200
Speaker 4: hundred people who will praise him right up in the

1020
01:00:36,240 --> 01:00:40,240
Speaker 4: middle of it, who will praise him.

1021
01:00:40,280 --> 01:00:42,920
Speaker 1: With muddle eyes, with.

1022
01:00:43,120 --> 01:00:47,320
Speaker 4: Questions in my heart, with pain in my soul.

1023
01:00:47,640 --> 01:00:55,680
Speaker 1: I praise him, Father.

1024
01:00:55,800 --> 01:00:59,040
Speaker 4: I thank you in Jesus' name for the mud on

1025
01:00:59,160 --> 01:01:00,200
Speaker 4: my eyes.

1026
01:01:00,880 --> 01:01:02,880
Speaker 1: I thank you for the healing.

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01:01:02,520 --> 01:01:06,640
Speaker 4: That is happening from this pulpit today, all the way

1028
01:01:06,680 --> 01:01:10,240
Speaker 4: from this room to a hospital room, all the way

1029
01:01:10,240 --> 01:01:13,600
Speaker 4: from a hospital room to an apartment, to a college

1030
01:01:13,680 --> 01:01:17,080
Speaker 4: dorm room to a prison cell. Right here to the

1031
01:01:17,120 --> 01:01:21,040
Speaker 4: third row to our riverwalk campus, to our uptown campus.

1032
01:01:21,400 --> 01:01:24,600
Speaker 4: Your word is flowing. It doesn't take you long. When

1033
01:01:24,640 --> 01:01:25,760
Speaker 4: you speak, you heal.

1034
01:01:26,080 --> 01:01:29,400
Speaker 1: When you instruct, you interrupt. When you do a thing,

1035
01:01:29,560 --> 01:01:36,200
Speaker 1: you do it swiftly. And it's time. Thank you for

1036
01:01:36,240 --> 01:01:37,520
Speaker 1: the pool that you've given.

1037
01:01:37,360 --> 01:01:41,600
Speaker 4: Us to wash in today, the water of your word.

1038
01:01:42,960 --> 01:01:45,200
Speaker 4: How I thank you for the times in my life

1039
01:01:45,200 --> 01:01:49,000
Speaker 4: that you open my eyes. How I thank you for

1040
01:01:49,040 --> 01:01:56,160
Speaker 4: the eyes that you're opening right now. God, Today I

1041
01:01:56,200 --> 01:02:00,960
Speaker 4: pray for the person whose eyes are closed spiritually and.

1042
01:02:00,840 --> 01:02:05,560
Speaker 9: They need to see Jesus. They don't need to see me,

1043
01:02:06,280 --> 01:02:14,360
Speaker 9: they need to see Jesus. You can see him today.

1044
01:02:15,600 --> 01:02:18,200
Speaker 9: The Bible says that we walk by faith, not by sight.

1045
01:02:18,480 --> 01:02:22,360
Speaker 4: You can see him today, but in order to see him,

1046
01:02:22,400 --> 01:02:24,000
Speaker 4: you must surrender.

1047
01:02:25,040 --> 01:02:28,320
Speaker 1: Who you thought you were, who you thought he was.

1048
01:02:29,760 --> 01:02:33,400
Speaker 4: Right now, with your head's bowed and your eyes closed,

1049
01:02:35,000 --> 01:02:38,480
Speaker 4: I want to offer you this gift of eternal life.

1050
01:02:38,840 --> 01:02:40,960
Speaker 4: The Savior of the world did the work so that

1051
01:02:41,080 --> 01:02:45,920
Speaker 4: you could be saved right now, in this moment. If

1052
01:02:45,960 --> 01:02:50,280
Speaker 4: you're saying, man, I don't know what's next in my life.

1053
01:02:50,520 --> 01:02:53,920
Speaker 1: I'm not perfect, I'm muddy, I'm.

1054
01:02:53,800 --> 01:02:58,400
Speaker 4: Dirty, that's great, God, loves to start with dirt.

1055
01:03:00,240 --> 01:03:02,200
Speaker 3: To do miracles with mine.

1056
01:03:02,760 --> 01:03:04,160
Speaker 1: The Lord brought you here. You know.

1057
01:03:06,000 --> 01:03:10,040
Speaker 4: This is your opportunity to receive Him.

1058
01:03:10,240 --> 01:03:11,200
Speaker 1: That's all you got to do.

1059
01:03:12,800 --> 01:03:16,720
Speaker 4: All you gotta do is wash.

1060
01:03:17,000 --> 01:03:18,560
Speaker 1: He already provided the blood.

1061
01:03:18,560 --> 01:03:21,600
Speaker 4: All you gotta do is wash right now with your

1062
01:03:21,600 --> 01:03:23,680
Speaker 4: heads about in your eyes closed. If today is your

1063
01:03:23,760 --> 01:03:25,360
Speaker 4: day and you know you're coming back to God or

1064
01:03:25,360 --> 01:03:27,640
Speaker 4: coming to Him for the first time through Jesus, I

1065
01:03:27,640 --> 01:03:29,840
Speaker 4: want you to repeat this prayer after me. We're going

1066
01:03:29,920 --> 01:03:31,960
Speaker 4: to pray it out loud for the benefit of those

1067
01:03:31,960 --> 01:03:34,720
Speaker 4: who are coming to God or coming back to God

1068
01:03:34,960 --> 01:03:39,400
Speaker 4: as a church family. Repeat after me, Heavenly Father, I

1069
01:03:39,440 --> 01:03:43,520
Speaker 4: am a sinner in need of a savior, and I

1070
01:03:43,600 --> 01:03:49,240
Speaker 4: believe that Jesus Christ is the Son of God and

1071
01:03:49,280 --> 01:03:54,120
Speaker 4: the Savior of the world. And today I make Jesus

1072
01:03:54,960 --> 01:03:59,240
Speaker 4: the Lord of my life. I believe he died that

1073
01:03:59,320 --> 01:04:03,439
Speaker 4: I would be forget him and rose again to give

1074
01:04:03,480 --> 01:04:09,560
Speaker 4: me life. I receive this new life. This is my

1075
01:04:09,720 --> 01:04:14,480
Speaker 4: new beginning. I am a child of God. On the

1076
01:04:14,560 --> 01:04:16,240
Speaker 4: counter of three shoots, your hand up in the air.

1077
01:04:16,280 --> 01:04:18,960
Speaker 4: If you prayed that one, two, three, I want to

1078
01:04:18,960 --> 01:04:24,800
Speaker 4: celebrate with you personally. God bless you, sir, God, bless you, ma'am.

1079
01:04:25,000 --> 01:04:26,160
Speaker 1: That's beautiful thing.

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Speaker 4: Come on, this is your birthday today, It's a new

1081
01:04:30,400 --> 01:04:31,000
Speaker 4: day today.

1082
01:04:32,560 --> 01:04:33,800
Speaker 1: Let's celebrate all.

1083
01:04:33,760 --> 01:04:40,920
Speaker 4: These who just made the greatest decision. Come on, we

1084
01:04:41,000 --> 01:04:44,360
Speaker 4: got a Bible coming around to you. Let's give it

1085
01:04:44,440 --> 01:04:46,520
Speaker 4: up for all of our Bible totors.

1086
01:04:47,760 --> 01:04:49,440
Speaker 3: They're gonna give you that word.

1087
01:04:51,680 --> 01:04:55,680
Speaker 4: Hey, that Bible that they just gave you, that's your

1088
01:04:55,760 --> 01:04:58,680
Speaker 4: new pool of Siloan. You go to that and you

1089
01:04:58,760 --> 01:05:01,800
Speaker 4: look in that Bible every and you see yourself for

1090
01:05:01,840 --> 01:05:04,479
Speaker 4: who God says you are, and you begin to see

1091
01:05:04,720 --> 01:05:07,920
Speaker 4: I am the righteousness of God in Christ Jesus. I

1092
01:05:08,000 --> 01:05:10,360
Speaker 4: am more than a conqueror through Him who loves me.

1093
01:05:10,800 --> 01:05:14,280
Speaker 4: I am who God says I am. And you keep

1094
01:05:14,280 --> 01:05:18,880
Speaker 4: coming back because God is not finished working on you.

1095
01:05:20,560 --> 01:05:21,680
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01:05:21,960 --> 01:05:24,440
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01:05:24,480 --> 01:05:28,000
Speaker 2: this ministry. Is because of you that this ministry is possible.

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01:05:28,440 --> 01:05:30,640
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01:05:30,720 --> 01:05:35,040
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