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Speaker 1: Hey, this is Stephen Ferdick.

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

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

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Speaker 2: this inspires you. Hope it builds your faith. Hope it

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Speaker 2: gives your perspective to see God is moving in your life.

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Speaker 2: Enjoy the message.

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Speaker 1: Glory to God. Well, we have a very very.

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Speaker 2: Special album that we just released this week, and.

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Speaker 1: I also want to echo what Chris said that it is.

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Speaker 2: An amazing, amazing church to be a part of that

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Speaker 2: releases songs into the world. Have you thought about the

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Speaker 2: fact that the songs that we release from this place,

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Speaker 2: somebody say, from this place, might end up helping somebody

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Speaker 2: in the most difficult season of their life, maybe a

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Speaker 2: year from now, maybe in several years. They'll need those

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Speaker 2: words at just the right time. And that is what

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Speaker 2: I love about Elevation Church is that our partnership in

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Speaker 2: the Gospel enables us to take our ministry places that

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Speaker 2: we may never physically go, but the word of God goes.

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Speaker 2: And when God sends his word, healing always follows. So

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Speaker 2: we do pray that these songs the new album. I'm

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Speaker 2: not so much doing a promotion when when meets fire

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Speaker 2: available everywhere music is downloaded, stolen, or stream But I

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Speaker 2: am just making sure that you are aware that.

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Speaker 1: You can worship God anywhere.

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Speaker 2: Oh yeah, tell your neighbor, I can worship him anywhere.

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Speaker 2: Come on, clap your hands. Look at your neighbor again

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Speaker 2: and say, I can do this anywhere. I can do

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Speaker 2: this anywhere. I can start clapping my hands when my

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Speaker 2: kids are acting crazy. I can do this anywhere. I

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Speaker 2: can lift my hands when the weight is too heavy.

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Speaker 2: I can do this anywhere. Put it in the chat

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Speaker 2: right now, Epham say I can do it anywhere.

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Speaker 1: I can do it anywhere. So that's so exciting.

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Speaker 2: And let's also thank God for all of our youth team,

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Speaker 2: our volunteers are sad our eGroup leaders, our security teams.

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Speaker 1: What an amazing week we had. And since you know

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Speaker 1: that I haven't preached in a few weeks.

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Speaker 2: I want to thank everyone that stood in the pulpit

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Speaker 2: and shared God's word with you. I trust that you

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Speaker 2: receive exactly what you needed from God's word. Also, since

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Speaker 2: I haven't preached in a few weeks, I'm ready to

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Speaker 2: do it right now without further ado. I want to

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Speaker 2: share with you today from Genesis chapter forty one.

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Speaker 1: Please remain standing as.

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Speaker 2: I read my scripture Genesis chapter forty one.

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Speaker 1: And be patient with me. I may be a little rusty,

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Speaker 1: but I'm ready. Oh that would preach. I'm rusty, but

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Speaker 2: Like Moses eighty years old, stretching out of staff over

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Speaker 2: the red Sea.

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Speaker 1: I'm rusted, but I'm ready.

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Speaker 2: How many of you have had the devil tell you're

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Speaker 2: too old to do something that God's calling you to do?

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Speaker 1: All right, Well, you just got your word. I'm rusted,

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Speaker 2: I like that. This is what I do while i'm

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Speaker 2: off by the way, I think of things to preach.

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Speaker 1: Well, I'm not preaching. I'm really, really, really messed up.

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Speaker 1: But it is great to see you.

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Speaker 2: We've had a great time of rest, reflection, study, and

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Speaker 2: creativity with the family.

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Speaker 1: And thank you.

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Speaker 2: You said welcome home, Thank you, thank you so much.

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Speaker 2: I wanted to make sure he said something nice before

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Speaker 2: I agreed with it. And what people are shouting out

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Speaker 2: sometimes well. In Genesis chapter forty one, verse fifty, a

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Speaker 2: very interesting moment in Joseph's life, and the Bible says,

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Speaker 2: before the years of famine came, two sons were born

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Speaker 2: Like the Hebrew word for forget, so he said, it

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Speaker 2: The Bible says the seven years of abundance in Egypt

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Speaker 2: Just as Joseph had said, there was famine in all

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Speaker 2: you from a subject today about increased in Egypt. Increased

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Speaker 2: going to happen here. It's going to happen here. And

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Speaker 2: tell your neighbor it's going to happen here, and tell them. Now,

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Speaker 2: sit down, you may be seen him. How much would

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Speaker 2: you love it if you could go back and give

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Speaker 2: I asked my kids the other day, if you could

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Speaker 2: Justin Bieber from earlier fascination in his life. Everybody went

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Speaker 2: was given to him by his mother, Rachel. She wanted

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Speaker 2: she was having babies, she was doing it through maid servants,

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Speaker 2: She named that baby Joseph, and it means he will

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Speaker 2: name Joseph, because she wanted more babies. Well, a lot

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Speaker 2: obviously God was with Joseph. But I'm just saying if

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Speaker 2: sometimes we suffer for different reasons. And I do want

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Speaker 2: because anybody that you envy in your life, there is

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Speaker 2: this important to point out. Maybe else should do another

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Speaker 2: youth x around. This whole subject is about influence, about

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Speaker 2: the term influencer is almost meant to sell something. Influence

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Speaker 2: It has cost Joseph a lot to stand in this moment,

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Speaker 2: That's all I'm saying. And so we're reading about him

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Speaker 2: sons were born to him before the famine. Now, Joseph

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Speaker 2: to interpret his dream, Joseph said, well, you're gonna have

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Speaker 2: take the good years, set some aside so that you

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Speaker 2: don't just consume the lot that you've got, but keep

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Speaker 2: gets lean. Sometimes, even in church, if we're having a

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Speaker 2: really good Sunday, I'll pull out my phone and take

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Speaker 2: I want to take the good things that happen to

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Speaker 2: back to something that I know God did for me. Now,

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Speaker 2: there will be food in Egypt. And in doing this,

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Speaker 2: Joseph has given himself a lot of significance nationally in

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Speaker 2: To be enslaved in Egypt happened generations after Joseph was gone,

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Speaker 2: ever run to something for shelter, but it turned into shackles.

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Speaker 2: Just in case y'all forgot how this works, I am

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Speaker 1: I haven't been gone that long.

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Speaker 2: I ran to Egypt for shelter, but I left Egypt

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Speaker 2: in shackles. In Egypt, not only would the people of

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Speaker 2: to Egypt in the first place. Egypt wasn't on Joseph's

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Speaker 2: bucket list. Egypt wasn't on Joseph's itinerary, his travel dream

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Speaker 2: Pushed into a pit by his brothers, sold into slavery,

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Speaker 2: and then, after rising to prominence, was falsely accused of

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Speaker 2: In prison, he met a man whose dream he interpreted,

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Speaker 2: Comes the question, how can God make you fruitful in

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Speaker 2: We all have things that we need to be free

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Speaker 2: But I came to preach you can be fruitful in it.

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Speaker 1: Yet, No, let's study this, say down, we gotta study it.

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Speaker 1: How many have something God gave you, God gave you,

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Speaker 2: Says, when I consider what God gave me, and then

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Speaker 1: But Joseph said, Joseph said, when I.

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Speaker 2: See what God gave me, this baby that I'm holding

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Speaker 2: There's a manassa in your arms. Refocus. I know that

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Speaker 2: some things you were cheated out of were unfair, and

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Speaker 1: Differently, you would. You didn't choose it.

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Speaker 2: And the things that you never chose don't mean you

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Speaker 1: Just because I didn't choose to.

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Speaker 2: Go through it doesn't mean I can't choose to grow

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Speaker 1: LJ. You played so good on the album, don't y'all

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Speaker 2: Scottie shay Ois is over there.

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Speaker 1: They played so good, y'all.

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Speaker 2: When you go on YouTube and look at the songs,

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Speaker 2: don't go into comments. The comments will kill your joy

443
00:26:19,240 --> 00:26:23,200
Speaker 2: because we will put a song out that says, oh

444
00:26:23,280 --> 00:26:25,160
Speaker 2: my God, you've been so good to me, and someone

445
00:26:25,200 --> 00:26:27,280
Speaker 2: will put in the comments, well, what if he hasn't

446
00:26:27,280 --> 00:26:28,040
Speaker 2: been that good to me?

447
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Speaker 1: That must be nice for you that God has been

448
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Speaker 1: good to you. But God hasn't been that good to me,

449
00:26:33,680 --> 00:26:36,240
Speaker 1: you know, and I want to One day, I'm.

450
00:26:36,119 --> 00:26:37,680
Speaker 2: Gonna make up a name, so I'm go on YouTube

451
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Speaker 2: and say all the stuff that I want to say

452
00:26:38,840 --> 00:26:40,800
Speaker 2: back and nobody knows me, and I'm gonna have the

453
00:26:40,840 --> 00:26:42,920
Speaker 2: IT department set it up real secure where nobody can

454
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Speaker 2: track it back through any kind of AI or AARP

455
00:26:46,440 --> 00:26:48,480
Speaker 2: or any of that stuff, and then.

456
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Speaker 1: I'm gonna go on there and say the goodness of

457
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Speaker 1: God is a perspective, a perspective.

458
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Speaker 2: The goodness of God is not freedom from problems. The

459
00:27:08,760 --> 00:27:13,119
Speaker 2: goodness of God is not freedom from pain. The goodness

460
00:27:13,200 --> 00:27:19,320
Speaker 2: of God is a perspective that starts with him and

461
00:27:19,440 --> 00:27:25,159
Speaker 2: works its way outwards. Joseph is not saying it didn't happen.

462
00:27:25,840 --> 00:27:30,600
Speaker 2: Joseph is not in denial. Joseph is not stuffing it down,

463
00:27:30,680 --> 00:27:33,639
Speaker 2: so it's just gonna come out sideways. As a matter

464
00:27:33,640 --> 00:27:37,480
Speaker 2: of fact, when he says I forgot my father's household,

465
00:27:37,720 --> 00:27:40,280
Speaker 2: all of us who know what happens in Genesis forty three,

466
00:27:40,480 --> 00:27:43,000
Speaker 2: forty four, and forty five, we kind of want to

467
00:27:43,080 --> 00:27:46,719
Speaker 2: laugh because the people that he's trying to forget, his

468
00:27:46,800 --> 00:27:50,080
Speaker 2: brothers who betrayed him, they are actually about to show

469
00:27:50,200 --> 00:27:55,280
Speaker 2: up asking him for food. Sometimes God will call you

470
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Speaker 2: to feed something that you wanted to forget. Sometimes God

471
00:28:03,520 --> 00:28:05,919
Speaker 2: will call you to go back to a place that

472
00:28:06,080 --> 00:28:10,360
Speaker 2: caused you so much pain, and from the wounds that

473
00:28:10,440 --> 00:28:15,960
Speaker 2: you suffered will become a womb that birth's healing for

474
00:28:16,080 --> 00:28:20,560
Speaker 2: someone else. And that's what I think Joseph is saying.

475
00:28:21,800 --> 00:28:27,040
Speaker 2: He caused me to forget, to refocus, to see what

476
00:28:27,119 --> 00:28:32,040
Speaker 2: God is doing right here in Egypt. I never thought

477
00:28:32,040 --> 00:28:35,240
Speaker 2: I would have an Egyptian wife. I never thought i'd

478
00:28:35,280 --> 00:28:39,680
Speaker 2: had these have Egyptian kids. I definitely never thought that

479
00:28:39,800 --> 00:28:43,000
Speaker 2: I'd be overseeing all of the grain in a time

480
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Speaker 2: of the famine. I never thought people would be asking

481
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Speaker 2: me what to do. People been telling me what to

482
00:28:47,480 --> 00:28:50,800
Speaker 2: do my whole life. My big brothers told me what

483
00:28:50,920 --> 00:28:53,400
Speaker 2: to do. Potiphard told me what to do. The jailer

484
00:28:53,440 --> 00:28:55,440
Speaker 2: told me what to do. And now all of a sudden,

485
00:28:55,480 --> 00:28:58,880
Speaker 2: I find myself in a position where God has given

486
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Speaker 2: me the ability to make a decision. And he realizes

487
00:29:04,560 --> 00:29:09,600
Speaker 2: that while I was enslaved in Egypt, God was increasing

488
00:29:09,680 --> 00:29:11,280
Speaker 2: me in.

489
00:29:11,400 --> 00:29:15,120
Speaker 1: The very place where I was enslaved.

490
00:29:16,360 --> 00:29:18,760
Speaker 2: And now he can look at his other child Ephraim

491
00:29:19,800 --> 00:29:22,719
Speaker 2: and say something so powerful that I don't know if

492
00:29:22,720 --> 00:29:26,920
Speaker 2: we truly understand the meaning of it. He says, God

493
00:29:27,000 --> 00:29:32,000
Speaker 2: has made me fruitful in the land of my suffering.

494
00:29:33,360 --> 00:29:37,920
Speaker 2: Don't you wish God would just keep you from the suffering?

495
00:29:39,000 --> 00:29:41,600
Speaker 2: He doesn't do that. And right now I think we

496
00:29:41,640 --> 00:29:46,320
Speaker 2: need an illustration. So bring out my bring out my

497
00:29:46,600 --> 00:29:51,120
Speaker 2: illustration devices. Boys, y'all, give them a hand as they come.

498
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Speaker 2: This is gonna be good. Thank you so much. Appreciate

499
00:29:59,520 --> 00:30:04,360
Speaker 2: you very much for that, y'all. I got two things

500
00:30:04,400 --> 00:30:05,880
Speaker 2: that I have on my person right now. I was

501
00:30:05,920 --> 00:30:08,240
Speaker 2: praying about how to bring this message home because I thought, man,

502
00:30:08,280 --> 00:30:09,840
Speaker 2: I don't just want them to feel like today. I

503
00:30:09,920 --> 00:30:11,280
Speaker 2: just told them a bunch of stuff about a guy

504
00:30:11,280 --> 00:30:13,440
Speaker 2: who lived thousands of years ago, and they just talked

505
00:30:13,440 --> 00:30:16,640
Speaker 2: about these metaphors and abstract analogies, and you know, with

506
00:30:16,680 --> 00:30:18,520
Speaker 2: the things that people are going through in their life today,

507
00:30:18,520 --> 00:30:20,400
Speaker 2: I really want them to understand what it means for

508
00:30:20,400 --> 00:30:22,400
Speaker 2: God to make you fruitful in the land of your suffering.

509
00:30:22,440 --> 00:30:24,920
Speaker 2: Because the thing about fruit in the land of suffering

510
00:30:25,000 --> 00:30:28,080
Speaker 2: is that the earth makes whatever is inside the thing grow.

511
00:30:30,800 --> 00:30:34,920
Speaker 2: The earth is neutral, The earth is not good or

512
00:30:34,960 --> 00:30:37,760
Speaker 2: bad until somebody works it, then it can become fertile.

513
00:30:39,720 --> 00:30:42,240
Speaker 2: But all that the earth can do is pull out

514
00:30:42,360 --> 00:30:45,320
Speaker 2: what's inside of the sea. Now we live in a

515
00:30:45,400 --> 00:30:47,800
Speaker 2: time where we respect a whole lot more about the

516
00:30:47,960 --> 00:30:52,000
Speaker 2: external appearance than the internal reality.

517
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Speaker 1: Oh yes we do.

518
00:30:54,440 --> 00:30:57,000
Speaker 2: If you do bicep curls for the next year every day,

519
00:30:57,040 --> 00:30:59,920
Speaker 2: get some big muscles or something like that. Where you

520
00:31:00,200 --> 00:31:02,000
Speaker 2: go people talk about sons out and guns out and

521
00:31:02,040 --> 00:31:03,840
Speaker 2: put those away, and you have license to carry those

522
00:31:03,840 --> 00:31:04,640
Speaker 2: and everything like that.

523
00:31:04,960 --> 00:31:05,480
Speaker 1: You read the.

524
00:31:05,440 --> 00:31:07,560
Speaker 2: Bible for one hundred days or a year or something

525
00:31:07,600 --> 00:31:09,239
Speaker 2: like that, Nobody's go walk around being like, man, your

526
00:31:09,240 --> 00:31:12,440
Speaker 2: Philippians knowledge is really like you know what I'm saying,

527
00:31:13,240 --> 00:31:15,520
Speaker 2: sons out, son of God.

528
00:31:17,880 --> 00:31:22,880
Speaker 1: Therefore, I want to illustrate what I think we don't.

529
00:31:22,760 --> 00:31:29,800
Speaker 2: Understand about suffering, because everybody suffers somewhere, but not everybody

530
00:31:29,880 --> 00:31:31,760
Speaker 2: gets something out of it.

531
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Speaker 1: Not all suffering is productive.

532
00:31:39,560 --> 00:31:45,240
Speaker 2: There is a difference between the suffering that brings forth

533
00:31:45,360 --> 00:31:51,720
Speaker 2: fruit and the suffering that increases fear and shame.

534
00:31:53,000 --> 00:31:54,680
Speaker 1: And the issue comes down to.

535
00:31:56,680 --> 00:32:01,440
Speaker 2: What was in Joseph when Joseph went into Egypt.

536
00:32:02,600 --> 00:32:04,440
Speaker 1: That's the issue.

537
00:32:05,200 --> 00:32:09,480
Speaker 2: When Joseph went to Egypt, he already had his integrity.

538
00:32:10,320 --> 00:32:14,040
Speaker 2: So when they took his coat, it didn't matter because

539
00:32:14,040 --> 00:32:17,800
Speaker 2: it wasn't about what was on him, it was about

540
00:32:17,800 --> 00:32:23,560
Speaker 2: what was in him. When Joseph was accused, they tried

541
00:32:23,600 --> 00:32:27,200
Speaker 2: to throw dirt on his name. But even though they

542
00:32:27,200 --> 00:32:31,320
Speaker 2: put dirt on his name, it didn't change his nature

543
00:32:32,800 --> 00:32:37,560
Speaker 2: because Joseph went into Egypt fruitful. And the Bible says

544
00:32:37,600 --> 00:32:40,680
Speaker 2: that when the whole world was suffering from a famine,

545
00:32:40,800 --> 00:32:43,959
Speaker 2: there was food in Egypt. And I suggest that the

546
00:32:44,000 --> 00:32:47,640
Speaker 2: only reason there was food in Egypt was because there

547
00:32:47,720 --> 00:32:52,440
Speaker 2: was Joseph in Egypt. Sometimes God will put you in

548
00:32:52,480 --> 00:32:56,520
Speaker 2: a situation because He puts something in you that that

549
00:32:56,600 --> 00:33:01,280
Speaker 2: situation needs. So all the prayer, so if God get

550
00:33:01,320 --> 00:33:04,840
Speaker 2: me out of this, God get me through this. There

551
00:33:04,840 --> 00:33:07,760
Speaker 2: are things that God wants to do as you go

552
00:33:07,920 --> 00:33:10,760
Speaker 2: through them that if you don't do those things, you.

553
00:33:10,720 --> 00:33:13,160
Speaker 1: Can't be fruitful.

554
00:33:13,280 --> 00:33:15,680
Speaker 2: And I will demonstrate why some of the stuff that

555
00:33:15,760 --> 00:33:18,600
Speaker 2: is happening in your life right now that you feel

556
00:33:18,680 --> 00:33:22,440
Speaker 2: is shameful and embarrassing and terrible, and it may be.

557
00:33:22,640 --> 00:33:25,120
Speaker 2: I will show you why it might not be what

558
00:33:25,160 --> 00:33:27,480
Speaker 2: you think it is. And I'm gonna use two objects

559
00:33:27,480 --> 00:33:31,320
Speaker 2: to illustrate one I have in my pocket and one

560
00:33:31,360 --> 00:33:36,360
Speaker 2: I'm wearing on my feet. So I'm gonna show you

561
00:33:37,520 --> 00:33:41,080
Speaker 2: two items and then you can decide what you think

562
00:33:41,080 --> 00:33:45,800
Speaker 2: about my illustration. These items seem to have not much

563
00:33:45,840 --> 00:33:49,200
Speaker 2: in common, but I promise you they do.

564
00:33:50,920 --> 00:33:58,040
Speaker 1: This is a sneaker. This is a seed.

565
00:33:59,520 --> 00:34:06,960
Speaker 2: Technically it's a peach pit, but inside the pit is

566
00:34:07,000 --> 00:34:08,200
Speaker 2: the seed, so it's a seed.

567
00:34:09,040 --> 00:34:14,080
Speaker 1: Now look, what does a sneaker and a seed have

568
00:34:14,200 --> 00:34:14,720
Speaker 1: in common?

569
00:34:16,920 --> 00:34:17,040
Speaker 3: Uh?

570
00:34:18,080 --> 00:34:19,040
Speaker 1: Answer class.

571
00:34:21,400 --> 00:34:26,360
Speaker 2: Both of them have to get dirty sometimes, but one

572
00:34:26,400 --> 00:34:26,920
Speaker 2: was made to.

573
00:34:30,040 --> 00:34:32,960
Speaker 1: Follow me, this seed.

574
00:34:34,360 --> 00:34:38,560
Speaker 2: If I take this seed, this peach pit and put

575
00:34:38,600 --> 00:34:52,840
Speaker 2: it in this dirt, in the dirt, and then yeah,

576
00:34:52,960 --> 00:35:00,319
Speaker 2: I should use to headset Mike today. The there was

577
00:35:00,360 --> 00:35:04,040
Speaker 2: no part of you that found any of that tragic.

578
00:35:07,640 --> 00:35:14,400
Speaker 1: Nobody winced, nobody cringed. But if.

579
00:35:16,360 --> 00:35:21,720
Speaker 2: What's wrong with y'all? I just did it to the sea.

580
00:35:23,239 --> 00:35:27,880
Speaker 2: But if don't do it, don't do it. Don't do it?

581
00:35:29,239 --> 00:35:32,560
Speaker 1: Why oh oh?

582
00:35:32,600 --> 00:35:35,919
Speaker 2: Because this only has value externally.

583
00:35:38,520 --> 00:35:45,840
Speaker 1: So if I do this to these, it ruins them.

584
00:35:46,239 --> 00:35:55,919
Speaker 1: If I do this to these, I just.

585
00:35:56,000 --> 00:36:03,640
Speaker 2: Decreased the value. Because the value of the sneakers was

586
00:36:03,680 --> 00:36:06,359
Speaker 2: how clean the sneakers were.

587
00:36:08,280 --> 00:36:11,920
Speaker 1: But if I have a seed, and I take the seed.

588
00:36:12,280 --> 00:36:14,560
Speaker 1: I just put the seed in.

589
00:36:14,600 --> 00:36:17,279
Speaker 2: The same stuff up put the sneakers in.

590
00:36:18,040 --> 00:36:23,680
Speaker 1: And when I did this, you didn't say no.

591
00:36:24,680 --> 00:36:30,120
Speaker 2: You realized that what ruined the value of the sneakers

592
00:36:30,600 --> 00:36:35,279
Speaker 2: revealed the potential of the seed. And I came to

593
00:36:35,360 --> 00:36:37,600
Speaker 2: declare that you're one of these.

594
00:36:41,200 --> 00:36:47,040
Speaker 1: You're one of these, kam No, one of these.

595
00:36:48,800 --> 00:37:01,240
Speaker 4: What the seed of Abraham? How the seed of Abraham?

596
00:37:00,840 --> 00:37:05,520
Speaker 2: So so when the devil does this, realize I'm one

597
00:37:05,560 --> 00:37:09,000
Speaker 2: of these. And it didn't ruin you what you went through,

598
00:37:09,520 --> 00:37:12,279
Speaker 2: And it didn't ruin you that they rejected you, and

599
00:37:12,360 --> 00:37:15,000
Speaker 2: it didn't ruin you that you made a mistake, and

600
00:37:15,040 --> 00:37:18,439
Speaker 2: it didn't ruin you because the value of you has

601
00:37:18,600 --> 00:37:21,719
Speaker 2: never been the shoe were increased. The value of you

602
00:37:21,800 --> 00:37:25,840
Speaker 2: has never been that you were squeaky clean. The value

603
00:37:25,920 --> 00:37:29,600
Speaker 2: of you is that Christ is in you. And if

604
00:37:29,680 --> 00:37:33,280
Speaker 2: Christ is in you, and I'm preaching in my socks

605
00:37:33,760 --> 00:37:37,640
Speaker 2: to let you know, the seed is still good, the

606
00:37:37,880 --> 00:37:41,799
Speaker 2: seed is still clean, the seed can still.

607
00:37:41,560 --> 00:37:51,759
Speaker 1: Work high five three people say is in you? Is

608
00:37:51,840 --> 00:38:00,120
Speaker 1: in you? The value is in you? So now I hear.

609
00:38:00,160 --> 00:38:06,120
Speaker 2: Joseph saying he made me fruitful in my suffering, y'all

610
00:38:06,200 --> 00:38:11,840
Speaker 2: missed it. He made me fruitful in my suffering. My

611
00:38:12,080 --> 00:38:18,880
Speaker 2: faith turns suffering to soil. My faith turns suffering to soil.

612
00:38:19,440 --> 00:38:22,360
Speaker 2: Jesus didn't resurrect till they put him in the soil.

613
00:38:23,080 --> 00:38:25,120
Speaker 2: Jesus didn't get up until they put.

614
00:38:25,040 --> 00:38:25,800
Speaker 1: Him in the ground.

615
00:38:26,160 --> 00:38:31,759
Speaker 5: And some of the fruit that God has produced in

616
00:38:31,880 --> 00:38:37,160
Speaker 5: my life happened when I was in a place that

617
00:38:37,280 --> 00:38:40,040
Speaker 5: I never wanted to go.

618
00:38:40,640 --> 00:38:43,360
Speaker 2: I can't believe you were so worried about my sneakers,

619
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Speaker 2: and you're not worried about your mind, your soul, your purpose,

620
00:38:47,400 --> 00:38:52,520
Speaker 2: your destiny, your gratitude, your kids, your integrity, your habits,

621
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Speaker 2: your prayer life, your discipline. You see what I'm saying.

622
00:38:58,760 --> 00:39:04,000
Speaker 2: That dirt did not hurt that seed. It turned it

623
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Speaker 2: to a harvest. That's why you came to church today

624
00:39:18,360 --> 00:39:22,120
Speaker 2: because some of the things that you have been through

625
00:39:22,120 --> 00:39:27,120
Speaker 2: in your life. If your value were external, it ruined you.

626
00:39:29,960 --> 00:39:35,120
Speaker 2: But if your value is internal, it did not ruin you.

627
00:39:36,480 --> 00:39:55,000
Speaker 1: It revealed you. So that this can become this, So

628
00:39:55,239 --> 00:39:55,640
Speaker 1: that this.

629
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Speaker 2: Can become this, so that Joseph can stand before his family.

630
00:40:05,880 --> 00:40:07,759
Speaker 2: He was ready for the famine, but he wasn't ready

631
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Speaker 2: for his family, because that's.

632
00:40:08,840 --> 00:40:11,240
Speaker 1: Where he really hurt.

633
00:40:12,120 --> 00:40:17,560
Speaker 2: But understanding that you are fruitful in the place of

634
00:40:17,560 --> 00:40:21,960
Speaker 2: your suffering, well, it makes you look at It makes

635
00:40:22,000 --> 00:40:23,680
Speaker 2: you look at bad things people say about you a

636
00:40:23,680 --> 00:40:27,000
Speaker 2: little differently. It makes you look at the things that

637
00:40:27,040 --> 00:40:28,240
Speaker 2: you don't like a little differently.

638
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Speaker 1: You go, wait a minute.

639
00:40:31,600 --> 00:40:37,399
Speaker 2: If if this goes in this and I'm a lot

640
00:40:37,400 --> 00:40:41,480
Speaker 2: of seats now that was my last one. If this

641
00:40:41,600 --> 00:40:46,320
Speaker 2: goes in this, then it will begin to absorb the moisture.

642
00:40:47,239 --> 00:40:50,920
Speaker 2: If this goes into this, it will begin to spread

643
00:40:50,960 --> 00:40:51,840
Speaker 2: apart and shatter.

644
00:40:52,120 --> 00:40:55,440
Speaker 1: If it starts to shatter, then it can start to sprout.

645
00:40:55,480 --> 00:40:57,880
Speaker 2: If it starts to sprout, it can grow down to

646
00:40:57,920 --> 00:41:00,520
Speaker 2: get the nutrients and the minerals and reach to get

647
00:41:00,520 --> 00:41:08,080
Speaker 2: the light. But it starts, Joseph said, in the place

648
00:41:09,320 --> 00:41:12,920
Speaker 2: of my suffering. And this is why it's really important

649
00:41:13,960 --> 00:41:18,440
Speaker 2: that you don't get stuck in what you suffered. Because

650
00:41:18,480 --> 00:41:22,960
Speaker 2: you've already suffered enough. Don't you want to have something

651
00:41:23,000 --> 00:41:29,719
Speaker 2: to show for it. We'll say that again, you have

652
00:41:29,920 --> 00:41:31,320
Speaker 2: already suffered enough.

653
00:41:32,560 --> 00:41:33,840
Speaker 1: Don't you want to have something to show for it?

654
00:41:33,880 --> 00:41:35,680
Speaker 2: And I'm applying this to every type of suffering, even

655
00:41:35,719 --> 00:41:38,800
Speaker 2: if your suffering was caused by your sin. You've suffered enough,

656
00:41:39,920 --> 00:41:41,840
Speaker 2: don't you want to learn from it and repent and

657
00:41:41,880 --> 00:41:44,279
Speaker 2: cling the blood of Jesus and get clean so you

658
00:41:44,320 --> 00:41:48,239
Speaker 2: can help somebody else not fall into the same pit. Ooh,

659
00:41:49,120 --> 00:41:51,319
Speaker 2: I wish I had another peach pit, I thought, Oh,

660
00:41:51,360 --> 00:41:53,280
Speaker 2: I got one, I got one more. I thank you, Lauren.

661
00:41:53,880 --> 00:41:58,319
Speaker 2: Joseph was put into a pit, and the seed is

662
00:41:58,400 --> 00:42:06,880
Speaker 2: in the pit. Help me, where's your sern? And the

663
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Speaker 2: pit represented potential because God was keeping him there to

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Speaker 2: get him to Egypt. Your life is not random. God

665
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Speaker 2: is sovereign. Your life is not rotting, it's ripe. Everything

666
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Speaker 2: you've been through is for this moment. If Joseph had

667
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Speaker 2: met his family one year earlier, he wouldn't have been

668
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Speaker 2: ready to embrace them.

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Speaker 1: He would have retaliated.

670
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Speaker 2: So stop telling God when he needs to do stuff

671
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Speaker 2: and be a seed.

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Speaker 1: Be a seed.

673
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Speaker 2: And when you are a seed and you are in soil,

674
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Speaker 2: and you are in darkness and you are in obscurity,

675
00:42:53,040 --> 00:42:54,960
Speaker 2: it can begin to feel like nothing is happening. But

676
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Speaker 2: anybody who's ever planned and anything can tell you the

677
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Speaker 2: most activity is happening once the seed is no longer visible.

678
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Speaker 2: So do not let the absence of visible activity in

679
00:43:03,520 --> 00:43:05,360
Speaker 2: your life confuse you to think that the presence of

680
00:43:05,360 --> 00:43:11,239
Speaker 2: God has weakened or taken a day off. That seat

681
00:43:11,400 --> 00:43:13,680
Speaker 2: is doing stuff, not that one that I just put in.

682
00:43:13,760 --> 00:43:15,400
Speaker 2: It would have to be taken care of. But you

683
00:43:15,480 --> 00:43:20,919
Speaker 2: get the analogy, right, it's breaking so that it can

684
00:43:21,880 --> 00:43:28,719
Speaker 2: but blossom. And so was Joseph, and so are you.

685
00:43:30,360 --> 00:43:33,520
Speaker 2: And he was in a place that he never wanted

686
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Speaker 2: to go. Are you there right now you're like, yes,

687
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Speaker 2: I didn't want to come to church.

688
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Speaker 1: My mom made me come. I'm not talking about church.

689
00:43:41,120 --> 00:43:43,640
Speaker 1: You wanted to be here. You love to hear me preach,

690
00:43:43,640 --> 00:43:45,120
Speaker 1: It's one of your favorite things in the world. To do.

691
00:43:51,960 --> 00:43:53,920
Speaker 1: That response was so weak. Y'all made me want to

692
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Speaker 1: take another vacation. And then some of y'all didn't even

693
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Speaker 1: want to be in Charpe.

694
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Speaker 2: Some of you didn't want to live in a city

695
00:44:04,360 --> 00:44:06,840
Speaker 2: or Rono, Goorli or wherever you want to put this camera.

696
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Speaker 2: You know, we could, we could, We could go around

697
00:44:08,600 --> 00:44:10,919
Speaker 2: the world and say I didn't want to I didn't

698
00:44:10,960 --> 00:44:21,680
Speaker 2: want to be here in this soil. Soil isn't sexy.

699
00:44:21,719 --> 00:44:27,120
Speaker 2: But that's where it happens, that's where the heart shell

700
00:44:27,280 --> 00:44:31,600
Speaker 2: breaks off, so that what is inside then grab on

701
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Speaker 2: and shoot forth and fill the world with fruit. Now,

702
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Speaker 2: the beauty of this message is that we can apply

703
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Speaker 2: what I have just said to any situation in your life,

704
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Speaker 2: because I just told you about a God who can

705
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Speaker 2: increase you in Egypt, a place that God's people would

706
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Speaker 2: celebrate coming out of, and Joseph said, he increas me

707
00:45:00,719 --> 00:45:05,239
Speaker 2: in the very place where I was dragged, kicking and screaming.

708
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Speaker 1: It doesn't have to be a situation that you chose

709
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Speaker 1: for you to grow through it.

710
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Speaker 2: It doesn't have to be a situation that you like

711
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Speaker 2: for you to stay in it. It doesn't have to

712
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Speaker 2: be a state of mind that you enjoy for it

713
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Speaker 2: to be productive.

714
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Speaker 1: Every time I get ready to preach, not.

715
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Speaker 2: Nine out of ten times, not ninety nine out of

716
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Speaker 2: one hundred times. Every time I prepare to preach to you,

717
00:45:28,160 --> 00:45:32,080
Speaker 2: just before the breakthrough of the word comes mounting anxiety.

718
00:45:32,719 --> 00:45:35,680
Speaker 2: Almost it feels like the flu. I want to go

719
00:45:35,719 --> 00:45:38,520
Speaker 2: to bed, I want to call in sick. I have

720
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Speaker 2: learned that that is a sign that I'm in.

721
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Speaker 1: The rich soil.

722
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Speaker 2: Now that I have broken through the surface and I'm

723
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Speaker 2: in the soil.

724
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Speaker 1: And now.

725
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Speaker 2: If you don't ever sit with your anxiety and process

726
00:45:55,280 --> 00:45:58,400
Speaker 2: it with God, but you just run straight to pills,

727
00:45:58,800 --> 00:46:02,040
Speaker 2: You just run straight porn. You just run straight to

728
00:46:02,200 --> 00:46:04,839
Speaker 2: people who will say what you want to hear. If

729
00:46:04,840 --> 00:46:06,920
Speaker 2: you don't ever sit with it and work through it,

730
00:46:07,000 --> 00:46:08,719
Speaker 2: you will never see what was in you that was

731
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Speaker 2: designed to be broken away in the soil of your fruitful.

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Speaker 1: Place.

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Speaker 2: I thought Canaan was the land with fruit. I thought

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Speaker 2: the Promised Land was the land of fruit.

735
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Speaker 1: I thought that was the land God was taking them to.

736
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Speaker 1: Joseph said, I have a god who.

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Speaker 2: If the land doesn't have fruit, he'll bring fruit out

738
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Speaker 2: of you.

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Speaker 1: He'll do it in your school. If every kid in.

740
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Speaker 2: Your school is crazy, you'll be the sane one. Just

741
00:46:39,800 --> 00:46:42,320
Speaker 2: so am out a walk in the ways of God.

742
00:46:45,200 --> 00:46:50,920
Speaker 2: That's what the seed was made for. I see some

743
00:46:50,960 --> 00:46:53,680
Speaker 2: of our kids going back to school in August and saying,

744
00:46:53,920 --> 00:46:57,080
Speaker 2: it's gonna happen here. There's gonna be a revival here,

745
00:46:57,480 --> 00:47:00,239
Speaker 2: there's gonna be an outpouring here, there's gonna be a

746
00:47:00,320 --> 00:47:03,879
Speaker 2: day of Pentecost. Fully come here, I'm gonna do it here.

747
00:47:04,160 --> 00:47:07,520
Speaker 2: It's gonna happen on YouTube. It's gonna happen here. It's

748
00:47:07,560 --> 00:47:10,919
Speaker 2: gonna happen in my family. It's gonna happen here. It's

749
00:47:10,920 --> 00:47:13,960
Speaker 2: gonna happen in my mid life. It's gonna happen here.

750
00:47:14,239 --> 00:47:17,560
Speaker 2: It's gonna happen in my old age. It's gonna happen here.

751
00:47:17,800 --> 00:47:21,040
Speaker 2: It's gonna happen in my failure. It's gonna happen here.

752
00:47:23,840 --> 00:47:26,399
Speaker 2: It's gonna happen here. Tell the person next Year's gonna

753
00:47:26,400 --> 00:47:31,760
Speaker 2: happen here, here, here, here. I read about a God

754
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Speaker 2: who would give me a land with fruit in it,

755
00:47:34,440 --> 00:47:38,359
Speaker 2: But I also have a God who put fruit inside

756
00:47:38,480 --> 00:47:45,880
Speaker 2: of me. This is for those difficult situations that you

757
00:47:45,960 --> 00:47:49,160
Speaker 2: can't change. This is for those decisions that others made

758
00:47:49,160 --> 00:47:51,719
Speaker 2: that set you back. This is for those times where

759
00:47:51,719 --> 00:47:54,560
Speaker 2: you can't reverse course. This is for those things that

760
00:47:54,600 --> 00:47:56,360
Speaker 2: you can't see how God is working.

761
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Speaker 1: This is for.

762
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Speaker 6: Those things you are not this, you are.

763
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Speaker 1: One of these.

764
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Speaker 2: Get your hands sturdy, Come on, get your hands sturdy.

765
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Speaker 2: Dig till you find what you were designed to do.

766
00:48:25,040 --> 00:48:27,320
Speaker 1: Dig till you find the source of the pain.

767
00:48:27,719 --> 00:48:30,800
Speaker 2: Dig till you find the will and resolved to forgive

768
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Speaker 2: what you can't forget Dick till you get it, and

769
00:48:39,560 --> 00:48:41,839
Speaker 2: everything you've been through, even what broke you, was only

770
00:48:41,880 --> 00:48:44,200
Speaker 2: designed to show you what was in you and the

771
00:48:44,280 --> 00:48:46,600
Speaker 2: God who put you there.

772
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Speaker 1: I believe every.

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00:48:47,840 --> 00:48:49,799
Speaker 2: Place in your life you walk into you can have

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00:48:49,840 --> 00:48:56,759
Speaker 2: the confidence God put me here. Now, don't be an

775
00:48:56,760 --> 00:48:58,759
Speaker 2: alcoholic and go to the bar and say, God put

776
00:48:58,800 --> 00:49:01,080
Speaker 2: me here. Don't take my words, make something stupid out

777
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Speaker 2: of it.

778
00:49:02,600 --> 00:49:03,640
Speaker 1: Don't twist my sermon.

779
00:49:05,760 --> 00:49:09,319
Speaker 2: But the state in life that you are in is

780
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Speaker 2: the soil. God changed things. No, God change me, God

781
00:49:18,800 --> 00:49:26,439
Speaker 2: change me. Let me tell you something in my sock

782
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Speaker 2: feet with my dirty right hand that I hope you

783
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Speaker 2: never forget this picture. That man looks at the outward appearance,

784
00:49:36,760 --> 00:49:43,560
Speaker 2: God looks at the heart. And my Bible says in

785
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Speaker 2: Romans eighteen that the sufferings of this present time are

786
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Speaker 2: not worthy to be compared with the glory that will

787
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Speaker 2: be revealed.

788
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Speaker 1: It will be revealed. Is happening here.

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Speaker 2: Let God have it. Let God have it. Your surrender

790
00:50:10,960 --> 00:50:17,640
Speaker 2: turns soil into a place of new beginnings.

791
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Speaker 1: Or maybe I should say it the way I wrote

792
00:50:21,920 --> 00:50:22,799
Speaker 1: it in my notes before.

793
00:50:22,840 --> 00:50:25,080
Speaker 2: I just messed it up because that didn't make a

794
00:50:25,120 --> 00:50:31,360
Speaker 2: bit of sense. Your surrender turns your suffering into soil.

795
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Speaker 1: That's what I meant to say. That's what I want

796
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Speaker 1: to say.

797
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Speaker 2: So stand up on your feet, lift your hands to

798
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Speaker 2: your Father in heaven, who knows what he put in you.

799
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Speaker 1: Thousand lives can be put on you.

800
00:50:54,840 --> 00:50:57,759
Speaker 2: If the truth is in you, what does it matter

801
00:50:59,200 --> 00:51:03,000
Speaker 2: the weight of others that expectations maybe put on you.

802
00:51:03,960 --> 00:51:05,560
Speaker 2: But if God's approval is in you, this is my

803
00:51:05,600 --> 00:51:06,440
Speaker 2: beloved son with him.

804
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Speaker 1: I'm well pleased.

805
00:51:08,520 --> 00:51:13,279
Speaker 2: Even Jesus went to Egypt and he's with you in

806
00:51:13,320 --> 00:51:13,880
Speaker 2: your Egypt.

807
00:51:13,880 --> 00:51:14,240
Speaker 1: Today.

808
00:51:14,480 --> 00:51:19,720
Speaker 2: You are increasing in Egypt. Things are going to happen

809
00:51:19,800 --> 00:51:21,359
Speaker 2: here that are going to blow your mind.

810
00:51:21,840 --> 00:51:22,719
Speaker 1: I need you to.

811
00:51:22,600 --> 00:51:26,240
Speaker 2: Stop delaying the idea that God has to do everything

812
00:51:26,320 --> 00:51:28,640
Speaker 2: you want him to do before he can use you,

813
00:51:29,560 --> 00:51:34,799
Speaker 2: before you can be happy. Eat your lunch today with gratitude,

814
00:51:34,840 --> 00:51:37,360
Speaker 2: and every bite you to thank God that you have

815
00:51:37,480 --> 00:51:38,960
Speaker 2: something to put in your mouth.

816
00:51:40,280 --> 00:51:42,279
Speaker 1: I don't care what the four ol one k is.

817
00:51:43,960 --> 00:51:47,879
Speaker 1: Be grateful is God in you.

818
00:51:50,040 --> 00:51:53,440
Speaker 2: It is God in you, willing and acting to his

819
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Speaker 2: good pleasure. Father, I thank you for all of these seeds.

820
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Speaker 2: Who knows what Joseph's are increasing even under the water

821
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Speaker 2: of this word. Today, Father, as we confess that the

822
00:52:12,040 --> 00:52:14,239
Speaker 2: dirt that was meant to hurt us actually produced to

823
00:52:14,320 --> 00:52:17,440
Speaker 2: harvest from what is inside of us, I pray that

824
00:52:17,480 --> 00:52:19,719
Speaker 2: this would be rayma and flesh to everyone who hears it,

825
00:52:19,760 --> 00:52:22,759
Speaker 2: that they would know exactly what it is that they

826
00:52:22,800 --> 00:52:25,400
Speaker 2: were meant to see and what they were meant to

827
00:52:25,440 --> 00:52:32,040
Speaker 2: release and refocus. For Father, if we stay mentally in

828
00:52:32,080 --> 00:52:35,560
Speaker 2: our father's household and do not release those things, we

829
00:52:35,600 --> 00:52:41,879
Speaker 2: can't hold Manassa, we cannot hold e from I want

830
00:52:41,880 --> 00:52:43,960
Speaker 2: you to turn your palms up to Heaven now, just

831
00:52:44,000 --> 00:52:49,560
Speaker 2: like you're offering something to God, and like you're receiving

832
00:52:49,640 --> 00:52:55,839
Speaker 2: something from God. I want you to first give him

833
00:52:56,040 --> 00:53:03,000
Speaker 2: what happened. Give him what happened, hard as it was,

834
00:53:04,440 --> 00:53:12,600
Speaker 2: awful as it was, give him what happened. And now

835
00:53:12,600 --> 00:53:15,920
Speaker 2: I want to tell you that in his presence, there

836
00:53:15,920 --> 00:53:18,240
Speaker 2: are some things he wants to put in those empty hands,

837
00:53:19,560 --> 00:53:20,640
Speaker 2: and it's going to happen.

838
00:53:20,680 --> 00:53:28,200
Speaker 3: Here, is going to happen here. This is a place

839
00:53:28,239 --> 00:53:31,279
Speaker 3: of healing, This is.

840
00:53:31,239 --> 00:53:34,720
Speaker 2: A place of newness of life, This is a place

841
00:53:34,719 --> 00:53:37,479
Speaker 2: of salvation, and this is a place of freedom right here.

842
00:53:40,520 --> 00:53:43,319
Speaker 2: I know you don't want to be in Egypt. But

843
00:53:43,440 --> 00:53:47,760
Speaker 2: let's get Egypt out of you. He called it Manassa.

844
00:53:47,840 --> 00:53:49,880
Speaker 2: That's a Hebrew name. He called it Ephraim, that's a

845
00:53:49,920 --> 00:53:53,240
Speaker 2: Hebrew name. I will not let where I am defind

846
00:53:53,440 --> 00:53:57,120
Speaker 2: who I am. I am a child of God. Oh yeah,

847
00:53:57,239 --> 00:54:02,920
Speaker 2: begin to celebrate. That's good. That means you're receiving. That

848
00:54:03,000 --> 00:54:03,920
Speaker 2: means your receiving.

849
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Speaker 7: Oh how great the love of the Father. Oh how

850
00:54:12,320 --> 00:54:18,280
Speaker 7: great the gift of the Sun. Oh how great the power?

851
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Speaker 1: Jeez? What a save? What a save? I was lost

852
00:54:26,280 --> 00:54:32,400
Speaker 1: in sin and you found me, Hollliah, you save my soul.

853
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Speaker 1: I was saying money, raise what I mean?

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Speaker 3: What?

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857
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