WEBVTT - Rescue Your Testimony

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

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

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<v Speaker 3>I wanted to thank you for joining us today.

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<v Speaker 1>Hope this inspires you.

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<v Speaker 3>Hope it builds your faith. Hope it gives your perspective

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<v Speaker 3>to see God has moving in your life.

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<v Speaker 1>Enjoy the message.

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<v Speaker 4>you there. Now let's go to the message.

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<v Speaker 5>How many came for a word from God today?

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<v Speaker 2>God's doctor.

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<v Speaker 1>Your main standing.

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<v Speaker 2>For one moment, I'm going to be sharing today from

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<v Speaker 2>Romans chapter five, verses one through nine, and then I'm

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<v Speaker 2>going to go to one other scripture as well.

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<v Speaker 5>Fair warning, I overstudied this week better than the alternative.

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<v Speaker 1>Right, y'all, it was real busy.

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<v Speaker 5>I'm just gonna see what the Lord says.

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<v Speaker 2>I actually am nervous to try to get this all

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<v Speaker 2>out today, but I have you home by Sunday.

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<v Speaker 1>Night football nervous chuckles.

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<v Speaker 2>Romans Chapter five, Verse one, Ready say Ready. Therefore, since

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<v Speaker 2>we have been justified through faith, we have peace with

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<v Speaker 2>God through our Lord Jesus Christ, through whom we have

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<v Speaker 2>gained access by faith into this grace in which we

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<v Speaker 2>now stand, and we boast in the hope of the

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<v Speaker 2>glory of God. Not only so, but we also glory

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<v Speaker 2>in our sufferings, because we know that suffering produces this perseverance, perseverance,

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<v Speaker 2>character and character, hope, and hope does not put us

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<v Speaker 2>to shame, because God's love has been poured out into

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<v Speaker 2>our hearts through the Holy Spirit.

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<v Speaker 1>Who has been given to us.

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<v Speaker 2>You see, at just the right time, when we were

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<v Speaker 2>still powerless, Christ died for the ungodly. Tell somebody that's you.

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<v Speaker 2>I know you smell good today, but that's you the ungodly.

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<v Speaker 2>I know you brush your teeth today, but that's you

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<v Speaker 2>the ungodly. I know you've got a Christian t shirt

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<v Speaker 2>on today. But that's you, the ungodly. And verse seven

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<v Speaker 2>goes very theological. He says, very rarely will anyone die

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<v Speaker 2>for a righteous person, though for a good person someone

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<v Speaker 2>might possibly dare to die. But God demonstrates his own

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<v Speaker 2>love for us in this. While we were still sinners, Christ.

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<v Speaker 5>Died for us.

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<v Speaker 2>Since we have now been justified by his blood, how

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<v Speaker 2>much more shall we be saved from God's wrath through him?

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<v Speaker 5>One more scripture from Joshua chapter four, and we're going

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<v Speaker 5>to get to work.

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<v Speaker 2>Joshua chapter four and verse number nine, please, And Joshua

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<v Speaker 2>was set up twelve stones in the midst of the Jordan,

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<v Speaker 2>in the place where the feet of the priests bearing

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<v Speaker 2>the ark of the Covenant had stood. And they are

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<v Speaker 2>there to this day, and they are there to this day.

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<v Speaker 2>And the Lord said that we were on a rescue

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<v Speaker 2>mission today in this service. And so I'm going to

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<v Speaker 2>use as a title what the Lord wants to do today.

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<v Speaker 2>God said, we're going to rescue your testimony. Rescue your testimony.

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<v Speaker 2>And you know, I like to give little subtitles, sometimes

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<v Speaker 2>little weird subtitles. The subtitle tell your neighbor, say the

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<v Speaker 2>proof is in the puddles. The proof is in the puzzles.

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<v Speaker 2>You may be seated. We're on a rescue mission today,

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<v Speaker 2>and go ahead and bring out my teaching screen. I

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<v Speaker 2>want to break this all the way down from Romans

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<v Speaker 2>chapter five. My favorite word that I read you in

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<v Speaker 2>Romans chapter five was the very first one. And put

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<v Speaker 2>it back on the screen again, Romans chapter five, verse one. Therefore,

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<v Speaker 2>everybody say, therefore.

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<v Speaker 3>You know.

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<v Speaker 1>One of the most beautiful things that.

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<v Speaker 2>Holly does for me on a regular basis is to

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<v Speaker 2>help me remember what my true values are when I'm

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<v Speaker 2>in a vulnerable place personally. And she does this in

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<v Speaker 2>the most tactful ways. She says things to me that

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<v Speaker 2>sounds so sweet, but beneath that layer of sweetness, she's

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<v Speaker 2>actually challenging me, come on, like step it up. And

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<v Speaker 2>she says something the other day which sounds like a

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<v Speaker 2>compliment until I put it in context. She said, wow,

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<v Speaker 2>you really do think of everything. Sounds nice, right, It

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<v Speaker 2>sounds like she's given me extra credit for being a

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<v Speaker 2>good planner. The context of the statement, she was definitely

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<v Speaker 2>saying it out of kindness, but it wasn't compliment. We're

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<v Speaker 2>talking about going to do something and I have a gift.

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<v Speaker 2>I don't know if you have this gift too, Just

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<v Speaker 2>make some noise if you share the same gift.

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<v Speaker 1>I have a gift for.

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<v Speaker 5>Hypothetical.

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<v Speaker 2>I actually would say I am the high priest of

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<v Speaker 2>the hypothetical scenario, you know, plays out in many different ways.

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<v Speaker 2>On this particular day, I was saying, you know, if

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<v Speaker 2>we go here to see this person, we were going

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<v Speaker 2>to make a trip, and I.

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<v Speaker 5>Said, well, we go, if we go.

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<v Speaker 1>If we go, he.

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<v Speaker 2>Might have to work and I hadn't even checked into

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<v Speaker 2>his work schedule yet, and we might we might get

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<v Speaker 2>sick because he was hanging out with this other person

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<v Speaker 2>that was sick the other day and I heard they

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<v Speaker 2>might have COVID and I don't even know what that

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<v Speaker 2>is anymore, but I heard that they might have had it.

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<v Speaker 2>And so, but then, what if we're going, and what

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<v Speaker 2>if we And she looks at me and goes, wow,

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<v Speaker 2>you really do think of everything, And I said, well,

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<v Speaker 2>it's just it could be kind of stressful, you know,

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<v Speaker 2>And she said yeah, but you can make anything stressful.

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<v Speaker 5>And it didn't offend me at all. I needed to

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<v Speaker 5>hear it.

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<v Speaker 2>Because she knows that actually what I want to experience

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<v Speaker 2>is on the other side of something that I may

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<v Speaker 2>not want to do.

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<v Speaker 5>And she knew that if I'm.

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<v Speaker 2>Always getting hung up on the hypothetical, there's a sense

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<v Speaker 2>in which I would just always stay home. If I

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<v Speaker 2>was just left to my own devices, I would just

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<v Speaker 2>become a complete hermit, and I would be a hermit

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<v Speaker 2>because when I leave the house, this involves other humans

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<v Speaker 2>at this point. And so there was a song by

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<v Speaker 2>Paramore a few years ago where she said, this is.

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<v Speaker 5>Why I don't leave the house.

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<v Speaker 2>And I look at Holly sometimes when we get in traffic,

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<v Speaker 2>or when I can't find a bathroom, or you know,

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<v Speaker 2>something kind of crazy is happening, and I go, this

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<v Speaker 2>is why I don't leave the house. And she, on

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<v Speaker 2>the other hand, now I'm very hypothetical. I made up

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<v Speaker 2>a word to describe her spiritual gift. Okay, I made

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<v Speaker 2>this word up. You won't find it in the dictionary.

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<v Speaker 2>I am hypothetical. Holly is hypothetical. You like that I

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<v Speaker 2>made that up. Let me see if I can write

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<v Speaker 2>it on the screen. Hopathetical, everybody say, hypothetical not a

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<v Speaker 2>real word, just a word to use for our purposes

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<v Speaker 2>in studying today.

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<v Speaker 5>She is hope othetical.

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<v Speaker 2>So while I'm stuck in the hypothetical of you know what,

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<v Speaker 2>if my phone dies, it's only seventy two percent.

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<v Speaker 1>You never know what kind of situation.

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<v Speaker 5>You're going to run into. Give me a charger.

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<v Speaker 2>While I'm in this situation, because then it spends out

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<v Speaker 2>of control even past that.

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<v Speaker 5>Like the phone dies and then we're out in the

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<v Speaker 5>middle of nowhere. And since we're out in the middle

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<v Speaker 5>of nowhere, one.

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<v Speaker 2>Of our kids needs us, and because they couldn't get us,

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<v Speaker 2>it scars them deeply and it traumatizes them, which is

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<v Speaker 2>why they end up on methamphetamines and why we end

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<v Speaker 2>up having to go to rehab.

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<v Speaker 1>To visit them.

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<v Speaker 2>Hypothetical Holly is hopathetical, and she's teaching me the art

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<v Speaker 2>of hopathetical living, and so she tends to go more

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<v Speaker 2>like this, where I'm focused on everything that we have

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<v Speaker 2>to go through to get there. She'll say something like, yeah,

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<v Speaker 2>but it could be fun, and I'm like, well, what

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<v Speaker 2>does fun have to do with the fact that we

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<v Speaker 2>might get there and I can't find a bathroom? Have

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<v Speaker 2>you noticed I mentioned that twice? That's something I'm thinking

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<v Speaker 2>about more than now. At forty four but hypothetically. Let's

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<v Speaker 2>say I get there and she's hypothetical. You know, She's like,

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<v Speaker 2>you're a man, you could you know.

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<v Speaker 1>So she's just like, we'll figure it out.

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<v Speaker 2>Let's be all right, And I'm thankful for her hypotheticalness.

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<v Speaker 2>How many you have a hypothetical person in your life

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<v Speaker 2>for when you tend to get to hypothetical?

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<v Speaker 5>You need one, You need one.

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<v Speaker 2>You can't have Holly, she's taken, she's mine.

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<v Speaker 5>Everybody says you need a hype man.

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<v Speaker 2>Well, you need a hope man, somebody who can remind

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<v Speaker 2>you that, Yes, you might go through some things to

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<v Speaker 2>get there. Yes, it may be inconvenient. Yes they may

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<v Speaker 2>laugh at you. Yes you may put it out and

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<v Speaker 2>then nobody sees it. Yes you may do it and

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<v Speaker 2>nobody thanks you. Yes you may spend the energy and

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<v Speaker 2>it will all be worthless, but it.

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<v Speaker 1>Might also be kind of cool. If you don't have

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<v Speaker 1>a hope man, you'll never leave the house.

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<v Speaker 2>Take it from a hypothetical I mean, even even going

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<v Speaker 2>through the scenarios in my mind leaves me with what

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<v Speaker 2>I call a hypothetical hangover, not involving alcohol, but involving

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<v Speaker 2>all the scenarios that I run in my mind.

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<v Speaker 5>Thank you Jesus, all the scenarios.

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<v Speaker 2>They're coming to fix it right now, hypothetically, I hope.

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<v Speaker 2>See we're thinking about this different. She's like, they're coming.

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<v Speaker 2>This is gonna be great. The tech team is awesome.

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<v Speaker 2>I'm like, if they don't get out here right now,

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<v Speaker 2>this whole sermon is gonna be wrong. You can't fix

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<v Speaker 2>this one, all right, We'll see check one too. That

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<v Speaker 2>must mean the Lord wants me to holler and scream

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<v Speaker 2>and yell. I said, that must mean the Lord wants

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<v Speaker 2>me to scream and holler and yell.

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<v Speaker 1>I'm good, I'm good. I'll just hold this.

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<v Speaker 2>Now, hypothetically speaking, when things happen that you didn't plan

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<v Speaker 2>on happening, how do you handle it? Hypothetically? Paul has

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<v Speaker 2>a strategy for that. In Romans chapter five, verse three,

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<v Speaker 2>he says, we glory in our sufferings. If you back

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<v Speaker 2>up one verse before that, he says, we boast. Everybody,

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<v Speaker 2>say boast in the hope of the glory of God.

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<v Speaker 2>If you needed an object lesson in boasting in the

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<v Speaker 2>hope of something, think of your favorite college football fan

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<v Speaker 2>who cheers for a team that this year is going

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<v Speaker 2>to be the year that we win at all.

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<v Speaker 1>First of all, who is we? Paul said, we.

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<v Speaker 2>Boast in the hope of the glory of God, So

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<v Speaker 2>I am already celebrating something that someone else is accomplishing. Secondly,

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<v Speaker 2>boasting in the hope is very different than boasting in

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<v Speaker 2>the reality. The Bible says, who hopes in what he

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<v Speaker 2>has already seen, what he already possesses. Since Holly is hypothetical,

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<v Speaker 2>and since Paul in this passage is teaching us something

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<v Speaker 2>about hopathetical Christianity, I want to break down for the

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<v Speaker 2>next few minutes how to deal with situations in your

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<v Speaker 2>life where you are right there in the middle of

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<v Speaker 2>a I guess I could call this a flood moment,

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<v Speaker 2>and you need faith to move forward in it. And

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<v Speaker 2>I'm gonna use three points for this outline today. Write

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<v Speaker 2>them up on the screen for you. I want you

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<v Speaker 2>to write these down, and I want you to take

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<v Speaker 2>notes on this sermon so that the next time that

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<v Speaker 2>the devil tries to make you hysterical, you can get hopathetical.

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<v Speaker 1>I'm gonna teach you a lesson on how to be hypothetical.

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<v Speaker 1>And it's really three parts to this.

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<v Speaker 2>Number one, we want to talk about anticipation. Everybody say anticipation.

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<v Speaker 2>Put it in the chat anticipation. And number two, we

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<v Speaker 2>want to talk about justification, say justification and everybody in

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<v Speaker 2>the e FM online put these right there in the chat.

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<v Speaker 2>Number three, I want to talk about demonstration and God

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<v Speaker 2>helping us over the next twenty eight minutes.

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<v Speaker 1>Oh you didn't see that, y'all? Pray the Lord will

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<v Speaker 1>heal my handwriting? All right? That would be a miracle demonstration.

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<v Speaker 1>Did I get them? All right? Can you read that?

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<v Speaker 1>Is that distracting to you or does that help you out?

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<v Speaker 1>Put three points on it.

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<v Speaker 2>Anticipation, the anticipation that Paul mentions in Romans chapter five.

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<v Speaker 2>He talks about the hope of the glory of God.

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<v Speaker 2>And this thing about anticipation works both ways, doesn't it?

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<v Speaker 2>Because I realized a long time ago that what the

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<v Speaker 2>devil is actually attacking when he comes to me with

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<v Speaker 2>words is my ability to anticipate what God might do,

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<v Speaker 2>and that every time I worry, it's a.

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<v Speaker 1>Perversion of worship. Worship and worry operate from the same energy.

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<v Speaker 2>They both attach to something that I can't see to

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<v Speaker 2>deal with something that I'm going through. Worship attaches to

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<v Speaker 2>a God who I can't see now. Faith is the

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<v Speaker 2>substance of things hoped for and the evidence of things

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<v Speaker 2>not seen. Worry attaches to something that hasn't even happened

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<v Speaker 2>yet and gives more power to the problem than it

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<v Speaker 2>does the promise of God who said he would be

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<v Speaker 2>with you through every problem. So now we're beginning to

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<v Speaker 2>see that the devil is after your anticipation. If he

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<v Speaker 2>cannot get you to fear the worst possible scenario, he

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<v Speaker 2>will hurt you so many times when you get your

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<v Speaker 2>hopes up that you learn to manage your sense of

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<v Speaker 2>disappointment by bringing down your level of expectation.

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<v Speaker 1>And this is the truth about a lot of us.

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<v Speaker 2>Is that really the reason we go through life with

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<v Speaker 2>a kind of bad attitude, with a pessimistic attitude not

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<v Speaker 2>leaving the house, is because we left the house one time.

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<v Speaker 1>And it didn't work out very well.

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<v Speaker 2>And so now every time that God calls us out

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<v Speaker 2>to do something, and it could be anything, God could

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<v Speaker 2>just call you to do anything, speak a kind word.

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<v Speaker 2>Last time you spoke a kind word, they thought you

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<v Speaker 2>were weak and then they took advantage of you. So

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<v Speaker 2>now I'm not going to speak any kind words to

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<v Speaker 2>anybody anymore, because you know how it is. You just

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<v Speaker 2>say think nice things to people and they don't do

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<v Speaker 2>anything back. See what the enemy is doing there is

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<v Speaker 2>He is trying to inform your anticipation of the future

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<v Speaker 2>based on the thing that happened to you in the

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<v Speaker 2>past that was poorly processed. The way that we anticipate

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<v Speaker 2>our life is a process. Even some times when I'm

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<v Speaker 2>talking to Holly about something that could happen bad or

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<v Speaker 2>something that did happen bad, or what might happen bad,

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<v Speaker 2>or I was going to backfire, I'll tell myself as

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<v Speaker 2>an excuse if you ever said this, I'm just processing.

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<v Speaker 2>And really, while I say that I'm processing, i am,

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<v Speaker 2>But write this down in your notes. Not all processing

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<v Speaker 2>is productive. It's not always productive for you to just

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<v Speaker 2>process because if you just process but there is no.

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<v Speaker 1>God in your processing, you will end up.

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<v Speaker 2>With a godless thought because you started with the godless process.

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<v Speaker 1>That's why I think it's important that when.

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<v Speaker 2>You process things in your mind for a little while,

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<v Speaker 2>you come outside of your head every once in a

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<v Speaker 2>while and verbalize.

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<v Speaker 1>It in prayer to God.

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<v Speaker 2>The verbal process of praying out loud will actually help

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<v Speaker 2>you with the internal struggle of a hyperactive mind. So

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<v Speaker 2>for everybody who struggles with an overactive imagination. You can

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<v Speaker 2>think more than one thing at a time, you can't

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<v Speaker 2>speak more than one thing at a time.

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<v Speaker 1>And there comes a time where you have to start.

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<v Speaker 2>Speaking things of faith to fight against the spaghetti noodles

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<v Speaker 2>of fear. I'm telling you that Satan will spaghetti your

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<v Speaker 2>emotional state and get you so tangled up in the

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<v Speaker 2>things that you've been through, so tangled up in the

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<v Speaker 2>things that you're suffering. I found it interesting that Paul

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<v Speaker 2>said we boast in the hope of the glory of God.

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<v Speaker 2>I thought that boasting was bad until I read Romans

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<v Speaker 2>chapter five, verse two, and Paul said that there is

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<v Speaker 2>a type of boasting that is totally appropriate for the

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<v Speaker 2>child of God. This boasting, however, does not come from

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<v Speaker 2>an anticipation that things will always look the way.

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<v Speaker 1>That you wanted them to look. This type of boasting does.

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<v Speaker 2>Not come, for example, from your anticipation that you will

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<v Speaker 2>never suffer. Jesus did not die to save us from suffering.

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<v Speaker 2>He suffered and died to save us from sin, so

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<v Speaker 2>that when we suffer, we're not surprised. He suffered to

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<v Speaker 2>save us. Now, he did not save us from suffering.

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<v Speaker 2>He saved us by his suffering, and in his suffering,

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<v Speaker 2>we have hope.

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<v Speaker 1>High five your neighbors say I have hope.

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<v Speaker 2>I have hope not because I think I'll never go

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<v Speaker 2>through anything.

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<v Speaker 1>But I'm one of these hope pathetical Christians.

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<v Speaker 2>I don't have hope based on the fact that I

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<v Speaker 2>will never go through it. So this is not a

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<v Speaker 2>naive sense in which I go through life knowing that

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<v Speaker 2>it will always be okay. This is not a hope

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<v Speaker 2>based on how I know it's going to go. I'm

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<v Speaker 2>leaving the house, and I'm leaving my complacency, and I'm

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<v Speaker 2>leaving my shell, and I'm leaving this relationship, and I'm

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<v Speaker 2>leaving this thought pattern not based on the hope that

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<v Speaker 2>is going to be so easy when I leave, but

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<v Speaker 2>that he won't be with me as I go.

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<v Speaker 1>I have a hope. So do you process with God

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<v Speaker 1>what you go through? Or are you processing without God?

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<v Speaker 2>And if you are, you do not have what the

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<v Speaker 2>Bible says here in verse one.

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<v Speaker 1>Therefore, since we have been justified through faith, we have

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<v Speaker 1>peace with God. He didn't say I don't have fears

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<v Speaker 1>about my future. He said we have peace with God.

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<v Speaker 1>He didn't say I don't have regrets about my past.

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<v Speaker 2>He said we have peace with God. He didn't say

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<v Speaker 2>I don't have conflict in my home. He said I

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<v Speaker 2>have peace with God. I'm gonna go a little deeper.

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<v Speaker 2>He didn't say I don't have temptations that are dragging

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<v Speaker 2>me back to the Egypt I thought I left. He

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<v Speaker 2>said we have peace with God. He didn't say I

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<v Speaker 2>don't have bills that I don't know how I'm gonna pay.

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<v Speaker 2>He said I have peace with God. He didn't say

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<v Speaker 2>I don't have pain in my body. He said I

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<v Speaker 2>have peace with God. He didn't say I don't have

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<v Speaker 2>issues that I'm going to counseling for.

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<v Speaker 1>He said I have peace with God.

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<v Speaker 2>He didn't say I don't have anger that I don't

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<v Speaker 2>even always know where it's coming from. He said I

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<v Speaker 2>have peace with God. So my peace with God is

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<v Speaker 2>not in the absence of the problem. My peace with

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<v Speaker 2>God is not in the absence of the anxiety. My

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<v Speaker 2>peace with God is not in the absence of my

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<v Speaker 2>shaking hands.

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<v Speaker 1>My peace with God is not in the absence of

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<v Speaker 1>enemies who don't like me. My peace with God.

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<v Speaker 2>Comes from somebody who won a game.

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<v Speaker 1>I didn't even play it. Now you yawning, Am I

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<v Speaker 1>being born? All right?

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<v Speaker 2>What I think is good for us to remember when

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<v Speaker 2>we have something that we have hoped for and it

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<v Speaker 2>didn't happen for us, is that before we can move

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<v Speaker 2>forward in pure faith, God often has to heal your hope.

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<v Speaker 2>And the first step of healing your hope is changing

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<v Speaker 2>what you boast in the Book of Romans was not

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<v Speaker 2>written as a pep talk to tell you do better.

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<v Speaker 1>Get out there, go get them. You got this.

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<v Speaker 2>Nobody's slapping anybody on the bottom of Romans except Paul

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<v Speaker 2>saying the way you used.

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<v Speaker 1>To boast in was your relationship to the law. Remember

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<v Speaker 1>they kept the law.

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<v Speaker 2>They did that through circumcision, which was an external sign

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<v Speaker 2>of their faith, and they were trying to go back

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<v Speaker 2>to that.

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<v Speaker 1>But Paul says in this passage that what you.

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<v Speaker 2>Used to boast in is insufficient to hold your hope

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<v Speaker 2>in this season of your life. One reason you can

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<v Speaker 2>praise God after you've been through something, tell somebody I've

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<v Speaker 2>been through something. Okay, after you've been through something, but

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<v Speaker 2>you found that God was still with you after you

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<v Speaker 2>went through it. Now you have something to boast about

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<v Speaker 2>that you didn't have before. And I saw somebody in

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<v Speaker 2>this room You've been like, why am I going through

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<v Speaker 2>everything I'm going through? Why does this all keep happening

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<v Speaker 2>to me? Why has this been so hard the last

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<v Speaker 2>three months? Why did I think I was so far along?

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<v Speaker 2>And then I just snapped right back to the previous

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<v Speaker 2>place that I was. It seems like nothing has moved forward.

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<v Speaker 2>But instead of you seeing yourself as going through something,

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<v Speaker 2>I want you to see yourself as getting something from

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<v Speaker 2>going through something, getting something from two completely different paradigms.

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<v Speaker 2>The focus on what I'm going through is me hypothetical,

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<v Speaker 2>the focus on what I'm going to have to go through.

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<v Speaker 1>Isn't it crazy that.

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<v Speaker 2>The devil can beat you with something that may never

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<v Speaker 2>even happen. Ask the prophet Elijah who ran from Jezebel

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<v Speaker 2>and wasted days that he could have spent in revival

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<v Speaker 2>from somebody who already proved she didn't.

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<v Speaker 1>Have the power to kill him.

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<v Speaker 2>You know, when you're going through something, or when you

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<v Speaker 2>might have to go through something, your focus becomes only

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<v Speaker 2>the pain that it will cost you. And so now

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<v Speaker 2>your story revolves around your suffering. How could Paul say

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<v Speaker 2>in verse three Romans, Chapter five that we glory in

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<v Speaker 2>our suffering.

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<v Speaker 1>We glory in our suffering. Maybe he doesn't mean that

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<v Speaker 1>we like it. Maybe he doesn't mean that we ask

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<v Speaker 1>for more of it.

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<v Speaker 2>Maybe he means that while we're going through it, we

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<v Speaker 2>get something from it.

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<v Speaker 1>And so recently I was telling a friend a story.

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<v Speaker 2>You know, we all have these pity party stories that

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<v Speaker 2>we tell, and I was sharing it under the pretense

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<v Speaker 2>like it was a testimony of something God brought me through.

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<v Speaker 2>But in the middle of telling the story, it was

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<v Speaker 2>as if the Holy Spirit said to me, and I'm

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<v Speaker 2>gonna do a whole sermon one day.

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<v Speaker 1>I don't exactly know how I'm.

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<v Speaker 2>Gonna do it yet, but it's gonna be called when

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<v Speaker 2>you say, God said, because a lot of times when

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<v Speaker 2>I'm preaching, I'll say God said this, and God said that.

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<v Speaker 2>And a sweet middle school kid came up to me

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<v Speaker 2>one time and said, when you say God said, what

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<v Speaker 2>does that mean?

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<v Speaker 1>Did you hear out loud voice? Did you read a

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<v Speaker 1>Bible verse?

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<v Speaker 2>What do you mean when you say God said, I'm

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<v Speaker 2>gonna do a sermon on that one day?

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<v Speaker 1>But in this particular case.

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<v Speaker 2>It was an impression, and I was in the middle

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<v Speaker 2>of the story, telling the story, and mid sentence I

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<v Speaker 2>stopped telling the story because was this The Holy Spirit

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<v Speaker 2>said to me, I'm sick of this side of the

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<v Speaker 2>story because you're telling him like it's something you went through,

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<v Speaker 2>but you're talking like you're still in it.

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<v Speaker 1>And if you really believe what you're.

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<v Speaker 2>Saying, you believe this is something that I brought you through,

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<v Speaker 2>So why are you not through with it.

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<v Speaker 1>Now? I'm not saying this always works.

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<v Speaker 2>Please don't take me out of context.

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<v Speaker 1>I hate I hate.

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<v Speaker 2>The thought that we can just cut short trauma by

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<v Speaker 2>putting on a happy face.

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<v Speaker 1>That is not my point.

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<v Speaker 2>This was not a situation where there was unresolved trauma.

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<v Speaker 2>This was a case where there was unreleased bitterness. And

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<v Speaker 2>the Lord showed me as I was speaking, I'm telling you,

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<v Speaker 2>it was like it was almost like my mouth got

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<v Speaker 2>zipped by the Holy Spirit, and the Lord said, I'm

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<v Speaker 2>sick of this.

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<v Speaker 1>Side of it because all you keep.

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<v Speaker 2>Talking about is the story from the standpoint of how

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<v Speaker 2>hurtful it was to you. But you know good and

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<v Speaker 2>well that what I did through that was something that

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<v Speaker 2>I absolutely had to do and you know good and well,

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<v Speaker 2>then if it hadn't hurt you like that, you wouldn't.

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<v Speaker 1>Be here today. So stop telling that story from that side.

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<v Speaker 2>Start saying things like, yeah, it hurt, but God healed

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<v Speaker 2>me from it.

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<v Speaker 1>Yeah it was hard, but I got stronger from it.

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<v Speaker 2>Yeah I was waiting, but I felt some spiritual muscles

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<v Speaker 2>and I got a miracle from it.

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<v Speaker 1>High five.

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<v Speaker 2>Somebody say, there's two sides to this story. There's two

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<v Speaker 2>sides to this story. There's what you went through, and

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<v Speaker 2>there's what you got from what you went through. And

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<v Speaker 2>while you're still worried about what you might go through,

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<v Speaker 2>you need to pick up something.

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<v Speaker 1>Just sit right in front of you. You're about Christian

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<v Speaker 1>glad my mic went out.

0:28:00.400 --> 0:28:03.000
<v Speaker 2>I needed a big boy mike today. I said I

0:28:03.000 --> 0:28:05.960
<v Speaker 2>needed a big boy mike today. I'm glad the mike

0:28:06.000 --> 0:28:08.359
<v Speaker 2>went out. Some of y'all need to say I'm glad

0:28:08.359 --> 0:28:09.240
<v Speaker 2>about stuff.

0:28:09.000 --> 0:28:11.399
<v Speaker 1>That goes wrong. I'm glad that went wrong.

0:28:11.800 --> 0:28:14.520
<v Speaker 2>That was a redirection because I would have stayed in

0:28:14.600 --> 0:28:16.040
<v Speaker 2>this wilderness.

0:28:15.720 --> 0:28:18.680
<v Speaker 1>If the man didn't go away. I would have stayed

0:28:18.720 --> 0:28:19.479
<v Speaker 1>in that place.

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<v Speaker 2>If they didn't push me out, how would have stayed?

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<v Speaker 1>Stuff is something that I'm so much greater than.

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<v Speaker 6>I am. Because a wind threw it, threw it, threw it,

0:28:35.960 --> 0:28:37.840
<v Speaker 6>threw it through it.

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<v Speaker 1>That's what the Bible says. That's what the Bible says.

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<v Speaker 2>Tell your neighbor, that's what the Bible says.

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<v Speaker 1>Yeah, yeah, he didn't say, watch this.

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<v Speaker 2>We have hope because of what might happen. We have

0:28:53.640 --> 0:28:56.760
<v Speaker 2>hope because of what could happen. We have hope because

0:28:56.800 --> 0:28:58.160
<v Speaker 2>of what probably will happen.

0:28:58.520 --> 0:29:02.120
<v Speaker 1>Now the apostle pause says something so much greater than that.

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<v Speaker 2>He says, Therefore, I'm about to blow your mind for

0:29:08.280 --> 0:29:11.680
<v Speaker 2>everything you're going through, for everything you might go through,

0:29:12.440 --> 0:29:15.400
<v Speaker 2>for every hypothetical in your life. Let's get hole pathetical

0:29:15.520 --> 0:29:21.320
<v Speaker 2>for a moment. He said, since we have been, you

0:29:21.400 --> 0:29:28.160
<v Speaker 2>missed it. He said, we have been. Everybody say I

0:29:28.360 --> 0:29:33.160
<v Speaker 2>have been. Now clarify for your neighbors say in English,

0:29:34.040 --> 0:29:36.600
<v Speaker 2>have been means past tense.

0:29:37.760 --> 0:29:42.040
<v Speaker 1>That's behind me, that's behind me, that's behind me, that's

0:29:42.160 --> 0:29:43.000
<v Speaker 1>behind me.

0:29:43.360 --> 0:29:46.200
<v Speaker 2>That's why it's my testimony.

0:29:45.440 --> 0:29:48.960
<v Speaker 1>Because I passed. Because it was a test, but I

0:29:49.120 --> 0:29:52.120
<v Speaker 1>passed it. That's what put the money on it.

0:29:52.960 --> 0:29:53.400
<v Speaker 2>I have.

0:29:57.680 --> 0:30:04.040
<v Speaker 1>Because it happen. It happened. But I'm here it happened,

0:30:04.320 --> 0:30:14.200
<v Speaker 1>But hallelujah, it happened. But I have this hope.

0:30:17.000 --> 0:30:24.840
<v Speaker 2>I have this hope because I have been justified. Some

0:30:24.920 --> 0:30:27.320
<v Speaker 2>of you are waiting for other people to celebrate how

0:30:27.360 --> 0:30:30.680
<v Speaker 2>far you've come. But I got news, baby, They don't

0:30:30.720 --> 0:30:34.760
<v Speaker 2>live on the inside of you. Jesus does, the Holy

0:30:34.960 --> 0:30:35.840
<v Speaker 2>theory does.

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<v Speaker 1>The righteousness of.

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<v Speaker 2>God has been impaled.

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<v Speaker 1>To you by faith.

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<v Speaker 2>So that's my second point of discermon is justification justification.

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<v Speaker 2>This is for all of your justified. I'll be further

0:31:06.200 --> 0:31:14.920
<v Speaker 2>along justified. You know all those regrets. You know I

0:31:14.960 --> 0:31:17.719
<v Speaker 2>wouldn't be in this mess justified.

0:31:20.080 --> 0:31:21.960
<v Speaker 1>Along comes Jesus.

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<v Speaker 2>Talking about you keep going back in your past, but

0:31:27.120 --> 0:31:32.360
<v Speaker 2>not far enough. You keep going back in your past,

0:31:33.400 --> 0:31:37.840
<v Speaker 2>but you're not going back there far enough. Because before

0:31:37.880 --> 0:31:42.840
<v Speaker 2>you even called on me, before you even looked to me.

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<v Speaker 2>Jimmy Romans, Chapter five, verse eight, this is the verse

0:31:47.680 --> 0:31:50.800
<v Speaker 2>you wanted to shout about a minute ago. Because the

0:31:50.840 --> 0:31:55.240
<v Speaker 2>Bible says that we were not good people, we were

0:31:55.280 --> 0:31:59.640
<v Speaker 2>not godly people, we were not righteous people. We did

0:31:59.680 --> 0:32:03.160
<v Speaker 2>not earned this spot. We did not make the team.

0:32:03.560 --> 0:32:06.640
<v Speaker 2>We did not make the cut, we did not live

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<v Speaker 2>up to it.

0:32:08.040 --> 0:32:16.240
<v Speaker 1>But God but God. So when we go back to

0:32:16.280 --> 0:32:19.880
<v Speaker 1>the past, you need to learn a phrase, say I

0:32:20.160 --> 0:32:28.960
<v Speaker 1>was but God, sit right there, Sit it right there, because.

0:32:29.600 --> 0:32:32.280
<v Speaker 2>Just to show you real clear what the Bible says,

0:32:32.280 --> 0:32:33.280
<v Speaker 2>I don't care what I say.

0:32:33.400 --> 0:32:35.120
<v Speaker 1>I don't care what you say. I don't care what

0:32:35.160 --> 0:32:37.640
<v Speaker 1>your grandmother says. I'm sorry. I'm sure she's beautiful.

0:32:37.680 --> 0:32:39.280
<v Speaker 2>I'll give her a hug if we ever meet, and

0:32:39.360 --> 0:32:41.560
<v Speaker 2>all of that stuff, and I respect her and I'll

0:32:41.600 --> 0:32:43.080
<v Speaker 2>call her whatever you told me to call her. But

0:32:43.120 --> 0:32:45.040
<v Speaker 2>I don't care what you were taught about this, the

0:32:45.160 --> 0:32:53.600
<v Speaker 2>Bible says. The Bible says that I have.

0:32:57.640 --> 0:33:05.160
<v Speaker 1>That sass. Access is an interesting thing.

0:33:07.080 --> 0:33:13.440
<v Speaker 2>It kind of suggests that something can be there and

0:33:13.480 --> 0:33:17.240
<v Speaker 2>you have it, but you can't get to it.

0:33:18.800 --> 0:33:22.840
<v Speaker 1>Because of what's blocking it. And that's why you died.

0:33:25.280 --> 0:33:29.760
<v Speaker 7>And that's why I have hope, because He gave me

0:33:30.560 --> 0:33:36.840
<v Speaker 7>access by faith into disgrace, in which I now stand

0:33:37.200 --> 0:33:40.560
<v Speaker 7>and we boast in the hope.

0:33:41.560 --> 0:33:44.440
<v Speaker 1>Of the glory of God.

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<v Speaker 2>Now, the more you understand this that you have, the

0:33:52.760 --> 0:33:55.760
<v Speaker 2>more you will have of this.

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<v Speaker 1>And the way that you access this peace.

0:34:07.320 --> 0:34:17.640
<v Speaker 2>I need more peace, you need more awareness, you need

0:34:17.719 --> 0:34:27.920
<v Speaker 2>more hoypathetical Christianity, you need more. I don't know if

0:34:27.920 --> 0:34:35.680
<v Speaker 2>you're gonna like this character, which is an interesting word.

0:34:37.160 --> 0:34:39.480
<v Speaker 2>I was studying that word because I thought, well, this

0:34:39.560 --> 0:34:42.239
<v Speaker 2>is how it works. This is how God matures us,

0:34:42.840 --> 0:34:46.080
<v Speaker 2>matures our lives, and this is how God brings forth

0:34:46.280 --> 0:34:47.320
<v Speaker 2>his fruit in our lives.

0:34:48.120 --> 0:34:53.880
<v Speaker 1>He gives us hope through the suffering.

0:34:54.880 --> 0:35:03.080
<v Speaker 2>That produces perseverance, and the perseverance the not quitting, produces character,

0:35:04.200 --> 0:35:10.000
<v Speaker 2>and then character hope. So in order to get to

0:35:10.120 --> 0:35:16.560
<v Speaker 2>the hope, you got to go through some hell and

0:35:16.600 --> 0:35:20.200
<v Speaker 2>what it produces. Y'all, I feel annoyed to help somebody today.

0:35:20.760 --> 0:35:23.239
<v Speaker 2>I don't even care about anything, but said who I'm

0:35:23.239 --> 0:35:27.800
<v Speaker 2>supposed to help today? Because the word character in Greek

0:35:29.600 --> 0:35:32.680
<v Speaker 2>is actually a word that Paul made up. It's not

0:35:32.760 --> 0:35:35.880
<v Speaker 2>a word that's anywhere else in the New Testament except

0:35:35.880 --> 0:35:36.960
<v Speaker 2>when Paul uses it.

0:35:37.880 --> 0:35:40.600
<v Speaker 1>And it doesn't just mean character in the sense of, well,

0:35:40.600 --> 0:35:41.560
<v Speaker 1>that's just who I am.

0:35:42.680 --> 0:35:44.719
<v Speaker 2>See, that's why some of you have the wrong testimony

0:35:44.800 --> 0:35:50.200
<v Speaker 2>right now. You keep testifying about that's just who I am,

0:35:50.320 --> 0:35:52.279
<v Speaker 2>that's just the way I am, that's just the way

0:35:52.320 --> 0:35:52.680
<v Speaker 2>it is.

0:35:52.800 --> 0:35:55.000
<v Speaker 1>And all of that might be true.

0:35:55.320 --> 0:36:00.480
<v Speaker 2>But this character that God is producing in you is

0:36:00.520 --> 0:36:03.680
<v Speaker 2>a certain type of character from a certain word that

0:36:03.719 --> 0:36:07.600
<v Speaker 2>Paul made up to describe what happens when you go

0:36:07.680 --> 0:36:10.800
<v Speaker 2>through something and get something from what you go through

0:36:11.080 --> 0:36:13.560
<v Speaker 2>that you couldn't get any other way. And the word

0:36:13.640 --> 0:36:24.799
<v Speaker 2>actually means proven worth, proven worth. And it started not

0:36:24.920 --> 0:36:28.520
<v Speaker 2>with the amazing things that happened, but with the pain

0:36:28.640 --> 0:36:34.840
<v Speaker 2>that you experienced. So the pain that you experienced produced

0:36:35.440 --> 0:36:39.120
<v Speaker 2>the proof of the worth of your faith.

0:36:40.440 --> 0:36:42.640
<v Speaker 1>What good is a hope that can't be disappointed?

0:36:44.640 --> 0:36:47.920
<v Speaker 2>What good is a faith that can't be shaken and

0:36:48.000 --> 0:36:51.440
<v Speaker 2>not broken? What good is it for me to just

0:36:51.719 --> 0:36:54.600
<v Speaker 2>hope that things turn out well and then when they don't,

0:36:54.640 --> 0:36:57.960
<v Speaker 2>stay home. What good is it for me to listen

0:36:57.960 --> 0:37:01.239
<v Speaker 2>to Pastor Stephen preach for an hour and then go

0:37:01.360 --> 0:37:05.440
<v Speaker 2>home and resist the very things that God brings into

0:37:05.440 --> 0:37:09.160
<v Speaker 2>my life that will produce the word that he preached about.

0:37:10.680 --> 0:37:13.040
<v Speaker 2>What good is it for me to keep just going

0:37:13.160 --> 0:37:17.520
<v Speaker 2>through things and never stopping. God said today we are

0:37:17.560 --> 0:37:22.280
<v Speaker 2>going to rescue your testimony because you have stopped talking

0:37:22.320 --> 0:37:25.080
<v Speaker 2>about what God is going to do. You have stopped

0:37:25.080 --> 0:37:26.000
<v Speaker 2>talking about.

0:37:25.760 --> 0:37:26.840
<v Speaker 1>How it can be different.

0:37:27.080 --> 0:37:29.840
<v Speaker 2>You have been disappointed, you have been hurt, you have

0:37:29.920 --> 0:37:31.719
<v Speaker 2>been hemorrhaging from what you went through.

0:37:31.719 --> 0:37:33.160
<v Speaker 1>But God wants to heal that.

0:37:33.239 --> 0:37:38.560
<v Speaker 2>Place and rescue your testimony, to rescue it.

0:37:39.280 --> 0:37:42.879
<v Speaker 1>That's what Holly does for me. She rescues me from

0:37:42.920 --> 0:37:44.719
<v Speaker 1>my hypothetical situations.

0:37:44.760 --> 0:37:47.840
<v Speaker 2>I say, well, if we go, something bad might happen,

0:37:47.880 --> 0:37:50.000
<v Speaker 2>and she says, but if you don't go, you might

0:37:50.040 --> 0:37:51.799
<v Speaker 2>look back the rest of your life and wonder what

0:37:51.800 --> 0:37:53.080
<v Speaker 2>would have happened if you did.

0:37:54.440 --> 0:37:56.840
<v Speaker 1>And so Paul says, it is the suffering.

0:37:57.280 --> 0:38:02.880
<v Speaker 2>It is the pain that proved that proves the character.

0:38:03.320 --> 0:38:09.480
<v Speaker 2>The proof starts with suffering, the proof, do you see it?

0:38:09.760 --> 0:38:14.279
<v Speaker 2>The proof starts with suffering, and that's what leads to

0:38:14.320 --> 0:38:16.680
<v Speaker 2>the hope, because you know, I can go back to

0:38:16.760 --> 0:38:20.120
<v Speaker 2>that and I can remember that God did that for me.

0:38:21.680 --> 0:38:24.400
<v Speaker 1>And so every once in a while.

0:38:25.600 --> 0:38:29.440
<v Speaker 2>I screenshot something on my phone just to remind me

0:38:29.520 --> 0:38:34.720
<v Speaker 2>in my low moments that at the lowest moments, God

0:38:35.320 --> 0:38:40.080
<v Speaker 2>is doing the most. A few years ago, I preached

0:38:40.080 --> 0:38:42.880
<v Speaker 2>a sermon to where I left and thought, well, that

0:38:42.920 --> 0:38:45.880
<v Speaker 2>didn't go very good. And I don't always blame myself.

0:38:45.880 --> 0:38:50.840
<v Speaker 2>Sometimes y'all are just lazy listeners. But I like to

0:38:50.880 --> 0:38:53.399
<v Speaker 2>take responsibility, Like, well, come on, I could have done

0:38:53.440 --> 0:38:55.800
<v Speaker 2>that better and clearer, and I beat.

0:38:55.680 --> 0:38:56.879
<v Speaker 1>Myself up every which way.

0:38:58.080 --> 0:39:01.160
<v Speaker 2>And that same week, my friend sent me a text

0:39:01.480 --> 0:39:04.160
<v Speaker 2>of their notes from the sermon, and they said, just

0:39:04.200 --> 0:39:05.360
<v Speaker 2>wanted you to be encouraged.

0:39:06.120 --> 0:39:07.920
<v Speaker 1>Well I needed to be, so I was thankful for

0:39:07.960 --> 0:39:08.440
<v Speaker 1>the text.

0:39:08.920 --> 0:39:12.440
<v Speaker 2>They took six pages of notes on that sermon that

0:39:12.480 --> 0:39:16.000
<v Speaker 2>I thought sucked. Okay, so I'm looking at it. I'm like,

0:39:16.080 --> 0:39:18.000
<v Speaker 2>this is great, Okay, thank you Lord. Maybe it wasn't

0:39:18.000 --> 0:39:21.120
<v Speaker 2>that bad. They wrote six pages of notes. But then

0:39:21.160 --> 0:39:22.960
<v Speaker 2>I looked at it again and I saw why they

0:39:23.000 --> 0:39:24.399
<v Speaker 2>sent it to me, because I thought, that's kind of weird.

0:39:24.400 --> 0:39:25.960
<v Speaker 2>Why did you send me your notes? I preached it,

0:39:26.560 --> 0:39:30.880
<v Speaker 2>don't you think I know what I said? But next

0:39:30.880 --> 0:39:38.799
<v Speaker 2>to the notes was this little puddle of tears that

0:39:38.800 --> 0:39:40.640
<v Speaker 2>they were showing me. And when the text came through

0:39:40.719 --> 0:39:45.200
<v Speaker 2>next after the photo, it said, I cried so hard

0:39:45.840 --> 0:39:48.879
<v Speaker 2>through your message. I left a puddle of tears next

0:39:48.880 --> 0:39:51.879
<v Speaker 2>to my notes before I dried it up. I wanted

0:39:51.880 --> 0:39:57.719
<v Speaker 2>to show you. And and that's something that while I'm sitting

0:39:57.760 --> 0:40:01.960
<v Speaker 2>there thinking, well, that wasn't any good, and then I

0:40:02.000 --> 0:40:06.720
<v Speaker 2>get a picture a proof in the puddle of tears

0:40:08.640 --> 0:40:16.839
<v Speaker 2>that they cry because I understand that sometimes suffering is

0:40:16.880 --> 0:40:25.160
<v Speaker 2>the starting place for something amazing. Sometimes the absence of

0:40:25.200 --> 0:40:28.759
<v Speaker 2>your emotional validation when you are doing the thing that

0:40:28.800 --> 0:40:31.240
<v Speaker 2>God has called you to do, maybe not preaching a sermon,

0:40:31.360 --> 0:40:33.960
<v Speaker 2>maybe just being a good man, maybe not preaching a sermon,

0:40:34.120 --> 0:40:36.719
<v Speaker 2>maybe just keeping your purity as a teenager, maybe not

0:40:36.760 --> 0:40:39.280
<v Speaker 2>preaching a sermon, Maybe just showing up to the next

0:40:39.280 --> 0:40:41.600
<v Speaker 2>thing that you know you can do. And the proof

0:40:42.160 --> 0:40:44.320
<v Speaker 2>I didn't feel it when I preached it. I didn't

0:40:44.360 --> 0:40:46.440
<v Speaker 2>see it when I preached it. I didn't know it

0:40:46.480 --> 0:40:49.080
<v Speaker 2>when I preached it. But to get that text, that

0:40:49.120 --> 0:40:52.240
<v Speaker 2>puddle of tears, to say that sermon that you preached,

0:40:53.640 --> 0:40:57.520
<v Speaker 2>that you felt nothing, that word you spoke, that you

0:40:57.600 --> 0:41:02.200
<v Speaker 2>felt nothing, that you pray, that you saw nothing.

0:41:02.880 --> 0:41:08.360
<v Speaker 1>Here's something, here's something days later that you didn't even see.

0:41:08.400 --> 0:41:13.040
<v Speaker 1>You weren't even there for it. But it's proof. This

0:41:13.280 --> 0:41:15.240
<v Speaker 1>is the proof that I'm after.

0:41:15.880 --> 0:41:18.120
<v Speaker 2>Not the proof of what you feel when you do it,

0:41:18.600 --> 0:41:20.640
<v Speaker 2>not the proof of what you see when you do it.

0:41:21.040 --> 0:41:23.400
<v Speaker 2>Not the proof of what you know right now, not

0:41:23.520 --> 0:41:25.960
<v Speaker 2>the proof of what you think you need to be validated,

0:41:26.280 --> 0:41:28.840
<v Speaker 2>not the proof of what you think would make it successful.

0:41:29.719 --> 0:41:33.120
<v Speaker 2>It is the proof in that puddle of tears that

0:41:33.200 --> 0:41:36.279
<v Speaker 2>you cried while you suffered. But I bet you got

0:41:36.400 --> 0:41:38.600
<v Speaker 2>up after you cried and did something, didn't you.

0:41:38.960 --> 0:41:40.000
<v Speaker 1>I bet you got up.

0:41:39.880 --> 0:41:41.920
<v Speaker 2>When you cried. I bet you got up after your

0:41:42.000 --> 0:41:45.080
<v Speaker 2>heart was broken and you kept going. So now you

0:41:45.239 --> 0:41:48.799
<v Speaker 2>have a testimony, and let's stop talking about all that

0:41:48.880 --> 0:41:52.680
<v Speaker 2>it costs you, and let's start talking about how God.

0:41:52.440 --> 0:42:06.000
<v Speaker 8>Has called you proven, character, proven, prove I.

0:42:05.960 --> 0:42:09.200
<v Speaker 2>Have hope, say not loud, I have hope. I can

0:42:09.280 --> 0:42:13.600
<v Speaker 2>prove it. I have hope, and I can prove it.

0:42:14.480 --> 0:42:18.000
<v Speaker 2>So Holly said to me, you really do think of everything.

0:42:18.160 --> 0:42:22.160
<v Speaker 2>And I'm like, well, so does God. And she didn't

0:42:22.160 --> 0:42:26.719
<v Speaker 2>really accept that as an analogy, but I told her

0:42:26.760 --> 0:42:31.200
<v Speaker 2>how God has taken into account. You see, at just

0:42:31.360 --> 0:42:35.160
<v Speaker 2>the right time, when we were still powerless, Christ died

0:42:35.200 --> 0:42:40.080
<v Speaker 2>for the ungodly. So now I want to talk about, finally,

0:42:41.200 --> 0:42:45.160
<v Speaker 2>the demonstration. The demonstration.

0:42:46.680 --> 0:42:47.480
<v Speaker 1>The proof.

0:42:48.719 --> 0:42:51.400
<v Speaker 2>That you have hope, and the proof that you have

0:42:51.440 --> 0:42:56.440
<v Speaker 2>hope is not that you don't suffer or will never suffer.

0:42:58.080 --> 0:42:59.600
<v Speaker 2>And the proof that you have hope is not that

0:42:59.640 --> 0:43:02.239
<v Speaker 2>you don't go through. Let me break that down a

0:43:02.239 --> 0:43:04.719
<v Speaker 2>little bit more. It is not that you won't ever

0:43:04.800 --> 0:43:07.279
<v Speaker 2>feel that way again. It is not that you will

0:43:07.320 --> 0:43:09.880
<v Speaker 2>never be let down again. It is not that you

0:43:09.960 --> 0:43:13.400
<v Speaker 2>will never experience a betrayal again. It is not that

0:43:13.440 --> 0:43:15.799
<v Speaker 2>you will never wrestle with this again. It is not

0:43:15.840 --> 0:43:18.040
<v Speaker 2>that it will completely leave your life. That is not

0:43:18.120 --> 0:43:21.279
<v Speaker 2>what Christ died to save us from. And the good

0:43:21.320 --> 0:43:24.600
<v Speaker 2>thing is, if you feel weak in this moment, that's

0:43:24.680 --> 0:43:27.239
<v Speaker 2>the very point He saved you at and he's still

0:43:27.239 --> 0:43:35.839
<v Speaker 2>saving so you have proof demonstration. But God demonstrates his

0:43:35.880 --> 0:43:39.359
<v Speaker 2>own love for us in this that while we were

0:43:39.520 --> 0:43:42.600
<v Speaker 2>still ciners, Christ died for us.

0:43:43.680 --> 0:43:44.359
<v Speaker 1>I read you a.

0:43:44.320 --> 0:43:47.120
<v Speaker 2>Scripture from the Old Testament earlier, and you may have

0:43:47.160 --> 0:43:50.480
<v Speaker 2>wondered if I forgot about it, but I didn't, because

0:43:50.480 --> 0:43:53.120
<v Speaker 2>I want to give you a picture of how God

0:43:53.200 --> 0:43:56.759
<v Speaker 2>demonstrates his power in your weakness.

0:43:57.719 --> 0:43:59.640
<v Speaker 1>The children of Israel are headed out of the.

0:43:59.680 --> 0:44:02.600
<v Speaker 2>Land that they've known as the place of their captivity

0:44:03.040 --> 0:44:06.480
<v Speaker 2>for over four hundred years. They've been wandering in the

0:44:06.480 --> 0:44:10.040
<v Speaker 2>wilderness for forty of those years because of the regrets

0:44:10.320 --> 0:44:13.280
<v Speaker 2>of their past. I gotta be thinking at this point

0:44:13.360 --> 0:44:14.320
<v Speaker 2>something is going.

0:44:14.120 --> 0:44:14.759
<v Speaker 1>Through their head.

0:44:15.320 --> 0:44:19.920
<v Speaker 2>Justified believe God and gone through the Promised land. Just

0:44:20.200 --> 0:44:23.440
<v Speaker 2>if we'd gone through and faced the giants in our

0:44:23.480 --> 0:44:27.840
<v Speaker 2>faith and believe the minority report of Caleb and Joshua,

0:44:28.280 --> 0:44:31.520
<v Speaker 2>just if we had not brought a complaint to Moses

0:44:31.560 --> 0:44:33.560
<v Speaker 2>in the place of where our faith should have been.

0:44:33.800 --> 0:44:37.920
<v Speaker 2>But now God is bringing a new generation led by Joshua,

0:44:38.040 --> 0:44:40.920
<v Speaker 2>into the Promised Land, and the Bible says that on

0:44:41.000 --> 0:44:43.680
<v Speaker 2>the way to where they're going, because you're going somewhere,

0:44:43.880 --> 0:44:44.160
<v Speaker 2>I don't know.

0:44:44.200 --> 0:44:46.359
<v Speaker 1>If you feel stuck where you are, you're gonna die.

0:44:46.360 --> 0:44:47.200
<v Speaker 1>Where you are is.

0:44:47.160 --> 0:44:50.239
<v Speaker 2>Gonna be like it is, But you are transitioning out

0:44:50.280 --> 0:44:50.560
<v Speaker 2>of this.

0:44:51.560 --> 0:44:53.520
<v Speaker 1>Before they transition out.

0:44:53.360 --> 0:44:55.759
<v Speaker 2>Of the land that they've been in, the wilderness that

0:44:55.800 --> 0:44:58.640
<v Speaker 2>they've wandered in, the what ifs that they've wasted away in.

0:44:58.920 --> 0:45:02.080
<v Speaker 2>Before they transition out of this, God gives a very

0:45:02.120 --> 0:45:06.160
<v Speaker 2>strange instruction to Joshua. He says, before you completely cross

0:45:06.239 --> 0:45:08.760
<v Speaker 2>and by the way, I think you should commemorate every

0:45:08.800 --> 0:45:13.799
<v Speaker 2>crossing in your life, every crossing over. Just start celebrating

0:45:13.840 --> 0:45:16.200
<v Speaker 2>stuff when you cross over. So that could be as

0:45:16.200 --> 0:45:18.520
<v Speaker 2>simple ass thank you God for a new day. I

0:45:18.600 --> 0:45:21.440
<v Speaker 2>lay down to sleep and I woke up again, and

0:45:21.560 --> 0:45:24.759
<v Speaker 2>somebody didn't, So thank you for it. Lord, thank you

0:45:24.800 --> 0:45:27.279
<v Speaker 2>for another week. Thank you for bringing me to the

0:45:27.280 --> 0:45:30.480
<v Speaker 2>Lord's house another day. Thank you for a new season.

0:45:30.800 --> 0:45:33.640
<v Speaker 2>Thank you God for a new opportunity. Thank you for

0:45:33.680 --> 0:45:36.600
<v Speaker 2>my next breath. Thank You for my next opportunity. And

0:45:36.800 --> 0:45:40.600
<v Speaker 2>as they are crossing over watch this, God calls Joshua,

0:45:40.840 --> 0:45:44.560
<v Speaker 2>I want you to commemorate and demonstrate what I did.

0:45:44.800 --> 0:45:47.840
<v Speaker 1>And here's why four verse number five. I'm ready to

0:45:47.840 --> 0:45:48.439
<v Speaker 1>preach now.

0:45:48.760 --> 0:45:52.040
<v Speaker 2>Chapter number four, Verse five, and Joshua said to them,

0:45:52.360 --> 0:45:55.120
<v Speaker 2>pass on before the ark of the Lord, your God,

0:45:55.280 --> 0:45:59.000
<v Speaker 2>that represents God's presence, into the midst of the Jordan,

0:45:59.400 --> 0:46:02.320
<v Speaker 2>and take each of you a stone upon his shoulder.

0:46:02.680 --> 0:46:05.040
<v Speaker 2>According to the number of the tribes of the people

0:46:05.040 --> 0:46:09.920
<v Speaker 2>of Israel. How many tribes were there twelve? How many stones? Twelve,

0:46:10.160 --> 0:46:13.560
<v Speaker 2>one for every tribe, one for every trial, one for

0:46:13.640 --> 0:46:16.560
<v Speaker 2>every tribe, one for every trial. You ought to get

0:46:16.600 --> 0:46:19.200
<v Speaker 2>something out of everything you go through that makes you

0:46:19.239 --> 0:46:21.960
<v Speaker 2>stronger in God. I'm not going to cry like that

0:46:22.080 --> 0:46:24.320
<v Speaker 2>and not get stronger from it. I'm not going to

0:46:24.400 --> 0:46:26.960
<v Speaker 2>suffer like that and not get stronger from it. So

0:46:27.040 --> 0:46:30.480
<v Speaker 2>make sure you take something from this. But then verse success,

0:46:30.600 --> 0:46:35.839
<v Speaker 2>very importantly, why you're doing this, that this, this may

0:46:35.880 --> 0:46:39.920
<v Speaker 2>be a sign among you. So when your children ask

0:46:40.320 --> 0:46:43.120
<v Speaker 2>in time to come, what do these stones mean?

0:46:43.200 --> 0:46:43.600
<v Speaker 1>You stop?

0:46:43.760 --> 0:46:45.719
<v Speaker 2>How do you want to answer that question for your

0:46:45.800 --> 0:46:51.000
<v Speaker 2>kids one day?

0:46:51.719 --> 0:46:53.600
<v Speaker 1>This is important because.

0:46:55.680 --> 0:47:00.120
<v Speaker 2>He said, I want you to rescue your testimony.

0:47:01.080 --> 0:47:02.520
<v Speaker 1>I want you to stop.

0:47:02.239 --> 0:47:08.440
<v Speaker 2>Right now and redefine everything you've been through. And instead

0:47:08.480 --> 0:47:12.160
<v Speaker 2>of remembering this as the river that was so hard

0:47:12.200 --> 0:47:13.799
<v Speaker 2>to cross, I.

0:47:13.760 --> 0:47:16.040
<v Speaker 1>Want you to take something out of it that you

0:47:16.080 --> 0:47:19.279
<v Speaker 1>can commemorate how great God was to bring you through it.

0:47:23.239 --> 0:47:26.840
<v Speaker 2>So when your children ask, what was it like to

0:47:26.880 --> 0:47:30.200
<v Speaker 2>deal with that? When your children ask, tell me about

0:47:30.200 --> 0:47:33.279
<v Speaker 2>that time when your children ask did you ever deal

0:47:33.320 --> 0:47:36.000
<v Speaker 2>with loneliness? And how did you handle it? When your

0:47:36.080 --> 0:47:39.279
<v Speaker 2>children ask, did you ever wonder if you were good enough?

0:47:39.600 --> 0:47:43.000
<v Speaker 2>When your children ask did you ever feel depressed? I

0:47:43.080 --> 0:47:47.600
<v Speaker 2>want you to have some proof to point through to

0:47:47.760 --> 0:47:58.600
<v Speaker 2>let them know God does miracles and I have a testimony.

0:48:00.000 --> 0:48:04.680
<v Speaker 2>Whatever you're standing next to exhibit A. So verse six,

0:48:04.800 --> 0:48:07.680
<v Speaker 2>verse six, Verse six. When your children ask what do

0:48:07.760 --> 0:48:09.200
<v Speaker 2>these stones mean to you?

0:48:09.560 --> 0:48:12.319
<v Speaker 1>It's personal to me. I can't speak for you.

0:48:12.719 --> 0:48:16.200
<v Speaker 2>I can't prophesy for you, I can't praise for you.

0:48:16.200 --> 0:48:18.799
<v Speaker 2>You can't praise for me, there are some things that

0:48:19.000 --> 0:48:21.560
<v Speaker 2>I went through. This showed me who God was to me.

0:48:23.320 --> 0:48:25.440
<v Speaker 2>And verse seven says, when they ask you what do

0:48:25.520 --> 0:48:28.960
<v Speaker 2>these stones mean, then you shall tell them that the

0:48:29.040 --> 0:48:32.640
<v Speaker 2>waters of the Jordan were cut off before the ark

0:48:32.760 --> 0:48:35.239
<v Speaker 2>of the Covenant of the Lord. Do you want us

0:48:35.239 --> 0:48:37.160
<v Speaker 2>to tell them how hard the wilderness was for forty

0:48:37.239 --> 0:48:38.600
<v Speaker 2>years for something that we didn't do.

0:48:38.760 --> 0:48:40.160
<v Speaker 1>No, I just want you to tell them that.

0:48:40.160 --> 0:48:46.200
<v Speaker 2>When I got to that Jordan, oh, there was a demonstration.

0:48:47.160 --> 0:48:49.040
<v Speaker 1>And we didn't know how it was going to happen.

0:48:49.800 --> 0:48:50.360
<v Speaker 1>But watch this.

0:48:50.680 --> 0:48:53.880
<v Speaker 2>My faith is not in a how. My faith is

0:48:53.880 --> 0:48:59.719
<v Speaker 2>in a who. So tell them the Lord. Somebody say

0:48:59.760 --> 0:49:04.120
<v Speaker 2>the Lord. Now say but God, Now ask your neighbor.

0:49:04.239 --> 0:49:11.560
<v Speaker 1>Was it hard? Tell him it was? But God? Ask him?

0:49:11.600 --> 0:49:16.440
<v Speaker 1>Were you a mess? Tell him I was? But God?

0:49:17.880 --> 0:49:18.239
<v Speaker 2>Ask him?

0:49:18.239 --> 0:49:23.080
<v Speaker 1>Were you tempted to quit? Tell him I was? But God?

0:49:24.040 --> 0:49:25.920
<v Speaker 2>Were you a little nervous about how it was going

0:49:25.960 --> 0:49:28.319
<v Speaker 2>to turn out? Back there in twenty twenty four? Were

0:49:28.320 --> 0:49:31.799
<v Speaker 2>you sitting in church one Sunday morning in September? Were

0:49:31.800 --> 0:49:33.960
<v Speaker 2>you thinking about a football game in lunch?

0:49:34.239 --> 0:49:36.799
<v Speaker 1>But God had a word for you. Tell him, I was,

0:49:37.920 --> 0:49:38.640
<v Speaker 1>But God?

0:49:39.719 --> 0:49:42.440
<v Speaker 2>See when that man grabbed that microphone and he started

0:49:42.480 --> 0:49:45.680
<v Speaker 2>preaching about the flow of the Jordan being cut off.

0:49:46.040 --> 0:49:50.000
<v Speaker 2>It reminded me of Calvary. It reminded me of Jesus.

0:49:50.320 --> 0:49:53.520
<v Speaker 2>It reminded me of a cross. It reminded me of

0:49:53.600 --> 0:49:57.160
<v Speaker 2>my crossing over. It reminded me of death to life.

0:49:57.400 --> 0:49:58.399
<v Speaker 1>It reminded me.

0:49:58.400 --> 0:49:59.080
<v Speaker 2>Of the blood.

0:49:59.400 --> 0:50:01.520
<v Speaker 1>It reminds to me, a broken says.

0:50:01.840 --> 0:50:08.880
<v Speaker 2>It reminded me I was. And I'm gonna show you something, Holly,

0:50:09.200 --> 0:50:11.759
<v Speaker 2>that I never saw before, because he said, I want

0:50:11.760 --> 0:50:14.160
<v Speaker 2>you to take the stones from what you went through

0:50:14.560 --> 0:50:16.240
<v Speaker 2>and tell your children what.

0:50:16.160 --> 0:50:19.000
<v Speaker 1>God did, but I want you to take the stones

0:50:19.040 --> 0:50:22.160
<v Speaker 1>to be a memorial forever. And the people of.

0:50:22.160 --> 0:50:25.200
<v Speaker 2>Israel did just as Joshua commanded, and took up twelve

0:50:25.280 --> 0:50:27.720
<v Speaker 2>stones out of the midst of the Jordan.

0:50:27.800 --> 0:50:28.600
<v Speaker 1>Go back to verse eight.

0:50:28.600 --> 0:50:30.560
<v Speaker 2>I wasn't done with it yet, out of the midst

0:50:30.800 --> 0:50:33.040
<v Speaker 2>of the Jordan. According to the number of the tribes.

0:50:33.040 --> 0:50:34.560
<v Speaker 2>They try to see if I got this thing memorized,

0:50:34.560 --> 0:50:37.360
<v Speaker 2>and I don't. The people of Israel, just as the

0:50:37.440 --> 0:50:41.839
<v Speaker 2>Lord told Joshua, Just as the Lord told Joshua, just

0:50:41.920 --> 0:50:44.560
<v Speaker 2>if I do what God told me to do, I

0:50:44.600 --> 0:50:48.200
<v Speaker 2>don't have to justify it any other way than God spoken.

0:50:48.320 --> 0:50:52.480
<v Speaker 2>First number nine and I'm closing, And Joshua set up

0:50:52.520 --> 0:50:56.440
<v Speaker 2>twelve stones in the midst of the Jordan, in the

0:50:56.560 --> 0:51:01.520
<v Speaker 2>place where the feet of the priest stood. Wait a minute,

0:51:01.680 --> 0:51:04.239
<v Speaker 2>I thought he brought them out of the Jordan and

0:51:04.320 --> 0:51:06.440
<v Speaker 2>put them in the camp where they stayed when they

0:51:06.480 --> 0:51:07.000
<v Speaker 2>got through.

0:51:07.520 --> 0:51:11.240
<v Speaker 1>He did. But there was a second set of stones.

0:51:11.600 --> 0:51:14.520
<v Speaker 2>That Joshua was set up, not where they were going.

0:51:19.120 --> 0:51:21.480
<v Speaker 1>I know I love it too. I know it makes

0:51:21.520 --> 0:51:22.560
<v Speaker 1>me excited.

0:51:22.160 --> 0:51:25.160
<v Speaker 2>Too, because God said, I want you to set up

0:51:25.200 --> 0:51:29.320
<v Speaker 2>something right here, right here, not when you get through,

0:51:29.560 --> 0:51:32.800
<v Speaker 2>but right here and in the middle of the Jordan.

0:51:32.880 --> 0:51:35.800
<v Speaker 2>God told Joshua, I want you to make a pile

0:51:36.280 --> 0:51:40.000
<v Speaker 2>of the stones in the middle of the Jordan, so

0:51:40.040 --> 0:51:43.040
<v Speaker 2>that when your children asked what was it like when

0:51:43.080 --> 0:51:46.000
<v Speaker 2>you were crossing the Jordan, you'll have something to point

0:51:46.040 --> 0:51:49.799
<v Speaker 2>to that you went through that they can understand how

0:51:49.880 --> 0:51:51.000
<v Speaker 2>powerful God is.

0:51:51.800 --> 0:51:53.600
<v Speaker 1>So now you understand what I'm saying.

0:51:53.719 --> 0:51:57.560
<v Speaker 2>Right because the stones were in the middle of the Jordan. Now,

0:51:57.560 --> 0:52:00.640
<v Speaker 2>if the Jordan is at high tide, then the stones

0:52:00.680 --> 0:52:04.400
<v Speaker 2>can't be seen. If the Jordan is overflowing, the stones

0:52:04.440 --> 0:52:07.239
<v Speaker 2>can't be seen. And the only way they're gonna see

0:52:07.280 --> 0:52:10.880
<v Speaker 2>the stones is if the tide is low. The only

0:52:10.920 --> 0:52:14.120
<v Speaker 2>time they're gonna see the stones is if the tide

0:52:14.200 --> 0:52:17.239
<v Speaker 2>is low. The only way they're gonna see the stones

0:52:17.320 --> 0:52:20.800
<v Speaker 2>is in a dry season. I'm preaching to somebody Austin

0:52:21.120 --> 0:52:21.799
<v Speaker 2>who's been in.

0:52:21.760 --> 0:52:22.840
<v Speaker 1>A dry season.

0:52:23.360 --> 0:52:27.719
<v Speaker 2>But I got news. Fa God dries up Jordan rivers

0:52:28.239 --> 0:52:32.360
<v Speaker 2>and you got some stones, Messy, you got some stone.

0:52:33.000 --> 0:52:36.719
<v Speaker 2>You got some stones at the bottom of what you

0:52:36.840 --> 0:52:41.719
<v Speaker 2>fit through. Oh God, I'm closing, but high five by

0:52:41.920 --> 0:52:42.840
<v Speaker 2>five to five your.

0:52:42.719 --> 0:52:46.320
<v Speaker 1>Neighborhood and say I got stones. Don't think I'm a whelm.

0:52:46.560 --> 0:52:48.520
<v Speaker 1>Don't think I'm weak, don't think.

0:52:48.360 --> 0:52:51.879
<v Speaker 2>I'm without power, don't think I'm without health, don't think

0:52:51.920 --> 0:52:54.919
<v Speaker 2>I don't have a testimony. I'm gonna tell this thing

0:52:55.320 --> 0:52:58.600
<v Speaker 2>from the other side. I'm gonna tell the truth from

0:52:58.600 --> 0:53:09.240
<v Speaker 2>a higher plane. So I tend to rescue your testimony.

0:53:09.800 --> 0:53:13.080
<v Speaker 1>Does it in a testimony? Tell us been tested?

0:53:16.200 --> 0:53:19.759
<v Speaker 2>And before you get baptized today, I want you to

0:53:19.800 --> 0:53:21.560
<v Speaker 2>look forward to the low.

0:53:21.360 --> 0:53:28.000
<v Speaker 1>Tide times when the Jordan River gets lower, so you

0:53:28.080 --> 0:53:35.520
<v Speaker 1>can see where you stood that you thought you would die.

0:53:36.239 --> 0:53:39.640
<v Speaker 2>Get that stone out of there, that thing you suffered,

0:53:40.400 --> 0:53:43.360
<v Speaker 2>and get that hope out of therese.

0:53:43.440 --> 0:53:47.040
<v Speaker 1>The proof is in the bottle.

0:53:51.280 --> 0:53:57.839
<v Speaker 2>Some things, oh God, some things you won't see if

0:53:57.880 --> 0:53:59.080
<v Speaker 2>it's not a dry season.

0:54:01.000 --> 0:54:05.320
<v Speaker 1>That is my hope.

0:54:06.200 --> 0:54:12.960
<v Speaker 9>Stones in dry seasons, strength in weak places, for you

0:54:13.040 --> 0:54:16.919
<v Speaker 9>see it. Just the right time, while we were still powerless,

0:54:17.840 --> 0:54:21.120
<v Speaker 9>Christ died for me.

0:54:22.160 --> 0:54:27.480
<v Speaker 1>And if he justified me justification, and if he did.

0:54:27.320 --> 0:54:32.960
<v Speaker 2>That for me demonstration, then guess what I got back anticipation.

0:54:36.239 --> 0:54:37.280
<v Speaker 1>So now.

0:54:38.520 --> 0:54:45.239
<v Speaker 2>We gotta do something about this. The proof is in

0:54:45.280 --> 0:54:49.319
<v Speaker 2>the puddles. God didn't save you because you were on

0:54:49.440 --> 0:54:52.800
<v Speaker 2>such a high place. God demonstrates his own love for

0:54:52.880 --> 0:54:56.239
<v Speaker 2>us in this while we were still sinners. He got

0:54:56.280 --> 0:54:59.600
<v Speaker 2>down in the dirt of my situation. That's how I

0:54:59.600 --> 0:55:00.719
<v Speaker 2>know he's not gonna leave me.

0:55:00.800 --> 0:55:01.560
<v Speaker 1>Now.

0:55:02.120 --> 0:55:05.920
<v Speaker 2>He started this thing in the mud. He started this

0:55:05.960 --> 0:55:09.000
<v Speaker 2>thing in the puddle, and the proof is in the puddles.

0:55:09.200 --> 0:55:14.239
<v Speaker 2>So don't be so freaked out with the hypothetical situations

0:55:14.760 --> 0:55:19.000
<v Speaker 2>of what's gonna dry up. If it dries up, the

0:55:19.080 --> 0:55:24.879
<v Speaker 2>stones will still be there. You will still have a testimony.

0:55:25.120 --> 0:55:30.000
<v Speaker 2>Now take it back, take back your testimony. Today wouldn't

0:55:30.040 --> 0:55:33.080
<v Speaker 2>be too soon. I need a hundred of y'all that

0:55:33.080 --> 0:55:36.680
<v Speaker 2>weren't planning on getting baptized today, Get baptized today. Take

0:55:36.719 --> 0:55:41.040
<v Speaker 2>back your testimony, give me my camera. Declare to the devil,

0:55:41.360 --> 0:55:44.600
<v Speaker 2>I won't die in this dry season. I won't die

0:55:44.640 --> 0:55:47.600
<v Speaker 2>in this dry season. God brought me to church today

0:55:47.640 --> 0:55:50.960
<v Speaker 2>to repent, to turn from my sin, buy his blood.

0:55:51.000 --> 0:55:54.160
<v Speaker 2>If I'm justified by his blood, shall he not much

0:55:54.200 --> 0:55:55.520
<v Speaker 2>more save me from.

0:55:55.280 --> 0:56:01.399
<v Speaker 1>His rat So I really don't even want to talk

0:56:01.400 --> 0:56:03.560
<v Speaker 1>about Joshua. I want to talk about Jesus.

0:56:06.040 --> 0:56:09.759
<v Speaker 2>Jesus who said I thirst is present and stretching in.

0:56:09.760 --> 0:56:11.680
<v Speaker 1>Dry places today.

0:56:12.080 --> 0:56:14.280
<v Speaker 2>And you thought I was going to preach this message

0:56:14.840 --> 0:56:18.200
<v Speaker 2>about hope in a shallow way.

0:56:19.200 --> 0:56:24.040
<v Speaker 9>N I'm talking about a God who is so deeply

0:56:24.400 --> 0:56:25.799
<v Speaker 9>committed to you.

0:56:26.400 --> 0:56:31.120
<v Speaker 2>And now you're wondering, what if it does happen, Well,

0:56:31.120 --> 0:56:32.040
<v Speaker 2>God will be with me.

0:56:35.920 --> 0:56:37.960
<v Speaker 1>As hopothetical Hollywood.

0:56:37.440 --> 0:56:44.239
<v Speaker 2>Say, even if it does, we'll be all right.

0:56:47.360 --> 0:56:49.400
<v Speaker 1>So the last season of your life was designed to

0:56:49.440 --> 0:56:51.520
<v Speaker 1>show you that. Are you getting that lesson out of it?

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<v Speaker 2>Or did you just run through it and say, oh again,

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<v Speaker 2>you know I'm just gonna live this way now I am.

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<v Speaker 2>You remember how the philosopher said, I think therefore I am.

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<v Speaker 2>Let's put a twist on that. Who said that? Deskhartes, Well,

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<v Speaker 2>if you don't know, then I can say it with confidence.

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<v Speaker 2>I wish I could preach back in the day where

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<v Speaker 2>nobody had chet gpt to fact check the preacher. I

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<v Speaker 2>can make up all kinds of good stuff, he said,

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<v Speaker 2>I think. Therefore I am. He was trying to see

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<v Speaker 2>what can I be certain of? And he realized that

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<v Speaker 2>even the fact that I can doubt means that I'm thinking,

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<v Speaker 2>and even the fact that I'm doubting proves that I exist.

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<v Speaker 2>I think. Therefore I am. Don't you understand That's the

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<v Speaker 2>way it works in your life. You think about all

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<v Speaker 2>of the things that are going to go wrong. Therefore

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<v Speaker 2>you are a nervous ball of stress. I think, therefore

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<v Speaker 2>I am. So let's do this, say I have, Therefore

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<v Speaker 2>I hope.

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<v Speaker 1>I have.

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<v Speaker 2>Therefore, So I'm coming to a Jordan right now. And

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<v Speaker 2>here's what I'm coming with Romans five to one on

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<v Speaker 2>the screen. Police is it up there? Therefore? What are

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<v Speaker 2>the stones? Therefore? That's the question? What is the suffering? Therefore?

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<v Speaker 2>What are you there for? Why did God keep you

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<v Speaker 2>alive this long? I see you every week? When I

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<v Speaker 2>preach you never miss you. Probably wouldn't even know that

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<v Speaker 2>I saw you. I watch you so much. I'm a stalker.

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<v Speaker 2>You ought to get a restraining order on me, and

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<v Speaker 2>it blesses me. And you would never know that. You

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<v Speaker 2>never know that. But the proof is in the puddle.

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<v Speaker 2>It's the times you don't see, the times you don't

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<v Speaker 2>feel coming up to a Jordan river, it.

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<v Speaker 1>Looks like it's overflowing.

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<v Speaker 2>But God brought that thing down to a puddle for you,

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<v Speaker 2>didn't He didn't he You saw no way to be

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<v Speaker 2>right with him.

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<v Speaker 9>You saw no way to put it back together. You

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<v Speaker 9>saw no way. But the proof is in the bottle.

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<v Speaker 9>What do he already dried up? What are you standing

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<v Speaker 9>in front of today? When your children ask you, I

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<v Speaker 9>want you to have a testimony, and when they say

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<v Speaker 9>did you ever doubt it? Tell them yeah. And there's

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<v Speaker 9>some things I doubt that are in front of me now.

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<v Speaker 9>And I want to be honest with you.

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<v Speaker 2>The truth is I can't do it, but.

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<v Speaker 1>The grade can't. That's what I'm pointing out. That's all

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<v Speaker 1>the proof we need. I can't do it, but the grade.

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<v Speaker 1>How about this? You can dry this short?

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<v Speaker 2>And if I will just step in. I can't do it,

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<v Speaker 2>but the Great.

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<v Speaker 3>I can't do it.

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<v Speaker 1>Come on, lift your hands, thank so God, to get

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<v Speaker 1>up on the feet and worship Him.

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<v Speaker 5>Where you are.

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<v Speaker 2>It may be in your home, it may be in

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<v Speaker 2>your sick band dude, it may be in.

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<v Speaker 1>The middle of a panic attack. But you're saying, I

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<v Speaker 1>can't do it. That's my testimony the Great. I am kid,

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<v Speaker 1>and I know he can't because.

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<v Speaker 2>I know he did.

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<v Speaker 1>I've been here before. I've been through dry season, I've

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<v Speaker 1>been through identity crisis. I've been through nervous nights. I've

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<v Speaker 1>been through dark waters. He can split an iceing me.

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<v Speaker 1>Ask me how. I don't know, but I know. Sing

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<v Speaker 1>it again, I can't do it. That's the truth to

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<v Speaker 1>by the while, Where were your center?

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<v Speaker 6>This is my testimony? Then you cast plead.

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<v Speaker 1>I can't do it.

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