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Speaker 4: for coming out. I like to start with something funny,

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Speaker 4: and I heard about this man named Bubba. He lived

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Speaker 4: His wife said, Bubba, you got to put him in

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Speaker 4: So Bubba took him a mile down the road, dropped

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Speaker 4: him off. When he came back home, the dog was

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Speaker 4: it again, same thing. Dog came right back. So I said, Bubba,

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Speaker 4: in circles, get him all mixed up. Bubba put him

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Speaker 4: these country roads that he had never seen before. Two

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Speaker 4: Did the dog happen to show back up? She said, yep,

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Speaker 4: he's walking up the driveway. He said, do me a favor.

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Speaker 4: Hold up your bible, say it like you mean it.

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Speaker 4: This is my Bible. I am what it says I am.

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Speaker 4: I have what it says I have. I can do

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Speaker 4: the same. In Jesus' name, God bless you. I want

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Speaker 4: to talk to you today about one more time. When

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Speaker 4: God laid out the plan for your life, it wasn't

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Speaker 4: Nothing you've done is a surprise to God. The good

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Speaker 4: news is God has already lined up mercy for every mistake.

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Speaker 4: Romans five says, where sin abounds, grace does much more abound.

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Speaker 4: In other words, God's mercy will always supersede any mistake.

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Speaker 4: If sin abounds at a level five, mercy will show

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Speaker 4: up at level fifty. If sin abounds at level fifty,

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Speaker 4: mercy will show up at level five hundred. Looking at

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Speaker 4: If sin abounds at level five hundred, mercy shows up

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Speaker 4: at five thousand. Well, Joel, I've made a lot of mistakes.

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Speaker 6: I blew it big time. Let me help you out.

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Speaker 4: God has bigger time mercy. It's supersedes every failure, every weakness,

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Speaker 4: God ordained for you before you were formed in your

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Speaker 4: Different route than you expected, but God knows what he's doing.

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Speaker 4: He can still get you to your final destination. Psalm

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Speaker 4: thirty seven says the steps of a good man are

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Speaker 4: even though God is directing our steps, there will be.

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Speaker 6: Times that we fall.

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Speaker 4: We don't perform perfectly, we lose our temper, we make

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Speaker 4: a poor choice. God promises that is not the end.

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Speaker 4: That failure is not the end. The addiction is not

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Speaker 4: not going to let you go now if you fall down.

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Speaker 4: The key is don't stay down, don't walla around in guilt.

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Speaker 4: that you've got to pay God back for your mistakes. No,

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Speaker 4: the price has already been paid two thousand years ago.

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Speaker 4: Learn to receive God's mercy. Start believing that He's going

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Speaker 4: to be good to you one more time. Second Chronicles,

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Speaker 4: chapter thirty three. There was a king named Manassa. He

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Speaker 6: Here, he made statues.

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Speaker 6: For fifty five years, he did all kinds of evil.

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Speaker 4: years of not honoring God, fifty five years of doing

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Speaker 6: Wrong, what did he do?

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Speaker 4: Verse twelve says, while he was in great distress, he

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Speaker 4: Tell how God delivered him from the Babylonians. He returned

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Speaker 4: From then on he only worshiped Jehovah. That's the mercy

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Speaker 4: of our God. We think I haven't lived the right

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Speaker 4: You're not listed in the scripture as the most wicked person.

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Speaker 4: Why don't you be bold and say God, I've made

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Speaker 4: I know where sin abounds, grace does much more abound.

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Speaker 6: I know you're full of mercy. God.

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Speaker 4: I'm asking you to help me. But Joel, God's not

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Speaker 4: it's not right. God's not gonna listen to you. When

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Speaker 4: He'll remind you of every mistake, every weakness. He wants

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Speaker 6: Come boldly to the throne of grace.

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Speaker 4: Why to receive mercy and find grace to help in

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Speaker 4: accusing voices, and come boldly to the throne. Dare to say, God,

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Speaker 4: I'm asking for your blessing, your goodness, your mercy in

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Speaker 4: spite of my mistakes. This is what Sampson did. An

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Speaker 6: He would be a deliverer.

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Speaker 4: The plan for Sampson's life had already been laid out.

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Speaker 4: these thousands of Philistines had surrounded him. He had no armor,

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Speaker 4: He picked it up and defeated those thousands of men.

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Speaker 4: Another place, he was trapped inside this city. The walls

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Speaker 4: Jonah up on dry ground, spared his life.

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Speaker 6: That's the God we serve. He doesn't judge you.

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Speaker 4: By past mistakes. He doesn't hold a grudge. He's not

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Speaker 4: writing you off because you went left, and he said

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Speaker 6: If you'll be bold.

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Speaker 4: Like Jonah and go to God ask him to help you,

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Speaker 4: God will show up one more time, one more time.

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Speaker 4: He'll heal you, one more time. He'll deliver you, one

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Speaker 4: more time. He'll bring you out. But some of you

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Speaker 4: think that it's been too many times. Joel, I've blown

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Speaker 4: too many chances. I'm still struggling with this same thing.

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Speaker 4: I said I wouldn't do it again.

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Speaker 6: That's okay. This is a new day.

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Speaker 4: God's mercy is new every morning. He has a fresh

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Speaker 4: batch of mercy just for you. Will you do like

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Speaker 4: Jonah and say God, I've made a mess, but I'm

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Speaker 4: coming to you boldly, knowing that you have mercy. God,

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Speaker 4: I'm bold enough to.

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Speaker 6: Believe that you will help me one more time.

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Speaker 4: In the scripture, Jacob was known for his poor choices.

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Speaker 4: When his brother Esau was extremely hungry and not thinking clearly,

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Speaker 4: he took advantage of him. He traded him a pot

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Speaker 4: of stew for Esau's birthright. The birthright was extremely valuable.

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Speaker 4: Jacob knew it was wrong.

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Speaker 6: He knew he was.

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Speaker 4: Cheating his brother, but he did it anyway.

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Speaker 6: That's the way he was.

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Speaker 4: Another time, when their father was very old and couldn't

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Speaker 4: see clearly, Jacob dressed up like his brother Esau and

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Speaker 4: tricked their father into giving him the blessing of the

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Speaker 4: firstborn that belonged to Esau. Time and again he went

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Speaker 4: around deceiving no integrity. One day, Jacob got tired of

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Speaker 4: living like that. He told his family that he was

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Speaker 4: going to go down to the brook and get alone

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Speaker 4: with God and make things right. An angel appeared to

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Speaker 4: him in the form of a man. They began to

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Speaker 4: wrestle this win on all night. The next morning, the

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Speaker 4: angel was about to leave, and Jacob made an interesting statement.

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Speaker 4: He said, no, I'm not letting you go until you

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Speaker 4: first bless me. Imagine the nerve of Jacob asking God

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Speaker 4: to bless him after living alone, life of cheating, taking

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Speaker 4: advantage of people stealing his brother's birthright. Surely God would say, Jacob,

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Speaker 6: No, God said, in.

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Speaker 4: Effect, Jacob, I like the fact that you come boldly

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Speaker 4: to the throne.

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Speaker 6: I like the fact that you know I'm.

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Speaker 4: Full of mercy, that you know where sin abounds, grace

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Speaker 4: does much more abound. God not only gave him the blessing,

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Speaker 4: but he changed his name from Jacob, which means deceiver,

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Speaker 4: to Israel, which means prince with God. From that day

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Speaker 4: Jacob went out with the blessing a changed man. Friends,

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Speaker 4: God is not holding anything against you. Some of you

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Speaker 4: have been carrying the heavyload of guilt condemnation, thinking that

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Speaker 4: God would never be good to you.

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Speaker 6: Have you ever asked?

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Speaker 4: Have you ever said, God, I haven't performed perfectly. I've

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Speaker 4: made a mess out of things. But God, I'm asking

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Speaker 4: you to bless me in spite of my mistakes. God,

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Speaker 4: I'm asking you to strengthen me one more time. God

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Speaker 4: did it for Jacob, he did it for Jonah, did

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Speaker 4: it for Sampson, did it for Nassa.

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Speaker 6: He'll do it for you. He's a one.

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Speaker 4: More time God, one more time. He's gonna bless you.

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Speaker 4: One more time.

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Speaker 6: He's gonna restore you.

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Speaker 4: The good news is he'll never run out of the

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Speaker 4: one more times. Now, shake off the guilt and go

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Speaker 4: boldly to the throne. If you do this, you won't

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Speaker 4: be disappointed. I believe and declare God will restore you,

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Speaker 4: bless you, bring you out, and you will still fulfill

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Speaker 4: the best plan that He's laid out for your life.

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Speaker 6: In Jesus' name.

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Speaker 4: If you receive it, can you say it?

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Speaker 6: Man today?

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Speaker 4: an opportunity to make Jesus the lord of your life.

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Speaker 4: Would you pray with me? Just say, Lord Jesus, I'll

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Speaker 4: repent of my sins. Come into my heart.

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Speaker 6: I make you my Lord and savior.

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