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Speaker 1: Hey, this is Stephen Ferdick.

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

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

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

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

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Speaker 2: Enjoy the message.

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Speaker 1: Who love that. I feel like we might fly away

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Speaker 1: today if we really get a hold of that, really

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Speaker 1: starts singing about that.

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Speaker 3: Whoop high five. Your neighbors say, he's that good, and

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Speaker 3: there's so you don't even.

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Speaker 1: Know what I'm praising him for.

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Speaker 4: If you did, you'd praise him with me.

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Speaker 1: If you did, you'd get up here higher.

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Speaker 4: If you did, you might start jumping.

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Speaker 1: You might start leaping.

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Speaker 4: It's all right. Get that cardio in.

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Speaker 1: Get that gratitude is.

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Speaker 5: Say my friend, this.

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Speaker 4: Path, I like it.

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Speaker 6: Get up, get my brazing you you know you leave

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Speaker 6: me the word you good.

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Speaker 1: Let everything.

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Speaker 7: That half pressed, Let everything everything that's out of.

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Speaker 1: Breast from jumping.

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Speaker 4: Chump a little more and thrice blow.

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Speaker 1: Come on the river walking, know you want to go in?

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Speaker 1: Come on, I'm town.

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Speaker 7: I need fifty jumpers and Blakeney, I need somebody in

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Speaker 7: your living room.

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Speaker 4: Get your calf bustles from.

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Speaker 7: Work out and get up on your feet and kid God,

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Speaker 7: this said right.

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Speaker 1: Here last seven.

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Speaker 4: Oh God, come on, clap those hands like you love Jesus.

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Speaker 8: I'm going right to my message. The spirit of the

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Speaker 8: Lord is in this place. I'm going right to my message.

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Speaker 8: The spirit of the Lord is in this place. Shain's

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Speaker 8: gonna break today because the spirit of the Lord is

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Speaker 8: in this place. The annoying thing destroys the yoke. The

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Speaker 8: spirit of the Lord is in this place. I'm so

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Speaker 8: glad I listened to the Lord last night. He told

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Speaker 8: me to get a little extra sleep cause y'all were

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Speaker 8: gonna be ready today.

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Speaker 1: And I'm so glad I did.

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Speaker 8: I was imbedd at eight twenty pm getting ready for y'all,

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Speaker 8: and that's an hour earlier than my normal bedtime. And

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Speaker 8: now I'm stalling to catch my breath from jumping. Tell

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Speaker 8: your neighbor, I'm glad you're breathing. Tell him, I'm glad

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Speaker 8: you brushed your teeth. We have a good time in church.

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Speaker 1: I said.

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Speaker 8: We have a good time in church doesn't mean we're

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Speaker 8: not going through rough patches in our lives. But we

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Speaker 8: have a good time in Church, welcome you here today.

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Speaker 8: All of our guests, all of our all of our

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Speaker 8: church family, welcome today.

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Speaker 1: So glad you're here.

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Speaker 8: Accidentally started preaching a sermon series a few weeks ago,

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Speaker 8: and I've been talking to you about when God calls

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Speaker 8: your name. I was trying to figure out what to

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Speaker 8: call the series, and finally, in my fourth week, the

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Speaker 8: Lord told me what to call it.

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Speaker 1: It's called called That's what's called Tell your neighbor. I'm

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Speaker 1: called called a lot of different things by a lot

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Speaker 1: of different people. I'm sure did you enjoy last week.

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Speaker 8: When I was talking about Martha Martha, and how many

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Speaker 8: of you felt seen when I was showing Holly be

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Speaker 8: pulled apart by the demands of life. How many of

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Speaker 8: you preached the message back to yourself a little bit

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Speaker 8: throughout the week when you felt yourself pulled here and

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Speaker 8: pulled there, and just reminded yourself that being present in

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Speaker 8: the moment that God has given you is always the priority.

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Speaker 8: Presence is the priority, even when your plan changes, even

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Speaker 8: when your problems are overwhelming. And let's see, we've done Moses, Moses,

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Speaker 8: we did Simon, Simon. These are the ones I've preached

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Speaker 8: so far, different people in the Bible that God called

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Speaker 8: their name, not once, but twice, just right there together, Moses, Moses, Simon, Simon,

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Speaker 8: Martha Martha. Today is Jacob Jacob Genesis chapter forty five.

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Speaker 8: And as many sermons as I've heard, or that you've

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Speaker 8: heard me preach on Jacob JJ, I've never preached from

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Speaker 8: this passage Genesis chapter forty five, first twenty five, and

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Speaker 8: verse five. And you say that's a lot of scripture, Well,

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Speaker 8: I'm making up for all the Bible reading days you

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Speaker 8: skip this week, doing you a favor. Now, hear the

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Speaker 8: word of the Lord. The Lord has a word for

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Speaker 8: that he speaks. Now, a little bit of background. The

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Speaker 8: children of Jacob have gone to Egypt, and they found

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Speaker 8: And he has promised them if you will come back

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Speaker 8: and bring our father Jacob, I'll take care of you

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Speaker 8: everything that you did to me is not going to

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Speaker 8: I'll take care of you. So with this message they

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Speaker 8: He'd been pushed in a pit, but he wasn't dead.

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Speaker 8: He was sold into slavery, but he wasn't dead. He

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Speaker 1: And tell your neighbor somehow I'm still here. Just tell

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Speaker 8: That's why I'm praising him. Now we pick up the

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Speaker 8: narrative in Genesis forty five, verse twenty five. So they

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Speaker 8: the brothers of Jacob, or the brothers of Joseph, rather

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Speaker 8: the sons of Jacob. So they went up out of

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Speaker 8: Egypt and came to the land of Canaan to their

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Speaker 8: and he is ruler over all the land of Egypt.

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Speaker 1: And his heart became numb. Isn't that unexpected?

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Speaker 8: He gets the greatest news that he could ever hope

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Speaker 8: to receive, and instead of his heart being happy, his

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Speaker 1: Now after his heart goes numb.

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Speaker 8: The writer gives us a little bit of an explanation

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Speaker 8: as to why he was unable to receive this good report.

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Speaker 8: It said, for he did not believe them. But when

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Speaker 8: they told him all the words of Joseph which he

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Speaker 8: that Joseph had sent to carry him, the spirit of

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Speaker 8: their father Jacob revived. And Israel said, it is enough, Joseph,

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Speaker 8: my son is still alive. I will go and see

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Speaker 8: him before I die. Now, Chapter forty six, verse one.

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Speaker 8: So Israel took his journey with all that he had

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Speaker 8: and came to Beersheba and offered sacrifices to the Lord,

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Speaker 8: the god of his father Isaac.

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Speaker 1: And God spoke to Israel and visions of the night,

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Speaker 1: and said Jacob, Jacob, Jacob, Jacob.

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Speaker 8: And he said, here am I. That's presence, Here am I.

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Speaker 8: And then he said, I am God, the God of

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Speaker 8: your father. Do not be afraid to go down to Egypt,

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Speaker 8: for there I will make you into a great nation.

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Speaker 1: I myself will go down with you to Egypt.

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Speaker 8: And I will also bring you up again, and Joseph's

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Speaker 8: to you in your dying breath.

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Speaker 1: And the final verse I want to read to you

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Speaker 8: Then Jacob set out from Beersheba. The sons of Israel

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Speaker 8: carried Jacob, their father, their little ones, and their wives

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Speaker 8: in the wagons that Pharaoh had sent to carry him.

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Speaker 1: The prophetic word.

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Speaker 8: That I've been assigned to preach to you today may

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Speaker 8: come across on the surface as very simple, but it

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Speaker 8: is really the deepest belief that you could ever hold,

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Speaker 8: And it is this.

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Speaker 1: The Lord will lighten your load. The Lord will lighten load.

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Speaker 8: I know you had a lot on your mind even

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Speaker 8: coming in today, but the Lord will lighten your load.

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Speaker 8: I know sometimes people take advantage of you because you're

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Speaker 8: available to them, but the Lord will lighten your load.

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Speaker 1: I know you've done some bad things in.

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Speaker 8: Your life and you feel kind of guilty about them.

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Speaker 1: But the Lord will lighten your load.

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Speaker 8: I know you're trying to make a plan right now,

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Speaker 8: and stuff keeps moving, and stuff keeps shifting, and people

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Speaker 8: keep moving and people keep shifting.

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Speaker 1: But the Lord will lighten load.

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Speaker 8: I know you're stubborn and you don't like to ask

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Speaker 8: for a lot of help, but the Lord will lighten

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Speaker 1: I know your shoulders are tense.

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Speaker 8: You really need a massage today, but I'm gonna give

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Speaker 8: you a message today instead.

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Speaker 1: The Lord will lighten your load.

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Speaker 8: Turn around and tell twelve people, the Lord will lighten

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Speaker 8: your low.

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Speaker 1: Put it in the chat. The Lord will.

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Speaker 8: Lighten your load. Put it right there in the chat.

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Speaker 8: The Lord will lighten your load, and you may be seated.

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Speaker 8: You can rest for the rest of the message.

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Speaker 1: The Lord will lighten your load.

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Speaker 8: Now, I have a love hate relationship with simple sayings.

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Speaker 1: Like that the Lord will lighten your load.

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Speaker 8: On one hand, I think that the highest degree of

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Speaker 8: clarity in communication is simplicity.

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Speaker 1: So really, for me, the art.

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Speaker 8: Of studying the scripture sure is to simplify the scripture,

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Speaker 8: to find one message in the scripture that we can

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Speaker 8: one hundred and thirty years old. Did you know Jacob

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Speaker 8: was one hundred and thirty years old when the Lord

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Speaker 8: told him, get up and go to a place three

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Speaker 8: hundred miles away, a place you've never been in, a

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Speaker 8: place that you will not recognize, a place that you

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Speaker 8: tempted to reject. But I'm sending you to Egypt because

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Speaker 8: there's a famine where you are, and you have to move.

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Speaker 8: And Jacob is one hundred and thirty years old. As

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Speaker 8: we step into this moment of Jacob's life, I gave

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Speaker 8: a little bit of this away. I intended to save

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Speaker 8: it so I could tell the story and keep.

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Speaker 1: You in suspense.

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Speaker 8: But he is really on the verge of one of

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Speaker 8: the greatest moments that he has ever experienced. In just

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Speaker 8: a few weeks, he will be reunited with his son,

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Speaker 8: the son that he mourned for twenty two years. But

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Speaker 8: you can't exactly call it a happy moment for Jacob either,

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Speaker 8: can you, Because as we saw in the scripture that

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Speaker 8: I read, sometimes you get good news, but you can't

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Speaker 8: take it in because of what you've been through. Sometimes

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Speaker 8: you can't receive truth because the truth has to work

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Speaker 8: its way through the trauma. Sometimes you can hear something

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Speaker 8: that actually is factual, but your frustration or your pain

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Speaker 8: or your failure will take you into a moment where

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Speaker 8: even though you hear the truth, even though you hear

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Speaker 8: the word, and even though it's something that you desire

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Speaker 8: to believe, unbelief does not unwind automatically through a process

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Speaker 8: of coming before the Lord and spending time with the

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Speaker 8: Lord and putting yourself in environments like this. Go ahead

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Speaker 8: and give yourself a hand for coming to church today.

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Speaker 8: By the way, I learned to look at it different.

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Speaker 8: I used to think I don't have time to go

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Speaker 8: to church if I was busy. Now I've learned that

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Speaker 8: So you won't get confused and think you're him. That's

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Speaker 8: and you are Jacob, but you are kind of Israel, Acob.

441
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Speaker 1: I'm a preacher till you get honest.

442
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Speaker 8: I'm a preacher till you stop polishing your halo and

443
00:27:27,640 --> 00:27:30,480
Speaker 8: pretending like you didn't cuss once this week. I'm a

444
00:27:30,560 --> 00:27:32,920
Speaker 8: preacher till you stop pretending like you got.

445
00:27:32,720 --> 00:27:34,760
Speaker 1: The right to make comments.

446
00:27:34,280 --> 00:27:37,520
Speaker 8: In YouTube about other people's faith when you know good

447
00:27:37,560 --> 00:27:40,480
Speaker 8: and well, you are not always on a church website.

448
00:27:40,680 --> 00:27:43,320
Speaker 8: When you know good and well, there's some Jacob that

449
00:27:43,400 --> 00:27:56,040
Speaker 8: came with you to chart. Aren't you just giving the

450
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Speaker 8: people permission to sin? They're doing pretty good without remission.

451
00:28:00,800 --> 00:28:12,919
Speaker 8: Ma'am trying to give you power, perspective, and presence that

452
00:28:13,000 --> 00:28:15,360
Speaker 8: when God speaks to your Jacob, you don't run away

453
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Speaker 8: and hide.

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Speaker 1: Okay, something very meaningful.

455
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Speaker 8: Always prepare three illustrations for each point, and then I

456
00:28:26,080 --> 00:28:28,960
Speaker 8: try to stand in the room and figure out which

457
00:28:29,000 --> 00:28:31,880
Speaker 8: one makes sense for right now. And usually if you're

458
00:28:31,920 --> 00:28:34,520
Speaker 8: looking at me all stuffy, I'll go to the safe one.

459
00:28:34,720 --> 00:28:38,000
Speaker 8: But today I feel kind of free. One time I

460
00:28:38,040 --> 00:28:42,400
Speaker 8: apologize to Holly because I'm not always relaxed. We were

461
00:28:42,440 --> 00:28:44,520
Speaker 8: on vacation and I said, I know you really liked

462
00:28:44,520 --> 00:28:47,480
Speaker 8: this version of me. It had been three works three

463
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Speaker 8: weeks since I had to work on a sermon, and

464
00:28:51,000 --> 00:28:54,320
Speaker 8: three weeks of not having to be anxcited puts me

465
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Speaker 8: in a very relaxed state of mind.

466
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Speaker 1: Relaxed and lazy, real lazy.

467
00:28:58,520 --> 00:29:01,880
Speaker 8: I get real lazy, I said, I know you love

468
00:29:01,960 --> 00:29:04,200
Speaker 8: this version of me because I'm so men. You should

469
00:29:04,240 --> 00:29:06,960
Speaker 8: see my southern small town charm come out. I'm speaking

470
00:29:07,000 --> 00:29:11,400
Speaker 8: to everybody, holding doors, for everybody buying ice cream.

471
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Speaker 1: For skaters that I used to would have said, their punks.

472
00:29:13,840 --> 00:29:17,000
Speaker 8: But I'm buying ice cream. They smell like weed. I'm

473
00:29:17,040 --> 00:29:19,640
Speaker 8: buying them ice cream telling them about Jesus. It's a

474
00:29:19,680 --> 00:29:22,160
Speaker 8: great state. I said, I know you love this version

475
00:29:22,200 --> 00:29:24,440
Speaker 8: of me. She said, yeah, I do, she said, but

476
00:29:24,520 --> 00:29:31,160
Speaker 8: I love all of them. That was the biggest collective

477
00:29:31,240 --> 00:29:39,720
Speaker 8: awe in church history. You made history today church, and

478
00:29:39,760 --> 00:29:40,760
Speaker 8: that did something for me.

479
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Speaker 1: It did something for me.

480
00:29:45,440 --> 00:29:47,960
Speaker 8: Because I realized that she knew that we wouldn't be

481
00:29:48,000 --> 00:29:55,080
Speaker 8: on vacation if I was never stressed, at least not

482
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Speaker 8: staying indoors with plumbing. That meant a lot to That

483
00:30:00,440 --> 00:30:03,040
Speaker 8: means a lot to a man, It means a lot

484
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Speaker 8: to a woman when you appreciate the fact that the

485
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Speaker 8: parts of me that are not that great come with

486
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Speaker 8: the package, not so that I can continue to be

487
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Speaker 8: a complete schizophrenic before I preach.

488
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Speaker 1: But it unburdened me a little bit. And I'll tell

489
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Speaker 1: you what it was.

490
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Speaker 8: I'm going to give you four things that were a

491
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Speaker 8: part of Jacob's journey today that you can practically apply

492
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Speaker 8: to your wife, your life, or your wife. And the

493
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Speaker 8: first one I've spoken of. But I want to be

494
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Speaker 8: really clear. I want to talk to you about the weight.

495
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Speaker 8: Write it down, please w eight weight, not waits in

496
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Speaker 8: a period of time that lapses before you know a

497
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Speaker 8: conclusion which would be appropriate to twenty two years that

498
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Speaker 8: he has held in his heart the horror of losing

499
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Speaker 8: his son Joseph. So it's kind of hard to get

500
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Speaker 8: happy in five minutes when I've held this twenty two years.

501
00:31:00,120 --> 00:31:07,720
Speaker 8: Have more compassion on people as they change, including you.

502
00:31:07,720 --> 00:31:10,120
Speaker 8: You know how when you drive down the interstate they

503
00:31:10,120 --> 00:31:13,880
Speaker 8: have way stations for truckers. I wish we could have

504
00:31:13,880 --> 00:31:18,200
Speaker 8: one of those in the church for Christians, and we

505
00:31:18,200 --> 00:31:20,640
Speaker 8: wouldn't be measuring whether you're down three pounds or not.

506
00:31:22,400 --> 00:31:25,800
Speaker 8: I would love to know if you carried too much

507
00:31:25,880 --> 00:31:30,080
Speaker 8: into this room today so that we could unburden you

508
00:31:30,160 --> 00:31:33,280
Speaker 8: before you head back out, because you are dangerous with

509
00:31:33,400 --> 00:31:39,840
Speaker 8: too much weight, and you're dangerous with too little weight.

510
00:31:40,400 --> 00:31:43,400
Speaker 8: There are some responsibilities that God has placed on you

511
00:31:44,120 --> 00:31:46,360
Speaker 8: that are the answers to the prayers that you prayed.

512
00:31:49,000 --> 00:31:51,400
Speaker 8: The Lord was telling me one time that I was

513
00:31:51,480 --> 00:31:55,400
Speaker 8: complaining about prayers that I had prayed six months ago

514
00:31:55,560 --> 00:31:56,520
Speaker 8: being answered.

515
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Speaker 1: You follow me.

516
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Speaker 8: In other words, he did it, and then I got it,

517
00:32:02,440 --> 00:32:07,360
Speaker 8: and it was heavy. Nobody ever tells you this. Blessings

518
00:32:07,400 --> 00:32:13,440
Speaker 8: are heavy. Blessings are heavy. Everybody who's praying God will

519
00:32:13,440 --> 00:32:14,240
Speaker 8: give you a baby.

520
00:32:14,600 --> 00:32:15,840
Speaker 1: Blessings are heavy.

521
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Speaker 8: I don't care eight pounds, ten pounds, twelve pounds. Abby

522
00:32:20,840 --> 00:32:22,400
Speaker 8: said the other day she had a dream that she

523
00:32:22,520 --> 00:32:28,080
Speaker 8: came out weighing one hundred and thirty pounds. And the

524
00:32:28,120 --> 00:32:30,720
Speaker 8: truth of the matter is that the weight that Jacob

525
00:32:30,760 --> 00:32:31,680
Speaker 8: is cared and I just want to talk to a

526
00:32:31,680 --> 00:32:35,120
Speaker 8: little bit about today because he's carrying not only his

527
00:32:35,160 --> 00:32:41,880
Speaker 8: own pain and his uncertainty, but the responsibility that his

528
00:32:42,000 --> 00:32:43,560
Speaker 8: name represents an entire nation.

529
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Speaker 1: Talk about weight, talk about heaviness.

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Speaker 8: A few weeks ago, I talked about how heaviness and

531
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Speaker 8: happiness sit at the same table, how heaviness and happiness

532
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Speaker 8: live in the same heart. If we wait for the

533
00:33:00,880 --> 00:33:03,920
Speaker 8: heaviness to go away to be happy, we will defer

534
00:33:04,080 --> 00:33:08,360
Speaker 8: our joy and postpone it indefinitely. Waiting on a future

535
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Speaker 8: time to praise God when all of your kids are

536
00:33:10,880 --> 00:33:14,440
Speaker 8: doing well is a trap. Waiting on a future time

537
00:33:14,520 --> 00:33:16,760
Speaker 8: to praise God when all your debts are paid off

538
00:33:16,880 --> 00:33:19,920
Speaker 8: is a trap. Waiting on a future time to praise

539
00:33:19,960 --> 00:33:22,680
Speaker 8: God when nothing in your body hurts is a trap.

540
00:33:23,480 --> 00:33:26,880
Speaker 8: Waiting to praise God, waiting to enjoy your life, waiting

541
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Speaker 8: to be thankful, waiting to smile, waiting to laugh until

542
00:33:30,680 --> 00:33:33,280
Speaker 8: you know how this is going to turn out. Waiting

543
00:33:33,360 --> 00:33:35,760
Speaker 8: until the outcome is clear for you to make a

544
00:33:35,840 --> 00:33:40,360
Speaker 8: commitment to serve Jesus is a trap. And that's why

545
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Speaker 8: Jacob had to set out with a heavy heart. Sometimes

546
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Speaker 8: you have to head there heavy. Sometimes you have to

547
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Speaker 8: move there weigh down. Sometimes you have to take a

548
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Speaker 8: step forward knowing that I don't even know about the

549
00:33:54,840 --> 00:33:57,960
Speaker 8: next one yet, but I will take this one. And

550
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Speaker 8: so the process of coming to the Lord is to

551
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Speaker 8: learn how to take the weight that he gives you.

552
00:34:03,840 --> 00:34:07,040
Speaker 8: But I will remind you today that God can't help

553
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Speaker 8: you carry something that he never called you to. One

554
00:34:13,120 --> 00:34:16,279
Speaker 8: New Testament writer said to lay aside all the sin

555
00:34:16,719 --> 00:34:20,640
Speaker 8: and the weight that easily besets you. Sometimes I think

556
00:34:20,680 --> 00:34:23,799
Speaker 8: we're carrying sins that we won't give up. But other

557
00:34:23,880 --> 00:34:27,080
Speaker 8: times I think we're carrying weights that aren't exactly sins,

558
00:34:27,760 --> 00:34:29,840
Speaker 8: but are taking up the space in our life that

559
00:34:29,920 --> 00:34:33,000
Speaker 8: could be used for trusting God, that could be used

560
00:34:33,040 --> 00:34:34,560
Speaker 8: for creative solutions.

561
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Speaker 1: If the devil wants to destroy you.

562
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Speaker 8: He will get your mind so full of stuff that

563
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Speaker 8: does not matter anyway, to get you moved.

564
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Speaker 1: Off of what you are uniquely called to do.

565
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Speaker 8: And to realize that Jacob in this moment is receiving

566
00:34:53,719 --> 00:34:57,280
Speaker 8: good news, but he is still grieving what he's been through.

567
00:34:58,280 --> 00:35:04,839
Speaker 8: Receiving good news but very excited about where he's going.

568
00:35:05,320 --> 00:35:08,840
Speaker 1: May give you a little compassion for yourself. That I

569
00:35:08,920 --> 00:35:13,120
Speaker 1: have this weight. It's not that my heart is hard,

570
00:35:13,560 --> 00:35:16,120
Speaker 1: it's that it's heavy.

571
00:35:17,440 --> 00:35:20,719
Speaker 8: And as he is considering this, I mean picture, he

572
00:35:20,800 --> 00:35:24,680
Speaker 8: has to decide, am I going to believe that this

573
00:35:24,840 --> 00:35:28,160
Speaker 8: is possible? Just like you are deciding Dove's nest? Am

574
00:35:28,200 --> 00:35:31,600
Speaker 8: I going to believe that my recovery is possible? Just

575
00:35:31,640 --> 00:35:34,480
Speaker 8: like you are having to decide? College student? Is it

576
00:35:34,560 --> 00:35:37,319
Speaker 8: really worth it to live for Jesus? Just like you

577
00:35:37,400 --> 00:35:40,160
Speaker 8: are having to decide in this season of your life.

578
00:35:40,400 --> 00:35:42,719
Speaker 8: Am I going to call a therapist and start to

579
00:35:42,760 --> 00:35:45,200
Speaker 8: work on this so that I don't just carry this

580
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Speaker 8: forth as my template for the rest of my life.

581
00:35:48,719 --> 00:35:52,000
Speaker 8: And as he is trying to decide whether to leave

582
00:35:52,200 --> 00:35:56,000
Speaker 8: what is familiar and walk in what is fearful and

583
00:35:56,160 --> 00:36:00,920
Speaker 8: point himself in the direction of the unexpected pregnant possibility.

584
00:36:02,000 --> 00:36:04,640
Speaker 8: God has answered his prayers that for twenty two years

585
00:36:04,719 --> 00:36:09,080
Speaker 8: lay dormant, not dead. The Bible says in verse twenty

586
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Speaker 8: seven that as he was carrying this weight, everybody say wait,

587
00:36:15,239 --> 00:36:18,399
Speaker 8: come on, say it loud, or say wait. I want

588
00:36:18,440 --> 00:36:20,600
Speaker 8: you to say it as loud as it is heavy

589
00:36:20,640 --> 00:36:25,440
Speaker 8: to you. One two three. Yeah. The crushing expectations that

590
00:36:25,480 --> 00:36:29,040
Speaker 8: you had of yourself, the crushing disappointment of what didn't happen.

591
00:36:29,120 --> 00:36:30,720
Speaker 8: And some of you are like, I'm doing good today.

592
00:36:30,840 --> 00:36:33,279
Speaker 8: Way in next week, we'll check you next week. Something

593
00:36:33,280 --> 00:36:35,680
Speaker 8: could happen between you know, something could get on something

594
00:36:35,719 --> 00:36:37,920
Speaker 8: could get on your truck this week that could make

595
00:36:37,960 --> 00:36:40,760
Speaker 8: you break down in tears and not be so arrogant.

596
00:36:40,800 --> 00:36:43,920
Speaker 8: So never judge somebody because of what they are carrying.

597
00:36:45,640 --> 00:36:48,480
Speaker 8: One side note, one side note. I met a man

598
00:36:48,560 --> 00:36:50,640
Speaker 8: a year ago, and when I met him, I said,

599
00:36:50,800 --> 00:36:53,800
Speaker 8: he is so arrogant. All he did was talk about himself.

600
00:36:54,000 --> 00:36:56,640
Speaker 8: I've never met somebody so arrogant. I walked away and

601
00:36:56,680 --> 00:37:00,560
Speaker 8: thought I have discernment. I saw him him again a

602
00:37:00,640 --> 00:37:03,400
Speaker 8: year later. He said, I wanted to tell you something.

603
00:37:03,440 --> 00:37:05,600
Speaker 8: The first time you met me, you couldn't have known this,

604
00:37:05,920 --> 00:37:08,239
Speaker 8: but I had just received news the day before that

605
00:37:08,320 --> 00:37:10,719
Speaker 8: I lost my job. I had been throwing up in

606
00:37:10,760 --> 00:37:13,400
Speaker 8: a hotel room all night. So I apologize if I

607
00:37:13,440 --> 00:37:15,520
Speaker 8: came across a certain way, and I'm like, you did,

608
00:37:17,320 --> 00:37:21,480
Speaker 8: you did? And isn't it crazy that I couldn't even

609
00:37:21,560 --> 00:37:25,160
Speaker 8: see who he really was because all I could see

610
00:37:25,239 --> 00:37:30,200
Speaker 8: was what he carried. Tell your neighbor, I'm really a

611
00:37:30,200 --> 00:37:34,319
Speaker 8: good person. Catch me at the right time. I'll buy

612
00:37:34,360 --> 00:37:40,240
Speaker 8: you some ice cream. I see the Lord is speaking

613
00:37:40,239 --> 00:37:42,560
Speaker 8: to Jacob while he's trying to move forward as Israel.

614
00:37:43,840 --> 00:37:44,160
Speaker 1: I said.

615
00:37:44,160 --> 00:37:46,040
Speaker 8: The Lord is speaking to Jacob while he's trying to

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00:37:46,040 --> 00:37:50,000
Speaker 8: move forward as Israel, and he's trying to decide, do

617
00:37:50,080 --> 00:37:50,520
Speaker 8: I believe?

618
00:37:50,760 --> 00:37:54,600
Speaker 1: How would you believe? These boys? Do you remember what

619
00:37:54,640 --> 00:37:54,960
Speaker 1: they did?

620
00:37:55,000 --> 00:37:58,799
Speaker 8: They brought Joseph's coat to their dad and said, is

621
00:37:58,840 --> 00:38:00,880
Speaker 8: this the coat you gave Joseph? They were always jealous

622
00:38:00,920 --> 00:38:03,480
Speaker 8: of him, and they dipped it in blood to make

623
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Speaker 8: it look like he was muled by animals, and he was.

624
00:38:05,640 --> 00:38:08,719
Speaker 8: They were the animals. Now he was on his way

625
00:38:08,719 --> 00:38:10,800
Speaker 8: to Egypt, and God was using all of that sovereignly.

626
00:38:10,840 --> 00:38:14,239
Speaker 8: But in that moment, all Jacob felt with sadness, and

627
00:38:14,280 --> 00:38:18,520
Speaker 8: he kept that coat for twenty two years. It's all

628
00:38:18,520 --> 00:38:21,319
Speaker 8: he had left of his son. And now these same

629
00:38:21,360 --> 00:38:23,439
Speaker 8: boys they've gone down to Egypt. They found out there's food.

630
00:38:23,480 --> 00:38:25,919
Speaker 8: There's gonna be five more years of famine. And Joseph says, come,

631
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Speaker 8: I got you. When you get here, I got you.

632
00:38:27,840 --> 00:38:31,440
Speaker 8: So they go back to Canaan and they say, Dad,

633
00:38:31,680 --> 00:38:32,239
Speaker 8: we gotta go.

634
00:38:32,760 --> 00:38:33,600
Speaker 1: Joseph's alive.

635
00:38:33,760 --> 00:38:36,239
Speaker 8: He's gonna take care of us, and there's hope in

636
00:38:36,239 --> 00:38:39,359
Speaker 8: his heart, and there's happiness in his heart. And the

637
00:38:39,440 --> 00:38:44,040
Speaker 8: weight almost watched this. It almost keeps him from going.

638
00:38:46,480 --> 00:38:48,359
Speaker 8: I love this word in the Bible put up verse

639
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Speaker 8: twenty seven. But when they told him the words of Joseph,

640
00:38:56,080 --> 00:38:59,719
Speaker 8: which he had said to them, now get ready to

641
00:38:59,719 --> 00:39:02,959
Speaker 8: shed a little bit, because this part that comes next

642
00:39:03,080 --> 00:39:03,960
Speaker 8: is really important.

643
00:39:04,640 --> 00:39:08,000
Speaker 1: It was one thing to hear their words, because.

644
00:39:07,760 --> 00:39:10,640
Speaker 8: They've said a lot of things and they've lied about it.

645
00:39:10,640 --> 00:39:12,360
Speaker 1: It is one thing to believe people.

646
00:39:13,280 --> 00:39:16,239
Speaker 8: It is one thing to believe a preacher, But it

647
00:39:16,360 --> 00:39:21,160
Speaker 8: is another thing when God gives you evidence of his

648
00:39:21,320 --> 00:39:26,000
Speaker 8: presence that you can't deny. And I believe I'm talking

649
00:39:26,040 --> 00:39:28,840
Speaker 8: to about two hundred and twenty five people today somewhere

650
00:39:29,239 --> 00:39:29,640
Speaker 8: in this.

651
00:39:29,640 --> 00:39:33,160
Speaker 1: Room at Valentine, that.

652
00:39:33,200 --> 00:39:36,719
Speaker 8: Your heart has been heavy, but you've got evidence that

653
00:39:36,800 --> 00:39:40,920
Speaker 8: God is not quite through with you yet. And now

654
00:39:40,960 --> 00:39:43,360
Speaker 8: the devil would love for you to look past the evidence.

655
00:39:43,440 --> 00:39:44,040
Speaker 1: But watch this.

656
00:39:44,760 --> 00:39:48,120
Speaker 8: The Bible says that he was trying to believe, trying

657
00:39:48,160 --> 00:39:50,520
Speaker 8: to take it in, trying to wake up his heart,

658
00:39:50,840 --> 00:39:55,120
Speaker 8: trying to revive his spirit, trying to convince himself, trying

659
00:39:55,160 --> 00:39:57,960
Speaker 8: to get a move on, trying to make a plan, trying,

660
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Speaker 8: but his heart was numb and he couldn't move my

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Speaker 8: verse when he heard the words of Joseph, which he

662
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Speaker 8: had said to them secondhand, and.

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Speaker 1: When he saw the wagons.

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Speaker 8: That's the second word I want you to write down

665
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Speaker 8: is wagons. Because I got weight. I'm going through some things.

666
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Speaker 8: I've got weight, I've got unanswered questions. I've got weight.

667
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Speaker 8: There are some people who have disappointed me. I've got weight.

668
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Speaker 8: Somebody say I've got weight, But I've also got wagons.

669
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Speaker 8: And this is the part where if you are Pentecostal,

670
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Speaker 8: even by five percent, I want you to look out

671
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Speaker 8: your window today spiritually speaking, and look at all the

672
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Speaker 8: wagons that God has sent to bring you where.

673
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Speaker 1: You're supposed to be.

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Speaker 8: Now we've got a choice to make because I'm excited,

675
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Speaker 8: because I'm heartbroken, but I'm hopeful, and the weight is

676
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Speaker 8: trying to get me to stay depressed.

677
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Speaker 1: But the wagons are calling me to move on.

678
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Speaker 8: And I want to know which one is your faith

679
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Speaker 8: in the weight or the wagons.

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00:41:14,440 --> 00:41:15,719
Speaker 1: Plus, God sent me.

681
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Speaker 8: With a prophetic word for somebody. You'll got wagons waiting

682
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Speaker 8: for you. You'll got transportation waiting for you.

683
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Speaker 1: Hot five everybody you can reach and.

684
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Speaker 7: Say, here come the wagons, Here come the wagons.

685
00:41:37,000 --> 00:41:39,960
Speaker 8: And there is no way, oh feel like, testify, there

686
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Speaker 8: is no way i'd be here. There is no way

687
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Speaker 8: i'd be here if it had not been for the wagons.

688
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Speaker 8: All right, you'll help me get happy about the wagons,

689
00:41:54,760 --> 00:41:58,640
Speaker 8: the wagons, the wagons, the wagons. Jacob's like, I don't

690
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Speaker 8: know if this is true. I don't believe these boys.

691
00:42:00,320 --> 00:42:02,120
Speaker 8: These boys are rascals. These boys are liars.

692
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Speaker 1: Reuben's a liar, Simeon's a liar, Judah is a liar.

693
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Speaker 8: Who can I trust? All my boys are dysfunctional. All

694
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Speaker 8: this weight is too much for me. I've been twenty

695
00:42:10,400 --> 00:42:12,520
Speaker 8: two years in this condition. I don't know if I

696
00:42:12,520 --> 00:42:15,360
Speaker 8: should believe this. And while he's listening to them, he

697
00:42:15,480 --> 00:42:19,560
Speaker 8: is stuck in the weight. But when he saw the wagons,

698
00:42:21,880 --> 00:42:26,799
Speaker 8: when he saw those wagons, when Joseph sent his brother's back,

699
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Speaker 8: he said, take the best wagons that Egypt has to offer.

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Speaker 8: Hold on, let me ask my boss, Pharaoh. I gotta

701
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Speaker 8: go get my dad and bring him back. Would you

702
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Speaker 8: let me borrow some wagons? Pharaoh said, yeah, I'm not

703
00:42:41,760 --> 00:42:44,880
Speaker 8: even there. I don't even worship their same God, but

704
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Speaker 8: I will send them the transportation to bring them here

705
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Speaker 8: to eat. God doesn't even have to use the right

706
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Speaker 8: thing to get you where you're supposed to go. Gott,

707
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Speaker 8: Can I say it like I feel it. God's gonna

708
00:43:00,880 --> 00:43:04,959
Speaker 8: use some stupid stuff to get you there. God's gonna

709
00:43:05,040 --> 00:43:10,080
Speaker 8: use some ridiculous things to get you there, some weird wagons.

710
00:43:10,880 --> 00:43:14,960
Speaker 8: What are these wagons? I never seen wagons like this before.

711
00:43:15,200 --> 00:43:19,279
Speaker 8: Aren't these Pharaoh's wagons? Yeah, but they're under God's jurisdiction.

712
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Speaker 8: So I'm explaining how God came to get him with

713
00:43:25,440 --> 00:43:34,799
Speaker 8: the wagons. Because God knew he had a limp, and

714
00:43:34,880 --> 00:43:38,680
Speaker 8: he knows where you're weighty, and he knows where you're wheat.

715
00:43:38,480 --> 00:43:44,440
Speaker 1: And that's what the wagons are. For give me the

716
00:43:44,520 --> 00:43:50,080
Speaker 1: verse again. Ain't that anointed? Mom? I said, ain't that annoyed? Mom?

717
00:43:50,280 --> 00:43:52,279
Speaker 8: If my mom doesn't think it's annoyed, I need to

718
00:43:52,280 --> 00:43:58,200
Speaker 8: shut it down. But when he saw the wagons, are

719
00:43:58,200 --> 00:44:00,520
Speaker 8: you back there justin? Can you circle when he saw

720
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Speaker 8: the wagons? Oh, when he saw the wagons that Joseph

721
00:44:06,440 --> 00:44:09,360
Speaker 8: had sent to carry him. I want you to circle

722
00:44:09,440 --> 00:44:14,800
Speaker 8: carry too, because I think that's the key right there

723
00:44:16,320 --> 00:44:20,239
Speaker 8: for the Lord lightning your load today. I don't think

724
00:44:20,280 --> 00:44:21,920
Speaker 8: he needs to take something off of you. I think

725
00:44:21,920 --> 00:44:23,239
Speaker 8: he needs to put something under you.

726
00:44:28,160 --> 00:44:28,560
Speaker 1: Wow.

727
00:44:29,040 --> 00:44:34,600
Speaker 8: The Lord will lighten your load, not by decreasing the weight,

728
00:44:34,680 --> 00:44:36,880
Speaker 8: but by sending the wagons.

729
00:44:37,120 --> 00:44:39,600
Speaker 1: Wow, what are your wagons?

730
00:44:40,280 --> 00:44:45,359
Speaker 8: And why won't you get in them? Why you keep

731
00:44:45,400 --> 00:44:48,520
Speaker 8: not joining an e group? You think the whole group

732
00:44:48,560 --> 00:44:51,200
Speaker 8: has COVID? But you you're gonna go catch nothing from him? Maybe,

733
00:44:51,200 --> 00:44:54,560
Speaker 8: but Jesus might catch some joy, might catch some peace,

734
00:44:54,640 --> 00:44:57,359
Speaker 8: might catch some better habits, might catch some accountability, might

735
00:44:57,360 --> 00:44:59,400
Speaker 8: catch some spiritual discipline, might catch a.

736
00:44:59,440 --> 00:45:01,960
Speaker 1: Dave Ramsey budget makeover. You might catch something good.

737
00:45:03,320 --> 00:45:05,480
Speaker 8: Keep praying about the weight of your financial burden, but

738
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Speaker 8: you won't get on the wagon. Get on the wagon.

739
00:45:11,080 --> 00:45:16,160
Speaker 8: Limp to the wagon. You can get on the wagon. Weeping,

740
00:45:16,719 --> 00:45:22,240
Speaker 8: just get one. You can get on the wagon. Worried,

741
00:45:23,160 --> 00:45:26,840
Speaker 8: just get on. You can get on the wagon with

742
00:45:26,960 --> 00:45:30,279
Speaker 8: all of your weight. These are good wagons. These are

743
00:45:30,360 --> 00:45:37,319
Speaker 8: trustworthy wagons because Joseph sent them, because God sent them,

744
00:45:37,480 --> 00:45:40,200
Speaker 8: and he will help you carry what he called you

745
00:45:40,280 --> 00:45:45,319
Speaker 8: to and nothing that he didn't, which is why it

746
00:45:45,400 --> 00:45:49,680
Speaker 8: becomes so important. I talked about the weight. I talked

747
00:45:49,680 --> 00:45:52,520
Speaker 8: about the wagons. Can I talk for a moment about

748
00:45:52,560 --> 00:45:57,400
Speaker 8: the worship? Okay, this is important. He sets out in

749
00:45:57,440 --> 00:46:00,400
Speaker 8: the wagons. He says, all the wagons are here. That

750
00:46:00,600 --> 00:46:04,200
Speaker 8: must mean it's true. And I use this to illustrate

751
00:46:04,800 --> 00:46:06,719
Speaker 8: all the things that God is sending in your life,

752
00:46:06,719 --> 00:46:08,279
Speaker 8: to convince you that He's with you, in spite of

753
00:46:08,320 --> 00:46:11,399
Speaker 8: all of your feelings saying that he isn't. They are there.

754
00:46:12,920 --> 00:46:16,640
Speaker 8: Sometimes you can't see the wagons through your weeping. So

755
00:46:16,680 --> 00:46:19,440
Speaker 8: he gets on right. And I would love to read

756
00:46:19,480 --> 00:46:20,880
Speaker 8: the whole chapter to you where it lists all the

757
00:46:20,880 --> 00:46:22,680
Speaker 8: people he had to take, because you would start to

758
00:46:22,680 --> 00:46:25,400
Speaker 8: feel how weighty it is, and you would start to

759
00:46:25,440 --> 00:46:28,279
Speaker 8: identify he has to take them their children and some

760
00:46:28,360 --> 00:46:30,359
Speaker 8: grandchildren because he's one hundred and thirty and he has

761
00:46:30,400 --> 00:46:33,919
Speaker 8: accumulated a lot. Now they're on there with animals, They're

762
00:46:33,920 --> 00:46:35,440
Speaker 8: on there with people, They're on there with people that

763
00:46:35,520 --> 00:46:39,040
Speaker 8: act like animals. I did not mean to describe your

764
00:46:39,040 --> 00:46:43,080
Speaker 8: family vacation. But let's make this real. Let's make this live.

765
00:46:43,360 --> 00:46:46,200
Speaker 8: Just leave this in BC. Let's bring it to right now.

766
00:46:46,880 --> 00:46:49,759
Speaker 8: Let's bring this to your life. He's on the wagons,

767
00:46:50,719 --> 00:46:52,640
Speaker 8: but he's still worried. And I think this is the

768
00:46:52,680 --> 00:46:58,760
Speaker 8: part that that maybe can help you Wednesday to worship

769
00:46:58,800 --> 00:47:02,600
Speaker 8: God Wednesday. I don't really I don't really preach with

770
00:47:02,680 --> 00:47:06,120
Speaker 8: the intention for you to worship God's Sunday. I want

771
00:47:06,160 --> 00:47:10,960
Speaker 8: you to worship Wednesday when it's weighty, when.

772
00:47:10,800 --> 00:47:13,320
Speaker 1: You are on your way and you're worried.

773
00:47:13,760 --> 00:47:18,440
Speaker 8: So in Genesis forty six, verse one, it looks like

774
00:47:18,440 --> 00:47:20,640
Speaker 8: they're going straight to Egypt to get the food, because

775
00:47:20,640 --> 00:47:24,239
Speaker 8: that's where the food is. That's where Joseph is. But Israel,

776
00:47:24,960 --> 00:47:29,879
Speaker 8: the better part of Jacob, took his journey with all

777
00:47:29,920 --> 00:47:33,799
Speaker 8: that he had, including Jacob. I'm gonna say it again,

778
00:47:34,880 --> 00:47:37,320
Speaker 8: your silence does not intimidate me from making my point.

779
00:47:38,360 --> 00:47:43,440
Speaker 1: You bring you with you. You bring you with you.

780
00:47:44,560 --> 00:47:46,759
Speaker 8: If you get a promotion, I hope you're a good

781
00:47:46,800 --> 00:47:50,799
Speaker 8: boss because you bring you with you. If you get

782
00:47:50,840 --> 00:47:55,320
Speaker 8: a partner, you bring you with you. If you have kids,

783
00:47:55,800 --> 00:47:58,640
Speaker 8: you bring you with you. And all they are going

784
00:47:58,719 --> 00:48:01,160
Speaker 8: to do is show you you in a funhouse mirror.

785
00:48:03,920 --> 00:48:06,840
Speaker 8: You'll bring you with you. So when it says Israel

786
00:48:06,880 --> 00:48:10,040
Speaker 8: took his journey, and then people say enjoy the journey,

787
00:48:10,560 --> 00:48:13,720
Speaker 8: I hate that cliche. How am I supposed to enjoy

788
00:48:13,760 --> 00:48:17,920
Speaker 8: the journey with seventy jokers that I can't trust with

789
00:48:18,000 --> 00:48:21,080
Speaker 8: the land that I'm headed to that I have never seen, that,

790
00:48:21,160 --> 00:48:24,239
Speaker 8: I cannot research that, I can't even really understand what

791
00:48:24,280 --> 00:48:26,920
Speaker 8: it's going to be like with the sadness of my

792
00:48:27,040 --> 00:48:30,120
Speaker 8: past following me here. So Israel took his journey.

793
00:48:29,880 --> 00:48:33,439
Speaker 1: With all that he had and came to Beersheba.

794
00:48:33,640 --> 00:48:37,480
Speaker 8: Beersheba is on the border of southern Canaan.

795
00:48:37,520 --> 00:48:40,480
Speaker 1: What does that mean? It's right there on the edge

796
00:48:40,600 --> 00:48:41,680
Speaker 1: of going to Egypt.

797
00:48:42,040 --> 00:48:45,239
Speaker 8: If he gets past Beersheba, he's going all the way.

798
00:48:45,640 --> 00:48:48,439
Speaker 8: So he stops there, and watch what he does when

799
00:48:48,440 --> 00:48:51,600
Speaker 8: he stops. He takes some of those animals that were

800
00:48:51,640 --> 00:48:55,040
Speaker 8: in that wagon that would have represented something that he

801
00:48:55,120 --> 00:49:00,640
Speaker 8: accumulated in Canaan. And he offered sacrifices to the God

802
00:49:01,120 --> 00:49:08,439
Speaker 8: of his father Isaac. Next verse and God spoke. Verse one,

803
00:49:08,600 --> 00:49:18,440
Speaker 8: he offered sacrifices and God spoke. He gave God something,

804
00:49:19,520 --> 00:49:24,239
Speaker 8: and God gave him something. I am not saying that

805
00:49:24,320 --> 00:49:28,600
Speaker 8: this is a transaction, but it is a fact. Worship

806
00:49:29,160 --> 00:49:38,360
Speaker 8: is Heaven's strategy to unburden the human heart. Worship is

807
00:49:38,680 --> 00:49:42,640
Speaker 8: Heaven's strategy to see you with your messed up mind,

808
00:49:43,000 --> 00:49:45,879
Speaker 8: to see you with your jacked up habits, to see

809
00:49:45,920 --> 00:49:49,000
Speaker 8: you with your cluttered state of mind, to see you

810
00:49:49,120 --> 00:49:51,880
Speaker 8: in all of your burdenedness.

811
00:49:51,480 --> 00:49:55,480
Speaker 1: And to say, let me lighten your load.

812
00:49:56,760 --> 00:50:04,840
Speaker 8: And when he offered sacrifices, God spoke and said Jacob, Jacob,

813
00:50:05,600 --> 00:50:10,600
Speaker 8: And he said here I am, I'm here, I'm excided

814
00:50:11,440 --> 00:50:17,080
Speaker 8: about this journey. And verse three says then the Lord said,

815
00:50:17,120 --> 00:50:20,000
Speaker 8: I am God. Now aren't you glad that both of

816
00:50:20,040 --> 00:50:25,319
Speaker 8: those are true? You're still Jacob, but he's still God.

817
00:50:26,320 --> 00:50:28,360
Speaker 1: Wow.

818
00:50:30,280 --> 00:50:31,960
Speaker 8: I told you I had a word for you today,

819
00:50:34,280 --> 00:50:36,160
Speaker 8: and the word is you need to worship. When you

820
00:50:36,200 --> 00:50:43,040
Speaker 8: feel the weight, pull the wagon over and worship. Uh,

821
00:50:43,520 --> 00:50:46,279
Speaker 8: what do you mean, pastor Steve, I'm driving right now.

822
00:50:46,400 --> 00:50:50,160
Speaker 8: Should I lift my hands? Put your hands on ten

823
00:50:50,239 --> 00:50:57,640
Speaker 8: and two and worship and worship and rehearse the greatness

824
00:50:57,640 --> 00:51:14,840
Speaker 8: of God until you get the frustrations of your Jacob, Jacob, Martha, Martha, Simon, Simon, Moses, Moses,

825
00:51:15,600 --> 00:51:16,400
Speaker 8: I am God.

826
00:51:16,640 --> 00:51:17,280
Speaker 1: I don't care.

827
00:51:17,160 --> 00:51:19,239
Speaker 8: Who you think you are or who you're not. You're

828
00:51:19,239 --> 00:51:21,440
Speaker 8: not bound by any of that. I am God, the

829
00:51:21,480 --> 00:51:24,000
Speaker 8: God of your father. By the way, Isaac made an

830
00:51:24,000 --> 00:51:27,880
Speaker 8: offering in Beersheba too, so did Abraham. This was a

831
00:51:27,920 --> 00:51:31,880
Speaker 8: significant place for Jacob, but he was having to do

832
00:51:31,960 --> 00:51:34,960
Speaker 8: something his father's never did. And when you come to

833
00:51:35,000 --> 00:51:37,200
Speaker 8: a place where you've never seen a model for it,

834
00:51:37,800 --> 00:51:39,719
Speaker 8: when you come to a place where you've never seen

835
00:51:39,760 --> 00:51:42,319
Speaker 8: an example for it, when you've come to a place

836
00:51:42,320 --> 00:51:44,520
Speaker 8: where you didn't have anybody to show you the way,

837
00:51:44,760 --> 00:51:47,440
Speaker 8: when you come to a place and you don't know

838
00:51:47,840 --> 00:51:57,760
Speaker 8: how worship, worship, and the Lord will lighten your load.

839
00:51:58,719 --> 00:52:02,759
Speaker 8: I'm not talking about singing. He didn't sing. He sacrificed.

840
00:52:04,440 --> 00:52:08,080
Speaker 8: True worship is you giving up something that you weren't

841
00:52:08,080 --> 00:52:11,880
Speaker 8: meant to carry. The Lord will lighten your load. Before

842
00:52:11,920 --> 00:52:15,279
Speaker 8: you go forward into this next thing. I see you

843
00:52:15,320 --> 00:52:19,839
Speaker 8: giving up what people think about it. That's worship. When

844
00:52:19,840 --> 00:52:22,239
Speaker 8: you give up what people think about it and you

845
00:52:22,280 --> 00:52:23,160
Speaker 8: get serious.

846
00:52:22,880 --> 00:52:24,960
Speaker 1: About what God has said about it, that's worship.

847
00:52:26,239 --> 00:52:29,080
Speaker 8: Some of us cannot move forward in strength because we

848
00:52:29,120 --> 00:52:33,120
Speaker 8: are too stuck in status. When you give up on

849
00:52:33,200 --> 00:52:36,160
Speaker 8: what people say about it, people think about it.

850
00:52:36,120 --> 00:52:38,200
Speaker 1: Whether you're going to be embarrassed about it.

851
00:52:38,520 --> 00:52:42,160
Speaker 8: When you worship and you say, God, you're so sovereign,

852
00:52:42,160 --> 00:52:45,719
Speaker 8: look at all of these wagons you sent. I'm telling you,

853
00:52:45,960 --> 00:52:48,360
Speaker 8: if you want to get from weakness to strength in

854
00:52:48,440 --> 00:52:54,040
Speaker 8: your spirit this week, start counting wagons instead of telling

855
00:52:54,120 --> 00:52:56,480
Speaker 8: them how much it weighs. Start thinking them for wagons.

856
00:52:56,719 --> 00:52:59,080
Speaker 8: Look at what you've done for me, God, Look at

857
00:52:59,120 --> 00:53:01,439
Speaker 8: what you've brought to me. God, look at how you've

858
00:53:01,480 --> 00:53:07,800
Speaker 8: helped me. And the Lord said Jacob. Jacob, I am God.

859
00:53:08,160 --> 00:53:10,719
Speaker 8: I know this isn't the same way that your fathers went.

860
00:53:11,000 --> 00:53:13,200
Speaker 8: I know this isn't the same strategy that they had,

861
00:53:13,360 --> 00:53:14,480
Speaker 8: but I'm the same God.

862
00:53:14,760 --> 00:53:18,200
Speaker 1: So do not be afraid to go down to Egypt. Now.

863
00:53:18,239 --> 00:53:20,000
Speaker 8: I don't know what you need to put in that sentence,

864
00:53:20,040 --> 00:53:23,319
Speaker 8: but leave it up there. Do not be afraid too.

865
00:53:23,520 --> 00:53:24,240
Speaker 1: There are two.

866
00:53:24,080 --> 00:53:28,000
Speaker 8: Specific times in scripture that God says specifically what not

867
00:53:28,120 --> 00:53:31,279
Speaker 8: to be afraid of. He tells Joseph, do not be

868
00:53:31,360 --> 00:53:34,640
Speaker 8: afraid to take Mary home as your wife, because what

869
00:53:34,800 --> 00:53:38,200
Speaker 8: is in her is of me. And he tells Jacob,

870
00:53:38,239 --> 00:53:41,040
Speaker 8: do not be afraid to go to Egypt, even though

871
00:53:41,040 --> 00:53:42,400
Speaker 8: it seems dangerous.

872
00:53:42,719 --> 00:53:45,279
Speaker 1: Even though it seems risky, remember I'm not telling you

873
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Speaker 1: to start a hair salon.

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Speaker 8: Egypt does not represent just whateverthing you want to do.

875
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Speaker 8: It is what God has called you to do that

876
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Speaker 8: you are afraid to do, that you are unfamiliar with.

877
00:53:57,600 --> 00:53:59,359
Speaker 1: Do not be afraid to do it.

878
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Speaker 8: Watch the for there in the unfamiliar place, There in

879
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Speaker 8: the place nobody in.

880
00:54:05,239 --> 00:54:07,000
Speaker 1: Your family has lived in before.

881
00:54:07,480 --> 00:54:10,320
Speaker 8: They're in the place where you thought Joseph was dead,

882
00:54:10,560 --> 00:54:11,240
Speaker 8: but he's.

883
00:54:11,040 --> 00:54:12,359
Speaker 1: Actually waiting for you.

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Speaker 6: There.

885
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Speaker 1: I will make you into a great nation.

886
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Speaker 8: Verse four, I my self will go down with you

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Speaker 8: to Egypt, to the hospital, into your senior years, into

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Speaker 8: the ninth grade. I myself, God says, will go down

889
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Speaker 8: with you. In other words, I'm gonna lighten your load,

890
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Speaker 8: because not only do you have weight, and not only

891
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Speaker 8: do you have wagons and Not only do you have worship,

892
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Speaker 8: but when you worship me, the weight lifts, and your

893
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Speaker 8: wagons have wings. And I'm carrying you because I got wings.

894
00:55:02,080 --> 00:55:05,960
Speaker 8: I put wings on your wagons. I put strength in

895
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Speaker 8: your weakness. I put a step in your limb. I

896
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Speaker 8: put power in your spirit. I put wings on your wagons.

897
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Speaker 8: My wagons have wings, y'all. I'm gonna get there because

898
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Speaker 8: He's with me. My wagons have wings. Yeah, I've got

899
00:55:25,760 --> 00:55:29,399
Speaker 8: weight on me. Yeah, I've got burdens about the future. Yeah,

900
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Speaker 8: I'm excited about it. Yeah, I'm still Jacob, but I'm

901
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Speaker 8: not traveling alone. Because they that wait on the Lord

902
00:55:40,400 --> 00:55:48,279
Speaker 8: will renew their strength. They will mount up on wings

903
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Speaker 8: like eagles. I'm going to each of them on eagles wings.

904
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Speaker 1: I'm going on wings.

905
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Speaker 8: The God did not grow weary they start walking.

906
00:56:03,760 --> 00:56:09,120
Speaker 1: I think I'm going in the straight. I'm the glory

907
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Speaker 1: of God.

908
00:56:12,640 --> 00:56:16,560
Speaker 7: My wagons have wings, My wagons have wings.

909
00:56:16,920 --> 00:56:20,120
Speaker 8: I got a hate sooth all around my family.

910
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Speaker 1: My wagons.

911
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Speaker 7: Don't be surprised when I rise a puppet the Lord.

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Speaker 1: That's lighten my load.

913
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Speaker 8: My wagons have wings, My tears have intention, my worship

914
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Speaker 8: has purpose.

915
00:56:47,160 --> 00:56:47,480
Speaker 5: I know.

916
00:56:49,040 --> 00:56:57,839
Speaker 1: You're carrying a lie, but you're carried to your wagons.

917
00:56:59,000 --> 00:57:04,040
Speaker 8: Have wings. He's going with you. I don't know where

918
00:57:04,040 --> 00:57:06,600
Speaker 8: you're going. You don't either, but I know one thing.

919
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Speaker 8: He's going with you.

920
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Speaker 1: Give my camera. I speak to your burden soul today.

921
00:57:13,239 --> 00:57:13,920
Speaker 1: He's going with you.

922
00:57:16,000 --> 00:57:18,000
Speaker 8: Well, while back, I was doing ministry with somebody that

923
00:57:18,080 --> 00:57:20,320
Speaker 8: was tag team. I looked over at them before we

924
00:57:20,360 --> 00:57:23,040
Speaker 8: went up. I could see he was so nervous. I

925
00:57:23,120 --> 00:57:24,560
Speaker 8: put my arm around him. I said, you do it already.

926
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Speaker 1: He said no.

927
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Speaker 8: I said why not? He said, I don't know what

928
00:57:27,520 --> 00:57:32,200
Speaker 8: to do up there. I said, I'm not good at much,

929
00:57:33,200 --> 00:57:37,560
Speaker 8: but i'm good at this. The Lord's prepared me. So

930
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Speaker 8: we go up there. I don't want you to worry

931
00:57:40,160 --> 00:57:44,120
Speaker 8: about anything. I'm going up there with you, and if

932
00:57:44,120 --> 00:57:47,720
Speaker 8: you stop talking mid syllable, I'll pick it up and

933
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Speaker 8: say the next syllable like we meant to do it.

934
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Speaker 8: Because I could tell he was carrying weight, so I

935
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Speaker 8: told him, I'll be your wings. I could see a

936
00:58:03,760 --> 00:58:06,120
Speaker 8: tear come in his eye because he was carrying so much.

937
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Speaker 8: I'll be your wingman, That's what I was telling him.

938
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Speaker 8: And then I looked him in his eye and I

939
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Speaker 8: said something to him, And I believe that the Lord

940
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Speaker 8: would say this to each of his children today too. Hey, hey,

941
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Speaker 8: I won't let you fail. And I know every skeptical

942
00:58:38,520 --> 00:58:40,640
Speaker 8: in your bone, is every bone in your body that

943
00:58:40,720 --> 00:58:44,160
Speaker 8: skeptical is screaming right now? Then then why did my

944
00:58:44,200 --> 00:58:46,520
Speaker 8: best friend die of cancer? Then why did the business feel?

945
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Speaker 8: Then why did the marriage feel? Maybe it wasn't a failure.

946
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Speaker 8: Maybe even maybe even when they died, their purpose on

947
00:58:58,240 --> 00:59:03,680
Speaker 8: earth was just getting started. Maybe the business that failed

948
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Speaker 8: wasn't the one that you were called to run. Did

949
00:59:05,600 --> 00:59:09,640
Speaker 8: you think about that? Maybe God's failures or foundations.

950
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Speaker 1: And I want you.

951
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Speaker 8: To let him lighten your load today because I'm gonna

952
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Speaker 8: tell you something, Jacob, if you try to ride in

953
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Speaker 8: that wagon and you let Jacob steer, you won't make

954
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Speaker 8: it where you're supposed to be.

955
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Speaker 1: The word of the Lord came to Israel in the.

956
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Speaker 8: Night to speak to the part of you that knows

957
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Speaker 8: that worship gives me wings and it can be just

958
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Speaker 8: the smallest transition in your life. I'm telling you, I

959
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Speaker 8: know there are people in here today who are carrying weight,

960
00:59:41,880 --> 00:59:42,959
Speaker 8: unimaginable weight.

961
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Speaker 1: But stand on your feet right now.

962
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Speaker 8: And in the presence of your God, the God of Abraham,

963
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Speaker 8: the God of Isaac, the God of Jacob, Jacob, Jacob,

964
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Speaker 8: the God of Simon, Simon, God of Martha, Martha, the

965
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Speaker 8: God of Abraham, Abraham, the God of Moses, Moses. That

966
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Speaker 8: God knows your name, knows your needs, he knows your limp,

967
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Speaker 8: he knows your loss, and he wants to give you

968
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Speaker 8: wings on your wagon today. The truth is, if you're here,

969
01:00:23,840 --> 01:00:31,120
Speaker 8: it's because you are carried. Somebody say, I'm carried. That

970
01:00:31,240 --> 01:00:35,200
Speaker 8: verse really spoke to me, Man in verse five, where

971
01:00:35,240 --> 01:00:38,560
Speaker 8: it says Jacob set out from Beersheba. The sons of

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Speaker 8: Israel carried Jacob, their father, their little ones, and their

973
01:00:43,080 --> 01:00:47,439
Speaker 8: wives in the wagons that Pharaoh had sent to carry him.

974
01:00:49,000 --> 01:00:52,440
Speaker 8: You know how, I know you can because you're carried.

975
01:00:53,880 --> 01:00:55,200
Speaker 8: Say that out loud as a confession.

976
01:00:55,240 --> 01:00:55,600
Speaker 1: I can.

977
01:00:56,760 --> 01:01:03,120
Speaker 8: Because I'm carried. I can make it through this. I

978
01:01:03,160 --> 01:01:06,560
Speaker 8: can find a solution. I can forgive them, I can

979
01:01:06,720 --> 01:01:07,920
Speaker 8: continue to work through this.

980
01:01:08,320 --> 01:01:12,480
Speaker 1: I can recover. I can say it. I can because

981
01:01:12,520 --> 01:01:13,160
Speaker 1: I'm carried.

982
01:01:14,400 --> 01:01:16,280
Speaker 8: And some people will see that and they'll think that

983
01:01:16,320 --> 01:01:24,760
Speaker 8: your confidence is cockiness. I'm not cocky. I'm carried. I'm carried.

984
01:01:26,080 --> 01:01:31,840
Speaker 8: My confidence is in the fact that God is carrying me.

985
01:01:33,280 --> 01:01:37,560
Speaker 8: Don't you see how his hand has carried.

986
01:01:37,240 --> 01:01:40,320
Speaker 1: You this far? Then why wouldn't you let him lighten

987
01:01:40,400 --> 01:01:40,840
Speaker 1: your load.

988
01:01:41,080 --> 01:01:43,400
Speaker 8: I imagine Jacob getting back on the wagons, and they

989
01:01:43,400 --> 01:01:46,360
Speaker 8: felt a little lighter because he took a few of

990
01:01:46,360 --> 01:01:50,160
Speaker 8: those animals and sacrificed him. I imagine him getting back

991
01:01:50,200 --> 01:01:53,560
Speaker 8: on the wagon and feeling a little bit lighter because

992
01:01:53,600 --> 01:01:56,760
Speaker 8: he was reminded who he really was. I see him

993
01:01:56,760 --> 01:02:00,280
Speaker 8: getting on the wagon. It's a little bit lighter because

994
01:02:00,280 --> 01:02:00,840
Speaker 8: you can't.

995
01:02:00,640 --> 01:02:05,280
Speaker 1: See it, but my wagon has wings. Be prepared. This week,

996
01:02:05,360 --> 01:02:10,200
Speaker 1: somebody is gonna tell you look different. Have you lost weight?

997
01:02:11,560 --> 01:02:18,520
Speaker 8: Tell them, yeah, tell them two things happen. Come on,

998
01:02:18,600 --> 01:02:20,800
Speaker 8: look at your neighbor and say two things happen today.

999
01:02:22,680 --> 01:02:28,280
Speaker 8: Tell them I lost weight and I got wings. Now,

1000
01:02:28,360 --> 01:02:30,160
Speaker 8: let's take twenty seconds and worship the.

1001
01:02:30,120 --> 01:02:32,880
Speaker 1: Lord for what he did in this place. You'll sing

1002
01:02:32,880 --> 01:02:33,320
Speaker 1: a little bit.

1003
01:02:34,400 --> 01:02:41,760
Speaker 8: Come on, worshippers, worshippers, where are the worshippers? FU say,

1004
01:02:42,920 --> 01:02:47,000
Speaker 8: get your hands off, get your hands up, get your

1005
01:02:47,040 --> 01:02:48,600
Speaker 8: wings back, Get your wings back.

1006
01:02:49,000 --> 01:02:57,640
Speaker 9: These chapel zuway care the Lord is in these Please

1007
01:02:58,440 --> 01:02:59,840
Speaker 9: the Lord is it.

1008
01:03:01,000 --> 01:03:01,680
Speaker 1: I'm carrying.

1009
01:03:01,760 --> 01:03:03,520
Speaker 4: I'm carrying for me.

1010
01:03:04,400 --> 01:03:07,320
Speaker 1: I'm carry I'm carrying this I for sake.

1011
01:03:07,960 --> 01:03:08,280
Speaker 8: Cat.

1012
01:03:09,040 --> 01:03:14,640
Speaker 10: The Lord is here these place. Flord is here, the space.

1013
01:03:16,280 --> 01:03:24,080
Speaker 10: Come fo please speed travel Cat. The Lord is in

1014
01:03:24,520 --> 01:03:25,120
Speaker 10: this clip.

1015
01:03:25,400 --> 01:03:28,960
Speaker 5: Hold on, get these wings se so you can rise

1016
01:03:28,960 --> 01:03:34,960
Speaker 5: Obama and naked. He won't let you nail, He won't forsaken,

1017
01:03:36,160 --> 01:03:37,520
Speaker 5: He will not leave you.

1018
01:03:37,760 --> 01:03:46,480
Speaker 10: Art this class right here, right now, here's God speed.

1019
01:03:48,080 --> 01:03:50,640
Speaker 8: Trivels. Cat.

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01:03:51,400 --> 01:03:56,440
Speaker 4: Flord is here, the slap Flord is in this.

1021
01:04:01,400 --> 01:04:04,800
Speaker 1: That's bowed, eyes closed. God is here.

1022
01:04:05,280 --> 01:04:09,480
Speaker 8: He's here to forgive sin. He's here to heal hearts.

1023
01:04:10,480 --> 01:04:14,240
Speaker 8: He's here to make new. Right now, there are hundreds,

1024
01:04:14,280 --> 01:04:16,440
Speaker 8: if not thousands, of people under the sound of my

1025
01:04:16,560 --> 01:04:21,400
Speaker 8: voice who desperately need to give your life to Jesus.

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01:04:21,440 --> 01:04:25,920
Speaker 1: Today. You cannot carry it any longer. You cannot do

1027
01:04:26,000 --> 01:04:28,840
Speaker 1: it by yourself any longer. You were not meant to.

1028
01:04:29,280 --> 01:04:32,520
Speaker 8: He died for you, He rose again to give you life.

1029
01:04:32,600 --> 01:04:35,360
Speaker 8: It is by grace you are saved through faith. This

1030
01:04:35,560 --> 01:04:37,960
Speaker 8: not of yourselves. It is the gift of God, not

1031
01:04:38,120 --> 01:04:40,120
Speaker 8: of work, so that no one can boast.

1032
01:04:40,800 --> 01:04:42,960
Speaker 1: And today God brought you to this place so that

1033
01:04:43,000 --> 01:04:43,800
Speaker 1: you could be saved.

1034
01:04:44,240 --> 01:04:46,680
Speaker 8: So right now, I'm going to lead you in a prayer,

1035
01:04:46,720 --> 01:04:49,040
Speaker 8: whether you're online or in the room, And if you'll

1036
01:04:49,080 --> 01:04:51,400
Speaker 8: repeat this prayer after me and believe it in your heart.

1037
01:04:51,920 --> 01:04:53,800
Speaker 8: The Bible says that if you confess with your mouth

1038
01:04:53,840 --> 01:04:55,600
Speaker 8: that Jesus is Lord, and believe in your heart God

1039
01:04:55,680 --> 01:04:59,080
Speaker 8: raised him from the dead, you will be saved. Right now,

1040
01:04:59,200 --> 01:05:01,320
Speaker 8: the hand of Heaven is stretching to you in the

1041
01:05:01,360 --> 01:05:05,080
Speaker 8: person of Jesus Christ. Will you receive this gift. This

1042
01:05:05,120 --> 01:05:07,520
Speaker 8: is a new beginning for you. This is a defining

1043
01:05:07,600 --> 01:05:10,720
Speaker 8: moment for you. God is calling your name right now,

1044
01:05:11,240 --> 01:05:12,160
Speaker 8: and I want to lead you.

1045
01:05:12,120 --> 01:05:12,600
Speaker 1: In this prayer.

1046
01:05:12,640 --> 01:05:14,760
Speaker 8: Whether you're coming to Him for the first time or

1047
01:05:14,800 --> 01:05:17,280
Speaker 8: you've wandered in your coming back, this is your day.

1048
01:05:17,640 --> 01:05:20,600
Speaker 8: This is your moment. He's calling your name. Call on

1049
01:05:20,720 --> 01:05:23,840
Speaker 8: his name and you will be saved. Repeat after me

1050
01:05:23,880 --> 01:05:26,560
Speaker 8: as a church family, out loud, Heavenly.

1051
01:05:26,160 --> 01:05:31,560
Speaker 1: Father, today is my day of salvation.

1052
01:05:32,640 --> 01:05:36,560
Speaker 8: I am a sinner in need of a savior, and

1053
01:05:36,600 --> 01:05:41,000
Speaker 8: I believe that Jesus Christ is the Son of God

1054
01:05:41,880 --> 01:05:45,919
Speaker 8: and the Savior of the world. And today I make

1055
01:05:46,040 --> 01:05:50,320
Speaker 8: Jesus the Lord of my life. I believe he died

1056
01:05:51,440 --> 01:05:55,720
Speaker 8: that I would be forgiven and rose again to give

1057
01:05:55,800 --> 01:06:01,880
Speaker 8: me life. I receive this new life. This is my

1058
01:06:02,040 --> 01:06:05,800
Speaker 8: new beginning. I am a child of God.

1059
01:06:06,560 --> 01:06:08,200
Speaker 1: On the counter of three shoots. Your hand up.

1060
01:06:08,240 --> 01:06:13,000
Speaker 8: If you've prayed that one, two, three all over the room.

1061
01:06:13,000 --> 01:06:17,240
Speaker 1: That's right, that's right, that's right.

1062
01:06:17,360 --> 01:06:21,120
Speaker 8: Zevil you lost another one, and another one, and another

1063
01:06:21,200 --> 01:06:24,240
Speaker 8: one and another one into the.

1064
01:06:24,040 --> 01:06:28,040
Speaker 1: Family of God, born again by the spirit of grace.

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01:06:28,880 --> 01:06:32,480
Speaker 7: Let's give Jesus a great sound of brad.

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01:06:36,280 --> 01:06:37,080
Speaker 1: Glory to God.

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01:06:39,280 --> 01:06:41,880
Speaker 8: Praise the Lord for all the new lives. Thank you

1068
01:06:41,960 --> 01:06:45,040
Speaker 8: for staying till the very end. Thank you for coming

1069
01:06:45,080 --> 01:06:48,280
Speaker 8: to church today. Thank you for showing up in the

1070
01:06:48,320 --> 01:06:52,080
Speaker 8: presence of God. Campus pastors, you could take it. Did

1071
01:06:52,120 --> 01:06:56,520
Speaker 8: you receive a word from God today? If you received

1072
01:06:56,520 --> 01:06:59,160
Speaker 8: a word from God, let me hear you make some noise,

1073
01:07:01,520 --> 01:07:02,680
Speaker 8: shout hallelujah.

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Speaker 1: If you received it.

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Speaker 8: I know I've preached along. But you won't even have

1076
01:07:11,480 --> 01:07:13,880
Speaker 8: to fight traffic today because you.

1077
01:07:17,960 --> 01:07:23,840
Speaker 1: You got ways. I lost weight and I got ways,

1078
01:07:25,320 --> 01:07:26,280
Speaker 1: so I can make it.

1079
01:07:27,280 --> 01:07:33,000
Speaker 8: Because now unto him who is able to do immeasurably more,

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Speaker 8: then we ask big.

1081
01:07:36,720 --> 01:07:42,480
Speaker 5: Or imagine to here big glory through Christ Jesus in

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01:07:42,560 --> 01:07:44,880
Speaker 5: the Church now and forever.

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Speaker 1: You're dismissed.

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Speaker 2: I love you, Thank you for joining us. Special thanks

1085
01:07:52,440 --> 01:07:55,040
Speaker 2: to those of you who give generously to this ministry.

1086
01:07:55,360 --> 01:07:58,320
Speaker 2: Is because of you that this ministry is possible. You

1087
01:07:58,320 --> 01:08:00,800
Speaker 2: can click the link in the description to give now

1088
01:08:01,320 --> 01:08:05,200
Speaker 2: or visit Elevationchurch dot org slash podcast for more information

1089
01:08:05,720 --> 01:08:08,480
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1090
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Speaker 2: Elevation Church.

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Speaker 1: Thanks again for listening. God bless you.