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

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

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

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Speaker 1: In your life.

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Speaker 2: Enjoy the message two King's thirteen fourteen through twenty. This

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Speaker 2: parable in action, where we have been looking at an

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Speaker 2: object lesson and from this simple little archery instruction where

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Speaker 2: the Prophetyli show pulls out a sermon prop and makes

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Speaker 2: me feel better about all the props I've used over

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Speaker 2: the years, because here the prophet Elisha, one of the

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Speaker 2: most powerful preachers that the Bible has ever recorded the

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Speaker 2: life of. He instead of speaking to the King about

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Speaker 2: what he needs to do, he shows him because sometimes

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Speaker 2: actions speak louder than words, and sometimes it's not in

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Speaker 2: what we understand or declare, but in what we do

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Speaker 2: that are measure of successes determined. And this passage is

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Speaker 2: cool because he uses.

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Speaker 1: A boat and an arrow.

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Speaker 2: And earlier today they were playing some old clips of

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Speaker 2: my preaching and showing me with a water gun, and

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Speaker 2: I had some grown men on a seesaw. One time

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Speaker 2: to talk about giving weight to God's word and how

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Speaker 2: many of you were there for that when yeah, And

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Speaker 2: I love how our teams through the years, when I

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Speaker 2: think of something crazy, they don't look at me crazy.

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Speaker 2: I said, I need a seesaw for my sermon, and

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Speaker 2: Joe and the team built a seesaw, and we've done

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Speaker 2: all these things over the years. And I used to

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Speaker 2: feel like that was probably because I was a shallow preacher,

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Speaker 2: that I didn't have enough substance, so I had to

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Speaker 2: do all this silly stuff to keep people's attention. But

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Speaker 2: I don't really see it that way anymore, because you know,

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Speaker 2: Jesus was the Word made flesh, and when he came

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Speaker 2: to preach, he would often point at stuff to illustrate

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Speaker 2: his point. He would use objects to get his message

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Speaker 2: or his lesson across. So when he was talking about worry,

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Speaker 2: he point to the birds and say, if God can

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Speaker 2: feed them, what are you worried about? Now one of

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Speaker 2: them falls to the sky without him knowing it, and

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Speaker 2: you think God doesn't have his eye on your life.

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Speaker 2: He's watching over you, and he would point to the

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Speaker 2: birds to prove that. Or he would contrast. Sometimes you

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Speaker 2: see that big mountain. You can move it with faith

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Speaker 2: the size of a mustard sea.

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Speaker 1: If you would believe a little bit, you could do

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Speaker 2: One time, he wanted to show them how he was

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Speaker 2: the bread of life, so he told the disciples.

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Speaker 1: To feed the people. They said, we can't.

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Speaker 2: He says, exactly, but when you bring your I can't,

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Speaker 2: and bring it to the one who is and was

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Speaker 2: and is to come. Anyway, y'all, don't feel like you're

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Speaker 2: in all this today. Would you not make me work

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Speaker 2: so hard on my birthday to preach those of you

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Speaker 2: who never say amen, who just look at me like

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Speaker 2: bless me. If you dare, can we do this together today?

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Speaker 1: Come on?

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Speaker 2: One time Jesus wanted to show how he was the resurrection,

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Speaker 2: so he let Lazarus die. Why he needed a prop

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Speaker 2: And when he pointed to the tomb and said, Lazarus,

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Speaker 2: come forth, he was pointing to every dead thing in

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Speaker 1: When the word of.

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Speaker 2: God hits dead places, disappointed places.

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Speaker 1: I feel dreams coming alive in the presence of God.

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Speaker 1: So it just makes me feel good that when the

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Speaker 1: King came.

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Speaker 2: To see Elisha, he he used to a prop and

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Speaker 2: I want to read it in case you're new to

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Speaker 2: the series, I really want to pull you in. I

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Speaker 2: really I want to do my best, whether you've just

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Speaker 2: come in here, whether you've been here for the whole thing.

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Speaker 1: It's always my aim to pull.

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Speaker 2: Everybody in, whether you have the Book of Philippians memorized,

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Speaker 2: or whether you dated a guy named Philip one time and.

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Speaker 1: It didn't go well. Look at verse fifteen.

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Speaker 2: Elisha said, get a bow, Get a bow and some arrows,

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Speaker 2: and he did so. Take the bow in your hands,

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Speaker 2: he said to the King of Israel. And when he

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Speaker 2: when he considered it, not when he prayed about it,

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Speaker 2: Elisha put his hands on the king's hands. God's guidance

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Speaker 2: told to do. I'm thankful that God guides my life.

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Speaker 2: That I just saw a picture of how God's.

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Speaker 2: Hands, even in seasons when I didn't want him to

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Speaker 2: lead me, he led me. And when he put his

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Speaker 2: hands on the King's hands, he gave him an instruction

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Speaker 2: and it's kind of been our theme for the series,

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Speaker 2: hasn't it. When he told him open the east window,

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Speaker 2: and he opened it, he did not open the window

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Speaker 2: for the king. He pointed in the direction of the

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Speaker 2: battle that God would give the victory if the king

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Speaker 2: he opened the window, the prophet told him to shoot,

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Speaker 2: and he shot, and then the prophet declared the Lord's

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Speaker 2: arrow of victory, the arrow of victory over Aram, that

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Speaker 2: confederation of nations that had been oppressing God's people, the

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Speaker 2: arrow of victory over Aram. The arrow represents victory, and

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Speaker 2: it's the Lord's victory.

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Speaker 1: It's his strength, his arm.

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Speaker 2: This is a lesson for us to see, to see

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Speaker 2: the victory before we seize the victory. All of these

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Speaker 2: I want to focus in real, particularly on appointing this passage.

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Speaker 1: He said, you.

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Speaker 2: Will completely destroy the Arabians at Aphax, and then he

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Speaker 2: said take the arrows, and the king took them, and

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Speaker 2: Elishah told him strike the ground, and he struck it

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Speaker 2: three times and stopped, and the Man of God was

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Speaker 2: angry with him and said, you should have struck the

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Speaker 2: ground five or six times. Then you could have had

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Speaker 2: everything that God wanted.

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Speaker 1: You to have.

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Speaker 2: But you quit too quick. You quit when you don't

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Speaker 2: feel it. You only worship God when he gives you

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Speaker 2: a goose pomp.

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Speaker 1: I love Elisha. He was a straight shooter, get it arrow.

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Speaker 1: He told him what he needed to hear.

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Speaker 2: You have, you could have, you would have, but now

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Speaker 2: you will defeat it only three times. And I was

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Speaker 2: and I was imagining how he would preach this passage

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Speaker 2: and sixteen year old Stephen. He wouldn't have just preached

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Speaker 2: wonder did anybody on the front bringing.

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Speaker 1: These spare arrows to church today?

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Speaker 2: Oh, Jonathan Joseph, it's our campus pastor.

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Speaker 1: Y'all give it up for JJ. Always prepared. You see

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Speaker 1: that he was prepared with those arrows. That's why I

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Speaker 1: love you JJ.

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Speaker 2: That's why you're one of my top fourteen favorite campus fastors.

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Speaker 1: Sitting on those arrows ready for him.

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Speaker 2: I wonder what you're sitting on that you're not using today?

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Speaker 1: Should have used all of your arrows. You should have.

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Speaker 2: Taken everything God gave you and kept striking until you

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Speaker 2: saw it, until what you see in your life reflects

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Speaker 2: what God has spoken over your life. It was not

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Speaker 2: a deficiency in the artillery that cost the king to

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Speaker 2: be defeated. It was his lack of drive. Can I

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Speaker 2: say that that he wouldn't drive every arrow into the ground.

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Speaker 2: You should have kept pushing. You know, we all need

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Speaker 2: we need somebody to help us, motivate us to do

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Speaker 2: what we can't do, and to get us started in

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Speaker 1: I feel like it's my job in some ways to

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Speaker 1: give you a push as you go into your week.

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Speaker 2: You know, just a little nudge, just a little push.

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Speaker 2: That's what the worship leaders are doing. They're giving you

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Speaker 2: a push. You know, you come in some weeks and

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Speaker 2: you don't feel like praising God, and you know you

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Speaker 2: cussed at your kids in the van on the way

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Speaker 2: to church and said praise the Lord when you saw

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Speaker 2: the Parkers. But what I'm saying today really doesn't have

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Speaker 2: the other instrument because I was praying. You know, we

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Speaker 2: talked about the power of precision. You have to aim

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Speaker 2: the ground must be plowed for the harvest to be plentiful.

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Speaker 2: Y'all miss that nobody wrote that down in the whole church.

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Speaker 2: The ground must be plowed for the harvest to be plentiful.

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Speaker 1: Why move the elevation pin bro across the paved back

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Speaker 2: He even talked about the power of potential and the

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Speaker 1: And as I was praying about how.

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Speaker 2: the text was talking because I've been preaching so much

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Speaker 2: them in your quiver. You cannot quit with arrows left

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Speaker 2: But it's like I heard the text talking to me,

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Speaker 2: and it says if the text said, how about the bow,

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Speaker 2: because the whole thing started with a bow.

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Speaker 1: J J, you got a boat. How about that? He's

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Speaker 1: got a bow and some arrows.

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Speaker 2: Now, of course we worked this out ahead of time.

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Speaker 2: This is Graham's bow, and he didn't even know where

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Speaker 2: it was. I told him this week to get his

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Speaker 2: bow that Uncle Max gave him a couple of Christmases ago,

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Speaker 2: and he couldn't even find it. And I thought, well,

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Speaker 2: that's a sermon illustration in itself. You're like a lot

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Speaker 2: of Christians. You've wrote it down in a notebook, but

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Speaker 2: you never anyway. Uh whoa Oh, But.

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Speaker 1: He brought me the bow, and I was thinking.

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Speaker 2: In the context of what we've learned about all of

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Speaker 2: these principles from God's word, and quick, I promise you,

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Speaker 2: I know way better than to point this at any

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Speaker 2: would never. I would never. I'm extreme, but I'm not crazy.

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Speaker 2: Get a bowl, get some arrows. On the count of three,

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Speaker 2: we're gonna shoot it.

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Speaker 1: You're ready, you ready, LJ one?

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Speaker 2: Two?

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Speaker 1: Three? Shoot?

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Speaker 2: Well that didn't go very far. Let's try again. Colt

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Speaker 2: me down, all right, you ready, get a bow? Everybody

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Speaker 2: say yeah, but get a bow, get some arrows, take

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Speaker 2: the shot on three.

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Speaker 1: Here we go.

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Speaker 1: You like that.

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Speaker 2: I feel kind of stupid up here because in my

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Speaker 2: mind I saw the row flying through the air, you know,

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Speaker 2: the Lord's aerro victory.

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Speaker 1: I saw it like a grave illustration. Am I doing

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Speaker 2: So, in order for the arrow to fulfill its purpose,

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Speaker 2: the bow has to be I want to preach today

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Speaker 1: Your car didn't bring you to church. God brought you

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Speaker 2: I wasn't looking, but he was, and he drew me

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Speaker 2: Happens when you let go of your way, when you

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Speaker 1: He drew me. He drew me. He drew me to himself.

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Speaker 1: He drew me.

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Speaker 2: I had to be in the choir. It wasn't Arturo

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Speaker 1: It was God. God knew I needed to pastor a

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Speaker 2: If I can't step into the church.

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Speaker 1: God was getting me ready. God is getting you running.

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Speaker 6: I don't know who.

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Speaker 1: This message is for money, This is for you shall

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Speaker 1: right now. My moody's drawing you. He's drawing you. Pull on, somebody,

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Speaker 2: spend the rest of my life looking at the backside.

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Speaker 1: Of an ox. He's drawing me. He's drawing me.

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Speaker 2: My bow broke while I was appreciated.

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Speaker 6: Yeah, yeah, it don't have to be pretty for God

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Speaker 6: to use it.

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Speaker 1: I feel like prising today.

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Speaker 2: I feel like precian like is my parthdect breaks faster,

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Speaker 2: pulling down of strongholds. I'm not pushing my way through life.

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Speaker 2: I've got pull God brought me here.

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Speaker 1: See, a sense of purpose will pull you.

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Speaker 2: There are there are teenagers under the sound of my

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Speaker 2: voice who are being who are being.

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Speaker 1: Pushed, pushed by popularity.

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Speaker 2: Yes, you're being pushed to fit in with a certain crowd.

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Speaker 2: You're you're being pushed. And see, popularity can only get.

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Speaker 1: You so far.

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Speaker 2: Popularity cannot give you a sense of significance. But if

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Speaker 2: you let the purpose of God pull on your I'm

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Speaker 2: telling you God's purpose has been pulling on me all

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Speaker 2: my life, sock to be here with you today. He's

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Speaker 2: pulling on you and has always been on you. He

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Speaker 2: was pulling you, directing your pads. Even when you wanted

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Speaker 2: to wander. He pulled on you. That's why you're here.

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Speaker 2: And when your car is out of alignment, it pulls

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Speaker 2: a certain way. And God brought us into this Worker

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Speaker 2: Windows series at rock Hill and Concord and Gaston and

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Speaker 2: all the other locations and online. God brought us into

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Speaker 2: the series for alignment so that we won't constantly I'm

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Speaker 2: telling you, if you change your patterns, it will change

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Speaker 2: your pull The weapons of our warfare are not carnal.

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Speaker 2: That means fleshly. Flesh is a pattern. It pulls you.

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Speaker 2: It's what pulls you. Some of you, some of you

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Speaker 2: had to make yourself come to church today.

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Speaker 1: That's all right. Make yourself come.

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Speaker 2: Back enough, push yourself to come back until something pulls

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Speaker 2: you to car. I promise if you keep coming, eventually

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Speaker 2: your car will pull itself into the Elevation Church parking

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Speaker 2: lot like it used to pull into Chrispy Kreme when

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Speaker 2: the hot side came on, pulling me according to his purpose.

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Speaker 2: I'm pulled by my patterns. I'm pulled by my purpose,

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Speaker 2: and I'm pulled by the possibility. It's the Lord's arrow

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Speaker 2: of victory over Aaron, Get a bow, get some leverage.

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Speaker 2: Don't leave this series trying to live out God's will

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Speaker 2: in your strength?

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Speaker 1: Were all of sinned and fallen short of the glory

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Speaker 1: of God? You know what's interesting about the word sin.

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Speaker 1: It's an archery term.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, it means to miss the mark, all of sin

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Speaker 2: and fallen short of the glory of God. And maybe

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Speaker 2: the reason that fell short is because it didn't have leverage.

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Speaker 1: You can't throw it far enough, not for these battles.

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Speaker 1: That's what the grace of God has been for my life.

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Speaker 1: I'm sorry I took your seat, but I feel I

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Speaker 1: preach it.

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Speaker 2: The grace of God has pulled me and kept me

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Speaker 2: at times in my life where or I didn't want

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Speaker 2: to continue on. That's where grace kicked and it's the

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Speaker 2: power of the pull. And I don't want to pastor

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Speaker 2: a church full of people who are striking the ground

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Speaker 2: in their own strength and wearing out because they didn't

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Speaker 2: have a grip by grace. Right now, in the presence

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Speaker 2: of God, there is grace available for whatever ram you're facing.

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Speaker 1: And I believe God has drawn somebody.

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Speaker 2: In fact, I want to give an invitation for you

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Speaker 2: right now like I gave when Eric was at church.

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Speaker 2: He was about twenty years old. You may be younger,

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Speaker 2: you may be older, but God has drawing you. And

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Speaker 2: I want you just to end to your feet at

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Speaker 2: all of our locations so I can pray with you.

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Speaker 2: I can't push you into this decision.

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Speaker 1: It wouldn't be your decision if you feel God drawing

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Speaker 1: you right now and.

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Speaker 2: You fallen short of the glory of God, because all

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Speaker 2: of sin and fallen short of the glory of God.

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Speaker 1: I really feel called right now to.

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Speaker 2: Well to facilitate the presence of God as he pulls

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Speaker 2: you in the spirit. In the bride's say, come, God

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Speaker 2: offers an invitation. God will never push you and pull

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Speaker 2: you follow me. Jesus made it that simple. Just let

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Speaker 2: me pull you. I know where I'm taking you. Uncharted waters.

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Speaker 2: I know where I'm taking you, Abraham, just go to

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Speaker 2: the land I will show you.

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Speaker 1: He leads me. Besides still waters.

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Speaker 2: I want you to bow your head and close your

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Speaker 2: eyes and realize that God has been leading you all

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Speaker 2: your life. He has been pulling you. He's been pulling

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Speaker 2: on you. That's what you feel in your heart right now.

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Speaker 2: It's not the music behind me. It's the words that

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Speaker 2: I've spoken. It is the pull of God. It is

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Speaker 2: the grace of God. It is the drawing power of

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Speaker 2: the Holy Spirit. God has drawn you in this moment

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Speaker 2: to Himself on this day, for all who are far

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Speaker 2: away from God and desire to be brought near by

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Speaker 2: the blood of Jesus Christ, cleansed and forgiven, redeemed and renewed,

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Speaker 2: restored and made righteous. In the presence of God. His

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Speaker 2: grace is available, and his grace is enough. He's drawing

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Speaker 2: you now. With heads about and eyes closed, We're going

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Speaker 2: to pray as a church family for those who are

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Speaker 2: coming to God for the first time. We're coming back

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Speaker 2: to God. This is a holy moment. I asked that

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Speaker 2: no one move at any of our locations as we

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Speaker 2: pray out loud for the benefit of those who are

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Speaker 2: coming to God. We believe the miracle working power of

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Speaker 2: the Holy Spirit is drawing now. Even as I speak,

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Speaker 2: heads about, eyes closed. We're praying together as a family,

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Speaker 2: Heavenly Father. Today is my day of salvation. I believe

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Speaker 2: that Jesus Christ is the Son of God and the

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Speaker 2: Savior of the world.

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Speaker 1: And right now I am a new creation.

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Speaker 2: I believe that Jesus Christ died for me and rose

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Speaker 2: again to give me life. I receive this new life

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Speaker 2: from this day forward. I am a follower of Christ.

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Speaker 2: Has still bowed, eyes still close. If you prayed that,

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Speaker 2: shoot your hand in the air on the count of three.

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Speaker 1: One, two three.

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Speaker 2: At every location, hands are flying.

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Speaker 1: Up, hands are flying up. Come on, Church, you better

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Speaker 1: celebrate better than that. Come on. That's the new beginnings.

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Speaker 1: That's the new beginnings. That's a new start. Man. God

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Speaker 1: bless me. I see you, man, I see you. This

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Speaker 1: is your moment, this is your time. God brought you here.

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Speaker 1: Anybody else, shoot your hand off. God is working in

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Speaker 1: this moment. He's working in this moment.

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Speaker 2: I see the hera victory flying over Arab.

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Speaker 1: Come on, open your mouth to die. We gotta race

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Speaker 1: and celebrate. Come on, we got a raser. Thank you

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Speaker 1: for joining us.

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Speaker 2: this ministry. Is because of you that this ministry is possible.

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