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Speaker 1: Hey, thank you for listening to Elevation with Stephen Ferdick.

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Speaker 2: Come on, everybody feels comfortable, just lift your hands. Everybody

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Speaker 2: who doesn't feel comfortable, lift your hands. King of King's,

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Speaker 2: Lord of lords. Jesus is your name. We bless you,

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Speaker 2: honor you, respect you, admire you, and adore you.

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Speaker 3: But really we want you to know that we need you.

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Speaker 3: We know that.

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Speaker 2: For the things that we encounter as human beings that

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Speaker 2: we can not understand on the level of our existence,

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Speaker 2: we need divinity. Would you direct the paths of each

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Speaker 2: of the precious people that you assemble together today? See,

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Speaker 2: I know that we think we decided to come to church,

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Speaker 2: but really you brought us to this place something that

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Speaker 2: you want to remind us of, something that you want

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Speaker 2: to show us, something.

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Speaker 3: That you want to reveal, and whatever it is.

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Speaker 2: Clear out the debris of disappointment that has accumulated in

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Speaker 2: our souls. This week a place for your glory and

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Speaker 2: your presence to dwell. We are your temple, and we

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Speaker 2: reverence you, and we worship you, and we praise you.

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Speaker 3: In Jesus' name, and the whole church set together. Amen.

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Speaker 2: Amen, come on, let's show the Lord that he's important

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Speaker 2: to us. Well, look at the person next to you

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Speaker 2: and tell him I love you so much. Tell him

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Speaker 2: I love you. Come on, tell him I love you

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Speaker 2: like Homer loves donuts on the Simpsons. Come on, tell

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Speaker 2: him I love you like Kanye loves Kanye. Tell him

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Speaker 2: you're my number one with the lemonade. Tell him right now.

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Speaker 2: See if they're saved. How many of you are saved,

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Speaker 2: delivered on your way to heaven? Glad about it? God

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Speaker 2: is so faithful. We want to welcome all of our campuses.

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Speaker 2: Let's do that right now, Valentine. Let's welcome all of

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Speaker 2: our locations all over.

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Speaker 3: The Charlotte area.

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Speaker 2: Asheville, North Carolina, Greenville, South Carolina, Toronto, Canada, Melbourne, Florida.

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Speaker 3: Come on, let's thank.

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Speaker 2: God for Raleigh, Morrisville. A man.

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Speaker 3: Should we see who's.

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Speaker 2: Watching on our epam our extended family around the world.

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Speaker 2: There's always many different cities in states and nations watch him.

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Speaker 2: Somebody pull it up for me. Go ahead and pull

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Speaker 2: it up on the Elevation Church YouTube. Make sure you

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Speaker 2: go on the Elevation Church one because it'll have the

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Speaker 2: most viewers. Go over to Elevation Worship. It's not as popular.

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Speaker 2: So good, are you all gonna get that new song?

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Speaker 2: You never lost a battle? Are you gonna get that

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Speaker 2: on Friday? Make sure you get that stream that that's

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Speaker 2: gonna be so good. You can just get it stuck

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Speaker 2: in your head all the time. Now, how many you'll

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Speaker 2: have that song stuck in your head? We didn't sing

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Speaker 2: it today, but which seems like a strategic misfire that

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Speaker 2: we're releasing it Friday. We didn't sing it today, but anyway,

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Speaker 2: it's a good song to get stuck in your head.

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Speaker 2: But I promise you your wife would rather hear Tiffany

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Speaker 2: and Chris sing it than you. You can't sing, So

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Speaker 2: download it, stream it.

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Speaker 3: And play it. Let the professionals do it. You can

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Speaker 3: sing along.

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Speaker 2: Tell me where you're watching from on the comments of YouTube. Oakland, California, Wisconsin, Seattle, Nigeria, Rockwell,

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Speaker 3: You have been to Rockwell? Have you heard of it?

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Speaker 2: Indiana, Charlotte supposed to be at church. You better have

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Speaker 2: the flu, measles, the mumps, the shingles or something. Uganda, Atlanta, Chicago, Pennsylvania, Brazil, Baltimore.

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Speaker 3: It's so fast, it's scrolling so fast.

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Speaker 2: Guatemala, Dominican, Indonesia. Ask somebody, where did you come from?

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Speaker 2: And what are you cooking for lunch? Cannot come over?

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Speaker 2: Ask them that real quick. Hey man, welcome our EPHAM

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Speaker 2: around the world.

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Speaker 3: Let's give out.

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Speaker 2: Let's give out seventeen hugs on our way down.

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Speaker 3: To our seat? Can we do that? Are you ready

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Speaker 3: for the Word of God? Come on list?

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Speaker 2: Thank God for the worship team. The reason I said that,

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Speaker 2: came up. In a creative team meeting. I was asked

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Speaker 2: a question about songwriting and sermon writing, which one do

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Speaker 2: I enjoy more, to which I responded, it depends on

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Speaker 2: there are certain times where a sermon idea will come

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Speaker 2: can't wait to preach it, Get me a new nine

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Speaker 3: I have something to say from heaven.

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Speaker 2: Then five minutes later, I look at the same idea

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Speaker 2: and it just seems so ridiculous and simple and basic.

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Speaker 2: And I basically tell y'all everything I know every week.

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Speaker 2: I'm just waiting on you to actually do it one time,

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Speaker 2: just kidding. You're great, You're growing. I know you're disciple.

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Speaker 2: But it's like the process of creativity. It had certain

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Speaker 3: That's the title of my message.

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Speaker 2: It's called the sticking point because everything that you love

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Speaker 2: in life is going to have a part of the

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Speaker 2: going to tempt you to quit.

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Speaker 3: And it doesn't mean you don't love it.

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Speaker 2: I don't know when we started thinking that we have

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Speaker 2: You know, I quit my job because I wasn't feel

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Speaker 2: in it? Well, were you feel in indoor plumbing? Go

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Speaker 2: back to work, pay your bills, and not have to

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Speaker 2: love everything all the time. You know, because everything that

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Speaker 3: I called it the sticking point.

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Speaker 2: It's going to have a part or parts that you

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Speaker 2: don't prefer. Okay, I can't tell if you're with me yet.

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Speaker 2: Let me take this a level deeper. Every person that

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Speaker 3: I'm gonna say it that way.

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Speaker 2: It's gentler than saying that you don't like or that

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Speaker 3: Not me. I love everything about him you're dating. It's

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Speaker 2: Because every person and there's a parable about this. Jesus

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Speaker 2: liked the treasure so much that he sold everything and

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Speaker 2: Want the treasure, you've got to buy the field.

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Speaker 3: This isn't going good. We want the treasure, not the

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Speaker 2: We want the treasure or the blessings or sometimes we

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Speaker 2: want those those joyful moments. But even if you love

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Speaker 2: if you love your kids, there will be times where

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Speaker 3: For the record, I'm getting hate mail. But everything you love.

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Speaker 2: Even preaching, there's times when when I'm preaching that I

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Speaker 2: feel the spirit, and then there's times where I look

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Speaker 4: Room and I feel another spirit, the spirit of stress,

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Speaker 2: It's the moment where you start to doubt what you

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Speaker 2: mood doesn't match your mission, but you've got to push

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Speaker 2: the moment where, oh, I didn't know that about you.

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Speaker 2: When I said i'd do well, you did, and now

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Speaker 2: you do. The sticking point. For a scriptural example, I

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Speaker 2: thought of no better passage than the classic exodus, where

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Speaker 2: through the Red Sea? Not over it on a boat,

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Speaker 2: know if it is a state of mind, because sometimes

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Speaker 2: state of mind. Even recently, Holly pulled up a picture

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Speaker 2: But it was late, and our bags were checked and

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Speaker 3: Laughing about that. We weren't laughing when it happened.

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Speaker 3: But we did some.

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Speaker 2: We had marital enrichment in the hotel room on that trip.

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Speaker 2: That was a good trip. So there's nothing wrong with Chicago.

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Speaker 3: It wasn't. It wasn't Chicago. It wasn't like.

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Speaker 2: It was Des Moines. I loved Yll so much. You're

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Speaker 3: Huh uh? It wasn't. It wasn't.

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Speaker 2: The situation that we were stuck in. The reason we

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Speaker 3: You better get to the text.

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Speaker 2: Verdict Exodus, chapter fourteen, verse ten. The Israelites are leaving

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Speaker 2: slaves for four centuries serving Pharaoh, who had taken away

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Speaker 3: Reducing their resources.

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Speaker 2: So they're stuck, and God hears them, and God breaks through,

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Speaker 2: and God uses Moses to lead them out, because there

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Speaker 2: comes a period where God sees you stuck and realizes

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Speaker 2: that you cannot get.

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Speaker 2: So he said, I've heard the cries of my people,

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Speaker 2: he chose Moses to do it, he knew all about

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Speaker 2: he led.

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Speaker 3: Them out out, and he compelled Pharaoh to let.

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Speaker 2: And I wanted to tell you that when you get stuck,

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Speaker 2: He said, get it off, get it off. And I

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Speaker 2: Because I wish you would look at your neighbor and

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Speaker 2: When you get stuck. I didn't do it because I

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Speaker 2: I get stuck preparing these sermons. It's horrible. I'm not

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Speaker 3: Please don't think that I'm preaching to you about preaching.

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Speaker 2: I'm preaching to you about preaching because that's where I

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Speaker 3: We go through all kinds of hell us to do that.

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Speaker 2: to preach this sermon on Sunday and I'm stuck, and

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00:27:26,040 --> 00:27:27,920
Speaker 2: I get so stuck. I don't want to say anything.

440
00:27:30,640 --> 00:27:34,280
Speaker 2: How y'all doing praise the Lord? And I figure you

441
00:27:34,320 --> 00:27:37,080
Speaker 2: get stuck too, even if you don't preach sermons. I

442
00:27:37,080 --> 00:27:39,400
Speaker 2: figure you go, you're not. I gotta have this meeting

443
00:27:39,400 --> 00:27:40,479
Speaker 2: at the kids school, and I want to go down

444
00:27:40,520 --> 00:27:41,960
Speaker 2: there and talk to Principle because I don't think principal

445
00:27:41,960 --> 00:27:43,760
Speaker 2: is being fair of my kid. But I don't teach

446
00:27:43,760 --> 00:27:45,320
Speaker 2: my kids sometimes that people in fair life sometimes you

447
00:27:45,400 --> 00:27:46,000
Speaker 2: let them go through things.

448
00:27:46,000 --> 00:27:47,840
Speaker 3: Maybe they need to learn of that. I figure you

449
00:27:47,880 --> 00:27:49,040
Speaker 3: get stuck sometimes.

450
00:27:51,640 --> 00:27:55,080
Speaker 2: I figure you get stuck too, sometimes just a stecond point.

451
00:27:59,119 --> 00:28:03,080
Speaker 2: And this is not the first time that you've been stuck.

452
00:28:04,119 --> 00:28:06,399
Speaker 2: And this is not the first time Moses was stuck,

453
00:28:07,320 --> 00:28:09,680
Speaker 2: and that's the good thing about it if he did

454
00:28:09,720 --> 00:28:14,680
Speaker 2: it before. I just want to keep you breathing today

455
00:28:14,680 --> 00:28:19,399
Speaker 2: because I know you've been stuck if he did it before. See,

456
00:28:20,240 --> 00:28:24,320
Speaker 2: we get stuck, not always at the external circumstance.

457
00:28:25,760 --> 00:28:27,120
Speaker 3: Sometimes we get stuck in.

458
00:28:27,080 --> 00:28:36,480
Speaker 2: Ourselves, sometimes stuck as a state of mind. Chicago is

459
00:28:36,480 --> 00:28:40,160
Speaker 2: a nice city, but you weren't supposed to be in Chicago.

460
00:28:41,440 --> 00:28:44,120
Speaker 2: Sometimes we get stuck not in where we are, but

461
00:28:44,320 --> 00:28:46,680
Speaker 2: where we were supposed to be, in our plan for

462
00:28:46,720 --> 00:28:55,840
Speaker 2: our life. And so I'm stuck, not necessarily in what

463
00:28:56,000 --> 00:29:00,160
Speaker 2: it is, but in what I thought it was going

464
00:29:00,200 --> 00:29:03,320
Speaker 2: to be. I get stuck in supposed to. You have

465
00:29:03,440 --> 00:29:07,240
Speaker 2: been stuck in supposed to. My kids were supposed to

466
00:29:07,240 --> 00:29:11,920
Speaker 2: be Valedictorians. I was supposed to be married still I

467
00:29:12,040 --> 00:29:14,680
Speaker 2: was supposed to. It can be very painful. I was

468
00:29:14,800 --> 00:29:18,640
Speaker 2: supposed to by now. My retirement went out in oh wait.

469
00:29:18,920 --> 00:29:21,720
Speaker 2: I was supposed to be ready to quit working by now.

470
00:29:21,960 --> 00:29:25,200
Speaker 2: I was supposed to be married. My roommate got married,

471
00:29:25,280 --> 00:29:28,360
Speaker 2: and she's crazy. And I'm good person, and I'm a

472
00:29:28,440 --> 00:29:32,440
Speaker 2: Christian girl and I sing in the choir at Elevation Valentine,

473
00:29:32,480 --> 00:29:34,040
Speaker 2: and I'm supposed.

474
00:29:33,480 --> 00:29:35,479
Speaker 3: To be married. Some of us are stuck in what

475
00:29:35,520 --> 00:29:36,440
Speaker 3: we think we were.

476
00:29:36,320 --> 00:29:44,080
Speaker 2: Supposed to be and get stuck. Didn't get stuck in

477
00:29:44,080 --> 00:29:48,960
Speaker 2: a season. Every time in fall, I start to feel

478
00:29:49,640 --> 00:29:53,160
Speaker 2: a little drained from the ministry of the year, and

479
00:29:53,200 --> 00:29:57,840
Speaker 2: then depression can come in because it's the same same, same, same,

480
00:29:57,960 --> 00:30:02,240
Speaker 2: same same, And then everybody else in the church is

481
00:30:02,280 --> 00:30:04,680
Speaker 2: feeling the same way. And then I got to preach

482
00:30:04,720 --> 00:30:11,960
Speaker 2: to y'all. So, like, you know, I grew up in

483
00:30:12,040 --> 00:30:18,120
Speaker 2: the Low Country or South Carolina. You don't know where

484
00:30:18,120 --> 00:30:19,000
Speaker 2: I'm going with this yet.

485
00:30:19,040 --> 00:30:19,320
Speaker 3: Hang on.

486
00:30:21,440 --> 00:30:23,640
Speaker 2: They used to take their trucks out on Friday night

487
00:30:23,680 --> 00:30:26,959
Speaker 2: and get stuck on purpose, called it mudding.

488
00:30:29,840 --> 00:30:31,040
Speaker 3: But I found out something now.

489
00:30:32,160 --> 00:30:36,040
Speaker 2: You don't get stuck in anything shallow.

490
00:30:37,400 --> 00:30:41,240
Speaker 3: If you feel stuck, that means you're in the deep stuff.

491
00:30:43,680 --> 00:30:47,080
Speaker 2: Maybe God is doing something deep in your life when

492
00:30:47,120 --> 00:30:51,800
Speaker 2: you feel stuck. Maybe when you feel stuck, you're building strength.

493
00:30:52,080 --> 00:30:54,920
Speaker 2: I mean, that's the only way you really build strength, right,

494
00:30:55,160 --> 00:30:58,280
Speaker 2: is to get to that sticking point, to get to

495
00:30:58,320 --> 00:30:59,720
Speaker 2: that point where you can't push through.

496
00:31:00,000 --> 00:31:02,040
Speaker 3: You lift weights all the time, pe wegg, how about

497
00:31:02,080 --> 00:31:10,240
Speaker 3: you bench press? Huh? Five thirty five? All right, five

498
00:31:10,400 --> 00:31:12,240
Speaker 3: thirty five. I'm making this up. I didn't hear what

499
00:31:12,240 --> 00:31:14,640
Speaker 3: he really said, but he's big, and you know he's

500
00:31:14,680 --> 00:31:16,680
Speaker 3: in there. I used to have this spotter.

501
00:31:16,760 --> 00:31:19,200
Speaker 2: In high school, I didn't bench press five thirty five,

502
00:31:19,480 --> 00:31:22,040
Speaker 2: but he would stand over me, and the moment I

503
00:31:22,040 --> 00:31:24,120
Speaker 2: started to struggle, he would just lift the whole weight

504
00:31:24,160 --> 00:31:28,480
Speaker 2: off of me. I thought, well, man, that's not a

505
00:31:28,520 --> 00:31:35,040
Speaker 2: good spotter. That's not a good God to never let

506
00:31:35,080 --> 00:31:40,920
Speaker 2: you have any weight. That's not a good God to

507
00:31:41,040 --> 00:31:44,280
Speaker 2: never let you have any challenge. How would he grow

508
00:31:44,360 --> 00:31:48,200
Speaker 2: your faith? No, see a good spotter. You're on Rep.

509
00:31:48,200 --> 00:31:53,400
Speaker 2: Eleven right, five thirty five Rep eleven Ah, And I'm

510
00:31:53,520 --> 00:31:54,560
Speaker 2: just a little stuck.

511
00:31:55,120 --> 00:31:57,520
Speaker 3: And God is standing over your life.

512
00:31:57,560 --> 00:32:01,479
Speaker 2: I need you to know this, And he's where you're stuck,

513
00:32:01,920 --> 00:32:05,120
Speaker 2: that sticking point, and he says, I'm not gonna take

514
00:32:05,200 --> 00:32:08,600
Speaker 2: it off of you. I'm gonna give you a lift.

515
00:32:09,040 --> 00:32:13,320
Speaker 2: Have you ever had God be your stutter? I declare,

516
00:32:13,360 --> 00:32:17,320
Speaker 2: the God of angel armies is standing over your life,

517
00:32:17,800 --> 00:32:21,440
Speaker 2: and if you feel stuck, he will do what you

518
00:32:21,520 --> 00:32:22,280
Speaker 2: cannot do.

519
00:32:22,920 --> 00:32:24,240
Speaker 3: He is your string.

520
00:32:32,000 --> 00:32:35,080
Speaker 2: He knows how to get me past the point where

521
00:32:35,120 --> 00:32:35,880
Speaker 2: I'm stuck.

522
00:32:36,000 --> 00:32:37,640
Speaker 3: But now watch this. You may not like this.

523
00:32:40,080 --> 00:32:45,240
Speaker 2: The first sticking point that Moses encountered was not Pharaoh.

524
00:32:45,320 --> 00:32:48,680
Speaker 2: The first sticking point that Moses encountered and maybe the

525
00:32:48,720 --> 00:32:52,320
Speaker 2: greatest one is that he tried to negotiate with God.

526
00:32:54,400 --> 00:32:55,280
Speaker 3: And he got stuck.

527
00:32:57,120 --> 00:32:59,520
Speaker 2: He got stuck at the burning bush before he got

528
00:32:59,560 --> 00:33:00,440
Speaker 2: stuck at the Red Sea.

529
00:33:00,600 --> 00:33:01,800
Speaker 3: God's like, I chose you.

530
00:33:05,080 --> 00:33:08,320
Speaker 2: Now he's already stuck tending sheep for his father in law, Jethro.

531
00:33:09,320 --> 00:33:12,920
Speaker 2: He's been doing that forty years because he got mad

532
00:33:12,960 --> 00:33:14,040
Speaker 2: at somebody and killed him.

533
00:33:15,280 --> 00:33:19,000
Speaker 3: Because when you get stuck, you get stupid. And so

534
00:33:19,120 --> 00:33:19,720
Speaker 3: now he's.

535
00:33:19,640 --> 00:33:23,560
Speaker 2: Doing something's doing something that's the consequence of his decision.

536
00:33:24,760 --> 00:33:25,880
Speaker 3: And then the Lord speaks to him.

537
00:33:25,920 --> 00:33:29,640
Speaker 2: He's like, I chose you go to Pharaoh and tell

538
00:33:29,720 --> 00:33:33,400
Speaker 2: him let my people go with the hand motions, you

539
00:33:33,400 --> 00:33:34,920
Speaker 2: go to Bible school Pharaoh.

540
00:33:34,920 --> 00:33:35,960
Speaker 3: Pharaoh, okay. And so.

541
00:33:37,480 --> 00:33:40,960
Speaker 2: Moses is stuck. He's like, give me chapter four, verse

542
00:33:40,960 --> 00:33:43,440
Speaker 2: one Exodus four, verse one. And he showed this because

543
00:33:43,440 --> 00:33:49,280
Speaker 2: you might be stuck in yourself. He said, But behold,

544
00:33:49,560 --> 00:33:51,960
Speaker 2: they will not believe me. But you hadn't even talked

545
00:33:51,960 --> 00:33:55,440
Speaker 2: to them yet, or listen to my voice, for they

546
00:33:55,440 --> 00:33:57,320
Speaker 2: will say they will say the Lord.

547
00:33:57,120 --> 00:33:57,880
Speaker 3: Did not appear to you.

548
00:33:57,920 --> 00:33:58,000
Speaker 6: Know.

549
00:33:58,000 --> 00:34:00,200
Speaker 2: There's two things about this that are wrong. One is

550
00:34:00,240 --> 00:34:02,360
Speaker 2: on other people, and too it's about a future event

551
00:34:02,440 --> 00:34:13,000
Speaker 2: you can't control either. So he's stuck. And he's stuck

552
00:34:13,040 --> 00:34:20,640
Speaker 2: for good reason. It's because he knows himself. He knows Moses,

553
00:34:22,400 --> 00:34:27,000
Speaker 2: you know you, and to negotiate with God is usually

554
00:34:27,040 --> 00:34:32,720
Speaker 2: like nah, I better not try that. So I'm stuck

555
00:34:34,040 --> 00:34:38,360
Speaker 2: in myself. And he's already in this crazy He's telling

556
00:34:38,440 --> 00:34:42,000
Speaker 2: himself a story of what's gonna happen. You've been stuck

557
00:34:42,000 --> 00:34:46,920
Speaker 2: in a story of what's going to happen. Wake up

558
00:34:46,960 --> 00:34:51,040
Speaker 2: in the middle of the night sometimes just like Aha, I'm.

559
00:34:50,840 --> 00:34:51,920
Speaker 3: In a king's eze bed.

560
00:34:52,040 --> 00:34:56,280
Speaker 2: Everything's good, got the beautiful woman in the world sleeping

561
00:34:56,320 --> 00:34:59,840
Speaker 2: next to me. I'm screaming, I'm stuck in a story

562
00:35:00,160 --> 00:35:03,400
Speaker 2: of what might happen tomorrow or what has happened before.

563
00:35:03,800 --> 00:35:07,120
Speaker 2: You ever been stuck in a story? Have you ever

564
00:35:07,120 --> 00:35:11,279
Speaker 2: been stuck in yourself? Have you ever been stuck in

565
00:35:11,320 --> 00:35:18,359
Speaker 2: a story about yourself? I mean, rejection is painful, but

566
00:35:18,400 --> 00:35:19,880
Speaker 2: Moses takes it to a new level.

567
00:35:21,360 --> 00:35:22,400
Speaker 3: This is not rejection.

568
00:35:23,560 --> 00:35:26,160
Speaker 2: He rejects himself before anybody else has the chance to.

569
00:35:28,320 --> 00:35:30,960
Speaker 2: This is like advanced level. This is prejection.

570
00:35:32,880 --> 00:35:35,400
Speaker 3: Huh. I'm not even gonna try.

571
00:35:34,800 --> 00:35:37,239
Speaker 2: It's a story of my life.

572
00:35:37,320 --> 00:35:38,640
Speaker 3: Everything always goes wrong.

573
00:35:43,560 --> 00:35:44,960
Speaker 2: I mean, I see this. I don't want to do

574
00:35:45,000 --> 00:35:48,439
Speaker 2: a dating seminary. We already did a negotiation seminar. When

575
00:35:48,440 --> 00:35:50,520
Speaker 2: you ask her out on a date, like, I know

576
00:35:50,640 --> 00:35:59,200
Speaker 2: you've got on mine to you gotta have some confidence

577
00:35:59,280 --> 00:36:02,560
Speaker 2: to it. Man, walk up to her like, hey, I

578
00:36:02,600 --> 00:36:04,640
Speaker 2: didn't know if you wanted to go Tuesday or Wednesday.

579
00:36:08,320 --> 00:36:12,640
Speaker 2: Come on, I'm helping you. Name your kid Larry, that's

580
00:36:12,680 --> 00:36:17,760
Speaker 2: my legal first name. But Moses is like, I can't

581
00:36:17,760 --> 00:36:20,040
Speaker 2: do this. I know me, I don't have it. I

582
00:36:20,080 --> 00:36:24,960
Speaker 2: can't do it. He's stuck in a story about himself. Now,

583
00:36:26,120 --> 00:36:31,319
Speaker 2: the bigger story does not revolve around you. Remember that

584
00:36:33,239 --> 00:36:35,719
Speaker 2: when we get stuck in ourselves, we miss the whole

585
00:36:35,760 --> 00:36:38,080
Speaker 2: point that God is doing something that.

586
00:36:38,080 --> 00:36:41,799
Speaker 3: Is bigger than you. It's bigger than what's wrong with you.

587
00:36:42,280 --> 00:36:45,400
Speaker 3: It's bigger than what you didn't do. It's bigger than.

588
00:36:45,280 --> 00:36:48,399
Speaker 2: The time you waste it, and is certainly bigger than

589
00:36:48,440 --> 00:36:58,000
Speaker 2: the opinions of others. So God makes this kind of

590
00:36:58,040 --> 00:37:01,800
Speaker 2: like pep talk. He's like, what is that in your hand?

591
00:37:02,960 --> 00:37:04,880
Speaker 2: What is that in your hand? This wouldn't make me

592
00:37:04,920 --> 00:37:07,080
Speaker 2: feel any better if I've got to lead a whole

593
00:37:07,160 --> 00:37:11,399
Speaker 2: nation until the most powerful man in the world let

594
00:37:11,440 --> 00:37:15,120
Speaker 2: my people go uh yeah, yeah, yeah yeah. It's like,

595
00:37:16,000 --> 00:37:18,399
Speaker 2: what is that in your hand? And Moses says, give

596
00:37:18,440 --> 00:37:22,560
Speaker 2: me the verse a staff. The ESV calls it a staff,

597
00:37:24,160 --> 00:37:25,240
Speaker 2: but technically it's.

598
00:37:26,560 --> 00:37:27,359
Speaker 3: A stick.

599
00:37:30,480 --> 00:37:34,720
Speaker 2: For every sticking point in your life. God has given

600
00:37:34,760 --> 00:37:43,279
Speaker 2: you a stick, and you've got one right now. In

601
00:37:43,360 --> 00:37:46,399
Speaker 2: order for Moses to see what that instrument could be,

602
00:37:47,160 --> 00:37:50,040
Speaker 2: he had to release it and throw it down on

603
00:37:50,080 --> 00:37:54,560
Speaker 2: the ground. When he released it on the ground, it

604
00:37:54,680 --> 00:37:59,439
Speaker 2: became a snake. Until you surrender it, you will never

605
00:37:59,600 --> 00:38:04,000
Speaker 2: see what it could be. I'm gonna bridge this thing.

606
00:38:04,680 --> 00:38:06,279
Speaker 2: I'm going home in a minute. But let me tell

607
00:38:06,280 --> 00:38:09,480
Speaker 2: you something right now. If you will release it, if

608
00:38:09,520 --> 00:38:12,200
Speaker 2: you will put it before God, if you will say,

609
00:38:12,239 --> 00:38:16,840
Speaker 2: here's my intellect, here's my will, here's my understanding, here's

610
00:38:16,880 --> 00:38:19,880
Speaker 2: my ability, you will watch it transform.

611
00:38:20,120 --> 00:38:21,120
Speaker 3: It will transform.

612
00:38:21,200 --> 00:38:24,920
Speaker 2: It became a snake to become a sign because Moses

613
00:38:25,000 --> 00:38:27,880
Speaker 2: needed to know this is really God because he was

614
00:38:27,960 --> 00:38:30,719
Speaker 2: stuck in himself. And when you need to get out

615
00:38:30,760 --> 00:38:33,720
Speaker 2: of yourself, you have to release what God has given

616
00:38:33,760 --> 00:38:36,280
Speaker 2: you so he can show you what it can become.

617
00:38:38,920 --> 00:38:42,200
Speaker 2: But then he had to do something crazy. He had

618
00:38:42,200 --> 00:38:44,399
Speaker 2: to do something that I would never do. He had

619
00:38:44,400 --> 00:38:46,760
Speaker 2: to do something that you only do if you really

620
00:38:46,760 --> 00:38:47,440
Speaker 2: love nature.

621
00:38:47,880 --> 00:38:50,440
Speaker 3: He had to pick up the snake.

622
00:38:52,200 --> 00:38:54,320
Speaker 2: Because when he first released it and it became a snake,

623
00:38:54,360 --> 00:39:00,440
Speaker 2: he ran from it because he was smart, because he

624
00:39:00,480 --> 00:39:02,600
Speaker 2: didn't have faith, but because he had intelligence.

625
00:39:05,560 --> 00:39:09,560
Speaker 3: But then God called him to reach for what he

626
00:39:09,600 --> 00:39:10,520
Speaker 3: had been running from.

627
00:39:12,400 --> 00:39:14,640
Speaker 2: I promise you, I feel the Holy Spirit so strong

628
00:39:14,719 --> 00:39:21,160
Speaker 2: right now. And when he did it, it turned back

629
00:39:21,160 --> 00:39:27,800
Speaker 2: into a stick. A stick is something small, but it

630
00:39:27,840 --> 00:39:31,560
Speaker 2: would be that same stick. I need you to know

631
00:39:31,640 --> 00:39:36,839
Speaker 2: this because you've never been through this challenge before. You've

632
00:39:36,880 --> 00:39:40,920
Speaker 2: never been twenty four before. You've never been sixty one before.

633
00:39:42,880 --> 00:39:45,000
Speaker 2: You never been a wife before, you never been a

634
00:39:45,000 --> 00:39:47,960
Speaker 2: mom before. I never been a dad before. This is

635
00:39:48,040 --> 00:39:53,520
Speaker 2: my first rodeo. You never been through this before. This

636
00:39:53,680 --> 00:39:57,640
Speaker 2: wasn't on my schedule. And I don't feel like I'm

637
00:39:57,680 --> 00:40:00,520
Speaker 2: what I'm supposed to be for what I'm up against.

638
00:40:01,560 --> 00:40:03,640
Speaker 2: Can I tell you what God told Moses by the

639
00:40:03,680 --> 00:40:07,480
Speaker 2: power of the Holy Spirit, that when you stand in

640
00:40:07,520 --> 00:40:11,479
Speaker 2: front of those red seas in your life, God took

641
00:40:11,520 --> 00:40:16,320
Speaker 2: him back and showed him the same stick, the same

642
00:40:16,360 --> 00:40:19,440
Speaker 2: stick that God had changed into a snake and back

643
00:40:19,480 --> 00:40:23,920
Speaker 2: into a stick, that same stick, and he told him

644
00:40:23,920 --> 00:40:27,120
Speaker 2: an Exodus fourteen, verse sixteen, I want you to take

645
00:40:27,160 --> 00:40:30,680
Speaker 2: your stick and point it at what you're going through.

646
00:40:33,320 --> 00:40:36,239
Speaker 2: I want you to take your stick, and I want

647
00:40:36,280 --> 00:40:37,960
Speaker 2: you to point it at what you can't get over.

648
00:40:39,520 --> 00:40:40,880
Speaker 3: I want you to take your stick.

649
00:40:41,040 --> 00:40:43,360
Speaker 2: Keep the verse up, because this is right from the Bible,

650
00:40:43,960 --> 00:40:45,200
Speaker 2: and raise your staff.

651
00:40:46,120 --> 00:40:48,920
Speaker 3: I know as small, it always feels small.

652
00:40:50,200 --> 00:40:52,360
Speaker 2: I know that some of you are visited by the

653
00:40:52,400 --> 00:40:56,720
Speaker 2: perpetuable spirit of the never enough. But it becomes enough

654
00:40:57,000 --> 00:41:01,880
Speaker 2: when you stretch it. It becomes enough. When you use it,

655
00:41:01,880 --> 00:41:04,920
Speaker 2: it becomes a enough. This is the miracle of faith.

656
00:41:05,040 --> 00:41:08,600
Speaker 2: Why because God changes things?

657
00:41:08,640 --> 00:41:09,000
Speaker 3: Say it.

658
00:41:09,400 --> 00:41:14,680
Speaker 2: God changes things. That's what he does. God changes things.

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Speaker 2: He turns mourning to dancing. He changes things. He gives

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Speaker 2: beauty for ashes. He changes things. He turns shame into glory.

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Speaker 2: He turns crosses into empty tombs, he turns graves into gardens,

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Speaker 2: he turns bones into armies, he turns sees into highways.

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Speaker 2: And if you will stretch what He gave.

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Speaker 3: You over what's your going through, You're.

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Speaker 2: Gonna get through this. I declare it. I decree it.

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Speaker 7: God said it.

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Speaker 2: That sells it.

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Speaker 3: Back up, Pharaoh.

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Speaker 2: I've come it through, so I know it feels small,

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Speaker 2: and I know for many of your energy has been

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Speaker 2: diminished by what you've gone through. And I know some

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00:42:16,280 --> 00:42:18,800
Speaker 2: of you feel too young, and some feel too old,

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00:42:19,000 --> 00:42:22,080
Speaker 2: and some feel too in between, and some feel too.

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Speaker 3: Shut up and trust your stuff.

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Speaker 2: Don't do something stupid like give up and quit just

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Speaker 2: because you feel tired. I felt tired from the nine

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Speaker 2: thirty and I came out and preached this one, and

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Speaker 2: I had to get in a freezing cold shower to

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Speaker 2: wake up.

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Speaker 3: Because you need this word. So I grabbed my stick

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Speaker 3: and preached it.

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Speaker 2: Because I can't stop doing what I'm called to do

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Speaker 2: just because I'm tired. But you will have to trust

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Speaker 2: that it is enough. Not that God is enough, but

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Speaker 2: that what He gave you is enough for where he

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Speaker 2: put you. This is a sticking point, and if you

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Speaker 2: sit there and try to negotiate with God, you will

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00:43:28,680 --> 00:43:33,320
Speaker 2: miss it. Saddest thing in the world is that Moses

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00:43:33,400 --> 00:43:35,080
Speaker 2: never even went into the Promised Land.

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Speaker 3: He got stuck.

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Speaker 2: He hit a rock with his staff, the same staff

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Speaker 2: that he raised over the sea, and the waters parted

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Speaker 2: and they got through. He took that staff because he

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Speaker 2: was tired of the people, and he struck the rock twice,

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Speaker 2: and God said, now you can't go in because.

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Speaker 3: You don't trust me enough.

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Speaker 2: Everything you love will have a part of the process

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Speaker 2: that you will not like, including following Jesus. Did Jesus

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Speaker 2: love the Father? Then why did he ask in the

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Speaker 2: garden of gotthsemone if there's any other way, I don't

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Speaker 2: want to do it, because everything that you love will

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00:44:23,200 --> 00:44:27,120
Speaker 2: have a part that you don't like. I'm so sick

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Speaker 2: of my generation thinking that we always have.

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Speaker 3: To feel happy to move forward.

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Speaker 2: Sometimes we can do it because we love God enough,

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00:44:35,800 --> 00:44:38,680
Speaker 2: and we love people enough, and we're called and because

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00:44:38,719 --> 00:44:41,879
Speaker 2: we have a style. I gotta stick I gotta stick

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Speaker 2: it out, I gotta persevere. I have a purpose, I

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00:44:45,000 --> 00:44:47,719
Speaker 2: have a reason, I have a calling. And no, you

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00:44:47,800 --> 00:44:55,000
Speaker 2: can't have me back, Pharaoh. No, come too far to

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00:44:55,040 --> 00:45:01,600
Speaker 2: get stuck here. Some of you came from broken homes

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00:45:01,760 --> 00:45:06,359
Speaker 2: and broken families and busted situations, and God would not

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00:45:06,440 --> 00:45:08,080
Speaker 2: bring you out here to drown you.

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Speaker 3: He's dealing with your enemies.

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Speaker 2: Stretch your stick and trust your stuff and.

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00:45:13,840 --> 00:45:21,359
Speaker 3: Go forward and stand there.

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00:45:22,760 --> 00:45:26,600
Speaker 2: It's a small thing, and if you trust him enough

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Speaker 2: to stretch the small thing over the bigger thing.

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Speaker 3: I don't know what that is for you.

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Speaker 2: I'm going slow because I need you to imagine and

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Speaker 2: I need you to see yourself on the other side

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Speaker 2: of this. What's going to be like when you're helping

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00:45:47,680 --> 00:45:52,040
Speaker 2: somebody else and all the hell that you went through

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00:45:52,080 --> 00:46:02,960
Speaker 2: isn't wasted, but it's invested. It's the dumbest thing. But

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Speaker 2: I just saw a picture like Popeye or something of

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00:46:05,200 --> 00:46:08,839
Speaker 2: you just getting strong in your spirit because you're.

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00:46:08,800 --> 00:46:12,200
Speaker 3: Pushing past the sticking point. Now you got a spotter

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00:46:13,560 --> 00:46:15,480
Speaker 3: and God is not gonna let it fall on you.

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00:46:16,920 --> 00:46:22,200
Speaker 3: But you got to imagine. Okay, Okay, I will rejoice again.

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Speaker 3: I will sing again. Okay, Okay, my children are gonna

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Speaker 3: be free because I fought for this.

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Speaker 2: Okay, Okay, I would do it, But but you will

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Speaker 2: have to commit.

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Speaker 3: You will have to You will have to walk through.

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Speaker 2: It, and that means you'll have to walk through something

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Speaker 2: that feels like it could collapse on you at any time.

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Speaker 3: The story goes that he stretched.

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Speaker 2: The staff, he trusted God, and God I made a

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Speaker 2: Don't you love this? An interstate highway through the sea

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Speaker 2: who else can do that? Who else can turn a

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Speaker 2: sea into a highway, a stick into a sake a

742
00:47:13,520 --> 00:47:20,680
Speaker 2: great Only God can do it. So the ability to

743
00:47:20,760 --> 00:47:25,160
Speaker 2: walk through something that God is holding up for you.

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00:47:25,160 --> 00:47:28,239
Speaker 2: You can't stick your right foot in and your right

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Speaker 2: foot out. You can't hokey pokey through the red sea.

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Speaker 2: It's going to mean saying that God, I'm going to

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00:47:35,640 --> 00:47:41,040
Speaker 2: see this through. Must stay in this uncomfortable place. I

748
00:47:41,080 --> 00:47:43,400
Speaker 2: would rather stay stuck and have you deal with what

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00:47:43,480 --> 00:47:46,360
Speaker 2: you need to deal with. I would rather stay stuck

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00:47:46,440 --> 00:47:52,160
Speaker 2: and see your purpose for my life fulfilled. Because when

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00:47:52,200 --> 00:47:54,600
Speaker 2: you're standing in front of something you've never seen before,

752
00:47:55,480 --> 00:47:56,600
Speaker 2: hold on to what you know.

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00:47:58,800 --> 00:48:03,000
Speaker 3: You got to stick. You got a stick.

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00:48:05,080 --> 00:48:06,800
Speaker 2: And when it happens this week, when you hit the

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00:48:06,840 --> 00:48:10,120
Speaker 2: sticking point, if it's a mood, or if it's a

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00:48:10,960 --> 00:48:12,440
Speaker 2: I don't want to say this, but if it's a

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00:48:12,480 --> 00:48:16,799
Speaker 2: mother in law, or or if it's something real, deep

758
00:48:16,840 --> 00:48:19,960
Speaker 2: and dark that we can't talk about out loud, when

759
00:48:19,960 --> 00:48:29,200
Speaker 2: you hit it, use your stick. Small, Trust, imagine, commit

760
00:48:30,560 --> 00:48:38,920
Speaker 2: and know that spells stick small. Trust God. It doesn't

761
00:48:38,920 --> 00:48:48,000
Speaker 2: feel like much, but it's enough. Trust, Imagine, commit and know, Father,

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Speaker 2: as your word has gone forth today. I have experienced

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Speaker 2: such a joy of seeing these people receive this personal word.

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Speaker 2: The other side of the camera, watching through a screen

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Speaker 2: somewhere is someone who needed this message, And sitting in

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Speaker 2: this room is someone who is at a sticking point,

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00:49:12,719 --> 00:49:17,720
Speaker 2: and what they do next will determine so much about

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Speaker 2: whether they stay stuck or move forward. Everyone's standing at

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Speaker 2: all of our locations, no one leaving. Thank you, Lord,

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Speaker 2: Glory to your name, Thank you Jesus, Blessed be your name.

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Speaker 3: Holy is your name? Worthy is your name? Worthy is

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Speaker 3: your name? Worthy is your name?

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Speaker 2: When they got through to the other side, y'all, they

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00:49:54,640 --> 00:49:55,400
Speaker 2: started singing.

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Speaker 3: But sometimes you got to sing on the wrong side.

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Speaker 3: Worthy is your name.

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Speaker 2: Sometimes you've got to sing when you feel pain, and

778
00:50:07,360 --> 00:50:07,879
Speaker 2: you've got to.

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Speaker 3: Offer God the sacrifice of praise. And I wish there were.

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Speaker 2: About one thousand people at Elevation Valentine, and a few

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Speaker 2: hundred at Blakeney, and a few hundred of Gaston that

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Speaker 2: would just lift your hands and begin to worship gods,

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Speaker 2: begin to thank him that he turns seas into highways,

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Speaker 2: hu tfoos, begin to thank him that he turns mourning

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Speaker 2: to dancing. Cutterr sasy to think him that he steals,

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Speaker 2: wins and ways.

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Speaker 3: And the things that only he can do.

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Speaker 2: Shuutter morty's a day's and the glory and only he

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Speaker 2: deserved few give beauty.

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Speaker 3: His name is great, his one is true. Shame easy,

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Speaker 3: and it will come to that.

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Speaker 2: New kid.

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Speaker 7: Shoot curcrazy.

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Speaker 3: Tirps it shoot merces com any believe that I'm all

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Speaker 3: say it like your b even you every location.

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Speaker 7: You turcusey God, shoot tr balls It's merces.

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Speaker 2: Udy.

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Speaker 3: Thank you for joining us.

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Speaker 2: Special thanks to those of you who give generously to

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

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