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Speaker 1: Hey, this is Stephen Ferdick. I'm the pastor of Elevation

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Speaker 1: Church and this is our podcast. I wanted to thank

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Speaker 1: you for joining us today. Hope this inspires you. Hope

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Speaker 1: it builds your faith. Hope it gives your perspective to

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Speaker 1: see God is moving in your life. Enjoy the message.

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Speaker 1: Turn in your bible to Matthew. Excuse me. Mark chapter three.

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Speaker 1: I'll go to Matthew in a minute. I got so

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Speaker 1: much scripture. This is gonna be overwhelming today. I hope

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Speaker 1: you wore sweatpants because you're gonna get fat off of

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Speaker 1: this bread from heaven today. You need an elastic waistband

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Speaker 1: for this. God has been speaking to me because I

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Speaker 1: asked him. I said, God, give me a message for

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Speaker 1: your people, and he gave me so much to give.

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Speaker 1: We'll see if we can get it done all in

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Speaker 1: this one session. Mark chapter three. I'm gonna pick up

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Speaker 1: at verse twenty. Do you remember a couple of years

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Speaker 1: ago I preached savage Jesus and we were saying, how

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Speaker 1: Jesus isn't solved, Jesus isn't scared. Jesus is so great

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Speaker 1: and so awesome and so powerful, and he's confident in

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Speaker 1: that way that true authority always carries itself to know

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Speaker 1: who he is and what he came to do. So

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Speaker 1: I figured we spend some time with him today, our example,

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Speaker 1: the author and finisher of our faith. Let's spend some

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Speaker 1: time with Jesus, seeing his example. In his days, things

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Speaker 1: were much different than they are now. There was a division,

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Speaker 1: political division, it was different. The Bible's not as relevant

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Speaker 1: in our times. But in his day there was uncertainty,

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Speaker 1: there was instability, and so he was dealing with things

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Speaker 1: that we don't deal with as an advanced civilization. But

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Speaker 1: let's see if we can find any help at all

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Speaker 1: from this quaint book called the Bible that has absolutely

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Speaker 1: no bearing on our current lives. That was sarcasm. I

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Speaker 1: can see them taking that and putting that on YouTube,

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Speaker 1: So I have to okay, Mark three, verse twenty. This

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Speaker 1: is the message that I never got to preach from

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Speaker 1: savage Jesus, and so we're doing it today. Then Jesus

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Speaker 1: come on, come in my house, Come in this room,

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Speaker 1: Come in my kitchen. God, come in this house, right now,

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Speaker 1: come in my house, Come in my heart. Then Jesus

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Speaker 1: entered a house. And I believe he's come into your

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Speaker 1: house today too. Okay, not mister Rogers, but Jesus come

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Speaker 1: into your house right now. He said that he entered

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Speaker 1: a house. This is what Mark said. And a crowd

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Speaker 1: gathered so that he and his disciples were not even

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Speaker 1: they went to take charge of him, for they said

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Speaker 1: he is out of his mind. And the teachers of

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Speaker 1: the law who came down from Jerusalem, said, he is

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Speaker 1: possessed by Beelzeble, by the prince of demons. He's driving

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Speaker 1: out demons. So Jesus called them over to him and

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Speaker 1: began to speak to them in parables. How can Satan

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Speaker 1: drive out Satan? If a kingdom is divided against itself,

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Speaker 1: that kingdom cannot stand. If a house is divided against itself,

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Speaker 1: that house cannot stand. And if Satan opposes himself and

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Speaker 1: is divided, he cannot stand. His end has come. In fact,

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Speaker 1: no one can enter a strong man's house without first

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Speaker 1: tying him up. Then he can plunder the strong man's house. Truly,

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Speaker 1: I tell you, people can be forgiven all their sins

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Speaker 1: and every slander they utter. Some of you better praise

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Speaker 1: God with the some of the stuff you've said. That's

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Speaker 1: a good verse. Let me read it again. People can

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Speaker 1: I lost, y'all. But whoever blasphemes listen to this against

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Speaker 1: of an eternal sin. He said this because they were

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Speaker 1: saying he has an impure spirit. Then Jesus' mother and

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Speaker 1: this standing outside, they sent someone to call him. Standing outside,

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Speaker 1: they sent someone in to call him. What I want

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Speaker 1: to talk to you today is from something you might

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Speaker 1: have heard in school from your teacher. The message is

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Speaker 1: called use your inside voice. Did you ever have a

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Speaker 1: anything else. But I figure, Abby is what do you

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Speaker 1: How can she be so little and so loud? It's

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Speaker 1: baffling to the mind. I had to slash back whilst

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Speaker 1: but she was probably fussing about her brother's The odds

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Speaker 1: are very high that she that's what she was tweaked about.

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Speaker 1: She said, uh, she says, A there's a lot of

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Speaker 1: And I say, baby, I'm listening, use your inside voice.

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Speaker 1: She goes without adjusting her volume one decibel. This is

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Speaker 1: my inside voice. She was so confused, so frustrated. This

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Speaker 1: is my inside voice. I wonder about your inside voice,

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Speaker 1: and what I wonder is what is your inside voice?

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Speaker 1: Mine would scare you my inside voice. I'm using that

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Speaker 1: not to mean my volume level. I'm using that to

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Speaker 1: Even right now, in this moment, there are two preachers preaching,

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Speaker 1: the one you hear and the one I hear. And

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Speaker 1: about your inside voice, because Holly's not that self critical

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Speaker 1: because she's really nice to herself. It turns out, and

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Speaker 1: one time we were watching this movie and they were

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Speaker 1: the dumbest movie scene I've ever seen in my life.

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Speaker 1: I didn't relate to it at all. And we were

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Speaker 1: within our own minds. About your inside voice, Abby said,

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Speaker 1: I just read you. What I noticed about Jesus is

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Speaker 1: That's foundational. But what I wonder about for a lot

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Speaker 1: deliver us from cynicism. Can I preach for three and

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Speaker 1: like preaching cynicism has become our strategy. It's how we

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Speaker 1: no one can bring them down. For many of us,

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Speaker 1: Them that should have known that the one who was

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Speaker 1: the fulfillment of the law that they had expertly divined

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Speaker 1: even know it, because Jesus was doing weird stuff, healing

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Speaker 1: you this, Annah. In Mark's Gospel it says crowd thirteen times,

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Speaker 1: wanted to draw a crowd. But when Mark records his gospel,

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Speaker 1: what he came to do. That's not just for preachers.

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Speaker 1: A lot of the times, the things that the world

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Speaker 1: celebrates actually get in the way of God doing what

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Speaker 1: to be busy, that's another way of saying crowded. But

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Speaker 1: sometimes our busyness is the very thing that keeps God

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Speaker 1: from doing his work his business. Now, now, Jesus said,

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Speaker 1: had to be about building what he called in this

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Speaker 1: passage his father's kingdom, or the Kingdom of God, the

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Speaker 1: so he can use his his what, his why. See,

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Speaker 1: real power doesn't have to show. He called them over.

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Speaker 1: He knew where he came from, he knew who he was.

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Speaker 1: Do you do you I'm checking on your inside voice.

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Speaker 1: On one hand, externally speaking, I am the child of

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Speaker 1: faith Bracy Lyles Ferdick. On one hand, speaking genetically, I

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Speaker 1: am the son of Larry Stevens Ferdick. I am Larry

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Speaker 1: Stevens Furdick, Jr. On one hand, but that's not where

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Speaker 1: I came from. Do you know where you come from?

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Speaker 1: Let me show you in first John where you came from.

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Speaker 1: You're ready for this? Now, where did Jesus come from?

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Speaker 1: I just told you. He was born in Bethlehem. He

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Speaker 1: grew up in Nazareth. He went to Capernaum. But in

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Speaker 1: the beginning was the Word, and the word was with God,

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Speaker 1: and the Word was God. So Jesus didn't come from Mary.

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Speaker 1: He came through Mary. So and his family showed up

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Speaker 1: and said, Hey, here's what you gotta do. And the

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Speaker 1: scribes showed up from the synagogue and said, hey, here's

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Speaker 1: what you gotta do. And everybody had an opinion. Jesus

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Speaker 1: was not driven by their opinions. He was steered by

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Speaker 1: the will of his father. Are you are you? Because

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Speaker 1: if you're not, you're going to be tossed and driven

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Speaker 1: with the wind, and your emotions are going to ruin

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Speaker 1: your life, and your cynicism is going to constrict your wisdom.

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Speaker 1: First John four, where do you come from? Ask somebody,

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Speaker 1: where do you come from? Look at them in the

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Speaker 1: pupils of their eyes. Y'all didn't say it in the room.

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Speaker 1: Where do you come from? Ask them again, where do

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Speaker 1: you come from? You don't even have to answer. I'm

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Speaker 1: going to answer it. You ready for this? This is

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Speaker 1: first John four, verse four. I love this Bible verse.

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Speaker 1: I've quoted it a lot. I don't think I ever

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Speaker 1: understood it till this week. One John four four? Are

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Speaker 1: you ready? You, dear children, are from God? Check this morning? Okay?

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Speaker 1: You are from God and have overcome them? You you

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Speaker 1: from God and have overcome them because the one who

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Speaker 1: is It's hard for me to say this like I

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Speaker 1: want to say it. It's so powerful to me. It

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Speaker 1: reminds me of a lady. She came up to me

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Speaker 1: one time after I preached. She had a deep Southern accent,

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Speaker 1: and she said, aren't you from Monk's Corner, South Carolina?

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Speaker 1: I said, yes, ma'am. She said, I'm from Somerville, which

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Speaker 1: is only twenty miles from Monk's Corner or so, and

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Speaker 1: that's where my rival the high school team football team,

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Speaker 1: the Somerville Greenway. So I said, well, I won't hold

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Speaker 1: that against you. You know, that little small town humor,

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Speaker 1: you know, give her that little Monk's Corner. I said, well,

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Speaker 1: I won't hold it against you because I'm a Berkeley

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Speaker 1: Stag and they're the Greenway. I said, it's all right.

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Speaker 1: She said, well, then I got a question for you.

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Speaker 1: If you're from Monk's Corner, why don't you talk like

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Speaker 1: where you come from? She said this about my accent,

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Speaker 1: But I want to ask this about your attitude. Now.

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Speaker 1: I just read you a Bible verse. I just read

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Speaker 1: you a Bible verse that said you are a child

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Speaker 1: of God. Helljae. I didn't get a B twelve shot,

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Speaker 1: Give me a B three. You are a child of God,

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Speaker 1: So why don't you talk like where you come from?

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Speaker 1: You'll come from God, You'll come from royalty, He'll flow

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Speaker 1: from his side, shock, like where you come from. I'm

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Speaker 1: looking for thirty people to have church with, So watch this.

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Speaker 1: Let the week say, I am trust, I come from strength,

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Speaker 1: I cut from the rock. I come from the world. WHOA,

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Speaker 1: I don't come from Nazarin. I don't come from Month's corner.

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Speaker 1: I didn't come from Larry. I came from the Lord.

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Speaker 1: I haven't inheritance. I'm a fack y'all do her real quick,

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Speaker 1: give God twenty seconds of praise. Let you know where

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Speaker 1: you come from. You are a royal priesthood. You are

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Speaker 1: a holy nation. To declare the praises, to declare the praises,

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Speaker 1: to declare the praises, to declare the praises. Anybody can

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Speaker 1: describe the problem, to declare the praises. It doesn't take

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Speaker 1: faith to be cynical. It doesn't take smart to be

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Speaker 1: said Nicole. It takes faith to contradict your circumstance with

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Speaker 1: your confession right there in the chat. Say I'm talking

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Speaker 1: like where I come from. I'm talking like she said.

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Speaker 1: You don't talk like you're from Monk's corner. Some of y'all,

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Speaker 1: you don't talk like you don't talk like you You

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Speaker 1: know that his blood was shed for you. You talk

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Speaker 1: to yourself like you're workless. I'm not even talking about

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Speaker 1: what you say to other people. I'm talking about how

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Speaker 1: we talk to ourself. I'm talking about the inside voice.

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Speaker 1: God said, let us make man in our image. You you,

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Speaker 1: you were me in his image. Paul said, you are

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Speaker 1: God's workmanship created in Christ before the world got started.

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Speaker 1: What gave Jesus the authority to focus on his assignment?

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Speaker 1: And what's going to help you do it as a mom,

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Speaker 1: as a man? What's going to help you to still

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Speaker 1: know who you are even though the addictions that you

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Speaker 1: carry say otherwise. Because I'm telling you God knows what's

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Speaker 1: going on inside of your heart today. I don't he does.

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Speaker 1: But even still before any of that, before any of

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Speaker 1: those layers of life that labeled you, you children of God,

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Speaker 1: dear children, have overcouse, greater is He? That is, if

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Speaker 1: I could teach you one thing about God today, I

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Speaker 1: can't tell you who he is because that would take

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Speaker 1: the rest of my life to even read the introduction.

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Speaker 1: But I can tell you where he is in one

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Speaker 1: word inside. So look at the rest of the text

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Speaker 1: in first John, It's very powerful, he said in verse five,

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Speaker 1: they are from the world, and therefore speak from the

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Speaker 1: viewpoint of the world. How can we have God's spirit

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Speaker 1: and speak Satan's language? How can Satan drive out satan

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Speaker 1: Cynicism is counterfeit strategy. The real wisdom of God is

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Speaker 1: peaceable and pure, and it creates more faith, not less.

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Speaker 1: But who are you listening to? Voices become viewpoints. He

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Speaker 1: said that you come from God, but you listen to

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Speaker 1: the world. You come from God, but you listen to

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Speaker 1: the opinions of people who don't have your best interest

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Speaker 1: at heart. I know everybody's trying to read into what

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Speaker 1: I'm saying, because you can't say anything anymore without it

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Speaker 1: being political. I'm saying first John four or five is

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Speaker 1: what I'm saying, that worldly values have no place in

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Speaker 1: the heart of a Christian. Here froud preacher ass wholen smoke.

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Speaker 1: The Bible don't even have cigarettes in it. This is

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Speaker 1: not about the external stuff. That's not what he's writing about.

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Speaker 1: He's saying, there are false prophets that have come and

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Speaker 1: the way you can recognize put it back up verse five.

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Speaker 1: He says, they speak from the viewpoint of the world.

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Speaker 1: You see it. Voices become viewpoints. Voices become viewpoints. What

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Speaker 1: you hear gets in your heart, what you scroll gets

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Speaker 1: in your spirit. I'm helping somebody in the most practical

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Speaker 1: way today. Help me help them, Lord, help me help them. Lord.

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Speaker 1: The Lord said, this is why you're stressed. Cynicism is

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Speaker 1: not wisdom, It's a sickness. They are from the world.

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Speaker 1: They speak like the world. Why would we have the

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Speaker 1: spirit of God and speak the language of satan? Just

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Speaker 1: the things we say to ourselves about ourselves? He said,

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Speaker 1: the world listens to them. But wat's what I found

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Speaker 1: in verse six. I love this. We are from God,

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Speaker 1: and whoever knows God listens to us. That really got me, man,

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Speaker 1: because I pictured Jesus. There's a crowd around him and

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Speaker 1: they want something from him. How many you feel like

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Speaker 1: there's people that want things from you all the time.

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Speaker 1: I know you're sitting next to him, so you can't

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Speaker 1: really raise your hand on that point. I know I

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Speaker 1: hear your inside voice, the Lord Jesus Christ, the Word

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Speaker 1: of God made flesh, the incarnate, eternal in itself. That's

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Speaker 1: a contradiction, is standing with the crowd, surrounded by scribes,

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Speaker 1: and even dealing with the cynicism of his own family right,

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Speaker 1: but he knew where he came from. We are from

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Speaker 1: God this week in your heart. I want you to

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Speaker 1: and don't start playing self music because I'm not closing.

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Speaker 1: I want you to talk like where you come from.

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Speaker 1: Talk like where you come from, or another way to

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Speaker 1: say it. Use your inside voice. The world is so

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Speaker 1: loud you think it's normal, Like Abby, this is my

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Speaker 1: inside voice. I'm just a pessimistic person. That's just the

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Speaker 1: way I am. What about the great I am? I

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Speaker 1: thought we just read a verse that said greater is

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Speaker 1: he that is in you than he that is in

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Speaker 1: the world. So what about that? Voices become viewpoints? Right?

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Speaker 1: I thought you were seated in heavenly places with Jesus

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Speaker 1: where he reigns. So what are you doing down in

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Speaker 1: the sewer of cynicism? The real issue isn't whether our

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Speaker 1: nation is divided. The real issue is whether your heart

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Speaker 1: is divided. Do you really trust his authority? Jesus had

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Speaker 1: internal authority. You know what that means. He didn't need

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Speaker 1: other people to tell him who he was. That's so cool.

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Speaker 1: Wouldn't you like to get there? I would. You're already there, Andrew,

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Speaker 1: but I've still got some work to do. Right. If

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Speaker 1: I had your beard, I'd be more confident too. But

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Speaker 1: look at Jesus. In verse twenty eight, he says something.

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Speaker 1: You can't really get the full sense of it in English,

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Speaker 1: but go back to Mark three twenty eight. Truly, I

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Speaker 1: tell you this phrase is only recorded from the lips

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Speaker 1: of Jesus in the whole New Testament in this way,

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Speaker 1: And let me tell you what's interesting about it. Usually

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Speaker 1: when a priest or a prophet would prophesy, they would say,

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Speaker 1: thus say it the Lord, and the people would say amen.

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Speaker 1: It was a response to what was spoken that confirmed

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Speaker 1: the truth of it, or a witness everybody say amen,

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Speaker 1: say it louder, say amen, Come on, say it like

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Speaker 1: you're from Monks Corner, South Carolina, Pentecostal Holiness Church. That

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Speaker 1: was terrible. Don't ever do that again. That's terrible. Well,

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Speaker 1: in the text it says truly, I tell you, but

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Speaker 1: the actual literal translation is a man, I tell you

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Speaker 1: the truth. What's weird about it is he said amen first.

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Speaker 1: He is the only one who does that. I don't

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Speaker 1: mean to bore you today. I know you want to

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Speaker 1: get back to count in ballots, but can I talk

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Speaker 1: about the Bible for three seconds, for three seconds? Can

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Speaker 1: the Lord have three seconds of your attention? All right? Then? See,

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Speaker 1: let me read this to you. Witherington said in his commentary,

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Speaker 1: I read this really expensive book to be able to

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Speaker 1: tell you the significance of this moment. And Jesus goes

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Speaker 1: on to say this in March's Gospel over and over again,

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Speaker 1: the phrase is, amen, I tell you the truth. Amen,

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Speaker 1: I say to you. And this is the first instance

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Speaker 1: in Mark. But listen. This phrase, which was characteristic of

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Speaker 1: Jesus get ready to shout, suggests that he felt free

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Speaker 1: to vouch for himself. It was a real expensive book,

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00:44:08,239 --> 00:44:11,720
Speaker 1: so I got to read it again. This phrase, a man,

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Speaker 1: I tell you suggests that he felt free to vouch

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Speaker 1: for himself and the truth of his own word without

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Speaker 1: requiring external human testimony to his truthfulness. So I want

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Speaker 1: you to say amen. I want you to say it again.

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Speaker 1: I want you to say it again. I want you

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Speaker 1: to learn how to say a man from within. What

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Speaker 1: I mean is I want you to get to the

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Speaker 1: point in your faith. And I want to get to

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Speaker 1: the point in my life where I do not wait

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Speaker 1: for humans to validate my identity or for events to

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Speaker 1: validate my optimism. I want to be able to watch this,

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Speaker 1: to say a man to begin with, So say amen.

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Speaker 1: If you know who you are, you can say that

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Speaker 1: and not wait for anybody else to say it for you.

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Speaker 1: If you know what he's spoken, if you know what

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Speaker 1: he said, if you know where you come from, you

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Speaker 1: can start your This is so grammatically incorrect, but theologically

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Speaker 1: is so powerful because Jesus wasn't waiting on anybody else

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Speaker 1: for an amen. He wasn't waiting for anybody else. He

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Speaker 1: wasn't waiting for anybody else. He had an amen that

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Speaker 1: came from within. And I think we've lost that. I

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Speaker 1: think we are so consumed with the voices of others

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Speaker 1: that we can't even hear our Father, and then we

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Speaker 1: start asking God to take away things that we put

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Speaker 1: in our hearts through the wrong voices. But today the

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Speaker 1: Lord said, it's going to be a better work week

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Speaker 1: for you, cause you're gonna begin with Amen. Clap your hands.

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Speaker 1: I'm gonna try that again. Clap your hands like you're

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Speaker 1: not at the masters. Clap your hands like what God's there,

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Speaker 1: you go, clap your hands. I'm on the thirteen of y'all,

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Speaker 1: I'm any thirty of y'all. I'm any somebody to clap

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Speaker 1: your hands if you receive this word, so Jesus. Jesus,

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Speaker 1: who was surrounded by cynicism, was not driven by the

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Speaker 1: agendas of others. He was led by the spirit of God.

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Speaker 1: We make this our prayer. God. We came today so

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Speaker 1: you could deal with our inside voice. We've been saying,

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Speaker 1: a man to the world's values and the world's vocabulary. Lord,

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Speaker 1: help me to begin my day with amen. So be it, Yes, Lord,

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Speaker 1: agreement with you. I agree with you. You say I'm

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Speaker 1: your child. I agree with you. You say I can

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Speaker 1: make it. I agree with you. You say you got me.

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Speaker 1: I agree with you. Why in the world will we

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Speaker 1: allow the language of the enemy to permeate the heart

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Speaker 1: of a child of God. Everyone's standing, everyone's standing, everyone's standing.

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Speaker 1: A woman told me one time, I know I'm doing

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Speaker 1: all these quotes today, But she said, I say amen

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Speaker 1: when you're preaching, but I just don't say it out loud.

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Speaker 1: She said, don't ever think that I'm not listening to you.

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Speaker 1: I'm saying amen on the inside. Everybody in here is

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Speaker 1: saying amen to something on the inside, coming into agreement

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Speaker 1: with viewpoints and values on the inside. Jesus said something

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Speaker 1: very interesting when his mother and his brothers came to

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Speaker 1: the door and they said, get out here, go back

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Speaker 1: to Nazareth. You know, you know that voice that always

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Speaker 1: tries to call you back to what's familiar, even if

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Speaker 1: it's not good for you. Come on, now, you got

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Speaker 1: to go back to Nazareth. Jesus had an inside voice.

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Speaker 1: He knew what his father had spoken. Voices become viewpoints.

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Speaker 1: Jesus wasn't going to be driven by something from the outside.

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Speaker 1: He was steered by the spirit of God on the inside.

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Speaker 1: Am I are you? Or have you got so much

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Speaker 1: noise that you don't even notice God's voice anymore when

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Speaker 1: he speaks. I gotta confess I'm guilty most of the time.

681
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Speaker 1: I preach to you what I pray to God about.

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Speaker 1: Help me with this, Lord, how many needs some help?

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Speaker 1: With your inside voice? You got it? He said. Greater

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Speaker 1: is he that's in you than he that's in the world.

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Speaker 1: And I believe that the voice you give attention to,

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Speaker 1: that's the one you're going to experience. Jesus said, I'm

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Speaker 1: not going to be driven by the opinions of anyone.

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Speaker 1: I'm moving according to my Father's agenda. He used his

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Speaker 1: inside voice. God, help us to hear your voice of

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Speaker 1: wisdom in this moment. Somebody right now is making big

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Speaker 1: decisions in their life. They're deciding whether to move or

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Speaker 1: to stay, whether to sell or to buy. Somebody's deciding

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Speaker 1: do they even think their life is worth living? And

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Speaker 1: right now is so important that they can hear you voice.

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Speaker 1: That's why the enemy has been crowding them out, doing

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Speaker 1: everything he can to keep them blind, to keep them mute,

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Speaker 1: to keep them confused. You are not the author of confusion, Lord,

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Speaker 1: So right now we ask for the clarity of the

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Speaker 1: whisper of your spirit. Call us over like you call

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Speaker 1: those scribes over it, and correct us, Lord, because we

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Speaker 1: have our own opinions in ways that things are supposed

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Speaker 1: to work, and we need to hear the word that

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Speaker 1: only you can speak from the inside voice. Speak on

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Speaker 1: the inside, Lord, that we start talking like where we

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Speaker 1: come from, that we start telling ourselves that we're loved

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Speaker 1: and we're okay, and we're sufficient, not because of some accomplishment.

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Speaker 1: No no, no no, that's external. No no no no no no,

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Speaker 1: because God made me, because I am made of the

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Speaker 1: same substance that God spoke the world with, so that

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Speaker 1: word is alive and acted the inside voice. Hey look

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Speaker 1: at me, Jed, do you remember I want to tell

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Speaker 1: you this because I know love. I know you love

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Speaker 1: the scriptures. When Jesus showed up at the tomb of Lazarus,

714
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Speaker 1: you remember how he got there and Lazarus was already dead.

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Speaker 1: So Mary and Martha were just so hurt by that.

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Speaker 1: Like a lot of people that are listening to this

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Speaker 1: word today, it's just so much noise, so much confusion. Literally,

718
00:51:39,000 --> 00:51:41,600
Speaker 1: you have felt like you're going crazy, and you kind

719
00:51:41,600 --> 00:51:45,080
Speaker 1: of are because you're trying to hold too much in

720
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Speaker 1: your head and in your heart, and you're being controlled

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Speaker 1: by external stuff, and everything else affects you. Everything else

722
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Speaker 1: tells you what it would take for you to matter.

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Speaker 1: That's what's happening. Well, in this particular case, they lost

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Speaker 1: their brother Lazarus. I spent the whole year trying to

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Speaker 1: write a book about Lazarus, so it was fresh on

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Speaker 1: my mind. And when Jesus got to the tomb, it

727
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Speaker 1: said that he felt something for the sisters. Look at me,

728
00:52:11,400 --> 00:52:15,160
Speaker 1: he feels something for you. He feels something for you.

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Speaker 1: He felt something on the inside and put up the

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Speaker 1: verse in chapter eleven, John, chapter eleven, Please, I gotta

731
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Speaker 1: show you this. It would be disobedient to the Lord

732
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Speaker 1: for me to not give you this. It was the

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Speaker 1: last thing God gave me for the sermon. But it

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Speaker 1: may be the thing you came for. John, chapter eleven. Please.

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Speaker 1: When Jesus saw her weeping, and the Jews who had

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Speaker 1: come along with her also weeping, he was deeply moved

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Speaker 1: in spirit and troubled by her pain, by your tears,

738
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Speaker 1: by your questions, deeply moved in trouble. That's what he

739
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Speaker 1: felt on the inside. Next verse, where have you laid him?

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Speaker 1: He asked, Come and see Lord? They reply, And what

741
00:52:57,239 --> 00:52:59,279
Speaker 1: came next was a miracle. How many are ready for

742
00:52:59,320 --> 00:53:02,319
Speaker 1: a miracle today? This may not be for someone in

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00:53:02,360 --> 00:53:06,600
Speaker 1: this room. Maybe it's for you. I don't know. I

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00:53:06,600 --> 00:53:11,680
Speaker 1: don't know. But the scripture says that in verse thirty five,

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Speaker 1: Jesus wept, and the Jews said, see how he loved him.

746
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Speaker 1: But some of them said you ever had Some of

747
00:53:22,920 --> 00:53:27,040
Speaker 1: them say, come on, talk to me, don't use your

748
00:53:27,080 --> 00:53:31,840
Speaker 1: inside voice. Some of them will always say, could not

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Speaker 1: he who opened the eyes of the blind man have

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Speaker 1: kept this man from dying? All these voices on the

751
00:53:40,320 --> 00:53:44,640
Speaker 1: inside of you could not He wouldn't shouldn't he have

752
00:53:45,920 --> 00:53:49,160
Speaker 1: the Bible? Says Jesus, once more deeply moved Verse thirty eight.

753
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Speaker 1: Came to the tomb. It was a cave with a

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Speaker 1: stone laid across the entrance. Take away the stone, he said,

755
00:53:55,600 --> 00:53:57,719
Speaker 1: But Lord, said Martha, the sister of the dead man.

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Speaker 1: By this time there's a bad odor, for he's been

757
00:54:00,000 --> 00:54:04,839
Speaker 1: there four days. Then Jesus said, did I not tell

758
00:54:04,880 --> 00:54:07,760
Speaker 1: you that if you believe, you will see the glory

759
00:54:07,760 --> 00:54:09,840
Speaker 1: of God. Now here's what I wanted to show you.

760
00:54:09,880 --> 00:54:12,520
Speaker 1: Please lean into this moment. Please don't get distracted. This

761
00:54:12,600 --> 00:54:17,520
Speaker 1: is so important. So they took away the stone. Then

762
00:54:17,640 --> 00:54:23,560
Speaker 1: Jesus looked up and said, Father, I thank you that

763
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Speaker 1: you have heard me. I knew that you always hear me,

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Speaker 1: but I said this for the benefit of the people

765
00:54:30,440 --> 00:54:33,759
Speaker 1: standing here, that they may believe that you sent me.

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Speaker 1: Verse forty three. This is what I'm familiar with. When

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Speaker 1: he said this, Jesus called in a loud voice, in

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Speaker 1: a what so I want you to say Lazarus on

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Speaker 1: three in a loud voice one two three. So he didn't.

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Speaker 1: He didn't say it softly. I could cry, thinking about it.

771
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Speaker 1: When he spoke to Lazarus, who was dead, he said

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Speaker 1: it loud. Jesus has an outside voice, he really does.

773
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Speaker 1: He can command and speak. I mean, Jesus, some of

774
00:55:14,440 --> 00:55:17,480
Speaker 1: y'all don't like it when I holler when I preach.

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00:55:17,880 --> 00:55:20,920
Speaker 1: That's my Bible verse right there, y'all, he said in

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Speaker 1: a loud voice. But he didn't get loud until he

777
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Speaker 1: was talking to Lazarus. When he spoke to his father,

778
00:55:34,280 --> 00:55:41,000
Speaker 1: he said it in his inside voice because he knew

779
00:55:41,040 --> 00:55:49,640
Speaker 1: God is not up there, out there distant. I and

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Speaker 1: my father are one, and I want you to know

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00:55:54,400 --> 00:55:56,240
Speaker 1: that this week that when you talk to your father,

782
00:55:57,560 --> 00:56:03,120
Speaker 1: you're using your inside voice. That's the real you, that's

783
00:56:03,160 --> 00:56:07,480
Speaker 1: your spirit. That's what God knows about you. That's not

784
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Speaker 1: what others say. Others think that's gonna drive you off

785
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Speaker 1: the edge of a cliff. But Jesus said to his father,

786
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Speaker 1: I know you always hear me. So Lord, you said

787
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Speaker 1: that your word would be like rain that came from

788
00:56:26,120 --> 00:56:30,160
Speaker 1: the heaven and did not return void. I believe that

789
00:56:30,280 --> 00:56:33,960
Speaker 1: about your word in this moment, I believe that your

790
00:56:33,960 --> 00:56:36,560
Speaker 1: word is gaining entrance to the hearts of men and women,

791
00:56:37,760 --> 00:56:39,920
Speaker 1: even now as I preach it. Lord, there's a certain

792
00:56:39,960 --> 00:56:43,600
Speaker 1: heaviness to those who are really receiving it, because the

793
00:56:43,719 --> 00:56:46,080
Speaker 1: chatter is so bad and the noise is so loud.

794
00:56:47,320 --> 00:56:51,080
Speaker 1: I pray that this week, amongst the shouts of the scribes,

795
00:56:52,000 --> 00:56:55,760
Speaker 1: the cynicism of those who should support us, the division

796
00:56:55,800 --> 00:56:58,080
Speaker 1: that we experience in our world, and the questions that

797
00:56:58,160 --> 00:57:04,080
Speaker 1: will remain unanswered, that we would use our inside voice,

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Speaker 1: that we would talk like where we come from, that

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Speaker 1: we would remember that we are citizens of a heavenly kingdom,

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Speaker 1: and we have a king, and his name is Jesus,

801
00:57:18,000 --> 00:57:21,760
Speaker 1: and that king is inside of me and inside of you.

802
00:57:22,680 --> 00:57:25,600
Speaker 1: So if you know it on the inside, come on,

803
00:57:25,800 --> 00:57:29,880
Speaker 1: use your outside voice for a minute. Come on, that's

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00:57:29,920 --> 00:57:39,080
Speaker 1: not it, That's not it. Lazarus, come far, shy co far,

805
00:57:40,400 --> 00:57:48,560
Speaker 1: please come far, like a river outer flow from my soul.

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Speaker 1: Come on, giving phraise in the house. Well, you know

807
00:57:54,960 --> 00:57:58,320
Speaker 1: I always like to share a final word, and you

808
00:57:58,360 --> 00:58:00,600
Speaker 1: can hear that it's kind of our right. I appreachied

809
00:58:00,640 --> 00:58:04,080
Speaker 1: about inside voice, and then I appreci so loud. I

810
00:58:04,200 --> 00:58:08,920
Speaker 1: lost my voice, but I'm working on it. Pray for me, seriously,

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00:58:08,960 --> 00:58:11,800
Speaker 1: we're praying for you. Don't forget that when you share

812
00:58:11,840 --> 00:58:16,680
Speaker 1: this message with somebody, or when you invest into this ministry,

813
00:58:17,040 --> 00:58:21,360
Speaker 1: when you give God uses it. It's planning seeds of

814
00:58:21,400 --> 00:58:24,439
Speaker 1: the Gospel, and we need it right now more than ever.

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Speaker 1: So I want to thank you for keeping the word

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00:58:26,640 --> 00:58:29,840
Speaker 1: of God going strong. There are so many thousands of

817
00:58:29,880 --> 00:58:32,840
Speaker 1: you that make up our EPHAM around the world. It

818
00:58:32,960 --> 00:58:36,280
Speaker 1: used to stand for extended family, but twenty twenty now

819
00:58:36,280 --> 00:58:38,800
Speaker 1: it means everyone, and so we just thank you for

820
00:58:38,880 --> 00:58:42,080
Speaker 1: being a part of this global ministry, this global family.

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Speaker 1: It is an honor for me and for Holly to

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Speaker 1: share God's word with you. Make sure you subscribe and

823
00:58:48,560 --> 00:58:52,840
Speaker 1: don't forget this week. Use your inside voice, subscribe, share

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Speaker 1: all that I see you next time. We love you.