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Speaker 1: Hey, this is Stephen Ferdick.

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

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

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

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

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Speaker 2: Enjoy the message.

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Speaker 1: I want to give you this in obedience to the

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Speaker 1: Holy Spirit. One time in college, I was feeling like

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Speaker 1: I wasn't worthy to worship the Lord.

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Speaker 2: And we went in a meeting and everybody was worshiping,

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Speaker 2: and I felt just so dry inside. And the reason

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Speaker 2: I felt dry is because of the things that I

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Speaker 2: was dealing with.

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Speaker 1: And I just bring it down a little bit. I

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Speaker 1: want to tell them this.

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Speaker 2: I was dealing with some things that I thought made

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Speaker 2: me unworthy to worship God. So you know, three or

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Speaker 2: four songs had gone by, and I couldn't lift my hands.

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Speaker 2: They felt heavy, and I couldn't open my mouth because

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Speaker 2: I felt like a hypocrite.

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Speaker 1: You ever felt like that before?

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Speaker 2: Just heavy with burdens or maybe the hypocrisy of the

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Speaker 2: things that you struggle with.

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Speaker 1: So you kind of hesitate because you're heavy. You hesitate

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Speaker 1: because you feel like a hypocrite, and.

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Speaker 2: Boy, the Lord gave me something in that moment that

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Speaker 2: really changed my life. And this has been over twenty

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Speaker 2: five years ago, but I still remember it. I was

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Speaker 2: just trying to pray and I was like, Lord, I

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Speaker 2: don't feel worthy to worship. I don't feel like I

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Speaker 2: deserve to worship.

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Speaker 1: And it was as if.

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Speaker 2: The Holy Spirit whispered to me. After I said I

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Speaker 2: don't deserve to worship. I don't deserve it, he said back,

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Speaker 2: so what I do. So that was a shift for

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Speaker 2: me because it went from what I deserve to what

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Speaker 2: he deserves. And if you can just make that shift,

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Speaker 2: you know, I know, we're moving into that time of

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Speaker 2: the year where everybody's preaching at you about an attitude

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Speaker 2: of gratitude and how you're supposed to be grateful when

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Speaker 2: you've got to be with all those people just a

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Speaker 2: few days from now and then see them again three

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Speaker 2: weeks later at Christmas.

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Speaker 1: You know, all the tension and the stress that we

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Speaker 1: don't mention.

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Speaker 2: Okay, y'all are going to fake, fake, fake me out

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Speaker 2: in church today, like you're looking forward to seeing everybody,

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Speaker 2: But even just the stress of the season, it can

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Speaker 2: put you in a place of pressure and maybe even

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Speaker 2: the fulfilled potential of the year where you feel like man,

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Speaker 2: I fell short of so many things. None of that

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Speaker 2: changes what God is worthy of. And so even if

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Speaker 2: you don't feel grateful, gratitude can be a focus before

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Speaker 2: it's a feeling, and that would just be so powerful

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Speaker 2: for you to get sixteen years old, if you would

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Speaker 2: get that at age sixteen, Nothing you ever do changes

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Speaker 2: how worthy God is.

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Speaker 1: So the heavier your hands feel, lift them higher. That's

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Speaker 1: called a sacrifice of praise. When you feel like you're

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Speaker 1: a hypocrite, reach out for him. He's righteous, he's holy.

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Speaker 2: You've never needed him more than you need him in

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Speaker 2: those moments you didn't even make it to church.

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Speaker 1: You're at home watching this. Lift your hand, say scare

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Speaker 1: your roommate and.

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Speaker 3: Tell him God is worthy. Hug my praise. Clock those

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Speaker 3: same hands. He's worthy, Hug my praise just like you

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Speaker 3: want to slap the devil.

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Speaker 2: Clock those hands, because He's still worthy of all my praise.

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Speaker 1: High five to seven people say he's so worthy, he

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Speaker 2: And when you gave out all your high fives, clap

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Speaker 4: For Jesus High, say Clopas for.

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Speaker 5: Jesus, I love my job man.

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Speaker 2: I get to encourage you and speak truth to you.

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Speaker 2: And today we are going to encounter a very interesting

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Speaker 2: story scripture, maybe one of the weirdest things Jesus ever did,

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Speaker 2: and it comes toward the very end of his earthly ministry.

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Speaker 2: Now notice I said earthly ministry, because he's still ministering.

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Speaker 2: Jesus didn't stop healing when he went to heaven. Jesus

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Speaker 2: didn't stop saving when he went to heaven. Jesus didn't

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Speaker 2: went to heaven. In fact, he said one time, if

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Speaker 2: Holy Spirit who I will send in my name. But

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Speaker 2: after Jesus was resurrected from the dead, on the day

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Speaker 2: and I want to share it with you today.

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Speaker 1: Found in Luke chapter twenty four, verse thirteen.

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Speaker 2: Through thirty five. We won't read all of that. If

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Speaker 2: you're doing the math, we won't read all of that.

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Speaker 2: But I wanted to give you the homework as well,

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Speaker 2: because when the sermon is over, then you can begin

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Speaker 2: to live it out Luke, Chapter twenty four, verse thirteen.

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Speaker 2: And if you haven't found it by now, we're just

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Speaker 2: gonna do it on the screen. The Bible says, Now

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Speaker 2: that same day, two of them were going to a

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Speaker 2: village called Amaeus, about seven miles from Jerusalem. They were

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Speaker 2: talking with each other about everything that had happened.

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Speaker 2: Discussed these things with each other, Jesus himself came up

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Speaker 2: and walked along with them. Tell your neighbor, you can't

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Speaker 2: see him, but he's with me. Come on, tell him again,

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Speaker 2: Say be nice to me.

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Speaker 1: Jesus is with me today.

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Speaker 2: He was with me in the car when I was

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Speaker 2: cussing people out getting into the parking lot. He'll be

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Speaker 2: with me when I leave. Just because you're not aware

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Speaker 2: doesn't mean he's not there. Now, remember that Thursday, around

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Speaker 2: the table, Jesus slipped up beside them, and it says

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Speaker 2: from recognizing him. Wow, you would think they would know

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Speaker 2: who Jesus was at this point.

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Speaker 1: Very important public figure. He's just been the.

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Speaker 2: Central character of a targeted investigation which led to his

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Speaker 2: execution in the most public space possible in front of thousands,

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Speaker 2: and they were kept from recognizing him, and he asked them.

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Speaker 1: I love Jesus. What y'all talking about?

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Speaker 2: Jesus said, y'all, Jesus was very southern in his saferness.

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Speaker 2: What are you discussing together as you walk along? And

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Speaker 2: they stood still, their faces downcast. And now we see

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Speaker 2: how sad they really are about the fact that Jesus

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Speaker 2: was crucified. And so they stood still, their faces downcast,

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Speaker 2: and one of them, named Cleophus, asked him, are you

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Speaker 2: the only one visiting Jerusalem who does not know the

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Speaker 2: things that have happened there in these days?

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Speaker 1: What things? He asked, Jesus is just so cool? What

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Speaker 2: The things he just went through, and he's pretending like

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Speaker 2: he doesn't know about it. What things about Jesus of Nazareth.

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Speaker 1: About Jesus of Nazareth, they replied, he's a prophet, powerful

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Speaker 2: And they crucified him. But we had hoped that he

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Speaker 2: was the one who was going to redeem Israel. What's more,

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Speaker 2: it was the third day since this took place. In addition,

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Speaker 2: some of our women amazed us. They went to the

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Speaker 1: Didn't find his body.

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Speaker 2: Can you hear just a hint of irony in this narrative?

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Speaker 2: They didn't find his body.

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Speaker 2: They came and told us they had seen a vision

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Speaker 2: our companions went to the tomb and found it just

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Speaker 2: as the women had said, But they did not see Jesus.

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Speaker 1: Because he's right here with you, but you don't see

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Speaker 1: him for who he is. And this next verse might

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Speaker 1: scripture for today. He said to them, how foolish you are,

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Speaker 2: To believe all that the prophets have spoken. Did not

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Speaker 2: the Messiah have to suffer these things and then enter

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Speaker 2: his glory?

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Speaker 1: How foolish you are, and how slow.

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Speaker 2: To believe all that the prophets have spoken. How foolish

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Speaker 2: you are and slow to believe all the prophets have spoken.

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Speaker 2: Did not the Messiah have to suffer these things and

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Speaker 2: then enter his glory?

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Speaker 1: I want to give you a word today.

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Speaker 2: Turn to your neighbor and say, I know you've lost

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Speaker 2: some things.

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Speaker 1: I know it.

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Speaker 2: Looks like it's over. Now here's the word. Tell them,

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Speaker 1: Come on, wake up and tell them again. Say don't

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Speaker 1: the Lord. Don't let the funeral fool you.

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Speaker 2: I don't know who this is for, but don't let

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Speaker 2: Christ is alive. What a message for Christmas season. Emmanuel

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Speaker 2: is still with us.

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Speaker 1: Don't let the funeral fool you. Well, I've already preached,

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Speaker 2: We've all had experiences, literally, if not metaphorically, of funerals

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Speaker 2: that were disingenuous with good intentions. When I say disingenuous

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Speaker 1: That what they say about the person after they're dead.

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Speaker 2: Really has very little resemblance to how they felt about

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Speaker 2: We've all been to that funeral where we wanted to

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Speaker 2: And I understand that in a season that brings up

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Speaker 2: memories of those that we love and have lost, even

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Speaker 2: But I don't mean for it too, because the truth

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Speaker 1: Seasons that we love.

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Speaker 2: I try to be attentive to the season that I'm

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Speaker 2: me that the branches will soon be bare, but not forever.

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Speaker 2: It reminded me of the cyclical nature of the things

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Speaker 2: that we come to depend on in our lives, and

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Speaker 2: that those trees that are naked now will come to

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Speaker 2: I want to start slow because I want to get

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Speaker 2: you to understand that sometimes you rush right past the

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Speaker 2: revelation and that God wants to.

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Speaker 1: Give you because you only recognize what is being taken away. So,

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Speaker 1: in the.

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Speaker 2: Spirit of full disclosure, when my dad went to be

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Speaker 2: with the Lord about ten years ago, it was at

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Speaker 2: the end of a very difficult season.

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Speaker 1: Of us relating to one another.

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Speaker 2: But my mom stepped in and did the right thing

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Speaker 1: Very brutal death.

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Speaker 2: Now, I would love to tell you that I was

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Speaker 1: Watch me work this thing.

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Speaker 2: Now does your neighbors say I don't feel bad about it?

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Speaker 1: You don't and you don't even know when it's over.

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Speaker 2: Okay, So the band helped me and they didn't even

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Speaker 1: So I kept getting ready to come out on the

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Speaker 2: Give him praise, whatever I was gonna say, and I'm

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Speaker 2: out here. I'm ready get going up and studying all

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Speaker 2: week on pre j right now, and I'll get ready

445
00:25:01,760 --> 00:25:03,240
Speaker 2: to come around the corner. And they start another part

446
00:25:04,080 --> 00:25:08,120
Speaker 2: and another part and another part, and they just kept

447
00:25:08,160 --> 00:25:12,840
Speaker 2: on prison and I just kept on waiting, And even

448
00:25:12,840 --> 00:25:17,000
Speaker 2: though I wrote it, I didn't know when it was

449
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Speaker 2: going to be over. I mean, technically that's my song,

450
00:25:22,359 --> 00:25:25,600
Speaker 2: but even in my own song, there was more to

451
00:25:25,720 --> 00:25:29,879
Speaker 2: come that I did not know about while I was

452
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Speaker 2: waiting backstage.

453
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Speaker 1: And I know it's your life, and I know it's

454
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Speaker 1: your marriage, and I know it's.

455
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Speaker 2: Your business, but you don't get to say when it's over.

456
00:25:43,080 --> 00:25:46,280
Speaker 2: You don't you don't get to say when you're done giving.

457
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Speaker 2: There was one man in Scripture who had so much

458
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Speaker 2: stuff he decided to build bigger barns to accommodate all

459
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Speaker 2: of his extra grain. But the Lord said, you fool,

460
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Speaker 2: This life, this life that you claim for your own,

461
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Speaker 2: will be the means, and it from you this very night.

462
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Speaker 1: Then who will get.

463
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Speaker 2: What you have prepared? Because when you stop giving, you

464
00:26:07,240 --> 00:26:11,880
Speaker 2: stop living. You don't get to tell God when you're

465
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Speaker 2: done giving him your life. You don't get to tell

466
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Speaker 2: God when you're done being generous. You don't get to

467
00:26:18,440 --> 00:26:24,120
Speaker 2: tell God when you're done trusting people. You don't get

468
00:26:24,160 --> 00:26:24,920
Speaker 2: to tell God.

469
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Speaker 1: When your heart is so broken you can't go on.

470
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Speaker 2: Because these two men in the scripture are leaving Jerusalem,

471
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Speaker 2: leaving the place of Jesus's funeral, which is also the

472
00:26:43,920 --> 00:26:47,400
Speaker 2: place of his resurrection, but they don't know that yet.

473
00:26:48,760 --> 00:26:50,840
Speaker 2: It's the place of his death, but it's also the

474
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Speaker 2: place of his greatest demonstration, but they don't know that yet.

475
00:26:56,480 --> 00:26:57,800
Speaker 1: I wonder what you don't know yet.

476
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Speaker 2: I wonder what Jesus has already done that you don't

477
00:27:03,160 --> 00:27:06,240
Speaker 2: even know yet. I wonder who he's already spoken to

478
00:27:06,359 --> 00:27:09,840
Speaker 2: on your behalf that you don't know yet. I wonder

479
00:27:09,840 --> 00:27:12,760
Speaker 2: who's moving to Charlotte right now to be your wife

480
00:27:13,400 --> 00:27:16,520
Speaker 2: that you don't know about yet. I wonder about who

481
00:27:16,560 --> 00:27:19,720
Speaker 2: he's moving out of their position in the job so

482
00:27:19,800 --> 00:27:22,520
Speaker 2: you can have the job you've been praying for that

483
00:27:22,600 --> 00:27:25,680
Speaker 2: you don't even know yet. I wonder who's moving out

484
00:27:25,680 --> 00:27:28,280
Speaker 2: of that house so you can move in that you

485
00:27:28,320 --> 00:27:31,800
Speaker 2: don't even know about yet. I wonder what he's preparing

486
00:27:31,840 --> 00:27:35,239
Speaker 2: you to share at AA that somebody else needs to

487
00:27:35,280 --> 00:27:37,080
Speaker 2: be set free.

488
00:27:36,600 --> 00:27:38,359
Speaker 1: That you don't even know about yet.

489
00:27:38,880 --> 00:27:41,520
Speaker 2: I wonder what kids you're gonna have on your knees

490
00:27:41,600 --> 00:27:44,879
Speaker 2: one day that you don't even know about yet. I

491
00:27:44,960 --> 00:27:48,040
Speaker 2: wonder what praise you're gonna be giving him next November

492
00:27:48,680 --> 00:27:48,960
Speaker 2: that you.

493
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Speaker 1: Don't even know about yet.

494
00:27:55,880 --> 00:27:58,600
Speaker 2: I just thought of something, y'all.

495
00:27:58,720 --> 00:28:02,480
Speaker 1: Let's give this November a name. You ready, let's call it?

496
00:28:03,720 --> 00:28:08,320
Speaker 1: How can we call it? He got no shave November?

497
00:28:09,359 --> 00:28:12,959
Speaker 1: What else they got? How about don't know November?

498
00:28:15,280 --> 00:28:17,960
Speaker 2: I like it. It's got a good ring to it,

499
00:28:18,720 --> 00:28:22,040
Speaker 2: don't know November. Because they're telling you you're supposed to

500
00:28:22,040 --> 00:28:25,159
Speaker 2: be thankful, But how can I be thankful when I

501
00:28:25,160 --> 00:28:26,640
Speaker 2: don't know how it's gonna turn out?

502
00:28:27,280 --> 00:28:29,480
Speaker 1: Well, this is don't know November.

503
00:28:30,320 --> 00:28:32,520
Speaker 2: How am I supposed to praise him in advance for

504
00:28:32,560 --> 00:28:34,560
Speaker 2: a way that I don't know how he's gonna make.

505
00:28:35,119 --> 00:28:36,440
Speaker 1: It's don't know November.

506
00:28:37,240 --> 00:28:39,200
Speaker 2: How are you supposed to praise him when you don't

507
00:28:39,200 --> 00:28:42,360
Speaker 2: even know where the supply is gonna come from. See

508
00:28:42,440 --> 00:28:45,320
Speaker 2: back in September, I didn't praise him, But I'm.

509
00:28:45,120 --> 00:28:46,240
Speaker 1: In a different season.

510
00:28:46,320 --> 00:28:46,600
Speaker 2: Now.

511
00:28:47,160 --> 00:28:50,360
Speaker 1: This is don't know November. This is don't know. But

512
00:28:50,520 --> 00:28:59,280
Speaker 1: he's still worthy. He's working on it right now. November. Yeah,

513
00:29:00,000 --> 00:29:03,640
Speaker 1: you know, I don't know. Tell your neighbor. I don't know.

514
00:29:04,480 --> 00:29:05,720
Speaker 1: And I love how Jesus.

515
00:29:05,720 --> 00:29:09,200
Speaker 2: I watched this, y'all said, now let me teach you.

516
00:29:09,320 --> 00:29:12,240
Speaker 1: Jesus walks up and walks with.

517
00:29:12,320 --> 00:29:17,240
Speaker 2: Them, even though everybody said, even though they are headed

518
00:29:17,240 --> 00:29:23,640
Speaker 2: in the wrong direction, that'll blow your mind. They are

519
00:29:23,720 --> 00:29:28,240
Speaker 2: leaving Jerusalem at the very moment that the resurrection is validated.

520
00:29:28,600 --> 00:29:29,720
Speaker 1: I mean, this is the.

521
00:29:29,640 --> 00:29:33,400
Speaker 2: Moment when they should be celebrating, and they're sad because

522
00:29:33,440 --> 00:29:37,000
Speaker 2: they don't believe. Jesus said that I didn't. He said,

523
00:29:37,000 --> 00:29:41,640
Speaker 2: how foolish you are and slow to believe all that

524
00:29:41,800 --> 00:29:46,320
Speaker 2: was spoken about the Messiah, that he had to suffer

525
00:29:46,360 --> 00:29:52,520
Speaker 2: first and then enter into his glory. So I remember

526
00:29:52,800 --> 00:29:55,360
Speaker 2: when I first heard the sermon that I.

527
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Speaker 1: Need to follow Jesus. I don't remember hearing the sermon

528
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Speaker 1: where Jesus followed me. This is that sermon.

529
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Speaker 2: This is that moment in your life when you couldn't

530
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Speaker 2: follow him any farther forward, when you couldn't hear his

531
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Speaker 2: voice clearly, and he followed you away from Jerusalem. Remember

532
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Speaker 2: he would tell the disciples to stay in Jerusalem, but

533
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Speaker 2: when they strayed from where they were supposed to be

534
00:30:28,080 --> 00:30:28,960
Speaker 2: staying in.

535
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Speaker 1: He went with them.

536
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Speaker 2: This is a different perspective on praise, because now I'm

537
00:30:37,280 --> 00:30:40,040
Speaker 2: not praising God for all the times that I followed him,

538
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Speaker 2: when I did what I was supposed to do, when

539
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Speaker 2: I thought what I was supposed to think. I'm praising

540
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Speaker 2: God for all the times that.

541
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Speaker 1: I went away and He followed me. Now they're going

542
00:30:55,440 --> 00:30:58,760
Speaker 1: to clip this on the internet. They're gonna clip this.

543
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Speaker 2: Somebody's going to say this is heresy to say that

544
00:31:02,000 --> 00:31:06,080
Speaker 2: Jesus follows us. We don't have a God who follows us.

545
00:31:06,160 --> 00:31:09,240
Speaker 2: We follow him, and I understand that. I understand that

546
00:31:09,280 --> 00:31:11,520
Speaker 2: he's God and we're not. I understand that it's his ways,

547
00:31:11,520 --> 00:31:14,040
Speaker 2: not my ways. I understand all of that. I also

548
00:31:14,160 --> 00:31:17,680
Speaker 2: understand that I am not always fully capable of doing.

549
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Speaker 6: It right, and I need a Jesus who When I

550
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Speaker 6: don't follow him, he says, fine, fool, I'll.

551
00:31:27,600 --> 00:31:36,719
Speaker 7: Follow you, and I'll follow you, and I'll talk with you,

552
00:31:37,640 --> 00:31:38,640
Speaker 7: and i'll walk with you.

553
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Speaker 1: And Jesus says, I'll even ask you questions that I

554
00:31:42,360 --> 00:31:47,560
Speaker 1: already know the answer to. What things? Somebody say, what things?

555
00:31:48,440 --> 00:31:50,400
Speaker 1: That's what Jesus said. He said, you're talking about the

556
00:31:50,440 --> 00:31:53,440
Speaker 1: things that have happened. What things fill me in?

557
00:31:53,960 --> 00:31:56,560
Speaker 2: Now we have a savior who's worthy to be followed,

558
00:31:56,840 --> 00:32:00,240
Speaker 2: a savior who never needs to be filled in following

559
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Speaker 2: people who he's asking to fill him in.

560
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Speaker 1: What is happening in this text? This is a complete

561
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Speaker 1: reversal from.

562
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Speaker 2: The way that we expect God to operate in our lives.

563
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Speaker 2: And yet all of the honest ones in this room

564
00:32:13,760 --> 00:32:17,280
Speaker 2: will know that the praise that hits the deepest is

565
00:32:17,320 --> 00:32:20,480
Speaker 2: from the realization of all of the times when you

566
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Speaker 2: were three miles away from Jerusalem, four miles away from Jerusalem,

567
00:32:25,920 --> 00:32:29,479
Speaker 2: five miles away from Jerusalem. Some of you won't admit it,

568
00:32:29,680 --> 00:32:32,920
Speaker 2: but you are just one more fight away from drinking again.

569
00:32:33,480 --> 00:32:35,400
Speaker 2: Some of you won't admit it, but you are just

570
00:32:35,480 --> 00:32:38,360
Speaker 2: one more fight away from leaving all together. Some of

571
00:32:38,400 --> 00:32:40,760
Speaker 2: you won't admit it, but you have been so close

572
00:32:40,800 --> 00:32:41,600
Speaker 2: to going off.

573
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Speaker 1: The deep end.

574
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Speaker 2: Oh, it would surprise everybody sitting around you if they knew.

575
00:32:45,960 --> 00:32:49,840
Speaker 2: But it does not surprise the Savior because he saw

576
00:32:49,880 --> 00:32:52,920
Speaker 2: you walking away, and he made a way for him

577
00:32:52,960 --> 00:32:53,240
Speaker 2: to be.

578
00:32:53,280 --> 00:32:55,280
Speaker 1: With you as you walk away.

579
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Speaker 2: So I'm trying to say you're not too far gone.

580
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Speaker 1: In fact, you're ready.

581
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Speaker 2: You're only one thought away from a praise. You're only

582
00:33:05,800 --> 00:33:09,320
Speaker 2: one thought away from a breakthrough. You're only one thought

583
00:33:09,360 --> 00:33:12,840
Speaker 2: away from joy, one thought away from a new beginning.

584
00:33:14,200 --> 00:33:18,200
Speaker 2: Feel the Holy Spirit? Might I feel God setting somebody

585
00:33:18,280 --> 00:33:21,480
Speaker 2: free from this funeral that you've been having in your

586
00:33:21,560 --> 00:33:25,160
Speaker 2: mind because you've been putting to death your expectation of

587
00:33:25,240 --> 00:33:28,760
Speaker 2: grace because of your own mistakes. But I found out

588
00:33:28,760 --> 00:33:32,880
Speaker 2: about a Savior that no matter which direction I'm headed in,

589
00:33:33,280 --> 00:33:37,000
Speaker 2: if I'm following him, that's great. But if he has

590
00:33:37,040 --> 00:33:41,240
Speaker 2: to follow me, he'll do that too. So there will

591
00:33:41,320 --> 00:33:44,080
Speaker 2: never be a day. There will never be a moment.

592
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Speaker 2: There will never be a decision, there will never be

593
00:33:47,120 --> 00:33:50,520
Speaker 2: a distinction, there will never be a dysfunction, there will

594
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Speaker 2: never be a thing that you will do what things.

595
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Speaker 1: There will never.

596
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Speaker 2: Be an event that can separate you from the love

597
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Speaker 2: of a savior.

598
00:33:58,920 --> 00:34:01,160
Speaker 1: Who will follow you when you can't follow him.

599
00:34:02,600 --> 00:34:10,040
Speaker 2: Now, if I had my preference, I would follow him always.

600
00:34:11,480 --> 00:34:15,160
Speaker 2: I would follow him always. But sometimes I'm a fool

601
00:34:17,840 --> 00:34:22,799
Speaker 2: Sometimes I'm too foolish to follow. What do you do

602
00:34:22,880 --> 00:34:26,279
Speaker 2: when you've been too foolish to follow? What do you

603
00:34:26,320 --> 00:34:30,120
Speaker 2: do when you know that at least fifty one percent

604
00:34:30,239 --> 00:34:32,359
Speaker 2: of your kid's behavior is because of stuff they saw

605
00:34:32,400 --> 00:34:37,280
Speaker 2: you do? Maybe I'll just go start my Thanksgiving early

606
00:34:39,880 --> 00:34:42,480
Speaker 2: felt kind of cold when I said that. Notice the

607
00:34:42,520 --> 00:34:45,120
Speaker 2: same Jesus that followed them confronted.

608
00:34:44,640 --> 00:34:50,040
Speaker 1: Them, Where are you going? Hey, Hey, where are you going?

609
00:34:50,560 --> 00:34:54,160
Speaker 1: What's your tomia? What things? What things are you Tomai?

610
00:34:55,840 --> 00:34:59,640
Speaker 2: Why are you talking about Jesus when you could talk

611
00:34:59,680 --> 00:35:04,919
Speaker 2: to him? I think it's really important who you talk

612
00:35:05,719 --> 00:35:10,520
Speaker 2: to when you are going through certain things. How do

613
00:35:10,640 --> 00:35:13,319
Speaker 2: you can testify, either by positive or negative experience in

614
00:35:13,360 --> 00:35:14,839
Speaker 2: your life, that.

615
00:35:14,840 --> 00:35:19,600
Speaker 1: Who you talk to when you're going through things depends

616
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Speaker 1: on what you have left when you get done. I'm

617
00:35:23,120 --> 00:35:25,000
Speaker 1: gonna say that again. That was too good, and Holly

618
00:35:25,000 --> 00:35:28,239
Speaker 1: didn't write it down. Who you talk to?

619
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Speaker 2: When you go through things, determines what you have left

620
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Speaker 2: when you get done. And I thought the fact that

621
00:35:36,960 --> 00:35:39,040
Speaker 2: at least they had each other was comforting to me

622
00:35:40,160 --> 00:35:44,640
Speaker 2: to talk to about their disappointment, to talk to about

623
00:35:44,680 --> 00:35:46,960
Speaker 2: what was supposed to happen versus what actually.

624
00:35:46,719 --> 00:35:49,160
Speaker 1: Did to talk to? Who do you talk to.

625
00:35:49,160 --> 00:35:53,720
Speaker 2: When you're disappointed? And I hope as somebody besides yourself

626
00:35:55,960 --> 00:36:02,560
Speaker 2: you cannot keep your own counsel in seasons of chaos.

627
00:36:04,040 --> 00:36:08,759
Speaker 2: I know you went to Duke. Don't care. This is

628
00:36:08,800 --> 00:36:12,439
Speaker 2: don't know November, and don't care Christmas. Don't care where

629
00:36:12,440 --> 00:36:17,239
Speaker 2: you went to school. It doesn't say that the men

630
00:36:17,360 --> 00:36:23,879
Speaker 2: weren't educated. It says that they were disappointed. And Jesus,

631
00:36:24,560 --> 00:36:27,520
Speaker 2: being in very nature God, who did not consider equality

632
00:36:27,560 --> 00:36:30,000
Speaker 2: with God something to be grasped, but made himself a servant,

633
00:36:30,040 --> 00:36:36,920
Speaker 2: made himself a servant, comes up alongside them and begins

634
00:36:36,920 --> 00:36:43,319
Speaker 2: to speak with them. And he says, you're being foolish

635
00:36:43,680 --> 00:36:49,040
Speaker 2: because you thought the funeral was the end. Bring me

636
00:36:49,080 --> 00:36:52,480
Speaker 2: my computer screen, y'all. I told him I might need

637
00:36:52,520 --> 00:36:55,040
Speaker 2: the screen for this message. I said, if the people

638
00:36:55,080 --> 00:36:57,440
Speaker 2: look really engaged, I'm.

639
00:36:57,320 --> 00:37:01,680
Speaker 1: Going to bring out the screen. So boy, bring out

640
00:37:01,719 --> 00:37:05,040
Speaker 1: the screen. Yeah, it's one of those days.

641
00:37:05,880 --> 00:37:08,600
Speaker 2: Now, everybody clap your hands as they come, because it's awkward.

642
00:37:08,600 --> 00:37:16,320
Speaker 1: While we wait, I want.

643
00:37:16,120 --> 00:37:17,600
Speaker 2: To show you a word from the Lord that came

644
00:37:17,600 --> 00:37:19,919
Speaker 2: to me, and I'm not preaching this text in order

645
00:37:19,960 --> 00:37:23,120
Speaker 2: to give you all of the details of it. I

646
00:37:23,160 --> 00:37:27,040
Speaker 2: actually preached seven weeks on this one story, seven years ago,

647
00:37:27,880 --> 00:37:30,759
Speaker 2: and that is all online for free, and you can

648
00:37:30,760 --> 00:37:32,879
Speaker 2: go watch all of the ways that I took every

649
00:37:32,920 --> 00:37:36,040
Speaker 2: single word of this text and tried to bring all

650
00:37:36,080 --> 00:37:38,200
Speaker 2: of the meaning out of it that I could. But today,

651
00:37:38,400 --> 00:37:41,160
Speaker 2: just as a backdrop, I want to tell you, don't

652
00:37:41,200 --> 00:37:48,719
Speaker 2: let the funeral fool you. Don't let this season of

653
00:37:48,760 --> 00:37:53,919
Speaker 2: your life, this season of the relationship, this season of

654
00:37:54,000 --> 00:37:57,719
Speaker 2: your struggle with the thing inside of yourself become a

655
00:37:58,040 --> 00:38:05,520
Speaker 2: stop sign causes you to quit growing and coming toward God. So,

656
00:38:05,680 --> 00:38:09,080
Speaker 2: then if we were to make this on the screen

657
00:38:09,160 --> 00:38:09,719
Speaker 2: and I was to.

658
00:38:09,640 --> 00:38:14,040
Speaker 1: Tell you, don't let the funeral fool you, first thing

659
00:38:14,880 --> 00:38:18,320
Speaker 1: I want to show you in the scripture.

660
00:38:19,880 --> 00:38:24,080
Speaker 2: What happened after Jesus followed these boys, because this is

661
00:38:24,080 --> 00:38:29,880
Speaker 2: the best part all the way down here where he

662
00:38:29,920 --> 00:38:33,080
Speaker 2: said what things and they said about Jesus and Nazareth,

663
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Speaker 2: and then this part I love when he said, how

664
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Speaker 2: foolish you are. And then he said you're slow to believe.

665
00:38:44,200 --> 00:38:46,520
Speaker 2: And then he said, did not the miss I have

666
00:38:46,600 --> 00:38:47,680
Speaker 2: to suffer these things?

667
00:38:49,200 --> 00:38:49,800
Speaker 1: These things?

668
00:38:51,080 --> 00:38:56,399
Speaker 2: And then enter his glory, And beginning with Moses and

669
00:38:56,440 --> 00:38:58,799
Speaker 2: all the prophets, he explained to them what was said

670
00:38:58,840 --> 00:39:04,760
Speaker 2: in all the scriptures concern himself. So Jesus told them

671
00:39:05,120 --> 00:39:05,920
Speaker 2: about Jesus.

672
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Speaker 1: Forget what you heard, Forget what you thought.

673
00:39:14,239 --> 00:39:17,000
Speaker 2: Forget the fact that you were taught that God will

674
00:39:17,040 --> 00:39:20,840
Speaker 2: only be with you if you're following him faithfully.

675
00:39:22,120 --> 00:39:23,280
Speaker 1: Forget what you heard.

676
00:39:23,320 --> 00:39:27,600
Speaker 8: Forget what you thought, Forget what you told yourself at

677
00:39:27,640 --> 00:39:31,360
Speaker 8: the funeral, Forget the story that you have been telling yourself,

678
00:39:31,400 --> 00:39:37,480
Speaker 8: because when Jesus died, it was a part of the story.

679
00:39:37,760 --> 00:39:38,759
Speaker 1: Now let me break this down.

680
00:39:38,760 --> 00:39:42,080
Speaker 2: Real, good things happen in our lives that become a

681
00:39:42,120 --> 00:39:46,399
Speaker 2: part of our story, and we can't change those. So

682
00:39:46,480 --> 00:39:50,480
Speaker 2: you step outside of your integrity, And now you realize

683
00:39:50,840 --> 00:39:54,120
Speaker 2: this changed my story forever. Jesus didn't step outside of

684
00:39:54,160 --> 00:39:57,359
Speaker 2: his integrity. The people who killed him did. He did it,

685
00:39:58,080 --> 00:40:00,200
Speaker 2: But now even their sin became.

686
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Speaker 1: A part of the story.

687
00:40:01,080 --> 00:40:03,239
Speaker 2: Now it was the part of the story that was

688
00:40:03,239 --> 00:40:07,480
Speaker 2: the most redemptive, but it was the hardest to recognize

689
00:40:07,600 --> 00:40:11,200
Speaker 2: as redemptive. So the part of the gospel story where

690
00:40:11,200 --> 00:40:14,120
Speaker 2: our sin was being paid for was the part of

691
00:40:14,160 --> 00:40:16,759
Speaker 2: the story that discouraged these men and made them want

692
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Speaker 2: to walk away. In other words, the moment that Jesus

693
00:40:20,440 --> 00:40:23,400
Speaker 2: was dying, he was doing the most.

694
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Speaker 1: When he was.

695
00:40:24,520 --> 00:40:28,360
Speaker 2: Teaching, that was good. When he was healing, that was good.

696
00:40:28,760 --> 00:40:32,000
Speaker 2: When he was opening blind eyes, that was good. When

697
00:40:32,000 --> 00:40:35,160
Speaker 2: he was raising Lazarus, that was good. But when he

698
00:40:35,280 --> 00:40:38,480
Speaker 2: was dying, it wasn't just a good thing. It was

699
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Speaker 2: the thing that was the.

700
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Speaker 1: Thing that he came to do.

701
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Speaker 2: And while he was doing the thing that he came

702
00:40:45,760 --> 00:40:49,279
Speaker 2: to do, they were interpreting the thing that would bring

703
00:40:49,280 --> 00:40:53,600
Speaker 2: them redemption as being the thing that made it all worthless.

704
00:40:55,719 --> 00:41:01,360
Speaker 2: When you're hurting, your interpretations become distortive. When you are hurting,

705
00:41:01,600 --> 00:41:05,759
Speaker 2: your interpretations cannot be trusted. When you are hurting, you

706
00:41:05,800 --> 00:41:08,640
Speaker 2: will see the best thing is the worst thing. When

707
00:41:08,719 --> 00:41:11,600
Speaker 2: you are hurting, you will be attracted to unhealthy people

708
00:41:11,840 --> 00:41:15,480
Speaker 2: who will enable you rather than healthy friends who can

709
00:41:15,520 --> 00:41:18,399
Speaker 2: help heal you. When you are hurting, you will run

710
00:41:18,440 --> 00:41:21,520
Speaker 2: to things that will numb you, rather than running to

711
00:41:21,600 --> 00:41:24,520
Speaker 2: things that can set you free. When you are hurting,

712
00:41:24,560 --> 00:41:27,520
Speaker 2: your interpretation of events cannot be trusted.

713
00:41:28,000 --> 00:41:31,680
Speaker 1: And that's when we need Jesus.

714
00:41:32,560 --> 00:41:36,360
Speaker 2: I need Jesus to walk with me. I need Jesus

715
00:41:36,680 --> 00:41:40,200
Speaker 2: to wake up with me. I need Jesus to lay

716
00:41:40,280 --> 00:41:43,320
Speaker 2: down beside me. When I lay down and I'm tossing

717
00:41:43,360 --> 00:41:46,879
Speaker 2: and turning about the storms that I'm facing. I need

718
00:41:47,000 --> 00:41:50,120
Speaker 2: Jesus to help me know which door is him, because

719
00:41:50,200 --> 00:41:56,360
Speaker 2: every open door is not God. I need Jesus to

720
00:41:56,480 --> 00:41:58,040
Speaker 2: let me know which calls.

721
00:41:57,719 --> 00:41:58,359
Speaker 1: To pick up.

722
00:41:58,760 --> 00:42:01,560
Speaker 2: I need Jesus to let me know which text to sin.

723
00:42:02,040 --> 00:42:06,360
Speaker 2: I'm trying to say that I need him every hour

724
00:42:07,960 --> 00:42:09,799
Speaker 2: the story before I break this all the way down

725
00:42:09,840 --> 00:42:11,920
Speaker 2: in the scripture? Am I breaking this down good as

726
00:42:12,360 --> 00:42:12,839
Speaker 2: whoa man?

727
00:42:12,880 --> 00:42:13,480
Speaker 1: It's good to me.

728
00:42:15,880 --> 00:42:18,120
Speaker 2: So Grandma didn't ask permissions, So I ask for future

729
00:42:18,120 --> 00:42:21,680
Speaker 2: forgiveness for telling this story. He was fussing at us

730
00:42:21,680 --> 00:42:23,359
Speaker 2: the other day because we were leaving and we had

731
00:42:23,360 --> 00:42:25,200
Speaker 2: just left for tour, but we needed to leave and

732
00:42:25,200 --> 00:42:27,440
Speaker 2: get a few days away after tour to recover, and

733
00:42:27,520 --> 00:42:30,399
Speaker 2: Graham said something very funny, and he's seventeen years old now,

734
00:42:30,480 --> 00:42:32,560
Speaker 2: but he said I still need parents.

735
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Speaker 1: You would think he would be happy we were going

736
00:42:36,160 --> 00:42:37,759
Speaker 1: out of town. But he is such a good kid.

737
00:42:37,920 --> 00:42:39,720
Speaker 1: There's nothing that he wanted to do that he couldn't

738
00:42:39,760 --> 00:42:42,920
Speaker 1: do when we were there and he wanted parents, and

739
00:42:42,920 --> 00:42:44,880
Speaker 1: Ally said, you have parents.

740
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Speaker 2: We flew you out for four days of tour, and

741
00:42:49,160 --> 00:42:51,080
Speaker 2: you had all your friends over this weekend and we

742
00:42:51,080 --> 00:42:51,799
Speaker 2: were here the whole time.

743
00:42:51,840 --> 00:42:55,799
Speaker 1: We're just leaving for three days. And he said, why

744
00:42:55,840 --> 00:42:57,480
Speaker 1: don't need you on the weekend.

745
00:43:02,320 --> 00:43:08,480
Speaker 2: What a phrase? What a confession? I don't need you

746
00:43:08,520 --> 00:43:11,520
Speaker 2: on the weekend. I just need you when I want you.

747
00:43:13,719 --> 00:43:16,399
Speaker 2: I just need you when it's convenient. I'm not saying

748
00:43:16,400 --> 00:43:19,120
Speaker 2: he's a bad kid. He's a great kid. But what

749
00:43:19,160 --> 00:43:26,839
Speaker 2: if that's our attitude toward God? What if we need

750
00:43:26,920 --> 00:43:30,319
Speaker 2: him for all of it? What if we need him

751
00:43:30,320 --> 00:43:34,040
Speaker 2: for every single bit of it? What if he wants

752
00:43:34,080 --> 00:43:37,319
Speaker 2: to be in all of it? What if God is

753
00:43:37,360 --> 00:43:40,360
Speaker 2: waiting for you to pray his presence into your panic attack?

754
00:43:44,160 --> 00:43:46,399
Speaker 1: What if he wants to be in that with you too?

755
00:43:47,920 --> 00:43:51,000
Speaker 2: What if he will follow you down an amaeis road

756
00:43:51,719 --> 00:43:52,960
Speaker 2: going the wrong way?

757
00:43:53,320 --> 00:43:55,959
Speaker 1: When you say I'm spiraling out of control? Here, God,

758
00:43:56,239 --> 00:43:59,360
Speaker 1: I'm spiraling out of control again, and I'm tempted to

759
00:43:59,480 --> 00:44:04,279
Speaker 1: sabbathae go because I'm spiraling. And what if Jesus is

760
00:44:04,400 --> 00:44:06,120
Speaker 1: just waiting to.

761
00:44:06,160 --> 00:44:11,480
Speaker 2: Be more than your weekday savior, more than just the

762
00:44:11,520 --> 00:44:14,320
Speaker 2: one that you need when things go wrong.

763
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Speaker 1: And the Bible says that he began to expound.

764
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Speaker 2: Don't you wish you could have heard this sermon him

765
00:44:22,480 --> 00:44:25,400
Speaker 2: everything that was in the scriptures concerning himself.

766
00:44:26,400 --> 00:44:28,160
Speaker 1: That would be an amazing sermon.

767
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Speaker 2: And it would take two or three hours to walk

768
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Speaker 2: these seven miles because it said it was a seven

769
00:44:32,200 --> 00:44:35,120
Speaker 2: mile row. So over the course of two or three hours,

770
00:44:35,960 --> 00:44:39,640
Speaker 2: this man gives a whole series where he tells them

771
00:44:39,680 --> 00:44:42,319
Speaker 2: who he is, and they still don't get it.

772
00:44:43,680 --> 00:44:45,120
Speaker 1: That's the irony of the text.

773
00:44:45,200 --> 00:44:48,279
Speaker 2: As they approached the village to which they were going,

774
00:44:48,400 --> 00:44:50,960
Speaker 2: Jesus continued on as if he were going farther.

775
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Speaker 1: Keyword, well, two words, as if.

776
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Speaker 2: And you say, why would Jesus continue on as if

777
00:44:59,640 --> 00:45:04,000
Speaker 2: he were going going farther? Because sometimes God delights to

778
00:45:04,000 --> 00:45:09,120
Speaker 2: be invited, to be invited.

779
00:45:10,600 --> 00:45:13,480
Speaker 1: You say, well, isn't he present everywhere? Yeah?

780
00:45:13,600 --> 00:45:19,840
Speaker 2: But he permeates you when you ask him to he's present,

781
00:45:21,520 --> 00:45:27,319
Speaker 2: but he permeates when you give permission, because watch this.

782
00:45:27,320 --> 00:45:30,880
Speaker 2: This is more than just hospitality, y'all. He acted like

783
00:45:30,920 --> 00:45:32,720
Speaker 2: he was going farther. He was like, well, good chat,

784
00:45:32,880 --> 00:45:33,800
Speaker 2: hope you learn something.

785
00:45:34,960 --> 00:45:37,880
Speaker 1: They still don't know it's Jesus. How do they not

786
00:45:38,040 --> 00:45:38,800
Speaker 1: know it's Jesus.

787
00:45:38,840 --> 00:45:41,960
Speaker 2: They're still at the funeral. He's supposed to be in

788
00:45:42,000 --> 00:45:45,200
Speaker 2: the ground. They don't believe the angel, they don't believe

789
00:45:45,239 --> 00:45:45,720
Speaker 2: the report.

790
00:45:45,760 --> 00:45:46,920
Speaker 1: They don't believe the women.

791
00:45:48,320 --> 00:45:51,520
Speaker 2: They don't believe what they heard, and they can't even

792
00:45:51,520 --> 00:45:52,640
Speaker 2: believe what they're seeing.

793
00:45:52,920 --> 00:45:57,680
Speaker 1: They don't recognize him, but they urged him strongly, stay

794
00:45:57,719 --> 00:46:00,759
Speaker 1: with us, for it is nearly evening. Stay with us,

795
00:46:00,800 --> 00:46:03,880
Speaker 1: for it is nearly evening. The day is almost over.

796
00:46:04,160 --> 00:46:08,320
Speaker 1: So he watched this, went in to stay with them.

797
00:46:08,840 --> 00:46:12,080
Speaker 2: And my favorite thing about the text is not even

798
00:46:12,080 --> 00:46:15,080
Speaker 2: that he followed them going the wrong way down the road.

799
00:46:15,760 --> 00:46:17,920
Speaker 2: My favorite thing about the text is not even that

800
00:46:18,000 --> 00:46:22,680
Speaker 2: he gave them an amazing summary and entire semester's worth

801
00:46:22,719 --> 00:46:25,960
Speaker 2: of education in how he was the rock in the wilderness,

802
00:46:26,239 --> 00:46:29,839
Speaker 2: and how he was the rod of Aaron, and how

803
00:46:29,880 --> 00:46:33,319
Speaker 2: he fulfilled everything that Moses spoke of, and how He

804
00:46:33,440 --> 00:46:35,919
Speaker 2: was the cloud by day and the fire by night.

805
00:46:36,239 --> 00:46:38,400
Speaker 2: Not only do I love the fact that he talked

806
00:46:38,440 --> 00:46:42,719
Speaker 2: to them along the way, I love verse thirty and

807
00:46:42,760 --> 00:46:45,319
Speaker 2: thirty one, because once he got inside the house with them.

808
00:46:45,360 --> 00:46:47,560
Speaker 1: The Bible says, when he was at the table with them.

809
00:46:47,600 --> 00:46:55,800
Speaker 2: He took brad, gave thanks, He took a bow jangle's biscuit.

810
00:46:57,440 --> 00:47:06,799
Speaker 1: Gave thanks, and he broke it and began to give

811
00:47:06,840 --> 00:47:10,120
Speaker 1: it to them. Everybody shout this word.

812
00:47:11,400 --> 00:47:17,080
Speaker 2: Then then and only then, You mean they heard a

813
00:47:17,120 --> 00:47:20,560
Speaker 2: master's level class from the master, and they still didn't

814
00:47:20,560 --> 00:47:26,680
Speaker 2: get it. No, then and only then, after the bread

815
00:47:27,160 --> 00:47:29,440
Speaker 2: had been broken, then.

816
00:47:29,960 --> 00:47:31,840
Speaker 1: Their eyes were opened.

817
00:47:33,320 --> 00:47:36,240
Speaker 2: I'll say it again in case there's been a breaking

818
00:47:36,280 --> 00:47:39,840
Speaker 2: in your life lately. After the bread had been broken,

819
00:47:40,680 --> 00:47:45,239
Speaker 2: then their eyes had been opened. But not before the

820
00:47:45,280 --> 00:47:49,359
Speaker 2: bread had been broken, not when he spoke it, when

821
00:47:49,400 --> 00:47:53,680
Speaker 2: he broke it. Something about the breaking of the bread

822
00:47:54,520 --> 00:47:57,960
Speaker 2: helped them to see who he really was, because now

823
00:47:58,000 --> 00:48:02,400
Speaker 2: they realized he was just killed on the cross. He

824
00:48:02,640 --> 00:48:06,160
Speaker 2: gave his life on the cross. He wasn't just hung

825
00:48:06,239 --> 00:48:10,480
Speaker 2: there by humans, He was sent there by God. He

826
00:48:10,600 --> 00:48:14,960
Speaker 2: wasn't just dying physically, He was paying the price spiritually.

827
00:48:15,600 --> 00:48:19,240
Speaker 2: And it was only after the breaking that the revelation came.

828
00:48:20,000 --> 00:48:23,960
Speaker 2: There are some revelations that only come after the breaking.

829
00:48:24,880 --> 00:48:29,080
Speaker 2: They don't come before, They only come after. They don't

830
00:48:29,080 --> 00:48:32,880
Speaker 2: come before you go through, they only come after. But

831
00:48:32,960 --> 00:48:36,600
Speaker 2: for everybody who's been broken lately, I got good news.

832
00:48:37,000 --> 00:48:39,160
Speaker 2: After the breaking comes an opening.

833
00:48:39,560 --> 00:48:42,760
Speaker 1: Now your eyes be open. Now your ears be open,

834
00:48:43,239 --> 00:48:46,399
Speaker 1: Now your road be open. Now your red save part.

835
00:48:51,280 --> 00:48:52,000
Speaker 1: Say it out.

836
00:48:51,840 --> 00:48:57,680
Speaker 2: Loud, this is not the end.

837
00:48:58,320 --> 00:48:59,960
Speaker 1: Give God praise for it. This is not the end.

838
00:49:07,040 --> 00:49:10,279
Speaker 1: For a moment it looked like it was over. But

839
00:49:10,480 --> 00:49:12,279
Speaker 1: this is.

840
00:49:13,080 --> 00:49:15,440
Speaker 2: Maybe I should write it on the board, y'all seemed

841
00:49:15,440 --> 00:49:16,560
Speaker 2: like you need some extra help.

842
00:49:16,640 --> 00:49:23,960
Speaker 1: This is not the end. Say it to your neighbor.

843
00:49:24,040 --> 00:49:28,960
Speaker 2: This is not the end.

844
00:49:29,400 --> 00:49:32,239
Speaker 1: Tell him you can do better than him anyway. This

845
00:49:33,520 --> 00:49:38,759
Speaker 1: is not the end. Tell him you were bigger than

846
00:49:38,800 --> 00:49:44,919
Speaker 1: that place. Anyway. This is not the end. It wasn't

847
00:49:44,960 --> 00:49:45,960
Speaker 1: ready for you anyway.

848
00:49:46,280 --> 00:49:51,640
Speaker 2: This is not the and you couldn't handle it back then.

849
00:49:51,719 --> 00:49:58,120
Speaker 2: But this is not the And now put my scripture

850
00:49:58,160 --> 00:49:59,799
Speaker 2: back on the screen, and I'm gonna bring this thing

851
00:50:00,280 --> 00:50:04,759
Speaker 2: full circle today. For somebody who has been standing at

852
00:50:04,800 --> 00:50:08,439
Speaker 2: a funeral and weeping over a loss and weeping over

853
00:50:08,480 --> 00:50:12,360
Speaker 2: a regret, and weeping over a mistake, and punishing yourself

854
00:50:12,400 --> 00:50:15,040
Speaker 2: over a mistake, and saying that this is the end,

855
00:50:15,280 --> 00:50:17,680
Speaker 2: and thinking that this is the end, and the enemy

856
00:50:17,719 --> 00:50:19,640
Speaker 2: has been telling you that this is the end, and

857
00:50:19,680 --> 00:50:22,239
Speaker 2: you will never recover from this, and nobody will ever

858
00:50:22,320 --> 00:50:24,560
Speaker 2: love you after this, and there is no way back

859
00:50:24,600 --> 00:50:27,160
Speaker 2: from this, and you cannot climb out of this, and

860
00:50:27,200 --> 00:50:30,080
Speaker 2: you cannot recover from this, and there is no redemption

861
00:50:30,160 --> 00:50:32,600
Speaker 2: in this, and there is no light coming, and there

862
00:50:32,680 --> 00:50:36,319
Speaker 2: is no help coming for everybody who the enemy has

863
00:50:36,400 --> 00:50:41,520
Speaker 2: been telling you is the end, gives me Verse thirty one.

864
00:50:41,840 --> 00:50:42,240
Speaker 1: Please.

865
00:50:42,760 --> 00:50:45,680
Speaker 2: Then then.

866
00:50:47,280 --> 00:50:51,520
Speaker 1: The Lord spoke to me and said, this is not

867
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Speaker 1: me because that because there's gonna be a Then there's

868
00:51:11,520 --> 00:51:14,120
Speaker 1: gonna be a Then there's.

869
00:51:13,960 --> 00:51:18,120
Speaker 2: Gonna be a Then you hear me today, I can't

870
00:51:18,120 --> 00:51:20,040
Speaker 2: put my faith on this word for you.

871
00:51:20,400 --> 00:51:23,920
Speaker 1: I can appreciate when it's gonna take your faith, because

872
00:51:23,920 --> 00:51:27,640
Speaker 1: that's gonna be a Then dip their eyes were open.

873
00:51:27,719 --> 00:51:31,239
Speaker 1: That's gonna be a there. That's gonna be a there.

874
00:51:32,800 --> 00:51:34,439
Speaker 1: Laid down in breathe.

875
00:51:35,040 --> 00:51:38,160
Speaker 4: Then June up with the keys. There's gonna be a there.

876
00:51:39,600 --> 00:51:40,760
Speaker 1: There's gonna be adad.

877
00:51:41,760 --> 00:51:45,200
Speaker 4: When dog gets finished with this, it won't be a

878
00:51:45,320 --> 00:52:00,320
Speaker 4: fill of roup. It will be a celebrating day shout

879
00:52:00,360 --> 00:52:14,520
Speaker 4: like this already there, Then.

880
00:52:16,880 --> 00:52:20,040
Speaker 2: You get to make the decision. Now what's on the

881
00:52:20,120 --> 00:52:24,160
Speaker 2: other side of Then they left me.

882
00:52:24,480 --> 00:52:28,879
Speaker 1: Then I went into isolation and died alone. Or they

883
00:52:28,960 --> 00:52:29,360
Speaker 1: left me.

884
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Speaker 2: Then I went to work on what was inside of

885
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Speaker 2: me that made me feel like I wasn't a person

886
00:52:34,800 --> 00:52:35,560
Speaker 2: without them.

887
00:52:35,600 --> 00:52:42,800
Speaker 1: Then it got so bad we could barely speak. But then.

888
00:52:44,280 --> 00:52:46,239
Speaker 2: I slapped them and cussed them out and spit in

889
00:52:46,280 --> 00:52:50,200
Speaker 2: their face. Or then I decided I would try to

890
00:52:50,200 --> 00:52:52,120
Speaker 2: find a way in that didn't involve my.

891
00:52:52,120 --> 00:52:54,080
Speaker 1: Ego which was too big to fit through the door.

892
00:52:54,320 --> 00:53:04,879
Speaker 1: And then you can't die in this because there will

893
00:53:04,960 --> 00:53:12,760
Speaker 1: be a then then then then then.

894
00:53:15,239 --> 00:53:17,680
Speaker 2: I don't even know if you remember, but you gave

895
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Speaker 2: me the sermon. Holly was talking to me the other

896
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Speaker 2: day and I was telling her something.

897
00:53:24,120 --> 00:53:33,800
Speaker 9: Such a sad story like Cleopus and his companion about

898
00:53:33,800 --> 00:53:34,880
Speaker 9: the sad things that had happened.

899
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Speaker 1: And they were real, y'all.

900
00:53:36,120 --> 00:53:40,400
Speaker 2: We must say, they were disappointed and devastated because of

901
00:53:40,440 --> 00:53:43,640
Speaker 2: real life events. It wasn't that that didn't happen. It

902
00:53:43,719 --> 00:53:50,120
Speaker 2: was just that the then was in progress. Then their

903
00:53:50,160 --> 00:53:55,560
Speaker 2: eyes were open when he broke the bread. Only what

904
00:53:55,719 --> 00:54:02,440
Speaker 2: is broken can be really blessed. So after the breaking,

905
00:54:03,120 --> 00:54:08,240
Speaker 2: expect a revelation. After I got done telling Holly my story,

906
00:54:09,640 --> 00:54:14,359
Speaker 2: she said, yeah, but then, because I was going through

907
00:54:14,360 --> 00:54:17,120
Speaker 2: a part of our history where somebody had.

908
00:54:17,040 --> 00:54:22,440
Speaker 1: Really hurt us, I mean really hurt us, she said, yeah.

909
00:54:22,480 --> 00:54:25,480
Speaker 2: But then and she told me the thing that happened,

910
00:54:25,800 --> 00:54:29,000
Speaker 2: they hurt us that wouldn't have happened if they didn't.

911
00:54:29,760 --> 00:54:31,879
Speaker 2: And just when she reminded me of that, she said,

912
00:54:31,880 --> 00:54:37,680
Speaker 2: but then it gave me faith for my future because

913
00:54:37,680 --> 00:54:42,399
Speaker 2: I realized that just like farmers plant seeds and don't

914
00:54:42,440 --> 00:54:47,640
Speaker 2: cry about losing them, there are certain things in your

915
00:54:47,680 --> 00:54:51,000
Speaker 2: life and in my life that are waiting for the

916
00:54:51,080 --> 00:54:58,920
Speaker 2: appropriate time to come forth. Don't let the funeral fool you.

917
00:54:58,920 --> 00:55:01,160
Speaker 1: You keep saying this is this is the end. It's

918
00:55:01,200 --> 00:55:01,799
Speaker 1: not the end.

919
00:55:03,080 --> 00:55:09,640
Speaker 2: It's just pre then, because one day maybe you'll be

920
00:55:09,680 --> 00:55:12,479
Speaker 2: talking to somebody and you'll say, I was about ready

921
00:55:12,520 --> 00:55:16,959
Speaker 2: to give up, but then, And I think the real

922
00:55:17,000 --> 00:55:20,480
Speaker 2: skill of living Austin is to be able to trust

923
00:55:20,520 --> 00:55:23,040
Speaker 2: God enough that you leave the.

924
00:55:22,840 --> 00:55:34,280
Speaker 10: Then with him, Because maybe what was most significant about

925
00:55:34,280 --> 00:55:36,680
Speaker 10: the bread was not just the fact that he broke it,

926
00:55:38,360 --> 00:55:39,520
Speaker 10: but whose hands it was in.

927
00:55:42,200 --> 00:55:44,319
Speaker 2: Jesus was supposed to be the guest. What is he

928
00:55:44,400 --> 00:55:47,640
Speaker 2: doing serving the bread? It is the moment you let

929
00:55:47,680 --> 00:55:51,520
Speaker 2: him take over that you see who he really is.

930
00:55:53,680 --> 00:56:00,040
Speaker 2: So I thought, with everyone standing across every location, the

931
00:56:00,080 --> 00:56:03,040
Speaker 2: most annointed moments that I've preached all year, I don't

932
00:56:03,040 --> 00:56:04,160
Speaker 2: know if you can feel it or not. And you

933
00:56:04,160 --> 00:56:06,840
Speaker 2: don't have to feel it. Even if all you feel

934
00:56:06,880 --> 00:56:09,359
Speaker 2: is grief. Don't let the funeral fool you.

935
00:56:10,239 --> 00:56:15,680
Speaker 1: There will be a then, There will be a then,

936
00:56:15,880 --> 00:56:17,879
Speaker 1: and you get to make a decision about this.

937
00:56:18,000 --> 00:56:22,000
Speaker 2: Then, when you are relaying this story in the future,

938
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Speaker 2: do you want to tell about the time that you

939
00:56:24,560 --> 00:56:26,960
Speaker 2: were walking away from God down a road called e

940
00:56:27,000 --> 00:56:29,800
Speaker 2: Maya seven miles and you kept going.

941
00:56:31,280 --> 00:56:33,080
Speaker 1: And you stayed home because you were disappointed?

942
00:56:34,320 --> 00:56:35,760
Speaker 2: Or do you want to talk about how the bread

943
00:56:35,840 --> 00:56:38,319
Speaker 2: was broken and then your eyes were open and watch

944
00:56:38,440 --> 00:56:39,120
Speaker 2: verse thirty two.

945
00:56:39,120 --> 00:56:40,000
Speaker 1: I got to give you this.

946
00:56:40,520 --> 00:56:43,640
Speaker 2: It says they recognized him in the breaking of the bread,

947
00:56:43,640 --> 00:56:45,600
Speaker 2: and they asked each other, we're not our hearts burning

948
00:56:45,600 --> 00:56:47,279
Speaker 2: within us while he talked with us on the road

949
00:56:47,280 --> 00:56:51,239
Speaker 2: and open the scriptures to us. Then they got up

950
00:56:52,120 --> 00:56:57,680
Speaker 2: at once and returned to Jerusalem, where they were supposed

951
00:56:57,719 --> 00:57:00,640
Speaker 2: to be. All along, I believe God's and some of you,

952
00:57:00,719 --> 00:57:04,040
Speaker 2: back to where you belong today, Back to the kind

953
00:57:04,040 --> 00:57:06,319
Speaker 2: of person you really are, back to the kind of

954
00:57:06,320 --> 00:57:07,400
Speaker 2: hope you really possess.

955
00:57:07,880 --> 00:57:09,080
Speaker 1: Back to the role.

956
00:57:10,400 --> 00:57:14,360
Speaker 7: That you occupy so brilliantly with integrity when your faith

957
00:57:14,440 --> 00:57:15,120
Speaker 7: is engaged.

958
00:57:15,480 --> 00:57:18,760
Speaker 2: They went back to Jerusalem, and there they found the

959
00:57:18,760 --> 00:57:21,600
Speaker 2: eleven and those with them assembled together. Ain't it crazy

960
00:57:21,640 --> 00:57:24,160
Speaker 2: how God already had the party getting started while they

961
00:57:24,160 --> 00:57:27,560
Speaker 2: were still in the funeral. Don't let the funeral fool you,

962
00:57:27,560 --> 00:57:31,960
Speaker 2: you might miss the party. And there was a prayer

963
00:57:32,040 --> 00:57:35,800
Speaker 2: meeting happening in Jerusalem, and verse thirty four says they said,

964
00:57:36,000 --> 00:57:38,520
Speaker 2: it's true. The Lord has risen and appeared to Simon.

965
00:57:39,520 --> 00:57:43,880
Speaker 2: And then the two told what had happened on the

966
00:57:43,880 --> 00:57:48,440
Speaker 2: way and how Jesus was recognized.

967
00:57:48,040 --> 00:57:50,640
Speaker 1: By them when he broke the bread.

968
00:57:50,720 --> 00:57:57,760
Speaker 10: Then then this is your then, baby, this is.

969
00:57:57,720 --> 00:57:58,400
Speaker 1: Your Then.

970
00:58:00,280 --> 00:58:03,920
Speaker 2: Even be grateful for the breaking if you put it

971
00:58:03,960 --> 00:58:04,640
Speaker 2: in his hands.

972
00:58:06,560 --> 00:58:07,960
Speaker 1: So I want to.

973
00:58:07,960 --> 00:58:12,240
Speaker 2: Pray for you, because I started this sermon saying we

974
00:58:12,320 --> 00:58:15,320
Speaker 2: have to have a funeral for our expectations, our funeral,

975
00:58:15,320 --> 00:58:16,960
Speaker 2: for the way that we thought things would turn out,

976
00:58:17,080 --> 00:58:19,720
Speaker 2: our funeral, for the way we thought people should appreciate us,

977
00:58:19,800 --> 00:58:22,560
Speaker 2: our funeral, for our funeral, for our path that we

978
00:58:22,600 --> 00:58:23,520
Speaker 2: thought we would be on.

979
00:58:23,680 --> 00:58:26,400
Speaker 1: At this point in our life. But don't have the

980
00:58:26,520 --> 00:58:28,200
Speaker 1: funeral and bury your faith.

981
00:58:31,400 --> 00:58:37,480
Speaker 2: Have the funeral for your expectations, and watch God resurrect

982
00:58:37,640 --> 00:58:38,240
Speaker 2: your faith.

983
00:58:39,880 --> 00:58:43,160
Speaker 1: And so I'm trading you, see it. I am trading

984
00:58:43,200 --> 00:58:44,920
Speaker 1: my expectation.

985
00:58:45,680 --> 00:58:50,680
Speaker 2: Of others for faith in God. To let me know

986
00:58:50,760 --> 00:58:55,520
Speaker 2: there is a then, and it's in his hands. Put

987
00:58:55,560 --> 00:58:58,880
Speaker 2: your hands just like this, like you're receiving something from

988
00:58:58,920 --> 00:59:02,680
Speaker 2: somebody you trust, and just tell the Lord it's in

989
00:59:02,720 --> 00:59:05,920
Speaker 2: your hands. Put that in the comments, say it out

990
00:59:05,960 --> 00:59:07,560
Speaker 2: loud if you're in the room, It's in your hands.

991
00:59:09,040 --> 00:59:11,800
Speaker 2: That is what is significant about the breaking bread in

992
00:59:11,880 --> 00:59:16,280
Speaker 2: Luke twenty four. That is what's significant about your future.

993
00:59:17,400 --> 00:59:19,920
Speaker 2: That is what is significant about this moment.

994
00:59:20,520 --> 00:59:22,920
Speaker 1: It's in his hands.

995
00:59:23,880 --> 00:59:29,640
Speaker 2: And so now, Father, I place these people that I've

996
00:59:29,640 --> 00:59:33,240
Speaker 2: preached this message to into your hands, the one who

997
00:59:33,320 --> 00:59:35,240
Speaker 2: was handed over for death but rose again in life.

998
00:59:35,280 --> 00:59:38,160
Speaker 2: In your hands are the keys of death, hell and

999
00:59:38,200 --> 00:59:38,560
Speaker 2: the grave.

1000
00:59:40,360 --> 00:59:40,560
Speaker 1: God.

1001
00:59:40,600 --> 00:59:42,800
Speaker 2: Today, whatever it is that we need to let go

1002
00:59:42,960 --> 00:59:44,400
Speaker 2: of in order to go forward.

1003
00:59:44,760 --> 00:59:46,400
Speaker 1: We do that now, and we might have to do

1004
00:59:46,440 --> 00:59:47,680
Speaker 1: it one hundred times again today.

1005
00:59:47,720 --> 00:59:52,000
Speaker 2: But that's all right because we have learned the difference

1006
00:59:53,200 --> 00:59:58,560
Speaker 2: between the end and a next step waiting to happen.

1007
00:59:59,640 --> 01:00:05,280
Speaker 2: So we stand before you today, empty hands, full hearts.

1008
01:00:06,000 --> 01:00:07,920
Speaker 2: I want to thank you for the person that you

1009
01:00:08,040 --> 01:00:13,520
Speaker 2: met today on the road away from you. I want

1010
01:00:13,560 --> 01:00:16,280
Speaker 2: to thank you for the person today who was running

1011
01:00:16,320 --> 01:00:19,280
Speaker 2: full speed from your love, but you track them down.

1012
01:00:20,640 --> 01:00:22,200
Speaker 1: I want to thank you today for the.

1013
01:00:22,160 --> 01:00:25,800
Speaker 2: Person whose eyes were opened to see your presence in

1014
01:00:25,840 --> 01:00:26,360
Speaker 2: their life.

1015
01:00:26,440 --> 01:00:29,400
Speaker 11: Oh that's how God is working. Oh that's how God

1016
01:00:29,480 --> 01:00:32,240
Speaker 11: is moving. Oh that's how it's coming to pass. Oh

1017
01:00:32,440 --> 01:00:34,680
Speaker 11: this is where God wanted me to be. Oh, this

1018
01:00:34,720 --> 01:00:36,919
Speaker 11: is what God is wanting me to learn. I thank

1019
01:00:36,960 --> 01:00:39,640
Speaker 11: you for this, and I thank you for them.

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1023
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1025
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