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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.

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

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

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Speaker 2: in your life.

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Speaker 1: Enjoy the message. Welcome to church.

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Speaker 2: Welcome to the final installment of Bars and Battles. Yes,

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Speaker 2: I know how tragic it is for you to learn

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Speaker 2: that this is our final week of this series.

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Speaker 1: How many of you have enjoyed it and then.

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Speaker 2: Got to stop somewhere. I learned that, and you got

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Speaker 2: to start somewhere. You got to stop somewhere. It's usually

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Speaker 2: harder for me as a preacher to know where to

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Speaker 2: start the sermon than where to stop it, because usually

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Speaker 2: usually I know where I'm going.

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Speaker 1: When I start.

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Speaker 2: When I start preaching to you, I know where I'm going,

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Speaker 2: but I don't always know how to get you into it,

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Speaker 2: because well, when I first started.

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Speaker 1: Preaching, I just assumed that at.

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Speaker 2: The beginning of my sermon, everybody was as excited as

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Speaker 2: I was about what I had been learning all week.

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Speaker 2: But I found out they had real lives, and so

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Speaker 2: you got to start somewhere, and sometimes it feels like

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Speaker 2: we have to get our energy to match up. When

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Speaker 2: I first started preaching, I came in so, I came

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Speaker 2: in so hot. I've just come up screaming and yelling

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Speaker 2: and hollering at the people in the first five minutes.

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Speaker 1: But I find out sometimes you got to give them time.

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Speaker 2: To merge into traffic and got to let the caffeine

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Speaker 2: kick in. My pastor, Pastor Mickey, he used to always

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Speaker 2: start his sermons the same way. Every time he started

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Speaker 2: the sermon. Well, he would read his scripture, and then

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Speaker 2: he would pray, and at the end of his prayer,

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Speaker 2: he would end his prayer the same way. Every single

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Speaker 2: time he would he would pray, read scripture, he would pray,

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Speaker 2: and then he would say, lit the words of my

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Speaker 2: mouth and the meditation of my heart be acceptable in

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Speaker 2: thy sight, O Lord, my strength and my Redeemer.

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Speaker 1: And I thought he made that up.

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Speaker 2: I didn't know he was plagiarizing Psalm nineteen fourteen. I thought, well,

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Speaker 2: that's so deep and profound, And one day I looked

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Speaker 2: and it was right there in the Bible. But I

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Speaker 2: kind of thought, maybe that was like a good luck

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Speaker 2: thing to say before you preach, you know, let the

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Speaker 2: words of my mouth and the meditations of my heart

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Speaker 2: be acceptable in your sight. I thought it was like saying, God,

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Speaker 2: help me not to mess up, and help them to listen,

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Speaker 2: help them to pay attention. That's a good thing to

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Speaker 2: pray when you start a sermon. Let the words of

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Speaker 2: in your sight.

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Speaker 1: Oh Lord, my Strength and Redeemer. It's kind of cool.

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Speaker 2: Because it means that anytime I preach, there are two

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Speaker 2: sermons happening, the one that I'm preaching and the one

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Speaker 2: you're hearing. And sometimes those two are not the same.

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Speaker 2: So I want to talk to you for a few

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Speaker 2: moments today about silent sermons. Silent sermons, and what we'll

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Speaker 2: do is we'll read the whole Psalm Psalm nineteen.

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Speaker 1: We'll read the whole thing.

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Speaker 2: I'm want to ask you to stand to your feet

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Speaker 2: in honor of the reading of God's Word at all

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Speaker 2: of our locations. Many say this is David's greatest hit

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Speaker 2: of all of his psalms.

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Speaker 1: This is to some of his finest work. C. S.

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Speaker 2: Lewis said it's one of the greatest lyrics in human history,

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Speaker 2: and who are you to argue with C. S. Lewis

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Speaker 1: It really is.

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Speaker 2: Listen to all fourteen verses. The heavens declare the glory

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Speaker 2: of God. The skies proclaim the work of his hands.

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Speaker 2: Day after day, they pour forth speech, night after night

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Speaker 2: they reveal knowledge. They have no speech, they use no words,

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Speaker 2: No sound is heard from them, yet their voice goes

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Speaker 1: What a paradox this is, he said. They have no vocal.

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Speaker 2: And the heavens show forth his power in such a

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Speaker 2: The law of the Lord is perfect, refreshing the soul.

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Speaker 2: The statutes of the Lord are trustworthy, making wives the

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Speaker 1: Somebody say, God's word works.

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Speaker 2: The precepts of the Lord are right, giving joy to

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Speaker 2: the heart. The commands of the Lord are radiant, giving

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Speaker 2: light to the eyes. The fear of the Lord is pure,

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Speaker 2: enduring forever. The decrees of the Lord are firm, and

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Speaker 2: all of them are righteous. They are more precious than gold,

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Speaker 2: than much pure gold. They are sweeter than Krispy Kreme

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Speaker 2: North Carolina translation. Then honey from the honeycomb. By them,

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Speaker 2: your servant is worn in keeping them, in keeping them,

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Speaker 2: not just in hearing them, but in retaining them. In

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Speaker 2: keeping them, there's great reward. But who can discern their

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Speaker 2: own errors? Forgive my hidden false Keep your servant also

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Speaker 2: from willful sins.

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Speaker 2: Then I will be blameless, innocent of great transgression. And

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Speaker 1: Made the words of my mouth, he said it in

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Speaker 1: the King James English.

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Speaker 2: Because Pastor Mickey is seventy eight, made the words of

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Speaker 2: down be acceptable in thy sight, Oh Lord, my strength

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Speaker 2: and my redeemer. And now that I said the scripture,

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Speaker 2: we can get the sermons started have a sea. It

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Speaker 2: matters where you start. It matters where you start. You

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Speaker 2: agree with me, it matters how you start your day.

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Speaker 2: Let's use a few examples with your spouse. Holly and

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Speaker 2: I were very happy on our honeymoon night and the

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Speaker 2: next morning, I'm not going with this where you think

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Speaker 1: When she looked at.

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Speaker 2: Me and I looked at her, and we had both

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Speaker 2: been up, and we had both brushed our teeth, and

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Speaker 2: we had both been awake for fifteen minutes, and we

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Speaker 2: and I looked at her, and we knew that we

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Speaker 2: had made the right decision because she looked at me

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Speaker 2: and she said to me, you don't like to talk

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Speaker 1: And we knew it was meant to.

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Speaker 2: Be because we can start our morning without saying a word.

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Speaker 2: I found out that you can preach a sermon without

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Speaker 2: saying a word. Some of the loudest sermons I will

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Speaker 2: preach will be with my life, not with my lips.

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Speaker 2: I've preached one sermon with my lips and another with

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Speaker 2: hear what I have to say, no matter how loud

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Speaker 2: I say that silent sermons, there's the one that I preach,

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Speaker 2: and then there's the one that I live. My grandfather

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Speaker 2: I don't remember, but I remember only one sermon that

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Speaker 2: I ever heard him preach. Can't remember what he preached,

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Speaker 2: but remember hearing him preach one time. I saw him

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Speaker 2: preach hundreds of times. There's a difference. I saw him

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Speaker 2: comb my grandmother's hair when she didn't even know his

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Speaker 2: But it didn't matter, because, like you've heard so many

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Speaker 2: times before, he would say, she might not know who

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Speaker 2: I am, but I know I.

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Speaker 2: And so I am the kind of husband that will

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Speaker 2: and take her to Wendy's every day for lunch. And

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Speaker 2: only pay for one instead of two. But see, he

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Speaker 2: was preaching a silent sermon.

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Speaker 1: He wasn't the first one.

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Speaker 2: He wasn't the first one to preach a silent sermon,

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Speaker 2: because Moses was a man that God wanted to use,

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Speaker 2: but he wasn't very good with words. So God said,

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Speaker 1: I'm going to give you a stick, And if you take.

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Speaker 2: The stick and stretch it out, touch somebody, say stretch

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Speaker 2: it out. It's always in the stretch that you discover

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Speaker 2: the strength. It's always in the stretch that you discover

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Speaker 2: the supernatural. You'll be get warmed up by now somebody

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Speaker 2: shall stretch. God said, Moses, if you'll stretch your staff

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Speaker 2: I'll make the water's part and the people will know

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Speaker 2: what kind of God I am, not by the words

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Speaker 2: that you speak, but I'll make the waters free for you.

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Speaker 1: It's a silent sermon.

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Speaker 2: Moses wasn't the only one who preached a silent sermon.

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Speaker 2: One woman in the Bible was so taken by the

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Speaker 2: presence of Jesus Christ that she's snuck in a room

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Speaker 2: with some perfume, some really expensive perfume.

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Speaker 2: And people knew that she loved Jesus not because of

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Speaker 2: that she poured out at his feet. Now, I can't

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Speaker 2: but Jesus said, wherever the Gospel has preached, the memory

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Speaker 2: of what this woman has done will be told. Because

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Speaker 2: some sermons are preached through smell rather than by sound.

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Speaker 1: I'll prove it to you.

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Speaker 2: Shadrackneeshak in a bed and a go went down.

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Speaker 1: In a fiery furnace. I'm preaching now.

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Speaker 2: We passed the introduction, and they turned up the heat

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Speaker 2: seven times hotter than normal, and.

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Speaker 1: They thought it would kill them.

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Speaker 2: But when they came out, they didn't even smell like smoke.

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Speaker 1: And when you don't smell like what you've been through,

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Speaker 3: It, it's a silent sonon Jesus got down in the

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Speaker 2: Caught in the act of adultree was about to get stone.

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Speaker 2: Jesus said, if you've never done anything deserving of becoming human, target, practice.

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Speaker 4: Goliad and fire away.

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Speaker 2: And then he knelt down in the dirt, said not

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Speaker 1: And he said not a word. He was writing in

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Speaker 2: I think he was writing their names and what they

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Speaker 2: did on prom night, But I don't know what he wrote.

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Speaker 2: Maybe just the essence of his presence was enough that

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Speaker 2: his perfection became a reflection of their need for grace.

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Speaker 2: Some of the greatest sermons are silent sermons. Silent sermons.

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Speaker 2: Those guys preached one today. Before I ever opened my mouth,

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Speaker 1: To do immeasurably more than I asked for.

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Speaker 2: Imagine, I'm tired of that track.

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Speaker 1: Me me me me me me me me me me

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Speaker 1: me me me me me.

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Speaker 2: Me me me me me me me me me me.

446
00:28:11,440 --> 00:28:13,600
Speaker 2: I thought about singing it till it wasn't funny anymore,

447
00:28:13,600 --> 00:28:15,200
Speaker 2: And it sounds like we're already at that point.

448
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Speaker 1: I know how long it would take.

449
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Speaker 2: How long will it take until you change that meditation?

450
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Speaker 1: Realizing that if.

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Speaker 2: You start with yourself, you say in yourself, and you

452
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Speaker 2: will always be limited by who you are.

453
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Speaker 1: But when you start with the great I.

454
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Speaker 2: Am, David said, who's that? They said, I think his

455
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Speaker 2: name's Goliath. David said, I'll fight him. Saul said, you're small.

456
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Speaker 2: David said, I'm not coming against him in myself or

457
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Speaker 2: in my name, but I come against you in the

458
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Speaker 2: name of the Lord the Sky. I declare the glory

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Speaker 2: of God. Notice David did not start with what was

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Speaker 2: in his heart. You start with what's in your heart.

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Speaker 2: You'll scare yourself to death. That's a horror movie to

462
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Speaker 2: start with what's in your heart.

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Speaker 1: I was going to preach.

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Speaker 2: One time, and the guy who invited me, I've never

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Speaker 2: been to.

466
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Speaker 1: His church before. He said, just share us on your heart.

467
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Speaker 1: I said, oh, no, you don't want me to do that.

468
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Speaker 2: I'm gonna share us in heaven because if I tell

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Speaker 2: you what's in my heart, it won't help any of us.

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Speaker 2: So I don't start my meditation with what's in myself.

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Speaker 2: I noticed that every meditation, and again, don't think meditation.

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Speaker 1: Think about the loop.

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Speaker 2: Think about the lines that loop over and over again

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Speaker 2: in the way that you think. Think about how you

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Speaker 2: have this subtle way, if you let yourself into turning

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Speaker 2: every interaction into a stage on which you.

477
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Speaker 1: Were the star. I don't do that. I don't like

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Speaker 1: to be noticed. I don't do that. I don't like.

479
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Speaker 2: People to even look at me. I'm not that type

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Speaker 2: of person. This must be a preacher thing. No, I

481
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Speaker 2: promise you. You talk too much sometimes. I promise you.

482
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Speaker 2: Some of the stuff that you post. Oh you didn't

483
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Speaker 2: think I was talking about your Instagram.

484
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Speaker 1: Fee, did you?

485
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Speaker 2: I promise you some of you need to go home

486
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Speaker 2: and change the bio on your on your Instagram, and

487
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Speaker 2: it should just say what it's really all about?

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Speaker 1: Me? Me, me, me.

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Speaker 2: Me, Just give us an expectation of what's going to

490
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Speaker 2: happen on that fee when you're easily offended, when everything's

491
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Speaker 2: an insult.

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Speaker 1: Did you see how.

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Speaker 2: They looked at me. They weren't looking at you. They

494
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Speaker 2: were thinking about dinner. They have not bought groceries this week,

495
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Speaker 2: and their mom has cancer. You get outside yourself and

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Speaker 2: think about something bigger.

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Speaker 4: The skies declare the glory of God.

498
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Speaker 2: People like this, bigger than what happens in here.

499
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Speaker 1: Do your neighbor a real favor, Look at him and say.

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Speaker 2: Get out your head. Get out of your head. That's

501
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Speaker 2: a horrible place to take your orders. Am I preaching

502
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Speaker 2: or am I preaching? Every meditation, every loop that starts

503
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Speaker 2: with self ends in one of two places. And I

504
00:31:34,760 --> 00:31:36,440
Speaker 2: want you to look for this in your life this week.

505
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Speaker 2: It's either going to end in scarcity or shame. Every

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Speaker 2: sermon that you preach to yourself, and you are always

507
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Speaker 2: preaching to yourself. In fact, Martin Lloyd Jones said that

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Speaker 2: our problem is we spend too much time listening to

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Speaker 2: ourselves and not enough time preaching to ourselves. Isn't that

510
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Speaker 2: what David psalms have shown us where he would say

511
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Speaker 2: to his soul, is time to go to school. Bless

512
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Speaker 2: the Lord, oh my soul, and all that is within me,

513
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Speaker 2: Bless his holy name. He's preaching to himself, and.

514
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Speaker 1: So are you.

515
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Speaker 2: But when you preach to yourself from yourself, your sermon

516
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Speaker 2: will always lead to scarcity. Brene Brown says that the

517
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Speaker 2: number one meditation of many of our hearts is not enough.

518
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Speaker 2: She says, we apply it to time, we apply it

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Speaker 2: to money, we apply it to our talent, and the

520
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Speaker 2: sermon that plays in our mind, if we would ever

521
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Speaker 2: stop and listen to it, it starts every morning.

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Speaker 1: Not enough.

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Speaker 2: How much sleep did you get last night?

524
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Speaker 1: How much money do you make on that job?

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Speaker 2: Graham asked me the other day, Dad, is fifty six

526
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Speaker 2: a year a lot of money? I said, it is

527
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Speaker 2: till you make it. That might be the devil's favorite sermon.

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Speaker 2: Not enough, not enough, not enough. He preached it to

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Speaker 2: the disciples because they looked at five thousand men and

530
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Speaker 2: women and children, and Jesus said, feed them. And they said, well,

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Speaker 2: we don't have a whole lot. And we don't have

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Speaker 2: a whole lot. We have five loaves and two fish.

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Speaker 2: But that's not enough because they were starting with their selves,

534
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Speaker 2: but they were standing next to the source. I wonder

535
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Speaker 2: how different the story would be if you would ask

536
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Speaker 2: the source instead of asking yourself.

537
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Speaker 1: Check the source.

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Speaker 4: He's smarter than enough. Somebody shout, he's more. He's small.

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Speaker 1: YA will never shout in the.

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Speaker 4: Back of the room.

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Speaker 1: And I start hollering like this.

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Speaker 4: I know y'all don't like it when.

543
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Speaker 1: I holler, but this is not a silent sermon. This

544
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Speaker 1: is a loud sermon.

545
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Speaker 2: Somebody shout, he's more more than enough.

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Speaker 3: Every need, every deficiency, all my failures.

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Speaker 2: His blood is enough, his grace is enough, his word

548
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Speaker 2: is enough. The law of the Lord is pure, reviving

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Speaker 2: the soul. But if I start with myself, I end

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Speaker 2: with scarcity.

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Speaker 1: It's a loop because I start down here, and so.

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Speaker 2: By the time I've looped around through my day, I

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Speaker 2: end my day feeling completed. I wonder if you got

554
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Speaker 2: a new loop. I wonder if you got a new

555
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Speaker 2: loop and started with the source instead of starting with yourself.

556
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Speaker 2: I wonder how the cycle would change if you started

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Speaker 2: with your source. I know it's basic, but didn't David

558
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Speaker 2: start with the heavens and then move toward his heart.

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Speaker 1: The skies declare the glory of God. They show forth

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Speaker 1: his power day after.

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Speaker 2: Day and night after night, and day after day and

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Speaker 2: night after night. And all I've got to do to

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Speaker 2: stay and step with God is keep the beat of

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Speaker 2: Heaven happening inside my heart. Because there's always enough in heaven.

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Speaker 2: There's always enough patience in heaven. There's always enough provision

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Speaker 2: in heaven. There's always enough bread in heaven. There's always enough,

567
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Speaker 2: always enough, always enough. My God shall supply all of

568
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Speaker 2: your needs according What if you got in that loop.

569
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Speaker 2: What if you ask God to fill your empty places

570
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Speaker 2: and you start with yourself, You in in scarcity. You

571
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Speaker 2: start with your self, you end in shame. Because I

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Speaker 2: look at myself and I feel like David. David does

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Speaker 2: something weird. I think he wrote this song. It's contested

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Speaker 2: he might have written it, he might have not written it.

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Speaker 2: But let's give him credit because this is a song

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Speaker 2: that embodies a characteristic known as wisdom poetry. It kind

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Speaker 2: of switches beats in the middle of the song. It's

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Speaker 2: going on and on about the skies and to have

579
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Speaker 2: his For many years they thought it was two different

580
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Speaker 2: poems put together as they were studying back and trying

581
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Speaker 2: to find out how it was written and when it

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Speaker 2: was written. It was such a sharp break at verse

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Speaker 2: seven that they thought, well, maybe this is a different thing.

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Speaker 1: You know, we're talking about the skies.

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Speaker 2: And the sun and the stars. And then all of

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Speaker 2: a sudden, David makes a break in verse seven and

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Speaker 2: he starts talking about the law of the Lord. That's

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Speaker 2: what he says, perfect refreshing the soul.

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Speaker 1: Look at verse twelve. But who can discern their own errors?

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Speaker 1: So he is an.

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Speaker 2: Imperfect man looking into a perfect law. He's looking at

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Speaker 2: what the law is and what it does, and how

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Speaker 2: it brings peace, wisdom, and joy. But yet he knows

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Speaker 2: that he has broken the very law that produces the

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Speaker 2: very things that he wants. I don't think it's much

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Speaker 2: of a break, because he is contemplating how the heavens

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Speaker 2: are able to effortlessly declare the glory of.

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Speaker 1: God, but he cannot.

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Speaker 2: Because I'm stuck in a cycle called sin, and there

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Speaker 2: are secrets in my heart that, no matter how much

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Speaker 2: I dress him up with the words of my mouth,

602
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Speaker 2: the meditations of my heart falls short of the glory

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Speaker 2: of God.

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Speaker 1: Paul knew it too.

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Speaker 2: He said, what the law was powerless to do in

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Speaker 2: that it was weakened by the sinful nature. Look what

607
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Speaker 2: God did. God started a new loop. See through the law,

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Speaker 2: man tried to reach his way to God.

609
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Speaker 1: But it was a.

610
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Speaker 2: Cycle of shame caused by sin. So I reach and

611
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Speaker 2: fall short, and try and fall short, and repent and

612
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Speaker 2: fall short, and get up and fall down, and reach

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Speaker 2: and fall short and try and fall short, and get

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Speaker 2: up and fall down. And God broke the cycle. For

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Speaker 2: in the fullness of time, God.

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Speaker 1: Sit for his son in the likeness of sinful man, to.

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Speaker 2: Be a sin offering. For what the law was powerless

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Speaker 2: to do in the I was weakened by the sinful nature.

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Speaker 2: God did by sending his own son in the likeness

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Speaker 2: of sinful man.

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Speaker 1: So that we can say, there is therefore.

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Speaker 4: Now no condemn.

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Speaker 1: There is therefore let me give you a new loop.

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Speaker 2: No condemnation, no condemnation, no condemnation for.

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Speaker 1: Those who are in Christ Jesus.

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Speaker 2: This is the kind of gospel preaching that got me

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Speaker 2: to the cross.

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Speaker 1: This is the kind of.

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Speaker 2: Gospel preaching that will break the change of shame off

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Speaker 2: of your life.

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Speaker 1: This is the kind of gospel preaching that you can

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Speaker 1: preach on.

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Speaker 2: Monday morning, Tuesday nine, Wednesday afternoon. You can preach this

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Speaker 2: stuff for yourself. There is therefore now no condemnation. Why

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Speaker 2: because I'm in Christ. In other words, to seven people

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Speaker 2: that tell them, I, I got a new loop. I got

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Speaker 2: a new loop. That's what the gospel gives me. A

638
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Speaker 2: new meditation. And watch this. I no longer live by situation.

639
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Speaker 2: You're ready to jump up. I live by revelation. I

640
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Speaker 2: know who he is, I know who I am in him.

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Speaker 4: You better touch seven more people.

642
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Speaker 1: Tell him I got a revelation.

643
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Speaker 2: I got a revelation, or whatever I go through, I

644
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Speaker 2: got a revelation of who's.

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Speaker 4: In the fire with me. I know what he did.

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Speaker 4: I know who he is. I know who I am

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Speaker 4: at him. I got a new loop. I'm losing my voice.

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Speaker 4: All shout for me.

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Speaker 2: You get that in your heart, you'd be finishing the

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Speaker 2: devil's sermons in no time. He might start them, but

651
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Speaker 2: you let Grace finish them. Yeah, yeah, yeah. The devil

652
00:41:13,400 --> 00:41:18,240
Speaker 2: will be scared to talk to you. He will because

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Speaker 2: every failure he brings up is going to trigger within

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Speaker 2: your mind a new loop. To realize that Grace is

655
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Speaker 2: greater than my failure.

656
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Speaker 1: Grace is greater.

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Speaker 2: I don't know. Maybe you're gonna live in a new loop.

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Speaker 2: It is not the sermon that I preach to you

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Speaker 2: that determines the course of your life.

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Speaker 1: It's a sermon you preach to yourself. That's what you

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Speaker 1: say to yourself.

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Speaker 2: Let the words of my mouth and the meditation of

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Speaker 2: my heart be acceptable, acceptable, accept accept, Accept.

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Speaker 1: What God says about.

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Speaker 2: You, reject everything else, and live your life under.

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Speaker 1: An open heaven. And the heavens declare.

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Speaker 2: The glory of God, and the skies declare His wonder

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Speaker 2: Day after day they pour forth speech, and.

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Speaker 1: They don't need any words to do it. It's a

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Speaker 1: silent sermon.

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Speaker 2: It's the silent sermon that determines whether or not you

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Speaker 2: step out on faith or stay in your comfort zone.

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Speaker 2: It's the silent sermon you preach to yourself that determines

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Speaker 2: whether you continue to live in a place of regret

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Speaker 2: and resentment, or you step forward into your tomorrow believing

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Speaker 2: that God will use all things for the good of

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Speaker 2: those who love Him and are called according to his purpose.

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Speaker 6: It's not this, it's the second sermon. We thought it

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Speaker 6: was so weird that the.

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Speaker 2: Preacher would pray, let the words of my mouth and

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Speaker 2: the meditations of my heart be acceptable in your sight.

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Speaker 2: But I get it now. He was saying, there's two

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Speaker 2: sermons happening. There's what I say to you, and there's

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Speaker 2: what you say to yourself. And you've got to learn

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Speaker 2: how to be the coach of your own soul. I

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Speaker 2: wish Davo Sweeney was here. He could help us. I

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Speaker 2: was considering hiring a coach recently for leadership, and I

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Speaker 2: wanted somebody who could help me to analyze my own leadership.

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Speaker 1: And that's probably a good thing to do.

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Speaker 2: But I was praying about it, and God said, be

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Speaker 2: your own head coach, head coach, you hear me. I

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Speaker 2: thought about titling this message help. My mind is a mess,

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Speaker 2: and I don't know where to start to put it

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Speaker 2: in order that would be more accurate to our real lives.

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Speaker 2: But I started to call it the Silent sermon instead,

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Speaker 2: because I found out that I have a second self.

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Speaker 2: I have the self that tells me everything that's wrong

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Speaker 2: with me, and then I have this second self.

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Speaker 1: It's not really even me.

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Speaker 2: It's a deposit guaranteeing my inheritance is the Holy spirit

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Speaker 2: of God dwelling in me. When I say he's in

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Speaker 2: my heart, I'm not talking about an organ anymore than

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Speaker 2: David is talking about the sun as being a celestial body.

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Speaker 2: He's talking about the faithfulness of God in poetic language.

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Speaker 1: It is theology wrapped in poetry.

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Speaker 2: So when he said the meditations of my heart, I thought,

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Speaker 2: I need to be my own head coach. I think

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Speaker 2: that I need to let the God in me talk

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Speaker 2: to the me and me. I think I need to

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Speaker 2: start letting my second self talk to my.

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Speaker 1: Screwed up self.

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Speaker 2: I even started doing it practically, And for me, I

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Speaker 2: have to get out of my head set to write

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Speaker 2: things down because up.

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Speaker 1: Here is whoa.

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Speaker 2: I can't keep it straight, comes real fast, But when

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Speaker 2: I write it down, it helps me.

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Speaker 1: To slow down a little bit and focus. Slow down.

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Speaker 1: It gets that constant me.

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Speaker 4: Me, me, me, me.

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Speaker 2: So that the real me can speak.

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Speaker 1: And I write letters to me from the other me.

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Speaker 2: I know what schizophrenic pastor is not what you always

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Speaker 2: pray for.

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Speaker 1: I'm gonna help somebody, though, I write on the top

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Speaker 1: of my page. I write down every time I do this,

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Speaker 1: three times a week, holy ghost coaches notes.

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Speaker 2: I write it down, and then I talked to myself,

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Speaker 2: like I like myself, believe in myself, see myself, and

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Speaker 2: know myself.

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Speaker 1: Because I figure all of those are characteristics of the

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Speaker 1: God in me. So if I can sit down long

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Speaker 1: enough to listen.

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Speaker 2: To what Elijah heard as a still small voice, see

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Speaker 2: the wind came through the rocks, and Elijah heard nothing.

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Speaker 2: I could preach a good sermon. We can sing a

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Speaker 2: good song, you might not get it. The fire blazed high.

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Speaker 2: Elijah heard nothing, nothing reassuring. Wind blew the fire, Earth

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Speaker 2: started shaking. Earth, wind and fire did an opening act,

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Speaker 2: and Elijah wasn't impressed.

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Speaker 1: But the Hebrew word is interesting. It says God was

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Speaker 1: in the whisper.

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Speaker 2: It was in that silent sermon that Elijah realized that

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Speaker 2: what he was running from was already taken care of.

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Speaker 2: It was in that silent sermon that he realized God

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Speaker 2: had already appointed someone to put to death those who.

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Speaker 1: Threatened his own life.

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Speaker 2: It was in that silent sermon that Elijah realized that

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Speaker 2: there was already a successor appointed, that his ministry had

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Speaker 2: not been in vain. It was in that silent sermon

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Speaker 2: that he realized that there was still work to be done,

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Speaker 2: and I can't stay in this place of self pity anymore.

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Speaker 1: It's the silent sermon, the silent sermon. I wonder if

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Speaker 1: that's why Joshua told the people.

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Speaker 2: Not to say anything for the first six days they

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Speaker 2: walked around the wall, because he knew they would start

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Speaker 2: saying stuff to talk each other out of going into

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Speaker 2: the land God had given him. Sometimes the best strategy

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Speaker 2: is shut up. I know you've always wanted to do this,

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Speaker 2: and you hated touching your neighbor in church until this point.

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Speaker 2: But look at them and say, shut off. That's the strategy.

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Speaker 1: Shut off. Well, you like that a little too much.

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Speaker 1: I'm worried about rock Hill. There might be a fight

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Speaker 1: in the parking lot.

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Speaker 2: And on the seventh day you can shout, but it's

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Speaker 2: the shout after the silence. So I write little coaches

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Speaker 2: notes to myself. No, you can't see them, they're not

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Speaker 2: for you. I don't talk to myself like I used

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Speaker 2: to as much anymore.

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Speaker 1: I still do.

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Speaker 2: I'll never forget asking Amy Korb, But do you always

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Speaker 2: walk around telling yourself what an idiot you are?

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Speaker 1: She said, I've never done that in my life. Oh yeah, me, neither.

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Speaker 1: I was asking for a friend. I said, she's onto something.

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Speaker 1: I realized one time, I would beat myself up.

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Speaker 2: If anybody else was talking to me the way I

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Speaker 2: was talking to me, I'd beat myself up.

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Speaker 1: I would beat them up.

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Speaker 2: If I was bigger than them, I would beat them up.

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Speaker 2: If they didn't know any moves, I would beat them up.

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Speaker 2: And I'm living in loops of shame and scarcity, and

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Speaker 2: God has really given me his grace. And it'd be

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Speaker 2: life changing for you to start some new loops. It'd

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Speaker 2: be life changing for you to pray what Pastor Mickey prayed.

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Speaker 2: It'd be life changing for you to change your silent sermons.

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Speaker 2: Listen to them. Do they start with me? They're going

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Speaker 2: to end in shame. Do they start with me, They're

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Speaker 2: going to end in scarcity. But if you start with

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Speaker 2: the source, I bet you'll find springs of living water

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Speaker 2: that had been waiting to well up within you.

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Speaker 1: They're waiting to burst forth.

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Speaker 2: So good. The best sermon Jesus ever preached, as far

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Speaker 2: as I'm concerned. He preached it to the woman at

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Speaker 2: the well. I mean, he said a lot of good

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Speaker 2: things to her. He said, I'm the water you've been

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Speaker 2: looking for. Where you've been running around, what's been happening

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Speaker 2: in your heart. It's like a well that can hold water.

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Speaker 2: But my favorite part of his sermon isn't what he said,

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Speaker 2: it's where he sat. The Bible says he sat on

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Speaker 2: a well and waited for a woman. It took me

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Speaker 2: years to see that he was a well.

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Speaker 1: On a well.

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Speaker 2: There is a well within you that will not run dry.

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Speaker 2: There is a God within you who does not fail.

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Speaker 2: There is a grace within you that is not ashamed.

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Speaker 2: But I can't give you this water.

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Speaker 1: You've got to drink it for yourself.

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Speaker 2: I believe God wants to whisper to us in this moment.

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Speaker 2: I want you to be very still, very quiet. Just

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Speaker 2: close your eyes, quit thinking about.

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Speaker 1: Me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me me.

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Speaker 7: See how good that feels. See right there is the

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Speaker 7: presence of God. See right there is the peace that

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Speaker 7: passes all understandable. See right there, how the blood of

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Speaker 7: Jesus speaks a better word over your life. It's the silencer.

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Speaker 7: It's the silence that can be heard. It's the part

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Speaker 7: of you that knows that greater is he that's in

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Speaker 7: me than he that's in the world. It's the part

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Speaker 7: of you that knows that God will supply all my

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Speaker 7: needs and be faithful.

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Speaker 1: It's the part of you that knows, and it's in you.

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Speaker 1: Thank you for joining us.

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

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