WEBVTT - The Devil In 3D

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<v Speaker 1>Hey, this is Stephen Ferdick.

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<v Speaker 2>I'm the pastor of Elevation Church and this is our

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<v Speaker 2>podcast and I wanted to thank you for joining us today.

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<v Speaker 1>Hope this inspires you. Hope it builds your faith.

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<v Speaker 2>Hope it gives you perspective to see God is moving

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<v Speaker 2>in your life.

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<v Speaker 1>Enjoy the message.

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<v Speaker 2>Just to hit it real quick from first Speeder five

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<v Speaker 2>eight and nine, which serves as a theme. We won't

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<v Speaker 2>preach from it today, but be alert and of sober mind.

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<v Speaker 1>Your enemy.

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<v Speaker 2>The devil prows around like a roaring lion. See I

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<v Speaker 2>always read it wrong. I thought he was a lion.

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<v Speaker 2>I thought he was bigger than me and stronger than me.

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<v Speaker 2>But I found out that he's just loud like a lion.

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<v Speaker 2>And the place where he roars is in my mind.

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<v Speaker 2>That's where he's the loudest, in the thoughts that I have.

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<v Speaker 2>And so he's looking for someone to devour. Did you

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<v Speaker 2>ever wonder why all those Twitter feeds and Instagram feeds

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<v Speaker 2>and Facebook feeds, why they call him feeds. It's because us.

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<v Speaker 2>They're eating your mind alive. Did you know that? And

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<v Speaker 2>so he devours people in any way that he can.

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<v Speaker 2>He's looking for someone the command is resist him. But

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<v Speaker 2>how many know it's hard to resist what you don't recognize.

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<v Speaker 1>And if we're to resist.

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<v Speaker 2>The enemy, because I don't know about you, but I

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<v Speaker 2>don't intend to live the rest of my life as

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<v Speaker 2>a Christian and be a slave to my own imagination.

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<v Speaker 1>Amen. I don't intend to.

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<v Speaker 2>Live the rest of my life forgiven by Christ as

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<v Speaker 2>a prisoner to my past and replaying memories of moments

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<v Speaker 2>that have come and gone, but I can't escape them

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<v Speaker 2>in my mind. And so I really intend if it

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<v Speaker 2>takes me the rest of my life, and it might,

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<v Speaker 2>because it seems like sometimes I take two steps forward

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<v Speaker 2>and three steps back. But I'm trying to get free.

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<v Speaker 2>I'm trying to take my mind back so I can

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<v Speaker 2>serve God with my mind and love the Lord my

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<v Speaker 2>God with all my heart, with all my soul, with.

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<v Speaker 1>All my mind, with all my strength.

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<v Speaker 2>And I don't want to be drained, so I go

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<v Speaker 2>into each day with no energy and broken focus. I

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<v Speaker 2>really want to be able to see clear the way

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<v Speaker 2>ahead so I can follow Christ into my future.

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<v Speaker 1>And that's the intention of this series.

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<v Speaker 2>But in order to resist the enemy, we've got to

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<v Speaker 2>recognize him, or we'll spend our whole life, resisting all

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<v Speaker 2>the wrong things, resisting silence when sometimes that's where God

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<v Speaker 2>speaks the loudest, resisting or trying to avoid awkward situations.

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<v Speaker 1>And God's middle name is awkward.

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<v Speaker 2>He'll run out of food on purpose to see what

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<v Speaker 2>you're going to do in an awkward situation. He'll sit

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<v Speaker 2>down next to a disreputable woman. It'll well and make

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<v Speaker 2>it awkward. So the disciples have to decide if they

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<v Speaker 2>really believe that this message is for everyone.

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<v Speaker 1>And so let's take a look today.

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<v Speaker 2>At this idea of recognizing the enemy so we can

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<v Speaker 2>see how he's at work in our lives. And this

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<v Speaker 2>may be a weird title, but I want to call

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<v Speaker 2>this message the devil in three D? What does he

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<v Speaker 2>look like in real life, not our cartoon image of him,

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<v Speaker 2>our coloring book devil. Once we get the cape off

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<v Speaker 2>of him and try to understand how he really operates

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<v Speaker 2>to try to master our minds and set up a

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<v Speaker 2>seed of influence and our souls. Through controlling our emotions,

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<v Speaker 2>we can start to do battle.

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<v Speaker 1>And you know, Paul said.

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<v Speaker 2>One time, we are not ignorant of Satan's devices, devices,

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<v Speaker 2>Satan's devices, and of course I don't think this is

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<v Speaker 2>the devil, but I wanted to give you three things

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<v Speaker 2>just to.

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<v Speaker 1>Make it memorable that start with the letter D.

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<v Speaker 2>And rather than continue on talking about Peter this week,

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<v Speaker 2>I want to move into the Old Testament for a

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<v Speaker 2>few moments and tell you a story about a Bible

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<v Speaker 2>character that I know you've heard of, named Moses, and

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<v Speaker 2>I want to use this one example from his life

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<v Speaker 2>is probably not the one that he would choose for

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<v Speaker 2>us to evaluate, because he made a great mistake and

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<v Speaker 2>it cost him dearly. But hopefully, like First Corinthians ten says,

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<v Speaker 2>we can use him as an example so the same

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<v Speaker 2>thing doesn't happen to us. How many of you want

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<v Speaker 2>your kids to learn some stuff from your experience that

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<v Speaker 2>they don't have to learn through their own pain. And

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<v Speaker 2>so let's look at this. I'll read it to you.

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<v Speaker 2>I'll be honest with you. I never appreached on this

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<v Speaker 2>passage before because I was intimidated by it. And really

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<v Speaker 2>it's a little confusing. You'll see that it seems a

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<v Speaker 2>little harsh what happens in this passage.

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<v Speaker 1>And honestly, I knew that if I.

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<v Speaker 2>Ever preached it, that God would probably speak something to

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<v Speaker 2>me that I wouldn't want to hear because I relate

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<v Speaker 2>to a little thing that happens in this Bible story.

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<v Speaker 2>But I want to share it with you now as

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<v Speaker 2>we lean into this message. The devil in three D

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<v Speaker 2>and of course Moses's devil was a little.

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<v Speaker 1>Different than ours.

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<v Speaker 2>He would have said Pharaoh, who was the ruler of Egypt,

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<v Speaker 2>the one that he had to demand emancipation for the

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<v Speaker 2>people of God from. He never really asked for that assignment.

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<v Speaker 2>He didn't seek that assignment. He wasn't looking for a

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<v Speaker 2>life purpose. God just interrupted what he thought was his

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<v Speaker 2>second half of life and gave him something different to

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<v Speaker 2>do and wasn't terribly convenient. But now we're looking at

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<v Speaker 2>Moses at the end of his life, and this is

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<v Speaker 2>what the Bible says Numbers chapter twenty, verse one. In

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<v Speaker 2>the first month, the whole Israelite community arrived at the

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<v Speaker 2>desert of Zenn and they stayed at Kadesh. Their Miriam

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<v Speaker 2>died and was buried. Their Miriam died and was buried.

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<v Speaker 2>Now there was no water for the community, and the

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<v Speaker 2>people gathered in opposition to Moses and Aaron, and they

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<v Speaker 2>quarreled with Moses and said, if only we had died

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<v Speaker 2>when our brothers fell dead before the Lord. Why did

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<v Speaker 2>you bring the Lord's community into this wilderness that we

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<v Speaker 2>and our livestock should die here?

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<v Speaker 1>Why did you.

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<v Speaker 2>Bring us up out of Egypt.

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<v Speaker 1>To this terrible place?

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<v Speaker 2>It has no grain or figs, grape vines or pomegranates,

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<v Speaker 2>Wi Fi or Starbucks. It's trying to bring you into

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<v Speaker 2>the text. I don't want you bored trying to listen

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<v Speaker 2>to this Bible story. And there is no water to drink.

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<v Speaker 2>Moses and Aaron went from the assembly to the entrance

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<v Speaker 2>to the tent of meeting and fell face down, and

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<v Speaker 2>the glory of the Lord appeared to them. That's when

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<v Speaker 2>God's glory shows up when you've run out of answers.

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<v Speaker 2>That's when God's glory shows up when you admit God,

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<v Speaker 2>I'm powerless to do this on my own.

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<v Speaker 1>I need you God.

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<v Speaker 2>I've tried everything, and still these people are driving me crazy.

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<v Speaker 2>But I'm here at the entrance to the tent and I.

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<v Speaker 1>Need you to speak.

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<v Speaker 2>So for everybody who came into church with a cocky

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<v Speaker 2>attitude today talking about I wonder what this sermon is

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<v Speaker 2>gonna be about.

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<v Speaker 1>And he better hurry up and.

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<v Speaker 2>Get to it, because I don't really even want to

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<v Speaker 2>be here, up here in that karate kid shirt looking

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<v Speaker 2>like a Halloween costume, say something, won't you. You're not

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<v Speaker 2>gonna get it. But those of you who came in

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<v Speaker 2>here humbled under the mighty hand of God, he might

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<v Speaker 2>just speak because you're listening now. Then the Lord said

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<v Speaker 2>to Moses verse seven, take the staff, that same staff

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<v Speaker 2>that you raised over the Red Sea, and it parted,

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<v Speaker 2>that same staff that you.

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<v Speaker 1>And threw on the ground.

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<v Speaker 2>And I proved who I was to you because I

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<v Speaker 2>turned the staff into a snake, and you picked it

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<v Speaker 2>back up and it became a staff again.

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<v Speaker 1>That same staff that.

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<v Speaker 2>Turned the Nile River into blood until your enemy had

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<v Speaker 2>no choice but to release you from bondage.

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<v Speaker 1>That same staff that when you.

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<v Speaker 2>Raised it up, the Amalekites.

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<v Speaker 1>Were no match for the Israelites.

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<v Speaker 2>That same staff. Take it now. I want you to

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<v Speaker 2>get erin and get everybody together and speak to the

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<v Speaker 2>rock before their eyes, and it will pour out its water,

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<v Speaker 2>and you will bring water out of the rock for

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<v Speaker 2>the community, so they in their livestock and drink. So

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<v Speaker 2>Moses took the staff from the Lord's presence, just as

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<v Speaker 2>he had commanded him. He and Aaron gathered the assembly

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<v Speaker 2>together in front of the rock, and Moses said to them, listen,

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<v Speaker 2>you rebels.

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<v Speaker 1>I'm gonna start saying that around my house. More to

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<v Speaker 1>the kids.

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<v Speaker 2>We bring you water out of this rock. Isn't anything

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<v Speaker 2>I do enough for you. I've been leading you through

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<v Speaker 2>this wilderness for thirty eight years, and it's never enough.

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<v Speaker 2>It never stops. It never stops. Somebody shout, it never stops.

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<v Speaker 2>I screamed that one day on vacation, top of my lungs.

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<v Speaker 2>I'd been such a good dad all day. I took

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<v Speaker 2>my kids swimming, I went on a bike ride with

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<v Speaker 2>the kids. We went and ate Japanese food, and we

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<v Speaker 2>sat with people we didn't know, and I pretended to

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<v Speaker 2>think it was funny when he flipped the bowl into

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<v Speaker 2>his hat, like I never saw it before. I was

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<v Speaker 2>a good dad that day. I was a great dad

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<v Speaker 2>that day. I read to him at bedtime, and still

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<v Speaker 2>at the end of the day, they were fighting, and

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<v Speaker 2>all of a sudden, I heard myself screaming at my kids.

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<v Speaker 1>Have you ever had an out of body experience.

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<v Speaker 2>Screaming at your kids and you were surprised? What you

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<v Speaker 2>said next? And you were thinking I might have to

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<v Speaker 2>bleep myself at it myself.

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<v Speaker 1>I don't know what's coming out next. The Holy Ghost just.

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<v Speaker 2>Left and something else took over.

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<v Speaker 1>And now I'm watching.

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<v Speaker 2>Myself and I'm scaring of myself, and I shouted at

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<v Speaker 2>the top of my lungs.

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<v Speaker 1>It never stops. Now we can laugh about it. It wasn't

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<v Speaker 1>funny at the time.

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<v Speaker 2>Listen, your rebels, must we bring you water out of

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<v Speaker 2>this rock. We already did this one time, thirty eight

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<v Speaker 2>years ago. This has happened before. God kept your shoes

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<v Speaker 2>from wearing out. Then Moses raised his arm and struck

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<v Speaker 2>the rock, which God did not instruct him to do,

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<v Speaker 2>twice with his staff, and water gushed out, and the

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<v Speaker 2>community and their livestock drank. So on the surface what

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<v Speaker 2>Moses did worked, But just because it worked on the

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<v Speaker 2>surface doesn't mean it was wise and does not mean

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<v Speaker 2>it will have a sustainable effect. And this is why

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<v Speaker 2>when you control people with your anger, or your pouting.

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<v Speaker 1>Or your manipulat.

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<v Speaker 2>See I can't even say the words a foreign concept.

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<v Speaker 1>To me, manipulation, You end up very lonely.

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<v Speaker 2>Because the cost of controlling people is to end up

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<v Speaker 2>alone and I know I got you pinned up against

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<v Speaker 2>your chair right now talking about this sermons, so look

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<v Speaker 2>confused and you get through this. But some of the

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<v Speaker 2>stuff that works on the surface costs us in the end.

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<v Speaker 2>And that's why it's so important that we understand this.

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<v Speaker 2>Because what everybody got water, but it cost Moses what

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<v Speaker 2>God had promised. And if the passage ended at verse eleven,

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<v Speaker 2>you'd say, well, what's so hard about that scripture? Unfortunately,

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<v Speaker 2>Verse twelve tell us that even though the water came

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<v Speaker 2>out of the rock, what came out of Moses's heart

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<v Speaker 2>in that moment prevented him from going further into God's promise.

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<v Speaker 2>And even though all the people were happy and the

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<v Speaker 2>people were impressed, and the people might not have even

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<v Speaker 2>known anything was wrong because they were all too busy drinking,

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<v Speaker 2>the people got hydrated. The people got what they wanted,

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<v Speaker 2>but Moses lost what God had promised. Verse twelve, the

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<v Speaker 2>Lord said to Moses and Aaron, because you did not

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<v Speaker 2>trust in me enough to honor me as holy in

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<v Speaker 2>the sight of the Israelites, you will not bring this

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<v Speaker 2>community into the land I give them. These were the

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<v Speaker 2>waters of Mirabah, where the Israelites quarreled with the Lord,

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<v Speaker 2>and where he was proved holy among them.

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<v Speaker 1>Makes me wish I would have.

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<v Speaker 2>Paid more attention in my Hebrew class, because if I

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<v Speaker 2>knew that miraba means quarreling, I would understand that God

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<v Speaker 2>does some great miracles in places of great conflict. You know,

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<v Speaker 2>it's funny all the little things we miss if we

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<v Speaker 2>read the Bible in English because the interpretation. Sometimes the

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<v Speaker 2>writers will put little humorous things in there that I

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<v Speaker 2>wouldn't know to look for. But this particular word play,

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<v Speaker 2>if you go back to verse two and I told you,

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<v Speaker 2>I'm gonna give you three d's and I am the

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<v Speaker 2>first one is deficit because he is describing a deficit

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<v Speaker 2>that the people of God are in. It says in

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<v Speaker 2>verse two there was no water for the community, and

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<v Speaker 2>the people gathered. Now the Hebrew word for gathered here

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<v Speaker 2>that he uses is a word that means to come

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<v Speaker 2>together for the purpose of conflict. And see, I didn't

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<v Speaker 2>even know Facebook was in the Bible. Talk to me,

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<v Speaker 2>they call it a community. But the community came together to.

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<v Speaker 1>Quarrel in that a nice word to quarrel.

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<v Speaker 2>Not to not to fight, not to argue, but to

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<v Speaker 2>quarrel and so they're they're fighting with each other and they.

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<v Speaker 1>Don't have patience. But they don't have patience because they

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<v Speaker 1>don't have water.

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<v Speaker 2>And before we're too hard on them, these complaining Israelites,

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<v Speaker 2>we need to consider that this was a matter of

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<v Speaker 2>life and death. This is not the barista messed up

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<v Speaker 2>your order and forgot that you prefer almond milk.

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<v Speaker 1>This is something different.

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<v Speaker 2>We can't live but a few days without water, and

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<v Speaker 2>so we're desperate. And I've noticed that when people get desperate,

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<v Speaker 2>they start doing things they wouldn't normally do.

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<v Speaker 1>Have you noticed this about yourself, that when you get desperate,

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<v Speaker 1>you get.

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<v Speaker 2>Edgy, you get touchy, and sometimes you're lashing out at people.

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<v Speaker 1>And it's not about the people.

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<v Speaker 2>Like I had to explain to the kids about my

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<v Speaker 2>road rage, it's not really about the driving.

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<v Speaker 1>It has nothing to do with the driving.

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<v Speaker 2>It's just that Dad finds this a convenient place to

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<v Speaker 2>be shielded and an anonymous where I can let some

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<v Speaker 2>stuff lie that's been building up.

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<v Speaker 1>God, I don't want a real preacher, JJ. You preached

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<v Speaker 1>next week. Thank them out.

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<v Speaker 2>It's a whole thing because they came together to quarrel,

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<v Speaker 2>and what they didn't no couldn't know, is that they

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<v Speaker 2>were on the border of Canaan. The land that God

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<v Speaker 2>had promised them was just a few short months away.

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<v Speaker 2>But in a time when they should have been preparing

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<v Speaker 2>to conquer, the enemy had them in a state of conflict.

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<v Speaker 2>Don't you understand that the reason that you've been fighting

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<v Speaker 2>like you've been fighting, and even the reason sometimes that

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<v Speaker 2>the devil will get you focused on fighting against people,

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<v Speaker 2>is because God is trying to bring you into what

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<v Speaker 2>He spoke over your life and the promise of his

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<v Speaker 2>inheritance in the Saints. And now the closer you get

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<v Speaker 2>to that promise, the greater the conflict is going to be.

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<v Speaker 2>I think one of the reasons that our church gets

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<v Speaker 2>so divided is because the enemy knows that if we

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<v Speaker 2>would ever stop fighting and focus on the mission that

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<v Speaker 2>we were given by our captain and the savior of

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<v Speaker 2>our souls, we would be dangerous to the kingdom of darkness.

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<v Speaker 2>But we can't come together because we quarrel too much.

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<v Speaker 2>It never stops, we never quit finding new things to

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<v Speaker 2>fight about. It's not only that Christians fight against other religions.

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<v Speaker 2>We can subdivide on a multiplicity of different levels. Of Christianity,

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<v Speaker 2>and we can get into little groups so that we

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<v Speaker 2>no longer come together to lift up the name of

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<v Speaker 2>the Lord and to take this message to the ends

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<v Speaker 2>of the earth.

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<v Speaker 1>But now we're fighting over a translation of.

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<v Speaker 2>The Bible, or we're fighting over what you wear to worship,

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<v Speaker 2>or we're fighting over what specific nuance you believe about

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<v Speaker 2>the Holy Spirit. But I didn't come to quarrel, so

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<v Speaker 2>I don't need to fight with you. I came to conquer,

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<v Speaker 2>and I need you in my corner. And I don't

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<v Speaker 2>have the energy to spend fighting against the people God

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<v Speaker 2>called me to fight with.

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<v Speaker 1>So if you're black, fight with me. If you're a Hispanic,

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<v Speaker 1>fight with me. If you're a woman, fight with me.

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<v Speaker 1>If you're young, fight with me.

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<v Speaker 2>Let's get together, old heads, young people, let's fight this

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<v Speaker 2>fight together. And there's no water in the wilderness, and

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<v Speaker 2>when there is no water, when there is a deficit,

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<v Speaker 2>you start reacting.

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<v Speaker 1>Instead of responding.

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<v Speaker 2>I'm appreciate this message, Hollie. I feel it happening right now,

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<v Speaker 2>because what I want to say is forget about the

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<v Speaker 2>budget deficit. A whole lot more than a budget deficit

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<v Speaker 2>in our nation today, and it's a different deficit than

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<v Speaker 2>they faced.

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<v Speaker 1>It's not a lack of water.

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<v Speaker 2>I feel like in our world today we are severely

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<v Speaker 2>lacking in our ability.

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<v Speaker 1>To empathize with others.

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<v Speaker 2>Because we've got a surplus of opinions and a deficit

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<v Speaker 2>of empathy.

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<v Speaker 1>Let me try another one. They didn't like that very much.

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<v Speaker 2>We have a surplus of information and a deficit of wisdom,

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<v Speaker 2>because if we don't have insight into information, we will

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<v Speaker 2>get caught up in highlights and headlines and highlights and

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<v Speaker 2>headlines and highlights and headlines and highlights and headlines, clicking

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<v Speaker 2>on crazy stuff and not even bothering to read anything

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<v Speaker 2>but the first sentence. And then somebody wants to ask me,

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<v Speaker 2>do you really have a water slide on your stage

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<v Speaker 2>in the church.

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<v Speaker 1>Because you don't want to come.

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<v Speaker 2>I almost lost my faith in the human race over

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<v Speaker 2>that water slide. It's a deficit, and I've been noticing

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<v Speaker 2>about myself. Maybe this is why I wanted to preach

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<v Speaker 2>the series that I'm having a hard time focusing because

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<v Speaker 2>you know, the Devil's devices. I think it's I think

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<v Speaker 2>I'm no neurologist, but I think when it's getting hard for.

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<v Speaker 1>Me to read three sentences in a book and now

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<v Speaker 1>I'm trying to swipe paper. When I reached up to

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<v Speaker 1>swipe a book the other.

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<v Speaker 2>Day, I thought, I got to take my mind back. Actually,

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<v Speaker 2>next week, if the Lord will enable me and help me,

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<v Speaker 2>I'm gonna try to preach on that very subject of focus,

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<v Speaker 2>because I'm talking to more and more people who feel.

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<v Speaker 1>Like their mind is fragmented and can't hold a thought.

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<v Speaker 2>And it's not just because you're getting old and fish

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<v Speaker 2>oil won't help it. There's some principles in the Word

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<v Speaker 2>of God about distraction that we need to look at.

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<v Speaker 2>It's a deficit, a deficit where we have more ways

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<v Speaker 2>to communicate and we're connecting less than ever. I think

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<v Speaker 2>that's what the skyrocketing porn rates are about. I think

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<v Speaker 2>that's what the skyrocketing sleep deprivation rates are about. We

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<v Speaker 2>are desperate to connect, and we call ourselves connected and

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<v Speaker 2>nothing could be further from the truth.

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<v Speaker 1>And it's too much.

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<v Speaker 2>Costa called it too much to live with, too little

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<v Speaker 2>to live for. It's a deficit, a deficit of meaning,

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<v Speaker 2>a deficit of insight. And when the deficit is left unaddressed,

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<v Speaker 2>you know what happens next. Disappointment, sets in. And that's

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<v Speaker 2>the second D is disappointment because I'm looking at how

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<v Speaker 2>the Israelites are talking to Moses, right, and I get it.

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<v Speaker 2>I get it because when you don't have what you

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<v Speaker 2>need to live, you start doing things that you would

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<v Speaker 2>not normally do and it's not even you. And you

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<v Speaker 2>also want to explain to people. Sometimes I don't even

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<v Speaker 2>know who that was. I'm so sorry. Can we take

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<v Speaker 2>back the last five minutes? And sometimes you can't. Sometimes

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<v Speaker 2>you can undo it. And what the Israelites said to

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<v Speaker 2>Moses here apparently hit that button. Now everybody has a button.

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<v Speaker 2>All of you who are calm, we just haven't found

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<v Speaker 2>yours yet. Really, everybody has a boiling point. Everybody has

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<v Speaker 2>something that if you hit that, you will see a

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<v Speaker 2>different version of them, and you will completely change their

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<v Speaker 2>Enneagram number. If you hit the button, they go from

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<v Speaker 2>a seven to a two, a peacemaker to a shooter.

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<v Speaker 1>And it can happen so quick.

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<v Speaker 2>Most is the man of God is violently striking a

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<v Speaker 2>rock when God is trying.

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<v Speaker 1>To show his people grace.

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<v Speaker 2>But the reason he did it, and this is why

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<v Speaker 2>I can't figure out sometimes in my own life where

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<v Speaker 2>it comes from, because I find things coming out of me,

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<v Speaker 2>and I'm confused about where it came from, because i

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<v Speaker 2>know I'm not mad about what I'm mad about, because

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<v Speaker 2>it's not a big enough deal to make me as

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<v Speaker 2>mad as I am about what I'm mad about. Please

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<v Speaker 2>help me preach to you in this together. And they

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<v Speaker 2>just got done telling him they wanted to die. And

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<v Speaker 2>it's his fault, because anytime you are facing a deficit

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<v Speaker 2>in your own life, you start looking for someone to blame.

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<v Speaker 2>Anytime you are confronted with your own barrenness or brokenness,

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<v Speaker 2>you want to find somebody else or something else whose

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<v Speaker 2>fault it can be.

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<v Speaker 1>And the first thing we do when we run out of.

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<v Speaker 2>Resource is to look for someone else to take responsibility.

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<v Speaker 2>If only we had died when our brothers fell dead

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<v Speaker 2>before the Lord. Why did you bring the Lord's community?

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<v Speaker 1>Why didn't my mom? Why wasn't my dad around?

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<v Speaker 2>All these or reasonable things to say, but they don't

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<v Speaker 2>really help the situation.

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<v Speaker 1>They only make it worse.

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<v Speaker 2>Why did you bring us out here into this wilderness

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<v Speaker 2>that we should die here? They weren't actually about to die.

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<v Speaker 2>God wasn't going to let him die. They were on

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<v Speaker 2>the edge of destiny, about to take the land that

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<v Speaker 2>God had promised for generations, and they want to die

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<v Speaker 2>at the edge of destiny.

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<v Speaker 1>Why'd you bring us.

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<v Speaker 2>Up out of Egypt to this terrible place? There we

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<v Speaker 2>had figs. There, we had grape funds. There, we had pomegranates.

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<v Speaker 2>There we had grain. I forget to mention the whips.

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<v Speaker 2>They forget to mention the mud and the straw, and

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<v Speaker 2>they begin to glamorize a past that really didn't even exist, well,

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<v Speaker 2>the good old days. I get it, man, it's tempting

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<v Speaker 2>to go back there in your mind.

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<v Speaker 1>Just as long as you know is.

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<v Speaker 2>Your version of the past is just as imaginary as

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<v Speaker 2>your version of the future back in Egypt, the place

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<v Speaker 2>that you were praying God to get you out of. Oh,

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<v Speaker 2>I'll never forget this. One time a lady came to me.

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<v Speaker 2>She said, you need to change some things in the church,

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<v Speaker 2>very early.

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<v Speaker 1>In the church.

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<v Speaker 2>And I was woo, I was cocky. I was twenty eight.

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<v Speaker 2>So what I said next to home, you respond. So

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<v Speaker 2>there's statute of limitations. She listed everything she wanted me

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<v Speaker 2>to change in the church.

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<v Speaker 1>Change this, and change that, and change this and change that.

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<v Speaker 2>And either the Lord or the Devil prompted me to

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<v Speaker 2>say what follows. I said, so you want me to

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<v Speaker 2>recreate the church that you left to come to this one.

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<v Speaker 2>I didn't mean it how it came out. I meant

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<v Speaker 2>to say, I'll pray about it. I am, but a

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<v Speaker 2>servant and a vessel just gushed out came out frustration.

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<v Speaker 2>So you understand that frustration operates when your experience is

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<v Speaker 2>different than your expectation. So when you are frustrated, it

0:25:41.720 --> 0:25:46.760
<v Speaker 2>is not your life that you're frustrated with. It's your

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<v Speaker 2>life compared to your expectation of your life.

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<v Speaker 1>That's what makes you frustrated.

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<v Speaker 2>It's that it normally takes me thirteen minutes to get there,

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<v Speaker 2>and today it took me thirty and I didn't plan

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<v Speaker 2>for that. And so since I was already at a

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<v Speaker 2>time deficit and a sleep deficit, and I didn't put

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<v Speaker 2>margin on this trip, now I find myself frustrated. I'm

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<v Speaker 2>not really frustrated and how long it's taking. I'm frustrated

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<v Speaker 2>about how long it's taken compared to how long I

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<v Speaker 2>thought it was gonna take.

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<v Speaker 1>And one of the best things we can do.

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<v Speaker 2>For our peace of mind is to crucify our expectations.

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<v Speaker 1>Of others.

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<v Speaker 2>I mean, really, just put it up there on the

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<v Speaker 2>cross and get to the place.

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<v Speaker 1>Where we no longer have.

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<v Speaker 2>An expectation of people to meet our needs, because we

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<v Speaker 2>understand that our water flows from a different rock, that

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<v Speaker 2>our joy.

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<v Speaker 1>Flows from a different place.

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<v Speaker 2>Come on, Epham shout at the phone that I don't

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<v Speaker 2>depend on people to provide for me. Well, God has promised,

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<v Speaker 2>It's already mine. And so they got really upset man.

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<v Speaker 2>And then Moses got upset and he went to God

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<v Speaker 2>and he wanted God to be upset like he was upset.

0:27:09.280 --> 0:27:13.359
<v Speaker 2>And Moses was mad because God wasn't mad. That's what

0:27:13.520 --> 0:27:16.159
<v Speaker 2>happened here. He was disappointed.

0:27:17.480 --> 0:27:24.880
<v Speaker 1>It never stops, after all I've done for you. I've

0:27:24.880 --> 0:27:28.320
<v Speaker 1>been here before. I have been here.

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<v Speaker 2>Before, even even in high school when I was the

0:27:37.920 --> 0:27:45.119
<v Speaker 2>athletic trainer water boy for the football team. Coach Meyer

0:27:45.280 --> 0:27:47.320
<v Speaker 2>recruited me to be the athletic trainer.

0:27:47.600 --> 0:27:54.639
<v Speaker 1>Said you could get a scholarship. And one day I

0:27:54.720 --> 0:27:58.520
<v Speaker 1>was mixing that gatorade so sweet, and I thought, I don't.

0:27:58.280 --> 0:28:02.439
<v Speaker 2>Think they give scholarships for that. I think he tricked

0:28:02.440 --> 0:28:05.919
<v Speaker 2>me into this. You know, I kind of didn't like

0:28:05.960 --> 0:28:07.840
<v Speaker 2>it anyway. It wasn't like I really cared too much

0:28:07.840 --> 0:28:11.119
<v Speaker 2>about football. Football's fine, I'll turn it on. I'm not

0:28:11.240 --> 0:28:13.440
<v Speaker 2>like some of y'all fantasy lineups and stuff.

0:28:13.480 --> 0:28:15.800
<v Speaker 1>I got a real life. I'm skidding, I'm skinning. I'm

0:28:15.800 --> 0:28:17.639
<v Speaker 1>skarting this fine as fine as fine, finem skarting.

0:28:17.640 --> 0:28:23.280
<v Speaker 2>I'm scarting this fine as fine as fine. But man,

0:28:24.480 --> 0:28:26.639
<v Speaker 2>it was a relatively simple job. I did it for

0:28:26.680 --> 0:28:29.600
<v Speaker 2>over a year, and the main part of the job,

0:28:29.640 --> 0:28:31.000
<v Speaker 2>you know, every once in a while, they would let

0:28:31.040 --> 0:28:32.359
<v Speaker 2>me tape a wrist or an ankle.

0:28:33.680 --> 0:28:35.560
<v Speaker 1>I think it wasn't even really people that was hurt.

0:28:35.560 --> 0:28:36.600
<v Speaker 1>I think they just sent.

0:28:38.000 --> 0:28:42.040
<v Speaker 2>Cast members over because if anybody was really hurt, doctor

0:28:42.080 --> 0:28:42.840
<v Speaker 2>Bowens came in.

0:28:42.920 --> 0:28:45.000
<v Speaker 1>So I don't even think I was really taping anybody.

0:28:45.200 --> 0:28:46.160
<v Speaker 1>I don't even think it was.

0:28:46.400 --> 0:28:49.760
<v Speaker 2>But I did have one one job, and every time

0:28:49.760 --> 0:28:52.480
<v Speaker 2>they would have a water break, it was my job

0:28:53.000 --> 0:28:54.640
<v Speaker 2>to turn on the water.

0:28:56.760 --> 0:29:05.120
<v Speaker 1>That's right, Bobby Bousche got nothing on me. Well, I

0:29:05.160 --> 0:29:07.160
<v Speaker 1>did it like clockwork. They blow the whistle.

0:29:07.560 --> 0:29:10.600
<v Speaker 2>I was positioned close enough to the spickett, which was

0:29:10.640 --> 0:29:13.960
<v Speaker 2>connected to the hose which went to the PVC pipe

0:29:14.320 --> 0:29:17.480
<v Speaker 2>in Monk's Corner. It was fancy with a PVC pipe

0:29:17.800 --> 0:29:21.200
<v Speaker 2>with the holes in it, trough of sorts with the

0:29:21.240 --> 0:29:23.320
<v Speaker 2>water would come out of the pipe. But I was

0:29:23.360 --> 0:29:25.440
<v Speaker 2>the man who turned it on, and I turned it

0:29:25.480 --> 0:29:29.280
<v Speaker 2>on about three or four times every practice. And one

0:29:29.360 --> 0:29:31.560
<v Speaker 2>day I went over there to turn it on and

0:29:31.600 --> 0:29:35.080
<v Speaker 2>nothing came out. I don't know who forgot to pay

0:29:35.080 --> 0:29:41.160
<v Speaker 2>the bill, but nothing came out. And those football players

0:29:41.240 --> 0:29:43.480
<v Speaker 2>went to drink and they lined up.

0:29:43.400 --> 0:29:46.320
<v Speaker 1>At the PVC pipe and nothing happened.

0:29:47.520 --> 0:29:52.040
<v Speaker 2>And they started yelling at me, like these rebellious Israelites

0:29:52.800 --> 0:29:57.000
<v Speaker 2>started yelling at Moses, started yelling at me, calling me Steve.

0:29:57.080 --> 0:29:59.000
<v Speaker 2>I don't even go by Steve. There's an inn on

0:29:59.080 --> 0:30:06.000
<v Speaker 2>my name pronounced consonant. This ain't will of fortune. Oh,

0:30:06.120 --> 0:30:09.800
<v Speaker 2>I was mad yelling at me for the one time

0:30:09.880 --> 0:30:13.120
<v Speaker 2>the water didn't come on. Hundreds of times the water

0:30:13.200 --> 0:30:14.440
<v Speaker 2>came on.

0:30:14.440 --> 0:30:17.920
<v Speaker 1>One time it didn't come on. And guess what, I'm

0:30:17.960 --> 0:30:21.320
<v Speaker 1>not controlling the water. I'm just the one turning it on.

0:30:22.440 --> 0:30:26.360
<v Speaker 1>So they were yelling at me. So I wasn't saved yet.

0:30:26.640 --> 0:30:27.440
<v Speaker 1>Let me get that in.

0:30:27.960 --> 0:30:31.520
<v Speaker 2>So I turned around and said God bless ah, y'all.

0:30:31.760 --> 0:30:32.640
<v Speaker 1>Only instead of.

0:30:32.600 --> 0:30:36.800
<v Speaker 2>God bless I've said some different BCE vocabulary that it

0:30:36.880 --> 0:30:40.240
<v Speaker 2>is not appropriate for this church setting and holy people

0:30:40.520 --> 0:30:43.560
<v Speaker 2>such as yourself, And in that moment, I forgot they

0:30:43.560 --> 0:30:45.200
<v Speaker 2>were bigger than me, because.

0:30:44.960 --> 0:30:46.920
<v Speaker 1>I do have a level of crazy.

0:30:46.720 --> 0:30:49.480
<v Speaker 2>That if it kicks in, I will stop caring how

0:30:49.560 --> 0:30:52.080
<v Speaker 2>much bigger you are. And I would rather die than

0:30:52.120 --> 0:30:55.040
<v Speaker 2>have you cussed me out. I got in my Toyota

0:30:55.160 --> 0:30:56.560
<v Speaker 2>church cell and I drove off.

0:31:00.760 --> 0:31:07.560
<v Speaker 3>So oh just kind of came back to me. Man,

0:31:08.160 --> 0:31:17.520
<v Speaker 3>I'm sorry.

0:31:13.880 --> 0:31:18.480
<v Speaker 2>Because all these times I get Moses's disappointment. I really do,

0:31:18.960 --> 0:31:24.960
<v Speaker 2>all these times, and this one time, all I've done

0:31:25.000 --> 0:31:29.960
<v Speaker 2>for you, all the meals I've cooked, all the prayers

0:31:30.040 --> 0:31:35.480
<v Speaker 2>I've prayed, all the compliments I gave, all the Christmas

0:31:35.520 --> 0:31:40.600
<v Speaker 2>presents I bought, all the sacrifices I made, and you

0:31:40.720 --> 0:31:44.520
<v Speaker 2>mean this one thing, this one time, and now you

0:31:44.560 --> 0:31:48.520
<v Speaker 2>want to yell at me and disrespect me and ignore me.

0:31:49.760 --> 0:31:51.720
<v Speaker 1>I figure Moses is tired.

0:31:51.360 --> 0:31:57.720
<v Speaker 2>Of being taken for granted, tired of people just assuming

0:31:58.080 --> 0:32:00.040
<v Speaker 2>that you're always gonna do it.

0:32:00.040 --> 0:32:01.360
<v Speaker 1>It's just easy for you.

0:32:03.120 --> 0:32:06.320
<v Speaker 2>Until I realized that Moses wasn't really disappointed with the people.

0:32:09.080 --> 0:32:10.040
<v Speaker 1>Moses was.

0:32:11.720 --> 0:32:16.880
<v Speaker 2>Still dealing with a fear that he had carried with

0:32:17.000 --> 0:32:21.400
<v Speaker 2>him since the time God met him at the Burning Bush,

0:32:21.440 --> 0:32:25.840
<v Speaker 2>impossibly before that, forty years earlier, when he killed an

0:32:25.840 --> 0:32:30.760
<v Speaker 2>Egyptian to try to rescue one of his fellow Hebrews.

0:32:31.320 --> 0:32:33.840
<v Speaker 2>And he never really fit in because he was raised

0:32:33.880 --> 0:32:36.720
<v Speaker 2>as an Egyptian, but he was.

0:32:36.720 --> 0:32:37.760
<v Speaker 1>By birth a Hebrew.

0:32:38.920 --> 0:32:41.360
<v Speaker 2>And when he tried to defend the people that he

0:32:41.480 --> 0:32:44.480
<v Speaker 2>was one of from the people that he had had

0:32:44.480 --> 0:32:48.480
<v Speaker 2>to live with, Moses ended up having to run. That's

0:32:48.480 --> 0:32:50.440
<v Speaker 2>why he ended up in the wilderness with the shepherds

0:32:50.440 --> 0:32:53.160
<v Speaker 2>staff to begin with. And that's why when God met

0:32:53.240 --> 0:32:55.400
<v Speaker 2>him at the bush, Moses said, you got the wrong one.

0:32:57.640 --> 0:33:04.920
<v Speaker 2>Picked somebody stronger, Pick somebody more capable, Pick somebody with

0:33:05.240 --> 0:33:08.440
<v Speaker 2>more experience. Pick somebody who doesn't struggle with what I

0:33:08.480 --> 0:33:13.360
<v Speaker 2>struggle with, because I'll let you down, God, and I'll

0:33:13.400 --> 0:33:19.160
<v Speaker 2>let them down. And not only not only is Moses

0:33:19.200 --> 0:33:23.240
<v Speaker 2>dealing with this moment, but he's dealing with forty years

0:33:23.280 --> 0:33:28.520
<v Speaker 2>of frustration, forty years of frustration that you could argue

0:33:28.520 --> 0:33:30.200
<v Speaker 2>were the result of his lack of faith when he

0:33:30.240 --> 0:33:33.720
<v Speaker 2>didn't go in and fight and take the land God

0:33:33.720 --> 0:33:38.440
<v Speaker 2>had promised. In a sense, what they're saying about Moses

0:33:38.520 --> 0:33:42.400
<v Speaker 2>is true and he knows it. It's not him, it's

0:33:42.440 --> 0:33:44.360
<v Speaker 2>not them that he is disappointed in.

0:33:50.160 --> 0:33:54.600
<v Speaker 1>So like for me realizing in my adult life that my.

0:33:56.240 --> 0:33:59.280
<v Speaker 2>Core fear and a lot of the reasons that I

0:33:59.320 --> 0:34:02.600
<v Speaker 2>withdraw and a lot of the reasons.

0:34:02.240 --> 0:34:04.440
<v Speaker 1>That I lash out.

0:34:04.800 --> 0:34:07.360
<v Speaker 2>It really came to me one time early in my

0:34:07.400 --> 0:34:10.880
<v Speaker 2>marriage to Holly, and it was a low key argument,

0:34:10.920 --> 0:34:12.640
<v Speaker 2>but all of a sudden it just kind of erupted

0:34:12.680 --> 0:34:17.279
<v Speaker 2>and I yelled at her, I'm not stupid, I'm not stupid.

0:34:18.000 --> 0:34:23.080
<v Speaker 1>It never stops. I'm not stupid, she said.

0:34:23.080 --> 0:34:26.040
<v Speaker 2>I didn't say you were stupid, But I wasn't responding

0:34:26.080 --> 0:34:26.640
<v Speaker 2>to what she said.

0:34:26.640 --> 0:34:32.120
<v Speaker 1>I was responding to what I felt somewhere in me

0:34:33.400 --> 0:34:35.480
<v Speaker 1>was something that told me that.

0:34:35.480 --> 0:34:40.120
<v Speaker 2>I didn't know enough. Probably back to my dad in

0:34:40.160 --> 0:34:42.520
<v Speaker 2>some ways he loved me. Wasn't that he didn't love me,

0:34:43.600 --> 0:34:45.520
<v Speaker 2>but he kind of felt like it was him against

0:34:45.520 --> 0:34:47.239
<v Speaker 2>the world and he didn't have a full deck to

0:34:47.280 --> 0:34:48.040
<v Speaker 2>play with because of.

0:34:48.040 --> 0:34:49.000
<v Speaker 1>The way he was raised.

0:34:50.520 --> 0:34:54.560
<v Speaker 2>And somewhere I probably started thinking that I was operating

0:34:54.640 --> 0:34:58.400
<v Speaker 2>in life out of a deficit of intelligence. And so

0:34:58.480 --> 0:35:01.400
<v Speaker 2>my first instinct when some makes me feel stupid. What

0:35:01.480 --> 0:35:06.640
<v Speaker 2>a phrase when they make me feel stupid. How much

0:35:06.760 --> 0:35:11.680
<v Speaker 2>power are you giving away to other people when someone

0:35:11.800 --> 0:35:13.600
<v Speaker 2>can make you feel stupid.

0:35:13.760 --> 0:35:14.840
<v Speaker 1>That's a weak mind.

0:35:14.880 --> 0:35:18.520
<v Speaker 2>But that's where that's where I find myself sometimes in

0:35:18.600 --> 0:35:22.320
<v Speaker 2>that mental wilderness, that mental wilderness, do you know what

0:35:22.320 --> 0:35:22.959
<v Speaker 2>I'm talking about?

0:35:23.000 --> 0:35:25.280
<v Speaker 1>And I'm afraid.

0:35:26.400 --> 0:35:30.640
<v Speaker 2>I'm afraid sometimes up here, not that I'm going to

0:35:30.680 --> 0:35:32.959
<v Speaker 2>get the Bible wrong or that I'm going to dishonor God,

0:35:32.960 --> 0:35:41.160
<v Speaker 2>but unfortunately that I will disappoint you. And every time

0:35:41.200 --> 0:35:42.920
<v Speaker 2>we start a new series, I feel it, you know,

0:35:44.280 --> 0:35:47.480
<v Speaker 2>because I try to create expectation this is going to

0:35:47.520 --> 0:35:51.960
<v Speaker 2>be the best series ever. And then I hope Baby

0:35:52.080 --> 0:35:56.960
<v Speaker 2>Jesus and Mother Mary and the Holy Ghost will somehow

0:35:57.000 --> 0:36:02.400
<v Speaker 2>help us, because I don't want to disappoint you. And

0:36:02.480 --> 0:36:07.360
<v Speaker 2>I'm sharing this altho biographically, but I'm wonderings like do

0:36:07.440 --> 0:36:09.680
<v Speaker 2>a lot of us function in this place that I

0:36:09.719 --> 0:36:13.839
<v Speaker 2>don't want to disappoint you? And that's why I hide.

0:36:13.880 --> 0:36:15.600
<v Speaker 2>And now I find myself I don't even want to

0:36:15.600 --> 0:36:19.319
<v Speaker 2>pick up the phone when people call, because now if

0:36:19.360 --> 0:36:23.080
<v Speaker 2>I can text them back, I can carefully craft my response.

0:36:25.120 --> 0:36:28.279
<v Speaker 2>Even in the smallest ways. I see this fear, I

0:36:28.320 --> 0:36:34.560
<v Speaker 2>see myself withdrawing. I see myself wanting to isolate, and

0:36:34.600 --> 0:36:37.800
<v Speaker 2>it's a tendency that I don't fully understand.

0:36:37.440 --> 0:36:40.600
<v Speaker 1>Because I do love people. I really do love people.

0:36:40.600 --> 0:36:41.640
<v Speaker 1>I've always loved people.

0:36:41.680 --> 0:36:44.960
<v Speaker 2>I was the dude that hugged everybody in his graduating

0:36:45.040 --> 0:36:48.400
<v Speaker 2>high school class, the whole two one hundred and thirty.

0:36:48.160 --> 0:36:49.759
<v Speaker 1>Of them, hug them all.

0:36:50.880 --> 0:36:55.760
<v Speaker 2>But I find myself sometimes wanting to withdraw, find myself

0:36:55.760 --> 0:36:58.479
<v Speaker 2>wanting to walk out, find myself wanting to get out.

0:37:00.000 --> 0:37:03.080
<v Speaker 2>I wonder why, you know, like, am I losing my

0:37:03.120 --> 0:37:06.520
<v Speaker 2>love for people? It is all this getting to me,

0:37:06.680 --> 0:37:09.360
<v Speaker 2>like lights and cameras and all that. But I realized

0:37:09.920 --> 0:37:12.920
<v Speaker 2>I realized in the weirdest way one day what it

0:37:13.040 --> 0:37:16.560
<v Speaker 2>was when a lady said to me, I've I've been

0:37:16.560 --> 0:37:18.520
<v Speaker 2>going to your church seven years and I've never met you.

0:37:18.640 --> 0:37:21.799
<v Speaker 2>And I said, I'm so sorry. I took it like

0:37:21.840 --> 0:37:23.719
<v Speaker 2>an accusation, you know. She said, no, no, it's a

0:37:23.719 --> 0:37:24.280
<v Speaker 2>big church.

0:37:24.920 --> 0:37:26.640
<v Speaker 1>We love. The minister said, okay, good, I'm sorry.

0:37:26.719 --> 0:37:29.600
<v Speaker 2>That's I'm really sorry, though, that's bad.

0:37:29.760 --> 0:37:31.520
<v Speaker 1>I met your pastor in seven years. I'm sorry. She say,

0:37:31.520 --> 0:37:32.800
<v Speaker 1>it's fine, it's fine.

0:37:33.160 --> 0:37:36.600
<v Speaker 2>Stop apologizing now. It's awkward because I'm making it awkward.

0:37:37.480 --> 0:37:39.480
<v Speaker 2>Then she made it awkward. She said, you're much taller

0:37:39.520 --> 0:37:40.120
<v Speaker 2>on the screen.

0:37:40.560 --> 0:37:43.480
<v Speaker 1>Well that helped you already.

0:37:43.480 --> 0:37:52.239
<v Speaker 2>See I'm insecure woman, but I don't want to let

0:37:52.280 --> 0:37:58.160
<v Speaker 2>you down, you know. So, So when Moses has this

0:37:58.280 --> 0:38:00.520
<v Speaker 2>moment and I'm calling in a moment, but it's really

0:38:00.520 --> 0:38:05.680
<v Speaker 2>not a moment because anytime something comes bursting to the surface,

0:38:05.840 --> 0:38:10.880
<v Speaker 2>like Moses hitting that rock twice when God specifically spoke

0:38:10.960 --> 0:38:13.960
<v Speaker 2>to him to speak to the rock, not to strike it.

0:38:15.160 --> 0:38:17.399
<v Speaker 1>And I know why he struck the rock because this

0:38:17.480 --> 0:38:23.360
<v Speaker 1>is the third issue. It's the issue of dependence. You know.

0:38:23.440 --> 0:38:27.600
<v Speaker 2>This staff was the thing that he carried with him.

0:38:27.680 --> 0:38:32.120
<v Speaker 2>Like Tom Hanks had a volleyball, Moses had a stick.

0:38:33.960 --> 0:38:37.640
<v Speaker 2>And now in this moment where the community needs water

0:38:37.680 --> 0:38:39.640
<v Speaker 2>and this is to be their last test, but they

0:38:39.680 --> 0:38:42.720
<v Speaker 2>don't know it. This is to be their last test

0:38:42.800 --> 0:38:46.560
<v Speaker 2>to see if they really trust God, and Moses fails

0:38:46.640 --> 0:38:51.440
<v Speaker 2>the test. What I could not understand is why did

0:38:51.480 --> 0:38:54.680
<v Speaker 2>God tell him to take the stick if he didn't

0:38:54.680 --> 0:39:00.240
<v Speaker 2>want him to use it. Why did God tell Moses

0:39:00.800 --> 0:39:06.240
<v Speaker 2>take the staff and then don't use it, just hold

0:39:06.280 --> 0:39:13.799
<v Speaker 2>it and speak to the rock. Until I remember what

0:39:13.920 --> 0:39:18.640
<v Speaker 2>Moses said to God when God first called Moses, I'm

0:39:18.680 --> 0:39:30.360
<v Speaker 2>not good at speaking. And before God could let Moses

0:39:31.320 --> 0:39:36.000
<v Speaker 2>lead his people into the promise, he had to know

0:39:37.040 --> 0:39:42.840
<v Speaker 2>do you trust me enough? When God said Moses, you

0:39:42.880 --> 0:39:45.960
<v Speaker 2>can't lead the people, it wasn't for punishment, it was

0:39:45.960 --> 0:39:52.400
<v Speaker 2>for protection. If Moses would have led them in in

0:39:52.440 --> 0:39:55.400
<v Speaker 2>the condition that his heart was in, with years and

0:39:55.560 --> 0:39:59.440
<v Speaker 2>years and years and years of resentment building up, they

0:39:59.440 --> 0:40:01.960
<v Speaker 2>would have all all got killed the first time God.

0:40:01.880 --> 0:40:03.759
<v Speaker 1>Spoken, they didn't do what he said.

0:40:05.120 --> 0:40:09.000
<v Speaker 2>Because God needs someone who is not dependent on their staff.

0:40:12.120 --> 0:40:15.160
<v Speaker 2>I know you struck the Red the Nile River, and

0:40:15.200 --> 0:40:18.279
<v Speaker 2>the Red Sea, and I know that this staff has

0:40:18.320 --> 0:40:20.880
<v Speaker 2>been used to perform great miracles, and I want you

0:40:20.920 --> 0:40:22.800
<v Speaker 2>to hold it in your hand, but have the faith

0:40:22.880 --> 0:40:26.640
<v Speaker 2>not to use it. I want you to speak to

0:40:27.600 --> 0:40:33.040
<v Speaker 2>the rock, and he struck it instead. And God said,

0:40:33.080 --> 0:40:38.080
<v Speaker 2>you don't trust me enough. You've allowed this resentment to

0:40:38.200 --> 0:40:38.680
<v Speaker 2>build to.

0:40:38.680 --> 0:40:41.480
<v Speaker 1>A point that it has killed your potential.

0:40:43.440 --> 0:40:47.960
<v Speaker 2>When we allow resentment to build and build and build

0:40:48.600 --> 0:40:51.839
<v Speaker 2>and build, when we never really believe that we are

0:40:52.000 --> 0:40:55.600
<v Speaker 2>what God said we are, when we are constantly taking

0:40:55.880 --> 0:41:01.440
<v Speaker 2>people's assessment of us as the ultimate reality, it limits.

0:41:01.120 --> 0:41:03.920
<v Speaker 1>Our participation in the promise of God.

0:41:04.400 --> 0:41:08.200
<v Speaker 2>It doesn't keep God from loving you, but it keeps

0:41:08.239 --> 0:41:11.720
<v Speaker 2>God from being able to lead you into the great

0:41:11.800 --> 0:41:16.600
<v Speaker 2>and precious promises that have your name on them. God said,

0:41:16.840 --> 0:41:21.120
<v Speaker 2>I just need you to trust me. I know you stutter,

0:41:21.719 --> 0:41:25.040
<v Speaker 2>I know you stammer. I know you're afraid of letting

0:41:25.080 --> 0:41:28.960
<v Speaker 2>me down. But it's never been about you, Moses. It

0:41:29.040 --> 0:41:32.480
<v Speaker 2>was never about your mouth. It was about my mighty

0:41:32.520 --> 0:41:37.719
<v Speaker 2>hand and my outstretched arm. It was never about your rod.

0:41:38.680 --> 0:41:40.560
<v Speaker 2>It was about the rock.

0:41:44.320 --> 0:41:48.719
<v Speaker 1>So what are you trusting in today, my friend, the

0:41:48.800 --> 0:41:51.000
<v Speaker 1>rod or the rock?

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<v Speaker 2>Because First Corinthians ten tells us plainly that this happened

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<v Speaker 2>as an example for us, that the Israelites who wandered

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<v Speaker 2>in the wilderness were an example for us, for you

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<v Speaker 2>and me in our daily lives, in our efforts to.

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<v Speaker 1>Trust God in the face of our own frailty, he said.

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<v Speaker 2>The apostle Paul said verse four. They drank the same

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<v Speaker 2>spiritual drink. They drank from the spiritual rock that accompanied them.

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<v Speaker 2>Here's the revelation, and that rock was Christ. It wasn't

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<v Speaker 2>about Moses. It's not about me. It's not about you. Yes,

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<v Speaker 2>I will let you down. Yes, I will disappoint you,

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<v Speaker 2>But I'm not the rock. You know how good that

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<v Speaker 2>makes me feel to know I'm not the rock. I

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<v Speaker 2>don't have to force it, I don't have to fight it.

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<v Speaker 2>I don't have to explode in anger when it doesn't

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<v Speaker 2>go my way. I'm not the He is my stable place.

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<v Speaker 2>He is my solid ground on Christ, the.

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<v Speaker 1>Solid rock I stand. All other ground is sinking sand.

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<v Speaker 1>Please stand, I'm closing. Please stand, I'm.

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<v Speaker 4>Closing these Verse thirteen, where the waters of Miraba, where

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<v Speaker 4>the Israelites quarreled with the Lord, they quarreled with the Lord.

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<v Speaker 4>And verse two it said they quarreled with Moses, but

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<v Speaker 4>really they were quarreling with the Lord.

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<v Speaker 2>It wasn't even about Moses. It's not even about you.

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<v Speaker 2>It's not even about me. We've been taking things personally,

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<v Speaker 2>you know, and we let it build and then it explodes.

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<v Speaker 2>Not in church, Oh you look so fancy in here,

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<v Speaker 2>your little boozie blessed self, come up in the House

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<v Speaker 2>of God carrying.

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<v Speaker 1>A big, old thick Bible explodes when you get home.

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<v Speaker 1>It explodes when you're all alone, and.

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<v Speaker 2>You find yourself crying out, desperate for connection and disappointed

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<v Speaker 2>with your life, so you start striking rocks and you

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<v Speaker 2>start trying to get You know, the water came out

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<v Speaker 2>of the rock, and it worked on the surface, but

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<v Speaker 2>Moses did not get to enter into the promise of God.

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<v Speaker 2>Did God still love Moses? Absolutely? He is Ei, the

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<v Speaker 2>God of second chances.

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<v Speaker 1>I sure hope, so I know he is. I know

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<v Speaker 1>He's not going to punish me for one mistake.

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<v Speaker 2>I can prove it. I can prove it to you.

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<v Speaker 2>Give him that verse I sent you earlier someone fourteen eight.

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<v Speaker 2>When the psalmist reflected on this event, he said, you

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<v Speaker 2>got it one fourteen eight, the one I sent you

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<v Speaker 2>earlier today No is Psalm one fourteen verse e. What

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<v Speaker 2>if I started yelling at the people on the screens

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<v Speaker 2>to demonstrate Moses's frustration, But it said that God turned

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<v Speaker 2>the rock into a pool, the hard rock into springs

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<v Speaker 2>of water.

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<v Speaker 1>And God spoke to me through that verse.

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<v Speaker 2>And said, if they'll let me, the place of their

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<v Speaker 2>greatest mistake will become the place of my mercy and

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<v Speaker 2>their greatest miracle.

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<v Speaker 1>But for this to happen, we can't keep.

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<v Speaker 2>It all up inside and keep exploding in situations and exploding.

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<v Speaker 2>It's not anger for everybody. Sometimes it's much more subtle

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<v Speaker 2>than that. It's the little waste that you withdraw yourself

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<v Speaker 2>from those that you love because I don't want to

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<v Speaker 2>be disappointed again. I don't want to be a disappointment

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<v Speaker 2>some living my whole life trying to avoid disappointment.

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<v Speaker 1>I'm bringing my expectations.

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<v Speaker 2>Down, down, down, down, down, down down, because now no

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<v Speaker 2>one can disappoint me.

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<v Speaker 1>And I'm bringing myself.

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<v Speaker 2>Back back back back, because I don't want to disappoint you.

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<v Speaker 1>It's not about you. This is the test. This is

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<v Speaker 1>the test.

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<v Speaker 2>With your rod in your hand, to remember all that

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<v Speaker 2>God has done for you, and the rock in front

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<v Speaker 2>of you, the presence of God. Speak to it, don't

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<v Speaker 2>strike it, Speak to it, confess it before God. Speak

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<v Speaker 2>to your weekness, own your inadequacy. God said, I'm.

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<v Speaker 1>Not looking for you to be what I need you

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<v Speaker 1>to be. I'm looking for.

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<v Speaker 2>You to trust in what I already am. And so

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<v Speaker 2>when Moses said i'm not, God said I am. When

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<v Speaker 2>Moses said I'm not, God said I am. When Moses

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<v Speaker 2>said I'm not, God said I am. When Moses said not,

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<v Speaker 2>God said I am.

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<v Speaker 1>Do you trust him enough to let him handle those

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<v Speaker 1>who have hurt you.

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<v Speaker 2>Do you trust him enough to allow him to use

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<v Speaker 2>everything that's happened for your good and his glory?

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<v Speaker 1>Lift your hands if you do. The rock is in

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<v Speaker 1>this place.

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<v Speaker 2>When my heart is overwhelmed, Lead me to the rock

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<v Speaker 2>that is higher than I.

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<v Speaker 1>Meet us in this moment. God, pour out your spirit

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<v Speaker 1>in a fresh way for your people.

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<v Speaker 2>Now. I asked that you would speak to that weak place,

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<v Speaker 2>broken place, discouraged place. Make that heart beat again for

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<v Speaker 2>real water from a rock, so you are beauty from brokenness.

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<v Speaker 2>Call to him, Call to him, speak to the rock.

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<v Speaker 2>Unless you asking, you need me.

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<v Speaker 1>Enter my decision making process. God, I need you.

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