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Speaker 1: Hey, this is Stephen Ferdick.

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

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

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

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

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Speaker 1: Enjoy the message.

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Speaker 2: Let's take just a moment Valentine and engage our responsibility

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Speaker 2: and privilege to welcome our EFM watching around the world

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Speaker 2: on the Elevation app, YouTube, Facebook. I want to see

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Speaker 2: who's watching. Somebody bring me a phone with YouTube on it.

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Speaker 2: I did this at eleven thirty last week.

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Speaker 1: It was.

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Speaker 2: I must see if you'll trust me with your phone.

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Speaker 2: Do you know how much trouble I could get you

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Speaker 2: in with your phone in five minutes? How many texts

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Speaker 2: I could send on your behalf, how many bad influences

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Speaker 2: I could block off your phone. Give me five minutes

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Speaker 2: with your phone. I'll fix your future. I'll get you

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Speaker 2: into college. I'll break up with him so you don't

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Speaker 2: have to. I'll put a kissy face on it. Let's

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Speaker 2: see YouTube. Tell me where are you watching from in

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Speaker 2: the world? Just put your city, state, hamlet. How many

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Speaker 2: y'all grew up in a hamlet. Don't we love this

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Speaker 2: choir and the energy that they bring.

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Speaker 1: Hell.

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Speaker 2: Look, Puerto Rico, Iowa. Whoa, it's going fast. New Zealand. Oh,

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Speaker 2: I can't keep up. Look how fastest scrolling Gaithersburg, Maryland,

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Speaker 2: New York City, Lancaster, Pennsylvania, Brussels, Houston, North Dakota, Miami, Ridgeland,

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Speaker 2: Tampa Bay, Philadelphia, South Korea, Missouri, all kinds of countries, Pakistan, Oregon,

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Speaker 2: South Africa, India, Singapore, Guatemala, Milwaukee, Las Vegas, Toffica, Indonesia,

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Speaker 2: Dominican Republic, Jamaica, Chattanooga, Vermont, Philippines, Charlotte, North Carolina. We'll

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Speaker 2: bring you greetings in the name of Jesus Christ. Scotland, China, Brazil, Ethiopia, France, Lithuania,

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Speaker 2: Costa Rica. You got a message. I'm gonna give this back. Now,

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Speaker 2: come take this. Come on, Let's thank God for all

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Speaker 2: those all over the world joining outs in worship.

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Speaker 1: Thank you Lou.

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Speaker 2: She's gonna be preaching soon. I'm gonna give her the

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Speaker 2: mic soon and turn her loose. But not today.

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Speaker 1: Today. I got this. You can relax. How many are

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Speaker 1: ready for the word of God?

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Speaker 2: I want to encourage you to stay up late on

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Speaker 2: this Thursday night Eastern Standard time midnight the beginning of

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Speaker 2: one thing, the end of another. And we're releasing five

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Speaker 2: songs called at Midnight because Paul and Silas knew what

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Speaker 2: to do in a desperate situation. And when we sing

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Speaker 2: together and join together and praise God together, it creates

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Speaker 2: freedom and our spirits, and it often creates change in

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Speaker 1: But I want you to be a part of that.

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Speaker 2: All of our watch parties around the world at midnight,

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Speaker 2: I'm going to need you to caffeinate and plan accordingly.

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Speaker 2: For some of you, it's going to be a bigger

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Speaker 2: miracle than a jail break for you to stay up

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Speaker 2: till midnight. But we're believing God for supernatural energy for you,

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Speaker 2: and stay up at midnight and put it on Instagram

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Speaker 2: and Facebook, put it on MySpace.

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Speaker 1: You hear me, young people, and let us know where

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Speaker 1: you're watching.

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Speaker 2: From Ecclesiastes, chapter eleven, I want to continue a conversation

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Speaker 2: that I began with our Matthew's campus on Thursday night.

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Speaker 2: This message is called the Mystery of potential. How many

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Speaker 2: no God has put things inside of you that your

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Speaker 2: eyes haven't seen yet. God put things inside of you

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Speaker 2: that your parents didn't even know about, and so I

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Speaker 2: want to speak on those things today. From Ecclesiastes eleven,

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Speaker 2: verse five and six. As you do not know the

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Speaker 2: way the spirit comes to the bones in the womb

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Speaker 2: of a woman with child, So you do not know

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Speaker 2: the work of God who makes everything. In the morning,

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Speaker 2: sow your seed, and at evening withhold not your hand,

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Speaker 1: Do not know. He said that in both verses it

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Speaker 2: Solomon, the wisest man in the world, speaking about human ignorance,

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Speaker 2: His common theme in this book is you do not

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Speaker 2: prosper that you count out. And so since you don't know,

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Speaker 2: keep sowing. Since you don't know, keep sowing, for you

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Speaker 2: do not know which will prosper this or that, or

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Speaker 2: whether both. Somebody say both, whether both alike will be good. Lord,

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Speaker 2: this is your word, and so we do not ask

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Speaker 2: Get it in our hearts, past all the falsehood distractions

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Speaker 2: In Jesus' name, Amen, you may be seated in using

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Speaker 2: these two different analogies for the revelation of potential. The

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Speaker 2: commonality is that there is a process by which anything

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Speaker 2: process of fertilization. And I don't think I need to

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Speaker 2: have the birds and the bees talk. If your parents

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Speaker 2: didn't do that by now, it's not my job. But

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Speaker 2: he talks about how in the womb of a woman

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Speaker 2: And then there is another part which he calls the

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Speaker 2: spirit entering the bones or the breath the Rua and Hebrew,

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Speaker 2: it's the same word. When you hear spirit of God,

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Speaker 2: you can also think breath of God. Both are correct,

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Speaker 2: and it's the same word because it's the same process.

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Speaker 2: Anything God breathes on comes to life. And if there's

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Speaker 2: anything you need God to breathe on today you are

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Speaker 2: in His presence and anything is possible. As a matter

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Speaker 2: of fact, the way this whole project called you got started.

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Speaker 2: Was God breathed on something dirty. He took the dust

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Speaker 2: of the earth, and when he breathed on it, he

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Speaker 2: breathed into man the breath of life.

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Speaker 1: So there is the bones and there is the breath.

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Speaker 2: One of those can be explained and perceived with human eyes.

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Speaker 1: And if there's anybody in overflow, I don't know if

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Speaker 2: We got two premium seats on the landing at Valentine.

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Speaker 2: So bring in two people who traveled and had to

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Speaker 2: sit and overflow and give them those seats. If it's

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Speaker 2: in overflow, put them in those two seats.

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Speaker 1: Let's see what God can do.

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Speaker 2: Because when God brings things together and breaths into things,

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Speaker 2: the limit of God's potential is only your belief, because

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Speaker 2: God is so big and so great, and the only

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Speaker 2: thing that ever limits him is what you believe he

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Speaker 2: can do. And you know a lot of people will say, well,

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Speaker 2: nothing limits God. He's God, and of course he is God.

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Speaker 2: But God breathes into things. And when God breathes into things,

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Speaker 2: it's so important that we receive it.

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Speaker 1: When he breathes. Amen.

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Speaker 2: How many of you are firstborn children? Firstborn children? Come on,

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Speaker 2: up for me and you because we were our parents' experiment.

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Speaker 2: I think when you're having a child, and I don't

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Speaker 2: thing I do think is pretty good, and I may

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Speaker 2: write a book about this. When you have your first child,

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Speaker 2: you know, you create a college fund for your Yeah,

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Speaker 2: you create a college fund for your kids, but for

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Speaker 2: your firstborn, you need to also create a therapy fund.

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Speaker 1: Just go ahead and start it.

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Speaker 2: Put it in a put it in an index fund

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Speaker 2: or something, because you are learning things on them that

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Speaker 2: your firstborn because you put all your hopes and dreams

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Speaker 2: I'll never forget when Elijah, you know, he's coming home

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Speaker 1: Just because I got this now.

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Speaker 2: But on the first one, you're learning everything, so you're

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Speaker 2: trying to figure out how to help Elijah with baseball

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Speaker 1: To some of you. He said, it's too soon to tell.

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Speaker 2: In other words, I was just trying to be polite

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Speaker 1: It's way too soon to tell.

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Speaker 2: if it doesn't just turn around by Friday, if within

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Speaker 1: That the machines weren't right. But it wasn't the machines.

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Speaker 2: soon to tell, and Solomon said the same thing. He said,

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Speaker 2: the bones that are waiting on the breath, and you

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Speaker 2: don't know the way God is going to work in situation.

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Speaker 1: And it is always too soon for.

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Speaker 2: You to quit on something that God put on the

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Speaker 1: If He gave you a dream, is too soon to

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Speaker 2: From it just because it doesn't manifest in three dimensions

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Speaker 2: that's what we talked about today, the mystery of potential

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Speaker 2: only way that potential can be revealed is for process

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Speaker 1: Y'all with me today. I never know. I never know

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Speaker 2: And when you live a selfish life, a safe life,

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Speaker 2: He's plowing with twelve yokoboccin in front of him. He's

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Speaker 1: On my plow. He's just plowing. He's just plowing.

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Speaker 2: And a lot of times we will confuse the fact

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Speaker 2: But I'm getting ahead of myself here, because this message

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Speaker 2: is not just about plowing, it's about planting. And really,

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Speaker 2: This was years ago, and I was so proud to

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Speaker 2: He's like, totally, you know, my friend Levi, he's been

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Speaker 2: you got to get an iPad. He's always telling me

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Speaker 2: I think about everything that's in some of the people

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Speaker 2: But the thing about dirt is it can also bring

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Speaker 2: God turned pain into potential. Now, if you ever fished

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Speaker 2: Elisha is flowing and Elijah says something to him. He says, well,

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Speaker 1: And he throws his mantle, the symbol of potential.

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

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Speaker 1: In fact, let me tell you how mysterious potential is.

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Speaker 1: After a long season of obedience, y'all got to know

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Speaker 2: That's where to shout, because that's where potential is proven.

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Speaker 1: When it is planted.

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Speaker 2: Planted, it's on the device, but it can only be

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Speaker 2: And this process of connection in seed speak, revolves around planting,

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Speaker 1: Over seed that they scatter.

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00:26:26,200 --> 00:26:30,320
Speaker 2: Instead, they have expectation to see it again in a

439
00:26:30,359 --> 00:26:34,359
Speaker 2: greater form later. So you're never really saying goodbye to

440
00:26:34,480 --> 00:26:37,920
Speaker 2: anything that you give to God. You're really just opening

441
00:26:37,960 --> 00:26:42,639
Speaker 2: your hands, which means that before you can receive anything,

442
00:26:43,240 --> 00:26:47,360
Speaker 2: you have to release something. For those of you who

443
00:26:47,440 --> 00:26:49,879
Speaker 2: like to take notes, you can write down the word

444
00:26:50,119 --> 00:26:55,520
Speaker 2: release because process is revealed in potential, and potential is

445
00:26:55,560 --> 00:26:58,480
Speaker 2: revealed in process, and it comes a little bit along

446
00:26:58,520 --> 00:27:02,640
Speaker 2: and along the first step is to release.

447
00:27:03,960 --> 00:27:07,960
Speaker 1: The sower. Must release the seed to see what it

448
00:27:08,000 --> 00:27:08,360
Speaker 1: could be.

449
00:27:09,680 --> 00:27:12,959
Speaker 2: I'm just wondering, is there something that you need to

450
00:27:13,000 --> 00:27:17,879
Speaker 2: release in your life today? And could it be possible

451
00:27:18,480 --> 00:27:23,160
Speaker 2: that you are looking at something, praying about something and

452
00:27:23,240 --> 00:27:27,440
Speaker 2: trying to manipulate something that God wants you to release

453
00:27:28,320 --> 00:27:28,800
Speaker 2: so that it.

454
00:27:28,760 --> 00:27:30,240
Speaker 1: Can mature and manifest.

455
00:27:31,000 --> 00:27:33,440
Speaker 2: And this is for all of us who are control freaks,

456
00:27:36,000 --> 00:27:40,840
Speaker 2: because until we release it, it can't grow. Look at

457
00:27:40,840 --> 00:27:44,040
Speaker 2: your neighbors, say let it go, tell them watch it grow.

458
00:27:45,800 --> 00:27:49,359
Speaker 2: Let it go and watch it grow. But it can't

459
00:27:49,359 --> 00:27:54,119
Speaker 2: grow if you're trying to control it. Right is starving

460
00:27:54,200 --> 00:27:58,359
Speaker 2: seeds and then is strangled seeds holding on so tight.

461
00:27:58,560 --> 00:28:02,480
Speaker 2: Oh it's my time, is my money? I feel so

462
00:28:02,520 --> 00:28:07,560
Speaker 2: sorry for people who aren't generous. I feel so bad

463
00:28:07,640 --> 00:28:11,440
Speaker 2: for you because all stinginess does is strangle to see

464
00:28:11,440 --> 00:28:14,680
Speaker 2: that God has given you And if you could.

465
00:28:14,560 --> 00:28:17,199
Speaker 1: Let it go, who knows what it could be.

466
00:28:19,440 --> 00:28:21,679
Speaker 2: What if I just preach that sermon in the mirror,

467
00:28:23,000 --> 00:28:26,080
Speaker 2: it would bounce right back. But if I put it

468
00:28:26,080 --> 00:28:29,520
Speaker 2: out through that camera, it might hit Botswana and help

469
00:28:29,600 --> 00:28:35,320
Speaker 2: somebody in their life or Bamberg, South Carolina. I don't care.

470
00:28:35,560 --> 00:28:38,560
Speaker 2: It's God's business where it goes. It's my job to

471
00:28:38,600 --> 00:28:41,800
Speaker 2: sew it. And you got to sew it in the morning,

472
00:28:41,920 --> 00:28:44,160
Speaker 2: sow it in the evening. So it when you feel it.

473
00:28:44,240 --> 00:28:46,360
Speaker 2: Sow it when you don't. So when they cheer for you,

474
00:28:46,400 --> 00:28:49,000
Speaker 2: So when they criticize you, sow it when they hold Zanna,

475
00:28:49,240 --> 00:28:50,960
Speaker 2: and sow it when they want to string you up.

476
00:28:51,160 --> 00:28:53,480
Speaker 2: So when they notice, sow it. When they don't, sow it,

477
00:28:53,680 --> 00:28:54,200
Speaker 2: sew it.

478
00:28:54,560 --> 00:28:55,080
Speaker 1: Sew it.

479
00:29:03,880 --> 00:29:07,480
Speaker 2: But just like you can't live your life not accessing

480
00:29:07,800 --> 00:29:10,880
Speaker 2: everything that's on the device and expect to be a

481
00:29:10,960 --> 00:29:12,560
Speaker 2: reflection of the image of God.

482
00:29:12,840 --> 00:29:14,760
Speaker 1: You also, and I want to say this is.

483
00:29:14,720 --> 00:29:18,640
Speaker 2: So important because when we talk about potential, a lot

484
00:29:18,680 --> 00:29:22,000
Speaker 2: of people start trying to produce something that God did not.

485
00:29:22,000 --> 00:29:23,120
Speaker 1: Put inside of them.

486
00:29:26,520 --> 00:29:30,120
Speaker 2: We got oranges wanting to be apples, apples wanting to

487
00:29:30,160 --> 00:29:41,840
Speaker 2: be kumquats, not a kumquat. You are a delicious red apple.

488
00:29:44,240 --> 00:29:48,120
Speaker 2: You're gonna be a big, juicy red apple, but you want.

489
00:29:47,960 --> 00:29:51,040
Speaker 1: To be a kumquat. Yo.

490
00:29:51,080 --> 00:29:53,720
Speaker 2: My barber told me a story the other day. His

491
00:29:53,840 --> 00:29:56,760
Speaker 2: name is fly Ty. That's who you want to cut

492
00:29:56,800 --> 00:29:59,680
Speaker 2: your hair. He put fly in his name. I trust

493
00:29:59,760 --> 00:30:03,240
Speaker 2: him with my faith because he's fly tie and he's

494
00:30:03,240 --> 00:30:06,920
Speaker 2: been cutting my hair now he attends our University City location.

495
00:30:07,760 --> 00:30:09,720
Speaker 2: I asked his permission to tell you this because I

496
00:30:09,720 --> 00:30:12,360
Speaker 2: didn't want to embarrass him. But y'all, he told me

497
00:30:12,400 --> 00:30:16,280
Speaker 2: the dumbest story ever the other day. And he was

498
00:30:16,320 --> 00:30:18,360
Speaker 2: cutting my hair. And he has this bad habit of

499
00:30:18,560 --> 00:30:20,880
Speaker 2: stopping cutting my hair while he tells me a fifteen

500
00:30:20,920 --> 00:30:23,520
Speaker 2: minute story. And he needs to go to multitask school

501
00:30:23,560 --> 00:30:26,400
Speaker 2: because I got things to do. He's cutting the clippers

502
00:30:26,400 --> 00:30:28,640
Speaker 2: off and talking. But it's fine because I usually like

503
00:30:28,720 --> 00:30:31,440
Speaker 2: his stories and his anecdotes, but this one was dumb. Listeners,

504
00:30:32,840 --> 00:30:34,920
Speaker 2: he told me a story and I don't remember exactly

505
00:30:35,040 --> 00:30:37,880
Speaker 2: what the year was, but years ago he was hosting

506
00:30:37,920 --> 00:30:41,680
Speaker 2: because he's not only a barber, he's a host, a

507
00:30:41,800 --> 00:30:46,200
Speaker 2: radio personality. He works for the Hornets. He's very involved

508
00:30:46,240 --> 00:30:49,160
Speaker 2: in the community. He speaks to little kids, like every

509
00:30:49,200 --> 00:30:52,280
Speaker 2: time he comes to cut my hair. He's recently spoken

510
00:30:52,360 --> 00:30:54,840
Speaker 2: to a group of kids. That same day, Anti DJ

511
00:30:54,880 --> 00:30:57,640
Speaker 2: at a wedding, Anti cured cancer, and he fought a

512
00:30:57,680 --> 00:31:00,360
Speaker 2: fire on Providence Row and he's just every where all

513
00:31:00,400 --> 00:31:00,800
Speaker 2: the time.

514
00:31:01,040 --> 00:31:03,840
Speaker 1: But he's sitting there telling me the story.

515
00:31:03,520 --> 00:31:05,680
Speaker 2: Because we're talking about potential and what God has put

516
00:31:05,720 --> 00:31:06,880
Speaker 2: in you, and we talk about this a lot.

517
00:31:07,280 --> 00:31:08,240
Speaker 1: We talk about God.

518
00:31:08,600 --> 00:31:11,680
Speaker 2: And I guess because my dad was a barber, I

519
00:31:11,720 --> 00:31:13,600
Speaker 2: had just have a love for barber's and so the

520
00:31:13,600 --> 00:31:16,320
Speaker 2: clippers start going, we start talking and we're talking about it,

521
00:31:16,520 --> 00:31:19,280
Speaker 2: and he told me a story that jay Z came

522
00:31:20,000 --> 00:31:23,520
Speaker 2: to a concert. I guess it was like in the nineties,

523
00:31:23,920 --> 00:31:27,040
Speaker 2: before he was as popular as he is now, and

524
00:31:27,120 --> 00:31:30,600
Speaker 2: the concert was half full, and fly Tie was one

525
00:31:30,600 --> 00:31:33,640
Speaker 2: of the hosts for the concerts, and he said he

526
00:31:33,720 --> 00:31:37,160
Speaker 2: observed jay Z during the concert talking to one of

527
00:31:37,200 --> 00:31:39,920
Speaker 2: the members of a female group who was also on

528
00:31:39,960 --> 00:31:45,480
Speaker 2: the concert bill called Destiny's Child, and he said that

529
00:31:45,560 --> 00:31:48,640
Speaker 2: the concert was half full because jay Z was just

530
00:31:49,560 --> 00:31:51,560
Speaker 2: on the come up, which would lead him to be

531
00:31:52,280 --> 00:31:54,960
Speaker 2: some would say the greatest rapper of all time, depending

532
00:31:55,000 --> 00:31:58,040
Speaker 2: on how you quantify that, it's a very strong case.

533
00:31:58,080 --> 00:32:00,120
Speaker 2: But he said, I've since thought back to that day

534
00:32:00,840 --> 00:32:04,360
Speaker 2: because jay Z and Beyonce were back there and I

535
00:32:04,440 --> 00:32:08,440
Speaker 2: was watching their relationship develop before my eyes. And he's

536
00:32:08,480 --> 00:32:12,440
Speaker 2: my same age, and I think often to myself. Look

537
00:32:12,520 --> 00:32:18,680
Speaker 2: what he's done with his life and what have I

538
00:32:18,760 --> 00:32:26,640
Speaker 2: done with mine? Now, of all the people in the

539
00:32:26,680 --> 00:32:33,240
Speaker 2: Milky Way, for you to choose to use as a

540
00:32:33,360 --> 00:32:38,120
Speaker 2: standard of how successful your life is, you just had

541
00:32:38,200 --> 00:32:39,480
Speaker 2: to go get jay Z.

542
00:32:41,120 --> 00:32:46,200
Speaker 1: Jay Z, not even not even Lil Wayne jay Z.

543
00:32:48,920 --> 00:32:54,440
Speaker 2: You had to pick the most influential rapper of our lifetime.

544
00:32:54,640 --> 00:32:55,520
Speaker 1: So here's what he did.

545
00:32:55,920 --> 00:33:00,800
Speaker 2: He just wanted to feel small so bad that rather

546
00:33:00,840 --> 00:33:04,240
Speaker 2: than focusing on Look how gracious.

547
00:33:03,760 --> 00:33:04,680
Speaker 1: God has been to me.

548
00:33:05,480 --> 00:33:07,480
Speaker 2: I asked his permission to say this, and he said

549
00:33:07,520 --> 00:33:09,680
Speaker 2: I could, Instead of I'm gonna preach to them through

550
00:33:09,680 --> 00:33:10,040
Speaker 2: the camera.

551
00:33:10,040 --> 00:33:11,240
Speaker 1: He's listening right now.

552
00:33:11,520 --> 00:33:14,480
Speaker 2: Instead of picking Look where I could have been if

553
00:33:14,520 --> 00:33:17,240
Speaker 2: it hadn't been for the grace of God. Look how

554
00:33:17,240 --> 00:33:20,240
Speaker 2: he raised me up. Look how he kept me alive.

555
00:33:20,760 --> 00:33:24,080
Speaker 2: Look how I wasn't a statistic. Look how he's using

556
00:33:24,160 --> 00:33:27,080
Speaker 2: me in ways I never could have imagined. Look how

557
00:33:27,120 --> 00:33:28,240
Speaker 2: he would have gifted me.

558
00:33:28,760 --> 00:33:30,160
Speaker 1: Look how he's been good to me.

559
00:33:37,160 --> 00:33:43,680
Speaker 2: You are not jay Z. You are not supposed to be.

560
00:33:45,080 --> 00:33:52,400
Speaker 2: So tell your neighbor you are not beyond saying. Tell

561
00:33:52,480 --> 00:33:57,240
Speaker 2: him what I am Destiny's child and what God could

562
00:33:57,280 --> 00:34:02,000
Speaker 2: inside of me? Said, He said, what God put inside

563
00:34:02,040 --> 00:34:05,600
Speaker 2: of me is looking for a place to grow. I'm

564
00:34:05,640 --> 00:34:09,360
Speaker 2: going back to my school like a seed ready to grow.

565
00:34:09,640 --> 00:34:13,160
Speaker 2: And don't judge the significance by the size of the seed.

566
00:34:18,000 --> 00:34:22,600
Speaker 2: I'm fly freaking tie clippers in one hand and microphone

567
00:34:22,640 --> 00:34:23,120
Speaker 2: in the other.

568
00:34:23,520 --> 00:34:26,920
Speaker 1: I got potential, but I gotta let go.

569
00:34:26,960 --> 00:34:34,160
Speaker 2: Of what I think I'm supposed to be to become

570
00:34:34,200 --> 00:34:38,680
Speaker 2: what I am. You know how sometimes you get this

571
00:34:38,760 --> 00:34:44,520
Speaker 2: parental guilt, this feeling of like I watched a football

572
00:34:44,560 --> 00:34:46,880
Speaker 2: game with the boys last night and I came to

573
00:34:46,960 --> 00:34:49,520
Speaker 2: tears because there was a commercial of a man taking

574
00:34:49,520 --> 00:34:50,280
Speaker 2: his sun fishing.

575
00:34:51,640 --> 00:34:52,480
Speaker 1: I was choked up.

576
00:34:52,520 --> 00:34:55,239
Speaker 2: I said, I'm so sorry, boys, I never took you

577
00:34:55,320 --> 00:34:59,200
Speaker 2: fishing because I'm thinking that's where the lessons of life

578
00:34:59,280 --> 00:34:59,960
Speaker 2: need to happen.

579
00:35:00,120 --> 00:35:07,120
Speaker 1: On the boat. You were like, it's okay, dad, it's fine.

580
00:35:07,760 --> 00:35:12,839
Speaker 2: Swets football, but it can just always make you feel

581
00:35:12,880 --> 00:35:16,799
Speaker 2: like I need to be a dad like that. You know.

582
00:35:18,320 --> 00:35:20,400
Speaker 2: The truth of the matter is, Holly was telling me

583
00:35:20,440 --> 00:35:21,880
Speaker 2: how her dad used to take her out on the

584
00:35:21,880 --> 00:35:23,759
Speaker 2: boat all the time. I was like, do you ever

585
00:35:24,080 --> 00:35:26,160
Speaker 2: feel like you've married the wrong guy that I've never

586
00:35:26,200 --> 00:35:28,120
Speaker 2: taken our family out on a boat once. I don't

587
00:35:28,120 --> 00:35:31,719
Speaker 2: even know how to drive a boat. She said, No,

588
00:35:31,840 --> 00:35:34,760
Speaker 2: I hated it on the boat. My dad liked the boat.

589
00:35:35,280 --> 00:35:36,960
Speaker 2: See how I did it though, I got to take

590
00:35:36,960 --> 00:35:38,879
Speaker 2: my kids out on a boat to be a good dad.

591
00:35:39,640 --> 00:35:41,400
Speaker 2: It's just a small thing, I understand. It could be

592
00:35:41,480 --> 00:35:44,480
Speaker 2: much deeper than that. You can start thinking when you

593
00:35:44,520 --> 00:35:49,200
Speaker 2: are supposed to have a family, buy anything. I am

594
00:35:49,320 --> 00:35:52,839
Speaker 2: supposed to be further along in my career. But when

595
00:35:52,840 --> 00:35:55,200
Speaker 2: you let go of what is supposed to be in

596
00:35:55,280 --> 00:36:05,840
Speaker 2: your mind, when you let that go, and the sower

597
00:36:05,920 --> 00:36:09,680
Speaker 2: has to release the seed. I feel God calling some

598
00:36:09,719 --> 00:36:13,400
Speaker 2: of us to release some things, even to release bitterness.

599
00:36:15,239 --> 00:36:15,719
Speaker 1: Some of us.

600
00:36:15,719 --> 00:36:19,480
Speaker 2: If we would release that root of bitterness, we would

601
00:36:19,520 --> 00:36:27,320
Speaker 2: reap a harvest of peace. It has to be released.

602
00:36:28,840 --> 00:36:35,520
Speaker 2: God is calling me to release some things, release some expectations,

603
00:36:36,520 --> 00:36:42,279
Speaker 2: and released my white knuckle ane agram. One perfectionist ideas.

604
00:36:43,360 --> 00:36:44,080
Speaker 2: Did I get it right?

605
00:36:44,160 --> 00:36:46,600
Speaker 1: One? Yeah? I don't know.

606
00:36:47,760 --> 00:36:50,799
Speaker 2: All I do know is this, Sometimes I cut off

607
00:36:50,800 --> 00:36:54,680
Speaker 2: my circulation and strangle the seed of opportunities because of

608
00:36:54,719 --> 00:36:58,200
Speaker 2: my need to control it. So when you throw your

609
00:36:58,200 --> 00:37:01,240
Speaker 2: net on the other side, what I love about sewing,

610
00:37:01,400 --> 00:37:02,719
Speaker 2: you don't have to be in a good mood to

611
00:37:02,719 --> 00:37:10,000
Speaker 2: do it. The seed doesn't care if you've carefully dropped

612
00:37:10,040 --> 00:37:12,240
Speaker 2: it or threw it and walked off.

613
00:37:12,800 --> 00:37:14,239
Speaker 1: Is still where it's supposed to be.

614
00:37:15,480 --> 00:37:18,120
Speaker 2: Peter said, we've worked hard all night and caught nothing,

615
00:37:18,440 --> 00:37:21,360
Speaker 2: but because you say so, And he got blessed while

616
00:37:21,360 --> 00:37:23,800
Speaker 2: he was rolling his eyes, because he had the faith

617
00:37:23,840 --> 00:37:26,200
Speaker 2: to do what Jesus said. You got to sew it

618
00:37:26,239 --> 00:37:35,280
Speaker 2: when you feel it, and sew it when you don't. Now,

619
00:37:35,440 --> 00:37:39,000
Speaker 2: from the seed's perspective, being planted as a different experience,

620
00:37:40,320 --> 00:37:47,439
Speaker 2: because the sower has to release, but the seed has

621
00:37:47,520 --> 00:37:57,880
Speaker 2: to remain, and both are so important, so important.

622
00:38:00,080 --> 00:38:06,440
Speaker 1: I didn't mean to do that. I promise so important

623
00:38:06,880 --> 00:38:07,799
Speaker 1: to remain.

624
00:38:09,320 --> 00:38:14,000
Speaker 2: Thirteen years before he knew what that mental meant, thirteen

625
00:38:14,120 --> 00:38:19,919
Speaker 2: years of being planted correctively speaking, Why does Peter get

626
00:38:20,000 --> 00:38:23,360
Speaker 2: so much airtime in pulpits for stepping out of a boat.

627
00:38:24,640 --> 00:38:26,480
Speaker 2: That same thing that made him step out of the

628
00:38:26,480 --> 00:38:29,040
Speaker 2: boat made him run when Jesus went to the cross.

629
00:38:31,360 --> 00:38:32,440
Speaker 1: How about John.

630
00:38:32,840 --> 00:38:36,200
Speaker 2: Who stayed in the boat and when Jesus was on

631
00:38:36,239 --> 00:38:38,319
Speaker 2: the cross, stayed by his side to take care of

632
00:38:38,360 --> 00:38:44,480
Speaker 2: his mom. But we don't celebrate those who stay we

633
00:38:44,520 --> 00:38:50,759
Speaker 2: don't celebrate those who who just do it. We make

634
00:38:50,800 --> 00:38:52,560
Speaker 2: a tag line out of it for a shoe company,

635
00:38:52,719 --> 00:38:53,920
Speaker 2: but we don't celebrate it.

636
00:38:55,680 --> 00:39:00,399
Speaker 1: In other words, the seed has to remain in order

637
00:39:00,400 --> 00:39:01,040
Speaker 1: to reproduce.

638
00:39:02,840 --> 00:39:05,839
Speaker 2: Now, I wonder why we think that God can grow

639
00:39:05,880 --> 00:39:08,719
Speaker 2: what he wants to grow in our life when we

640
00:39:08,800 --> 00:39:12,560
Speaker 2: keep uprooting what he's doing every time it gets uncomfortable.

641
00:39:16,719 --> 00:39:20,480
Speaker 2: And the soil is so important to the growth of

642
00:39:20,520 --> 00:39:23,760
Speaker 2: the seed that you can have a really good seed

643
00:39:24,520 --> 00:39:26,880
Speaker 2: and it can become nothing, not because it was nothing

644
00:39:26,920 --> 00:39:29,319
Speaker 2: because it was surrounded by something that wasn't worthy of

645
00:39:29,360 --> 00:39:29,960
Speaker 2: its presence.

646
00:39:31,520 --> 00:39:33,480
Speaker 1: You can put a really good seed. This is the

647
00:39:33,520 --> 00:39:35,080
Speaker 1: power of environment.

648
00:39:37,360 --> 00:39:42,719
Speaker 2: That what is around the seed determines whether what is within.

649
00:39:42,520 --> 00:39:44,760
Speaker 1: The seed comes out of the seed.

650
00:39:49,440 --> 00:39:51,680
Speaker 2: And I don't know if this is pertinent to anyone

651
00:39:52,160 --> 00:39:54,600
Speaker 2: in the area of who you spend the dominant amount

652
00:39:54,640 --> 00:39:58,840
Speaker 2: of your time hanging out with, but what's around it

653
00:39:58,960 --> 00:40:03,200
Speaker 2: eventually determined whether what is within it comes out of it.

654
00:40:04,239 --> 00:40:07,560
Speaker 2: You can have really good stuff in you, but if

655
00:40:07,600 --> 00:40:11,800
Speaker 2: everything around you is just dark and noise, and everything

656
00:40:11,880 --> 00:40:14,319
Speaker 2: around you, if there's no light to it, if there's

657
00:40:14,320 --> 00:40:17,640
Speaker 2: no hydration to it, it won't take root, and so

658
00:40:17,640 --> 00:40:20,359
Speaker 2: if it doesn't take root, it can't come out. As

659
00:40:20,400 --> 00:40:22,600
Speaker 2: a matter of fact, God sent me to speak to

660
00:40:22,640 --> 00:40:25,759
Speaker 2: some people saying, there's nothing wrong with the seed. There's

661
00:40:25,840 --> 00:40:28,359
Speaker 2: nothing wrong with who you are. It's just what you've

662
00:40:28,400 --> 00:40:32,279
Speaker 2: surrounded yourself with in your mind, in your heart, on

663
00:40:32,320 --> 00:40:35,280
Speaker 2: your feed, in your time, on your schedule.

664
00:40:38,120 --> 00:40:39,800
Speaker 1: I'm looking for plow ground.

665
00:40:41,120 --> 00:40:43,680
Speaker 2: I want other people in my life who can help

666
00:40:43,719 --> 00:40:46,279
Speaker 2: bring out. I want to join an eGroup. Oh watch

667
00:40:46,320 --> 00:40:49,120
Speaker 2: that plug. This dude's a professional. I want to get

668
00:40:49,160 --> 00:40:52,040
Speaker 2: around some good soil because I want the good stuff

669
00:40:52,080 --> 00:40:54,239
Speaker 2: that is in me to come forth out of me.

670
00:41:00,360 --> 00:41:02,080
Speaker 2: How many of y'all if you could put your kids

671
00:41:02,120 --> 00:41:04,160
Speaker 2: around the right people, you just know your kid would

672
00:41:04,160 --> 00:41:04,680
Speaker 2: be a doctor.

673
00:41:08,600 --> 00:41:10,560
Speaker 1: I know they would. It's the environment.

674
00:41:10,600 --> 00:41:14,080
Speaker 2: But watch this, Why do we think God can bless

675
00:41:14,160 --> 00:41:17,879
Speaker 2: us to grow when every time the soil gets uncomfortable,

676
00:41:18,080 --> 00:41:19,320
Speaker 2: we go to another church.

677
00:41:24,200 --> 00:41:29,839
Speaker 1: You feel that tension shift. I did when I see

678
00:41:29,840 --> 00:41:32,520
Speaker 1: people in this church who have been here ten years.

679
00:41:33,440 --> 00:41:35,640
Speaker 2: When I see people in this church who would be planted,

680
00:41:36,600 --> 00:41:40,320
Speaker 2: I realized that the potential of what is in someone

681
00:41:40,960 --> 00:41:44,360
Speaker 2: can only really manifest when it has time to mature

682
00:41:45,600 --> 00:41:47,919
Speaker 2: and when we walk around, you know, Oh, I don't

683
00:41:48,040 --> 00:41:50,680
Speaker 2: like that. You know, I'm going over here to a

684
00:41:50,719 --> 00:41:53,200
Speaker 2: new church. I don't like the way they talk to me.

685
00:41:53,400 --> 00:41:55,600
Speaker 2: I'm going over here. I'm gonna make some new friends.

686
00:41:55,640 --> 00:41:58,600
Speaker 2: You know what, you are taking the old you to

687
00:41:58,719 --> 00:41:59,719
Speaker 2: the new friendships.

688
00:42:00,800 --> 00:42:03,640
Speaker 1: And so whatever, y'all like this, y'all like this at all,

689
00:42:03,680 --> 00:42:05,880
Speaker 1: I'm gonna solve this set anyway. I'm gonna hit some

690
00:42:05,880 --> 00:42:11,719
Speaker 1: good ground with this seed. Is so important that you stay.

691
00:42:11,480 --> 00:42:14,720
Speaker 2: Sometimes, and I know sometimes you gotta find better ground.

692
00:42:15,000 --> 00:42:19,080
Speaker 2: But sometimes it's our inability to just let what God

693
00:42:19,280 --> 00:42:23,600
Speaker 2: is doing in our life work. He uses some uncomfortable things.

694
00:42:23,880 --> 00:42:26,520
Speaker 2: But if you never stay, you'll never see it. If

695
00:42:26,520 --> 00:42:29,200
Speaker 2: you just keep moving to a new city every time

696
00:42:29,200 --> 00:42:31,839
Speaker 2: you make a mess out of your relationships so you

697
00:42:31,880 --> 00:42:35,120
Speaker 2: can start over with the same seed that you carried

698
00:42:35,120 --> 00:42:38,799
Speaker 2: in the last relationship, you will never see the potential

699
00:42:38,880 --> 00:42:39,279
Speaker 2: of it.

700
00:42:46,320 --> 00:42:52,240
Speaker 1: So I gotta I gotta stay. I gotta stay in faith.

701
00:42:53,280 --> 00:42:56,600
Speaker 2: I gotta remain in the vine so I can bear

702
00:42:56,680 --> 00:43:02,920
Speaker 2: my shrewe, so I can become what I already am

703
00:43:02,960 --> 00:43:07,960
Speaker 2: in potential form. And only God knows how long it's

704
00:43:08,000 --> 00:43:11,120
Speaker 2: going to take for me to become all that I am.

705
00:43:13,320 --> 00:43:17,040
Speaker 2: When John was writing about it in his epistle, he said,

706
00:43:17,840 --> 00:43:19,719
Speaker 2: see what great love the Father is lavished on us,

707
00:43:19,719 --> 00:43:21,320
Speaker 2: that we should be called the children of God. And

708
00:43:21,320 --> 00:43:24,200
Speaker 2: now watch this in verse two, beloved, we are God's children.

709
00:43:24,680 --> 00:43:33,480
Speaker 1: Now. Now when.

710
00:43:35,480 --> 00:43:42,200
Speaker 2: I am forgiven, I'm full of the Holy Spirit, I

711
00:43:42,239 --> 00:43:44,920
Speaker 2: am well abeled, I am strong and courageous.

712
00:43:46,239 --> 00:43:51,120
Speaker 1: That's in me now. But what we shall be.

713
00:43:52,760 --> 00:43:58,120
Speaker 2: Has not yet appeared, and it can only appear if

714
00:43:58,160 --> 00:44:08,280
Speaker 2: it remains. It will be revealed if you remain thirteen

715
00:44:08,440 --> 00:44:13,479
Speaker 2: years for potential to be reviewed. Most of us won't

716
00:44:13,520 --> 00:44:18,520
Speaker 2: do it for thirteen days, thirteen.

717
00:44:17,880 --> 00:44:24,840
Speaker 1: Years to see what it is, thirteen years of being planted.

718
00:44:26,680 --> 00:44:27,359
Speaker 1: And then he did.

719
00:44:27,400 --> 00:44:38,080
Speaker 2: Watch this, Elisha did twice as many miracles as Elijah did.

720
00:44:39,200 --> 00:44:40,680
Speaker 1: You don't know what's in you yet.

721
00:44:42,440 --> 00:44:44,560
Speaker 2: You don't know what the broken bread of your disappointed

722
00:44:44,600 --> 00:44:47,160
Speaker 2: expectations is going to multiply into if you leave it

723
00:44:47,160 --> 00:44:48,480
Speaker 2: in God's hands a little while.

724
00:44:48,640 --> 00:44:49,600
Speaker 1: You don't know yet.

725
00:44:52,360 --> 00:44:54,840
Speaker 2: The enemy can't remove anything that God put in you,

726
00:44:54,920 --> 00:44:56,719
Speaker 2: But if he can keep you from sewing it, you

727
00:44:56,760 --> 00:44:58,239
Speaker 2: will never know what it would have been.

728
00:45:00,040 --> 00:45:03,360
Speaker 1: Can get you to quit give up in your life?

729
00:45:03,719 --> 00:45:06,719
Speaker 1: Stop hoping, turn into a cynic. If he can get

730
00:45:06,760 --> 00:45:07,720
Speaker 1: you to stop sewing.

731
00:45:07,880 --> 00:45:11,160
Speaker 2: I'm preaching to people who have stopped sewing because of

732
00:45:11,200 --> 00:45:16,120
Speaker 2: what you didn't know. Because you didn't know, they quit

733
00:45:16,160 --> 00:45:19,440
Speaker 2: too soon. It's too soon to tell what is going

734
00:45:19,520 --> 00:45:22,359
Speaker 2: to be. It's too soon to tell if it made

735
00:45:22,400 --> 00:45:25,560
Speaker 2: a difference. Is too soon to tell whether or not

736
00:45:25,800 --> 00:45:28,440
Speaker 2: it was worth It is too soon for you to start.

737
00:45:28,719 --> 00:45:30,320
Speaker 1: Every time you take.

738
00:45:30,160 --> 00:45:32,359
Speaker 2: The seed and pluck it out, to look at it

739
00:45:32,560 --> 00:45:35,920
Speaker 2: and judge it, you interrupt the process by which it grows.

740
00:45:37,080 --> 00:45:42,560
Speaker 2: So stop judging it, and keep watering it, and keep sewing,

741
00:45:43,239 --> 00:45:48,120
Speaker 2: and keep trusting. Because Elisha goes on not only to

742
00:45:48,160 --> 00:45:51,080
Speaker 2: part the waters of the Jordan River, which was his

743
00:45:51,160 --> 00:45:54,839
Speaker 2: first miracle, but then he gets to Jericho and they

744
00:45:54,840 --> 00:45:57,600
Speaker 2: need a healing in the water, and so he heals

745
00:45:57,760 --> 00:46:01,080
Speaker 2: the poisonous waters his second mirror. And then he calls

746
00:46:01,160 --> 00:46:03,680
Speaker 2: she beers out of the woods to kill some little

747
00:46:03,680 --> 00:46:05,840
Speaker 2: boys because he was still working this thing out. Because

748
00:46:05,880 --> 00:46:08,279
Speaker 2: potential can be tricky at first, and so you can

749
00:46:08,280 --> 00:46:10,919
Speaker 2: misuse your power in an earlier stage of your life.

750
00:46:10,960 --> 00:46:13,439
Speaker 2: Never forget that the thing that makes you powerful makes

751
00:46:13,480 --> 00:46:16,960
Speaker 2: you vulnerable and unguarded strength as a double weakness. It's

752
00:46:17,000 --> 00:46:20,320
Speaker 2: all about potential. But everything he did was about potential.

753
00:46:20,520 --> 00:46:23,200
Speaker 2: From the moment he was plowing. It was about potential,

754
00:46:23,440 --> 00:46:26,000
Speaker 2: from the moment that he told the kings, hey, dig

755
00:46:26,040 --> 00:46:29,680
Speaker 2: the ditches in preparation for the rain that is not

756
00:46:29,840 --> 00:46:32,960
Speaker 2: coming from a natural source, but God is going to

757
00:46:33,040 --> 00:46:35,600
Speaker 2: send it. When you do a natural thing, it was

758
00:46:35,680 --> 00:46:39,040
Speaker 2: preparation for the potential of the power of God.

759
00:46:39,400 --> 00:46:41,760
Speaker 1: Like the woman's oil. See, you never.

760
00:46:41,680 --> 00:46:44,240
Speaker 2: Judge what can be in the resource by the size

761
00:46:44,239 --> 00:46:46,759
Speaker 2: of the current supply. So the woman's like, oh, it's

762
00:46:46,800 --> 00:46:49,239
Speaker 2: not much. Oh I'm not very good. Oh I'm not

763
00:46:49,440 --> 00:46:51,879
Speaker 2: very much. Oh I'm not very known. Oh I don't

764
00:46:51,920 --> 00:46:54,799
Speaker 2: have many followers. Oh I'm not Jus jay Z. Oh

765
00:46:54,840 --> 00:46:57,520
Speaker 2: I'm not beyoncey. Oh I don't have that. I can't

766
00:46:57,560 --> 00:47:00,480
Speaker 2: sing like that, I can't move like that little bit

767
00:47:00,520 --> 00:47:03,400
Speaker 2: of oil flowed into a lot of jars. Wasn't about

768
00:47:03,400 --> 00:47:04,560
Speaker 2: the amount of oil.

769
00:47:04,760 --> 00:47:06,360
Speaker 1: It was about the amount of jars.

770
00:47:11,800 --> 00:47:15,239
Speaker 2: When the Shunamite woman made him a guest room, he

771
00:47:15,320 --> 00:47:16,960
Speaker 2: prophesied she would have a baby.

772
00:47:17,160 --> 00:47:18,319
Speaker 1: She had given up on that.

773
00:47:18,520 --> 00:47:20,400
Speaker 2: She didn't even believe that was possible.

774
00:47:20,600 --> 00:47:21,440
Speaker 1: She didn't even.

775
00:47:21,280 --> 00:47:23,439
Speaker 2: Know that was in her until the Word of God

776
00:47:23,520 --> 00:47:28,000
Speaker 2: spoke it over her. You don't know what's in you.

777
00:47:28,000 --> 00:47:30,719
Speaker 2: You don't know what's in your kids. Don't judge it

778
00:47:30,760 --> 00:47:34,160
Speaker 2: too soon. They might turn out better than all the

779
00:47:34,239 --> 00:47:37,880
Speaker 2: straight A students. The straight A students might be working

780
00:47:37,920 --> 00:47:42,960
Speaker 2: for them. You don't know yet. It's too soon to tell.

781
00:47:47,640 --> 00:47:50,239
Speaker 2: My God, who is this for? God has just all

782
00:47:50,280 --> 00:47:54,520
Speaker 2: over me for somebody today. I know when He sticks

783
00:47:54,800 --> 00:47:59,160
Speaker 2: through me like this, that is for one person. I

784
00:47:59,160 --> 00:48:01,719
Speaker 2: don't know who I'm so this into, but it'll come back.

785
00:48:01,760 --> 00:48:07,000
Speaker 2: I'll hear about it. I release this word over your

786
00:48:07,040 --> 00:48:12,000
Speaker 2: life today. I release it over your life like Elijah

787
00:48:12,000 --> 00:48:16,439
Speaker 2: released a mantle on Elisha's shoulders that when this word

788
00:48:16,560 --> 00:48:20,040
Speaker 2: hits you, the potential of what God has put in you,

789
00:48:20,800 --> 00:48:24,880
Speaker 2: every gift, skill, experience, plan, everything that God has brought

790
00:48:24,920 --> 00:48:30,000
Speaker 2: you through, even all the pain, that's a potential miracle.

791
00:48:32,040 --> 00:48:36,520
Speaker 1: That's a seed of the Word of God. A seed

792
00:48:36,640 --> 00:48:37,759
Speaker 1: seeds a small thing.

793
00:48:38,960 --> 00:48:40,960
Speaker 2: Elisha told a name and go down to the Jordan

794
00:48:41,239 --> 00:48:43,799
Speaker 2: dip seven times. You know when he was healed, Not

795
00:48:43,880 --> 00:48:46,120
Speaker 2: on the first time, not on the second time, not

796
00:48:46,200 --> 00:48:49,120
Speaker 2: on the third time, on the seventh time, potential is

797
00:48:49,239 --> 00:49:05,080
Speaker 2: revealed in process. One day, a young prophet was chopping

798
00:49:05,280 --> 00:49:07,239
Speaker 2: some wood to build a school for the prophets, and

799
00:49:07,280 --> 00:49:08,520
Speaker 2: the axe had fell in the water.

800
00:49:08,760 --> 00:49:10,279
Speaker 1: Elisha showed him where.

801
00:49:10,320 --> 00:49:12,640
Speaker 2: When the young man showed him where it had fallen,

802
00:49:12,960 --> 00:49:13,920
Speaker 2: something came on the.

803
00:49:13,880 --> 00:49:15,520
Speaker 1: Axe hed it floated to the surface.

804
00:49:16,640 --> 00:49:19,640
Speaker 2: The potential for God to speak to a small thing

805
00:49:19,680 --> 00:49:22,200
Speaker 2: in your life is just as easy as it is

806
00:49:22,239 --> 00:49:25,719
Speaker 2: for him to speak to a big thing. See all

807
00:49:25,840 --> 00:49:32,080
Speaker 2: that was on Elisha in potential form, and all of

808
00:49:32,120 --> 00:49:36,840
Speaker 2: it manifested when he planted himself in the purpose of God.

809
00:49:38,760 --> 00:49:39,480
Speaker 1: So good to me.

810
00:49:41,160 --> 00:49:45,359
Speaker 2: There's so much still in you, man, there's so much

811
00:49:45,400 --> 00:49:48,840
Speaker 2: still in you, but you won't know if you stop sowing.

812
00:49:51,160 --> 00:49:53,480
Speaker 2: So now follow Elisha all the way to the last

813
00:49:53,480 --> 00:49:57,480
Speaker 2: miracle he performs. The Bible records, depending on how you

814
00:49:57,520 --> 00:50:03,759
Speaker 2: divide it, like fifteen miracles that Elisha performs, Elijah performed eight,

815
00:50:05,800 --> 00:50:10,240
Speaker 2: so it's roughly doubled the amount of miracles. The double

816
00:50:10,320 --> 00:50:15,040
Speaker 2: portion that Elisha asked for, he got it. And the

817
00:50:15,120 --> 00:50:18,560
Speaker 2: last thing we see him do, he's with this king

818
00:50:18,600 --> 00:50:22,480
Speaker 2: who's being attacked him. He tells the king to take

819
00:50:22,560 --> 00:50:23,719
Speaker 2: these arrows in his hand.

820
00:50:23,760 --> 00:50:26,560
Speaker 1: And start striking the ground with the arrows.

821
00:50:27,640 --> 00:50:29,640
Speaker 2: Every time he struck the ground with an arrow as

822
00:50:29,640 --> 00:50:32,040
Speaker 2: an act of faith that represented a potential victory that

823
00:50:32,080 --> 00:50:35,799
Speaker 2: God would give him. And when he struck the ground

824
00:50:36,120 --> 00:50:41,480
Speaker 2: three times and stopped, it upset Elisha.

825
00:50:42,960 --> 00:50:49,239
Speaker 1: And Elisha said, you were using this device so far

826
00:50:50,080 --> 00:50:51,280
Speaker 1: beneath its potential.

827
00:50:52,640 --> 00:50:56,320
Speaker 2: And he was angry because he saw the victories that

828
00:50:56,440 --> 00:51:01,920
Speaker 2: could have been if the king had believed in his potential.

829
00:51:04,760 --> 00:51:06,160
Speaker 1: And you know what's really weird.

830
00:51:06,800 --> 00:51:12,080
Speaker 2: After everything that Elisha did one miracle short of exactly

831
00:51:12,120 --> 00:51:15,839
Speaker 2: twice as many miracles as his mentor, Elijah did eight,

832
00:51:16,000 --> 00:51:17,120
Speaker 2: Elisha did fifteen.

833
00:51:17,719 --> 00:51:20,480
Speaker 1: The king strikes the ground and stops and.

834
00:51:20,520 --> 00:51:26,919
Speaker 2: Forfeits his potential, and Elisha is angry. And the next

835
00:51:27,080 --> 00:51:32,160
Speaker 2: verse says, in one Kings thirteen twenty, Elisha died and

836
00:51:32,200 --> 00:51:38,360
Speaker 2: they buried him. Only this he wasn't buried, He was

837
00:51:38,440 --> 00:51:42,200
Speaker 2: planted because there was still one more miracle left in

838
00:51:42,280 --> 00:51:52,960
Speaker 2: him that hadn't been tapped yet. There is someone who

839
00:51:53,080 --> 00:51:58,600
Speaker 2: still has a miracle in your bones. And something that

840
00:51:58,680 --> 00:52:01,520
Speaker 2: you have buried is trying to come alive.

841
00:52:01,600 --> 00:52:02,840
Speaker 1: While I'm preaching today.

842
00:52:03,719 --> 00:52:07,080
Speaker 2: Something that you have buried, a hope or a character,

843
00:52:07,239 --> 00:52:10,240
Speaker 2: element of your character, or something that you have believed

844
00:52:10,280 --> 00:52:13,520
Speaker 2: God for and is still in your bones. So they

845
00:52:13,600 --> 00:52:18,279
Speaker 2: buried Elisha and one day, the Bible says, as they

846
00:52:18,280 --> 00:52:22,479
Speaker 2: were conducting a funeral, Oh, so much potential in this room.

847
00:52:22,719 --> 00:52:25,600
Speaker 2: There is so much potential in this room. You have

848
00:52:25,680 --> 00:52:28,520
Speaker 2: no idea the potential that is in this room. As

849
00:52:28,560 --> 00:52:32,080
Speaker 2: they were conducting a funeral, the Bible says that every

850
00:52:32,120 --> 00:52:37,000
Speaker 2: springtime the Moabite raiders would come in and they would

851
00:52:37,000 --> 00:52:41,000
Speaker 2: invade the land during harvest time. Isn't that interesting that

852
00:52:41,280 --> 00:52:44,000
Speaker 2: the attack always happens when the harvest is coming.

853
00:52:46,760 --> 00:52:49,399
Speaker 1: Y'all sleeping on the preacher. Now, I know I'll wear

854
00:52:49,480 --> 00:52:49,920
Speaker 1: you out.

855
00:52:49,760 --> 00:52:51,680
Speaker 2: But stay with me three minutes, and I promise you

856
00:52:51,680 --> 00:52:55,920
Speaker 2: I'm ann close this. The attack always happens the enemy.

857
00:52:56,040 --> 00:52:58,480
Speaker 2: If he can't keep you from sewing, he wants you

858
00:52:58,520 --> 00:53:00,759
Speaker 2: to walk away when you're about to reap it. He

859
00:53:00,840 --> 00:53:03,560
Speaker 2: wants you to walk away just at the moment. And

860
00:53:03,640 --> 00:53:07,000
Speaker 2: if you stop now, you won't know what could have been.

861
00:53:11,840 --> 00:53:14,239
Speaker 2: So the Bible says that there was a man that

862
00:53:14,400 --> 00:53:15,080
Speaker 2: was being buried.

863
00:53:15,120 --> 00:53:16,719
Speaker 1: There was a funeral in progress.

864
00:53:17,480 --> 00:53:20,440
Speaker 2: Verse twenty one says that when the band was coming

865
00:53:20,600 --> 00:53:22,960
Speaker 2: they got in a hurry and they threw the man

866
00:53:23,080 --> 00:53:26,879
Speaker 2: watched this on the grave of Elisha. Now, when they

867
00:53:26,920 --> 00:53:30,600
Speaker 2: did that, it messed up the funeral because when they

868
00:53:30,680 --> 00:53:34,520
Speaker 2: buried Elisha, he still had one more miracle.

869
00:53:34,160 --> 00:53:35,120
Speaker 1: In his bones.

870
00:53:35,880 --> 00:53:41,480
Speaker 2: So now when the dead thing hit the bones of Elisha.

871
00:53:41,520 --> 00:53:44,239
Speaker 1: Watch what God's about to do in your life. As

872
00:53:44,320 --> 00:53:44,920
Speaker 1: soon as.

873
00:53:44,800 --> 00:53:49,080
Speaker 2: The man touched the bones of Elisha, he revived and

874
00:53:49,239 --> 00:53:52,120
Speaker 2: stood up on his feet. What are you saying, preacher,

875
00:53:52,480 --> 00:53:55,399
Speaker 2: I'm saying it. You'll throw it on the bones. If

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Speaker 2: you will believe in the power of God, if you

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Speaker 2: will declare resurrection over everything you saw, nothing is wasted,

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Speaker 2: nothing is over, nothing is finished.

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Speaker 3: If God is in it, it's.

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Speaker 2: Shaft home thought.

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Speaker 3: Come on, give him a great pray.

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Speaker 2: I believe in resurrection. I believe God is a grave ropper.

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Speaker 2: I believe that the bones of eli shall still have power.

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Speaker 2: I believe that the word of the Lord can still

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Speaker 2: hit a baron wound. I believe that the seed that

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Speaker 2: you have sown, it was not buried. It was planted

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Speaker 2: in the soil of God's faithfulness.

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Speaker 1: Come on, let's touch the bones today.

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Speaker 2: Let's go.

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Speaker 1: Let's touch the bones.

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Speaker 2: Let's go to the empty grave where they bury Jesus.

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Speaker 1: But God was planting him.

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Speaker 2: He will the firstborn, come on Mini preprin.

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Speaker 1: And when he went down, it to the earth.

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Speaker 2: When he went down it to the earth, how many

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Speaker 2: do early one sundays?

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Speaker 1: He didn't stay there.

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Speaker 3: But he got up, and I ships up to.

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Speaker 2: See.

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Speaker 3: Come on, these are.

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Speaker 1: See.

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Speaker 3: If you receive this word, gets your hands up.

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Speaker 2: Come on, every location, get him up. I need us

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Speaker 2: to keep our hands lifted. Because we believe in resurrection.

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Speaker 2: We willieve in second chances, We believe in new.

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Speaker 1: We believe.

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Speaker 2: Does anybody believe this? Does anybody believe what this verse says?

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Speaker 2: The tomb where soldiers watch in Van.

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Speaker 1: Was borrowed for me days. Stay down right there his body? Man,

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Speaker 1: Oh God is God.

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Speaker 2: I was praying. I was praying last night about this

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Speaker 2: gospel message. And I had to tell you what God

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Speaker 2: showed me that It wasn't a grave, it was a garden.

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Speaker 2: The tub where soldiers watched in Van.

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Speaker 4: Thesparsday and after three days what happens? By how many

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Speaker 4: of you believe in resurrection? I need every hand lift

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Speaker 4: and every voice raise is rock.

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Speaker 3: The oh God is wrong? The fra.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, it's coming up. It's coming up, Julie. He's get to.

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Speaker 2: All praise.

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Speaker 3: We rise to consul Juli He's be all prace.

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Speaker 1: We're thank 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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