WEBVTT - The Mystery Of Potential

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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 podcast.

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

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<v Speaker 2>this inspires you. Hope it builds your faith. Hope it

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<v Speaker 2>gives your perspective to see God is moving in your life.

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<v Speaker 1>Enjoy the message.

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<v Speaker 2>Let's take just a moment Valentine and engage our responsibility

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<v Speaker 2>and privilege to welcome our EFM watching around the world

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<v Speaker 2>on the Elevation app, YouTube, Facebook. I want to see

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

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<v Speaker 2>I did this at eleven thirty last week.

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<v Speaker 1>It was.

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<v Speaker 2>I must see if you'll trust me with your phone.

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<v Speaker 2>Do you know how much trouble I could get you

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<v Speaker 2>in with your phone in five minutes? How many texts

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<v Speaker 2>I could send on your behalf, how many bad influences

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<v Speaker 2>I could block off your phone. Give me five minutes

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<v Speaker 2>with your phone. I'll fix your future. I'll get you

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

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

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<v Speaker 2>see YouTube. Tell me where are you watching from in

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<v Speaker 2>the world? Just put your city, state, hamlet. How many

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

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<v Speaker 2>choir and the energy that they bring.

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<v Speaker 1>Hell.

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

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

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<v Speaker 2>New York City, Lancaster, Pennsylvania, Brussels, Houston, North Dakota, Miami, Ridgeland,

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<v Speaker 2>Tampa Bay, Philadelphia, South Korea, Missouri, all kinds of countries, Pakistan, Oregon,

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<v Speaker 2>South Africa, India, Singapore, Guatemala, Milwaukee, Las Vegas, Toffica, Indonesia,

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

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

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

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

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<v Speaker 2>those all over the world joining outs in worship.

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<v Speaker 1>Thank you Lou.

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<v Speaker 2>She's gonna be preaching soon. I'm gonna give her the

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<v Speaker 2>mic soon and turn her loose. But not today.

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<v Speaker 1>Today. I got this. You can relax. How many are

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<v Speaker 1>ready for the word of God?

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<v Speaker 2>I want to encourage you to stay up late on

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<v Speaker 2>this Thursday night Eastern Standard time midnight the beginning of

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

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<v Speaker 2>songs called at Midnight because Paul and Silas knew what

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<v Speaker 2>to do in a desperate situation. And when we sing

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<v Speaker 2>together and join together and praise God together, it creates

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<v Speaker 2>freedom and our spirits, and it often creates change in

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<v Speaker 2>our situation.

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<v Speaker 1>But I want you to be a part of that.

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<v Speaker 2>All of our watch parties around the world at midnight,

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<v Speaker 2>I'm going to need you to caffeinate and plan accordingly.

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<v Speaker 2>For some of you, it's going to be a bigger

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<v Speaker 2>miracle than a jail break for you to stay up

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

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<v Speaker 2>and stay up at midnight and put it on Instagram

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<v Speaker 2>and Facebook, put it on MySpace.

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<v Speaker 1>You hear me, young people, and let us know where

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<v Speaker 1>you're watching.

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<v Speaker 2>From Ecclesiastes, chapter eleven, I want to continue a conversation

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<v Speaker 2>that I began with our Matthew's campus on Thursday night.

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<v Speaker 2>This message is called the Mystery of potential. How many

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<v Speaker 2>no God has put things inside of you that your

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<v Speaker 2>eyes haven't seen yet. God put things inside of you

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<v Speaker 2>that your parents didn't even know about, and so I

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<v Speaker 2>want to speak on those things today. From Ecclesiastes eleven,

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<v Speaker 2>verse five and six. As you do not know the

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<v Speaker 2>way the spirit comes to the bones in the womb

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<v Speaker 2>of a woman with child, So you do not know

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<v Speaker 2>the work of God who makes everything. In the morning,

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<v Speaker 2>sow your seed, and at evening withhold not your hand,

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<v Speaker 2>for you.

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<v Speaker 1>Do not know. He said that in both verses it

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<v Speaker 1>must be important.

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<v Speaker 2>Solomon, the wisest man in the world, speaking about human ignorance,

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<v Speaker 2>that even after all he learned, accomplished, and.

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<v Speaker 1>Every success that he achieved.

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<v Speaker 2>His common theme in this book is you do not

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<v Speaker 2>know is a mystery. And he said that one might

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

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<v Speaker 2>keep sowing. Since you don't know, keep sowing, for you

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<v Speaker 2>do not know which will prosper this or that, or

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<v Speaker 2>whether both. Somebody say both, whether both alike will be good. Lord,

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<v Speaker 2>this is your word, and so we do not ask

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<v Speaker 2>you to make it true.

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<v Speaker 1>It already is.

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<v Speaker 2>Get it in our hearts, past all the falsehood distractions

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<v Speaker 2>and deceit, so it can become flesh in our lives.

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<v Speaker 2>In Jesus' name, Amen, you may be seated in using

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<v Speaker 2>these two different analogies for the revelation of potential. The

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<v Speaker 2>commonality is that there is a process by which anything

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<v Speaker 2>must be fertilized. Whether it's human life or whether it's

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<v Speaker 2>a seed that will become sustenance, it must undergo a

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<v Speaker 2>process of fertilization. And I don't think I need to

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<v Speaker 2>have the birds and the bees talk. If your parents

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

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<v Speaker 2>he talks about how in the womb of a woman

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<v Speaker 2>there is a process and a part of human pregnancy

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<v Speaker 2>that can be explained or that can be anatomically identified.

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<v Speaker 2>And then there is another part which he calls the

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<v Speaker 2>spirit entering the bones or the breath the Rua and Hebrew,

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

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<v Speaker 2>you can also think breath of God. Both are correct,

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<v Speaker 2>and it's the same word because it's the same process.

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<v Speaker 2>Anything God breathes on comes to life. And if there's

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<v Speaker 2>anything you need God to breathe on today you are

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<v Speaker 2>in His presence and anything is possible. As a matter

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<v Speaker 2>of fact, the way this whole project called you got started.

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<v Speaker 2>Was God breathed on something dirty. He took the dust

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<v Speaker 2>of the earth, and when he breathed on it, he

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<v Speaker 2>breathed into man the breath of life.

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<v Speaker 1>So there is the bones and there is the breath.

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<v Speaker 2>One of those can be explained and perceived with human eyes.

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<v Speaker 1>And if there's anybody in overflow, I don't know if

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<v Speaker 1>there is.

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<v Speaker 2>We got two premium seats on the landing at Valentine.

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<v Speaker 2>So bring in two people who traveled and had to

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<v Speaker 2>sit and overflow and give them those seats. If it's

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<v Speaker 2>a husband and a wife, or if it's two single

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<v Speaker 2>people that look like they like each other out there

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<v Speaker 2>in overflow, put them in those two seats.

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<v Speaker 1>Let's see what God can do.

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<v Speaker 2>Because when God brings things together and breaths into things,

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<v Speaker 2>the limit of God's potential is only your belief, because

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<v Speaker 2>God is so big and so great, and the only

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<v Speaker 2>thing that ever limits him is what you believe he

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

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<v Speaker 2>nothing limits God. He's God, and of course he is God.

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<v Speaker 2>But God breathes into things. And when God breathes into things,

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<v Speaker 2>it's so important that we receive it.

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<v Speaker 1>When he breathes. Amen.

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<v Speaker 2>How many of you are firstborn children? Firstborn children? Come on,

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<v Speaker 2>let's give it up for ourselves. Come on, give it

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<v Speaker 2>up for me and you because we were our parents' experiment.

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<v Speaker 2>I think when you're having a child, and I don't

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<v Speaker 2>have a lot of parenting advice, but this is one

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<v Speaker 2>thing I do think is pretty good, and I may

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<v Speaker 2>write a book about this. When you have your first child,

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<v Speaker 2>you know, you create a college fund for your Yeah,

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<v Speaker 2>you create a college fund for your kids, but for

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<v Speaker 2>your firstborn, you need to also create a therapy fund.

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<v Speaker 1>Just go ahead and start it.

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<v Speaker 2>Put it in a put it in an index fund

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<v Speaker 2>or something, because you are learning things on them that

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<v Speaker 2>the other ones. I mean, it's kind of rough with

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<v Speaker 2>your firstborn because you put all your hopes and dreams

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<v Speaker 2>and fantasies and projections of parenthood on that poor child.

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

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<v Speaker 2>from the hospital, I'm driving seventeen miles an hour on

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<v Speaker 2>four eighty five, just you know. And by the time

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<v Speaker 2>I became who was the third, you know, I just

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<v Speaker 2>center home in an uber It's.

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<v Speaker 1>Just because I got this now.

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<v Speaker 2>But on the first one, you're learning everything, so you're

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<v Speaker 2>like totally overprotective, and sometimes they're overly ambitious, and so

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<v Speaker 2>anything the kid does, you're like, oh, my god, did

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<v Speaker 2>you He just played the piano like walks by and

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<v Speaker 2>bangs it, and you think he's Mozart because you see potential.

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<v Speaker 1>Sometimes it's not there.

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<v Speaker 2>When Elijah first started playing baseball, I remember when he

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<v Speaker 2>was on this coach pitch team, and the coach pitch

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<v Speaker 2>league is kind of deceptive because the pitcher is working

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<v Speaker 2>with you, which is the opposite of real baseball, but

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<v Speaker 2>the pitcher wants you to hit it. And I was

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<v Speaker 2>trying to figure out how to help Elijah with baseball

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<v Speaker 2>because I played baseball a little bit my dad coached me,

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<v Speaker 2>but I don't know a lot about it. And I

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<v Speaker 2>found out one of the grandparents there was a former

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<v Speaker 2>scout for minor league baseball, and he walked over to

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<v Speaker 2>me one game in the middle of the season and goes, hey,

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<v Speaker 2>that's your boy out there. I said yeah, he said,

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<v Speaker 2>he's pretty good. It's got potential, and I was like,

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<v Speaker 2>for real, like how much potential? You know, Like you

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<v Speaker 2>think he's like like a future And I couldn't even

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<v Speaker 2>get the whole sentence out, and he interrupted me and

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<v Speaker 2>said something to me, I believe God wants to say.

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

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<v Speaker 2>In other words, I was just trying to be polite

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<v Speaker 2>and say that your kid has a good swing and

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<v Speaker 2>encourage you to keep it up as a dad.

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<v Speaker 1>It's way too soon to tell.

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<v Speaker 2>You know whether or not you should start looking for

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<v Speaker 2>an agent. Okay, he's just got good swing, But don't

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<v Speaker 2>we always want to know so soon. How we post

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<v Speaker 2>stuff and if people don't like it in two minutes,

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<v Speaker 2>we feel the pressure to delete it because maybe the

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<v Speaker 2>picture wasn't as good as I thought it was, you know,

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<v Speaker 2>like it's the worst thing in the world. How we

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<v Speaker 2>live in this age of instant validation where we just

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<v Speaker 2>expect every opinion to be accepted just quickly. And if

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<v Speaker 2>it doesn't happen quickly, if it doesn't happen just like that,

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<v Speaker 2>if it doesn't just turn around by Friday, if within

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<v Speaker 2>our first week back at the gym in January it

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<v Speaker 2>doesn't melt off, we will cancel the gym membership and

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<v Speaker 2>talk about the fact.

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<v Speaker 1>That the machines weren't right. But it wasn't the machines.

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<v Speaker 2>It was our consistency and our deep down need to

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<v Speaker 2>see it happen so quick. The man said, it's too

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<v Speaker 2>soon to tell, and Solomon said the same thing. He said,

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<v Speaker 2>there are some things in your life that are like

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<v Speaker 2>the bones that are waiting on the breath, and you

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

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<v Speaker 1>And it is always too soon for.

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<v Speaker 2>You to quit on something that God put on the

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<v Speaker 2>inside of you.

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<v Speaker 1>If He gave you a dream, is too soon to

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<v Speaker 1>walk away.

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<v Speaker 2>From it just because it doesn't manifest in three dimensions

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<v Speaker 2>by the time you get done praying about it. So

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<v Speaker 2>that's what we talked about today, the mystery of potential

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<v Speaker 2>and how it's too soon to tell, and how the

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<v Speaker 2>only way that potential can be revealed is for process

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<v Speaker 2>to be embraced.

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<v Speaker 1>Y'all with me today. I never know. I never know

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<v Speaker 1>how a sermon.

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<v Speaker 2>Is going to affect people, and even after I preach it,

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<v Speaker 2>it's difficult for me to discern the impact of it.

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<v Speaker 2>I guess I could go off of a reaction base.

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<v Speaker 2>But I went to a Panthers game one time and

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<v Speaker 2>a lady was in front of me yelling the whole

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<v Speaker 2>time but she left in the fourth quarter, because sometimes

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<v Speaker 2>the loudest are the first to leave. So I don't

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<v Speaker 2>know how hard a sermon hit by how loud somebody

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<v Speaker 2>gets about it. Feel free to be loud. I mean

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<v Speaker 2>I like it loud. I really do like it loud.

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<v Speaker 2>I'm a punk rocker at heart. But I don't know

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<v Speaker 2>by how loud is, how deep it goes, is whether

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<v Speaker 2>or not you get nicer to your wife after I preach.

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<v Speaker 1>That shows how good my message got on love.

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<v Speaker 2>I thought I would have a few amens from the

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<v Speaker 2>higher register of the octave range.

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<v Speaker 1>But you don't know. You really don't know.

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<v Speaker 2>And the idea of human potential and a limitless God

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<v Speaker 2>comes together in this text in a way that you

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<v Speaker 2>can see several times throughout scripture in several examples. And

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<v Speaker 2>whether we would talk about Peter who had to cast

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<v Speaker 2>his net on the other side of the boat after

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<v Speaker 2>he's spent all night catching nothing. The potential was there,

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<v Speaker 2>but until the command was given from Jesus at the

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<v Speaker 2>place of his frustration. I called this message the Mystery

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<v Speaker 2>of potential because I thought it sounded good. I could

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<v Speaker 2>have just as easily called it the misery of potential.

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<v Speaker 2>And we could preach about that too, because when you're

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<v Speaker 2>young and people tell you have potential, it's a compliment

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<v Speaker 2>and it makes you feel hopeful. By the time you're

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<v Speaker 2>sixty five and people are saying, you know, you have

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<v Speaker 2>a lot of potential, it's depressing because by the time

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<v Speaker 2>I'm sixty five, I don't need potential. I need kinetic.

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<v Speaker 2>Potential doesn't pay the bills. Potential doesn't put a ring

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<v Speaker 2>on my finger. Oh, you're going to be a good wife. Well,

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<v Speaker 2>I'd like to be a good wife three years ago.

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<v Speaker 2>If I'm a good wife, where's my good man? I

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<v Speaker 2>come to church and I walk past all these men,

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<v Speaker 2>but they're all past.

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<v Speaker 1>A bunch of Christian men.

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<v Speaker 2>Won'll never give anybody a hug praying for a wife

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<v Speaker 2>instead of asking out to Starbucks.

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<v Speaker 1>I can't do anything in potential that seemed like that

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<v Speaker 1>one hit.

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<v Speaker 2>You know, you can never know the potential of a

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<v Speaker 2>seed by looking at it, Hey, little seed. You know,

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<v Speaker 2>you pray over a seed, you still won't know its potential.

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<v Speaker 1>You can study the history of seeds.

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<v Speaker 2>And although you might intellectually grasp its potential or comprehend

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<v Speaker 2>what it contains. The only way to really know the

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<v Speaker 2>potential is to plant it, and could it be that

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<v Speaker 2>in your life and in my life right now there

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<v Speaker 2>is potential that has not been planted. And so while

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<v Speaker 2>we are frustrated about what our lives are missing, it's

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<v Speaker 2>already in us and an immature form, and until we

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<v Speaker 2>sow it, we will never know what it could have been. Now,

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<v Speaker 2>I believe all over this house today there are starving seeds.

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<v Speaker 2>There are things, gifts, abilities, thoughts, ideas wisdom that God

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<v Speaker 2>has put in us, but it will not be shown

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<v Speaker 2>until it is sown.

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<v Speaker 1>Can I preach like I'm Doctor Seuss.

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<v Speaker 2>My rhymes are on points so far you will never

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<v Speaker 2>see it until you sow it.

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<v Speaker 1>And so while we're praying.

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<v Speaker 2>God show me my potential, and we're taking personality test

0:16:43.400 --> 0:16:47.040
<v Speaker 2>which are fine. God bless Myers Briggs, whoever he is.

0:16:47.920 --> 0:16:51.600
<v Speaker 2>God bless the enneagram. Holly reads all that stuff to me.

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<v Speaker 2>She tells me, I'm a one and she's a nine,

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<v Speaker 2>and the one in the nine go together, and my

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<v Speaker 2>one and her nine make a perfect five or something

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<v Speaker 2>like that.

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<v Speaker 1>I don't know how it works. I like all of it,

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<v Speaker 1>but the.

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<v Speaker 2>Truth of the matter is you can't bubble in a

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<v Speaker 2>test and find out what's in you. You can't go

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<v Speaker 2>on a journey of self discovery and find out what's

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<v Speaker 2>in you, because watch this. Until the seed is sacrificed,

0:17:15.680 --> 0:17:19.080
<v Speaker 2>until it goes into something bigger called the ground, until

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<v Speaker 2>it breaks open to accomplish something, you'll never know.

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<v Speaker 1>What was in it.

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<v Speaker 2>And when you live a selfish life, a safe life,

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<v Speaker 2>and you don't sew it, you will never know. The

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<v Speaker 2>enemy has got some of us so selfish, so discouraged,

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<v Speaker 2>that our seeds are starving, not for the lack of potential,

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<v Speaker 2>but for the lack of process. So like think about

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<v Speaker 2>Elisha plowing in a field in One Kings nineteen, just

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<v Speaker 2>as an illustration, and he's plowing verse nineteen. He's plowing

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<v Speaker 2>in a field with a yoke of oxen. There it is.

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<v Speaker 2>He's plowing with twelve yokoboccin in front of him. He's

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<v Speaker 2>not posing in front of the plow. He's not posting.

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<v Speaker 1>On my plow. He's just plowing. He's just plowing.

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<v Speaker 2>And a lot of times we will confuse the fact

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<v Speaker 2>that we don't have good ground in our life, that

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<v Speaker 2>is good opportunities. But maybe it's good ground and it's

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<v Speaker 2>just unplowed. And I wonder sometimes the things that we

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<v Speaker 2>go through that are hard for us is not the

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<v Speaker 2>enemy attacking us, but it is God plowing us to

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<v Speaker 2>make the ground ready, to make our hearts ready, to

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<v Speaker 2>make our wills ready.

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<v Speaker 1>So we won't be arrogant and.

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<v Speaker 2>Prideful, but we will have a plowed heart. And I

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<v Speaker 2>don't know who this is for, but a lot of

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<v Speaker 2>the things that you've been praying away, God is plowing

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<v Speaker 2>into and it's God's plowing process, just like Elisha had

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<v Speaker 2>been plowing the crown. I believe God had been plowing Elisha,

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<v Speaker 2>and I believe he's been plowing some of us and

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<v Speaker 2>getting our ground ready and getting our hearts ready. Because

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<v Speaker 2>sometimes if God visits us too soon with an opportunity

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<v Speaker 2>that life has not prepared us for, we will not

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<v Speaker 2>only ruin the opportunity, but we will hurt others in

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<v Speaker 2>the process.

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<v Speaker 1>So I don't want my heart to be unplowed ground.

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<v Speaker 2>But I'm getting ahead of myself here, because this message

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<v Speaker 2>is not just about plowing, it's about planting. And really,

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<v Speaker 2>what I wanted to say is you have no idea

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<v Speaker 2>what your encouragement can be until you plant it. What

0:19:54.640 --> 0:20:01.280
<v Speaker 2>your smile can be until you plant it, and planted.

0:20:02.359 --> 0:20:10.240
<v Speaker 2>For me, it's theoretical. For a farmer, it's practical. I

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<v Speaker 2>read it as a metaphor planted. But really, this process

0:20:15.160 --> 0:20:18.920
<v Speaker 2>Solomon is describing in an agricultural society would hit home

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<v Speaker 2>like it would be like saying, like an iPad because

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<v Speaker 2>there were so many more. You got to understand. The

0:20:24.320 --> 0:20:27.800
<v Speaker 2>Bible was written in the context of its culture, and

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<v Speaker 2>so it'd be like Sam'd be like this, I would

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<v Speaker 2>sit next to a man on an airplane and this

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<v Speaker 2>actually happened, Okay, true story.

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<v Speaker 1>And I just got my iPad.

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<v Speaker 2>This was years ago, and I was so proud to

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<v Speaker 2>be one of the first people with an iPad and

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<v Speaker 2>it had just come out, and we sent an intern

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<v Speaker 2>to the Apple store to get one of the first iPads, okay,

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<v Speaker 2>and I let them buy themselves something too, Okay, so

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<v Speaker 2>I hooked them up. But the thing is I wanted

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<v Speaker 2>to have one of the first iPads because Levi Lusscow

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<v Speaker 2>was telling me, you got to get an iPad.

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<v Speaker 1>Bro.

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<v Speaker 2>He's like, totally, you know, my friend Levi, he's been

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<v Speaker 2>here to preach. You got to try, Sacha, Bro, you

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<v Speaker 2>got to get this new bracelet for your workout, Bro,

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<v Speaker 2>you got to get an iPad. He's always telling me

0:21:07.119 --> 0:21:08.840
<v Speaker 2>to get something I'll already have. Always make me feel

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<v Speaker 2>like my life is missing something. He's some kind of

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<v Speaker 2>marketer from the pit of hell, but I love him.

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<v Speaker 2>You know, you gotta get an iPad, bro, It's beautiful.

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<v Speaker 2>It's just the technology is beautiful. So I have my

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<v Speaker 2>iPad and the guy next to me had an iPad too,

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<v Speaker 2>and so we felt like a connection. And he goes,

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<v Speaker 2>how you like your iPad. I was like, I don't know.

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<v Speaker 1>I just got it.

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<v Speaker 2>He goes, I've had mine a week. I was like,

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<v Speaker 2>they just came out yesterday. He said, I got Connections

0:21:38.119 --> 0:21:43.160
<v Speaker 2>and Apple. I was like, oh, I got an intern

0:21:45.480 --> 0:21:48.080
<v Speaker 2>send him to the Apple store. He goes, so, what

0:21:48.119 --> 0:21:50.879
<v Speaker 2>are you planning to use it for. I was like, well,

0:21:50.920 --> 0:21:53.800
<v Speaker 2>I'm a preacher, so I'm a preach my sermons from it.

0:21:55.240 --> 0:22:00.359
<v Speaker 1>He goes, what else. I was like, I don't know

0:22:00.400 --> 0:22:03.600
<v Speaker 1>what else. That's it, really, I guess.

0:22:06.520 --> 0:22:11.040
<v Speaker 2>And he got this look on his face like disgusted,

0:22:13.760 --> 0:22:17.200
<v Speaker 2>like disappointment in somebody that a minute ago he felt

0:22:17.200 --> 0:22:21.439
<v Speaker 2>an affinity for, but now he just felt nothing but

0:22:21.680 --> 0:22:24.760
<v Speaker 2>deep total sadness and loss at what could have been

0:22:24.760 --> 0:22:25.760
<v Speaker 2>a great relationship.

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<v Speaker 1>He goes, you are using that device so far beneath

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<v Speaker 1>its potential, and we didn't speak the rest of the flight.

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<v Speaker 1>I didn't know what to say back. I'm so sorry, man,

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<v Speaker 1>I just don't you know.

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<v Speaker 2>Every time I open the iPad, I think about what

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<v Speaker 2>it could do, and I think about what's on it

0:22:49.680 --> 0:22:52.400
<v Speaker 2>and what it could connect to through the Wi Fi connection.

0:22:52.480 --> 0:22:56.000
<v Speaker 2>I think about everything that it could do that it's

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<v Speaker 2>not doing.

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<v Speaker 1>I think about the potential of it.

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<v Speaker 2>I think about everything that's in some of the people

0:23:02.400 --> 0:23:06.880
<v Speaker 2>that I get to preach to, everything that is in

0:23:06.920 --> 0:23:11.200
<v Speaker 2>you that you haven't accessed, and everything that's in you.

0:23:11.119 --> 0:23:13.760
<v Speaker 1>That got buried, that got covered up.

0:23:13.760 --> 0:23:16.600
<v Speaker 2>But the thing about dirt is it can also bring

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<v Speaker 2>out potential. The thing about a seed when it goes

0:23:20.200 --> 0:23:23.439
<v Speaker 2>into the ground, Remember it doesn't go into the ground

0:23:23.480 --> 0:23:27.400
<v Speaker 2>to die. It goes into the ground to multiply. Some

0:23:27.440 --> 0:23:29.959
<v Speaker 2>of y'all know what I'm talking about. Because you had

0:23:30.000 --> 0:23:32.920
<v Speaker 2>a failure in your life and people wrote you off,

0:23:33.160 --> 0:23:36.280
<v Speaker 2>and people walked away, and it seemed like it was over.

0:23:36.560 --> 0:23:38.800
<v Speaker 2>But you gave it a little time, and you gave

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<v Speaker 2>it a little water, and you gave it a little trust,

0:23:41.600 --> 0:23:44.920
<v Speaker 2>and you kept coming to church, and somehow, some way,

0:23:45.440 --> 0:23:48.960
<v Speaker 2>God turned pain into potential. Now, if you ever fished

0:23:49.000 --> 0:23:52.040
<v Speaker 2>all night and caught nothing, but you cast your nets

0:23:52.040 --> 0:23:54.920
<v Speaker 2>on the other side and haul in a bucket full,

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<v Speaker 2>I need you to shout right now that there's so

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<v Speaker 2>much more.

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<v Speaker 1>It's the mystery.

0:24:07.640 --> 0:24:12.160
<v Speaker 2>Elisha is flowing and Elijah says something to him. He says, well,

0:24:12.200 --> 0:24:14.439
<v Speaker 2>actually he says it with an action, not with words.

0:24:14.640 --> 0:24:22.040
<v Speaker 2>He throws his cloak on Elisha, which represents the potential

0:24:22.040 --> 0:24:29.160
<v Speaker 2>for miracles. And when Elijah's cloak, remember he's the great

0:24:29.400 --> 0:24:35.800
<v Speaker 2>miracle worker who stood before Ahab, who ran from Jezebel,

0:24:36.960 --> 0:24:39.880
<v Speaker 2>and who found Elisha plowing in a field.

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<v Speaker 1>And he throws his mantle, the symbol of potential.

0:24:48.320 --> 0:24:49.960
<v Speaker 2>I don't know who this is for, but God is

0:24:49.960 --> 0:24:54.280
<v Speaker 2>throwing something your way today. I wish I could throw

0:24:54.320 --> 0:24:56.520
<v Speaker 2>this microphone right at your forehead so you would just

0:24:56.600 --> 0:25:05.520
<v Speaker 2>get it. But it's expensive, and he doesn't say much

0:25:05.520 --> 0:25:12.600
<v Speaker 2>about it. It's very mysterious. It's very mysterious. And when

0:25:12.600 --> 0:25:16.560
<v Speaker 2>Elisha receives that mantle, he doesn't immediately perform a miracle.

0:25:16.600 --> 0:25:19.880
<v Speaker 1>In fact, let me tell you how mysterious potential is.

0:25:21.080 --> 0:25:27.840
<v Speaker 2>We don't hear Elisha's name again until Second King's Chapter two,

0:25:28.000 --> 0:25:33.639
<v Speaker 2>which many tell us was thirteen years after his potential

0:25:34.080 --> 0:25:38.960
<v Speaker 2>was first suggested. But his potential was not revealed until

0:25:38.960 --> 0:25:42.680
<v Speaker 2>he would take that same cloak and strike the water

0:25:42.760 --> 0:25:43.120
<v Speaker 2>with it.

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<v Speaker 1>After a long season of obedience, y'all got to know

0:25:50.119 --> 0:25:50.880
<v Speaker 1>where to shout.

0:25:51.160 --> 0:25:56.480
<v Speaker 2>That's where to shout, because that's where potential is proven.

0:25:57.320 --> 0:25:58.639
<v Speaker 1>When it is planted.

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<v Speaker 2>Planted, it's on the device, but it can only be

0:26:05.200 --> 0:26:07.480
<v Speaker 2>retrieved from the device through.

0:26:07.320 --> 0:26:09.000
<v Speaker 1>A process of connection.

0:26:09.680 --> 0:26:15.160
<v Speaker 2>And this process of connection in seed speak, revolves around planting,

0:26:15.640 --> 0:26:18.399
<v Speaker 2>which makes me think first of all, of the sower,

0:26:18.920 --> 0:26:22.879
<v Speaker 2>because when the sower plants a seed, Remember, farmers don't

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<v Speaker 2>have funeral.

0:26:23.920 --> 0:26:25.479
<v Speaker 1>Over seed that they scatter.

0:26:26.200 --> 0:26:30.320
<v Speaker 2>Instead, they have expectation to see it again in a

0:26:30.359 --> 0:26:34.359
<v Speaker 2>greater form later. So you're never really saying goodbye to

0:26:34.480 --> 0:26:37.920
<v Speaker 2>anything that you give to God. You're really just opening

0:26:37.960 --> 0:26:42.639
<v Speaker 2>your hands, which means that before you can receive anything,

0:26:43.240 --> 0:26:47.360
<v Speaker 2>you have to release something. For those of you who

0:26:47.440 --> 0:26:49.879
<v Speaker 2>like to take notes, you can write down the word

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<v Speaker 2>release because process is revealed in potential, and potential is

0:26:55.560 --> 0:26:58.480
<v Speaker 2>revealed in process, and it comes a little bit along

0:26:58.520 --> 0:27:02.640
<v Speaker 2>and along the first step is to release.

0:27:03.960 --> 0:27:07.960
<v Speaker 1>The sower. Must release the seed to see what it

0:27:08.000 --> 0:27:08.360
<v Speaker 1>could be.

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<v Speaker 2>I'm just wondering, is there something that you need to

0:27:13.000 --> 0:27:17.879
<v Speaker 2>release in your life today? And could it be possible

0:27:18.480 --> 0:27:23.160
<v Speaker 2>that you are looking at something, praying about something and

0:27:23.240 --> 0:27:27.440
<v Speaker 2>trying to manipulate something that God wants you to release

0:27:28.320 --> 0:27:28.800
<v Speaker 2>so that it.

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<v Speaker 1>Can mature and manifest.

0:27:31.000 --> 0:27:33.440
<v Speaker 2>And this is for all of us who are control freaks,

0:27:36.000 --> 0:27:40.840
<v Speaker 2>because until we release it, it can't grow. Look at

0:27:40.840 --> 0:27:44.040
<v Speaker 2>your neighbors, say let it go, tell them watch it grow.

0:27:45.800 --> 0:27:49.359
<v Speaker 2>Let it go and watch it grow. But it can't

0:27:49.359 --> 0:27:54.119
<v Speaker 2>grow if you're trying to control it. Right is starving

0:27:54.200 --> 0:27:58.359
<v Speaker 2>seeds and then is strangled seeds holding on so tight.

0:27:58.560 --> 0:28:02.480
<v Speaker 2>Oh it's my time, is my money? I feel so

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<v Speaker 2>sorry for people who aren't generous. I feel so bad

0:28:07.640 --> 0:28:11.440
<v Speaker 2>for you because all stinginess does is strangle to see

0:28:11.440 --> 0:28:14.680
<v Speaker 2>that God has given you And if you could.

0:28:14.560 --> 0:28:17.199
<v Speaker 1>Let it go, who knows what it could be.

0:28:19.440 --> 0:28:21.679
<v Speaker 2>What if I just preach that sermon in the mirror,

0:28:23.000 --> 0:28:26.080
<v Speaker 2>it would bounce right back. But if I put it

0:28:26.080 --> 0:28:29.520
<v Speaker 2>out through that camera, it might hit Botswana and help

0:28:29.600 --> 0:28:35.320
<v Speaker 2>somebody in their life or Bamberg, South Carolina. I don't care.

0:28:35.560 --> 0:28:38.560
<v Speaker 2>It's God's business where it goes. It's my job to

0:28:38.600 --> 0:28:41.800
<v Speaker 2>sew it. And you got to sew it in the morning,

0:28:41.920 --> 0:28:44.160
<v Speaker 2>sow it in the evening. So it when you feel it.

0:28:44.240 --> 0:28:46.360
<v Speaker 2>Sow it when you don't. So when they cheer for you,

0:28:46.400 --> 0:28:49.000
<v Speaker 2>So when they criticize you, sow it when they hold Zanna,

0:28:49.240 --> 0:28:50.960
<v Speaker 2>and sow it when they want to string you up.

0:28:51.160 --> 0:28:53.480
<v Speaker 2>So when they notice, sow it. When they don't, sow it,

0:28:53.680 --> 0:28:54.200
<v Speaker 2>sew it.

0:28:54.560 --> 0:28:55.080
<v Speaker 1>Sew it.

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<v Speaker 2>But just like you can't live your life not accessing

0:29:07.800 --> 0:29:10.880
<v Speaker 2>everything that's on the device and expect to be a

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<v Speaker 2>reflection of the image of God.

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<v Speaker 1>You also, and I want to say this is.

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<v Speaker 2>So important because when we talk about potential, a lot

0:29:18.680 --> 0:29:22.000
<v Speaker 2>of people start trying to produce something that God did not.

0:29:22.000 --> 0:29:23.120
<v Speaker 1>Put inside of them.

0:29:26.520 --> 0:29:30.120
<v Speaker 2>We got oranges wanting to be apples, apples wanting to

0:29:30.160 --> 0:29:41.840
<v Speaker 2>be kumquats, not a kumquat. You are a delicious red apple.

0:29:44.240 --> 0:29:48.120
<v Speaker 2>You're gonna be a big, juicy red apple, but you want.

0:29:47.960 --> 0:29:51.040
<v Speaker 1>To be a kumquat. Yo.

0:29:51.080 --> 0:29:53.720
<v Speaker 2>My barber told me a story the other day. His

0:29:53.840 --> 0:29:56.760
<v Speaker 2>name is fly Ty. That's who you want to cut

0:29:56.800 --> 0:29:59.680
<v Speaker 2>your hair. He put fly in his name. I trust

0:29:59.760 --> 0:30:03.240
<v Speaker 2>him with my faith because he's fly tie and he's

0:30:03.240 --> 0:30:06.920
<v Speaker 2>been cutting my hair now he attends our University City location.

0:30:07.760 --> 0:30:09.720
<v Speaker 2>I asked his permission to tell you this because I

0:30:09.720 --> 0:30:12.360
<v Speaker 2>didn't want to embarrass him. But y'all, he told me

0:30:12.400 --> 0:30:16.280
<v Speaker 2>the dumbest story ever the other day. And he was

0:30:16.320 --> 0:30:18.360
<v Speaker 2>cutting my hair. And he has this bad habit of

0:30:18.560 --> 0:30:20.880
<v Speaker 2>stopping cutting my hair while he tells me a fifteen

0:30:20.920 --> 0:30:23.520
<v Speaker 2>minute story. And he needs to go to multitask school

0:30:23.560 --> 0:30:26.400
<v Speaker 2>because I got things to do. He's cutting the clippers

0:30:26.400 --> 0:30:28.640
<v Speaker 2>off and talking. But it's fine because I usually like

0:30:28.720 --> 0:30:31.440
<v Speaker 2>his stories and his anecdotes, but this one was dumb. Listeners,

0:30:32.840 --> 0:30:34.920
<v Speaker 2>he told me a story and I don't remember exactly

0:30:35.040 --> 0:30:37.880
<v Speaker 2>what the year was, but years ago he was hosting

0:30:37.920 --> 0:30:41.680
<v Speaker 2>because he's not only a barber, he's a host, a

0:30:41.800 --> 0:30:46.200
<v Speaker 2>radio personality. He works for the Hornets. He's very involved

0:30:46.240 --> 0:30:49.160
<v Speaker 2>in the community. He speaks to little kids, like every

0:30:49.200 --> 0:30:52.280
<v Speaker 2>time he comes to cut my hair. He's recently spoken

0:30:52.360 --> 0:30:54.840
<v Speaker 2>to a group of kids. That same day, Anti DJ

0:30:54.880 --> 0:30:57.640
<v Speaker 2>at a wedding, Anti cured cancer, and he fought a

0:30:57.680 --> 0:31:00.360
<v Speaker 2>fire on Providence Row and he's just every where all

0:31:00.400 --> 0:31:00.800
<v Speaker 2>the time.

0:31:01.040 --> 0:31:03.840
<v Speaker 1>But he's sitting there telling me the story.

0:31:03.520 --> 0:31:05.680
<v Speaker 2>Because we're talking about potential and what God has put

0:31:05.720 --> 0:31:06.880
<v Speaker 2>in you, and we talk about this a lot.

0:31:07.280 --> 0:31:08.240
<v Speaker 1>We talk about God.

0:31:08.600 --> 0:31:11.680
<v Speaker 2>And I guess because my dad was a barber, I

0:31:11.720 --> 0:31:13.600
<v Speaker 2>had just have a love for barber's and so the

0:31:13.600 --> 0:31:16.320
<v Speaker 2>clippers start going, we start talking and we're talking about it,

0:31:16.520 --> 0:31:19.280
<v Speaker 2>and he told me a story that jay Z came

0:31:20.000 --> 0:31:23.520
<v Speaker 2>to a concert. I guess it was like in the nineties,

0:31:23.920 --> 0:31:27.040
<v Speaker 2>before he was as popular as he is now, and

0:31:27.120 --> 0:31:30.600
<v Speaker 2>the concert was half full, and fly Tie was one

0:31:30.600 --> 0:31:33.640
<v Speaker 2>of the hosts for the concerts, and he said he

0:31:33.720 --> 0:31:37.160
<v Speaker 2>observed jay Z during the concert talking to one of

0:31:37.200 --> 0:31:39.920
<v Speaker 2>the members of a female group who was also on

0:31:39.960 --> 0:31:45.480
<v Speaker 2>the concert bill called Destiny's Child, and he said that

0:31:45.560 --> 0:31:48.640
<v Speaker 2>the concert was half full because jay Z was just

0:31:49.560 --> 0:31:51.560
<v Speaker 2>on the come up, which would lead him to be

0:31:52.280 --> 0:31:54.960
<v Speaker 2>some would say the greatest rapper of all time, depending

0:31:55.000 --> 0:31:58.040
<v Speaker 2>on how you quantify that, it's a very strong case.

0:31:58.080 --> 0:32:00.120
<v Speaker 2>But he said, I've since thought back to that day

0:32:00.840 --> 0:32:04.360
<v Speaker 2>because jay Z and Beyonce were back there and I

0:32:04.440 --> 0:32:08.440
<v Speaker 2>was watching their relationship develop before my eyes. And he's

0:32:08.480 --> 0:32:12.440
<v Speaker 2>my same age, and I think often to myself. Look

0:32:12.520 --> 0:32:18.680
<v Speaker 2>what he's done with his life and what have I

0:32:18.760 --> 0:32:26.640
<v Speaker 2>done with mine? Now, of all the people in the

0:32:26.680 --> 0:32:33.240
<v Speaker 2>Milky Way, for you to choose to use as a

0:32:33.360 --> 0:32:38.120
<v Speaker 2>standard of how successful your life is, you just had

0:32:38.200 --> 0:32:39.480
<v Speaker 2>to go get jay Z.

0:32:41.120 --> 0:32:46.200
<v Speaker 1>Jay Z, not even not even Lil Wayne jay Z.

0:32:48.920 --> 0:32:54.440
<v Speaker 2>You had to pick the most influential rapper of our lifetime.

0:32:54.640 --> 0:32:55.520
<v Speaker 1>So here's what he did.

0:32:55.920 --> 0:33:00.800
<v Speaker 2>He just wanted to feel small so bad that rather

0:33:00.840 --> 0:33:04.240
<v Speaker 2>than focusing on Look how gracious.

0:33:03.760 --> 0:33:04.680
<v Speaker 1>God has been to me.

0:33:05.480 --> 0:33:07.480
<v Speaker 2>I asked his permission to say this, and he said

0:33:07.520 --> 0:33:09.680
<v Speaker 2>I could, Instead of I'm gonna preach to them through

0:33:09.680 --> 0:33:10.040
<v Speaker 2>the camera.

0:33:10.040 --> 0:33:11.240
<v Speaker 1>He's listening right now.

0:33:11.520 --> 0:33:14.480
<v Speaker 2>Instead of picking Look where I could have been if

0:33:14.520 --> 0:33:17.240
<v Speaker 2>it hadn't been for the grace of God. Look how

0:33:17.240 --> 0:33:20.240
<v Speaker 2>he raised me up. Look how he kept me alive.

0:33:20.760 --> 0:33:24.080
<v Speaker 2>Look how I wasn't a statistic. Look how he's using

0:33:24.160 --> 0:33:27.080
<v Speaker 2>me in ways I never could have imagined. Look how

0:33:27.120 --> 0:33:28.240
<v Speaker 2>he would have gifted me.

0:33:28.760 --> 0:33:30.160
<v Speaker 1>Look how he's been good to me.

0:33:37.160 --> 0:33:43.680
<v Speaker 2>You are not jay Z. You are not supposed to be.

0:33:45.080 --> 0:33:52.400
<v Speaker 2>So tell your neighbor you are not beyond saying. Tell

0:33:52.480 --> 0:33:57.240
<v Speaker 2>him what I am Destiny's child and what God could

0:33:57.280 --> 0:34:02.000
<v Speaker 2>inside of me? Said, He said, what God put inside

0:34:02.040 --> 0:34:05.600
<v Speaker 2>of me is looking for a place to grow. I'm

0:34:05.640 --> 0:34:09.360
<v Speaker 2>going back to my school like a seed ready to grow.

0:34:09.640 --> 0:34:13.160
<v Speaker 2>And don't judge the significance by the size of the seed.

0:34:18.000 --> 0:34:22.600
<v Speaker 2>I'm fly freaking tie clippers in one hand and microphone

0:34:22.640 --> 0:34:23.120
<v Speaker 2>in the other.

0:34:23.520 --> 0:34:26.920
<v Speaker 1>I got potential, but I gotta let go.

0:34:26.960 --> 0:34:34.160
<v Speaker 2>Of what I think I'm supposed to be to become

0:34:34.200 --> 0:34:38.680
<v Speaker 2>what I am. You know how sometimes you get this

0:34:38.760 --> 0:34:44.520
<v Speaker 2>parental guilt, this feeling of like I watched a football

0:34:44.560 --> 0:34:46.880
<v Speaker 2>game with the boys last night and I came to

0:34:46.960 --> 0:34:49.520
<v Speaker 2>tears because there was a commercial of a man taking

0:34:49.520 --> 0:34:50.280
<v Speaker 2>his sun fishing.

0:34:51.640 --> 0:34:52.480
<v Speaker 1>I was choked up.

0:34:52.520 --> 0:34:55.239
<v Speaker 2>I said, I'm so sorry, boys, I never took you

0:34:55.320 --> 0:34:59.200
<v Speaker 2>fishing because I'm thinking that's where the lessons of life

0:34:59.280 --> 0:34:59.960
<v Speaker 2>need to happen.

0:35:00.120 --> 0:35:07.120
<v Speaker 1>On the boat. You were like, it's okay, dad, it's fine.

0:35:07.760 --> 0:35:12.839
<v Speaker 2>Swets football, but it can just always make you feel

0:35:12.880 --> 0:35:16.799
<v Speaker 2>like I need to be a dad like that. You know.

0:35:18.320 --> 0:35:20.400
<v Speaker 2>The truth of the matter is, Holly was telling me

0:35:20.440 --> 0:35:21.880
<v Speaker 2>how her dad used to take her out on the

0:35:21.880 --> 0:35:23.759
<v Speaker 2>boat all the time. I was like, do you ever

0:35:24.080 --> 0:35:26.160
<v Speaker 2>feel like you've married the wrong guy that I've never

0:35:26.200 --> 0:35:28.120
<v Speaker 2>taken our family out on a boat once. I don't

0:35:28.120 --> 0:35:31.719
<v Speaker 2>even know how to drive a boat. She said, No,

0:35:31.840 --> 0:35:34.760
<v Speaker 2>I hated it on the boat. My dad liked the boat.

0:35:35.280 --> 0:35:36.960
<v Speaker 2>See how I did it though, I got to take

0:35:36.960 --> 0:35:38.879
<v Speaker 2>my kids out on a boat to be a good dad.

0:35:39.640 --> 0:35:41.400
<v Speaker 2>It's just a small thing, I understand. It could be

0:35:41.480 --> 0:35:44.480
<v Speaker 2>much deeper than that. You can start thinking when you

0:35:44.520 --> 0:35:49.200
<v Speaker 2>are supposed to have a family, buy anything. I am

0:35:49.320 --> 0:35:52.839
<v Speaker 2>supposed to be further along in my career. But when

0:35:52.840 --> 0:35:55.200
<v Speaker 2>you let go of what is supposed to be in

0:35:55.280 --> 0:36:05.840
<v Speaker 2>your mind, when you let that go, and the sower

0:36:05.920 --> 0:36:09.680
<v Speaker 2>has to release the seed. I feel God calling some

0:36:09.719 --> 0:36:13.400
<v Speaker 2>of us to release some things, even to release bitterness.

0:36:15.239 --> 0:36:15.719
<v Speaker 1>Some of us.

0:36:15.719 --> 0:36:19.480
<v Speaker 2>If we would release that root of bitterness, we would

0:36:19.520 --> 0:36:27.320
<v Speaker 2>reap a harvest of peace. It has to be released.

0:36:28.840 --> 0:36:35.520
<v Speaker 2>God is calling me to release some things, release some expectations,

0:36:36.520 --> 0:36:42.279
<v Speaker 2>and released my white knuckle ane agram. One perfectionist ideas.

0:36:43.360 --> 0:36:44.080
<v Speaker 2>Did I get it right?

0:36:44.160 --> 0:36:46.600
<v Speaker 1>One? Yeah? I don't know.

0:36:47.760 --> 0:36:50.799
<v Speaker 2>All I do know is this, Sometimes I cut off

0:36:50.800 --> 0:36:54.680
<v Speaker 2>my circulation and strangle the seed of opportunities because of

0:36:54.719 --> 0:36:58.200
<v Speaker 2>my need to control it. So when you throw your

0:36:58.200 --> 0:37:01.240
<v Speaker 2>net on the other side, what I love about sewing,

0:37:01.400 --> 0:37:02.719
<v Speaker 2>you don't have to be in a good mood to

0:37:02.719 --> 0:37:10.000
<v Speaker 2>do it. The seed doesn't care if you've carefully dropped

0:37:10.040 --> 0:37:12.240
<v Speaker 2>it or threw it and walked off.

0:37:12.800 --> 0:37:14.239
<v Speaker 1>Is still where it's supposed to be.

0:37:15.480 --> 0:37:18.120
<v Speaker 2>Peter said, we've worked hard all night and caught nothing,

0:37:18.440 --> 0:37:21.360
<v Speaker 2>but because you say so, And he got blessed while

0:37:21.360 --> 0:37:23.800
<v Speaker 2>he was rolling his eyes, because he had the faith

0:37:23.840 --> 0:37:26.200
<v Speaker 2>to do what Jesus said. You got to sew it

0:37:26.239 --> 0:37:35.280
<v Speaker 2>when you feel it, and sew it when you don't. Now,

0:37:35.440 --> 0:37:39.000
<v Speaker 2>from the seed's perspective, being planted as a different experience,

0:37:40.320 --> 0:37:47.439
<v Speaker 2>because the sower has to release, but the seed has

0:37:47.520 --> 0:37:57.880
<v Speaker 2>to remain, and both are so important, so important.

0:38:00.080 --> 0:38:06.440
<v Speaker 1>I didn't mean to do that. I promise so important

0:38:06.880 --> 0:38:07.799
<v Speaker 1>to remain.

0:38:09.320 --> 0:38:14.000
<v Speaker 2>Thirteen years before he knew what that mental meant, thirteen

0:38:14.120 --> 0:38:19.919
<v Speaker 2>years of being planted correctively speaking, Why does Peter get

0:38:20.000 --> 0:38:23.360
<v Speaker 2>so much airtime in pulpits for stepping out of a boat.

0:38:24.640 --> 0:38:26.480
<v Speaker 2>That same thing that made him step out of the

0:38:26.480 --> 0:38:29.040
<v Speaker 2>boat made him run when Jesus went to the cross.

0:38:31.360 --> 0:38:32.440
<v Speaker 1>How about John.

0:38:32.840 --> 0:38:36.200
<v Speaker 2>Who stayed in the boat and when Jesus was on

0:38:36.239 --> 0:38:38.319
<v Speaker 2>the cross, stayed by his side to take care of

0:38:38.360 --> 0:38:44.480
<v Speaker 2>his mom. But we don't celebrate those who stay we

0:38:44.520 --> 0:38:50.759
<v Speaker 2>don't celebrate those who who just do it. We make

0:38:50.800 --> 0:38:52.560
<v Speaker 2>a tag line out of it for a shoe company,

0:38:52.719 --> 0:38:53.920
<v Speaker 2>but we don't celebrate it.

0:38:55.680 --> 0:39:00.399
<v Speaker 1>In other words, the seed has to remain in order

0:39:00.400 --> 0:39:01.040
<v Speaker 1>to reproduce.

0:39:02.840 --> 0:39:05.839
<v Speaker 2>Now, I wonder why we think that God can grow

0:39:05.880 --> 0:39:08.719
<v Speaker 2>what he wants to grow in our life when we

0:39:08.800 --> 0:39:12.560
<v Speaker 2>keep uprooting what he's doing every time it gets uncomfortable.

0:39:16.719 --> 0:39:20.480
<v Speaker 2>And the soil is so important to the growth of

0:39:20.520 --> 0:39:23.760
<v Speaker 2>the seed that you can have a really good seed

0:39:24.520 --> 0:39:26.880
<v Speaker 2>and it can become nothing, not because it was nothing

0:39:26.920 --> 0:39:29.319
<v Speaker 2>because it was surrounded by something that wasn't worthy of

0:39:29.360 --> 0:39:29.960
<v Speaker 2>its presence.

0:39:31.520 --> 0:39:33.480
<v Speaker 1>You can put a really good seed. This is the

0:39:33.520 --> 0:39:35.080
<v Speaker 1>power of environment.

0:39:37.360 --> 0:39:42.719
<v Speaker 2>That what is around the seed determines whether what is within.

0:39:42.520 --> 0:39:44.760
<v Speaker 1>The seed comes out of the seed.

0:39:49.440 --> 0:39:51.680
<v Speaker 2>And I don't know if this is pertinent to anyone

0:39:52.160 --> 0:39:54.600
<v Speaker 2>in the area of who you spend the dominant amount

0:39:54.640 --> 0:39:58.840
<v Speaker 2>of your time hanging out with, but what's around it

0:39:58.960 --> 0:40:03.200
<v Speaker 2>eventually determined whether what is within it comes out of it.

0:40:04.239 --> 0:40:07.560
<v Speaker 2>You can have really good stuff in you, but if

0:40:07.600 --> 0:40:11.800
<v Speaker 2>everything around you is just dark and noise, and everything

0:40:11.880 --> 0:40:14.319
<v Speaker 2>around you, if there's no light to it, if there's

0:40:14.320 --> 0:40:17.640
<v Speaker 2>no hydration to it, it won't take root, and so

0:40:17.640 --> 0:40:20.359
<v Speaker 2>if it doesn't take root, it can't come out. As

0:40:20.400 --> 0:40:22.600
<v Speaker 2>a matter of fact, God sent me to speak to

0:40:22.640 --> 0:40:25.759
<v Speaker 2>some people saying, there's nothing wrong with the seed. There's

0:40:25.840 --> 0:40:28.359
<v Speaker 2>nothing wrong with who you are. It's just what you've

0:40:28.400 --> 0:40:32.279
<v Speaker 2>surrounded yourself with in your mind, in your heart, on

0:40:32.320 --> 0:40:35.280
<v Speaker 2>your feed, in your time, on your schedule.

0:40:38.120 --> 0:40:39.800
<v Speaker 1>I'm looking for plow ground.

0:40:41.120 --> 0:40:43.680
<v Speaker 2>I want other people in my life who can help

0:40:43.719 --> 0:40:46.279
<v Speaker 2>bring out. I want to join an eGroup. Oh watch

0:40:46.320 --> 0:40:49.120
<v Speaker 2>that plug. This dude's a professional. I want to get

0:40:49.160 --> 0:40:52.040
<v Speaker 2>around some good soil because I want the good stuff

0:40:52.080 --> 0:40:54.239
<v Speaker 2>that is in me to come forth out of me.

0:41:00.360 --> 0:41:02.080
<v Speaker 2>How many of y'all if you could put your kids

0:41:02.120 --> 0:41:04.160
<v Speaker 2>around the right people, you just know your kid would

0:41:04.160 --> 0:41:04.680
<v Speaker 2>be a doctor.

0:41:08.600 --> 0:41:10.560
<v Speaker 1>I know they would. It's the environment.

0:41:10.600 --> 0:41:14.080
<v Speaker 2>But watch this, Why do we think God can bless

0:41:14.160 --> 0:41:17.879
<v Speaker 2>us to grow when every time the soil gets uncomfortable,

0:41:18.080 --> 0:41:19.320
<v Speaker 2>we go to another church.

0:41:24.200 --> 0:41:29.839
<v Speaker 1>You feel that tension shift. I did when I see

0:41:29.840 --> 0:41:32.520
<v Speaker 1>people in this church who have been here ten years.

0:41:33.440 --> 0:41:35.640
<v Speaker 2>When I see people in this church who would be planted,

0:41:36.600 --> 0:41:40.320
<v Speaker 2>I realized that the potential of what is in someone

0:41:40.960 --> 0:41:44.360
<v Speaker 2>can only really manifest when it has time to mature

0:41:45.600 --> 0:41:47.919
<v Speaker 2>and when we walk around, you know, Oh, I don't

0:41:48.040 --> 0:41:50.680
<v Speaker 2>like that. You know, I'm going over here to a

0:41:50.719 --> 0:41:53.200
<v Speaker 2>new church. I don't like the way they talk to me.

0:41:53.400 --> 0:41:55.600
<v Speaker 2>I'm going over here. I'm gonna make some new friends.

0:41:55.640 --> 0:41:58.600
<v Speaker 2>You know what, you are taking the old you to

0:41:58.719 --> 0:41:59.719
<v Speaker 2>the new friendships.

0:42:00.800 --> 0:42:03.640
<v Speaker 1>And so whatever, y'all like this, y'all like this at all,

0:42:03.680 --> 0:42:05.880
<v Speaker 1>I'm gonna solve this set anyway. I'm gonna hit some

0:42:05.880 --> 0:42:11.719
<v Speaker 1>good ground with this seed. Is so important that you stay.

0:42:11.480 --> 0:42:14.720
<v Speaker 2>Sometimes, and I know sometimes you gotta find better ground.

0:42:15.000 --> 0:42:19.080
<v Speaker 2>But sometimes it's our inability to just let what God

0:42:19.280 --> 0:42:23.600
<v Speaker 2>is doing in our life work. He uses some uncomfortable things.

0:42:23.880 --> 0:42:26.520
<v Speaker 2>But if you never stay, you'll never see it. If

0:42:26.520 --> 0:42:29.200
<v Speaker 2>you just keep moving to a new city every time

0:42:29.200 --> 0:42:31.839
<v Speaker 2>you make a mess out of your relationships so you

0:42:31.880 --> 0:42:35.120
<v Speaker 2>can start over with the same seed that you carried

0:42:35.120 --> 0:42:38.799
<v Speaker 2>in the last relationship, you will never see the potential

0:42:38.880 --> 0:42:39.279
<v Speaker 2>of it.

0:42:46.320 --> 0:42:52.240
<v Speaker 1>So I gotta I gotta stay. I gotta stay in faith.

0:42:53.280 --> 0:42:56.600
<v Speaker 2>I gotta remain in the vine so I can bear

0:42:56.680 --> 0:43:02.920
<v Speaker 2>my shrewe, so I can become what I already am

0:43:02.960 --> 0:43:07.960
<v Speaker 2>in potential form. And only God knows how long it's

0:43:08.000 --> 0:43:11.120
<v Speaker 2>going to take for me to become all that I am.

0:43:13.320 --> 0:43:17.040
<v Speaker 2>When John was writing about it in his epistle, he said,

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<v Speaker 2>see what great love the Father is lavished on us,

0:43:19.719 --> 0:43:21.320
<v Speaker 2>that we should be called the children of God. And

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<v Speaker 2>now watch this in verse two, beloved, we are God's children.

0:43:24.680 --> 0:43:33.480
<v Speaker 1>Now. Now when.

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<v Speaker 2>I am forgiven, I'm full of the Holy Spirit, I

0:43:42.239 --> 0:43:44.920
<v Speaker 2>am well abeled, I am strong and courageous.

0:43:46.239 --> 0:43:51.120
<v Speaker 1>That's in me now. But what we shall be.

0:43:52.760 --> 0:43:58.120
<v Speaker 2>Has not yet appeared, and it can only appear if

0:43:58.160 --> 0:44:08.280
<v Speaker 2>it remains. It will be revealed if you remain thirteen

0:44:08.440 --> 0:44:13.479
<v Speaker 2>years for potential to be reviewed. Most of us won't

0:44:13.520 --> 0:44:18.520
<v Speaker 2>do it for thirteen days, thirteen.

0:44:17.880 --> 0:44:24.840
<v Speaker 1>Years to see what it is, thirteen years of being planted.

0:44:26.680 --> 0:44:27.359
<v Speaker 1>And then he did.

0:44:27.400 --> 0:44:38.080
<v Speaker 2>Watch this, Elisha did twice as many miracles as Elijah did.

0:44:39.200 --> 0:44:40.680
<v Speaker 1>You don't know what's in you yet.

0:44:42.440 --> 0:44:44.560
<v Speaker 2>You don't know what the broken bread of your disappointed

0:44:44.600 --> 0:44:47.160
<v Speaker 2>expectations is going to multiply into if you leave it

0:44:47.160 --> 0:44:48.480
<v Speaker 2>in God's hands a little while.

0:44:48.640 --> 0:44:49.600
<v Speaker 1>You don't know yet.

0:44:52.360 --> 0:44:54.840
<v Speaker 2>The enemy can't remove anything that God put in you,

0:44:54.920 --> 0:44:56.719
<v Speaker 2>But if he can keep you from sewing it, you

0:44:56.760 --> 0:44:58.239
<v Speaker 2>will never know what it would have been.

0:45:00.040 --> 0:45:03.360
<v Speaker 1>Can get you to quit give up in your life?

0:45:03.719 --> 0:45:06.719
<v Speaker 1>Stop hoping, turn into a cynic. If he can get

0:45:06.760 --> 0:45:07.720
<v Speaker 1>you to stop sewing.

0:45:07.880 --> 0:45:11.160
<v Speaker 2>I'm preaching to people who have stopped sewing because of

0:45:11.200 --> 0:45:16.120
<v Speaker 2>what you didn't know. Because you didn't know, they quit

0:45:16.160 --> 0:45:19.440
<v Speaker 2>too soon. It's too soon to tell what is going

0:45:19.520 --> 0:45:22.359
<v Speaker 2>to be. It's too soon to tell if it made

0:45:22.400 --> 0:45:25.560
<v Speaker 2>a difference. Is too soon to tell whether or not

0:45:25.800 --> 0:45:28.440
<v Speaker 2>it was worth It is too soon for you to start.

0:45:28.719 --> 0:45:30.320
<v Speaker 1>Every time you take.

0:45:30.160 --> 0:45:32.359
<v Speaker 2>The seed and pluck it out, to look at it

0:45:32.560 --> 0:45:35.920
<v Speaker 2>and judge it, you interrupt the process by which it grows.

0:45:37.080 --> 0:45:42.560
<v Speaker 2>So stop judging it, and keep watering it, and keep sewing,

0:45:43.239 --> 0:45:48.120
<v Speaker 2>and keep trusting. Because Elisha goes on not only to

0:45:48.160 --> 0:45:51.080
<v Speaker 2>part the waters of the Jordan River, which was his

0:45:51.160 --> 0:45:54.839
<v Speaker 2>first miracle, but then he gets to Jericho and they

0:45:54.840 --> 0:45:57.600
<v Speaker 2>need a healing in the water, and so he heals

0:45:57.760 --> 0:46:01.080
<v Speaker 2>the poisonous waters his second mirror. And then he calls

0:46:01.160 --> 0:46:03.680
<v Speaker 2>she beers out of the woods to kill some little

0:46:03.680 --> 0:46:05.840
<v Speaker 2>boys because he was still working this thing out. Because

0:46:05.880 --> 0:46:08.279
<v Speaker 2>potential can be tricky at first, and so you can

0:46:08.280 --> 0:46:10.919
<v Speaker 2>misuse your power in an earlier stage of your life.

0:46:10.960 --> 0:46:13.439
<v Speaker 2>Never forget that the thing that makes you powerful makes

0:46:13.480 --> 0:46:16.960
<v Speaker 2>you vulnerable and unguarded strength as a double weakness. It's

0:46:17.000 --> 0:46:20.320
<v Speaker 2>all about potential. But everything he did was about potential.

0:46:20.520 --> 0:46:23.200
<v Speaker 2>From the moment he was plowing. It was about potential,

0:46:23.440 --> 0:46:26.000
<v Speaker 2>from the moment that he told the kings, hey, dig

0:46:26.040 --> 0:46:29.680
<v Speaker 2>the ditches in preparation for the rain that is not

0:46:29.840 --> 0:46:32.960
<v Speaker 2>coming from a natural source, but God is going to

0:46:33.040 --> 0:46:35.600
<v Speaker 2>send it. When you do a natural thing, it was

0:46:35.680 --> 0:46:39.040
<v Speaker 2>preparation for the potential of the power of God.

0:46:39.400 --> 0:46:41.760
<v Speaker 1>Like the woman's oil. See, you never.

0:46:41.680 --> 0:46:44.240
<v Speaker 2>Judge what can be in the resource by the size

0:46:44.239 --> 0:46:46.759
<v Speaker 2>of the current supply. So the woman's like, oh, it's

0:46:46.800 --> 0:46:49.239
<v Speaker 2>not much. Oh I'm not very good. Oh I'm not

0:46:49.440 --> 0:46:51.879
<v Speaker 2>very much. Oh I'm not very known. Oh I don't

0:46:51.920 --> 0:46:54.799
<v Speaker 2>have many followers. Oh I'm not Jus jay Z. Oh

0:46:54.840 --> 0:46:57.520
<v Speaker 2>I'm not beyoncey. Oh I don't have that. I can't

0:46:57.560 --> 0:47:00.480
<v Speaker 2>sing like that, I can't move like that little bit

0:47:00.520 --> 0:47:03.400
<v Speaker 2>of oil flowed into a lot of jars. Wasn't about

0:47:03.400 --> 0:47:04.560
<v Speaker 2>the amount of oil.

0:47:04.760 --> 0:47:06.360
<v Speaker 1>It was about the amount of jars.

0:47:11.800 --> 0:47:15.239
<v Speaker 2>When the Shunamite woman made him a guest room, he

0:47:15.320 --> 0:47:16.960
<v Speaker 2>prophesied she would have a baby.

0:47:17.160 --> 0:47:18.319
<v Speaker 1>She had given up on that.

0:47:18.520 --> 0:47:20.400
<v Speaker 2>She didn't even believe that was possible.

0:47:20.600 --> 0:47:21.440
<v Speaker 1>She didn't even.

0:47:21.280 --> 0:47:23.439
<v Speaker 2>Know that was in her until the Word of God

0:47:23.520 --> 0:47:28.000
<v Speaker 2>spoke it over her. You don't know what's in you.

0:47:28.000 --> 0:47:30.719
<v Speaker 2>You don't know what's in your kids. Don't judge it

0:47:30.760 --> 0:47:34.160
<v Speaker 2>too soon. They might turn out better than all the

0:47:34.239 --> 0:47:37.880
<v Speaker 2>straight A students. The straight A students might be working

0:47:37.920 --> 0:47:42.960
<v Speaker 2>for them. You don't know yet. It's too soon to tell.

0:47:47.640 --> 0:47:50.239
<v Speaker 2>My God, who is this for? God has just all

0:47:50.280 --> 0:47:54.520
<v Speaker 2>over me for somebody today. I know when He sticks

0:47:54.800 --> 0:47:59.160
<v Speaker 2>through me like this, that is for one person. I

0:47:59.160 --> 0:48:01.719
<v Speaker 2>don't know who I'm so this into, but it'll come back.

0:48:01.760 --> 0:48:07.000
<v Speaker 2>I'll hear about it. I release this word over your

0:48:07.040 --> 0:48:12.000
<v Speaker 2>life today. I release it over your life like Elijah

0:48:12.000 --> 0:48:16.439
<v Speaker 2>released a mantle on Elisha's shoulders that when this word

0:48:16.560 --> 0:48:20.040
<v Speaker 2>hits you, the potential of what God has put in you,

0:48:20.800 --> 0:48:24.880
<v Speaker 2>every gift, skill, experience, plan, everything that God has brought

0:48:24.920 --> 0:48:30.000
<v Speaker 2>you through, even all the pain, that's a potential miracle.

0:48:32.040 --> 0:48:36.520
<v Speaker 1>That's a seed of the Word of God. A seed

0:48:36.640 --> 0:48:37.759
<v Speaker 1>seeds a small thing.

0:48:38.960 --> 0:48:40.960
<v Speaker 2>Elisha told a name and go down to the Jordan

0:48:41.239 --> 0:48:43.799
<v Speaker 2>dip seven times. You know when he was healed, Not

0:48:43.880 --> 0:48:46.120
<v Speaker 2>on the first time, not on the second time, not

0:48:46.200 --> 0:48:49.120
<v Speaker 2>on the third time, on the seventh time, potential is

0:48:49.239 --> 0:49:05.080
<v Speaker 2>revealed in process. One day, a young prophet was chopping

0:49:05.280 --> 0:49:07.239
<v Speaker 2>some wood to build a school for the prophets, and

0:49:07.280 --> 0:49:08.520
<v Speaker 2>the axe had fell in the water.

0:49:08.760 --> 0:49:10.279
<v Speaker 1>Elisha showed him where.

0:49:10.320 --> 0:49:12.640
<v Speaker 2>When the young man showed him where it had fallen,

0:49:12.960 --> 0:49:13.920
<v Speaker 2>something came on the.

0:49:13.880 --> 0:49:15.520
<v Speaker 1>Axe hed it floated to the surface.

0:49:16.640 --> 0:49:19.640
<v Speaker 2>The potential for God to speak to a small thing

0:49:19.680 --> 0:49:22.200
<v Speaker 2>in your life is just as easy as it is

0:49:22.239 --> 0:49:25.719
<v Speaker 2>for him to speak to a big thing. See all

0:49:25.840 --> 0:49:32.080
<v Speaker 2>that was on Elisha in potential form, and all of

0:49:32.120 --> 0:49:36.840
<v Speaker 2>it manifested when he planted himself in the purpose of God.

0:49:38.760 --> 0:49:39.480
<v Speaker 1>So good to me.

0:49:41.160 --> 0:49:45.359
<v Speaker 2>There's so much still in you, man, there's so much

0:49:45.400 --> 0:49:48.840
<v Speaker 2>still in you, but you won't know if you stop sowing.

0:49:51.160 --> 0:49:53.480
<v Speaker 2>So now follow Elisha all the way to the last

0:49:53.480 --> 0:49:57.480
<v Speaker 2>miracle he performs. The Bible records, depending on how you

0:49:57.520 --> 0:50:03.759
<v Speaker 2>divide it, like fifteen miracles that Elisha performs, Elijah performed eight,

0:50:05.800 --> 0:50:10.240
<v Speaker 2>so it's roughly doubled the amount of miracles. The double

0:50:10.320 --> 0:50:15.040
<v Speaker 2>portion that Elisha asked for, he got it. And the

0:50:15.120 --> 0:50:18.560
<v Speaker 2>last thing we see him do, he's with this king

0:50:18.600 --> 0:50:22.480
<v Speaker 2>who's being attacked him. He tells the king to take

0:50:22.560 --> 0:50:23.719
<v Speaker 2>these arrows in his hand.

0:50:23.760 --> 0:50:26.560
<v Speaker 1>And start striking the ground with the arrows.

0:50:27.640 --> 0:50:29.640
<v Speaker 2>Every time he struck the ground with an arrow as

0:50:29.640 --> 0:50:32.040
<v Speaker 2>an act of faith that represented a potential victory that

0:50:32.080 --> 0:50:35.799
<v Speaker 2>God would give him. And when he struck the ground

0:50:36.120 --> 0:50:41.480
<v Speaker 2>three times and stopped, it upset Elisha.

0:50:42.960 --> 0:50:49.239
<v Speaker 1>And Elisha said, you were using this device so far

0:50:50.080 --> 0:50:51.280
<v Speaker 1>beneath its potential.

0:50:52.640 --> 0:50:56.320
<v Speaker 2>And he was angry because he saw the victories that

0:50:56.440 --> 0:51:01.920
<v Speaker 2>could have been if the king had believed in his potential.

0:51:04.760 --> 0:51:06.160
<v Speaker 1>And you know what's really weird.

0:51:06.800 --> 0:51:12.080
<v Speaker 2>After everything that Elisha did one miracle short of exactly

0:51:12.120 --> 0:51:15.839
<v Speaker 2>twice as many miracles as his mentor, Elijah did eight,

0:51:16.000 --> 0:51:17.120
<v Speaker 2>Elisha did fifteen.

0:51:17.719 --> 0:51:20.480
<v Speaker 1>The king strikes the ground and stops and.

0:51:20.520 --> 0:51:26.919
<v Speaker 2>Forfeits his potential, and Elisha is angry. And the next

0:51:27.080 --> 0:51:32.160
<v Speaker 2>verse says, in one Kings thirteen twenty, Elisha died and

0:51:32.200 --> 0:51:38.360
<v Speaker 2>they buried him. Only this he wasn't buried, He was

0:51:38.440 --> 0:51:42.200
<v Speaker 2>planted because there was still one more miracle left in

0:51:42.280 --> 0:51:52.960
<v Speaker 2>him that hadn't been tapped yet. There is someone who

0:51:53.080 --> 0:51:58.600
<v Speaker 2>still has a miracle in your bones. And something that

0:51:58.680 --> 0:52:01.520
<v Speaker 2>you have buried is trying to come alive.

0:52:01.600 --> 0:52:02.840
<v Speaker 1>While I'm preaching today.

0:52:03.719 --> 0:52:07.080
<v Speaker 2>Something that you have buried, a hope or a character,

0:52:07.239 --> 0:52:10.240
<v Speaker 2>element of your character, or something that you have believed

0:52:10.280 --> 0:52:13.520
<v Speaker 2>God for and is still in your bones. So they

0:52:13.600 --> 0:52:18.279
<v Speaker 2>buried Elisha and one day, the Bible says, as they

0:52:18.280 --> 0:52:22.479
<v Speaker 2>were conducting a funeral, Oh, so much potential in this room.

0:52:22.719 --> 0:52:25.600
<v Speaker 2>There is so much potential in this room. You have

0:52:25.680 --> 0:52:28.520
<v Speaker 2>no idea the potential that is in this room. As

0:52:28.560 --> 0:52:32.080
<v Speaker 2>they were conducting a funeral, the Bible says that every

0:52:32.120 --> 0:52:37.000
<v Speaker 2>springtime the Moabite raiders would come in and they would

0:52:37.000 --> 0:52:41.000
<v Speaker 2>invade the land during harvest time. Isn't that interesting that

0:52:41.280 --> 0:52:44.000
<v Speaker 2>the attack always happens when the harvest is coming.

0:52:46.760 --> 0:52:49.399
<v Speaker 1>Y'all sleeping on the preacher. Now, I know I'll wear

0:52:49.480 --> 0:52:49.920
<v Speaker 1>you out.

0:52:49.760 --> 0:52:51.680
<v Speaker 2>But stay with me three minutes, and I promise you

0:52:51.680 --> 0:52:55.920
<v Speaker 2>I'm ann close this. The attack always happens the enemy.

0:52:56.040 --> 0:52:58.480
<v Speaker 2>If he can't keep you from sewing, he wants you

0:52:58.520 --> 0:53:00.759
<v Speaker 2>to walk away when you're about to reap it. He

0:53:00.840 --> 0:53:03.560
<v Speaker 2>wants you to walk away just at the moment. And

0:53:03.640 --> 0:53:07.000
<v Speaker 2>if you stop now, you won't know what could have been.

0:53:11.840 --> 0:53:14.239
<v Speaker 2>So the Bible says that there was a man that

0:53:14.400 --> 0:53:15.080
<v Speaker 2>was being buried.

0:53:15.120 --> 0:53:16.719
<v Speaker 1>There was a funeral in progress.

0:53:17.480 --> 0:53:20.440
<v Speaker 2>Verse twenty one says that when the band was coming

0:53:20.600 --> 0:53:22.960
<v Speaker 2>they got in a hurry and they threw the man

0:53:23.080 --> 0:53:26.879
<v Speaker 2>watched this on the grave of Elisha. Now, when they

0:53:26.920 --> 0:53:30.600
<v Speaker 2>did that, it messed up the funeral because when they

0:53:30.680 --> 0:53:34.520
<v Speaker 2>buried Elisha, he still had one more miracle.

0:53:34.160 --> 0:53:35.120
<v Speaker 1>In his bones.

0:53:35.880 --> 0:53:41.480
<v Speaker 2>So now when the dead thing hit the bones of Elisha.

0:53:41.520 --> 0:53:44.239
<v Speaker 1>Watch what God's about to do in your life. As

0:53:44.320 --> 0:53:44.920
<v Speaker 1>soon as.

0:53:44.800 --> 0:53:49.080
<v Speaker 2>The man touched the bones of Elisha, he revived and

0:53:49.239 --> 0:53:52.120
<v Speaker 2>stood up on his feet. What are you saying, preacher,

0:53:52.480 --> 0:53:55.399
<v Speaker 2>I'm saying it. You'll throw it on the bones. If

0:53:55.440 --> 0:53:58.200
<v Speaker 2>you will believe in the power of God, if you

0:53:58.239 --> 0:54:04.080
<v Speaker 2>will declare resurrection over everything you saw, nothing is wasted,

0:54:04.440 --> 0:54:06.920
<v Speaker 2>nothing is over, nothing is finished.

0:54:07.160 --> 0:54:09.239
<v Speaker 3>If God is in it, it's.

0:54:08.920 --> 0:54:10.080
<v Speaker 2>Shaft home thought.

0:54:11.960 --> 0:54:23.920
<v Speaker 3>Come on, give him a great pray.

0:54:25.520 --> 0:54:31.080
<v Speaker 2>I believe in resurrection. I believe God is a grave ropper.

0:54:32.320 --> 0:54:35.320
<v Speaker 2>I believe that the bones of eli shall still have power.

0:54:35.880 --> 0:54:38.080
<v Speaker 2>I believe that the word of the Lord can still

0:54:38.160 --> 0:54:40.880
<v Speaker 2>hit a baron wound. I believe that the seed that

0:54:41.000 --> 0:54:44.759
<v Speaker 2>you have sown, it was not buried. It was planted

0:54:45.040 --> 0:54:47.280
<v Speaker 2>in the soil of God's faithfulness.

0:54:48.160 --> 0:54:50.000
<v Speaker 1>Come on, let's touch the bones today.

0:54:51.480 --> 0:54:51.840
<v Speaker 2>Let's go.

0:54:52.160 --> 0:54:53.440
<v Speaker 1>Let's touch the bones.

0:54:53.760 --> 0:54:57.400
<v Speaker 2>Let's go to the empty grave where they bury Jesus.

0:54:57.760 --> 0:54:59.440
<v Speaker 1>But God was planting him.

0:54:59.680 --> 0:55:02.880
<v Speaker 2>He will the firstborn, come on Mini preprin.

0:55:03.239 --> 0:55:05.160
<v Speaker 1>And when he went down, it to the earth.

0:55:06.080 --> 0:55:11.160
<v Speaker 2>When he went down it to the earth, how many

0:55:11.239 --> 0:55:12.960
<v Speaker 2>do early one sundays?

0:55:13.880 --> 0:55:15.360
<v Speaker 1>He didn't stay there.

0:55:16.640 --> 0:55:20.279
<v Speaker 3>But he got up, and I ships up to.

0:55:22.920 --> 0:55:23.320
<v Speaker 2>See.

0:55:23.760 --> 0:55:25.040
<v Speaker 3>Come on, these are.

0:55:28.080 --> 0:55:36.080
<v Speaker 1>See.

0:55:36.640 --> 0:55:39.440
<v Speaker 3>If you receive this word, gets your hands up.

0:55:44.640 --> 0:55:52.640
<v Speaker 2>Come on, every location, get him up. I need us

0:55:52.680 --> 0:55:55.400
<v Speaker 2>to keep our hands lifted. Because we believe in resurrection.

0:55:56.600 --> 0:55:59.919
<v Speaker 2>We willieve in second chances, We believe in new.

0:56:01.360 --> 0:56:01.800
<v Speaker 1>We believe.

0:56:01.840 --> 0:56:07.880
<v Speaker 2>Does anybody believe this? Does anybody believe what this verse says?

0:56:08.120 --> 0:56:13.360
<v Speaker 2>The tomb where soldiers watch in Van.

0:56:15.120 --> 0:56:24.479
<v Speaker 1>Was borrowed for me days. Stay down right there his body? Man,

0:56:26.280 --> 0:56:27.760
<v Speaker 1>Oh God is God.

0:56:30.880 --> 0:56:38.600
<v Speaker 2>I was praying. I was praying last night about this

0:56:38.760 --> 0:56:43.359
<v Speaker 2>gospel message. And I had to tell you what God

0:56:43.400 --> 0:56:48.480
<v Speaker 2>showed me that It wasn't a grave, it was a garden.

0:56:54.080 --> 0:56:59.440
<v Speaker 2>The tub where soldiers watched in Van.

0:57:01.320 --> 0:57:08.759
<v Speaker 4>Thesparsday and after three days what happens? By how many

0:57:08.800 --> 0:57:12.399
<v Speaker 4>of you believe in resurrection? I need every hand lift

0:57:12.480 --> 0:57:14.439
<v Speaker 4>and every voice raise is rock.

0:57:15.000 --> 0:57:21.280
<v Speaker 3>The oh God is wrong? The fra.

0:57:23.680 --> 0:57:37.520
<v Speaker 5>Yeah, it's coming up. It's coming up, Julie. He's get to.

0:57:39.720 --> 0:57:40.560
<v Speaker 2>All praise.

0:57:41.320 --> 0:57:53.720
<v Speaker 3>We rise to consul Juli He's be all prace.

0:57:54.320 --> 0:58:00.920
<v Speaker 1>We're thank Thank you for joining us.

0:58:01.200 --> 0:58:03.680
<v Speaker 2>Special thanks to those of you who give generously to

0:58:03.720 --> 0:58:07.240
<v Speaker 2>this ministry. Is because of you that this ministry is possible.

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