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Speaker 1: See let's go to the message. It's time for me
Speaker 1: to preach the word of God. And you know what
Speaker 1: I want to do. I preached two weeks ago God's
Speaker 1: Got three people. Remember y'all act like it was two
Speaker 1: years ago. Two weeks ago I preached God's got your Back.
Speaker 1: I want to revisit that thought. This message is called
Speaker 1: God scot your back, Part two, and I want to
Speaker 1: give you description real quick and then we'll be seated.
Speaker 1: I want to share a story that I intended to
Speaker 1: get to the last time I preached, but I didn't
Speaker 1: quite get there. But I'm going to go back and
Speaker 1: revisit that today. Isaiah thirty, verse twenty one. What a
Speaker 1: beautiful promise the Lord says. Whether you turn to the
Speaker 1: right or to the left, your ears will hear a
Speaker 1: voice behind you. That's why I said God's got your back,
Speaker 1: because you can't always see what he's doing, but you
Speaker 1: can always believe that he is doing exceedingly abundantly above
Speaker 1: all that you ask or imagine, according to His power
Speaker 1: that works mightily on the inside of you. How many
Speaker 1: believes that shout us, say God's God, My say it,
Speaker 1: God's God. My fact, you will hear a voice behind
Speaker 1: you saying this is the way. Walk in it, Holy Spirit,
Speaker 1: have your way. As we preach and teach today, I
Speaker 1: asked that every heart would be open. I asked that
Speaker 1: every mind would be attentive. I asked that every devil
Speaker 1: would be put on notice. You have no place in
Speaker 1: the hearts of these people who belong to God today.
Speaker 1: So we evict you now, Satan, and we ask you
Speaker 1: to speak Lord Jesus in your name, we pray amen,
Speaker 1: you may be seated. Oh stay one second, Chris Brewmn.
Speaker 1: I got so mad at him the other day. We
Speaker 1: were talking about a song we wrote together, and I said,
Speaker 1: what's your memory of writing that song? He goes that
Speaker 1: we stayed really late. That's what you said. But that's
Speaker 1: all you said. That my entry, He said, I remember
Speaker 1: we stayed really late. No, but for me, it was
Speaker 1: just such a beautiful memory. I was like, that's all
Speaker 1: you remember. This was my best response. Well, no, in
Speaker 1: your defense, here's what he said. He's like, he's like,
Speaker 1: you remember everything really, and that's not true. I don't
Speaker 1: remember well, I remember everything. I just don't remember everything right.
Speaker 1: See my spare time, when I'm not preaching and teaching,
Speaker 1: I'm a movie editor. I make movies out of memories,
Speaker 1: clip them, sequence them, put new characters in, take certain
Speaker 1: people out. It was worse. It was worse than that, though,
Speaker 1: you didn't do the worst thing the other day. And
Speaker 1: I'm just picking on him because we've been friends since
Speaker 1: we were fifteen years old, so I can tick on him, like,
Speaker 1: don't be so mean. To this guy. You just read
Speaker 1: your scripture. You're over here hating on your worship leader,
Speaker 1: not hating on this is my guy. This is my guy.
Speaker 1: Trust me on that. But Graham the other day said
Speaker 1: you weren't even at my sixth grade graduation, and I was,
Speaker 1: and so Holly, thank God for her. She goes through
Speaker 1: her whole photo archive, finds the picture of me proof
Speaker 1: of parenting. She goes back through the photos room. Thank
Speaker 1: god she had it, because apparently now I need an
Speaker 1: official record keeper in my house for my kids to
Speaker 1: even believe that I was there for their milestones of
Speaker 1: their life. That's how they do you. That's how they
Speaker 1: do you. You go to this sixth grade graduation, which,
Speaker 1: let me just tell you, is exciting. I don't even
Speaker 1: put you in the movie, okay. I just wanted to
Speaker 1: point out that. So we're telling and it got me
Speaker 1: thinking about the stories that we tell, which of course
Speaker 1: took me to me and Chris's favorite musical, Hamilton by
Speaker 1: the Apostle Lynn Manuel Miranda, who wrote the song who Lives,
Speaker 1: Who Dies? Who tells your story? And I thought that
Speaker 1: was a profound question to ask, who tells your story?
Speaker 1: How did he turn the story of a Treasury secretary
Speaker 1: into something I would pay money to watch. How do
Speaker 1: you do that? He told the story in such a profound, enthralling,
Speaker 1: entertaining and heart wrenching way. And I have seen Hamilton
Speaker 1: now seven times, not on Disney, pluss in person. I
Speaker 1: have a whole line item in my budget called Hamilton.
Speaker 1: I love it. Saw my wife, saw them take people on,
Speaker 1: drag people, I convert people. I'm an evangelist for Hamilton.
Speaker 1: But he did a song who Lives Who Dies? Because
Speaker 1: he's telling the story of Alexander Hamilton, which we all
Speaker 1: heard in history class. Nobody paid to hear it. But
Speaker 1: he told the story in such a way that I've
Speaker 1: seen it seven times. I didn't repeat history class seven times,
Speaker 1: but I went to see how he told the same
Speaker 1: story seven times. And one of the songs he did
Speaker 1: said who lives? Who Dies? Who tells your story? I mean,
Speaker 1: I was telling Chris, I remember when this and that
Speaker 1: and with the song and this and that. He's like,
Speaker 1: I just remember. It was really late, and I'm sure
Speaker 1: he would have said more, but I cut him off,
Speaker 1: because see, I don't really like to set through long stories,
Speaker 1: especially if I've heard him before. And even when I'm
Speaker 1: telling a story, I'm scared to death that the other
Speaker 1: person has heard it. And we had a guest preacher
Speaker 1: here last week who was amazing. Did you love doctor
Speaker 1: Eui Smith? What a great preacher? And as I was
Speaker 1: sharing with him after the service and after he preached,
Speaker 1: we were getting to know each other and he was
Speaker 1: telling me a story about his life, and he was
Speaker 1: cutting it short. And his wife goes, tell him this part,
Speaker 1: and tell him that part, and tell him that part,
Speaker 1: and so he did, and it was all fascinating, interesting,
Speaker 1: but to him it was boring because he'd been telling
Speaker 1: that story for thirty years. Well then I went to
Speaker 1: tell him a story, and I told it in like
Speaker 1: two or three sentences in Holly, who has the ability
Speaker 1: to really tell good stories and doesn't mind taking her
Speaker 1: time in the process, goes, don't cut it short, tell
Speaker 1: him the whole story. This is a good one, she said.
Speaker 1: And every time I was skipped something, she put it
Speaker 1: back in, and she started putting it back in, and
Speaker 1: by the time we had sat there, our food was cold,
Speaker 1: but we knew each other. I want to tell you
Speaker 1: a story today that kind of ill straits. What Isaiah
Speaker 1: said where he said, your ears will hear a voice.
Speaker 1: Your ears will hear a voice behind you saying, watch this,
Speaker 1: this is the way walk in it. This, this a
Speaker 1: wonderful promise. The problem is the problem is this. Your
Speaker 1: ears will hear a voice behind you saying, this is
Speaker 1: the way walk in it. But that will not be
Speaker 1: the only voice you will hear. If that was the
Speaker 1: only voice I heard, I'd be said. If the only
Speaker 1: voice I heard was this is the way walk in it,
Speaker 1: I would be good to go. I could cut my
Speaker 1: sermon prep time in half because I just know this
Speaker 1: is the scripture. Half my time preparing the sermon is
Speaker 1: getting to the right scripture. If the only voice I
Speaker 1: heard was this is the way walk in it, well,
Speaker 1: just be honest with you. There's some staff I wouldn't
Speaker 1: have hired if the only voice I heard was the
Speaker 1: voice telling me what to do, how to do it,
Speaker 1: when to do it, why to do it. But we
Speaker 1: all know right that, as good as that sounds, your
Speaker 1: ears will hear a voice saying this the way walk
Speaker 1: in in that that is not the only voice. It's
Speaker 1: not even the loudest voice that you hear. Because maybe
Speaker 1: I should tell you a story maybe I should tell
Speaker 1: you a story from One Kings nineteen that will illustrate
Speaker 1: about the power of who tells your story, the voice.
Speaker 1: Like if this was English class, we talked about history,
Speaker 1: and us talk about English. If this were English class,
Speaker 1: this or English class, we would talk about the point
Speaker 1: of view, is it first person, second person, third person?
Speaker 1: We would talk about the narrator, the narrative voice. Now,
Speaker 1: if you go to First Kings, chapter nineteen, there is
Speaker 1: a well well known, well loved Bible story about the
Speaker 1: prophet Elijah, not the one that you like, Not the
Speaker 1: story you like, where he stands on Mount Carmel and
Speaker 1: calls down fire from heaven and says, if the Lord
Speaker 1: is God, follow him, If bail is God, follow him?
Speaker 1: How long will you halt between two opinions and call
Speaker 1: down fire from heaven? Not that story. This is a
Speaker 1: very different story. But I should share it with you
Speaker 1: because it's going to help you to see that not
Speaker 1: only do we hear the voice of God in our
Speaker 1: moments of decision and in those crucial transitions where we
Speaker 1: have to decide what to do and where to go
Speaker 1: and whether to quit, whether to stay, but there is
Speaker 1: another voice and a lot of times. It's not the
Speaker 1: absence of the voice of God that stops you from
Speaker 1: fulfilling your calling. It is the presence of other voices
Speaker 1: that you do not recognize as the enemy's voice until
Speaker 1: they lead you off of the path of God's purpose
Speaker 1: for your life. And that's exactly what happened to Elijah.
Speaker 1: Can I tell you the whole story. Your enthusiasm is discouraging.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna do it anyway. Now. Ahab told Jezebel everything
Speaker 1: Elijah had done. We'll come back to that, and how
Speaker 1: he had killed all the prophets with the sword. So Jezebel,
Speaker 1: after hearing how Elijah slaughtered her false prophets, sent a
Speaker 1: messenger to Elijah to say, may the Gods deal with me,
Speaker 1: be it ever so severely. If by this time tomorrow
Speaker 1: I do not make your life like that of one
Speaker 1: of them, I'm gonna kill you. If there are any
Speaker 1: police officers in the room at elevation, Valentine's stand up,
Speaker 1: all right, all right, thank you for your sir, stay standing.
Speaker 1: I got a question. I'm not an officer, I'm a preacher,
Speaker 1: So I got a question for you. If you are
Speaker 1: arresting somebody, do you send a messenger or do you
Speaker 1: send a bailiff? If you're arresting somebody, do you send
Speaker 1: a messenger to tell them now this time tomorrow, I'm
Speaker 1: gonna come back and get you, and I'm gonna put
Speaker 1: you on death row and I'm gonna kill you. Do
Speaker 1: you send a messenger or do you send handcuffs? Do
Speaker 1: you send a messenger or do you send back up?
Speaker 1: It goes to show me that Jezebel couldn't back up
Speaker 1: what she was threatening to Elijah that she was gonna do.
Speaker 1: I guess I didn't need you to answer that question.
Speaker 1: After all, Please be seated, right. So we see from
Speaker 1: the very beginning that this woman Jezebel wicked as she was,
Speaker 1: evil as she was, manipulative as she was, as angry
Speaker 1: as she was, as petty as she was, as much
Speaker 1: destruction as she has called. She had no power over
Speaker 1: God's servant. She had no power over God's prophet. She
Speaker 1: had no power to do what she said she would do.
Speaker 1: The only hope she had was to threaten him to
Speaker 1: the level that he would abandon the place that God
Speaker 1: had put him, because she knew, if he stays my
Speaker 1: God's camp, if he stays God is with him if
Speaker 1: he stays, you know, the enemy knows the same thing
Speaker 1: about you that if you ever plant your feet and decide,
Speaker 1: this is what God has called me to do, This
Speaker 1: is what I'm gonna do. This is what I'm made
Speaker 1: to do. This is what I'm created to do. This
Speaker 1: is what I'm called to do. This is why I
Speaker 1: came to earth. This is why I was born. This
Speaker 1: is why God gave me these gifts, This is why
Speaker 1: he gave me these experiences. This is what I'm here for.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna do it. No matter what Jezebel says about it.
Speaker 1: You've never made up your mind about that that you
Speaker 1: would be unstoppable knowing this. The enemy sends threats, intimidation insecurity.
Speaker 1: And maybe you're familiar with this story, but I want
Speaker 1: to tell you the story real quick. She said, by
Speaker 1: this time tomorrow, I'm gonna kill you. She can't do it.
Speaker 1: The proof that she can't do it is that she
Speaker 1: hadn't done it yet. I'm gonna say that again. The
Speaker 1: proof that the enemy can't do to you what he
Speaker 1: keeps freaking you out that he is going to do
Speaker 1: to you, is that if he could, he would have
Speaker 1: by now, whoop, whoop, thank you Jesus. So you mean
Speaker 1: so you mean so you mean he doesn't have any
Speaker 1: power over me, that my thought patterns don't give him.
Speaker 1: That's right. Now. Jezebel is a person in history. She's
Speaker 1: a Phoenician queen. She brought bail idols of bail and Astira,
Speaker 1: and she really hear in the nation away from God
Speaker 1: when she married Ahab. But look at verse three because
Speaker 1: it is not her threat that is the most significant
Speaker 1: part of this passage, and it's not Elijah's feelings. Because
Speaker 1: verse three says Elijah was afraid and ran for his life.
Speaker 1: The way that is worded gives the indication that he
Speaker 1: thought she actually could do what she said she would do.
Speaker 1: I don't believe that. I'll show you why. Now this
Speaker 1: is just the introduction. There's just something I want you
Speaker 1: to see before we get to the part of the
Speaker 1: passage that the Holy Spirit wants to illuminate for your understanding. Today,
Speaker 1: said when he came to Beersheba, you got the picture.
Speaker 1: He's had a great victory in the name of God.
Speaker 1: He prophesied a three year drought. It didn't rain for
Speaker 1: three years. He said, it's gonna rain. It did rain.
Speaker 1: After he called down fire from heaven and slaughtered all
Speaker 1: the false prophets, and he ran for his life. And
Speaker 1: then when he got to Beersheba and Judah, he left
Speaker 1: his servant there while he himself went a day's journey
Speaker 1: in the wilderness. He came to a broombush, sat down
Speaker 1: under it and prayed that he might die. I have
Speaker 1: had enough, Lord, he said, take my life. I'm no
Speaker 1: better than my ancestors. So it shows me that if
Speaker 1: he was asking God, who is all powerful, take my life,
Speaker 1: that he wasn't really running for his life, because if
Speaker 1: he wanted to die and he thought she could kill him,
Speaker 1: he would have just stayed. Maybe it would be more
Speaker 1: accurate to say that he was running from his life
Speaker 1: then to say that he was running for his life.
Speaker 1: And somebody knows exactly what I'm talking about, because you've
Speaker 1: been running from your life too. Not so much that
Speaker 1: God didn't give you victories, not so much that you
Speaker 1: don't believe He's with you, not so much that you
Speaker 1: can't point out times in your past where God came through.
Speaker 1: But it's just that hm weariness can lead to weakness
Speaker 1: if not interrupted by worship. Who are you? You talk
Speaker 1: to me all the time when I'm preaching. I've always
Speaker 1: wanted to meet you. I love you so much. I
Speaker 1: hear you on every sermon I have preached for the
Speaker 1: last seven years, and I love you for it. Thank you.
Speaker 1: Send her like five thousand dollars worth of flowers this
Speaker 1: week for me. I'm telling you because look, look, look
Speaker 1: the prophet said. The prophet said, take my life, Lord,
Speaker 1: I am no better than my ancestors. I'm gonna give
Speaker 1: you a contrast here, and you're gonna find yourself right
Speaker 1: in it, because you're like, not a prophet. I don't
Speaker 1: have anybody trying to kill me. I don't even know
Speaker 1: why I came out here today. This guy is telling
Speaker 1: me a story about an epic prophet, and I am
Speaker 1: just trying to get my kid back in school, and
Speaker 1: I am just trying to pay my rent and this
Speaker 1: doesn't relate to me at all. You're wrong, You're so wrong.
Speaker 1: This dynamic that I see in the story of Elijah's
Speaker 1: life encourages me that even the people with the greatest
Speaker 1: faith have to deal with the low moments. Don't let
Speaker 1: these Instagram Christians fool you. They only post the moments
Speaker 1: that they're proud of. But if I could follow them
Speaker 1: around with a camera just for three hours in the
Speaker 1: right situations, we would see them in this state as well.
Speaker 1: Aren't you grateful the Bible didn't take these parts because
Speaker 1: would have been easy for the Holy Spirit to be like,
Speaker 1: don't put that on Elijah. Makes him look bad. That's
Speaker 1: bad pr for the prophet. If we want the prophet
Speaker 1: to be in the Bible, he's got to be up
Speaker 1: there on the mountain. But you can't put him down
Speaker 1: there by the broombush. Look at this guy. This guy.
Speaker 1: You would edit this out of your story too. I'm
Speaker 1: telling you right now you would edit this out of
Speaker 1: your story if you were the editor. But see, the
Speaker 1: Bible cares enough about our little moments to tell us
Speaker 1: that Elijah praid he might die. I have had enough,
Speaker 1: Lord take my life. I'm no better than my ancestress.
Speaker 1: Then he lay down under the bush and fell asleep,
Speaker 1: and all at once an angel touched him and said,
Speaker 1: get read. It's about to be your favorite vers in
Speaker 1: the Bible. Get up and eat. I gave you a
Speaker 1: verse to shout over right there, get up and eat.
Speaker 1: I think I'm gonna memorize that one. You got to
Speaker 1: be by the life verses My life verses one King's
Speaker 1: nineteen verse five, Part B, Part B, Part B. That's
Speaker 1: a good part. Now look at it. He looked around,
Speaker 1: and okay, okay, okay, the holy spiritual of this there
Speaker 1: by his head. By his head was some bread baked
Speaker 1: over hot coals and a jar of water. Man, if
Speaker 1: I hadnt known running from God was this much fun,
Speaker 1: I'd have started sooner. God sends him a personal chef.
Speaker 1: Now the door dash a personal chef to the broom
Speaker 1: bush and said, there by his head with some bread
Speaker 1: baked over hot coals and a jar of water. And
Speaker 1: he ate and drank, and then lay down again. The
Speaker 1: Angel of the Lord came back a second time and
Speaker 1: touched him and said, get up and eat, for the
Speaker 1: journey is too much for you. So he got up,
Speaker 1: ate and drank. Strengthened by that food, he went back
Speaker 1: and did what God told him to do. Now he
Speaker 1: traveled forty days and forty nine until he reached horror
Speaker 1: of the Mountain of God. And there he went in
Speaker 1: a cave spent the night. So did you see it?
Speaker 1: How God had his back even while Elijah was running.
Speaker 1: Did you see it how God fed Elijah even when
Speaker 1: Elijah didn't have faith? Did you see it how God
Speaker 1: carried you through some dark seasons of your life where
Speaker 1: you denied that He even existed. Did you see it
Speaker 1: that He followed you right there into that hospital room.
Speaker 1: Did you see it that he followed you right there
Speaker 1: into that divorce court? Did you see it that he
Speaker 1: followed you right there to that broom bush. God's got
Speaker 1: your back. Spurgeon preached a sermon. He talked about the
Speaker 1: turn back. He talked about not God having his back
Speaker 1: to me, but me having my back to God. And
Speaker 1: how God will feed you even when you are being
Speaker 1: led by your feelings away from his will for your life.
Speaker 1: And there by his head was the provision of God
Speaker 1: right by his head. And yet it wasn't enough to
Speaker 1: turn him around. Because even though the angel dropped off
Speaker 1: the provision by his head, Jezebel was in his head. Yeah,
Speaker 1: the angel drops off the food by his head. Jezebel
Speaker 1: is in his head. Life, lesson, be very careful who
Speaker 1: you led in your head. How many people won't let
Speaker 1: people walk in your house unless they take their shoes off.
Speaker 1: So what in the world are you doing on Facebook
Speaker 1: letting people walk all through. I'm so sorry that was
Speaker 1: so confrontational. I'm just trying to help you to see
Speaker 1: the discrepancy that a lot of times we will protect
Speaker 1: everything more than we protect our headspace. Everything. Don't get
Speaker 1: in my car with don't get in my car with
Speaker 1: those dirts. You can't leave trash in my car, but
Speaker 1: I will go seek out trash on my phone and
Speaker 1: I can get a new car. But I only have
Speaker 1: so much headspace. I only have so much. I only
Speaker 1: have so much, and I need it for my family,
Speaker 1: and I need it for my church, and I need
Speaker 1: it for those who count on me, and I need
Speaker 1: it for my future. So no, you just can't walk
Speaker 1: through my mind with muddy shoes. I'm not being mean.
Speaker 1: I'm being strategic because I got a call on my life.
Speaker 1: And he went in a case and spent the night
Speaker 1: forty days away from the Northern Kingdom, where the wicked
Speaker 1: king Ahad was still reigning, even though Yahweh God had
Speaker 1: just sent a shower to prove his presence and revival
Speaker 1: was on the way. Ah But the enemy always wants
Speaker 1: to threaten you, to make you run at the time
Speaker 1: of revival. I never did anything important for God that
Speaker 1: the intimidation didn't increase right before I did it. I'm
Speaker 1: talking about breaking down, crying, freaking out, stomach sickness, all
Speaker 1: of it, just to try to get me to run
Speaker 1: from what God is doing. And he goes in a cave.
Speaker 1: How many times have you heard me preach about this cave, Holly,
Speaker 1: she said a few? How many times have you seen
Speaker 1: me go in that cave in my personal life? Yeah? Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: I know this cave well, because not so much the
Speaker 1: physical implications of the cave. You know, we call it
Speaker 1: a man cave, and that's supposed to be a good thing.
Speaker 1: But when a man goes in the cave, the cave
Speaker 1: of your own counsel, now the enemy has got you
Speaker 1: right where he wants. You know, as many times as
Speaker 1: I've preached about the cave, there's something that's even more
Speaker 1: important than where Elijah ended up in the cave. Because
Speaker 1: God called him out of the cave. But by the
Speaker 1: time he got there, the Bible says, you ever seen
Speaker 1: this before? In verse nine, it says, excuse me, verse eight,
Speaker 1: he traveled forty days and forty nine. Now, the last
Speaker 1: recorded conversation that he has had with God happened forty
Speaker 1: days ago. You cannot go forty days on the strength
Speaker 1: of your last conversation with God. You cannot go four
Speaker 1: days on the strength. You can't go four hours. You
Speaker 1: can't go four minutes. When I'm preaching. Let me tell
Speaker 1: you a little secret. I'm talking to God about you
Speaker 1: while I'm talking to you about God. So if you
Speaker 1: can see the conversation in my head in between each
Speaker 1: sentence is an internal conversation where I'm sam, what do
Speaker 1: they need next? Lord? Of what I've studied, of what
Speaker 1: I've prepared, What do you want to say next? Holy Spirit? Oh,
Speaker 1: thank you for that, Lord, that's good. No, I'm gonna
Speaker 1: skip that because that's me, that's not you God. Oh
Speaker 1: I'm gonna say this next because it might be vulnerable,
Speaker 1: but it might help set somebody free. And that constant
Speaker 1: conversation with God is not just for preachers, It's for
Speaker 1: all God's people. Yes, you, forty days is too long
Speaker 1: for you to go. I told you last week. You
Speaker 1: can't let every Sunday be the next time you expect
Speaker 1: God to speak. You really can't. You can't. And the
Speaker 1: way people do church now if probably we're being honest
Speaker 1: about it, it's about every three or four Sundays people come.
Speaker 1: So when I say what I preached two weeks ago,
Speaker 1: some of you all are like, was that your Easter sermon?
Speaker 1: That's the last one I heard. I'm not beating up
Speaker 1: on you. That's fine. We all get busy, just as
Speaker 1: long as you are talking to God along the way.
Speaker 1: The last thing he said to God was kill me,
Speaker 1: kill me. I'm done. That's it. I'm finished. I have
Speaker 1: had enough. Flord and God follows him all the way
Speaker 1: to the mountain that he wasn't supposed to be at,
Speaker 1: after feeding him on the journey he wasn't supposed to take.
Speaker 1: Thank God for his grace. And this is how, this
Speaker 1: is how, this is how intent God is. I'm getting
Speaker 1: our attention for what he wants to do in the earth,
Speaker 1: not because we're so important, because what he wants to
Speaker 1: do is so important. He replied, I have been very zealous.
Speaker 1: Oh sorry, I missed the best part. I missed it.
Speaker 1: I almost left out the best part. And the word
Speaker 1: of the Lord verse nine party and the word of
Speaker 1: the Lord came to him, What are you doing here, Elijah?
Speaker 1: I will resist the temptation to preach question because I've
Speaker 1: done it many times before. I want to shay something
Speaker 1: different this time. He replied. I have been very zealous
Speaker 1: for the Lord God Almighty. The Israelites have rejected your covenant,
Speaker 1: torn down your altars, put your prophets to death with
Speaker 1: the sword. I am the only one left, and now
Speaker 1: they are trying to kill me. To leave that verse up,
Speaker 1: I want you to find the lie in what Elijah said.
Speaker 1: Find the lie? What'd you say? Okay, okay, let's keep going.
Speaker 1: Let's see if he's right. I just wanted to quiz
Speaker 1: you real quick so you can hold onto what you think.
Speaker 1: He said, I've been very zealous for the Lord of Almighty.
Speaker 1: The Israelits have rejected covenant twenty afters put your pphets
Speaker 1: as the sword. I'm the only one left. Now they're
Speaker 1: trying to kill me. To go to verse eleven, the
Speaker 1: Lord said, go out and stand on the mountain in
Speaker 1: the presence of the Lord, for the Lord is about
Speaker 1: to pass by. Then a great and powerful wind tore
Speaker 1: the mountains apart and shattered the rocks before the Lord.
Speaker 1: But the Lord wasn't in the wind. After the wind,
Speaker 1: there was an earthquake, but the Lord was not in
Speaker 1: the earthquake. After the earthquake came a fire, but the
Speaker 1: Lord was not in the fire. After the fire came
Speaker 1: a gentle It was next verse. When Elijah heard it.
Speaker 1: He pulled his cloak over his face and went out
Speaker 1: and stood at the mouth of the cave. In that
Speaker 1: an interesting phrase. I know this isn't what it means,
Speaker 1: but it almost reminds me that the whole time he's
Speaker 1: in the cave, that there's talk going on that doesn't
Speaker 1: come from God the mouth of the cave, that the
Speaker 1: whole time he's in that cave, he's playing a conversation.
Speaker 1: The whole time he's in that cave, there's a conversation
Speaker 1: happening in the cave. The whole time that you withdraw
Speaker 1: from people, the whole time that you pull back from community,
Speaker 1: the whole time that you skip what God gave you
Speaker 1: to do, because it's tuorl the cave keeps talking. It's
Speaker 1: an echo chamber. It just bounces around, It just goes
Speaker 1: back and forth and back and forth. Forty days to
Speaker 1: get to the cave, spend the night in there, and
Speaker 1: the Lord asked the question, what are you doing here
Speaker 1: and watch his answer in verse fourteen, give me verse fourteen,
Speaker 1: he replied, I have been very zealous for the Lord
Speaker 1: God Almighty. The Israelites have rejected your covenant, torn down
Speaker 1: your altars, put your prophets to death with the sword.
Speaker 1: I am the only one left, and now they are
Speaker 1: trying to kill me too, y'all. I'm sorry. I think
Speaker 1: the tech team screwed up. That's the same verse we
Speaker 1: read in verse ten. So y'all put verse fourteen up
Speaker 1: real quick. Who brought a paper bible with you? I'm
Speaker 1: looking for a rapture ready Christian with a paper bible.
Speaker 1: You got it. Look at verse fourteen. They messed it up.
Speaker 1: They had the same verse on fourteen they put on
Speaker 1: verse ten on them. Give me a new scripture. Person
Speaker 1: back there. Huh oh, that's the right verse, But put
Speaker 1: verse timback off. He replied, I've been very zealous for
Speaker 1: the Lord God Almighty. The Israelis have rejected your governant,
Speaker 1: torn down your altars, put your prophise dead with the sword.
Speaker 1: I'm the only one left, and now they are trying
Speaker 1: to kill me too. Verse fourteen, he replied, I have
Speaker 1: been very zealous for the Lord God Almighty. The Israelites
Speaker 1: have rejected your covenant, torn down your altars, and put
Speaker 1: your profits to death with the sword. I'm the only
Speaker 1: one left now they're trying to kill me too. You mean,
Speaker 1: God just sinn an earthquake, a windstorm, and a fire.
Speaker 1: God just sent earth, wind and fire, and you're still
Speaker 1: singing this same little sad song. Say leave it up,
Speaker 1: leave it up. I just want you to see it
Speaker 1: for yourself, how we can get stuck in a story
Speaker 1: and God can do crazy things all around you to
Speaker 1: show you I'm still who you thought I was. I'm
Speaker 1: still who you claimed me to be in the mountain,
Speaker 1: as you forgot in the cave. But it sounds like
Speaker 1: to me Elijah has rehearsed this so much he actually
Speaker 1: can't get out of the conversation even when he comes
Speaker 1: out of the cave. God can bring you out of
Speaker 1: a situation, but if it's in your spirit what you rehearse,
Speaker 1: you will take a bad spirit into a blessed situation.
Speaker 1: I mean, after all, Oh, he had forty days to
Speaker 1: practice this speech. He's got it down now. With every
Speaker 1: step he took away from the will of God for
Speaker 1: his life, away from the purpose of God for the
Speaker 1: prophet away from where God showed him miracles. Every step
Speaker 1: he took away in isolation, Jezebel's voice got louder, and
Speaker 1: then he just starts leaving out the best stuff in
Speaker 1: the story. I don't think this is the story he
Speaker 1: was telling forty days ago, fresh off the encounter on Carmel.
Speaker 1: I think when he started walking away from where God
Speaker 1: called him, he was probably saying some other stuff too.
Speaker 1: You know, this is really hard, and I'm really tired,
Speaker 1: and I want to die. I mean, I saw God
Speaker 1: do great things on Mount Carmel, and I do believe
Speaker 1: that there's hope now that God has sent the rain.
Speaker 1: With every step that he took the wrong story, it
Speaker 1: reinforced how big his enemy was, how intense his loneliness fell,
Speaker 1: and it diminished what God had done. That's exactly what
Speaker 1: Jezebel intended with her threat. If I can get you,
Speaker 1: this is what the devil does too. If he can
Speaker 1: get you to rehearse the wrong story, you will literally
Speaker 1: think it's true by the time you get to the cave,
Speaker 1: and then you cave. You cave. You don't have the
Speaker 1: strength to stand. You're not weak, you're weary, and with
Speaker 1: every step that he took by himself without talking to
Speaker 1: the god who brought him this far, the devil was
Speaker 1: able to delete different things that could have been in
Speaker 1: the story. They said that ah have told Jezebel everything
Speaker 1: Elijah had done, and that's why she threatened him. AaB
Speaker 1: goes home and tells Jezebel, this dude, don't mess with
Speaker 1: this dude. You better do something about him. He's gonna
Speaker 1: yank your whole idle worshiping kingdom out of your hands.
Speaker 1: He's gonna send you back back into Phoenicia. This dude
Speaker 1: is crazy. He had him cutting up bulls. This dude
Speaker 1: had This dude told them to take water in a drought,
Speaker 1: four jars of water and pour the water on the
Speaker 1: wood three times, and then called for fire. This is
Speaker 1: not exactly a strategic mastermind, but he is a spiritual giant.
Speaker 1: He was wedding wood and praying for fire. That's what
Speaker 1: a have said. That's what they have said. His enemy
Speaker 1: was doing a better job telling his story than he was.
Speaker 1: Ahab wouldn't shut up. He told Jezebel everything Elijah had done.
Speaker 1: He didn't leave out any details, and then he got
Speaker 1: the bulls and then he started taunting them, and then
Speaker 1: he was like, hey, maybe you should call louder. Maybe
Speaker 1: bills in the bathroom, he told everything Elijah had done.
Speaker 1: He told how Elijah had told him in for chapter eighteen,
Speaker 1: where he said there's a cloud the size of a
Speaker 1: man's hand. And his servant said, I don't see anything,
Speaker 1: and Elijah said, well, the problem isn't with God's word,
Speaker 1: it's with your eyes. Go look again. He sent that
Speaker 1: poor servant. Remember when I had you running up and
Speaker 1: down the stairs one time preaching this passage. Yeah, I
Speaker 1: sent him back and forth seven times, the most cardio
Speaker 1: he had ever done in his life. And then I
Speaker 1: sent him back and forth and talked about the frustration
Speaker 1: of faith. He told a Jezebel, all that Aha did,
Speaker 1: the enemy did, the enemy did because the enemy is
Speaker 1: a better storyteller than most of God's children. He'll tell
Speaker 1: your stories. Here's how good he is, here's how good
Speaker 1: he is. He will just make up stuff that might happen,
Speaker 1: that might happen, and then he will emphasize the hypothetical
Speaker 1: as you forget the historical. So all Elijah really had
Speaker 1: to do was give the devil a history lesson all
Speaker 1: Elijah really had to do to stop himself from going
Speaker 1: in the wrong direction, from sinking into the depths of despair,
Speaker 1: to be saying I'm suicidal. I don't want to live,
Speaker 1: I don't want to do this. They're trying to kill me.
Speaker 1: All he had to do while he was walking was
Speaker 1: stop for one moment and tell the story like it
Speaker 1: really happened. Because I thought I was so only one,
Speaker 1: But my God is your way. I stood all that
Speaker 1: nothing all alone. I coughed down fire. I've wept that
Speaker 1: good heyk God came through. I went to the brooks
Speaker 1: called Thereah, and the birds brought me food. I went
Speaker 1: to the widow's house and I've looked apply her oil.
Speaker 1: Why do you keep deleting all the stuff that God
Speaker 1: did and adding stuff that the enemy might do and
Speaker 1: running from your purpose? That's Jezebel, see, because you can
Speaker 1: have Jesus in your heart and Jezebel in your head.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, I'm saved and going to heaven. I got
Speaker 1: Jesus in my heart. I believe you, I really do.
Speaker 1: All you gotta do is ask him and to come in.
Speaker 1: That's not the heart part. The hard part isn't getting
Speaker 1: Jesus in your heart. That's my grace anyway. And then
Speaker 1: like you did so much good stuff, He's like, okay, cool,
Speaker 1: this is a five star hotel. I'll come live in
Speaker 1: your heart. No, no, no no, no, nor your heart. Your
Speaker 1: heart is nasty, your heart is filthy. Your heart looks
Speaker 1: like a college dorm room, looks like a frat house
Speaker 1: been torn apart. Your house looks terrible. And he came
Speaker 1: in anyway, that's not the hard part. Hey, hey, hey,
Speaker 1: if you believe in repent and turn to him, he
Speaker 1: come in your heart. But if Jesus is in your
Speaker 1: heart and Jezebel's in your head, you won't follow him.
Speaker 1: You'll follow fear and fear watches makes you forget. Every
Speaker 1: step he takes away, he's telling himself this same story,
Speaker 1: and with every step he takes away from what God
Speaker 1: has brought him into. Do you know what I mean
Speaker 1: when I say that, or do I need to break
Speaker 1: it down? It's when God has called you to be
Speaker 1: really present, really invested, really faithful, really take the next step.
Speaker 1: Don't be afraid to look like a fool, Just do
Speaker 1: what He gave you to do. God has called you,
Speaker 1: He's given you a gift, and every step he takes
Speaker 1: away from that and he rehearses the wrong story. It
Speaker 1: becomes so solidified that by the time he gets to
Speaker 1: the cave, he's got this story down. Not even the earthquake,
Speaker 1: the windstorm, or the fire can reverse what he's rehearsed,
Speaker 1: not even the greatest act of God. So God, come here, Ole.
Speaker 1: So God's like, I know what to do. Come come
Speaker 1: on upstate, coming upstairs. God's like, I know what to do.
Speaker 1: Since I got your back, you know, since I know you,
Speaker 1: since I made you, since I called you. I'm a
Speaker 1: whisper it because I'm right here. What are you doing here, Elijah?
Speaker 1: Elijah's like, I have been very zealous for the Lord
Speaker 1: God all mine. Now, Now here's why. Here's why I think.
Speaker 1: Here's why I think Elijah's speech sucks. That's why I
Speaker 1: think his story is trash. Put it back up verse
Speaker 1: ten or fourteen, doesn't matter. They're both the same stupid story,
Speaker 1: the same stuff over and over again. You know how
Speaker 1: you get when you get stuck in a story. We
Speaker 1: used to say in my house, that's my story, And
Speaker 1: I'm all right, let me tell you something new. Your
Speaker 1: mama didn't tell you this one, that's your story, and
Speaker 1: you're stuck in it. Even then, God blessed the cave apart.
Speaker 1: Now there's no real cave for you to stand in,
Speaker 1: but you're still trapped in that conversation in your head.
Speaker 1: What Jezebel said, So anyway, he's like, I have been
Speaker 1: very zealous for the Lord God Almighty. The Israelites have
Speaker 1: rejected your covenant, torn down your altars, and put your
Speaker 1: profits to death with a soul. That is why the
Speaker 1: story stopped because of what he started with, I I
Speaker 1: I AH. Wherever this story goes next, it is going
Speaker 1: to be confined by the point of view of the narrator.
Speaker 1: You can't narrate by faith in first person. In fiction,
Speaker 1: they have what's called a third person narrator. It's when
Speaker 1: the character isn't saying I did this, and I did that,
Speaker 1: and I went here and I went there. So basically,
Speaker 1: like the way we live our lives, what do they
Speaker 1: think of me? What are they saying about me? Why
Speaker 1: didn't they invite me, Why don't they like me? What's
Speaker 1: wrong with me? Third person narrator is different. It describes
Speaker 1: the event. Watch this because remember Holly has a book
Speaker 1: club and then they have third person omnission. This is
Speaker 1: a narrator that knows stuff that they have no business knowing,
Speaker 1: and they say stuff that the characters in the story
Speaker 1: can't see. So God said, you have been stuck in
Speaker 1: first person frustration. But when the third person mister it
Speaker 1: the Father, the Son, and the third person of the Trinity,
Speaker 1: the Holy Spirit. When the Spirit speaks, when the Spirit
Speaker 1: tells your story, When the Spirit interprets your situation, when
Speaker 1: the Spirit clickens you, when the Spirit of God shows
Speaker 1: you what's up. When the Spirit of God tells you,
Speaker 1: I still got something for you to do. When the
Speaker 1: Spirit of God speaks. When you speak to God through
Speaker 1: spirit and He speaks to you through spirit, something happens.
Speaker 1: Maybe he tells, come so so, Holly, Holly, I'm not
Speaker 1: gonna holler at you. I'm just gonna let you know
Speaker 1: I'm writing with you and we can talk. We can
Speaker 1: talk talk about this. Talk to him, Talk to him
Speaker 1: about it, Talk to him about what you're afraid about.
Speaker 1: Don't you go forty days trying to figure it out
Speaker 1: in your own strength, starve in your soul, starve in
Speaker 1: your spirit, eating junk food, wondering why you're weak. I'll
Speaker 1: tell you why you're weak. You can't go forty days
Speaker 1: telling yourself stuff that starts with eye cause you tell me.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna tell you what the kids taught me. They
Speaker 1: taught me that. In video game, you have an NPC.
Speaker 1: You'll know this term, the what's it called non playable character.
Speaker 1: That's the people that's just there over to the side.
Speaker 1: They don't do anything, They just there. And then, of
Speaker 1: course you're the main character, y'all. That's a boring game
Speaker 1: when everything else in your life is NPC and you're
Speaker 1: the only character that matters. What about what God wants?
Speaker 1: What about what he wants to do through you? I
Speaker 1: have been very zealous, true for the Lord God Almighty.
Speaker 1: They give me, give me Verse ten, verse fourteen, Verse ten,
Speaker 1: verse fourteen. The Israelies, I know what's wrong with us now.
Speaker 1: I saw it in the text. I saw what's wrong
Speaker 1: with me. I saw why I'm stuck in my story
Speaker 1: because it says I and them I have been very
Speaker 1: zelfil of got of money. They have rejected your covenant,
Speaker 1: torn down your altars, and put your prophets to death
Speaker 1: with the sword. Wait a minute, Elijah, you killed eight
Speaker 1: hundred and fifty of them. Yeah, I'm not going to
Speaker 1: tell that part. Leave an emper down. Oh, be very
Speaker 1: suspicious of any story that has self pity. Be very
Speaker 1: suspicious of it. Anytime that little voice inside you start
Speaker 1: saying stuff like nobody appreciates you, call it into question.
Speaker 1: That's probably not true. She's getting fired off. Now. I'm
Speaker 1: getting ready for a fleck, y'all. I'm getting ready for
Speaker 1: a fled because I want you to know when you
Speaker 1: go to prepare to preach to the ladies Friday, God's
Speaker 1: voice won't be the only voice speaking to you. Jezebel
Speaker 1: will be telling you stuff too. Who do you think
Speaker 1: you are to preach this? You don't have anything to say.
Speaker 1: Nobody wants to hear from you. You struggle with all
Speaker 1: this same stuff too, you hypocrite. By the way, Jezebel
Speaker 1: will be the loudest voice you'll hear, because Jesus will
Speaker 1: whisper to watch this. Jezebel's trying to attack you from
Speaker 1: the outside. Jesus is empowering you from the inside. Oh God,
Speaker 1: I feel somebody getn't set free today. I feel you
Speaker 1: will hear a voice behind you saying, just at this,
Speaker 1: how I wants you to raise those kids. This is
Speaker 1: how I want you to do. Great stuff for your husband.
Speaker 1: Be really nice to them. He's wonderful to the Lord
Speaker 1: says stuff like this, just for example. And I want
Speaker 1: you to understand the power of the story that you
Speaker 1: tell yourself. If the story that you tell yourself starts
Speaker 1: with I, it's going to end in insecurity. If the
Speaker 1: story that you tell yourself starts with I, it's going
Speaker 1: to end in inadequacy. By the way, if the story
Speaker 1: you tell yourself starts with EYE is going to end
Speaker 1: in idolatry, and you will find yourself leaning on a
Speaker 1: God that cannot prop you up. I wish Elijah would
Speaker 1: have said, tell Jezebel, you know just Oh, I can't
Speaker 1: say it like I wanted to. If I can say
Speaker 1: it like I wanted to, Josebel, please, that's what I
Speaker 1: want to say. Oh, I can't say it like I
Speaker 1: want to say it. Don't you remember what God Dad.
Speaker 1: The last time you'll challenge me, you'll fill me devil,
Speaker 1: Get your hands off my house, get your money, feet
Speaker 1: out of my buck. Don't sum liver the blood of Jesus,
Speaker 1: the lamb that was slave just about park the lamb
Speaker 1: that was slave drumped up down, fass up the world.
Speaker 1: The Lord said, I heard your story. It sucks. Verse fifteen.
Speaker 1: Let's change the main character, the Lord said to him.
Speaker 1: The Lord alright said to him, hop prophesy drives here
Speaker 1: the word of the Lord. So so now we're switching
Speaker 1: point of view. Eli just said I did. They're trying. Hey, hey,
Speaker 1: you decide what part of the story you emphasize. Go
Speaker 1: back to verse fourteen. I'm gonna make it better. I'm
Speaker 1: gonna make it better. I'm gonna fix it up. I've
Speaker 1: been very else rely got the money. There's a real
Speaker 1: list of reject your coven. Toy on the ultras. Put
Speaker 1: your prophess the sword. I'm the only one left. And
Speaker 1: now they are trying, trying. First of all, everybody isn't
Speaker 1: trying to kill you, Eli, Joe, one woman is so
Speaker 1: stop exaggerating. Who is that word for a razor hand?
Speaker 1: Be honest, don't lie. God, I'll strike you right now.
Speaker 1: Exaggerating stuff. The whole nation after ma A, I've my
Speaker 1: ras alas they Hi, they Hi? They Where's God in
Speaker 1: your story? They are trying, but they can't quit misquoting
Speaker 1: Isaiah fifty four seventeen. No weapon will be formed against you.
Speaker 1: No no weapon formed against you will prosper. It will
Speaker 1: always be formed. It won't work, it won't when it
Speaker 1: won't prevail, it will not be the end of you. Cool.
Speaker 1: You better sit down, babe. I feel like Christian. I
Speaker 1: feel like Christian. I feel like Christian. I feel like
Speaker 1: coming for everybody who has been under the spell of
Speaker 1: Jack's the bell. Get it out of your head. Get
Speaker 1: it out of your head, Get it out of your mind,
Speaker 1: get it out of your thoughts, get it out of
Speaker 1: your meditation, get it out of your phone. Get it
Speaker 1: out of your head so you can hear the whisper,
Speaker 1: and then you will hear a voice behind you. Watch
Speaker 1: what God said to Elijah verse fifteen. Go back the
Speaker 1: way you came. God will send certain words in your
Speaker 1: life that will be turning words. Lors, I'm preaching to
Speaker 1: somebody today that might not even be in this room
Speaker 1: and may not even see this message for years. This
Speaker 1: is a turning word for you, A turning word, A
Speaker 1: turning word, a turning word. Go back the way you came.
Speaker 1: But stop telling the story that you've been telling. Some
Speaker 1: of your suffering is not because of your situation. It's
Speaker 1: because of your right. This why is happening. This is
Speaker 1: why they did that. No no no, no, no, no no,
Speaker 1: go back the way you came. And here's the brilliance
Speaker 1: of it. God says, when you get to the desert
Speaker 1: of Damascus, annoying Jaseel king over Aaron. That's right, star walking,
Speaker 1: star walking. And as you go, you will hear a
Speaker 1: voice saying, this is the way verse sixteen, and annoyed
Speaker 1: Jay Whu's son of them she king over Israel, and
Speaker 1: annoying Elisha's son of say Fat from able Miloa to
Speaker 1: succeed you as prophet Jay, who will put to death
Speaker 1: any who escaped the sword of Jseel and Elivesha will
Speaker 1: put to death any who escaped the sword of Jehu.
Speaker 1: You mean God has already worked out what I'm worried about.
Speaker 1: Spoiler alert. Jezebel is trampled by horses at the end
Speaker 1: of her life. Eli is taken up by horses and
Speaker 1: chariots of fire. Who tells your story? Come on live,
Speaker 1: man will help me preach? Who tells your story? I
Speaker 1: am redeed by the blood of the laft hop standing
Speaker 1: by the grace of God. Hop going how the wonder.
Speaker 1: This is the word of the Lord. Jezebel can't or
Speaker 1: she would have anxiety. Can't or it would have depression.
Speaker 1: Can't or it would have sin was strong. Jesus's stronger,
Speaker 1: greater is he is in need. Whisper, Holy Spirit, Whisper, Whisper, Whisper,
Speaker 1: whisper the wind words. Whisper to your servants. They're tired, Lord,
Speaker 1: they want to quit, they want to give up. They're
Speaker 1: stuck in a story. Oh, everybody let me because I'm defected. Oh,
Speaker 1: everybody walked away from me. They can't even see what's
Speaker 1: in front of them. You already had seven thousand that
Speaker 1: had not bowed their need to bail, or whose mouths
Speaker 1: had not kissed him. Oh God, we thank you for
Speaker 1: what we can't see when we're stuck in our own story.
Speaker 1: We thank you for being the third person. The Holy Spirit,
Speaker 1: the spirit that gives life, the spirit that raises dead,
Speaker 1: the spirit that speaks truth, the spirit that confirms, the
Speaker 1: spirit that answers the door when condemnation knocks. The spirit
Speaker 1: that sets us free, the spirit that leads and guides
Speaker 1: into truth and seasons. The Spirit of God is here.
Speaker 1: Speak Holy Spirit, Speak, Lord, Speak Lord, guide them back
Speaker 1: to the place they belong. They don't belong in a bottle.
Speaker 1: They don't belong in any kind of bottle, not a
Speaker 1: bottle of pills, not a bottle of too many drinks,
Speaker 1: not a bottle of their own battles that they can't
Speaker 1: get out of. No God, No God, I call them
Speaker 1: out of the cave, right now, Holy Spirit, call them
Speaker 1: out of the Okay, you sent the earthquake, they didn't listen.
Speaker 1: You sent the fire, they didn't see it. You sent
Speaker 1: the wind. They still went back inside. Oh, my Holy Spirit,
Speaker 1: if you whisper like only you can, that I've already
Speaker 1: worked out what you're worried about. It took Elijah forty
Speaker 1: days to get back, just amount of time it took
Speaker 1: him to get there. But I gotta imagine that with
Speaker 1: every step he took back to God's assignment, he told
Speaker 1: himself the real story. As you step into a new week,
Speaker 1: as you step into a new season, as you step
Speaker 1: into a new challenge, with every step, I want you
Speaker 1: to tell the story of a God who brought you
Speaker 1: this far and did not bring you the far. Believe
Speaker 1: you of the sustaining God, the Saving God, forgiving God,
Speaker 1: the Covenant God, the Loving God, the kind God. Every
Speaker 1: step tells a story. Every step tells a story. You
Speaker 1: can't believe what God brought me through. You can't believe
Speaker 1: where He brought me from. You can't believe how much
Speaker 1: He delivered me out of He's been so faithful. So
Speaker 1: instead of starting your story with how zealous you've been,
Speaker 1: why don't you start with how faithful God is. Well,
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