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Speaker 1: Hey, this is Stephen Ferdik. I'm the pastor of Elevation Church,

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Speaker 1: and this is our podcast. I wanted to thank you

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Speaker 1: for joining us today. Hope this inspires you. Hope it

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Speaker 1: builds your faith. Hope it gives your perspective to see

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Speaker 1: God is moving in your life. Enjoy the message. I

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Speaker 1: believe the Lord has spoken to me and I want

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Speaker 1: to share a message with you as another installment on

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Speaker 1: our series Flip the Flow. And I look at each

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Speaker 1: of these like they build on each other. The last

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Speaker 1: time that I was speaking with you, I spoke about

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Speaker 1: joy and the fullness of joy in the presence of

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Speaker 1: the Lord, and now we're going to see not a

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Speaker 1: description of that, but a demonstration of it from the scriptures.

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Speaker 1: I just want to give you one verse and then

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Speaker 1: you can be seated and we'll speak together today. But

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Speaker 1: as you stand in reverence and respect for God's word.

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Speaker 1: I'm welcome to all the locations. Thank God for all

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Speaker 1: of you who are joining e groups today. Tell the

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Speaker 1: person next to you you can't go to heaven unless

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Speaker 1: you join any group. These are really great people. I

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Speaker 1: can vouch for eighty percent of them. There's always a

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Speaker 1: twenty percent weirdness factor in anything you do with large groups.

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Speaker 1: But we try to screen them, vet them. They're not

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Speaker 1: going to sell you pampered chef, essential oils or anything

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Speaker 1: like that once they get you in the home, So

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Speaker 1: it's not a timeshare presentation. Just want to help you

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Speaker 1: grow in your relationship with the Lord. Not selling keto drinks,

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Speaker 1: Just trying to help you build a foundation. John chapter two,

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Speaker 1: verse eleven. Make sure you take advantage of that. It's

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Speaker 1: there for you. It's there for you to grow in

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Speaker 1: your faith. John two, verse eleven. What Jesus did here

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Speaker 1: in Cana of Galilee was the first of the signs

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Speaker 1: through which he revealed his glory, and his disciples believed

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Speaker 1: in him. One more time. Turn to your neighbor, give

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Speaker 1: them my sermon title. Tell them you already know. Please

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Speaker 1: be seeing. Shout out to my brother Matt, who is

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Speaker 1: stationed in New Jersey. He serves in the United States.

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Speaker 1: Shout out to him because he put me on this

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Speaker 1: documentary that I really enjoyed this week. It's called Fire,

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Speaker 1: The Greatest Party that Never Happened. It's a documentary about

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Speaker 1: one of the great scandals of our day in regards

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Speaker 1: to entertainment. And social media. The Fire Festival was created

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Speaker 1: by Billy McFarlane and the legend Jah Rule. It was

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Speaker 1: to be the ultimate luxury music experience on the private

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Speaker 1: island of Ezuma in the Bahamas. It was to take

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Speaker 1: place over the course of two weekends, one in April

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Speaker 1: and the other in May of twenty seventeen. Some of

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Speaker 1: the world's top models and social media influencers promoted the

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Speaker 1: event simultaneously using the hashtag Fire Festival fire with a

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Speaker 1: Y in case you go home and watch it. I'm

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Speaker 1: not recommending movies from this pulpit, because I know how

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Speaker 1: legalistic some of you are, and you'd be instagram messaging

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Speaker 1: me about the bad words and this and that. I'm

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Speaker 1: not saying you should watch it. I'm just saying it

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Speaker 1: was awesome. And they put these orange tiles on Instagram

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Speaker 1: all at the same time. And because it was people

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Speaker 1: festival sold out in forty eight hours. In forty eight hours,

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Speaker 1: they sold tickets and day passes ranged from five hundred

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Speaker 1: for the luxury villas and stuff, and they put these

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Speaker 1: beautiful pictures online of the festival, marketed toward millennials, and

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Speaker 1: they they showed the island. They said that they formerly

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Speaker 1: like Pablo Escobar with Instagram models in bikinis, white sand,

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Speaker 1: when the millennials arrived and descended upon the Bahamas, things

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Speaker 1: that they advertised it. When the customers arrived to the

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Speaker 1: Fire Festival in the Bahamas, they found disaster relief tents

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Speaker 1: to mention that instead of gourmet meals cooked by five

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Speaker 1: Many were stranded, according to the documentary, in the airport

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Speaker 1: And one case study that I read that said, you know, now,

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Speaker 1: so afraid that this would happen without them. The fear

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Speaker 1: like for me, the fear of running out. That's more

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Speaker 1: what I deal with. I'm a pretty lazy person. I'm

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Speaker 1: But somebody's like, you know, there's a lunar eclipse tonight,

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Speaker 1: And that's why the documentary was visceral to me, because

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Speaker 1: because I guess because my fear in life is not

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Speaker 1: come in with very low energy. I'm just being honest,

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Speaker 1: word of God, and I don't want to hand you

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Speaker 1: don't want you to show up with a Fema tint

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Speaker 1: even in writing sermons, you're kind of saying the same

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Speaker 1: Bible has a lot of interesting stories and letters, I'm scared,

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Speaker 1: like one time, maybe I'm opening my Bible and I

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Speaker 1: always like, how many different ways can we say God?

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Speaker 1: Free chop here? No, you you gotta understand. This was

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Speaker 1: Seven is all over the Bible. He uses the number seven,

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Speaker 1: all Mary knew. Mary, did you know? Mary be like, yeah,

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Speaker 1: I knew he would, but I didn't know how he would.

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Speaker 1: I didn't I didn't know how. But see every need

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Speaker 1: in your life is pointing you to a deeper source.

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Speaker 1: Every sign that John recorded was pointing to something deeper.

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Speaker 1: Every need that you experience in your life is pointing

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Speaker 1: you to a deeper place in God that you can access,

436
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Speaker 1: a deeper place of strength, a deeper place of confidence,

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Speaker 1: a deeper place of health, a deeper place of relationship,

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Speaker 1: a deeper place of dependence. Everything is pointing to something deeper.

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Speaker 1: So when she said they have no more wine, Jesus responded,

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Speaker 1: and I don't recommend this as like something to say

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Speaker 1: to your mom or your wife verse four, Woman, why

442
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Speaker 1: do you involve me? That's not like a great marriage

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Speaker 1: seminar Love Languages verse But she didn't tell Jesus the

444
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Speaker 1: need to inform him like we do. She didn't pray

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Speaker 1: like a ritual in God, bless me today as I

446
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Speaker 1: go to the thing and after the thing, and God

447
00:27:00,880 --> 00:27:03,160
Speaker 1: just let me go through my list and worry about

448
00:27:03,160 --> 00:27:04,920
Speaker 1: it and say that I'm praying, But really all I'm

449
00:27:04,960 --> 00:27:10,600
Speaker 1: doing is worrying out loud with my eyes closed. She

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Speaker 1: wasn't She wasn't doing it to inform him. She was

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Speaker 1: doing it to involve him because she knew if he

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Speaker 1: gets involved, I don't know what he'll do, but I

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Speaker 1: know who he is now. I'm gonna need you to

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Speaker 1: shout right now. If you know who he is. Come on, Blakeney,

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Speaker 1: don't be quiet. I know you love the Lord. I

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Speaker 1: need you to shout right now. If you know who

457
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Speaker 1: he is, I know who to go to. I lift

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Speaker 1: my eyes to be Hill and his mother watched this.

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Speaker 1: His mother goes to him. He says to his mother,

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Speaker 1: My woman, I'm gonna start talking to Holliday woman, you know,

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Speaker 1: help them with their homework. Woman, you involve me. That's

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Speaker 1: my favorite verse this year. I'm gonna use that luck

463
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Speaker 1: this year. Well, I'm in why you involve me? And

464
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Speaker 1: Jesus White My hour is not yet come. He's talking

465
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Speaker 1: about the cross, but she needs him to do something

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Speaker 1: right now. Some of us have things that we need

467
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Speaker 1: God to do. Now we really do we need him now? Yeah,

468
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Speaker 1: I'm going to heaven when I die. And yeah, there's

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Speaker 1: the white horse that I read about in the Book

470
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Speaker 1: of Revelation, the Book of Revelations, and people put an

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Speaker 1: s on it. Book of Revelations Walmarts Revelations. Yeah it's great,

472
00:28:31,880 --> 00:28:34,600
Speaker 1: but how about now? And so watch what she does?

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Speaker 1: She doesn't argue, she doesn't convince, she doesn't beg In fact,

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Speaker 1: she doesn't talk to Jesus anymore. She turns away from Jesus,

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Speaker 1: points to the people who are working at the wedding,

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Speaker 1: and verse five, she said to the servants, do whatever

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Speaker 1: he tells you, because if you start moving in faith,

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Speaker 1: he's gonna do something. I don't know why he didn't

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Speaker 1: tell me. I don't know the details. I don't know

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Speaker 1: the plan I went in a wedding planner. This isn't

481
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Speaker 1: even my party. But if you'll start moving, if you'll

482
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Speaker 1: start obeying, if you'll take a step, you're gonna see

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Speaker 1: something as sign. And she said, do whatever he tells you. Now,

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Speaker 1: I know what you're thinking. I already know. I already know.

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Speaker 1: I already know what you're thinking. I would if I

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Speaker 1: knew what do you wanted me to do? I would?

487
00:29:33,640 --> 00:29:35,840
Speaker 1: I would, you know, do whatever he tells you to do.

488
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Speaker 1: That's such a great thing to say on Sunday morning.

489
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Speaker 1: How about about this this this apartment that I'm living

490
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Speaker 1: in right now, and I don't know whether I should

491
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Speaker 1: move out of this apartment. And you know, we get

492
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Speaker 1: really weird sometimes too. Write like people do all kinds

493
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Speaker 1: of stuff and say that God told them to do it. Okay,

494
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Speaker 1: a couple of yards new to church, there's probably one

495
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Speaker 1: of these weird people within like three rows of you

496
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Speaker 1: that God has to tell them what color to wear

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Speaker 1: in the morning. It's it's it's paralyzing, you know, and

498
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Speaker 1: and they'll make stuff up. It's like a cognitive bias

499
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Speaker 1: thing as well. It's like, well, I was praying about,

500
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Speaker 1: you know, whether I should date him, and then I

501
00:30:24,200 --> 00:30:26,880
Speaker 1: went and I went to elevation and Pastor Steve he

502
00:30:26,960 --> 00:30:31,760
Speaker 1: was preaching on a best Steve he's preaching on He's

503
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Speaker 1: preaching on John and his name. The guy's name is James,

504
00:30:34,880 --> 00:30:37,360
Speaker 1: and it's close. They both start with Jay. So I'm

505
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Speaker 1: gonna dat him right. It's a sign. And but sometimes

506
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Speaker 1: the way God speaks, it's like the Lord was saying

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Speaker 1: to me the other day because I was praying about,

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Speaker 1: you know, I don't know whether to do this or that,

509
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Speaker 1: and and I know you have situations that are nuanced,

510
00:30:53,760 --> 00:30:56,240
Speaker 1: and I really don't like preaching that doesn't respect nuance.

511
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Speaker 1: I really think it's in some ways it's misleading for

512
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Speaker 1: people to say, you know, it's just simple do whatever.

513
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Speaker 1: He tells you to do, because sometimes I don't know

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Speaker 1: what that is, and sometimes I don't know if I

515
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Speaker 1: should take the job and make a little more money,

516
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Speaker 1: but it's gonna take me away from my family more.

517
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Speaker 1: But I need to be here for my kids. But

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Speaker 1: I also need to be able to send them to

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Speaker 1: college in four years, and I need to be able

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Speaker 1: to provide for him. So I'm kind of caught between.

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Speaker 1: I don't really know what he wants me to do

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Speaker 1: because I can't find a Bible verse about whether I

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Speaker 1: should live in Atlanta or Charlotte. You know, but let

524
00:31:25,600 --> 00:31:29,760
Speaker 1: me just say something. There's traffic in both cities, and

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Speaker 1: there's problems in both cities, and there's ups and downs

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Speaker 1: to both cities. You know, where am I going to

527
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Speaker 1: go to college? I see a wing get shirt over there.

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Speaker 1: Where am I going to go to college? You know,

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Speaker 1: you can live for the lord at Wingott or at Wafford.

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Speaker 1: You could live for the lord either place. It's not

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Speaker 1: as important. I mean, go where the scholarship money is.

532
00:31:51,120 --> 00:31:54,120
Speaker 1: Or if there's no scholarship money, you know, go, But

533
00:31:54,560 --> 00:31:56,800
Speaker 1: it's more important what kind of friends you make the

534
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Speaker 1: first week of college than it is whether it's Winget

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Speaker 1: or Wafford. Can I preach a little bit? So the

536
00:32:03,720 --> 00:32:05,800
Speaker 1: Lord was speaking to me. I was like, if I

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Speaker 1: knew what to do, I would do it. And God said,

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00:32:08,120 --> 00:32:12,520
Speaker 1: if you would do what you knew, see the flip.

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00:32:13,400 --> 00:32:15,840
Speaker 1: You see the flip because I'm waiting for new information

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Speaker 1: from God. And God is like, all right, what do

541
00:32:19,600 --> 00:32:23,120
Speaker 1: you already know? I'm speaking to somebody today who has

542
00:32:23,280 --> 00:32:25,120
Speaker 1: run out and you don't know what to do, and

543
00:32:25,120 --> 00:32:27,480
Speaker 1: you don't have the wisdom, you don't have the experience,

544
00:32:27,880 --> 00:32:29,719
Speaker 1: you don't have that. I don't know. I didn't. You know,

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Speaker 1: it's really hard to do something you don't have a

546
00:32:32,240 --> 00:32:35,840
Speaker 1: context for. But if you would do what you knew,

547
00:32:37,200 --> 00:32:40,880
Speaker 1: what do you already know? I mean, I know for

548
00:32:40,960 --> 00:32:48,240
Speaker 1: one that gratitude is the gateway to joy, so much

549
00:32:48,280 --> 00:32:51,200
Speaker 1: so that I bought a I bought a journal and

550
00:32:51,280 --> 00:32:56,600
Speaker 1: put it by my bed. It's a gratitude journal. It's orange,

551
00:32:56,880 --> 00:33:00,840
Speaker 1: like everything else in this church, and like God's favorite team,

552
00:33:01,080 --> 00:33:05,320
Speaker 1: the Clemson Tigers, who he has anointed with the fresh

553
00:33:05,360 --> 00:33:09,480
Speaker 1: oil of yet another national championship for the glory of

554
00:33:09,560 --> 00:33:15,400
Speaker 1: His name, his kingdom. Come, some of y'all look like

555
00:33:15,440 --> 00:33:19,720
Speaker 1: you hate me right now? But I find out the

556
00:33:19,720 --> 00:33:23,120
Speaker 1: Gratitude Journal doesn't bless me if I don't open it

557
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Speaker 1: and write in it. And I already know that, but

558
00:33:26,640 --> 00:33:30,680
Speaker 1: I hadn't touched it in seven months, and it's got

559
00:33:30,760 --> 00:33:33,440
Speaker 1: dust on it. And then I'm going to go to

560
00:33:33,440 --> 00:33:35,720
Speaker 1: God at some point, praying that he'll help me to

561
00:33:35,760 --> 00:33:40,240
Speaker 1: feel joy. But I already knew what to do, I

562
00:33:40,280 --> 00:33:45,080
Speaker 1: didn't do it. I got seventeen books on my kindle

563
00:33:45,400 --> 00:33:48,160
Speaker 1: that I bought last year that I read one chapter of.

564
00:33:49,600 --> 00:33:51,800
Speaker 1: I probably don't need to buy another book this year,

565
00:33:51,800 --> 00:33:56,400
Speaker 1: and you might not either. I'm serious. I'm a preach

566
00:33:56,480 --> 00:33:59,960
Speaker 1: till us so quiet that you think we this elevation Press,

567
00:34:00,080 --> 00:34:06,960
Speaker 1: Baterian Episcopalian cemetery service. Look at me. You know enough

568
00:34:07,040 --> 00:34:09,520
Speaker 1: right now? I promise you do. I promise you do?

569
00:34:09,960 --> 00:34:17,399
Speaker 1: You know enough right now to be physically fit. I'm

570
00:34:17,440 --> 00:34:21,560
Speaker 1: just saying you might not need Men's Fitness with Hugh

571
00:34:21,640 --> 00:34:26,080
Speaker 1: Jackman's workout to do some push ups and to take

572
00:34:26,160 --> 00:34:30,480
Speaker 1: less calor. But but we're addicted to knowledge. We're addicted

573
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Speaker 1: to you know. Ah, if I knew what to do,

574
00:34:32,680 --> 00:34:34,200
Speaker 1: if I knew, if I knew, if I could do

575
00:34:34,280 --> 00:34:36,239
Speaker 1: this diet over here and I heard about this and

576
00:34:36,320 --> 00:34:38,440
Speaker 1: this celebrity diet, and I gotta do this thing. I

577
00:34:38,480 --> 00:34:41,319
Speaker 1: heard about this, uh kombucha. If I drink that, then

578
00:34:41,320 --> 00:34:44,080
Speaker 1: my gut will be held. You know you already know.

579
00:34:44,960 --> 00:34:49,360
Speaker 1: Touch somebody and say you already know. You know push ups,

580
00:34:49,719 --> 00:34:52,920
Speaker 1: you know sit ups, you already know. Get a trainer

581
00:34:53,000 --> 00:34:56,440
Speaker 1: if you want, But the trainer will not transform you.

582
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Speaker 1: If you if you know what to do and you

583
00:35:00,160 --> 00:35:02,719
Speaker 1: do what you know, you will know what to do.

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Speaker 1: Come on, God, I don't need you to clarify. I

585
00:35:08,600 --> 00:35:11,520
Speaker 1: need you to give me courage to do what I

586
00:35:11,600 --> 00:35:14,600
Speaker 1: knew that I didn't do last time. I knew I

587
00:35:14,640 --> 00:35:18,400
Speaker 1: needed to humble myself. I knew I needed. Some of

588
00:35:18,480 --> 00:35:20,799
Speaker 1: us know exactly what we need to do, but we

589
00:35:20,800 --> 00:35:22,239
Speaker 1: don't want to do it. So we want to pile

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00:35:22,320 --> 00:35:24,320
Speaker 1: more knowledge on top of the last thing we didn't

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00:35:24,320 --> 00:35:31,040
Speaker 1: do that he gave us to do. Wow, I'm preaching, mom.

592
00:35:31,239 --> 00:35:33,400
Speaker 1: They might not come back next week, but I'm preaching.

593
00:35:34,440 --> 00:35:38,400
Speaker 1: I'm preaching because it's three things that Jesus points to.

594
00:35:39,440 --> 00:35:41,680
Speaker 1: And I want to give this to you because I

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00:35:41,719 --> 00:35:44,800
Speaker 1: believe that God already knows. Somebody say he already knows.

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00:35:45,719 --> 00:35:48,279
Speaker 1: I know the plans I have for you, plans to

597
00:35:48,280 --> 00:35:51,160
Speaker 1: prosper you, not to harm you. But there's something that

598
00:35:51,200 --> 00:35:55,400
Speaker 1: you don't know that you can't know. It is not

599
00:35:55,440 --> 00:35:59,000
Speaker 1: in the knowing, but in the doing that the miracle happens.

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Speaker 1: Praise God. Did you feel this word? Man? It might

601
00:36:05,160 --> 00:36:07,000
Speaker 1: be just for you. God might have gave me this

602
00:36:07,080 --> 00:36:09,359
Speaker 1: message just for you. I don't doubt it. He's that good.

603
00:36:09,800 --> 00:36:11,279
Speaker 1: Do you believe that that he would put this in

604
00:36:11,320 --> 00:36:14,880
Speaker 1: me just for you? I do so. I was noticing

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Speaker 1: the details because his mother said, do whatever he tells

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00:36:17,480 --> 00:36:19,319
Speaker 1: you to do, and don't do what everybody else tells

607
00:36:19,360 --> 00:36:20,960
Speaker 1: you to do, because you spend all your energy doing

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00:36:20,960 --> 00:36:22,400
Speaker 1: what everybody else tells you to do, and then not

609
00:36:22,440 --> 00:36:24,000
Speaker 1: have the strength to do the thing God called you

610
00:36:24,040 --> 00:36:27,080
Speaker 1: to do, saying yes to everything else. But what God

611
00:36:27,120 --> 00:36:30,400
Speaker 1: gave you to do, do whatever he tells you to do,

612
00:36:31,640 --> 00:36:36,040
Speaker 1: and so listen. So Jesus, he wasn't reluctant to get involved.

613
00:36:36,760 --> 00:36:41,560
Speaker 1: He just needed their involvement, and he tells him to

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Speaker 1: do something. Look at it. In verse six, it says

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Speaker 1: nearby stood six stone water jars. What kind of jars?

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Speaker 1: Stone water jars? The kind used by the Jews for

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Speaker 1: ceremonial washing. They were common, They were there for a

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Speaker 1: common purpose, each holding from twenty to thirty gallons. They

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Speaker 1: were big. That's a big goal. In fact, by the

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Speaker 1: time they did what he said in verse seven, Jesus said,

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Speaker 1: the servants filled the jars with water. So they filled

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Speaker 1: them to the brim, which would have made one thousand

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Speaker 1: bottles of wine, more than they needed. Because he's a

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Speaker 1: god of more than enough. He is a god of

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00:37:21,320 --> 00:37:25,560
Speaker 1: more than enough. It's not that he doesn't have it.

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Speaker 1: It's that we're so busy pointing to what's not there

627
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Speaker 1: that we miss what is. And that's why we got

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Speaker 1: to flip the flow. And the Bible says that not

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Speaker 1: even knowing what would happen when they did it, because

630
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Speaker 1: they needed wine. But he points to water. He doesn't

631
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Speaker 1: point to what they need. He points to what they have.

632
00:37:51,840 --> 00:37:53,440
Speaker 1: And then he told them, now draw some out and

633
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Speaker 1: take it to the master of the banquet. They did. So.

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Speaker 1: They did it. They just did it. They had a

635
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Speaker 1: nike Uh mentality. They just did it. Swoosh. I'm looking

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Speaker 1: for a sponsorshipt. I'm just trying to work this in,

637
00:38:07,800 --> 00:38:11,520
Speaker 1: trying to get us some money for the expansion program.

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Speaker 1: They did so, and the master of the banquet tasted

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Speaker 1: the one that had been turned the water that had

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Speaker 1: been turned into one. Now he tasted the product, but

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Speaker 1: he did not understand the process. He didn't know. He

642
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Speaker 1: did not realize where it had come from, though the

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Speaker 1: servants knew. Touch somebody who say, you already know. You

644
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Speaker 1: know who knows what God is doing in the earth today,

645
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Speaker 1: Those who serve him, not just those who come and sip,

646
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Speaker 1: but those who serve, those who involved. I want to

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Speaker 1: thank God for every volunteer in this church, for everybody

648
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Speaker 1: who served something today, for every e group leader in

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Speaker 1: this church. I thank God for you, because you already

650
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Speaker 1: know that it's more blessed to give than receive. Not

651
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Speaker 1: those who sit, but those who serve. That's who God

652
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Speaker 1: blesses the most. Amen. He did not realize where it

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Speaker 1: did come from, though the servants who had drawn the

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Speaker 1: water knew. Then he called the bridegroom aside and said,

655
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Speaker 1: you flipped the flow. Because everybody brings out the choice

656
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Speaker 1: wine first, and then the cheaper wine after the guests

657
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Speaker 1: have had too much to drink. That's the way the

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Speaker 1: world works. It's good for a little while and then

659
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Speaker 1: it runs out. He said, you did it different. It

660
00:39:26,200 --> 00:39:31,759
Speaker 1: got better and better and sweeter and sweeter. I've come

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Speaker 1: to tell you your best days are not behind you.

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Speaker 1: God is not like that. He didn't let you run

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Speaker 1: out because he left you. He let it run out

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Speaker 1: so he could give you something better than what you

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Speaker 1: brought to the party to begin with. Yeah, you flipped

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Speaker 1: the flow. You have saved first ten, the best till now.

667
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Speaker 1: But how did he do it? How did he? How

668
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Speaker 1: did he do it? Because everything you're running out of

669
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Speaker 1: in your life today is in Jesus. It's in him.

670
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Speaker 1: But there's three things I want to show you, and

671
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Speaker 1: we'll go quickly, quickly, quickly. Number One, it's not going

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Speaker 1: to be in the places you expect it's going to

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Speaker 1: be It's going to be. Number one, nearby. It's not

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Speaker 1: going to be by you moving to a new situation

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Speaker 1: or thinking that your solution is out there somewhere. It's

676
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Speaker 1: not going to be distant. It's going to be nearby.

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Speaker 1: Verse six, Where were the stone water jars? Pay attention

678
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Speaker 1: to the details. Nearby? Where is the help that God

679
00:40:40,080 --> 00:40:44,680
Speaker 1: has given you for the shortage in your life? It's nearby?

680
00:40:44,800 --> 00:40:49,279
Speaker 1: It's nearby. The reason we don't see what's nearby is

681
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Speaker 1: because when something is close, we see it as common.

682
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Speaker 1: These were stone jars made of earth. They were leak

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Speaker 1: proof so that they wouldn't be ceremonially unclean. But there

684
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Speaker 1: was nothing gold plated about them. These were not iced

685
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Speaker 1: out jars. That's not what made them special. What was

686
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Speaker 1: special was what was inside. But they didn't have to

687
00:41:10,719 --> 00:41:12,279
Speaker 1: go you know, Jesus right here could have been like

688
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Speaker 1: the disciples go to town. You got to get someone.

689
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Speaker 1: But the thing about Cana is in the middle of nowhere,

690
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Speaker 1: so they can't go get anything. So they have to

691
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Speaker 1: use something nearby. I wonder what's nearby that if you

692
00:41:25,600 --> 00:41:30,239
Speaker 1: pour yourself into it, God can flow again through your life.

693
00:41:31,040 --> 00:41:36,200
Speaker 1: It's nearby, it's so close. Like remember they all came

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Speaker 1: in the party and wash their hands. So the miracle

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Speaker 1: was in something that they had already walked by to

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Speaker 1: get to the party. The miracle is in something that

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00:41:46,239 --> 00:41:49,560
Speaker 1: you're walking by every day. It's in a Bible reading

698
00:41:49,600 --> 00:41:51,759
Speaker 1: plan that you already started, but you just quit it

699
00:41:51,800 --> 00:41:54,279
Speaker 1: and you can pick it back up. The wisdom that

700
00:41:54,320 --> 00:41:56,640
Speaker 1: you need might be in the wife that you chose

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00:41:56,719 --> 00:41:59,080
Speaker 1: to do life with six years ago. But you don't

702
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Speaker 1: want to listen to her because she's nearby. So I

703
00:42:02,400 --> 00:42:05,360
Speaker 1: will see men go to conferences to learn how to

704
00:42:05,400 --> 00:42:08,040
Speaker 1: be a better man, but they won't even listen to

705
00:42:08,080 --> 00:42:10,560
Speaker 1: their own wife because they don't want to be humble.

706
00:42:10,960 --> 00:42:15,040
Speaker 1: I'm telling you it's nearby. It's not out there. That's

707
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Speaker 1: not where the provision is. It's not somewhere out there.

708
00:42:18,719 --> 00:42:22,400
Speaker 1: It's nearby. It's gonna be so close you'll miss it

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00:42:22,440 --> 00:42:24,800
Speaker 1: if you're not careful. It's gonna be so close you

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Speaker 1: walk in. I'll telling you it is something that you're

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00:42:27,040 --> 00:42:29,320
Speaker 1: walking by right now. You've been praying for it. It's

712
00:42:29,320 --> 00:42:31,959
Speaker 1: an orange gratitude journal. This right there on your bed.

713
00:42:32,160 --> 00:42:34,480
Speaker 1: It's an exercise plan that you already know to do.

714
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Speaker 1: It's gonna be nearby, and it's gonna be normal. That's

715
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Speaker 1: the second thing. It's gonna be normal. It's not gonna

716
00:42:40,400 --> 00:42:43,799
Speaker 1: feel so supernatural. It's gonna feel natural, and then it's

717
00:42:43,800 --> 00:42:46,920
Speaker 1: gonna be super But you can't wait for something special.

718
00:42:47,160 --> 00:42:50,440
Speaker 1: You've got to embrace something normal. We have this treasure

719
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Speaker 1: in earth and vessels that the excellency of the power

720
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Speaker 1: might be from God and not from us. It's coming

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Speaker 1: through something normal. It's gonna be normal. It's gonna be habits,

722
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Speaker 1: it's gonna be discipline. It's gonna be normal. God, use

723
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Speaker 1: me go home and have dinner with your family. It's

724
00:43:11,600 --> 00:43:15,279
Speaker 1: gonna be normal. It's not gonna be exciting. It's not

725
00:43:15,320 --> 00:43:18,279
Speaker 1: gonna be sexy. It's not gonna be Instagram models in

726
00:43:18,320 --> 00:43:22,040
Speaker 1: bikinis on the beach. It's gonna be normal. It's gonna

727
00:43:22,040 --> 00:43:24,920
Speaker 1: be normal. Tell somebody's gonna be normal. Tell them it's

728
00:43:24,920 --> 00:43:28,400
Speaker 1: gonna be natural. But it's gonna be super. When God

729
00:43:28,440 --> 00:43:32,359
Speaker 1: gets done with normal. What happens on the inside of

730
00:43:32,440 --> 00:43:36,240
Speaker 1: what looks normal on the outside, God is doing something

731
00:43:36,280 --> 00:43:42,160
Speaker 1: in me. And I wonder what you've been walking by

732
00:43:42,800 --> 00:43:46,080
Speaker 1: because it looks normal. You don't even notice it because

733
00:43:46,080 --> 00:43:54,000
Speaker 1: it's nearby and it's normal, and it's now Jesus said, now,

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Speaker 1: verse ey, Now, everybody say now, not after I've explained

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Speaker 1: it to you. Now he didn't tell him. Now, when

736
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Speaker 1: you draw it out, it's gonna start to turn purple

737
00:44:04,680 --> 00:44:07,640
Speaker 1: like when you stir the kool aid, and it's gonna

738
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Speaker 1: be a fermentation process and molecular structure is going Let

739
00:44:11,120 --> 00:44:13,160
Speaker 1: me draw it up for you, guys. This is okay, everybody,

740
00:44:13,160 --> 00:44:17,440
Speaker 1: Come on in, Come on in. Now. I know you

741
00:44:17,480 --> 00:44:19,600
Speaker 1: don't know what I'm gonna do, but I already know.

742
00:44:20,120 --> 00:44:22,200
Speaker 1: I know you don't know why I'm telling you to

743
00:44:22,239 --> 00:44:24,600
Speaker 1: do this, but I know I know you don't know

744
00:44:24,640 --> 00:44:27,080
Speaker 1: why I'm telling you to forgive. But I know what

745
00:44:27,160 --> 00:44:29,040
Speaker 1: I want to do that I can't do in your

746
00:44:29,080 --> 00:44:31,680
Speaker 1: life if you have a clogged heart. So do it

747
00:44:31,760 --> 00:44:36,440
Speaker 1: now now now. Faith is a substance of things hoped for,

748
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Speaker 1: and Jesus never points to what's next without dealing with

749
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Speaker 1: what's now. Now, draw it out now. I could imagine

750
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Speaker 1: he could. He could have gone around the whole party.

751
00:44:50,760 --> 00:44:53,440
Speaker 1: You should have planned better and you should have known better.

752
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Speaker 1: But he didn't do any of that. Because he didn't

753
00:44:55,360 --> 00:44:56,960
Speaker 1: point to what they should have done. It doesn't do

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00:44:57,000 --> 00:45:03,960
Speaker 1: any good. He points to what it is now. Now,

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Speaker 1: even though you've run, even though even though you could

756
00:45:08,080 --> 00:45:10,040
Speaker 1: have done better, I'm gonna tell you could have done

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00:45:10,040 --> 00:45:13,120
Speaker 1: a better job. You need to fire your wedding planner.

758
00:45:13,680 --> 00:45:15,200
Speaker 1: I hope you didn't give her too much of a deposit,

759
00:45:15,239 --> 00:45:19,360
Speaker 1: because she really screwed this up. But now that's actually

760
00:45:19,400 --> 00:45:22,959
Speaker 1: what Mary and Martha said to Jesus when he showed

761
00:45:23,000 --> 00:45:25,279
Speaker 1: up for Lazarus, if you would have been here, our

762
00:45:25,320 --> 00:45:29,200
Speaker 1: brother would not have died. But even now I feel

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Speaker 1: the power of now on this word today, now, now, now, now,

764
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Speaker 1: now now, because the truth is, you might be running

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Speaker 1: out of time, and Jesus only had three years on earth.

766
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Speaker 1: It didn't crazy think about this. I'm almost done, y'all

767
00:45:46,080 --> 00:45:47,960
Speaker 1: got like five more minutes? Or am I out of time?

768
00:45:49,920 --> 00:45:52,520
Speaker 1: I don't know how to receive that tepid encouragement. I

769
00:45:52,520 --> 00:45:53,920
Speaker 1: guess go if you need to go, I'm gonna talk

770
00:45:53,960 --> 00:45:56,680
Speaker 1: to who wants to hear this last part. I just

771
00:45:56,719 --> 00:45:58,440
Speaker 1: study too much to get up here and let a

772
00:45:58,480 --> 00:46:05,680
Speaker 1: clock tell me when to quit, because I because I

773
00:46:05,680 --> 00:46:10,080
Speaker 1: I know what it feels like to be empty. I've

774
00:46:10,160 --> 00:46:14,160
Speaker 1: been there in my own life, you know, just dry

775
00:46:14,280 --> 00:46:17,839
Speaker 1: and empty. And AH can't if another person asked me if,

776
00:46:17,880 --> 00:46:21,360
Speaker 1: I don't even want to do it. But but but

777
00:46:21,400 --> 00:46:25,359
Speaker 1: there's something significant not only about what Jesus did water

778
00:46:25,480 --> 00:46:27,959
Speaker 1: intwine the law into the spirit. We can preach about

779
00:46:28,000 --> 00:46:32,440
Speaker 1: that we will one day. That he did it in

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00:46:32,480 --> 00:46:35,600
Speaker 1: a ceremonial jar, and it was an idea. The fact

781
00:46:35,640 --> 00:46:38,800
Speaker 1: that the ceremonial washings of Moses were now being replaced

782
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Speaker 1: by the blood that would be shed. That's all in there.

783
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Speaker 1: It's a sign. It's pointing to a lock. But why

784
00:46:45,000 --> 00:46:48,360
Speaker 1: did he do it in Cana? Why did he show

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00:46:48,400 --> 00:46:54,239
Speaker 1: his glory in Cana? And to understand this, we need

786
00:46:54,239 --> 00:46:59,040
Speaker 1: to meet Nathaniel. Because Nathaniel was a disciple who came

787
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Speaker 1: to Jesus. Guess who brought him? By the way, Philip,

788
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Speaker 1: the one who Jesus said, where are we gonna get

789
00:47:05,040 --> 00:47:08,319
Speaker 1: the bread from? But he already knew, I promise you

790
00:47:08,560 --> 00:47:12,680
Speaker 1: he already knows, but he's just trying to make sure

791
00:47:12,719 --> 00:47:20,399
Speaker 1: that you know where it comes from. And Philip brought

792
00:47:20,480 --> 00:47:23,720
Speaker 1: Nathaniel to Jesus. Pick it up. In forty five, Philip

793
00:47:24,080 --> 00:47:26,320
Speaker 1: found Nathaniel and told him, yeah, you can start playing.

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Speaker 1: It'll hurry me along. He found Nathaniel and told him

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Speaker 1: we have found the one Moses wrote about in the Law,

796
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Speaker 1: and about whom the prophets also wrote Jesus of Nazareth,

797
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Speaker 1: the son of Joseph. There were four hundred and fifty

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Speaker 1: six different expectations of the Jewish Messiah, and Philip was

799
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Speaker 1: doing the math, you know, carry the one it's like

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00:47:51,960 --> 00:47:54,680
Speaker 1: it was. And he said, I think this is him.

801
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Speaker 1: I think so. I'm not sure, but I think. Come see.

802
00:48:00,120 --> 00:48:02,920
Speaker 1: And Nathaniel starts trying to figure it out based on

803
00:48:03,000 --> 00:48:05,800
Speaker 1: what he can understand. He's like, did you say Nazareth,

804
00:48:05,880 --> 00:48:12,399
Speaker 1: that hicktown, Nazare Monk's corner. See, I'm used to being

805
00:48:12,440 --> 00:48:14,560
Speaker 1: from a place that people don't respect. When you say

806
00:48:14,560 --> 00:48:19,640
Speaker 1: the name of it, Nazare, can anything good come from there?

807
00:48:19,960 --> 00:48:23,520
Speaker 1: And Nathaniel asked the question, and Philip said, I can't

808
00:48:23,520 --> 00:48:25,880
Speaker 1: answer that, but you can come see. Now watch this.

809
00:48:26,320 --> 00:48:30,000
Speaker 1: That's where it gets good. When Jesus saw Nathaniel, I

810
00:48:30,160 --> 00:48:34,320
Speaker 1: always preach John chapter two, thinking that verse one is

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Speaker 1: where it started on the third day Jesus went to Cana,

812
00:48:36,960 --> 00:48:40,719
Speaker 1: But it started before that. When Jesus saw Nathaniel approaching,

813
00:48:41,040 --> 00:48:45,400
Speaker 1: he said of him, here truly is an Israelite in

814
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Speaker 1: whom there is no deceit. Now Nathaniel was kind of

815
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Speaker 1: creeped out Verse forty eight. He said, how do you

816
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Speaker 1: know me? We have met? How do you How do

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Speaker 1: you know? He said, I know what's in you? He said,

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Speaker 1: But you don't know me, he said, but I know

819
00:49:05,440 --> 00:49:09,799
Speaker 1: what's in you. One time. When Elijah was little, he

820
00:49:09,960 --> 00:49:13,439
Speaker 1: would walk around the house. How old was he? Two? Three?

821
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Speaker 1: He'd walk around the house going, how do you know

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Speaker 1: my name? How do you know my name? How do

823
00:49:19,960 --> 00:49:21,840
Speaker 1: you know my name? I think he heard it on

824
00:49:21,880 --> 00:49:25,040
Speaker 1: a TV show and I thought that was so bizarre.

825
00:49:25,480 --> 00:49:27,880
Speaker 1: You know, he'd walk up, walk up to me and Holly,

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Speaker 1: how do you know my name? How do you know

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Speaker 1: my name? I said, because I made you, because I

828
00:49:34,840 --> 00:49:38,600
Speaker 1: gave you your name. I know who you are. I

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00:49:38,680 --> 00:49:42,759
Speaker 1: know what's in you. Jesus looks at Nathaniel len he

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00:49:42,880 --> 00:49:47,200
Speaker 1: knows what's in him because Nathaniel came from him. Now

831
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Speaker 1: watch this. This is so important for everybody who spends

832
00:49:50,640 --> 00:49:53,919
Speaker 1: a lot of time feeling like that what's against you

833
00:49:54,600 --> 00:49:58,239
Speaker 1: is greater than what's in you. I want you to

834
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Speaker 1: know that God already knows what's against you, and he

835
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Speaker 1: already knows what's in you. I said, He already knows

836
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Speaker 1: what's against you, and he already knows what's in you.

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Speaker 1: He said, I saw you while you were still under

838
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Speaker 1: the fig tree before Philip called you, and Nathaniel said,

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Speaker 1: you saw me. Rabbi, you are the son of God,

840
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Speaker 1: You are the King of Israel. You hadn't even met

841
00:50:28,280 --> 00:50:30,760
Speaker 1: me yet, and you saw me before I was called.

842
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Speaker 1: You mean, you saw me in this situation before I

843
00:50:34,160 --> 00:50:36,960
Speaker 1: was even in it. You saw me in this dry

844
00:50:37,040 --> 00:50:40,759
Speaker 1: place before it even stopped raining. You saw me in

845
00:50:40,800 --> 00:50:44,480
Speaker 1: this dumb decision. You saw me in this divorce. You

846
00:50:44,600 --> 00:50:49,319
Speaker 1: saw me in this low place. Said yeah, I saw you.

847
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Speaker 1: I wouldn't have put you in it if I didn't

848
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Speaker 1: put it in you. You've got it in you, and

849
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Speaker 1: you will not run out, and will not run out,

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Speaker 1: and it will not run out. You will accomplish your purpose,

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Speaker 1: you will fulfill, you will complete your assignment. It is

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Speaker 1: in you. I love Jesus. He said, you believe because

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Speaker 1: I told you that I saw you under the fig tree.

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Speaker 1: You will see greater things than that. And then they

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Speaker 1: went to Cana so Jesus could show Nathaniel what he

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Speaker 1: just told him. I am the one who flips the floor.

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Speaker 1: grace for say. I am the one who turns rejection

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Speaker 1: into blessing. I am the resurrection. I am the life.

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Speaker 1: Your struggle is a sign, your setback is a sign.

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Speaker 1: Your secrets are a sign God is with you. It

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Speaker 1: is in you. Come on, release a sound of raise

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Speaker 1: in the plane I set, release a set of praise

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Speaker 1: in the play, and you will not run out. You

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Speaker 1: will not run out. You might not have any wine,

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Speaker 1: but if you have the one who can start the water,

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Speaker 1: you will never lack. You will make it, and you

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Speaker 1: will achivement. It saves a sname. Well. I hope you

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Speaker 1: enjoyed the podcast today. If you did, there are just

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