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Speaker 1: Hey, this is Stephen Ferdick.

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

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

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

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

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Speaker 2: Enjoy the message. Yeah, hey, y'all be praying for the

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Speaker 2: worship team.

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Speaker 1: They're going on tour this week.

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Speaker 2: We want we want them covered and smothered in prayer.

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Speaker 2: And uh, covered in smothered in prayer. We will see

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Speaker 2: you in Boka. I won't be there, be clear, get

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Speaker 2: sued or something like that. I bought a ticket, but

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Speaker 2: you'll be in Boca ratone on Tuesday and other places.

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Speaker 2: Where can we go to find out if there's tickets

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Speaker 2: in our area? Elevation Worship dot Com there's still a

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Speaker 2: few tickets left. Well, I can say that Elevation Worship

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Speaker 2: dot Com. That's all they've got to do.

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Speaker 1: That's all they gotta do. Come out worship with us.

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Speaker 1: Many nights are sold out.

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Speaker 2: If you are not, yep, Hey, how many of you

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Speaker 2: have had our new album on.

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Speaker 1: Repeat this week?

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Speaker 3: Bet me.

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Speaker 1: What is your favorite song on the new album? Tell

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Speaker 1: me that's mine too. That's my favorite way. We tried

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Speaker 1: to make that thing. Dang near skipless, no skips. What's

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Speaker 1: the goal? And I pray that it's blessing you? You

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Speaker 1: just we love.

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Speaker 2: I speak on behalf of this incredible team of technical geniuses,

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Speaker 2: musical geniuses, and as a songwriter for the people of God,

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Speaker 2: I speak on behalf of all of our worship leaders.

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Speaker 2: I speak on behalf of all of our givers. We

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Speaker 2: love creating anthems for you so that you can draw

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Speaker 2: close to God in your time of need.

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Speaker 1: We consider that a privilege, and so.

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Speaker 2: I figure everybody can't take Chris home with them for

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Speaker 2: him to say miracle, have to miracle while you're cutting

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Speaker 2: the grass and stuff like that. But this is our

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Speaker 2: way to just be there with you, far beyond a

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Speaker 2: Sunday morning context, and just remind you. I realize early

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Speaker 2: in my ministry with the Word of God, that worshiping God.

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Speaker 2: You know, there's the Word of God being preached to us,

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Speaker 2: and then there's the worship that we give to God.

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Speaker 2: That doesn't have to do with how we feel, that

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Speaker 2: doesn't have to do with a style, but it has

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Speaker 2: to do with our response to how good He's been

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Speaker 2: that when those two things are in tandem together, you

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Speaker 2: become dangerous to the devil, and you become an instrument

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Speaker 2: in the hand of God.

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Speaker 3: And so.

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Speaker 1: Please, please, please, don't let.

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Speaker 2: This be the only time in the week that you

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Speaker 2: sing to your God. All right, don't let this be

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Speaker 2: the only time of the week that you open your word.

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Speaker 1: I desire for you to grow.

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Speaker 2: And be strengthened and and.

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Speaker 1: To receive everything God has for you. Wow.

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Speaker 2: Today I stand before you, ready to preach, excited to preach.

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Speaker 2: And the proof of that is Abby said, Dad, I

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Speaker 2: saw you on the porch preaching to nobody at six

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Speaker 2: am when I woke up. She said, I almost took

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Speaker 2: my therapist one day.

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Speaker 1: She didn't say that last part, but I have.

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Speaker 2: Been up early, and I was explaining to her that's

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Speaker 2: not me preaching to the trees.

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Speaker 1: That's God preaching it to me.

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Speaker 2: And so then I now get the privilege to preach

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Speaker 2: to you.

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Speaker 1: We're gonna go to John chapter two.

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Speaker 2: Please remain standing for one moment, John chapter two.

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Speaker 1: This will be big.

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Speaker 2: You might know this Bible story. On the third day

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Speaker 2: a wedding took place at Cana in Galilee. Jesus's mother

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Speaker 2: invited to the wedding. I love how Jesus is mentioned

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Speaker 2: like a plus one and Jesus and his disciples. Verse

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Speaker 2: three says when the wine was gone. When the wine

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Speaker 1: Verse four, Woman, why do you involve me?

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Speaker 2: Jesus replied, I practiced reading that verse about thirty times

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Speaker 2: that didn't sound bad or disrespectful. There's no way for

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Speaker 2: the South that sounds right. Why do you involve me?

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Speaker 2: do you involve me? Jesus replied, My hour has not

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Speaker 2: yet come. His mother said to the servants, do whatever

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Speaker 2: he tells you. Nearby stood six stone water jars, the

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Speaker 2: Jesus said to the servants, fill the jars with water,

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Speaker 2: so they filled them.

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Speaker 1: So they filled them to the brim. Then he told them,

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Speaker 2: And take it to the master of the banquet. They

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Speaker 2: did so, and the Master of the banquet tasted the water,

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Speaker 1: He tasted the water that had been turned into wine.

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Speaker 1: Then he called the bridegroom aside and said, this is

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Speaker 2: Everyone brings out the choice wine first, and then the

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Speaker 2: the difference. But you have saved the best till now.

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Speaker 2: But you.

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Speaker 1: Have saved the best till now.

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Speaker 2: There's something that the Lord wants to discuss with you today,

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Speaker 2: and I want you to help me. Tell your neighbor

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Speaker 2: the title of my sermon. Look at your neighbor and

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Speaker 2: make a distinction for him.

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Speaker 1: Tell him neighbor not now.

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Speaker 2: Is not No, that was the wrong neighbor. Look at

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Speaker 2: your other neighbor who feels rejected. Come on, put it

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Speaker 2: in the chat. If you're not in the room, say

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Speaker 2: neighbor own neighbor. In case you're disappointed. About something, struggling

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Speaker 1: Never going to come to pass. I want to remind

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Speaker 1: you not now is not know. Clap your hands and

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Speaker 1: put a praise on this word and advance.

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Speaker 3: Not.

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Speaker 1: No, it's not known.

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Speaker 2: We say yes to your word, Lord speak. We're listening

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Speaker 2: in Jesus' name. Amen, you may be seated. Mm hmm.

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Speaker 1: I've been waiting to appreciate this one.

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Speaker 2: That's the hard part is holding it, getting it, getting

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Speaker 2: need to set this sermon up by giving you a

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Speaker 2: little personal anecdote from my life experience. I have never

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Speaker 2: coached one of my children in sports. I just decided

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Speaker 2: that my enthusiasm about being their dad shouldn't punish the

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Speaker 2: I think you've all had that coach, cussed out that

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Speaker 2: coach and complained about that coach. I always coached them

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Speaker 2: personally on the sidelines. Graham said something so devious the

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Speaker 2: other day because he's a good little wrestler, now good

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Speaker 2: and he said, now that I look back, he said,

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Speaker 2: Now that I look back, he said, I thought you.

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Speaker 1: I thought you were so ope as a wrestler when

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Speaker 2: But now that I look back and realize how little

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Speaker 2: It's amazing to me how much you coached me knowing

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Speaker 1: That's funny. I try to coach my kids for the

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Speaker 2: Of course, you know, they didn't sign up to be

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Speaker 2: to your advice, and you can't kick them off, and

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Speaker 2: so you are limited in your coaching. But I have

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Speaker 2: found all joking aside, that to be one of the

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Speaker 2: greatest and most stretching challenges and privileges of my life,

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Speaker 2: just to be there for them, especially in those moments.

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Speaker 2: My oldest son, Elijah, he called me from college and

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Speaker 2: this is one of those moments last semester, and I

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Speaker 2: think in the transition of being a freshman in college,

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Speaker 2: he just wanted to hear my voice on a few things.

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Speaker 2: But I could tell that he was down and that

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Speaker 2: So after we push past that a little bit, I said,

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Speaker 2: me back at like three o'clock and have something to

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Speaker 2: I'll coach you as if you paid me to do it.

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Speaker 2: And he said, I would love that.

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Speaker 1: And so he called me at the schedule time of

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Speaker 2: We set up an actual appointment, and I said, Okay,

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Speaker 2: telling me the same things he's telling you as a

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Speaker 2: That I have nothing really to offer, or that my

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Speaker 2: or that the things that my critics have said about

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Speaker 2: I've learned to make a list. And so I told them,

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Speaker 2: to make a list when you feel low. So I said,

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Speaker 2: one list that I, of course make that I've taught

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Speaker 1: Things to be grateful for. You've heard about that.

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Speaker 2: There's nobody who has a TikTok account who hasn't heard

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Speaker 2: the importance of a gratitude list. But I said, there's

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Speaker 2: another type of list that I like to make, and

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Speaker 2: it's when I'm basically telling myself that I'm in this

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Speaker 2: know that's not true, but it feels true emotionally. I say,

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Speaker 2: I'll make a list of every person that is in

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Speaker 1: Start writing a list.

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Speaker 2: I said, Now the hardest part is going to be

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Speaker 2: just recency bias. That's just the last thing that happened

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Speaker 2: and it's not. And as you begin to write, what

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Speaker 1: This is hilarious to me? No wine? Woman? What does

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Speaker 1: that have to do with me.

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Speaker 2: I watched this statement because we're talking about ti, we're

447
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Speaker 2: talking about time.

448
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Speaker 1: Everybody say time, put it in the chat, say time.

449
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Speaker 1: He said, my hour has not yet come. Okay.

450
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Speaker 2: So she's not exactly asking him to fix it, but

451
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Speaker 2: she's implying that he could. He's not exactly refusing to

452
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Speaker 2: do it, but he's.

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Speaker 1: Implying that he might not.

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Speaker 2: And I can imagine all of the responses that married

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Speaker 2: the Mother of Jesus would have had in this moment

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Speaker 2: if she had had an attitude.

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Speaker 1: Like many of us. Because what's what he said, It's

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Speaker 1: not my.

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Speaker 5: Time, not your time. Son, I was a virgin. Think

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Speaker 5: about this, that's your time. You came in my womb,

461
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Speaker 5: you talk about not time. And then I carried you nine.

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Speaker 2: Months and I was going to Bethlehem for a.

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Speaker 1: Census, and no, you couldn't wait for me to get

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Speaker 1: back home.

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Speaker 2: I was on that donkey behind Joseph, and here you

466
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Speaker 2: came in a barn and you want to talk about

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Speaker 2: your time.

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Speaker 1: Let's talk about time.

469
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Speaker 2: Maybe it's not a problem. Maybe maybe it's not a controversy.

470
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Speaker 2: Maybe it's not an argument, Maybe it's not a debate.

471
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Speaker 2: Maybe it's not a manipulation. Maybe it's not reluctant. Maybe

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Speaker 2: it's a pattern here.

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Speaker 4: Let's see a pattern.

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Speaker 2: He's he's asked to do something. Okay, there's a request,

475
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Speaker 2: there's a refusal, and then there's a revelation.

476
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Speaker 1: There's a request, there's a refusal, and then there's a revelation.

477
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Speaker 2: John chapter seven. Jesus' ministry is really thriving. In John

478
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Speaker 2: chapter seven, many miracles have already been performed. Many blind

479
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Speaker 2: people have already received sight, many of the death have

480
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Speaker 2: been able to hear.

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Speaker 4: And Jesus is popular.

482
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Speaker 2: His brothers come to him and say, now, if you

483
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Speaker 2: really want to do this thing right, you need to

484
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Speaker 2: get to Jerusalem where the festival is, because they'll see

485
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Speaker 2: at the festival. And Jesus says something interesting. He said, uh,

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Speaker 2: not now, not now. And the Bible says that Jesus's

487
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Speaker 2: brother's winning. Jesus showed up with some sunglasses on a

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Speaker 2: little bit later in the week, got there when he

489
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Speaker 2: wanted to.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, that's weird, isn't it.

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Speaker 2: Because they said you need to go to Jerusalem and

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Speaker 2: show everybody who you are.

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Speaker 1: Oh, I'm gonna show.

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Speaker 4: Him on my time.

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Speaker 1: So he told them no.

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Speaker 4: But what he was really saying, is not. Now there's

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Speaker 4: a difference.

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Speaker 2: There were two sisters in a place called Bethany in

499
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Speaker 2: John chapter eleven. Often they would host Jesus at their home.

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Speaker 2: One of them loved to cook and one of them

501
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Speaker 2: loved to listen. Jesus could speak and eat, and speak

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Speaker 2: and eat. He was in heaven in their home. Eventually,

503
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Speaker 2: their brother Lazarus, whom many believe, had a physical impairment,

504
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Speaker 2: and that is part of the reason that Jesus loved.

505
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Speaker 1: Him so much.

506
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Speaker 2: But we know that whatever the case of his physical

507
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Speaker 2: condition at birth, he was sick and to the point

508
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Speaker 2: of dying.

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Speaker 4: So the messenger sent a text to Jesus.

510
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Speaker 2: Modernizing, they sent a message to Jesus, and since there

511
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Speaker 2: was no communication via text message or internet, it took

512
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Speaker 2: a look little while for them to get to Jesus.

513
00:29:03,480 --> 00:29:06,480
Speaker 2: And it took a little while, and he got worse.

514
00:29:06,560 --> 00:29:09,560
Speaker 2: And it took a little while and he got worse. Now,

515
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Speaker 2: the moment that the message arrived in John chapter eleven

516
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Speaker 2: to Jesus, he could have gone to Bethany.

517
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Speaker 1: He did not. He must not have loved them very much.

518
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Speaker 2: You say, no, the Bible says, because he loved them

519
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Speaker 2: he stayed where he was two more days. So here

520
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Speaker 2: comes the message, now heal him. It's a request, and

521
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Speaker 2: here's the response of Jesus. He stays where he is.

522
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Speaker 4: He refuses to move where he is needed the most.

523
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Speaker 1: Why. They've seen him heal.

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Speaker 2: They've seen him take a sick person and reach down

525
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Speaker 2: and raise them up. They've seen him speak the word,

526
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Speaker 2: and his word was so powerful that his word went

527
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Speaker 2: where his body did, not in heal, but in his

528
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Speaker 2: Lazarus died.

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Speaker 1: That's the man's name, Lazarus. He died because Jesus delayed coming.

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Speaker 2: And when he got to the place finally late Martha

531
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Speaker 2: was upset about it, saying, Lord, if you would have

532
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Speaker 2: been here John, chapter eleven, verse twenty one, check this out.

533
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Speaker 1: My brother would not have died.

534
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Speaker 2: Why did we refuse a request Jesus that would have

535
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Speaker 2: resulted in a healing? You could have done something?

536
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Speaker 1: Da have anything in.

537
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Speaker 2: Your life today that you feel like secretly God could

538
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Speaker 2: have done something about and he didn't.

539
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Speaker 1: Because many times it can be.

540
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Speaker 2: Painful to praise God for being on time when you

541
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Speaker 2: feel like He just stood back and watched stuff happen

542
00:30:54,560 --> 00:30:58,960
Speaker 2: to you that didn't happen to others, watch stuff happen

543
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Speaker 2: to you that you know evil, What stuff happen in

544
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Speaker 2: your life that he could have stopped. She said, Lord,

545
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Speaker 2: if you would have been here, he wouldn't have died.

546
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Speaker 1: And Jesus verse twenty two, here's these words from Martha.

547
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Speaker 2: But I know that even now, God will give you

548
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Speaker 2: whatever you ask.

549
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Speaker 1: What's she talking about. It can't be resurrection.

550
00:31:26,600 --> 00:31:31,400
Speaker 2: We've never seen a resurrection before. But she understands something

551
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Speaker 2: about Jesus. She's heard and teach, She's watched him work,

552
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Speaker 2: she's seen him move, she's felt his presence. She has

553
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Speaker 2: understood that he has this propensity when you get in

554
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Speaker 2: his proximity, to make things possible that seemed otherwise impossible.

555
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Speaker 1: And she said, I.

556
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Speaker 2: Don't know why you said no when we ask you

557
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Speaker 2: to come, but I know what I know that even

558
00:31:55,880 --> 00:31:58,600
Speaker 2: now I need you to high five somebody and say

559
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Speaker 2: I know what I know. I don't know why God

560
00:32:03,200 --> 00:32:05,600
Speaker 2: didn't do it, but I know what I know.

561
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Speaker 1: He can still do it.

562
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Speaker 2: Right now, I find somebody else.

563
00:32:10,160 --> 00:32:13,840
Speaker 1: Say I know what I know. I don't know where

564
00:32:13,880 --> 00:32:16,440
Speaker 1: it's gonna come from, but I know what I know.

565
00:32:16,920 --> 00:32:18,480
Speaker 1: God's got what I need.

566
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Speaker 2: He can't supply it even still.

567
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Speaker 1: I feel God on that sys. I know what I know.

568
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Speaker 2: I don't know what kind of things you're able to

569
00:32:31,800 --> 00:32:34,600
Speaker 2: do that we haven't seen yet. And my brother is

570
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Speaker 2: in the ground, and my kid is on drugs, and

571
00:32:38,040 --> 00:32:41,600
Speaker 2: my life is really in tatters, and I'm in recovery,

572
00:32:41,920 --> 00:32:44,440
Speaker 2: and I got a brother in prison, and I'm in

573
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Speaker 2: the middle of this custody battle, and I get some

574
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Speaker 2: legal problems, and I got an addiction.

575
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Speaker 1: I can't quit. I don't know what you can do

576
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Speaker 1: about that.

577
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Speaker 4: But I know what I know.

578
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Speaker 2: Yo here right.

579
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Speaker 1: Now, see it?

580
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Speaker 6: Lord?

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Speaker 2: What f fife? Everybody in your section say, I know

582
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Speaker 2: what I.

583
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Speaker 1: Know, know what I know. I don't know why he

584
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Speaker 1: said no. I don't know why.

585
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Speaker 2: My roommate got an engagement ring and she's a hellion

586
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Speaker 2: and I'm pure and single. I don't know, but I

587
00:33:24,960 --> 00:33:28,440
Speaker 2: know what I know. One day in his courts, one

588
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Speaker 2: day in his house is better than anywhere else. And blessed,

589
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Speaker 2: this is a man who does not walk in the council. Y'all,

590
00:33:35,880 --> 00:33:39,719
Speaker 2: calm down. I'm trying to teach a first five first

591
00:33:40,120 --> 00:33:48,240
Speaker 2: Bible study on a god who turns water into why

592
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Speaker 2: somebody said the other day. You know what they said

593
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Speaker 2: about you on this blog. I said no, but I

594
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Speaker 2: know what I know. It doesn't matter. I know what

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Speaker 2: I know.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I know what I know.

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Speaker 2: The mystery of this text is just as much of

598
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Speaker 2: a message as the lesson.

599
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Speaker 1: Let me say that again. The mystery of this.

600
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Speaker 4: Text is just as much of a message as the lesson.

601
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Speaker 2: Because the consumers didn't know how the miracle happened.

602
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Speaker 4: The servants did.

603
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Speaker 2: This is where I think when I sat down with

604
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Speaker 2: my son, you know, and or got on the phone

605
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Speaker 2: with him and said, I want to give you.

606
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Speaker 4: I want to give you a process that.

607
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Speaker 1: You can do.

608
00:34:43,280 --> 00:34:45,360
Speaker 2: You know, if he was having a bad day, I

609
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Speaker 2: probably could have cash after him some money and he

610
00:34:47,840 --> 00:34:52,040
Speaker 2: would have been happy. But he would have got the money,

611
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Speaker 2: he would have spent the money, and now he feels

612
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Speaker 2: worse because did you really need three? I'm realizing something

613
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Speaker 2: about Jesus, because how many of you I'm not even

614
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Speaker 2: gonna look at you when I asked this, wait, just

615
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Speaker 2: raise your hand for your ow accountability. How many got

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Speaker 2: something in your life right now that's taken longer than

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Speaker 2: it should if God is bid? Okay, how many got

618
00:35:20,080 --> 00:35:22,640
Speaker 2: something in your life right now? That you feel like

619
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Speaker 2: God must be telling me. No, he might, he might,

620
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Speaker 2: he might one time in the Bible, David King David

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Speaker 2: he wanted to build a temple for God.

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Speaker 1: Who better to do it? He wrote all the songs?

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Speaker 2: Why not build the house that would house the songs

624
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Speaker 2: that he wrote for God?

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Speaker 1: But he didn't get to do it.

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Speaker 2: In fact, the prophet told him, go ahead, do it, man,

627
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Speaker 2: that sounds good. And God stopped the prophet in his tracks,

628
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Speaker 2: and the prophet had to pivot and turn back and say,

629
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Speaker 2: I went home and prayed about that thing, and dude,

630
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Speaker 2: I love you so much, and you are so amazing,

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Speaker 2: and you are so incredible as a leader. I thought, well,

632
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Speaker 2: surely God will let him do it, and God will

633
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Speaker 2: say yes to you. I mean, you want to build

634
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Speaker 2: God a temple. Why wouldn't God get behind that? It

635
00:36:12,200 --> 00:36:17,680
Speaker 2: is a good thing in your heart. But the Lord said, well,

636
00:36:18,920 --> 00:36:26,919
Speaker 2: he didn't say no. He said not you. That's hard

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Speaker 2: to hear.

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Speaker 3: Not you.

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Speaker 2: He said, your son Solomon is going to do it.

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Speaker 2: You got too much blood on your hands. But I'm

641
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Speaker 2: still going to do it through you. And David spent

642
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Speaker 2: the rest of his life storing up the materials to

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Speaker 2: hand over.

644
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Speaker 1: For a project.

645
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Speaker 2: That he would never person suddenly receive the benefit from him.

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Speaker 2: This is the part of the sermon that you leave

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Speaker 2: out if your goal is a shout. But my goal

648
00:37:13,880 --> 00:37:17,840
Speaker 2: is not to just give you a shout in church,

649
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Speaker 2: because if you shout, what do you have a sore throat.

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Speaker 4: What we have to learn to.

651
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Speaker 2: Do is realize that Jesus is a miracle worker. Yes,

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Speaker 2: Jesus is the savior who paid for our sins on

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Speaker 2: the cross, and that is the purpose he came for

654
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Speaker 2: to rise from the grave, to have dominion over death

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Speaker 2: so that we could call on his name and be saved. Yes,

656
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Speaker 2: he is also a teacher, and a good teacher knows

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Speaker 2: when to go.

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Speaker 1: Maybe he is going.

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Speaker 4: Slow because he wants to show you something.

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Speaker 2: I hired a guy to teach me guitar years ago,

661
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Speaker 2: and I went to one lesson. He seemed more interested

662
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Speaker 2: in impressing me with how fast he could play it

663
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Speaker 2: than showing me how I could. I thought, this won't work.

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Speaker 2: If your whole goal is showing me how much you

665
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Speaker 2: can shred. I leave knowing nothing, and you feel good

666
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Speaker 2: about yourself. The proof that you are good at this

667
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Speaker 2: is that you can slow it down enough that I

668
00:38:36,560 --> 00:38:39,760
Speaker 2: can watch and say, huh, so I do third thread,

669
00:38:40,040 --> 00:38:44,000
Speaker 2: fourth thread, sixth thread, first spread. I mean, if he

670
00:38:44,120 --> 00:38:48,359
Speaker 2: really wanted to teach me, he asked to slow it down.

671
00:38:49,800 --> 00:38:54,040
Speaker 2: We asked Jesus to teach us things, and we're surprised

672
00:38:54,120 --> 00:38:58,440
Speaker 2: when he slows it down. We asked him to teach

673
00:38:58,520 --> 00:39:01,960
Speaker 2: us to be more loving. We are surprised when he

674
00:39:02,480 --> 00:39:06,280
Speaker 2: slows it down. We asked him to give us patience.

675
00:39:08,600 --> 00:39:14,959
Speaker 2: Bad idea. You have seven days of traffic to look forward.

676
00:39:14,640 --> 00:39:17,600
Speaker 1: To the worst traffic of your life.

677
00:39:17,719 --> 00:39:20,399
Speaker 2: You are gonna have Atlanta, Georgia.

678
00:39:19,880 --> 00:39:21,040
Speaker 1: Traffic in Waxaw.

679
00:39:21,400 --> 00:39:24,239
Speaker 2: If you pray for patience, God will stack the deck

680
00:39:24,520 --> 00:39:28,320
Speaker 2: to give you a jazz for and he'll slow it down.

681
00:39:29,280 --> 00:39:30,200
Speaker 1: I wanted to learn.

682
00:39:30,360 --> 00:39:32,480
Speaker 2: When I was in high school, I had some friends

683
00:39:32,480 --> 00:39:33,319
Speaker 2: on the step team.

684
00:39:33,600 --> 00:39:35,320
Speaker 1: I thought that looked really cool.

685
00:39:35,600 --> 00:39:38,960
Speaker 2: I said, teach me just a simple thing on the

686
00:39:39,000 --> 00:39:40,520
Speaker 2: step team, And so they.

687
00:39:40,440 --> 00:39:42,719
Speaker 1: Went real fast. They went something like I see if

688
00:39:42,719 --> 00:39:43,399
Speaker 1: I remember, like.

689
00:39:48,040 --> 00:39:54,360
Speaker 2: See how fast I did. That took about four months.

690
00:39:56,320 --> 00:39:57,359
Speaker 2: I could just do it now.

691
00:39:57,440 --> 00:39:59,240
Speaker 1: It's been like thirty years now.

692
00:40:00,040 --> 00:40:03,479
Speaker 2: But I swear we were going uh uh.

693
00:40:05,840 --> 00:40:13,359
Speaker 1: Not because they couldn't do it because I couldn't do it.

694
00:40:14,480 --> 00:40:17,880
Speaker 2: God's not going slow because he can't do it.

695
00:40:19,640 --> 00:40:23,080
Speaker 1: But somebody who knows what I'm talking about, Let's get

696
00:40:23,080 --> 00:40:28,240
Speaker 1: in this. Let's get in this. Yeah. Yeah. God didn't

697
00:40:28,320 --> 00:40:34,520
Speaker 1: say no because he can't. God said slow because you

698
00:40:34,680 --> 00:40:37,680
Speaker 1: can't yet. But if we can do it.

699
00:40:43,480 --> 00:40:47,040
Speaker 2: I still remember this all those years because.

700
00:40:46,760 --> 00:40:48,360
Speaker 1: They slowed it down for me.

701
00:40:48,560 --> 00:40:51,200
Speaker 2: You gotta go slow for Steven. Steven can't do all

702
00:40:51,239 --> 00:40:53,400
Speaker 2: that real quick. He's got a good heart, but he

703
00:40:53,440 --> 00:40:57,040
Speaker 2: needs it real slow. Peter's real slow. John's kind of slow,

704
00:40:57,239 --> 00:41:00,000
Speaker 2: Nathaniel's kind of slow. The Disciples are kind of slow.

705
00:41:00,440 --> 00:41:03,440
Speaker 2: How many are willing to admit it may take God

706
00:41:03,600 --> 00:41:06,600
Speaker 2: slowing this down in my life, and it might not

707
00:41:06,680 --> 00:41:10,000
Speaker 2: be giving it to me when I want it out

708
00:41:10,040 --> 00:41:21,640
Speaker 2: of kindness. God making it convenient isn't always kind. I

709
00:41:21,680 --> 00:41:24,880
Speaker 2: think it would be amazing, right if he said, okay,

710
00:41:25,000 --> 00:41:29,560
Speaker 2: y'all are out of wine. Okay, and Mary says they're

711
00:41:29,600 --> 00:41:34,040
Speaker 2: out of wine, and Jesus says, I already got that

712
00:41:34,080 --> 00:41:34,680
Speaker 2: taken care of.

713
00:41:37,520 --> 00:41:40,400
Speaker 1: I found the will. Because y'all picture this miracle like

714
00:41:40,440 --> 00:41:45,879
Speaker 1: they had a water hose. This water was not ionized.

715
00:41:45,960 --> 00:41:47,160
Speaker 1: There is no faucet.

716
00:41:47,760 --> 00:41:50,360
Speaker 4: Picture the miracle. Picture the miracle, Picture the miracle.

717
00:41:50,600 --> 00:41:52,600
Speaker 2: They said, we're out of wine. Now we're running out

718
00:41:52,600 --> 00:41:53,840
Speaker 2: of wine, not we're gonna be out of wine in

719
00:41:53,840 --> 00:41:55,640
Speaker 2: a couple hours. Let's do something about it. Now we're

720
00:41:55,680 --> 00:41:58,839
Speaker 2: out of wine, when now we need wine whin?

721
00:41:59,080 --> 00:41:59,440
Speaker 4: Now?

722
00:41:59,600 --> 00:42:02,120
Speaker 2: This is us frustrating about this kind of preaching, right,

723
00:42:02,400 --> 00:42:05,280
Speaker 2: It's like wonderful, awesome, glorious Gray, You're.

724
00:42:05,160 --> 00:42:06,240
Speaker 1: Doing steps on the stage.

725
00:42:06,280 --> 00:42:07,880
Speaker 2: But I'm just struggling through things that are real in

726
00:42:07,920 --> 00:42:11,600
Speaker 2: my life and I don't have time for that right now. Well, well, well,

727
00:42:11,760 --> 00:42:18,560
Speaker 2: maybe there is something that Jesus wants to do in

728
00:42:18,600 --> 00:42:23,359
Speaker 2: the process that will teach you where to go back

729
00:42:23,400 --> 00:42:31,200
Speaker 2: when you need it again, because I'm thinking he would

730
00:42:31,239 --> 00:42:35,000
Speaker 2: have the power to go out to the well wherever

731
00:42:35,040 --> 00:42:36,520
Speaker 2: they're getting the water from.

732
00:42:37,000 --> 00:42:38,680
Speaker 1: I need to slow this down one more.

733
00:42:38,560 --> 00:42:41,839
Speaker 2: Time, just to get my point across. Okay, Jesus, they

734
00:42:41,880 --> 00:42:44,360
Speaker 2: have no more wine, What does that have to do

735
00:42:44,400 --> 00:42:50,080
Speaker 2: with me? Right, We've got a request, a refusal, and

736
00:42:50,120 --> 00:42:52,920
Speaker 2: then a revelation. Well, what's the revelation? Of course, he

737
00:42:53,120 --> 00:42:57,000
Speaker 2: is the new wine. There's an old covenant represented by

738
00:42:57,000 --> 00:43:00,000
Speaker 2: the water. There's a new covenant that will be made

739
00:43:00,160 --> 00:43:03,480
Speaker 2: in his blood and ratified by his death, and he's

740
00:43:03,480 --> 00:43:05,919
Speaker 2: showing us that to be filled with his spirit. All

741
00:43:05,960 --> 00:43:11,000
Speaker 2: of that is symbolized in the text. But simply put,

742
00:43:11,680 --> 00:43:13,360
Speaker 2: this would have took a while to do what he

743
00:43:13,400 --> 00:43:15,880
Speaker 2: told him to do. I love what Mary said in

744
00:43:15,960 --> 00:43:20,200
Speaker 2: verse five. Do whatever he tells you. Maybe that's the

745
00:43:20,280 --> 00:43:25,000
Speaker 2: lesson he's been trying to teach us, y'all, because we've

746
00:43:25,000 --> 00:43:27,320
Speaker 2: been doing all kinds of math in our life about

747
00:43:28,239 --> 00:43:30,080
Speaker 2: this and that, and this needs to happen and that

748
00:43:30,160 --> 00:43:32,560
Speaker 2: needs to happen. And Mary goes, do whatever he tells you.

749
00:43:33,680 --> 00:43:34,319
Speaker 1: That's the math.

750
00:43:35,560 --> 00:43:38,480
Speaker 2: A few months ago, we were online talking about girl math.

751
00:43:40,200 --> 00:43:43,000
Speaker 2: You remember that, And then Holly showed me one the

752
00:43:43,040 --> 00:43:46,839
Speaker 2: other day called mom math. It was when you're calculating

753
00:43:46,840 --> 00:43:48,720
Speaker 2: all the times we need to be there at seven,

754
00:43:48,800 --> 00:43:50,920
Speaker 2: so we need to have our shoes on by six fifteen,

755
00:43:51,200 --> 00:43:52,640
Speaker 2: so that means we need to wake up by It

756
00:43:52,760 --> 00:43:53,360
Speaker 2: was hilarious.

757
00:43:53,400 --> 00:43:56,640
Speaker 1: I saw it. I said, oh, well, this week.

758
00:43:56,520 --> 00:44:01,520
Speaker 2: I'm preaching about Mary math and Mary math goes like this,

759
00:44:02,160 --> 00:44:04,160
Speaker 2: We got no wine and a lot of people. Do

760
00:44:04,239 --> 00:44:10,319
Speaker 2: whatever he tells you. Stop letting the math distract you.

761
00:44:12,800 --> 00:44:15,719
Speaker 2: I'll have enough time. I'll have enough years. Yet I'm

762
00:44:15,760 --> 00:44:17,879
Speaker 2: not old enough to do that. I'm not young enough

763
00:44:17,920 --> 00:44:21,520
Speaker 2: to do that. Don't let the math distract you. Don't

764
00:44:21,680 --> 00:44:24,960
Speaker 2: let the math distract you. For as we will see,

765
00:44:25,200 --> 00:44:28,319
Speaker 2: five loaves and two fish can feed five thousand if

766
00:44:28,320 --> 00:44:30,920
Speaker 2: you do what he says. Now, if you don't do

767
00:44:31,000 --> 00:44:33,319
Speaker 2: what he says, you're on your own. Get your calculator

768
00:44:33,320 --> 00:44:36,200
Speaker 2: and good luck. But if you do what he says

769
00:44:36,239 --> 00:44:40,160
Speaker 2: in each moment, if you'll get attuned to the process

770
00:44:41,440 --> 00:44:45,319
Speaker 2: instead of just being a consumer, you will not need

771
00:44:45,360 --> 00:44:50,200
Speaker 2: God to give you something external to produce something wonderful.

772
00:44:51,400 --> 00:44:55,360
Speaker 2: For the Bible says that when Mary activated the presence

773
00:44:55,400 --> 00:44:57,879
Speaker 2: of Jesus, what changed. They're out of wine that has

774
00:44:57,920 --> 00:44:59,480
Speaker 2: nothing to do with my hour has not yet come.

775
00:44:59,600 --> 00:45:01,840
Speaker 2: When he's that's my hour, he's talking about his death.

776
00:45:03,400 --> 00:45:05,120
Speaker 2: He's not saying I won't do it because there's not

777
00:45:05,120 --> 00:45:12,640
Speaker 2: time yet. He's re establishing the big picture. There's a request,

778
00:45:13,040 --> 00:45:16,920
Speaker 2: a refusal. That's where some of you are today. The refusal, Well,

779
00:45:16,960 --> 00:45:19,239
Speaker 2: life won't let me, Well, they won't let me. Will

780
00:45:19,280 --> 00:45:21,960
Speaker 2: I tried that. I've been trying that for years. The refusal,

781
00:45:22,719 --> 00:45:23,480
Speaker 2: And then there.

782
00:45:23,400 --> 00:45:30,000
Speaker 1: Is get ready a reset. He reminds her, my hour

783
00:45:30,120 --> 00:45:33,799
Speaker 1: is not yet calm, this is not my ultimate destination.

784
00:45:34,840 --> 00:45:38,160
Speaker 2: And then she realizes there's nothing that she needs to

785
00:45:38,239 --> 00:45:41,560
Speaker 2: convince him to do. All she has to do is

786
00:45:41,680 --> 00:45:47,160
Speaker 2: convince them to do what he says the moment, she says,

787
00:45:47,360 --> 00:45:50,600
Speaker 2: do whatever he tells you. It's like me with Graham

788
00:45:50,640 --> 00:45:54,960
Speaker 2: and wrestling. She doesn't know much, but she's coaching.

789
00:45:55,000 --> 00:46:00,920
Speaker 1: Good you hear me. You don't have to know that much.

790
00:46:02,360 --> 00:46:04,719
Speaker 2: You just have to get going in the next thing

791
00:46:04,800 --> 00:46:10,719
Speaker 2: he tells you to do, which meant for this miracle,

792
00:46:10,760 --> 00:46:14,960
Speaker 2: which meant for this moment, which meant for this occasion

793
00:46:15,840 --> 00:46:18,520
Speaker 2: that they had to go out get the water from

794
00:46:18,600 --> 00:46:21,640
Speaker 2: the well. Why did Jesus not just bless the well

795
00:46:21,719 --> 00:46:24,960
Speaker 2: and everything that came out of it was wine? Why

796
00:46:25,000 --> 00:46:29,080
Speaker 2: are we taking bucket after bucket after bucket, putting it

797
00:46:29,239 --> 00:46:31,600
Speaker 2: down in the well, drawing it out of the well,

798
00:46:31,880 --> 00:46:35,480
Speaker 2: carrying it into the house, finding the jars. We've dumped

799
00:46:35,480 --> 00:46:37,319
Speaker 2: a bucket. Do you know how big these buckets were?

800
00:46:37,520 --> 00:46:41,799
Speaker 2: Two gallons? Do you remember how big the jars are?

801
00:46:42,280 --> 00:46:47,279
Speaker 1: Thirty? That's like, Hey, let me do some preacher math

802
00:46:47,320 --> 00:46:49,600
Speaker 1: real quick. What's that like?

803
00:46:51,000 --> 00:46:55,320
Speaker 2: Fifteen ish, Yeah, twenty to thirty gallons, so there's some variants.

804
00:46:55,320 --> 00:46:58,880
Speaker 1: But and now I got to do this two gallons

805
00:46:58,880 --> 00:47:02,640
Speaker 1: at a time. But that seems pointless.

806
00:47:03,680 --> 00:47:08,239
Speaker 2: If you're Jesus, go out bless the well and then

807
00:47:08,280 --> 00:47:09,000
Speaker 2: we'll just take it in.

808
00:47:10,160 --> 00:47:12,200
Speaker 4: But the real revelation to me was in this.

809
00:47:12,440 --> 00:47:13,719
Speaker 1: I think you missed this when I read. I think

810
00:47:13,760 --> 00:47:14,640
Speaker 1: you missed it when I read it.

811
00:47:15,840 --> 00:47:18,160
Speaker 2: While they were going out to the well and back

812
00:47:18,200 --> 00:47:23,879
Speaker 2: and forth, there wasn't just two gallon bucket, thirty gallon,

813
00:47:24,000 --> 00:47:25,200
Speaker 2: fifteen fillings.

814
00:47:24,800 --> 00:47:26,080
Speaker 1: Which would have taken a while.

815
00:47:27,000 --> 00:47:31,120
Speaker 2: The Bible says, in verse chapter seven, Jesus said to

816
00:47:31,160 --> 00:47:32,360
Speaker 2: the servants.

817
00:47:31,920 --> 00:47:34,000
Speaker 4: Watch this very carefully, very carefully.

818
00:47:34,200 --> 00:47:36,040
Speaker 2: Now I'm coming to the point of the message that

819
00:47:36,080 --> 00:47:37,520
Speaker 2: I preached all the way here to get you to,

820
00:47:37,760 --> 00:47:40,000
Speaker 2: because I see you in your life struggling with some stuff,

821
00:47:40,080 --> 00:47:41,960
Speaker 2: and I see you in your life dealing with some things,

822
00:47:42,040 --> 00:47:43,560
Speaker 2: and I see you in your life going through a

823
00:47:43,600 --> 00:47:46,560
Speaker 2: process that at this maybe this intersection of your life

824
00:47:46,560 --> 00:47:49,440
Speaker 2: seems a little pointless. The Bible says, Jesus said to

825
00:47:49,480 --> 00:47:51,640
Speaker 2: the servants, fill the jars with water.

826
00:47:52,000 --> 00:47:57,799
Speaker 1: So they filled them to the brim. Read again, he

827
00:47:57,880 --> 00:47:58,600
Speaker 1: said fill.

828
00:47:58,400 --> 00:48:05,720
Speaker 2: The jars with water, so they filled them to the brim.

829
00:48:05,880 --> 00:48:09,560
Speaker 1: Verse eight. Then he told them, now draw some out.

830
00:48:11,120 --> 00:48:14,160
Speaker 2: What's your point, pastor you're really slowing down here. Do

831
00:48:14,239 --> 00:48:16,880
Speaker 2: you have a purpose or struggling on how to close?

832
00:48:17,000 --> 00:48:20,279
Speaker 2: Or do you just want the parking lot to be

833
00:48:20,360 --> 00:48:22,160
Speaker 2: chaotic between services today?

834
00:48:22,200 --> 00:48:23,160
Speaker 1: Are you sadistic?

835
00:48:23,640 --> 00:48:23,960
Speaker 4: Huh?

836
00:48:24,880 --> 00:48:28,320
Speaker 2: I'm slowing it down to show you something. I'm slowing

837
00:48:28,320 --> 00:48:29,799
Speaker 2: it down to show you somethingting verse some of them there.

838
00:48:29,840 --> 00:48:35,040
Speaker 2: Then you said to them, fill the jars with water.

839
00:48:35,160 --> 00:48:38,600
Speaker 2: So they filled them to the brim, which is fine,

840
00:48:38,680 --> 00:48:42,680
Speaker 2: but this is an emergency. We have no wine and

841
00:48:42,719 --> 00:48:44,759
Speaker 2: a lot of people in this culture that was the

842
00:48:44,880 --> 00:48:47,040
Speaker 2: ultimate shame because I know what some of you are thinking.

843
00:48:47,280 --> 00:48:50,120
Speaker 2: It was probably good that the alcohol got cut off

844
00:48:50,440 --> 00:48:52,520
Speaker 2: at this point in the week long wedding.

845
00:48:52,560 --> 00:48:54,720
Speaker 1: Maybe that was God making them run out of wine.

846
00:48:55,000 --> 00:48:55,759
Speaker 1: It's symbolic.

847
00:48:57,160 --> 00:49:01,240
Speaker 2: It's a culture of honor and there is shame present,

848
00:49:02,080 --> 00:49:04,880
Speaker 2: and so Jesus is stepping in not to deal with

849
00:49:04,960 --> 00:49:07,719
Speaker 2: their alcoholic consumption situation.

850
00:49:09,640 --> 00:49:16,280
Speaker 4: He's dealing with their shame. And one thing that feels

851
00:49:16,320 --> 00:49:16,759
Speaker 4: really bad.

852
00:49:16,760 --> 00:49:19,560
Speaker 2: I don't know about you, but I hate the feeling

853
00:49:19,600 --> 00:49:26,320
Speaker 2: in life like I've fallen behind, the embarrassment of thinking

854
00:49:26,560 --> 00:49:28,319
Speaker 2: I should know how to do that by now and

855
00:49:28,360 --> 00:49:32,759
Speaker 2: I don't. The embarrassment of feeling like I should have

856
00:49:32,800 --> 00:49:34,320
Speaker 2: my family here by.

857
00:49:34,160 --> 00:49:35,160
Speaker 1: Now and I don't.

858
00:49:36,920 --> 00:49:40,279
Speaker 2: The embarrassment of going I should have whipped this six

859
00:49:40,360 --> 00:49:45,880
Speaker 2: years ago and I didn't. Now, the fear of falling

860
00:49:45,960 --> 00:49:50,839
Speaker 2: behind has been combined with the reality of being at

861
00:49:50,880 --> 00:49:55,880
Speaker 2: the bottom. There is no wine. This is an emergency.

862
00:49:55,920 --> 00:50:02,120
Speaker 2: This is urgent. So why would it Jesus let them

863
00:50:02,160 --> 00:50:06,080
Speaker 2: fill one jar and start distributing it.

864
00:50:07,520 --> 00:50:09,240
Speaker 1: Why read the text.

865
00:50:10,160 --> 00:50:13,200
Speaker 2: It says they had to draw out the water and

866
00:50:13,360 --> 00:50:17,200
Speaker 2: fill them to the brim. That means they had to

867
00:50:17,239 --> 00:50:20,560
Speaker 2: fill all six before anything changed.

868
00:50:22,440 --> 00:50:23,439
Speaker 1: It wasn't as if.

869
00:50:23,360 --> 00:50:26,520
Speaker 2: They poured the water and the water became wine, because

870
00:50:26,560 --> 00:50:30,240
Speaker 2: that would have made sense. And if it made sense,

871
00:50:30,360 --> 00:50:33,840
Speaker 2: then maybe they would have been addicted to it instead

872
00:50:33,840 --> 00:50:40,000
Speaker 2: of believing in him. So they're pouring water. Water doesn't

873
00:50:40,040 --> 00:50:41,920
Speaker 2: turn to wine. I don't care how much of it

874
00:50:41,960 --> 00:50:47,120
Speaker 2: you pour. There's no grapes in this situation. There is

875
00:50:47,239 --> 00:50:50,480
Speaker 2: nothing to suggest this is going to work. So the

876
00:50:50,560 --> 00:50:54,800
Speaker 2: service pouring and pouring and sweating and pouring and sweating

877
00:50:54,920 --> 00:50:57,280
Speaker 2: and pouring and checking anything.

878
00:50:56,920 --> 00:50:59,600
Speaker 4: Happened yet if you didn't getting wine, did he bring

879
00:50:59,600 --> 00:51:00,000
Speaker 4: the wine?

880
00:51:00,080 --> 00:51:01,200
Speaker 1: And not yet?

881
00:51:01,480 --> 00:51:03,040
Speaker 4: And so now imagine they.

882
00:51:02,960 --> 00:51:04,160
Speaker 1: Get the first jar full.

883
00:51:04,320 --> 00:51:08,239
Speaker 2: That's fifteen that's fifteen buckets full. There's plenty to demonstrate that.

884
00:51:08,280 --> 00:51:10,640
Speaker 2: I take you seriously. And and and the head the

885
00:51:10,680 --> 00:51:13,319
Speaker 2: head server comes over and says, uh, Jesus, can.

886
00:51:13,200 --> 00:51:14,200
Speaker 1: We take some over to the people now?

887
00:51:14,280 --> 00:51:15,520
Speaker 2: Kind of get them calmed down a little bit because

888
00:51:15,520 --> 00:51:17,160
Speaker 2: there's no wine, and you know how even give we

889
00:51:17,200 --> 00:51:18,279
Speaker 2: just say one over there and we'll keep one up

890
00:51:18,320 --> 00:51:22,360
Speaker 2: the others. He said, no, no, no, not now. Fill the

891
00:51:22,400 --> 00:51:26,799
Speaker 2: next one, fill the next one. But can we take

892
00:51:26,800 --> 00:51:31,120
Speaker 2: this one? No, not now, not now.

893
00:51:32,520 --> 00:51:33,200
Speaker 1: It was not.

894
00:51:35,120 --> 00:51:42,359
Speaker 2: Until every jar was filled to the brim and the

895
00:51:42,400 --> 00:51:47,680
Speaker 2: water was drawn out of the last filled jar that

896
00:51:47,800 --> 00:51:48,720
Speaker 2: it became Why.

897
00:51:50,920 --> 00:51:55,320
Speaker 1: Why did God make every jar have to be filled?

898
00:51:56,360 --> 00:51:59,840
Speaker 2: Why has God allowed you to pray about this for

899
00:52:00,239 --> 00:52:04,320
Speaker 2: so long? Why has God not just waved his wand

900
00:52:04,480 --> 00:52:11,840
Speaker 2: over our situation? Why did he reset in order to reveal?

901
00:52:14,360 --> 00:52:17,840
Speaker 2: It is only after the jars are filled. It is

902
00:52:17,920 --> 00:52:20,480
Speaker 2: only after I'm telling you what I know from my life.

903
00:52:20,560 --> 00:52:23,520
Speaker 2: It is only after you have done it and done

904
00:52:23,520 --> 00:52:26,600
Speaker 2: it and done it and I can't speak for everybody

905
00:52:26,600 --> 00:52:28,480
Speaker 2: in the room, but somebody online needs to hear this.

906
00:52:28,520 --> 00:52:29,600
Speaker 1: Give me my camera please.

907
00:52:30,160 --> 00:52:35,960
Speaker 2: It is sometimes when I am almost done trying that

908
00:52:36,000 --> 00:52:40,520
Speaker 2: at that moment in time, that's when God says, now

909
00:52:42,600 --> 00:52:47,040
Speaker 2: it's almost It's not when i'm fresh. It's not when

910
00:52:47,040 --> 00:52:48,279
Speaker 2: I feel like I got this.

911
00:52:49,280 --> 00:52:50,560
Speaker 1: It's not when it makes sense.

912
00:52:50,600 --> 00:52:53,120
Speaker 2: It's not when it should have happened on a human schedule.

913
00:52:53,400 --> 00:52:54,040
Speaker 1: It's at that.

914
00:52:54,000 --> 00:52:55,680
Speaker 2: Moment where I'm like, if I have to pour one

915
00:52:55,680 --> 00:52:58,000
Speaker 2: more two gallon bucket, if I have to do this

916
00:52:58,040 --> 00:53:01,600
Speaker 2: one more time, and nothing is happening, but everything is

917
00:53:01,719 --> 00:53:06,680
Speaker 2: changing in your life. For every time you pore when

918
00:53:06,719 --> 00:53:09,719
Speaker 2: your eyes can't perceive, it.

919
00:53:09,760 --> 00:53:11,480
Speaker 1: Is a building of your.

920
00:53:11,320 --> 00:53:14,880
Speaker 2: Faith that is producing within you the strength to know

921
00:53:15,760 --> 00:53:19,640
Speaker 2: where your help comes from, the strength to know where

922
00:53:19,719 --> 00:53:22,759
Speaker 2: grace comes from. The strength to know that there is

923
00:53:22,800 --> 00:53:32,160
Speaker 2: a fountain filled with blood drawn from Emmanuel's veins. Now

924
00:53:33,400 --> 00:53:34,319
Speaker 2: you can take it.

925
00:53:35,320 --> 00:53:37,560
Speaker 1: Some of the things that you thought in your life were.

926
00:53:37,480 --> 00:53:39,320
Speaker 2: Rejection were not rejection.

927
00:53:39,520 --> 00:53:42,319
Speaker 1: You just weren't ready.

928
00:53:45,000 --> 00:53:50,680
Speaker 2: God is speaking to somebody today who has been told no,

929
00:53:52,239 --> 00:53:52,919
Speaker 2: or so you thought.

930
00:53:54,800 --> 00:53:55,920
Speaker 4: The Lord didn't even say no.

931
00:53:57,640 --> 00:54:01,920
Speaker 1: He said not now, not now.

932
00:54:03,600 --> 00:54:05,080
Speaker 2: For the one who lost a loved one, and you're

933
00:54:05,120 --> 00:54:09,799
Speaker 2: playing God, your prayer has been, will you help me

934
00:54:09,840 --> 00:54:13,799
Speaker 2: understand why this happened? We may never understand certain things

935
00:54:13,800 --> 00:54:15,040
Speaker 2: on this side of heaven.

936
00:54:15,239 --> 00:54:16,800
Speaker 4: God said, not now.

937
00:54:18,280 --> 00:54:20,160
Speaker 2: Now we know in part. Now we see in part.

938
00:54:20,200 --> 00:54:23,880
Speaker 2: Now we prophesy in part. But when what is incomplete

939
00:54:23,920 --> 00:54:25,520
Speaker 2: has been made complete, then we will know. Then we

940
00:54:25,560 --> 00:54:26,440
Speaker 2: will know. Then we will know.

941
00:54:26,520 --> 00:54:27,120
Speaker 1: Then we will know.

942
00:54:27,440 --> 00:54:30,000
Speaker 2: And your job in the meantime is not to understand.

943
00:54:30,040 --> 00:54:34,600
Speaker 2: It is to obey and do whatever he tells you.

944
00:54:36,200 --> 00:54:39,759
Speaker 2: Because I'm telling you, man, some of the stuff that

945
00:54:39,800 --> 00:54:41,880
Speaker 2: God is doing in your life don't happen till all

946
00:54:41,880 --> 00:54:47,319
Speaker 2: the jars are full. And I understand that you fill

947
00:54:47,400 --> 00:54:49,799
Speaker 2: three jars. I understand that you've worked on it for

948
00:54:49,840 --> 00:54:52,520
Speaker 2: four years. I understand it you went back five times,

949
00:54:55,800 --> 00:54:57,839
Speaker 2: but sometimes you got to fill all six.

950
00:54:59,120 --> 00:55:03,240
Speaker 1: In order to see who he is. Because the key.

951
00:55:03,080 --> 00:55:05,239
Speaker 2: Verse of this passage has nothing to do with when

952
00:55:05,239 --> 00:55:07,640
Speaker 2: they drank the wine. It's verse eleven of John chapter two.

953
00:55:08,719 --> 00:55:10,600
Speaker 2: Bible says this was the first of the signs that

954
00:55:10,680 --> 00:55:12,440
Speaker 2: he performed, and.

955
00:55:12,440 --> 00:55:14,800
Speaker 1: He revealed his glory.

956
00:55:14,880 --> 00:55:22,240
Speaker 2: He revealed his glory, He revealed his glory. He refused

957
00:55:22,840 --> 00:55:28,360
Speaker 2: the request so he could reveal his glory, so that

958
00:55:28,440 --> 00:55:34,680
Speaker 2: he reset your expectation, so that he could reveal his glory.

959
00:55:34,840 --> 00:55:37,279
Speaker 2: Because if he just gave you the wine, you'd be

960
00:55:37,320 --> 00:55:41,560
Speaker 2: a consumer. But if he teaches you to trust him,

961
00:55:41,560 --> 00:55:46,040
Speaker 2: you'll be a producer. And there is a process for joy.

962
00:55:46,880 --> 00:55:50,400
Speaker 2: There is a process for trust. There is a process

963
00:55:50,440 --> 00:55:55,120
Speaker 2: for confidence. There is a process. That's what the pouring is.

964
00:55:55,320 --> 00:55:58,040
Speaker 2: It's the process. This is his first son. He will

965
00:55:58,080 --> 00:56:03,360
Speaker 2: do many more, but first you must poor. And Jesus

966
00:56:03,440 --> 00:56:07,640
Speaker 2: is so awesome that the man who tasted the wine said,

967
00:56:07,719 --> 00:56:10,360
Speaker 2: normally they switch out the cheap stuff at this point,

968
00:56:11,440 --> 00:56:12,760
Speaker 2: but you did something different.

969
00:56:14,040 --> 00:56:15,160
Speaker 1: I came to announce.

970
00:56:15,680 --> 00:56:19,080
Speaker 2: Get ready for God to do something different in your life,

971
00:56:20,480 --> 00:56:22,759
Speaker 2: different than you thought, different than you plan, different than

972
00:56:22,800 --> 00:56:24,600
Speaker 2: you hope, different than you put on your list.

973
00:56:29,440 --> 00:56:35,760
Speaker 1: You saved the best till now.

974
00:56:37,960 --> 00:56:41,520
Speaker 2: There are some things in your life that in a

975
00:56:41,600 --> 00:56:46,160
Speaker 2: previous season you were not ready to receive it. But

976
00:56:46,480 --> 00:56:51,440
Speaker 2: God brought you under this word today. Why because it's

977
00:56:51,480 --> 00:56:56,399
Speaker 2: a now moment. It's a now moment. God said, now

978
00:56:56,600 --> 00:57:00,560
Speaker 2: draw it out. Now the jars are filled. Now now

979
00:57:00,719 --> 00:57:03,360
Speaker 2: somebody shout, now, now over.

980
00:57:03,160 --> 00:57:05,400
Speaker 1: Your mental health. Now, over your.

981
00:57:05,280 --> 00:57:21,480
Speaker 2: Business, now over your dream now now it wasn't about you.

982
00:57:21,480 --> 00:57:28,040
Speaker 2: You weren't rejected, you weren't ready yet. I remember when

983
00:57:28,080 --> 00:57:30,520
Speaker 2: I first wanted to write a song with Matt Redman.

984
00:57:31,720 --> 00:57:34,439
Speaker 2: He's the greatest worship songwriter that you could ever meet.

985
00:57:34,480 --> 00:57:36,800
Speaker 2: From the UK or maybe anywhere else in the world.

986
00:57:37,520 --> 00:57:39,160
Speaker 2: I said, write a song with me, write a song

987
00:57:39,200 --> 00:57:41,600
Speaker 2: with me, write a song with me. He was very

988
00:57:41,600 --> 00:57:49,240
Speaker 2: British and polite. He was very passively, kindly affirmative in

989
00:57:49,320 --> 00:57:53,280
Speaker 2: his not now miss yeah mate, we should do that

990
00:57:53,320 --> 00:57:54,680
Speaker 2: one day. Yeah may.

991
00:57:54,720 --> 00:57:56,200
Speaker 1: I'm like, will you could call me mate and write

992
00:57:56,200 --> 00:57:57,800
Speaker 1: a song with me? I want to write a song

993
00:57:57,800 --> 00:57:58,040
Speaker 1: with you.

994
00:57:58,080 --> 00:58:00,440
Speaker 2: This was very early when I was writing songs with

995
00:58:00,480 --> 00:58:03,440
Speaker 2: our team, and I got kind of mad at him

996
00:58:03,440 --> 00:58:04,640
Speaker 2: because I thought, you don't want to write a song

997
00:58:04,640 --> 00:58:04,840
Speaker 2: with me.

998
00:58:04,920 --> 00:58:05,760
Speaker 4: You think I'm just a preacher.

999
00:58:05,760 --> 00:58:06,800
Speaker 1: You don't think I can write a song. I can

1000
00:58:06,840 --> 00:58:08,240
Speaker 1: write a song. I'll show you I don't write a song.

1001
00:58:08,920 --> 00:58:12,200
Speaker 2: And in the meantime, in the meantime, every said meantime, meantime, meantime, meantime, meantime.

1002
00:58:13,480 --> 00:58:16,120
Speaker 4: Along with the incredible team, we wrote songs. We wrote

1003
00:58:16,200 --> 00:58:17,120
Speaker 4: songs we wrote songs.

1004
00:58:17,120 --> 00:58:18,720
Speaker 1: We wrote songs. We wrote songs. I send them to

1005
00:58:18,720 --> 00:58:20,160
Speaker 1: mad I say, art Thee's good, won't you write with me?

1006
00:58:20,240 --> 00:58:21,280
Speaker 1: Artie's good? Won't you write with me?

1007
00:58:21,360 --> 00:58:21,520
Speaker 4: Once?

1008
00:58:21,600 --> 00:58:23,320
Speaker 1: You write with me? And you know what Matt did.

1009
00:58:24,160 --> 00:58:26,680
Speaker 2: One day I was preaching and I was up on

1010
00:58:26,680 --> 00:58:30,280
Speaker 2: the stage at a big conference, thirty thousand people. He

1011
00:58:30,320 --> 00:58:33,040
Speaker 2: was there leading music, and I said a statement in

1012
00:58:33,040 --> 00:58:35,480
Speaker 2: my sermon. I was preaching on don't stop on six,

1013
00:58:36,280 --> 00:58:38,240
Speaker 2: which I could preach that from the stone jars too.

1014
00:58:40,080 --> 00:58:43,680
Speaker 2: And then the line that I said was the promise

1015
00:58:43,760 --> 00:58:49,560
Speaker 2: still stands. And he came up to me after my session.

1016
00:58:49,560 --> 00:58:53,680
Speaker 1: He goes mate. I said, yes, it was an amazing

1017
00:58:53,720 --> 00:58:56,280
Speaker 1: message and that should be a song.

1018
00:58:56,760 --> 00:59:00,520
Speaker 2: The promise still stands, And I said, will you write

1019
00:59:00,560 --> 00:59:07,360
Speaker 2: it with me? He said yes, so I'm gonna share

1020
00:59:07,400 --> 00:59:14,600
Speaker 2: with you. He wasn't saying no, he was saying yes,

1021
00:59:14,680 --> 00:59:21,720
Speaker 2: not yet. And I'm glad he told me no because

1022
00:59:21,760 --> 00:59:24,280
Speaker 2: it made me go back and dig to find out

1023
00:59:24,480 --> 00:59:32,960
Speaker 2: what I had. Chunks, who was my very first person

1024
00:59:33,000 --> 00:59:38,440
Speaker 2: who joined the church right after Holly joined it, he

1025
00:59:38,520 --> 00:59:39,400
Speaker 2: was there and he heard it.

1026
00:59:39,880 --> 00:59:43,120
Speaker 4: We had three hours before we had to fly three hours.

1027
00:59:43,400 --> 00:59:44,880
Speaker 1: He said, y'all go right this.

1028
00:59:45,040 --> 00:59:45,680
Speaker 4: I said, no, we'll do it.

1029
00:59:45,760 --> 00:59:46,960
Speaker 2: We'll do it another time. He said, no, you bear

1030
00:59:46,960 --> 00:59:48,480
Speaker 2: to do it now. He might not want to write

1031
00:59:48,520 --> 00:59:51,480
Speaker 2: with you after he forgets that sermon. He said, I'll

1032
00:59:51,480 --> 00:59:53,240
Speaker 2: get some chicken wings from room service, bring it up

1033
00:59:53,240 --> 00:59:55,280
Speaker 2: to the room, and y'all can eat. In the worst

1034
00:59:55,320 --> 00:59:57,200
Speaker 2: case scenario, you'll hang out for a couple hours. I

1035
00:59:57,280 --> 00:59:58,600
Speaker 2: get everything thing care of. I make sure we don't

1036
00:59:58,600 --> 01:00:00,160
Speaker 2: miss the flight. I'll come get you exact lasts moment.

1037
01:00:00,160 --> 01:00:01,840
Speaker 2: I come at a very last minute, and I'll get you.

1038
01:00:01,880 --> 01:00:06,560
Speaker 2: And we sat there and we got almost nothing. The

1039
01:00:06,600 --> 01:00:09,280
Speaker 2: only thing we came away from that that I remember.

1040
01:00:09,000 --> 01:00:18,360
Speaker 7: Is walking around these walls. I thought, by now they fall, Well,

1041
01:00:18,400 --> 01:00:21,600
Speaker 7: you have never failed me yet. And then we had

1042
01:00:21,640 --> 01:00:25,760
Speaker 7: to leave, eat some chicken wings, got on a plane.

1043
01:00:27,640 --> 01:00:28,640
Speaker 7: He would text me from.

1044
01:00:28,520 --> 01:00:28,920
Speaker 2: Time to time.

1045
01:00:28,960 --> 01:00:31,000
Speaker 4: I would text him, and he got He was very persistent.

1046
01:00:31,080 --> 01:00:33,600
Speaker 2: He's like, we should work on that thing with the walls,

1047
01:00:33,600 --> 01:00:35,760
Speaker 2: and the promise still stands. And we didn't even have

1048
01:00:35,760 --> 01:00:36,920
Speaker 2: the line that made him want to write it in

1049
01:00:36,920 --> 01:00:37,439
Speaker 2: the song at.

1050
01:00:37,360 --> 01:00:38,120
Speaker 4: That point, I don't remember.

1051
01:00:39,440 --> 01:00:40,120
Speaker 1: We kept going.

1052
01:00:41,240 --> 01:00:42,680
Speaker 2: One day I sent him a thing and went, uh,

1053
01:00:43,280 --> 01:00:47,840
Speaker 2: like don don don, that's what it did. And he

1054
01:00:47,880 --> 01:00:49,720
Speaker 2: sent it back, and he sent it back, but don

1055
01:00:49,840 --> 01:00:55,960
Speaker 2: don Dunn, don don down town. You did it twice

1056
01:00:55,960 --> 01:00:59,960
Speaker 2: months more go by, nothing, nothing, nothing, this song.

1057
01:01:01,320 --> 01:01:05,840
Speaker 1: And then Chris, you remember Chris, we're finishing up a song,

1058
01:01:05,960 --> 01:01:09,960
Speaker 1: the fabled Mountain House. I wish we'd have bought that house.

1059
01:01:09,960 --> 01:01:13,160
Speaker 4: We wrote some good songs in that house, and we should.

1060
01:01:12,920 --> 01:01:13,600
Speaker 1: Have bought that house.

1061
01:01:13,640 --> 01:01:16,640
Speaker 2: But he said, you know, I don't know what you

1062
01:01:16,640 --> 01:01:17,800
Speaker 2: want to work on next, but we still have that

1063
01:01:17,800 --> 01:01:18,600
Speaker 2: thing with you in Redman.

1064
01:01:19,200 --> 01:01:22,240
Speaker 1: I said, the promised dance thing. He said, yeah, and

1065
01:01:22,360 --> 01:01:24,760
Speaker 1: start playing it. And something came up.

1066
01:01:24,800 --> 01:01:32,160
Speaker 8: I've seen you move, you move the mountains, and I

1067
01:01:32,320 --> 01:01:35,240
Speaker 8: believe I'll see you too.

1068
01:01:35,920 --> 01:01:38,000
Speaker 1: Okay, now, think about this.

1069
01:01:39,200 --> 01:01:44,560
Speaker 7: I thought by now bade fall right.

1070
01:01:45,600 --> 01:01:49,840
Speaker 2: You thought by now you'd be different. You thought by

1071
01:01:49,880 --> 01:01:53,240
Speaker 2: now would be easy. You thought by now they would

1072
01:01:53,240 --> 01:01:58,040
Speaker 2: have apologized. You thought by now they would be productive.

1073
01:01:59,080 --> 01:02:01,960
Speaker 2: You thought by now it would have turned around. You

1074
01:02:02,040 --> 01:02:06,080
Speaker 2: thought by now it would have lifted. I think it's

1075
01:02:06,120 --> 01:02:08,520
Speaker 2: amazing that we wrote a.

1076
01:02:08,520 --> 01:02:09,640
Speaker 1: Song together.

1077
01:02:10,960 --> 01:02:17,640
Speaker 2: About God in his infinite faithfulness, from a relationship where

1078
01:02:17,680 --> 01:02:21,640
Speaker 2: I actually felt I had been rejected and I wonder

1079
01:02:23,040 --> 01:02:27,480
Speaker 2: is there an area in your life where you have.

1080
01:02:27,600 --> 01:02:29,040
Speaker 1: Called it rejection?

1081
01:02:30,400 --> 01:02:36,360
Speaker 2: But now God has been using it to get you ready. Yeah,

1082
01:02:36,920 --> 01:02:39,000
Speaker 2: because you thought, well, there's something wrong with me.

1083
01:02:39,080 --> 01:02:43,160
Speaker 1: That's why. That's not why he's teaching you something. He's

1084
01:02:43,200 --> 01:02:44,240
Speaker 1: teaching you how.

1085
01:02:44,120 --> 01:02:48,920
Speaker 3: To fill the jar by faith, say it, Phil, the

1086
01:02:49,120 --> 01:02:52,920
Speaker 3: jar by faith. You fill it two gallons at a time,

1087
01:02:53,240 --> 01:02:55,520
Speaker 3: and every two gallons you carry and.

1088
01:02:55,480 --> 01:02:58,000
Speaker 1: You feel it and it's still water. That's how you

1089
01:02:58,160 --> 01:03:03,200
Speaker 1: learn who God is, by gallon by gallon, by gallon.

1090
01:03:03,480 --> 01:03:06,320
Speaker 2: I feel like preaching God by the gallon, but I

1091
01:03:06,320 --> 01:03:07,080
Speaker 2: don't know who.

1092
01:03:06,960 --> 01:03:09,840
Speaker 1: Is for because it's not gonna come all at once.

1093
01:03:10,520 --> 01:03:14,160
Speaker 2: But when it happens, when it happens, you'll be saying,

1094
01:03:14,680 --> 01:03:18,720
Speaker 2: now he's saved the best till.

1095
01:03:19,280 --> 01:03:31,480
Speaker 1: Now getting rain. So yeah, stand up and I'll close

1096
01:03:31,560 --> 01:03:31,920
Speaker 1: this thing.

1097
01:03:35,000 --> 01:03:37,240
Speaker 2: I can't preach short when I'm talking a message called

1098
01:03:37,280 --> 01:03:41,040
Speaker 2: not now. But I want to tell you it was

1099
01:03:41,160 --> 01:03:46,120
Speaker 2: not God saying no, it's Jesus.

1100
01:03:48,280 --> 01:03:50,160
Speaker 1: I was tossed in a lot.

1101
01:03:50,720 --> 01:03:54,760
Speaker 2: Kind of scary for a second, but I never went under.

1102
01:03:55,720 --> 01:03:56,320
Speaker 1: Because you.

1103
01:03:58,200 --> 01:04:03,080
Speaker 7: Always, well, I love it, Jesus.

1104
01:04:02,960 --> 01:04:07,800
Speaker 1: You sing it when I went through the fire.

1105
01:04:09,600 --> 01:04:13,280
Speaker 7: Yeah, yeah, always you never left me.

1106
01:04:13,720 --> 01:04:17,840
Speaker 1: Hold up, I got one, Jesus.

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Speaker 6: All I got is some pots, but I'll fill.

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Speaker 2: Them with water.

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Speaker 6: You can turn it to wine, Jeeesus, because I still

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Speaker 6: got a god turned.

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Speaker 4: Water to wine.

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Speaker 1: That doesn't make no sense. Water to wine.

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Speaker 2: Wine has the age to get good, not when Jesus

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Speaker 2: does it. Nah, he don't work on your time schedule.

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Speaker 2: Some of the best stuff in your life is still coming,

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Speaker 2: some of the best stuff. I'm the horse forward, the

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Speaker 2: devil Stawar he told to go home, give up, it's

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Speaker 2: over now. The best stuff is still coming. It's still coming.

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Speaker 2: He's at your wedding and it's coming.

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Speaker 1: He's coming to Sita.

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Speaker 2: I was using the.

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Speaker 1: Same bet, the same when golf events on the homes.

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Speaker 9: Shes winter read through this cut it cut a closs,

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Speaker 9: but you.

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Speaker 1: You were close too soon.

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Speaker 2: I'm a Testimoni said.

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Speaker 9: It's kind of been a dame, never been a big

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Speaker 9: never been a moment hs your reading. He's got a

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Speaker 9: been in town, but you didn't see has got off house.

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Speaker 1: Thank you for joining us.

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Speaker 2: Special thanks to those of you who give generously to

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Speaker 2: this ministry. Is because of you that this ministry is possible.

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