WEBVTT - “Not Now” Is Not “No”

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<v Speaker 1>Hey, this is Stephen Ferdick.

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

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

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

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

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<v Speaker 2>Enjoy the message. Yeah, hey, y'all be praying for the

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<v Speaker 2>worship team.

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<v Speaker 1>They're going on tour this week.

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<v Speaker 2>We want we want them covered and smothered in prayer.

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<v Speaker 2>And uh, covered in smothered in prayer. We will see

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<v Speaker 2>you in Boka. I won't be there, be clear, get

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<v Speaker 2>sued or something like that. I bought a ticket, but

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<v Speaker 2>you'll be in Boca ratone on Tuesday and other places.

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<v Speaker 2>Where can we go to find out if there's tickets

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<v Speaker 2>in our area? Elevation Worship dot Com there's still a

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<v Speaker 2>few tickets left. Well, I can say that Elevation Worship

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<v Speaker 2>dot Com. That's all they've got to do.

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<v Speaker 1>That's all they gotta do. Come out worship with us.

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<v Speaker 1>Many nights are sold out.

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<v Speaker 2>If you are not, yep, Hey, how many of you

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<v Speaker 2>have had our new album on.

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<v Speaker 1>Repeat this week?

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<v Speaker 3>Bet me.

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<v Speaker 1>What is your favorite song on the new album? Tell

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<v Speaker 1>me that's mine too. That's my favorite way. We tried

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

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<v Speaker 1>the goal? And I pray that it's blessing you? You

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<v Speaker 1>just we love.

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<v Speaker 2>I speak on behalf of this incredible team of technical geniuses,

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<v Speaker 2>musical geniuses, and as a songwriter for the people of God,

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<v Speaker 2>I speak on behalf of all of our worship leaders.

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<v Speaker 2>I speak on behalf of all of our givers. We

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<v Speaker 2>love creating anthems for you so that you can draw

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<v Speaker 2>close to God in your time of need.

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<v Speaker 1>We consider that a privilege, and so.

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<v Speaker 2>I figure everybody can't take Chris home with them for

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<v Speaker 2>him to say miracle, have to miracle while you're cutting

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<v Speaker 2>the grass and stuff like that. But this is our

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<v Speaker 2>way to just be there with you, far beyond a

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<v Speaker 2>Sunday morning context, and just remind you. I realize early

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<v Speaker 2>in my ministry with the Word of God, that worshiping God.

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

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<v Speaker 2>and then there's the worship that we give to God.

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<v Speaker 2>That doesn't have to do with how we feel, that

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<v Speaker 2>doesn't have to do with a style, but it has

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<v Speaker 2>to do with our response to how good He's been

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<v Speaker 2>that when those two things are in tandem together, you

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<v Speaker 2>become dangerous to the devil, and you become an instrument

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<v Speaker 2>in the hand of God.

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<v Speaker 3>And so.

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<v Speaker 1>Please, please, please, don't let.

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<v Speaker 2>This be the only time in the week that you

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

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<v Speaker 2>the only time of the week that you open your word.

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<v Speaker 1>I desire for you to grow.

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<v Speaker 2>And be strengthened and and.

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<v Speaker 1>To receive everything God has for you. Wow.

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<v Speaker 2>Today I stand before you, ready to preach, excited to preach.

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<v Speaker 2>And the proof of that is Abby said, Dad, I

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<v Speaker 2>saw you on the porch preaching to nobody at six

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<v Speaker 2>am when I woke up. She said, I almost took

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<v Speaker 2>a video of you so I would have proof for

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<v Speaker 2>my therapist one day.

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<v Speaker 1>She didn't say that last part, but I have.

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<v Speaker 2>Been up early, and I was explaining to her that's

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<v Speaker 2>not me preaching to the trees.

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<v Speaker 1>That's God preaching it to me.

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<v Speaker 2>And so then I now get the privilege to preach

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<v Speaker 2>to you.

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<v Speaker 1>We're gonna go to John chapter two.

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<v Speaker 2>Please remain standing for one moment, John chapter two.

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<v Speaker 1>This will be big.

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<v Speaker 2>You might know this Bible story. On the third day

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<v Speaker 2>a wedding took place at Cana in Galilee. Jesus's mother

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<v Speaker 2>was there, and Jesus and his disciples had also been

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<v Speaker 2>invited to the wedding. I love how Jesus is mentioned

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<v Speaker 2>like a plus one and Jesus and his disciples. Verse

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<v Speaker 2>three says when the wine was gone. When the wine

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<v Speaker 2>was gone, Jesus's mother said to him, they have no

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<v Speaker 2>more wine.

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<v Speaker 1>Verse four, Woman, why do you involve me?

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<v Speaker 2>Jesus replied, I practiced reading that verse about thirty times

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<v Speaker 2>out aloud to try to say it in a way

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

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<v Speaker 2>me to say that sequence of words being raised in

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<v Speaker 2>the South that sounds right. Why do you involve me?

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<v Speaker 2>I feel like she might slap me, and she's on

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<v Speaker 2>the second row. She can't even reach me. Woman, why

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<v Speaker 2>do you involve me? Jesus replied, My hour has not

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<v Speaker 2>yet come. His mother said to the servants, do whatever

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<v Speaker 2>he tells you. Nearby stood six stone water jars, the

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<v Speaker 2>kind used by the Jews for ceremonial washing, each holding

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<v Speaker 2>from twenty to thirty gallons.

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<v Speaker 1>That's pretty big.

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<v Speaker 2>Jesus said to the servants, fill the jars with water,

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<v Speaker 2>so they filled them.

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<v Speaker 1>So they filled them to the brim. Then he told them,

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<v Speaker 1>now draw some out.

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<v Speaker 2>And take it to the master of the banquet. They

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<v Speaker 2>did so, and the Master of the banquet tasted the water,

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<v Speaker 2>but it wasn't water anymore.

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<v Speaker 1>He tasted the water that had been turned into wine.

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<v Speaker 1>He did not realize where it.

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<v Speaker 2>Had come from, though the servants who had drawn the

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<v Speaker 2>water knew.

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<v Speaker 1>Then he called the bridegroom aside and said, this is

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<v Speaker 1>weird the way this normally works.

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<v Speaker 2>Everyone brings out the choice wine first, and then the

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<v Speaker 2>cheaper wine after. The guests are too drunk to know

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<v Speaker 2>the difference. But you have saved the best till now.

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<v Speaker 2>But you.

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<v Speaker 1>Have saved the best till now.

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

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<v Speaker 2>and I want you to help me. Tell your neighbor

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<v Speaker 2>the title of my sermon. Look at your neighbor and

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<v Speaker 2>make a distinction for him.

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<v Speaker 1>Tell him neighbor not now.

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<v Speaker 2>Is not No, that was the wrong neighbor. Look at

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<v Speaker 2>your other neighbor who feels rejected. Come on, put it

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<v Speaker 2>in the chat. If you're not in the room, say

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<v Speaker 2>neighbor own neighbor. In case you're disappointed. About something, struggling

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<v Speaker 2>with something for a long time and think it's.

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<v Speaker 1>Never going to come to pass. I want to remind

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<v Speaker 1>you not now is not know. Clap your hands and

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<v Speaker 1>put a praise on this word and advance.

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<v Speaker 3>Not.

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<v Speaker 1>No, it's not known.

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<v Speaker 2>We say yes to your word, Lord speak. We're listening

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<v Speaker 2>in Jesus' name. Amen, you may be seated. Mm hmm.

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<v Speaker 1>I've been waiting to appreciate this one.

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<v Speaker 2>That's the hard part is holding it, getting it, getting

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<v Speaker 2>ready to do it, doing it. Okay, all right, I

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<v Speaker 2>need to set this sermon up by giving you a

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<v Speaker 2>little personal anecdote from my life experience. I have never

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<v Speaker 2>coached one of my children in sports. I just decided

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<v Speaker 2>that my enthusiasm about being their dad shouldn't punish the

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<v Speaker 2>other children on the team with my lack of expertise

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<v Speaker 2>in sports. I think you know what I'm talking about.

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<v Speaker 2>I think you've all had that coach, cussed out that

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<v Speaker 2>coach and complained about that coach. I always coached them

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<v Speaker 2>personally on the sidelines. Graham said something so devious the

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<v Speaker 2>other day because he's a good little wrestler, now good

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<v Speaker 2>big wrestler. Now, it's not literally's same size as me,

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<v Speaker 2>and he said, now that I look back, he said,

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<v Speaker 2>Now that I look back, he said, I thought you.

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<v Speaker 1>I thought you were so ope as a wrestler when

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<v Speaker 1>I was little.

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<v Speaker 2>But now that I look back and realize how little

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<v Speaker 2>you actually knew about wrestling.

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<v Speaker 4>It's amazed.

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<v Speaker 2>It's amazing to me how much you coached me knowing

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<v Speaker 2>most nothing about the sport.

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<v Speaker 1>That's funny. I try to coach my kids for the

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<v Speaker 1>challenges of their life.

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<v Speaker 2>Of course, you know, they didn't sign up to be

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<v Speaker 2>on your team, so they don't care much to listen

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<v Speaker 2>to your advice, and you can't kick them off, and

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<v Speaker 2>so you are limited in your coaching. But I have

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<v Speaker 2>found all joking aside, that to be one of the

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<v Speaker 2>greatest and most stretching challenges and privileges of my life,

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<v Speaker 2>just to be there for them, especially in those moments.

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<v Speaker 2>My oldest son, Elijah, he called me from college and

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<v Speaker 2>this is one of those moments last semester, and I

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<v Speaker 2>think in the transition of being a freshman in college,

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<v Speaker 2>he just wanted to hear my voice on a few things.

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<v Speaker 2>But I could tell that he was down and that

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<v Speaker 2>he was low, and that happens to.

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<v Speaker 1>All of us.

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<v Speaker 2>So after we push past that a little bit, I said,

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<v Speaker 2>I'll tell you what I said. You want to call

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<v Speaker 2>me back at like three o'clock and have something to

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<v Speaker 2>write down with and I'll coach you up a little bit.

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<v Speaker 2>I'll coach you as if you paid me to do it.

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<v Speaker 2>And he said, I would love that.

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<v Speaker 1>And so he called me at the schedule time of

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<v Speaker 1>the appointment, and we did.

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<v Speaker 2>We set up an actual appointment, and I said, Okay,

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<v Speaker 2>what I think you're feeling right now is that you

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<v Speaker 2>are feeling like all of the resources that you relied

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<v Speaker 2>on when you lived at home, you're still resourced, and

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<v Speaker 2>you still have us at college, but you know, everything

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<v Speaker 2>is new to you. And so when I get in

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<v Speaker 2>that place where I am my personal life feel like

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<v Speaker 2>I have reached the end of my resources. And I

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<v Speaker 2>get in that funk, and you know, the devil starts

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<v Speaker 2>telling me the same things he's telling you as a

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<v Speaker 2>college student, but he tells me.

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<v Speaker 1>Them as a grown man.

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<v Speaker 2>That I have nothing really to offer, or that my

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<v Speaker 2>best is behind me, or that I am no longer relevant,

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<v Speaker 2>or that the things that my critics have said about

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<v Speaker 2>me are right, or that you know, just the list

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<v Speaker 2>goes on and on, and I don't want to bore

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<v Speaker 2>you with it. But when I get in that place,

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

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<v Speaker 2>I'm going to take you through this today of how

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<v Speaker 2>to make a list when you feel low. So I said,

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<v Speaker 2>one list that I, of course make that I've taught

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<v Speaker 2>you about is gratitude.

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<v Speaker 1>Things to be grateful for. You've heard about that.

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<v Speaker 2>There's nobody who has a TikTok account who hasn't heard

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

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<v Speaker 2>another type of list that I like to make, and

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<v Speaker 2>it's when I'm basically telling myself that I'm in this

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<v Speaker 2>alone and that nobody is there for me. And I

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

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<v Speaker 2>I'll make a list of every person that is in

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<v Speaker 2>my life that has in a past time or even

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<v Speaker 2>recently said that they would be willing to help me,

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<v Speaker 2>or that I think might be willing to help me,

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<v Speaker 2>even in the smallest way, if they ever helped me before,

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<v Speaker 2>or if I think they might help me, or if

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<v Speaker 2>they mentioned one time that they would help me, I

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<v Speaker 2>will just.

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<v Speaker 1>Start writing a list.

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<v Speaker 2>I said, Now the hardest part is going to be

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<v Speaker 2>to start the list, because right now you're feeling like, well,

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<v Speaker 2>nobody cares about me and nobody likes me. But that's

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<v Speaker 2>just recency bias. That's just the last thing that happened

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<v Speaker 2>to you posing as the biggest thing that happened to you,

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

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<v Speaker 2>you're going to find is when you start writing with

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<v Speaker 2>no discretion, with no editing, you'll have a hard time

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<v Speaker 2>stopping writing the list. Don't qualify anything, don't ask risk anything,

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<v Speaker 2>don't Yeah, but they might or but then if they

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<v Speaker 2>do that for me, I got to do that for them.

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<v Speaker 2>And then if you can't do that, how about somebody

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<v Speaker 2>you could do something for y'all?

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<v Speaker 1>Quiet, you'll like the first part of the list better.

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<v Speaker 2>But I said, sometimes it's better to even say, like, well,

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<v Speaker 2>who's somebody that I could just encourage, Who's somebody that

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<v Speaker 2>I could just send a text to? I said, And

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<v Speaker 2>when you start the list, don't don't stop until you'll

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<v Speaker 2>have to stop yourself, because once you start, trust me.

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<v Speaker 2>And so we do it together on the phone. And

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<v Speaker 2>what I said happened happened because I'm a good coach.

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<v Speaker 1>Just not at sports. And so he starts writing the

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<v Speaker 1>list and he's like, this is crazy, this is amazing.

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<v Speaker 1>You're right, this is crazy, and they know them.

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<v Speaker 4>And I said, see how it happens.

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<v Speaker 2>And now you've got to stop because now I'm going

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<v Speaker 2>to tell you the next hardest part of this. I'm

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<v Speaker 2>going to need you to act on at least one

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<v Speaker 2>of them and reach out and.

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<v Speaker 1>Reach out because you feel low.

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<v Speaker 2>So I want you to. I want you to learn

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<v Speaker 2>the pattern in your life that when you feel low

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<v Speaker 2>on resource, reach in and then reach out. Reach in

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<v Speaker 2>and then reach out, and you don't have to reach

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<v Speaker 2>out to everybody on the list, and you don't have

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<v Speaker 2>to ask them to do something, and you don't have

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<v Speaker 2>to stand there and stare at the bubbles. Because the

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<v Speaker 2>third hardest part of this, and the hardest part of

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<v Speaker 2>all is after you reach out, need you to release

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<v Speaker 2>your need for them to respond, because they might not.

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<v Speaker 1>And if you predicate.

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<v Speaker 2>Your happiness or your strength on their response, you could

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<v Speaker 2>end up worse off after this exercise than you were

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<v Speaker 2>before you did it, because now it will have served

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<v Speaker 2>to have reinforced your insecurity that nobody is there for me.

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<v Speaker 2>So I need you to everybody, repeat after me, Reach

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<v Speaker 2>and release. Say it again, Reach and release. So that's

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<v Speaker 2>what we're gonna do. And he did that, and I

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<v Speaker 2>told him, I said, you might reach out to somebody

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<v Speaker 2>and say, hey, can we get together? Hey, remember when

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<v Speaker 2>we talked about hey, because he was in a state

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<v Speaker 2>that we've all been there before, like I don't really

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<v Speaker 2>have anything, and I don't don't I don't have that

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<v Speaker 2>many people, and I don't have enough. And I said, well,

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<v Speaker 2>the first thing you need to do is remind yourself

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<v Speaker 2>of the resources you have and then reach, but then release,

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<v Speaker 2>because they might get your text, but it's just a

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<v Speaker 2>bad time. It might just be a bad time, and

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<v Speaker 2>you might create stories in your mind that they don't

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<v Speaker 2>like me, they don't care about me, something horrible happened

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<v Speaker 2>that they didn't tell me about.

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<v Speaker 1>They're dead.

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<v Speaker 4>No, they're not dead, they're just asleep.

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<v Speaker 1>Taking a nap.

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<v Speaker 4>It might just be a matter of timing, timing.

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<v Speaker 2>Everybody say, timing, timing, timing, timing. That's what I saw

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<v Speaker 2>in John chapter two, this time that in all of

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<v Speaker 2>my soljourns through this text, joining the milieu of students

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<v Speaker 2>of the scripture through the millennia who have wondered.

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<v Speaker 1>About this question, Why is Jesus.

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<v Speaker 2>At a wedding when he's only got three years to

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<v Speaker 2>change the world. You will recall that his life was

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<v Speaker 2>cut short at the age of thirty three.

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<v Speaker 1>You will recall that for the first thirty years.

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<v Speaker 2>Of his ministry, there is no record of his ministry activity,

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<v Speaker 2>meaning that everything we have that was written about him

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<v Speaker 2>other than him getting lost at the temple one time

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<v Speaker 2>and sitting around with the older teachers, well, it's simply

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<v Speaker 2>isn't there.

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<v Speaker 1>For our records?

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<v Speaker 2>And so the question becomes, Jesus, do you really have

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<v Speaker 2>time to stop buy a wedding when you only have

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<v Speaker 2>three years to change the world? And I'm your discipleship

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<v Speaker 2>team is not exactly executive, world class material.

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<v Speaker 1>You got a lot of work to do with these boys.

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<v Speaker 2>Are you sure you want to take them to a

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<v Speaker 2>wedding on the first week that they're your disciples? Did

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<v Speaker 2>you know that this is the first week that they're

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<v Speaker 2>following Jesus?

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<v Speaker 1>Yeah, where the Bible says show them verse.

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<v Speaker 2>One, Because everything in the text makes me think about

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<v Speaker 2>the timing of Jesus. On the third day a wedding

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<v Speaker 2>took place, and you're like, oh, yeah, the third Day Resurrection.

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<v Speaker 1>Not yet.

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<v Speaker 2>We still got a long way to go till Jesus

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<v Speaker 2>gets up from the grave. He hasn't died yet. He

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<v Speaker 2>hasn't healed blind Bartimaeus. Yet, he hasn't taught the Pharisees

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<v Speaker 2>and the Sadducees with authority and rebuked them for their

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<v Speaker 2>stiff neck adherence to traditions of men rather than the

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<v Speaker 2>ways of God.

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<v Speaker 1>None of that has happened to yet. And it says

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<v Speaker 1>on the third day.

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<v Speaker 2>He went to a wedding, the third day of what

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<v Speaker 2>the third day after he selected his disciples. For years

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<v Speaker 2>I read this and thought it was the third day

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<v Speaker 2>of the wedding feast, because in these days they would

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<v Speaker 2>party for a week at a wedding. So I thought

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<v Speaker 2>it meant the third day of the wedding. That's not

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<v Speaker 2>what it means. Put it back up. On the third

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<v Speaker 2>day a wedding took place at Cana. So we realized

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<v Speaker 2>from the very beginning of this text, it's not happening

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<v Speaker 2>on our timeline. It's happening on his. Thank you Holly, exactly,

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<v Speaker 2>It's happening on his. Tell somebody, it's happening on his

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<v Speaker 2>not your schedule, is happening on his Yeah, it's happening

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<v Speaker 2>on his It's happening on his.

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<v Speaker 1>That is one of the.

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<v Speaker 2>Most difficult lessons for us to learn that sometimes when

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<v Speaker 2>we believe a promise from God, we expect that promise

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<v Speaker 2>to happen according to our plan.

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<v Speaker 1>But it's not happening according to my plan.

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<v Speaker 2>It's not happening on my say So, it's not happening

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<v Speaker 2>according to my preference. Is happening according to his purpose.

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<v Speaker 2>That being said, don't you want to kind of tell

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<v Speaker 2>Jesus to read a leadership book and learn how to

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<v Speaker 2>say no.

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<v Speaker 1>Read the scripture.

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<v Speaker 2>It says on the third day a wedding took place

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<v Speaker 2>Cana in Galilee. Jesus' mother was there, and Jesus and

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<v Speaker 2>his disciples had also been invited to the wedding.

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<v Speaker 1>So you're running Jesus's scheduling.

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<v Speaker 2>You're his administrative assistant, and you're going through all of

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<v Speaker 2>the possible things that the Son of God, the perfect

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<v Speaker 2>Word of God that was made flesh and dwelled among us,

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<v Speaker 2>the one who through and buy whom and for whom

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<v Speaker 2>all things were created that were created. And he's sitting

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<v Speaker 2>down to plan the week and they say, Jesus, we've

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<v Speaker 2>got this wedding in Cana But I told him no,

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<v Speaker 2>and Jesus said, no, actually we're going. No, but Jesus

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<v Speaker 2>is a wedding and we've got to change the world. Yeah, No,

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<v Speaker 2>we're going. And what I took from that that I

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<v Speaker 2>want to pass on to you is that you might

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<v Speaker 2>be surprised where Jesus would show.

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<v Speaker 1>Up if you would invite.

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<v Speaker 2>Him, Because we do think that we got.

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<v Speaker 1>To be almost going under to cry out to him

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<v Speaker 1>for help and then he'll come.

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<v Speaker 2>We do think that we have to be going through

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<v Speaker 2>the fire of hell to call and then he'll come.

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<v Speaker 2>But what if he wants to join you in your

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<v Speaker 2>moments of celebration to make them even sweeter. I don't

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<v Speaker 2>mean you gotta be weird and stop at the ball game.

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<v Speaker 1>Lord, we thank you for that base hit.

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<v Speaker 2>For God, you are the basis of every base hit,

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<v Speaker 2>and on Christ the solid rock. No, just shut up

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<v Speaker 2>and in your heart, have a moment. Tell somebody, have

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<v Speaker 2>a moment, just a moment. What God can do in

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<v Speaker 2>one open moment might change the rest of your life.

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<v Speaker 2>But if you are waiting on what you perceive to

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<v Speaker 2>be a God moment, which means, you know, I can

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<v Speaker 2>call on him in the prison cell. Why not call

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<v Speaker 2>on him and ask him to come to the wedding feast?

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<v Speaker 2>Do he has time for this? And I think that's amazing.

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<v Speaker 2>I think it's amazing that he came to the wedding.

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<v Speaker 2>I think it's amazing that he took the time to

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<v Speaker 2>stop by.

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<v Speaker 1>I think it's.

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<v Speaker 2>Amazing that we don't even know whose wedding it was,

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<v Speaker 2>because who was at the wedding becomes even more important

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<v Speaker 2>than who was married at the wedding. Jesus goes from

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<v Speaker 2>the plus one to the miracle worker in the eyes

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<v Speaker 2>of the disciples. That is where we pick up he

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<v Speaker 2>was invited to a wedding, and verse three says, can

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<v Speaker 2>we just study this verse by verse for a moment? Yeah,

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<v Speaker 2>can we just study this verse by verse for a moment? Okay,

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<v Speaker 2>when the wine was gone. When the wine was gone,

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<v Speaker 2>it would seem to me that if he was already

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<v Speaker 2>at the wedding and he intended to replenish the supply,

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<v Speaker 2>it would have been better to do it when the

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<v Speaker 2>wine was getting a little low. He did not step

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<v Speaker 2>in when the wine got low. It seemed to me

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<v Speaker 2>that if he was coming to the wedding, and he

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<v Speaker 2>is God in the flesh, that he could have brought

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<v Speaker 2>wine to the wedding because he knew they would run out.

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<v Speaker 1>If he's omniscient, and here.

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<v Speaker 2>In lies one of the great mysteries of the mercy

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<v Speaker 2>of God, that he lets the human supply completely run

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<v Speaker 2>out before he steps in.

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<v Speaker 1>Just because you've run out doesn't mean he won't still

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<v Speaker 1>step in.

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<v Speaker 2>I could preach a whole revival of that, because I'm

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<v Speaker 2>preaching to somebody out of energy, out of answers, out

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<v Speaker 2>of ideas, out of innovations, out of people to call,

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<v Speaker 2>out of people to text. I made my list, I

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<v Speaker 2>went through my list. Nobody hit me back. I'm out

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<v Speaker 2>of time, I'm out of opportunities.

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<v Speaker 1>I'm out.

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<v Speaker 2>Just because you're out doesn't mean he won't step in.

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<v Speaker 1>And now you know why.

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<v Speaker 2>We were singing that he's always on time earlier, because

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<v Speaker 2>even though there are some times where he didn't show

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<v Speaker 2>up right when we wanted him to, there were also

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<v Speaker 2>some times that we learned some things in the lag

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<v Speaker 2>time that we would not have learned. Well, I gotta

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<v Speaker 2>break this down, I gotta break this down. If he

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<v Speaker 2>had stepped in immediately. If the wine never ran out,

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<v Speaker 2>it would have been about the wine. If the job

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<v Speaker 2>never dried up, it would have.

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<v Speaker 1>Been about the job. If the relationship would.

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<v Speaker 2>Have always stayed intact and always been easy, it would

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<v Speaker 2>have been.

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<v Speaker 1>About that person.

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<v Speaker 2>So he let it get hard, so he let it

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<v Speaker 2>run out. So we let it run dry, So we

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<v Speaker 2>let it lag a little bit so that when he

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<v Speaker 2>stepped in there would be a revelation. And now there's

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<v Speaker 2>a conversation between Mary, the mother of Jesus and Jesus,

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<v Speaker 2>the Son of God. And this is humorous, and you

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<v Speaker 2>have to see the humor in it, because I really

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<v Speaker 2>can't tell what's going on at first. I really can't,

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<v Speaker 2>because she turns to Jesus verse three and says, they

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<v Speaker 2>have no more wine.

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<v Speaker 1>Two words in Greek. No wine.

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<v Speaker 4>It's a it's a very it's a very strange thing

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<v Speaker 4>for her to say.

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<v Speaker 2>She's not exactly asking him to fix it, but I

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<v Speaker 2>think she's implying that he should. It's one of these

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<v Speaker 2>it's like no wine. And he goes woman, and I'm like,

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<v Speaker 2>what he said, woman, Why do you involve me?

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<v Speaker 1>This is hilarious to me? No wine? Woman? What does

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<v Speaker 1>that have to do with me.

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<v Speaker 2>I watched this statement because we're talking about ti, we're

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<v Speaker 2>talking about time.

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<v Speaker 1>Everybody say time, put it in the chat, say time.

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<v Speaker 1>He said, my hour has not yet come. Okay.

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<v Speaker 2>So she's not exactly asking him to fix it, but

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<v Speaker 2>she's implying that he could. He's not exactly refusing to

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<v Speaker 2>do it, but he's.

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<v Speaker 1>Implying that he might not.

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<v Speaker 2>And I can imagine all of the responses that married

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<v Speaker 2>the Mother of Jesus would have had in this moment

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<v Speaker 2>if she had had an attitude.

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<v Speaker 1>Like many of us. Because what's what he said, It's

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<v Speaker 1>not my.

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<v Speaker 5>Time, not your time. Son, I was a virgin. Think

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

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<v Speaker 5>you talk about not time. And then I carried you nine.

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<v Speaker 2>Months and I was going to Bethlehem for a.

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<v Speaker 1>Census, and no, you couldn't wait for me to get

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<v Speaker 1>back home.

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<v Speaker 2>I was on that donkey behind Joseph, and here you

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<v Speaker 2>came in a barn and you want to talk about

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<v Speaker 2>your time.

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<v Speaker 1>Let's talk about time.

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<v Speaker 2>Maybe it's not a problem. Maybe maybe it's not a controversy.

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<v Speaker 2>Maybe it's not an argument, Maybe it's not a debate.

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<v Speaker 2>Maybe it's not a manipulation. Maybe it's not reluctant. Maybe

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<v Speaker 2>it's a pattern here.

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<v Speaker 4>Let's see a pattern.

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

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<v Speaker 2>there's a refusal, and then there's a revelation.

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<v Speaker 1>There's a request, there's a refusal, and then there's a revelation.

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<v Speaker 2>John chapter seven. Jesus' ministry is really thriving. In John

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<v Speaker 2>chapter seven, many miracles have already been performed. Many blind

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<v Speaker 2>people have already received sight, many of the death have

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<v Speaker 2>been able to hear.

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<v Speaker 4>And Jesus is popular.

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<v Speaker 2>His brothers come to him and say, now, if you

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<v Speaker 2>really want to do this thing right, you need to

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<v Speaker 2>get to Jerusalem where the festival is, because they'll see

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<v Speaker 2>at the festival. And Jesus says something interesting. He said, uh,

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<v Speaker 2>not now, not now. And the Bible says that Jesus's

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<v Speaker 2>brother's winning. Jesus showed up with some sunglasses on a

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<v Speaker 2>little bit later in the week, got there when he

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<v Speaker 2>wanted to.

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<v Speaker 1>Yeah, that's weird, isn't it.

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<v Speaker 2>Because they said you need to go to Jerusalem and

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<v Speaker 2>show everybody who you are.

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<v Speaker 1>Oh, I'm gonna show.

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<v Speaker 4>Him on my time.

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<v Speaker 1>So he told them no.

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

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<v Speaker 4>a difference.

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<v Speaker 2>There were two sisters in a place called Bethany in

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<v Speaker 2>John chapter eleven. Often they would host Jesus at their home.

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<v Speaker 2>One of them loved to cook and one of them

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<v Speaker 2>loved to listen. Jesus could speak and eat, and speak

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<v Speaker 2>and eat. He was in heaven in their home. Eventually,

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<v Speaker 2>their brother Lazarus, whom many believe, had a physical impairment,

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<v Speaker 2>and that is part of the reason that Jesus loved.

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<v Speaker 1>Him so much.

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<v Speaker 2>But we know that whatever the case of his physical

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<v Speaker 2>condition at birth, he was sick and to the point

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<v Speaker 2>of dying.

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<v Speaker 4>So the messenger sent a text to Jesus.

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<v Speaker 2>Modernizing, they sent a message to Jesus, and since there

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<v Speaker 2>was no communication via text message or internet, it took

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<v Speaker 2>a look little while for them to get to Jesus.

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<v Speaker 2>And it took a little while, and he got worse.

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<v Speaker 2>And it took a little while and he got worse. Now,

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<v Speaker 2>the moment that the message arrived in John chapter eleven

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<v Speaker 2>to Jesus, he could have gone to Bethany.

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<v Speaker 1>He did not. He must not have loved them very much.

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<v Speaker 2>You say, no, the Bible says, because he loved them

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<v Speaker 2>he stayed where he was two more days. So here

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<v Speaker 2>comes the message, now heal him. It's a request, and

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<v Speaker 2>here's the response of Jesus. He stays where he is.

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<v Speaker 4>He refuses to move where he is needed the most.

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<v Speaker 1>Why. They've seen him heal.

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<v Speaker 2>They've seen him take a sick person and reach down

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<v Speaker 2>and raise them up. They've seen him speak the word,

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<v Speaker 2>and his word was so powerful that his word went

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<v Speaker 2>where his body did, not in heal, but in his

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<v Speaker 2>Lazarus died.

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

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<v Speaker 2>And when he got to the place finally late Martha

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<v Speaker 2>was upset about it, saying, Lord, if you would have

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<v Speaker 2>been here John, chapter eleven, verse twenty one, check this out.

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<v Speaker 1>My brother would not have died.

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<v Speaker 2>Why did we refuse a request Jesus that would have

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<v Speaker 2>resulted in a healing? You could have done something?

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<v Speaker 1>Da have anything in.

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<v Speaker 2>Your life today that you feel like secretly God could

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<v Speaker 2>have done something about and he didn't.

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<v Speaker 1>Because many times it can be.

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<v Speaker 2>Painful to praise God for being on time when you

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<v Speaker 2>feel like He just stood back and watched stuff happen

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<v Speaker 2>to you that didn't happen to others, watch stuff happen

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<v Speaker 2>to you that you know evil, What stuff happen in

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<v Speaker 2>your life that he could have stopped. She said, Lord,

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<v Speaker 2>if you would have been here, he wouldn't have died.

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<v Speaker 1>And Jesus verse twenty two, here's these words from Martha.

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<v Speaker 2>But I know that even now, God will give you

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<v Speaker 2>whatever you ask.

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<v Speaker 1>What's she talking about. It can't be resurrection.

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<v Speaker 2>We've never seen a resurrection before. But she understands something

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<v Speaker 2>about Jesus. She's heard and teach, She's watched him work,

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<v Speaker 2>she's seen him move, she's felt his presence. She has

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<v Speaker 2>understood that he has this propensity when you get in

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<v Speaker 2>his proximity, to make things possible that seemed otherwise impossible.

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<v Speaker 1>And she said, I.

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<v Speaker 2>Don't know why you said no when we ask you

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<v Speaker 2>to come, but I know what I know that even

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<v Speaker 2>now I need you to high five somebody and say

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<v Speaker 2>I know what I know. I don't know why God

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<v Speaker 2>didn't do it, but I know what I know.

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<v Speaker 1>He can still do it.

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<v Speaker 2>Right now, I find somebody else.

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<v Speaker 1>Say I know what I know. I don't know where

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<v Speaker 1>it's gonna come from, but I know what I know.

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<v Speaker 1>God's got what I need.

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<v Speaker 2>He can't supply it even still.

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<v Speaker 1>I feel God on that sys. I know what I know.

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<v Speaker 2>I don't know what kind of things you're able to

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<v Speaker 2>do that we haven't seen yet. And my brother is

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<v Speaker 2>in the ground, and my kid is on drugs, and

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<v Speaker 2>my life is really in tatters, and I'm in recovery,

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<v Speaker 2>and I got a brother in prison, and I'm in

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<v Speaker 2>the middle of this custody battle, and I get some

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<v Speaker 2>legal problems, and I got an addiction.

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<v Speaker 1>I can't quit. I don't know what you can do

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<v Speaker 1>about that.

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<v Speaker 4>But I know what I know.

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<v Speaker 2>Yo here right.

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<v Speaker 1>Now, see it?

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<v Speaker 6>Lord?

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<v Speaker 2>What f fife? Everybody in your section say, I know

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<v Speaker 2>what I.

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<v Speaker 1>Know, know what I know. I don't know why he

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<v Speaker 1>said no. I don't know why.

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<v Speaker 2>My roommate got an engagement ring and she's a hellion

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<v Speaker 2>and I'm pure and single. I don't know, but I

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<v Speaker 2>know what I know. One day in his courts, one

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<v Speaker 2>day in his house is better than anywhere else. And blessed,

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<v Speaker 2>this is a man who does not walk in the council. Y'all,

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<v Speaker 2>calm down. I'm trying to teach a first five first

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<v Speaker 2>Bible study on a god who turns water into why

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<v Speaker 2>somebody said the other day. You know what they said

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<v Speaker 2>about you on this blog. I said no, but I

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<v Speaker 2>know what I know. It doesn't matter. I know what

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<v Speaker 2>I know.

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<v Speaker 1>Yeah, I know what I know.

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<v Speaker 2>The mystery of this text is just as much of

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<v Speaker 2>a message as the lesson.

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<v Speaker 1>Let me say that again. The mystery of this.

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<v Speaker 4>Text is just as much of a message as the lesson.

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<v Speaker 2>Because the consumers didn't know how the miracle happened.

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<v Speaker 4>The servants did.

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<v Speaker 2>This is where I think when I sat down with

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<v Speaker 2>my son, you know, and or got on the phone

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<v Speaker 2>with him and said, I want to give you.

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<v Speaker 4>I want to give you a process that.

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<v Speaker 1>You can do.

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<v Speaker 2>You know, if he was having a bad day, I

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<v Speaker 2>probably could have cash after him some money and he

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<v Speaker 2>would have been happy. But he would have got the money,

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<v Speaker 2>he would have spent the money, and now he feels

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<v Speaker 2>worse because did you really need three? I'm realizing something

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<v Speaker 2>about Jesus, because how many of you I'm not even

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<v Speaker 2>gonna look at you when I asked this, wait, just

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<v Speaker 2>raise your hand for your ow accountability. How many got

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<v Speaker 2>something in your life right now that's taken longer than

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<v Speaker 2>it should if God is bid? Okay, how many got

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<v Speaker 2>something in your life right now? That you feel like

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<v Speaker 2>God must be telling me. No, he might, he might,

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<v Speaker 2>he might one time in the Bible, David King David

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<v Speaker 2>he wanted to build a temple for God.

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<v Speaker 1>Who better to do it? He wrote all the songs?

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<v Speaker 2>Why not build the house that would house the songs

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<v Speaker 2>that he wrote for God?

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<v Speaker 1>But he didn't get to do it.

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<v Speaker 2>In fact, the prophet told him, go ahead, do it, man,

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<v Speaker 2>that sounds good. And God stopped the prophet in his tracks,

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<v Speaker 2>and the prophet had to pivot and turn back and say,

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<v Speaker 2>I went home and prayed about that thing, and dude,

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<v Speaker 2>I love you so much, and you are so amazing,

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<v Speaker 2>and you are so incredible as a leader. I thought, well,

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<v Speaker 2>surely God will let him do it, and God will

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<v Speaker 2>say yes to you. I mean, you want to build

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<v Speaker 2>God a temple. Why wouldn't God get behind that? It

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<v Speaker 2>is a good thing in your heart. But the Lord said, well,

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<v Speaker 2>he didn't say no. He said not you. That's hard

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<v Speaker 2>to hear.

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<v Speaker 3>Not you.

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<v Speaker 2>He said, your son Solomon is going to do it.

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<v Speaker 2>You got too much blood on your hands. But I'm

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<v Speaker 2>still going to do it through you. And David spent

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<v Speaker 2>the rest of his life storing up the materials to

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<v Speaker 2>hand over.

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<v Speaker 1>For a project.

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<v Speaker 2>That he would never person suddenly receive the benefit from him.

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<v Speaker 2>This is the part of the sermon that you leave

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<v Speaker 2>out if your goal is a shout. But my goal

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<v Speaker 2>is not to just give you a shout in church,

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<v Speaker 2>because if you shout, what do you have a sore throat.

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<v Speaker 4>What we have to learn to.

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<v Speaker 2>Do is realize that Jesus is a miracle worker. Yes,

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<v Speaker 2>Jesus is the savior who paid for our sins on

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<v Speaker 2>the cross, and that is the purpose he came for

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<v Speaker 2>to rise from the grave, to have dominion over death

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

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<v Speaker 2>he is also a teacher, and a good teacher knows

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<v Speaker 2>when to go.

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<v Speaker 1>Maybe he is going.

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<v Speaker 4>Slow because he wants to show you something.

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<v Speaker 2>I hired a guy to teach me guitar years ago,

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<v Speaker 2>and I went to one lesson. He seemed more interested

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<v Speaker 2>in impressing me with how fast he could play it

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<v Speaker 2>than showing me how I could. I thought, this won't work.

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<v Speaker 2>If your whole goal is showing me how much you

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<v Speaker 2>can shred. I leave knowing nothing, and you feel good

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<v Speaker 2>about yourself. The proof that you are good at this

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<v Speaker 2>is that you can slow it down enough that I

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<v Speaker 2>can watch and say, huh, so I do third thread,

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<v Speaker 2>fourth thread, sixth thread, first spread. I mean, if he

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<v Speaker 2>really wanted to teach me, he asked to slow it down.

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<v Speaker 2>We asked Jesus to teach us things, and we're surprised

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<v Speaker 2>when he slows it down. We asked him to teach

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<v Speaker 2>us to be more loving. We are surprised when he

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<v Speaker 2>slows it down. We asked him to give us patience.

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<v Speaker 2>Bad idea. You have seven days of traffic to look forward.

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<v Speaker 1>To the worst traffic of your life.

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<v Speaker 2>You are gonna have Atlanta, Georgia.

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<v Speaker 1>Traffic in Waxaw.

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<v Speaker 2>If you pray for patience, God will stack the deck

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<v Speaker 2>to give you a jazz for and he'll slow it down.

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<v Speaker 1>I wanted to learn.

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<v Speaker 2>When I was in high school, I had some friends

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<v Speaker 2>on the step team.

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<v Speaker 1>I thought that looked really cool.

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<v Speaker 2>I said, teach me just a simple thing on the

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<v Speaker 2>step team, And so they.

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<v Speaker 1>Went real fast. They went something like I see if

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<v Speaker 1>I remember, like.

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<v Speaker 2>See how fast I did. That took about four months.

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<v Speaker 2>I could just do it now.

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<v Speaker 1>It's been like thirty years now.

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<v Speaker 2>But I swear we were going uh uh.

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<v Speaker 1>Not because they couldn't do it because I couldn't do it.

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<v Speaker 2>God's not going slow because he can't do it.

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<v Speaker 1>But somebody who knows what I'm talking about, Let's get

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<v Speaker 1>in this. Let's get in this. Yeah. Yeah. God didn't

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<v Speaker 1>say no because he can't. God said slow because you

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<v Speaker 1>can't yet. But if we can do it.

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<v Speaker 2>I still remember this all those years because.

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<v Speaker 1>They slowed it down for me.

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<v Speaker 2>You gotta go slow for Steven. Steven can't do all

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<v Speaker 2>that real quick. He's got a good heart, but he

0:40:53.440 --> 0:40:57.040
<v Speaker 2>needs it real slow. Peter's real slow. John's kind of slow,

0:40:57.239 --> 0:41:00.000
<v Speaker 2>Nathaniel's kind of slow. The Disciples are kind of slow.

0:41:00.440 --> 0:41:03.440
<v Speaker 2>How many are willing to admit it may take God

0:41:03.600 --> 0:41:06.600
<v Speaker 2>slowing this down in my life, and it might not

0:41:06.680 --> 0:41:10.000
<v Speaker 2>be giving it to me when I want it out

0:41:10.040 --> 0:41:21.640
<v Speaker 2>of kindness. God making it convenient isn't always kind. I

0:41:21.680 --> 0:41:24.880
<v Speaker 2>think it would be amazing, right if he said, okay,

0:41:25.000 --> 0:41:29.560
<v Speaker 2>y'all are out of wine. Okay, and Mary says they're

0:41:29.600 --> 0:41:34.040
<v Speaker 2>out of wine, and Jesus says, I already got that

0:41:34.080 --> 0:41:34.680
<v Speaker 2>taken care of.

0:41:37.520 --> 0:41:40.400
<v Speaker 1>I found the will. Because y'all picture this miracle like

0:41:40.440 --> 0:41:45.879
<v Speaker 1>they had a water hose. This water was not ionized.

0:41:45.960 --> 0:41:47.160
<v Speaker 1>There is no faucet.

0:41:47.760 --> 0:41:50.360
<v Speaker 4>Picture the miracle. Picture the miracle, Picture the miracle.

0:41:50.600 --> 0:41:52.600
<v Speaker 2>They said, we're out of wine. Now we're running out

0:41:52.600 --> 0:41:53.840
<v Speaker 2>of wine, not we're gonna be out of wine in

0:41:53.840 --> 0:41:55.640
<v Speaker 2>a couple hours. Let's do something about it. Now we're

0:41:55.680 --> 0:41:58.839
<v Speaker 2>out of wine, when now we need wine whin?

0:41:59.080 --> 0:41:59.440
<v Speaker 4>Now?

0:41:59.600 --> 0:42:02.120
<v Speaker 2>This is us frustrating about this kind of preaching, right,

0:42:02.400 --> 0:42:05.280
<v Speaker 2>It's like wonderful, awesome, glorious Gray, You're.

0:42:05.160 --> 0:42:06.240
<v Speaker 1>Doing steps on the stage.

0:42:06.280 --> 0:42:07.880
<v Speaker 2>But I'm just struggling through things that are real in

0:42:07.920 --> 0:42:11.600
<v Speaker 2>my life and I don't have time for that right now. Well, well, well,

0:42:11.760 --> 0:42:18.560
<v Speaker 2>maybe there is something that Jesus wants to do in

0:42:18.600 --> 0:42:23.359
<v Speaker 2>the process that will teach you where to go back

0:42:23.400 --> 0:42:31.200
<v Speaker 2>when you need it again, because I'm thinking he would

0:42:31.239 --> 0:42:35.000
<v Speaker 2>have the power to go out to the well wherever

0:42:35.040 --> 0:42:36.520
<v Speaker 2>they're getting the water from.

0:42:37.000 --> 0:42:38.680
<v Speaker 1>I need to slow this down one more.

0:42:38.560 --> 0:42:41.839
<v Speaker 2>Time, just to get my point across. Okay, Jesus, they

0:42:41.880 --> 0:42:44.360
<v Speaker 2>have no more wine, What does that have to do

0:42:44.400 --> 0:42:50.080
<v Speaker 2>with me? Right, We've got a request, a refusal, and

0:42:50.120 --> 0:42:52.920
<v Speaker 2>then a revelation. Well, what's the revelation? Of course, he

0:42:53.120 --> 0:42:57.000
<v Speaker 2>is the new wine. There's an old covenant represented by

0:42:57.000 --> 0:43:00.000
<v Speaker 2>the water. There's a new covenant that will be made

0:43:00.160 --> 0:43:03.480
<v Speaker 2>in his blood and ratified by his death, and he's

0:43:03.480 --> 0:43:05.919
<v Speaker 2>showing us that to be filled with his spirit. All

0:43:05.960 --> 0:43:11.000
<v Speaker 2>of that is symbolized in the text. But simply put,

0:43:11.680 --> 0:43:13.360
<v Speaker 2>this would have took a while to do what he

0:43:13.400 --> 0:43:15.880
<v Speaker 2>told him to do. I love what Mary said in

0:43:15.960 --> 0:43:20.200
<v Speaker 2>verse five. Do whatever he tells you. Maybe that's the

0:43:20.280 --> 0:43:25.000
<v Speaker 2>lesson he's been trying to teach us, y'all, because we've

0:43:25.000 --> 0:43:27.320
<v Speaker 2>been doing all kinds of math in our life about

0:43:28.239 --> 0:43:30.080
<v Speaker 2>this and that, and this needs to happen and that

0:43:30.160 --> 0:43:32.560
<v Speaker 2>needs to happen. And Mary goes, do whatever he tells you.

0:43:33.680 --> 0:43:34.319
<v Speaker 1>That's the math.

0:43:35.560 --> 0:43:38.480
<v Speaker 2>A few months ago, we were online talking about girl math.

0:43:40.200 --> 0:43:43.000
<v Speaker 2>You remember that, And then Holly showed me one the

0:43:43.040 --> 0:43:46.839
<v Speaker 2>other day called mom math. It was when you're calculating

0:43:46.840 --> 0:43:48.720
<v Speaker 2>all the times we need to be there at seven,

0:43:48.800 --> 0:43:50.920
<v Speaker 2>so we need to have our shoes on by six fifteen,

0:43:51.200 --> 0:43:52.640
<v Speaker 2>so that means we need to wake up by It

0:43:52.760 --> 0:43:53.360
<v Speaker 2>was hilarious.

0:43:53.400 --> 0:43:56.640
<v Speaker 1>I saw it. I said, oh, well, this week.

0:43:56.520 --> 0:44:01.520
<v Speaker 2>I'm preaching about Mary math and Mary math goes like this,

0:44:02.160 --> 0:44:04.160
<v Speaker 2>We got no wine and a lot of people. Do

0:44:04.239 --> 0:44:10.319
<v Speaker 2>whatever he tells you. Stop letting the math distract you.

0:44:12.800 --> 0:44:15.719
<v Speaker 2>I'll have enough time. I'll have enough years. Yet I'm

0:44:15.760 --> 0:44:17.879
<v Speaker 2>not old enough to do that. I'm not young enough

0:44:17.920 --> 0:44:21.520
<v Speaker 2>to do that. Don't let the math distract you. Don't

0:44:21.680 --> 0:44:24.960
<v Speaker 2>let the math distract you. For as we will see,

0:44:25.200 --> 0:44:28.319
<v Speaker 2>five loaves and two fish can feed five thousand if

0:44:28.320 --> 0:44:30.920
<v Speaker 2>you do what he says. Now, if you don't do

0:44:31.000 --> 0:44:33.319
<v Speaker 2>what he says, you're on your own. Get your calculator

0:44:33.320 --> 0:44:36.200
<v Speaker 2>and good luck. But if you do what he says

0:44:36.239 --> 0:44:40.160
<v Speaker 2>in each moment, if you'll get attuned to the process

0:44:41.440 --> 0:44:45.319
<v Speaker 2>instead of just being a consumer, you will not need

0:44:45.360 --> 0:44:50.200
<v Speaker 2>God to give you something external to produce something wonderful.

0:44:51.400 --> 0:44:55.360
<v Speaker 2>For the Bible says that when Mary activated the presence

0:44:55.400 --> 0:44:57.879
<v Speaker 2>of Jesus, what changed. They're out of wine that has

0:44:57.920 --> 0:44:59.480
<v Speaker 2>nothing to do with my hour has not yet come.

0:44:59.600 --> 0:45:01.840
<v Speaker 2>When he's that's my hour, he's talking about his death.

0:45:03.400 --> 0:45:05.120
<v Speaker 2>He's not saying I won't do it because there's not

0:45:05.120 --> 0:45:12.640
<v Speaker 2>time yet. He's re establishing the big picture. There's a request,

0:45:13.040 --> 0:45:16.920
<v Speaker 2>a refusal. That's where some of you are today. The refusal, Well,

0:45:16.960 --> 0:45:19.239
<v Speaker 2>life won't let me, Well, they won't let me. Will

0:45:19.280 --> 0:45:21.960
<v Speaker 2>I tried that. I've been trying that for years. The refusal,

0:45:22.719 --> 0:45:23.480
<v Speaker 2>And then there.

0:45:23.400 --> 0:45:30.000
<v Speaker 1>Is get ready a reset. He reminds her, my hour

0:45:30.120 --> 0:45:33.799
<v Speaker 1>is not yet calm, this is not my ultimate destination.

0:45:34.840 --> 0:45:38.160
<v Speaker 2>And then she realizes there's nothing that she needs to

0:45:38.239 --> 0:45:41.560
<v Speaker 2>convince him to do. All she has to do is

0:45:41.680 --> 0:45:47.160
<v Speaker 2>convince them to do what he says the moment, she says,

0:45:47.360 --> 0:45:50.600
<v Speaker 2>do whatever he tells you. It's like me with Graham

0:45:50.640 --> 0:45:54.960
<v Speaker 2>and wrestling. She doesn't know much, but she's coaching.

0:45:55.000 --> 0:46:00.920
<v Speaker 1>Good you hear me. You don't have to know that much.

0:46:02.360 --> 0:46:04.719
<v Speaker 2>You just have to get going in the next thing

0:46:04.800 --> 0:46:10.719
<v Speaker 2>he tells you to do, which meant for this miracle,

0:46:10.760 --> 0:46:14.960
<v Speaker 2>which meant for this moment, which meant for this occasion

0:46:15.840 --> 0:46:18.520
<v Speaker 2>that they had to go out get the water from

0:46:18.600 --> 0:46:21.640
<v Speaker 2>the well. Why did Jesus not just bless the well

0:46:21.719 --> 0:46:24.960
<v Speaker 2>and everything that came out of it was wine? Why

0:46:25.000 --> 0:46:29.080
<v Speaker 2>are we taking bucket after bucket after bucket, putting it

0:46:29.239 --> 0:46:31.600
<v Speaker 2>down in the well, drawing it out of the well,

0:46:31.880 --> 0:46:35.480
<v Speaker 2>carrying it into the house, finding the jars. We've dumped

0:46:35.480 --> 0:46:37.319
<v Speaker 2>a bucket. Do you know how big these buckets were?

0:46:37.520 --> 0:46:41.799
<v Speaker 2>Two gallons? Do you remember how big the jars are?

0:46:42.280 --> 0:46:47.279
<v Speaker 1>Thirty? That's like, Hey, let me do some preacher math

0:46:47.320 --> 0:46:49.600
<v Speaker 1>real quick. What's that like?

0:46:51.000 --> 0:46:55.320
<v Speaker 2>Fifteen ish, Yeah, twenty to thirty gallons, so there's some variants.

0:46:55.320 --> 0:46:58.880
<v Speaker 1>But and now I got to do this two gallons

0:46:58.880 --> 0:47:02.640
<v Speaker 1>at a time. But that seems pointless.

0:47:03.680 --> 0:47:08.239
<v Speaker 2>If you're Jesus, go out bless the well and then

0:47:08.280 --> 0:47:09.000
<v Speaker 2>we'll just take it in.

0:47:10.160 --> 0:47:12.200
<v Speaker 4>But the real revelation to me was in this.

0:47:12.440 --> 0:47:13.719
<v Speaker 1>I think you missed this when I read. I think

0:47:13.760 --> 0:47:14.640
<v Speaker 1>you missed it when I read it.

0:47:15.840 --> 0:47:18.160
<v Speaker 2>While they were going out to the well and back

0:47:18.200 --> 0:47:23.879
<v Speaker 2>and forth, there wasn't just two gallon bucket, thirty gallon,

0:47:24.000 --> 0:47:25.200
<v Speaker 2>fifteen fillings.

0:47:24.800 --> 0:47:26.080
<v Speaker 1>Which would have taken a while.

0:47:27.000 --> 0:47:31.120
<v Speaker 2>The Bible says, in verse chapter seven, Jesus said to

0:47:31.160 --> 0:47:32.360
<v Speaker 2>the servants.

0:47:31.920 --> 0:47:34.000
<v Speaker 4>Watch this very carefully, very carefully.

0:47:34.200 --> 0:47:36.040
<v Speaker 2>Now I'm coming to the point of the message that

0:47:36.080 --> 0:47:37.520
<v Speaker 2>I preached all the way here to get you to,

0:47:37.760 --> 0:47:40.000
<v Speaker 2>because I see you in your life struggling with some stuff,

0:47:40.080 --> 0:47:41.960
<v Speaker 2>and I see you in your life dealing with some things,

0:47:42.040 --> 0:47:43.560
<v Speaker 2>and I see you in your life going through a

0:47:43.600 --> 0:47:46.560
<v Speaker 2>process that at this maybe this intersection of your life

0:47:46.560 --> 0:47:49.440
<v Speaker 2>seems a little pointless. The Bible says, Jesus said to

0:47:49.480 --> 0:47:51.640
<v Speaker 2>the servants, fill the jars with water.

0:47:52.000 --> 0:47:57.799
<v Speaker 1>So they filled them to the brim. Read again, he

0:47:57.880 --> 0:47:58.600
<v Speaker 1>said fill.

0:47:58.400 --> 0:48:05.720
<v Speaker 2>The jars with water, so they filled them to the brim.

0:48:05.880 --> 0:48:09.560
<v Speaker 1>Verse eight. Then he told them, now draw some out.

0:48:11.120 --> 0:48:14.160
<v Speaker 2>What's your point, pastor you're really slowing down here. Do

0:48:14.239 --> 0:48:16.880
<v Speaker 2>you have a purpose or struggling on how to close?

0:48:17.000 --> 0:48:20.279
<v Speaker 2>Or do you just want the parking lot to be

0:48:20.360 --> 0:48:22.160
<v Speaker 2>chaotic between services today?

0:48:22.200 --> 0:48:23.160
<v Speaker 1>Are you sadistic?

0:48:23.640 --> 0:48:23.960
<v Speaker 4>Huh?

0:48:24.880 --> 0:48:28.320
<v Speaker 2>I'm slowing it down to show you something. I'm slowing

0:48:28.320 --> 0:48:29.799
<v Speaker 2>it down to show you somethingting verse some of them there.

0:48:29.840 --> 0:48:35.040
<v Speaker 2>Then you said to them, fill the jars with water.

0:48:35.160 --> 0:48:38.600
<v Speaker 2>So they filled them to the brim, which is fine,

0:48:38.680 --> 0:48:42.680
<v Speaker 2>but this is an emergency. We have no wine and

0:48:42.719 --> 0:48:44.759
<v Speaker 2>a lot of people in this culture that was the

0:48:44.880 --> 0:48:47.040
<v Speaker 2>ultimate shame because I know what some of you are thinking.

0:48:47.280 --> 0:48:50.120
<v Speaker 2>It was probably good that the alcohol got cut off

0:48:50.440 --> 0:48:52.520
<v Speaker 2>at this point in the week long wedding.

0:48:52.560 --> 0:48:54.720
<v Speaker 1>Maybe that was God making them run out of wine.

0:48:55.000 --> 0:48:55.759
<v Speaker 1>It's symbolic.

0:48:57.160 --> 0:49:01.240
<v Speaker 2>It's a culture of honor and there is shame present,

0:49:02.080 --> 0:49:04.880
<v Speaker 2>and so Jesus is stepping in not to deal with

0:49:04.960 --> 0:49:07.719
<v Speaker 2>their alcoholic consumption situation.

0:49:09.640 --> 0:49:16.280
<v Speaker 4>He's dealing with their shame. And one thing that feels

0:49:16.320 --> 0:49:16.759
<v Speaker 4>really bad.

0:49:16.760 --> 0:49:19.560
<v Speaker 2>I don't know about you, but I hate the feeling

0:49:19.600 --> 0:49:26.320
<v Speaker 2>in life like I've fallen behind, the embarrassment of thinking

0:49:26.560 --> 0:49:28.319
<v Speaker 2>I should know how to do that by now and

0:49:28.360 --> 0:49:32.759
<v Speaker 2>I don't. The embarrassment of feeling like I should have

0:49:32.800 --> 0:49:34.320
<v Speaker 2>my family here by.

0:49:34.160 --> 0:49:35.160
<v Speaker 1>Now and I don't.

0:49:36.920 --> 0:49:40.279
<v Speaker 2>The embarrassment of going I should have whipped this six

0:49:40.360 --> 0:49:45.880
<v Speaker 2>years ago and I didn't. Now, the fear of falling

0:49:45.960 --> 0:49:50.839
<v Speaker 2>behind has been combined with the reality of being at

0:49:50.880 --> 0:49:55.880
<v Speaker 2>the bottom. There is no wine. This is an emergency.

0:49:55.920 --> 0:50:02.120
<v Speaker 2>This is urgent. So why would it Jesus let them

0:50:02.160 --> 0:50:06.080
<v Speaker 2>fill one jar and start distributing it.

0:50:07.520 --> 0:50:09.240
<v Speaker 1>Why read the text.

0:50:10.160 --> 0:50:13.200
<v Speaker 2>It says they had to draw out the water and

0:50:13.360 --> 0:50:17.200
<v Speaker 2>fill them to the brim. That means they had to

0:50:17.239 --> 0:50:20.560
<v Speaker 2>fill all six before anything changed.

0:50:22.440 --> 0:50:23.439
<v Speaker 1>It wasn't as if.

0:50:23.360 --> 0:50:26.520
<v Speaker 2>They poured the water and the water became wine, because

0:50:26.560 --> 0:50:30.240
<v Speaker 2>that would have made sense. And if it made sense,

0:50:30.360 --> 0:50:33.840
<v Speaker 2>then maybe they would have been addicted to it instead

0:50:33.840 --> 0:50:40.000
<v Speaker 2>of believing in him. So they're pouring water. Water doesn't

0:50:40.040 --> 0:50:41.920
<v Speaker 2>turn to wine. I don't care how much of it

0:50:41.960 --> 0:50:47.120
<v Speaker 2>you pour. There's no grapes in this situation. There is

0:50:47.239 --> 0:50:50.480
<v Speaker 2>nothing to suggest this is going to work. So the

0:50:50.560 --> 0:50:54.800
<v Speaker 2>service pouring and pouring and sweating and pouring and sweating

0:50:54.920 --> 0:50:57.280
<v Speaker 2>and pouring and checking anything.

0:50:56.920 --> 0:50:59.600
<v Speaker 4>Happened yet if you didn't getting wine, did he bring

0:50:59.600 --> 0:51:00.000
<v Speaker 4>the wine?

0:51:00.080 --> 0:51:01.200
<v Speaker 1>And not yet?

0:51:01.480 --> 0:51:03.040
<v Speaker 4>And so now imagine they.

0:51:02.960 --> 0:51:04.160
<v Speaker 1>Get the first jar full.

0:51:04.320 --> 0:51:08.239
<v Speaker 2>That's fifteen that's fifteen buckets full. There's plenty to demonstrate that.

0:51:08.280 --> 0:51:10.640
<v Speaker 2>I take you seriously. And and and the head the

0:51:10.680 --> 0:51:13.319
<v Speaker 2>head server comes over and says, uh, Jesus, can.

0:51:13.200 --> 0:51:14.200
<v Speaker 1>We take some over to the people now?

0:51:14.280 --> 0:51:15.520
<v Speaker 2>Kind of get them calmed down a little bit because

0:51:15.520 --> 0:51:17.160
<v Speaker 2>there's no wine, and you know how even give we

0:51:17.200 --> 0:51:18.279
<v Speaker 2>just say one over there and we'll keep one up

0:51:18.320 --> 0:51:22.360
<v Speaker 2>the others. He said, no, no, no, not now. Fill the

0:51:22.400 --> 0:51:26.799
<v Speaker 2>next one, fill the next one. But can we take

0:51:26.800 --> 0:51:31.120
<v Speaker 2>this one? No, not now, not now.

0:51:32.520 --> 0:51:33.200
<v Speaker 1>It was not.

0:51:35.120 --> 0:51:42.359
<v Speaker 2>Until every jar was filled to the brim and the

0:51:42.400 --> 0:51:47.680
<v Speaker 2>water was drawn out of the last filled jar that

0:51:47.800 --> 0:51:48.720
<v Speaker 2>it became Why.

0:51:50.920 --> 0:51:55.320
<v Speaker 1>Why did God make every jar have to be filled?

0:51:56.360 --> 0:51:59.840
<v Speaker 2>Why has God allowed you to pray about this for

0:52:00.239 --> 0:52:04.320
<v Speaker 2>so long? Why has God not just waved his wand

0:52:04.480 --> 0:52:11.840
<v Speaker 2>over our situation? Why did he reset in order to reveal?

0:52:14.360 --> 0:52:17.840
<v Speaker 2>It is only after the jars are filled. It is

0:52:17.920 --> 0:52:20.480
<v Speaker 2>only after I'm telling you what I know from my life.

0:52:20.560 --> 0:52:23.520
<v Speaker 2>It is only after you have done it and done

0:52:23.520 --> 0:52:26.600
<v Speaker 2>it and done it and I can't speak for everybody

0:52:26.600 --> 0:52:28.480
<v Speaker 2>in the room, but somebody online needs to hear this.

0:52:28.520 --> 0:52:29.600
<v Speaker 1>Give me my camera please.

0:52:30.160 --> 0:52:35.960
<v Speaker 2>It is sometimes when I am almost done trying that

0:52:36.000 --> 0:52:40.520
<v Speaker 2>at that moment in time, that's when God says, now

0:52:42.600 --> 0:52:47.040
<v Speaker 2>it's almost It's not when i'm fresh. It's not when

0:52:47.040 --> 0:52:48.279
<v Speaker 2>I feel like I got this.

0:52:49.280 --> 0:52:50.560
<v Speaker 1>It's not when it makes sense.

0:52:50.600 --> 0:52:53.120
<v Speaker 2>It's not when it should have happened on a human schedule.

0:52:53.400 --> 0:52:54.040
<v Speaker 1>It's at that.

0:52:54.000 --> 0:52:55.680
<v Speaker 2>Moment where I'm like, if I have to pour one

0:52:55.680 --> 0:52:58.000
<v Speaker 2>more two gallon bucket, if I have to do this

0:52:58.040 --> 0:53:01.600
<v Speaker 2>one more time, and nothing is happening, but everything is

0:53:01.719 --> 0:53:06.680
<v Speaker 2>changing in your life. For every time you pore when

0:53:06.719 --> 0:53:09.719
<v Speaker 2>your eyes can't perceive, it.

0:53:09.760 --> 0:53:11.480
<v Speaker 1>Is a building of your.

0:53:11.320 --> 0:53:14.880
<v Speaker 2>Faith that is producing within you the strength to know

0:53:15.760 --> 0:53:19.640
<v Speaker 2>where your help comes from, the strength to know where

0:53:19.719 --> 0:53:22.759
<v Speaker 2>grace comes from. The strength to know that there is

0:53:22.800 --> 0:53:32.160
<v Speaker 2>a fountain filled with blood drawn from Emmanuel's veins. Now

0:53:33.400 --> 0:53:34.319
<v Speaker 2>you can take it.

0:53:35.320 --> 0:53:37.560
<v Speaker 1>Some of the things that you thought in your life were.

0:53:37.480 --> 0:53:39.320
<v Speaker 2>Rejection were not rejection.

0:53:39.520 --> 0:53:42.319
<v Speaker 1>You just weren't ready.

0:53:45.000 --> 0:53:50.680
<v Speaker 2>God is speaking to somebody today who has been told no,

0:53:52.239 --> 0:53:52.919
<v Speaker 2>or so you thought.

0:53:54.800 --> 0:53:55.920
<v Speaker 4>The Lord didn't even say no.

0:53:57.640 --> 0:54:01.920
<v Speaker 1>He said not now, not now.

0:54:03.600 --> 0:54:05.080
<v Speaker 2>For the one who lost a loved one, and you're

0:54:05.120 --> 0:54:09.799
<v Speaker 2>playing God, your prayer has been, will you help me

0:54:09.840 --> 0:54:13.799
<v Speaker 2>understand why this happened? We may never understand certain things

0:54:13.800 --> 0:54:15.040
<v Speaker 2>on this side of heaven.

0:54:15.239 --> 0:54:16.800
<v Speaker 4>God said, not now.

0:54:18.280 --> 0:54:20.160
<v Speaker 2>Now we know in part. Now we see in part.

0:54:20.200 --> 0:54:23.880
<v Speaker 2>Now we prophesy in part. But when what is incomplete

0:54:23.920 --> 0:54:25.520
<v Speaker 2>has been made complete, then we will know. Then we

0:54:25.560 --> 0:54:26.440
<v Speaker 2>will know. Then we will know.

0:54:26.520 --> 0:54:27.120
<v Speaker 1>Then we will know.

0:54:27.440 --> 0:54:30.000
<v Speaker 2>And your job in the meantime is not to understand.

0:54:30.040 --> 0:54:34.600
<v Speaker 2>It is to obey and do whatever he tells you.

0:54:36.200 --> 0:54:39.759
<v Speaker 2>Because I'm telling you, man, some of the stuff that

0:54:39.800 --> 0:54:41.880
<v Speaker 2>God is doing in your life don't happen till all

0:54:41.880 --> 0:54:47.319
<v Speaker 2>the jars are full. And I understand that you fill

0:54:47.400 --> 0:54:49.799
<v Speaker 2>three jars. I understand that you've worked on it for

0:54:49.840 --> 0:54:52.520
<v Speaker 2>four years. I understand it you went back five times,

0:54:55.800 --> 0:54:57.839
<v Speaker 2>but sometimes you got to fill all six.

0:54:59.120 --> 0:55:03.240
<v Speaker 1>In order to see who he is. Because the key.

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<v Speaker 2>Verse of this passage has nothing to do with when

0:55:05.239 --> 0:55:07.640
<v Speaker 2>they drank the wine. It's verse eleven of John chapter two.

0:55:08.719 --> 0:55:10.600
<v Speaker 2>Bible says this was the first of the signs that

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<v Speaker 2>he performed, and.

0:55:12.440 --> 0:55:14.800
<v Speaker 1>He revealed his glory.

0:55:14.880 --> 0:55:22.240
<v Speaker 2>He revealed his glory, He revealed his glory. He refused

0:55:22.840 --> 0:55:28.360
<v Speaker 2>the request so he could reveal his glory, so that

0:55:28.440 --> 0:55:34.680
<v Speaker 2>he reset your expectation, so that he could reveal his glory.

0:55:34.840 --> 0:55:37.279
<v Speaker 2>Because if he just gave you the wine, you'd be

0:55:37.320 --> 0:55:41.560
<v Speaker 2>a consumer. But if he teaches you to trust him,

0:55:41.560 --> 0:55:46.040
<v Speaker 2>you'll be a producer. And there is a process for joy.

0:55:46.880 --> 0:55:50.400
<v Speaker 2>There is a process for trust. There is a process

0:55:50.440 --> 0:55:55.120
<v Speaker 2>for confidence. There is a process. That's what the pouring is.

0:55:55.320 --> 0:55:58.040
<v Speaker 2>It's the process. This is his first son. He will

0:55:58.080 --> 0:56:03.360
<v Speaker 2>do many more, but first you must poor. And Jesus

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<v Speaker 2>is so awesome that the man who tasted the wine said,

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<v Speaker 2>normally they switch out the cheap stuff at this point,

0:56:11.440 --> 0:56:12.760
<v Speaker 2>but you did something different.

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<v Speaker 1>I came to announce.

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<v Speaker 2>Get ready for God to do something different in your life,

0:56:20.480 --> 0:56:22.759
<v Speaker 2>different than you thought, different than you plan, different than

0:56:22.800 --> 0:56:24.600
<v Speaker 2>you hope, different than you put on your list.

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<v Speaker 1>You saved the best till now.

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<v Speaker 2>There are some things in your life that in a

0:56:41.600 --> 0:56:46.160
<v Speaker 2>previous season you were not ready to receive it. But

0:56:46.480 --> 0:56:51.440
<v Speaker 2>God brought you under this word today. Why because it's

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<v Speaker 2>a now moment. It's a now moment. God said, now

0:56:56.600 --> 0:57:00.560
<v Speaker 2>draw it out. Now the jars are filled. Now now

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<v Speaker 2>somebody shout, now, now over.

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<v Speaker 1>Your mental health. Now, over your.

0:57:05.280 --> 0:57:21.480
<v Speaker 2>Business, now over your dream now now it wasn't about you.

0:57:21.480 --> 0:57:28.040
<v Speaker 2>You weren't rejected, you weren't ready yet. I remember when

0:57:28.080 --> 0:57:30.520
<v Speaker 2>I first wanted to write a song with Matt Redman.

0:57:31.720 --> 0:57:34.439
<v Speaker 2>He's the greatest worship songwriter that you could ever meet.

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<v Speaker 2>From the UK or maybe anywhere else in the world.

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<v Speaker 2>I said, write a song with me, write a song

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<v Speaker 2>with me, write a song with me. He was very

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<v Speaker 2>British and polite. He was very passively, kindly affirmative in

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<v Speaker 2>his not now miss yeah mate, we should do that

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<v Speaker 2>one day. Yeah may.

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<v Speaker 1>I'm like, will you could call me mate and write

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<v Speaker 1>a song with me? I want to write a song

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<v Speaker 1>with you.

0:57:58.080 --> 0:58:00.440
<v Speaker 2>This was very early when I was writing songs with

0:58:00.480 --> 0:58:03.440
<v Speaker 2>our team, and I got kind of mad at him

0:58:03.440 --> 0:58:04.640
<v Speaker 2>because I thought, you don't want to write a song

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<v Speaker 2>with me.

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<v Speaker 4>You think I'm just a preacher.

0:58:05.760 --> 0:58:06.800
<v Speaker 1>You don't think I can write a song. I can

0:58:06.840 --> 0:58:08.240
<v Speaker 1>write a song. I'll show you I don't write a song.

0:58:08.920 --> 0:58:12.200
<v Speaker 2>And in the meantime, in the meantime, every said meantime, meantime, meantime, meantime, meantime.

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<v Speaker 4>Along with the incredible team, we wrote songs. We wrote

0:58:16.200 --> 0:58:17.120
<v Speaker 4>songs we wrote songs.

0:58:17.120 --> 0:58:18.720
<v Speaker 1>We wrote songs. We wrote songs. I send them to

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<v Speaker 1>mad I say, art Thee's good, won't you write with me?

0:58:20.240 --> 0:58:21.280
<v Speaker 1>Artie's good? Won't you write with me?

0:58:21.360 --> 0:58:21.520
<v Speaker 4>Once?

0:58:21.600 --> 0:58:23.320
<v Speaker 1>You write with me? And you know what Matt did.

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<v Speaker 2>One day I was preaching and I was up on

0:58:26.680 --> 0:58:30.280
<v Speaker 2>the stage at a big conference, thirty thousand people. He

0:58:30.320 --> 0:58:33.040
<v Speaker 2>was there leading music, and I said a statement in

0:58:33.040 --> 0:58:35.480
<v Speaker 2>my sermon. I was preaching on don't stop on six,

0:58:36.280 --> 0:58:38.240
<v Speaker 2>which I could preach that from the stone jars too.

0:58:40.080 --> 0:58:43.680
<v Speaker 2>And then the line that I said was the promise

0:58:43.760 --> 0:58:49.560
<v Speaker 2>still stands. And he came up to me after my session.

0:58:49.560 --> 0:58:53.680
<v Speaker 1>He goes mate. I said, yes, it was an amazing

0:58:53.720 --> 0:58:56.280
<v Speaker 1>message and that should be a song.

0:58:56.760 --> 0:59:00.520
<v Speaker 2>The promise still stands, And I said, will you write

0:59:00.560 --> 0:59:07.360
<v Speaker 2>it with me? He said yes, so I'm gonna share

0:59:07.400 --> 0:59:14.600
<v Speaker 2>with you. He wasn't saying no, he was saying yes,

0:59:14.680 --> 0:59:21.720
<v Speaker 2>not yet. And I'm glad he told me no because

0:59:21.760 --> 0:59:24.280
<v Speaker 2>it made me go back and dig to find out

0:59:24.480 --> 0:59:32.960
<v Speaker 2>what I had. Chunks, who was my very first person

0:59:33.000 --> 0:59:38.440
<v Speaker 2>who joined the church right after Holly joined it, he

0:59:38.520 --> 0:59:39.400
<v Speaker 2>was there and he heard it.

0:59:39.880 --> 0:59:43.120
<v Speaker 4>We had three hours before we had to fly three hours.

0:59:43.400 --> 0:59:44.880
<v Speaker 1>He said, y'all go right this.

0:59:45.040 --> 0:59:45.680
<v Speaker 4>I said, no, we'll do it.

0:59:45.760 --> 0:59:46.960
<v Speaker 2>We'll do it another time. He said, no, you bear

0:59:46.960 --> 0:59:48.480
<v Speaker 2>to do it now. He might not want to write

0:59:48.520 --> 0:59:51.480
<v Speaker 2>with you after he forgets that sermon. He said, I'll

0:59:51.480 --> 0:59:53.240
<v Speaker 2>get some chicken wings from room service, bring it up

0:59:53.240 --> 0:59:55.280
<v Speaker 2>to the room, and y'all can eat. In the worst

0:59:55.320 --> 0:59:57.200
<v Speaker 2>case scenario, you'll hang out for a couple hours. I

0:59:57.280 --> 0:59:58.600
<v Speaker 2>get everything thing care of. I make sure we don't

0:59:58.600 --> 1:00:00.160
<v Speaker 2>miss the flight. I'll come get you exact lasts moment.

1:00:00.160 --> 1:00:01.840
<v Speaker 2>I come at a very last minute, and I'll get you.

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<v Speaker 2>And we sat there and we got almost nothing. The

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<v Speaker 2>only thing we came away from that that I remember.

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<v Speaker 7>Is walking around these walls. I thought, by now they fall, Well,

1:00:18.400 --> 1:00:21.600
<v Speaker 7>you have never failed me yet. And then we had

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<v Speaker 7>to leave, eat some chicken wings, got on a plane.

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<v Speaker 7>He would text me from.

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<v Speaker 2>Time to time.

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<v Speaker 4>I would text him, and he got He was very persistent.

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<v Speaker 2>He's like, we should work on that thing with the walls,

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<v Speaker 2>and the promise still stands. And we didn't even have

1:00:35.760 --> 1:00:36.920
<v Speaker 2>the line that made him want to write it in

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<v Speaker 2>the song at.

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<v Speaker 4>That point, I don't remember.

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<v Speaker 1>We kept going.

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<v Speaker 2>One day I sent him a thing and went, uh,

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<v Speaker 2>like don don don, that's what it did. And he

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<v Speaker 2>sent it back, and he sent it back, but don

1:00:49.840 --> 1:00:55.960
<v Speaker 2>don Dunn, don don down town. You did it twice

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<v Speaker 2>months more go by, nothing, nothing, nothing, this song.

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<v Speaker 1>And then Chris, you remember Chris, we're finishing up a song,

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<v Speaker 1>the fabled Mountain House. I wish we'd have bought that house.

1:01:09.960 --> 1:01:13.160
<v Speaker 4>We wrote some good songs in that house, and we should.

1:01:12.920 --> 1:01:13.600
<v Speaker 1>Have bought that house.

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<v Speaker 2>But he said, you know, I don't know what you

1:01:16.640 --> 1:01:17.800
<v Speaker 2>want to work on next, but we still have that

1:01:17.800 --> 1:01:18.600
<v Speaker 2>thing with you in Redman.

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<v Speaker 1>I said, the promised dance thing. He said, yeah, and

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<v Speaker 1>start playing it. And something came up.

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<v Speaker 8>I've seen you move, you move the mountains, and I

1:01:32.320 --> 1:01:35.240
<v Speaker 8>believe I'll see you too.

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<v Speaker 1>Okay, now, think about this.

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<v Speaker 7>I thought by now bade fall right.

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<v Speaker 2>You thought by now you'd be different. You thought by

1:01:49.880 --> 1:01:53.240
<v Speaker 2>now would be easy. You thought by now they would

1:01:53.240 --> 1:01:58.040
<v Speaker 2>have apologized. You thought by now they would be productive.

1:01:59.080 --> 1:02:01.960
<v Speaker 2>You thought by now it would have turned around. You

1:02:02.040 --> 1:02:06.080
<v Speaker 2>thought by now it would have lifted. I think it's

1:02:06.120 --> 1:02:08.520
<v Speaker 2>amazing that we wrote a.

1:02:08.520 --> 1:02:09.640
<v Speaker 1>Song together.

1:02:10.960 --> 1:02:17.640
<v Speaker 2>About God in his infinite faithfulness, from a relationship where

1:02:17.680 --> 1:02:21.640
<v Speaker 2>I actually felt I had been rejected and I wonder

1:02:23.040 --> 1:02:27.480
<v Speaker 2>is there an area in your life where you have.

1:02:27.600 --> 1:02:29.040
<v Speaker 1>Called it rejection?

1:02:30.400 --> 1:02:36.360
<v Speaker 2>But now God has been using it to get you ready. Yeah,

1:02:36.920 --> 1:02:39.000
<v Speaker 2>because you thought, well, there's something wrong with me.

1:02:39.080 --> 1:02:43.160
<v Speaker 1>That's why. That's not why he's teaching you something. He's

1:02:43.200 --> 1:02:44.240
<v Speaker 1>teaching you how.

1:02:44.120 --> 1:02:48.920
<v Speaker 3>To fill the jar by faith, say it, Phil, the

1:02:49.120 --> 1:02:52.920
<v Speaker 3>jar by faith. You fill it two gallons at a time,

1:02:53.240 --> 1:02:55.520
<v Speaker 3>and every two gallons you carry and.

1:02:55.480 --> 1:02:58.000
<v Speaker 1>You feel it and it's still water. That's how you

1:02:58.160 --> 1:03:03.200
<v Speaker 1>learn who God is, by gallon by gallon, by gallon.

1:03:03.480 --> 1:03:06.320
<v Speaker 2>I feel like preaching God by the gallon, but I

1:03:06.320 --> 1:03:07.080
<v Speaker 2>don't know who.

1:03:06.960 --> 1:03:09.840
<v Speaker 1>Is for because it's not gonna come all at once.

1:03:10.520 --> 1:03:14.160
<v Speaker 2>But when it happens, when it happens, you'll be saying,

1:03:14.680 --> 1:03:18.720
<v Speaker 2>now he's saved the best till.

1:03:19.280 --> 1:03:31.480
<v Speaker 1>Now getting rain. So yeah, stand up and I'll close

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<v Speaker 1>this thing.

1:03:35.000 --> 1:03:37.240
<v Speaker 2>I can't preach short when I'm talking a message called

1:03:37.280 --> 1:03:41.040
<v Speaker 2>not now. But I want to tell you it was

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<v Speaker 2>not God saying no, it's Jesus.

1:03:48.280 --> 1:03:50.160
<v Speaker 1>I was tossed in a lot.

1:03:50.720 --> 1:03:54.760
<v Speaker 2>Kind of scary for a second, but I never went under.

1:03:55.720 --> 1:03:56.320
<v Speaker 1>Because you.

1:03:58.200 --> 1:04:03.080
<v Speaker 7>Always, well, I love it, Jesus.

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<v Speaker 1>You sing it when I went through the fire.

1:04:09.600 --> 1:04:13.280
<v Speaker 7>Yeah, yeah, always you never left me.

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<v Speaker 1>Hold up, I got one, Jesus.

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<v Speaker 6>All I got is some pots, but I'll fill.

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<v Speaker 2>Them with water.

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<v Speaker 6>You can turn it to wine, Jeeesus, because I still

1:04:39.880 --> 1:04:43.200
<v Speaker 6>got a god turned.

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<v Speaker 4>Water to wine.

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<v Speaker 1>That doesn't make no sense. Water to wine.

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<v Speaker 2>Wine has the age to get good, not when Jesus

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

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<v Speaker 2>Some of the best stuff in your life is still coming,

1:05:02.600 --> 1:05:05.080
<v Speaker 2>some of the best stuff. I'm the horse forward, the

1:05:05.120 --> 1:05:08.439
<v Speaker 2>devil Stawar he told to go home, give up, it's

1:05:08.480 --> 1:05:12.480
<v Speaker 2>over now. The best stuff is still coming. It's still coming.

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<v Speaker 2>He's at your wedding and it's coming.

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<v Speaker 1>He's coming to Sita.

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<v Speaker 2>I was using the.

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<v Speaker 1>Same bet, the same when golf events on the homes.

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<v Speaker 9>Shes winter read through this cut it cut a closs,

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<v Speaker 9>but you.

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<v Speaker 1>You were close too soon.

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<v Speaker 2>I'm a Testimoni said.

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<v Speaker 9>It's kind of been a dame, never been a big

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<v Speaker 9>never been a moment hs your reading. He's got a

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

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