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Speaker 1: Hello Evams, especially our West Coast family. We have an

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Speaker 1: Let's see you there. Let's go to the message. If

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Speaker 1: you're in the chat, put a clapping emoji. How about that? Now,

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Speaker 1: don't sit down after you do this, but turn around

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Speaker 1: and high five five people and say you're in the

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Speaker 1: best section in the church right now. You're sitting in

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Speaker 1: my section. Thanks, y'all. Stay standing, Stay standing for the word,

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Speaker 1: Stay standing for the word. Stay standing for the word.

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Speaker 1: Stay standing for the word. Stay standing like you're on

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Speaker 1: your front foot, ready to receive what the Lord is

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Speaker 1: going to speak to you today. Clap your hands. If

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Speaker 1: you're ready for what the Lord is going to speak

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Speaker 1: to you today, open your heart. Thank you Jesus. All right, yeah,

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Speaker 1: it feels better with your playing. Thank you Jesus, Thank

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Speaker 1: you Jesus. Is So, I'm going to give you this scripture,

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Speaker 1: and it's jumping in right in the middle, So since

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Speaker 1: sound a little abrasive, but we'll ease into it and

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Speaker 1: get to do my favorite thing today. I'm going to

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Speaker 1: take a New Testament scripture and then I'm gonna, after

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Speaker 1: a little while, put an Old Testament story behind it

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Speaker 1: to illustrate what we learn. I love doing that kind

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Speaker 1: of bringing the principle together with a picture. Then we

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Speaker 1: can really get it. And that's my desire for us,

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Speaker 1: that we really get what God wants us to have.

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Speaker 1: So I'm never just trying to fill fifty minutes, y'all.

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Speaker 1: What a sorry goal that would be, but to really

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Speaker 1: impart faith to your heart today, and I believe the

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Speaker 1: Lord's going to do that. Galatians chapter three, verse three,

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Speaker 1: The Apostle Paul speaking. Watch how this one starts? Are

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Speaker 1: you so foolish? It gets better from there after beginning

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Speaker 1: by means of the spirit, Are you now trying to

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Speaker 1: finish by means of the flesh? What a question. Maybe

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Speaker 1: that's why I'm tired. Maybe that's why I'm discouraged. Maybe

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Speaker 1: that's why I'm worn out. Maybe that's why I can't

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Speaker 1: trying to finish by the flesh what began with the spirit?

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Speaker 1: And then verse four, have you experienced so much in vain?

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Speaker 1: If it really was in vain? And then here's the

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Speaker 1: fourth question. There's been three, here's the fourth. So again

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Speaker 1: I ask, does God give you his spirit and work miracles?

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Speaker 1: We're thinking about miracles. Does God give you his spirit

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Speaker 1: and work miracles among you by the works of the

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Speaker 1: law or by your belief? What you heard? Are you

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Speaker 1: trying to finish in the flesh what began in the spirit?

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Speaker 1: So the Lord sent me up here to remind you today.

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Speaker 1: This is a reminder for some, a revelation for others.

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Speaker 1: He wanted me to remind you He's still the shepherd,

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Speaker 1: He's still the shepherd put my title in the chat.

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Speaker 1: If you're watching online, he's still the Shepherd. And if

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Speaker 1: tell him he's still the Shepherd, and you may be seated,

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Speaker 1: God bless you. He's still the Shepherd. If Paul sounds

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Speaker 1: unpastoral in this letter, he's really not. He'd writ into

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Speaker 1: just one church. They're spread out. He started several of

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Speaker 1: in a way. He's having a conversation with this church

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Speaker 1: that every parent has with their kid every once in

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Speaker 1: Ask the person next to you, are you crazy? Because

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Speaker 1: this was not meant to be a conversation, just a

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Speaker 1: because you know them because you live with them where

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Speaker 1: they are in Christ. But they're still crazy, and not

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Speaker 1: the kind of crazy that we ALTI often associate with

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Speaker 1: is in Christ. Everybody say in Christ. Next time somebody

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Speaker 1: asks you where you are, say in Christ. Now, don't

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Speaker 1: do that. They'll think you're weird. I can't stand people

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Speaker 1: know it inside of yourself, all right, in Christ. Put

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Speaker 1: it in the chat, in Christ, in Christ, in Christ.

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Speaker 1: So you're in church today, but you're in Christ when

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Speaker 1: still in church because you are Church and you are

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Speaker 1: in Christ, and Christ is in you, and that never

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Speaker 1: goes away. That's your identity, identity in Christ, identity. Now

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Speaker 1: you will have experiences every single day of your life

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Speaker 1: Christ doesn't exempt you from any of the normal challenges

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Speaker 1: of life. We've got to stop telling people Jesus will

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Speaker 1: hear that is that my experiences now that I'm a Christian,

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Speaker 1: but we try to shape God like our own personality,

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Speaker 1: and all of those things have to be subject to

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Speaker 1: Christ for us to be a true disciple. Let's go

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Speaker 1: a little further. You're ready. Once you get an identity

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Speaker 1: ingrained and you think that's who I am, it is

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Speaker 1: very difficult to receive any experience that is different than

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Speaker 1: town you have a certain accountability socially, what's considered polite

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Speaker 1: you didn't wave at people, even if they were strangers,

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Speaker 1: where Holly grew up in Miami, Florida, it's perfectly acceptable

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Speaker 1: many from the South. That's what you do. That's what

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Speaker 1: But you know, you can take the boy out a

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Speaker 1: the mall and I just wave at you. It's not

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Speaker 1: want to get a modern picture, He's no longer here

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Speaker 1: in the flesh with the people, but he's still the shepherd.

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Speaker 1: He still sees himself, not as an influencer, not as

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Speaker 1: You could take Paul out of Galatia, but you couldn't

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Speaker 1: Holly Scary voices her quiet voice. We tremble because she's

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Speaker 1: But there's some stuff that's still in me that he's

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Speaker 1: Galatia physically, but he's still and he is doing something

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Speaker 1: directing the sheep realizing sheep are not dolphins. Dolphins are smart,

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Speaker 1: you look at it. This way. He maketh me. He

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Speaker 1: makes me. I don't like anybody to make me do anything.

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Speaker 1: You can suggest, but don't make me. You can plan it,

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Speaker 1: but don't make me. That's why I went back and

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Speaker 1: read all these books about ten summers ago that I

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Speaker 1: was assigned in school, and I enjoyed them. But if

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Speaker 1: you tell me I have to read it, I'm not

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Speaker 1: reading it. I did. I read Great Expectations by Charles

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Speaker 1: Dickens at the pool for fun in eleventh grade. I

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Speaker 1: didn't read it. I got the cliff notes because they

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Speaker 1: were making me read it. I don't like you to

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Speaker 1: make me. I don't like you to make me. And

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Speaker 1: yet the first thing that he says to shepherd does

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Speaker 1: he makes me lie down? Hold on, God, I want

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Speaker 1: you to be my shepherd. I want to be led

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Speaker 1: where I want to be led because my mental model

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Speaker 1: of God is GPS. So I'll tell you the destination.

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Speaker 1: If I get off track, then put me back on,

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Speaker 1: but take me another way. Because God, the Lord is

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Speaker 1: my Alexa. The Lord is my SII, the Lord is

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Speaker 1: my a. What a good shepherd. That means he's not

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Speaker 1: gonna see you doing something that he knows where it

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Speaker 1: leads and not say something to you about it. That

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Speaker 1: means he's not gonna let you sabotage yourself and your

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Speaker 1: future without bringing correction. But see, we don't really like

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Speaker 1: that side of the shepherd. It's like no, no no, no,

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Speaker 1: I expect God to direct me. So here's what I want. Opportunities. Okay,

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Speaker 1: what if a part of the opportunity God is going

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Speaker 1: to bring you in two years is the character development

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Speaker 1: of a disappointment that he takes you through right now?

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Speaker 1: Is he still your shepherd when you don't like what

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Speaker 1: he says? Is he fire your trainer if they never

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Speaker 1: tell you something to do you don't like. Fire your

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Speaker 1: friends if they'll never tell you the truth when you're

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Speaker 1: making a fool of yourself. You ever look back at

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Speaker 1: pictures of stuff you wore and say, where were my friends?

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Speaker 1: I had no friends. It's scary. Nobody told me that

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Speaker 1: was so tight. It wasn't flattering. I tell you it

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Speaker 1: was tight, and I wasn't toned, and nobody said anything

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Speaker 1: about that. Contrast, he makes me his correction. I used

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Speaker 1: to teach leadership a lot more than I do now.

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Speaker 1: I don't know why I don't teach it as much anymore,

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Speaker 1: But maybe I should start back, because I would teach

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Speaker 1: when somebody corrects you, that's an investment. Now. I don't

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Speaker 1: mean people that don't know you, people that just insult you,

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Speaker 1: people that just are spouting their opinion. Get that out

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Speaker 1: of your mind. The Lord is my shepherd. You are

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Speaker 1: led by somebody and they love you enough. Yes, Jesus

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Speaker 1: loves me. Yes, Jesus loves me. Yes, Jesus loves me.

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Speaker 1: How do I know this? I know he loves me,

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Speaker 1: not only because the Bible tells me. So I know

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Speaker 1: Jesus loves me because Jesus leads me. And when he

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Speaker 1: leads me, sometimes he uses a staff to bring me back.

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Speaker 1: That staff doesn't feel good around the sheep's neck. Why

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Speaker 1: you always associate God with a good feeling. Sometimes you

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Speaker 1: got to sit in something you don't like to get

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Speaker 1: to something that you want, whether that's peace or joy.

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Speaker 1: Oh my shout, swim out the door. Lord, they were

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Speaker 1: shouting so good ten minutes ago. New song just came

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Speaker 1: to me. Because when he brings you back, that's kindness,

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Speaker 1: the kindness of God that brings me to repentance. Because

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Speaker 1: I expect to be led by somebody who knows what's

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Speaker 1: out of head, and I don't because I'm crazy. I'm crazy.

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Speaker 1: I will get so in what I want to feel

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Speaker 1: right now that I will reach for something now that

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Speaker 1: I'm going to regret later unless I have a shepherd.

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Speaker 1: So I might as well tell you I need Jesus.

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Speaker 1: No apologies. I need Jesus. Yeah, yeah, me too. I

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Speaker 1: need Jesus to forgive me. So I'm going to heaven

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Speaker 1: when I die. Uh huh. I need Jesus way before

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Speaker 1: I get to heaven when I die. The Lord is

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Speaker 1: my talk to me, He's my shepherd. Oh. I love

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Speaker 1: green grass, But do you like when he makes you

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Speaker 1: lie down? I want to get the green grass, all right?

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Speaker 1: So I give you from my own life. When I

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Speaker 1: preach about things for my own life, I don't want

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Speaker 1: you to think that's because I think my life is

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Speaker 1: so important. It just makes it more real to me.

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Speaker 1: If I open a sermon illustration book and say, okay,

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Speaker 1: in the year thirteen hundred and seventy six, a guy

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Speaker 1: said this, I don't even know if he really said

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Speaker 1: that or not. That's just in the book. This is

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Speaker 1: what I know is real, okay, and maybe you can

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Speaker 1: relate two or three times in the last I would say,

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Speaker 1: in the last couple of years, I felt like the

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Speaker 1: Lord was saying inside of me. This never out loud

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Speaker 1: for me. I have never heard God speak to me

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Speaker 1: out loud ever, and I've asked him to before, because

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Speaker 1: then I would know, especially if he said it like

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Speaker 1: Morgan Freeman on Shawshankradeshin, I'd be like, Oh, that's God

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Speaker 1: right there, that's Morgan Freeman, that's the voice of God.

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Speaker 1: So inside there is a few times, and I'll tell

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Speaker 1: you what they were, because I think it helps to

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Speaker 1: flesh it out a little bit. When when I started

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Speaker 1: doing what Paul said in Galatians, trusting in the flesh,

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Speaker 1: that's my own human strength. Remember, they weren't going off

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Speaker 1: snort and coke. That's not what Paul is correcting. They

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Speaker 1: weren't going off and worshiping Satan. That's not what Paul

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Speaker 1: was correcting. He was saying, God started something in your life.

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Speaker 1: And then you're like, oh, thanks God, I'm good. I've

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Speaker 1: got it from here. That's what we do with the Lord.

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Speaker 1: I call it Divinity on Demand. We're like, God, I

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Speaker 1: want you for season one, but I'll take season two,

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Speaker 1: season three, season four. I got it from here, and

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Speaker 1: you don't got it from here. And you don't know

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Speaker 1: you don't got it from here until the plot twist

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Speaker 1: happens that you didn't see because you didn't write the script.

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Speaker 1: But God did, and he's the shepherd. And that's why

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Speaker 1: you have to trust him not only to save you

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Speaker 1: watch this, but sustain you. There is a saving faith.

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Speaker 1: I throw myself on the mercy of God. I throw

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Speaker 1: myself on the grace of the cross of Christ, and

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Speaker 1: that saves me and his son. But that's same. Don't

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Speaker 1: think that you get that grace and then just grind

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Speaker 1: it out the rest of your life. Don't think you

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Speaker 1: just pray to God parents and say, God, give us

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Speaker 1: a healthy baby. Okay, we got it from here, we'll

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Speaker 1: raise them from here. No you won't. You're crazy. You're

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Speaker 1: crazy if you really think you can do this whole

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Speaker 1: human experience without Jesus, You're crazy. Are you crazy? Are

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Speaker 1: you crazy? You stop tithing because the economy was bad?

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Speaker 1: Are you crazy? No? I got it from here God,

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Speaker 1: you blessed me with this. But God, I'm gonna keep

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Speaker 1: it now. Are you crazy? So God gave it to

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Speaker 1: you and now you want to grind it out? Are

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00:36:43,760 --> 00:36:48,640
Speaker 1: you crazy? So here's where the Lord showed me. I

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Speaker 1: was making a sermon and I was figuring out what

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Speaker 1: to call it, and I knew that the Lord gave

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Speaker 1: me a title. I can feel it when the Lord

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Speaker 1: tells me what to call it. So if he tells

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Speaker 1: me to call it, he's still the shepherd. I call

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Speaker 1: it that, and you're like, okay, because I know I

553
00:37:08,200 --> 00:37:10,920
Speaker 1: could do sexier than that. I know I could do

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Speaker 1: better clickable than that. You know how to navigate seasons

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Speaker 1: of regret to lead to breakthroughs, more sex, more money,

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Speaker 1: and fat loss. That would be clickable. And that's fine.

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Speaker 1: There's a time for all of that. There is a

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Speaker 1: time to be strategic, there really is. There is a

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Speaker 1: time to dial it in. There's a time technically to

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Speaker 1: figure all of that out. But all that comes after.

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Speaker 1: But when I'm preparing to preach to you, see, I

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Speaker 1: can't do that in my flesh. I need the spirit.

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Speaker 1: And God gave me something and I said, I can't

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Speaker 1: call it that. It won't get clicked. And this is

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Speaker 1: not a conversation. I'm trying to make it a conversation

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Speaker 1: because I can't say it to you how God speaks

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Speaker 1: on the level of spirit, not the level of flesh.

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Speaker 1: So we're trying to tell you how it went. It

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Speaker 1: felt inside of me, like God said, is this what

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Speaker 1: we've come to? Clicking? Is this what we've come to?

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Speaker 1: So you won't preach what I tell you is going

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Speaker 1: to help people and set them free, that you really

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Speaker 1: know in your spirit. You're talking about clicks, you talk

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Speaker 1: about practice, and I really felt like God didn't like it.

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Speaker 1: In fact, I almost felt like God said, I hate this.

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Speaker 1: I can't bless this, I can't work with this. If

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Speaker 1: we're going after clicks, you ought to go make porn.

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Speaker 1: That'll get way more clicks. You're going to try to

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Speaker 1: figure out in the flesh what can only be done

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Speaker 1: through the spirit. So well, I don't do that. I

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Speaker 1: don't put sermons on YouTube. I think you missed the point.

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Speaker 1: I think we all do it all the time. We

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Speaker 1: try to figure out what people would like. Are you

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Speaker 1: crazy because they're crazy? Now you're trying to base your

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Speaker 1: life around crazy people, and what crazy people will like

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Speaker 1: will lead to a level of crazy that is crazier

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Speaker 1: than your original crazy that made you try to impress

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Speaker 1: crazy people, and then you forget who you are. You

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Speaker 1: forget who you are, you forget men. I'm not up

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Speaker 1: here to be a performer. I'm a preacher, baby, and

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Speaker 1: the spirit of the Lord is upon me because he

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Speaker 1: has anointed me to preach good news to the captives.

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Speaker 1: And recovery of sight for the bli, and the breaking

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Speaker 1: of chains and the liberation of those who are oppressed,

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Speaker 1: and the acceptable year of the Lord's favor. Now, do

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Speaker 1: you want favor or flesh? You want to do it

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Speaker 1: God's way? I preached this last week. God's ways seem weird,

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Speaker 1: but they weren't. It worked to trust God. It works

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Speaker 1: to give it to him. It works to step out

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Speaker 1: in faith. It works to stay in faith. It works

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Speaker 1: to speak faith, it works to hear faith. Faith comes

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Speaker 1: by hearing, hearing by the word. And then you get

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Speaker 1: stuck in the space of trying to figure out in

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Speaker 1: the flesh what God started by the spirit. Here's another

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Speaker 1: time the Lord said, I don't like this. Somebody asked me,

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Speaker 1: will you go do this certain opportunity to share the gospel?

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Speaker 1: And I start thinking of all the reasons that I

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Speaker 1: would not be good at doing it. And the Lord said,

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Speaker 1: I don't like this at all, because you act like

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Speaker 1: you were so good to get here to start with.

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Speaker 1: I don't like this at all. You're getting this thing

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Speaker 1: backwards now, because what's started by faith you're trying to

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Speaker 1: finish in flesh. I got it. God, Thank you for

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Speaker 1: the house. I got it from here. God, you don't

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Speaker 1: got it here because that house is not a home

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Speaker 1: unless God's spirit is in it. So you need God

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Speaker 1: to fill what he helped you build. Did you hear me,

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Speaker 1: I'm scared. I'm scared of God missed. You need God

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Speaker 1: to help you feel or to fill what he helped

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Speaker 1: you build, or what he gave you the strength to build,

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Speaker 1: or what he built for himself. That was David's thing,

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Speaker 1: he said, he said, he said, the Lord is my shepherd.

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Speaker 1: David wrote that because of his experience, he was a

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Speaker 1: shepherd himself. He was a shepherd, a shepherd who showed

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Speaker 1: up to the battle lines just in time. How many

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Speaker 1: of you have a testimony. God put me at the

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Speaker 1: right place at the right time for certain things in

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Speaker 1: my life. It was not coincidence. I was thinking about Joel.

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Speaker 1: He was up here singing million little miracles and they

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Speaker 1: don't even know, they don't need know that. When you

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Speaker 1: recorded that song in this empty room during the craziest

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Speaker 1: time in the world, and we're all COVID testing to record,

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Speaker 1: and you weren't even supposed to be here for the recording,

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Speaker 1: but I said, stay around just in case there's a

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Speaker 1: song A Million Little Miracles that we wrote, and I

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Speaker 1: think you've seen it, and you said, I love that song.

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Speaker 1: I heard the demo. I said, stay around just in case.

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Speaker 1: And he sang that song and the Glory of God

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Speaker 1: and you can download it now on YouTube, but don't

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Speaker 1: turn off the sermon. Do it after the sermon. And

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Speaker 1: it's just amazing how David had this perspective. WA's what

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Speaker 1: he said to Golith, Holy Spirit, lead me. Now, I

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Speaker 1: need to get this in. This is the most important

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Speaker 1: part of the message, because now I'm giving you the picture.

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Speaker 1: That's the principle. That's the principle. You can't finish in

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Speaker 1: the flesh, your own power, your own strength, your own

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Speaker 1: delusional desires that will lead you astray. The hardest, deceitfully wicked,

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Speaker 1: can't trust that. I need the Spirit of God. I

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Speaker 1: got to stay in touch with him. I can't finish

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Speaker 1: in the flesh what started in the spirit. But here's

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Speaker 1: the picture. When David saw Goliath. The commentaries vary. He

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Speaker 1: was at least what did I say earlier? He was

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Speaker 1: at least seven foot two. He could have been as

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Speaker 1: tall as nine foot nine. The measurements aren't exactly the same.

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Speaker 1: So let's just all agree that's tall. Can we get

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Speaker 1: consensus on that? Okay, okay, okay, okay, too big to beat?

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Speaker 1: And David's like, perfect, he's too big to beat. That

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Speaker 1: means God will have to do it. That means God

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Speaker 1: will get the glory and I'll grow in my faith.

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Speaker 1: Saw give me my shepherd tool. Wait, David, we're not

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Speaker 1: talking about sheep here. We're talking about a Philistine warrior

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Speaker 1: with a sword. It was like, huh, I know these weapons.

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Speaker 1: God has used these weapons. I've been keeping my father's sheep.

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Speaker 1: And so he takes the instruments of shepherding applies them

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Speaker 1: to the strategy of warfare. And it worked for his

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Speaker 1: advantage because Goliath never even got close enough to use

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Speaker 1: his weapon. David knocked him out. You know that story,

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Speaker 1: don't you. I can tell you look kind of bored,

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Speaker 1: like really, David and Goliath. Okay, I gotta give you that,

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Speaker 1: because that's how David started. He was so he was

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Speaker 1: so full of faith. He said, I'm gonna come at

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Speaker 1: you without a sword so that everybody will know it

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Speaker 1: was the Lord. And some of y'all had that kind

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Speaker 1: of faith, or have that kind of faith? Have experienced

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Speaker 1: those types of moments. I'm doing this because God told me.

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Speaker 1: I'm doing this because God told me. I'm doing this

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Speaker 1: because I believe God is with me. I'm fifty five

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Speaker 1: percent sure God told me to do this, and that

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Speaker 1: says good is this gonna get? So? Here we go, Jesus.

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Speaker 1: That's old Peter getting out there in that boat. He's like,

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Speaker 1: I think so oh no, falling down. Jesus picked him up,

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Speaker 1: moving in the right direction. That's David. David becomes a king.

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Speaker 1: He deals with a crazy king. Crazy king. Crazy king.

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Speaker 1: Saul tries killhim, can't killhim because he can't kill what

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Speaker 1: God's crown. You could throw spear at it, but if

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Speaker 1: it ducks, God can't kill it. Because David was full

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Speaker 1: of the spirit of God and he was annoyed by purpose,

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Speaker 1: and he was a eight brother and he was left out.

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Speaker 1: But God annoyed him anyway through Samuel. Because when God

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Speaker 1: has something for you, do that matter what people say

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Speaker 1: about you. So stop trying to impress people. Get voted

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Speaker 1: in by people. People have no final say. Only God

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Speaker 1: has final say because he's the Shepherd's king. Whatever he

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Speaker 1: say is going to happen. He's now the king, and

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Speaker 1: he does the craziest thing that we ever see David do.

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Speaker 1: And everybody listening to this right now who grew up

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Speaker 1: in church thinks I'm going to talk about bath sheeba,

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Speaker 1: but I'm not. That is David's most famous sin. He

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Speaker 1: slept with a woman that wasn't his wife and had

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Speaker 1: her husband killed on the front lines of battle because

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Speaker 1: he saw what he was in the king and then

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Speaker 1: springing the time when the King's go off to ward,

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Speaker 1: he was walking around his roof and he saw beautifulman

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Speaker 1: bathing and he said, bring her to me, and he

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Speaker 1: had slept with her, and then he had her husband

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Speaker 1: killed to try covered up. You can't cover it up,

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Speaker 1: because Nathan came in confronted him. That wasn't the dumbest

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Speaker 1: thing David ever did. For the Bible records that although

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Speaker 1: that cost one man his life and David his own baby,

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Speaker 1: there's something else David did that I have done that

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Speaker 1: costs much more, and I want to show you that

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Speaker 1: in First Chronicles twenty one. We're a long way from

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Speaker 1: where we were last week when David was bringing the

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Speaker 1: art which represented the presence of God back to Jerusalem,

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Speaker 1: the City of Peace. Stay with me. He's now in

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Speaker 1: a position of power, and God has given him victory

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Speaker 1: from his enemies. What he does next is so dumb

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Speaker 1: that it seems smart. Is so dumb that it seems smart.

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Speaker 1: The Bible says in First Chronicles twenty one, verse one

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Speaker 1: that Satan this is where it started, rose up against Israel.

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Speaker 1: And watch this not what you expect Satan to do,

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Speaker 1: attack them through the Philistines. No, he incited David to

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Speaker 1: take a census of Israel. What's so bad about a census?

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Speaker 1: That's not one of the seven deadly sins? What's so

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Speaker 1: bad about taking a census? What's so bad about David saying, Hey,

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Speaker 1: I want to know how many people we have so

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Speaker 1: I can be ready for whatever. And he tells Joe

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Speaker 1: Ab go through and count all my subjects. Now, I'm

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Speaker 1: just going to tell you the story how it goes down,

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Speaker 1: and then you can figure out what's so bad about it.

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Speaker 1: He says, Hey, Joe Ab, who is his military advisor

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Speaker 1: and wages the wars for him on the ground, He's like,

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Speaker 1: I want to know how many men I have that

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Speaker 1: are good with a sword, So go count all the

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Speaker 1: fighting men, and so Joe Ab says, I don't think

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Speaker 1: you want to do that, David, are you crazy? Respectfully, King,

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Speaker 1: Sir David, are you crazy? If you need more, God

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Speaker 1: to give you a hundred times more, may God multiply

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Speaker 1: your troops times one hundred. King, But don't do this

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Speaker 1: because God had commanded. There's only two times where a

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Speaker 1: king is supposed to take a census. One is if

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Speaker 1: you're taxing people, and one is if you're putting together

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Speaker 1: an army for a battle. And neither applied. So it

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Speaker 1: lets me know that now David has moved from power

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Speaker 1: of the humility of trusting in the presence of God

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Speaker 1: to the pride of saying, how many do I have

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Speaker 1: find out? Because I might have to fight? And if

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Speaker 1: I have to fight, I want to know how many

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Speaker 1: fighting men that there are. But see now he's measuring flesh.

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Speaker 1: And David didn't get to be king by measuring flesh.

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Speaker 1: In fact, he was the one that his brothers didn't

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Speaker 1: even think should be in the room. So how did

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Speaker 1: the king who got to the crown trust in God's

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Speaker 1: spirit and taking a sling in his hand against a big,

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Speaker 1: tall giant. How did he come to this point where

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Speaker 1: he's being led by his senses. Census Census, Census census.

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Speaker 1: If he had used his census when he was up

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Speaker 1: against Goliath, he would have run. If you would have

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Speaker 1: gotten to this point by your senses, you would not

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Speaker 1: be in church. You wouldn't. It was God that snatched you.

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Speaker 1: It was God that led you. It was God. Come on, now,

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Speaker 1: it was God that helped you. This is the moment

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Speaker 1: where you affirmed the word and confirmed the word with

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Speaker 1: your own praise. It was God he breathed on it.

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Speaker 1: It was God he stepped in it. It was God

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Speaker 1: he cleared the path. It was God he made them

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Speaker 1: lie down in green pests. So you came this far

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Speaker 1: and now you're counting. You came this far by faith,

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Speaker 1: and now you're trying to figure it out and listen,

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Speaker 1: hear the word of the Lord. You got to stop

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Speaker 1: trying to figure this stuff out in your flesh and

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Speaker 1: then praying for God to give you direction. You gotta

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Speaker 1: stop sizing up. You know, I heard a country preacher

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Speaker 1: what's his name, Todd. We talked about him all the time.

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Speaker 1: Pastor pastor Charles, what's his name? Pastor Charles? The guy

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Speaker 1: we talk about all the time, Charles Randolph pastor Charles Randolph.

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Speaker 1: He said, the rest of the nation looked at Goliath

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Speaker 1: and said he's too big to kill. David looked at

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Speaker 1: Goliath and said he's too big to miss. Amen. So

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Speaker 1: how'd you go? No question, question question for you? How'd

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Speaker 1: you go from from God's grace being the being, the

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Speaker 1: fuel and the strength and the hope and the joy

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Speaker 1: of your life? And now you're like, no, God, I

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Speaker 1: got it from here. I got it. Thank you Lord

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Speaker 1: for putting on this Beck I can do it. Now

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Speaker 1: you can't and you don't have to because he's a

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Speaker 1: good shepherd, and he leaves you, but not by your senses.

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Speaker 1: So then when you're sitting there all night long, this

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Speaker 1: is what worry is about. We're taking a census, we're

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Speaker 1: listing problems, and then in our lowest moment, Satan incites

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Speaker 1: you and he says, start thinking about what you have.

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Speaker 1: Start thinking about how strong you are, because if I

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Speaker 1: can get you to see how strong you are, I

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Speaker 1: can get you to believe how weak you are. Because

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Speaker 1: if I can put you in the flesh, I can

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Speaker 1: kill what started in the spirit. And then I can

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Speaker 1: get you to leave your kids, and then I can

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Speaker 1: get you to quit your ministry, and then I can

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Speaker 1: get you to leave your church, and then I can

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Speaker 1: get you to stop praising and stop rejoicing, because if

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Speaker 1: I can get you in the flesh, I can make

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Speaker 1: you fail. Joe Abs said, don't do it, and David did.

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Speaker 1: And the numbers were impressive. Man, the numbers were impressive.

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Speaker 1: Men love to measure, by the way. Joebs came back

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Speaker 1: and said, you got one point one million, and then

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Speaker 1: four hundred and seventy thousand in Judah that are part

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Speaker 1: of the one point one million. There you go. But

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Speaker 1: he didn't even count two of the tribes because he

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Speaker 1: hated it so much what David told him to do.

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Speaker 1: He knew it was a bad idea, and he wasn't

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Speaker 1: even he wasn't even the godliest guy in the world,

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Speaker 1: and he's like, this is crazy. Are you crazy? Even

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Speaker 1: the world looks at us in the church sometimes then says,

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Speaker 1: y'all say you trust God anyway? Oh, the third time,

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Speaker 1: the Lord told me, I don't like that. The third time,

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Speaker 1: I was telling Holly that sermon didn't go good, and

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Speaker 1: she said, how do you know? I said, the people

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Speaker 1: didn't respond. The Lord said, I hate that you preach

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Speaker 1: from revelation, not for response. I hate when you use

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Speaker 1: your censes. God hates when you use your censes to

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Speaker 1: try to figure out what He wants to reveal by faith.

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Speaker 1: He hates it. He hated it so much that he

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Speaker 1: allowed a plague to bring David back. Seventy thousand people

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Speaker 1: died after Joe Ebb came back with the count. And

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Speaker 1: we love to measure, We love to measure. We're especially men.

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Speaker 1: I don't mean to be sexist, but the reason I

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Speaker 1: think men love to measure the most. I was in

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Speaker 1: a prison preaching a few years ago, doing a Bible

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Speaker 1: study with some seminary students into prison. They were doing

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Speaker 1: a seminary program into prison. I said, I'll teach a little,

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Speaker 1: then we can do Q and A. And a guy

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Speaker 1: raised his hand. The first guy. He said, I've been

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Speaker 1: wanting to know this. I read your books and I've

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Speaker 1: been waiting for you to get here so I can

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Speaker 1: ask you this. We're talking about it before. How much

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Speaker 1: do you binge? Not the return of Christ, none of that,

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Speaker 1: you know, not the Book of Daniel, just that much been?

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Speaker 1: And I said, well, we'll go out in the yard

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Speaker 1: and find out after you know, just messing around. But

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Speaker 1: I was like, in't that hilarious? Like of all the things,

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Speaker 1: we're still fifteen, we are still fifteen years old. The

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Speaker 1: problem with that measurement isn't that God doesn't want you

843
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Speaker 1: to be strategic. But sometimes you have to repent of

844
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Speaker 1: being rational where God has given you revelation, repent of

845
00:54:26,320 --> 00:54:31,080
Speaker 1: trying to be rational about what only the spirit can reveal.

846
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Speaker 1: The census, the sin of the census. Nobody in here

847
00:54:37,400 --> 00:54:40,920
Speaker 1: today was going, God, forgive me of the sin of counting,

848
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Speaker 1: forgive me of the sin of trying to figure out

849
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Speaker 1: apart from you, what you said you would help me do.

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Speaker 1: And after that plague swept through. The Lord said, I'm

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Speaker 1: gonna give you three choices, David. This is this is

852
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Speaker 1: how I'm going to punish you. He spoke through the prophet.

853
00:54:55,320 --> 00:54:57,839
Speaker 1: The kings would have a pastor, a prophet to the king.

854
00:54:58,040 --> 00:55:01,319
Speaker 1: His name was God, not God. But God came to

855
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Speaker 1: correct David. Be very open that God will use people

856
00:55:04,880 --> 00:55:09,520
Speaker 1: to correct you, not everybody, but God will speak. God

857
00:55:09,560 --> 00:55:13,360
Speaker 1: speaks to me the most through my wife, the most,

858
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Speaker 1: the most, and I have to be open to that.

859
00:55:17,719 --> 00:55:20,040
Speaker 1: So the prophet says, three choices you can have three

860
00:55:20,120 --> 00:55:22,759
Speaker 1: years of famine, you can have three months of your

861
00:55:22,840 --> 00:55:24,680
Speaker 1: enemies invading you and you can't stop them. You can

862
00:55:24,680 --> 00:55:26,960
Speaker 1: be on the run, or you can have three days

863
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Speaker 1: of a plague. And David said, I'll take the third option,

864
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Speaker 1: because the plague comes from God's hand and He's merciful.

865
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Speaker 1: I would rather be in the hands of my shepherd

866
00:55:39,000 --> 00:55:52,319
Speaker 1: than be open to the attack of my enemy. And

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Speaker 1: David got serious about it when he saw the sword

868
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Speaker 1: over Jerusalem, the sword over Jerusalem, the sword over the

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Speaker 1: City of Peace. David got serious about it. And if

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Speaker 1: you don't respond when God speaks to your conscience, you

871
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Speaker 1: will have to respond when he speaks through the consequence.

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Speaker 1: And David said, verse seventeen is to me, is to

873
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Speaker 1: me the key for all of us who are guilty

874
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Speaker 1: of trying to finish in the flesh what God started

875
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Speaker 1: in the spirit. David gets down in sackclothed and ashes

876
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Speaker 1: and watched this in verse seventeen. You got it on

877
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Speaker 1: the screen for me, guys, He said to God, was

878
00:56:41,880 --> 00:56:45,880
Speaker 1: it not I who ordered the fighting men to be counted?

879
00:56:47,800 --> 00:56:50,600
Speaker 1: Was it not I who ordered the fighting men to

880
00:56:50,640 --> 00:56:55,240
Speaker 1: be counted? Now watch the next part I the shepherd,

881
00:56:56,480 --> 00:57:01,920
Speaker 1: have sinned and done wrong. That spoke to me, Church,

882
00:57:02,120 --> 00:57:06,160
Speaker 1: that spoke to me that David is a king with

883
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Speaker 1: one point five million swords under his command. But he's

884
00:57:10,600 --> 00:57:15,160
Speaker 1: still the shepherd. He's still in this moment, watch this,

885
00:57:15,600 --> 00:57:21,720
Speaker 1: he remembers who he really is. It was I the shepherd.

886
00:57:22,720 --> 00:57:25,360
Speaker 1: It was I, God, the one that you raised up.

887
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Speaker 1: He has a flashback to the pasture, and he remembers,

888
00:57:29,760 --> 00:57:33,320
Speaker 1: it's not my might. It's not my strength. It's not

889
00:57:33,520 --> 00:57:37,520
Speaker 1: my goodness. It's not my righteousness. It's not my wisdom.

890
00:57:37,760 --> 00:57:41,280
Speaker 1: It's not my intelligence, it's not my finance, it's not

891
00:57:41,480 --> 00:57:45,800
Speaker 1: my resource. I'm still the shepherd, Lord, I'm still that

892
00:57:45,960 --> 00:57:49,560
Speaker 1: boy that you raised up. I'm still Jesse's son who

893
00:57:49,680 --> 00:57:52,400
Speaker 1: was left out but you brought me in. I'm still

894
00:57:52,440 --> 00:57:56,040
Speaker 1: the one you call I the shepherd. It's me God,

895
00:57:56,280 --> 00:57:59,480
Speaker 1: the shepherd, not the king. It's me God. I'm not

896
00:57:59,520 --> 00:58:02,560
Speaker 1: a pair of right now. I'm a child. You're my father.

897
00:58:02,840 --> 00:58:06,920
Speaker 1: I'm the shepherd God. I remember what you did for me.

898
00:58:08,040 --> 00:58:11,240
Speaker 1: Some of you need to go back to your shepherd instruments.

899
00:58:11,600 --> 00:58:14,040
Speaker 1: Some of you need to go back to your shepherd's faith.

900
00:58:14,360 --> 00:58:17,720
Speaker 1: God raised you up, God set you high. God gave

901
00:58:17,760 --> 00:58:21,600
Speaker 1: you blessing. God gave you influence. God gave you opportunity.

902
00:58:21,880 --> 00:58:25,240
Speaker 1: God gave you time. God gave you leisure. God gave

903
00:58:25,280 --> 00:58:28,640
Speaker 1: you space, God gave you breathing room. But he's still

904
00:58:28,720 --> 00:58:36,560
Speaker 1: the shepherd. Get back to that radical root faith man,

905
00:58:37,480 --> 00:58:42,200
Speaker 1: that good kind of crazy that you have that says, hey, Goliah,

906
00:58:42,400 --> 00:58:46,040
Speaker 1: I don't need a sword. I come against you. Hit

907
00:58:46,120 --> 00:58:49,280
Speaker 1: the name of God. Now go down before I make

908
00:58:49,360 --> 00:58:52,320
Speaker 1: you go doubt, lay down before I spit in headkick

909
00:58:52,400 --> 00:59:04,680
Speaker 1: on you. Lord a shepherd, he's still a shepherd. God said,

910
00:59:04,720 --> 00:59:09,120
Speaker 1: you still are? You still are when you sin, You're

911
00:59:09,120 --> 00:59:14,560
Speaker 1: still a Christian. That's your identity. Sin is the experience.

912
00:59:15,520 --> 00:59:19,560
Speaker 1: Child of God is the identity you still are. I

913
00:59:19,600 --> 00:59:23,200
Speaker 1: need whoever whoever I studied this to help to receive

914
00:59:23,200 --> 00:59:26,520
Speaker 1: it by faith and say, I still am, I still am.

915
00:59:26,680 --> 00:59:30,080
Speaker 1: I still am. I still am. I still am devil,

916
00:59:30,280 --> 00:59:32,800
Speaker 1: I still am. Back up off me with that shame, devil.

917
00:59:33,040 --> 00:59:36,000
Speaker 1: I still am. I still am. I was his child,

918
00:59:36,040 --> 00:59:38,720
Speaker 1: I am his child. I was beloved, I am beloved.

919
00:59:38,920 --> 00:59:41,680
Speaker 1: I was mighty in God. I am mighty in God.

920
00:59:43,000 --> 00:59:49,640
Speaker 1: When I remember, remember, remember, remember, remember remember remember I

921
00:59:50,400 --> 00:59:54,680
Speaker 1: the shepherd, and the plague stopped when he made a

922
00:59:54,720 --> 00:59:58,840
Speaker 1: sacrifice and remembered. But then I see something else in

923
00:59:58,880 --> 01:00:01,600
Speaker 1: the text one more time, and I close with this.

924
01:00:02,080 --> 01:00:06,560
Speaker 1: Everyone's standing, every location, everyone's standing. Thank you, Jesus, thank you, Jesus,

925
01:00:06,880 --> 01:00:09,680
Speaker 1: Thank you Lord, Thank you Lord, Thank you Lord, thank

926
01:00:09,720 --> 01:00:13,480
Speaker 1: you Lord, thank you Jesus, thank you Jesus, thank you

927
01:00:13,560 --> 01:00:19,000
Speaker 1: Lord for this work. He said, I the Shepherd. I

928
01:00:19,040 --> 01:00:24,600
Speaker 1: believe he had a flashback to that pasture. But I

929
01:00:24,640 --> 01:00:27,080
Speaker 1: believe he also had a flashback this Psalm twenty three,

930
01:00:28,560 --> 01:00:33,960
Speaker 1: where he remembered not only that he's still the shepherd,

931
01:00:34,640 --> 01:00:40,400
Speaker 1: but that he's still a sheep. And the Lord is

932
01:00:40,480 --> 01:00:47,560
Speaker 1: my shepherd. So you got off track. He's still the shepherd,

933
01:00:48,640 --> 01:00:53,280
Speaker 1: so you did some dumb stuff. He's still the shepherd,

934
01:00:54,160 --> 01:00:59,560
Speaker 1: so you're crazy. He's still the shepherd, so you smell bad.

935
01:01:00,440 --> 01:01:05,240
Speaker 1: He's still the shepherd, so you have no sense of direction.

936
01:01:05,960 --> 01:01:08,960
Speaker 1: He's still the shepherd, so you don't know what to

937
01:01:09,040 --> 01:01:15,960
Speaker 1: do now. He's still the shepherd. It's true in the valley,

938
01:01:16,440 --> 01:01:21,800
Speaker 1: he's the shepherd. It's true in the palace, he's the shepherd.

939
01:01:22,320 --> 01:01:24,240
Speaker 1: And one reason I knew that God wanted me to

940
01:01:24,280 --> 01:01:27,680
Speaker 1: preach this word. He's still the shepherd is because there's

941
01:01:27,720 --> 01:01:29,720
Speaker 1: nobody in this room that doesn't need to hear it.

942
01:01:31,600 --> 01:01:33,680
Speaker 1: If you're in a valley right now and feel like nobody,

943
01:01:33,760 --> 01:01:35,440
Speaker 1: he's still the shepherd, and he will leave the ninety

944
01:01:35,480 --> 01:01:46,760
Speaker 1: nine to find the one. He's still the shepherd. If

945
01:01:46,760 --> 01:01:49,640
Speaker 1: you got one point five million fighting men like David

946
01:01:49,640 --> 01:01:52,520
Speaker 1: and God has made your dreams come true, don't get cocky.

947
01:01:52,560 --> 01:01:56,520
Speaker 1: He's still the shepherd. He's speaking to you, and he's

948
01:01:56,520 --> 01:01:59,880
Speaker 1: calling to you. He's trying to get you out of

949
01:02:00,080 --> 01:02:04,560
Speaker 1: your flesh into the spirit so he can sustain you.

950
01:02:06,360 --> 01:02:11,480
Speaker 1: The Lord is my shepherd. I shall not want he

951
01:02:11,600 --> 01:02:15,640
Speaker 1: makes me lie down in the place that he made

952
01:02:15,680 --> 01:02:21,200
Speaker 1: me for. Oh, that staff doesn't feel comfortable. But I'm

953
01:02:21,200 --> 01:02:24,440
Speaker 1: glad that he'll bring me back. Aren't you glad that

954
01:02:24,480 --> 01:02:27,840
Speaker 1: God will bring you back? No, y'all, we praise God

955
01:02:27,880 --> 01:02:30,240
Speaker 1: for the wrong stuff. We got to learn to praise

956
01:02:30,280 --> 01:02:32,720
Speaker 1: Him when it's like, Oh, he's bringing me back to

957
01:02:32,800 --> 01:02:35,640
Speaker 1: the heart of worship. He's bringing me back to my

958
01:02:35,720 --> 01:02:39,120
Speaker 1: shepherd's staff. He's bringing me back to my first love,

959
01:02:39,400 --> 01:02:44,400
Speaker 1: to my childlike faith, to my dependence on him. No

960
01:02:44,520 --> 01:02:49,400
Speaker 1: more substitutions. He is my shepherd. No more being led

961
01:02:49,440 --> 01:02:53,320
Speaker 1: by my flesh. Devil, you're a liar. He's my shepherd.

962
01:02:53,760 --> 01:02:57,440
Speaker 1: No more condemnation for those who are in Christ. Jesus,

963
01:02:57,800 --> 01:03:06,040
Speaker 1: the Lord is my shepherd. Shall not one close your eyes,

964
01:03:06,080 --> 01:03:09,920
Speaker 1: lift your hands. The shepherd is here. He brought you here,

965
01:03:09,960 --> 01:03:12,240
Speaker 1: and he's going to lead you out. Every step in between.

966
01:03:12,480 --> 01:03:15,560
Speaker 1: He's still the shepherd. Say it, He's still the shepherd.

967
01:03:16,440 --> 01:03:19,000
Speaker 1: He's still the shepherd. Even after all the mistakes I've made,

968
01:03:19,160 --> 01:03:23,600
Speaker 1: he's still the shepherd. He will reroute you, he will

969
01:03:23,640 --> 01:03:28,120
Speaker 1: redirect you, he will reinvent you, he will revive you

970
01:03:28,920 --> 01:03:32,200
Speaker 1: and ask Lazarus, he'll resurrect you. Because even if you've

971
01:03:32,240 --> 01:03:36,680
Speaker 1: been dead four days, he's still the shepherd. Thank you, Jesus,

972
01:03:36,720 --> 01:03:40,080
Speaker 1: Thank you, Jesus. Come on, there's no praise in this place.

973
01:03:40,280 --> 01:03:42,760
Speaker 1: You gotta give God a praise to him, not clapping,

974
01:03:43,040 --> 01:03:47,280
Speaker 1: praise him with your mouth. Thank you, Jesus, Thank you, Jesus.

975
01:03:47,320 --> 01:03:49,600
Speaker 1: Do it online, do it in Lake Norman. Come on,

976
01:03:49,840 --> 01:03:58,120
Speaker 1: thank you, Jesus. The Lord is my shepherd. And I

977
01:03:58,160 --> 01:04:06,560
Speaker 1: don't live by census. I live by the spirit. I've

978
01:04:06,560 --> 01:04:09,440
Speaker 1: been into each service the last few weeks with some

979
01:04:09,480 --> 01:04:15,760
Speaker 1: of those old hymns. Some of those old hymns speak

980
01:04:15,800 --> 01:04:21,320
Speaker 1: about faith and faithfulness to bring some continuity to your

981
01:04:21,360 --> 01:04:25,080
Speaker 1: spirit in a changing time. To know that he's the

982
01:04:25,120 --> 01:04:27,320
Speaker 1: same God that delivered you from the lion and the bear.

983
01:04:29,000 --> 01:04:32,000
Speaker 1: To get you out of your senses and into the spirit.

984
01:04:32,960 --> 01:04:36,360
Speaker 1: The Lord is my shepherd. We don't live by census

985
01:04:36,440 --> 01:04:39,080
Speaker 1: with your eyes closed. Now eyes close, so you're not

986
01:04:39,120 --> 01:04:43,040
Speaker 1: looking around with your senses. One of my favorite hymns

987
01:04:43,160 --> 01:04:47,560
Speaker 1: is called Blessed Assurance Jesus is Mine. It was written

988
01:04:47,600 --> 01:04:51,360
Speaker 1: by Fanny Crosby when she was six weeks old. She

989
01:04:51,600 --> 01:04:53,720
Speaker 1: was born in eighteen twenty. When she was six weeks old,

990
01:04:54,600 --> 01:04:56,720
Speaker 1: she developed a condition in her eye, and the doctor

991
01:04:56,800 --> 01:04:58,240
Speaker 1: was trying to fix it, but he made it worse

992
01:04:58,280 --> 01:05:04,400
Speaker 1: and she went blind. Fanny Crosby went on, by the

993
01:05:04,440 --> 01:05:07,840
Speaker 1: age of ten to memorize first four books of the

994
01:05:07,840 --> 01:05:11,880
Speaker 1: Bible and all four Gospels. She was so gifted that

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01:05:11,920 --> 01:05:16,320
Speaker 1: she went on to write eight thousand songs. She was

996
01:05:16,400 --> 01:05:20,320
Speaker 1: quoted as saying, if I could go back and find

997
01:05:20,320 --> 01:05:24,440
Speaker 1: the man who operated on my eyes and made me blind,

998
01:05:25,280 --> 01:05:33,360
Speaker 1: I would say thank you, thank you, thank you for

999
01:05:33,440 --> 01:05:36,760
Speaker 1: had I not been blind. If I had had my sight,

1000
01:05:38,280 --> 01:05:45,320
Speaker 1: I may not have had this faith. I think we

1001
01:05:45,400 --> 01:05:49,200
Speaker 1: need to thank God for all of the things in

1002
01:05:49,240 --> 01:05:54,920
Speaker 1: our life right now that according to our senses, according

1003
01:05:54,960 --> 01:05:57,720
Speaker 1: to our site, according to our minds, make no sense.

1004
01:05:58,840 --> 01:06:04,320
Speaker 1: But in the spirit, come on, oh, come on, I

1005
01:06:04,360 --> 01:06:06,240
Speaker 1: think that key is too high for me to sing LJ.

1006
01:06:06,440 --> 01:06:13,880
Speaker 1: Maybe you should go to something lower. Blessed assurance. Jesus

1007
01:06:14,160 --> 01:06:22,480
Speaker 1: is mine. Oh, what a for taste of glory divine?

1008
01:06:23,440 --> 01:06:27,960
Speaker 1: This is who I am, air of salvation, This is

1009
01:06:28,000 --> 01:06:34,760
Speaker 1: whose I am purchase of God. Listen or enough his

1010
01:06:35,000 --> 01:06:43,600
Speaker 1: spear washed in his How about this first perfect submission?

1011
01:06:44,520 --> 01:06:51,120
Speaker 1: Does it lead to perfect de lived visions of rapture?

1012
01:06:51,160 --> 01:06:55,919
Speaker 1: Now burst out of sight? That a blind woman wrote

1013
01:06:55,920 --> 01:06:59,960
Speaker 1: about visions of rapture? Lets me know? It is by faith.

1014
01:07:00,680 --> 01:07:03,360
Speaker 1: Come on, it is by faith. It is by faith.

1015
01:07:03,600 --> 01:07:05,400
Speaker 1: It is by faith. I don't care if you can

1016
01:07:05,440 --> 01:07:07,920
Speaker 1: see it right now. It's real. It is by faith.

1017
01:07:10,000 --> 01:07:18,840
Speaker 1: This is my story. This is my song, praising my

1018
01:07:19,240 --> 01:07:32,240
Speaker 1: safe over day. This is my sort. This is my

1019
01:07:32,760 --> 01:07:42,560
Speaker 1: song praising my safe all the day. Lift your hands

1020
01:07:42,560 --> 01:07:45,840
Speaker 1: worship and by faith. Now, well, if you enjoyed today's podcast,

1021
01:07:45,880 --> 01:07:47,640
Speaker 1: there are a couple of things I'd love for you

1022
01:07:47,720 --> 01:07:52,040
Speaker 1: to do. Make sure to subscribe, rate, and review this podcast.

1023
01:07:52,360 --> 01:07:54,720
Speaker 1: You can also help us reach others by investing today

1024
01:07:54,760 --> 01:07:58,520
Speaker 1: at elevationchurch dot org slash gift and thanks again for

1025
01:07:58,600 --> 01:08:00,560
Speaker 1: joining us on the Elevation Podcast