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

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

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

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

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

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Speaker 1: Let's welcome our EPAM all over the world. That sounds better, right,

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Speaker 1: That's better. That's much better. Wanted to tell you a

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Speaker 1: few things before we get into the Word of God today,

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Speaker 1: and that is if you have any room left for

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Speaker 1: the Word of God after Thanksgiving, you may be saying, well,

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Speaker 1: Pastor Stephen, I'm very stuffed. I don't know if I

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Speaker 1: can receive the bread of life today, but I do

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Speaker 1: this every year after Thanksgiving. It's Thanksgiving in the US,

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Speaker 1: it was Thanksgiving in the US. I speak the miracle

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Speaker 1: of supernatural carb cancellation over your waist slide. I speak it.

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Speaker 1: I don't think it's gonna work, but I speak it anyway.

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Speaker 1: I do it every year. I've yet to get one

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Speaker 1: testimony that that worked, but I keep doing it every year.

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Speaker 1: Brace the Lord. If you receive that, put your raised

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Speaker 1: hands emoji in the chat. There you go, yeah, put

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Speaker 1: a scale emoji in the chat. Oh, check this out

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Speaker 1: before I tell you this really good news. Holly had

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Speaker 1: these shirts made where it says put it in the chat.

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Speaker 1: I guess this probably looks weird if I'm just walking

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Speaker 1: around town wearing a hoodie that says put it in

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Speaker 1: the chat. But I thought it was cool for our purposes.

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Speaker 1: So somebody right now put it in the chat. What

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Speaker 1: you're grateful for, maybe a person or a thing or

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Speaker 1: a maybe you feel peace in your heart and you

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Speaker 1: can't even explain why, Just put it in the chat

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Speaker 1: what you're thankful for today. Come on, let's fill the

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Speaker 1: chat with thanksgiving. Let's fill the comments with gratitude, Praise God.

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Speaker 1: I'm so thankful for you. I'm thankful for the way

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Speaker 1: that our church family has stepped up and trusted God

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Speaker 1: this year. It's been amazing to see. I'll share just

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Speaker 1: a little bit of that with you this year when

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Speaker 1: when when the global pandemic became real to us, we

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Speaker 1: started to wonder what will happen to ministry? And on

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Speaker 1: one hand, you have faith, but you also have fear

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Speaker 1: because you know there's there's this aspect in which we

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Speaker 1: we've never lived through this before. I'm happy to report

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Speaker 1: to you as we come toward the end of twenty

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Speaker 1: twenty that by the favor of God, somebody shall favor,

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Speaker 1: put favor, put favor in the chat that we've given.

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Speaker 1: We've given this year over nine million dollars to our

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Speaker 1: outreach efforts. I think the Lord deserves a great praise

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Speaker 1: foreign that's nothing but the favor of God and the

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Speaker 1: faith of God's people. So I'll list a few things.

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Speaker 1: I can't say them all, but that include over six

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Speaker 1: eight thousand hours with over three hundred organizations, over five

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Speaker 1: hundred thousand dollars to disaster relief efforts, one hundred and

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Speaker 1: this year through God behind Bars, so they could get

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Speaker 1: the word of God where they are. And I'm pretty

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Speaker 1: proud of you for that. Thank God, and just all

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Speaker 1: kinds of things, over one hundred thousand dollars to church plants,

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Speaker 1: across the country. You are an amazing church, are the

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Speaker 1: salt of the earth, the light of the world. And

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Speaker 1: of course you probably know by now if you're part

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Speaker 1: and anticipation, and so we're getting ready for that time.

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Speaker 1: Of thousands of us around the world, not just those

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Speaker 1: and outreach. I want to thank those of you who

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Speaker 1: are already tithing and showing God that you know that

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Speaker 1: He's where your help comes from, and so many of

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Speaker 1: you do that regularly. Thank you. So many will begin

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Speaker 1: to do that this time of year, to trust God

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Speaker 1: in a new way. Many are giving an above and

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Speaker 1: beyond gift, and you can find all of that out

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Speaker 1: on Elevationchurch dot org. But the good news is, whether

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Speaker 1: Come on, clap your hands, give God, praise. Somebody's south favor.

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Speaker 1: And when you think about favor, you think about Levi

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Speaker 1: Lusco and Pastor Levi Luscoe. It's here to preach today.

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Speaker 1: I want to tell you, brother, there's not many people

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Speaker 1: there's you, Jesus Holly Levi. You've been coming around here

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Speaker 1: a long time. You've been blessing our church for years.

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Speaker 1: You've written books to bless us. You built an amazing church.

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Speaker 1: And Jinny was telling me this just this weekend, something

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Speaker 1: can come preach and share with us. You're You're so

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Speaker 1: significant in the Body of Christ and one of the

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Speaker 1: greatest friends that I've had. We love you, Jinny and

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Speaker 1: Levi so much. We love the last coast. Will you

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Speaker 1: welcome to elevation search? Come on, Epham, put it in

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Speaker 1: this chap. Welcome Levi. Let's go, wow, elevation Sure, come on.

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Speaker 1: Thank Jesus for his goodness, thank you for his grace,

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Speaker 1: thank you for his love, Thank Him for your pastor.

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Speaker 1: Come on, Let's thank God for Pastor Stephen and Holly Curdick,

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Speaker 1: Eli Jah A Graham and Abby Man. This moment is

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Speaker 1: one that I've been looking forward to for a long time.

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Speaker 1: I didn't know it was coming, to know i'd have

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Speaker 1: need to when I got the chance. And that is

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Speaker 1: to let you know how grateful I am for how

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Speaker 1: this ministry and your pastors and you have led through

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Speaker 1: in this pulpit and gave a brilliant message about not

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Speaker 1: in that message he said towards the end that God

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Speaker 1: a perfect way to describe how you have helped lead

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Speaker 1: the two songs that, in my opinion, out of all

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Speaker 1: the songs, out of all, like all the songs, like

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Speaker 1: all of them, just all the songs. The way that

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Speaker 1: God used this ministry and this man and this team

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Speaker 1: from God the most. That's what the blessing to me represents.

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Speaker 1: can't stay sleeping forever. So y'all went ahead and wrote

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Speaker 1: this instill in your delirious meat sweats from Thanksgiving finding

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Speaker 1: this sermon is one that that's going to touch your heart.

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Speaker 1: The title of my message is I woke up like this.

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Speaker 1: the west. And even in this moment, we are today

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Speaker 1: walking in the fulfillment of that prophecy. Yes, as Elevation

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Speaker 1: Church broadcasts this gospel of hope and this message of

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Speaker 1: love and peace, as the worship songs alter the atmosphere

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Speaker 1: for people who are struggling to not take their lives

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Speaker 1: in the midst of one of the most hopeless times,

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Speaker 1: divided times, pain filled times in human history. Here is

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Speaker 1: Jesus building his church and not even the gates of

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Speaker 1: Hell can prevail against it. This is that And Jacob

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Speaker 1: got to be a link in the chain of what

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Speaker 1: God was connecting. So you you, you could interview Jacob too,

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Speaker 1: captain of two companies, father of twelve sons, lots of wives,

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Speaker 1: also different sermon, not recommended. But but you might say, Jacob,

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Speaker 1: what do you do that you might become who you were?

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Speaker 1: Not who you were, but who you are? Jacob? What

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00:24:24,960 --> 00:24:27,960
Speaker 1: did you? What did you do? Did you? Did you?

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Speaker 1: Did you? Did you buy a product on the internet

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Speaker 1: that you took you through a twelve week course? Surely

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Speaker 1: there was there was something that involved supplements. I bet

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Speaker 1: you essential oils were involved. Like what did you do, Jacob?

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Speaker 1: How did how did you do? How do you change?

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Speaker 1: And he would just look at you with a smile

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Speaker 1: and twinkle in his eye and go, I woke up

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Speaker 1: like this. I didn't do anything. It wasn't what I did.

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Speaker 1: It was who I met. It was an encounter I had.

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Speaker 1: I woke up like this. I'm not responsible for the

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Speaker 1: change in my situation or search. I woke up like this.

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Speaker 1: By all I know is I was blo Now I

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Speaker 1: see I was dead. Now I'm alive. I was hopeless,

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Speaker 1: Now I hope. I was a narcissist. Now I was

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Speaker 1: a foot catch her trying to pull other people back,

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Speaker 1: to pull myself ahead. But I met the foot washer.

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Speaker 1: I had a revelation. I met Jesus. The heavens opened up.

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Speaker 1: I didn't ask for it. I wasn't seeking him. It

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Speaker 1: wasn't my decision. He pursued me, He sought me, He

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Speaker 1: washed me, he changed me, he touched me, he blessed me,

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Speaker 1: he healed me. I woke up like this. How'd you

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Speaker 1: wake up? I made a little list. He woke up amazed.

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Speaker 1: Amazed is how Jacob woke up, profoundly amazed. He said.

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Speaker 1: He used the word awesome. Awesome because he woke up

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Speaker 1: and he got to see a vision of a ladder.

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Speaker 1: Write that down, put it in the chat. Amazed. I

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Speaker 1: woke up amazed. He he was terrified. Now he's amazed.

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Speaker 1: I was horrified. Now I'm astonished, he said, because I

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Speaker 1: thought I was alone with Then I found out I

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Speaker 1: wasn't in the same place that didn't even get a name,

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Speaker 1: A certain place, a scary place, a terrible place. Guess what,

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Speaker 1: It's the House of God now, because the House of

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Speaker 1: God is wherever you are. Wherever Jesus is is where

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Speaker 1: you are, and it's the House of God. You're the

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Speaker 1: House of God. Well, we don't get to go to church.

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Speaker 1: Oh well, psych, we are the church. Lol. Wherever we

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Speaker 1: are is where the church is. We gather together in

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Speaker 1: the mighty matchless name of Jesus. This is church. This

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Speaker 1: is how the world gets changed. We are linked up

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Speaker 1: in this moment. And so he's amazed. He's amazed because

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Speaker 1: God essentially let him see how heaven works. He's The

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Speaker 1: key is in the phrase this is the gate of Heaven,

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Speaker 1: which you will recognize, you students of the Bible from

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Speaker 1: Genesis chapter eleven, when mankind mankind tried to build a

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Speaker 1: tower to heaven and the phrase babel is used, and

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Speaker 1: Babel or Babylon comes up again and again and again

489
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Speaker 1: beginning of the Bible to the very end. And what

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Speaker 1: does it always mean. Well, in the ancient language of

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Speaker 1: the day, it meant gate of Heaven. So what they

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Speaker 1: were trying to do with that stairway. What they were

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Speaker 1: trying to do with that ladder, if you will, was

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Speaker 1: connect earth to Heaven. That's been what man's always been

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Speaker 1: trying to do. That's why people turn to heroin, That's

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Speaker 1: why people turn to money, That's why people look to

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Speaker 1: their career. What are we're trying to get back to heaven.

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Speaker 1: We're trying to fill what's empty. We're trying to restore

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Speaker 1: what's lost. So Babel was trying to get to God,

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Speaker 1: to get to wholeness, to get to transcendence, to get

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Speaker 1: to healing. We were trying to get our way up.

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Speaker 1: And that's how it was traditionally thought, and that's how

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Speaker 1: people still mistakenly think it works today, that if you're

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Speaker 1: going to get to heaven, you got to build a

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Speaker 1: tower up high enough, and then eventually, if you can

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Speaker 1: get enough Benjamin stacked upon Benjamin's if you can get

507
00:27:46,359 --> 00:27:49,000
Speaker 1: enough Instagram followers stacked upon Instagram. So if you could

508
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Speaker 1: sleep with this person or that person, eventually you can

509
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Speaker 1: get a tower. That's the gate of heaven. That's how

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Speaker 1: Jacob would have thought. But then his dream, he's lying

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Speaker 1: there and all of a sudden he sees a tower

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Speaker 1: that descends from heaven to earth. And this this ladder, this,

513
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Speaker 1: this is like when you in those houses where you

514
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Speaker 1: pull the rope and the attic ladder comes tumbling down.

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Speaker 1: That's what he saw in his dream. He saw God

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Speaker 1: initiate a ladder, not from Earth up, but from Heaven down.

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Speaker 1: He saw a ladder coming down from heaven and the

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Speaker 1: angels of God us sending and descending. And his exclamation,

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Speaker 1: this is the gate of Heaven was him saying, oh,

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Speaker 1: that's how heaven works. It's what what In John one

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Speaker 1: we realized when Nathaniel when Jesus saw him under the

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Speaker 1: fig tree and he said, Nathaniel, I saw you onder

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Speaker 1: the fig tree. And Nathaniel was like horrified. Oh no, no,

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Speaker 1: we don't know what Nathaniel was doing under the vic tree.

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Speaker 1: The Bible never tells us. He said to our imagination.

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Speaker 1: That caused him to go, you are a rabbi, Holy crap,

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Speaker 1: How does he know what I did under the fig tree.

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Speaker 1: We don't know who he was with on the fig tree.

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Speaker 1: But you said, Nathaniel, And then Jesuid, you think it's

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Speaker 1: amazing I saw you under the fig tree. Guess what

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Speaker 1: you're gonna see? Angels us sending and descending upon the

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Speaker 1: son of Man. Jesus is the ladder sent down from

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Speaker 1: heaven to or Jesus is what is meant to restore

534
00:29:02,200 --> 00:29:04,600
Speaker 1: your connection to God. You can't earn your way to heaven.

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Speaker 1: It comes not based on you, placed on you. Because

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Speaker 1: Jesus descended, the bridge came down, the latter came down.

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00:29:12,560 --> 00:29:14,640
Speaker 1: He said, I woke up like this all of a sudden,

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Speaker 1: aware I don't got to earn my standing before God.

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Speaker 1: It was given to me based on the mercy and

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Speaker 1: love of his son, Jesus Christ, who came into this

541
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Speaker 1: world the safe sinners of whom Jacob said, I am cheap.

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Speaker 1: I'm amazed, and I woke up like this because this

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00:29:26,000 --> 00:29:29,320
Speaker 1: is what heaven is all about. It's about God saving people,

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Speaker 1: not by their good works. I'm excited. I could preach

545
00:29:34,200 --> 00:29:35,640
Speaker 1: a lot more about that, but I got to move on.

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Speaker 1: I got four points today. You got to collect them

547
00:29:38,120 --> 00:29:42,400
Speaker 1: all to win a prize. The second point is included.

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00:29:43,760 --> 00:29:46,000
Speaker 1: Jacob was not just told here's what I'm gonna do,

549
00:29:46,040 --> 00:29:49,120
Speaker 1: like God was filling out his grand rescue mission. There

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Speaker 1: was participation built in. There was participation baked in. That's

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Speaker 1: how you don't waste the rain. You apply the word.

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Speaker 1: The moment God sows the word, you instantly take action.

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Speaker 1: Said here's how heaven works. Here's my master plan, he said,

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Speaker 1: And bro I got plans for you. I want to

555
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Speaker 1: use you. You got gifts, you got something to contribute.

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Speaker 1: You get to play a part church. We get to

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Speaker 1: be a part of God's plan to change the world.

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Speaker 1: That's why he gave you skills. That's why he gave

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Speaker 1: you talents. That's why God has given you something to

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00:30:21,000 --> 00:30:26,640
Speaker 1: contribute to this grand master plan. The third thing is

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Speaker 1: that he instantly wanted to become invested because he was

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Speaker 1: amazed and he found out he got to be included.

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Speaker 1: The immediate thing was for him to say, well, I

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Speaker 1: want to get invested. I'm immediately wanting to get invested.

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Speaker 1: I want to get skin in this game. Now here's

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Speaker 1: the problem. He was broke, he was a joke. He

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Speaker 1: only had a staff, he didn't even he didn't even

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Speaker 1: have anything to contribute. But that didn't stop him from

569
00:30:53,000 --> 00:30:58,240
Speaker 1: contributing what he could because he looks around and he's like, well,

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Speaker 1: this is where I slept right here last night, and

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Speaker 1: what did I used for a pillow? A rock, and

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00:31:03,760 --> 00:31:07,400
Speaker 1: he's like, hmm, God's gonna use me to build a church.

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Speaker 1: God's gonna use me to build the House of God

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Speaker 1: so other people could connect to the north, to the

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Speaker 1: east of this house of the West. I got nothing

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Speaker 1: but this rock. Well, guess what this rock is where

577
00:31:17,120 --> 00:31:20,440
Speaker 1: the temple starts. Bang right there. He has this God

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Speaker 1: moment where he says, that's the first stone of many

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Speaker 1: that's gonna come. I'm not gonna let what I can't

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Speaker 1: do stop me from doing what I can do. I

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Speaker 1: lay the first rock right here and right now. And

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Speaker 1: then he's like, oh, I got a little bit of

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Speaker 1: olive oil. All right, I'm pouring one out for the home.

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Speaker 1: He's right here. I did it. He's smashing a bottle

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Speaker 1: of champagne against the church, not even build. But he

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00:31:43,640 --> 00:31:48,280
Speaker 1: sees what's to come. He saw the work of God

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Speaker 1: spreading out across the whole world. He was told, your

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00:31:52,120 --> 00:31:55,320
Speaker 1: seed Jesus is gonna lead to descendants from the whole

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00:31:55,320 --> 00:31:57,680
Speaker 1: world being blessed. It's being fulfilled today right now as

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Speaker 1: we preached these words. Started it with that one rock.

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00:32:02,480 --> 00:32:04,320
Speaker 1: And then he said, and from here on out, God,

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Speaker 1: I don't have any money. I don't have anything to

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Speaker 1: offer you. But if you ever trust so much as

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Speaker 1: a dollar to this man, I'm gonna give the first

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Speaker 1: and the best tenth to you every single time. And

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Speaker 1: that made Jacob safe to bless. How did he get

597
00:32:20,280 --> 00:32:22,680
Speaker 1: to lead two companies? How did he get to lead

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Speaker 1: stock How did he get so influential in the stock market?

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00:32:25,880 --> 00:32:29,200
Speaker 1: It's a live stock market. He had made a vow

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Speaker 1: that made him safe to bless. You. See, here's the

601
00:32:32,040 --> 00:32:33,920
Speaker 1: thing you need to know about money. It gets tricky

602
00:32:33,960 --> 00:32:38,600
Speaker 1: with the money stuff. When we talk about money. Generosity

603
00:32:38,720 --> 00:32:41,440
Speaker 1: is the only thing that can release the stranglehold that

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00:32:41,480 --> 00:32:48,160
Speaker 1: money will always hold on your soul. The love of money,

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00:32:48,240 --> 00:32:51,240
Speaker 1: the desire to be rich, It has crept in and

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00:32:51,560 --> 00:32:56,040
Speaker 1: will pierce your soul through with many sorrows. Not one

607
00:32:56,080 --> 00:32:59,720
Speaker 1: of us is immune to the temptation, to the seduction,

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Speaker 1: to the hypnotizing power of the deceitfulness of riches, which

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00:33:05,800 --> 00:33:09,880
Speaker 1: will choke and strangle away your desire to live a

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Speaker 1: life for God. The only thing that can unshackle the

611
00:33:13,440 --> 00:33:16,800
Speaker 1: power of wealth to drain you of your spiritual power

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00:33:17,120 --> 00:33:21,200
Speaker 1: is constantly putting a steak through the idol's heart with

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Speaker 1: something called giving it again and again and again. You

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00:33:27,680 --> 00:33:30,560
Speaker 1: get paid bang immediately, first in the best, back to God,

615
00:33:30,680 --> 00:33:32,400
Speaker 1: first in the best, back to God. What are you doing?

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00:33:32,560 --> 00:33:36,960
Speaker 1: You're stabbing the idolatry of greed in the heart with

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00:33:37,080 --> 00:33:40,840
Speaker 1: a steak. You are pounding again and again and again

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Speaker 1: the thing that can sneak in and cause the love

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Speaker 1: of many to grow cold, The thing that can sneak

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Speaker 1: in and cause many people to live for this world

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Speaker 1: and to live for their kingdom. See, money will sneak

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00:33:51,840 --> 00:33:53,479
Speaker 1: in and get you building the tower of Babble all

623
00:33:53,520 --> 00:33:56,600
Speaker 1: over again. Money will sneak in and get you building

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00:33:56,640 --> 00:33:59,360
Speaker 1: your own kingdom once again. And the thing that every

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00:33:59,400 --> 00:34:01,600
Speaker 1: single time you get paid, you take a test, and

626
00:34:01,600 --> 00:34:03,680
Speaker 1: the test is who do you honor the most? That's

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00:34:03,720 --> 00:34:07,040
Speaker 1: what we find Jacob doing. I'm vowing that all you

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00:34:07,080 --> 00:34:09,640
Speaker 1: give me first and the tenth the best goes back

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Speaker 1: to you. I was reminded of George Washington Carver this week.

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Speaker 1: What an incredible man. George Washington Carver, a man and

631
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Speaker 1: a man of God. He was. Come on, let's hear

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00:34:18,160 --> 00:34:19,960
Speaker 1: for George Washington Carver. I think we got a photo

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00:34:20,000 --> 00:34:23,919
Speaker 1: of him here, This incredible man. You know they say

634
00:34:24,480 --> 00:34:28,359
Speaker 1: that he saved the economy of the South. And that's

635
00:34:28,440 --> 00:34:31,640
Speaker 1: because he knew that with all the cotton fields that

636
00:34:31,640 --> 00:34:33,600
Speaker 1: were all over the place. What an incredible life he lived,

637
00:34:33,800 --> 00:34:37,080
Speaker 1: born a slave, kidnapped, father, died, all these things, but

638
00:34:37,120 --> 00:34:40,719
Speaker 1: became a scientist, and he realized he realized that the

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Speaker 1: problem with all the cotton fields wasn't what they were growing,

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Speaker 1: it's what the fields were missing. And he realized that

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Speaker 1: the things were depleting the soil, and so by introducing

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Speaker 1: peanuts into the fields, peanuts have a unique ability to

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Speaker 1: replenish nitrogen supplies, which is the only thing that over

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Speaker 1: time keeps the cotton from killing the ground and making

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Speaker 1: it unproductive. And so it wasn't a problem about what

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Speaker 1: was growing, it was a problem about what was missing.

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Speaker 1: For some of you, the problem in your life isn't

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Speaker 1: what you're doing your work. It's the problem is what's missing.

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Speaker 1: You've got to plant some generosity in the field. It

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Speaker 1: could replenish the nitrogen and keep what you're doing, what

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Speaker 1: you're growing producing. So then then then they have this

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Speaker 1: new problem. We all these peanuts. What do we do

653
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Speaker 1: all these peanuts? And he's like, I got an idea.

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Speaker 1: He found three hundred and twenty five different uses for

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Speaker 1: the peanut. Three hundred and twenty five different things you

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Speaker 1: could do with a peanut. That should be the mascot

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Speaker 1: of Elevation Creative Team, the peanut. You should have to

658
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Speaker 1: sit around and look at a peanut and go, what

659
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Speaker 1: could you do with a peanut? Right right? There's always

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Speaker 1: more that you could do with what you have in

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Speaker 1: front of you, right, and so and so he comes

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Speaker 1: up with all these different ways to use the peanuts.

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Speaker 1: So now they have all this crop, and the thing

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Speaker 1: that saved their crop from going bad was now also

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Speaker 1: becoming a new crop three hundred twenty times over. I'm

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Speaker 1: telling you, when you put generosity into your life in

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Speaker 1: the mix, it not only keeps what you have from

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Speaker 1: ruining you, it'll also give you more things to do

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Speaker 1: that you didn't know how to do before. I'm telling

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Speaker 1: you ninety percent of your resources with God's breath on

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Speaker 1: your life is better than one hundred percent, and you're

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Speaker 1: all on your own every time. Every day of the week,

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Speaker 1: you'll think got three hundred and twenty five new things

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Speaker 1: to do with the spirit of God moving on your

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Speaker 1: life so powerfully. What I'm really trying to say is

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Speaker 1: that there's a protection in purpose, because every time you're

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Speaker 1: sewing into God's work, it's keeping you on a mission.

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Speaker 1: It's keeping you focused on what God's called you to do,

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Speaker 1: and that purpose protects you. Or, as we learned last week,

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Speaker 1: what I'm trying to say is, let God use your boat.

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Speaker 1: Let God use your boat. Now you've got to make

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Speaker 1: your way back to Luke chapter five, because we got

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Speaker 1: unfinished business in this text. In Luke chapter five, what

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Speaker 1: we find is that basically, if we jump into verse one,

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Speaker 1: so it was the multitude press all about them to

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Speaker 1: hear the word of God that he Jesus stood by

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Speaker 1: the lake of Genessa Ittzia Galley. He saw two boats,

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Speaker 1: someone say, two boats standing by the lake, but the

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Speaker 1: fishermen had gone from them, and they were washing their nets.

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Speaker 1: He got into one of the boats, which was Simon's,

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Speaker 1: and asked him to put out a little from the land.

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Speaker 1: He sat down and taught the multitudes from the boat.

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Speaker 1: When he had stopped speaking, he said to Simon, launch

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Speaker 1: out into the deep and let down your nets for

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Speaker 1: a catch. Simon answered him, Master, we have toiled all

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Speaker 1: night and caught nothing. Nevertheless, at your word, I will

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Speaker 1: let down the net. And when they had done this,

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Speaker 1: they caught a great number of fish and their net

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Speaker 1: was breaking. So they signaled to their partners, who do

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Speaker 1: you have to call? By the way, when you got

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Speaker 1: a problem in your life? Do you got any partners

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Speaker 1: to signal too? He thought he was gonna drown, and

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Speaker 1: he had someone who he could summon for help. That's

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Speaker 1: why you need to be in an E group. You

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Speaker 1: need to have people in your life that you can signal,

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00:37:52,480 --> 00:37:54,959
Speaker 1: that you can call, that you can text. You can't

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Speaker 1: just consume this message like it's the Crown on Netflix.

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Speaker 1: You gotta watch this message and then participate and get

709
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Speaker 1: involved and get planted and get into these reflect events

710
00:38:05,040 --> 00:38:07,040
Speaker 1: and groups and these all these things that are going

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Speaker 1: to keep you keep keep people in your life. But

712
00:38:09,000 --> 00:38:13,040
Speaker 1: you can signal when there's a problem. And they came

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Speaker 1: and filled both the boats so that they began to sink.

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Speaker 1: When Simon Peter saw it, he fell down at Jesus's knees,

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Speaker 1: saying to part from me, pushing him away, for I'm

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Speaker 1: a sinful man, o Lord, For he and all who

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Speaker 1: are with him? What were what you can say? Amazed?

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Speaker 1: What's the difference before you. You caught no fish before

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Speaker 1: your fishing, no catching, no fish. You're and now on

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Speaker 1: the other side of it a different person. He said,

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Speaker 1: I woke up like this. I woke up like this.

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Speaker 1: I fished all night, caught nothing on my own. But

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Speaker 1: now it's morning, Now the day has broken. Now Jesus

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Speaker 1: is in my boat. Now what I was trying to

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Speaker 1: do alone I couldn't do. I can do all things

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Speaker 1: through Christ, who gives me strength. I woke up like

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Speaker 1: this at to catch a fish which they had taken.

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Speaker 1: I believe that God wants you to use your boat

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Speaker 1: to wake other people up. In Ephesian chapter five, we're

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Speaker 1: giving a little important detail that sleep in the New

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Speaker 1: Testament is a picture of death, and it can mean

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Speaker 1: a lot of different kinds of death. That can mean

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Speaker 1: physical death, but also can mean spiritual death. And Paul

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Speaker 1: says in Ephesians five therefore, he says, awake ye who sleep,

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Speaker 1: rise from the dead, and Christ will give you light.

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Speaker 1: I believe that God wants you to see that your

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Speaker 1: part to play in this a significant call of God

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Speaker 1: on your life is to grow your business, is to

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Speaker 1: produce wealth. Is to scale your company, is to start

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Speaker 1: that business and to do so protected by the purpose

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Speaker 1: of Whatever God does through this boat business, whatever God

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Speaker 1: does through this corporation, whatever God does on the Nasdaq,

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Speaker 1: it's for a purpose. It's to bankroll this pulpit is

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Speaker 1: to get wealth into the hands of those who need

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Speaker 1: it through the elevation outreach initiatives. I'm going to scale

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Speaker 1: my company. I believe the call of God on many

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Speaker 1: of you is to produce more well. Is the need

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Speaker 1: for bigger barnes, is the need for more employees. And

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Speaker 1: it is to do so with the vision, with the

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Speaker 1: explicit intention of whatever you and trust to me, I'm

751
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Speaker 1: going to return back to you God. I'm going to

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Speaker 1: use it to build your house. I'm going to use

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Speaker 1: it to get you on the boat in front of

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Speaker 1: the people. The people were pressing, wanting to hear. They

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Speaker 1: were hungry and stirred, I'm anxious, troubled with many things.

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Speaker 1: They needed to hear the word of God preached from

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Speaker 1: the specific and it was so cool. It's like YouTube.

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Speaker 1: The way he got on the boat and pushed out

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Speaker 1: it created acoustics as they were on the hillside. This

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Speaker 1: is old school amplification techniques. Jesus was using the most

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Speaker 1: cutting edge delivery vehicle of media he could find, and

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Speaker 1: it amplified the reach to those who couldn't have heard

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Speaker 1: him otherwise. He's doing it today, he's doing it right now.

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Speaker 1: He's doing it through multi site, he's doing it through

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Speaker 1: church online, he's doing it through Facebook. He's getting the

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Speaker 1: word to more people. So what I need you to

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Speaker 1: do is not only feel okay about going to work.

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Speaker 1: I want you to feel like you are on a

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Speaker 1: mission as you go to work, because God has called

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Speaker 1: you to thrive. God has called you to excel, and

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Speaker 1: as He blesses your life, you're doing so protected from

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Speaker 1: the idolatry of greed, with a purpose of I'm planted

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Speaker 1: in the house. I'm here to make the reach get louder.

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Speaker 1: I need this boat to get bigger, I need the

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Speaker 1: nets to get wider. Why so that more people can

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Speaker 1: come to know the saving goodness of the God who

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Speaker 1: reaches down with a ladder from heaven and says, come

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Speaker 1: on up, Come on up, Come on up. And I

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Speaker 1: think that we find a stirring example in these two fishermen.

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Speaker 1: And yet I'm more impressed by the other fishermen on

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Speaker 1: the Sea of Galley that day. You see because we

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Speaker 1: know that two of them walked away. Two of them

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Speaker 1: walked away and left the fish and left the business.

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Speaker 1: They left the enterprise, and they went to follow Jesus

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Speaker 1: and become professional pastors and profess estional preachers. But joseph

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Speaker 1: Is the historian tells us that there were two hundred

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Speaker 1: and thirty commercial fishing enterprises on the Sea of Galilee

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Speaker 1: operating at that time, and surely many of them got impacted,

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Speaker 1: and many of them got saved. And many of them said,

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Speaker 1: I'm ready to leave my net. I'm ready to follow

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Speaker 1: you to the ends of the earth. Where's my sword?

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Speaker 1: Let's go. I'm in the Lord's army right now. Let's

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Speaker 1: do this thing. And Jesus said to them what he

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Speaker 1: said to the demoniac of Gadera, when he said, can

795
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Speaker 1: I follow you? He said, oh, go back to your home.

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Speaker 1: I can use you, but I want to use you

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Speaker 1: at home. I can use you, but I want to

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Speaker 1: use you in your city. You listen, are gonna to

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Speaker 1: do the thing that requires even more faith than going,

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Speaker 1: and that is staying. I want you to go back

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Speaker 1: to work tomorrow, protected with purpose, creating wealth for the kingdom,

802
00:42:46,440 --> 00:42:50,200
Speaker 1: receiving blessing that you might be a blessing. God is

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Speaker 1: going to use you, many of you like the two

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Speaker 1: hundred and twenty eight fishing vessels that didn't go into

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Speaker 1: full time ministry, in full time ministry at your bank,

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Speaker 1: at your plates, study at your job, selling insurance at

807
00:43:03,280 --> 00:43:05,600
Speaker 1: your job. And I want you every day to hold

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Speaker 1: your head high knowing I'm a servant of the King.

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00:43:08,760 --> 00:43:11,200
Speaker 1: I got a mission, I got a cause. The church

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00:43:11,320 --> 00:43:15,080
Speaker 1: need these resources. I need to bankroll this pulpit and

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Speaker 1: make sure this ministry is never lacking in funds to

812
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Speaker 1: send out more millions of dollars. Y'all gave away more

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Speaker 1: resource this year than most churches will have in their

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Speaker 1: budgets in a decade. But God has raised you up

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Speaker 1: for such a time as this. Now that shouldn't make

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00:43:31,600 --> 00:43:34,120
Speaker 1: you want to do less. It should make you eager

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Speaker 1: to see God do more. Because is there not a cause?

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Speaker 1: Is there not a need? Are there not hungry people?

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Speaker 1: Are there not people who need to have hope? Very good?

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Speaker 1: I love World War two, And all the time I've

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Speaker 1: prepared this message and read about the boat and was

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Speaker 1: listening to Pastor last week, I couldn't get this boat

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Speaker 1: out of my mind. And I kept thinking about this boat,

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Speaker 1: and I'll show you a photo of it. This is

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Speaker 1: the boat I kept thinking of. Here. It's called a

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Speaker 1: Higgins boat, and it's a boat that many of you

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Speaker 1: have seen, because it's if you've ever watched Saving Private

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Speaker 1: Ryan or any of the World War two movies, you've

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Speaker 1: seen this boat. Now, now, if you take that boat

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Speaker 1: away for a moment, there are names. We'll come back

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Speaker 1: to that in a second. When you think about World

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Speaker 1: War Two, there are names that come to mind, and

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Speaker 1: you think about, you know, Normandy in D Day. It

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Speaker 1: was the event that turned the tide of World War Two.

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Speaker 1: And the reason we live in a country that is

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Speaker 1: not under the command of Imperial Japan or have a

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Speaker 1: Nazi flag flying high is in large part because of

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Speaker 1: what happened at D Day June sixth, nineteen forty four,

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Speaker 1: seventy six years ago. This incredible, amphibious assault of the

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Speaker 1: five beaches of Normandy in France. One hundred and fifty

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Speaker 1: thousand soldiers alone and came aboard, came up up on

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Speaker 1: the shore at these beaches in central France, not to

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Speaker 1: speak of all the paratroopers and all the things that happened.

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Speaker 1: It was a reversal of Dunkirk, because Dunkirk was a

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Speaker 1: massive evacuation of France. But you don't win wars by evacuation.

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Speaker 1: You don't win wars by retreating. You gotta take some ground,

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Speaker 1: you can't leave the ground. So they were finally back.

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Speaker 1: All these soldiers that left France were now back on

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Speaker 1: French soil. And so here's this amazing day. And you

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Speaker 1: think about who is responsible. And when you think about

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00:45:30,440 --> 00:45:33,759
Speaker 1: World War two and the European theater specifically, and you

852
00:45:33,800 --> 00:45:37,360
Speaker 1: think about who was it that was responsible for this victory,

853
00:45:37,719 --> 00:45:41,960
Speaker 1: you think, of course about Roosevelt, and you think about Churchhill,

854
00:45:42,560 --> 00:45:48,360
Speaker 1: and you think about Patten, and you think about even Montgomery,

855
00:45:48,600 --> 00:45:53,280
Speaker 1: this British general. But Dwight de Eisenhower, the Supreme commander

856
00:45:53,480 --> 00:45:57,640
Speaker 1: of the Allied Forces, was interviewed by Stephen Ambrose in Gettysburg.

857
00:45:57,760 --> 00:46:00,279
Speaker 1: So any conversation that happens in Gettysburg, it's already like, okay,

858
00:46:00,320 --> 00:46:02,760
Speaker 1: you had me, I'm already there. And he was asked,

859
00:46:03,160 --> 00:46:06,719
Speaker 1: who do you attribute most the victory to? And I

860
00:46:06,800 --> 00:46:08,600
Speaker 1: want to put on screen the exact quote that he

861
00:46:08,719 --> 00:46:12,439
Speaker 1: had to say that day. He said that he Peter

862
00:46:12,800 --> 00:46:15,120
Speaker 1: Higgins is the man who won the war for us.

863
00:46:15,880 --> 00:46:18,680
Speaker 1: Talking about Peter Higgins, because he knew that Ambrose was

864
00:46:18,719 --> 00:46:20,799
Speaker 1: from New Orleans. He said, do you have you ever

865
00:46:20,880 --> 00:46:23,200
Speaker 1: met Higgins? He goes, no, he died before he died

866
00:46:23,239 --> 00:46:24,600
Speaker 1: a while back. I never met him. He said, well,

867
00:46:24,600 --> 00:46:25,920
Speaker 1: I want you know, look at that quote more time.

868
00:46:26,000 --> 00:46:27,799
Speaker 1: This is from the mouth of President right the eyes

869
00:46:27,800 --> 00:46:30,799
Speaker 1: at hour. He is the man who won the war

870
00:46:30,880 --> 00:46:33,279
Speaker 1: for us. And you're like, well, who is Higgins? Because

871
00:46:33,280 --> 00:46:36,400
Speaker 1: he's the photo of Andrew Jackson Higgins. This is what

872
00:46:36,560 --> 00:46:39,319
Speaker 1: he looked like. This is his tie flapping on the side.

873
00:46:39,640 --> 00:46:42,800
Speaker 1: What a legend this guy is, right, He is a

874
00:46:42,880 --> 00:46:45,480
Speaker 1: person you've never heard about. But he was the one

875
00:46:45,520 --> 00:46:47,480
Speaker 1: who invented the boat that I showed you a moment ago.

876
00:46:48,320 --> 00:46:51,640
Speaker 1: He was a boat builder, He was a businessman. He

877
00:46:51,760 --> 00:46:55,080
Speaker 1: had just one hundred employees. But he had this incredible invention,

878
00:46:55,480 --> 00:46:58,759
Speaker 1: a flat bottom boat with a protected propeller that could

879
00:46:58,960 --> 00:47:01,840
Speaker 1: be beached easily and go in just a shallow of

880
00:47:01,960 --> 00:47:04,239
Speaker 1: water as one foot and it was an amazing boat.

881
00:47:04,360 --> 00:47:08,680
Speaker 1: He built it for Louisiana Oil, you know, workers and trappers,

882
00:47:08,760 --> 00:47:10,840
Speaker 1: and he sold a ton of them to boot to

883
00:47:10,960 --> 00:47:13,360
Speaker 1: run runners and bootleggers, and then he sold them to

884
00:47:13,440 --> 00:47:15,640
Speaker 1: the people that chased the run runners and the bootleggers,

885
00:47:15,680 --> 00:47:17,239
Speaker 1: and he's just kind of say, hey, you need this

886
00:47:17,440 --> 00:47:19,200
Speaker 1: to get away from and you need this to catch him.

887
00:47:19,239 --> 00:47:22,960
Speaker 1: He was just that way an amazing leader. He in

888
00:47:23,080 --> 00:47:26,160
Speaker 1: his factories in New Orleans. He was the first person

889
00:47:26,480 --> 00:47:29,120
Speaker 1: to hire black people and white people and men and

890
00:47:29,200 --> 00:47:30,719
Speaker 1: women and pay him all the same. He was the

891
00:47:30,800 --> 00:47:34,080
Speaker 1: first person. He was the first person that broke through

892
00:47:34,120 --> 00:47:38,759
Speaker 1: those walls and integrated his operations. And don't I preach

893
00:47:38,840 --> 00:47:40,239
Speaker 1: him into heaven and make him seem like I'm saying

894
00:47:40,280 --> 00:47:42,520
Speaker 1: he drank a whole bottle of whiskey every single day

895
00:47:42,600 --> 00:47:44,520
Speaker 1: and cursed worse than an Irish sailor. This is the

896
00:47:44,520 --> 00:47:47,560
Speaker 1: thing about Higgins. But Eisenhower said, Higgins is the man

897
00:47:47,600 --> 00:47:49,120
Speaker 1: who won the war for us. You want to know why,

898
00:47:49,360 --> 00:47:52,880
Speaker 1: because check this out. Here's a step back view of Normandy,

899
00:47:53,239 --> 00:47:55,840
Speaker 1: a step back picture of Normandy. When we had to

900
00:47:55,920 --> 00:47:59,880
Speaker 1: get one hundred and fifty thousand troops all the way

901
00:48:00,120 --> 00:48:03,680
Speaker 1: to the shore, one hundred and fifty thousand men. The

902
00:48:03,719 --> 00:48:05,360
Speaker 1: average age was twenty by the way, and they're on

903
00:48:05,520 --> 00:48:07,399
Speaker 1: let's hear for our military let's hear this. Thank God

904
00:48:07,480 --> 00:48:12,120
Speaker 1: for everyone who serves everyone. They had to get all

905
00:48:12,200 --> 00:48:18,040
Speaker 1: these men from aircraft carriers and big old boats. How

906
00:48:18,120 --> 00:48:22,520
Speaker 1: you gonna get the largest amphibious assault crew in human

907
00:48:22,719 --> 00:48:26,640
Speaker 1: history from these massive ships in six foot waves? Six

908
00:48:26,719 --> 00:48:28,759
Speaker 1: feet waves are going. But you see, you can't land

909
00:48:28,800 --> 00:48:32,080
Speaker 1: the big boats on the beach. How you gonna get them?

910
00:48:32,120 --> 00:48:37,680
Speaker 1: How you gonna get them from ship to shore? You

911
00:48:37,800 --> 00:48:40,920
Speaker 1: need a ladder, You need a connection, you need a bridge.

912
00:48:41,120 --> 00:48:42,960
Speaker 1: The only way to get them from where they were

913
00:48:43,239 --> 00:48:45,239
Speaker 1: to where they needed to be was someone had to

914
00:48:45,320 --> 00:48:47,760
Speaker 1: roll down a ladder. And the Navy didn't have anything.

915
00:48:47,800 --> 00:48:50,480
Speaker 1: They didn't have any ideas. But Higgins did show me

916
00:48:50,600 --> 00:48:53,520
Speaker 1: that first photo again. He built a boat that could

917
00:48:53,719 --> 00:48:56,839
Speaker 1: go easily from the big boats and go right up

918
00:48:56,880 --> 00:48:58,680
Speaker 1: on the shore. And then I look at this photo

919
00:48:58,719 --> 00:49:01,520
Speaker 1: of the ramp. The ramp would down, and then all

920
00:49:01,600 --> 00:49:04,880
Speaker 1: these men, thirty six men could go rushing off to battle,

921
00:49:05,320 --> 00:49:08,279
Speaker 1: rushing to take the hills, rushing many of them, four

922
00:49:08,360 --> 00:49:11,040
Speaker 1: thousand of them, to die on the bloody beaches of

923
00:49:11,120 --> 00:49:14,239
Speaker 1: Omaha and Utah and sore, these men who laid their

924
00:49:14,280 --> 00:49:16,040
Speaker 1: lives down. But the ramp would drop, and then they

925
00:49:16,040 --> 00:49:17,840
Speaker 1: could run off one of these boat he invented he

926
00:49:17,840 --> 00:49:20,040
Speaker 1: could hold thirty six men a whole platoon, or twelve

927
00:49:20,120 --> 00:49:21,960
Speaker 1: men in a jeep and would just rush up and

928
00:49:22,000 --> 00:49:23,680
Speaker 1: then the ramp would drop, and then they run off,

929
00:49:23,800 --> 00:49:25,040
Speaker 1: and then they would be able to do this thing.

930
00:49:25,160 --> 00:49:27,759
Speaker 1: And he scaled his operations from one hundred employees to

931
00:49:27,840 --> 00:49:31,040
Speaker 1: over twenty five thousand employees, from one little factory to

932
00:49:31,280 --> 00:49:33,239
Speaker 1: eight factories. Then he had to shut a whole street down.

933
00:49:33,239 --> 00:49:36,200
Speaker 1: Look at this photograph of one of his factories. Absolutely amazing.

934
00:49:36,440 --> 00:49:38,759
Speaker 1: The sign of the back says, the guy who relaxes

935
00:49:39,120 --> 00:49:43,320
Speaker 1: is helping the axis. Is amazing. He also had photos

936
00:49:43,320 --> 00:49:46,440
Speaker 1: of Hitler in every single bathroom that said take it

937
00:49:46,520 --> 00:49:49,080
Speaker 1: easy above Hitler's head, So as people were sitting down,

938
00:49:49,280 --> 00:49:51,160
Speaker 1: Hitler saying, take it easy, I don't need you to

939
00:49:51,200 --> 00:49:52,800
Speaker 1: build more boats. So he wanted the men to have

940
00:49:52,880 --> 00:49:54,880
Speaker 1: a sense of urgency. He wanted them to be a

941
00:49:54,880 --> 00:49:57,000
Speaker 1: little bit riled up. Some people wonder, oh, why his

942
00:49:57,080 --> 00:49:59,560
Speaker 1: pastor's so excited. Why are the people standing? Oh, I

943
00:49:59,600 --> 00:50:01,839
Speaker 1: don't know. Go ahead and sit back down. The devil says,

944
00:50:02,120 --> 00:50:04,680
Speaker 1: go ahead and sit back down. The devil says, take

945
00:50:04,760 --> 00:50:07,200
Speaker 1: it easy. The devil says, you got all the time

946
00:50:07,239 --> 00:50:09,880
Speaker 1: in the world to get around to that. The devil says, Oh,

947
00:50:10,000 --> 00:50:14,080
Speaker 1: don't be so excited, just take it easy. The one

948
00:50:14,120 --> 00:50:17,680
Speaker 1: who relaxes is helping the axes. I'm telling you, we

949
00:50:17,880 --> 00:50:20,680
Speaker 1: got work to do. Night is coming when no man

950
00:50:20,840 --> 00:50:23,400
Speaker 1: can work. We got a gospel to preach, we got

951
00:50:23,480 --> 00:50:25,719
Speaker 1: a God to s sir, we got things to do,

952
00:50:26,080 --> 00:50:31,799
Speaker 1: We got buildings to build. When all was said and done,

953
00:50:32,560 --> 00:50:36,240
Speaker 1: there were six thousand boats involved in d Day, six thousand,

954
00:50:36,320 --> 00:50:40,480
Speaker 1: most but fifteen hundred of them were built by Andrew

955
00:50:41,000 --> 00:50:45,840
Speaker 1: Jackson Higgins. So don't tell me a businessman can't change

956
00:50:45,880 --> 00:50:49,600
Speaker 1: the world. Don't you tell me an entrepreneur can't change

957
00:50:49,640 --> 00:50:52,480
Speaker 1: the world. I'm telling you, what you build, what you do,

958
00:50:52,960 --> 00:50:56,920
Speaker 1: how you leave, can't change the course of the supernatural

959
00:50:57,040 --> 00:50:59,800
Speaker 1: war for the souls of men and women, boys and

960
00:51:00,080 --> 00:51:11,560
Speaker 1: earls that we are in. Well that's my sermon. I

961
00:51:11,640 --> 00:51:19,640
Speaker 1: hope you liked it. I have more to say about that.

962
00:51:19,800 --> 00:51:21,880
Speaker 1: I really wanted to talk to this for a minute

963
00:51:22,640 --> 00:51:27,919
Speaker 1: about something I found in Luke five in my Bible,

964
00:51:27,920 --> 00:51:29,320
Speaker 1: because I read out of the New King James, and

965
00:51:29,360 --> 00:51:31,160
Speaker 1: I know generally you guys speak out of the NIV

966
00:51:31,440 --> 00:51:33,120
Speaker 1: up in here, and I just got raised in the

967
00:51:33,200 --> 00:51:34,880
Speaker 1: n king JV. I don't think it's better or anything,

968
00:51:34,920 --> 00:51:36,879
Speaker 1: but when I was reading in my translation, I could.

969
00:51:36,920 --> 00:51:38,640
Speaker 1: I just got to show you real quick. It's in

970
00:51:38,800 --> 00:51:42,640
Speaker 1: verse four. It's Jesus' command. Look at it on the screen,

971
00:51:42,880 --> 00:51:46,399
Speaker 1: launch out into the deep and let down your say

972
00:51:46,400 --> 00:51:54,520
Speaker 1: it for a catch. Many Greek manuscript not all, but many.

973
00:51:54,600 --> 00:51:58,360
Speaker 1: There's differences in translation. Many manuscripts indicate that the command

974
00:51:58,480 --> 00:52:00,880
Speaker 1: was plural. But I want to show you something you

975
00:52:00,920 --> 00:52:03,600
Speaker 1: won't have seen if you only read av Look at

976
00:52:03,600 --> 00:52:08,080
Speaker 1: the next verse. So Simon answered, Master, we've toiled at

977
00:52:08,120 --> 00:52:10,279
Speaker 1: night and caught nothing. Nevertheless, at your word, I will

978
00:52:10,320 --> 00:52:16,600
Speaker 1: let down the The command was plural, the obedience was singular,

979
00:52:18,480 --> 00:52:21,800
Speaker 1: meaning Peter was going through the motions. Now, whether the

980
00:52:21,920 --> 00:52:25,760
Speaker 1: venue scripts to say plural plural or singular plural are correct,

981
00:52:25,920 --> 00:52:28,200
Speaker 1: the emphasis of the teaching is that Peter didn't really

982
00:52:28,239 --> 00:52:29,719
Speaker 1: think this was something to do, because he and his

983
00:52:29,800 --> 00:52:32,320
Speaker 1: experience official night and cut nothing. So you told me

984
00:52:32,400 --> 00:52:36,319
Speaker 1: to let down the nets. But all right, you said,

985
00:52:36,360 --> 00:52:42,160
Speaker 1: so we'll let down a singular net? Is that not

986
00:52:42,400 --> 00:52:45,680
Speaker 1: what's all over the scripture from beginning to end stract

987
00:52:45,680 --> 00:52:50,800
Speaker 1: the arrows in the ground. Tap tap tap, gather some

988
00:52:50,920 --> 00:52:54,520
Speaker 1: vessels to get some oil. Do not gather just a few?

989
00:52:57,320 --> 00:53:04,759
Speaker 1: Make this valley full of the point is it was

990
00:53:04,840 --> 00:53:07,799
Speaker 1: incredible when he let down a single net. He caught

991
00:53:07,840 --> 00:53:09,800
Speaker 1: so many fish his boat began to sink. So we

992
00:53:09,880 --> 00:53:12,239
Speaker 1: got a lot of fish. But the question is, on

993
00:53:12,360 --> 00:53:16,080
Speaker 1: December thirteenth, what do you want to see God flooding

994
00:53:16,120 --> 00:53:20,040
Speaker 1: into this ministry and into your life? Do you want

995
00:53:20,080 --> 00:53:23,000
Speaker 1: to just bring on net or do you want to

996
00:53:23,080 --> 00:53:25,479
Speaker 1: let down all the nets? Do you want to gather

997
00:53:25,680 --> 00:53:28,240
Speaker 1: all the vessels. Do you want to see this valley

998
00:53:28,280 --> 00:53:30,719
Speaker 1: full of ditches? Do you want to see mercy and

999
00:53:30,880 --> 00:53:44,120
Speaker 1: grace all over this world? The point is that the

1000
00:53:44,239 --> 00:53:46,480
Speaker 1: problem when God works in our world is never about

1001
00:53:46,480 --> 00:53:50,399
Speaker 1: his ability. It's always about our capacity. And he can't

1002
00:53:50,440 --> 00:53:53,560
Speaker 1: feel what you don't offer. And the net that sat

1003
00:53:53,920 --> 00:54:01,359
Speaker 1: unused was the net that became that remained unfilled. All right,

1004
00:54:01,440 --> 00:54:04,200
Speaker 1: So that's the sermon, Like I said, And if you're

1005
00:54:04,320 --> 00:54:07,160
Speaker 1: keeping track, we only got three of our four points.

1006
00:54:08,239 --> 00:54:13,680
Speaker 1: We got amazed, We got included Peter and Jacob, they

1007
00:54:13,760 --> 00:54:17,000
Speaker 1: got invested. But the greatest thing and the most powerful

1008
00:54:17,040 --> 00:54:20,560
Speaker 1: thing came because they both walked in the power of

1009
00:54:20,680 --> 00:54:24,960
Speaker 1: the fact that they were forgiven. That's the fourth point forgiven.

1010
00:54:25,080 --> 00:54:27,600
Speaker 1: The boat that won the war, the boat that won

1011
00:54:27,680 --> 00:54:32,000
Speaker 1: the war for Peter was not the first boat. It

1012
00:54:32,160 --> 00:54:34,239
Speaker 1: was the last boat. And that's why I had you

1013
00:54:34,320 --> 00:54:37,879
Speaker 1: turned to John twenty one. You see, because Peter's life

1014
00:54:38,040 --> 00:54:42,120
Speaker 1: was bookended with boats. The first day he really hung

1015
00:54:42,160 --> 00:54:44,799
Speaker 1: out with Jesus on a boat, and the final time

1016
00:54:44,880 --> 00:54:47,680
Speaker 1: before Jesus ascended, he also hung out with him on

1017
00:54:47,800 --> 00:54:50,320
Speaker 1: a boat. The boat that won the war that mattered

1018
00:54:50,360 --> 00:54:53,400
Speaker 1: the most for Peter was the boat that he was on.

1019
00:54:53,719 --> 00:54:55,839
Speaker 1: In verse seven of John twenty one, when Jesus had

1020
00:54:55,960 --> 00:54:59,560
Speaker 1: just showed up again, Peter denied him. After Peter said

1021
00:54:59,600 --> 00:55:01,640
Speaker 1: I I don't know you. I don't know you. I

1022
00:55:01,680 --> 00:55:04,600
Speaker 1: don't know you to a servant girl, and then wept

1023
00:55:04,680 --> 00:55:08,000
Speaker 1: bitterly because I was Jesus's guy. But he was standing

1024
00:55:08,040 --> 00:55:10,600
Speaker 1: in the strength of his resolve, of his commitment of

1025
00:55:10,800 --> 00:55:14,440
Speaker 1: he was standing in the strength of his decision, and

1026
00:55:14,600 --> 00:55:19,479
Speaker 1: Jesus pursued him, and Jesus sought him, and Jesus showed

1027
00:55:19,560 --> 00:55:23,840
Speaker 1: up and said, one morning, have you caught any fish?

1028
00:55:25,160 --> 00:55:29,359
Speaker 1: Peter said nah man, thanks for bringing it up, he said,

1029
00:55:29,400 --> 00:55:34,920
Speaker 1: maybe throw your net on the starboard side. Okay, you

1030
00:55:35,000 --> 00:55:38,440
Speaker 1: know what, I caught nothing, I am nothing. I have

1031
00:55:38,640 --> 00:55:44,680
Speaker 1: no one who would ever want me. He threw his

1032
00:55:44,880 --> 00:55:49,640
Speaker 1: nets down, and so many fish, one hundred and fifty

1033
00:55:49,680 --> 00:55:51,520
Speaker 1: three he counted him later, because every one of those

1034
00:55:51,560 --> 00:55:57,640
Speaker 1: miracles meant something to him. And when John said this

1035
00:55:57,800 --> 00:56:01,920
Speaker 1: is verse seven, it's the Lord, Simon heard it was

1036
00:56:01,960 --> 00:56:04,400
Speaker 1: the Lord. He put on his outer garment, for he

1037
00:56:04,480 --> 00:56:07,319
Speaker 1: had removed it, and then he plunged into the sea.

1038
00:56:08,600 --> 00:56:13,560
Speaker 1: This is a man who's out of control, astonished, amazed, stupefied,

1039
00:56:13,760 --> 00:56:16,719
Speaker 1: because not only is he included, and not only is

1040
00:56:16,800 --> 00:56:19,360
Speaker 1: he invested, and not only had he already been astonished,

1041
00:56:19,360 --> 00:56:22,560
Speaker 1: but now Jesus showing up doing this miracle again shows

1042
00:56:22,640 --> 00:56:27,040
Speaker 1: him that even after his darkest day, he was still forgiven.

1043
00:56:27,520 --> 00:56:30,239
Speaker 1: He was loved, he was wanted, he was cared for.

1044
00:56:30,600 --> 00:56:32,640
Speaker 1: The boat that won the war was the boat to

1045
00:56:32,719 --> 00:56:36,120
Speaker 1: help Peter win the war with himself. For now the

1046
00:56:36,280 --> 00:56:40,040
Speaker 1: footholder had met the foot washer, and Peter was learning

1047
00:56:40,080 --> 00:56:42,200
Speaker 1: what Jacob learned. What you need to know, and that

1048
00:56:42,360 --> 00:56:44,840
Speaker 1: is you don't need to be dressed up in your Sunday.

1049
00:56:44,920 --> 00:56:47,719
Speaker 1: Best to be loved by your father. He loves you

1050
00:56:47,920 --> 00:56:50,880
Speaker 1: even though you just woke up like this. You just

1051
00:56:51,000 --> 00:56:54,120
Speaker 1: woke up a failure. Peter went to bed a failure.

1052
00:56:54,400 --> 00:56:57,040
Speaker 1: He went to bed with the smoke in his nose

1053
00:56:57,239 --> 00:57:01,080
Speaker 1: of defeat. And one morning Gejesus woke up to cook

1054
00:57:01,160 --> 00:57:04,000
Speaker 1: him breakfast. Jesus woke up to make him a meal

1055
00:57:04,200 --> 00:57:06,520
Speaker 1: so that he would always remember the smell of smoke

1056
00:57:06,560 --> 00:57:11,440
Speaker 1: with forgiveness and not with the feet Coles were kindled

1057
00:57:11,440 --> 00:57:14,640
Speaker 1: in John twenty one, and Jesus served him breakfast that

1058
00:57:14,760 --> 00:57:17,760
Speaker 1: he had helped him catch a moment ago. He said

1059
00:57:17,960 --> 00:57:21,160
Speaker 1: good night to failure. But God says, good morning, grace.

1060
00:57:21,520 --> 00:57:24,160
Speaker 1: And that is what God speaks over your life today.

1061
00:57:24,440 --> 00:57:27,280
Speaker 1: And why God wants you to win the war over

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Speaker 1: those things, but he loves you anyway. He doesn't want

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Speaker 1: you to wear Esau's clothes, to think you have to

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Speaker 1: earn his blessing by being someone you're not. He loves

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Speaker 1: you just as you are, and he has a plan

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Speaker 1: to use every weird thing, every warped thing, every dark thing.

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Speaker 1: He wants to change you heal you, fix you, mend you,

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Speaker 1: not make you someone that you're not, but use you

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Speaker 1: exactly as you are. Just a healed version, just a

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Speaker 1: chosen version, just a restored version. I had this blue

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Speaker 1: paint on my boot. I don't know if you can

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Speaker 1: see it. I was writing this sermon so fast as

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Speaker 1: God was giving it to me that I was shaking

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Speaker 1: the mark or trying to write something on the glass

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Speaker 1: when it hit me, this is kind of weird that,

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Speaker 1: and it's not normally how I preach. God gave me

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Speaker 1: a sermon about sleeping and a sermon about a boat.

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Speaker 1: And I sat back to think, have I ever been

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Speaker 1: in a situation where I was sleeping on a boat?

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Speaker 1: I can need it like something? Is there something about this?

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Speaker 1: And I sit there at the glass and I was

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Speaker 1: shaking the pen so hard trying to write down the question.

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Speaker 1: And it's the question I wrote down, write on this card.

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Speaker 1: Why are you having me preach about a story involving

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Speaker 1: sleep in a boat? And as the paint dripped on

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Speaker 1: my boot, you got all the floor too, So I

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Speaker 1: was rushing to find something to clean the paint up

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Speaker 1: on the floor. And then and then all of a sudden,

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Speaker 1: I felt like God spoke to me as I was

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Speaker 1: cleaning the paint off the floor. He said, LEVI, this

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Speaker 1: is not a story about you involving sleep in a boat.

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Speaker 1: The reason I have you preaching this sermon to this

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Speaker 1: church on this day is because of a story that

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Speaker 1: I was in involving sleep in a boat. And the

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Speaker 1: only only way to end this message is for us

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Speaker 1: to remember, in one of the greatest storms our world

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Speaker 1: has ever faced, surely in our lifetime mark four thirty eight,

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Speaker 1: we're told that in a storm on a boat on

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Speaker 1: a sea, Jesus look at it was asleep on a pillow,

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Speaker 1: and they woke them up, freaking out. They woke them

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Speaker 1: by the end of the story they were calm and peaceful.

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Speaker 1: But they're like, how are you not freaking out like us?

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Speaker 1: How are you not stressed out like us? How are

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Speaker 1: you not worried about racial divide and worried about COVID

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Speaker 1: and worry about our country and worrying about the churches?

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Speaker 1: If I lose their five o' one c three status.

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Speaker 1: Now the Democrats are in control, and the Democrats are

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Speaker 1: we'll builver the Republicans don't, and how are you not

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Speaker 1: working out? And he would work out their peace, but

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Speaker 1: their question is how are you not freaking out? And

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Speaker 1: he says to them what he says to you, little child,

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Speaker 1: I woke up like this, in control, in command, and

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Speaker 1: I always will be. And if he could sleep in

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Speaker 1: a storm, so can you. If he could rest in

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Speaker 1: a storm, so can you. And here's my final question,

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Speaker 1: what peace and rest will be yours? As you walk

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Speaker 1: into twenty one with God's favor on your life? What

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Speaker 1: will that feel like? How great will that be? Here's

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Speaker 1: all I know. We're gonna see a victory. We're gonna

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Speaker 1: see a victory. We're gonna see a victory because our

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Speaker 1: praise and our gifts, our generosity, and our sacrifice are

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Speaker 1: going ahead of us into this new year. Raise your

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Speaker 1: hands up, jump up to your feet. Let me pray

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Speaker 1: for you. Father. The image of your son sleeping on

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Speaker 1: a pillow is meant to comfort us. Jacob's pillow is

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Speaker 1: a rock. Your pillow was probably much softer, for you're

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Speaker 1: better at packing. And the contrast is so staggering looking

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Speaker 1: at Jacob's franticness, looking at Peter, then to see Jesus

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Speaker 1: to see you. That's what we need. We need to

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Speaker 1: see you resting. But now I pray for your people

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Speaker 1: to do what Jacob did, to take the thing that

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Speaker 1: symbolized his rest and comfort and to turn it into

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Speaker 1: an altar. He turned a pillow into a pillar. May

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Speaker 1: we your people take every blessing you've given to us

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Speaker 1: and turn it back into a sacrifice, to an offering.

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Speaker 1: Thankful for what you're doing and proving it by giving

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Speaker 1: it out for you to do more. Bless your people,

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Speaker 1: give them rest. May your favor be upon this house

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Speaker 1: in the coming days. You've blessed us through this church.

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Speaker 1: Now I speak a blessing over this church. May you

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Speaker 1: bless them and keep them. May you bless the verdicts

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Speaker 1: and keep them. May you bless elevation worship and keep them.

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Speaker 1: May you bless every person in the e kids, every

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Speaker 1: person who's a volunteer, every person running a camera, every

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Speaker 1: person god answering questions in the chat, every person facilitating what.

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Speaker 1: May you bless and keep this ministry and continue to

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Speaker 1: cause your face to shine upon them, and give them

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Speaker 1: your perfect peace in Jesus' name. In Jesus name, say amen,

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Speaker 1: if you receive it. Thank you for joining us on

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Speaker 1: the Elevation Church podcast. We trust that God has spoken

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Speaker 1: to you through the message. The pastor Levi LESCo has

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Speaker 1: just spoken, thank you to all of you who support

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Speaker 1: financially the work that God is doing through Elevation Church

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Speaker 1: this year. As the year end season approaches, we take

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Speaker 1: some time and look back and all that God has done,

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Speaker 1: but also forward in anticipation of all that He is

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Speaker 1: going to do. The year end season for us at

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Speaker 1: Elevation is special, and this year our pastor has labeled

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Speaker 1: it the Favor Season. We're believing God's favor on our

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Speaker 1: lives as we look forward to what He's going to do.

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Speaker 1: Between now and December thirteenth, we have the opportunity to

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Speaker 1: bring an offering to go above and beyond, to give

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Speaker 1: toward how God is moving here at Elevation Church. If

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Speaker 1: you already give, thank you. If you'd like to join

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Speaker 1: us and give, we'd invite you to go to Elevation

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Speaker 1: Church dot or. There you'll see the Favor offering. If

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Speaker 1: you don't tithe, maybe you begin there by bringing the

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Speaker 1: first ten percent of what God has entrusted to you.

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Speaker 1: If you do tithe, we'd invite you to go above

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Speaker 1: and beyond the tithe and see what God can do

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Speaker 1: when you open your hands and allow Him to move

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Speaker 1: through you. Thank you for being a part of Elevation Church.

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Speaker 1: We trust that God will continue to move in your life.

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Speaker 1: If you haven't subscribed to this podcast yet, we'd encourage

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Speaker 1: you to do just that to stay up to date

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Speaker 1: on all the new messages here at Elevation Church. Thank

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Speaker 1: you again and we believe God's blessing on your life.