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Speaker 1: Hey, this is Stephen Ferdick.

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

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Speaker 1: I wanted to thank you for joining us today. Hope

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Speaker 1: this inspires you. Hope it builds your faith. Hope it

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Speaker 1: gives your perspective to see God is moving in your life.

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Speaker 1: Enjoy the message. The series is called Triggered.

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Speaker 2: This is week four and I just trust that you

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Speaker 2: came expecting today for God to speak to you.

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Speaker 1: Let's look at.

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Speaker 2: Second King's Chapter five. I'm gonna give you my title

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Speaker 2: right up front. Title of this message is why I

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Speaker 2: went off touch Somebody tell him.

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Speaker 1: It's a long story.

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Speaker 2: When I first decided to preach on this topic of triggered,

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Speaker 2: I figured that it would help me personally and then

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Speaker 2: we could do group therapy. But I wanted to do

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Speaker 2: it from the Word of God because I am not

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Speaker 2: a psychologist, certainly not a neuroscientist or anything. That I

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Speaker 2: interviewed a neuroscientist a few days ago and that is

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Speaker 2: now on the Elevation Church YouTube, so you can go

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Speaker 2: and watch that. I asked her questions related to the

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Speaker 2: clinical reasons that sometimes we do the things that we

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Speaker 2: do and had a conversation with her about not just

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Speaker 2: understanding things with cliches and jargon that we sometimes used

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Speaker 2: to cover up our lazy thinking, and sometimes we spiritualize

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Speaker 2: issues that are practical in the same time sometimes try

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Speaker 2: to sell things.

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Speaker 1: Practically that are spiritual.

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Speaker 2: And so it's just a great talk that's on the

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Speaker 2: Elevation s Chirchs YouTube and you can check that out.

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Speaker 2: But this week I want to share a character study

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Speaker 2: on a Bible character.

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Speaker 1: Who is so familiar to me.

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Speaker 2: And by that I mean not only have I read

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Speaker 2: this story quite a few times, but I feel like

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Speaker 2: I know this guy.

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Speaker 1: I feel like.

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Speaker 2: I've met him one time in the mirror, and certain

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Speaker 2: things about him really spoke to me, And so I

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Speaker 2: just pray that the same will happen for you today

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Speaker 2: as I read this text. I want to just tell

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Speaker 2: you the spoiler alert right up front. Naymon in Second

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Speaker 2: King's Chapter five has leprosy and gets healed.

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Speaker 1: But that's just the headline, and so there's a lot to.

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Speaker 2: Learn in the midst of it, and I want to

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Speaker 2: read a few verses and kind of drop in and

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Speaker 2: explain and move along in this narrative. The Bible says

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Speaker 2: in Second King's chapter five.

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Speaker 1: Verse one.

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Speaker 2: Now, Nayman was commander of the army of the King

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Speaker 2: of Aram. He was a great man in the sight

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Speaker 2: of his master, and highly regarded because through him the

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Speaker 2: Lord had given victory to aerm It's interesting the way

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Speaker 2: that is phrased, because it says it wasn't by him

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Speaker 2: that the victory was one, it was through him. And

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Speaker 2: I think understanding that is very critical if you were

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Speaker 2: just to know that God's going to do it through you.

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Speaker 2: You know, half of the time that I'm messed up

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Speaker 2: He's trying to do it through me. But he can't

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Speaker 2: for him, and so I just start forcing situations, and

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Speaker 2: then I'm frustrated and irritated and agitated, and I'm mad

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Speaker 2: my will. And this is even more interesting because Nayman

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Speaker 2: a commander of an enemy army from Aram that would

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Speaker 2: At the end of one of these raids. The Bible

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Speaker 1: To aerm and he was a valiant soldier.

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Speaker 2: But he had leprosy and incurable skin disease, a non

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Speaker 2: But and depending on when you see someone in the

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Speaker 2: acquainted with their victories than their vulnerabilities. That's why I

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Speaker 2: advocate just a little bit of time dating, just a

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Speaker 1: In pressure filled situations, just a little.

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Speaker 2: Bit of time out of the candlelight, under the harsh

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Speaker 2: a piece of advice. But I can't prove it in

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Speaker 2: the Bible. But I think you know, depending on where

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Speaker 2: you see someone determines what you see.

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Speaker 1: And I realize that's more and more now because I.

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Speaker 2: Think people think that they should behave in front of

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Speaker 2: a pastor. So when I meet people, a lot of

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Speaker 2: times I realize I might not be meeting the truest

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Speaker 1: Impression of people any more. I used to. I used

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Speaker 2: Now realize that a lot of what I thought was

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Speaker 2: maybe they reminded me of somebody, And I didn't like

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Speaker 2: some people that were really cool, consistent people, but I

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Speaker 2: is because they're not always having to create drama in

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Speaker 1: So now am I preaching already? This is just the

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Speaker 2: And what I learned about myself is I need to

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Speaker 1: I need to get references.

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Speaker 2: And at times i'll meet somebody on our staff and

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Speaker 2: I used to hand select people, and oh man, when

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Speaker 1: But now I will ask someone about someone.

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Speaker 2: seen how they managed a disappointment, you know, and how

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Speaker 1: So I will ask how is so? And so let's.

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Speaker 2: Say that I wanted to know about JT.

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Speaker 2: And I would wait for the person who knows them,

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Speaker 2: I've noticed JT on our staff. He seems like he

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Speaker 2: But what? Because one thing that has really helped me

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Speaker 1: He's great.

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Speaker 2: But the problem with being a preacher is I can

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Speaker 1: Me there there.

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Speaker 2: I know it's awkward, and you know, half the reason

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Speaker 2: is because we're all trying to cover our butt. That's

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Speaker 1: The Lord in a chanda. You know I could do that?

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Speaker 1: Do you know what I'm saying? He was a great man,

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Speaker 2: in our life. Let's be honest, we're not talking about

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Speaker 2: human anatomy here. You have multiple bucks, You are great

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Speaker 2: and really bad at being content.

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Speaker 1: So I'm successful, but I'm miserable.

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Speaker 2: I'm killing it at work, but my fifteen year old

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Speaker 1: I got a.

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Speaker 2: Great marriage, I'm great, but I'm not making any money

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Speaker 2: you know, I never learned.

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Speaker 1: How to do that.

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Speaker 2: The thing about a really good encounter with God, you

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Speaker 1: God, it will expose.

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Speaker 2: You've got to step into something that you've never seen

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Speaker 1: Lord.

447
00:24:30,600 --> 00:24:35,639
Speaker 2: She didn't get to Lord before she was screaming at

448
00:24:35,720 --> 00:24:38,240
Speaker 2: the at the dodge ram that pulled out in front

449
00:24:38,280 --> 00:24:42,320
Speaker 2: of her, and she's loud. Holly is like, when she's

450
00:24:42,400 --> 00:24:44,200
Speaker 2: up here, it reflects she'll be smiling. But I'm gonna

451
00:24:44,200 --> 00:24:45,360
Speaker 2: tell you something about Hollyford.

452
00:24:50,680 --> 00:24:56,000
Speaker 1: What what is that all about? Where did that voice

453
00:24:56,040 --> 00:24:56,480
Speaker 1: come from?

454
00:24:56,480 --> 00:24:59,760
Speaker 2: We and then the devil starts telling you all, well,

455
00:24:59,800 --> 00:25:03,680
Speaker 2: you know you're not a real Christian, you're hypocrite.

456
00:25:04,640 --> 00:25:06,520
Speaker 1: Some of y'all are gonna lose it before the day

457
00:25:06,560 --> 00:25:07,120
Speaker 1: is over.

458
00:25:09,920 --> 00:25:15,639
Speaker 2: Because of your fantasy football lineup. No, not because of

459
00:25:15,760 --> 00:25:18,840
Speaker 2: anything significant to anything having to do with real life

460
00:25:18,880 --> 00:25:23,760
Speaker 2: in any way, because of other men that have absolutely

461
00:25:23,800 --> 00:25:26,439
Speaker 2: no effect on you other than one hundred dollars at

462
00:25:26,440 --> 00:25:26,760
Speaker 2: the end.

463
00:25:26,720 --> 00:25:32,000
Speaker 1: Of the season. And you wonder why did I go

464
00:25:32,080 --> 00:25:32,720
Speaker 1: off like that?

465
00:25:33,600 --> 00:25:36,280
Speaker 2: It's understandable because we live in not only the age

466
00:25:36,280 --> 00:25:38,440
Speaker 2: of anxiety, but if you noticed, we live in the age.

467
00:25:38,240 --> 00:25:39,080
Speaker 1: Of outrage too.

468
00:25:42,200 --> 00:25:46,439
Speaker 2: How trendy it is now to just get mad about

469
00:25:46,800 --> 00:25:51,720
Speaker 2: anything that you don't like the first time you hear it. Well,

470
00:25:51,760 --> 00:25:53,280
Speaker 2: you'll arent going to like this part of the sermon.

471
00:25:53,320 --> 00:25:57,080
Speaker 2: I don't think too much, but can I be honest

472
00:25:57,119 --> 00:25:59,120
Speaker 2: with you, I don't really care what shoes you were

473
00:25:59,160 --> 00:26:07,560
Speaker 2: to church today. No, maybe my perspective is different, but

474
00:26:07,640 --> 00:26:13,160
Speaker 2: I spend too much time seeing people's butts to care

475
00:26:13,200 --> 00:26:16,600
Speaker 2: about what you have on your feet today.

476
00:26:16,720 --> 00:26:21,080
Speaker 1: So I don't have time when teen suicide is.

477
00:26:20,960 --> 00:26:24,280
Speaker 2: In an all time high to check and see if

478
00:26:24,320 --> 00:26:30,080
Speaker 2: you're wearing Adidas or Nike, if you got yeezes, or

479
00:26:30,119 --> 00:26:31,360
Speaker 2: you want to just do it.

480
00:26:31,880 --> 00:26:34,800
Speaker 1: I don't really have time to debate with you.

481
00:26:35,240 --> 00:26:38,800
Speaker 2: About a sluice or a commercial or getting.

482
00:26:38,600 --> 00:26:40,960
Speaker 1: Mad about I really don't have.

483
00:26:40,920 --> 00:26:43,679
Speaker 2: Time for it up here when people's lives are on

484
00:26:43,760 --> 00:26:46,800
Speaker 2: the line. I really don't have time for it in here,

485
00:26:47,040 --> 00:26:50,520
Speaker 2: when people are on antidepressants in a rate that's making

486
00:26:50,560 --> 00:26:52,160
Speaker 2: them more depressed, but they.

487
00:26:52,080 --> 00:26:54,400
Speaker 1: Don't know where else to turn, and we're run into

488
00:26:54,400 --> 00:26:56,120
Speaker 1: all kinds of places that.

489
00:26:56,080 --> 00:27:00,240
Speaker 2: Are leaving us empty, but we want to fight.

490
00:27:03,880 --> 00:27:06,280
Speaker 1: There will be at least one comment on this YouTube

491
00:27:06,359 --> 00:27:12,359
Speaker 1: video about the holes in my jeans? Are you for

492
00:27:12,440 --> 00:27:18,159
Speaker 1: real right now? But it triggers something. You're not fighting

493
00:27:18,200 --> 00:27:20,680
Speaker 1: me over shoes, You're not fighting me over jeans.

494
00:27:21,840 --> 00:27:25,080
Speaker 2: One moment told me until you save your beard, I

495
00:27:25,119 --> 00:27:26,240
Speaker 2: can't watch you anymore.

496
00:27:30,480 --> 00:27:36,639
Speaker 3: This is psychotic, she said. I'm praying for you. I

497
00:27:36,720 --> 00:27:38,920
Speaker 3: want to say, I'm praying for you. I'm a fast

498
00:27:39,000 --> 00:27:41,560
Speaker 3: forty days. If you're that messed up.

499
00:27:46,320 --> 00:27:47,480
Speaker 1: I don't know why I went off.

500
00:27:51,359 --> 00:27:53,240
Speaker 2: I think like for me, this is just what I'm

501
00:27:53,240 --> 00:27:55,280
Speaker 2: working through, and so this makes you think I'm crazy.

502
00:27:55,280 --> 00:27:59,119
Speaker 2: You're right, but I'm going through this season of my

503
00:27:59,160 --> 00:28:03,160
Speaker 2: life where I don't want to keep blaming my environment

504
00:28:05,800 --> 00:28:09,359
Speaker 2: or consulting things that happened in my life, because the

505
00:28:09,400 --> 00:28:13,560
Speaker 2: cross of Jesus Christ gives me a new reality and

506
00:28:14,359 --> 00:28:17,520
Speaker 2: it really changes everything in the sense that all of

507
00:28:17,520 --> 00:28:19,679
Speaker 2: my life has to be viewed through that lens of

508
00:28:19,800 --> 00:28:22,280
Speaker 2: what He did for me and who he says I am.

509
00:28:22,640 --> 00:28:26,680
Speaker 2: If I'm not careful, I'll be like the King who,

510
00:28:26,720 --> 00:28:30,199
Speaker 2: when confronted with an impossible situation that reminded him of

511
00:28:30,240 --> 00:28:35,560
Speaker 2: a past hurt, he inflicted the opportunity of his present

512
00:28:35,600 --> 00:28:38,720
Speaker 2: moment with the pain of his past. Do you see

513
00:28:38,720 --> 00:28:42,959
Speaker 2: what I'm saying He projected. See every time he dealt

514
00:28:43,240 --> 00:28:46,120
Speaker 2: with aerm, it was an attack. And now it's an

515
00:28:46,160 --> 00:28:49,080
Speaker 2: opportunity for this man to be healed and see what

516
00:28:49,160 --> 00:28:52,680
Speaker 2: God can do. But if what you went through isn't

517
00:28:52,680 --> 00:28:56,720
Speaker 2: healed by what Christ did for you, you will treat

518
00:28:56,760 --> 00:28:58,560
Speaker 2: the opportunity like an attack.

519
00:28:59,200 --> 00:29:00,000
Speaker 1: And I've noticed that.

520
00:29:00,000 --> 00:29:02,920
Speaker 2: But like I spent a lot of my time fighting

521
00:29:03,000 --> 00:29:07,480
Speaker 2: stuff that God is actually sending into my life. I

522
00:29:07,560 --> 00:29:10,600
Speaker 2: spent a lot of my time fighting against people that

523
00:29:10,680 --> 00:29:11,960
Speaker 2: I'm not really mad at.

524
00:29:12,360 --> 00:29:14,480
Speaker 1: It's really not them. Tell the person next to you,

525
00:29:14,560 --> 00:29:21,520
Speaker 1: it's not you, it's me. It's me. I'm a perfectionist,

526
00:29:22,560 --> 00:29:22,880
Speaker 1: and so.

527
00:29:22,960 --> 00:29:26,040
Speaker 2: Sometimes when things aren't just like I want them to be,

528
00:29:27,120 --> 00:29:29,880
Speaker 2: or here's what really happens, it really happens with my expectation.

529
00:29:30,000 --> 00:29:33,479
Speaker 2: Put that word up there, because when I expect it

530
00:29:33,520 --> 00:29:35,080
Speaker 2: to be one way and it's the other.

531
00:29:36,960 --> 00:29:39,560
Speaker 1: Like when I went off on my dad a few

532
00:29:39,640 --> 00:29:43,240
Speaker 1: years ago, it was because I rented him a house.

533
00:29:44,280 --> 00:29:46,120
Speaker 1: I moved him and my mom to Charlotte.

534
00:29:48,000 --> 00:29:51,880
Speaker 2: Well, I didn't move him, I hired movers and then

535
00:29:51,960 --> 00:29:56,000
Speaker 2: they got fired because my dad was crazy, and it

536
00:29:56,120 --> 00:29:59,000
Speaker 2: was so funny. It really wasn't funny. It's funny now,

537
00:29:59,120 --> 00:30:00,200
Speaker 2: can we laugh about it? How ah?

538
00:30:00,800 --> 00:30:04,080
Speaker 1: Okay?

539
00:30:04,400 --> 00:30:07,480
Speaker 2: But the day I went to see him, and the

540
00:30:07,560 --> 00:30:09,959
Speaker 2: story has a happy end, and then we ended up

541
00:30:09,960 --> 00:30:11,760
Speaker 2: being together and it was good and all that. But

542
00:30:11,840 --> 00:30:14,040
Speaker 2: in between, remember naming gets healed at the end of

543
00:30:14,040 --> 00:30:15,800
Speaker 2: this story. But there's some stuff in the middle that

544
00:30:15,840 --> 00:30:17,560
Speaker 2: I want to talk to you about. Because in the

545
00:30:17,560 --> 00:30:20,800
Speaker 2: middle of that, that whole messy situation with my dad,

546
00:30:20,880 --> 00:30:22,760
Speaker 2: I remember going over to check on them one day

547
00:30:23,120 --> 00:30:25,360
Speaker 2: and I was so proud of the house that Holly

548
00:30:25,360 --> 00:30:27,480
Speaker 2: had found that we rented for them, and my mom

549
00:30:27,600 --> 00:30:29,760
Speaker 2: liked it and she was happy, and my dad. The

550
00:30:29,760 --> 00:30:31,040
Speaker 2: first thing he said, I walk through though, he said,

551
00:30:31,040 --> 00:30:37,160
Speaker 2: this ain't gonna work, Bo, And I know honor your

552
00:30:37,200 --> 00:30:38,360
Speaker 2: father and mother and the Lord.

553
00:30:38,400 --> 00:30:41,960
Speaker 1: I know that Bible verse, I promise you, I know it.

554
00:30:42,000 --> 00:30:44,479
Speaker 2: I even know that that honor is Cavat and Hebrew,

555
00:30:44,520 --> 00:30:46,560
Speaker 2: and it can also be translated glory and wait.

556
00:30:48,440 --> 00:30:51,640
Speaker 1: But the only thing I wanted in that moment, I'm

557
00:30:51,680 --> 00:30:53,080
Speaker 1: gonna just be honest with you.

558
00:30:53,840 --> 00:30:57,720
Speaker 2: I don't like to be disrespected, and it felt disrespectful

559
00:30:57,720 --> 00:31:01,600
Speaker 2: to me, and so I went off. And it really

560
00:31:01,720 --> 00:31:03,440
Speaker 2: wasn't what he said, because really what he wanted was

561
00:31:03,480 --> 00:31:06,000
Speaker 2: just a few small tweaks. But I couldn't hear that anymore,

562
00:31:06,800 --> 00:31:07,080
Speaker 2: you know.

563
00:31:08,520 --> 00:31:11,200
Speaker 1: Because my expectation was that he was going to meet

564
00:31:11,240 --> 00:31:14,760
Speaker 1: me at the door and give me a big ol' hug.

565
00:31:15,640 --> 00:31:19,720
Speaker 2: And say, my son and whom I am, well pleased,

566
00:31:21,440 --> 00:31:25,040
Speaker 2: and the dove with the sin. But he didn't read

567
00:31:25,080 --> 00:31:29,160
Speaker 2: my script. What do you do when people don't read

568
00:31:29,200 --> 00:31:34,680
Speaker 2: your script? Meet your expectation? And here's where the story

569
00:31:34,680 --> 00:31:38,480
Speaker 2: gets good, because I want you to notice that the

570
00:31:38,520 --> 00:31:41,920
Speaker 2: same event that triggered the king and made him go

571
00:31:41,960 --> 00:31:45,400
Speaker 2: into fear mode, which is usually what's happening when we're

572
00:31:45,640 --> 00:31:49,640
Speaker 2: lashing out or withdrawing, because not everybody fights outwardly. Some

573
00:31:49,680 --> 00:31:52,280
Speaker 2: of us bobble it up inwardly, and then we never

574
00:31:52,360 --> 00:31:52,720
Speaker 2: go off.

575
00:31:52,720 --> 00:31:53,280
Speaker 1: One day, we just.

576
00:31:53,280 --> 00:31:57,920
Speaker 2: Tap out, and you wonder, how did they drop like that? Well,

577
00:31:58,760 --> 00:32:02,080
Speaker 2: it's usually a series of met expectations. In this case,

578
00:32:02,680 --> 00:32:06,520
Speaker 2: the King of Israel, jehosh he's traumatized to the point

579
00:32:06,520 --> 00:32:09,560
Speaker 2: that he thinks that everything is a fight. It says

580
00:32:09,560 --> 00:32:12,160
Speaker 2: it in the text. See how he is trying to

581
00:32:12,200 --> 00:32:15,600
Speaker 2: pick a quarrel with me. That's verse seven. See how

582
00:32:15,600 --> 00:32:19,320
Speaker 2: they're looking at me. See they didn't even wave at me.

583
00:32:20,760 --> 00:32:23,719
Speaker 2: See I told this is a Southern thing. You're supposed

584
00:32:23,760 --> 00:32:26,200
Speaker 2: to wave at people when you drive by them. The

585
00:32:26,280 --> 00:32:28,920
Speaker 2: town I grew up in, you waived at everybody. And

586
00:32:29,160 --> 00:32:32,040
Speaker 2: the first time that we were driving through the neighborhood

587
00:32:32,080 --> 00:32:34,440
Speaker 2: and Holly didn't wave at people. I corrected her. I

588
00:32:34,480 --> 00:32:36,840
Speaker 2: was like, what is wrong with you? She's not from

589
00:32:36,920 --> 00:32:42,480
Speaker 2: Monks Corners, She's from Miami, and it's a different culture.

590
00:32:44,280 --> 00:32:46,680
Speaker 2: It's an inferior culture of rudeness.

591
00:32:50,840 --> 00:32:51,320
Speaker 1: And so.

592
00:32:52,760 --> 00:32:56,600
Speaker 2: Anytime that you've been used to in your life, you've

593
00:32:56,640 --> 00:32:58,480
Speaker 2: been used to fighting. If life has really been a

594
00:32:58,480 --> 00:33:00,280
Speaker 2: fight for you, if you've had to fight for your

595
00:33:00,280 --> 00:33:02,400
Speaker 2: mental health, or you've had to fight for your emotional health,

596
00:33:02,480 --> 00:33:04,720
Speaker 2: or if you've had to fight through issues of bitterness

597
00:33:04,720 --> 00:33:07,640
Speaker 2: and forgiveness because of abuse, if you've had to fight

598
00:33:07,680 --> 00:33:09,240
Speaker 2: for your own and fight to make it, or if

599
00:33:09,280 --> 00:33:11,479
Speaker 2: you had to fight your own family, when you've had

600
00:33:11,520 --> 00:33:13,720
Speaker 2: to fight over and over again, everything looks like a fight.

601
00:33:14,360 --> 00:33:17,680
Speaker 2: Everything looks like a threat. Everything sounds like an insult.

602
00:33:17,920 --> 00:33:20,680
Speaker 2: Every time somebody doesn't check on you, it feels like abandonment.

603
00:33:20,720 --> 00:33:21,000
Speaker 1: It's the.

604
00:33:22,840 --> 00:33:26,440
Speaker 2: Trauma that's being triggered. But what's encouraging to me what

605
00:33:26,520 --> 00:33:28,200
Speaker 2: I got up here to tell you about today, Because

606
00:33:28,280 --> 00:33:32,480
Speaker 2: this is pretty depressing so far. But the same stimulus

607
00:33:32,520 --> 00:33:36,600
Speaker 2: that triggered fear in the King's heart triggered faith in Elisha's.

608
00:33:39,080 --> 00:33:41,880
Speaker 2: The Bible says in verse eight when Elisha, the man

609
00:33:41,920 --> 00:33:44,760
Speaker 2: of God, heard that the King of Israel had torn

610
00:33:44,800 --> 00:33:48,040
Speaker 2: his robes. He sent him this message. Now watch this

611
00:33:48,160 --> 00:33:51,880
Speaker 2: the king. The king said, who do you think I am?

612
00:33:53,080 --> 00:33:56,880
Speaker 2: You think I can? You think I'm a healer? Elisha said,

613
00:33:56,920 --> 00:34:00,800
Speaker 2: I know God is a healer. So watch the Have

614
00:34:01,040 --> 00:34:05,560
Speaker 2: the man come to me, and he will know that

615
00:34:05,640 --> 00:34:10,720
Speaker 2: there is a prophet in Israel. This man said, where

616
00:34:10,800 --> 00:34:17,719
Speaker 2: you see, where you see opposition, I see opportunity. And

617
00:34:17,800 --> 00:34:20,440
Speaker 2: the same thing that triggered you to tear your robes

618
00:34:20,480 --> 00:34:24,000
Speaker 2: and freak out and fall down in fear triggered Elisha

619
00:34:24,120 --> 00:34:27,480
Speaker 2: to rise up in faith. Elisha said, send him to me,

620
00:34:28,360 --> 00:34:31,520
Speaker 2: because the word of God is with me. Now Elisha

621
00:34:31,640 --> 00:34:34,520
Speaker 2: has an experience to build this expectation on.

622
00:34:35,280 --> 00:34:39,480
Speaker 1: Elisha has healed the waters at Jericho. Elisha has multiplied

623
00:34:39,480 --> 00:34:40,360
Speaker 1: the widow's oil.

624
00:34:40,680 --> 00:34:43,919
Speaker 2: Elisha has spoken to parent wounds, and when that child died,

625
00:34:44,200 --> 00:34:47,520
Speaker 2: spoke life and it resurrected from the dead. Elisha has

626
00:34:47,640 --> 00:34:50,479
Speaker 2: dug ditches in dry valleys and seen God bring water

627
00:34:50,520 --> 00:34:53,600
Speaker 2: from the direction of edom. Elisha has seen God do

628
00:34:53,760 --> 00:34:56,040
Speaker 2: things that only God can do. And so when an

629
00:34:56,040 --> 00:34:59,680
Speaker 2: impossible situation that is beyond him shows up, Elisha knows

630
00:34:59,719 --> 00:35:00,080
Speaker 2: what do.

631
00:35:00,520 --> 00:35:03,720
Speaker 1: Bring him here to me. I got something for nameMan.

632
00:35:04,120 --> 00:35:07,560
Speaker 2: I heal lepers for breakfast. Bring him to me and

633
00:35:07,600 --> 00:35:10,160
Speaker 2: he will know not how great I am, but how

634
00:35:10,239 --> 00:35:11,120
Speaker 2: great God is.

635
00:35:11,280 --> 00:35:16,800
Speaker 1: And so watch verse nine. I love this story.

636
00:35:17,160 --> 00:35:23,720
Speaker 2: Naman went with his horses and chariots and his expectations

637
00:35:23,760 --> 00:35:29,120
Speaker 2: and his leprosy and his greatness and his butt, and

638
00:35:29,200 --> 00:35:32,160
Speaker 2: he brought it all because he wanted to be healed.

639
00:35:34,480 --> 00:35:37,080
Speaker 2: I know you want to be healed of something today,

640
00:35:37,120 --> 00:35:40,239
Speaker 2: even though you've been covering it up. And I know

641
00:35:40,320 --> 00:35:45,160
Speaker 2: you use your charisma to cover your cracks. And I

642
00:35:45,200 --> 00:35:47,399
Speaker 2: know that nobody knows how dark the thoughts can really

643
00:35:47,400 --> 00:35:48,360
Speaker 2: get for you sometime.

644
00:35:49,239 --> 00:35:50,920
Speaker 1: But I've been doing this too long to sit there

645
00:35:50,920 --> 00:35:52,080
Speaker 1: and preach to your armor.

646
00:35:57,560 --> 00:36:01,600
Speaker 2: Because a business leader walked up to me and told

647
00:36:01,600 --> 00:36:04,120
Speaker 2: me that he had to kick his teenager out of

648
00:36:04,120 --> 00:36:04,520
Speaker 2: his house.

649
00:36:06,160 --> 00:36:06,640
Speaker 1: He said, we.

650
00:36:06,600 --> 00:36:10,319
Speaker 2: Almost got in a fistfight, he said, I swung at

651
00:36:10,360 --> 00:36:11,000
Speaker 2: him and missed.

652
00:36:12,480 --> 00:36:14,000
Speaker 1: I realized this has gone way too far.

653
00:36:14,160 --> 00:36:16,960
Speaker 2: And then the man had on khakis while he was

654
00:36:17,000 --> 00:36:26,080
Speaker 2: telling me, pleaded khakis, double pleated khakis, no tattoos, but

655
00:36:27,760 --> 00:36:29,399
Speaker 2: didn't look like the kind of guy that would swing

656
00:36:29,440 --> 00:36:35,120
Speaker 2: on his kid. But I don't even really think you've

657
00:36:35,120 --> 00:36:42,000
Speaker 2: seen your own butt until you've been through certain things.

658
00:36:42,880 --> 00:36:45,759
Speaker 2: And then the weird thing is we all have short

659
00:36:45,840 --> 00:36:50,399
Speaker 2: term memory loss if we have one devotion and read

660
00:36:50,440 --> 00:36:51,400
Speaker 2: our Bible one morning.

661
00:36:51,400 --> 00:36:52,120
Speaker 1: Now we start.

662
00:36:51,920 --> 00:36:53,600
Speaker 2: Judging other people when they flip out.

663
00:36:56,200 --> 00:36:56,520
Speaker 1: And so.

664
00:36:58,680 --> 00:37:01,200
Speaker 2: Naming is on the verge of something. I travel a

665
00:37:01,200 --> 00:37:03,280
Speaker 2: long way to get here. It's like a ninety mile trip,

666
00:37:04,480 --> 00:37:06,520
Speaker 2: and he's got a big crew with him, and he

667
00:37:06,560 --> 00:37:08,840
Speaker 2: needs a miracle, and.

668
00:37:10,280 --> 00:37:11,600
Speaker 1: We admire him because.

669
00:37:11,320 --> 00:37:15,279
Speaker 2: He went I do, at least I think to even

670
00:37:15,320 --> 00:37:19,640
Speaker 2: get to this point takes faith. And maybe one of

671
00:37:19,640 --> 00:37:22,239
Speaker 2: the reasons I don't put a lot of condemnation or

672
00:37:22,280 --> 00:37:25,239
Speaker 2: I try not to in my preaching, is because I'm

673
00:37:25,239 --> 00:37:28,880
Speaker 2: pretty proud of you who decided to show up anyway.

674
00:37:29,800 --> 00:37:31,839
Speaker 2: I know how many things could have kept you from

675
00:37:31,880 --> 00:37:34,440
Speaker 2: being here, and I'm pretty proud that you made the

676
00:37:34,480 --> 00:37:39,359
Speaker 2: decision to bring your butt to church. Give yourself a

677
00:37:39,360 --> 00:37:44,000
Speaker 2: hand for bringing your butt to church. And if you're

678
00:37:44,000 --> 00:37:49,800
Speaker 2: watching online, you don't get to clap. It's different. So

679
00:37:49,920 --> 00:37:54,839
Speaker 2: nae Man went with his horses and chariots, stopped at

680
00:37:54,840 --> 00:37:58,600
Speaker 2: the door of Elicia's house and Elcius and a messenger, Oh,

681
00:37:58,800 --> 00:38:02,319
Speaker 2: this is not gonna go well, because Naming is a

682
00:38:02,360 --> 00:38:05,400
Speaker 2: great man. And when a great man comes to your

683
00:38:05,440 --> 00:38:08,840
Speaker 2: doorstef you give him a great greeting and you welcome

684
00:38:08,920 --> 00:38:09,600
Speaker 2: him by name.

685
00:38:10,160 --> 00:38:15,680
Speaker 1: Man. I'm a retired This is my last sermon. Y'all

686
00:38:15,760 --> 00:38:18,879
Speaker 1: enjoy it. He sent a.

687
00:38:18,840 --> 00:38:22,800
Speaker 2: Messenger to say to him, go wash yourself seven times

688
00:38:22,840 --> 00:38:23,560
Speaker 2: in the Jordan.

689
00:38:23,680 --> 00:38:26,720
Speaker 1: In the what in the Jordan? You mean that muddy

690
00:38:26,760 --> 00:38:28,000
Speaker 1: little excuse for a.

691
00:38:28,040 --> 00:38:30,520
Speaker 2: River that y'all like to celebrate so much in this

692
00:38:30,680 --> 00:38:33,719
Speaker 2: nation of Israel, which I don't even like anyway.

693
00:38:34,000 --> 00:38:36,439
Speaker 1: And he didn't even come to the door and name.

694
00:38:36,560 --> 00:38:38,160
Speaker 1: It went off.

695
00:38:39,200 --> 00:38:42,680
Speaker 2: No, he literally went off, not in the figurative sense.

696
00:38:43,080 --> 00:38:47,719
Speaker 2: He literally decided, I would rather go home with my leprosy.

697
00:38:48,320 --> 00:38:51,759
Speaker 2: I'd rather go home and my arm fall off. I

698
00:38:51,760 --> 00:38:55,320
Speaker 2: would rather go I would rather die than be disrespected

699
00:38:55,440 --> 00:38:59,839
Speaker 2: like this. And when he heard this ridiculous command, he says,

700
00:38:59,840 --> 00:39:01,280
Speaker 2: some very important.

701
00:39:01,600 --> 00:39:04,360
Speaker 1: In the instruction. It was a simple instruction. It was

702
00:39:04,400 --> 00:39:05,640
Speaker 1: a stupid instruction.

703
00:39:06,000 --> 00:39:08,879
Speaker 2: It didn't make much sense, just like it doesn't make

704
00:39:08,960 --> 00:39:12,399
Speaker 2: much sense when God tells you to forgive somebody so

705
00:39:12,440 --> 00:39:15,120
Speaker 2: that you can be forgiven. And you want to say, well, God,

706
00:39:15,200 --> 00:39:17,480
Speaker 2: if they ask for it, I'll give it. And God

707
00:39:17,520 --> 00:39:20,080
Speaker 2: says to you, I'm not talking about what they deserve.

708
00:39:20,520 --> 00:39:24,879
Speaker 2: I'm talking about your deliverance. I'm talking about your clean heart.

709
00:39:25,200 --> 00:39:29,439
Speaker 2: I'm talking about your clear mind. So if you want

710
00:39:29,480 --> 00:39:32,440
Speaker 2: to get cleansed, I need you to do something that

711
00:39:32,640 --> 00:39:36,480
Speaker 2: makes no sense, because there is no cure for leprosy.

712
00:39:36,880 --> 00:39:37,840
Speaker 1: It can't be cured.

713
00:39:37,880 --> 00:39:40,480
Speaker 2: It's got to be cleansed, and it can only be

714
00:39:40,600 --> 00:39:45,480
Speaker 2: cleansed if you obey this command. And verse eleven starts

715
00:39:45,480 --> 00:39:52,520
Speaker 2: so sad, But there it is again. I'm gonna preach

716
00:39:52,520 --> 00:39:56,240
Speaker 2: a whole series one day on the.

717
00:39:55,640 --> 00:40:03,520
Speaker 1: Butts of the Bible. Stand in front of a miracle standing.

718
00:40:04,640 --> 00:40:09,759
Speaker 1: I mean, the guys around him are like, Okay, that's

719
00:40:09,800 --> 00:40:11,920
Speaker 1: all we gotta do. Naming.

720
00:40:12,000 --> 00:40:14,920
Speaker 2: You could keep the seventy five pounds of silver and

721
00:40:15,000 --> 00:40:18,520
Speaker 2: the seventy five pounds of gold, and you can pass

722
00:40:18,560 --> 00:40:20,240
Speaker 2: out the ten sets of clothing.

723
00:40:20,600 --> 00:40:23,879
Speaker 1: And we could go home. We can start back home.

724
00:40:24,480 --> 00:40:26,640
Speaker 1: That's easy. Somebody start running the water. Naming.

725
00:40:26,680 --> 00:40:28,719
Speaker 2: You want it hot, You want an extra hot naming.

726
00:40:28,760 --> 00:40:30,799
Speaker 2: You want a rubber ducky, get the towel ready. You

727
00:40:30,800 --> 00:40:42,480
Speaker 2: want some sunscreen. But it's a funny thing about pride.

728
00:40:44,280 --> 00:40:46,800
Speaker 2: It's a funny thing about the small things. It's a

729
00:40:46,840 --> 00:40:50,440
Speaker 2: funny thing about something that seems beneath you. Remember the

730
00:40:50,520 --> 00:40:53,279
Speaker 2: King was triggered because of something that seemed beyond him.

731
00:40:53,320 --> 00:40:57,200
Speaker 1: Am I God? And Naming is triggered because of something

732
00:40:57,239 --> 00:41:02,239
Speaker 1: that seems beneath me. You want me to do what?

733
00:41:04,560 --> 00:41:09,480
Speaker 1: Uh huh, I'm not doing that. Uh huh.

734
00:41:10,440 --> 00:41:14,000
Speaker 2: No. See, because when your heart is filled with pride,

735
00:41:14,000 --> 00:41:18,920
Speaker 2: you try to write your own prescriptions. This is how

736
00:41:18,960 --> 00:41:20,360
Speaker 2: I want God to bless me. This is how I

737
00:41:20,360 --> 00:41:21,640
Speaker 2: want God to come through. This is how I want

738
00:41:21,640 --> 00:41:23,080
Speaker 2: God to heal me. This is how I wanted to

739
00:41:23,120 --> 00:41:29,920
Speaker 2: respond this opportunity I want. This is so Naming went away,

740
00:41:30,040 --> 00:41:34,960
Speaker 2: angry said, this is two very dangerous words. By the way,

741
00:41:35,000 --> 00:41:37,840
Speaker 2: this is this is maybe the two most dangerous words

742
00:41:37,840 --> 00:41:45,440
Speaker 2: for you to interpret your life through. I thought, I thought,

743
00:41:48,520 --> 00:41:51,799
Speaker 2: maybe those two words are the two words that are

744
00:41:51,800 --> 00:41:53,440
Speaker 2: standing between me and peace today.

745
00:41:53,920 --> 00:41:57,719
Speaker 1: I thought, I thought my dad was going to be

746
00:41:57,760 --> 00:41:58,680
Speaker 1: grateful for the house.

747
00:42:00,280 --> 00:42:03,080
Speaker 2: Now he's telling me about getting somebody over here to

748
00:42:03,120 --> 00:42:04,759
Speaker 2: fix the Huh.

749
00:42:05,080 --> 00:42:08,160
Speaker 1: I thought I thought you'd say thank you.

750
00:42:11,200 --> 00:42:14,520
Speaker 2: I thought you'd grow up and play piano and put

751
00:42:14,560 --> 00:42:18,240
Speaker 2: you in lessons, I thought, I thought.

752
00:42:20,040 --> 00:42:21,800
Speaker 1: I thought he would surely.

753
00:42:22,440 --> 00:42:26,680
Speaker 2: Come out to me and stand and call on the

754
00:42:26,760 --> 00:42:28,239
Speaker 2: name of the Lord is God. See, many men had

755
00:42:28,280 --> 00:42:30,279
Speaker 2: it all planned out, because that's what great men do.

756
00:42:32,360 --> 00:42:36,520
Speaker 2: Great men make great plans, and when those plans don't

757
00:42:36,560 --> 00:42:38,840
Speaker 2: go the way that they were supposed to go, great

758
00:42:38,840 --> 00:42:44,719
Speaker 2: men go off, great women go off. Because I had

759
00:42:44,719 --> 00:42:48,240
Speaker 2: this family picture, and here's where you were supposed to stand,

760
00:42:48,640 --> 00:42:51,280
Speaker 2: and here's where you were supposed to smile, and here's

761
00:42:51,320 --> 00:42:53,400
Speaker 2: where you were supposed to and here's where you were.

762
00:42:53,600 --> 00:42:57,680
Speaker 2: I thought, could those two words be standing between you

763
00:42:57,760 --> 00:43:03,080
Speaker 2: and healing today? I thought, God says, my thoughts are

764
00:43:03,120 --> 00:43:06,520
Speaker 2: not your thoughts, and my ways are not your ways.

765
00:43:07,640 --> 00:43:09,279
Speaker 2: For as high as the heavens are above the earth,

766
00:43:09,320 --> 00:43:12,440
Speaker 2: so are my thoughts above your thoughts, and my ways

767
00:43:13,360 --> 00:43:18,560
Speaker 2: above your ways. But Naman went away angry and said,

768
00:43:18,600 --> 00:43:21,279
Speaker 2: I thought that I thought he'd come out to me.

769
00:43:22,480 --> 00:43:25,359
Speaker 2: I thought, I thought he would see because I had

770
00:43:25,360 --> 00:43:28,200
Speaker 2: this worked out. He comes to me, and then I

771
00:43:28,280 --> 00:43:31,560
Speaker 2: give him the gifts and I get the healing.

772
00:43:31,719 --> 00:43:32,760
Speaker 1: This is how this works.

773
00:43:33,480 --> 00:43:39,400
Speaker 2: Not this time, name it, not this time, this transformation

774
00:43:39,560 --> 00:43:44,719
Speaker 2: is not going to happen on your terms. God's not

775
00:43:44,760 --> 00:43:49,960
Speaker 2: going to do it like you expected. He's not going

776
00:43:50,040 --> 00:43:53,600
Speaker 2: to be held hostage to what you thought. So I

777
00:43:53,719 --> 00:43:56,960
Speaker 2: thought that he would surely come out to me and

778
00:43:56,960 --> 00:43:59,120
Speaker 2: stand and call him the name of the Lord is God.

779
00:43:59,120 --> 00:44:00,840
Speaker 1: And waya his hand.

780
00:44:03,360 --> 00:44:06,400
Speaker 2: So he's supposed to wave, he's supposed to wave his

781
00:44:06,520 --> 00:44:10,040
Speaker 2: hand over the spot and cure me of my leprosy.

782
00:44:10,239 --> 00:44:12,520
Speaker 2: He doesn't like the place God told him to get healed.

783
00:44:12,680 --> 00:44:15,160
Speaker 2: Are not Abna and far part of the rivers of

784
00:44:15,200 --> 00:44:18,200
Speaker 2: Damascus better than all the waters of Israel. I didn't

785
00:44:18,239 --> 00:44:20,200
Speaker 2: have to come here for this. Couldn't I washing them

786
00:44:20,200 --> 00:44:25,759
Speaker 2: and be cleansed. So he turned and went off in

787
00:44:25,880 --> 00:44:30,799
Speaker 2: a rage, and one of his servants, this guy needs

788
00:44:30,800 --> 00:44:34,360
Speaker 2: a raise, by the way, went to him.

789
00:44:35,200 --> 00:44:38,560
Speaker 1: Notice how beautiful the story is told. It's chronicled like this.

790
00:44:38,880 --> 00:44:41,600
Speaker 2: Namon went to his master and said, I need permission

791
00:44:41,640 --> 00:44:44,359
Speaker 2: to go to Israel. So he went to the king,

792
00:44:44,600 --> 00:44:46,520
Speaker 2: and the king said I can't do it. Then he

793
00:44:46,560 --> 00:44:50,040
Speaker 2: went to Elisha with his chariots and horses. And now

794
00:44:50,120 --> 00:44:52,160
Speaker 2: Namon went off in a rage, and he's about to

795
00:44:52,640 --> 00:44:56,160
Speaker 2: He's about to miss the opportunity to be healed because

796
00:44:56,200 --> 00:44:58,919
Speaker 2: he is going off. And here's why he went off,

797
00:44:59,000 --> 00:45:05,080
Speaker 2: because he didn't go in, and he went off because

798
00:45:05,680 --> 00:45:08,200
Speaker 2: he made his decision about what he thought about it,

799
00:45:09,000 --> 00:45:11,200
Speaker 2: but he didn't go in. You know, I've noticed something

800
00:45:11,239 --> 00:45:14,440
Speaker 2: about myself when I don't go into the presence of God,

801
00:45:15,239 --> 00:45:17,160
Speaker 2: when I don't go in and ask God, what are

802
00:45:17,160 --> 00:45:18,520
Speaker 2: you doing in this situation?

803
00:45:19,280 --> 00:45:19,920
Speaker 1: When I don't go.

804
00:45:19,960 --> 00:45:22,840
Speaker 2: Into myself and seek for the spirit of God to

805
00:45:22,960 --> 00:45:25,880
Speaker 2: leave me, I start going off, and then I spend

806
00:45:25,880 --> 00:45:28,640
Speaker 2: the next week fixing stuff that if I would have

807
00:45:28,680 --> 00:45:31,760
Speaker 2: taken one moment and worshiped, if I would have taken

808
00:45:31,840 --> 00:45:34,799
Speaker 2: one moment and sought God's wisdom, if I would have

809
00:45:34,840 --> 00:45:37,200
Speaker 2: taken one moment and said, you know what, I don't

810
00:45:37,200 --> 00:45:38,279
Speaker 2: want to fight about this.

811
00:45:38,800 --> 00:45:41,320
Speaker 1: I don't want to be right. I want to be healed.

812
00:45:41,600 --> 00:45:44,000
Speaker 1: I don't want to prove my own power. I want

813
00:45:44,000 --> 00:45:45,720
Speaker 1: to receive your power God.

814
00:45:52,200 --> 00:45:54,640
Speaker 2: And what happens next is really beautiful because some of

815
00:45:54,680 --> 00:45:55,920
Speaker 2: you are going to do it today.

816
00:45:55,960 --> 00:45:56,520
Speaker 1: Stand with me.

817
00:45:57,880 --> 00:46:00,000
Speaker 2: The servant came to Namen and says something that I

818
00:46:00,080 --> 00:46:02,160
Speaker 2: think is very prophetic, and I hope you can hear

819
00:46:02,200 --> 00:46:04,960
Speaker 2: it on the level which it is intended. The servant

820
00:46:05,040 --> 00:46:08,040
Speaker 2: Chase naming down Naman is on his way.

821
00:46:08,120 --> 00:46:09,440
Speaker 1: Back to Damascus.

822
00:46:09,800 --> 00:46:13,959
Speaker 2: He's gonna walk ninety miles back home with leprosy still

823
00:46:14,000 --> 00:46:16,440
Speaker 2: on his skin because of something that seemed too small

824
00:46:16,440 --> 00:46:18,480
Speaker 2: and insignificant for a great man like him to do.

825
00:46:19,960 --> 00:46:21,200
Speaker 1: He's gonna spend.

826
00:46:21,000 --> 00:46:24,120
Speaker 2: The rest of his life with this disease because he

827
00:46:24,200 --> 00:46:27,440
Speaker 2: didn't want to do what he was told to do.

828
00:46:28,440 --> 00:46:32,600
Speaker 1: And the servant said, hey man, sir.

829
00:46:34,960 --> 00:46:39,080
Speaker 2: Nayman, if the prophet had told you to do some

830
00:46:39,640 --> 00:46:42,400
Speaker 2: great thing, would.

831
00:46:42,200 --> 00:46:45,760
Speaker 1: You not have done it? Well, of course I would,

832
00:46:46,719 --> 00:46:47,839
Speaker 1: because I'm a great man.

833
00:46:50,000 --> 00:46:56,840
Speaker 2: Well, if you're a great man, how much more should

834
00:46:56,880 --> 00:47:01,640
Speaker 2: you be able to do a small thing? So when

835
00:47:01,640 --> 00:47:06,440
Speaker 2: he tells you washould be cleansed, why not give it

836
00:47:06,480 --> 00:47:12,000
Speaker 2: a try? You know, you've been fighting so hard justifying

837
00:47:12,080 --> 00:47:16,239
Speaker 2: your side of the story and justifying yourself and why

838
00:47:16,360 --> 00:47:16,920
Speaker 2: is all right?

839
00:47:17,000 --> 00:47:18,160
Speaker 1: And why is okay?

840
00:47:18,400 --> 00:47:24,760
Speaker 2: But hey man, why not if we already came ninety miles,

841
00:47:25,120 --> 00:47:28,480
Speaker 2: if we already came this far, and that profit is

842
00:47:28,520 --> 00:47:30,799
Speaker 2: telling you that if you dip in the Jordan you

843
00:47:30,800 --> 00:47:40,760
Speaker 2: can be cleansed, isn't it worth a try? You already

844
00:47:40,840 --> 00:47:44,640
Speaker 2: went to your master and got the letter. You already

845
00:47:44,680 --> 00:47:50,440
Speaker 2: went with your horses and chariots. Now you've now you're

846
00:47:50,440 --> 00:47:53,560
Speaker 2: going off in a rage. But verse fourteen is the

847
00:47:53,600 --> 00:47:56,759
Speaker 2: happy ending, and I believe it's a new beginning for

848
00:47:57,160 --> 00:47:59,640
Speaker 2: many of us today. The Bible says, so he went

849
00:47:59,680 --> 00:48:07,080
Speaker 2: down and dipped himself in the Jordan. I'm glad after

850
00:48:07,320 --> 00:48:11,680
Speaker 2: Naman went off, he went in, and he went in

851
00:48:11,719 --> 00:48:14,720
Speaker 2: not just once, not just twice, not just three times,

852
00:48:14,719 --> 00:48:17,759
Speaker 2: not just four times, not just five times, not just

853
00:48:17,800 --> 00:48:22,840
Speaker 2: six times, but all seven. Often, when you're in the

854
00:48:22,880 --> 00:48:27,239
Speaker 2: process of obeying God, you see no immediate effects of change.

855
00:48:29,120 --> 00:48:31,000
Speaker 2: It's not like your skin gets healed a little bit

856
00:48:31,040 --> 00:48:31,640
Speaker 2: with every dip.

857
00:48:33,600 --> 00:48:37,640
Speaker 1: Woo woo woo.

858
00:48:39,160 --> 00:48:42,080
Speaker 2: You got to have the faith to go through the

859
00:48:42,120 --> 00:48:48,400
Speaker 2: motions even when you see no evidence. Go am I

860
00:48:48,440 --> 00:48:52,200
Speaker 2: talking to him? You got to have the faith to

861
00:48:52,280 --> 00:48:57,520
Speaker 2: go down and pray again, to lift up your hands

862
00:48:57,520 --> 00:48:59,240
Speaker 2: and worship and say, I don't feel.

863
00:48:59,000 --> 00:49:00,000
Speaker 1: A thing right now.

864
00:49:00,239 --> 00:49:02,799
Speaker 2: But God is with me, and God is for me,

865
00:49:03,160 --> 00:49:05,719
Speaker 2: And who can be against me? And I will not

866
00:49:05,880 --> 00:49:08,799
Speaker 2: fear though a host of enemies and camps uponut me.

867
00:49:09,280 --> 00:49:12,520
Speaker 1: I will not be afraid. The Lord is my helper.

868
00:49:12,719 --> 00:49:18,520
Speaker 1: I lift my eyes to the hills. My help comes

869
00:49:19,680 --> 00:49:22,400
Speaker 1: from the Lord. By your head, and close your eyes

870
00:49:22,440 --> 00:49:23,000
Speaker 1: for a moment.

871
00:49:23,800 --> 00:49:27,360
Speaker 2: I believe this is a significant word for someone in

872
00:49:27,360 --> 00:49:30,120
Speaker 2: the room who is about to go off.

873
00:49:32,040 --> 00:49:34,279
Speaker 1: Maybe you've been going off, maybe you already went off.

874
00:49:36,400 --> 00:49:39,400
Speaker 2: I don't just mean temper tantrums, breaking stuff, throwing pictures

875
00:49:39,440 --> 00:49:40,280
Speaker 2: around the room.

876
00:49:41,640 --> 00:49:43,560
Speaker 1: I mean that there is something that God has given

877
00:49:43,600 --> 00:49:44,359
Speaker 1: you to do in.

878
00:49:44,280 --> 00:49:49,720
Speaker 2: Your life that seems so ridiculous that you, like naymen,

879
00:49:50,760 --> 00:49:53,200
Speaker 2: are at the point of frustration. I want to speak

880
00:49:53,200 --> 00:49:57,080
Speaker 2: a word over your life today that in this moment,

881
00:49:57,160 --> 00:50:01,560
Speaker 2: the only way to receive healing is through your surrender.

882
00:50:03,920 --> 00:50:05,440
Speaker 2: As long as you want to stay in control of

883
00:50:05,440 --> 00:50:09,680
Speaker 2: those situations, they will continue to consume you. And that's

884
00:50:09,719 --> 00:50:11,520
Speaker 2: what the presence of God is for. This is the

885
00:50:11,600 --> 00:50:16,600
Speaker 2: Jordan river that you can dip in seven times. The

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Speaker 2: Bible says that when he did it, his flesh was

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Speaker 2: restored like a young boy. Isn't that amazing that the

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Speaker 2: great man became like a young boy and he was healed?

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Speaker 1: And isn't it interesting.

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Speaker 2: That God's greatest golden Nayman's life was not to heal

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Speaker 2: his skin, but to produce faith in his heart.

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Speaker 1: Lift your hands in this moment, Father, I thank.

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Speaker 2: You for every person, and I thank you for every problem.

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Speaker 2: I thank you for the great things, and I thank

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Speaker 2: you for the butt. Somebody in this room has an addiction.

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Speaker 2: Somebody in this room has an illness. Somebody in this

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Speaker 2: room has a heavy depression, and they see no signs

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Speaker 2: of change. And they have really, really attractive armor, and

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Speaker 2: so nobody can see but you what they're fighting with

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Speaker 2: on the inside, and they keep pushing people away that

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Speaker 2: you send to help them. In this moment, God, may

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Speaker 2: this be the first dip in the process of their deliverance.

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Speaker 2: And thank you for the Cross of Jesus Christ that

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Speaker 2: we stand under and look to today for our healing

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Speaker 2: and forgiveness and redemption has already been accomplished. I thank

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Speaker 2: you that we are not healed, cleansed, or cured by achieving,

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Speaker 2: but by receiving. Stretch your hands high as you can

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Speaker 2: stretch them. We receive your grace in this moment, your mercy.

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Speaker 2: In this moment, healing waters wash over our soul.

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Speaker 1: Oh, thank you for joining us.

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

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