WEBVTT - Why I Went Off

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

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

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<v Speaker 1>I wanted to thank you for joining us today. Hope

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<v Speaker 1>this inspires you. Hope it builds your faith. Hope it

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<v Speaker 1>gives your perspective to see God is moving in your life.

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<v Speaker 1>Enjoy the message. The series is called Triggered.

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<v Speaker 2>This is week four and I just trust that you

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<v Speaker 2>came expecting today for God to speak to you.

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<v Speaker 1>Let's look at.

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

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<v Speaker 2>right up front. Title of this message is why I

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<v Speaker 2>went off touch Somebody tell him.

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<v Speaker 1>It's a long story.

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<v Speaker 2>When I first decided to preach on this topic of triggered,

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<v Speaker 2>I figured that it would help me personally and then

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<v Speaker 2>we could do group therapy. But I wanted to do

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<v Speaker 2>it from the Word of God because I am not

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<v Speaker 2>a psychologist, certainly not a neuroscientist or anything. That I

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<v Speaker 2>interviewed a neuroscientist a few days ago and that is

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<v Speaker 2>now on the Elevation Church YouTube, so you can go

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<v Speaker 2>and watch that. I asked her questions related to the

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<v Speaker 2>clinical reasons that sometimes we do the things that we

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<v Speaker 2>do and had a conversation with her about not just

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<v Speaker 2>understanding things with cliches and jargon that we sometimes used

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<v Speaker 2>to cover up our lazy thinking, and sometimes we spiritualize

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<v Speaker 2>issues that are practical in the same time sometimes try

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<v Speaker 2>to sell things.

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<v Speaker 1>Practically that are spiritual.

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<v Speaker 2>And so it's just a great talk that's on the

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<v Speaker 2>Elevation s Chirchs YouTube and you can check that out.

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<v Speaker 2>But this week I want to share a character study

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<v Speaker 2>on a Bible character.

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<v Speaker 1>Who is so familiar to me.

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<v Speaker 2>And by that I mean not only have I read

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<v Speaker 2>this story quite a few times, but I feel like

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<v Speaker 2>I know this guy.

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<v Speaker 1>I feel like.

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<v Speaker 2>I've met him one time in the mirror, and certain

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<v Speaker 2>things about him really spoke to me, And so I

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<v Speaker 2>just pray that the same will happen for you today

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<v Speaker 2>as I read this text. I want to just tell

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<v Speaker 2>you the spoiler alert right up front. Naymon in Second

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<v Speaker 2>King's Chapter five has leprosy and gets healed.

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

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<v Speaker 2>Learn in the midst of it, and I want to

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<v Speaker 2>read a few verses and kind of drop in and

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<v Speaker 2>explain and move along in this narrative. The Bible says

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<v Speaker 2>in Second King's chapter five.

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<v Speaker 1>Verse one.

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<v Speaker 2>Now, Nayman was commander of the army of the King

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<v Speaker 2>of Aram. He was a great man in the sight

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<v Speaker 2>of his master, and highly regarded because through him the

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<v Speaker 2>Lord had given victory to aerm It's interesting the way

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<v Speaker 2>that is phrased, because it says it wasn't by him

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<v Speaker 2>that the victory was one, it was through him. And

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<v Speaker 2>I think understanding that is very critical if you were

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<v Speaker 2>to have any hope of remaining sane in your life,

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<v Speaker 2>just to know that God's going to do it through you.

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<v Speaker 2>You know, half of the time that I'm messed up

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<v Speaker 2>is because I'm trying to do it for God and

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

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<v Speaker 2>do it through me when I'm trying to do it

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<v Speaker 2>for him, and so I just start forcing situations, and

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<v Speaker 2>then I'm frustrated and irritated and agitated, and I'm mad

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<v Speaker 2>at everybody and everything because I'm trying to do stuff

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<v Speaker 2>for people and for God that God would like to

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<v Speaker 2>do through me if I would yield myself and yield

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<v Speaker 2>my will. And this is even more interesting because Nayman

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<v Speaker 2>is not an Israelite. He's not one of these chosen

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<v Speaker 2>people as they understood it at the time. He's actually

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<v Speaker 2>a commander of an enemy army from Aram that would

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<v Speaker 2>consistently raid the Israelites and not only do damage to

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<v Speaker 2>their crops, but many.

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<v Speaker 1>Times take their people away in bondage.

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<v Speaker 2>At the end of one of these raids. The Bible

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<v Speaker 2>says he was a great man in the sight of

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<v Speaker 2>his master, and highly regarded because through him, he was

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<v Speaker 2>highly regarded because of what he did. He was highly

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<v Speaker 2>regarded because of the results that he achieved. He was

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<v Speaker 2>highly regarded because of the outcomes that were brought about

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<v Speaker 2>through his skill set. And so he was a great

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<v Speaker 2>man in the sight of his master, and highly regarded

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<v Speaker 2>because through him. I'm reading it over and over on purpose,

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<v Speaker 2>because it's so profound that if we skim the surface

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<v Speaker 2>we will miss the meaning. He was a great man

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<v Speaker 2>in the sight of his master, and highly regarded because

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<v Speaker 2>through him the Lord had given victory.

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<v Speaker 1>To aerm and he was a valiant soldier.

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<v Speaker 2>But he had leprosy and incurable skin disease, a non

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<v Speaker 2>lethal form of it in this case, but a problem.

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<v Speaker 1>Nonetheless, he was great.

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<v Speaker 2>But and depending on when you see someone in the

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<v Speaker 2>setting that you meet them in, you might sometimes more

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<v Speaker 2>acquainted with their victories than their vulnerabilities. That's why I

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<v Speaker 2>advocate just a little bit of time dating, just a

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<v Speaker 2>little bit of time to see them.

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<v Speaker 1>In pressure filled situations, just a little.

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<v Speaker 2>Bit of time out of the candlelight, under the harsh

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<v Speaker 2>neon glow of some of the trials of life. Just

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<v Speaker 2>a piece of advice. But I can't prove it in

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<v Speaker 2>the Bible. But I think you know, depending on where

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<v Speaker 2>you see someone determines what you see.

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<v Speaker 1>And I realize that's more and more now because I.

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<v Speaker 2>Think people think that they should behave in front of

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<v Speaker 2>a pastor. So when I meet people, a lot of

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<v Speaker 2>times I realize I might not be meeting the truest

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<v Speaker 2>version of them, do you know what I mean? They

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<v Speaker 2>might not always speak in Hebrew and Greek, they might

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<v Speaker 2>sometimes speak in other tongues. But when when I really

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<v Speaker 2>want to know about somebody, especially on staff, I don't

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<v Speaker 2>go off of my first impression, because I don't really

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<v Speaker 2>trust my first.

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<v Speaker 1>Impression of people any more. I used to. I used

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<v Speaker 1>to say I have discernment.

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<v Speaker 2>Now realize that a lot of what I thought was

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<v Speaker 2>discernment was really me just vibing off of somebody, or

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<v Speaker 2>maybe they reminded me of somebody, And I didn't like

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<v Speaker 2>some people that were really cool, consistent people, but I

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<v Speaker 2>thought they were boring. But the reason they were boring

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<v Speaker 2>is because they're not always having to create drama in

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<v Speaker 2>their life. And I found out that drama works good

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<v Speaker 2>in movies, but in real life, I don't want the

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<v Speaker 2>ticket to that show.

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<v Speaker 1>So now am I preaching already? This is just the

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<v Speaker 1>first verse.

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<v Speaker 2>And what I learned about myself is I need to

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<v Speaker 2>ask others.

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<v Speaker 1>I need to get references.

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<v Speaker 2>And at times i'll meet somebody on our staff and

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<v Speaker 2>it's not a small staff, and I don't know everybody

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<v Speaker 2>on the staff anymore.

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<v Speaker 1>I used to.

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<v Speaker 2>I used to hand select people, and oh man, when

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<v Speaker 2>I hired the first staff member, I got the opportunity

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<v Speaker 2>to spend just hours and hours getting to know him,

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<v Speaker 2>so I knew his strengths and weaknesses pretty well.

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<v Speaker 1>But now I will ask someone about someone.

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<v Speaker 2>I ask somebody that works with them and has had

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<v Speaker 2>to work with them in a pressure hopefully if I can,

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<v Speaker 2>if I can get somebody that has had to work

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<v Speaker 2>with them when there was a deadline involved, or has

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<v Speaker 2>seen how they managed a disappointment, you know, and how

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<v Speaker 2>they treat others and things like that.

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<v Speaker 1>So I will ask how is so? And so let's.

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<v Speaker 2>Say that I wanted to know about JT.

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<v Speaker 1>I would ask. I would be like, hey, how's JT?

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<v Speaker 2>And I would wait for the person who knows them,

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<v Speaker 2>not the person who met them, but the person who

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<v Speaker 2>knows them to I would wait for them and see

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<v Speaker 2>how long they hesitate before they answer the question, because

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<v Speaker 2>I want to see how long they're going to scroll through,

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<v Speaker 2>you know. And sometimes people will say the right thing,

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<v Speaker 2>but it's the inflection in their voice they say it

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<v Speaker 2>with that lets you know there's something else. I'd be like, hey,

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<v Speaker 2>I've noticed JT on our staff. He seems like he

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<v Speaker 2>seems like a great guy. And if the person's voice

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<v Speaker 2>goes up when they answer.

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<v Speaker 1>You got pay attention to that. And so it's like

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<v Speaker 1>how's JT? And they'll go, oh, he's great.

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<v Speaker 2>And when they hit that falsetto like unnatural soprano note,

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<v Speaker 2>he's great, it's the.

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<v Speaker 1>Sounds like axel rose, you know. Up there. I'm like,

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<v Speaker 1>but what everybody say?

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<v Speaker 2>But what? Because one thing that has really helped me

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<v Speaker 2>in ministry and in life is to realize that everybody

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<v Speaker 2>has two eyes, two ears, one nose, one neck, most

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<v Speaker 2>people two arms, two legs, and everybody has at least

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<v Speaker 2>one But he was a great man. But it's in

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<v Speaker 2>the Bible, people, I'm not making it up. It said

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<v Speaker 2>that this great man.

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<v Speaker 1>He's great.

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<v Speaker 2>But the problem with being a preacher is I can

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<v Speaker 2>see your eyes.

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<v Speaker 1>I can see your ears.

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<v Speaker 2>I can see whether or not you're taking notes, and

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<v Speaker 2>if you don't have a pin out, I'm judging you

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<v Speaker 2>so hard right now. I hope you feel the vibrations

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<v Speaker 2>of the flames of hell. The issue with this arrangement

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<v Speaker 2>is I can't see your but and it's probably better

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<v Speaker 2>that way. It's been a lot of my ministry preaching

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<v Speaker 2>to people's heads, preaching to people's intellect. And I messed

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<v Speaker 2>around and pastored this church now for over twelve years.

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<v Speaker 2>And I messed around and got a few straight grays

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<v Speaker 2>in my beard, and I messed around and got involved

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<v Speaker 2>in a few people's lives. And I messed around and

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<v Speaker 2>found out that everybody has a butt. And the only

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<v Speaker 2>way I knew it is that a few people showed.

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<v Speaker 1>Me there there.

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<v Speaker 2>I know it's awkward, and you know, half the reason

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<v Speaker 2>that sermons don't really register more than two hours sometimes

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

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<v Speaker 2>the strategy most people come.

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<v Speaker 1>To church with. See why, b cover your butt?

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<v Speaker 2>You cover it behind a big smile and appraise.

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<v Speaker 1>The Lord in a chanda. You know I could do that?

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

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<v Speaker 1>but he had.

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<v Speaker 2>A skin issue, and nobody can see that on the

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<v Speaker 2>battlefield because on the battlefield I got armor. And we

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<v Speaker 2>all have something that we use to cover a spot

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

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<v Speaker 2>human anatomy here. You have multiple bucks, You are great

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<v Speaker 2>with people, but you don't take care of yourself. You

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<v Speaker 2>see what I'm saying. You are really good at succeeding

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<v Speaker 2>and really bad at being content.

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<v Speaker 1>So I'm successful, but I'm miserable.

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<v Speaker 2>I'm killing it at work, but my fifteen year old

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<v Speaker 2>do I even have to finish this?

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<v Speaker 1>I got a.

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<v Speaker 2>Great marriage, I'm great, but I'm not making any money

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<v Speaker 2>right now. And I'm a good emotional provider, but financially,

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<v Speaker 2>you know, I never learned.

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<v Speaker 1>How to do that.

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<v Speaker 2>The thing about a really good encounter with God, you

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<v Speaker 2>can tell when you've encountered.

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<v Speaker 1>God, it will expose.

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<v Speaker 2>Your and the way it happens, it'll often be an

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<v Speaker 2>unlikely way.

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<v Speaker 1>Let's talk about this in three stages. The first is exposure.

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<v Speaker 2>Nayman is perhaps changing one day in his own home,

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<v Speaker 2>and verse two says, bends of raiders from aarm Remember

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<v Speaker 2>he's a captain. He's a commander of these armies from Aram,

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<v Speaker 2>which would often go out and take different people captive.

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<v Speaker 2>And on one particular such occasion, the raiders from Aram

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<v Speaker 2>had gone out and had taken captive a young girl

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<v Speaker 2>from Israel. And she served Nayman's wife, and she said

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<v Speaker 2>to her mistress, if only my master would see the

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<v Speaker 2>prophet who is in Samaria, he would cure him.

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<v Speaker 1>Of his leprosy.

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<v Speaker 2>And so the Bible says something really important in verse four.

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<v Speaker 2>Because you are not blessed based on the word of

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<v Speaker 2>God that you hear, or the word of God that

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<v Speaker 2>you understand, you are blessed, and your life is changed

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<v Speaker 2>in accordance with the word of God that you apply, obey,

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<v Speaker 2>and act on. That's why you can hear thirteen years

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<v Speaker 2>of teaching and still be mean as the serpent in

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<v Speaker 2>the garden of Eden. No That's why you can hear

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<v Speaker 2>a lot of teaching about love, but if you don't

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<v Speaker 2>make the decision to forgive.

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<v Speaker 1>The teaching about love will be snatched.

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<v Speaker 2>Up by the birds of the air and will not

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<v Speaker 2>take root in your heart. So verse four becomes really

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<v Speaker 2>important if we really want to change, if we really

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<v Speaker 2>want to get beneath the surface, and you know, not

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<v Speaker 2>just have a skin deep spirituality and a skin deep

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<v Speaker 2>relationship with God where we can fake it for a

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<v Speaker 2>little while, and we create stages to impress people, and

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<v Speaker 2>we have armor that.

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<v Speaker 1>We put on to go out into our job.

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<v Speaker 2>We come home and feel like miserable, miserable people to

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<v Speaker 2>live with, or we feel like we don't know how

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<v Speaker 2>to be intimate, but we know how to be impressive.

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<v Speaker 2>And so as long as people only see us from

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<v Speaker 2>a distance, they don't really notice we're starting to cover

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<v Speaker 2>our skin and cover our souls and things that are

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<v Speaker 2>just leaping out of us.

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<v Speaker 1>At all the wrong time.

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<v Speaker 2>Verse four says that Naman went to his master and

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<v Speaker 2>told him what the girl from Israel had said. And

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<v Speaker 2>this took courage, and it took humility for Naming to

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<v Speaker 2>go to his master and show his butt, to show

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<v Speaker 2>his vulnerability when he was a man with so many victories.

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<v Speaker 2>I just want to stay there for a minute, because

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<v Speaker 2>sometimes I feel like we use prayer as an opportunity

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<v Speaker 2>to read God our resume, you know.

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<v Speaker 1>And while I think it's great.

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<v Speaker 2>To celebrate all the Elias that we killed, sometimes the

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<v Speaker 2>giants in us are kicking our butt and we don't

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<v Speaker 2>say anything about it until it's too late. And I'm

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<v Speaker 2>getting bolder every year I passed her, as I commit

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<v Speaker 2>more and more to preaching to the part of you

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<v Speaker 2>that you would just as soon hide and never mention,

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<v Speaker 2>because I think that's where real help is found.

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<v Speaker 1>And Naman went to his.

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<v Speaker 2>Master and told him what the girl from Israel had said.

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<v Speaker 2>I mean, this is a servant girl. And Naman is

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<v Speaker 2>what a great man?

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<v Speaker 1>A great man. He's a great man.

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<v Speaker 2>But he's got these spots that are starting to spread,

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<v Speaker 2>and if he doesn't do something soon, there's no telling

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<v Speaker 2>what might happen next. And since there are no essential

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<v Speaker 2>oils for this particular form of leprosy at this point

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<v Speaker 2>in antiquity, Nayman has to take the advice of a

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<v Speaker 2>little girl. And now we have a great man going

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<v Speaker 2>to an enemy nation in Israel because of the advice

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<v Speaker 2>of a little girl. Are you willing to obey God

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<v Speaker 2>even if he speaks through something that seems smaller than you,

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<v Speaker 2>because I notice a lot of us won't. A lot

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<v Speaker 2>of teenagers will listen to me preach and roll their

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<v Speaker 2>eyes at their parents. And I don't understand that because

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<v Speaker 2>I'm not paying for your college or your bracest.

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<v Speaker 1>I'm not even buying you ramen noodles.

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<v Speaker 2>And sometimes I've noticed that men will listen to me preach,

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<v Speaker 2>but their wife knows them better than I do and

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<v Speaker 2>could say some things that would actually help them. It's

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<v Speaker 2>getting quiet, and even the women.

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<v Speaker 1>Left me out on that one.

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<v Speaker 2>It's like that, I'm a cancel reflective, y'all, don't help

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<v Speaker 2>me with this sermon.

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<v Speaker 1>It's something about exposure and when a spot in your.

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<v Speaker 2>Life, everybody says spot a leprous spot, something that is

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<v Speaker 2>consuming you that others can't see when it is exposed

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<v Speaker 2>by an experience. That's the second stage I wanted to

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<v Speaker 2>mention is experience, because things will happen in your life

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<v Speaker 2>and you'll come up upon situations that will expose something

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<v Speaker 2>that you would prefer to hide. And what you do

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<v Speaker 2>next determines whether you get healed. So Naman went to

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<v Speaker 2>his master and told him what the girl from Israel

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<v Speaker 2>had said. Verse five says that the king said, by

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<v Speaker 2>all means go, I will send a letter to the

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<v Speaker 2>King of Israel. So Naman left, taking with him ten

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<v Speaker 2>talents of silver six thousand shekels of gold. That's like

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<v Speaker 2>seventy five pounds of each. So Naman is going to

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<v Speaker 2>Israel with his resources to attain healing. He's gonna he's

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<v Speaker 2>gonna deal with this like he always deals with things,

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<v Speaker 2>because he's a great man. He's a persistent man, prepared man.

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<v Speaker 2>He's a powerful man. These other things that start with

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<v Speaker 2>the letter P as well and the letter that he

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<v Speaker 2>took to the King of Israel read with this letter,

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<v Speaker 2>I am sending my servant naming to you so that

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<v Speaker 2>you may cure him of his leprosy. There's all kind

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<v Speaker 2>of stuff wrong with that sentence. It's like the telephone

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<v Speaker 2>game we used to play when you pass a message

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<v Speaker 2>along to somebody and it starts out, we're having you

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<v Speaker 2>chicken for lunch, and it ends with I'm dying of cancer,

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<v Speaker 2>and you pass it down and it only takes three people.

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<v Speaker 2>This chain of communication has polluted the message itself because

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<v Speaker 2>number one, the servant girl didn't say the king can

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<v Speaker 2>heal him.

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<v Speaker 1>It said the prophet can.

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<v Speaker 2>And sometimes we run to the wrong people because we

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<v Speaker 2>have our own ideas about where our help comes from.

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<v Speaker 2>Talk to me, and it's not the king that is

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<v Speaker 2>going to have the faith to get him healed. It's

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<v Speaker 2>the prophet. His name is Elisha. But the king sends

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<v Speaker 2>the commander to the king because you know, this is

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<v Speaker 2>to me, the most logical way to get him healed.

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<v Speaker 2>We'll go straight to the top. But watch the king's response.

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<v Speaker 2>And this is kind of interesting because when the king

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<v Speaker 2>gets the letter and Naman shows up with all of

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<v Speaker 2>the accumulated wealth that he believes it's gonna take to

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<v Speaker 2>get him healed. You know how, we have our own

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<v Speaker 2>ideas about what it's gonna take to make a change

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<v Speaker 2>in our life. And I'm gonna do it. I'm gonna

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<v Speaker 2>do it. I'm gonna go back, I'm gonna get my degree.

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<v Speaker 2>I'm gonna go back. I'm gonna get my degree. I'm

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<v Speaker 2>gonna eat. I'm gonna eat so much kale it's gonna

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<v Speaker 2>be coming out of my nose. I'm not eating gluten

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<v Speaker 2>again until twenty twenty four. I'm gonna do hot yoga

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<v Speaker 2>and cold yoga and powerlifting.

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<v Speaker 1>And I'm gonna do it. I'm gonna do it all.

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<v Speaker 1>Mariema Bible. I'm gonna delete.

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<v Speaker 2>Every social media off my phone.

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<v Speaker 1>I'm never going on Facebook again.

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<v Speaker 2>I've got my face in the book. And he shows

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<v Speaker 2>up with a lot of stuff that he thinks he

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<v Speaker 2>canna need to get healed.

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<v Speaker 1>But as soon verse.

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<v Speaker 2>Seven, as the King of Israel read the letter, he

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<v Speaker 2>tore his robes and said, am I God, you want

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<v Speaker 2>me to do what?

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<v Speaker 1>I got?

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<v Speaker 2>This friend, y'all, his name is Alex Early. He was

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<v Speaker 2>my college roommate and he used to make prank phone

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<v Speaker 2>calls in college and they were hilarious.

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<v Speaker 1>Most of them were clean.

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<v Speaker 2>We were Christians, but he had the ability to push

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<v Speaker 2>people to their breaking point. He was a big fan

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<v Speaker 2>of a guy at the time who did prank calls

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<v Speaker 2>named roy D Mercer, and this guy was famous for

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<v Speaker 2>taking people right to the edge, and so we would laugh.

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<v Speaker 2>And we still have these phone calls recorded and one

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<v Speaker 2>day I'm going.

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<v Speaker 1>To release them on SoundCloud.

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<v Speaker 2>And these phone calls to me just bring me joy

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<v Speaker 2>at times, in my life, because everybody's reaction was the same.

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<v Speaker 2>He make up a million scenarios, you know. He would

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<v Speaker 2>use this name, this alias Dwyane McGraw Duwaine, and put

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<v Speaker 2>a thing over the e because it's French.

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<v Speaker 1>My name is dew Wane McGraw.

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<v Speaker 2>And he'd say, my boy Bobby is throwing up all

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<v Speaker 2>over the shag carpet because I came to the.

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<v Speaker 1>Grocery store and I bought bad milk.

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<v Speaker 2>And they would always say this, no matter what scenario

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<v Speaker 2>he made up. One time it'd be Bobby's throwing up

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<v Speaker 2>on the shag car. One time it'd be I took

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<v Speaker 2>my trousers to your laundromat and they shrunk up and

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<v Speaker 2>now they're coming up around my thighs and I look

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<v Speaker 2>like a European and you know, but whatever scenario he

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<v Speaker 2>would bring up, their response was generally the same. What

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<v Speaker 2>do you want me to do about it?

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<v Speaker 1>The king?

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<v Speaker 2>The king is like, you brought me a leopard? Do

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<v Speaker 2>you think I'm God? I'm not a doctor, I'm a king.

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<v Speaker 2>Have you ever felt like life brought you.

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<v Speaker 1>Something that was above your pay grate to handle? God?

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<v Speaker 2>They're doing that thing again where they sit there and

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<v Speaker 2>look at me like they always have it together and

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<v Speaker 2>they have all the answers. Because I looked at my

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<v Speaker 2>kids the other day and said, I am not Google.

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<v Speaker 1>I am not a search engine. I do not know. Furthermore,

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<v Speaker 1>I do not care. Get out of my face.

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<v Speaker 2>Sometimes I wake up in the middle of the night

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<v Speaker 2>and replay things that I've said to my kids and

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<v Speaker 2>feel so bad that I have to get up and

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<v Speaker 2>baptize myself in the baptob.

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<v Speaker 1>And get saved again just as I am without one. Please,

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<v Speaker 1>Oh Lamb of God, what do you want from me?

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<v Speaker 1>I'm only a man? And the King says, I know

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<v Speaker 1>what this is.

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<v Speaker 2>This man can I kill and bring back to life.

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<v Speaker 2>He's triggered because he is confronted with a situation that

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<v Speaker 2>he is unable to transform. And whenever life presents you

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<v Speaker 2>with something that you were.

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<v Speaker 1>Not equipped for.

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<v Speaker 2>So you got to be a dad and you didn't

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<v Speaker 2>have a dad. You got to pay a bill, but

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<v Speaker 2>God didn't.

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<v Speaker 1>Give you a job.

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<v Speaker 2>You've got to step into something that you've never seen

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<v Speaker 2>before with the faith to believe that it's already done.

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<v Speaker 2>And it can be exasperating to the point watch this

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<v Speaker 2>that you allow your past experience to contaminate your perspective

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<v Speaker 2>of the present moment.

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<v Speaker 1>Remember what I said.

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<v Speaker 2>The King of Aaron, Benedett the second would often go

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<v Speaker 2>and invade Jehoram's land Jahamas, king of Israel. And so

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<v Speaker 2>when he gets the letter saying, hey, can you help

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<v Speaker 2>my guy name in can you heal my guy naming?

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<v Speaker 2>It triggered within him a traumatic memory of the last

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<v Speaker 2>time he was attacked, and so he goes off.

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<v Speaker 1>Not because of the situation that.

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<v Speaker 2>He's experiencing, but because of past experiences.

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<v Speaker 1>Do you ever wonder why you go off?

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<v Speaker 2>And it's inexplicable, like the level of the offense does

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<v Speaker 2>not match the level of the outrage, and you wonder.

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<v Speaker 1>Why what was that all about? Hell?

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<v Speaker 2>You ever with the elevation church sticker on your car

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<v Speaker 2>said some words that weren't blessed the Lord, Oh my soul?

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<v Speaker 1>And wonder you know how y'all think Holly is so sweet?

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<v Speaker 1>What time in college she was singing a worship.

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<v Speaker 2>Song in her Ford contour, and the song said I

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<v Speaker 2>was there, I was.

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<v Speaker 1>In the passenger seat.

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<v Speaker 2>The song said, you are so patient with me?

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<v Speaker 1>Lord.

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<v Speaker 2>She didn't get to Lord before she was screaming at

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<v Speaker 2>the at the dodge ram that pulled out in front

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<v Speaker 2>of her, and she's loud. Holly is like, when she's

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<v Speaker 2>up here, it reflects she'll be smiling. But I'm gonna

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<v Speaker 2>tell you something about Hollyford.

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<v Speaker 1>What what is that all about? Where did that voice

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<v Speaker 1>come from?

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<v Speaker 2>We and then the devil starts telling you all, well,

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<v Speaker 2>you know you're not a real Christian, you're hypocrite.

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<v Speaker 1>Some of y'all are gonna lose it before the day

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<v Speaker 1>is over.

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<v Speaker 2>Because of your fantasy football lineup. No, not because of

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<v Speaker 2>anything significant to anything having to do with real life

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<v Speaker 2>in any way, because of other men that have absolutely

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<v Speaker 2>no effect on you other than one hundred dollars at

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<v Speaker 2>the end.

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<v Speaker 1>Of the season. And you wonder why did I go

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<v Speaker 1>off like that?

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<v Speaker 2>It's understandable because we live in not only the age

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<v Speaker 2>of anxiety, but if you noticed, we live in the age.

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<v Speaker 1>Of outrage too.

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<v Speaker 2>How trendy it is now to just get mad about

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<v Speaker 2>anything that you don't like the first time you hear it. Well,

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<v Speaker 2>you'll arent going to like this part of the sermon.

0:25:53.320 --> 0:25:57.080
<v Speaker 2>I don't think too much, but can I be honest

0:25:57.119 --> 0:25:59.120
<v Speaker 2>with you, I don't really care what shoes you were

0:25:59.160 --> 0:26:07.560
<v Speaker 2>to church today. No, maybe my perspective is different, but

0:26:07.640 --> 0:26:13.160
<v Speaker 2>I spend too much time seeing people's butts to care

0:26:13.200 --> 0:26:16.600
<v Speaker 2>about what you have on your feet today.

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<v Speaker 1>So I don't have time when teen suicide is.

0:26:20.960 --> 0:26:24.280
<v Speaker 2>In an all time high to check and see if

0:26:24.320 --> 0:26:30.080
<v Speaker 2>you're wearing Adidas or Nike, if you got yeezes, or

0:26:30.119 --> 0:26:31.360
<v Speaker 2>you want to just do it.

0:26:31.880 --> 0:26:34.800
<v Speaker 1>I don't really have time to debate with you.

0:26:35.240 --> 0:26:38.800
<v Speaker 2>About a sluice or a commercial or getting.

0:26:38.600 --> 0:26:40.960
<v Speaker 1>Mad about I really don't have.

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<v Speaker 2>Time for it up here when people's lives are on

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<v Speaker 2>the line. I really don't have time for it in here,

0:26:47.040 --> 0:26:50.520
<v Speaker 2>when people are on antidepressants in a rate that's making

0:26:50.560 --> 0:26:52.160
<v Speaker 2>them more depressed, but they.

0:26:52.080 --> 0:26:54.400
<v Speaker 1>Don't know where else to turn, and we're run into

0:26:54.400 --> 0:26:56.120
<v Speaker 1>all kinds of places that.

0:26:56.080 --> 0:27:00.240
<v Speaker 2>Are leaving us empty, but we want to fight.

0:27:03.880 --> 0:27:06.280
<v Speaker 1>There will be at least one comment on this YouTube

0:27:06.359 --> 0:27:12.359
<v Speaker 1>video about the holes in my jeans? Are you for

0:27:12.440 --> 0:27:18.159
<v Speaker 1>real right now? But it triggers something. You're not fighting

0:27:18.200 --> 0:27:20.680
<v Speaker 1>me over shoes, You're not fighting me over jeans.

0:27:21.840 --> 0:27:25.080
<v Speaker 2>One moment told me until you save your beard, I

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<v Speaker 2>can't watch you anymore.

0:27:30.480 --> 0:27:36.639
<v Speaker 3>This is psychotic, she said. I'm praying for you. I

0:27:36.720 --> 0:27:38.920
<v Speaker 3>want to say, I'm praying for you. I'm a fast

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<v Speaker 3>forty days. If you're that messed up.

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<v Speaker 1>I don't know why I went off.

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<v Speaker 2>I think like for me, this is just what I'm

0:27:53.240 --> 0:27:55.280
<v Speaker 2>working through, and so this makes you think I'm crazy.

0:27:55.280 --> 0:27:59.119
<v Speaker 2>You're right, but I'm going through this season of my

0:27:59.160 --> 0:28:03.160
<v Speaker 2>life where I don't want to keep blaming my environment

0:28:05.800 --> 0:28:09.359
<v Speaker 2>or consulting things that happened in my life, because the

0:28:09.400 --> 0:28:13.560
<v Speaker 2>cross of Jesus Christ gives me a new reality and

0:28:14.359 --> 0:28:17.520
<v Speaker 2>it really changes everything in the sense that all of

0:28:17.520 --> 0:28:19.679
<v Speaker 2>my life has to be viewed through that lens of

0:28:19.800 --> 0:28:22.280
<v Speaker 2>what He did for me and who he says I am.

0:28:22.640 --> 0:28:26.680
<v Speaker 2>If I'm not careful, I'll be like the King who,

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<v Speaker 2>when confronted with an impossible situation that reminded him of

0:28:30.240 --> 0:28:35.560
<v Speaker 2>a past hurt, he inflicted the opportunity of his present

0:28:35.600 --> 0:28:38.720
<v Speaker 2>moment with the pain of his past. Do you see

0:28:38.720 --> 0:28:42.959
<v Speaker 2>what I'm saying He projected. See every time he dealt

0:28:43.240 --> 0:28:46.120
<v Speaker 2>with aerm, it was an attack. And now it's an

0:28:46.160 --> 0:28:49.080
<v Speaker 2>opportunity for this man to be healed and see what

0:28:49.160 --> 0:28:52.680
<v Speaker 2>God can do. But if what you went through isn't

0:28:52.680 --> 0:28:56.720
<v Speaker 2>healed by what Christ did for you, you will treat

0:28:56.760 --> 0:28:58.560
<v Speaker 2>the opportunity like an attack.

0:28:59.200 --> 0:29:00.000
<v Speaker 1>And I've noticed that.

0:29:00.000 --> 0:29:02.920
<v Speaker 2>But like I spent a lot of my time fighting

0:29:03.000 --> 0:29:07.480
<v Speaker 2>stuff that God is actually sending into my life. I

0:29:07.560 --> 0:29:10.600
<v Speaker 2>spent a lot of my time fighting against people that

0:29:10.680 --> 0:29:11.960
<v Speaker 2>I'm not really mad at.

0:29:12.360 --> 0:29:14.480
<v Speaker 1>It's really not them. Tell the person next to you,

0:29:14.560 --> 0:29:21.520
<v Speaker 1>it's not you, it's me. It's me. I'm a perfectionist,

0:29:22.560 --> 0:29:22.880
<v Speaker 1>and so.

0:29:22.960 --> 0:29:26.040
<v Speaker 2>Sometimes when things aren't just like I want them to be,

0:29:27.120 --> 0:29:29.880
<v Speaker 2>or here's what really happens, it really happens with my expectation.

0:29:30.000 --> 0:29:33.479
<v Speaker 2>Put that word up there, because when I expect it

0:29:33.520 --> 0:29:35.080
<v Speaker 2>to be one way and it's the other.

0:29:36.960 --> 0:29:39.560
<v Speaker 1>Like when I went off on my dad a few

0:29:39.640 --> 0:29:43.240
<v Speaker 1>years ago, it was because I rented him a house.

0:29:44.280 --> 0:29:46.120
<v Speaker 1>I moved him and my mom to Charlotte.

0:29:48.000 --> 0:29:51.880
<v Speaker 2>Well, I didn't move him, I hired movers and then

0:29:51.960 --> 0:29:56.000
<v Speaker 2>they got fired because my dad was crazy, and it

0:29:56.120 --> 0:29:59.000
<v Speaker 2>was so funny. It really wasn't funny. It's funny now,

0:29:59.120 --> 0:30:00.200
<v Speaker 2>can we laugh about it? How ah?

0:30:00.800 --> 0:30:04.080
<v Speaker 1>Okay?

0:30:04.400 --> 0:30:07.480
<v Speaker 2>But the day I went to see him, and the

0:30:07.560 --> 0:30:09.959
<v Speaker 2>story has a happy end, and then we ended up

0:30:09.960 --> 0:30:11.760
<v Speaker 2>being together and it was good and all that. But

0:30:11.840 --> 0:30:14.040
<v Speaker 2>in between, remember naming gets healed at the end of

0:30:14.040 --> 0:30:15.800
<v Speaker 2>this story. But there's some stuff in the middle that

0:30:15.840 --> 0:30:17.560
<v Speaker 2>I want to talk to you about. Because in the

0:30:17.560 --> 0:30:20.800
<v Speaker 2>middle of that, that whole messy situation with my dad,

0:30:20.880 --> 0:30:22.760
<v Speaker 2>I remember going over to check on them one day

0:30:23.120 --> 0:30:25.360
<v Speaker 2>and I was so proud of the house that Holly

0:30:25.360 --> 0:30:27.480
<v Speaker 2>had found that we rented for them, and my mom

0:30:27.600 --> 0:30:29.760
<v Speaker 2>liked it and she was happy, and my dad. The

0:30:29.760 --> 0:30:31.040
<v Speaker 2>first thing he said, I walk through though, he said,

0:30:31.040 --> 0:30:37.160
<v Speaker 2>this ain't gonna work, Bo, And I know honor your

0:30:37.200 --> 0:30:38.360
<v Speaker 2>father and mother and the Lord.

0:30:38.400 --> 0:30:41.960
<v Speaker 1>I know that Bible verse, I promise you, I know it.

0:30:42.000 --> 0:30:44.479
<v Speaker 2>I even know that that honor is Cavat and Hebrew,

0:30:44.520 --> 0:30:46.560
<v Speaker 2>and it can also be translated glory and wait.

0:30:48.440 --> 0:30:51.640
<v Speaker 1>But the only thing I wanted in that moment, I'm

0:30:51.680 --> 0:30:53.080
<v Speaker 1>gonna just be honest with you.

0:30:53.840 --> 0:30:57.720
<v Speaker 2>I don't like to be disrespected, and it felt disrespectful

0:30:57.720 --> 0:31:01.600
<v Speaker 2>to me, and so I went off. And it really

0:31:01.720 --> 0:31:03.440
<v Speaker 2>wasn't what he said, because really what he wanted was

0:31:03.480 --> 0:31:06.000
<v Speaker 2>just a few small tweaks. But I couldn't hear that anymore,

0:31:06.800 --> 0:31:07.080
<v Speaker 2>you know.

0:31:08.520 --> 0:31:11.200
<v Speaker 1>Because my expectation was that he was going to meet

0:31:11.240 --> 0:31:14.760
<v Speaker 1>me at the door and give me a big ol' hug.

0:31:15.640 --> 0:31:19.720
<v Speaker 2>And say, my son and whom I am, well pleased,

0:31:21.440 --> 0:31:25.040
<v Speaker 2>and the dove with the sin. But he didn't read

0:31:25.080 --> 0:31:29.160
<v Speaker 2>my script. What do you do when people don't read

0:31:29.200 --> 0:31:34.680
<v Speaker 2>your script? Meet your expectation? And here's where the story

0:31:34.680 --> 0:31:38.480
<v Speaker 2>gets good, because I want you to notice that the

0:31:38.520 --> 0:31:41.920
<v Speaker 2>same event that triggered the king and made him go

0:31:41.960 --> 0:31:45.400
<v Speaker 2>into fear mode, which is usually what's happening when we're

0:31:45.640 --> 0:31:49.640
<v Speaker 2>lashing out or withdrawing, because not everybody fights outwardly. Some

0:31:49.680 --> 0:31:52.280
<v Speaker 2>of us bobble it up inwardly, and then we never

0:31:52.360 --> 0:31:52.720
<v Speaker 2>go off.

0:31:52.720 --> 0:31:53.280
<v Speaker 1>One day, we just.

0:31:53.280 --> 0:31:57.920
<v Speaker 2>Tap out, and you wonder, how did they drop like that? Well,

0:31:58.760 --> 0:32:02.080
<v Speaker 2>it's usually a series of met expectations. In this case,

0:32:02.680 --> 0:32:06.520
<v Speaker 2>the King of Israel, jehosh he's traumatized to the point

0:32:06.520 --> 0:32:09.560
<v Speaker 2>that he thinks that everything is a fight. It says

0:32:09.560 --> 0:32:12.160
<v Speaker 2>it in the text. See how he is trying to

0:32:12.200 --> 0:32:15.600
<v Speaker 2>pick a quarrel with me. That's verse seven. See how

0:32:15.600 --> 0:32:19.320
<v Speaker 2>they're looking at me. See they didn't even wave at me.

0:32:20.760 --> 0:32:23.719
<v Speaker 2>See I told this is a Southern thing. You're supposed

0:32:23.760 --> 0:32:26.200
<v Speaker 2>to wave at people when you drive by them. The

0:32:26.280 --> 0:32:28.920
<v Speaker 2>town I grew up in, you waived at everybody. And

0:32:29.160 --> 0:32:32.040
<v Speaker 2>the first time that we were driving through the neighborhood

0:32:32.080 --> 0:32:34.440
<v Speaker 2>and Holly didn't wave at people. I corrected her. I

0:32:34.480 --> 0:32:36.840
<v Speaker 2>was like, what is wrong with you? She's not from

0:32:36.920 --> 0:32:42.480
<v Speaker 2>Monks Corners, She's from Miami, and it's a different culture.

0:32:44.280 --> 0:32:46.680
<v Speaker 2>It's an inferior culture of rudeness.

0:32:50.840 --> 0:32:51.320
<v Speaker 1>And so.

0:32:52.760 --> 0:32:56.600
<v Speaker 2>Anytime that you've been used to in your life, you've

0:32:56.640 --> 0:32:58.480
<v Speaker 2>been used to fighting. If life has really been a

0:32:58.480 --> 0:33:00.280
<v Speaker 2>fight for you, if you've had to fight for your

0:33:00.280 --> 0:33:02.400
<v Speaker 2>mental health, or you've had to fight for your emotional health,

0:33:02.480 --> 0:33:04.720
<v Speaker 2>or if you've had to fight through issues of bitterness

0:33:04.720 --> 0:33:07.640
<v Speaker 2>and forgiveness because of abuse, if you've had to fight

0:33:07.680 --> 0:33:09.240
<v Speaker 2>for your own and fight to make it, or if

0:33:09.280 --> 0:33:11.479
<v Speaker 2>you had to fight your own family, when you've had

0:33:11.520 --> 0:33:13.720
<v Speaker 2>to fight over and over again, everything looks like a fight.

0:33:14.360 --> 0:33:17.680
<v Speaker 2>Everything looks like a threat. Everything sounds like an insult.

0:33:17.920 --> 0:33:20.680
<v Speaker 2>Every time somebody doesn't check on you, it feels like abandonment.

0:33:20.720 --> 0:33:21.000
<v Speaker 1>It's the.

0:33:22.840 --> 0:33:26.440
<v Speaker 2>Trauma that's being triggered. But what's encouraging to me what

0:33:26.520 --> 0:33:28.200
<v Speaker 2>I got up here to tell you about today, Because

0:33:28.280 --> 0:33:32.480
<v Speaker 2>this is pretty depressing so far. But the same stimulus

0:33:32.520 --> 0:33:36.600
<v Speaker 2>that triggered fear in the King's heart triggered faith in Elisha's.

0:33:39.080 --> 0:33:41.880
<v Speaker 2>The Bible says in verse eight when Elisha, the man

0:33:41.920 --> 0:33:44.760
<v Speaker 2>of God, heard that the King of Israel had torn

0:33:44.800 --> 0:33:48.040
<v Speaker 2>his robes. He sent him this message. Now watch this

0:33:48.160 --> 0:33:51.880
<v Speaker 2>the king. The king said, who do you think I am?

0:33:53.080 --> 0:33:56.880
<v Speaker 2>You think I can? You think I'm a healer? Elisha said,

0:33:56.920 --> 0:34:00.800
<v Speaker 2>I know God is a healer. So watch the Have

0:34:01.040 --> 0:34:05.560
<v Speaker 2>the man come to me, and he will know that

0:34:05.640 --> 0:34:10.720
<v Speaker 2>there is a prophet in Israel. This man said, where

0:34:10.800 --> 0:34:17.719
<v Speaker 2>you see, where you see opposition, I see opportunity. And

0:34:17.800 --> 0:34:20.440
<v Speaker 2>the same thing that triggered you to tear your robes

0:34:20.480 --> 0:34:24.000
<v Speaker 2>and freak out and fall down in fear triggered Elisha

0:34:24.120 --> 0:34:27.480
<v Speaker 2>to rise up in faith. Elisha said, send him to me,

0:34:28.360 --> 0:34:31.520
<v Speaker 2>because the word of God is with me. Now Elisha

0:34:31.640 --> 0:34:34.520
<v Speaker 2>has an experience to build this expectation on.

0:34:35.280 --> 0:34:39.480
<v Speaker 1>Elisha has healed the waters at Jericho. Elisha has multiplied

0:34:39.480 --> 0:34:40.360
<v Speaker 1>the widow's oil.

0:34:40.680 --> 0:34:43.919
<v Speaker 2>Elisha has spoken to parent wounds, and when that child died,

0:34:44.200 --> 0:34:47.520
<v Speaker 2>spoke life and it resurrected from the dead. Elisha has

0:34:47.640 --> 0:34:50.479
<v Speaker 2>dug ditches in dry valleys and seen God bring water

0:34:50.520 --> 0:34:53.600
<v Speaker 2>from the direction of edom. Elisha has seen God do

0:34:53.760 --> 0:34:56.040
<v Speaker 2>things that only God can do. And so when an

0:34:56.040 --> 0:34:59.680
<v Speaker 2>impossible situation that is beyond him shows up, Elisha knows

0:34:59.719 --> 0:35:00.080
<v Speaker 2>what do.

0:35:00.520 --> 0:35:03.720
<v Speaker 1>Bring him here to me. I got something for nameMan.

0:35:04.120 --> 0:35:07.560
<v Speaker 2>I heal lepers for breakfast. Bring him to me and

0:35:07.600 --> 0:35:10.160
<v Speaker 2>he will know not how great I am, but how

0:35:10.239 --> 0:35:11.120
<v Speaker 2>great God is.

0:35:11.280 --> 0:35:16.800
<v Speaker 1>And so watch verse nine. I love this story.

0:35:17.160 --> 0:35:23.720
<v Speaker 2>Naman went with his horses and chariots and his expectations

0:35:23.760 --> 0:35:29.120
<v Speaker 2>and his leprosy and his greatness and his butt, and

0:35:29.200 --> 0:35:32.160
<v Speaker 2>he brought it all because he wanted to be healed.

0:35:34.480 --> 0:35:37.080
<v Speaker 2>I know you want to be healed of something today,

0:35:37.120 --> 0:35:40.239
<v Speaker 2>even though you've been covering it up. And I know

0:35:40.320 --> 0:35:45.160
<v Speaker 2>you use your charisma to cover your cracks. And I

0:35:45.200 --> 0:35:47.399
<v Speaker 2>know that nobody knows how dark the thoughts can really

0:35:47.400 --> 0:35:48.360
<v Speaker 2>get for you sometime.

0:35:49.239 --> 0:35:50.920
<v Speaker 1>But I've been doing this too long to sit there

0:35:50.920 --> 0:35:52.080
<v Speaker 1>and preach to your armor.

0:35:57.560 --> 0:36:01.600
<v Speaker 2>Because a business leader walked up to me and told

0:36:01.600 --> 0:36:04.120
<v Speaker 2>me that he had to kick his teenager out of

0:36:04.120 --> 0:36:04.520
<v Speaker 2>his house.

0:36:06.160 --> 0:36:06.640
<v Speaker 1>He said, we.

0:36:06.600 --> 0:36:10.319
<v Speaker 2>Almost got in a fistfight, he said, I swung at

0:36:10.360 --> 0:36:11.000
<v Speaker 2>him and missed.

0:36:12.480 --> 0:36:14.000
<v Speaker 1>I realized this has gone way too far.

0:36:14.160 --> 0:36:16.960
<v Speaker 2>And then the man had on khakis while he was

0:36:17.000 --> 0:36:26.080
<v Speaker 2>telling me, pleaded khakis, double pleated khakis, no tattoos, but

0:36:27.760 --> 0:36:29.399
<v Speaker 2>didn't look like the kind of guy that would swing

0:36:29.440 --> 0:36:35.120
<v Speaker 2>on his kid. But I don't even really think you've

0:36:35.120 --> 0:36:42.000
<v Speaker 2>seen your own butt until you've been through certain things.

0:36:42.880 --> 0:36:45.759
<v Speaker 2>And then the weird thing is we all have short

0:36:45.840 --> 0:36:50.399
<v Speaker 2>term memory loss if we have one devotion and read

0:36:50.440 --> 0:36:51.400
<v Speaker 2>our Bible one morning.

0:36:51.400 --> 0:36:52.120
<v Speaker 1>Now we start.

0:36:51.920 --> 0:36:53.600
<v Speaker 2>Judging other people when they flip out.

0:36:56.200 --> 0:36:56.520
<v Speaker 1>And so.

0:36:58.680 --> 0:37:01.200
<v Speaker 2>Naming is on the verge of something. I travel a

0:37:01.200 --> 0:37:03.280
<v Speaker 2>long way to get here. It's like a ninety mile trip,

0:37:04.480 --> 0:37:06.520
<v Speaker 2>and he's got a big crew with him, and he

0:37:06.560 --> 0:37:08.840
<v Speaker 2>needs a miracle, and.

0:37:10.280 --> 0:37:11.600
<v Speaker 1>We admire him because.

0:37:11.320 --> 0:37:15.279
<v Speaker 2>He went I do, at least I think to even

0:37:15.320 --> 0:37:19.640
<v Speaker 2>get to this point takes faith. And maybe one of

0:37:19.640 --> 0:37:22.239
<v Speaker 2>the reasons I don't put a lot of condemnation or

0:37:22.280 --> 0:37:25.239
<v Speaker 2>I try not to in my preaching, is because I'm

0:37:25.239 --> 0:37:28.880
<v Speaker 2>pretty proud of you who decided to show up anyway.

0:37:29.800 --> 0:37:31.839
<v Speaker 2>I know how many things could have kept you from

0:37:31.880 --> 0:37:34.440
<v Speaker 2>being here, and I'm pretty proud that you made the

0:37:34.480 --> 0:37:39.359
<v Speaker 2>decision to bring your butt to church. Give yourself a

0:37:39.360 --> 0:37:44.000
<v Speaker 2>hand for bringing your butt to church. And if you're

0:37:44.000 --> 0:37:49.800
<v Speaker 2>watching online, you don't get to clap. It's different. So

0:37:49.920 --> 0:37:54.839
<v Speaker 2>nae Man went with his horses and chariots, stopped at

0:37:54.840 --> 0:37:58.600
<v Speaker 2>the door of Elicia's house and Elcius and a messenger, Oh,

0:37:58.800 --> 0:38:02.319
<v Speaker 2>this is not gonna go well, because Naming is a

0:38:02.360 --> 0:38:05.400
<v Speaker 2>great man. And when a great man comes to your

0:38:05.440 --> 0:38:08.840
<v Speaker 2>doorstef you give him a great greeting and you welcome

0:38:08.920 --> 0:38:09.600
<v Speaker 2>him by name.

0:38:10.160 --> 0:38:15.680
<v Speaker 1>Man. I'm a retired This is my last sermon. Y'all

0:38:15.760 --> 0:38:18.879
<v Speaker 1>enjoy it. He sent a.

0:38:18.840 --> 0:38:22.800
<v Speaker 2>Messenger to say to him, go wash yourself seven times

0:38:22.840 --> 0:38:23.560
<v Speaker 2>in the Jordan.

0:38:23.680 --> 0:38:26.720
<v Speaker 1>In the what in the Jordan? You mean that muddy

0:38:26.760 --> 0:38:28.000
<v Speaker 1>little excuse for a.

0:38:28.040 --> 0:38:30.520
<v Speaker 2>River that y'all like to celebrate so much in this

0:38:30.680 --> 0:38:33.719
<v Speaker 2>nation of Israel, which I don't even like anyway.

0:38:34.000 --> 0:38:36.439
<v Speaker 1>And he didn't even come to the door and name.

0:38:36.560 --> 0:38:38.160
<v Speaker 1>It went off.

0:38:39.200 --> 0:38:42.680
<v Speaker 2>No, he literally went off, not in the figurative sense.

0:38:43.080 --> 0:38:47.719
<v Speaker 2>He literally decided, I would rather go home with my leprosy.

0:38:48.320 --> 0:38:51.759
<v Speaker 2>I'd rather go home and my arm fall off. I

0:38:51.760 --> 0:38:55.320
<v Speaker 2>would rather go I would rather die than be disrespected

0:38:55.440 --> 0:38:59.839
<v Speaker 2>like this. And when he heard this ridiculous command, he says,

0:38:59.840 --> 0:39:01.280
<v Speaker 2>some very important.

0:39:01.600 --> 0:39:04.360
<v Speaker 1>In the instruction. It was a simple instruction. It was

0:39:04.400 --> 0:39:05.640
<v Speaker 1>a stupid instruction.

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<v Speaker 2>It didn't make much sense, just like it doesn't make

0:39:08.960 --> 0:39:12.399
<v Speaker 2>much sense when God tells you to forgive somebody so

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<v Speaker 2>that you can be forgiven. And you want to say, well, God,

0:39:15.200 --> 0:39:17.480
<v Speaker 2>if they ask for it, I'll give it. And God

0:39:17.520 --> 0:39:20.080
<v Speaker 2>says to you, I'm not talking about what they deserve.

0:39:20.520 --> 0:39:24.879
<v Speaker 2>I'm talking about your deliverance. I'm talking about your clean heart.

0:39:25.200 --> 0:39:29.439
<v Speaker 2>I'm talking about your clear mind. So if you want

0:39:29.480 --> 0:39:32.440
<v Speaker 2>to get cleansed, I need you to do something that

0:39:32.640 --> 0:39:36.480
<v Speaker 2>makes no sense, because there is no cure for leprosy.

0:39:36.880 --> 0:39:37.840
<v Speaker 1>It can't be cured.

0:39:37.880 --> 0:39:40.480
<v Speaker 2>It's got to be cleansed, and it can only be

0:39:40.600 --> 0:39:45.480
<v Speaker 2>cleansed if you obey this command. And verse eleven starts

0:39:45.480 --> 0:39:52.520
<v Speaker 2>so sad, But there it is again. I'm gonna preach

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<v Speaker 2>a whole series one day on the.

0:39:55.640 --> 0:40:03.520
<v Speaker 1>Butts of the Bible. Stand in front of a miracle standing.

0:40:04.640 --> 0:40:09.759
<v Speaker 1>I mean, the guys around him are like, Okay, that's

0:40:09.800 --> 0:40:11.920
<v Speaker 1>all we gotta do. Naming.

0:40:12.000 --> 0:40:14.920
<v Speaker 2>You could keep the seventy five pounds of silver and

0:40:15.000 --> 0:40:18.520
<v Speaker 2>the seventy five pounds of gold, and you can pass

0:40:18.560 --> 0:40:20.240
<v Speaker 2>out the ten sets of clothing.

0:40:20.600 --> 0:40:23.879
<v Speaker 1>And we could go home. We can start back home.

0:40:24.480 --> 0:40:26.640
<v Speaker 1>That's easy. Somebody start running the water. Naming.

0:40:26.680 --> 0:40:28.719
<v Speaker 2>You want it hot, You want an extra hot naming.

0:40:28.760 --> 0:40:30.799
<v Speaker 2>You want a rubber ducky, get the towel ready. You

0:40:30.800 --> 0:40:42.480
<v Speaker 2>want some sunscreen. But it's a funny thing about pride.

0:40:44.280 --> 0:40:46.800
<v Speaker 2>It's a funny thing about the small things. It's a

0:40:46.840 --> 0:40:50.440
<v Speaker 2>funny thing about something that seems beneath you. Remember the

0:40:50.520 --> 0:40:53.279
<v Speaker 2>King was triggered because of something that seemed beyond him.

0:40:53.320 --> 0:40:57.200
<v Speaker 1>Am I God? And Naming is triggered because of something

0:40:57.239 --> 0:41:02.239
<v Speaker 1>that seems beneath me. You want me to do what?

0:41:04.560 --> 0:41:09.480
<v Speaker 1>Uh huh, I'm not doing that. Uh huh.

0:41:10.440 --> 0:41:14.000
<v Speaker 2>No. See, because when your heart is filled with pride,

0:41:14.000 --> 0:41:18.920
<v Speaker 2>you try to write your own prescriptions. This is how

0:41:18.960 --> 0:41:20.360
<v Speaker 2>I want God to bless me. This is how I

0:41:20.360 --> 0:41:21.640
<v Speaker 2>want God to come through. This is how I want

0:41:21.640 --> 0:41:23.080
<v Speaker 2>God to heal me. This is how I wanted to

0:41:23.120 --> 0:41:29.920
<v Speaker 2>respond this opportunity I want. This is so Naming went away,

0:41:30.040 --> 0:41:34.960
<v Speaker 2>angry said, this is two very dangerous words. By the way,

0:41:35.000 --> 0:41:37.840
<v Speaker 2>this is this is maybe the two most dangerous words

0:41:37.840 --> 0:41:45.440
<v Speaker 2>for you to interpret your life through. I thought, I thought,

0:41:48.520 --> 0:41:51.799
<v Speaker 2>maybe those two words are the two words that are

0:41:51.800 --> 0:41:53.440
<v Speaker 2>standing between me and peace today.

0:41:53.920 --> 0:41:57.719
<v Speaker 1>I thought, I thought my dad was going to be

0:41:57.760 --> 0:41:58.680
<v Speaker 1>grateful for the house.

0:42:00.280 --> 0:42:03.080
<v Speaker 2>Now he's telling me about getting somebody over here to

0:42:03.120 --> 0:42:04.759
<v Speaker 2>fix the Huh.

0:42:05.080 --> 0:42:08.160
<v Speaker 1>I thought I thought you'd say thank you.

0:42:11.200 --> 0:42:14.520
<v Speaker 2>I thought you'd grow up and play piano and put

0:42:14.560 --> 0:42:18.240
<v Speaker 2>you in lessons, I thought, I thought.

0:42:20.040 --> 0:42:21.800
<v Speaker 1>I thought he would surely.

0:42:22.440 --> 0:42:26.680
<v Speaker 2>Come out to me and stand and call on the

0:42:26.760 --> 0:42:28.239
<v Speaker 2>name of the Lord is God. See, many men had

0:42:28.280 --> 0:42:30.279
<v Speaker 2>it all planned out, because that's what great men do.

0:42:32.360 --> 0:42:36.520
<v Speaker 2>Great men make great plans, and when those plans don't

0:42:36.560 --> 0:42:38.840
<v Speaker 2>go the way that they were supposed to go, great

0:42:38.840 --> 0:42:44.719
<v Speaker 2>men go off, great women go off. Because I had

0:42:44.719 --> 0:42:48.240
<v Speaker 2>this family picture, and here's where you were supposed to stand,

0:42:48.640 --> 0:42:51.280
<v Speaker 2>and here's where you were supposed to smile, and here's

0:42:51.320 --> 0:42:53.400
<v Speaker 2>where you were supposed to and here's where you were.

0:42:53.600 --> 0:42:57.680
<v Speaker 2>I thought, could those two words be standing between you

0:42:57.760 --> 0:43:03.080
<v Speaker 2>and healing today? I thought, God says, my thoughts are

0:43:03.120 --> 0:43:06.520
<v Speaker 2>not your thoughts, and my ways are not your ways.

0:43:07.640 --> 0:43:09.279
<v Speaker 2>For as high as the heavens are above the earth,

0:43:09.320 --> 0:43:12.440
<v Speaker 2>so are my thoughts above your thoughts, and my ways

0:43:13.360 --> 0:43:18.560
<v Speaker 2>above your ways. But Naman went away angry and said,

0:43:18.600 --> 0:43:21.279
<v Speaker 2>I thought that I thought he'd come out to me.

0:43:22.480 --> 0:43:25.359
<v Speaker 2>I thought, I thought he would see because I had

0:43:25.360 --> 0:43:28.200
<v Speaker 2>this worked out. He comes to me, and then I

0:43:28.280 --> 0:43:31.560
<v Speaker 2>give him the gifts and I get the healing.

0:43:31.719 --> 0:43:32.760
<v Speaker 1>This is how this works.

0:43:33.480 --> 0:43:39.400
<v Speaker 2>Not this time, name it, not this time, this transformation

0:43:39.560 --> 0:43:44.719
<v Speaker 2>is not going to happen on your terms. God's not

0:43:44.760 --> 0:43:49.960
<v Speaker 2>going to do it like you expected. He's not going

0:43:50.040 --> 0:43:53.600
<v Speaker 2>to be held hostage to what you thought. So I

0:43:53.719 --> 0:43:56.960
<v Speaker 2>thought that he would surely come out to me and

0:43:56.960 --> 0:43:59.120
<v Speaker 2>stand and call him the name of the Lord is God.

0:43:59.120 --> 0:44:00.840
<v Speaker 1>And waya his hand.

0:44:03.360 --> 0:44:06.400
<v Speaker 2>So he's supposed to wave, he's supposed to wave his

0:44:06.520 --> 0:44:10.040
<v Speaker 2>hand over the spot and cure me of my leprosy.

0:44:10.239 --> 0:44:12.520
<v Speaker 2>He doesn't like the place God told him to get healed.

0:44:12.680 --> 0:44:15.160
<v Speaker 2>Are not Abna and far part of the rivers of

0:44:15.200 --> 0:44:18.200
<v Speaker 2>Damascus better than all the waters of Israel. I didn't

0:44:18.239 --> 0:44:20.200
<v Speaker 2>have to come here for this. Couldn't I washing them

0:44:20.200 --> 0:44:25.759
<v Speaker 2>and be cleansed. So he turned and went off in

0:44:25.880 --> 0:44:30.799
<v Speaker 2>a rage, and one of his servants, this guy needs

0:44:30.800 --> 0:44:34.360
<v Speaker 2>a raise, by the way, went to him.

0:44:35.200 --> 0:44:38.560
<v Speaker 1>Notice how beautiful the story is told. It's chronicled like this.

0:44:38.880 --> 0:44:41.600
<v Speaker 2>Namon went to his master and said, I need permission

0:44:41.640 --> 0:44:44.359
<v Speaker 2>to go to Israel. So he went to the king,

0:44:44.600 --> 0:44:46.520
<v Speaker 2>and the king said I can't do it. Then he

0:44:46.560 --> 0:44:50.040
<v Speaker 2>went to Elisha with his chariots and horses. And now

0:44:50.120 --> 0:44:52.160
<v Speaker 2>Namon went off in a rage, and he's about to

0:44:52.640 --> 0:44:56.160
<v Speaker 2>He's about to miss the opportunity to be healed because

0:44:56.200 --> 0:44:58.919
<v Speaker 2>he is going off. And here's why he went off,

0:44:59.000 --> 0:45:05.080
<v Speaker 2>because he didn't go in, and he went off because

0:45:05.680 --> 0:45:08.200
<v Speaker 2>he made his decision about what he thought about it,

0:45:09.000 --> 0:45:11.200
<v Speaker 2>but he didn't go in. You know, I've noticed something

0:45:11.239 --> 0:45:14.440
<v Speaker 2>about myself when I don't go into the presence of God,

0:45:15.239 --> 0:45:17.160
<v Speaker 2>when I don't go in and ask God, what are

0:45:17.160 --> 0:45:18.520
<v Speaker 2>you doing in this situation?

0:45:19.280 --> 0:45:19.920
<v Speaker 1>When I don't go.

0:45:19.960 --> 0:45:22.840
<v Speaker 2>Into myself and seek for the spirit of God to

0:45:22.960 --> 0:45:25.880
<v Speaker 2>leave me, I start going off, and then I spend

0:45:25.880 --> 0:45:28.640
<v Speaker 2>the next week fixing stuff that if I would have

0:45:28.680 --> 0:45:31.760
<v Speaker 2>taken one moment and worshiped, if I would have taken

0:45:31.840 --> 0:45:34.799
<v Speaker 2>one moment and sought God's wisdom, if I would have

0:45:34.840 --> 0:45:37.200
<v Speaker 2>taken one moment and said, you know what, I don't

0:45:37.200 --> 0:45:38.279
<v Speaker 2>want to fight about this.

0:45:38.800 --> 0:45:41.320
<v Speaker 1>I don't want to be right. I want to be healed.

0:45:41.600 --> 0:45:44.000
<v Speaker 1>I don't want to prove my own power. I want

0:45:44.000 --> 0:45:45.720
<v Speaker 1>to receive your power God.

0:45:52.200 --> 0:45:54.640
<v Speaker 2>And what happens next is really beautiful because some of

0:45:54.680 --> 0:45:55.920
<v Speaker 2>you are going to do it today.

0:45:55.960 --> 0:45:56.520
<v Speaker 1>Stand with me.

0:45:57.880 --> 0:46:00.000
<v Speaker 2>The servant came to Namen and says something that I

0:46:00.080 --> 0:46:02.160
<v Speaker 2>think is very prophetic, and I hope you can hear

0:46:02.200 --> 0:46:04.960
<v Speaker 2>it on the level which it is intended. The servant

0:46:05.040 --> 0:46:08.040
<v Speaker 2>Chase naming down Naman is on his way.

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<v Speaker 1>Back to Damascus.

0:46:09.800 --> 0:46:13.959
<v Speaker 2>He's gonna walk ninety miles back home with leprosy still

0:46:14.000 --> 0:46:16.440
<v Speaker 2>on his skin because of something that seemed too small

0:46:16.440 --> 0:46:18.480
<v Speaker 2>and insignificant for a great man like him to do.

0:46:19.960 --> 0:46:21.200
<v Speaker 1>He's gonna spend.

0:46:21.000 --> 0:46:24.120
<v Speaker 2>The rest of his life with this disease because he

0:46:24.200 --> 0:46:27.440
<v Speaker 2>didn't want to do what he was told to do.

0:46:28.440 --> 0:46:32.600
<v Speaker 1>And the servant said, hey man, sir.

0:46:34.960 --> 0:46:39.080
<v Speaker 2>Nayman, if the prophet had told you to do some

0:46:39.640 --> 0:46:42.400
<v Speaker 2>great thing, would.

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<v Speaker 1>You not have done it? Well, of course I would,

0:46:46.719 --> 0:46:47.839
<v Speaker 1>because I'm a great man.

0:46:50.000 --> 0:46:56.840
<v Speaker 2>Well, if you're a great man, how much more should

0:46:56.880 --> 0:47:01.640
<v Speaker 2>you be able to do a small thing? So when

0:47:01.640 --> 0:47:06.440
<v Speaker 2>he tells you washould be cleansed, why not give it

0:47:06.480 --> 0:47:12.000
<v Speaker 2>a try? You know, you've been fighting so hard justifying

0:47:12.080 --> 0:47:16.239
<v Speaker 2>your side of the story and justifying yourself and why

0:47:16.360 --> 0:47:16.920
<v Speaker 2>is all right?

0:47:17.000 --> 0:47:18.160
<v Speaker 1>And why is okay?

0:47:18.400 --> 0:47:24.760
<v Speaker 2>But hey man, why not if we already came ninety miles,

0:47:25.120 --> 0:47:28.480
<v Speaker 2>if we already came this far, and that profit is

0:47:28.520 --> 0:47:30.799
<v Speaker 2>telling you that if you dip in the Jordan you

0:47:30.800 --> 0:47:40.760
<v Speaker 2>can be cleansed, isn't it worth a try? You already

0:47:40.840 --> 0:47:44.640
<v Speaker 2>went to your master and got the letter. You already

0:47:44.680 --> 0:47:50.440
<v Speaker 2>went with your horses and chariots. Now you've now you're

0:47:50.440 --> 0:47:53.560
<v Speaker 2>going off in a rage. But verse fourteen is the

0:47:53.600 --> 0:47:56.759
<v Speaker 2>happy ending, and I believe it's a new beginning for

0:47:57.160 --> 0:47:59.640
<v Speaker 2>many of us today. The Bible says, so he went

0:47:59.680 --> 0:48:07.080
<v Speaker 2>down and dipped himself in the Jordan. I'm glad after

0:48:07.320 --> 0:48:11.680
<v Speaker 2>Naman went off, he went in, and he went in

0:48:11.719 --> 0:48:14.720
<v Speaker 2>not just once, not just twice, not just three times,

0:48:14.719 --> 0:48:17.759
<v Speaker 2>not just four times, not just five times, not just

0:48:17.800 --> 0:48:22.840
<v Speaker 2>six times, but all seven. Often, when you're in the

0:48:22.880 --> 0:48:27.239
<v Speaker 2>process of obeying God, you see no immediate effects of change.

0:48:29.120 --> 0:48:31.000
<v Speaker 2>It's not like your skin gets healed a little bit

0:48:31.040 --> 0:48:31.640
<v Speaker 2>with every dip.

0:48:33.600 --> 0:48:37.640
<v Speaker 1>Woo woo woo.

0:48:39.160 --> 0:48:42.080
<v Speaker 2>You got to have the faith to go through the

0:48:42.120 --> 0:48:48.400
<v Speaker 2>motions even when you see no evidence. Go am I

0:48:48.440 --> 0:48:52.200
<v Speaker 2>talking to him? You got to have the faith to

0:48:52.280 --> 0:48:57.520
<v Speaker 2>go down and pray again, to lift up your hands

0:48:57.520 --> 0:48:59.240
<v Speaker 2>and worship and say, I don't feel.

0:48:59.000 --> 0:49:00.000
<v Speaker 1>A thing right now.

0:49:00.239 --> 0:49:02.799
<v Speaker 2>But God is with me, and God is for me,

0:49:03.160 --> 0:49:05.719
<v Speaker 2>And who can be against me? And I will not

0:49:05.880 --> 0:49:08.799
<v Speaker 2>fear though a host of enemies and camps uponut me.

0:49:09.280 --> 0:49:12.520
<v Speaker 1>I will not be afraid. The Lord is my helper.

0:49:12.719 --> 0:49:18.520
<v Speaker 1>I lift my eyes to the hills. My help comes

0:49:19.680 --> 0:49:22.400
<v Speaker 1>from the Lord. By your head, and close your eyes

0:49:22.440 --> 0:49:23.000
<v Speaker 1>for a moment.

0:49:23.800 --> 0:49:27.360
<v Speaker 2>I believe this is a significant word for someone in

0:49:27.360 --> 0:49:30.120
<v Speaker 2>the room who is about to go off.

0:49:32.040 --> 0:49:34.279
<v Speaker 1>Maybe you've been going off, maybe you already went off.

0:49:36.400 --> 0:49:39.400
<v Speaker 2>I don't just mean temper tantrums, breaking stuff, throwing pictures

0:49:39.440 --> 0:49:40.280
<v Speaker 2>around the room.

0:49:41.640 --> 0:49:43.560
<v Speaker 1>I mean that there is something that God has given

0:49:43.600 --> 0:49:44.359
<v Speaker 1>you to do in.

0:49:44.280 --> 0:49:49.720
<v Speaker 2>Your life that seems so ridiculous that you, like naymen,

0:49:50.760 --> 0:49:53.200
<v Speaker 2>are at the point of frustration. I want to speak

0:49:53.200 --> 0:49:57.080
<v Speaker 2>a word over your life today that in this moment,

0:49:57.160 --> 0:50:01.560
<v Speaker 2>the only way to receive healing is through your surrender.

0:50:03.920 --> 0:50:05.440
<v Speaker 2>As long as you want to stay in control of

0:50:05.440 --> 0:50:09.680
<v Speaker 2>those situations, they will continue to consume you. And that's

0:50:09.719 --> 0:50:11.520
<v Speaker 2>what the presence of God is for. This is the

0:50:11.600 --> 0:50:16.600
<v Speaker 2>Jordan river that you can dip in seven times. The

0:50:16.640 --> 0:50:18.400
<v Speaker 2>Bible says that when he did it, his flesh was

0:50:18.440 --> 0:50:23.239
<v Speaker 2>restored like a young boy. Isn't that amazing that the

0:50:23.320 --> 0:50:28.360
<v Speaker 2>great man became like a young boy and he was healed?

0:50:30.719 --> 0:50:32.160
<v Speaker 1>And isn't it interesting.

0:50:31.800 --> 0:50:37.479
<v Speaker 2>That God's greatest golden Nayman's life was not to heal

0:50:37.520 --> 0:50:42.399
<v Speaker 2>his skin, but to produce faith in his heart.

0:50:42.440 --> 0:50:44.440
<v Speaker 1>Lift your hands in this moment, Father, I thank.

0:50:44.320 --> 0:50:47.680
<v Speaker 2>You for every person, and I thank you for every problem.

0:50:48.719 --> 0:50:52.359
<v Speaker 2>I thank you for the great things, and I thank

0:50:52.400 --> 0:50:55.160
<v Speaker 2>you for the butt. Somebody in this room has an addiction.

0:50:56.280 --> 0:50:59.719
<v Speaker 2>Somebody in this room has an illness. Somebody in this

0:50:59.800 --> 0:51:06.480
<v Speaker 2>room has a heavy depression, and they see no signs

0:51:06.480 --> 0:51:14.440
<v Speaker 2>of change. And they have really, really attractive armor, and

0:51:14.480 --> 0:51:18.279
<v Speaker 2>so nobody can see but you what they're fighting with

0:51:18.320 --> 0:51:21.880
<v Speaker 2>on the inside, and they keep pushing people away that

0:51:21.920 --> 0:51:27.680
<v Speaker 2>you send to help them. In this moment, God, may

0:51:27.760 --> 0:51:32.360
<v Speaker 2>this be the first dip in the process of their deliverance.

0:51:34.320 --> 0:51:36.239
<v Speaker 2>And thank you for the Cross of Jesus Christ that

0:51:36.280 --> 0:51:40.480
<v Speaker 2>we stand under and look to today for our healing

0:51:40.520 --> 0:51:44.399
<v Speaker 2>and forgiveness and redemption has already been accomplished. I thank

0:51:44.440 --> 0:51:48.480
<v Speaker 2>you that we are not healed, cleansed, or cured by achieving,

0:51:48.520 --> 0:51:50.920
<v Speaker 2>but by receiving. Stretch your hands high as you can

0:51:50.920 --> 0:51:56.200
<v Speaker 2>stretch them. We receive your grace in this moment, your mercy.

0:51:56.280 --> 0:52:03.920
<v Speaker 2>In this moment, healing waters wash over our soul.

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