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Speaker 1: His son loved a fish, so he started a fishing

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Speaker 1: club in his son's honor. The only people they bring

426
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Speaker 1: to Christ through Riley's catch. Look it up, Riley's catch,

427
00:29:19,120 --> 00:29:21,600
Speaker 1: you'll see it. Shout out free advertisement, Tom Layman, Thank

428
00:29:21,600 --> 00:29:26,640
Speaker 1: you're welcome. I always text him. You're my favorite Layman,

429
00:29:27,520 --> 00:29:33,240
Speaker 1: like the play on words Layman and clergy hahaha. Because

430
00:29:33,280 --> 00:29:37,000
Speaker 1: he teaches me to glean going through my own life,

431
00:29:37,080 --> 00:29:40,800
Speaker 1: just recognizing that's the thing about gleaning, okay, because I

432
00:29:40,840 --> 00:29:45,320
Speaker 1: want you to know that somebody else could walk through

433
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Speaker 1: the field of your life and find ten things to

434
00:29:50,560 --> 00:29:56,280
Speaker 1: be grateful for that you take for granted. I'm not

435
00:29:56,400 --> 00:30:00,440
Speaker 1: trying to make you feel bad. Trust me. God gave

436
00:30:00,440 --> 00:30:03,040
Speaker 1: me this message early last week, and he whipped me

437
00:30:03,160 --> 00:30:07,280
Speaker 1: with it all week, just over and over again. I

438
00:30:07,720 --> 00:30:10,920
Speaker 1: was listing a bunch of things to Holly that I

439
00:30:10,960 --> 00:30:13,560
Speaker 1: was stressed about this week. All of them were things

440
00:30:13,560 --> 00:30:16,880
Speaker 1: that I put on my own schedule. All of them

441
00:30:16,880 --> 00:30:20,880
Speaker 1: were decisions I made. Many of them were blessings that

442
00:30:20,960 --> 00:30:26,440
Speaker 1: I prayed for, just full grown. They're not puppies anymore,

443
00:30:27,560 --> 00:30:31,160
Speaker 1: because you know, a scheduling commitment is a puppy, But

444
00:30:31,200 --> 00:30:33,360
Speaker 1: when the appointment comes, it's a full grown dog and

445
00:30:33,400 --> 00:30:37,400
Speaker 1: it has to be walked by the way. Graham said

446
00:30:37,440 --> 00:30:41,880
Speaker 1: he's naming his dog apparently, this Boston Terrior Boass. So

447
00:30:42,200 --> 00:30:46,040
Speaker 1: that's good, that's good, that's good. It's gonna take a while.

448
00:30:46,560 --> 00:30:48,800
Speaker 1: It's gonna take a while. Even when he was begging

449
00:30:48,840 --> 00:30:50,200
Speaker 1: me for a dog. If you missed it last week,

450
00:30:50,200 --> 00:30:51,680
Speaker 1: it was a whole thing don't worry about it. But

451
00:30:51,760 --> 00:30:53,760
Speaker 1: even when he used to ask me for a dog,

452
00:30:53,880 --> 00:30:55,800
Speaker 1: he said, all you do is bring up all the

453
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Speaker 1: things about the dog that we're gonna hate. And I said,

454
00:30:58,920 --> 00:31:00,800
Speaker 1: that's right. And all you do is think of all

455
00:31:00,840 --> 00:31:02,880
Speaker 1: of the things with the dog that you're gonna love.

456
00:31:04,640 --> 00:31:12,120
Speaker 1: And I'm accurate, and you're ignorant. But sometimes you can

457
00:31:12,160 --> 00:31:21,240
Speaker 1: know too much. Sometimes you can know too much to

458
00:31:21,320 --> 00:31:24,840
Speaker 1: where you get in a point where you stop looking

459
00:31:24,880 --> 00:31:29,720
Speaker 1: for the Lord. Don't call me Naomi, call me Mara.

460
00:31:31,320 --> 00:31:37,120
Speaker 1: Now when you name yourself bitter Marra, you become magnetic

461
00:31:38,320 --> 00:31:43,840
Speaker 1: for Marra. So the second thing that's kind of like

462
00:31:43,880 --> 00:31:48,720
Speaker 1: a point in this message is the mind on a mission,

463
00:31:50,120 --> 00:31:53,440
Speaker 1: the mind on a mission, the mind on a mission.

464
00:31:53,480 --> 00:31:55,760
Speaker 1: That's why I told Elijah the other day. He was

465
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Speaker 1: going on and on and just complaining, and I said, Son,

466
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Speaker 1: is your mind just on a mission trip to be

467
00:32:02,440 --> 00:32:06,560
Speaker 1: miserable today? You just wake up this morning and say, here,

468
00:32:06,800 --> 00:32:08,520
Speaker 1: dear mind, here's a I like for you to do

469
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Speaker 1: to me for me today, you fascinating computer called the

470
00:32:11,560 --> 00:32:14,320
Speaker 1: human brain. I want you to collect everything that I

471
00:32:14,360 --> 00:32:17,080
Speaker 1: can be stressed about and sad about today and put

472
00:32:17,120 --> 00:32:20,320
Speaker 1: it all in one big pile. I am gleaning everything

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00:32:20,400 --> 00:32:22,840
Speaker 1: today that I can feel terrible about. I don't want

474
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Speaker 1: any good thoughts. I don't want any grateful thoughts. I'm

475
00:32:25,640 --> 00:32:29,040
Speaker 1: going straight to misery Incorporated. Call me morrow and asked

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Speaker 1: him that. I said, did you just wake up today

477
00:32:31,320 --> 00:32:33,480
Speaker 1: and tell your mind. We're going on a mission today.

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Speaker 1: We are going to find misery wherever we can find it.

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Speaker 1: We will nurture it in its various forms. If we

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Speaker 1: see potential misery, we will feed it. We will nurse

481
00:32:42,960 --> 00:32:46,640
Speaker 1: it at our breast until it becomes full grown misery.

482
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Speaker 1: We will look for a fence, and we will nurse

483
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Speaker 1: it at our bosom until it becomes full grown resentment,

484
00:32:52,400 --> 00:32:54,720
Speaker 1: until it takes over and we are depressed at the

485
00:32:54,800 --> 00:32:56,880
Speaker 1: end of the day, praying for God to give us peace.

486
00:33:05,360 --> 00:33:11,840
Speaker 1: He said, no, Dad, not on a mission trip. Just

487
00:33:11,880 --> 00:33:17,280
Speaker 1: not a morning person. You gotta go through the field

488
00:33:17,280 --> 00:33:20,040
Speaker 1: and glean in the morning. I'm not a morning person either.

489
00:33:20,240 --> 00:33:22,520
Speaker 1: I don't think I'm a night person or an afternoon person.

490
00:33:22,520 --> 00:33:25,680
Speaker 1: At this age of my life. I'm like a one

491
00:33:25,760 --> 00:33:30,000
Speaker 1: thirty three pm person, like that one right after lunch,

492
00:33:30,480 --> 00:33:33,920
Speaker 1: catch me then right right right. But you can't just

493
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Speaker 1: you can't just give over to that. Bitter is not

494
00:33:39,760 --> 00:33:51,360
Speaker 1: a personality type. It's a decision. Uh uh. She had

495
00:33:51,360 --> 00:33:53,000
Speaker 1: no choice but to be better. Look what she went through.

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Speaker 1: Ruth lost her husband too, and she said, go let

497
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Speaker 1: me glean. Are you good at gleaning? You know, gleaning mentally?

498
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Speaker 1: Let's break this down a little bit, okay, because if

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Speaker 1: we keep this in the fields of Bethlehem, I really

500
00:34:09,120 --> 00:34:11,799
Speaker 1: don't think it'll do you that much good at your job.

501
00:34:13,440 --> 00:34:16,560
Speaker 1: If we could break this right down to where you live,

502
00:34:18,600 --> 00:34:22,359
Speaker 1: I kind of want to know, what are you even

503
00:34:22,440 --> 00:34:24,880
Speaker 1: looking for right now? While you're listening to me preach,

504
00:34:27,400 --> 00:34:34,359
Speaker 1: some of you are just looking for the words in conclusion, right.

505
00:34:37,320 --> 00:34:41,719
Speaker 1: It's the strangest thing. It's the strangest thing to me.

506
00:34:43,400 --> 00:34:48,799
Speaker 1: Two people can come to the same church, the same church,

507
00:34:49,960 --> 00:34:52,960
Speaker 1: and it's not like they're sitting even that far apart

508
00:34:53,160 --> 00:35:00,799
Speaker 1: on the same road here the same sermon, and one

509
00:35:00,840 --> 00:35:06,279
Speaker 1: of them six months later, say it was that day

510
00:35:06,960 --> 00:35:10,960
Speaker 1: when pastors stood up there looking good in his suit.

511
00:35:13,120 --> 00:35:18,000
Speaker 1: He's having fun, man, But I don't even remember what

512
00:35:18,040 --> 00:35:21,399
Speaker 1: he was wearing. I remember he said that there's bread

513
00:35:21,440 --> 00:35:27,000
Speaker 1: in Bethlehem, But he mentioned about bitterness and he talked

514
00:35:27,000 --> 00:35:29,839
Speaker 1: about gleaning, and I put a practice in my life

515
00:35:29,840 --> 00:35:32,040
Speaker 1: that day. I decided that I need to get good

516
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Speaker 1: at gleaning because I'm good at grumbling. Naturally, nobody has

517
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Speaker 1: to train me for that. How many of you are

518
00:35:37,640 --> 00:35:42,040
Speaker 1: good at grumbling? How many of you are Olympic level grumblers?

519
00:35:42,080 --> 00:35:45,120
Speaker 1: If we send a recruiter through this church seeking for

520
00:35:45,280 --> 00:35:48,759
Speaker 1: the gold medal, grumbler, raise your hand right now? Oh,

521
00:35:48,840 --> 00:35:51,800
Speaker 1: I mean I could turn anything into a gripe. Watch me.

522
00:35:52,040 --> 00:35:55,080
Speaker 1: I'm real good at this. I can do joy judo.

523
00:35:56,719 --> 00:35:58,680
Speaker 1: God can send something to bless me and I'll turn

524
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Speaker 1: it into an attack. It's like this reverse gratitude thing.

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00:36:01,640 --> 00:36:03,640
Speaker 1: I got a knack for it. I got a knack

526
00:36:03,680 --> 00:36:07,359
Speaker 1: for it. I got a knack for it. The church

527
00:36:07,440 --> 00:36:09,440
Speaker 1: used to be full sometimes, and I would be like,

528
00:36:10,360 --> 00:36:13,680
Speaker 1: this is unacceptable. Where are the first time guest's gonna sit?

529
00:36:13,920 --> 00:36:15,360
Speaker 1: And the staff would be looking at me. This is

530
00:36:15,440 --> 00:36:19,360
Speaker 1: years ago. I'm much better than this now, but they'd say,

531
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Speaker 1: can we can? We can? We have five minutes to

532
00:36:23,440 --> 00:36:25,439
Speaker 1: be happy that the church was full. No, we gotta

533
00:36:25,480 --> 00:36:27,440
Speaker 1: fix it. We gotta fix it right now. Where's the

534
00:36:27,480 --> 00:36:29,280
Speaker 1: guests gonna be? I told people to bring the differends

535
00:36:29,280 --> 00:36:30,719
Speaker 1: to Easter, and the church is one. There's nowhere for

536
00:36:30,719 --> 00:36:38,040
Speaker 1: them to sit. Because I am good at gleaning things

537
00:36:38,040 --> 00:36:43,560
Speaker 1: to be anxious about. The dog's gonna poop, the dog's

538
00:36:43,600 --> 00:36:46,919
Speaker 1: gonna pee, the dog's gonna whine, the dog's gonna yelp,

539
00:36:47,160 --> 00:36:49,840
Speaker 1: or going on vacation, you're going to college and like

540
00:36:49,920 --> 00:36:52,279
Speaker 1: seven years, who's gonna take care of the dog. Then

541
00:36:52,560 --> 00:36:57,560
Speaker 1: I can do all of that naturally. But what I'm

542
00:36:57,600 --> 00:37:03,560
Speaker 1: not good at it is gleaning. I don't even receive

543
00:37:03,680 --> 00:37:14,600
Speaker 1: encouragement that well. I mean, I can glean insecurities like

544
00:37:14,640 --> 00:37:19,319
Speaker 1: a boss. When people say I don't like elevation for

545
00:37:19,360 --> 00:37:21,480
Speaker 1: all these reasons, I want to say, that's your whole list.

546
00:37:21,560 --> 00:37:25,719
Speaker 1: Let me give you a few more. If you're just

547
00:37:25,800 --> 00:37:27,440
Speaker 1: looking for a list of what not to like, let

548
00:37:27,440 --> 00:37:30,719
Speaker 1: me save you the time. I'll put it online. You

549
00:37:30,760 --> 00:37:33,759
Speaker 1: don't have to do a mission to find that already

550
00:37:33,800 --> 00:37:37,120
Speaker 1: got things. But somebody else will sit in the same service,

551
00:37:39,719 --> 00:37:42,040
Speaker 1: and they'll sit in the same service here, the same sermon,

552
00:37:44,040 --> 00:37:46,719
Speaker 1: and they'll say, did he say he was getting a

553
00:37:46,719 --> 00:37:56,280
Speaker 1: Boston Terrior. That's a stupid dog. She get a hyperdoodle.

554
00:37:58,160 --> 00:38:12,960
Speaker 1: Never the one who seeks finds. I'm going through the field.

555
00:38:13,200 --> 00:38:15,720
Speaker 1: I'm going through the field. I'm going through the field.

556
00:38:15,920 --> 00:38:18,239
Speaker 1: I'm going through the field. I'm going Oh, I'm going

557
00:38:18,280 --> 00:38:23,440
Speaker 1: through the field. It didn't say bo ass field. She

558
00:38:23,520 --> 00:38:28,800
Speaker 1: had no idea whose field she was at. Pick a field,

559
00:38:29,640 --> 00:38:38,320
Speaker 1: any field, pick a field, any field, pick a field, anything. God,

560
00:38:38,640 --> 00:38:43,120
Speaker 1: Just show me what you want for my life and

561
00:38:43,200 --> 00:38:49,520
Speaker 1: your will for my life, own Father, I am waiting

562
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Speaker 1: for you to show me your will, show that may

563
00:38:56,840 --> 00:39:06,280
Speaker 1: serve you with my whole heart. Ruth wasn't looking for Boass.

564
00:39:06,920 --> 00:39:16,959
Speaker 1: She was just looking for Barley. Any field will do. Oh,

565
00:39:17,000 --> 00:39:20,759
Speaker 1: that's easy for them to say, No, it's not. You

566
00:39:20,800 --> 00:39:24,120
Speaker 1: can always find fruit in somebody else's field that you

567
00:39:24,160 --> 00:39:29,920
Speaker 1: can't see in your own. Always. That's why the foreign

568
00:39:29,960 --> 00:39:32,279
Speaker 1: nurse could see stuff that the people who were there

569
00:39:32,360 --> 00:39:37,399
Speaker 1: every day couldn't see. That's why sometimes people who come

570
00:39:37,440 --> 00:39:39,800
Speaker 1: to this church from somewhere else in the world, they'll

571
00:39:39,840 --> 00:39:42,440
Speaker 1: cry through the whole service because they don't get it

572
00:39:42,480 --> 00:39:45,560
Speaker 1: all the time. So they're walking through the field, going,

573
00:39:45,680 --> 00:39:49,360
Speaker 1: my God, look at this beautiful expression of Christ in

574
00:39:49,440 --> 00:39:55,760
Speaker 1: the church, and the one who seeks fies. But somebody

575
00:39:55,760 --> 00:39:58,880
Speaker 1: else said this parking lot. If I was the pastor

576
00:39:58,920 --> 00:40:01,279
Speaker 1: of this church, I have to parking figure it out

577
00:40:01,280 --> 00:40:07,800
Speaker 1: by now. No, you wouldn't you just picking in somebody

578
00:40:07,840 --> 00:40:11,719
Speaker 1: else's field. Now, oh if that was my kid. It's

579
00:40:11,880 --> 00:40:22,600
Speaker 1: not your kid, you're mad at me. Now you could

580
00:40:22,600 --> 00:40:25,600
Speaker 1: go through my feel and find stuff that I'm grumbling about.

581
00:40:25,640 --> 00:40:30,920
Speaker 1: You'd be like, you serious, you're annoyed about that with Holly.

582
00:40:31,600 --> 00:40:35,960
Speaker 1: Holly is amazing to you, you dummy, And I'd be like,

583
00:40:36,000 --> 00:40:38,040
Speaker 1: that's pastor dummy to you? Who do you think you're

584
00:40:38,040 --> 00:40:43,239
Speaker 1: talking to? I'd be same with yours. But when you

585
00:40:43,280 --> 00:40:47,879
Speaker 1: put your mind on a mission to find misery, the

586
00:40:47,920 --> 00:40:55,000
Speaker 1: devil will help you. Look, the devil is rubbing his hands.

587
00:40:55,360 --> 00:40:59,960
Speaker 1: Oh you want to feel bad, Oh, I'll help you harvey.

588
00:41:01,760 --> 00:41:04,799
Speaker 1: Oh you want your feelings hurt, I will help you

589
00:41:04,920 --> 00:41:09,640
Speaker 1: harvest hurt feelings. Oh you want to be pissed off,

590
00:41:09,960 --> 00:41:12,719
Speaker 1: I'll help you pick some of y'all got pissed off

591
00:41:12,719 --> 00:41:16,279
Speaker 1: because I said the word pissed off. The one who

592
00:41:16,480 --> 00:41:20,759
Speaker 1: seeks finds somebody else said, thank god he said it

593
00:41:20,840 --> 00:41:23,600
Speaker 1: like that. That's real. That's real. I can relate to that.

594
00:41:23,600 --> 00:41:31,480
Speaker 1: That's real. That's real. That's real, that's real. Your mind

595
00:41:31,560 --> 00:41:33,399
Speaker 1: is magnetic. That's why the Bible says, you go you're

596
00:41:33,520 --> 00:41:37,120
Speaker 1: be transformed by the renewing of your mind, and you

597
00:41:37,160 --> 00:41:39,279
Speaker 1: have the sensitivity level set. You ever go through the

598
00:41:39,320 --> 00:41:42,239
Speaker 1: airport and the thing has the sensitivity level set. So

599
00:41:42,520 --> 00:41:45,000
Speaker 1: when you go through the detector and they start putting

600
00:41:45,000 --> 00:41:46,839
Speaker 1: their hands all over you because I guess they have

601
00:41:46,920 --> 00:41:49,239
Speaker 1: to see what I'm saying. I'm a complainer. And you're

602
00:41:49,239 --> 00:41:52,640
Speaker 1: going through the metal detector and it goes off in

603
00:41:52,719 --> 00:41:55,880
Speaker 1: one airport and not in another. You're like, I was

604
00:41:55,960 --> 00:41:58,000
Speaker 1: just in Charlotte and I wore all this through the

605
00:41:58,000 --> 00:42:00,480
Speaker 1: thing and nothing happened. Now I'm in Cincinnati and is

606
00:42:00,520 --> 00:42:03,239
Speaker 1: beeping and buzzing and flashing and all of that's going on.

607
00:42:03,280 --> 00:42:05,720
Speaker 1: There's strobe lights and there's people coming out the ceiling

608
00:42:05,800 --> 00:42:09,040
Speaker 1: with handcuffs. What happened between Charlotte and Cincinnati. They had

609
00:42:09,040 --> 00:42:15,440
Speaker 1: to detector on a different setting, right right? Because I

610
00:42:15,440 --> 00:42:19,719
Speaker 1: didn't change anything. It's not what you go through that

611
00:42:19,760 --> 00:42:24,799
Speaker 1: defines you. She went through the same field they had

612
00:42:24,840 --> 00:42:29,360
Speaker 1: just picked over and found enough to live on. And

613
00:42:29,440 --> 00:42:33,000
Speaker 1: I'll give you this, bumped into someone she wasn't even

614
00:42:33,040 --> 00:42:38,160
Speaker 1: looking for because Here's the real beauty in the passage,

615
00:42:38,400 --> 00:42:40,280
Speaker 1: not that she found the great pier and then olive

616
00:42:40,320 --> 00:42:51,920
Speaker 1: there and the grain that the Bozo dropped Boass finds her.

617
00:42:54,400 --> 00:43:01,800
Speaker 1: Isn't that awesome? How she was just doing her responsibility

618
00:43:03,120 --> 00:43:07,239
Speaker 1: taking care of her mother in law, no less, making

619
00:43:07,320 --> 00:43:10,840
Speaker 1: sure we have enough to eat, just gleaning for a

620
00:43:10,880 --> 00:43:15,200
Speaker 1: purpose that was not only hers, she had to eat too.

621
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Speaker 1: That she didn't only think of herself. And because she

622
00:43:18,800 --> 00:43:21,719
Speaker 1: didn't only think of herself, and because she didn't sit

623
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Speaker 1: in what she just went through, because she went out

624
00:43:25,480 --> 00:43:30,239
Speaker 1: and remained in a field, because she didn't even know

625
00:43:30,239 --> 00:43:38,120
Speaker 1: who belonged to Here comes Boas, and Boass noticed Ruth

626
00:43:39,160 --> 00:43:44,880
Speaker 1: before Ruth ever noticed Boas. You ever wonder if we

627
00:43:44,920 --> 00:43:50,319
Speaker 1: seek the wrong things, especially in this culture. Man, I

628
00:43:50,360 --> 00:43:54,040
Speaker 1: just wonder, are we so busy trying to get somebody

629
00:43:54,040 --> 00:43:59,480
Speaker 1: to notice us? Are we so busy trying to get

630
00:43:59,520 --> 00:44:06,080
Speaker 1: somebody to like something that we posted, that we miss

631
00:44:06,239 --> 00:44:10,200
Speaker 1: something that God has given And we spend our whole

632
00:44:10,280 --> 00:44:15,239
Speaker 1: day going through somebody else's field on social media. To me,

633
00:44:16,520 --> 00:44:19,480
Speaker 1: take it or leave it to me, social media is

634
00:44:19,520 --> 00:44:25,200
Speaker 1: a minefield. To me, I have to use it sometimes

635
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Speaker 1: I have to be on it. I am not critiquing it.

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Speaker 1: I pay staff members to run it. There. That being said,

637
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Speaker 1: I have to be very careful because even good things, right,

638
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Speaker 1: you're going through the field and you're on social media

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Speaker 1: and all of this. And I know Ruth isn't on

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Speaker 1: Instagram in the passage, but I'm updating the passage to

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Speaker 1: make sense to our life. As you go through the

642
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Speaker 1: field of your life, you have to be very careful

643
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Speaker 1: and selective about what you pick up. That's why I

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Speaker 1: got so mad at the table, abby, because I don't

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Speaker 1: like phones at the table for dinner. I don't. And

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Speaker 1: it's a constant battle, okay, because sometimes I you know,

647
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Speaker 1: I break my own rules, but I don't like it

648
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Speaker 1: because it shifts the mood. It shifts the mood for

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Speaker 1: our family. You know, even if we're just gonna fight,

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Speaker 1: I want us to have a fully focused fight at

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Speaker 1: the table. Let's put all our attention on beating the

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00:45:17,920 --> 00:45:19,880
Speaker 1: crap out of each other, all right, let's do this right.

653
00:45:19,880 --> 00:45:23,160
Speaker 1: If we're gonna fight, let's fight right, right. But that's

654
00:45:23,160 --> 00:45:25,840
Speaker 1: why I soa I'm mad last night because somebody was

655
00:45:25,840 --> 00:45:28,080
Speaker 1: pulling up something on social media and then they were

656
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Speaker 1: saying how stupid and how dumb, and they were complaining

657
00:45:30,920 --> 00:45:36,400
Speaker 1: about what they just scrolled to. And I said, why

658
00:45:36,960 --> 00:45:40,800
Speaker 1: are you crawling in a dumpster and complaining that it stinks?

659
00:45:42,640 --> 00:45:46,560
Speaker 1: Did I say that? I said that I do it

660
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Speaker 1: all the time. Now my version is more sophisticated. I

661
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Speaker 1: go to the YouTube comments to see if people are

662
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Speaker 1: responding positively to our messages through sermon and song. Least,

663
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Speaker 1: that's why I tell myself my motive is, you know

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Speaker 1: you write these songs. We wrote a song called this

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Speaker 1: is the Kingdom. I had them sing it a minute ago,

666
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Speaker 1: where it's just the scriptures right, And I wrote that

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Speaker 1: with Pat Barrett, Jason Ingram, and our very own Chris Brown,

668
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Speaker 1: not the real Chris Brown, the Elevation Worship Chris Brown.

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Speaker 1: And when we started writing it, God just gave it

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Speaker 1: to us as the Beatitudes Matthew five, the Sermon on

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Speaker 1: the Mount, And I was so happy because it was

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Speaker 1: word for word the scriptures. Blessed her the por and spirit,

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Speaker 1: for there's this kingdom of heaven. Blessed those who mourn,

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Speaker 1: for they'll be comforted, blessed to meet for their own hurt.

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Speaker 1: They are a blessed those who hunger and thirst for righteousness,

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Speaker 1: for they will be filled. And then we sing, this

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Speaker 1: is the Kingdom of Heaven. And then we sang seek

678
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Speaker 1: first the Kingdom and all will be add and we

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Speaker 1: sing that over and over again, and we put out

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Speaker 1: the song. Part of me was a little bit like,

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Speaker 1: this is cool because nobody can say that this song

682
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Speaker 1: isn't biblical. I thought till I went to the comments,

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Speaker 1: the comments of YouTube where all happiness goes to die

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Speaker 1: the Cemetery of Joy, and I saw this comment where

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Speaker 1: this guy said this is not biblical. I'm like, it

686
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Speaker 1: is nothing but biblical. When we wrote the song, we

687
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Speaker 1: made a rule we can't put any words in the

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Speaker 1: verse that is not from the NIB twenty eleven copyright

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Speaker 1: in the thing that's it was a rule that it

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Speaker 1: was the old Bible, nothing but the Bible. And that

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Speaker 1: was my dad's favorite verses, the Sermon on the Mount

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Speaker 1: before we went to Heaven. He would read that every

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Speaker 1: single day. Every day he would read it. So I

694
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Speaker 1: was so happy. I was like, I wrote a song

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Speaker 1: for you, Dad, and none of the Pharisees can say

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Speaker 1: anything about it because it's just the scriptures and they

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Speaker 1: can't say nothing about this one because it's just the scriptures.

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Speaker 1: They don't like Mike get loud. That's not a Bible

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Speaker 1: verse that it actually is, make a joyful noise to

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Speaker 1: the Lord all the earth, so that's in there too.

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Speaker 1: But I thought, they can't say anything about this one.

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Speaker 1: They can't pick on me this time because it's just

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Speaker 1: the Bible. And I went to the comments and I

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Speaker 1: found out that the one who seeks finds this dude

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Speaker 1: Bogloo seventy four, whatever the username was, I wouldn't call

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Speaker 1: him out even if I remembered it goes this is

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Speaker 1: not biblical. It doesn't say seek first the kingdom and

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Speaker 1: all will be at it. It says seek first the

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Speaker 1: Kingdom and his righteousness, and all will be at it.

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Speaker 1: You can't just seek God for whatever you want, for

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00:48:43,320 --> 00:48:46,080
Speaker 1: this will give way to temporal theology that results in

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Speaker 1: fleshly carnal motivations, posing his worship and posturing is ah ah.

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Speaker 1: So I got so mad. I got so mad. I

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Speaker 1: had a harvest righteous indignation because I'm going dude, it's

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Speaker 1: in the verse Blessed to those who hunger and thirst

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Speaker 1: for righteousness. It's in the verse of the same song

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Speaker 1: You just came here looking for something to be mad about.

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Speaker 1: You didn't want to see it in the verse, so

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Speaker 1: you didn't see it in the verse. You skipped the

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Speaker 1: verse to get to the park because you were looking

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Speaker 1: for a hole. And I was telling the Lord that

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Speaker 1: these people, Lord stiff necked Israelites, Lord, your people, Lord,

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Speaker 1: he just found something wrong. He was just looking for

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Speaker 1: something wrong. And the spirit of the Lord said, you

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Speaker 1: did the same thing, because how many good comments were

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Speaker 1: there here that said I just love singing the scriptures.

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Speaker 1: This really comforts my soul, reminds me of my grandmother,

728
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Speaker 1: helps me through a hard time. Lord, thank you for

729
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Speaker 1: your word. But you skipped those. You just had to

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Speaker 1: glean the grossest thing on the whole comment section. Do

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Speaker 1: you do this find the one thing? Well, they said

732
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Speaker 1: love you, but they didn't say aye in front of it.

733
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Speaker 1: They texted me back and said I can't wait to

734
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Speaker 1: see you. But it didn't have three exclamation marks, only two.

735
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Speaker 1: Are they really excited? They said, hi, but not a

736
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Speaker 1: bunch of eyes. Just looking for something. You're good at gleaning.

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Speaker 1: You just gleaned for garbage. You're doing it too. You

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Speaker 1: went past dozens, if not hundreds, of comments saying this

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Speaker 1: song bless me looking for a battle. You were picking

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Speaker 1: a fight when you came to the comments. You were

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00:51:15,360 --> 00:51:17,080
Speaker 1: looking for it. You know you do that right, You

742
00:51:17,200 --> 00:51:22,200
Speaker 1: look for rejection. I texted Holiday, who produced the album.

743
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Speaker 1: I said, the rhythm album. I said, you're surprised people

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Speaker 1: like it, aren't you. He said yeah, because I had

745
00:51:27,280 --> 00:51:31,919
Speaker 1: been telling myself that people don't know good music. I said,

746
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Speaker 1: I do that all the time. It's called prejection. It's

747
00:51:35,080 --> 00:51:39,600
Speaker 1: when I reject something about myself before you get the

748
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Speaker 1: chance to So now when you try to give me something,

749
00:51:45,760 --> 00:51:47,960
Speaker 1: when you try to give me something, I can't even

750
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Speaker 1: take it because I'm not looking for love. I'm looking

751
00:51:53,160 --> 00:52:00,840
Speaker 1: for you to leave. And the devil will help me

752
00:52:00,960 --> 00:52:07,200
Speaker 1: collect the evidence. You want to find evidence God has

753
00:52:07,239 --> 00:52:10,480
Speaker 1: left you, you could probably find it the one who

754
00:52:10,520 --> 00:52:13,759
Speaker 1: seeks fines. You want to find evidence that the world

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00:52:13,800 --> 00:52:16,200
Speaker 1: is falling apart and we're probably all on the brink

756
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Speaker 1: of destruction. There are seventy three channels on your TV

757
00:52:20,480 --> 00:52:23,759
Speaker 1: of evidence, and if you turn on those channels, you

758
00:52:23,800 --> 00:52:26,200
Speaker 1: will find every reason to believe that if Jesus doesn't

759
00:52:26,239 --> 00:52:31,600
Speaker 1: come in back, come back today, we're all screwed. But

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Speaker 1: there's also still people doing a lot of good in

761
00:52:33,360 --> 00:52:41,960
Speaker 1: the world. There is there's still mighty revivals happening in churches.

762
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Speaker 1: There's still there's still the glory of God covering the

763
00:52:45,640 --> 00:52:48,399
Speaker 1: earth like the waters cover the sea, and you can

764
00:52:48,440 --> 00:52:53,200
Speaker 1: find that too in the field. Why was I in

765
00:52:53,280 --> 00:52:59,319
Speaker 1: the comments anyway looking for validation? Why was I in

766
00:52:59,360 --> 00:53:04,200
Speaker 1: the dumpster? Going through the comments section on YouTube to

767
00:53:04,239 --> 00:53:09,720
Speaker 1: find creative validation is about like going in the dumpster

768
00:53:09,840 --> 00:53:14,360
Speaker 1: behind cracker barrel looking for a biscuit. You could probably

769
00:53:14,400 --> 00:53:20,520
Speaker 1: find some, but it's gonna be crumbs. It's gonna be crumbs.

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00:53:21,719 --> 00:53:25,600
Speaker 1: It's gonna be crumbs. But God didn't put your favor

771
00:53:26,480 --> 00:53:30,480
Speaker 1: on a social media platform. He put it in the field.

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00:53:34,640 --> 00:53:40,759
Speaker 1: Favor is in the field. Ruth's responsibility positioned her for

773
00:53:40,920 --> 00:53:47,080
Speaker 1: God's favor. Ruth's responsibility. We are a high entitlement generation.

774
00:53:48,520 --> 00:53:52,040
Speaker 1: We pray for stuff and don't pick through anything. But

775
00:53:52,080 --> 00:53:58,200
Speaker 1: the one who seeks finds, the one who seeks finds.

776
00:53:58,600 --> 00:54:01,320
Speaker 1: Isn't it crazy that I was going through the comments

777
00:54:01,600 --> 00:54:05,000
Speaker 1: looking for a song that says Matthew seven seven, Ask

778
00:54:05,680 --> 00:54:10,560
Speaker 1: and you will receive, Seek and you will find. That's

779
00:54:10,600 --> 00:54:14,200
Speaker 1: in the same song. I'm disobeying my same song, looking

780
00:54:14,280 --> 00:54:17,680
Speaker 1: for something that contradicts what God has promised me. And

781
00:54:17,800 --> 00:54:20,360
Speaker 1: he said it in the song seek and you will find.

782
00:54:20,520 --> 00:54:23,040
Speaker 1: Give me the verse knocking the door will be open

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Speaker 1: to you next verse for everyone who asks receives. Say

784
00:54:27,880 --> 00:54:34,680
Speaker 1: it with me, the one who seeks finds. What are

785
00:54:34,719 --> 00:54:40,880
Speaker 1: you looking for? You're looking for? Boass Oh, I just

786
00:54:40,960 --> 00:54:51,839
Speaker 1: need an opportunity, You just need an obedience tunity mm hmm.

787
00:54:52,640 --> 00:54:57,759
Speaker 1: Because the one who seeks finds. The one who put

788
00:54:57,760 --> 00:55:03,600
Speaker 1: it back up seeks finds. You've been gleaning and gathering

789
00:55:04,200 --> 00:55:08,640
Speaker 1: in the wrong fields. And God, you know what I

790
00:55:08,760 --> 00:55:14,640
Speaker 1: really wanted to tell you today is that if you

791
00:55:14,680 --> 00:55:18,040
Speaker 1: are not able to find God right now, that's all right,

792
00:55:19,880 --> 00:55:24,719
Speaker 1: because the one who seeks has never really been you

793
00:55:24,800 --> 00:55:29,160
Speaker 1: to begin with. The Bible says in Romans three ten

794
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Speaker 1: that there is none righteous, not one. There is none

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Speaker 1: who seeks after God. I'm really grateful for what the

796
00:55:39,280 --> 00:55:41,880
Speaker 1: rest of that. Matthew seven says. In verse eight. It

797
00:55:41,920 --> 00:55:46,360
Speaker 1: says to him who knocks, the door will be open.

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00:55:46,760 --> 00:55:49,680
Speaker 1: And you know, I read in Revelation that Jesus stands

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Speaker 1: at the door and knocks, that he finds in the

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Speaker 1: field the foreigner that somebody else has passed over. And

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Speaker 1: if that's you and you are gleaning and grieving in

802
00:56:04,000 --> 00:56:07,520
Speaker 1: the same season today, I want you to read verse

803
00:56:07,600 --> 00:56:10,280
Speaker 1: nine so you really get this message in your spirit,

804
00:56:10,480 --> 00:56:12,839
Speaker 1: like really get it. It says in verse nine, give

805
00:56:12,880 --> 00:56:16,640
Speaker 1: me verse nine, which of you, if your son asks

806
00:56:16,680 --> 00:56:20,440
Speaker 1: for bread, will give him a stone next verse. Or

807
00:56:20,440 --> 00:56:23,680
Speaker 1: if he asks for a fish, will give him a snake.

808
00:56:24,200 --> 00:56:26,719
Speaker 1: Or if he asks for a dog, we'll give him

809
00:56:26,719 --> 00:56:29,960
Speaker 1: a cat. All right, I slip that in. It's not there.

810
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Speaker 1: But he said, if you, then, though you are evil,

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Speaker 1: know how to give good gifts to your children. How

812
00:56:37,360 --> 00:56:45,720
Speaker 1: much more will your father give good gifts? Now Ruth

813
00:56:45,960 --> 00:56:50,480
Speaker 1: wasn't looking for bo as she didn't have to. All

814
00:56:50,920 --> 00:56:55,160
Speaker 1: she had to do. And all you have to do

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Speaker 1: is get in the field. Get in the field, put

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00:56:59,760 --> 00:57:03,040
Speaker 1: your yourself in a place of the last thing God

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00:57:03,080 --> 00:57:06,560
Speaker 1: told you to do. That's where you gotta be. That's

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00:57:06,600 --> 00:57:08,440
Speaker 1: all you gotta do. You don't have to pick the

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00:57:08,520 --> 00:57:11,480
Speaker 1: right field, know the right field, predict the right field.

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00:57:11,560 --> 00:57:13,160
Speaker 1: You don't even have to be in the right city.

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00:57:13,360 --> 00:57:19,360
Speaker 1: God will find you in the wrong field because the

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Speaker 1: eyes of the Lord scan the Earth second Chronicle sixteen

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Speaker 1: to nine says, looking for someone to show himself strong

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Speaker 1: on their behalf. He's looking for you. He's looking for you.

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00:57:35,240 --> 00:57:37,600
Speaker 1: He's looking for you. He's looking for you. He sees

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00:57:37,640 --> 00:57:40,240
Speaker 1: the big leaves you made to cover yourself up. Adam.

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Speaker 1: He knows you're naked under there. He knows you're hurting

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00:57:43,800 --> 00:57:47,640
Speaker 1: under there. He knows you're addicted under there. He knows

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Speaker 1: you're broken under there. He knows you're impotent under there.

830
00:57:51,280 --> 00:57:53,880
Speaker 1: He knows you're disappointed. Under there, he knows you're frustrated.

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Speaker 1: He's looking for you. And guess what, the one who

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00:57:56,640 --> 00:58:04,520
Speaker 1: seeks eyes and I know the Father found you. Has

833
00:58:04,560 --> 00:58:11,560
Speaker 1: he brought you here? He found you just like the

834
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Speaker 1: prodigal son's dead, where said he saw him a long

835
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Speaker 1: way off, covered in mud. He knew that was his son,

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Speaker 1: Smelling like pigs and dumpsters. He knew that was his son.

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Speaker 1: He saw him a long way off. Because the eyes

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00:58:27,400 --> 00:58:30,360
Speaker 1: of the Lord have never been blind to your Christ.

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00:58:31,920 --> 00:58:33,560
Speaker 1: And the eyes of the Lord have seen how you

840
00:58:33,600 --> 00:58:35,959
Speaker 1: have been mistreated. And boas said to Ruth, the Lord

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00:58:36,000 --> 00:58:40,800
Speaker 1: Almighty saw what you did, and he's come to reward you.

842
00:58:42,040 --> 00:58:43,920
Speaker 1: Will he find you in the field when he comes,

843
00:58:46,400 --> 00:58:50,120
Speaker 1: or will you be in your frustration, will you be

844
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Speaker 1: in your failure? The heavenly Father is on a rescue

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Speaker 1: mission today to find you, the real you, the one

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Speaker 1: you try to hide, the one you try to bury,

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Speaker 1: the you that knows better. Boh, I said, who is that?

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Speaker 1: We don't know her name, but she came and remained.

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Speaker 1: You know this woman ended up not behind the harvesters.

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Speaker 1: By the time you get to the end of this passage,

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Speaker 1: the foreigner has a position in the household. And you

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Speaker 1: know that's exactly what the Lord wants to do for you,

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Speaker 1: to take you from slave to son and daughter, and

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Speaker 1: to raise you up and put a ring on you.

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Speaker 1: The one who seeks finds God doesn't give up. If

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Speaker 1: he doesn't see you in church, He'll send a YouTube link.

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Speaker 1: He'll come through the minefield and put a fifteen second

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Speaker 1: clip on Instagram so his word can find you. And

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Speaker 1: I want you to know that there is treasure in

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Speaker 1: your field. There is treasure in your field. Why would

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Speaker 1: you dig through a dumpster for crumbs when there is

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Speaker 1: treasure in your field? Lord, today, it is my prayer,

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Speaker 1: my earnest desire, and really God, the only thing that

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Speaker 1: matters that you would find Lord, who you're looking for.

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Speaker 1: I have no way of knowing who you sent this

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Speaker 1: word for, but I believe that you did. Everyone standing stillness,

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Speaker 1: no one moving. Jesus said, I came to seek and

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Speaker 1: save that which is lost. I want to give an

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Speaker 1: invitation today. This is a significant sermon, but for somebody

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Speaker 1: it's more than that. For somebody, this is going to

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Speaker 1: be a saving word. He's been looking for you. Some

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Speaker 1: of you been far away from God for a while,

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Speaker 1: and he's been missing you. He never leaves you, but

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Speaker 1: you've kind of left him, haven't you. You kind of

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Speaker 1: left his love, haven't you? You kind of left the

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Speaker 1: field where you put you? Haven't you? I got good news.

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Speaker 1: Your Father is looking for you, and the one who

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Speaker 1: seeks finds. That's why you're here, not because you found God.

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Speaker 1: He found you. Father. Wherever you find us today, we

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Speaker 1: know that you love us, and we know that your

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Speaker 1: grace and your mercy have followed us to this point.

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Speaker 1: I just thank you for what you showed us through

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Speaker 1: Ruth today. For somebody, this is not just a principle.

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Speaker 1: For somebody, this is an invitation, and I want to

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Speaker 1: pray right now for those who need to give their

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Speaker 1: lives to Jesus, you need to really really come out

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Speaker 1: of your hiding and receive His love and his mercy

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Speaker 1: in your life, Repent and turn from your sin, receive

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Speaker 1: His righteousness as a free gift. Right now, If that's

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Speaker 1: you and you hear the voice of the Holy Spirit,

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Speaker 1: you didn't know that was the Holy Spirit. You didn't

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Speaker 1: know that was the hand of God drawing you, but

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Speaker 1: it was. You didn't know to call it that, but

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Speaker 1: that's what it was. And if that's you and you're

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Speaker 1: coming to God for the first time today, or you're

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Speaker 1: coming back to him, you've been in a far country

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Speaker 1: and you're coming back to him, You're coming back to Bethlehem,

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Speaker 1: You're coming to the place where God's presence is. Right now,

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Speaker 1: I want to lead you in a prayer and you

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Speaker 1: can repeat after me. And if you mean this in

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Speaker 1: your heart, the Bible says that if you confess with

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Speaker 1: your mouth that Jesus's Lord, believe in your heart God

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Speaker 1: has raised him from the dead, you will be saved.

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Speaker 1: This is the promise. So right now we're praying out

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Speaker 1: loud as a church family and online for all those

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Speaker 1: who are receiving the grace of God. Repeat after me.

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Speaker 1: If this is your moment, Heavenly Father. I am a

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Speaker 1: sinner in need of a savior, and today I make

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Speaker 1: Jesus the Lord and savior of my life. I believe

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Speaker 1: he died that I would be forgiven and rose again

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Speaker 1: to give me life. I receive your new life. This

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Speaker 1: is my new beginning. I'm coming home to my Father.

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Speaker 1: If you just prayed that, shoot your hand up on

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Speaker 1: the count of three, one, two, three, I want to

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Speaker 1: celebrate with you. Awesome. Well, if you enjoyed today's podcast,

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Speaker 1: there are a couple things I'd love for you to do.

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Speaker 1: Make sure to subscribe, rate, and review this podcast. You

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Speaker 1: joining us on the Elevation Podcast inst