1 00:00:01,520 --> 00:00:02,800 Speaker 1: Hey, this is Stephen Ferdick. 2 00:00:02,840 --> 00:00:05,840 Speaker 2: I'm the pastor of Elevation Church and this is our podcast. 3 00:00:05,880 --> 00:00:07,720 Speaker 2: I wanted to thank you for joining us today. 4 00:00:08,080 --> 00:00:10,680 Speaker 1: Hope this inspires you. Hope it builds your faith. 5 00:00:10,760 --> 00:00:13,080 Speaker 2: Hope it gives your perspective to see God is moving. 6 00:00:12,920 --> 00:00:13,440 Speaker 3: In your life. 7 00:00:13,840 --> 00:00:14,680 Speaker 1: Enjoy the message. 8 00:00:18,480 --> 00:00:22,320 Speaker 4: But if you've been redeemed and you know it. If 9 00:00:22,360 --> 00:00:25,599 Speaker 4: he dacked you out of the pit, then you know it. 10 00:00:26,360 --> 00:00:30,640 Speaker 5: If He brought you this farm, then you know it. 11 00:00:30,760 --> 00:00:38,960 Speaker 5: Sank Jesus, Jesus, Jesus. 12 00:00:41,040 --> 00:00:41,559 Speaker 6: Thank you. 13 00:00:45,320 --> 00:00:48,479 Speaker 5: We can sing it all day, we will sing it 14 00:00:48,520 --> 00:00:53,840 Speaker 5: all night, but we gotta stup cause it breathes it time. 15 00:01:01,040 --> 00:01:07,400 Speaker 3: The Word of the Lord is coming your way, whether 16 00:01:07,440 --> 00:01:09,920 Speaker 3: you're in this room or whether you're watching this later, 17 00:01:10,120 --> 00:01:12,120 Speaker 3: whether you're listening in a car. I hope you're not 18 00:01:12,200 --> 00:01:14,400 Speaker 3: watching in a car unless you're a passenger. 19 00:01:15,680 --> 00:01:17,280 Speaker 1: Just listen and watch the road. 20 00:01:17,360 --> 00:01:19,720 Speaker 3: The Lord has something he wants to show you today 21 00:01:20,160 --> 00:01:23,600 Speaker 3: in his word. This is the final message in the 22 00:01:23,640 --> 00:01:26,559 Speaker 3: greatest series in the history of our church. 23 00:01:28,200 --> 00:01:30,320 Speaker 1: Y'all don't like it. 24 00:01:30,480 --> 00:01:34,960 Speaker 3: My favorite series in the history of our church, because 25 00:01:35,000 --> 00:01:38,680 Speaker 3: it's the one that I needed the most. Because it's 26 00:01:38,720 --> 00:01:47,800 Speaker 3: called same lies, new loops, same lies, new loops. And 27 00:01:47,840 --> 00:01:50,040 Speaker 3: the Lord is giving you some new ways of thinking, 28 00:01:50,160 --> 00:01:54,200 Speaker 3: some new ways of being, some new ways of talking, 29 00:01:55,000 --> 00:01:59,600 Speaker 3: some new ways of seeing, new loops. It's going to 30 00:01:59,600 --> 00:02:01,680 Speaker 3: be a maze today because we're going to see a 31 00:02:01,720 --> 00:02:05,840 Speaker 3: picture of somebody who had believed a lie for so 32 00:02:06,000 --> 00:02:08,280 Speaker 3: long that to him. 33 00:02:08,919 --> 00:02:09,680 Speaker 1: It was true. 34 00:02:09,919 --> 00:02:12,640 Speaker 3: And when you have believed a lie long enough, is 35 00:02:12,720 --> 00:02:17,040 Speaker 3: true to you even though everybody else can see that 36 00:02:17,120 --> 00:02:20,800 Speaker 3: it's not. Today, God wants to show you something about 37 00:02:20,800 --> 00:02:22,680 Speaker 3: the way that he sees you. Go ahead and put 38 00:02:22,680 --> 00:02:25,600 Speaker 3: your name in the comments. And since you can't do 39 00:02:25,680 --> 00:02:28,000 Speaker 3: that live, tell the person next to you your name. 40 00:02:28,040 --> 00:02:30,360 Speaker 3: Tell them your full name, the one on your driver's license. Gohead, 41 00:02:30,360 --> 00:02:34,000 Speaker 3: give me your name real quick. Give me your driver's 42 00:02:34,040 --> 00:02:40,000 Speaker 3: license name. We're going to be spending a few moments today. 43 00:02:42,360 --> 00:02:46,119 Speaker 3: Well that's a long name. I didn't say your eye 44 00:02:46,160 --> 00:02:48,440 Speaker 3: color and your height. I didn't say tell them about 45 00:02:48,440 --> 00:02:54,920 Speaker 3: your DUI either. Leave that part out. But we're going 46 00:02:54,960 --> 00:02:57,560 Speaker 3: to be spending some time today together. In John chapter 47 00:02:57,560 --> 00:02:59,799 Speaker 3: five remains standing, if you're able for the reading of 48 00:02:59,840 --> 00:03:03,200 Speaker 3: God's word, And as I share this with you today, 49 00:03:04,120 --> 00:03:06,640 Speaker 3: the Lord wants to give us a picture. 50 00:03:08,160 --> 00:03:09,960 Speaker 1: Of what it means. 51 00:03:10,919 --> 00:03:15,600 Speaker 3: To leave the lies behind. To leave the lies behind, 52 00:03:16,760 --> 00:03:18,560 Speaker 3: that's what we come to church for. Right we want 53 00:03:18,560 --> 00:03:20,160 Speaker 3: to come to church and hear truth and just take 54 00:03:20,240 --> 00:03:22,240 Speaker 3: lies home with us like we didn't hear the truth. 55 00:03:22,800 --> 00:03:25,000 Speaker 3: We want to come to church, receive the truth of 56 00:03:25,080 --> 00:03:28,320 Speaker 3: God's word, and take it forward into the world that 57 00:03:28,360 --> 00:03:32,919 Speaker 3: He's called us to change. John chapter five, verse one. 58 00:03:33,080 --> 00:03:36,240 Speaker 3: I may just read all sixteen verses. I wasn't going 59 00:03:36,280 --> 00:03:38,720 Speaker 3: to stop around verse six seven, but I thought I 60 00:03:38,720 --> 00:03:42,880 Speaker 3: would go on down and read the whole thing. Now, 61 00:03:42,960 --> 00:03:48,240 Speaker 3: y'all listen, what's wrong with y'all? John chapter five, verse one. 62 00:03:49,520 --> 00:03:53,640 Speaker 3: Sometime later Jesus went up to Jerusalem for one of 63 00:03:53,640 --> 00:03:56,800 Speaker 3: the Jewish festivals. Now there is in Jerusalem, near the 64 00:03:56,840 --> 00:03:59,880 Speaker 3: sheep Gate a pool which in Aramaic is called Bethesda. 65 00:04:00,000 --> 00:04:03,920 Speaker 3: That word means house of mercy. It's like Bethlehem means 66 00:04:03,920 --> 00:04:08,960 Speaker 3: house of bread. Bethe is house. And then sata from 67 00:04:09,040 --> 00:04:12,400 Speaker 3: has said the word that means covenant, love or favor, 68 00:04:12,480 --> 00:04:14,760 Speaker 3: or grace or mercy. It means all of those things. 69 00:04:14,760 --> 00:04:17,400 Speaker 3: It's the house of mercy. At least that's what is called. 70 00:04:18,600 --> 00:04:20,520 Speaker 3: It's supposed to be a place where people can come 71 00:04:20,560 --> 00:04:23,960 Speaker 3: and get grace. But it isn't, and you'll see that 72 00:04:24,000 --> 00:04:29,599 Speaker 3: in the passage. It's called Bethesda, and it's surrounded by 73 00:04:29,640 --> 00:04:34,839 Speaker 3: five covered colonnades. And incidentally, since we're in John five, 74 00:04:35,200 --> 00:04:37,799 Speaker 3: five in the Bible is often symbolic of grace. 75 00:04:37,880 --> 00:04:40,720 Speaker 1: It's the number of grace. So this is supposed to 76 00:04:40,720 --> 00:04:41,440 Speaker 1: be a place. 77 00:04:41,240 --> 00:04:43,560 Speaker 3: Of grace, you know, can I say that about our church? 78 00:04:43,640 --> 00:04:48,400 Speaker 3: This is supposed to be a place of grace where 79 00:04:48,440 --> 00:04:53,000 Speaker 3: anybody can come like they are and not leave that way. 80 00:04:54,560 --> 00:04:57,919 Speaker 3: It was surrounded by five covered colonnades, and here are 81 00:04:57,920 --> 00:05:00,880 Speaker 3: a great number of disabled people used to li the 82 00:05:00,920 --> 00:05:05,120 Speaker 3: blind the lane. The paralyzed one who was there had 83 00:05:05,120 --> 00:05:11,400 Speaker 3: been an invalid for thirty eight years. When Jesus saw 84 00:05:11,480 --> 00:05:14,400 Speaker 3: him lying there and learned that he had been in 85 00:05:14,400 --> 00:05:17,960 Speaker 3: this condition for a long time, he asked him. 86 00:05:17,760 --> 00:05:20,599 Speaker 1: Do you want to get well? Sir? 87 00:05:20,720 --> 00:05:24,040 Speaker 3: The invalid reply, I have no one to help me 88 00:05:24,240 --> 00:05:24,960 Speaker 3: into the pool. 89 00:05:25,160 --> 00:05:26,280 Speaker 1: When the water is stirred. 90 00:05:27,000 --> 00:05:30,440 Speaker 3: While I am trying to get in, someone else goes 91 00:05:30,520 --> 00:05:32,000 Speaker 3: down ahead of me. 92 00:05:33,320 --> 00:05:38,159 Speaker 1: Then Jesus said to him, get up, pick. 93 00:05:38,080 --> 00:05:43,719 Speaker 3: Up your mat and walk at Once the man was cure. 94 00:05:44,360 --> 00:05:50,080 Speaker 1: He picked up his map and walked. But that's not 95 00:05:50,160 --> 00:05:51,240 Speaker 1: the end of the verse. 96 00:05:51,120 --> 00:05:55,880 Speaker 3: Is it. The day on which this took place was 97 00:05:55,960 --> 00:05:59,720 Speaker 3: a sabbath. And so the Jewish leader said to the 98 00:05:59,720 --> 00:06:02,920 Speaker 3: man who had been healed, it is the. 99 00:06:02,800 --> 00:06:07,520 Speaker 1: Sabbath the law forbids you to carry your mat. But 100 00:06:07,640 --> 00:06:11,440 Speaker 1: he replied, well, I love this Bible verse right here. 101 00:06:12,440 --> 00:06:18,840 Speaker 3: The man who made me well said to me, I 102 00:06:18,880 --> 00:06:22,000 Speaker 3: hear what you're saying to me. But the one who 103 00:06:22,040 --> 00:06:23,880 Speaker 3: walked by me and told me I could walk to 104 00:06:24,080 --> 00:06:29,120 Speaker 3: told me to do this. The man who made me 105 00:06:29,240 --> 00:06:33,719 Speaker 3: well said to me, pick up your mat and walk. 106 00:06:34,800 --> 00:06:38,440 Speaker 3: I got good news for you today. Church. The title 107 00:06:38,480 --> 00:06:47,520 Speaker 3: of my messages the word says otherwise. The word says otherwise. 108 00:06:48,440 --> 00:06:49,240 Speaker 1: Tell your neighbor. 109 00:06:49,480 --> 00:06:54,120 Speaker 3: I know you feel kind of depressed. I know it 110 00:06:54,200 --> 00:07:00,920 Speaker 3: looks like it's over. But the word says otherwise. Put 111 00:07:00,920 --> 00:07:02,880 Speaker 3: it in all caps in the chat, put it in 112 00:07:02,920 --> 00:07:05,680 Speaker 3: your language, put it in your native tongue, put it 113 00:07:05,680 --> 00:07:06,400 Speaker 3: in a mulojis. 114 00:07:06,480 --> 00:07:10,400 Speaker 1: I don't care. The word says otherwise. And we're gonna 115 00:07:10,400 --> 00:07:15,240 Speaker 1: give this message a subtitle. Also, we're gonna call it hmm. 116 00:07:16,360 --> 00:07:22,680 Speaker 3: See if I can explain this, your label is lying. 117 00:07:25,520 --> 00:07:30,760 Speaker 3: Your label is lying. You know how that thing said 118 00:07:30,760 --> 00:07:33,120 Speaker 3: it was it was a healthy food. 119 00:07:33,600 --> 00:07:37,440 Speaker 1: Your label is lying. 120 00:07:38,320 --> 00:07:40,640 Speaker 3: You know how that guy said he was a Christian guy. 121 00:07:40,920 --> 00:07:43,119 Speaker 3: You're labeled, and he wore a Christian shirt. 122 00:07:43,320 --> 00:07:46,400 Speaker 1: You're label is lying. 123 00:07:49,040 --> 00:07:50,680 Speaker 3: You know how people say when you come to Christ, 124 00:07:50,760 --> 00:07:55,040 Speaker 3: everything will just be better all at once. Your label 125 00:07:55,720 --> 00:07:59,960 Speaker 3: is lying. But God's word is true. Father, Thank you 126 00:08:00,200 --> 00:08:04,160 Speaker 3: for your word. In Jesus name, Amen be seated. Your 127 00:08:04,240 --> 00:08:10,640 Speaker 3: label is lying. I'll share by way of anecdote what 128 00:08:10,680 --> 00:08:14,720 Speaker 3: I mean by this statement, but first write the statement down. 129 00:08:15,920 --> 00:08:22,640 Speaker 3: Don't label it until later. Don't label it until later. 130 00:08:24,640 --> 00:08:27,200 Speaker 3: Now you're gonna write that down. You don't even know 131 00:08:27,240 --> 00:08:31,960 Speaker 3: what I mean by that, but you will later. I 132 00:08:32,040 --> 00:08:35,200 Speaker 3: was in a songwriting session recently and we were just 133 00:08:35,240 --> 00:08:37,440 Speaker 3: starting to work on a song. We had really not 134 00:08:37,640 --> 00:08:41,120 Speaker 3: identified the tempo of the song, the time signature of 135 00:08:41,160 --> 00:08:43,760 Speaker 3: the song, or even the theme of the song. I 136 00:08:43,760 --> 00:08:46,120 Speaker 3: didn't know yet whether it wanted to be a ballad 137 00:08:46,200 --> 00:08:49,920 Speaker 3: or a bop. Sometimes you don't know. Sometimes a song. 138 00:08:49,720 --> 00:08:52,640 Speaker 1: Starts like really really worshipful. 139 00:08:52,040 --> 00:08:53,600 Speaker 3: And the next thing you know, you're dancing on a 140 00:08:53,640 --> 00:08:58,920 Speaker 3: table and you don't know what happened. So the key 141 00:08:59,000 --> 00:09:04,280 Speaker 3: to this is to be patient. Be patient, let the 142 00:09:04,400 --> 00:09:07,200 Speaker 3: song tell you what it wants to be. Let the 143 00:09:07,240 --> 00:09:09,000 Speaker 3: spirit of God have his way. If you're writing a 144 00:09:09,040 --> 00:09:12,400 Speaker 3: worship song and we were just starting to write a 145 00:09:12,440 --> 00:09:17,160 Speaker 3: song and the producer who was recording the session and 146 00:09:17,280 --> 00:09:20,280 Speaker 3: needed to save the song on his computer, stopped and 147 00:09:20,320 --> 00:09:20,959 Speaker 3: asked a question. 148 00:09:21,080 --> 00:09:23,160 Speaker 1: He said, what is this song called? 149 00:09:24,920 --> 00:09:26,400 Speaker 3: Well? I look back at him, and I knew that 150 00:09:26,440 --> 00:09:28,520 Speaker 3: he needed to save the file so he could access 151 00:09:28,559 --> 00:09:30,520 Speaker 3: it and be organized. But I looked at him and said, 152 00:09:31,480 --> 00:09:34,880 Speaker 3: I can't name it. We haven't even made it yet. 153 00:09:36,480 --> 00:09:41,280 Speaker 3: We need to make it before we name it. If 154 00:09:41,280 --> 00:09:45,000 Speaker 3: we name it before we make it, there may be 155 00:09:45,040 --> 00:09:47,920 Speaker 3: something else that the song wants to be that we 156 00:09:47,960 --> 00:09:51,000 Speaker 3: don't allow it to become because we already gave it 157 00:09:51,040 --> 00:09:54,480 Speaker 3: a name. So what we need to do is just 158 00:09:54,640 --> 00:09:58,880 Speaker 3: save the file as a work in progress, and then 159 00:09:58,920 --> 00:10:00,520 Speaker 3: we can see what is going on to be by 160 00:10:00,559 --> 00:10:05,240 Speaker 3: the end of the day, because we'll label it later. 161 00:10:06,040 --> 00:10:10,760 Speaker 3: We'll make it now and label it later. I'll know 162 00:10:10,800 --> 00:10:13,240 Speaker 3: who this is for. But maybe that's the word that 163 00:10:13,280 --> 00:10:17,080 Speaker 3: you came to get today. Make it now and name 164 00:10:17,120 --> 00:10:20,880 Speaker 3: it later. We're so specific in our time about trying 165 00:10:20,920 --> 00:10:25,800 Speaker 3: to diagnose everything. Even every child is diagnosed with all 166 00:10:25,840 --> 00:10:29,280 Speaker 3: of these conditions before they are seven years old, and 167 00:10:29,360 --> 00:10:32,240 Speaker 3: sometimes that can be helpful, but other times it can 168 00:10:32,280 --> 00:10:34,600 Speaker 3: be a hurdle because. 169 00:10:34,280 --> 00:10:36,320 Speaker 1: If I give a child a label. 170 00:10:36,120 --> 00:10:38,880 Speaker 3: Before that child has even had the chance to develop 171 00:10:39,040 --> 00:10:43,440 Speaker 3: beyond those developmental limitations, I may limit what the child 172 00:10:43,480 --> 00:10:46,080 Speaker 3: thinks that the child can be because I gave the 173 00:10:46,200 --> 00:10:50,720 Speaker 3: child a label too soon that limited their potential mentally, 174 00:10:51,000 --> 00:10:53,640 Speaker 3: even though their potential in God was unlimited. 175 00:10:54,160 --> 00:10:55,720 Speaker 1: Label it later. 176 00:10:56,000 --> 00:10:59,000 Speaker 3: And I'm not talking about not going to doctors and specialists, 177 00:10:59,080 --> 00:10:59,720 Speaker 3: you understand. 178 00:11:00,040 --> 00:11:00,840 Speaker 1: I'm using this. 179 00:11:00,800 --> 00:11:03,479 Speaker 3: As a way to get you to see that sometimes 180 00:11:03,520 --> 00:11:06,679 Speaker 3: you are trying to label your life as you are 181 00:11:06,720 --> 00:11:10,520 Speaker 3: living your life, and it is causing you to misdiagnose 182 00:11:10,679 --> 00:11:13,319 Speaker 3: some of the things about you that only God can 183 00:11:13,360 --> 00:11:14,240 Speaker 3: reveal in time. 184 00:11:14,760 --> 00:11:15,679 Speaker 1: It is causing you. 185 00:11:15,679 --> 00:11:19,559 Speaker 3: To name things and save things to the hard drive 186 00:11:19,720 --> 00:11:23,200 Speaker 3: of your mind, and you call yourself things, and you 187 00:11:23,240 --> 00:11:26,959 Speaker 3: call situations things that they really aren't because you are 188 00:11:27,000 --> 00:11:28,280 Speaker 3: trying to label. 189 00:11:28,000 --> 00:11:30,120 Speaker 1: It before you have even lived it. 190 00:11:30,640 --> 00:11:33,160 Speaker 3: So you say things like this is the worst season 191 00:11:33,200 --> 00:11:36,640 Speaker 3: of my life. How do you know that? Yet the 192 00:11:36,720 --> 00:11:38,880 Speaker 3: seed hasn't even given the harvest for it. 193 00:11:39,480 --> 00:11:40,600 Speaker 1: You have no idea. 194 00:11:40,720 --> 00:11:44,120 Speaker 3: As a matter of fact, I would imagine that anytime 195 00:11:44,200 --> 00:11:47,480 Speaker 3: the dirt is being plowed, it is hard for the dirt. 196 00:11:48,480 --> 00:11:50,880 Speaker 3: But we understand that this is the part of the 197 00:11:50,960 --> 00:11:56,120 Speaker 3: process that is absolutely necessary for anything good to be cultivated. 198 00:11:56,360 --> 00:11:59,760 Speaker 3: And so it is true in your heart that some 199 00:11:59,800 --> 00:12:02,680 Speaker 3: of the hardest seasons you will go through, some of 200 00:12:02,720 --> 00:12:05,800 Speaker 3: the heartbreak seasons that you will go through, some of 201 00:12:05,840 --> 00:12:07,920 Speaker 3: the things that you would wish away if God came 202 00:12:07,960 --> 00:12:09,120 Speaker 3: down and asked you would. 203 00:12:08,880 --> 00:12:09,520 Speaker 1: You like to skip? 204 00:12:09,520 --> 00:12:13,160 Speaker 3: Those stages will be the very stages that later you 205 00:12:13,200 --> 00:12:15,400 Speaker 3: will look back and label it and you will say, 206 00:12:15,760 --> 00:12:18,280 Speaker 3: that was the season where God taught me the most. 207 00:12:18,760 --> 00:12:21,320 Speaker 3: That was the season, am I right, where God. 208 00:12:21,080 --> 00:12:22,040 Speaker 1: Got me out of that. 209 00:12:22,080 --> 00:12:25,360 Speaker 3: Relationship, and I'm so glad that he did. That was 210 00:12:25,400 --> 00:12:27,920 Speaker 3: the season where God set me free from something I 211 00:12:27,960 --> 00:12:30,400 Speaker 3: thought I needed. And if He would have kept giving 212 00:12:30,400 --> 00:12:32,440 Speaker 3: me what I wanted, I would have never gotten what 213 00:12:32,520 --> 00:12:35,679 Speaker 3: I needed. And when I label my situation while I'm 214 00:12:35,720 --> 00:12:38,200 Speaker 3: still in it, I limit my situation to how I 215 00:12:38,280 --> 00:12:40,840 Speaker 3: see it. And the problem with me is I can't 216 00:12:40,880 --> 00:12:43,560 Speaker 3: see things like they are. I only see things as 217 00:12:43,679 --> 00:12:47,040 Speaker 3: I am, and I am limited, and so if I 218 00:12:47,080 --> 00:12:49,840 Speaker 3: look at my situation and label it with my mind, 219 00:12:49,960 --> 00:12:53,040 Speaker 3: I will always find a way to zoom into the 220 00:12:53,080 --> 00:12:57,600 Speaker 3: microscopically bad or maybe I'm just wanting this one thing 221 00:12:57,679 --> 00:13:00,679 Speaker 3: to happen so bad, or maybe something happens in my 222 00:13:00,720 --> 00:13:03,559 Speaker 3: life and I don't like the package that it came in, 223 00:13:03,960 --> 00:13:06,360 Speaker 3: so I don't receive the purpose that it came for. 224 00:13:07,080 --> 00:13:09,679 Speaker 3: I'm gonna stop and breathe for a minute. Clap your 225 00:13:09,679 --> 00:13:13,680 Speaker 3: hands and give God praise. Now, clap your hands and 226 00:13:13,720 --> 00:13:17,880 Speaker 3: give God praise for all of the gifts that he 227 00:13:17,960 --> 00:13:21,680 Speaker 3: gave you that you didn't know it was a gift 228 00:13:21,760 --> 00:13:25,959 Speaker 3: when he gave it. Praise God for all the gifts 229 00:13:26,000 --> 00:13:28,840 Speaker 3: that he gave you that you grumbled about when he 230 00:13:28,880 --> 00:13:37,120 Speaker 3: gave it to you. You got to remember, John wrote, John, Okay, 231 00:13:37,200 --> 00:13:40,920 Speaker 3: you know that. Okay, John, the disciple who Jesus loved. 232 00:13:40,920 --> 00:13:44,400 Speaker 3: That's what he called himself. That's how he labeled himself. 233 00:13:45,040 --> 00:13:45,920 Speaker 3: That's wild to me. 234 00:13:46,520 --> 00:13:48,400 Speaker 1: Who are you the one he loves? Not one of 235 00:13:48,400 --> 00:13:52,839 Speaker 1: the one he loves? V One he loves. John did 236 00:13:52,880 --> 00:13:53,800 Speaker 1: not write his. 237 00:13:53,720 --> 00:13:59,880 Speaker 3: Gospel as the ministry of Jesus was happening, though he 238 00:14:00,120 --> 00:14:05,680 Speaker 3: wrote it somewhere around fifty years after the events transpire. 239 00:14:06,920 --> 00:14:08,400 Speaker 1: Now there's a reason I'm telling you this. 240 00:14:09,440 --> 00:14:12,120 Speaker 3: Sometimes I think we read these stories in the Bible 241 00:14:12,640 --> 00:14:15,920 Speaker 3: like they're coming from the journal of one of the disciples, 242 00:14:17,120 --> 00:14:19,440 Speaker 3: and so we read a story like this and it's wonderful. 243 00:14:19,520 --> 00:14:21,560 Speaker 1: There was a man who couldn't move, and he got 244 00:14:21,640 --> 00:14:24,360 Speaker 1: up and he was healed, and it was amazed. 245 00:14:25,480 --> 00:14:27,720 Speaker 3: And even the titles that are in the Bible, like 246 00:14:28,040 --> 00:14:32,480 Speaker 3: over John chapter five, it says the healing at the pool, 247 00:14:32,640 --> 00:14:37,200 Speaker 3: that's what this story is called in retrospect. But in 248 00:14:37,360 --> 00:14:40,800 Speaker 3: real time, this was not a healing at the pool. 249 00:14:42,040 --> 00:14:45,960 Speaker 3: In real time, this was a confrontation with the authorities. 250 00:14:47,680 --> 00:14:52,880 Speaker 3: I'll explain that later, y'all see what I'm doing. I'm 251 00:14:52,920 --> 00:14:55,880 Speaker 3: gonna say it now, I'm gonna explain it later. Jesus 252 00:14:56,000 --> 00:14:57,840 Speaker 3: a lot of times, as he was doing things in 253 00:14:57,880 --> 00:15:01,480 Speaker 3: his ministry, would not explain to his disciples. 254 00:15:01,800 --> 00:15:05,440 Speaker 1: He would just do it, and as he would do it, 255 00:15:05,800 --> 00:15:08,000 Speaker 1: they might think about it. Boy, that was a really 256 00:15:08,040 --> 00:15:08,600 Speaker 1: bad move. 257 00:15:09,280 --> 00:15:13,240 Speaker 3: I mean, Jesus should have waited until Tuesday to heal 258 00:15:13,280 --> 00:15:16,120 Speaker 3: this guy. Did you see it in the Texas said 259 00:15:16,360 --> 00:15:18,360 Speaker 3: he healed him on a bad day. 260 00:15:19,080 --> 00:15:20,160 Speaker 1: Now, let me ask you a question. 261 00:15:20,880 --> 00:15:24,360 Speaker 3: If you haven't walked for thirty eight years and you 262 00:15:24,480 --> 00:15:28,240 Speaker 3: have the opportunity to walk, is it ever a bad 263 00:15:28,320 --> 00:15:32,680 Speaker 3: time to do a good thing for somebody? And yet 264 00:15:32,720 --> 00:15:35,840 Speaker 3: that's what the religious leader said. They said he should 265 00:15:35,840 --> 00:15:37,440 Speaker 3: have done it on a different day. 266 00:15:37,480 --> 00:15:38,640 Speaker 1: And Jesus knew that. 267 00:15:38,800 --> 00:15:41,920 Speaker 3: But when John is writing the gospel, he's not writing 268 00:15:41,960 --> 00:15:42,880 Speaker 3: it later that night. 269 00:15:43,800 --> 00:15:45,720 Speaker 1: He's not taking what he saw happen. 270 00:15:45,760 --> 00:15:48,920 Speaker 3: And John's gospel was a little different because Matthew, Mark, Luke, 271 00:15:48,960 --> 00:15:53,760 Speaker 3: and John are all written somewhat differently. Matthew, Mark, and 272 00:15:53,800 --> 00:15:57,080 Speaker 3: Luke are called synoptic gospel. It means, see with they 273 00:15:57,320 --> 00:15:59,560 Speaker 3: kind of used the same source material, They refer to 274 00:15:59,560 --> 00:16:02,240 Speaker 3: the same events, and they just take them from different angles. 275 00:16:02,600 --> 00:16:04,080 Speaker 1: John's gospel is wild. 276 00:16:04,760 --> 00:16:07,040 Speaker 3: He just shows you stuff from the bonus footage from 277 00:16:07,040 --> 00:16:09,600 Speaker 3: the cutting room that none of the other disciples showed you. 278 00:16:09,800 --> 00:16:12,320 Speaker 3: Maybe it was the special way he felt about his 279 00:16:12,360 --> 00:16:15,800 Speaker 3: relationship with Jesus that he includes things that the others don't. 280 00:16:15,960 --> 00:16:20,320 Speaker 3: And this miracle is only included in John's gospel. That's 281 00:16:20,320 --> 00:16:22,160 Speaker 3: the first thing I wanted to tell you. But the 282 00:16:22,200 --> 00:16:24,240 Speaker 3: second thing I wanted to tell you is that it 283 00:16:24,280 --> 00:16:29,880 Speaker 3: was included in John's Gospel after decades had passed, which 284 00:16:29,960 --> 00:16:35,480 Speaker 3: means that sometimes it is better to evaluate your situation later. 285 00:16:37,120 --> 00:16:39,320 Speaker 3: If you look at it in the moment, all you 286 00:16:39,400 --> 00:16:40,880 Speaker 3: can see is, man, this is a. 287 00:16:40,800 --> 00:16:41,440 Speaker 1: Lot of trouble. 288 00:16:41,520 --> 00:16:44,440 Speaker 3: Jesus is about to get in. Man, Jesus really is 289 00:16:44,520 --> 00:16:47,680 Speaker 3: wasting time. I mean, imagine this. They're setting out. 290 00:16:47,520 --> 00:16:50,080 Speaker 1: To go to the festival. They're on their way. 291 00:16:50,120 --> 00:16:52,600 Speaker 3: The Bible doesn't mention which of the three festivals, but 292 00:16:52,600 --> 00:16:55,360 Speaker 3: it's one of the major ones. And they get to Jerusalem, 293 00:16:55,560 --> 00:16:59,200 Speaker 3: and Jesus stops by this porch where look at verse three. 294 00:16:59,720 --> 00:17:04,040 Speaker 3: These these kinds of people are lying, the blind, the lame, 295 00:17:04,560 --> 00:17:08,000 Speaker 3: the paralyzed. Please circle those three words justin if you can. 296 00:17:08,320 --> 00:17:13,280 Speaker 3: Verse three. The blind, the lame, the paralyze, the blind, 297 00:17:13,760 --> 00:17:17,960 Speaker 3: the lame, the paralyzed. Jesus is stopping by to see somebody. 298 00:17:18,240 --> 00:17:21,600 Speaker 3: He is the most important figure in human history. He 299 00:17:21,760 --> 00:17:25,600 Speaker 3: is the centerpiece of civilization. He is the Rose of Sharon, 300 00:17:25,680 --> 00:17:27,800 Speaker 3: the lily of the Valley, the lion of the tribe 301 00:17:27,840 --> 00:17:30,199 Speaker 3: of Judah, the Alpha and the Omega, the Master and 302 00:17:30,240 --> 00:17:32,679 Speaker 3: the maker of the universe, the King of Kings, the 303 00:17:32,720 --> 00:17:35,080 Speaker 3: Lord of lords, the shepherd of the Loss, the one 304 00:17:35,119 --> 00:17:38,000 Speaker 3: that the angels worship twenty four to seven around the throne, 305 00:17:38,240 --> 00:17:42,480 Speaker 3: and he stops by to see about somebody that doesn't 306 00:17:43,119 --> 00:17:49,960 Speaker 3: even have a name. Of course he has a name, 307 00:17:50,880 --> 00:17:58,720 Speaker 3: but his name has been replaced by his label, so 308 00:17:58,800 --> 00:18:01,280 Speaker 3: we don't know who he is yes or what he 309 00:18:01,359 --> 00:18:05,159 Speaker 3: can do. The only thing we know about him is 310 00:18:05,200 --> 00:18:09,399 Speaker 3: that for thirty eight years watch this, he has not. 311 00:18:09,440 --> 00:18:10,560 Speaker 1: Been able to move. 312 00:18:11,040 --> 00:18:13,000 Speaker 3: And there are some of you listening to me preached 313 00:18:13,000 --> 00:18:16,760 Speaker 3: today who have been labeled so long by what you 314 00:18:16,960 --> 00:18:20,440 Speaker 3: can't do, that you forgot your name. You have been 315 00:18:20,520 --> 00:18:23,560 Speaker 3: labeled so long by what you don't have, that you 316 00:18:23,640 --> 00:18:27,159 Speaker 3: have forgotten your true nature. You have been labeled so 317 00:18:27,359 --> 00:18:30,240 Speaker 3: long by what life didn't give you that you have 318 00:18:30,400 --> 00:18:34,480 Speaker 3: forgotten your blessings. But the devil is a liar, I said, 319 00:18:34,480 --> 00:18:35,560 Speaker 3: the devil is a liar. 320 00:18:36,600 --> 00:18:38,840 Speaker 1: I'll preach this another ten weeks if I need to. 321 00:18:39,400 --> 00:18:43,919 Speaker 3: He's telling the same lies over and over and over 322 00:18:44,280 --> 00:18:45,280 Speaker 3: and over again. 323 00:18:45,640 --> 00:18:47,320 Speaker 1: And what he wants to get you to do. 324 00:18:47,280 --> 00:18:49,280 Speaker 3: If he's effective at his job, and the devil is 325 00:18:49,320 --> 00:18:51,800 Speaker 3: really sneaky at it, because he will try to. 326 00:18:51,760 --> 00:18:55,439 Speaker 1: Convince you that your issue is you. 327 00:19:00,080 --> 00:19:01,200 Speaker 4: But I found out. 328 00:19:02,560 --> 00:19:08,160 Speaker 3: That God is masterful at using situations that we would 329 00:19:08,200 --> 00:19:12,520 Speaker 3: not wish to accomplish purposes for which we don't even 330 00:19:12,560 --> 00:19:14,840 Speaker 3: know to pray. 331 00:19:14,920 --> 00:19:16,000 Speaker 1: I'll give you an example. 332 00:19:16,960 --> 00:19:21,040 Speaker 3: I can tell I'm kind of overwhelming you with information today. 333 00:19:21,960 --> 00:19:25,840 Speaker 3: About five is the number of grace, and Bethesda means 334 00:19:25,880 --> 00:19:29,240 Speaker 3: house of Mercy and Synoptic Gospels. 335 00:19:28,720 --> 00:19:29,040 Speaker 1: And all this. 336 00:19:29,080 --> 00:19:31,920 Speaker 3: So let me just break it down like this. When 337 00:19:31,960 --> 00:19:34,720 Speaker 3: Holly gives gifts at our house, I. 338 00:19:34,640 --> 00:19:36,480 Speaker 1: Will say that she is the best gift giver that 339 00:19:36,600 --> 00:19:38,720 Speaker 1: I have ever known in my life. 340 00:19:39,200 --> 00:19:41,359 Speaker 3: I also say she is the greatest gift that I 341 00:19:41,400 --> 00:19:43,480 Speaker 3: have ever known in my life other than. 342 00:19:43,400 --> 00:19:49,679 Speaker 1: You, Lord, Amen. And I'll also say that I'm not 343 00:19:49,720 --> 00:19:51,800 Speaker 1: even saying that just so you'll clap for it. I 344 00:19:51,880 --> 00:19:52,920 Speaker 1: really feel that way. 345 00:19:53,720 --> 00:19:57,160 Speaker 3: But she used to do something when she would give 346 00:19:57,200 --> 00:20:01,600 Speaker 3: gifts that was so disappointing, and we finally got her 347 00:20:01,600 --> 00:20:03,080 Speaker 3: to stop a few years ago. But let me tell 348 00:20:03,119 --> 00:20:04,800 Speaker 3: what you're doing. I don't use this intentionally. I don't 349 00:20:04,800 --> 00:20:06,639 Speaker 3: know if it was just something she did out of efficiency. 350 00:20:06,640 --> 00:20:09,480 Speaker 1: I don't know what's you doing, Okay, al, I told 351 00:20:09,480 --> 00:20:10,560 Speaker 1: you she gives great gifts. 352 00:20:11,040 --> 00:20:13,359 Speaker 3: But let's say Christmas will roll around, right, and there's 353 00:20:13,520 --> 00:20:14,960 Speaker 3: several gifts for each person. 354 00:20:14,720 --> 00:20:18,119 Speaker 1: That Holly bought. Right, so she wraps some They're beautiful 355 00:20:18,160 --> 00:20:18,399 Speaker 1: and all that. 356 00:20:18,480 --> 00:20:21,240 Speaker 3: You take the wrapping paper off, and then there would 357 00:20:21,240 --> 00:20:24,520 Speaker 3: be a box that she would put the gift in. 358 00:20:26,040 --> 00:20:30,239 Speaker 1: But the box was absolutely no indication. 359 00:20:31,359 --> 00:20:32,800 Speaker 3: Of the value of the gift. And here's what I 360 00:20:32,840 --> 00:20:36,040 Speaker 3: mean by that. She would take the box from the 361 00:20:36,160 --> 00:20:38,920 Speaker 3: nicest store. You can imagine, like picture your favorite store, 362 00:20:38,960 --> 00:20:42,520 Speaker 3: your favorite brand, right, like the fanciest, nicest box. So 363 00:20:42,560 --> 00:20:46,240 Speaker 3: you peel the paperback and you'd be like, oh, yeah, yeah, 364 00:20:46,280 --> 00:20:46,560 Speaker 3: this is. 365 00:20:46,480 --> 00:20:49,800 Speaker 1: Gonna be good. This is about to be good. 366 00:20:50,160 --> 00:20:52,800 Speaker 3: And then when you would take the lid off the 367 00:20:52,840 --> 00:21:00,280 Speaker 3: box she had put the worst gifts. The box would 368 00:21:00,320 --> 00:21:04,879 Speaker 3: say Nordstrom and the gift would say Dollar Tree, and 369 00:21:04,920 --> 00:21:07,359 Speaker 3: you'd be looking at the You'd be looking at the 370 00:21:07,359 --> 00:21:13,560 Speaker 3: gift about what is this? Because she would put the 371 00:21:13,560 --> 00:21:23,000 Speaker 3: worst gift in the best box. God does just the opposite. 372 00:21:23,119 --> 00:21:25,000 Speaker 3: I'm sorry, Holly, but this is one time where you 373 00:21:25,040 --> 00:21:31,120 Speaker 3: are nothing like God. Because God will take the worst box, 374 00:21:32,000 --> 00:21:36,080 Speaker 3: the worst situation, the worst hell you've ever been through, 375 00:21:36,600 --> 00:21:38,439 Speaker 3: the worst insult. 376 00:21:38,240 --> 00:21:39,600 Speaker 1: The worst persecution. 377 00:21:40,320 --> 00:21:43,400 Speaker 3: God will hand you a box, and the box will 378 00:21:43,440 --> 00:21:46,720 Speaker 3: be so beat up, and the box will look so small, 379 00:21:47,040 --> 00:21:49,480 Speaker 3: and the box will look like it's been rained on, 380 00:21:49,960 --> 00:21:52,520 Speaker 3: and the box will look like the dog shoot it up, 381 00:21:52,720 --> 00:21:55,800 Speaker 3: and the box will look like betrayal, and the box 382 00:21:55,880 --> 00:21:57,960 Speaker 3: will look like God, I don't know what to do, 383 00:21:58,240 --> 00:22:00,480 Speaker 3: and the box will look like there's no way out 384 00:22:00,520 --> 00:22:04,920 Speaker 3: of this. But if you open that box and trust 385 00:22:04,960 --> 00:22:08,960 Speaker 3: in God, not the box, I said, trust God, not 386 00:22:09,160 --> 00:22:13,919 Speaker 3: the box, because my God is out the box and 387 00:22:14,160 --> 00:22:17,760 Speaker 3: God will put the best stuff cannot reach. Like I'm 388 00:22:17,760 --> 00:22:21,800 Speaker 3: in Saint Paul, Minnesota on a Tuesday night. God will 389 00:22:21,840 --> 00:22:25,720 Speaker 3: take the worst box and put the best gift. And 390 00:22:25,840 --> 00:22:29,600 Speaker 3: I'm saying this in case life dropped off a box 391 00:22:29,680 --> 00:22:32,720 Speaker 3: on your doorstep and it doesn't look like what you 392 00:22:32,920 --> 00:22:36,080 Speaker 3: prayed for, and it doesn't make any sense. 393 00:22:35,840 --> 00:22:37,000 Speaker 1: With what you feel. 394 00:22:36,720 --> 00:22:39,240 Speaker 4: Called to, and it doesn't line. 395 00:22:39,040 --> 00:22:40,880 Speaker 1: Up with your expectations. 396 00:22:41,240 --> 00:22:45,040 Speaker 3: But over that box, because God has a way of 397 00:22:45,200 --> 00:22:50,000 Speaker 3: putting the best blessings in the ugliest boxes, so the 398 00:22:50,040 --> 00:22:53,520 Speaker 3: box doesn't have to be beautiful for the gift to 399 00:22:53,560 --> 00:22:57,359 Speaker 3: feed from him. I find somebody say open the box, 400 00:22:57,760 --> 00:23:01,600 Speaker 3: open the box, open the box. God can do what 401 00:23:01,680 --> 00:23:05,879 Speaker 3: he wants to open the box. Let God out the box. 402 00:23:06,359 --> 00:23:09,800 Speaker 3: You got your little puny way of labeling what God 403 00:23:09,840 --> 00:23:12,960 Speaker 3: can do and who God can do it through. But 404 00:23:13,160 --> 00:23:16,800 Speaker 3: open the box. You're not even in church today, but 405 00:23:16,960 --> 00:23:20,200 Speaker 3: God can meet you in the kitchen. Open the box, 406 00:23:20,640 --> 00:23:23,800 Speaker 3: put down the fork in the night, lift your hands 407 00:23:23,800 --> 00:23:43,080 Speaker 3: and give God praise. God is out the box. Jesus 408 00:23:43,080 --> 00:23:48,080 Speaker 3: said to the man, I know the situation isn't what 409 00:23:48,119 --> 00:23:51,159 Speaker 3: you would have chosen, and I know this is not 410 00:23:51,280 --> 00:23:52,200 Speaker 3: the place you want to be. 411 00:23:54,680 --> 00:23:57,399 Speaker 1: But your label is lying. 412 00:23:59,440 --> 00:24:01,080 Speaker 3: I wish I could draw this, but I didn't bring 413 00:24:01,080 --> 00:24:02,560 Speaker 3: my screen out this week, and I'm not gonna slow 414 00:24:02,600 --> 00:24:06,680 Speaker 3: down the momentum of this message for technology. Just imagine 415 00:24:07,160 --> 00:24:17,560 Speaker 3: boom boop blop. Right, you've seen it, and imagine one 416 00:24:17,560 --> 00:24:18,600 Speaker 3: of the loops says. 417 00:24:19,840 --> 00:24:25,720 Speaker 1: You can't do that. That's the lie. Right. 418 00:24:26,600 --> 00:24:34,200 Speaker 3: But when everything that's around you looks like sickness long enough, 419 00:24:35,960 --> 00:24:42,000 Speaker 3: you begin to believe the box. When everything that your 420 00:24:42,000 --> 00:24:46,440 Speaker 3: eyes can see, when everything that your emotions feel tell you, well, 421 00:24:46,480 --> 00:24:49,000 Speaker 3: I guess alcoholism is just a genetic thing. And there's 422 00:24:49,000 --> 00:24:51,800 Speaker 3: no amount of therapy or recovery that can break those 423 00:24:51,880 --> 00:24:52,560 Speaker 3: chains off of you. 424 00:24:52,840 --> 00:24:55,560 Speaker 1: And there's not even enough prayers for it, because didn't 425 00:24:55,600 --> 00:24:59,439 Speaker 1: you pray about this last year? Thirty eight years? 426 00:24:59,440 --> 00:25:02,760 Speaker 3: Man, that's a long that's a long time to circle 427 00:25:02,760 --> 00:25:05,439 Speaker 3: the situation. It brings me all the way back to 428 00:25:05,480 --> 00:25:07,679 Speaker 3: the first story I shared in this series, when the 429 00:25:07,760 --> 00:25:15,439 Speaker 3: Israelites wandered in the same loop for forty years. You know, 430 00:25:15,480 --> 00:25:18,800 Speaker 3: technically it was thirty eight. Yeah, it was thirty eight 431 00:25:19,200 --> 00:25:21,080 Speaker 3: because one year they spent getting out of Egypt, one 432 00:25:21,160 --> 00:25:23,560 Speaker 3: year they spent getting into the Promised Land. Those years 433 00:25:23,560 --> 00:25:27,959 Speaker 3: aren't counted in the forty it was thirty eight years. 434 00:25:28,040 --> 00:25:30,640 Speaker 3: And people will always tell the story of your first 435 00:25:30,720 --> 00:25:32,320 Speaker 3: year and your last year, but they don't see the 436 00:25:32,320 --> 00:25:34,240 Speaker 3: thirty eight year loop. 437 00:25:35,920 --> 00:25:37,359 Speaker 1: So please do this. 438 00:25:37,400 --> 00:25:41,400 Speaker 3: When you're sharing your testimony with somebody, be honest with them. 439 00:25:41,560 --> 00:25:44,960 Speaker 3: Don't make your label a lie. Don't tell them. And 440 00:25:45,000 --> 00:25:48,720 Speaker 3: the Lord just set me free from anxiety. I had 441 00:25:48,760 --> 00:25:50,760 Speaker 3: somebody tell me that one time, and the Lord set 442 00:25:50,800 --> 00:25:53,639 Speaker 3: me free from anxiety. Now, I said, I believe that 443 00:25:53,680 --> 00:25:55,000 Speaker 3: he does that, and I believe that he did that 444 00:25:55,000 --> 00:25:56,919 Speaker 3: for you, and I praise him for it. But what 445 00:25:57,040 --> 00:25:59,280 Speaker 3: exactly do you mean he set you free from anxiety? 446 00:25:59,280 --> 00:26:01,080 Speaker 3: Because when they said it, they said the Lord set 447 00:26:01,080 --> 00:26:04,919 Speaker 3: me free from an anxiety in nineteen eighty four. So 448 00:26:05,000 --> 00:26:07,560 Speaker 3: what I wanted to ask was, and since then. 449 00:26:09,800 --> 00:26:13,080 Speaker 1: Yeah, what did you do? Swallow the key? The Lord 450 00:26:13,119 --> 00:26:15,680 Speaker 1: sets you free? You swallowed the key or the Lord 451 00:26:15,680 --> 00:26:17,080 Speaker 1: swallowed the key? Like what happened? 452 00:26:18,280 --> 00:26:20,040 Speaker 3: And as they began to share in more detail, it 453 00:26:20,119 --> 00:26:24,000 Speaker 3: was actually more powerful to hear about their process than 454 00:26:24,040 --> 00:26:27,880 Speaker 3: it was to hear about their product, because what they 455 00:26:28,000 --> 00:26:30,320 Speaker 3: meant by it when they labeled it the Lord set 456 00:26:30,359 --> 00:26:33,720 Speaker 3: me free was they meant he began to show me 457 00:26:33,880 --> 00:26:37,000 Speaker 3: ways to deal with it that were not harmful and 458 00:26:37,040 --> 00:26:40,480 Speaker 3: destructive and sinful. And so instead of just going to 459 00:26:40,520 --> 00:26:42,600 Speaker 3: porn every time I felt anxious, instead of just going 460 00:26:42,600 --> 00:26:44,960 Speaker 3: to drugs every time I feel anxious, instead of just 461 00:26:45,040 --> 00:26:47,800 Speaker 3: going to self mutilation every time I felt anxious, instead 462 00:26:47,800 --> 00:26:50,439 Speaker 3: of just waiting up all night, I learned some They 463 00:26:50,440 --> 00:26:53,320 Speaker 3: didn't say this, but they basically said, I learned some loops. 464 00:26:53,960 --> 00:26:56,160 Speaker 3: I learned some new loops, and I quit just going 465 00:26:56,160 --> 00:26:59,320 Speaker 3: around and around spiraling, and I found out how to 466 00:26:59,359 --> 00:27:02,760 Speaker 3: interrupt my worry with the Word of God. 467 00:27:03,880 --> 00:27:04,960 Speaker 1: Isn't that more powerful? 468 00:27:05,720 --> 00:27:08,000 Speaker 3: Come on, isn't that more powerful to hear that than 469 00:27:08,040 --> 00:27:10,600 Speaker 3: to hear somebody say, well, the Lord just set me free, 470 00:27:10,640 --> 00:27:12,480 Speaker 3: And then you're like, well, I guess he doesn't love me. 471 00:27:14,280 --> 00:27:15,800 Speaker 3: He must not love me like that, or I must 472 00:27:15,800 --> 00:27:18,480 Speaker 3: be doing something wrong. Maybe they're just not describing freedom 473 00:27:18,520 --> 00:27:23,960 Speaker 3: fully to know that freedom involves a journey of thirty 474 00:27:23,960 --> 00:27:24,880 Speaker 3: eight years. 475 00:27:25,960 --> 00:27:26,800 Speaker 1: This is powerful. 476 00:27:26,800 --> 00:27:27,000 Speaker 3: Man. 477 00:27:28,080 --> 00:27:29,760 Speaker 1: I even feel it as I'm preaching right now. 478 00:27:29,800 --> 00:27:31,439 Speaker 3: I feel the Lord telling me to slow down and 479 00:27:31,440 --> 00:27:34,360 Speaker 3: tell you what it really means that this man got 480 00:27:34,400 --> 00:27:35,440 Speaker 3: up and walked. 481 00:27:36,640 --> 00:27:40,479 Speaker 1: It doesn't say that he knew where to go. It 482 00:27:40,480 --> 00:27:42,320 Speaker 1: doesn't say that his life was problem free. 483 00:27:43,359 --> 00:27:45,639 Speaker 3: In fact, Jesus finds him a few verses later and 484 00:27:45,640 --> 00:27:48,000 Speaker 3: tells him stop sinning or something worse is going to happen. 485 00:27:48,520 --> 00:27:51,879 Speaker 3: He's not even finished with his issue yet. But the 486 00:27:51,960 --> 00:27:55,680 Speaker 3: powerful thing about Jesus when I get to the part 487 00:27:55,680 --> 00:27:57,560 Speaker 3: of my sermon where I know this is the word 488 00:27:57,640 --> 00:27:59,760 Speaker 3: of the Lord, because there is a moment in a 489 00:27:59,800 --> 00:28:02,240 Speaker 3: sera where the word of the Lord comes. It's all 490 00:28:02,280 --> 00:28:04,480 Speaker 3: the word of the Lord. This whole passage is the 491 00:28:04,480 --> 00:28:06,360 Speaker 3: word of the Lord. But there is a moment where 492 00:28:06,359 --> 00:28:09,800 Speaker 3: the word of the Lord comes to you. And what 493 00:28:10,240 --> 00:28:17,560 Speaker 3: happens in that moment is your condition is interrupted. By 494 00:28:17,600 --> 00:28:25,640 Speaker 3: a command. So it's like this. The man's condition is sick, paralyzed, 495 00:28:25,800 --> 00:28:29,320 Speaker 3: and stuck on the porch. The command of Jesus makes 496 00:28:29,359 --> 00:28:31,080 Speaker 3: no sense in the face of that condition. 497 00:28:32,119 --> 00:28:34,920 Speaker 1: Get up, take your mat, and walk. 498 00:28:36,240 --> 00:28:38,360 Speaker 3: Sometimes God will give you a command that makes no 499 00:28:38,440 --> 00:28:41,360 Speaker 3: sense in the face of your condition. Sometimes God will 500 00:28:41,360 --> 00:28:43,160 Speaker 3: tell you as a teenager, I don't care what all 501 00:28:43,200 --> 00:28:43,880 Speaker 3: your friends do. 502 00:28:44,160 --> 00:28:46,080 Speaker 1: I don't care what they say you're weird about. I 503 00:28:46,120 --> 00:28:48,400 Speaker 1: don't care what they call you for it. You be pure. 504 00:28:48,800 --> 00:28:49,680 Speaker 1: I don't care what. 505 00:28:49,600 --> 00:28:52,440 Speaker 3: A thousand people do over here, a thousand people, just 506 00:28:52,440 --> 00:28:54,400 Speaker 3: like your parents used to say. I don't care if 507 00:28:54,400 --> 00:28:57,280 Speaker 3: everybody else is doing it, if everybody else was jumping 508 00:28:57,280 --> 00:28:59,680 Speaker 3: off a bridge, and you'd be like shut out. But see, 509 00:28:59,720 --> 00:29:02,400 Speaker 3: I say, with everybody else was jumping off a bridge, 510 00:29:02,480 --> 00:29:04,880 Speaker 3: I just want to tell you what Jesus did. Everybody 511 00:29:04,880 --> 00:29:07,640 Speaker 3: else didn't die on the cross for you. Everybody else 512 00:29:07,680 --> 00:29:10,360 Speaker 3: can't rise from the grave. Everybody else didn't going to 513 00:29:10,400 --> 00:29:12,960 Speaker 3: be there for you in the midnight hour. Everybody else 514 00:29:13,000 --> 00:29:17,120 Speaker 3: didn't make you knit. You call you, choose, you gift. 515 00:29:17,160 --> 00:29:20,000 Speaker 3: You don't let them label you. Don't even let them 516 00:29:20,040 --> 00:29:21,680 Speaker 3: tell you what kind of kid you need to be 517 00:29:21,760 --> 00:29:24,600 Speaker 3: to be cool. I'm not concerned with you being cool. 518 00:29:24,840 --> 00:29:27,560 Speaker 3: I'm concerned with you being called. I'm concerned with a 519 00:29:27,600 --> 00:29:30,400 Speaker 3: God who can raise you up and make your name great. 520 00:29:30,600 --> 00:29:32,400 Speaker 1: And I'm concerned. 521 00:29:31,960 --> 00:29:34,760 Speaker 3: With a God whose name is greater than any other name. 522 00:29:34,960 --> 00:29:37,440 Speaker 3: And That's what I'm concerned about in this season of 523 00:29:37,480 --> 00:29:41,040 Speaker 3: my life, not what they label me. I don't care 524 00:29:41,200 --> 00:29:44,440 Speaker 3: what they say about me. I don't care what they 525 00:29:44,480 --> 00:29:47,720 Speaker 3: say about my preaching. I care when I close this 526 00:29:47,840 --> 00:29:50,800 Speaker 3: Bible today? Did I say the word of the Lord? 527 00:29:51,160 --> 00:29:53,600 Speaker 3: Did I speak the word of the Lord? Did I 528 00:29:53,720 --> 00:29:56,400 Speaker 3: say what God gave me to say the best I 529 00:29:56,440 --> 00:29:59,760 Speaker 3: could say it with a stammering tongue and a limited 530 00:30:00,040 --> 00:30:03,480 Speaker 3: vocabulary and a monkst corner South Carolina accent. 531 00:30:04,040 --> 00:30:05,960 Speaker 4: Did I say the word of the Lord? 532 00:30:06,360 --> 00:30:09,240 Speaker 3: Not how somebody else said it, not how I should 533 00:30:09,280 --> 00:30:11,200 Speaker 3: say it, not how I would say it if. 534 00:30:11,120 --> 00:30:11,840 Speaker 1: I was smarter. 535 00:30:12,280 --> 00:30:14,440 Speaker 3: Did I say it to the limit of my IQ? 536 00:30:15,120 --> 00:30:22,640 Speaker 3: Did I speak the words of God? And when the 537 00:30:22,680 --> 00:30:25,560 Speaker 3: word of the Lord came to this man, it was 538 00:30:25,760 --> 00:30:29,760 Speaker 3: so personal. The Bible says something that I think you 539 00:30:29,840 --> 00:30:32,600 Speaker 3: need to see before you hear what Jesus said to him. 540 00:30:32,920 --> 00:30:35,600 Speaker 3: I want to show you something. In John chapter five, 541 00:30:35,720 --> 00:30:38,160 Speaker 3: verse five, This is the part that made me cry 542 00:30:38,440 --> 00:30:46,040 Speaker 3: when it says when Jesus saw him, excuse me, that's 543 00:30:46,120 --> 00:30:52,360 Speaker 3: verse six. That's verse six, when Jesus saw him. Go 544 00:30:52,440 --> 00:30:57,520 Speaker 3: back to verse five. Though one was lying there now 545 00:30:57,720 --> 00:31:04,160 Speaker 3: lying is not his name, is his label. That's the 546 00:31:04,200 --> 00:31:08,640 Speaker 3: condition he was in. And he was lying on a 547 00:31:08,720 --> 00:31:13,080 Speaker 3: mat that was not his name, could have been. It 548 00:31:13,240 --> 00:31:16,800 Speaker 3: is a name, but it's not his name. It's where 549 00:31:16,840 --> 00:31:20,840 Speaker 3: he is, not who he is. I'm gonna preach this, Lord. 550 00:31:21,040 --> 00:31:23,120 Speaker 3: I am going to preach this just like you showed me, 551 00:31:23,600 --> 00:31:27,400 Speaker 3: because it was so beautiful how the Lord showed me 552 00:31:27,440 --> 00:31:30,920 Speaker 3: in verse six. The key to all of this is 553 00:31:31,080 --> 00:31:36,120 Speaker 3: when Jesus saw him justin circle. 554 00:31:36,160 --> 00:31:37,040 Speaker 1: The word him. 555 00:31:38,440 --> 00:31:43,320 Speaker 3: Now contrasts that when Jesus walked by. There's a blind person. 556 00:31:43,520 --> 00:31:46,240 Speaker 3: There's a person who can't move. There's another person I'm 557 00:31:46,240 --> 00:31:48,640 Speaker 3: not sure of their condition. There's somebody who's only been 558 00:31:48,640 --> 00:31:50,920 Speaker 3: at the pool two weeks. Here's somebody who's been here 559 00:31:50,960 --> 00:31:55,080 Speaker 3: two years. Here's someone who has been here thirty eight years. 560 00:31:55,120 --> 00:31:57,840 Speaker 3: I'm speaking to somebody today, and this is not your 561 00:31:57,920 --> 00:31:59,680 Speaker 3: first day in this situation. 562 00:32:00,240 --> 00:32:02,120 Speaker 1: This is not your first frustration. 563 00:32:02,600 --> 00:32:08,200 Speaker 3: That's all right, because the Bible says that Jesus saw him. 564 00:32:08,480 --> 00:32:09,840 Speaker 1: I still got to show you what I mean. 565 00:32:10,160 --> 00:32:15,160 Speaker 3: It says that Jesus saw him lying there. Now, if 566 00:32:15,200 --> 00:32:19,120 Speaker 3: you fast forward, when the man gets up, the religious 567 00:32:19,240 --> 00:32:23,320 Speaker 3: leaders see the man, but they see him a little differently. 568 00:32:23,760 --> 00:32:25,160 Speaker 1: They label him differently. 569 00:32:25,560 --> 00:32:28,640 Speaker 3: They label him according to his condition, and they label 570 00:32:28,720 --> 00:32:32,640 Speaker 3: him according to their expectation. The Sabbath was supposed to 571 00:32:32,640 --> 00:32:34,920 Speaker 3: be a day of no work, but they see him 572 00:32:34,960 --> 00:32:37,920 Speaker 3: carrying a mat. The Sabbath was not a day where 573 00:32:37,960 --> 00:32:40,320 Speaker 3: you can't make up your bed. The Sabbath was a 574 00:32:40,400 --> 00:32:42,880 Speaker 3: day where you couldn't do commerce in the city. But 575 00:32:43,000 --> 00:32:47,600 Speaker 3: they've twisted it, they have labeled it. Their label has 576 00:32:47,680 --> 00:32:50,760 Speaker 3: become a lie. Did you know that religion will always 577 00:32:50,880 --> 00:32:53,720 Speaker 3: try to label something that the Lord gave you, and 578 00:32:53,840 --> 00:32:56,160 Speaker 3: instead of using it to lift a burden, it will 579 00:32:56,160 --> 00:32:59,320 Speaker 3: create one. So you begin to see God as the 580 00:32:59,320 --> 00:33:01,560 Speaker 3: person who's perpetually disappointed in you. 581 00:33:01,960 --> 00:33:03,600 Speaker 1: God is not disappointed in you. 582 00:33:04,000 --> 00:33:07,080 Speaker 3: How can he be disappointed in what he appointed? If 583 00:33:07,120 --> 00:33:09,640 Speaker 3: he called you, that means he knew you would be 584 00:33:09,720 --> 00:33:12,959 Speaker 3: in this situation before you were in this situation. You 585 00:33:13,000 --> 00:33:16,120 Speaker 3: think you can surprise God. You think God's like I 586 00:33:16,160 --> 00:33:18,480 Speaker 3: wish I would have done a scouting report on them. 587 00:33:18,840 --> 00:33:22,480 Speaker 3: You think God is somehow mesmerized by your weakness? Now 588 00:33:22,520 --> 00:33:26,440 Speaker 3: people are People are very different the religious leaders in 589 00:33:26,520 --> 00:33:29,720 Speaker 3: verse ten, they have their focus somewhere completely different. 590 00:33:29,960 --> 00:33:31,200 Speaker 1: The Bible says that the. 591 00:33:31,200 --> 00:33:34,680 Speaker 3: Jewish leaders said to the man who had been healed, 592 00:33:35,000 --> 00:33:38,120 Speaker 3: it is the Sabbath, the law forbids. 593 00:33:37,680 --> 00:33:41,560 Speaker 1: You to carry your mat. Now, ho on, I'm confused. 594 00:33:42,120 --> 00:33:46,080 Speaker 3: They are looking at a man and they are talking 595 00:33:46,200 --> 00:33:52,320 Speaker 3: about a mat. How can they only see the mat 596 00:33:53,320 --> 00:33:57,760 Speaker 3: and not the man? No, no, no, I'm honestly asking 597 00:33:58,560 --> 00:34:04,520 Speaker 3: how can they see a man who has never walked before? 598 00:34:05,560 --> 00:34:08,799 Speaker 1: If he's thirty eight years old. Maybe he did walk a. 599 00:34:08,800 --> 00:34:11,799 Speaker 3: Little while before those thirty eight years, we don't know. 600 00:34:12,480 --> 00:34:16,040 Speaker 3: But for almost forty years he hasn't been able to walk. 601 00:34:16,760 --> 00:34:19,080 Speaker 1: And he's walking and they. 602 00:34:18,960 --> 00:34:24,000 Speaker 3: Walk up to him and say, hey, you can't do that, and. 603 00:34:23,960 --> 00:34:27,440 Speaker 4: He's like, I know. I didn't think I could either. 604 00:34:28,080 --> 00:34:30,759 Speaker 3: But I met a man had he walked by me 605 00:34:31,320 --> 00:34:32,480 Speaker 3: that he stopped for me. 606 00:34:33,040 --> 00:34:34,120 Speaker 1: Keeddy talked to me. 607 00:34:34,800 --> 00:34:38,239 Speaker 4: Eddy told me that get up God, take it up 608 00:34:38,680 --> 00:34:42,960 Speaker 4: and walk. He I'm walking in the power of his words. 609 00:34:43,320 --> 00:34:47,279 Speaker 7: And I'm walking in the potential of a brighter tomorrow 610 00:34:47,800 --> 00:34:50,280 Speaker 7: and I'm living in the life. 611 00:34:51,560 --> 00:34:54,520 Speaker 4: Of a new day. 612 00:34:55,960 --> 00:34:57,120 Speaker 1: I'm just speculating. 613 00:34:57,440 --> 00:35:00,840 Speaker 3: I think this man started singing at this point. I 614 00:35:00,880 --> 00:35:04,240 Speaker 3: think he started singing, look at what the Lord has done. 615 00:35:04,760 --> 00:35:07,160 Speaker 4: I'm never going back to the way. 616 00:35:08,080 --> 00:35:10,800 Speaker 3: That's why I got my mat, because I'm not going 617 00:35:10,960 --> 00:35:15,239 Speaker 3: back saying, not going back, saying, not going back. 618 00:35:15,360 --> 00:35:17,920 Speaker 4: Give on my spot cause. 619 00:35:17,719 --> 00:35:23,480 Speaker 3: I'm cause I'm take my man because I'm all right. 620 00:35:23,560 --> 00:35:25,239 Speaker 1: We need to work on y'all's rhythm and call it 621 00:35:25,320 --> 00:35:25,720 Speaker 1: the spot. 622 00:35:30,160 --> 00:35:34,560 Speaker 8: My man is walking, and you're talking about a math. 623 00:35:35,760 --> 00:35:40,520 Speaker 8: I'm a practice. You're talking about a mac. I'm a man. 624 00:35:41,360 --> 00:35:44,880 Speaker 3: You can't see the man for the math. And it 625 00:35:44,960 --> 00:35:48,840 Speaker 3: makes me wonder, what's your mat that I can't see? 626 00:35:49,120 --> 00:36:00,200 Speaker 3: That's got you magnifying mind? This man has to be singing. 627 00:36:00,760 --> 00:36:01,600 Speaker 1: Carrying a mat. 628 00:36:01,680 --> 00:36:04,720 Speaker 3: He's not going back to the place he's been for 629 00:36:04,840 --> 00:36:06,120 Speaker 3: thirty eight years. 630 00:36:06,160 --> 00:36:10,600 Speaker 1: That isn't working anymore. Man, he's happy too. 631 00:36:11,239 --> 00:36:14,480 Speaker 3: He's happy carrying that man because he's holding something that's 632 00:36:14,520 --> 00:36:19,400 Speaker 3: been holding him his whole life. 633 00:36:23,400 --> 00:36:26,160 Speaker 1: Boy, he's happy. He turns around. Goodbye. 634 00:36:26,680 --> 00:36:34,640 Speaker 3: Yes today five covered colonades. Goodbye colonades, y'all missed it. 635 00:36:35,760 --> 00:36:38,359 Speaker 4: I'm living in the line of a new day. 636 00:36:39,320 --> 00:36:42,120 Speaker 6: I won't waste another then in on my oldways. 637 00:36:43,120 --> 00:36:44,240 Speaker 1: Praise the Lord. 638 00:36:44,719 --> 00:36:48,200 Speaker 3: He's not even saved yet, not even born again. He 639 00:36:48,239 --> 00:36:51,560 Speaker 3: don't even know it is Jesus yet. He doesn't find 640 00:36:51,600 --> 00:36:53,360 Speaker 3: that out until later. 641 00:36:56,400 --> 00:36:56,640 Speaker 1: See. 642 00:36:56,680 --> 00:37:00,160 Speaker 3: Sometimes God does it now, but you pray. 643 00:37:00,440 --> 00:37:04,680 Speaker 4: Later because you didn't even know he was doing it. 644 00:37:05,280 --> 00:37:09,200 Speaker 3: That's the tide I feel God saying, praise. 645 00:37:09,040 --> 00:37:12,000 Speaker 5: Me now and I'll explain it later. 646 00:37:17,080 --> 00:37:20,880 Speaker 3: My man is walking talking about I'm dancing on the 647 00:37:21,080 --> 00:37:24,480 Speaker 3: I'm carry and the mat that I want Slade on 648 00:37:25,120 --> 00:37:29,279 Speaker 3: Carrie and the mat that I want Slade carry and 649 00:37:29,400 --> 00:37:31,000 Speaker 3: the mat that I want. 650 00:37:30,840 --> 00:37:33,239 Speaker 6: Slade or carrying the mat. 651 00:37:34,080 --> 00:37:35,320 Speaker 4: I mean this man ain't heavy. 652 00:37:35,560 --> 00:37:39,360 Speaker 3: Carrie in the batter carry. 653 00:37:40,320 --> 00:37:45,680 Speaker 4: Yeah, you can't do that. You can't do that, Yes 654 00:37:45,800 --> 00:37:46,239 Speaker 4: I can. 655 00:37:47,400 --> 00:37:51,399 Speaker 1: We're not doing the stairs. Get up, and here's the pharisee. 656 00:37:51,640 --> 00:37:56,920 Speaker 3: He's like, carrying the mat, you can't do that. No, 657 00:37:57,080 --> 00:38:01,840 Speaker 3: you're doing it wrong, carrying that I want. 658 00:38:02,040 --> 00:38:03,480 Speaker 1: You can't do that. 659 00:38:03,719 --> 00:38:07,759 Speaker 6: No, you're doing it wrong, carrying the men where I. 660 00:38:07,800 --> 00:38:11,279 Speaker 3: Used to like, you can't do that because this is 661 00:38:11,320 --> 00:38:12,080 Speaker 3: the wrong day. 662 00:38:13,000 --> 00:38:14,200 Speaker 1: No, we got confrontation. 663 00:38:18,120 --> 00:38:20,040 Speaker 4: Y'all don't know how to act in church? 664 00:38:21,080 --> 00:38:25,160 Speaker 3: What kind of churches? What kind of churches? 665 00:38:25,360 --> 00:38:29,840 Speaker 7: This this is the house my mercy. 666 00:38:30,840 --> 00:38:36,440 Speaker 4: This is a place stark gray. This is a place 667 00:38:37,400 --> 00:38:39,839 Speaker 4: where I am not what I did. 668 00:38:40,920 --> 00:38:42,840 Speaker 3: I am not what I was. 669 00:38:43,760 --> 00:38:46,560 Speaker 5: I am who fled. 670 00:38:47,080 --> 00:39:04,319 Speaker 6: Said by, can't do that, can't do that, just no way, 671 00:39:04,840 --> 00:39:07,560 Speaker 6: can't do that new loop. 672 00:39:08,320 --> 00:39:10,080 Speaker 1: I listen to that. 673 00:39:10,480 --> 00:39:16,160 Speaker 9: Man said, I'm making this up on the car, off 674 00:39:16,200 --> 00:39:20,279 Speaker 9: the cough. I don't know if it's any good. But 675 00:39:20,560 --> 00:39:27,040 Speaker 9: they said, the law says you can't. The man said, 676 00:39:27,920 --> 00:39:30,319 Speaker 9: the word says. 677 00:39:33,160 --> 00:39:38,520 Speaker 1: Otherwise. Somebody shout otherwise otherwise. 678 00:39:40,040 --> 00:39:42,960 Speaker 3: And the hand of the Lord was upon me, and 679 00:39:43,120 --> 00:39:46,560 Speaker 3: he took me down to the valley, and the valley 680 00:39:46,760 --> 00:39:51,120 Speaker 3: was full of bones, and they were very dried. And 681 00:39:51,320 --> 00:39:55,960 Speaker 3: the bones said death, and the bones said over. But 682 00:39:56,160 --> 00:40:02,120 Speaker 3: the word said otherwise, And God said, proph aside to 683 00:40:02,320 --> 00:40:08,719 Speaker 3: the poems, prophosy to the marriage, prophesie to the bankruptcy, 684 00:40:09,320 --> 00:40:15,040 Speaker 3: prophosy to the depression, proph aside to the blindness, proph 685 00:40:15,080 --> 00:40:20,040 Speaker 3: aside to the lameness, A prophesie to your legs. I 686 00:40:20,280 --> 00:40:25,320 Speaker 3: propheside to your righteousness in Christ. I prophesy, there is 687 00:40:25,440 --> 00:40:28,080 Speaker 3: a better word than condemnation. 688 00:40:29,040 --> 00:40:33,319 Speaker 5: Shame said died, But God said. 689 00:40:33,680 --> 00:40:47,080 Speaker 7: Bo, I'm dancing on the grind. I'm dancing on the 690 00:40:47,200 --> 00:40:50,920 Speaker 7: grasd I'm dancing on the grass. 691 00:40:52,440 --> 00:40:57,920 Speaker 1: You can't do that. You can't dance in church. You 692 00:40:58,080 --> 00:41:00,640 Speaker 1: can't be happy you're going through hell. 693 00:41:07,600 --> 00:41:14,520 Speaker 4: I might be in it, but it is not in me. 694 00:41:16,480 --> 00:41:21,120 Speaker 4: I'm not my mad. I'm not my mad. I'm not 695 00:41:21,360 --> 00:41:26,320 Speaker 4: my bad decision. I'm not my shame. I'm not see abuse. 696 00:41:26,960 --> 00:41:28,240 Speaker 1: I'm not my past. 697 00:41:28,920 --> 00:41:30,319 Speaker 4: I'm not myself. 698 00:41:31,000 --> 00:41:31,600 Speaker 9: I am. 699 00:41:33,040 --> 00:41:34,280 Speaker 3: No what he loves. 700 00:41:35,080 --> 00:41:40,200 Speaker 4: I'm for what he stopped five for. And I'm dass 701 00:41:40,320 --> 00:41:41,200 Speaker 4: then on the grad. 702 00:41:42,920 --> 00:41:44,480 Speaker 7: I'm dascing on the grave. 703 00:41:46,080 --> 00:41:46,800 Speaker 4: I'm bassing. 704 00:41:47,560 --> 00:41:50,560 Speaker 2: You can't death, you got moves. 705 00:41:52,239 --> 00:41:56,640 Speaker 4: Show me your church dass yet, I'm on your feet 706 00:41:56,719 --> 00:41:59,879 Speaker 4: and pray for shut up in hot. 707 00:42:11,800 --> 00:42:16,040 Speaker 1: You can't do that. You can't dance on a grave. 708 00:42:17,600 --> 00:42:19,240 Speaker 1: You can't get beauty for ashes. 709 00:42:20,960 --> 00:42:23,160 Speaker 3: You can't be grateful when you still got a kid 710 00:42:23,200 --> 00:42:24,480 Speaker 3: who's far away from God. 711 00:42:25,520 --> 00:42:27,600 Speaker 1: You can't keep worshiping through tears. 712 00:42:28,520 --> 00:42:31,640 Speaker 3: You can't keep trusting that God is good through cancer. 713 00:42:32,239 --> 00:42:33,080 Speaker 4: You can't do that. 714 00:42:34,520 --> 00:42:35,520 Speaker 3: But the word. 715 00:42:36,760 --> 00:42:37,879 Speaker 4: Says otherwise. 716 00:42:39,440 --> 00:42:47,560 Speaker 5: I said, no words set otherwise, the stone set dead, 717 00:42:48,800 --> 00:42:52,279 Speaker 5: but no word says right. 718 00:42:55,920 --> 00:42:58,560 Speaker 10: Get up, get up, get up, get out of gray, 719 00:42:58,920 --> 00:43:06,360 Speaker 10: get up, get up, get get up, get up, get up, get. 720 00:43:06,280 --> 00:43:19,000 Speaker 4: Up, see awesome. 721 00:43:20,480 --> 00:43:27,839 Speaker 2: Get Thank you for joining us. 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