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Speaker 1: Hey, thank you for listening to Elevation with Stephen Furtick.

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Speaker 2: You know what the Lord showed us on our campus

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Speaker 2: pastor call this week? That the glory of the latter

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Speaker 2: house will be greater than the glory of the former house. Well,

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Speaker 2: what in the world does that mean? I mean, God

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Speaker 2: said that through the prophet to some exiles who were

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Speaker 2: coming back and rebuilding the temple, and it was so

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Speaker 2: small compared to Solomon's temple and so plain and so simple.

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Speaker 2: It says that the people who saw Solomon's temple started crying.

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Speaker 2: They were crying so much that the people who were shouting,

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Speaker 2: because they never had a temple at all before, were like,

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Speaker 2: This is awesome. This is amazing. This is a house

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Speaker 2: for God. This is a place we can meet with him.

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Speaker 2: They couldn't be heard above the weeping of those who

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Speaker 2: could only compare what they were looking at with what.

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Speaker 3: Was before it.

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Speaker 2: So God said, I don't want you to look at

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Speaker 2: it and compare it to the old temple. I believe

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Speaker 2: he's saying that to somebody in this room. I don't

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Speaker 2: want you to compare what I'm doing in your life

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Speaker 2: right now to what I did in your life in

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Speaker 2: a previous season when you didn't have a bad knee.

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Speaker 2: I'm preaching to the over 40 now. I know you

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Speaker 2: used to be the star-wide receiver in Villain, Texas, but

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Speaker 2: right now I need you to understand it's not what

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Speaker 2: the temple is made of. I told our campus pastors,

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Speaker 2: even as our church is kind of coming back …

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Speaker 2: You know, after the pandemic, it takes time for people

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Speaker 2: to come back, so a lot of the buildings don't

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Speaker 2: look like they did before that thing that happened, which

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Speaker 2: I can't say, because then they'll take it out of

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Speaker 2: the YouTube algorithm, so I'm going to just beep it out. Then,

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Speaker 2: if you look at what it is right now and

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Speaker 2: try to compare it to what it was, you missed

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Speaker 2: the whole point. He said, the glory of the latter house,

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Speaker 2: what I'm doing right now, he's pointing to Jesus, will

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Speaker 2: be greater than the glory of the former house.

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Speaker 3: This is what I told them.

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Speaker 2: Don't look for the gold.

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Speaker 3: Look for the glory.

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Speaker 2: The gold is the external. That's Solomon's temple. Look for

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Speaker 2: the glory. What God is doing right now, he's trying

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Speaker 2: to get you to attenuate your mind to what he

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Speaker 2: is filling you with.

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Speaker 3: What do you want to be filled with?

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Speaker 2: Do you want to be filled with fear?

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Speaker 3: Do you want to be filled with depression?

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Speaker 2: All you have to do, if that's what you want

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Speaker 2: to do, is just do everything you see the world doing. Okay?

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Speaker 2: But if you want to be filled with joy unspeakable,

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Speaker 2: full of glory in the Holy.

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Speaker 4: Ghost, you can't… Oh, God!

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Speaker 2: I'm going to start my sermon right now.

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Speaker 4: Watch this.

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Speaker 2: You can't do what the world does and get what

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Speaker 2: the Word says.

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Speaker 4: So, are you ready for the Word of God?

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Speaker 2: I want you on your feet in the ready position.

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Speaker 2: I am going to pick up where I left off

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Speaker 2: last week.

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Speaker 4: Somebody shout, copy that.

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Speaker 2: Copy that. That was the last thing in my sermon

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Speaker 2: last week. So, let's pick up with the Scripture I

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Speaker 2: mentioned last week, but I didn't get to mine it.

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Speaker 3: Hebrews 13, verse 7.

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Speaker 2: In case your feet hurt from standing, I only have

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Speaker 2: one verse, then you can sit down. Did anybody come

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Speaker 2: to church from over 100 miles away today? What?

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Speaker 4: For real?

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Speaker 2: Where from? I love that place. That's one of my

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Speaker 3: I didn't hear a word they said.

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Speaker 2: Anybody come from over 500 miles? Y'all remember the song

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Speaker 2: from the 90s? We're really going to get YouTube flagged.

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Speaker 2: It's a great worship song, right?

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Speaker 3: How about all the new songs we've been singing? You've

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Speaker 2: Lately, we've been getting in these writing rooms and just

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Speaker 2: wanting to sing the Word of God. You probably didn't

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Speaker 2: hear it if you're watching this later, but we just

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Speaker 3: I'm going to talk a little.

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Speaker 2: Bit about my dad today in the sermon. I'm going

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Speaker 2: to tell you some of the good stuff, but the

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Speaker 2: bad stuff or whatever is just going to be what

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Speaker 2: it is. One memory of my dad that's really precious

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Speaker 2: to me is He loved, my mom can tell you,

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Speaker 2: the Sermon on the Mount, Matthew 5, 6, and 7.

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Speaker 2: I was thinking, when we were writing that song where

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Speaker 2: we just go through the Beatitudes, and just singing those scriptures,

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Speaker 2: I was thinking, man, the L train would love this.

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Speaker 2: He'd be running laps.

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Speaker 3: It's just exciting.

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Speaker 2: We're going to be recording some new songs on October 6,

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Speaker 2: so you're all invited for that.

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Speaker 3: Also, you're all invited.

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Speaker 4: To Elevation Nights. We're going to take this glory on

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Speaker 4: the road.

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Speaker 3: That's right. I'm going to do it.

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Speaker 2: If you're in Atlanta, Nashville, Tulsa, Fort Worth, Houston, Orlando, Sunrise,

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Speaker 2: or Jacksonville, come on out. That's October 26th through November 4th. ElevationNights.com.

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Speaker 2: They don't have to come from 500 miles will come

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Speaker 2: to you.

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Speaker 3: It's going to be so exciting.

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Speaker 4: Welcome, welcome, welcome. Wow.

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Speaker 3: Look at you. You walk and talk in miracle. You

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Speaker 3: live and breathe in miracle.

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Speaker 2: The devil is so confused because you're praising God after

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Speaker 2: all he put you through this week. He's like flipping out.

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Speaker 2: He's summoning all his little junior demons like, I thought

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Speaker 2: I told you to attack them. They're like, I didn't,

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Speaker 2: but the angels came.

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Speaker 4: The angels came.

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Speaker 2: The angels came and they.

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Speaker 4: Made it.

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Speaker 2: Hebrews 13. Verse 7. Remember your leaders who spoke the

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Speaker 2: way of life and imitate their faith. Say my title

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Speaker 2: one more time to your neighbor. Copy that. You may

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Speaker 2: be seated. How many of you heard the sermon last week?

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Speaker 2: Y'all do know they're free online, right? So if you

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Speaker 2: ever sleep in or can't be here, make sure you

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Speaker 2: catch up. A lot of times it's on the second

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Speaker 2: listen that you really get what God wanted to say

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Speaker 2: to you, because on the first listen you're kind of

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Speaker 2: judging me like, if I agree with this, what are

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Speaker 2: those shoes? Just looking at stupid stuff. Then sometimes on

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Speaker 2: the second time, it's not the distractions, but.

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Speaker 3: It goes deeper.

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Speaker 2: You go, oh, I got it on one level. I

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Speaker 2: got it on the second lesson. There's a value in repetition.

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Speaker 2: There's also a danger in repetition. I felt like my

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Speaker 2: sermon last week was a little more on the negative side.

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Speaker 2: I'm not apologizing for it, because I took it from

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Speaker 2: the Bible, where God warned Moses.

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Speaker 3: It says he warned him, and I was warning you.

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Speaker 2: Make sure or see to it that you build according

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Speaker 2: to the pattern that was shown you on the mountain.

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Speaker 2: That's where God met with Moses and showed him.

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Speaker 3: How to build the tabernacle.

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Speaker 2: Holy of Holies, table of showbread, all that stuff he

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Speaker 2: down to where the people were. I always had these

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Speaker 2: up my ideas of ministry. They don't do it like

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Speaker 2: you tell them to. They don't run to first base,

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Speaker 2: then second base, then third base. You see them over

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Speaker 2: there climbing the fence, playing in the dirt and stuff.

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Speaker 2: That's me too, right? That's me too. That's tricky to

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Speaker 2: here today? Worship leaders. Let's start there. Worship leaders. Really?

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Speaker 2: I want to ask that again, but this time I

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Speaker 2: want every parent to raise your hand. How many worship

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Speaker 2: leaders do we have here today? Whether you want to

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Speaker 2: or not, you are teaching your children Not only how

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Speaker 2: to worship, Some of that you're teaching them as well.

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Speaker 2: If you're kind of a one-hand-in-the-pocket handlifter, they'll probably do

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Speaker 2: the same thing. It's also true that you're teaching them

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Speaker 2: what to worship. Every time you set the schedule to say, well,

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Speaker 2: we'll go to church if.

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Speaker 3: We have time … I just felt an arctic.

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Speaker 2: Wind into this place.

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Speaker 3: It's true.

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Speaker 2: I'm so grateful Christy Collins pulled out her iPhone and

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Speaker 2: captured this video I'm about to show you. I feel

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Speaker 2: most of the time like I'm failing as the dad.

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Speaker 4: I'm wired.

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Speaker 2: I'm hardwired to be hard on myself. Some of you

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Speaker 2: Holly is really good about it, too. She's always sending

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Speaker 2: me these time hops. Do y'all do time hops where

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Speaker 2: it shows you, this is what you were doing five

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Speaker 2: The Charlotte Knights game with the boys just to remind me,

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Speaker 2: you're a good dad.

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Speaker 3: You're a good dad, and I need that.

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Speaker 2: But what Christie captured … We were doing our recording

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Speaker 2: with Elevation Worship in Maverick City called Old Church Basement.

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Speaker 2: I sat right there with my kids on that ledge.

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Speaker 2: Our whole family was on that ledge. The building still

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Speaker 2: wasn't fully open. We COVID-tested, made this album. It's touched

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Speaker 2: the world. It's probably one of my favorite things I

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Speaker 2: But the greatest part of the night wasn't on YouTube.

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Speaker 2: The greatest parts never are. The greatest part was when

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Speaker 2: we were recording the song, Wait on You. I trust

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Speaker 2: You have to aggressively wait on the Lord. When I

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Speaker 2: just couldn't take it anymore, and we were about 37

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Speaker 2: and I ran down, and I couldn't take it anymore.

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Speaker 2: I looked up, and Abby was standing beside me. Now,

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Speaker 2: my children are very competitive. Last week, I baptized Graham.

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Speaker 2: I called him up on stage. I gave him a speech.

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Speaker 2: I gave him a Bible, and Abby said, That.

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Speaker 2: When am I going to be in a sermon again?

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Speaker 2: So I picked this out because it fit with my

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Speaker 2: theme of copy that.

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Speaker 3: Watch this little 50-second video. I love this.

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Speaker 4: I like that one.

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Speaker 3: I favorited that one on my phone. I could see

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Speaker 3: it in those moments. Do you know those moments?

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Speaker 2: I will interview your wife this week and talk about

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Speaker 2: those moments next week if you don't nod your head

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Speaker 2: an example, a better example? I want to go ahead

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Speaker 3: The question I've been thinking.

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Speaker 3: We need more leaders in the world today, less opinions.

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Speaker 2: I wonder what happened five minutes after they took that picture.

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Speaker 2: Let's talk about five minutes after. One day in church,

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Speaker 2: I was so sick of, like, preachers always trying to

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Speaker 2: I'll be up here, 75 years old, dragging my right

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Speaker 2: It's cringey when you're a dad of three and you're

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Speaker 4: You got it. You got game. You know what you got?

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Speaker 2: You have a risen Savior who set an example for you.

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Speaker 2: so that you can copy that. Since that is in you,

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Speaker 3: Look at me.

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Speaker 2: I turned out all right.

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Speaker 2: Maybe it just hasn't caught up.

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Speaker 2: Like, well, I yell and cuss at my kids. My

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Speaker 4: You're all right.

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Speaker 3: I'm watching you right now.

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Speaker 4: I'm seeing there's a little bit.

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Speaker 2: How do you copy what you never saw? And he said,

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Speaker 2: the devil isn't very creative. God is a creator. The

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Speaker 3: I messed that up. I'm going to do this again.

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Speaker 2: The love of the world is the lust of the flesh,

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Speaker 2: the same yesterday, today, and forever. A lot of times

440
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Speaker 2: we think we're facing a brand new temptation, but we're not.

441
00:27:24,090 --> 00:27:31,490
Speaker 2: It's just the same Devil in a different disguise. I

442
00:27:31,530 --> 00:27:33,930
Speaker 2: love helping my kids navigate their life the best I can,

443
00:27:33,970 --> 00:27:38,030
Speaker 2: but it's tricky sometimes because we didn't have Snapchat, we

444
00:27:38,050 --> 00:27:41,960
Speaker 2: didn't have TikTok, but the same Devil that was busy

445
00:27:42,020 --> 00:27:47,120
Speaker 2: on TikTok was busy on DOS or the rotary phone

446
00:27:47,200 --> 00:27:51,840
Speaker 2: or fax machine or whatever you did with your messaging.

447
00:27:52,460 --> 00:27:56,359
Speaker 3: Pigeon. It's the same Devil. Everybody say, it's the same Devil.

448
00:27:57,960 --> 00:28:01,950
Speaker 2: The same three things you're tempted with that derail you

449
00:28:02,010 --> 00:28:04,229
Speaker 2: and sabotage you and bring you back down and get

450
00:28:04,250 --> 00:28:05,630
Speaker 2: you out of the pattern God showed you on the mountain,

451
00:28:05,910 --> 00:28:08,730
Speaker 2: it's the same three things. It's in Matthew 4. Jesus

452
00:28:08,770 --> 00:28:11,090
Speaker 2: goes to the wilderness to be tempted by the Devil.

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Speaker 2: Last week when I finished, Graham, you remember, this is

454
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Speaker 2: my son I love, whom I'm well pleased.

455
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Speaker 3: Graham is so funny.

456
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Speaker 2: I said, do you want a special meal after we

457
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Speaker 2: baptize you? He said, Jesus didn't get a special meal.

458
00:28:24,800 --> 00:28:26,240
Speaker 2: I'll eat whatever everybody else is eating.

459
00:28:26,260 --> 00:28:31,000
Speaker 3: Jesus didn't get special milk. He's so stupid. All right.

460
00:28:32,540 --> 00:28:34,520
Speaker 3: He wasn't saying it because he was holy. He just

461
00:28:34,540 --> 00:28:35,240
Speaker 3: was making a joke.

462
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Speaker 2: The next thing that happened in Matthew chapter 4… Everybody say,

463
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Speaker 2: copy that. So, the affirmation of the Father and then

464
00:28:44,030 --> 00:28:49,490
Speaker 2: the temptation from the enemy. This is a pattern you

465
00:28:49,510 --> 00:28:53,470
Speaker 2: can copy to be affirmed by your Father in heaven.

466
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Speaker 2: so that when you are tempted by your enemy in

467
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Speaker 2: the wilderness, you will have at your core your knowing

468
00:29:01,240 --> 00:29:07,480
Speaker 2: of who you are. Jesus was then led by the

469
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Speaker 2: Spirit in the wilderness to be tempted by the Devil,

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Speaker 2: and after fasting 40 days and 40 nights … You

471
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Speaker 2: didn't do that, Graham.

472
00:29:16,330 --> 00:29:17,070
Speaker 3: He was hungry.

473
00:29:18,660 --> 00:29:20,820
Speaker 2: The tempter came to him and said, If you are

474
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Speaker 2: the Son of God, tell these stones to become bread.

475
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Speaker 3: I know you know this Scripture, but let's just move

476
00:29:25,630 --> 00:29:27,450
Speaker 3: through it, because there's a lesson here for today.

477
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Speaker 2: Jesus answered, It is written, Man shall not live on

478
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Speaker 2: bread alone, but on every word that comes from the

479
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Speaker 2: mouth of God. Then the devil took him up to

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Speaker 2: the holy city, and had him stand on the highest

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Speaker 2: point of the temple. If you are the Son of God,

482
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Speaker 2: he said, throw yourself down. Prove yourself.

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Speaker 3: Show everybody what you can do.

484
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Speaker 4: If you have it, flaunt it.

485
00:29:55,680 --> 00:29:59,520
Speaker 2: Go ahead and show everybody who you really are. You

486
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Speaker 2: have to make it happen for yourself. For it is written,

487
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Speaker 2: he will command his angels concerning you, and they will

488
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Speaker 2: lift you up in their hands, so that you will

489
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Speaker 2: not strike your foot against a stone. Jesus answered him,

490
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Speaker 2: It is also written, Do not put the Lord your.

491
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Speaker 3: God to the test.

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Speaker 2: One more. Now we've already seen the lust of the

493
00:30:21,570 --> 00:30:24,660
Speaker 2: flesh turn the stones into bread. That's when you try

494
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Speaker 2: to turn things into things they were not meant to be.

495
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Speaker 2: That's when you try to turn sex into an object

496
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Speaker 2: to gratify a spiritual need so that rather in the

497
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Speaker 2: context of marriage ….

498
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Speaker 3: Expressing your sexuality. You express it in places.

499
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Speaker 2: Where it spills over and contaminates all the places of

500
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Speaker 2: your life because it creates commitments that are not rooted

501
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Speaker 2: in covenant but are rather rooted in convenience and pleasure,

502
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Speaker 2: and so then the enemy can rip you out because

503
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Speaker 2: you turned a stone into bread. This is when we

504
00:30:52,510 --> 00:30:56,590
Speaker 2: go seeking for people's validations. When our Father's voice is

505
00:30:56,650 --> 00:30:59,630
Speaker 2: not enough, When we didn't have a leader that spoke

506
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Speaker 2: the word of God over us, then we are open

507
00:31:02,400 --> 00:31:05,080
Speaker 2: to what the world thinks about us, and we will

508
00:31:05,140 --> 00:31:11,320
Speaker 2: change everything until we get the exact compliment, the exact affirmation,

509
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Speaker 2: the exact validation.

510
00:31:12,560 --> 00:31:13,520
Speaker 3: We were looking for.

511
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Speaker 2: That's the lust of the flesh, the lust of the eyes,

512
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Speaker 2: and the pride of life. This one right here …

513
00:31:24,750 --> 00:31:25,490
Speaker 2: I've dealt with this a.

514
00:31:25,470 --> 00:31:25,990
Speaker 3: Lot in my life.

515
00:31:26,360 --> 00:31:27,720
Speaker 2: Again, the devil took him to a very high mountain,

516
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Speaker 2: verse 8, and showed him all the kingdoms that were

517
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Speaker 2: under splendor. All this I will give you, he said,

518
00:31:30,870 --> 00:31:32,090
Speaker 2: if you bow down and worship me.

519
00:31:33,930 --> 00:31:37,490
Speaker 3: No, I never bowed down and worshiped the devil like that.

520
00:31:40,980 --> 00:31:44,580
Speaker 3: But I have worshiped what the world worshiped.

521
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Speaker 2: I have, at periods in my life, thought that a

522
00:31:50,580 --> 00:31:53,530
Speaker 2: certain level of success would make me a real man.

523
00:31:55,230 --> 00:31:57,550
Speaker 2: I have thought that a certain amount of money would

524
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Speaker 2: make me secure, and it really has to do with worship.

525
00:32:02,610 --> 00:32:04,570
Speaker 3: I don't want to depend on God to be my provider.

526
00:32:06,110 --> 00:32:06,930
Speaker 3: That's too uncertain.

527
00:32:10,130 --> 00:32:11,950
Speaker 2: So I start worshiping what's in the world.

528
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Speaker 3: Lest the flesh, lest the eyes, pride of life.

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Speaker 2: All this I will give you if you bow down

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Speaker 2: and worship me. And Jesus said, Away from me, Satan,

531
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Speaker 2: for it is written, Worship the Lord your God and

532
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Speaker 2: serve him only. I realize now that I am a

533
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Speaker 2: leader for these three kids, for my wife, and God

534
00:32:39,720 --> 00:32:40,120
Speaker 2: has made me a.

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Speaker 3: Leader in this church.

536
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Speaker 2: Now I'm asking myself the question, what example do I

537
00:32:49,950 --> 00:32:53,940
Speaker 2: want to set of what we worship? I know what

538
00:32:53,980 --> 00:32:59,300
Speaker 2: the world worships. The world worships talent. The world worships sensuality.

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00:33:00,020 --> 00:33:02,210
Speaker 2: Here's the weird thing about our culture. I preach in

540
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Speaker 2: the United States of America. Charlotte, North Carolina.

541
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Speaker 3: I wouldn't rather be anywhere else.

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Speaker 2: I was born and raised in the Carolinas, and I'm

543
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Speaker 2: proud of where I'm from. But the weirdest thing about

544
00:33:08,970 --> 00:33:11,290
Speaker 2: our culture right now is the way we worship youth.

545
00:33:14,880 --> 00:33:16,860
Speaker 2: We don't remember our leaders who spoke the Word of

546
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Speaker 2: God over us.

547
00:33:17,540 --> 00:33:20,080
Speaker 3: They're irrelevant. They're not trendy.

548
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Speaker 2: We'd rather go find somebody who hasn't even lived long

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Speaker 2: enough that we can even know if they make it

550
00:33:27,370 --> 00:33:32,820
Speaker 2: through their 20s. Do they even live to be 30,

551
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Speaker 2: and we will copy that? Y'all ready for a guest

552
00:33:38,140 --> 00:33:41,860
Speaker 2: preacher or something like that? I'm just stirred up about

553
00:33:41,900 --> 00:33:45,900
Speaker 2: it because I am watching us copy the world and

554
00:33:46,020 --> 00:33:49,370
Speaker 2: slap a Christian vocabulary on it, and there are no

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Speaker 2: different values in the house of God than there.

556
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Speaker 3: Are in the world.

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Speaker 4: It's not about the external stuff. I'm not talking about that.

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Speaker 2: I'm talking about the kingdom within you and the culture

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00:34:03,960 --> 00:34:07,710
Speaker 2: around you. He said, you need to spend more time

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Speaker 2: remembering those who spoke the word over you, because that's

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Speaker 2: what Jesus did every time he was tempted, and that's

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Speaker 2: what you copy.

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Speaker 4: You fight the world with the word. You fight the

564
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Speaker 4: spirit of the world with the word.

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Speaker 2: So, every time the devil said, do it.

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Speaker 4: Jesus said, it is written.

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Speaker 2: He wasn't making this stuff up.

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Speaker 4: All three things Jesus did.

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Speaker 2: To fight temptation, to fight hunger, to fight pride, to

570
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Speaker 2: fight his senses, and to agree with the Spirit, all

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Speaker 2: three things he said were already written in Scripture.

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Speaker 4: So Jesus said, I know what the word of my.

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Speaker 2: Father is on this situation, and I'm going to copy that.

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Speaker 2: I will not conform to this world. That's why I'm

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Speaker 2: glad he's the same yesterday, today, and forever. It doesn't

576
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Speaker 2: mean the world stays the same. but my worship stays

577
00:35:14,360 --> 00:35:18,779
Speaker 2: the same, because I understand that what God did in

578
00:35:18,860 --> 00:35:22,710
Speaker 2: my life yesterday won't look like what he's doing today.

579
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Speaker 2: But watch this, David. The same God that.

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Speaker 4: Delivered me from that will deliver me from this.

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Speaker 2: So, I speak by the Spirit of faith, not fear.

582
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Speaker 2: Imitate their faith. Don't copy their flaws. The world is weird,

583
00:35:47,360 --> 00:35:50,140
Speaker 2: and it's not working, and it's broken, and it hasn't

584
00:35:50,160 --> 00:35:53,320
Speaker 2: been since Eve listened to the serpent twist the words

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Speaker 2: of her God. Then Adam, instead of being a good

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00:35:58,780 --> 00:36:08,190
Speaker 2: husband and a leader, blamed the woman. So, in my

587
00:36:08,210 --> 00:36:09,830
Speaker 2: family … I have to go through this all the time.

588
00:36:10,050 --> 00:36:13,780
Speaker 2: I have to weed out the worldly values. Daily. Daily.

589
00:36:14,430 --> 00:36:14,969
Speaker 3: Transform your mind.

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Speaker 2: You don't do that one time. You won't even get

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00:36:20,090 --> 00:36:25,190
Speaker 2: out of church good today. It'll probably be somebody with

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00:36:25,210 --> 00:36:27,629
Speaker 2: an elevation sticker in the parking lot that'll make you

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00:36:27,730 --> 00:36:28,489
Speaker 2: so upset.

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00:36:32,160 --> 00:36:34,380
Speaker 3: They'll probably be playing worship music, too. They'll probably be

595
00:36:34,400 --> 00:36:35,000
Speaker 3: playing Wait on You.

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00:36:37,450 --> 00:36:39,509
Speaker 4: Like, quick, blind, and dry.

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00:36:39,810 --> 00:36:40,670
Speaker 3: Right there.

598
00:36:41,370 --> 00:36:41,850
Speaker 4: Right there.

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00:36:41,890 --> 00:36:47,450
Speaker 2: It doesn't take long. I'm going to say it again.

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Speaker 2: Stop copying crazy. Consider the outcome. Where is this taking me?

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00:36:56,200 --> 00:36:59,620
Speaker 2: Now I ask that about thoughts, right? Some things that

602
00:36:59,660 --> 00:37:01,819
Speaker 2: are really bad feel really good to think.

603
00:37:04,320 --> 00:37:04,779
Speaker 3: Really good.

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00:37:06,030 --> 00:37:07,489
Speaker 2: I don't know if you should confess this or not,

605
00:37:07,550 --> 00:37:09,970
Speaker 2: but I love judging people.

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00:37:12,810 --> 00:37:18,160
Speaker 3: I am completely addicted to it. It's so fun.

607
00:37:21,440 --> 00:37:27,219
Speaker 2: But how it feels … The.

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00:37:26,980 --> 00:37:28,640
Speaker 3: Outcome of that thought process ….

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00:37:30,239 --> 00:37:32,279
Speaker 2: One of my friends asked me the other day, how

610
00:37:32,300 --> 00:37:33,830
Speaker 2: do you want to feel at the end of this day?

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00:37:33,910 --> 00:37:43,339
Speaker 3: Reverse-engineer it with your decisions. Consider the outcome.

612
00:37:45,140 --> 00:37:47,300
Speaker 2: To consider the outcome, you have to monitor the inputs.

613
00:37:49,620 --> 00:37:52,100
Speaker 2: Now we live in a time where everybody wants this product,

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00:37:53,080 --> 00:37:55,520
Speaker 2: whether that's millions of dollars or the kinds of cars

615
00:37:55,560 --> 00:37:57,140
Speaker 2: or the kind of success or the kind of marriage

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00:37:57,180 --> 00:37:59,580
Speaker 2: or the kind of life. I want that outcome, but

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Speaker 2: I don't want to emulate that process. So, we get

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00:38:03,380 --> 00:38:06,780
Speaker 2: it backwards. The writer in Hebrews said, imitate their faith

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Speaker 2: and consider their outcome. We want to imitate someone's outcome,

620
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Speaker 2: but we don't want to invest our faith.

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Speaker 3: So, I want what you have, but I don't want

622
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Speaker 3: to do what you did.

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Speaker 2: Now I'll put it on a credit card at age

624
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Speaker 2: 23 to have what you had at age 32 that

625
00:38:31,670 --> 00:38:38,239
Speaker 2: I didn't want to wait a decade to achieve. We

626
00:38:38,260 --> 00:38:42,140
Speaker 2: need better examples. I'm not just talking about cussing and

627
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Speaker 2: drinking and chewing and tobacco and.

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Speaker 3: All this stuff.

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Speaker 2: We always love to say the external stuff. I'm talking

630
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Speaker 2: about the internal stuff too, and I'm talking about the

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Speaker 2: values we model. I told Elijah the other day, we

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Speaker 2: have so much good times, man. He said one day,

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Speaker 2: I wish we could record all this stuff, me and

634
00:38:58,850 --> 00:39:00,400
Speaker 2: you talk about working out, and just put it out.

635
00:39:00,410 --> 00:39:03,620
Speaker 2: It would be the biggest podcast. I said, well, we

636
00:39:03,640 --> 00:39:06,960
Speaker 2: would also get canceled, because we talk about everything. We

637
00:39:07,000 --> 00:39:09,710
Speaker 2: talk about Hebrews 13. We talk about other stuff, too.

638
00:39:10,290 --> 00:39:14,130
Speaker 2: We talk about everything. he's 16. I don't want him

639
00:39:14,150 --> 00:39:15,489
Speaker 2: to imitate everything about me.

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Speaker 3: I really don't. He started driving recently, and I'm like.

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00:39:18,980 --> 00:39:21,920
Speaker 2: Every road rage I ever showed him is coming up

642
00:39:21,920 --> 00:39:24,770
Speaker 2: behind me in the rearview mirror, and I see it

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00:39:24,770 --> 00:39:26,350
Speaker 2: coursing through my son.

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00:39:26,350 --> 00:39:29,140
Speaker 3: I'm like, don't copy that. Don't copy that. Don't copy that.

645
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Speaker 2: You know how nice to your mom?

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00:39:30,260 --> 00:39:30,700
Speaker 3: Copy that.

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00:39:30,719 --> 00:39:31,759
Speaker 2: You know how to study the Word of God?

648
00:39:31,800 --> 00:39:35,080
Speaker 3: Copy that. Not that. Not that. Not that.

649
00:39:36,440 --> 00:39:39,520
Speaker 2: But then my kids get mad at me, because me

650
00:39:39,560 --> 00:39:42,200
Speaker 2: and Holly, we do PDA stuff all over the house

651
00:39:42,580 --> 00:39:49,990
Speaker 2: all the time, because it's my house. Because it's my house. Yes,

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Speaker 2: I will walk up to your mom in my kitchen,

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Speaker 2: and I will kiss her with my whole mouth right

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Speaker 2: in front of you.

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Speaker 4: If you don't like it.

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00:39:59,590 --> 00:40:05,149
Speaker 2: You don't have to look. Oh, sexy stuff is only

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00:40:05,190 --> 00:40:06,170
Speaker 2: allowed on TikTok.

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Speaker 3: I forgot.

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Speaker 2: Not in a marriage, because the world told us that

660
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Speaker 2: the place for that is out of bounds. But, devil,

661
00:40:12,590 --> 00:40:15,340
Speaker 2: I don't copy your technological patterns.

662
00:40:15,760 --> 00:40:17,160
Speaker 4: I'm not copying crazy.

663
00:40:18,060 --> 00:40:19,120
Speaker 2: I kiss my wife.

664
00:40:19,480 --> 00:40:23,060
Speaker 4: I hold her hand. We'll take a nap. We are married.

665
00:40:23,219 --> 00:40:26,140
Speaker 4: The marriage bet is under file. Hebrews 13.4.

666
00:40:26,140 --> 00:40:36,850
Speaker 2: I'll kiss her again. You can go play outside, build

667
00:40:36,910 --> 00:40:37,970
Speaker 2: a fort, kick a can.

668
00:40:38,010 --> 00:40:38,469
Speaker 3: I don't care.

669
00:40:38,489 --> 00:40:41,830
Speaker 4: I want you to.

670
00:40:41,810 --> 00:40:44,589
Speaker 2: Know you are supposed to kiss your wife and love

671
00:40:44,610 --> 00:40:47,580
Speaker 2: her more 20 years. I'll tell you, marriage is dirty

672
00:40:47,620 --> 00:40:50,820
Speaker 2: and gross and nasty, so save it for your wife. What?

673
00:40:50,840 --> 00:40:54,960
Speaker 3: I want to emulate.

674
00:40:54,580 --> 00:40:57,860
Speaker 2: Something that's worth imitating.

675
00:40:59,110 --> 00:41:00,089
Speaker 3: I don't do it all the time.

676
00:41:00,110 --> 00:41:03,130
Speaker 2: That's why that video meant so much to me, because

677
00:41:03,170 --> 00:41:08,680
Speaker 2: I saw … A time I got it right. A

678
00:41:08,719 --> 00:41:11,000
Speaker 2: time where I wasn't… You know how we get so self-conscious?

679
00:41:12,700 --> 00:41:15,500
Speaker 3: I saw how she did it even better. She was

680
00:41:15,560 --> 00:41:17,719
Speaker 3: about to start headbanging. I don't know if y'all saw.

681
00:41:19,060 --> 00:41:19,219
Speaker 2: That.

682
00:41:19,260 --> 00:41:21,500
Speaker 5: We watch Guns N' Roses videos too. I'm going to

683
00:41:21,520 --> 00:41:23,820
Speaker 5: keep it real with you. She was about to start headbanging.

684
00:41:27,620 --> 00:41:31,150
Speaker 5: Consider the outcome. Where is this headed? Not just what

685
00:41:31,190 --> 00:41:32,430
Speaker 5: does it look like or feel like in the moment.

686
00:41:32,770 --> 00:41:33,469
Speaker 5: Where is this headed?

687
00:41:37,100 --> 00:41:40,220
Speaker 2: If you keep emulating that … There are two sides

688
00:41:40,260 --> 00:41:42,420
Speaker 2: of this. I think you have to think of yourself

689
00:41:42,460 --> 00:41:46,239
Speaker 2: in this passage thinking about what were the examples that

690
00:41:46,260 --> 00:41:49,080
Speaker 2: were set for you, because you copy what you saw,

691
00:41:49,100 --> 00:41:50,469
Speaker 2: and you don't even realize you're doing it.

692
00:41:51,590 --> 00:41:52,989
Speaker 3: You don't copy what they told you to do.

693
00:41:53,810 --> 00:41:55,850
Speaker 2: One thing my dad did that was so brilliant is

694
00:41:55,890 --> 00:41:58,650
Speaker 2: he struggled with alcoholism, and he took so many times

695
00:41:58,710 --> 00:42:00,910
Speaker 2: to talk to me about what that was like for him.

696
00:42:01,330 --> 00:42:05,430
Speaker 2: He said, if you will commit yourself early … You

697
00:42:05,469 --> 00:42:09,150
Speaker 2: can break this. This has been generational. He told me

698
00:42:09,210 --> 00:42:11,430
Speaker 2: about his dad's death. He told me about what it

699
00:42:11,469 --> 00:42:13,149
Speaker 2: was like to grow up in an abusive.

700
00:42:12,830 --> 00:42:13,330
Speaker 4: Home like that.

701
00:42:13,650 --> 00:42:15,850
Speaker 2: He said, but you can break it, even though he

702
00:42:15,930 --> 00:42:16,630
Speaker 2: couldn't break it.

703
00:42:18,989 --> 00:42:19,840
Speaker 3: He struggled with.

704
00:42:19,760 --> 00:42:23,899
Speaker 2: It so long, sometimes victorious, sometimes defeated, but he was

705
00:42:23,980 --> 00:42:27,259
Speaker 2: determined to give me permission.

706
00:42:26,980 --> 00:42:28,020
Speaker 3: To break a bad pattern.

707
00:42:32,640 --> 00:42:34,500
Speaker 2: I don't know who you are, but there's one person

708
00:42:34,540 --> 00:42:36,940
Speaker 2: the Lord said to tell it to. You're a good person.

709
00:42:36,960 --> 00:42:43,140
Speaker 2: You have bad patterns. The enemy condemns you. You're worthless.

710
00:42:43,360 --> 00:42:45,580
Speaker 3: You're this. You're that. You're da-da-da-da-da.

711
00:42:45,600 --> 00:42:47,259
Speaker 2: Then you start to believe that, and you copy that,

712
00:42:47,280 --> 00:42:49,920
Speaker 2: and you identify yourself with that. You're a good person.

713
00:42:50,780 --> 00:42:53,220
Speaker 2: Christ has made you new. You're a new creation in Christ.

714
00:42:53,500 --> 00:43:00,430
Speaker 2: God made you that way. But if you have bad

715
00:43:00,469 --> 00:43:06,080
Speaker 2: patterns … pattern of this world and the renewing of

716
00:43:06,100 --> 00:43:13,489
Speaker 2: your mind. So, there are always voices speaking over you

717
00:43:13,530 --> 00:43:16,310
Speaker 2: and to you and about you. What are you going

718
00:43:16,330 --> 00:43:20,390
Speaker 2: to copy? There's the example that was set for you.

719
00:43:20,890 --> 00:43:24,089
Speaker 2: Even in some cases, there's the season of life you

720
00:43:24,130 --> 00:43:26,080
Speaker 2: were in and the season of life you are in.

721
00:43:27,570 --> 00:43:30,450
Speaker 2: What are you going to copy in this season of

722
00:43:30,469 --> 00:43:32,550
Speaker 2: your life? Jesus knew what to do. He said,' It

723
00:43:32,610 --> 00:43:34,390
Speaker 2: is written. It is also written.

724
00:43:35,050 --> 00:43:35,550
Speaker 3: It is written.

725
00:43:36,250 --> 00:43:39,529
Speaker 2: Because I am not consulting with my enemy for my

726
00:43:39,570 --> 00:43:45,750
Speaker 2: life strategy. I'm not going to copy it. I'm not

727
00:43:45,770 --> 00:43:47,210
Speaker 2: going to take these thoughts and just think them, because

728
00:43:47,370 --> 00:43:48,430
Speaker 2: I know where they lead.

729
00:43:50,410 --> 00:43:52,120
Speaker 3: Even recently, the Lord began to deal with me.

730
00:43:52,180 --> 00:43:55,630
Speaker 2: He said,' I want you to stop indulging your insecurities.'

731
00:43:57,860 --> 00:44:02,080
Speaker 2: He said,' It gives you self-pity.' You use that to

732
00:44:02,140 --> 00:44:06,839
Speaker 2: sedate the pain of pressure. I wrote all of this

733
00:44:06,890 --> 00:44:09,170
Speaker 2: down as fast as I could so I could remember

734
00:44:09,890 --> 00:44:13,650
Speaker 2: what I was hearing from God's voice. But what it

735
00:44:13,790 --> 00:44:17,230
Speaker 2: costs you is much greater than what it offers you.

736
00:44:19,570 --> 00:44:24,350
Speaker 2: Consider the outcome. When you tell yourself lies about yourself

737
00:44:25,489 --> 00:44:27,350
Speaker 2: and limitations about yourself that do not … Now, you

738
00:44:27,390 --> 00:44:28,230
Speaker 2: do have limitations.

739
00:44:29,310 --> 00:44:30,850
Speaker 3: So, I'm not one of these, you can be anything

740
00:44:30,870 --> 00:44:31,350
Speaker 3: you want to be.

741
00:44:31,390 --> 00:44:33,350
Speaker 2: I think sometimes you need somebody to tell you, get

742
00:44:33,430 --> 00:44:35,629
Speaker 2: a backup career and keep your day job.

743
00:44:35,670 --> 00:44:37,660
Speaker 3: You are not going to make it on Kickstarter.

744
00:44:38,010 --> 00:44:43,040
Speaker 2: That being said, the limitations and the lies that come

745
00:44:43,120 --> 00:44:46,420
Speaker 2: from what you have copied in your heart or what

746
00:44:46,460 --> 00:44:50,160
Speaker 2: you saw … See, a lot of times God, like

747
00:44:50,180 --> 00:44:53,500
Speaker 2: the people in Hebrews, God was bringing them into a

748
00:44:53,540 --> 00:44:54,200
Speaker 2: better covenant.

749
00:44:55,020 --> 00:44:55,630
Speaker 3: Look at Hebrews 8-7.

750
00:44:57,330 --> 00:44:58,730
Speaker 2: This is the last Scripture I'm going to have time

751
00:44:58,750 --> 00:45:04,939
Speaker 2: to show you today. Are y'all full? Did you save

752
00:45:04,980 --> 00:45:13,270
Speaker 2: room for dessert? It just says this. Hebrews 8 says,'

753
00:45:12,950 --> 00:45:15,839
Speaker 2: For if there had been nothing wrong with that first covenant,'

754
00:45:15,730 --> 00:45:17,469
Speaker 2: that's the one Moses got from Sinai, that was the

755
00:45:17,530 --> 00:45:24,140
Speaker 2: law that we broke, If it hadn't been for the

756
00:45:24,180 --> 00:45:27,300
Speaker 2: limitations of that covenant, in so much as we were flawed,

757
00:45:27,320 --> 00:45:29,279
Speaker 2: God is perfect, we are flawed, this isn't going to work.

758
00:45:30,500 --> 00:45:35,299
Speaker 2: No place would have been sought for another. The other one,

759
00:45:35,340 --> 00:45:37,219
Speaker 2: of course, is the covenant that begins not with what

760
00:45:37,260 --> 00:45:39,920
Speaker 2: we have done but with what God has done and

761
00:45:39,940 --> 00:45:40,819
Speaker 2: that we're accepted in him.

762
00:45:41,820 --> 00:45:45,029
Speaker 3: This is our new starting place. But the Enemy.

763
00:45:46,310 --> 00:45:50,129
Speaker 2: Will take you back to what you saw all your life.

764
00:45:51,780 --> 00:45:54,920
Speaker 2: Even as God is blessing you with something better, you

765
00:45:54,960 --> 00:46:00,390
Speaker 2: will sink back down to the baseline of what you saw,

766
00:46:00,930 --> 00:46:04,550
Speaker 2: because what you copy in your heart sets the direction

767
00:46:04,590 --> 00:46:05,029
Speaker 2: of your life.

768
00:46:08,190 --> 00:46:08,710
Speaker 3: It is written.

769
00:46:10,890 --> 00:46:13,770
Speaker 2: I am not copying the world anymore.

770
00:46:13,790 --> 00:46:21,739
Speaker 3: I did it. It's exhausting. It's depleting. It's depressing. I'm

771
00:46:21,780 --> 00:46:22,620
Speaker 3: not doing it anymore.

772
00:46:23,340 --> 00:46:25,140
Speaker 2: I'm not going to measure myself how I'm told I'm

773
00:46:25,160 --> 00:46:28,500
Speaker 2: supposed to measure myself anymore. I did it.

774
00:46:28,500 --> 00:46:30,210
Speaker 3: I barely lived through it.

775
00:46:30,760 --> 00:46:32,580
Speaker 2: I'm not going to copy the way the world spends

776
00:46:32,640 --> 00:46:36,690
Speaker 2: time anymore, where the proof that you are significant is

777
00:46:36,730 --> 00:46:39,890
Speaker 2: that you are so busy that you have no time

778
00:46:40,050 --> 00:46:43,250
Speaker 2: or margin to consider anything that God might invite you

779
00:46:43,270 --> 00:46:43,509
Speaker 2: to do.

780
00:46:46,070 --> 00:46:49,870
Speaker 4: So now we're just all running around. I asked one guy, when.

781
00:46:49,790 --> 00:46:51,950
Speaker 2: Do you take your day off? He said, well, I

782
00:46:51,969 --> 00:46:52,540
Speaker 2: don't take a day off.

783
00:46:52,550 --> 00:46:54,839
Speaker 3: The devil never takes a day off. In my mind,

784
00:46:54,880 --> 00:46:59,520
Speaker 3: I'm like, are you copying the devil or God? Because

785
00:46:59,560 --> 00:47:00,379
Speaker 3: God took a.

786
00:47:04,360 --> 00:47:04,859
Speaker 4: Day off.

787
00:47:09,310 --> 00:47:12,670
Speaker 3: It's in our rhythms. It's in our rest.

788
00:47:14,250 --> 00:47:18,640
Speaker 2: It's in what we receive and we release. The Lord

789
00:47:18,660 --> 00:47:20,719
Speaker 2: wants you to release some things that were spoken over

790
00:47:20,760 --> 00:47:22,340
Speaker 2: you by those wrong voices.

791
00:47:24,610 --> 00:47:31,049
Speaker 3: So that you can receive something better. Copy that.

792
00:47:32,270 --> 00:47:36,450
Speaker 2: Just get it on your mind all week long and

793
00:47:36,489 --> 00:47:40,989
Speaker 2: copy that, the Word of God that was spoken over you.

794
00:47:42,710 --> 00:47:44,360
Speaker 3: Father, I thank you for what you gave me today.

795
00:47:47,540 --> 00:47:52,440
Speaker 2: I hear you speaking from heaven right now, and I

796
00:47:52,480 --> 00:47:54,219
Speaker 2: want to hear your children say, copy that.

797
00:47:55,510 --> 00:47:57,549
Speaker 3: I hear you, God. I hear you talking to me.

798
00:47:59,150 --> 00:48:01,690
Speaker 2: Pastor Stephen was talking to a lot of different people,

799
00:48:01,969 --> 00:48:07,170
Speaker 2: but you were speaking to me, God. You showed me

800
00:48:07,230 --> 00:48:12,060
Speaker 2: something on the mountain. You showed me something in your presence.

801
00:48:14,340 --> 00:48:17,960
Speaker 2: You invested something in me. and the thief comes to

802
00:48:18,000 --> 00:48:19,080
Speaker 2: kill still and destroy it.

803
00:48:22,560 --> 00:48:23,279
Speaker 3: So, Lord, I want to.

804
00:48:25,900 --> 00:48:30,359
Speaker 2: Bring the people before you today, such a vast group, Lord,

805
00:48:30,380 --> 00:48:34,300
Speaker 2: that you've called us to pastor, some people just starting

806
00:48:34,360 --> 00:48:36,299
Speaker 2: out in their faith, some people not even sure if

807
00:48:36,340 --> 00:48:42,790
Speaker 2: they have faith yet. Your Word says imitate their faith.

808
00:48:44,890 --> 00:48:49,040
Speaker 2: We've been copying the wrong stuff, Lord. We've been taking

809
00:48:49,200 --> 00:48:52,140
Speaker 2: fear and just living in it and rehearsing it and

810
00:48:52,180 --> 00:48:56,140
Speaker 2: regurgitating it and feeding it and living in it and

811
00:48:56,200 --> 00:48:57,739
Speaker 2: regurgitating and rehearsing that.

812
00:48:58,110 --> 00:49:00,170
Speaker 3: So we repent of that. We repent.

813
00:49:00,989 --> 00:49:04,169
Speaker 2: We want to do it different. We have the guts

814
00:49:04,210 --> 00:49:06,190
Speaker 2: to say that. God, I want to do it different.

815
00:49:07,770 --> 00:49:07,989
Speaker 3: Come on.

816
00:49:08,010 --> 00:49:09,750
Speaker 2: Stand up on your feet. We're going to pray this together.

817
00:49:11,250 --> 00:49:14,700
Speaker 2: It's not my job to transform your mind. It's your

818
00:49:14,719 --> 00:49:17,259
Speaker 2: job to cooperate with the Holy Spirit of God. So say, Lord,

819
00:49:18,370 --> 00:49:22,120
Speaker 2: I want to do it different. I want to do

820
00:49:22,160 --> 00:49:27,299
Speaker 2: it different. I want to do it different. The way

821
00:49:27,340 --> 00:49:31,300
Speaker 2: I've been doing it hasn't been working, and I'm tired

822
00:49:31,360 --> 00:49:36,700
Speaker 2: of it, and I'm weary, and.

823
00:49:35,160 --> 00:49:39,939
Speaker 3: I'm heavy laden. So I'm taking your yoke today.

824
00:49:41,510 --> 00:49:43,770
Speaker 2: I'm joining up with Jesus, and I'm hooking up with you,

825
00:49:43,810 --> 00:49:53,410
Speaker 2: Holy Spirit, because your burden is light. So, for all

826
00:49:53,469 --> 00:49:57,380
Speaker 2: the spirit of heaviness we've been under this week, we

827
00:49:57,420 --> 00:50:02,440
Speaker 2: exchange it now for the garment of praise. We thank

828
00:50:02,460 --> 00:50:04,650
Speaker 2: you for your Word that has been spoken over us.

829
00:50:04,700 --> 00:50:06,670
Speaker 2: Maybe we didn't have a person to speak it to us,

830
00:50:08,710 --> 00:50:14,750
Speaker 2: I pray for somebody today who was verbally abused, and

831
00:50:14,790 --> 00:50:21,730
Speaker 2: now the trauma of that experience has them trapped. Your

832
00:50:21,750 --> 00:50:25,970
Speaker 2: Word says that Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, today,

833
00:50:27,050 --> 00:50:33,120
Speaker 2: and forever, so it's not too late. It's not too

834
00:50:33,160 --> 00:50:37,520
Speaker 2: late for you to break the pattern. It is not

835
00:50:37,980 --> 00:50:43,480
Speaker 2: too late for you to live. It is not too

836
00:50:43,560 --> 00:50:44,760
Speaker 2: late for you to love.

837
00:50:46,860 --> 00:50:47,860
Speaker 3: Maybe you weren't.

838
00:50:47,680 --> 00:50:49,759
Speaker 2: Loved like you were supposed to be loved. Maybe you

839
00:50:49,780 --> 00:50:52,300
Speaker 2: didn't have leaders. Maybe you don't even know what to copy.

840
00:50:52,560 --> 00:50:55,560
Speaker 2: Now here you are, and you're grown, and you're trying

841
00:50:55,600 --> 00:50:59,640
Speaker 2: to raise kids, trying to be something you never had

842
00:50:59,660 --> 00:51:06,370
Speaker 2: the chance to see. But Jesus Christ … It's the

843
00:51:06,430 --> 00:51:17,219
Speaker 2: same yesterday, today, and forever. Even if Moses couldn't show you,

844
00:51:18,480 --> 00:51:22,259
Speaker 2: there's something greater than Moses that's here. Not only just

845
00:51:22,340 --> 00:51:27,650
Speaker 2: an example, you have the Holy Spirit inside of you.

846
00:51:28,950 --> 00:51:33,230
Speaker 2: God has seen you as you really are. not as

847
00:51:33,270 --> 00:51:36,510
Speaker 2: you thought you were, and not as you were last year,

848
00:51:37,010 --> 00:51:39,850
Speaker 2: not as you were 10 years ago, not as you

849
00:51:39,890 --> 00:51:41,950
Speaker 2: were before this sermon today.

850
00:51:42,390 --> 00:51:44,070
Speaker 4: You are changing from.

851
00:51:43,969 --> 00:51:46,250
Speaker 3: Glory to glory.

852
00:51:45,850 --> 00:51:50,400
Speaker 2: With ever-increasing glory, and what God put in you is

853
00:51:50,520 --> 00:51:54,140
Speaker 2: greater than anything that the world can throw against you.

854
00:51:54,520 --> 00:51:55,780
Speaker 4: Now imitate that.

855
00:52:01,620 --> 00:52:03,219
Speaker 3: You know what? Look at me.

856
00:52:03,900 --> 00:52:06,700
Speaker 2: You haven't even seen the blueprint of the true you.

857
00:52:10,670 --> 00:52:16,710
Speaker 2: You haven't even seen it. I saw an interview where

858
00:52:16,730 --> 00:52:19,670
Speaker 2: a man said Steve Jobs was walking him around before

859
00:52:19,710 --> 00:52:21,969
Speaker 2: he died, and he was taking him through, and he

860
00:52:22,010 --> 00:52:24,780
Speaker 2: was showing him all this stuff that Apple had already

861
00:52:24,840 --> 00:52:27,840
Speaker 2: invented but people wouldn't find out about until three years later.

862
00:52:29,200 --> 00:52:31,259
Speaker 2: He said, and we went through this door and that door,

863
00:52:31,280 --> 00:52:34,700
Speaker 2: and we had to put our eye on the other thing,

864
00:52:34,940 --> 00:52:37,860
Speaker 2: and it was 16 security clearances, and there was a table.

865
00:52:38,239 --> 00:52:43,780
Speaker 3: He said, Steve Jobs said, look. He's walking me through.

866
00:52:43,820 --> 00:52:45,500
Speaker 3: He said he was walking me through.

867
00:52:46,460 --> 00:52:53,049
Speaker 2: Showing me stuff that he had already designed, stuff that

868
00:52:53,090 --> 00:52:59,240
Speaker 2: was already prototyped. You know God can walk you into

869
00:52:59,300 --> 00:53:01,960
Speaker 2: your future and show you who you are going to

870
00:53:02,040 --> 00:53:12,620
Speaker 2: be when you get free. That's why I worship, because

871
00:53:12,660 --> 00:53:15,520
Speaker 2: I need God to get me past all this security clearance.

872
00:53:16,640 --> 00:53:18,430
Speaker 3: And show me what he sees.

873
00:53:18,090 --> 00:53:20,270
Speaker 2: That I'm going to be that hasn't been released yet.

874
00:53:21,969 --> 00:53:22,250
Speaker 2: Come on.

875
00:53:22,290 --> 00:53:23,190
Speaker 4: I love the Scripture.

876
00:53:23,510 --> 00:53:26,569
Speaker 2: It says,' It does not yet appear what we shall be.

877
00:53:27,780 --> 00:53:30,340
Speaker 4: That means no eye has seen, no.

878
00:53:30,380 --> 00:53:33,859
Speaker 2: Ear has heard, neither has it even entered into your

879
00:53:33,940 --> 00:53:38,440
Speaker 2: heart what God has revealed, but God has revealed it

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Speaker 2: by his Spirit. Show me by your Spirit, God, what

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Speaker 2: you see in me. Show me by your Spirit, God,

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Speaker 2: what I am stripped of the stuff that was said

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Speaker 2: about me that I repeated.

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Speaker 4: In my heart.

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Speaker 2: Help me to take what you see in heaven and

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Speaker 2: as it is in heaven. Our Father who art in heaven,

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Speaker 2: hallowed be your name. Your kingdom come, your will be

888
00:54:17,219 --> 00:54:21,319
Speaker 2: done on earth as it is in heaven. See to

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Speaker 2: it that you build according to the path God showed

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Speaker 2: you on the mountain. See to it that you remember

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Speaker 2: what your father spoke to you in the baptism at

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Speaker 2: the Jordan when you're facing that Devil in the wilderness

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Speaker 2: and copy that. That. That.

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Speaker 4: That.

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Speaker 2: That. You see that victorious Savior risen from the grave?

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Speaker 2: The Bible says that as he is risen, so are

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Speaker 2: we risen.

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Speaker 4: So I'm coming up too.

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Speaker 2: If he got up, I'm right behind him.

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Speaker 4: I'm not staying down.

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Speaker 2: My Savior didn't stay down.

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Speaker 4: I'll be that.

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Speaker 2: I hear you, Lord, and your word never returns void.

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Speaker 2: It accomplishes what you send it to do. Heads bowed,

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Speaker 2: eyes closed. We seal this word now in the soil

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Speaker 2: of our faith, Lord. We make a pact with you

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Speaker 2: concerning our purpose and concerning our peace, that we are

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Speaker 2: rejecting the world's patterns and aligning with your promise. Take

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Speaker 2: a screenshot and share it on your social stories and

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Speaker 2: tag us at Elevation Church.

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Speaker 3: Thanks again for listening. God bless you.