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Speaker 1: Hey there. Before we jump into the amazing message today,

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Speaker 1: of God. Every single time we gather, He's faithful to

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Speaker 1: at Elevation Worship dot com. We'll see see. What I

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Speaker 1: want to do with the time that I have with

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Speaker 1: you today, which I take very seriously, is continue in

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Speaker 1: the conversation that we started last week. All right, I

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Speaker 1: want to continue on this path that we only really

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Speaker 1: took a few steps last week down this path. Let

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Speaker 1: me tell you there's so much to this that God

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Speaker 1: is showing me. And don't worry. If you weren't here

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Speaker 1: last week, you're like, oh no, now I'm missing out.

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Speaker 1: I won't know what you're talking about. You will, You'll

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Speaker 1: pick right up. Because I want to go into a

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Speaker 1: very familiar scripture today, and I thank you worship team.

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Speaker 1: Y'all can be seated. I want to go to John

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Speaker 1: chapter four. Yeah, y'all were clapping, y'all like to worship now?

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Speaker 1: Sitting down? All right, thanks y'all. I want to go

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Speaker 1: to John chapter four, sharing with you some thoughts on

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Speaker 1: the hard work of happiness. On the hard work of happiness.

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Speaker 1: And I think I told you last week that this

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Speaker 1: came to me while I was riding a bike. But then,

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Speaker 1: you know, you look all over the Bible and you

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Speaker 1: just see. Now, not all of my sermons start from

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Speaker 1: a Bible passage. And I should be honest with you.

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Speaker 1: I think that the best sermons they feel more like

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Speaker 1: real life, not just like the library. So we don't

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Speaker 1: just want to approach things from an intellectual point of view.

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Speaker 1: Some people think that something is more spiritual if it's

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Speaker 1: more intellectual. I say, oh, that was really deep. What

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Speaker 1: you said, well, what does it mean? I don't know,

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Speaker 1: but it was deep. How do you know? Because I

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Speaker 1: didn't understand it. It was deep. We used to have

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Speaker 1: a staff member who would get up on stage, and

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Speaker 1: Holly said he had the spiritual gift of confusing her.

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Speaker 1: She said, when he talks, he always makes me think

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Speaker 1: in John chapter four, there's a passage a story that

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Speaker 1: And there's something that the Lord is speaking on the

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Speaker 1: that actually gave me that phrase. Okay, it's not a

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Speaker 1: to realize that happiness is really hard work. And me

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Speaker 1: I don't mean she doesn't work hard at it. She

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Speaker 1: hardwired for happiness than me. I figured that out in

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Speaker 1: our marriage. One marriage, somebody said in every marriage there's

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Speaker 1: for you. And when Holly teaches her study on marriage,

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Speaker 1: I defy you to name me a happier sounding band

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Speaker 1: hundred million albums The Beach Boys have He wrote what

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Speaker 1: we're going to go into John chapter four. This story

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Speaker 1: There you go, John chapter four, Verse one. Now Jesus

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Speaker 1: It's deeper than you think. In defense of the disciples,

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Speaker 1: a little less than deep. Not saying they're stupid, I'm

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Speaker 1: and rabbis are not permitted to talk to women in public.

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Speaker 1: Strike one, Jesus, she is a Samaritan. He is a Jew.

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Speaker 1: I already told you right there in plain sight in

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Speaker 1: the text that Jus and Samaritans have no dealing. That's

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Speaker 1: number two. Number three, as we found out in the

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Speaker 1: text she has a questionable at best reputation. He is

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Speaker 1: the holy, spotless Lamb of God and he's not even married.

434
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Speaker 1: Jesus didn't have kids. How could he have kids when

435
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Speaker 1: he had to put up with Peter? He had no

436
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Speaker 1: more room for anybody to look after and straighten up after.

437
00:26:40,320 --> 00:26:44,040
Speaker 1: Jesus is talking to someone he has no business talking

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Speaker 1: to in a place that is a place that he

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Speaker 1: has no business going. And it's deeper than you think.

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Speaker 1: Say that out loud, it's deeper than you think. Pulse check,

441
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Speaker 1: look at your neighbors. Say it's deeper, all right. So,

442
00:27:02,880 --> 00:27:12,520
Speaker 1: so Jesus is sitting by a well talking to a woman,

443
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Speaker 1: and the disciples don't know why she's sitting by a

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Speaker 1: well talking to a woman. Disciples don't know why he's

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Speaker 1: sitting by a well talking to a woman. The disciples

446
00:27:27,720 --> 00:27:34,560
Speaker 1: don't know why got it? And everything in the text

447
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Speaker 1: is something you can see. You can see the woman,

448
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Speaker 1: You can see the well. You can see the woman

449
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Speaker 1: the well. You can see the woman's jar that she's

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00:27:48,119 --> 00:27:51,600
Speaker 1: going to get the water from. You can't see Jesus

451
00:27:51,680 --> 00:27:54,280
Speaker 1: jar because he doesn't have one, because she is one.

452
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Speaker 1: But she doesn't know that yet. I'm telling you the

453
00:28:00,720 --> 00:28:02,320
Speaker 1: Bible's deeper. And you think you know I said it

454
00:28:02,359 --> 00:28:05,240
Speaker 1: happened at noon. Did you see that? You probably need

455
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Speaker 1: to pay attention to that. I said, its noon, it's

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Speaker 1: the sixth hour, and she's coming out there at noon.

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Speaker 1: Why at noon, that's the hottest time you could have.

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Speaker 1: If you have to work hard to get this water

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Speaker 1: and carry it, the worst time you can do it

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Speaker 1: is in the heat of the day. And this is

461
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Speaker 1: not exactly a friendly climate. You know, where the Bible happened.

462
00:28:25,480 --> 00:28:29,000
Speaker 1: It gets some pretty some pretty hot conditions. Something in

463
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Speaker 1: her life which we find out, is that she's been

464
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Speaker 1: from man to man to man to man to man,

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Speaker 1: either passed around like an object or because of some

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Speaker 1: choice of her own. We don't know. But she's there

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Speaker 1: in the heat of the day to avoid the melting,

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Speaker 1: penetrating gaze of others who would speak of her as

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Speaker 1: she did it. It's deeper than you think when you

470
00:28:53,400 --> 00:28:56,520
Speaker 1: do things, why you do things, It's deeper than you think.

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Speaker 1: There's a reason she's there at noon. There's a reason

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Speaker 1: you do it at noon. Is deeper than you think.

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Speaker 1: What time did Jesus die on the Cross. Go study

474
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Speaker 1: your scripture. You'll find out he died about the sixth hour,

475
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Speaker 1: which is at noon. Is it a coincidence that she

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Speaker 1: came to get her water out of her shame at

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Speaker 1: the same time that he would later die for her

478
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Speaker 1: shame to take it away? Or is John pointing to something.

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Speaker 1: John's gospel is amazing, y'all, because he has these signs.

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Speaker 1: He gives these signs to prove that Jesus is who

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Speaker 1: he says he is. And so all of the signs

482
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Speaker 1: in John's Gospel are pointing not to the miracle themselves,

483
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Speaker 1: but to the One, the Man, the God, the Spirit,

484
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Speaker 1: who created all things that are seen. Oh, I love it.

485
00:29:52,200 --> 00:29:53,640
Speaker 1: I love it. I love it. I love it. I

486
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Speaker 1: love it. It's deeper than you think, y'all. Slow down,

487
00:29:57,080 --> 00:30:01,320
Speaker 1: stop reading your Bible so fast, and stop skimming it.

488
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Speaker 1: And every once in a while, just sit like Jesus

489
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Speaker 1: did at the will just sit wonder why at noon?

490
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Speaker 1: I wonder why it happened at noon? I wonder why

491
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Speaker 1: John took the time to stop by and say it

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Speaker 1: happened at noon. We don't really need a chronological journey

493
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Speaker 1: of every journal of everything that happened on the journey.

494
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Speaker 1: Just get to the point. He said, No, you need

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Speaker 1: to know us at noon, because you need to know

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Speaker 1: that this woman was ashamed, because you might feel ashamed

497
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Speaker 1: of some things that happened in your life, either things

498
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Speaker 1: you did or things others did. But you need to

499
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Speaker 1: know that at noon one Friday, that there is a

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Speaker 1: man who hung on a cross and they stretched him

501
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Speaker 1: wide and hung him high, but he didn't stay where

502
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Speaker 1: they put him, And you're not staying where they put you.

503
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Speaker 1: And you will not die in this situation because he lives.

504
00:30:49,600 --> 00:30:52,760
Speaker 1: I get faced tomorrow. Stuff like that. You need to

505
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Speaker 1: know is fever than you think. I'll try this out

506
00:31:00,720 --> 00:31:03,280
Speaker 1: next time you're judging somebody. Just say it's deeper than

507
00:31:03,320 --> 00:31:07,320
Speaker 1: I think. It's deeper than I think, or else you'll

508
00:31:07,320 --> 00:31:12,520
Speaker 1: get into this thing of behavior modification. Why didn't Jesus

509
00:31:12,680 --> 00:31:16,120
Speaker 1: tell this woman to stop having so many different men

510
00:31:16,400 --> 00:31:18,720
Speaker 1: before he told her he would give her living water.

511
00:31:20,720 --> 00:31:24,640
Speaker 1: Why didn't he say, go fix these issues and I'll

512
00:31:24,640 --> 00:31:30,600
Speaker 1: give you this resource. Why didn't Jesus give this woman

513
00:31:30,880 --> 00:31:33,560
Speaker 1: a list of things she could do so she wouldn't

514
00:31:33,600 --> 00:31:37,000
Speaker 1: have to keep going to these bad relationships over and over.

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00:31:37,240 --> 00:31:39,760
Speaker 1: At the very least she doesn't know how to select

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Speaker 1: the right man at the very least, and why didn't

517
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Speaker 1: he fix that? That's exactly how we think, right, Okay,

518
00:31:49,120 --> 00:31:51,800
Speaker 1: this is my sermon. You like a sermon in a sentence.

519
00:31:51,800 --> 00:31:55,320
Speaker 1: This is it right here. We solve it on the

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Speaker 1: level we see it. We saw it on the level

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Speaker 1: we see it. And that's why I wanted to talk

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Speaker 1: to you about happiness. Because you can see the well,

523
00:32:09,840 --> 00:32:13,360
Speaker 1: you can see the woman, but what you can't see

524
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Speaker 1: is what is happening within that Jesus points to and says,

525
00:32:17,720 --> 00:32:21,120
Speaker 1: I want to fix that. I want to work on that.

526
00:32:22,200 --> 00:32:26,320
Speaker 1: And until you understand this principle in scripture, you will

527
00:32:26,320 --> 00:32:31,920
Speaker 1: slap a religious label on behavior modification methods that will

528
00:32:32,000 --> 00:32:36,720
Speaker 1: keep you coming back to the wrong well to be happy.

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Speaker 1: I hope you like to hear me preach, but I

530
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Speaker 1: don't want for you to need me to preach. I

531
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Speaker 1: don't want you to need me to preach. What if

532
00:32:52,040 --> 00:32:54,320
Speaker 1: I decide to go? What if I decide to go? Uh?

533
00:32:54,480 --> 00:32:57,200
Speaker 1: What if I decide to go be a construction worker? Huh?

534
00:32:57,240 --> 00:33:00,520
Speaker 1: What you gonna do? Then? What if all decide we

535
00:33:00,520 --> 00:33:03,280
Speaker 1: need to hike the Appalachian Trail for nine months. I'm

536
00:33:03,320 --> 00:33:05,000
Speaker 1: for nine months. What you're gonna do, You're just gonna

537
00:33:05,080 --> 00:33:07,200
Speaker 1: fight the devil for nine months. I don't want you

538
00:33:07,600 --> 00:33:14,960
Speaker 1: to need an external voice to experience an inward transformation. Now,

539
00:33:14,960 --> 00:33:17,800
Speaker 1: this part of my sermon is really bad for job

540
00:33:17,880 --> 00:33:22,440
Speaker 1: security because I'm telling you this that you have within you.

541
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Speaker 1: I don't think you understand what you have within you

542
00:33:26,600 --> 00:33:28,960
Speaker 1: because everything I'm seeing people do to try to get

543
00:33:29,000 --> 00:33:33,720
Speaker 1: happy these days is an outside thing. But it's an

544
00:33:33,720 --> 00:33:39,760
Speaker 1: inside job. But you do an outside stuff because you

545
00:33:39,840 --> 00:33:43,160
Speaker 1: keep trying to solve it on the level that you

546
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Speaker 1: see it. So you see people who look happy, you

547
00:33:46,520 --> 00:33:50,080
Speaker 1: see people who look people who look ecstatic, people who

548
00:33:50,120 --> 00:33:53,160
Speaker 1: look successful, people who look like they got it all together.

549
00:33:53,400 --> 00:33:56,520
Speaker 1: And so since you see the objects that they post

550
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Speaker 1: to give the illusion of success, I think they're compensating

551
00:34:01,640 --> 00:34:03,640
Speaker 1: because I think if you really possess it, you don't

552
00:34:03,680 --> 00:34:06,920
Speaker 1: even need the post it. That's what I think. That's

553
00:34:06,960 --> 00:34:10,000
Speaker 1: what I think. I think the ladies don't protest too much.

554
00:34:10,360 --> 00:34:18,680
Speaker 1: That's what I think. That's what I think. That's what

555
00:34:18,800 --> 00:34:23,680
Speaker 1: I think. But it's deeper than I think, because we

556
00:34:23,719 --> 00:34:27,399
Speaker 1: don't really see what they struggle with. Wen't really see

557
00:34:27,719 --> 00:34:31,560
Speaker 1: what they struggle with. So you try to fix what

558
00:34:31,600 --> 00:34:35,200
Speaker 1: you see, but you don't really understand what you're struggling with,

559
00:34:35,239 --> 00:34:41,400
Speaker 1: what they're struggling with. All right, Stop having arguments. Married people,

560
00:34:41,440 --> 00:34:43,520
Speaker 1: Wave at me, Wave at me like it was the

561
00:34:43,560 --> 00:34:45,520
Speaker 1: best decision of your life you made when you said

562
00:34:45,560 --> 00:34:48,799
Speaker 1: I did. Oh wasn't it. Now? Teach you something real quick,

563
00:34:50,719 --> 00:34:55,239
Speaker 1: anybody newly married like just I mean, just still got

564
00:34:55,239 --> 00:34:57,920
Speaker 1: the plastic wrap on the thing. You know, you know,

565
00:34:58,400 --> 00:35:00,719
Speaker 1: don't even know if this, where's does this go? You know,

566
00:35:00,880 --> 00:35:06,800
Speaker 1: still figuring out. Look at her. I'ma do you a quick,

567
00:35:06,880 --> 00:35:09,879
Speaker 1: quick favor, all right, send me a little gift card

568
00:35:09,960 --> 00:35:12,319
Speaker 1: or something after this, because it's really good. You pay

569
00:35:12,360 --> 00:35:14,399
Speaker 1: a lot of therapy bills over this when I'm about

570
00:35:14,400 --> 00:35:20,319
Speaker 1: to give you. She's deeper than you think. Don't get

571
00:35:20,360 --> 00:35:23,560
Speaker 1: boring and stop being curious about who she really is

572
00:35:23,640 --> 00:35:30,080
Speaker 1: because you haven't really even met her yet. You got it.

573
00:35:31,160 --> 00:35:37,240
Speaker 1: You're welcome. Oh hey, and and you daughter of God.

574
00:35:39,719 --> 00:35:41,960
Speaker 1: Look look at him real quick, just look in his eyes,

575
00:35:42,000 --> 00:35:46,800
Speaker 1: looked deep in his eyes. At times in the coming years,

576
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Speaker 1: if he's sitting there with a blank look on his face,

577
00:35:50,000 --> 00:35:55,080
Speaker 1: you know, just drooling and you're like, what is he thinking?

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00:35:56,000 --> 00:36:01,319
Speaker 1: Let me tell you something, absolutely nothing. No, no, no, no no, no,

579
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Speaker 1: that's that's the stereotype. Oh, the women are complicated, the

580
00:36:06,320 --> 00:36:09,240
Speaker 1: men are simple. Men are not simple. He's way deeper

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Speaker 1: than you think. So if you see a man struggle

582
00:36:12,719 --> 00:36:18,880
Speaker 1: with anger, you will just label at his rage. What

583
00:36:18,920 --> 00:36:25,960
Speaker 1: if he's really afraid? What if he's really afraid? Me

584
00:36:26,000 --> 00:36:29,879
Speaker 1: and mom were talking about something that that my dad

585
00:36:29,880 --> 00:36:32,319
Speaker 1: did the other day one time when he freaked out,

586
00:36:33,600 --> 00:36:35,560
Speaker 1: and we were laughing because then it started. We started

587
00:36:35,560 --> 00:36:40,200
Speaker 1: listening all the times he freaked out, classic dad, and

588
00:36:40,239 --> 00:36:42,920
Speaker 1: we were bonding over laughing at him. And he's in

589
00:36:43,040 --> 00:36:45,919
Speaker 1: heaven now, so it doesn't hurt him. You know, he's

590
00:36:46,080 --> 00:36:48,480
Speaker 1: way less dysfunctional than us down here now, so we

591
00:36:48,520 --> 00:36:50,400
Speaker 1: say whatever you want about him. He's got his wings

592
00:36:50,440 --> 00:36:52,200
Speaker 1: and stuff, but down here you didn't have any wings.

593
00:36:52,239 --> 00:36:55,080
Speaker 1: Down here, he would freak out. And she looked at

594
00:36:55,080 --> 00:36:56,960
Speaker 1: me and said something that I thought was so profound.

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00:36:57,360 --> 00:37:03,160
Speaker 1: She said, I think anytime somebody made feel stupid, I

596
00:37:03,160 --> 00:37:04,960
Speaker 1: think a lot of the stuff that he did that

597
00:37:05,000 --> 00:37:10,600
Speaker 1: we categorized as him being hateful, was him feeling like

598
00:37:10,680 --> 00:37:13,360
Speaker 1: at the core that he was made to feel stupid,

599
00:37:13,880 --> 00:37:17,120
Speaker 1: which would make total sense since he didn't have the

600
00:37:17,160 --> 00:37:21,800
Speaker 1: opportunity to even finish to eighth grade, because he would

601
00:37:21,800 --> 00:37:25,040
Speaker 1: go through his life feeling like everybody knew something he

602
00:37:25,080 --> 00:37:28,239
Speaker 1: didn't know. So anytime now he gets an indication that

603
00:37:28,280 --> 00:37:31,080
Speaker 1: you know something I don't know, I feel weak. So

604
00:37:31,160 --> 00:37:35,280
Speaker 1: since I feel weak, I gotta act strong. Arrogant people

605
00:37:35,920 --> 00:37:42,040
Speaker 1: are the most insecure people. Strong people and whole people

606
00:37:42,640 --> 00:37:46,960
Speaker 1: are humble people. They can receive feedback. You see in

607
00:37:47,000 --> 00:37:49,880
Speaker 1: the text in John chapter four, how the Samaritan woman

608
00:37:50,160 --> 00:37:54,680
Speaker 1: is so defensive. Why can I get a drink? You

609
00:37:54,719 --> 00:37:57,480
Speaker 1: don't even have a joink? Whoa whoa whoa whoa whoa

610
00:37:57,520 --> 00:38:03,640
Speaker 1: whoa whoa whoa whoa, Just trying to make conversation, lady,

611
00:38:04,160 --> 00:38:10,239
Speaker 1: I am a rabbi. Man Nicodemus just came to see

612
00:38:10,320 --> 00:38:13,359
Speaker 1: this guy at night. In John three, now he's having

613
00:38:13,400 --> 00:38:16,040
Speaker 1: to deal with a woman who he's not even supposed

614
00:38:16,080 --> 00:38:18,600
Speaker 1: to be talking to, and in their eyes, she's not

615
00:38:18,719 --> 00:38:20,920
Speaker 1: worthy to talk to him, and he's having to put

616
00:38:21,000 --> 00:38:25,440
Speaker 1: up with this, but he keeps talking to her. He

617
00:38:25,520 --> 00:38:29,000
Speaker 1: keeps talking to her, and and and for years I

618
00:38:29,040 --> 00:38:33,640
Speaker 1: read this text, I thought that Jesus was discussing or

619
00:38:33,680 --> 00:38:38,840
Speaker 1: debating with the woman, but he wasn't. It wasn't a debate.

620
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Speaker 1: He wasn't discussing, He wasn't debating. He was digging, digging, digging.

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Speaker 1: Will you give me a drink? He's not supposed to

622
00:38:54,200 --> 00:38:56,160
Speaker 1: have anything to do with me. We don't even like y'all.

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Speaker 1: I understand all that. I understand that. I understand that

624
00:39:00,200 --> 00:39:04,120
Speaker 1: you're suspicious based on your history. I understand all that.

625
00:39:04,880 --> 00:39:07,880
Speaker 1: But keep going. Will you give me a drink? And

626
00:39:08,000 --> 00:39:11,120
Speaker 1: remember all of this is happening, y'all. If you really

627
00:39:11,120 --> 00:39:14,000
Speaker 1: love the Bible, check this out at Jacob's well that

628
00:39:14,080 --> 00:39:19,640
Speaker 1: he gave Joseph, which is amazing because you know, Joseph

629
00:39:19,760 --> 00:39:21,960
Speaker 1: was thrown in a well at one time in his

630
00:39:22,040 --> 00:39:25,000
Speaker 1: life by his brothers who left him there to die

631
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Speaker 1: and then sold him into slavery. And then at the

632
00:39:27,840 --> 00:39:30,880
Speaker 1: end of his life, his father Jacob said, I'm going

633
00:39:30,960 --> 00:39:32,920
Speaker 1: to give you one more ridge of land, and I

634
00:39:32,960 --> 00:39:35,759
Speaker 1: gave your brothers in Genesis forty eight. And in that

635
00:39:35,920 --> 00:39:39,640
Speaker 1: ridge of land is right where Jesus showed up hundreds

636
00:39:39,640 --> 00:39:42,839
Speaker 1: of years later. And it says that the well that

637
00:39:42,960 --> 00:39:48,239
Speaker 1: Jacob gave Joseph was there isn't that awesome. This has

638
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Speaker 1: been happening for a long time. Jesus didn't just set

639
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Speaker 1: up this the night before, think I'll stop by Samaria

640
00:39:54,239 --> 00:39:57,319
Speaker 1: and talk to the woman. He was thinking about this

641
00:39:57,440 --> 00:40:01,800
Speaker 1: woman from the very moment that that Joseph was getting

642
00:40:01,840 --> 00:40:04,799
Speaker 1: blessed with a well from his father. And you've got

643
00:40:04,840 --> 00:40:08,120
Speaker 1: to know in your life that God has been busy

644
00:40:08,160 --> 00:40:12,600
Speaker 1: behind the scenes. God is not surprised by this season

645
00:40:12,680 --> 00:40:16,400
Speaker 1: of your life. God did not even randomly let you

646
00:40:16,480 --> 00:40:20,600
Speaker 1: click on this sermon. You did not choose this sermon,

647
00:40:21,000 --> 00:40:25,880
Speaker 1: and neither did the algorithm. God took the algorithm. He said,

648
00:40:25,960 --> 00:40:28,479
Speaker 1: I need them to watch a sermon three months ago

649
00:40:29,000 --> 00:40:32,240
Speaker 1: so that when they open their YouTube on Sunday morning,

650
00:40:32,560 --> 00:40:35,680
Speaker 1: there will be in their algorithm a word that they

651
00:40:35,760 --> 00:40:39,239
Speaker 1: need to adjust their direction so that their life can

652
00:40:39,280 --> 00:40:43,640
Speaker 1: be on course. What kind of joy would you have

653
00:40:44,120 --> 00:40:47,960
Speaker 1: and peace would you experience if you internalize the truth

654
00:40:48,120 --> 00:40:51,160
Speaker 1: that God has been busy all along, and on the

655
00:40:51,239 --> 00:40:55,000
Speaker 1: surface your life seems absolutely ridiculous, And on the surface,

656
00:40:55,239 --> 00:40:58,560
Speaker 1: your situation is very scary, and you look like someone

657
00:40:58,800 --> 00:41:01,200
Speaker 1: who is just going out to get water. You look

658
00:41:01,320 --> 00:41:03,920
Speaker 1: like someone who just came to church with your mom

659
00:41:04,200 --> 00:41:06,960
Speaker 1: You look like someone who just came today, because that's

660
00:41:06,960 --> 00:41:09,520
Speaker 1: what we do, and that's on the surface. But it's

661
00:41:09,600 --> 00:41:12,440
Speaker 1: deeper than you think. Is steeper than you think. God

662
00:41:12,480 --> 00:41:15,200
Speaker 1: brought you here in this moment in time to remind

663
00:41:15,280 --> 00:41:18,239
Speaker 1: you that there is a well on your land. As

664
00:41:18,239 --> 00:41:20,200
Speaker 1: a matter of fact, don't want to point something out

665
00:41:20,239 --> 00:41:23,440
Speaker 1: to you. The land belonged to Joseph, so the spring

666
00:41:23,600 --> 00:41:26,880
Speaker 1: under it did too. The land belonged to Joseph, so

667
00:41:27,000 --> 00:41:29,760
Speaker 1: the spring under it did too. Jacob paid one hundred

668
00:41:29,760 --> 00:41:32,919
Speaker 1: pieces of silver for that land, and underneath the land

669
00:41:33,040 --> 00:41:35,560
Speaker 1: was a spring. And underneath the spring, when the spring

670
00:41:35,640 --> 00:41:38,120
Speaker 1: came up through a well, it was able to refresh

671
00:41:38,160 --> 00:41:40,799
Speaker 1: and restore. God sent me to tell you that when

672
00:41:40,880 --> 00:41:44,440
Speaker 1: Jesus paid for your salvation, you don't just get the field.

673
00:41:44,719 --> 00:41:47,440
Speaker 1: You get the spring too. He didn't just die so

674
00:41:47,480 --> 00:41:49,880
Speaker 1: you could go to heaven one day. You get what's

675
00:41:50,000 --> 00:41:52,920
Speaker 1: under it too. When he claimed this is mine and

676
00:41:53,000 --> 00:41:55,400
Speaker 1: took your life. He didn't just come to give you

677
00:41:55,480 --> 00:41:58,040
Speaker 1: a ticket to heaven. He came to give you bread

678
00:41:58,400 --> 00:42:02,560
Speaker 1: at the presence of you, and green grass in the valley,

679
00:42:02,800 --> 00:42:06,759
Speaker 1: and joy unspeakable and full of glory. I don't just

680
00:42:06,840 --> 00:42:09,520
Speaker 1: want the land. I don't just want to happen. I

681
00:42:09,520 --> 00:42:12,919
Speaker 1: don't just want salvation. When I get there, I'd leave

682
00:42:13,080 --> 00:42:19,040
Speaker 1: Jesus right now, living water, living water, springs, living water.

683
00:42:22,360 --> 00:42:27,720
Speaker 1: So not just the land, but the spring is yours.

684
00:42:27,920 --> 00:42:30,560
Speaker 1: And God is saying, I don't just want the external

685
00:42:30,640 --> 00:42:33,480
Speaker 1: parts of you. I don't just want your behavior to

686
00:42:33,520 --> 00:42:37,920
Speaker 1: get better. I want what's inside. Jesus died for what

687
00:42:38,120 --> 00:42:46,960
Speaker 1: is inside. That's the gospel that if you believe in

688
00:42:47,000 --> 00:42:51,719
Speaker 1: his name, that from within you, somebody say within, just

689
00:42:51,800 --> 00:42:55,680
Speaker 1: get that word right there in your spirit within within

690
00:42:57,480 --> 00:43:00,480
Speaker 1: you think if you get a better well, you'll be happy.

691
00:43:01,480 --> 00:43:04,120
Speaker 1: Or like the woman you don't even have a jar.

692
00:43:05,520 --> 00:43:07,480
Speaker 1: See how fixated we are and what we can see,

693
00:43:07,800 --> 00:43:11,279
Speaker 1: and the level you see it determines the level you

694
00:43:11,320 --> 00:43:15,799
Speaker 1: solve it. That's why you keep clicking on all the

695
00:43:15,880 --> 00:43:20,520
Speaker 1: videos that tell you how to be happy by eating

696
00:43:20,560 --> 00:43:26,560
Speaker 1: more pizza and doing less cardio, because it's clickbait. Because

697
00:43:26,560 --> 00:43:30,239
Speaker 1: that's the world. Keep you coming back when you get

698
00:43:30,280 --> 00:43:35,680
Speaker 1: thirsty again, you hear me, so we keep clicking on stuff,

699
00:43:35,680 --> 00:43:38,680
Speaker 1: trying stuff. How many y'all did at least three diets

700
00:43:38,680 --> 00:43:42,000
Speaker 1: already this year and it's not even November yet. It's

701
00:43:42,040 --> 00:43:44,640
Speaker 1: all right. I've done it too, because the next thing

702
00:43:44,719 --> 00:43:48,239
Speaker 1: is gonna fix it. The next thing. Oh, it's my macros.

703
00:43:48,239 --> 00:43:51,200
Speaker 1: Oh it's my micros. Oh you know what I'm saying.

704
00:43:51,440 --> 00:43:53,480
Speaker 1: You can count all of that that you want on

705
00:43:53,520 --> 00:43:55,279
Speaker 1: the outside, and it's wonderful, and all of this thing

706
00:43:55,360 --> 00:43:58,000
Speaker 1: is wonderful, and all of that stuff is great, But

707
00:43:58,120 --> 00:44:03,319
Speaker 1: have you ever stopped to wonder what's under it? Are

708
00:44:03,360 --> 00:44:05,480
Speaker 1: you running around like me last week with a plunger.

709
00:44:07,760 --> 00:44:10,319
Speaker 1: That's the story I told last week. Every deep thing

710
00:44:10,360 --> 00:44:12,439
Speaker 1: I said in the sermon, the only thing I heard

711
00:44:12,440 --> 00:44:14,839
Speaker 1: anything about was that was funny when you yelled at

712
00:44:14,840 --> 00:44:17,360
Speaker 1: your kids about the toilet. Because I told this story,

713
00:44:17,360 --> 00:44:19,840
Speaker 1: it was embarrassing, and I'm still embarrassed by it. But

714
00:44:19,960 --> 00:44:22,839
Speaker 1: after plunging this toilet and yelling at the kids who

715
00:44:22,880 --> 00:44:25,000
Speaker 1: did this in the toilet and left it and shut

716
00:44:25,040 --> 00:44:26,880
Speaker 1: the lid, and after trying to fix it and I

717
00:44:26,880 --> 00:44:30,120
Speaker 1: couldn't fix it, I found out that it wasn't their

718
00:44:30,160 --> 00:44:34,440
Speaker 1: fault and it wasn't the toilet's fault, and that the

719
00:44:34,480 --> 00:44:37,719
Speaker 1: pump was broken, and the only way for me to

720
00:44:37,800 --> 00:44:41,120
Speaker 1: fix the situation was to deal with it at the

721
00:44:41,239 --> 00:44:47,920
Speaker 1: level that I couldn't see it, so that means I

722
00:44:47,960 --> 00:44:51,800
Speaker 1: could have taken their phone for a week. You shouldn't

723
00:44:51,840 --> 00:44:54,160
Speaker 1: have done that in that toilet. That is unlawful for

724
00:44:54,200 --> 00:44:55,719
Speaker 1: a man to do in that toilet. And then you

725
00:44:55,760 --> 00:44:57,800
Speaker 1: at least should have told me that it didn't flush,

726
00:44:58,120 --> 00:45:00,520
Speaker 1: it wasn't that it was backed up some somewhere else.

727
00:45:02,400 --> 00:45:04,319
Speaker 1: You can yell, you can scream, you can fight, you

728
00:45:04,360 --> 00:45:06,520
Speaker 1: can buy, you can try, you can cry, you can

729
00:45:06,560 --> 00:45:09,200
Speaker 1: do all of it that you want to. But you're

730
00:45:09,239 --> 00:45:14,560
Speaker 1: gonna keep coming back and keep getting thirsty. Yeah, she said,

731
00:45:14,560 --> 00:45:20,480
Speaker 1: I got five men that I tried, still thirsty, and

732
00:45:20,520 --> 00:45:23,400
Speaker 1: the one I'm with now I'm not sure about. And

733
00:45:23,560 --> 00:45:29,600
Speaker 1: Jesus is like good because now you've probably given up

734
00:45:30,239 --> 00:45:34,160
Speaker 1: on the idea that you will be happy when you

735
00:45:34,320 --> 00:45:43,920
Speaker 1: have someone. Maybe now you're ready to admit is deeper

736
00:45:45,120 --> 00:45:49,400
Speaker 1: than you think. I can't figure this out on my own.

737
00:45:49,120 --> 00:45:52,200
Speaker 1: I can't structure my way into this. Structure is awesome.

738
00:45:52,320 --> 00:45:54,760
Speaker 1: I can't schedule my way into this. Scheduling is awesome.

739
00:45:54,840 --> 00:45:57,320
Speaker 1: I can't shop my way into this. Shopping is awesome.

740
00:45:58,239 --> 00:46:01,440
Speaker 1: Waiting for Holly to say, amen, don't be a hypocrite. Now,

741
00:46:01,440 --> 00:46:04,520
Speaker 1: you know, there's just stuff at my door every day.

742
00:46:06,000 --> 00:46:08,680
Speaker 1: But that's not what makes Holly happy. That's not what's

743
00:46:08,719 --> 00:46:11,520
Speaker 1: going to make you happy, not in a way that's

744
00:46:11,520 --> 00:46:19,279
Speaker 1: going to be lasting. It's deeper than you thought. Now,

745
00:46:19,320 --> 00:46:23,319
Speaker 1: Sometimes it's not that deep. Not everything is so deep,

746
00:46:24,520 --> 00:46:26,680
Speaker 1: not everything as deep as you make it. Man, I

747
00:46:26,719 --> 00:46:28,680
Speaker 1: feel like the devil is fighting me with the spirit

748
00:46:28,719 --> 00:46:32,439
Speaker 1: of exhaustion. That you stayed up till four am. Wa'ts

749
00:46:32,440 --> 00:46:39,000
Speaker 1: your Netflix, that's the spirit of Netflix. Those are different, right,

750
00:46:40,320 --> 00:46:44,399
Speaker 1: you know that? Oh no, man, I'm just anxious all

751
00:46:44,440 --> 00:46:47,440
Speaker 1: the time. But I guess seven cups of coffee before

752
00:46:47,480 --> 00:46:50,400
Speaker 1: seven thirty am is not the best way to fight anxiety.

753
00:46:51,560 --> 00:46:54,720
Speaker 1: I cancel the spirit of caffeine in the name of Jesus.

754
00:46:55,719 --> 00:46:58,600
Speaker 1: I break every yoke of caffeine in the name of Jesus.

755
00:46:59,000 --> 00:47:02,120
Speaker 1: But you drink it. You can't be delivered from it

756
00:47:02,400 --> 00:47:04,600
Speaker 1: if you just keep drinking it. And I'm preaching to

757
00:47:04,600 --> 00:47:06,680
Speaker 1: myself because sometimes I'm like, God, I'm so anxious. I

758
00:47:06,680 --> 00:47:07,920
Speaker 1: don't know what to do. I feel like the devil's

759
00:47:07,920 --> 00:47:11,400
Speaker 1: just coming at me. It's like, it's not the devil

760
00:47:11,800 --> 00:47:15,360
Speaker 1: is diet coke and I do not need any comments

761
00:47:15,600 --> 00:47:18,880
Speaker 1: about aspartame and how I'm gonna die. I'm going to

762
00:47:18,920 --> 00:47:21,320
Speaker 1: heaven when I die, and I'm ready to see Jesus

763
00:47:21,400 --> 00:47:24,120
Speaker 1: at any time. And I enjoyed the delicious taste of

764
00:47:24,160 --> 00:47:26,640
Speaker 1: diet coke and it's deeper than you think, and I

765
00:47:26,800 --> 00:47:42,640
Speaker 1: like it. I like it. Classic Dad, Calm down, we're

766
00:47:42,680 --> 00:47:48,200
Speaker 1: swimming fine, Calm down. What's the big deal? Calm down, preacher.

767
00:47:48,239 --> 00:47:51,000
Speaker 1: You're up here yelling and shouting and screaming and all

768
00:47:51,040 --> 00:47:53,600
Speaker 1: this stuff. It doesn't take all that. We won't need

769
00:47:53,640 --> 00:47:58,439
Speaker 1: all that, not that deep. Okay, Ibby, you touch life

770
00:47:58,480 --> 00:48:02,520
Speaker 1: will eventually put you in a situation where you will,

771
00:48:02,520 --> 00:48:06,319
Speaker 1: from that point forward know your need for something to

772
00:48:06,360 --> 00:48:12,640
Speaker 1: stand on. These waters are deeper than you think. I

773
00:48:12,680 --> 00:48:14,600
Speaker 1: was processing with a young man the other day said,

774
00:48:14,600 --> 00:48:17,400
Speaker 1: I don't get depressed people. Why would you want to

775
00:48:17,440 --> 00:48:24,600
Speaker 1: be depressed? As if depression was a desire. It's a disease.

776
00:48:25,960 --> 00:48:28,600
Speaker 1: It's a disease. You understand a lot of the mental

777
00:48:28,600 --> 00:48:31,040
Speaker 1: health issues that we're dealing with right now. It is

778
00:48:31,080 --> 00:48:34,799
Speaker 1: not as if these people are selecting. There are behaviors,

779
00:48:35,080 --> 00:48:38,479
Speaker 1: there are inputs, But at the heart of that, can

780
00:48:38,520 --> 00:48:41,680
Speaker 1: we take a moment to try to understand what's really

781
00:48:41,719 --> 00:48:45,759
Speaker 1: going on in their life in your life. While you're

782
00:48:45,760 --> 00:48:49,000
Speaker 1: at it, Would you stop being so hard on yourself.

783
00:48:49,360 --> 00:48:56,920
Speaker 1: You're doing pretty good after all. I think you'll need

784
00:48:56,960 --> 00:49:02,120
Speaker 1: therapy because only three people clap. I think y'all need therapy.

785
00:49:02,600 --> 00:49:05,040
Speaker 1: I can't pay for the whole church to go to therapy, y'all.

786
00:49:06,120 --> 00:49:08,279
Speaker 1: Seventy five seventy five that's a lot of hours. I

787
00:49:08,320 --> 00:49:10,040
Speaker 1: can't do it. I can't do it. I can't do it.

788
00:49:10,239 --> 00:49:12,120
Speaker 1: You're gonna have to hear me say this from the

789
00:49:12,160 --> 00:49:14,160
Speaker 1: stage because some of you're not gonna let anybody else

790
00:49:14,160 --> 00:49:18,280
Speaker 1: say it to you. You are trying to solve stuff

791
00:49:18,640 --> 00:49:21,640
Speaker 1: at the level you see it, but it's deeper than

792
00:49:21,680 --> 00:49:25,320
Speaker 1: you think, and you can't see anything but the symptom,

793
00:49:25,400 --> 00:49:29,840
Speaker 1: so you keep stuffing the symptoms, numbing the symptoms, shopping

794
00:49:29,880 --> 00:49:33,600
Speaker 1: through the symptoms, screaming in other people because of the symptoms.

795
00:49:37,800 --> 00:49:41,440
Speaker 1: I'm sorry, y'all, but sin is deeper than you think.

796
00:49:42,400 --> 00:49:44,680
Speaker 1: You don't preach enough about sin in this church. I

797
00:49:44,719 --> 00:49:47,200
Speaker 1: wish you preach more about sin. Well, I guess you do.

798
00:49:47,280 --> 00:49:52,719
Speaker 1: Is something you're an expert in preach about sin a

799
00:49:52,760 --> 00:49:54,920
Speaker 1: lot of the sermons where I hear that are so

800
00:49:55,160 --> 00:49:59,719
Speaker 1: preaching against sin, they're just skimming it. All they're doing

801
00:49:59,800 --> 00:50:03,040
Speaker 1: is saying, all right, you are commit adultry. Stop that,

802
00:50:08,320 --> 00:50:12,600
Speaker 1: stop committing adultery, when at the heart of me doing this,

803
00:50:13,640 --> 00:50:18,640
Speaker 1: it's something that you haven't taught me to deal with. Stop.

804
00:50:18,760 --> 00:50:20,879
Speaker 1: You know, Like we had the youth services this week

805
00:50:20,920 --> 00:50:25,520
Speaker 1: in the church. It was awesome, and well, I'll tell

806
00:50:25,560 --> 00:50:27,560
Speaker 1: you what. You kind of wish you could have a

807
00:50:27,600 --> 00:50:29,560
Speaker 1: session with just the fellas so you could do a

808
00:50:29,600 --> 00:50:33,080
Speaker 1: whole thing on porn. Don't look at me. You brought

809
00:50:33,080 --> 00:50:34,799
Speaker 1: your kids in here. There's e kids. You should have

810
00:50:34,840 --> 00:50:39,279
Speaker 1: dropped them off. Hey, it is not my fault. You

811
00:50:39,360 --> 00:50:42,839
Speaker 1: don't trust your kids with our volunteers. They're certified. All right,

812
00:50:43,600 --> 00:50:48,239
Speaker 1: you made that decision. But I wish I could. I

813
00:50:48,280 --> 00:50:49,799
Speaker 1: wish I could do a whole thing with the with

814
00:50:49,840 --> 00:50:51,680
Speaker 1: the boys about porn because I think I have a

815
00:50:51,680 --> 00:50:56,240
Speaker 1: bigger message to give them then, don't we're so surface

816
00:50:56,360 --> 00:51:00,080
Speaker 1: level in church. Sex is dirty and nasty and oh

817
00:51:00,280 --> 00:51:07,040
Speaker 1: and ugly, So save them for your husband, right, huh.

818
00:51:07,560 --> 00:51:09,799
Speaker 1: Nobody taught me that the Holy Spirit would help me

819
00:51:09,800 --> 00:51:12,920
Speaker 1: in my struggle with that. Nobody ever taught me that

820
00:51:13,360 --> 00:51:15,719
Speaker 1: there are patterns I can put in place. Nobody ever

821
00:51:15,800 --> 00:51:17,920
Speaker 1: taught me that I need more than just prayers. I

822
00:51:17,960 --> 00:51:22,200
Speaker 1: need people to help me when I'm weak. Nobody taught

823
00:51:22,239 --> 00:51:27,799
Speaker 1: me that all you want to do is stand over

824
00:51:27,880 --> 00:51:31,880
Speaker 1: defeated people and discourage them even more. But it's deeper

825
00:51:31,920 --> 00:51:41,640
Speaker 1: than you think. Don't be depressed. Sixth fart series starts

826
00:51:41,640 --> 00:51:46,960
Speaker 1: next Sunday, Part one, Doom, Part two B Part three Depressed.

827
00:51:48,320 --> 00:51:51,359
Speaker 1: What's the next three weeks gonna be? I'm gonna say

828
00:51:51,360 --> 00:51:59,839
Speaker 1: that again, louder. What is deeper? He came out there

829
00:52:00,000 --> 00:52:04,160
Speaker 1: noon because she was ashamed, and he died at noon

830
00:52:05,560 --> 00:52:10,200
Speaker 1: because she was ashamed. And he comes to you right

831
00:52:10,200 --> 00:52:12,640
Speaker 1: out in the light to show you what I'm really

832
00:52:12,640 --> 00:52:17,120
Speaker 1: dealing with. He's digging me, digging. Can I have water?

833
00:52:18,160 --> 00:52:20,719
Speaker 1: Why are you asking me for water? Just like a man.

834
00:52:23,040 --> 00:52:27,880
Speaker 1: And he's digging, and he's digging because I know underneath

835
00:52:27,880 --> 00:52:33,839
Speaker 1: this attitude, I know, underneath this sorrow is a deep

836
00:52:33,880 --> 00:52:40,000
Speaker 1: disappointment that what you thought would quench your thirst, but

837
00:52:40,120 --> 00:52:43,840
Speaker 1: what you thought would satisfy your soul did in word,

838
00:52:44,000 --> 00:52:47,080
Speaker 1: that who you thought would never let you down broke

839
00:52:47,160 --> 00:52:51,719
Speaker 1: you in pieces and I know that, he says, and

840
00:52:51,760 --> 00:52:54,920
Speaker 1: I see that, and you keep trying to solve it

841
00:52:54,960 --> 00:52:58,000
Speaker 1: on the level you see it. Now, let's solve it

842
00:52:58,040 --> 00:53:08,600
Speaker 1: on the level that he sees it. It's deeper than

843
00:53:08,640 --> 00:53:11,920
Speaker 1: you think, Abby, That's all I know to tell you.

844
00:53:12,360 --> 00:53:15,640
Speaker 1: I kept telling y'all to come in, not just because

845
00:53:16,400 --> 00:53:19,800
Speaker 1: of what was happening in that moment, but you remember

846
00:53:19,840 --> 00:53:24,600
Speaker 1: at Cinnamon Beach too, summers earlier, on spring break, and

847
00:53:24,640 --> 00:53:28,640
Speaker 1: we're out there and the rip tide comes. You remember

848
00:53:28,640 --> 00:53:31,400
Speaker 1: when y'all start swimming in, And I told you afterwards,

849
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Speaker 1: I think we almost all just died. I was scared.

850
00:53:36,800 --> 00:53:38,799
Speaker 1: I didn't act scared while we were out there. Y'all.

851
00:53:38,840 --> 00:53:41,920
Speaker 1: We were out there on spring break two years before this,

852
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Speaker 1: and I just absolutely lost track of where we were.

853
00:53:46,480 --> 00:53:48,600
Speaker 1: And none of us could touch, not Elijah, not Graham,

854
00:53:48,600 --> 00:53:51,600
Speaker 1: not Abby, not me. Holly's in the house doing a puzzle,

855
00:53:52,600 --> 00:53:58,759
Speaker 1: the smart, happy one, and I got them all in, man,

856
00:53:58,760 --> 00:54:01,880
Speaker 1: But it was a minute where anybody almost ever drowned before,

857
00:54:02,800 --> 00:54:05,959
Speaker 1: anybody ever almost drowned with your three kids out there

858
00:54:06,680 --> 00:54:10,200
Speaker 1: and you can't get them all in. So when I'm

859
00:54:10,280 --> 00:54:17,640
Speaker 1: yelling this summer, I'm remembering that spring break. I'm not

860
00:54:17,719 --> 00:54:20,359
Speaker 1: just yelling because you're too far out there now. I

861
00:54:20,400 --> 00:54:22,640
Speaker 1: still feel in mysels. If I close my eyes, I

862
00:54:22,640 --> 00:54:26,920
Speaker 1: can remember thinking about, Oh God, this is it. And

863
00:54:26,960 --> 00:54:29,000
Speaker 1: sometimes what you're dealing with right now isn't what you're

864
00:54:29,000 --> 00:54:38,680
Speaker 1: dealing with right now. Yeah, it's deeper than you think,

865
00:54:40,880 --> 00:54:44,000
Speaker 1: and Jesus can help you deal with that. He didn't

866
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Speaker 1: tell the woman, I'll meet you in heaven one day.

867
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Speaker 1: He said, go get your husband. She said, i'll have

868
00:54:47,080 --> 00:54:48,520
Speaker 1: a husband. He said, I know you've been with five

869
00:54:48,560 --> 00:54:50,479
Speaker 1: and the when you have now not your husband. She said,

870
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Speaker 1: you're a prophet. She thought he was a prophet because

871
00:54:54,440 --> 00:54:58,719
Speaker 1: he spoke to her past. I think he was a

872
00:54:58,760 --> 00:55:09,280
Speaker 1: prophet because he knew her future. He knows the plans

873
00:55:09,320 --> 00:55:12,560
Speaker 1: he has for you. He knows the plans he has

874
00:55:12,600 --> 00:55:16,719
Speaker 1: for you, and is deeper than you think. He knows

875
00:55:16,719 --> 00:55:20,960
Speaker 1: how he's going to redeem this season in your child's life.

876
00:55:21,600 --> 00:55:24,680
Speaker 1: And what he's doing is deeper than you think. The

877
00:55:24,719 --> 00:55:27,640
Speaker 1: Lord said to me the other day, you need to

878
00:55:27,880 --> 00:55:32,880
Speaker 1: start respecting the roots. All you ever look for in

879
00:55:32,880 --> 00:55:35,000
Speaker 1: life to praise me for is the stuff that you

880
00:55:35,000 --> 00:55:39,600
Speaker 1: can see above the surface. Start praising me more for

881
00:55:39,680 --> 00:55:43,800
Speaker 1: the things I am doing deeper in your life. Start

882
00:55:43,880 --> 00:55:48,080
Speaker 1: praising me more for things I'm teaching you. You hear

883
00:55:48,120 --> 00:55:51,560
Speaker 1: me that you can carry forward. Start praising me more

884
00:55:51,680 --> 00:55:56,640
Speaker 1: for things that I will explain later. So praise God

885
00:55:56,840 --> 00:56:02,440
Speaker 1: now for what he will explain later. That's a faith principle.

886
00:56:02,760 --> 00:56:06,000
Speaker 1: I praise you now, you can explain it later. I

887
00:56:06,120 --> 00:56:09,800
Speaker 1: praise you now. I'll understand it later. I praise you now.

888
00:56:10,000 --> 00:56:12,720
Speaker 1: I'll get it later. I praise you now. It hurts

889
00:56:12,800 --> 00:56:15,480
Speaker 1: right now, but it'll heal me later. I praise you

890
00:56:15,600 --> 00:56:18,959
Speaker 1: now because it's a groundwork. I praise you now because

891
00:56:19,000 --> 00:56:22,560
Speaker 1: it's a foundation. And after all, if God is building

892
00:56:22,600 --> 00:56:25,680
Speaker 1: something awesome in my life, the first thing he will

893
00:56:25,719 --> 00:56:29,280
Speaker 1: do is dig. So that's not the devil, that's Jesus

894
00:56:29,400 --> 00:56:32,279
Speaker 1: digging it out because you got a well on the inside,

895
00:56:32,680 --> 00:56:36,120
Speaker 1: you got something special on the inside, you got something

896
00:56:36,160 --> 00:56:39,719
Speaker 1: awesome on the inside. Somebody shout out loud, I got it,

897
00:56:40,800 --> 00:56:44,239
Speaker 1: high five, somebody say I got it. I got it

898
00:56:44,280 --> 00:56:47,759
Speaker 1: on the inside, I got it on the inside. Don't

899
00:56:47,800 --> 00:56:50,799
Speaker 1: look at my bag. I'm not talking about that. Don't

900
00:56:50,840 --> 00:56:53,520
Speaker 1: look on what's on my back. I'm not talking about that.

901
00:56:53,800 --> 00:56:56,400
Speaker 1: I'm not talking about anything you can see. I'm not

902
00:56:56,440 --> 00:56:58,560
Speaker 1: going to solve it at the level people can see it.

903
00:56:58,840 --> 00:57:01,719
Speaker 1: I'm done trying to impressed people. I'm done for us

904
00:57:01,800 --> 00:57:04,839
Speaker 1: smiling through stuff that I need to work through. I'm

905
00:57:04,880 --> 00:57:08,520
Speaker 1: done putting spiritual cliches over things that God wants to

906
00:57:08,520 --> 00:57:12,600
Speaker 1: do a deep work to help me recover from. I

907
00:57:12,640 --> 00:57:17,760
Speaker 1: want this water. Come on, I want this water. I

908
00:57:17,800 --> 00:57:21,000
Speaker 1: want this water, the one that won't make me thirstier.

909
00:57:21,280 --> 00:57:24,360
Speaker 1: I want this water, the one that's not poison. I

910
00:57:24,400 --> 00:57:26,959
Speaker 1: want this water. I want the one that comes from

911
00:57:27,000 --> 00:57:29,640
Speaker 1: you God. I want the real thing. I don't want

912
00:57:29,640 --> 00:57:32,760
Speaker 1: the substitute. I don't want to stand in. I don't

913
00:57:32,760 --> 00:57:36,160
Speaker 1: want the sixth Man. I want the seventh Man. I

914
00:57:36,320 --> 00:57:48,520
Speaker 1: want Jesus hoping. You're not why in a Dylan because

915
00:57:48,560 --> 00:57:52,080
Speaker 1: it's deeper than you think. It's deeper than you think.

916
00:57:53,920 --> 00:57:57,280
Speaker 1: I got bad news. The problem is deeper than you think.

917
00:57:59,520 --> 00:58:02,959
Speaker 1: There's no seven steps to fix it. It's called sin,

918
00:58:03,720 --> 00:58:08,800
Speaker 1: and it's the human condition. It's worse than they told you.

919
00:58:10,040 --> 00:58:12,160
Speaker 1: It's not just get your act together and be happy

920
00:58:12,160 --> 00:58:16,200
Speaker 1: when you do. That's the bad news. The problem is

921
00:58:16,240 --> 00:58:20,840
Speaker 1: deeper than you think. I got good news. So is

922
00:58:20,880 --> 00:58:33,920
Speaker 1: the power. So is the power. If the problem is

923
00:58:34,000 --> 00:58:40,960
Speaker 1: deeper than you think, so is the power. It will

924
00:58:41,040 --> 00:58:44,720
Speaker 1: run out. The patience of God will not run out.

925
00:58:46,480 --> 00:58:49,160
Speaker 1: He'll sit here all day, if that's what it takes.

926
00:58:50,000 --> 00:58:52,280
Speaker 1: He will sit here all day. He will dig all

927
00:58:52,400 --> 00:58:55,240
Speaker 1: day until he uncovers the real you. He will dig

928
00:58:55,320 --> 00:58:58,680
Speaker 1: past layers of pretension. He will dig past every persona.

929
00:58:58,960 --> 00:59:01,360
Speaker 1: He will knock over everything you've propped up to try

930
00:59:01,400 --> 00:59:04,040
Speaker 1: to keep you from being seen. He'll strip away every

931
00:59:04,080 --> 00:59:07,200
Speaker 1: fig leaf. He'll come until that thing in your life

932
00:59:07,280 --> 00:59:10,000
Speaker 1: that was standing up, that was erected as a facade,

933
00:59:10,240 --> 00:59:12,240
Speaker 1: is torn down, and all you have left is faith.

934
00:59:19,520 --> 00:59:21,320
Speaker 1: And what he said to the woman is true for

935
00:59:21,400 --> 00:59:25,680
Speaker 1: you is deeper than you think. It's going to be

936
00:59:25,760 --> 00:59:29,280
Speaker 1: not a well that you can see, It's going to

937
00:59:29,320 --> 00:59:33,520
Speaker 1: be a well from within. I wonder what you've been

938
00:59:33,520 --> 00:59:38,200
Speaker 1: praying for. I wonder what you've been searching for. The

939
00:59:38,320 --> 00:59:42,040
Speaker 1: Kingdom of God is within you. The Spirit of God

940
00:59:42,840 --> 00:59:46,440
Speaker 1: is within you. And just when you think you've reached

941
00:59:46,440 --> 00:59:49,920
Speaker 1: your end, Now, whoever this is for, I knew that

942
00:59:50,000 --> 00:59:51,880
Speaker 1: I needed to say it before I got up and

943
00:59:52,040 --> 00:59:54,200
Speaker 1: would I would not be able to eat my lunch

944
00:59:54,280 --> 01:00:01,959
Speaker 1: without saying this, So you listen. You've been telling God

945
01:00:02,200 --> 01:00:06,640
Speaker 1: how deep the well is. He's trying to show you

946
01:00:07,120 --> 01:00:16,720
Speaker 1: how deep his grace is. There. It is there, it is.

947
01:00:17,320 --> 01:00:22,680
Speaker 1: That's the word. That's the word. The grace is deeper still.

948
01:00:23,640 --> 01:00:28,600
Speaker 1: If the fear runs deep, the faith runs deeper still,

949
01:00:28,800 --> 01:00:33,480
Speaker 1: you see it. If the shame runs deep, the grace

950
01:00:34,080 --> 01:00:38,560
Speaker 1: runs deeper. Still. It's deeper than you think. It's deeper

951
01:00:38,560 --> 01:00:42,000
Speaker 1: than you imagine. According to Him who is able to

952
01:00:42,080 --> 01:00:46,479
Speaker 1: do immeasurably more, it is deeper than you think. Those

953
01:00:46,520 --> 01:00:49,520
Speaker 1: seeds that you're sowing that you don't think anybody notices

954
01:00:49,720 --> 01:00:52,560
Speaker 1: they are going in the soil. Right now, you respect

955
01:00:52,600 --> 01:00:55,920
Speaker 1: that rooting process. You continue to water everything that you've

956
01:00:55,960 --> 01:00:58,840
Speaker 1: planted with your tears, and you trust God to explain

957
01:00:58,880 --> 01:01:02,560
Speaker 1: it later. It is deeper than you think. By the

958
01:01:02,640 --> 01:01:05,600
Speaker 1: time Jesus gets done with this woman, she goes back

959
01:01:05,640 --> 01:01:08,360
Speaker 1: to her village in Samaria, and she brings all the

960
01:01:08,400 --> 01:01:11,439
Speaker 1: men back with her so they can meet Jesus. What

961
01:01:11,480 --> 01:01:14,440
Speaker 1: God is doing in you right now is not about you.

962
01:01:14,760 --> 01:01:16,840
Speaker 1: It's about what God is going to do through you

963
01:01:16,920 --> 01:01:19,000
Speaker 1: in the future. And you need to get off of

964
01:01:19,040 --> 01:01:22,240
Speaker 1: this well today and begin to move in the direction

965
01:01:22,560 --> 01:01:26,080
Speaker 1: of his word for your life. The disappointment runs see,

966
01:01:31,560 --> 01:01:40,160
Speaker 1: but his grace runs deeper by your head. Receive the

967
01:01:40,200 --> 01:01:47,440
Speaker 1: living water today, Oh Father, What a what a truth?

968
01:01:49,800 --> 01:01:53,160
Speaker 1: That is not about which mountain we worship on. It's

969
01:01:53,160 --> 01:01:56,680
Speaker 1: not about what jar we brought. It's about what water

970
01:01:56,800 --> 01:01:59,360
Speaker 1: is on the inside of us. Oh, I bless you

971
01:01:59,480 --> 01:02:02,200
Speaker 1: for showing me that again this week. I needed to

972
01:02:02,240 --> 01:02:04,520
Speaker 1: know it. This week. God, I start thinking, Oh, I

973
01:02:04,560 --> 01:02:06,840
Speaker 1: got to get more money put away, then I'll feel safe.

974
01:02:07,040 --> 01:02:09,080
Speaker 1: Oh I got to get this person straightened out, then

975
01:02:09,080 --> 01:02:11,280
Speaker 1: I'll have peace. Oh I got to get this calm down.

976
01:02:11,320 --> 01:02:12,880
Speaker 1: I just got to make it through this season. I

977
01:02:12,880 --> 01:02:15,080
Speaker 1: got to finish this. And you told me to stop

978
01:02:16,120 --> 01:02:19,720
Speaker 1: and sit by the well and remember what is within me,

979
01:02:21,920 --> 01:02:24,280
Speaker 1: and to call it out of these men and women

980
01:02:25,480 --> 01:02:33,160
Speaker 1: everyone's standing. The spirit of God is in you. Favor,

981
01:02:33,240 --> 01:02:36,439
Speaker 1: the Lord is on you, The hand of the Lord

982
01:02:36,480 --> 01:02:41,959
Speaker 1: is upon you. The promise of God over your life.

983
01:02:41,960 --> 01:02:45,560
Speaker 1: I call it to the surface now in Jesus Nay.

984
01:02:46,600 --> 01:02:49,880
Speaker 1: The problem is deeper than you think. The promise is

985
01:02:50,120 --> 01:02:53,000
Speaker 1: greater than you know. And I'm telling you it's not

986
01:02:53,040 --> 01:02:55,920
Speaker 1: coming one day. Is here right now I'm telling you

987
01:02:55,920 --> 01:02:57,800
Speaker 1: there's a well within you right now. There is a

988
01:02:57,840 --> 01:03:01,200
Speaker 1: well within you. Right now, There is a well well.

989
01:03:01,200 --> 01:03:03,280
Speaker 1: If you enjoyed today's podcast, there are a couple of

990
01:03:03,360 --> 01:03:07,040
Speaker 1: things I'd love for you to do. Make sure to subscribe, rate,

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01:03:07,320 --> 01:03:10,280
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01:03:10,360 --> 01:03:14,200
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