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Speaker 1: Hey, this is Stephen Ferdick.

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

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Speaker 1: I wanted to thank you for joining us today. Hope

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Speaker 1: this inspires you. Hope it builds your faith. Hope it

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Speaker 1: gives your perspective to see God is moving in your life.

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Speaker 1: Enjoy the message. Thank you, Lord, came today to praise you.

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Speaker 1: We live to praise you. We breathe to praise you.

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Speaker 1: We exists to glorify and enjoy you forever. And your

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Speaker 1: presence is the fullness of joy at your right hand

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Speaker 1: or pleasures forevermore. We praise you, Lord. Thank you for

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Speaker 1: the privilege today to breathe in your grace, to breathe

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Speaker 1: out your praise. And now, Lord, I asked that you

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Speaker 1: would do something so spectacular as you speak through your word,

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Speaker 1: that we would have no other hope than to say

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Speaker 1: it was God. For it could not have been a

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Speaker 1: motivational speech or an inspirational song that touched me like that.

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Speaker 1: It was God. And that will be our testimony when

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Speaker 1: we leave. We thank you in advance in Jesus' name. Amen,

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Speaker 1: put your hands together and say it had to be God,

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Speaker 1: It had to be God. So thankful that you're here today.

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Speaker 1: Welcome God bless each and every one of you, whether

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Speaker 1: you're physically with us or whether you're part of our etham. Hey,

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Speaker 1: I want to make sure that those of you who

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Speaker 1: are in within reach, within range of our Elevation Nights

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Speaker 1: coming up. How many of you that are here, by

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Speaker 1: the way at Valentine's today traveled in from over fifty

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Speaker 1: miles away for the primary purpose, I'm not done qualifying.

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Speaker 1: There's more stipulations for the prime merry purpose of coming

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Speaker 1: to church today. Wave at means celebrate you. Why, that's

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Speaker 1: quite a few. Good to have you good? How many

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Speaker 1: of you you only traveled five or ten miles, but

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Speaker 1: your kids fought all the way and it made it

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Speaker 1: feel like you were driving all the way to the

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Speaker 1: other side of the country. However you got here. Look

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Speaker 1: at your neighbors, say, however, you made it. I'm glad

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Speaker 1: that you did, and you will be glad because God's

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Speaker 1: got something for you. Put it in the comments. God's

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Speaker 1: got something for you, and I want you to remain standing.

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Speaker 1: Go to Elevation Nights dot com. If you've always wanted

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Speaker 1: to come to elevation but you haven't had the opportunity

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Speaker 1: we are going to bring. Would it be unbiblical to

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Speaker 1: say it's like Sunday Morning on steroids? Spiritual steroids, Holy

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Speaker 1: spirit steroids. It's really fun. I'm gonna be preaching Holly

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Speaker 1: Shearers that the worship team does forty seven songs. It's amazing.

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Speaker 1: And I can't find my sheet. Okay, here's the sheet

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Speaker 1: with the list. We're gonna be in Seattle, Washington, Vancouver, BC, Sacramento, CAA,

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Speaker 1: Los Angeles, Anaheim. I've never been to Boise, Idaho, but

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Speaker 1: I won't be able to say that after this fall.

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Speaker 1: We're coming to Boise, Idaho, Salt Lake City, Utah, and Denver, Colorado,

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Speaker 1: that September twenty fourth through October third. Go to Elevation

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Speaker 1: Nights dot com for more information. I can tell when

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Speaker 1: you're excited for me to quit doing announcements and preach,

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Speaker 1: because y'all start clapping to seed me along. That's cold.

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Speaker 1: We'll work together. Happy sixteenth anniversary to our elevation Uptown location.

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Speaker 1: Sixteen years is a big deal. Thank God for faithful people.

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Speaker 1: Remember we used to drive over there and we go

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Speaker 1: from matt Used to Butler to Providence to mcglow in

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Speaker 1: theater and Officer Van Allman would break the speed limit,

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Speaker 1: but it's all right because he's a cop, and we

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Speaker 1: would get there just as they were finishing the last

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Speaker 1: song to preach. And also, I hope you joined an

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Speaker 1: EE group today, all right, if you hadn't joined one yet,

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Speaker 1: there's many opportunities for you to do that. And I

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Speaker 1: think that's all the announcements. Are you ready for the word?

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Speaker 1: Put your hands together, I have them. I have a

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Speaker 1: text today from Acts chapter twelve. And be mindful not

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Speaker 1: only of what God wants to do in your life,

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Speaker 1: but maybe somebody around you today, because I think that's important.

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Speaker 1: I don't think it's a good habit for us to

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Speaker 1: just come to church to tune into the station w

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Speaker 1: I FM. What's in it for me? And know the

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Speaker 1: person sit in around you. That's why don't leave till

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Speaker 1: we were finished, because it might be at that moment

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Speaker 1: somebody today gives their life to Christ. And don't close

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Speaker 1: off the stream before it's over. Because God has a

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Speaker 1: word for you today and I want you to see

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Speaker 1: it through until the very end. Acts chapter twelve, verse

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Speaker 1: five through seventeen. So quite a bit of scripture. But

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Speaker 1: the Lord told me. You haven't read your Bible enough

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Speaker 1: this week, and we need to catch up to him.

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Speaker 1: Acts Chapter twelve, verse five. So Peter was kept in prison,

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Speaker 1: but the church was earnestly praying to God for him.

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Speaker 1: The night before Herod was to bring him to trial,

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Speaker 1: Peter was sleeping between two soldiers, bound with two chains. Now,

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Speaker 1: I'm going to do yellow favor and skip my dad

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Speaker 1: Suddenly an angel of the Lord appeared, and a light

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Speaker 1: the chains fell off Peter's wrists. Then the angel said

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Speaker 1: to him, put on your clothes and sandals. Why where

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Speaker 1: are we going? And I'm telling you all that just

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Speaker 1: The angel said to him, put on your clothes and sandals,

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Speaker 1: follow me, the angel told him. Peter followed him out

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Speaker 1: was seeing a vision. They passed the first and second

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Speaker 1: It opened for them by itself, and they went through it.

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Speaker 1: When they had walked the length of one street, suddenly

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Speaker 1: the angel left him. Then Peter came to himself and said,

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Speaker 1: now I know without a doubt. Look kind of sketchy

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Speaker 1: John also called Mark, where many people had gathered and

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Speaker 1: were praying, and Peter knocked at the outer entrance, and

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Speaker 1: a servant named Rhoda came to answer the door. When

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Speaker 1: she recognized Peter's voice, she was so overjoyed she ran

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Speaker 1: back without opening the door and exclaimed, hey, y'all, Peter

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Speaker 1: They told her, we gotta pray, Lord save Peter. But

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Speaker 1: he's here. Can't be Lord help Peter. And I love

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Speaker 1: the insistence here of Rhoda and Peter because the Bible says,

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Speaker 1: when they said you're crazy, look at verse fifteen, she

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Speaker 1: kept insisting that it was so, and they said it

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Speaker 1: must be his angel. But Peter talk about insistent persistence.

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Speaker 1: Peter kept on knocking, and when they opened the door

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Speaker 1: and saw him, they were astonished. Now I read you

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Speaker 1: all that so I could read you this verse seventeen.

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Speaker 1: Peter motioned with his hand for them to be quiet

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Speaker 1: and described how the Lord had brought him out of prison.

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Speaker 1: I believe there's somebody here today, and you're going to

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Speaker 1: be describing how the Lord brought you out not many

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Speaker 1: days from now. Matter of fact, Grab the hand of

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Speaker 1: the person on either side of you. We're gonna connect physically,

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Speaker 1: and we're just gonna believe that whatever is on the

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Speaker 1: they're going to walk into it. And for the neighbor

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Speaker 1: on either side of you, tell them, I don't know

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Speaker 1: what you need God to bring you out of, but

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Speaker 1: He can do it for you. If you need him

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Speaker 1: to bring you out of an addiction, he can do

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Speaker 1: out of depression, he can do it for you. Somebody

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Speaker 1: God can do that for you. God can bring you

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Speaker 1: out of your own bad decision. Ask Jonah. He can

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Speaker 1: spit you up where you were supposed to be in

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Speaker 1: the first place. Ask Jonah. God can bring you out.

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Speaker 1: And we're going to pray to that in right now.

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Speaker 1: Whatever it is that my brother or my sister needs

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Speaker 1: out of We read about Peter, and Peter wasn't perfect,

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Speaker 1: not by a long shot. He denied you, he cursed,

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Speaker 1: he cut off a man's ear with a sword. He

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Speaker 1: didn't do everything right. But you brought him out. And

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Speaker 1: I believe you can do that for the person on

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Speaker 1: I believe you can do it because I've seen you

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Speaker 1: do it. So now, God, I declare that we will

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Speaker 1: have testimonies from this service today of how the Lord

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Speaker 1: brought me out right there where you're still standing Just

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Speaker 1: squeeze your neighbor's hand real quick, just one good squeeze,

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Speaker 1: and now look at him and tell him my title.

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Speaker 1: Tell him this is what a miracle feels like. This,

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Speaker 1: this put it in a promise. This. Give me my

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Speaker 1: camera so I can look at him, say this, it's

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Speaker 1: what a miracle feels like. High five. Three people say

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Speaker 1: it's a miracle. You may be seated. Go ahead and

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Speaker 1: bring me my screen. Please, this is what a miracle

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Speaker 1: to show you some things, some things that struck me

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Speaker 1: from this text that are very significant for our lives.

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Speaker 1: Just out of nowhere. Yesterday me and Graham were coming

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Speaker 1: back from doing leg Day. Walked in the kitchen, looks

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Speaker 1: can walk by a bag of chocolate covered pretzels and

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Speaker 1: and they start eating chocolate covered pretzels. Sixteen. He can

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Speaker 1: long way when food. I saw a lady email the

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Speaker 1: church and said, you talk so much about food in

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Speaker 1: your sermons. Every sermon you have a food reference. That's

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Speaker 1: because we tend to preach our way through the devil

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Speaker 1: knew how many food issues exist, not just in my life,

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Speaker 1: at me and say to admire my discipline as he

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Speaker 1: eats chocolate covered pretzels Once a year. I have a

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Speaker 1: little commemorative thing where I eat so much food just

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Speaker 1: if I ever took the bumpers off at the bowling alley,

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Speaker 1: what kind of gutter we would be in. As it

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Speaker 1: concerns my nutrition and it's a thing to behold. I mean,

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Speaker 1: I could sell tickets to this all the food I

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Speaker 1: need to be reminded. You know, my father was a

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Speaker 1: wandering army and you know, like whatever as an old testament, Joe.

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Speaker 1: But the thing about it in the moment was it

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Speaker 1: They were praying. It's a miracle. They were still praying.

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Speaker 1: Under the persecution they were under. It's a miracle. They

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Speaker 1: were still praying. One of their main leaders has just

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Speaker 1: been beheaded just days ago. His name was James. When

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Speaker 1: you read the Gospels, you read about Peter and James

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Speaker 1: and John that James. They took him out, cut his

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Speaker 1: head off, and Peter was next and on the night

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Speaker 1: that they were deciding his fate, the church will praying

436
00:28:02,760 --> 00:28:08,640
Speaker 1: Peter got out. But notice something here, because I never

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Speaker 1: noticed it before. I preached this passage about every two

438
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Speaker 1: or three years. It's something that I really love, and

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Speaker 1: maybe it's a lot of things that I need God

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Speaker 1: to bring me out of too, and so it gives

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Speaker 1: me hope and energy for that. But I've got of

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Speaker 1: restruct me before where it said Peter kept knocking, and

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Speaker 1: I always thought that was cool. And they opened the

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Speaker 1: door and saw him, they were astonished. I never noticed

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Speaker 1: what Peter did next. And this is what I want

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Speaker 1: us to think about for a moment today, How Peter

447
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Speaker 1: is standing there and he's on the run and nobody

448
00:28:38,720 --> 00:28:42,040
Speaker 1: knows he's gone because God snuck him out of his cell.

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Speaker 1: Sometimes God doesn't do it in a dramatic way. Sometimes

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Speaker 1: he sneaks you out. Sometimes he sneaks you out so

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Speaker 1: good you don't even know you're gone yet. And you

452
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Speaker 1: wake up one day and say, oh, I don't even

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Speaker 1: want to call him back. Oh I don't even want

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Speaker 1: to go over. Oh I don't even want to say so,

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Speaker 1: I don't even like to face. That tastes nasty. And

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Speaker 1: he's sneaking out and he gets to the place where

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Speaker 1: he knew some people might be praying, which you would

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Speaker 1: think that he was going there for safety. The only

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Speaker 1: problem with that, And all of you who are listening

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Speaker 1: on a podcast, I am circling words on the screen,

461
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Speaker 1: and I wish you could see it, because my handwriting

462
00:29:23,280 --> 00:29:26,800
Speaker 1: is amazing and my artistic ability is on parallel. I'm

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Speaker 1: doing some calligraphy up here. But it said. He motioned

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Speaker 1: with his hand for them to be quiet, and described

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Speaker 1: how the Lord had brought him out of prison. Tell

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Speaker 1: James and the other brothers and sisters about this is

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Speaker 1: a different James, not the one this dead. Tell James

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Speaker 1: and the other brothers and sisters about this, he said.

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Speaker 1: And then he left for another place, and we don't

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Speaker 1: know where he goes. But before he left for another

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Speaker 1: place because he's got a hurry. Now he snuck out

472
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Speaker 1: of prison, doesn't have much time. This is what a

473
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Speaker 1: miracle feels like. You're out, but you're still running. You're

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Speaker 1: out of that thing, but you're headed to another place.

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Speaker 1: Did you see that He left for another place. But

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Speaker 1: along the way he goes just to show the praying

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Speaker 1: church at John Mark's mother's house that he was still here.

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Speaker 1: But the Bible says he also before he left to

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Speaker 1: go to another place, which I'm sure God had a

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Speaker 1: lot more for Peter to do. He went on to

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Speaker 1: do amazing things. He went on to be one of

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Speaker 1: the most significant figures in the New Testament church. But

483
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Speaker 1: before he left, he told him be quiet. They're freaking out.

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Speaker 1: He's liked, they're trying to kill me. He the Lord

485
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Speaker 1: snucked me out. What do you mean they let you go? No, not,

486
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Speaker 1: bab he did. They didn't let me go. He did.

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Speaker 1: He hit me out. Now shut up. And then the

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Speaker 1: Bible says, because he's a wanted man, right, So what

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Speaker 1: is he doing standing here at their door, out in

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Speaker 1: the open. He's not going inside. He sees he has

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Speaker 1: this whole conversation at the door. He never even goes in.

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Speaker 1: But the Bible says, not only did he show them

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Speaker 1: that God had kept him, but he watched this described

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Speaker 1: how the Lord had brought him out of prison. Now

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Speaker 1: that's different because when they saw him, they could have

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Speaker 1: assumed that he was released by Herod. But he had

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Speaker 1: to clarify it wasn't Herod that let me out. Because

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Speaker 1: sometimes people don't change. But the God who never changes,

499
00:31:32,160 --> 00:31:35,520
Speaker 1: can take you in the same situation and nothing change

500
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Speaker 1: about the situation, but everything changed for you. And he

501
00:31:41,120 --> 00:31:44,320
Speaker 1: began to describe, Oh, I love it. He began to

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Speaker 1: describe how the Lord had brought him out of prison.

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Speaker 1: Touch your neighbors, say, you wouldn't believe me if I

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Speaker 1: told you, if I told you how God brought me out,

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Speaker 1: if I told you how I kept my mind, if

506
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Speaker 1: I told you how he up me, saying, if I

507
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Speaker 1: told you how I paid this bill while that bill

508
00:32:04,520 --> 00:32:07,600
Speaker 1: was talking to that bill, and my bills had baby bills,

509
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Speaker 1: and the baby bills all ganged up and started eating

510
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Speaker 1: me like monsters like piranhas. If I told you how

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Speaker 1: we did it, you wouldn't believe me. You wouldn't believe

512
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Speaker 1: how God brought me out. But he stops to tell

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Speaker 1: them how he described how the Lord had brought him

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Speaker 1: out of prison. So let's run it back. Let's have

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Speaker 1: a conversation. Peter is standing at the door with us today,

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Speaker 1: and God brought him out of a prison. And you

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Speaker 1: need God to bring you out of a prison. It

518
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Speaker 1: may be the prison of your own pride, it may

519
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Speaker 1: be the prison of the pain that you feel because

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00:32:48,400 --> 00:32:52,880
Speaker 1: just like the church was, we are all dealing with

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Speaker 1: a loss that we experienced while reaching toward a future

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Speaker 1: that we hope for. You know how heart it is

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Speaker 1: to pray for Peter, you just lost James. You know

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Speaker 1: how hard it is to believe that my life is

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Speaker 1: going to be better and I'm going to be happy

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Speaker 1: again one day when you thought that six months ago.

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Speaker 1: How hard it is to trust somebody that's new when

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Speaker 1: the people that you knew you could trust proved that

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Speaker 1: you were wrong. Thus is the situation. And yet now

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Speaker 1: we've got a church that was praying, not really even

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Speaker 1: believing that it was possible, but still praying. And Peter,

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Speaker 1: did you notice who goes the whole journey not even

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Speaker 1: knowing that what was happening was really happening. And they're

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Speaker 1: standing here at the door because this is what a

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Speaker 1: miracle feels like. This. I don't know if that's exciting,

536
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Speaker 1: but it's true. It's the difference between the baby pictures

537
00:34:01,160 --> 00:34:05,400
Speaker 1: that they put on Instagram and the three AM feedings

538
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Speaker 1: of what being a mom feels like. See the first

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00:34:10,160 --> 00:34:14,520
Speaker 1: one is what being a mom is filtered like. The

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Speaker 1: second one is what being a mom feels like and

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Speaker 1: when you are in a miracle, you may feel like

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Speaker 1: the church praying in John March's mother's home. God do it,

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00:34:26,719 --> 00:34:29,720
Speaker 1: even though I'm not sure you can. God, we're praying,

544
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Speaker 1: even though we're still in pain. We're praying through these tears.

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00:34:34,760 --> 00:34:39,880
Speaker 1: We're believing, but kind of not. And so Peter was

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Speaker 1: kept in prison, but the church was earnestly praying. I

547
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Speaker 1: was praying, and Peter said, I got to tell you

548
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Speaker 1: how the Lord brought me out. You won't believe it.

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Speaker 1: The night before Herod was coming to bring me to trial,

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Speaker 1: and I didn't know the outcome. Y'all, you're not gonna

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Speaker 1: believe this. Keep your voices down, but I need to

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Speaker 1: tell you what I was doing in the prison cell.

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Speaker 1: You're not gonna believe it, because if you would have

554
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Speaker 1: told me I was going to be thrown in prison.

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Speaker 1: This is Peter speaking, Okay, This is as if like

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Speaker 1: Peter was describing how the Lord brought him out. I

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Speaker 1: would have thought that I would have had an ulcer.

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Speaker 1: I would have thought that I would have been pacing

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Speaker 1: all around the cell. I would have thought that I

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Speaker 1: would have been freaking out. But it was the most

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Speaker 1: amazing thing that while I was waiting to see if

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Speaker 1: I was going to live or die, I was sleeping, sleeping.

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Speaker 1: I'm sorry. Peter, speak up. Did you say you were

564
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Speaker 1: you were singing like Paul and Silas. No, that's Act sixteen.

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Speaker 1: This is Act twelve that hasn't happened yet. Paul's all

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Speaker 1: boisterous about it. He's singing in prison. Peter said, I

567
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Speaker 1: don't know how. I can't explain it, but somehow, while

568
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Speaker 1: I was waiting, not even knowing the outcome, I was sleeping. Peter,

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Speaker 1: say it one more time. What were you doing while

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Speaker 1: you were waiting to see if you were gonna have

571
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Speaker 1: your head cut off? I can't explain it. I know

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Speaker 1: it makes no sense. I was sleeping because sometimes this

573
00:36:12,840 --> 00:36:23,400
Speaker 1: is what a miracle looks like. Sometimes you do it

574
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Speaker 1: with a lower thread count. Sometimes they don't even fluff

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Speaker 1: your pillow or put a mint on it. Definitely let

576
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Speaker 1: one of those cruise ship wash costs that they roll

577
00:36:33,800 --> 00:36:37,360
Speaker 1: up to look like a duck. None of that, no comfort,

578
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Speaker 1: no certainty. But I slept. Tell somebody, I know you

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Speaker 1: won't believe me, but I was sleeping. I couldn't explain it,

580
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Speaker 1: but God gave me watch this a supernatural piece. How

581
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Speaker 1: many have that testimony? And I know if I try

582
00:37:01,760 --> 00:37:04,880
Speaker 1: to explain it to you, it won't make sense because

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Speaker 1: I should have been just freaking out. I should have

584
00:37:07,160 --> 00:37:09,560
Speaker 1: been going crazy. I should have been shaking the part.

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Speaker 1: This isn't right. I at least should have been praying.

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Speaker 1: But oh, wait a minute, Wait a minute, Peter, you

587
00:37:16,719 --> 00:37:27,400
Speaker 1: were sleeping. That makes total sense because we were so

588
00:37:27,400 --> 00:37:31,799
Speaker 1: so so that's amazing, right, because we were praying, but

589
00:37:31,840 --> 00:37:34,719
Speaker 1: we didn't have any proof that it was working. But

590
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Speaker 1: now you're standing at the door to tell us that

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Speaker 1: you were able to do this because we were willing

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Speaker 1: to do this. Now I feel I preach that God

593
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Speaker 1: set is working. God said, is working? Why you sleep

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Speaker 1: or just like the human body recovers during rest. God said,

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Speaker 1: I am building your case right now. Why you're rest.

596
00:38:00,680 --> 00:38:03,560
Speaker 1: I got somebody praying for you that you have me

597
00:38:03,560 --> 00:38:07,440
Speaker 1: even talk to in twenty four months. I got somebody

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00:38:07,560 --> 00:38:11,040
Speaker 1: praying for you that you don't even like. I got

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00:38:11,080 --> 00:38:20,480
Speaker 1: somebody praying for you. I'm here because Peter said, really, yo,

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Speaker 1: we're praying. What time y'all start praying? I bet it

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Speaker 1: was around the same time I bet the moment they

602
00:38:26,800 --> 00:38:31,080
Speaker 1: started praying, Peer passed out. I bet he was on

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00:38:31,160 --> 00:38:34,560
Speaker 1: the verge of a nervous breakdown. God said, he brought

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Speaker 1: you the church this morning, and when you go home tonight,

605
00:38:38,080 --> 00:38:41,840
Speaker 1: you're gonna have a same problem, same prison, but a

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Speaker 1: different sleep because God's gonna close your eyes and make

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00:38:45,719 --> 00:38:54,080
Speaker 1: you lie down in green pastures. Because this, it's a

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Speaker 1: pillow your head in a prison makes no sense. It's

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Speaker 1: a miracle. Peter, did you fall asleep cause you knew

610
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Speaker 1: God was gonna bring you out? No? I fell asleep

611
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Speaker 1: because there was nothing I could do about it, and

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Speaker 1: it had to be God. So when you've done all

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Speaker 1: you can do, sleep on it like a baby freshly

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Speaker 1: fed with the milk of the word of God. I'm

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Speaker 1: going to sleep on this thing because when he brings

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Speaker 1: you out, you're gonna need your rest for what's next. Well,

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Speaker 1: I feel like I'm doing therapy for somebody today. Somebody

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Speaker 1: in here is too cheap to hire a professional therapist,

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Speaker 1: So you get me. I was sleeping. Tell somebody I

620
00:39:48,760 --> 00:39:51,759
Speaker 1: was sleeping. Look, I don't even really know. It's like

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Speaker 1: God knocked me out for the surgery. It was like

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Speaker 1: I came to a point. I can't even tell you

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Speaker 1: exactly when it happened, but I was sleeping. He described

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Speaker 1: how the Lord brought him out, and I was sleeping

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Speaker 1: between two guards. You ever had to sleep between two things.

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Speaker 1: I don't know what tomorrow holds, and I can't change

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Speaker 1: what yesterday did. But somehow I was sleeping. Somehow I

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00:40:23,880 --> 00:40:25,800
Speaker 1: was sleeping. God told me about one of my kids

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Speaker 1: a couple of years ago. I was so worried. He said,

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Speaker 1: I got them stay out of it. Well that was

631
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Speaker 1: hard for me to hear, but I already did all

632
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Speaker 1: I could do. If I could do something else, I

633
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Speaker 1: did something else because I got him stay out of it.

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Speaker 1: And when he said that to me and I slept

635
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Speaker 1: on it, I woke up to find he really really

636
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Speaker 1: good at doing stuff while I sleep. Now, Santa Claus

637
00:40:51,520 --> 00:40:54,680
Speaker 1: has nothing on God. You ought to see what he

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00:40:54,719 --> 00:40:57,880
Speaker 1: can bring while you're sleeping. I feel like preaching, but

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Speaker 1: I got two more points. Say preach on past, sir,

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00:41:01,120 --> 00:41:05,520
Speaker 1: preach on pastor preach preach. Tell everybody falls asleep and

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Speaker 1: wakes back up and preach it again. Tell your neighbor

642
00:41:09,640 --> 00:41:14,719
Speaker 1: don't sleep right now. It's very rude. Now, he said,

643
00:41:14,760 --> 00:41:18,160
Speaker 1: I was sleeping, and I like to imagine it, Okay,

644
00:41:18,160 --> 00:41:20,440
Speaker 1: not for dramatic purposes, not because I'm trying to be

645
00:41:20,520 --> 00:41:23,359
Speaker 1: some great storyteller, but I'd just like to imagine he's

646
00:41:23,360 --> 00:41:25,919
Speaker 1: standing at the door. He's been there, banging on the door.

647
00:41:26,040 --> 00:41:29,000
Speaker 1: Is bet this me me? Don't you believe I can

648
00:41:29,040 --> 00:41:32,320
Speaker 1: do it? No? Don't. We're really confused. I'm confused to

649
00:41:32,440 --> 00:41:34,799
Speaker 1: where we are. This is my miracle. Feels like I

650
00:41:34,920 --> 00:41:39,240
Speaker 1: was sleeping and right about when I hit my rim cycle,

651
00:41:42,640 --> 00:41:45,400
Speaker 1: verse seven, suddenly, the first one, if you want to

652
00:41:45,440 --> 00:41:51,520
Speaker 1: take notes, I was sleeping, Peter said. Then Peter said, God, God,

653
00:41:51,600 --> 00:41:54,520
Speaker 1: let me sleep. He gave me peace. He supernaturally rocked

654
00:41:54,520 --> 00:41:57,279
Speaker 1: me to bed with the revelation that he was with me.

655
00:41:58,400 --> 00:42:01,600
Speaker 1: And suddenly an angel of the Lord of Pere this

656
00:42:01,680 --> 00:42:05,960
Speaker 1: is great, And a light shone in the cell, and

657
00:42:06,360 --> 00:42:13,839
Speaker 1: he struck Peter on the side and woke him up.

658
00:42:14,840 --> 00:42:18,520
Speaker 1: So Peter said, let me tell you what had happened.

659
00:42:19,080 --> 00:42:26,480
Speaker 1: I was sleeping. Then I was struck. I was struck.

660
00:42:28,040 --> 00:42:31,040
Speaker 1: Y'all kind of slow today. Let me come down there

661
00:42:31,080 --> 00:42:35,440
Speaker 1: and show you what a miracle feels like. Because we

662
00:42:35,480 --> 00:42:39,759
Speaker 1: all have our ideas, right, Okay, you're reading this and

663
00:42:39,800 --> 00:42:44,200
Speaker 1: you're thinking, Okay, here comes the angel. This is great

664
00:42:44,239 --> 00:42:47,520
Speaker 1: for Peter. Peter's our god angel shows up verse seven,

665
00:42:47,560 --> 00:42:50,000
Speaker 1: We're all worried. In verse six, he's probably gonna die

666
00:42:50,040 --> 00:42:52,960
Speaker 1: like James died. There's no hope for Peter. Oh, this

667
00:42:53,000 --> 00:42:56,960
Speaker 1: is horrible. Suddenly, great Bible word. Suddenly an angel showed up.

668
00:42:57,200 --> 00:43:00,160
Speaker 1: Here comes the light and here comes the angel. And

669
00:43:00,239 --> 00:43:01,880
Speaker 1: all of a sudden, you don't like the picture. The

670
00:43:01,960 --> 00:43:07,520
Speaker 1: angel like protecting me and covering me with his wings.

671
00:43:08,239 --> 00:43:12,440
Speaker 1: But apparently this angel had wings that he used for

672
00:43:12,560 --> 00:43:18,960
Speaker 1: whacking you. Feel if I use you for this? Because

673
00:43:19,000 --> 00:43:24,680
Speaker 1: sometimes a miracle feels like can y'all see on the

674
00:43:24,680 --> 00:43:29,480
Speaker 1: camera what I'm doing? Can you see this online? Has

675
00:43:30,400 --> 00:43:34,919
Speaker 1: life done wan to these? To you lately? What kind

676
00:43:34,920 --> 00:43:40,239
Speaker 1: of angel is this? Jj run around striking people, the

677
00:43:40,320 --> 00:43:44,759
Speaker 1: same one that put him to sleep, because God knows

678
00:43:44,760 --> 00:43:49,320
Speaker 1: when it's time for you to get up. And sometimes

679
00:43:49,360 --> 00:43:52,839
Speaker 1: you praise him because you were sleeping. But you got

680
00:43:52,840 --> 00:43:55,160
Speaker 1: to learn to praise him when he strikes you too.

681
00:44:01,320 --> 00:44:09,600
Speaker 1: Not all discomfort is a curse. What kind of angel

682
00:44:09,640 --> 00:44:12,319
Speaker 1: has this been in your life lately? I'm not gonna

683
00:44:12,360 --> 00:44:18,560
Speaker 1: hit women. I gotta draw a line somewhere. Wouldn't they

684
00:44:18,640 --> 00:44:21,279
Speaker 1: clip me on YouTube? If I ran around hidden, They're

685
00:44:21,320 --> 00:44:24,640
Speaker 1: probably gonna clip it anyway and put it on there. Well,

686
00:44:24,640 --> 00:44:30,920
Speaker 1: that's all right. I've been clipped before. I've been struck before.

687
00:44:33,520 --> 00:44:38,480
Speaker 1: Sometimes God used a critic I did it, but real soft.

688
00:44:40,800 --> 00:44:45,040
Speaker 1: Sometimes God used something that felt like this, but touch

689
00:44:45,080 --> 00:44:53,960
Speaker 1: your neighbors, say that's your wake up call. See there's

690
00:44:53,960 --> 00:44:57,560
Speaker 1: a sleepy time angel that God will send, and then

691
00:44:57,600 --> 00:45:01,440
Speaker 1: there's a wake up angel that God will send some

692
00:45:01,560 --> 00:45:03,640
Speaker 1: of the things that have been happening in your life lately.

693
00:45:03,680 --> 00:45:08,200
Speaker 1: That's not the enemy. That's an angel. Some of it

694
00:45:08,280 --> 00:45:12,040
Speaker 1: is an angel. I used to think raising teenagers, Oh God,

695
00:45:12,480 --> 00:45:16,600
Speaker 1: they're possessed by the devil. Nope. I read a book

696
00:45:16,640 --> 00:45:19,359
Speaker 1: by Peterson, who wrote the Message Bible. He's in Heaven now.

697
00:45:19,600 --> 00:45:22,200
Speaker 1: He said that adolescence is the gift to the middle

698
00:45:22,239 --> 00:45:25,640
Speaker 1: aged men to keep us from stagnating, because when we

699
00:45:25,680 --> 00:45:27,920
Speaker 1: are forced to confront what we never grew through in

700
00:45:27,920 --> 00:45:30,200
Speaker 1: our children, it keeps us from lying down and dying

701
00:45:30,239 --> 00:45:34,960
Speaker 1: in the state that we're in. So I realized my

702
00:45:35,120 --> 00:45:39,759
Speaker 1: teenagers weren't the devil. They were my angel, saying wake

703
00:45:39,840 --> 00:45:42,560
Speaker 1: up mate, Tap your neighbor, real soft. I don't want

704
00:45:42,560 --> 00:45:44,520
Speaker 1: to start a fight on the third row, but say

705
00:45:44,520 --> 00:45:49,200
Speaker 1: wake up, ask them, are you my angel? And I

706
00:45:49,239 --> 00:45:51,560
Speaker 1: think this would be very good for us to learn

707
00:45:51,680 --> 00:45:53,759
Speaker 1: the next time something happens. We don't like how it

708
00:45:53,800 --> 00:45:57,560
Speaker 1: feels the next time something happens, because we were all

709
00:45:57,640 --> 00:46:01,719
Speaker 1: so comforted that the angel put me to But Peter says,

710
00:46:01,760 --> 00:46:04,880
Speaker 1: I was sleeping when I needed to sleep, and I

711
00:46:05,040 --> 00:46:08,319
Speaker 1: was struck when I needed to get up, And the

712
00:46:08,360 --> 00:46:14,000
Speaker 1: same God that puts me to sleep, just do it

713
00:46:14,040 --> 00:46:16,480
Speaker 1: for me. High five to three people and say get

714
00:46:16,560 --> 00:46:20,680
Speaker 1: up right now. This is your angel saying, this is

715
00:46:20,719 --> 00:46:24,360
Speaker 1: your angel, saying, this is your angel, saying, this is

716
00:46:24,400 --> 00:46:27,719
Speaker 1: your angel saying that person that gets up on your

717
00:46:27,760 --> 00:46:30,759
Speaker 1: nerves when they walk in the office Monday, I want

718
00:46:30,800 --> 00:46:34,920
Speaker 1: you to see them with wings. Here comes my angel,

719
00:46:36,000 --> 00:46:39,239
Speaker 1: trying to keep me fresh, because how else would you

720
00:46:39,280 --> 00:46:42,239
Speaker 1: love your enemies if you didn't have any. So all

721
00:46:42,239 --> 00:46:45,480
Speaker 1: they're doing is giving me an opportunity to be obedient.

722
00:46:46,320 --> 00:46:50,320
Speaker 1: Here it comes, Here, it comes. Shove your neighbor a

723
00:46:50,360 --> 00:46:54,000
Speaker 1: little bit. Say this is what a miracle feels like.

724
00:46:55,920 --> 00:46:59,080
Speaker 1: And I thought it was God punishing me. No, he's

725
00:46:59,120 --> 00:47:03,040
Speaker 1: not punishing me, He's pushing me because he's got something.

726
00:47:04,960 --> 00:47:20,200
Speaker 1: This this boy, this, this is what it feels like sleeping.

727
00:47:20,320 --> 00:47:25,399
Speaker 1: I was sleeping and I was struck. But but that's

728
00:47:25,480 --> 00:47:28,759
Speaker 1: my second favorite point. Here comes my favorite point. Say,

729
00:47:28,800 --> 00:47:33,719
Speaker 1: I was sleeping and I was struck, and I was

730
00:47:33,800 --> 00:47:36,920
Speaker 1: struck by something that was meant to help me, not

731
00:47:37,040 --> 00:47:39,680
Speaker 1: to kill me. I was struck by something that was

732
00:47:39,719 --> 00:47:43,440
Speaker 1: meant to move me forward. I was struck by something

733
00:47:43,480 --> 00:47:45,840
Speaker 1: that was sent to notify me that God is active

734
00:47:45,840 --> 00:47:50,640
Speaker 1: in this situation. So thank you Lord for the wing

735
00:47:50,719 --> 00:47:53,959
Speaker 1: that covered me and let me sleep under the heat

736
00:47:54,000 --> 00:47:56,160
Speaker 1: of my trial. But thank you for the same wing

737
00:47:57,040 --> 00:47:59,160
Speaker 1: that smacked me and got me up out of that

738
00:47:59,320 --> 00:48:03,160
Speaker 1: tin and told me You're better than this. Thank you

739
00:48:03,320 --> 00:48:09,080
Speaker 1: Jesus Ah. So I was sleeping till your neighbor. I

740
00:48:09,160 --> 00:48:12,400
Speaker 1: was sleeping. I can't stay long. I gotta go. I

741
00:48:12,440 --> 00:48:14,680
Speaker 1: can't stay here at this door forever. I gotta go.

742
00:48:14,840 --> 00:48:16,239
Speaker 1: But I need you to know how the Lord brought

743
00:48:16,239 --> 00:48:19,919
Speaker 1: me up. I was sleeping and just when I got comfortable, Oh,

744
00:48:19,960 --> 00:48:21,680
Speaker 1: thank you, Lord, you're letting me good night sleep before

745
00:48:21,680 --> 00:48:24,160
Speaker 1: I die. I was struck because God was like, I'm

746
00:48:24,160 --> 00:48:26,839
Speaker 1: not done with you yet. Some of you laid down

747
00:48:26,880 --> 00:48:32,640
Speaker 1: to die. But you're going to another place, another dimension.

748
00:48:33,360 --> 00:48:35,480
Speaker 1: You hadn't even matured yet. You hadn't even done your

749
00:48:35,520 --> 00:48:38,719
Speaker 1: best work yet. You hadn't even made your greatest contribution

750
00:48:38,840 --> 00:48:43,640
Speaker 1: or deposit yet. Because the Bible says that Peter was

751
00:48:43,760 --> 00:48:47,239
Speaker 1: sleeping and that Peter was struck, so tell him I

752
00:48:47,280 --> 00:48:50,360
Speaker 1: was sleeping. Put it in the comments. I was sleeping.

753
00:48:51,480 --> 00:48:55,680
Speaker 1: I was struck. And then the Angel said to him,

754
00:48:56,200 --> 00:48:59,879
Speaker 1: put on your clothes and sandals. So I guess, Peter

755
00:49:00,120 --> 00:49:02,520
Speaker 1: say I was stripped. I'm not going to preach that one.

756
00:49:02,840 --> 00:49:05,879
Speaker 1: I had to get out of my pajamas because what

757
00:49:05,960 --> 00:49:09,239
Speaker 1: I was dressed for wasn't appropriate for what God was

758
00:49:09,280 --> 00:49:16,360
Speaker 1: bringing me into. I was wearing my prison pjs. So

759
00:49:16,480 --> 00:49:19,439
Speaker 1: I get dressed and I did it, and the Lord said,

760
00:49:19,440 --> 00:49:23,799
Speaker 1: wrap your cloak around you and follow me. Everybody say

761
00:49:23,840 --> 00:49:28,000
Speaker 1: follow me. Put it in the comments. Follow me. The

762
00:49:28,080 --> 00:49:32,360
Speaker 1: Angel told him, did not give him a GPS coordinate,

763
00:49:33,400 --> 00:49:38,600
Speaker 1: gave him an instruction, gave him a path. And my

764
00:49:38,719 --> 00:49:42,040
Speaker 1: favorite thing about Peter in this passage, because he slowed

765
00:49:42,080 --> 00:49:44,880
Speaker 1: down to share how the Lord brought him out. I mean,

766
00:49:44,920 --> 00:49:46,760
Speaker 1: if you go back through the things in your life

767
00:49:46,760 --> 00:49:49,000
Speaker 1: that God has brought you out of, you can learn

768
00:49:49,000 --> 00:49:52,480
Speaker 1: a lot for where he's bringing you through right now,

769
00:49:53,040 --> 00:49:55,040
Speaker 1: So Peter said, before I go to the next place,

770
00:49:55,080 --> 00:49:57,000
Speaker 1: before I go to the next week, before I go

771
00:49:57,040 --> 00:49:59,800
Speaker 1: through another birthday, before I go into another season of

772
00:49:59,800 --> 00:50:02,520
Speaker 1: my life, before I go into another school year, whatever

773
00:50:02,560 --> 00:50:04,880
Speaker 1: the case may be. Before I go into another E

774
00:50:05,000 --> 00:50:09,840
Speaker 1: group and leaves because they were weird. They are the

775
00:50:09,880 --> 00:50:13,720
Speaker 1: thirteenth weird group you've been in. They're the weird ones

776
00:50:13,760 --> 00:50:20,680
Speaker 1: every time. Let's evaluate this for a minute. He said,

777
00:50:20,719 --> 00:50:26,000
Speaker 1: follow me. It isn't it? Follow me? The angel told him,

778
00:50:26,120 --> 00:50:28,759
Speaker 1: and Peter said, I followed him. He followed him. He

779
00:50:28,960 --> 00:50:33,520
Speaker 1: followed him. I'm circling the word in verse nine. Followed.

780
00:50:35,840 --> 00:50:39,120
Speaker 1: He followed him out of the prison. But he had

781
00:50:39,239 --> 00:50:44,520
Speaker 1: no idea that what the Angel is doing is really happening.

782
00:50:46,480 --> 00:50:48,040
Speaker 1: He didn't know what God was doing till he was

783
00:50:48,040 --> 00:50:57,040
Speaker 1: all the way out. So I was sleeping, I was struck,

784
00:50:58,120 --> 00:51:02,640
Speaker 1: got up, Jane fell off, and then I started following

785
00:51:02,680 --> 00:51:05,200
Speaker 1: the angel. But honestly, I didn't know what was going on.

786
00:51:06,640 --> 00:51:11,960
Speaker 1: So I was sleeping, I was struck, and then I

787
00:51:12,080 --> 00:51:20,080
Speaker 1: was stumbling. I was stumbling. To be honest with you,

788
00:51:20,120 --> 00:51:23,839
Speaker 1: I'm only here at the door right now because I

789
00:51:23,920 --> 00:51:29,480
Speaker 1: stumbled to something that I didn't know was even there.

790
00:51:29,960 --> 00:51:32,360
Speaker 1: I mean, I was still so sleepy. You have to understand.

791
00:51:32,520 --> 00:51:36,040
Speaker 1: The angel woke me up quick, hit me hard, knocked

792
00:51:36,040 --> 00:51:38,279
Speaker 1: the breath out of me. I wasn't expecting that to

793
00:51:38,320 --> 00:51:41,400
Speaker 1: be the wake up call. I was just settled in.

794
00:51:41,480 --> 00:51:44,040
Speaker 1: I was just starting to dream. It was a good dream.

795
00:51:45,239 --> 00:51:47,080
Speaker 1: And he woke me up and said get dressed, and

796
00:51:47,120 --> 00:51:49,120
Speaker 1: we got it going before I could even say where.

797
00:51:49,160 --> 00:51:53,839
Speaker 1: We were out and it was dark, and I followed him,

798
00:51:56,080 --> 00:51:59,799
Speaker 1: but I didn't know where I was going. I was stumbling.

799
00:52:01,719 --> 00:52:05,400
Speaker 1: I told my oldest son recently, anything you've ever seen

800
00:52:05,440 --> 00:52:09,120
Speaker 1: me do well as a dad, I did it by

801
00:52:09,160 --> 00:52:15,279
Speaker 1: accident because I was stumbling to figure out how to

802
00:52:15,280 --> 00:52:21,040
Speaker 1: be your dad. Every double dip chocolate covered pretzel bag

803
00:52:21,080 --> 00:52:23,359
Speaker 1: you ever saw me walk past and not eat one,

804
00:52:24,080 --> 00:52:28,560
Speaker 1: I wanted one. Oh, I wanted one. Anything I've brought

805
00:52:28,600 --> 00:52:34,440
Speaker 1: into subjection in my life, I stumbled to surrender it, y'all,

806
00:52:34,440 --> 00:52:38,800
Speaker 1: don't hear me. I stumbled to this stage this morning.

807
00:52:39,280 --> 00:52:42,080
Speaker 1: I didn't get up on the stage today thinking I'm

808
00:52:42,200 --> 00:52:45,000
Speaker 1: God's gift to the world to share a message. I

809
00:52:45,200 --> 00:52:49,160
Speaker 1: stumbled up the steps today, saying, God, if somebody needs

810
00:52:49,239 --> 00:52:53,000
Speaker 1: to be brought out, if somebody needs a miracle, if

811
00:52:53,040 --> 00:52:56,920
Speaker 1: you can use anything, Lord, you can use me. So

812
00:52:57,040 --> 00:53:01,440
Speaker 1: I will make my way to the stage, stumbling up coming,

813
00:53:01,920 --> 00:53:07,960
Speaker 1: if it's stumbling up, stepping, if it's stumbling up point higher.

814
00:53:10,680 --> 00:53:13,919
Speaker 1: I was stumbling. I followed the angel. I didn't even

815
00:53:13,960 --> 00:53:16,640
Speaker 1: know it was real. This is what a miracle feels like.

816
00:53:17,040 --> 00:53:19,399
Speaker 1: You're doing the good stuff and you don't know it.

817
00:53:19,680 --> 00:53:24,759
Speaker 1: You are sewing in tears so you can reap in joy.

818
00:53:25,680 --> 00:53:31,680
Speaker 1: You are stumbling stumbling. Can we point out the fact

819
00:53:31,680 --> 00:53:34,760
Speaker 1: that the miracle happened and the light broke through? Everybody

820
00:53:34,800 --> 00:53:38,480
Speaker 1: say light, But the light came through and Peter had

821
00:53:38,520 --> 00:53:42,240
Speaker 1: to walk, So everybody say legs. God said, it's gonna

822
00:53:42,280 --> 00:53:51,359
Speaker 1: be his light and your legs. But sometimes after leg day,

823
00:53:51,360 --> 00:53:54,080
Speaker 1: you'd be walking past some prencils covered in chocolate and

824
00:53:54,160 --> 00:53:57,239
Speaker 1: really want them and really wabble, And Peter said, I stumbled,

825
00:53:57,840 --> 00:54:03,040
Speaker 1: but I went straight to first eleven. Put it on

826
00:54:03,080 --> 00:54:06,440
Speaker 1: the screen. Please, Is that finally when the angel left,

827
00:54:07,400 --> 00:54:11,240
Speaker 1: because that would be the scary part. The angel left

828
00:54:12,120 --> 00:54:17,440
Speaker 1: and Peter what came to himself and he realized everything

829
00:54:17,480 --> 00:54:21,680
Speaker 1: that had just happened, that really happened. God brought me out.

830
00:54:23,560 --> 00:54:27,520
Speaker 1: God brought me out. I don't need to have survivor's guilt.

831
00:54:27,800 --> 00:54:31,239
Speaker 1: God brought me out. I don't have to live in

832
00:54:31,320 --> 00:54:34,839
Speaker 1: constant rehearsal of how they victimized me. God brought me out.

833
00:54:34,840 --> 00:54:36,920
Speaker 1: I'm gonna heal from this now and move into a

834
00:54:36,920 --> 00:54:39,239
Speaker 1: new season of healing others because God brought me out.

835
00:54:42,320 --> 00:54:48,160
Speaker 1: I was sleeping, I was struck. I was stumbling, but

836
00:54:48,239 --> 00:54:51,080
Speaker 1: I'm still here just one moment. I like to think

837
00:54:51,120 --> 00:54:54,800
Speaker 1: that Peter, in this moment not only came to himself

838
00:54:54,840 --> 00:54:57,560
Speaker 1: and realized what God had done for him. And those

839
00:54:57,600 --> 00:55:00,360
Speaker 1: moments are precious when you realize what God did for you,

840
00:55:00,400 --> 00:55:02,640
Speaker 1: and you never really feel that God is doing it

841
00:55:02,680 --> 00:55:03,879
Speaker 1: for you, and you don't even know if it's real

842
00:55:03,960 --> 00:55:06,280
Speaker 1: until you get through it. You say, oh, I was sleeping.

843
00:55:08,920 --> 00:55:11,120
Speaker 1: I was sleeping. He was a luck at my shackles

844
00:55:11,160 --> 00:55:13,320
Speaker 1: while I was sleeping. It was already loose when he

845
00:55:14,440 --> 00:55:18,640
Speaker 1: struck me, and I stumbled to this place. And I

846
00:55:18,680 --> 00:55:20,839
Speaker 1: don't know what God has for me in this next

847
00:55:20,840 --> 00:55:23,680
Speaker 1: season of my life. But I stumbled here by the

848
00:55:23,719 --> 00:55:26,520
Speaker 1: grace of God, and I followed, and I stumbled. Let

849
00:55:26,520 --> 00:55:28,200
Speaker 1: me open my eyes so I don't trip off the

850
00:55:28,239 --> 00:55:31,160
Speaker 1: stage trying to do an illustration. Is what it feels

851
00:55:31,280 --> 00:55:33,760
Speaker 1: like to be on a miracle. I'm not really sure

852
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Speaker 1: is this the end? But I'm standing here on shaky legs.

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Speaker 1: I'm stumbling. And I like to think and imagine that

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Speaker 1: in that moment what held Peter come to himself and

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Speaker 1: realized that I slept and I was struck and I stumbled.

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Speaker 1: I like to think that he came to himself because

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Speaker 1: he remembered someone else who slept and was struck and stumble.

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Speaker 1: I like to think that in this moment, Peter thought

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Speaker 1: of Mark chapter four. Put it on the screen please

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Speaker 1: around about verse thirty seven, and Peter said, let me

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Speaker 1: tell you, I remembered somebody else who slept. See a

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Speaker 1: furious squall, that's a storm came over the boat we

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Speaker 1: were in, and we were looking for Jesus in the

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Speaker 1: waves over the boat, and we were crying for Jesus,

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Speaker 1: and we were worried. Is it's the end? And it

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Speaker 1: was nearly swamped and it was almost over, and I

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Speaker 1: didn't know and we went looking for Jesus, and verse

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Speaker 1: thirty eight. When we went in, Jesus was in the

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Speaker 1: stern sleeping, sleeping on a cushion, and we walked him

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Speaker 1: up and said, don't you care. No, I care, but

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Speaker 1: I'm in control. So I'm sleeping to show you what

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Speaker 1: to do when you're not in control. Help me preach

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Speaker 1: this holy spirit. I like to think in that moment,

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Speaker 1: as he's standing there thinking I was sleeping, and I

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Speaker 1: was struck, that maybe he remembered Isaia fifty three, which

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Speaker 1: he knew since he was a boy, where the prophet

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Speaker 1: Isaiah propheside of Jesus and said verse four, surely he

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00:57:14,520 --> 00:57:18,800
Speaker 1: had borne our griefs and carried our sorrows. Yet we

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Speaker 1: did esteem him stricken, slidden of God, and afflicted. But

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Speaker 1: after the striking, he was wounded for our transgressions. He

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Speaker 1: was bruised for our iniquities. The chastisement of our peace

882
00:57:31,760 --> 00:57:35,720
Speaker 1: was upon him, and with his strikes we are healed.

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Speaker 1: I know somebody else who was struck. They struck him

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Speaker 1: on the mouth, but he was still a great high priest.

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Speaker 1: They struck him like a sleep, but he stood strong,

886
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Speaker 1: like a shepherd. He was sleeping in the storm. He

887
00:57:50,040 --> 00:57:55,160
Speaker 1: was struck and he carried across and I watched him,

888
00:57:55,200 --> 00:57:59,640
Speaker 1: Peters thinking, I watched him carry across the vertical beam

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Speaker 1: loan that he carried weight one hundred pounds, and with

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Speaker 1: the weight of one hundred pounds on his back, like

891
00:58:06,160 --> 00:58:08,959
Speaker 1: the weight of the responsibility that you feel on your back,

892
00:58:09,240 --> 00:58:11,760
Speaker 1: like the weight of your past on your back, like

893
00:58:11,800 --> 00:58:13,960
Speaker 1: the weight of their expectations that you don't know how

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00:58:14,000 --> 00:58:16,160
Speaker 1: to meet on your back, like the weight of a

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00:58:16,200 --> 00:58:18,720
Speaker 1: prison sentence that you're waiting to hear the outcome of

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Speaker 1: on your back. He was walking down the street in

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Speaker 1: Luke twenty three, and Peter says, I remember it because

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Speaker 1: I should have been by his side at that moment,

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00:58:28,160 --> 00:58:32,680
Speaker 1: but I stumbled and I watched him carry the heavy cross,

900
00:58:32,680 --> 00:58:34,280
Speaker 1: and I didn't help him. But put Luke twenty three

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00:58:34,280 --> 00:58:37,520
Speaker 1: on the screen, please, because the Bible records that as

902
00:58:37,520 --> 00:58:40,320
Speaker 1: the soldiers led Jesus away, they see Simon of Siren,

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Speaker 1: who was an African man, standing nearby, and he was

904
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Speaker 1: on his way from the country, and they put the

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Speaker 1: cross off of Jesus and onto him. Because as Jesus

906
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Speaker 1: carried the cross, he walked straight, but he still stumbled.

907
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Speaker 1: And the word of the Lord today for somebody is

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Speaker 1: you can walk straight even as you stumble. You can

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Speaker 1: walk straight even though you stumble. And the message today

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Speaker 1: is not for those who never stumble. It is not

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Speaker 1: for those who were never stricken. It is not for

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Speaker 1: those who always slept in peace. Do you not realize

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Speaker 1: all three of these things Peter did wrong? Earlier in

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Speaker 1: his life. He slept in the garden of Gethsemane while

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00:59:28,720 --> 00:59:32,760
Speaker 1: Jesus prayed. He struck the servant's ear and cut it

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Speaker 1: off in the garden because he wanted to do it

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00:59:34,960 --> 00:59:38,840
Speaker 1: his way. He stumbled and denied he never knew Jesus,

918
00:59:38,920 --> 00:59:42,960
Speaker 1: ever knew Jesus. But I'm stumbling now on a straight

919
00:59:43,080 --> 00:59:51,840
Speaker 1: path because I'm not stumbling by myself anymore. I know

920
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Speaker 1: someone else. And this, yes, is what a miracle feels like.

921
01:00:06,000 --> 01:00:09,080
Speaker 1: To be standing at a door that you don't even

922
01:00:09,200 --> 01:00:13,560
Speaker 1: know where it leads. Is that you today, come on,

923
01:00:13,640 --> 01:00:15,040
Speaker 1: You know good and well, you don't know what your

924
01:00:15,080 --> 01:00:17,680
Speaker 1: twenties are going to be like, But you're standing at

925
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Speaker 1: a door. Oh God, the last ten minutes I just

926
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Speaker 1: gave you was a gospel message that says greater is

927
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Speaker 1: he that is in you than he that's in the world.

928
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Speaker 1: And notice what Peter didn't do at anytime. He slept.

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Speaker 1: He was struck and he stumbled, but he didn't stop.

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Speaker 1: He stood there and knocked at that door. I just

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Speaker 1: see a picture of somebody today who persistently like Peter,

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01:00:53,320 --> 01:00:57,320
Speaker 1: needed to know that. I know the situation didn't fixed yet,

933
01:00:58,640 --> 01:01:00,840
Speaker 1: but you are going to sleep on the stuff that

934
01:01:00,920 --> 01:01:05,680
Speaker 1: you can't control and trust God because when he strikes,

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Speaker 1: it is for salvation. It's for salvation. Listen to that

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Speaker 1: he was stricken by God. I didn't think God strokes, No,

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01:01:19,920 --> 01:01:25,120
Speaker 1: he strikes, but he strikes for salvation. The enemy strikes

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Speaker 1: to devastate. God strikes to say. Now I know angels

939
01:01:30,680 --> 01:01:36,480
Speaker 1: wings can cover me and correct me. Now I know

940
01:01:36,560 --> 01:01:40,520
Speaker 1: angel wings can whack, and I know that he can

941
01:01:40,600 --> 01:01:44,480
Speaker 1: lead me even when I'm not really sure where are

942
01:01:44,480 --> 01:01:50,920
Speaker 1: we going. So for everybody today who's stumbling somewhere, I

943
01:01:50,960 --> 01:01:56,440
Speaker 1: want you to know that you're stumbling with someone. And

944
01:01:56,480 --> 01:02:01,200
Speaker 1: it's not Simon of Syreen that carries your cross when

945
01:02:01,200 --> 01:02:14,520
Speaker 1: it gets too heavy. Is Jesus of Nazareth himself. Stand

946
01:02:14,520 --> 01:02:16,480
Speaker 1: to your feet because I'm closing, But join hands with

947
01:02:16,520 --> 01:02:21,040
Speaker 1: your neighbor one more time, and I want you to

948
01:02:21,080 --> 01:02:25,120
Speaker 1: squeeze their hand one more time and say, this is

949
01:02:25,120 --> 01:02:30,640
Speaker 1: what a miracle feels like. See it like Peter saw it.

950
01:02:31,120 --> 01:02:37,480
Speaker 1: I slept, I was struck. I stumbled, and so did

951
01:02:37,480 --> 01:02:44,800
Speaker 1: my savior. So I'm sleeping because he's in the stern

952
01:02:44,840 --> 01:02:48,520
Speaker 1: of my ship. I'm sleeping because he's the captain of

953
01:02:48,600 --> 01:02:53,680
Speaker 1: my soul. I'm sleeping because he's the anchor through the waves.

954
01:02:53,720 --> 01:02:57,760
Speaker 1: I'm sleeping and I'm struck, not because he hates me,

955
01:02:58,800 --> 01:03:01,120
Speaker 1: but because he loves me too much to leave me

956
01:03:01,160 --> 01:03:05,280
Speaker 1: in these chains. I see you getting up today. I

957
01:03:05,320 --> 01:03:08,800
Speaker 1: know someone else who got up, I said, I know

958
01:03:08,920 --> 01:03:12,480
Speaker 1: someone else who got up. I know someone else who

959
01:03:12,600 --> 01:03:17,080
Speaker 1: was struck but didn't stay. And I'm stumbling.

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Speaker 3: Be patient with me, because this is what a miracle

961
01:03:20,520 --> 01:03:30,240
Speaker 3: feels like. Not sure, Okay, another day, Okay, Okay, another month, Okay,

962
01:03:32,200 --> 01:03:33,520
Speaker 3: I'm sober for another hour.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, okay, this is what. Squeeze their hand again. This

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Speaker 1: is what a miracle feels like. I'm trying to get

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Speaker 1: you to squeeze their hands so they can remember I'm

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01:03:44,880 --> 01:03:49,640
Speaker 1: still here, I'm still strong, I still got blood in

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01:03:49,680 --> 01:03:51,920
Speaker 1: my veins. I've still got days in my future. I've

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01:03:51,920 --> 01:03:59,680
Speaker 1: still got smiles this. Oh how great the love of

969
01:03:59,760 --> 01:04:04,880
Speaker 1: the Father, Oh how great? The gifts of the sun,

970
01:04:06,520 --> 01:04:13,560
Speaker 1: Oh how great? The power? Jeez, sleeping Savior, striking favor,

971
01:04:14,360 --> 01:04:27,000
Speaker 1: stumbling Savior. Oh how great? Oh how great? Now will

972
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Speaker 1: you lift your hands to your Savior who carried his

973
01:04:31,160 --> 01:04:40,640
Speaker 1: cross in your suit? Oh how? This is an anointed word.

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Speaker 1: This is a chain breaking word, if you'll let it power. Geez,

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01:04:46,480 --> 01:04:50,360
Speaker 1: let's stand there for a minute and start testify. I

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01:04:50,560 --> 01:04:57,240
Speaker 1: was lost, I was a skin who you are right out?

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Speaker 1: You say sorry, I can let me sell your host.

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Speaker 4: You listen?

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Speaker 1: What a list?

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01:05:06,520 --> 01:05:15,720
Speaker 4: What a work? Hours saying?

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Speaker 1: So I.

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Speaker 4: Hold me? What excuse you say? My son? Place out?

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