WEBVTT - What Are The Chances?

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<v Speaker 1>Hey, this is Stephen Ferdick.

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

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<v Speaker 2>I wanted to thank you for joining us today.

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<v Speaker 1>Hope this inspires you. Hope it builds your faith.

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<v Speaker 2>Hope it gives your perspective to see God is moving

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<v Speaker 2>in your life.

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<v Speaker 1>Enjoy the message.

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<v Speaker 2>I've been looking forward to sharing this word with you.

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<v Speaker 2>Mark Chapter fourteen, verse ten through sixteen. Would you mind

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<v Speaker 2>standing for the word of God.

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<v Speaker 1>I know we just sat, but it's good. It's good.

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<v Speaker 2>I'm helping you exercise your legs, maximizing your time and

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<v Speaker 2>getting a little workout up and down, and.

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<v Speaker 1>Exercise your spirit as well. Okay.

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<v Speaker 2>Mark Chapter fourteen, verse ten says, then Judas is Scariot,

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<v Speaker 2>one of the twelve, went to the chief priest to

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<v Speaker 2>betray Jesus to them. They were delighted to hear this

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<v Speaker 2>and promise to give him money. So he watched for

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<v Speaker 2>an opportunity to hand him over Greek Paradidami, verse twelve.

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<v Speaker 2>On the first day of the Feast of Unloved Bread,

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<v Speaker 2>when it was customary to sacrifice the passover lamb, Jesus's

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<v Speaker 2>disciples asked him where do you want us to go

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<v Speaker 2>and make preparations for you to eat the passover. So

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<v Speaker 2>he sent two of his disciples, telling them, go into

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<v Speaker 2>the city, and a man carrying a jar of water.

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<v Speaker 1>Will meet you.

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<v Speaker 2>Follow him, say to the owner of the house he enters,

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<v Speaker 2>The teacher asks, where is my guest room where I

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<v Speaker 2>may eat the passover with my disciples. He will show

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<v Speaker 2>you a large upper room, furnished and ready. Would you

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<v Speaker 2>touch your favorite neighbor and tell the miss already ready,

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<v Speaker 2>make preparations for us there where there there Verse sixteen.

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<v Speaker 1>The disciples left.

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<v Speaker 2>Went into the city and found things just as Jesus

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<v Speaker 2>had told them, so they prepared the passover.

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<v Speaker 1>Look at your neighbor one more time.

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<v Speaker 2>I won't make you do it again, but look at

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<v Speaker 2>them one more time and give them my sermon title.

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<v Speaker 1>It's really a question.

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<v Speaker 2>That to me the text provokes, and I want you

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<v Speaker 2>to look at them and ask them this question, which

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<v Speaker 2>is also my subject. Ask them this, say what are

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<v Speaker 2>the chances please be seated again?

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<v Speaker 1>So.

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<v Speaker 2>I don't know about you, but I hate personality tests.

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<v Speaker 2>I think they're useful for certain people. It's just that

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<v Speaker 2>I can never remember the results of my tests.

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<v Speaker 1>And I also think.

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<v Speaker 2>Something about the nature of a personality test seems off

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<v Speaker 2>to me because depending on what mood you catch me in,

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<v Speaker 2>I will answer the questions very differently, even depending on

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<v Speaker 2>what five minute window you catch me in I have.

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<v Speaker 2>I don't know if I should admit this multiple personalities.

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<v Speaker 1>I wish you would look at me like you don't.

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<v Speaker 2>I will follow you home and watch how you act

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<v Speaker 2>when you're not in church.

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<v Speaker 1>We will find out.

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<v Speaker 2>That you can be one person in one context and

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<v Speaker 2>another person in another context. And yet our minds are

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<v Speaker 2>always trying to find ways to categorize life as we're

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<v Speaker 2>experiencing life. And it's a good thing that our minds

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<v Speaker 2>are wired this way. It's really a good thing because

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<v Speaker 2>too many things are happening to us all the time

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<v Speaker 2>for us to process all of them on an individual basis.

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<v Speaker 2>So what your brain does is in an attempt to

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<v Speaker 2>help you from blowing up, is to group different stimuli according.

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<v Speaker 1>To past experiences through the power of association.

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<v Speaker 2>Your brain is always looking for a way to categorize experience,

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<v Speaker 2>and so your mind is trying to judge at any

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<v Speaker 2>given moment whether a certain environment is safe or dangerous,

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<v Speaker 2>positive or negative, And a lot of times This is

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<v Speaker 2>happening even at a subconscious level. Sometimes you don't even

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<v Speaker 2>know why you don't like somebody that you just met.

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<v Speaker 2>You haven't even had a real interaction with them yet.

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<v Speaker 2>But the way their nose looks is just like your

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<v Speaker 2>ex husband, And there's no chance that somebody with that

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<v Speaker 2>nose could have a good heart.

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<v Speaker 1>Say amen.

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<v Speaker 2>Some people annoy you before you even know them, just

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<v Speaker 2>because they remind you of Bob.

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<v Speaker 1>And maybe they're not a bad.

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<v Speaker 2>Person like Bob was, but they kind of talk like

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<v Speaker 2>Bob and walk like Bob. And now you hate them

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<v Speaker 2>and you hadn't even gotten to know them because you've

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<v Speaker 2>categorized them.

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<v Speaker 1>According to an association.

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<v Speaker 2>Yet I have found that our associations are not always accurate,

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<v Speaker 2>and our categories are not always correct. I think one

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<v Speaker 2>of the first things that God does in our lives

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<v Speaker 2>when he comes in through the indwelling of the Holy

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<v Speaker 2>Spirit is to challenge our categories. You see this through

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<v Speaker 2>the New Testament that after Jesus was resurrected from the dead,

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<v Speaker 2>various disputes broke out amongst those who claimed to be

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<v Speaker 2>his disciples regarding the nature.

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<v Speaker 1>Of true faith.

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<v Speaker 2>And it was that the Jewish people could not accept

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<v Speaker 2>this infusion of gentiles because to have a gentile worshiping

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<v Speaker 2>in a Jewish context did not fit their category of righteousness.

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<v Speaker 2>So we've got to kick them out because they don't.

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<v Speaker 1>Fit our category.

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<v Speaker 2>Usually, when something comes into your life and you have

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<v Speaker 2>no pre existing category for it, you dismiss it by

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<v Speaker 2>calling it weird.

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<v Speaker 1>I don't like that song, why it's weird.

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<v Speaker 2>You find out sometimes that some of the things that

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<v Speaker 2>you call weird in one stage of your life, or

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<v Speaker 2>that you call bad at one stage of your life,

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<v Speaker 2>or that you call failure in one stage of your life,

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<v Speaker 2>later you will learn to put it in a completely

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<v Speaker 2>different category. Because one of the things that Christ does

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<v Speaker 2>when he comes into our lives is to change our categories.

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<v Speaker 1>Paul knew this.

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<v Speaker 2>This is why he said, after rising to the top

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<v Speaker 2>of the religious ranks of his day, that what I

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<v Speaker 2>used to count gain I now count as loss. What

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<v Speaker 2>I thought mattered didn't matter as much as what really matters.

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<v Speaker 2>But it took some time for me to mature to

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<v Speaker 2>the point where I could challenge my categories. Some of

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<v Speaker 2>the things that we will pray away in one season

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<v Speaker 2>will be our very praise reports in the next because

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<v Speaker 2>we will realize that unless we.

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<v Speaker 1>Had been afflicted, we could not have been.

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<v Speaker 2>Humbled to the point to really know the presence and

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<v Speaker 2>power of God in an intimate in real wayallenges are categories.

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<v Speaker 2>This is why they killed Jesus, by the way, because

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<v Speaker 2>they could not find a category for who he was,

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<v Speaker 2>how he taught, or the miracles that he performed. He

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<v Speaker 2>did not come from their rabbinical schools. He was the

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<v Speaker 2>carpenter's son. The carpenter's son certainly could not be the Christ.

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<v Speaker 2>They could not wrap their minds around the fact that

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<v Speaker 2>the Savior of the world could be born in the

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<v Speaker 2>backwoods of Bethlehem.

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<v Speaker 1>It did not fit their category.

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<v Speaker 2>They could not understand why he didn't wash his hands

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<v Speaker 2>like he was supposed to wash his hands. They couldn't

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<v Speaker 2>understand why he would be comfortable eating with sinners and

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<v Speaker 2>rebuke the religious elite. They could not understand why Jesus would,

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<v Speaker 2>in many ways and in many situations, confront their religious

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<v Speaker 2>tradition opposing the very values that they held so dear

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<v Speaker 2>So what did they do? They crucified him because they

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<v Speaker 2>could not categorize him. A lot of times people will

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<v Speaker 2>reject you because they can't find a box to put

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<v Speaker 2>you in because you represent Watch this, you represent a.

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<v Speaker 1>Category killing God.

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<v Speaker 2>Your God will not be limited to one economic background,

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<v Speaker 2>to one race. Your God will not be limited to

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<v Speaker 2>one way of thinking.

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<v Speaker 1>Your God will not.

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<v Speaker 2>Be limited to one personality type. And you see this

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<v Speaker 2>theology entering through the apostle Paul in the Book of Galatians,

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<v Speaker 2>the third chapter where he says, in Christ, there's no longer.

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<v Speaker 1>June or gentile.

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<v Speaker 2>Those old categories don't exist anymore. I don't find my

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<v Speaker 2>people anymore. According to skin color, I don't find my

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<v Speaker 2>people anymore.

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<v Speaker 1>According to gender.

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<v Speaker 2>There's no longer male nor female, slave nor free. Is

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<v Speaker 2>no longer my position in a certain society that defines

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<v Speaker 2>my worth. In Christ, we are one. The categories that

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<v Speaker 2>were existed before he came have now been obliterated by

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<v Speaker 2>one who is greater. He's a category killer. He's greater

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<v Speaker 2>than all. His name is the buffalo names. I wish

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<v Speaker 2>you shot in the back of Valentine. Let the week

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<v Speaker 2>say I am strong, Let the poor say I am rich.

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<v Speaker 1>I love When people ask me what kind.

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<v Speaker 2>Of church's elevation, I say, do you have a while,

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<v Speaker 2>because I can't give you the categories that you would

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<v Speaker 2>normally typify a church with. I can't tell you we're

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<v Speaker 2>a white church. I can't tell you we're a black church.

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<v Speaker 2>I can't tell you we're a traditional church. I can't

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<v Speaker 2>tell you we're a non traditional church. Well, we're pretty

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<v Speaker 2>non traditional. I probably can't tell you that. Somebody will

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<v Speaker 2>ask me a question, is it a spirit filled church?

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<v Speaker 1>You know?

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<v Speaker 2>Christians have all these little labels that we like to

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<v Speaker 2>put to limit a church according to what we've experienced,

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<v Speaker 2>so that we don't have to open our minds to

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<v Speaker 2>the fact that God might not exist within our denominational structures,

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<v Speaker 2>but He might be bigger than.

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<v Speaker 1>All of them.

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<v Speaker 2>Where the Paptist at you got to shout, Where the

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<v Speaker 2>Methodist at you got to shout. We got to shout together.

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<v Speaker 2>We're in this thing together. I'm preaching like this my

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<v Speaker 2>last chance.

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<v Speaker 1>You know, I don't know. You never know. Are you

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<v Speaker 1>a spiritual church? I said, well, some of us are.

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<v Speaker 2>Sometimes it depends on what day. And since they could

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<v Speaker 2>not categorize Jesus, they crucified. Since he did not fit

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<v Speaker 2>their concept of who the Christ would be, they missed

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<v Speaker 2>the opportunity to be impacted by his presence. He came

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<v Speaker 2>to his own, and his own received him, not because

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<v Speaker 2>he didn't look like them.

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<v Speaker 1>He didn't. He didn't do what they expected him to do.

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<v Speaker 2>And Elijah broke my heart the other day when he

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<v Speaker 2>said to me, Daddy, I just don't like rock and

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<v Speaker 2>roll music. And my first thought was, Holly, I need

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<v Speaker 2>a paternity test.

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<v Speaker 1>This is not my child, This cannot be my child.

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<v Speaker 2>But then I realized, it isn't that my son doesn't

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<v Speaker 2>like rock and roll music. That's impossible. That's impossible. He's

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<v Speaker 2>highly intelligent, he has good taste. He just hasn't.

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<v Speaker 1>Heard the right rock and roll music yet.

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<v Speaker 2>So I gave him a tutorial, and Jimmy HENDRICKX taught

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<v Speaker 2>a class, and Kurt Cobain taught a class. All these

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<v Speaker 2>dead and walked into the room and taught my child

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<v Speaker 2>to love rock and roll. It's not that you don't

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<v Speaker 2>love the music, you just haven't heard the right stuff yet.

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<v Speaker 2>And for all of you who say I'm not a

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<v Speaker 2>religious person, I get it. For all of you who

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<v Speaker 2>say I'm not a church person, I get it. But

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<v Speaker 2>it might not be that you don't like God. It

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<v Speaker 2>might be that you just haven't seen the real thing yet,

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<v Speaker 2>because when you really seek grace incarnate, when you really

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<v Speaker 2>see the Church alive, forcefully advancing with love and mercy

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<v Speaker 2>as our banners, you can't help but bop your head.

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<v Speaker 1>I like this stuff. It's the real thing.

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<v Speaker 2>Jesus came to show us what God was really like,

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<v Speaker 2>and he changed the categories. I want us to spend

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<v Speaker 2>a few moments today challenging our categories. I want us

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<v Speaker 2>to look at the way that we have divided our

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<v Speaker 2>lives to assets and liabilities, gains and losses, problems and opportunities.

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<v Speaker 2>And I'll do it from the text Matthew or Mark,

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<v Speaker 2>chapter fourteen. Although my first instinct was I can't preach

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<v Speaker 2>this text in October. This is an Easter text, see

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<v Speaker 2>because I had it categorized. We want to make Easter

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<v Speaker 2>three days out of the year one week, and that's cool,

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<v Speaker 2>But Easter is meant to be a way of life.

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<v Speaker 2>So in this text we see Jesus on the verge

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<v Speaker 2>of doing the very thing that he came to do

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<v Speaker 2>all along. And we know this resistance in three different areas.

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<v Speaker 2>We are going to see a challenge of the categorical

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<v Speaker 2>system of who God is and how he works I'd

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<v Speaker 2>like you to write these down. The first area I

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<v Speaker 2>want to discuss his conflict. I believe that when God

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<v Speaker 2>really gets a hold of your life in a surrendered way,

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<v Speaker 2>that he will change the way you see conflict. I

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<v Speaker 2>derived this insight from verse ten. Then Judas is Scariot,

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<v Speaker 2>one of the twelve, went to the chief priests to

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<v Speaker 2>betray Jesus to them. They were delighted to hear this

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<v Speaker 2>and promise to give him money.

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<v Speaker 1>It's interesting that most of us.

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<v Speaker 2>Would see Judas is Scariot, who handed Jesus over to

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<v Speaker 2>be crucified at the hands of Romans because of the

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<v Speaker 2>impulse of the Jews to rid the earth of him,

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<v Speaker 2>as an enemy. Most of us would see Judas as

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<v Speaker 2>an enemy. Isn't it interesting that Jesus chose him as

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<v Speaker 2>an employee?

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<v Speaker 1>Why is that?

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<v Speaker 2>Why would Jesus choose an enemy as an employee. It

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<v Speaker 2>took me back to something that Moses said to the

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<v Speaker 2>Israelites when they were coming into the land God had

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<v Speaker 2>promised them. He said that you're going to drive out

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<v Speaker 2>all of the nations who live here so you can

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<v Speaker 2>possess the land. He said, But it won't all happen

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<v Speaker 2>in the first year, because if all of your enemies

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<v Speaker 2>went away, suddenly the land would be overgrown because you

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<v Speaker 2>don't know what to do.

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<v Speaker 1>With it yet.

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<v Speaker 2>So when God brings you into a place or a promise,

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<v Speaker 2>he will often leave enemies in the very land where

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<v Speaker 2>he is settling you, because you are not ready yet

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<v Speaker 2>for the full extent of freedom. And if he removed

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<v Speaker 2>your enemies, your heart would be filled with pride. The

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<v Speaker 2>scripture teaches that God opposes the proud, but gives grace

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<v Speaker 2>to the humble. So God will use your enemies to

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<v Speaker 2>create humility so that He can be for you what

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<v Speaker 2>you can't.

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<v Speaker 1>Be for yourself. I feel like appreciate that, but that's

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<v Speaker 1>not my message. Maybe another time. He said that.

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<v Speaker 2>Judas was looking for an opportunity to hand Jesus over,

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<v Speaker 2>And while Judas was looking for an opportunity to hand

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<v Speaker 2>Jesus over, Jesus was looking for an opportunity to die.

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<v Speaker 1>It was this purpose he came for.

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<v Speaker 2>Peter could not understand why Jesus, at the height of

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<v Speaker 2>his ministry momentum, would go to Jerusalem, the place where

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<v Speaker 2>they wanted to kill him. In Peter's mind, this would

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<v Speaker 2>be the end of all of the miracles. In the

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<v Speaker 2>understanding of Jesus, this was the beginning of the very

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<v Speaker 2>mission that he came to accomplish. God has a different

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<v Speaker 2>way of categorizing conflict than you do.

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<v Speaker 1>So often in my life.

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<v Speaker 2>I associate God with comfort and the devil with conflict.

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<v Speaker 1>Watch me preach this JJ.

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<v Speaker 2>Because we're going to switch columns today and see that

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<v Speaker 2>sometimes it is the devil who will make your life comfortable.

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<v Speaker 2>So you come to the point that you don't think

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<v Speaker 2>you need God, and it is God that will allow ant,

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<v Speaker 2>that will make you fall down on your knees and

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<v Speaker 2>ask God for the very grace that enables you to

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<v Speaker 2>rise high five your neighbors say, I need a fight.

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<v Speaker 2>I need a conflict. I need an insecurity. I need

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<v Speaker 2>a giant. I need a goliath, I need an enemy,

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<v Speaker 2>I need a battle.

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<v Speaker 1>That's the only.

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<v Speaker 2>Way I can be blessed if I have a battle

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<v Speaker 2>to fight. I need discomfort, or else I will become despondent.

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<v Speaker 1>I feel the spirit of the Lord in this place.

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<v Speaker 2>I see you going home and relabeling conflict as opportunity.

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<v Speaker 2>How dumb would it be if I put down the

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<v Speaker 2>weights because they got heavy and expected any muscular improvement.

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<v Speaker 1>And we do it all the time.

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<v Speaker 2>We run from conflict and pray for blessings from what

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<v Speaker 2>we're praying for, how can we receive that? Sometimes we

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<v Speaker 2>run from relationship to relationship because once it gets past chemistry,

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<v Speaker 2>we don't know.

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<v Speaker 1>What to do with conflict.

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<v Speaker 2>Chemistry can make a baby, but in order to raise

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<v Speaker 2>a child and to have a family, you better know

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<v Speaker 2>what to do with conflict. So Jesus chose within his

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<v Speaker 2>very ranks all of y'all over the age of sixty.

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<v Speaker 2>Tell me if I'm telling the truth right now. If

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<v Speaker 2>you don't learn what to do with conflict, it will

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<v Speaker 2>follow you and wear a different costume into the next

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<v Speaker 2>relationship that you ruin because you never learned how to

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<v Speaker 2>deal with the real.

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<v Speaker 1>Conflict, which is within. And so when you have.

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<v Speaker 2>Walked with Jesus a little while, you understand that Judas

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<v Speaker 2>was on saying payroll as Peter. Jesus called Judas friend

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<v Speaker 2>and told Peter get behind me.

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<v Speaker 1>Satan set that up.

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<v Speaker 2>One time when Judas was getting ready to betray Jesus.

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<v Speaker 2>The gospel writer recorded it this way. He said, what

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<v Speaker 2>you're gonna do, do it quickly, quickly. Let's get this started.

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<v Speaker 2>Because the sooner I die, the sooner I rise.

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<v Speaker 1>And if I rise, and if I a.

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<v Speaker 2>Sin, I can send the Holy Spirit to be your comforter.

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<v Speaker 2>Let's go ahead and get this over with. Whatever you gotta.

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<v Speaker 1>Do, do it. Hit me with your best shot. I

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<v Speaker 1>know one thing, with.

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<v Speaker 2>This all said and done, there will be glory after this.

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<v Speaker 2>I am convinced that the sufferings up this present time.

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<v Speaker 2>I can't preach this point too good, Clemson. I got

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<v Speaker 2>to get to point number two, which is Jesus changes

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<v Speaker 2>the way I see the conflict and the way I

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<v Speaker 2>see the common.

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<v Speaker 1>Wow, the common It's interesting to.

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<v Speaker 2>Me that Jesus Christ, who spoke stars into their place,

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<v Speaker 2>who causes the earth to rotate on its axis and

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<v Speaker 2>revolve around the Sun, the source of all life, the

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<v Speaker 2>one by whom, for whom and through whom all things

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<v Speaker 2>were created, would choose something so silly to identify the

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<v Speaker 2>place of his last meal. Yet, when the time came

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<v Speaker 2>for him to go to Jerusalem from Bethany, the scripture

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<v Speaker 2>says it was on the first day, verse twelve, of

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<v Speaker 2>the feast of unloving Bread. Now this is a festival

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<v Speaker 2>that the Jewish people would have been familiar with for us,

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<v Speaker 2>it's arcane, it's meaning, it's tucked away in the symbolism

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<v Speaker 2>of the unloving bread, which Paul will later describe as

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<v Speaker 2>being a representation of how when we let a little

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<v Speaker 2>bit of yeast into a lump, it takes.

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<v Speaker 1>Over the whole thing.

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<v Speaker 2>How when we're not careful about what we allow into

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<v Speaker 2>our minds and our imaginations, before long we become enslaved

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<v Speaker 2>by things that we once wanted to escape too.

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<v Speaker 1>So the narrative of the people of Israel was this

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<v Speaker 1>God brought.

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<v Speaker 2>Them out of Egypt with a mighty hand and an

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<v Speaker 2>outstretched arm. One of the ways that he did that

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<v Speaker 2>was through an event that they commemorated called the Passover.

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<v Speaker 2>They took the blood of a lamb and put it

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<v Speaker 2>on their doorpost, so that when the first born of

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<v Speaker 2>the Egyptians went down, all of their children would survive.

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<v Speaker 2>It was a foreshadowing of Jesus Christ, the Lamb of God,

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<v Speaker 2>who was slain from the foundation of the world.

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<v Speaker 1>Now, each year these people.

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<v Speaker 2>Would come in the hundreds of thousands to Jerusalem to

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<v Speaker 2>eat what was called the Passover meal. This was the

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<v Speaker 2>time when Jesus chose to die. He did not die

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<v Speaker 2>on accident. He did not die out of time. He

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<v Speaker 2>knew that the moment had come for him to pay

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<v Speaker 2>the price for your sin and mind. He used Judas's

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<v Speaker 2>deception to bring him to the place of his destiny.

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<v Speaker 2>But he did it through something so common as a

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<v Speaker 2>meal and a cross. The disciples wanted to know, where

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<v Speaker 2>do you want us to go and make preparations for

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<v Speaker 2>you to eat the Passover? Shall we get the sauces ready,

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<v Speaker 2>the spices and the bitter herbs?

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<v Speaker 1>Where would you like to eat the Passover?

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<v Speaker 2>Jewish law commands we eat it within the city. We

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<v Speaker 2>can't eat it in Bethany. We've got to go to Jerusalem.

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<v Speaker 2>Where should we go? Now here's what I love about God.

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<v Speaker 2>And I don't know if you knew this or not.

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<v Speaker 2>And this is not a Halloween message, and I'm not

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<v Speaker 2>endorsing Halloween or any of that stuff because I know

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<v Speaker 2>how y'all are. But God has many costumes. I need

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<v Speaker 2>to preach this to you. God has many costumes, and

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<v Speaker 2>a lot of times why we can't find God in

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<v Speaker 2>our life is he's wearing a costume that we don't recognize.

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<v Speaker 1>Check it out.

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<v Speaker 2>In Exodus, the people needed water in a dry and

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<v Speaker 2>weary land.

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<v Speaker 1>Water came springing forth out of a rock. What was

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<v Speaker 1>that rock?

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<v Speaker 2>Paul said that rock was Jesus Christ in another form,

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<v Speaker 2>but it looked like a rock.

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<v Speaker 1>It was God in a costume.

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<v Speaker 2>When the people didn't know where to go, God led them.

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<v Speaker 1>With the pillar of cloud.

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<v Speaker 2>Paul tells us that that cloud was Christ and it

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<v Speaker 2>represented baptism, but they didn't know it at the time

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<v Speaker 2>because the cloud was God in a costume. When it

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<v Speaker 2>came time for the Savior of the world to be born,

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<v Speaker 2>he did it like a baby, not like a king,

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<v Speaker 2>and not like thor. He didn't come down with lightning

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<v Speaker 2>bolts and flashes in the sky to announce his arrival.

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<v Speaker 2>He's snuck into the earth like a rock, like a cloud,

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<v Speaker 2>like a child riding on a donkey, lowly and humble

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<v Speaker 2>in a costume. As a matter of fact, let me

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<v Speaker 2>blow your mind for real. They were preparing a passover lamb,

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<v Speaker 2>and they were talking to the passover Lamb, and they

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<v Speaker 2>didn't even know that they were talking to the one

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<v Speaker 2>who was what they were looking for.

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<v Speaker 1>And so I think.

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<v Speaker 2>Sometimes I'm walking right past God and I don't recognize

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<v Speaker 2>him because he's dressed stuff like ordinary. Oh yeah, Jesus said,

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<v Speaker 2>some of you don't visit those who are in prison,

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<v Speaker 2>and you don't visit those who are in need, and

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<v Speaker 2>you don't do anything.

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<v Speaker 1>To help the least of these.

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<v Speaker 2>Vote what you fail to recognize is that when you

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<v Speaker 2>walk by them, you walk by me.

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<v Speaker 1>He was the Rock, he was the cloud, he was

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<v Speaker 1>the child, he was.

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<v Speaker 2>The lamb slain from the foundation of the world. How

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<v Speaker 2>can someone as cosmic as God come as something so

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<v Speaker 2>common as a lamb?

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<v Speaker 1>That's what John the Baptist said. He said, look, the

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<v Speaker 1>lamb of God.

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<v Speaker 2>Why did he have to point him out if he

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<v Speaker 2>was the savior of the world, Because he looked so common.

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<v Speaker 2>He knew that without an announcement he would be missed.

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<v Speaker 2>This is so powerful because if God is in the Rock,

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<v Speaker 2>and God is in the cloud, and God is in

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<v Speaker 2>the stable, and God is in the passover meal, and

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<v Speaker 2>God would use an instruction as simple as find a

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<v Speaker 2>man with a jar. Come on, can't you do better

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<v Speaker 2>than that, Jesus? Where you want us to fix your

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<v Speaker 2>a passover meal?

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<v Speaker 1>It's cool. I got a place and I'm gonna give

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<v Speaker 1>you a sign. Now.

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<v Speaker 2>Since God is in the cloud, he can make a

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<v Speaker 2>cloud form over the house where they need to eat,

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<v Speaker 2>and it could spell out here with an arrow pointing

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<v Speaker 2>to the house. Go into the city. I know it's crowded.

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<v Speaker 2>You got to understand. Jerusalem was packed like Concord on

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<v Speaker 2>a NASCAR speed Week.

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<v Speaker 1>It was packed like Cotchella.

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<v Speaker 2>And Jesus sends him in to a city that is

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<v Speaker 2>not very big, that would be overrun with six times

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<v Speaker 2>its normal population and says, you'll see a man carrying

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<v Speaker 2>a water jar.

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<v Speaker 1>Follow him. This poor dude with the water jar.

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<v Speaker 2>You know, I want something, And God said, I want

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<v Speaker 2>it to happen like that.

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<v Speaker 1>I want it. I'm not gonna I'm.

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<v Speaker 2>Not gonna use a spectacular sign.

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<v Speaker 1>I'm gonna give you a simple instruction. And when you

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<v Speaker 1>see the man with.

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<v Speaker 2>The jar, if you have the faith to follow him

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<v Speaker 2>in a house.

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<v Speaker 1>You've never been in before.

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<v Speaker 2>When you get there, you'll find the preparations already made.

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<v Speaker 1>See, you got it out of sequence.

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<v Speaker 2>You keep waiting to obey when God confirms. But God says,

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<v Speaker 2>I only confirm after you obey. I don't confirm before

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<v Speaker 2>I confirm after the fact. So go into the city

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<v Speaker 2>and follow the man. Yeah, and I'm gonna move through

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<v Speaker 2>what you call coincidence. Wow, the coincidence often looks a

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<v Speaker 2>whole lot like the miracle. Just thinking back over my life,

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<v Speaker 2>I realized that it has become more difficult for me

0:27:59.040 --> 0:28:02.439
<v Speaker 2>the longer that I've walked with Christ to really admit

0:28:03.000 --> 0:28:05.879
<v Speaker 2>that some of the things that I write off as

0:28:05.880 --> 0:28:09.160
<v Speaker 2>a coincidence were really his hand at work.

0:28:11.400 --> 0:28:13.960
<v Speaker 1>Remember when I told you Eric that we were driving.

0:28:14.000 --> 0:28:16.280
<v Speaker 2>It was like a week after I had given my

0:28:16.320 --> 0:28:20.080
<v Speaker 2>life to Christ and I almost got hit by that car.

0:28:20.680 --> 0:28:22.199
<v Speaker 1>I don't know if you remember this. I remember it

0:28:22.240 --> 0:28:22.720
<v Speaker 1>so clearly.

0:28:22.720 --> 0:28:25.480
<v Speaker 2>It was the first time that I saw Wow, if

0:28:25.520 --> 0:28:27.320
<v Speaker 2>I had gone when I was supposed to go, and

0:28:27.359 --> 0:28:29.720
<v Speaker 2>if I had not stopped, that car that plowed through

0:28:29.720 --> 0:28:33.119
<v Speaker 2>that stoplight would have hit me at age sixteen, And

0:28:33.160 --> 0:28:37.400
<v Speaker 2>I remember feeling so grateful that just seeing something that.

0:28:37.320 --> 0:28:39.760
<v Speaker 1>Could have happened that.

0:28:39.880 --> 0:28:42.880
<v Speaker 2>I guess you could call it a coincidence if you

0:28:42.920 --> 0:28:45.840
<v Speaker 2>want to, But something in me believes.

0:28:45.720 --> 0:28:47.120
<v Speaker 1>That the reason my car.

0:28:47.280 --> 0:28:50.360
<v Speaker 2>Didn't go at that moment, I forgot to tell you

0:28:50.400 --> 0:28:50.880
<v Speaker 2>this part.

0:28:51.040 --> 0:28:55.480
<v Speaker 1>The car was old and it wouldn't go. That's why

0:28:55.520 --> 0:28:56.160
<v Speaker 1>it didn't go.

0:28:57.360 --> 0:29:00.480
<v Speaker 2>Why wouldn't the car go because my dad bought it

0:29:00.640 --> 0:29:03.520
<v Speaker 2>at Dick's Auto Shop for eight hundred dollars. Is that

0:29:03.560 --> 0:29:07.400
<v Speaker 2>why my Chrysler laser wasn't go Was it a coincidence?

0:29:09.120 --> 0:29:13.640
<v Speaker 1>Or was it God needed me to be here for

0:29:13.680 --> 0:29:17.240
<v Speaker 1>a little while longer? Was that a coincidence?

0:29:19.160 --> 0:29:23.160
<v Speaker 2>Was it a coincidence that Holly asked me to get

0:29:23.200 --> 0:29:28.560
<v Speaker 2>her an act pretest? And she didn't know she would

0:29:28.560 --> 0:29:31.400
<v Speaker 2>make all of my babies and carry the fruit of

0:29:31.440 --> 0:29:34.960
<v Speaker 2>my well anyway, She couldn't have known at the time

0:29:35.000 --> 0:29:36.680
<v Speaker 2>that I would change her name. But was it a

0:29:36.720 --> 0:29:41.040
<v Speaker 2>coincidence that of all the high school students at revival

0:29:41.320 --> 0:29:44.920
<v Speaker 2>at First Baptist Church Monk's Corner, she chose to walk

0:29:45.000 --> 0:29:47.880
<v Speaker 2>up to me. I'm telling you there was something magnetic

0:29:47.960 --> 0:29:48.680
<v Speaker 2>on me that day.

0:29:48.920 --> 0:29:50.040
<v Speaker 1>It wasn't good looks.

0:29:50.320 --> 0:29:52.920
<v Speaker 2>I didn't have that going for me, but something drew

0:29:52.960 --> 0:29:53.440
<v Speaker 2>her over.

0:29:55.440 --> 0:29:56.480
<v Speaker 1>Was it a coincidence?

0:29:58.240 --> 0:30:00.440
<v Speaker 2>Was it a coincidence, Amy that I I was sick

0:30:00.480 --> 0:30:02.560
<v Speaker 2>the first time I met your husband and I had

0:30:02.560 --> 0:30:04.240
<v Speaker 2>to ask him do you know the name of the doctor,

0:30:04.520 --> 0:30:06.440
<v Speaker 2>And he said, I'll call you with the number. And

0:30:06.480 --> 0:30:08.320
<v Speaker 2>he called me later that afternoon to give me Chris

0:30:08.320 --> 0:30:10.239
<v Speaker 2>Dinning's number because I didn't know anybody because we had

0:30:10.280 --> 0:30:12.760
<v Speaker 2>just moved to Shelby. Was it a coincidence that I said, Hey,

0:30:12.760 --> 0:30:14.560
<v Speaker 2>why don't y'all come over to dinner Tuesday?

0:30:14.760 --> 0:30:17.360
<v Speaker 1>Hollywood, cook fried rice. We will eat carbs and be

0:30:17.440 --> 0:30:18.080
<v Speaker 1>fat together.

0:30:18.480 --> 0:30:21.120
<v Speaker 2>Was it a coincidence that you and Holly liked to

0:30:21.160 --> 0:30:24.240
<v Speaker 2>shop together on Saturday and spend all of our money

0:30:24.440 --> 0:30:27.280
<v Speaker 2>so that one day we could start a church travel

0:30:27.320 --> 0:30:30.760
<v Speaker 2>the world five continents later? Was it a coincidence that

0:30:30.840 --> 0:30:33.560
<v Speaker 2>I had strepthrope?

0:30:35.480 --> 0:30:36.480
<v Speaker 1>Was it a coincidence?

0:30:37.840 --> 0:30:40.160
<v Speaker 2>Was it a coincidence that you stood in my book

0:30:40.160 --> 0:30:44.200
<v Speaker 2>line at Liberty University until the very last person had

0:30:44.200 --> 0:30:48.160
<v Speaker 2>gone and considered walking away because the line was too long?

0:30:48.800 --> 0:30:51.720
<v Speaker 2>Was it a coincidence that I never signed books because

0:30:51.720 --> 0:30:53.560
<v Speaker 2>I feel sometimes like I don't get to spend enough

0:30:53.560 --> 0:30:54.360
<v Speaker 2>time with people.

0:30:54.160 --> 0:30:55.800
<v Speaker 1>And it feels a little impersonal for me.

0:30:56.000 --> 0:30:57.320
<v Speaker 2>Not that I don't want to meet people, but I

0:30:57.360 --> 0:30:59.200
<v Speaker 2>talked to them for twenty minutes each and then the

0:30:59.200 --> 0:31:01.280
<v Speaker 2>whole line gets mad and they start riots and.

0:31:01.240 --> 0:31:02.440
<v Speaker 1>It's a bad situation.

0:31:02.840 --> 0:31:04.720
<v Speaker 2>Was it a coincidence that that day I did And

0:31:04.800 --> 0:31:06.640
<v Speaker 2>was it a coincidence that you were the last one,

0:31:06.680 --> 0:31:08.640
<v Speaker 2>which gave me more time? To talk to you, and

0:31:08.640 --> 0:31:11.160
<v Speaker 2>that I wrote GTA Greater Things Ahead. I didn't know

0:31:11.200 --> 0:31:12.880
<v Speaker 2>you were from the greater Toronto area, and that we

0:31:12.880 --> 0:31:14.720
<v Speaker 2>would have a campus in Toronto one day.

0:31:15.160 --> 0:31:20.880
<v Speaker 1>Was it a coincidence that a wrestler was in my

0:31:20.960 --> 0:31:23.120
<v Speaker 1>hotel room in Colorado.

0:31:22.760 --> 0:31:25.520
<v Speaker 2>Who would visit Africa with me just years later as

0:31:25.560 --> 0:31:28.400
<v Speaker 2>we preached the gospel? Was it a coincidence that Adrian

0:31:28.440 --> 0:31:31.040
<v Speaker 2>de Pray tricked us both into being in that program

0:31:31.200 --> 0:31:33.160
<v Speaker 2>by describing it to us in a way that wasn't

0:31:33.200 --> 0:31:36.880
<v Speaker 2>exactly reflective of reality. But God somehow tricked us into

0:31:36.920 --> 0:31:39.960
<v Speaker 2>that hotel room in Denver, Colorado, so that we could

0:31:40.000 --> 0:31:42.760
<v Speaker 2>get chased out of Chinese nightclubs together and one day

0:31:42.800 --> 0:31:43.280
<v Speaker 2>do menace.

0:31:43.400 --> 0:31:44.720
<v Speaker 1>Was that a coincidence?

0:31:53.520 --> 0:31:56.360
<v Speaker 2>Because I imagine from the standpoint of the man who

0:31:57.440 --> 0:32:00.000
<v Speaker 2>carried the jar of water, this was just a coincidence.

0:32:01.720 --> 0:32:06.760
<v Speaker 2>But from the standpoint of the disciples, they knew this

0:32:06.840 --> 0:32:12.760
<v Speaker 2>is something more. And sometimes I think faith is just

0:32:12.800 --> 0:32:18.840
<v Speaker 2>as simple as second guessing. What you call coincidence. It

0:32:18.880 --> 0:32:23.440
<v Speaker 2>may be a coincidence. I'm not suggesting that you turn

0:32:23.480 --> 0:32:26.680
<v Speaker 2>into one of these people who blames everything on God.

0:32:27.920 --> 0:32:29.640
<v Speaker 2>Do you know what I'm talking about have you met

0:32:29.640 --> 0:32:33.719
<v Speaker 2>these people? I got a parking space right at the

0:32:33.720 --> 0:32:35.040
<v Speaker 2>front of the gym.

0:32:35.280 --> 0:32:37.080
<v Speaker 1>It was God. That wasn't God.

0:32:37.280 --> 0:32:39.480
<v Speaker 2>You needed to walk, That's why you went to the

0:32:39.480 --> 0:32:40.640
<v Speaker 2>gym for exercise.

0:32:40.840 --> 0:32:42.600
<v Speaker 1>The devil gave you the spot closest.

0:32:42.760 --> 0:32:44.440
<v Speaker 2>If it had been God, he would have given you

0:32:44.480 --> 0:32:45.920
<v Speaker 2>some aptext for exercise.

0:32:51.320 --> 0:32:52.640
<v Speaker 1>Challenge your categories.

0:32:56.480 --> 0:32:58.480
<v Speaker 2>Was it a coincidence when Holly said I want to

0:32:58.520 --> 0:32:59.640
<v Speaker 2>go to this farmer's market.

0:32:59.720 --> 0:33:04.000
<v Speaker 1>Was a coincidence that I agreed to do it? That's

0:33:04.040 --> 0:33:08.200
<v Speaker 1>a miracle. But we were on vacation at Sullivan's Island.

0:33:08.200 --> 0:33:08.520
<v Speaker 1>Why not?

0:33:09.600 --> 0:33:11.760
<v Speaker 2>Was it a coincidence that Addie May saw me from

0:33:11.800 --> 0:33:15.400
<v Speaker 2>her cupcake booth. Was it a coincidence that she walked

0:33:15.400 --> 0:33:17.000
<v Speaker 2>over and said, I'm sorry to bug you. I can

0:33:17.000 --> 0:33:19.240
<v Speaker 2>see you with your family, but I listened to your podcast.

0:33:19.240 --> 0:33:24.480
<v Speaker 2>Can I get a selfie? Was it a coincidence when

0:33:24.480 --> 0:33:25.920
<v Speaker 2>she said, I'm gonna call my pastor.

0:33:25.920 --> 0:33:27.840
<v Speaker 1>He's gonna be so jealous.

0:33:31.520 --> 0:33:33.440
<v Speaker 2>Was it a coincidence when she said you should come

0:33:33.440 --> 0:33:35.560
<v Speaker 2>to revival at my church next week and I said,

0:33:35.600 --> 0:33:37.840
<v Speaker 2>I don't have anything but short I'm on vacation, sweetheart,

0:33:37.880 --> 0:33:39.720
<v Speaker 2>But you can write down the dates of the revival,

0:33:39.760 --> 0:33:41.040
<v Speaker 2>and I'll put him away and never look.

0:33:40.920 --> 0:33:42.320
<v Speaker 1>At him again because I'm on vacation.

0:33:42.760 --> 0:33:46.080
<v Speaker 2>I didn't say that, but I thought it. Was it

0:33:46.120 --> 0:33:48.080
<v Speaker 2>a coincidence that somehow I kept the piece of paper

0:33:48.080 --> 0:33:49.440
<v Speaker 2>and something told me to check in on it, and

0:33:49.480 --> 0:33:50.320
<v Speaker 2>I found out that one of.

0:33:50.320 --> 0:33:54.040
<v Speaker 1>The guest speakers had canceled. Was it a coincidence that

0:33:54.080 --> 0:33:55.720
<v Speaker 1>Addie May had mentioned to me that when.

0:33:55.600 --> 0:33:58.040
<v Speaker 2>She called her pastor, he said that they had invited

0:33:58.080 --> 0:34:01.080
<v Speaker 2>me to speak at the revival office had told them.

0:34:00.920 --> 0:34:06.800
<v Speaker 1>That I was on vacation that week. Was it a coincidence?

0:34:06.800 --> 0:34:08.520
<v Speaker 2>When I looked up the number and called him, and

0:34:08.560 --> 0:34:10.239
<v Speaker 2>when he called me back, he said, we just came

0:34:10.239 --> 0:34:11.640
<v Speaker 2>out of a prayer meeting and we were praying that

0:34:11.680 --> 0:34:13.839
<v Speaker 2>God would provide a speaker for us tonight, and you're

0:34:13.840 --> 0:34:16.000
<v Speaker 2>the one we originally requested for this night.

0:34:17.080 --> 0:34:18.160
<v Speaker 1>Was that a coincidence?

0:34:24.160 --> 0:34:26.239
<v Speaker 2>Was it a coincidence that they wanted to prepare the

0:34:26.320 --> 0:34:27.880
<v Speaker 2>lamb and they were sitting with the lamb?

0:34:29.400 --> 0:34:30.719
<v Speaker 1>Was it a coincidence that in.

0:34:30.680 --> 0:34:36.080
<v Speaker 2>All of Jerusalem, all of the people carrying water jars

0:34:37.160 --> 0:34:38.960
<v Speaker 2>all funneled to this one man who had to be

0:34:39.000 --> 0:34:42.520
<v Speaker 2>in one place at one time so that he could

0:34:42.600 --> 0:34:46.359
<v Speaker 2>lead them into the room. And you say, you don't

0:34:46.360 --> 0:34:51.120
<v Speaker 2>see any evidence of God's working in your life. What

0:34:51.280 --> 0:34:59.640
<v Speaker 2>you've been calling coincidence, God calls evidence. That's how you

0:34:59.680 --> 0:35:03.840
<v Speaker 2>know was with you. Was it a coincidence that you

0:35:03.880 --> 0:35:07.799
<v Speaker 2>came to church today? Was it a coincidence that this

0:35:07.920 --> 0:35:11.359
<v Speaker 2>is finally the weekend where you said, Okay, I'll go

0:35:11.640 --> 0:35:14.320
<v Speaker 2>to your stupid loud church if you'll leave me alone.

0:35:14.840 --> 0:35:18.279
<v Speaker 2>Was it a coincidence that I was preaching on coincidence

0:35:18.520 --> 0:35:19.440
<v Speaker 2>for you to be here?

0:35:19.640 --> 0:35:21.680
<v Speaker 1>And I'm not telling you that you always have.

0:35:21.719 --> 0:35:24.080
<v Speaker 2>To tell people that it was God that got you

0:35:24.160 --> 0:35:26.640
<v Speaker 2>the table at the restaurant, and that it was God

0:35:26.880 --> 0:35:29.480
<v Speaker 2>that put gas in your car. It wasn't God to

0:35:29.480 --> 0:35:32.000
<v Speaker 2>put gas in your car. You put gas in your car.

0:35:32.120 --> 0:35:34.120
<v Speaker 2>If you don't put gas in your car, your car

0:35:34.160 --> 0:35:35.400
<v Speaker 2>will run out of gas.

0:35:35.520 --> 0:35:36.680
<v Speaker 1>Don't get weird with it.

0:35:36.880 --> 0:35:41.239
<v Speaker 2>I'm just saying what Thomas Edison said. He said, coincidence

0:35:41.320 --> 0:35:43.279
<v Speaker 2>is God's way of remaining anonymous.

0:35:47.239 --> 0:35:48.680
<v Speaker 1>What I think we've got to learn to do in

0:35:48.719 --> 0:35:49.640
<v Speaker 1>our lives.

0:35:51.320 --> 0:35:56.000
<v Speaker 2>Is to see Christ in the coincidence, and the next

0:35:56.000 --> 0:35:57.960
<v Speaker 2>time it happens, it's going to happen this week.

0:35:58.000 --> 0:35:59.160
<v Speaker 1>It happened to me last week.

0:36:00.040 --> 0:36:03.680
<v Speaker 2>It happened to me last week that I was walking

0:36:03.680 --> 0:36:09.640
<v Speaker 2>through the airport Newark, New Jersey. Praise the Lord for

0:36:09.760 --> 0:36:16.399
<v Speaker 2>a four hour layover in Newark, won a blessing. Might

0:36:16.440 --> 0:36:21.920
<v Speaker 2>as well go over to this bookstore. Oh, I recognized

0:36:21.960 --> 0:36:22.520
<v Speaker 2>that book.

0:36:23.160 --> 0:36:25.239
<v Speaker 1>So and so mentioned that book on their podcast.

0:36:26.160 --> 0:36:28.480
<v Speaker 2>So and so happened to be a person I've been

0:36:28.480 --> 0:36:31.719
<v Speaker 2>in contact with that I grew up with. And I

0:36:31.719 --> 0:36:34.200
<v Speaker 2>want to do a special project with this person for

0:36:34.239 --> 0:36:37.560
<v Speaker 2>our church, but I haven't been able to connect. And

0:36:37.600 --> 0:36:39.600
<v Speaker 2>when I said so and So's name, I walked around

0:36:39.600 --> 0:36:42.480
<v Speaker 2>the corner and I saw a little flyer on the

0:36:42.520 --> 0:36:45.800
<v Speaker 2>window of the bookstore, and it had so and So's

0:36:45.880 --> 0:36:48.480
<v Speaker 2>name on it. I said, that's weird. I was just

0:36:48.480 --> 0:36:51.280
<v Speaker 2>saying his name, and there he is on that flyer.

0:36:52.560 --> 0:36:56.040
<v Speaker 2>And then I saw where it said book signing, and

0:36:56.080 --> 0:36:57.879
<v Speaker 2>I said, well, that's weird. Who does a book signing

0:36:57.920 --> 0:36:59.759
<v Speaker 2>in an airport? Isn't that crazy? I was just said,

0:36:59.760 --> 0:37:02.480
<v Speaker 2>as an, and there's this picture and there he's doing

0:37:02.480 --> 0:37:03.920
<v Speaker 2>a book signing in this airport.

0:37:04.120 --> 0:37:06.120
<v Speaker 1>Wonder when he's doing it. Wouldn't it be weird if

0:37:06.120 --> 0:37:06.800
<v Speaker 1>he was doing.

0:37:06.640 --> 0:37:13.719
<v Speaker 2>It today, and he was doing it today. Wouldn't it

0:37:13.719 --> 0:37:16.480
<v Speaker 2>be weird if he was doing it right now and

0:37:16.560 --> 0:37:17.760
<v Speaker 2>he was doing it right now.

0:37:18.560 --> 0:37:19.160
<v Speaker 1>Wouldn't it be.

0:37:19.120 --> 0:37:21.200
<v Speaker 2>Weird if I texted him and he texted me back,

0:37:21.360 --> 0:37:23.120
<v Speaker 2>and we spent an hour together and we set a

0:37:23.200 --> 0:37:24.920
<v Speaker 2>date to do the thing that we were trying to do.

0:37:25.160 --> 0:37:25.799
<v Speaker 1>Wouldn't it be.

0:37:25.719 --> 0:37:27.840
<v Speaker 2>Weird if all that happened not when I was trying

0:37:27.840 --> 0:37:29.760
<v Speaker 2>to make it happen, but when I was on the layover.

0:37:37.320 --> 0:37:40.400
<v Speaker 2>What I'm saying, if you have ears to hear it,

0:37:40.440 --> 0:37:43.400
<v Speaker 2>is that Jesus Christ wants to recategorize some of the

0:37:43.400 --> 0:37:46.920
<v Speaker 2>things in your life that you saw as a coincidence.

0:37:48.400 --> 0:37:52.640
<v Speaker 2>Many of you came to Charlotte against your will. You

0:37:52.719 --> 0:37:56.600
<v Speaker 2>came because this is where the job brought you. Is

0:37:56.640 --> 0:37:58.960
<v Speaker 2>it a coincidence that you're in Charlotte.

0:37:59.719 --> 0:38:00.920
<v Speaker 1>Or is in an assignment?

0:38:03.360 --> 0:38:06.319
<v Speaker 2>Is it a coincidence that, of all the people who

0:38:06.320 --> 0:38:09.640
<v Speaker 2>could have been carrying a jar at this moment, that

0:38:09.840 --> 0:38:11.960
<v Speaker 2>jar happened to be at that spot.

0:38:13.560 --> 0:38:15.920
<v Speaker 1>It's no coincidence.

0:38:17.080 --> 0:38:20.200
<v Speaker 2>Before they ever got to the spot where the man

0:38:20.360 --> 0:38:24.600
<v Speaker 2>carrying the jar was, Jesus had already had a conversation

0:38:26.920 --> 0:38:28.839
<v Speaker 2>and all you've got to do, really to see God

0:38:28.920 --> 0:38:31.719
<v Speaker 2>move in your life is to keep a room ready

0:38:31.719 --> 0:38:32.640
<v Speaker 2>for him when he comes.

0:38:34.320 --> 0:38:39.360
<v Speaker 1>And you will find a large, spacious.

0:38:38.480 --> 0:38:47.640
<v Speaker 2>Room already furnished, already prepared, awaiting your obedience. It's already ready,

0:38:47.840 --> 0:38:51.640
<v Speaker 2>but you won't see it if you miss it. In

0:38:51.719 --> 0:38:59.880
<v Speaker 2>the coincidence, tradition holds that this upper room was situated

0:38:59.880 --> 0:39:03.799
<v Speaker 2>in the highest place in the whole city of Jerusalem.

0:39:05.000 --> 0:39:08.640
<v Speaker 2>In that cool that Jesus knew the exact place where

0:39:08.640 --> 0:39:12.440
<v Speaker 2>he wanted to take the Last Supper and institute communion.

0:39:12.760 --> 0:39:15.720
<v Speaker 2>Isn't it cool that he prayed his high priestly prayer

0:39:15.840 --> 0:39:19.200
<v Speaker 2>in John fourteen through seventeen from the highest place in

0:39:19.239 --> 0:39:21.920
<v Speaker 2>the city. It couldn't have been just any house. It

0:39:22.000 --> 0:39:24.600
<v Speaker 2>had to be that house. It had to be that time,

0:39:24.840 --> 0:39:29.240
<v Speaker 2>It had to be that day. It's no coincidence. God

0:39:29.840 --> 0:39:36.560
<v Speaker 2>is in the coincidence. God is in the comment. God

0:39:36.640 --> 0:39:40.279
<v Speaker 2>is in the conflict. And you keep stepping over the

0:39:40.400 --> 0:39:44.719
<v Speaker 2>rock and there's water in it. Wow, And you keep

0:39:44.760 --> 0:39:47.120
<v Speaker 2>missing the cloud when it moves because you're looking down

0:39:48.880 --> 0:39:51.879
<v Speaker 2>and you're sitting with the lamb, and you're missing him.

0:39:51.880 --> 0:39:56.399
<v Speaker 2>Stand to your feet. I want to pray for your life.

0:39:56.480 --> 0:39:59.560
<v Speaker 2>This week particularly, I would like to pray for those

0:39:59.560 --> 0:40:02.960
<v Speaker 2>of you who in one of the three categories that

0:40:03.040 --> 0:40:04.759
<v Speaker 2>I mentioned at the beginning, And I want to thank

0:40:04.840 --> 0:40:07.400
<v Speaker 2>you so much for not leaving when I begin my

0:40:07.440 --> 0:40:08.000
<v Speaker 2>opening prayer.

0:40:08.040 --> 0:40:09.080
<v Speaker 1>It makes it so much.

0:40:08.880 --> 0:40:11.080
<v Speaker 2>More effective when we pray when we don't have a

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<v Speaker 2>lot of movement, when God is touching people's lives, and

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<v Speaker 2>I really appreciate that so much, your willingness to stay.

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<v Speaker 1>With us through this moment. I want to pray for

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<v Speaker 1>those of you this week who are going to have

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<v Speaker 1>Adie May at.

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<v Speaker 2>The farmer's market come up to you with a cupcake,

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<v Speaker 2>or are going to be Adie May bringing the cupcake over,

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<v Speaker 2>and God is setting you up to be an answer

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<v Speaker 2>to a prayer that you don't even know has been prayed.

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<v Speaker 1>It's no coincidence. It's no coincidence.

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<v Speaker 2>And all I want you to do this week is

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<v Speaker 2>give it a second look. When the conflict comes, look

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<v Speaker 2>at it a second way. At a second time, look

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<v Speaker 2>at it a different way. Is this a conflict or

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<v Speaker 2>is this an opportunity?

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<v Speaker 1>Is this just a cross or is this a resurrection?

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<v Speaker 1>Is this a storm or is this a stage.

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<v Speaker 2>For God to reveal his glory in my situation. Is

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<v Speaker 2>this just a meal or is this a message? Is

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<v Speaker 2>this just a coincidence or is this my calling? It

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<v Speaker 2>could be a coincidence or it can be a miracle.

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<v Speaker 1>What are the chances that of all of.

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<v Speaker 2>The men in Jerusalem carrying water, this one would be

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<v Speaker 2>at that place at that time.

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<v Speaker 1>What are the chances. I'll tell you the.

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<v Speaker 2>Chances one hundred percent, Because when you walk in obedience,

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<v Speaker 2>the outcome is guaranteed.

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<v Speaker 1>This will work. I said, it will work. It will happen.

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<v Speaker 1>It has to happen. It's sound come to pad if

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<v Speaker 1>I walk.

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<v Speaker 2>There. He told me to walk and do what he

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<v Speaker 2>told me to do at the right time. It has

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<v Speaker 2>to happen. It's no coincidence. God has you here. It's

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<v Speaker 2>no coincidence. What you went through. It wasn't to destroy you,

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<v Speaker 2>It was to develop you. God is in it. God

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<v Speaker 2>is in the conflict. God is in the common God

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<v Speaker 2>is in the diapers. God is in the math, homework.

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<v Speaker 2>God is in the traffic. God is in the layoff.

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<v Speaker 2>I'm telling you, God is in it. The Word became

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<v Speaker 2>flesh and dwelt.

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<v Speaker 1>Among us, and we beheld his glory.

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<v Speaker 2>Help us to see it God in every season, in situation,

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<v Speaker 2>Help us to find living water in dry places. I

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<v Speaker 2>thank you for your spirit, the comforter who guides us

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<v Speaker 2>into all truth. I lift up each circumstance represented in

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<v Speaker 2>this room. Today online, our family joining us around the

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<v Speaker 2>world goes watching on television.

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<v Speaker 1>I pray that you would.

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<v Speaker 2>Change the categorization system by which we have organized our

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<v Speaker 2>life to prioritize comfort and convenience overcalling. We want to

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<v Speaker 2>look for you in crowded streets. We want to see

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<v Speaker 2>you in impossible situations. We need your guidance. Lord, We

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<v Speaker 2>need your help.

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<v Speaker 1>Thank you for joining us.

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<v Speaker 2>this ministry. Is because of you that this ministry is possible.

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