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Speaker 1: Welcome also to all of our locations. Put let's see

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Speaker 1: how can we do it? I don't have time to

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Speaker 1: wait in YouTube. Put where you're watching from EPAM, and

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Speaker 1: we're gonna pick ten of y'all out and send you

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Speaker 1: what do we send them? What hoodies do we have

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Speaker 1: the most of that are overstocked, that nobody buys anymore,

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Speaker 1: a see a Victory hoodie. That one's kind of old now.

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Speaker 1: But if you live near any of these cities, listen,

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Speaker 1: this is where we're coming for Elevation Night Spring twenty

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Speaker 1: twenty three. Austin, Texas, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, Minneapolis, Minnesota, Kansas City, Missouri.

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Speaker 1: Not in Kansas Abbey, Missouri, Inside Joke, Denver, Colorado, Saint Louis, Missouri,

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Speaker 1: Fort Wayne, Indiana, and Toronto. Welcome to our Toronto campus

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Speaker 1: as well. God bless you. We're coming Elevation Nights dot

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Speaker 1: Com April eighteen through twenty seven. Tickets are available right now.

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Speaker 1: Next weekend, we'll be celebrating our seventeen year anniversary here

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Speaker 1: at Elevation Church. I hope to see you for that.

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Speaker 1: It's it's time right now, though, for the word that

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Speaker 1: gave me one a certain word for an uncertain situation

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Speaker 1: Go back in your Bible. Stand up, everybody, if you

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Speaker 1: up your calves arrested. Now in Ephesians four, I think

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Speaker 1: She's telling me, stop, we need to use the bags

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Speaker 1: full of you taking out the trash too much. But

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Speaker 1: in all honesty, I sence the Lord doing a new

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Speaker 1: is going to speak directly to that. So in Ephesians

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Speaker 1: chapter four, let's just do verses twenty two through twenty four.

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Speaker 1: This week. All the messages are online that I've preached

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Speaker 1: before that. But all the messages are online if you

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Speaker 1: want to catch up sometime this week. But this week

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Speaker 1: I'm going to focus on these verses Ephesians four twenty two.

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Speaker 1: You were taught, with regard to your former way of life,

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Speaker 1: created to be like God in true righteousness and holiness.

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Speaker 1: Aren't you glad to know that the new you is

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Speaker 1: the true you? All that other nasty crap you're struggling with,

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Speaker 1: that's not the core of who you are. Who God

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Speaker 1: God by the power of the Holy Spirit. I declare it,

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Speaker 1: I decree it, I believe it. So the word God

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Speaker 1: gave me for this week. He told me to tell you,

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Speaker 1: I mean that God's not through with you yet. Say it,

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Speaker 1: It's very true that we need to celebrate our strengths

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Speaker 1: and this phrasing is really cool. You were taught, with

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Speaker 1: That doesn't mean a bigger house necessarily, although it could.

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Speaker 1: like him, whoever's living with you, wherever you're going to school,

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Speaker 1: whatever you're majoring, And that's what he's doing in my life,

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Speaker 1: done changing you. That's when you're done. We made a

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Speaker 1: not done. Greater things are still to come. I believe that.

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Speaker 1: is not the way of life you learned next verse

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Speaker 1: when you heard about Christ, and we're taught in him

427
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Speaker 1: in accordance with the truth. So watch this, everybody say

428
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Speaker 1: stand up. Shut that say stand up quit. I don't

429
00:28:46,120 --> 00:28:53,040
Speaker 1: want to be a Christian. I think I'm gonna dry Buddhism. Ah,

430
00:28:53,400 --> 00:28:56,720
Speaker 1: this is too hard. I can't do this. But if

431
00:28:56,840 --> 00:29:02,719
Speaker 1: truth comes, If truth comes, what I've been trying to

432
00:29:02,760 --> 00:29:05,000
Speaker 1: do what I know I need to do what I

433
00:29:05,040 --> 00:29:07,080
Speaker 1: wish I could do what you keep telling me to do.

434
00:29:07,240 --> 00:29:13,040
Speaker 1: Watch this buck, come buck, come bu bub bub bub.

435
00:29:13,240 --> 00:29:15,800
Speaker 1: You see what happened when I called buck. You see

436
00:29:15,800 --> 00:29:19,560
Speaker 1: what happened when I called buck? Oh you see what grit?

437
00:29:19,800 --> 00:29:24,000
Speaker 1: You see what that devil did when I called the name,

438
00:29:26,320 --> 00:29:33,520
Speaker 1: when I said, I got somebody greater, greater is he

439
00:29:34,960 --> 00:29:42,800
Speaker 1: that isn't me? That he that was all not back? Nah?

440
00:29:42,800 --> 00:29:46,160
Speaker 1: I got it off me. Nah, I got it off me.

441
00:29:46,600 --> 00:29:50,440
Speaker 1: You see what I just did. I caught somebody bigger.

442
00:29:50,800 --> 00:29:56,200
Speaker 1: I caught somebody stronger. I called a state champion. And

443
00:29:56,240 --> 00:30:01,240
Speaker 1: you knew it too. And see, the devil knows your

444
00:30:01,280 --> 00:30:04,959
Speaker 1: weak spots, but he also knows that there's something in

445
00:30:05,000 --> 00:30:11,240
Speaker 1: you that is so much greater, that what is in

446
00:30:11,280 --> 00:30:15,920
Speaker 1: you is so much greater than whatever is on you.

447
00:30:17,640 --> 00:30:21,320
Speaker 1: So that's why I declare, and I prophesy, and I

448
00:30:21,440 --> 00:30:26,000
Speaker 1: preach and I proclaim. In the name of Jesus Christ

449
00:30:26,440 --> 00:30:34,840
Speaker 1: of Nazareth. Stand up, Stand up, stand up. I know

450
00:30:34,960 --> 00:30:37,600
Speaker 1: the money is real bad right now in the car

451
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Speaker 1: at new but stand up. I know it doesn't look

452
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Speaker 1: good right now and you can't figure it out. But

453
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Speaker 1: in the name of Jesus christs a nathism, Get up,

454
00:30:51,400 --> 00:30:55,760
Speaker 1: been walked, Get up being worse. I've been moved forward.

455
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Speaker 1: I know the plans I have for you, plans for

456
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Speaker 1: a hope and a future, a new beginning, had a

457
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Speaker 1: different ending, a gift that is in you that I

458
00:31:08,640 --> 00:31:12,640
Speaker 1: has not seen, and here has not heard, and neither

459
00:31:12,680 --> 00:31:15,480
Speaker 1: has it entered into your heart. But when you call

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Speaker 1: the name of Jesus, when you say, the one that

461
00:31:18,680 --> 00:31:22,000
Speaker 1: created me is greater than the one that is fighting me.

462
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Speaker 1: When you say the one that created me gave his

463
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Speaker 1: life to redeem me from the shame that is on me.

464
00:31:31,520 --> 00:31:34,720
Speaker 1: Now I can stand up like a spider. I can

465
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Speaker 1: stand up like a saint. I can stand up like

466
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Speaker 1: a new creation. I can stand up like a child

467
00:31:41,080 --> 00:31:44,200
Speaker 1: of God. I can stand up like a spirit. Film

468
00:31:44,480 --> 00:31:50,080
Speaker 1: blood bought Devil Chasen send to Facon overcoming style. What

469
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Speaker 1: the most time, God, Jesus, I need to try it again.

470
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Speaker 1: I'll call Buck, tell the devil try it again. I'll

471
00:32:02,920 --> 00:32:07,160
Speaker 1: call Jesus, try it again. He'll send the angels fright again.

472
00:32:07,400 --> 00:32:10,040
Speaker 1: He'll frown you in the red sea of my trouble.

473
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Speaker 1: So so so what you do every time Buck comes,

474
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Speaker 1: come on back? No, no, no, I'm good. I'm good.

475
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Speaker 1: I'm good. What you do every time that God keeps

476
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Speaker 1: sending come on back, come on back, God keep sending,

477
00:32:32,000 --> 00:32:34,240
Speaker 1: come on, come on, come on. God keep sending things

478
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Speaker 1: in your life to get you up. You say, no, no no, no,

479
00:32:37,640 --> 00:32:39,160
Speaker 1: I'm good. I got this. I got this. I got this.

480
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Speaker 1: I don't want anybody think I'm weak. Now, I'm good.

481
00:32:41,760 --> 00:32:43,200
Speaker 1: I'm good. God, God, God got this. I got this.

482
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Speaker 1: I got this. I'll do it. I'll do it. I'll

483
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Speaker 1: do it, I'll do it. I'll do it. You even

484
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Speaker 1: whisper the name of Jesus Ques, just fuck fuck. You're

485
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Speaker 1: supposed to come when I whisper to show them how

486
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Speaker 1: the Lord death. But then it's something I'm about us

487
00:33:01,440 --> 00:33:06,400
Speaker 1: that can be comfortable being down to the point where

488
00:33:06,440 --> 00:33:12,760
Speaker 1: when help comes we fight it. Like that corny old joke.

489
00:33:12,800 --> 00:33:15,400
Speaker 1: The man was drowning. He said, Lord, save me. Here

490
00:33:15,440 --> 00:33:18,440
Speaker 1: comes a helicopter. He said, no, I'm waiting on the Lord.

491
00:33:19,280 --> 00:33:27,120
Speaker 1: Here comes a carrier, a vessel, a boat, and word choice.

492
00:33:27,560 --> 00:33:29,960
Speaker 1: He said, no, no, I'm good. I'm waiting on the Lord.

493
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Speaker 1: And then he drowned, and he went to heaven and

494
00:33:34,600 --> 00:33:37,479
Speaker 1: he said, Lord, you didn't come. He said, I sent

495
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Speaker 1: you a helicopter and a boat. You big dummy, send

496
00:33:45,520 --> 00:33:56,600
Speaker 1: your buck you wanted stuck. So here's what I say.

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Speaker 1: Thank you. I might call you again, so be ready. Listen.

498
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Speaker 1: There is a future that God knows for you. That

499
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Speaker 1: He is not bringing it to you. He is bringing

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Speaker 1: you to it. And for the future that God has

501
00:34:14,600 --> 00:34:17,840
Speaker 1: for you, you are the perfect fit for it because

502
00:34:18,200 --> 00:34:23,120
Speaker 1: He knew you before he knit you together in your

503
00:34:23,160 --> 00:34:28,839
Speaker 1: mother's womb. That's how long God has known you, and

504
00:34:29,040 --> 00:34:32,680
Speaker 1: that is for you. God is loyal to and he

505
00:34:32,719 --> 00:34:36,120
Speaker 1: will do what it takes to bring you into the

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Speaker 1: life that He's called you to live, not only for you,

507
00:34:39,400 --> 00:34:44,120
Speaker 1: but for his glory and for others. God's not through

508
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Speaker 1: with you. You don't get to stay down there talking

509
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Speaker 1: about if it were that I would have done it

510
00:34:51,640 --> 00:34:56,520
Speaker 1: by now. No, you just haven't walked in what you

511
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Speaker 1: were taught long enough yet to see the fruit of

512
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Speaker 1: your faith, and you never will if you keep fighting

513
00:35:08,680 --> 00:35:13,800
Speaker 1: your future because you are in love with your familiar.

514
00:35:19,320 --> 00:35:27,279
Speaker 1: Don't fight your future. When God sends you correction, get

515
00:35:27,360 --> 00:35:33,680
Speaker 1: quicker to accept it. Don't be so defensive to the

516
00:35:33,680 --> 00:35:38,759
Speaker 1: point that you stay dysfunctional because you are so defensive,

517
00:35:39,640 --> 00:35:43,960
Speaker 1: because you get humiliated when somebody sees something. So instead

518
00:35:44,000 --> 00:35:46,759
Speaker 1: of humbling yourself and saying all right, I thought about

519
00:35:46,800 --> 00:35:49,279
Speaker 1: that for about three last three days, and I think,

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Speaker 1: I think I do need to go and apologize you.

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00:35:52,760 --> 00:35:57,120
Speaker 1: Just do you and go off and don't speak for

522
00:35:57,200 --> 00:36:03,920
Speaker 1: eight months and stay that. I know that we all

523
00:36:03,960 --> 00:36:08,600
Speaker 1: struggle with different forms of bondage in captivity. I know

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Speaker 1: that I am not a judgmental dude, not at all.

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Speaker 1: I would be if the Lord had done a better

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Speaker 1: job getting me past the point where I'm at right now.

527
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Speaker 1: But he works on me slow so I won't get

528
00:36:25,160 --> 00:36:29,640
Speaker 1: all upity and think I'm there, so he has left.

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00:36:30,400 --> 00:36:33,040
Speaker 1: Remember when they used to say in sports that somebody

530
00:36:33,080 --> 00:36:35,880
Speaker 1: would have a loser's limp. It means you pretend to

531
00:36:35,920 --> 00:36:38,440
Speaker 1: be hurt so that you have an excuse for losing.

532
00:36:39,280 --> 00:36:42,480
Speaker 1: In the Kingdom of God, he gives you a winner's limp,

533
00:36:43,480 --> 00:36:49,560
Speaker 1: like Jacob who wrestled with his angel won and limped

534
00:36:49,560 --> 00:36:54,480
Speaker 1: away to remind him for the rest of his life

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Speaker 1: that he needs Buck. I mean, God and tricks are

536
00:37:02,239 --> 00:37:07,560
Speaker 1: for kids, and deceitful desires have to go. In this season,

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00:37:08,680 --> 00:37:12,400
Speaker 1: so that I can step into what I was designed

538
00:37:12,440 --> 00:37:16,120
Speaker 1: by God to be and accomplish what I was called

539
00:37:16,160 --> 00:37:20,759
Speaker 1: by God to accomplish. For he knows the plans he

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00:37:20,840 --> 00:37:24,000
Speaker 1: has for me, and I know the problems I have,

541
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Speaker 1: and he knows the plans. He knew me before I

542
00:37:28,360 --> 00:37:30,600
Speaker 1: had the problems, and he knows the plans before I

543
00:37:30,680 --> 00:37:36,000
Speaker 1: have them. So remember I said I would give you

544
00:37:36,040 --> 00:37:38,480
Speaker 1: the teaching and then an illustration from Graham. And you

545
00:37:38,480 --> 00:37:40,239
Speaker 1: didn't know you were going to get all that action today,

546
00:37:40,239 --> 00:37:45,080
Speaker 1: I'll tell you right now. But I said, I want

547
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Speaker 1: to give you a picture, and it is indeed a

548
00:37:47,480 --> 00:37:52,200
Speaker 1: very unusual one. But when the people of God were

549
00:37:52,239 --> 00:37:54,920
Speaker 1: coming into the Promised Land, they needed to be taught

550
00:37:56,040 --> 00:38:00,839
Speaker 1: how to transition. We all do, and when we are

551
00:38:00,880 --> 00:38:02,960
Speaker 1: not taught what to do with our former way of life,

552
00:38:03,040 --> 00:38:07,120
Speaker 1: we just repeat what nobody was there to teach us.

553
00:38:08,640 --> 00:38:11,239
Speaker 1: To admit that you weren't taught, or that you might

554
00:38:11,239 --> 00:38:16,640
Speaker 1: have been taught wrong requires humility. So I'm really proud.

555
00:38:17,280 --> 00:38:19,560
Speaker 1: I shouldn't say I'm proud of Moses, because what does

556
00:38:19,600 --> 00:38:22,560
Speaker 1: he care if I'm proud of him? But I think

557
00:38:23,000 --> 00:38:26,000
Speaker 1: I want to be like Moses, who had learned so

558
00:38:26,120 --> 00:38:30,239
Speaker 1: many lessons in the wilderness from his own mistakes that

559
00:38:30,280 --> 00:38:32,959
Speaker 1: when he was getting the generation that went after him

560
00:38:33,520 --> 00:38:35,919
Speaker 1: ready to follow Joshua into the land, God was giving

561
00:38:35,920 --> 00:38:39,479
Speaker 1: them which they would subdue and conquer just town by town,

562
00:38:39,560 --> 00:38:43,439
Speaker 1: battle by battle, fight by fight. He gave them such

563
00:38:43,480 --> 00:38:47,640
Speaker 1: specific instructions to not worship the gods of the people

564
00:38:47,640 --> 00:38:50,319
Speaker 1: all around them. Most of us weren't taught that we

565
00:38:50,320 --> 00:38:53,200
Speaker 1: were just handed idols, but because they didn't sit as

566
00:38:53,280 --> 00:38:57,880
Speaker 1: statues in our living room, we didn't know it was idolatry.

567
00:38:58,800 --> 00:39:00,839
Speaker 1: It's an empty way of life that was handed down

568
00:39:01,080 --> 00:39:03,120
Speaker 1: to us in a lot of ways. Not saying your

569
00:39:03,120 --> 00:39:05,279
Speaker 1: parents were bad, I'm not saying they were good. We

570
00:39:05,440 --> 00:39:08,279
Speaker 1: all caught a lot of things, and if we're never

571
00:39:08,360 --> 00:39:12,320
Speaker 1: taught anything different than what we caught, we just stay down.

572
00:39:13,960 --> 00:39:16,279
Speaker 1: We just stay down, and every time God comes to

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Speaker 1: help us, we reject him because he doesn't feel comfortable

574
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Speaker 1: to us. So Moses is like, we made some big mistakes,

575
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Speaker 1: and those of you who were twenty and under before

576
00:39:27,800 --> 00:39:31,520
Speaker 1: those mistakes get to go in. We don't. You're going in,

577
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Speaker 1: And he tells them festivals to hold to remember the

578
00:39:34,800 --> 00:39:36,920
Speaker 1: goodness of God. I'm going to do a teaching on

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00:39:36,960 --> 00:39:39,520
Speaker 1: that one day too, about making an entrance when you

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00:39:39,560 --> 00:39:41,480
Speaker 1: go into a new season. There are certain things you

581
00:39:41,560 --> 00:39:43,680
Speaker 1: always need to do when you go into a new week,

582
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Speaker 1: when you go into a new day. I'm going to

583
00:39:45,320 --> 00:39:49,200
Speaker 1: teach that about entrance. Making an entrance teaches them that.

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00:39:49,440 --> 00:39:52,160
Speaker 1: He teaches them how to treat one another, how to

585
00:39:52,160 --> 00:39:56,600
Speaker 1: deal with matters of justice. It's really amazing. But there's

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00:39:56,640 --> 00:40:00,600
Speaker 1: one verse that seems unusual. He says, you're coming into

587
00:40:00,600 --> 00:40:05,759
Speaker 1: a new land, your relatively new nation. You've never had

588
00:40:05,800 --> 00:40:10,360
Speaker 1: this type of experience before. You're going to go from

589
00:40:11,000 --> 00:40:13,919
Speaker 1: living out of the hand of Pharaoh forty years ago

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00:40:14,040 --> 00:40:17,320
Speaker 1: and from the manna that fell into having to cultivate

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00:40:17,320 --> 00:40:19,560
Speaker 1: the land that the Lord is leading you into. So

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00:40:19,600 --> 00:40:24,120
Speaker 1: you need to be taught. You need the Lord to

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00:40:24,160 --> 00:40:27,440
Speaker 1: teach you in this season of your life. Teenagers, you

594
00:40:27,520 --> 00:40:30,200
Speaker 1: need the Lord to teach you. You need him to

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Speaker 1: show you so you don't end up with two hundred

596
00:40:33,200 --> 00:40:38,399
Speaker 1: and eighty five pounds of addiction on your back when

597
00:40:38,400 --> 00:40:42,160
Speaker 1: you're twenty five, when you're forty five, when you're sixty five,

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00:40:46,320 --> 00:40:48,600
Speaker 1: Just real quick, who wants to say, Lord, teach me,

599
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Speaker 1: teach me? The preacher can tell me to do it,

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00:40:52,040 --> 00:40:54,400
Speaker 1: but only the Holy Spirit can teach me to do it.

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Speaker 1: In the moment I can tell you stand up. Only

602
00:40:59,120 --> 00:41:01,520
Speaker 1: God can strength than you enough that you can do it.

603
00:41:04,440 --> 00:41:07,880
Speaker 1: So Moses says, when you go take a city, now

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Speaker 1: watch this Deuteronomy twenty nineteen, the most anointed verse I've

605
00:41:11,239 --> 00:41:16,600
Speaker 1: read all year, and that includes Ephesians four. He said,

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Speaker 1: when you lay siege to a city for a long time.

607
00:41:23,200 --> 00:41:26,759
Speaker 1: Somebody say a long time. That means this is a

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Speaker 1: protracted battle. It's dragged out. You go in to take

609
00:41:32,160 --> 00:41:34,759
Speaker 1: the city and they hunker down and they won't come

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00:41:34,760 --> 00:41:37,040
Speaker 1: out and fight you. So you have to block them in,

611
00:41:37,200 --> 00:41:39,839
Speaker 1: cut off their supply, and wait for them to fight you.

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00:41:40,080 --> 00:41:42,040
Speaker 1: When you get in that kind of situation, because you're

613
00:41:42,080 --> 00:41:44,600
Speaker 1: going to attack these people, they're bigger than you. But

614
00:41:44,680 --> 00:41:46,880
Speaker 1: God is with you. But when you go to a

615
00:41:46,920 --> 00:41:49,040
Speaker 1: place to take the land that I've promised to you

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00:41:49,120 --> 00:41:52,960
Speaker 1: on oath through your ancestors, and there's a siege, you

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00:41:53,040 --> 00:41:56,840
Speaker 1: lay siege to the city for a long time, fighting

618
00:41:56,880 --> 00:41:59,000
Speaker 1: against it to capture it. Now, hold on, hold on.

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Speaker 1: This is not a picture of you fighting a city.

620
00:42:02,239 --> 00:42:06,440
Speaker 1: It's a picture of you fighting your old self, and

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Speaker 1: it goes on a long time, to the point where

622
00:42:11,520 --> 00:42:14,359
Speaker 1: you wish you could just fight somebody else because you're

623
00:42:14,360 --> 00:42:17,680
Speaker 1: so sick of you. How many have ever prayed that before?

624
00:42:18,000 --> 00:42:22,239
Speaker 1: Just Lord, give me somebody else's problems, because I'm so

625
00:42:22,280 --> 00:42:24,359
Speaker 1: sick of getting knocked out by the same right hook.

626
00:42:24,400 --> 00:42:26,160
Speaker 1: And I see it coming, but I just lean right

627
00:42:26,200 --> 00:42:28,719
Speaker 1: into it every time. If you don't, if you don't

628
00:42:28,719 --> 00:42:31,799
Speaker 1: relate to this, there's another church for you. This is

629
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Speaker 1: for people who struggle, and it's not always so easy

630
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Speaker 1: to stand. So he said, when you get in that

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Speaker 1: battle and you're trying to attack a city, but you

632
00:42:44,400 --> 00:42:45,879
Speaker 1: have to lay a siege to it because it goes

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Speaker 1: on a long time. Look at this. Do not destroy

634
00:42:52,760 --> 00:42:57,799
Speaker 1: it's trees by putting an axe to them, because you

635
00:42:57,880 --> 00:43:06,080
Speaker 1: can eat their fruit. What wisdom, the wisdom of Moses,

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Speaker 1: He said, When you go in and start fighting the city,

637
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Speaker 1: don't start chopping down the trees that bear fruit. Don't

638
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Speaker 1: cut them down. Watch this are the trees people that

639
00:43:21,320 --> 00:43:26,080
Speaker 1: you should besieged them. In other words, don't start fighting

640
00:43:26,200 --> 00:43:30,040
Speaker 1: the thing that God wants to feed you with in

641
00:43:30,120 --> 00:43:39,960
Speaker 1: your future. About to throw this microphone, don't take the thing,

642
00:43:40,239 --> 00:43:43,200
Speaker 1: because see, we need trees. Right. It's a siege, right,

643
00:43:43,360 --> 00:43:44,960
Speaker 1: we got to build a wall keep the people in.

644
00:43:44,960 --> 00:43:46,239
Speaker 1: We got to build a ramp so we can get

645
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Speaker 1: up on top of their wall and see the enemy

646
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Speaker 1: and attack them. So the natural tendency is when you're

647
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Speaker 1: in a season where it's a battle, and it's been

648
00:43:54,520 --> 00:43:56,719
Speaker 1: that way a long time. He said, you're gonna want

649
00:43:56,719 --> 00:43:59,680
Speaker 1: to go in and just start fighting everything. Just start

650
00:43:59,719 --> 00:44:03,600
Speaker 1: shopping at everything, just start chopping down trees. But before

651
00:44:03,640 --> 00:44:07,560
Speaker 1: you cut those trees down to use them for battle.

652
00:44:07,760 --> 00:44:09,879
Speaker 1: Before you take a tree and say, but I could

653
00:44:09,920 --> 00:44:12,600
Speaker 1: use that as a battering ram and get through, Before

654
00:44:12,640 --> 00:44:14,799
Speaker 1: you cut a tree down and say we could build

655
00:44:14,880 --> 00:44:18,000
Speaker 1: up a defense there against the enemy. Before you cut

656
00:44:18,040 --> 00:44:21,839
Speaker 1: it down, check it and see is there something on

657
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Speaker 1: that tree that I'm gonna need in my future so

658
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Speaker 1: that I don't do something now that is going to

659
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Speaker 1: fight against what God has intended for my future. And

660
00:44:39,160 --> 00:44:41,200
Speaker 1: I see a lot of us. We're in a battle

661
00:44:41,280 --> 00:44:43,759
Speaker 1: right now. We're in a battle with depression. We're in

662
00:44:43,800 --> 00:44:46,640
Speaker 1: a battle with anxiety. We're in a battle for our sanity.

663
00:44:46,760 --> 00:44:48,600
Speaker 1: We're in a battle for our money, We're in a

664
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Speaker 1: battle for our families. We're in a battle for our relationships.

665
00:44:51,640 --> 00:44:53,480
Speaker 1: We're in a battle for our peace. We're in a

666
00:44:53,520 --> 00:44:56,680
Speaker 1: battle right now. But when you are in a battle,

667
00:44:57,120 --> 00:45:02,200
Speaker 1: be careful not to attack. Because of the battle. The

668
00:45:02,280 --> 00:45:05,640
Speaker 1: thing that God wants to bless you with in the future,

669
00:45:09,160 --> 00:45:13,120
Speaker 1: so that the very help God sends to you becomes

670
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Speaker 1: the thing that you reject, So that the very lesson

671
00:45:17,160 --> 00:45:20,400
Speaker 1: that God teaches you becomes the thing that you resent.

672
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Speaker 1: Buck buck buck buck buck buck buck bob buck buck

673
00:45:32,160 --> 00:45:35,440
Speaker 1: buck buck Man, go back to your seat. You're in

674
00:45:35,480 --> 00:45:40,520
Speaker 1: my way. That's what you've been doing with God. He

675
00:45:40,680 --> 00:45:44,319
Speaker 1: was my fruit tree. He was coming to help me.

676
00:45:46,080 --> 00:45:48,879
Speaker 1: The Lord said, you go in this land and you're

677
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Speaker 1: going to be chopping at stuff sometimes that you really

678
00:45:53,360 --> 00:45:58,440
Speaker 1: are going to need in the future. Wasn't that interesting thing?

679
00:45:58,480 --> 00:46:02,720
Speaker 1: He said? Are the trees the soldiers look at Eugene

680
00:46:02,760 --> 00:46:04,520
Speaker 1: Peterson how he put it in the message? Give me

681
00:46:04,560 --> 00:46:07,919
Speaker 1: the message. The message translation makes it so clear. When

682
00:46:07,960 --> 00:46:09,920
Speaker 1: you mount an attack on a town and the siege

683
00:46:09,960 --> 00:46:12,080
Speaker 1: goes on a long time, how many have been struggling

684
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Speaker 1: with something for a long time, praying for something for

685
00:46:14,800 --> 00:46:16,959
Speaker 1: a long time, Believe in for some Okay, three people

686
00:46:17,040 --> 00:46:19,680
Speaker 1: in this whole section, everybody else. Just go to heaven.

687
00:46:21,400 --> 00:46:23,200
Speaker 1: Why do you come to church here, Just go to heaven.

688
00:46:23,719 --> 00:46:26,680
Speaker 1: Struggle with something for a long time, long time, long time.

689
00:46:26,800 --> 00:46:31,319
Speaker 1: All right, don't start cutting down the trees, swinging your

690
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Speaker 1: axes against them. These trees are your future food. Don't

691
00:46:39,440 --> 00:46:45,319
Speaker 1: cut them down. The battle you're facing today is your

692
00:46:45,360 --> 00:46:51,000
Speaker 1: future strength. Don't run from it. The thing God is

693
00:46:51,040 --> 00:46:53,640
Speaker 1: doing in your life to draw you closer to him,

694
00:46:54,239 --> 00:46:57,320
Speaker 1: that is teaching you. You said, God, teach me. Okay,

695
00:46:57,680 --> 00:47:00,520
Speaker 1: God said, this is your fruit tree. But if you

696
00:47:00,680 --> 00:47:05,840
Speaker 1: keep chopping down everything God sends to strengthen you, you

697
00:47:05,840 --> 00:47:08,839
Speaker 1: will live the rest of your life down when you

698
00:47:08,880 --> 00:47:13,320
Speaker 1: had the power to get up. So I came today

699
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Speaker 1: with the prophetic word, stop fighting your future. Those trees

700
00:47:20,160 --> 00:47:24,239
Speaker 1: that are bearing right now, they have the potential in them,

701
00:47:24,840 --> 00:47:27,880
Speaker 1: just like you have the potential in you to bear

702
00:47:28,440 --> 00:47:33,320
Speaker 1: much fruit. In fact, Jesus said that when something is fruitful,

703
00:47:33,719 --> 00:47:37,759
Speaker 1: he prunes it so it can be more fruitful. Let

704
00:47:37,760 --> 00:47:40,680
Speaker 1: me speak a word about not fighting your future. Some

705
00:47:40,840 --> 00:47:44,560
Speaker 1: people God keeps trying to remove from your inner circle,

706
00:47:44,800 --> 00:47:47,520
Speaker 1: and you keep chasing them down so that you can

707
00:47:47,600 --> 00:47:51,040
Speaker 1: have friends. But God is leading you into a future

708
00:47:51,320 --> 00:47:54,359
Speaker 1: with some different friends. God needs you to reach out

709
00:47:54,440 --> 00:47:57,359
Speaker 1: to some different people. It doesn't mean you hate them,

710
00:47:57,560 --> 00:48:00,759
Speaker 1: but you just can't hang on to the relationship just

711
00:48:00,800 --> 00:48:04,280
Speaker 1: because you liked it. God might be moving them. God

712
00:48:04,400 --> 00:48:07,239
Speaker 1: might be moving you, but he's not through with you.

713
00:48:07,680 --> 00:48:15,360
Speaker 1: He's just moving you into a new season of effectiveness, productivity,

714
00:48:15,440 --> 00:48:21,439
Speaker 1: purpose and growth. Stop fighting your future. Stop every time

715
00:48:21,520 --> 00:48:24,239
Speaker 1: something comes your way that you don't agree with getting offended.

716
00:48:25,600 --> 00:48:29,440
Speaker 1: This current offense is your future wisdom. How will you

717
00:48:29,520 --> 00:48:31,320
Speaker 1: learn a new point of view if you don't listen

718
00:48:31,320 --> 00:48:37,920
Speaker 1: to anybody. Stop fighting your future by being trapped in

719
00:48:37,960 --> 00:48:41,520
Speaker 1: your past. Stop fighting your future by wishing it was

720
00:48:41,640 --> 00:48:45,520
Speaker 1: how it was. It's not and it never will be again.

721
00:48:47,800 --> 00:48:52,399
Speaker 1: So I commend you to the Lord today to put

722
00:48:52,440 --> 00:49:01,680
Speaker 1: on the new self, new fruit, new opportunities. I've lost

723
00:49:01,680 --> 00:49:07,680
Speaker 1: an awful lot, new fruit, new opportunities. I got two

724
00:49:07,719 --> 00:49:11,760
Speaker 1: hundred and eighty five pounds of pressure on me. New fruit,

725
00:49:13,000 --> 00:49:19,319
Speaker 1: new opportunities, new strength. His mercies are new with every

726
00:49:19,440 --> 00:49:24,000
Speaker 1: rising of the sun. The fact that you did this

727
00:49:25,200 --> 00:49:28,040
Speaker 1: a couple hundred times while I've been talking, and you

728
00:49:28,080 --> 00:49:30,840
Speaker 1: didn't even have to think about it. It's proof to

729
00:49:30,880 --> 00:49:36,120
Speaker 1: me of what I started my sermons saying God is

730
00:49:36,160 --> 00:49:53,720
Speaker 1: not through with you. Stop expecting angels to look cute

731
00:49:53,719 --> 00:49:56,000
Speaker 1: when they come. You ever read about an angel in

732
00:49:56,000 --> 00:49:57,960
Speaker 1: a Bible and seen somebody draw what they would look

733
00:49:58,040 --> 00:49:59,440
Speaker 1: like and scared to crap out of you when an

734
00:49:59,480 --> 00:50:03,000
Speaker 1: angel come? Why did the angel have to say, don't

735
00:50:03,000 --> 00:50:06,359
Speaker 1: be afraid when it came? If it wasn't scary. It's

736
00:50:06,480 --> 00:50:09,640
Speaker 1: scary to step into a new season. It's scary to

737
00:50:09,680 --> 00:50:11,719
Speaker 1: do it a new way. It's scary to let your

738
00:50:11,760 --> 00:50:13,759
Speaker 1: guard down and say I'm struggling and I need to

739
00:50:13,760 --> 00:50:16,920
Speaker 1: talk about it. It's scary to apologize. If I apologize,

740
00:50:16,920 --> 00:50:19,960
Speaker 1: they might walk all over me, or God might come

741
00:50:20,000 --> 00:50:27,439
Speaker 1: help you and defend you. So what do I keep

742
00:50:27,480 --> 00:50:30,840
Speaker 1: cutting down that God wants me to continue in? What

743
00:50:30,960 --> 00:50:33,200
Speaker 1: do I every time I get uncomfortable, I go run

744
00:50:33,239 --> 00:50:37,319
Speaker 1: for something that's going to ruin me later. And Moses said,

745
00:50:37,360 --> 00:50:40,120
Speaker 1: I got to prepare you for this, or you'll start

746
00:50:40,160 --> 00:50:43,960
Speaker 1: cutting down stuff now that you'll need later. And I

747
00:50:44,000 --> 00:50:47,000
Speaker 1: mean in every area of your life, you need to

748
00:50:47,040 --> 00:50:54,480
Speaker 1: be nurturing now so that what you need later will

749
00:50:54,480 --> 00:50:58,080
Speaker 1: be waiting when you get there. If you're a parent,

750
00:50:58,920 --> 00:51:01,400
Speaker 1: and you've got kids that arerunning around doing all the sports,

751
00:51:02,360 --> 00:51:04,080
Speaker 1: and y'all never get to know each other because you're

752
00:51:04,080 --> 00:51:06,080
Speaker 1: so busy trying to champion them all the way to

753
00:51:06,160 --> 00:51:11,840
Speaker 1: their glory of the high school whatever sport, high school swimming.

754
00:51:12,800 --> 00:51:16,520
Speaker 1: They're gonna leave you. They're leaving your house. If you

755
00:51:16,560 --> 00:51:19,160
Speaker 1: do the job right, they will leave one day and

756
00:51:19,200 --> 00:51:20,920
Speaker 1: they might boomerang back, but you try and get them

757
00:51:20,920 --> 00:51:24,839
Speaker 1: out of there, and you just keep throwing that thing. Ah.

758
00:51:24,880 --> 00:51:26,680
Speaker 1: And I told the kids one time we were going.

759
00:51:26,719 --> 00:51:28,640
Speaker 1: They said, are you coming to this thing tonight? I said, no,

760
00:51:28,680 --> 00:51:29,799
Speaker 1: me and I'm going on to date i've been at.

761
00:51:29,800 --> 00:51:31,839
Speaker 1: This was a couple years ago. I said, we're going out, y'all.

762
00:51:31,840 --> 00:51:33,239
Speaker 1: I'm going out of town next week and we haven't

763
00:51:33,280 --> 00:51:34,880
Speaker 1: any time together. So you're gonna go do the thing

764
00:51:34,880 --> 00:51:36,239
Speaker 1: and then we're gonna go out and then I'll see

765
00:51:36,239 --> 00:51:39,400
Speaker 1: you after. And I was like, Oh, you're a bad parent. No,

766
00:51:40,800 --> 00:51:44,880
Speaker 1: I'm nurturing now. She's Holly's going to be in the

767
00:51:44,880 --> 00:51:47,359
Speaker 1: house after they decide to go leave and they can

768
00:51:47,400 --> 00:51:49,640
Speaker 1: come back when they want. So I need to know

769
00:51:49,840 --> 00:51:53,040
Speaker 1: her in the next season. So I need to nurture

770
00:51:53,040 --> 00:51:57,560
Speaker 1: it now. I just set somebody free to not go

771
00:51:57,600 --> 00:52:04,880
Speaker 1: to the basketball game Thursday, go to Bonefish. And I

772
00:52:04,920 --> 00:52:07,719
Speaker 1: know it's balanced, but don't you see that you are

773
00:52:07,760 --> 00:52:12,000
Speaker 1: fighting your future when you don't nurture you're now, because

774
00:52:12,040 --> 00:52:14,640
Speaker 1: you're gonna have to deal with that. And I have

775
00:52:14,760 --> 00:52:18,480
Speaker 1: to accept where God has me now. I am so

776
00:52:18,640 --> 00:52:22,120
Speaker 1: tired of people saying, Oh, he's just an old head,

777
00:52:22,200 --> 00:52:29,760
Speaker 1: an old head, an old head is full of wisdom.

778
00:52:30,840 --> 00:52:34,560
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, I'm an old head. I'm an old head.

779
00:52:35,239 --> 00:52:37,239
Speaker 1: I know I know things now I didn't know then.

780
00:52:37,640 --> 00:52:39,400
Speaker 1: And I'm gonna make a T shirt of this that

781
00:52:39,520 --> 00:52:41,160
Speaker 1: probably already is one I'm gonna make. I'm gonna make

782
00:52:41,200 --> 00:52:44,399
Speaker 1: one too, and it's gonna say old is the goal.

783
00:52:49,000 --> 00:52:51,839
Speaker 1: Make fun of me because I'm old? What did you do?

784
00:52:52,600 --> 00:52:54,759
Speaker 1: I didn't die yet, and I've been not dying for

785
00:52:54,800 --> 00:52:56,880
Speaker 1: thirty years, longer than you. You can make fun of me.

786
00:52:57,480 --> 00:52:59,640
Speaker 1: I've been doing it a long time, like the Lord.

787
00:53:00,960 --> 00:53:04,400
Speaker 1: So I'm not apologizing for the fact that I'm getting

788
00:53:04,600 --> 00:53:07,400
Speaker 1: a little older, and I've got to embrace that. But see,

789
00:53:07,560 --> 00:53:11,319
Speaker 1: when you won't embrace where God has you because you

790
00:53:11,400 --> 00:53:14,640
Speaker 1: wish you were where you were, you fight the future.

791
00:53:14,680 --> 00:53:20,239
Speaker 1: He's bringing you into I think they're getting it. I

792
00:53:20,280 --> 00:53:22,200
Speaker 1: think you've been getting it ever since I was down

793
00:53:22,239 --> 00:53:25,240
Speaker 1: here on the ground. I think you like Graham choking

794
00:53:25,320 --> 00:53:29,239
Speaker 1: me out. And I think you liked it when I

795
00:53:29,280 --> 00:53:32,719
Speaker 1: called somebody's name who came to help me? Because they'll

796
00:53:32,760 --> 00:53:36,560
Speaker 1: let you know. You've got a name that is above

797
00:53:37,320 --> 00:53:41,919
Speaker 1: every name. You've got a name that is above your

798
00:53:42,000 --> 00:53:49,640
Speaker 1: old nature. And God is not through with you. Touch

799
00:53:49,680 --> 00:53:51,360
Speaker 1: three people say God's not through with you. It's not

800
00:53:51,360 --> 00:53:53,360
Speaker 1: through with you. It's not through with you. God is

801
00:53:53,400 --> 00:53:55,600
Speaker 1: not through with you. God is not through with you.

802
00:53:55,880 --> 00:53:58,160
Speaker 1: What you've been through won't be wasted. God is not

803
00:53:58,239 --> 00:54:02,000
Speaker 1: through with you. People throw you away, but God is

804
00:54:02,040 --> 00:54:05,120
Speaker 1: not through. People talk about you like a dog, but

805
00:54:05,200 --> 00:54:07,120
Speaker 1: God is not through with you. I want to speak

806
00:54:07,120 --> 00:54:10,120
Speaker 1: to a pastor right now. You've been canceled, you lost

807
00:54:10,120 --> 00:54:13,040
Speaker 1: your church. God is not through with you. You You get

808
00:54:13,040 --> 00:54:16,000
Speaker 1: down to a rescue mission and you open your Bible

809
00:54:16,160 --> 00:54:19,080
Speaker 1: and you talk about God in the wilderness and water

810
00:54:19,200 --> 00:54:21,920
Speaker 1: from a rock. Because God is not through with you.

811
00:54:22,480 --> 00:54:26,239
Speaker 1: He brings new things from dry places. God is not

812
00:54:26,480 --> 00:54:30,600
Speaker 1: through with you. They might be, they might be, they

813
00:54:30,719 --> 00:54:34,600
Speaker 1: might be, but look up and stand up and put

814
00:54:34,640 --> 00:54:38,799
Speaker 1: on the armor of God. Now UN's at him who

815
00:54:38,880 --> 00:54:46,520
Speaker 1: is able to do immeasurably more than you ask or imagine.

816
00:54:47,320 --> 00:54:58,160
Speaker 1: For now the plans I have for you don't fight

817
00:54:58,239 --> 00:55:02,359
Speaker 1: it well, thank from the battle, so you missed the

818
00:55:02,400 --> 00:55:09,080
Speaker 1: blessing it's here is now you are more than you've become.

819
00:55:09,200 --> 00:55:13,000
Speaker 1: Yet God is not through with you yet yet and

820
00:55:13,080 --> 00:55:14,880
Speaker 1: made it through the waters yet to even see the

821
00:55:14,920 --> 00:55:18,839
Speaker 1: Egyptians drown. Oh, get to the other side. God is

822
00:55:19,239 --> 00:55:26,759
Speaker 1: not through. Stop making excuses and exchange it for the

823
00:55:26,920 --> 00:55:33,720
Speaker 1: expectation of greater grace. Father, we have been taught today

824
00:55:34,600 --> 00:55:40,360
Speaker 1: by your spirit. What good is it to be taught?

825
00:55:41,719 --> 00:55:47,160
Speaker 1: What we will not walk in? I bring each and

826
00:55:47,200 --> 00:55:51,479
Speaker 1: every man, woman, boy and girl that you put under

827
00:55:51,480 --> 00:55:55,359
Speaker 1: the sound of my voice for this hour. I bring

828
00:55:55,400 --> 00:56:00,359
Speaker 1: them and place them in your capable hands. We are

829
00:56:00,400 --> 00:56:04,080
Speaker 1: the bread you desire to multiply. We are like the

830
00:56:04,120 --> 00:56:06,719
Speaker 1: staff that parts waters when the master touches it. So

831
00:56:09,040 --> 00:56:13,719
Speaker 1: we want to ask you, first of all, Lord, that

832
00:56:13,800 --> 00:56:17,920
Speaker 1: you would help us to see where we've been so

833
00:56:18,080 --> 00:56:22,680
Speaker 1: comfortable being stuck, that we have cut down what you

834
00:56:22,760 --> 00:56:26,200
Speaker 1: were trying to use to grow us. And we admit

835
00:56:26,280 --> 00:56:29,799
Speaker 1: we've done it. From time to time. We keep on

836
00:56:29,880 --> 00:56:33,960
Speaker 1: doing things in the short term that long term hurt us. Well,

837
00:56:33,960 --> 00:56:38,520
Speaker 1: that's what your grace is for, because we're learning now

838
00:56:39,600 --> 00:56:44,239
Speaker 1: and we're changing now, and it's different now because this

839
00:56:44,360 --> 00:56:47,960
Speaker 1: time we're not doing it in the strength that we

840
00:56:48,040 --> 00:56:53,800
Speaker 1: have apart from you. We're leaning into your strength, your power,

841
00:56:53,960 --> 00:56:56,680
Speaker 1: your supply. We're going to call the name of Jesus

842
00:56:56,719 --> 00:56:59,440
Speaker 1: this week. We're going to do it right now. Get

843
00:56:59,440 --> 00:57:04,480
Speaker 1: some practice, Jesus, Jesus, Jesus, Jesus. Help me deal with this. Jesus,

844
00:57:04,760 --> 00:57:07,759
Speaker 1: help me. I got this meeting tuesday. Jesus, I got

845
00:57:07,760 --> 00:57:10,600
Speaker 1: this all. Ser Jesus, I keep on going back to

846
00:57:10,640 --> 00:57:13,240
Speaker 1: the doctor. They don't even know what's wrong. Jesus, Jesus.

847
00:57:13,520 --> 00:57:15,359
Speaker 1: Help me get out of worry. Help me not play

848
00:57:15,360 --> 00:57:16,920
Speaker 1: it out again and again in my mind and make

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Speaker 1: I can't do it in my own strength. I keep

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Speaker 1: on giving in to it. But I believe you're calling

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Speaker 1: me to stand up. Stand up in the name of Jesus,

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Speaker 1: stand up in the name of Jesus. Throw it off,

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Speaker 1: put it off. Lord, We've been some of us. We've

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Speaker 1: been in a certain struggle a long time. But before

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Speaker 1: the struggle ever was, you knew who we were. I

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Speaker 1: speak to the spirit of every man and woman today.

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Speaker 1: I speak to the truest part of them, the part

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Speaker 1: of them that is wrapped in love and called by God.

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Speaker 1: And I admonish you in. I lift you up to

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Speaker 1: the Father, and I remind you that he knew the

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Speaker 1: plants he had for you before you did. He knew

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Speaker 1: the pain would be bad, and he promised that the

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Speaker 1: power would be greater. He knew you'd be here. Listen

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Speaker 1: to me, Listen to me. He knew you'd be here.

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Speaker 1: He knew you were going to screw that thing up,

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Speaker 1: and he loved you, and he called you anyway. He

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Speaker 1: knew you would feel abandoned and let down. He called

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Speaker 1: you anyway. That's why he said, even if your father

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Speaker 1: and mother closest friend forsake you, the Lord will take

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Speaker 1: you up. He is able to sympathize with our weaknesses.

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Speaker 1: He is able to be touched by the feeling of

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Speaker 1: your infirmity. He really knows you, he really sees you.

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Speaker 1: He really called you, he really chose you, and he's

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Speaker 1: not through with you yet. Don't fight it. Welcome it.

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Speaker 1: Welcome it. Holy Spirit doing new work in my life.

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Speaker 1: I welcome it. Don't reject it. Don't stop repeating the

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Speaker 1: mistakes because you refuse to believe you deserve a blessing.

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Speaker 1: Welcome it. God wants to bless you, He wants to

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Speaker 1: heal you, he wants to keep you. Receive it. Don't

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Speaker 1: call on him and then resist him. He's coming right now.

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Speaker 1: Stop thinking about lunch. God is here. You prayed, you

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Speaker 1: asked him give me a sign it's gonna be all right,

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Speaker 1: and he sent me to tell you I know the

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Speaker 1: plans I have for you is not through with you yet. Well.

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Speaker 1: If you enjoyed today's podcast, there are a couple of

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Speaker 1: things I'd love for you to do. Make sure to subscribe, rate,

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