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Speaker 1: Hey, this is Stephen Ferdick.

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

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Speaker 2: I wanted to thank you for joining us today. Hope

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Speaker 2: this inspires you. Hope it builds your faith. Hope it

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Speaker 2: gives your perspective to see God is moving in your life.

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Speaker 1: A few of our e FAM leaders. Where are you

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Speaker 3: They came to be with us today from four different countries,

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Speaker 3: in fifteen different states.

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Speaker 1: I'm glad you made the trip as excited as I

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Speaker 1: am about these elevation nights.

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Speaker 3: We're not in Pittsburgh today, We're not in Toronto, we're

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Speaker 3: not in Detroit today.

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Speaker 1: We're right here in Valentine.

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Speaker 3: And I am so excited to continue what I began

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Speaker 3: to build last week about those times in our lives.

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Speaker 3: And we've all had them, whether we responded to them

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Speaker 3: or not, where God calls your name, and very specifically,

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Speaker 3: I was talking about sometimes in the scripture where God

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Speaker 3: called somebody by their name, and he said their name

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Speaker 3: not once, but twice. And my point was that sometimes

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Speaker 3: you are in a pivotal moment of your life where

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Speaker 3: it's your past versus your potential, your past versus your purpose,

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Speaker 3: and in those moments, sometimes God will use repetition to

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Speaker 3: underscore the urgency of what He has for you to hear.

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Speaker 3: I believe there are many of us, maybe not all

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Speaker 3: of us, who would find ourselves in a moment like that,

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Speaker 3: and so today I want to continue that from Exodus

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Speaker 3: chapter three, verses one through eleven, and all the Bible

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Speaker 3: school students already know who we're talking about today somebody say, Moses, Moses.

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Speaker 1: We grew up singing a song in.

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Speaker 3: Church called Pharaoh, Pharaoh, Oh Baby, let my people go,

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Speaker 3: And then if you've really got into it, you would

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Speaker 3: go uh yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

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Speaker 1: It was to the tune of Louis Louis.

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Speaker 3: I don't want to get a copyright strike on YouTube,

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Speaker 3: so I won't sing it, but we would do that Pharaoh, Pharaoh,

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Speaker 3: Oh Baby, let my people go, and then everybody would

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Speaker 1: And a quick story.

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Speaker 3: One time I was seventeen years old, just getting started

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Speaker 3: and one of the parents was really uptight, and she

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Speaker 3: walked in and she saw how I had all the

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Speaker 3: That's not a holy that's not a holy gesture. I said,

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Speaker 1: In her own way. Exodus chapter three, somebody say, Moses, Moses.

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Speaker 3: Now Moses was tending to the flock of jeth throw

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Speaker 3: his father in law, the priest of Midian, and he

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Speaker 3: Was confirmation on my message okay, the far side of

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Speaker 3: the wilderness, and came to horror the mountain of God. There,

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Speaker 3: of fire from within a bush. Moses saw that though

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Speaker 3: This thing should be down to a stub, but somehow

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Speaker 3: Any sense why I'm still here after all of the

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Speaker 1: It makes no sense why I'm here. And watch this.

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Speaker 3: When the Lord verse four, saw that he had gone

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Speaker 3: One of seven times this happens in the Bible, where

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Speaker 3: Here I am, and do not come any closer. God said,

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Speaker 1: And then he said, I.

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Speaker 3: this Moses hid his face because he was afraid to

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Speaker 3: seen the misery of my people in Egypt.

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Speaker 1: I have heard them crying.

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Speaker 3: about their suffering.

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Speaker 3: be flowing with milk and honey. The home of the Canaanites, Hittites, Amurites, Parizites, Hivites,

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Speaker 3: and Jebusites. And now the cry of the Israelites has

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Speaker 3: to Pharaoh, Pharaoh to tell him, uh oh, baby, let

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Speaker 3: I can't say that to Pharaoh verse eleven. And I'll

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Speaker 3: give you my subject for the day. Moses said to God,

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Speaker 1: This is what I call the burning question?

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Speaker 1: Not only the burning bush, but the burning question?

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Speaker 5: Who am I?

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Speaker 1: That I should go.

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Speaker 3: To Pharaoh and bring the Israelites out of Egypt. So

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Speaker 3: the Lord gave me a word for your insecurities today

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Speaker 1: And this is what the Lord said. Move it to

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Speaker 3: Touch your neighbor on your right or your left, you choose,

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Speaker 5: Put it in the chat. When you say it, say

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Speaker 5: move it to the middle.

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Speaker 3: In Jesus' name, you may be seated. Move it to

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Speaker 3: the middle. Okay, four points to this message. I'm not

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Speaker 3: going to preach them to how the Lord gave it

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Speaker 3: to me, like a prophecy. Sometimes you got to prophesy.

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Speaker 3: Sometimes you don't need points. Sometimes you need a prophecy

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Speaker 3: where the word of the Lord transcends human understanding in

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Speaker 3: all rational factual evidence and tells you what God says.

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Speaker 1: And that's a shift in perspective that we need to learn.

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Speaker 3: First part of this message might hurt a little bit,

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Speaker 3: but I'll stitch you up before lunch. But I'll do

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Speaker 3: it at my own expense, so maybe that'll make it better.

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Speaker 3: We just got back from Bethlehem, Pennsylvania. As we're moving

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Speaker 3: through the airport, Abby said, I hope there's an update

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Speaker 3: in a few years where you can see projected over

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Speaker 3: people's heads where they're going. Now, apparently my daughter has

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Speaker 3: been sneaking episodes of Black Mirror. Apparently we need more

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Speaker 3: parental supervision over our thirteen years. And just about the

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Speaker 3: time I told her that's ridiculous, I thought it might

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Speaker 3: actually happen. Up on further questioning as to why she

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Speaker 3: was carrying and moving in what's commonly culturally called main

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Speaker 3: character energy.

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Speaker 3: Is something that is often encouraged to say, Hey, you

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Speaker 3: got to own your story.

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Speaker 1: You can't wait for other people to come rescue you.

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Speaker 3: You can't wait for somebody else to do it for you.

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Speaker 1: You need that main character energy.

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Speaker 3: It's often used to speak of people who are very charismatic,

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Speaker 3: Moses was born with what might have been called main

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Speaker 1: The first forty years.

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Speaker 3: Of Moses's life were spent being raised as Pharaoh's daughter,

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Speaker 1: Should have died. Moses was one of them. The Bible says.

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Speaker 3: That he was no ordinary child. When his parents saw

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Speaker 3: Moses from the speech of Stephen. Now, Stephen was an

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Speaker 1: And again, we did not plan this. I'm just working

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Speaker 3: Come on, I'll behave in fort Worth, I'll behave in

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Speaker 3: it did not feel like the middle to Moses. I'll

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Speaker 3: tell you how I know. The verse I read you

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Speaker 3: in Acts chapter seven. Oh, I'm so glad I got

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Speaker 3: that New Testament perspective on Moses, because if I would

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Speaker 3: have just read he was tending sheep of bush burned,

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Speaker 3: we would have thought we're meeting Moses at the beginning

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Speaker 3: of this story.

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Speaker 5: But Moses. For Moses, it didn't feel like the beginning.

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Speaker 5: It felt like the end.

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Speaker 3: And the piple says that when Moses heard this, he

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Speaker 3: fled Verse twenty nine, Acts chapter seven to Midian.

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Speaker 1: Where he's settled.

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Speaker 5: He settled, He.

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Speaker 3: Wasn't passing through in his mind. He settled in Midian

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Speaker 3: and had two sons. That's not something you do on

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Speaker 3: a quick trip.

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Speaker 5: That's not something you do just passing through. He's in

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Speaker 5: a place called Midi, and it feels like the end.

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Speaker 5: But to us, it looks like the beginning.

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Speaker 3: And I need you to remember so you have Christian

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Speaker 3: empathy that everybody you meet is in the middle of something.

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Speaker 5: And we could be nicer to people on.

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Speaker 3: Road rage if we said they must be in the

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Speaker 3: middle of something very important. They must be in the

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Speaker 3: middle of giving birth to a child. Maybe that child

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Speaker 3: will be the next Moses. That's how Amy does it.

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Speaker 3: I'm like, maybe they're gonna die before they get there.

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Speaker 3: If they cut me off one more time, that's me

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Speaker 3: main character energy, christ Like energy, and ooh, I feel

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Speaker 3: as strong. When you realize that everybody you meet is

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Speaker 3: in the middle of something, you will be more merciful.

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Speaker 3: The middle will make you merciful. The middle will make

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Speaker 3: you merciful. It will make me and it will make.

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Speaker 1: You more sanctified.

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Speaker 3: In order to stop seeing ourselves as the point of

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Speaker 3: every pursuit, to stop seeing ourselves with the destination over

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Speaker 3: our head, rushing through the airport, trying to get somewhere.

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Speaker 3: Here's Moses in a place that seems like a destination,

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Speaker 3: feels like a detour. It's not the beginning. It's not

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Speaker 3: the end either. Moses doesn't know that yet, and neither

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Speaker 3: to you. When you're in it, you know that's the

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Speaker 3: thing about it. When you're in it, the middle feels

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Speaker 3: like the end. I'm talking about failures, and I'm talking

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Speaker 3: about moments of setback, and I'm talking about closed doors,

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Speaker 3: and I'm talking about rejection. You know what's interesting to

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Speaker 3: me to study about Moses? And I want to give

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Speaker 3: you this because I thought it was very psychologically and

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Speaker 3: theologically a line so greg The Bible goes on to

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Speaker 3: say that he was sent to deliver the children of Israel.

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Speaker 3: And he was sent to deliver the children of Israel,

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Speaker 3: but the children of Israel resented him. He is sent

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Speaker 3: to someone who resents him. He's not all Hebrew in

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Speaker 3: their mind. He's not all Egyptian either. He is a

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Speaker 3: middle child. When you are in the middle, it can

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Speaker 3: be difficult to find where you fit in. Someone told

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Speaker 3: me one time my preaching was too black. In fact,

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Speaker 3: they said, I used to listen to you on podcasts.

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Speaker 3: I was surprised to find out you were white the

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Speaker 3: first time I saw you on video. But what they

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Speaker 3: said was you might want to consider modulating your preaching

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Speaker 3: in order to reach a broader audience. I said, what

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Speaker 3: exactly do you mean modulate? They said, sometimes when you

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Speaker 3: do the really high preaching and the Oregon starts playing

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Speaker 3: it's a little distracting. And I said, it's only distracting

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Speaker 3: for you. You because it is different to you.

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Speaker 6: And if you think that I preach like I preached

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Speaker 6: because I did a market study on ways to incorporate

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Speaker 6: different ethnocentric backgrounds into a message so that all people

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Speaker 6: will feel included, You're crazy.

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Speaker 1: I preach how I.

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Speaker 3: Preach because when I was sixteen, Chris Dixon invited me

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Speaker 3: to join the Voices of Unity Gospel Choir, where I

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Speaker 3: was the only white one in the whole choir. I

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Speaker 3: stood in the middle. I didn't sway in rhythm, but

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Speaker 3: I stayed in the middle. And because of that, my

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Speaker 3: life was informed that there are different styles and the

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Speaker 3: same substance. So I don't have to apologize to you

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Speaker 3: for any weapon in my arsenal that God gave me

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Speaker 3: to get this word across step. Because I'll have to

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Speaker 3: preach like I'm white, I'll have to preach. I can

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Speaker 3: move it to the middle.

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Speaker 5: I can do it either way.

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Speaker 3: Send a coastal bath, a costal the Topelian Catholic.

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Speaker 5: I can tell Mary, I can take you, Jesus.

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Speaker 1: I can do it.

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Speaker 5: It comes.

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Speaker 3: I could give a tech talk. I could thrink it out.

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Speaker 1: He gets this us.

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Speaker 5: Because I'm a middle tip.

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Speaker 3: Donna layel me shut. The neighbors say, don't let a need.

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Speaker 3: I'm a middle time. All the middle children give God

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Speaker 3: a pray. I'm a middle child. Holly is a middle child,

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Speaker 3: Graham is a middle chop. There's benefits of being a

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Speaker 3: middle child. You can watch how the first one did

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Speaker 3: it dumb, make some corrections, get right in front of

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Speaker 3: the younger one that they're still.

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Speaker 5: More busy with, and do what you need to do.

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Speaker 3: No less significant, just hidden in the middle, in the middle.

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Speaker 3: My legal name is not Stephen Fredick. My legal name

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Speaker 3: is Larry.

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Speaker 1: That's funny.

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Speaker 5: You know you just offended every Larry.

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Speaker 3: Watching this sermon online. You are gonna get us canceled

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Speaker 3: by the Larry's and the Karens.

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Speaker 1: We messed the whole thing up.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, little Larry Furdick, because I'm Larry Stevens Ferdick Stevens

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Speaker 3: Fredick Junior.

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Speaker 1: Why are you Stevens?

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Speaker 5: Do you have multiple personalities? Perhaps? And so do you.

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Speaker 1: Depends on which moment I meet you in mm hm

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Speaker 1: mm hm mm.

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Speaker 3: Hmm saying Hallelujah one minute and other multi syllabic words

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Speaker 3: the next minute. Never judge a man by the moment,

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Speaker 3: Never judge yourself by your lowest moment. Never pride yourself

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Speaker 3: in your high moment.

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Speaker 4: Come on, talk about it.

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Speaker 3: Moses, who was in a murder murderous situation, hid in

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Speaker 3: a place called Midian and assumed that these forty years

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Speaker 3: would be the end. Forty years is a long time

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Speaker 3: to wait for an angel, y'all. I think it's verse thirty.

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Speaker 3: Put it up and see if I'm right, it said.

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Speaker 3: After forty years had passed, an angel appeared to Moses,

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Speaker 3: said Moses, Moses, I guess God was calling him by.

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Speaker 1: His middle name, Moses. Moses.

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Speaker 3: Moses means to draw out, because he was drawn out

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Speaker 3: of the river, and now he was being sent to

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Speaker 3: draw out. He was moving from what God had done

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Speaker 3: for him to what.

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Speaker 1: He was being called to do for others.

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Speaker 3: And God said, Moses, Moses, you know, as much as

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Speaker 3: my name made you laugh, it could have been a

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Speaker 3: lot worse. My mother tells me that there was a

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Speaker 3: time when my parents considered naming me different names, and well,

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Speaker 3: Larry Stephens Ferdick Jr. It turns out, is not the

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Speaker 3: worst one that they rehearsed, she says, and he's in

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Speaker 3: heaven now, so he can either confirm or deny that.

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Speaker 3: There was a season of time where my dad seriously

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Speaker 3: and sincerely wanted to name me Clym.

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Speaker 1: His reasoning was solid.

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Speaker 3: Don't judge the name till you've heard what creative plans

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Speaker 3: he had for it. He said, I wanted to name

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Speaker 3: you clem so when I called you, I could say

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Speaker 3: clem Son. See my mom, I went to Clemson University,

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Speaker 3: and my dad thought it would just be so amazing

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Speaker 3: if when he said my name, the next thing that

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Speaker 3: came clem Son. Let's all thank God for my mom. See,

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Speaker 3: because why I threw my notes away because I knew

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Speaker 3: the Lord was going to take us in a few

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Speaker 3: directions today.

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Speaker 1: It's what came after my name that mattered.

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Speaker 3: To him, is what came after my name, clem Son.

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Speaker 1: You're my son Son, get it, clem Son.

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Speaker 3: And here's God calling Moses, but he doesn't really talk

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Speaker 3: about Moses. I want to read it to you from

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Speaker 3: Exodus chapter three. Oh, this is going to help you

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Speaker 3: so much. And let me give you this principle real quick.

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Speaker 3: Selflessness is the most underused tool for stress management. Selflessness.

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Speaker 3: I don't mean thinking less of yourself, I mean thinking

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Speaker 3: of yourself less. Selflessness is the most underutilized tool for

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Speaker 3: stress management. Being at the center is keeping you stressed.

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Speaker 3: And I'll show it to you from Moses, and then

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Speaker 3: I'll show you why, and then we'll have a big

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Speaker 3: party in the place and go home.

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Speaker 1: But Moses gets all caught up.

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Speaker 3: In main character energy, and we forgive him because look,

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Speaker 3: the Lord calls his name and says Moses, Moses, and

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Speaker 3: Moses like, that's me here, I am right, I'm here,

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Speaker 3: and Midian, do not come any closer. God said, this

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Speaker 3: is verse five. Place where you are standing, this holy ground.

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Speaker 3: Take your shoes off. You're not going to run from

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Speaker 3: this one. Remember Moses ran to Midian, fleeting and hiding,

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Speaker 3: and then God is bringing him to this bush, says,

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Speaker 3: you're not running away this time. Now that he's standing

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Speaker 3: and not running, turning and paying attention to what God

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Speaker 3: is doing, the Lord says, the place where you are

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Speaker 3: standing is holy ground. And then the next thing God

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Speaker 3: said is I am the God of your Father, the

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Speaker 3: God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God

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Speaker 3: of Jacob.

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Speaker 1: God's been doing this a long time.

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Speaker 3: Y'all, God's miracles didn't start with your mortgage payment. The

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Speaker 3: God you pray to has done much tougher stuff than

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Speaker 3: what you're asking him to do.

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Speaker 1: Right now.

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Speaker 3: This man led a nation out of slavery. You don't

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Speaker 3: think God to show you how to raise those kids?

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Speaker 3: Have you lost your mind? You forgot who you're talking to.

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Speaker 3: You forgot who called you, You forgot who promised to

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Speaker 3: keep you, You Forgod who lives in you. But just

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Speaker 3: about the time we get the perspective of who God

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Speaker 3: is and what he's come to do verse eight, I've

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Speaker 3: come down to rescue my people out of the Egyptian's hands,

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Speaker 3: to bring them into the land flowing with milk and honey.

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Speaker 1: Verse nine.

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Speaker 5: And now the cry has reached me.

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Speaker 3: And now in verse ten, so now go, I am

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Speaker 3: sending you to Pharaoh to bring my people, the Israelites,

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Speaker 3: out of Egypt. But Moses said to God, who am I?

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Speaker 3: And this is where I think we miss it. Go

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Speaker 3: to the drums, real quick, camera, man, That is the

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Speaker 3: total wrong focus. When God is speaking and you shift

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Speaker 3: your attention back to you, let me say it this way.

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Speaker 3: When the Great I Am is talking and you say,

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Speaker 3: who am I You need to shift your attention back

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Speaker 3: to me, back to the one who is speaking to you,

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Speaker 3: back to the one who puts you in the basket,

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Speaker 3: back to the one who floated you down the nile,

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Speaker 3: back to the one who made sure you survived. There's

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Speaker 3: one thing about it for sure. The enemy has already

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Speaker 3: made so many attempts to end your faith journey, to

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Speaker 3: end your life, to end your hope, to end your optimism,

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Speaker 3: to end your faith, to in your progress, to end

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Speaker 3: your sanctification process. The enemy has already tried to end it,

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Speaker 3: and he didn't. Why is that because he couldn't Because

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Speaker 3: it was what came after what God called Moses Moses,

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Speaker 3: Moses that mattered more than what Moses was.

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Speaker 5: I'll put it to you this way.

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Speaker 3: When Moses got confused and said, who do I say

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Speaker 3: sent me to them?

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Speaker 5: If they doubt me, God said, tell them I am

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Speaker 5: that I am.

664
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Speaker 3: You didn't know this verse, but Exodus chapter three fourteen

665
00:39:46,520 --> 00:39:51,560
Speaker 3: teaches us something very powerful. God's name yahweh is I am.

666
00:39:52,400 --> 00:39:56,839
Speaker 3: He wasn't was, he isn't gonna be he is I am.

667
00:39:57,520 --> 00:39:59,960
Speaker 3: Now I've taught you that before, and I've taught you.

668
00:40:00,000 --> 00:40:02,200
Speaker 3: Thank you that his name, being I am means he's

669
00:40:02,200 --> 00:40:04,880
Speaker 3: a present help in the time of trouble. But what

670
00:40:05,080 --> 00:40:07,759
Speaker 3: never taught you so clear before is when he said

671
00:40:07,800 --> 00:40:12,600
Speaker 3: I am that I am the place of that is

672
00:40:12,680 --> 00:40:16,120
Speaker 3: meant to represent every place where God will express his

673
00:40:16,280 --> 00:40:20,000
Speaker 3: power in your life. So let's say, in this specific

674
00:40:20,120 --> 00:40:23,560
Speaker 3: season of your life, God wants to accomplish a purpose,

675
00:40:23,600 --> 00:40:26,719
Speaker 3: and in order to accomplish his purpose, he is going

676
00:40:26,760 --> 00:40:28,319
Speaker 3: to have to open a door for you that you

677
00:40:28,320 --> 00:40:30,240
Speaker 3: can't open for yourself, and only.

678
00:40:30,040 --> 00:40:34,200
Speaker 5: God can do that. Well, I am that open door.

679
00:40:34,719 --> 00:40:35,120
Speaker 5: I am.

680
00:40:35,840 --> 00:40:37,640
Speaker 3: Let's say you're in a season in your life where

681
00:40:37,640 --> 00:40:39,520
Speaker 3: it looks like there's no way you're going to be

682
00:40:39,600 --> 00:40:41,640
Speaker 3: able to move through this next month.

683
00:40:41,960 --> 00:40:45,160
Speaker 5: It is so busy, it is so hectic, it is so.

684
00:40:45,320 --> 00:40:48,960
Speaker 3: Overwhelmed, and you need a sustaining power in your life.

685
00:40:49,080 --> 00:40:52,360
Speaker 3: Come on, a sustaining energy over your life. Some of

686
00:40:52,400 --> 00:40:55,600
Speaker 3: you are so tired. Your biggest prayer last week was

687
00:40:55,840 --> 00:40:58,640
Speaker 3: I can't do this. You didn't even have the faith

688
00:40:58,760 --> 00:41:01,640
Speaker 3: left to ask. Every time you thought about it, it

689
00:41:01,680 --> 00:41:04,719
Speaker 3: started twisting up inside of you. But what you didn't

690
00:41:04,760 --> 00:41:09,040
Speaker 3: realize about God's name is that that feeling, that place,

691
00:41:09,520 --> 00:41:12,440
Speaker 3: that need is the place where God wants to express

692
00:41:12,440 --> 00:41:15,640
Speaker 3: his name. So if tired is the place where you

693
00:41:15,719 --> 00:41:19,279
Speaker 3: need God to show up, that is the place where God's.

694
00:41:19,080 --> 00:41:19,759
Speaker 5: Energy will be.

695
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Speaker 3: Wherever it is that He has positioned you, that's where

696
00:41:23,560 --> 00:41:25,080
Speaker 3: it is that He will empower you.

697
00:41:25,560 --> 00:41:26,560
Speaker 1: I'll take it further.

698
00:41:26,880 --> 00:41:29,919
Speaker 3: If there is an insecurity in your life that makes

699
00:41:29,960 --> 00:41:31,960
Speaker 3: you think you can't do it, that's good.

700
00:41:32,440 --> 00:41:35,360
Speaker 5: The insecurity is the insurance.

701
00:41:34,760 --> 00:41:38,600
Speaker 3: Policy that lets you know that when it gets done,

702
00:41:38,800 --> 00:41:42,239
Speaker 3: you won't be tempted to take the credit because you'll know,

703
00:41:42,760 --> 00:41:46,279
Speaker 3: and they'll know, and everybody who knows you will know.

704
00:41:46,920 --> 00:41:50,759
Speaker 3: It had to be God. I've watched them in the basket.

705
00:41:51,160 --> 00:41:55,000
Speaker 3: I saw them make a mistake, but somehow God kept

706
00:41:55,080 --> 00:41:57,880
Speaker 3: drawing them out. And that's what I see in this

707
00:41:58,000 --> 00:42:01,319
Speaker 3: season for your life. You're gonna be drawing from the

708
00:42:01,360 --> 00:42:03,680
Speaker 3: God who drawed you out of the water.

709
00:42:04,040 --> 00:42:04,960
Speaker 5: And you are not.

710
00:42:04,840 --> 00:42:07,640
Speaker 3: Going to run out of resource because you will not

711
00:42:07,840 --> 00:42:10,359
Speaker 3: run out of God. You are not going to run

712
00:42:10,400 --> 00:42:13,440
Speaker 3: out of wisdom because you will not run out of God.

713
00:42:13,760 --> 00:42:14,960
Speaker 5: You will not run out of.

714
00:42:15,040 --> 00:42:18,120
Speaker 3: Meal because you will not run out of God. You

715
00:42:18,160 --> 00:42:20,920
Speaker 3: will not run out of support because you will not

716
00:42:21,120 --> 00:42:23,600
Speaker 3: run out of God. You will not run out of

717
00:42:23,760 --> 00:42:28,759
Speaker 3: end because you will not run out of them. You

718
00:42:28,800 --> 00:42:31,080
Speaker 3: will not run out of it because you will not

719
00:42:31,239 --> 00:42:42,080
Speaker 3: run out of Him. Because I am that I am,

720
00:42:42,239 --> 00:42:45,399
Speaker 3: take your knee and move it to the middle and

721
00:42:45,440 --> 00:42:49,080
Speaker 3: make a great I am sandwich, And God says, I

722
00:42:49,120 --> 00:42:51,320
Speaker 3: am that I am.

723
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Speaker 5: Boy.

724
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Speaker 3: If I'd have planned this better, I'd have brought some

725
00:42:53,880 --> 00:42:58,040
Speaker 3: bologney and so and some and some.

726
00:42:58,000 --> 00:43:00,920
Speaker 1: Pumper nickel bread up here, and I will showed you how.

727
00:43:00,760 --> 00:43:05,120
Speaker 3: To sandwich your situation by the presence and the spoken

728
00:43:05,200 --> 00:43:12,680
Speaker 3: promise of God and move it to the middle. What

729
00:43:12,840 --> 00:43:16,080
Speaker 3: we know that Moses doesn't know. And that's a bold

730
00:43:16,120 --> 00:43:18,120
Speaker 3: statement because the Bible said other prophets have I spoken

731
00:43:18,160 --> 00:43:20,319
Speaker 3: to other ways, but Moses I spoke to face to face.

732
00:43:20,360 --> 00:43:21,280
Speaker 1: Now that's in numbers.

733
00:43:21,800 --> 00:43:25,440
Speaker 3: After they complained to Moses and didn't appreciate him, well,

734
00:43:25,480 --> 00:43:26,160
Speaker 3: I almost.

735
00:43:25,840 --> 00:43:27,399
Speaker 1: Forgot to say this, thank you Lord.

736
00:43:28,719 --> 00:43:30,640
Speaker 3: His hesitancy to do what God called him to do,

737
00:43:30,680 --> 00:43:34,359
Speaker 3: because he argued back and forth with God. His hesitancy

738
00:43:34,400 --> 00:43:37,120
Speaker 3: to do it wasn't rooted in rebellion.

739
00:43:38,880 --> 00:43:46,080
Speaker 1: It was rooted in rejection. Because he tried to do

740
00:43:46,120 --> 00:43:47,760
Speaker 1: this the first time. It didn't work.

741
00:43:50,080 --> 00:43:51,880
Speaker 3: The first time. He tried to fight for his people.

742
00:43:51,920 --> 00:43:57,160
Speaker 3: It cost him forty years in the wilderness. And now

743
00:43:57,200 --> 00:44:01,880
Speaker 3: you understand why you're uncomfortable receiving love from others, and

744
00:44:01,920 --> 00:44:04,160
Speaker 3: when people try to treat you good, you treat them bad,

745
00:44:04,280 --> 00:44:06,279
Speaker 3: just to get things back to the natural habitat that

746
00:44:06,320 --> 00:44:11,719
Speaker 3: you're used to seeking, the lower state, because it's the

747
00:44:11,760 --> 00:44:19,120
Speaker 3: state that you know. He wasn't rebelling against God, that's Jonah.

748
00:44:19,520 --> 00:44:22,759
Speaker 3: He wasn't rebelling against God, that's Jonah. He was rejected

749
00:44:22,760 --> 00:44:28,319
Speaker 3: by them, and the rejection takes root, and it gets

750
00:44:28,320 --> 00:44:30,000
Speaker 3: to the place where you go, I don't really want

751
00:44:30,000 --> 00:44:35,120
Speaker 3: to put it out there like that anymore. I love

752
00:44:35,320 --> 00:44:43,319
Speaker 3: when you all get quiet thinking about those hesitancies in

753
00:44:43,360 --> 00:44:47,520
Speaker 3: your life to trust God because of a root of

754
00:44:47,560 --> 00:44:52,640
Speaker 3: rejection where the first time it didn't work, and after

755
00:44:52,719 --> 00:44:57,120
Speaker 3: forty years you pretty much assume this is it and

756
00:44:57,160 --> 00:45:00,840
Speaker 3: there's not much I can do about it. But Moses

757
00:45:00,840 --> 00:45:03,200
Speaker 3: should have known. He should have known because he was

758
00:45:03,239 --> 00:45:07,160
Speaker 3: no ordinary child that even in those forty years, and

759
00:45:07,200 --> 00:45:10,040
Speaker 3: even with his perceived lack of natural talent to speak

760
00:45:10,080 --> 00:45:15,960
Speaker 3: watch this, he should have known. This can't be the end.

761
00:45:16,680 --> 00:45:28,640
Speaker 3: It's called mid end. This can't be the end, it's Midian. Now,

762
00:45:29,239 --> 00:45:31,399
Speaker 3: a few years ago, I was having my own sort

763
00:45:31,440 --> 00:45:36,400
Speaker 3: of Moses moment. I know, boohoo, wow, wow, tell us

764
00:45:36,440 --> 00:45:39,279
Speaker 3: your therapy session, Pastor Steve, and that's what we came for. No, No,

765
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Speaker 3: I'm just trying to relate this because it's one of

766
00:45:42,560 --> 00:45:44,960
Speaker 3: those powerful things that I ever did in my life.

767
00:45:45,160 --> 00:45:46,040
Speaker 1: It helped me so much.

768
00:45:46,800 --> 00:45:49,239
Speaker 3: The story that was going in my mind was a

769
00:45:49,320 --> 00:45:52,600
Speaker 3: little bit like the Moses story in that I had

770
00:45:52,640 --> 00:45:55,160
Speaker 3: had a few things that I tried to do in

771
00:45:55,200 --> 00:45:56,959
Speaker 3: an effort to trust God. And I'm sure I didn't

772
00:45:56,960 --> 00:45:58,920
Speaker 3: do them perfectly, but I was doing them sincerely.

773
00:45:59,400 --> 00:46:00,000
Speaker 1: You ever been there.

774
00:46:00,560 --> 00:46:02,319
Speaker 3: I'm not saying I did it exactly right, but I

775
00:46:02,400 --> 00:46:05,239
Speaker 3: meant well, Okay, I meant well. I'm not saying it

776
00:46:05,280 --> 00:46:07,920
Speaker 3: wasn't a mistake, but I meant, well, that's Moses's story.

777
00:46:07,960 --> 00:46:09,040
Speaker 1: That's why he's in Midian.

778
00:46:09,280 --> 00:46:11,920
Speaker 3: I meant well, I was trying to protect in Israelite,

779
00:46:12,239 --> 00:46:14,600
Speaker 3: but I ended up killing an the Egyptian, and maybe

780
00:46:14,640 --> 00:46:15,520
Speaker 3: I shouldn't have got in the.

781
00:46:15,520 --> 00:46:16,080
Speaker 1: Middle of it.

782
00:46:17,360 --> 00:46:19,799
Speaker 3: And so now he's on the far side of the

783
00:46:19,800 --> 00:46:22,200
Speaker 3: desert in a place called Midian.

784
00:46:23,200 --> 00:46:25,239
Speaker 1: And this place will ultimately be the mountain where God

785
00:46:25,280 --> 00:46:25,720
Speaker 1: will give.

786
00:46:25,560 --> 00:46:27,919
Speaker 3: The ten Commandment. It's Mount Sinai, but it's not yet,

787
00:46:29,040 --> 00:46:33,160
Speaker 3: because this is just the middle. Now here's Moses tending

788
00:46:33,200 --> 00:46:36,080
Speaker 3: his sheep. All of a sudden, the burning bush go

789
00:46:36,120 --> 00:46:41,880
Speaker 3: to Otis becomes the focal point, and Moses.

790
00:46:41,480 --> 00:46:47,520
Speaker 1: Moves over in order to see why it doesn't burn up. Okay,

791
00:46:47,520 --> 00:46:48,879
Speaker 1: now go back to the normal camera shop.

792
00:46:49,560 --> 00:46:52,000
Speaker 3: As he's doing this, the voice of the Lord speaks

793
00:46:52,000 --> 00:46:54,400
Speaker 3: to him about the future that God has planned for him,

794
00:46:54,400 --> 00:46:57,239
Speaker 3: which revolves around the purpose that God has created him for. Now,

795
00:46:57,280 --> 00:46:59,279
Speaker 3: that's what this is about in your life, nothing else

796
00:47:00,320 --> 00:47:03,520
Speaker 3: for a few days. Forget about your preference and your

797
00:47:03,640 --> 00:47:06,200
Speaker 3: plan of the way you want this situation to turn out.

798
00:47:07,080 --> 00:47:09,600
Speaker 3: Because I see you going through a valley, and that

799
00:47:09,680 --> 00:47:12,640
Speaker 3: feels like that's all there is, while I was recently

800
00:47:12,680 --> 00:47:15,000
Speaker 3: reminded that it can only be a valley if there

801
00:47:15,040 --> 00:47:19,560
Speaker 3: are mountains on either side of it. So now we've

802
00:47:19,560 --> 00:47:23,200
Speaker 3: got a Moses who spent forty years rough start, he

803
00:47:23,239 --> 00:47:26,240
Speaker 3: went through a dry season, and now God is bringing

804
00:47:26,320 --> 00:47:28,560
Speaker 3: him to an expected end to be the leader that

805
00:47:28,600 --> 00:47:30,520
Speaker 3: God has always.

806
00:47:30,320 --> 00:47:33,080
Speaker 1: Meant for him to be. And he's in a place

807
00:47:33,640 --> 00:47:36,120
Speaker 1: called Midian well, as.

808
00:47:35,960 --> 00:47:38,759
Speaker 3: I was going through some of my self pity in

809
00:47:38,880 --> 00:47:44,040
Speaker 3: moments and specifically the narrative that was playing out is the.

810
00:47:43,920 --> 00:47:46,439
Speaker 1: Best is behind me? Now?

811
00:47:46,440 --> 00:47:48,600
Speaker 3: I think that's one of the lies that the devil

812
00:47:48,640 --> 00:47:51,799
Speaker 3: tells that we don't talk about very much, that we

813
00:47:51,920 --> 00:47:53,560
Speaker 3: all walk around wondering about.

814
00:47:53,560 --> 00:47:55,279
Speaker 1: It's like, is.

815
00:47:55,200 --> 00:47:58,560
Speaker 3: This going to be all there is for my life?

816
00:47:58,600 --> 00:48:00,959
Speaker 1: And it doesn't take a divorced make you feel that way.

817
00:48:01,760 --> 00:48:05,120
Speaker 3: It doesn't take turning forty five to make you feel

818
00:48:05,160 --> 00:48:08,319
Speaker 3: that way, doesn't take having to wear readers to make you.

819
00:48:08,239 --> 00:48:08,879
Speaker 1: Feel that way.

820
00:48:09,440 --> 00:48:12,240
Speaker 3: You can hit a wall in your life where you wonder,

821
00:48:12,600 --> 00:48:15,880
Speaker 3: is this the most joy I'm going to experience? Is

822
00:48:15,920 --> 00:48:18,640
Speaker 3: this the most difference I'm going to make? Is this

823
00:48:18,760 --> 00:48:22,000
Speaker 3: the greatest accomplishment that I'm ever going to accomplish? And

824
00:48:22,040 --> 00:48:24,239
Speaker 3: then you hit a wall, or you hit what you

825
00:48:24,320 --> 00:48:26,520
Speaker 3: call a failure. It may not be a failure. You

826
00:48:26,560 --> 00:48:28,719
Speaker 3: just see it as a failure. And so then the

827
00:48:28,920 --> 00:48:33,839
Speaker 3: enemy says it's the end. The enemy loves to tell

828
00:48:33,880 --> 00:48:40,839
Speaker 3: you where the end is. So does God. And as

829
00:48:40,880 --> 00:48:43,040
Speaker 3: I was sitting with this, I think it had been

830
00:48:43,080 --> 00:48:45,440
Speaker 3: going on a couple of months. I was sitting with

831
00:48:45,520 --> 00:48:48,440
Speaker 3: this feeling that my best work is behind me, my

832
00:48:48,480 --> 00:48:51,040
Speaker 3: best sermons are behind me, my best songs are behind me.

833
00:48:51,320 --> 00:48:53,640
Speaker 5: It was just it was an avalanche.

834
00:48:53,719 --> 00:48:55,440
Speaker 3: I'm gonna come to this side and see if anybody

835
00:48:55,480 --> 00:48:56,800
Speaker 3: has ever felt this way before.

836
00:48:57,320 --> 00:48:59,879
Speaker 5: They are looking at me like they are on a streak, man.

837
00:49:00,320 --> 00:49:02,000
Speaker 5: They are on a roll over here.

838
00:49:02,360 --> 00:49:06,719
Speaker 3: They are winning medals and getting raises and paying no taxes,

839
00:49:07,160 --> 00:49:10,759
Speaker 3: six percent body fat, fifty million dollar net worth going

840
00:49:10,800 --> 00:49:14,120
Speaker 3: on over here? Is there anybody over here who got

841
00:49:14,160 --> 00:49:17,279
Speaker 3: to a certain place now? And it's like this as

842
00:49:17,360 --> 00:49:20,360
Speaker 3: many and I'm tending sheep. I'm very busy, But is

843
00:49:20,400 --> 00:49:23,840
Speaker 3: this the end now? I did not get this idea

844
00:49:23,880 --> 00:49:25,840
Speaker 3: that I'm going to tell you about from David Goggins.

845
00:49:26,800 --> 00:49:29,640
Speaker 3: No offense to brother David Goggins, but his energy just

846
00:49:29,640 --> 00:49:32,600
Speaker 3: gets a little intense for me sometimes you know that

847
00:49:32,800 --> 00:49:34,759
Speaker 3: that kind of like your a piece of crap, get

848
00:49:34,800 --> 00:49:35,640
Speaker 3: up and do something about it.

849
00:49:35,760 --> 00:49:36,080
Speaker 1: Energy.

850
00:49:36,400 --> 00:49:38,080
Speaker 5: I don't really get it. That doesn't really work for

851
00:49:38,120 --> 00:49:38,600
Speaker 5: me very long.

852
00:49:38,640 --> 00:49:39,839
Speaker 1: I already have that voice in my head.

853
00:49:39,840 --> 00:49:41,600
Speaker 5: I don't need an external one.

854
00:49:42,120 --> 00:49:44,080
Speaker 3: I didn't get this piece of advice from like some

855
00:49:44,239 --> 00:49:46,600
Speaker 3: chicken soup for the soul book with an inspirational thought.

856
00:49:47,120 --> 00:49:49,359
Speaker 3: It was almost like the Lord gave me this. I've

857
00:49:49,440 --> 00:49:52,400
Speaker 3: never shared it, even with Holly. And I looked for

858
00:49:52,480 --> 00:49:55,160
Speaker 3: the I looked for the notebook where I wrote it down,

859
00:49:55,239 --> 00:49:58,840
Speaker 3: and I can't find it. But something came over me,

860
00:49:58,960 --> 00:50:03,160
Speaker 3: and I begin to write about the next five years

861
00:50:03,160 --> 00:50:07,399
Speaker 3: of my life as if they had already happened, and

862
00:50:07,480 --> 00:50:12,959
Speaker 3: as if God were with me. And I didn't write

863
00:50:13,000 --> 00:50:14,879
Speaker 3: anything there's a time to do this. I didn't write

864
00:50:14,880 --> 00:50:17,000
Speaker 3: anything about how bad I felt and how down I was,

865
00:50:17,120 --> 00:50:19,319
Speaker 3: how lonely it was, and how being all.

866
00:50:19,239 --> 00:50:21,520
Speaker 1: The fears I had and all self stressed about, and

867
00:50:21,560 --> 00:50:22,440
Speaker 1: all the thing bells.

868
00:50:22,200 --> 00:50:23,880
Speaker 3: I need to pick and all people depend on me,

869
00:50:24,000 --> 00:50:28,719
Speaker 3: because I've done that enough. But I I took what

870
00:50:28,960 --> 00:50:35,640
Speaker 3: felt like the end, and I moved it to the middle,

871
00:50:37,320 --> 00:50:41,360
Speaker 3: and I picked up there and I wrote down two words.

872
00:50:41,880 --> 00:50:49,920
Speaker 3: But he, somebody say, but he and I wrote those words,

873
00:50:51,160 --> 00:50:56,600
Speaker 3: and it was almost like Moses, Moses. It was like

874
00:50:56,760 --> 00:50:59,960
Speaker 3: I saw everything that I had been, everything that I

875
00:51:00,000 --> 00:51:03,120
Speaker 3: I had been through, everything that I was wrestling.

876
00:51:02,760 --> 00:51:05,200
Speaker 1: With, and then that second Moses.

877
00:51:05,640 --> 00:51:08,160
Speaker 5: But he and I begin to write.

878
00:51:08,239 --> 00:51:09,839
Speaker 3: My pin began to move, and I begin to write

879
00:51:09,840 --> 00:51:15,000
Speaker 3: about potential I began to write, but he continued to

880
00:51:15,000 --> 00:51:16,960
Speaker 3: show up and preach, and God helped him and gave

881
00:51:17,000 --> 00:51:20,160
Speaker 3: him messages that went around the world in order.

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Speaker 1: To help people with their struggles.

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Speaker 3: But he continued to write songs and collaborate with other

884
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Speaker 3: creative individuals who were strong where he was weak, and

885
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Speaker 3: so he was able to continue to be a part

886
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Speaker 3: of making music for the people of God to sing.

887
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Speaker 1: And be ministered to by.

888
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Speaker 3: But he humbled himself and realized that he didn't have

889
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Speaker 3: to be good at everything as long as he was

890
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Speaker 3: in touch with the one who was. But he see

891
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Speaker 3: what happened was I showed you this last week, I

892
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Speaker 3: made a pivot. And in that moment that I made

893
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Speaker 3: a pivot with my pen, something started to come alive

894
00:51:52,800 --> 00:51:55,360
Speaker 3: in the spirit, and I began to see that what

895
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Speaker 3: I was dwelling on as the end. The Lord says,

896
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Speaker 3: I know the plans I have for you, plans to

897
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Speaker 3: give you a hope in the future. After seventy years

898
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Speaker 3: have completed in Babylon, I will come to you. And

899
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Speaker 3: after I've come to you and delivered you, you will

900
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Speaker 3: praise me on this mountain.

901
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Speaker 1: God said to Moses, after you have brought the people

902
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Speaker 1: out of Egypt.

903
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Speaker 3: You will worship God on this mountain. He is taking

904
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Speaker 3: what Moses thinks is the end and moving it to

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Speaker 3: the middle. Because I'll tell you something. It can be

906
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Speaker 3: the end if you let it be. If you let

907
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Speaker 3: it into you, it will end you. If you let

908
00:52:29,840 --> 00:52:32,600
Speaker 3: it make you tap, it will end you. If you

909
00:52:32,719 --> 00:52:35,759
Speaker 3: let it define you, it will define you. If you

910
00:52:35,920 --> 00:52:39,200
Speaker 3: let it bury you, it will bury you. But he,

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Speaker 3: but he who began a good work in you, Now

912
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Speaker 3: I feel, my preacher, he who began.

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Speaker 5: A good work in you, will be faithful to complete it.

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Speaker 3: The Bible says that all things work together for the

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Speaker 3: good of those who love Him and are called according

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Speaker 3: to his purpose. So if it's not good, God's not done.

917
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Speaker 5: He said, I'll bring you to an expected end.

918
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Speaker 3: So if his purpose isn't finished yet, for this situation,

919
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Speaker 3: it is not the end.

920
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Speaker 5: Move it to the middle.

921
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Speaker 3: I'm talking about the thing that you've been crying about.

922
00:53:19,200 --> 00:53:21,760
Speaker 3: I'm talking about the thing that you've been gossiping about.

923
00:53:22,040 --> 00:53:23,040
Speaker 5: I'm talking about the.

924
00:53:22,920 --> 00:53:26,160
Speaker 3: Thing that has had you so down you can't rejoice.

925
00:53:26,360 --> 00:53:28,840
Speaker 3: I'm talking about the thing that has blurred your vision

926
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Speaker 3: and fogged your faith. I'm talking about the thing that

927
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Speaker 3: has beat you into submission, the thing that's got.

928
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Speaker 5: You tied up in knots. You've been treating it like

929
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Speaker 5: the end, and you need to move in to the middle.

930
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Speaker 3: So when you're telling this story, it is going to

931
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Speaker 3: be a chapter and a scene, not a destiny. That's

932
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Speaker 3: why it's called Midian. You aren't meant to live here.

933
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Speaker 3: You will not die in this wilderness. You will not

934
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Speaker 3: go down in this state. For there is a burning

935
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Speaker 3: bush with your name on it, Moses, Moses. And you

936
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Speaker 3: know what makes the bush significant. It's burning, but it

937
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Speaker 3: won't burn up. It's still burning. After all, it's been through.

938
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Speaker 3: And I'm preaching to somebody today that after all you've

939
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Speaker 3: been through, after every red sea he split, after everything.

940
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Speaker 5: He forgave you off.

941
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Speaker 3: After every ready poured in your lungs, after every percy

942
00:54:42,880 --> 00:54:50,480
Speaker 3: he dropped in your cord, you pass hey Breason to

943
00:54:50,600 --> 00:55:02,800
Speaker 3: raise him. This is just a This is just the middle.

944
00:55:03,600 --> 00:55:07,839
Speaker 3: This is just the middle. Of course, it's messy, it's

945
00:55:07,880 --> 00:55:10,680
Speaker 3: the middle. Of course, it's difficult.

946
00:55:11,120 --> 00:55:15,280
Speaker 5: It's the middle. Of course, it's dry. It's the middle.

947
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Speaker 1: It's always different in the middle. But the Lord said

948
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Speaker 1: for us to take this.

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Speaker 3: Thing that we think is going to be the end

950
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Speaker 3: of our testimony, and move it to the middle and

951
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Speaker 3: let it.

952
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Speaker 1: Become who is this for?

953
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Speaker 3: Let it become the part of your story that you say,

954
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Speaker 3: but he after.

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Speaker 5: Do I preach about this too much?

956
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Speaker 3: I feel like every week I'm trying to tell you

957
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Speaker 3: not to quit in a different way. I feel like

958
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Speaker 3: every week I'm trying to tell you it is too

959
00:55:57,520 --> 00:55:59,680
Speaker 3: soon for you to sit down and settle in Midian

960
00:55:59,719 --> 00:56:00,560
Speaker 3: when God.

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Speaker 1: Called you to be a deliverer. And look what all

962
00:56:03,760 --> 00:56:07,840
Speaker 1: God did through Moses. Oh, this is so personal, and

963
00:56:07,880 --> 00:56:09,000
Speaker 1: he wants to do it for you.

964
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Speaker 3: The Bible says that He called them by name to

965
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Speaker 3: lead them out of Egypt, and look at Acts, chapter seven,

966
00:56:14,719 --> 00:56:21,400
Speaker 3: verse thirty six. He led them out of Egypt, performed

967
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Speaker 3: wonders and signs in Egypt, at the Red Sea, and

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Speaker 3: for forty years in the wilderness.

969
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Speaker 1: Now, to me, that's got to be the saddest scripture

970
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Speaker 1: that I've read today, is that God spent.

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Speaker 3: The first forty years preparing Moses his basket years where

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Speaker 3: he was preserved. You know, God spent the first part

973
00:56:45,040 --> 00:56:48,319
Speaker 3: of your life preparing you. It wasn't easy. It may

974
00:56:48,360 --> 00:56:50,680
Speaker 3: not have been what you chose, but he floated you

975
00:56:51,320 --> 00:56:55,720
Speaker 3: to where you needed to be. Then, after Moses's mistake,

976
00:56:55,920 --> 00:57:02,160
Speaker 3: he spent the next forty years repairing Moses, humbling Moses.

977
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Speaker 3: But after that burning bush, Moses was meant to lead

978
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Speaker 3: the people into the Promised Land. And look what verse

979
00:57:11,280 --> 00:57:15,680
Speaker 3: twenty six says or verse thirty six says. Please, he

980
00:57:15,800 --> 00:57:18,120
Speaker 3: led them out of Egypt, perform wonders and signs in Egypt,

981
00:57:18,160 --> 00:57:21,040
Speaker 3: the Red Sea, and for forty years in the wilderness.

982
00:57:21,080 --> 00:57:24,760
Speaker 3: Now here's the warning. He wasn't supposed to be in

983
00:57:24,760 --> 00:57:26,400
Speaker 3: the wilderness with them forty years.

984
00:57:27,560 --> 00:57:28,280
Speaker 1: Put it back up.

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00:57:28,720 --> 00:57:31,800
Speaker 3: At the Red Sea, he performed wonders, the sea split.

986
00:57:32,800 --> 00:57:37,200
Speaker 3: In the wilderness, he performed miracles for forty years. But

987
00:57:37,280 --> 00:57:39,760
Speaker 3: the trip through the wilderness was not meant to be

988
00:57:39,880 --> 00:57:44,360
Speaker 3: the end. It was meant to be the middle. To

989
00:57:44,440 --> 00:57:46,720
Speaker 3: get through the wilderness to the Promised Land would have

990
00:57:46,720 --> 00:57:51,200
Speaker 3: taken the Israelites two weeks. Tops. How did they switch

991
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Speaker 3: and make a forty year habitation out of a two

992
00:57:55,360 --> 00:57:56,280
Speaker 3: week transition.

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00:57:58,240 --> 00:58:00,760
Speaker 1: It's because they treated the middle it was the end.

994
00:58:05,040 --> 00:58:06,840
Speaker 3: And there are some things in your life that God

995
00:58:06,920 --> 00:58:09,360
Speaker 3: is doing right now, and he's providing for you, and

996
00:58:09,400 --> 00:58:13,040
Speaker 3: he's empowering you, and he's enabling you, and he's sustaining you,

997
00:58:13,280 --> 00:58:14,240
Speaker 3: and he's calling you.

998
00:58:14,520 --> 00:58:16,200
Speaker 1: And this for Moses, Moses moment.

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Speaker 3: And if you come forward and look and listen, and

1000
00:58:18,360 --> 00:58:21,800
Speaker 3: turn aside and say, wonder why this bush isn't burning up.

1001
00:58:22,040 --> 00:58:25,200
Speaker 3: Wonder why God left me here. Wonder why cancer didn't

1002
00:58:25,280 --> 00:58:28,120
Speaker 3: kill me. Wonder why depression didn't have the last word.

1003
00:58:28,440 --> 00:58:31,280
Speaker 3: Wonder why I survived when they did. Wonder why God

1004
00:58:31,320 --> 00:58:33,480
Speaker 3: put me at this place in time. Wonder why God

1005
00:58:33,520 --> 00:58:36,560
Speaker 3: gave me these experiences. If you move it to the middle,

1006
00:58:36,760 --> 00:58:40,680
Speaker 3: it changes everything. So I close with one more illustration. Chris,

1007
00:58:41,120 --> 00:58:43,960
Speaker 3: when we were writing the song Gyra, I have no

1008
00:58:44,040 --> 00:58:46,200
Speaker 3: idea if you remember this, I would feel sure that

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00:58:46,240 --> 00:58:48,920
Speaker 3: you do that you know.

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00:58:49,000 --> 00:58:51,080
Speaker 1: The name Jyrah.

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00:58:50,720 --> 00:58:53,680
Speaker 3: Comes from one of the other times that Abraham was

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00:58:53,720 --> 00:58:57,560
Speaker 3: going to sacrifice his son Isaac, and the Lord said, Abraham, Abraham,

1013
00:58:57,600 --> 00:58:58,600
Speaker 3: don't lay a hand on the boy.

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00:58:58,640 --> 00:58:59,560
Speaker 1: I've seen that you trust me.

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00:58:59,600 --> 00:59:02,560
Speaker 3: I don't want your son as a sacrifice, I want

1016
00:59:02,560 --> 00:59:03,800
Speaker 3: your trust as worship.

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00:59:04,880 --> 00:59:05,880
Speaker 1: And there was a ram in the.

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00:59:05,800 --> 00:59:10,360
Speaker 3: Bush, and when Abraham saw the place where God provided,

1019
00:59:10,400 --> 00:59:11,600
Speaker 3: he called it Jehovah.

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00:59:11,680 --> 00:59:12,080
Speaker 1: Jirah.

1021
00:59:13,440 --> 00:59:16,080
Speaker 3: It doesn't necessarily mean just the Lord provides. It means

1022
00:59:16,120 --> 00:59:19,760
Speaker 3: the Lord sees, and he called that place Jehovah Girah.

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00:59:19,880 --> 00:59:22,240
Speaker 3: The first time that we ever wrote with our friends

1024
00:59:22,360 --> 00:59:27,760
Speaker 3: Naomi and Chandler, we sat down and begin to write a.

1025
00:59:27,680 --> 00:59:30,800
Speaker 1: Song that ended up being the song Gyra. Have you

1026
00:59:30,840 --> 00:59:35,360
Speaker 1: heard it? Do you like it? Yeah?

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00:59:35,760 --> 00:59:37,479
Speaker 3: Let me tell you a little thing about that song

1028
00:59:37,520 --> 00:59:39,520
Speaker 3: that I think will cement this message in your mind

1029
00:59:40,440 --> 00:59:42,080
Speaker 3: for everything that you need God to provide.

1030
00:59:42,880 --> 00:59:46,240
Speaker 1: When we began to write the chorus, it didn't sound

1031
00:59:46,360 --> 00:59:50,160
Speaker 1: very good. It said, I.

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00:59:50,240 --> 00:59:57,960
Speaker 3: Will be content in every circumstance Jrah, you are enough,

1033
00:59:58,840 --> 01:00:01,280
Speaker 3: and you're like, that's how it goes, now, not exactly.

1034
01:00:01,960 --> 01:00:04,160
Speaker 3: Listen again, this is how it started. Okay, so let

1035
01:00:04,160 --> 01:00:05,400
Speaker 3: me do the verse.

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01:00:05,680 --> 01:00:09,880
Speaker 7: I'll never be more love then I am, though.

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01:00:10,400 --> 01:00:14,440
Speaker 3: It was it holding you, so there's nothing I can

1038
01:00:14,480 --> 01:00:16,560
Speaker 3: do to let you down.

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01:00:17,640 --> 01:00:19,320
Speaker 5: Doesn't take a trophy, make you problem.

1040
01:00:20,240 --> 01:00:24,720
Speaker 3: I'll never be more love than I am right now.

1041
01:00:24,960 --> 01:00:34,240
Speaker 3: And then it went, I will be content in every circumstance. Jierah,

1042
01:00:35,360 --> 01:00:36,240
Speaker 3: you are enough.

1043
01:00:38,680 --> 01:00:40,920
Speaker 1: I will be content. That's how it went.

1044
01:00:41,400 --> 01:00:46,919
Speaker 3: In every circumstance, Jirah, you are.

1045
01:00:46,960 --> 01:00:48,960
Speaker 1: Enough, and I looked over and Naomi was yawning.

1046
01:00:50,760 --> 01:00:54,240
Speaker 3: I thought, this isn't very good, is it? And then

1047
01:00:54,360 --> 01:00:56,479
Speaker 3: Chris said, no, it's good. I said, it doesn't feel

1048
01:00:56,480 --> 01:00:59,520
Speaker 3: like a chorus. He said, but what if we took

1049
01:01:00,480 --> 01:01:03,600
Speaker 3: I will be content in every circumstance? And instead of

1050
01:01:03,640 --> 01:01:06,280
Speaker 3: starting the chorus with that line, what if we moved

1051
01:01:06,320 --> 01:01:16,880
Speaker 3: it to the middle. I said, what you're talking about

1052
01:01:16,920 --> 01:01:24,280
Speaker 3: singing for me? And he said, you are enough? Put

1053
01:01:24,280 --> 01:01:25,960
Speaker 3: that first right, Gyrah, you are enough.

1054
01:01:26,000 --> 01:01:33,439
Speaker 7: To say it again, Yah, you are enough, And then

1055
01:01:34,080 --> 01:01:39,440
Speaker 7: I will be content in every circumstance.

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01:01:39,960 --> 01:01:46,200
Speaker 1: And it make a sandwich. J you are enough. Sound

1057
01:01:46,240 --> 01:01:52,520
Speaker 1: pretty good? Done that when you move it to the middle.

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01:01:54,720 --> 01:01:56,640
Speaker 3: When you move it to the middle, you'll always see

1059
01:01:56,720 --> 01:01:59,720
Speaker 3: Jehovah Jirah. When you move it to the middle, there

1060
01:01:59,760 --> 01:02:03,360
Speaker 3: will always be provisioned. When you focus on what God

1061
01:02:03,360 --> 01:02:05,439
Speaker 3: has given you, when you focus on what He's made

1062
01:02:05,480 --> 01:02:08,120
Speaker 3: you to do, when you stop comparing and fix your

1063
01:02:08,120 --> 01:02:10,640
Speaker 3: eyes on Jesus, the author and finisher of your.

1064
01:02:10,480 --> 01:02:15,200
Speaker 1: Faith, it will always be enough. Say it again, Jyrah,

1065
01:02:18,280 --> 01:02:26,040
Speaker 1: you are rener. Say that again, j you are reader.

1066
01:02:27,520 --> 01:02:28,960
Speaker 1: Now move that line to the middle.

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01:02:29,000 --> 01:02:34,640
Speaker 7: Say I will be content in tel every circumstance.

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01:02:41,200 --> 01:02:42,320
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1070
01:02:45,160 --> 01:02:48,640
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01:02:49,080 --> 01:02:51,560
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01:02:52,160 --> 01:02:55,520
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1073
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