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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 3: with it a little bit today. Turning your Bible to

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Speaker 3: Joshua chapter fourteen. You may remain standing as I read

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Speaker 1: Joshua chapter fourteen Versus six through thirteen. And by now

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Speaker 1: the world. Thank you for joining me. I listened to

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Speaker 1: this scripture and then I'll fill in the background after

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Speaker 3: Now, the people of Judah approached Joshua at Gilgal and

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Speaker 3: Caleb son of Jeffina. This is one of those times

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Speaker 3: where you're glad that your dad didn't name you Junior

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Speaker 1: And what he would have Beene. So Caleb is a

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Speaker 1: much better name. Everybody say Caleb. Caleb is the character

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Speaker 3: Caleb to kinneside and said to him, you know what

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Speaker 3: the Lord said to Moses, the man of God at

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Speaker 3: years old when Moses, the servant of the Lord, sent

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Speaker 3: me from Kate ash Barnea to explore the land. And

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Speaker 3: I brought him back a report according to my convictions,

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Speaker 3: not according to a committee, not a report according to

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Speaker 3: the comments section, but a report according to my convictions.

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Speaker 1: That's what he did.

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Speaker 3: I brought him a report according to my convictions. But

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Speaker 3: my fellow Israelites who went up with me made the

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Speaker 3: hearts of the people melt in fear. I, however, followed

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Speaker 3: So on that day Moses swore to me, the land

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Speaker 3: on which your feet have walked will be your inheritance

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Speaker 1: As I give you my message today, then Joshua blessed Caleb.

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Speaker 1: Say, because it comes from you. Speak. Lord. Your servants

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Speaker 3: Amen, hit your neighbor on your way down and say

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Speaker 3: When I first opened this passage of scripture, I thought

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Speaker 3: church has a diversity of ages. I'm not just speaking

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Speaker 3: also inexperienced in life and are just getting started. But

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Speaker 3: the Lord showed me something very powerful. If you give

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Speaker 3: tie it into what God has been speaking in.

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Speaker 1: Our church the past few weeks.

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Speaker 3: That this message isn't really about Caleb's age. It's a

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Speaker 3: message about agency.

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Speaker 3: Agency may be an unfamiliar word in church, but if

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Speaker 1: Eventually talk to you about agency.

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Speaker 3: they taught me about sovereignty. The sovereignty of God means

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Speaker 3: Agency means that I am not merely a reflection of

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Speaker 3: opposite of a victim. Mentality is to say I have agency.

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Speaker 3: Everybody say agency. And what's amazing to me about Caleb's

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Speaker 1: Now, I'm not just trying to use a therapy word

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Speaker 3: Caleb stands as an example in the scriptures as a

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Speaker 3: message that I preached was called you can change the End.

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Speaker 3: but I think some of us maybe we're a little

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Speaker 3: resistant to that idea at first. You can change the end,

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Speaker 3: think about situations where you were not able to affect

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Speaker 3: but you better believe that we were all praying God,

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Speaker 3: heal him, God change him.

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Speaker 3: And I'm going to explain that in just a moment,

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Speaker 3: can always choose your response.

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Speaker 1: That's what I'm saying.

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Speaker 3: So when I said agency, what I mean is you

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Speaker 3: So last week I gave you an illustration. I want

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Speaker 3: They begin to cry out to God because they're like,

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Speaker 3: Where the enemy says you'll always be an addict, where

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Speaker 3: Moses stretched his hand and he stretched out his stick,

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Speaker 3: hinges on the word. Then then Moses stretched his hand.

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Speaker 3: I mean there are there are fights that you can

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Speaker 1: You get right up to.

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Speaker 1: What what stops you? A lot of times? Watch this.

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Speaker 1: Here's the good part of the story. Are you ready.

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Speaker 1: I didn't think this all the way through.

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Speaker 3: And she looked at me and said something I'll never forget.

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Speaker 1: I stand by it. I'm getting back in.

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Speaker 3: That's what Caleb said about those giants.

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Speaker 1: I feel like preaching.

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Speaker 3: Give me a full ban b three shot, give me

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Speaker 3: drive them out, just as he said. Notice who he's

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Speaker 3: talking about. He is talking about the giants, the fortified giants,

446
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Speaker 3: the giants that were too big for the previous generation.

447
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Speaker 3: But he understands in this moment that the promise that

448
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Speaker 3: God has made him is bigger than the inhabitants of

449
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Speaker 3: the land that oppose him. And I just came to

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Speaker 3: remind you what Romans eight thirty one says.

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Speaker 1: If God is for us, if.

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Speaker 3: God is on our side, if God has purposed it,

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Speaker 3: if God gave you a word, if God gave you

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Speaker 3: an assignment, if God gave you something to do in

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Speaker 3: the earth, if.

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Speaker 1: God promised, this is bigger than them. Say it. This

457
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Speaker 1: is bigger than them. This is bigger than them. That's

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Speaker 1: what Holly realized. Wait, we're the adults here, We're the

459
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Speaker 1: grown ups here. They're the kids here.

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Speaker 3: Here's what Caleb realizes, in a very very similar sense.

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Speaker 1: He realizes, if it's either me possessing what.

462
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Speaker 3: God has promised, or the people that are there saying,

463
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Speaker 3: God will help me drive them out. But I thought

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Speaker 3: about that moment in the car, and I.

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Speaker 1: Realized was the real issue. Who was in the car

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Speaker 1: or was the real issue. What was in me?

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Speaker 3: Is it that they needed to get out.

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Speaker 1: Or is there something that needed to get out of me.

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Speaker 3: That would keep my full forty three year old self

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Speaker 3: from getting out of a moving vehicle. The car wasn't

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Speaker 3: even at a complete stop. I forgot to tell you

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Speaker 3: that part. What was in me that made me? Everybody say,

473
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Speaker 3: made me? I'm talking about belief. Now, they made me.

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Speaker 3: Notice what Caleb said when he's describing it back to

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Speaker 3: Joshua before he possesses the land. He said, in verse eight, please,

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Speaker 3: verse eight, please, verse eight please, he said, the Israelites

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Speaker 3: who went up with me made the hearts of the

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Speaker 3: people melt in fear. Now, this is the most practical

479
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Speaker 3: thing I want to tell you about this message today.

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Speaker 3: Be very careful of made.

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Speaker 1: Me language, made me language. So I say, this is

482
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Speaker 1: bigger than them. He said, again, this is bigger than them.

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Speaker 3: I know that my kid's behavior was not a big

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Speaker 3: enough reason for me to get out of a moving vehicle.

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Speaker 3: So whatever I'm dealing with that made me get out

486
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Speaker 3: the car is not a ten year old.

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Speaker 1: What made me behave that way? Their behavior? No, no, no, no, no,

488
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Speaker 1: be careful of made me language?

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Speaker 3: Now, Caleb, here, on one hand, sounds cocky and self righteous.

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Speaker 3: But on the other hand, I just see a man

491
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Speaker 3: who's choosing what chapter he wants to live in. Did

492
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Speaker 3: you know you can choose what chapter you live in?

493
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Speaker 3: You can? And I know this flies in the face

494
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Speaker 3: of everything that we teach as faith, because when we

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Speaker 3: teach faith, we teach that the results are in God's hand,

496
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Speaker 3: and they are He's sovereign, But the response is in

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Speaker 3: my hand. So Caleb shows it. Can I break it down?

498
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Speaker 3: Can I break it down? Why am I asking you

499
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Speaker 3: for permission? Why don't I just do it? But my

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Speaker 3: fellow Israelites who went up with me made the hearts

501
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Speaker 3: of the people.

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Speaker 1: That's them, made the hearts of.

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Speaker 3: The people melt in fear. I, however, that's me, followed

504
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Speaker 3: the Lord, my God wholeheartedly. And the reason that Caleb

505
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Speaker 3: was able to receive what God had for him is

506
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Speaker 3: because he realized this is bigger than them.

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Speaker 1: He realized that nobody can make me. God made me.

508
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Speaker 3: And when God made me, he gave me the power

509
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Speaker 3: to respond. How many of you have said something like

510
00:29:07,360 --> 00:29:12,280
Speaker 3: this recently? They made me late. How many of you

511
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Speaker 3: got behind a slow driver at some point this week,

512
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Speaker 3: They're gonna make me late, right, Okay, that is one

513
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Speaker 3: way to see it.

514
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Speaker 1: They're gonna make you late.

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Speaker 3: Another way to see it is that you did not

516
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Speaker 3: build sufficient margin into your schedule to account for the

517
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Speaker 3: fact that there is always a slow driver on some

518
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Speaker 3: road somewhere on the way to work. So before you

519
00:29:29,400 --> 00:29:33,960
Speaker 3: say they made you, realize that made me is dangerous language.

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Speaker 1: They made me late?

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Speaker 3: Did they make you hits News seven times? Did they

522
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Speaker 3: make you do that too? Did they take your finger

523
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Speaker 3: and go ah ah ah? No, I don't think so.

524
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Speaker 3: And I know it's silly, but I'm trying to give

525
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Speaker 3: you a picture. When you are using made me language,

526
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Speaker 3: it is the opposite of agency.

527
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Speaker 1: It is the opposite of being.

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Speaker 3: Able to move according to God's purpose. Here's another one,

529
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Speaker 3: like me with the kids in the car. They made

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Speaker 3: me so mad that I got out the car. They

531
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Speaker 3: didn't make you so mad, you got you are so

532
00:30:07,760 --> 00:30:14,720
Speaker 3: crazy and watch this. You were so burned out that

533
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Speaker 3: their behavior triggered.

534
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Speaker 1: Your exhausted emotional response.

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Speaker 3: But just because they triggered it doesn't mean you had

536
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Speaker 3: to choose it. Okay, I'm going to preach till I

537
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Speaker 3: lose every single amen, and then I'll know that this

538
00:30:30,280 --> 00:30:34,720
Speaker 3: message is heading home because when you say they made me,

539
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Speaker 3: they made me hate them, they didn't make you hate them.

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Speaker 1: Here's what I learned.

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Speaker 3: There will always be events in our life that we

542
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Speaker 3: can't control. But within every event that we can't control

543
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Speaker 3: is a decision that we can Within every event that

544
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Speaker 3: I can't control is a decision that I can. Could

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Speaker 3: not heal my dad, she could not pray him to

546
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Speaker 3: better health, but she forgave him back into the home,

547
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Speaker 3: so that even though the result isn't what we wanted,

548
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Speaker 3: the response was one that.

549
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Speaker 1: We can be thankful for.

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Speaker 3: That's what I'm trying to say. Somebody say, this is

551
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Speaker 3: bigger than them. Everybody in here has them right now.

552
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Speaker 3: Just like Caleb, he said, I will drive them out.

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Speaker 1: That represents the enemies. But before he could even deal

554
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Speaker 1: with them, he had to believe, believe that's the word

555
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Speaker 1: of the Lord. To believe that what.

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Speaker 3: God has spoken over my life is greater than what

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Speaker 3: any person can prevent. I wrote it down this way

558
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Speaker 3: in my office yesterday. No person can prevent what God

559
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Speaker 3: has truly promised. No person can prevent what God has

560
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Speaker 3: truly promised. People can definitely mess with your mind. People

561
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Speaker 3: can definitely push your buttons, but they cannot prevent promise.

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Speaker 3: If people could prevent a promise, God would not have

563
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Speaker 3: sent ten plagues to tell Pharaoh when I say, let

564
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Speaker 3: my people go, when I stretch forth my mighty hand

565
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Speaker 3: and I came to preach to somebody today, it's bigger

566
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Speaker 3: than them. The God that you serve is bigger than them.

567
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Speaker 3: You don't have to get in this blame game. More

568
00:32:20,640 --> 00:32:24,240
Speaker 3: people have been blocked from blessings by blame than any

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Speaker 3: other contributing factor I can name. In fact, at one

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Speaker 3: point in my life I was praying. I was saying, God,

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Speaker 3: I need a breakthrough in this area. I need a

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Speaker 3: breakthrough in this area. I need a breakthrough. But while

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Speaker 3: I was praying for breakthrough, I was also blaming somebody

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Speaker 3: and the Lord's folks. So clearly to me, you cannot

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Speaker 3: claim breakthrough if you cling to blame. Not at the

576
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Speaker 3: same time, because think about a church.

577
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Speaker 1: Think about what Caleb could have said.

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Speaker 3: Think about what Caleb would have said if he had

579
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Speaker 3: not believed that God's purpose prevails, if he had not

580
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Speaker 3: believed that God could still do it, if he had

581
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Speaker 3: not believed that no weapon formed against me can prosper

582
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Speaker 3: that if he had not believed that God brought me

583
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Speaker 3: to this point not to leave me. Look what he said, Ah, I, however,

584
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Speaker 3: followed the Lord, my God wholeheartedly. Now you can call

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Speaker 3: it bragging if you want to. But when I heard

586
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Speaker 3: Caleb say that, I saw something different. He said verse eight,

587
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Speaker 3: my fellow Israelites, they made the hearts of the people

588
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Speaker 3: meld in fear. I, however, followed my God.

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Speaker 1: That's agency. Did you see it? Okay? Tried another way

590
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Speaker 1: he's saying.

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Speaker 3: In a sense, he's saying, what I have been through

592
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Speaker 3: can't stop God from blessing me, and what others didn't

593
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Speaker 3: do can't.

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Speaker 1: Stop God from blessing me.

595
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Speaker 3: Because I'm gonna tell you two things you can't control. Ready,

596
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Speaker 3: write them down. The future and others. Neither one of

597
00:34:01,880 --> 00:34:07,480
Speaker 3: those are in your control, but your decision to live

598
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Speaker 3: by conviction in this season of your life.

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Speaker 1: Who am I talking to?

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Speaker 3: Your decision to say it is not going to get

601
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Speaker 3: in me. Because if Caleb had lived through that wilderness experience,

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Speaker 3: thirty eight years in the wilderness, seven years of.

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Speaker 1: Conquest for the promised land.

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Speaker 3: He said, I was forty years Old verse seven, when Moses,

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Speaker 3: the servant of the Lord, sent me to explore the land,

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Speaker 3: and I brought him back a report according to my convictions.

607
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Speaker 1: But it died by committee.

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Speaker 3: All of those fies died of a plague, all of

609
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Speaker 3: those people over twenty died in the wilderness, but not Caleb.

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Speaker 3: Look what he said, my fellow Israelites made the hearts

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Speaker 3: of the people melt in fear. I, however, followed the Lord,

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Speaker 3: my God, wholeheartedly.

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Speaker 1: That's powerful and the verse ten.

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Speaker 3: Now, then, just as the Lord promised, he has kept

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Speaker 3: me alive for forty five years thirty eight in the wilderness.

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Speaker 3: Eight of taking the promised land, or seven of taking

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Speaker 3: the promised land, and still a mountain on his mind.

618
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Speaker 1: I thought about calling the message. I got my mind

619
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Speaker 1: on my mountain and my mountain on my mind, But

620
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Speaker 1: I didn't want to confuse the authorship. But really that

621
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Speaker 1: would preach, wasn't that? Because all the time he was

622
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Speaker 1: moving through the wilderness, his mind was on his mountain.

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Speaker 3: How do you keep your mountain on your mind when

624
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Speaker 3: you are surrounded by wilderness conditions? How do you keep

625
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Speaker 3: a better tomorrow on your mind when all.

626
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Speaker 1: You can feel is the pressure of today.

627
00:35:55,640 --> 00:35:57,960
Speaker 3: I thought what Caleb said was cocky, but then I

628
00:35:58,040 --> 00:36:00,640
Speaker 3: realized what he could have said. Now, let's say that

629
00:36:00,719 --> 00:36:03,839
Speaker 3: he was like you and me sometimes and he said, now,

630
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Speaker 3: then the Lord verse ten has made me wait for

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Speaker 3: forty five years. He could have said that, but he

632
00:36:12,760 --> 00:36:17,680
Speaker 3: didn't see it that way. What a perspective when a

633
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Speaker 3: person just decides that I trust that God is sovereign

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Speaker 3: over my life. And that includes the timing. That includes

635
00:36:28,480 --> 00:36:31,680
Speaker 3: what he allows others to do. That includes what he

636
00:36:31,719 --> 00:36:34,560
Speaker 3: allows others not to do. That includes who shows up

637
00:36:34,560 --> 00:36:38,000
Speaker 3: in my life. That includes who leaves my life. That

638
00:36:38,040 --> 00:36:40,480
Speaker 3: includes the skills I have, the skills I don't have.

639
00:36:40,840 --> 00:36:45,640
Speaker 3: Stop being so insecure about it. God will keep you alive.

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Speaker 3: God will bring you into your promise. God will bring

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Speaker 3: you into your destiny. God will open the door no

642
00:36:52,040 --> 00:36:54,120
Speaker 3: man can shut, and shut doors.

643
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Speaker 1: That nobody can open.

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Speaker 3: Because Caleb said God kept me alone live. Now, he

645
00:37:01,080 --> 00:37:03,880
Speaker 3: could have complained. He could have been bitter about it.

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Speaker 3: That's the second thing I want to talk to you about.

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00:37:05,840 --> 00:37:08,640
Speaker 3: I want to talk to you about bitterness. Imagine if

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Speaker 3: Caleb had gone through the wilderness for thirty eight years,

649
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Speaker 3: replaying all of the bad decisions that others made to

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Speaker 3: put him in this place. Imagine if Caleb had gone

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Speaker 3: through the wilderness just getting more and more bitter, he

652
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Speaker 3: would have never been able to say what he said in.

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Speaker 1: Verse eleven, I'm still strong and see.

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Speaker 3: The reason he was still strong enough for what God

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Speaker 3: had next for him was because of what he said

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Speaker 3: to himself when he was in the wilderness, and because

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Speaker 3: he did not get bitter in the wilderness. I'm preaching

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Speaker 3: to somebody today, you're getting bitter in the wilderness. You

659
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Speaker 3: are allowing the isolation of this season to dominate your mind.

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Speaker 3: I don't know who you are, but I see you

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Speaker 3: just walking around the wilderness, and you keep blaming people,

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Speaker 3: and you keep getting bitter about people, and every day

663
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Speaker 3: that goes by, you're getting more and more mad about them.

664
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Speaker 3: I wouldn't be in this dead if it wasn't for them.

665
00:38:05,880 --> 00:38:08,319
Speaker 3: I wouldn't be in this dungeon if it wasn't for them.

666
00:38:08,520 --> 00:38:11,080
Speaker 3: I wouldn't even be in this situation if it wasn't

667
00:38:11,120 --> 00:38:14,160
Speaker 3: for them. But I came with a reminder that this

668
00:38:14,960 --> 00:38:17,000
Speaker 3: is bigger than them.

669
00:38:17,320 --> 00:38:19,040
Speaker 1: I said, this is.

670
00:38:19,080 --> 00:38:24,000
Speaker 3: Bigger than them, three people giving praise. This is bigger

671
00:38:24,800 --> 00:38:29,200
Speaker 3: than them, thirty people give in praise. This is bigger

672
00:38:30,160 --> 00:38:33,920
Speaker 3: than them. And for every them that you could blame,

673
00:38:34,520 --> 00:38:36,359
Speaker 3: I know a hamn you could praise if.

674
00:38:36,280 --> 00:38:37,600
Speaker 1: You decided to today.

675
00:38:38,520 --> 00:38:41,320
Speaker 3: Because the other way to say it is, he kept

676
00:38:41,360 --> 00:38:45,839
Speaker 3: me alive forty five years. He kept me and let

677
00:38:45,960 --> 00:38:52,520
Speaker 3: me through a very thirsty place. He kept me hot

678
00:38:52,600 --> 00:38:54,360
Speaker 3: five your neighbors say, he kept me.

679
00:38:55,400 --> 00:38:56,120
Speaker 1: He kept me.

680
00:38:56,520 --> 00:38:59,120
Speaker 3: I went through some barren places, but he kept me.

681
00:38:59,600 --> 00:39:01,640
Speaker 3: There was no water, but he made it come out

682
00:39:01,640 --> 00:39:04,759
Speaker 3: of a rock. He kept me. There was no way,

683
00:39:04,800 --> 00:39:05,720
Speaker 3: but he made away.

684
00:39:06,080 --> 00:39:06,759
Speaker 1: He kept me.

685
00:39:07,120 --> 00:39:10,200
Speaker 3: I was walking through a wilderness by my shoes. Never

686
00:39:10,280 --> 00:39:12,640
Speaker 3: wore out, my clothes, never wore out.

687
00:39:13,040 --> 00:39:13,840
Speaker 1: He kipt me.

688
00:39:14,400 --> 00:39:20,080
Speaker 3: He kept me, He kept me, He kept me. And

689
00:39:20,239 --> 00:39:23,560
Speaker 3: you keep focusing on who left you, But how about

690
00:39:23,600 --> 00:39:25,480
Speaker 3: the God who kept.

691
00:39:25,200 --> 00:39:27,560
Speaker 1: You through the night, who kept.

692
00:39:27,280 --> 00:39:34,439
Speaker 3: You through the tile, who kept you through the adversity.

693
00:39:36,200 --> 00:39:37,320
Speaker 1: I'm preaching too hard.

694
00:39:38,840 --> 00:39:41,560
Speaker 3: I'm preaching to try to get you to see that

695
00:39:41,719 --> 00:39:45,960
Speaker 3: if God is for you, who can be against you?

696
00:39:46,400 --> 00:39:50,879
Speaker 3: This is bigger than them.

697
00:39:50,920 --> 00:39:56,560
Speaker 5: But but, but the biggest battle that Caleb won was

698
00:39:56,680 --> 00:40:01,280
Speaker 5: not against the enemies that inhabited Canaan. It was against

699
00:40:01,320 --> 00:40:08,120
Speaker 5: the bitterness that could have inhabited him. Goodbye, everybody.

700
00:40:09,280 --> 00:40:10,920
Speaker 3: Come back next week. I'll tell you what to do

701
00:40:10,960 --> 00:40:12,080
Speaker 3: about this bitterness.

702
00:40:12,560 --> 00:40:15,719
Speaker 1: It's the bitterness that blocks your blessing. It's the bitterness

703
00:40:15,719 --> 00:40:17,120
Speaker 1: that blocks your creativity.

704
00:40:17,440 --> 00:40:20,360
Speaker 3: Is feeling unappreciated, that wasn't fair.

705
00:40:20,560 --> 00:40:22,600
Speaker 1: It might not be fair, But God.

706
00:40:22,360 --> 00:40:24,400
Speaker 3: Has favor that is bigger than unfair.

707
00:40:24,560 --> 00:40:25,520
Speaker 1: So the favor of.

708
00:40:25,440 --> 00:40:28,720
Speaker 3: God will cancel out what was unfair. This is bigger

709
00:40:28,760 --> 00:40:30,560
Speaker 3: than them. This is bigger than what.

710
00:40:30,560 --> 00:40:31,239
Speaker 1: They could give you.

711
00:40:31,480 --> 00:40:33,680
Speaker 3: This is bigger than what you could predict. This is

712
00:40:33,680 --> 00:40:35,799
Speaker 3: bigger than how you could nap out your life. But

713
00:40:35,920 --> 00:40:40,120
Speaker 3: if the bitterness had gotten into Caleb, the blessing would

714
00:40:40,160 --> 00:40:45,839
Speaker 3: have never happened. So you have to choose now, bitterness

715
00:40:46,680 --> 00:40:52,680
Speaker 3: or blessing. Because the Bible says in verse thirteen, then

716
00:40:53,760 --> 00:40:59,640
Speaker 3: Joshua blessed Caleb, and he gave him the mountain, and

717
00:40:59,719 --> 00:41:02,200
Speaker 3: he gave him the inheritance. And it would not be

718
00:41:02,320 --> 00:41:07,040
Speaker 3: investment free, but it was his. But we would never

719
00:41:07,560 --> 00:41:08,960
Speaker 3: get to them.

720
00:41:10,239 --> 00:41:10,920
Speaker 1: But the verse of.

721
00:41:13,960 --> 00:41:20,120
Speaker 3: If he had to become bitter because of them, there

722
00:41:20,120 --> 00:41:26,440
Speaker 3: are seasons in your life where your insecurity has caused

723
00:41:26,440 --> 00:41:36,759
Speaker 3: you to invent enemies that did not exist. That was

724
00:41:36,840 --> 00:41:39,520
Speaker 3: the whole reason Moses never got to go into the

725
00:41:39,560 --> 00:41:45,759
Speaker 3: Promised Land, because he was more focused on them than him.

726
00:41:45,920 --> 00:41:46,759
Speaker 1: And that is the.

727
00:41:46,680 --> 00:41:50,840
Speaker 3: Whole reason you keep giving your purity way to somebody,

728
00:41:50,920 --> 00:41:54,680
Speaker 3: some pervert that's beneath you, because your focus is on.

729
00:41:54,920 --> 00:42:01,200
Speaker 1: Them, not him. Who cares what they say? They didn't

730
00:42:01,480 --> 00:42:05,600
Speaker 1: make me. They don't have the final say.

731
00:42:05,920 --> 00:42:09,520
Speaker 3: And I will move it away from a temptation aspect

732
00:42:09,760 --> 00:42:13,200
Speaker 3: and ask you the question, why do you keep inventing

733
00:42:14,000 --> 00:42:21,120
Speaker 3: enemies because you will not deal with the insecurity.

734
00:42:23,040 --> 00:42:25,239
Speaker 1: The whole reason Moses could not.

735
00:42:25,239 --> 00:42:28,480
Speaker 3: Go into the Promised Land was because of his insecurity.

736
00:42:28,480 --> 00:42:29,759
Speaker 3: Do you remember the first thing he said to God?

737
00:42:29,880 --> 00:42:30,359
Speaker 3: Who am I?

738
00:42:31,920 --> 00:42:32,680
Speaker 1: That I should go?

739
00:42:32,920 --> 00:42:35,120
Speaker 3: It doesn't matter who you are, It matters who he.

740
00:42:35,120 --> 00:42:38,040
Speaker 1: Is and what He's given you to do. This is

741
00:42:38,080 --> 00:42:38,759
Speaker 1: bigger than him.

742
00:42:38,840 --> 00:42:41,200
Speaker 3: Everybody who's raising a child and you don't feel like

743
00:42:41,280 --> 00:42:44,400
Speaker 3: you know what you're doing, wave at me. Okay, is

744
00:42:44,520 --> 00:42:46,480
Speaker 3: God's kid before it's your kid?

745
00:42:48,560 --> 00:42:51,800
Speaker 1: So this is bigger than them. This is bigger than them.

746
00:42:51,719 --> 00:42:53,879
Speaker 3: This is bigger than you, This is bigger than both

747
00:42:53,880 --> 00:42:56,920
Speaker 3: of the y'all put together. God wants you to trust him.

748
00:42:58,200 --> 00:43:00,160
Speaker 3: How many of you are moving into a season of

749
00:43:00,239 --> 00:43:04,000
Speaker 3: your life where you have never felt more uncertain about

750
00:43:04,000 --> 00:43:10,040
Speaker 3: your own competence. Do not miss getting your grapes because

751
00:43:10,080 --> 00:43:14,360
Speaker 3: you see yourself as a grasshopper. I take this reference

752
00:43:14,440 --> 00:43:18,040
Speaker 3: directly from Numbers, chapter thirteen. When the people of God

753
00:43:18,080 --> 00:43:20,920
Speaker 3: could have gone into the land, they were carrying grapes

754
00:43:20,920 --> 00:43:22,719
Speaker 3: on their shoulder, big grapes.

755
00:43:22,960 --> 00:43:24,000
Speaker 1: Cluster of grapes.

756
00:43:24,200 --> 00:43:26,720
Speaker 3: Took two of them to carry one poll. I believe

757
00:43:26,719 --> 00:43:29,400
Speaker 3: it was Joshua and Caleb. I believe that's why Caleb

758
00:43:29,480 --> 00:43:32,080
Speaker 3: came back to his great carrying partner when he said,

759
00:43:32,080 --> 00:43:35,640
Speaker 3: it's time. It's time I survived the wilderness, and it's

760
00:43:35,680 --> 00:43:38,560
Speaker 3: time I didn't die in the desert, and it's time.

761
00:43:38,719 --> 00:43:41,920
Speaker 3: I'm still ready. I'm still strong, I didn't get bitter.

762
00:43:42,120 --> 00:43:44,680
Speaker 3: And Caleb comes to Joshua and says, it's time for

763
00:43:44,719 --> 00:43:46,560
Speaker 3: me to be blessed. But you know, they could have

764
00:43:46,640 --> 00:43:51,000
Speaker 3: had the same blessing a generation earlier if they had

765
00:43:51,080 --> 00:43:56,600
Speaker 3: seen themselves correctly, if they had seen themselves as blessed,

766
00:43:57,960 --> 00:44:00,400
Speaker 3: they would have realized that there is no better that

767
00:44:00,520 --> 00:44:05,480
Speaker 3: is too big for God. But instead they said in

768
00:44:05,560 --> 00:44:10,799
Speaker 3: verse thirty one, we saw the Nephilom there, and we

769
00:44:10,840 --> 00:44:15,759
Speaker 3: can't attack those people. We can't attack them. They are

770
00:44:15,800 --> 00:44:18,200
Speaker 3: stronger than we are. Go back one verse before, please, Oh,

771
00:44:18,200 --> 00:44:22,520
Speaker 3: you're gonna love this. Caleb silenced the people. Then Caleb

772
00:44:22,680 --> 00:44:28,560
Speaker 3: silenced the people. Then forty five years earlier, he silenced

773
00:44:28,560 --> 00:44:30,200
Speaker 3: the people, and he said, we should go up and

774
00:44:30,200 --> 00:44:31,040
Speaker 3: take possession of the land.

775
00:44:31,080 --> 00:44:31,920
Speaker 1: We can certainly do it.

776
00:44:31,960 --> 00:44:35,120
Speaker 3: But the people said, we can't attack those people.

777
00:44:35,120 --> 00:44:36,120
Speaker 1: They're stronger than we are.

778
00:44:37,080 --> 00:44:39,880
Speaker 3: Next verse, and they spread among the Israel it's a

779
00:44:39,880 --> 00:44:41,880
Speaker 3: bad report about the land they had explored. They said,

780
00:44:42,000 --> 00:44:45,759
Speaker 3: the land we explored devours those living in it. All

781
00:44:45,800 --> 00:44:50,560
Speaker 3: the people we saw there, they're big, They're of great size.

782
00:44:50,800 --> 00:44:51,440
Speaker 3: Verse thirty three.

783
00:44:51,480 --> 00:44:52,319
Speaker 1: We saw the nephil there.

784
00:44:52,360 --> 00:44:54,280
Speaker 3: The sins they not come from the Nephilim. We seem

785
00:44:54,400 --> 00:44:59,400
Speaker 3: like grasshoppers in our own eyes, and we looked the

786
00:44:59,480 --> 00:45:05,439
Speaker 3: same to them. But what you fail to realize, man,

787
00:45:06,480 --> 00:45:11,040
Speaker 3: is this is bigger than them. God promised you that land.

788
00:45:11,520 --> 00:45:16,560
Speaker 3: God promised you freedom. God promised you tomorrow. God promised

789
00:45:16,600 --> 00:45:19,160
Speaker 3: you a hope in the future. God promised you to

790
00:45:19,200 --> 00:45:20,680
Speaker 3: break the generational curse.

791
00:45:21,080 --> 00:45:22,800
Speaker 1: God promised you total freedom.

792
00:45:23,200 --> 00:45:28,440
Speaker 3: God promised you righteousness, God promised you peace, God promised.

793
00:45:27,960 --> 00:45:30,120
Speaker 1: You joy in the Holy Spirit.

794
00:45:30,640 --> 00:45:33,600
Speaker 3: And I came with a reminder today that this is

795
00:45:33,680 --> 00:45:41,160
Speaker 3: bigger than them. This is bigger than them. And if

796
00:45:41,160 --> 00:45:43,560
Speaker 3: you can make it through this wilderness season of your

797
00:45:43,600 --> 00:45:48,880
Speaker 3: life and not get bitter and not be insecure about

798
00:45:48,880 --> 00:45:53,120
Speaker 3: what you don't have, God can take somebody who feels

799
00:45:53,120 --> 00:45:55,080
Speaker 3: like a grasshopper and feed him something that looks like

800
00:45:55,120 --> 00:45:58,680
Speaker 3: a grape. Now I'm telling you what I know about

801
00:45:59,480 --> 00:46:01,680
Speaker 3: because every time I've done something in this church that

802
00:46:01,719 --> 00:46:04,520
Speaker 3: seemed unusual, there was always somebody who said I couldn't

803
00:46:04,560 --> 00:46:08,759
Speaker 3: do it. But it wasn't up to them, because it's.

804
00:46:08,680 --> 00:46:12,600
Speaker 1: Bigger than them. This is bigger than them.

805
00:46:12,680 --> 00:46:15,359
Speaker 3: Now, I'm coming up here for a reason because there

806
00:46:15,360 --> 00:46:17,719
Speaker 3: are so many people in this church who do not

807
00:46:17,840 --> 00:46:21,000
Speaker 3: look alike. In fact, there are people in this church

808
00:46:21,200 --> 00:46:23,080
Speaker 3: who if they ever talk to one another, they get

809
00:46:23,080 --> 00:46:23,680
Speaker 3: in a fist fight.

810
00:46:23,840 --> 00:46:24,359
Speaker 1: That's all right.

811
00:46:25,360 --> 00:46:28,360
Speaker 3: There are people in this church whose backgrounds are so different.

812
00:46:28,600 --> 00:46:31,360
Speaker 3: Any educational background you want to mention is in this church.

813
00:46:31,640 --> 00:46:34,080
Speaker 3: There are doctors in this church who hear every word

814
00:46:34,120 --> 00:46:37,640
Speaker 3: that I mispronounce. People with PhDs and my grammar drives

815
00:46:37,680 --> 00:46:38,240
Speaker 3: them crazy.

816
00:46:38,280 --> 00:46:39,120
Speaker 1: But they come anyway.

817
00:46:39,560 --> 00:46:41,400
Speaker 3: There are people in this church who can't even.

818
00:46:41,320 --> 00:46:42,839
Speaker 1: Read, but they come to church and.

819
00:46:42,760 --> 00:46:45,160
Speaker 3: God speaks to them anyway, because God is bigger than

820
00:46:45,160 --> 00:46:46,160
Speaker 3: a reading disability.

821
00:46:46,360 --> 00:46:47,399
Speaker 1: Now, I'm trying to think something.

822
00:46:47,920 --> 00:46:49,880
Speaker 3: When I started this church, I said I want to

823
00:46:49,920 --> 00:46:52,680
Speaker 3: have a church that is non traditional, but we preach

824
00:46:52,760 --> 00:46:54,239
Speaker 3: the Word. And there was somebody who said, you can't

825
00:46:54,239 --> 00:46:56,279
Speaker 3: do both. You can't reach lost people and.

826
00:46:56,239 --> 00:46:56,919
Speaker 1: Preach the word.

827
00:46:57,239 --> 00:46:59,279
Speaker 3: I already preached half the Bible today and I didn't

828
00:46:59,280 --> 00:47:01,400
Speaker 3: see anybody walk out. And there are some people in

829
00:47:01,400 --> 00:47:03,080
Speaker 3: here who already know the story and some people never

830
00:47:03,160 --> 00:47:07,600
Speaker 3: heard it. But see, God is bigger than them. There

831
00:47:07,600 --> 00:47:10,319
Speaker 3: have been people through the years that criticized us for

832
00:47:10,440 --> 00:47:14,600
Speaker 3: being a church that would dare watch this, dare to

833
00:47:14,640 --> 00:47:17,880
Speaker 3: not make political statements but be more oriented around the

834
00:47:17,920 --> 00:47:20,640
Speaker 3: Cross of Christ than by a cultural position that is

835
00:47:20,680 --> 00:47:23,960
Speaker 3: already so prevalent that it's divide in this country right

836
00:47:24,040 --> 00:47:27,480
Speaker 3: down the middle. But this is bigger than them, because

837
00:47:27,480 --> 00:47:30,320
Speaker 3: God did not call me to reach one subset of people.

838
00:47:30,600 --> 00:47:33,120
Speaker 1: That's what I'm trying to say. This is bigger than them.

839
00:47:33,920 --> 00:47:36,279
Speaker 3: One pastor took me out to lunch when I was

840
00:47:36,280 --> 00:47:38,799
Speaker 3: first getting started. I said, we would really be in

841
00:47:38,840 --> 00:47:41,920
Speaker 3: My heart is to have a church that is incredibly diverse.

842
00:47:42,000 --> 00:47:43,680
Speaker 3: He said, what do you mean diverse? Do you mean

843
00:47:43,719 --> 00:47:45,360
Speaker 3: like black people and white people together?

844
00:47:45,560 --> 00:47:46,120
Speaker 1: I said yeah.

845
00:47:46,120 --> 00:47:47,600
Speaker 3: He said, you better not go to Charlotte if you

846
00:47:47,600 --> 00:47:49,920
Speaker 3: want to start a church like that, because Charlotte is

847
00:47:49,920 --> 00:47:52,600
Speaker 3: too divided for a church like that. If you wanted

848
00:47:52,600 --> 00:47:54,759
Speaker 3: a church that had black people and white people and

849
00:47:54,800 --> 00:47:57,600
Speaker 3: people from all different backgrounds, there is no way that

850
00:47:57,760 --> 00:47:59,560
Speaker 3: you can break through racism in Charlotte.

851
00:47:59,560 --> 00:48:01,279
Speaker 1: I don't care how good your heart is. I don't

852
00:48:01,280 --> 00:48:03,839
Speaker 1: care how much you pray. I've tried it before.

853
00:48:03,840 --> 00:48:06,040
Speaker 3: I'm payment a pastor for thirty years, and they were

854
00:48:06,080 --> 00:48:08,080
Speaker 3: telling me that they couldn't happen. But this is bigger

855
00:48:08,120 --> 00:48:10,160
Speaker 3: than them, because if you look around you today, you

856
00:48:10,239 --> 00:48:13,000
Speaker 3: will see very different types of people.

857
00:48:13,360 --> 00:48:14,799
Speaker 1: And I just want to remind you.

858
00:48:15,239 --> 00:48:18,120
Speaker 3: If God put something in your heart and they said

859
00:48:18,160 --> 00:48:21,960
Speaker 3: it can never happen, you goll In Caleb, You're gone

860
00:48:22,000 --> 00:48:26,240
Speaker 3: in eighty five years old. You're going in with a cain.

861
00:48:26,680 --> 00:48:30,880
Speaker 3: You're going in with a suspended driver's license, You're going

862
00:48:31,040 --> 00:48:33,239
Speaker 3: in on your second marriage.

863
00:48:33,440 --> 00:48:35,960
Speaker 1: You're gone in and do what.

864
00:48:36,160 --> 00:48:44,120
Speaker 3: God of you to do. Because this hot by fifteen

865
00:48:44,160 --> 00:48:50,480
Speaker 3: people say, this is bigger than them. I tell myself

866
00:48:50,520 --> 00:48:54,000
Speaker 3: when I preach, these cameras are putting me out all

867
00:48:54,040 --> 00:48:56,319
Speaker 3: over the world. Now I'm back where they don't have

868
00:48:56,400 --> 00:49:00,239
Speaker 3: any cameras. But I'm telling you that this service it's

869
00:49:00,280 --> 00:49:03,920
Speaker 3: going out beyond this room. Because when God speaks, it

870
00:49:03,920 --> 00:49:07,320
Speaker 3: has no limit. When God steaks, it has no border.

871
00:49:07,760 --> 00:49:12,120
Speaker 3: I don't care how they diagnosed you. God's destiny does

872
00:49:12,200 --> 00:49:19,400
Speaker 3: not consult man's diagnosis. This is bigger than them. This

873
00:49:19,560 --> 00:49:23,359
Speaker 3: is bigger than them. This is bigger than fear. This

874
00:49:23,440 --> 00:49:26,640
Speaker 3: is bigger than my past. This is bigger than shame.

875
00:49:27,280 --> 00:49:30,160
Speaker 3: This is bigger than the nay sayer. This is bigger

876
00:49:30,200 --> 00:49:35,279
Speaker 3: than the critic. It is bigger than.

877
00:49:33,760 --> 00:49:37,400
Speaker 1: The stand up.

878
00:49:37,480 --> 00:49:42,920
Speaker 4: I'm done. This is bigger than them. This is bigger

879
00:49:43,400 --> 00:49:47,440
Speaker 4: than there. This is bigger than them. I dare you

880
00:49:47,520 --> 00:49:49,120
Speaker 4: to let a person get in the way of what

881
00:49:49,239 --> 00:49:53,040
Speaker 4: God promised you. This is bigger than them.

882
00:49:53,080 --> 00:49:55,000
Speaker 1: And God's sacred God said to.

883
00:49:55,040 --> 00:49:59,960
Speaker 3: Klab because you made a decision not to be defied

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Speaker 3: by an event verse nine Joshua fourteen. This land where

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Speaker 3: you put your feet, it's bigger than you. It will

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Speaker 3: be your inheritancy.

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Speaker 1: And that of your children forever. What we can never understand. Oh,

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Speaker 1: I'm almost done, I'm almost done. I'm almost done.

889
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Speaker 3: But when you are in the middle of event, you

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Speaker 3: don't know what's on the other side of it. And

891
00:50:38,360 --> 00:50:41,799
Speaker 3: there are no blessings that don't come with battles. But

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00:50:41,880 --> 00:50:46,520
Speaker 3: I promise you, I promise you that this battle that

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00:50:46,560 --> 00:50:49,680
Speaker 3: you're fighting right now, there is a blessing on the

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00:50:49,719 --> 00:50:56,960
Speaker 3: other side of it. Oh, Jesus said, pour you out

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Speaker 3: a blessing that you won't have room enough to a seat.

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00:51:00,080 --> 00:51:05,959
Speaker 3: What did he say, press down, shaken together and running over?

897
00:51:06,760 --> 00:51:09,359
Speaker 3: Because this is going to be bigger than your capacity.

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00:51:09,719 --> 00:51:12,040
Speaker 3: So you've got to grow your faith right now. What

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Speaker 3: if God meets the need another way? This is bigger

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Speaker 3: than that.

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Speaker 1: Father, As your word has gone forth.

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00:51:21,160 --> 00:51:25,560
Speaker 3: Today, as your promise has been reinforced from the pages

903
00:51:25,600 --> 00:51:29,680
Speaker 3: of your scripture, as your spirit has borne witness with

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Speaker 3: our spirit that we are the children of God, I

905
00:51:33,760 --> 00:51:37,520
Speaker 3: believe by faith that you have been doing an uprooting

906
00:51:37,560 --> 00:51:43,120
Speaker 3: work in someone's heart. I thank you that, like Caleb,

907
00:51:45,000 --> 00:51:49,160
Speaker 3: you are capable of blessing us on the other side

908
00:51:49,160 --> 00:51:52,480
Speaker 3: of our wilderness. Father, you instructed me before I even

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00:51:52,560 --> 00:51:56,920
Speaker 3: hit this pulpit today to pray for the person whose

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00:51:56,960 --> 00:52:03,640
Speaker 3: bitterness is blocking out their blessings. You showed me clearly

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00:52:04,680 --> 00:52:06,279
Speaker 3: that if they don't get rid of that, if they

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00:52:06,320 --> 00:52:09,200
Speaker 3: don't get it out of them, they're going to keep

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00:52:09,280 --> 00:52:13,040
Speaker 3: responding the wrong way and blaming you for the result.

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Speaker 1: Father, Today we come before you, like Caleb came before Joshua.

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Speaker 1: We thank you that you've kept us alive.

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00:52:23,680 --> 00:52:26,000
Speaker 3: We thank you that our inheritance is not dependent on

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Speaker 3: our obedience, but the obedience of Jesus.

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Speaker 1: We thank you that he who gave his son for

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Speaker 1: us will also freely give us all good.

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00:52:34,680 --> 00:52:39,080
Speaker 3: Things as an inheritance. So now, as an act of faith,

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Speaker 3: we just want to take our.

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Speaker 1: Hands and open them. Open them, just like this.

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00:52:46,680 --> 00:52:49,920
Speaker 3: Everybody in the house, do it, everybody watching online by yourself,

924
00:52:49,960 --> 00:52:56,200
Speaker 3: do it. Open them, And whoever disappointed you in your life,

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00:52:56,280 --> 00:53:03,279
Speaker 3: release them so that you can receive him. Because this

926
00:53:03,400 --> 00:53:06,760
Speaker 3: is bigger than them, This.

927
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Speaker 1: Is bigger than them.

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Speaker 3: God's Book to Abraham, Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, Joseph, all of

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Speaker 3: these generations, all the way to Moses, all the way

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Speaker 3: to Joshua, all the way to Caleb, all the way

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Speaker 3: to you today. This is bigger than them, and I

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Speaker 3: think of the story that you're writing in our lives.

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Speaker 1: Lord.

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Speaker 3: But I thank you also that the pin does not

935
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Speaker 3: belong to the enemy, I said, I thank you that

936
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Speaker 3: the pin does not belong to the enemy.

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