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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: Be sure to subscribe so we can get you these

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Speaker 2: new sermons every week. I hope you're blessed today.

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Speaker 3: Essay, give me my sophy, God.

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Speaker 4: Soph Yes, God, my Father born in heaven. How will

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Speaker 4: it be your name, your kingdom, Come, Your will be done,

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Speaker 4: what our bless it is in heaven.

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Speaker 5: Give us this day are vaily bread.

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Speaker 6: And forgive us our sins, as we forgive those.

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Speaker 1: Who sin against us. And lead us not into temptation.

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Speaker 1: But deliver us. Jesus is in this place.

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Speaker 6: Deliver us from evil. For Thine is the kingdom, power.

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Speaker 1: And the glory, forever.

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Speaker 6: And ever, not for five minutes, forever and ever, and

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Speaker 6: right here.

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Speaker 1: I want the whole church say Amen. A men means

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Speaker 1: so be it.

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Speaker 6: A man means I'm coming into agreement with God's plan

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Speaker 6: for my life. Amen means that no word from God

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Speaker 6: returns boy. Amen means that my Father has the final Say.

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Speaker 6: Amen means that I read to the back of the

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Speaker 6: book and I know how this ends.

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Speaker 1: Heaven wins. Amen means I'm born again. Amen means no

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Speaker 1: weapon formed against me will prosper.

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Speaker 6: Amen means I can do all things through Christ, who

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Speaker 6: strengthens me. You didn't know Amen meant all that digit

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Speaker 6: Say it again.

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Speaker 1: Amen.

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Speaker 6: If he says I'm blessed, I'm blessed.

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Speaker 1: Say amen. If he says my.

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Speaker 6: Family will be saved, my family will be saved.

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Speaker 1: Say amen.

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Speaker 6: If he said I'm more than a conqueror.

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Speaker 1: I'm more than a conqueror. Say amen.

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Speaker 6: Come on, everybody in the comments right now, even watching

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Speaker 6: this on social media, putting Amen in the comments. Let

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Speaker 6: the devil know. I agree with God. I belong to Jesus.

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Speaker 6: He's the one who never lets go on every mountain.

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Speaker 6: I belonged to him, in every valley. I belonged to him.

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Speaker 6: The Lord is my shepherd. I shall not want. I'm guided.

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Speaker 6: I got a good shepherd. I'm guarded. He's the gate,

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Speaker 6: he's the light of the world. He is my risen

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Speaker 6: resurrected king. And I'm getting not out of this situation.

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Speaker 6: And I came to praise the Lord. I did not

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Speaker 6: come to feel sorry for myself.

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Speaker 1: I came to praise the Lord.

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Speaker 6: I did not come to impress my neighbors with proper

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Speaker 6: church behavior.

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Speaker 1: I came to raise the Lord. If you knew what

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Speaker 1: he brought me through, you wouldn't call me crazy. You

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Speaker 1: would lift your hands and praise him too. Say, man,

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Speaker 1: what are we gonna know? How we go get out

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Speaker 1: of this.

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Speaker 3: Will be out whether I holley, but whether I that's what.

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Speaker 1: Burna mass talk messid sorry to God. Bless the name

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Speaker 1: of the Lord, for he is worthy to be praised.

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Speaker 6: Every season of my life, he's been a friend to me,

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Speaker 6: and he's worthy to be praised. I don't know what

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Speaker 6: I would do without God. I don't know where i'd

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Speaker 6: be without Jesus.

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Speaker 1: I have a kind of idea and it doesn't look good.

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Speaker 6: But look at your neighbor and say, you already look

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Speaker 6: better this year than you did last year.

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Speaker 1: Come on, tell him one more thing.

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Speaker 6: Look at him and say look at him and say

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Speaker 6: repeat after me.

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Speaker 1: Say I can.

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Speaker 6: Tell you've kept your resolutions. Tell them your skin is glowing,

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Speaker 6: your physique is lean. Happy New Year, Elevation Church. For

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Speaker 6: the first time that I've been able to say that

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Speaker 6: to you.

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Speaker 1: Our Epham around the world.

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Speaker 6: Let's celebrate our brand new campus, our twentieth location, Elevation Somerville.

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Speaker 6: Happy New Year, Happy new Campus. So many things to

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Speaker 6: tell you. We've got so much to catch up on.

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Speaker 6: God has been so good. The last time that I

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Speaker 6: stood in the pulpit, we were taking our year end offering,

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Speaker 6: and you stepped up big this year, and I told

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Speaker 6: announce to you that you gave to the Lord and

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Speaker 6: the Gospel of Jesus Christ for the building of his

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Speaker 6: kingdom and helping the poor and reaching the loss and

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Speaker 6: serving the world. Eleven million, four hundred and sixty three

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Speaker 6: thousand dollars gives.

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Speaker 1: All a cell of praise.

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Speaker 6: All right, good word, we visit together. So every year,

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Speaker 6: every year I come before you and just say, let's

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Speaker 6: do another one. Y'all want to do another one? Another

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Speaker 6: year of preaching God's word. Another year of releasing worship

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Speaker 6: into the earth that can heal broken hearts.

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Speaker 1: Another year of standing beside children.

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Speaker 6: Who don't have fathers and mentoring them. Another year of

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Speaker 6: Another year of reaching into prisons and recovery centers and

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Speaker 6: telling people that their life matters and don't throw it away,

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Speaker 6: and God is not done with you yet. Another year

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Speaker 6: to invite people who have been told for years that

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Speaker 6: God will never accept you, that it's not too late

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Speaker 6: for him to change your life.

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Speaker 1: If you're not.

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Speaker 6: Dead, God's not done, and God is not done with

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Speaker 6: this church yet. I'm getting ready for the next twenty years.

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Speaker 6: God is with me with this gray hair. God is

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Speaker 6: with me.

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Speaker 1: And I'm just going to take a moment right now.

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Speaker 6: If you stretch your hands toward this pulpit, Lord, let

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Speaker 6: every word that goes forth from this church this year

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Speaker 6: bring salvation, deliverance, miracles, correction, comfort, everything you want to do.

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Speaker 1: God is all about you.

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Speaker 6: I pray that even today, as I preach, that you

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Speaker 6: would see fit to use me like a woodwind instrument,

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Speaker 6: something that your breath could use to produce a sound

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Speaker 6: that would produce a melody from Heaven that would be

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Speaker 6: medicine to someone's heart. Lord, I bring before you every

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Speaker 6: person that's in this room, the nineteen other rooms where

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Speaker 6: we physically gather, every place where somebody couldn't go to

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Speaker 6: church or they were just too lazy. Speak your word.

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Speaker 6: One time a man said, I don't even need to

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Speaker 6: have you come in my house, Jesus, if you just

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Speaker 6: speak your.

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Speaker 1: Word, it's enough to heal today.

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Speaker 6: Lord, we just ask for a word from you our

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Speaker 6: daily bread, not enough so we can come to church

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Speaker 6: once at the beginning of the year, check it off

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Speaker 6: the list, and then spend the rest of the year

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Speaker 6: asking God why I.

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Speaker 6: But enough word to nourish us for the needs of

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Speaker 6: this moment. You are Jehovah Jirah, and you're in.

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Speaker 1: This place, and I give you the praise in Jesus' name. Amen,

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Speaker 1: clap your hands, everybody.

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Speaker 6: I'm going to have you seated before I read my

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Speaker 6: sure which I don't normally do, but before I do,

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Speaker 6: give out about twenty six hugs divided by two. Give

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Speaker 6: we're sending you a big hug online to our epam

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Speaker 6: all around the world. Just remember, God is speaking this

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Speaker 6: message exactly where you need it to be. He's not

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Speaker 6: limited by time, or by space or by location. May

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Speaker 6: this message speak to your heart today. I afraid about

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Speaker 6: what to share with you for my first sermon of

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Speaker 6: the year, and the Lord led and directed me in

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Speaker 6: a powerful way. Let's thank our band, our worship team

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Speaker 6: for leading us so well in the presence of God today.

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Speaker 6: Make sure you get the new music from Elevation Rhythm.

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Speaker 6: Thank God, I'm free play it everywhere that the devil

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Speaker 6: know it won't work this year.

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Speaker 1: I'm coming out of these chains.

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Speaker 6: Also, make sure that you get the opportunity to be

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Speaker 6: a part of Elevation Nights.

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Speaker 1: Now.

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Speaker 6: I know that for most of you who are here locally,

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Speaker 6: you probably won't be getting on a plane. But we're

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Speaker 6: going to be visiting eight cities, and these nights are powerful,

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Speaker 6: and these nights are miraculous, and these nights are unforgettable.

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Speaker 6: We're going to be in Hershey, Pennsylvania, Brooklyn, New York, Indianapolis, Milwaukee,

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Speaker 6: Grand Rapids, Michigan, Knoxville, Tennessee, Columbus, Ohio, and Rosemont, Illinois.

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Speaker 6: If you have any friends or family, especially the ones

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Speaker 6: who really need Jesus and smell like cigarettes and other

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Speaker 6: stuff like that, send them over.

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Speaker 1: We'll see what we can do for them.

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Speaker 6: Elevation Nights dot Com where you can get your tickets.

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Speaker 6: February twenty fourth through March the fifth. I thank you

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Speaker 6: for the privilege of being able to minister God's word

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Speaker 6: to you another year.

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Speaker 1: What an honor.

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Speaker 6: I'll be sharing today from the Parable of the Seed

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Speaker 6: in Matthew chapter thirteen, Verses twenty four through thirty Matthew

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Speaker 6: Chapter fourteen, Versus twenty four through thirty. Now this is

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Speaker 6: not the parable that's normally called the parable of the seeds.

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Speaker 6: The parable of the seeds that we hear more about

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Speaker 6: is actually the parable of the soils.

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Speaker 1: Okay, Because Jesus taught these parables.

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Speaker 6: And one of those parables that has helped me so

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Speaker 6: the sun was too strong for it, and it got.

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Speaker 6: And in each of these instances, the seed represents the

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Speaker 6: word of God, and the sower is God, and the

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Speaker 6: seed is good in each of those instances, but it

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Speaker 6: and one hundredfold. And this always encouraged me as a preacher,

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Speaker 6: because one time I realized, most of the people that

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Speaker 6: I give them scripture behind it, because the seed often

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Speaker 6: And I came to preach that even though most people

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Speaker 6: You don't know Chris Brown, you'll know Chris Brown, formerly

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Speaker 6: own heart didn't always do it God's way. And what

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Speaker 6: I'm trying to say it, I'm kind of going all

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Speaker 6: around the barn to say it. So let me just

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Speaker 6: land the plane. We all got weeds. We all got we's.

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Speaker 1: Say it out loud. I got we's put the asse

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Speaker 1: at the end of that, just making sure.

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Speaker 6: Tell them about the biblical kind of weeds. It's called darnell.

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Speaker 1: Darnell. It is this type of weeds seed.

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Speaker 6: The Bible says, Can I preach about this for a moment.

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Speaker 6: The Bible says that the man planted a good seed

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Speaker 6: in his field.

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Speaker 1: Everybody say his field.

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Speaker 6: I'm gonna point this out to the over and over

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Speaker 6: again as I preached today. It was his field. It

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Speaker 6: belonged to the farmer. It belonged to the man. He

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Speaker 6: planted the seed in his field. It was his property.

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Speaker 6: It was his territory to do with it as he wished.

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Speaker 6: He planted a good seed in the field. The seed

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Speaker 6: was doing what it was supposed to do. It was growing.

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Speaker 6: And since the seed was doing what it was supposed

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Speaker 6: to do and growing, an enemy noticed the growth of

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Speaker 6: the seed and said, if I don't do something about

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Speaker 6: this seed, my enemy will triumph over me.

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Speaker 1: So the Bible says that.

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Speaker 6: Overnight wild men slept, an enemy came and planted weeds

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Speaker 6: among the wheat.

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Speaker 1: Say it weeds among the wheat. Notice what he couldn't do.

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Speaker 6: He could not pluck up what God had planted. He

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Speaker 6: could not change what had already been done. He could

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Speaker 6: not cast the seed that was in the ground to

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Speaker 6: stop being what it was meant to be.

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Speaker 1: He could not destroy the seed.

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Speaker 6: The only stratage he had was to distract the harvesters.

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Speaker 1: So here's the progression of growth in our life.

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Speaker 6: We advance a little bit like the seed was doing,

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Speaker 6: and then we get attacked.

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Speaker 1: How many of.

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Speaker 6: Y'all almost have to laugh at how quickly the devil

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Speaker 6: attacked the very thing you were advancing in this year

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Speaker 6: already Just wave at me. It's almost comical, right, It's

481
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Speaker 6: almost like two on the nose, like really devil, like

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Speaker 6: really really like that you're going to be that obvious,

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Speaker 6: You're you're just gonna do it right in my face

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Speaker 6: like that, At least in the parable demand snuck in

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Speaker 6: and did it at night.

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Speaker 1: Some of us. The devil's just doing it in broad daylight,

487
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Speaker 1: just attacking things that are advancing.

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Speaker 6: So now you're advancing, the seed is growing, and you're attacked.

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Speaker 6: And when the enemy attacks you and what God is

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Speaker 6: doing in you.

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Speaker 1: You get distracted. He can't destroy the seed. It's not his.

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Speaker 6: He can't destroy the seed. It's already planted. He can't

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Speaker 6: destroy the seed. What God put in the seed is

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Speaker 6: still in the sea. He doesn't have permission to do that.

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Speaker 6: But what he can do is distract you so.

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Speaker 1: That you will destroy yourself.

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Speaker 6: And some of the things that are attacking you in

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Speaker 6: your life right now. The attack doesn't matter unless it

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Speaker 6: distracts you from what God has called you.

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Speaker 1: I'll break it down for you with a few pastoral examples.

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Speaker 1: Thank you so much.

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Speaker 6: It feels good to be wanted, feels good to be loved,

503
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Speaker 6: feels good to be supported. But you know, you have

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Speaker 6: to preach through all kinds of seasons. And there have

505
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Speaker 6: been seasons in this ministry where I have had to

506
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Speaker 6: preach what God gave me to preach even though I

507
00:29:57,240 --> 00:30:01,400
Speaker 6: felt attacked, and in my early years of preaching, I

508
00:30:01,400 --> 00:30:04,080
Speaker 6: would become hyper focused on any attack that was coming

509
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Speaker 6: my way. I don't just mean critics, I mean any attack.

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Speaker 6: Like if a staff member resigned, I would call it

511
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Speaker 6: an attack. Well, no, maybe they just need to move

512
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Speaker 6: to Florida to take care of their parents. No, it's

513
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Speaker 6: an attack. I rebuked the devil. Why do you rebuke it.

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Speaker 6: It's not an attack. It's a it's a it's a

515
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Speaker 6: it's an adjustment. You got to adapt. Life just happens.

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Speaker 6: But there have been seasons.

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Speaker 1: And I remembered one very specifically.

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Speaker 6: Well, I've been looking forward to sharing this with you

519
00:30:33,560 --> 00:30:35,520
Speaker 6: because it was so fresh and so vivid.

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Speaker 1: What was happening in our church was explosive.

521
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Speaker 6: And much like the seed in the Passage, it was growing, growing, growing.

522
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Speaker 6: God planted this church in Charlotte in two thousand and six.

523
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Speaker 1: I didn't plant it.

524
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Speaker 6: He did. And what God plants, God protects. And God

525
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Speaker 6: was doing all kinds of miracles for us. If we

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Speaker 6: needed a building, he opened a building. If we needed

527
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Speaker 6: a volunteer, he sent a volunteer. If we needed funds,

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Speaker 6: he would send people with money. God was just providing

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Speaker 6: and protecting. But in one season of our ministry, and

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Speaker 6: it was over ten years ago, this vicious attack began.

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Speaker 6: And if anybody was here at the time, you will

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Speaker 6: remember several phases of the attack.

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Speaker 1: The last phase of the attack was.

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Speaker 6: The hardest for me to stomach, because they began to imply,

535
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Speaker 6: on news stories that were on the eleven o'clock news

536
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Speaker 6: that at Elevation Church we fake baptisms. In other words,

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Speaker 6: they were saying that we have people pretending to be baptized,

538
00:31:35,040 --> 00:31:37,080
Speaker 6: I guess, just so we could put it on camera.

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Speaker 6: Not only was that not true, but it was a

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Speaker 6: direct assault against the most meaningful expression of faith that

541
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Speaker 6: a person can make, to be baptized.

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Speaker 1: And I felt so attacked.

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Speaker 6: Not only on my own behalf, but on behalf of

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Speaker 6: everyone who was going to work who had been baptized

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Speaker 6: at this church, hearing the lie that had been perpetuated,

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Speaker 6: the attack that had been waged, saying your baptism was

547
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Speaker 6: it fake? And I was praying about this one day,

548
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Speaker 6: and I was asking God very specifically something that you

549
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Speaker 6: may have been praying about a situation or an attack

550
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Speaker 6: in your life as well.

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Speaker 1: I prayed God make it stop, Make it stop.

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Speaker 6: By this point, there had been several attacks against our church,

553
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Speaker 6: and this one just felt like too much.

554
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Speaker 1: And I said, God, make it stop.

555
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Speaker 6: And I will never forget what the Lord said to

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Speaker 6: me in my spirit, not in audible words or not

557
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Speaker 6: in a physical impression, but in a way that he

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Speaker 6: gave me a thought that I have carried with me.

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Speaker 1: To this moment, and I share it with you today.

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Speaker 6: The Lord said, I can stop the attack, but if

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Speaker 6: I stopped the attack, I have to stop the impact

562
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Speaker 6: that created it. So now you have to decide do

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Speaker 6: you want the attack to stop that enough to give

564
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Speaker 6: up the impact that brought it? Because if you weren't

565
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Speaker 6: baptizing anybody, they wouldn't be making up stories about your baptisms.

566
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Speaker 6: But maybe what God was doing in this church was

567
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Speaker 6: so unbelievable that the enemy saw it and said, if

568
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Speaker 6: they keep.

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Speaker 1: Baptizing people like this.

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Speaker 6: There's gonna be a water shortage in Charlotte and a

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Speaker 6: people shortage in Hell. And so I got a plant,

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Speaker 6: a little lie to try to get them to stop

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Speaker 6: doing what God's started. But God said, if you want

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Speaker 6: the impact, you got a man up and button your

575
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Speaker 6: pants and tighten your belt. And lace your boots, and

576
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Speaker 6: open your bible, and open your mouth, and take your

577
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Speaker 6: next breath, and lift your voice, and lift your head

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Speaker 6: and swing your in the name of the Lord, and

579
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Speaker 6: realize that he who began a good work in you

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Speaker 6: will be faithful to bring it full circle till the

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Speaker 6: day when the angels gather the tears to be burned.

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Speaker 1: In the fire.

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Speaker 6: I wanted to tell you about that. I wanted to

584
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Speaker 6: tell you that. Now that I'm through it, I'm glad

585
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Speaker 6: they attacked me. I am iss set me free of

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Speaker 6: some ego. I'm glad that happened. I want it to

587
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Speaker 6: happen again. I'm not asking for another one. I'm not

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Speaker 6: saying if I went back in time, I would have

589
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Speaker 6: walked that path. But there is a young man on

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Speaker 6: our staff who runs my scriptures every week. As a

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Speaker 6: matter of fact, put a scripture up there, just in anyone.

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Speaker 6: I don't care which one. Just put it up there

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Speaker 6: and just put the week appeared, We circle the word appeared.

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Speaker 6: Look at that. Why did I tell him to do that?

595
00:35:10,200 --> 00:35:14,319
Speaker 6: Because he started coming to the church because he heard

596
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Speaker 6: about the baptisms on the news.

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Speaker 1: From the attack. Y'all don't want to mess with me.

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Speaker 6: And now he's the one helping me preach the word.

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Speaker 1: So God used their words as a weapon. Oh God,

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Speaker 1: And now let's.

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Speaker 7: Talk about you. No weapon forlved against you shall prosper.

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Speaker 7: And every time sun rise this against you, you shall

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Speaker 7: convin this is the heretage at the service of the Lord,

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Speaker 7: and their righteousness is from me. So one thing the

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00:36:06,840 --> 00:36:11,160
Speaker 7: enemy didn't realize when he was planting those weeds is

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Speaker 7: that you can plant all the weeds you want to devil.

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Speaker 6: And let me just remind you this year, this year,

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Speaker 6: there will be weeds. There will be no weed free

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Speaker 6: week in your year this year.

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Speaker 1: Sit back down.

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Speaker 6: You know how we do these little New Year's slogans

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Speaker 6: come alive in twenty five.

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Speaker 1: You know it's gonna it's gonna well, could be.

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Speaker 6: Said it's gonna get fixed in twenty six. No, it's

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Speaker 6: not either. It's gonna be mixed in twenty six. It's

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Speaker 6: gonna be some wheat. It's gonna be some weeds. It's

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Speaker 6: gonna be some joy, it's gonna be some morning. It's

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Speaker 6: gonna be some weeping. It's gonna be some reeping. It's

619
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Speaker 6: gonna be some friends. It's gonna be some enemies. It's

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Speaker 6: gonna be some frenemies. You can't tell the difference to

621
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Speaker 6: us over But don't judge it before God's done with it,

622
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Speaker 6: because God might use some of this stuff in your

623
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Speaker 6: life that you were asking him to remove to reveal

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Speaker 6: who He is in your life. And the only problem

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00:37:16,040 --> 00:37:19,000
Speaker 6: is if you start trying to pluck out the weeds,

626
00:37:19,560 --> 00:37:28,319
Speaker 6: you might mess around and remove the wheat. Y'all got

627
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Speaker 6: enough or keep going? One thing I noticed in the

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Speaker 6: text that was really powerful is that the Master didn't

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Speaker 6: panic about the attack. He was so cool about it.

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Speaker 6: Read it again, sir, Now the servants are freaking out

631
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Speaker 6: like we do. Sir, didn't you so good? See it

632
00:37:50,719 --> 00:37:52,200
Speaker 6: in your field? Where's come from? Who did this? What's

633
00:37:52,239 --> 00:37:53,960
Speaker 6: going on? This is the devil? Who's fault? Is this?

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Speaker 4: Only?

635
00:37:54,160 --> 00:37:55,279
Speaker 1: As so many did this?

636
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Speaker 6: And the mask sure because he represents God in the parable.

637
00:38:02,920 --> 00:38:10,760
Speaker 6: Look at this, He's like an enemy did this because

638
00:38:10,760 --> 00:38:14,680
Speaker 6: that's what an enemy does. That's what an enemy does,

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00:38:16,640 --> 00:38:21,560
Speaker 6: That's what a devil does. I read about a book

640
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Speaker 6: that Mel Robbins wrote called the Let Them Theory. I

641
00:38:25,160 --> 00:38:28,200
Speaker 6: didn't read the book, but I like the title. It's

642
00:38:28,239 --> 00:38:31,160
Speaker 6: like people want to talk about you. Let them. Your

643
00:38:31,239 --> 00:38:33,600
Speaker 6: kids want to leave without a coat and it's cold outside.

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Speaker 1: Let them. They're not going to die of hypothermia. They

645
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Speaker 1: will figure it out.

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Speaker 6: Kids are resilient, they need a little frost bite.

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Speaker 1: Let them. And I wonder if we could write.

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Speaker 6: One together today this year in your life, called let him.

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00:39:01,200 --> 00:39:03,879
Speaker 6: Don't let the attack distract you. You give so much

650
00:39:03,880 --> 00:39:06,040
Speaker 6: focus on how the devil is discouraging you, and now

651
00:39:06,080 --> 00:39:10,560
Speaker 6: discouragement is all you see everywhere. You got so many

652
00:39:10,600 --> 00:39:13,400
Speaker 6: things going right in your life, so much wheat.

653
00:39:14,120 --> 00:39:15,360
Speaker 1: But all you see is weeds.

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Speaker 6: You a little perfectionist, your little type a personality, your

655
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Speaker 6: little enneagram number one just always could be better. Just

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Speaker 6: oh man, I gotta get these weeds out this year.

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Speaker 1: No you don't. I'll tell you why.

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Speaker 6: If Jesus's field wasn't weed free, what makes you think.

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Speaker 1: Yours is gonna be?

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Speaker 6: Jesus couldn't have a weed free field, but you can. No,

661
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Speaker 6: it's gonna be mixed in twenty six. It's gonna be

662
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Speaker 6: mixed in twenty six. It's gonna be at eight am

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Speaker 6: in the morning, this is the day that the Lord

664
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Speaker 6: has made. It's gonna be by three pm. In the afternoon.

665
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Speaker 6: My God, My God, why hast thou forsake of me?

666
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Speaker 1: It's gonna be.

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Speaker 6: Wea It's gonna be weeds. And stop judging stuff before

668
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Speaker 6: God is done with it. Stop judging stuff before the

669
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Speaker 6: appointed time. Stop telling me graves into gardens in a

670
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Speaker 6: good song. Stop telling me I tried it, it didn't work.

671
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Speaker 6: And I'll just use a physical example because we can.

672
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Speaker 1: All relate to it.

673
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Speaker 6: When you work out and you haven't worked out in

674
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Speaker 6: a while, not that you would know. The first thing

675
00:40:34,120 --> 00:40:37,000
Speaker 6: that is going to indicate that you successfully completed the

676
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Speaker 6: workout is a feeling of soreness that will feel like

677
00:40:41,960 --> 00:40:47,240
Speaker 6: Satan himself brought seven spirits to your body and invaded everything.

678
00:40:47,480 --> 00:40:51,759
Speaker 6: But that just means you're growing. So now you're surprised

679
00:40:51,800 --> 00:40:56,399
Speaker 6: that you're sore, but you wanted to grow. If there

680
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Speaker 6: had been no wheat, there would have been no weeds.

681
00:41:00,800 --> 00:41:03,880
Speaker 6: You're praying for God to use you, but you're surprised

682
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Speaker 6: that you feel like you're empty on the inside. That's

683
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Speaker 6: so He can fill you up again. And the promise

684
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Speaker 6: of this year is not that it will be weed free.

685
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Speaker 6: I am not trying to keep a weed free in

686
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Speaker 6: one sense, I am, but I am not trying to

687
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Speaker 6: keep a problem a weed free. I'm trying to be

688
00:41:21,960 --> 00:41:27,600
Speaker 6: spirit filled this year so that whatever is planted around me.

689
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Speaker 6: And you got to know that the Master is very,

690
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Speaker 6: very methodical in what he plants, and he knew from

691
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Speaker 6: the moment he planted this seed that the enemy would

692
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Speaker 6: attack it. Now, the Master wasn't surprised. The servants were,

693
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Speaker 6: so they said, what do you want us to do

694
00:41:45,680 --> 00:41:48,200
Speaker 6: about it? Do you want us to pluck it up?

695
00:41:49,560 --> 00:41:52,399
Speaker 6: Do you want us to remove it? Do you want

696
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Speaker 6: us to do something about that? I was reading a

697
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Speaker 6: passage in First Kings or maybe Second Samuel last week

698
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Speaker 6: with Graham.

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Speaker 1: Which scripture did I give you?

700
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Speaker 6: Justin Second Samuel or First Kings, we're reading about David. Yeah,

701
00:42:06,960 --> 00:42:10,759
Speaker 6: one time David was running through his city that he

702
00:42:10,840 --> 00:42:14,120
Speaker 6: used to rule over from his son, Absolom, and his

703
00:42:14,200 --> 00:42:17,000
Speaker 6: son was trying to take his crown from him. And

704
00:42:17,840 --> 00:42:20,200
Speaker 6: the son's name was Absolom, and David actually had to

705
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Speaker 6: go flee from his own son. And as he was

706
00:42:22,680 --> 00:42:27,120
Speaker 6: leaving the city, he approached Bahiram. You couldn't pronounce it either,

707
00:42:27,280 --> 00:42:29,799
Speaker 6: a man from the same clan Asau's family came out

708
00:42:30,440 --> 00:42:31,040
Speaker 6: from there.

709
00:42:30,880 --> 00:42:33,400
Speaker 1: And so this is one of his enemies, right, And.

710
00:42:33,440 --> 00:42:38,359
Speaker 6: His name was shimmy I, son of Gera. And he

711
00:42:38,480 --> 00:42:43,680
Speaker 6: cursed as he came out, cursing at the king. Well,

712
00:42:44,239 --> 00:42:48,680
Speaker 6: he pelted David in the king's officials with stones. Now

713
00:42:48,719 --> 00:42:51,840
Speaker 6: remember David's pretty good with a stone, So this is

714
00:42:51,880 --> 00:42:55,200
Speaker 6: a bad idea. Though all the troops in the Special

715
00:42:55,200 --> 00:42:56,560
Speaker 6: Guard were on David's right and left.

716
00:42:56,560 --> 00:42:58,160
Speaker 1: In other words, he could have done something about it.

717
00:42:58,239 --> 00:43:02,920
Speaker 6: And as he cursed, Shimiyeh said, get out, Get out.

718
00:43:02,760 --> 00:43:04,399
Speaker 1: You murder, you scoundrel.

719
00:43:05,400 --> 00:43:07,279
Speaker 6: The Lord has repaid you for all the blood you

720
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Speaker 6: shed in the household of Saul, in whose place.

721
00:43:09,440 --> 00:43:11,680
Speaker 1: You have reigned. God's getting you back.

722
00:43:11,880 --> 00:43:14,440
Speaker 6: The Lord has given the kingdom into the hands of

723
00:43:14,480 --> 00:43:15,879
Speaker 6: your son Absalom.

724
00:43:15,960 --> 00:43:19,080
Speaker 1: You have come to ruin because you are a murderer.

725
00:43:19,120 --> 00:43:21,839
Speaker 6: Is planning all these seeds of doubt in David's mind.

726
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Speaker 6: Then Abishai, which one of David's guys, said to the King,

727
00:43:25,080 --> 00:43:27,080
Speaker 6: why should this dead dog curse my lord?

728
00:43:27,120 --> 00:43:27,480
Speaker 1: The king?

729
00:43:27,719 --> 00:43:30,719
Speaker 6: Let me go over and cut off his head. But

730
00:43:30,840 --> 00:43:34,600
Speaker 6: the king, David said, what does this have to do

731
00:43:34,719 --> 00:43:37,600
Speaker 6: with you, sons of zahu Ayah?

732
00:43:37,680 --> 00:43:39,359
Speaker 1: If He's cursed him because the Lord said to him,

733
00:43:39,360 --> 00:43:42,399
Speaker 1: curse David, who can ask why do you do this?

734
00:43:43,280 --> 00:43:44,279
Speaker 1: David then said to.

735
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Speaker 6: Abishai and all his officials, my son, my own flesh

736
00:43:48,320 --> 00:43:50,080
Speaker 6: and blood, is trying to kill me.

737
00:43:50,239 --> 00:43:52,240
Speaker 1: In other words, I got bigger problems.

738
00:43:53,040 --> 00:43:55,440
Speaker 6: I got bigger things to deal with than this dude,

739
00:43:55,760 --> 00:43:57,320
Speaker 6: and I came to remind you.

740
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Speaker 1: You've got bigger priorities. You've got too much to do

741
00:44:00,920 --> 00:44:02,200
Speaker 1: to be offended by them.

742
00:44:02,520 --> 00:44:05,800
Speaker 6: You've got bigger fish to fry than this guy whose

743
00:44:05,880 --> 00:44:10,319
Speaker 6: name I can't even pronounce. You're David, how much more

744
00:44:10,360 --> 00:44:14,680
Speaker 6: than this Benjamin? Leave him alone, let him curse.

745
00:44:16,040 --> 00:44:18,480
Speaker 5: You want us to do something about it, now, let

746
00:44:18,600 --> 00:44:22,200
Speaker 5: him Let him curse, for the Lord has told him to.

747
00:44:23,040 --> 00:44:27,920
Speaker 5: It may be, oh, this is an anointed verse. If

748
00:44:27,960 --> 00:44:31,040
Speaker 5: you've been under attack and the enemy is pelting you

749
00:44:31,080 --> 00:44:34,400
Speaker 5: with rocks and stones, and it may even be coming

750
00:44:34,440 --> 00:44:37,040
Speaker 5: at the expense of your own dignity, and you are

751
00:44:37,080 --> 00:44:38,879
Speaker 5: asking yourself, what do I.

752
00:44:38,880 --> 00:44:40,080
Speaker 1: Do about this attack?

753
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Speaker 6: David said, it may be that the Lord will look

754
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Speaker 6: upon my misery and restore to me his covenant blessing

755
00:44:47,440 --> 00:44:49,120
Speaker 6: instead of his curse today.

756
00:44:49,440 --> 00:44:52,319
Speaker 1: In other words, what David is saying is that he

757
00:44:52,400 --> 00:44:57,920
Speaker 1: cannot curse what God has already blessed, so let him.

758
00:44:58,800 --> 00:45:04,200
Speaker 6: He cannot just what has God's dna. He cannot steal

759
00:45:04,600 --> 00:45:10,040
Speaker 6: what God has spoke. He cannot negate what God has established.

760
00:45:10,400 --> 00:45:13,680
Speaker 6: He cannot cancel out what God is called.

761
00:45:14,080 --> 00:45:16,319
Speaker 1: How many different ways do you need me to.

762
00:45:16,320 --> 00:45:19,200
Speaker 6: Say it to get you to see it won't work.

763
00:45:20,400 --> 00:45:23,919
Speaker 6: Let him come, let the flood rage. God will lift

764
00:45:24,000 --> 00:45:26,880
Speaker 6: up a standard. It won't work.

765
00:45:27,200 --> 00:45:30,120
Speaker 1: Don't let the attack distract you. Don't let it get

766
00:45:30,200 --> 00:45:32,520
Speaker 1: you out of your character. Don't let it get.

767
00:45:32,400 --> 00:45:34,560
Speaker 6: You out of your joy. Don't let it get you

768
00:45:34,600 --> 00:45:37,640
Speaker 6: out of your peace. Sit there and whistle a worship song.

769
00:45:37,719 --> 00:45:40,480
Speaker 6: If you can't sing one, lift your toe. If you

770
00:45:40,520 --> 00:45:43,799
Speaker 6: can't lift your hands, do a body weight squad. If

771
00:45:43,840 --> 00:45:47,200
Speaker 6: you can't do a real one, do something. But whatever

772
00:45:47,320 --> 00:45:51,040
Speaker 6: you do, remember that if it's started with God, it

773
00:45:51,160 --> 00:45:54,880
Speaker 6: is sustained by God, and there is nothing the enemy

774
00:45:54,880 --> 00:45:59,520
Speaker 6: can plant. Sharreamaijah said, before I was born, he called

775
00:45:59,520 --> 00:46:00,800
Speaker 6: me and at me apart.

776
00:46:01,200 --> 00:46:03,480
Speaker 1: So that means I know the enemy has been busy

777
00:46:03,520 --> 00:46:04,280
Speaker 1: in your life.

778
00:46:04,480 --> 00:46:08,319
Speaker 6: He's been speaking to you, he's been sabotaging you. He's

779
00:46:08,360 --> 00:46:11,480
Speaker 6: been distracting you, trying to get you off your course,

780
00:46:11,800 --> 00:46:13,920
Speaker 6: trying to get you out of your flow, trying to

781
00:46:13,960 --> 00:46:16,080
Speaker 6: get you out of your calling, trying to get you

782
00:46:16,120 --> 00:46:18,080
Speaker 6: out of your nature, trying to get you out of

783
00:46:18,120 --> 00:46:21,080
Speaker 6: your kindness, trying to bring you back to bitterness, trying

784
00:46:21,080 --> 00:46:21,839
Speaker 6: to plant.

785
00:46:21,560 --> 00:46:22,800
Speaker 1: Weeds where there's wheat.

786
00:46:23,040 --> 00:46:26,120
Speaker 6: But there's one thing that the enemy should have realized

787
00:46:26,440 --> 00:46:29,080
Speaker 6: that he didn't realize, and he would have saved his

788
00:46:29,320 --> 00:46:32,440
Speaker 6: energy and realized that the weeds weren't worth planting.

789
00:46:32,680 --> 00:46:36,239
Speaker 1: Because you've got to remember, no matter what the enemy.

790
00:46:35,920 --> 00:46:49,840
Speaker 6: Plants in your life, God got there first, and he

791
00:46:49,920 --> 00:46:53,600
Speaker 6: prepares a table for you in the presence of your enemies.

792
00:46:55,760 --> 00:47:00,560
Speaker 6: So let the devil try, because it must be that

793
00:47:00,640 --> 00:47:03,280
Speaker 6: if God isn't removing those weeds, how many can picture

794
00:47:03,320 --> 00:47:05,200
Speaker 6: some weeds that are in your life as I speak

795
00:47:05,239 --> 00:47:10,400
Speaker 6: this word, Every weed free person, run to this altar

796
00:47:10,840 --> 00:47:15,160
Speaker 6: right now, because you have the weed of delusion?

797
00:47:19,719 --> 00:47:20,520
Speaker 1: Am I right man?

798
00:47:20,600 --> 00:47:23,120
Speaker 6: And the one thing about it, Graham, check this out. Gee,

799
00:47:23,880 --> 00:47:26,560
Speaker 6: the type of weeds that were growing, You couldn't tell

800
00:47:26,600 --> 00:47:29,359
Speaker 6: that they weren't wheat until they had grown a little bit.

801
00:47:30,600 --> 00:47:33,680
Speaker 6: They looked exactly the same until the head came up

802
00:47:33,719 --> 00:47:35,920
Speaker 6: and then they're like, oh no, this is not wheat,

803
00:47:35,920 --> 00:47:36,640
Speaker 6: this is a weed.

804
00:47:38,000 --> 00:47:42,919
Speaker 1: And sometimes you don't know. Sometimes you don't know. I'm

805
00:47:43,000 --> 00:47:46,839
Speaker 1: never going back to the way I was. Look at

806
00:47:46,880 --> 00:47:50,520
Speaker 1: what the Lord has done. I'm never going back to

807
00:47:50,640 --> 00:47:52,000
Speaker 1: the way. A little the.

808
00:47:52,120 --> 00:47:55,080
Speaker 6: Video and you know, the kids just screaming at the camera,

809
00:47:55,400 --> 00:47:56,920
Speaker 6: but what if they were singing it?

810
00:47:57,080 --> 00:47:59,960
Speaker 1: Like just like just for real though, like, look at

811
00:48:00,160 --> 00:48:01,840
Speaker 1: what the Lord has done.

812
00:48:02,160 --> 00:48:05,400
Speaker 6: I'm never going back, but I'm still gonna cuts.

813
00:48:05,560 --> 00:48:10,240
Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying, Look here what the Lord

814
00:48:10,360 --> 00:48:12,760
Speaker 1: has done. I'm never going back.

815
00:48:12,840 --> 00:48:15,840
Speaker 6: But I still get drunk because what we're saying is,

816
00:48:16,920 --> 00:48:19,120
Speaker 6: look here what the Lord has done.

817
00:48:19,320 --> 00:48:22,480
Speaker 1: I'm never going back, but I'm still gonna lust. You know,

818
00:48:22,800 --> 00:48:26,200
Speaker 1: just whatever y'all struggle with, the fact is.

819
00:48:27,960 --> 00:48:31,879
Speaker 8: What's really going on in our hearts sometimes doesn't match

820
00:48:31,920 --> 00:48:36,319
Speaker 8: what's coming out of our mouths. And we really do

821
00:48:36,440 --> 00:48:39,520
Speaker 8: want to grow, and we really do want to be free,

822
00:48:40,480 --> 00:48:42,040
Speaker 8: and we really do want to be more loving.

823
00:48:43,440 --> 00:48:47,880
Speaker 1: But the enemy isn't going to stand by and watch

824
00:48:47,920 --> 00:48:51,040
Speaker 1: you grow without attempting to.

825
00:48:50,960 --> 00:48:54,960
Speaker 8: Plant something alongside your destiny that will disrupt it.

826
00:48:56,600 --> 00:49:00,239
Speaker 6: I just want to remind you that the attack is

827
00:49:00,280 --> 00:49:05,399
Speaker 6: a distraction. And God knew when he planted you that

828
00:49:05,440 --> 00:49:08,960
Speaker 6: what he gave you was stronger than what would come

829
00:49:09,000 --> 00:49:20,680
Speaker 6: against you. Look at what the Lord has done in

830
00:49:20,719 --> 00:49:24,799
Speaker 6: your life. Look how far he has already brought you.

831
00:49:25,680 --> 00:49:28,080
Speaker 6: How many can say I have a testimony. God has

832
00:49:28,120 --> 00:49:29,399
Speaker 6: done so much in my life.

833
00:49:29,600 --> 00:49:36,040
Speaker 1: It's amazing. You would say that. But it came with weeds,

834
00:49:36,040 --> 00:49:36,520
Speaker 1: didn't it.

835
00:49:38,200 --> 00:49:41,120
Speaker 6: And you have been believing the lie lately that you

836
00:49:41,239 --> 00:49:43,720
Speaker 6: have got to get rid of all the weeds before

837
00:49:43,800 --> 00:49:47,560
Speaker 6: you can enjoy the weaed It's a lie. I come

838
00:49:47,600 --> 00:49:51,600
Speaker 6: against it. I break the spirit of depression off of

839
00:49:51,640 --> 00:49:54,960
Speaker 6: your soul that has been telling you that you cannot

840
00:49:55,000 --> 00:49:57,280
Speaker 6: worship while you still have weeds.

841
00:49:57,640 --> 00:50:01,040
Speaker 1: We all have weeds. It would suppor rise you what

842
00:50:01,120 --> 00:50:03,239
Speaker 1: the person next to you is struggling with.

843
00:50:04,239 --> 00:50:06,839
Speaker 6: And just because you can't see the weeds doesn't mean

844
00:50:06,880 --> 00:50:11,400
Speaker 6: they're not real. But have you come to a point

845
00:50:11,440 --> 00:50:14,400
Speaker 6: in your life where all you are seeing in this

846
00:50:14,560 --> 00:50:18,880
Speaker 6: season is the weeds? Have you got one kid that

847
00:50:19,040 --> 00:50:22,160
Speaker 6: is in trouble and you have failed to appreciate.

848
00:50:21,680 --> 00:50:22,880
Speaker 1: The two that are doing good?

849
00:50:24,000 --> 00:50:29,759
Speaker 6: That means you have become two weed focused. Have you

850
00:50:29,800 --> 00:50:33,160
Speaker 6: got nine things in your body that are working well,

851
00:50:33,480 --> 00:50:36,000
Speaker 6: but the one thing that is not working right just

852
00:50:36,080 --> 00:50:39,920
Speaker 6: causes you to obsess, and you are googling every possible

853
00:50:39,960 --> 00:50:42,439
Speaker 6: thing that might be wrong with you and taking out

854
00:50:42,520 --> 00:50:46,759
Speaker 6: every life insurance policy because you got a headache one Thursday.

855
00:50:47,080 --> 00:50:50,600
Speaker 6: Are you letting one headache really make you stop believing

856
00:50:50,800 --> 00:50:54,040
Speaker 6: that God is my healer and that God is my sustainer,

857
00:50:54,280 --> 00:50:57,760
Speaker 6: and that God is my source. I'm telling you whatever

858
00:50:57,840 --> 00:51:00,880
Speaker 6: the enemy plants in your life is not more powerful

859
00:51:01,120 --> 00:51:04,960
Speaker 6: than what God planted, because the Bible said he planted

860
00:51:05,040 --> 00:51:05,680
Speaker 6: good seed.

861
00:51:06,480 --> 00:51:09,720
Speaker 1: Somebody say I'm good seed. I'm good seed.

862
00:51:09,760 --> 00:51:12,560
Speaker 6: And all things work together for the good of those

863
00:51:12,600 --> 00:51:15,920
Speaker 6: who love the Lord and are called according to his purpose.

864
00:51:16,200 --> 00:51:18,480
Speaker 6: So this week I want you to think a little

865
00:51:18,480 --> 00:51:21,439
Speaker 6: bit less about the weeds and a little bit more

866
00:51:21,560 --> 00:51:25,279
Speaker 6: about the wheat, because when the passage starts, we've got

867
00:51:25,400 --> 00:51:28,680
Speaker 6: wheat and we've got weeds. But at the end of

868
00:51:28,680 --> 00:51:31,719
Speaker 6: the passage, one is going to be burned, and one

869
00:51:31,800 --> 00:51:33,959
Speaker 6: is going to be in the barn. And I came

870
00:51:34,000 --> 00:51:37,120
Speaker 6: to declare today the fire will not burn you.

871
00:51:37,120 --> 00:51:40,280
Speaker 1: You're going to the barn. Baby. You belong to God.

872
00:51:40,719 --> 00:51:44,920
Speaker 1: You are God's child. You are God's planting. You are

873
00:51:45,120 --> 00:51:46,840
Speaker 1: God's Oh, you are.

874
00:51:46,960 --> 00:51:52,120
Speaker 6: God's master peace. I belong to God. Try your best, devil,

875
00:51:52,480 --> 00:51:55,720
Speaker 6: it won't work. As a matter of fact, my God

876
00:51:55,880 --> 00:51:58,720
Speaker 6: might use the thing that you are using to curse

877
00:51:58,840 --> 00:52:03,400
Speaker 6: me and bless me even better. God might do something

878
00:52:03,480 --> 00:52:07,040
Speaker 6: out of this. So go ahead, hit me with your

879
00:52:07,080 --> 00:52:10,959
Speaker 6: best shot. But everything you do has to go through

880
00:52:11,000 --> 00:52:12,800
Speaker 6: the cross of Jesus.

881
00:52:12,440 --> 00:52:15,200
Speaker 7: Christ, and he'll began a good.

882
00:52:15,040 --> 00:52:23,240
Speaker 6: Word, will be faithful to complete it. Stop judging stuff

883
00:52:23,280 --> 00:52:25,080
Speaker 6: before God is done.

884
00:52:25,200 --> 00:52:27,719
Speaker 1: I asked one parent the other day. They said, the

885
00:52:27,800 --> 00:52:28,640
Speaker 1: kid that gave.

886
00:52:28,480 --> 00:52:31,799
Speaker 6: Me the most trouble ended up bringing me the most blessings.

887
00:52:32,280 --> 00:52:34,880
Speaker 6: You can't judge this thing while it's still growing.

888
00:52:35,200 --> 00:52:38,279
Speaker 1: You can't label this thing while it's still in process.

889
00:52:38,560 --> 00:52:41,759
Speaker 6: You cannot categorize your life based on the way you

890
00:52:41,800 --> 00:52:44,960
Speaker 6: feel right in hew And you cannot quit eleven days

891
00:52:44,960 --> 00:52:49,760
Speaker 6: into January just because it's mixed in twenty six. Na, baby,

892
00:52:50,000 --> 00:52:53,040
Speaker 6: the Lord is at my right hand. The Lord stood

893
00:52:53,040 --> 00:52:57,440
Speaker 6: by my side. Many deserted me, God never did. I

894
00:52:57,560 --> 00:53:02,360
Speaker 6: got battles, I got blessings, I got weeds, I got weeds,

895
00:53:02,800 --> 00:53:06,799
Speaker 6: I got goodness, I got mercy, And they follow.

896
00:53:06,560 --> 00:53:09,720
Speaker 1: Me all the days of my life.

897
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Speaker 6: So all I wanted to tell you today is don't

898
00:53:15,040 --> 00:53:16,040
Speaker 6: let the.

899
00:53:16,080 --> 00:53:22,840
Speaker 1: Attack distract you. That's what it is. It's a distraction.

900
00:53:24,760 --> 00:53:28,080
Speaker 1: You have been growing. You've got what it takes to grow.

901
00:53:28,360 --> 00:53:31,239
Speaker 6: You've got what it takes to make this decision. You

902
00:53:31,320 --> 00:53:33,680
Speaker 6: have got what it takes to do the job. You've

903
00:53:33,680 --> 00:53:36,160
Speaker 6: got what it takes to learn the skills. You've got

904
00:53:36,200 --> 00:53:37,960
Speaker 6: what it takes to do the inner work and get

905
00:53:38,040 --> 00:53:38,520
Speaker 6: some healing.

906
00:53:38,719 --> 00:53:40,920
Speaker 1: You've got what it takes because you've got God.

907
00:53:43,400 --> 00:53:49,440
Speaker 6: You're in the field he wanted you to be, and

908
00:53:49,520 --> 00:53:51,600
Speaker 6: God knew there was going to be a fight when

909
00:53:51,640 --> 00:53:52,800
Speaker 6: he puts you in that field.

910
00:53:54,520 --> 00:53:59,600
Speaker 1: Don't tell me he didn't. He's God. I'm built for it.

911
00:54:01,480 --> 00:54:03,759
Speaker 1: High five three. People say you're built for it, too,

912
00:54:05,520 --> 00:54:10,080
Speaker 1: built for it? Yeah, man, built for it.

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Speaker 6: You know what I almost called the message, bro, I

914
00:54:14,960 --> 00:54:18,759
Speaker 6: almost called it, Don't burn your bread.

915
00:54:22,000 --> 00:54:26,239
Speaker 1: Don't burn your bread. The wheat has the potential in

916
00:54:26,320 --> 00:54:28,440
Speaker 1: it to be bread.

917
00:54:31,719 --> 00:54:34,719
Speaker 6: If you don't pluck it up and throw it into

918
00:54:34,800 --> 00:54:37,719
Speaker 6: the fire, if you don't give up on what it

919
00:54:37,760 --> 00:54:39,520
Speaker 6: can be because of what it is right now and

920
00:54:39,560 --> 00:54:40,239
Speaker 6: what's against it.

921
00:54:41,239 --> 00:54:44,640
Speaker 1: Don't burn your bread. I didn't call it that.

922
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Speaker 6: I almost called the message this is my other almost

923
00:54:48,120 --> 00:54:51,520
Speaker 6: called the message look at your neighbors, say don't pluck

924
00:54:51,560 --> 00:54:51,839
Speaker 6: it up.

925
00:54:58,560 --> 00:54:59,840
Speaker 1: But I decided.

926
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Speaker 6: That I would just tell you stand to your feet,

927
00:55:05,400 --> 00:55:13,399
Speaker 6: don't let the attack distract you, because if you don't

928
00:55:13,480 --> 00:55:14,439
Speaker 6: let it distract.

929
00:55:14,120 --> 00:55:17,239
Speaker 1: You, it can't destroy you. The word of God is incorruptible.

930
00:55:17,280 --> 00:55:21,439
Speaker 6: See you've been born again by imperishable sea. Don't let

931
00:55:21,440 --> 00:55:27,480
Speaker 6: it distract you. You make an advance, you get attacked,

932
00:55:28,040 --> 00:55:31,000
Speaker 6: You get attacked, you get distracted, You get distracted, you

933
00:55:31,080 --> 00:55:31,759
Speaker 6: get destroyed.

934
00:55:31,960 --> 00:55:32,800
Speaker 1: But if you can.

935
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Speaker 6: Focus on where God is growing you put your hand

936
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Speaker 6: over your heart.

937
00:55:40,040 --> 00:55:44,120
Speaker 1: Say this is good soil. Say this is God's soil.

938
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Speaker 6: There's something that God spoke to you that you haven't

939
00:55:47,640 --> 00:55:49,520
Speaker 6: really been able to get in touch with lately because

940
00:55:49,520 --> 00:55:50,640
Speaker 6: you've been so distracted.

941
00:55:51,520 --> 00:55:52,759
Speaker 1: You have been so distracted.

942
00:55:52,800 --> 00:55:55,920
Speaker 6: It has been a long long time since you've been

943
00:55:55,960 --> 00:55:58,239
Speaker 6: able to have clarity about what God spoke to you.

944
00:55:58,520 --> 00:56:00,480
Speaker 6: And you found your broken focus leading.

945
00:56:00,320 --> 00:56:02,680
Speaker 1: To a lack of peace now, as it always happens.

946
00:56:03,280 --> 00:56:04,879
Speaker 6: But if we can get back to the God who

947
00:56:04,880 --> 00:56:07,080
Speaker 6: put it in you to begin with, you are going

948
00:56:07,120 --> 00:56:10,279
Speaker 6: to survive whatever attack the enemy sins against it. It

949
00:56:10,320 --> 00:56:13,719
Speaker 6: can't be stronger than God. It can't be stronger than

950
00:56:13,800 --> 00:56:17,000
Speaker 6: his word. It can't be better than him. It can't

951
00:56:17,040 --> 00:56:21,719
Speaker 6: be bigger than him. It's not possible that you've been distracted.

952
00:56:23,200 --> 00:56:27,240
Speaker 6: So now, Lord, our hearts are.

953
00:56:29,920 --> 00:56:30,440
Speaker 1: Turn to you.

954
00:56:32,840 --> 00:56:40,280
Speaker 9: Yes, Lord, our hearts are yours. Our lives are yours,

955
00:56:41,320 --> 00:56:46,080
Speaker 9: our dreams are yours, our plans are yours. Our future

956
00:56:46,160 --> 00:56:49,759
Speaker 9: is yours. I thank you for where you planted me

957
00:56:49,800 --> 00:56:50,319
Speaker 9: as a seed.

958
00:56:50,440 --> 00:56:50,760
Speaker 1: God.

959
00:56:52,600 --> 00:56:54,719
Speaker 6: I thank you for where you planted each and every

960
00:56:54,719 --> 00:56:57,120
Speaker 6: one of these people. I think for the gifts you

961
00:56:57,160 --> 00:56:58,880
Speaker 6: gave them, the abilities he gave them, the talent you

962
00:56:58,920 --> 00:57:01,240
Speaker 6: gave them, the personality that you gave them, the unique

963
00:57:01,239 --> 00:57:03,640
Speaker 6: struggles and challenges that have formed them and forged them

964
00:57:03,640 --> 00:57:05,839
Speaker 6: in the fire of trials to make them strong.

965
00:57:05,560 --> 00:57:09,000
Speaker 1: And ready for what they're going through now. They will

966
00:57:09,040 --> 00:57:13,680
Speaker 1: not burn. They'll be l those Hebrew boys who.

967
00:57:13,560 --> 00:57:15,560
Speaker 6: Went into the fire and said, even if God doesn't

968
00:57:15,560 --> 00:57:16,680
Speaker 6: get us out, he'll join.

969
00:57:16,600 --> 00:57:20,919
Speaker 1: Us right up in it. Because I'm good seed. I'm

970
00:57:20,960 --> 00:57:23,760
Speaker 1: good seed. Lord.

971
00:57:23,760 --> 00:57:26,280
Speaker 6: I want to pray today for the person who has

972
00:57:26,320 --> 00:57:27,520
Speaker 6: never placed their faith in you.

973
00:57:29,320 --> 00:57:31,680
Speaker 1: Would you just join me in this prayer as a church.

974
00:57:31,720 --> 00:57:33,320
Speaker 6: I'm going to pray for someone who needs to give

975
00:57:33,320 --> 00:57:36,200
Speaker 6: their life to Jesus Christ. And right now it is

976
00:57:36,320 --> 00:57:38,920
Speaker 6: very possible that the reason God brought you here today,

977
00:57:39,000 --> 00:57:41,440
Speaker 6: or the reason that you joined us online.

978
00:57:41,160 --> 00:57:42,000
Speaker 1: Is for this moment.

979
00:57:42,880 --> 00:57:44,880
Speaker 6: If you see, it's not by might nor by power

980
00:57:46,120 --> 00:57:50,040
Speaker 6: that we become strong in the Lord. No, the seed

981
00:57:50,160 --> 00:57:54,439
Speaker 6: was good because of who planted it. And it's time

982
00:57:54,480 --> 00:57:57,880
Speaker 6: for you to stop playing around with your life and

983
00:57:57,960 --> 00:58:00,720
Speaker 6: waiting on one day when it's more con to live

984
00:58:00,800 --> 00:58:04,920
Speaker 6: for God. No, now is your moment of salvation. Today

985
00:58:05,880 --> 00:58:09,480
Speaker 6: is your moment of change. And I don't want you

986
00:58:09,560 --> 00:58:11,600
Speaker 6: to face the fire of judgment. I don't want you

987
00:58:11,640 --> 00:58:14,520
Speaker 6: to live your life apart from God, and neither does God.

988
00:58:14,560 --> 00:58:18,160
Speaker 6: And that's why He sent Jesus, the perfect seed, the

989
00:58:18,200 --> 00:58:21,280
Speaker 6: one who gave his life on the cross and rose

990
00:58:21,320 --> 00:58:23,040
Speaker 6: again that you could have life.

991
00:58:23,200 --> 00:58:25,000
Speaker 1: And now, in this moment, I want to pray with you.

992
00:58:25,920 --> 00:58:27,560
Speaker 6: You know, the Bible says that if you confess with

993
00:58:27,600 --> 00:58:30,120
Speaker 6: your mouth that Jesus is Lord, and believe in your

994
00:58:30,120 --> 00:58:31,960
Speaker 6: heart that God raised him from the dead, you will

995
00:58:32,000 --> 00:58:32,520
Speaker 6: be saved.

996
00:58:34,080 --> 00:58:37,360
Speaker 1: It's not by works, it's by grace. You are saved

997
00:58:37,400 --> 00:58:40,720
Speaker 1: through faith, and right now, if you'll pray this prayer

998
00:58:40,720 --> 00:58:43,200
Speaker 1: and mean it with your heart, God will hear you.

999
00:58:44,200 --> 00:58:47,280
Speaker 6: God will save you, and you will be born again,

1000
00:58:47,960 --> 00:58:49,520
Speaker 6: and this can be your new beginning.

1001
00:58:49,600 --> 00:58:51,800
Speaker 1: We're going to pray out loud, repeating after.

1002
00:58:51,640 --> 00:58:54,720
Speaker 6: Me as a church for the benefit of those who

1003
00:58:54,720 --> 00:58:57,400
Speaker 6: are coming to Christ in this moment. Repeat after me,

1004
00:58:57,840 --> 00:59:05,120
Speaker 6: Heavenly Father. To day is my day of salvation. I

1005
00:59:05,160 --> 00:59:09,320
Speaker 6: am a sinner in need of a savior, and I

1006
00:59:09,360 --> 00:59:14,920
Speaker 6: believe that Jesus Christ is the Son of God and

1007
00:59:14,960 --> 00:59:19,800
Speaker 6: the savior of the world. And today I make Jesus

1008
00:59:20,600 --> 00:59:25,000
Speaker 6: the Lord of my life. I believe he died that

1009
00:59:25,120 --> 00:59:30,280
Speaker 6: I would be forgiven and rose again to give me life.

1010
00:59:30,760 --> 00:59:36,440
Speaker 6: I receive this new life. This is my new beginning.

1011
00:59:37,400 --> 00:59:41,320
Speaker 6: I am a child of God. On the count of three,

1012
00:59:41,400 --> 00:59:44,680
Speaker 6: shoot your hand up. If you prayed that one, two, three,

1013
00:59:44,720 --> 00:59:48,840
Speaker 6: I want to celebrate with you. Praise the Lord. Praise

1014
00:59:48,840 --> 00:59:54,760
Speaker 6: the Lord. That's beautiful. Praise the Lord online. You could

1015
00:59:54,800 --> 00:59:56,840
Speaker 6: just put it in the comments I received.

1016
00:59:57,880 --> 00:59:58,400
Speaker 1: Jesus.

1017
00:59:59,360 --> 01:00:05,440
Speaker 6: Come on, let's clap our hands all over the room. Everybody, everybody, everybody, come.

1018
01:00:05,280 --> 01:00:06,240
Speaker 1: On, Let's thank.

1019
01:00:06,080 --> 01:00:09,880
Speaker 6: God for all the decisions that were made today.

1020
01:00:10,400 --> 01:00:11,360
Speaker 1: God is so good.

1021
01:00:13,280 --> 01:00:17,000
Speaker 6: Well, campus, pastors, you can have it. Grab hands with

1022
01:00:17,080 --> 01:00:19,880
Speaker 6: the person next to you here, Valentine, look at him

1023
01:00:19,880 --> 01:00:24,240
Speaker 6: and tell them don't pluck it up, because God is

1024
01:00:24,280 --> 01:00:29,000
Speaker 6: not through with you yet another day to be in

1025
01:00:29,080 --> 01:00:31,280
Speaker 6: the presence of God. Come on, Holly, I ain't got

1026
01:00:31,320 --> 01:00:36,160
Speaker 6: no hand to hold. It's gonna be an amazing year

1027
01:00:36,200 --> 01:00:36,760
Speaker 6: in your life.

1028
01:00:36,840 --> 01:00:40,080
Speaker 1: Ben. Yeah, God's gonna give.

1029
01:00:40,000 --> 01:00:45,400
Speaker 6: You wisdom, strength, encouragement, stamina.

1030
01:00:46,600 --> 01:00:47,960
Speaker 1: God's gonna do that for each and.

1031
01:00:47,880 --> 01:00:51,320
Speaker 6: Every one of these people that we pastor to look

1032
01:00:51,360 --> 01:00:53,360
Speaker 6: at your neighbor. Look at your neighbor and say, God's

1033
01:00:53,400 --> 01:00:55,000
Speaker 6: gonna do that for you too.

1034
01:00:57,600 --> 01:01:01,200
Speaker 1: Tell him he's gonna meet you, is gonna fill you,

1035
01:01:03,160 --> 01:01:07,160
Speaker 1: he's gonna carry you, he's going to keep you.

1036
01:01:09,400 --> 01:01:12,320
Speaker 6: Tell him you're gonna grow. Come on, tell him like

1037
01:01:12,360 --> 01:01:16,080
Speaker 6: a trainer, you're gonna grow. Tell them like they need

1038
01:01:16,120 --> 01:01:18,439
Speaker 6: to do two more reps. Tell them you're gonna grow.

1039
01:01:19,720 --> 01:01:26,480
Speaker 6: Look at them and shall say, don't pluck it. Oh,

1040
01:01:26,640 --> 01:01:28,200
Speaker 6: don't let the attack distract you.

1041
01:01:28,600 --> 01:01:30,440
Speaker 1: It's a sign you're on course.

1042
01:01:30,720 --> 01:01:33,960
Speaker 6: It's a sign your significant it's a sign.

1043
01:01:34,160 --> 01:01:37,480
Speaker 1: God's got you. And now unto him, lift your hands.

1044
01:01:37,760 --> 01:01:41,760
Speaker 6: Who is able to do immeasurably more than you ask,

1045
01:01:42,160 --> 01:01:45,080
Speaker 6: think or imagine, according.

1046
01:01:44,640 --> 01:01:45,720
Speaker 1: To His power.

1047
01:01:45,840 --> 01:01:49,920
Speaker 6: Whose power, his power that works mightily in us.

1048
01:01:50,280 --> 01:01:55,040
Speaker 1: To Him be glory through Christ Jesus in the Church.

1049
01:01:55,760 --> 01:02:01,120
Speaker 6: Now and forever, Say amen, Say amen again.

1050
01:02:02,080 --> 01:02:06,640
Speaker 1: Goodbye, See you next week. Don't plug it up.

1051
01:02:10,240 --> 01:02:12,800
Speaker 2: Hey, I hope you enjoyed the podcast, and if you did,

1052
01:02:13,320 --> 01:02:15,920
Speaker 2: make sure to share it and subscribe so we can

1053
01:02:15,960 --> 01:02:18,560
Speaker 2: get you all of these new messages as soon as

1054
01:02:18,560 --> 01:02:21,360
Speaker 2: they're available. I also want to take a moment and

1055
01:02:21,480 --> 01:02:23,240
Speaker 2: thank all of you who are a part of Elevation.

1056
01:02:23,760 --> 01:02:27,080
Speaker 2: Whether you support us financially, or serve with us, or

1057
01:02:27,480 --> 01:02:30,200
Speaker 2: just share these messages, it's because of you that we're

1058
01:02:30,240 --> 01:02:33,160
Speaker 2: able to reach people all around the world. And if

1059
01:02:33,200 --> 01:02:35,680
Speaker 2: you want more information on how to be a part

1060
01:02:35,680 --> 01:02:39,640
Speaker 2: of Elevation, click the link in the description. Thanks again

1061
01:02:39,640 --> 01:02:42,640
Speaker 2: for listening. Make sure to leave a review, share the message,

1062
01:02:42,680 --> 01:02:43,520
Speaker 2: and subscribe.

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Speaker 6: God bless you.