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Speaker 1: Hey, this is Stephen Ferdick.

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

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

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

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

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Speaker 1: Enjoy the message. Let's pick up right.

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Speaker 2: There at Mark, chapter one, verse fourteen with the second

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Speaker 2: installment of Savage Jesus. After John was put in prison,

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Speaker 2: Jesus went into Galilee, proclaiming the good news of God.

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Speaker 2: The time has come, he said, Kingdom of God is near. Repent,

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Speaker 2: believe the good news. Jesus walked beside to see if Galilee.

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Speaker 2: He saw Simon. That's the guy who got his name

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Speaker 2: changed to Peter. Because God doesn't call you what other

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Speaker 2: people call you. He doesn't call you what you call yourself,

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Speaker 2: you call yourself a failure. He calls you a masterpiece

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Speaker 2: of grace, a canvas waiting to be painted on. So

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Speaker 2: that's who Simon is. And we believe that Peter gave

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Speaker 2: Mark the recollect action for this gospel account. Mark was

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Speaker 2: writing down a lot of the memories of Peter. That's

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Speaker 2: what scholars tell me. Anyway, I wasn't there. Let's continue.

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Speaker 2: He saw Simon and his brother Andrew casting a net

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Speaker 2: into the lake, for they were fishermen. Come follow me,

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Speaker 2: Jesus said, and I'll make you fishures of men.

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Speaker 1: And once they left their nets, followed him.

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Speaker 2: When he got a little farther, he saw James, son

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Speaker 2: of Zebedee and his brother John in a boat preparing

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Speaker 2: their nets, getting ready to go do what they did

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Speaker 2: without delay, which is Mark's favorite phrase in scripture. It's

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Speaker 2: translated different ways, but it's immediately or suddenly.

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Speaker 1: He writes that way.

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Speaker 2: It's breathless the account that he gives of the life

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Speaker 2: of Christ, because knowing that he has no time to

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Speaker 2: waste in getting to the cross, he can't really take

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Speaker 2: a lot of time with trivial details, and so he's

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Speaker 2: just giving us not the whole exchange that happened. I

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Speaker 2: don't think Jesus just walked by and said, come follow me, fishersmen,

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Speaker 2: and they went with him. I think there was a conversation.

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Speaker 2: But we are given the essence of the conversation so

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Speaker 2: that we can know that Jesus did not come to

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Speaker 2: give us cute cliches and Hallmark cards, but instructions and

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Speaker 2: commands that are best for our life, to lead us

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Speaker 2: in the way everlasting and without delay.

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Speaker 1: He called them.

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Speaker 2: He did not wait for them to understand their calling

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Speaker 2: before he gave it to them. That interesting, he did

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Speaker 2: not wait for them to go through confirmation classes. He

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Speaker 2: did not give them ministerial training. He simply gave them

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Speaker 2: a commonality. I'm going to read more than that, but

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Speaker 2: i'll break it up. The commonality is that in both

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Speaker 2: of these cases, you have Andrew and Simon who became Peter.

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Speaker 2: You've got John and James. And watch what they had

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Speaker 2: to do to come into their calling. Verse eighteen says

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Speaker 2: at once they left their nets, and then again.

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Speaker 1: In verse twenty without the life they left their father.

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Speaker 2: So the first pattern I see emerging here about following

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Speaker 2: want to preach this point fully, but I don't want

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Speaker 2: to take long on it because it's not my main point.

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Speaker 2: It is the context of Christianity, though, that Christ did

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Speaker 2: not come to make us comfortable. I think in order

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Speaker 2: to understand your relationship with someone, you have to understand

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Speaker 2: the function. And I want to speak to you for

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Speaker 2: a few moments today on dysfunctional comfort. That's my topic,

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Speaker 2: dysfunctional comfort. And when you don't understand the function of something,

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Speaker 2: it trying to engage it. So that's why I had

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Speaker 2: to explain to my boys that the treadmill in our

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Speaker 2: I saw them taking their little sister, Abby and they

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Speaker 1: Point five.

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Speaker 2: And putting her on the treadmill, and they told me

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Speaker 2: they were playing checkout at Target. This is not the

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Speaker 2: function of the treadmill. And your sister is worth more

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Speaker 2: why she was crying. You only rang up for fifteen cents. Sorry, Abby,

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Speaker 2: you're not that expensive. I had to shut it down. Why,

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Speaker 2: that's not what the treadmill is for. But when you

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Speaker 2: don't know what something is for, you will know how

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Speaker 2: Most of the dysfunction in my relationships came because I

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Speaker 2: you will you will have relational frustration and dysfunction because

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Speaker 2: It's kind of weird how some of the people that

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Speaker 2: you try to help the most, or that try to

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Speaker 2: in those relationships than any other relationship.

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Speaker 1: When my dad.

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Speaker 1: Dad to me. And so when I started acting like I.

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Speaker 2: Was the dad, it created a disfunction in our relationship

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Speaker 1: And a lot of that was my fault.

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Speaker 2: Because I was ignorant to the fact that when you

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Speaker 2: not the primary need they have of you, it will

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Speaker 2: be a good intention with a bad result. How many

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Speaker 2: try to make your kids your best friends.

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Speaker 1: They're not, They suck. Treat them like it. Now. I

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Speaker 2: I'm just saying sometimes is going to be Sometimes it's

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Speaker 2: not a buddy moment. And I don't have any examples

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Speaker 2: pray a lot. But here's what I wanted to say

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Speaker 2: our relationship with Christ are because we do not understand

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Speaker 2: his primary function in our lives lives. I think a

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Speaker 2: lot of us associate Christ primarily with comfort.

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Speaker 1: We come to church for comfort, and.

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Speaker 2: People will leave churches sometimes because they'll say.

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Speaker 2: People left Jesus one time because he fed them food.

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Speaker 2: Then he turned around and said something very uncomfortable. Eat

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Speaker 2: my flesh, drink my blood. We're out of here. That

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Speaker 2: all that it made them uncomfortable. Okay, now the Holy Spirit,

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Speaker 2: can I teach you a little theology class? I paid

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Speaker 2: eighty thousand dollars to go to school and learn this stuff.

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Speaker 1: I got to share it. Sometime when the.

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Speaker 2: Holy Spirit was coming, Jesus said, I'm going to send

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Speaker 1: So the Holy Spirit not only convicts, he comforts. The

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Speaker 1: primary role of the Holy Spirit is comfort. Okay.

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Speaker 2: The primary role of Jesus when he was on the

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Speaker 2: earth was not comfort.

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Speaker 1: It was confrontation. I know you don't like that.

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Speaker 2: aphorisms that cause you to feel better about yourself each day.

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Speaker 2: if we misunderstand the reason that Christ came, we will

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Speaker 2: be confused about how we come to him, and we

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Speaker 1: To associate the presence of God in our lives with comfort.

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Speaker 2: And we will associate the devil with confrontation and conflict.

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Speaker 2: But sometimes it is the devil who is giving you comfort,

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Speaker 2: and it is God who is putting you in conflict.

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Speaker 2: What if I just dropped the mic, walked off the

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Speaker 2: God's handiwork, and to come into your calling will require

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Speaker 2: you to come out of your comfort zone. Peter had

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Speaker 2: to leave his nets. James had to leave poor Zebedee

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Speaker 2: but for people. Now, when God calls you, he doesn't

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Speaker 2: So Jesus said, I see a gift in you to fish.

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Speaker 2: going to enlarge your capacity. I'm going to bring you

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Speaker 2: you've got to forsake your comfort. We typically want both simultaneously,

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Speaker 2: abs and no planks, a divine calling and no discomfort.

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Speaker 2: But coming into your calling means coming out of your

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Speaker 2: will show you as you go. That sounds almost exactly

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Speaker 2: like Abraham go to the land. I will show you.

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Speaker 2: have to learn to be uncomfortable. I'm not going to

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Speaker 2: You're gonna feel stretched by this. And so they didn't move.

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Speaker 2: One interesting thing is they didn't move or relocate. Instead,

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Speaker 2: change your mind, to change the way you think about

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Speaker 2: the reason that you're here, and to change the way

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Speaker 2: that you think about what you're going through, and to

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Speaker 2: the seat of authority in your life. So follow me,

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Speaker 2: forsake the familiar, and walk in faith. The greatest enemy

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Speaker 1: Fear is an ally of faith.

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Speaker 1: What'd you say? What did you say? Come out of?

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Speaker 1: Come out of?

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Speaker 1: How many of you would like to know the devil's

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Speaker 2: Writes something in Second Corinthians chapter one that I have

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Speaker 2: always loved as a counseling scripture. When people are going

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Speaker 2: through hard things, I will often share this verse with them,

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Speaker 2: because really the whole passage is good, but two verses

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Speaker 2: in particular, where it talks about.

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Speaker 1: How sometimes when you go through something in your life.

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Speaker 2: You're not going through it for you, But there is

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Speaker 2: somebody who will go through something that will need what

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Speaker 2: you will have after you get through what you're going through,

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Speaker 2: and you will have it to give them. It is

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Speaker 2: the function of comfort. It is the function of comfort.

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Speaker 2: Comfort has a specific function. The comfort of Christ comes

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Speaker 2: into our life not so that we can only be comforted,

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Speaker 2: but that we can comfort others. If you search the

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Speaker 2: scripture for comfort, you will find many commands to comfort others,

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Speaker 2: and you will find many promises that God will comfort you,

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Speaker 2: but you will never find permission to comfort yourself. What

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Speaker 2: the devil wants us to do is to learn to

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Speaker 2: run for comfort and cover to places outside of our calling,

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Speaker 2: so that he can keep us comfortable in our dysfunction,

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Speaker 2: so that we will never see our destiny come to pass.

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Speaker 2: When Paul says it, he says, praise be to the

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Speaker 2: God and Father of our Lord, Jesus Christ, the Father

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Speaker 2: of compassion and the God of all comfort. Well, see,

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Speaker 2: Pastor Stephen, you said that Jesus didn't come to comfort us,

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Speaker 2: and there Paul says that he did. And so I'm

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Speaker 2: going with Paul. Hang on for another verse. And see

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Speaker 2: if you still want to sit there and argue with

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Speaker 2: me after I've been all up in these books all week.

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Speaker 2: Verse four says, who comforts us in all our dysfunction?

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Speaker 1: No, see, that's what the devil does.

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Speaker 2: The devil wants to comfort you in your dysfunction until

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Speaker 2: you no longer see it as a problem, until it

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Speaker 2: becomes so normal that you can go to church with

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Speaker 2: an evil spirit and take it to lunch and take notes,

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Speaker 2: but not take action. But Christ came to confront your dysfunction.

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Speaker 1: Praise be to the.

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Speaker 2: God and Father of our Lord. Jeis Christ, Father Compassion,

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Speaker 2: who comforts us in all our Give me the verse

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Speaker 2: all our trouble, all our trouble. Comfort can become dysfunctional

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Speaker 2: when we get it from the wrong place.

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Speaker 1: Some of us have comfort foods. Way, look at it me.

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Speaker 2: Like you never ate the whole bag. Okay, let me

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Speaker 2: try another route, since you're gonna be all dietary about

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Speaker 2: this point. Some of us have comfort friends. Here we

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Speaker 2: go help me, holy ghosts. I feel demons striking while

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Speaker 2: I appreci this word.

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Speaker 1: Some of us have people.

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Speaker 2: In our lives who are good to us, but they're

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Speaker 2: not good for us.

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Speaker 1: I don't mean to call you out.

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Speaker 2: But could it be possible that your comfort is keeping

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Speaker 2: you from your calling, That you have put yourself in

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Speaker 2: a space that seems safe, but you are sabotaging, silencing

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Speaker 2: the power of God in your life because you love comfort.

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Speaker 2: Praise me to the God and Father of our Lord,

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Speaker 2: Jesus Christ, father of all compassion and the God of a.

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Speaker 1: Comfort, who comforts us in all our troubles.

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Speaker 2: In all our troubles, you mean God will use to

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Speaker 2: bring me comfort. Yes, and not only that, but God

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Speaker 2: will disrupt my comfort.

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Speaker 1: To confront my dysfunction.

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Speaker 2: So when I'm going through trouble, let me be a

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Speaker 2: little slower to ask God to rebuke the devil. Maybe

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Speaker 2: the trouble is the means of transformation. When God calls

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Speaker 2: you out. Sometimes it is uncomfortable.

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Speaker 1: Sometimes.

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Speaker 2: The way I gauge the presence of God when I'm

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Speaker 2: preaching is by how uncomfortable people look in their seats.

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Speaker 1: I didn't do that when I first started preaching.

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Speaker 2: When I first iarp preaching, I thought they clapped I.

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Speaker 1: Was doing good.

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Speaker 2: Now I understand when you squirm. My favorite is when

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Speaker 2: the Holy Spirit has you pinned so up against your

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Speaker 2: chair and I'm like about to send the medical team

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Speaker 2: to check your pulse. That's when the presence of God came,

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Speaker 2: when you got most uncomfortable. As long as we associate

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Speaker 2: Jesus with comfort, we will miss him. Because Jesus comes

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Speaker 2: to confront, not to condemn. There's a difference. Confrontation has

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Speaker 2: the intent and the means to change you. Condemnation does

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Speaker 2: not God soul of the word. He gave a son

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Speaker 2: not to condemn the world, but that the world through

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Speaker 2: him might be saved. The spirit of Christ is not

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Speaker 2: to condemn, but the spirit of Christ.

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Speaker 1: Will confront, confront.

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Speaker 2: And my question today is what have we allowed to

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Speaker 2: become too comfortable in our presence to occupy space that

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Speaker 2: belongs to God. That man sat in their synagogue week

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Speaker 2: after week, day after day, and the demon said nothing

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Speaker 2: until Jesus came.

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Speaker 1: The evil spirit the dysfunction stayed silent.

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Speaker 2: But the proof of the presence of God is not

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Speaker 2: always comfortable feelings. Sometimes the proof of the presence of

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Speaker 2: God is disruption. Sometimes the proof of the presence of God.

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Speaker 1: Is that one thing in.

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Speaker 2: Your life dies so that something else can come alive.

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Speaker 2: I don't think we recognize him when he comes because

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Speaker 2: we don't understand what he came for. But I'll show

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Speaker 2: you one thing that demons knew more about who Jesus

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Speaker 2: was than the churchece did. When Jesus spoke, they said, oh,

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Speaker 2: you came to get rid of us. Oh this is

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Speaker 2: our eviction. Notice, Oh this is the promised one. The

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Speaker 2: church people were still taking notes, and the demons were

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Speaker 2: popping prozac. Because the demons know the name at which

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Speaker 2: every name must bow, the name at which every tongue

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Speaker 2: must confess. That Jesus Christ is Lord. And if he

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Speaker 2: is Lord, fear has got to go. And if he

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Speaker 2: is Lord, turn.

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Speaker 1: This back up.

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Speaker 2: And if he is Lord and has the keys of death,

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Speaker 2: Hell and the Gray, there is nothing. I think we

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Speaker 2: get too comfortable sometimes with our dysfunction.

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Speaker 1: I do. I think we.

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Speaker 2: The devil doesn't want us to get uncomfortable because then

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Speaker 2: we would change. So he will make it so comfortable

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Speaker 2: for us to be dysfunctional that we don't seek anything different.

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Speaker 2: I don't hear a lot of people get into baptism

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Speaker 2: tank and say, you know, I got a raise, I

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Speaker 2: got married, The ring was seven carrots, and I went

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Speaker 2: to elevation. I hear a lot of times where they

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Speaker 2: say something shifted in my life. I lost something, I

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00:35:31,080 --> 00:35:34,600
Speaker 2: went through something, I faced the consequence of something, and

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Speaker 2: at that point in my discomfort, God used my trouble

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Speaker 2: to confront my dysfunction. So can I say something to

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Speaker 2: everybody who's in trouble today.

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Speaker 1: This is not just a test, This is a confrontation.

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Speaker 2: This is an opportunity that God wants to use to

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Speaker 2: confront what you have called normal and to call you.

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Speaker 1: Into something greater.

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Speaker 2: I believe the spirit of Jesus Christ is in you.

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Speaker 2: And if the Spirit of Christ is in you, greater

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Speaker 2: is he that is in you than he that is

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Speaker 2: in the world. So we're going to take eighteen seconds

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Speaker 2: and issue the command to every insecurity, to every fear,

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Speaker 2: to every doubt, to every regret, come out in the

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Speaker 2: enable Jesus.

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Speaker 1: I will not.

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Speaker 2: Become comfortable in the darkness when God has called me

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Speaker 2: into the light. That's what the devil's telling his demons.

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Speaker 2: Keep them comfortable, Keep them comfortable, keep them comfortable, keep

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Speaker 2: them comfortable, Keep them so comfortable that what I died

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Speaker 2: to set them free from will take up residence in them.

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Speaker 1: Keep them comfortable.

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Speaker 2: One of my friends gave me some good advice, because

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Speaker 2: I was telling him something that somebody said about me

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Speaker 2: that I heard through somebody else.

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Speaker 1: How dysfunctional is this? He said?

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Speaker 2: He said, how did how did you find out that

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Speaker 2: they said it? I said, well, the person told me

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Speaker 2: that somebody told them.

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Speaker 1: And he said, oh, okay, Well here's what to do

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Speaker 1: about that.

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Speaker 2: Don't ask the person what the other person said about

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Speaker 2: you next time, ask them why that person felt comfortable

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Speaker 2: saying it about you to them. I never had anybody

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Speaker 2: say anything bad to me about Holly. I don't think

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Speaker 2: they would feel very comfortable.

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Speaker 1: So what did I do? What was it? Capernaum compernaum,

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Speaker 1: the village of the comforter.

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Speaker 2: Were they so comfortable in their religion that they missed

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Speaker 2: the revelation of Jesus Christ?

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Speaker 1: You know what's sad?

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Speaker 2: Capernaum is the place keffer nahum, sorry sorry, sor sir

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Speaker 2: ke for naeum.

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Speaker 1: That's how we say it. That's the authentic way that

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Speaker 1: we say it. Okay.

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Speaker 2: It was the place where Jesus based his ministry, and

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Speaker 2: it was the place that he cursed before his ministry

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Speaker 2: was over. In Matthew eleven, he gave some woes, actually

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Speaker 2: wanted to give them verse twenty two, because it's important

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Speaker 2: to the context.

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Speaker 1: Matthew eleven twenty You got it.

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Speaker 2: Jesus began to denounce the cities here it is in

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Speaker 2: which most of his miracles had been performed, because they

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Speaker 2: did not change their minds they saw the miracles, did

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Speaker 2: not change their mind and their direction. The third city

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Speaker 2: that he renounced or denounced is a city called Copernaum,

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Speaker 2: the place where he lived, the place where he based

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Speaker 2: out of, and the place where he most mightily displayed

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Speaker 2: his glory. And look what he says about them in

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Speaker 2: verse twenty three. And you Capernaum kephar Nahum, village of

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Speaker 2: the Comforter, Will you.

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Speaker 1: Be lifted up to the skies?

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Speaker 2: After all that you've seen, after all that you've been

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Speaker 2: exposed to, after hosting the presence of the eternal living

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Speaker 2: Word of God, will you be lifted up?

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Speaker 1: No, you will go down to the depths.

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Speaker 2: If the miracles that were performed in you had been

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Speaker 2: performed in Sodom, that wicked city that was judged for

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Speaker 2: its pride and arrogance, it would have remained to this day.

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Speaker 2: But I tell you it will be more bearable for

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Speaker 2: Sodom on the day of judgment than for you. Why

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Speaker 2: because you got too comfortable. You got too comfortable. Your

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Speaker 2: name was a prophecy of what would ultimately be your undoing.

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Speaker 2: When I love comfort more than I love Christ, and

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Speaker 2: I run for comfort, I run from calling.

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Speaker 1: You will not be lifted up. You will be brought.

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Speaker 2: Down because you ran to comfort outside of Christ. You

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Speaker 2: ran to religion, You ran to others, You ran to

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Speaker 2: familiar fears. You ran back into insecurity, and you will.

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Speaker 1: Not experience your calling because you got stuck in your comfort.

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Speaker 2: Are you stuck in your comfort? Has it become dysfunctional?

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Speaker 2: Have you learned to tolerate things in your life? The

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Speaker 2: works of the devil that Jesus came to destroy. He

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Speaker 2: came to save us from our sin, but he also

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Speaker 2: came to set us free from it.

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Speaker 1: And the spirit of Christ is in this place.

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Speaker 2: And you don't have to stay stuck in comfortable dysfunction

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Speaker 2: another day.

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Speaker 1: You know.

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Speaker 2: I don't think it has to be loud, and I

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Speaker 2: don't think we have to scream and shout sometimes Sometimes

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Speaker 2: I think the loudest response is a decision in your

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Speaker 2: heart to say I am going to confront this, come out,

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Speaker 2: Come out for you who have been living in the

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Speaker 2: year twenty and eleven, in twenty twelve and the relationship

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Speaker 2: that didn't work, come out. For you who have been

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Speaker 2: living in the of an event that has passed, come out.

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Speaker 2: For you who have been living in a complacent place

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Speaker 2: of mediocre faith and lukewarm.

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Speaker 1: Commitment to Jesus, come out. He's in the place. This

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Speaker 1: is an eviction notice.

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Speaker 2: To let everything in our lives that is keeping us

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Speaker 2: from the high calling of God in Christ. Jesus know,

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Speaker 2: we serve notice on you this day. We serve notice

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Speaker 2: on you, this moment. We serve notice on you in

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Speaker 2: the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth.

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Speaker 1: We're coming out of our dysfunction. We are coming out

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Speaker 1: of our excuses.

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Speaker 2: We are coming out of our complacency.

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Speaker 1: We are coming out. I'm coming out.

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Speaker 2: I don't want the comfort that comes from dysfunction. I

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Speaker 2: want the comfort that comes from God.

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Speaker 1: And if the spirit of the Lord is.

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Speaker 2: Here, there is liberty here to break every chain.

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Speaker 1: Come out in the name of.

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Speaker 2: Jeson if he came out of his grave.

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Speaker 1: I'm coming out of mind.

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Speaker 2: Praise me to the God and Father of our Lord,

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Speaker 2: Jesus Christ, the God of all comfort.

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Speaker 1: He is in this place.

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Speaker 2: I want to pray for you right now on the

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Speaker 2: level that God is speaking to you. I pray the

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Speaker 2: Holy Spirit will give me accuracy. Yes, thank you for standing.

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Speaker 2: I want you to stand right now. And if there's

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Speaker 2: something that God is speaking to you about in your life.

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Speaker 1: That is dysfunctional.

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Speaker 2: That you have become comfortable with, and you want to

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Speaker 2: pray a really crazy prayer today that God would disrupt

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Speaker 2: your comfort to confront your dysfunction so that you can

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Speaker 2: behole and have life more abundantly and not just go

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Speaker 2: to heaven when you die one day, but know the

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Speaker 2: fullness of the power of God on this earth. The

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Speaker 2: Holy Spirit is in this place. The comforter is here.

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Speaker 2: The Comforter is here. So if it's you, I want

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Speaker 2: you to lift both your hands in the air like

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Speaker 2: you're not ashamed of the presence of God. And see

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Speaker 2: when you did that, you said something. You said, I'm

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Speaker 2: coming out with my hands up. I'm coming out in

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Speaker 2: full surrender. I'm not coming out in my own opinion

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Speaker 2: or my own strength. I'm coming out in the power

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Speaker 2: of God. And I declare and decree in this moment

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Speaker 2: that the name of Jesus in the blood of Christ

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Speaker 2: is greater than all that I've done. I declare that

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Speaker 2: the blood of Jesus has spoken a better word over

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Speaker 2: my life.

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Speaker 1: Now, God, by the.

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Speaker 2: Authority that you have invested in me, by the power

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Speaker 2: of your word and the name of Jesus Us, and

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Speaker 2: the gift.

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Speaker 1: Of your Holy Spirit, to preach the Gospel.

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Speaker 2: I command everything that is not like you to come

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Speaker 2: out of your sons and daughters. Everything that has kept

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Speaker 2: them bound, everything that has kept them broken, everything that

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Speaker 2: has kept them depressed, everything that has kept them in

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Speaker 2: cycles of dysfunction, that.

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Speaker 1: They cannot break.

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Speaker 2: We declare right now, in the name of Jesus, change

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Speaker 2: are breaking.

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Speaker 1: Miracle working power is in this place.

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Speaker 3: Evil spirits come out, evil spirits come out, Thoughts up

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Speaker 3: to see come out, Discouragement come out. In the name

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Speaker 3: of Jesus. Shames are falling.

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Speaker 2: In the presence of a mighty God, one greater than April,

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Speaker 2: have one.

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Speaker 1: Greater than Moses.

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Speaker 2: The name of Jesus, the name and wish every need will.

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Speaker 1: Plow every talk to us. Jesus Christ is God. Jesus

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Speaker 1: declare that death. Thank you for joining us.

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