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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 1: Be sure to.

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Speaker 2: Subscribe so we can get you these new sermons every week.

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Speaker 2: I hope you're blessed today. When we were out on

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Speaker 2: Elevation Nights this week, every night, I wanted to preach

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Speaker 2: off of that song, same God and really share something

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Speaker 2: from that. And the Lord kind of spoke to me

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Speaker 2: on the last night. I said, duel when you get home.

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Speaker 2: So I'm home. So we're going to do it today,

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Speaker 2: and I.

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Speaker 1: Think it's really going to be special for you. I

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Speaker 1: believe that.

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Speaker 2: Hey, on your way down to your seat, just high

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Speaker 2: five or.

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Speaker 3: Hug five people and tell them I'm glad you're here today.

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Speaker 2: I'll be sharing. Thank you, team, Just sound fresh, never

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Speaker 2: get tired. Those who wait on the Lord will renew

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Speaker 2: their strength, mount up on wings like eagles. Thank you

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Speaker 2: so much, thank you. I'm going to share from two

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Speaker 2: scriptures today. The first one is from the New Testament.

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Speaker 2: These just happened to be two of my favorite scriptures

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Speaker 2: in Romans chapter eight. I really love this passage Romans

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Speaker 2: eight twenty eight through thirty two, and then Exodus three

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Speaker 1: These two scriptures go together really well. You'll see that.

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Speaker 2: Romans chapter eight, verse twenty eight through thirty two and

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Speaker 2: Exodus three thirteen through fifteen. And we know that in

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Speaker 2: all things God works for the good of those who

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Speaker 2: love Him, who have been called according to His purpose.

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Speaker 1: For those God fore knew.

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Speaker 2: He also predestined to be conformed to the image of

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Speaker 2: his son, that he might be the first born among

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Speaker 2: many brothers and sisters. And those he predestined he also called.

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Speaker 2: Those he called, he also justified. Those he justified, he

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Speaker 2: also glorified. What then, shall we say in response to

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Speaker 2: these things? If God is for us? Yeah, trying to

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Speaker 2: give me wound up early, not gonna work. I'm pacing

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Speaker 2: myself today. Who can be against us? He who did

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Speaker 2: not spare his own son, but gave him up for

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Speaker 2: us all, how will he not also, along with him

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Speaker 2: graciously give us all things. And as if that weren't enough,

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Speaker 2: God gave us another scripture to consider. From Exodus three

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Speaker 2: thirteen through fifteen. Moses said to God, suppose I go

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Speaker 2: to the Israelites and say to them, the God of

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Speaker 2: your fathers has sent me to you. And they asked

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Speaker 2: me what is his name, Then what shall I tell them?

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Speaker 2: God said to Moses, I am who I am. This

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Speaker 2: is what you are to say to the Israelites. I

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Speaker 2: am has sent me to you. God also said to Moses.

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Speaker 2: God also said to Moses, say to the Israelites, the Lord,

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Speaker 2: the God of your fathers, the God of Abraham, the

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Speaker 2: God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob. I'm calling

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Speaker 2: on the God of Jacob. This is where we get

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Speaker 2: it from.

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Speaker 4: Is it the Bible?

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Speaker 2: The God of Jacob has sent me to you. This

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Speaker 2: is my name forever, the name you shall call me

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Speaker 2: from generation to generation. And since today we sang to

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Speaker 2: the God of Jacob, the God of Moses, the God

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Speaker 2: to take it one step further today, and I want

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Speaker 1: The God of Also, the God of Also.

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Speaker 2: I never heard of that guy?

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Speaker 1: Is he in Exodus four?

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Speaker 2: No? No, I want to talk about the God of Also,

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Speaker 2: the God who also said to Moses.

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Speaker 1: Look at this in verse fifteen.

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Speaker 2: The God who also said to Moses, say to the Israelites,

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Speaker 2: sent me to you. Now, God and Moses are having

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Speaker 2: a conversation, and it's going back and forth. Moses is

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Speaker 1: About his power and his purpose.

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Speaker 2: And this back and forth happens all throughout the third

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Speaker 2: chapter of Exodus. I didn't give you all of it today,

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Speaker 2: I can't believe. I never saw this before. Moses didn't

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Speaker 1: I believe that God calls us all.

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Speaker 2: In particular ways at certain times, in accordance with his purpose.

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Speaker 2: That's kind of why I read your romans eight, because

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Speaker 2: I wanted you to get a picture that you don't

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Speaker 2: have to lead a whole nation out of captivity to

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Speaker 2: be called by God. You certainly don't have to be

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Speaker 2: some preacher or some kind of amazing billionaire mogul to

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Speaker 2: by God. You can be called by God and nobody

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Speaker 2: else really know the calling He's put inside of you.

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Speaker 1: He knows.

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Speaker 2: The biggest comfort in my life is that God knew

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Speaker 2: it all when he called me. I'm grateful for that.

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Speaker 2: Even as I sent my oldest son off to college

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Speaker 2: you know, God knows it all. And so this next

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Speaker 2: you turn eighteen on Tuesday, it's going to involve things

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Speaker 2: that you never saw coming. But God saw it all

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Speaker 2: when he called you. Not just called you to do something,

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Speaker 2: but when he called you into the earth, he fore knew.

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Speaker 2: Go back to Roumins eight for a minute. Can we

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Speaker 2: study that so good? Everybody always reads Romans eight twenty

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Speaker 2: What comes after. I want to show you this too,

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Speaker 2: is that all things work together for the good of

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Speaker 2: those that love God and call according to His purpose.

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Speaker 2: Not go to verse twenty nine for those God for

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Speaker 2: of his son Ah. So God's calling is really about character.

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Speaker 2: God's calling is less about what college you go to

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Speaker 1: So tell somebody, God is calling you to be nicer.

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Speaker 2: I know a lot of people like I don't know

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Speaker 2: know what God's calling you to do. I don't know

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Speaker 2: what God's called. He's calling you to be kind. He's

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Speaker 2: calling you to apologize when you're wrong. He's calling you

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Speaker 4: He's calling out.

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Speaker 2: There's somebody's shout, I'm called I'm called to be like Christ.

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Speaker 2: So this whole sequence that the apostle Paul gives us,

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Speaker 2: which is kind of demonstrated in the Life of Moses.

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Speaker 2: Not kind of demonstrated, it's totally demonstrated in the Life

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Speaker 2: of Moses. It tells me verse twenty nine that God

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Speaker 2: of you. God knew you when he called you, and

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Speaker 2: he called all of you away with a half hearted

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Speaker 2: commitment to a God who called all of me and

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Speaker 2: gave all of himself so that I could be saved

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Speaker 2: and redeemed and conformed to the image of his son.

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Speaker 2: be the firstborn among many brothers. That's talking about Jesus

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Speaker 2: the firstborn among many brethren. I got kind of hung

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Speaker 2: says that those he predestined. He also called it's about

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Speaker 1: So I'm telling you, man, your neighbor.

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Speaker 2: Better watch out because you might start praising God when

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Speaker 2: I show you this.

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Speaker 1: Somebody watching this in your apartment. They're about to call

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Speaker 1: the cops when they was happening. I think it is

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Speaker 1: a crime scene.

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Speaker 2: Ah, but it's an amazing chain of events, it says

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Speaker 2: those he predestined. He also called and here's where I

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Speaker 2: want to spend a moment with you that those he

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Speaker 2: called he also justify because here's what happens. Right, Like

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Speaker 2: God called you to do something. God called you to

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Speaker 2: be something. God called you to move into a certain,

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Speaker 2: I don't know, a certain new position that he put

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Speaker 4: God called you.

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Speaker 1: To raise a family.

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Speaker 2: God called you to glorify Him in a difficult situation.

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Speaker 2: No matter what the situation we would name, God gives

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Speaker 2: it is changeless, but it is ever expanding in our

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Speaker 2: consciousness because we will never know all there is to

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Speaker 2: understand when we come to God is we must not

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Speaker 1: He said, I am well.

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Speaker 2: That leaves a lot of room, right, because you are

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Speaker 2: going to need God to be a lot of different

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Speaker 2: Sometimes you might find yourself in a wilderness and you

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Speaker 2: might need water for your soul.

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Speaker 1: He will be what he will be, living water.

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Speaker 2: Sometimes you might need guidance from God, and it might

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Speaker 2: be dark, so you need a pillar.

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Speaker 1: Of fire to guide you. And God will light up

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Speaker 1: the sky to show you your next step.

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Speaker 2: No, he won't show you the next ten years, because

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Speaker 2: then you would think you didn't need him, and you

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Speaker 2: you would start living by reason rather than revelation. So

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Speaker 2: he'll show you by fire at night enough to take

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Speaker 2: As a matter of fact, if it gets too hot

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Speaker 2: put the cloud out on the day shift, and he'll

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Speaker 2: the moon at night. He will preserve your soul forevermore.

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Speaker 2: He is God, and he'll go with you into every

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Speaker 2: season of your life. That's why he said, I am God.

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Speaker 2: Does not have many identities. He only has one identity,

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Speaker 2: but he has infinite expressions. So you will never exhaust

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Speaker 2: God by your own human knowledge that not only includes

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Speaker 2: the nature of God, but it includes the nature of you.

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Speaker 2: What I love about God's conversation with Moses, by the

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Speaker 2: way it is so good to be preaching here today.

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Speaker 1: I love preaching God's word to you. I mean that

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Speaker 1: I love it.

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Speaker 2: I love it, and you know I love I love

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Speaker 2: being able to talk through things with you that seem

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Speaker 2: they're very complex. Because when Moses is called by God,

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Speaker 2: It takes time for that to happen. One of the

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Speaker 2: So God says Moses, I'm sending you to do a

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Speaker 2: And Moses says, suppose I go and they say, what

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Speaker 1: It's on the screen.

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Speaker 4: The God of your father's the God of Abraham Isaac.

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Speaker 5: And no, he said, Jacob, that's the revelation, because you

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Speaker 2: Doesn't just want to be your God when you're living

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Speaker 5: Because he's no less worthy, he's still surely, he's no

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Speaker 4: He's no God.

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Speaker 2: He's all God.

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Speaker 4: He's water, he's fire, He's cloud by day and fire

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Speaker 4: All that, He's all that. The Great I Am is

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Speaker 4: Goot see for you.

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Speaker 4: Can I tell you a secret?

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Speaker 2: You really didn't choose to come to church today, You

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Speaker 4: Can I tell you a secret?

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Speaker 2: Your YouTube algorithm did not recommend this video. The Holy

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Speaker 4: And I don't care what it is you're being caught in.

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Speaker 2: He said, come here, Moses, I'm your god too. Say

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Speaker 4: Here, Hugo, we gotta do you go.

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Speaker 2: So I'm calling on the God of you go.

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Speaker 4: Give be with you wherever.

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Speaker 2: I do on my best.

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Speaker 4: See, I'm not just a preacher. I'm also a songwriter.

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Speaker 1: I tell you some funny about God. Now listened.

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Speaker 2: God is so God is so creative. God is so kind.

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Speaker 1: Together. Remember my first scripture for the good of those

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Speaker 2: I remember sitting in that airport in Charlotte, flying out

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Speaker 2: Oh by the way, just like it says God for new,

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Speaker 4: You gotta get the picture.

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Speaker 2: and God's like cool. Go preach my word. Go reach

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Speaker 2: the city. I've called you to reach for Jesus, and

448
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Speaker 2: when you do that, I will.

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Speaker 1: Here's your word. Here's the word for the week. Watch

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Speaker 1: for the also, watch for the also.

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Speaker 2: Sometimes the also that God will give you what he'll

452
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Speaker 2: throw in for free will be bigger than the thing

453
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Speaker 2: that you came seeking. I love Matthew six thirty three.

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Speaker 1: I love it.

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Speaker 2: I love it in my bones. I love how it says,

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Speaker 2: seek first the Kingdom, and all these things will be

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Speaker 2: given to you. Like God is rich, so he could

458
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Speaker 2: just give you stuff thrown in if you seek him.

459
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Speaker 2: But if you seek stuff, you miss him and you're

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Speaker 2: left with nothing.

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Speaker 1: So we call on God. We don't call on things.

462
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Speaker 1: We call on God. He's our source. We depend on God.

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Speaker 1: We trust in God. And he also also also, you.

464
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Speaker 2: Can't get so worried about the way you thought things

465
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Speaker 2: were supposed to happen, because all things.

466
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Speaker 1: Work together.

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Speaker 2: For the good.

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Speaker 1: Of those who are called according to His purpose.

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Speaker 2: It's about the purpose of God, not just your preferences

470
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Speaker 2: in any given moment. It's about the purpose of God,

471
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Speaker 2: not just your plan according to your limited knowledge. And

472
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Speaker 2: God said that someone needed to hear this message today

473
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Speaker 2: because you are so caught up.

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Speaker 1: In what you thought your life would.

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Speaker 2: Be at this moment, like Moses, that you need to

476
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Speaker 2: meet the God of also this morning. He knows what

477
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Speaker 2: you're not. But the thing about God, who knows what

478
00:31:48,120 --> 00:31:50,960
Speaker 2: you're not? Because you can't put in what God left out?

479
00:31:53,160 --> 00:31:55,280
Speaker 2: How many times I've told God's stuff I needed to

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Speaker 2: do the assignment that he gave me, and He didn't

481
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Speaker 2: add any additional equipment to it. It like He just

482
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Speaker 2: loved me to strengthen what I do have. Well, God

483
00:32:04,480 --> 00:32:07,200
Speaker 2: knows all of that. But not only does he know

484
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Speaker 2: what you're not, he knows what you are also that

485
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Speaker 2: you haven't discovered yet. Now this is kind of deep.

486
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Speaker 2: Can I give you a seminar point?

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Speaker 1: All right?

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Speaker 2: All self development is really self discovery. I don't believe

489
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Speaker 2: in self development. I believe I believe in the Holy

490
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Speaker 2: Spirit's development in my life.

491
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Speaker 1: Well, the Holy Spirit wants you to work on your self.

492
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Speaker 2: One of the fruits of the Holy Spirit is self control.

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Speaker 1: That's ingulations. I love the way we justify stuff, you

494
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Speaker 1: know what I mean.

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Speaker 2: So we want to find out not only what have

496
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Speaker 2: I known myself to be at this stage in my life,

497
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Speaker 2: but what am I also that God knows that I

498
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Speaker 2: don't remember? It says those he for knew, he also predestined.

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Speaker 2: Those he predestined he also called, and those he called

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Speaker 2: he also justified. Y'all need to see it again on

501
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Speaker 2: the screen. I can tell put it back up on

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Speaker 2: Romans eight. I am not gonna skim over this. It's

503
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Speaker 2: too life changing, it's too rich. Sometimes I just skim

504
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Speaker 2: over stuff and it doesn't get down deep. And I'm

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Speaker 2: not going to do it today. Because the Holy Spirit

506
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Speaker 2: wants you to hear this, he said Verse thirty. Those

507
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Speaker 2: he predestined, he also called, those he called he also justified.

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Speaker 1: So here's what it is.

509
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Speaker 2: He predestined you according to his purpose for you. He

510
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Speaker 2: created you before he called you it stands the reason

511
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Speaker 2: that he would have created you to be exactly factly

512
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Speaker 2: what he needed you to be for what he would

513
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Speaker 2: call you to do. So all of the arguments that

514
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Speaker 2: you give yourself about how you're not what you need

515
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Speaker 2: to be are wrong because you are called by a

516
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Speaker 2: God who created you. He would not have created you

517
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Speaker 2: to be less than or different than what he would

518
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Speaker 2: call you to be in another.

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Speaker 1: Season of your life. So come up, Abby.

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Speaker 2: So I'm calling Abby to the stage right now. I

521
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Speaker 2: am calling Abby, my daughter, to the stage for a purpose.

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Speaker 2: I wanted to call her to the stage because I

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Speaker 2: wanted to use her for a purpose. She is wearing

524
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Speaker 2: a shirt that if you zoom in on the camera,

525
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Speaker 2: it says I'm calling on the God of Jacob, Moses, Mary,

526
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Speaker 2: your Verse, and David. All of that is on her shirt.

527
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Speaker 2: What a coincidence. Nope, that must be God. She was

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Speaker 2: at the right place on the front row. Look how

529
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Speaker 2: great that worked out. It's almost like I told her

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Speaker 2: to wear it. It's almost like I had a purpose

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Speaker 2: for preaching.

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Speaker 4: And so when I told her, I need you to

533
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Speaker 4: wear that purple shirt.

534
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Speaker 2: That says I'm calling on the God of Jacob and

535
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Speaker 2: Moses and Mary and David. It's almost like I predestined

536
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Speaker 2: her for this purpose, for this moment.

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Speaker 4: So watch this.

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Speaker 2: Of all the people in this room, there are only

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Speaker 2: three that I had a part in creating, a small part,

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Speaker 2: the fun part. So let's follow the secrets. Don't put

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Speaker 2: that do.

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Speaker 8: Created? Called created? Called predestined purpose? So what is God

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Speaker 8: calling you into right now?

544
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Speaker 4: Wouldn't it make.

545
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Speaker 2: Sense for you to stop being so doubtful and stop

546
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Speaker 2: second guessing his sovereignty and stop telling him excuses.

547
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Speaker 9: And just come on up and do and be what

548
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Speaker 9: you were created to be, believing that if he called me,

549
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Speaker 9: that he created me.

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Speaker 4: And position me for the purpose that he predestined me for.

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Speaker 2: All I'm trying to say is that the God who

552
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Speaker 2: called you also created you.

553
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Speaker 4: So if you don't have it, take it up with him.

554
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Speaker 4: He must not want it from you.

555
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Speaker 2: That's why he created other people. That's why comparison is

556
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Speaker 2: a thief.

557
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Speaker 4: And a liar and a drug that we take to

558
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Speaker 4: talk ourselves down from our heart calling.

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Speaker 2: Because I didn't call Graham for this illustration, I didn't

560
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Speaker 2: call Elijah for this illustration. They are bigger in stature,

561
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Speaker 2: but she was better for this purpose because I put

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Speaker 2: her in what she needed for this moment, and I

563
00:37:51,480 --> 00:37:55,000
Speaker 2: want to preach and prophesy to somebody. God knew what

564
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Speaker 2: he would need you to do before you ever got

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Speaker 2: to this people planet. Why you screaming, preacher, Because God

566
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Speaker 2: gave me breadth for this message for somebody to know,

567
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Speaker 2: to get as breadth.

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Speaker 4: In your loves or this assignment.

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Speaker 2: The God of Jacob, that deceiver, the God of Moses,

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Speaker 2: that murderer, the God of Mary, a virgin to have

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Speaker 2: the baby Jesus, a peasant to give birth to the

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Speaker 2: pre eminent word.

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Speaker 4: Of God, the God of David, the eighth Son. Oh,

574
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Speaker 4: God just gave me this as it is.

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Speaker 2: When the prophet came to anoint the next king, Jesse

576
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Speaker 2: lined up sons.

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Speaker 1: That he thought were the right choice.

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Speaker 2: Samuel said, none of these are the right ones.

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Speaker 1: Don't you have any more? And Jesse said, well there

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Speaker 1: is also.

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Speaker 6: So yeah he's the God of Jacob, and yeah he's

582
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Speaker 6: the God of Moses, and yeah he's the God of Mary,

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Speaker 6: and yeah he's the God of David. But he's also

584
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Speaker 6: the God of Abbey.

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Speaker 2: I find somebody says, my God too, he's my king too,

586
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Speaker 2: He's my savior too.

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Speaker 4: He's my shepherd too. The Lord is my shepherd. I

588
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Speaker 4: shall not watch. He's the God of the mountains, but

589
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Speaker 4: he's also the shade of the valley.

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Speaker 2: God.

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Speaker 4: Don't care where you find your some lately he feel this,

592
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Speaker 4: I feel this.

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Speaker 2: And what if everything you've gone through, thank you, baby,

594
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Speaker 2: You'll give her a hand.

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Speaker 4: What if everything that God has allowed.

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Speaker 2: Your life to be up until this point is preparation

597
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Speaker 2: for what you are predestined for. What if your name

598
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Speaker 2: belongs on that shirt too? What if we put your

599
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Speaker 2: name on that shirt to just believing what Romans eight

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Speaker 2: twenty eight says that all things, all things.

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Speaker 10: Good things, bad things, everything in between, all things work together,

602
00:41:06,200 --> 00:41:14,640
Speaker 10: all things work together, good things, bad things, everything in between.

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Speaker 1: All right, work on later. I'll try it out.

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Speaker 2: What if.

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Speaker 4: What if the things in your life that are happening

606
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Speaker 4: are not random?

607
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Speaker 2: You ever wonder so when they say you're sending your

608
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Speaker 2: kid to college, is in college a waste of money?

609
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Speaker 2: I'm like, not not really, Because you can go to

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Speaker 2: college and God can use you. You can also not

611
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Speaker 2: go to college and God can use you. He's the

612
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Speaker 2: god of also open doors, closed doors, PhDs and.

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Speaker 1: Post hold diggers PhD post hold Digger.

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Speaker 2: So I'm asking you something, and I'm really wanting to

615
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Speaker 2: know what you think about it, because I don't thinking

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Speaker 2: about a lot. All right, Let's say you made a

617
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Speaker 2: mistake and you went down the wrong path. Can God

618
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Speaker 2: stop not be down the wrong path?

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Speaker 1: Also?

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Speaker 2: If the answer to that is note, then what was

621
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Speaker 2: he doing looking for Peter after his resurrection? When Peter

622
00:42:34,760 --> 00:42:38,520
Speaker 2: went back fishing after denying him, he was right there.

623
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Speaker 2: He appeared to the disciples who waited for him. But

624
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Speaker 2: he also appeared to Thomas, who didn't believe. I think

625
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Speaker 2: we shouldn't box got in to think that He's only

626
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Speaker 2: as big as our good decisions? Who did that?

627
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Speaker 1: Just set free?

628
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Speaker 2: Now? When I went to college, I was paralyzed by

629
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Speaker 2: the idea, what if I'm at the wrong college. What

630
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Speaker 2: if I'm at the wrong college. What if I'm at

631
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Speaker 2: the wrong college. Well, I did my four years. I

632
00:43:10,600 --> 00:43:14,400
Speaker 2: got my degree. Let me tell you what else I

633
00:43:14,520 --> 00:43:20,759
Speaker 2: got in college. You ever heard of Holly? You ever

634
00:43:20,800 --> 00:43:27,200
Speaker 2: heard of Holly? I got her in college? Which one

635
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Speaker 2: you think I enjoy more?

636
00:43:30,520 --> 00:43:31,040
Speaker 1: The degree?

637
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Speaker 2: The thing that I came to achieve and accomplish, or

638
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Speaker 2: what I got also.

639
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Speaker 1: And that's what I'm saying.

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Speaker 2: Watch for God in the also, almost like you know

641
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Speaker 2: when your kids come and they're being real nice to you,

642
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Speaker 2: How was your day? Can I do anything for you? Dad?

643
00:43:59,480 --> 00:44:01,759
Speaker 2: I'm praying for you as you approach this sermon. I

644
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Speaker 2: just know that the Lord is going to move in

645
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Speaker 2: power like he does. That's what he does.

646
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Speaker 1: He's a waymaker God, and I'm just like, get to it.

647
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Speaker 2: I'm not saying you didn't come to tell me these things,

648
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Speaker 2: but what did you also come in this room for

649
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Speaker 2: to ask me about? Yeah?

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Speaker 1: I just want to know can I have your old phone?

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Speaker 4: Ah?

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Speaker 2: That's it, that's what you came in here for. He

653
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Speaker 2: came in so excited about the wrestling yesterday. I said,

654
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Speaker 2: tell me that, Oh it is great. It was great,

655
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Speaker 2: I said, And what else he said? Well, I was

656
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Speaker 2: just wondering that old phone. That. Yeah, that's to Also,

657
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Speaker 2: God is kind of like that too. You got to

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Speaker 2: watch him for the also, for we know that in

659
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Speaker 2: all things God works for the good of those who

660
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Speaker 2: love him and are called according to his purpose. But

661
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Speaker 2: Roman's eight twenty nine also says that those he for

662
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Speaker 2: knew me also predestined to be conformed to the image

663
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Speaker 2: of his son. What are the things that you're going through?

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Speaker 1: Are all so that you can be more like Jesus?

665
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Speaker 2: And we don't say that it's good when you go

666
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Speaker 2: through suffering, But what if you adopted a view of

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Speaker 2: your life that said, this is all so that God

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Speaker 2: can make me more like his son Jesus. You would

669
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Speaker 2: be undefeedable by the devil because what is he going

670
00:45:25,440 --> 00:45:29,480
Speaker 2: to bring against you? If it's all so that you

671
00:45:29,560 --> 00:45:31,080
Speaker 2: can be more like God who is for you?

672
00:45:32,440 --> 00:45:33,120
Speaker 4: So what can he do?

673
00:45:33,239 --> 00:45:33,359
Speaker 2: Now?

674
00:45:34,520 --> 00:45:35,239
Speaker 4: That's what I.

675
00:45:35,280 --> 00:45:37,440
Speaker 2: Think Paul got to because he goes down this chain

676
00:45:37,520 --> 00:45:42,200
Speaker 2: twenty nine again. Please, he also predestined to be conformed

677
00:45:42,239 --> 00:45:44,840
Speaker 2: to the image of his son, so he knew that

678
00:45:45,040 --> 00:45:46,640
Speaker 2: Moses would have this hesitation.

679
00:45:47,160 --> 00:45:51,520
Speaker 7: But he shows Moses because he knows Moses. He knows

680
00:45:51,640 --> 00:45:56,000
Speaker 7: what Moses is not. He knows what Moses was. He

681
00:45:56,200 --> 00:45:59,759
Speaker 7: knows what Moses will be. He knows what I'm not.

682
00:46:00,600 --> 00:46:03,759
Speaker 7: He knows what I was, he knows what I will be.

683
00:46:03,880 --> 00:46:04,400
Speaker 1: Say all of that.

684
00:46:04,880 --> 00:46:06,040
Speaker 4: He knows what I'm not.

685
00:46:06,840 --> 00:46:10,239
Speaker 2: He knows what I was, he knows what I will be.

686
00:46:10,400 --> 00:46:12,520
Speaker 2: God is the only one who knows all three of those.

687
00:46:13,960 --> 00:46:15,879
Speaker 2: Because some of us we don't even know what we're

688
00:46:15,960 --> 00:46:19,120
Speaker 2: not yet, So we are trying so hard to be

689
00:46:19,320 --> 00:46:22,200
Speaker 2: something in somebody we were not created to be.

690
00:46:22,719 --> 00:46:23,880
Speaker 1: That it is killing us.

691
00:46:24,480 --> 00:46:27,120
Speaker 2: But we could get content if we just go, God,

692
00:46:27,520 --> 00:46:30,239
Speaker 2: you know what I'm not, Show me what i'm not.

693
00:46:30,920 --> 00:46:34,279
Speaker 2: You know what I was, So you see where I've been.

694
00:46:34,719 --> 00:46:38,600
Speaker 2: You've marked out my steps, and you are the only

695
00:46:38,760 --> 00:46:44,040
Speaker 2: one who knows what I will be. So those he predestined,

696
00:46:44,440 --> 00:46:46,719
Speaker 2: he also was to say that he might be the

697
00:46:46,800 --> 00:46:50,560
Speaker 2: firstborn among many brothers and sisters next verse, and those

698
00:46:50,680 --> 00:46:53,520
Speaker 2: he predestined he also called.

699
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Speaker 4: Those he called he also justified. That's talking about the cross.

700
00:47:03,440 --> 00:47:08,480
Speaker 2: That means he made you right, So you can't be

701
00:47:08,600 --> 00:47:12,360
Speaker 2: the wrong one for it, because he made.

702
00:47:12,200 --> 00:47:16,320
Speaker 4: You right for it. He can't.

703
00:47:16,800 --> 00:47:20,600
Speaker 2: He would not call you to. He cannot call you

704
00:47:20,760 --> 00:47:24,239
Speaker 2: to something that he did not create you for. So

705
00:47:24,400 --> 00:47:28,880
Speaker 2: those he called he also justified. That's how I know

706
00:47:29,000 --> 00:47:32,320
Speaker 2: I have what it takes. And those he justified he

707
00:47:32,640 --> 00:47:36,840
Speaker 2: also glorified. Look at all these alsos in the Bible.

708
00:47:37,200 --> 00:47:39,800
Speaker 2: Look at the God of Also, Look how he doesn't

709
00:47:39,920 --> 00:47:42,200
Speaker 2: just set you on your path and say, well, I've

710
00:47:42,239 --> 00:47:43,880
Speaker 2: saved you and I'm forgiven you now It's up to

711
00:47:43,920 --> 00:47:44,719
Speaker 2: you to work it out.

712
00:47:44,640 --> 00:47:45,120
Speaker 1: In your life.

713
00:47:45,320 --> 00:47:45,840
Speaker 9: No, no, no, no no.

714
00:47:46,239 --> 00:47:51,680
Speaker 4: The God who saves will also sustain. I hear you, Lord,

715
00:47:52,040 --> 00:47:55,000
Speaker 4: he who began a good work.

716
00:47:54,840 --> 00:47:58,719
Speaker 2: In you will also be faithful to complete it.

717
00:48:02,320 --> 00:48:03,080
Speaker 1: Verse thirty one.

718
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Speaker 2: What then shall we say in response to these things?

719
00:48:07,080 --> 00:48:10,520
Speaker 2: We all stand like Moses, trying to respond to the

720
00:48:10,600 --> 00:48:12,839
Speaker 2: revelation of what God is calling us to do next.

721
00:48:14,200 --> 00:48:17,840
Speaker 1: But here is our power. If God.

722
00:48:19,280 --> 00:48:24,719
Speaker 2: Is for us, who can be against us? And here's

723
00:48:24,760 --> 00:48:26,640
Speaker 2: my verse I'm hanging on to in this season of

724
00:48:26,719 --> 00:48:28,320
Speaker 2: my life, and you can feel free to borrow it.

725
00:48:29,120 --> 00:48:31,280
Speaker 1: It's my verse, but you can hold it for a minute.

726
00:48:32,400 --> 00:48:35,279
Speaker 2: I'm a lone you my verse, he who did not

727
00:48:35,520 --> 00:48:46,520
Speaker 2: spare his own son, but gave him up for us. Oh, oh, oh,

728
00:48:46,840 --> 00:48:51,520
Speaker 2: you get the same grace that Jacob God. You get

729
00:48:51,560 --> 00:48:54,960
Speaker 2: the same grace that marry God. Y'all leave my scripture.

730
00:48:55,000 --> 00:48:56,480
Speaker 2: Y'all keep taking it down, and I love it.

731
00:48:56,760 --> 00:49:00,279
Speaker 1: Leave it. Oh, I like the server to come tries

732
00:49:00,320 --> 00:49:01,360
Speaker 1: to grab your plate while.

733
00:49:01,160 --> 00:49:03,440
Speaker 2: You're still eating your chicken fingers, like I will eat

734
00:49:03,480 --> 00:49:05,080
Speaker 2: your fingers if you don't put my chicken back on

735
00:49:05,200 --> 00:49:11,239
Speaker 2: this table. Leave my scripture up. He who did all that.

736
00:49:12,760 --> 00:49:15,960
Speaker 2: If he did all of that for me, died for me,

737
00:49:16,680 --> 00:49:22,640
Speaker 2: gave the son for me, how will he not also,

738
00:49:24,280 --> 00:49:27,799
Speaker 2: along with him, graciously give us all things? Now?

739
00:49:27,840 --> 00:49:28,759
Speaker 1: I read this first wrong.

740
00:49:28,880 --> 00:49:31,920
Speaker 2: All week studying it, I thought it meant that he

741
00:49:32,040 --> 00:49:37,040
Speaker 2: will also give me the blessings of life along with Jesus,

742
00:49:37,080 --> 00:49:39,040
Speaker 2: who is the greatest blessing. I thought that meant like,

743
00:49:39,320 --> 00:49:43,000
Speaker 2: I get Jesus and I get other things too. But

744
00:49:43,120 --> 00:49:46,000
Speaker 2: that's not what the verse means. The verse actually means

745
00:49:47,320 --> 00:49:51,759
Speaker 2: that he who gave us his son will give us

746
00:49:52,840 --> 00:50:00,319
Speaker 2: freely also along with him all things. Was I mean?

747
00:50:01,440 --> 00:50:06,560
Speaker 2: It means that God has decided to give me everything

748
00:50:08,480 --> 00:50:13,200
Speaker 2: that Jesus rightfully earned through his life.

749
00:50:14,680 --> 00:50:15,640
Speaker 1: Along with him.

750
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Speaker 2: So if Jesus is loved by his father perfectly, I

751
00:50:25,000 --> 00:50:34,480
Speaker 2: am also loved by my father perfectly. If Jesus can

752
00:50:34,600 --> 00:50:38,200
Speaker 2: pray and his father hears him, I also can pray

753
00:50:38,840 --> 00:50:39,880
Speaker 2: and my father hears me.

754
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Speaker 1: If Jesus could break chains of oppression and he is.

755
00:50:45,280 --> 00:50:51,440
Speaker 2: In me, then I also can expect chains to be broken.

756
00:50:53,239 --> 00:50:55,359
Speaker 2: And I wanted to remind you, thank you. I'm done

757
00:50:55,400 --> 00:51:00,720
Speaker 2: with the scripture. Now what God you're calling on today?

758
00:51:02,120 --> 00:51:11,720
Speaker 2: The God of Jacob the trickster, the deceiver. Stop hiding

759
00:51:11,960 --> 00:51:17,800
Speaker 2: from God when you're going through hard times. Stop hiding

760
00:51:18,160 --> 00:51:21,360
Speaker 2: from God when you're feeling ashamed. Come to Him and

761
00:51:21,480 --> 00:51:24,040
Speaker 2: thank him that there's no shame on Jesus, so there's

762
00:51:24,080 --> 00:51:28,600
Speaker 2: no shame on me. I can see I need to

763
00:51:28,640 --> 00:51:30,919
Speaker 2: teach this stuff a little more because I'm watching your eyes.

764
00:51:30,960 --> 00:51:33,719
Speaker 2: You're going like, Wow, that's really true. Yeah, that's really true.

765
00:51:34,160 --> 00:51:39,320
Speaker 2: You are also loved by God just like Jesus was.

766
00:51:40,880 --> 00:51:42,840
Speaker 2: The Lord doesn't see any difference. He says he's the

767
00:51:42,920 --> 00:51:47,160
Speaker 2: firstborn among many brothers and sisters. That means God accepts

768
00:51:47,239 --> 00:51:50,919
Speaker 2: Jesus because Jesus paid the price, and because Jesus paid

769
00:51:50,960 --> 00:51:53,279
Speaker 2: the price, he also accepts you.

770
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Speaker 1: That's the craziest thing in the world to me, y'all.

771
00:51:58,040 --> 00:52:02,040
Speaker 2: I just got a Jeep auple months ago, and I'm

772
00:52:02,160 --> 00:52:05,880
Speaker 2: enjoying my Jeep. I had a Jeep when I was

773
00:52:06,960 --> 00:52:10,640
Speaker 2: twenty three, twenty four around there, and I figured it

774
00:52:10,800 --> 00:52:13,400
Speaker 2: was time, in this midlife crisis to revisit that youthful

775
00:52:13,480 --> 00:52:18,759
Speaker 2: stallion energy. Get a Jeep. And I'm enjoying that jeep.

776
00:52:19,120 --> 00:52:20,920
Speaker 2: But one of my friends said to me when I

777
00:52:20,960 --> 00:52:23,040
Speaker 2: got it, they said, we need to teach you about

778
00:52:23,040 --> 00:52:25,959
Speaker 2: the jeep wave. How many of y'all have heard about

779
00:52:25,960 --> 00:52:27,000
Speaker 2: the jeep wave? Oh?

780
00:52:27,080 --> 00:52:27,960
Speaker 1: I had never heard of it.

781
00:52:28,160 --> 00:52:30,520
Speaker 2: Do you have a jeep? Well, if you ever passed me,

782
00:52:30,600 --> 00:52:34,840
Speaker 2: I'll I'll try my best to wave at you. Do

783
00:52:34,960 --> 00:52:38,320
Speaker 2: you do the jeep wave? It's just am I allowed

784
00:52:38,360 --> 00:52:40,040
Speaker 2: to tell it? Or is it like Illuminati? If somebody

785
00:52:40,040 --> 00:52:45,200
Speaker 2: gonna come get me Elon Zuckerberg? Who's coming to give me?

786
00:52:45,200 --> 00:52:45,680
Speaker 2: If I say this?

787
00:52:49,880 --> 00:52:54,239
Speaker 1: Go holl in On the god of e Ela yip.

788
00:52:56,120 --> 00:52:59,000
Speaker 2: Anyway, they said, they said you gotta do the jeep wave,

789
00:52:59,680 --> 00:53:02,520
Speaker 2: and I said, well, what is the jeep wave? And

790
00:53:02,680 --> 00:53:04,520
Speaker 2: they said, it's very simple, but you really need to

791
00:53:04,560 --> 00:53:06,120
Speaker 2: do it because it's a lot of fun. And at

792
00:53:06,160 --> 00:53:08,120
Speaker 2: first I was kind of contrary into it because I

793
00:53:08,160 --> 00:53:10,839
Speaker 2: didn't like somebody telling me how I had to wave

794
00:53:10,920 --> 00:53:12,799
Speaker 2: at anybody else and said, if you pass another jeep,

795
00:53:13,080 --> 00:53:14,680
Speaker 2: you do like just like that.

796
00:53:15,040 --> 00:53:24,040
Speaker 1: That's all it is like that. So so I'm like,

797
00:53:24,120 --> 00:53:24,880
Speaker 1: that's so stupid.

798
00:53:27,400 --> 00:53:31,279
Speaker 2: Well, eventually it's it's it's kind of compelling, you know

799
00:53:31,360 --> 00:53:34,200
Speaker 2: that you kind of just get into it and then

800
00:53:34,239 --> 00:53:35,920
Speaker 2: you start to feel judgmental of everybody.

801
00:53:35,960 --> 00:53:36,640
Speaker 1: Who's not in a.

802
00:53:36,719 --> 00:53:41,640
Speaker 2: Jeep because they don't have a wave right, And so

803
00:53:41,760 --> 00:53:43,759
Speaker 2: now I'm riding around and I do it every chance

804
00:53:43,800 --> 00:53:48,920
Speaker 2: I get the jeep wave. And even now I've come

805
00:53:48,960 --> 00:53:54,120
Speaker 2: to the point where if if you don't give me

806
00:53:54,200 --> 00:53:59,160
Speaker 2: the jeep wave back, it kind of offends me, and

807
00:53:59,320 --> 00:54:01,680
Speaker 2: it kind of makes me attempted to do another, a

808
00:54:01,719 --> 00:54:04,480
Speaker 2: different kind of wave, a different kind of handmotion, just

809
00:54:04,520 --> 00:54:08,200
Speaker 2: because now I'm into it, because I'm like, we're in

810
00:54:08,280 --> 00:54:14,840
Speaker 2: this together, we the jeep people. We're supposed to stick together.

811
00:54:16,520 --> 00:54:18,440
Speaker 2: And you know, I was thinking about that driving home

812
00:54:18,480 --> 00:54:20,319
Speaker 2: with Abby. I said last week, I said, I got

813
00:54:20,400 --> 00:54:23,000
Speaker 2: to put that in my sermon. But I don't want

814
00:54:23,000 --> 00:54:25,560
Speaker 2: to talk about a jeep. I want to talk about

815
00:54:25,600 --> 00:54:27,200
Speaker 2: how Jesus.

816
00:54:28,360 --> 00:54:34,440
Speaker 11: Has given us all a gift that is common to us,

817
00:54:35,120 --> 00:54:40,880
Speaker 11: but it is so specific to us, and our identity

818
00:54:41,440 --> 00:54:45,680
Speaker 11: in Him is the most important thing about us. So

819
00:54:45,920 --> 00:54:49,920
Speaker 11: anything you can say about yourself that is negative, you

820
00:54:50,040 --> 00:54:53,719
Speaker 11: can also say something about yourself that will let the

821
00:54:53,880 --> 00:54:56,760
Speaker 11: enemy know that the God who.

822
00:54:56,840 --> 00:55:03,120
Speaker 2: Knows me the most loves me the most, and that's

823
00:55:03,200 --> 00:55:06,880
Speaker 2: who I am, and that's.

824
00:55:06,760 --> 00:55:07,279
Speaker 4: Who I am.

825
00:55:09,040 --> 00:55:10,680
Speaker 2: So for those of you who walked in today, and

826
00:55:10,719 --> 00:55:15,000
Speaker 2: you're like, why do they lift their hands in worship.

827
00:55:15,120 --> 00:55:20,719
Speaker 2: That's kind of weird. No, that's our Jesus wave. That's

828
00:55:20,800 --> 00:55:28,719
Speaker 2: our wave. That's our wave. That's us telling God, Oh God,

829
00:55:28,880 --> 00:55:33,280
Speaker 2: my God, I need you. I can't make it without

830
00:55:33,320 --> 00:55:39,320
Speaker 2: your grace. Now, I belong to Jesus, and Jesus belongs

831
00:55:39,440 --> 00:55:42,560
Speaker 2: to me, and I am his.

832
00:55:44,640 --> 00:55:45,520
Speaker 4: And he is mine.

833
00:55:47,600 --> 00:55:50,560
Speaker 1: So stand up on your feet and just lift your hands.

834
00:55:50,640 --> 00:55:53,600
Speaker 2: Right now, Let's do our Let's do our Jesus thing

835
00:55:53,680 --> 00:55:57,080
Speaker 2: for a moment, and let's let the Lord know in

836
00:55:57,160 --> 00:55:59,640
Speaker 2: his presence today that we.

837
00:55:59,719 --> 00:56:00,680
Speaker 1: Are calling.

838
00:56:02,040 --> 00:56:08,480
Speaker 2: On his name, the name of Jesus, his name through

839
00:56:08,520 --> 00:56:10,439
Speaker 2: all generations, the Great. I am.

840
00:56:12,560 --> 00:56:12,799
Speaker 1: Lord.

841
00:56:12,840 --> 00:56:18,480
Speaker 2: I'm asking you today for everybody who has been caught up,

842
00:56:20,520 --> 00:56:24,600
Speaker 2: that you would call them back into the reality of

843
00:56:24,920 --> 00:56:28,719
Speaker 2: who you are, what you've spoken. Father, I thank you

844
00:56:28,800 --> 00:56:36,719
Speaker 2: today that Jesus is our big brother, our savior, our

845
00:56:36,840 --> 00:56:40,239
Speaker 2: true vine. I thank you that he is our bread

846
00:56:40,280 --> 00:56:43,880
Speaker 2: of life. Today, as we stand in your presence, we

847
00:56:44,040 --> 00:56:47,279
Speaker 2: receive all that you are more than enough for us.

848
00:56:49,280 --> 00:56:50,960
Speaker 2: Can put your hands down for a moment. I want

849
00:56:50,960 --> 00:56:54,399
Speaker 2: to pray a special prayer. There's someone in here who

850
00:56:54,440 --> 00:56:58,480
Speaker 2: has never joined your life. To Jesus Christ. You have

851
00:56:58,719 --> 00:57:02,600
Speaker 2: never given your life over to God. Maybe you've done

852
00:57:02,640 --> 00:57:05,160
Speaker 2: it and you've wandered away, and God brought you back

853
00:57:05,200 --> 00:57:09,839
Speaker 2: here today because he's calling you, he's drawing you, He's

854
00:57:09,920 --> 00:57:11,840
Speaker 2: using everything in your life to bring you to this

855
00:57:12,040 --> 00:57:13,919
Speaker 2: point so that you could reach for him. And he's

856
00:57:13,960 --> 00:57:16,840
Speaker 2: not far. He'll be found. And if you call on

857
00:57:16,960 --> 00:57:21,040
Speaker 2: his name today, the God of Jacob, the God of Moses,

858
00:57:21,240 --> 00:57:25,720
Speaker 2: the God of Mary, the God of David, the God

859
00:57:25,800 --> 00:57:30,640
Speaker 2: of Jesus, he will be your God too. All you

860
00:57:30,720 --> 00:57:32,280
Speaker 2: have to do is call on his name. The Bible

861
00:57:32,320 --> 00:57:34,400
Speaker 2: says that if we call on him, he will save us,

862
00:57:35,080 --> 00:57:37,960
Speaker 2: that everyone who calls on the name of the Lord

863
00:57:38,720 --> 00:57:41,400
Speaker 2: will be saved. So right now we're all going to

864
00:57:41,440 --> 00:57:43,400
Speaker 2: pray this prayer together as a church family for the

865
00:57:43,440 --> 00:57:45,000
Speaker 2: benefit of those who.

866
00:57:44,960 --> 00:57:46,280
Speaker 1: Are coming to God.

867
00:57:47,600 --> 00:57:49,400
Speaker 2: I won't you repeat this prayer after me if you

868
00:57:49,480 --> 00:57:52,520
Speaker 2: desire to place your faith in Jesus today, be saved

869
00:57:52,520 --> 00:57:54,200
Speaker 2: from your sin and have a new beginning in him.

870
00:57:54,240 --> 00:57:58,320
Speaker 2: Repeat after me, Heavenly Father, I come to you. I

871
00:57:58,440 --> 00:58:02,400
Speaker 2: am a sinner in need of a savior, and I

872
00:58:02,600 --> 00:58:08,280
Speaker 2: believe that Jesus Christ is your son and the savior

873
00:58:08,360 --> 00:58:12,600
Speaker 2: of the world. I believe he died to forgive my

874
00:58:12,720 --> 00:58:18,040
Speaker 2: sin and rose again to give me life. I receive

875
00:58:18,960 --> 00:58:24,040
Speaker 2: this new life. This is my new beginning. On the counter.

876
00:58:24,120 --> 00:58:26,240
Speaker 2: Three raise your hand if you prayed that one, two,

877
00:58:26,760 --> 00:58:33,280
Speaker 2: three must celebrate together. Bless you, Bless you absolutely amazing. God.

878
00:58:33,320 --> 00:58:38,280
Speaker 2: Bless the third in the bast God. Bless you, God,

879
00:58:38,320 --> 00:58:38,760
Speaker 2: Bless you.

880
00:58:40,400 --> 00:58:45,560
Speaker 1: Best decision you'll ever made, the best decision.

881
00:58:46,400 --> 00:58:50,960
Speaker 2: You'll ever make, the best decision you'll ever make. To

882
00:58:51,080 --> 00:58:54,920
Speaker 2: call on his name. And you know what, never stopped

883
00:58:54,960 --> 00:58:58,800
Speaker 2: calling his name. You don't just call him one time.

884
00:59:00,080 --> 00:59:01,760
Speaker 2: You call him in your high moments. You call him

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Speaker 2: in your low moments. You call on the God of

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Speaker 2: also also Also. You give him praise when you're doing well,

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Speaker 2: and you cry out to him with petitions when you're not.

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Speaker 1: He is the God of Also.

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Speaker 2: You trust him when you can see the next step.

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Speaker 2: You trust him when you've stumbled down the whole staircase.

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Speaker 1: He is the God of Also.

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Speaker 2: they're available. I also want to take a moment and

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Speaker 2: thank all of you who are a part of Elevation.

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Speaker 2: Whether you support us financially, or serve with us, or

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Speaker 2: just share these messages, it's because of you that we're

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