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Speaker 1: Oh it's gonna be exciting. So seven pm each night,

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Speaker 1: live here? If you could never have it again, what

429
00:29:49,320 --> 00:29:56,360
Speaker 1: would you give to have it back? And I'll say everything,

430
00:30:00,040 --> 00:30:02,760
Speaker 1: And then the Holy Spirit will say, so what do

431
00:30:02,880 --> 00:30:21,200
Speaker 1: you already have everything? Everything? And now sometimes I think

432
00:30:21,240 --> 00:30:24,840
Speaker 1: we need a perspective like Mark chapter five, where we

433
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Speaker 1: realize that somebody as important as Gyrus, with as much

434
00:30:28,000 --> 00:30:34,440
Speaker 1: to do, is losing his little daughter, and nothing else matters,

435
00:30:35,280 --> 00:30:37,720
Speaker 1: And we lift our hands not only in moments of loss,

436
00:30:38,880 --> 00:30:43,280
Speaker 1: but even in moments where we are stressed about stuff

437
00:30:43,800 --> 00:30:47,600
Speaker 1: that isn't as significant as the devil wants us to think.

438
00:30:47,640 --> 00:30:51,920
Speaker 1: It is stuff that isn't that doesn't matter as much.

439
00:30:52,160 --> 00:30:56,080
Speaker 1: You know, your dirty countertops do not matter as much

440
00:30:56,400 --> 00:30:59,640
Speaker 1: as your OCD brain makes them matter to you in

441
00:30:59,680 --> 00:31:02,880
Speaker 1: the moments where you are screaming around the house. And

442
00:31:02,960 --> 00:31:07,480
Speaker 1: sometimes I just gotta stop and go, thank you Lord,

443
00:31:09,600 --> 00:31:13,160
Speaker 1: thank you if you can get here for these messy countertops,

444
00:31:14,400 --> 00:31:18,600
Speaker 1: that these annoying kids that I would do anything for

445
00:31:19,440 --> 00:31:21,920
Speaker 1: messed up. Oh what if I don't have kids, pastor Stevene?

446
00:31:22,000 --> 00:31:23,400
Speaker 1: What if I want kids? What if I'm in a

447
00:31:23,440 --> 00:31:25,560
Speaker 1: situation where I'm not married and I want to be married.

448
00:31:25,720 --> 00:31:28,760
Speaker 1: I guarantee you there is something in your life right

449
00:31:28,800 --> 00:31:31,960
Speaker 1: now that you are taking for granted that if you

450
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Speaker 1: lost it, you would do anything and everything to have

451
00:31:36,400 --> 00:31:44,280
Speaker 1: it back. So what do you already have everything? What

452
00:31:44,400 --> 00:31:49,800
Speaker 1: do you already have if you have salvation? If you

453
00:31:49,960 --> 00:31:56,240
Speaker 1: know that neither height, nor depth, nor anything else in

454
00:31:56,320 --> 00:32:00,600
Speaker 1: all creation shall be able to separate me from the

455
00:32:00,640 --> 00:32:05,920
Speaker 1: love of God in Christ, Jesus, what do you have?

456
00:32:07,440 --> 00:32:11,920
Speaker 1: I got it all. If I got Jesus, I got

457
00:32:11,960 --> 00:32:16,120
Speaker 1: it all. If I've got His blood covering me, and

458
00:32:16,400 --> 00:32:19,360
Speaker 1: wasn't the shame off of my life and the film

459
00:32:19,400 --> 00:32:22,840
Speaker 1: off of my faith. I got it all. I got

460
00:32:22,880 --> 00:32:25,880
Speaker 1: it all. Not all I want, but all I need.

461
00:32:26,320 --> 00:32:30,560
Speaker 1: The Lord is my shepherd, and I sound not one.

462
00:32:31,560 --> 00:32:38,040
Speaker 1: I got it all. High five five people and tell

463
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Speaker 1: him I got it all. I got more than it

464
00:32:40,440 --> 00:32:56,600
Speaker 1: looks like on the outside. Ah yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah,

465
00:32:56,680 --> 00:32:59,800
Speaker 1: yeah yeah yeah yeah great, yeah yeah yeah. I'm glad

466
00:33:00,440 --> 00:33:04,280
Speaker 1: to be alive. I'm glad to be in that number.

467
00:33:04,440 --> 00:33:15,959
Speaker 1: I'm glad. I'm glass he won't beat up. I'm sitting

468
00:33:16,000 --> 00:33:19,320
Speaker 1: next to something right now that if I lost, did

469
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Speaker 1: I do anything to get it back. Don't wait for

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Speaker 1: God to take it away, to give him praise for it.

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Speaker 1: Give me my flowers now. I don't want them in

472
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Speaker 1: my funeral. If I'm a blessing to you, tell me

473
00:33:40,080 --> 00:33:42,000
Speaker 1: I'm a blessing to you while I can still hear it.

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Speaker 1: I won't need you to encourage me in heaven. I'll

475
00:33:45,120 --> 00:33:50,320
Speaker 1: be with Jesus. I'm good up there. Tell me now

476
00:33:51,440 --> 00:33:55,160
Speaker 1: you understand what I'm saying and where I'm coming from,

477
00:33:55,480 --> 00:33:59,480
Speaker 1: and why I'm telling you this. Because you will be

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Speaker 1: attacked by the enemy. Oh that's a fact. That is

479
00:34:04,320 --> 00:34:09,000
Speaker 1: a fact. Somebody put facts in the chat. Facts you

480
00:34:09,160 --> 00:34:13,160
Speaker 1: will be attacked by the enemy. It is a fact.

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Speaker 1: Oh No, I will take up the whole armor of God.

482
00:34:17,680 --> 00:34:23,000
Speaker 1: What's the armor for? I'll take up the shield of faith.

483
00:34:23,040 --> 00:34:25,160
Speaker 1: The devil can't the devil can't touch me. I got

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Speaker 1: the shield of faith. What's the shield for? It presupposes

485
00:34:29,800 --> 00:34:32,680
Speaker 1: a problem. You don't carry around a shield if you

486
00:34:32,680 --> 00:34:36,440
Speaker 1: don't plan on getting hit by anything. Come on, be real.

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Speaker 1: The fact that Jesus was speaking didn't stop his daughter

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Speaker 1: from dying the attack. This is another thing we were

489
00:34:51,880 --> 00:34:54,000
Speaker 1: talking about the other day. So we're talking about trusting

490
00:34:54,000 --> 00:34:56,319
Speaker 1: God with your kids and how you really have to.

491
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Speaker 1: It's not a choice. Your fingers will be pride at

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00:35:00,520 --> 00:35:03,239
Speaker 1: some point, also them they will eat gluten if they

493
00:35:03,280 --> 00:35:10,640
Speaker 1: want to eat gluten. At some point, I love y'all.

494
00:35:10,680 --> 00:35:15,080
Speaker 1: Some point I get too raw fear. Sometimes I feel

495
00:35:15,080 --> 00:35:16,799
Speaker 1: like we're friends. I feel like I know you. I

496
00:35:16,800 --> 00:35:21,040
Speaker 1: feel like I've done with you. The other thing we

497
00:35:21,040 --> 00:35:23,360
Speaker 1: were talking about is, oh, I remember what it was.

498
00:35:24,160 --> 00:35:30,200
Speaker 1: How it's not really the attack that matters, because as

499
00:35:30,280 --> 00:35:33,000
Speaker 1: Christians we seem to be obsessed with this idea of

500
00:35:33,440 --> 00:35:38,680
Speaker 1: I'm under attack, and it really becomes this basket that

501
00:35:38,719 --> 00:35:41,240
Speaker 1: we throw every bad thing into and call it an attack.

502
00:35:42,000 --> 00:35:43,439
Speaker 1: You got a basket at your house, or a drawer

503
00:35:43,480 --> 00:35:45,719
Speaker 1: or something where you put every cable, every cored, you

504
00:35:45,840 --> 00:35:47,960
Speaker 1: got a game Boy in the thing, like you have

505
00:35:48,000 --> 00:35:50,279
Speaker 1: a charger to the game Boy. You got stuff from

506
00:35:50,400 --> 00:35:54,439
Speaker 1: nineteen eighty six in there. It's kind of our junk

507
00:35:54,560 --> 00:36:01,720
Speaker 1: drawer to say, I'm just under attack. It's not always

508
00:36:01,760 --> 00:36:07,759
Speaker 1: an attack. No it's not. It is. Sometimes it's not

509
00:36:07,840 --> 00:36:14,640
Speaker 1: always an attack, and it's not always the enemy. Because

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00:36:15,800 --> 00:36:19,120
Speaker 1: I know the devil is a liar, even when I

511
00:36:19,160 --> 00:36:22,239
Speaker 1: believe him. Something in me kind of knows, called the

512
00:36:22,239 --> 00:36:26,520
Speaker 1: Holy Spirit, this is not true. So the devil's lies

513
00:36:26,560 --> 00:36:29,319
Speaker 1: are one thing. But look at the passage with me

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Speaker 1: in verse thirty five. It doesn't say that the devil

515
00:36:35,040 --> 00:36:40,120
Speaker 1: told Gyrus a bad report. It says that while Jesus

516
00:36:40,239 --> 00:36:46,600
Speaker 1: was speaking follow me, some people came from Gyrus's own house,

517
00:36:46,680 --> 00:36:50,719
Speaker 1: people who worked for him, and they told him, your

518
00:36:50,800 --> 00:36:55,520
Speaker 1: daughter is dead, and then they asked him, why bother

519
00:36:55,880 --> 00:36:59,960
Speaker 1: the teacher anymore? Notice what they call Jesus the teacher

520
00:37:01,840 --> 00:37:06,280
Speaker 1: because to them, that's all he was. They didn't believe

521
00:37:06,280 --> 00:37:09,280
Speaker 1: in him yet. He hadn't died yet, he hadn't risen yet.

522
00:37:09,680 --> 00:37:13,440
Speaker 1: These were not believers in Jesus. These were members of

523
00:37:13,480 --> 00:37:16,760
Speaker 1: the synagogue who were still making up their mind about Jesus.

524
00:37:18,640 --> 00:37:21,800
Speaker 1: So when they call him the teacher, they're not lying,

525
00:37:22,400 --> 00:37:30,160
Speaker 1: but they are limiting because if all he is is

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00:37:30,200 --> 00:37:33,560
Speaker 1: a teacher, then why are you still standing here listening

527
00:37:33,560 --> 00:37:35,799
Speaker 1: to him with this crowd. You need to get home.

528
00:37:35,880 --> 00:37:38,840
Speaker 1: Your daughter's dead, and you are needed for the funeral arrangements,

529
00:37:38,880 --> 00:37:41,560
Speaker 1: because in Jewish custom, there would be mourners that would

530
00:37:41,560 --> 00:37:43,839
Speaker 1: come in two flutes and there would be at least

531
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Speaker 1: four people. If you were poor, imagine how many people

532
00:37:46,920 --> 00:37:50,360
Speaker 1: were filling Jyrus's house at that moment to mourn the

533
00:37:50,360 --> 00:37:53,759
Speaker 1: death of his daughter. And if all he is is

534
00:37:53,800 --> 00:37:58,600
Speaker 1: a teacher, we're wasting time. So when they call him

535
00:37:58,600 --> 00:38:01,759
Speaker 1: a teacher and they say your daughter's notice this. They

536
00:38:01,800 --> 00:38:06,799
Speaker 1: are not the enemy. These are his friends. And this

537
00:38:06,920 --> 00:38:13,279
Speaker 1: is not a lie, but it is a limitation. Now,

538
00:38:13,360 --> 00:38:15,759
Speaker 1: sometimes the devil would just outright lie to you. You

539
00:38:15,760 --> 00:38:17,920
Speaker 1: can feel it when it comes on. You're worthless, your

540
00:38:17,960 --> 00:38:21,600
Speaker 1: piece of crap, you suck. Bad word, bad word, bad word,

541
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Speaker 1: bad word. That's the devil calling you stuff that you know.

542
00:38:24,040 --> 00:38:26,480
Speaker 1: God doesn't see you as that, right, and so then

543
00:38:26,520 --> 00:38:29,200
Speaker 1: you just rebuke the devil. Ah, God, rebuke you, devil.

544
00:38:29,280 --> 00:38:30,880
Speaker 1: You're so crazy. You think I'm gonna listen to this

545
00:38:30,920 --> 00:38:32,960
Speaker 1: trash talk. You think I'm really just gonna drive my

546
00:38:33,120 --> 00:38:36,239
Speaker 1: car into another car right now, feel so bad about myself,

547
00:38:36,280 --> 00:38:38,320
Speaker 1: I'm gonna end my life. Come on, devil, you're crazy.

548
00:38:38,400 --> 00:38:40,120
Speaker 1: I rebuke you, Satan, in the name of the Lord,

549
00:38:40,160 --> 00:38:42,239
Speaker 1: the blood of Jesus against you, Satan, and all of

550
00:38:42,280 --> 00:38:45,600
Speaker 1: these things you can do when it's the enemy and

551
00:38:45,640 --> 00:38:51,759
Speaker 1: when it's an attack. But in this case, it's not

552
00:38:51,880 --> 00:38:56,480
Speaker 1: the enemy, and it's not an attack. It's his friends.

553
00:38:58,200 --> 00:39:02,759
Speaker 1: And it's a fact. Some of the stuff that you're

554
00:39:02,760 --> 00:39:06,280
Speaker 1: fighting with in your faith right now, it's not a lie.

555
00:39:07,520 --> 00:39:10,880
Speaker 1: And that's what makes it so scary. It's a fact.

556
00:39:12,440 --> 00:39:19,319
Speaker 1: It's a fact. It is a fact. Tuck to three

557
00:39:19,320 --> 00:39:23,799
Speaker 1: people in this church last night, one diagnosed with Parkinson's

558
00:39:23,960 --> 00:39:27,280
Speaker 1: this week, one whose son went to jail this week.

559
00:39:27,800 --> 00:39:31,080
Speaker 1: One of them who lost their job this week. Not

560
00:39:31,200 --> 00:39:34,120
Speaker 1: all the same skin color, not all the same age.

561
00:39:34,880 --> 00:39:36,640
Speaker 1: Some new to the church, some have been in the

562
00:39:36,719 --> 00:39:40,080
Speaker 1: church almost since it started. All three of them are

563
00:39:40,160 --> 00:39:45,120
Speaker 1: facing facts, And there wasn't one of them I could say, too,

564
00:39:45,280 --> 00:39:47,319
Speaker 1: the devil is a liar. Rebuke him in Jesus name,

565
00:39:48,800 --> 00:39:51,800
Speaker 1: not in good conscience. I guess I could say someus

566
00:39:51,800 --> 00:39:54,279
Speaker 1: pocus stuff about it, and maybe it would feel good

567
00:39:54,360 --> 00:39:58,200
Speaker 1: for about three seconds. But when my dad was diagnosed

568
00:39:58,239 --> 00:40:01,720
Speaker 1: with ALS, I knew he would die. It was a fact.

569
00:40:02,719 --> 00:40:04,799
Speaker 1: Well didn't you pray for healing? Of course I did.

570
00:40:05,480 --> 00:40:09,799
Speaker 1: Who wouldn't. But when the healing didn't happen, and all

571
00:40:09,880 --> 00:40:13,080
Speaker 1: I was left with was the facts. Now, how can

572
00:40:13,120 --> 00:40:15,560
Speaker 1: I be on the phone with somebody who just got

573
00:40:15,560 --> 00:40:19,680
Speaker 1: a diagnosis like Parkinson's and say it's gonna be all right,

574
00:40:20,840 --> 00:40:26,560
Speaker 1: don't be afraid. Just believe I don't say that when

575
00:40:26,560 --> 00:40:29,160
Speaker 1: I call people. I don't feel like I have the

576
00:40:29,239 --> 00:40:32,640
Speaker 1: right to tell you not to be afraid, And I

577
00:40:32,640 --> 00:40:34,680
Speaker 1: don't really feel like I have the right to tell

578
00:40:34,719 --> 00:40:40,880
Speaker 1: you to just believe, because I struggle with believe myself.

579
00:40:41,719 --> 00:40:45,359
Speaker 1: And the Lord gently rebuked me this week and said,

580
00:40:45,440 --> 00:40:48,600
Speaker 1: I I'll tell you what was It was so dumb.

581
00:40:50,400 --> 00:40:52,200
Speaker 1: This is what I would leave out my sermons if

582
00:40:52,239 --> 00:40:57,840
Speaker 1: I had good sense where a lady was coming to

583
00:40:58,000 --> 00:41:02,520
Speaker 1: do my blood. Take my blood right, this is not

584
00:41:02,600 --> 00:41:07,040
Speaker 1: a big deal. And she didn't show up. And I

585
00:41:07,160 --> 00:41:11,279
Speaker 1: had a garden of gethsemine moment because when they draw

586
00:41:11,400 --> 00:41:16,239
Speaker 1: your blood, you can't have any caffeine or food. And

587
00:41:16,320 --> 00:41:22,680
Speaker 1: for me to be a wait for two hours without caffeine, listen,

588
00:41:23,160 --> 00:41:26,399
Speaker 1: we all have our cross to bear. Must Jesus bear

589
00:41:26,440 --> 00:41:31,680
Speaker 1: the cross alone? Were you there when they crucified my Lord?

590
00:41:35,680 --> 00:41:38,640
Speaker 1: And just as quick as I could start complaining, this

591
00:41:38,760 --> 00:41:41,480
Speaker 1: lady was wrong with her. She messed up my whole day.

592
00:41:41,520 --> 00:41:44,120
Speaker 1: She interrupted my whole day. Now my old day is

593
00:41:44,160 --> 00:41:46,719
Speaker 1: thrown off. Not everything is wrong. I didn't even get

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00:41:46,719 --> 00:41:49,280
Speaker 1: to do my gratitude practice this morning because this lady

595
00:41:49,560 --> 00:41:53,520
Speaker 1: messed up my blood drawl. And the Lord said, would

596
00:41:53,560 --> 00:41:59,720
Speaker 1: you rather be going to a chemo appointment? And that

597
00:42:00,600 --> 00:42:12,279
Speaker 1: shut me up because it was so dumb. It was

598
00:42:12,320 --> 00:42:15,399
Speaker 1: so dumb. So the Lord said to me, you get

599
00:42:15,480 --> 00:42:18,120
Speaker 1: up and tell people to believe me for the impossible,

600
00:42:19,480 --> 00:42:25,239
Speaker 1: and you can't even put up with the uncomfortable. When

601
00:42:25,280 --> 00:42:27,160
Speaker 1: Mike was working on me one time he was working

602
00:42:27,160 --> 00:42:29,880
Speaker 1: on my shoulder, he said, how is that pain level

603
00:42:29,880 --> 00:42:32,600
Speaker 1: that you feel when you do that? I said, unbearable.

604
00:42:32,960 --> 00:42:37,279
Speaker 1: He goes unbearable. First time he ever worked on me,

605
00:42:38,560 --> 00:42:40,680
Speaker 1: Mike Dannenberg. Look him up. He does a great job.

606
00:42:40,719 --> 00:42:51,400
Speaker 1: He said, unbearable. Unbearable. I said, okay, uncomfortable, right, because

607
00:42:51,440 --> 00:42:56,040
Speaker 1: this story gives us a great gift of perspective, of

608
00:42:56,160 --> 00:42:59,800
Speaker 1: perspective to know that even when it was that bad.

609
00:43:00,200 --> 00:43:03,799
Speaker 1: Look what Jesus said to Gyrus verse thirty six. Now,

610
00:43:03,800 --> 00:43:06,160
Speaker 1: this is a powerful principle and a dynamic of faith

611
00:43:06,160 --> 00:43:08,799
Speaker 1: that works in your life anytime you choose to apply it.

612
00:43:08,920 --> 00:43:17,080
Speaker 1: He said, don't be afraid. Just believe I can understand

613
00:43:17,120 --> 00:43:23,200
Speaker 1: you saying this. If it's a spider. This is not

614
00:43:23,320 --> 00:43:26,400
Speaker 1: a spider, y'all. And by the way, the spider crawled

615
00:43:26,440 --> 00:43:28,239
Speaker 1: between the mats. When I was working out this week,

616
00:43:28,280 --> 00:43:30,279
Speaker 1: and I was down there doing VPS on the bosuit bowl,

617
00:43:30,480 --> 00:43:34,160
Speaker 1: and I went a whole fifteen steps ahead, and I said,

618
00:43:34,160 --> 00:43:35,759
Speaker 1: this is how I'm gonna die. It's gonna be a

619
00:43:35,800 --> 00:43:38,600
Speaker 1: spider bite on the floor doing v ups on the

620
00:43:38,600 --> 00:43:41,080
Speaker 1: bosuit bowl while I'm trying to be healthy, and a

621
00:43:41,120 --> 00:43:43,239
Speaker 1: spider is gonna sneak up and bite me. And I

622
00:43:43,239 --> 00:43:46,000
Speaker 1: can see my skin rotting. I could already see a hole.

623
00:43:46,080 --> 00:43:49,040
Speaker 1: And I'll tell you it's crazy how far your mind

624
00:43:49,080 --> 00:43:51,479
Speaker 1: can go. But look, look, look, look, look, I'm making

625
00:43:51,520 --> 00:43:53,840
Speaker 1: it funny because I don't want us to think that

626
00:43:53,920 --> 00:43:58,200
Speaker 1: what Jesus said is only for the most desperate situation.

627
00:43:59,440 --> 00:44:05,000
Speaker 1: What he said has implications in your daily situation. So

628
00:44:05,440 --> 00:44:09,359
Speaker 1: if he can say that to a man who just

629
00:44:09,840 --> 00:44:14,719
Speaker 1: received a report your daughter is dead. And if if

630
00:44:14,840 --> 00:44:17,200
Speaker 1: Jesus this is what we claim to believe about Jesus.

631
00:44:17,280 --> 00:44:19,919
Speaker 1: He's the savior of the world. He's the Great I Am.

632
00:44:20,200 --> 00:44:23,600
Speaker 1: He's the living Water, he's the good Shepherd. He's all

633
00:44:23,640 --> 00:44:25,920
Speaker 1: of these things that we claim him to be. He

634
00:44:26,080 --> 00:44:28,440
Speaker 1: is the Prince of Peace, the King of Kings, the

635
00:44:28,440 --> 00:44:31,800
Speaker 1: alphan Omega, the final Word from Heaven, the great High Priest,

636
00:44:32,040 --> 00:44:34,600
Speaker 1: the Lamb of God, and the lion of the tribe

637
00:44:34,640 --> 00:44:39,279
Speaker 1: of Judah. If we believe all that was said to

638
00:44:39,400 --> 00:44:42,600
Speaker 1: a man who lost what he loved the most by

639
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Speaker 1: the one who sees and knows everything. Don't be afraid,

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Speaker 1: just believe. I want Jesus to speak to me about

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Speaker 1: my deepest fear. I want Jesus to speak to me

642
00:45:05,320 --> 00:45:10,080
Speaker 1: about what I can't speak to you about. I want

643
00:45:10,239 --> 00:45:15,160
Speaker 1: Jesus to speak to me about what plays over and

644
00:45:15,239 --> 00:45:17,520
Speaker 1: over in my head. You know it's in my head

645
00:45:18,080 --> 00:45:21,239
Speaker 1: and it's in my heart. The devil doesn't speak to

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00:45:21,280 --> 00:45:26,080
Speaker 1: me out loud. It's louder than that, because when it

647
00:45:26,080 --> 00:45:31,560
Speaker 1: comes from the inside, I can't find the switch for that.

648
00:45:31,600 --> 00:45:39,440
Speaker 1: They came from Gyrus's house and said, why bother. You know,

649
00:45:39,520 --> 00:45:43,280
Speaker 1: it doesn't happen in the scripture because when Jesus says,

650
00:45:43,680 --> 00:45:49,440
Speaker 1: don't be afraid, just believe, Jesus does not argue with

651
00:45:49,600 --> 00:45:57,239
Speaker 1: the facts. He calls Gyrus into faith. So this is

652
00:45:57,239 --> 00:46:02,120
Speaker 1: for everybody who thinks, blah blah blah, Candy Canes, Jesus Christ,

653
00:46:02,120 --> 00:46:04,759
Speaker 1: and Maury Povich, the Bible is just nothing other than

654
00:46:04,840 --> 00:46:07,359
Speaker 1: just all this dynamics and dramatics. No no no, no, no,

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00:46:07,360 --> 00:46:10,320
Speaker 1: no no. He doesn't deny a single thing they said.

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00:46:11,200 --> 00:46:16,880
Speaker 1: In fact, in verse thirty six, very powerful, it says,

657
00:46:16,920 --> 00:46:22,239
Speaker 1: overhearing what they said, you see it overhearing what they said,

658
00:46:23,200 --> 00:46:25,880
Speaker 1: and it's interesting. Let's do that thing, abby, Let's do

659
00:46:25,960 --> 00:46:29,760
Speaker 1: that thing overhearing what they said. I wrote it down

660
00:46:30,040 --> 00:46:33,000
Speaker 1: the Greek word for overhere. That mark uses brilliant word.

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00:46:33,160 --> 00:46:35,759
Speaker 1: It has three different meanings, not one meaning. It has

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Speaker 1: three different distinct meanings. Where he says that Jesus overheard

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00:46:40,160 --> 00:46:52,520
Speaker 1: them saying she's dead. Why bother she's dead? Sorry? Okay, oh,

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Speaker 1: three different nations to overhear something not intended for one's ears,

665
00:46:58,160 --> 00:47:07,359
Speaker 1: to refuse to listen or discount the truth of something, okay, okay,

666
00:47:08,280 --> 00:47:12,000
Speaker 1: To to refuse to listen or to discount the truth

667
00:47:12,040 --> 00:47:17,040
Speaker 1: of something, or to pay no attention to listen to this.

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00:47:17,080 --> 00:47:23,320
Speaker 1: He uses the word paracusas paracusas it means to ignore.

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00:47:24,840 --> 00:47:32,960
Speaker 1: To ignore, it means give me that real quick. It

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00:47:33,040 --> 00:47:40,759
Speaker 1: means to know that a message is trying to come through.

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00:47:43,120 --> 00:47:47,480
Speaker 1: See this was not an interruption. This is an illustration

672
00:47:48,719 --> 00:47:55,040
Speaker 1: because that button says to Cline, and what it means

673
00:47:55,160 --> 00:47:59,840
Speaker 1: is watch this. It means that do it again. Just

674
00:48:00,080 --> 00:48:05,759
Speaker 1: because she wants to talk doesn't mean that I have

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00:48:05,840 --> 00:48:14,040
Speaker 1: to answer. Ah uhhh uh huh. Now sometimes in my mind,

676
00:48:14,080 --> 00:48:19,440
Speaker 1: do it again. I have to decline the devil like

677
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Speaker 1: five times a second. You thought I was gonna say five,

678
00:48:25,680 --> 00:48:28,560
Speaker 1: but day no, no, no, I'm I'm way worse than that.

679
00:48:29,280 --> 00:48:34,600
Speaker 1: My mind is way way crazier than that. It means, dude, again,

680
00:48:34,960 --> 00:48:38,000
Speaker 1: that she's saying, I want some face time with you,

681
00:48:38,680 --> 00:48:44,759
Speaker 1: and I'm having to make a decision in this moment. Decline, decline, decline,

682
00:48:45,880 --> 00:48:51,920
Speaker 1: decline or accept. You are making this decision every time.

683
00:48:53,200 --> 00:49:00,799
Speaker 1: D du dah, that's the devil. Duh da da da

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00:49:00,920 --> 00:49:07,360
Speaker 1: da ah. I found the decline button that says paracoup sauce.

685
00:49:07,760 --> 00:49:10,560
Speaker 1: That means I heard what you said. Do it again.

686
00:49:10,960 --> 00:49:14,560
Speaker 1: I heard you tell me it's over. I just choose

687
00:49:14,840 --> 00:49:18,760
Speaker 1: to believe that I don't have to accept this message

688
00:49:19,080 --> 00:49:22,960
Speaker 1: just because it's coming through as a matter of fact.

689
00:49:24,480 --> 00:49:28,239
Speaker 1: As a matter of fact, some of y'all need to

690
00:49:28,320 --> 00:49:32,840
Speaker 1: tell the devil before you even leave this service. I

691
00:49:33,000 --> 00:49:38,120
Speaker 1: heard what you said, but I declined. I heard you

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00:49:38,320 --> 00:49:41,719
Speaker 1: tell me lay down and die in the valley of

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00:49:41,920 --> 00:49:51,680
Speaker 1: the center of sense. But I decline, I decline, I decline.

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00:49:52,360 --> 00:49:59,120
Speaker 1: This is the divine decline. Oh yeah, it's knowing the

695
00:49:59,160 --> 00:50:02,920
Speaker 1: greater is he that is in me, that he that

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00:50:03,120 --> 00:50:09,759
Speaker 1: is in the world. So so now now, now, get this,

697
00:50:09,800 --> 00:50:11,239
Speaker 1: get this, get this, let's go, let's go, let's go.

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00:50:11,320 --> 00:50:14,040
Speaker 1: Let's got you already already it in Jesus didn't hear it.

699
00:50:16,920 --> 00:50:23,759
Speaker 1: He just didn't respond to it. It isn't that you

700
00:50:23,800 --> 00:50:28,440
Speaker 1: don't know that you're broke. It's just that you are

701
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Speaker 1: not defined by that because you are too busy moving

702
00:50:33,320 --> 00:50:38,279
Speaker 1: forward in day toward what God called you to be.

703
00:50:42,200 --> 00:50:47,560
Speaker 1: Even about myself, I accept myself because God accepts me.

704
00:50:49,080 --> 00:50:52,279
Speaker 1: I know I'm jacked up. I know I got a

705
00:50:52,360 --> 00:50:56,160
Speaker 1: long way to go. I know I'm selfish sometimes, but

706
00:50:56,280 --> 00:50:59,960
Speaker 1: I'm still preaching these sermons to you because I decline

707
00:51:00,440 --> 00:51:03,840
Speaker 1: to be defined by what I'm not. With the great

708
00:51:03,920 --> 00:51:08,920
Speaker 1: I am lives inside of my spirit and gives me

709
00:51:09,840 --> 00:51:15,719
Speaker 1: lies to my mortal body. They said I can't talk now,

710
00:51:15,719 --> 00:51:17,640
Speaker 1: I can't talk now. I heard what you said. I

711
00:51:17,680 --> 00:51:20,239
Speaker 1: hear you. They're loud talkers, like Holly. Holly is the

712
00:51:20,360 --> 00:51:23,560
Speaker 1: loudest talker in the world. We don't fight about a

713
00:51:23,560 --> 00:51:25,719
Speaker 1: lot of things, but we fight about this because when

714
00:51:25,719 --> 00:51:28,120
Speaker 1: we're all in public, I'm like, keep it down, babe.

715
00:51:28,120 --> 00:51:30,160
Speaker 1: Some people know who we are. I know we're not

716
00:51:30,320 --> 00:51:33,000
Speaker 1: like super super famous, but it's enough where people might

717
00:51:33,040 --> 00:51:35,479
Speaker 1: hear us. I don't want everybody all these tables hearing

718
00:51:35,560 --> 00:51:38,359
Speaker 1: us talk about stuff. Not that we're talking about anything bad,

719
00:51:38,520 --> 00:51:40,560
Speaker 1: but sometimes I don't want them to know about everything

720
00:51:40,640 --> 00:51:42,400
Speaker 1: that happened in our house this week. So I'm like,

721
00:51:42,480 --> 00:51:43,960
Speaker 1: keep it down. She said, why are you telling me

722
00:51:44,000 --> 00:51:45,600
Speaker 1: to keep it down? And I'm like, because I don't

723
00:51:45,600 --> 00:51:48,399
Speaker 1: want anybody to hear what we're talking about. I don't

724
00:51:48,440 --> 00:51:55,200
Speaker 1: want them to overhear what we're saying in this private

725
00:51:56,200 --> 00:52:02,600
Speaker 1: communication between us. That while when Jesus got to the house,

726
00:52:03,800 --> 00:52:06,759
Speaker 1: he sent everybody who was making noise out of the

727
00:52:06,840 --> 00:52:14,879
Speaker 1: room because if they were in their play in their

728
00:52:14,960 --> 00:52:20,440
Speaker 1: funeral flutes, the little girl couldn't hear him say to

729
00:52:20,560 --> 00:52:32,640
Speaker 1: leath the comb, get up. What room are you in

730
00:52:32,719 --> 00:52:38,439
Speaker 1: right now? What report are you facing? And how can

731
00:52:38,480 --> 00:52:45,759
Speaker 1: you preach good news to your situation even as you

732
00:52:45,800 --> 00:52:49,560
Speaker 1: walk toward a bad report? To me, that would be

733
00:52:49,600 --> 00:52:54,440
Speaker 1: the strongest level of faith to know that the worst

734
00:52:54,480 --> 00:52:57,520
Speaker 1: thing happened or could happen most of us. The devil

735
00:52:57,560 --> 00:53:00,280
Speaker 1: doesn't even have to do it. He just has toting

736
00:53:00,360 --> 00:53:06,000
Speaker 1: us with it. And to me, that's weird because shouldn't

737
00:53:06,000 --> 00:53:08,200
Speaker 1: we at least make him work for our faith If

738
00:53:08,200 --> 00:53:12,919
Speaker 1: he wants to take it away, well, I can't share

739
00:53:12,960 --> 00:53:15,000
Speaker 1: that in this setting. I'll share that later. Remind me

740
00:53:15,000 --> 00:53:16,799
Speaker 1: and the staff meeting to share a certain thing about that.

741
00:53:16,800 --> 00:53:18,919
Speaker 1: I'll share it later. I can't do it, y'all, because

742
00:53:18,960 --> 00:53:20,719
Speaker 1: it goes online. If it was just us, I would

743
00:53:20,800 --> 00:53:22,640
Speaker 1: do it, but I would share it another time when

744
00:53:22,680 --> 00:53:24,920
Speaker 1: it's more appropriate. But the Lord, he brought something to

745
00:53:25,000 --> 00:53:27,640
Speaker 1: my mind where I was about to give up. Now

746
00:53:28,360 --> 00:53:33,720
Speaker 1: you got time for one more thing. In the statement

747
00:53:33,840 --> 00:53:38,120
Speaker 1: Jesus makes to Gyros, don't be afraid. Just believe. There

748
00:53:38,200 --> 00:53:44,440
Speaker 1: is no indication that Gyrus has stopped believing, but Jesus

749
00:53:44,480 --> 00:53:48,440
Speaker 1: knows that that's what naturally happens through life. You think

750
00:53:48,480 --> 00:53:50,680
Speaker 1: he gets easier to trust God as you grow older.

751
00:53:52,160 --> 00:53:55,000
Speaker 1: It gets harder to go upstairs and to trust God

752
00:53:55,040 --> 00:54:02,680
Speaker 1: as you get older. That's why we said, you eventually

753
00:54:02,719 --> 00:54:06,239
Speaker 1: have to give your kids to God. You eventually have

754
00:54:06,320 --> 00:54:09,400
Speaker 1: to give your kids to God. You eventually have to

755
00:54:09,400 --> 00:54:11,600
Speaker 1: give your problems to God. You eventually have to give

756
00:54:11,640 --> 00:54:14,600
Speaker 1: the part of yourself that you can't control to God. Eventually,

757
00:54:15,880 --> 00:54:18,040
Speaker 1: And now you've reached that point where he's saying, just believe,

758
00:54:18,280 --> 00:54:23,560
Speaker 1: believe what, believe what. He has no precedence of resurrection

759
00:54:23,680 --> 00:54:27,320
Speaker 1: to believe. Remember, he still thinks Jesus is a teacher

760
00:54:27,400 --> 00:54:30,319
Speaker 1: and may be a healer, but in no way does

761
00:54:30,360 --> 00:54:32,520
Speaker 1: he see enable to reach the dead, raise the dead.

762
00:54:33,400 --> 00:54:36,239
Speaker 1: And so he's going towards something that he's hoping for

763
00:54:36,280 --> 00:54:39,799
Speaker 1: without even knowing if it is possible. To me, that's

764
00:54:39,800 --> 00:54:44,040
Speaker 1: what faith feels like, to put one heavy foot in

765
00:54:44,120 --> 00:54:47,560
Speaker 1: front of the other with your heart broken. Sometimes because

766
00:54:47,600 --> 00:54:50,960
Speaker 1: I can't find in the passage where Jairah said, I believe, Lord,

767
00:54:52,080 --> 00:54:56,960
Speaker 1: can you find it? He just kept going, here's my house,

768
00:54:58,000 --> 00:55:02,160
Speaker 1: here's my daughter's room. Do what you want to do?

769
00:55:04,920 --> 00:55:07,920
Speaker 1: Is faith that simple? It is when you're in this

770
00:55:08,040 --> 00:55:12,200
Speaker 1: kind of fight, it is to send it everything out

771
00:55:12,200 --> 00:55:14,600
Speaker 1: of the room that is telling you to quit. Now

772
00:55:14,680 --> 00:55:17,840
Speaker 1: here's the problem with me saying quit. You don't have

773
00:55:17,880 --> 00:55:20,080
Speaker 1: a Greek New Testament and I don't either, And I

774
00:55:20,080 --> 00:55:22,360
Speaker 1: already showed you one Greek word, but I need to

775
00:55:22,400 --> 00:55:25,600
Speaker 1: tell you about another. It doesn't mean believe in Jesus

776
00:55:25,719 --> 00:55:28,720
Speaker 1: like a one time thing. It means keep on believing.

777
00:55:30,640 --> 00:55:34,919
Speaker 1: It's a continual So it means the thing that made

778
00:55:35,000 --> 00:55:36,960
Speaker 1: you come to the feet of Jesus and ask him

779
00:55:37,000 --> 00:55:40,360
Speaker 1: to do it. You have to keep that kind of faith,

780
00:55:40,840 --> 00:55:45,479
Speaker 1: even though it already seems like it's over now, even

781
00:55:45,520 --> 00:55:48,279
Speaker 1: though the facts say there's no point in your stay

782
00:55:48,320 --> 00:55:52,680
Speaker 1: in the faith to believe that if Jesus is with me.

783
00:55:53,560 --> 00:56:03,760
Speaker 1: The facts are not final. The facts are the facts.

784
00:56:03,920 --> 00:56:06,200
Speaker 1: It is what it is. I did what I did,

785
00:56:06,400 --> 00:56:08,200
Speaker 1: I am where I am. I've got to do what

786
00:56:08,239 --> 00:56:10,720
Speaker 1: I've got to do. I can't just pray everything away

787
00:56:10,760 --> 00:56:13,640
Speaker 1: by denial and close my eyes and wait for the rapture.

788
00:56:13,840 --> 00:56:17,840
Speaker 1: The facts are the facts. But are you feeding more

789
00:56:18,080 --> 00:56:21,000
Speaker 1: facts to your spirit than you are faith to your spirit?

790
00:56:22,480 --> 00:56:24,839
Speaker 1: Do you all remember when COVID started and they put

791
00:56:24,840 --> 00:56:27,960
Speaker 1: a freaking death toll on the screen for us to watch.

792
00:56:29,000 --> 00:56:32,600
Speaker 1: That's diabolical. That was from the pit of hell while

793
00:56:32,640 --> 00:56:36,080
Speaker 1: you were watching the death count on the screen, because

794
00:56:36,120 --> 00:56:39,640
Speaker 1: all it did was feed your fear. It didn't make

795
00:56:39,680 --> 00:56:42,560
Speaker 1: you do one thing different after a certain point. All

796
00:56:42,560 --> 00:56:45,760
Speaker 1: it did was weaken your faith. It didn't strengthen your intellect.

797
00:56:45,880 --> 00:56:48,160
Speaker 1: And every time I tell people I don't watch the news,

798
00:56:48,239 --> 00:56:50,239
Speaker 1: they look at me with that eye roll like, oh,

799
00:56:50,320 --> 00:56:53,080
Speaker 1: you're ignorant. But it'd be better for me to be

800
00:56:53,200 --> 00:56:56,480
Speaker 1: ignorant than to be insane, which is how I feel

801
00:56:56,760 --> 00:57:00,920
Speaker 1: when I feed my fear with every screen that is available,

802
00:57:01,080 --> 00:57:09,200
Speaker 1: with every stream that is available. Because the facts don't

803
00:57:09,280 --> 00:57:13,240
Speaker 1: set you free. The truth does. And He is the truth.

804
00:57:13,600 --> 00:57:16,560
Speaker 1: Even when the facts aren't gets you, there are more

805
00:57:16,720 --> 00:57:25,640
Speaker 1: for me that against me. Open your eyes, the prophet said.

806
00:57:25,680 --> 00:57:32,680
Speaker 1: The facts are not final. The facts are not final.

807
00:57:33,760 --> 00:57:38,000
Speaker 1: The facts are not final. Depressed is not your new

808
00:57:38,040 --> 00:57:45,000
Speaker 1: personality type. The facts are not final. Divorced isn't what's

809
00:57:45,040 --> 00:57:48,520
Speaker 1: going to be written on your tombstone. The facts are

810
00:57:48,600 --> 00:57:52,520
Speaker 1: not final. God is still working on you. He will

811
00:57:52,520 --> 00:57:57,600
Speaker 1: begin a good work. Well, no, I'm preaching for it,

812
00:57:59,240 --> 00:58:02,800
Speaker 1: but I'm calling you out of the facts and into

813
00:58:02,840 --> 00:58:12,080
Speaker 1: your faith to keep believing, to keep believing. I read

814
00:58:12,080 --> 00:58:16,720
Speaker 1: that forty somethings million people, by some result, by some posts,

815
00:58:17,200 --> 00:58:22,800
Speaker 1: quit their jobs since twenty twenty one, which is much higher.

816
00:58:23,400 --> 00:58:25,959
Speaker 1: As we know this term that we've come to say,

817
00:58:26,480 --> 00:58:31,800
Speaker 1: not the great recession, but the great resignation. And that's

818
00:58:31,800 --> 00:58:33,640
Speaker 1: not my department to talk to you about whether to

819
00:58:33,720 --> 00:58:36,360
Speaker 1: keep your job or not. But when it comes to

820
00:58:36,440 --> 00:58:40,080
Speaker 1: your faith, I have noticed that a lot of people

821
00:58:41,160 --> 00:58:48,080
Speaker 1: will do what is now called a quiet quit. Quiet quit.

822
00:58:49,120 --> 00:58:53,480
Speaker 1: It's when you hate your job but you need it,

823
00:58:54,720 --> 00:59:01,600
Speaker 1: so you stay but barely. It's a quiet quit. It's

824
00:59:01,640 --> 00:59:06,640
Speaker 1: a quiet in this moment, Gyros isn't on the verge

825
00:59:06,680 --> 00:59:11,280
Speaker 1: of denying Christ. That's what Peter did later. By the way, Peter,

826
00:59:11,400 --> 00:59:14,360
Speaker 1: James and John, Peter was the loudest one at the table,

827
00:59:14,600 --> 00:59:17,240
Speaker 1: and he was the loudest one at the campfire, denying Christ.

828
00:59:18,600 --> 00:59:21,680
Speaker 1: John was leaned back on Jesus at the table and quiet,

829
00:59:21,800 --> 00:59:23,800
Speaker 1: and then he stood quietly by the cross to take

830
00:59:23,840 --> 00:59:27,080
Speaker 1: care of his mother. Faith is not always something that

831
00:59:27,120 --> 00:59:30,640
Speaker 1: you can see or hear by externals. It's something you

832
00:59:30,640 --> 00:59:33,080
Speaker 1: have to know inside. Gyros didn't say a word, but

833
00:59:33,120 --> 00:59:36,240
Speaker 1: he followed Jesus. He didn't say a word, but he

834
00:59:36,280 --> 00:59:39,280
Speaker 1: followed Jesus. I don't know who that's a word for.

835
00:59:39,920 --> 00:59:43,160
Speaker 1: But you're not on the verge of denying Christ. You're

836
00:59:43,160 --> 00:59:46,680
Speaker 1: not about to walk in God's office and say I quit,

837
00:59:48,040 --> 00:59:51,360
Speaker 1: I don't want to be your child anymore. You're not

838
00:59:51,520 --> 00:59:54,480
Speaker 1: storming into the throne room of heaven saying God, I

839
00:59:54,640 --> 00:59:56,920
Speaker 1: hate you and I'm bitter toward you, and why did

840
00:59:56,960 --> 00:59:58,960
Speaker 1: you take my mom so soon? And why is this

841
00:59:59,040 --> 01:00:01,280
Speaker 1: happening to me? And I thought you promised you would

842
01:00:01,280 --> 01:00:03,800
Speaker 1: see me through and I haven't felt your presence. You're

843
01:00:03,840 --> 01:00:09,520
Speaker 1: not saying it. It's a quiet quit. It happens in

844
01:00:09,960 --> 01:00:14,520
Speaker 1: relationships all the time. I don't block your number, but

845
01:00:14,640 --> 01:00:18,160
Speaker 1: I take out my heart. It happens in marriages all

846
01:00:18,200 --> 01:00:23,280
Speaker 1: the time. I don't stop coming home physically, but nobody's

847
01:00:23,280 --> 01:00:28,880
Speaker 1: home emotionally. And the message of this text is for

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Speaker 1: somebody who is quiet quitting on God. It's understandable for

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Speaker 1: Gyrus to say, never mind, why bother? After all, that's

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Speaker 1: what everybody from his house is telling him, That's what

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Speaker 1: the facts would suggest. And yet I thank God for

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Speaker 1: the instant replay. How many of you are old enough

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Speaker 1: to remember a time and before the NFL had instant

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Speaker 1: replay the games where a third is long. And some

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Speaker 1: people don't like instant replay because now when a play

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Speaker 1: happens on the field, if they call it wrong, or

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Speaker 1: if the coach thinks they called it wrong, he could

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Speaker 1: throw a challenge flag. This would be handy for me

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Speaker 1: to use for this illustration, and he could say, hey,

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Speaker 1: I know what you said on the field, but I

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Speaker 1: think you need to give it another look. Some people

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Speaker 1: don't like instant replay. I love it. In fact, as

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Speaker 1: a parent of three kids who have played recreational sports,

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Speaker 1: I think we should do instant replay on all recreational

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Speaker 1: sports in every community and have volunteer teams appearents with

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Speaker 1: their iPhone camera. I'm a fan of it because it

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Speaker 1: gives you another chance to look at something that you

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Speaker 1: thought you saw to say it looked like they were short.

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Speaker 1: And I've seen this happen a few times in games.

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Speaker 1: It's my favorite part. It's like, oh, they were just

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Speaker 1: short of the goal line, and then here goes the

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Speaker 1: challenge flag. I know nothing about football, but I know

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Speaker 1: something about faith. And the Lord told me today to

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Speaker 1: throw a flag and to tell you that what you

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Speaker 1: thought was over, and what you thought was hopeless, and

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Speaker 1: what you thought was pointless. See, because if Jesus is

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Speaker 1: still with me, oh God, I gotta close this message.

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Speaker 1: If Jesus is still with one thing, Jyrus has to know.

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Speaker 1: If Jesus was done, he would have left. But if

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Speaker 1: he's still here, that means even the interruption and cannot

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Speaker 1: stop God from doing what he said he would do,

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Speaker 1: and it might not happen how I wanted it to happen.

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Speaker 1: But I'm throwing my flag. And when I'm throwing my flag,

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Speaker 1: that official has to go back in the boot. Can

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Speaker 1: you hear me in the back? Can I see you

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Speaker 1: going in the boot and get in your prayer closet

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Speaker 1: and ask God to show you from another angle, I

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Speaker 1: see Jesus walking into this church today in a striped

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Speaker 1: shirt like an official to let the devil know. After

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Speaker 1: further review, they came to church today talking about why Father.

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Speaker 1: They came to church today with their hearts so low

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Speaker 1: they won't even clap right now. But after a further review,

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Speaker 1: the ruling on the field is overturned. No, no, y'all

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Speaker 1: missed it. It's overturned. She's not dead, she's sleeping. It's

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Speaker 1: not dead. It's a new beginning. The facts are final.

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Speaker 1: God ask the final word. Come on, come on, get

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Speaker 1: in your booth and ask God to show you from

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Speaker 1: his perspective. I'm in the booth right now. I'm sorry, y'all,

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Speaker 1: I can't talk right now. I'm in the booth right now.

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Speaker 1: I'm looking at this situation again. Right now, I gotta

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Speaker 1: see something I didn't see before. I gotta know something

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Speaker 1: I can't know with my eyes. I'm sorry. I don't

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Speaker 1: hate you, but I'm in the booth right now, and

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Speaker 1: one word from Jesus can overturn in the hopeless situation.

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Speaker 1: Stop putting more faith in the facts than you're doing God,

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Speaker 1: Stand up, y'all. It'll pressure me to finish. I don't

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Speaker 1: care what they said. They don't have the final word.

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Speaker 1: They didn't write the book. They're not the waymaker. They

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Speaker 1: didn't create you. Why are you going to let somebody

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Speaker 1: else write the instruction manual on a product that God created?

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Speaker 1: If you don't know what you can do, what you

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Speaker 1: can be, what you can have, where you can go.

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Speaker 1: When we started this church, God told me, you know

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Speaker 1: most of those things fail. Facts, statistics. Well, you know

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Speaker 1: this generation today, boy, they've got more temptation than ever

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Speaker 1: before facts. But they've also got the same guy through

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Speaker 1: every generation. The facts aren't final. We are believers. Bow

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Speaker 1: your head, close your eyes, don't be afraid, believe, and

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Speaker 1: keep believing. I want to give an invitation for people

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Speaker 1: who have quiet quit on the promise of God. You're

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Speaker 1: still a follower of Christ. You're not denouncing your faith.

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Speaker 1: You didn't transition to another religion. You just started clocking

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Speaker 1: out at four fifty nine. You just stop believing that

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Speaker 1: God can do it for you. You just resign yourself.

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Speaker 1: Why bother the teacher anymore. See, God brought you in

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Speaker 1: this booth today. He brought you on this stream today.

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Speaker 1: He brought you into this service today to show you

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Speaker 1: that the ruling on the field can be overturned. Father,

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Speaker 1: you gave me a word for your sons and daughters today,

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Speaker 1: and now I invite them to reach out to you

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Speaker 1: by faith. Everybody who has been in a quiet quit

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Speaker 1: season on what you believe God for. I want you

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Speaker 1: to throw your hand up in the air right now

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Speaker 1: and hold them there. You see them, Lord, they're reaching

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Speaker 1: for you. They have something in their life to die.

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Speaker 1: They have fears in their heart that they can't rationalize

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Speaker 1: their way out of. And that's why we need faith.

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Speaker 1: So we're following you right there to the house. We

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Speaker 1: don't want to hear the flutes, we don't want to

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Speaker 1: hear the opinions. We need a touch from you. You

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Speaker 1: took Gyrus's daughter by the hand, Lord, you touched her personally.

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Speaker 1: You weren't afraid too, You weren't ashamed to and you

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Speaker 1: spoke to her. You ignored the bad report, and you

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Speaker 1: spoke to the promise. We ask you to speak to

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Speaker 1: our promise today. Jesus, speak to me, Jesus, say it

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Speaker 1: out loud. Speak to me, Jesus, Speak to me. Jesus.

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Speaker 1: Give me an enduring word, a word that I can

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Speaker 1: walk on. Give me a word I can wait with.

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Speaker 1: Give me a word for my weeping. Give me a

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Speaker 1: come forth, Give me a stone rolling away where God

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Speaker 1: I call on your name. Give us a word. Let

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Speaker 1: me tell you this and I close. In fact, put

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Speaker 1: your hands down. I really want you to hear it.

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Speaker 1: When I started this text, it said, while Jesus was

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Speaker 1: still speaking, a bad report came. What was he saying?

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Speaker 1: What was he saying in that moment when Gyrus received

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Speaker 1: the worst news he could have heard? Look at the screens.

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Speaker 1: Please the verse before that, Jesus was saying, daughter, your

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Speaker 1: faith has healed you. Go in peace and be freed

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Speaker 1: from your suffering. He wasn't even saying that to Gyros.

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Speaker 1: He was saying it to the woman who Gyros thought

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Speaker 1: was an interruption. When you don't know what's ahead of you.

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Speaker 1: Hold on to the last thing that you heard God say,

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Speaker 1: because I think I think when he called that woman daughter,

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Speaker 1: it let Gyros know my daughter belongs to God too,

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Speaker 1: and I can give God this situation. You have to

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Speaker 1: give it to God. What else are you going to do?

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Speaker 1: You can't control it anymore. You have to give it

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Speaker 1: to God. Give it to him willingly, just lay it

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Speaker 1: right down before him today. Well, if you enjoyed today's podcast,

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Speaker 1: there are a couple things I'd love for you to do.

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