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He never loses the 38 00:01:41,800 --> 00:01:45,640 Speaker 5: vision of the true you. He still remembers the reverence 39 00:01:45,720 --> 00:01:46,720 Speaker 5: he felt when. 40 00:01:46,560 --> 00:01:47,520 Speaker 4: He created you. 41 00:01:48,200 --> 00:01:53,920 Speaker 5: Despite all the falls, weaknesses, disappointments, he still sees the masterpiece. 42 00:01:54,320 --> 00:01:57,080 Speaker 5: He still knows who you really are. Hi, this is 43 00:01:57,120 --> 00:02:00,440 Speaker 5: Joel and Victoria. Thanks for listening to our podcast and 44 00:02:00,480 --> 00:02:02,120 Speaker 5: thanks for supporting the ministry. 45 00:02:02,240 --> 00:02:04,600 Speaker 6: If you enjoy today's message, why don't you be a 46 00:02:04,600 --> 00:02:06,160 Speaker 6: blessing and share it with a friend. 47 00:02:06,480 --> 00:02:09,200 Speaker 5: We appreciate you and pray for God's very best in 48 00:02:09,240 --> 00:02:10,000 Speaker 5: your life. 49 00:02:10,120 --> 00:02:11,079 Speaker 4: Well, God bless you. 50 00:02:11,440 --> 00:02:13,640 Speaker 5: It's great to be with you today, and I hope 51 00:02:13,639 --> 00:02:16,160 Speaker 5: you'll stay connected with us during the week through our 52 00:02:16,240 --> 00:02:20,200 Speaker 5: daily podcast, our YouTube channel, social media. We'll keep you 53 00:02:20,400 --> 00:02:24,080 Speaker 5: encouraged and inspired. I'd like to start with something funny, 54 00:02:24,120 --> 00:02:26,800 Speaker 5: and I heard about this minister that died and he 55 00:02:26,919 --> 00:02:29,760 Speaker 5: was standing in line at the Pearly gates. The man 56 00:02:29,800 --> 00:02:33,280 Speaker 5: in front of him was dressed in a loud T shirt, sunglasses, 57 00:02:33,320 --> 00:02:34,200 Speaker 5: and blue jeans. 58 00:02:34,480 --> 00:02:35,760 Speaker 4: Saint Peter asked his name. 59 00:02:36,000 --> 00:02:39,639 Speaker 5: He said, I'm Joe Cohen, taxicab driver, New York City. 60 00:02:40,200 --> 00:02:43,280 Speaker 5: Peter checked his list, handed him a gold staff and 61 00:02:43,400 --> 00:02:45,239 Speaker 5: silk robe, said, welcome to Heaven. 62 00:02:45,919 --> 00:02:46,880 Speaker 4: Minister stepped up. 63 00:02:47,120 --> 00:02:50,840 Speaker 5: I'm Reverend Joseph Snow, pastor of Saint Mary's Cathedral. Peter 64 00:02:51,000 --> 00:02:54,480 Speaker 5: checked his list, handed him a wooden staff and cotton robe. 65 00:02:54,639 --> 00:02:57,120 Speaker 5: He said, wait a minute, that couldn't be right. The 66 00:02:57,160 --> 00:02:59,840 Speaker 5: taxicab driver got a gold staff and this is all. 67 00:03:00,960 --> 00:03:03,440 Speaker 4: Peter said, sir. Up here, we work by results. 68 00:03:03,680 --> 00:03:07,560 Speaker 5: When you preached, people slept, but when he drove, people prayed. 69 00:03:09,280 --> 00:03:10,320 Speaker 4: Say it like you mean it. 70 00:03:10,800 --> 00:03:13,720 Speaker 5: This is my Bible. I am what it says I am. 71 00:03:14,200 --> 00:03:16,480 Speaker 5: I have what it says I have. I can do 72 00:03:16,600 --> 00:03:19,160 Speaker 5: what it says I can do. Today I will be 73 00:03:19,200 --> 00:03:22,959 Speaker 5: taught the word of God. I boldly confessed. My mind 74 00:03:23,040 --> 00:03:26,200 Speaker 5: is alert, my heart is receptive. I will never be 75 00:03:26,280 --> 00:03:31,040 Speaker 5: the same. In Jesus' name, God bless you. I want 76 00:03:31,080 --> 00:03:34,240 Speaker 5: to talk to you today about the true you. On 77 00:03:34,280 --> 00:03:37,200 Speaker 5: the inside of every one of us is a blessed person, 78 00:03:37,720 --> 00:03:42,840 Speaker 5: someone confident, valuable, talented. The scripture says you have been 79 00:03:42,920 --> 00:03:47,600 Speaker 5: fearfully and wonderfully made. The word fearful in the original 80 00:03:47,680 --> 00:03:52,200 Speaker 5: language means to stand in awe, to reverence. It implies 81 00:03:52,320 --> 00:03:57,480 Speaker 5: honor respect. When God created you, he stood back in reverence. 82 00:03:57,960 --> 00:03:59,240 Speaker 4: He looked at you in awe. 83 00:03:59,600 --> 00:04:03,880 Speaker 5: He called you a masterpiece. God didn't make anyone average. 84 00:04:04,320 --> 00:04:07,200 Speaker 5: He didn't say I didn't do very good on that one. 85 00:04:07,320 --> 00:04:11,600 Speaker 5: They have a bunch of flaws. They're going to be angry, insecure, jealous. 86 00:04:12,080 --> 00:04:16,160 Speaker 5: You've been exceptionally made. But what happens is we go 87 00:04:16,240 --> 00:04:20,760 Speaker 5: through life and we make mistakes, develop bad habits. People 88 00:04:20,800 --> 00:04:25,040 Speaker 5: do us wrong, and shame comes, Guilt comes, insecurity. 89 00:04:25,560 --> 00:04:27,200 Speaker 4: We don't feel like a masterpiece. 90 00:04:27,400 --> 00:04:31,080 Speaker 5: We feel condemned. How can I be successful? Look what 91 00:04:31,120 --> 00:04:34,520 Speaker 5: I've been through? Or I'm struggling with an addiction. I'm 92 00:04:34,560 --> 00:04:39,640 Speaker 5: not that talented. But underneath the insecurity, the bad breaks, 93 00:04:39,800 --> 00:04:44,000 Speaker 5: the failures, there's the true you, the one that God created. 94 00:04:44,440 --> 00:04:47,640 Speaker 5: The true you is the blessed you, the happy you, 95 00:04:48,080 --> 00:04:50,360 Speaker 5: the successful you, the forgiven you. 96 00:04:51,000 --> 00:04:52,040 Speaker 4: It's still in you. 97 00:04:52,640 --> 00:04:55,440 Speaker 5: The beauty of our God is he never loses the 98 00:04:55,560 --> 00:04:59,520 Speaker 5: vision of the true you. He still remembers the reverence 99 00:04:59,560 --> 00:05:00,640 Speaker 5: he fell when. 100 00:05:00,480 --> 00:05:01,480 Speaker 4: He created you. 101 00:05:02,200 --> 00:05:08,160 Speaker 5: Despite all the flaws, weaknesses, disappointments, he still sees the masterpiece. 102 00:05:08,560 --> 00:05:10,599 Speaker 4: He still knows who you really are. 103 00:05:11,560 --> 00:05:14,000 Speaker 5: But life tries to put all these things on us 104 00:05:14,279 --> 00:05:18,600 Speaker 5: to keep the true You from coming out. Impatience, jealousy, 105 00:05:18,920 --> 00:05:22,440 Speaker 5: bad breaks. The good news is God is not going 106 00:05:22,480 --> 00:05:25,240 Speaker 5: to leave us like that. He's going to keep working 107 00:05:25,279 --> 00:05:29,320 Speaker 5: on us, making us, molding us until the true you 108 00:05:29,480 --> 00:05:33,680 Speaker 5: comes out, the free you, the blessed you, the patient you, 109 00:05:34,000 --> 00:05:39,520 Speaker 5: the victorious you. God specializes in removing everything that's not 110 00:05:39,560 --> 00:05:40,200 Speaker 5: the true You. 111 00:05:41,240 --> 00:05:44,720 Speaker 4: Well, Joel, I'll always struggle with this addiction. I've had it. 112 00:05:44,680 --> 00:05:47,560 Speaker 5: Since high school. It's just who I am. That is 113 00:05:47,600 --> 00:05:50,840 Speaker 5: not who you are. That's something the enemy put on 114 00:05:50,920 --> 00:05:53,480 Speaker 5: you to try to keep the true you from ever 115 00:05:53,560 --> 00:05:56,920 Speaker 5: coming out. The true you is free, The true you 116 00:05:57,040 --> 00:06:01,520 Speaker 5: is whole. That addiction is not how you're ends. God 117 00:06:01,640 --> 00:06:02,800 Speaker 5: is working right now. 118 00:06:03,120 --> 00:06:04,120 Speaker 4: Freedom is coming. 119 00:06:04,800 --> 00:06:07,719 Speaker 5: Chains are breaking, strongholds are coming down. 120 00:06:08,000 --> 00:06:09,960 Speaker 4: You're about to see the free you. 121 00:06:09,960 --> 00:06:12,440 Speaker 5: You're about to step up to who you were created 122 00:06:12,480 --> 00:06:16,440 Speaker 5: to be. The forces that are for you are greater 123 00:06:16,680 --> 00:06:19,960 Speaker 5: than any force that's trying to stop you. I'm calling 124 00:06:20,000 --> 00:06:23,160 Speaker 5: out the free you, the blessed you, the happy you, 125 00:06:23,400 --> 00:06:26,680 Speaker 5: the favored you now get in agreement with God. 126 00:06:27,160 --> 00:06:30,080 Speaker 4: Not I'll always struggle with this, but I am free. 127 00:06:30,760 --> 00:06:33,800 Speaker 4: I am whole. You need to see the free you, 128 00:06:34,360 --> 00:06:35,679 Speaker 4: not that defeated you. 129 00:06:35,600 --> 00:06:39,000 Speaker 5: Depressed you, the hurt you see, the happy you, see, 130 00:06:39,040 --> 00:06:43,120 Speaker 5: the successful you, the married you, the valuable you. Well, 131 00:06:43,160 --> 00:06:46,040 Speaker 5: you may have gone through bad breaks. Someone walked out 132 00:06:46,080 --> 00:06:49,360 Speaker 5: on you. You weren't raised in a good environment. It's 133 00:06:49,400 --> 00:06:52,960 Speaker 5: easy to carry the hurts. Let that limit your vision. 134 00:06:53,120 --> 00:06:54,840 Speaker 4: Carry the shame, go. 135 00:06:54,760 --> 00:06:58,279 Speaker 5: Around feeling unworthy, like you don't deserve to be blessed. 136 00:06:58,760 --> 00:07:02,320 Speaker 4: Don't believe those lies. The enemy would love for you to. 137 00:07:02,279 --> 00:07:06,320 Speaker 5: Live discouraged, thinking nothing good is in your future. No, 138 00:07:06,480 --> 00:07:09,520 Speaker 5: the true you is still in you, the happy you, 139 00:07:10,160 --> 00:07:12,480 Speaker 5: the restored you, the valuable you. 140 00:07:13,600 --> 00:07:16,880 Speaker 4: What people did to you did not stop the true you. 141 00:07:17,640 --> 00:07:21,400 Speaker 5: What wasn't fair didn't change who God created you to be. 142 00:07:22,120 --> 00:07:22,760 Speaker 4: He's in the. 143 00:07:22,680 --> 00:07:27,160 Speaker 5: Process right now of removing everything that's not the true you. 144 00:07:28,080 --> 00:07:31,440 Speaker 4: The anger is not the true you. I'm just hot tempered. 145 00:07:32,000 --> 00:07:34,280 Speaker 4: I can't help. But my father was this way, my 146 00:07:34,360 --> 00:07:37,400 Speaker 4: grandfather too. That's not who you really are. 147 00:07:37,960 --> 00:07:40,440 Speaker 5: It may be the way you are now. But you're 148 00:07:40,480 --> 00:07:43,160 Speaker 5: the one to break the cycle. You're the one to 149 00:07:43,160 --> 00:07:46,200 Speaker 5: see it come to an end. The true you is calm, 150 00:07:46,440 --> 00:07:52,040 Speaker 5: cool and collected. Buy into those lies that you can't change. 151 00:07:52,120 --> 00:07:56,240 Speaker 5: God is removing everything that's not the true you. He 152 00:07:56,280 --> 00:07:59,360 Speaker 5: loves you too much to leave you alone. He's going 153 00:07:59,400 --> 00:08:02,760 Speaker 5: to keep work on you until he sees the masterpiece 154 00:08:03,000 --> 00:08:06,960 Speaker 5: who he created you to be. In the early fifteen hundreds, 155 00:08:07,240 --> 00:08:10,800 Speaker 5: a twenty six year old artist named Michael Angelo had 156 00:08:10,800 --> 00:08:14,280 Speaker 5: a dream to sculpture King David out of a huge 157 00:08:14,320 --> 00:08:18,000 Speaker 5: piece of marble, twelve thousand pound block that stood over 158 00:08:18,040 --> 00:08:22,360 Speaker 5: twenty feet tall. He worked tirelessly for two years, chiseling 159 00:08:22,480 --> 00:08:27,320 Speaker 5: and shaping with great precision, great detail. When he revealed 160 00:08:27,440 --> 00:08:32,320 Speaker 5: the finished product, this fourteen foot tall marble image of David, 161 00:08:32,640 --> 00:08:38,080 Speaker 5: it was magnificent, so beautiful, so inspiring. Someone asked Michael 162 00:08:38,120 --> 00:08:42,440 Speaker 5: Angelo how he could accomplish such an incredible feat, how 163 00:08:42,480 --> 00:08:45,200 Speaker 5: he could make this amazing statue. 164 00:08:44,520 --> 00:08:45,840 Speaker 4: Out of an old piece of rock. 165 00:08:46,559 --> 00:08:49,400 Speaker 5: He said, I had a vision in my mind of 166 00:08:49,480 --> 00:08:54,200 Speaker 5: King David, and I just kept removing everything that wasn't him. 167 00:08:54,760 --> 00:08:57,440 Speaker 4: That's the way God is. He knows who we really are. 168 00:08:58,000 --> 00:09:02,320 Speaker 5: He can see the masterpiece in the throughout life, He'll 169 00:09:02,400 --> 00:09:06,520 Speaker 5: keep removing things that are not who we are. The impatience, 170 00:09:06,880 --> 00:09:11,320 Speaker 5: the insecurity, unworthiness. I'm not valuable. Look at what I've 171 00:09:11,320 --> 00:09:13,480 Speaker 5: been through, chisel, chisel, that's. 172 00:09:13,360 --> 00:09:14,040 Speaker 4: Not who you are. 173 00:09:14,920 --> 00:09:17,440 Speaker 5: The pride, the arrogance, chisel chisel. 174 00:09:17,280 --> 00:09:18,480 Speaker 4: That doesn't belong on you. 175 00:09:19,160 --> 00:09:23,400 Speaker 5: The unforgiveness, the resentment they hurt me, they did me wrong. 176 00:09:23,720 --> 00:09:26,760 Speaker 5: Chisel chisel, that resentment is not who you are. 177 00:09:27,720 --> 00:09:30,880 Speaker 4: I never do something great, Joel. Nobody in my family 178 00:09:30,920 --> 00:09:32,920 Speaker 4: is successful. I'm not that talented. 179 00:09:33,240 --> 00:09:38,800 Speaker 5: Chisel chisel, that limited mindset, that mediocrity doesn't belong on you. 180 00:09:39,400 --> 00:09:42,600 Speaker 5: It may try to come, try to dissort your image, 181 00:09:43,040 --> 00:09:47,600 Speaker 5: affect your personality, limit your future. The good news is 182 00:09:47,920 --> 00:09:51,640 Speaker 5: we have someone far greater than Michelangelo working on us. 183 00:09:51,880 --> 00:09:53,199 Speaker 4: We have the creator of. 184 00:09:53,160 --> 00:09:59,000 Speaker 5: The universe, the God who makes spectacular solar systems, magnificent 185 00:09:59,120 --> 00:10:01,560 Speaker 5: mountain ranges, amazing sunsets. 186 00:10:01,920 --> 00:10:04,160 Speaker 4: That's the artist that's working on you. 187 00:10:04,880 --> 00:10:09,520 Speaker 5: He's chiseling away everything that's not the true you see. 188 00:10:09,520 --> 00:10:11,319 Speaker 4: He can see things that we can't see. 189 00:10:12,080 --> 00:10:15,920 Speaker 5: So often we let our circumstances determine who we are. 190 00:10:16,679 --> 00:10:20,120 Speaker 5: How people treat us determine our value, how good we 191 00:10:20,240 --> 00:10:25,480 Speaker 5: perform determine our worth. God looks beyond all that, Like 192 00:10:25,520 --> 00:10:28,640 Speaker 5: in the scripture, with David, he sees the giant killer 193 00:10:28,840 --> 00:10:32,440 Speaker 5: in the shepherd Boy. Like with Gideon, he sees a 194 00:10:32,520 --> 00:10:37,559 Speaker 5: mighty hero in a man that's hiding, afraid, intimidated. Like 195 00:10:37,640 --> 00:10:41,960 Speaker 5: with Rahab, he sees a respectful, honored woman that's in 196 00:10:42,000 --> 00:10:46,480 Speaker 5: the family line of Jesus, in a former prostitute. God 197 00:10:46,559 --> 00:10:50,360 Speaker 5: knows what's in you. You may have made mistakes, done 198 00:10:50,440 --> 00:10:51,720 Speaker 5: things that you're not proud of. 199 00:10:52,160 --> 00:10:57,199 Speaker 4: God sees the redeemed you, the restored you, that honored you. 200 00:10:57,200 --> 00:11:00,360 Speaker 5: You may be intimidated, thinking you're not that talented. 201 00:11:00,720 --> 00:11:02,760 Speaker 4: God sees the giant killer. 202 00:11:02,840 --> 00:11:06,240 Speaker 5: He sees the history maker in you. Or maybe life 203 00:11:06,280 --> 00:11:10,520 Speaker 5: has thrown your curves. You've been hurt, abandoned, betrayed. God 204 00:11:10,600 --> 00:11:14,280 Speaker 5: sees the valuable you, the blessed you, the favored you. 205 00:11:15,400 --> 00:11:18,480 Speaker 5: Nothing that's happened to you has changed the true you. 206 00:11:19,440 --> 00:11:23,199 Speaker 5: God looks beyond our mistakes, the hurts, the bad breaks, 207 00:11:23,440 --> 00:11:25,920 Speaker 5: and he sees who he created you to be. 208 00:11:26,559 --> 00:11:29,120 Speaker 4: He hasn't lost the vision of who you are. 209 00:11:29,880 --> 00:11:33,120 Speaker 5: The good news is he still has the chisel. He 210 00:11:33,240 --> 00:11:36,160 Speaker 5: still knows what to remove, so the best you will 211 00:11:36,200 --> 00:11:39,800 Speaker 5: come out. The talented you, the confident you, the loving you, 212 00:11:39,920 --> 00:11:45,520 Speaker 5: the free you. Now sometimes when God's chisels is uncomfortable, 213 00:11:46,000 --> 00:11:46,880 Speaker 5: we don't like him. 214 00:11:47,280 --> 00:11:49,600 Speaker 4: I don't want to bite my tongue. I don't want 215 00:11:49,600 --> 00:11:51,640 Speaker 4: to overlook the offense. I want to tell them all 216 00:11:52,160 --> 00:11:54,760 Speaker 4: be pliable. Work with God. 217 00:11:55,360 --> 00:11:58,440 Speaker 5: Let him remove that hardness that's keeping you from going 218 00:11:58,480 --> 00:12:02,120 Speaker 5: to new levels. Driving to work, get caught in traffic 219 00:12:02,600 --> 00:12:05,760 Speaker 5: construction on the freeway, some jerk, I mean, some person 220 00:12:05,840 --> 00:12:09,800 Speaker 5: cut you off. You'll be tempted to get upset offended. 221 00:12:10,000 --> 00:12:14,280 Speaker 5: Let it sour you day, recognize what's happening. God's chiseling 222 00:12:14,320 --> 00:12:18,000 Speaker 5: away the impatience. It's giving you an opportunity to grow. 223 00:12:18,679 --> 00:12:21,480 Speaker 5: The impatient you will try to keep the true you 224 00:12:21,559 --> 00:12:25,120 Speaker 5: from coming out at the office. You're not getting the 225 00:12:25,120 --> 00:12:28,680 Speaker 5: credit you deserve. People are taking your ideas. You could 226 00:12:28,720 --> 00:12:32,360 Speaker 5: live offended, trying to get revenge pay them back. No, 227 00:12:32,520 --> 00:12:35,880 Speaker 5: let God be your vindicator. Let him fight your battles. 228 00:12:35,960 --> 00:12:39,440 Speaker 5: He sees what's happening. He knows what's not fair. He 229 00:12:39,520 --> 00:12:42,880 Speaker 5: has the chisel out. You think it's about them, but 230 00:12:43,040 --> 00:12:46,800 Speaker 5: really it's about you. That's an opportunity to show God 231 00:12:47,000 --> 00:12:50,080 Speaker 5: that you trust him, that you'll stay in peace and 232 00:12:50,120 --> 00:12:54,480 Speaker 5: not let people steal your joy. Sometimes God will remove 233 00:12:54,520 --> 00:12:58,959 Speaker 5: things we don't understand, remove a friendship, someone that's pulling 234 00:12:59,040 --> 00:13:01,400 Speaker 5: us down, causing us to compromise. 235 00:13:02,040 --> 00:13:03,160 Speaker 4: We don't like change. 236 00:13:03,320 --> 00:13:06,080 Speaker 5: We were comfortable. Now we're going to have to stretch 237 00:13:06,120 --> 00:13:10,600 Speaker 5: and grow. Don't fight the chisel. God knows what he's doing. 238 00:13:11,240 --> 00:13:13,079 Speaker 5: He's not going to leave something on. 239 00:13:12,960 --> 00:13:15,160 Speaker 4: You that will keep you from your purpose. 240 00:13:15,920 --> 00:13:18,640 Speaker 5: He'll never ask you to do something and then not 241 00:13:18,760 --> 00:13:22,000 Speaker 5: give you the ability to do it. If he's asking 242 00:13:22,040 --> 00:13:24,880 Speaker 5: you to walk away, you know a season is coming 243 00:13:24,920 --> 00:13:25,480 Speaker 5: to an end. 244 00:13:25,840 --> 00:13:27,319 Speaker 4: That's the chisel at work. 245 00:13:28,080 --> 00:13:30,840 Speaker 5: If you're stubborn you fight it, you're going to miss 246 00:13:30,840 --> 00:13:34,160 Speaker 5: the greater things God has in store. He's not trying 247 00:13:34,200 --> 00:13:36,840 Speaker 5: to take something from you. He's trying to get something 248 00:13:36,920 --> 00:13:39,760 Speaker 5: better to you. He wants to bring out the true you. 249 00:13:40,440 --> 00:13:44,160 Speaker 5: The true you is more blessed, more successful, more peaceful 250 00:13:44,360 --> 00:13:47,440 Speaker 5: than you can imagine. Friend of mine work for this 251 00:13:47,520 --> 00:13:51,000 Speaker 5: company for over twenty years. He's the nicest person in 252 00:13:51,080 --> 00:13:54,920 Speaker 5: the world. Always kind, respectful, go in the extra mile. 253 00:13:55,559 --> 00:13:57,920 Speaker 5: He called one day and said, Joel, I just got 254 00:13:57,960 --> 00:14:00,600 Speaker 5: fired from my job. They said I didn't have a 255 00:14:00,600 --> 00:14:03,920 Speaker 5: good attitude. They were letting me go. Almost fell out 256 00:14:03,920 --> 00:14:07,200 Speaker 5: of my chair. This would be like Mother Teresa getting fired. 257 00:14:07,440 --> 00:14:11,840 Speaker 5: I couldn't believe it. Sometimes God will close a door 258 00:14:12,040 --> 00:14:16,280 Speaker 5: because we're stagnant. If he didn't push us into our destiny, 259 00:14:16,520 --> 00:14:19,440 Speaker 5: then the true you would never come out. We don't 260 00:14:19,480 --> 00:14:24,040 Speaker 5: realize there's so much more in us, gifts, talents, potential. 261 00:14:24,720 --> 00:14:27,320 Speaker 4: God will chisel away things that are. 262 00:14:27,240 --> 00:14:30,920 Speaker 5: Keeping you from your greatness. Sometimes they're good, but they're 263 00:14:30,920 --> 00:14:35,040 Speaker 5: not the best. Trust him when you don't understand. He 264 00:14:35,080 --> 00:14:38,880 Speaker 5: won't remove something unless he has something better coming. He 265 00:14:38,920 --> 00:14:41,240 Speaker 5: won't use the chisel if it's not going to make 266 00:14:41,280 --> 00:14:44,280 Speaker 5: you better. Yes, it may hurt at the time, it 267 00:14:44,320 --> 00:14:45,800 Speaker 5: may be uncomfortable, but. 268 00:14:45,800 --> 00:14:47,840 Speaker 4: God knows what he's doing now. 269 00:14:47,840 --> 00:14:51,600 Speaker 5: About six months later, my friend called so excited. He 270 00:14:51,760 --> 00:14:56,600 Speaker 5: just got this dream job, this position running a large company, 271 00:14:56,640 --> 00:14:59,600 Speaker 5: managing all these people. He said, I never knew this, 272 00:14:59,720 --> 00:15:04,600 Speaker 5: was never dreamed I'd be this successful, this fulfilled. Let 273 00:15:04,640 --> 00:15:07,600 Speaker 5: God remove what he knows is keeping you from the 274 00:15:07,640 --> 00:15:14,960 Speaker 5: true you. Unforgiveness is keeping you from shining. Insecurity, compromise, anger, 275 00:15:15,400 --> 00:15:18,840 Speaker 5: that's blocking the best you from coming out. Be willing 276 00:15:18,880 --> 00:15:21,960 Speaker 5: to change. You don't have to be perfect, but we 277 00:15:22,000 --> 00:15:25,560 Speaker 5: should be growing. We should be better now than we 278 00:15:25,560 --> 00:15:29,840 Speaker 5: were five years ago. We should be kinder, more respectful, 279 00:15:30,080 --> 00:15:31,040 Speaker 5: better attitude. 280 00:15:31,600 --> 00:15:34,040 Speaker 4: We should be more confident, more secure. 281 00:15:34,760 --> 00:15:40,600 Speaker 5: We should forgive quicker, overlook offenses easier. We should compromise less, 282 00:15:41,200 --> 00:15:45,040 Speaker 5: resist the temptation more often. That means we're letting the 283 00:15:45,120 --> 00:15:48,440 Speaker 5: chisel chip away things that are hindering our growth. 284 00:15:48,680 --> 00:15:51,520 Speaker 4: We're seeing more of the true you coming out. 285 00:15:52,160 --> 00:15:55,880 Speaker 5: What's interesting is that large rock that Michael Angelo carved 286 00:15:55,880 --> 00:15:59,480 Speaker 5: the statue of David out of fifty years earlier, two 287 00:15:59,480 --> 00:16:02,920 Speaker 5: of the most accomplished artists of that time, these very 288 00:16:02,920 --> 00:16:06,640 Speaker 5: well known sculptures, looked at the rock and said there 289 00:16:06,720 --> 00:16:09,240 Speaker 5: was no way they could work with it had too 290 00:16:09,280 --> 00:16:13,960 Speaker 5: many flaws, too many imperfections. They were given the chance first, 291 00:16:14,120 --> 00:16:17,080 Speaker 5: but they turned it down because the marble had. 292 00:16:16,920 --> 00:16:19,520 Speaker 4: Too many blemishes, too many defects. 293 00:16:20,200 --> 00:16:24,400 Speaker 5: Fifty years later, young Michael Angelo came along. He saw 294 00:16:24,480 --> 00:16:28,520 Speaker 5: the same block of marble, the same defects, same flaws, 295 00:16:28,920 --> 00:16:31,240 Speaker 5: but he looked beyond the imperfections. 296 00:16:31,520 --> 00:16:35,000 Speaker 4: He said, I see a masterpiece in this rock. I 297 00:16:35,080 --> 00:16:37,000 Speaker 4: see King David in this stone. 298 00:16:37,840 --> 00:16:40,720 Speaker 5: Like those first two artists, other people may look at 299 00:16:40,760 --> 00:16:43,680 Speaker 5: you and think they'll never amount to mutch. Look at 300 00:16:43,680 --> 00:16:47,520 Speaker 5: their failures, look at their weaknesses they struggle with an addiction, 301 00:16:48,200 --> 00:16:50,400 Speaker 5: or look at what they've been through, look at all 302 00:16:50,400 --> 00:16:55,040 Speaker 5: the bad breaks, the disappointments. All they see is your flaws, 303 00:16:55,280 --> 00:16:57,520 Speaker 5: your blemishes, what hasn't worked out. 304 00:16:58,000 --> 00:16:59,920 Speaker 4: They may discount you, write you off. 305 00:17:00,360 --> 00:17:04,800 Speaker 5: But then, like Michelangelo did, God comes along He says, hey, 306 00:17:04,840 --> 00:17:08,240 Speaker 5: wait a minute, don't abandon that piece of rock. Yes, 307 00:17:08,320 --> 00:17:11,760 Speaker 5: I see flaws, I see weaknesses, but I see something else. 308 00:17:11,920 --> 00:17:13,280 Speaker 4: I see a masterpiece. 309 00:17:13,680 --> 00:17:17,680 Speaker 5: I see a blessed, strong, forgiven, favored. 310 00:17:17,359 --> 00:17:19,040 Speaker 4: Child of the most High God. 311 00:17:19,800 --> 00:17:22,639 Speaker 5: It's not that God doesn't see the flaws, but he 312 00:17:22,720 --> 00:17:25,479 Speaker 5: knows how to remove the flaws. He knows how to 313 00:17:25,520 --> 00:17:28,520 Speaker 5: make you and mold you to where the best you 314 00:17:28,640 --> 00:17:32,040 Speaker 5: comes out. Now quit believing those lies that you've made 315 00:17:32,040 --> 00:17:33,040 Speaker 5: too many mistakes. 316 00:17:33,480 --> 00:17:34,920 Speaker 4: You're too far off course. 317 00:17:35,760 --> 00:17:38,800 Speaker 5: You see yourself as the failed you, the broken you, 318 00:17:39,200 --> 00:17:40,520 Speaker 5: the guilty you. 319 00:17:40,560 --> 00:17:40,600 Speaker 3: Know. 320 00:17:40,800 --> 00:17:44,639 Speaker 5: Nothing you've done has stopped your destiny. The mercy of 321 00:17:44,720 --> 00:17:48,440 Speaker 5: God is bigger than any mistake you've made. The true 322 00:17:48,520 --> 00:17:51,840 Speaker 5: you is still in you, the blessed you, the faithful 323 00:17:51,880 --> 00:17:53,200 Speaker 5: you that honored you. 324 00:17:53,240 --> 00:17:54,040 Speaker 4: The righteous you. 325 00:17:55,280 --> 00:17:58,719 Speaker 5: In the scripture, Peter was out fishing one morning, bringing 326 00:17:58,760 --> 00:18:02,800 Speaker 5: his boat close to the sh Jesus came walking by, said, Peter, 327 00:18:03,200 --> 00:18:04,119 Speaker 5: come and follow me. 328 00:18:04,560 --> 00:18:06,280 Speaker 4: I'm gonna make you a fisher of men. 329 00:18:07,200 --> 00:18:11,040 Speaker 5: Peter had never met Jesus, never had a conversation with him, 330 00:18:11,320 --> 00:18:15,200 Speaker 5: Yet Jesus called him by name. Can you imagine how 331 00:18:15,240 --> 00:18:18,520 Speaker 5: surprised Peter was. How does this man know my name? 332 00:18:19,119 --> 00:18:22,240 Speaker 5: I know who he is. He's that teacher everyone's talking about. 333 00:18:22,400 --> 00:18:26,400 Speaker 5: Yet he called me Peter. God knows your name. He's 334 00:18:26,440 --> 00:18:29,320 Speaker 5: the one that created you. He's the one that calls 335 00:18:29,359 --> 00:18:33,719 Speaker 5: you a masterpiece. Me joel, I'm not a religious person. 336 00:18:34,119 --> 00:18:36,960 Speaker 4: Neither was Peter. He didn't have any kind of faith. 337 00:18:37,440 --> 00:18:42,160 Speaker 5: He wasn't refined, respected, He was a fisherman. He used 338 00:18:42,160 --> 00:18:46,120 Speaker 5: bad language, he was hot tempered, impulsive, he would tell 339 00:18:46,160 --> 00:18:49,320 Speaker 5: you what he thought. Yet God chose him to be 340 00:18:49,440 --> 00:18:53,119 Speaker 5: his disciple, one of the twelve that would change the world. 341 00:18:54,040 --> 00:18:57,159 Speaker 5: Out of all the people Jesus could have chosen, he 342 00:18:57,200 --> 00:19:01,000 Speaker 5: didn't choose a religious leader. He didn't choose the priest 343 00:19:01,080 --> 00:19:03,840 Speaker 5: and the synagogue, didn't choose the mayor of the city. 344 00:19:04,240 --> 00:19:08,440 Speaker 4: He chose Peter. He already knew Peter would deny him 345 00:19:08,480 --> 00:19:09,200 Speaker 4: three times. 346 00:19:09,640 --> 00:19:12,760 Speaker 5: He already knew Peter would fall asleep in the garden 347 00:19:12,760 --> 00:19:14,879 Speaker 5: of gasinimony when Jesus. 348 00:19:14,520 --> 00:19:15,479 Speaker 4: Needed him the most. 349 00:19:15,920 --> 00:19:19,320 Speaker 5: He already knew Peter was hot tempered, that he would curse, 350 00:19:19,680 --> 00:19:21,440 Speaker 5: that he would cut off the soldier's ear. 351 00:19:22,119 --> 00:19:24,359 Speaker 4: Why would Jesus choose someone like this? 352 00:19:25,160 --> 00:19:29,520 Speaker 5: Because God looks beyond the flaws, the mistakes, the weaknesses, 353 00:19:29,840 --> 00:19:33,320 Speaker 5: and he sees the masterpiece in the rock. He sees 354 00:19:33,640 --> 00:19:37,359 Speaker 5: what we can become. He hasn't lost the vision of 355 00:19:37,400 --> 00:19:40,960 Speaker 5: the true you. How He made you before you were 356 00:19:41,040 --> 00:19:44,800 Speaker 5: formed in your mother's womb. Jesus looked at Peter and said, 357 00:19:44,960 --> 00:19:49,480 Speaker 5: you are Simon, but you shall be called Peter. Simon 358 00:19:49,560 --> 00:19:55,200 Speaker 5: represents shifting sand, being unstable, inconsistent, but Peter means rock. 359 00:19:55,960 --> 00:19:59,560 Speaker 5: Jesus was telling him who the true you was. At 360 00:19:59,560 --> 00:20:02,800 Speaker 5: one point, Jesus said, you are Peter, and upon this 361 00:20:03,040 --> 00:20:06,760 Speaker 5: rock I will build my church. When Jesus said that 362 00:20:07,119 --> 00:20:11,680 Speaker 5: Peter was anything but a rock. He was unreliable, hot tempered. 363 00:20:12,080 --> 00:20:15,400 Speaker 5: Yet God called out the true you, the faithful You. 364 00:20:16,160 --> 00:20:20,440 Speaker 5: It didn't happen overnight, but God kept chiseling away Peter's weaknesses, 365 00:20:20,760 --> 00:20:25,880 Speaker 5: chiseling away the hot temper, chiseling away the inconsistency. When 366 00:20:25,920 --> 00:20:28,800 Speaker 5: the church was starting in the Book of Acts, they 367 00:20:28,840 --> 00:20:33,160 Speaker 5: needed someone to give the inaugural address, this prominent position. 368 00:20:33,560 --> 00:20:35,280 Speaker 4: Who did they choose? Peter? 369 00:20:36,240 --> 00:20:40,000 Speaker 5: But now it wasn't the impulsive Peter, the inconsistent Peter 370 00:20:40,359 --> 00:20:41,680 Speaker 5: that denied Jesus Peter. 371 00:20:42,280 --> 00:20:43,200 Speaker 4: This was the rock. 372 00:20:43,760 --> 00:20:47,680 Speaker 5: It was the true Peter, the faithful Peter, the strong Peter, 373 00:20:48,000 --> 00:20:49,240 Speaker 5: the anointed Peter. 374 00:20:49,119 --> 00:20:50,119 Speaker 4: The powerful Peter. 375 00:20:51,200 --> 00:20:54,880 Speaker 5: Here's what I'm saying, don't get discouraged because of who 376 00:20:54,920 --> 00:20:55,960 Speaker 5: you are right now. 377 00:20:56,520 --> 00:20:58,320 Speaker 4: God still has his chisel. 378 00:20:58,560 --> 00:21:01,800 Speaker 5: He's still removing things that are limiting your destiny. 379 00:21:02,160 --> 00:21:05,399 Speaker 4: You haven't seen your best days. The rock in. 380 00:21:05,320 --> 00:21:08,840 Speaker 5: You is still going to come out the successful. 381 00:21:08,240 --> 00:21:10,760 Speaker 4: You, the holy you, the favored you. 382 00:21:11,720 --> 00:21:14,199 Speaker 5: Now, like those two artists that saw the slab of 383 00:21:14,240 --> 00:21:18,080 Speaker 5: marble but said it's got too many flaws, there will 384 00:21:18,119 --> 00:21:21,800 Speaker 5: probably be people that try to discount you, tell you 385 00:21:21,840 --> 00:21:25,280 Speaker 5: what you can't become, how you're not talented enough, You've 386 00:21:25,280 --> 00:21:28,840 Speaker 5: made too many mistakes. Don't let them talk you out 387 00:21:29,080 --> 00:21:30,240 Speaker 5: of becoming the true you. 388 00:21:31,119 --> 00:21:34,240 Speaker 4: The good news is they're not your artist. They don't 389 00:21:34,240 --> 00:21:34,959 Speaker 4: have the chisel. 390 00:21:35,520 --> 00:21:38,480 Speaker 5: You're not depending on what they think what they can do. 391 00:21:38,840 --> 00:21:42,000 Speaker 5: Your sculptor is the most high God. He has not 392 00:21:42,160 --> 00:21:46,240 Speaker 5: lost the vision of who he created you to be. See, 393 00:21:46,240 --> 00:21:50,040 Speaker 5: my dad was raised very poor. His family were cotton farmers, 394 00:21:50,080 --> 00:21:53,680 Speaker 5: and they lost everything in the Great Depression. His mother 395 00:21:53,760 --> 00:21:57,239 Speaker 5: made ten cents an hour washing people's clothes. There were 396 00:21:57,280 --> 00:22:00,440 Speaker 5: times they didn't have enough money for food. Out of 397 00:22:00,480 --> 00:22:03,560 Speaker 5: high school and to work on the farm. At seventeen 398 00:22:03,640 --> 00:22:06,720 Speaker 5: years old, he gave his life to Christ, the first 399 00:22:06,720 --> 00:22:09,880 Speaker 5: one in his family. He felt this calling to become 400 00:22:09,920 --> 00:22:14,600 Speaker 5: a minister, had no money, no education, no training. But 401 00:22:14,680 --> 00:22:16,639 Speaker 5: he told his parents he was going to leave the 402 00:22:16,720 --> 00:22:18,800 Speaker 5: farm and go out and start ministry. 403 00:22:19,480 --> 00:22:22,280 Speaker 4: They said, John, you don't know how to minister. You're 404 00:22:22,280 --> 00:22:24,440 Speaker 4: going to get out there and fail. You better stay 405 00:22:24,480 --> 00:22:26,000 Speaker 4: on the farm and work with us. 406 00:22:26,800 --> 00:22:29,679 Speaker 5: They loved their son, but they could only see the 407 00:22:29,760 --> 00:22:33,800 Speaker 5: limited John, the poor John, the not talented John that 408 00:22:33,920 --> 00:22:37,600 Speaker 5: defeated John. They looked at that marble, so to speak. 409 00:22:38,080 --> 00:22:40,520 Speaker 5: Nothing good can come out of that. Look at all 410 00:22:40,560 --> 00:22:44,960 Speaker 5: the flaws, the deficiencies, the imperfections. If Daddy would have 411 00:22:45,000 --> 00:22:47,760 Speaker 5: believed who they said he was, he would have never 412 00:22:47,880 --> 00:22:52,400 Speaker 5: fulfilled his destiny. People can't see what God put in you. 413 00:22:53,080 --> 00:22:56,840 Speaker 5: Don't let their negative words limit your life. Tune it out. 414 00:22:57,080 --> 00:22:59,560 Speaker 5: You're not who people say you are. You are who 415 00:22:59,560 --> 00:23:00,240 Speaker 5: God says. 416 00:23:00,040 --> 00:23:03,520 Speaker 4: As you are. He says you're a masterpiece. He says 417 00:23:03,560 --> 00:23:06,840 Speaker 4: you have greatness in you. He says you are destined 418 00:23:06,840 --> 00:23:07,720 Speaker 4: to leave your mark. 419 00:23:08,400 --> 00:23:13,280 Speaker 5: But my father grew up with this limited mindset, his poverty, mentality. 420 00:23:13,680 --> 00:23:17,600 Speaker 5: It's all he had known, struggle, lack, mediocrity. But we 421 00:23:17,680 --> 00:23:21,120 Speaker 5: serve a God that has a chisel. He doesn't let 422 00:23:21,200 --> 00:23:24,600 Speaker 5: how you were raised, what you didn't get odds being. 423 00:23:24,520 --> 00:23:26,800 Speaker 4: Against you keep you from your purpose. 424 00:23:27,520 --> 00:23:31,520 Speaker 5: Little by little, God removed the poverty mindset. He chiseled 425 00:23:31,520 --> 00:23:33,040 Speaker 5: away the mediocrity. 426 00:23:33,440 --> 00:23:34,280 Speaker 4: Not good enough. 427 00:23:34,960 --> 00:23:37,680 Speaker 5: My father rose up and against all odds, he did 428 00:23:37,720 --> 00:23:43,600 Speaker 5: great things, pastored churches, founded Lakewood, impacted the world in 429 00:23:43,640 --> 00:23:49,040 Speaker 5: that poor disadvantage. Not educated, seventeen year old man was 430 00:23:49,080 --> 00:23:53,240 Speaker 5: a world changer, a history maker. If you only knew 431 00:23:53,440 --> 00:23:57,040 Speaker 5: what was in you. The true you is not limited 432 00:23:57,119 --> 00:24:01,000 Speaker 5: by your environment. The true you is not dependent. 433 00:24:00,640 --> 00:24:02,360 Speaker 4: On what other people think about you. 434 00:24:02,880 --> 00:24:05,679 Speaker 5: The true you is not at a disadvantage because you 435 00:24:05,720 --> 00:24:09,560 Speaker 5: have flaws and weaknesses. The enemy would love for us 436 00:24:09,560 --> 00:24:13,600 Speaker 5: to go through life feel an inferior, focused on a weaknesses, 437 00:24:14,080 --> 00:24:19,000 Speaker 5: weighed down with regrets, guilty from past mistakes, condemned, ashamed. 438 00:24:19,680 --> 00:24:22,560 Speaker 4: But what the enemy put on you, God is about 439 00:24:22,600 --> 00:24:25,120 Speaker 4: to take off of you. This is a new day. 440 00:24:25,560 --> 00:24:29,920 Speaker 5: The chisel, as it were, He's chiseling away wrong mindseense, 441 00:24:30,560 --> 00:24:34,720 Speaker 5: chiseling away negative words that have been spoken, chiseling away 442 00:24:34,880 --> 00:24:37,600 Speaker 5: guilt and shame, chiseling away. 443 00:24:37,480 --> 00:24:39,440 Speaker 4: Hurts, brokenness, offense. 444 00:24:39,800 --> 00:24:42,320 Speaker 5: You're about to step in to a new level of 445 00:24:42,359 --> 00:24:43,159 Speaker 5: your destiny. 446 00:24:43,640 --> 00:24:46,879 Speaker 4: The true you is about to come out the blessed. 447 00:24:46,520 --> 00:24:50,960 Speaker 5: You, the free you, the healthiest you, the victorious you. 448 00:24:52,240 --> 00:24:54,639 Speaker 5: I know a young woman. She was raised in a 449 00:24:54,760 --> 00:24:58,880 Speaker 5: very dysfunctional home. Seven years old, the police showed up. 450 00:24:58,840 --> 00:24:59,439 Speaker 4: At her house. 451 00:25:00,000 --> 00:25:02,280 Speaker 5: She told her to put her belongings in her trash bag. 452 00:25:02,560 --> 00:25:04,919 Speaker 5: She's going to spend the night somewhere else, and she 453 00:25:04,960 --> 00:25:08,920 Speaker 5: grabbed her pajamas, toothbrush and rushed out. She was taken 454 00:25:08,960 --> 00:25:12,800 Speaker 5: to a shelter. Her mother and stepfather were arrested for 455 00:25:12,880 --> 00:25:17,240 Speaker 5: child abuse. She had never met her biological father. Eventually 456 00:25:17,280 --> 00:25:19,920 Speaker 5: she was turned over to him, but that wasn't any better. 457 00:25:20,400 --> 00:25:22,840 Speaker 5: He was on drugs, in and out of jail. 458 00:25:23,560 --> 00:25:26,719 Speaker 4: She became very angry. She couldn't understand why no one 459 00:25:26,760 --> 00:25:29,280 Speaker 4: would love her. She got to the point where she 460 00:25:29,359 --> 00:25:32,280 Speaker 4: built up walls sure she didn't have to feel. She 461 00:25:32,400 --> 00:25:33,720 Speaker 4: became numb to the pain. 462 00:25:34,000 --> 00:25:37,920 Speaker 5: She didn't feel happy, sad, depressed, She felt nothing. At 463 00:25:37,960 --> 00:25:43,320 Speaker 5: sixteen years old, she moved out on her own, hurting, broken, lonely. 464 00:25:43,960 --> 00:25:46,679 Speaker 4: By the grace of God, she showed up at Lakewood. 465 00:25:47,320 --> 00:25:50,240 Speaker 5: She heard us talking about how God is our heavenly father, 466 00:25:50,760 --> 00:25:53,120 Speaker 5: how he has good things in store for us, how 467 00:25:53,160 --> 00:25:53,720 Speaker 5: he will give. 468 00:25:53,680 --> 00:25:57,439 Speaker 4: Us beauty for the ashes. She never felt that love before. 469 00:25:57,840 --> 00:26:01,119 Speaker 5: She'd never had anyone speak faith and victory into her 470 00:26:01,160 --> 00:26:04,000 Speaker 5: and tell her who she really was. One day she 471 00:26:04,080 --> 00:26:07,159 Speaker 5: gave her life to Christ. She said, I realized I 472 00:26:07,320 --> 00:26:08,679 Speaker 5: was no longer an orphan. 473 00:26:09,040 --> 00:26:11,359 Speaker 4: I was adopted by my heavenly father. 474 00:26:12,040 --> 00:26:15,240 Speaker 5: The right people begin to show up, doors begin to open. 475 00:26:15,680 --> 00:26:16,080 Speaker 4: Today. 476 00:26:16,359 --> 00:26:18,640 Speaker 5: That young woman, Desiree, right here on the front row, 477 00:26:18,760 --> 00:26:21,159 Speaker 5: is on staff with us, a beautiful girl. 478 00:26:21,400 --> 00:26:25,760 Speaker 4: She has the joy, the smile, the victory. Here's what 479 00:26:25,840 --> 00:26:26,439 Speaker 4: I've learned. 480 00:26:27,200 --> 00:26:30,399 Speaker 5: God will not leave you at a deficit. What you 481 00:26:30,480 --> 00:26:33,840 Speaker 5: didn't get, what wasn't fair, what you feel robbed of. 482 00:26:34,280 --> 00:26:36,400 Speaker 5: God is going to make it up to you. He's 483 00:26:36,400 --> 00:26:39,639 Speaker 5: going to pay you back for the unfair things. But 484 00:26:39,680 --> 00:26:42,560 Speaker 5: if you would have seen Desiree years back, you would 485 00:26:42,600 --> 00:26:46,480 Speaker 5: have seen the broken you, the abandoned you, the angry you. 486 00:26:47,240 --> 00:26:49,679 Speaker 5: All these things the enemy had put on her to 487 00:26:49,760 --> 00:26:53,119 Speaker 5: try to keep her from her destiny. But underneath the shame, 488 00:26:53,320 --> 00:26:55,960 Speaker 5: the anger, the rejection was the masterpiece. 489 00:26:56,320 --> 00:26:56,880 Speaker 3: There was this. 490 00:26:56,800 --> 00:27:02,120 Speaker 5: Beautiful, confident, radiant, talented young woman. Maybe like her, you're 491 00:27:02,160 --> 00:27:08,000 Speaker 5: carrying shame, hurts, brokenness. Life has put you at a disadvantage. 492 00:27:08,200 --> 00:27:11,879 Speaker 5: God said in Joshua. This day I am removing the 493 00:27:11,960 --> 00:27:15,920 Speaker 5: shame from my people. This day God is breaking chains. 494 00:27:16,520 --> 00:27:20,119 Speaker 5: This day, strongholds are coming down. This day, things that 495 00:27:20,160 --> 00:27:24,000 Speaker 5: have hindered you are being chiseled away. Through my eyes 496 00:27:24,040 --> 00:27:27,040 Speaker 5: of faith, I see the true you, the blessed you, 497 00:27:27,320 --> 00:27:30,400 Speaker 5: the free you, the restored you, the joy for you. 498 00:27:30,600 --> 00:27:34,879 Speaker 5: I see the masterpiece God created you to be. The 499 00:27:34,920 --> 00:27:38,840 Speaker 5: two years that Michael Angelo worked on sculpting David, he 500 00:27:38,920 --> 00:27:41,760 Speaker 5: did it all in private, wouldn't let anyone come in. 501 00:27:42,359 --> 00:27:45,280 Speaker 5: When he finished, he revealed it to the public. Now 502 00:27:45,320 --> 00:27:49,240 Speaker 5: five hundred million people have seen it in person. You 503 00:27:49,320 --> 00:27:53,800 Speaker 5: think about that old piece of rock, flaws, weaknesses. Other 504 00:27:53,920 --> 00:27:56,840 Speaker 5: artists said it was not useful. Yet it's been seen 505 00:27:57,040 --> 00:27:58,520 Speaker 5: by half a billion people. 506 00:27:59,440 --> 00:28:03,200 Speaker 4: When working on you, chiseling away what's not necessary. 507 00:28:03,640 --> 00:28:06,639 Speaker 5: Often he'll do it in private. He'll keep you hidden, 508 00:28:07,080 --> 00:28:10,640 Speaker 5: not noticed. But when it's your time, when God says 509 00:28:10,640 --> 00:28:12,919 Speaker 5: you're ready, he'll cause you to be seen. 510 00:28:13,359 --> 00:28:15,479 Speaker 4: You'll become a trophy of his grace. 511 00:28:15,800 --> 00:28:19,320 Speaker 5: Where people think, wasn't that the old rock that had flaws? 512 00:28:19,960 --> 00:28:23,200 Speaker 5: Wasn't that the fisherman Now he's up there leading, isn't 513 00:28:23,200 --> 00:28:25,840 Speaker 5: that the young boy from the great depression. Now he's 514 00:28:25,840 --> 00:28:29,360 Speaker 5: the pastor wasn't she abandoned by her parents and look 515 00:28:29,400 --> 00:28:29,680 Speaker 5: at her. 516 00:28:29,720 --> 00:28:30,000 Speaker 4: Now. 517 00:28:30,440 --> 00:28:33,040 Speaker 5: God's going to cause you to shine, to be an 518 00:28:33,080 --> 00:28:38,080 Speaker 5: example of what he can do despite imperfections, despite what 519 00:28:38,120 --> 00:28:40,920 Speaker 5: life throws your way. You may have some things that 520 00:28:40,960 --> 00:28:44,560 Speaker 5: are limiting you. Now, don't worry. God still has his chisel. 521 00:28:44,920 --> 00:28:48,600 Speaker 5: He's still working on you. I believe and declare the 522 00:28:48,720 --> 00:28:51,560 Speaker 5: true you is about to come out. What's holding you 523 00:28:51,680 --> 00:28:55,520 Speaker 5: back is being broken. The shame is being removed. You're 524 00:28:55,520 --> 00:28:59,560 Speaker 5: about to step into favor, freedom, wholeness, to become the 525 00:28:59,640 --> 00:29:03,400 Speaker 5: mess peace. God created you to be in Jesus's name, 526 00:29:03,800 --> 00:29:08,360 Speaker 5: and if you receive it, can you say amen? I'd 527 00:29:08,400 --> 00:29:11,120 Speaker 5: like to give you an opportunity to make Jesus the 528 00:29:11,160 --> 00:29:12,160 Speaker 5: Lord of your life. 529 00:29:12,520 --> 00:29:16,840 Speaker 4: Would you say it with me? Lord Jesus, I repent 530 00:29:16,880 --> 00:29:21,560 Speaker 4: of my sins. Come into my heart. 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