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Speaker 1: Hey, this is Stephen Ferdick.

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

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Speaker 1: I wanted to thank you for joining us today. Hope

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Speaker 1: this inspires you. Hope it builds your faith.

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Speaker 2: Hope it gives your perspective to see God is moving

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Speaker 2: in your life.

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Speaker 1: Enjoy the message.

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Speaker 3: Come on, somebody help me lift the lad.

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Speaker 2: Come on, let's live the name of Jesus. Pair the

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Speaker 2: name of Mama name Jesus. Listen redeems, Jesus, listens unifl

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Speaker 2: saor Jesus, glorious Lord, He's Manuel gone with us and

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Speaker 2: his name. Tell me came wonderful come flor mighty die

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Speaker 2: everlasting Mother.

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Speaker 3: Ding up peve head, Lord of Lord. What's his name?

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Speaker 2: Jesus? What she seesa ivy coming for your name.

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Speaker 3: Je Jesus, Jesus, if be.

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Speaker 2: Time, healing in the name of Jesus, Salvation in the

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Speaker 2: name of Jesus, Freedom, in the name of Jesus, no

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Speaker 2: other name but Jesus, the only.

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Speaker 1: Name that saves. Father. I thank you today that when

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Speaker 1: I don't know what to do, I know who to call.

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Speaker 1: I ask you today, Lord, show up for your people.

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Speaker 1: They've called on you, They've cried to you. We believe

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Speaker 1: in your word. Your word says that if we call,

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Speaker 1: you'll hear us. In the day of trouble.

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Speaker 2: I pray right now, Lord that for every storm that

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Speaker 2: may be happening, whether it's a physical storm that the

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Speaker 2: weatherman was talking about, or whether it's an emotional storm

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Speaker 2: that no one knows of, that you would speak peace

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Speaker 2: to it. Peace, be still, Peace, be still. Yours is

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Speaker 2: the voice that doesn't need a sound system.

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Speaker 1: Peace be still. Yours is the power that never goes out.

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Speaker 1: Peace be still.

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Speaker 3: But you reach around and hug seven people and tell

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Speaker 3: them this.

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Speaker 2: The Lord is going to give you extra blessings for

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Speaker 2: being here today. Those of you online, how are you doing?

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Speaker 2: God is with you, mighty warrior. Get out of the

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Speaker 2: wine press, stop worrying about it, and worship through it.

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Speaker 1: God is with you in this storm.

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Speaker 1: I don't care what the enemy is.

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Speaker 2: The Bible says He'll prepare a table in the presence

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Speaker 2: of your enemies. Our God is great and greatly to

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Speaker 2: be praised. Everybody say my God is great. Come on,

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Speaker 2: either say it with your lips or type it with

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Speaker 2: your fingers, or use your thumbs. Put it in the

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Speaker 2: comments right now. Say my God is great. Tell him

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Speaker 2: yours is great too. Come on, tell your neighbor we

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Speaker 2: got the same God. Tell him he likes me better,

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Speaker 2: but we're both his kids. How many secretly feel like

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Speaker 2: you're one of God's favorites? Just slip your finger up

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Speaker 2: right here.

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Speaker 1: I want to welcome everybody that's a part of our church,

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Speaker 1: our global e fam around the world. Let's welcome all

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Speaker 1: those who are joining us online today. You know, it's

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Speaker 1: an interesting dilemma.

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Speaker 2: We've been hearing weather reports an apocalyptic storm that may

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Speaker 2: be coming. And while we take that seriously, and while

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Speaker 2: we'll be working with our outreach partners to help all

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Speaker 2: who are in need, you know, it gets kind of

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Speaker 2: hard sometimes because there's always a report, there's always a

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Speaker 2: reason not to do something.

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Speaker 1: And when we heard that the storm.

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Speaker 2: Was coming right here through where we live, it was

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Speaker 2: a conversation, you know, should we cancel church?

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Speaker 1: And something inside of me was like, this.

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Speaker 2: Is Elevation Church, and if anything, we can't cancel. So

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Speaker 2: if anything, we got to sneak up on the devil

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Speaker 1: So that's what we're doing.

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Speaker 2: We gathered together about fifteen hundred of the most safe,

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Speaker 2: sanctified people and the Carolinas.

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Speaker 1: Some from Virginia.

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Speaker 3: I mean, these are watch this. These are holy ghosts

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Speaker 3: filled believers.

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Speaker 1: In the room today. That's right, that's right.

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Speaker 2: We checked all the Uversion Bible reading plans in the church,

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Speaker 2: and the people with the perfect streaks got to come

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Speaker 2: to church today. So we're sharing this with you a

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Speaker 2: little early. The Lord is in this place, and it's

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Speaker 2: been an interesting day here in the room. It's been interesting.

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Speaker 2: Not only do they say a storm is coming, but

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Speaker 2: something happened that's never happened in the twenty years of

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Speaker 2: And I started thinking about all of that, and I thought,

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Speaker 2: you know, Lord, well, maybe you didn't want us.

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Speaker 1: To bring this message today. Maybe you didn't want me

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Speaker 2: All these distractions and all these hindrances and all these obstacles.

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Speaker 1: Maybe you didn't want me to have this service today.

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Speaker 1: Maybe you didn't want me to preach this work today,

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Speaker 2: Maybe the devil didn't see we misinterpret when things go wrong.

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Speaker 2: Now I don't even know if my MIC's gonna work

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Speaker 2: for this whole sermon, but I need every prayer warrior

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Speaker 2: praying that this word would.

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Speaker 1: Reach right where it's supposed to go. We welcome you

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Speaker 3: Presence of the Lord today. Wherever you are, whatever you're

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Speaker 2: God has a word for you, and no word from

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Speaker 2: God will return void. Isaiah fifty five says, as the

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Speaker 2: causes it to flourish, so will.

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Speaker 1: God's word be that comes forth from his mouth.

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Speaker 2: It will not return unto him void. It will accomplish

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Speaker 2: what he said it to do. How many are excited

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Speaker 2: about the word today? Come on, clap your hands on

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Speaker 2: and open your Bible. Please to Matthew chapter thirteen, Matthew

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Speaker 2: Chapter thirteen, verses thirty one and thirty two, and Matthew

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Speaker 2: Chapter thirteen, verse forty four. I'm going to share a

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Speaker 2: help you in your life. And if while I'm preaching,

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Speaker 2: of this anointing, I will scream so loud that the

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Speaker 2: from the shock, until my voice.

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Speaker 1: Is raw and the Lord will speak. Now, listen to this.

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Speaker 2: This is Matthew chapter thirteen, verse thirty one and thirty two,

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Speaker 2: and Matthew Chapter thirteen, verse forty four. Jesus told them

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Speaker 2: another parable. He said, the Kingdom of Heaven is like

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Speaker 2: a mustard seed which a man took and planted in

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Speaker 2: Yet when it grows, it is the largest of garden

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Speaker 2: in his joy, went and sold all he had and

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Speaker 2: for you today. The Lord told me to tell you it's.

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Speaker 1: Worth the dirt. It's worth the dirt. Father, These moments

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Speaker 1: in your presence are precious.

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Speaker 2: We pray for your protection and a hedge of your

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Speaker 2: glory around each of your children today so that they

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Speaker 2: can receive what you speak.

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Speaker 1: However it comes out. This is your word and your

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Speaker 1: church in Jesus' name.

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Speaker 2: Amen, touch your neighbor and tell him it's worth the

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Speaker 2: dirt on your way to your seat.

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Speaker 1: I know you had to wait for this sermon, but

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Speaker 1: it's going to be worth it now.

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Speaker 2: I have a feeling that this microphone is not going

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Speaker 2: to hold up today, But I think what I'm going

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Speaker 2: to do is I'm just going to preach this as

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Speaker 2: so distracting that we can't take it. And if somebody

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Speaker 2: I'll preach.

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Speaker 1: Through that as well. You know, God is so good.

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Speaker 2: He teaches us to discern in different seasons of our

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Speaker 2: life whether or not something is worth it. And maturity

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Speaker 2: is learning to see when something will be worth it

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Speaker 2: and embrace it and when it's not worth it to

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Speaker 2: walk away. That's what maturity is. Being mature in your faith.

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Speaker 2: It's about recognizing when it's worth it and when it

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Speaker 2: away when it's not worth it. Tell your neighbor just

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Speaker 2: practice real quick saying it's not even worth it.

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Speaker 1: It's not even worth it. Some things are, some things aren't.

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Speaker 2: For years, when I would go watch Graham wrestle, usually

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Speaker 2: The reason I know that it was worth it is

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Speaker 2: I said to him afterwards, Man, I'm so glad I

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Speaker 1: I don't know what to do.

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Speaker 2: Is it worth it to not preach to go watch

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Speaker 2: and we're sitting at pizza hut where all of my

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Speaker 2: in the fourth grade reading The Babysitters Club and getting

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Speaker 1: Shouldn't have confessed that.

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Speaker 2: Well, We're sitting there Pizza Hut celebrating his gold medal,

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Speaker 2: and I said, man, I'm so glad I came. What

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Speaker 2: at a wrestling tournament, they turned the whole gym into.

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Speaker 1: A locker room. It's awesome, it's incredible, And.

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Speaker 2: all of it with my OCD, I'm going, it's worth it.

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Speaker 1: It's worth it. It's worth it. It's worth it. It's

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Speaker 2: Not just because he's going to go to the Olympics.

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Speaker 2: But because he told me it's worth it. Tell somebody

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Speaker 2: sometimes it's worth it. Some times you got to preach

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Speaker 2: with the mic popping because it's worth it. Sometimes you

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Speaker 4: Church a day early on a Saturday because it's worth it.

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Speaker 1: Sometimes it's worth it. And wisdom is knowing when it's

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Speaker 2: Wisdom is the ability to hear that little whisper that

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Speaker 1: From time to time and say it's worth it. Stick

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Speaker 1: with this, it's worth it. Log on church online today,

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Speaker 1: it's gonna be worth it. Yeah, keep trying to fix

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Speaker 2: I might win an argument, but it's too expensive because it.

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Speaker 2: brothers turned into the biggest opportunity of his life. Because

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Speaker 2: it's little till it isn't. Say it it's little, til

444
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Speaker 2: it isn't. This side, say it's little, this side, say

445
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Speaker 2: till it isn't. Elijah the prophet told his servant, go

446
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Speaker 2: check the sky. I hear the sound of the abundance

447
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Speaker 2: of rain is getting stormy. I know there's been a

448
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Speaker 2: drought in the land. And the servant came back seven

449
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Speaker 2: times and said there's nothing there.

450
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Speaker 1: And on the seventh time, not the six to seventh, he.

451
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Speaker 3: Came back and said, well, I see a cloud, but

452
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Speaker 3: it's it's little. It's just the size of a man's hand.

453
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Speaker 2: And Elijah said, well, you better tell Ahab hitch up

454
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Speaker 2: his chariots, because it might be little now.

455
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Speaker 3: But it is loaded. And I came to preach to

456
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Speaker 3: somebody's life.

457
00:25:54,760 --> 00:25:57,800
Speaker 2: It might be little now going back to get your degree.

458
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Speaker 2: It might be little now having integrity on your job.

459
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Speaker 1: It might be little now.

460
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Speaker 3: Making your first appointment with a trainer.

461
00:26:05,440 --> 00:26:07,880
Speaker 2: It might be little now putting the word of God

462
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Speaker 2: in your kid's heart, dragging them to church.

463
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Speaker 3: It might be little now breeding a verse a day.

464
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Speaker 1: It might be little now.

465
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Speaker 3: But little as much as God is in it, little

466
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Speaker 3: as much.

467
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Speaker 2: Jesus was preaching one day, the crowds were hungry.

468
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Speaker 3: He told the.

469
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Speaker 2: Disciples to feed them, and he asked him, what do

470
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Speaker 2: you have? They said, just a little bit. There's a

471
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Speaker 2: little boy with a little lunch and a big crowd

472
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Speaker 2: with a few loaves. And what we have is little

473
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Speaker 2: and as little till it isn't. And when he touched it,

474
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Speaker 2: what was little became leftovers. Because it's only little till

475
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Speaker 2: it isn't. Come on, give God a little praise, little pray,

476
00:26:53,840 --> 00:26:58,320
Speaker 2: little brave, little praise, little prays, little braves, little braids.

477
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Speaker 2: I see a cloud the size of a man's hand,

478
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Speaker 2: I see it rising in your life. Or maybe I

479
00:27:06,000 --> 00:27:09,879
Speaker 2: should say I see a cloud the size of a

480
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Speaker 2: man's hand, and I see a seed the size of

481
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Speaker 2: a mustard seed. And Jesus said, some of the most

482
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Speaker 2: significant things God will do in your life will be

483
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Speaker 2: some of the smallest things when they start. All right,

484
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Speaker 2: if I send you all home right now, I think

485
00:27:27,640 --> 00:27:31,400
Speaker 2: it was worth it just to encourage you with that much.

486
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Speaker 2: It's little till it isn't. Can I break that down

487
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Speaker 2: a little more? Though, I want to make it worth

488
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Speaker 2: your while. Tell somebody is worth it. It's worth it

489
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Speaker 2: to come to church. It's worth it to put on

490
00:27:43,560 --> 00:27:46,959
Speaker 2: your uncomfortable shoes and your pants that don't have an

491
00:27:47,000 --> 00:27:50,560
Speaker 2: elastic waistband and get in the House of God and

492
00:27:50,720 --> 00:27:52,280
Speaker 2: get in a place where you can hear. And it

493
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Speaker 2: is worth it to devote yourself to the word of God.

494
00:27:55,920 --> 00:27:58,680
Speaker 2: And I'm gonna tell you something right now about the

495
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Speaker 2: mustard seed that a tree. And I don't know if

496
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Speaker 2: you can kind of make this jump with me, But

497
00:28:06,119 --> 00:28:10,639
Speaker 2: it's not only true about the kingdom that it's little

498
00:28:12,080 --> 00:28:16,240
Speaker 2: until it isn't, but it's also true about compromise.

499
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Speaker 1: It's little.

500
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Speaker 2: Till it isn't. It's one glass of wine until you

501
00:28:34,040 --> 00:28:37,240
Speaker 2: go through something that makes you need three and five

502
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Speaker 2: and seven.

503
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Speaker 1: I wish y'all would.

504
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Speaker 2: Look at me like that, Well, I'm not allowed to

505
00:28:43,760 --> 00:28:46,480
Speaker 2: have a standard in my life. I'm not telling you

506
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Speaker 2: not to drink. What I am saying about this is

507
00:28:49,960 --> 00:28:52,840
Speaker 2: that I had people make fun of me almost every

508
00:28:53,240 --> 00:28:56,720
Speaker 2: year of my teenage and adult life when they found

509
00:28:56,760 --> 00:29:00,560
Speaker 2: out that I have chosen I can't handle alcohol, and

510
00:29:00,640 --> 00:29:03,560
Speaker 2: they're like, what do you think it's a sin?

511
00:29:04,440 --> 00:29:07,400
Speaker 5: I'm like, no, I don't think it's a sin. I

512
00:29:07,600 --> 00:29:15,120
Speaker 5: just think for me is slippery. It's slippery.

513
00:29:16,440 --> 00:29:20,320
Speaker 1: Because I know me and I am already addicted to

514
00:29:20,520 --> 00:29:24,720
Speaker 1: enough stuff. I do not need to invite chemical demons

515
00:29:24,760 --> 00:29:26,920
Speaker 1: into places where.

516
00:29:26,720 --> 00:29:29,280
Speaker 2: I already have plenty of this function. You know what

517
00:29:29,320 --> 00:29:33,280
Speaker 2: I'm saying, I'm not inviting a gang of demons into

518
00:29:33,360 --> 00:29:35,920
Speaker 2: my life. When my dad struggled with it, and his

519
00:29:36,120 --> 00:29:39,360
Speaker 2: dad struggled with it, and the Lord gave me a

520
00:29:39,680 --> 00:29:41,480
Speaker 2: real revelation about this. One day, I was watching a

521
00:29:41,520 --> 00:29:43,240
Speaker 2: famous celebrity and they were on a talk show and

522
00:29:43,320 --> 00:29:47,080
Speaker 2: they were celebrating like seventeen years of sobriety, and everybody clatform.

523
00:29:48,600 --> 00:29:52,280
Speaker 2: Everybody clapped. Seventeen years sober. That's amazing. Everybody clatform. Everybody

524
00:29:52,400 --> 00:29:55,240
Speaker 2: was clapping. The whole studio audience was clapping. I thought,

525
00:29:55,320 --> 00:29:58,360
Speaker 2: that's crazy. They will clap for that. But if a

526
00:29:58,400 --> 00:30:00,800
Speaker 2: teenager decides I'm not going to drink, everybody will make

527
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Speaker 2: you feel like a fool.

528
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Speaker 1: So why do we celebrate after.

529
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Speaker 2: They have made such a mess that they need a

530
00:30:07,800 --> 00:30:11,680
Speaker 2: miracle to make it right? But we can't celebrate when

531
00:30:11,720 --> 00:30:14,000
Speaker 2: you put the measures in your life to keep you

532
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Speaker 2: from the evil in the first place. So if we

533
00:30:18,040 --> 00:30:24,240
Speaker 2: can celebrate recovery, we can celebrate precovery. It means that

534
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Speaker 2: I can make some little decisions in my life that

535
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Speaker 2: might keep a guardrail up for the future. Because it's

536
00:30:32,080 --> 00:30:39,040
Speaker 2: little till it isn't. It's little till it isn't. And

537
00:30:39,160 --> 00:30:41,720
Speaker 2: you're saying, what does this have to do with dirt?

538
00:30:43,080 --> 00:30:46,400
Speaker 2: You said it's worth the dirt, that's your title. What

539
00:30:46,800 --> 00:30:54,320
Speaker 2: does dirt have to do with decisions? I was looking

540
00:30:54,360 --> 00:30:57,320
Speaker 2: at these parables, you know. The one I preached about

541
00:30:57,320 --> 00:30:59,560
Speaker 2: a few weeks ago was the wheat and the wats.

542
00:31:00,800 --> 00:31:03,720
Speaker 2: I preached about that how the enemy will always do

543
00:31:03,840 --> 00:31:06,760
Speaker 2: something right beside whatever God does, in order to try

544
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Speaker 2: to get you discouraged and get you to give up.

545
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Speaker 1: And I do feel like that I'm preaching to.

546
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Speaker 2: A lot of people today who are discouraged either by

547
00:31:15,520 --> 00:31:18,040
Speaker 2: the seeming insignificance of what God has called you to do.

548
00:31:18,280 --> 00:31:20,000
Speaker 2: I mean, good Lord, what parent in the room has

549
00:31:20,040 --> 00:31:23,760
Speaker 2: not been discouraged to think none of this matters. All

550
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Speaker 2: the little things you do for your kids, all the

551
00:31:25,600 --> 00:31:27,320
Speaker 2: things they don't say thank you for, all the little

552
00:31:27,360 --> 00:31:29,560
Speaker 2: pieces of advice you try to give all the little

553
00:31:29,600 --> 00:31:31,360
Speaker 2: things that you may do that go unnoticed, all of

554
00:31:31,400 --> 00:31:33,480
Speaker 2: the little ways you try to correct. There's nobody in

555
00:31:33,520 --> 00:31:36,120
Speaker 2: here who hasn't felt the idea of this isn't worth it,

556
00:31:37,360 --> 00:31:42,040
Speaker 2: or at the very least, this isn't working, and it's

557
00:31:42,120 --> 00:31:44,560
Speaker 2: not worth it. Because it's not working, it's not nothing's

558
00:31:44,600 --> 00:31:49,240
Speaker 2: getting better. But notice something about the mustard seed.

559
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Speaker 1: It became.

560
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Speaker 2: What it was.

561
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Speaker 1: In an unseen place. Notice the mustard seed was very small,

562
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Speaker 1: the smallest of all seeds.

563
00:32:04,920 --> 00:32:10,200
Speaker 2: Yet Verse thirty two says when it grows, it is

564
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Speaker 2: the largest of garden plants.

565
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Speaker 1: Now, I just need to preach this like its Bible study.

566
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Speaker 2: Okay, I'm gonna talk to y'all, not like you're a

567
00:32:17,120 --> 00:32:19,080
Speaker 2: Sunday morning crowd. I'm gonna talk to you like you're

568
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Speaker 2: a seminary class. It doesn't say when it grows it

569
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Speaker 2: becomes the largest of garden plants. It says when it

570
00:32:29,080 --> 00:32:34,440
Speaker 2: grows it is the largest of garden plants. That means

571
00:32:34,520 --> 00:32:38,720
Speaker 2: it already was when it went in the ground. It

572
00:32:38,960 --> 00:32:48,840
Speaker 2: just needed somewhere to grow. What made the difference between

573
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Speaker 2: the mustard seed being this big and being this big,

574
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Speaker 2: What made the.

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Speaker 1: Difference was the dirt. We don't like dirt. We don't

576
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Speaker 1: like dirt. We like shine. We don't like dirt. We

577
00:33:04,760 --> 00:33:09,720
Speaker 1: like dreams. We don't like dirt. We don't like dirty churches.

578
00:33:10,440 --> 00:33:13,400
Speaker 2: We go around to churches, and if one church has

579
00:33:13,440 --> 00:33:15,840
Speaker 2: a problem with it, we'll leave that church and go

580
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Speaker 2: to another church. And you know, some of us, we're

581
00:33:19,120 --> 00:33:22,120
Speaker 2: going from church to church looking for dirt. And we

582
00:33:22,240 --> 00:33:25,240
Speaker 2: are drawn to the church because that church helped me

583
00:33:25,840 --> 00:33:29,000
Speaker 2: and that church blessed me. But stay around any church

584
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Speaker 2: long enough, you'll find dirt. I mean, even the purest church,

585
00:33:33,840 --> 00:33:36,000
Speaker 2: even the church that says like we're the real church.

586
00:33:36,080 --> 00:33:38,960
Speaker 2: We preach the real gospel. We preach the real truth.

587
00:33:39,320 --> 00:33:43,160
Speaker 2: They got dirt. They've got dirt. I promise you. I

588
00:33:43,280 --> 00:33:46,280
Speaker 2: have lived to see the days when some of the

589
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Speaker 2: most judgmental people that I ever met in my life

590
00:33:50,200 --> 00:33:52,880
Speaker 2: turned out to be the most jacked up people that I.

591
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Speaker 1: Ever met in my life.

592
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Speaker 2: And the reason they were so mean is because they

593
00:33:56,520 --> 00:33:59,440
Speaker 2: were so messed up, and rather than admit they were

594
00:33:59,480 --> 00:34:02,200
Speaker 2: messed up, they just decided to be mean. So let

595
00:34:02,240 --> 00:34:03,800
Speaker 2: me go ahead and save you a lot of trouble.

596
00:34:04,040 --> 00:34:08,000
Speaker 2: This church has dirt. The person you're sitting next to

597
00:34:08,520 --> 00:34:11,360
Speaker 2: has dirt. The person that you're sitting next to.

598
00:34:11,840 --> 00:34:12,640
Speaker 1: Has some things that.

599
00:34:12,719 --> 00:34:15,160
Speaker 2: They carry with them that they're not proud of that

600
00:34:15,280 --> 00:34:17,200
Speaker 2: if you meet them in the wrong place, they might

601
00:34:17,280 --> 00:34:18,680
Speaker 2: not have a good response.

602
00:34:21,360 --> 00:34:24,600
Speaker 3: But notice in the passage that it was the dirt.

603
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Speaker 3: I'm not glorifying sin, but it was the dirt.

604
00:34:27,840 --> 00:34:30,520
Speaker 1: It was something that we try to remove.

605
00:34:30,600 --> 00:34:33,840
Speaker 2: It was something that we don't value that made the

606
00:34:33,960 --> 00:34:38,000
Speaker 2: mustard seed become something that you would not see on

607
00:34:38,160 --> 00:34:42,960
Speaker 2: the surface. This trial that you're going through, this shame

608
00:34:43,120 --> 00:34:46,279
Speaker 2: that you're dealing with, this issue that you're pushing through.

609
00:34:46,719 --> 00:34:49,400
Speaker 2: Whether or not you grow from it depends on how

610
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Speaker 2: you interpret the dirt. Because if I see the dirt

611
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Speaker 2: as a place to avoid, I will never go through

612
00:34:59,760 --> 00:35:02,719
Speaker 2: the processes that will make me grow, and I'll run

613
00:35:02,760 --> 00:35:05,520
Speaker 2: from church to church looking for a church with no dirt.

614
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Speaker 1: But can I tell you something, You grow in the dirt.

615
00:35:09,160 --> 00:35:10,640
Speaker 1: You grow in community.

616
00:35:11,080 --> 00:35:14,200
Speaker 2: You grow when you have to work through conflict, quit

617
00:35:14,360 --> 00:35:15,600
Speaker 2: switching people.

618
00:35:15,719 --> 00:35:17,680
Speaker 3: And start letting God change you.

619
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Speaker 2: It can't grow if it never gets planted. You can't

620
00:35:23,760 --> 00:35:28,680
Speaker 2: grow if you never get planted. And yes, there come

621
00:35:28,760 --> 00:35:30,880
Speaker 2: times to leave jobs and yes, there come times to

622
00:35:31,000 --> 00:35:33,680
Speaker 2: leave relationships, and yes there comes time to leave churches.

623
00:35:34,920 --> 00:35:36,319
Speaker 2: But I want to tell you that some of us

624
00:35:36,480 --> 00:35:39,320
Speaker 2: never produce our potential because we are never planted in

625
00:35:39,360 --> 00:35:45,719
Speaker 2: our purpose. And sometimes you just have to decide, this

626
00:35:45,880 --> 00:35:49,200
Speaker 2: is worth it. Devil, you can't have it. This is

627
00:35:49,280 --> 00:35:52,279
Speaker 2: worth it for fighting for me. Now that might not

628
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Speaker 2: be devil.

629
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Speaker 1: You can have that. I'll pay you to take it.

630
00:35:57,239 --> 00:36:04,000
Speaker 1: This is not worth it, but this is worth it.

631
00:36:04,080 --> 00:36:05,719
Speaker 1: The word of the Lord for somebody. Is this one's

632
00:36:05,760 --> 00:36:07,880
Speaker 1: worth it? This one's worth it.

633
00:36:08,239 --> 00:36:10,040
Speaker 2: I know it's small. I know you don't see it

634
00:36:10,160 --> 00:36:12,200
Speaker 2: right now. I know it's taking longer than you thought.

635
00:36:12,360 --> 00:36:14,400
Speaker 2: I know the momentum is tricky right now. I know

636
00:36:14,480 --> 00:36:16,600
Speaker 2: the winds are against you. But this one's worth it.

637
00:36:17,760 --> 00:36:18,880
Speaker 1: This is not just anything.

638
00:36:18,920 --> 00:36:21,120
Speaker 2: You cannot keep this cycle up of running from things

639
00:36:21,160 --> 00:36:23,279
Speaker 2: when they get hard, you will never grow that way.

640
00:36:23,719 --> 00:36:27,080
Speaker 2: This one's worth it. And I know it's dirty. I

641
00:36:27,239 --> 00:36:29,879
Speaker 2: know it's messy, I know is sloppy. I know it'll

642
00:36:29,920 --> 00:36:32,759
Speaker 2: be easier for you to just hide. But this one

643
00:36:33,440 --> 00:36:34,840
Speaker 2: is worth it.

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00:36:35,719 --> 00:36:40,360
Speaker 6: It's worth the dirt that's where it grew. It's worth

645
00:36:40,920 --> 00:36:44,200
Speaker 6: the dirt that's where it learned to break through. It's

646
00:36:44,360 --> 00:36:45,880
Speaker 6: worth the dirt.

647
00:36:48,120 --> 00:36:53,480
Speaker 2: And yet there's another parable, another parable that Jesus told

648
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Speaker 2: about dirt. He talked in Matthew thirteen forty four about

649
00:36:58,400 --> 00:37:02,560
Speaker 2: how the Kingdom of Heaven is also like Now watch this.

650
00:37:03,960 --> 00:37:08,000
Speaker 2: In the first parable, he's talking about a tree that

651
00:37:08,160 --> 00:37:10,640
Speaker 2: has to go into the dirt to become what it

652
00:37:10,719 --> 00:37:15,200
Speaker 2: already is. In this parable, he's talking about a treasure

653
00:37:16,600 --> 00:37:18,400
Speaker 2: that is hidden in the dirt.

654
00:37:19,040 --> 00:37:20,720
Speaker 1: But it does not lessen its value.

655
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Speaker 2: For he said, the Kingdom of Heaven forty four is

656
00:37:24,440 --> 00:37:26,680
Speaker 2: like a treasure hidden.

657
00:37:27,000 --> 00:37:27,560
Speaker 1: In a field.

658
00:37:28,520 --> 00:37:32,880
Speaker 2: When a man found it, he hid it again, and

659
00:37:33,040 --> 00:37:36,960
Speaker 2: then in his joy, he went and sold everything he had.

660
00:37:37,040 --> 00:37:40,719
Speaker 2: He was happy, he was putting everything on eBay, and

661
00:37:40,920 --> 00:37:44,239
Speaker 2: happy because the Kingdom of God is like this is

662
00:37:44,360 --> 00:37:46,440
Speaker 2: so precious, it's such a priority.

663
00:37:46,680 --> 00:37:48,800
Speaker 1: The Kingdom of God is such a treasure.

664
00:37:49,560 --> 00:37:52,800
Speaker 2: When he found it, he sold everything he had and

665
00:37:53,000 --> 00:37:54,480
Speaker 2: bought the treasure.

666
00:37:55,280 --> 00:37:55,440
Speaker 1: Right.

667
00:37:56,400 --> 00:37:56,640
Speaker 2: Wrong.

668
00:37:59,000 --> 00:38:03,400
Speaker 1: It does not say he bought the treasure. He bought

669
00:38:04,840 --> 00:38:05,320
Speaker 1: the field.

670
00:38:06,440 --> 00:38:08,759
Speaker 2: And the last time I checked, fields are made of

671
00:38:11,000 --> 00:38:14,320
Speaker 2: and the last time I checked. In Genesis one, verse seven,

672
00:38:14,800 --> 00:38:16,760
Speaker 2: you are made.

673
00:38:18,640 --> 00:38:19,120
Speaker 1: Of dirt.

674
00:38:21,520 --> 00:38:27,080
Speaker 2: And when God created you, he reached down into the dirt.

675
00:38:27,320 --> 00:38:32,120
Speaker 2: God didn't make you from stars. God reached down into

676
00:38:33,160 --> 00:38:37,560
Speaker 2: the dirt, and when he breathed on what was dirty.

677
00:38:38,520 --> 00:38:40,240
Speaker 3: The breath of what is holy.

678
00:38:41,120 --> 00:38:44,240
Speaker 2: In Genesis, it says that the man became a living

679
00:38:44,400 --> 00:38:50,759
Speaker 2: being because God says, the dirt is worth it. When

680
00:38:50,840 --> 00:38:53,880
Speaker 2: I breathe on it, it's worth it. When I speak

681
00:38:54,000 --> 00:38:59,600
Speaker 2: to it, it's worth it. Matthew thirteen forty four taught

682
00:38:59,640 --> 00:39:03,720
Speaker 2: me about marriage. It says that a man found a treasure.

683
00:39:03,760 --> 00:39:06,319
Speaker 2: The Kingdom of God is like a man who found a.

684
00:39:06,360 --> 00:39:09,080
Speaker 1: Treasure, and he was so happy about the treasure that

685
00:39:09,200 --> 00:39:10,799
Speaker 1: he sold everything he had.

686
00:39:10,960 --> 00:39:13,200
Speaker 2: Number One, it taught me that marriage means I'm going

687
00:39:13,280 --> 00:39:16,480
Speaker 2: to be broke buying stuff I don't even want. Number Two,

688
00:39:16,920 --> 00:39:21,440
Speaker 2: it taught me that when I bought Holly her ring,

689
00:39:23,920 --> 00:39:27,120
Speaker 2: y'all didn't know where I was going with that kind

690
00:39:27,160 --> 00:39:30,080
Speaker 2: of marriage. Do y'all have, y'all?

691
00:39:30,080 --> 00:39:30,680
Speaker 1: When I bought a.

692
00:39:30,760 --> 00:39:33,279
Speaker 2: Ring, I spent every dollar I had on the ring

693
00:39:33,520 --> 00:39:37,239
Speaker 2: three thousand dollars. Three thousand dollars in two thousand and two.

694
00:39:38,239 --> 00:39:42,000
Speaker 2: Adjust that for inflation. Big money to your boy.

695
00:39:43,040 --> 00:39:43,640
Speaker 1: But I did it.

696
00:39:44,400 --> 00:39:46,560
Speaker 2: I was happy to do it. I met with this

697
00:39:46,719 --> 00:39:49,400
Speaker 2: shady dude up in a pawn shop somewhere. I said, Now,

698
00:39:49,400 --> 00:39:51,359
Speaker 2: how do I know it's real? He showed me all

699
00:39:51,400 --> 00:39:52,759
Speaker 2: these papers. I believed him.

700
00:39:54,480 --> 00:39:59,239
Speaker 1: Now I've upgraded her ring for every decade that she

701
00:39:59,320 --> 00:40:03,800
Speaker 1: has dealt with me, just to remind her, Just to

702
00:40:03,880 --> 00:40:08,600
Speaker 1: remind her that is worth the dirt.

703
00:40:10,160 --> 00:40:13,000
Speaker 2: Get that diamond a little bit bigger, just to remind her.

704
00:40:13,719 --> 00:40:17,520
Speaker 1: In case she forgets. I'm sure she doesn't. I've been

705
00:40:17,520 --> 00:40:18,040
Speaker 1: looking back on that.

706
00:40:18,160 --> 00:40:21,279
Speaker 2: Is anybody engaged in the room today, anybody engaged to

707
00:40:21,360 --> 00:40:22,040
Speaker 2: be married.

708
00:40:23,320 --> 00:40:28,920
Speaker 1: For real? Where congratulations, you got a ring and everything?

709
00:40:30,320 --> 00:40:30,719
Speaker 1: A ring?

710
00:40:30,920 --> 00:40:31,200
Speaker 3: Pop?

711
00:40:35,320 --> 00:40:37,600
Speaker 1: Do you really have a fiance? Is that part true?

712
00:40:38,800 --> 00:40:43,520
Speaker 1: Show me, good job. I'm so happy for you.

713
00:40:44,719 --> 00:40:46,560
Speaker 2: But this is one thing I want you to understand,

714
00:40:46,680 --> 00:40:48,400
Speaker 2: and I really want to use this as an example

715
00:40:48,480 --> 00:40:52,080
Speaker 2: for everybody in the room. When I put the ring

716
00:40:52,160 --> 00:40:56,520
Speaker 2: on Holly's finger, I got down on one knee at

717
00:40:56,600 --> 00:40:57,520
Speaker 2: Furman University.

718
00:40:59,480 --> 00:41:03,320
Speaker 1: She said I do, But she didn't say I do

719
00:41:03,480 --> 00:41:09,280
Speaker 1: to the diamond. She said I do to the dirt.

720
00:41:11,080 --> 00:41:13,560
Speaker 2: So I just want to I just want to say,

721
00:41:14,880 --> 00:41:18,279
Speaker 2: you're saying I do to the dirt. Because the men

722
00:41:18,320 --> 00:41:20,200
Speaker 2: didn't buy the treasure he bought the field that the

723
00:41:20,280 --> 00:41:25,719
Speaker 2: treasure was at. So when she said I do, she

724
00:41:25,920 --> 00:41:29,000
Speaker 2: was saying I do to the dirt. That would have

725
00:41:29,040 --> 00:41:32,000
Speaker 2: been easy at that point in our relationship for her

726
00:41:32,080 --> 00:41:34,560
Speaker 2: to say I do to my anointing, because she'd seen

727
00:41:34,600 --> 00:41:35,800
Speaker 2: me operate in ministry.

728
00:41:37,239 --> 00:41:39,120
Speaker 1: She had seen me go and minister and I would

729
00:41:39,200 --> 00:41:41,239
Speaker 1: I would preach just like I preached. Now, I was

730
00:41:41,280 --> 00:41:44,400
Speaker 1: always passionate, I was I was. I was always edgy.

731
00:41:44,960 --> 00:41:46,640
Speaker 2: I always said things that I went back and thought

732
00:41:46,680 --> 00:41:47,800
Speaker 2: later I shouldn't have said it like that.

733
00:41:48,160 --> 00:41:50,239
Speaker 1: But I always had heart. And she would see me

734
00:41:50,320 --> 00:41:50,600
Speaker 1: try to.

735
00:41:50,600 --> 00:41:53,120
Speaker 2: Break through a room and give people an opportunity to

736
00:41:53,200 --> 00:41:54,319
Speaker 2: meet Jesus where they were.

737
00:41:54,600 --> 00:41:56,000
Speaker 1: And I know that's one of the reasons that she

738
00:41:56,080 --> 00:41:56,840
Speaker 1: fell in love with me.

739
00:41:57,080 --> 00:41:58,640
Speaker 2: And I know that she was saying I do to

740
00:41:58,760 --> 00:42:01,400
Speaker 2: my anointing because she felt like God had called us

741
00:42:01,480 --> 00:42:04,400
Speaker 2: together to minister and it was a lifelong thing. And

742
00:42:04,480 --> 00:42:07,600
Speaker 2: I know she said yes to my anointing, my treasure,

743
00:42:07,960 --> 00:42:11,279
Speaker 2: But she was also saying, I do to my anxiety,

744
00:42:13,920 --> 00:42:17,440
Speaker 2: because what she never could have known is that behind

745
00:42:17,520 --> 00:42:21,960
Speaker 2: the anointing to preach is the anxiety that is the

746
00:42:22,080 --> 00:42:23,759
Speaker 2: constant companion of God's call.

747
00:42:25,520 --> 00:42:29,239
Speaker 1: And when she said I do to the diamond, she

748
00:42:29,480 --> 00:42:32,080
Speaker 1: was saying, I do to the dirt.

749
00:42:33,960 --> 00:42:35,799
Speaker 2: And the woman that has sat on the front row

750
00:42:36,280 --> 00:42:38,680
Speaker 2: to hear me preach, and the woman that has been

751
00:42:38,719 --> 00:42:41,719
Speaker 2: around the world to hear me preach, and the woman

752
00:42:41,800 --> 00:42:47,239
Speaker 2: that has gotten two upgrades on her diamond goes home

753
00:42:48,560 --> 00:42:53,400
Speaker 2: and accepts the dirt. Not that I'm a hypocrite, not

754
00:42:53,560 --> 00:42:56,120
Speaker 2: that there is a darkness in my life that is

755
00:42:56,160 --> 00:42:59,759
Speaker 2: the result of me not knowing God. But everybody has

756
00:43:00,640 --> 00:43:02,960
Speaker 2: a treasure in a field.

757
00:43:04,840 --> 00:43:08,640
Speaker 1: Everybody has a diamond and a dirt, you know, she

758
00:43:08,680 --> 00:43:09,560
Speaker 1: said to me last night.

759
00:43:09,680 --> 00:43:12,480
Speaker 2: I said, Babe, I'm all out of whack. I'm preaching

760
00:43:12,520 --> 00:43:14,760
Speaker 2: a day early. I don't know why I feel anxious.

761
00:43:15,040 --> 00:43:17,719
Speaker 2: I'm sorry I feel anxious so much. She said, Stop

762
00:43:17,800 --> 00:43:20,120
Speaker 2: apologizing for it, and tell me how I can help you.

763
00:43:21,480 --> 00:43:26,960
Speaker 1: What she's saying, she's saying. She's saying, I do the dirt.

764
00:43:27,840 --> 00:43:34,720
Speaker 2: We need some people, whether it's husbands, wives, staff members

765
00:43:34,760 --> 00:43:42,560
Speaker 2: at Elevation Church. We need some people Christians, believers, moms, dads, students.

766
00:43:42,920 --> 00:43:44,800
Speaker 1: We need some people who will say, you know what,

767
00:43:45,440 --> 00:43:48,000
Speaker 1: I don't just run around from field to field when

768
00:43:48,040 --> 00:43:48,800
Speaker 1: it gets dirty.

769
00:43:49,200 --> 00:43:51,880
Speaker 2: I don't just run around from trend to trend, chasing

770
00:43:51,960 --> 00:43:53,240
Speaker 2: stuff to fix my life.

771
00:43:53,719 --> 00:43:55,520
Speaker 3: I'm not a quick fixed Christian.

772
00:43:56,080 --> 00:44:00,759
Speaker 2: I do dirt, and you will find me for raising God,

773
00:44:01,200 --> 00:44:04,279
Speaker 2: and you will find me fulfilling purpose, and you will

774
00:44:04,400 --> 00:44:07,600
Speaker 2: find me on my post. Because I didn't just say

775
00:44:07,680 --> 00:44:10,480
Speaker 2: I do to the diamond. I don't just show up

776
00:44:10,520 --> 00:44:13,680
Speaker 2: when a shiny I show up with a shovel.

777
00:44:14,320 --> 00:44:16,440
Speaker 3: I do dirt.

778
00:44:16,719 --> 00:44:20,000
Speaker 2: If the sound goes out, I'll say it again. If

779
00:44:20,080 --> 00:44:23,560
Speaker 2: the snow comes down, I'll preach it early. If hell

780
00:44:23,680 --> 00:44:28,960
Speaker 2: breaks loose, I'll come out on fire because I do dirt.

781
00:44:29,200 --> 00:44:32,400
Speaker 2: If I go broke, I've never seen the righteous forsaken.

782
00:44:32,840 --> 00:44:36,920
Speaker 3: If they hate me, he loves me. I do dirt

783
00:44:37,280 --> 00:44:40,240
Speaker 3: because God does dirt.

784
00:44:41,120 --> 00:44:46,160
Speaker 2: God does dirt, not only in creation but in incarnation.

785
00:44:47,120 --> 00:44:50,880
Speaker 2: For God saw man in his dirt, in his filth,

786
00:44:51,320 --> 00:44:55,799
Speaker 2: in his blood, in his works, in his salvation less stake,

787
00:44:56,280 --> 00:45:00,600
Speaker 2: in his worst moment. And God from heaven send Jesus.

788
00:45:00,400 --> 00:45:04,200
Speaker 3: From a throne, from a throne to a cross, who

789
00:45:04,280 --> 00:45:08,760
Speaker 3: would pay such a price for the sin of the world.

790
00:45:09,160 --> 00:45:11,360
Speaker 2: Here's your king, crucified.

791
00:45:11,800 --> 00:45:12,560
Speaker 1: What's he saying?

792
00:45:13,040 --> 00:45:14,360
Speaker 2: I do.

793
00:45:16,160 --> 00:45:16,480
Speaker 3: Dirt?

794
00:45:19,160 --> 00:45:23,200
Speaker 2: And when Jesus paid for you on Calvary. He didn't

795
00:45:23,360 --> 00:45:27,920
Speaker 2: just buy diamonds. He bought dirt.

796
00:45:35,520 --> 00:45:40,440
Speaker 1: I'm thankful for a God who does dirt.

797
00:45:42,400 --> 00:45:45,279
Speaker 2: I'm grateful that He looks at me covered and all

798
00:45:45,360 --> 00:45:47,479
Speaker 2: of the things that I should have cast off, and said,

799
00:45:48,360 --> 00:45:54,439
Speaker 2: it's worth the dirt. It's worth the dirt. It's worth

800
00:45:54,480 --> 00:45:59,279
Speaker 2: being misunderstood. Sometimes it's worth the dirt. This right here,

801
00:46:00,480 --> 00:46:03,560
Speaker 2: this one's worth it. This one ain't.

802
00:46:05,520 --> 00:46:10,759
Speaker 1: This one is. And when God whispers it's worth it,

803
00:46:10,760 --> 00:46:21,560
Speaker 1: it's worth the dirt. Like a treasure hidden in a field,

804
00:46:22,400 --> 00:46:25,960
Speaker 1: can't see it on the surface. Write this down. You

805
00:46:26,080 --> 00:46:34,600
Speaker 1: don't trip over treasure. You dig it out. Stop looking

806
00:46:34,640 --> 00:46:37,279
Speaker 1: for God to put stuff on the surface. This one

807
00:46:37,360 --> 00:46:43,200
Speaker 1: he dug for. It was hidden. If it ain't buried,

808
00:46:44,280 --> 00:46:45,560
Speaker 1: it probably ain't treasure.

809
00:46:48,960 --> 00:46:51,640
Speaker 2: And that's why in this season of your life you're

810
00:46:51,680 --> 00:46:54,440
Speaker 2: having to fight through some difficulties. You're having to fight

811
00:46:54,560 --> 00:46:58,400
Speaker 2: through some dirt. But the dirt served a purpose. It

812
00:46:58,640 --> 00:47:03,680
Speaker 2: made the mustard seed. Watch this branch out now. Notice

813
00:47:04,280 --> 00:47:06,680
Speaker 2: the baby seed was so small you couldn't see it.

814
00:47:07,560 --> 00:47:09,520
Speaker 2: But in the end of the parable, Jesus said, this

815
00:47:09,680 --> 00:47:15,000
Speaker 2: seed that is not big, it's little until it isn't.

816
00:47:15,200 --> 00:47:17,520
Speaker 2: And by the end of this seed's time in the dirt,

817
00:47:18,960 --> 00:47:22,120
Speaker 2: it had branches coming out the ground, showing.

818
00:47:21,960 --> 00:47:22,480
Speaker 1: Verse thirty two.

819
00:47:22,480 --> 00:47:23,919
Speaker 2: I want you to see it with your own eyes,

820
00:47:24,640 --> 00:47:26,600
Speaker 2: he said, in the branches are so big that the

821
00:47:26,680 --> 00:47:31,160
Speaker 2: birds come and perch in the branches. I don't know

822
00:47:31,200 --> 00:47:34,120
Speaker 2: if you can receive this or not, but the battle

823
00:47:34,160 --> 00:47:36,840
Speaker 2: that you have been going through in your life, the

824
00:47:36,960 --> 00:47:47,080
Speaker 2: battle is for the branches, because when the tree gets

825
00:47:47,160 --> 00:47:50,200
Speaker 2: done growing, it's going to be like this. Now it's

826
00:47:50,360 --> 00:47:53,680
Speaker 2: like this, and you've been wondering, why is the devil

827
00:47:53,800 --> 00:47:56,879
Speaker 2: picking on me? I'm nobody. Why is it so hard

828
00:47:56,920 --> 00:48:01,840
Speaker 2: for me? I'm not that it's because of your branches.

829
00:48:06,000 --> 00:48:09,640
Speaker 2: It is because that God wants to use you to

830
00:48:09,719 --> 00:48:12,440
Speaker 2: bring generational blessing.

831
00:48:12,400 --> 00:48:15,320
Speaker 1: To people who will come after you. That's what the

832
00:48:15,400 --> 00:48:16,200
Speaker 1: battle is about.

833
00:48:18,600 --> 00:48:21,759
Speaker 2: I look back on this time in our church when

834
00:48:21,920 --> 00:48:24,480
Speaker 2: the devil was after us when we were young, and

835
00:48:24,640 --> 00:48:26,799
Speaker 2: I know why he came after us when we were young,

836
00:48:27,160 --> 00:48:31,680
Speaker 2: because of you. If we died while we were young,

837
00:48:32,160 --> 00:48:35,960
Speaker 2: we never would have reached you. If this church did

838
00:48:36,040 --> 00:48:39,480
Speaker 2: not exist, if he could have snatched the seed. Matthew

839
00:48:39,560 --> 00:48:42,080
Speaker 2: Chapter three, Verse three, if he could have taken the

840
00:48:42,200 --> 00:48:43,800
Speaker 2: seed and scorched.

841
00:48:43,320 --> 00:48:46,040
Speaker 1: It with the sun. Matthew, Chapter thirteen, verse five.

842
00:48:46,440 --> 00:48:48,440
Speaker 2: If he could have taken the seat and choked it

843
00:48:48,520 --> 00:48:50,080
Speaker 2: out with the worries of.

844
00:48:50,160 --> 00:48:53,240
Speaker 1: This life, it would not be spreading to the earth today.

845
00:48:53,480 --> 00:48:55,279
Speaker 2: And I would not be able to look into this

846
00:48:55,480 --> 00:48:59,280
Speaker 2: camera and tell you that Jesus saves and Jesus cleanses,

847
00:48:59,520 --> 00:49:00,720
Speaker 2: and God does dirt.

848
00:49:00,960 --> 00:49:03,239
Speaker 1: And the cross is God saying I came for this

849
00:49:06,360 --> 00:49:11,279
Speaker 1: and the battle was for the branches? Is that not

850
00:49:11,920 --> 00:49:12,560
Speaker 1: true of you?

851
00:49:13,200 --> 00:49:15,759
Speaker 2: Did God not know what was in you when he

852
00:49:15,920 --> 00:49:17,360
Speaker 2: put you in the situation?

853
00:49:17,920 --> 00:49:21,160
Speaker 3: And you've got to trust that it's worth the dirt.

854
00:49:23,320 --> 00:49:26,799
Speaker 2: See, because I've seen God move mountains, I've seen God

855
00:49:26,960 --> 00:49:30,560
Speaker 2: make ways, And now that I've seen what a tree

856
00:49:30,800 --> 00:49:34,600
Speaker 2: can be, I understand what I am fighting for. I

857
00:49:34,800 --> 00:49:38,520
Speaker 2: understand that the battle is for your branches. You've got

858
00:49:38,640 --> 00:49:41,680
Speaker 2: to get free. You've got to get you've got to

859
00:49:41,760 --> 00:49:42,239
Speaker 2: get back.

860
00:49:42,600 --> 00:49:43,960
Speaker 1: You've got to bounce from this.

861
00:49:44,360 --> 00:49:47,520
Speaker 3: You've got to recover, you've got to move forward. You

862
00:49:47,680 --> 00:49:49,680
Speaker 3: got to show them what it looks like when we

863
00:49:49,840 --> 00:49:50,040
Speaker 3: do it.

864
00:49:50,160 --> 00:49:50,600
Speaker 1: Anyway.

865
00:49:51,000 --> 00:49:54,120
Speaker 2: You've got to The battle is not over your sea.

866
00:49:54,640 --> 00:49:57,640
Speaker 2: The battle is over your tree. The battle is over

867
00:49:57,760 --> 00:50:04,879
Speaker 2: your branches. And when I see what God is doing

868
00:50:04,960 --> 00:50:07,160
Speaker 2: in this church, even when I see it in my

869
00:50:07,280 --> 00:50:10,759
Speaker 2: own family, do you understand that the devil has fought

870
00:50:10,840 --> 00:50:15,680
Speaker 2: me so hard through the years, so many times I've

871
00:50:15,719 --> 00:50:16,359
Speaker 2: wanted to quit.

872
00:50:16,600 --> 00:50:17,360
Speaker 1: It's not worth it.

873
00:50:19,040 --> 00:50:21,239
Speaker 2: And I know you felt that way too. If a

874
00:50:21,360 --> 00:50:26,160
Speaker 2: preacher feels that way, surely you feel that way. I've

875
00:50:26,200 --> 00:50:27,480
Speaker 2: preached the souls.

876
00:50:27,200 --> 00:50:29,600
Speaker 1: For a living. Sometimes all you feel like you do

877
00:50:29,960 --> 00:50:37,800
Speaker 1: is organize chaos. But one night the summer, I was

878
00:50:37,880 --> 00:50:42,200
Speaker 1: walking through our house and Elijah and Graham and Abbey

879
00:50:42,280 --> 00:50:43,680
Speaker 1: were there upstairs.

880
00:50:45,280 --> 00:50:47,399
Speaker 2: Down at the bottom of the stairs on a Sunday night,

881
00:50:49,600 --> 00:50:53,239
Speaker 2: there was this we'll just show them real quick, this

882
00:50:53,440 --> 00:50:54,480
Speaker 2: picture I want to give you.

883
00:50:56,680 --> 00:50:58,120
Speaker 1: I don't know if you can see it real good.

884
00:51:01,560 --> 00:51:09,200
Speaker 1: But that's shoes. That's the shoes of about one hundred teenagers.

885
00:51:10,719 --> 00:51:18,320
Speaker 2: Those shoes smell like wrestling jem on a Saturday afternoon,

886
00:51:19,120 --> 00:51:23,120
Speaker 2: same smell. And all these shoes at the bottom of

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00:51:23,239 --> 00:51:27,960
Speaker 2: my stairs, and all this noise in my house and

888
00:51:28,120 --> 00:51:29,520
Speaker 2: downstairs were the shoes.

889
00:51:30,960 --> 00:51:33,520
Speaker 1: And upstairs in our house.

890
00:51:34,560 --> 00:51:39,880
Speaker 2: Was Graham Abby Elijah's over there somewhere. My wife is downstairs,

891
00:51:39,960 --> 00:51:44,120
Speaker 2: the shoes are at the thing, and upstairs with some kids.

892
00:51:44,200 --> 00:51:51,799
Speaker 1: Now show them the video jumping, singing, praising the Lord.

893
00:52:03,440 --> 00:52:08,600
Speaker 2: And the ceiling was shaken too, and the ceiling was shaken,

894
00:52:12,280 --> 00:52:13,480
Speaker 2: and the ceiling.

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00:52:15,320 --> 00:52:18,720
Speaker 1: Was shaken. And I walked upstairs and said, y'all gotta

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00:52:18,719 --> 00:52:21,240
Speaker 1: get out. This is not the New Testament.

897
00:52:21,280 --> 00:52:23,400
Speaker 2: I know they tore off the roof in the New Testament,

898
00:52:23,520 --> 00:52:25,920
Speaker 2: but my homeowner's insurance doesn't cover it.

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Speaker 3: Go outside.

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00:52:28,200 --> 00:52:32,600
Speaker 1: But I got the picture that downstairs. Show them the picture.

901
00:52:34,320 --> 00:52:45,200
Speaker 1: Downstairs was the dirt, and upstairs, what's the worship? And

902
00:52:45,400 --> 00:52:54,239
Speaker 1: downstairs was the dirt? And upstairs, what's the worship? And

903
00:52:54,440 --> 00:53:01,440
Speaker 1: downstairs was the process, and upstairs was the praise.

904
00:53:02,160 --> 00:53:04,640
Speaker 2: And I'm trying to get you to see that you

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Speaker 2: can worship God because the turt is worth it.

906
00:53:13,640 --> 00:53:17,720
Speaker 1: God does dirk.

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00:53:20,560 --> 00:53:23,120
Speaker 2: I prepared this word today hoping that it would go

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00:53:23,200 --> 00:53:27,279
Speaker 2: out online to our entire church community all over the world.

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00:53:28,360 --> 00:53:29,120
Speaker 1: But if one of you.

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00:53:29,239 --> 00:53:36,240
Speaker 4: Today you needed to hear the whisper of God saying

911
00:53:39,760 --> 00:53:50,080
Speaker 4: it's working, then it's working. Everybody does the diamonds.

912
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Speaker 1: God does the dirk.

913
00:53:55,360 --> 00:53:58,600
Speaker 2: With your head bowed and your eyes closed, received the

914
00:53:58,680 --> 00:54:00,560
Speaker 2: mystery of the parable of the luster, to see it

915
00:54:00,600 --> 00:54:01,279
Speaker 2: in the treasure in.

916
00:54:01,320 --> 00:54:03,959
Speaker 1: The field, is that God does dirt.

917
00:54:06,280 --> 00:54:08,120
Speaker 2: No matter what the enemy has thrown on your life

918
00:54:09,080 --> 00:54:10,879
Speaker 2: to try to stop you from growing, it won't work.

919
00:54:11,760 --> 00:54:16,080
Speaker 1: It's only going to grow you more. Yes, Lord, I'll

920
00:54:16,080 --> 00:54:18,799
Speaker 1: say it again, It's only going to grow you more.

921
00:54:21,760 --> 00:54:26,440
Speaker 2: Whatever it is, it's worth the dirt. It's worth you

922
00:54:26,760 --> 00:54:29,799
Speaker 2: going through a season of repentance.

923
00:54:30,719 --> 00:54:36,160
Speaker 1: To live a life healed. It's worth the dirt. It's

924
00:54:36,280 --> 00:54:39,600
Speaker 1: worth God stripping some things away so he can bring

925
00:54:39,719 --> 00:54:40,440
Speaker 1: some things for it.

926
00:54:43,719 --> 00:54:47,640
Speaker 2: There is treasure inside of you. I know people don't

927
00:54:47,719 --> 00:54:49,440
Speaker 2: like it when I preach like this. They say, oh, well,

928
00:54:49,480 --> 00:54:50,600
Speaker 2: tell them how sinful they are.

929
00:54:50,840 --> 00:54:53,879
Speaker 1: You know that already. I came to remind you. God

930
00:54:54,600 --> 00:55:00,960
Speaker 1: does dirt. He breathes on brokenness. It's worth it.

931
00:55:02,880 --> 00:55:06,320
Speaker 2: Jesus stretched his arms because it's worth it. I encourage

932
00:55:06,320 --> 00:55:09,400
Speaker 2: you today, say I do to the dirt. Make a

933
00:55:09,480 --> 00:55:11,360
Speaker 2: commitment in your life. Lord, no matter how long it

934
00:55:11,440 --> 00:55:13,160
Speaker 2: takes me, I believe you can wash me clean.

935
00:55:13,400 --> 00:55:13,600
Speaker 1: God.

936
00:55:13,640 --> 00:55:16,080
Speaker 2: Here I am again, dirty again, disappointed again.

937
00:55:17,200 --> 00:55:18,279
Speaker 1: But I heard you do dirt.

938
00:55:19,719 --> 00:55:22,759
Speaker 2: I heard you came from heaven, lived in a little

939
00:55:22,800 --> 00:55:27,000
Speaker 2: town called Nazareth and died on a cruel cross. The

940
00:55:27,080 --> 00:55:32,120
Speaker 2: splinters in your back, and the lashes, the wounds in

941
00:55:32,200 --> 00:55:33,800
Speaker 2: your side, the nails in your hands.

942
00:55:33,920 --> 00:55:36,160
Speaker 1: I heard you do, dirt. Father.

943
00:55:36,200 --> 00:55:39,480
Speaker 2: Would you take my life today, all that I am,

944
00:55:39,600 --> 00:55:44,160
Speaker 2: all that I'm not, my little loaves, my little mustard

945
00:55:44,239 --> 00:55:51,400
Speaker 2: seed life, and bring branches forth from them. Father, I

946
00:55:51,480 --> 00:55:55,040
Speaker 2: pray today for those who are feeling alone, or abandoned,

947
00:55:55,120 --> 00:55:55,640
Speaker 2: or forsaken.

948
00:55:57,080 --> 00:55:58,479
Speaker 1: Maybe they've even buried their hope.

949
00:56:00,080 --> 00:56:02,120
Speaker 2: As I prayed to you, Lord, I'm reminded that the

950
00:56:02,200 --> 00:56:05,520
Speaker 2: seed appeared to be buried, but it was indeed planted.

951
00:56:08,000 --> 00:56:11,440
Speaker 2: That means it served a purpose. I thank you that

952
00:56:11,520 --> 00:56:13,560
Speaker 2: the dirt is serving a purpose in each of our lives.

953
00:56:14,960 --> 00:56:17,520
Speaker 2: And I thank you that there is a treasure that

954
00:56:17,640 --> 00:56:21,000
Speaker 2: the world cannot touch. We thank you that the Kingdom

955
00:56:21,040 --> 00:56:24,480
Speaker 2: of Heaven is that treasure. You're worth it, Lord, not

956
00:56:24,680 --> 00:56:26,160
Speaker 2: just what you do for us, but who you are

957
00:56:26,239 --> 00:56:30,280
Speaker 2: to us. You are worth it. You're worthy of our worship,

958
00:56:31,280 --> 00:56:34,400
Speaker 2: you're worthy of our praise, You're worthy.

959
00:56:34,920 --> 00:56:35,640
Speaker 1: Of our lives.

960
00:56:37,560 --> 00:56:40,880
Speaker 2: And now, God, I commend these treasures in a field

961
00:56:40,960 --> 00:56:43,720
Speaker 2: to you, the diamonds and the dirt.

962
00:56:44,960 --> 00:56:46,359
Speaker 1: I thank you that you know what you're doing.

963
00:56:47,440 --> 00:56:50,239
Speaker 2: You know where you planted them, and I thank you

964
00:56:50,320 --> 00:56:54,000
Speaker 2: that they're growing by grace. Thank you for this word that.

965
00:56:54,040 --> 00:56:54,920
Speaker 1: We received today.

966
00:56:55,840 --> 00:56:58,919
Speaker 2: We will never be the same with head still bowed

967
00:56:58,920 --> 00:57:02,359
Speaker 2: and eyes still closed. There's somebody who's hearing this message today,

968
00:57:02,360 --> 00:57:04,400
Speaker 2: and you need to give your life to Jesus Christ.

969
00:57:05,520 --> 00:57:07,640
Speaker 1: You don't have to clean yourself up to come to God.

970
00:57:08,120 --> 00:57:10,960
Speaker 1: That's why God came to you. He does the cleaning,

971
00:57:11,320 --> 00:57:14,360
Speaker 1: you do the coming. You come to him like you are,

972
00:57:14,440 --> 00:57:15,799
Speaker 1: and you won't leave that way.

973
00:57:16,800 --> 00:57:20,760
Speaker 2: Jesus will change you. Jesus will save you to the uttermost.

974
00:57:20,960 --> 00:57:22,360
Speaker 2: Call on the name of the Lord and.

975
00:57:22,480 --> 00:57:24,320
Speaker 1: You will be saved.

976
00:57:25,400 --> 00:57:27,440
Speaker 2: So I'm gonna pray a prayer right now, and if

977
00:57:27,480 --> 00:57:29,400
Speaker 2: you want to give your life to Jesus, repeat this

978
00:57:29,560 --> 00:57:32,360
Speaker 2: prayer after me. We're gonna pray it out loud in

979
00:57:32,440 --> 00:57:35,200
Speaker 2: the room for the benefit of those all over the

980
00:57:35,280 --> 00:57:38,240
Speaker 2: world who are coming to Christ in this moment. Repeat

981
00:57:38,280 --> 00:57:42,920
Speaker 2: after me, Heavenly Father, I am a sinner in need

982
00:57:43,000 --> 00:57:48,480
Speaker 2: of a savior, and I believe that Jesus Christ is

983
00:57:48,600 --> 00:57:51,760
Speaker 2: the Son of God and the Savior of the world.

984
00:57:52,920 --> 00:57:57,320
Speaker 3: And today I make Jesus the Lord of my life.

985
00:57:58,400 --> 00:58:03,040
Speaker 2: I believe he died that I would be forgiven, was

986
00:58:03,240 --> 00:58:07,680
Speaker 2: buried and rose again to give me life.

987
00:58:08,840 --> 00:58:12,840
Speaker 1: I receive your life. Here's mine.

988
00:58:13,920 --> 00:58:16,280
Speaker 3: I am a child of God.

989
00:58:17,240 --> 00:58:21,160
Speaker 1: I am a new creation on the counter of three.

990
00:58:21,240 --> 00:58:23,520
Speaker 2: If you prayed that prayer, shoot your hand in the

991
00:58:23,560 --> 00:58:27,080
Speaker 2: air one two, three, or if you're watching online to

992
00:58:27,240 --> 00:58:28,200
Speaker 2: put it in the chat.

993
00:58:28,160 --> 00:58:32,920
Speaker 1: Say I perceive Jesus. Come on, let's thank.

994
00:58:32,880 --> 00:58:36,600
Speaker 2: God all over the world, all over the globe, everybody

995
00:58:36,680 --> 00:58:37,640
Speaker 2: who just prayed that.

996
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Speaker 1: Thank you Jesus for new beginnings. Thank you for joining us.

997
00:58:47,440 --> 00:58:49,840
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998
00:58:49,960 --> 00:58:53,400
Speaker 2: this ministry. Is because of you that this ministry is possible.

999
00:58:53,880 --> 00:58:56,080
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1000
00:58:56,200 --> 00:59:00,120
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1001
00:59:00,200 --> 00:59:03,960
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