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Speaker 1: Hey, this is Stephen Ferdick. I'm the pastor of Elevation

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Speaker 1: Church and this is our podcast. Be sure to subscribe

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Speaker 1: so we can get you these new sermons every week.

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Speaker 1: I hope you're blessed today. Hey, let's welcome our efam

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Speaker 1: all around the world.

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Speaker 2: Welcome. Wherever you're joining.

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Speaker 1: Us from today, we welcome you. Put it in the

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Speaker 1: comments where you're joining us from. I want to pick

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Speaker 1: up and tag team write with Holly, write with what

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Speaker 1: my wife shared last week.

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Speaker 2: I've been thinking about it all week.

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Speaker 1: You'all be seated now and I'm going to pick up

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Speaker 1: from the scripture that she shared beautifully from last week.

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Speaker 1: Didn't you think that was a beautiful word that my

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Speaker 1: wife shared last week.

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Speaker 2: We've been talking about this.

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Speaker 1: When we were talking about it, I said, Holly, I

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Speaker 1: think that you wrote this scripture, not David, because I

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Speaker 1: really see her live this out and it was just

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Speaker 1: such a joy to hear her share that message. We

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Speaker 1: kind of ended up doing a trilogy on trusting in God.

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Speaker 2: We did the first week was ugly. Trust.

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Speaker 1: It doesn't always look pretty, and thank God he doesn't

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Speaker 1: need you to pray a pretty prayer to give you

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Speaker 1: an answer. Then I preached about delayed praise, and then

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Speaker 1: she got up here and preached the house down on

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Speaker 1: sudden strength.

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Speaker 2: To continue in the flow where she left off.

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Speaker 1: And the scripture that we have been talking about a

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Speaker 1: lot is in First Chronicles twenty eight, and it's a

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Speaker 1: really powerful promise from God and a principle. And I

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Speaker 1: want to be very simple today, if that's all right,

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Speaker 1: and not dumb it down, but really bring it right

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Speaker 1: there into the doing of.

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Speaker 2: This word in a way that can develop your faith.

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Speaker 1: In First Chronicles twenty eight, Verse ten, this is where

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Speaker 1: David tells his son Solomon. Consider now, for the Lord

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Speaker 1: has chosen you to build a house as the sanctuary.

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Speaker 1: Be strong and do the work. Everybody say that, be

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Speaker 1: strong and do the work. Look at your neighbors, say

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Speaker 1: be strong and do the work. Verse eleven. Then David

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Speaker 1: gave his son Solomon the plans for the portico of

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Speaker 1: inner rooms, and the place of atonement. He gave him

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Speaker 1: the place of all that the Spirit had put in

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Speaker 1: and all the surrounding rooms for the treasuries of the

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Speaker 1: Temple of God, and for the treasuries of the dedicated things.

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Speaker 2: Verse ten.

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Speaker 1: Consider now, for the Lord has chosen you to build

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Speaker 1: a house as the sanctuary.

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Speaker 2: Be strong and do the work.

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Speaker 1: I'd like to talk to you today from this thought

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Speaker 1: and just let you know it works in reverse.

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Speaker 2: That's what the Lord told me to tell you today.

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Speaker 1: It works in reverse. Be strong and do the work.

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Speaker 1: It works in.

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Speaker 2: Reverse.

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Speaker 1: Now. As wonderful as my wife is, you're like, what

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Speaker 1: comes next after that? That doesn't end with you having

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Speaker 1: a bad afternoon? Pastor just hear me out. Sometimes when

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Speaker 1: she's telling me about a conversation she had, she uses

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Speaker 1: this phrase that lets me know that she is slightly

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Speaker 1: exaggerating it, not because she's a liar, but because she's

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Speaker 1: telling me what she thought, but she's communicating it like

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Speaker 1: she actually said it. And here's how I can know

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Speaker 1: that's happening. She'll say, And I was like, and then

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Speaker 1: I was like, because when she says that phrase, it

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Speaker 1: usually is followed by something that I know she would

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Speaker 1: She's not confrontational like that. She's like whatever the opposite

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Speaker 1: I still don't remember the enneagram numbers that she gave

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Speaker 2: They they said, uh.

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Speaker 1: Well where we're where? You know, they said well this

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Speaker 2: I was like that.

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Speaker 1: You know how in church, when we get to preaching

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Speaker 2: Like that, I trust in God.

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Speaker 1: Ah ah my savee You're the one. Aah like that,

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Speaker 1: That's why I trust him. I'm like, I'm like David

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Speaker 1: there on your forehead, giant. It's like that this uncircumcised

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Speaker 1: philistine will fall three thirteen pm today. You know, you

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Speaker 1: you're gonna do me like that today in church? Just

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Speaker 1: idea that we get a picture in our head. In

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Speaker 1: moment but we can't. It's the perfect comeback that we

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Speaker 1: think of three weeks later. You know, it happened in

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Speaker 2: But it's too late.

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Speaker 1: Because now if you bring it back up, you're just

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Speaker 1: gonna look petty because it's weird now you just call

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Speaker 1: them randomly. And I was like, so, I think we

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Speaker 1: and you even see stuff on TV. I had to

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Speaker 1: really want to say it, because y'all are real, super

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Speaker 2: But but it.

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Speaker 1: Was for me. I told somebody one time that it

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Speaker 1: It's a great I like the show and all of that.

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Speaker 1: Jack did it.

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Speaker 2: Go watch the show, but I had.

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Speaker 1: To pause it for a little while because it made

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Speaker 2: I want to make beautiful moments like that.

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Speaker 1: But mostly I'm just annoyed and grumpy, and that's probably

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Speaker 2: Like hey, and then you watch them and it's like, oh,

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Speaker 1: When Holly was preaching last to be strong and do

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Speaker 1: we realize that when you hear sermons from God's word

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Speaker 1: be strong and do the work, you really do.

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Speaker 1: Like that where you, yeah, where you don't stress out

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Speaker 2: To do these things in your life.

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Speaker 1: And yet sometimes you're like Holly, where you're like, I

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Speaker 1: RBF is resting blessed face in my vernacular, and there's

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Speaker 1: a sense in which you can get discouraged. The Lord said,

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Speaker 1: to let you in on this little secret. It works

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Speaker 1: in reverse. When David was giving Solomon the plans for

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Speaker 1: He spent his later years writing psalms and planning this

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Speaker 1: but I'm going to give you the plans for it.

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Speaker 2: Make sure you build it like that.

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Speaker 1: God showed me specifically what this temple was to look like.

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Speaker 1: But it's gonna be from David's mind to Solomon's hand.

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Speaker 1: wish God would give me more specifics. Don't you just

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Speaker 1: and I'll do it.

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Speaker 2: But you know the truth is I wouldn't do it.

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Speaker 1: to do that I'm already not doing. There's no reason

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Speaker 2: Area, I'd just start doing it.

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Speaker 1: He already told me do everything without complaining. I'm doing

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Speaker 1: pretty bad at that, So I'm like, no, God, something else,

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Speaker 1: show me specifically what else to do? Where to invest?

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Speaker 1: My money, show me that what real estate to buy,

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Speaker 1: and you'll get strong. I don't feel like worship him.

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Speaker 1: Worship him and you'll feel him.

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Speaker 4: Call it till he comes, call it Tilly comes, Call

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Speaker 4: it till he comes Jesus solitay that have mercy. That's

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Speaker 4: what Phraises phrase, frege tower, do the word, do the work,

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Speaker 4: all right?

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Speaker 1: So so you want to look like that? You know,

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Speaker 1: I found the devil. I found the devil. I found

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Speaker 1: out where the devil lives. God lives inside of us.

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Speaker 1: How many believe that greater is he that is in

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Speaker 1: me than he that is in the world. Greater is

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Speaker 1: he that is in me than he does in the world.

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Speaker 1: God lives inside of I know where the devil lives.

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Speaker 1: The devil lives in YouTube shorts. I found him. I

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Speaker 1: thought I deleted every bad app on my phone, but

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Speaker 1: the YouTube shorts gets me because somehow my algorithm it's

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Speaker 1: only showing me right now, preaching clips, guitar solos from

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Speaker 1: the nineteen eighties and workout videos, and all the workout

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Speaker 1: videos are clickbait. It'll say the only shoulder exercise you

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Speaker 1: ever need to look like this, And I clicked on

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Speaker 1: it and I saw how the man looked, and I

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Speaker 1: was like, oh, I want to look like that.

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Speaker 2: That's how I want my shoulders to look. Yeah, like that,

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Speaker 2: like that, look like that.

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Speaker 1: So God gave me a question. He said, you want

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Speaker 1: to look like that. Do you want to lift like that?

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Speaker 1: Because that guy when I watch what he was doing, Yes,

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Speaker 1: the only shoulder exercise that you'll ever need, but he

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Speaker 1: was doing it with five times my body weight.

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Speaker 2: He looked like he was about to die. So I

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Speaker 2: clicked off. I'm like, oh, yeah, I want to look

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Speaker 2: like that.

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Speaker 1: I don't want to lift like that. They don't want

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Speaker 1: me to preach this part because all we want to

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Speaker 1: hear is the Lord has chosen you.

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Speaker 2: Be strong.

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Speaker 1: Or we want to hear. Okay, be strong in the

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Speaker 1: Lord and in his mighty power. But a lot of

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Speaker 1: times what we resist the most. Have you noticed this

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Speaker 1: is the work and this is the principle.

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Speaker 2: Okay. The strength that you want.

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Speaker 1: Is on the other side of the weakness that you

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Speaker 1: are willing to work through.

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Speaker 2: Thank you. I appreciate y'all.

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Speaker 1: Can keep those I might call you back up next week.

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Speaker 1: I might call you up next week. Now, let's sit

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Speaker 1: down and talk about this for a moment. Are you

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Speaker 1: getting some out of this? When we preach the word

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Speaker 1: of God to you, it works, It works. The Word

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Speaker 1: of God will work in your life. Don't tell me

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Speaker 1: it won't. You're arguing with the wrong dude, I know

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Speaker 1: too much about it. I've experienced it. You may as

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Speaker 1: well try to tell me Holly can't cook.

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Speaker 2: I've had too much of her food.

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Speaker 1: You can't convince me that God's word doesn't work. I

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Speaker 1: have tasted it and seen that the Lord is good.

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Speaker 1: Do you know how much out I had about what

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Speaker 1: I stood up to.

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Speaker 2: Preach to you today? Zero? Because it's working for me.

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Speaker 1: I would feel sorry for a preacher who got up

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Speaker 1: and was just trying stuff out. Well, hope this is

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Speaker 1: a good sermon. I don't hope this is a good sermon.

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Speaker 1: This sermon has been inside of me, working in me.

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Speaker 1: I mean when I tell you, me and Holly are

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Speaker 1: tag team, and we talked all week about this. What

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Speaker 1: kind of work has God called you to do? And

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Speaker 1: where is the line between us trying to work to

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Speaker 1: earn our own salvation versus accepting the grace of God

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Speaker 1: because people will try to make them opposites, and they're

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Speaker 1: not opposites. The more grace you get from God for

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Speaker 1: your situation, the more stable you're going to be to

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Speaker 1: show up for it and fight the good fight of faith.

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Speaker 1: So these are not opposites. The grace of God comes

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Speaker 1: in order to grow me into the person that God

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Speaker 1: has called me to be. And that is why God

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Speaker 1: does not start with who you are right now. He

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Speaker 1: starts with what He chose you to do, what He

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Speaker 1: called you to do. God does not start with your

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Speaker 1: experience level. God works in reverse. So God knows what

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Speaker 1: you need to build, whether that's a business, whether that's

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Speaker 1: a family, whether that's a discipline, whether that's.

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Speaker 2: A habit pattern.

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Speaker 1: God knows what you need to build, and nobody else

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Speaker 1: can build it because He shows you to build it.

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Speaker 1: And if you don't do it, it won't get done.

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Speaker 1: Oh you say, well, God will do it through somebody else.

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Speaker 1: He will do it through someone else, but there will

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Speaker 1: be a great loss in the process of you not

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Speaker 1: choosing to do what God called you to do. That's

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Speaker 1: why holler, That's why I scream, Because do you really

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Speaker 1: think that there aren't people listening to me today who

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Speaker 1: feel so abandoned and so small and so unchosen and

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Speaker 1: so picked over and so unwanted and so rejected and

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Speaker 1: so betrayed that even just to hear God shows you,

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Speaker 1: God wants you. God sees you. God shows you, God

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Speaker 1: wants you. God sees you. God chooses the weak things

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Speaker 1: of the world to shame the strong. You know why

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Speaker 1: you like that so much when I said it, because

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Speaker 1: it's a Bible Verse one Corinthians one twenty seven. But

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Speaker 1: God chose the weak things of the world to shame

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Speaker 1: the strong.

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Speaker 2: Say it again, God chose.

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Speaker 1: That's what we started out saying, right, is that God

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Speaker 1: chose Solomon? Who was Solomon? He was the son that

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Speaker 1: David would have never chosen to build the temple. David

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Speaker 1: would have chosen his son Absalom. God chose Solomon. Anybody

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Speaker 1: want to take a guess when David made the biggest

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Speaker 1: mistake of his life and slept with Bathsheba and the

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Speaker 1: child born was died, and he went back and had

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Speaker 1: another child, anybody want to guess.

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Speaker 2: What the name of the child was that he had

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Speaker 2: after his greatest mistake.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I thank you for having the boldness to say that,

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Speaker 1: because I think everybody else in the church was like,

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Speaker 1: it must be a setup, because he can't.

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Speaker 2: It can't be Solemon.

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Speaker 1: God, There's because there's no way, right, who said it

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Speaker 1: out loud?

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Speaker 2: How could it be Solomon?

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Speaker 1: He's inexperienced, he was the product of a bad decision

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Speaker 1: that David made How could God use the weak thing

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Speaker 1: to build the glorious thing? And you might be wondering

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Speaker 1: that about your life today, and maybe that's why God

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Speaker 1: gave me this word for you, so you could know

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Speaker 1: that people build on your successes. People choose according to

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Speaker 1: your wisdom. But with God it works in.

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Speaker 2: Reverse. I want you to get that in your spirit,

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Speaker 2: that it works in reverse.

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Speaker 1: That God does not choose the moments when you feel

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Speaker 1: the strongest to show up the most in your life.

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Speaker 1: I'm a living witness. It is the moments when you

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Speaker 1: are working through the weakness, whatever it may be. Some

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Speaker 1: of you got a temper, some of you got an

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Speaker 1: addiction to something that is chemical in nature. It could

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Speaker 1: even just be food. It could be an addiction to bitterness.

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Speaker 1: I mean, there's all kinds of addictions. Do I really

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Speaker 1: need to list every single one of them? Because I

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Speaker 1: promise I will. I will go in alphabetical order till

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Speaker 1: I hit everybody on every row. Oh no, I'm not

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Speaker 1: addicted to anything. Just let me get to see you

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Speaker 1: control freak, and if I get to the peace, I'll

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Speaker 1: talk about yours. For saying you don't have any addictions,

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Speaker 1: we will rattle them off. And the good news of

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Speaker 1: the gospel to me is that God chose the weak things.

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Speaker 1: When you put it on the coffee mug, Holly, put

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Speaker 1: it where it can go both ways, where you turn

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Speaker 1: it around. So when I'm drinking my coffee in the

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Speaker 1: morning after next Mother's Day, I could picture up right now,

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Speaker 1: because I promise you one thing. I am not strong

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Speaker 1: without coffee. So I know I need caffeine. I need Christ.

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Speaker 1: I need caffeine, but I usually need them in the

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Speaker 1: opposite order. It's usually the caffeine then the Christ, because

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Speaker 1: I can't find Christ without the caffeine.

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Speaker 2: I am confessing in front of thousands.

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Speaker 1: Make sure when you turn the mug around, it says

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Speaker 1: be strong, do the work. But make sure it's on

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Speaker 1: two sides so we can remember this message where we

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Speaker 1: can say, oh, I don't feel strong.

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Speaker 2: Am I going to be strong? Is this too simple?

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Speaker 1: Do y'all want me to give you a detailed explanation

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Speaker 1: of the dimensions of the temple that Solomon built and

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Speaker 1: the type of bronze that was imported for him to

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Speaker 1: do it from the King of Hero and the dimensions

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Speaker 1: of the inner courtyard and the oupter courtyard, and the

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Speaker 1: lamp stands in the incense.

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Speaker 2: Is that what you want?

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Speaker 1: I think the deepest thing we can do with a

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Speaker 1: word from God is to do it. I'm preaching a

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Speaker 1: lot from the Old Testament this year because I'm having

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Speaker 1: a very special time with my own family reading through

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Speaker 1: the Old Testament chapter by chapter, with the lives of

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Speaker 1: my oldest son.

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Speaker 2: He was going through the Bible.

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Speaker 1: And I've told you this, but I want to tell

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Speaker 1: you again because the Holy Spirit brought it to my

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Speaker 1: attention where he had the great idea to go through

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Speaker 1: the Bible slow, and he's like, I don't want to

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Speaker 1: just rush through it, I want to go slow. So

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Speaker 1: him and Kelsey were reading, and then I jumped in

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Speaker 1: and kind of like invited myself to the group and

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Speaker 1: started giving him a key verse every day.

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Speaker 2: Now. The reason I chose the key.

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Speaker 1: Verse principle is because sometimes you can just read a

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Speaker 1: scripture or hear a sermon.

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Speaker 2: And go, oh, that's good.

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Speaker 1: It's like that that YouTube short the only Bible verse

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Speaker 1: you ever need to have big shoulders for the Lord

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Speaker 1: to have a strong spirit, to be worry free and

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Speaker 1: anxiety free. And I love all these YouTube shorts. I

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Speaker 1: of course put content on them. That's not my point.

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Speaker 1: My point is I never got stronger because of something

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Speaker 1: I clicked on. I've gotten a lot stronger in my

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Speaker 1: adult life because I work hard at that physically, but

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Speaker 1: never because I clicked on something. It was always something

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Speaker 1: that I did. I might click on it to learn something,

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Speaker 1: but until I did it. Now, this sermon could be

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Speaker 1: something that you click on today. It could be something

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Speaker 1: that you click on and go, oh, that's really good

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Speaker 1: and true and be strong and do the work. Yeah, yes,

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Speaker 1: that's awesome. But go over to James chapter one, because

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Speaker 1: this is why I do the key verse principle with

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Speaker 1: my family, and I think it'd be a wonderful thing

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Speaker 1: for us to go over as a church together. In

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Speaker 1: the Book of James, he's making the case that faith

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Speaker 1: without works is dead. He is not saying that the

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Speaker 1: grace of God and the blood of Jesus is not

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Speaker 1: enough to cover your sin. But he's saying, if you

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Speaker 1: come to the place where you hear the word. In fact,

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Speaker 1: he gives an analogy. He says, what verse did I

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Speaker 1: start telling on twenty one? Give me that James one

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Speaker 1: twenty one? Yeah, he says, therefore, get rid of all

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Speaker 1: moral filth and the evil that is so prevalent. I

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Speaker 1: love that phrase in The King James. It talks about

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Speaker 1: superfluous naughtiness. Look it up.

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Speaker 2: Sometimes the Bible is awesome. You can click around.

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Speaker 1: All the translations, but click into a different translation won't save.

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Speaker 2: You, will it.

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Speaker 1: Clicking around or highlighting stuff like that is wonderful. It

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Speaker 1: is wonderful that you are hearing this word. The Word

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Speaker 1: of God is wonderful. But this is a process that

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Speaker 1: James says. He says there is a getting rid of

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Speaker 1: moral filth. This is a very specific thing he's talking

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Speaker 1: about here. He's talking about everything that surrounds you, everything

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Speaker 1: that is that is covering the true potential of the

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Speaker 1: Christ in you. All of that has to go, put

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Speaker 1: it back up and humbly accept the word planted in you,

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Speaker 1: which can save you. Now that's interesting because it doesn't

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Speaker 1: say it will save you, says it can. This word

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Speaker 1: can help you today. This word can set you free.

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Speaker 2: Today.

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Speaker 1: God's presence can touch you today. God can get into

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Speaker 1: your situation and show you stuff that you don't know.

672
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Speaker 1: He can put in your mind what only his spirit knows.

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Speaker 2: He can.

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Speaker 1: But this is not in the category of the salvation

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Speaker 1: that you get when you come to Christ. This is

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Speaker 1: salvation from yourself. So he says, the only way to

677
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Speaker 1: be saved from your self deception is to humbly accept

678
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Speaker 1: the word that is planted where where. So you've got

679
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Speaker 1: all this moral filth where around you, and you've got

680
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Speaker 1: this word from God planted in you. Somebody helped me.

681
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Speaker 1: I need three Pentecostals, just three, just three. I don't

682
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Speaker 1: need a lot, I need three. So now I understand

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Speaker 1: that I've had it backwards because I've been too controlled

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Speaker 1: by my environment, because I've been true controlled by my surroundings,

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Speaker 1: because I've been too controlled by cultural programming, because I've

686
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Speaker 1: been true, too controlled by thoughts that didn't even come

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Speaker 1: from God. Because I've been too controlled by what I see,

688
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Speaker 1: what I feel, what I think, what I knew up

689
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Speaker 1: to this point. That's what's around me. But with what

690
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Speaker 1: is around me contradicts the word that is planted in me.

691
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Speaker 1: God says, we've got to get this thing switched up,

692
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Speaker 1: because the word that is in you has potential to

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Speaker 1: save you. But with God it works in reverse. See,

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Speaker 1: most people live this way. Whatever happens on the outside,

695
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Speaker 1: they react to it. Whatever happens on the outside, they

696
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Speaker 1: move to it. Whatever happens on the outside, they dance

697
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Speaker 1: with it. Whatever happens on the outside, they surrender to it.

698
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Speaker 1: Whatever happens on the outside, that's what they consult for

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Speaker 1: their next step in life.

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Speaker 2: Not you.

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Speaker 1: You're chosen, so you do it different because in the

702
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Speaker 1: Kingdom of God, it works in reverse. Say it, it

703
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Speaker 1: works in reverse. So I don't start with my situation

704
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Speaker 1: to see how it's going to turn out, because it

705
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Speaker 1: works in reverse. I can be in a filthy situation,

706
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Speaker 1: a naughty situation, a nasty situation, a grimy situation, a

707
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Speaker 1: dark situation, a confusing situation, and if I walked according

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Speaker 1: to the world, I'd be down about it, and I'd

709
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Speaker 1: be weak about it, and I think that there was

710
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Speaker 1: no hope in going forward and no cost to continue

711
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Speaker 1: in it. But I don't walk according to what I see.

712
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Speaker 1: I don't walk according to what I feel, and I

713
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Speaker 1: don't walk according to who I've been to this pint

714
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Speaker 1: because I found out I'm chosen. Hop found out God

715
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Speaker 1: is building a temple.

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Speaker 4: I've found out I have.

717
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Speaker 1: The temple of the Holy Spirit.

718
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Speaker 4: And it works in reverse.

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Speaker 1: So in this season of my life, I'm getting rid

720
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Speaker 1: of some things that are in the way of my

721
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Speaker 1: relationships with God because it works in reverse. This is

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Speaker 1: what I think it means to seek first the kingdom.

723
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Speaker 1: I think it means you've turned the whole thing around

724
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Speaker 1: that you would say, I would rather have peace and

725
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Speaker 1: be right with God God than be popular with everybody

726
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Speaker 1: else in the world. I'd rather have peace with all

727
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Speaker 1: money God than have all the money in the world.

728
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Speaker 1: Y'all feeling this yet, But see, I don't wait for

729
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Speaker 1: you to feel it before I preach it. I'm gonna

730
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Speaker 1: preach it till you feel it, because it works in reverse.

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Speaker 1: That's how the word works. The word will feel weird

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Speaker 1: when you hear it. It will call you a conqueror

733
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Speaker 1: when you feel like a coward. It will call you

734
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Speaker 1: a winner when you feel like a loser. It'll call

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Speaker 1: you seated in heavenly places when you feel like you're

736
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Speaker 1: at the bottom. But He shows the weak things to

737
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Speaker 1: shame the strong. That's how it works, y'all. That's how

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Speaker 1: it works. Touch three people say, that's how it works.

739
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Speaker 1: That's how it works. Of course, you don't feel strong,

740
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Speaker 1: you're not working through your weakness. You're gonna feel stronger

741
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Speaker 1: when you sit there. Anyway, I talked to somebody the

742
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Speaker 1: other day. They were like, I had a disappointment.

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Speaker 2: It was awkward.

744
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Speaker 1: I walked out. I said, then you're gonna be You

745
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Speaker 1: are going to be stumped at the level of your discomfort.

746
00:46:19,120 --> 00:46:20,760
Speaker 2: Because you can't sit.

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Speaker 1: In anything that makes you feel uncomfortable long enough to

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Speaker 1: be developed.

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Speaker 2: And I told him that to his face, and he

750
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Speaker 2: received there. He said, you're right, you're right, You're right,

751
00:46:31,280 --> 00:46:33,400
Speaker 2: You're right. I said, I don't need to preach to you.

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Speaker 2: He said, no, preach to me.

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Speaker 1: Man, I need it.

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Speaker 2: I need it. I need it. I needed That's why

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Speaker 2: he said, he said, I need it. I need it.

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Speaker 2: I'm sick of being stuck.

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Speaker 1: I'm sick of needing to feel a certain way to

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Speaker 1: do a certain thing. I'm sick of coming to church

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Speaker 1: and going like, oh yeah, I want to live like that.

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Speaker 2: I'm sick of.

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Speaker 1: Clicking around YouTube videos and going, oh yeah, I want

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Speaker 1: to I want to live.

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Speaker 2: Like that.

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Speaker 1: So when James comes along, he says something very simple

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Speaker 1: in James one two, do not merely.

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Speaker 2: Listen to the word. So I stopped there.

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Speaker 1: When I was studying this week, I'm like, Lord, that

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Speaker 1: would be good if people would even just listen to it.

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Speaker 1: I mean, they're doing pretty good just to listen to

770
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Speaker 1: a sermon when there's so much other options.

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Speaker 2: Why being so hard on them? They're listening to the word.

772
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Speaker 2: But he showed me that.

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Speaker 1: When you listen and don't implement, it limits you that

774
00:47:40,280 --> 00:47:44,799
Speaker 1: much more the next time you hear it, and it

775
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Speaker 1: puts a lid on the potential.

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Speaker 2: That he's put inside of you.

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Speaker 1: So the next thing becomes very, very integral to your

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Speaker 1: spiritual development. Do not merely listen to the word and

779
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Speaker 1: so receive yourself. Do what it says, Elijah, where you at?

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Speaker 2: Son?

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Speaker 1: Yeah, thank you for that Bible Club, and thank you

782
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Speaker 1: for this every time he sends his key verse, because

783
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Speaker 1: we pick a verse and we say this is how

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Speaker 1: i'mna try to do this today. Right, every time he

785
00:48:22,080 --> 00:48:26,600
Speaker 1: sends his key verse, it's so practical and he's so smart.

786
00:48:27,360 --> 00:48:30,880
Speaker 1: He's so analytical, always has been. He's When he was

787
00:48:30,960 --> 00:48:36,480
Speaker 1: like four years old, he was asking me questions that

788
00:48:36,560 --> 00:48:39,319
Speaker 1: made me feel like I needed to go back to

789
00:48:39,920 --> 00:48:43,239
Speaker 1: Bible College again. He's asked me stuff about God that

790
00:48:43,280 --> 00:48:49,880
Speaker 1: God hasn't even asked about God. And yet every time

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Speaker 1: he does it, he puts it so simple, but at

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Speaker 1: the end of his key verses he'll always say, I

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Speaker 1: hope this isn't too simple. Don't ever say sorry for

794
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Speaker 1: keeping it simple, because like what you put the other

795
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Speaker 1: day about David, where you said, Okay, I know this

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Speaker 1: isn't probably the deepest application of the text. No, the

797
00:49:11,360 --> 00:49:12,919
Speaker 1: deepest thing you could have found is what you found,

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Speaker 1: because you found the thing that God was actually calling

799
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Speaker 1: you to do. And I thought that was so powerful

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Speaker 1: because I'm like, that is what a disciple and not

801
00:49:22,960 --> 00:49:25,239
Speaker 1: that you're not that you're perfect or I'm perfect, or

802
00:49:25,280 --> 00:49:26,920
Speaker 1: not that oh we're reading our Bible every day so

803
00:49:26,960 --> 00:49:30,600
Speaker 1: we're so great. But I love how I see you

804
00:49:30,760 --> 00:49:39,880
Speaker 1: working the Word because here's what I know about God's Word.

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Speaker 2: It works in reverse.

806
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Speaker 1: God is giving him wisdom today for experiences he doesn't

807
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Speaker 1: even know he's going to have.

808
00:49:50,200 --> 00:49:56,080
Speaker 2: Yet he's digging a well today.

809
00:49:56,239 --> 00:49:58,040
Speaker 1: Every time he goes to the Word and puts it

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Speaker 1: into practice. Everybody say practice principles without practice are powerless.

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Speaker 1: And every time he puts it into practice. Let me

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Speaker 1: show you what he is defying. I close with this image.

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Speaker 1: Don't play the piano. LJ close him, but I don't

814
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Speaker 1: want it soft. Do not merely listen to the word

815
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Speaker 1: and so deceive yourselves. Do what it says, and listen,

816
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Speaker 1: listen to this picture. Remember when it comes to God's word.

817
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Speaker 1: He gives us a picture of who he is, and

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Speaker 1: we can't see it fully, but we see in part.

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Speaker 2: And he gives us a picture of who we can

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Speaker 2: be in him.

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Speaker 1: And he shows us the strength that we can have

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Speaker 1: in him, and the future that we can have in him,

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Speaker 1: and the way of life that we can know in him,

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Speaker 1: and the peace that we can have, and the joy

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Speaker 1: that we can have. He gives us a picture. But

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Speaker 1: watch what James says. As a warning, he says, verse

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Speaker 1: twenty three. Anyone who listens to the word but does

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Speaker 1: not do what it says is like someone who looks

829
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Speaker 1: at his face in a mirror.

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Speaker 2: Man an interesting image, he says.

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Speaker 1: He's looks at his face in a mirror, and after

832
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Speaker 1: looking at himself, goes away and immediately forgets what he

833
00:51:28,080 --> 00:51:33,280
Speaker 1: looks like. But whoever looks intently into the perfect law

834
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Speaker 1: that gives freedom and continues in it, not forgetting what

835
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Speaker 1: they have heard, but doing it, they will be in

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Speaker 1: what they be strong.

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Speaker 2: Do the work.

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Speaker 1: What happens when you do the work, you be strong,

839
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Speaker 1: not perfect, but strong, not there but closer, not monastic

840
00:52:07,239 --> 00:52:12,560
Speaker 1: but maybe not going off on everybody, not perfect.

841
00:52:12,960 --> 00:52:18,080
Speaker 2: But blessed. And he said, it's like a mirror.

842
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Speaker 1: The word God gives you is like a mirror, and

843
00:52:23,280 --> 00:52:28,880
Speaker 1: it shows you who God is, and it shows you who.

844
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Speaker 2: You really are.

845
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Speaker 1: And that's why something comes alive in you when you

846
00:52:34,719 --> 00:52:38,040
Speaker 1: hear God's word and it hits you in your spirit

847
00:52:38,960 --> 00:52:42,960
Speaker 1: because it's going in you and every label that has

848
00:52:43,000 --> 00:52:48,120
Speaker 1: been slapped on you, even by your own words, when

849
00:52:48,120 --> 00:52:52,800
Speaker 1: you get in the mirror of God's word, it begins

850
00:52:52,920 --> 00:53:02,840
Speaker 1: to reverse every curse that has been spoken over your life.

851
00:53:03,600 --> 00:53:06,640
Speaker 1: So when Hollywood's getting dressed the other day, she put

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00:53:06,680 --> 00:53:10,400
Speaker 1: on this hoodie for can you Imagine? And she was

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00:53:10,440 --> 00:53:13,799
Speaker 1: looking at it in the mirror. And when she was

854
00:53:13,800 --> 00:53:18,920
Speaker 1: looking at it, she said, is it backwards? And I

855
00:53:18,960 --> 00:53:23,360
Speaker 1: said yeah, and she said, but I'm confused. Oh yeah,

856
00:53:23,400 --> 00:53:27,840
Speaker 1: I'm looking at it in the mirror because on this hoodie,

857
00:53:27,880 --> 00:53:28,440
Speaker 1: can you see it?

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00:53:28,400 --> 00:53:29,400
Speaker 2: It's backwards.

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00:53:30,800 --> 00:53:37,160
Speaker 1: But when you get in front of a mirror, what

860
00:53:37,640 --> 00:53:44,520
Speaker 1: does a mirror do? It reflects back Whatever stands in

861
00:53:44,640 --> 00:53:51,200
Speaker 1: front of it, but the light makes it reflect back backwards.

862
00:53:52,400 --> 00:53:56,960
Speaker 1: So God says, when you come in my presence, when

863
00:53:57,000 --> 00:54:01,600
Speaker 1: you receive a word from Me, when you stand before Heaven,

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00:54:02,040 --> 00:54:05,799
Speaker 1: you're not just looking at yourself. You are looking at

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Speaker 1: your father, who is perfect, your father who spoke a

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Speaker 1: word over your life before you were knit together. He

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Speaker 1: knew you, and I'm gonna show you.

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Speaker 4: Who you are. He reverse.

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Speaker 1: And everything in your life that does not match God's purpose.

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Speaker 1: He's gonna turn it around for his glory in this season.

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Speaker 1: Shout if you believe it. Shut if you believe it,

872
00:54:39,520 --> 00:54:46,480
Speaker 1: shout on lie. He's turning it around. See. That's why

873
00:54:46,520 --> 00:54:49,880
Speaker 1: I gotta kit with him, because I'm surrounded by filth.

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00:54:50,120 --> 00:54:52,719
Speaker 1: But I don't want to become like what I'm surrounded by.

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Speaker 1: I don't want to think like what I'm surrounded by.

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Speaker 1: I don't want to speak like what I'm surrounded by.

877
00:54:59,440 --> 00:55:01,800
Speaker 1: I want God to put his word on my life

878
00:55:03,280 --> 00:55:08,560
Speaker 1: and show me in the mirror of his image what

879
00:55:08,680 --> 00:55:11,160
Speaker 1: I'm really worth in his hands.

880
00:55:13,000 --> 00:55:15,279
Speaker 2: And I'm working through some weaknesses like you are.

881
00:55:18,200 --> 00:55:19,920
Speaker 1: But the strength that you want for your life and

882
00:55:19,920 --> 00:55:22,000
Speaker 1: the strength you want to pass on to your generations,

883
00:55:22,000 --> 00:55:23,719
Speaker 1: and the strength you want your kids to see you

884
00:55:23,760 --> 00:55:27,640
Speaker 1: walk in is through the stumbles that you recover from

885
00:55:27,960 --> 00:55:30,440
Speaker 1: and keep moving forward believing that.

886
00:55:30,400 --> 00:55:33,239
Speaker 2: God is not against you.

887
00:55:35,760 --> 00:55:39,640
Speaker 1: I reverse every religious spirit that has tried to tell

888
00:55:39,719 --> 00:55:42,880
Speaker 1: you that God is ashamed of you. If he's ashamed

889
00:55:42,920 --> 00:55:45,000
Speaker 1: of what he made, that means he made a mistake.

890
00:55:45,239 --> 00:55:49,440
Speaker 1: God doesn't make mistakes. God doesn't qualify. God doesn't call

891
00:55:49,520 --> 00:55:53,319
Speaker 1: the qualified. He qualifies to call, and he shows you.

892
00:55:56,200 --> 00:56:00,840
Speaker 1: Now be strong and do the work. And if you

893
00:56:00,920 --> 00:56:07,600
Speaker 1: do the work, remember you're working with him.

894
00:56:07,760 --> 00:56:08,160
Speaker 2: Yohaul.

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00:56:08,360 --> 00:56:13,239
Speaker 1: I almost want to call this message dirty work, to

896
00:56:13,320 --> 00:56:16,840
Speaker 1: keep with our theme of two word titles dirty work.

897
00:56:19,600 --> 00:56:23,840
Speaker 1: You want to look like that who doesn't, Man, this

898
00:56:23,960 --> 00:56:26,080
Speaker 1: is so bad for your ego. I'm a little worried

899
00:56:26,120 --> 00:56:29,400
Speaker 1: about you. You are an example of the righteousness of

900
00:56:29,480 --> 00:56:34,359
Speaker 1: Christ today, Inner Ralph Lauren Shirt, I mean, that's just phenomenal.

901
00:56:37,760 --> 00:56:38,839
Speaker 2: Thank you for helping me out.

902
00:56:40,080 --> 00:56:45,080
Speaker 1: But I just wanted to know today, is there a

903
00:56:45,120 --> 00:56:52,279
Speaker 1: weakness that you're working through right now? And so you think, oh, okay, well,

904
00:56:52,560 --> 00:56:54,360
Speaker 1: I'm just you know, this isn't working.

905
00:56:55,360 --> 00:56:55,759
Speaker 2: I quit.

906
00:56:57,640 --> 00:57:04,600
Speaker 1: The reminder of the scripture is that as you behold

907
00:57:05,320 --> 00:57:12,720
Speaker 1: your God, he reflects to you backwards. What you can become,

908
00:57:13,280 --> 00:57:15,279
Speaker 1: and what you can become starts with who he is.

909
00:57:18,040 --> 00:57:21,959
Speaker 1: Everything that God has in your life is in seed

910
00:57:22,000 --> 00:57:28,120
Speaker 1: form right now. It is surrounded by dirt, superfluous naughtiness.

911
00:57:29,800 --> 00:57:34,920
Speaker 2: But that's okay because God does dirty work.

912
00:57:37,520 --> 00:57:40,600
Speaker 1: Please believe me when I say that You've got to

913
00:57:40,680 --> 00:57:45,120
Speaker 1: do it dirty too, on the days you don't feel

914
00:57:45,160 --> 00:57:47,280
Speaker 1: like it, on the days where everything in you is

915
00:57:47,320 --> 00:57:50,120
Speaker 1: telling you not to the strength What did you say

916
00:57:50,200 --> 00:57:52,520
Speaker 1: last week? The strength you need for tomorrow is in

917
00:57:52,560 --> 00:57:53,280
Speaker 1: the work.

918
00:57:53,040 --> 00:57:55,360
Speaker 2: You do today.

919
00:57:56,440 --> 00:57:58,760
Speaker 1: God is working in weakness. That's how he works. He

920
00:57:58,800 --> 00:58:05,040
Speaker 1: works in reverse. He works in reverse, and sometimes he

921
00:58:05,080 --> 00:58:09,480
Speaker 1: sees you struggling and he wants to help you, but

922
00:58:09,520 --> 00:58:12,800
Speaker 1: you won't let him.

923
00:58:12,920 --> 00:58:16,120
Speaker 2: What was your first job, Jay?

924
00:58:18,640 --> 00:58:21,439
Speaker 1: You remember you work in security when you're like twelve

925
00:58:21,520 --> 00:58:25,680
Speaker 1: years old, eating spinach, taking steroids working security. I don't

926
00:58:25,680 --> 00:58:30,680
Speaker 1: want to look like you, Jay, that was your first job. Listen,

927
00:58:31,320 --> 00:58:33,800
Speaker 1: I don't think anybody in the room had a crazier

928
00:58:33,840 --> 00:58:37,360
Speaker 1: first job than me. When I was fourteen, I worked

929
00:58:37,880 --> 00:58:40,880
Speaker 1: for pet Rest Cemetery and Cremation Service.

930
00:58:43,520 --> 00:58:44,479
Speaker 2: That was my first job.

931
00:58:45,160 --> 00:58:48,360
Speaker 1: And it was a cool job too, because not only

932
00:58:48,400 --> 00:58:54,840
Speaker 1: did I get to send pets into the afterlife with dignity.

933
00:58:55,520 --> 00:58:57,120
Speaker 2: The Lord was preparing me to preach.

934
00:58:57,160 --> 00:59:04,080
Speaker 1: I just had to start with lesser animals into the kingdom.

935
00:59:04,120 --> 00:59:04,320
Speaker 2: Well.

936
00:59:04,320 --> 00:59:08,479
Speaker 1: Then, the coolest thing about the job was it came

937
00:59:08,520 --> 00:59:18,280
Speaker 1: with get ready, it came with a pager. It came

938
00:59:18,320 --> 00:59:22,240
Speaker 1: with a pager, and so on the nights where I

939
00:59:22,280 --> 00:59:26,400
Speaker 1: would need to go cremate the dogs. Why are you

940
00:59:26,440 --> 00:59:29,200
Speaker 1: looking at me like I killed them? This was a

941
00:59:29,280 --> 00:59:31,560
Speaker 1: service people hired us to do. It was good work.

942
00:59:31,600 --> 00:59:33,760
Speaker 1: I loved the job. I appreciated the job, and I

943
00:59:33,840 --> 00:59:35,840
Speaker 1: liked the pager too, because it looks so cool, weird

944
00:59:35,840 --> 00:59:37,400
Speaker 1: on the outside of my pocket.

945
00:59:39,000 --> 00:59:40,280
Speaker 2: And feeling like, what do you do for money?

946
00:59:40,440 --> 00:59:43,120
Speaker 1: Don't worry about it.

947
00:59:43,120 --> 00:59:44,680
Speaker 2: It involves freezers.

948
00:59:47,840 --> 00:59:54,320
Speaker 1: But the uh, the worst part about that job was

949
00:59:55,280 --> 00:59:56,760
Speaker 1: in the middle of the summer when a lot of

950
00:59:56,800 --> 00:59:59,240
Speaker 1: dogs would die from heat exhaustion. Obviously it's sad, but

951
01:00:00,040 --> 01:00:01,800
Speaker 1: even worse than that, it was so hot in the

952
01:00:01,800 --> 01:00:04,560
Speaker 1: low country of South Carolina, and I would never wake

953
01:00:04,640 --> 01:00:06,560
Speaker 1: up early to go dig the graves because I had

954
01:00:06,600 --> 01:00:08,360
Speaker 1: to dig the graves too.

955
01:00:08,280 --> 01:00:09,840
Speaker 2: And I had to do it by hand.

956
01:00:10,880 --> 01:00:13,640
Speaker 1: And this dirt in the low country, it is not

957
01:00:13,760 --> 01:00:16,959
Speaker 1: like friendly dirt that's just waiting to be dug.

958
01:00:17,040 --> 01:00:19,439
Speaker 2: This is like clay. So I would go out there

959
01:00:19,440 --> 01:00:21,520
Speaker 2: in the middle of the day and.

960
01:00:23,160 --> 01:00:26,439
Speaker 1: True story, pick axe and a shovel and a little

961
01:00:26,480 --> 01:00:29,800
Speaker 1: riding lawnmower, little trailer, and I'll break up the dirt

962
01:00:30,080 --> 01:00:33,000
Speaker 1: and dig the graves. One day I was out there.

963
01:00:33,040 --> 01:00:38,320
Speaker 1: It must have been one hundred and fifteen degrees in

964
01:00:38,400 --> 01:00:41,600
Speaker 1: the low Country that day. I was dying, but I

965
01:00:41,640 --> 01:00:43,520
Speaker 1: had to get it done. By four o'clock. I'm out

966
01:00:43,560 --> 01:00:47,400
Speaker 1: there just killing myself. All of a sudden, I need

967
01:00:47,400 --> 01:00:50,160
Speaker 1: to set this up for you. The pet Cemetery was

968
01:00:50,240 --> 01:00:54,280
Speaker 1: right next to People Cemetery, just right there.

969
01:00:54,320 --> 01:00:54,840
Speaker 2: You could see it.

970
01:00:56,160 --> 01:01:00,480
Speaker 1: At the People Cemetery, they had better equipment than at

971
01:01:00,480 --> 01:01:01,320
Speaker 1: the Pet Cemetery.

972
01:01:02,360 --> 01:01:04,600
Speaker 2: And I would always watch this guy named Charles.

973
01:01:05,520 --> 01:01:07,880
Speaker 1: He would dig the graves over there with a big

974
01:01:07,920 --> 01:01:11,960
Speaker 1: heavy machinery like a bacco, and I would always lust

975
01:01:12,600 --> 01:01:19,160
Speaker 1: after that while I was out there. But one glad day,

976
01:01:20,280 --> 01:01:23,200
Speaker 1: while I was I'm literally out there going like, man,

977
01:01:23,200 --> 01:01:24,920
Speaker 1: I should have made Eric come with me today. This

978
01:01:24,960 --> 01:01:27,320
Speaker 1: is horrible, this sucks. I hate my life. I think

979
01:01:27,320 --> 01:01:29,480
Speaker 1: about throwing my pager in that grave and jumping in

980
01:01:29,480 --> 01:01:30,280
Speaker 1: there with the dog.

981
01:01:31,960 --> 01:01:32,720
Speaker 2: And I'm out there.

982
01:01:35,360 --> 01:01:40,240
Speaker 1: But here comes here comes Charles on the backo and

983
01:01:40,280 --> 01:01:45,200
Speaker 1: he's coming over and I'm like, no way, no way.

984
01:01:46,360 --> 01:01:53,240
Speaker 2: This is what I've always imagine. He pulls up.

985
01:01:53,800 --> 01:01:55,840
Speaker 1: He doesn't even say anything.

986
01:01:56,720 --> 01:01:59,040
Speaker 2: I just step aside.

987
01:02:00,000 --> 01:02:04,640
Speaker 1: I didn't even say anything. He just starts moving stuff.

988
01:02:05,400 --> 01:02:09,760
Speaker 1: He just starts moving stuff. He just starts moving stuff.

989
01:02:10,200 --> 01:02:14,800
Speaker 1: He just starts moving stuff. Yeah, he just starts moving stuff.

990
01:02:16,480 --> 01:02:21,240
Speaker 1: Twenty minutes later, we had a hole. What did I do?

991
01:02:21,480 --> 01:02:26,560
Speaker 1: I stood there and pretended to be helping. I just

992
01:02:26,560 --> 01:02:31,360
Speaker 1: stood there just and just prayed that he wouldn't leave.

993
01:02:31,920 --> 01:02:35,680
Speaker 1: Just stay, Charles, Just stay Charles. Oh thank you, Charles.

994
01:02:35,880 --> 01:02:38,960
Speaker 1: Hallelula Charles. I love Charles. Charles a big guy to

995
01:02:39,440 --> 01:02:41,480
Speaker 1: He was short, but he was stout. Charles's on it.

996
01:02:41,560 --> 01:02:44,720
Speaker 1: But he didn't need those muscles because he had something.

997
01:02:44,560 --> 01:02:47,680
Speaker 2: That I didn't have before. He showed up and he.

998
01:02:47,800 --> 01:02:51,160
Speaker 1: Just started digging. And I'm telling you, twenty minutes later

999
01:02:51,400 --> 01:02:53,919
Speaker 1: we were done. I'm like, this is awesome. I'm about

1000
01:02:53,960 --> 01:02:56,520
Speaker 1: to go get lunch. I'm about to go get taco bell.

1001
01:02:56,760 --> 01:02:58,919
Speaker 1: I'm gonna get something for me, some for Charles. We're

1002
01:02:58,920 --> 01:03:01,440
Speaker 1: gonna have a picnic. I'm name my kid Charles. This

1003
01:03:01,480 --> 01:03:04,640
Speaker 1: is amazing. Thank you, Charles. This is the greatest gift

1004
01:03:04,840 --> 01:03:07,200
Speaker 1: that I've ever been given. What do I owe you?

1005
01:03:07,240 --> 01:03:09,600
Speaker 1: I thought he want to cut, you know, fifteen percent

1006
01:03:09,680 --> 01:03:12,720
Speaker 1: on the first grave, after each additional grave twenty percent.

1007
01:03:12,960 --> 01:03:14,200
Speaker 2: I thought he was running.

1008
01:03:13,880 --> 01:03:16,280
Speaker 6: A side hustle. Charles said, no, I don't want anything.

1009
01:03:16,480 --> 01:03:25,560
Speaker 6: I just saw you struggling. I saw you sweating.

1010
01:03:27,920 --> 01:03:32,560
Speaker 1: I saw you out here doing everything that you could

1011
01:03:32,560 --> 01:03:37,360
Speaker 1: do with what you had, and I thought to myself,

1012
01:03:37,960 --> 01:03:40,880
Speaker 1: he could dig all day and not get this done.

1013
01:03:41,440 --> 01:03:47,320
Speaker 1: So I decided, if you'll let me, I'm gonna help him,

1014
01:03:47,640 --> 01:03:51,360
Speaker 1: I said, Charles, I will be the best letter that

1015
01:03:51,440 --> 01:03:55,120
Speaker 1: you've ever met in your life. I'm gonna let you

1016
01:03:55,280 --> 01:03:58,720
Speaker 1: help me. Anytime you see me with this thick axe,

1017
01:03:59,040 --> 01:04:03,600
Speaker 1: pull up us. I need you, Holy Spirit. I need

1018
01:04:03,680 --> 01:04:08,360
Speaker 1: you Jesus, because you've forgot what I don't have, and

1019
01:04:08,480 --> 01:04:11,080
Speaker 1: you can do what I can't do.

1020
01:04:11,400 --> 01:04:13,959
Speaker 4: And you can do what I can't her.

1021
01:04:14,520 --> 01:04:19,080
Speaker 1: And I hear God saying to somebody today, prob make.

1022
01:04:19,000 --> 01:04:22,920
Speaker 4: You strong, forgive you hope, pop.

1023
01:04:22,640 --> 01:04:24,320
Speaker 1: Breathe into your sales.

1024
01:04:24,720 --> 01:04:26,000
Speaker 4: I'll make it happen.

1025
01:04:26,440 --> 01:04:28,600
Speaker 1: I'll flow the door off the hinges.

1026
01:04:29,120 --> 01:04:30,920
Speaker 4: I'll come in and.

1027
01:04:30,800 --> 01:04:34,760
Speaker 1: Make away through your sea. Get it, praise it? Do

1028
01:04:34,800 --> 01:04:35,440
Speaker 1: you believe it?

1029
01:04:39,640 --> 01:04:39,760
Speaker 4: Hey?

1030
01:04:39,840 --> 01:04:42,160
Speaker 1: I hope you enjoyed the podcast, and if you did,

1031
01:04:42,720 --> 01:04:45,320
Speaker 1: make sure to share it and subscribe so we can

1032
01:04:45,360 --> 01:04:47,960
Speaker 1: get you all of these new messages as soon as

1033
01:04:47,960 --> 01:04:50,760
Speaker 1: they're available. I also want to take a moment and

1034
01:04:50,840 --> 01:04:52,640
Speaker 1: thank all of you who are a part of Elevation.

1035
01:04:53,160 --> 01:04:56,440
Speaker 1: Whether you support us financially, or serve with us, or

1036
01:04:56,880 --> 01:04:59,560
Speaker 1: just share these messages, it's because of you that we're

1037
01:04:59,600 --> 01:05:02,560
Speaker 1: able to each people all around the world. And if

1038
01:05:02,560 --> 01:05:05,080
Speaker 1: you want more information on how to be a part

1039
01:05:05,080 --> 01:05:09,000
Speaker 1: of Elevation, click the link in the description. Thanks again

1040
01:05:09,040 --> 01:05:12,000
Speaker 1: for listening. Make sure to leave a review, share the message,

1041
01:05:12,040 --> 01:05:12,880
Speaker 1: and subscribe.

1042
01:05:13,160 --> 01:05:13,800
Speaker 2: God bless you.