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It helps keep the ministry going. 51 00:02:16,480 --> 00:02:19,800 Speaker 4: Enjoy the message. God bless you. It's great to be 52 00:02:19,919 --> 00:02:20,760 Speaker 4: with you today. 53 00:02:21,120 --> 00:02:24,360 Speaker 5: We are believing for God's best for you and your family, 54 00:02:24,440 --> 00:02:27,200 Speaker 5: and hope you'll stay connected with us throughout the week. 55 00:02:27,360 --> 00:02:29,960 Speaker 5: We have a daily podcast. You can listen to the 56 00:02:29,960 --> 00:02:34,360 Speaker 5: messages all the time, or go to our YouTube channel Instagram. 57 00:02:34,520 --> 00:02:37,240 Speaker 5: Lots of ways we can keep you inspired and encouraged, 58 00:02:37,240 --> 00:02:40,080 Speaker 5: but thanks for tuning in today. I like to start 59 00:02:40,080 --> 00:02:43,120 Speaker 5: with something funny and I heard about this husband and wife. 60 00:02:43,440 --> 00:02:46,320 Speaker 5: They'd been arguing for a long time about who should 61 00:02:46,320 --> 00:02:49,040 Speaker 5: make the coffee in the morning. The husband thought it 62 00:02:49,080 --> 00:02:52,320 Speaker 5: was the wife's job, but she just didn't agree. After 63 00:02:52,400 --> 00:02:55,720 Speaker 5: several heated debates, she finally told him, I can prove 64 00:02:55,760 --> 00:02:58,320 Speaker 5: it to you from the Bible that it's the man's 65 00:02:58,440 --> 00:02:59,000 Speaker 5: job to. 66 00:02:58,960 --> 00:03:01,760 Speaker 4: Make the coffee. He said, what are you talking about. 67 00:03:01,880 --> 00:03:05,120 Speaker 5: There's nothing in the Bible about the man making the coffee. 68 00:03:05,360 --> 00:03:08,080 Speaker 4: She said, sure, there is. She opened the Bible and 69 00:03:08,120 --> 00:03:10,079 Speaker 4: turned to the Book of Hebrews. 70 00:03:11,320 --> 00:03:13,880 Speaker 5: Say it like you mean it. This is my Bible. 71 00:03:14,400 --> 00:03:16,680 Speaker 5: I am what it says I am. I have what 72 00:03:16,760 --> 00:03:19,120 Speaker 5: it says I have. I can do what it says 73 00:03:19,160 --> 00:03:22,040 Speaker 5: I can do. Today I will be taught the word 74 00:03:22,120 --> 00:03:26,120 Speaker 5: of God. I boldly confess. My mind is alert, my 75 00:03:26,200 --> 00:03:30,640 Speaker 5: heart is receptive. I will never be the same. In Jesus' name, 76 00:03:31,160 --> 00:03:34,200 Speaker 5: God bless you. I want to talk to you today 77 00:03:34,280 --> 00:03:37,280 Speaker 5: about who do you say you are? There are a 78 00:03:37,320 --> 00:03:40,080 Speaker 5: lot of voices in life trying to define us and 79 00:03:40,360 --> 00:03:44,160 Speaker 5: tell us who we are. Sometimes they're uplifting, a parent 80 00:03:44,240 --> 00:03:47,120 Speaker 5: telling us that we're talented, we can do great things. 81 00:03:47,520 --> 00:03:51,280 Speaker 5: Other Times they're negative. You're not attractive, there's nothing special 82 00:03:51,320 --> 00:03:51,880 Speaker 5: about you. 83 00:03:52,560 --> 00:03:54,560 Speaker 4: Our own thoughts will try to label us. 84 00:03:54,840 --> 00:03:58,360 Speaker 5: You've made too many mistakes, you miss your chance. When 85 00:03:58,360 --> 00:04:01,280 Speaker 5: you listen to all these voices, it's easy to think 86 00:04:01,400 --> 00:04:02,600 Speaker 5: who's telling the truth. 87 00:04:02,880 --> 00:04:04,080 Speaker 4: Who am i? 88 00:04:04,120 --> 00:04:07,640 Speaker 5: Am I talented or am I ordinary? Am I strong 89 00:04:07,760 --> 00:04:10,480 Speaker 5: and confident? Or am I weak and insecure? 90 00:04:10,960 --> 00:04:13,560 Speaker 4: Do I have a bright future or have a blown it? 91 00:04:14,120 --> 00:04:14,840 Speaker 4: Here's the key. 92 00:04:15,200 --> 00:04:18,800 Speaker 5: The only voice that matters is your voice. Who do 93 00:04:18,880 --> 00:04:22,039 Speaker 5: you say you are? What you choose is what you 94 00:04:22,120 --> 00:04:26,120 Speaker 5: will become and instead of letting people define you, instead 95 00:04:26,120 --> 00:04:29,520 Speaker 5: of letting circumstances label you, you need to go back 96 00:04:29,560 --> 00:04:33,000 Speaker 5: to what God said about you. God says you can 97 00:04:33,080 --> 00:04:37,320 Speaker 5: do all things through Christ. You're equipped and empowered. Other 98 00:04:37,400 --> 00:04:40,760 Speaker 5: voices will tell you the problems too big, you don't have. 99 00:04:40,640 --> 00:04:43,159 Speaker 4: What it takes. Who do you say you are? 100 00:04:43,880 --> 00:04:47,560 Speaker 5: God says you have seeds of greatness. You are destined 101 00:04:47,600 --> 00:04:51,359 Speaker 5: to leave your mark. Other voices will tell you you're just ordinary, 102 00:04:51,680 --> 00:04:53,480 Speaker 5: you'll never do anything significant. 103 00:04:54,160 --> 00:04:57,200 Speaker 4: You have the final choice. Who do you say you are? 104 00:04:58,000 --> 00:05:01,320 Speaker 5: The problem with some people is the chosen the wrong voice. 105 00:05:01,360 --> 00:05:05,279 Speaker 5: So long they don't know who they really are. They've 106 00:05:05,360 --> 00:05:08,520 Speaker 5: let people label them, tell them what they're not, what 107 00:05:08,600 --> 00:05:14,680 Speaker 5: they can't do. They've allowed circumstances to define them, mistakes, disappointments. 108 00:05:14,880 --> 00:05:16,320 Speaker 4: Now they've lost their passion. 109 00:05:16,960 --> 00:05:20,000 Speaker 5: If you let these other voices play, it will keep 110 00:05:20,040 --> 00:05:23,520 Speaker 5: you from your destiny. The only one that knows who 111 00:05:23,560 --> 00:05:28,080 Speaker 5: you really are is your creator. He calls you a masterpiece. 112 00:05:28,520 --> 00:05:32,040 Speaker 5: He said you've been fearfully and wonderfully made. He said 113 00:05:32,080 --> 00:05:34,680 Speaker 5: you will be mighty in the land. That you are 114 00:05:34,680 --> 00:05:39,360 Speaker 5: more than a conquer strong, confident, approved, valuable. 115 00:05:39,960 --> 00:05:41,719 Speaker 4: That's who you were created to be. 116 00:05:42,440 --> 00:05:45,400 Speaker 5: When you say what God says about you, then you 117 00:05:45,520 --> 00:05:49,359 Speaker 5: activate what He put on the inside. But you can't 118 00:05:49,400 --> 00:05:52,799 Speaker 5: say I'm weak and tap into the power. You can't 119 00:05:52,800 --> 00:05:55,760 Speaker 5: say I'll never get ahead and tap into the abundance. 120 00:05:56,279 --> 00:05:59,320 Speaker 5: He can't say I'm not that talented and tap into 121 00:05:59,360 --> 00:06:00,240 Speaker 5: your greatness. 122 00:06:00,560 --> 00:06:01,839 Speaker 4: Who do you say you are? 123 00:06:02,560 --> 00:06:02,640 Speaker 3: Not? 124 00:06:02,960 --> 00:06:05,600 Speaker 5: Who do other people say you are? Who does your 125 00:06:05,600 --> 00:06:08,760 Speaker 5: family say you are? Who do your coworkers say you are? 126 00:06:09,160 --> 00:06:12,800 Speaker 5: No disrespect, but you are not who people say you are. 127 00:06:13,200 --> 00:06:14,920 Speaker 4: You are who God says you are. 128 00:06:15,720 --> 00:06:18,880 Speaker 5: People can't always see what God put in you. They 129 00:06:18,880 --> 00:06:22,839 Speaker 5: can't see the potential, the gifts, the greatness. If you 130 00:06:22,960 --> 00:06:26,440 Speaker 5: let them put their limitations on you, convince you that 131 00:06:26,560 --> 00:06:29,919 Speaker 5: you can't accomplish your dream, You'll never get out of debt, 132 00:06:30,120 --> 00:06:33,839 Speaker 5: you can't overcome that sickness. Then, because you're letting them 133 00:06:33,880 --> 00:06:37,479 Speaker 5: define you, what they're saying is going to come to pass. 134 00:06:38,080 --> 00:06:39,120 Speaker 4: They may speak. 135 00:06:38,880 --> 00:06:42,400 Speaker 5: Negative things, but it has no power if you don't 136 00:06:42,440 --> 00:06:46,159 Speaker 5: let it get in. You don't repeat the negative people 137 00:06:46,240 --> 00:06:50,479 Speaker 5: have spoken over you. In John chapter one, the Jewish 138 00:06:50,560 --> 00:06:54,039 Speaker 5: leaders sent men out into the desert to find out 139 00:06:54,080 --> 00:06:57,120 Speaker 5: who John the Baptist was. They had heard so much 140 00:06:57,120 --> 00:07:01,080 Speaker 5: about him. He had a large following. These leaders traveled 141 00:07:01,080 --> 00:07:04,400 Speaker 5: from Jerusalem and asked John if he was to Christ. 142 00:07:04,760 --> 00:07:05,560 Speaker 4: He told them no. 143 00:07:06,160 --> 00:07:08,719 Speaker 5: They asked if he was Elijah. He said it again, 144 00:07:08,839 --> 00:07:12,200 Speaker 5: I'm not. They said in verse twenty two, then tell 145 00:07:12,280 --> 00:07:15,320 Speaker 5: us who you are so we can give an answer 146 00:07:15,360 --> 00:07:19,040 Speaker 5: to those who sent us. What do you say about yourself? 147 00:07:19,880 --> 00:07:22,800 Speaker 5: John could have answered many different ways. He could have 148 00:07:22,880 --> 00:07:27,400 Speaker 5: told them about his background, his education, his philosophy. But 149 00:07:27,560 --> 00:07:32,200 Speaker 5: verse twenty three says John replied, in the words of Isaiah, 150 00:07:32,480 --> 00:07:35,200 Speaker 5: I am a voice shouting in the wilderness. 151 00:07:35,440 --> 00:07:37,040 Speaker 4: Prepare the way for the Lord. 152 00:07:37,760 --> 00:07:40,440 Speaker 5: He went back to what the scripture said about him. 153 00:07:40,840 --> 00:07:43,360 Speaker 5: He didn't say what he felt. He didn't say how 154 00:07:43,360 --> 00:07:46,400 Speaker 5: he was raised, what he was dealing with. He said 155 00:07:46,720 --> 00:07:51,160 Speaker 5: what God said about him. Imagine someone ask you who 156 00:07:51,200 --> 00:07:53,880 Speaker 5: do you say you are so we can tell others. 157 00:07:54,280 --> 00:07:57,360 Speaker 5: What kind of answer would you have? Well, this pandemic 158 00:07:57,440 --> 00:08:01,440 Speaker 5: has me worried. My back's been hurting, my business is slow. 159 00:08:01,800 --> 00:08:05,000 Speaker 5: These kids are getting on my nerves. I'm really discouraged. 160 00:08:05,280 --> 00:08:07,760 Speaker 4: Sip that up. That is not who you are. 161 00:08:08,520 --> 00:08:11,480 Speaker 5: Go back to the scripture and say what God says 162 00:08:11,560 --> 00:08:21,760 Speaker 5: about you. Your answer should be tell them I'm strong, anointed, talented, favored, healthy, blessed, forgiven, 163 00:08:22,240 --> 00:08:27,320 Speaker 5: fearfully and wonderfully made. We start off every service saying 164 00:08:27,560 --> 00:08:29,640 Speaker 5: I am what God says I am. 165 00:08:30,400 --> 00:08:31,880 Speaker 4: I am not what I feel. 166 00:08:32,520 --> 00:08:35,800 Speaker 5: I may feel weak, but God says I'm strong. So 167 00:08:35,920 --> 00:08:38,960 Speaker 5: my report is I am strong. When you say that, 168 00:08:39,120 --> 00:08:42,560 Speaker 5: strength starts heading your way. You may not feel up 169 00:08:42,600 --> 00:08:46,559 Speaker 5: to par. You're dealing with an illness, struggling with anxiety, 170 00:08:46,800 --> 00:08:47,959 Speaker 5: fighting that depression. 171 00:08:48,559 --> 00:08:50,920 Speaker 4: It's easy to wear the labels. 172 00:08:50,520 --> 00:08:56,200 Speaker 5: Sick, depressed, anxious, defeated. That's just who I am. That's 173 00:08:56,240 --> 00:08:59,440 Speaker 5: not who you are. That's what you're dealing with. You're 174 00:08:59,480 --> 00:09:02,200 Speaker 5: not a sick person trying to get well. You're a 175 00:09:02,240 --> 00:09:06,960 Speaker 5: well person fighting off sickness. Don't let that difficulty become 176 00:09:07,000 --> 00:09:10,959 Speaker 5: your identity. Don't get in agreement with the negative. Go 177 00:09:11,040 --> 00:09:15,200 Speaker 5: back to what your creator said. God said he's restoring 178 00:09:15,320 --> 00:09:18,040 Speaker 5: health back into you. He said, you will run and 179 00:09:18,160 --> 00:09:21,240 Speaker 5: not be weary. He said, weeping endoors for a night, 180 00:09:21,400 --> 00:09:24,400 Speaker 5: but joy is coming in the morning. What do you 181 00:09:24,480 --> 00:09:29,120 Speaker 5: say about yourself? I'm sick, I'm depressed. Now I'm healthy, 182 00:09:29,520 --> 00:09:34,800 Speaker 5: I'm whole, I'm energetic, I'm free, I'm happy, I'm victorious. 183 00:09:35,679 --> 00:09:39,000 Speaker 5: If you'll start saying what God says about you instead 184 00:09:39,000 --> 00:09:42,240 Speaker 5: of what you feel, you'll see things begin to turn around. 185 00:09:42,679 --> 00:09:45,600 Speaker 5: Don't go through life we're in these negative labels. 186 00:09:46,640 --> 00:09:49,520 Speaker 4: I talked to a man that was so down on himself. 187 00:09:49,880 --> 00:09:53,080 Speaker 5: He told me how he had made mistakes, didn't raise 188 00:09:53,080 --> 00:09:56,920 Speaker 5: his children right, he was struggling with an addiction. He said, 189 00:09:57,080 --> 00:10:00,600 Speaker 5: I feel so unworthy. I don't deserve to be blessed. 190 00:10:01,160 --> 00:10:03,640 Speaker 5: When you're down on yourself, it's not. 191 00:10:03,559 --> 00:10:05,000 Speaker 4: Doing anything productive. 192 00:10:05,480 --> 00:10:09,000 Speaker 5: Being against yourself is not going to help you move forward. 193 00:10:09,600 --> 00:10:11,480 Speaker 4: The enemy is called the accuser. 194 00:10:12,000 --> 00:10:15,000 Speaker 5: He'll remind you of every mistake you've made, every time 195 00:10:15,040 --> 00:10:18,600 Speaker 5: you failed. He'd love for you to wear these labels unworthy, 196 00:10:19,080 --> 00:10:20,440 Speaker 5: washed up, no future. 197 00:10:21,360 --> 00:10:23,040 Speaker 4: I told him what I'm telling you. 198 00:10:23,480 --> 00:10:28,120 Speaker 5: As long as you see yourself unworthy, not deserving, it's 199 00:10:28,120 --> 00:10:31,080 Speaker 5: going to keep you where you are. Instead of wearing 200 00:10:31,120 --> 00:10:34,720 Speaker 5: those labels. Why don't you say what God says about you. 201 00:10:35,040 --> 00:10:40,320 Speaker 5: I'm forgiving, I'm redeemed, I'm restored, my past is over 202 00:10:40,600 --> 00:10:43,679 Speaker 5: and my future is bright. Who do you say you 203 00:10:43,800 --> 00:10:47,439 Speaker 5: are not? Who do your mistakes say you are? Who 204 00:10:47,480 --> 00:10:50,360 Speaker 5: do your friends say you are, who do the negative thoughts? 205 00:10:50,400 --> 00:10:51,040 Speaker 4: Say you are. 206 00:10:51,760 --> 00:10:55,839 Speaker 5: What you say overrides all the others. What you say 207 00:10:56,240 --> 00:10:59,160 Speaker 5: gives it the right to come to pass. Now, quit 208 00:10:59,280 --> 00:11:04,959 Speaker 5: saying negative things about yourself. I'm so overweight, I'm so undisciplined. 209 00:11:05,400 --> 00:11:08,120 Speaker 5: I'll never get out of this neighborhood. I'll never break 210 00:11:08,160 --> 00:11:12,600 Speaker 5: this addiction. You're going to become what you believe. Why 211 00:11:12,600 --> 00:11:16,520 Speaker 5: don't you start saying what God says about you. I'm talented, 212 00:11:16,880 --> 00:11:23,160 Speaker 5: I'm successful, I'm prosperous, I'm free, I'm valuable, I'm a masterpiece. 213 00:11:23,880 --> 00:11:27,720 Speaker 5: What you say about yourself is going to become a reality. 214 00:11:28,160 --> 00:11:31,120 Speaker 4: Who do you say you are? I'm just average? 215 00:11:31,440 --> 00:11:34,760 Speaker 5: You're going to be average when the truth is God 216 00:11:34,800 --> 00:11:39,240 Speaker 5: didn't make anyone average. Nobody has your fingerprints. Nobody can 217 00:11:39,320 --> 00:11:41,680 Speaker 5: do what you can do. But as long as you 218 00:11:41,760 --> 00:11:47,040 Speaker 5: believe your ordinary, you wan't shine like you're supposed to shine. 219 00:11:47,280 --> 00:11:50,960 Speaker 5: When Moses was born, the scripture says he was no 220 00:11:51,480 --> 00:11:52,480 Speaker 5: ordinary child. 221 00:11:53,120 --> 00:11:55,160 Speaker 4: There was something special about him. 222 00:11:55,520 --> 00:11:58,600 Speaker 5: As he grew up, he could sense his destiny was 223 00:11:58,679 --> 00:12:02,839 Speaker 5: to deliver the Israelite out of slavery. He had good intentions, 224 00:12:02,960 --> 00:12:05,480 Speaker 5: but he made a mistake. He ended up having to 225 00:12:05,520 --> 00:12:09,120 Speaker 5: flee to the desert. He spent forty years in hiding. 226 00:12:09,720 --> 00:12:12,760 Speaker 5: I can imagine those voices told him how he blew 227 00:12:12,800 --> 00:12:16,040 Speaker 5: it that he missed his chance. He could have warned 228 00:12:16,080 --> 00:12:19,439 Speaker 5: the labels failure, washed up too late. 229 00:12:20,080 --> 00:12:23,440 Speaker 4: But deep down he could hear that still small. 230 00:12:23,160 --> 00:12:27,160 Speaker 5: Voice telling him you are no ordinary child. This is 231 00:12:27,200 --> 00:12:30,480 Speaker 5: not how your story ends. There is greatness in you. 232 00:12:31,679 --> 00:12:35,640 Speaker 5: Just because you've made mistakes doesn't mean that stopped your destiny. 233 00:12:36,080 --> 00:12:38,520 Speaker 4: What God started he's going to finish. 234 00:12:38,960 --> 00:12:42,800 Speaker 5: What stops us is when we start wearing the negative labels, 235 00:12:43,120 --> 00:12:46,000 Speaker 5: when we start believing that we're washed up, we quit 236 00:12:46,120 --> 00:12:47,480 Speaker 5: pursuing our dreams. 237 00:12:48,320 --> 00:12:49,600 Speaker 4: After forty years in. 238 00:12:49,600 --> 00:12:53,360 Speaker 5: The desert, God appeared to Moses and said, now it's 239 00:12:53,440 --> 00:12:57,040 Speaker 5: your time to fulfill your destiny. He went on to 240 00:12:57,120 --> 00:13:01,160 Speaker 5: deliver the Israelites part the Red Sea do great things. 241 00:13:01,800 --> 00:13:04,760 Speaker 5: I don't believe this would have happened if Moses would 242 00:13:04,800 --> 00:13:06,880 Speaker 5: have seen himself as a failure. 243 00:13:07,320 --> 00:13:08,880 Speaker 4: I've made too many mistakes. 244 00:13:09,400 --> 00:13:13,200 Speaker 5: Instead, he saw himself as no ordinary child. 245 00:13:13,600 --> 00:13:16,920 Speaker 4: He kept the right image on the inside. 246 00:13:17,040 --> 00:13:19,840 Speaker 5: When you were born, God said the same thing about 247 00:13:19,880 --> 00:13:23,720 Speaker 5: you as he did Moses. This is no ordinary child. 248 00:13:24,400 --> 00:13:28,000 Speaker 5: God put greatness in you. He's destined you to leave 249 00:13:28,040 --> 00:13:32,400 Speaker 5: your mark. You may have made mistakes, you may have obstacles. 250 00:13:32,559 --> 00:13:35,920 Speaker 5: It's taken longer than you thought, but that doesn't change 251 00:13:35,960 --> 00:13:39,559 Speaker 5: what's in you now. The enemy will work over time 252 00:13:39,840 --> 00:13:42,760 Speaker 5: to try to steal your sense of value, your sense 253 00:13:42,800 --> 00:13:46,520 Speaker 5: of worth. He knows if he can distort your identity 254 00:13:46,800 --> 00:13:50,240 Speaker 5: who you are and convince you that you're just average, 255 00:13:50,720 --> 00:13:53,120 Speaker 5: nothing special about you, then. 256 00:13:52,960 --> 00:13:57,440 Speaker 4: He can keep you from your greatness. I wonder what 257 00:13:57,520 --> 00:13:58,720 Speaker 4: you could accomplish. 258 00:13:59,080 --> 00:14:02,000 Speaker 5: I wonder how far God will take you if you 259 00:14:02,040 --> 00:14:07,199 Speaker 5: will just live like you are no ordinary child, not arrogantly, 260 00:14:07,600 --> 00:14:11,360 Speaker 5: but knowing that God has placed greatness in you, that 261 00:14:11,440 --> 00:14:14,200 Speaker 5: there's a favor on your life that will take you 262 00:14:14,520 --> 00:14:17,720 Speaker 5: where you can't go on your own, and anointing that 263 00:14:17,760 --> 00:14:20,800 Speaker 5: will break every chain that's trying to hold you back, 264 00:14:21,280 --> 00:14:23,840 Speaker 5: a blessing that will cause you to stand out. 265 00:14:24,480 --> 00:14:25,280 Speaker 4: Who do you say? 266 00:14:25,320 --> 00:14:25,720 Speaker 2: You are? 267 00:14:26,400 --> 00:14:30,200 Speaker 5: Not ordinary, not average, You are a child of the 268 00:14:30,280 --> 00:14:34,480 Speaker 5: most High God. You have royal blood flowing through your veins. 269 00:14:34,800 --> 00:14:38,200 Speaker 5: You've been crowned with favor. What's trying to stop you 270 00:14:38,640 --> 00:14:42,080 Speaker 5: doesn't have a chance. God being for you is more 271 00:14:42,160 --> 00:14:45,760 Speaker 5: than the world being against you. That dream may seem 272 00:14:45,840 --> 00:14:49,760 Speaker 5: too big. For some people, it is, but not for you. 273 00:14:49,760 --> 00:14:51,200 Speaker 5: You're no ordinary child. 274 00:14:51,920 --> 00:14:53,560 Speaker 4: That sickness should be the end. 275 00:14:53,920 --> 00:14:57,320 Speaker 5: The medical report says you're done, but not for you. 276 00:14:57,320 --> 00:14:58,760 Speaker 4: You're no ordinary child. 277 00:15:00,160 --> 00:15:03,720 Speaker 5: Stake you've made should have stopped your destiny, It should 278 00:15:03,720 --> 00:15:07,240 Speaker 5: have limited your future, but not for you. 279 00:15:07,240 --> 00:15:09,000 Speaker 4: You are no ordinary child. 280 00:15:09,720 --> 00:15:13,520 Speaker 5: God handpicked you before you could choose him. 281 00:15:13,840 --> 00:15:14,560 Speaker 4: He chose you. 282 00:15:15,280 --> 00:15:19,200 Speaker 5: When he created you, God stepped back and said that 283 00:15:19,440 --> 00:15:20,440 Speaker 5: was very good. 284 00:15:21,280 --> 00:15:23,040 Speaker 4: Now, God created you the verses. 285 00:15:23,520 --> 00:15:29,080 Speaker 5: He flung stars into space, He made spectacular sunrises, magnificent 286 00:15:29,240 --> 00:15:33,280 Speaker 5: mountain ranges, but he never said they were very good. 287 00:15:33,960 --> 00:15:37,760 Speaker 5: The only thing he said that about was you. Now, 288 00:15:37,800 --> 00:15:40,800 Speaker 5: don't go around thinking your average you don't have much 289 00:15:40,840 --> 00:15:44,960 Speaker 5: to offer. You are no ordinary child. You are a 290 00:15:45,080 --> 00:15:45,880 Speaker 5: history maker. 291 00:15:46,320 --> 00:15:49,680 Speaker 4: You are a world changer. You are destined to leave 292 00:15:49,720 --> 00:15:51,720 Speaker 4: your mark. What Joe hold? 293 00:15:51,760 --> 00:15:54,680 Speaker 5: This sounds good, But I think you have the wrong person. 294 00:15:55,080 --> 00:15:59,240 Speaker 5: It's nothing unusual about me. I'm not super talented. I 295 00:15:59,280 --> 00:16:01,840 Speaker 5: don't have a great personality. I don't come from an 296 00:16:01,840 --> 00:16:06,760 Speaker 5: influential family. As long as you're discounting yourself, you're not 297 00:16:06,840 --> 00:16:08,479 Speaker 5: going to see your greatness. 298 00:16:08,760 --> 00:16:12,600 Speaker 4: Who do you say you are ordinary average. You're going 299 00:16:12,680 --> 00:16:13,240 Speaker 4: to become that. 300 00:16:13,880 --> 00:16:17,440 Speaker 5: I'm asking you to get in agreement with God. He said, 301 00:16:17,840 --> 00:16:21,720 Speaker 5: you are no ordinary child. It doesn't matter how you 302 00:16:21,760 --> 00:16:25,520 Speaker 5: were raised. It's not dependent on how much education you have, 303 00:16:26,040 --> 00:16:28,080 Speaker 5: how many connections. 304 00:16:27,560 --> 00:16:29,320 Speaker 4: What obstacles you're up against. 305 00:16:29,720 --> 00:16:34,000 Speaker 5: When you believe doors will open you never dream would open, 306 00:16:34,320 --> 00:16:37,960 Speaker 5: God will take you further than you can imagine. The 307 00:16:38,000 --> 00:16:41,920 Speaker 5: prophet Joel said, wake up the mighty men, Wake up 308 00:16:41,960 --> 00:16:45,680 Speaker 5: the mighty women. I want to wake up your greatness. 309 00:16:46,000 --> 00:16:49,480 Speaker 5: Wake up your dreams. Wake up that business God put 310 00:16:49,520 --> 00:16:52,960 Speaker 5: in you. Wake up that book, the movie, the song, 311 00:16:53,120 --> 00:16:57,520 Speaker 5: the orphanage, the ministry. May seem like it's over your head, 312 00:16:57,720 --> 00:17:01,240 Speaker 5: but you have to understand you are no ordinary child. 313 00:17:01,640 --> 00:17:05,320 Speaker 5: You're not average. You can accomplish more than you think. 314 00:17:05,840 --> 00:17:09,240 Speaker 5: You are stronger than you think. You are more anointed 315 00:17:09,320 --> 00:17:12,159 Speaker 5: than you think. You are more favored. 316 00:17:11,640 --> 00:17:12,359 Speaker 4: Than you think. 317 00:17:12,760 --> 00:17:16,119 Speaker 5: You are more talented than you think. The dreams and 318 00:17:16,160 --> 00:17:19,399 Speaker 5: gifts God put in you are much bigger than you think. 319 00:17:20,000 --> 00:17:22,280 Speaker 5: If you're going to see the fullness of what's in you, 320 00:17:22,600 --> 00:17:25,920 Speaker 5: then you have to see yourself the right way. Who 321 00:17:25,960 --> 00:17:29,280 Speaker 5: do you say you are? Don't you dare say I'm average? 322 00:17:29,359 --> 00:17:33,000 Speaker 5: I'm ordinary, get in agreement with God. I am no 323 00:17:33,320 --> 00:17:38,280 Speaker 5: ordinary child. I am highly favored. I am destined for greatness. 324 00:17:38,440 --> 00:17:42,480 Speaker 5: I am surrounded with God's goodness. When you know you're 325 00:17:42,520 --> 00:17:47,479 Speaker 5: an unusual child, you will see unusual favor, unusual healing, 326 00:17:47,960 --> 00:17:52,960 Speaker 5: unusual doors open, unusual breakthroughs. We would have never gotten 327 00:17:53,000 --> 00:17:56,280 Speaker 5: the Compact Center if I didn't believe that I was 328 00:17:56,400 --> 00:18:01,280 Speaker 5: no ordinary child. Now, everything in me I was ordinary. 329 00:18:01,720 --> 00:18:05,199 Speaker 5: When I stepped up to pastor the church, I felt unqualified. 330 00:18:05,680 --> 00:18:07,520 Speaker 4: But you can't go by your feelings. 331 00:18:07,840 --> 00:18:10,639 Speaker 5: I chose to believe what God said that I was 332 00:18:10,680 --> 00:18:15,200 Speaker 5: equipped and empowered. I had never ministered, didn't have the training, 333 00:18:15,440 --> 00:18:19,760 Speaker 5: the experience. All the circumstances said I was average. There 334 00:18:19,800 --> 00:18:23,399 Speaker 5: was nothing special about me. But deep down I was 335 00:18:23,480 --> 00:18:27,800 Speaker 5: bold enough to believe that I was no ordinary child. 336 00:18:27,920 --> 00:18:30,840 Speaker 5: I didn't tell anyone, but I could feel the seeds 337 00:18:30,920 --> 00:18:34,080 Speaker 5: of greatness. I could hear God whispering in the night 338 00:18:34,320 --> 00:18:38,000 Speaker 5: that big doors were going to open. Victoria told me, 339 00:18:38,320 --> 00:18:41,359 Speaker 5: ten years before my father passed, that one day I 340 00:18:41,400 --> 00:18:44,439 Speaker 5: would pastor the church. And that seems so odd to me. 341 00:18:45,080 --> 00:18:47,560 Speaker 5: I thought, boy, I've got her fooled. I can't get 342 00:18:47,640 --> 00:18:51,000 Speaker 5: up in front of people. I felt ordinary, But the 343 00:18:51,000 --> 00:18:54,960 Speaker 5: scripture says, there is fire shut up in your bones, 344 00:18:55,280 --> 00:18:58,919 Speaker 5: there is greatness shut up on the inside. As I 345 00:18:58,960 --> 00:19:02,000 Speaker 5: stepped up, I discovered talent that I didn't know was 346 00:19:02,080 --> 00:19:05,359 Speaker 5: in me. There was a boldness and confidence that I'd 347 00:19:05,359 --> 00:19:09,199 Speaker 5: never had before. When I heard that the Compact center 348 00:19:09,480 --> 00:19:13,360 Speaker 5: was coming available, I didn't think twice. I never thought 349 00:19:13,400 --> 00:19:16,199 Speaker 5: about where we'd get the funds or how it could happen. 350 00:19:16,720 --> 00:19:18,959 Speaker 4: I just knew we were supposed to pursue it. 351 00:19:19,720 --> 00:19:23,159 Speaker 5: When you know that you're no ordinary child, you'll go 352 00:19:23,240 --> 00:19:25,040 Speaker 5: after dreams that seem too big. 353 00:19:25,440 --> 00:19:26,960 Speaker 4: You'll pray bold prayers. 354 00:19:27,280 --> 00:19:30,680 Speaker 5: You'll believe for things that most people think are impossible. 355 00:19:31,520 --> 00:19:34,520 Speaker 5: There are compact centers that have your name on them, 356 00:19:35,000 --> 00:19:38,960 Speaker 5: dreams much bigger than you thought, businesses, ministries. 357 00:19:39,080 --> 00:19:40,000 Speaker 4: How could it happen? 358 00:19:40,440 --> 00:19:43,959 Speaker 5: You don't have the experience, the funding, the connections. You 359 00:19:44,000 --> 00:19:47,680 Speaker 5: are no ordinary child. There is a favor on your 360 00:19:47,760 --> 00:19:51,400 Speaker 5: life that will catapult you ahead, a blessing that will 361 00:19:51,400 --> 00:19:54,720 Speaker 5: cause people to help you. And God is not asking 362 00:19:54,760 --> 00:19:57,920 Speaker 5: you to figure it out. He's just asking you to believe, 363 00:19:58,640 --> 00:20:01,560 Speaker 5: not only believe in Him, but believe. 364 00:20:01,600 --> 00:20:04,679 Speaker 4: In who He created you to be. Who do you 365 00:20:04,800 --> 00:20:05,520 Speaker 4: say you are. 366 00:20:06,040 --> 00:20:08,400 Speaker 5: If you're going to reach your destiny, if you're going 367 00:20:08,440 --> 00:20:12,280 Speaker 5: to see your compact centers, your dreams, you're healing, you 368 00:20:12,400 --> 00:20:16,080 Speaker 5: have to know that you're not ordinary. There's something special 369 00:20:16,119 --> 00:20:20,040 Speaker 5: about you, not because of who you are, but because 370 00:20:20,080 --> 00:20:21,280 Speaker 5: of whose you are. 371 00:20:21,800 --> 00:20:25,720 Speaker 4: The most high God breathed his life into you. Well, 372 00:20:25,760 --> 00:20:26,159 Speaker 4: jord I. 373 00:20:26,160 --> 00:20:29,119 Speaker 5: Don't feel special. You don't have to feel it. You 374 00:20:29,320 --> 00:20:32,440 Speaker 5: just have to believe it. If you'll believe it long enough, 375 00:20:32,680 --> 00:20:35,240 Speaker 5: then you'll not only feel it, but you'll see it. 376 00:20:36,040 --> 00:20:37,280 Speaker 4: I didn't feel special. 377 00:20:37,520 --> 00:20:41,960 Speaker 5: I felt ordinary, but I chose to believe it by faith. Now, 378 00:20:42,000 --> 00:20:45,159 Speaker 5: every time I walk into this stadium, I know I 379 00:20:45,200 --> 00:20:48,560 Speaker 5: am no ordinary child. I know I couldn't have done 380 00:20:48,640 --> 00:20:51,919 Speaker 5: this on my own, but the creator of the universe 381 00:20:52,280 --> 00:20:55,680 Speaker 5: favored me. I didn't think I could speak in front 382 00:20:55,720 --> 00:20:59,520 Speaker 5: of people. I was too quiet, too reserved. But every 383 00:20:59,520 --> 00:21:03,040 Speaker 5: time I flip through the channels and see myself on television, 384 00:21:03,200 --> 00:21:06,160 Speaker 5: I do a double take. I'm amazed at where God 385 00:21:06,200 --> 00:21:11,240 Speaker 5: has taken me. I realize I am no ordinary child. No, 386 00:21:11,359 --> 00:21:14,640 Speaker 5: I'm not bragging on me. I'm bragging on the greatness 387 00:21:14,720 --> 00:21:17,879 Speaker 5: of our God. He wants to take your places that 388 00:21:17,920 --> 00:21:21,480 Speaker 5: you've never dreamed. What He has planned for your future 389 00:21:21,880 --> 00:21:24,520 Speaker 5: is bigger and more rewarding. 390 00:21:24,160 --> 00:21:27,520 Speaker 4: Than you've ever imagined. Judges, chapter six. 391 00:21:27,920 --> 00:21:32,280 Speaker 5: The Midianites had overtaken the people of Israel and were making. 392 00:21:32,040 --> 00:21:33,240 Speaker 4: Their lives miserable. 393 00:21:33,720 --> 00:21:36,600 Speaker 5: There was a man named Gideon that was hiding in 394 00:21:36,680 --> 00:21:40,879 Speaker 5: the wine press, afraid of the Midianites. An angel appeared 395 00:21:40,920 --> 00:21:45,040 Speaker 5: to him and said, mighty hero, the Lord is with you, 396 00:21:45,800 --> 00:21:48,560 Speaker 5: I can imagine. Gideon looked around and thought, who's he 397 00:21:48,640 --> 00:21:52,880 Speaker 5: talking about. I'm not a mighty hero. I'm hiding. I'm afraid. 398 00:21:53,720 --> 00:21:56,199 Speaker 5: The angel went on to tell him that he was 399 00:21:56,240 --> 00:21:59,320 Speaker 5: to rescue the people of Israel from the Midianites. 400 00:21:59,480 --> 00:22:01,000 Speaker 4: He was to lead the charge. 401 00:22:01,600 --> 00:22:04,960 Speaker 5: Gideon was so taken aback he said to the angel, 402 00:22:05,359 --> 00:22:08,399 Speaker 5: how can I deliver the Israelites. I come from the 403 00:22:08,440 --> 00:22:11,880 Speaker 5: weakest tribe, and I'm the youngest one in my family. 404 00:22:12,440 --> 00:22:15,560 Speaker 5: He was saying, God, you have the wrong person. I'm young, 405 00:22:15,920 --> 00:22:20,320 Speaker 5: I'm weak, I'm intimidated. He started making all these excuses, 406 00:22:20,560 --> 00:22:22,200 Speaker 5: telling God what he wasn't. 407 00:22:22,840 --> 00:22:25,160 Speaker 4: But I've learned God won't ask you to. 408 00:22:25,119 --> 00:22:28,840 Speaker 5: Do something if he hasn't already given you what you need. 409 00:22:29,320 --> 00:22:31,880 Speaker 5: You may not have tapped into it yet, but it's 410 00:22:31,960 --> 00:22:36,119 Speaker 5: in you. Like with Gideon, God is calling you a 411 00:22:36,240 --> 00:22:41,480 Speaker 5: mighty hero. Other voices will call your ordinary, not talented, weak, 412 00:22:41,720 --> 00:22:47,000 Speaker 5: afraid someone is wrong. These are two conflicting reports. You're 413 00:22:47,040 --> 00:22:51,000 Speaker 5: either a mighty hero or you're weak and unable. Here's 414 00:22:51,040 --> 00:22:54,480 Speaker 5: the key. You get to choose. Who do you say 415 00:22:54,520 --> 00:22:58,120 Speaker 5: you are? Either voice can come to pass. It's all 416 00:22:58,119 --> 00:23:01,399 Speaker 5: dependent on who you agree with. Are you going to 417 00:23:01,480 --> 00:23:04,800 Speaker 5: agree with God and say yes, I believe I'm a 418 00:23:04,920 --> 00:23:09,480 Speaker 5: mighty hero. I'm equipped and empowered, I'm well able to 419 00:23:09,560 --> 00:23:12,919 Speaker 5: fulfill my destiny. Or are you going to do like 420 00:23:13,000 --> 00:23:16,200 Speaker 5: Gideon and start making excuses to stay where you are. 421 00:23:17,080 --> 00:23:20,120 Speaker 5: I wasn't raised in a good environment, Joel. I've had 422 00:23:20,160 --> 00:23:24,400 Speaker 5: some bad breaks. This company did me wrong, this person walked. 423 00:23:24,080 --> 00:23:26,560 Speaker 4: Out on me. Nobody would help me with my dream. 424 00:23:26,960 --> 00:23:31,679 Speaker 5: Respectfully, none of that matters what God has ordained for 425 00:23:31,800 --> 00:23:37,200 Speaker 5: You cannot be stopped by people, by bad breaks, by disappointments. 426 00:23:37,800 --> 00:23:40,960 Speaker 5: God already knew it was going to happen. He's already 427 00:23:41,040 --> 00:23:42,600 Speaker 5: lined up what you need. 428 00:23:43,040 --> 00:23:43,280 Speaker 4: Now. 429 00:23:43,320 --> 00:23:47,320 Speaker 5: He's calling you a mighty hero. He's calling you to 430 00:23:47,400 --> 00:23:51,159 Speaker 5: set new standards, to take your family to a new level, 431 00:23:51,640 --> 00:23:56,000 Speaker 5: a mighty hero to break generational curses that keep getting 432 00:23:56,040 --> 00:23:58,919 Speaker 5: passed down. He's calling you to put an end to 433 00:23:59,000 --> 00:24:03,080 Speaker 5: that dysfunction, a mighty hero to stop the poverty and 434 00:24:03,200 --> 00:24:08,879 Speaker 5: lack and step into abundance and overflow. What's interesting is 435 00:24:08,920 --> 00:24:12,280 Speaker 5: when God called Gideon a mighty hero, he hadn't done 436 00:24:12,359 --> 00:24:17,119 Speaker 5: anything significant. He hadn't defeated a giant like David, hadn't 437 00:24:17,160 --> 00:24:20,200 Speaker 5: parted the Red Sea like Moses, hadn't brought a dead 438 00:24:20,240 --> 00:24:23,679 Speaker 5: person back to life like Elijah. It seemed like he 439 00:24:23,800 --> 00:24:27,160 Speaker 5: was just ordinary, just working on the farm every day, 440 00:24:27,440 --> 00:24:30,800 Speaker 5: gathering up the wheat. But God calls us what we 441 00:24:30,960 --> 00:24:35,160 Speaker 5: are before it happens. He knows what's in us. He's 442 00:24:35,200 --> 00:24:38,400 Speaker 5: the one that put the potential, the gifts, the talents. 443 00:24:39,080 --> 00:24:42,479 Speaker 5: Gideon finally did what I'm asking us to do. Instead 444 00:24:42,520 --> 00:24:46,760 Speaker 5: of seeing himself as ordinary not able to something rose 445 00:24:46,840 --> 00:24:50,200 Speaker 5: up on the inside. He said, in effect, if God 446 00:24:50,240 --> 00:24:53,080 Speaker 5: says I'm a mighty hero, then I believe I'm a 447 00:24:53,160 --> 00:24:57,440 Speaker 5: mighty hero. He went out with thirty two thousand men 448 00:24:57,720 --> 00:25:00,760 Speaker 5: to fight the Midianites, but God told him. 449 00:25:00,600 --> 00:25:03,680 Speaker 4: That was too many. He kept weeding it down more 450 00:25:03,800 --> 00:25:04,280 Speaker 4: and more. 451 00:25:04,680 --> 00:25:08,240 Speaker 5: Finally, when he just had three hundred men, he went 452 00:25:08,240 --> 00:25:13,240 Speaker 5: out to fight this army of thousands and thousands. Sometimes 453 00:25:13,480 --> 00:25:15,959 Speaker 5: God will let the odds be against you in a 454 00:25:16,040 --> 00:25:19,760 Speaker 5: great way, so when he turns it around, you'll know. 455 00:25:19,720 --> 00:25:21,159 Speaker 4: It's him and not you. 456 00:25:22,119 --> 00:25:26,440 Speaker 5: At midnight, Gideon and those three hundred men attacked the Midianites. 457 00:25:26,880 --> 00:25:29,679 Speaker 5: They rushed to their camp shouting a sword for the 458 00:25:29,760 --> 00:25:34,040 Speaker 5: Lord and a sword for Gideon. Here a few days earlier, 459 00:25:34,520 --> 00:25:38,439 Speaker 5: Gideon was hiding from his enemies. Now he's rushing toward 460 00:25:38,560 --> 00:25:42,480 Speaker 5: them with all of the men shouting his name. God 461 00:25:42,560 --> 00:25:45,760 Speaker 5: wanted Gid in to hear them declaring that he was 462 00:25:45,800 --> 00:25:50,480 Speaker 5: a mighty hero. The Midianites got confused and started fighting 463 00:25:50,560 --> 00:25:54,920 Speaker 5: each other. They ended up defeating themselves, and Gideon won 464 00:25:55,040 --> 00:25:59,080 Speaker 5: the victory. When God calls you a mighty hero, if 465 00:25:59,080 --> 00:26:02,359 Speaker 5: you'll get an agreement with him, you will become a 466 00:26:02,480 --> 00:26:05,959 Speaker 5: mighty hero. He will make things happen that you couldn't 467 00:26:06,000 --> 00:26:06,600 Speaker 5: make happen. 468 00:26:07,200 --> 00:26:08,960 Speaker 4: Now, quit discounting yourself. 469 00:26:09,480 --> 00:26:11,840 Speaker 5: If I had the training, if I came from a 470 00:26:11,880 --> 00:26:15,439 Speaker 5: different family, if this pandemic hadn't a hit, then I 471 00:26:15,480 --> 00:26:19,359 Speaker 5: could do something great. God wants to do something great 472 00:26:19,480 --> 00:26:23,240 Speaker 5: in your life. Despite odds being against you. He's not 473 00:26:23,400 --> 00:26:26,520 Speaker 5: limited by what you don't have, by what the economy 474 00:26:26,600 --> 00:26:30,159 Speaker 5: is doing, by what hasn't worked out. He doesn't need 475 00:26:30,280 --> 00:26:33,280 Speaker 5: everything you think you need. He's going to cause you 476 00:26:33,359 --> 00:26:36,800 Speaker 5: to accomplish great things with less resources. 477 00:26:37,320 --> 00:26:38,159 Speaker 4: Just ask David. 478 00:26:38,680 --> 00:26:41,560 Speaker 5: All he had was a slingshot and a few stones, 479 00:26:41,800 --> 00:26:43,800 Speaker 5: but that catapulted. 480 00:26:43,160 --> 00:26:46,840 Speaker 4: Him into his destiny. God is calling you. 481 00:26:46,840 --> 00:26:51,320 Speaker 5: A giant killer, a history maker, a mighty hero. Why 482 00:26:51,320 --> 00:26:54,520 Speaker 5: don't you get in agreement with him? What a shame 483 00:26:54,640 --> 00:26:58,560 Speaker 5: to live and die and never really know who you are? 484 00:26:59,400 --> 00:27:02,520 Speaker 5: What could did you become if you saw yourself the 485 00:27:02,560 --> 00:27:06,560 Speaker 5: way God sees you? What dreams could you accomplish? What 486 00:27:06,600 --> 00:27:11,240 Speaker 5: obstacles could you overcome? What businesses could you build? What 487 00:27:11,359 --> 00:27:15,160 Speaker 5: books could you write? What influence could you have if 488 00:27:15,200 --> 00:27:19,280 Speaker 5: you only knew who you are? Gideon didn't feel like 489 00:27:19,320 --> 00:27:22,560 Speaker 5: a mighty hero. He didn't come from influence and wealth. 490 00:27:22,840 --> 00:27:27,640 Speaker 5: He wasn't strong and courageous. Nothing about his circumstances look 491 00:27:27,800 --> 00:27:31,080 Speaker 5: like what God said. But God calls you what you 492 00:27:31,280 --> 00:27:33,199 Speaker 5: are before you become it. 493 00:27:33,800 --> 00:27:35,200 Speaker 4: Then it's up to you. 494 00:27:35,760 --> 00:27:38,480 Speaker 5: If you'll believe it, get it down in your spirit, 495 00:27:38,760 --> 00:27:43,160 Speaker 5: it will become a reality. Gideon never dreamed one day 496 00:27:43,160 --> 00:27:46,040 Speaker 5: he would be in the Bible. Never dream thousands of 497 00:27:46,119 --> 00:27:49,800 Speaker 5: years ago, we'd be talking about his story. You don't 498 00:27:49,840 --> 00:27:52,919 Speaker 5: know where God is taking you. You don't know the 499 00:27:52,960 --> 00:27:56,120 Speaker 5: doors he's going to open, the giants you're going to defeat, 500 00:27:56,359 --> 00:27:59,720 Speaker 5: the influence you're going to have. There's an awesome future 501 00:27:59,800 --> 00:28:03,000 Speaker 5: in front of you, but it's dependent on how you 502 00:28:03,040 --> 00:28:03,960 Speaker 5: see yourself. 503 00:28:04,680 --> 00:28:05,920 Speaker 4: Who do you say you are? 504 00:28:06,560 --> 00:28:11,160 Speaker 5: Average, limited, disadvantage, not able to that will keep you 505 00:28:11,240 --> 00:28:15,520 Speaker 5: from your destiny. Instead of letting people define you, instead 506 00:28:15,520 --> 00:28:18,120 Speaker 5: of letting your past label you, why don't. 507 00:28:17,920 --> 00:28:20,320 Speaker 4: You go back to what God says about you. 508 00:28:20,720 --> 00:28:24,240 Speaker 5: He's the one that made you. Like Gideon, you may 509 00:28:24,280 --> 00:28:27,720 Speaker 5: not realize who you are. God send an angel to 510 00:28:27,800 --> 00:28:31,480 Speaker 5: remind him. He rose up and left his mark. An 511 00:28:31,560 --> 00:28:34,679 Speaker 5: angel may not appear to you, but maybe God is 512 00:28:34,760 --> 00:28:38,360 Speaker 5: using me to remind you who you are. You are 513 00:28:38,400 --> 00:28:49,320 Speaker 5: a mighty hero. You are a masterpiece. 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