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Speaker 2: Kind of unintentionally went into a mini series from Philippians.

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Speaker 2: I want to share from chapter four, Holy Spirit, give

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Speaker 2: me accuracy and precision to speak this word. May it

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Speaker 2: get through my mouth, but may it come from your

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Speaker 2: heart Jesus' name, Amen, Philippians, Chapter four, And I want

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Speaker 2: to link this message with the other messages from Philippians one.

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Speaker 2: I'm not going to be dragging anybody across the stage

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Speaker 2: in a chain this week. I figured it's a bad pattern.

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Speaker 2: But I do want to go to this great passage

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Speaker 2: of scripture that was originally like a ps that Paul

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Speaker 2: put in his letter to the Philippians Church, and he

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Speaker 2: just kind of tagged it on at the end to

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Speaker 2: thank them for the gift that they sent to help

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Speaker 2: him with his defense, his legal defense, and from a

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Speaker 2: prison cell, he writes, and he's like full of joy,

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Speaker 2: which is counterintuitive that you'd be in jail and have joy,

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Speaker 2: or lose your job and still trust God and call

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Speaker 2: him your provider, or be single but still know that

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Speaker 2: you're not alone, or maybe be wronged, but know that

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Speaker 2: God is even using that to ultimately bless your life

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Speaker 3: And all of this is taught in the Book of Philippians.

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Speaker 2: But I find myself coming back to this section, which

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Speaker 2: is like a ps not only a PostScript to use

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Speaker 2: an old letter writing term, but also it's a perspective shift.

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Speaker 2: So we're going to see the power of a perspective

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Speaker 2: shift today. Philippians, Chapter four, verse ten through nineteen. I

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Speaker 2: rejoice in the Lord that you at last renewed your

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Speaker 2: concern for me. I was laughing when I read that.

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Speaker 2: He's like, thanks, I got your gift.

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Speaker 3: It's about time.

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Speaker 2: I didn't think that was very good etiquette, very good

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Speaker 2: thank you note etiquette.

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Speaker 3: I got the gift finally, But then.

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Speaker 2: He clarifies, indeed, you were concerned, but you had no

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Speaker 2: opportunity to show it. I'm not saying this because I'm

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Speaker 2: in need, for I have learned to be content, whatever

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Speaker 2: the circumstances.

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Speaker 3: Just touch the person next to you and say I'm good.

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Speaker 3: I promise.

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Speaker 2: I know what it is to be in need, and

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Speaker 2: I know what it is to have plenty. I have

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Speaker 2: learned the secret of being content. I wasn't born this way.

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Speaker 2: I was born screaming my head off. I was selfish

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Speaker 2: when I was two. But I'm maturing and I have

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Speaker 2: learned to be content. I've learned that you can complain,

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Speaker 2: but it won't do any good, and people.

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Speaker 3: I won't like you.

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Speaker 2: So I'm learning amen to be content whatever the circumstances,

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Speaker 2: because I know what it is to be in need.

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Speaker 3: I know what it is to have plenty.

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Speaker 2: I've learned the secret of being content in any and

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Speaker 2: every situation, whether wealth that are hungry, whether living in

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Speaker 2: through Him who gives me strength. I call that the

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Speaker 2: international bingch press verse, where you see these posters in

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Speaker 2: every Christian school weight room all over the world.

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Speaker 3: But it's got a little deeper meaning than that.

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Speaker 2: It's about the sufficiency of God's spirit in every situation.

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Speaker 3: I just feel good today.

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Speaker 2: I feel relaxed and happy about this message Verse fourteen.

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Speaker 2: Yet it was good of you to share in my troubles. Moreover,

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Speaker 2: as you Philippians know, in the early days of your

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Speaker 2: giving and receiving except you.

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Speaker 3: Only you were there for me. You were there for me,

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Speaker 3: and I won't forget.

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Speaker 2: It, for even when I was in Thessalonaika, you sent

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Speaker 2: It's kind of confusing because he keeps going back and forth.

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Speaker 2: I don't need anything yet, thank you for meeting my needs.

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Speaker 2: But I don't need anything, and I'm like, well, Paul,

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Speaker 2: Look, not that I desire your gifts. What I desire

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Speaker 2: is that more be credited to your account. I have

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Speaker 2: that gives you sent They're a fragrant offering an acceptable sacrifice,

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Speaker 2: I wonder if Paul was just saying this to the

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Speaker 2: church at Philippi, or will he say it to Elevation

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Speaker 2: Balentine today too, and Elevation in Toronto. And my God,

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Speaker 2: in fact, I wonder would you say this to the person.

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Speaker 3: Next to you? My God will meet all your needs?

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Speaker 2: And this part is important according to the riches of

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Speaker 2: His glory in Christ, because I don't have what you need,

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Speaker 2: you only knew how much I'd needed, you would leave

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Speaker 2: me alone. How many want to say this to your kids.

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Speaker 3: Every once in a while, not me. I love my kids,

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Speaker 2: But I think that's the most misunderstood verse in the

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Speaker 2: to you today about need meters, need meters. Some things

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Speaker 2: you learn about your spouse very quickly after marriage. Some

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Speaker 2: things you know going in. Some things you find out progressively.

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Speaker 2: I will never forget on our honeymoon learning.

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Speaker 2: I learned a lot about Holly on our honeymoon. And yeah,

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Speaker 2: The thing that I learned about her that I wanted

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Speaker 2: to tell you about today is we have we have

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Speaker 2: very opposite vacation personalities. When she gets relaxed, she gets

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Speaker 2: get playful. Some would say silly, some would say obnoxious.

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Speaker 2: And the reason I knew that this was going to

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Speaker 2: And I was like, well, I know I couldn't afford

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Speaker 3: It's a princess cruise. I was proud of it, proud.

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Speaker 2: Of the princess cruse and nobody she was happy, and

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Speaker 2: I was preparing this message, when I was jumping up

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Speaker 2: making animal noises. She looked at me, and I've heard

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Speaker 3: She said, do you need attention? And you know what

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Speaker 2: Say publicly, Holly, Yes, Yes, I need your attention, your affection,

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Speaker 2: She wants to be a doctor, so she's like, well,

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Speaker 2: where does it hurt? And I don't know. I just

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Speaker 2: it hurts. She'll ask me this, what kind of headache?

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Speaker 2: The kind that hurts? Then she wants to know you know,

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Speaker 2: frustrating thing about it is somebody can really love you

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Speaker 2: and want to meet your needs. But two things. One,

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Speaker 2: if you don't even know what you really need, how

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Speaker 2: can see we've got some work to do today, because

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Speaker 2: some of us want to act like we have no needs.

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Speaker 3: You know, I almost thought that's where Paul was going.

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Speaker 3: I don't need it, but thanks, But I mean I

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Speaker 2: And some people you can't even compliment, and I'm real good.

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Speaker 2: It's terrible to try to compliment certain people. They'll make

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Speaker 2: you feel so awkward, especially in church. Good sermon it

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Speaker 2: that you did before you met Jesus, the same needs, but.

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Speaker 3: They are now met in a different way.

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Speaker 2: In other words, you still have the same need for approval,

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Speaker 2: but now instead of trying to get it from another

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Speaker 2: it from the all sufficient, all knowing, all seeing, ever

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Speaker 2: So it's not that I don't have needs, it's not

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Speaker 2: That doesn't mean I never want anything, never need anything.

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Speaker 2: It doesn't mean my appetite went away. It just means

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Speaker 2: I go to a different buffet now. Amen, That means

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Speaker 2: understanding the need. There is no need that you are

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Speaker 2: may be the whole reason God brought you here. You're

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Speaker 2: not meeting the wrong need, You're just meeting it with

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Speaker 2: the wrong means. This applies to overspending, overeating, over talking,

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Speaker 2: You know, there's a certain shame that comes with sexual addiction,

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Speaker 2: but there shouldn't be, because all the addiction is is

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Speaker 2: a valid need trying to express itself. It's a need

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Speaker 2: for connection, which is very good and very God.

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Speaker 3: It is not good for men to be alone.

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Speaker 2: But loneliness, if left untreated, becomes lust. That's all lust

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Speaker 2: is is the need for connection being met through something

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Speaker 2: And Paul says, My God shall supply all your needs,

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Speaker 2: or meet all of your needs, not according to your resources,

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Speaker 2: but according to his. And I'm I'm glad about it.

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Speaker 2: how I gained weight when we got married. I thought

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Speaker 2: I needed an oreo and I really need an exercise.

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Speaker 2: Sometimes sometimes we think we need food, we really need

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Speaker 2: an app sometimes we think sometimes we.

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Speaker 3: Think we need another person.

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Speaker 2: What we really need to do is pray and ask

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Speaker 2: God to get.

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Speaker 3: Our minds right.

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Speaker 2: Sometimes we think we need people to treat us different,

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Speaker 2: when what we really need is to see people not

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Speaker 2: as trees for us.

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Speaker 3: To pick the fruit from, but for soil for us

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Speaker 3: to sew in.

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Speaker 2: And God speaks to Paul and says, you.

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Speaker 3: Want an opportunity.

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Speaker 2: Here it is, and it's in the form of a need.

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Speaker 2: God is trying to lead you through your need. And

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Speaker 2: My God will meet all your needs. How with a

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Speaker 2: need God is God. He meets needs with needs. He's

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Speaker 2: better than Christian mingle. God is a matchmaker. He's better

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Speaker 2: than farmers only and Christian farmers only.

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Speaker 3: And God is.

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Speaker 2: In the business of meeting needs with needs. Has your

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Speaker 2: joy been low lately? Has your focus been off? Is

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Speaker 2: your meeter reading need need need need, need, need, need,

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Speaker 2: need need need? Maybe God is going to show you

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Speaker 2: a need that you can meet, so that you can

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Speaker 2: see what you had all along that you have not

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Speaker 2: been using.

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Speaker 3: The plot thickens now.

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Speaker 2: Paul's like, God, give me an opportunity. God give me wisdom.

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Speaker 2: God give me God, God, God give me.

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Speaker 3: You know the prayers we pray.

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Speaker 2: God give me, God give me God, get me, come on,

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Speaker 2: give me, get me, give me, give me, give me,

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Speaker 2: give me, give me God, get me, give me, get me,

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Speaker 2: get me, give me, God, God, give me, give me,

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Speaker 2: get me, get me, give me, give me, grace, give mems,

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Speaker 2: give me, give me, get me, let me, get me,

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Speaker 2: give me, give me, give me, give me, chill bumps,

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Speaker 2: give me, give me, give me, get me, gave me,

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Speaker 2: give me.

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Speaker 3: I don't like this song. God give me, come me,

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Speaker 3: get me.

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Speaker 2: Get me, get me, get me, get me, get me,

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Speaker 2: give me, give me, get me, give me, get me,

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Speaker 2: get me, get me, give me, and Paul, there's no

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Speaker 2: evidence that he's praying that, but I'm just I'm imposing

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Speaker 2: what I.

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Speaker 3: Would be doing on Paul.

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Speaker 4: I'd be praying, God, give me, give me, gime, give

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Speaker 4: me direction, give me, give me, give me, give me,

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Speaker 4: give me, give me, give me, give me, give me,

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Speaker 4: give me, give me, give me, give me me, and

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Speaker 4: God gives him a need of a man standing and

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Speaker 4: begging him come over and help us.

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Speaker 5: No, Paul needs help, So God help Paul. And the

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Speaker 5: way God helps Paul is by showing him someone who

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Speaker 5: needs help.

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Speaker 3: Y'all are quieted.

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Speaker 2: You want me to get back to and my God,

501
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Speaker 2: we'll meet all your needs.

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Speaker 3: Paul wasn't saying that about himself.

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Speaker 2: Paul was in prison thinking about somebody else's needs because

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Speaker 2: he knew if I focus on my needs right now,

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Speaker 2: I'm gonna be depressed because I am going.

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Speaker 3: To shrink my spirit to.

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Speaker 2: The size of my situation. So God, instead of focusing

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Speaker 2: on what I need, what I think, what I want,

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Speaker 2: what I don't, give me, give me, give me, give me,

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Speaker 2: give me, give me, give me, give.

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Speaker 3: Me, I'm changing my prayer.

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Speaker 2: Show me, show me, show me, show me, show me,

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Speaker 2: show me, show me.

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Speaker 3: Show me. Show me what you're doing.

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Speaker 2: In the world. Show me what you put in my kids.

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Speaker 2: Show me what you're calling me to be in the season.

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Speaker 3: That I'm in.

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Speaker 2: Show me who I can bless, Show me who I

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Speaker 2: can encourage. Show me ten people I can text and

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Speaker 2: tell them you got this, because I'm waiting.

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Speaker 3: On somebody to tell me you got this.

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Speaker 2: But maybe the way I'm gonna get it is to

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Speaker 2: give it.

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Speaker 3: Give it, and he shall be given un to you good.

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Speaker 2: Measure, pressed down, sack it together and run it over.

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Speaker 3: If you want.

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Speaker 2: Joy, rejoice, if you want purpose, get praise, Give it

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Speaker 2: if you want it.

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Speaker 3: I don't mean to holler at you. Sit down, and

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Speaker 3: I've just caught up in the moment.

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Speaker 2: Gim me, him me, give me, gim me, give me,

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Speaker 2: gim me, gim mem And the men came in the dream.

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Speaker 3: And then it makes an interesting turn.

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Speaker 2: How many you love the little details that we slow

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Speaker 2: down and point out in the Bible. When you read

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Speaker 2: this thing slow and stop skimming, you'll be amazed.

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Speaker 3: How to come alive.

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Speaker 2: You can't read this like BuzzFeed. The Bible is not

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Speaker 2: BuzzFeed when you treat it like that, you miss the

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Speaker 2: blessing of it. Slow down and watch what's happening here.

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Speaker 2: Watch what's happening here verse seven. When they came to

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Speaker 2: the border of Mycia, that's where they wanted to go.

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Speaker 2: Look at verse ten. After Paul had seen the vision,

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Speaker 2: we got ready. Why did he shift from day to we?

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Speaker 2: This is when Luke, who wrote the Book of Acts,

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Speaker 2: got on board with the mission when Paul saw the vision.

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Speaker 2: And what got me was it took faith for Paul

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Speaker 2: to go out on a mission after seeing a vision.

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Speaker 3: How much more faith did it take for.

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Speaker 2: The people who didn't even see the vision Paul saw

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Speaker 2: to go with him. Sometimes it's hard to follow something

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Speaker 2: that you can't see for yourself.

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Speaker 3: And Luke's like Paul said, he saw a man in Macedonia.

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Speaker 3: So we packed up and went. We didn't debate.

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Speaker 2: How many of you would have at least asked God

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Speaker 2: for one confirmation before you got back out.

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Speaker 3: On the sea.

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Speaker 2: Paul, you had a dream, And I think they're the

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Speaker 2: blessing and immediate obedience when we set straight out.

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Speaker 3: And just give. I don't understand people who I'll meet

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Speaker 3: and they'll go. I've been coming to the church four years.

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Speaker 3: Do you serve? No, you're in a group. No, you

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Speaker 3: invite your friends.

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Speaker 2: No, I don't usually ask them if they give us

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Speaker 2: a little too personal.

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Speaker 3: You know that's a weird thing to ask inn.

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Speaker 2: But then I say, let me know if you ever

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Speaker 2: need anything, And I'm like, do you come? Do you

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Speaker 2: see the people that God is bringing each week? You

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Speaker 2: see how some of them come in with a look

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Speaker 2: in their.

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Speaker 3: Eyes like they might not make it. Do you see

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Speaker 3: how God is unifying.

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Speaker 2: This church from so many different backgrounds, not just skin color,

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Speaker 2: but even belief system, ideology, and how God is centering

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Speaker 2: us on Christ in a alter that has never been

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Speaker 2: more divided.

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Speaker 3: Do you not see the need?

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Speaker 2: The harvest is here and the laborers are few.

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Speaker 3: What do you mean if I need anything? It's right

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Speaker 3: in front of you. Let's go, let's do this. Let's

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Speaker 3: bill the cherts.

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Speaker 2: Have you brought a friend with you in the last

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Speaker 2: couple months, invited somebody to come with you to share

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Speaker 2: it with you. God's not gonna meet your needs independent

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Speaker 2: of you.

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Speaker 3: He's going to meet.

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Speaker 2: Your needs through your willingness to meet someone else's.

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Speaker 3: I want to spend the rest of my life preaching

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Speaker 3: like this.

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Speaker 2: To help us see that my God will meet all

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Speaker 2: your needs according.

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Speaker 3: To his glorious riches.

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Speaker 2: Paul said that after he thanked the Philippians for meeting

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Speaker 2: his needs, he said, now that you've met somebody else's needs,

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Speaker 2: God is going to meet yours. And I just couldn't

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Speaker 2: get over it. How they had the faith to go

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Speaker 2: out to Macedonia. There's like three hundred thousand people in Macedonia.

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Speaker 2: And Paul saw one man.

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Speaker 3: In a vision.

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Speaker 2: He's like, let's go, let's go find that man that

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Speaker 2: I saw my vision.

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Speaker 3: How tall was he? I don't know.

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Speaker 2: This is eye color, I don't know.

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Speaker 3: Gotta show, got to show us when we get there.

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Speaker 3: So they go. So they go, and verse eleven describes

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Speaker 3: it from Troe.

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Speaker 2: As we put out to sea and sailed straight for Simothrus,

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Speaker 2: And next day we went to Neneapolis. Side note, God

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Speaker 2: doesn't take you there all at once, It's little stops

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Speaker 2: along the way.

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Speaker 3: Is this, it is this? It is this? It is this?

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Speaker 2: It is this? It How many can testify God doesn't

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Speaker 2: just take you there all at once, and he doesn't

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Speaker 2: meet every need all at once, because then he knows

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Speaker 2: you'd start thinking you didn't need him So what he.

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Speaker 3: Does is he leads you step by step.

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Speaker 2: Little bit of light. Thy word is a lamp onto

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Speaker 2: my feet. Watch me walk, and a light onto my path.

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Speaker 2: Next step, next step, next step, next step. I'm gonna

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Speaker 2: been down and buck on my shoe back because that's

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Speaker 2: gonna annoy me and it's probably been driving somebody crazy

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Speaker 2: on the front row. Is just the little things, and

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Speaker 2: God speaks through the little things and.

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Speaker 3: He meets big needs.

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Speaker 2: Watch this through small acts of obedience.

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Speaker 3: We went here, we went there. What you're looking for? Paul?

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Speaker 2: I saw a man in Macedonia and I'm looking for

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Speaker 2: him and they end up.

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Speaker 3: Watch this from there. Verse twelve.

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Speaker 2: We traveled to Philippi, Philippians. That's the city, that's the place,

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Speaker 2: that's where the first church in Europe or the Western

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Speaker 2: world was started. This is how it started, this right

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Speaker 2: here through someone you've never even heard of. I know

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Speaker 2: you've heard of Paul. I'm really not here to preach

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Speaker 2: about Paul today. I'm gonna show somebody who doesn't get

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00:35:01,040 --> 00:35:04,200
Speaker 2: listed Samson. All he ever did is.

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Speaker 3: Get a haircut, and we preach about him all the time.

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Speaker 2: No, I want to introduce you to a woman. Let's

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Speaker 2: hear it from the women.

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Speaker 3: This is this is like the ultimate women's Bible.

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Speaker 2: Holly, write a Bible study about this, because the Bible

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Speaker 2: says that they traveled to Philippi, a Roman colony where

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Speaker 2: a lot of the Roman generals would go to retire.

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Speaker 2: About twenty to thirty thousand people lived in this one city,

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Speaker 2: and then there's four districts of Macedonia. So Paul's really

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Speaker 2: looking for a needle in the haystack. And there's not

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Speaker 2: a lot of not a lot of Christian If there

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Speaker 2: are any believers here, they're hiding.

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Speaker 3: And there's not that many Jews either. I'll show you

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Speaker 3: how I know that in a moment.

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Speaker 2: But he gets there and God uses a need to

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Speaker 2: lead him there, Lead me, Lord, How did God lead

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Speaker 2: with a need? How is God going to lead you

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Speaker 2: into what he has next for your life?

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Speaker 3: With a need?

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Speaker 2: How is God going to choose who he uses through

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Speaker 2: the people who are broken? He can't meet a need

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Speaker 2: through someone who doesn't have a need. And He will

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Speaker 2: often use you to alleviate the same pain that you

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Speaker 2: yourself are experiencing. Because God leads with me. God is

662
00:36:30,239 --> 00:36:31,600
Speaker 2: leading me. What do you mean when you say that

663
00:36:31,640 --> 00:36:33,520
Speaker 2: you mean you feel good about it. Jesus didn't get

664
00:36:33,560 --> 00:36:36,880
Speaker 2: to the cross feeling good about it. In fact, he prayed, Father,

665
00:36:37,040 --> 00:36:38,279
Speaker 2: if it's possible, take this.

666
00:36:38,280 --> 00:36:39,840
Speaker 3: Cup from me. I don't want to do it. I

667
00:36:39,880 --> 00:36:41,719
Speaker 3: don't feel like doing it. But leave me.

668
00:36:42,160 --> 00:36:46,200
Speaker 2: Lord, If this is what they need to be redeemed,

669
00:36:46,719 --> 00:36:49,800
Speaker 2: then let's do it. If you need me in Philipi.

670
00:36:49,960 --> 00:36:52,160
Speaker 2: I wanted to go to Mysia. I wanted to go

671
00:36:52,200 --> 00:36:54,960
Speaker 2: to Asia. I wanted to be married. I didn't want

672
00:36:55,000 --> 00:36:57,919
Speaker 2: to be in this situation. I don't even like this

673
00:36:58,040 --> 00:37:01,520
Speaker 2: right now. But God lead me, show me the knee,

674
00:37:02,560 --> 00:37:07,240
Speaker 2: and lead me through the valley of the shadow of death.

675
00:37:08,600 --> 00:37:11,600
Speaker 2: God being my leader doesn't mean I won't go through anything.

676
00:37:13,000 --> 00:37:16,000
Speaker 2: It means he won't leave me alone. And there's a

677
00:37:16,160 --> 00:37:22,160
Speaker 2: reason I'm going through what I'm going through. God knows

678
00:37:22,200 --> 00:37:23,000
Speaker 2: what I need.

679
00:37:27,200 --> 00:37:28,640
Speaker 3: And so he says.

680
00:37:28,640 --> 00:37:30,520
Speaker 2: We ended up in Philippi, the leading city of that

681
00:37:30,600 --> 00:37:34,960
Speaker 2: district of Macedonia, and we stayed there several days, and

682
00:37:35,000 --> 00:37:37,160
Speaker 2: he doesn't talk about what they did over those couple

683
00:37:37,200 --> 00:37:37,600
Speaker 2: of days.

684
00:37:38,440 --> 00:37:41,000
Speaker 3: And I wonder, you know, what do you do when

685
00:37:41,040 --> 00:37:41,880
Speaker 3: you get to Philippi.

686
00:37:42,200 --> 00:37:44,880
Speaker 2: It's twenty thirty thousand people in the town and you

687
00:37:44,920 --> 00:37:46,920
Speaker 2: saw one man in a vision? Do you walk around

688
00:37:46,960 --> 00:37:49,600
Speaker 2: looking for him? Like, Hey, I saw a man, are

689
00:37:50,000 --> 00:37:51,839
Speaker 2: you him?

690
00:37:52,200 --> 00:37:53,239
Speaker 3: What do you do?

691
00:37:54,760 --> 00:37:56,640
Speaker 2: One time, me and Buck went on a mission trip

692
00:37:57,040 --> 00:37:59,919
Speaker 2: and Bucks on staff. Now he's been on staff. God

693
00:38:00,040 --> 00:38:03,200
Speaker 2: guess about coming up on eight years on staff. But

694
00:38:03,440 --> 00:38:05,640
Speaker 2: we've been friends since college. We were on this mission

695
00:38:05,640 --> 00:38:10,640
Speaker 2: trip and he's a Bucks, a funny guy, but he

696
00:38:10,680 --> 00:38:12,560
Speaker 2: doesn't like to show it a lot. He reminded me

697
00:38:12,600 --> 00:38:14,239
Speaker 2: of this guy that we went on the mission trip with.

698
00:38:14,320 --> 00:38:18,040
Speaker 2: This dude was country. Oh no, I don't mean like

699
00:38:18,120 --> 00:38:22,319
Speaker 2: Monk's Corner country. This dude was from Louisiana and he

700
00:38:22,520 --> 00:38:25,560
Speaker 2: was big country, and he would walk up and talk

701
00:38:25,600 --> 00:38:27,719
Speaker 2: to anybody and he had these little country sayings that

702
00:38:27,760 --> 00:38:29,520
Speaker 2: I still don't know what they mean. He used to

703
00:38:29,680 --> 00:38:31,319
Speaker 2: We'd be getting ready in the morning and he'd be like,

704
00:38:31,320 --> 00:38:32,520
Speaker 2: you're ready, and he say.

705
00:38:32,600 --> 00:38:33,640
Speaker 3: Waiting on Melli backing up.

706
00:38:35,840 --> 00:38:39,200
Speaker 2: And the first part was understanding what he actually said,

707
00:38:39,760 --> 00:38:42,000
Speaker 2: like please say that again, And then he'd say what

708
00:38:42,040 --> 00:38:44,040
Speaker 2: he said, if you're waiting on me, you're backing up,

709
00:38:44,080 --> 00:38:45,799
Speaker 2: And I still wouldn't know what it meant even though

710
00:38:45,800 --> 00:38:50,520
Speaker 2: I understood what he said. But I had this flashback

711
00:38:51,040 --> 00:38:53,799
Speaker 2: preparing this message. We were at a gas station and

712
00:38:53,840 --> 00:38:56,279
Speaker 2: there was another guy named Clint that was on the

713
00:38:56,320 --> 00:38:58,560
Speaker 2: team and he was from Australia, but he wasn't with

714
00:38:58,640 --> 00:39:02,000
Speaker 2: us at the time or somewhere else, and and a

715
00:39:02,080 --> 00:39:04,839
Speaker 2: vanful of people rolled up and this guy, I'm gonna

716
00:39:04,840 --> 00:39:07,320
Speaker 2: call him Bob in case he watches. He's a pastor now.

717
00:39:07,440 --> 00:39:10,719
Speaker 2: And Bob just walk up and talk to anybody. And

718
00:39:10,760 --> 00:39:12,400
Speaker 2: they didn't understand a word he was saying, but he

719
00:39:12,520 --> 00:39:14,120
Speaker 2: just walk up and talked to anybody. And he's walking

720
00:39:14,200 --> 00:39:14,520
Speaker 2: up to Hi.

721
00:39:14,440 --> 00:39:18,640
Speaker 3: Where are you all from? And they said Australia, mate?

722
00:39:19,239 --> 00:39:21,400
Speaker 3: And he liked that to him, that was exotic. You know,

723
00:39:21,480 --> 00:39:23,280
Speaker 3: a van ful of foreigners.

724
00:39:25,320 --> 00:39:27,520
Speaker 2: I just got back from Australia. So that's the best

725
00:39:27,520 --> 00:39:30,759
Speaker 2: accent I can do. I've kind of Australia. If you

726
00:39:30,760 --> 00:39:33,360
Speaker 2: want to do Australian accent, just leave off random syllables

727
00:39:33,360 --> 00:39:36,319
Speaker 2: all the time. There's they just leave crap off all

728
00:39:36,320 --> 00:39:45,280
Speaker 2: the time and shorten everything. Australia, mate, he said, Australia, Hey, Australia.

729
00:39:46,760 --> 00:39:54,120
Speaker 2: Y'all know a guy named Clint from Australia. And the

730
00:39:54,200 --> 00:39:55,440
Speaker 2: poor guy driving.

731
00:39:55,200 --> 00:40:02,040
Speaker 3: The van goes. Australia is a pretty big place. Mate.

732
00:40:02,840 --> 00:40:10,800
Speaker 2: There's more than one Clint. So Macedonia is a big place.

733
00:40:10,880 --> 00:40:13,640
Speaker 2: You know, it's not Paul sees this vision, but he's

734
00:40:13,680 --> 00:40:15,440
Speaker 2: not exactly sure. You ever know how many times you're

735
00:40:15,480 --> 00:40:17,799
Speaker 2: not exactly sure, Like you sense God is leading you

736
00:40:17,840 --> 00:40:21,560
Speaker 2: to do something, but it's a needle. Ooh, a need

737
00:40:21,840 --> 00:40:25,640
Speaker 2: a needle in a haystack. So I'm here, but I

738
00:40:25,680 --> 00:40:26,920
Speaker 2: don't know what I'm looking for. I'm raising these kids,

739
00:40:26,920 --> 00:40:28,000
Speaker 2: but I don't know if I'm doing right. I'm trying

740
00:40:28,000 --> 00:40:29,600
Speaker 2: to discipline them and be their friend. Sometimes I don't

741
00:40:29,640 --> 00:40:31,279
Speaker 2: know which one to be at each which time. And

742
00:40:31,320 --> 00:40:32,640
Speaker 2: I want them to love me, but I need them

743
00:40:32,640 --> 00:40:33,880
Speaker 2: to fear me. So I don't know which one to

744
00:40:33,880 --> 00:40:35,759
Speaker 2: be right now. And I'm trying to be patient, but

745
00:40:35,760 --> 00:40:36,840
Speaker 2: I'm also trying to be proactive.

746
00:40:36,840 --> 00:40:38,040
Speaker 3: And sometimes I don't know what's waiting on God and

747
00:40:38,040 --> 00:40:39,120
Speaker 3: what's pushing ahead because I hear both.

748
00:40:39,120 --> 00:40:40,239
Speaker 2: I hear step out of the boat and I hear stay

749
00:40:40,239 --> 00:40:41,040
Speaker 2: in the boat, and I don't know what to do

750
00:40:41,040 --> 00:40:41,400
Speaker 2: with boat and.

751
00:40:41,360 --> 00:40:43,080
Speaker 3: Boat don't have a boat. Letn't like the water.

752
00:40:50,800 --> 00:40:53,480
Speaker 2: So you got to look for a synagogue right, That's

753
00:40:53,520 --> 00:40:56,359
Speaker 2: where Paul would always start his preacher. And to have

754
00:40:56,400 --> 00:40:59,960
Speaker 2: a synagogue, you need everybody they need, You need ten minutes.

755
00:41:00,360 --> 00:41:02,480
Speaker 2: But there's not ten Jewish men to form a synagogue

756
00:41:02,520 --> 00:41:03,040
Speaker 2: in Philippi.

757
00:41:04,440 --> 00:41:06,600
Speaker 3: That's how desperate the city is for what Paul had.

758
00:41:07,560 --> 00:41:09,400
Speaker 2: And that's why God had to tell him no about

759
00:41:09,400 --> 00:41:12,040
Speaker 2: my sea and know about Asia, because there was a

760
00:41:12,080 --> 00:41:15,439
Speaker 2: more desperate need somewhere else. I wonder if God told

761
00:41:15,440 --> 00:41:19,000
Speaker 2: you no for a reason. I wonder if God left

762
00:41:19,000 --> 00:41:21,840
Speaker 2: you there for a reason. Paul's looking.

763
00:41:22,520 --> 00:41:28,600
Speaker 3: You've seen Clint Clinton this big place. Mate. I saw

764
00:41:28,600 --> 00:41:29,000
Speaker 3: a man in.

765
00:41:29,000 --> 00:41:31,759
Speaker 2: A vision and they go out one Sabbath and watched

766
00:41:31,800 --> 00:41:36,240
Speaker 2: this since they knew that there wasn't a synagogue Verse thirteen.

767
00:41:36,280 --> 00:41:41,160
Speaker 2: On the Sabbath, we stayed outside the city gate to

768
00:41:41,280 --> 00:41:45,000
Speaker 2: the river, where we expected to find a place of prayer.

769
00:41:45,200 --> 00:41:46,359
Speaker 3: You'll find what you're looking for.

770
00:41:46,400 --> 00:41:49,520
Speaker 2: By the way, if you look for a place God

771
00:41:49,600 --> 00:41:51,520
Speaker 2: is working, you will find it in every situation.

772
00:41:53,280 --> 00:41:55,640
Speaker 3: Ask Lanny if God will show up in a hospital room.

773
00:41:56,520 --> 00:41:59,520
Speaker 2: Ask him if God will show up in a desperate situation.

774
00:42:00,320 --> 00:42:02,520
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, God will show up in a custody hearing.

775
00:42:02,880 --> 00:42:05,399
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, God will show up in a bankruptcy. God

776
00:42:05,440 --> 00:42:07,880
Speaker 2: will show up in a divorce. God will show up

777
00:42:07,920 --> 00:42:10,160
Speaker 2: in a broken heart. God will show up in a

778
00:42:10,200 --> 00:42:13,360
Speaker 2: season of despondency. God will show up in a crisis.

779
00:42:13,600 --> 00:42:15,640
Speaker 2: God will show up in national turmoil.

780
00:42:16,000 --> 00:42:17,799
Speaker 3: God is here.

781
00:42:17,880 --> 00:42:21,720
Speaker 2: I'm just looking for it, So Paul says, I didn't

782
00:42:21,719 --> 00:42:26,320
Speaker 2: find what I expected, and I didn't get what I wanted,

783
00:42:26,360 --> 00:42:30,160
Speaker 2: but my God will meet all my needs.

784
00:42:30,200 --> 00:42:31,439
Speaker 3: Now here's what God knew.

785
00:42:31,560 --> 00:42:33,279
Speaker 2: I've been waiting all week to show you this, So

786
00:42:33,440 --> 00:42:36,239
Speaker 2: please be merciful if I'm too excited and you don't

787
00:42:36,280 --> 00:42:38,120
Speaker 2: like my level of energy, because I've had all.

788
00:42:38,120 --> 00:42:39,120
Speaker 3: Week to get ready for this.

789
00:42:39,840 --> 00:42:42,600
Speaker 2: There was a woman, let's hear for the women one

790
00:42:42,600 --> 00:42:47,880
Speaker 2: more time, who was what the Old Testament called.

791
00:42:47,680 --> 00:42:48,560
Speaker 3: A god fearer.

792
00:42:48,880 --> 00:42:52,040
Speaker 2: Now, a god fear is a gentile who believes in

793
00:42:52,120 --> 00:42:55,840
Speaker 2: the Jewish God. So she's ready to receive the message

794
00:42:56,080 --> 00:43:01,719
Speaker 2: about Jesus Christ, the Messiah, but she needs somebody to

795
00:43:01,920 --> 00:43:07,920
Speaker 2: explain it to her. Well, good news, there's somebody in

796
00:43:08,000 --> 00:43:11,720
Speaker 2: Philippi who needs somebody.

797
00:43:11,239 --> 00:43:11,960
Speaker 3: To preach to.

798
00:43:12,719 --> 00:43:17,920
Speaker 2: So somebody who needed the message got together with somebody

799
00:43:18,080 --> 00:43:19,959
Speaker 2: who needed a congregation.

800
00:43:20,680 --> 00:43:24,440
Speaker 3: God is a need meeter. God is a matchmaker. God

801
00:43:24,520 --> 00:43:25,200
Speaker 3: knows how to.

802
00:43:25,080 --> 00:43:27,880
Speaker 2: Put you where you need to be to release what

803
00:43:28,040 --> 00:43:29,200
Speaker 2: He gave you to care.

804
00:43:32,920 --> 00:43:36,680
Speaker 3: Don't leave yet. I'm not done.

805
00:43:37,880 --> 00:43:39,879
Speaker 2: Some of you needed this word today, and that's why

806
00:43:39,920 --> 00:43:41,320
Speaker 2: you almost didn't get to church.

807
00:43:42,239 --> 00:43:45,800
Speaker 3: That's why you almost all could go to the line.

808
00:43:45,960 --> 00:43:48,640
Speaker 2: No, you needed this word. So you got in your

809
00:43:48,719 --> 00:43:51,680
Speaker 2: car and you got to this church because you have

810
00:43:51,800 --> 00:43:54,839
Speaker 2: a need. Well, God gave me the word, and he

811
00:43:54,920 --> 00:44:00,640
Speaker 2: gave you the need. And I declare that my God

812
00:44:00,840 --> 00:44:03,320
Speaker 2: shall supply all your.

813
00:44:07,080 --> 00:44:08,000
Speaker 3: Tearing up my stuff.

814
00:44:11,400 --> 00:44:15,120
Speaker 2: So UH said that we expected to find a place

815
00:44:15,120 --> 00:44:16,880
Speaker 2: of prayer, but I bet they didn't expect this. We

816
00:44:16,920 --> 00:44:22,279
Speaker 2: sat down and began to speak to the women who

817
00:44:22,280 --> 00:44:26,880
Speaker 2: had gathered there. What did Paul see in his vision?

818
00:44:28,400 --> 00:44:33,719
Speaker 2: A man from Macedonia? What did he see when he

819
00:44:33,800 --> 00:44:39,040
Speaker 2: got to his assignment a woman. God's not going to

820
00:44:39,120 --> 00:44:45,920
Speaker 2: do it how you thought he was. It's not going

821
00:44:45,960 --> 00:44:48,960
Speaker 2: to feel like you thought it would feel. He's not

822
00:44:49,000 --> 00:44:50,480
Speaker 2: going to do it who through you?

823
00:44:50,560 --> 00:44:50,840
Speaker 3: Who you?

824
00:44:50,960 --> 00:44:52,640
Speaker 2: He's not going to do it through the people that

825
00:44:52,719 --> 00:44:54,799
Speaker 2: you wanted him to do it through, because then you'd

826
00:44:54,840 --> 00:45:00,759
Speaker 2: worship them, not him. No synagogue, Let's find a place

827
00:45:00,800 --> 00:45:02,759
Speaker 2: of prayer. That's where they could gather informally, and they

828
00:45:03,080 --> 00:45:04,959
Speaker 2: would do it by the river. Let's go to the river.

829
00:45:05,960 --> 00:45:09,680
Speaker 2: Let's go to the place. We didn't find what we wanted,

830
00:45:09,800 --> 00:45:11,239
Speaker 2: but God's going to give us.

831
00:45:11,200 --> 00:45:13,600
Speaker 3: What we need. Remember when can.

832
00:45:13,480 --> 00:45:15,600
Speaker 2: I do a Bible study with JJ real quick? I

833
00:45:15,600 --> 00:45:17,279
Speaker 2: want you appreciate a sequel to this. Next time you're

834
00:45:17,320 --> 00:45:19,759
Speaker 2: in a puppet, do it from Onet Team seventeen. Do

835
00:45:19,840 --> 00:45:22,720
Speaker 2: it from the widow at Airfath. Elijah needs food.

836
00:45:23,080 --> 00:45:24,319
Speaker 3: She needs food.

837
00:45:24,760 --> 00:45:27,319
Speaker 2: He sends somebody with the need to somebody with the need.

838
00:45:27,840 --> 00:45:31,200
Speaker 2: When he gets there, he says to the widow, meet

839
00:45:31,200 --> 00:45:34,319
Speaker 2: my need. She said, no, you meet mine. And then

840
00:45:34,360 --> 00:45:36,719
Speaker 2: Elijah says something that we can learn from. When you

841
00:45:36,880 --> 00:45:41,080
Speaker 2: meet my need, God will meet your needs. Doesn't that

842
00:45:41,120 --> 00:45:44,799
Speaker 2: sound like Philippians for and my God, I got what

843
00:45:44,880 --> 00:45:48,799
Speaker 2: you sent, I got what you supplied, And now my

844
00:45:48,960 --> 00:45:53,160
Speaker 2: God is going to meet your needs because you stopped

845
00:45:53,200 --> 00:45:55,800
Speaker 2: thinking so much about your needs and focused on somebody

846
00:45:55,840 --> 00:46:04,759
Speaker 2: else's My God will meet all your needs. And there's

847
00:46:04,800 --> 00:46:07,319
Speaker 2: one woman and we need to put her in the list.

848
00:46:07,360 --> 00:46:09,600
Speaker 2: You know, good for Daniel, good for Noah, that old

849
00:46:09,680 --> 00:46:14,319
Speaker 2: drunk boat building drunk. But let's put Lydia in the

850
00:46:14,400 --> 00:46:22,640
Speaker 2: list because one of the people listening. There's always somebody listening.

851
00:46:23,640 --> 00:46:29,320
Speaker 2: You never know who's listening. You see how I'm preaching today,

852
00:46:29,360 --> 00:46:32,120
Speaker 2: like I'm fighting something or like you see see.

853
00:46:31,920 --> 00:46:36,960
Speaker 3: It because I never know who's listening. I never know

854
00:46:37,000 --> 00:46:37,600
Speaker 3: who's listening.

855
00:46:39,239 --> 00:46:43,000
Speaker 2: And this week, somebody very famous was texting me about

856
00:46:43,040 --> 00:46:45,280
Speaker 2: a message that I preached, and one of my kids

857
00:46:45,360 --> 00:46:47,120
Speaker 2: was like, how cool is that. I was like, it's

858
00:46:47,160 --> 00:46:50,640
Speaker 2: really cool. You never know who's listening. But it might

859
00:46:50,680 --> 00:46:53,680
Speaker 2: not be a celebrity that God wants to speak to

860
00:46:53,719 --> 00:46:54,560
Speaker 2: the most today.

861
00:46:56,120 --> 00:46:57,040
Speaker 3: It might be somebody.

862
00:46:57,480 --> 00:46:58,960
Speaker 2: I'm not going to ask you to raise your hand,

863
00:46:58,960 --> 00:47:01,520
Speaker 2: but if I did. Ninety percent of this church has

864
00:47:01,560 --> 00:47:04,880
Speaker 2: never heard a sermon about Lydia, and yet if it

865
00:47:04,920 --> 00:47:07,840
Speaker 2: weren't for her, there would have been no church in Philippi.

866
00:47:10,440 --> 00:47:13,560
Speaker 2: It was just as important who was listening as it

867
00:47:13,640 --> 00:47:16,959
Speaker 2: was who was preaching. And we've got to do away

868
00:47:17,000 --> 00:47:21,279
Speaker 2: with the celebrity culture where God only uses people who

869
00:47:21,320 --> 00:47:24,800
Speaker 2: have a certain number of followers or who have reached

870
00:47:24,800 --> 00:47:27,160
Speaker 2: an elevated status in the world's eyes.

871
00:47:29,239 --> 00:47:33,600
Speaker 3: We are not all Paul. I'm not Paul, You're not Paul.

872
00:47:33,800 --> 00:47:36,200
Speaker 2: But there was a woman named Lydia, and Gods shown

873
00:47:36,239 --> 00:47:38,080
Speaker 2: me this week in my study.

874
00:47:38,239 --> 00:47:38,719
Speaker 3: You've got a.

875
00:47:38,800 --> 00:47:42,280
Speaker 2: Church full of Lydia's, some men, some women, but they're unlikely,

876
00:47:42,360 --> 00:47:46,480
Speaker 2: people who see themselves as unlikely, but they are the

877
00:47:46,480 --> 00:47:54,840
Speaker 2: missing link. And when they begin to see themselves as.

878
00:47:54,680 --> 00:47:57,279
Speaker 3: A vessel and not just a receptacle.

879
00:47:59,320 --> 00:48:01,760
Speaker 2: And when they begin to see themselves as the conduit

880
00:48:01,800 --> 00:48:04,719
Speaker 2: through which I want to bless the people around them,

881
00:48:04,960 --> 00:48:06,920
Speaker 2: the earth will not be able to contain the increase

882
00:48:06,960 --> 00:48:08,359
Speaker 2: of the measure of the glory of the Lord.

883
00:48:09,760 --> 00:48:12,000
Speaker 3: God is looking for Lydia.

884
00:48:12,200 --> 00:48:16,360
Speaker 2: God shut down a whole Apostolic tour because he was

885
00:48:16,360 --> 00:48:20,920
Speaker 2: looking for Lydia. Paul didn't know her name, but he

886
00:48:20,960 --> 00:48:22,399
Speaker 2: went where he thought he was supposed to go, because

887
00:48:22,440 --> 00:48:24,080
Speaker 2: sometimes all you can do is obey the best you

888
00:48:24,120 --> 00:48:24,440
Speaker 2: know how.

889
00:48:27,520 --> 00:48:30,000
Speaker 3: Let that set you free. Paul didn't even know what

890
00:48:30,040 --> 00:48:31,279
Speaker 3: he was looking for, but he.

891
00:48:31,239 --> 00:48:35,720
Speaker 2: Was doing his best to be obedient, are you, because

892
00:48:35,719 --> 00:48:41,239
Speaker 2: if you will, you'll always find a Lydia. Lydia was

893
00:48:42,239 --> 00:48:48,320
Speaker 2: a woman verse fifteen, excuse me fourteen from the city

894
00:48:48,320 --> 00:48:52,400
Speaker 2: of Thiatyra, formerly known as the Kingdom of Lydia. So

895
00:48:52,560 --> 00:48:55,560
Speaker 2: her name probably wasn't Lydia. But that's where she was from,

896
00:48:55,600 --> 00:48:59,040
Speaker 2: and that's how they often referred to women in those days.

897
00:49:01,000 --> 00:49:05,880
Speaker 2: She was a dealer in purple cloth, so purple's the

898
00:49:05,920 --> 00:49:11,440
Speaker 2: expensive stuff. If you deal purple cloth, you make bank.

899
00:49:12,520 --> 00:49:14,320
Speaker 2: And I know it's cringey what I just said, Elijah,

900
00:49:14,320 --> 00:49:15,319
Speaker 2: I don't even need to hear about it.

901
00:49:15,360 --> 00:49:16,000
Speaker 3: After the sermon.

902
00:49:17,160 --> 00:49:22,680
Speaker 2: Lydia didn't need money. She needed a message. Paul had

903
00:49:22,719 --> 00:49:27,759
Speaker 2: the message. She had the money, and when his need

904
00:49:28,400 --> 00:49:31,800
Speaker 2: and her need met, the Church in the West was born.

905
00:49:34,080 --> 00:49:37,560
Speaker 3: Because God is a need meeter. But God does not

906
00:49:38,239 --> 00:49:42,319
Speaker 3: meet needs independently of his people. He uses us.

907
00:49:44,040 --> 00:49:46,480
Speaker 2: There's a tendency in a church this size to look

908
00:49:46,520 --> 00:49:49,879
Speaker 2: around and go, I don't think they need me here.

909
00:49:51,000 --> 00:49:52,960
Speaker 3: So then you get all focused on yourself. You know.

910
00:49:53,840 --> 00:49:54,759
Speaker 3: How is the sermon today?

911
00:49:54,840 --> 00:49:55,040
Speaker 2: Yeah?

912
00:49:55,040 --> 00:49:59,359
Speaker 3: A little long, that's all right. What do you talk about?

913
00:49:59,440 --> 00:50:06,960
Speaker 6: Some guy named Philip? All right, thank his name, give me,

914
00:50:07,000 --> 00:50:08,080
Speaker 6: give me, give me, give me, give me, give me,

915
00:50:08,080 --> 00:50:10,600
Speaker 6: give me, give me, give me, give me, give me.

916
00:50:13,160 --> 00:50:15,600
Speaker 2: But there's a perspective shift, there's a ps there's a

917
00:50:16,600 --> 00:50:19,799
Speaker 2: Paul said, my God will meet all your needs. He said,

918
00:50:19,800 --> 00:50:21,600
Speaker 2: I didn't even need the money.

919
00:50:22,239 --> 00:50:22,839
Speaker 3: You needed the.

920
00:50:22,800 --> 00:50:32,400
Speaker 2: Message, and so Paul shows up. Lydia's sitting down. He

921
00:50:32,480 --> 00:50:34,640
Speaker 2: saw a man in the vision, but he sees a

922
00:50:34,680 --> 00:50:38,560
Speaker 2: woman by the river. God shows up how he wants

923
00:50:38,600 --> 00:50:42,960
Speaker 2: to show up, through disappointment, sometimes through what seems to

924
00:50:43,000 --> 00:50:46,440
Speaker 2: be a setback, sometimes through unexpected people.

925
00:50:47,840 --> 00:50:50,120
Speaker 3: A dealer in purple cloth. She was a worshiper of

926
00:50:50,160 --> 00:50:52,000
Speaker 3: God or a god fear She was close.

927
00:50:52,680 --> 00:50:54,399
Speaker 2: You know, there's people in your life who are close

928
00:50:54,440 --> 00:50:58,520
Speaker 2: to the kingdom and they're waiting on somebody who would

929
00:50:58,520 --> 00:51:02,759
Speaker 2: have the willingness. There are people in your circle who

930
00:51:02,840 --> 00:51:06,120
Speaker 2: need the presence of God, and God put you in

931
00:51:06,280 --> 00:51:08,520
Speaker 2: their life.

932
00:51:09,280 --> 00:51:10,279
Speaker 3: And you're part of a church.

933
00:51:10,320 --> 00:51:13,360
Speaker 2: At many of our locations, we have so many seats available.

934
00:51:13,880 --> 00:51:17,560
Speaker 2: Everybody could bring somebody next weekend we'd be full of

935
00:51:17,640 --> 00:51:19,480
Speaker 2: everybody found one person.

936
00:51:19,160 --> 00:51:22,400
Speaker 3: Who needed Jesus last week. Our church would double in

937
00:51:22,440 --> 00:51:22,920
Speaker 3: one week.

938
00:51:24,000 --> 00:51:26,200
Speaker 2: And not even thinking about the impact of our Etham

939
00:51:26,360 --> 00:51:27,520
Speaker 2: that's watching online.

940
00:51:27,840 --> 00:51:28,759
Speaker 3: I mean we.

941
00:51:28,840 --> 00:51:33,400
Speaker 2: Use social media to spread everything. Why not the message

942
00:51:34,200 --> 00:51:36,560
Speaker 2: of the only name that saves? Why would you sit

943
00:51:36,719 --> 00:51:40,480
Speaker 2: on a message? Why would you sit on something that

944
00:51:40,520 --> 00:51:45,680
Speaker 2: has the power to say Paul took the message across

945
00:51:45,719 --> 00:51:49,919
Speaker 2: the sea and sometimes I'm burdened that we just come

946
00:51:49,920 --> 00:51:53,359
Speaker 2: to get our needs met, and we don't get them

947
00:51:53,360 --> 00:51:55,840
Speaker 2: met because God doesn't meet your needs through thinking about

948
00:51:55,880 --> 00:51:59,440
Speaker 2: your needs, You've got to get outside of yourself and

949
00:51:59,480 --> 00:52:02,279
Speaker 2: outside of your customs, and outside of your traditions, and

950
00:52:02,360 --> 00:52:05,560
Speaker 2: outside of your expectations and outside of your entitlement.

951
00:52:06,960 --> 00:52:11,560
Speaker 3: Paul said, it's not even about me and this woman Lydia.

952
00:52:12,160 --> 00:52:14,080
Speaker 2: I don't know a whole lot about her, except for

953
00:52:14,239 --> 00:52:17,839
Speaker 2: I'm thankful for her, and I feel like there are

954
00:52:17,880 --> 00:52:23,480
Speaker 2: many Lydias watching me today whose names may never be known,

955
00:52:23,600 --> 00:52:28,040
Speaker 2: but whose purpose is important. And watch what happened when

956
00:52:28,080 --> 00:52:30,239
Speaker 2: Paul's need to preach met her need to hear.

957
00:52:32,000 --> 00:52:32,799
Speaker 3: This woman.

958
00:52:34,680 --> 00:52:36,680
Speaker 2: Who was sitting by the river, It says the Lord

959
00:52:36,760 --> 00:52:40,360
Speaker 2: opened her heart to respond to Paul's message.

960
00:52:40,520 --> 00:52:43,000
Speaker 3: That means she decided to become a follower of Christ.

961
00:52:43,120 --> 00:52:45,920
Speaker 2: And when she and the members of her household see

962
00:52:46,080 --> 00:52:49,560
Speaker 2: it's never just about you, It's not just about you.

963
00:52:49,760 --> 00:52:51,560
Speaker 3: The first thing she did when she.

964
00:52:51,719 --> 00:52:55,040
Speaker 2: Was touched by the power of God was to think

965
00:52:55,040 --> 00:52:58,680
Speaker 2: about somebody else. God, who have you connected me to

966
00:52:59,200 --> 00:53:03,800
Speaker 2: that needs You, that needs hope, that that needs Jesus?

967
00:53:05,160 --> 00:53:08,600
Speaker 2: And I love the language It says, after those who

968
00:53:08,600 --> 00:53:11,719
Speaker 2: were in her household were baptized, the people closest to her,

969
00:53:12,800 --> 00:53:13,880
Speaker 2: she invited us.

970
00:53:13,760 --> 00:53:14,319
Speaker 3: To her home.

971
00:53:15,360 --> 00:53:17,520
Speaker 2: If you consider me a believer in the Lord, she said,

972
00:53:17,560 --> 00:53:20,480
Speaker 2: come and stay at my house. And she persuaded us,

973
00:53:20,800 --> 00:53:23,000
Speaker 2: and the Lord told me like this, he said, I

974
00:53:23,120 --> 00:53:26,359
Speaker 2: opened her heart and she opened her house. And some

975
00:53:26,440 --> 00:53:29,120
Speaker 2: of the people that you've preached to, I've opened their

976
00:53:29,120 --> 00:53:30,960
Speaker 2: heart and I've blessed them, but they haven't opened their

977
00:53:30,960 --> 00:53:31,439
Speaker 2: house yet.

978
00:53:33,960 --> 00:53:36,279
Speaker 3: And they're in this big church just thinking about me

979
00:53:36,440 --> 00:53:37,040
Speaker 3: and my needs.

980
00:53:37,080 --> 00:53:38,680
Speaker 2: And it's so easy to do, and I do it

981
00:53:38,719 --> 00:53:45,960
Speaker 2: all the time, and so we sing about breakthroughs and blessings.

982
00:53:45,440 --> 00:53:46,879
Speaker 3: And it's good. It's good, it's good.

983
00:53:47,400 --> 00:53:50,880
Speaker 7: I promise, man, I help write the song. I know

984
00:53:51,400 --> 00:53:56,239
Speaker 7: a breakthrough is coming. Bye, Faith, I see you, d

985
00:53:56,560 --> 00:53:58,239
Speaker 7: D my God.

986
00:53:58,760 --> 00:54:03,920
Speaker 2: God told me to tell you, be the breakthrough. Be

987
00:54:04,080 --> 00:54:11,840
Speaker 2: the breakthrough, Be the breakthrough, Be the breakthrough. Be the

988
00:54:11,880 --> 00:54:15,720
Speaker 2: breakthrough for somebody else, and watch how God will break

989
00:54:15,719 --> 00:54:19,839
Speaker 2: through for you. Be the breakthrough for someone else. It's

990
00:54:19,840 --> 00:54:22,759
Speaker 2: time to turn the pain. You've been rehearsing it over

991
00:54:22,800 --> 00:54:24,520
Speaker 2: and over again. It's time to release it and ask

992
00:54:24,560 --> 00:54:26,600
Speaker 2: God to use it God let you go through that

993
00:54:26,760 --> 00:54:27,360
Speaker 2: for something.

994
00:54:27,520 --> 00:54:29,040
Speaker 3: God didn't just keep you through.

995
00:54:28,920 --> 00:54:31,160
Speaker 2: All of that so you could just be a survivor.

996
00:54:31,440 --> 00:54:34,160
Speaker 2: You are to be an agent of change and the

997
00:54:34,200 --> 00:54:37,400
Speaker 2: world needs what we have, but we've got to give.

998
00:54:37,239 --> 00:54:42,120
Speaker 3: It and God.

999
00:54:43,080 --> 00:54:46,839
Speaker 2: God is looking for Lydia, and I want to pray

1000
00:54:46,880 --> 00:54:50,240
Speaker 2: for you right now. I was intentional about this message

1001
00:54:50,280 --> 00:54:53,840
Speaker 2: going into my new series because it's going to be

1002
00:54:53,880 --> 00:54:57,040
Speaker 2: so helpful for people who are fighting demons.

1003
00:54:57,080 --> 00:54:58,640
Speaker 3: They don't even know they're fighting, they don't even know

1004
00:54:58,680 --> 00:54:59,160
Speaker 3: how to name.

1005
00:55:00,880 --> 00:55:03,640
Speaker 2: But the best thing we can do is not just

1006
00:55:03,719 --> 00:55:06,640
Speaker 2: come and get our needs met, but ask God to

1007
00:55:06,719 --> 00:55:09,279
Speaker 2: open our eyes to the needs of those who are

1008
00:55:09,280 --> 00:55:13,040
Speaker 2: around us. The harvest is plentiful, and I want to

1009
00:55:13,080 --> 00:55:15,040
Speaker 2: take a moment as the pastor of this church. This

1010
00:55:15,120 --> 00:55:18,520
Speaker 2: is not a performance. This is a partnership. I'm gonna

1011
00:55:18,520 --> 00:55:23,200
Speaker 2: say it again, this is not a performance. I can't

1012
00:55:23,200 --> 00:55:27,840
Speaker 2: do this by myself. This church was built on sacrificial

1013
00:55:27,880 --> 00:55:31,759
Speaker 2: people Dan Horner and Eric Miller and guys that have

1014
00:55:31,840 --> 00:55:34,680
Speaker 2: been with me for a long time who are willing

1015
00:55:34,719 --> 00:55:37,600
Speaker 2: to open their lives and say, yeah, there's people in

1016
00:55:37,600 --> 00:55:39,600
Speaker 2: my life who need Jesus, and there's things I have

1017
00:55:39,680 --> 00:55:43,560
Speaker 2: and there's resources and the answers yes. And I want

1018
00:55:43,600 --> 00:55:46,000
Speaker 2: to stand you up right now with no one leaving

1019
00:55:46,320 --> 00:55:48,040
Speaker 2: and disrupting the moment for someone.

1020
00:55:48,440 --> 00:55:49,879
Speaker 3: And I want you to get someone on.

1021
00:55:49,800 --> 00:55:54,080
Speaker 2: Your mind at every location campus, pastors, I want you

1022
00:55:54,120 --> 00:55:57,080
Speaker 2: to get near the stage so you can agree in

1023
00:55:57,120 --> 00:55:59,680
Speaker 2: faith with this prayer. And I want to agree with

1024
00:55:59,719 --> 00:56:02,840
Speaker 2: you faith concerning someone in your life who needs Jesus,

1025
00:56:04,120 --> 00:56:07,960
Speaker 2: someone who needs the Lord that God has put you

1026
00:56:08,000 --> 00:56:08,759
Speaker 2: in contact with.

1027
00:56:10,120 --> 00:56:11,880
Speaker 3: And I want to pray that you would.

1028
00:56:11,640 --> 00:56:14,800
Speaker 2: Have the eyes to see other people's need this week,

1029
00:56:18,640 --> 00:56:20,400
Speaker 2: that this week God would open your eyes.

1030
00:56:22,200 --> 00:56:23,120
Speaker 3: Oh God, forgive us.

1031
00:56:23,200 --> 00:56:25,759
Speaker 2: We've been praying to meet my needs, and you've been

1032
00:56:25,760 --> 00:56:28,719
Speaker 2: trying to open our eyes to see the blessing that

1033
00:56:28,760 --> 00:56:31,920
Speaker 2: we already have in You. The only way for our

1034
00:56:31,960 --> 00:56:34,600
Speaker 2: needs to be met, or to meet the needs of

1035
00:56:34,600 --> 00:56:36,400
Speaker 2: the world that you love. And God, we ask you

1036
00:56:36,440 --> 00:56:40,480
Speaker 2: now to use us. We want to see what you

1037
00:56:40,560 --> 00:56:43,480
Speaker 2: can do through us. We've seen what you can do

1038
00:56:43,560 --> 00:56:46,200
Speaker 2: for us, and we lose sight of it when we

1039
00:56:46,239 --> 00:56:50,279
Speaker 2: close our hearts. And so we offer ourselves to you

1040
00:56:51,239 --> 00:56:55,480
Speaker 2: as instruments. God puts somebody on their heart this week,

1041
00:56:55,560 --> 00:56:57,560
Speaker 2: somebody that they work with or live next to or

1042
00:56:57,560 --> 00:57:00,880
Speaker 2: something in Maybe they'll have to ask a few times,

1043
00:57:01,080 --> 00:57:03,879
Speaker 2: would you bring people here next week for this new

1044
00:57:03,920 --> 00:57:11,280
Speaker 2: series who need you and use it.

1045
00:57:11,280 --> 00:57:14,759
Speaker 3: It can be a link, We could be a lydia.

1046
00:57:15,360 --> 00:57:16,959
Speaker 2: We ask right now that you would do a great

1047
00:57:17,000 --> 00:57:22,040
Speaker 2: work through us in this series, that you would supply

1048
00:57:22,120 --> 00:57:25,560
Speaker 2: and meet every need according to your glorious riches.

1049
00:57:27,280 --> 00:57:28,400
Speaker 3: Thank you for joining us.

1050
00:57:28,680 --> 00:57:31,120
Speaker 2: Special thanks to those of you who give generously to

1051
00:57:31,200 --> 00:57:34,720
Speaker 2: this ministry. Is because of you that this ministry is possible.

1052
00:57:35,160 --> 00:57:37,360
Speaker 2: You can click the link in the description to give

1053
00:57:37,440 --> 00:57:41,360
Speaker 2: now or visit Elevation Church dot org splash podcast for

1054
00:57:41,440 --> 00:57:45,400
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1055
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00:57:49,640 --> 00:57:51,760
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