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Speaker 1: Hey, this is Stephen Furtick.

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

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Speaker 2: I wanted to thank you for joining us today. Hope

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Speaker 2: this inspires you. Hope it builds your faith. Hope it

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Speaker 2: gives you perspective to see God is moving in your life.

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Speaker 1: Enjoy the message.

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Speaker 2: Before we get into the Word, let me mention that

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Speaker 2: we're getting really excited about Elevation Nights.

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Speaker 1: We're going on tour.

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Speaker 2: October 26 through Thursday, November 3.

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Speaker 1: Listen up.

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Speaker 2: Everybody online, put in the comments in the chat where

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Speaker 2: Let me tell you where we're coming. It's going to

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Speaker 2: be me, and I might let Chris Brown come. I

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Speaker 2: hadn't decided about it yet. Do you think I should

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Speaker 2: let him come to me? Do you want to share

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Speaker 2: a bunk with him?

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Speaker 1: Do you want the top bunk? We'll be in Atlanta, Georgia.

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Speaker 2: Nashville, Tennessee, Tulsa, Oklahoma, Fort Worth, Texas, Houston, Texas, Orlando, Florida, Sunrise, Florida,

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Speaker 2: and Jacksonville, Florida. If you are within 500 miles of Atlanta, Georgia, Nashville, Tennessee, Tulsa, Oklahoma,

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Speaker 2: Fort Worth, Texas, Houston, Texas, Orlando, Florida, Sunrise, Florida or Jacksonville, Florida,

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Speaker 2: we would love to see you. That's October 26 through

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Speaker 2: November 3. You can go to elevationknights.com to get your

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Speaker 1: We'll be there.

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Speaker 2: I was thinking today other people would drive 200 miles

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Speaker 2: for what we have right here in our backyard, the.

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Speaker 1: Presence of this amazing community of believers. I'm excited today.

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Speaker 2: One lady told me one time that she drove 12

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Speaker 2: hours to come to church, and she said, it was

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Speaker 2: on my bucket list. I stood up and told the church,

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Speaker 2: you see, what's on her bucket list is in many

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Speaker 2: of our backyard.

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Speaker 1: So you just have to keep that perspective.

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Speaker 2: God is doing an amazing work at all of our

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Speaker 2: locations and all around the world.

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Speaker 1: Give God a praise.

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Speaker 2: Come on, let everything that has breath praise the Lord.

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Speaker 2: That has new significance in the time of COVID, right?

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Speaker 2: Let everything that has breath, that we appreciate more, that

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Speaker 2: God gave us another day, and that we're here to

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Speaker 2: praise him, and we want to take full advantage of that.

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Speaker 1: Are you ready for the Word of God? It doesn't

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Speaker 1: matter if you are. I am, so I'm excited enough

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Speaker 1: for all of us. I want to share with you

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Speaker 1: from Hebrews 8 today, verses 3-7. I think I'm done

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Speaker 1: with y'all. Thanks. Hebrews, chapter 8.

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Speaker 2: That pad had a long decay. Hebrews, chapter 8, verses 3-7. Ready?

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Speaker 2: Every high priest is appointed to offer both gifts and sacrifices.

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Speaker 2: And so it was necessary for this one, Jesus, to

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Speaker 2: also have something to offer. If he were on earth,

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Speaker 2: he would not be a priest, for there are already

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Speaker 2: priests who offer the gifts prescribed by the law. They

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Speaker 2: serve at a sanctuary that is a copy and a

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Speaker 2: shadow of what is in heaven. This is why Moses

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Speaker 2: was warned when he was about to build the tabernacle

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Speaker 2: See to it that you make everything according to the

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Speaker 2: pattern shown you on the mountain. But in fact, the

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Speaker 2: ministry Jesus has received is as superior to theirs as

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Speaker 2: the covenant of which he is mediator, is superior to

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Speaker 2: the old one, since the new covenant is established on what?

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Speaker 2: Better promises. For if there had been nothing wrong with

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Speaker 2: that first covenant, no place would have been sought for another.

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Speaker 2: Back to verse 5. They serve the high priest in

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Speaker 2: the Levitical line from the lineage of Aaron. They serve

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Speaker 1: See to it.

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Speaker 2: That you make everything according to the pattern shown you

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Speaker 2: on the mountain. The Lord told me to give you

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Speaker 2: the sermon in the form of a warning today. The

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Speaker 2: warning is, be careful what you copy. You may be seated.

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Speaker 2: Be careful what you copy. I didn't say not to copy.

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Speaker 1: That's dumb. People will tell you sometimes, don't copy.

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Speaker 2: Be an original. No, you need to copy a little bit.

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Speaker 2: You need to copy through certain developmental stages. Our kids copy.

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Speaker 1: Learn to walk. You don't teach your kid.

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Speaker 2: If you don't want to walk on your legs, you

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Speaker 2: to copy. If you're learning an instrument, you would copy

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Speaker 2: shouldn't stop with the copy. That's the thing.

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Speaker 1: In anything, you shouldn't just stop with the copy.

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Speaker 2: In raising three of my own now, I'm sitting here thinking, like,

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Speaker 2: what do I want them to copy of me, and

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Speaker 2: what do I want them to cast out? I feel

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Speaker 2: like since they have my genetics, it's my job to

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Speaker 2: help shepherd them through some of this stuff. It's really

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Speaker 2: important that I disciple them as a dad.

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Speaker 1: I want to disciple my kids. Not through a class.

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Speaker 2: I don't really think they need another class from me,

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Speaker 2: especially since I'm a preacher. They get to hear my

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Speaker 2: I show them, and not just about Bible verses. I

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Speaker 2: don't just want to disciple my kids in what they

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Speaker 2: think about Greek or Hebrew in a Bible text. The

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Speaker 2: original word is epikaradokia. I want to talk to them

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Speaker 2: about some other words, too. some words that we might

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Speaker 2: not be allowed to say in church, especially now Graham

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Speaker 2: is 13 and Elijah is 16. One thing I really

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Speaker 2: thank God for is I've had the opportunity to work

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Speaker 2: out with Elijah the last couple of years. I'm glad

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Speaker 2: that it's going to be at least two more years

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Speaker 2: before he can catch me on bench press, but I

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Speaker 2: kind of turned the workout room that's in our house

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Speaker 2: laboratory where I'm not only showing him how to do

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Speaker 2: certain exercises, but I don't know if I told you this, Wade,

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Speaker 2: I've been taking him through the top 100 rock albums

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Speaker 2: they should go, and the way they should go is

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Speaker 2: Led Zeppelin. We listen to Graves in the Gardens, too,

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Speaker 2: in an old church basement, but sometimes we listen to

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Speaker 1: Something funny happened the other day.

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Speaker 2: Where we were listening to Jimi Hendrix, Little Wing, one

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Speaker 2: it when I was 14. LJ Elijah says to me,

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Speaker 2: this guy sounds like Pearl Jam. He thought Jimi, 1969,

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Speaker 2: You don't have to grow up and be a Christian,

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Speaker 2: but you will know that Jimi Hendrix … There.

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Speaker 1: Are some things that are non-negotiable. They're copying Jimi. Jimi

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Speaker 2: I disciple him in so many different ways. I'm pretty

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Speaker 2: proud of myself. I show him technological advancements that have

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Speaker 2: him how downloading songs or streaming songs is a relatively

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Speaker 2: we had to.

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Speaker 2: But where it was bad, you would put this cassette

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Speaker 2: tape and another cassette with it, a blank one with it.

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Speaker 1: That wasn't the problem. The problem was when you had to.

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Speaker 2: Copy a copy of a copy of a copy. Because

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Speaker 2: every time you copy a cassette tape, the quality drops

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Speaker 1: In Hebrews, chapter 8….

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Speaker 2: Y'all thought this was story time.

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Speaker 1: This isn't story time. This is my setup for my sermon.

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Speaker 2: The writer of Hebrews is understanding that as generations have

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Speaker 2: the religious system of his day, He does something kind

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Speaker 2: He points to somebody they never met, Moses, to explain

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Speaker 1: He talks about a tabernacle.

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Speaker 2: You have to remember, these people never saw the tabernacle

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Speaker 2: they carted around the wilderness. It has been many years

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Speaker 2: since they were setting up that tabernacle. It has been

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Speaker 2: has been destroyed. There has been another temple built. They

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Speaker 2: are generations removed from Jimmy.

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Speaker 1: I like Pearl Jam.

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Speaker 2: I'm a Pearl Jam fan, but he realizes that with

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Speaker 2: every generational transference, there has been a loss in quality.

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Speaker 2: He says things in Hebrews like, you need to persevere.

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Speaker 2: Y'all give up too quick. He's kind of fussing at them,

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Speaker 2: so he brings in examples. He talks about, in Hebrews 11,

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Speaker 2: different people in the faith who endured, some people who

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Speaker 2: were cut in half for their faith. He's kind of

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Speaker 2: trying to say, you think it's bad because somebody didn't

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Speaker 2: like your comment on Facebook.

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Speaker 1: It's been a lot worse.

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Speaker 2: If I could talk to you today, I would use …

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Speaker 2: this subject, be careful what you copy. What happens to

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Speaker 2: what we're copying in our behaviors and even our faith

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Speaker 2: and even our concept of God. Sometimes came through so

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Speaker 2: many generations who put their own concept of God on

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Speaker 2: who did that to them.

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Speaker 1: Who did that to them.

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Speaker 2: By the time it gets to them, they say, I'm

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Speaker 2: not sure I want anything to do with God. But

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Speaker 2: the copy of God through all these generations. He's pointing

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Speaker 1: Get this.

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Speaker 2: An experience they never had, this tabernacle God commanded Moses about.

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Speaker 1: To build with very specific dimensions.

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Speaker 2: When God called Moses to build the tabernacle, he did

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Speaker 2: it while Moses was on a mountain. He spoke to

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Speaker 2: Moses face to face as a man speaks. Well, Actually,

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Speaker 2: he spoke to Moses, but then Moses had to go

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Speaker 2: speak to the people.

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Speaker 1: Sometimes when Moses would speak to the.

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Speaker 2: People what God had said, as he would say what

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Speaker 2: God had said, they would twist it.

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Speaker 1: And make it something else.

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Speaker 2: That has now been happening in Hebrews, chapter 8, for

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Speaker 2: hundreds of years. See, he talks about the covenant that

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Speaker 2: was given, the old covenant, the covenant of Moses that

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Speaker 2: God promised to be with his people if they kept

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Speaker 2: his commands. He's saying how Jesus brought a better covenant.

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Speaker 2: He didn't tell us to build a tabernacle. He became

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Speaker 2: the tabernacle. He was the dwelling place of God. Rather

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Speaker 2: than a high priest bringing an offering like an animal

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Speaker 2: or a bull or a goat to shed the blood

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Speaker 2: of something else to atone for your sin, Jesus shed

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Speaker 2: his own blood.

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Speaker 1: He offered himself as a gift. He is a great

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Speaker 1: high priest, a better high priest, a better covenant, but

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Speaker 1: he understands something about the people that they are attempting

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Speaker 1: to copy a lesser covenant, a covenant that depends on

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Speaker 1: Too much too soon? Be careful what you copy from culture.

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Speaker 2: I'm not saying you have to dress like you're out

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Speaker 2: you to do. It's a great church. To me, it's

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Speaker 2: the best church in the world. I love the church

442
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Speaker 2: I pastor, and.

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Speaker 1: You can't talk me out of that. But come on, man.

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Speaker 2: When we call the event Inside Elevation … It's not

445
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Speaker 2: really inside elevation.

446
00:27:09,020 --> 00:27:12,560
Speaker 1: It's barely inside. It's like lobby elevation. It is not

447
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Speaker 1: kitchen elevation.

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Speaker 2: You're not going to see the real mess of it. See,

449
00:27:18,100 --> 00:27:20,360
Speaker 2: this is what we do. We want to copy one

450
00:27:20,460 --> 00:27:25,530
Speaker 2: part of somebody's life. What happens when we do that

451
00:27:26,960 --> 00:27:30,869
Speaker 2: is we miss the bigger picture. I wonder if you

452
00:27:30,890 --> 00:27:34,139
Speaker 2: have been missing the bigger picture. You've been trying to

453
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Speaker 2: copy somebody else, and you saw one part of their life.

454
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Speaker 2: They have more followers than you, but their kids aren't

455
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Speaker 2: following them anymore because they're never there.

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Speaker 1: That's right.

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Speaker 2: That's why I don't do social media. I'm not just

458
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Speaker 2: talking about the platform. I'm talking about the thing inside

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Speaker 2: of us.

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Speaker 1: You know what I mean?

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Speaker 2: We copy somebody who, if you could really get them,

462
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Speaker 2: they'd say, don't do it like that.

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Speaker 1: That's crazy. It cost me too much. Have I depressed

464
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Speaker 1: y'all enough?

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Speaker 2: The writer of Hebrews … Nobody even knows who wrote Hebrews,

466
00:28:14,330 --> 00:28:16,370
Speaker 2: but he's so brilliant, because.

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Speaker 1: He's showing us Moses. Why is he showing us Moses

468
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Speaker 1: and then Jesus?

469
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Speaker 2: Because he's showing you that Moses could only take you

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Speaker 2: so far.

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Speaker 1: Even for the children of Israel … Think about it.

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Speaker 2: Moses led them to the edge of the Promised Land,

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Speaker 2: but he didn't get to take them in.

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Speaker 1: Joshua did that.

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Speaker 2: When God called Joshua … Now, Moses was a great man,

476
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Speaker 2: no doubt about it. Moses was really actually gracious with

477
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Speaker 2: the people he led, because God said one time, Well,

478
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Speaker 2: I'll just kill.

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Speaker 1: Them and start all over with you and give you

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Speaker 1: better people to lead. He said, Lord, don't do that.

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Speaker 1: It'll make you look bad.

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Speaker 2: You said you'd put your name on these people, and

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Speaker 2: your hand was on them and bring them out of Egypt,

484
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Speaker 2: so if you kill them, it's going to make you

485
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Speaker 2: look bad. I probably would vote for you to kill

486
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Speaker 2: them too, but if we really take this into consideration,

487
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Speaker 2: it's not good for your reputation, God, even though it's

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Speaker 2: my preference right now.

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Speaker 1: That notwithstanding ….

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Speaker 2: Moses was so controlled by the focus group he sent

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Speaker 2: into the Promised Land that he copied the fear of

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Speaker 2: the 10 spies who said,' We can't go in.

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Speaker 1: He never got to lead the people.

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Speaker 2: So, by the time Moses dies in Joshua 1, God

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Speaker 2: is giving Joshua a talk about what he has called

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Speaker 2: him to do.

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Speaker 1: He says something kind of cool.

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Speaker 2: Because, remember, Moses really knew God, but look at this

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Speaker 2: in Joshua 1, verse 5.

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Speaker 1: After he says, I'm going to give you this land that.

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Speaker 2: I swore to the people … Joshua 1, verse 5,

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Speaker 2: no one will be able to stand against you all

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Speaker 2: the days of your life. As I was with Moses,

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Speaker 2: so I.

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Speaker 1: Will be with you. Now, what does that mean?

506
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Speaker 2: That means I'm going to be present with you like

507
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Speaker 2: I was present with him, but your process, Joshua, will

508
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Speaker 2: not be like Moses' process. Another thing, his limitations will

509
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Speaker 2: not be your limitations.

510
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Speaker 1: Where he stopped is where you're starting.

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Speaker 2: You're not going to be like me. You're going to

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Speaker 2: be better than me. You're going to be so much

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Speaker 2: better than me. You're not Stephen Furtick's son. I'm going

514
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Speaker 2: to be Elijah Furtick's dad, Graham Furtick's dad, Abby Furtick's dad.

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Speaker 1: Do you understand?

516
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Speaker 2: When God calls you, when he puts his Spirit in you,

517
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Speaker 2: you are not limited by what you've seen. That's not

518
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Speaker 2: the end of your potential. So he tells Joshua, I'm

519
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Speaker 2: going to be with you like I was with Moses.

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Speaker 2: I will never leave you nor forsake you. Verse 6 says,

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Speaker 2: Be strong and courageous, because you will lead these people

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Speaker 2: to inherit the land I swore to their ancestors to

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Speaker 2: give them.

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Speaker 1: Next verse. Be strong and very courageous. Be careful. What's

525
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Speaker 1: my sermon called?

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Speaker 2: Be careful what you copy. So, Joshua … Listen, I

527
00:31:05,660 --> 00:31:07,100
Speaker 2: want you to listen like God is talking to you.

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Speaker 2: Don't be limited by what you saw Moses do.

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Speaker 1: Moses is not your model. God is. That's what the

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Speaker 1: writer of Hebrews is saying. See, the law could only

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Speaker 1: take you so far.

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Speaker 2: That's why Jesus came. The law was good, but it

533
00:31:24,370 --> 00:31:27,070
Speaker 2: could only get you so far. The law was great,

534
00:31:27,290 --> 00:31:29,310
Speaker 2: but it was flawed in that you couldn't keep it.

535
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Speaker 2: There was nothing wrong with the law. There was something

536
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Speaker 2: wrong with me. I'm the lid that kept me from

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Speaker 2: going further when the law was my regulation. So now

538
00:31:38,680 --> 00:31:41,540
Speaker 2: what the law was powerless to do in that it

539
00:31:41,600 --> 00:31:45,460
Speaker 2: was weakened by the sinful nature, God did by sending

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Speaker 2: his son, the better high priest … in the order

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Speaker 2: of Melchizedek, whose blood weighs more than a million.

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Speaker 1: Bulls and goats and doves. That's who Jesus is.

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Speaker 2: He is the arbitrator and the mediator of a better covenant.

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Speaker 1: My covenant is not with Moses.

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Speaker 4: My covenant is not with my past. My covenant is

546
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Speaker 4: not with others. My covenant is not with my genetics.

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00:32:10,750 --> 00:32:13,710
Speaker 4: My covenant is not with my depression. My covenant is

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00:32:13,750 --> 00:32:16,890
Speaker 4: not with fear. My covenant is not with 10 spies.

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Speaker 4: My covenant is not with this staff. My covenant is

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Speaker 4: not with Pharaoh. My covenant is with my Father. I

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00:32:27,440 --> 00:32:29,760
Speaker 4: have a covenant, a better covenant.

552
00:32:32,330 --> 00:32:36,150
Speaker 2: Somebody shout, better, better, better, better, better, better.

553
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Speaker 1: It's going to be better, better, Better, better.

554
00:32:41,270 --> 00:32:45,710
Speaker 2: So, be careful what you copy from before when God

555
00:32:45,770 --> 00:32:57,920
Speaker 2: is trying to bring you into something better. Oh, I'm

556
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Speaker 2: so glad that I don't have to do it in

557
00:33:01,000 --> 00:33:02,700
Speaker 2: this season like I did it in that season.

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Speaker 1: He said, you're still ….

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Speaker 2: You know how we talked about copying the world when

560
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Speaker 2: we started the sermon? All those drug dealers and TikTokers

561
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Speaker 2: and all those evil people. That's not who the writer

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Speaker 2: of Hebrews was talking to. They weren't copying.

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Speaker 1: The world.

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Speaker 2: They were stuck in a copy of a copy of

565
00:33:33,130 --> 00:33:34,830
Speaker 2: a copy of a copy of a copy.

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Speaker 1: Of worship that was external. Wouldn't that be hard?

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Speaker 2: I can't even drive when I go to London, because

568
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Speaker 2: they drive on the wrong side of the road.

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Speaker 1: That's right. It's the wrong side of the road. It's pounds,

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Speaker 1: not kilograms, too, while we're at it.

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Speaker 2: That's hard for me to even drive on the other

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Speaker 2: side of the road.

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Speaker 1: They're having to believe. They never personally saw Jesus.

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Speaker 2: They're having to believe in that and let go of

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00:34:14,420 --> 00:34:16,029
Speaker 2: what they were always taught would bring them to God.

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Speaker 2: If I can make this practical, because I know that's

577
00:34:20,890 --> 00:34:25,190
Speaker 2: a little abstract … Most of what we copy in

578
00:34:25,250 --> 00:34:30,069
Speaker 2: relationships is not what we were taught but what we

579
00:34:30,170 --> 00:34:34,080
Speaker 2: caught from the relational dynamics we were around.

580
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Speaker 1: Do you know how coronavirus is contagious? So is crazy.

581
00:34:42,480 --> 00:34:44,180
Speaker 1: They don't make a mask for that yet.

582
00:34:44,200 --> 00:34:46,450
Speaker 2: If they could invent a mask for that, how many

583
00:34:46,489 --> 00:34:47,170
Speaker 2: of y'all would buy it?

584
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Speaker 1: $ 50? $ 100? One of the first things me and Holly

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Speaker 1: did when we sat down … This was after we

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00:34:58,570 --> 00:35:00,129
Speaker 1: had about three or four fights in our marriage, which

587
00:35:00,150 --> 00:35:01,029
Speaker 1: we started talking about.

588
00:35:01,530 --> 00:35:04,910
Speaker 2: How did your parents fight? How did my parents fight?

589
00:35:07,340 --> 00:35:12,480
Speaker 2: What are we subconsciously copying? from the way we saw

590
00:35:12,520 --> 00:35:16,600
Speaker 2: conflict handled that is good? What have we subconsciously copied

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00:35:16,620 --> 00:35:19,890
Speaker 2: that needs to go based on who we are, based

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00:35:19,930 --> 00:35:24,810
Speaker 2: on our personalities, based on our calling? I honor where

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Speaker 2: I came from, and I honor what I saw, but

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Speaker 2: I don't have to copy what I saw when it

595
00:35:33,510 --> 00:35:34,720
Speaker 2: no longer fits what I'm called to.

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Speaker 1: I'm going to give you that again, because you just

597
00:35:37,780 --> 00:35:41,279
Speaker 1: missed that filet mignon. What did I say again?

598
00:35:43,370 --> 00:35:48,089
Speaker 2: I don't have to copy what I saw. I can

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00:35:48,110 --> 00:35:51,310
Speaker 2: honor it, but I don't have to copy it. I

600
00:35:51,330 --> 00:35:53,700
Speaker 2: can honor the tradition. Thank you, Moses. You built the

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Speaker 2: tabernacle in the wilderness. Thank you, high priest. That's the

602
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Speaker 2: line of Aaron. Thank you for that. There's nothing wrong

603
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Speaker 2: with that. In many ways, it's a continuation of that,

604
00:36:03,830 --> 00:36:06,290
Speaker 2: but are you copying something you're no longer called to?

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00:36:07,380 --> 00:36:09,460
Speaker 2: And another thing … This is what happened with the Pharisees.

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Speaker 2: Do you remember the Pharisees and the Sadducees? They were sad,

607
00:36:13,940 --> 00:36:18,460
Speaker 2: you see, because they esteemed the traditions of men above

608
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Speaker 2: the traditions of God. That's what happened to them.

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Speaker 1: What does that mean?

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Speaker 2: That means that as the law was given from Moses,

611
00:36:23,950 --> 00:36:26,310
Speaker 2: the law was good, but as it got copied …

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00:36:29,430 --> 00:36:31,050
Speaker 2: A copy of a copy of a copy of a

613
00:36:31,090 --> 00:36:32,940
Speaker 2: copy of a copy … Now, here's what had happened

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00:36:32,980 --> 00:36:35,220
Speaker 2: by the time Jesus showed up on the scene. They

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00:36:35,239 --> 00:36:41,290
Speaker 2: were still preaching God's commandments and copying those, but they

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Speaker 2: had lost God's heart to the point where if a

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Speaker 2: man got healed on the Sabbath, they would say, you

618
00:36:47,570 --> 00:36:51,590
Speaker 2: can't do that. They copied the commandments. Jesus said Sabbath

619
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Speaker 2: was made for man, not man for the Sabbath. In

620
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Speaker 2: copying it, they lost the quality of it. A lot

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Speaker 2: of our life growing up … Everybody over 30 makes

622
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Speaker 2: some noise. There's some stuff that isn't bad, but you're

623
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Speaker 2: standing in front of something better. If you copy the

624
00:37:14,630 --> 00:37:17,540
Speaker 2: way you did it before … As God is trying

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00:37:17,580 --> 00:37:19,780
Speaker 2: to bring you better … I'll give you an example

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Speaker 2: from Moses' life. He did this one time. The people

627
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Speaker 2: were thirsty one time in the wilderness. Moses is like,' Why, God?

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Speaker 1: Why?' Like you're running.

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Speaker 2: Carpool in a couple of weeks, okay?

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Speaker 1: Why, God? Why?

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Speaker 2: So the Lord is like,' Well, take that staff I

632
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Speaker 2: gave you and strike the rock, and then the water

633
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Speaker 2: will come out.' He's like,' Really?' He's like,' Really. I'm

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Speaker 2: going to show the people that I'm God.' He's like,

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Speaker 2: all right. The same staff … Remember it? I preached

636
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Speaker 2: a few weeks ago. He parts the sea with it. Well,

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Speaker 2: now he strikes the rock with it. Here comes the water,

638
00:37:48,800 --> 00:37:50,680
Speaker 2: and the people drink, and God doesn't kill them, and

639
00:37:50,719 --> 00:37:55,790
Speaker 2: they go on to complain some more. Now, you have

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Speaker 2: to go all the way to the end. Here's something

641
00:37:57,390 --> 00:38:00,170
Speaker 2: that says in Hebrews. It says in Hebrews 13.7. Look

642
00:38:00,190 --> 00:38:02,569
Speaker 2: at it later. Remember your leaders who spoke the word

643
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Speaker 2: of God concerning you and considered the outcome of their

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Speaker 2: way of life.

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Speaker 1: Now, when we're looking at somebody's Instagram feed, we're not

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Speaker 1: seeing the outcome of their their way of life. We're

647
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Speaker 1: seeing the snapshot.

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Speaker 2: Even when you interact with people in church, they do

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Speaker 2: not always lift their hands like they were doing 35

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Speaker 2: minutes ago. They're not always so peaceful and so worshipful

651
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Speaker 2: and so holy. So don't judge yourself according to that,

652
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Speaker 2: but the Scripture says consider the outcome.

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Speaker 1: Of their way of life.

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Speaker 2: The reason Moses couldn't lead the people in is because

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Speaker 2: in his frustration about the people's grumbling, This is crazy,

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Speaker 2: because I think I've done this before. God told him

657
00:38:47,070 --> 00:38:50,290
Speaker 2: the second time they were thirsty in the wilderness, speak

658
00:38:50,350 --> 00:38:53,989
Speaker 2: to the rock, and the water will flow out. But

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Speaker 2: Moses didn't want to speak to the rock. He wanted

660
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Speaker 2: to do it how he did it before. So, in

661
00:38:59,890 --> 00:39:03,009
Speaker 2: his frustration … You've been frustrated lately. So, what you've

662
00:39:03,030 --> 00:39:05,029
Speaker 2: been doing … This is what Moses did. It says

663
00:39:05,070 --> 00:39:08,790
Speaker 2: he struck the rock that God told him to speak to.

664
00:39:09,750 --> 00:39:11,190
Speaker 2: I'm going to do it like I did it before.

665
00:39:12,500 --> 00:39:16,319
Speaker 2: I don't care what you say, God. I'm going to

666
00:39:16,340 --> 00:39:17,480
Speaker 2: get my way.

667
00:39:18,780 --> 00:39:22,870
Speaker 1: Right away. I'm going to do this the way it

668
00:39:22,910 --> 00:39:24,890
Speaker 1: benefits me. I'm the man. I'm Moses.

669
00:39:29,580 --> 00:39:38,020
Speaker 2: He didn't get into the promise, because he copied the

670
00:39:38,120 --> 00:39:41,759
Speaker 2: way God told him to do it before. What I

671
00:39:41,800 --> 00:39:43,700
Speaker 2: was wondering while I was praying … I pray for y'all.

672
00:39:44,040 --> 00:39:46,359
Speaker 2: By the time we get together … I've been with

673
00:39:46,410 --> 00:39:46,910
Speaker 2: you all week.

674
00:39:48,900 --> 00:39:50,600
Speaker 1: I'm serious. I've been with you all week.

675
00:39:51,580 --> 00:39:54,259
Speaker 2: I thought about how you are praying about some things

676
00:39:54,300 --> 00:39:57,740
Speaker 2: in your life right now. You need water from a rock,

677
00:39:57,800 --> 00:40:00,180
Speaker 2: water in the wilderness. That could be provision. That could

678
00:40:00,200 --> 00:40:02,580
Speaker 2: be an emotional need you have. If I take it

679
00:40:02,680 --> 00:40:06,620
Speaker 2: all the way, I see some of you trying to

680
00:40:06,660 --> 00:40:11,710
Speaker 2: do what you did 10 years ago, and it's not working, so.

681
00:40:11,610 --> 00:40:12,430
Speaker 1: You are stuck.

682
00:40:13,380 --> 00:40:17,020
Speaker 2: Because you are copying the way you struck the rock.

683
00:40:17,080 --> 00:40:19,440
Speaker 2: Now God is giving you a new way to do it,

684
00:40:20,370 --> 00:40:24,930
Speaker 2: but you won't do it the new way. As long

685
00:40:24,989 --> 00:40:28,010
Speaker 2: as I copy the way I did it back then …

686
00:40:28,190 --> 00:40:30,009
Speaker 2: I got a text from a friend the other day,

687
00:40:30,350 --> 00:40:31,650
Speaker 2: and he said, I want you to understand you're in

688
00:40:31,690 --> 00:40:33,850
Speaker 2: a new season as a preacher now. I said, Tell

689
00:40:33,870 --> 00:40:36,110
Speaker 2: me about it. He said, It's the season of a father.

690
00:40:39,090 --> 00:40:44,260
Speaker 2: You're no longer a 26-year-old church planter. When you preach,

691
00:40:45,580 --> 00:40:50,140
Speaker 2: step into your role as a father now. I said,

692
00:40:50,180 --> 00:40:51,950
Speaker 2: I have people in the church who are 20 years

693
00:40:52,030 --> 00:40:56,430
Speaker 2: older than me. He said, it's not about chronology. It's

694
00:40:56,469 --> 00:40:57,090
Speaker 2: about calling.

695
00:41:04,690 --> 00:41:09,080
Speaker 1: God is giving you permission to do it different. To

696
00:41:09,120 --> 00:41:09,740
Speaker 1: do it different.

697
00:41:09,760 --> 00:41:11,020
Speaker 2: Say it.

698
00:41:11,020 --> 00:41:13,230
Speaker 1: Do it different. Do it different. Tell the person next

699
00:41:13,330 --> 00:41:15,210
Speaker 1: to you, do it different. You have to do it different.

700
00:41:15,430 --> 00:41:17,750
Speaker 2: If you keep hitting stuff the way you're hitting stuff,

701
00:41:18,070 --> 00:41:20,760
Speaker 2: if you keep doing things out of frustration, if you

702
00:41:20,780 --> 00:41:24,540
Speaker 2: keep trying to copy what you did before … See,

703
00:41:24,580 --> 00:41:24,940
Speaker 2: this is.

704
00:41:24,900 --> 00:41:27,100
Speaker 1: What gets me. I heard a guy one time.

705
00:41:27,140 --> 00:41:29,739
Speaker 2: He was standing up to preach to his congregation, and

706
00:41:29,780 --> 00:41:34,440
Speaker 2: he said, I wish I could have coffee with everybody

707
00:41:34,460 --> 00:41:36,819
Speaker 2: in this church and share what I'm going to share

708
00:41:36,840 --> 00:41:37,420
Speaker 2: with you today.

709
00:41:39,239 --> 00:41:43,140
Speaker 1: I sat there and thought, well, you could. The church

710
00:41:43,160 --> 00:41:43,980
Speaker 1: had 40.

711
00:41:43,640 --> 00:41:49,120
Speaker 2: People in it, so you could knock that out by

712
00:41:49,180 --> 00:41:56,860
Speaker 2: Thursday if you're really motivated. He had heard another pastor

713
00:41:56,900 --> 00:42:00,680
Speaker 2: who pastored 30,000 people say that, and he thought, well,

714
00:42:00,719 --> 00:42:04,029
Speaker 2: that sounds cool. So now he gets up and copies

715
00:42:04,989 --> 00:42:08,690
Speaker 2: in his context what he saw somebody else do in

716
00:42:08,710 --> 00:42:12,130
Speaker 2: a context that is not his context. This is like …

717
00:42:12,150 --> 00:42:15,370
Speaker 2: Remember when David put on the armor of Saul, and

718
00:42:15,390 --> 00:42:17,509
Speaker 2: he walked around for a moment, and he has to

719
00:42:17,570 --> 00:42:20,390
Speaker 2: fight Goliath? He's like, I guess you'll give me whatever

720
00:42:20,430 --> 00:42:21,490
Speaker 2: the guy wears who fights.

721
00:42:21,670 --> 00:42:23,430
Speaker 1: Saul is like, Here you go. You can wear mine.

722
00:42:23,930 --> 00:42:26,450
Speaker 1: David walks around in them a little bit, and he's like,

723
00:42:28,090 --> 00:42:31,940
Speaker 1: This is heavy. This is weird. This is not me

724
00:42:32,000 --> 00:42:32,359
Speaker 1: right now.

725
00:42:33,420 --> 00:42:36,920
Speaker 2: I think I would be better off with my slingshot …

726
00:42:37,800 --> 00:42:40,359
Speaker 2: with what God called me to do. I know this

727
00:42:40,420 --> 00:42:43,239
Speaker 2: is how you would fight, but I have to do

728
00:42:43,300 --> 00:42:48,940
Speaker 2: it differently. Some of you, as teenagers, God is going.

729
00:42:48,820 --> 00:42:50,380
Speaker 1: To show you you don't have.

730
00:42:50,239 --> 00:42:53,950
Speaker 2: To go to every party, because at the end of popularity,

731
00:42:53,969 --> 00:42:57,049
Speaker 2: a lot of the people who are so popular are

732
00:42:57,110 --> 00:42:59,450
Speaker 2: going home so miserable. I tell you, I'm a dad

733
00:42:59,489 --> 00:43:03,609
Speaker 2: right now. I'm preaching like a dad. Parents, we don't

734
00:43:03,630 --> 00:43:06,330
Speaker 2: have to copy the way everybody else raises their kids.

735
00:43:08,120 --> 00:43:12,270
Speaker 2: You have permission to break tradition with whatever does not

736
00:43:12,350 --> 00:43:15,690
Speaker 2: fit your calling. You have to build in the valley

737
00:43:16,170 --> 00:43:22,819
Speaker 2: what God showed you on the mountain. In case you

738
00:43:22,860 --> 00:43:26,260
Speaker 2: haven't noticed, we live in a culture that worships our.

739
00:43:26,200 --> 00:43:29,360
Speaker 1: Kids at the expense of our families.

740
00:43:31,330 --> 00:43:34,170
Speaker 2: I had moments when the kids were all playing sports

741
00:43:34,190 --> 00:43:36,790
Speaker 2: where I said, Nobody's coming to your game tonight. We're

742
00:43:36,810 --> 00:43:38,629
Speaker 2: dropping you off, and we're going on a date, because

743
00:43:38,680 --> 00:43:40,359
Speaker 2: I haven't been with your mom in two weeks. After

744
00:43:40,400 --> 00:43:41,700
Speaker 2: you leave me, she's going to be the only one

745
00:43:41,739 --> 00:43:42,520
Speaker 2: I have left in the house.

746
00:43:42,940 --> 00:43:44,350
Speaker 1: I'll pick you up, and you can tell me about it,

747
00:43:44,600 --> 00:43:54,560
Speaker 1: and maybe somebody else will get a video. So what?

748
00:43:54,600 --> 00:43:57,800
Speaker 2: I'm supposed to parent them like they're all Serena and Venus,

749
00:43:57,820 --> 00:43:59,100
Speaker 2: like I'm supposed to be.

750
00:43:59,180 --> 00:44:00,140
Speaker 1: Tiger Woods' dad?

751
00:44:00,469 --> 00:44:00,790
Speaker 2: I know.

752
00:44:00,890 --> 00:44:04,250
Speaker 1: Culturally inappropriate reference. A lot of stuff comes along with

753
00:44:04,390 --> 00:44:04,870
Speaker 1: all of this.

754
00:44:05,250 --> 00:44:08,970
Speaker 2: Everybody has to do it the way God shows you

755
00:44:09,250 --> 00:44:15,740
Speaker 2: to do it. But what happens is we start building

756
00:44:16,020 --> 00:44:20,270
Speaker 2: according to somebody else's blueprint. Whether it's the world, whether

757
00:44:20,310 --> 00:44:22,549
Speaker 2: it's the concept of God you were handed that is

758
00:44:22,570 --> 00:44:24,830
Speaker 2: not accurate to the Scripture, you need to read the

759
00:44:24,910 --> 00:44:25,970
Speaker 2: Bible for yourself.

760
00:44:30,840 --> 00:44:33,390
Speaker 1: I'm not your professional Holy Spirit. I'm a preacher.

761
00:44:34,780 --> 00:44:36,760
Speaker 2: You need to get in Hebrews and say, Well, Pastor

762
00:44:36,780 --> 00:44:38,899
Speaker 2: Steven missed this part. Now, this part was the best part.

763
00:44:39,160 --> 00:44:40,940
Speaker 2: He said that, but that made me wonder about that.

764
00:44:41,660 --> 00:44:45,029
Speaker 1: If it's just a copy … of a copy of

765
00:44:45,090 --> 00:44:51,239
Speaker 1: a copy of a copy of a copy … I'm

766
00:44:51,280 --> 00:44:56,020
Speaker 1: just Pearl Jam. I'm not Jimmy. I'm not Jesus. Neither

767
00:44:56,080 --> 00:44:56,680
Speaker 1: is Moses.

768
00:44:59,420 --> 00:45:03,160
Speaker 2: Neither are your broke friends you're taking financial advice from

769
00:45:03,180 --> 00:45:05,440
Speaker 2: or your unmarried friends who are giving you marriage advice.

770
00:45:05,480 --> 00:45:08,550
Speaker 1: Well, I would tell them. I bet you would. Your

771
00:45:08,610 --> 00:45:14,859
Speaker 1: imaginary marriage. I feel the spirit of Dave Ramsey coming

772
00:45:14,980 --> 00:45:15,160
Speaker 1: on me.

773
00:45:17,300 --> 00:45:23,850
Speaker 2: Anyway, be careful to obey the word I have given you, Joshua.

774
00:45:24,250 --> 00:45:26,910
Speaker 2: You're going to go somewhere they couldn't go. You're going

775
00:45:26,930 --> 00:45:30,109
Speaker 2: to do something they couldn't do. You're going to break chains.

776
00:45:29,810 --> 00:45:31,150
Speaker 1: That held them all their life.

777
00:45:31,530 --> 00:45:34,980
Speaker 2: Now you do it and be strong and courageous.

778
00:45:43,070 --> 00:45:45,170
Speaker 1: Stop copying crazy.

779
00:45:45,190 --> 00:45:50,160
Speaker 2: Because you don't want to be weird.

780
00:45:51,340 --> 00:45:52,520
Speaker 1: I want to be weird.

781
00:45:53,760 --> 00:45:56,910
Speaker 2: If what I'm seeing in this world right now is normal,

782
00:45:57,370 --> 00:45:58,650
Speaker 2: God make me weird.

783
00:45:58,950 --> 00:46:00,810
Speaker 1: I want to be the weirdest one there is.

784
00:46:07,420 --> 00:46:09,529
Speaker 2: Y'all not let your kids listen to that rock and

785
00:46:09,570 --> 00:46:10,990
Speaker 2: roll music and that rap music.

786
00:46:11,030 --> 00:46:14,310
Speaker 1: I'll tell you what. Right now, that's bad. They're the devil.

787
00:46:14,910 --> 00:46:16,870
Speaker 2: I saw all the kids that went off after their

788
00:46:16,930 --> 00:46:19,810
Speaker 2: parents didn't experience anything with them. I have to decide

789
00:46:19,850 --> 00:46:23,680
Speaker 2: how to raise my kid. Y'all, I put a picture

790
00:46:23,700 --> 00:46:25,060
Speaker 2: of me on a … We might take this out

791
00:46:25,080 --> 00:46:26,020
Speaker 2: before we put it on YouTube.

792
00:46:26,060 --> 00:46:26,560
Speaker 1: Y'all check with me.

793
00:46:28,320 --> 00:46:30,260
Speaker 2: I put a picture of me one time with the kids.

794
00:46:30,460 --> 00:46:32,640
Speaker 1: We went to see God's Team, the Clemson Tigers. Sorry, pal.

795
00:46:33,300 --> 00:46:35,350
Speaker 1: He's got a Gamecock shirt on.

796
00:46:35,370 --> 00:46:37,920
Speaker 2: I had on a Guns N' Roses shirt … Now,

797
00:46:38,120 --> 00:46:41,680
Speaker 2: all the comments on the picture said, why are you

798
00:46:41,700 --> 00:46:46,299
Speaker 2: wearing a Guns N' Roses shirt? That's worldly. Not as

799
00:46:46,340 --> 00:46:52,529
Speaker 2: good as you're spending time with your kids. Like you

800
00:46:52,550 --> 00:47:01,910
Speaker 2: live in a monastery. So, be careful what you copy.

801
00:47:02,610 --> 00:47:07,219
Speaker 2: Be careful that you don't copy the condemnation. that other

802
00:47:07,260 --> 00:47:09,859
Speaker 2: people put on you. This is the last thing I'll

803
00:47:09,880 --> 00:47:12,120
Speaker 2: tell you, and then I will just be quiet, and

804
00:47:12,160 --> 00:47:13,490
Speaker 2: I will go baptize Graham.

805
00:47:13,790 --> 00:47:15,509
Speaker 1: And I'm going to have the best time doing it.

806
00:47:16,090 --> 00:47:18,390
Speaker 1: I'm baptizing him not in my name, in Jesus' name.

807
00:47:21,030 --> 00:47:27,009
Speaker 1: I want you to do it like Jesus did it.

808
00:47:27,050 --> 00:47:29,850
Speaker 2: I wanted to tell you one more thing God told Joshua.

809
00:47:30,570 --> 00:47:32,770
Speaker 2: Be careful what you copy in your heart, for it

810
00:47:32,790 --> 00:47:38,489
Speaker 2: will set the direction of your life. You hear what

811
00:47:38,510 --> 00:47:43,430
Speaker 2: he told Joshua? He said, Meditate on this book of

812
00:47:43,469 --> 00:47:45,630
Speaker 2: the law that Moses gave you. Don't be like Moses.

813
00:47:45,650 --> 00:47:47,830
Speaker 2: You're different than Moses, but I want you to take

814
00:47:47,870 --> 00:47:49,650
Speaker 2: the same word of God that was given to him.

815
00:47:51,950 --> 00:47:53,890
Speaker 1: What a brilliant thought.

816
00:47:55,200 --> 00:47:57,980
Speaker 2: What I copy in my heart … He said, I

817
00:47:58,020 --> 00:48:00,020
Speaker 2: want you to meditate on what I spoke over you

818
00:48:00,860 --> 00:48:02,400
Speaker 2: so you can lead these people.

819
00:48:02,160 --> 00:48:02,960
Speaker 1: Where I called you to go.

820
00:48:02,980 --> 00:48:08,529
Speaker 2: Do you see how meditation sets direction? A lot of us,

821
00:48:08,570 --> 00:48:11,649
Speaker 2: with what we do with different things that we've thought

822
00:48:11,690 --> 00:48:14,570
Speaker 2: about ourselves, said about ourselves, agreed with about ourselves, condemnation

823
00:48:14,590 --> 00:48:16,410
Speaker 2: the enemy has put on us, we do a copy

824
00:48:16,430 --> 00:48:16,870
Speaker 2: and paste.

825
00:48:18,830 --> 00:48:21,230
Speaker 1: So, we take something like, you know, that I'm unworthy.

826
00:48:22,230 --> 00:48:23,870
Speaker 1: We take something like that I'm not good enough, that

827
00:48:23,910 --> 00:48:27,330
Speaker 1: I'll never be, that I da-da-da, da-da-da. And so, then

828
00:48:27,370 --> 00:48:28,340
Speaker 1: I copy and paste it.

829
00:48:29,690 --> 00:48:31,649
Speaker 2: I almost did an illustration where I wanted to show

830
00:48:31,690 --> 00:48:33,550
Speaker 2: you what would happen to the screen if you copied

831
00:48:33,590 --> 00:48:34,850
Speaker 2: and pasted that over and over again.

832
00:48:35,260 --> 00:48:41,430
Speaker 1: It would fill up. I'm unworthy. You know what? Apart

833
00:48:41,450 --> 00:48:46,610
Speaker 1: from the grace of God, we are. You know how

834
00:48:46,650 --> 00:48:54,819
Speaker 1: they say sometimes on walkie-talkie, they say, copy that? Copy that.

835
00:48:56,360 --> 00:48:56,779
Speaker 1: Copy that.

836
00:48:58,180 --> 00:49:00,160
Speaker 2: What God wants you to do is start meditating on

837
00:49:00,219 --> 00:49:05,690
Speaker 2: his words, not the ones somebody else spoke, and copy

838
00:49:05,710 --> 00:49:07,130
Speaker 2: it in your heart. He said, I'm going to give

839
00:49:07,150 --> 00:49:10,319
Speaker 2: you a new covenant. a better covenant. It's not written

840
00:49:10,360 --> 00:49:14,469
Speaker 2: on tablets of stone, because those break. I'm going to

841
00:49:14,489 --> 00:49:16,549
Speaker 2: put it on your heart, and I'm going to give

842
00:49:16,570 --> 00:49:19,430
Speaker 2: your heart a flesh. I want you to take your

843
00:49:20,700 --> 00:49:22,200
Speaker 2: to take your Bible, and I want you to take

844
00:49:22,239 --> 00:49:25,060
Speaker 2: what God has spoken over your life, and I want

845
00:49:25,080 --> 00:49:29,500
Speaker 2: you to copy that. I want you to find out

846
00:49:29,540 --> 00:49:31,350
Speaker 2: what he called you, what he gifted you to do,

847
00:49:31,510 --> 00:49:33,310
Speaker 2: what he put the seed of potential in for you,

848
00:49:33,570 --> 00:49:37,810
Speaker 2: and copy that. Don't get so caught up in trying

849
00:49:37,830 --> 00:49:41,390
Speaker 2: to copy something you're not you never find out who

850
00:49:41,410 --> 00:49:45,770
Speaker 2: you are. You will have to be strong and courageous,

851
00:49:45,850 --> 00:49:50,280
Speaker 2: because you live in a culture that copies crazy. It'll

852
00:49:50,320 --> 00:49:56,799
Speaker 2: take faith, and it'll take focus. But if God said

853
00:49:56,860 --> 00:50:06,700
Speaker 2: that you are his child, copy that. When God speaks

854
00:50:06,760 --> 00:50:09,690
Speaker 2: that I'm going to take even the mistakes you've made

855
00:50:09,730 --> 00:50:12,150
Speaker 2: in your life, and I'm going to whip them up

856
00:50:12,210 --> 00:50:15,890
Speaker 2: into something you'll be testifying about as a miracle three

857
00:50:15,930 --> 00:50:16,520
Speaker 2: months from now.

858
00:50:18,120 --> 00:50:18,779
Speaker 1: Then copy that.

859
00:50:21,680 --> 00:50:24,680
Speaker 2: I have these moments where God uses somebody to encourage me,

860
00:50:24,980 --> 00:50:27,040
Speaker 2: and my first instinct is to cancel it out. Oh,

861
00:50:27,060 --> 00:50:29,160
Speaker 2: they just said that because they're being nice. Oh, they're

862
00:50:29,200 --> 00:50:31,969
Speaker 2: just complimenting me because they're sucking up because I'm the boss. Oh,

863
00:50:32,010 --> 00:50:33,790
Speaker 2: she just said that because she has to live with me,

864
00:50:33,830 --> 00:50:35,029
Speaker 2: and she doesn't want me in a bad mood.

865
00:50:35,489 --> 00:50:38,930
Speaker 1: I'll cancel it. instead of copying it.

866
00:50:42,110 --> 00:50:44,569
Speaker 2: Then somebody says something mean about me, negative about me,

867
00:50:44,610 --> 00:50:45,839
Speaker 2: or they don't even have to say it. I say

868
00:50:45,860 --> 00:50:53,600
Speaker 2: it to myself, and you want to copy that? Anyway,

869
00:50:53,640 --> 00:50:56,290
Speaker 2: when I baptize you in a minute, can you come up?

870
00:50:57,360 --> 00:50:58,989
Speaker 2: We won't wrestle this time. Yeah, just come all the

871
00:50:59,030 --> 00:51:01,840
Speaker 2: way up. Were y'all here when I wrestled with him?

872
00:51:10,270 --> 00:51:18,560
Speaker 2: This is Graham. He says funny stuff like, How am

873
00:51:18,600 --> 00:51:22,260
Speaker 2: I so ripped in every part of my body? Nobody

874
00:51:22,300 --> 00:51:28,240
Speaker 2: else in our family is naturally muscular. When I baptize

875
00:51:28,260 --> 00:51:28,819
Speaker 2: you in just a.

876
00:51:29,550 --> 00:51:41,120
Speaker 1: Minute … It'll be after the cameras are off and

877
00:51:41,140 --> 00:51:42,680
Speaker 1: all that.

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Speaker 2: I asked Mom to get you here early today, but

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Speaker 2: then I decided just to do it now because the

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Speaker 2: Lord told me to end my sermon this way because

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Speaker 2: he would use it to speak to others, so I'm going.

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Speaker 1: To say it to you.

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Speaker 2: This Bible I started preaching from right after you were born.

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Speaker 2: I had given the big one, the life application one,

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Speaker 2: to Elijah, the one that sits by his bed.

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Speaker 1: He's actually been reading it a lot lately, so that's good.

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Speaker 1: And Every time I preached a passage, I highlighted it,

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Speaker 1: and I put what I preached.

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Speaker 2: I've been saving it for you. I want to give

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Speaker 2: it to you today. I wrote you a letter, and

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Speaker 2: I told you a story. You can read that later.

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Speaker 2: I marked in it where Jesus was baptized. Even Jesus

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Speaker 2: was baptized. He was setting the example. You're not Jesus.

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Speaker 1: You're nothing close. I'm not John the Baptist, but when

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Speaker 1: you're going to be baptized as a symbol, it's you

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Speaker 1: emulating the death of Christ and the resurrection of Christ

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Speaker 1: and the washing away of your sin. It doesn't save you,

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Speaker 1: but it says that you're saved and that you belong

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Speaker 1: to Christ.

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Speaker 2: In the note … I highlighted this for you, and

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Speaker 2: I put it all in the letter, but just in

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Speaker 2: case it helps somebody else … When Jesus was baptized,

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Speaker 2: a voice from heaven said, This is my Son, whom

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Speaker 2: I love. With him I am well pleased. I want

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Speaker 2: you to copy that in your heart.

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Speaker 1: I'm concerned that the culture is going to copy of

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Speaker 1: a copy of a copy of a copy. The Devil

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Speaker 1: will try to tell you all kinds of things through

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Speaker 1: your life that you're not called or you're not chosen

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Speaker 1: or it's not worth it or you're missing out by

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Speaker 1: following Christ and all that. It's not true. I want

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Speaker 1: you to copy that.

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Speaker 2: The craziest thing is God said that to Jesus before

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Speaker 2: he opened any blind eyes, before he multiplied fish and loaves,

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Speaker 2: before he did any of his miracles.

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Speaker 1: God said, I love you. I'm pleased with you. Copy that.

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Speaker 1: Feels awkward? No? It's good, though. When you go down

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Speaker 1: in that water, I want you to know that you

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Speaker 1: can die to the old. When you come up out

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Speaker 1: of the water, you're raised to walk in the newness

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Speaker 1: of life. Copy that. Stand up on your feet. Scripture

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Speaker 1: says in Ephesians 5.1, be imitators of God as dearly

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Speaker 1: loved children.

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Speaker 2: When you didn't see the model of love, it's hard

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Speaker 2: to recreate it. When you didn't see the model of acceptance,

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Speaker 2: it's hard to recreate it. But today there is a

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Speaker 2: voice from heaven speaking over you too. There is a

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Speaker 2: better covenant. This is my child. Do I'm well pleased?

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Speaker 2: Copy that. Father, I speak your word over every man

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Speaker 2: and woman today, from the ones that are 10 feet

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Speaker 2: away from me to.

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Speaker 1: The ones who are thousands of miles removed. I pray

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Speaker 1: that as your word comes from heaven.

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Speaker 2: Like the rain that falls, like the snow that comes down,

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Speaker 2: and accomplishes its purpose … your word would replenish and

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Speaker 2: multiply the seed that is in our heart today. We

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Speaker 2: thank you that you are bringing us into something better

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Speaker 2: than Egypt, better than the world's customs. We thank you

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Speaker 2: that you are bringing us into something better than Moses.

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Speaker 2: You're better than we ever thought you could be.

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Speaker 1: When your word speaks one thing and our fear speaks another,

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Speaker 1: we choose to agree with what you spoke. We will

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Speaker 1: copy that. In the name of Jesus, I pray.

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Speaker 2: Amen. Take a screenshot and share it on your social

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Speaker 2: stories and tag us at Elevation Church.

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Speaker 1: Thanks again for listening. God bless you.