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Speaker 1: How y'all doing Elevation now? This is your first time here,

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Speaker 1: right now, You're like, yo, Bester, Stephen looked different. Let

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Speaker 1: me help you a little bit. I am not faster, Stephen. Verdict.

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Speaker 1: My name is Robert Madeu and I'm home. I'm home.

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Speaker 1: And the reason there was no introduction is because you

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Speaker 1: don't introduce family. I'm part of the Elevation family and

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Speaker 1: I've had the privilege to come to this church now

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Speaker 1: the last three or four years, and it is always

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Speaker 1: just the highest honor to be here. How many know

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Speaker 1: you are a part of the greatest church on the planet,

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Speaker 1: Like y'all are crazy blessed. And I'm not just saying

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Speaker 1: that as a matter of fact. The reason Pastor Stephen

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Speaker 1: is not here and Passor Holly's not here in the

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Speaker 1: sum of the team is Elevation Nights are happening right

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Speaker 1: now in so many different cities. And if you need

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Speaker 1: empirical evidence for how awesome this church is, you realize

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Speaker 1: people across the nation are paying to pack out arenas

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Speaker 1: for what you get for free. Earth y'all are crazy blessed,

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Speaker 1: and that's a gift that should not be taken for granted.

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Speaker 1: I pray you never take this church for granted. How

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Speaker 1: pray you never take your pastors for granted, or two

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Speaker 1: of the greatest people, not just leaders, but people on

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Speaker 1: the planet. So right now, in case they're watching, which

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Speaker 1: I have the strain suspicion they might be, can we

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Speaker 1: let pastors Stephen and Holly Ferdick know how much we

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Speaker 1: love them, how much we appreciate them. Come on, y'all

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Speaker 1: can do better than that across every location. E fam,

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Speaker 1: help me thank God for your pastors, for your leaders.

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Speaker 1: I absolutely positively love them so much. I bring you

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Speaker 1: greetings from the great country of Texas and my wife Taylor,

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Speaker 1: she sends her love. She is holding down the fort

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Speaker 1: at home. A year ago, in fact, we just celebrated

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Speaker 1: our one year anniversary. We planted a church called Social Dallas,

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Speaker 1: and we're seeing God do incredible things. But here's another

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Speaker 1: thing you need to know about your pastors. A year ago,

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Speaker 1: when we launched out to plant this church, one of

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Speaker 1: the first checks that we ever received, as we were

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Speaker 1: just stepping out on faith, was from your pastor saying,

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Speaker 1: Come on, you have an incredibly generous leader, and he

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Speaker 1: just did it, didn't put on TikTok and nothing, just

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Speaker 1: just blessed us. And I love them so much and

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Speaker 1: counted the privilege to be here. And I can't wait

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Speaker 1: to preach the word if you're ready to hear it yet,

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Speaker 1: you come to get a word from God, and he

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Speaker 1: telling me if you feel like hearing it like I

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Speaker 1: I want you to go with me to Second Kings today,

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Speaker 1: Second King chapter five, and I want to look at

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Speaker 1: verse number nine and go to verse fourteen. The Second

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Speaker 1: King's chapter five, starting at verse number one. When you're

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Speaker 1: ready to read it, say yeah. If you're not ready,

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Speaker 1: you need some time to find this, say hold on,

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Speaker 1: I heard those hold ups. I'm away for you. I'm

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Speaker 1: Second King's Chapter five, And I really believe this is

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Speaker 1: number one, it says, now Naman was commander of the

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Speaker 1: But Namon went away angry and said, whom I thought,

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Speaker 1: Come on, I'm the only one like I thought you

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Speaker 1: his hand over the spot and cure me of my leprosy?

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Speaker 1: Can you say, a man, I love this passage. But

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Speaker 1: what got my attention is that when Nayman gets the

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Speaker 1: appreciate to you today at Elevation Church for about five

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Speaker 1: Cost of going off, The Cost of going off, quick

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Speaker 1: sermonic disclaimer. If you have never gone off or been

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Speaker 1: you have never had somebody say something so sideways to

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Speaker 1: ain't never done that. I ain't gonna work for you today.

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Speaker 1: Just gone go home? Love offee fail you've ever gone off,

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Speaker 1: This is gonna be good. Would you bow your heads?

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Speaker 1: Let's pray along. Prayer God, you are awesome, speak today? Amen.

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Speaker 1: Are there are there any parents in the house today?

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Speaker 1: Any parents? Can I see your hand? Come all the parents?

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Speaker 1: Make some noise? Been trying something different? Are there are

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Speaker 1: Y'all make some noise? Do you notice the difference in

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Speaker 1: the screens? See the reason y'all gotta all that NLC

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Speaker 1: Because you ain't in the fight of your life. You

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Speaker 1: don't know the pains. You don't know the struggle it

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Speaker 1: I had y'all scream first because I need to see

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Speaker 1: what my support group is today. Can't we be honest

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Speaker 1: parents that there is nothing more challenging. There was nothing

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Speaker 1: more daunting. Yes, this rewarding, but there was nothing more

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Speaker 1: often said, often said that if you're struggling to have

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Speaker 1: a prayer life, have some kids. Just have some kids,

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Speaker 1: and I promise you will pray real quick. If you

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Speaker 1: call on the name of the Father, the Son, and

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Speaker 1: I know. Let me show you my family. We have

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Speaker 1: I want you to see my family. There it is

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Speaker 1: And what the book postulates is that parenthood can and

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Speaker 1: Say excuse me, she said, that is the calm down corner.

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Speaker 1: She said. These kids are young, their brains are still

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Speaker 1: She said, that's the calm down corner. And as soon

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Speaker 1: like that. You need a calm down corner. As a

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Speaker 1: matter of fact, I think our world right now needs

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Speaker 1: there is, there is, there is, Oh my godness, do

424
00:26:04,000 --> 00:26:06,440
Speaker 1: you think I'll take a picture this? What's the name?

425
00:26:06,560 --> 00:26:08,720
Speaker 1: And he was on the cover of every wheaties box.

426
00:26:08,920 --> 00:26:11,439
Speaker 1: He is the one that every kid wanted to be like,

427
00:26:11,680 --> 00:26:14,879
Speaker 1: every man desired to be like every woman wanted name it,

428
00:26:15,240 --> 00:26:18,399
Speaker 1: naming what's the man? He had status. He had a

429
00:26:18,440 --> 00:26:22,560
Speaker 1: blue check next to his name, naming was the man

430
00:26:23,359 --> 00:26:27,200
Speaker 1: and the Bible lets you know right up front about

431
00:26:27,400 --> 00:26:30,919
Speaker 1: his status and who he was. And I think his

432
00:26:31,000 --> 00:26:35,320
Speaker 1: status is connected to his rage. Isn't it funny today

433
00:26:35,880 --> 00:26:40,880
Speaker 1: that everybody seems to be obsessed with status. Oh, everybody

434
00:26:40,920 --> 00:26:45,399
Speaker 1: wants to either be the somebody, beat the somebody, or

435
00:26:45,440 --> 00:26:49,960
Speaker 1: be connected to the somebody. Everybody wants status. Everybody wants

436
00:26:50,000 --> 00:26:52,560
Speaker 1: to be known. Everybody wants to be the person that

437
00:26:52,600 --> 00:26:55,359
Speaker 1: everybody looks at and goes, oh, there they are. We

438
00:26:55,440 --> 00:26:58,240
Speaker 1: are obsessed with status. If you don't believe it, talk

439
00:26:58,280 --> 00:27:00,840
Speaker 1: to a kid today. There used to be a time

440
00:27:00,880 --> 00:27:02,440
Speaker 1: in the history of a world. You talk to a kid,

441
00:27:02,560 --> 00:27:03,560
Speaker 1: you said, what do you want to be when you

442
00:27:03,560 --> 00:27:07,520
Speaker 1: grow up? They'll tak you firemen, school teacher. Ask the

443
00:27:07,600 --> 00:27:11,760
Speaker 1: kid today. They don't care famous, just name. Do you

444
00:27:11,760 --> 00:27:14,240
Speaker 1: see my TikTok video? We're just famous. They don't care.

445
00:27:14,400 --> 00:27:17,760
Speaker 1: Whatever will get views, they will climb on crates, they

446
00:27:17,760 --> 00:27:20,080
Speaker 1: will go crazy in the class, do a prank. As

447
00:27:20,240 --> 00:27:23,320
Speaker 1: long as I can get some status, as long as

448
00:27:23,320 --> 00:27:28,240
Speaker 1: I can get acknowledged. Not just kids, adults too, thinking

449
00:27:28,280 --> 00:27:30,800
Speaker 1: if I just got that house, if I just got

450
00:27:30,840 --> 00:27:34,880
Speaker 1: that job, I would be somebody, because we buy into

451
00:27:34,920 --> 00:27:39,840
Speaker 1: the live that if I just reached that place, whatever

452
00:27:39,880 --> 00:27:42,800
Speaker 1: that place is, then maybe I won't have any issues.

453
00:27:43,400 --> 00:27:46,679
Speaker 1: Maybe I won't have any problems. But Naming is a

454
00:27:46,680 --> 00:27:51,720
Speaker 1: beautiful picture that status and success does not stop suffering.

455
00:27:53,480 --> 00:27:56,480
Speaker 1: As a matter of fact, when you get successful, you

456
00:27:56,560 --> 00:27:59,919
Speaker 1: have to be careful because success has a way of

457
00:28:00,080 --> 00:28:04,760
Speaker 1: sedating you to the point that whenever you go through suffering,

458
00:28:05,400 --> 00:28:08,679
Speaker 1: it's generally not the suffering that destroys you. It's the

459
00:28:08,680 --> 00:28:10,879
Speaker 1: fact that you don't think you should be going through

460
00:28:13,040 --> 00:28:18,919
Speaker 1: what you're going through. Oh, Naming had the status. Naming

461
00:28:19,200 --> 00:28:23,639
Speaker 1: was the man until one day he came home, perhaps

462
00:28:23,720 --> 00:28:26,919
Speaker 1: after fighting the battle, and he's in the bathroom and

463
00:28:26,960 --> 00:28:30,119
Speaker 1: he takes off his armor. You know how you do

464
00:28:30,200 --> 00:28:31,960
Speaker 1: when it's just you and the house in the bathroom,

465
00:28:32,320 --> 00:28:36,440
Speaker 1: he's looking in the mirror. Who's the man? Name Man,

466
00:28:36,680 --> 00:28:41,360
Speaker 1: who's the man? Namen? You know how you do when

467
00:28:41,360 --> 00:28:46,400
Speaker 1: it's just you by yourself, and as he's looking and flexing,

468
00:28:47,680 --> 00:28:50,640
Speaker 1: perhaps he turns his back to go to his steam

469
00:28:50,760 --> 00:29:01,040
Speaker 1: shower and he sees us a spot on this again,

470
00:29:03,520 --> 00:29:07,160
Speaker 1: and the moment he sees the spot, he knows what

471
00:29:07,240 --> 00:29:11,440
Speaker 1: it is. Perhaps he falls to his knees in his

472
00:29:11,480 --> 00:29:16,000
Speaker 1: bathroom trying to figure out, how can I be such

473
00:29:16,000 --> 00:29:23,040
Speaker 1: a valiant soldier? And now I've gotten let proceed? How

474
00:29:23,040 --> 00:29:26,200
Speaker 1: did this happen to me? How do I have a spot?

475
00:29:27,440 --> 00:29:28,920
Speaker 1: Can I tell you? One of the first things I

476
00:29:28,960 --> 00:29:31,320
Speaker 1: saw in this text that you have to get today

477
00:29:32,360 --> 00:29:39,560
Speaker 1: is that everybody's got a spot. Everybody's got a spot.

478
00:29:39,600 --> 00:29:41,600
Speaker 1: I don't care how much money you have. I don't

479
00:29:41,600 --> 00:29:44,120
Speaker 1: care how saved you are. You could have floated into

480
00:29:44,160 --> 00:29:49,040
Speaker 1: a campus and had manner for breakfast. Every single person

481
00:29:49,560 --> 00:29:52,640
Speaker 1: has a spot, some area in your life that makes

482
00:29:52,680 --> 00:29:54,800
Speaker 1: you get on your knees and say God, I need you,

483
00:29:55,200 --> 00:29:57,600
Speaker 1: some area in your life that makes you say, God,

484
00:29:57,840 --> 00:29:59,920
Speaker 1: what is wrong with me? How can I be so

485
00:30:00,000 --> 00:30:02,800
Speaker 1: oh good over here? But I got this issue over here.

486
00:30:03,000 --> 00:30:08,440
Speaker 1: Everybody's got a spot, and don't let anybody's success for you.

487
00:30:08,520 --> 00:30:10,640
Speaker 1: Isn't it crazy? How you can be so good in

488
00:30:10,760 --> 00:30:16,680
Speaker 1: the boardroom horrible at home, so good with balancing the budget,

489
00:30:16,760 --> 00:30:22,000
Speaker 1: but can't stop over eating. You can communicate to thousands,

490
00:30:22,040 --> 00:30:25,480
Speaker 1: but then not communicate to the one person that you love.

491
00:30:26,640 --> 00:30:31,360
Speaker 1: Every single person has gotten a spot. That's why biblically,

492
00:30:31,560 --> 00:30:34,400
Speaker 1: leprosy is a metaphor for sin, because it is an

493
00:30:34,400 --> 00:30:37,800
Speaker 1: issue that starts in your flesh. It starts eating itself.

494
00:30:38,040 --> 00:30:41,200
Speaker 1: And all of us had issues with our flesh, things

495
00:30:41,400 --> 00:30:44,080
Speaker 1: that we say, God, you are not through with me yet.

496
00:30:44,360 --> 00:30:49,800
Speaker 1: Everybody's God a spot. And now this warrior is weeping

497
00:30:50,840 --> 00:30:54,360
Speaker 1: because he's got a spot. And perhaps his wife comes

498
00:30:54,400 --> 00:30:56,600
Speaker 1: in and sees her husband for the first time in

499
00:30:56,640 --> 00:30:59,920
Speaker 1: the fetal position, crying, Gord, what is wrong. But before

500
00:31:00,120 --> 00:31:05,680
Speaker 1: she touches him, she sees it and she says, it's okay, baby,

501
00:31:05,680 --> 00:31:07,960
Speaker 1: it hasn't spread it yet. It's okay, it's okay. We'll

502
00:31:08,040 --> 00:31:10,080
Speaker 1: do something. Just just put on your armor, just cover

503
00:31:10,120 --> 00:31:11,960
Speaker 1: it up so nobody will see. Because isn't that what

504
00:31:12,000 --> 00:31:14,640
Speaker 1: we do? Oh, we love to cover up our issues

505
00:31:14,840 --> 00:31:17,480
Speaker 1: so nobody will see what we're fay saying. We love

506
00:31:17,680 --> 00:31:19,960
Speaker 1: to post better than we actually live in because we

507
00:31:20,000 --> 00:31:23,640
Speaker 1: don't want anybody to see our spot. He said, Okay,

508
00:31:23,640 --> 00:31:26,800
Speaker 1: I'll cover it up. But I think the walls in

509
00:31:26,840 --> 00:31:30,840
Speaker 1: Nayman's house were thin. They had to be thin because

510
00:31:31,000 --> 00:31:36,000
Speaker 1: this servant girl from Israel. Bible says, she's just a

511
00:31:36,120 --> 00:31:40,240
Speaker 1: servant girl. We don't even know her name. This servant

512
00:31:40,320 --> 00:31:43,960
Speaker 1: girl one day, perhaps says she's mopping the floors. She

513
00:31:44,080 --> 00:31:47,680
Speaker 1: goes to Namon's wife, and maybe she sees her crying,

514
00:31:48,480 --> 00:31:52,200
Speaker 1: and this servant girl goes, I know it's not my

515
00:31:52,280 --> 00:31:56,040
Speaker 1: place to speak, and I know you just brought me

516
00:31:56,080 --> 00:32:02,080
Speaker 1: here to mop the floors. But I'm telling you, if naming,

517
00:32:05,400 --> 00:32:10,160
Speaker 1: we'll go see the prophet in Samaria. I know he'll

518
00:32:10,160 --> 00:32:14,240
Speaker 1: be healed when I get to Heaven. I want to

519
00:32:14,240 --> 00:32:17,120
Speaker 1: meet this girl right here. I want to meet the

520
00:32:17,200 --> 00:32:19,920
Speaker 1: servant girl from Israel. You know why I want to

521
00:32:19,920 --> 00:32:22,560
Speaker 1: meet her because she might not have a name, she's nameless,

522
00:32:22,600 --> 00:32:25,080
Speaker 1: but she is not faithless. Did you hear what this

523
00:32:25,160 --> 00:32:28,280
Speaker 1: girl said. She said, I'm telling you, if you will,

524
00:32:28,560 --> 00:32:31,840
Speaker 1: just go see the prophet in Israel. She did not

525
00:32:32,000 --> 00:32:36,040
Speaker 1: say he might be healed. She didn't say it's possible, purchase.

526
00:32:36,080 --> 00:32:38,840
Speaker 1: She said, no, no, no, I know he'll be healed

527
00:32:39,000 --> 00:32:41,560
Speaker 1: if he goes and sees the prophet This girl was

528
00:32:41,600 --> 00:32:44,280
Speaker 1: a slave girl from Israel, but she knew the God

529
00:32:44,480 --> 00:32:47,800
Speaker 1: of Israel. She had a history with God to know

530
00:32:48,000 --> 00:32:51,240
Speaker 1: that if there's a situation that looks impossible or incurable,

531
00:32:51,520 --> 00:32:53,600
Speaker 1: there is a God that you need to call on.

532
00:32:53,880 --> 00:32:56,760
Speaker 1: A God that opens up blind eyes, a God that

533
00:32:56,880 --> 00:32:59,360
Speaker 1: opens up deaf ears, a God that can split a

534
00:32:59,440 --> 00:33:02,200
Speaker 1: red said, my God that can do the miraculous and

535
00:33:02,280 --> 00:33:04,720
Speaker 1: the impossible. I don't know who this is for today,

536
00:33:04,800 --> 00:33:07,160
Speaker 1: but I need somebody to give God some praise. If

537
00:33:07,200 --> 00:33:10,280
Speaker 1: you know that he can steal through miracles, he can

538
00:33:10,480 --> 00:33:14,120
Speaker 1: steal do the things that everybody said was impossible. We

539
00:33:14,280 --> 00:33:20,960
Speaker 1: serve a wonder working, miracle working dad. Oh see, y'all

540
00:33:20,960 --> 00:33:23,000
Speaker 1: give me that golf clap, like you don't believe it.

541
00:33:23,120 --> 00:33:25,960
Speaker 1: But I wish somebody that would really testify that's ever

542
00:33:26,000 --> 00:33:28,400
Speaker 1: been in a situation in your lives where it was

543
00:33:28,480 --> 00:33:33,040
Speaker 1: impossible what the doctors told you, There's no way, But somehow,

544
00:33:33,280 --> 00:33:37,000
Speaker 1: some way God stepped in and showed you that. I'm

545
00:33:37,160 --> 00:33:46,120
Speaker 1: praying to the impossible. I'm so thankful the miracles are

546
00:33:46,160 --> 00:33:53,280
Speaker 1: not relegated to the past. Then he still does miracles today. Wow,

547
00:33:54,160 --> 00:33:58,920
Speaker 1: look at this serving girl. This girl started the whole miracle.

548
00:34:00,080 --> 00:34:03,000
Speaker 1: If she didn't speak up, Nayman doesn't get his miracle

549
00:34:03,720 --> 00:34:05,760
Speaker 1: she started. Oh that's what I want to tell you too.

550
00:34:06,160 --> 00:34:08,000
Speaker 1: Not only do you have to understand that everybody's got

551
00:34:08,000 --> 00:34:11,800
Speaker 1: a spot, you gotta know that servants always start miracles.

552
00:34:13,520 --> 00:34:19,880
Speaker 1: Servants always start miracles. The reason people miss out on

553
00:34:20,040 --> 00:34:22,960
Speaker 1: miracles often is because they don't ever want to get

554
00:34:23,000 --> 00:34:28,720
Speaker 1: low and serve. But I'm telling you, servants always start miracles. Oh,

555
00:34:28,760 --> 00:34:31,279
Speaker 1: I'm so glad Love Week is happening. You ought to

556
00:34:31,320 --> 00:34:34,000
Speaker 1: be racing to sign up for Love Week. You know why,

557
00:34:34,200 --> 00:34:38,920
Speaker 1: because servants always start the miracles. The miracles are not

558
00:34:39,040 --> 00:34:43,400
Speaker 1: in high, lofty places. The miracles are always in lowly places.

559
00:34:43,560 --> 00:34:46,279
Speaker 1: You gotta look low. We missed out on miracles because

560
00:34:46,280 --> 00:34:48,680
Speaker 1: we're looking in the wrong place. You gotta get low.

561
00:34:49,000 --> 00:34:52,320
Speaker 1: Come here. Don't you understand that God could not redeem

562
00:34:52,400 --> 00:34:55,279
Speaker 1: us from heaven. That's why Jesus had to get low

563
00:34:55,480 --> 00:34:58,160
Speaker 1: and put on human skin and sit where we sat

564
00:34:58,440 --> 00:35:01,440
Speaker 1: and feel what we feel. You know why, because servants

565
00:35:02,120 --> 00:35:07,920
Speaker 1: always start the miracles. The King of Glory started not robbery,

566
00:35:08,480 --> 00:35:11,960
Speaker 1: to empty himself of divinity and come down from heaven

567
00:35:12,000 --> 00:35:15,160
Speaker 1: to earth and your Savior, my God, and your God.

568
00:35:15,440 --> 00:35:20,680
Speaker 1: He washed disciples feet. You know Peter had nasty feet.

569
00:35:20,880 --> 00:35:27,920
Speaker 1: Look at our God. He got low. Why because servants

570
00:35:28,600 --> 00:35:31,960
Speaker 1: always start the miracles. Maybe you're missing out on the

571
00:35:31,960 --> 00:35:37,760
Speaker 1: miracle because you become so narcissistic and so consumed with you.

572
00:35:37,760 --> 00:35:41,560
Speaker 1: You're not serving somebody else. But if you would serve,

573
00:35:41,640 --> 00:35:48,640
Speaker 1: you would see the miracle. This girl started the whole miracle.

574
00:35:48,960 --> 00:35:54,879
Speaker 1: Be careful who you look down on, because you don't

575
00:35:54,880 --> 00:35:56,720
Speaker 1: know where God will send the miracle to you from.

576
00:35:57,840 --> 00:36:00,960
Speaker 1: Here's how I know name is he was bad. He

577
00:36:01,000 --> 00:36:05,680
Speaker 1: say all know who he listened. He listened. That's how

578
00:36:05,719 --> 00:36:08,239
Speaker 1: I know his leprosy was bad because he listened to

579
00:36:08,280 --> 00:36:11,239
Speaker 1: the girl that he would have dismissed. He listened to her.

580
00:36:11,480 --> 00:36:13,640
Speaker 1: And I love that. Life will do that. Life has

581
00:36:13,719 --> 00:36:16,080
Speaker 1: a way of humbling you to a place where you

582
00:36:16,120 --> 00:36:18,319
Speaker 1: will have to listen to some people that you would

583
00:36:18,320 --> 00:36:21,799
Speaker 1: have dismissed and looked past. Life will hit you with

584
00:36:21,880 --> 00:36:23,960
Speaker 1: some stuff. You was so cool coming in places with

585
00:36:24,040 --> 00:36:28,160
Speaker 1: sunglasses on inside till life hits you in the gut.

586
00:36:29,040 --> 00:36:32,719
Speaker 1: And now Naming is listening to the servant, And I

587
00:36:32,760 --> 00:36:35,239
Speaker 1: love it because he doesn't do it at first, he

588
00:36:35,280 --> 00:36:37,560
Speaker 1: doesn't go straight to a Licia's house. I wish you

589
00:36:37,600 --> 00:36:40,239
Speaker 1: would have, but it takes a while, especially when you've

590
00:36:40,239 --> 00:36:42,840
Speaker 1: been in pride and you've been pretentious for so long.

591
00:36:44,239 --> 00:36:47,120
Speaker 1: He actually goes to the King of Israel first, with

592
00:36:47,200 --> 00:36:50,600
Speaker 1: all kinds of gold and silver, and he comes to

593
00:36:50,600 --> 00:36:53,600
Speaker 1: the king visery with an official letter. Hello, King of Israel,

594
00:36:54,280 --> 00:36:56,160
Speaker 1: got my official letter. You see my gold, you see

595
00:36:56,160 --> 00:37:03,279
Speaker 1: my bitny chariot six horsepower, And he's trying to buy

596
00:37:04,160 --> 00:37:06,920
Speaker 1: his healing. And I love it because when he gives

597
00:37:06,960 --> 00:37:08,800
Speaker 1: the letter to the King of Israel, the King of Israel,

598
00:37:08,800 --> 00:37:10,520
Speaker 1: I didn't read it because I gave you just the

599
00:37:10,520 --> 00:37:14,240
Speaker 1: abbreviated version. The King of Israel goes off, he said,

600
00:37:13,960 --> 00:37:17,359
Speaker 1: what am i God? I can't do a miracle. I

601
00:37:17,360 --> 00:37:19,840
Speaker 1: love it. I love that. The King of Israel he

602
00:37:20,000 --> 00:37:23,720
Speaker 1: had the title, but Elisha, who was the prophet in Israel,

603
00:37:23,800 --> 00:37:28,040
Speaker 1: he had the authority. The King of Israel had the position,

604
00:37:28,600 --> 00:37:32,040
Speaker 1: but Elisha had the power. Can I just parandemically pause

605
00:37:32,120 --> 00:37:35,040
Speaker 1: right there and tell somebody who's seeking after a title,

606
00:37:35,280 --> 00:37:37,680
Speaker 1: don't seek after the title. Ask God to give you

607
00:37:37,719 --> 00:37:41,000
Speaker 1: some authority. Don't seek after a position after God. They

608
00:37:41,080 --> 00:37:43,719
Speaker 1: give you some holy ghost power. Because if you've got

609
00:37:43,719 --> 00:37:46,200
Speaker 1: the power, God and give you the position. If you're

610
00:37:46,200 --> 00:37:48,640
Speaker 1: not the authority, God will give you a title. The

611
00:37:48,760 --> 00:37:53,640
Speaker 1: King of Israel had the position, but he had no power,

612
00:37:54,760 --> 00:37:57,520
Speaker 1: so he thought it was a catastrophe. And Elisha said, no,

613
00:37:57,640 --> 00:38:02,000
Speaker 1: this is an opportunity to me. He'll know there's a

614
00:38:02,120 --> 00:38:07,560
Speaker 1: prophet in Israel. So now watch this. Naming has to

615
00:38:07,600 --> 00:38:10,600
Speaker 1: go to a licious house, now where he should have

616
00:38:10,600 --> 00:38:15,880
Speaker 1: gone in the first place. Can you see him, who bentley, chariot,

617
00:38:18,600 --> 00:38:23,440
Speaker 1: nice armor, going to a licious house? You know Elisha

618
00:38:23,520 --> 00:38:28,600
Speaker 1: lived in the hood. Oh yeah, And I can see

619
00:38:28,600 --> 00:38:30,719
Speaker 1: people walking watching name and coming town. They said, what

620
00:38:30,760 --> 00:38:33,680
Speaker 1: is naming doing in this part of town? Gets all

621
00:38:33,680 --> 00:38:36,040
Speaker 1: the way to a licious house. And I love it.

622
00:38:36,080 --> 00:38:41,800
Speaker 1: Because Elisia's servant sees naming pull up. He's like, wow,

623
00:38:43,480 --> 00:38:45,879
Speaker 1: it's name is up there. Do you know how many

624
00:38:45,880 --> 00:38:48,600
Speaker 1: followers he has? Oh my goodness, Elisha, he looks better

625
00:38:48,680 --> 00:38:52,400
Speaker 1: in person that he does on the ground. Elisha's like,

626
00:38:52,480 --> 00:38:57,440
Speaker 1: calm down, calm down, don't be impressed with all that.

627
00:38:58,920 --> 00:39:02,920
Speaker 1: You don't even know. He is falling apart underneath all

628
00:39:02,960 --> 00:39:09,239
Speaker 1: that art. Don't let the thin veneer of success, fool you.

629
00:39:11,120 --> 00:39:14,160
Speaker 1: His life is falling apart. He says, well, what we

630
00:39:14,160 --> 00:39:15,920
Speaker 1: gotta do something? He's here. What do you want to do?

631
00:39:16,880 --> 00:39:21,120
Speaker 1: He says, uh, go tell him to watch seven Times

632
00:39:21,120 --> 00:39:23,960
Speaker 1: in the Jordan. He'll be cleansed. At your service. The

633
00:39:26,480 --> 00:39:29,880
Speaker 1: you're not gonna say anything to him, No, you go

634
00:39:30,040 --> 00:39:32,799
Speaker 1: tell him then, if you watch the seven Times in

635
00:39:32,800 --> 00:39:36,440
Speaker 1: the Jordan, he'll be cleansed. Did you know who that is?

636
00:39:37,160 --> 00:39:39,719
Speaker 1: I do, but I'm also watching Law and Order, So

637
00:39:42,920 --> 00:39:49,919
Speaker 1: go tell him what I said. Servant starts going out,

638
00:39:50,960 --> 00:39:53,880
Speaker 1: and she's like, and put your phone away? How they

639
00:39:53,960 --> 00:39:59,919
Speaker 1: have it? Out? Goes up to naming. Can you see naming?

640
00:40:00,080 --> 00:40:06,640
Speaker 1: He still in his high horse. I just sert like, hey,

641
00:40:07,840 --> 00:40:15,480
Speaker 1: beautiful chariot. Hey uh Namon uh. Elisha said, if you

642
00:40:15,600 --> 00:40:21,120
Speaker 1: just gonna wash seven times, you'll be cleansed. Namon says,

643
00:40:21,239 --> 00:40:25,759
Speaker 1: excuse me, look, don't kill the messenger. Bro. He just

644
00:40:27,680 --> 00:40:29,120
Speaker 1: he told me to tell you, if you go wash

645
00:40:29,160 --> 00:40:34,279
Speaker 1: seven times, you'll be cleansed. And naming goes? Is he

646
00:40:34,360 --> 00:40:43,040
Speaker 1: not gonna come see me? Just? He noful who I am?

647
00:40:43,080 --> 00:40:45,080
Speaker 1: He does, but you know you know he's a prophety

648
00:40:45,160 --> 00:40:53,719
Speaker 1: praying Namon looks at his side. He's watching Law and Order.

649
00:40:54,000 --> 00:40:59,319
Speaker 1: That's what he does before he prays. Okay, just the

650
00:40:59,320 --> 00:41:06,920
Speaker 1: Bible says the naming turned off. You had a rage.

651
00:41:07,160 --> 00:41:11,480
Speaker 1: He was so upset name and why are you upset?

652
00:41:13,120 --> 00:41:17,880
Speaker 1: He's upset for the same reason you're upset because life

653
00:41:17,960 --> 00:41:23,800
Speaker 1: is not turning out the way he thought. He's upset

654
00:41:23,880 --> 00:41:29,040
Speaker 1: because of the chasm between his experience and what he

655
00:41:29,160 --> 00:41:34,480
Speaker 1: was expecting. And any time there's a gap between your

656
00:41:34,560 --> 00:41:43,640
Speaker 1: experience and your expectations, sometimes rage and anger it's the reaction.

657
00:41:45,800 --> 00:41:49,080
Speaker 1: I know you can't say anything right now, but I

658
00:41:49,120 --> 00:41:53,399
Speaker 1: know there's some of you that since twenty twenty, there

659
00:41:53,440 --> 00:41:58,000
Speaker 1: has been such an anger and such a rage, and

660
00:41:58,040 --> 00:42:00,760
Speaker 1: you're lashing out on other people and you are added God,

661
00:42:02,239 --> 00:42:07,200
Speaker 1: not just because of what's happening, because of what you thought.

662
00:42:08,960 --> 00:42:13,080
Speaker 1: And you're about to do what Naman did and turn

663
00:42:13,120 --> 00:42:19,960
Speaker 1: off and go off and say forget it. God. I'm tired,

664
00:42:20,000 --> 00:42:23,640
Speaker 1: and I still lost the business. I came to church

665
00:42:23,719 --> 00:42:28,120
Speaker 1: and I still went through the divorce. I was there.

666
00:42:28,320 --> 00:42:32,400
Speaker 1: I dedicated my child to you. Garda strung out on drudge,

667
00:42:32,400 --> 00:42:34,840
Speaker 1: You're about to turn off in the rage, and God

668
00:42:34,880 --> 00:42:39,080
Speaker 1: told me to tell you, please, don't go off, Please

669
00:42:39,120 --> 00:42:42,359
Speaker 1: don't go off. If you go off, you're gonna miss

670
00:42:42,400 --> 00:42:45,799
Speaker 1: out on the greatest miracle. If you go off, you're

671
00:42:45,800 --> 00:42:48,080
Speaker 1: gonna miss out on the thing that God wants to

672
00:42:48,120 --> 00:42:52,240
Speaker 1: do in you and through you. Don't go off. Naman

673
00:42:52,440 --> 00:42:58,280
Speaker 1: was willing to sacrifice his miracle because of the rage,

674
00:42:58,480 --> 00:43:03,919
Speaker 1: because life didn't turn out the way he thought. Thank

675
00:43:04,000 --> 00:43:10,480
Speaker 1: God for the servant. Servants always start the miracles. Now

676
00:43:10,520 --> 00:43:14,280
Speaker 1: the servant stops naming in his rage and says, naming,

677
00:43:16,400 --> 00:43:18,600
Speaker 1: if he would have asked you to do something great,

678
00:43:18,640 --> 00:43:22,080
Speaker 1: wouldn't you have done it? Naming? Why can't you do

679
00:43:22,239 --> 00:43:25,759
Speaker 1: something so simple? Do you see the brilliance of what

680
00:43:25,840 --> 00:43:29,359
Speaker 1: the servant is trying to get naming to see? Don't

681
00:43:29,360 --> 00:43:32,840
Speaker 1: forget naming is a great man. If Elisha would have

682
00:43:32,880 --> 00:43:34,879
Speaker 1: told him to go kill a thousand men to get

683
00:43:34,880 --> 00:43:37,000
Speaker 1: his healing, he would have done it. If he would

684
00:43:37,000 --> 00:43:39,319
Speaker 1: have told him to go fight a lion and rip

685
00:43:39,360 --> 00:43:41,840
Speaker 1: his jaw in have, he would have done it. He

686
00:43:42,000 --> 00:43:44,640
Speaker 1: was a great man. He would have done anything that

687
00:43:44,800 --> 00:43:47,520
Speaker 1: he could have gotten the credit for. If he could

688
00:43:47,560 --> 00:43:49,880
Speaker 1: have paid for the healing, he would have done it.

689
00:43:50,040 --> 00:43:52,880
Speaker 1: He already had the gold, He already had the silver.

690
00:43:53,160 --> 00:43:55,480
Speaker 1: But he was trying to get him to understand this

691
00:43:55,680 --> 00:43:59,480
Speaker 1: powerful principle called grace, called salvation. How many No, you

692
00:43:59,560 --> 00:44:02,960
Speaker 1: cannot purchase grace. You cannot buyas how va should. It

693
00:44:03,080 --> 00:44:05,640
Speaker 1: is a free gift that you have to receive. It

694
00:44:05,719 --> 00:44:08,400
Speaker 1: is a gift that was paid for about the precious

695
00:44:08,400 --> 00:44:11,920
Speaker 1: blood of Jesus Christ. You can't buy this, you can't

696
00:44:11,920 --> 00:44:14,760
Speaker 1: earn this, you can't work for this. You just gotta

697
00:44:14,840 --> 00:44:19,640
Speaker 1: receive it and be all be here. Wow, hear me.

698
00:44:19,719 --> 00:44:24,360
Speaker 1: Today some of you are trying to earn a gift

699
00:44:24,440 --> 00:44:30,320
Speaker 1: that has already been given to you, and naming the

700
00:44:30,440 --> 00:44:36,120
Speaker 1: great warrior, naming who could scale a mountain and kill armies,

701
00:44:37,080 --> 00:44:42,560
Speaker 1: couldn't do something so simple as split splash, I was

702
00:44:42,640 --> 00:44:49,920
Speaker 1: taken a bath. You laugh, But I see it all

703
00:44:49,960 --> 00:44:55,239
Speaker 1: the time. You know how many people reject Christianity not

704
00:44:55,360 --> 00:45:00,080
Speaker 1: because it's too difficult, but because it seems too easy.

705
00:45:01,160 --> 00:45:03,640
Speaker 1: Oh that's it. Just confess with my mouth, believe in

706
00:45:03,640 --> 00:45:04,879
Speaker 1: my heart that He's the Lord, and just like ah,

707
00:45:05,000 --> 00:45:08,000
Speaker 1: everything's washed away. That's it. Yeah, Nah, nah man, I

708
00:45:08,040 --> 00:45:09,480
Speaker 1: got at least fast for a week, I got a

709
00:45:09,600 --> 00:45:11,480
Speaker 1: least memberize the book of Limitticus say they came here

710
00:45:11,560 --> 00:45:15,960
Speaker 1: that easy. Isn't it funny how we make some of

711
00:45:16,000 --> 00:45:20,840
Speaker 1: the most simple things complex? And Naming was about to

712
00:45:20,880 --> 00:45:22,799
Speaker 1: find out the last thing. I want to tell you

713
00:45:23,560 --> 00:45:29,600
Speaker 1: that simple obedience is strength. Your strength is not in

714
00:45:29,680 --> 00:45:33,120
Speaker 1: your ability and your degrees and your money. Your strength

715
00:45:33,280 --> 00:45:37,759
Speaker 1: is directly connected to your ability to obey what God,

716
00:45:38,000 --> 00:45:46,239
Speaker 1: don't you? Simple obedience is strength? Thank God. Naming turned around,

717
00:45:48,120 --> 00:45:50,560
Speaker 1: he did with somebody who's watching this message has to do?

718
00:45:52,239 --> 00:45:57,240
Speaker 1: Humbled himself said, I gotta forget about what I thought.

719
00:45:58,480 --> 00:46:02,799
Speaker 1: I gotta obey, even if it doesn't makes sense. And

720
00:46:02,880 --> 00:46:08,480
Speaker 1: here's Naming going down to the Jordan River, the dirty

721
00:46:08,640 --> 00:46:12,680
Speaker 1: Jordan River. He was fighting all the way, he said,

722
00:46:12,880 --> 00:46:18,040
Speaker 1: getting there, clear of water, No obey, Your strength is

723
00:46:18,080 --> 00:46:23,200
Speaker 1: in your obedience. Namon had to get off his high horse,

724
00:46:24,760 --> 00:46:29,319
Speaker 1: take off all that armor, covering up his skin that

725
00:46:29,480 --> 00:46:33,240
Speaker 1: was already falling off. Can't you see the crowd looking

726
00:46:33,680 --> 00:46:40,800
Speaker 1: Is that, nameMan, I didn't know you had leprosy? Wow,

727
00:46:40,840 --> 00:46:43,160
Speaker 1: I didn't know? Is that? He can hear them talking

728
00:46:43,440 --> 00:46:45,640
Speaker 1: as he gets in the water. I can see him fighting.

729
00:46:45,760 --> 00:46:48,400
Speaker 1: His pride was fighting him all the way. And maybe

730
00:46:48,400 --> 00:46:50,880
Speaker 1: that's you today, and maybe that's why you haven't surrendered

731
00:46:50,960 --> 00:46:53,640
Speaker 1: your life to Jesus because of pride. But you got

732
00:46:53,680 --> 00:46:55,160
Speaker 1: to get to a place in your life where you

733
00:46:55,200 --> 00:46:57,400
Speaker 1: care more about what God thinks about you than you

734
00:46:57,440 --> 00:47:00,520
Speaker 1: care about the opinions and the applause and the accolates

735
00:47:00,520 --> 00:47:08,160
Speaker 1: of other people. Humble yourself, naming. I know it hurts.

736
00:47:08,200 --> 00:47:14,480
Speaker 1: Simple obedience is strength. It takes off all that armor.

737
00:47:15,600 --> 00:47:21,399
Speaker 1: He gets in the dirty Chortan river who he has

738
00:47:21,480 --> 00:47:23,879
Speaker 1: to dip seven times, which means he can't even stay

739
00:47:23,880 --> 00:47:28,320
Speaker 1: in the shallow. He's gotta go deep as he gets

740
00:47:28,320 --> 00:47:34,640
Speaker 1: sin he dips the first time. Come on, put yourself there.

741
00:47:34,640 --> 00:47:37,600
Speaker 1: You know what you would have done? He starts chicking. Oh,

742
00:47:37,760 --> 00:47:40,120
Speaker 1: nothing's changed, Come on in there. What we do? And

743
00:47:40,160 --> 00:47:42,520
Speaker 1: then how we sometimes bargain with God? All right, God,

744
00:47:42,560 --> 00:47:46,200
Speaker 1: I came to church. Where's the race? All right? God?

745
00:47:46,200 --> 00:47:49,759
Speaker 1: I did it. What you produce that is religion, That's

746
00:47:49,800 --> 00:47:54,840
Speaker 1: not relationship religion, says God. I produce. Now you produce

747
00:47:55,160 --> 00:47:59,040
Speaker 1: that is religion, not relationship. Relationship, says I trust you

748
00:47:59,040 --> 00:48:01,399
Speaker 1: you are God and I am. I gotta obey, even

749
00:48:01,400 --> 00:48:03,960
Speaker 1: when it doesn't make sense. I gotta obey. Even when

750
00:48:04,000 --> 00:48:06,239
Speaker 1: I don't see evidence of it. I gotta do what

751
00:48:06,320 --> 00:48:08,480
Speaker 1: you told me to do because my strength is not

752
00:48:08,560 --> 00:48:12,080
Speaker 1: in my cognitive aptitude. My strength is in my obedience.

753
00:48:12,239 --> 00:48:17,479
Speaker 1: And you said, dimp seventh time. He dipped the second time,

754
00:48:18,360 --> 00:48:22,759
Speaker 1: nothing happened. He dipped the third time, nothing happened. He

755
00:48:22,840 --> 00:48:26,799
Speaker 1: dipped the fourth time, nothing happened. He dipped the fifth time,

756
00:48:27,120 --> 00:48:29,520
Speaker 1: nothing happened. You know, he wanted to quit on the

757
00:48:29,560 --> 00:48:32,040
Speaker 1: fifth time. But just like some of you, you gotta

758
00:48:32,120 --> 00:48:35,040
Speaker 1: understand that God is not Amazon Prime, and just because

759
00:48:35,080 --> 00:48:37,839
Speaker 1: it didn't happen on your time schedule, it doesn't mean

760
00:48:37,880 --> 00:48:40,319
Speaker 1: that his word is not true. You gotta do what

761
00:48:40,440 --> 00:48:44,320
Speaker 1: he told you to do. He dipped the sixth times.

762
00:48:44,440 --> 00:48:47,239
Speaker 1: I'm sure he was ready to walk away. Oh but

763
00:48:47,360 --> 00:48:49,879
Speaker 1: I thank God he didn't quit on that sixth time,

764
00:48:50,080 --> 00:48:53,200
Speaker 1: because the Bible says when he dipped the seventh time,

765
00:48:53,600 --> 00:48:57,839
Speaker 1: he got up and his skin was completely healed. It

766
00:48:58,040 --> 00:49:02,080
Speaker 1: was restored, and it proved that God still can't do

767
00:49:02,280 --> 00:49:06,560
Speaker 1: the impossible. God still can't heal. Then terrible, and he'll

768
00:49:06,560 --> 00:49:09,520
Speaker 1: know it. Nobody take ten seconds and give on God

769
00:49:09,600 --> 00:49:25,520
Speaker 1: some praise, and there's hi right, I'm done. Everybody stand,

770
00:49:25,560 --> 00:49:30,560
Speaker 1: everybody stand watch this. Don't miss the miracle. Don't miss

771
00:49:30,560 --> 00:49:35,279
Speaker 1: the miracles. Watch when he got up the seven time.

772
00:49:36,760 --> 00:49:44,440
Speaker 1: It says his skin was restored and became like a

773
00:49:44,600 --> 00:49:52,439
Speaker 1: little child. Don't miss that. It's two miracles. It's one

774
00:49:52,480 --> 00:49:55,439
Speaker 1: thing for my skin to be restored to the way

775
00:49:55,440 --> 00:50:00,640
Speaker 1: it was before. It's a whole another thing. It took

776
00:50:00,680 --> 00:50:04,319
Speaker 1: go all the way back too, when I was a

777
00:50:04,360 --> 00:50:09,919
Speaker 1: little child. Wow, look at the greatness of our car.

778
00:50:10,840 --> 00:50:14,400
Speaker 1: He doesn't just restore, he says, I cannot only restore,

779
00:50:14,680 --> 00:50:19,120
Speaker 1: but I can reverse and take it back better than

780
00:50:19,160 --> 00:50:22,480
Speaker 1: it was before. Oh. I don't just want to restore

781
00:50:22,520 --> 00:50:25,880
Speaker 1: the marriage. I can take it back to how it

782
00:50:26,000 --> 00:50:27,719
Speaker 1: was when you were a dayton talking about girl you.

783
00:50:28,320 --> 00:50:36,759
Speaker 1: I will take it back looking, naming, looking like a

784
00:50:36,760 --> 00:50:43,279
Speaker 1: little gerber baby. Skin healed, And the power of the

785
00:50:43,280 --> 00:50:47,160
Speaker 1: text is not just that his skin was restored to

786
00:50:47,239 --> 00:50:54,000
Speaker 1: being a little child. Hear me, His heart was, Oh

787
00:50:54,040 --> 00:50:58,319
Speaker 1: if we could just have that childlike obedience. It says,

788
00:50:58,360 --> 00:51:02,800
Speaker 1: whatever you say, I'll do it. Stop trying to flex

789
00:51:02,840 --> 00:51:10,640
Speaker 1: and show who you are. Simple obedience his strength. Naman says,

790
00:51:10,680 --> 00:51:15,440
Speaker 1: Now I know the God of Israel. He's the living

791
00:51:15,480 --> 00:51:19,359
Speaker 1: and true God, I'm so glad that he did not

792
00:51:19,400 --> 00:51:25,120
Speaker 1: allow his rage and his anger and going off to

793
00:51:25,239 --> 00:51:29,040
Speaker 1: stop him from missing the greatest miracle of his life.

794
00:51:30,320 --> 00:51:36,400
Speaker 1: Hear me today talking to somebody who's anger is stopping

795
00:51:36,440 --> 00:51:40,440
Speaker 1: you from receiving the greatest miracle. Maybe you didn't even

796
00:51:40,520 --> 00:51:42,440
Speaker 1: realize that's what it was. And you've been wondering why

797
00:51:42,480 --> 00:51:46,200
Speaker 1: you've been lashing out on other people, why you've been

798
00:51:46,560 --> 00:51:48,879
Speaker 1: so on edge and going off. Maybe this message gave

799
00:51:48,960 --> 00:51:52,520
Speaker 1: words to an internal feeling. Hear me today. I'll say

800
00:51:52,560 --> 00:51:57,560
Speaker 1: it again. We collectively went through trauma together. Many of

801
00:51:57,640 --> 00:52:00,640
Speaker 1: us are on the edge, filled with rage. But don't

802
00:52:00,719 --> 00:52:06,439
Speaker 1: let that anger make you miss out on your miracle. Oh,

803
00:52:06,480 --> 00:52:10,640
Speaker 1: there's a cost to going on. You will miss out

804
00:52:10,680 --> 00:52:15,120
Speaker 1: on the greatest miracle of your life. Oh, I feel

805
00:52:15,120 --> 00:52:18,239
Speaker 1: the Holy Spirit in here. Maybe you're saying I have

806
00:52:18,320 --> 00:52:20,600
Speaker 1: a right to be angry. You don't know what happened.

807
00:52:22,080 --> 00:52:25,600
Speaker 1: I'm not denying the hurt, I'm not denying the betrayal.

808
00:52:27,000 --> 00:52:30,640
Speaker 1: I'm just asking is it worth missing out on your miracle?

809
00:52:31,600 --> 00:52:37,799
Speaker 1: Wait a minute, who started this miracle? The servant girl

810
00:52:37,800 --> 00:52:45,480
Speaker 1: from where Israel? Don't forget who name it is. This

811
00:52:45,640 --> 00:52:49,279
Speaker 1: is a pagan name. It does not worship the God

812
00:52:49,320 --> 00:52:55,080
Speaker 1: of Israel. He is the enemy. He's got a slave

813
00:52:55,320 --> 00:53:01,759
Speaker 1: girl from Israel in his house. Scholars and theologists will

814
00:53:01,760 --> 00:53:05,880
Speaker 1: tell you that it is most likely that this girl's

815
00:53:05,920 --> 00:53:11,759
Speaker 1: family was probably killed and she was taken captive at

816
00:53:11,800 --> 00:53:18,680
Speaker 1: the command of naming. Do you realize this girl had

817
00:53:18,680 --> 00:53:23,160
Speaker 1: every right, soon as naming got leprosy to say, that's

818
00:53:23,200 --> 00:53:27,360
Speaker 1: what you get to God, be the glory that you

819
00:53:27,520 --> 00:53:33,040
Speaker 1: now have leprosy. She had every right to say, Dad's

820
00:53:33,120 --> 00:53:36,000
Speaker 1: paying you back for what you did to me. You

821
00:53:36,040 --> 00:53:38,399
Speaker 1: took me from my family, you took me from my home.

822
00:53:38,480 --> 00:53:44,479
Speaker 1: That's what you get. But she did this perfect girl said,

823
00:53:44,520 --> 00:53:50,000
Speaker 1: if you would just go to the prophet, she'll be healed.

824
00:53:51,680 --> 00:53:57,160
Speaker 1: Who offers the remedy of healing to their enemy? I

825
00:53:57,239 --> 00:54:00,400
Speaker 1: don't know of anybody that does that. And for a

826
00:54:00,480 --> 00:54:10,040
Speaker 1: savior who hung on a cross, said, Father, forgiveting, They

827
00:54:10,040 --> 00:54:17,799
Speaker 1: don't know what. And if he forgave you, what right

828
00:54:17,920 --> 00:54:22,000
Speaker 1: do you have to hold onto that anger? What right

829
00:54:22,080 --> 00:54:26,560
Speaker 1: do you have to not forgive? As every head be bound?

830
00:54:26,680 --> 00:54:31,799
Speaker 1: I was close Father, Thank you today for your word. God,

831
00:54:31,880 --> 00:54:36,400
Speaker 1: thank you that you did not respond in anger and

832
00:54:36,520 --> 00:54:38,600
Speaker 1: rage when it was our sin that put you on

833
00:54:38,680 --> 00:54:45,720
Speaker 1: the cross. But yet it was your forgiveness, your blood

834
00:54:45,760 --> 00:54:49,920
Speaker 1: that was shed, that gave us the gift of salvation.

835
00:54:51,840 --> 00:54:57,399
Speaker 1: So Father, we can't do this on our own. Lord,

836
00:54:57,440 --> 00:55:01,360
Speaker 1: we need the Holy Spirit to help us to live

837
00:55:01,840 --> 00:55:07,080
Speaker 1: the values of the Kingdom and not this earth. Let

838
00:55:07,160 --> 00:55:11,760
Speaker 1: us respond with love. Let us not take the easy

839
00:55:11,840 --> 00:55:16,040
Speaker 1: route to love those that love us. Let us not

840
00:55:16,160 --> 00:55:20,920
Speaker 1: take the evil route to do evil to those who

841
00:55:20,960 --> 00:55:25,560
Speaker 1: love us. But Father, let us reflect your character, which

842
00:55:25,600 --> 00:55:30,400
Speaker 1: is to love our enemies. God, I pray today that

843
00:55:31,200 --> 00:55:38,440
Speaker 1: you would heal hearts of anger, hearts of rage and bitterness.

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Speaker 1: Let healing take place now, even the anger that's affecting

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Speaker 1: physical bodies. Let your healing take place now. Heads are

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Speaker 1: still bound, ours are still close. If you're here today

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Speaker 1: and you've never surrendered your life to Jesus, whether you're

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Speaker 1: watching Epham or any location, I'd love to give you

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Speaker 1: that opportunity. Heads are still bound, houses still close. Hear me,

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Speaker 1: You don't have to earn this free gift of salvation.

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Speaker 1: Naman was trying to buy it. You cannot buy this gift.

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Speaker 1: You just have to receive it. So stop trying to

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Speaker 1: get yourself together before you give your life to him.

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Speaker 1: You can't get yourself together. That's why you need a savior.

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Speaker 1: So it heads about ho's closed. I don't care. If

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Speaker 1: just one person you'd be worth my flight from Dallas,

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Speaker 1: Texas today. If you're saying Pastor Roberty, include me in

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Speaker 1: this closing prayer. I need to give my life to Jesus.

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Speaker 1: If that's you what you lift up your hand across

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Speaker 1: every location, even at home, right there in your living room,

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Speaker 1: say today's my day. I'm giving it my life. Just

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Speaker 1: lift it up high enough and long enough to where

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Speaker 1: I can see it. Thank you God, Thank you God.

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Speaker 1: I see hands all over this place today. Thank you Jesus.

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Speaker 1: Thank you Jesus. Come on, let's pray this closing prayer.

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Speaker 1: We're all gonna say it as one big family. Come on,

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Speaker 1: let's say it. Say Jesus, I need you. I cannot

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Speaker 1: do life without you. Jesus. I know I'm a great sinner,

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Speaker 1: but I also know you're a great savior. So today

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Speaker 1: I surrender. I confess with my mouth and believe in

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Speaker 1: my heart that you, Jesus, are the son of the

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Speaker 1: Living God. You died for me, you got up from

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Speaker 1: the grave for me, and you're coming back for me.

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Speaker 1: But until that day, I am walking with you. All

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Speaker 1: that I am is yours in Jesus's name. Come on, somebody,

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Speaker 1: say hey man and give God the best hang type

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Speaker 1: of praise that you've got. Oh, come on, you could

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Speaker 1: do better than that. I mean, really praise Him today.

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Speaker 1: God bless your elevation. Well, if you enjoyed today's podcast,

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Speaker 1: there are a couple things I'd love for you to do.

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