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Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to
the Love Quest International 

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Church Podcast, where we seek to
love all nations, equip the 

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church, mobilize the equipped 
and serve all. 

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We're super glad you're joining 
us from whenever and wherever 

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you're at in the world. 
Welcome to the family to get 

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your Bibles ready, get some 
water, get some coffee, maybe 

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some tea and get ready to 
receive. 

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It's go time. 
Let's get into it you. 

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Can be seated in this moment? 
How many people been here, maybe

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for the last few weeks, as we've
been talking about the 

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perfecting of the Saints? 
If you have, can you just raise 

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your hand, please? 
He is perfecting us. 

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And because of what? 
Don't look at me. 

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I don't. 
I don't got the answers. 

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I gave them to you all, huh? 
The wind's about to blow. 

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Thank you. 
Before we get started, I would 

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really encourage you to go 
listen to this morning, man. 

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Wednesday and last Sunday and 
really encourage you to go 

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listen to this morning and 
because I'll go through a few 

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things, but I'm going to go 
through them pretty quick 

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because I want to move on to 
same same context but different,

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different angle. 
So we've been talking about the 

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perfecting of the Saints. 
Somebody say the perfecting of 

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the Saints and when we started 
this conversation it was we 

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started in John 15 I believe it 
was about him purging and 

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pruning. 
Somebody say purging and 

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pruning. 
So he purges and prunes and 

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anybody remember why he purges 
and he prunes so we can? 

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Have more lavish fruit and he 
purges and he prunes. 

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The fruitful and the unfruitful 
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So I can't help but to think 
that this is a image of 

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believers. 
I hate using believers because a

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lot of times our believing 
stopped at getting into the 

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Kingdom, not walking out the 
Kingdom. 

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When I think of a believer, I 
think of someone who believes 

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Jesus, not believe in what he 
did for their sins and then stop

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because we just needed to be 
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Of the the consequences of our 
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But when I think of a believer, 
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You're not a follower if you 
don't believe and you're not a 

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follower if you don't do what 
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And so I think in explaining 
everything that he has been 

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sharing with us over the last 
man forever, but over this last 

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couple of years being in this 
process of the Remnant project 

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and things of that nature, he's 
trying to explain to us why 

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we've been going through what 
we've been going through 

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corporately and individually. 
And we established a few weeks 

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ago that I wasn't alone, that it
feels like we've been in a 

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season where I might be seeing a
little bit of progress, but I 

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just don't seem like I'm getting
ahead right. 

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I'm some would say one step 
forward, 2 steps backwards and 

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we establish no. 
And God in Christ, you're never 

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going backwards. 
You might pause, you might have 

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to be still, but you're never 
going backwards. 

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And we need to learn how to be. 
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made and give ourselves and give
Jesus a little more credit in 

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your life because it's almost 
like for some people he haven't 

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done enough for you. 
It's kind of like, can you do 

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something else to show me your, 
your him. 

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Oh, OK, that was cool. 
But can you do something else? 

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We, we kind of get watch this. 
We get tired of His goodness, 

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but we need it every day. 
And if His goodness stop, then 

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we'll probably be longing for 
His goodness. 

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But maturity knows how to praise
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Like I don't need bad to happen 
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right? 
And so we understand that that 

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perfecting produces lush, a lush
life in Christ. 

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And we understand that that 
lushness has it is very little 

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to do with monetary gain, 
although that is a byproduct of 

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it. 
But it's more about who we 

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become aside from what people 
monetary, any monetary gain. 

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I was going to say, aside from 
what people can see, like 

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tangible fruit, and it's funny 
because what everybody is 

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looking for in the world, the 
church is called to provide 

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through Christ. 
The reason why I want millions 

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of dollars, the reason why I 
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reason why I need your approval,
the reason why I want to get 

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married, the reason why I want 
children, the reason why all 

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these things we're after. 
It's because we're trying to 

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fulfill something within. 
It's the reason why I want to 

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get an education, the reason why
I want my own crib, the reason 

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why I want my own card, the 
reason I want to get married. 

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All these things is if you 
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there's an area in your life you
just ain't happy and you think 

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Blank is going to satisfy it. 
And we're willing to do anything

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to fill Blank except trust God. 
And then what we do is we fill 

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God into the blank and we just 
say that this blessing happened 

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in Jesus name, or I'm moving in 
Jesus name, or I'm getting 

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married in Jesus name, or I'm 
doing this in Jesus name. 

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And we put Jesus name on 
everything Christians. 

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And so we're in an hour where 
God is going to raise his 

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remnant, the wind is about to 
blow and the other side of the 

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wind blowing. 
Besides blowing in this life, it

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also. 
Leaves you only with what He 

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needs, not with what you need. 
God comes to blow because He 

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wants to prove to you that you 
can actually get through life 

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with joy without having what you
put in His place. 

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Right, I see God doing a new 
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I was just in the in the states 
a couple days ago went to our 

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Buddy Miles Minnick album 
release thing and you know, we, 

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we had a moment. 
He was a part of our youth 

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ministry. 
Him and his wife babysat my 

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children for a little bit. 
We have had life together. 

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I was there in the beginning. 
He had his first child at 15 

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years old. 
And what God is doing with him, 

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he is the right person at the 
right time in the right amount 

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of darkness in the world. 
He could be trusted. 

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And what's on him that's 
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It's a joy. 
It's a it's a fire. 

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And then I go there and I'm just
like. 

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You, you, you. 
See that he's being raised in 

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the midst and if he can handle 
it, if he can handle the 

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pressure, because we often think
that's where we want to go. 

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Until that till the church start
persecuting you because they 

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don't understand the call. 
But he got the support group 

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around them. 
He got they got the swag he got 

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he has a lane. 
But what what I see God doing 

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right, He's on Breakfast club. 
He's on and some of you guys 

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don't know. 
I don't have time to explain. 

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Go check it out. 
What breakfast club is his 

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features on his projects is is 
is global artists and and on his

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music. 
He's talking about Jesus and 

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they're letting them in. 
They're they're he's, they're 

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letting him in and his whole 
little move in is the new 

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mainstream and the the wind of 
God is blowing on them, right? 

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And God is looking for a people 
that he can maneuver in these 

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spaces that will not compromise,
that won't let they fire go out,

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and will do whatever before the 
Lord to exist in the spaces God 

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wants to go to. 
But what he is about to show the

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Lil Uzis and all the people that
he has gotten, you know, he's 

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gotten the attention of these 
artists or God has. 

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And it's like, well, the only 
way to tour the world and make 

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millions of dollars doing this 
is to sell your soul. 

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And what you're about to watch 
is he's going to make millions 

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of dollars. 
He's going to. 

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He's already cleared all of his 
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This 15 year old kid running 
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Streets. 
And he's about to be a light to 

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all these artists who think they
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They love God like like anybody.
They like any ATL, all these 

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they've been to church, or at 
least they got somebody from the

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church praying for them. 
And what are you about to show 

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them? 
And what God's about to display 

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is, look, you can have, you can 
be a father, you can be a son, 

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you can be a provider, you can 
do bop, bop, bop, bop, and you 

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don't have to sell your soul. 
So almost like God to follow 

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Jesus totally and wholeheartedly
somehow it's like he's trying to

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take away the lavishness of our 
lives. 

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No, he's actually trying to 
bring us real fruit. 

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Somebody shout out real fruit, 
right? 

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Like he's the comforter. 
He's all that you looking for a 

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spouse. 
He's all that you looking for 

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kids. 
He's all that you looking for 

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for financial overflow or or or 
financial for he's all he's all 

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of that then some and all he 
desires is that you give him all

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of you for more than two months,
like till it becomes a lifestyle

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till you no longer are in need 
of vacant spaces being filled 

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because you let him fill every 
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He's become the source of your 
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And then. 
Boom, you want to talk about 

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real fruit because he's called 
us the fruit that what remains. 

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John three shows us that the 
wind blows where it wills and 

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though you hear it sound yet you
neither know where it comes 

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from. 
Somebody say the wind is about 

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to blow. 
The the the, the the dangerous 

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part is you don't know when it's
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So it's best you just be ready. 
But ain't it's crazy. 

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I don't know about if I'm maybe 
I'm the only person like 

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sometime I don't like getting 
ready till it's time to get 

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ready, at least till I think 
it's time to get ready, right. 

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I don't like showing up nowhere 
till I know it's only going to 

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be a little window of time 
before I'm I'm going on stage or

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I'm going to do this activity or
I'm about to play the game. 

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Like, like there's this thing 
about us is we like I don't mind

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getting ready, but I just need 
to know for show when I put on 

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this suit to see King Jesus, he 
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We I don't want to be wearing my
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I'm going to get irritated with 
Jesus because I'm going to be 

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like, where you at? 
Why you taking so long? 

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I got all these questions 
because you got me. 

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You got me sitting here holy and
perfected, but I ain't getting 

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no action. 
Why isn't my stance attracting 

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you? 
Why? 

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Well, I did all this for you, 
Jesus, and he's like when you 

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are trying to make a 
transaction, you ain't ready 

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yet. 
When it just becomes I don't the

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fiery furnace if he don't show 
up Jesus in the garden of 

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Gethsemane. 
Lord, take this cup. 

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But even if you don't, 
nevertheless, right? 

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We say we're believers, we say 
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what are you willing to pay for 
him to maximize your life? 

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So we see this wind that blows, 
this wind. 

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This word is pneuma. 
Pneuma is breath or wind, spirit

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or life force, the vital force 
or breath of life that gives 

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rise to consciousness, sensation
and thought. 

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So when this wind comes in, it 
is come to give us. 

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Better views before a better 
lifestyle. 

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Come on. 
Better views over better 

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lifestyle. 
Better views over better 

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lifestyle, right? 
And this is what you don't 

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understand. 
Sometime is you can get your 

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life upgraded without getting 
your stuff upgraded. 

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But you got your life wrapped up
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So if stuff ain't getting 
upgraded, you think your life is

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the same? 
So you sitting around we sitting

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around waiting on promotion and 
more this and more that and and 

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wait until I get out. 
Do you know you can have joy 

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while you got some debt? 
I get it. 

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There's a different type of. 
Joy, there's a different type of

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freedom that comes with 
financial freedom. 

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There's a different type of, but
at the same time you sitting 

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here waiting like like really? 
God's joy, God's joy, and God's 

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piece He has for you is tied up 
in stuff you desire. 

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See how we just pull God down to
our level? 

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Man, I, man, I really want to 
get in this building, but you 

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know how much fun I've had in 
this garage, right? 

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And that's when God does just 
super like, God's like man, can 

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you, can you just show? 
Can you, can you just have fun 

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with whatever I allow you to 
have? 

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So when you get over there, like
if he was a person like us, you 

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like a groupie, you like a 
groupie sing you, like a gold 

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digging sing you you just only 
happy when it works for you. 

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It's just like yes, no, he yes, 
no, no AC, yes, concrete. 

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Yeah, we got mats. 
Yeah, it's some but but if but 

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but we got God right and and 
having Jesus is not an excuse to

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go without. 
It's not either or so I'm not 

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saying I'm good with this. 
No, like I said this morning, 

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you got to get courageous enough
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saying the blessing that showed 
up, it ain't it. 

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It's a blessing. 
But this they would not have 

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been wrong. 
God kind of wish they 

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understood. 
That the manner wasn't the 

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promised land. 
God is OK with you saying I'm 

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going to Stewart this, I'm going
to take care of this, I'm going 

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to love this. 
I'm man, this little beat up 

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car, man. 
I'm going to wash it. 

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I'm going to wax it. 
I'm going to scrub these 

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hubcaps. 
I'm going to take care of this 

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thing. 
I'm not waiting for the bends to

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detail my car. 
I'm not waiting till we get over

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there to put paint on the wall. 
No, I'm not. 

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I'm not like these speakers. 
Don't deserve to be in here. 

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What are you talking about? 
And and it's like some of us in 

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here were waiting for that to 
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But what what about when that 
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What if it don't satisfy you? 
Then what you going to do back 

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to your checklist? 
Bombard in heaven with your 

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checklist. 
Watch this What would your 

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prayer life look like if you 
took your desires off the altar?

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Yeah, come on, write that 
question down back in the back. 

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I see y'all in the back, right? 
Right. 

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Don't just stare at the screen. 
Right? 

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That's a good question. 
What would it look like if you 

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took? 
What would your prayer life 

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sound like? 
Would you have any tears in your

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prayer life? 
Would you have any passion? 

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Would you have any consistency 
in your prayer life if you took 

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your desires off the altar? 
Help us think, Holy Spirit. 

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It's a great question, Holy 
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What if the only thing at your 
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was God? 
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That's all prayer supposed to be
about. 

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Yeah, what? 
It's not a Christmas list. 

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God's not really interested, he 
said, he said. 

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Delight in me. 
I'll give you the desires of 

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your heart. 
He's interested in you and him. 

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Seek me first, the Kingdom of 
God and my righteousness and all

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these things, and all these 
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He's not interested in your 
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it's bigger than your desire for
the fruit of the Spirit. 

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Yeah, watch this, watch this. 
The joy of the Lord can come 

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faster than the number one thing
on your list, your desire list. 

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So but crazy because the the 
number one thing on your desire 

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list, you're hoping it brings 
you joy. 

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I just told you joy can come 
faster than the number one thing

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on your desire list. 
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your desired list you probably 
think is going to somehow bring 

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you a level of peace. 
But This is why he says I'm 

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going to give you the peace that
transcends all understanding, 

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right? 
You can't, you can't, you can't 

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level my peace. 
My peace comes when you when you

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logically should not have it and
we don't realize that the fruit 

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of the Spirit. 
Is is 9 weapons? 

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You like breaking down PT? 
That's not today's message, but 

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His weapons. 
Because he tells me to delight 

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in Him. 
He tells me to seek His ways 

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first. 
Because there's something about 

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when I walk in the image and 
likeness of Christ that brings 

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everything but exceeding 
abundantly. 

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Above all, I think I can think X
or imagine. 

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So what if I told you the fruit 
of the Spirit? 

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Yes, it is for. 
It is for you. 

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But it, it, it, it, it moves 
mountains. 

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He is perfecting because the 
wind is about to blow. 

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He is maturing. 
He we, we've said things like 

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perfecting is not talking about 
perfection. 

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It is about the perfect one 
perfecting His bride, restoring 

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us back to image and likeness. 
We read this this morning, 

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Genesis 27. 
You can listen to it on your own

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time. 
This, this, this, this. 

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This week we read the definition
of formed because He, he formed 

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us from the dust, and He 
breathed his life in US. 

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He breathed his courage, His 
joy, his peace in US. 

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And when we're talking about 
form, he's not forming it out of

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nothing. 
He actually is molding us out of

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every aspect of our life. 
Watch this. 

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I told the group this morning, 
I'm gonna tell you again, 

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there's not one season in your 
life that God has meant to go to

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waste. 
God uses all the ingredients of 

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your life. 
So while you're trying to forget

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something, God is trying to get 
you the backbone to be able to 

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put it in the form of a 
testimony so it can help 

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somebody else one day. 
But you got to go through the 

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process. 
You got to go through the 

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forming. 
You got to go. 

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You got to, I said it this 
morning, what is it Good is it 

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if you put all the ingredients 
for a cake in a bowl and don't 

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mix it, what good is it? 
If you mix it and you don't put 

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it in the pan, What good is you 
put it in the pan and the raw 

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ingredients is mixed. 
And if you look into smelling 

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good, you know, you taste the 
cake batter. 

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And what good is it just sitting
there in the cake pan And you 

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don't put it in the oven? 
What, What good is it if you put

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it in the oven and don't take it
out the oven? 

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What good is it if you take it 
out the oven but you don't slice

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it up? 
And what good is it if you slice

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it up but don't serve it? 
And what good is it if you serve

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something to somebody and they 
cannot regurgitate back to you 

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how good it is? 
Anybody in hospitality loves the

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part when you serve it. 
And the people, are you looking 

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at their faces? 
And if they don't say nothing 

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you like, well, is it good, 
right? 

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You, you, you, you went. 
Through that entire process to 

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come out on the other end with a
testimony. 

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And this morning we went 
through, oh, write this down 

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real quick. 
When complaining begins, 

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contending stops. 
I got to get that to you. 

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When complaining contends, I 
mean can. 

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When complaining begins, 
contending stops. 

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OK, the whole wind part is more 
of a prophetic word and 

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God-given us his why the season 
we've been walking through. 

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Now we're about to get into some
perfecting when complaining 

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begins. 
I'll back it up a little bit. 

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In Genesis, we're talking about 
farming. 

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You're also talking about 
perfecting God is he's the 

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Potter and we're the what clay. 
And that's why he uses these 

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analogies. 
This is perfecting. 

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We looked at Jesus last week and
how I showed us when he was born

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and then it went to when he was 
13 when he was seen in the in 

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the temple. 
And it goes from 13 to 30. 

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And we're like, what happened in
between? 

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Why we don't have a record of 
all that. 

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Well, he was being perfected. 
So when he showed up, he was 

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efficient. 
When he showed up, he was 

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efficient. 
When he showed up, he was 

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obedient with ease. 
When he showed up, he was able 

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to be two people what he was 
created to be two people. 

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When he showed up, his hearing 
was sharp because he spent those

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years being perfected. 
When complaining begins, 

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contending stops. 
I really don't see Jesus 

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complaining, but one time and 
you could you could point it 

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out, you go look for it, find 
some faults in Jesus. 

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That's fair is when he was in 
the garden and then he repented.

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He said God. 
Really, you going to abandon me?

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But nevertheless, you see how 
quick he, he, he, he, he on the 

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mission, some of y'all. 
God, really, for months. 

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For real? 
OK, well, if you ain't going to 

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do nothing about it, I'm going 
to do something about it. 

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Well, if I can't hear you, I'm 
going to go ask somebody for 

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wisdom who can't hear you. 
When complaining begins, 

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contending stops. 
I've talked about that a little 

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bit this morning. 
Be good. 

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I elaborated a little bit. 
Go for it. 

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And then I said, say my name, 
say my name, say my name. 

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And then Grace immediately 
finished the song for me. 

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And many people would think, 
since we're talking about Jesus,

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you think I'm coming to tell you
today that he is telling you no 

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matter what you go through, keep
His name in your mouth. 

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True. 
But that's not what I'm here to 

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tell you today. 
I'm here to talk about, I was 

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here to talk about Jacob this 
morning and I was here to talk 

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about Jacob this morning, how he
engaged in a wrestle and that 

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wrestle that he engaged in, if 
we just follow his life, he 

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comes to a place in his life 
where this Angel comes and he's 

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in a he's in a wrestling match. 
But don't forget the words that 

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have been spoken over Jacob and 
his bloodline and you think that

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your wrestle is all about. 
You and your. 

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Desires not knowing that your 
wrestle is about past 

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generations and future 
generations. 

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So the reason you say no to some
stuff, it ain't about you. 

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It's about a word that God gave 
your Mama. 

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How many people know some of the
wrestling you going through is 

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because a word the devil heard 
that was given to your great 

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grandmama, your man. 
I, I got beef because of what 

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God told my grandma a long time 
ago. 

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Some of the beef you got, you 
are guilty by association 

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because of your last name. 
You got the beef you got. 

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You because of some you know how
you play for certain teams if 

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you become a Boston Celtic or if
you become a a Raider, if you 

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become just because you could be
a rookie on that team and you 

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about to get all the boos that 
came from the legacy of the 

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team. 
But I'm like, bro, I'm a rookie.

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I'm I'm still 18. 
I'm on the I'm not. 

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I just checked in the game for 
the first time and then can 

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y'all cheer for me just because 
I made it? 

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But you booing me because I'm a 
Celtic here. 

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Here's what the word says. 
Jesus said they're going to hate

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on you. 
They're going to persecute you 

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because they persecuted me. 
Somebody say guilty by 

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association and what you don't 
realize, if you're guilty by 

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association with Jesus, you 
guilty by association for being 

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a Richmond. 
That's why you got to be careful

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who you marry. 
You're not just signing up for 

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yo you. 
You think it's about you and 

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your little cutie QQQ right? 
No, no, no, no, the the the you 

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about to get you about to get 
you about you about to take some

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blows for the last name you 
taken the same thing as kids you

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born into families that you 
didn't ask to be in. 

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If you sitting with your 
parents, don't don't even. 

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Look at them right now. 
You didn't ask to be in that 

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family, but guess what, you you,
you was born into to to to to 

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hero and E JS family and you 
just had to take whatever EJ was

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tripping on. 
You just had to take it. 

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Whatever EJ wasn't healed from, 
you had to take it. 

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Whatever your Mama didn't deal 
with, you had to take it. 

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And what we don't understand is 
that this perfecting is because 

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God is invested in the word he 
gave. 

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Abraham. 
This isn't this is a 

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generational thing that started 
thousands of years ago. 

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This ain't about your little 
wed. 

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This ain't about your little 
car. 

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This ain't about your little 
house. 

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This ain't about your little 
money. 

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This ain't got nothing to do 
with you. 

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This is about God's word. 
So whatever yes you say are you 

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is your yes contending is yo no 
contending or yo no is just what

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your daddy said no to who in the
bloodline going to fight for 

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once instead of laying down and 
bending over and giving it up to

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the enemy and he takes another 
generation. 

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And that's why I'm determined 
that whatever Richmond is born 

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after us, it's going to be some 
battles for show because they 

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are Richmond. 
They about to walk into this 

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blessing right, So a few of 
y'all should have took that for 

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your own bloodline. 
I'm confessing over. 

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I'm prophesying to the wind, 
right Mount Malachi, where my 

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grandkids is what they they not 
going to step into. 

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They going to be born into some 
rights. 

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They're going to be born into 
some Kingdom stuff. 

449
00:30:03,240 --> 00:30:05,480
They're going to be born into 
some financial stuff. 

450
00:30:05,720 --> 00:30:08,880
They're going to be born into 
some free from cancer stuff. 

451
00:30:09,200 --> 00:30:10,720
They're going to be born into 
some. 

452
00:30:10,720 --> 00:30:14,040
Stuff. 
Ain't going to be no more first 

453
00:30:14,040 --> 00:30:18,040
generation wealthy, first 
generation past first generation

454
00:30:18,040 --> 00:30:22,440
married one time. 
No, no, you going to be second 

455
00:30:22,440 --> 00:30:25,320
generation married, never 
divorced. 

456
00:30:25,400 --> 00:30:28,200
Third generation married, never 
divorced. 

457
00:30:29,800 --> 00:30:32,240
Right. 
Second generation good daddy. 

458
00:30:32,240 --> 00:30:36,000
Second generation good Mama. 
Second generation Good Wife, 

459
00:30:36,160 --> 00:30:40,400
second generation good husband, 
right? 

460
00:30:40,400 --> 00:30:46,400
We got to get past the first 
generation of your bloodline. 

461
00:30:46,400 --> 00:30:48,680
Been existing for how long? 
Why you the first? 

462
00:30:50,520 --> 00:30:53,480
So if you found yourself in your
life where you have become the 

463
00:30:53,480 --> 00:30:57,680
first, you also must be the 
last. 

464
00:31:02,400 --> 00:31:06,520
You can't just be the one the 
first to do this, but not the 

465
00:31:06,520 --> 00:31:10,720
last one. 
To do or not to do that? 

466
00:31:15,840 --> 00:31:18,760
That's why he said he say he is 
committed to finish it till 

467
00:31:18,880 --> 00:31:22,400
Jesus returns. 
So there's a work within you 

468
00:31:22,600 --> 00:31:27,080
that continues after you. 
This work does not end till 

469
00:31:27,160 --> 00:31:32,240
Jesus returns. 
So this is about what are you 

470
00:31:32,240 --> 00:31:34,080
accumulating and what are you 
handing off? 

471
00:31:37,720 --> 00:31:39,280
You know some people can hoard 
lies. 

472
00:31:41,120 --> 00:31:42,680
Yeah, you can hoard things, 
right? 

473
00:31:43,080 --> 00:31:46,280
Hoard, hoard, hoard. 
You heard. 

474
00:31:46,280 --> 00:31:50,480
Hoard. 
You can hoard lies and pass them

475
00:31:50,480 --> 00:31:57,400
on generation to generation. 
Hoard. 

476
00:32:03,360 --> 00:32:05,400
So just go ahead. 
Jacob wrestled. 

477
00:32:05,400 --> 00:32:11,800
Somebody say Jacob wrestled and 
he wrestled until that Angel. 

478
00:32:12,160 --> 00:32:18,000
He said he didn't let go until 
he blessed them. 

479
00:32:19,160 --> 00:32:23,480
He did not let go until he 
blessed them. 

480
00:32:25,040 --> 00:32:28,480
No, I can't let go until I'm in 
the promised Land. 

481
00:32:29,000 --> 00:32:32,800
I'm not letting go at Manna. 
This ain't it. 

482
00:32:33,960 --> 00:32:36,400
Like you think we going to get 
in this Maybe we let me tell you

483
00:32:36,400 --> 00:32:39,080
something. 
The only deep breath or exhale I

484
00:32:39,080 --> 00:32:42,680
will take when we move next door
is because because the, the, 

485
00:32:42,720 --> 00:32:46,600
the, the, the that building 
process is done. 

486
00:32:47,880 --> 00:32:50,840
But I'm not going to exhale like
we've this is it. 

487
00:32:51,880 --> 00:32:55,000
No, the vision that God has 
given us and put in our belly. 

488
00:32:56,440 --> 00:33:00,560
This can't contain it. 
Even if we purchase the land, 

489
00:33:02,440 --> 00:33:07,480
it's not the vision. 
The vision is very specific, but

490
00:33:08,320 --> 00:33:13,000
this is the path and we have to 
be found faithful over where we 

491
00:33:13,000 --> 00:33:20,230
are. 
Let me make this clear. 

492
00:33:21,190 --> 00:33:29,710
This facility houses the vision.
So the vision overall to love 

493
00:33:29,710 --> 00:33:34,000
all nations equip the church 
mobilize the equip serve all 

494
00:33:34,000 --> 00:33:37,360
right, we are equipping church 
it we can equip at Starbucks it 

495
00:33:37,360 --> 00:33:38,440
don't it don't matter where we 
are. 

496
00:33:38,440 --> 00:33:42,320
We can equip on Zoom like so I 
want to make it clear before 

497
00:33:42,320 --> 00:33:44,440
anybody misconstrued what I'm 
saying well. 

498
00:33:45,480 --> 00:33:48,400
What we giving them Remnant? 
Money for if this ain't it, 

499
00:33:48,400 --> 00:33:51,840
because this is it for the 
vision, like anywhere can house 

500
00:33:51,840 --> 00:33:56,400
the vision that the vision to 
make disciples is bigger than 

501
00:33:56,400 --> 00:34:00,920
the where we make disciples, 
right? 

502
00:34:00,920 --> 00:34:03,440
The work never stops and it 
never has for love quest. 

503
00:34:04,000 --> 00:34:06,680
OK, Even when they lock the 
doors, it ain't never stopped. 

504
00:34:09,120 --> 00:34:12,199
And then the brother limping and
you like God, why you didn't 

505
00:34:12,199 --> 00:34:17,199
take my limp from me if I got so
much victory Because it's your 

506
00:34:17,239 --> 00:34:23,000
testimony. 
I may come out limping, but I'm 

507
00:34:23,000 --> 00:34:26,639
going to come out lush. 
Come on, write that down. 

508
00:34:26,639 --> 00:34:30,280
I may come out limping, but I'm 
going to come out lush I may 

509
00:34:30,280 --> 00:34:32,679
come out limping, but I'm going 
to come out lush. 

510
00:34:32,679 --> 00:34:36,760
It'll pop up there in a second I
may come out limping, but I'm 

511
00:34:36,760 --> 00:34:50,040
going to come out lush. 
OK, how did I get? 

512
00:34:50,120 --> 00:34:51,000
How did I? 
How did I? 

513
00:34:57,600 --> 00:35:06,720
I think I there it is. 
Rebound. 

514
00:35:09,800 --> 00:35:13,280
There we go, watch this. 
Somebody say perfecting. 

515
00:35:14,080 --> 00:35:17,200
Now when we're thinking of 
perfecting, we are thinking of 

516
00:35:17,240 --> 00:35:19,600
molding, we're thinking of 
purging. 

517
00:35:19,600 --> 00:35:27,000
We're thinking of seasons and 
times where God will pull put us

518
00:35:27,000 --> 00:35:29,000
through. 
Now get out of here. 

519
00:35:29,000 --> 00:35:31,560
We're thinking you are exempt 
from going through wilderness. 

520
00:35:31,560 --> 00:35:34,040
Jesus did it. 
Children of Israel did it. 

521
00:35:34,240 --> 00:35:38,200
Holy Spirit LED Jesus into the 
wilderness, right? 

522
00:35:38,200 --> 00:35:43,040
He was to be proven you, you, 
you can't even sell fruit out 

523
00:35:43,040 --> 00:35:45,680
the market before it's 
inspected. 

524
00:35:46,880 --> 00:35:50,400
You can't even put a car on the 
road before it's dummy tested. 

525
00:35:50,400 --> 00:35:58,600
I'm going to say it again. 
You can't put a car on the road 

526
00:35:58,840 --> 00:36:05,760
until it's dummy tested. 
I've had a few dummy tests 

527
00:36:05,760 --> 00:36:08,480
before in my life. 
Look at your neighbors. 

528
00:36:08,480 --> 00:36:11,640
Say, say, I'm not going to be 
dumb no more I'm. 

529
00:36:14,200 --> 00:36:19,920
Not going to be dumb no more. 
That's how somebody got laughed 

530
00:36:19,920 --> 00:36:21,040
at. 
Like, yeah, right. 

531
00:36:24,640 --> 00:36:31,680
Watch this a part of perfecting 
it looks like sifting. 

532
00:36:33,120 --> 00:36:39,520
Some somebody say sifting. 
You guys have such sweet voices 

533
00:36:41,760 --> 00:36:44,760
sifting. 
Sifting. 

534
00:36:46,000 --> 00:36:52,520
Simon, Simon Peter, listen, I'll
be Hey, Seon is in room for me 

535
00:36:52,520 --> 00:36:55,240
in the production because I 
could, I could, you know, 

536
00:36:55,360 --> 00:37:02,780
whoever you need me to play, I 
can, right. 

537
00:37:06,100 --> 00:37:13,340
Satan has asked excessively what
does excessively mean over and 

538
00:37:13,340 --> 00:37:15,540
over. 
And oh, this is the part that 

539
00:37:15,540 --> 00:37:18,860
that's kind of scary. 
Like he really trying to get at 

540
00:37:18,860 --> 00:37:21,760
you. 
And if he hasn't yet, that's the

541
00:37:21,760 --> 00:37:24,000
grace of God. 
That's why we got to stay with 

542
00:37:24,000 --> 00:37:27,640
him, because because the enemy 
is after us. 

543
00:37:28,560 --> 00:37:35,120
Satan has asked excessively that
all of you be given up to him. 

544
00:37:35,120 --> 00:37:41,280
Watch this out of the power and 
keeping of God, that he might 

545
00:37:41,280 --> 00:37:49,240
sift all of you like. 
So I need to know what sifting 

546
00:37:49,240 --> 00:37:53,840
is. 
I need to know what sifting like

547
00:37:53,840 --> 00:37:56,760
grain is to understand what he's
saying. 

548
00:37:56,760 --> 00:38:00,840
But first, out of the power and 
keeping with God, I need to tell

549
00:38:00,840 --> 00:38:06,160
you, stop helping him get you 
out of the keeping of God. 

550
00:38:09,240 --> 00:38:13,880
Just 'cause you saved don't mean
you always in the keeping. 

551
00:38:16,040 --> 00:38:19,040
The blood saved you for eternal 
life. 

552
00:38:20,200 --> 00:38:26,000
But when you are not obedient, 
when you delay obedience, when 

553
00:38:26,000 --> 00:38:30,080
you choose to do stuff in your 
own understanding, what does he 

554
00:38:30,080 --> 00:38:30,600
say? 
Lean. 

555
00:38:30,600 --> 00:38:35,160
Not on your own. 
Understanding, right? 

556
00:38:36,360 --> 00:38:40,440
Because your own understanding 
leaves you to keeping you. 

557
00:38:43,440 --> 00:38:46,160
And when you keeping you, he 
ain't keeping you. 

558
00:38:47,800 --> 00:38:50,280
And out of the power. 
This is how I read this and this

559
00:38:50,280 --> 00:38:52,360
is how I see it. 
And this is how you should hear 

560
00:38:52,360 --> 00:39:01,240
this, that His power is already 
set to work for His word. 

561
00:39:02,640 --> 00:39:09,120
His power is not set to work for
your desires. 

562
00:39:09,920 --> 00:39:14,760
That's why he says you seek me 
or you delight in me because 

563
00:39:14,960 --> 00:39:21,960
that's where my power works. 
So you got to go through me to 

564
00:39:21,960 --> 00:39:24,280
get to you. 
Watch it. 

565
00:39:24,360 --> 00:39:27,320
Here's the word If you look for 
you without me, you're never 

566
00:39:27,320 --> 00:39:29,000
going to find you. 
But if you're really looking for

567
00:39:29,000 --> 00:39:31,200
you, find me. 
And you find you right where I 

568
00:39:31,200 --> 00:39:33,560
am. 
He's saying the route to live a 

569
00:39:33,560 --> 00:39:39,360
life of lavishness and lush and 
power is you got to go. 

570
00:39:39,360 --> 00:39:43,520
Through him, no one gets to the 
Father except through him. 

571
00:39:46,240 --> 00:39:48,400
You can't get to the Father 
without the Father. 

572
00:39:49,040 --> 00:39:51,720
You can't get the Father's stuff
without the Father's presence. 

573
00:39:53,520 --> 00:40:06,920
So this is the enemy's top 
priority out of the power and 

574
00:40:06,920 --> 00:40:10,640
keeping of God. 
He wants you to keep yourself 

575
00:40:10,880 --> 00:40:16,000
and he wants you to depend on 
other people to keep you, right.

576
00:40:16,000 --> 00:40:17,680
He wants he wants your job to 
keep you. 

577
00:40:17,680 --> 00:40:19,040
That's what the devil wants. 
He wants your job. 

578
00:40:19,200 --> 00:40:21,840
He wants you to think that your 
life going to be better off in 

579
00:40:21,840 --> 00:40:25,560
somebody else's arms. 
And on somebody else's chest and

580
00:40:25,560 --> 00:40:29,080
in somebody else's corporation. 
And if the government does this,

581
00:40:29,080 --> 00:40:32,000
and then if the government does 
that, life will be better. 

582
00:40:32,000 --> 00:40:34,280
No, it won't. 
The government is government and

583
00:40:34,520 --> 00:40:38,720
the Kingdom is Kingdom. 
And watch this. 

584
00:40:39,440 --> 00:40:43,240
Satan has asked excessively that
all of you be given. 

585
00:40:43,240 --> 00:40:49,320
Who is all of you? 
That's all us, all us out of the

586
00:40:49,320 --> 00:40:51,800
power and keeping of God. 
Let me help you. 

587
00:40:52,600 --> 00:40:56,520
This platform does not keep me 
from being sifted. 

588
00:40:59,760 --> 00:41:03,280
Sometimes I'm getting sifted 
while I'm on the platform. 

589
00:41:06,200 --> 00:41:11,880
If you know, you know out of the
power and keeping of God that he

590
00:41:11,880 --> 00:41:15,920
might sift you, right? 
So here's why I read this as 

591
00:41:15,920 --> 00:41:20,160
well. 
He can't sift me or be effective

592
00:41:20,160 --> 00:41:22,240
in the sifting if I'm in the 
keeping. 

593
00:41:24,880 --> 00:41:27,600
But I also need the power of God
working in my life. 

594
00:41:28,080 --> 00:41:32,960
But the power of God is not 
effective in my life when I am 

595
00:41:32,960 --> 00:41:37,280
not rooted in Him. 
Watch this. 

596
00:41:37,440 --> 00:41:42,640
You're not rooted in Him if 
you're not obedient to Him, and 

597
00:41:42,640 --> 00:41:45,800
if the only thing you are 
obedient to is when it pertains 

598
00:41:45,800 --> 00:41:52,040
to your call. 
And not the day-to-day pruning 

599
00:41:52,040 --> 00:41:56,040
of becoming like him. 
Oh, I'll go, Lord, if you give 

600
00:41:56,040 --> 00:41:58,960
me an assignment to be on a 
platform, Give me a mic, Lord, 

601
00:41:58,960 --> 00:42:02,240
I'll do it. 
Give me a job, Lord. 

602
00:42:02,240 --> 00:42:05,200
I'll go into the industry and be
a light unto men. 

603
00:42:05,680 --> 00:42:12,160
Well, why you just wouldn't? 
Why you wouldn't just cool in 

604
00:42:12,160 --> 00:42:15,840
his arms? 
It's always send me a goal. 

605
00:42:16,120 --> 00:42:20,320
But when you say go, it's not 
wherever. 

606
00:42:20,680 --> 00:42:26,440
You want me? 
It's go to where I have an idea 

607
00:42:27,000 --> 00:42:31,120
my talents can thrive. 
All right, All right. 

608
00:42:32,840 --> 00:42:34,040
Amen. 
Watch this, sifty. 

609
00:42:34,960 --> 00:42:38,680
In ancient times, separating 
wheat from chafe involved a 

610
00:42:38,680 --> 00:42:42,280
violent process of pounding, 
tossing, and shaking the grain 

611
00:42:42,280 --> 00:42:49,240
in a large sieve phrase in a 
metaphor for a severe trial or 

612
00:42:49,400 --> 00:42:54,160
challenge designed to break a 
person down, expose their 

613
00:42:54,160 --> 00:42:59,600
weaknesses, and potentially lead
to their spiritual ruin or 

614
00:42:59,600 --> 00:43:03,120
failure. 
The sifting is a powerful 

615
00:43:03,120 --> 00:43:08,960
destructive force that aims to 
crush, tear apart, and scatter a

616
00:43:09,000 --> 00:43:12,960
person's faith. 
The devil seeks to discover that

617
00:43:12,960 --> 00:43:18,120
the individual is merely chafe, 
weak and pure and without 

618
00:43:18,120 --> 00:43:22,720
genuine faith, and to cause them
to fall away or become 

619
00:43:23,200 --> 00:43:25,960
apostates. 
So watch this The Bible warns us

620
00:43:26,000 --> 00:43:31,240
of people in the last days like 
never before, falling away from 

621
00:43:31,240 --> 00:43:37,120
the faith. 
That is the point of sifting in 

622
00:43:37,120 --> 00:43:40,000
the last days. 
God's going to say, hey Satan, 

623
00:43:40,000 --> 00:43:46,240
you've been asking for a while. 
I'm about to blow this wind have

624
00:43:46,240 --> 00:43:50,320
Adam. 
I know the ones that's going to 

625
00:43:50,320 --> 00:43:54,720
stay in my keeping. 
I know the ones that when 

626
00:43:54,720 --> 00:43:58,160
pressure comes up on them that 
they're watch this the four 

627
00:43:58,160 --> 00:44:00,320
different types of ground. 
That's what he's tell the 

628
00:44:00,320 --> 00:44:04,200
Kingdom is. 
It's the people who who who was 

629
00:44:04,200 --> 00:44:06,560
excited for a while, they're 
rooted for a while and sometime 

630
00:44:06,560 --> 00:44:13,480
a while is five years. 
But when the enemy comes to. 

631
00:44:13,520 --> 00:44:15,760
Sift. 
You, he pressures you. 

632
00:44:16,680 --> 00:44:22,080
You then watch this. 
The depth of your roots were not

633
00:44:22,080 --> 00:44:26,720
exposed until the enemy was 
released to try you. 

634
00:44:28,840 --> 00:44:33,880
It's some of y'all in here. 
You swear you rooted, you think 

635
00:44:33,880 --> 00:44:39,280
you all for Jesus. 
Yeah, but when the Lord says 

636
00:44:39,280 --> 00:44:44,800
have Adam, that's going to be 
the day that your root system is

637
00:44:44,800 --> 00:44:48,720
really going to be exposed. 
But it's not like God is not 

638
00:44:48,720 --> 00:44:52,680
giving you the opportunity. 
A lot of the while while the 

639
00:44:52,680 --> 00:44:56,240
enemy when By the time the enemy
has been given permission to 

640
00:44:56,240 --> 00:45:02,360
sift, the Lord has already sent 
shepherds to weed. 

641
00:45:05,280 --> 00:45:08,520
OK and you don't want that 
accountability? 

642
00:45:08,520 --> 00:45:13,280
You think Bo hating on you? 
No God has sent someone to 

643
00:45:13,280 --> 00:45:20,600
really weed through this stuff. 
I will always send to John the 

644
00:45:20,600 --> 00:45:22,920
Baptist. 
He will always send an Elijah. 

645
00:45:22,920 --> 00:45:26,800
He will always send a man and 
but that's the problem going so 

646
00:45:26,800 --> 00:45:30,240
long without prophets and 
apostles in the land, you don't 

647
00:45:30,240 --> 00:45:33,360
even know what they are. 
You're like who? 

648
00:45:33,360 --> 00:45:35,320
These people just don't come up 
on the scene. 

649
00:45:35,320 --> 00:45:37,040
I ain't never been pastored like
this. 

650
00:45:38,280 --> 00:45:41,760
I want my small group, I want 
youth group, I want young adult 

651
00:45:41,760 --> 00:45:43,920
group. 
I want marriage ministry, I want

652
00:45:43,920 --> 00:45:46,800
singles, I want the events, I 
want the programs. 

653
00:45:46,800 --> 00:45:48,120
That's. 
Church, ain't it? 

654
00:45:49,920 --> 00:45:52,480
Ain't that church? 
We go to camps. 

655
00:45:53,120 --> 00:45:55,680
That's church, huh? 
Yeah. 

656
00:45:56,440 --> 00:45:57,880
That's why the church is 
lukewarm. 

657
00:46:00,760 --> 00:46:02,800
So in the last days, the last 
shall be first. 

658
00:46:02,800 --> 00:46:05,800
The first gifts to establish the
church is going to be last. 

659
00:46:05,800 --> 00:46:08,960
And they're going to rise up. 
And it's on you to see and take 

660
00:46:08,960 --> 00:46:10,520
heed. 
You can go, oh, that's a false 

661
00:46:10,520 --> 00:46:12,320
prophet. 
And oh, who we think he. 

662
00:46:12,320 --> 00:46:14,120
And you can get caught up in all
of that. 

663
00:46:14,120 --> 00:46:17,960
But when the wind blow, when you
sitting there looking like 

664
00:46:17,960 --> 00:46:24,120
tumbleweeds going through the 
desert, you can never look at 

665
00:46:24,120 --> 00:46:30,000
God and say, but God, why you 
didn't warn me he going he you 

666
00:46:30,000 --> 00:46:37,200
hit that YouTube page up. 
Watch this here we go. 

667
00:46:37,720 --> 00:46:43,400
We'll end up Matthew 14 and 
those who ate were about 5000 

668
00:46:43,920 --> 00:46:47,160
men, not including women and 
children. 

669
00:46:47,160 --> 00:46:50,840
It's it's, it's over 10,000 
people that have to be fed. 

670
00:46:51,720 --> 00:46:56,280
Then he directed the disciples 
to get into the boat. 

671
00:46:56,280 --> 00:46:58,760
He does. 
He directed the disciples to 

672
00:46:58,760 --> 00:47:02,520
what Right. 
This is that the season where 

673
00:47:02,520 --> 00:47:08,600
the Lord is saying you get in 
like we just came smooth off a 

674
00:47:08,600 --> 00:47:11,880
miracle. 
Now let's see where your faith 

675
00:47:11,880 --> 00:47:15,080
is. 
We just came through. 

676
00:47:15,080 --> 00:47:17,120
You'd have seen the miracle. 
Look watch this. 

677
00:47:17,360 --> 00:47:20,040
You didn't need me to feed over 
10,000. 

678
00:47:20,040 --> 00:47:22,640
All I did was pray over it. 
I lifted it up to the Father. 

679
00:47:22,800 --> 00:47:27,520
So I just displayed when 
something is put in your hands. 

680
00:47:30,840 --> 00:47:33,400
So this next test you going to 
be looking for me. 

681
00:47:33,400 --> 00:47:37,000
It it's not it's not God. 
He's, he's trying to raise them 

682
00:47:37,000 --> 00:47:43,640
up, not in a sense of he's 
trying to raise them to live 

683
00:47:43,640 --> 00:47:47,880
without him, but he is trying to
raise them to live without the 

684
00:47:47,880 --> 00:47:56,040
Rabbi Jesus, the man who needed 
God, who needed baptizing, who 

685
00:47:56,040 --> 00:47:58,080
needed to be filled with the 
Holy Ghost. 

686
00:48:00,240 --> 00:48:02,600
And you see it with Moses. 
He's sitting there crying and 

687
00:48:02,960 --> 00:48:06,480
then father says, hey, stop 
whining. 

688
00:48:06,480 --> 00:48:13,640
Lift your rod out. 
And guess what? 

689
00:48:13,640 --> 00:48:19,240
Moses was asked to go last. 
The people went across first. 

690
00:48:21,360 --> 00:48:24,320
When it was time to go to the 
Promised land, the leaders went 

691
00:48:24,320 --> 00:48:28,640
across first. 
You see it with God himself. 

692
00:48:28,640 --> 00:48:31,360
It was the season he was in 
front of them and it was the 

693
00:48:31,360 --> 00:48:34,720
season he repositioned them. 
But he's trying to get you like 

694
00:48:34,720 --> 00:48:37,440
Shadrach, Meshach and Bendigo. 
Even if he don't come in this 

695
00:48:37,440 --> 00:48:44,320
thing, I'm good. 
He directed the disciples to get

696
00:48:44,320 --> 00:48:48,320
into the boat and go before him.
Watch this go before him, go 

697
00:48:48,320 --> 00:48:52,920
before him, go before him to the
other side while he sent away 

698
00:48:53,240 --> 00:48:54,720
the crowds. 
One day we going to get into 

699
00:48:54,720 --> 00:48:56,520
what real maturity looks like 
right? 

700
00:48:56,520 --> 00:49:00,520
This there's some stuff that I 
that, that, that I choose to do 

701
00:49:00,800 --> 00:49:04,000
that God's end, but God didn't 
decide to do it. 

702
00:49:07,880 --> 00:49:13,840
Have you ever seen a kid take 
their parents to the sandbox and

703
00:49:13,840 --> 00:49:15,400
you see the parent like where 
are you going? 

704
00:49:18,400 --> 00:49:19,560
Right? 
We forget we're sons and 

705
00:49:19,560 --> 00:49:20,960
daughters. 
All you say you're not servants,

706
00:49:21,320 --> 00:49:25,600
you're not slaves, you're 
friends and sometimes with you. 

707
00:49:25,640 --> 00:49:28,840
Here's the scary part for some 
of y'all, but this is where 

708
00:49:28,840 --> 00:49:33,080
perfecting is needed, is that 
when you really walk with God, 

709
00:49:33,440 --> 00:49:38,000
it does not. 
I got to have Malachi come up 

710
00:49:38,000 --> 00:49:39,360
because I was going to hold your
hand. 

711
00:49:39,360 --> 00:49:40,840
But I don't want come here, 
Malachi. 

712
00:49:40,840 --> 00:49:42,240
Real quick, real quick, real 
quick, real quick. 

713
00:49:43,920 --> 00:49:45,320
No, no, no, no. 
Come here, babe. 

714
00:49:46,880 --> 00:49:51,800
I knew you was going to do that.
Well, you're a bride, right? 

715
00:49:51,880 --> 00:49:53,840
Just it's going to be real 
quick, right? 

716
00:49:54,360 --> 00:49:57,920
Walking, walking with the Lord 
does not just stay behind me, 

717
00:49:58,160 --> 00:50:04,840
does not look like this. 
Sometimes walking with the Lord 

718
00:50:04,840 --> 00:50:07,240
looks like this. 
Sometimes it looks like this. 

719
00:50:07,640 --> 00:50:09,240
Where are we going? 
I'm with you. 

720
00:50:09,720 --> 00:50:13,400
OK, see, that's the part some of
y'all not ready for. 

721
00:50:15,040 --> 00:50:16,080
Thank you. 
That's that. 

722
00:50:16,080 --> 00:50:17,280
Some of y'all not ready for 
that? 

723
00:50:17,720 --> 00:50:20,400
You're not ready for Jesus to 
say to you what we doing? 

724
00:50:22,760 --> 00:50:24,880
What you mean what we doing? 
Jesus, I thought you run 

725
00:50:24,880 --> 00:50:26,960
everything. 
No, no, wait a minute. 

726
00:50:26,960 --> 00:50:29,200
My spirit's in you. 
My word's in you, My words 

727
00:50:29,200 --> 00:50:31,000
abiding in you. 
I'm abiding in you. 

728
00:50:31,000 --> 00:50:33,240
You're abiding in me. 
What are we doing? 

729
00:50:33,240 --> 00:50:40,520
I didn't get a word from the 
Lord to do the basketball stuff.

730
00:50:42,640 --> 00:50:47,160
Why do I need a word for that? 
I'm his son. 

731
00:50:47,160 --> 00:50:49,320
He's called me to make. 
Disciples and win the loss. 

732
00:50:49,640 --> 00:50:51,200
How many times he needs to say 
do that? 

733
00:50:52,480 --> 00:50:54,320
He's giving me talents. 
He's giving me gifts. 

734
00:50:54,320 --> 00:50:55,840
He say use them. 
I'm with you. 

735
00:50:56,360 --> 00:50:57,920
That's what the Bible says. 
I'm with you. 

736
00:50:58,040 --> 00:51:03,880
Always, but we think that. 
The relationship with God is 

737
00:51:03,880 --> 00:51:13,520
always just like, come on, but 
no, Father, come here, sit down 

738
00:51:13,600 --> 00:51:17,240
with me, crisscross applesauce. 
And then we learned a couple 

739
00:51:17,240 --> 00:51:19,960
weeks ago or a week ago, man, 
when we going to get past the 

740
00:51:19,960 --> 00:51:23,040
milk, when we going to get past 
crisscross applesauce? 

741
00:51:25,960 --> 00:51:28,200
When are you going to actually 
walk in my image And like this? 

742
00:51:28,200 --> 00:51:29,440
That's what the garden. 
Was. 

743
00:51:30,360 --> 00:51:32,440
I said I'm the I'm the God of 
the heavens. 

744
00:51:32,440 --> 00:51:35,400
You now you're going to mirror 
me as it is. 

745
00:51:35,400 --> 00:51:36,920
It ain't that how Jesus taught 
us how to pray? 

746
00:51:37,800 --> 00:51:40,400
So you down there have dominion 
over the bop, bop, bop, bop, 

747
00:51:40,400 --> 00:51:44,720
bop. 
When we fail, we lost image and 

748
00:51:44,720 --> 00:51:46,480
likeness. 
We lost dominion. 

749
00:51:48,120 --> 00:51:50,640
So watch this. 
He says he went, He says they 

750
00:51:50,640 --> 00:51:54,080
went before him to the other 
side while he sent away the 

751
00:51:54,080 --> 00:51:55,720
crowd. 
He sent away the crowd. 

752
00:51:56,160 --> 00:51:59,000
He sent away the crowds, and 
after he had dismissed the 

753
00:51:59,000 --> 00:52:02,800
multitudes, he went up into the 
hills by himself to pray. 

754
00:52:03,600 --> 00:52:08,760
When it was evening, he was 
still there alone. 

755
00:52:08,760 --> 00:52:11,880
Where was Jesus? 
He was up in the hills by 

756
00:52:11,880 --> 00:52:17,160
himself. 
He just finished being a part of

757
00:52:17,720 --> 00:52:21,800
God's miracle work and power. 
The brother's tired. 

758
00:52:22,160 --> 00:52:24,600
He's getting to himself to get 
refueled. 

759
00:52:24,720 --> 00:52:28,000
He sends his disciples across 
and he didn't say we're sending 

760
00:52:28,000 --> 00:52:29,880
you across. 
He said I'm sending you to the 

761
00:52:30,440 --> 00:52:32,120
other side. 
Come on, I'm sending you to the 

762
00:52:32,480 --> 00:52:35,560
other side one more time. 
I'm sending you to the other 

763
00:52:35,560 --> 00:52:38,960
side. 
And so I like it here. 

764
00:52:39,200 --> 00:52:40,880
I'm starting to learn Jesus 
nature. 

765
00:52:40,880 --> 00:52:43,960
Like when Jesus waiting, it's 
kind of like Lazarus. 

766
00:52:43,960 --> 00:52:46,800
I think I get that picture. 
Oh, he wait until it stank 

767
00:52:48,520 --> 00:52:50,080
right? 
I'm thinking about 3 days in the

768
00:52:50,080 --> 00:52:52,240
Gray. 
He wait until y'all like then he

769
00:52:52,240 --> 00:53:04,220
pop out like birthday cake woman
with this your blood blind 

770
00:53:04,220 --> 00:53:06,620
Bartimaeus. 
He's not he's that he's not 

771
00:53:06,620 --> 00:53:09,620
moved by our emotions. 
He's not in a rush for you 

772
00:53:11,260 --> 00:53:13,660
right? 
Anytime you in a rush, he's not 

773
00:53:13,660 --> 00:53:17,100
involved. 
Whenever you feel your spirit 

774
00:53:17,100 --> 00:53:20,220
rushing, he's not there. 
He's not that's not him. 

775
00:53:22,180 --> 00:53:23,600
Watch this. 
He's. 

776
00:53:23,600 --> 00:53:26,040
Still there alone. 
Here it is. 

777
00:53:26,560 --> 00:53:29,200
But the boat was by this time 
out on the sea. 

778
00:53:29,200 --> 00:53:34,600
Somebody say out on the sea many
furlongs, and a furlong is 1/8 

779
00:53:34,920 --> 00:53:37,960
of a mile distant from the land.
Watch this. 

780
00:53:38,200 --> 00:53:41,600
Beaten and tossed by the waves. 
These are important details. 

781
00:53:41,600 --> 00:53:43,080
Why? 
Because the Bible put them in 

782
00:53:43,080 --> 00:53:46,440
there. 
Beaten and tossed by the waves. 

783
00:53:46,440 --> 00:53:49,600
For the wind was against them. 
Say the wind there, there's the 

784
00:53:49,600 --> 00:53:54,400
wind, there's the wind. 
There's the wind, it's blowing 

785
00:53:55,280 --> 00:54:01,480
and you didn't know, and because
you're not rooted, it's working 

786
00:54:01,480 --> 00:54:04,920
against you. 
Because you double minded, it's 

787
00:54:04,920 --> 00:54:10,560
working against you. 
Or like Jacob, it's resisting 

788
00:54:10,560 --> 00:54:14,600
because it's proving you. 
The wind don't just come to 

789
00:54:14,600 --> 00:54:18,000
bring fruit. 
We're not just talking about 

790
00:54:18,000 --> 00:54:20,400
that. 
There's a wind coming to prove 

791
00:54:20,400 --> 00:54:26,800
you and This is why he said This
is why I'm understanding. 

792
00:54:26,960 --> 00:54:30,000
He's saying over this next 
little while, don't be hasty. 

793
00:54:30,000 --> 00:54:32,080
Be still. 
Be like rest. 

794
00:54:32,080 --> 00:54:34,600
It's OK. 
And a lot of times when God says

795
00:54:34,600 --> 00:54:41,040
rest, he is telling you to rest 
in the place he told you to 

796
00:54:41,040 --> 00:54:46,400
rest. 
So if he told me to rest, I need

797
00:54:46,400 --> 00:54:52,560
to go back and look at what, 
what posture was I in in 2023 

798
00:54:54,640 --> 00:54:59,360
when we got that word? 
And I look at some, some folk 

799
00:54:59,360 --> 00:55:05,240
from that word to now anxious 
spirit trying to get this and 

800
00:55:05,240 --> 00:55:09,160
trying to get that versus 
allowing the allowing yourself 

801
00:55:09,160 --> 00:55:14,560
to get the roots so deep, right.
If a oak tree needs that kind of

802
00:55:14,560 --> 00:55:20,240
time, What what do you think 
when God is saying rest, wait, 

803
00:55:20,360 --> 00:55:22,440
chill out. 
No, no, no, don't add, don't 

804
00:55:22,440 --> 00:55:25,120
add, don't know. 
Right there, right, right there,

805
00:55:25,360 --> 00:55:27,160
right. 
I know it's mundane, but right 

806
00:55:27,160 --> 00:55:32,840
there, right there is where I 
need you to be. 

807
00:55:34,600 --> 00:55:38,400
And then the wind is going to 
blow and prove you. 

808
00:55:40,560 --> 00:55:45,440
And once you've been proven, 
guess what time it is? 

809
00:55:46,160 --> 00:55:51,000
It's multiplication time. 
We're trying to help somebody 

810
00:55:51,000 --> 00:55:55,520
right now. 
We don't just litty daddy along 

811
00:55:55,520 --> 00:55:59,280
and lotty daddy and just add. 
And this is my desires are 

812
00:55:59,280 --> 00:56:01,040
leading me over here. 
I want this. 

813
00:56:01,040 --> 00:56:04,320
I think I'm ready for this. 
I'm I want this and I'm I'm 

814
00:56:04,320 --> 00:56:11,640
ready and and. 
Now question, can you point to 

815
00:56:13,440 --> 00:56:21,200
the proving moment being over? 
Because I'm pretty sure these 

816
00:56:21,200 --> 00:56:25,440
disciples didn't forget this 
moment, That's why it's written 

817
00:56:25,440 --> 00:56:32,480
there. 
Can you identify where a wind 

818
00:56:32,480 --> 00:56:39,400
came and you have been proven 
and you have passed that 

819
00:56:40,520 --> 00:56:49,440
inspection and, and, and 
sometimes the proving is not 

820
00:56:49,760 --> 00:56:52,000
from what you added to your 
life. 

821
00:56:54,120 --> 00:57:01,480
So you know, I, I got this new 
thing over here in my life and 

822
00:57:01,480 --> 00:57:04,880
that has now brought me a 
certain level of responsibility,

823
00:57:04,880 --> 00:57:10,320
stress and pressure in my life. 
No, no, that is a self ordained,

824
00:57:10,320 --> 00:57:13,360
self-inflicted test you put 
yourself through. 

825
00:57:15,240 --> 00:57:18,200
I'm talking about you are still,
I'm talking about your life 

826
00:57:18,200 --> 00:57:21,040
starting to seem stale. 
You've been doing the same thing

827
00:57:21,040 --> 00:57:24,560
over and over and over and over 
and over. 

828
00:57:24,720 --> 00:57:31,600
And while I'm waiting, all these
songs we sing wait on the Lord, 

829
00:57:31,840 --> 00:57:35,560
he will renew. 
We get real big and we get real 

830
00:57:35,560 --> 00:57:39,360
dramatic and we get real 
dynamic, but then our faith 

831
00:57:39,360 --> 00:57:44,800
ain't as dynamic. 
We go in we. 

832
00:57:47,960 --> 00:57:50,720
Anybody don't know when you see 
somebody doing this that mean we

833
00:57:50,720 --> 00:57:53,840
going, we going to repeat that 
part, we going, we going, we 

834
00:57:53,840 --> 00:57:55,960
going to stay right there. 
You get what I'm saying? 

835
00:57:56,920 --> 00:57:59,520
We do it, we pray, we show up on
Saturday, we do all these 

836
00:57:59,520 --> 00:58:02,520
things. 
But when the wind blows, that's 

837
00:58:02,520 --> 00:58:03,240
the. 
Part. 

838
00:58:03,480 --> 00:58:08,800
About the proving season is that
there's the Darnell's that get 

839
00:58:08,800 --> 00:58:20,160
separated in our lives and the 
truth is exposed for the wind 

840
00:58:20,160 --> 00:58:26,160
was against them and in the 4th 
watch between 3:00 and 6:00 of 

841
00:58:26,160 --> 00:58:28,840
the night, Jesus came to them 
walking on the sea. 

842
00:58:31,280 --> 00:58:34,400
This this this is this real dark
time of the night. 

843
00:58:34,920 --> 00:58:40,720
Somebody say dog Jesus came to 
them walking on the sea and when

844
00:58:40,720 --> 00:58:46,320
the disciples saw him walking on
the sea they were terrified and 

845
00:58:46,320 --> 00:58:54,120
said it is a ghost and they 
screamed out with fright. 

846
00:58:54,120 --> 00:59:01,680
But instantly he spoke to them 
saying take courage I am Period.

847
00:59:02,160 --> 00:59:07,280
Stop being afraid, because I am.
Peter responded. 

848
00:59:09,200 --> 00:59:20,600
Lord, if it is you, command me 
to come to you on the water I 

849
00:59:20,600 --> 00:59:23,960
like. 
This because we don't talk to 

850
00:59:23,960 --> 00:59:25,600
God. 
Some of us, we don't talk to God

851
00:59:25,600 --> 00:59:31,040
like this. 
We say if it's you, come in the 

852
00:59:31,040 --> 00:59:36,080
boat. 
It's you, come bless me. 

853
00:59:39,960 --> 00:59:47,160
Watch this. 
Now it may seem to me, this is 

854
00:59:47,160 --> 00:59:49,280
say my imagination, my 
imagination. 

855
00:59:50,000 --> 00:59:55,520
It may seem when I read this, I 
see something, something here. 

856
00:59:56,000 --> 00:59:59,200
It says they saw him, but they 
thought it was a ghost. 

857
01:00:00,520 --> 01:00:03,040
They couldn't quite make out. 
Is that Jesus? 

858
01:00:04,000 --> 01:00:13,520
So to me, beating waves in the 
sea could pose a challenge to 

859
01:00:13,520 --> 01:00:17,160
see clear. 
Anybody been some storm riders 

860
01:00:17,160 --> 01:00:19,120
out here been out on the sea at 
night time. 

861
01:00:19,400 --> 01:00:24,960
It like just looking at the sea 
from from the bridge look look 

862
01:00:24,960 --> 01:00:28,720
dark right And the destination 
was across. 

863
01:00:28,720 --> 01:00:30,800
It's not like they parked 
somewhere to go fishing. 

864
01:00:30,800 --> 01:00:33,320
They were going across waves, 
beaten. 

865
01:00:34,560 --> 01:00:38,000
Isn't that what we just read? 
OK, that's a detail that's 

866
01:00:38,000 --> 01:00:41,920
important. 
So when they say they saw, just 

867
01:00:41,920 --> 01:00:45,080
because you say you saw 
something or because you heard 

868
01:00:45,080 --> 01:00:46,840
something, don't mean you saw or
heard. 

869
01:00:46,840 --> 01:00:52,280
Clear. 
Talk to me, somebody. 

870
01:00:53,400 --> 01:00:54,960
And you get a lot of people 
these days. 

871
01:00:54,960 --> 01:01:00,920
I heard the Lord. 
OK and are you clear? 

872
01:01:02,360 --> 01:01:10,480
I saw a vision and was it clear?
So as I'm reading I'm 

873
01:01:10,480 --> 01:01:15,040
understanding the conditions 
around it made it hard for them 

874
01:01:15,040 --> 01:01:20,360
to see clear hence why is that? 
Is that a ghost? 

875
01:01:20,960 --> 01:01:23,680
Let alone how he walking on the 
water? 

876
01:01:25,680 --> 01:01:30,120
Command me to come to you on the
water. 

877
01:01:30,120 --> 01:01:36,720
That's a crazy statement. 
Command me to anybody in here, 

878
01:01:36,760 --> 01:01:44,440
command me to to get out my boat
Safety, right? 

879
01:01:44,640 --> 01:01:49,080
Safety. 
If that's you, I am willing to 

880
01:01:49,080 --> 01:01:55,240
look so foolish. 
If that's you, I am willing to 

881
01:01:55,240 --> 01:01:58,960
take the biggest risk of my life
if that's you. 

882
01:02:00,080 --> 01:02:02,040
This is equivalent to the woman 
with the issue of blood. 

883
01:02:04,560 --> 01:02:09,040
I don't care if they stone me. 
I want to get to you, Jesus. 

884
01:02:11,440 --> 01:02:14,560
If it is you command me to come 
right. 

885
01:02:14,560 --> 01:02:17,280
You know when you throw your, 
your little double fleece down 

886
01:02:17,280 --> 01:02:20,320
and you, you throw your 
spiritual blanket out and, and, 

887
01:02:20,320 --> 01:02:23,560
and you, you challenge God. 
If that's you do this. 

888
01:02:26,400 --> 01:02:28,720
But how many of you just said, 
if that's you, draw me close to 

889
01:02:28,720 --> 01:02:35,680
you? 
Because I understand if I step 

890
01:02:35,680 --> 01:02:46,320
out of this boat, that better be
you, he said. 

891
01:02:47,080 --> 01:02:49,320
Well, he said command me to come
to you on the water. 

892
01:02:49,440 --> 01:02:51,640
He said come now. 
Now here it is. 

893
01:02:51,640 --> 01:02:56,160
I don't know about you, but when
Jesus be answering that quick if

894
01:02:56,160 --> 01:02:58,640
that's you want me to come and 
then he sent the word on Sunday 

895
01:02:58,640 --> 01:03:00,560
and how many people left? 
He answered your prayer, but 

896
01:03:00,560 --> 01:03:02,080
then you needed him to reconfirm
it. 

897
01:03:03,440 --> 01:03:05,680
He said come so Peter, watch 
this. 

898
01:03:05,800 --> 01:03:12,280
So Peter, you see how Peter got 
out the boat and walked on the 

899
01:03:12,280 --> 01:03:17,160
What did Peter do? 
And he what come on, he got out 

900
01:03:17,160 --> 01:03:21,120
the boat and what he one more 
time he got out the boat and 

901
01:03:21,120 --> 01:03:28,800
what he he's like if walking on 
what if doing the impossible is 

902
01:03:28,800 --> 01:03:34,240
the route to seeing you right 
says if doing the impossible is 

903
01:03:34,240 --> 01:03:40,440
the route to clarity. 
Some of you don't want to say no

904
01:03:40,440 --> 01:03:43,480
for clarity. 
You're saying, let me just try. 

905
01:03:43,480 --> 01:03:46,240
No, I cannot sit in my 
limitations. 

906
01:03:46,520 --> 01:03:50,160
I must do the impossible, not 
the practical. 

907
01:03:53,240 --> 01:03:56,200
Oh, this don't make sense why I 
can't do that or why I shouldn't

908
01:03:56,240 --> 01:03:56,840
do that? 
No. 

909
01:03:56,840 --> 01:04:01,640
What about the impossible? 
What about what ain't popular? 

910
01:04:03,840 --> 01:04:05,840
What about when you got the 
folks in your boat? 

911
01:04:05,840 --> 01:04:11,080
That's like, girl, dude, you 
could, you could do it if you 

912
01:04:11,080 --> 01:04:12,960
want. 
But I don't think that's really 

913
01:04:12,960 --> 01:04:16,320
Jesus telling you to do that. 
Jesus would never tell you to 

914
01:04:16,320 --> 01:04:19,560
get off the boat. 
Why wouldn't he? 

915
01:04:19,560 --> 01:04:21,240
Jesus would never tell you to 
don't do that. 

916
01:04:21,240 --> 01:04:22,040
Why wouldn't? 
He. 

917
01:04:27,600 --> 01:04:31,800
You see how much stuff we put on
God and then how much stuff we'd

918
01:04:31,800 --> 01:04:33,360
be like? 
That ain't possibly him. 

919
01:04:34,960 --> 01:04:38,680
Look at this car God got for me.
Look at, oh, God paid my rent. 

920
01:04:38,680 --> 01:04:44,760
No, you got paid or you borrowed
some money, right? 

921
01:04:45,240 --> 01:04:47,760
Yeah, but that was God. 
OK, but why ain't that God 

922
01:04:47,760 --> 01:04:49,200
that's telling you to do other 
stuff? 

923
01:04:51,520 --> 01:04:54,440
Ain't it crazy? 
We got selective hearing. 

924
01:04:54,440 --> 01:05:02,200
All right, all right, all right.
And he he came towards he he 

925
01:05:02,200 --> 01:05:04,920
what he what? 
So this means he progressed. 

926
01:05:05,040 --> 01:05:09,480
He didn't just step out the 
water and just one day we're 

927
01:05:09,480 --> 01:05:11,160
going, I'm going to have a 
little remote and I'm going to 

928
01:05:11,160 --> 01:05:13,440
step out and I could do stuff 
like that and the stage going to

929
01:05:13,440 --> 01:05:16,640
drop, just this spot going to 
drop. 

930
01:05:16,640 --> 01:05:20,760
Then I'm going to come back out 
like Chris Brown. 

931
01:05:23,280 --> 01:05:29,320
Yeah. 
Watch this. 

932
01:05:29,400 --> 01:05:31,800
He walked on water and he came 
towards. 

933
01:05:31,800 --> 01:05:33,320
So it means he took steps on 
water. 

934
01:05:35,160 --> 01:05:36,480
He took steps. 
Count. 

935
01:05:36,480 --> 01:05:39,960
That's what I mean. 
Count the baby steps, count the 

936
01:05:39,960 --> 01:05:42,840
steps because he was sinking. 
Jesus didn't give up on me like 

937
01:05:42,840 --> 01:05:44,200
the like the two. 
Steps. 

938
01:05:44,200 --> 01:05:50,080
I think Jesus like OK boy. 
Image and likeness right? 

939
01:05:50,160 --> 01:05:52,360
I'm walking I took them two 
steps because for two steps I 

940
01:05:52,360 --> 01:05:57,880
was reflecting your image. 
He says perceived watch this but

941
01:05:57,880 --> 01:06:04,520
somebody say but but when he 
perceived and felt perceived 

942
01:06:04,520 --> 01:06:13,080
watched it perceived it looked 
perceived is not 2020 perceived 

943
01:06:13,080 --> 01:06:17,440
is not 2020. 
A lot of times your perception, 

944
01:06:19,120 --> 01:06:21,920
it's based on the context that 
you look through. 

945
01:06:22,680 --> 01:06:25,360
It's based on how you've 
postured yourself. 

946
01:06:25,560 --> 01:06:28,360
It's based on the voices that 
you've allowed to get rooted in 

947
01:06:28,360 --> 01:06:33,720
your head. 
Your perception is based on how 

948
01:06:33,720 --> 01:06:38,000
you see the person, the thing. 
Have you ever heard of depth 

949
01:06:38,120 --> 01:06:39,880
perception? 
Right. 

950
01:06:39,880 --> 01:06:42,720
You got bad depth perception. 
Like you probably shouldn't be 

951
01:06:42,720 --> 01:06:47,880
driving unless like in a huge 
parking lot with, with nothing 

952
01:06:47,880 --> 01:06:54,600
in it. 
OK, your perception and he felt 

953
01:06:54,880 --> 01:07:01,000
This is why he tells you to 
renew this inner man. 

954
01:07:04,240 --> 01:07:05,640
That's where perception comes 
from. 

955
01:07:07,480 --> 01:07:12,320
And he felt the strong wind. 
When this wind blow, there's 

956
01:07:12,320 --> 01:07:15,760
going to be some people who 
perception has not been rooted 

957
01:07:16,320 --> 01:07:19,480
and they going to feel a strong 
wind. 

958
01:07:20,160 --> 01:07:25,960
He was frightened and as he 
began to sink, he cried out. 

959
01:07:25,960 --> 01:07:33,320
Watch this, watch this. 
What you He did not say Jesus 

960
01:07:33,320 --> 01:07:38,640
name. 
His request was Jesus to call 

961
01:07:38,640 --> 01:07:44,080
him. 
Send me, I go. 

962
01:07:45,760 --> 01:07:50,080
Whatever you have me to do, it 
was not about knowing Jesus. 

963
01:07:50,400 --> 01:07:52,200
It's much. 
I'm talking about this moment 

964
01:07:52,200 --> 01:07:56,680
right here when he started 
sinking is when he started 

965
01:07:56,680 --> 01:08:04,520
crying out. 
Yes, he steps out the boat, and 

966
01:08:04,520 --> 01:08:08,440
I've said it before, He steps 
out the boat to go towards 

967
01:08:08,440 --> 01:08:12,920
Jesus, and by his faith he 
encounters Jesus in a way that 

968
01:08:12,920 --> 01:08:14,840
the people in the boat did not. 
But watch. 

969
01:08:14,840 --> 01:08:22,359
It as he began to sink and I'm 
here to stop and tell you guys 

970
01:08:22,359 --> 01:08:24,040
today. 
Don't wait till you start 

971
01:08:24,040 --> 01:08:32,479
sinking. 
To cry out like you don't want 

972
01:08:32,479 --> 01:08:38,640
the Lord save me, but there's. 
No relationship in the realm of 

973
01:08:38,640 --> 01:08:44,920
obedience. 
Instantly Jesus reached out, 

974
01:08:46,200 --> 01:08:50,760
caught and held him, saying to 
him, O you of little faith, 

975
01:08:50,760 --> 01:08:54,760
meaning short bursts of faith. 
No doubt some of you have faith,

976
01:08:56,080 --> 01:09:00,399
but is it strong faith, right. 
Bible gives measures of faith. 

977
01:09:01,160 --> 01:09:06,479
Is it little faith? 
Why did you doubt? 

978
01:09:07,760 --> 01:09:13,880
And when they got into the boat,
the wind, when they got into the

979
01:09:13,880 --> 01:09:18,000
boat, the wind ceased just. 
Like Jacob's. 

980
01:09:18,000 --> 01:09:22,319
Wrestling match had to end, the 
wind blowing has to end. 

981
01:09:23,520 --> 01:09:31,720
When they got into the boat, the
wind ceased and those in the 

982
01:09:31,720 --> 01:09:36,120
boat knelt and worshipped him, 
saying truly you are the Son of 

983
01:09:36,120 --> 01:09:37,600
God. 
And when they had crossed over 

984
01:09:37,600 --> 01:09:41,040
to the other side, like he said,
they went ashore. 

985
01:09:42,439 --> 01:09:46,080
And when the men of that place 
recognized him, they sent around

986
01:09:46,920 --> 01:09:51,359
you get the drift, and begged 
him to let them merely touch the

987
01:09:51,359 --> 01:09:55,320
fringe of his garment. 
And as many touched him, they 

988
01:09:55,320 --> 01:10:01,840
were perfectly restored. 
Who? 

989
01:10:01,920 --> 01:10:07,640
Is in your boat. 
Watch this that God is calling 

990
01:10:07,640 --> 01:10:15,000
you from a monks so that when 
y'all get back in the boat they 

991
01:10:15,000 --> 01:10:24,200
worship him. 
It goes back to your yeses and 

992
01:10:24,200 --> 01:10:30,080
noes is not about your desires. 
There's people in your boat. 

993
01:10:30,120 --> 01:10:34,320
The same people you getting 
wisdom from have been placed in 

994
01:10:34,320 --> 01:10:38,000
your boat for you to be this, 
for your faith to be put on 

995
01:10:38,000 --> 01:10:42,800
display. 
And you don't realize that age 

996
01:10:42,800 --> 01:10:46,200
is not the determining factor, 
but you have been put in their 

997
01:10:46,200 --> 01:10:48,440
boat because they need wisdom 
from you. 

998
01:10:49,320 --> 01:10:50,960
Guess where they going to get 
wisdom from? 

999
01:10:51,560 --> 01:10:56,400
Your display of faith. 
There are people in your boat 

1000
01:10:56,400 --> 01:10:59,960
right now that God has 
strategically put you in their 

1001
01:10:59,960 --> 01:11:05,480
lives while He is asking you to 
come out the boat. 

1002
01:11:06,480 --> 01:11:09,160
Because they are where they are 
in their life and you are an 

1003
01:11:09,200 --> 01:11:12,480
answering discipline. 
You are an answer to their 

1004
01:11:12,480 --> 01:11:15,280
lives. 
They don't know it, but you got 

1005
01:11:15,280 --> 01:11:16,600
to be revealed. 
Watch this. 

1006
01:11:16,760 --> 01:11:19,400
They did not know. 
Peter was about to lead them to 

1007
01:11:19,400 --> 01:11:25,720
a deeper revelation of Jesus. 
It just took one person. 

1008
01:11:28,320 --> 01:11:33,400
Peter wanted his name called but
he failed to keep calling the 

1009
01:11:33,400 --> 01:11:38,560
name above all names. 
Jesus voice isn't confirmed or 

1010
01:11:38,560 --> 01:11:41,400
identified in the mountaintop 
experiences. 

1011
01:11:42,160 --> 01:11:47,480
Often times his voice is 
clarified in the messiness and 

1012
01:11:47,480 --> 01:11:56,920
interruptions of life. 
We have often just we loud on 

1013
01:11:56,920 --> 01:11:58,080
that. 
He confirmed this. 

1014
01:11:58,200 --> 01:12:00,520
This blessing came. 
That was Jesus this blessing 

1015
01:12:00,520 --> 01:12:02,360
came that was the this blessing 
came. 

1016
01:12:02,360 --> 01:12:05,480
Now, man, if you really want to 
get clear on who Jesus is, 

1017
01:12:06,640 --> 01:12:08,600
you're going to have to be 
willing to be separated. 

1018
01:12:08,600 --> 01:12:15,320
You're going to have to be 
willing to be perfected. 

1019
01:12:15,320 --> 01:12:19,000
You're going to have to be 
willing to say no where no is 

1020
01:12:19,000 --> 01:12:23,800
not popular. 
You're going to have to be 

1021
01:12:23,800 --> 01:12:27,440
willing to say yes where, where 
yes is unpopular. 

1022
01:12:29,040 --> 01:12:32,760
Watch this. 
The same voice that got you out 

1023
01:12:32,760 --> 01:12:37,720
the boat is the same hand that 
will keep you from drowning. 

1024
01:12:41,320 --> 01:12:43,240
Voice in hand. 
Told you. 

1025
01:12:43,240 --> 01:12:46,040
I had a couple people support 
this church won't say their 

1026
01:12:46,040 --> 01:12:47,880
name. 
They, they can't see that well. 

1027
01:12:48,320 --> 01:12:50,480
They, they can't see that well 
without their glasses. 

1028
01:12:51,120 --> 01:12:54,360
So when I roll up on them, 
sometime without their glasses 

1029
01:12:54,360 --> 01:12:57,240
on, sometime if we even rehearse
or something, they like, man, I 

1030
01:12:57,240 --> 01:13:01,440
don't know why I can't hear you 
when I don't have my glasses on.

1031
01:13:09,360 --> 01:13:15,240
The same voice that got you, 
like I kind of got this little 

1032
01:13:15,240 --> 01:13:17,360
picture. 
I could play with my imagination

1033
01:13:17,360 --> 01:13:24,560
a bit that that if, if, if, if, 
if Peter would have been willing

1034
01:13:24,560 --> 01:13:26,880
to play a little Marco Polo with
Jesus. 

1035
01:13:28,680 --> 01:13:32,520
He might have took a few more 
steps, but he only demanded 

1036
01:13:32,520 --> 01:13:38,200
Jesus to call him once. 
Anybody ever play Marco Polo, 

1037
01:13:39,560 --> 01:13:44,600
right? 
Marco, Marco, Marco, Marco. 

1038
01:13:44,800 --> 01:13:50,240
And normally you do not stop 
back and forth until you make 

1039
01:13:50,240 --> 01:13:56,800
contact. 
And the length of our process 

1040
01:13:56,800 --> 01:14:01,480
sometime gets us silent, and we 
no longer demand his voice in 

1041
01:14:01,480 --> 01:14:09,880
our lives, but the same voice. 
That got you out of the boat is 

1042
01:14:09,880 --> 01:14:16,640
the same hand that will keep you
from drowned life and death is 

1043
01:14:16,640 --> 01:14:19,920
in the power of the tongue. 
Voice and hand goes hand in 

1044
01:14:19,920 --> 01:14:27,240
hand. 
So if he called you, he will 

1045
01:14:27,240 --> 01:14:37,160
keep you, leave you with this, 
We're being perfected. 

1046
01:14:37,160 --> 01:14:47,200
Yes, you cannot be polished. 
Watch it until you are pruned, 

1047
01:14:48,440 --> 01:15:07,920
pierced, and proven. 
All right. 

1048
01:15:07,920 --> 01:15:12,920
We're going to have Malachi's 
announcement thing tonight, what

1049
01:15:12,920 --> 01:15:17,080
college we've committed to. 
And part of the biggest decision

1050
01:15:17,320 --> 01:15:23,280
making this decision was what's 
the next best step, not the next

1051
01:15:23,280 --> 01:15:30,760
big school. 
And the next best step is based 

1052
01:15:30,760 --> 01:15:34,000
on where. 
We as parents see his 

1053
01:15:34,000 --> 01:15:38,080
development is today. 
Where we projected to be a year 

1054
01:15:38,080 --> 01:15:42,480
from now based on the trajectory
and and how he's grown year 

1055
01:15:42,480 --> 01:15:48,240
after year and we've marked 
those and then the school he 

1056
01:15:48,240 --> 01:15:53,640
will go to is going to be able 
to continue where we believe or 

1057
01:15:53,640 --> 01:15:58,040
project his maturity or lack 
thereof will be. 

1058
01:15:59,320 --> 01:16:04,200
This time next year. 
Right. 

1059
01:16:04,200 --> 01:16:07,960
Put the, put the, put the, the, 
the last slide back up. 

1060
01:16:11,680 --> 01:16:16,160
We understand what God's promise
the end result's going to be. 

1061
01:16:16,160 --> 01:16:19,280
We've gotten a prophetic word 
over where he's going to end up.

1062
01:16:21,000 --> 01:16:24,720
So now you work backwards. 
And then when you got here, it 

1063
01:16:24,720 --> 01:16:29,680
is a word from God eliminates 
the urge to rush. 

1064
01:16:33,480 --> 01:16:40,320
OK, if God said this is the this
is where you going, then I can't

1065
01:16:40,320 --> 01:16:44,000
let people who see my ability 
rush me. 

1066
01:16:46,640 --> 01:16:50,320
See these coaches only see 
talent and ability. 

1067
01:16:50,400 --> 01:16:57,040
They don't see my son. 
So it is my job to help guard 

1068
01:16:57,040 --> 01:17:00,160
and prune and purge and Pierce 
and Polish the gift. 

1069
01:17:03,280 --> 01:17:05,920
And what we're finding out is 
when we can communicate our 

1070
01:17:05,920 --> 01:17:08,480
vision to these schools is 
they're like, this is 

1071
01:17:08,480 --> 01:17:10,960
refreshing. 
Had one college say, hey, these 

1072
01:17:10,960 --> 01:17:12,760
players were recruiting. 
I'm going to tell them to come 

1073
01:17:12,760 --> 01:17:16,480
talk to you to be their agent 
because it's all about money. 

1074
01:17:16,480 --> 01:17:20,160
It's not about developing the 
the the the human. 

1075
01:17:21,080 --> 01:17:23,680
So I'm asking coaches cut 
questions they never heard. 

1076
01:17:23,680 --> 01:17:26,120
And one of the biggest ones. 
How many when we on the phone 

1077
01:17:26,120 --> 01:17:28,880
with the whole coaching staff, 
how many of y'all married? 

1078
01:17:30,320 --> 01:17:32,520
You would ask what that got to 
do with basketball. 

1079
01:17:33,560 --> 01:17:35,520
It has something to do with your
leadership. 

1080
01:17:36,960 --> 01:17:40,360
So you've been coaching for 30 
years and you come to the end of

1081
01:17:40,360 --> 01:17:45,960
your career and you single. 
It speaks to your priorities and

1082
01:17:45,960 --> 01:17:49,280
it speaks to how you lead. 
What, like, like basketball? 

1083
01:17:49,600 --> 01:17:54,200
For me, basketball can't be the 
coach's number one priority. 

1084
01:17:56,280 --> 01:18:02,000
My son has to be #1 priority, 
right? 

1085
01:18:02,080 --> 01:18:06,120
When you're looking for a 
spouse, God has to be #1 in that

1086
01:18:06,120 --> 01:18:09,280
person you thinking about 
marrying and they got to prove 

1087
01:18:09,280 --> 01:18:12,480
he first. 
It can't just be like, I'm 

1088
01:18:12,480 --> 01:18:15,240
Christian. 
I serve at my local church now. 

1089
01:18:15,240 --> 01:18:17,320
OK, cool. 
Keep serving at your local 

1090
01:18:17,320 --> 01:18:19,080
church. 
Let me see how you handle a 

1091
01:18:19,080 --> 01:18:26,400
storm while I'm not in the boat.
Let me sit on the shore of our 

1092
01:18:26,400 --> 01:18:28,680
relationship before I get in the
boat with you. 

1093
01:18:31,040 --> 01:18:34,680
Let me see how you handle the 
winds and the waves before I put

1094
01:18:34,680 --> 01:18:39,000
my life at risk. 
And So what I understand is 

1095
01:18:39,000 --> 01:18:41,680
that, man, we have this 
responsibility. 

1096
01:18:42,480 --> 01:18:44,720
It's like, no, my son used to be
meant it was hard. 

1097
01:18:44,720 --> 01:18:47,560
He could be gone right now. 
Like right now he could be gone.

1098
01:18:47,800 --> 01:18:49,400
But that would be setting him up
for it. 

1099
01:18:49,400 --> 01:18:51,880
Like, no, no, no, no. 
You want him to skip over? 

1100
01:18:51,880 --> 01:18:53,760
Prune. 
You want him to skip over 

1101
01:18:53,760 --> 01:18:55,920
Pierce. 
You want him to skip the stuff 

1102
01:18:55,920 --> 01:18:59,880
that you going to develop him in
Is not the stuff he has trouble 

1103
01:18:59,880 --> 01:19:05,280
developing. 
The stuff he needs developing in

1104
01:19:05,280 --> 01:19:07,800
is only what his disciple can 
do. 

1105
01:19:10,200 --> 01:19:12,200
So we still need to be 
challenged, we still need to be 

1106
01:19:12,200 --> 01:19:14,400
developed in his skill, he said.
It don't matter what school he's

1107
01:19:14,400 --> 01:19:16,640
going to go to, the next level 
is going to develop in period. 

1108
01:19:18,120 --> 01:19:20,760
But it's our job. 
To watch the fruit so the fruit 

1109
01:19:20,760 --> 01:19:23,200
can remain. 
Right. 

1110
01:19:23,200 --> 01:19:25,280
So you got to go. 
What's the next? 

1111
01:19:25,480 --> 01:19:30,240
What's the next? 
No, I need to make or say that's

1112
01:19:30,240 --> 01:19:34,240
going to send me into to this, 
to this pruning and piercing so 

1113
01:19:34,240 --> 01:19:37,800
I can be polished. 
Have you ever heard a speaker 

1114
01:19:37,800 --> 01:19:39,560
that's polished? 
You ever heard a artist that's 

1115
01:19:39,560 --> 01:19:41,120
polished? 
You ever see a dancer that's 

1116
01:19:41,360 --> 01:19:43,160
polished? 
You ever seen a mechanic that's 

1117
01:19:43,160 --> 01:19:44,960
polished, right? 
How did they get there? 

1118
01:19:46,400 --> 01:19:51,680
You know how many cars a 
mechanic messed up and you just 

1119
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praise God it wasn't your car, 
but you got a polished mechanic,

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but somebody had to pay. 
And this is what God is saying 

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man. 
Chill on inviting people into 

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your space. 
It polished so everyone that 

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comes in your life end up 
shining, finish the course. 

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It's perfecting season and if 
you want to be polished, pruned,

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pierced and proven, it's got to 
hurt. 

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You got to make some decisions, 
right? 

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It hurt Malli, it hurt us. 
We had a school we really wanted

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to go to. 
We thought that was the one, but

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it hurt to say no. 
But when we say yes to this, the

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piece that comes with the yes, 
you didn't think you was going 

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to make that, that every yes 
requires you to say a no. 

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Don't just want to say yes man, 
Be master the no Father, thank 

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you. 
Thank you Jesus for saying no to

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that cup and saying yes to the 
cross. 

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We bless your name Jesus name, 
Amen. 

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Just give God a hand. 
We need the fear of the Lord. 

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Thank you so much for tuning 
into this week's sermon. 

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We pray you were challenged, 
equipped and encouraged. 

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Make sure to follow us on all 
platforms. 

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That's love quest Intl church. 
We out here for real. 

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We're really doing it. 
That's Facebook, Instagram, 

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YouTube and TikTok. 
You can find us anywhere you 

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need to find us. 
But until next time, you know 

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the drill. 
You know the motto, get your 

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love fixed man and we'll see 
y'all real soon.