Failing Up

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A righteous man falls down seven times, but each time gets back up again.

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How many people are stuck right now in the swampy sameness?

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They're stuck and God wants to move you.

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God wants to promote you.

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But you're afraid because you're afraid of failing.

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Be emboldened.

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Be thou unstuck.

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Get back up again.

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Dare to believe again.

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Welcome to the City Light Church podcast.

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Thanks for joining us today as we look into God's Word and discover the hope and truth that He has for us.

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If you want to connect with City Light Church, feel free to visit us at CityLightNYC.com.

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That's CityLightNYC.com.

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Pastor Boyan Jancic and his team believe that the power of the Holy Spirit is already working in our hearts and minds.

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As you listen to today's teaching, remember that you are deeply loved by God, that you are surrounded by His grace, and that He has a real hope and a future for you.

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I feel wonderfully unusual this morning.

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Huh.

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I was praying for people.

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I really didn't know second service had started.

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I was completely, I had gone up.

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And then when I prayed for the last person, I looked and second service had started.

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And it's a wonderful feeling.

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It shouldn't be unusual.

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I guess that's me confessing my sins.

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But the unusual part is I just felt like I was disappearing and disappearing.

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And the Lord was appearing.

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And I pray that.

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Lord, you increase, I decrease.

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Lord, flow through me.

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But it's a wonderful thing when you step back and you decrease and you see the Lord moving.

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And so I just want to say something that could be misinterpreted as self-serving, but it will help you.

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It really will.

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But I don't say it often.

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Probably a couple of times a year.

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Because it often sounds self-serving.

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And this is what I want to say.

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That I'm either your pastor or your preacher.

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There's a third option.

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I'm just a guy.

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If I'm a preacher to you or just a guy...

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you're not gonna get that much from me.

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And maybe your mentality is, well, I don't really want anything from you.

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I want God, I wanna get God.

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Why are you here then?

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Like in your mind, you're gonna get directly from God, right?

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You're like Moses, you're gonna go to the mountaintop and get the, I have a news flash for you.

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God flows through people.

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And he set it up a certain way.

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And the way you receive from a person is through honor.

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Now here's what I mean.

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This is where people think of it self-serving.

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He wants me to hold doors open for him.

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He wants me to like really acknowledge him as he walks by.

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I'm not even talking about that.

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When I honor a man of God, it means I expect to receive from them.

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When I honor my pastor, I expect God to flow through them.

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I dishonor them when I just don't expect anything.

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That's scriptural.

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You look at Mark chapter 6, they didn't honor Jesus.

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He could do their no mighty work.

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Not that he would do their no mighty work, he could not.

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Because the anointing of God flows through that door called honor.

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You see, the moment I mention honor, anybody with an authority issue, anybody with hurts and pain, they immediately recoil.

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I don't need men, I just need God.

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You ever seen anybody blessed who says, I don't need man, I just need God?

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They're always like the most miserable people.

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They're always, their life's upside down.

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They hop around from church to church.

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They can't get along with anybody.

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But their mantra is, I just need God.

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Well, you're not obviously getting him.

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He's not active in your life because you keep disqualifying his servants.

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Because you've got so much pain and inner hurts.

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And now...

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You're like a walking wound.

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And you immediately disqualify anyone that the Lord wants to bring into your life to be a blessing to you.

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It's really simple.

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The word minister means servant.

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I'm to serve.

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And I can be, if you choose so, I can be a portal of blessing to you.

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If you acknowledge me and receive me that way.

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That's only if I'm actually your pastor.

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If I'm that preacher guy, you get the reward of a preacher guy.

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Not that much.

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If I'm a guy, you get, I mean, there's guys everywhere.

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Look, there's a pizzeria across the street, bunch of guys behind the counter.

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Hallelujah.

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Because I feel in my spirit, the Lord wants to do something.

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And when you actually yield and believe and then receive, he'll get something to you.

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And my joy and the fulfillment of my calling is I get to be a part of it.

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I get to fade and back and just, wow, look what you're doing, Lord, this is so awesome.

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You say, what do you want?

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That, that is everything.

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That is awesome.

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Hallelujah.

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When I got saved, I got saved in Bed-Stuy, Brooklyn,

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at an apostolic holiness church, and that church felt like victory.

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Which by the way, just on that note, it felt like victory because the pastor, Bishop Wilbur Jones, walked in victory.

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I mean, he walked into a room, the whole place lit up.

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His face shined like the noonday sun.

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And when you choose a church,

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You have to, this is what people, man, the Lord keeps bringing me back to this.

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I didn't even say this in the first service.

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You have to connect with the pastor.

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That doesn't mean you're having lunch with him twice a week.

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But it means, like Bishop Jones, I never had lunch with him.

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But the moment I saw it, that's my pastor.

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I connected with him.

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And you will always have the flavor of the pastor.

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Right?

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And if you go to a church and you're not connected to the pastor, I love you.

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I've got to tell you the truth.

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You're wasting your time.

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And you will take on the flavor of the pastor.

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So if the pastor doesn't believe in the move of the Holy Spirit, you're really not going to have much activity of the Holy Spirit in your life.

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If the pastor doesn't believe in revival, you're not going to have revival in your life.

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If the pastor's religious, you're going to have a spirit of religion in your life.

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If the pastor's all subdued and bound up...

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You're going to need Holy Ghost psyllium husks to unbind you up.

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So the name of the church, this is so different than the first service, but somebody's got to hear this.

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The name of the church was Beulah, which means married.

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And that felt like victory.

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But I was 16 when I got saved, then I went off to college, then I attended various churches.

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And they didn't feel like victory.

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Probably because a bunch of them were in Suffolk County.

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And we all know Suffolk County.

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It could be really depressing.

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And they just, no, really.

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Like the worship team looked like they needed Prozac.

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Everybody looked like they were just beaten up.

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And then the pastor was okay.

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But all the associates, they were just like, oh.

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And finally, I ended up going to Bible school in Tampa, Florida with Dr. Rodney Howard Brown.

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And what really attracted me, of course, the move of God and the anointing.

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My life got changed.

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But for the first time ever, really, I was like, this man and this ministry is winning.

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And Christianity shouldn't be losing.

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And it shouldn't look depressing.

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He is winning.

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Like, the guy doesn't miss.

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And I like that.

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Finally.

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I get to look at victory.

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I can walk in someone's footsteps who's experiencing victory.

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And everybody was joyous.

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And it was like he would come out and I could hear the song in the background.

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All I do is win, win, win, no matter what.

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I'm like, yeah.

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And then I got on staff.

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And then I realized very quickly, hey, there are a lot of losses here.

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A lot.

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But he doesn't process them like a normal guy.

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Like when there is a loss, a lot of people take it so personally.

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When they fail, when they fall, when something doesn't work out.

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Like he might do an outreach or an event.

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And in the natural, it'd be a flop.

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And he'll just go, next.

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And I'm like, huh.

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He is, you know, like before Trump was Trump, he was the Holy Ghost version of Trump.

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And some of you need to relax right away.

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I say Trump and you're... Just chill.

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Here's what I mean by that.

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You know, Trump is like the least self-aware person on planet Earth.

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Like, I mean, he's the man who actually said, like, if they asked, would you ask God for forgiveness?

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I don't know if you remember in 2016.

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And he said, for what?

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You know?

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Like, how would I need to ask for forgiveness?

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Like, you know, he could fail whatever Trump University or his stakes or whatever.

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And he's just like, you know, he talks about them like they're epic successes.

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Well, in the Holy Ghost format, that's my pastor.

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In the right format.

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Like, he can have a failure and he's just like, next, with joy.

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And that joy was contagious.

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I remember when City Lights, some of you know the story, within several months of the church plant, it had fallen down to three people.

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They stayed away by the hundreds, by the thousands.

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And I called him up and I got him in a real relaxed mood.

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And when he's relaxed, it's funny, when you carry a heavy mantle, whatever emotional state you're in, it's actually amplified.

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When you, like if he's upset, you don't wanna, it's amplified a hundred times.

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If he's loving, it's amplified.

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You're just like, uh.

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And he was relaxed.

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So I'm talking to him, and it's like one mellow fellow.

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But my life is on the line.

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I have three people in the church.

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And I'm thinking, is this a sign?

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Is this God saying, wrap it up?

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You tried and you failed.

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I'll never forget what he said.

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This is my pastor, and I want wisdom.

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And he goes, you know, ministry.

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And I realize this is going online.

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Forever.

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It'll be online forever.

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Until the aliens come.

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Those of you freaking out, no, I believe in the second coming of the aliens.

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Just relax.

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He goes, you know, ministry is a lot like playing golf.

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Some days, you know, you're just doing real well.

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And other days, you're not.

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But then you pick up the clubs the next day.

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Yeah, but I'm like, that's it?

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Like, I'm wondering if I should even meet next Sunday.

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It costs $550 a Sunday.

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That was a lot of money back then.

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But that stuck with me all those years.

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Because his attitude was, so you got three people.

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Next week, you'll probably have more.

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And I did.

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And then the next week, there was more.

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And I really want to preach a message.

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I want to encourage you, because I was going to preach another message.

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If you're turning online, I think the title is something like, What in the World is Happening to Me?

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That's not that message.

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I had that message in my spirit, and then the Lord turned it around.

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I've been up since 3.30 a.m., and I feel like I got 15 hours of sleep.

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I didn't.

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I got like four.

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Four.

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And the message is different.

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Because there's people here who have experienced failure and you have been crippled as a result.

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You are so hard on yourself.

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You've been knocked down and you stay down.

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You see failing as like the end.

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And you forget that you learned how to ride a bike by failing.

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Failing is not bad.

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Failing is wonderful.

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As long as you keep getting back up.

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But there are people here, your faith has been wounded because of several failures.

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Wounded faith is very dangerous.

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When you have wounded faith, you're not quick to believe.

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You're not quick to expect great and good things from God.

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You're skeptical, bordering on cynical.

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You're cautious.

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You're suspicious.

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Essentially, you're locked and bound up.

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Your expector isn't up.

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Your faith isn't flowing.

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You're in a rut.

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You're stuck.

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And then you're in the swampy sameness of life.

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Nothing is changing.

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There's people who get stuck.

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I've met.

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I'm going to say ladies because I haven't met met like this.

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Just a random example.

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But I have met ladies in their late 20s.

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Never ever dated.

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And they'll say, I had this really bad experience in high school.

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He broke my heart.

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How long is that going to keep you in bondage?

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You're stuck now.

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What that knucklehead did, what he said, whatever.

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I mean, he gets one year.

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That's it.

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You're going to give him your whole life?

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You're going to be stuck now?

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I'm sure I could get the men too.

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It's just not coming to me.

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No, but this one came quickly because I started, you know...

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You become a pattern recognizer in ministry.

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I started hearing the same story, the same story.

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And then eventually, you know, I'm talking to somebody in their early 30s, and they're like, well, I've never, ever dated, never, ever had a boyfriend.

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And I'm going, okay, what happened to you in high school?

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Oh, I had it.

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He broke my heart.

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Well, and then you just made an inner vow, a decision.

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No one ever is going to have my heart again.

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I'll never trust again.

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And now you're stuck.

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We, vacation in the Outer Banks, we pass by Kitty Hawk Airport.

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That's where the Wright brothers invented flight.

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They actually, if you read their letters and notes, they got a field.

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It's now known as Kitty Hawk Airport.

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They got a field to practice failing in.

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And if you watch the footage of these flying machines, some of them were ridiculous, preposterous, six wings.

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They would go up 20 feet, crash down.

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But they got really, really good at failing and trying again.

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Really good at failing and trying again.

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The Bible says a righteous man falls down seven times, but each time gets back up again.

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How many people, under the sound of my voice, are stuck right now in the swampy sameness?

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They're stuck, and God wants to move you.

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God wants to promote you.

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But you're afraid, because you're afraid of failing.

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Be emboldened.

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Be thou unstuck.

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Get back up again.

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Dare to believe again.

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Dare to dream again.

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Do it again.

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Oh, it didn't work last time.

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Do it again.

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Hallelujah.

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How many of you like KFC?

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That has nothing to do with my sermon.

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I'm just wondering because I'm hungry right now.

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Colonel Sanders, when KFC took off, was old.

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Old.

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Everybody, because, you know, on the cover of Inc. magazine or the people we celebrate, they're always some young buck in a hoodie, 23 years old, and he's the CEO and took his whole company public by 25.

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That's actually very few.

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Most entrepreneurs only hit it at 40-plus.

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Colonel Sanders was already ancient, already had the white beard and all that when KFC took off.

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Think how good at failing.

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How many of you like Kenneth Hagin?

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Kenneth Hagin taught the world faith.

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If you don't know his ministry, you should get acquainted with his ministry.

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I'm randomly in Prague, Czech Republic.

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Meet a woman.

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that's baptized in the Holy Spirit.

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And I said, how are you baptized in the Holy Spirit?

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She said, I found in a tram in Prague a crumbled up pamphlet.

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It's those same pamphlets we give out.

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By the way, people have asked me, how come you don't write a mini book on the baptism?

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I could.

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But why, like, the thing is good.

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Like, I could.

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I could have my name up there all these years.

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I could knock it out in 30 minutes and have, you know, Dr. Bo Jancic.

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You've received ye the Holy Ghost.

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But I don't want to redo something that's already complete.

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I mean, the guy's ministry has been all over the world.

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Do you know when he was in his 50s still, he was in an old Buick with his whole family behind him, just a back hills preacher driving through Texas and Oklahoma mainly?

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And then in a matter of years, God said, you've been faithful.

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And that ministry went around the world so many times that his disciples and the disciples of the disciples and the disciples of the disciples of the disciples are still smacking it out of the park today.

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So what happened to you?

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That you should remain stuck, that you should be bruised?

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God uses failures.

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I like the book of Joshua, mainly because there's not too many failures in it.

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But there's still plenty in there.

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Just less than some of the other books.

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There's a lot of victories, put it that way.

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But you read the book of Joshua, and there's still epic failures that Joshua and his crew learn from, the children of Israel learn from.

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Hallelujah.

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Hallelujah.

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Hallelujah.

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I want to read a few scriptures to you.

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Colossians 1.23.

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How many of you know God led Jesus all the time?

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Jesus himself said, I don't do anything unless I see the Father do it first.

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I don't say anything unless I hear the Father say it first.

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That means Jesus didn't miss the will of God.

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He was perfectly aligned with the Father's will.

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Yet, he had a healing crusade that can be called a failure.

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Why would you call it a failure?

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Because the Bible says he could do their no mighty work.

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Read about it in Mark chapter 6.

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So a dud of a crusade.

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Yet God the Father led him to what appeared to be a failure.

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I wonder if Jesus went away depressed, you know, I don't know.

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Is there a short circuit in the anointing?

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I don't...

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He just said, next!

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I don't think he had to go to therapy.

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Peter, John, James, come.

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It's been a rough day, you don't know.

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I really wanted him to get healed.

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They could have, but they kept talking about me being James' cousin.

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Paul, he wanted to do some missions work, and he says, but Satan hindered us.

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Some of you are about to get unstuck and get up again.

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Go at it again.

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Hallelujah.

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Colossians 1.23 If indeed you continue in the faith, Christianity is about perseverance.

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It's about continuing.

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Never giving up.

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The New Testament is letters and letters of encouragement.

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You know why?

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Because you're going to be discouraged many times.

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Because life has a way of coming and smacking you.

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Nobody ever told me that.

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They did me a terrible disservice.

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And then, of course, a lot of preachers, because it's popular, only present victory, victory, victory.

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And I believe in victory.

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Jesus paid for your ultimate victory with his blood.

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He paid for your emotional victory with his blood.

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Your financial victory with his blood.

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The whole of your person, he paid for you to have victory.

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But there will be times when it doesn't seem like it.

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You will be tested.

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You will see the opposite of what you believe.

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You will get discouraged.

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That's why the New Testament message is one of encouragement.

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And if, that conditional if, if indeed you continue in the faith.

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Everybody's going to eventually get to the fork in the road where they wonder, should I continue?

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You don't believe that?

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I've had that several times while pastoring.

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And you think you're, oh, I won't be tired.

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No, I love me a Lord like this.

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It'll happen.

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That's what life does.

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It whacks you over and over and over again.

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You got to keep getting back up.

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If indeed you continue in the faith, grounded and steadfast, and are not moved away from the hope of the gospel which you heard, which was preached to every creature under heaven, of which I, Paul, became a minister.

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Hallelujah.

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Now I want to show you several verses in the book of Revelation.

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Each one is Jesus speaking.

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When you see Jesus, especially in risen form,

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Saying something over and over again, pay attention.

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When he's establishing a theme, pay attention.

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He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches.

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To him who, what's that next word?

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Say it real loud.

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To him who overcomes.

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You know why he keeps talking about overcoming?

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He's prophesying to you that you're going to have some crap to overcome.

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That's the word.

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Everybody wants a prophetic word.

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Here's one.

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Crap is coming your way and grace to overcome it.

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That's a prophetic word that works all the time with everyone.

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Oh, he said crap.

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You don't even read your Bible.

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If you did, you'd be upset at Paul for saying, I consider it all but dung.

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I feel like dung is even worse.

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Something dungy about it.

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Anyway.

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He who has an ear to hear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches.

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To him who overcomes, I will give to eat from the tree of life, which is in the midst of the paradise of God.

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Revelation 2.11.

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He who has an ear to hear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches.

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He who overcomes shall not be hurt by the second death.

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2.17.

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He who has an ear to hear.

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He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches.

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To him who, real loud.

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To him.

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You catching the theme?

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You catching what Jesus is pitching?

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To him who overcomes, I will give some of the hidden manna to eat.

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And I will give him a white stone.

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And on the stone, a new name written, which no one knows except him who receives it.

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I don't know exactly what that is, but it sounds so good.

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Next verse, Revelation 2.26.

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And he who?

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Overcomes.

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So you failed.

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Get up.

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Overcome.

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He'll be with you.

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My wife and I, the kids are grandmas.

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So yesterday late afternoon was movie night at the Jan 6th.

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And she took my hand and she said, babe, you picked the best movies.

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And last night I picked The Last Samurai.

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Hot, right?

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You can't go wrong.

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Tom Cruise, early 2000s, you can't miss.

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And there's this scene, which is why the Japanese didn't kill him and why they respected him.

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all alone there's like 12 samurai around him and he's still wanting to fight and then he gets knocked down he gets back up another one comes and knocks him down he gets back up he's laying there like he's done they're walking away and you see but you know he calls up the blood he's getting back up he will not tap out and that's that overcoming and that's sometimes what you may look like what you feel like

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There have been times when my whole body ached.

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My emotions were all over the place screaming.

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And I hear the Lord, just get up.

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Get up anyhow.

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One foot in.

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Lord, I can't.

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I already got up the last 10 times you said get up.

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Get up again.

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I'm with you.

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And you get up again.

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And now I'm so glad I did.

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Now, life is like heaven on earth.

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But let me tell you what they never told me, and I wish they did.

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You're going to have to swim through a lot of crap.

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There's that word again.

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A lot to get to your heaven.

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You just will.

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I've yet to meet the person who's just gotten to heaven in their life nonstop.

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There's always a healthy side platter of you know what.

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And you got to learn...

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to deal with it, shun it aside, and go for that good buffet.

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Hallelujah.

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And he who overcomes and keeps my works until the end, to him I will give power over the nations.

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Chapter 3, verse 5.

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He who overcomes.

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shall be clothed in white garments, and I will not blot out his name from the book of life, but I will confess his name before my Father and before his angels.

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Revelation 3.12.

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He who overcomes, I will make him a pillar in the temple of my God.

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Shout, overcomes!

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And he shall go out no more.

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I will write on him the name of my God and the name of the city of my God, the new Jerusalem, which comes down out of heaven from my God.

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And I will write on him my new name.

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Finally, 321.

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To him who shouted.

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He's calling you to be an overcomer.

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In the book of Hebrews, he says, now that you've run, I pray that you have endurance.

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Make a decision now.

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You won't be a fly by night.

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You won't be a flash in the pan.

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You're not just a consumer Christian.

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There are now more than ever consumer Christians.

489
00:29:20.029 --> 00:29:21.250
They just want to consume.

490
00:29:21.530 --> 00:29:23.350
They marry Jesus for his money.

491
00:29:23.670 --> 00:29:27.831
And the moment he stops delivering, they're looking for a divorce and the next best thing.

492
00:29:27.851 --> 00:29:28.852
There's nothing better.

493
00:29:29.752 --> 00:29:32.773
But there's people who just have this transactional mentality.

494
00:29:32.793 --> 00:29:34.213
It's like, oh, it's not working anymore.

495
00:29:34.573 --> 00:29:35.293
Peace, I'm out.

496
00:29:35.653 --> 00:29:35.993
What?

497
00:29:36.934 --> 00:29:38.234
Commit for life.

498
00:29:39.600 --> 00:29:40.800
Oh, you're being tested?

499
00:29:40.880 --> 00:29:41.780
Join the club.

500
00:29:41.800 --> 00:29:42.741
You're not unique.

501
00:29:43.301 --> 00:29:45.881
Yet people who have it, they always think they're unique.

502
00:29:48.222 --> 00:29:49.462
Because I do this for a living.

503
00:29:49.522 --> 00:29:49.922
I hear.

504
00:29:50.022 --> 00:29:50.382
I know.

505
00:29:50.802 --> 00:29:53.423
And I know me when I was in my 20s going through it.

506
00:29:53.923 --> 00:29:56.564
20s, by the way, if you're in your 20s, I have a word for you.

507
00:29:56.584 --> 00:29:57.364
Your 20s suck.

508
00:29:58.924 --> 00:29:59.484
They're hard.

509
00:29:59.724 --> 00:30:00.805
Oh, you're loving your 20s?

510
00:30:01.265 --> 00:30:02.625
But still, they suck.

511
00:30:04.627 --> 00:30:08.350
because you're still building, you're still proving yourself.

512
00:30:08.690 --> 00:30:11.112
It's hard, it's gut-wrenching.

513
00:30:12.013 --> 00:30:21.141
20s are wonderful, they're awesome because how you spend your 20s will pretty much determine your 30s, 40s and 50s.

514
00:30:22.602 --> 00:30:26.245
So you gotta be close to the Lord and position yourself right in your 20s.

515
00:30:27.206 --> 00:30:29.728
But it's challenging.

516
00:30:33.225 --> 00:30:34.747
I have no idea where I was going with that.

517
00:30:37.329 --> 00:30:38.050
I had a thought.

518
00:30:43.636 --> 00:30:44.977
I'm thinking of the Apple store.

519
00:31:02.730 --> 00:31:04.091
I wanna pray for you, Jude.

520
00:31:04.972 --> 00:31:06.073
Can you just stand right here?

521
00:31:09.576 --> 00:31:13.580
I'm reminded of the Apple Store.

522
00:31:14.881 --> 00:31:24.430
In 2002, the first Apple Store opened up in Soho, and it opened up in the Station A post office.

523
00:31:25.110 --> 00:31:27.613
And if you watch the movie Ghost,

524
00:31:29.215 --> 00:31:33.657
she actually calls up and calls 911 and said, I'm right across the street from Station A post office.

525
00:31:33.677 --> 00:31:34.197
Did you know that?

526
00:31:34.557 --> 00:31:38.178
And it was the first Apple store in New York, one of the first in the country.

527
00:31:38.898 --> 00:31:48.542
And I had already in early, late 2001, decided that the church was going to run on Macs, which was considered crazy back in 2001, going into 2002.

528
00:31:49.642 --> 00:31:52.563
But I had gotten a Mac, and they were remarkable.

529
00:31:52.803 --> 00:31:55.244
This is all just a long story, but I see you when I'm...

530
00:31:56.919 --> 00:31:58.440
Because Macs didn't crash.

531
00:31:58.840 --> 00:32:02.261
And during that time, if you had a PC, they would just randomly crash.

532
00:32:02.301 --> 00:32:04.442
Like you had to make sure if you were doing something important, remember that?

533
00:32:04.462 --> 00:32:07.083
You had to save every five minutes because you could just randomly crash.

534
00:32:07.103 --> 00:32:07.863
You lose all your stuff.

535
00:32:08.104 --> 00:32:11.325
How many sermons did you lose just because of random crash, right?

536
00:32:13.047 --> 00:32:16.109
But Macs didn't crash, and they were so intuitive.

537
00:32:16.429 --> 00:32:22.973
And then in early 2002, they came out with this thing, and they said, it's the size of a deck of cards, a thousand songs in your pocket.

538
00:32:23.453 --> 00:32:25.794
Something called an iPod.

539
00:32:26.115 --> 00:32:26.475
Yeah.

540
00:32:26.655 --> 00:32:28.996
And they were huge back then, but they were so small in 2002.

541
00:32:29.717 --> 00:32:31.418
All that to say, all right, let me get to the word.

542
00:32:36.100 --> 00:32:39.022
They were a remarkable company.

543
00:32:40.578 --> 00:32:46.289
And this isn't to gas you up, but the Lord has made you remarkable.

544
00:32:46.910 --> 00:32:49.054
The Lord has laid his hand upon you.

545
00:32:50.042 --> 00:32:54.803
And there's just two things I want to lovingly speak over you and caution you about.

546
00:32:54.863 --> 00:32:55.423
Two things.

547
00:32:56.344 --> 00:32:59.825
One is when the Lord makes you remarkable, you know it.

548
00:33:00.445 --> 00:33:01.525
And I know you know it.

549
00:33:01.545 --> 00:33:02.425
That's good.

550
00:33:02.485 --> 00:33:03.165
Lean into that.

551
00:33:03.225 --> 00:33:03.926
Embrace that.

552
00:33:04.646 --> 00:33:07.266
But keep a humble heart before the Lord.

553
00:33:07.306 --> 00:33:09.947
He's going to do wonderful, great things through you.

554
00:33:10.467 --> 00:33:13.488
Also, when the Lord makes you remarkable, you're apt.

555
00:33:14.519 --> 00:33:37.195
man it can get lonely because by definition if you're remarkable you stick out like a sore thumb and envy and jealousy is a real thing and being misunderstood and all that stuff but the lord puts his grace upon you flows over you lines up your steps you

556
00:33:39.777 --> 00:33:43.198
satisfies your mouth with good things.

557
00:33:44.159 --> 00:33:45.019
What's your mouth?

558
00:33:45.079 --> 00:33:48.400
It's your innermost desire, what's necessary for you.

559
00:33:49.500 --> 00:33:54.842
And he goes before you and leads you in the decisions you'll be making in the next few years.

560
00:34:00.204 --> 00:34:02.165
He multiplies your efforts.

561
00:34:06.748 --> 00:34:13.394
And he will be your bread, even if you experience lonely times, misunderstood times.

562
00:34:14.015 --> 00:34:19.339
I see you like SpaceX, like a rocket ship.

563
00:34:20.040 --> 00:34:20.921
I thank you, Lord.

564
00:34:22.662 --> 00:34:27.567
And I don't normally give cautionary words publicly, but I'm just saying the hand of the Lord is on you so much.

565
00:34:27.627 --> 00:34:30.249
You really want to give all the glory to God.

566
00:34:31.330 --> 00:34:32.251
I hope that makes sense.

567
00:34:33.768 --> 00:34:34.048
Amen.

568
00:34:35.169 --> 00:34:35.889
Amen.

569
00:34:38.050 --> 00:34:38.871
Hallelujah.

570
00:34:39.951 --> 00:34:47.034
Sometimes somebody is going to get such good things, you don't want to be a wet blanket, but you want to also lovingly speak a few cautionary things.

571
00:34:47.595 --> 00:34:50.396
I'm saying it's going to get so good, you want to make sure you don't get a fat head.

572
00:34:50.796 --> 00:34:52.177
That's the non-pastoral way.

573
00:34:52.197 --> 00:34:52.977
That's what I'm saying.

574
00:34:53.378 --> 00:34:54.918
In case you didn't know what I was saying.

575
00:34:55.499 --> 00:34:57.560
The Lord has given you so much, make sure you don't.

576
00:34:59.260 --> 00:35:00.001
You know what I'm saying.

577
00:35:00.101 --> 00:35:00.941
It's God, not me.

578
00:35:01.061 --> 00:35:02.342
That should be your drumbeat.

579
00:35:03.529 --> 00:35:04.389
Hallelujah.

580
00:35:06.130 --> 00:35:07.051
Thank you, Lord.

581
00:35:24.980 --> 00:35:25.600
Hallelujah.

582
00:35:27.321 --> 00:35:31.463
There's a great story in 2 Samuel chapter 9.

583
00:35:35.484 --> 00:35:37.305
about a guy named Mephibosheth.

584
00:35:40.247 --> 00:35:41.928
That story really ministered to me.

585
00:35:41.948 --> 00:35:44.889
The entire story is pretty much contained in one chapter.

586
00:35:46.010 --> 00:35:48.871
David is now king, and he went through a lot.

587
00:35:48.911 --> 00:35:51.293
You talk about, you know, Shawshank Redemption.

588
00:35:51.333 --> 00:35:55.295
I talked about that movie a few weeks ago, how he had to crawl through the sewer line.

589
00:35:56.288 --> 00:36:02.112
That sewage water, he's throwing up, he's going in his mouth, but he's crawling through like a mile and a half of that just to get to freedom.

590
00:36:02.993 --> 00:36:04.394
It will feel like that at times.

591
00:36:05.034 --> 00:36:06.596
And it was that way for David, wasn't it?

592
00:36:06.976 --> 00:36:08.937
You ever put yourself in David's shoes?

593
00:36:09.898 --> 00:36:12.600
Samuel comes, I'm going to anoint the next king.

594
00:36:14.041 --> 00:36:16.303
And he goes through all the brothers and it lands on David.

595
00:36:17.844 --> 00:36:20.506
And of course we all know the next day he was crowned king.

596
00:36:22.984 --> 00:36:26.331
He wasn't, you biblically illiterate non-laughers.

597
00:36:27.855 --> 00:36:28.536
Read your Bible.

598
00:36:29.720 --> 00:36:30.320
He wasn't.

599
00:36:30.761 --> 00:36:31.561
It was terrible.

600
00:36:32.021 --> 00:36:33.762
Like the exact opposite stuff happened.

601
00:36:33.842 --> 00:36:34.242
How long?

602
00:36:34.262 --> 00:36:34.742
For a week?

603
00:36:34.762 --> 00:36:35.023
A month?

604
00:36:35.343 --> 00:36:36.343
For years.

605
00:36:37.164 --> 00:36:39.065
He gets an internship with King Saul.

606
00:36:39.445 --> 00:36:43.987
King Saul's a maniac and is envious and seeks to kill him.

607
00:36:44.287 --> 00:36:46.448
Imagine your boss is throwing spears at you.

608
00:36:46.728 --> 00:36:47.669
That's what was happening.

609
00:36:47.849 --> 00:36:49.289
You think you have an abusive boss?

610
00:36:49.770 --> 00:36:53.892
David's boss is like, hey, play the harp over me because when you do, demons leave me.

611
00:36:53.932 --> 00:36:54.532
Keep playing.

612
00:36:54.912 --> 00:36:56.053
They're like, that's abusive.

613
00:36:56.733 --> 00:37:01.097
And then if you don't play hard enough, I'm chucking a spear at you and missing you by a hair.

614
00:37:01.918 --> 00:37:03.720
And then he's pursued all over.

615
00:37:04.100 --> 00:37:05.581
Then he gets a team going.

616
00:37:05.862 --> 00:37:07.263
The Bible is gentle here.

617
00:37:07.843 --> 00:37:14.249
It says, all those who were disenfranchised, all those who were in debt, all those, it means bums.

618
00:37:15.447 --> 00:37:18.129
400 bums is who joined David.

619
00:37:18.469 --> 00:37:21.091
He's going through all that living in caves.

620
00:37:21.631 --> 00:37:24.333
At one point, they all take up rocks to stone him.

621
00:37:25.313 --> 00:37:32.298
Eventually, in case you're trying to make sense of some of the bad things that have happened to you in your life, he doesn't quit.

622
00:37:32.618 --> 00:37:33.939
He perseveres.

623
00:37:34.399 --> 00:37:35.760
He fails too.

624
00:37:37.141 --> 00:37:38.242
Everybody loves David.

625
00:37:38.262 --> 00:37:38.522
Why?

626
00:37:38.542 --> 00:37:40.403
Because he's got so many failures in his life.

627
00:37:41.644 --> 00:37:43.145
He makes it to the palace.

628
00:37:44.530 --> 00:37:46.111
And now he's pacing the palace.

629
00:37:46.131 --> 00:37:47.352
He's finally arrived.

630
00:37:47.992 --> 00:37:54.536
And he's going, isn't there anyone of the house of Saul that I could show covenant kindness to?

631
00:37:55.656 --> 00:37:57.057
And one of the guys says, you know what?

632
00:37:57.097 --> 00:38:00.359
There is a fella by the name of Mephibosheth.

633
00:38:00.799 --> 00:38:07.063
Because even though Saul was a maniac and Saul fell, yet David had something called honor.

634
00:38:07.503 --> 00:38:08.644
And he was anointed.

635
00:38:08.664 --> 00:38:10.705
He said, I won't even talk against the Lord's anointed.

636
00:38:10.725 --> 00:38:11.866
I'm still going to honor him.

637
00:38:12.819 --> 00:38:15.321
So he goes, find me that Mephibosheth.

638
00:38:15.401 --> 00:38:23.786
Now Mephibosheth, the Bible says, as David was seizing power, they ran away thinking David was going to kill anyone from Saul's line.

639
00:38:24.166 --> 00:38:28.509
And Mephibosheth was a little baby and the wet nurse tripped and fell as she was fleeing.

640
00:38:29.070 --> 00:38:32.032
Mephibosheth hit the ground and both his ankles got broken.

641
00:38:33.052 --> 00:38:33.953
So he was lame.

642
00:38:36.215 --> 00:38:38.078
Not in like the vernacular, oh, he's so lame.

643
00:38:38.098 --> 00:38:38.819
Like, lame.

644
00:38:38.839 --> 00:38:39.680
Guy can't walk.

645
00:38:40.121 --> 00:38:42.544
And that wasn't a good thing, biblically speaking, back then.

646
00:38:42.564 --> 00:38:45.188
In that culture, you were ostracized.

647
00:38:45.208 --> 00:38:46.870
You didn't want to associate with you.

648
00:38:48.392 --> 00:38:49.254
It was a real stigma.

649
00:38:49.274 --> 00:38:49.414
Stigma.

650
00:38:50.542 --> 00:38:54.664
So the Bible over and over again says that Mephibosheth was lame in both his feet.

651
00:38:54.984 --> 00:38:56.365
He was lame in both his feet.

652
00:38:56.605 --> 00:39:01.307
And David, who's really representing Christ, says, I got to show him covenant kindness.

653
00:39:01.327 --> 00:39:03.948
See, God will do wonderful things for you.

654
00:39:04.288 --> 00:39:05.609
Not because you're not lame.

655
00:39:05.829 --> 00:39:07.590
We all know you're so lame.

656
00:39:10.323 --> 00:39:13.184
But he does these things not because you're good.

657
00:39:13.445 --> 00:39:15.205
He does them because he's good.

658
00:39:15.886 --> 00:39:17.747
And David's going, I've got to show him covenant and kindness.

659
00:39:17.787 --> 00:39:19.448
And they go, oh, he's lame on both his feet.

660
00:39:19.468 --> 00:39:20.048
Doesn't matter.

661
00:39:20.968 --> 00:39:23.330
Mephibosheth is living his whole life in fear.

662
00:39:23.890 --> 00:39:25.731
When is David going to come and kill me?

663
00:39:26.531 --> 00:39:29.315
He hears the chariots, the king's soldiers are coming.

664
00:39:29.335 --> 00:39:30.317
He thinks, this is it.

665
00:39:30.337 --> 00:39:31.418
I've been dreading this day.

666
00:39:31.438 --> 00:39:32.219
It's finally here.

667
00:39:32.239 --> 00:39:34.262
They're going to take me away and execute me.

668
00:39:34.622 --> 00:39:36.886
The soldiers come and says, David wants to talk to you.

669
00:39:36.926 --> 00:39:39.770
He's probably thinking he's just postponing the inevitable.

670
00:39:40.390 --> 00:39:43.395
He wants to give me a Hollywood one-liner before he takes the neck off.

671
00:39:44.640 --> 00:39:51.308
David welcomes him as a son and says, all of your land is going to be restored from your house.

672
00:39:51.648 --> 00:39:53.491
All your finances are going to be restored.

673
00:39:53.831 --> 00:39:57.636
And you will sit and eat at my table continually.

674
00:39:58.176 --> 00:40:03.323
And that chapter ends with, and Mephibosheth was lame in both his feet.

675
00:40:04.599 --> 00:40:05.961
A failure in that way.

676
00:40:06.381 --> 00:40:08.424
It's a beautiful story that shows you.

677
00:40:08.544 --> 00:40:10.907
Even when you think you're an epic failure.

678
00:40:11.388 --> 00:40:13.430
God will still redeem.

679
00:40:13.791 --> 00:40:14.792
He will restore.

680
00:40:15.132 --> 00:40:17.675
And he will give you what you don't deserve.

681
00:40:18.256 --> 00:40:19.498
Hallelujah.

682
00:40:20.359 --> 00:40:21.060
By the way.

683
00:40:23.944 --> 00:40:30.927
I do so many things either to bless people, and sometimes I feel like I chase people away as quickly as the Lord brings them.

684
00:40:31.447 --> 00:40:35.888
Because I share stories about being depressed and checking into the mental hospital.

685
00:40:36.609 --> 00:40:38.629
I share stories about getting divorced.

686
00:40:39.110 --> 00:40:41.350
I share all of my epic failures with you.

687
00:40:41.650 --> 00:40:43.311
Do you think it's because I enjoy that?

688
00:40:44.151 --> 00:40:46.652
Like I don't have friends and I just need to just talk to you?

689
00:40:46.672 --> 00:40:48.533
Like, oh, let me tell you what happened in my life.

690
00:40:49.480 --> 00:40:52.143
And most pastors don't talk about that.

691
00:40:52.163 --> 00:40:57.589
They're constantly presenting their best face, their best foot forward, only the successes.

692
00:40:57.849 --> 00:41:03.856
You know, the name of the game is let me just present myself as an aspirational figure with positives only.

693
00:41:04.116 --> 00:41:05.878
That'll draw the crowds, baby.

694
00:41:05.898 --> 00:41:07.259
You gotta sell it, baby.

695
00:41:08.578 --> 00:41:09.999
I tell you these things.

696
00:41:10.900 --> 00:41:12.241
I tell you these things.

697
00:41:13.022 --> 00:41:17.066
So maybe you would be encouraged and go, what an epic failure.

698
00:41:18.928 --> 00:41:20.990
And yet look how God is blessing him.

699
00:41:21.310 --> 00:41:23.011
And look how God is good to him.

700
00:41:23.472 --> 00:41:29.998
And man, if he can just fail so spectacularly, not just once, man, the guy's like good at failing.

701
00:41:31.410 --> 00:41:34.011
Yet the Lord keeps outdoing himself.

702
00:41:34.452 --> 00:41:36.333
Hopefully that you're going to catch on.

703
00:41:36.353 --> 00:41:37.573
Amen.

704
00:41:40.014 --> 00:41:41.295
I hope you do catch on.

705
00:41:44.076 --> 00:41:48.579
If you just continue and endure and overcome.

706
00:41:49.599 --> 00:41:50.540
Hallelujah.

707
00:41:51.420 --> 00:41:52.060
Don't quit.

708
00:41:53.201 --> 00:41:54.902
Don't remember how you learned how to ride a bike.

709
00:41:55.958 --> 00:41:57.219
You got a few bruises, right?

710
00:41:57.839 --> 00:41:59.680
I bet you got a story of some good scrapes.

711
00:42:00.360 --> 00:42:02.461
Keep on getting back up.

712
00:42:03.422 --> 00:42:04.302
Hallelujah.

713
00:42:05.963 --> 00:42:06.784
Hallelujah.

714
00:42:08.585 --> 00:42:09.625
Thank you, Jesus.

715
00:42:11.406 --> 00:42:18.830
Hallelujah, Jude, your iPhone moment is coming.

716
00:42:19.510 --> 00:42:22.132
You're in about 2002, you're just getting traction.

717
00:42:22.592 --> 00:42:23.733
People are taking notice.

718
00:42:24.517 --> 00:42:25.737
Time Magazine cover.

719
00:42:26.678 --> 00:42:27.578
It was in 2002.

720
00:42:27.958 --> 00:42:28.778
Is Apple back?

721
00:42:29.198 --> 00:42:30.659
Steve Jobs, CEO again.

722
00:42:31.219 --> 00:42:32.399
Five years later, iPhone.

723
00:42:33.299 --> 00:42:33.739
Hallelujah.

724
00:42:33.779 --> 00:42:34.160
Hallelujah.

725
00:42:35.280 --> 00:42:35.520
Lemon.

726
00:42:35.560 --> 00:42:35.680
Lemon.

727
00:42:35.720 --> 00:42:35.840
Lemon.

728
00:42:35.880 --> 00:42:36.000
Lemon.

729
00:42:36.040 --> 00:42:36.180
Lemon.

730
00:42:36.220 --> 00:42:36.520
Lemon.

731
00:42:36.560 --> 00:42:36.900
Lemon.

732
00:42:36.960 --> 00:42:37.200
Lemon.

733
00:42:37.220 --> 00:42:37.460
Lemon.

734
00:42:37.500 --> 00:42:37.900
Lemon.

735
00:42:39.081 --> 00:42:39.521
Lemon.

736
00:42:39.541 --> 00:42:39.781
Lemon.

737
00:42:39.821 --> 00:42:40.281
Lemon.

738
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Lemon.

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Lemon.

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Lemon.

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Lemon.

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Lemon.

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Lemon.

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Lemon.

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Lemon.

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Lemon.

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Lemon.

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Lemon.

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Lemon.

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Lemon.

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Lemon.

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Some of you are looking at me like you're trying to understand what I'm saying.

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Look at Jesus and speak in tongues yourself.

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Hallelujah.

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Y'all, we need to have more extended meetings, some of you.

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Seriously.

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You could be having such a better time if you weren't so bound up.

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Like God is here, walking up and down the aisles.

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He wants to give you stuff.

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He wants to bless you.

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He wants to lay his hand upon you.

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Fresh life coming on you.

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Hallelujah.

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Sean, would you sing of all things, God, you are my God.

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Let's go back to 1988.

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Hallelujah.

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Hallelujah.

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Hey, Lizzie, it's your song.

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Hallelujah.

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Hallelujah.

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You just looked at me like, you don't know, I hate to be called Lizzie.

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Oh, may the Lord heal your heart.

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Hallelujah.

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Hallelujah.

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Hey, some of you may have not heard, God is in a good mood.

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Yeah.

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I don't know why you're not, but God is in a good mood.

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And newsflash, God likes you.

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I can tell you may not like you, but God really likes you.

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Be like God and like you too.

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Hallelujah.

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Hallelujah.

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Hallelujah.

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Hallelujah.

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May the Lord come and set captives free that they would believe in a tomorrow again.

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Hallelujah.

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It gets better.

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As my pastor used to say, there's a light.

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Woo!

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At the end of the tunnel.

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And it's not a freight train.

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That's the good news.

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It's not a freight train.

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It's the Lord.

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Good things.

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Hallelujah.

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This is the City Light Church podcast.

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If you've missed any part of today's message, or if you would like to find out more about Pastor Boyan Jancic and City Light Church, visit us at citylightnyc.com.

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That's citylightnyc.com.

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Feel free to visit us online or in person anytime.

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We would love to connect with you.

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We pray that you have been encouraged today, that you have been reminded how much God loves you, and that you are surrounded by grace.

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Thank you for listening.

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