Pastor Bobby Chandler has found hope in Jesus and wants as many people as possible to experience that exact same freedom.
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Bobby Chandler: Authentic Church | Bobby Chandler - Believe God for the Impossible (Part 1) | October 29, 2025
- She. there's two parts to it.
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- It's like, okay, maybe the maybe the success of the results
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- Aren't going to look the way, but i think that they'll love.
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- But also maybe they will look that way.
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- It just will take more time than i think it will take.
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- Hey guys i'm pastor bobby chandler
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- And you're here on a
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- Brand new podcast of believe god for the impossible.
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- And so we always talk about how authentic stories will lead
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- To impossible stories when you have authentic faith.
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- God can do incredible things in your life.
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- And so today i am joined with an incredible guest, a pastor,
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- A good friend, a husband, and he is an amazing man of god.
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- The pastor. craig brett. oh, wow.
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- Come on. what an introduction.
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- The clap. you've got to give a clap.
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- That's funny.
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- Last time we talked about it, like we got
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- Get a little clap thing.
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- Yeah yeah yeah in the intro over here.
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- But how are you, buddy? dude, i'm doing so good. yeah.
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- So blessed to be with you, man.
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- It was so good to have you here.
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- What do you what do you think of north carolina
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- To do?
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- To be honest with you,
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- I, i had been here before, but we just kind of.
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- Last time i was here, we kind of drove here.
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- It was a quick trip in and out.
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- And so.
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- But where are you took us yesterday to this place.
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- We drove about an hour from here. by the way.
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- We went to the biltmore.
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- It is the largest house in america we found.
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- So they said, i didn't know that either.
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- Like i knew it's a big mansion. it's beautiful.
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- But it's the largest house in america.
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- And it's not too far from the church,
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- But an hour, hour and 15 minutes, i.
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- Believe 175,000ft█ in.
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- This house.
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- Yeah. so.
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- But so not only seeing the house, of course.
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- And the
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- That property was ridiculous,
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- But just the whole drive and everything like this.
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- This countryside is beautiful, man.
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- The the scenery, the trees.
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- Yeah, yeah. that.
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- Now of course, we're living in we come from
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- The beautiful area of the pnw, but now we're living in dfw.
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- Dfw. and. dallas fort worth.
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- Fort worth.
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- We live in dallas, texas.
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- So yeah, as you know,
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- Dude, the highest place you are in dallas is on an overpass.
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- Yeah, yeah. like it's flat.
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- Yeah, it's kind of gray.
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- And so, you know,
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- Coming from the pacific northwest mountains, lakes,
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- Green trees, all that.
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- So it's been, it's been cool to be because.
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- Dallas is kind of known as like the, the concrete jungle
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- A little bit. yeah. like, it's so hot out there.
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- We lived out in dallas for two years.
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- Well, me and my wife first got married, and i remember,
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- Like, we're from louisiana, where it's always hot,
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- Humidity is always 100%.
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- But like in dallas, it's just it gets like it's boiling.
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- Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
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- But man, i'm so glad you're here.
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- We also just let everybody know
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- If you're thinking craig looks a little swole today.
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- And it's because.
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- Are you thinking that we i know
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- Are you thinking that right now? so.
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- Oh, we got a workout in yesterday together
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- And he came in. he's like, bro, we got to go workout.
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- So we did a little lift and did some did some chess together.
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- You feeling pretty good today? yeah, sir.
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- Anytime you go
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- Somewhere, you know
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- You're trying to get an impartation from
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- One of the spiritual leaders in this case,
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- I want the, bicep impartation with pastor bobby.
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- Man. but it's always great, bro, to have you here.
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- Really, really quickly and
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- Just kind of explain, like how we know each other.
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- Yeah.
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- We had an incredible opportunity
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- A few years back to go to israel.
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- And so i traveled out to israel pretty much by myself
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- To meet a group of amazing people
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- That were impacting
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- The kingdom of god online and reaching the world.
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- And so i got to meet craig and his wife jessica
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- On that trip, bro.
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- And i felt like we just bonded immediately.
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- And the whole time and it was such an incredible experience.
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- Like what do you,
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- What do you feel like you took away from that trip.
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- More than, more than anything else.
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- Yeah, i mean genuinely life changing.
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- You know, i don't know what you were
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- Thinking going into that thing, but.
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- Yeah, i think probably most people
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- That follow jesus, you know, you would think,
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- Oh, it'd be fun to go to israel one day.
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- And i, i
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- Probably thought that, but when we were actually there
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- Like how it felt was
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- I don't know, it's just hard to explain.
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- Yeah.
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- Like the,
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- The idea
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- That you're standing in a place that jesus actually stood.
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- Yeah.
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- And but like, this is what i, when i remember
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- When i came back, what i told people,
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- As i said, hey, i think there is different
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- Levels of the geography in this sense.
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- I think that
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- There are places in the bible that we really don't know.
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- Where something happened.
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- And there's places in the bible that people that are now say
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- Oh this is where it happened
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- And it probably wasn't where it happened,
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- But they're like trying to make it a tourist place.
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- It's over here.
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- That's where david and goliath fought.
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- And yeah,
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- This is where jonah was and is like, alright,
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- So these are the spots that
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- We preach about every sunday, you know?
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- Yeah.
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- So there's some places that is like,
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- Yeah, it's probably not here, but they're saying it's here
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- Maybe to sell a ticket to get in,
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- But then there's other places that it's like.
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- You know for sure.
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- This is for sure.
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- Yeah. where this happened.
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- Yeah.
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- And the and like that
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- Feels incredible to like be there and just.
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- Yeah sort of.
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- Take it all in and so
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- And also i don't know if if this hits you but i remember like
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- Like for
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- Example the size of the sea of galilee.
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- Was so small.
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- It was so it's just like now when i read the gospels
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- Specifically and all the stuff
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- That happens around there, i'm like, okay,
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- I've been there and i know that from here to there,
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- Like you could see across.
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- Yeah.
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- The, the lake really, it's a lake, you know.
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- And so it just, it was it sort of made
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- Reading the scripture like come alive.
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- Yeah.
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- Did you feel pressure?
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- Like, i felt a little bit of pressure
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- Because we were out there.
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- We will learn about the spot.
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- Okay.
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- Here's the story of,
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- You know, the walls of jericho falling down.
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- And these are the walls, right over here.
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- But but we were
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- Kind of brought out there to also do a lot of content
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- And do some teaching out there, which was incredible.
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- Yeah.
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- But it was also like, all right, here's all the details
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- Of the event, of what took down what took place here.
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- Now go ahead and film it. it was kind of like, all right.
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- And i remember like feeling a little bit of stress
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- Because i'm like, i know the story really well,
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- But i also don't want to point over there.
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- If it didn't happen over there
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- And actually happened over there,
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- Did you feel a little bit of that or
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- We kind of in your head maybe. maybe it's just me.
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- I don't know. i think that was just you.
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- Oh, god. okay. i didn't feel as much of that.
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- Because i just tried to, like, lean into what i knew or.
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- Or if it wasn't a geographical
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- Thing, like, at one point, i'd just be like,
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- Hey, here's the story and try and teach from it.
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- But yeah, yeah. yeah, it was a really interesting.
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- Maybe i was trying to be too specific.
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- Yeah. when it was out there.
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- Yeah. was it was your favorite spot out there. you know.
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- I'll tell
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- You our for both jess and i, our most impactful moment
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- Was when we were on that wooden boat, at
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- Sunrise on the sea of galilee, my favorite.
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- And all of a sudden, this worship music starts playing.
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- We had a jewish boat driver,
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- But he honored and respected, who we were and nate and he.
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- So he allowed him to play like, christian worship music.
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- And that sun was rising and it was just like,
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- Yeah, that was just it was just a moment.
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- Yeah, yeah.
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- I have a video from that moment, and every time i look at it
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- Like, do you feel god's presence?
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- Yeah. like it was so strong on the boat.
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- Yeah. that was one of my favorite moments.
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- I still will never forget.
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- So when we did get to go visit the walls of jericho,
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- And it was the only spot.
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- I don't know if you remember this.
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- I believe it was the only spot
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- Where i think nate brought us together,
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- And he said, alright, let's let's pray together here
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- For somebody, for someone specific,
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- Either a family member or friend or or just whoever's in need.
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- And so it was funny
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- Because i wasn't even thinking about it, but,
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- You know, you guys are naming different people.
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- We start praying over them and then immediately, like,
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- The first person that comes to my mind is my brother.
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- I don't know if you remember that.
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- And i was like,
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- Oh, no, no,
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- No, no,
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- I don't want to talk about my brother
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- Because i know sometimes that brings me to tears.
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- I love my brother.
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- If you don't know, i've been very open on sunday mornings
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- To about my brother's addiction since i was young.
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- He's been alcoholic since i was very young.
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- And so he used to live in california when we were
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- Living in louisiana,
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- And he would kind of go back and forth that there were times
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- That we didn't even know if he was alive.
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- And now me and my brother god has done some powerful things.
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- He just came to jesus recently.
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- Yeah,
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- But he's he's still struggling, like it's still fight there.
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- There are times where i hear from him and it's good.
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- There's times where he.
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- He kind of disappears, you know, it's a it's a real battle.
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- But at
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- That time, i had not spoken to my brother for years.
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- Really?
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- And i remember we were all praying
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- And it got to me and i'm like,
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- I, i'm going to pray for my brother.
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- And so we pray and i believe it was
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- Kind of made me cry a little bit.
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- But what i didn't think about was this, you looked at me
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- And you said, what's your brother's name?
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- Do you remember that?
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- Yes. now, i do remember that.
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- And i said, josh.
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- Yes. and you looked at me and you were like, joshua.
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- And like it didn't even hit me.
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- Like it hit me until you said like jericho.
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- The walls of jericho have fallen down on this spot.
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- And i'm praying for my brother joshua
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- For the addiction, my god, to fall down in his life.
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- And, you know, there was there was power in that.
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- And i'll never forget that moment
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- Because god is is so cool.
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- And like i said, now,
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- Like my brother has come to jesus christ, you know, and
- 00:09:42.704 --> 00:09:46.742
- I feel for a lot of people too, that that are in ministry
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- But have relatives, family members, people that they love,
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- That have fought with addiction.
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- And it's very easy sometimes to kind of give up
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- Hope, hoping that like, i can see what do you see?
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- Somebody you love
- 00:10:01.957 --> 00:10:03.859
- Live for the lord and say that they're going to change
- 00:10:03.859 --> 00:10:06.128
- And then kind of fall back and then come back
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- And then fall back again and then disappear.
- 00:10:08.530 --> 00:10:11.033
- You kind of get to a place where it almost feels hopeless.
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- And i don't know, man.
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- It was
- 00:10:16.004 --> 00:10:17.205
- It was so cool to me because i felt god's presence there.
- 00:10:17.205 --> 00:10:19.408
- And we we serve a god of confirmation, right.
- 00:10:19.408 --> 00:10:21.943
- You know something?
- 00:10:21.943 --> 00:10:22.744
- I always notice that of the bible.
- 00:10:22.744 --> 00:10:24.046
- So god would speak things twice, right?
- 00:10:24.046 --> 00:10:27.282
- I used to wonder why, but i realized, like,
- 00:10:27.282 --> 00:10:29.685
- What it means is that this is important.
- 00:10:29.685 --> 00:10:32.421
- And i'm trying to get your attention.
- 00:10:32.421 --> 00:10:33.722
- But god also is confirming, right,
- 00:10:33.722 --> 00:10:35.924
- That this is going to happen, right?
- 00:10:35.924 --> 00:10:37.726
- And so the fact that he confirmed that moment, hey,
- 00:10:37.726 --> 00:10:40.696
- I see your brother, i see his addiction
- 00:10:40.696 --> 00:10:43.598
- And just like the walls of jericho fell down for my people,
- 00:10:43.598 --> 00:10:47.335
- The walls of addiction are going to fall down for your brother.
- 00:10:47.335 --> 00:10:50.472
- And i truly do believe that.
- 00:10:50.472 --> 00:10:51.640
- But i'll never forget that moment, bro.
- 00:10:51.640 --> 00:10:53.341
- It was just like, wow.
- 00:10:53.341 --> 00:10:55.243
- I remember calling my family and everything right after that.
- 00:10:55.243 --> 00:10:57.746
- I'm like, you'll never believe where
- 00:10:57.746 --> 00:10:58.780
- I was praying for my brother josh. you know.
- 00:10:58.780 --> 00:11:01.483
- I do remember that now. yeah, yeah.
- 00:11:01.483 --> 00:11:03.618
- You know what i even feel like even in this moment, that
- 00:11:03.618 --> 00:11:06.888
- It's like when they when they
- 00:11:07.522 --> 00:11:09.825
- Conquered jericho, it was like this big sort of,
- 00:11:09.825 --> 00:11:13.395
- Pinnacle moment, but it was just the beginning.
- 00:11:14.329 --> 00:11:17.265
- And so i think, yeah,
- 00:11:17.265 --> 00:11:20.502
- You know, the idea that,
- 00:11:20.502 --> 00:11:22.170
- You know, he came to the lord and it's just done.
- 00:11:22.170 --> 00:11:24.506
- It's just done and everything's good. yeah.
- 00:11:24.506 --> 00:11:26.408
- But just like all of us, there's an initial battle
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- Of some kind, there's a victory.
- 00:11:29.044 --> 00:11:30.545
- But then you got to like just like them.
- 00:11:30.545 --> 00:11:32.714
- They had to keep moving in the land.
- 00:11:32.714 --> 00:11:34.382
- Yeah.
- 00:11:34.382 --> 00:11:34.950
- Conquering some battles
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- To fully take possession of what god had for them.
- 00:11:36.184 --> 00:11:38.754
- And so, yeah, of course we're going to believe for
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- Even though maybe there's still some struggles for him.
- 00:11:42.724 --> 00:11:45.160
- Yeah, there's, there's more battles,
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- That and victories that god has for him.
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- Yeah. yeah, that's really good. i forgot about that.
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- Yeah. yeah. this is very special moment.
- 00:11:52.634 --> 00:11:55.003
- You know, one other moment that that is a highlight
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- To us in a sad way.
- 00:11:57.372 --> 00:11:59.307
- There was, there was a lot
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- Of like amazing highlights.
- 00:12:00.776 --> 00:12:03.845
- From the sea of galilee to even some other times in jerusalem.
- 00:12:03.845 --> 00:12:07.048
- But i don't know if you remember this,
- 00:12:07.048 --> 00:12:08.750
- I don't remember who else, i think we were all there, but.
- 00:12:08.750 --> 00:12:10.886
- Yeah.
- 00:12:10.886 --> 00:12:11.453
- But the, this one
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- Moment in jerusalem was a heartbreaking highlight
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- In the sense of you remember we were leaving that restaurant
- 00:12:16.591 --> 00:12:19.728
- And we start talking to those teenagers?
- 00:12:19.728 --> 00:12:21.530
- Yeah, we're talking about jesus.
- 00:12:21.530 --> 00:12:23.532
- We're having a conversation about yeshua, and,
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- And we're talking about and, and the people
- 00:12:27.869 --> 00:12:31.339
- That were hosting us who were not christians.
- 00:12:31.339 --> 00:12:33.942
- And they were remember, they came up
- 00:12:33.942 --> 00:12:38.079
- And they said, you guys need to stop talking
- 00:12:38.079 --> 00:12:39.514
- To these kids right now was they. were amazing people.
- 00:12:39.514 --> 00:12:41.750
- They were amazing. they were so amazing to us.
- 00:12:41.750 --> 00:12:43.451
- But yeah, they were like, listen, you gotta
- 00:12:43.451 --> 00:12:44.786
- You can't do this. it's illegal. right?
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- Yeah.
- 00:12:46.588 --> 00:12:47.455
- Yeah, i believe this is what they said.
- 00:12:47.455 --> 00:12:48.523
- So this is what they're saying. yeah, yeah, yeah.
- 00:12:48.523 --> 00:12:49.591
- And looking back, i maybe would have a different,
- 00:12:49.591 --> 00:12:52.594
- Opinion.
- 00:12:52.861 --> 00:12:53.461
- But in the moment, yeah.
- 00:12:53.461 --> 00:12:55.096
- It's like
- 00:12:55.096 --> 00:12:56.264
- We're preaching the gospel in jerusalem, in jerusalem.
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- And we had people telling us, you have to stop right now.
- 00:12:58.500 --> 00:13:02.337
- Or you'll go to jail. yeah.
- 00:13:02.337 --> 00:13:04.539
- And what what was rising in me is like, dude,
- 00:13:04.539 --> 00:13:09.544
- This is exactly what happened to peter and john
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- And the disciples 2000 years ago.
- 00:13:12.681 --> 00:13:16.151
- And they couldn't stop.
- 00:13:16.151 --> 00:13:17.752
- They said, we can't help but speak about what we've seen her.
- 00:13:17.752 --> 00:13:20.422
- And so i just felt like there's this thing in me like,
- 00:13:20.422 --> 00:13:23.124
- I can't stop even just because you're telling me to stop.
- 00:13:23.124 --> 00:13:26.895
- Like, this is jesus. we're in jerusalem.
- 00:13:26.895 --> 00:13:29.264
- And so i remember being so frustrated
- 00:13:29.264 --> 00:13:31.166
- That they were trying to tell us to stop preaching.
- 00:13:31.166 --> 00:13:32.834
- Jesus. yeah.
- 00:13:32.834 --> 00:13:33.802
- And, now looking back, i realize, okay, you're
- 00:13:33.802 --> 00:13:37.272
- Not supposed to preach to people under 18 and etc., etc..
- 00:13:37.272 --> 00:13:41.409
- But we
- 00:13:41.610 --> 00:13:42.677
- Got kind of gotten this like sort of argument, a.
- 00:13:42.677 --> 00:13:45.480
- Little bit of a heated.
- 00:13:45.480 --> 00:13:46.448
- Debate caused an issue with, with our hosts.
- 00:13:46.448 --> 00:13:48.483
- We worked it out.
- 00:13:48.483 --> 00:13:49.384
- But i remember that moment and i remember
- 00:13:49.384 --> 00:13:51.519
- Waking up the next day and going to the top of the hotel.
- 00:13:51.519 --> 00:13:54.589
- We were standing and just kind of looking over jerusalem,
- 00:13:54.589 --> 00:13:57.792
- And my heart was breaking because i remembered
- 00:13:57.792 --> 00:13:59.761
- The one passage where jesus was crying
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- And he says, oh, jerusalem, jerusalem.
- 00:14:03.798 --> 00:14:07.402
- I think it was something like, i weep over you
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- And like a hen longing to gather her chicks under her wing.
- 00:14:09.804 --> 00:14:14.042
- But you did not recognize the time of your visitation.
- 00:14:14.042 --> 00:14:18.079
- You know that they didn't they didn't recognize that
- 00:14:18.079 --> 00:14:20.382
- Jesus was their messiah and he came and. yeah.
- 00:14:20.382 --> 00:14:23.051
- And so it's, it's still like that in god's.
- 00:14:23.051 --> 00:14:26.688
- Yeah.
- 00:14:26.688 --> 00:14:27.455
- You know, this is like god's land
- 00:14:27.455 --> 00:14:29.858
- And god's people and they so many of them
- 00:14:29.858 --> 00:14:32.794
- Still don't recognize that their messiah has come.
- 00:14:32.794 --> 00:14:35.463
- But i don't know if you remember.
- 00:14:35.463 --> 00:14:37.165
- I believe you guys asked that boy,
- 00:14:37.165 --> 00:14:39.134
- What do you know about yeshua?
- 00:14:39.134 --> 00:14:40.602
- Like, what do you know about jesus?
- 00:14:40.602 --> 00:14:42.470
- And if i remember correctly,
- 00:14:42.470 --> 00:14:45.273
- He knew nothing about jesus,
- 00:14:45.273 --> 00:14:46.875
- But he had heard that he was like hitler, right?
- 00:14:46.875 --> 00:14:49.744
- And what blew me away?
- 00:14:49.744 --> 00:14:51.279
- And i don't think a lot of christians know this,
- 00:14:51.279 --> 00:14:53.715
- But in israel,
- 00:14:53.715 --> 00:14:55.283
- Where many christians are visiting to see the sights
- 00:14:55.283 --> 00:14:57.986
- Of jesus christ and the sights of david and all that
- 00:14:57.986 --> 00:15:02.624
- In israel, there's so many jews today
- 00:15:02.624 --> 00:15:05.961
- That have no idea who jesus christ is.
- 00:15:05.961 --> 00:15:09.097
- You're right.
- 00:15:09.464 --> 00:15:10.398
- And i remember that moment like so well,
- 00:15:10.398 --> 00:15:12.400
- Because i remember there were even crowds
- 00:15:12.400 --> 00:15:14.235
- That would kind of come up to us,
- 00:15:14.235 --> 00:15:16.004
- Which is pretty cool, you know, not really because of us.
- 00:15:16.004 --> 00:15:19.274
- It was because of the crowds.
- 00:15:19.274 --> 00:15:21.209
- Crowds were coming up to us and he would tell people, hey,
- 00:15:21.209 --> 00:15:23.945
- Do you know jesus? you know jesus?
- 00:15:23.945 --> 00:15:25.347
- And we would have the opportunity
- 00:15:25.347 --> 00:15:26.815
- To kind of speak to them as well.
- 00:15:26.815 --> 00:15:28.149
- And so when, when our leaders or our host
- 00:15:28.149 --> 00:15:31.252
- And again, they were incredible people,
- 00:15:31.252 --> 00:15:32.354
- But they were like, you can't do this.
- 00:15:32.354 --> 00:15:33.822
- You can't talk about jesus.
- 00:15:33.822 --> 00:15:35.457
- It's illegal. you could go to jail.
- 00:15:35.457 --> 00:15:36.992
- I was thinking like, what an amazing thing, right?
- 00:15:36.992 --> 00:15:40.528
- Like, who would not want to go to jail in jerusalem?
- 00:15:40.528 --> 00:15:43.698
- Because we're talking about jesus.
- 00:15:43.698 --> 00:15:45.033
- The disciples went to jail for this, and i think i need.
- 00:15:45.033 --> 00:15:47.068
- To as well.
- 00:15:47.068 --> 00:15:48.136
- God brought us all out there for this exact moment.
- 00:15:48.136 --> 00:15:50.505
- It's an incredible experience. but let's talk about jesus.
- 00:15:50.505 --> 00:15:52.974
- But i remember him being like, so flabbergasted about that.
- 00:15:52.974 --> 00:15:56.911
- Like, i had no idea, right?
- 00:15:56.911 --> 00:15:59.114
- People that they really didn't know who jesus was.
- 00:15:59.114 --> 00:16:01.182
- That was one of the things we were most surprised about,
- 00:16:01.182 --> 00:16:02.951
- Too. yeah, i remember
- 00:16:02.951 --> 00:16:04.252
- We went back just like just like you referenced
- 00:16:04.252 --> 00:16:06.321
- That we went back and told so many people were like,
- 00:16:06.321 --> 00:16:08.923
- Listen, i assumed that
- 00:16:08.923 --> 00:16:11.459
- All the jews kind of knew what christians believed.
- 00:16:11.459 --> 00:16:15.330
- And they're like, yeah, we just don't believe that.
- 00:16:15.330 --> 00:16:17.899
- But what we found is that they didn't even.
- 00:16:17.899 --> 00:16:19.934
- They don't have anything, you know?
- 00:16:19.934 --> 00:16:22.037
- And so they actually that incident
- 00:16:22.037 --> 00:16:24.973
- That took place a few days later actually opened the door
- 00:16:24.973 --> 00:16:28.043
- For some of those people that were hosting us.
- 00:16:28.043 --> 00:16:30.678
- I don't even know if you know this,
- 00:16:30.678 --> 00:16:32.013
- But i spent quite a lot of time
- 00:16:32.013 --> 00:16:34.249
- With a few of them, explaining to them like, hey, just
- 00:16:34.249 --> 00:16:38.353
- So you guys know, like we're not like a different religion.
- 00:16:38.353 --> 00:16:42.690
- Like, yeah, hinduism or buddhism.
- 00:16:42.690 --> 00:16:46.628
- It like
- 00:16:46.861 --> 00:16:47.662
- The only reason we exist is because of you.
- 00:16:48.563 --> 00:16:52.167
- Yeah.
- 00:16:52.167 --> 00:16:52.667
- They had no idea.
- 00:16:52.667 --> 00:16:53.535
- I'm like talking to jews being like.
- 00:16:53.535 --> 00:16:55.603
- So they didn't even know that.
- 00:16:55.603 --> 00:16:56.805
- No, i said you you understand that?
- 00:16:56.805 --> 00:16:59.407
- Like we believe in your messiah.
- 00:16:59.407 --> 00:17:02.710
- Like we believe we're grafted in to israel.
- 00:17:02.710 --> 00:17:06.448
- Like that's the only reason that we exist. yeah, yeah.
- 00:17:06.448 --> 00:17:08.616
- This is not like some other totally different.
- 00:17:08.616 --> 00:17:11.319
- Yeah.
- 00:17:11.319 --> 00:17:12.253
- I mean like we love your messiah like this.
- 00:17:12.253 --> 00:17:14.689
- And they, they had no idea.
- 00:17:14.689 --> 00:17:16.391
- And so i think you're absolutely right.
- 00:17:16.391 --> 00:17:17.592
- Like people of course there's people there that know
- 00:17:17.592 --> 00:17:20.628
- What christians believe in. and i'm sure the rabbis do.
- 00:17:20.628 --> 00:17:23.231
- But like,
- 00:17:23.231 --> 00:17:24.132
- No, they're not going out of their way
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- To teach their young people
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- That christians believe in the jewish messiah.
- 00:17:27.702 --> 00:17:30.238
- Yeah.
- 00:17:30.238 --> 00:17:31.172
- Like they just most of the people we talked
- 00:17:31.172 --> 00:17:32.874
- To, you had no idea who we really understand.
- 00:17:32.874 --> 00:17:36.711
- You just do. it to be why we need to pray.
- 00:17:36.711 --> 00:17:38.580
- We need to pray. so much over israel.
- 00:17:38.580 --> 00:17:40.315
- We need to pray over god's people.
- 00:17:40.315 --> 00:17:42.016
- I mean, there's so much going on in the middle east right now.
- 00:17:42.016 --> 00:17:44.018
- We were seeing to me prophecy unfold before our very eyes.
- 00:17:44.018 --> 00:17:48.656
- We're seeing things escalating.
- 00:17:48.656 --> 00:17:49.924
- We're also seeing the hand of god
- 00:17:49.924 --> 00:17:51.493
- And the miraculous things that he's doing.
- 00:17:51.493 --> 00:17:52.927
- But like when i came home from that trip, i'm like,
- 00:17:52.927 --> 00:17:55.130
- All right, we got to do something.
- 00:17:55.130 --> 00:17:56.264
- And even as a church, we started to research,
- 00:17:56.264 --> 00:17:59.067
- Missionaries and ways to reach out in israel.
- 00:17:59.067 --> 00:18:02.303
- I remember texting nate like, bro, how can we pray
- 00:18:02.303 --> 00:18:06.074
- And help people in israel know more about jesus?
- 00:18:06.074 --> 00:18:08.676
- Because this is something i never knew.
- 00:18:08.676 --> 00:18:10.979
- I honestly never knew, but it was an incredible experience.
- 00:18:10.979 --> 00:18:13.681
- Really, really quick to i think this is funny.
- 00:18:14.582 --> 00:18:17.552
- So before
- 00:18:17.552 --> 00:18:19.888
- We ever got online with our ministry,
- 00:18:19.888 --> 00:18:23.591
- I remember just getting on tiktok, the tiktok platform,
- 00:18:23.591 --> 00:18:27.195
- And my, my media pastor came up to me
- 00:18:27.195 --> 00:18:31.032
- And he said, hey bro, have you ever heard of this guy?
- 00:18:31.032 --> 00:18:33.902
- And i looked at him and,
- 00:18:33.902 --> 00:18:35.637
- Very good looking dude's name is craig brown. and,
- 00:18:35.637 --> 00:18:38.673
- But it was, it was your it was your video
- 00:18:39.541 --> 00:18:41.910
- And it was the bible time video. yeah.
- 00:18:41.910 --> 00:18:44.379
- I believe or i think around that time, too,
- 00:18:44.379 --> 00:18:46.281
- You were doing a lot of, like, improv and.
- 00:18:46.281 --> 00:18:49.584
- Improv, preach improv.
- 00:18:49.584 --> 00:18:51.052
- Yeah.
- 00:18:51.052 --> 00:18:52.287
- Preaching where you would go to different places and just,
- 00:18:52.287 --> 00:18:54.222
- You know.
- 00:18:54.222 --> 00:18:55.190
- There are a few guys in my church that that,
- 00:18:55.190 --> 00:18:57.825
- That they had the, the right actually, one guy in my church,
- 00:18:57.825 --> 00:19:02.063
- Good friend of mine, he has my location on his phone.
- 00:19:02.063 --> 00:19:05.233
- And in that season i said, hey, you can come find me
- 00:19:05.233 --> 00:19:07.936
- Anytime, anywhere,
- 00:19:07.936 --> 00:19:09.737
- And either throw a verse at me and and say, improv, preach.
- 00:19:09.737 --> 00:19:14.142
- And then i just have to come up with something, you know,
- 00:19:14.142 --> 00:19:16.778
- Like the scripture says, be ready to
- 00:19:16.778 --> 00:19:18.613
- To give a reason for the help that you have.
- 00:19:18.613 --> 00:19:21.182
- Or what we call random sermon analogy,
- 00:19:21.182 --> 00:19:23.451
- Where you just grab something
- 00:19:23.451 --> 00:19:24.586
- And give it to me and i have to preach about it.
- 00:19:24.586 --> 00:19:26.454
- So in fact, there's a season
- 00:19:26.454 --> 00:19:27.922
- Where he literally found me on the golf
- 00:19:27.922 --> 00:19:29.924
- Course once went to the pro shop, borrowed a golf cart.
- 00:19:29.924 --> 00:19:33.661
- They let him drive out to me on the golf course.
- 00:19:33.661 --> 00:19:35.997
- Really? he surprised me.
- 00:19:35.997 --> 00:19:37.232
- I think i saw that video coming. out, a video.
- 00:19:37.232 --> 00:19:39.634
- People think that that stuff was staged.
- 00:19:39.634 --> 00:19:40.935
- No, none of that was ever state.
- 00:19:40.935 --> 00:19:42.604
- They were all real. but yeah.
- 00:19:42.604 --> 00:19:43.805
- Anyway.
- 00:19:43.805 --> 00:19:45.006
- Okay, that might have been one of them that you saw. so i.
- 00:19:45.006 --> 00:19:46.007
- Saw that.
- 00:19:46.007 --> 00:19:47.008
- And you know, you kind of known for bible time.
- 00:19:47.008 --> 00:19:49.477
- You're known for that.
- 00:19:49.477 --> 00:19:51.379
- So i kind of want to ask you, like the origin story,
- 00:19:51.379 --> 00:19:53.114
- How did things start and how did it come about?
- 00:19:53.114 --> 00:19:56.184
- How did you get to where you are today with the ministry?
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- Yeah, it's it's, interesting story.
- 00:20:00.288 --> 00:20:02.757
- I, i never set out to be probably like you.
- 00:20:03.625 --> 00:20:07.462
- We never set out to be social media famous.
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- Yeah, i was i've been a local church pastor since college, and
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- That's always been my heart, and, and a preacher,
- 00:20:15.103 --> 00:20:18.139
- And but at the end of 2019,
- 00:20:18.740 --> 00:20:22.343
- I was asking the lord like, hey, what's what's like
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- One thing that you designed me to do to add value to the world.
- 00:20:25.613 --> 00:20:28.583
- And i was still working at the church,
- 00:20:28.583 --> 00:20:31.653
- A busy church, too, like we're not.
- 00:20:31.653 --> 00:20:33.554
- I just work on sunday morning and,
- 00:20:33.554 --> 00:20:34.956
- You know, like here, like we're go, go, go. we're doing stuff.
- 00:20:34.956 --> 00:20:37.558
- Yeah, yeah.
- 00:20:37.558 --> 00:20:38.793
- And so full, full time job, full time ministry, full time
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- Family, growing family, kids.
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- But there was something in me.
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- I was like, lord,
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- What is something that you designed me to do?
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- That i could add value to the world.
- 00:20:49.337 --> 00:20:50.471
- And i felt like it was a very simple invitation.
- 00:20:50.471 --> 00:20:52.340
- I want you to show people how to read the bible.
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- And so,
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- He used a specific girl,
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- A friend of ours, me and my wife usually travel
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- With this other couple once a year.
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- And this girl's name is megan.
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- She's been in our life forever,
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- And he used her in a very unique way. we were.
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- We were traveling once on vacation,
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- And i woke up in the morning with my bible.
- 00:21:11.893 --> 00:21:14.262
- Like i always do.
- 00:21:14.262 --> 00:21:15.730
- I open my bible and i have a pen in hand
- 00:21:15.730 --> 00:21:17.532
- Because i like to read my bible and cut it up,
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- Circle, underline, squiggly, all that.
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- Yeah.
- 00:21:21.803 --> 00:21:23.471
- And this one day she goes, man,
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- I wish i could just sit next to you every morning
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- When you read your bible just to know, like,
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- Why do you underline, why do you squiggly?
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- Why do you box?
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- And then she said, us normal people don't always know just
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- How to read the bible.
- 00:21:34.782 --> 00:21:36.017
- And it just hit me, man, because i'm like, yeah,
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- This girl's been a christian for like ten years.
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- And i just had this, this realization that so many people,
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- They really are people of faith.
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- They're real believers,
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- But they just don't understand, like how bible works.
- 00:21:47.962 --> 00:21:50.865
- And and i get it
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- Because when you're maybe new to it or whatever,
- 00:21:51.899 --> 00:21:53.501
- It's like there's so much to it
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- And there's different genres of literature and
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- You don't know how to read it.
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- And so i just felt like, god
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- Use that as the
- 00:22:00.074 --> 00:22:01.275
- Simple invitation to, hey, show people who read the bible.
- 00:22:01.275 --> 00:22:04.812
- I felt like i could figure out a way, tech wise, to show people
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- The actual scripture on the screen and show me, and so you.
- 00:22:09.317 --> 00:22:13.888
- Just already good at that kind of stuff.
- 00:22:13.888 --> 00:22:15.323
- Like, did you know a lot of that already
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- Or do you kind of research, how can i,
- 00:22:16.791 --> 00:22:20.294
- I put this out there for people to understand
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- It better, but also show the visuals that you show today?
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- Yeah.
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- I would say i've always been kind of like
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- A techie type of person, but no, i wasn't like a a video guy.
- 00:22:27.168 --> 00:22:31.172
- Yeah, i had learned some things working in the church
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- Because we needed some stuff along the way.
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- And i was into photography, but no, i,
- 00:22:35.843 --> 00:22:38.312
- I wasn't like a video editor, guy producer or any of that.
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- Okay.
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- I just had seen at the time a few other people, like,
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- Like john piper, i had saw a few videos
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- That he put out
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- Where he was talking about a verse,
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- And you could see that he was clearly like
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- Circling words and talking about stuff.
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- Yeah, you can see the verse on
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- The screen, but you couldn't see him.
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- And so maybe he was screen recording somehow.
- 00:22:56.998 --> 00:22:59.500
- I had seen this, this guy teaching greek,
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- And he was using some kind of
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- I reached out
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- Some really expensive computer to like
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- Where he was highlighting and notating the scripture.
- 00:23:05.473 --> 00:23:07.975
- But i was like, you know what?
- 00:23:07.975 --> 00:23:08.776
- I think i could figure out
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- How to do this on my ipad and then screen
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- And then film myself, and then i could overlay it
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- In final cut pro. yeah.
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- And so i, i sort of developed the whole way.
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- Okay. but,
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- This will happen.
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- I felt like the lord said, i want you to do this.
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- I want you to post one video a day, every day in 2020.
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- Every day. every day. okay.
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- This is the first time. was it just on tiktok?
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- No, it was on youtube. is on youtube.
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- Okay, okay. yeah. i don't even know about tiktok.
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- Okay.
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- It was a like 15 to 20 minute long daily bible
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- Devotional video on youtube starting january 1st, 2020.
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- I filmed myself on a phone and i screen recorded
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- My ipad, and i had like, this little mic that somebody
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- Let me borrow. and,
- 00:23:52.687 --> 00:23:55.823
- But it was the first time in my whole ministry
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- Where i felt like the lord clearly spoke to me.
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- I don't care if more than one person
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- Watches it or you think it's fruitful.
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- I want you to do it every day.
- 00:24:04.799 --> 00:24:07.468
- And so i started doing this, and it's
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- Like an extra hour of work a day.
- 00:24:09.670 --> 00:24:11.305
- Yeah, just to put out a 15 minute video.
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- So i filmed exhausting editing.
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- Editing.
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- You don't want to just
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- Do it to do it
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- Like you actually want to bring something to the table.
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- Yeah, you get.
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- To hear from the lord on that,
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- Just like you would with the sermon.
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- Yeah, well, yes and no for me, for for my particular project,
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- I felt like what i was supposed to do was not prepare a lesson
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- The way that i would for a sermon. okay.
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- But actually, i was reading the bible live,
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- And not pre preparing on purpose.
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- Okay.
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- Because i wanted to show people
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- This is what it looks like to read the bible in.
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- Real time, in real time. okay.
- 00:24:46.440 --> 00:24:48.142
- So and i want
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- And i wanted people to experience me
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- Coming across something like i don't understand that.
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- Yeah.
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- Whereas normally as a preacher it's like, dude,
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- I got to come with i got to study this out.
- 00:24:55.182 --> 00:24:56.984
- Yeah, yeah.
- 00:24:56.984 --> 00:24:58.219
- But i wanted to show people that like reading the bible, like
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- In the morning in your morning devotional, doesn't you?
- 00:25:01.289 --> 00:25:04.425
- Sometimes you have a question, sometimes you have revelation.
- 00:25:04.425 --> 00:25:06.527
- Sometimes you're like, that's awesome.
- 00:25:06.527 --> 00:25:07.595
- Sometimes you're like, i don't get it.
- 00:25:07.595 --> 00:25:09.196
- I wanted the people to see that.
- 00:25:09.196 --> 00:25:10.431
- All of it. yeah.
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- So that's how i did it.
- 00:25:11.966 --> 00:25:13.100
- But still, it took a lot of work. yeah.
- 00:25:13.100 --> 00:25:15.469
- But what happened was i was about three weeks in,
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- And our church
- 00:25:18.439 --> 00:25:19.507
- Always has this big conference to begin in january.
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- And i was like, dude, nobody's watching this.
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- I'm getting like six views, ten views.
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- And it's just, like, so discouraging to do something.
- 00:25:27.882 --> 00:25:30.751
- Yeah, that's not quote unquote successful.
- 00:25:30.751 --> 00:25:33.554
- But this 17 year old kid that lived three hours away
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- That drove up to this conference sees me in the church lobby,
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- And he walks up to me and he goes,
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- Whoa, you're the bible time guy.
- 00:25:42.330 --> 00:25:45.366
- And bro.
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- Nobody knew what bible.
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- You're the bible time. exactly.
- 00:25:47.501 --> 00:25:49.403
- And i sat there. like a cpa.
- 00:25:49.403 --> 00:25:51.372
- You know what bible time is like.
- 00:25:51.372 --> 00:25:53.274
- Nobody knows what bible time is.
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- Yeah, yeah, man,
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- It's really helped me learn how to read the bible.
- 00:25:56.143 --> 00:25:57.745
- And i was like, are you kidding?
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- You're the one like, yeah, it's you.
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- And my mom.
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- Like nobody else is watching this thing.
- 00:26:02.383 --> 00:26:05.286
- And then i asked them
- 00:26:05.286 --> 00:26:06.220
- The question already knew the answer to,
- 00:26:06.220 --> 00:26:08.022
- Hey, man, you think i should keep doing this?
- 00:26:08.022 --> 00:26:10.091
- He goes, oh, yeah, dude.
- 00:26:10.091 --> 00:26:12.360
- And so it was like this, this wink from heaven of god
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- Saying you knew already spoke to you,
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- But you're feeling discouraged because of the results.
- 00:26:18.766 --> 00:26:22.136
- I'm gonna give you a little nudge to remind you.
- 00:26:22.136 --> 00:26:24.805
- I told you to do this every day. yeah.
- 00:26:24.805 --> 00:26:26.774
- And so i just knew i have to do this every single day.
- 00:26:26.774 --> 00:26:30.077
- And then i kept doing it.
- 00:26:30.077 --> 00:26:31.779
- Of course, nobody foresaw this global pandemic happening.
- 00:26:31.779 --> 00:26:35.483
- Yeah, yeah, now everybody's going digital.
- 00:26:35.483 --> 00:26:37.652
- I had already built this muscle. yeah.
- 00:26:37.652 --> 00:26:40.454
- Now, the youtube thing, like, never, like,
- 00:26:41.355 --> 00:26:43.124
- Really took off big.
- 00:26:43.124 --> 00:26:44.992
- But because i had built this muscle and i just was walking
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- In obedience, you know, we're we're in quarantine.
- 00:26:48.262 --> 00:26:51.499
- We download this app, we find called tiktok, where
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- We're just watching
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- Videos, laughing, thinking this funny because.
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- It was mostly like,
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- I remember when i first heard of tiktok,
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- I thought it was just like dance videos, right?
- 00:27:00.007 --> 00:27:02.009
- That's all it was, was like dance videos and trends.
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- And i don't know if i told you this.
- 00:27:04.245 --> 00:27:06.180
- I think it did in ana's story a few years back.
- 00:27:06.180 --> 00:27:09.884
- Like i was feeling a burden.
- 00:27:09.884 --> 00:27:12.353
- Like a burden from god. get on tiktok. really?
- 00:27:12.353 --> 00:27:14.955
- I thought it was the weirdest thing.
- 00:27:14.955 --> 00:27:16.290
- I was like, it's just, this got to be me.
- 00:27:16.290 --> 00:27:17.992
- Like, just got to be my flesh.
- 00:27:17.992 --> 00:27:19.627
- Because it wasn't all that. i thought it was bad.
- 00:27:19.627 --> 00:27:21.162
- I just didn't know anything about it.
- 00:27:21.162 --> 00:27:22.697
- I told our associate pastor at the time, i was like,
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- I think god is telling me to get on tiktok.
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- And he just kind of looked at me like, okay.
- 00:27:26.734 --> 00:27:29.470
- And so i got on it.
- 00:27:29.937 --> 00:27:31.005
- And then within, i believe, 2 or 3 months,
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- We had our first video
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- That kind of took off, hit about 100,000 views,
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- And then it was muted by tiktok.
- 00:27:38.713 --> 00:27:40.514
- I don't know if it's because of the music
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- Or or were behind it, but then i believe a month or two later
- 00:27:41.816 --> 00:27:46.620
- We had a video hit a million views.
- 00:27:46.620 --> 00:27:48.589
- It was on the subject of noah.
- 00:27:48.589 --> 00:27:50.324
- And so this video of sudden just like started
- 00:27:50.324 --> 00:27:53.461
- Increasing everything.
- 00:27:53.461 --> 00:27:55.262
- It was like, i'm just seeing what god was speaking to me.
- 00:27:55.262 --> 00:27:57.965
- And your story is incredible because, you know,
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- What would you say to somebody that like
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- Is in that season right now?
- 00:28:03.437 --> 00:28:04.939
- Like, i know that the lord has told me
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- To do this right, but i'm really not seeing any fruit.
- 00:28:06.974 --> 00:28:10.845
- And i believe you made a great statement sunday.
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- I might steal it from you,
- 00:28:15.783 --> 00:28:17.952
- Because you talked about success.
- 00:28:17.952 --> 00:28:19.754
- And what i was saying on sunday. yeah.
- 00:28:19.754 --> 00:28:21.655
- Comes out of this exact season. out of this.
- 00:28:21.655 --> 00:28:23.924
- That's where i learned that lesson.
- 00:28:23.924 --> 00:28:25.192
- And i'll if you want to go ahead
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- And kind of explain what you meant by success.
- 00:28:26.594 --> 00:28:28.095
- Yeah, yeah, yeah.
- 00:28:28.095 --> 00:28:29.396
- Because and listen, i can i can confess
- 00:28:29.396 --> 00:28:32.566
- That, you know, by 2020,
- 00:28:32.566 --> 00:28:34.769
- I had already been in ministry for 15 years.
- 00:28:34.769 --> 00:28:38.739
- Yeah. serving the lord, loving the lord.
- 00:28:38.739 --> 00:28:41.208
- But i learned
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- That, like, real obedience
- 00:28:43.778 --> 00:28:45.312
- To god does not always feel
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- Like we would maybe want it to feel.
- 00:28:49.350 --> 00:28:51.786
- Yeah, in this sense.
- 00:28:51.786 --> 00:28:52.920
- So let me just quickly
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- Finish the story and then i'll, i'll set up.
- 00:28:54.054 --> 00:28:55.956
- Yeah.
- 00:28:55.956 --> 00:28:57.057
- So i find this app called tiktok.
- 00:28:57.057 --> 00:28:58.592
- We're just watching videos.
- 00:28:58.592 --> 00:28:59.927
- But then by june, i think to myself,
- 00:28:59.927 --> 00:29:02.329
- I wonder if some of these tiktok people would come to youtube.
- 00:29:02.329 --> 00:29:04.999
- That was my only motivation.
- 00:29:04.999 --> 00:29:06.634
- Yeah, i just thought,
- 00:29:06.634 --> 00:29:08.369
- I'm just going to do what i'm already doing.
- 00:29:08.369 --> 00:29:10.604
- But instead of reading a chapter, i'll read one verse.
- 00:29:10.604 --> 00:29:13.107
- I'll make it vertical, and then i'll be like, come to youtube.
- 00:29:13.107 --> 00:29:16.377
- And so i posted the second video i posted went viral.
- 00:29:16.377 --> 00:29:19.947
- All i did was read philippians
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- Four six and seven about prayer and anxiety.
- 00:29:21.782 --> 00:29:24.118
- Yeah.
- 00:29:24.118 --> 00:29:25.085
- And it had like 200,000 views in two days.
- 00:29:25.085 --> 00:29:27.021
- And i was like blown away. yeah.
- 00:29:27.021 --> 00:29:29.623
- I'm like, i like you.
- 00:29:29.623 --> 00:29:30.591
- I'm thinking, this is you got to be dancing.
- 00:29:30.591 --> 00:29:32.593
- You gotta be shaking something.
- 00:29:32.593 --> 00:29:34.094
- You gotta be doing something crazy on this app.
- 00:29:34.094 --> 00:29:36.030
- Shaking the bible. yeah. yeah, exactly.
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- I'm like, just like gen z is.
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- Cares about the bible?
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- Like what? yeah.
- 00:29:42.703 --> 00:29:44.004
- And so i couldn't believe it.
- 00:29:44.004 --> 00:29:46.373
- I had like 8000 followers after like a week or two,
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- Which i thought was a ton. yeah.
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- And i remember meeting with a friend and he goes, hey, man,
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- I think if you keep doing this,
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- You can have like 100,000 followers.
- 00:29:55.149 --> 00:29:56.817
- And i was like, dude, no, no, no way.
- 00:29:56.817 --> 00:30:00.054
- Like, you got to, to to really be popular like that.
- 00:30:00.054 --> 00:30:03.090
- You got to be doing other things.
- 00:30:03.090 --> 00:30:04.291
- That's not what people are interested in.
- 00:30:04.291 --> 00:30:05.860
- Yeah. he said, i think so.
- 00:30:05.860 --> 00:30:07.828
- And i just had already built that muscle.
- 00:30:07.828 --> 00:30:11.332
- And so from june 9th until the end of the year,
- 00:30:11.332 --> 00:30:14.668
- I fulfilled my commitment to the lord.
- 00:30:14.668 --> 00:30:16.370
- I posted one
- 00:30:16.370 --> 00:30:17.605
- Youtube video a day, every day till january till december 31st.
- 00:30:17.605 --> 00:30:21.375
- That was like a 15 to 20 minute long video.
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- And from june 9th on, i posted 2 to 3 tiktok videos
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- Every single day.
- 00:30:27.147 --> 00:30:28.549
- And and then the next year i just kept doing the tiktok.
- 00:30:28.549 --> 00:30:31.285
- I had to give up the youtube.
- 00:30:31.285 --> 00:30:32.553
- I fulfilled my commitment to the lord
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- Because it was just too much work.
- 00:30:33.787 --> 00:30:34.989
- Yeah, with. the church, everything.
- 00:30:34.989 --> 00:30:36.156
- Yeah, but we had a million followers after 13 months. wow.
- 00:30:36.156 --> 00:30:40.160
- And that's pretty. quick.
- 00:30:40.160 --> 00:30:41.662
- Yeah, that's super quick.
- 00:30:41.662 --> 00:30:42.963
- And, and and you know, things have changed now like it.
- 00:30:42.963 --> 00:30:45.299
- But but at that time
- 00:30:45.299 --> 00:30:46.867
- It just was like god was breathing on something.
- 00:30:46.867 --> 00:30:49.136
- Yeah. and i just knew
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- People weren't following
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- Because i was a celebrity or i was anybody.
- 00:30:54.308 --> 00:30:57.578
- People were being drawn to the content,
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- Which in this case was the word of god.
- 00:30:59.480 --> 00:31:01.315
- I've been preaching the gospel, yes,
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- But to get back around to what you asked about,
- 00:31:03.417 --> 00:31:05.953
- It was in that whole season where i, i really was realizing
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- And convicted that so many times in my life
- 00:31:11.025 --> 00:31:14.962
- I had like maybe caught a vision of what god was whispering
- 00:31:14.962 --> 00:31:18.332
- And like, even in the church, like, let's start.
- 00:31:18.332 --> 00:31:21.268
- Oh, we should start this ministry,
- 00:31:21.268 --> 00:31:22.536
- Or we should do this or we should do that.
- 00:31:22.536 --> 00:31:24.705
- And then because we didn't see the fruit
- 00:31:24.705 --> 00:31:27.408
- That we wanted to see or what the,
- 00:31:27.408 --> 00:31:29.443
- You know, the world expects what the world calls success.
- 00:31:29.443 --> 00:31:32.179
- We're like oh god must not be blessing that.
- 00:31:32.179 --> 00:31:35.082
- So shut it down. let's do something else.
- 00:31:35.082 --> 00:31:37.318
- Maybe like an investor you're thinking
- 00:31:37.318 --> 00:31:38.786
- If this investment isn't bringing a return,
- 00:31:38.786 --> 00:31:40.821
- Like, let's reinvest our money somewhere else.
- 00:31:40.821 --> 00:31:43.457
- And i think that a lot of times there's that's reasonable.
- 00:31:43.457 --> 00:31:46.794
- A lot of times it's like, hey, yeah,
- 00:31:46.794 --> 00:31:48.195
- If god isn't breathing on something like,
- 00:31:48.195 --> 00:31:51.165
- Maybe we should redirect our efforts.
- 00:31:51.165 --> 00:31:53.167
- But what i learned was there are some times
- 00:31:53.167 --> 00:31:57.504
- That if god speaks to you and asks you to do something.
- 00:31:57.504 --> 00:32:01.275
- His expectation is not always
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- The same expectation that we have, or his measure of success
- 00:32:05.446 --> 00:32:08.816
- Is not always the same measure that we have. yeah.
- 00:32:08.816 --> 00:32:11.518
- And so what i learned
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- And what i want to encourage anybody in your audience is
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- If you know that god has spoken to you to do something,
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- That success is obeying the voice of god.
- 00:32:20.928 --> 00:32:24.465
- In other words, success is obedience.
- 00:32:24.465 --> 00:32:27.134
- So in the kingdom of god, if god asks you to do something
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- And you obey him no matter the results,
- 00:32:30.037 --> 00:32:32.172
- Even if the world looks at you and says,
- 00:32:32.172 --> 00:32:33.941
- Yeah, oh, you're not winning, that's failure.
- 00:32:33.941 --> 00:32:36.377
- If you are obeying the voice of god,
- 00:32:36.377 --> 00:32:38.379
- It actually is the definition, definition of success.
- 00:32:38.379 --> 00:32:41.615
- And on the other side of the coin,
- 00:32:41.615 --> 00:32:43.484
- I've come to understand that if you are finding success
- 00:32:43.484 --> 00:32:47.354
- The way that the world defines it, you get the money,
- 00:32:47.354 --> 00:32:50.024
- You get the followers, you get the position,
- 00:32:50.024 --> 00:32:52.626
- You get the house, you get the whatever.
- 00:32:52.626 --> 00:32:54.495
- Yeah, and you're winning.
- 00:32:54.495 --> 00:32:56.563
- But you're doing something that god has not asked you to do.
- 00:32:56.563 --> 00:32:59.233
- Yeah, that is not success.
- 00:32:59.233 --> 00:33:00.968
- It's failure. yeah.
- 00:33:00.968 --> 00:33:02.069
- And so i just want to say this when it comes to people
- 00:33:02.069 --> 00:33:05.139
- Looking at maybe guys like us and thinking,
- 00:33:05.139 --> 00:33:07.708
- Oh, either i want to do stuff online
- 00:33:07.708 --> 00:33:10.110
- Or i want to stand on a certain stage or hold a microphone.
- 00:33:10.110 --> 00:33:14.014
- You have to just really be
- 00:33:14.581 --> 00:33:17.217
- Like, careful and really prayerful about.
- 00:33:17.217 --> 00:33:19.887
- Yeah. why are you pursuing something?
- 00:33:19.887 --> 00:33:22.523
- And is it because if god asked you to do it? yeah.
- 00:33:22.523 --> 00:33:24.625
- Because you like the idea of success
- 00:33:24.625 --> 00:33:28.262
- Or you like the idea of being popular or whatever.
- 00:33:28.262 --> 00:33:32.900
- And i just want to encourage everybody,
- 00:33:32.900 --> 00:33:35.536
- If, you know,
- 00:33:35.536 --> 00:33:36.804
- Pursue the heart of god, what is he asked you to do?
- 00:33:36.804 --> 00:33:40.140
- And if you are doing that, you're obeying him.
- 00:33:40.140 --> 00:33:43.377
- That is success. yes.
- 00:33:43.377 --> 00:33:46.513
- And if you're doing something that god hasn't asked you to do,
- 00:33:46.513 --> 00:33:48.749
- Whether digitally, in person, in your job,
- 00:33:48.749 --> 00:33:51.018
- With family, with a relationship, with money,
- 00:33:51.018 --> 00:33:53.287
- If you're pursuing something that god hasn't asked you,
- 00:33:53.287 --> 00:33:55.889
- It doesn't matter if you're winning in the world's
- 00:33:55.889 --> 00:33:57.591
- Eyes, that's actually failure. you always feel it too. like.
- 00:33:57.591 --> 00:34:00.227
- Like i said, you feel the burden and like, i know for me.
- 00:34:00.227 --> 00:34:04.965
- All right, guys, that's all the time we have for today.
- 00:34:04.965 --> 00:34:07.334
- But i pray that today's message bless your life.
- 00:34:07.334 --> 00:34:11.071
- There is a reason you heard this word today.
- 00:34:11.071 --> 00:34:13.607
- It's not by mistake.
- 00:34:13.607 --> 00:34:15.075
- You're here for a reason and god has a plan for you.
- 00:34:15.075 --> 00:34:18.979
- And listen, if you love this church
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- And thinking about giving to this church, all you have to do
- 00:34:21.148 --> 00:34:24.017
- Is visit our website at bobbie chandler ministries.com.
- 00:34:24.017 --> 00:34:27.921
- And it's very easy to give.
- 00:34:27.921 --> 00:34:29.456
- And once you give, listen, you're helping change lives.
- 00:34:29.456 --> 00:34:33.026
- Because of your faithful giving, we're able to reach
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- Not only the nation, but the world.
- 00:34:36.029 --> 00:34:38.732
- We're bringing the gospel of jesus christ
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- Into everyone's home as much as we can,
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- So that they know the love of god.
- 00:34:44.605 --> 00:34:47.608
- And listen.
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- If you want to hear more sermons as well, don't forget
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- You can join us live every sunday, 815, 10:00, and 1145.
- 00:34:50.544 --> 00:34:55.883
- So thank you for watching today
- 00:34:55.883 --> 00:34:58.218
- And i can't wait to see you again very soon.
- 00:34:58.218 --> 00:35:01.188
- All right, before you go, i got one more announcement to make.
- 00:35:01.188 --> 00:35:03.757
- And this one's a big one.
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- Okay.
- 00:35:04.925 --> 00:35:05.292
- This year
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- We held
- 00:35:06.093 --> 00:35:07.294
- Our very first awaken conference in hickory, north carolina
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- For authentic church.
- 00:35:10.397 --> 00:35:11.598
- And we saw
- 00:35:11.598 --> 00:35:12.799
- People come out from everywhere, from all over the nation.
- 00:35:12.799 --> 00:35:16.603
- And even outside of the country
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- To experience what god is doing here.
- 00:35:18.372 --> 00:35:20.607
- So we're doing it again in 2026, from june 4th to june 7th.
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- We would love for you to plan and be here with us.
- 00:35:26.013 --> 00:35:28.815
- And if you want to look into more details
- 00:35:28.815 --> 00:35:31.185
- Over the conference,
- 00:35:31.185 --> 00:35:32.152
- All you have to do is click the link below.
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- In fact, here's a recap video to show you what all god did.
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- For me.
- 00:35:50.103 --> 00:36:01.848
- And the
- 00:36:02.082 --> 00:36:02.883
- Reason i even bring it up tonight
- 00:36:02.883 --> 00:36:05.819
- Is because when it comes to you knowing jesus, the man,
- 00:36:05.819 --> 00:36:10.591
- The gospel message is all about
- 00:36:10.591 --> 00:36:13.527
- Your understanding of the message about the man
- 00:36:13.527 --> 00:36:17.831
- Who will inform your methods of getting to know the man.
- 00:36:17.831 --> 00:36:51.031
- That this job doesn't work out for me.
- 00:36:51.865 --> 00:36:54.268
- What if i move my life by faith and it all just
- 00:36:54.268 --> 00:36:58.171
- Crumbles to the ground? what if it works?
- 00:36:58.171 --> 00:37:00.907
- What if god shows up and changes your life forever?
- 00:37:00.907 --> 00:37:03.844
- But i would rather move by.
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- Faith
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- And even fail and fail and fail and know that i follow god.
- 00:37:06.413 --> 00:37:09.516
- And i ended up exactly where i needed to be. i'm.
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- You know what?
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- Today is
- 00:37:43.016 --> 00:37:44.651
- Pentecost sunday,
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- Pentecost sunday.
- 00:37:48.255 --> 00:37:51.458
- Who? you better
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- Not ask the holy ghost preacher to preach on pentecost sunday.
- 00:37:53.860 --> 00:37:57.597
- I came here to remind you
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- You need the holy spirit.
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- You. ready?
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