Bobby Chandler - Believe God for the Impossible (Part 1)

October 29, 2025 | 39:46

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
  • 00:09:29.324 --> 00:09:32.094
  • For the addiction, my god, to fall down in his life.
  • 00:09:32.094 --> 00:09:34.830
  • And, you know, there was there was power in that.
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  • And i'll never forget that moment
  • 00:09:37.199 --> 00:09:39.468
  • Because god is is so cool.
  • 00:09:40.035 --> 00:09:41.269
  • And like i said, now,
  • 00:09:41.269 --> 00:09:42.704
  • 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
  • 00:09:46.742 --> 00:09:50.178
  • But have relatives, family members, people that they love,
  • 00:09:50.178 --> 00:09:53.882
  • That have fought with addiction.
  • 00:09:53.882 --> 00:09:57.419
  • 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
  • 00:10:06.128 --> 00:10:08.530
  • 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.
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  • 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
  • 00:11:38.754 --> 00:11:42.724
  • 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,
  • 00:11:45.160 --> 00:11:47.929
  • That and victories that god has for him.
  • 00:11:47.929 --> 00:11:50.098
  • Yeah. yeah, that's really good. i forgot about that.
  • 00:11:50.098 --> 00:11:52.634
  • 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
  • 00:11:55.003 --> 00:11:57.372
  • To us in a sad way.
  • 00:11:57.372 --> 00:11:59.307
  • There was, there was a lot
  • 00:11:59.875 --> 00:12:00.776
  • 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
  • 00:12:11.453 --> 00:12:12.621
  • Moment in jerusalem was a heartbreaking highlight
  • 00:12:12.621 --> 00:12:16.591
  • 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,
  • 00:12:23.532 --> 00:12:27.869
  • 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?
  • 00:12:44.786 --> 00:12:46.588
  • 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.
  • 00:12:56.264 --> 00:12:58.500
  • 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
  • 00:13:59.761 --> 00:14:02.964
  • And he says, oh, jerusalem, jerusalem.
  • 00:14:03.798 --> 00:14:07.402
  • I think it was something like, i weep over you
  • 00:14:07.402 --> 00:14:09.804
  • 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
  • 00:17:24.132 --> 00:17:25.834
  • To teach their young people
  • 00:17:25.834 --> 00:17:27.702
  • 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.
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  • Improv, preach improv.
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  • Yeah.
  • 00:18:51.052 --> 00:18:52.287
  • Preaching where you would go to different places and just,
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  • 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
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  • 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?
  • 00:19:56.184 --> 00:19:59.487
  • 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.
  • 00:20:07.462 --> 00:20:09.964
  • Yeah, i was i've been a local church pastor since college, and
  • 00:20:09.964 --> 00:20:14.102
  • 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
  • 00:20:22.343 --> 00:20:25.613
  • 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
  • 00:20:38.793 --> 00:20:41.796
  • Family, growing family, kids.
  • 00:20:41.796 --> 00:20:43.631
  • But there was something in me.
  • 00:20:43.631 --> 00:20:44.899
  • I was like, lord,
  • 00:20:44.899 --> 00:20:46.601
  • What is something that you designed me to do?
  • 00:20:46.601 --> 00:20:49.337
  • 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.
  • 00:20:52.340 --> 00:20:54.709
  • And so,
  • 00:20:54.709 --> 00:20:56.711
  • He used a specific girl,
  • 00:20:57.245 --> 00:20:59.414
  • A friend of ours, me and my wife usually travel
  • 00:20:59.414 --> 00:21:01.816
  • With this other couple once a year.
  • 00:21:01.816 --> 00:21:03.818
  • And this girl's name is megan.
  • 00:21:03.818 --> 00:21:05.420
  • She's been in our life forever,
  • 00:21:05.420 --> 00:21:07.155
  • And he used her in a very unique way. we were.
  • 00:21:07.155 --> 00:21:09.724
  • We were traveling once on vacation,
  • 00:21:09.724 --> 00:21:11.893
  • 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,
  • 00:21:17.532 --> 00:21:19.734
  • Circle, underline, squiggly, all that.
  • 00:21:19.734 --> 00:21:21.803
  • Yeah.
  • 00:21:21.803 --> 00:21:23.471
  • And this one day she goes, man,
  • 00:21:23.471 --> 00:21:25.273
  • I wish i could just sit next to you every morning
  • 00:21:25.273 --> 00:21:27.041
  • When you read your bible just to know, like,
  • 00:21:27.041 --> 00:21:29.077
  • Why do you underline, why do you squiggly?
  • 00:21:29.077 --> 00:21:30.812
  • Why do you box?
  • 00:21:30.812 --> 00:21:32.080
  • And then she said, us normal people don't always know just
  • 00:21:32.080 --> 00:21:34.782
  • How to read the bible.
  • 00:21:34.782 --> 00:21:36.017
  • And it just hit me, man, because i'm like, yeah,
  • 00:21:36.951 --> 00:21:39.220
  • This girl's been a christian for like ten years.
  • 00:21:39.220 --> 00:21:41.689
  • And i just had this, this realization that so many people,
  • 00:21:41.689 --> 00:21:45.360
  • They really are people of faith.
  • 00:21:45.360 --> 00:21:46.828
  • They're real believers,
  • 00:21:46.828 --> 00:21:47.962
  • But they just don't understand, like how bible works.
  • 00:21:47.962 --> 00:21:50.865
  • And and i get it
  • 00:21:50.865 --> 00:21:51.899
  • 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
  • 00:21:53.501 --> 00:21:55.203
  • And there's different genres of literature and
  • 00:21:55.203 --> 00:21:57.638
  • You don't know how to read it.
  • 00:21:57.638 --> 00:21:58.573
  • And so i just felt like, god
  • 00:21:58.573 --> 00:22:00.074
  • 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
  • 00:22:04.812 --> 00:22:09.317
  • 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
  • 00:22:15.323 --> 00:22:16.791
  • 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
  • 00:22:20.294 --> 00:22:22.263
  • It better, but also show the visuals that you show today?
  • 00:22:22.263 --> 00:22:24.732
  • Yeah.
  • 00:22:24.732 --> 00:22:25.767
  • I would say i've always been kind of like
  • 00:22:25.767 --> 00:22:27.168
  • 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
  • 00:22:31.172 --> 00:22:33.374
  • Because we needed some stuff along the way.
  • 00:22:33.374 --> 00:22:35.843
  • 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.
  • 00:22:38.312 --> 00:22:41.149
  • Okay.
  • 00:22:41.149 --> 00:22:42.316
  • I just had seen at the time a few other people, like,
  • 00:22:42.316 --> 00:22:45.953
  • Like john piper, i had saw a few videos
  • 00:22:45.953 --> 00:22:48.122
  • That he put out
  • 00:22:48.122 --> 00:22:48.990
  • Where he was talking about a verse,
  • 00:22:48.990 --> 00:22:50.291
  • And you could see that he was clearly like
  • 00:22:50.291 --> 00:22:52.026
  • Circling words and talking about stuff.
  • 00:22:52.026 --> 00:22:54.328
  • Yeah, you can see the verse on
  • 00:22:54.328 --> 00:22:55.530
  • The screen, but you couldn't see him.
  • 00:22:55.530 --> 00:22:56.998
  • And so maybe he was screen recording somehow.
  • 00:22:56.998 --> 00:22:59.500
  • I had seen this, this guy teaching greek,
  • 00:22:59.500 --> 00:23:01.536
  • And he was using some kind of
  • 00:23:01.536 --> 00:23:02.703
  • I reached out
  • 00:23:02.703 --> 00:23:03.538
  • Some really expensive computer to like
  • 00:23:03.538 --> 00:23:05.473
  • 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
  • 00:23:08.776 --> 00:23:09.710
  • How to do this on my ipad and then screen
  • 00:23:09.710 --> 00:23:12.079
  • And then film myself, and then i could overlay it
  • 00:23:12.079 --> 00:23:14.982
  • In final cut pro. yeah.
  • 00:23:14.982 --> 00:23:16.617
  • And so i, i sort of developed the whole way.
  • 00:23:16.617 --> 00:23:19.020
  • Okay. but,
  • 00:23:19.020 --> 00:23:20.521
  • This will happen.
  • 00:23:20.955 --> 00:23:21.989
  • I felt like the lord said, i want you to do this.
  • 00:23:21.989 --> 00:23:24.225
  • I want you to post one video a day, every day in 2020.
  • 00:23:24.225 --> 00:23:27.361
  • Every day. every day. okay.
  • 00:23:27.962 --> 00:23:30.431
  • This is the first time. was it just on tiktok?
  • 00:23:30.431 --> 00:23:32.667
  • No, it was on youtube. is on youtube.
  • 00:23:32.667 --> 00:23:34.669
  • Okay, okay. yeah. i don't even know about tiktok.
  • 00:23:34.669 --> 00:23:36.938
  • Okay.
  • 00:23:36.938 --> 00:23:37.972
  • It was a like 15 to 20 minute long daily bible
  • 00:23:37.972 --> 00:23:41.709
  • Devotional video on youtube starting january 1st, 2020.
  • 00:23:41.709 --> 00:23:45.847
  • I filmed myself on a phone and i screen recorded
  • 00:23:45.847 --> 00:23:48.916
  • My ipad, and i had like, this little mic that somebody
  • 00:23:48.916 --> 00:23:52.687
  • Let me borrow. and,
  • 00:23:52.687 --> 00:23:55.823
  • But it was the first time in my whole ministry
  • 00:23:55.823 --> 00:23:57.792
  • Where i felt like the lord clearly spoke to me.
  • 00:23:57.792 --> 00:24:00.528
  • I don't care if more than one person
  • 00:24:00.528 --> 00:24:02.730
  • Watches it or you think it's fruitful.
  • 00:24:02.730 --> 00:24:04.799
  • 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
  • 00:24:08.202 --> 00:24:09.670
  • 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.
  • 00:24:11.305 --> 00:24:12.874
  • So i filmed exhausting editing.
  • 00:24:12.874 --> 00:24:15.676
  • Editing.
  • 00:24:15.676 --> 00:24:16.210
  • You don't want to just
  • 00:24:16.210 --> 00:24:17.144
  • Do it to do it
  • 00:24:17.144 --> 00:24:18.246
  • Like you actually want to bring something to the table.
  • 00:24:18.246 --> 00:24:20.715
  • Yeah, you get.
  • 00:24:20.715 --> 00:24:21.349
  • To hear from the lord on that,
  • 00:24:21.349 --> 00:24:22.250
  • Just like you would with the sermon.
  • 00:24:22.250 --> 00:24:23.985
  • Yeah, well, yes and no for me, for for my particular project,
  • 00:24:23.985 --> 00:24:29.323
  • I felt like what i was supposed to do was not prepare a lesson
  • 00:24:29.323 --> 00:24:33.661
  • The way that i would for a sermon. okay.
  • 00:24:33.661 --> 00:24:35.196
  • But actually, i was reading the bible live,
  • 00:24:35.196 --> 00:24:38.699
  • And not pre preparing on purpose.
  • 00:24:38.699 --> 00:24:41.302
  • Okay.
  • 00:24:41.302 --> 00:24:42.003
  • Because i wanted to show people
  • 00:24:42.003 --> 00:24:43.771
  • This is what it looks like to read the bible in.
  • 00:24:43.771 --> 00:24:46.440
  • Real time, in real time. okay.
  • 00:24:46.440 --> 00:24:48.142
  • So and i want
  • 00:24:48.142 --> 00:24:49.010
  • And i wanted people to experience me
  • 00:24:49.010 --> 00:24:50.811
  • Coming across something like i don't understand that.
  • 00:24:50.811 --> 00:24:53.114
  • Yeah.
  • 00:24:53.114 --> 00:24:54.115
  • Whereas normally as a preacher it's like, dude,
  • 00:24:54.115 --> 00:24:55.182
  • 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
  • 00:24:58.219 --> 00:25:01.289
  • 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.
  • 00:25:10.431 --> 00:25:11.966
  • 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,
  • 00:25:15.469 --> 00:25:18.439
  • And our church
  • 00:25:18.439 --> 00:25:19.507
  • Always has this big conference to begin in january.
  • 00:25:19.507 --> 00:25:22.243
  • And i was like, dude, nobody's watching this.
  • 00:25:22.243 --> 00:25:25.179
  • I'm getting like six views, ten views.
  • 00:25:25.179 --> 00:25:27.882
  • 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
  • 00:25:33.554 --> 00:25:37.158
  • That drove up to this conference sees me in the church lobby,
  • 00:25:37.158 --> 00:25:40.428
  • And he walks up to me and he goes,
  • 00:25:40.428 --> 00:25:42.330
  • Whoa, you're the bible time guy.
  • 00:25:42.330 --> 00:25:45.366
  • And bro.
  • 00:25:45.633 --> 00:25:46.200
  • Nobody knew what bible.
  • 00:25:46.200 --> 00:25:47.501
  • 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.
  • 00:25:53.274 --> 00:25:54.842
  • Yeah, yeah, man,
  • 00:25:54.842 --> 00:25:56.143
  • 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?
  • 00:25:57.745 --> 00:25:59.413
  • You're the one like, yeah, it's you.
  • 00:25:59.413 --> 00:26:01.482
  • And my mom.
  • 00:26:01.482 --> 00:26:02.383
  • 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
  • 00:26:12.360 --> 00:26:15.496
  • Saying you knew already spoke to you,
  • 00:26:15.496 --> 00:26:18.766
  • 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
  • 00:26:44.992 --> 00:26:48.262
  • 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
  • 00:26:51.499 --> 00:26:53.801
  • We're just watching
  • 00:26:53.801 --> 00:26:54.802
  • Videos, laughing, thinking this funny because.
  • 00:26:54.802 --> 00:26:56.971
  • It was mostly like,
  • 00:26:56.971 --> 00:26:58.372
  • I remember when i first heard of tiktok,
  • 00:26:58.372 --> 00:27:00.007
  • 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.
  • 00:27:02.009 --> 00:27:04.245
  • 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,
  • 00:27:22.697 --> 00:27:25.099
  • I think god is telling me to get on tiktok.
  • 00:27:25.099 --> 00:27:26.734
  • 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,
  • 00:27:31.005 --> 00:27:34.075
  • We had our first video
  • 00:27:34.075 --> 00:27:35.943
  • That kind of took off, hit about 100,000 views,
  • 00:27:35.943 --> 00:27:38.713
  • 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
  • 00:27:40.514 --> 00:27:41.816
  • Or or were behind it, but then i believe a month or two later
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  • We had a video hit a million views.
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  • It was on the subject of noah.
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  • And so this video of sudden just like started
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  • Increasing everything.
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  • It was like, i'm just seeing what god was speaking to me.
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  • 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?
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  • 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,
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  • Because you talked about success.
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  • 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.
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  • That's where i learned that lesson.
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  • And i'll if you want to go ahead
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  • And kind of explain what you meant by success.
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  • Yeah, yeah, yeah.
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  • Because and listen, i can i can confess
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  • 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
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  • 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.
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  • 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.
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  • Yeah.
  • 00:29:24.118 --> 00:29:25.085
  • And it had like 200,000 views in two days.
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  • 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.
  • 00:29:36.030 --> 00:29:38.465
  • I'm like, just like gen z is.
  • 00:29:38.465 --> 00:29:41.502
  • Cares about the bible?
  • 00:29:41.502 --> 00:29:42.703
  • 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,
  • 00:29:46.373 --> 00:29:48.943
  • Which i thought was a ton. yeah.
  • 00:29:48.943 --> 00:29:50.711
  • And i remember meeting with a friend and he goes, hey, man,
  • 00:29:50.711 --> 00:29:53.447
  • I think if you keep doing this,
  • 00:29:54.081 --> 00:29:55.149
  • 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.
  • 00:30:21.375 --> 00:30:23.444
  • And from june 9th on, i posted 2 to 3 tiktok videos
  • 00:30:23.444 --> 00:30:27.147
  • 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
  • 00:30:32.553 --> 00:30:33.787
  • 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
  • 00:30:49.136 --> 00:30:51.872
  • People weren't following
  • 00:30:52.406 --> 00:30:54.308
  • Because i was a celebrity or i was anybody.
  • 00:30:54.308 --> 00:30:57.578
  • People were being drawn to the content,
  • 00:30:57.578 --> 00:30:59.480
  • Which in this case was the word of god.
  • 00:30:59.480 --> 00:31:01.315
  • I've been preaching the gospel, yes,
  • 00:31:01.315 --> 00:31:03.417
  • 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
  • 00:31:05.953 --> 00:31:11.025
  • 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
  • 00:32:01.275 --> 00:32:05.446
  • 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
  • 00:32:11.518 --> 00:32:13.320
  • And what i want to encourage anybody in your audience is
  • 00:32:13.320 --> 00:32:16.590
  • If you know that god has spoken to you to do something,
  • 00:32:16.590 --> 00:32:20.060
  • 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
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  • Is visit our website at bobbie chandler ministries.com.
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  • And once you give, listen, you're helping change lives.
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  • Because of your faithful giving, we're able to reach
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  • Not only the nation, but the world.
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  • 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.
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  • And listen.
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  • 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.
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  • And this one's a big one.
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  • Okay.
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  • This year
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  • We held
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  • Our very first awaken conference in hickory, north carolina
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  • For authentic church.
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  • And we saw
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  • People come out from everywhere, from all over the nation.
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  • And even outside of the country
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  • To experience what god is doing here.
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  • 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.
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  • And if you want to look into more details
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  • Over the conference,
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  • 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.
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  • 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
  • 00:37:05.178 --> 00:37:06.413
  • 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?
  • 00:37:42.582 --> 00:37:43.016
  • Today is
  • 00:37:43.016 --> 00:37:44.651
  • Pentecost sunday,
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  • Pentecost sunday.
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  • Who? you better
  • 00:37:51.825 --> 00:37:53.860
  • 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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