Bobby Chandler - Digging for a Miracle: Preparing for God's Move (Part 1)

November 6, 2025 | 34:8

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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She. when the lord was about to take alija.
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Up to heaven in a whirlwind.
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Okay. that's big.
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Like, listen to that.
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He's not just like, going somewhere on vacation.
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He's about to be taken up to the kingdom of heaven.
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Today's sermon is going to go down
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In the history of the church. like i mean it.
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You picked a very good day to be in the house of
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The lord today. so do me a favor.
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Look to somebody next to you and say, i'm ready.
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I'm ready.
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Some, like spongebob in this place.
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Sorry, i got kids immediately.
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When i thought about that, i was like, man,
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We sound like spongebob.
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I'm, but over the next few weeks, we're going to be
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In a brand new series titled, where god is going to grow us.
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He's going to change us.
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But made for more is the title of this sermon series,
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And the vision behind this series is to teach you
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How to walk and the calling that god has for you.
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Right. who enjoyed last week's sermon
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For the month of july?
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I preached a lot of standalone sermons, and last week
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We did a sermon entitled i think i'm called.
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But here's the deal.
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I feel like we barely scratched the surface of that.
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I feel like there's a lot more to dive deeper into,
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To understand a calling from god,
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How to fulfill the purpose that god has for your life.
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And so with this series over
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The next few weeks, i want to dive deeper into that,
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Because you have been called and you have been chosen by god
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To make an impact for his kingdom.
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Remember jesus said to the disciples,
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I have called you.
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You think you chose me?
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No, no, no, i chose you,
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And i chose you to make everlasting fruit
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An everlasting impact for the kingdom of god.
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And that's what it means to be called.
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That's what it means to live your life for jesus.
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But this was heavy on my heart.
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And i became convicted because i realized that
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A lot of us believers today, we are settling in our faith.
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Let's be honest,
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We're settling in our faith.
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We have been saved.
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But at the same time, we're still living in fear.
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Right?
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We don't know where to go in life.
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We're still facing hardships.
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And sometimes because of those trials,
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We completely run away from god instead of
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Listening to his word.
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We have been forgiven.
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Yet at the same time, we feel stuck in a situation.
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Jesus spoke over you that i have brought you freedom
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With the spirit of the lord is there is what?
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What are we experiencing?
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That freedom?
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See, i see so many believers today that are just confused
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Because it's one foot in the world,
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One foot in the bible,
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And you feel like you're being torn apart on which way to live.
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But again, his word is a lamp for our feet.
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And so god is going to show us the right way.
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And i'm here to tell you, you may feel lost,
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But the word of god said something different
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When jesus shows up in your life.
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Now listen to this i love this.
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It's out of the old testament.
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Jeremiah chapter one, verse five.
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Maybe you've heard this verse before,
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But the lord spoke and stated, i knew you
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Before i formed you in your mother's womb,
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While you were in your mother's womb.
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By the way, you were a human being, okay?
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And i formed you, and i have a purpose for you.
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Before you were born, i did what i set you apart.
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I called you, and i chose you
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To be my prophet to the nations.
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Maybe you've heard this verse before.
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Now, here in this first,
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The lord is speaking directly to the prophet jeremiah.
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Now, what's interesting about that
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Is that jeremiah is also known as the weeping prophet,
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Meaning every time jeremiah preached the gospel,
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Every time he was preaching to the people, you need to repent
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Because judgment is coming to the people.
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Listen,
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Do you know what it's like to keep preaching?
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But nobody's listening?
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Do you know what it's like to keep listening
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To the lord and walking by obedience?
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But nobody is changing.
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No lives are transforming.
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Nothing is happening.
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And so every day he's out there doing these things
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And saying these risky things, risking his life,
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And it feels like he's going nowhere.
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So you know what the lord does in jeremiah chapter
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One, verse five, he's reminding him
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That he already had a plan
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For jeremiah before he was even alive on this earth.
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I chose you, i set you apart in your mother's womb.
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I have a purpose for you, and i know it feels
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Like nobody's listening.
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He's speaking.
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Keep praying, keep believing.
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Keep moving by faith because god's
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Will will always be fulfilled.
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Now, in this scripture, god is speaking directly to the prophet
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Jeremiah, but it also gives us a glimpse of god's character
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And how he chooses us.
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Okay, so before you doubt it,
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Before you ever got to a point in life where you said, god,
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I need you and i need you to rescue me.
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Guess what?
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God formed you for a specific calling.
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He has called you,
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Not settle.
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Because when i read the bible, i see all these amazing,
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Miraculous stories.
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I see people that risked it all.
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I see people that chase the word of god.
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I've seen people leave their homeland.
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I've seen people do miraculous things that have this bible
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And how i remember getting to the point in my life
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Where i'm like, god, i want to see that my own life,
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Because i've been showing up to church
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And i've been doing all these things and
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And checking it off my list.
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But when's the last time i really heard your voice
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And was led by your holy spirit?
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You know what the lord spoke upon my heart? no.
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And that's why i was like, okay, god.
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All right, let me let's back up a little bit.
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Let's back up
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A little bit because i need more time.
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Move.
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We're settling for less when god has more for you.
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We were created for a purpose
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And a calling to live life for more.
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For the kingdom of god, not yourself.
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To create everlasting fruit.
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And because of jesus. listen, let me say it like this.
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You have been called to do something bigger than yourself,
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And that's kind of scary.
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Sometimes, isn't it?
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Let me show you this scripture right here.
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I love this scripture.
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You're going to hear it quoted a lot.
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Ephesians chapter three, verse 20.
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Listen to this.
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Now to him who is able to do exceedingly.
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Hold up. don't stop there.
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Exceedingly, abundantly done up there.
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Above all that we can ask or
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Even think according to the power that works in us.
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Meaning god's ways are higher than your ways.
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His plans for you are better than your plans for yourself.
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Isn't that amazing?
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That is a promise of the lord.
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When you follow him,
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His plans for your life are better than the plans
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That you have for yourself.
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And so he's called you
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To do abundantly, exceedingly more than you can even imagine.
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When you follow jesus, does that make you want to say amen
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Abundantly more for your family?
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Abundantly more in your business, for the lord,
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Abundantly more in your life to forgive people
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When you felt like you didn't have the strength
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To forgive people because they hurt you.
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He can do far more than anything you could even imagine
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Or comprehend, or even think or plan.
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And so,
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As a pastor, here's what i see and it breaks my heart.
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So many of us, we get so excited over this.
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I know you can do it. god.
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And then monday comes
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And we turn around, and we go right back to the ordinary.
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And we go right back to settling again in our faith.
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Because let's be honest,
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You've had some more time to think about it.
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And so doing something bigger than yourself is
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Pretty intimidating, isn't it?
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Pretty scary.
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Frustrating. god is telling you
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To do something out of your comfort zone.
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Maybe you're an introvert and god's telling you to speak up,
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By the way.
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Fun fact i'm an introvert.
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People are very shocked every time i say that.
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But ask my wife like i am an introvert.
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I could be by myself for a long time.
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God said, no, no, no, i'm going to speak to you.
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Will you allow god to speak to you
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Even when it's different?
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And so when i see the bible, there's
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There's a truth that i see here.
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And god is not calling you to play it safe.
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Did you know that god is not calling you to play it safe?
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He's calling you to move by faith instead.
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So imagine if some of the people out of the bible
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Just played it safe, like god is calling abraham.
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Abraham
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Moved to the land that i have for you
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So that you can have a son, and the nation of israel
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Can be born. what if abraham was like, now?
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Now i'm gonna stay.
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I'm gonna stay here like i know
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My dad's a pagan and stuff like that.
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The land of air. you know, that sounds appealing.
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And i'm gonna stay here and do my thing.
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He never would have entered into the promise.
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He never would have had the sun
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That god promised over his life.
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And so let me make it very clear for you today.
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You would never step into a promise.
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You don't believe.
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And this is why the enemy attacks your mind.
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This is why we wrestle with this in our flesh.
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Should i go now?
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It's bigger than me.
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But god called me to something bigger than myself.
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And so i love the wording here
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That god spoke to joshua
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All right, now god is speaking to joshua.
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I need you to risk it all, but listen to the wording here.
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Joshua chapter one, verse nine.
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The very first word is this.
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This is my command.
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It's not an option, okay?
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Understand that it's not an option.
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It's not something to think about.
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It's not a maybe, but this is my command.
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Be strong
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And courageous.
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As the lord ever spoken that to you,
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You come up to this altar.
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How do i move forward?
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Be strong.
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Be courageous.
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And if you're like me,
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Sometimes when you hear that, you're thinking, god,
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I'm not.
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I'm not strong.
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I'm not courageous to do this on my own.
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But again, look at the wording here.
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Do not be afraid, though.
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Do not be discouraged, for this is the lord's will.
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This is how they would become a nation.
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And there's things that god is placing you in
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So that you could see his promise in your own life.
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But in every command there is a promise attached to it.
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Okay, so when you see god
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Telling you to do something that seems difficult and hard
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And may be leading you in a trial,
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God will always attach a promise to that command.
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It's my command for you to be strong and courageous
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And to move by faith.
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But listen, the lord your god is with you wherever you go.
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The lord your god is going to fight this battle.
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The lord your god is going
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To provide everything that you need along the way.
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I still remember those days, early days of evangelism.
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God, we need money
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Like i get with it.
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I know what it means to be broke.
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We had no paycheck for a year, by the way.
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An entire year.
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Just relying off the lord, doing what the lord told us to do.
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And i'll never forget this incredible story.
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I woke up in the morning and i said, god,
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I need gas to go preach.
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I don't want to ask anybody for gas money.
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That's how broke we were.
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And i said, but, lord, you told me to do this.
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Can you just please provide?
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Go before me.
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And i remember walking into the kitchen.
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My wife is cleaning out the diaper bag. come down.
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My 13 year old,
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You know, and she, out of nowhere, pulls out $100.
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I'm like, where'd you get that?
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You've been hiding that for me? no, no, no.
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And we realized that somebody
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Did us a favor and watched our kid, the night before.
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And so what they did for us, they placed a little $100
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Bill on it, and we didn't see it to that point where i pray.
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At that moment, that specific moment.
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See, the lord goes before you.
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He makes a way.
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So stop feeling stuck when god is telling you to move
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And move into the promise that he has for you.
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And the truth is, listen, faith sounds crazy, doesn't it?
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I there's no way this can be saved.
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There's no way that that can change.
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There's no way that i can get there.
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But again, the word of god says, i will do
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Abundantly, exceedingly more than you can imagine.
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And god may even tell you see, this is how i relate to faith.
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Here's a metaphor for you god will tell you to go into a dry
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Valley and dig all night long,
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Believing that a miracle will come in the morning.
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So here's the revelation here.
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God will always do what he says.
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God will always fulfill his promises.
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But here's my question for you.
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Are you willing to go dig when it's hard?
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Are you willing to go out there and dig when it's dry
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And you don't see anything happening?
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The title of today's message is digging for miracle,
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Digging for a miracle.
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So if you have your bibles, you can turn to second kings
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Chapter two.
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And my first point is this for all the no takers in the room.
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Point number one is this.
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Here's how the lord works.
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He said, i've seen him work over and over
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Again in my life and in the bible.
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When the moment comes, step into it,
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Okay?
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When the moment comes, when god makes it clear.
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This is the calling that i have for your life.
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You need to be able just to step into it.
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Just believe the lord even without having all the answers.
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Because the good news is this when it comes to the lord
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Leading your life, you don't have to rush god.
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Some of y'all need to write that down right now.
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Do not.
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I don't know what i'm writing up here, but do not rush.
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God, we we struggle with that.
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And i'm telling you,
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That is the biggest killer of your calling.
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It will always come against your calling
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When you try to rush god and say, god, but i want this now.
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I want this to happen now. i'm ready.
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But the lord may whisper in your ear, you're not ready.
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You okay with that?
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We talked about that a little bit last week, too.
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Are you okay with that?
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Not being ready.
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I thank god for the times
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He's rescued me from things that i wasn't ready for.
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Another great thing about following the lord.
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You don't have to fake it,
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But you don't have to fake it.
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But here's the truth that i see over and over again
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In the word of god is when god shows up,
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People called your name and you must be ready to go.
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You must be willing to move by faith.
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And so last week we talked about two men,
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Two men of god, two prophets, one named elijah.
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The other's name was elijah. it sounds like the same guy.
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Two different dudes. okay.
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One with a j.
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One with an s h.
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Now, the thing about elijah again, he is the og.
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He is the original gangster prophet out of the old testament
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That we see in first kings.
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Okay, he is someone that calls down fire from heaven.
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He is the one standing up against 450 prophets of baal.
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He's not scared or seems that way
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Because after he performs this miracle, what does he do?
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Remember the story.
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He runs away into the wilderness,
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Asking god to kill him.
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And so i want to make this point again,
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Because i believe we need to understand it.
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That is the cost of a calling.
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That is what ministry feels like.
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That is what it looks like to follow the lord.
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Because sometimes you can witness
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A spiritual high in your life,
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And then immediately after a very spiritual low
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Depression attacks,
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You saw the miracle and now everything is falling apart
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And that weird.
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And so elijah is in the woods and he's praying to the lord.
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He's running away from the lord in the mission
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That the lord has placed upon him.
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And he's like, please, just kill me now.
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And god sends him food and says, no,
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Your assignment is not done. i have more for you to do.
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You need to go back.
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What are you doing here?
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It's what the lord has to go back and go to elijah.
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And i need you to mentor him.
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And so that's what we see in elijah's life.
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But everybody knows elijah.
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But nobody has heard of elijah.
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As h. right. because we talked about this.
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He's just working in a field in first kings chapter 19.
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He's just working at a field.
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He's plowing the field.
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It's the same hot day that it always is.
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He's sweating.
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Everything stinks like this is his life.
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And this is the ordinary life that he lives.
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Colossians chapter three, verse verse 23.
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It's not going to be on the screen.
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I added this, but do everything that you do
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And work for the lord, not for people.
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That is a word for somebody today.
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You may hate your job.
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You may hate how ordinary your life is right now.
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But if you lived every day for the lord
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And not for people, watch god show up
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Because that is the character, my god, that we serve.
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He always shows up when he is called you
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And so every day seems very ordinary.
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This seems like every other day that he's ever lived.
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But then all of a sudden the prophet
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Elijah comes up to him, takes his coat, drops it on him
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Like a mic drop. you know what i mean?
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Like he just walks away.
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That's what the bible states.
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And so again, in our culture, this is weird.
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Why would you drop a coat on him and his culture?
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He knew what this meant.
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Leave everything behind and follow me.
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Have we seen that before?
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Have you seen jesus do that with the disciples
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In the middle of working collecting taxes?
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I can give you a new life if you just follow me.
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This is what elijah understood in this moment.
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It was more than a coat.
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This coat was in the presence of god.
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When elijah was running away.
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This coat was also in the presence of god
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When he called fire down from heaven.
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Now he's placing this coat on
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Elijah, saying, elijah, you're next.
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It's time.
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This seemed like an ordinary day,
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But it's not an ordinary day.
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It's the day that everything changes.
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And so again, let me drive this point home.
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God can take what's ordinary and make it become extraordinary.
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That's how the lord works.
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And i pray that that gives you peace today,
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Because a lot of times we're just in our head.
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God, did i miss it.
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Like, am i doing the right things?
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Am i not going to be able to get there now?
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Just do the ordinary and excellence for the lord
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And watch god
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Show up on that special day that changes everything,
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Because we're going to see out of this text
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That it actually happens suddenly.
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And now elijah is following
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Elijah, and it's just crazy to me
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That his whole life changed because a coat
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Fell on him.
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That's how sudden understand this.
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That's how sudden the change can be in your life.
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We see this in first kings chapter 19.
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Now we don't see elijah's name again
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Until the book of second kings.
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Isn't that something?
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Meaning he was willing to serve in the shadows.
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He didn't care about a platform.
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He didn't care about a spotlight.
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He didn't care about these things.
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He was just following elijah in the shadows.
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Because that's where you learn what you need to learn.
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And this is very important to understand.
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He served for 4 to 6 years with elijah.
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We don't see his name again until second kings.
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Why is this important?
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Because right now we feel competitive due to social media.
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Let's be honest.
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You're looking at somebody else's spotlight.
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You're looking at what somebody else
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Has, what they're able to do.
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And you're like, god, i was made for that too.
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I feel like that's my calling. i'm ready to get there.
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And so many people are ready
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And just ready and willing to jump on the stage.
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But god's like. when's the last time you served in the shadows?
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You don't know
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What that person went through
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To get to this platform today.
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And you think you can just jump on the platform
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Because of what you see in somebody else's life?
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I need to trained you in the shadows.
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If you really want to be committed, then serve
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When nobody's looking and nobody's giving you credit.
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You know what i believe?
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I believe,
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You know, because
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Let me say like this.
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I've been blessed
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To be on this stage and preach the word of god.
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And so because of that, people here in this house recognize me.
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But there are people that you don't see in this house
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That serve constantly in the shadows.
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And i believe when i get to the kingdom of heaven,
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Their mansion is going to be bigger than mine.
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Because they're not getting any recognition.
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But the lord sees.
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And if you feel like you're there
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And nobody sees you, listen.
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God sees you.
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And let me just say this.
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I think somebody needs to hear today.
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God's proud of you.
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He's so proud of you for what you're doing for his kingdom.
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But the truth is, before you ever get to the spotlight,
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Before god ever places you in the spotlight,
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He will shape you in the shadows.
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And so for the next 4 to 6 years, give or take,
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Elijah is serving.
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And then all of a sudden, everything suddenly shifted
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Again.
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Second kings chapter two, verses one through three.
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When the lord was about to take alija
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Up to heaven in a whirlwind. okay, that's big.
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Like listen to that.
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He's not just like going somewhere on vacation.
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He's about to be taken up to the kingdom of heaven.
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Elijah is fascinating to me because he's one of
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At a two people in the bible that did not die.
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The other person is enoch.
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The next time we see elijah, he's at the transfiguration
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Of jesus christ on the mountaintop.
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And many believe,
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Many scholars believe out of the book of revelation,
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We see two witnesses come up, right?
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Many believe that one of them is going to be elijah
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Because he never died.
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But one of the witnesses, they
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Both will die in the streets, but then be raised to life.
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But the lord is making it very clear.
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The lord was about
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To take elijah up to heaven in a whirlwind,
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And elijah and elijah were traveling to gilgal.
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And elijah said to elijah, stay here,
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For the lord has told me to go to bethel.
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But elijah replied, as surely as the lord lives
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And you yourself live.
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I will never, ever leave you.
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And then they went down together to bethel.
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Now i had to stop here and dive deeper, because why
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Would elijah tell elijah? hey. stay here.
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I got a mission.
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I want you to stay here.
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I don't really need you to go.
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And i started thinking, like, was he getting on his nerves?
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Like, was he talking too much, telling jokes that were funny?
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Like, what's going on?
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And i realized that many scholars believe this.
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Okay.
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And it's kind of seen throughout the entire bible
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That he was actually asking a question to test
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Where elijah's character was,
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Because what did it say at the beginning of the verse?
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Verse one,
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When the lord was about to take elijah up
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Into the kingdom of heaven, and in a whirlwind, right,
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Elijah knew that his time was coming.
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Here's the last test.
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You willing to follow me?
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78 miles in the hot sun.
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Follow me where nobody wants to go.
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Do the work that nobody wants to do.
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Go sweat.
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Go talk to people when it's uncomfortable.
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Or hey, i'll give you this option. you can stay here.
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You don't have to go with me.
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You can stay here instead and just be comfortable
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And do your own thing.
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And elijah is loyal.
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He's saying, no, no, no.
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I will follow you everywhere.
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When it's difficult, when it's easy, we're all mountaintops.
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And when we're in the valleys, i'm going to follow
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You everywhere because that's a calling.
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The calling of the lord is on my life.
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Meaning?
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Let me say it like this. okay?
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If you're always looking for an easy way out,
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You're not ready for the calling.
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Please hear me lovingly.
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But we gotta understand this.
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If you're always looking for the easy way out.
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Always looking for the way not to train, not to grow.
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To just get to the platform. you
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And let me be very honest with you today.
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If you get to the platform before you're ready,
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It will be a big mistake for your life.
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And so this is how good god is, because sometimes
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God is going to say no.
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And we don't like to hear no, but he's actually saving you
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From yourself.
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He's saving you
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From the mistakes that you may make along the way.
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So he's saying, no, no, i'm going to go with you.
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Where else have we seen something like this?
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Remember what jesus said to peter?
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Jesus asked peter at the end of it all and said,
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Do you love me?
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Yes, lord.
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Okay,
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Feed my sheep,
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Take care of my lambs.
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Be there for the church.
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He asked him three times.
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Why would jesus ask peter three times?
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Do you love me?
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Because he's making a point.
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But he's also giving peter the option.
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Which route do you want to take?
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God may ask you a question to make a point,
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But he allows you to decide what route you want to take.
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You can stay here.
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Take the easy way out
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Or you can fulfill the calling that i have for your life.
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So elijah says, no, no, no.
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I'm going to go with you. now listen to this.
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Then it states a group of profits from bethel.
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Now, the term here.
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Some translations say that differently.
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A group of prophets can also mean a school of prophets.
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So these were people. these were the.
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These were men that felt, called by the lord to be a prophet.
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And they were actually in a school.
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That's why there's a group of prophets here.
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And a group of profits from bethel came to elijah,
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And they asked him.
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Now listen to what they asked. and it's kind of funny to me.
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Did you know that the lord is going to take away elijah today?
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Did you know that
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That the lord is going to take away your master from you today?
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Now listen to elijah's reply.
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Of course i know. be quiet.
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I don't want to talk about it.
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Like i don't i don't want to deal with this.
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I'm thinking like elijah.
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Probably like if you say
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One more thing, i'm going to cry in front of people.
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And i don't like crying in front of people.
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So stop asking me and stop telling me
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That he's going to go.
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I already know i'm prepared.
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See, when you're called,
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Be prepared for that.
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Because what you focus on matters.
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Are you focused on the calling
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That god has for your life, which means
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You have to set your eyes upon the kingdom of god?
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Or is your focus on people and their worries
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Because all these,
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These little prophets were coming up to him, hey,
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Your mass is going to be taken away from you.
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What are you going to do to
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Your mass is going to be taken away from you.
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Are you scared? that's really what they're saying here.
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Are you afraid that this is not going to go well for you?
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Like he's going to be taken away from you?
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What are you going to do?
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He said silence.
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Sometimes the best thing you can do with silence.
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The criticism around you.
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Silence the other people that are coming up against you
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And being the word of god.
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What did god say?
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I'm going to follow you, elijah.
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Even when it's hard.
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That's what elijah stated.
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So he said, be quiet.
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Now skip to verse seven and eight,
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Because it kind of happens again along the journey.
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They keep traveling another 7 to 8 miles.
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The prophets keep following them,
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And another group also states, hey,
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You know, like, don't you know your mass
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Is going to be taken away today? and he says, be quiet.
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Now we see in
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Verse seven and eight something incredible starts to happen
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And states, these 50 men
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From the group of prophets, there were a lot of them
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Also went and watched from a distance
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As elijah and elijah stopped beside the jordan river.
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Now notice that the prophets are at a distance.
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Okay,
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Because we're going to get to
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A very interesting point very soon.
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But listen to what he did. so they get to the jordan river.
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Then elijah folded his cloak together.
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This is his coat, the same cloak that he dropped on elijah
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When he was called, and he struck the water with it.
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And then what happened?
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The water of the jordan river.
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It divided, and the two of them went across on dry ground.
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And a lot of times we read these stories
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And we're like, that's pretty cool.
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No, it's significant.
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Okay.
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It's not just the miraculous taking place here.
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It's also a divine pattern.
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God is making a point in the jordan.
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Do you remember what happened in the jordan before elijah?
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Okay.
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Before elijah got to the jordan, it was joshua.
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Before elijah did it.
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Joshua did it.
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And joshua is leading the people of israel.
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And here's the problem. he gets to the jordan river.
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And at this time in this season,
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The jordan river is overflowing.
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People could drown.
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You got an entire nation of people
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That need to cross and get into the promised land.
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Plus, there's battles ahead of you.
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One at jericho immediately.
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And so he's praying to the lord.
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And listen, i've been to the jordan river.
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I was baptized, and it was a really cool experience.
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But i remember being in there like,
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Oh my tippy toes on a board
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Just so i wouldn't go under like, god, you.
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I may see you today.
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Like, i don't know how this is going to go down, right.
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And so he knows that.
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And so the lord speaks.
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I love this, i love this story.
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He speaks to joshua and he says, all right,
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Here's what we're going to do.
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Him take the priest okay.
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Take the priest.
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They're going to pray. yeah okay.
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Take the priest.
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Grab the ark of the covenant. okay.
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That's heavy and big,
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Made out of pure gold and wood and all these things.
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All right, take the ark of the covenant. okay.
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And then the priest. yes.
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I'm going to take the ark of the covenant.
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That's heavy. yes. and walk into the water.
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Let's hear that again.
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God did you?
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Because the whole nation can drown in the river.
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And now you're telling these men who serve you
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To take the ark of the covenant something very heavy, big
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And holy that represents your presence into the jordan river?
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Yes, because my presence will always make a way.
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See, this is the point of the story here.
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God's presence always makes a way.
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And so they do something risky.
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They kind of get out of their comfort zone.
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They get to step into the water.
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The water is rising above their head.
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They step into the water
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With the ark of the covenant, and the jordan river splits
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And comes up to the point where the people in jericho,
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They see them coming. and guess what?
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They are reminded of moses.
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That's the red sea,
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Because god's put the red sea and he's split the jordan.
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And then all of a sudden, now we get here at elijah and elijah
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And god does it again.
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He splits the jordan to get to the other side
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And to step foot into the promise.
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You want to dive deeper?
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There's a lot there.
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The jordan
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Later on.
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What happens?
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Isn't it interesting that god's
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God chose the jordan river
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For jesus christ to get baptized in?
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Why would god choose for his son,
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The son of god, to be baptized in the jordan river?
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To declare a point?
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I will always make a way
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For you to step into the promise.
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Jesus came.
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He started his ministry with power
00:30:37.756 --> 00:30:39.791
So that we can be saved from hell.
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By the way, we don't deserve that.
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Let me make that very clear.
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None of us deserve to be saved from hell.
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We all deserve hell.
00:30:49.701 --> 00:30:51.904
I'm speaking about myself here.
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We all deserve it.
00:30:53.238 --> 00:30:55.007
But jesus made a way in the jordan
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To show us, and he made a way to the cross
00:31:00.579 --> 00:31:02.514
To show us that there's nothing that can hold you back
00:31:02.514 --> 00:31:05.450
From the promises of god for your life.
00:31:05.450 --> 00:31:07.653
If you trust him and follow him by his power,
00:31:07.653 --> 00:31:10.656
By his protection, in his guidance, and by jesus christ,
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He will always make a way for you.
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And so here's my burden today, because again, as a pastor,
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This is what i hear so much, so many of us today as believers
00:31:21.967 --> 00:31:25.470
In christ, feel completely stuck.
00:31:25.470 --> 00:31:28.507
I'm on this side.
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I don't know how to get to the other side.
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I don't know how to see these things changed in my life.
00:31:32.644 --> 00:31:34.880
I just feel trapped
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Praying for freedom,
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Believing in healing,
00:31:40.152 --> 00:31:42.187
Waiting for an opportunity.
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You know, it stinks.
00:31:45.791 --> 00:31:48.093
The in-between is the hardest part.
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The beginning. that's exciting.
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The end.
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That's when you see the miracles of god.
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But the in between.
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That's when you're tested.
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And either you're going to step foot
00:32:00.172 --> 00:32:01.373
Into the promise, believe in the miracle,
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Or you're going to step away because the waters are rising up
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Too much.
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All right, guys, that's all the time we have for today.
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But i pray that today's message bless your life.
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There is a reason you heard this word today.
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It's not by mistake.
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You're here for a reason and god has a plan for you.
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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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Bobby Chandler - Digging for a Miracle: Preparing for God's Move (Part 1)

November 6, 2025 | 34:8

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