Bobby Chandler - When the Fit Doesn't Fit (Part 1)

October 2, 2025 | 33:2

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 - When the Fit Doesn't Fit (Part 1) | October 2, 2025

She. and now he.
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Has given us an assignment.
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And that assignment is to spread the gospel all over the world.
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So today we get to celebrate jesus.
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The truth is, if god waited for perfect families,
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He would never raise up any leaders.
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Do you understand that?
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If god was waiting on perfect families,
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He would
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Never raise up any leaders because there aren't
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Any perfect families.
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But before we dive into the word, i have a little setup
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For an illustration.
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Like i said, we're gonna have some fun with this.
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And i want to ask you a question. okay.
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Have you ever been influenced through social media, through tv
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Or maybe your friends to order and try on a fit
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Because it look good on her, right,
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And looks beautiful on her,
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Or it looks cool on him just to receive it in the mail,
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Or go to the store to try it on and to look in the mirror
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And be like, god, what are you doing?
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Like this looks beautiful on her.
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It looks so cool on him.
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I look like the great value off brand version.
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I look like i came from teemu.
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Like i don't know what i was trying to do.
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And deep down on the inside. right.
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You're thinking like,
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I really want to wear this fit, but listen.
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But listen, you're saying to yourself,
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It just isn't me, okay.
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There's a point to this.
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And i was thinking last year,
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You know, for the last couple of years,
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I've had the privilege and honor
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To preach at alpha and omega church in miami.
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And i get to be back in miami this upcoming august.
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I can't wait to be with you guys.
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So if you're in the miami area, we would love to have you.
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But, you know, miami has some fun styles.
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And so i have a good friend there.
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That was my host and i said, man, let's go to the mall.
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Let's see what we can find.
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And so he said, i'm gonna hook you up with miami fit.
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Okay.
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So we go into the mall
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And he's picking out some jeans and stuff like that.
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And listen, i like the trends and things are getting baggier
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And baggier and more flowy.
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And he brings out these pants and i try on these pants.
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And this pants
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Weren't just baggy like, they were like two baggy pants
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Put together.
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Anybody remember jean goes in the room who?
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We just revealed our age right there.
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But jean goes like, okay, this is me.
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Jean goes with like, skinny jeans.
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Like, i mean, this thing was so big.
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And i looked in the mirror. i'm like, you know what?
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This is cool from miami.
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Like, this would be cool to preach here,
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But i'm never going to wear these again.
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Like, i'm looking in the mirror saying to myself,
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This just is not me, okay?
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It's not me.
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Now, you may be thinking, pastor,
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I came here to dive into the word of god.
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Why are you talking about clothes?
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Why are you talking about fits right now?
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And listen, you may not be tempted to try
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On someone else's fit. like, good for you, okay?
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But you may be tempted because i believe
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We all are at times to try on someone else's life.
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Meaning we're comparing our life with other people.
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We see that they got the big house,
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We see that they have the achievements
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And we start to get lost in our way.
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Meaning you are looking so much at them you forgot who you are.
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You have lost your identity in jesus.
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You start talking like them.
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You start acting like them.
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You start looking like them. until one day
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You look in the mirror and you're not satisfied.
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Please hear me on this.
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You may even receive the same achievements.
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But you're looking in the mirror saying, this is not me.
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This is not what god called me to do.
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I have been running away from my
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Calling, trying on someone else's life.
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Can you relate to that?
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So what's the point of this? okay.
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All right. here's where we dive deep.
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Because today i'm going to talk about a young shepherd boy.
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Maybe you've heard of him before.
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His name is david. okay.
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And before david became
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A giant slayer, before david was the king of israel,
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Before david was known as a mighty warrior.
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He was a lonely shepherd boy that people overlooked.
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Nobody cared about him.
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I'm going to tell you today that in the story,
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His brother saw him as a pizza delivery boy
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Because his father sent him to his brothers
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While they were getting ready for war.
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And he brought him bread and cheese,
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And he showed up doing something that seemed insignificant.
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But it had. a purpose.
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Doing something small.
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But it had a very big purpose.
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And to what god had for his life.
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And if you know the story, you know that david showed him.
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And he's looking around.
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And he's looking at the israelite army.
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And so these big boat up men,
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These manly men are staring, scared at a nine foot nine
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Giant named goliath who is blaspheming god's name.
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And little dave is like, what are y'all doing?
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How come nobody is standing up to him?
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How can you allow this giant to blaspheme our god?
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And so david says, i'll fine.
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Imagine how many people laughed at him when he said that.
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Imagine what his brother said.
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Like you go for david.
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You gonna fight him?
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You can't fight him.
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Listen, there will be a lot of critics
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In your life telling you what you can't do.
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There will be a lot of people
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Coming after you,
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Telling you that you can't fulfill
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That purpose, that god has already spoken over you.
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But there's already been an anointing on david's life.
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David knows where he's going.
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He doesn't have to listen to the critics.
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He doesn't have to listen to doubt.
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He doesn't have to listen to fear. why?
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Because he's got god's voice downloaded into his mind.
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In his heart.
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He wrote it down.
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He remembers what the lord spoke over him.
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So he is ready to fight
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This giant because he's already been prepared
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When nobody has been looking.
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God was preparing him in his season.
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And so right now you may be in a season
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You don't like, but god is preparing you
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For where you are going.
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So he's the only one willing to fight.
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So finally, king saul is like, okay, okay, okay,
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You can fight david.
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Here's the problem.
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You don't have any armor.
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Okay?
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So you got to try on my armor.
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And here's how that played out.
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First samuel chapter 17, verses 38 through 40.
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Then saul gave david his own armor,
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A bronze helmet, and a coat of mail.
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David put it on, strap the sword over it,
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And he took a step or two to see what it was like.
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But he had never worn such a thing like this before.
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It was not him.
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It did not fit.
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Remember, david is a young boy,
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Maybe around 15 to 17 years old.
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Saul is a grown man.
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In fact, the bible tells us that saul was the largest man
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In all of israel.
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So think back in the day when you were young
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And you were trying on like your dad shoes
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Clomping around like this, tripping over everything.
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Maybe if you were a little girl first time
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Wearing heels and you're falling all over the place.
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Imagine david and saul's armor and he's like,
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King, this doesn't work.
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Look, stupid people are laughing at me.
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They're not laughing at you.
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They're pointing at me right now.
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I see them, and he says bravely.
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Understand this.
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He says it bravely to the king.
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I can't wear this to the fight, but i'm still going to fight.
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Listen, i can't put on your armor.
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I can't put on somebody else's
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Armor to fight a spiritual fight.
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I need my own armor.
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I need what god has trained me in in my life.
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Listen, a lot of us are saying
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We are ready, but you're not ready.
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You just grew up in the church.
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You're not ready for some things just because your parents
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Brought you to church.
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Does it mean that you yourself have a relationship with jesus?
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There's a lot of people that show up to church
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And praise jesus on the outside, but on the inside,
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They still do not have a relationship with jesus.
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You cannot fight a spiritual fight.
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Please listen with somebody else's armor.
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You cannot fight the fight that is in your life
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Because your parents move by faith.
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You cannot fight the spiritual fight in your life
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Because your friends love jesus. no.
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You have to have a relationship with jesus yourself.
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That is the armor that god is placing in your life.
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And listen,
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You have to be bold enough to say what you placed on me.
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What this world has placed on me.
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What other people's expectations have been placed on me
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Does not fit.
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I need to take it off.
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So david said, i can't go in this.
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He protested it all.
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I'm not used to them.
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See, saul was trying to force david to look like
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The rest of the army.
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Saul was actually
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Trying to force david to look like himself.
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Here's my armor. right.
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You wouldn't look like me.
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You wouldn't look strong.
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So if you look strong, get up there and fight.
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Do not take advice from people not willing to fight.
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Notice that there's a lot of people
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That will give you advice, but they're not willing to fight.
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They're not willing to get on the field.
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They're not willing to move by faith.
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They would tell you everything
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You need to do for your own life.
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Saul was trying to make david look like him,
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But i
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Didn't know that god built david different.
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God had a custom fit just for david
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That nobody else could wear.
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And so.
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Right now, are you dealing with this pressure in your own life?
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Are you comparing your life to other people?
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Maybe somebody right now
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Is speaking over you
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And they're trying to fit their fit on you.
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They're trying to pressure you.
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Here's what you need to do. here's how you need to speak.
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Here's how you need to look.
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Even though they have never fought the fight.
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Like i get it.
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Like, take instructions from people who have walked by faith.
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But a lot of those voices have not.
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Okay, be aware of that. right.
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So pressure is on you.
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What are you going to do with it?
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People's expectations are on you.
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What are you going to do with it?
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You are not called to please people.
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You are called to please god.
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And again,
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When you are doing the right things,
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More critics will come out okay.
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Not because you're doing wrong things,
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But because you're doing the right things.
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They start to get jealous.
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And that's what we see in david's life over
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And over again.
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But the truth is, listen to this.
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You cannot walk in god's given purpose for your life,
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Wearing someone else's pressure.
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Are you in shows right now?
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Every day you wake up.
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I can't let this person down.
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I can't hurt this person. i can't.
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I can't do the wrong thing.
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And i know that this just isn't for me.
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It's not what god called me to do.
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But i'm stepping into.
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This is so i can please this person.
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And you got this pressure. and i'm looking at david.
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And david said, no, no, no.
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For me to fulfill
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What god has called me to do, i must take your armor off
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So your armor just not fit me.
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God built me different.
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David took them off again and he picked up.
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Now i love this.
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Five stones from a stream.
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He didn't wear saul's armor, but he did pick up what god
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Trained him in.
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In the season, when nobody
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Was looking, he picked up five smooth stones from a stream.
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Put them into the shepherd's bag.
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Then, armed only with the shepherd's
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Staff and sling, he started across the valley.
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I love this to fight the philistine.
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What i love about david's story.
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He is young.
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He is small.
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He has no armor.
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But it says when he came face to face with goliath
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And it was time to go.
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David ran towards the giant.
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A lot of us are running away from the enemy
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Because we don't know the power of god in our own life.
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David understood.
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No, god spoke this over me.
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The same god who met me yesterday.
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It's the same god that is meeting me today.
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This philistine will fall.
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The enemy will fall.
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For my lord is with me.
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God is with you.
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In the fight that you're fighting right now.
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The battle
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That seems like it's going to kill you and overcome you.
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You can still trust the. word of the lord.
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So the title of today's message is says,
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I guess we're going to have fun with this.
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The title was this when the fit doesn't fit, okay?
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When it's not the armor for you, you can't
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Fight a spiritual battle using somebody else's armor.
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Okay?
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And so for the note takers in the room,
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You can go ahead and write this down.
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Point number one is this.
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Others may say you don't fit, but god says you do.
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And i'm just telling you
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From experience,
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From seeing young men walk into ministry,
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From seeing those that have been in ministry in a long time.
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There's a lot of people that will come
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After your calling and criticize you and try to hold you back.
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And some of you are right there,
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About to step into the purpose that god has for you.
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That's why satan is sending his demons.
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That's why satan is sending his critics to hold you back.
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Because if he can get you to believe the lies,
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You'll never step forward into the promise
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Is a promise for you.
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Do you believe that?
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Do you believe it?
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One more time. do you believe it?
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Step into it.
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Please. hear that.
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Step into it.
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Do not let the critics hold you back for what god has over you.
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So if you have your bibles, you can turn to first samuel
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Chapter 16.
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Before we get to that verse.
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So let me give you some background information.
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First, a quick background recap here.
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The people of israel and first samuel.
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And this breaks my heart and it breaks the heart of the lord.
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Okay. we can relate to this.
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The people start telling god, god, you're amazing.
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You're wonderful.
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You let us by a pillar of cloud during the day.
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You know, fire at night and and supernatural things.
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You gave us judges and all these wonderful things.
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God. but god, we're tired of that.
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That's pretty much what they're telling the lord.
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We're tired of listening to your voice and waiting.
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We're tired of having patience.
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Right. and so we're doubting some things.
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And so we want an earthly king.
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Just give us an earthly king.
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We want to look like the pagan nations around us.
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We want an earthly king that we can see, that
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We can talk to, that we can be around
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Because we just don't like to wait anymore,
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Even though you did so many supernatural things.
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We want to look like the rest of the world.
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The moment you come to that point in your life
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Where you're telling yourself,
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I want to look like the rest of the world,
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Is the moment heartache will come into your life,
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Is the moment that your heart will be ripped into pieces.
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Because this world will break it over and over and over again.
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So many people are chasing the fake.
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And why do we do this?
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We can relate to this
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Because we've told god to know it's my way, not your way.
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Now, maybe you would never say that out loud,
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But you did it with your action.
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You didn't listen to the lord
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Because you wanted to look like the rest of the world.
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You wanted to look like your classmates.
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You wanted to look like the people in your office.
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You wanted to look
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Like those other people that are succeeding right now,
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But they're not really succeeding.
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If they don't have god's favor on their life,
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Those things will fade.
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But here's the major point that i want to make clear
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To you today before it breaks your heart.
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Please listen.
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It breaks the heart of the lord first
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Because he's a good father.
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He's a good father who loves you,
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And he wants the best for you.
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Now listen to his wording to the prophet samuel over this
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First samuel, chapter eight, verse seven.
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God says, do everything they say to you, the lord of play.
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They want a king.
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I want to look like the world.
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Fine. don't chase these false gods.
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I don't have an earthly king god.
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Listen, he is not going to force a relationship on you.
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He's not going to force you to worship him.
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The devil does that. tries to do it.
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But god will never force you to love him.
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So if you say, i want the world,
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God will hand you over to the world
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For you to realize it will not satisfy you.
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But here's why we serve such a wonderful god.
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His arms are always open
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For you to come back and know him as a loving father.
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But listen to his wording here.
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It breaks his heart.
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They are rejecting. me.
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Are you?
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That's what god is saying here.
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They're. they're being rebellious against me.
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They're not listening to my voice.
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They're doing their own thing. they want an earthly king.
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The rejecting me. not you. samuel.
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They don't want me to be their king any longer.
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So allow it.
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To be okay.
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And so soon after, they start looking for a king
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And they see this man named saul.
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And he has the outward appearance.
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He looks brave. he looks mighty.
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He's the tallest man in israel.
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He has the outward appearance.
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He looks the part, but he doesn't have the heart.
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He doesn't have a heart after god.
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And so what do we see in saul's life over and over again,
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Even though he's seeing victory?
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He is rebelling against god.
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He has no patience with the lord.
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He gets ahead of god.
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He tries to do things his way and he loves to please people
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Instead of god.
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Don't miss that.
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Don't miss. this is big.
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Okay.
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Saul still had victory from god
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Even though he was being rebellious with god.
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Meaning you can still see victory in your life
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From the lord even when you're walking in disobedience.
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Because that's still god's grace for a time.
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But that time will run up because sometimes
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We have to be broken in order to be humbled,
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To come over to the lord.
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And so saul was doing this
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Over and over again, not listening to god,
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Even though god was giving the israelites
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Victory in the battles that they were facing.
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And so finally, god said, you know, when i had enough,
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You don't want to live for me, then you will not serve me.
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I'm taking away your kingship.
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When i
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Serve the lord, the world make the world your master.
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I'm taking away your kingship,
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And i'm going to give it to somebody else.
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And this broke same his heart.
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Now he's afraid for the entire nation of israel.
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What is he going to do?
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And so that's where we get to first samuel chapter 16.
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And the lord since samuel duval find a new king
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For the nation of israel. and this is where he ended up.
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First samuel chapter 16, verse one.
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Now the lord said to samuel,
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You have mourned long enough for saul.
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I have rejected him as a king of israel.
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I have rejected him. now.
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Okay, hold on for a second.
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I want to go back. i'm sorry.
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I want to go back
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Because i want to show you something very important.
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When the prophet
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Samuel stood up to king saul
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And told him, you are not following the lord.
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I want you to hear the words that he said first, okay?
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So that you can really understand the context here.
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First samuel chapter eight, verse seven,
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High god said that are rejecting me.
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But in verse same letter to 15, verse 23.
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So first samuel 1523 he stated,
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Rebellion is a sinful.
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Listen to this as what
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Witchcraft.
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Rebelling against god,
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Not listening to the lord is as rebellious
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As witchcraft, as doing sorcery, as conjuring up demons. why?
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Because demons know that god is real.
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But demons don't obey god.
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Demons don't follow jesus.
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And so a lot of us can believe in god.
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Know that he's there, and know that jesus is the son of god,
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But not walk in obedience.
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It's the same thing.
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So he says, rebellion is a simple has witchcraft.
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But here it is. you ready for this one?
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Stubbornness.
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Oh, god, please help me. here.
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Stubbornness.
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Is this bad?
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Has worshiping idols.
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Do you struggle with this being stubborn?
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Do you know somebody that stubborn?
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No pointing, no pointing, no pointing.
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Right.
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Because here's what's so dangerous
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When we are stubborn, guess what?
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We believe we don't need god's direction.
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In fact, when we are so stubborn,
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We start to look at ourselves as god instead.
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We're in control of our own situation.
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We can do whatever we want, and that's exactly what happened
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To king saul.
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So because you have rejected the command of the lord,
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He has rejected you as king.
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And so now let's go back to first samuel 16 one
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Where again god is telling
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Samuel, okay, you're going to go out.
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You get to pick a king over israel.
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I want you to fill your flask with olive oil.
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Go to bethlehem.
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Find a man named jesse who lives there.
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For i have selected one of his sons to be my king. now,
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Before we get into verses six through 13,
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The prophet samuel is a man of god.
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The prophet samuel hears from the lord.
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But even a man of god
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Can make this mistake that many of us make today.
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Let's look at it.
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Verse 6 to 13.
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When they arrived, samuel took one look at eliab.
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This is david's oldest brother, and thought, surely
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He is the lord's anointed.
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Look at this man. he's got muscles.
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Maybe had a six pack, i don't know.
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You know, he's a strong.
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He's tall.
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He surely is the guy that god is going
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To make the king over israel.
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But the lord said to samuel,
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Don't judge
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By the appearance or the height.
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For i have rejected him.
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He looks the part,
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But doesn't have the heart.
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You don't see what i see.
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The lord doesn't see things the way you see them.
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People judge
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By outward appearance, but the lord looks at the heart.
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And so god is protecting his people.
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What looked right to samuel did not look right to god.
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Okay. and listen, i want to make this very clear.
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God can use anyone that he chooses,
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And sometimes it doesn't look
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The way you thought it would look.
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And sometimes the people that look the part are really
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The leaders that you need to follow.
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How many people
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Are you following today that is speaking into your life?
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But they're not speaking good fruit.
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They're speaking rotten fruit
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And they're speaking poison into you
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Because they don't have a relationship with jesus.
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How many people have misled you
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Just because they show up to church on a sunday,
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And they praise god on a sunday, but they talk very differently
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Throughout the week.
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The fruit isn't there.
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And again, we judge things by appearance.
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They look the part on the outside,
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But it doesn't mean that they have a heart of faithfulness.
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This is what god sees.
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And when you have a heart
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Of faithfulness, understand this god will take you very far.
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People ask me all the time, well,
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How do i how do i step into the position?
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How do i know that god has for has this for me?
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What? by faith?
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What about the answers that i need?
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That's what faith is.
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Keep walking by faith. admit to the lord.
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I don't have all the answers. why?
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Because god can use anyone who wants to use.
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Listen, god can take me off the stage and use anybody.
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It doesn't matter if god wanted to.
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He can bring a donkey on this stage.
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And that donkey would preach to you.
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And it would mean almost something different
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If i read that in the king james version. okay.
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You get what i'm saying there.
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Okay, pastor jesse's with me on that, all right.
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But god can use anybody he wants to use on this stage.
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He doesn't need me.
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He doesn't need. you,
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But he wants you to be a part of it.
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He loves you.
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He's a good father.
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He wants you to see
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The potential that he's placed over your life
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And the purpose that he has for you.
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So god is making it clearer.
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I don't look at the outward appearance.
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I look at the heart, the heart of faith.
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Then jesse told his sons, i've been dab to step forward
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And walk in front of samuel, and it kind of makes me laugh.
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Like, how did they walk in front of samuel?
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Like, is this almost like a bodybuilding contest?
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Like, you know, like walking like this?
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Just kind of flexed form real quick and then walk off.
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God says that. wasn't it like that?
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Arnold didn't work for us today.
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Okay, let's let's go on to the next.
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And this is not the one that the lord has chosen.
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So next, jesse summoned simeon.
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Simeon and samuel said neither is this the one
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That the lord has chosen.
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And so, in the way
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All seven of jesse's sons were presented to samuel.
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And you got to know, like samuel was thinking.
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God told me
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One of your sons would be the next king.
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And you're telling me you just showed me all of your sons?
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There's a son here.
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You're not allowing me to see what are you hiding from me?
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And he confronts jesse.
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And you got to understand, like jesse had to be squirming.
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Like. oh, yeah.
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Yeah, we got one. one more.
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He's a little different.
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He's out in the field with some sheep.
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You know, he likes to sing to them.
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I don't know what that's about.
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So it's always writing poetry and stuff.
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Like, i don't really. i don't really understand.
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I got one more,
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And samuel said to jesse,
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You better bring him here
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Right now.
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And jesse said, he's the youngest.
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Samuel didn't care.
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I know what the lord sent me to do.
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I know that the lord sent me to choose
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Somebody to be the next king of israel.
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And then he stated, we will not sit down.
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We will not eat until he arrives.
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That's how you make a point.
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We get this point across to you today.
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Nobody's eating.
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Nobody would come back next week.
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But you know,
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Nobody's going to eat until i see this man.
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So jesse sent for him,
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And he was dark and handsome with beautiful eyes.
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This is why david is mr. still your girl.
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Okay? you gotta watch out for him.
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Poet. singer.
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Looks good. all kinds of stuff. a warrior.
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And the lord said.
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This is the one.
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That's how i imagined it.
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My hand.
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Like he's.
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He's walking that his brothers are.
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Like, oh, here we go.
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His dad's looking at him like.
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Oh, i'm not just gonna go.
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And samuel hears from the lord.
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Maybe it's a whisper.
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He's the one.
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They don't see what i see.
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But i'm gonna use david in a very big way.
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I'm gonna use him to show the world my glory.
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That people in 2025
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Will still be talking and preaching about the story.
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They can't see what's coming. but i can.
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And i'm going to use this man,
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Even if he's a.
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Young boy.
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And he's overlooked by his.
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Own family.
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And the lord said, anoint him.
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So as david stood there among his brothers,
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Samuel took the flask of olive oil
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That he had brought and anointed david with the oil.
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And the spirit of the lord
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Came powerfully upon david from that day on.
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And then samuel returned to ramah.
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Now you got to imagine
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This is a powerful moment, maybe a little awkward to
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His family.
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Doesn't really like david.
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I'm about to go into that.
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David's standing there.
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He's got a lot of oil poured on his head.
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He's been told he's going to be the next king,
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And he's probably just looking at his brothers like,
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So what do you want to do next? like,
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What do we do from here?
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And i feel like that's where a lot of us are.
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Sometimes god speaks something over your life.
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Okay,
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Where do i go? like what?
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What do i do?
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How does this work? have patience.
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Have patience.
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I'm going to show you something.
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A revelation
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That will give you so much hope today to keep going.
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Okay.
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But here's what i want you to also understand from the story.
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Stop disqualifying yourself.
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Please hear me.
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Stop disqualifying yourself just because people do not see
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What god sees in you.
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Some of us, like we, have believed the lies in our head.
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But i don't come from something good, pastor.
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I don't come from a good family, and i couldn't afford
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The education to teach people.
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That's a powerful testimony.
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God can use anybody he wants to use,
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So he may take you,
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Who could afford a college degree and still use you
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To teach people all over the world
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Revelations that have never been taught.
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God can take you from a family of poverty.
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And so you biblical truths about how to manage money.
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And you may teach people about financial freedom.
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God may take you from a family that is broken.
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Dysfunctional cops are called every night.
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People scream every day addiction and say,
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You know what?
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I'm going to use you
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To change your family and change the world.
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So don't be.
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Discouraged.
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By god doesn't need this perfect pass
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To produce a perfect purpose in your life.
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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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And it's very easy to give.
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And once you give, listen,
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You're helping change lives because of your faithful giving.
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We're able to reach 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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If you want to hear more sermons as well, don't forget
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So thank you for watching today
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And i can't wait to see you again very soon.
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Hi. before you go, i got one more announcement
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To make and this one's a big one.
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Okay, this year we held our very first awaken
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Conference in hickory, north carolina 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.
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And the
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Reason i even bring it up tonight
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Is because when it comes to you knowing jesus
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The man, the gospel message is all about
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Your understanding of the message about
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The man who will inform your methods of getting.
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To know the man.
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Who? we
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Need.
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This.
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This job doesn't work out for me.
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What if i move my life by faith and it all just
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Crumbles to the ground? what if it works?
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What if god shows up and changes your life forever?
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But i would rather move by faith
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And even fail and fail and fail and know that i follow god.
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And i ended up exactly where i needed to be.
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You know what?
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Today is
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Pentecost sunday,
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Pentecost sunday. woo!
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You better not ask the
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Holy ghost preacher to preach on pentecost sunday.
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I came here to remind you you.
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Need the holy spirit. he.
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Bobby Chandler - When the Fit Doesn't Fit (Part 1)

October 2, 2025 | 33:2

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