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Bobby Chandler - When A Little Becomes More Than Enough

November 12, 2025 | 29:40

Bobby Chandler - When A Little Becomes More Than Enough
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 A Little Becomes More Than Enough | November 12, 2025
  • She. god can provide the miracle that you're praying over.
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  • The miracle that
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  • You need in your life to do, not just sit down.
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  • It is time to work.
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  • It's time to dig the ditches like they did.
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  • They dug these ditches,
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  • Believing that in the morning there would be water.
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  • They were dehydrated.
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  • They were tired.
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  • And they're about to fight a battle.
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  • And the next morning, the bible states supernaturally
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  • Water appeared and it came from god.
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  • Last sunday, we announced that we paid
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  • In full for 23 acres of land,
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  • That god has given us to build what we're called to build.
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  • So here's what's really impactful to me
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  • And why i'm addressing it to those watching online.
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  • I don't know if you guys have seen last week's
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  • Sermon on youtube, but look at the comments
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  • And i believe it's around 90 something comments there.
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  • And not all of them, but majority of them.
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  • All of a sudden there was this trend
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  • Where people started,
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  • Listing where they have been watching from, from outside,
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  • In different states and different countries.
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  • And we have people watching from all over the world with
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  • The lord is doing in this place. isn't that amazing?
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  • Like, isn't that powerful?
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  • And the cool thing is this here's what i want
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  • You to know is that we're called to this together.
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  • We're called to this like god has called us to do
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  • Great things for his kingdom to reach the entire world.
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  • Because i did notice something last sunday
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  • As people were leaving,
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  • Everybody was telling me, congratulations on the land.
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  • It's your land, too.
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  • It's all of our land.
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  • Like this is for all of us.
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  • God has called you to be here to make a difference.
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  • There's a reason you're here and god does have a specific word.
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  • And so, i don't know, it just humbled my heart
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  • Because i'm never going to get used to that.
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  • I never want to.
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  • I never want to get used to the miracles that god is doing,
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  • Because that's something we can't control.
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  • But people are watching from all over the world
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  • And their lives are being changed and saved.
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  • Isn't that amazing?
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  • And so right here to god has you here for a reason.
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  • And i believe that he's been speaking to you.
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  • And i believe that he has called you and made you for more.
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  • I want to remind you today you have been made for more,
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  • Created for more.
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  • Do me a favor.
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  • Like to somebody next to and tell them you're made for more.
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  • I don't talk to the person you didn't want to talk to.
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  • The one that gets a little awkward.
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  • I tell them you made for more. two.
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  • You're made for more.
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  • You know what i mean? life.
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  • All right, because here's what i'm seeing.
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  • And here's here's my life for a very long time.
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  • I feel like a lot of us as believers,
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  • Like we're just getting by. all right?
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  • We're doing the same thing every single day.
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  • We're getting up early
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  • To go to a job that some of us barely like,
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  • And then we're trying to survive.
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  • We're trying to pay bills, and we're trying to drink
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  • Two energy drinks a day just to stay awake
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  • And get the things done right.
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  • Some of y'all heard drink three this morning.
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  • We need to check on you.
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  • But i see something different out of the word of god.
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  • Ephesians chapter two, verse ten i love this.
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  • Now listen to this.
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  • We are god's masterpiece.
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  • All right, listen to that right there.
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  • Because that is a word from the lord. i didn't write that.
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  • I didn't make that up to just motivate you.
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  • That is a word from god.
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  • We are god's masterpiece.
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  • The world is going to tell you that you're no.
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  • The world would also use harsh language
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  • And sometimes and tell you that you're trash,
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  • That you're a clown.
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  • They will make fun of you.
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  • But my god says you're a masterpiece.
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  • He created you for a purpose.
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  • With a purpose.
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  • He created us a new in christ jesus.
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  • And because of jesus, you can do good things.
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  • You can do good things that way.
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  • Now, listen to this. don't miss this.
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  • That he planned for us long ago.
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  • The holy spirit will guide you because god already
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  • Has a plan for you.
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  • Because before you were even in your mother's womb.
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  • God created you for a purpose.
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  • You were the lord's masterpiece.
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  • To do what?
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  • To impact the kingdom of god.
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  • To create everlasting fruit and everlasting impact.
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  • That's why we are here.
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  • And so we kind of have to wake up.
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  • We gotta get to this point in the life, say, okay,
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  • Things are bigger than just getting by and paying bills.
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  • Like, i want to know what i'm doing for the lord.
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  • I want to know what i'm doing for the kingdom of god.
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  • Because you're not just here to be here.
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  • You're not just wasting or taking up space.
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  • You're not an inconvenience to god.
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  • You're a masterpiece in his eyes.
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  • And again, he created you for a purpose with a purpose.
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  • You're made for more.
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  • And so that's the new series that we have started.
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  • It's titled made for more.
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  • And the vision behind this series
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  • Is to teach you how to step into your calling.
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  • And over the last couple of weeks,
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  • We've been talking
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  • About a prophet, a man of god named elijah.
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  • And i love the stories of elijah. okay.
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  • I can't wait to dive deeper into them.
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  • Today's today's story is going to be a good one.
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  • I can't wait to share it with you.
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  • But all of a sudden we see elijah.
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  • And if you remember the story i told you
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  • That elijah went into the kingdom of heaven.
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  • His mentor leaves his coat.
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  • And so the first story that we see with elijah,
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  • He takes that coat that belonged to elijah,
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  • And he uses it in the jordan river, and he splits it.
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  • And then all of a sudden he sees a miracle
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  • And he starts stepping into his ministry.
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  • You know what i mean?
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  • Like something miraculous happened at the very beginning.
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  • But i want to bring some clarity today
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  • Because a lot of times we can't relate to that.
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  • Right?
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  • Like god, i can't relate to that.
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  • I've never seen a river part to get to the other side.
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  • I haven't seen those things in my life.
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  • And i'm not a prophet like elijah was.
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  • But let me make it known to you and bring some clarity.
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  • Elijah was not the spiritual superstar in the beginning,
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  • Okay? he wasn't.
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  • He was not the spiritual superstar in the beginning,
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  • Even though he already saw the miraculous,
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  • He was not the life of the party.
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  • Let me make that obvious. today.
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  • I want to show you this, this crazy story really quickly.
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  • And second kings chapter two elijah is walking to bethel.
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  • So the scripture.
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  • Yeah, but he's walking to bethel.
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  • And these kids come out of nowhere, out of the town
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  • And they start yelling at elijah, go away, baldy,
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  • Go away!
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  • Baldy!
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  • Pastor jesse's, are you filming me right now? man?
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  • That's an anointed head right there.
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  • Okay, so.
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  • But they're literally screaming at him.
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  • Go away, baldy!
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  • Like he just started, you know what i mean?
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  • Like, it's it's the start of his ministry.
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  • And so i would think, okay, now
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  • He's like, he's a spiritual leader.
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  • He will look at them and say, you know what?
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  • That hurts, but i forgive you.
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  • Oh, i think elijah would say something like that.
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  • Or, you know, slap me on my right cheek.
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  • Let me give you my other cheek as well.
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  • No, elijah didn't do any of that.
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  • He looked at these kids, he cursed them.
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  • And then two bears came out and tore them apart.
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  • Y'all don't believe i lost that little boy back there.
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  • Said what? mama? look,
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  • I'm gonna
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  • Show you second kings chapter two, 23 and 24.
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  • The bible is not boring. i'm telling you, you're boring.
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  • But the bible is not okay. just kidding.
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  • I love you, but elijah left.
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  • Jericho went up to bethel.
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  • As he was walking along the road, a group of boys
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  • From the town began mocking him, making fun of him.
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  • Go away baldy, they chanted.
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  • Go away, baldy!
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  • And elijah turned around, looked at them.
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  • He cursed them in the name of the lord.
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  • Then two bears came out of the woods and mauled 42 of them.
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  • I mean, this is a perfect story to read to your children
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  • At nighttime before they go to bed.
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  • What did you learn?
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  • Kids don't make fun of grown bald men, okay?
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  • Bald is beautiful. and i make that known today.
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  • But let's be honest, like, he's a spiritual leader.
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  • Stepping into his calling,
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  • This is like, the first thing we see.
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  • Like, yes, he parted the jordan river,
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  • But then immediately
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  • He allows a bear, two bears to attack these children.
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  • And i'm looking at this story and here's where
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  • Where god placed it on my heart.
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  • We can relate to this.
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  • And some of y'all are looking at me like,
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  • How in the world can i relate to that?
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  • Okay, here it is. and god called you.
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  • But it got messy right away.
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  • God placed a calling on your life.
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  • God chose you.
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  • He he showed you his purpose.
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  • You've been training for some years.
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  • Remember, elijah has been training for 4 to 6 years.
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  • Finally, he's stepping up to the plate.
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  • And then this happens.
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  • How many years have you been training?
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  • Just waiting for that moment for the coat to drop on you.
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  • Now it's time to move and you're moving and it's not easy.
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  • This situation became frustrating.
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  • Maybe you lost your cool.
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  • You said some things you shouldn't have said.
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  • You, out of anger, maybe cuss somebody out. or
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  • Maybe you gave into temptation because of a weak moment.
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  • And so you had this calling from god,
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  • And you've been training for so long.
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  • But it feels like immediately, as you step into the position,
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  • You're already filling and things are getting messy.
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  • And so again, you're here for a reason.
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  • God has a word for you.
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  • And here's the encouragement
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  • That i want to share with you today.
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  • God is not done with you,
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  • And god is not going to abandon you just because you've made
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  • Some mistakes
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  • Along the way and the position that he has called you to.
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  • Because in fact, here's a revelation
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  • That will bless you today.
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  • God called you
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  • And he already knew the mistakes that you would make before
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  • You even knew the mistakes you would make,
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  • Before you would even make that mistake
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  • Or give in to that temptation, or the pressure of people
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  • Getting to you and you lost your cool.
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  • God already knew and he called you
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  • Because i'm telling you, we got to believe it.
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  • We'll say the scripture in church,
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  • But you are a masterpiece and the eyes of the lord,
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  • And he wants to use you to make eternal impact
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  • A difference.
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  • God's not done with you. listen to this.
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  • I love this proverb right here.
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  • Proverbs chapter 24, verse 16.
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  • Now listen.
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  • Please listen.
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  • The godly may trip seven times,
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  • But they way, but they get up again.
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  • If your eyes are focused on jesus, even when you stumble,
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  • Even when you mess up,
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  • The lord is looking at you because he is a good father.
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  • And guess what he's doing today?
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  • His hand is out to reach towards you to pull you back up.
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  • But listen to the rest of it.
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  • But one disaster is enough to overthrow the wicked,
  • 00:09:53.648 --> 00:09:55.950
  • Because the wicked believe
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  • That they don't need god in their life.
  • 00:09:56.984 --> 00:09:59.253
  • So let me break this down, okay?
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  • This means that the people of god are not defined by falling.
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  • You were defined by how many times you keep getting back up.
  • 00:10:04.925 --> 00:10:08.562
  • And how many times have i heard somebody say,
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  • You know, i'm a failure, pastor, i'm a failure.
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  • Everything that i do, what is fail?
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  • What is the definition of failing?
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  • It means to give up.
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  • You haven't failed.
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  • If you keep getting back up,
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  • You're actually learning something.
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  • See, god
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  • Allows us to make mistakes because this is where we learn.
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  • This is when we grow.
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  • This is when we start to understand,
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  • Okay, i made a mistake, but god's grace is so good.
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  • He's still meeting me in my life and in my situation.
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  • He still has called me.
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  • He has abandoned me
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  • And we need to learn that. why?
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  • Because people will love you
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  • One day and then leave you the next.
  • 00:10:43.264 --> 00:10:45.466
  • And so many of us are dealing with abandonment issues
  • 00:10:45.466 --> 00:10:47.835
  • Because we love somebody and they left us.
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  • But i'm here to tell you, god won't do that to you.
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  • The scripture is very clear.
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  • Even if your father
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  • And your mother abandoned you, the lord will hold you close.
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  • That's what the word of god states.
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  • And so also i want you to understand
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  • This falling is not the end of your story.
  • 00:11:02.817 --> 00:11:05.086
  • Again, it's getting back up.
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  • How many times have you been knocked down this week?
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  • How many times have you stumbled upon your words, your actions,
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  • The things you decided to do?
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  • Did it get messy?
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  • It got messy for elijah
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  • And i can't tell you whether he was right or wrong.
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  • God just allowed it.
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  • That's all i know.
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  • But there's things in your life that god may allow to show you
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  • What's on the inside
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  • So that he can free you, but here's how much he loves you.
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  • Psalms 103, verse 11 and 12.
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  • For his unfailing love toward those who fear him.
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  • Now listen to the word there.
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  • The wording
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  • We have to fear him to walk in obedience is as great
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  • As the height of heavens above the earth.
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  • Now here's what i love, for he has removed
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  • Our sins as far from us as the east is to the west.
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  • Do you believe that
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  • When you come up to the altar
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  • And you say, jesus, forgive me, he removes your sins?
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  • Now again he knows your heart
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  • And he knows when you're being real about it,
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  • When you're really pursuing him, okay?
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  • Not just faking it to say it and
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  • And walk away and keep living in sin.
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  • No, he wants to change you on the inside out.
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  • But listen to me.
  • 00:12:14.889 --> 00:12:15.689
  • Here's the truth.
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  • God is taking to your sins
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  • Some mistakes, all the messiness in your life.
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  • And he's removed it from you.
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  • He has forgiven you.
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  • He has set you free.
  • 00:12:22.730 --> 00:12:25.366
  • But the problem that i see
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  • With a lot of us is that we're not forgiving ourselves.
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  • And as long as you believe that lie, i'm who i used to be,
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  • Then you will never step into
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  • Who you're supposed to be right now.
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  • And you keep stepping back.
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  • And so you're actually entrapping yourself
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  • When the lord is trying to bring you into the promise.
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  • Because, again, you never step into a promise.
  • 00:12:42.683 --> 00:12:44.985
  • You do not believe.
  • 00:12:44.985 --> 00:12:46.754
  • It has to start with belief.
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  • And so you have to get to a
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  • Point in your life where you're like, god, i am a mess.
  • 00:12:50.391 --> 00:12:52.960
  • But i know that you took my sins
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  • And you removed them from my life.
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  • So let's start over.
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  • The old me is dead.
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  • Elijah had a rocky start,
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  • But so did many of god's chosen people
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  • Because i think, listen,
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  • I think a lot of us are reading these stories
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  • And we're like, but that's not me.
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  • No, no, no, listen to this, listen to this. noah got drunk.
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  • Abraham lied.
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  • Moses murdered.
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  • David committed adultery.
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  • Then he murdered paul, attacked the church.
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  • Yet jesus met with every single one of them.
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  • God was meeting with every single one of them,
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  • And he still called them
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  • To do great things for the kingdom of god.
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  • When?
  • 00:13:31.832 --> 00:13:33.033
  • When, david sinned against the lord, you know what he prayed.
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  • God, don't take your holy spirit away from me.
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  • God, i need you right now to meet me and my situation.
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  • You can take everything else.
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  • Take the kingship,
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  • Take the power, take the title and the position.
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  • Just don't take away your holy spirit.
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  • He learned a valuable lesson,
  • 00:13:55.789 --> 00:13:56.891
  • But we learned a valuable lesson in that story as well.
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  • No matter what you've done,
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  • No matter where you've been,
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  • The grace
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  • Of god can save you today.
  • 00:14:06.066 --> 00:14:09.136
  • We don't deserve it all.
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  • And so i also want to speak that
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  • So that we don't become entitled
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  • Because we don't deserve that forgiveness.
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  • We don't deserve that grace.
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  • But this is how much he loves you.
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  • But also, please listen
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  • Because i believe this needs to be said.
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  • Please don't twist my words because i'm also not giving you
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  • Permission to keep living in sin.
  • 00:14:27.488 --> 00:14:30.491
  • Romans chapter six, verse one and two states it like this.
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  • Well then we should.
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  • We keep on sinning
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  • So that god can show us more and more of his wonderful grace.
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  • Listen to this. no, of course not.
  • 00:14:39.333 --> 00:14:42.303
  • Because we have died in our sin, how can we continue to live?
  • 00:14:42.303 --> 00:14:46.340
  • And and the closer you get to jesus, the more you love jesus,
  • 00:14:46.340 --> 00:14:50.411
  • And the more you want to act like jesus.
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  • Just be in his presence.
  • 00:14:53.547 --> 00:14:55.783
  • Because the thing
  • 00:14:55.783 --> 00:14:56.283
  • For a lot of us,
  • 00:14:56.283 --> 00:14:57.251
  • We struggle with this because we're like,
  • 00:14:57.251 --> 00:14:58.218
  • But god, i still want to say those things.
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  • I still want to hurt those people.
  • 00:15:00.454 --> 00:15:02.056
  • I still have selfishness on the inside.
  • 00:15:02.056 --> 00:15:04.625
  • I can feel and hear my vanity.
  • 00:15:04.625 --> 00:15:07.261
  • It's always there.
  • 00:15:07.261 --> 00:15:09.330
  • You'll always fight it.
  • 00:15:09.830 --> 00:15:10.764
  • You always struggle with it.
  • 00:15:10.764 --> 00:15:13.100
  • But listen to this.
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  • My jesus came to set you free of these things.
  • 00:15:14.134 --> 00:15:17.171
  • And the word of god tells us like this, that the holy spirit
  • 00:15:17.171 --> 00:15:19.273
  • Will actually wage war with your flesh completely.
  • 00:15:19.273 --> 00:15:22.343
  • John chapter eight, verse 36.
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  • So if the sun sets you free, you are what
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  • You are free.
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  • Now look to somebody next to you and say you are free.
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  • You are free.
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  • Do you believe this as well?
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  • If jesus is everything in your life,
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  • He has set you free.
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  • He's bigger than the addiction
  • 00:15:41.228 --> 00:15:43.063
  • That's been in your life since you were six years old.
  • 00:15:43.063 --> 00:15:45.966
  • He's bigger than the alcohol that you crave
  • 00:15:45.966 --> 00:15:48.535
  • Every single week.
  • 00:15:48.535 --> 00:15:49.370
  • The drug that you kept going after,
  • 00:15:49.370 --> 00:15:51.105
  • The relationships
  • 00:15:51.105 --> 00:15:52.006
  • That were wrong for you, pornography,
  • 00:15:52.006 --> 00:15:53.874
  • These things that you were addicted to.
  • 00:15:53.874 --> 00:15:55.809
  • He's bigger than that. and he came to set you free.
  • 00:15:55.809 --> 00:15:58.379
  • He came to set you free in this moment.
  • 00:15:59.179 --> 00:16:00.914
  • But you must believe it to step into what he has for you.
  • 00:16:00.914 --> 00:16:05.919
  • And so i'm looking at the story, and it's pretty crazy.
  • 00:16:06.954 --> 00:16:10.124
  • It's a rocky start.
  • 00:16:10.124 --> 00:16:12.626
  • But after that, elijah stepped into his first big miracle.
  • 00:16:12.626 --> 00:16:15.262
  • And that's what i love.
  • 00:16:15.262 --> 00:16:16.196
  • And that's what we talked about last week.
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  • And he saved the nation of israel.
  • 00:16:17.765 --> 00:16:19.366
  • He got, what, three kings, three kings were worried
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  • About the king of moab.
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  • They were going to war over taxes.
  • 00:16:22.703 --> 00:16:24.538
  • And as the, the army is going to fight this war,
  • 00:16:24.538 --> 00:16:27.441
  • They became dehydrated.
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  • They lost water.
  • 00:16:29.209 --> 00:16:30.577
  • And so now they're thinking in the middle of the wilderness,
  • 00:16:30.577 --> 00:16:32.579
  • I'm going to die because i do not have what i need.
  • 00:16:32.579 --> 00:16:36.016
  • What do
  • 00:16:36.250 --> 00:16:37.117
  • They need to survive god's presence?
  • 00:16:37.117 --> 00:16:39.820
  • That's all they needed.
  • 00:16:40.320 --> 00:16:41.522
  • So they reached out to elijah, and elijah said, listen, god
  • 00:16:41.522 --> 00:16:44.258
  • Can provide the miracle, but you must be willing to work.
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  • Please don't let that go over your hands.
  • 00:16:48.362 --> 00:16:50.531
  • God can provide the miracle that you're
  • 00:16:50.531 --> 00:16:51.832
  • Praying over the miracle that you need in your life.
  • 00:16:51.832 --> 00:16:53.801
  • But do not just sit down.
  • 00:16:53.801 --> 00:16:56.937
  • It is time to work.
  • 00:16:56.937 --> 00:16:57.905
  • It's time to dig the ditches like they did.
  • 00:16:57.905 --> 00:17:00.107
  • They dug these ditches,
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  • Believing that in the morning there would be water.
  • 00:17:01.408 --> 00:17:04.078
  • They were dehydrated.
  • 00:17:04.078 --> 00:17:05.312
  • They were tired, and they're about to fight a battle.
  • 00:17:05.312 --> 00:17:08.115
  • And the next morning the bible states supernaturally,
  • 00:17:08.115 --> 00:17:10.984
  • Water appeared and it came from god.
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  • I love the story.
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  • God rescues the nation.
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  • But in
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  • Today's chapter in chapter four of second kings,
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  • We also see the same god who rescue the nation.
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  • Come down and meet a woman who's a widow,
  • 00:17:26.533 --> 00:17:29.703
  • Who's broken, overlooked,
  • 00:17:30.270 --> 00:17:33.173
  • Forgotten in debt
  • 00:17:33.173 --> 00:17:36.376
  • And the lord comes to rescue her
  • 00:17:36.376 --> 00:17:38.011
  • Just like he did for the nation.
  • 00:17:38.011 --> 00:17:40.814
  • See, people may overlook you, but god never will.
  • 00:17:40.814 --> 00:17:43.817
  • That's how good he is.
  • 00:17:44.284 --> 00:17:46.153
  • So the title of today's message is this
  • 00:17:46.153 --> 00:17:49.056
  • When a little becomes more than enough,
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  • When a little becomes more than enough.
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  • I'm going to ask you this question right now. has god
  • 00:17:54.595 --> 00:17:56.597
  • Played something in your life that you're overlooking,
  • 00:17:56.597 --> 00:17:59.766
  • Something you're taking for granted?
  • 00:17:59.766 --> 00:18:01.835
  • Is there something placed in your hands right now
  • 00:18:01.835 --> 00:18:03.570
  • That you could be using for the kingdom of god?
  • 00:18:03.570 --> 00:18:05.506
  • Is there something inside of you
  • 00:18:05.506 --> 00:18:06.807
  • That you could be using for the kingdom of god?
  • 00:18:06.807 --> 00:18:08.475
  • Is there something inside of your house
  • 00:18:08.475 --> 00:18:11.411
  • That the lord wants to use that you have been over looking?
  • 00:18:11.411 --> 00:18:15.015
  • So let's read the story and i'll break it down as we go.
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  • Second kings chapter four, verse one.
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  • This is where we will start.
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  • Point number one is this though
  • 00:18:21.188 --> 00:18:22.789
  • Again, stop overlooking what you already have.
  • 00:18:22.789 --> 00:18:25.592
  • Stop overlooking what you already have.
  • 00:18:25.592 --> 00:18:27.461
  • Second kings for one.
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  • One day, the widow
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  • Of a member
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  • Of the group of prophets came to elijah
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  • And she cried out, now notice the wording there.
  • 00:18:35.068 --> 00:18:36.637
  • She's crying out him,
  • 00:18:36.637 --> 00:18:39.439
  • Meaning she's begging him.
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  • She needs help.
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  • She's crying out to him.
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  • My husband,
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  • Who has served you, notice how she started this conversation?
  • 00:18:45.546 --> 00:18:48.549
  • My husband whom you know,
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  • Who served with you that feared the lord.
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  • He's dead.
  • 00:18:53.387 --> 00:18:55.455
  • And you know how much he feared the lord.
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  • How much he obeyed god.
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  • He was a good man. that's what she's saying.
  • 00:18:59.860 --> 00:19:02.296
  • You knew him well, elijah, but he's dead.
  • 00:19:02.296 --> 00:19:05.265
  • And because he's dead, we're in debt.
  • 00:19:05.265 --> 00:19:08.368
  • And now the creditor has come.
  • 00:19:08.969 --> 00:19:10.637
  • Now listen to this. listen to this despair.
  • 00:19:10.637 --> 00:19:12.739
  • And they are threatening to take my two sons as slaves.
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  • Stop right here for a second.
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  • Isn't this a heartbreaking story?
  • 00:19:17.978 --> 00:19:20.447
  • You understand the reason why she's crying out?
  • 00:19:20.447 --> 00:19:22.883
  • She doesn't care what people think about her anymore.
  • 00:19:22.883 --> 00:19:24.551
  • She's desperate.
  • 00:19:24.551 --> 00:19:25.919
  • She has nothing left.
  • 00:19:25.919 --> 00:19:27.554
  • And she's saying, listen,
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  • Everything that i love, elijah has been taken away from me.
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  • All i have is my two boys.
  • 00:19:32.292 --> 00:19:33.860
  • And now they're about to be taken away.
  • 00:19:33.860 --> 00:19:35.395
  • Their futures are about to be taken away.
  • 00:19:35.395 --> 00:19:36.897
  • And i feel like it's all my fault.
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  • Can you help me?
  • 00:19:39.333 --> 00:19:43.604
  • Very quickly.
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  • You know, we just talked about the coat dropping.
  • 00:19:46.206 --> 00:19:48.141
  • Like god can take the ordinary
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  • And do something extraordinary in your life.
  • 00:19:50.177 --> 00:19:51.878
  • Do something supernatural.
  • 00:19:51.878 --> 00:19:53.447
  • It happens suddenly.
  • 00:19:53.447 --> 00:19:55.515
  • We also know on the other side of that,
  • 00:19:55.515 --> 00:19:57.017
  • Sometimes suddenly life can turn for the worse to.
  • 00:19:57.017 --> 00:20:01.021
  • Trials can happen,
  • 00:20:01.455 --> 00:20:02.723
  • And it feels like everything in your life
  • 00:20:02.723 --> 00:20:04.191
  • That was good, that was settled, that had a foundation, starts
  • 00:20:04.191 --> 00:20:07.561
  • To get a little rocky and starts breaking.
  • 00:20:07.561 --> 00:20:10.230
  • And it's really interesting to me
  • 00:20:10.230 --> 00:20:11.298
  • Because i wanted to look into who her husband was.
  • 00:20:11.298 --> 00:20:13.467
  • And so we don't have a very clear answer.
  • 00:20:13.467 --> 00:20:15.602
  • But it is believed through jewish tradition.
  • 00:20:15.602 --> 00:20:18.205
  • Even jewish historian flavius says surface
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  • That her husband could have been a man named obadiah.
  • 00:20:20.674 --> 00:20:23.777
  • And if you don't know who obadiah is,
  • 00:20:23.777 --> 00:20:26.213
  • He's found in the first kings chapter 18.
  • 00:20:26.213 --> 00:20:28.048
  • And obadiah was a man that really did fear the lord.
  • 00:20:28.048 --> 00:20:31.051
  • He risked his life when queen jezebel
  • 00:20:31.051 --> 00:20:33.320
  • Was killing all the prophets.
  • 00:20:33.320 --> 00:20:34.621
  • Obadiah was the one that grabbed 100 prophets,
  • 00:20:34.621 --> 00:20:37.157
  • Hit him in the cave and fed them.
  • 00:20:37.157 --> 00:20:38.792
  • He was always risking his life.
  • 00:20:38.792 --> 00:20:41.295
  • And so again, we don't know if it was
  • 00:20:41.295 --> 00:20:43.297
  • Him fully, but it could have been.
  • 00:20:43.297 --> 00:20:45.432
  • Here's what we do know is that this man feared the lord.
  • 00:20:45.432 --> 00:20:48.435
  • He was a prophet that honored god.
  • 00:20:48.435 --> 00:20:50.304
  • He served with elijah, and now he was dead.
  • 00:20:50.304 --> 00:20:53.407
  • That's what we do know about him.
  • 00:20:54.107 --> 00:20:56.143
  • And so, like i said, everything just completely turned upside
  • 00:20:56.143 --> 00:20:58.545
  • Down for her.
  • 00:20:58.545 --> 00:20:59.746
  • And even worse, not only did she lose her loved one,
  • 00:20:59.746 --> 00:21:02.883
  • She is in serious debt.
  • 00:21:02.883 --> 00:21:05.952
  • Like, the worst thing that you want
  • 00:21:06.753 --> 00:21:08.021
  • After losing a loved one is a bunch of debt.
  • 00:21:08.021 --> 00:21:09.956
  • No bills that you can't pay,
  • 00:21:09.956 --> 00:21:12.359
  • Things that are unsettled and within this culture.
  • 00:21:12.359 --> 00:21:14.695
  • Here's what i want you to understand.
  • 00:21:14.695 --> 00:21:16.063
  • A collector can come if you owe a debt.
  • 00:21:16.063 --> 00:21:19.199
  • It was legally okay for them to take your children
  • 00:21:19.199 --> 00:21:22.636
  • Away as slaves and to
  • 00:21:22.636 --> 00:21:25.772
  • The debt was paid.
  • 00:21:25.772 --> 00:21:29.009
  • And so the mother is desperate,
  • 00:21:29.009 --> 00:21:31.345
  • The widow is desperate.
  • 00:21:31.345 --> 00:21:33.847
  • And i'm looking at the story.
  • 00:21:33.847 --> 00:21:34.881
  • And again, i'm asking the question.
  • 00:21:34.881 --> 00:21:36.083
  • It's so hard to understand when you're moving by faith, right?
  • 00:21:36.083 --> 00:21:40.053
  • Because she was faithful. as far as we know,
  • 00:21:40.053 --> 00:21:42.756
  • Her husband
  • 00:21:43.090 --> 00:21:44.157
  • Was faithful as far as we know he served the lord.
  • 00:21:44.157 --> 00:21:46.660
  • He did everything right.
  • 00:21:46.660 --> 00:21:47.561
  • So why is her life turning upside down?
  • 00:21:47.561 --> 00:21:51.264
  • That's a hard thing to deal with, isn't it?
  • 00:21:51.264 --> 00:21:54.501
  • Let's dive deeper because
  • 00:21:55.068 --> 00:21:57.437
  • At the surface, it looks like it's a financial
  • 00:21:57.437 --> 00:21:59.272
  • Crisis is actually a faith crisis,
  • 00:21:59.272 --> 00:22:02.843
  • Right?
  • 00:22:03.043 --> 00:22:03.944
  • When you go to something like this, it's
  • 00:22:03.944 --> 00:22:04.978
  • Bigger than the debts you get to pay
  • 00:22:04.978 --> 00:22:07.180
  • The bills that you can afford, the things
  • 00:22:07.180 --> 00:22:08.615
  • That are happening in your life,
  • 00:22:08.615 --> 00:22:09.816
  • The people that are leaving, you know, it's a faith crisis.
  • 00:22:09.816 --> 00:22:12.352
  • How am i supposed to get past this?
  • 00:22:12.352 --> 00:22:14.588
  • Her husband is dead.
  • 00:22:14.588 --> 00:22:15.622
  • She's staring at poverty, and now what she loves
  • 00:22:15.622 --> 00:22:17.257
  • The most are boys are about to be taken away from her.
  • 00:22:17.257 --> 00:22:20.093
  • And so
  • 00:22:20.093 --> 00:22:20.894
  • I told you that this word is for you today.
  • 00:22:21.762 --> 00:22:23.563
  • And if you can relate to this in any way,
  • 00:22:23.563 --> 00:22:26.700
  • I believe that god's going to bring you peace today,
  • 00:22:26.700 --> 00:22:29.836
  • That he has a message just for you.
  • 00:22:29.836 --> 00:22:32.773
  • And so what does she do?
  • 00:22:32.773 --> 00:22:33.974
  • She she reaches out to elijah. she's calling out to elijah.
  • 00:22:33.974 --> 00:22:36.276
  • Elijah, you got to help me in this situation.
  • 00:22:36.276 --> 00:22:38.345
  • Second kings chapter four, verse two and three,
  • 00:22:38.345 --> 00:22:40.447
  • And elijah looks at her.
  • 00:22:40.447 --> 00:22:42.082
  • He says, what can i do to help you?
  • 00:22:42.082 --> 00:22:44.818
  • And it's kind of funny because he asked a question.
  • 00:22:44.818 --> 00:22:46.620
  • He didn't let her answer
  • 00:22:46.620 --> 00:22:48.822
  • Because i think he knew where she was going to go with it.
  • 00:22:48.822 --> 00:22:51.191
  • Let me talk about this a little bit, more later.
  • 00:22:51.191 --> 00:22:53.226
  • But i think he knew that
  • 00:22:53.226 --> 00:22:54.161
  • She would say, okay, i need more money. duh.
  • 00:22:54.161 --> 00:22:56.930
  • You know what i mean?
  • 00:22:56.930 --> 00:22:57.831
  • Like, i got i got debts to pay, and my
  • 00:22:57.831 --> 00:22:59.332
  • My family is falling apart.
  • 00:22:59.332 --> 00:23:00.534
  • I just need more money. so says, what can i do to help you?
  • 00:23:00.534 --> 00:23:02.536
  • Doesn't allow her to answer.
  • 00:23:02.536 --> 00:23:04.371
  • And then he ask a very odd question.
  • 00:23:04.371 --> 00:23:07.107
  • I, in all my years of ministry,
  • 00:23:07.741 --> 00:23:09.609
  • Especially in training,
  • 00:23:09.609 --> 00:23:10.577
  • Nobody ever taught me
  • 00:23:10.577 --> 00:23:11.845
  • To ask somebody, hey, what do you have in your house?
  • 00:23:11.845 --> 00:23:14.714
  • That's a weird question.
  • 00:23:14.714 --> 00:23:16.383
  • Like, you're suffering,
  • 00:23:16.383 --> 00:23:17.784
  • You have nothing, you've lost everything.
  • 00:23:17.784 --> 00:23:19.486
  • And i'm like, oh, but what do you have in your house?
  • 00:23:19.486 --> 00:23:22.322
  • You would never come back here.
  • 00:23:22.322 --> 00:23:23.557
  • Let's be honest, okay?
  • 00:23:23.557 --> 00:23:25.225
  • He says, what do you have in your house?
  • 00:23:25.225 --> 00:23:26.827
  • And now notice her answer in the very beginning.
  • 00:23:26.827 --> 00:23:29.596
  • It's immediate and it's what?
  • 00:23:29.596 --> 00:23:31.465
  • It's nothing.
  • 00:23:31.465 --> 00:23:33.366
  • Nothing at all.
  • 00:23:33.366 --> 00:23:34.768
  • Immediately she goes to that point.
  • 00:23:34.768 --> 00:23:36.436
  • There is nothing in my house worth of value.
  • 00:23:36.436 --> 00:23:38.805
  • There's nothing that i have that can fix this situation.
  • 00:23:38.805 --> 00:23:41.308
  • Everything i have is insignificant.
  • 00:23:41.308 --> 00:23:42.742
  • Oh, wait a minute.
  • 00:23:42.742 --> 00:23:45.011
  • All right, i got nothing, but there is a little
  • 00:23:45.011 --> 00:23:47.481
  • Flask of olive oil,
  • 00:23:47.481 --> 00:23:49.616
  • She replied.
  • 00:23:49.950 --> 00:23:51.852
  • I got a little jar of oil.
  • 00:23:51.852 --> 00:23:54.554
  • I won't do anything.
  • 00:23:54.554 --> 00:23:56.957
  • And then i kind of wonder, like elijah is looking at her
  • 00:23:56.957 --> 00:23:59.426
  • And i'm wondering if he's looking at her like, oh,
  • 00:23:59.426 --> 00:24:02.462
  • You got nothing.
  • 00:24:02.462 --> 00:24:05.499
  • You got something small in your house.
  • 00:24:05.499 --> 00:24:08.702
  • What do you have?
  • 00:24:08.702 --> 00:24:10.804
  • Because elijah knows the power of god
  • 00:24:10.804 --> 00:24:13.907
  • And that god will give you sometimes what seems very small
  • 00:24:13.907 --> 00:24:17.844
  • To train you to trust him in the small things
  • 00:24:17.844 --> 00:24:20.213
  • So that it could be multiplied into something bigger,
  • 00:24:20.213 --> 00:24:22.749
  • So that you're ready to handle more.
  • 00:24:22.749 --> 00:24:24.851
  • There is a time in my life where i prayed all the time,
  • 00:24:24.851 --> 00:24:26.820
  • God, i want more, i want more, i want more, i want more.
  • 00:24:26.820 --> 00:24:29.155
  • And god said, you're not even handling
  • 00:24:29.155 --> 00:24:30.557
  • The little that i've given you.
  • 00:24:30.557 --> 00:24:32.526
  • Why do you want more?
  • 00:24:33.026 --> 00:24:34.060
  • I'm giving you this, this little thing.
  • 00:24:34.060 --> 00:24:35.762
  • You're saying it's nothing. it's not going to change your life.
  • 00:24:35.762 --> 00:24:37.797
  • So more won't change your life either.
  • 00:24:37.797 --> 00:24:39.432
  • You just blow it
  • 00:24:39.432 --> 00:24:41.268
  • And you'll be in the same debt or the same situation
  • 00:24:41.268 --> 00:24:43.336
  • You've always been.
  • 00:24:43.336 --> 00:24:44.337
  • But if i could trust you with the little kid,
  • 00:24:44.337 --> 00:24:45.872
  • I will hand you more in the future.
  • 00:24:45.872 --> 00:24:47.607
  • And so i believe that elijah
  • 00:24:47.607 --> 00:24:48.708
  • Is looking at her and he's like, okay, okay,
  • 00:24:48.708 --> 00:24:50.744
  • You got something little,
  • 00:24:50.744 --> 00:24:51.811
  • Something small, something insignificant.
  • 00:24:51.811 --> 00:24:53.947
  • But with that little thing, god is going to do something big.
  • 00:24:53.947 --> 00:24:57.050
  • The miracle is coming.
  • 00:24:57.050 --> 00:24:59.686
  • But listen, borrow as many empty jars
  • 00:24:59.686 --> 00:25:03.557
  • As you can from your friends and neighbors.
  • 00:25:03.557 --> 00:25:07.360
  • Sap, hear what?
  • 00:25:07.360 --> 00:25:10.096
  • Like it's already offensive to ask what is in my house?
  • 00:25:10.096 --> 00:25:13.066
  • I just told you i got nothing.
  • 00:25:13.066 --> 00:25:14.601
  • And then now you want me to go to my neighbors
  • 00:25:14.601 --> 00:25:17.737
  • And you want me to bug them and go to the doorsteps and ask,
  • 00:25:17.737 --> 00:25:21.007
  • Hey, do you have any clear jars?
  • 00:25:21.007 --> 00:25:23.209
  • You have any, like,
  • 00:25:23.209 --> 00:25:23.810
  • Empty jars
  • 00:25:23.810 --> 00:25:24.678
  • So i can pour the little bit of oil
  • 00:25:24.678 --> 00:25:26.780
  • In my house and see what god does with it?
  • 00:25:26.780 --> 00:25:29.549
  • I started thinking about this.
  • 00:25:30.150 --> 00:25:32.919
  • Have you ever been so embarrassed
  • 00:25:32.919 --> 00:25:34.721
  • To really answer the question about what you have?
  • 00:25:34.721 --> 00:25:38.191
  • Think about that for a second.
  • 00:25:38.792 --> 00:25:39.826
  • Maybe you try to get a bank loan.
  • 00:25:39.826 --> 00:25:42.796
  • In the past,
  • 00:25:42.796 --> 00:25:44.064
  • You wanted to buy something, or maybe a friend came up to you
  • 00:25:44.064 --> 00:25:46.600
  • And just ask you the question, how much do you have?
  • 00:25:46.600 --> 00:25:49.536
  • And you're like,
  • 00:25:49.536 --> 00:25:51.071
  • I'll talk about it.
  • 00:25:51.071 --> 00:25:53.473
  • Listen, man, i got $4.25.
  • 00:25:53.473 --> 00:25:55.575
  • That's what i got, okay?
  • 00:25:55.575 --> 00:25:56.843
  • And i'm planning to overdraft at least two times this week,
  • 00:25:56.843 --> 00:25:59.746
  • And i'm going to get by like, that's what
  • 00:25:59.746 --> 00:26:01.381
  • I have on my account.
  • 00:26:01.381 --> 00:26:02.315
  • You're embarrassed.
  • 00:26:02.315 --> 00:26:04.517
  • I don't i don't want to answer that question.
  • 00:26:04.517 --> 00:26:06.019
  • I want to tell you what i have in my account.
  • 00:26:06.019 --> 00:26:08.722
  • It's offensive because i don't i don't like the answer.
  • 00:26:08.722 --> 00:26:11.925
  • I what about when somebody comes up to you and says, well,
  • 00:26:13.059 --> 00:26:16.229
  • What do you have in your house to eat?
  • 00:26:16.229 --> 00:26:17.430
  • And it's been a really hard time and groceries have tripled
  • 00:26:17.430 --> 00:26:21.434
  • And you've lost your job and so this person has good
  • 00:26:21.434 --> 00:26:24.204
  • Intentions to help you,
  • 00:26:24.204 --> 00:26:25.605
  • But you don't really want to tell them
  • 00:26:25.605 --> 00:26:26.806
  • That the only thing that you have in
  • 00:26:26.806 --> 00:26:27.741
  • Your refrigerator are two leftover,
  • 00:26:27.741 --> 00:26:29.776
  • Slices of pizza, because that's all you can afford,
  • 00:26:29.776 --> 00:26:31.611
  • And you're saving that so that you can go to work
  • 00:26:31.611 --> 00:26:33.546
  • And still struggle to pay the bills that you have.
  • 00:26:33.546 --> 00:26:37.250
  • You relating to this?
  • 00:26:37.751 --> 00:26:40.153
  • It's really hard.
  • 00:26:40.153 --> 00:26:42.122
  • There are questions sometimes that come
  • 00:26:42.122 --> 00:26:43.590
  • Into your life that you don't want to answer
  • 00:26:43.590 --> 00:26:46.326
  • Because you're embarrassed of the answer for it.
  • 00:26:46.326 --> 00:26:48.328
  • And i started thinking, let's let's dive
  • 00:26:48.328 --> 00:26:49.829
  • Deeper than that,
  • 00:26:49.829 --> 00:26:50.830
  • Because those are still kind of shallow things,
  • 00:26:50.830 --> 00:26:52.499
  • Surface level things we all can relate to.
  • 00:26:52.499 --> 00:26:54.534
  • But the most devastating thing
  • 00:26:54.534 --> 00:26:55.735
  • Is when somebody comes up to you and says, okay,
  • 00:26:55.735 --> 00:26:57.537
  • What do you have to offer to this world?
  • 00:26:57.537 --> 00:27:00.407
  • What do you have to give?
  • 00:27:00.974 --> 00:27:01.908
  • What difference can you make?
  • 00:27:01.908 --> 00:27:05.712
  • And here's what the lord told me.
  • 00:27:06.413 --> 00:27:09.416
  • A lot of us who are worshiping his name,
  • 00:27:09.416 --> 00:27:12.952
  • We look at our life and we say, i got nothing,
  • 00:27:12.952 --> 00:27:16.056
  • I got nothing,
  • 00:27:16.389 --> 00:27:18.792
  • And then we get to the point
  • 00:27:18.792 --> 00:27:19.693
  • Where we believe the lies of the devil.
  • 00:27:19.693 --> 00:27:21.594
  • I am nothing.
  • 00:27:21.594 --> 00:27:24.364
  • You've ever been so depressed
  • 00:27:24.364 --> 00:27:27.367
  • That you start to believe that i have nothing worth of value.
  • 00:27:27.367 --> 00:27:31.071
  • And so i'm nobody.
  • 00:27:31.504 --> 00:27:33.440
  • I'm nothing.
  • 00:27:33.440 --> 00:27:34.541
  • I'm going nowhere in life. i don't know what to do.
  • 00:27:34.541 --> 00:27:37.177
  • There's no way that i have been called for more.
  • 00:27:37.177 --> 00:27:39.612
  • Look at my life.
  • 00:27:39.612 --> 00:27:40.280
  • Look at where i come from.
  • 00:27:40.280 --> 00:27:43.016
  • All right, guys, that's all the time we have for today.
  • 00:27:43.016 --> 00:27:45.418
  • But i pray that today's message bless your life.
  • 00:27:45.418 --> 00:27:49.155
  • There is a reason you heard this word today.
  • 00:27:49.155 --> 00:27:51.691
  • It's not by mistake.
  • 00:27:51.691 --> 00:27:53.159
  • You're here for a reason and god has a plan for you.
  • 00:27:53.159 --> 00:27:57.063
  • And listen, if you love this church
  • 00:27:57.063 --> 00:27:59.232
  • And thinking about giving to this church, all you have to do
  • 00:27:59.232 --> 00:28:02.135
  • Is visit our website at bobbie chandler ministries.com.
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