Praise
January 9, 2017
59:26
Matt & Laurie Crouch host Hillsong Conference 2016 with Erwin McManus and music by Hillsong Worship
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- I LIFT MY HANDS TO HEAVEN
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- HERE MY HEART SURRENDERED
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- I TELL MY SOUL AGAIN YOU ARE
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- LORD OF ALL
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- - MATT CROUCH: THE "PRAISE THE
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- LORD" PROGRAM CONTINUES.
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- WE ARE HERE IN SYDNEY,
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- AUSTRALIA,
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- HILLSONG CONFERENCE.
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- IN YOU I FIND MY REST
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- YOU ARE IN CONTROL
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- - ERWIN MCMANUS: AND HE'S
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- WAITING FOR YOU AND FOR ME TO
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- CALL ON HIM AS THE GOD THAT HE
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- IS AND ASK BIG DREAMS AND BIG
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- PRAYERS AND CALL FOR BIG
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- VISIONS.
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- - MATT: ERWIN MCMANUS,
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- "ARTISAN SOUL."
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- - LAURIE CROUCH: "ARTISAN
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- SOUL."
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- HE IS AMAZING!
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- YOU DO NOT WANT TO MISS THIS
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- I WILL TRUST IN ONLY YOU
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- - ERWIN: IF WE GIVE GOD OUR
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- EMPTY JARS WITH JUST THE
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- SMALLEST AMOUNT OF OIL, AND THEN
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- WE ASK HIM FOR GREAT THINGS, HE
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- WILL SHOW UP AND BE THE GREAT
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- ...THE BEGINNING AND
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- THE END...
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- - ERWIN: WE ARE GOD'S STRATEGY
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- TO CHANGE THE COURSE OF HUMAN
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- ...NO ONE...
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- - MATT: INSIDE, ERWIN MCMANUS
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- IS TAKING THE MAIN STAGE.
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- WHEN WE'RE DONE WITH THAT, WE'RE
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- GONNA SIT DOWN ON THE COUCH AND
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- MINISTRY WITH ERWIN MCMANUS.
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- - ERWIN: HE'S BIGGER THAN YOUR
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- CHALLENGES.
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- HE'S BIGGER THAN YOUR FEARS.
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- HE'S BIGGER THAN YOUR DOUBTS.
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- HE'S BIGGER THAN YOU!
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- - MATT: THIS IS HILLSONG
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- CONFERENCE.
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- THERE IS NO ONE LIKE YOU,
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- NO ONE
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- NO ONE CAN ADD TO YOUR
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- YOU'RE THE BEGINNING AND THE
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- END,
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- MORE THAN I CAN COMPREHEND
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- THERE IS NO ONE LIKE YOU,
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- JESUS
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- I LIFT MY HANDS TO HEAVEN
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- HERE MY HEART SURRENDERED
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- I TELL MY SOUL AGAIN YOU ARE
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- LORD OF ALL
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- THOUGH THE SEAS ARE RAGING,
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- YOU WILL SPEAK AND TAME THEM
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- IN YOU I FIND MY REST
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- YOU ARE IN CONTROL
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- I LIFT MY HANDS TO HEAVEN
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- HERE MY HEART SURRENDERED
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- I TELL MY SOUL AGAIN YOU ARE
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- LORD OF ALL
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- THOUGH THE SEAS ARE RAGING,
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- YOU WILL SPEAK AND TAME THEM
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- IN YOU I FIND MY REST
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- YOU ARE IN CONTROL
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- IN YOU I FIND MY REST
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- - ERWIN: WOW.
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- IT IS SO, SO GOOD TO BE HERE
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- WITH YOU GUYS.
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- SO I'M FROM A SMALL COUNTRY IN
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- CENTRAL AMERICA CALLED
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- EL SALVADOR.
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- AND IF YOU'RE AT ALL FAMILIAR
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- WITH EL SALVADOR, YOU KNOW IT'S
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- KIND OF AN INTENSE AND VIOLENT
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- COUNTRY, AND SO I GREW UP
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- INDOORS A LOT.
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- AND MY GRANDPARENTS RAISED ME,
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- SO I HAD MY GRANDFATHER TEACHING
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- ME HIS VERSION OF SPORTS, WHICH
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- WAS CHESS.
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- AND SO FROM THE AGE OF AROUND 3
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- OR 4 YEARS OLD, I WAS PLAYING
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- CHESS EVERY DAY.
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- AND MY GRANDFATHER IS INCREDIBLY
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- COMPETITIVE, SO HE WOULD BEAT ME
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- IN FIVE MOVES, SIX MOVES, SEVEN
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- MOVES, AND I WOULD CRY.
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- I WAS 5.
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- AND I WOULD SAY TO MY
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- GRANDFATHER IN SPANISH, "PAPPY,
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- LET ME HAVE A MOVE."
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- AND HE WOULD LOOK AT ME
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- AND SAY, "WHEN YOU EARN A MOVE,
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- YOU CAN HAVE A MOVE.
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- CHECKMATE."
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- [LAUGHTER]
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- SO I SPENT THE NEXT SEVERAL
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- YEARS OF MY LIFE EARNING
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- EIGHT MOVES AND NINE MOVES AND
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- TEN MOVES, BUT HE TAUGHT ME
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- SOMETHING SO IMPORTANT IN LIFE.
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- WHEN WE SAT DOWN IN THAT GAME OF
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- WAR, I HAD ONE INTENTION, AND
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- THAT WAS TO CAUSE HIS KING TO
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- SURRENDER.
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- AND EVERYTHING ELSE I DID, EVERY
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- OTHER MOVE HAD TO SUBMIT TO THIS
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- ONE INTENTION.
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- I NEEDED TO KNOW WHAT I WANTED
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- AND EITHER ORGANIZE EVERY
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- DECISION I MADE TO ACCOMPLISH
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- THAT GOAL.
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- HAVE YOU EVER HAD PEOPLE ASK YOU
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- STUPID QUESTIONS, AND THEN
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- YOU'RE SUPPOSED TO RESPOND AS IF
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- IT WAS A INTELLIGENT QUESTION?
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- I'VE BEEN MARRIED FOR OVER 30
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- YEARS, AND IF YOU'VE BEEN
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- MARRIED A LONG TIME, YOU KNOW
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- THAT YOUR WIFE WILL ASK YOU A
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- LOT OF QUESTIONS THAT SHE
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- DOESN'T NEED TO ASK YOU, LIKE,
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- "WHERE DID YOU PARK THE CAR?"
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- I DON'T KNOW WHY SHE ASKS ME
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- THAT.
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- IF I DON'T KNOW WHERE IT IS, WHY
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- IS SHE ASKING ME?
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- "WHERE DID YOU LOSE THE CAR
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- KEYS?"
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- I HATE THAT ONE TOO.
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- [LAUGHTER]
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- "WHY DID YOU BREAK IT?"
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- WELL, I WAS THINKING ABOUT IT
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- AHEAD OF TIME: "I'M GONNA BREAK
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- THIS BEFORE I TRY TO FIX IT."
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- [LAUGHTER]
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- I LOVE THE GENERAL QUESTIONS SHE
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- ASKS ME:
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- "WHAT WERE YOU THINKING?"
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- CLEARLY, NOTHING.
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- AND AS I THOUGHT ABOUT ALL THE
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- STUPID QUESTIONS I'VE BEEN ASKED
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- IN MY LIFE--
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- SO I WAS READING A MOMENT IN
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- THE LIFE OF JESUS, AND HE ASKED
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- THE QUESTION, AND I HAD
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- THIS THOUGHT:
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- "THAT'S THE STUPIDEST QUESTION
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- I'VE EVER HEARD."
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- BUT I TRIED TO STOP IT
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- BECAUSE I DIDN'T WANT JESUS TO
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- HEAR ME SAY THAT.
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- SO I DIDN'T SAY IT OUTSIDE.
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- I SAID, "DON'T WRITE THAT DOWN.
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- JUST THINK IT 'CAUSE THAT WAY,
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- HE DOESN'T KNOW YOU'RE THINKIN'
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- IT."
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- BUT I HAD THIS MOMENT.
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- I MEAN, HAVE YOU EVER READ THE
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- SCRIPTURES AND THOUGHT TO
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- YOURSELF, "THAT'S STUPID."
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- I KNOW YOU'RE NOT ALLOWED TO
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- THINK THAT,
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- BUT YOU DO THINK THAT.
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- WELL, THERE'S A MOMENT IN THE
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- LIFE OF JESUS, AND HE ASKS WHAT
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- MIGHT BE THE STUPIDEST QUESTION
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- EVER ASKED, EXCEPT, OF COURSE,
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- JESUS ASKED IT, SO, LORD, I KNOW
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- IT'S NOT STUPID.
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- [LAUGHTER]
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- IT'S IN MATTHEW CHAPTER 20,
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- BEGINNING AT VERSE 29.
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- IT SAYS, "AS JESUS AND HIS
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- DISCIPLES WERE LEAVING JERICHO,
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- A LARGE CROWD FOLLOWED HIM.
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- TWO BLIND MEN WERE SITTING BY
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- THE ROADSIDE, AND WHEN THEY
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- HEARD THAT JESUS WAS GOING BY,
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- THEY SHOUTED, 'LORD, SON OF
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- DAVID, HAVE MERCY ON US!'
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- THE CROWD REBUKED THEM AND TOLD
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- THEM TO BE QUIET, BUT THEY
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- SHOUTED ALL THE LOUDER, 'LORD,
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- SON OF DAVID, HAVE MERCY ON US!'
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- JESUS STOPPED AND CALLED THEM."
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- AND HERE IT IS.
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- HERE'S THE STUPIDEST QUESTION
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- I'VE EVER HEARD: "WHAT DO YOU
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- WANT ME TO DO FOR YOU?"
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- I KNOW IT'S SUPPOSED TO SOUND
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- PROFOUND AND SPIRITUAL, BUT
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- REALLY, JESUS?
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- THIS IS WHAT YOU COULD COME UP
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- WITH?
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- TWO BLIND GUYS ARE SCREAMING
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- THEIR GUTS OUT, "LORD, SON OF
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- DAVID, HAVE MERCY ON US!"
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- AND YOU LOOK AT THEM, AND
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- THEY'RE CLEARLY BLIND, AND YOU
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- DON'T KNOW WHAT THEY WANT?
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- [LAUGHTER]
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- I MEAN, JESUS, IF YOU'RE GOD,
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- YOU KIND OF ALREADY KNOW THAT.
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- AND EVEN IF YOU WERE NOT GOD,
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- YOU COULD SORT OF INTUIT WHAT
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- THEY WANTED.
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- I THINK YOU COULD PICK IT UP.
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- "JESUS STOPPED AND CALLED THEM.
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- 'WHAT DO YOU WANT ME TO DO FOR
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- YOU?'
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- HE ASKED.
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- 'LORD,' THEY ANSWERED, 'WE WANT
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- OUR SIGHT.'"
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- "OH, THAT'S WHAT YOU--
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- I WOULD'VE NEVER KNOWN!"
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- SO CLARIFYING!
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- "'WE WANT OUR SIGHT.'
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- JESUS HAD COMPASSION ON THEM
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- AND TOUCHED THEIR EYES, AND
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- IMMEDIATELY THEY RECEIVED
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- THEIR SIGHT AND FOLLOWED HIM."
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- AND I THINK WHEN WE READ THIS
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- KIND OF ENCOUNTER FROM JESUS,
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- WE'RE OVERWHELMED BY THE POWER
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- OF JESUS TO GIVE SIGHT TO
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- THE BLIND OR ARE MOVED BY THE
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- COMPASSION OF JESUS THAT HE
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- CARES SO DEEPLY ABOUT EACH
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- INDIVIDUAL THAT HAS EVER WALKED
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- ON THIS PLANET.
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- BUT IN THE MIDST OF THAT, WE
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- OVERLOOK THAT PART OF THE
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- CONVERSATION THAT I'M CONVINCED
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- GOD WANTS US TO STEP INTO.
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- WHEN JESUS ASKED THE QUESTION,
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- "WHAT DO YOU WANT ME TO DO FOR
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- YOU?"
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- THAT QUESTION WAS NOT
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- INCIDENTAL.
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- THAT QUESTION IS ONE OF THE MOST
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- SIGNIFICANT QUESTIONS WE COULD
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- EVER BE ASKED OF BY GOD BECAUSE,
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- IF YOU DO NOT KNOW WHAT YOU
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- WANT, THEN GOD CANNOT GIVE YOU
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- WHAT YOU NEED.
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- AND IF YOU DO NOT UNDERSTAND
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- THAT GOD WILL NOT FORCE HIMSELF
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- ON YOU, IMPOSE HIMSELF ON YOU,
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- DEMAND HIMSELF ON YOU, THAT GOD
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- IN HIS GRACIOUSNESS AND HIS
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- GENEROSITY AND HIS KINDNESS AND
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- GENTLENESS, THAT GOD WAITS FOR
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- US TO INVITE HIM INTO OUR LIVES
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- TO DO WHAT ONLY HE CAN DO FOR
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- US, WE WON'T UNDERSTAND THE
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- POWER OF HIS QUESTION.
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- AND I WONDER TODAY, DO YOU KNOW
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- WHAT YOU WANT?
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- 'CAUSE IF YOU DON'T KNOW WHAT
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- YOU WANT, DON'T GET MAD AT GOD
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- THAT HE NEVER GIVES YOU WHAT YOU
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- NEED BECAUSE, IF JESUS
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- ENCOUNTERS TWO BLIND MEN WALKING
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- AS HE WALKS DOWN THROUGH JERICHO
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- AND THEY CRY OUT TO HIM, "HAVE
- 00:09:32.160 --> 00:09:34.060
- MERCY ON US!"
- 00:09:34.060 --> 00:09:36.270
- AND HE STOPS AND SAYS, "I'M
- 00:09:36.270 --> 00:09:39.010
- GONNA ASK YOU A QUESTION, AND
- 00:09:39.010 --> 00:09:40.020
- WHEN I ASK YOU THIS QUESTION, I
- 00:09:40.020 --> 00:09:42.090
- NEED YOU TO REALLY THINK THIS
- 00:09:42.090 --> 00:09:43.260
- THROUGH 'CAUSE YOU HAVE A MOMENT
- 00:09:43.260 --> 00:09:45.270
- WITH THE CREATOR OF THE
- 00:09:45.270 --> 00:09:47.230
- UNIVERSE: WHAT DO YOU WANT ME TO
- 00:09:47.230 --> 00:09:49.060
- DO FOR YOU?"
- 00:09:51.170 --> 00:09:54.170
- I THINK A LOT OF US ARE
- 00:09:54.170 --> 00:09:55.050
- TERRIFIED TO ASK GOD TO DO BIG
- 00:09:55.050 --> 00:09:56.280
- THINGS IN US AND THROUGH US AND
- 00:09:56.280 --> 00:09:59.230
- FOR US BECAUSE IF I PROVE THAT
- 00:10:00.020 --> 00:10:03.020
- GOD DOES NOT EXIST, AND SO WE
- 00:10:03.020 --> 00:10:05.180
- PRAY SMALL PRAYERS THAT WE CAN
- 00:10:05.180 --> 00:10:07.040
- ACTUALLY FULFILL OURSELVES.
- 00:10:08.000 --> 00:10:11.000
- WE PRAY PRAYERS THAT WON'T GET
- 00:10:11.000 --> 00:10:12.250
- GOD IN TROUBLE, WON'T PUT GOD IN
- 00:10:12.250 --> 00:10:14.110
- A DILEMMA 'CAUSE WE DON'T WANNA
- 00:10:14.110 --> 00:10:15.270
- PUSH GOD INTO A CORNER WHERE WE
- 00:10:15.270 --> 00:10:17.110
- ASK HIM TO BE GOD, AND WE FIND
- 00:10:17.110 --> 00:10:19.220
- OUT HE'S LESS THAN WE THOUGHT.
- 00:10:20.100 --> 00:10:23.100
- BUT GOD DOES NOT NEED YOU TO
- 00:10:23.100 --> 00:10:24.160
- PROTECT HIM OR HIS REPUTATION.
- 00:10:24.160 --> 00:10:27.130
- GOD IS BIGGER THAN YOUR PRAYERS.
- 00:10:27.130 --> 00:10:30.120
- HE'S BIGGER THAN YOUR DREAMS.
- 00:10:30.120 --> 00:10:31.280
- HE'S BIGGER THAN YOUR
- 00:10:31.280 --> 00:10:32.250
- CHALLENGES.
- 00:10:32.250 --> 00:10:33.250
- HE'S BIGGER THAN YOUR FEARS.
- 00:10:33.250 --> 00:10:35.060
- HE'S BIGGER THAN YOUR DOUBTS.
- 00:10:35.060 --> 00:10:36.040
- HE'S BIGGER THAN YOU!
- 00:10:36.040 --> 00:10:38.110
- AND HE'S WAITING FOR YOU AND FOR
- 00:10:38.110 --> 00:10:39.260
- ME TO CALL ON HIM AS THE GOD
- 00:10:40.260 --> 00:10:43.260
- THAT HE IS AND ASK BIG DREAMS
- 00:10:43.260 --> 00:10:45.230
- AND BIG PRAYERS AND CALL FOR BIG
- 00:10:45.230 --> 00:10:47.080
- VISIONS.
- 00:10:47.080 --> 00:10:48.100
- GOD IS LOOKING FOR THE PERSON
- 00:10:48.100 --> 00:10:49.200
- WHO'S NOT AFRAID OF "THE BIG
- 00:10:49.200 --> 00:10:50.190
- ASK."
- 00:10:50.190 --> 00:10:52.110
- DO YOU KNOW WHAT YOU WANT?
- 00:10:52.110 --> 00:10:54.090
- AND I DON'T THINK IT'S
- 00:10:54.090 --> 00:10:55.290
- INCIDENTAL THAT, WHEN THEY'RE
- 00:10:55.290 --> 00:10:57.270
- SHOUTING OUT TO JESUS, "THE
- 00:10:57.270 --> 00:10:59.040
- CROWD REBUKED THEM AND TOLD THEM
- 00:10:59.040 --> 00:11:01.240
- TO BE QUIET."
- 00:11:01.240 --> 00:11:04.140
- YOU KNOW, WHAT I'VE DISCOVERED
- 00:11:04.140 --> 00:11:06.150
- IN MY OWN LIFE IS THAT, WHEN
- 00:11:06.280 --> 00:11:09.280
- YOU ASK GOD FOR BIG THINGS,
- 00:11:09.280 --> 00:11:10.210
- PEOPLE DON'T START
- 00:11:10.210 --> 00:11:13.100
- CHEERING YOU ON.
- 00:11:13.100 --> 00:11:14.050
- YOU SEE, IT'S REALLY IMPORTANT
- 00:11:15.270 --> 00:11:18.270
- TO PRAY HUMBLE PRAYERS SO THAT
- 00:11:20.170 --> 00:11:23.170
- YOU DON'T THINK TOO MUCH OF
- 00:11:23.170 --> 00:11:24.210
- YOURSELF BECAUSE, IF YOU START
- 00:11:24.210 --> 00:11:27.070
- PRAYING BIG PRAYERS, PEOPLE LOOK
- 00:11:27.070 --> 00:11:28.100
- AT YOU AND SAY, "WHO DO YOU
- 00:11:28.100 --> 00:11:29.090
- THINK YOU ARE PRAYING A PRAYER
- 00:11:29.090 --> 00:11:30.000
- THAT BIG?
- 00:11:30.180 --> 00:11:33.180
- WHO DO YOU THINK YOU ARE, ASKING
- 00:11:33.180 --> 00:11:35.170
- GOD TO GIVE YOU YOUR SIGHT?
- 00:11:35.170 --> 00:11:37.050
- I MEAN, AFTER ALL, YOU ARE NO
- 00:11:37.050 --> 00:11:37.270
- ONE!"
- 00:11:37.270 --> 00:11:39.200
- THESE TWO MEN DO NOT EVEN HAVE
- 00:11:39.200 --> 00:11:40.200
- NAMES.
- 00:11:40.200 --> 00:11:43.060
- THEY DON'T SHOW UP ON ANY
- 00:11:43.060 --> 00:11:43.290
- RECORD.
- 00:11:43.290 --> 00:11:45.280
- WHY WOULD JESUS TAKE THE TIME
- 00:11:45.280 --> 00:11:47.270
- AND ENERGY AND EFFORT TO GIVE
- 00:11:47.290 --> 00:11:50.290
- THEM SIGHT WHEN THERE'S NOTHING
- 00:11:50.290 --> 00:11:51.260
- ABOUT THEM AFTER THIS?
- 00:11:51.260 --> 00:11:53.240
- DOESN'T JESUS ONLY ANSWER BIG
- 00:11:53.240 --> 00:11:55.150
- PRAYERS FOR BIG PEOPLE?
- 00:11:56.140 --> 00:11:59.140
- AND SO THEY REBUKED THEM BECAUSE
- 00:11:59.140 --> 00:12:01.000
- THEY DID NOT FEEL THEY WERE
- 00:12:01.000 --> 00:12:03.110
- WORTHY OF ASKING JESUS FOR SO
- 00:12:03.110 --> 00:12:05.270
- GREAT A THING.
- 00:12:06.180 --> 00:12:09.180
- SEE, I THINK A LOT OF US FEEL
- 00:12:09.180 --> 00:12:11.040
- LIKE THOSE BLIND MEN BY THE SIDE
- 00:12:11.040 --> 00:12:12.190
- OF THE ROAD, AND WE DON'T WANT
- 00:12:12.190 --> 00:12:14.190
- TO BE INTRUSIVE ON GOD.
- 00:12:14.190 --> 00:12:17.130
- WE DON'T WANNA ASK GOD FOR MORE
- 00:12:17.130 --> 00:12:20.010
- THAN WE SHOULD OR MORE THAN WE
- 00:12:20.010 --> 00:12:21.200
- DESERVE OR MORE THAN WE OUGHT
- 00:12:21.200 --> 00:12:23.070
- TO, AND SO WE KEEP OUR PRAYERS
- 00:12:23.070 --> 00:12:24.190
- HUMBLE SO THAT NO ONE WILL THINK
- 00:12:24.190 --> 00:12:26.060
- WE THINK TOO MUCH OF OURSELVES.
- 00:12:26.280 --> 00:12:29.280
- IF NO ONE IS REBUKING YOU FOR
- 00:12:29.280 --> 00:12:32.270
- YOUR PRAYERS, YOUR PRAYERS ARE
- 00:12:32.270 --> 00:12:33.180
- TOO SMALL.
- 00:12:33.260 --> 00:12:36.260
- IF NO ONE IS LOOKING AT YOU WITH
- 00:12:36.260 --> 00:12:38.170
- SOME SUSPICION, LOOKING AT YOU,
- 00:12:38.170 --> 00:12:41.010
- SAYING, "WHO DO YOU THINK YOU
- 00:12:41.010 --> 00:12:42.030
- ARE, PRAYING THAT KIND OF
- 00:12:42.030 --> 00:12:42.240
- PRAYER?
- 00:12:42.240 --> 00:12:44.200
- WHO DO YOU THINK YOU ARE, HAVING
- 00:12:44.200 --> 00:12:46.120
- THAT KIND OF DREAM?
- 00:12:46.120 --> 00:12:49.080
- WHO DO YOU THINK YOU ARE,
- 00:12:49.080 --> 00:12:51.100
- EXPECTING GOD TO GIVE YOU THAT
- 00:12:51.100 --> 00:12:52.190
- BIG A LIFE?"
- 00:12:52.260 --> 00:12:55.260
- AND YOU CAN RESPOND, "I KNOW WHO
- 00:12:55.260 --> 00:12:56.230
- I AM.
- 00:12:56.230 --> 00:12:59.020
- I'M JUST A BLIND BEGGAR ON THE
- 00:12:59.020 --> 00:13:00.150
- SIDE OF THE ROAD, BUT JESUS IS
- 00:13:00.150 --> 00:13:02.090
- WALKING BY, AND I'M NOT GONNA
- 00:13:02.090 --> 00:13:03.100
- GET LOST IN THE CROWD!
- 00:13:03.100 --> 00:13:05.080
- [CHEERS AND APPLAUSE]
- 00:13:05.200 --> 00:13:08.200
- 'CAUSE IT'S NOT WHO I AM.
- 00:13:08.200 --> 00:13:10.260
- IT'S WHO HE IS."
- 00:13:11.040 --> 00:13:14.040
- I GREW UP, READING EVERY
- 00:13:14.040 --> 00:13:14.260
- MYTHOLOGY BOOK IN THE LIBRARY,
- 00:13:14.260 --> 00:13:17.070
- AND I HAD NO IDEA WHO GOD WAS.
- 00:13:17.070 --> 00:13:19.270
- SO I DIDN'T KNOW HOW THIS WORKED
- 00:13:19.270 --> 00:13:21.080
- OUT.
- 00:13:21.080 --> 00:13:22.090
- I NEVER REALLY KNEW WHO JESUS
- 00:13:22.090 --> 00:13:23.140
- WAS UNTIL I WAS AROUND 20 YEARS
- 00:13:23.140 --> 00:13:24.180
- OLD, AND SOMEONE HANDED ME A
- 00:13:24.180 --> 00:13:25.270
- BIBLE, AND THEY TOLD ME THAT GOD
- 00:13:25.270 --> 00:13:27.100
- WAS THE GOD OF THE SCRIPTURES,
- 00:13:27.100 --> 00:13:29.030
- AND IF I WOULD PRAY, GOD WOULD
- 00:13:29.030 --> 00:13:30.100
- HEAR MY PRAYERS IF I WOULD
- 00:13:30.100 --> 00:13:32.050
- BELIEVE THAT GOD WOULD HONOR MY
- 00:13:32.050 --> 00:13:34.150
- FAITH, MY TRUST IN HIM.
- 00:13:34.150 --> 00:13:36.120
- BUT I WASN'T SURE HOW IT ALL
- 00:13:36.120 --> 00:13:37.270
- WORKED OUT, AND HERE I AM,
- 00:13:38.150 --> 00:13:41.150
- TRYING TO LIVE MY LIFE NOW FOR
- 00:13:41.150 --> 00:13:43.010
- JESUS AND TRYING TO BRING HIM
- 00:13:43.010 --> 00:13:44.060
- HONOR AND PLEASURE AND TO HELP
- 00:13:44.060 --> 00:13:46.220
- PEOPLE COME TO KNOW HIM.
- 00:13:46.220 --> 00:13:47.210
- YOU EVER HAVE SOMETHING TERRIBLE
- 00:13:47.210 --> 00:13:48.250
- HAPPEN IN YOUR LIFE WHEN YOU
- 00:13:48.250 --> 00:13:49.280
- THINK YOU'RE DOING EVERYTHING
- 00:13:49.280 --> 00:13:50.220
- RIGHT?
- 00:13:50.220 --> 00:13:52.070
- SO HERE I AM IN COLLEGE, AND I'M
- 00:13:52.070 --> 00:13:53.000
- TRYIN' TO TALK TO EVERYBODY
- 00:13:53.000 --> 00:13:54.010
- ABOUT WHO JESUS IS.
- 00:13:54.010 --> 00:13:55.040
- AND I ALSO PLAYED ON THE SOCCER
- 00:13:55.040 --> 00:13:57.140
- TEAM, AND I HAVE BAD DAYS WHEN I
- 00:13:57.140 --> 00:13:59.260
- GOT HIT REALLY HARD AT THE
- 00:13:59.260 --> 00:14:01.110
- PARTICULAR MATCH, AND THEY HAD
- 00:14:01.110 --> 00:14:02.280
- TO TAKE ME OVER TO THE HOSPITAL,
- 00:14:02.280 --> 00:14:04.010
- AND THAT NIGHT, I WAS IN SO MUCH
- 00:14:04.010 --> 00:14:04.270
- PAIN.
- 00:14:04.270 --> 00:14:06.280
- AND MY ROOMMATE HAD BUILT A LOFT
- 00:14:07.000 --> 00:14:10.000
- IN THE DORM ROOM WHERE WE SLEPT
- 00:14:10.000 --> 00:14:11.110
- UP HIGH SO WE COULD TURN THE
- 00:14:11.110 --> 00:14:12.290
- BOTTOM INTO A LIVING ROOM.
- 00:14:12.290 --> 00:14:14.200
- AND IN THE MIDDLE OF THE NIGHT,
- 00:14:14.200 --> 00:14:15.210
- I JUST KEPT ROLLING BACK AND
- 00:14:15.210 --> 00:14:16.280
- FORTH AND BACK AND FORTH 'CAUSE
- 00:14:16.280 --> 00:14:18.120
- I'M IN SO MUCH PAIN, AND BEFORE
- 00:14:18.120 --> 00:14:20.130
- I EVEN REALIZED THAT, I ROLLED
- 00:14:20.130 --> 00:14:22.160
- OUT OF THAT LOFT, AND I FELL
- 00:14:22.160 --> 00:14:24.110
- RIGHT ON TOP OF MY ROOMMATE'S
- 00:14:24.110 --> 00:14:25.180
- ARMY SURPLUS LOCKER.
- 00:14:25.180 --> 00:14:27.270
- THEY MAKE THOSE THINGS SO SOLID.
- 00:14:27.270 --> 00:14:30.150
- [LAUGHTER]
- 00:14:30.150 --> 00:14:31.060
- AND I HIT THAT METAL CORNER
- 00:14:31.060 --> 00:14:31.260
- WITH MY ELBOW, AND WHEN I
- 00:14:31.260 --> 00:14:33.120
- HIT THAT THING, IT BROKE THE
- 00:14:33.120 --> 00:14:34.140
- RADIAL HEAD OFF MY ELBOW.
- 00:14:34.140 --> 00:14:35.210
- MY ROOMMATE WHOSE MAJOR WAS
- 00:14:35.290 --> 00:14:38.290
- SPORTS THERAPY JUST LAY THERE.
- 00:14:42.020 --> 00:14:45.020
- AND AS I MOANED AND GROANED ON
- 00:14:45.020 --> 00:14:46.290
- THE FLOOR, HE FINALLY SAID, "DID
- 00:14:46.290 --> 00:14:48.020
- YOU DROP SOMETHING?"
- 00:14:48.020 --> 00:14:49.140
- [LAUGHTER]
- 00:14:49.140 --> 00:14:51.210
- "NO."
- 00:14:51.210 --> 00:14:52.100
- AND HE GOES,
- 00:14:52.100 --> 00:14:53.000
- "IS THAT YOU?"
- 00:14:53.000 --> 00:14:53.210
- AND I GO, "YEAH.
- 00:14:53.210 --> 00:14:54.150
- IT'S OKAY.
- 00:14:54.150 --> 00:14:55.290
- I THINK I NEED TO GO TO THE
- 00:14:55.290 --> 00:14:56.210
- HOSPITAL."
- 00:14:56.210 --> 00:14:57.200
- HE GOES, "I'LL TAKE YOU
- 00:14:57.200 --> 00:14:58.290
- IN THE MORNING."
- 00:14:58.290 --> 00:14:59.210
- [LAUGHTER]
- 00:14:59.210 --> 00:15:00.180
- A LOT OF LOVE THERE!
- 00:15:00.180 --> 00:15:01.110
- SO I LAY THERE ALL NIGHT IN COLD
- 00:15:01.170 --> 00:15:04.170
- SWEATS, FEVER, AGONIZING PAIN.
- 00:15:04.170 --> 00:15:05.210
- IN THE MORNING, I GOT MYSELF TO
- 00:15:05.210 --> 00:15:08.130
- THE HOSPITAL.
- 00:15:09.130 --> 00:15:12.130
- AND THEY X-RAYED MY BODY, AND
- 00:15:12.130 --> 00:15:14.150
- THEY TOLD ME THAT I WOULD NEVER
- 00:15:14.150 --> 00:15:15.220
- MOVE MY ARM FOR THE REST OF MY
- 00:15:15.220 --> 00:15:16.150
- LIFE.
- 00:15:16.150 --> 00:15:19.030
- AND THE ONLY EXPRESSION I HAD OF
- 00:15:19.030 --> 00:15:19.250
- MY FAITH AT THAT TIME WAS I WAS
- 00:15:19.250 --> 00:15:20.280
- A MUSICIAN, AND SO I WOULD WRITE
- 00:15:20.280 --> 00:15:22.010
- MUSIC AND PLAY THE GUITAR AND
- 00:15:22.010 --> 00:15:23.130
- SING AND DO THESE FESTIVALS AND
- 00:15:23.130 --> 00:15:25.260
- CONCERTS, AND NOW I'M TOLD THAT
- 00:15:25.260 --> 00:15:27.190
- MY ARM IS STUCK, AND I WOULD
- 00:15:27.190 --> 00:15:29.210
- NEVER MOVE IT AGAIN.
- 00:15:29.210 --> 00:15:30.270
- I'M IN SPORTS REHABILITATION AT
- 00:15:31.150 --> 00:15:34.150
- THE UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA
- 00:15:34.150 --> 00:15:35.270
- MEDICAL CENTER, AND THEY'RE
- 00:15:35.270 --> 00:15:36.260
- GRAPHING MY MOVEMENT AT ZERO,
- 00:15:36.260 --> 00:15:38.190
- ZERO, ZERO, ZERO.
- 00:15:38.190 --> 00:15:39.260
- AND I CANNOT TELL YOU HOW
- 00:15:39.260 --> 00:15:42.120
- CONFUSING THAT WAS TO ME-- SAY,
- 00:15:42.120 --> 00:15:44.190
- "JESUS, I TRUSTED YOU WITH MY
- 00:15:44.190 --> 00:15:46.060
- LIFE, AND I'M TRYING TO GIVE
- 00:15:46.060 --> 00:15:47.090
- EVERYTHING I HAVE, AND I'M JUST
- 00:15:47.090 --> 00:15:49.120
- 21 YEARS OLD, AND I AM BROKEN!"
- 00:15:55.150 --> 00:15:58.150
- THEN I GOT A PHONE CALL.
- 00:15:58.150 --> 00:16:00.230
- THIS FESTIVAL IS COMING FROM
- 00:16:00.230 --> 00:16:02.070
- CANADA TO NORTH CAROLINA, AND
- 00:16:02.070 --> 00:16:03.170
- THEY HEARD ABOUT ME, SO THEY
- 00:16:03.170 --> 00:16:04.190
- WANTED ME TO PERFORM AT THEIR
- 00:16:04.190 --> 00:16:05.130
- FESTIVAL.
- 00:16:05.130 --> 00:16:07.110
- AND I HAD JUST BROKEN MY ARM A
- 00:16:07.110 --> 00:16:08.210
- COUPLE DAYS BEFORE, AND, WELL,
- 00:16:08.210 --> 00:16:10.150
- THEY ASKED IF I WOULD PERFORM.
- 00:16:10.150 --> 00:16:12.040
- I JUST SAID, "I'LL BE THERE."
- 00:16:12.040 --> 00:16:14.150
- I DIDN'T KNOW HOW I WAS GONNA
- 00:16:14.150 --> 00:16:15.060
- BE THERE.
- 00:16:15.060 --> 00:16:15.230
- I DIDN'T KNOW HOW I WAS GONNA
- 00:16:15.230 --> 00:16:16.140
- PLAY.
- 00:16:16.140 --> 00:16:17.010
- I JUST SAID, "I'LL BE THERE."
- 00:16:17.010 --> 00:16:18.160
- AND I HUNG UP THE PHONE, AND I
- 00:16:18.160 --> 00:16:19.210
- SAT DOWN ON THE SOFA, AND I
- 00:16:19.210 --> 00:16:20.110
- GRABBED MY GUITAR, AND I PUT IN
- 00:16:20.110 --> 00:16:21.160
- ON MY LAP, AND I PRAYED THE
- 00:16:21.160 --> 00:16:23.170
- BIGGEST PRAYER THAT I EVER
- 00:16:23.170 --> 00:16:24.200
- PRAYED IN MY LIFE UP TO THAT
- 00:16:24.200 --> 00:16:25.110
- POINT.
- 00:16:25.110 --> 00:16:26.210
- I SAID, "JESUS, I JUST WANNA
- 00:16:26.210 --> 00:16:27.190
- PLAY FOR YOU.
- 00:16:28.240 --> 00:16:31.240
- I JUST WANNA DO THIS SO THAT I
- 00:16:31.240 --> 00:16:34.100
- CAN DECLARE YOUR NAME."
- 00:16:34.100 --> 00:16:35.090
- AND I SAID, "JESUS,
- 00:16:35.090 --> 00:16:36.120
- WOULD YOU JUST MOVE MY ARM
- 00:16:36.120 --> 00:16:37.260
- TO THE GUITAR STRINGS SO
- 00:16:37.260 --> 00:16:40.050
- THAT I CAN AT LEAST
- 00:16:40.050 --> 00:16:40.210
- PLAY THE GUITAR?
- 00:16:40.210 --> 00:16:41.100
- THAT'S ALL I'M ASKIN'.
- 00:16:41.100 --> 00:16:42.120
- I JUST ASK YOU TO MOVE MY ARM
- 00:16:42.120 --> 00:16:43.170
- FROM WHERE IT'S STUCK TO THE
- 00:16:43.230 --> 00:16:46.230
- STRINGS SO I COULD PLAY."
- 00:16:46.230 --> 00:16:48.210
- AND IN THAT MOMENT,
- 00:16:48.210 --> 00:16:49.070
- I CANNOT EXPLAIN THIS TO YOU,
- 00:16:49.070 --> 00:16:50.030
- BUT IN THAT MOMENT,
- 00:16:50.030 --> 00:16:52.130
- MY ARM MOVED FROM WHERE IT WAS
- 00:16:52.130 --> 00:16:53.250
- STUCK, AND IT JUST INSTANTLY
- 00:16:53.250 --> 00:16:55.060
- MOVED RIGHT TO THE GUITAR
- 00:16:55.060 --> 00:16:56.080
- STRINGS!
- 00:16:56.080 --> 00:16:58.220
- AND I WAS OVERWHELMED THAT
- 00:16:58.220 --> 00:17:00.060
- "I CANNOT BELIEVE, GOD,
- 00:17:00.060 --> 00:17:01.200
- YOU COULD ANSWER A PRAYER
- 00:17:01.200 --> 00:17:02.230
- SO FAST!"
- 00:17:02.280 --> 00:17:05.280
- [LAUGHTER]
- 00:17:05.280 --> 00:17:08.030
- AND THEN I HAD THIS THOUGHT.
- 00:17:08.030 --> 00:17:10.230
- THAT WAS THE STUPIDEST PRAYER
- 00:17:10.230 --> 00:17:12.260
- I'VE EVER PRAYED IN MY WHOLE
- 00:17:12.260 --> 00:17:13.170
- LIFE.
- 00:17:13.190 --> 00:17:16.190
- I COULD ALMOST HEAR GOD, LIKE,
- 00:17:16.190 --> 00:17:18.210
- "WATCH THIS!
- 00:17:18.210 --> 00:17:20.190
- HE'S ABOUT TO PRAY, AND I'M
- 00:17:20.190 --> 00:17:22.070
- ABOUT TO HEAL HIM!
- 00:17:22.070 --> 00:17:23.250
- WATCH!
- 00:17:23.250 --> 00:17:24.240
- HOW ABOUT I DO A GOD-SIZED
- 00:17:24.240 --> 00:17:27.070
- THING!"
- 00:17:27.070 --> 00:17:28.240
- BUT I DIDN'T HAVE A GOD-SIZED
- 00:17:28.240 --> 00:17:29.150
- PRAYER.
- 00:17:29.150 --> 00:17:31.080
- I SAID, "GOD, JESUS, COULD YOU
- 00:17:31.080 --> 00:17:32.250
- JUST MOVE MY ARM?
- 00:17:32.250 --> 00:17:33.230
- IT'S JUST OVER HERE."
- 00:17:33.230 --> 00:17:34.190
- IT'S LIKE,
- 00:17:34.190 --> 00:17:35.040
- "I'M NOT ASKING FOR A WHOLE LOT.
- 00:17:35.040 --> 00:17:35.260
- YOU COULD PROBABLY ASSIGN THIS
- 00:17:35.260 --> 00:17:37.010
- TO A MIDDLE MANAGER.
- 00:17:40.150 --> 00:17:43.150
- [LAUGHTER]
- 00:17:43.150 --> 00:17:45.200
- AND WHEN I MOVED MY ARM,
- 00:17:45.200 --> 00:17:46.230
- I HEAR-- I HAD THIS
- 00:17:46.230 --> 00:17:47.110
- THOUGHT.
- 00:17:47.110 --> 00:17:47.270
- I REALIZED, "WHAT WAS I
- 00:17:47.270 --> 00:17:48.150
- THINKING!
- 00:17:48.150 --> 00:17:50.170
- IF GOD WOULD MOVE MY ARM FROM
- 00:17:50.170 --> 00:17:52.000
- HERE TO HERE, IF HE WOULD HEAL
- 00:17:52.000 --> 00:17:52.220
- MY ARM THAT MUCH, I'M PRETTY
- 00:17:52.220 --> 00:17:54.160
- SURE HE WAS READY TO HEAL MY ARM
- 00:17:54.160 --> 00:17:57.120
- COMPLETELY!"
- 00:17:58.170 --> 00:18:01.190
- AND I REMEMBER WHEN I WENT BACK
- 00:18:01.190 --> 00:18:02.170
- TO THE HOSPITAL AND THEY
- 00:18:02.170 --> 00:18:04.090
- MEASURED MY MOBILITY, AND THEY
- 00:18:04.090 --> 00:18:05.000
- SAID, "ALL RIGHT.
- 00:18:05.000 --> 00:18:06.020
- LET'S SEE WHAT YOU GOT."
- 00:18:06.020 --> 00:18:08.110
- ZERO, ZERO, ZERO, ZERO,
- 00:18:08.110 --> 00:18:09.170
- EVERY SINGLE DAY...
- 00:18:09.170 --> 00:18:10.200
- AND I GO, "HOW DO YOU WANT ME TO
- 00:18:10.200 --> 00:18:11.120
- MOVE MY ARM?
- 00:18:11.120 --> 00:18:11.280
- LIKE THIS?
- 00:18:11.280 --> 00:18:12.160
- LIKE THIS?
- 00:18:12.160 --> 00:18:13.030
- HOW..." 'CAUSE I WAS SO NEW, I
- 00:18:13.030 --> 00:18:13.240
- DIDN'T KNOW ANY BETTER, AND I
- 00:18:13.240 --> 00:18:14.250
- TOLD 'EM ALL ABOUT JESUS AND HOW
- 00:18:14.250 --> 00:18:15.240
- HE HEALED ME!
- 00:18:15.240 --> 00:18:16.120
- SEE, NOW, I THINK A LOT OF US,
- 00:18:16.120 --> 00:18:19.110
- WE PRAY PRAYERS THAT ACTUALLY
- 00:18:21.140 --> 00:18:24.140
- REVEAL OUR LACK OF FAITH IN WHAT
- 00:18:24.230 --> 00:18:27.230
- GOD WANTS TO DO IN US.
- 00:18:27.230 --> 00:18:30.230
- "WHAT DO YOU WANT ME TO DO FOR
- 00:18:31.000 --> 00:18:34.000
- YOU?
- 00:18:34.000 --> 00:18:34.200
- WHAT DO YOU WANT?
- 00:18:34.200 --> 00:18:36.020
- WHAT KIND OF LIFE DO YOU WANT?"
- 00:18:36.020 --> 00:18:37.140
- DO YOU HAVE THE LIFE YOU WANT,
- 00:18:37.140 --> 00:18:39.130
- OR DO YOU JUST HAVE A LIFE YOU
- 00:18:39.130 --> 00:18:40.150
- GOT?
- 00:18:40.150 --> 00:18:42.160
- SEE, I THINK A LOT OF US, WE'RE
- 00:18:42.160 --> 00:18:44.170
- NOT LIVING THE LIFE WE WANT.
- 00:18:44.170 --> 00:18:46.290
- WE'RE LIVING THE LIFE WE'VE GOT.
- 00:18:46.290 --> 00:18:49.110
- AND THE REASON WE NEVER LIVE THE
- 00:18:49.210 --> 00:18:52.210
- LIFE THAT WE WANT IS BECAUSE WE
- 00:18:52.210 --> 00:18:54.230
- DON'T KNOW WHAT WE WANT.
- 00:18:54.230 --> 00:18:56.040
- AND GOD KEEPS WAITING: "ASK ME!
- 00:18:56.040 --> 00:18:58.000
- WHAT ARE YOUR DREAMS?
- 00:18:58.120 --> 00:19:01.140
- WHAT'S YOUR VISION?
- 00:19:01.140 --> 00:19:03.220
- WHAT BURDENS YOU?
- 00:19:03.220 --> 00:19:06.050
- WHAT FILLS YOU WITH PASSION?
- 00:19:06.050 --> 00:19:08.050
- WHAT SETS YOU ON FIRE?
- 00:19:08.050 --> 00:19:09.260
- ASK ME FOR SOMETHING BIGGER THAN
- 00:19:09.260 --> 00:19:11.100
- YOU SO THAT I CAN SHOW UP AND BE
- 00:19:11.100 --> 00:19:13.080
- GOD IN YOUR LIFE!"
- 00:19:13.080 --> 00:19:15.040
- [APPLAUSE]
- 00:19:15.040 --> 00:19:17.180
- AND YOU NEED TO OPEN UP YOUR
- 00:19:17.180 --> 00:19:18.200
- HEART AND OPEN UP YOUR MIND
- 00:19:18.200 --> 00:19:20.240
- AND OPEN UP YOUR SOUL, AND
- 00:19:20.240 --> 00:19:21.180
- OPEN UP YOUR DREAMS.
- 00:19:21.180 --> 00:19:23.080
- OPEN UP YOUR IMAGINATION AND
- 00:19:23.080 --> 00:19:24.170
- STOP TRYING TO MAKE OUT AS SMALL
- 00:19:24.170 --> 00:19:27.050
- AS YOU, AND LET GOD MAKE YOU AS
- 00:19:27.050 --> 00:19:30.050
- BIG AS HIM!
- 00:19:30.050 --> 00:19:31.070
- [CHEERS AND APPLAUSE]
- 00:19:32.270 --> 00:19:35.270
- - MATT: WE WELCOME YOU RIGHT
- 00:19:35.270 --> 00:19:36.210
- WE ARE IN SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA, AND
- 00:19:40.240 --> 00:19:42.090
- WHEREVER YOU'RE WATCHING AROUND
- 00:19:42.090 --> 00:19:43.010
- THE WORLD, WE WELCOME YOU.
- 00:19:43.010 --> 00:19:43.200
- - LAURIE: YES!
- 00:19:43.200 --> 00:19:44.280
- - MATT: OUR GUEST,
- 00:19:44.280 --> 00:19:45.140
- ERWIN MCMANUS.
- 00:19:45.140 --> 00:19:46.020
- LET'S TALK ABOUT CREATIVITY.
- 00:19:49.040 --> 00:19:50.020
- WHERE DO WE WANNA GET STARTED IN
- 00:19:50.020 --> 00:19:50.240
- THIS DISCUSSION?
- 00:19:50.240 --> 00:19:51.130
- - ERWIN: WELL, HERE AT THE
- 00:19:51.130 --> 00:19:52.030
- HILLSONG CONFERENCE, THEY'VE
- 00:19:52.030 --> 00:19:53.270
- ADDED A PARTICULAR SESSION
- 00:19:53.270 --> 00:19:54.220
- AND THEY'RE TALKING ABOUT THE
- 00:19:58.200 --> 00:19:59.110
- DIFFERENT DOMAINS IN WHICH WE
- 00:19:59.110 --> 00:20:00.020
- HUMANS LIVE, WHETHER IT'S IN THE
- 00:20:00.020 --> 00:20:01.030
- ARTS.
- 00:20:05.140 --> 00:20:06.100
- RELIGION IS CONSIDERED A DOMAIN,
- 00:20:06.100 --> 00:20:07.020
- FAMILY.
- 00:20:07.020 --> 00:20:07.120
- AND PART OF THE FOCUS IS REALLY
- 00:20:07.120 --> 00:20:09.270
- THAT WE SHOULDN'T ISOLATE OUR
- 00:20:09.270 --> 00:20:10.180
- FAITH INTO SIMPLY, LIKE, A
- 00:20:10.270 --> 00:20:13.270
- RELIGIOUS DOMAIN, BUT WE SHOULD
- 00:20:13.270 --> 00:20:14.200
- ACTUALLY IMPACT EVERY DOMAIN,
- 00:20:14.200 --> 00:20:15.160
- WHETHER IT'S POLITICS OR
- 00:20:15.160 --> 00:20:18.040
- BUSINESS OR EDUCATION OR ARTS,
- 00:20:18.260 --> 00:20:21.260
- WHICH REALLY MATCHES REALLY WELL
- 00:20:21.260 --> 00:20:22.180
- WITH THE THEMES OF "THE ARTISAN
- 00:20:22.180 --> 00:20:24.100
- SOUL."
- 00:20:24.100 --> 00:20:25.050
- AND SO I SPEND MY TIME TALKING
- 00:20:25.050 --> 00:20:26.130
- ABOUT HOW THE DOMAINS,
- 00:20:26.130 --> 00:20:28.220
- THOSE SPHERES ARE ACTUALLY
- 00:20:28.220 --> 00:20:29.230
- CANVASES UPON WHICH HUMANS PAINT
- 00:20:29.230 --> 00:20:32.220
- BECAUSE EVERY HUMAN BEING IS A
- 00:20:32.220 --> 00:20:35.000
- WORK OF ART AND AN ARTIST AT
- 00:20:35.000 --> 00:20:35.280
- WORK.
- 00:20:35.280 --> 00:20:37.100
- AND SO WHETHER YOU'RE IN THE
- 00:20:37.100 --> 00:20:38.110
- FIELD OF EDUCATION OR WHETHER
- 00:20:38.110 --> 00:20:39.040
- YOU'RE AN ENTREPRENEUR IN THE
- 00:20:39.040 --> 00:20:40.230
- BUSINESS WORLD OR WHETHER YOU'RE
- 00:20:40.230 --> 00:20:41.210
- IN THE WORLD OF ARTS AND
- 00:20:41.210 --> 00:20:43.040
- ENTERTAINMENT LIKE YOURSELVES,
- 00:20:43.040 --> 00:20:45.080
- OR WHETHER A PERSON'S THE PASTOR
- 00:20:45.080 --> 00:20:47.200
- OF A CHURCH, EVERY ONE OF US IS
- 00:20:47.280 --> 00:20:50.280
- REALLY SPENDING OUR LIVES,
- 00:20:50.280 --> 00:20:52.190
- TRYING TO CREATE A MASTERPIECE.
- 00:20:52.190 --> 00:20:53.110
- AND WHAT WE DO IN THOSE
- 00:20:53.110 --> 00:20:55.220
- ENVIRONMENTS, BRINGING OUR
- 00:20:56.030 --> 00:20:59.030
- PASSIONS, OUR TALENTS, OUR
- 00:20:59.030 --> 00:20:59.220
- GIFTING, OUR INTELLIGENCE, OUR
- 00:20:59.220 --> 00:21:01.000
- SOULS, EVERY PART OF US, THAT'S
- 00:21:01.070 --> 00:21:04.070
- OUR CREATIVE WORK IN LIFE.
- 00:21:04.070 --> 00:21:05.260
- THERE ARE POINTS IN HISTORY
- 00:21:05.260 --> 00:21:07.120
- WHERE PEOPLE OF FAITH FEEL
- 00:21:07.190 --> 00:21:10.190
- OVERWHELMED BY THE DARKNESS OF
- 00:21:10.190 --> 00:21:12.200
- THE WORLD AROUND THEM, YOU KNOW,
- 00:21:13.170 --> 00:21:16.170
- WHETHER IT'S POLITICAL OR
- 00:21:16.170 --> 00:21:17.070
- WHETHER IT'S ECONOMIC.
- 00:21:18.000 --> 00:21:21.000
- I THINK SOMETIMES OUR FAITH HAS
- 00:21:21.000 --> 00:21:21.220
- BEEN MISUNDERSTOOD, AND THE
- 00:21:22.090 --> 00:21:25.090
- CHURCH IS MISUNDERSTOOD, SO THE
- 00:21:25.090 --> 00:21:27.070
- CHURCH BECOMES ALMOST LIKE A
- 00:21:27.070 --> 00:21:29.090
- FORTRESS WHERE WE CAN HIDE FROM
- 00:21:29.090 --> 00:21:30.100
- THE WORLD AROUND US.
- 00:21:30.100 --> 00:21:32.010
- 'CAUSE IF YOU'RE LIVING IN A
- 00:21:32.010 --> 00:21:32.260
- REALLY POLITICALLY DANGEROUS
- 00:21:32.260 --> 00:21:34.070
- WORLD, YOU CAN FEEL LIKE THE
- 00:21:34.070 --> 00:21:35.120
- WHOLE WORLD IS AGAINST YOU, AND
- 00:21:35.120 --> 00:21:37.060
- I THINK SOMETIMES WHAT'S
- 00:21:37.060 --> 00:21:39.020
- HAPPENED IS THE CHURCH HAS SEEN
- 00:21:39.020 --> 00:21:40.240
- ITSELF ALMOST AT WAR WITH THE
- 00:21:40.240 --> 00:21:42.030
- WORLD, AND SO EVEN THE LANGUAGE
- 00:21:42.150 --> 00:21:45.150
- OF THE WORLD IS A VERY NEGATIVE
- 00:21:45.150 --> 00:21:46.140
- LANGUAGE.
- 00:21:46.140 --> 00:21:47.240
- BUT WHAT'S INTERESTING TO ME,
- 00:21:47.240 --> 00:21:50.130
- AND I TRIED TO HIGHLIGHT THIS
- 00:21:50.130 --> 00:21:51.040
- TODAY IS THAT, WHEN ISRAEL WAS
- 00:21:51.040 --> 00:21:52.240
- TAKEN CAPTIVE BY THE
- 00:21:52.240 --> 00:21:54.170
- BABYLONIANS, I MEAN, DO WE HAVE
- 00:21:54.170 --> 00:21:56.170
- A MORE DARK METAPHOR THAN
- 00:21:56.170 --> 00:21:57.130
- BABYLON, RIGHT?
- 00:21:57.130 --> 00:21:59.200
- WHEN WE THINK OF BABYLON, WE
- 00:21:59.200 --> 00:22:00.190
- THINK OF THE WORLD IN ITS WORST
- 00:22:00.190 --> 00:22:01.120
- CONDITION.
- 00:22:01.120 --> 00:22:03.150
- YET, WHAT GOD SAYS TO JEREMIAH
- 00:22:03.150 --> 00:22:04.060
- AND TO THE PEOPLE OF ISRAEL IS
- 00:22:04.060 --> 00:22:05.160
- HE SAYS, "'I KNOW THE PLANS I
- 00:22:05.160 --> 00:22:07.180
- HAVE FOR YOU,' DECLARES THE
- 00:22:07.180 --> 00:22:08.080
- LORD, 'PLANS WITH WELFARE, NOT
- 00:22:08.080 --> 00:22:09.200
- DESTRUCTION, WITH A FUTURE AND A
- 00:22:11.190 --> 00:22:14.190
- HOPE.'"
- 00:22:14.190 --> 00:22:16.090
- AND WHAT GOD IS ACTUALLY SAYING
- 00:22:16.090 --> 00:22:17.010
- TO THEM THERE, HE SAYS,
- 00:22:17.010 --> 00:22:17.290
- "I WANT YOU TO GO INTO THE CITY,
- 00:22:17.290 --> 00:22:18.260
- AND I WANT YOU TO BUILD HOUSES
- 00:22:18.260 --> 00:22:20.200
- AND HAVE CHILDREN AND HAVE
- 00:22:21.060 --> 00:22:24.060
- FAMILIES."
- 00:22:24.060 --> 00:22:24.210
- AND THEN HE SAYS,
- 00:22:24.210 --> 00:22:26.210
- "FOR WHEN THE CITY PROSPERS, YOU
- 00:22:26.210 --> 00:22:27.130
- WILL PROSPER."
- 00:22:27.130 --> 00:22:28.160
- I THINK THIS IS WHERE WE
- 00:22:28.160 --> 00:22:29.040
- GOT IT WRONG: WE THOUGHT WE
- 00:22:29.040 --> 00:22:29.240
- SHOULD PULL OURSELVES OUT OF
- 00:22:29.240 --> 00:22:31.100
- THE WORLD SO THAT GOD WILL
- 00:22:31.100 --> 00:22:32.250
- PROSPER US, RATHER THAN
- 00:22:32.250 --> 00:22:34.060
- GIVE OURSELVES TO SERVE THE
- 00:22:34.060 --> 00:22:35.090
- WORLD.
- 00:22:35.090 --> 00:22:37.290
- BECAUSE, WHEN WE BECOME A
- 00:22:37.290 --> 00:22:38.180
- BLESSING TO THE WORLD, WHEN THEY
- 00:22:38.180 --> 00:22:39.270
- PROSPER, THEN WE'LL PROSPER.
- 00:22:39.270 --> 00:22:41.260
- SO I THINK WE REALLY, IN SOME
- 00:22:41.260 --> 00:22:42.280
- SENSE, HAD A REALLY BAD
- 00:22:42.280 --> 00:22:44.180
- THEOLOGY.
- 00:22:44.180 --> 00:22:46.220
- WE THOUGHT THAT WHAT IT MEANT TO
- 00:22:46.220 --> 00:22:48.140
- BE THE CHURCH, TO BE SANCTIFIED,
- 00:22:48.140 --> 00:22:49.200
- TO BE HOLY, WAS TO PULL
- 00:22:49.200 --> 00:22:52.070
- OURSELVES OUT OF THE WORLD
- 00:22:52.070 --> 00:22:52.260
- RATHER THAN TO DIVE RIGHT INTO
- 00:22:52.260 --> 00:22:54.160
- THAT WORLD AND BE A BLESSING TO
- 00:22:54.160 --> 00:22:55.210
- THAT WORLD.
- 00:22:55.210 --> 00:22:57.060
- - MATT: WOW.
- 00:22:57.060 --> 00:22:58.170
- OKAY.
- 00:22:58.170 --> 00:22:59.070
- YOU JUST DROPPED A BOMB RIGHT
- 00:22:59.070 --> 00:23:00.240
- HERE IN THE MIDDLE OF THE
- 00:23:00.240 --> 00:23:01.130
- HILLSONG CONFERENCE, AND I DON'T
- 00:23:01.130 --> 00:23:02.240
- WANNA GO FAR FROM THAT.
- 00:23:03.110 --> 00:23:06.110
- I WANT YOU TO KEEP TALKING IN
- 00:23:06.110 --> 00:23:07.030
- THAT VEIN.
- 00:23:07.030 --> 00:23:09.160
- BUT I JUST WANT YOU TO KNOW
- 00:23:09.160 --> 00:23:10.060
- THAT, IF YOU JUST TUNED IN, OUR
- 00:23:10.060 --> 00:23:11.110
- GUEST, ERWIN MCMANUS-- AND ON
- 00:23:11.110 --> 00:23:12.070
- CUE, LIKE SOMEBODY HAD PLANNED
- 00:23:12.070 --> 00:23:13.160
- IT, THERE WAS A GROUP OF PEOPLE
- 00:23:13.160 --> 00:23:15.260
- COMING DOWN THE ESCALATOR BEHIND
- 00:23:15.260 --> 00:23:18.010
- YOU, AND THEY WERE HOLDING YOUR
- 00:23:18.010 --> 00:23:19.200
- BOOK, "ARTISAN SOUL."
- 00:23:19.200 --> 00:23:22.190
- SO I SAW THE LOGO OF YOUR
- 00:23:22.190 --> 00:23:23.140
- BOOK GO RIGHT PAST YOUR HEAD
- 00:23:23.140 --> 00:23:24.050
- HERE AS WE ARE GOING HERE
- 00:23:24.050 --> 00:23:26.060
- AND SO--
- 00:23:26.060 --> 00:23:28.180
- - ERWIN: WELL, THAT'S
- 00:23:28.180 --> 00:23:29.070
- ENCOURAGING!
- 00:23:29.070 --> 00:23:29.230
- [LAUGHTER]
- 00:23:29.230 --> 00:23:30.170
- - MATT: "ARTISAN SOUL" IS
- 00:23:30.170 --> 00:23:31.100
- REALLY YOUR LATEST BOOK, AND
- 00:23:31.100 --> 00:23:32.260
- REALLY BECOMING THE SUBJECT OF
- 00:23:32.260 --> 00:23:34.120
- OUR DISCUSSION HERE.
- 00:23:34.120 --> 00:23:36.020
- THE IDEA THAT THERE WAS BAD
- 00:23:36.020 --> 00:23:38.200
- THEOLOGY AND THAT WE WERE
- 00:23:39.050 --> 00:23:42.050
- SUPPOSED TO "BE YE SEPARATE,"
- 00:23:42.050 --> 00:23:43.290
- COME OUT FROM AMONGST THE WORLD,
- 00:23:43.290 --> 00:23:45.190
- LIKE, "BE YE SEPARATE," WAS MY
- 00:23:45.190 --> 00:23:47.040
- PARENTS' MANTRA.
- 00:23:47.270 --> 00:23:50.270
- REMEMBER, IF--
- 00:23:50.270 --> 00:23:53.000
- - LAURIE: AND THEIR PARENTS.
- 00:23:53.000 --> 00:23:54.110
- - MATT: AND THEIR PARENTS.
- 00:23:54.110 --> 00:23:56.150
- IF MY MOM AND DAD, PAUL AND JAN
- 00:23:56.150 --> 00:23:59.090
- CROUCH, THAT THEY HAD TO SAY OF
- 00:23:59.250 --> 00:24:02.270
- THEIR PARENTS, "YOU'RE SINCERE
- 00:24:03.020 --> 00:24:06.020
- IN YOUR FAITH, BUT YOU'RE
- 00:24:06.020 --> 00:24:06.280
- SINCERELY WRONG--" BECAUSE MY
- 00:24:06.280 --> 00:24:09.060
- GRANDPARENTS WOULD'VE NEVER
- 00:24:09.060 --> 00:24:10.250
- ENDORSED TRINITY BROADCASTING
- 00:24:10.250 --> 00:24:11.170
- NETWORK.
- 00:24:11.170 --> 00:24:13.260
- TELEVISION WAS "EVIL," FILM, YOU
- 00:24:13.260 --> 00:24:15.150
- KNOW, RADIO.
- 00:24:16.200 --> 00:24:19.200
- MY DAD TELLS THE STORY, AND MY
- 00:24:19.200 --> 00:24:21.060
- MOM TELLS THE STORY OF THE
- 00:24:21.060 --> 00:24:21.250
- PASTOR COMING OVER TO THE HOUSE.
- 00:24:21.250 --> 00:24:23.020
- YOU HAD TO PUT YOUR RADIO IN THE
- 00:24:23.020 --> 00:24:24.020
- CLOSET--
- 00:24:24.020 --> 00:24:25.240
- - LAURIE: COVER IT UP!
- 00:24:25.240 --> 00:24:26.230
- - MATT: -- MAKE SURE THE PASTOR
- 00:24:26.230 --> 00:24:27.150
- DIDN'T KNOW YOU HAD A RADIO.
- 00:24:27.150 --> 00:24:28.060
- AND SO TELEVISION WAS THE
- 00:24:28.060 --> 00:24:29.140
- ONE-EYED DEMON MONSTER THAT WAS
- 00:24:30.010 --> 00:24:33.010
- GOING TO SUCK THE RIGHTEOUSNESS
- 00:24:33.230 --> 00:24:36.230
- OUT OF CHRISTIANITY RATHER THAN
- 00:24:36.230 --> 00:24:37.290
- JUMPING INTO THE MIDDLE OF IT
- 00:24:37.290 --> 00:24:39.010
- AND USING IT FOR THE GOSPEL.
- 00:24:39.010 --> 00:24:40.210
- - ERWIN: EVEN THE BIBLICAL WORD
- 00:24:40.210 --> 00:24:42.090
- FOR "CHURCH," "EKKLESIA," WHICH
- 00:24:42.090 --> 00:24:44.290
- LITERALLY MEANS "TO BE CALLED
- 00:24:46.000 --> 00:24:49.000
- OUT," WE INTERPRET THAT AS BEING
- 00:24:49.000 --> 00:24:50.220
- CALLED OUT FROM THE WORLD RATHER
- 00:24:50.220 --> 00:24:53.150
- THAN BEING CALLED OUT TO THE
- 00:24:53.150 --> 00:24:54.190
- WORLD.
- 00:24:54.190 --> 00:24:56.020
- - MATT: WOW.
- 00:24:56.020 --> 00:24:56.220
- - LAURIE: THAT'S GOOD.
- 00:24:56.220 --> 00:24:58.260
- - ERWIN: AND SO EVEN THOUGH WE
- 00:24:58.260 --> 00:24:59.180
- INTERPRET THE SCRIPTURES HAS
- 00:24:59.180 --> 00:25:00.210
- BEEN DISTORTED BY A VIEW THAT WE
- 00:25:00.210 --> 00:25:02.080
- NEED TO RUN FROM THE SPHERES,
- 00:25:02.080 --> 00:25:05.010
- RUN FROM THOSE DOMAINS, RATHER
- 00:25:05.010 --> 00:25:07.120
- THAN ACTUALLY BECOMING THE
- 00:25:07.120 --> 00:25:09.000
- CREATIVE FORCE OF GOD TO CREATE
- 00:25:09.000 --> 00:25:10.190
- GREAT BUSINESSES THAT DO GOOD IN
- 00:25:10.280 --> 00:25:13.280
- THE WORLD, TO CREATE BEAUTIFUL
- 00:25:13.280 --> 00:25:14.290
- ART THAT INSPIRES THE WORLD, TO
- 00:25:14.290 --> 00:25:15.290
- CREATE GREAT TEACHERS SO WE CAN
- 00:25:15.290 --> 00:25:18.260
- EDUCATE OUR CHILDREN TO HAVE A
- 00:25:18.260 --> 00:25:20.150
- BEAUTIFUL SENSE OF HOPE AND
- 00:25:20.150 --> 00:25:22.100
- CREATIVITY AND ARTISTRY AND
- 00:25:22.100 --> 00:25:24.140
- CONFIDENCE TO MAKE A DIFFERENCE
- 00:25:24.140 --> 00:25:26.030
- IN THE WORLD-- AND, FRANKLY,
- 00:25:26.030 --> 00:25:28.040
- EVEN WITH THE BOOK, IN FACT, I
- 00:25:28.040 --> 00:25:29.010
- PROBABLY SHOULDN'T SAY THIS
- 00:25:29.010 --> 00:25:31.000
- BUT--
- 00:25:31.000 --> 00:25:31.250
- - LAURIE: OH, GO AHEAD.
- 00:25:31.250 --> 00:25:32.160
- - MATT: OH, GO ON!
- 00:25:32.160 --> 00:25:33.070
- [LAUGHTER]
- 00:25:33.070 --> 00:25:34.030
- - LAURIE: OH, PLEASE!
- 00:25:34.030 --> 00:25:35.130
- - ERWIN: ONE OF THE THINGS
- 00:25:35.130 --> 00:25:36.140
- THAT-- SOMETIMES IF YOU'RE MORE
- 00:25:36.140 --> 00:25:37.280
- OF AN ARTIST THAN YOU ARE A
- 00:25:37.280 --> 00:25:39.010
- MARKETER OR A SALESPERSON, IS
- 00:25:39.010 --> 00:25:41.170
- THAT YOU NAME SOMETHING CLOSER
- 00:25:41.170 --> 00:25:43.150
- TO WHAT YOU FEEL IN YOUR SOUL
- 00:25:43.150 --> 00:25:45.040
- RATHER THAN WHAT ACTUALLY
- 00:25:45.040 --> 00:25:46.120
- TRANSLATES WELL TO THE AUDIENCE.
- 00:25:46.120 --> 00:25:47.230
- - MATT: GOTCHA.
- 00:25:47.230 --> 00:25:48.170
- - ERWIN: AND WHEN I NAMED THE
- 00:25:48.170 --> 00:25:50.030
- BOOK ORIGINALLY, IT WAS JUST
- 00:25:50.030 --> 00:25:50.230
- CALLED "ARTISAN," BECAUSE, FOR
- 00:25:50.230 --> 00:25:52.130
- ME, THAT FELT VERY ARTISTIC, AND
- 00:25:52.130 --> 00:25:54.010
- IT CARRIED THE ESSENCE OF MY
- 00:25:54.010 --> 00:25:54.280
- SOUL.
- 00:25:54.280 --> 00:25:57.180
- AS I LIVED OUT THIS BOOK, I'VE
- 00:25:57.180 --> 00:25:58.260
- REALIZED IT SHOULD'VE NEVER BEEN
- 00:25:58.260 --> 00:26:01.030
- CALLED "THE ARTISAN SOUL."
- 00:26:01.030 --> 00:26:01.220
- IT SHOULD'VE BEEN CALLED "THE
- 00:26:01.220 --> 00:26:04.210
- CREATIVE MANIFESTO" BECAUSE
- 00:26:05.000 --> 00:26:08.000
- PEOPLE ARE LOOKING AT THE BOOK,
- 00:26:08.000 --> 00:26:08.290
- GOING, "OH, I'M NOT AN ARTIST.
- 00:26:08.290 --> 00:26:09.290
- THIS BOOK ISN'T FOR ME."
- 00:26:09.290 --> 00:26:10.240
- - MATT: OH, WOW.
- 00:26:10.240 --> 00:26:13.170
- - ERWIN: AND SO PEOPLE ARE
- 00:26:13.170 --> 00:26:15.070
- WALKING BY IT, NOT PICKING UP
- 00:26:15.070 --> 00:26:16.150
- THE MESSAGE OF THIS BOOK, WHICH
- 00:26:16.150 --> 00:26:17.080
- IS ACTUALLY A CREATIVE
- 00:26:17.080 --> 00:26:18.160
- MANIFESTO.
- 00:26:18.160 --> 00:26:20.040
- IT'S A DECLARATION OF WHAT IT
- 00:26:20.040 --> 00:26:21.160
- MEANS TO BE CREATED IN THE IMAGE
- 00:26:21.160 --> 00:26:22.170
- OF GOD AND THAT WE ARE IMAGINED
- 00:26:22.170 --> 00:26:25.070
- TO IMAGINE AND CREATED TO
- 00:26:25.070 --> 00:26:26.100
- CREATE, THAT EVERY HUMAN BEING
- 00:26:26.100 --> 00:26:27.200
- IS A WORK OF ART AND AN ARTIST
- 00:26:27.200 --> 00:26:29.210
- AT WORK.
- 00:26:29.210 --> 00:26:30.130
- AND SO IF I HAVE ANY REGRET,
- 00:26:30.130 --> 00:26:33.050
- IT'S THAT I DIDN'T TRANSLATE THE
- 00:26:35.040 --> 00:26:38.040
- TITLE IN A WAY WHERE IT WOULD BE
- 00:26:38.040 --> 00:26:40.110
- JUMPING OFF THE SHELF FOR PEOPLE
- 00:26:40.110 --> 00:26:42.050
- OF FAITH, GOING,
- 00:26:42.050 --> 00:26:43.060
- "IT'S TIME FOR US TO CREATE
- 00:26:43.060 --> 00:26:45.210
- A REVOLUTION OF CREATIVITY"
- 00:26:45.210 --> 00:26:47.220
- 'CAUSE WE NEED TO TAKE THE
- 00:26:47.220 --> 00:26:49.100
- BIBLE BACK FROM ALL THOSE PEOPLE
- 00:26:49.100 --> 00:26:51.000
- WHO TURNED IT INTO A
- 00:26:51.000 --> 00:26:51.270
- MANUSCRIPT OF CONFORMITY AND
- 00:26:51.270 --> 00:26:53.290
- RECLAIM IT AS OUR MANIFESTO OF
- 00:26:53.290 --> 00:26:55.130
- CREATIVITY.
- 00:26:55.130 --> 00:26:56.170
- - LAURIE: OKAY.
- 00:26:56.170 --> 00:26:57.160
- HOW DO WE DO THAT?
- 00:26:57.160 --> 00:26:58.050
- GET US STARTED AND EVEN THINKING
- 00:26:58.050 --> 00:26:59.150
- THAT DIRECTION.
- 00:26:59.150 --> 00:27:01.090
- - ERWIN: WELL, THE MOST OBVIOUS
- 00:27:01.090 --> 00:27:04.030
- THING THAT I SHOULD SAY IS "READ
- 00:27:04.030 --> 00:27:05.070
- THE BOOK!"
- 00:27:05.070 --> 00:27:06.030
- - LAURIE: RIGHT!
- 00:27:06.030 --> 00:27:06.200
- [LAUGHTER]
- 00:27:06.200 --> 00:27:07.160
- - ERWIN: YEAH!
- 00:27:07.160 --> 00:27:08.120
- - LAURIE: OKAY!
- 00:27:08.120 --> 00:27:10.010
- - ERWIN: AND SOMETIMES IT'S
- 00:27:10.010 --> 00:27:10.220
- BECAUSE PEOPLE GO, "HOW DO WE
- 00:27:10.220 --> 00:27:11.160
- GET YOU TO HELP US?"
- 00:27:11.160 --> 00:27:12.200
- I GO, "THAT'S WHY I WROTE THE
- 00:27:12.200 --> 00:27:13.190
- BOOK" IS BECAUSE I CAN'T BE
- 00:27:13.190 --> 00:27:15.040
- EVERYWHERE AT ALL TIMES AND
- 00:27:15.040 --> 00:27:17.040
- BECAUSE THE FIRST 40 PAGES ARE
- 00:27:17.160 --> 00:27:20.160
- JUST A CONVERSATION TO CHANGE
- 00:27:20.160 --> 00:27:23.160
- THE WAY YOU THINK ABOUT YOURSELF
- 00:27:23.160 --> 00:27:24.260
- 'CAUSE, IF YOU DON'T KNOW THAT
- 00:27:25.030 --> 00:27:28.030
- YOU HAVE THE ABILITY TO SING,
- 00:27:28.030 --> 00:27:29.200
- YOU'LL NEVER OPEN YOUR MOUTH TO
- 00:27:29.200 --> 00:27:30.190
- SING.
- 00:27:30.190 --> 00:27:32.170
- IF YOU DON'T KNOW THAT YOU CAN
- 00:27:32.170 --> 00:27:33.280
- PAINT, YOU'RE NEVER GONNA PICK
- 00:27:33.280 --> 00:27:35.000
- UP THE BRUSH AND PAINT.
- 00:27:35.000 --> 00:27:36.070
- IF YOU DON'T KNOW THAT YOU CAN
- 00:27:36.070 --> 00:27:38.020
- MAKE THE WORLD BETTER, IF YOU
- 00:27:38.020 --> 00:27:39.030
- DON'T KNOW THAT YOU CAN CREATE,
- 00:27:39.030 --> 00:27:40.140
- IF YOU DON'T KNOW THAT YOUR
- 00:27:40.140 --> 00:27:41.280
- IMAGINATION ISN'T JUST SOME
- 00:27:41.280 --> 00:27:43.270
- ARBITRARY HUMAN DYNAMIC-- THAT
- 00:27:43.270 --> 00:27:46.150
- IT'S GOD'S PLAYGROUND WHERE HE
- 00:27:46.150 --> 00:27:48.180
- PUTS HIS DREAMS AND HIS VISIONS
- 00:27:48.180 --> 00:27:50.240
- INTO YOUR SOUL AND THAT YOU'RE
- 00:27:50.240 --> 00:27:52.200
- SUPPOSED TO HAVE DREAMS AND
- 00:27:52.200 --> 00:27:53.260
- VISIONS OF A FUTURE THAT GOD
- 00:27:53.260 --> 00:27:55.120
- WANTS TO CREATE IN YOU AND
- 00:27:55.120 --> 00:27:56.140
- THROUGH YOU.
- 00:27:56.290 --> 00:27:59.290
- - MATT: OKAY.
- 00:27:59.290 --> 00:28:01.010
- THERE'S SOMEONE WATCHING RIGHT
- 00:28:01.010 --> 00:28:02.170
- NOW WHO LOVES TO DANCE, SING,
- 00:28:03.110 --> 00:28:06.110
- PAINT, TWIRL, ALL THOSE THINGS,
- 00:28:06.130 --> 00:28:09.130
- AND THEY THINK IT'S USELESS OR
- 00:28:09.130 --> 00:28:10.230
- IT'S A SIDEBAR, AND YOU'RE GONNA
- 00:28:10.230 --> 00:28:12.100
- TOUCH SOME PEOPLE.
- 00:28:12.100 --> 00:28:14.050
- IF YOU'D LOOK INTO THE CAMERA
- 00:28:14.050 --> 00:28:15.170
- AND JUST UNPACK THAT AND GIVE
- 00:28:15.170 --> 00:28:17.180
- THEM PERMISSION TO BE AN ARTISAN
- 00:28:17.180 --> 00:28:20.050
- AND TO USE THAT IN A WAY TO
- 00:28:20.050 --> 00:28:21.120
- GLORIFY GOD.
- 00:28:21.120 --> 00:28:23.110
- I THINK YOU'RE GONNA HELP A LOT
- 00:28:23.110 --> 00:28:24.150
- OF PEOPLE.
- 00:28:24.150 --> 00:28:25.260
- - ERWIN: AND THEN I THINK IT
- 00:28:25.260 --> 00:28:26.260
- EVEN GOES SO FAR BEYOND THAT.
- 00:28:26.260 --> 00:28:28.070
- I MEAN, WHAT I FIND IS, I GET
- 00:28:28.070 --> 00:28:30.210
- E-MAILS AND TEXT MESSAGES FROM
- 00:28:31.020 --> 00:28:34.020
- ALL OVER THE WORLD FROM PEOPLE
- 00:28:34.020 --> 00:28:35.160
- IN THE ARTS, FROM WRITERS AND
- 00:28:35.160 --> 00:28:37.220
- DIRECTORS, FROM DANCERS AND
- 00:28:37.220 --> 00:28:39.140
- PAINTERS, FROM ARTISTS WHO NEVER
- 00:28:39.140 --> 00:28:40.180
- FELT THAT THEIR CREATIVE ESSENCE
- 00:28:42.120 --> 00:28:45.120
- FIT INTO GOD'S AGENDA IN THE
- 00:28:45.120 --> 00:28:47.110
- WORLD.
- 00:28:47.110 --> 00:28:48.110
- THEY WERE TOLD ALL THEIR LIFE
- 00:28:48.110 --> 00:28:49.090
- THAT THEIR CREATIVITY DIDN'T
- 00:28:49.090 --> 00:28:50.250
- HAVE A PLACE IN THE CHURCH OR IN
- 00:28:50.250 --> 00:28:53.120
- GOD'S NARRATIVE FOR HUMANITY.
- 00:28:53.260 --> 00:28:56.260
- AND ONE OF THE THINGS I WANT YOU
- 00:28:56.260 --> 00:28:58.130
- TO REALIZE IS THAT YOU ARE A
- 00:28:58.130 --> 00:28:59.190
- CREATIVE BEING BECAUSE YOU WERE
- 00:28:59.230 --> 00:29:02.250
- CREATED BY GOD.
- 00:29:02.250 --> 00:29:04.010
- YOUR CREATIVITY ISN'T AT WAR
- 00:29:04.010 --> 00:29:05.090
- WITH GOD.
- 00:29:06.000 --> 00:29:09.000
- IT'S ACTUALLY A REFLECTION OF
- 00:29:09.000 --> 00:29:09.220
- GOD.
- 00:29:09.220 --> 00:29:10.140
- BUT THERE'S MORE THAN THAT.
- 00:29:10.140 --> 00:29:11.090
- THERE ARE SOME OF YOU THAT ARE
- 00:29:11.090 --> 00:29:12.050
- NOT PAINTERS OR DANCERS OR A
- 00:29:12.050 --> 00:29:13.180
- ARTISANS THE WAY THAT WE THINK
- 00:29:13.180 --> 00:29:14.290
- OF THAT CONVENTIONALLY.
- 00:29:15.120 --> 00:29:18.120
- SOME OF YOU ARE MOMS WHO ARE
- 00:29:18.120 --> 00:29:19.040
- JUST SO CREATIVE IN THE WAY YOU
- 00:29:19.040 --> 00:29:19.260
- PARENT.
- 00:29:19.260 --> 00:29:20.100
- SOME OF YOU ARE TEACHERS THAT
- 00:29:20.100 --> 00:29:21.130
- ARE JUST SO UNORTHODOX IN THE
- 00:29:21.130 --> 00:29:22.260
- WAY THAT YOU EDUCATE, AND YOU'VE
- 00:29:22.260 --> 00:29:24.080
- ALWAYS FELT TERRIBLE BECAUSE YOU
- 00:29:24.080 --> 00:29:25.240
- JUST SIMPLY COULD NOT SEE THE
- 00:29:25.240 --> 00:29:27.230
- WORLD THE WAY EVERYONE ELSE SAW
- 00:29:27.230 --> 00:29:29.120
- THE WORLD.
- 00:29:29.120 --> 00:29:30.100
- AND I WANT YOU TO FEEL THIS
- 00:29:30.100 --> 00:29:31.240
- INCREDIBLE SENSE OF FREEDOM THAT
- 00:29:31.240 --> 00:29:33.090
- GOD CREATED YOU IN YOUR
- 00:29:33.090 --> 00:29:35.110
- UNIQUENESS, THAT HE DID NOT
- 00:29:35.110 --> 00:29:37.020
- CREATE YOU TO BE CONFORMED OR
- 00:29:37.020 --> 00:29:38.160
- STANDARDIZED OR TO COMPLY TO
- 00:29:38.160 --> 00:29:40.160
- WHAT EVERYONE ELSE THINKS YOU
- 00:29:40.160 --> 00:29:41.150
- SHOULD BE.
- 00:29:41.150 --> 00:29:43.120
- YOUR ONLY STANDARD IS THE
- 00:29:43.120 --> 00:29:44.200
- FINGERPRINT OF GOD ON YOUR LIFE,
- 00:29:44.200 --> 00:29:46.190
- AND I WANNA APOLOGIZE FOR
- 00:29:46.190 --> 00:29:49.080
- EVERYONE WHO HAS EVER USED THE
- 00:29:49.080 --> 00:29:51.030
- NAME OF JESUS TO TELL YOU THAT
- 00:29:51.030 --> 00:29:54.010
- YOU NEED TO BE CONFORMED OR
- 00:29:54.010 --> 00:29:56.110
- STANDARDIZED OR CLONED TO
- 00:29:56.110 --> 00:29:58.070
- EVERYONE ELSE IN THE WORLD
- 00:29:58.070 --> 00:30:00.210
- BECAUSE JESUS IS THE
- 00:30:00.210 --> 00:30:03.100
- REVOLUTIONARY WHO UNLOCKS YOUR
- 00:30:03.100 --> 00:30:05.110
- CREATIVITY, WHO UNLOCKS YOUR
- 00:30:05.110 --> 00:30:07.070
- UNIQUENESS, WHO UNLOCKS THAT
- 00:30:07.070 --> 00:30:08.000
- ASPECT OF WHO YOU ARE THAT
- 00:30:08.000 --> 00:30:09.200
- REFLECTS GOD MOST BEAUTIFULLY,
- 00:30:09.200 --> 00:30:11.070
- AND IN THAT YOU ARE LIKE NO ONE
- 00:30:11.070 --> 00:30:13.000
- ELSE IN THE WORLD.
- 00:30:13.000 --> 00:30:15.100
- I'M JUST GONNA BE REALLY HONEST.
- 00:30:15.100 --> 00:30:16.220
- IF FOLLOWING JESUS MEANT LOSING
- 00:30:16.220 --> 00:30:19.100
- MY UNIQUENESS, IF IT MEANT
- 00:30:19.100 --> 00:30:21.070
- STANDARDIZING MY SOUL AND
- 00:30:22.170 --> 00:30:25.170
- BECOMING LIKE EVERYONE ELSE, I
- 00:30:25.170 --> 00:30:26.210
- WOULD NOT BE TELLING YOU THAT
- 00:30:26.210 --> 00:30:28.000
- JESUS IS THE WAY.
- 00:30:28.030 --> 00:30:31.030
- BUT WHEN YOU TRUST JESUS WITH
- 00:30:31.030 --> 00:30:32.010
- YOUR LIFE, WHEN YOU FOLLOW HIM,
- 00:30:32.010 --> 00:30:33.180
- YOU FIND A FREEDOM THAT COMES
- 00:30:33.180 --> 00:30:36.070
- FROM NO ONE ELSE.
- 00:30:36.070 --> 00:30:38.180
- YOU NO LONGER HAVE TO WORRY
- 00:30:38.180 --> 00:30:39.210
- ABOUT WHAT OTHER PEOPLE THINK,
- 00:30:39.210 --> 00:30:40.130
- WHAT OTHER PEOPLE SAY.
- 00:30:40.130 --> 00:30:41.220
- YOU NO LONGER HAVE TO LIVE TO
- 00:30:41.220 --> 00:30:42.240
- THE STANDARDS OF ANYONE ELSE
- 00:30:42.240 --> 00:30:44.210
- BECAUSE "HE WHO THE SON SETS
- 00:30:44.210 --> 00:30:47.160
- FREE IS FREE INDEED."
- 00:30:47.160 --> 00:30:49.040
- - MATT: WOW!
- 00:30:49.040 --> 00:30:51.140
- YOU KNOW, YOU ARE NOT NORMAL.
- 00:30:53.190 --> 00:30:56.190
- YOU KNOW THAT, RIGHT?
- 00:30:56.190 --> 00:30:57.170
- YOU ARE A--
- 00:30:57.170 --> 00:30:58.190
- - LAURIE: AMAZING!
- 00:30:58.190 --> 00:31:00.130
- - MATT: -- AMAZING,
- 00:31:00.130 --> 00:31:03.040
- OUT-OF-THE-BOX THINKER.
- 00:31:03.040 --> 00:31:04.000
- I WANNA TELL THAT, FIRST OF ALL,
- 00:31:04.000 --> 00:31:05.220
- YOU'RE HERE-- WE'RE HERE IN
- 00:31:05.220 --> 00:31:07.190
- SYDNEY, WHEREVER YOU'RE
- 00:31:07.190 --> 00:31:08.070
- WATCHING.
- 00:31:08.070 --> 00:31:10.030
- STAY WITH US.
- 00:31:10.030 --> 00:31:10.190
- WE'RE GONNA BE BOUNCING IN AND
- 00:31:10.190 --> 00:31:11.230
- OUT OF THE HILLSONG CONFERENCE
- 00:31:11.230 --> 00:31:13.140
- HERE IN SYDNEY.
- 00:31:13.140 --> 00:31:14.160
- AMAZING!
- 00:31:14.160 --> 00:31:15.150
- ALL THE PEOPLE HERE WILL BE
- 00:31:15.150 --> 00:31:16.140
- RUNNING IN AND OUT AND JOINING
- 00:31:16.180 --> 00:31:19.180
- THE CONFERENCE, AND WE'RE GONNA
- 00:31:19.180 --> 00:31:20.250
- TAKE YOU IN AND OUT OF THE
- 00:31:20.250 --> 00:31:21.280
- CONFERENCE.
- 00:31:21.280 --> 00:31:22.160
- CONFERENCE SPEAKER,
- 00:31:22.160 --> 00:31:23.260
- ERWIN MCMANUS.
- 00:31:23.260 --> 00:31:24.260
- ERWIN IS PASTORING MOSAIC CHURCH
- 00:31:25.230 --> 00:31:28.230
- IN LOS ANGELES.
- 00:31:28.230 --> 00:31:30.060
- I WAS IN MOSAIC CHURCH, AND WHAT
- 00:31:30.060 --> 00:31:32.280
- I FOUND IS THAT YOUR LIFE IS
- 00:31:35.150 --> 00:31:38.150
- ABOUT, NOT ABOUT ADDRESSING
- 00:31:38.150 --> 00:31:40.000
- ISSUES THAT GET ADDRESSED AT
- 00:31:40.000 --> 00:31:41.150
- EVERY CHURCH, EVERYWHERE IN THE
- 00:31:41.150 --> 00:31:42.080
- WORLD.
- 00:31:42.080 --> 00:31:43.070
- IT'S ABOUT DEALING WITH THE
- 00:31:43.070 --> 00:31:44.140
- ISSUES THAT DON'T GET ADDRESSED.
- 00:31:44.140 --> 00:31:45.290
- YOU'RE PREACHING, REALLY, FOR
- 00:31:45.290 --> 00:31:47.240
- THE PEOPLE WALKING BY YOUR
- 00:31:47.240 --> 00:31:50.080
- CHURCH, NOT THE ONES THAT ARE
- 00:31:50.080 --> 00:31:51.170
- REALLY SITTING IN THAT CHURCH.
- 00:31:51.170 --> 00:31:52.160
- AND MOSAIC AND YOUR MINISTRY, IN
- 00:31:52.170 --> 00:31:55.170
- GENERAL, IS LIKE A VACUUM,
- 00:31:56.080 --> 00:31:59.080
- THINKING ABOUT THE PEOPLE THAT
- 00:31:59.080 --> 00:31:59.290
- DON'T EVER GET THOUGHT ABOUT AS
- 00:31:59.290 --> 00:32:01.110
- MUCH.
- 00:32:01.110 --> 00:32:03.080
- IS THAT A FAIR ASSESSMENT?
- 00:32:03.080 --> 00:32:03.270
- - ERWIN: IT REALLY IS.
- 00:32:03.270 --> 00:32:06.220
- AND, IN FACT, IF ANYTHING, MY
- 00:32:06.220 --> 00:32:07.130
- KIDS HAVE TRIED TO REMIND ME
- 00:32:07.130 --> 00:32:08.080
- THAT I SHOULD CARE ABOUT
- 00:32:08.080 --> 00:32:09.030
- CHRISTIANS TOO.
- 00:32:09.030 --> 00:32:10.150
- [LAUGHTER]
- 00:32:10.150 --> 00:32:12.260
- AND IT'S NOT THAT I DON'T.
- 00:32:12.260 --> 00:32:14.050
- IT'S JUST THAT I'M NOT THE
- 00:32:14.050 --> 00:32:17.020
- SOURCE OF WHAT PEOPLE NEED, SO I
- 00:32:17.020 --> 00:32:18.200
- KNOW THAT ONCE YOU HAVE THAT
- 00:32:18.200 --> 00:32:20.180
- SOURCE, ONCE YOU'VE COME INTO A
- 00:32:20.180 --> 00:32:23.040
- RELATIONSHIP WITH JESUS, YOU
- 00:32:23.040 --> 00:32:25.280
- ACTUALLY HAVE THE SOURCE, SO
- 00:32:25.280 --> 00:32:27.070
- WHAT YOU NEED MOST, AND SO I
- 00:32:27.220 --> 00:32:30.220
- FEEL LIKE I BECOME LESS VALUABLE
- 00:32:30.220 --> 00:32:31.140
- TO YOU.
- 00:32:31.140 --> 00:32:33.120
- AND SO I DO HAVE A DEEP BURDEN,
- 00:32:33.120 --> 00:32:36.060
- AND I JUST LOVE PEOPLE, AND IT
- 00:32:36.060 --> 00:32:37.170
- ACTUALLY BREAKS MY HEART TO KNOW
- 00:32:38.110 --> 00:32:41.110
- THERE ARE PEOPLE WHO FEEL ALONE
- 00:32:41.110 --> 00:32:43.000
- IN THE WORLD AND WHO DON'T KNOW
- 00:32:43.000 --> 00:32:45.100
- THAT THEY MATTER.
- 00:32:45.100 --> 00:32:46.190
- AND I ALSO THINK THAT-- I DON'T
- 00:32:46.190 --> 00:32:48.040
- KNOW HOW TO SAY THIS, BUT THERE
- 00:32:48.040 --> 00:32:50.050
- ARE REALLY SMART PEOPLE OUT
- 00:32:50.240 --> 00:32:53.240
- THERE WHO DON'T THINK GOD IS A
- 00:32:53.240 --> 00:32:56.020
- LEGITIMATE OPTION BECAUSE
- 00:32:56.020 --> 00:32:57.290
- THEY'RE NOT PEOPLE WHO
- 00:32:58.170 --> 00:33:01.190
- COMMUNICATE ON THEIR WAVELENGTH.
- 00:33:01.190 --> 00:33:04.030
- THEY ARE REALLY CREATIVE,
- 00:33:04.030 --> 00:33:05.240
- INTUITIVE PEOPLE OUT THERE WHO
- 00:33:05.240 --> 00:33:08.050
- JUST DON'T SEE JESUS AS A
- 00:33:08.050 --> 00:33:09.140
- REALISTIC OPTION BECAUSE THERE
- 00:33:09.140 --> 00:33:10.190
- ARE PEOPLE--
- 00:33:10.190 --> 00:33:12.050
- NOT PEOPLE WHO ARE SPEAKING
- 00:33:12.050 --> 00:33:14.180
- ON THEIR FREQUENCY.
- 00:33:14.180 --> 00:33:15.170
- AND I FEEL LIKE A PART OF MY OWN
- 00:33:15.170 --> 00:33:16.090
- BURDEN AND MY OWN MISSION IN
- 00:33:16.090 --> 00:33:17.210
- LIFE IS TO TRY TO TRANSLATE WHO
- 00:33:17.210 --> 00:33:18.210
- JESUS IS FOR PEOPLE FOR WHOM IT
- 00:33:19.150 --> 00:33:22.150
- DOESN'T MAKE SENSE STILL, YOU
- 00:33:22.290 --> 00:33:25.290
- KNOW?
- 00:33:25.290 --> 00:33:26.170
- IN FACT, I WROTE DOWN IN MY
- 00:33:26.170 --> 00:33:27.280
- NOTES THAT MY PRAYER IS THAT
- 00:33:30.100 --> 00:33:33.100
- SOMEHOW I COULD HAVE A
- 00:33:33.100 --> 00:33:34.210
- CONVERSATION WITH THE WORLD.
- 00:33:34.210 --> 00:33:37.040
- AND, BY THE WAY, I JUST WANNA
- 00:33:37.040 --> 00:33:37.270
- SAY FOR YOU GUYS, I KNOW IT WAS
- 00:33:37.270 --> 00:33:38.280
- A HUGE LOSS IN LOSING YOUR DAD
- 00:33:38.280 --> 00:33:41.160
- AND YOUR MOM, AND I KNOW THAT
- 00:33:42.180 --> 00:33:45.180
- YOU HAVE SUCH LOVE AND RESPECT
- 00:33:45.180 --> 00:33:48.130
- FOR ALL THAT THEY DID, BUT I
- 00:33:48.130 --> 00:33:51.020
- ALSO KNOW THAT THERE HAVE BEEN
- 00:33:51.020 --> 00:33:52.160
- THINGS IN YOUR HEARTS THAT
- 00:33:52.160 --> 00:33:53.140
- YOU'VE WANTED TO DO THAT YOU'VE
- 00:33:53.140 --> 00:33:54.210
- BEEN REALLY PATIENT IN HONORING
- 00:33:54.210 --> 00:33:57.180
- THE WAY TO DO 'EM.
- 00:33:57.180 --> 00:34:00.160
- AND I AM SO EXCITED TO SEE WHAT
- 00:34:00.160 --> 00:34:02.030
- THE FUTURE OF TBN IS AND TO SEE
- 00:34:02.030 --> 00:34:04.220
- HOW YOU WILL CREATE PLATFORMS
- 00:34:06.020 --> 00:34:09.020
- FOR SO MANY DIFFERENT VOICES
- 00:34:09.080 --> 00:34:12.080
- THAT ALLOW PEOPLE TO SERIOUSLY
- 00:34:12.080 --> 00:34:13.260
- CONSIDER WHO JESUS IS AND WILL
- 00:34:16.010 --> 00:34:19.010
- BE DRAWN TO THE WONDER OF WHO
- 00:34:19.010 --> 00:34:21.290
- GOD IS.
- 00:34:21.290 --> 00:34:22.290
- AND SO I JUST WANNA TELL YOU I'M
- 00:34:22.290 --> 00:34:24.220
- SO GRATEFUL THAT YOU HAVE STAYED
- 00:34:27.000 --> 00:34:30.000
- IN THERE AND HAVE REALLY SERVED
- 00:34:30.000 --> 00:34:31.240
- AND HAVE REALLY HONORED YOUR
- 00:34:31.240 --> 00:34:33.030
- PARENTS AND HAVE BEEN FAITHFUL
- 00:34:34.170 --> 00:34:37.170
- BECAUSE I ACTUALLY THINK THIS
- 00:34:37.170 --> 00:34:38.130
- IS, LIKE, YOUR TIME WHERE YOU'RE
- 00:34:38.130 --> 00:34:39.050
- GONNA CREATE A GLOBAL
- 00:34:40.130 --> 00:34:43.130
- CONVERSATION ABOUT WHO JESUS IS,
- 00:34:43.130 --> 00:34:44.240
- AND SO MANY PEOPLE ARE GOING TO
- 00:34:44.240 --> 00:34:46.100
- TURN UP.
- 00:34:46.100 --> 00:34:48.030
- - MATT: WELL, I'M NOT DOIN' IT
- 00:34:48.030 --> 00:34:48.250
- WITHOUT YOU SO--
- 00:34:48.250 --> 00:34:49.160
- [LAUGHTER]
- 00:34:49.160 --> 00:34:50.030
- - LAURIE: YOU'RE A HUGE PART OF
- 00:34:50.030 --> 00:34:50.260
- THAT!
- 00:34:50.260 --> 00:34:51.120
- - MATT: YOU'RE A BIG PIECE OF
- 00:34:51.120 --> 00:34:52.030
- THAT, ERWIN.
- 00:34:52.030 --> 00:34:52.150
- AND, LOOK, WE BASICALLY HAVE
- 00:34:54.100 --> 00:34:57.100
- BEEN BOUNCING IN AND OUT OF
- 00:34:57.100 --> 00:34:58.060
- YOUR--
- 00:34:58.060 --> 00:34:58.210
- FROM THE BIG STAGE HERE
- 00:34:58.210 --> 00:34:59.250
- AND OUR CONVERSATION.
- 00:34:59.250 --> 00:35:02.110
- YOU'VE GOT SOMEBODY'S ATTENTION
- 00:35:02.240 --> 00:35:05.240
- SOMEWHERE IN THE WORLD, AND,
- 00:35:05.240 --> 00:35:06.140
- JUST, IF THEY DON'T KNOW WHAT IT
- 00:35:07.220 --> 00:35:10.220
- IS TO FIND FAITH IN JESUS, I'D
- 00:35:10.220 --> 00:35:12.100
- LOVE FOR YOU TO, JUST, TALK TO
- 00:35:12.100 --> 00:35:14.210
- THEM ABOUT WHAT THAT IS.
- 00:35:15.170 --> 00:35:18.170
- AND FINAL THOUGHTS ARE YOURS,
- 00:35:18.170 --> 00:35:20.270
- PLEASE, SIR.
- 00:35:20.270 --> 00:35:21.290
- - ERWIN: YEAH.
- 00:35:22.160 --> 00:35:25.160
- MATT AND LAURIE KNOW THIS IS AN
- 00:35:25.160 --> 00:35:26.240
- INCREDIBLY UNCOMFORTABLE THING
- 00:35:26.240 --> 00:35:27.150
- FOR ME.
- 00:35:27.150 --> 00:35:28.290
- [LAUGHTER]
- 00:35:28.290 --> 00:35:29.180
- - MATT: YES!
- 00:35:29.180 --> 00:35:30.060
- - ERWIN: AND, YOU KNOW, THEY
- 00:35:30.060 --> 00:35:31.120
- ENDLESSLY PUT ME ON THE SPOT.
- 00:35:31.120 --> 00:35:33.100
- - ERWIN: AND SOME OF IT IS THAT
- 00:35:37.030 --> 00:35:37.280
- I WAS THE LEAST LIKELY PERSON TO
- 00:35:37.280 --> 00:35:38.200
- YET AT THE SAME TIME, I WAS ALSO
- 00:35:43.210 --> 00:35:44.130
- THE PERSON WHO DESPERATELY
- 00:35:44.130 --> 00:35:45.020
- WANTED TO HAVE CONVERSATIONS
- 00:35:45.020 --> 00:35:47.110
- ABOUT LIFE, ABOUT GOD, ABOUT
- 00:35:47.110 --> 00:35:48.040
- WHETHER THERE WAS ANY MEANING IN
- 00:35:48.040 --> 00:35:50.090
- MY LIFE AT ALL.
- 00:35:50.090 --> 00:35:52.150
- AND I FOUND IN THE MOST
- 00:35:52.170 --> 00:35:55.170
- UNEXPECTED OF WAYS THAT, IN
- 00:35:55.170 --> 00:35:58.070
- MOMENTS LIKE THIS, THERE'LL BE
- 00:35:58.070 --> 00:36:00.210
- SOMEONE WHO'S ACTUALLY WATCHING
- 00:36:00.210 --> 00:36:01.270
- AND SOMEONE WHO'S LISTENING.
- 00:36:01.270 --> 00:36:03.240
- I'VE RECEIVED E-MAILS FROM ALL
- 00:36:03.240 --> 00:36:06.210
- OVER THE PLACE FROM PHDS AND
- 00:36:06.210 --> 00:36:08.020
- INTELLECTUALS AND ACADEMICS AND
- 00:36:08.020 --> 00:36:10.150
- ATHEISTS WHO HAVE SAID, "I WAS
- 00:36:10.150 --> 00:36:13.000
- JUST CHANGING CHANNELS, AND THEN
- 00:36:13.000 --> 00:36:14.230
- I HEARD YOU TALKING, AND I DON'T
- 00:36:15.030 --> 00:36:18.030
- KNOW WHY, BUT I STOPPED."
- 00:36:18.030 --> 00:36:19.010
- AND MAYBE THAT'S YOU RIGHT
- 00:36:19.010 --> 00:36:20.000
- NOW.
- 00:36:20.000 --> 00:36:21.280
- MAYBE YOU'RE SURPRISED YOU'RE
- 00:36:21.280 --> 00:36:23.080
- LISTENING TO THIS CONVERSATION
- 00:36:23.080 --> 00:36:23.290
- RIGHT NOW, AND IT MAY BE THAT
- 00:36:23.290 --> 00:36:25.190
- RIGHT NOW IN YOUR LIFE, YOU
- 00:36:25.190 --> 00:36:26.250
- MIGHT ACTUALLY JUST BE AT THE
- 00:36:26.250 --> 00:36:28.090
- END OF YOURSELF.
- 00:36:28.090 --> 00:36:28.270
- WELL, ONE OF THE THINGS I FIND
- 00:36:28.270 --> 00:36:31.000
- SO OFTENTIMES IS THAT WE CAN
- 00:36:31.000 --> 00:36:32.090
- LOOK SO GOOD TO OTHER PEOPLE,
- 00:36:32.090 --> 00:36:33.260
- AND WE CAN LOOK SO TOGETHER AND
- 00:36:33.260 --> 00:36:36.100
- SO PUT TOGETHER, BUT INSIDE
- 00:36:36.100 --> 00:36:38.190
- WE'RE JUST FALLING APART, AND
- 00:36:38.190 --> 00:36:39.130
- OUR SOULS ARE EMPTY, AND WE'RE
- 00:36:39.130 --> 00:36:41.010
- JUST GASPING FOR BREATH, AND IF
- 00:36:41.010 --> 00:36:43.080
- THAT'S YOU, I JUST WANT YOU TO
- 00:36:43.080 --> 00:36:44.200
- KNOW, FIRST OF ALL, THAT YOUR
- 00:36:44.200 --> 00:36:45.290
- LIFE IS NOT AN ACCIDENT, THAT
- 00:36:45.290 --> 00:36:48.120
- THE REASON THAT YOU'RE ALWAYS
- 00:36:48.120 --> 00:36:50.160
- TRYING TO FIGURE THINGS OUT,
- 00:36:50.160 --> 00:36:52.240
- TRYING TO MAKE SENSE OF YOUR
- 00:36:52.240 --> 00:36:54.050
- LIFE IS THAT YOUR LIFE IS
- 00:36:54.050 --> 00:36:55.140
- SUPPOSED TO MAKE SENSE, BUT IT
- 00:36:55.140 --> 00:36:57.140
- DOESN'T MAKE SENSE WHILE YOU'RE
- 00:36:57.140 --> 00:36:59.200
- DISCONNECTED FROM THE ONE WHO
- 00:36:59.200 --> 00:37:00.190
- CREATED YOU.
- 00:37:00.190 --> 00:37:02.060
- I WANT YOU TO KNOW THAT THERE IS
- 00:37:02.060 --> 00:37:04.080
- A GOD WHO SEES YOU, WHO KNOWS
- 00:37:04.080 --> 00:37:06.000
- YOU, WHO VALUES YOU, WHO LOVES
- 00:37:06.000 --> 00:37:08.220
- YOU BECAUSE HE CREATED YOU IN
- 00:37:08.220 --> 00:37:10.020
- HIS IMAGE AND LIKENESS.
- 00:37:10.020 --> 00:37:11.150
- HE CREATED YOU FOR A
- 00:37:11.150 --> 00:37:12.010
- RELATIONSHIP WITH HIM.
- 00:37:12.010 --> 00:37:13.020
- AND THE REASON YOU LONG FOR
- 00:37:13.020 --> 00:37:15.020
- LOVE AND THE REASON YOU LONG FOR
- 00:37:15.020 --> 00:37:16.100
- ACCEPTANCE AND THE REASON WE ALL
- 00:37:16.100 --> 00:37:17.140
- NEED TO BELONG IS BECAUSE WE'RE
- 00:37:17.280 --> 00:37:20.280
- CREATED BY A GOD WHO IS, IN HIS
- 00:37:20.280 --> 00:37:23.150
- VERY ESSENCE, LOVE, WHICH IS WHY
- 00:37:23.150 --> 00:37:24.100
- JESUS CAME.
- 00:37:25.280 --> 00:37:28.280
- THE REASON JESUS STEPPED INTO
- 00:37:28.280 --> 00:37:30.100
- HUMAN HISTORY, THE REASON GOD
- 00:37:30.100 --> 00:37:31.160
- TOOK ON FLESH AND BLOOD AND
- 00:37:31.160 --> 00:37:33.070
- WALKED AMONG US IS THAT, WHEN
- 00:37:33.070 --> 00:37:34.040
- IT'S ABOUT LOVE, YOU CANNOT SEND
- 00:37:34.040 --> 00:37:36.270
- A LETTER OR JUST SEND A FRIEND
- 00:37:36.270 --> 00:37:38.100
- OR SEND A MESSENGER.
- 00:37:38.100 --> 00:37:40.110
- GOD STEPPED INTO HUMAN HISTORY
- 00:37:40.110 --> 00:37:41.280
- BECAUSE GOD'S ENTIRE INTENTION
- 00:37:41.280 --> 00:37:43.240
- TOWARDS YOU IS TO WIN YOU WITH
- 00:37:43.240 --> 00:37:45.160
- HIS LOVE.
- 00:37:45.160 --> 00:37:47.280
- JESUS WAS CRUCIFIED, BURIED, AND
- 00:37:47.280 --> 00:37:49.230
- RAISED FROM THE DEAD, AND PEOPLE
- 00:37:49.230 --> 00:37:51.090
- ASK ME ALL THE TIME, "WHY WOULD
- 00:37:51.090 --> 00:37:52.010
- GOD HAVE TO BE CRUCIFIED TO
- 00:37:52.080 --> 00:37:55.080
- FORGIVE US OF OUR SINS, TO
- 00:37:55.080 --> 00:37:56.180
- FORGIVE US OF OUR BROKENNESS, TO
- 00:37:56.180 --> 00:37:58.040
- HEAL US?"
- 00:37:58.040 --> 00:38:00.170
- I SAID, "BECAUSE THE GREATEST
- 00:38:00.170 --> 00:38:01.110
- ACT OF LOVE IS SACRIFICE."
- 00:38:01.110 --> 00:38:03.140
- IT MAKES SENSE THAT,
- 00:38:03.140 --> 00:38:05.030
- IF THIS IS ALL ABOUT LOVE,
- 00:38:05.030 --> 00:38:05.260
- THAT WHAT IT WOULD DEMAND
- 00:38:05.260 --> 00:38:07.210
- OF GOD IS SACRIFICE.
- 00:38:07.220 --> 00:38:10.220
- AND HE GAVE HIMSELF FOR US SO
- 00:38:11.150 --> 00:38:14.150
- THAT WE WOULD NEVER HAVE TO
- 00:38:14.150 --> 00:38:15.240
- QUESTION WHETHER WE ARE LOVED.
- 00:38:15.240 --> 00:38:17.170
- AND WHAT I LOVE ABOUT JESUS IS
- 00:38:17.170 --> 00:38:19.250
- THAT HE DOESN'T WAIT FOR YOU OR
- 00:38:19.250 --> 00:38:21.290
- FOR ME TO EARN LOVE.
- 00:38:21.290 --> 00:38:24.170
- HE DOESN'T WAIT FOR YOU OR FOR
- 00:38:24.170 --> 00:38:25.110
- ME TO DESERVE LOVE.
- 00:38:25.110 --> 00:38:27.080
- HE DOESN'T WAIT FOR US TO GIVE
- 00:38:27.080 --> 00:38:28.150
- OURSELVES IN THE GREAT
- 00:38:28.150 --> 00:38:29.250
- SACRIFICE.
- 00:38:29.250 --> 00:38:31.140
- HE DID FOR US WHAT WE COULD NOT
- 00:38:31.140 --> 00:38:33.070
- DO FOR OURSELVES, AND IT WOULD
- 00:38:33.070 --> 00:38:34.240
- BE BEAUTIFUL ENOUGH IF GOD DIED
- 00:38:34.240 --> 00:38:35.280
- FOR US, BUT THE STORY DOESN'T
- 00:38:35.280 --> 00:38:37.280
- END THERE.
- 00:38:37.280 --> 00:38:38.200
- HE WAS CRUCIFIED, BURIED, AND
- 00:38:39.000 --> 00:38:42.000
- RAISED FROM THE DEAD SO THAT WE
- 00:38:42.000 --> 00:38:43.130
- COULD KNOW THAT HIS LOVE IS MORE
- 00:38:43.130 --> 00:38:45.000
- POWERFUL THAN DEATH, THAT HIS
- 00:38:45.000 --> 00:38:46.170
- LOVE IS MORE POWERFUL THAN OUR
- 00:38:46.170 --> 00:38:48.220
- SIN, MORE POWERFUL THAN OUR
- 00:38:48.220 --> 00:38:50.040
- BROKENNESS, MORE POWERFUL THAN
- 00:38:50.040 --> 00:38:51.220
- EMPTINESS INSIDE OF US.
- 00:38:54.160 --> 00:38:57.160
- AND SO IF YOU'RE LISTENING RIGHT
- 00:38:57.160 --> 00:38:58.080
- THIS MOMENT, I JUST WANNA
- 00:38:58.080 --> 00:38:59.120
- CHALLENGE YOU.
- 00:38:59.120 --> 00:38:59.260
- WHEREVER YOU ARE, IF YOU'RE IN
- 00:38:59.260 --> 00:39:01.060
- YOUR LIVING ROOM OR IN YOUR
- 00:39:01.060 --> 00:39:02.090
- BEDROOM OR IF YOU'RE JUST
- 00:39:02.090 --> 00:39:03.070
- WATCHING SOMEHOW ONLINE, I WANNA
- 00:39:03.070 --> 00:39:04.220
- CHALLENGE YOU IN THIS MOMENT
- 00:39:04.220 --> 00:39:06.130
- JUST TO PAUSE AND JUST ALLOW
- 00:39:06.130 --> 00:39:09.030
- JESUS TO MEET YOU WHERE YOU ARE
- 00:39:09.030 --> 00:39:11.090
- AND JUST WHISPER A PRAYER THAT
- 00:39:11.090 --> 00:39:12.000
- INVITES HIM INTO YOUR LIFE
- 00:39:12.000 --> 00:39:14.040
- BECAUSE, IF YOU WISH FOR A
- 00:39:14.040 --> 00:39:16.080
- PRAYER THAT SAYS, "JESUS, I GIVE
- 00:39:16.080 --> 00:39:18.040
- YOU MY LIFE," I GUARANTEE YOU,
- 00:39:18.040 --> 00:39:19.050
- GOD WILL ENVELOP YOU WITH HIS
- 00:39:19.050 --> 00:39:20.020
- LOVE.
- 00:39:20.020 --> 00:39:23.010
- HE WILL WRAP YOU UP IN HIS
- 00:39:23.010 --> 00:39:24.060
- PRESENCE.
- 00:39:24.060 --> 00:39:25.210
- YOU WILL BELONG TO HIM, AND THAT
- 00:39:25.210 --> 00:39:27.020
- EMPTINESS INSIDE OF YOU WILL BE
- 00:39:27.020 --> 00:39:28.130
- FILLED WITH HIS PRESENCE.
- 00:39:28.130 --> 00:39:29.250
- HE IS THE GOD WHO FILLS YOU WITH
- 00:39:29.250 --> 00:39:31.090
- LOVE, WHO FILLS YOU WITH LIFE,
- 00:39:31.090 --> 00:39:32.270
- AND ALLOWS YOU TO LIVE A LIFE OF
- 00:39:33.020 --> 00:39:36.020
- FREEDOM.
- 00:39:36.120 --> 00:39:39.120
- AND I WANNA ENCOURAGE YOU TO NOT
- 00:39:39.120 --> 00:39:40.240
- MISS THAT GIFT THAT GOD HAS
- 00:39:40.240 --> 00:39:41.200
- PROVIDED FOR YOU.
- 00:39:41.270 --> 00:39:44.270
- - MATT: BEAUTIFUL.
- 00:39:44.270 --> 00:39:47.030
- THERE'S A NUMBER ON THE SCREEN.
- 00:39:47.030 --> 00:39:47.250
- IF YOU WANNA JUST SIMPLY CALL
- 00:39:47.250 --> 00:39:48.170
- THAT NUMBER AND TALK WITH
- 00:39:48.170 --> 00:39:49.270
- SOMEBODY, DO THAT RIGHT NOW.
- 00:39:49.270 --> 00:39:52.000
- LET'S GO BACK INSIDE THE BIG
- 00:39:52.000 --> 00:39:52.230
- ARENA.
- 00:39:52.290 --> 00:39:55.290
- - ERWIN: SO THERE'S THIS MOMENT
- 00:39:55.290 --> 00:39:56.210
- IN 2 KINGS WHERE A WOMAN WAS
- 00:39:58.160 --> 00:40:01.160
- MARRIED TO A MAN WHO LIVED FOR
- 00:40:01.160 --> 00:40:02.270
- GOD, AND THEN HE DIED.
- 00:40:03.250 --> 00:40:06.250
- AND HE LEFT THEM BANKRUPT, AND
- 00:40:06.250 --> 00:40:08.260
- NOW HER SONS ARE GOING TO BE
- 00:40:08.260 --> 00:40:10.190
- SOLD AS SLAVES.
- 00:40:10.190 --> 00:40:12.200
- AND THEY GO TO THE PROPHET
- 00:40:13.010 --> 00:40:16.010
- ELISHA FOR HELP.
- 00:40:16.010 --> 00:40:16.200
- 2 KINGS CHAPTER 4: "THE WIFE OF
- 00:40:19.250 --> 00:40:22.250
- A MAN FROM THE COMPANY OF THE
- 00:40:22.250 --> 00:40:23.250
- PROPHETS CRIED OUT TO ELISHA,
- 00:40:23.250 --> 00:40:24.160
- 'YOUR SERVANT MY HUSBAND IS
- 00:40:24.160 --> 00:40:26.220
- AND YOU KNOW HE REVERED THE
- 00:40:30.180 --> 00:40:31.280
- LORD, AND NOW HIS CREDITOR
- 00:40:31.280 --> 00:40:33.020
- IS COMING TO TAKE MY
- 00:40:33.020 --> 00:40:33.240
- TWO BOYS AS HIS SLAVES.'
- 00:40:33.240 --> 00:40:36.150
- ELISHA REPLIED TO HER,
- 00:40:36.150 --> 00:40:37.020
- 'HOW CAN I HELP YOU?
- 00:40:37.020 --> 00:40:38.180
- TELL ME, WHAT DO YOU HAVE IN
- 00:40:38.180 --> 00:40:40.120
- YOUR HOUSE?'
- 00:40:40.120 --> 00:40:42.230
- 'YOUR SERVANT HAS NOTHING THERE
- 00:40:42.230 --> 00:40:44.210
- AT ALL,' SHE SAID, 'EXCEPT A
- 00:40:44.210 --> 00:40:45.210
- SMALL JAR OF OLIVE OIL.'
- 00:40:45.210 --> 00:40:46.280
- ELISHA SAID,
- 00:40:46.280 --> 00:40:47.260
- 'GO AROUND AND ASK ALL
- 00:40:47.260 --> 00:40:49.070
- YOUR NEIGHBORS FOR EMPTY JARS.
- 00:40:49.070 --> 00:40:51.000
- DON'T ASK FOR JUST A FEW.
- 00:40:51.000 --> 00:40:53.090
- THEN GO INSIDE AND SHUT THE DOOR
- 00:40:53.090 --> 00:40:55.020
- BEHIND YOU AND YOUR SONS.
- 00:40:55.020 --> 00:40:56.260
- POUR OIL INTO THE JARS.
- 00:40:56.260 --> 00:40:59.040
- AS EACH IS FILLED, PUT IT TO ONE
- 00:40:59.040 --> 00:41:00.150
- SIDE.'
- 00:41:00.150 --> 00:41:02.050
- SHE LEFT HIM AND SHUT THE
- 00:41:02.060 --> 00:41:05.060
- DOOR BEHIND HER AND HER SONS,
- 00:41:05.060 --> 00:41:06.170
- AND THEY BROUGHT THE JARS TO HER
- 00:41:06.240 --> 00:41:09.240
- AND SHE KEPT POURING."
- 00:41:09.240 --> 00:41:12.190
- AND SHE KEPT POURING AND POURING
- 00:41:12.190 --> 00:41:13.150
- AND POURING AND POURING.
- 00:41:13.150 --> 00:41:14.170
- "WHEN ALL THE JARS WERE FULL,
- 00:41:15.000 --> 00:41:18.000
- SHE SAID TO HER SON, BRING ME
- 00:41:18.000 --> 00:41:19.160
- ANOTHER ONE.'
- 00:41:19.160 --> 00:41:20.280
- BUT HE REPLIED,
- 00:41:20.280 --> 00:41:21.270
- 'THERE IS NOT A JAR LEFT.'
- 00:41:21.270 --> 00:41:24.150
- THEN THE OIL STOPPED FLOWING.
- 00:41:25.220 --> 00:41:28.220
- SHE WENT AND TOLD THE MAN OF
- 00:41:28.220 --> 00:41:31.020
- GOD, AND HE SAID, 'GO, SELL THE
- 00:41:31.020 --> 00:41:33.250
- OIL AND PAY YOUR DEBTS.
- 00:41:34.040 --> 00:41:37.040
- YOU AND YOUR SONS CAN LIVE ON
- 00:41:37.040 --> 00:41:38.140
- WHAT IS LEFT.'"
- 00:41:38.210 --> 00:41:41.210
- I THINK THIS MOMENT IS SO
- 00:41:41.210 --> 00:41:44.140
- CRITICAL FOR OUR OWN FAITH.
- 00:41:45.000 --> 00:41:48.000
- HERE'S A WOMAN WHO'S AT THE END
- 00:41:48.000 --> 00:41:48.220
- OF HERSELF, WHO DOESN'T KNOW
- 00:41:48.220 --> 00:41:50.130
- WHAT TO DO.
- 00:41:50.130 --> 00:41:51.200
- BUT INSTEAD OF BECOMING
- 00:41:51.200 --> 00:41:52.110
- EMBITTERED TOWARD GOD, SHE RUNS
- 00:41:52.110 --> 00:41:53.190
- TO THE MAN OF GOD AND SAYS,
- 00:41:53.190 --> 00:41:55.010
- "THIS IS WHERE I'M AT.
- 00:41:56.000 --> 00:41:59.000
- THIS IS WHERE MY LIFE IS.
- 00:41:59.000 --> 00:42:00.140
- THIS IS WHAT I'VE COME TO."
- 00:42:00.140 --> 00:42:02.240
- AND I LOVE WHAT HE SAYS TO HER:
- 00:42:02.240 --> 00:42:04.040
- "HOW CAN I HELP YOU?"
- 00:42:04.040 --> 00:42:04.220
- SHE GOES, "I JUST EXPLAINED TO
- 00:42:04.220 --> 00:42:06.070
- YOU!
- 00:42:06.070 --> 00:42:07.180
- WE'RE BROKE!
- 00:42:07.180 --> 00:42:09.220
- OUR CREDITOR IS TAKING AWAY MY
- 00:42:09.220 --> 00:42:10.130
- BOYS!
- 00:42:10.130 --> 00:42:11.200
- THEY'RE GONNA BECOME SLAVES!"
- 00:42:11.200 --> 00:42:13.110
- WHY DOES ELISHA SAY, "HOW CAN I
- 00:42:13.110 --> 00:42:14.240
- HELP YOU?"
- 00:42:14.240 --> 00:42:17.070
- BECAUSE GOD IS ALWAYS GOING TO
- 00:42:17.070 --> 00:42:19.050
- ASK YOU, "WHAT DO YOU WANT?
- 00:42:22.030 --> 00:42:25.030
- HOW CAN I HELP YOU?"
- 00:42:25.030 --> 00:42:26.250
- AND THEN HE SAYS, "ALL RIGHT.
- 00:42:26.250 --> 00:42:27.160
- TELL ME, WHAT DO YOU HAVE IN
- 00:42:27.160 --> 00:42:28.190
- YOUR HOUSE?"
- 00:42:28.190 --> 00:42:30.010
- AND SHE SAYS, "I HAVE NOTHING AT
- 00:42:30.010 --> 00:42:31.050
- ALL," WHICH I THINK IS THE
- 00:42:31.050 --> 00:42:32.230
- PROBLEM FOR SO MANY OF US!
- 00:42:32.230 --> 00:42:35.190
- WE JUST DON'T THINK WE HAVE
- 00:42:35.190 --> 00:42:36.110
- ENOUGH FOR GOD TO USE.
- 00:42:36.110 --> 00:42:39.050
- I LOVE THE FACT THAT HIS FIRST
- 00:42:39.050 --> 00:42:40.220
- QUESTION TO HER IS "WHAT DO YOU
- 00:42:40.220 --> 00:42:41.290
- HAVE?"
- 00:42:41.290 --> 00:42:42.180
- AND SHE SAYS, "NOTHING."
- 00:42:42.180 --> 00:42:44.200
- THAT'S WHAT-- WE THINK THAT.
- 00:42:44.200 --> 00:42:46.130
- YOU HAVE SOMETHING.
- 00:42:46.130 --> 00:42:48.280
- GOD WANTS THAT SOMETHING.
- 00:42:48.280 --> 00:42:50.020
- HE WANTS YOU TO TAKE THAT
- 00:42:50.020 --> 00:42:52.020
- SOMETHING THAT YOU HAVE AND MAKE
- 00:42:52.020 --> 00:42:53.190
- IT EVERYTHING THAT YOU HAVE.
- 00:42:53.190 --> 00:42:56.050
- SO YOU GIVE EVERYTHING YOU HAVE
- 00:42:56.050 --> 00:42:57.070
- TO GOD SO THAT HE CAN GIVE YOU
- 00:42:57.070 --> 00:42:58.010
- EVERYTHING HE HAS.
- 00:42:58.010 --> 00:42:59.040
- THERE'S GONNA BE GREAT EXCHANGE
- 00:42:59.040 --> 00:43:00.030
- HERE.
- 00:43:00.030 --> 00:43:02.120
- SHE SAYS, "I HAVE NOTHING AT ALL
- 00:43:02.120 --> 00:43:03.040
- EXCEPT A SMALL JAR OF OLIVE
- 00:43:03.040 --> 00:43:04.200
- OIL."
- 00:43:04.200 --> 00:43:05.130
- HE SAYS, "ALL RIGHT.
- 00:43:05.130 --> 00:43:06.020
- I WANT YOU TO GO TO ALL YOUR
- 00:43:06.020 --> 00:43:07.050
- NEIGHBORS, AND I WANT YOU TO ASK
- 00:43:07.050 --> 00:43:08.080
- THEM FOR ALL THEIR EMPTY JARS,"
- 00:43:08.080 --> 00:43:09.090
- WHICH IS NOT REALLY HELPFUL, BUT
- 00:43:09.090 --> 00:43:10.010
- SHE GOES TO ALL THE NEIGHBORS.
- 00:43:10.010 --> 00:43:12.220
- I DON'T EVEN KNOW HOW MANY SHE
- 00:43:12.220 --> 00:43:13.130
- GOES TO.
- 00:43:13.130 --> 00:43:14.070
- AND SHE STARTS ASKING FOR ALL
- 00:43:14.070 --> 00:43:15.140
- THE EMPTY JARS.
- 00:43:15.140 --> 00:43:16.020
- AND HE DOES GIVE HER ONE BIT OF
- 00:43:16.020 --> 00:43:17.120
- INSIGHT: "DON'T ASK FOR JUST A
- 00:43:17.120 --> 00:43:18.150
- FEW."
- 00:43:18.150 --> 00:43:21.130
- SEE, I LOVE THIS 'CAUSE
- 00:43:21.130 --> 00:43:22.030
- ELISHA KNEW GOD.
- 00:43:22.030 --> 00:43:24.140
- HE KNEW HOW GENEROUS GOD WAS.
- 00:43:24.140 --> 00:43:26.290
- HE KNEW EXACTLY WHAT GOD WANTED
- 00:43:26.290 --> 00:43:29.070
- TO DO IN HER LIFE, AND HE SAID,
- 00:43:29.070 --> 00:43:30.200
- "GO ASK FOR EMPTY JARS, BUT
- 00:43:30.200 --> 00:43:32.060
- DON'T JUST ASK FOR A FEW.
- 00:43:32.060 --> 00:43:33.170
- GO GET AS MANY JARS AS YOU CAN."
- 00:43:34.000 --> 00:43:37.000
- SEE, I THINK SO MANY OF US ARE
- 00:43:37.000 --> 00:43:38.270
- CONVINCED THAT GOD CAN BARELY
- 00:43:38.270 --> 00:43:40.040
- FILL OUR ONE, SMALL JAR.
- 00:43:40.040 --> 00:43:42.230
- HE SAID, "GO GET ALL THE EMPTY
- 00:43:42.230 --> 00:43:45.190
- JARS YOU CAN.
- 00:43:45.190 --> 00:43:47.210
- PULL 'EM TOGETHER, AND THEN LOCK
- 00:43:47.210 --> 00:43:49.210
- YOURSELF IN," SO THAT NO ONE CAN
- 00:43:49.210 --> 00:43:51.120
- SAY ANYONE DID THIS, BUT GOD,
- 00:43:51.120 --> 00:43:53.260
- "AND TAKE THAT LITTLE BIT OF OIL
- 00:43:53.260 --> 00:43:55.080
- YOU HAVE AND START POURING IT
- 00:43:55.080 --> 00:43:56.120
- INTO ALL THOSE EMPTY JARS."
- 00:43:56.120 --> 00:43:59.060
- AND SHE POURED, AND SHE POURED,
- 00:43:59.060 --> 00:43:59.280
- AND SHE POURED,
- 00:43:59.280 --> 00:44:02.160
- AND BY THAT TIME, SHE GOT IT:
- 00:44:02.160 --> 00:44:03.190
- GOD IS A GENEROUS GOD!
- 00:44:03.190 --> 00:44:05.060
- GOD DOES MORE THAN WE COULD EVER
- 00:44:05.060 --> 00:44:06.070
- ASK OR IMAGINE!
- 00:44:06.070 --> 00:44:07.260
- THIS IS THE KIND OF GOD THAT WE
- 00:44:07.260 --> 00:44:08.180
- SERVE!
- 00:44:08.180 --> 00:44:10.210
- AND SHE JUST KEPT POURING AND
- 00:44:10.210 --> 00:44:11.190
- POURING AND POURING, AND FINALLY
- 00:44:11.190 --> 00:44:13.200
- SHE SAYS TO HER SON, "BRING ME
- 00:44:13.200 --> 00:44:14.210
- ANOTHER JAR!"
- 00:44:14.210 --> 00:44:17.080
- I WOULDN'T WANNA BE HER SON WHEN
- 00:44:17.080 --> 00:44:18.000
- HE SAID, "THAT'S ALL WE GOT."
- 00:44:20.100 --> 00:44:23.100
- BECAUSE BY THAT TIME, SHE
- 00:44:23.100 --> 00:44:24.170
- FINALLY UNDERSTOOD THE CHARACTER
- 00:44:24.170 --> 00:44:25.100
- OF GOD.
- 00:44:25.100 --> 00:44:27.050
- SHE FINALLY UNDERSTOOD THE
- 00:44:27.050 --> 00:44:27.240
- GENEROSITY OF GOD.
- 00:44:27.240 --> 00:44:29.220
- SHE FINALLY UNDERSTOOD THAT GOD
- 00:44:29.220 --> 00:44:30.200
- WANTED TO PROSPER HER AND TO
- 00:44:30.200 --> 00:44:31.150
- BLESS HER AND TO POUR INTO HER
- 00:44:31.150 --> 00:44:32.230
- LIFE.
- 00:44:32.230 --> 00:44:34.070
- [APPLAUSE]
- 00:44:35.030 --> 00:44:38.030
- SO MY WIFE, KIM, AND I,
- 00:44:38.030 --> 00:44:40.010
- WE SPENT 10 YEARS WORKING
- 00:44:40.010 --> 00:44:41.140
- WITH THE URBAN POOR.
- 00:44:41.140 --> 00:44:42.240
- WE WENT TO THE HIGHEST
- 00:44:42.240 --> 00:44:43.170
- CRIME-RATE/MURDER-RATE AREA OF
- 00:44:43.170 --> 00:44:46.070
- THE UNITED STATES AT THE TIME IN
- 00:44:46.070 --> 00:44:47.220
- DALLAS, AND WE WENT TO A ZIP
- 00:44:47.220 --> 00:44:49.170
- CODE THAT WAS SO VIOLENT THAT
- 00:44:49.170 --> 00:44:50.230
- THE CITY OFFICERS WERE NOT
- 00:44:50.230 --> 00:44:52.220
- ALLOWED TO GO DOWN THERE.
- 00:44:52.220 --> 00:44:55.050
- I SPENT MY LIFE WITH DRUG
- 00:44:55.050 --> 00:44:57.130
- DEALERS AND DRUG ADDICTS AND
- 00:44:57.130 --> 00:44:58.150
- PROSTITUTES AND DRUG CARTELS.
- 00:44:58.190 --> 00:45:01.210
- AND THERE WAS NO FAME OR
- 00:45:01.210 --> 00:45:02.150
- FANFARE.
- 00:45:02.170 --> 00:45:05.170
- NO ONE SAW WHAT WE WERE DOING
- 00:45:05.170 --> 00:45:06.280
- EXCEPT GOD.
- 00:45:06.280 --> 00:45:09.010
- AND WE WERE GONNA BUY SOME LAND
- 00:45:09.010 --> 00:45:10.130
- AND TRY TO PUT A LITTLE CHURCH
- 00:45:10.130 --> 00:45:12.090
- BUILDING THERE.
- 00:45:12.100 --> 00:45:15.100
- IT WOULD BE THE FIRST CHURCH
- 00:45:15.100 --> 00:45:17.230
- THAT WAS PUT INTO THE CITY IN
- 00:45:17.230 --> 00:45:19.070
- THE UNITED STATES AFTER DECADES
- 00:45:19.070 --> 00:45:20.230
- OF WHITE FLIGHT, PEOPLE LEAVING
- 00:45:20.230 --> 00:45:23.160
- THE CENTER OF THE CITY.
- 00:45:23.160 --> 00:45:25.160
- AND I SAW THIS PERFECT PIECE OF
- 00:45:25.210 --> 00:45:28.210
- LAND.
- 00:45:28.210 --> 00:45:29.290
- THERE WAS NO BUILDING ON IT.
- 00:45:29.290 --> 00:45:31.220
- I THOUGHT, "GOD, JUST SAVE THIS
- 00:45:31.220 --> 00:45:32.140
- LAND FOR US."
- 00:45:32.140 --> 00:45:33.030
- IT WAS PERFECT.
- 00:45:33.030 --> 00:45:34.160
- AS I STARTED WALKING ON THIS
- 00:45:34.160 --> 00:45:35.160
- LAND AND I WOULD PRAY THE WORDS
- 00:45:35.160 --> 00:45:37.040
- IN JOSHUA THAT "EVERYWHERE THE
- 00:45:37.040 --> 00:45:38.210
- SOLE OF YOUR FOOT TOUCHES,
- 00:45:38.210 --> 00:45:40.140
- THAT'S YOURS."
- 00:45:40.140 --> 00:45:41.110
- SO I WOULD WALK ON THAT
- 00:45:41.110 --> 00:45:41.290
- PROPERTY, AND PEOPLE
- 00:45:41.290 --> 00:45:43.130
- THOUGHT I WAS OUT OF MY MIND.
- 00:45:43.130 --> 00:45:44.040
- I WOULD JUST WALK RIGHT ON THAT
- 00:45:44.040 --> 00:45:45.110
- PROPERTY AND SAY, "THIS IS MINE.
- 00:45:45.110 --> 00:45:46.060
- THIS IS MINE.
- 00:45:46.060 --> 00:45:48.080
- WE'RE CLAIMING THIS.
- 00:45:48.080 --> 00:45:49.040
- GOD, YOU'RE GIVING THIS TO US."
- 00:45:49.040 --> 00:45:49.260
- I REMEMBER, ONE TIME, THIS MAN
- 00:45:49.260 --> 00:45:50.210
- CAME UP TO ME.
- 00:45:50.210 --> 00:45:51.120
- HE WAS HUGE, AND HE SAID,
- 00:45:51.120 --> 00:45:52.120
- "WHAT'RE YOU DOING?"
- 00:45:52.120 --> 00:45:54.100
- I SAID, "I'M WALKING ON THIS
- 00:45:54.100 --> 00:45:55.000
- PROPERTY, AND I'M ASKING GOD TO
- 00:45:55.000 --> 00:45:55.230
- GIVE IT TO US."
- 00:45:55.230 --> 00:45:57.080
- HE GOES, "WELL, IF YOU'LL
- 00:45:57.080 --> 00:45:59.040
- PRAY FOR DIRT, WOULD YOU PRAY
- 00:45:59.040 --> 00:45:59.250
- FOR ME?"
- 00:45:59.250 --> 00:46:00.120
- AND SO I PRAYED FOR HIM, AND IT
- 00:46:00.120 --> 00:46:01.120
- BECAME THIS PLACE WHERE PEOPLE
- 00:46:01.120 --> 00:46:03.150
- WOULD MEET ME.
- 00:46:03.150 --> 00:46:04.220
- SO I WENT TO AN ASSOCIATION OF
- 00:46:04.220 --> 00:46:06.010
- CHURCHES THAT WE WERE CONNECTED
- 00:46:06.010 --> 00:46:07.150
- TO, AND I CONVINCED THEM TO BUY
- 00:46:07.150 --> 00:46:08.200
- THIS PROPERTY FOR US.
- 00:46:08.200 --> 00:46:09.170
- IT WASN'T THAT MUCH MONEY, BUT
- 00:46:09.170 --> 00:46:11.100
- AT THE TIME, IT SEEMED SO HUGE.
- 00:46:11.100 --> 00:46:13.040
- AND I CONVINCED THEM BECAUSE I
- 00:46:13.040 --> 00:46:15.030
- SAID, "LOOK IT.
- 00:46:15.030 --> 00:46:15.260
- IF WE DON'T SUCCEED, IT'S 'CAUSE
- 00:46:15.260 --> 00:46:16.180
- YOU DON'T THINK OUR CHURCH IS
- 00:46:16.180 --> 00:46:17.140
- GONNA MAKE IT, RIGHT?"
- 00:46:17.140 --> 00:46:19.260
- HE GOES, "NO, YOU'RE NOT GONNA
- 00:46:19.260 --> 00:46:20.230
- MAKE IT."
- 00:46:20.230 --> 00:46:21.070
- I SAID, "THAT'S OKAY.
- 00:46:21.070 --> 00:46:21.240
- IF WE DON'T MAKE IT, YOU CAN
- 00:46:21.240 --> 00:46:23.080
- SELL THE PROPERTY AND MAKE SO
- 00:46:23.080 --> 00:46:23.290
- MUCH MORE MONEY ON IT 'CAUSE,
- 00:46:23.290 --> 00:46:24.200
- AFTER ALL, WE'RE SUPPOSED TO BE
- 00:46:24.200 --> 00:46:25.120
- IN REAL ESTATE, RIGHT?"
- 00:46:25.120 --> 00:46:27.100
- AND...THAT-- THAT'S A JOKE.
- 00:46:27.100 --> 00:46:29.130
- [LAUGHTER]
- 00:46:29.130 --> 00:46:32.020
- SO HE BOUGHT THE
- 00:46:32.020 --> 00:46:33.220
- PROPERTY FOR US, AND THEN, WHEN
- 00:46:33.220 --> 00:46:34.140
- THEY DID ALL THE TESTING, THEY
- 00:46:34.140 --> 00:46:35.050
- DID TWO CORE SAMPLES THAT WENT
- 00:46:35.050 --> 00:46:36.020
- SOMETHING LIKE 25 FEET DEEP, AND
- 00:46:36.020 --> 00:46:37.080
- THEY REALIZED THAT I HAD LED
- 00:46:37.080 --> 00:46:39.040
- THEM TO BUY A LANDFILL.
- 00:46:39.200 --> 00:46:42.200
- THEY WENT 25 FEET DEEP AND NEVER
- 00:46:42.200 --> 00:46:43.150
- FOUND SOIL.
- 00:46:44.170 --> 00:46:47.170
- NOW, I WAS IN MY LATE 20S, AND I
- 00:46:47.170 --> 00:46:48.260
- WAS SO NEW TO FAITH, AND I WAS
- 00:46:48.260 --> 00:46:51.010
- SO CONFUSED WHY GOD WOULD DO
- 00:46:51.010 --> 00:46:52.040
- THIS, AND I FELT SO INADEQUATE.
- 00:46:52.200 --> 00:46:55.200
- IN FACT, I WALKED TO THIS MAN'S
- 00:46:55.200 --> 00:46:56.140
- OFFICE.
- 00:46:56.140 --> 00:46:58.010
- I NEVER HEARD, LIKE, A BELIEVER
- 00:46:58.010 --> 00:47:00.050
- USE ANY, LIKE, PROFANE LANGUAGE
- 00:47:00.050 --> 00:47:02.080
- BEFORE, BUT THAT WAS THE FIRST
- 00:47:02.080 --> 00:47:04.000
- TIME.
- 00:47:04.000 --> 00:47:04.190
- [LAUGHTER]
- 00:47:04.190 --> 00:47:06.230
- AND HE WENT ON TO TELL ME,
- 00:47:06.230 --> 00:47:07.220
- "YOU KNOW THAT PIECE OF,
- 00:47:07.220 --> 00:47:08.120
- YOU KNOW, GARBAGE YOU TALKED
- 00:47:08.120 --> 00:47:09.220
- US INTO BUYING?"
- 00:47:09.220 --> 00:47:11.290
- AND HE GOES, "WELL, WE'LL NEVER
- 00:47:11.290 --> 00:47:14.150
- WORK WITH YOU AGAIN."
- 00:47:14.150 --> 00:47:16.160
- I LED THEM TO SPEND THEIR
- 00:47:16.180 --> 00:47:19.180
- MONEY TO BUY A LANDFILL,
- 00:47:19.180 --> 00:47:20.060
- AND I FELT SO ASHAMED AND SO
- 00:47:20.060 --> 00:47:22.240
- INADEQUATE, AND I THOUGHT,
- 00:47:22.240 --> 00:47:25.050
- "THIS IS MY LIFE, MY STORY."
- 00:47:25.050 --> 00:47:27.260
- AND OTHER PEOPLE WERE
- 00:47:27.260 --> 00:47:29.070
- BUILDING THESE GREAT CHURCHES
- 00:47:29.070 --> 00:47:30.290
- AND DOING THESE GREAT WORKS, AND
- 00:47:31.090 --> 00:47:34.090
- I'M THE PASTOR OF A LANDFILL.
- 00:47:34.090 --> 00:47:35.000
- I'M THE PASTOR OF THE DUMP.
- 00:47:35.000 --> 00:47:37.140
- [LAUGHTER]
- 00:47:37.140 --> 00:47:39.110
- AND IT WAS SO FRUSTRATING TO ME.
- 00:47:39.110 --> 00:47:40.200
- AND SO I WENT TO OUR SMALL
- 00:47:40.200 --> 00:47:41.220
- LITTLE CONGREGATION.
- 00:47:41.220 --> 00:47:42.240
- I DIDN'T HAVE ANY CHOICE.
- 00:47:42.240 --> 00:47:44.260
- I SAID, "WE BOUGHT A LANDFILL.
- 00:47:44.260 --> 00:47:45.270
- WE CAN'T SELL IT 'CAUSE NOW WE
- 00:47:45.270 --> 00:47:47.030
- CAN'T LIE TO ANYONE.
- 00:47:47.030 --> 00:47:48.240
- THE PEOPLE WHO SOLD TO US LIED
- 00:47:48.240 --> 00:47:49.220
- TO US, AND WE CAN'T LIE TO
- 00:47:49.220 --> 00:47:52.000
- ANYONE, SO WE'RE STUCK WITH A
- 00:47:52.000 --> 00:47:52.230
- LANDFILL."
- 00:47:52.230 --> 00:47:54.130
- AND THIS HANDFUL OF PEOPLE--
- 00:47:54.130 --> 00:47:55.260
- AND I JUST SAID, "ALL WE CAN DO
- 00:47:55.260 --> 00:47:56.180
- IS PRAY THAT GOD WOULD PERFORM
- 00:47:56.180 --> 00:47:57.290
- A MIRACLE."
- 00:47:57.290 --> 00:48:00.040
- YOU SEE, I KNOW WHAT WAS GOING
- 00:48:00.040 --> 00:48:01.140
- ON WITH THESE TWO BLIND MEN.
- 00:48:01.140 --> 00:48:03.150
- THEY WERE DESPERATE, AND SO THEY
- 00:48:03.150 --> 00:48:04.130
- PRAYED A BIG PRAYER.
- 00:48:04.130 --> 00:48:06.130
- SEE, I KNOW WHAT HAPPENED WITH
- 00:48:06.130 --> 00:48:07.040
- THIS WIDOW.
- 00:48:07.040 --> 00:48:08.080
- SHE WAS DESPERATE, AND SO SHE
- 00:48:08.080 --> 00:48:09.020
- PRAYED A BIG PRAYER.
- 00:48:09.020 --> 00:48:11.270
- AND I WONDERED, "IF WE GET ANGRY
- 00:48:11.270 --> 00:48:13.210
- WITH GOD WHEN HE PUTS US INTO
- 00:48:13.210 --> 00:48:14.120
- DESPERATE CIRCUMSTANCES-- AND WE
- 00:48:14.120 --> 00:48:16.120
- DON'T REALIZE THAT IT'S ONLY IN
- 00:48:16.120 --> 00:48:18.160
- OUR DESPERATION THAT WE START
- 00:48:18.160 --> 00:48:20.080
- BELIEVING GOD TO BE WHO HE
- 00:48:20.080 --> 00:48:22.000
- ACTUALLY IS!
- 00:48:22.000 --> 00:48:23.280
- [APPLAUSE]
- 00:48:23.280 --> 00:48:25.210
- SO WE PRAYED AND WE
- 00:48:25.210 --> 00:48:26.260
- PRAYED AND WE PRAYED, AND PEOPLE
- 00:48:26.260 --> 00:48:28.110
- WOULD COME FROM OTHER STATES AND
- 00:48:28.110 --> 00:48:29.030
- SAY, "HEY, WHAT'RE YOU GONNA DO
- 00:48:29.030 --> 00:48:30.110
- WITH THAT LANDFILL?"
- 00:48:30.110 --> 00:48:31.110
- WE WERE FAMOUS AS THE CHURCH
- 00:48:31.110 --> 00:48:32.160
- WITH A LANDFILL.
- 00:48:32.160 --> 00:48:33.100
- [LAUGHTER]
- 00:48:33.100 --> 00:48:35.140
- AND THEN ONE DAY,
- 00:48:35.140 --> 00:48:36.110
- ONE OF THE LADIES IN OUR
- 00:48:36.110 --> 00:48:37.290
- CHURCH-- I SAID, "HEY, GUYS,
- 00:48:37.290 --> 00:48:39.160
- LET'S PRAY FOR THE LANDFILL."
- 00:48:39.160 --> 00:48:42.070
- AND WE HAD THESE GUESTS FROM THE
- 00:48:42.070 --> 00:48:43.110
- OUTSIDE, AND ONE OF THEM ASKED
- 00:48:43.110 --> 00:48:44.080
- THAT QUESTION AGAIN: "WHAT'RE
- 00:48:44.080 --> 00:48:45.140
- YOU GUYS GONNA DO WITH THE
- 00:48:45.140 --> 00:48:46.070
- LANDFILL?"
- 00:48:46.070 --> 00:48:47.260
- I JUST COULDN'T TAKE THAT
- 00:48:47.260 --> 00:48:48.150
- QUESTION ANYMORE.
- 00:48:48.150 --> 00:48:49.140
- I COULD FEEL THE CONDESCENSION.
- 00:48:49.140 --> 00:48:50.240
- I COULD FEEL PEOPLE LAUGHING AT
- 00:48:50.240 --> 00:48:51.180
- ME.
- 00:48:52.090 --> 00:48:55.090
- AND THIS LITTLE LADY SAID, "OH,
- 00:48:55.090 --> 00:48:56.010
- WE'VE ALREADY TAKEN CARE OF IT.
- 00:48:56.010 --> 00:48:57.100
- WE'VE ASKED GOD TO TURN IT INTO
- 00:48:57.100 --> 00:48:58.160
- SOIL."
- 00:48:58.160 --> 00:49:01.140
- AND WHEN SHE SAID THAT, I
- 00:49:01.140 --> 00:49:02.270
- THOUGHT, "YEAH, THAT'S RIGHT!"
- 00:49:02.270 --> 00:49:05.180
- [LAUGHTER]
- 00:49:05.180 --> 00:49:06.170
- "WE KNOW WHAT WE WANT!
- 00:49:06.170 --> 00:49:08.070
- OF COURSE, THAT'S WHAT WE'RE
- 00:49:08.070 --> 00:49:08.270
- PRAYING!"
- 00:49:08.270 --> 00:49:10.000
- SO I WENT BACK TO THE
- 00:49:10.000 --> 00:49:10.230
- ASSOCIATION.
- 00:49:10.230 --> 00:49:11.210
- I SAID, "I NEED YOU TO DO A
- 00:49:11.210 --> 00:49:13.020
- THIRD CORE SAMPLE."
- 00:49:13.020 --> 00:49:14.120
- HE GOES, "WHY?"
- 00:49:14.120 --> 00:49:15.150
- I SAID, "I JUST NEED YOU TO DO A
- 00:49:15.150 --> 00:49:16.140
- THIRD CORE SAMPLE.
- 00:49:16.140 --> 00:49:17.040
- JUST TRUST ME."
- 00:49:17.040 --> 00:49:18.030
- AND HE GOES, "SON--"
- 00:49:18.030 --> 00:49:19.190
- I HATE IT WHEN PEOPLE CALL ME
- 00:49:19.190 --> 00:49:20.100
- "SON."
- 00:49:20.100 --> 00:49:20.290
- [LAUGHTER]
- 00:49:20.290 --> 00:49:23.040
- "SON, WE'VE DONE TWO CORE
- 00:49:23.040 --> 00:49:24.050
- SAMPLES.
- 00:49:24.050 --> 00:49:24.260
- DO YOU KNOW HOW MUCH MONEY WE'VE
- 00:49:24.260 --> 00:49:25.230
- LOST BECAUSE OF YOU?"
- 00:49:25.230 --> 00:49:26.280
- I SAID, "YOU'VE LOST SO MUCH
- 00:49:26.280 --> 00:49:28.020
- MONEY.
- 00:49:28.020 --> 00:49:29.070
- COULDN'T YOU JUST WASTE ANOTHER
- 00:49:29.070 --> 00:49:30.130
- 3.000 ON ONE MORE CORE SAMPLE?"
- 00:49:30.130 --> 00:49:33.090
- I DON'T KNOW WHY, BUT HE DID.
- 00:49:33.090 --> 00:49:35.070
- AND I'M TELLING YOU, I'M
- 00:49:35.070 --> 00:49:36.170
- STANDING BEFORE YOU TODAY THAT,
- 00:49:36.170 --> 00:49:38.060
- WHEN THEY TOOK THAT THIRD CORE
- 00:49:38.060 --> 00:49:39.260
- SAMPLE, THAT LAND THAT WAS A
- 00:49:39.260 --> 00:49:41.220
- LANDFILL CAME OUT SOIL!
- 00:49:41.240 --> 00:49:44.240
- [CHEERS AND APPLAUSE]
- 00:49:50.270 --> 00:49:53.270
- I REMEMBER WHEN WE STARTED
- 00:49:53.270 --> 00:49:54.160
- BUILDING ON THAT PROPERTY.
- 00:49:54.160 --> 00:49:56.150
- AND I REMEMBER WHEN WE PUT THAT
- 00:49:56.150 --> 00:49:58.150
- LITTLE BUILDING RIGHT IN THE
- 00:49:58.150 --> 00:49:59.140
- MIDDLE OF SOUTH DALLAS IN THE
- 00:49:59.140 --> 00:50:00.090
- HIGHEST CRIME-RATE, HIGHEST
- 00:50:00.090 --> 00:50:01.060
- MURDER-RATE AREA OF THE ENTIRE
- 00:50:01.060 --> 00:50:03.160
- UNITED STATES, AND WE PUT THAT
- 00:50:03.160 --> 00:50:04.170
- CROSS ON TOP OF THAT LITTLE
- 00:50:04.170 --> 00:50:06.010
- BUILDING, IT WAS OUR DECLARATION
- 00:50:06.010 --> 00:50:08.200
- THAT, IF WE GIVE GOD OUR EMPTY
- 00:50:11.050 --> 00:50:14.050
- JARS WITH JUST THE SMALLEST
- 00:50:14.050 --> 00:50:15.090
- AMOUNT OF OIL, AND THEN WE ASK
- 00:50:15.090 --> 00:50:16.080
- HIM FOR GREAT THINGS, HE WILL
- 00:50:16.080 --> 00:50:18.040
- SHOW UP AND BE THE GREAT GOD!
- 00:50:18.040 --> 00:50:20.000
- [CHEERS AND APPLAUSE]
- 00:50:20.270 --> 00:50:23.270
- IT'S TIME!
- 00:50:23.270 --> 00:50:26.000
- [APPLAUSE]
- 00:50:27.270 --> 00:50:30.270
- BE CAREFUL NOT TO
- 00:50:30.270 --> 00:50:31.280
- ASK TOO SMALL A THING.
- 00:50:31.280 --> 00:50:34.140
- IT WAS VALENTINE'S DAY.
- 00:50:35.040 --> 00:50:38.040
- I KNOW I SHOULD'VE WOKEN UP ON
- 00:50:38.040 --> 00:50:40.280
- VALENTINE'S DAY, THINKING ABOUT
- 00:50:40.280 --> 00:50:41.200
- MY WIFE, AND I DID LATER.
- 00:50:41.200 --> 00:50:44.110
- [LAUGHTER]
- 00:50:44.110 --> 00:50:46.270
- BUT I WOKE UP THAT MORNING
- 00:50:46.270 --> 00:50:47.290
- BECAUSE WE COULDN'T GET TO
- 00:50:47.290 --> 00:50:50.060
- MOSAIC BECAUSE THE ROADS WERE
- 00:50:50.060 --> 00:50:51.120
- CLOSED, AND SO WE COULDN'T
- 00:50:51.120 --> 00:50:52.060
- GATHER THAT MORNING.
- 00:50:56.110 --> 00:50:59.110
- AND I HEARD-- IT WAS AS IF THE
- 00:50:59.110 --> 00:51:01.010
- VOICE OF GOD JUST SAY TO ME,
- 00:51:01.230 --> 00:51:04.230
- "ERWIN, DO YOU KNOW WHAT YOU
- 00:51:04.230 --> 00:51:05.230
- WANT, OR ARE YOU JUST GOING TO
- 00:51:05.230 --> 00:51:06.250
- WANDER AIMLESSLY ALL YOUR LIFE,
- 00:51:06.290 --> 00:51:09.290
- WONDERING WHY I NEVER WORKED IN
- 00:51:10.220 --> 00:51:13.220
- YOUR LIFE THE WAY I COULD'VE
- 00:51:13.220 --> 00:51:14.150
- WORKED IN YOUR LIFE?"
- 00:51:14.150 --> 00:51:16.240
- SEE, I THINK THE MOST PAINFUL
- 00:51:16.240 --> 00:51:17.150
- QUESTION YOU ASK AN 8-YEAR-OLD
- 00:51:17.150 --> 00:51:19.150
- IS "WHAT DO YOU WANT TO BE WHEN
- 00:51:19.150 --> 00:51:20.070
- YOU GROW UP?"
- 00:51:20.070 --> 00:51:21.230
- HOW ARE THEY SUPPOSED TO KNOW?
- 00:51:21.230 --> 00:51:22.140
- WE DON'T EVEN KNOW.
- 00:51:22.220 --> 00:51:25.220
- BUT IF YOU WANT GOD TO DO GREAT
- 00:51:25.220 --> 00:51:27.250
- THINGS IN YOUR LIFE, YOU BETTER
- 00:51:27.250 --> 00:51:29.010
- SIT DOWN, AND YOU BETTER LET GOD
- 00:51:29.010 --> 00:51:30.210
- CHANGE YOUR HEART AND PUT HIS
- 00:51:30.210 --> 00:51:32.260
- DESIRES INTO YOUR FIRE AND KNOW
- 00:51:32.260 --> 00:51:34.130
- WHAT YOU WANT.
- 00:51:36.110 --> 00:51:39.110
- AND I WOKE UP THAT MORNING, AND
- 00:51:39.110 --> 00:51:40.030
- I SAID, "GOD, I WANT US TO HAVE
- 00:51:40.030 --> 00:51:42.270
- A CONVERSATION WITH THE WORLD.
- 00:51:42.270 --> 00:51:44.200
- THAT'S WHAT I WANT.
- 00:51:44.200 --> 00:51:46.210
- I WANT TO BE ABLE TO HAVE A
- 00:51:46.210 --> 00:51:47.110
- CONVERSATION WITH THE WORLD
- 00:51:47.110 --> 00:51:48.260
- ABOUT HOW BEAUTIFUL YOUR SON,
- 00:51:48.260 --> 00:51:49.220
- JESUS, IS."
- 00:51:49.220 --> 00:51:51.020
- AND I SAID, "AND THERE'S A
- 00:51:51.020 --> 00:51:52.250
- PRACTICAL 'ASK,' HERE, GOD.
- 00:51:52.250 --> 00:51:55.200
- WE HAVE AN OPPORTUNITY TO BUY
- 00:51:55.200 --> 00:51:57.170
- 4K EQUIPMENT FROM SONY, AND IT'S
- 00:51:57.170 --> 00:52:00.050
- WORTH MAYBE ABOUT $5 MILLION,
- 00:52:00.050 --> 00:52:01.250
- AND THEY'RE OFFERING IT TO US
- 00:52:01.250 --> 00:52:03.140
- FOR 1.6 MILLION, AND, GOD,
- 00:52:03.140 --> 00:52:04.140
- THAT'S A GREAT REDUCTION, EXCEPT
- 00:52:04.140 --> 00:52:05.280
- THAT'S 1.6 MILLION MORE THAN WE
- 00:52:05.280 --> 00:52:07.180
- HAVE.
- 00:52:07.180 --> 00:52:08.160
- [LAUGHTER]
- 00:52:08.160 --> 00:52:09.250
- SO THAT'S A HUGE
- 00:52:09.250 --> 00:52:10.270
- DILEMMA, GOD."
- 00:52:10.270 --> 00:52:12.050
- AND, GOD, IN THAT MOMENT, PUT
- 00:52:12.050 --> 00:52:14.050
- SOMEONE'S NAME IN MY MIND,
- 00:52:14.050 --> 00:52:15.260
- SOMEONE I'D NEVER MET, I'D
- 00:52:15.260 --> 00:52:17.140
- NEVER HAD A CONVERSATION WITH,
- 00:52:17.140 --> 00:52:18.230
- DIDN'T EVEN ATTEND OUR
- 00:52:18.230 --> 00:52:19.200
- CONGREGATION.
- 00:52:19.200 --> 00:52:21.070
- I DIDN'T EVEN HAVE HIS E-MAIL
- 00:52:21.070 --> 00:52:21.290
- ADDRESS.
- 00:52:21.290 --> 00:52:22.150
- I HAD TO TRACE IT THROUGH
- 00:52:22.150 --> 00:52:24.000
- SOMEONE ELSE'S E-MAIL ADDRESS.
- 00:52:24.000 --> 00:52:25.170
- AND I FOUND IT, AND THEN I SENT
- 00:52:25.170 --> 00:52:26.160
- HIM A NOTE.
- 00:52:26.160 --> 00:52:27.190
- AND I JUST SAID, "HEY, I'M
- 00:52:27.190 --> 00:52:28.080
- PRAYING FOR YOU TODAY.
- 00:52:28.080 --> 00:52:29.140
- ATTACHED TO MY E-MAIL IS A
- 00:52:29.140 --> 00:52:31.100
- PROPOSAL YOU MIGHT BE INTERESTED
- 00:52:31.100 --> 00:52:32.040
- IN."
- 00:52:32.040 --> 00:52:33.050
- [LAUGHTER]
- 00:52:33.050 --> 00:52:35.100
- 'CAUSE I COULDN'T EVEN ASK
- 00:52:35.100 --> 00:52:36.020
- 'CAUSE I WAS SO AFRAID TO ASK.
- 00:52:36.020 --> 00:52:38.220
- WITHIN 5 MINUTES, I GOT AN
- 00:52:39.130 --> 00:52:42.130
- E-MAIL BACK, SAYING, "WE'RE IN
- 00:52:42.130 --> 00:52:43.050
- THE HOSPITAL.
- 00:52:43.050 --> 00:52:43.260
- OUR LITTLE BOY HAS MENINGITIS."
- 00:52:43.260 --> 00:52:45.060
- I THOUGHT, "OH, I'M SUCH A BAD
- 00:52:45.060 --> 00:52:46.280
- HUMAN BEING...JUST SENT AN
- 00:52:46.280 --> 00:52:48.200
- E-MAIL WHILE THEIR SON IS IN THE
- 00:52:48.200 --> 00:52:49.270
- HOSPITAL."
- 00:52:49.270 --> 00:52:50.260
- HE SAID, "WOULD YOU
- 00:52:50.260 --> 00:52:51.150
- PRAY FOR OUR LITTLE BOY?"
- 00:52:51.150 --> 00:52:52.250
- OOH, BY THE WAY, HE GOT HEALED.
- 00:52:53.080 --> 00:52:56.080
- [CHEERS AND APPLAUSE]
- 00:52:56.200 --> 00:52:59.200
- AND THEN HE ATTACHES AN E-MAIL:
- 00:52:59.200 --> 00:53:01.180
- "AND WE WOULD LOVE TO GIVE
- 00:53:01.180 --> 00:53:03.100
- THE $1.6 MILLION YOU NEED
- 00:53:03.100 --> 00:53:05.030
- FOR THIS PROJECT."
- 00:53:05.030 --> 00:53:07.040
- AND I THOUGHT, "KIM! KIM!"
- 00:53:07.090 --> 00:53:10.090
- I WAS CALLING KIM.
- 00:53:10.090 --> 00:53:11.020
- "YOU WON'T BELIEVE THIS!"
- 00:53:11.020 --> 00:53:12.270
- AND SO WE BOUGHT THIS EQUIPMENT
- 00:53:12.270 --> 00:53:14.150
- FOR $1.6 MILLION, AND I DIDN'T
- 00:53:14.150 --> 00:53:16.290
- REALIZE WE DIDN'T HAVE ENOUGH
- 00:53:16.290 --> 00:53:17.200
- MONEY 'CAUSE THERE'S ALL THESE
- 00:53:17.200 --> 00:53:18.280
- OTHER THINGS NO ONE TELLS YOU
- 00:53:18.280 --> 00:53:19.190
- ABOUT.
- 00:53:20.200 --> 00:53:23.200
- AND SO I GOT UP ONE DAY, AND
- 00:53:23.200 --> 00:53:24.250
- I SAID, "YOU GOTTA KNOW WHAT
- 00:53:24.250 --> 00:53:25.150
- YOU WANT BECAUSE, IF YOU ASK
- 00:53:25.150 --> 00:53:26.050
- FOR TOO LITTLE, IT'S ON YOU."
- 00:53:27.070 --> 00:53:30.070
- AND I JUST WAS HONEST.
- 00:53:30.070 --> 00:53:31.090
- I SAID, "I THOUGHT I KNEW WHAT I
- 00:53:31.090 --> 00:53:32.010
- WANTED, BUT MY DREAMS WERE TOO
- 00:53:32.010 --> 00:53:32.220
- SMALL.
- 00:53:32.220 --> 00:53:33.080
- MY ASK WAS TOO SMALL.
- 00:53:33.080 --> 00:53:33.250
- MY VISION WAS TOO SMALL.
- 00:53:33.250 --> 00:53:35.180
- AND NOW I'M HERE, AND I HAVE
- 00:53:35.180 --> 00:53:37.040
- $1.6 MILLION WORTH OF EQUIPMENT,
- 00:53:37.040 --> 00:53:38.170
- BUT WE CANNOT DO WHAT WE'RE
- 00:53:38.170 --> 00:53:39.290
- SUPPOSED TO DO BECAUSE I DIDN'T
- 00:53:39.290 --> 00:53:40.240
- DREAM BIG ENOUGH!"
- 00:53:41.160 --> 00:53:44.160
- AND THE GUY WAS LISTENING TO MY
- 00:53:44.160 --> 00:53:45.080
- TALK.
- 00:53:45.080 --> 00:53:48.040
- AND WHEN I WALKED OFF THE
- 00:53:48.040 --> 00:53:48.230
- "WE WANT TO MAKE SURE WE CLOSE
- 00:53:52.150 --> 00:53:54.070
- THE GAP OF WHAT YOU ASKED FOR
- 00:53:54.070 --> 00:53:57.030
- AND, LET ME TELL YOU,
- 00:54:01.080 --> 00:54:01.250
- IF THERE IS A PERSON OUT
- 00:54:01.250 --> 00:54:02.250
- THERE WHO LISTENS AND SAYS,
- 00:54:02.250 --> 00:54:04.240
- "I WANNA MAKE SURE WE CLOSE THAT
- 00:54:04.240 --> 00:54:06.020
- GAP," DON'T YOU THINK GOD IS
- 00:54:06.020 --> 00:54:08.070
- LISTENING TO YOU?
- 00:54:08.070 --> 00:54:09.220
- DON'T YOU THINK HE'S HERE RIGHT
- 00:54:09.220 --> 00:54:11.220
- NOW, SAYING, "I'M READY TO CLOSE
- 00:54:11.220 --> 00:54:13.090
- THE GAP BETWEEN WHERE YOU ARE
- 00:54:13.260 --> 00:54:16.260
- AND WHERE ONLY I CAN TAKE YOU.
- 00:54:17.020 --> 00:54:20.020
- I'M READY TO GIVE YOU A DREAM SO
- 00:54:20.020 --> 00:54:22.180
- BIG THAT YOU COULD NEVER FULFILL
- 00:54:22.180 --> 00:54:23.220
- IT EXCEPT BY MY POWER!"
- 00:54:25.010 --> 00:54:28.010
- BUT YOU WANT TO KNOW WHERE
- 00:54:28.010 --> 00:54:29.180
- YOU START, KNOW WHERE YOU BEGIN,
- 00:54:29.180 --> 00:54:31.150
- YOU HAVE TO KNOW WHAT YOU WANT!
- 00:54:32.210 --> 00:54:35.210
- I STAND UPON THE SOLID ROCK F
- 00:55:02.080 --> 00:55:03.130
- FAITH IN CHRIST
- 00:55:06.120 --> 00:55:09.120
- THIS STEADFAST HOPE SHALL NOT
- 00:55:09.120 --> 00:55:10.260
- BREAK APART WITHIN THE TRIAL
- 00:55:12.030 --> 00:55:15.030
- I AM ASSURED HIS PROMISES WIL
- 00:55:15.140 --> 00:55:18.140
- NEVER FAIL
- 00:55:21.100 --> 00:55:24.100
- AS LONG AS LIFE REMAINS, HE S
- 00:55:24.100 --> 00:55:26.040
- FAITHFUL
- 00:55:28.200 --> 00:55:31.200
- GOD IS PATIENT
- 00:55:31.200 --> 00:55:32.080
- GOD IS KIND
- 00:55:32.190 --> 00:55:35.190
- HE DOES NOT ENVY
- 00:55:37.240 --> 00:55:40.240
- HE DOES NOT BOAST
- 00:55:40.240 --> 00:55:41.170
- HIS WAYS ARE HIGHER THAN MY
- 00:55:41.210 --> 00:55:44.210
- OWN
- 00:55:44.210 --> 00:55:46.080
- HIS THOUGHTS CONSUME THE GRET
- 00:55:46.080 --> 00:55:48.000
- UNKNOWN
- 00:55:48.000 --> 00:55:50.150
- OF THIS ALONE I AM SURE, MY
- 00:55:51.120 --> 00:55:54.120
- I DRAW MY BREATH UNDER HIS
- 00:56:11.050 --> 00:56:14.050
- CREATED WINDSWEPT SKY
- 00:56:16.100 --> 00:56:19.100
- I KNOW MY HOPE SHALL LAST,
- 00:56:19.220 --> 00:56:22.220
- LONG AFTER MY FLESH RETIRES
- 00:56:23.140 --> 00:56:26.140
- FROM DUSK UNTIL THE DAWN,
- 00:56:27.020 --> 00:56:30.020
- HE CALLS HIS CHILDREN HOME
- 00:56:30.020 --> 00:56:32.060
- HIS RIGHTEOUS LOVE OUTLASTS
- 00:56:32.060 --> 00:56:34.210
- GENERATIONS
- 00:56:36.230 --> 00:56:39.230
- GOD IS PATIENT
- 00:56:39.230 --> 00:56:42.080
- GOD IS KIND
- 00:56:42.170 --> 00:56:45.170
- HE DOES NOT ENVY
- 00:56:46.200 --> 00:56:49.200
- HE DOES NOT BOAST
- 00:56:49.220 --> 00:56:52.220
- HIS WAYS ARE HIGHER THAN MY
- 00:56:53.040 --> 00:56:56.040
- OWN
- 00:56:56.040 --> 00:56:57.150
- HIS THOUGHTS CONSUME THE GRET
- 00:56:57.150 --> 00:56:58.140
- UNKNOWN
- 00:56:59.100 --> 00:57:02.120
- OF THIS ALONE I AM SURE,
- 00:57:02.120 --> 00:57:04.230
- HE IS ALMIGHTY GOD, ELOHIM,
- 00:57:21.030 --> 00:57:23.090
- MAKER OF THE EARTH
- 00:57:24.150 --> 00:57:27.150
- HE IS THE LORD OF HOSTS,
- 00:57:27.150 --> 00:57:29.270
- HEAVEN'S KING,
- 00:57:29.270 --> 00:57:32.110
- GOD OF ENDLESS WORTH
- 00:57:32.110 --> 00:57:34.220
- HIS KINGDOM STANDS ABOVE EVEY
- 00:57:34.220 --> 00:57:37.080
- POWER,
- 00:57:37.080 --> 00:57:39.000
- EVERY LIVING SOUL
- 00:57:39.000 --> 00:57:41.250
- HIS LOVE IS LIKE THE SUN,
- 00:57:41.250 --> 00:57:44.130
- EVER TRUE,
- 00:57:44.130 --> 00:57:46.170
- SHINING OVER ALL
- 00:57:46.170 --> 00:57:48.270
- HE IS ALMIGHTY GOD, ELOHIM,
- 00:57:49.210 --> 00:57:52.210
- MAKER OF THE EARTH
- 00:57:52.280 --> 00:57:55.280
- HE IS THE LORD OF HOSTS,
- 00:57:55.280 --> 00:57:58.210
- HEAVEN'S KING,
- 00:57:58.210 --> 00:58:00.280
- GOD OF ENDLESS WORTH
- 00:58:00.280 --> 00:58:03.040
- HIS KINGDOM STANDS ABOVE EVEY
- 00:58:03.260 --> 00:58:06.260
- POWER,
- 00:58:06.260 --> 00:58:07.220
- EVERY LIVING SOUL
- 00:58:07.220 --> 00:58:10.100
- HIS LOVE IS LIKE THE SUN,
- 00:58:10.100 --> 00:58:13.050
- EVER TRUE,
- 00:58:13.050 --> 00:58:14.280
- SHINING OVER ALL
- 00:58:21.140 --> 00:58:24.140
- OOH, OOH, OOH, OOH
- 00:58:26.250 --> 00:58:29.250
- OOH, OOH, OOH, OOH
- 00:58:34.060 --> 00:58:37.060
- OOH, OOH, OOH, OOH
- 00:58:45.070 --> 00:58:48.070
- GOD IS PATIENT
- 00:58:48.070 --> 00:58:49.010
- GOD IS KIND
- 00:58:49.280 --> 00:58:52.280
- HE DOES NOT ENVY
- 00:58:54.040 --> 00:58:57.040
- HE DOES NOT BOAST
- 00:58:57.080 --> 00:59:00.100
- HIS WAYS ARE HIGHER THAN MY
- 00:59:00.140 --> 00:59:03.140
- OWN
- 00:59:03.140 --> 00:59:05.120
- HIS THOUGHTS CONSUME THE GRET
- 00:59:05.120 --> 00:59:07.130
- UNKNOWN
- 00:59:07.280 --> 00:59:10.280
- OF THIS ALONE I AM SURE,
- 00:59:10.280 --> 00:59:13.280