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Episode 11

Steven Furtick

December 2, 2016

27:31

Steven Furtick: Unqualified

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Episode 11

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If you've ever wondered if you've got what it takes
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to live the life God's called you to,
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I wanna share with you why I believe you do.
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The "(Un)Qualified" series is for every person
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who's tired of dealing with the frustration
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and insecurity of feeling inadequate,
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and ready to discover that God still uses broken people
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to do big things.
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(female announcer) They are the heroes of the Bible.
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They are immortalized, sanctified, revered.
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They were God's chosen people, the founders of the church.
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What were their qualifications?
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A speech impediment.
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A denial of faith.
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An affair.
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Who were these heroes?
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A murderer.
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A prostitute.
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A liar and a schemer.
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In the eyes of the world, they were unqualified.
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But God has a history of using broken people to do big things.
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And he still does it today.
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One of the things you should try some time,
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it's so much fun.
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You should just, like, walk up to a guy, any guy.
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You could pick any guy, It doesn't matter how old he is,
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how big he is, doesn't matter.
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Just walk up to him and say,
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"Hey, have you been workin' out?" just try it.
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Now, if you're a married woman, don't do it to another man.
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Don't do that.
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But just try it sometimes. It's interesting.
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You'll notice, he'll suck in, he'll start flexing stuff,
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he'll start contorting his body in all kinds of interesting ways
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in response to that question.
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There's nothing men love more than to be complimented
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on their growth, their muscular growth.
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And it can take on different shapes
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and things like that.
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I, personally, personally, am not a fan of exercise
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in any format.
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But I have embraced exercise,
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realizing that sometimes routines and results
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are connected in unexpected ways.
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Like, if you actually move more and eat less,
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you'll look better.
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How 'bout that?
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It's a new nutrition program.
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It's exclusively available here.
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I'm a spiritual teacher and a nutritionist.
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Who knew?
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A fitness coach, strength coach.
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In some ways, though, I think a lot of times
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our solutions are a lot simpler
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than we think they are.
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It's the implementation of solutions in our life
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that's more difficult.
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And we're talking all in this series,
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we've been looking at different ways
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that God makes us stronger, and the fact that God
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will often take someone who looks weak
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and use them to demonstrate his strength.
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Sometimes God prefers
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Danny DeVito over Arnold Schwarzenegger.
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That's a dated reference, but some of you will get it.
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Sometimes God wants to use the weak things of the world
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to confound the wise.
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And so you can't just always walk up
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to somebody and see how strong they are,
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not on the surface.
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It's been a major theme of this series,
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and I hope the message
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is starting to get through to you.
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To keep this moving forward, though, I wanna take a look
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at a church in the New Testament,
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a church that was struggling,
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a church that was dealing with immense persecution.
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And in the midst of their struggle,
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God is using the writer of the book of Hebrews
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to speak strength to their struggle.
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And he's going through a list of different people
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throughout the Scripture who were unlikely,
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people who didn't look very strong
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but who God used to accomplish great feats of strength.
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He's using these illustrations because they need to know
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that although they are a young upstart church--
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this is not mega-church.
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This is not modern Christianity, which is spanning the globe.
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This is when the church was considered a cult.
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This is when Christianity wasn't a brand name.
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There were no television networks
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proclaiming the name of Jesus.
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It was just a huddle, just a group.
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It was starting to spread, though,
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starting to gain traction,
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and starting to increase
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in intensity of persecution and difficulty.
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And so the writer of Hebrews is listing some examples
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that they can draw encouragement from,
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people who didn't look that big, who didn't seem that strong,
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but who God used to accomplish great things.
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In the middle of this list it's as if the writer of Hebrews
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is ready to land the plane, but doesn't know where to stop.
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And he says in verse 32 of Hebrews 11,
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which is sometimes called, "The Hall of Faith," get it?
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Like the Hall of Fame, Hall of Faith.
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This is things that preachers sit around and think of
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because we don't have real jobs.
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He says, "And what more shall I say?
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"I don't have time to tell about Gideon,
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"Barak, Samson and Jephthah, about David and Samuel
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and the prophets, who through faith,"
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pay attention to that phrase
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because I wanna come all the way back to it
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in a moment,
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"conquered kingdoms," listen what they did,
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"administered justice, and gained
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"what was promised; they shut the mouths of lions,
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"quenched the fury of the flames,
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and escaped the edge of the sword,"
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I wanna be in this club.
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I wanna do big things for God.
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"Whose weakness was turned into strength."
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That's the phrase that puzzled me in this list
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because I don't wanna argue with the author of Hebrews.
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He's much smarter than I am, whoever he is.
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We don't know who he is.
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It's an anonymous book of the Bible.
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Someone suggested
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that he's obviously a coffee drinker
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because he brews.
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But whoever he was,
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I just would love to interview him
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'cause I get most of the list that he used
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right there in that little section.
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I totally understand why he brings up Samuel.
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Samuel's mother was unable to conceive a baby for a period.
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And when she finally gave birth to Samuel,
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she dedicated him to God.
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And he was thrust into a wicked temple system.
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And he was a reformer of that system in many ways
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as a prophet.
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But he came from a barren situation.
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So I understand that God wants to use Samuel to illustrate
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how you can come from a barren situation
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and redeem a broken system.
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I understand that part, and I understand
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why God would mention David
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through the writer of the book of Hebrews.
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That makes sense to put him in there
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as an example of somebody who,
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as we've mentioned in several of these sessions,
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started very much from the bottom,
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started almost excluded,
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not in the lineup at all of people in his own family
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who were candidates to be called by God
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for kingship.
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But he rose to prominence and did great things,
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and delivered God's people.
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Speaking of delivering God's people,
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it makes sense that the writer of Hebrews,
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who was writing to a mostly Jewish community,
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would reach back into the canon of their history
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and mention some of the judges
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who were, well,
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in between the time where there were no human kings,
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God would raise up judges for the people of Israel
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to deliver them in battle.
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And some of the famous ones are mentioned here.
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Gideon, I get Gideon.
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I get Gideon.
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He hid in a winepress because he didn't wanna thresh wheat
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out in the open because he didn't wanna expose himself
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to the enemy.
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I know what that feels like.
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I know what it feels like to retreat in fear.
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And I know what it feels like for God to stir up my faith.
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And Gideon went, and with only 300 men
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did awesome things for God.
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So I get mentioning Gideon because that's an example
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of God turning weakness into strength.
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Any time that God calls you out of a winepress of sorts,
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raises you up to be a warrior, and gives you a great victory
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in spite of your limited vision,
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that's an example of weakness into strength.
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And so is Barak and Jephthah.
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Jephthah was the one whose mom was a prostitute.
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I don't know if you've read about Jephthah.
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We don't do Bible studies around Jephthah,
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because the Bible says that he was kicked out of his house
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and surrounded by worthless men.
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But it's not what surrounds you that determines
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how far you can go in life.
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And it's not where you started that determines
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where you end up.
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So, he ended up being used by God in some unusual ways,
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so I understand his inclusion.
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Weakness into strength.
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But Samson, Samson, he gets me.
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He gets me because, you know,
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anything about Samson's life,
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wouldn't you call that strength into weakness?
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We've got a whole list of people
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who started weak and finished strong.
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But then we've got this guy,
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this legendary, mythical Bible character
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that even people who have walked by a church
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at any point in their life have heard of, Samson.
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Samson, who started out very strong
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and ended very weak,
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ended up in a place that was not fitting
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for his potential.
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In fact, the Bible says that Samson,
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after he had renounced his vows as a Nazarite
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by not only touching a dead body,
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that was one of the vows that he broke,
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and not only drinking alcohol,
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that was another one of his vows.
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There are three vows that were a part of his Nazarite vow
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that coincided with his miraculous birth
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that gave him his great strength.
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But when his hair was cut off because he
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wasn't supposed to shave his head,
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when a razor touched his head, the Bible says,
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"His strength left him."
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His strength left him.
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The writer of Hebrews is encouraging
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a church that's getting stronger but facing more resistance.
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Because that's the way you get stronger
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is to face more resistance.
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I mean, what if you got a trainer
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to help you get stronger
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and the trainer pointed you to the weights
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and you were frustrated with the trainer
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for making you work?
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I think sometimes the direction God points us to
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in our spiritual development frustrates us,
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even though that's the very reason
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that we came to him to make us stronger.
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So when you come to God and ask him to strengthen you,
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don't be surprised when he puts a weight on your life.
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You gotta brace yourself.
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Now, Samson was somebody who was very strong but ended very weak.
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And yet, the writer of Hebrews uses him
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as an example of weakness into strength.
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And I wanna look at that.
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Why is it that sometimes in our lives we feel so strong,
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able, competent, ready, faith filled, fired up?
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Usually on, like, Sunday afternoon,
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20 minutes after the sermon.
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And then why is it that our strength can leave us?
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The Bible says that Samson's strength left us.
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Have you ever felt like your strength
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just left you?
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Just like that.
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"I was in the zone.
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"I was doin' it. I was doin' it."
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And then...your will leaves.
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Your resolve leaves.
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It can leave
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with one plate of chocolate chip cookies.
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Your resolve can leave.
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It's amazing
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how quickly your strength can leave.
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You were gonna forgive 'em,
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and then you had to be around 'em, okay?
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And then your strength leaves.
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You had so much strength,
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and you were just thinkin' it through in your mind.
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But then you actually had to carry it out.
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It happens.
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Now, the other day, I was actually exercising,
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which I don't like to do, but I do it.
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I gotta do it, I need to do it, so I do it.
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And I had actually, now, I've started to enjoy it
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a little bit more because what happens is
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you get a little bit stronger, you enjoy it more.
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You're able to do more.
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Sometimes once you get into the thing,
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you're able to enjoy the thing.
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And so, I've enjoyed lifting weights.
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I've actually been working on my bench press.
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Well, the other day, I went in to lift weights
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and I put some weight on the bench press.
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And I went to go and bench press the weight.
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And it was a weight
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that I was supposed to do 12 times.
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And I've done it before 14 times recently.
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And I got under the weight,
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and when I went to lift it,
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I could only do it once, barely.
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So the first thing I did was check, like,
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"Did Buck put more weight on this thing?"
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That's the guy I work out with.
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I'm like, "Is this somebody playin' a trick on me?"
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I was lookin' to see if their hands were--
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but somethin' had changed.
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I did it once. I was so confused.
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I couldn't understand.
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I was dismayed, like,
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"How can I gain all that strength
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"and then just lose it all at once?
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"Did Delilah slip into the weight room today?
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Did somebody cut my hair and I didn't know it?"
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I'm looking for clippers. I'm looking for scissors.
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Do it once, I'm so upset.
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And I was talkin' to one of my friends about it,
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who used to be a physical therapist.
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He's actually now, he's an ex-physical therapist,
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but I still go to him for my advice
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because I'm cheap and he's the best I've got.
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And I said, I asked him, I said,
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"How is it possible that I could have been able
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to do it 14 times, and today I can only do it once?
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You know, it isn't like my shoulder went out.
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It wasn't--my grip didn't slip.
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It wasn't like I had done it the day before and I was tired.
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I said, "How could I have been so strong,
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and my strength just left?"
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But he said somethin' that encouraged me.
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He said, "Oh, you're still strong.
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"It's not a lack of strength.
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It's stability."
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See, I have this injury. I have this injury.
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It's a scapular injury.
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That's what he told me anyway.
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I'm using the technical terms.
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Some people might just call it
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the shoulder area.
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No, it's a scapular injury.
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I have this injury,
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and it flares up from time to time.
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It may just be a result of tension.
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It may have something to do with the nerves.
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This is where my knowledge of theology is greater
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than my knowledge of anatomy.
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But what I know is he said,
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"You still have just as much strength.
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"But when you have instability in a part of your body,
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"it affects your strength in other areas.
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"So I know you didn't feel the pain directly,
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"but the instability was feeling to you
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"and appearing to you and seeming to you
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like a lack of strength."
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And I got encouraged because he let me know,
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"You didn't lose your strength.
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"You just lost your stability.
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"And if you can get your stability back,
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"if we can stabilize the part that's injured,
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"if we can stabilize the part that's damaged,
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"if we can exercise in this area,
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"it'll be no time before you're doin' it
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"14 times again, and 15 times again,
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and 16 times again."
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And I want to encourage you, my friend,
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it's possible that the enemy has convinced you
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that you're weak where you're not weak,
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that he's convinced that you're broken
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where you're not broken, you're whole.
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There may be an instability in your life that is causing you
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to underestimate your strength.
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But I came to encourage you today.
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Be strong in the Lord and in the power of his might.
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It's not too late for you to push again
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and see God do great things in and through your life.
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You'll never be stronger than you are stable.
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God can give you strength.
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You're strong in the Lord and in his mighty power.
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You are.
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That's who you are as a child of God.
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It's your birthright.
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And there's nothin' the enemy can do
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to take that away,
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nothing, nothing, nothing, nothing.
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But if you become unstable,
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when there's instability in your life,
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in fact, I wanna look at it in a couple of different areas
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and check your stability.
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Because some of the reasons
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that you're not feeling confident right now
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in your relationship with Christ
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have nothing to do with your strength
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and everything to do with your stability.
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From Samson's life, we could check five areas.
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We could check your emotional stability.
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How stable are you in your emotions?
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Samson was incredibly strong, but he was terribly unstable,
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terribly unstable.
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Emotions are a gift from God.
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But if you don't keep 'em in their proper place,
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they'll destroy your life.
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It's kinda like a fire.
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It can warm the house or burn it down.
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It depends on the context.
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You control your emotions, or they control you.
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Samson saw it.
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He wanted it. He went for it.
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If Samson was teased, he would respond by killing you.
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Samson had
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a little bit of emotional instability.
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Now, he's a drastic example.
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But I wonder, is there an area of your life
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where you have started serving your emotions
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and being mastered by them
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when your emotions were meant to serve your purpose?
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And now you're unstable because your energy
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is not directed toward purpose.
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That was Samson, emotionally unstable.
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And if you ever wanna study his emotional instability,
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just look for the ways that he responded to different dilemmas.
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Now, God gave him strength.
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God made him strong.
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God raised him up to be a deliverer.
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It wasn't the strength that was the issue.
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It was his application of the strength,
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his ability to channel it.
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Are you stable in your emotions?
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Also, are you stable in your commitment,
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in your commitment?
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I already told you that Samson wasn't faithful in his vows.
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Now, we know that we're saved by grace,
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and we know that we don't have to keep laws
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for God to love us.
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However, for us to fulfill our calling
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is gonna require commitment, commitment.
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I can't find anywhere in Samson's story
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where he committed to anything other than what served him.
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I can't find in the story of Samson
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where he had any ambition, that might be the third check,
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beyond himself, beyond his lust,
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beyond his senses.
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Are you stable in your ambition?
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Now, watch this.
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When you don't have a stable ambition,
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Paul said, "This one thing I do.
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"This one thing I do.
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"Press toward the mark. This one thing I do.
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"I have an ambition.
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My ambition is set and it's stable."
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And that's why Paul was able to say,
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"I can do all things
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through Christ who strengthens me."
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His strength came from his stability.
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His achievement was the result of a stable ambition.
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And when you kinda want this one day,
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and you kinda want that the other,
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but you don't have
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a clear ambition that is attached to a purpose,
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you won't be committed,
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and your emotions will be all over the place.
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Samson was strong. Don't get it twisted.
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Samson ripped a lion's mouth open.
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Samson could kill hundreds of Philistines
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with the jawbone of a donkey.
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He was strong, he was plenty strong.
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And so are you.
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You will receive power
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when the Holy Spirit comes upon you.
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It's not that you don't have the strength.
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It's not that you don't have the spirit.
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You just need to stabilize.
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That's my word for you today: stabilize.
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How does God turn weakness into strength?
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How does God use broken people to do big things?
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Well, he does it through a process,
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but it starts with stability.
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And Jonah was fish food.
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By any standard, these guys were unqualified.
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And yet, God entrusted them
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with some of the most important tasks in human history.
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Just like these Bible greats, we struggle in the space
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between our weaknesses and our dreams,
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between who we think we are
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and who God says we are meant to be.
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and the unmentionable in your life
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I believe that as you read it, you'll discover that God
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has a way of using our weaknesses.
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In fact, you'll be encouraged as you find out
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that God really loves and uses unqualified people.
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And you gotta be stable in your relationships.
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Now, I really believe this, that as a teenager,
00:22:25.020 --> 00:22:28.260
who you surround yourself with is sort of a crystal ball
00:22:28.270 --> 00:22:31.190
that will predict many components of your future.
00:22:31.200 --> 00:22:35.290
"Bad company corrupts good habits and good character."
00:22:36.000 --> 00:22:40.210
So you gotta be stable in your emotions.
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You gotta be stable in your commitment.
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You gotta be stable in your ambition.
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You gotta be stable in your relationships.
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I didn't say, "You gotta be perfect."
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I said, "You gotta be stable."
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Sometimes God
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will even take people out of your life
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to stabilize you in him.
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Sometimes God will move people on
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into a different season
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because he doesn't want you relying
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on the wrong relationships.
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You can even make a great relationship
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the wrong relationship by putting too much weight
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on another human.
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No other person can fulfill you.
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Samson came running to Delilah.
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That's how he got his hair cut off,
00:23:18.290 --> 00:23:20.100
because he was leaning in the wrong lap.
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But the writer of Hebrews gives us the key.
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He says that, "It was through faith
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that weakness was turned into strength."
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And the real thing you've gotta stabilize
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is your belief, your belief,
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through faith, through faith.
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It's interesting because if you put these five areas together,
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the belief, the relationships, the ambition,
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the commitment, the emotions,
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this'll give you not only a way to evaluate
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some pillars of stability in your life,
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but it spells the word "Brace."
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And the reason that's interesting to me
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is because at the end of Samson's life
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we see his strength return to him.
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It's never too late for your strength to return.
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It's never too late for your future to begin.
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It's never too late to complete your calling.
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You may have lost some time,
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but I feel like somebody's strength
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is coming back today
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just under the sound of this teaching.
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You know, the Bible says that,
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"Samson's hair began to grow back
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after it was shaved."
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That's one thing about hair follicles.
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They will grow back.
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There's no decision that you'll make
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that God can't redeem and use.
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You still have a destiny.
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You still have a hope.
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You still have a future.
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And the Bible says that at the end of his life,
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they took Samson out and they placed him among some pillars.
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It says in Judges chapter 16, verse 29 that:
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"Samson reached toward the two central pillars
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on which the temple stood."
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Watch this,
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"Bracing himself against them,"
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what did Samson do at the end of his life?
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Because the Bible says, "He braced himself against them,
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"his right hand on one, his left hand on the other,
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"and said, 'Let me die with the Philistines!'
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"Then he pushed with all of his might,
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"and down came the temple on the rulers
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"and all the people in it.
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"Thus he killed many more when he died
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than while he lived."
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He did in his death what he couldn't do in his life.
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He braced himself.
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And when he braced himself,
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his strength came back.
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Brace yourself because God has great plans for you
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and has put great potential in you.
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But you're never gonna see his strength
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until you stabilizes yourself.
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Through faith, through faith,
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God still turns weakness into strength.
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And we pray that it would be so
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in the lives of every listener today, God.
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Infuse us with faith to brace ourselves,
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the substance of things not seen to uphold us,
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in Jesus' name, amen.
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(announcer) We hope you've been enjoying the " (Un) Qualified" special
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with Pastor Steven Furtick.
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Steven Furtick is the founder and lead pastor
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of Elevation Church based out of Charlotte, North Carolina,
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as well as a "New York Times" bestselling author.
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His ministry focuses on equipping people
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for a life of faith,
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and bringing the hope of the gospel
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to people around the world
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in an authentic and creative way.
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We'd love for you to visit stevenfurtick.com,
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as well as join our Facebook page,
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to explore a wide range of inspirational resources.
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(announcer) Jacob, Esther, Mary, and David.
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Their spiritual resumes didn't match up with their
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earthly assignments, and yet, God promoted these
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unqualified people to positions
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they never dreamed they would fulfill.
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The Bible is filled with unlikely heroes.
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If you've ever felt like you aren't right for the job
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God has called you to, then you're in good company.
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In his encouraging book "[Un]Qualified," Steven Furtick
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reveals the inspiring truth, that being unqualified is
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God's favorite qualification.
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I believe that as you read it,
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you'll discover that God has a way of using our weaknesses.
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In fact, you'll be encouraged as you find out that God really
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loves and uses unqualified people like you and me.
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(announcer) As our thank you for your gift of any amount
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in support of TBN, we'll rush you your own copy
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of Steven's empowering book.
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Call... or share your gift securely online at
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