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Tim Timberlake | Tim Timberlake - The Blessing Of Not Belonging | April 19, 2026
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- I bring you greetings family from celebration church,
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- And it's an honor
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- And a privilege to spend this time with you,
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- To break open the word of god, to go through it, and to see how
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- The word not only changes us, but transforms us.
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- I truly believe that in certain seasons of your life
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- And my life, god strategically places us
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- In situations and circumstances that we're not wise enough,
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- That we're not smart enough,
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- That we're not knowledgeable enough
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- To know how to navigate without him.
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- I want us to go into the message as it has already
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- Begun, entitled the blessing of not belonging.
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- Let's go on this journey together
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- And see why god has us in the season
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- That we're in right now.
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- I got full right here.
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- Do you want it? no, i mean, i want money.
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- So you don't want what your silence is,
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- Because i got exactly what you're trying to say.
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- You don't even have to work for it.
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- I'm going to give it to you. do you want it?
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- Me and jim.
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- We were on a college campus one time,
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- And we're handing out bottled water as people.
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- Do you want water?
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- Yes, we want it.
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- Here it is.
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- No, no, no, i don't want that.
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- We're just blessing people.
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- Do you want a bottled water?
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- Because it's nothing harder.
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- More difficult than giving people something
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- That they think they did not earn.
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- Try it.
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- See how hard it is?
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- See how difficult it is to give somebody.
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- They were not expecting you to give them something for free.
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- It's difficult.
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- But we have to understand
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- This calling is not always obvious to the people
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- You're called to help.
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- This is where moses gets it wrong in this passage.
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- He confuses internal revelation with public validation.
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- And some of you are waiting
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- To be validated by men and women to operate in obedience.
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- And god is saying people will reject you
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- Before they receive you.
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- I've called you to operate in obedience
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- Regardless of what people say,
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- Regardless of what people do,
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- Regardless of what people acknowledge, regardless of what
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- People expect, regardless of what people anticipate.
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- I've called you to operate in obedience
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- Because you have to understand what it feels like
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- To be rejected.
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- Because i was rejected.
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- And so god will reveal purpose privately
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- Long before others can even recognize it.
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- Stephen reveals something that's not stated
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- Directly in exodus about the life of moses.
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- He states
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- Moses already sensed a divine purpose.
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- This is stephen's interpretive insight to the sanhedrin
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- Council, telling them spirit guided commentary on history.
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- You can be called by god
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- And not have clarity from god about the call you have.
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- Moses was
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- Called to deliver hebrews out of egypt,
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- But moses was trying to deliver them prematurely.
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- And so he had the call.
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- But he didn't have the timing.
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- And in order to operate in complete and total
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- Obedience, you need both.
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- The people's inability to perceive deliverance reflects
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- Spiritual blindness born from generations of oppression.
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- And this is what oppression does.
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- It conditions people to survive and not to expect salvation.
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- And some of you are in that place right now.
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- You feel unqualified to receive salvation from jesus.
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- You feel unqualified to walk in the plans
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- And the purpose that god has for you.
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- You feel like you are labeled by the things that you have done.
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- But i need you to understand this.
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- You are not what you have done.
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- And you can step fully under the plan and the purpose
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- That jesus has for your life.
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- If you receive him completely and totally and fully
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- As your lord and your savior,
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- And the beauty of that is he takes your sin and he cast it
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- As far as the east is from the west,
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- And he no longer recognizes you from the things you've done.
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- He called you son and a daughter of the most high god.
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- Oh, i love that
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- God answers our prayers and packages.
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- We don't expect him to arrive in.
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- Sometime god answers
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- Our prayers and it arrives
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- In the form of pain.
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- And that pain has
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- A crazy way of training you for greater purpose.
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- There's things that god can teach you in rejection and pain,
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- That he can never teach you, and promise and blessing.
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- And the reality is, if god gave you the gifts
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- You've been praying for,
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- You would never respond to the giver again.
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- And so he keeps you in the wilderness
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- Long enough to develop a dependency on him,
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- And not on the things he keeps
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- You in the wilderness long enough to hear his voice,
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- And not just the position given to you by men and women.
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- He keeps you in the wilderness long enough
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- To get egypt out of you.
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- And it's not that you are out of egypt,
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- It's that god has to get egypt out of you.
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- And so some of you are in a,
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- In a, in a different place, thinking the same way
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- In the old place.
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- And you're in a new season,
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- But you're still carrying the same sins from the old season
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- In the new season, and you corrupt
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- The new season god is taking you into,
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- Because there's still egypt on the inside of you,
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- Because you have not stay seated long enough
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- For god to get out of you
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- What the enemy placed on the inside of you.
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- Let me get to my notes.
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- I see y'all, i don't like this point.
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- Number one is this sometimes the first people to question
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- Your calling are the very people your calling is meant to free,
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- And people pray for deliverance until deliverance confronts
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- Their comfort.
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- People want helping to help actually comes
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- And it looks different than how you expected and anticipated.
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- Sometimes help arrives in the form of discipline.
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- Sometimes
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- Help arrives in the form of discomfort, sometimes
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- Help arrives in the form of you doing something differently
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- Than the way you've been doing it
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- For all these years,
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- But you don't acknowledge it is help
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- Because you don't want to receive it.
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- If it if it arrives in the form of pain.
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- The greatest seasons or breakthrough,
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- The greatest seasons of god pushing me and and
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- And propelling me
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- And positioning me came through the gift of pain.
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- I heard his voice clearer in pain.
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- I saw his hand clearer in way at work, in pain and discomfort.
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- I experienced his presence clearer in pain than i ever had
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- In the seasons of prospering.
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- And that is one of the greatest lessons we could ever learn.
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- And that's what paul. he prays three times.
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- God, remove this thorn from our flesh.
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- And god says, no, my grace is sufficient for you.
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- Because if there is grace in the thorn,
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- Then there's grace to prosper
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- You with the thorn in your flesh.
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- And some of you are trying to remove the thorn.
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- And god is saying, get your hands off that thorn.
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- I'm doing a good work in that thorn.
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- I'm speaking to you through that thorn.
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- I'm delivering you through that thorn.
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- I'm prospering you.
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- I'm propelling you through that thorn, though.
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- Pray that god would remove the thorn.
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- Praying that god would give you wisdom to steward it well.
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- Thy grace is
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- Sufficient for you. yet
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- Sometimes familiarity can blind you
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- To the hand of god standing right in front of you.
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- And you reject the rescuer because healing
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- Would require admitting
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- That you're stuck.
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- You're weak. instead of carrying
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- On the facade that everything is all right.
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- You know what i wish?
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- I wish.
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- That church was real.
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- I wish that we stop carrying ourselves like we're perfect.
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- And you got to be perfect.
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- And everything is going just according to your plan.
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- And everybody is just like in you, in loving you.
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- And you ain't got no problems.
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- And all your bills are paid for and everything you need
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- Is being taken care.
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- I, i wish we, we could have a community of people
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- Who would admit and acknowledge, no, no,
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- My life ain't going the way i thought that it should.
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- But man,
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- God is doing something formative in the season of pain.
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- He's doing something formative
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- In the season of confusion and chaos.
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- And although it's costing me the little identity
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- I gave myself, he's forming me and making me and shaping me,
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- And he's transforming me into the person he desires me to be.
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- But we can experience that
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- Because we want to be who people think we should be,
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- Instead of who god called us to be.
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- What if we just created environment for people
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- To actually be real and display the dire need for the savior,
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- Who can only save you and redeem you and renew you
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- When you acknowledge i'm weak, therefore i need
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- The strength of god.
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- You're not as good as you think you are.
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- You're not as rich as you think you are.
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- You don't got it together like you think you do.
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- You're broke. you're in dire need of jesus.
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- You're in pain.
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- And the reality is, is that he doesn't change your life.
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- You're going to die, and you're going to be stuck
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- Exactly where you are.
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- He never called you to be affirmed by people.
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- He never called you to fit in.
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- He called you to stand out.
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- And there's a blessing in not belonging.
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- I don't belong to this world.
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- This is not my home.
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- This is not my final resting place.
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- I'm a pilgrim traveling through moses.
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- He called himself an alien in midian.
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- I don't belong here.
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- I'm working here.
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- But when i clock out and i will.
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- I'm going to my mansion.
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- The one my father prepared for me.
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- Because his word
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- Says i go to prepare a place for you.
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- If it were not so, i would not say it.
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- And some of us are so stuck.
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- Trying to belong here.
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- And unfortunately, we will never belong there.
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- And. it's a blessing.
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- To not belonging.
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- Moses had three
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- Identities competing inside of him.
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- He was hebrew by birth,
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- Egyptian by upbringing,
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- A leader by calling, but not yet formed.
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- And as
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- Long as he belonged comfortably somewhere,
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- He could avoid choosing who he truly was.
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- But midian stripped this away from him.
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- Midian reminds him there is no palace in the wilderness.
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- There is no status in the wilderness.
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- There's no amen corner in the wilderness,
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- Only identity before god
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- And oftentime god removes you from the environment that
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- You were stuck in to affirm you so he can reveal you.
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- Reveal who you are without the applause of men and women.
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- And it is possible
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- That some of you can't hear his voice
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- Because you're so focused on the applause
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- You hear from men and women.
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- Structural importance to the
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- Scripture said on the following day.
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- He appeared to them in verse 26,
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- And they were fighting together or fighting each other.
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- So day one, he has an enemy.
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- Verse two hebrew.
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- Day two he has a hebrew fighting a hebrew.
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- Stefan shows
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- The internal division can be as destructive
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- As external oppression,
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- And if a people continue to fight against each other,
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- We'll lose focus on the enemy that's fighting against us.
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- And that's the enemy's plan.
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- The enemy's plan is to get you so focused on white or black,
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- Hispanic or asian, red or blue, republican or democrat,
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- That you completely turn a blind eye
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- To the enemy, infusing himself in the coach
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- Coaching society and everything that we do.
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- And we'll sit here and give commentary
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- To a halftime super bowl show.
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- Instead of recognizing if jesus performed at the halftime,
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- We wouldn't be able to understand them either.
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- What are we talking about?
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- Don't lose focus.
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- The enemy wants you to choose sides.
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- God wants you to take over.
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- But what do we. what are we doing?
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- We're.
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- We're so distracted on things that will not matter in eternity
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- That we have completely been
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- Blinded to the things that matter most.
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- And verse 26 says, he tried to reconcile them to peace,
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- But they were so enraged
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- With anger to fight each other that they could not even tell
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- The person that was sent to deliver us is standing
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- In front of us.
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- Stephen is teaching the sanhedrin council.
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- Moses reconcile,
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- Tried to reconcile with his brothers,
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- And jesus tried to reconcile humanity.
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- And you've rejected both of them.
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- I want to point something out to you.
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- In studying, there's something called
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- Linguistic notes that we utilize in theology.
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- It ties identity to a person by the name.
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- They use
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- Moses, utilize the word brethren,
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- Which emphasizes a covenant identity.
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- So when he calls them brothers, he automatically assumes
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- They identify him as a hebrew, and they do not.
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- He's aligning themself with who they are
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- To allow them to know i am one of you,
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- And have you ever noticed it?
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- Be your own folks.
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- Would be your own crew.
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- Would be your own people that reject you.
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- You go back to try to help them and they reject you.
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- It'd be your own circle that will turn their back on you
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- And remind you you ain't one of us.
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- I remember back when i remember ten years ago
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- You were right here with us,
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- Fighting alongside of us in the very people
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- That god elevates in anointing of the same people
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- Will try to suppress because we're familiar with them.
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- I pray they do.
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- Deliverance, hear
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- Me, isn't merely escaping egypt.
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- It's learning to live as a family
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- In the wilderness that god has us in.
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- And if all of us are fighting
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- To get back to the place god delivered us from,
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- Would never see the favor of god the way he desires for us to.
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- Point number two is this.
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- Misunderstood obedience still counts as obedience.
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- I don't care if people understand the assignment.
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- I don't care if people understand the anointing.
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- I don't care if people understand the calling.
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- I don't care if people approve of what it is
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- That god has called you to do.
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- You be obedient. come hell or high water.
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- You're not obedient to get affirmed by people.
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- You are obedient because god has already affirmed you.
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- You're not operating in the call of god in your life
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- Because people approve the call of god on your life.
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- You're operating in the call of god
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- On your life because god has called you.
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- Amen.
- 00:16:16.258 --> 00:16:16.992
- But we're so
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- Focused on what people think to the left and to the right,
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- That we've completely taken our eyes off
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- Jesus and what he's placed in front of us.
- 00:16:21.263 --> 00:16:25.200
- And so misunderstood obedience still counts as obedience.
- 00:16:26.301 --> 00:16:29.204
- And just because people misread your motives doesn't mean
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- God misread your heart.
- 00:16:32.574 --> 00:16:36.512
- Heaven measures faithfulness differently than crowds.
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- Measure success.
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- How do you measure success?
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- Think about that.
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- How do you measure success?
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- Do you measure it by obedience and surrender to god?
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- Or do you measure it by possessions?
- 00:16:49.958 --> 00:16:52.795
- Because some of you measure success by the car you drive,
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- By the house you walk into,
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- By the business you work at, or the business you started,
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- Or the friends you have and the relationships
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- You got of the money that's in your account.
- 00:17:04.406 --> 00:17:05.974
- Some of you measure success
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- By the things you will never take with you into eternity.
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- When god does not measure success that way.
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- Scripture teaches us that man
- 00:17:14.383 --> 00:17:15.818
- Looks on the outward, but god looks on the inward.
- 00:17:15.818 --> 00:17:18.020
- And so if god looks on the inward, he judges
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- Success by the inside out.
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- Now the outside in.
- 00:17:21.623 --> 00:17:28.363
- Many quit their assignment.
- 00:17:28.964 --> 00:17:32.434
- Many walk away from the calling.
- 00:17:32.434 --> 00:17:36.004
- Many resist their anointing
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- Because they expect it.
- 00:17:39.108 --> 00:17:40.309
- Recognition instead of resistance,
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- Expect resistance
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- If they resist it.
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- Jesus, you better believe
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- They're going to resist you when you follow him.
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- I know that's right.
- 00:17:51.520 --> 00:17:54.456
- Who are we to think that we're better than jesus?
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- Who are we to think that we can avoid
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- People rejecting us, and people turning a blind eye
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- To the things that god has called us to do?
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- That's why god called you to do it
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- Right.
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- Sometimes the proof of your calling
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- Is that nobody
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- Understands you. yet.
- 00:18:17.045 --> 00:18:21.250
- Some of you
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- Get that when you get home.
- 00:18:22.251 --> 00:18:25.587
- Sometimes the proof that god actually called you,
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- As no one has identified it yet.
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- That way people
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- Can't take credit for the doors you walk through.
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- That way
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- People cannot take credit for the seasons you walk into.
- 00:18:36.532 --> 00:18:39.434
- That way nobody can say, oh no, i put him on, i put her
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- On, i did that no, no, no, no.
- 00:18:42.171 --> 00:18:44.139
- Sometimes the greatest example that god actually has
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- His hand on you is no one else identifies it yet.
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- Let's continue to move to the text.
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- Point number three is this
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- We see in scripture
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- An internal conflict between these two.
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- Hebrews.
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- Point number three teaches us internal conflict,
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- Delays, external freedom.
- 00:19:05.561 --> 00:19:08.163
- You will never win battles outside
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- While wounding each other inside.
- 00:19:11.400 --> 00:19:14.503
- We are the body of christ,
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- Not a political party,
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- Not a race of people.
- 00:19:19.641 --> 00:19:21.877
- Thank god this congregation in this church
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- Has all types of flavors,
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- All types of ethnicities.
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- Very quickly, if you come from a country
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- Or nation outside of america, stand to your feet.
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- A very beautiful thing.
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- You can take your seats.
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- Thank god we don't all look the same.
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- Thank god we don't all talk the same.
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- Thank god we don't all carry ourselves the same.
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- But thank god we do serve the same savior.
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- Amen.
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- How does oppression survive?
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- Oppression survives
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- When unity dies.
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- And oppression will linger amongst the people
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- Where there is no unity.
- 00:20:33.482 --> 00:20:37.052
- And hell doesn't need to destroy a people
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- If it can just keep you distracted
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- With competition and rivalry.
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- Point number four.
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- God will use the wilderness
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- You ran to as the place he shapes you.
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- Some of you are running right now and you think
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- You're running away from god,
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- And you're running exactly into the plan
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- And the purpose he has for you. amen.
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- Because god will use the wilderness
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- You ran to as the place he shaped you.
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- Your exile may be god's training ground,
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- Not your punishment.
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- What feels like failure might actually be divine
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- Rerouting by the plan god has in place for your life.
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- God is not intimidated by your missteps.
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- He repurposes them,
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- And he uses everything, the good and the bad,
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- And he makes them work together
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- For the good of those that loves the lord.
- 00:21:34.609 --> 00:21:39.481
- And so don't
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- Rush wilderness seasons.
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- One of the greatest lessons look at me
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- I could ever learn in this life, particularly in leadership,
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- Is sometimes the blessing is that nobody knows your name.
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- While god is shaping your character.
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- If god would have elevated moses and people would have known
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- His name as a deliverer and he murdered that egyptian,
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- It would have tarnished his reputation and impact
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- To advance the people of god.
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- And so god kept him in the wilderness,
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- Tending to sheep long enough to get egypt out of him,
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- To form him, to shape him, to develop him into the moses.
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- He needed him to be,
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- So that he could go back to the very same place
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- That trained him,
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- Educated him, resourced him
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- To deliver his people out of that place.
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- But if god would have allowed him to operate in authority
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- Before he formed him,
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- He would have compromised the authority
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- With the lack of character and godly integrity.
- 00:22:37.339 --> 00:22:40.842
- And so some of
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- You are rushing god's plan, and god is stalling
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- So that you develop integrity and character.
- 00:22:45.647 --> 00:22:49.251
- Some of you are thirsty and hungry for platforms
- 00:22:49.251 --> 00:22:51.987
- To perform, but you're not hungry
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- And thirsty for the power of god to change your perspective.
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- So that he can form you
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- Into the person he desires for you to be.
- 00:22:58.660 --> 00:23:02.030
- He never called you to fit in.
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- He never called you to just be a part of it, to just blend in.
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- He called you to stand out.
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- Scripture called you a peculiar people.
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- So there's a blessing
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- And not belonging.
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- The discomfort of not belonging is often
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- The sound of destiny stretching you.
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- Pain teaching you
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- The holy spirit working in and through you.
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- And if you stay.
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- If you're patient.
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- And if you endure.
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- He says there's a crown of righteousness
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- That awaits for you.
- 00:23:47.776 --> 00:23:51.079
- Men and women can give you medals,
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- But only one can give you a crown of righteousness.
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- So know where you come from.
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- And i will go places in my parents.
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- Find out where we're going.
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- They would stop me at the door and say, son,
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- Don't forget where you came from.
- 00:24:13.034 --> 00:24:16.371
- I'm stopping you at the door to day family.
- 00:24:17.239 --> 00:24:19.040
- And i'm telling you,
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- Don't forget where you came from.
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- You did not come from this world.
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- This is not your home.
- 00:24:26.681 --> 00:24:27.716
- This is not your final resting place.
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- You were here. you were visiting.
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- You're traveling through.
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- You are an alien of this world.
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- Don't get comfortable here.
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- Where there's an unease.
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- Discomfort.
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- God says, i'll take you from faith to faith
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- And glory to glory,
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- Because there's a blessing
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- And not belonging
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- Or family.
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- I should pray that you glean from the word of god
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- That you got from it
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- Everything that jesus desired for you to get from the word.
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- I pray that as we continue
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- To go through the acts of the apostles, you see
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- How god continues to send deliver us to us
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- Our prayers, that we don't reject them.
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- I pray that we hear the word of god and not just be.
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- Here is, but also doers of the word of god
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- That our lives would be changed forever more.
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- I want to set myself an agreement with you
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- For what you may be believing god for.
- 00:25:27.542 --> 00:25:29.411
- And so if you have a prayer request,
- 00:25:30.211 --> 00:25:32.013
- If you have a desire for us to pray
- 00:25:32.013 --> 00:25:34.583
- About something specific, my team is going to throw
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- Some information at the bottom of that screen.
- 00:25:36.751 --> 00:25:39.120
- Write us, email us, call us, let us know how we can be
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- In agreement with you dearly.
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- Father, i thank you for my brothers
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- And sisters watching around the world.
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- I know god that you're not only just a god that hears,
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- But you're also a god that provides.
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- And so right now, god, we declare ephesians
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- Chapter three, verse 20.
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- You were able to do exceeding abundantly
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- Above all that we could ask or think, according to the power
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- That's at work on the inside of us.
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- God, i ask that you would meet
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- My brother and sister right where they are,
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- Hear their desires, hear their heart, hear their cries,
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- And god provide a solution.
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- In your time, in jesus name we pray.
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- Amen.
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- Family at the bottom of the screen.
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- My team has provided some information
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- For you to partner with us.
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- I truly believe that now
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- More than ever, we need the word of god,
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- And we need bible teaching programs such as this
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- To help encourage us and build our faith.
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- Would you partner with us to help us continue
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- To spread of the gospel of jesus christ
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- And the advancement of the kingdom of god?
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- No contributions to large, no contributions to small.
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- Everything matters in eternity.
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- And so i thank you in advance for prayerfully considering
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- Partnering with us
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- To help us continue to spread the gospel of jesus christ.
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- If you're ever in the jacksonville
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- Or north florida area, stop by on a sunday.
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- Visit us 9 a.m. 11 a.m..
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- If you're not within driving distance, it's okay.
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- We'll continue
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- To share the gospel of jesus
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- Christ with you right here on this incredible network.
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- I'll see you next time.
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- Same time, same place, want you to know
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- God loves you and i love you to be blessed in jesus name.
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- ♪♪
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- ♪♪
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