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Ron Carpenter
January 3, 2021
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Pastor Ron brings a powerful, biblical message of God’s redeeming love and liberating power that is effectively transforming people.

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Flip The Script Part 3

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  • - Have you ever neededsomething in your life
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  • to turn around?
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  • Well, if you're not there now,
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  • I think we've all beenthere at some time
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  • or another in our life.
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  • We're talking aboutFlip The Script.
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  • How can God getinvolved in our stuff
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  • and turn some things around.
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  • You may get some informationthat'll change your life.
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  • I'll see you in a minute.
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  • (upbeat music)
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  • RCTV312Message:10-11-20BAirs: 1-3-20
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  • I know I freaked y'allout in two series ago
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  • but I got a lot offeedback from it.
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  • But Matthew chapter three
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  • goes through all of the lineages
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  • and it ends with sayingAdam, the son of God.
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  • We don't think of Adambeing the son of God.
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  • God had two sons.
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  • And they were both named Adam.
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  • There was a first Adam andthere was the last Adam.
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  • The first Adamfirst Corinthians 15
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  • say it was a man of the flesh.
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  • The second Adam wasa man from heaven.
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  • So the first Adamwas the son of God,
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  • but Jesus was called thelast Adam, the son of God.
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  • So we have two sons.
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  • It's just differentthe way they got here.
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  • I can't mess with that.
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  • The second Adam, I tell Jesus-- I tell people all the time,
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  • how do we know whatJesus did for us?
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  • To know what thesecond Adam gave us,
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  • you got to go study whatthe first Adam lost.
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  • - Yes, sir.
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  • - And when you find outwhat the first Adam lost,
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  • you'll find out why didit take another Adam.
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  • Because exactly what waslost had to be restored.
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  • And only if a Adam lost it,
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  • it took a Adam to restore it.
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  • - [Travis] Come on man.
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  • - So Jesus became thesecond or the last Adam.
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  • So walk with me now he says,
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  • "I'm going to restore whatthe locusts have eaten."
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  • The first idea is gettingback what was lost,
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  • but we don't stop there.
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  • The second idea inrestoration is restitution.
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  • Zacchaeus.
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  • He was so changed,
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  • Pastor Travis,
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  • by just havingdinner with Jesus,
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  • just in his presence, thathe jumped up and said,
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  • "If I have stolen anything,I'm going to give it
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  • back four fold."
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  • Job, and Job received double.
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  • In other words, when Godmakes up the difference,
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  • he doesn't just giveyou back what you lost
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  • because restoration hasthe idea of restitution.
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  • I'm going to go over and aboveto make up for your losses.
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  • So Zacchaeus said,
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  • "Because of the difficulty anddistress I've caused people,
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  • "I'm not going to givethem back what I took.
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  • "I'm going to multiplyby four what I took."
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  • "I'm not going to take and justgive Job back what was lost.
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  • "I'm going to give him double
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  • "for the trouble thathe went through."
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  • Come on.
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  • And then you get down here.
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  • The Proverbs in verse six says,Proverbs chapter six says,
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  • "The thief, if he is found,
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  • "he don't have to bringback what he took.
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  • "He got to bring backseven-fold what he took."
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  • So I don't hear peopletalk about this much.
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  • The fact is if youhave lost something,
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  • there is pressureby God on the thief
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  • to not just bringback what was lost,
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  • but to multiply it
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  • because of the distressthat you've caused his son.
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  • So I'm here toprophesy to somebody.
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  • You do not need tohave the expectation
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  • that if you lost this, you'regoing to get this back.
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  • You need to lookat it, times seven.
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  • I remember one time I got putin a class action lawsuit.
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  • We were trying todo something really,
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  • really good for the community.
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  • It didn't turn outlike I wanted to.
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  • And then very unfairly,
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  • when people, when theythink you've got something,
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  • they paint a targeton your back.
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  • So I was put in aclass action lawsuit
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  • and in that class action lawsuit
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  • to make it rightand to settle it,
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  • I had just paid offmy first house ever,
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  • nobody in my whole family,nobody in my bloodline,
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  • nobody had ever owned a home.
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  • I was the first in my wholefamily lineage to own a home.
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  • And I had to go sell that home
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  • and give the money inthat lawsuit settlement
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  • because insurancewouldn't cover it.
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  • And I remember I took the amount
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  • that I had paid for that home.
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  • And I put a thingon the refrigerator,
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  • like the littlekid with a magnet.
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  • I put that number andI put it times seven.
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  • I want you to know the nexthouse, God let me pay off
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  • was exactly thatnumber, times seven.
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  • And I paid it off andnever had a mortgage on it.
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  • - Come on man.
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  • - And God producedthe whole thing.
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  • Why?
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  • Because I took that seriously.
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  • That's not just goodpreaching slogan
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  • and a run on the Oregon.
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  • If God says you take the thiefand he's found you command a
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  • sevenfold return onthe thing that he...
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  • I'm just tellingsomebody right now,
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  • whatever's been taken from youyou need to time it by seven
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  • and you need to say it everyday until the enemy walks in
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  • and brings it backinto your life.
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  • Whatever it is that was robbedtaken should have never been
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  • anybody but yours.
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  • You need to believe God fora, not just a restoration,
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  • a restitution.
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  • Zacchaeus time four, Job timetwo, the thief times seven,
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  • God will bring itback into your life.
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  • I'm rolling, I'm startingto get a lather up.
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  • You want to jump in right there.
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  • - Go man, go.
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  • - Come on man.
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  • Help me out a little bit.
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  • - Oh my God.
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  • It's exciting man.
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  • It's exciting to know...
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  • - Have you ever lost anything?
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  • - Yeah man.
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  • - If God's going to bringit back to Travis Greene,
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  • he's going to bring it backmore than what you lost it.
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  • That's the promise.
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  • The promise is he'sgoing to multiply it
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  • and then bring it back to you.
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  • So he makes the enemypay for every time
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  • he's ever dealt with you.
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  • - Come on, man.
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  • - Throw something in.
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  • I got to take a breath
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  • to get some water.
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  • - It's a faith builder.
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  • There's times inwalking with God that
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  • God will set you up for...
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  • This isn't good preaching.
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  • But God is such a mastermindthat he can set you up
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  • in a season of loss,
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  • or what looks likea season of loss.
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  • - [Ron] What lookslike a season of loss.
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  • - It's almost like,
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  • the Archer and the bow and arrow
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  • there's a pullback season,
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  • it's the coach that has thewisdom to punt the ball.
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  • Man, it looks likewe're losing territory,
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  • but we're actuallygaining territory.
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  • And there's beenseasons in my life
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  • that God has requiredsomething of me,
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  • and I thought it was unfair.
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  • But while you're preaching,I'm over here, man.
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  • Going back through myown timeline of man,
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  • God did that plus so much more.
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  • And I just think for anyone,who's watching this actually...
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  • - [Ron] Build their faith.
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  • Build it.
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  • - In a season like this man.
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  • We're in 2020 where there'sso much unemployment.
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  • There's so much pain.
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  • There's so much loss.
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  • And you're wonderingwhat is God up to.
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  • Can I tell you something?
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  • When you serve God,
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  • he is so faithful that hewill allow every season,
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  • every heartache,
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  • every pain, the Biblesays in Romans eight 28,
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  • that all things work together.
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  • All is a really small word,
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  • but it's really big
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  • because it encompasseseverything in our life.
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  • The good times, the badtimes, the highs, the lows.
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  • - [Ron] He didn'twaste anything.
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  • - It's all necessary.
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  • - [Ron] He doesn'twaste anything.
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  • - And He utilizes it forhis glory and for our good.
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  • Only a great Godcould do that. Man.
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  • - Jesus walked up to this man
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  • with the withered hand and says,
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  • "Step forward."
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  • I want you to noticesomething about the guy.
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  • Most of the time in theBible, Pastor Travis,
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  • what we read is, Jesus, theson of David, have mercy on me
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  • or when he cried aloud
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  • or the man is boundin chains ran --
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  • There's some outburstsasking for his help.
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  • This man said nothing.
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  • He said, he didn't ask anything.
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  • He was in the crowd.
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  • He did nothing likeblind Bardameaus.
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  • He did nothing to distinguishhimself or stand out.
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  • Jesus was in the midst ofa religious churchy crowd
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  • who did not want to seeanything healed on the Sabbath
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  • and trying to catchhim in a rule.
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  • But God always puts peopleover principles, all the time.
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  • He will put a personover a principal.
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  • And we have a principalthat they live by,
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  • but we have a person in need.
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  • So Jesus just walksup to this dude.
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  • Who's probably in the crowd,
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  • minding his own businessenjoying the conflict
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  • that's going on.
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  • And he walks up and says,
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  • "Step forward."
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  • This guy is,
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  • "I'm not asking."
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  • "Step forward."
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  • When we think of gettingsomething that was taken from us
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  • restored, we thinkof looking back,
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  • but he told him to step forward.
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  • You do not walk inrestoration by looking back.
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  • You have to move forward.
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  • The first step in restoration is
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  • you got to take a step forward.
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  • God, didn't tell you to go back
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  • and try to reclaiman old season.
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  • God says you step forward
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  • and he will take thetime in that season lost
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  • and he will bringit into your future.
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  • You have to step forwardto get your past back.
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  • Step forward.
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  • Now, here's anotherthing I wanted to say.
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  • This was amazing to me.
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  • I need to stop right there.
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  • Somebody you just needto let something go.
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  • - I know that's notprophetically powerful.
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  • You need to let something go.
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  • There is just somethingrestraining you
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  • from the restoration process
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  • because the wound is sodeep and it's so fresh
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  • and you keep it so near youthat God is trying to get this
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  • multiplied blessing to you.
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  • But you keep dragging thatexperience into your presence.
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  • I dare you to confessout of your mouth.
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  • I'm letting it go.
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  • If it's a name, say the name.
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  • I'm letting you go.
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  • If it's your parents,mom and daddy,
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  • I'm letting you go.
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  • If it's the dad you won't let,
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  • dad, I'm letting you go.
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  • If it's theopportunity you lost,
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  • I'm letting it go.
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  • But somebody's got tosay out of their mouth,
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  • if you're in a placewhere people won'tthink you're nutcase
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  • right now and you, I don'tknow where you're at.
  • 00:09:47.142 --> 00:09:49.444
  • And if there's,if you're sharing,
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  • if you're in a watch partyand you're in the room,
  • 00:09:51.013 --> 00:09:52.280
  • I dare you look at each other
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  • and say, I've got tolet some things go.
  • 00:09:53.682 --> 00:09:55.817
  • You cannot get restoration,
  • 00:09:55.851 --> 00:09:58.353
  • trying to rescue yourown past that you lost.
  • 00:09:58.387 --> 00:10:01.790
  • God has to get it andbring it into your future.
  • 00:10:01.823 --> 00:10:04.660
  • While you keep moving forward,
  • 00:10:04.693 --> 00:10:07.162
  • we press toward the upwardcall of God in Christ Jesus.
  • 00:10:07.195 --> 00:10:10.499
  • There is no place called there.
  • 00:10:10.532 --> 00:10:12.601
  • There's just aplace called upward.
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  • You just keep movingforward and keep moving up.
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  • Okay?
  • 00:10:17.839 --> 00:10:19.307
  • Now Jesus, didn't tell himwhich hand to stick out.
  • 00:10:19.341 --> 00:10:23.045
  • He didn't say,
  • 00:10:24.780 --> 00:10:25.981
  • "Hey bro, I see yougot a nub there."
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  • Stretch out your hand.
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  • What do we do at church?
  • 00:10:30.452 --> 00:10:31.987
  • We would have stretchedout our good one.
  • 00:10:32.020 --> 00:10:34.089
  • Ain't no way we lettingpeople see our nub.
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  • I could go off on this.
  • 00:10:39.761 --> 00:10:41.029
  • Jesus had a way,
  • 00:10:43.165 --> 00:10:44.933
  • pastor of creatingan environment
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  • where people couldreveal weaknesses.
  • 00:10:48.637 --> 00:10:50.472
  • Have we lost some of that?
  • 00:10:52.474 --> 00:10:54.142
  • I want to pastor a church
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  • where you can showyou withered hand.
  • 00:11:08.690 --> 00:11:10.525
  • - I don't want church to bea place for perfect people
  • 00:11:13.595 --> 00:11:16.765
  • to come show hownice their hand is.
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  • - [Travis] That's so good.
  • 00:11:18.633 --> 00:11:20.068
  • - I want people with deepimperfections to say,
  • 00:11:20.102 --> 00:11:22.537
  • "I'm safe here."
  • 00:11:22.571 --> 00:11:23.739
  • And Jesus createdan environment.
  • 00:11:24.906 --> 00:11:27.609
  • He didn't say which,the guy had a choice,
  • 00:11:27.642 --> 00:11:30.011
  • I can stretch out my good one
  • 00:11:30.045 --> 00:11:31.713
  • or I can stretch out the nub.
  • 00:11:31.747 --> 00:11:34.116
  • He says,
  • 00:11:34.149 --> 00:11:35.183
  • "Stretch out your hand."
  • 00:11:35.217 --> 00:11:36.418
  • But that in thepresence of Jesus,
  • 00:11:36.451 --> 00:11:37.853
  • he had no problem showingJesus, his weakness.
  • 00:11:37.886 --> 00:11:40.889
  • And I loved that.
  • 00:11:40.922 --> 00:11:41.790
  • I loved that.
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  • Stretch out your hand.
  • 00:11:43.625 --> 00:11:45.494
  • When he said stretch outyour hand, the Bible says,
  • 00:11:45.527 --> 00:11:48.196
  • and the hand was not healed.
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  • - Restored.
  • 00:11:51.032 --> 00:11:51.833
  • - Not made whole,
  • 00:11:51.867 --> 00:11:53.068
  • but restored.
  • 00:11:53.101 --> 00:11:53.935
  • - How long are we gonnasit and mourn and cry
  • 00:11:55.670 --> 00:11:58.940
  • over what we do not have?
  • 00:11:58.974 --> 00:12:00.809
  • And the chanceswe were not given.
  • 00:12:00.842 --> 00:12:02.844
  • We can sit backand cry about that,
  • 00:12:02.878 --> 00:12:04.880
  • but while you're cryingabout what you didn't get.
  • 00:12:04.913 --> 00:12:07.582
  • You're not focusingon what you did get.
  • 00:12:07.616 --> 00:12:09.951
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  • Ron Carpenter showsyou how to recover
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  • from what you may haveexperienced or lost.
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  • - You see everythingaround you being shaken
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  • and your relationshipsare unstable.
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  • Your company is unstable.
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  • Your 401k is unstable.
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  • Everything, your money'sunstable, your checking account,
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  • but God is making theroots of your faith
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  • dig deeper thanthey've ever dug.
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  • Why?
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  • Because there's a place inhim where you're going to bear
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  • more fruit thanyou've ever born.
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  • - Winding down here.
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  • I got just a few minutes now.
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  • Actually I want youto give the last word
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  • and minister aprayer to some people
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  • who may deeply deeply behanging on by a thread
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  • that God can trulyrestore something
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  • and bring it back
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  • because they've aboutlost hope it can happen.
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  • This is the kicker.
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  • The word restore don't mean
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  • come sit it onyour porch in a box
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  • and say,
  • 00:13:18.286 --> 00:13:19.387
  • "Here's what you lost."
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  • Stretch out your hand
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  • and it was restored.
  • 00:13:22.324 --> 00:13:23.325
  • The word restored meansto create a new structure.
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  • God cannot give youback what you lost
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  • with the same structure.
  • 00:13:40.041 --> 00:13:41.443
  • Because the structure that youhad is what caused it to be
  • 00:13:42.878 --> 00:13:46.648
  • vulnerable in the first place.
  • 00:13:46.681 --> 00:13:48.216
  • - So good.
  • 00:13:48.250 --> 00:13:49.084
  • - The area whereI have had loss,
  • 00:13:51.186 --> 00:13:54.890
  • I have to create a new structureto sustain the restoration.
  • 00:13:54.923 --> 00:13:59.027
  • So if I lost money,
  • 00:14:00.462 --> 00:14:01.930
  • I may have to restructurethe way I handle money.
  • 00:14:03.365 --> 00:14:06.067
  • I have to create something new.
  • 00:14:07.469 --> 00:14:09.671
  • Why?
  • 00:14:09.704 --> 00:14:11.139
  • Because under my old structure,the thief had access to it.
  • 00:14:11.172 --> 00:14:13.575
  • If the thief has stolensomething out of your marriage,
  • 00:14:14.910 --> 00:14:18.179
  • you may have torestructure your marriage.
  • 00:14:18.213 --> 00:14:21.816
  • You may have to restructureyour attitude as a man.
  • 00:14:21.850 --> 00:14:25.587
  • You may have to restructureyour affection as a woman.
  • 00:14:25.620 --> 00:14:29.658
  • If you've lost kids,
  • 00:14:29.691 --> 00:14:31.526
  • you may have to create a newstructure at how your house is
  • 00:14:31.559 --> 00:14:35.931
  • run and how yourhouse is governed,
  • 00:14:35.964 --> 00:14:37.399
  • and the schedule that you keep,and the tone that you have.
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  • Oh, we don't want to hear this.
  • 00:14:40.402 --> 00:14:41.636
  • I can feel peoplebacking up saying,
  • 00:14:41.670 --> 00:14:44.005
  • "Oh man, I wasshouting a minute ago.
  • 00:14:44.039 --> 00:14:45.840
  • I'm not shouting no more."
  • 00:14:45.874 --> 00:14:47.175
  • Why?
  • 00:14:47.208 --> 00:14:48.843
  • Because Abraham wasthe wealthiest manthat we know of in
  • 00:14:48.877 --> 00:14:51.813
  • the Bible outside of Solomon
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  • and everything he had wastaken while he was away one day
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  • and he went and got all ofthe servants of his house,
  • 00:14:58.887 --> 00:15:01.723
  • went and fought toget his stuff back.
  • 00:15:01.756 --> 00:15:03.425
  • But on the way back, hestopped by Melchizedek's house
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  • and gave a tithe of all.
  • 00:15:08.396 --> 00:15:10.665
  • Why?
  • 00:15:10.699 --> 00:15:11.900
  • Because the Biblesays, when we tithe,
  • 00:15:11.933 --> 00:15:13.401
  • he rebukes the devour.
  • 00:15:13.435 --> 00:15:14.669
  • The word devourermeans seed eater.
  • 00:15:14.703 --> 00:15:16.271
  • He rebukes the one thateats your seed, your money.
  • 00:15:16.304 --> 00:15:19.441
  • Why did Abraham go byMelchizedek's on the way home?
  • 00:15:20.775 --> 00:15:24.579
  • Because what hehad was vulnerable
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  • to be taken the first time.
  • 00:15:26.881 --> 00:15:28.683
  • So he wanted to change the wayhe structured his wealth...
  • 00:15:28.717 --> 00:15:31.987
  • - Its so good, man.
  • 00:15:32.020 --> 00:15:33.388
  • - To make sure that hecannot be stolen from, again.
  • 00:15:33.421 --> 00:15:35.657
  • My God, I feel this, Holy Ghost,
  • 00:15:35.690 --> 00:15:37.492
  • what structure isGod challenging you.
  • 00:15:37.525 --> 00:15:40.962
  • I'm going to go ahead andprophesy coming out of COVID,
  • 00:15:40.996 --> 00:15:43.565
  • not in it coming out of COVID.
  • 00:15:43.598 --> 00:15:46.101
  • what is going to have to be --
  • 00:15:49.270 --> 00:15:50.171
  • What is going to have to be new?
  • 00:15:50.205 --> 00:15:51.673
  • What new wine skin are yougoing to have to create
  • 00:15:51.706 --> 00:15:53.742
  • to hold this next one?
  • 00:15:53.775 --> 00:15:55.276
  • Because you cannot put a newexperience on an old habit.
  • 00:15:55.310 --> 00:15:58.046
  • - Come on man.
  • 00:15:58.079 --> 00:15:59.581
  • - And I believe that thereis something that was taken
  • 00:15:59.614 --> 00:16:02.717
  • that God looks at it and says,
  • 00:16:02.751 --> 00:16:04.386
  • "What structure in yourlife made it vulnerable?"
  • 00:16:04.419 --> 00:16:07.922
  • Let's change that structureso that I can bring it back
  • 00:16:07.956 --> 00:16:10.992
  • and multiply it to you.
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  • Somebody out there.
  • 00:16:13.094 --> 00:16:14.262
  • I can feel it, theirheart's aching.
  • 00:16:14.295 --> 00:16:16.331
  • They didn't feel memaking this turn on them,
  • 00:16:16.364 --> 00:16:18.500
  • where I was gon throwsomething back in their lap.
  • 00:16:18.533 --> 00:16:21.169
  • But the fact is sometimebefore we can handle the
  • 00:16:21.202 --> 00:16:24.506
  • blessing, we haveto make changes.
  • 00:16:24.539 --> 00:16:26.141
  • - It's so good.
  • 00:16:26.174 --> 00:16:27.075
  • God calls us into partnership.
  • 00:16:27.108 --> 00:16:28.476
  • I was reading this
  • 00:16:28.510 --> 00:16:29.944
  • and the verse that jumpedout at me is what you read in
  • 00:16:29.978 --> 00:16:33.581
  • verse five, that he toldhim to stretch out his hand.
  • 00:16:33.615 --> 00:16:36.451
  • And when I read it,
  • 00:16:36.484 --> 00:16:37.886
  • the word stretch wasjust a power word for me.
  • 00:16:37.919 --> 00:16:41.689
  • I have a trainer andhe told me this before.
  • 00:16:41.723 --> 00:16:44.692
  • He said,
  • 00:16:44.726 --> 00:16:46.094
  • "Travis, it is moreimportant for you to stretch
  • 00:16:46.127 --> 00:16:48.229
  • "than it is for youto do the workout."
  • 00:16:48.263 --> 00:16:50.865
  • He says, because if youskip the stretching,
  • 00:16:50.899 --> 00:16:54.936
  • although it's uncomfortable,although it feels mundane.
  • 00:16:54.969 --> 00:16:57.872
  • although it feels ineffective.
  • 00:16:57.906 --> 00:16:59.340
  • If you skip the stretching,
  • 00:16:59.374 --> 00:17:01.609
  • it can limit what yourmuscles can handle.
  • 00:17:01.643 --> 00:17:04.646
  • It can limit.
  • 00:17:04.679 --> 00:17:05.914
  • It is the stretchingthat loosens you up.
  • 00:17:05.947 --> 00:17:07.682
  • Spiritually it is thestretching seasons
  • 00:17:07.715 --> 00:17:10.218
  • that equip us tocarry the increase.
  • 00:17:10.251 --> 00:17:12.287
  • We pray for restoration.
  • 00:17:12.320 --> 00:17:13.755
  • We shout for increase.
  • 00:17:13.788 --> 00:17:14.889
  • We shout for growth.
  • 00:17:14.923 --> 00:17:15.723
  • The question is,
  • 00:17:15.757 --> 00:17:17.225
  • have we placed ourselves ina posture of stretching to be
  • 00:17:17.258 --> 00:17:19.828
  • able to manage it, tobe able to handle it?
  • 00:17:19.861 --> 00:17:21.863
  • What is stretching?
  • 00:17:21.896 --> 00:17:22.697
  • Stretching...
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  • - [Ron] Man that's so good.
  • 00:17:23.765 --> 00:17:25.200
  • - Is when God requiresour faith to be exercised.
  • 00:17:25.233 --> 00:17:26.734
  • - He demands it of us.
  • 00:17:26.768 --> 00:17:27.769
  • He places a demand on it.
  • 00:17:27.802 --> 00:17:29.704
  • - On it.
  • 00:17:29.737 --> 00:17:30.538
  • - He places a...
  • 00:17:30.572 --> 00:17:31.739
  • - I can do it. Willyou stretch me?
  • 00:17:31.773 --> 00:17:33.441
  • Would you stretch for it?
  • 00:17:33.475 --> 00:17:34.275
  • - I have always said,
  • 00:17:34.309 --> 00:17:35.577
  • you don't know what you have
  • 00:17:35.610 --> 00:17:36.811
  • until a demand'sbeen placed on it.
  • 00:17:36.845 --> 00:17:38.413
  • You don't know what you have.
  • 00:17:38.446 --> 00:17:39.848
  • And there's a lot of peoplethat are filled with,
  • 00:17:39.881 --> 00:17:41.149
  • I can't do this.
  • 00:17:41.182 --> 00:17:42.117
  • And I can't.
  • 00:17:42.150 --> 00:17:43.585
  • The fact is you don'tknow what you got in you,
  • 00:17:43.618 --> 00:17:47.055
  • until a demand hasbeen placed on it.
  • 00:17:47.088 --> 00:17:49.057
  • For those dealing withthe regret of loss,
  • 00:17:49.090 --> 00:17:54.095
  • a loss.
  • 00:17:55.930 --> 00:17:57.565
  • And I'm not talkingabout back in 82.
  • 00:17:57.599 --> 00:18:01.436
  • I'm talking aboutsomething fresh.
  • 00:18:01.469 --> 00:18:03.872
  • There's something fresh thatif they let their mind focus
  • 00:18:03.905 --> 00:18:06.875
  • and their heart, meditate on it.
  • 00:18:06.908 --> 00:18:07.909
  • It brings tears.
  • 00:18:07.942 --> 00:18:09.577
  • It affects them in there now.
  • 00:18:09.611 --> 00:18:11.412
  • Would you just maybe speak aword and pray for those people?
  • 00:18:14.182 --> 00:18:17.652
  • Because I see two thingsthat's got to happen.
  • 00:18:17.685 --> 00:18:19.988
  • There's got to besomething we got to let go.
  • 00:18:20.021 --> 00:18:22.123
  • And then there's got tobe something I create
  • 00:18:22.157 --> 00:18:24.692
  • because God's gotsomething coming
  • 00:18:24.726 --> 00:18:27.462
  • that's bigger thanwhat you lost.
  • 00:18:27.495 --> 00:18:29.397
  • And I just want pastorTravis as our guests
  • 00:18:29.430 --> 00:18:31.766
  • at our anniversaryservice, hallelujah,
  • 00:18:31.799 --> 00:18:34.369
  • We've been doing this 29 years.
  • 00:18:34.402 --> 00:18:37.038
  • I want him to pray for you.
  • 00:18:37.071 --> 00:18:38.173
  • Take it, man.
  • 00:18:38.206 --> 00:18:39.007
  • - Absolutely.
  • 00:18:39.040 --> 00:18:39.874
  • I believe the Lordwants you to know
  • 00:18:42.377 --> 00:18:43.478
  • that the restoration is on him.
  • 00:18:43.511 --> 00:18:45.113
  • The stretching is on you.
  • 00:18:46.347 --> 00:18:48.149
  • Can you trust himenough to stretch for
  • 00:18:48.183 --> 00:18:51.419
  • what's in front of you?
  • 00:18:51.452 --> 00:18:52.887
  • He tells Joshua, Joshua three.
  • 00:18:52.921 --> 00:18:55.456
  • He says,
  • 00:18:55.490 --> 00:18:56.291
  • "Consecrate yourself."
  • 00:18:56.324 --> 00:18:57.525
  • You just read it inJoel two, as well.
  • 00:18:57.559 --> 00:18:59.627
  • All of this restoration cameas a result of consecration.
  • 00:18:59.661 --> 00:19:02.297
  • Consecrate yourselfJoshua, for tomorrow
  • 00:19:02.330 --> 00:19:04.365
  • you shall see wonders.
  • 00:19:04.399 --> 00:19:05.600
  • The wonder is on me.
  • 00:19:05.633 --> 00:19:07.101
  • The consecration, the trust,the stretching is on you.
  • 00:19:07.135 --> 00:19:10.638
  • In the kingdomthere are no losses.
  • 00:19:10.672 --> 00:19:13.441
  • In the kingdom thereare only transfers.
  • 00:19:13.474 --> 00:19:15.610
  • And so if you feellike you're in a season
  • 00:19:15.643 --> 00:19:17.412
  • where you've lost some things,
  • 00:19:17.445 --> 00:19:19.013
  • can I just tell you
  • 00:19:19.047 --> 00:19:21.583
  • that God is a Godwho sets us up.
  • 00:19:21.616 --> 00:19:26.421
  • He is the God of the setup in the midst of it.
  • 00:19:27.689 --> 00:19:30.458
  • It's not really a loss.
  • 00:19:30.491 --> 00:19:31.793
  • It is a setup I sharedearlier about Gideon,
  • 00:19:31.826 --> 00:19:35.029
  • and I've just beenreading his story.
  • 00:19:35.063 --> 00:19:37.165
  • This dude seemingly loses
  • 00:19:37.198 --> 00:19:40.902
  • 31.700 men.
  • 00:19:40.935 --> 00:19:43.671
  • Imagine those types of peoplewalking out of your ministry.
  • 00:19:43.705 --> 00:19:46.641
  • Imagine those typesof people today
  • 00:19:46.674 --> 00:19:48.943
  • unfollowing you on social media.
  • 00:19:48.977 --> 00:19:51.312
  • - It will destroyyour confidence.
  • 00:19:51.346 --> 00:19:52.880
  • It will destroy...
  • 00:19:52.914 --> 00:19:53.715
  • - It is a massive loss.
  • 00:19:53.748 --> 00:19:55.783
  • - Massive loss.
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  • - But it is necessarily.
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  • - Necessary loss.
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  • - And the reason for the loss,
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  • and I'm going to pray righthere, was back in Judges six.
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  • The entire reason Gideonwas found in a wine press
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  • and called to go to battle
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  • is because theMidianites would come
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  • and destroy their harvest.
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  • So God says,
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  • "Gideon, I have to surroundyou with the right people.
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  • "I have to surround you,whatever you've lost.
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  • "I have to surround youwith the right stuff
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  • "so that you canmanage what's to come."
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  • It's not about what you lost.
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  • It's not about yesterday.
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  • It's not about the past.
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  • It's not about it'sabout what's ahead.
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  • It's about what's on the otherside of your stretch is on
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  • what's the otherside of the season,
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  • because greater is coming.
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  • I want to pray withyou right where you are
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  • and just remind youthat this was necessary.
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  • I would thank you forthe season we're in, even
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  • here in America.
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  • There's people watchingall over the world,
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  • but in America, we'rein a season called fall.
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  • And it's called fall becauseleaves fall from trees.
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  • And the reason why leavesfall from trees is because
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  • trees have the wisdom that thesame leaves that provided it
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  • nourishment in the past season,
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  • if they take theseleaves into winter,
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  • they'll take life from it.
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  • And so the tree goes through aseason of loss in order to be
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  • sustained in the future.
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  • And for all of history,
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  • this season was nevereven called fall.
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  • Only recently have wechanged the name to fall.
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  • This season wasalways called harvest.
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  • So for those who are watching,
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  • that feels like they'rein a fall season,
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  • feel like they're losing thing,.
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  • I thank you that this momentof impartation is a reminder
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  • that they're actuallywalking into harvest.
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  • They're actuallywalking into one of the
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  • greatest seasons of their life.
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  • They're actually walking into their turnaround season.
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  • You are the God of the setup.
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  • - Thank you God.
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  • - I pray right now thatthey experience supernatural
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  • restoration, allowtheir faith to increase.
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  • God, some of them arewatching right now,
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  • are wiping tearsfrom their eyes.
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  • I thank you that no longer
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  • do they have to askthe question, why?
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  • But they can celebratethe God who is behind it.
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  • The God who is theauthor and the finisher,
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  • the God who was the Potter.
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  • Jeremiah callsyou the God who is
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  • the orchestrator of our paths.
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  • You said the steps ofa good man are ordered.
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  • God I thank you that right now,
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  • good men and goodwomen are watching this
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  • and their steps havebeen ordered by you.
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  • They are not at their end.
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  • They're at the beginning.
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  • And so we won't waituntil the battle is over.
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  • We won't wait untilthe x-ray is reversed.
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  • We won't wait until we get thenews we've been waiting on,
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  • but we'll praise youright where we are,
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  • right in front of thisscreen, we'll clap our hands.
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  • We'll open up our mouth
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  • and we'll say thank youto the God of restoration
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  • in Jesus' name.
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  • Amen.
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  • - Amen.
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  • Amen and may the Lordbless you and keep you.
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  • Make his face shine upon you.
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  • May God establish youand give you peace.
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  • Tell everybody that you can.
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  • If you hadn't seen thismessage to go watch it
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  • where God said somethingspecial on Redemption's,
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  • 29th year anniversary.
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  • See you next week.
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  • (upbeat music)
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  • - Like always andlike every preacher,
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  • I wish I had alittle bit more time,
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  • but that's all I cando with that right now.
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  • But we got a lot morewhere that came from.
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  • Happy new year.
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  • We're into a new year.
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  • I don't know.
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  • I haven't talked to everybodyall around the world,
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  • but I don't know how sadeverybody was to see 2020 leave.
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  • We certainly hopethat 2021 in God
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  • are going to bringgreater things.
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  • But you know what?
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  • God took care of us.
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  • God healed many of us.God provided for us.
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  • God, we're still here.
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  • We're still here.
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  • And there's somethat can't say that.
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  • There's some that have wentthrough things less than we've
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  • been through and didn't make it.
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  • But God has sustainedus, sustained his people,
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  • brought us to this place.
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  • You may have cried alittle more than normal.
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  • You may have been locked ina little more than normal.
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  • Your life may shifted andchanged more than normal.
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  • But God was workingthe whole time.
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  • You may not see thefruit of it yet,
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  • but hang on because italways starts inside.
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  • Then later on, you'll seethe fruit of it outside.
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  • I want to thank youfor being with us.
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  • And I want to speaka minute to those
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  • who've been our covenantpartners, some for weeks,
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  • some for months, some foryears, some for decades.
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  • We've been doing this since1998. I'm aging myself.
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  • And there've been people,
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  • an ever growing number ofpeople called covenant partners.
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  • Because you notice we didn'tshow any advertisements.
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  • We didn't sell any adsbecause we are viewer
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  • and listener supported.
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  • I would love to addyou to that number.
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  • Was this a blessing?
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  • The only thing, the oneprinciple I live by;
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  • bless the thingthat blesses you.
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  • If you were blessed by it,
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  • would you consider turningaround and being a blessing?
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  • It takes a lot ofvery dedicated, alot of very skilled,
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  • a lot of very giftedpeople to get this
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  • to wherever you are right now.
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  • I never knew until Istarted doing TV myself.
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  • It's a lot, about alot more than puttingthe camera and mashingrecord and talking on it,
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  • it's a whole lot involved.
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  • And you know what?
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  • We believe that Goddoes want us to do that,
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  • but do it at the highest level.
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  • Whatever the world does,
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  • we believe God wantsus to do it better
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  • because we're his people.
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  • We're the sheep of his pasture.
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  • So I would encourage you,
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  • if you have beenblessed by this,
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  • would you consider giving?
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  • Maybe it's one time.
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  • Maybe you'd like to be apart of the family, say
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  • hey, I'm enjoying thison an ongoing basis.
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  • "I want to support iton an ongoing basis."
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  • We'd love that too.
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  • first-time givers,
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  • or whether just in this moment,
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  • And this gift is from us tosay, thank you, thank you.
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  • So we're so grateful for that.
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  • And you know what?
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