Sermon
I Ain't Come Here For THIS!
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Welcome to the official podcast of Rock Hill Baptist Church 2
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where we are focused on glorifying God, spreading the
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gospel, and making disciples of Jesus Christ right here in the
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heart of Greenville, SC. Each week we bring you a life
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changing word from our Senior Pastor, Pastor Matthew D Long
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Junior, or one of our anointed guest speakers.
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We pray this message strengthens your faith, deepens your
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understanding, and empowers you to elevate in every area of your
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life. Let's join the service already
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in progress. John chapter 2 verse #4 I really
John 2 chapter mention
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want to deal with verses one through 11, but forsake of your
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leg strength and our time together.
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I'd rather have your vocal support and find me at verse #4
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and it says Jesus said unto her, woman, what have I to do with
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thee? My hour is not yet come the word
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of God for the people of God. Thanks be unto God, and you can
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take your seed, and now she take your seed.
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I want to preach from this though.
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Are you ready? You ready?
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I'm going to preach from the thought, I ain't come here for
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this. I ain't come here for this.
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Monday brothers and sisters, timing is everything.
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I mean, it really is. It really is.
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You can have the right dream at the wrong time and you can even
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watch it implode. And Monday, brothers and
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sisters, you can have the perfect strategy and still miss
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your moment because life doesn't operate on your schedule.
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To be honest, it doesn't even wait until you're healed and it
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it doesn't pause when you're feeling overwhelmed.
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It doesn't check your bandwidth before it breaks your routine.
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And, and honestly, if I can be transparent with you, some of us
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can really attest that you can find yourself laughing in the
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sun and the next you find yourself questioning everything
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in the shadows. We've all been there, stuck in
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between what was planned and what is present, where
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expectation collides with reality, where joy starts
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leaking and pressures Deacon metals start rising.
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And here Deacon houses what really makes it worse?
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You can be surrounded, Sister Jackie, by celebration about
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silently battling chaos. Thank you.
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That part you can find yourself dressed for a moment that your
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soul can't afford, and you can be in the right place, but not
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ready for what hits. And the truth of the matter is,
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there are statistics to prove that African Americans are 20%
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more likely mother to face serious psychological distress,
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but really only one in four will go get the help.
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So if that's to be true, in this very room, one in every four
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persons find themselves only going to get some help.
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Someone may be smiling in public but sinking in private, maybe
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clapping in the crowd but cracking behind the curtain.
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And they may find themselves hosting the party while praying
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the pressure doesn't expose the pain.
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You see, timing isn't just about Sister Chris clocks.
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It's about capacity. It's about what shows up when
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you thought you had more time. Mother Gordine or or Mother
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Thelma, but you thought you had more energy.
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A Braylon. I mean, you felt like you had
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more strength or a Bree even when you felt like you have more
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stability. It's about what life demands
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when you feel least prepared to give.
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And I don't know who this is for, but there may be someone
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too, who's find themselves standing in the moment where the
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timing feels off and the weight simply feels unfair.
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But what if, what if, What if, just maybe, this moment isn't
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punishment, it's positioning. But if the interruption is an
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invitation, Deacon Davis. But if the pressure is really
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the platform and before we can go to the text, I got to tell
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you something real quick, Brother Brandon.
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Sometimes God doesn't give you a sign.
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He gives you a shift. And if you're not careful,
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you'll miss what he's doing because you're focused on what
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you weren't expecting And somebody, Dear brothers and
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sisters, can you help lean into this text with me?
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Because that's where we find ourselves in between the black
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and white pages of the book before you or from which the
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electronic device you may be reading from.
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It's here it's 333 observations, pointed observations.
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I want to give you from the text you got your Bible still right,
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John chapter 2 started verse #1 the Bible says, and on the third
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day there was a marriage and Cana of Galilee and the mother
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of Jesus was there. Verse 2 says, and both Jesus was
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called and his disciples to the marriage.
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Verse 3 And when they wanted wine, the mother Jesus said it
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to him. They have no wine.
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My dear brothers and sisters, the very first pointed
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observation of this text is the perceived problem.
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Thank you sister Shay. I know sometimes all you got is
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a for that. It's the perceived problem.
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The text does not open with a wonder.
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It opens with a worry. It doesn't begin with a
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breakthrough. It begins another spurgeon with
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a breakdown. And it doesn't really start with
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a celebration. It starts with crisis.
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The wine runs out, The text here says, and that's what the people
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see. That's what the servants are
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panic about. That's what Mary brings to
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Jesus. They have the wine.
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That church is the perceived problem.
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It's visible, it's measurable. It's real, right?
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There's nothing fake but pretentious about this, a phony
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about it. But the reality is, it's not the
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root. It's not the root because
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shortages don't need invitations.
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They just make appearances and they always seem to arrive at
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the worst possible time. This, this is a wedding.
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It's it's a covenant moment, a joy filled memory in the making.
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And yet the joy is drying up, the laughter is about to be
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replaced with whispers, and the reputation of the host family is
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at risk. No, because this is 1st century
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Galilee. Wine wasn't just a beverage.
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It just was a Stella Rosa. Hallelujah.
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It was a symbol. It stood for praise the Lord.
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Some of y'all tightened up. I know I I got you.
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Don't, don't get too tight on me.
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Saint Louis. Hallelujah.
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Did this wine stay? It stood for joy, the
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hospitality provision, for honor and for covenants.
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Help me out. Say, covenant, Covenant.
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So the wine running out wasn't just a logistical air.
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It was a symbolic collapse. It was an unspoken omission,
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such as we weren't ready for this, or we can't sustain what
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we started. And maybe that's not just their
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testimony. Maybe that's for some of us in
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the room. Have you ever found yourself
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smiling into something you actually weren't prepared to
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carry? I think we better sit down at
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the kitchen table and talk real quick.
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Have you ever found yourself running out of energy?
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Have you ever found yourself running out of confidence,
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running out of resources, running out of vision, running
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out of stimula, running out of peace?
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Have you ever found yourself there well leaning?
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Because I'm going to tell you sometimes God will allow a
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public shortage to expose a private structure of
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self-reliance. He lets it break down so you can
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finally build on the right foundation.
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I can't hear you talking. Talk back to me, Church.
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Because if we keep dancing around, we'll find ourselves in
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this place of non confrontation when God's trying to pull us out
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of dysfunction. So.
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So he'll let it run all the way out, not to ruin us, but to
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rebuild us from the inside out. Because the real problem wasn't
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the wine. That was just the symptom.
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Come here. OK, so what's the real issue,
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Pastor? I hear you.
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The real issue is Braylon, they invited Jesus.
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Thank you for taking notes, baby.
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They didn't involve him. They they they had him there.
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They just didn't involve Jesus. They put him on the guest list,
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but not on the glory list. They they, they, they, they,
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they brought him into the room, but but they didn't give him
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authority in the room. Let me give you a quick
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homiletical highlight of the perceived problem was the empty
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jar. But the actual problem, Deacon
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Davis, was the empty strategy. They built a moment of
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celebration on humans. You got your Bible right.
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They built a moment on human supply, but not divine presence.
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And whenever you start without Jesus at the center, no, no, no,
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no, I mean for real Jesus at the center, you will eventually run
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out. Because if Jesus is only your
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backup, shortage will always be your future.
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And my dear brothers and sisters, I just need to park
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here real quick because for some reason we have fallen in love
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with poverty. And then I don't get it.
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I don't know. We we have such this scarcity
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mindset that that we hate talking about money.
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We cringe up. But you know what?
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We all need a little piece. OK, I'm gonna come.
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I'm gonna come. Let me go get a piece of piece
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of pound cake and come back to the table.
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Here. Here. 2 pieces.
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OK, I got you. I'll get one for you.
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Here. Here's the revelation.
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The miracle didn't start with motion, it actually started with
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the mindset. I know, I know you know the
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story, but come on, let me let me teach you a little bit more
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about this text because Mary here are discerning the problem
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says something that shifts the entire story.
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You got your Bible open right? John chapter 2 verse #3 says
John 2 chapter mention
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they have no wine. I have no mind.
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They are without. Check this out.
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She gives no suggestion, no solutions, no scheming.
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She just acknowledges. Come here, scoot to the edge of
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your seat. I put some time on the clock.
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She acknowledges what is and makes room for who he is.
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She doesn't. She doesn't.
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She doesn't bring a plan, She brings.
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Posture. She doesn't offer a proposal,
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she offers presents. And I know, I know, we like to
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talk about grown and not grown and AIDS and all that, but the
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truth of the matter is that's not grown faith.
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That's a God centered perspective.
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That's that's what happens when you stop putting God in the
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margins of your moment and you start placing him at the center
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of your crisis. And I wonder for somebody in the
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room, you shifted your body, but have you really shifted your
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brain? You you've you've, you've
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pastored, but are you really positioned and your perspective?
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You come to church, but are you still operating out of anxiety?
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You raise your hands when told, but not because you love the
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Lord, but but have you really renewed your mind?
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OK, you may not bow in church, you bow the house so nobody see
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you, but are you still thinking high of yourself?
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Because if God isn't at the center of your mindset, then
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he's still on the edge of your miracle.
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I think I better say it again, is the mic on?
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I don't know. I better test it.
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I said, because if God isn't at the center of your mindset, then
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he's still on the edge of your miracle.
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Mindset is the miracles meeting ground.
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Help me out. Turn it to your neighbor and say
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neighbor mindset is the miracles meeting ground.
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Mindset is, is the miracles meeting ground.
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It's, it's not your emotions, It's not your feelings.
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It's not your Social Security check.
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It's not your patterns, routines or habits.
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It's your mind. You you know your Bible, right,
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You know a little bit, but if if you if you was in me and you
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might have had a little experience in BTU y'all remember
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BTU Baptist training? Oh, OK, you might know a little
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sound. You might remember that they
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taught this scripture. I'm just going to give you a
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piece of it. But it was Romans chapter 12,
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verse 2, and you know that one. But be ye transformed by the
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renewing of your of your mind. Check this out.
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The greatest miracle God ever performs isn't around you, it's
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actually in you. Look, look, look, look, look,
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look, look at the text with me. The wine didn't run out to
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destroy the party and ran out to deliver the people.
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I don't like your voice. You got to talk a little bit
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more to me because if the wine never ran out, Sister Shirler,
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they would have kept drinking something that couldn't sustain
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their destiny. Mind your brothers and sisters.
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And in this culture, this moment, I come as your prophetic
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male man from heaven by the way of Louis, Delaware, Columbia,
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SC, Omaha, NE, Honolulu, HI, and now Greenville, SC to tell you
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that God's trying to pull us from this poverty mindset.
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God's trying to bring you into a elevated place.
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So God disrupted the supply. Check this out to correct the
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source. I know we in the valley and for
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some reason it really does go down in the valley, but I need
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you to understand that God did not bring us here for us to be
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enslaved to somebody else being over us.
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And I know you know this story, but but, but, but this text is
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really trying to teach us that God is trying to show that he is
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the source, not our 40 and 50 years on somebody's job.
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You know that that God is our source, not not not a federal
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grant or a contract, but the Lord, he is our source.
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I better keep on moving. And some of us, some of us have
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a fixed mindset. I just come for you today
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because some of us are fixed on how it used to be.
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OK. Thank you, Mother Gordian.
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She's the one of us in the room. I appreciate your Amen.
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Right now, some of us, some of us are fixed on who left.
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Some of us are fixed on how you thought it was going to happen
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by now. Some of us are fixed on formulas
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that no longer fit your faith. But I want to let you know that
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God is saying He's not going to work in our fantasy, but He's
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trying to actually break us into our destiny.
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You want new wine, You want new joy, You want new revelation,
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Then first you got to acknowledge what's empty.
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You can't hide it, you can't dress it up, you can't fake it.
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But you've got to say we don't have what we thought we did.
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And that's where the miracle begins.
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Not in the jar, not in the water, not in the taste test,
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but in the mind of the room. My, my, my, I'm.
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The first miracle Jesus ever performed didn't start with a
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physical act. It started with a mental shift.
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And I'm going to let you know, don't let you know that God is
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saying to us today that he's going to wait until we stop
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performing fool and start confessing empty.
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He's going to wait until our pride is low enough for his
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glory to rise high enough. He's he's going to wait until
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our plan collapses so his presence can carry us through.
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He's going to wait until our systems fail so His spirit can
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finally take over. So yeah, the wine ran out, but I
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don't want you to get distracted by the glass because I believe
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God is really trying to change our gaze.
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He's not trying to empty us. He's not even trying to punish
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us, Deacon Meadows. He's trying to empty us, to
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entrust us, Sister Etta, because what he's about to pour next
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can't be mixed with what you were fool of before.
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Help me out. Turn to your neighbors and
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neighbor we got to empty out. Turn to your other neighbor
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because I think they might need to hear this too.
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Tell them, neighbor, we got to empty out.
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And that's where we find ourselves in the second
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observation of this text. And John chapter 2 verse #5 it
John 2 chapter mention
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says, his mother said unto the servants, Glory, Hallelujah, but
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I praise you. She says, Whatsoever he said
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unto you, Do it. And they were set there, 6 water
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pots of stone, after the manner of the purifying of the Jews,
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containing two or three firkins of peace.
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And Jesus said it to them, Fill the water pots with with water,
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and they fill them up to to the brim.
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The second point, the second point of observation is the
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practical preparation. I hope that's good and simple
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for your notes as you take it. I hope you take notes that the
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second point is the practical preparation after the crisis is
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confessed, after the lack is acknowledged.
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Jesus doesn't wave his hand. Jesus does not shout a word.
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Come on you, you know the story, right?
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Jesus does not even call for wine.
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Jesus gives an instruction. Now Sister Mary, check this out.
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It's in red, it's not black, it's in red and it's even in
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verse #7 it says Jesus said unto them in red, fill the water pots
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with water. That's not magic, not in, that's
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not even impressive that that's not even exciting.
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But. But but but but.
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But look closer. That's obedience, because
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sometimes the greatest demonstration of God's power
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comes dressed in the plainclothes of practicality.
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Where you at? Did you leave the room?
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I know we're at your house. We're at your table.
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Come on back in the room, I said.
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Sometimes the greatest demonstration of God's power
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comes dressed in the plainclothes of practicality.
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It wasn't flashy, it was faithful.
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It wasn't mystical. It was mundane it but but when
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Jesus speaks, even the mundane becomes miraculous because the
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miracle didn't begin with movement.
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It began with the mindset. They didn't need new jaws.
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They needed a new pore. They needed a new posture for an
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old vessel. They needed a new challenge for
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an ancient system. They needed a new assignment.
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Deacon Glen for a familiar object.
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And the text says it says that there.
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Uh huh, were 6 water pots of stone used for ceremonial
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cleansing. Now check this out.
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These weren't wine jars. These weren't kegs.
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Praise the Lord the glory to God that they they were celebration
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vessels. Why y'all looking like that?
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That they were hand and feet washing stations.
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They were ordinary, functional and predictable.
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But look, Jesus gives them a prophetic repurposement.
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Check this out. Because God will take what was
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designed for old time religion and repurpose it for revelation,
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what was meant for cleansing. He'll use it for celebrating.
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And that's the kind of God we serve.
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He doesn't discard old overlooked vessels.
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Come here, He feels them. God, you miss your shout, I
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said. He doesn't cancel them, but he
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crowns them with new glory. Can you lean in real quick?
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Because I want to give you a secret.
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Come here, come here. I want to let you know that God
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doesn't always give you new tools.
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Sometimes he just gives you new eyes.
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It's, it's not, it's not, it's not about the vessel changing.
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It's about the vessel being used for a higher vision.
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Come here. Let's walk this thing just a
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little bit slowly. This is these jaws.
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These jaws. They had been there all alone,
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but nobody was checking for the jaws that they they were
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background furniture. They were there at the party.
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They were part of the scenery. They were seen but dismissed,
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present but purposeless. But when Jesus steps in, he
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doesn't replace Nick and Davis. What they had, He reveals what
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they never saw in it. Let me give you something real
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quick for your notes, because you might need to remember this,
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that God is about to take what's familiar and flip it.
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He's about to take what's functional and fill it.
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He's about to take what's ordinary and overflowing and,
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and, and here's where it shifts. Mary, the mother of Jesus,
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sensing divine time, he turns and says to all the servants
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there, whatever he says to you, do it.
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She says do it. No, no explanation, no
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negotiation, no delay, no hindrance, no meeting, no, no
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mystery. Meet up.
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She just tells them be obedient and do it.
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You see, you see the shortages, but oftentimes gets our
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attention. Deacon Glenn but the strategy
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that's God's instruction for when we are in it.
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Mary doesn't call a meeting notice in the text, Sister Chris
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She does not even panic with the planners.
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She doesn't even consult the governor of the feast.
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She doesn't brainstorm. All she has is belief.
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God, I feel you in the room and I think we better go back and
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get us a little tea to come up with this pound cake.
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No, get you some water for your sugar.
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Get some water instead. She just believes.
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She believes. Check this out.
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Because obedience is the bridge between crisis and creativity.
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I think I lost them. I said.
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Obedience is the bridge between crisis and creativity because
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obedience is the womb where God's Word becomes alive.
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You can hear Pastor Nathaniel Greene from Dallas, TX right now
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who said once that opposition is the mother of creativity.
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But if I can add on to his quote, I would say that
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opposition is also the mother of obedience.
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Cause some of you been opposing your mom and your daddy at one
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point. But it was that in between
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space, for some reason, all of a sudden you found some obedience.
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It's oftentimes the tension, the tension of opposition where we
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find the next instruction from God.
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And here's the thing, Sometimes the instruction seems too small
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for the size of the problem we're up against.
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Thank you, Deacon House. I thought I lost everybody in
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the room. I don't know, they, they got
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caught up and I was turning the corner.
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I said sometimes the instruction seems too small for the size of
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the problem. But that's how God moves.
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He's he's he's often times testing not our ability, but
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he's testing our availability because you don't need to be
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impressive. You just need to be obedient
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because obedience doesn't make sense.
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It just makes miracles. God, that's good that that's
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real good right there. I ain't got time to stop there.
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But but but here's the tension. Obedience only works when your
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mind is ready to grow. God help me preach a word.
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You can't follow divine instructions with a fixed
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poverty mindset. No, no, you can't receive
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supernatural strategy when you're locked into old systems
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of thoughts. Some of us, some of us are
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asking God for another level, another moment, another, another
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season of greatness. But, but we keep showing up.
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But last season's mentality and and you say I didn't come for
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this, but God says you're right. You, you, you didn't come for
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this, but I brought you here to deal with this because there
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have been a foundational issue sitting for far too long.
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You, you, you thought you was coming for a party, but but the
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text shows that this is really a pivot of mindset.
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One might even thought that it was about the wine, but the text
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really cheap teaches us that it was really about willingness.
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Because fixed mindsets fear stretching.
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Hallelujah. I better say it one more time
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cuz cuz I think you got laryngitis in your voice.
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I said fixed mindsets fear stretching, but growth mindsets
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follow strategy. And can I submit to you today,
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my dear brothers and sisters, that we may have a following
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problem, that while we profess that we come to the party, the
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truth of the matter is we come to the party for ourselves, but
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not to follow anybody. Hell, are you the God?
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And so that's where we find, oh, that was tough, ain't it?
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I know the Lord got me with that one too.
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Then he just came back through and just got all of us, huh?
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But I just want to let you know, my dear brothers and sisters,
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that if your mind is too rigid, your obedience will always be
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delayed. I must say it again.
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The I said if your mind is too rigid, your obedience will
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always be delayed. And delayed obedience does not
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get miracles or blessings, but it always leads to shortage and
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begging. Ain't that?
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Ain't that something? So God's not just stretching our
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hands, He's stretching our head. He's not just saying fill the
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jar, He's saying fix the way you see the jar.
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Come here, I'm gonna read the text one more time that you know
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it. Romans 12:00 and 2:00.
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But be transform pie, the renewing of your mind, because
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miracles flow where mindsets shift.
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And God is not just changing what's in our jar, but he's
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changing what's in our judgment. Because if he doesn't renew our
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mind, we'll pour out the next blessing trying to make it fit
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the last season. So what does Jesus says?
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He says fill the water pots with water.
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That's all he says he gives no context.
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He he gives no why he gives no how other than he just says feel
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the water pots with water. He gives no revelation.
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He just gives instructions. Just feel it.
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I need your help. Help me out because I feel like
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your neighbor might need a little prophetic touch.
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Just tap them real closely and say feel it, feel it, feel it,
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feel it, feel it. That's all you got to do, Just
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feel it. Just feel it and just look at
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the But the Bible says that the servants did not crush them.
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The servants didn't have no gathering.
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They didn't have no secret text for it.
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All they did was they obeyed. That's all they did.
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The Bible says, it says, uh huh. And they filled them.
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That's that's that's what that's what your Bible says.
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It says and they filled them. But check this out verse #7 it
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says and they filled them up to the brim.
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God, y'all ready? I feel like preaching just a tad
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bit John. I'm about to get there.
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They did not feel it. They did not feel it halfway to
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the brim that that's full faith that that's all in trust Mother
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Gordon. That's I don't know how, but I
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believe God can kind of faith and I just want to let you know,
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I don't know, let you know that you can't expect brim level
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blessings from bottom shelf obedience because if you want
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the overflow, you've got to give God everything.
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They did not leave any room for themselves, no.
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They did not leave any room for error, no.
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They did not leave any room for margins, no.
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They feel these. Water pots until there was
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nothing left but for to touch the water box.
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And I want to let you know my name.
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Brothers and sisters, the jars here we see are now filled with
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water. The mindsets of this text are
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now shifted. Deacon Davis.
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But look here now the atmosphere is pregnant, but obedience and
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yet the miracle still has not manifested.
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Sister Chris, I'll check this here, check this here, check
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this here that there's one last one last point I'm going to give
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you. We're going to get out of here
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together. It's in John chapter 2 we find
John 2 chapter mention
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starting at verse #7 Jesus says to them, fill the water pots
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with water and they filled them up to the brim. 8 And he said it
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to them, Draw out now, and bear unto the governor of the feast,
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and they bear it. Verse #9 says, When the ruler of
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the feast had tested and tasted the water that was made wine,
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and knew not which it was, but the servants which drew the
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water knew the governor of the feast called the bridegroom,
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Verse 10 And said unto him, Every man at the beginning to
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set forth good wine, good liquor.
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And when men have well, drunk, that's the text, then that which
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is bad, worse ain't no good. That's when they're pulling out.
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But look, look, is that a, is that a, is that a colon?
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It's a colon. It's a colon.
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There's more to see this he says.
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But you, my good man, my good self, you have kept the good one
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until now. Monday, brothers and sisters, my
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Third Point for you is the public presentation.
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Let's walk this together. Let's walk it.
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Jesus gives no spectacle of fanfare.
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I'm trying to find it. Just a simple instruction.
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He tells them, fill the water pots with water.
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But they didn't just obey, they filled them to the brim.
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And that's the kind of faith that doesn't leave margins and
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we leave a margin for anything else other than God.
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And then that's where we find ourselves, my Big Brothers and
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sisters, with this mystery. It's the mystery of the test
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because not doing the pouring, neither during the testing or
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the tasting. I'm Deacon Glenn.
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But some man between the job and the delivery, I'm sorry.
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I still feel glory. The water was made wine.
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That's where tension lies in a space called the in between, not
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where the word was spoken, but where the wine has been now set,
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but in the space, Norman's song, the unseen space where God moves
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in mystery. And I'm going to let you know
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today that. The middle is.
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Where your faith has has to function without confirmation.
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I said that the middle is where your hands have to.
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Carry water. He even when your heart expects
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why? That's why.
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The servant, Sister Shirley should have been shouting
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because they found they felt the tension in the room.
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These servants, they found themselves just obeying.
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They didn't see the outcome. Come here, Deacon Metal, check
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this out. But they kept on drawing.
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They couldn't verify the change, but they kept on moving because
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that's how real faith works. It doesn't wait for evidence
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come here now. It just carries expectation.
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I can hear the New Testament right saying faith is the
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substance. Of things things hold for.
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Have the evidence of things not seen God.
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God didn't change. He didn't change the pots
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because sometimes you won't see it change.
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But all God will tell you, he says stay on the battlefield.
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Sometimes you won't see things happen as fast as you hope,
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Sister Sharon, but all God's got for you today is.
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Carry it like I. Told you so.
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God didn't change the process, I said.
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God didn't change these old pots.
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No God. Changed the.
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Outcome. Because God doesn't just move in
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movement. Man, God, God, God.
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He manifests. Through mindsets and God moves.
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In the middle moments, I've got to get out of here now, but I
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want to encourage. You today, this ain't the.
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First time God moved in the middle of it.
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God. Moved in the middle.
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Hard and deep. And Genesis, yeah, I said.
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God move. Moved in the middle of a Red Sea
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in excellence. Can't even moved in the middle
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of the Jordan River when the priest were told to.
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Stand there in. The middle of it all in the book
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of Joshua. You even know about those three
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Hebrew boys in the book of. Daniel.
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Was in the middle of a fight. And I'm going to.
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Let you know. If you read your Bible and Luke
Luke 20 chapter mention
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chapter 20. Three, you'll find Jesus even in
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the middle, middle himself. On the right.
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Hand and on the left hand. He found himself between 2:00.
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Male factors hanging on the old tree I want to let you know that
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the. Middle.
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Just messy. But the middle hey, hey glory,
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it's holy. Grail.
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Because we never come shows up in the middle.
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I've got to break loose on the app beside I got to.
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Get out of here now. But help me out, hold your.
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Neighbors. Hold your neighbors hand.
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They may not be able to stay in. But hold your neighbors hand and
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tell your neighbor I got to write for you.
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It might be in the middle of it, but God's going to break out.
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Harmi, every side read my mind ourselves in the middle.
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Come here, I decree in the middle of it.
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But I want you to know that from the middle, Jesus, do it on the
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tree blood. God, I love you.
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Blood and water coming from the middle in the middle of it.
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And it wasn't just I signed a pain.
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It just wasn't water and blood, but it was a sign.
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I'm a symbol, a promise and prophecy, and that's what I get.
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That's on the Saints today that did it.
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Just turn water, get some wine to impress, impress the ground.
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But God did it to preview. Another covenant.
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Lord, I love your word. I'm going to let you know that
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this wasn't just right, but it was a St.
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Oh, what was the cup? I got to let you know that the
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symbol that the all time managing childhood for being
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filled been a new wine of revelation.
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And what's fighting? What started?
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I'm sorry he's on behaving. Today, as a shortage became a
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stage I want to save you and what look like what if actually
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was just mine, waiting on the word I gotta go and I gotta go
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for real, but I want to let you. Know you might have been.
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Waiting for the wine, but I got the word to tell you to stand.
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Having therefore stand in the middle, stand in the middle of
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it. You don't see it right now.
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But stand come. Talk to me, Dee ain't.
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Nobody pushing in the middle of it because you're standing in
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the middle of a miracle and I want you to know if you find
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yourself working. And you find yourself tired.
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Just know Wayne, it's on the way.
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Let's go to the five John. Now, now, now.
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I got to. Let you know for real, there's
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one last thing. Here nothing.
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That shows us that the same God who turned one up water into.
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Wine is the same God. Is that?
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Not the turn your weakness. Into a witness.
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I said the same. God that turned 1.
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Up into wine. It's the same God that's going
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to turn. Your obedience into overflow
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accept the same God that's. Low.
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That's on water into wine. It's about to take your middle
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moment and ship everything. Everything, everything,
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everything. I need you to catch this
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prophetic word, I said. He's going to shift.
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Everything. Everything around you.
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So. He asked.
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This may not be what you came for, but he asked.
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I got a word from heaven that didn't come for this.
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But. God, I said.
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God, I'm almost. Out of time, I said God brought
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you here. He brought you here for this to
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remind you. That you might be in the middle
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of it, but the middle of. It is still holy ground and
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don't look at yourself and don't look at your stress and don't
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look at your situation with limitations.
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I don't know how you can sit like a bubble.
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Of law, but I gotta let. You know that.
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The miracle, Paul. Was always in motion and the
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wine was always in reach. But God.
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Needed your obedience I'm gone for real now, but I.
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Want to let you know. That now you're finding yourself
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in a season where God's going to.
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Begin you anew. God going to do some new words.
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God go. Open some new doors.
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I said you. Don't like this word?
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Do you, huh? I said, God, it's going to give
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you some new blessings, going to give you some new strength.
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It's going to give you some new figure, give you some new ideas,
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God. I'm sorry, preaching the fella.
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On me I said, God don't give you new, new innovations.
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So be not weary. You will do it.
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You shall, you shall reap. If you fail, say not I got to go
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for real now, but help me close my message.
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Grab yourself, hold yourself, sell yourself, sell.
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I'm holding on to the word of the Lord.
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I won't give up, I won't give it, but I'm a home till the end,
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'cause God I changed again. Is holding, holding, holding,
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holding me in the middle of it. I don't like it but he's holding
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me. I don't want it but he's keeping
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me. I don't want this but he's
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blessing me. But he's holding me.
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But he's keeping me. But he's sustaining me But he's
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watching over me in the middle of it.
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Can you help me? Thank you, the Lord.
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And in the middle of it, I don't care about me.
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Praise. Thank you, Lord.
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Bless you, Lord. I love you, Lord.
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Hallelujah. Hallelujah.
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Hallelujah. Hallelujah.
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Hallelujah, Hallelujah, no, Lord, praise here, Hallelujah,
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holy glory to you. Hallelujah, the devil is
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defeated, God is exhausted, and Jesus, I said Jesus, Jesus the
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Buddha, Jesus, not Muhammad, Jesus not your witchcraft, Jesus
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not your black magic, Jesus not your right magic.
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I said Jesus is Lord, Jesus is Lord.
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I said Jesus is Lord. I said Jesus is Lord, this is
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Lord. Can you help me praise him I
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feel? Miracles coming in the room.
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Can you help me praise Him? I know you're focusing on me,
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but the Lord's trying to work in your house.
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Can you help me praise Him? I know you're trying to follow
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me, but you want to close your eyes and you want to praise him
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because he's still Lord. Lord over my life, Lord.
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Lord over my fears, Lord over my failures, Lord over my trees,
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Lord over my destiny. He's the Lord.
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He's the Lord. I got to stop.
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I got to stop. He's the Lord.
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He's the Lord. He's still Lord under brothers
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and sisters. Listen, he's Lord, but he wants
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you to acknowledge you. Let's Lord He wants you to
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acknowledge John. I think you know this one.
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It's old hymn used to sing in the church.
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I said come to Jesus. He will save you.
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He will save you. Just now and just.
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Now and just now, he will save you.
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Just now it's real simple. You don't have to come down to
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the altar. The Bible says if you confess
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your mouth and believe in your heart, it says you shall be
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saved. I want you to go and repeat this
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prayer after me today. And again, salvation is between
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you and God. That's not between me trying to
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keep a count number. No, that's between you and God.
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The Bible says man looks on the outside, but God looks at the
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heart. It's a lot of people we think
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are saying they say for real because only God sees the
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inside. God does the work on the inside.
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Don't let nobody judge you, put you in condemnation because you
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don't look like them, sound like them, smell like them, act like
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them. No, God saves and doesn't work
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in all of us individually and it's different.
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I want you to pray this prayer to me, say, Lord Jesus, come
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into my heart, save me. I want to be saved.
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Lord Jesus, thank you for dying on the cross of me.
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Lord Jesus, thank you for rising out of the grave for me.
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Lord Jesus, thank you for soon coming again for me.
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In Jesus name, Amen. Amen.
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Come on, put your hands together.
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