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Speaker 1: Welcome to Transformation Church Podcast, where we represent God to

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the lost and found for transformation in Christ. We're so

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glad you're here and wherever you're listening from, we believe

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God will transform your life to today's message.

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Speaker 2: Today it's going to be the last installment in a

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series we've been in called Six Figures, which are six

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figures that I believe God uses to expand our faith

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and grow us in a life of abundance. And today's

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message is gonna be good because it's gonna help everybody.

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How many people it's gonna help, Not everybody, it's gonna

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help everybody, and that includes you now right now. If

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your heart has like proved something to me, passed them

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like you not gonna get this, you gotta open up

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your heart to be able to receive.

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Speaker 3: And so what I thought about what would be the.

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Speaker 2: Best thing to open up the heart of people about

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a subject that they already are wrestling with, I said,

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I gotta put it in a package that they can

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receive it in cause today I'm talking to the people

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of God.

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Speaker 3: About rest.

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Speaker 2: Rest.

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Speaker 3: And I'll look at your face.

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Speaker 2: Right now and know you tired. I can see by

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how you respond that you're tired. Some of y'all's facebooks

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and instagrams are telling on you tired. There are things

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that God suggests in his word, and then tho, there

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are things that He commands in his word. And one

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of the commandments that is most ignored by people who

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claim to know him and love him is the commandment

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of taking a sabbath, the commandment of resting. And right

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now I feel people clinching. You don't know my story.

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You don't know how much responsibility I have. You don't

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know where I came from. I got it out the mud.

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You don't understand I'm a blue collar worker. You don't

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understand that I have so much to provide for. You

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don't understand. You don't understand how much God loves you.

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God loves you so much that he gives us the

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gift of rest, But if you don't have the revelation

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of it, you never open the gift. So today, I

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know it's hard. Right now, some of y'all feel the resistance.

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I feel the resistance. So I wanted to put this

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message in a package that you could receive it.

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Speaker 3: Today, ladies and.

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Speaker 2: Gentlemen, I would like to welcome to the stage, preaching

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his first message, my junior preacher today, mister Harlowe Phoenix Medcalf, would.

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Speaker 3: Y'all give it up?

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Speaker 2: Oh?

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Speaker 3: You can do better than.

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Speaker 2: Arlow has a message? Would you please get your notes ready?

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Go ahead, Arlow.

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Speaker 4: Hello, my name is Earl Phoenix Metcalf, and I'm gonna

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preach today. Everyone turned to your neighbor and say six seven.

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Turn to your other neighbor and say six seven six seven.

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Genesis Chapter one, God creates everything in six days. The

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sixth day he creates man. The seventh he rest. That

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reminds Us we need rest. Jesus asked all of us

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a question, are you really tired? He won't only give

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you rest for six days, but seven six seven?

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Speaker 3: Do we give it up?

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Speaker 5: So proud of you, buddy, Hots five, we can go home.

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Speaker 3: Some of y'all was smiling so much. Y'all didn't hear

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what he said.

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Speaker 2: What he said was that God worked for six days,

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but on the seventh day he rested. And it's crazy

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that at seven years old, Arlo has a revelation that

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most sixty seven year olds don't have. The truth of

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the matter is rest is something that is necessary.

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Speaker 3: So I'm in a title.

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Speaker 2: Today's message are you tired? Ooh, I don't know what

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that message just did to somebody, but somebody's telling on

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themselves the rumbles in the crowd.

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Speaker 3: Look at your neighbor and just ask them the question,

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are you tired? If you have the faith, you can

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answer them.

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Speaker 2: Come on, look at your other neighbor. Come on, say,

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other neighbor, are you tired? Today? I gotta talk about

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the wrestle that you're having with rest.

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Speaker 3: Some of y'all are wrestling with rest.

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Speaker 2: Now. I don't want anybody to confuse this with laziness.

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I gotta say this up front because somebody's like, perfect

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the message. No, I'm gonna give you context to this,

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but some of you are really wrestling with rest and

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today I hope that this message, by God's grace.

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Speaker 3: Gives you a revelation of rest.

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Speaker 2: Matter of fact, just to let everybody calm down, everybody,

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take a deep breath in, let it out, and say relax.

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I'm not about to condemn you. I'm not about to

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try to make you change today. I'm gonna just present

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some things to you that God presented to humanity. And

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then I want you to make a decision. Do you

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want to live the abundant life that God provided, or

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do you want to live this ghetto life that culture

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has given me. I have no idea. What's happening right now?

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It's ghetto down here. I want you to live in freedom.

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I want you to enjoy the abundant life, life and

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life to the fool. And if you only hear things

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in means or captures, I want you to catch this

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little the whole message I put in a meme. I'm

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trying to break this big thing down to something simple.

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Our load was first. This is my second attempt to

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just make you relax with this. I want to give

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you my message and a meme. Will you play that

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video real quick? Yeah? Right? Ya? Did you take a

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nap today?

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Speaker 3: No? I didn't you need one? What was her response?

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Speaker 2: What if God was coming to you today and saying

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you need a nap, would you tell him?

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Speaker 3: No, I don't.

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Speaker 2: I have too many bills to pay.

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Speaker 3: No, I don't.

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Speaker 2: I gotta be outside hell A y'all know what I'm

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talking about. No, I don't. I have too many emails

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to answer. No, no, no, no, no, no no no. And I

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think God's coming to you today through your pastor and

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saying you need one. Have you had a nap? Watched

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this not today? Have you had a nap this week?

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Have you had a day off this week? Have you

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had a day off this month? Have you had a

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day off this year?

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Speaker 3: The reason I'm asking this.

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Speaker 2: Is not because I as much as I love you,

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I just want you to be healthy and thriving in

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all of the latest things that culture is telling you.

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This is an ancient principle that our God put in

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place because he wanted us to work, not work, but

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he wanted us to function properly. So because God wanted humanity,

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his creation, to function properly, he knew what they needed

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before they ever went to work. My daughter, Gia's birthday

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is coming up and one of the things as we

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had her birthday party yesterday, one of the things that

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I learned is that there are a bunch of toys

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that say they work, but they don't work until you

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put batterysm them. Yeah, And the thing that I realize

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is most toys don't come with batteries. So we ordered

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a ton of batteries that allowed us to do something

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before it actually produced. God is saying I want to

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put something into you before I require anything out of you.

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You missed it, all right, Let's go back to Arlow's

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illustration in Genesis. God created day one, God created day two,

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God created day.

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Speaker 3: Three, day four, day five, day six. What did he create?

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Speaker 2: Man? And on day six we get with God in connection.

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The first day we experience with God is a day

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of rest, not a day of work. Your first day

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inexistent as humanity was not a day of work. It

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was a day of okay, And this is the problem

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with most of us do not have a revelation of rest.

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So today I'm going to try to give you some

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revealed truth. And when I say revelation of rest, it's

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like something is there, but you can't see it, And

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a revelation is like, oh, I can see it. One

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of my friends said it like this. A revelation is

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something that comes from north south. It comes from God.

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A lot of our change and good information comes east

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west from friends and pastors. But you need a revelation

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to come from God to you. And that's what I'm

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praying for you today, is that for the first time

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and the last time, you get a revelation of how

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important rest is to God and to you, Matthew, Chapter eleven,

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verse twenty eight, Are you tired? This is Jesus. Jesus's response. Then,

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Jesus said, come to me, all you who are weary.

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Another translation says tired and all of you who carry

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a heavy burden, and I will give you. Say it

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out loud, say it strong, say it like you can

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take the next week off. Jesus' response to weariness and

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to people carrying a heavy load was not prayer. I'm

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about to mess with your religion. It wasn't a worship service.

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His response to your tiredness was not a meeting with

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the pastor The response to your heavy load and weariness

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was what.

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Speaker 3: And some of you think I'm saying sleep.

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Speaker 2: Sleep?

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Speaker 3: You can do that and still wake up tired.

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Speaker 2: Okay, okay, I need to find the real people in here.

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Speaker 3: How many people sleep and still woe out?

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Speaker 2: Come on, I'll come rest. If you read down and

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we're gonna read, it's rest for your soul. Is your

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mind at ease, is your wheel at bay? Are your

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emotions tanged? Some of you are literally sleeping to escape reality,

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going through stuff. I just need to sleep. Come on, okay,

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come on, y'all, I just need to sleep.

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Speaker 3: You'll take things to do it.

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Speaker 2: I gotta, I gotta shut my mouth, my mind down,

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I gotta shut I gotta you'll watch certain stuff. I

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gotta numb out. These are all terms, and you may

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have different ones. But what I'm saying is what you're

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doing is sleeping. What God provides is rest. And so

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today I want to give you the revelation of rest

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because this is God's gift to us. Rest is not

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a luxury, it's a necessity. So then when you look

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at this in verse twenty nine, it says, this is

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Jesus talking, take my yoke up on you, and let

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me teach you how to rest.

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Speaker 3: So this is beautiful because we don't know how to

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Speaker 2: This is why Jesus says, let me teach you how

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to rest. Let me teach you what you don't know naturally,

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let me teach you what your nature goes against. It says,

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let me teach you because this is my character. I'm

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humble and gentle at heart. That means I'm thinking about you.

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still like he's a god that's mad at you. There's

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no other God. In any other religion that thinks about

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your rest. If God was really if you was mad

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at somebody, do you want them to get rest? Do

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you know that keeping people up is a form of

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torture used in warfare. It's like, how do I torture

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this person? Keep them awake? And what God says is,

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I'm a God that cares about you so much. My

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spirit is humble and I have a gentle heart.

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Speaker 3: I'm asking you have you rested lately?

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Speaker 2: I know you're doing all of these things to prove

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to your child'shood self that you're actually significant. But I'm

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asking you to come to me because you're weary.

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Speaker 3: You're heavy. I want to give you. Say the word again.

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Speaker 2: Rest. This is a new four letter word that you

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need to say a lot. Rest. Say it one more time.

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It says if you let me teach you, it says

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you will find rest. Oh. I like that. When God

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says I'm gonna find something, he says, you will find

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rest for your souls. He says, for my yoke is

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easy to bear, and the burden I give you is

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a light. To receive a revelation of rest, You're gonna

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have to be humble and teachable, and this is why

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I need everybody to understand the character of our God.

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God's trying to tell you what you heard about me

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has been misrepresented. I actually love you, I care about you,

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and I want you to be okay, not just today

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but forever. So I'm not going to just give you

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a miracle. I'm gonna give you a pattern.

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Speaker 3: Right now.

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Speaker 2: There are people who need money in your life, and

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if you give them one hundred dollars, they're gonna come

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back next week and ask you for a hundred dollars,

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and then they'll come back two months from now and

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ask you for a hundred dollars.

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Speaker 3: But if you give that person a skill set, and.

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then they can actually learn a pattern that will produce

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what they need.

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Speaker 2: God is saying, I didn't want to just give you

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a magic reci peal, I wanted to give you a

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pattern of a sabbath so that you could always have

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everything you.

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Speaker 3: Need to do what I'm asking you to do. It's

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a gift.

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Speaker 2: And as we look at Scripture today, I realize that

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there is no other religion in the world where the

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deity does not demand work from them. If you search

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every other religion, I'm just trying to give you a revelation.

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I'm talking to your mind so that it can drop

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to your heart and then it'll actually appear in your life.

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to work for this. How many times do you need

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to pray? Where do you need to turn? How many

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sacrifices do you need? All of these things? It's work, work, work, work, work, work, work, work, work.

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They demand work for stuff. God gives rest for your soul.

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This is the god we search, So why will you

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not receive this gift of rest? Other religions offer a

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ladder to climb. Jesus offers a refuge of rest. And

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this is why he does it. Write this point down

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because rest is a weapon. Rest is a weapon. If

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you actually were rested, How good would you be if

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you actually were rested. I'm talking about in your soul,

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your mind, your will, your emotions, and your body was rested.

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How would you handle hard situations if you.

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Speaker 3: Were actually rested?

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Speaker 2: How many more good ideas could come through you? You've

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done what you've done. Woe out, not woar out, You've

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done what you've done.

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Speaker 3: In life. All this is says, whoe out. You can't

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even enjoy what God has blessed.

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Speaker 2: You with because you trying to keep up with it.

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So did God bless you with it because the blessings

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of the Lord make it rich and addath No, uh oh, let's.

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Speaker 3: Just put the scripture out there.

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Speaker 2: Some of y'all is woe out, calling it a blessing,

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but losing your marriage.

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Speaker 3: You got ten thousand square feet, no peace.

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Speaker 2: You got cars to choose from, but no, here go

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to find safety in your soul.

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Speaker 3: All I'm asking you is are you rested?

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Speaker 2: And the truth of the matter is the culture we

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live in today is offering the opposite, promising the opposite.

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It's saying, grind hustle, do all of this.

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Speaker 3: Do all this, and then you'll have money.

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Speaker 2: To take a vacation, and then you'll have money to

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buy a second home, and.

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Speaker 3: Then you'll be it's grind hustle, get it.

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Speaker 2: All of these things are deceptions from the enemy. Because

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I heard it said one time, what the enemy can't

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get in front of and stop, he gets behind and pushes.

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And some of y'all are being pushed to the brink.

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You're being pushed your soul exhausted that you cannot even

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sense the presence of God. God's got you in a

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good situation right now, and you're calling it bad because

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it's not moving fast enough. Okay, all right, am I

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just talking about my own issues. Okay, I'm telling you.

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God had to teach me. He said, I slowed this

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thing down. You think the company's going down, He said,

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I'm saving your life. All delay, all backup, All deals

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not working are not from the devil.

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Speaker 3: Some of the things.

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Speaker 6: That God is doing is because we don't have enough

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sense to preserve ourselves.

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Speaker 3: You know, if that deal actually went through, you would

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have lost your marriage.

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Speaker 2: If you actually would have made it in that field,

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you would have lost your mind. Okay, let me stop me.

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Part of what I know with my literal makeup is that.

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Speaker 5: I can go go go go, go, go, go go go.

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Speaker 2: God has had to teach me, Michael. Just because you

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can doesn't mean I want you to. Uh oh uh oh.

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Speaker 6: Just because you can watch this, here's my insecurity mine.

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Speaker 2: Just because you can doesn't mean that you should do it.

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Because how many people if it makes us feel good

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and it scratches some childhood wound of feeling significant, or

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or people are gonna praise me for this, or I'm

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being too honest of here. Okay, let me, let me

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go back to the scripture. What I'm trying, what I'm

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trying to tell everybody is the same faith. It takes

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you to believe for miracles. It takes that faith to rest.

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And most of y'all have faith to praise God and

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not faith to walk away from the desk. You won't

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shut the laptop, you won't stop checking the email and

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the dow and you won't see all. It's all all

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it's going. It's crazy. How in the world is a

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little ticker controlling your peace? Is quiet in here, and

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it's okay, I get it, because what's happening is that

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the mindset of culture is a mindset to keep you enslaved. Okay.

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The problem is right now is that you think you're free,

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but you're enslaved. That was the same problem with the

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children of Israel. When they were enslaved, they had no

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days off. The proof you were a slave is you

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didn't get to rest. So when God brought them out

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from under Pharaoh's rule and they were in the wilderness,

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one of the commandments that God made sure to on

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the top ten list put on their is you should

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observe the Sabbath. Why because the Sabbath was only reserved

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for sons. Only sons got to take a rest. So

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the Sabbath proves your freedom. Oh God, I'm gonna need

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a whole series. When you can take a break, it

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means you know who got it. When you can walk

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away from being God, then you have a God.

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Speaker 3: When you walk away from being.

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Speaker 2: Provider, then he's Jehovah Zirah.

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Speaker 6: Your provider. When you can step.

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Speaker 3: Back and moon walk out of having to.

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Speaker 2: Literally do everything for yourself, it means you make room

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for God to step in. Many of us still have

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our Egypt mentality. If it's gonna happen for me, I

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got to get it out the mud. Hold on, wait,

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did you not come into the kingdom economy? Did you

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not believe Jesus when he said you are no longer

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a slave? The curse is broken off of you whom

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the sun sets, it's free, and we don't think about that.

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You're free to rest, Oh God, whom the sun sets free,

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And you think you're noble, I'm just you know me,

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I'm gonna just put in that extra, And God said,

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I didn't ask you for all that. I don't. Actually

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I call it disobedience. You actually think you're doing something noble.

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It's sin. Did y'all hear what I just said? When

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you don't observe a twenty four hour period where you

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walk away from your work every week, God's like, why

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do they disobey me all the time? Grace after grace,

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mercy after mercy, day after day provided for him. They

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in that little house that they didn't think they could

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ever get. And I did that with the job they

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didn't never think they were gonna be able to get.

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And I did that, and I provided and I restored,

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and they still don't trust me. I gave them the

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blessing of the book. I gave him the blessing of

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the business. I gave him the blessing of the thing.

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Speaker 3: And they still won't trust me.

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Speaker 2: What do I have to do to let them unwrap

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this gift that would relieve their soul of weariness? Some

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of you, you don't need a new career, You need

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to take a day off.

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Speaker 3: You're so overwhelmed.

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Speaker 2: Life is just no. You're disobedient. What is a sabbath?

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It's a pause. It's a pause. It doesn't mean I'm

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not coming back to this. It means I have to

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stop right now. And it takes faith to pause. A

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twenty four hour period. Write this definition down. A sabbath

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is a twenty four hour period that God gives humanity

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with to reframe from work, remember Him, and rest your soul.

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Every week, God wants to give every person under the

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sound of my voice a twenty four hour period that

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God gives you with to refrain from work, to remember

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Him and to rest your soul. I'm gonna read it

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one more time so your soul can hear it. Every week,

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God wants to gift you personally with a day to

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refrain from work, to remember Him and to rest your soul.

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Speaker 3: Even in the ancient times, this was a.

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Speaker 2: Radical innovation at the time because everybody was working. I mean,

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they didn't have buildings and they didn't have bulldozers. They

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didn't have all everything they did they had to make.

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They didn't have Amazon, They couldn't order nothing. You want

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to purse, go kill something, dry out the skin, sew

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it together. You got some more fig leaves over there,

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like you had to make everything.

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Speaker 3: So think about all of the work that was happening in.

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Speaker 2: God saying, hey, take the day off, Come walk and

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talk with me. Remember how good I am. Look at

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those trees. Are they worried? You don't have to either.

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Look at those birds. I know you've missed them every

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day because you've been so occupied, But they've been here

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every day. They don't worry about what they're gonna eat

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or drink. You see them lilies over there. Look how

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beautiful those colors. Don't those colors make you feel something?

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They didn't dress themselves. I did that. I'll do that

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much more for you if you would rest. I said

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it before, but slaves never rested, only sons did. And

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this is where I have to bring this up, because

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culture is feeding us a lie that I have to

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correct with the word of God. Culture says rest is

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a reward for work. Hear what I just said to you.

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Culture says you better work, and you better work until

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you earn a rest. God says rest is a requirement

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for work. First full day rest and the prerequisit was

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because God knew Adam was about to work. I'm gonna

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give him rest because he about to put in that work.

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Rest should be a sign that God wants you to work.

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It is not oh, I'm not gonna work because I

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just need the rest. It's like, na, you better get

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this rest because after this rest we about to put

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Speaker 6: You can't even feel rested if you don't feel worked.

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Speaker 2: Oh God, I'm talking with people who don't work. Anybody

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who really work know that the only way of rest is.

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Speaker 3: Good if you did good work.

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Speaker 2: So what I'm trying to tell you is God gave

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a six day work period and a one day rest.

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But I think a lot of us got the God complex.

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So what we did is we did what God did

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instead of what he said. Day one, work day two,

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work day three, work day four, work day five, work

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day six, work day seven.

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Speaker 3: Rested. But then he told us, don't do what I did.

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Speaker 2: Do what I said, rest day two, work day three.

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it again.

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Speaker 3: God worked on day one today six, then he rested.

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Speaker 2: He made us and said rest on day one, work

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the other six days.

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Speaker 6: He was trying to say, I'm setting you up because

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you can't handle what I did.

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Speaker 2: You not built like me, You can't work and then rest.

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I'm God, I can do all things. I know everything omnishing,

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I know everything all that was, he said, because.

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Speaker 3: I love you. You rest first.

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Speaker 2: I know you. I know your attitude, I know you

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get hangry, I know your habits, I know your temperament.

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I know you need to go to sleep. First, You rest,

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and then all the things out are there. They're gonna

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be there tomorrow. Those contracts will be there tomorrow, those

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emails will be there tomorrow. Some of y'all that don't

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have do not disturb on your stuff. How do you

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function the level of interruptions of your life that you

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allow in right now? How in the world do you

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have any peace? It's quiet in here today. Okay, so

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let's keep going. If you go to Exodus chapter five,

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verse seven, I want you to look it up on

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your own time. Pharaoh's strategy was never to kill the

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children of Israel.

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Speaker 3: It was to exhaust them.

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Speaker 2: Y'all didn't hear what I just said. What if the

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enemy doesn't want to kill you, he just wants to

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exhaust you. What if what if you're at series goal

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is never to take you out, just make you not

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strong enough to do anything. Exhaustion is the new weapon

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of massive destruction.

474
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Speaker 3: Have you ever been tired just scrolling?

475
00:31:20,720 --> 00:31:28,599
Speaker 2: Come on, you switch fingers, y'all know some of y'all

476
00:31:28,880 --> 00:31:34,720
on your pinky fingers scrolling news on twenty four to seven,

477
00:31:34,799 --> 00:31:38,279
got four news channels on what's Fox saying? What's the inn? Saying?

478
00:31:38,279 --> 00:31:46,160
What's MSNBC saying? What's the exhaustion? News feed all the time?

479
00:31:46,200 --> 00:31:50,440
And then don't get into your family group chat. The

480
00:31:50,559 --> 00:32:02,039
emotional disability of cousin Jerome locked up again, Stacy Dayton,

481
00:32:02,599 --> 00:32:06,359
somebody that dated your other cousin again, Like.

482
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Speaker 3: Y'all know what I'm talking about? Or watch this. The

483
00:32:10,759 --> 00:32:12,799
exhaustion of silence.

484
00:32:15,200 --> 00:32:18,519
Speaker 2: Because the manipulation that happens many times relationally because we're

485
00:32:18,559 --> 00:32:24,319
not talking. Okay, let me, I'm going too deep. What

486
00:32:24,400 --> 00:32:28,359
if what if there was a way to reset every

487
00:32:28,359 --> 00:32:30,759
week where all of that stuff lost its power in

488
00:32:30,799 --> 00:32:34,440
your life? What if God knew he wasn't gonna take

489
00:32:34,519 --> 00:32:36,599
us out of this world, but he would give us

490
00:32:36,640 --> 00:32:40,160
tools in this world to actually live higher.

491
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Speaker 3: Than this world. That's just what the Scripture means.

492
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Speaker 2: When it says we are in it, but not of it,

493
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but you in it and of it. Jesus doing his

494
00:32:51,200 --> 00:32:55,240
greatest miracles with a shot clock on three years left,

495
00:32:55,480 --> 00:32:59,160
big miracles, everybody coming. What does Jesus do? All right, y'all,

496
00:32:59,160 --> 00:33:03,359
all right, it's been fun. God bless you. He would

497
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withdraw often on your greatest day of miracle impact money,

498
00:33:12,200 --> 00:33:16,200
our culture, like, do it again, run it up, we

499
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can pack it out again. Four nights at Madison Square Garden,

500
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back to back to back. Let's get all this money.

501
00:33:24,079 --> 00:33:33,920
And God was like, yeah, where's the limit. And some

502
00:33:33,960 --> 00:33:39,559
of us are so close? Why are you telling me?

503
00:33:39,599 --> 00:33:46,599
Be careful? You won't rest. Be careful, Be careful the

504
00:33:46,640 --> 00:33:50,759
decisions you make unrested. Be careful of the people you

505
00:33:50,920 --> 00:33:58,240
keep around your children unrested, Okay, be careful. Be careful

506
00:33:58,880 --> 00:34:01,920
of saying your opinion. I'm just being honest right now.

507
00:34:02,200 --> 00:34:03,640
Be careful of talking at all.

508
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Speaker 6: Some of y'all, some of y'all just need to say,

509
00:34:09,519 --> 00:34:10,760
can I respond to this tomorrow?

510
00:34:14,079 --> 00:34:14,840
Speaker 3: Why are you saying this?

511
00:34:14,880 --> 00:34:26,760
Speaker 2: Passing Mike? Because nobody makes their best decisions exhausted. Sabbath

512
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the sabbath or a day of rest isn't just rest

513
00:34:29,360 --> 00:34:33,840
from work. It is your proof of freedom. And I

514
00:34:33,880 --> 00:34:36,119
just want to let you know. Pharaoh is not dead.

515
00:34:36,800 --> 00:34:46,280
It just comes with push notifications. That algorithm that for

516
00:34:46,440 --> 00:34:50,039
you page, that next deadline, that inbox those emails. All

517
00:34:50,039 --> 00:34:53,840
it's doing is exhausting you to the point where you

518
00:34:53,880 --> 00:34:57,119
don't dream, you don't worship, and you don't fight back.

519
00:35:03,840 --> 00:35:07,639
This is why you are being beat up at the

520
00:35:07,679 --> 00:35:12,840
same level as people who don't know God. It's because

521
00:35:12,880 --> 00:35:18,559
you're on the same training plan as them. You're exhausted,

522
00:35:20,960 --> 00:35:24,280
and so you're too exhausted to pray. Come on, let's

523
00:35:24,320 --> 00:35:29,159
be honest, God, do it. Okay, y'all gonna act like

524
00:35:29,199 --> 00:35:30,920
I'm the only one that pray to prayer like that,

525
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Let yo will be done, Bible talking about pray without

526
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ceasing you like Lord, If you don't do it, it

527
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won't be done. Why you're exhausted? Are you tired? Why

528
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are you still wrestling rest when it's the gift that

529
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God gives to you. Husbands and wives haven't been able

530
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to have a civil conversation. Not because you don't love

531
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each other, because you're tired. You're both tired trying to

532
00:36:10,719 --> 00:36:13,239
provide for a home that neither wanted you like coming

533
00:36:13,280 --> 00:36:18,760
to right now. Not because the home is bad, Because y'all,

534
00:36:22,760 --> 00:36:24,800
you need to go get a one nice stay in

535
00:36:24,920 --> 00:36:28,719
a holiday in I'm not I'm trying to give y'all

536
00:36:28,719 --> 00:36:29,440
real secrets.

537
00:36:30,000 --> 00:36:34,719
Speaker 6: Somebody needs a staycation at the home with sweets and

538
00:36:34,760 --> 00:36:37,519
the other one at the best westernt.

539
00:36:39,960 --> 00:36:46,360
Speaker 2: And then you need to talk after your rest. All right,

540
00:36:47,480 --> 00:36:52,119
all right, how somebody, why are you saying this? Because

541
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the lie is that I need to perform, and if

542
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I perform, then I'll get approval and praise. So the

543
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reason why people work is because if I work and

544
00:37:02,519 --> 00:37:03,880
I get this money, or if I work and I

545
00:37:03,880 --> 00:37:05,719
get this accoladeer on my work and I get these grades,

546
00:37:05,760 --> 00:37:07,320
and I work and I get this thing, and I

547
00:37:07,360 --> 00:37:08,960
work and I get this compliment, then.

548
00:37:08,840 --> 00:37:10,800
Speaker 3: I will be approved and praised.

549
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Speaker 2: And the reason why this is important is because all people,

550
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even down to children. The reason why we clap so

551
00:37:18,559 --> 00:37:24,679
loud for Urlow is because we inate innately know that

552
00:37:24,760 --> 00:37:28,800
a child needs to be approved and praised. Arlow could

553
00:37:28,800 --> 00:37:31,280
have got up here and say abc D, Jesus is Lord,

554
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and everybody's.

555
00:37:34,119 --> 00:37:39,760
Speaker 3: Still with him, like why cause you.

556
00:37:39,880 --> 00:37:43,920
Speaker 2: Know from a child you need if I'm gonna do

557
00:37:43,960 --> 00:37:46,760
this again, if I'm gonna actually become everything, if he

558
00:37:46,840 --> 00:37:49,079
gonna stand up here and preach one day, he has

559
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to be approved and praised. So guess what the enemy

560
00:37:55,119 --> 00:38:00,840
tries to tell you? Work for it, work for? And

561
00:38:00,920 --> 00:38:05,159
God says, I'll give it to you first. Can I

562
00:38:05,199 --> 00:38:08,119
give you an example? This is an eternal example that

563
00:38:08,239 --> 00:38:13,320
Jesus literally gets baptized by his cousin John. And the

564
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first thing that happens before he ever works a miracle.

565
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This is before he turns water into wine.

566
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Speaker 6: This is before the fishes in the lows, this is

567
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before he heals any blind eyes, before he ever starts working.

568
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Speaker 2: He gets approved in praise. He gets dumped down in

569
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that water. The sky's open, and the Bible says, like

570
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a dove descending, it says, this is my son, identity

571
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in whom I'm well please, I'm approving him, and I'm

572
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praising him in front of everybody.

573
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Speaker 3: And from that place he went to work.

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Speaker 2: Oh God, all right. So the lie is you need

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to perform so that you get approval in praise. But

576
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the truth is you're already positioned. This is my son,

577
00:39:01,280 --> 00:39:03,440
this is my daughter. I'm well pleasing them. You already

578
00:39:03,440 --> 00:39:08,840
got approval and praise. Now go work. What's your last name, Tom?

579
00:39:08,960 --> 00:39:12,320
Go put in that work. My daughters they get I

580
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hype them up before they do anything, and it and

581
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and and I mean it's at.

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Speaker 6: The borderline right now, like maybe too much. She's like,

583
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but I hype them, I hype them up.

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Speaker 2: What's your name? My name is Jia?

585
00:39:22,119 --> 00:39:23,679
Speaker 3: What you do? Everything good?

586
00:39:23,719 --> 00:39:26,199
Speaker 2: And I'd be like, ah, my Jia.

587
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Speaker 3: She she wakes up in the morning. We had a

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birthday party yesterday.

589
00:39:29,880 --> 00:39:31,840
Speaker 2: I said, how you feeling to day? I feel great?

590
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Not good? I feel great. I said, I'm glad you

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feel great.

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Speaker 3: What's today?

593
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Speaker 2: It's my birthday party day? I said, what you what

594
00:39:43,239 --> 00:39:44,760
you mean? What you got? How you feel? She's like,

595
00:39:44,760 --> 00:39:48,119
people are coming over, We're gonna swim, and I'm gonna

596
00:39:48,119 --> 00:39:50,559
get some presents because I already know y'all got me

597
00:39:50,599 --> 00:39:55,800
some good president. I said, how did you? But what

598
00:39:55,840 --> 00:40:01,880
I'm saying to you is she lives from approval. My

599
00:40:01,920 --> 00:40:03,760
baby doesn't wake up in the morning be like daddy,

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Hey dad, Hey, how many dishes do you want me

601
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to wash? How? What do you need me to do

602
00:40:11,400 --> 00:40:16,480
to be called your own? What I'm saying to you

603
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is you're good enough right now for God to approve

604
00:40:23,039 --> 00:40:28,960
you right now. Gotta keep moving all right, here we go.

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If you need to check that reference. That's Matthew, chapter three,

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verse seventeen. I'm moving because there's so much that I

607
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have to say, because there are people that are hearing

608
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me about the Sabbath, and right now your mind's going

609
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to legalism. Well okay, so technically, if I start my

610
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Sabbath at six pm and I don't check my email

611
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into then well what if somebody call stop? Since God

612
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has gifted us the Sabbath, people have tried to actually

613
00:40:53,960 --> 00:40:58,199
dip it in legalism, but the Sabbath is dipped in love.

614
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All he said, he said, I'm the Lord of the Sabbath.

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I gave I gave this to you so you could

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be good. So don't if y' there's a there's a

617
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story in the Bible that Jesus heals a man on

618
00:41:14,480 --> 00:41:17,000
the Sabbath and all the religious people got mad. Now,

619
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first off, the man was literally.

620
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Speaker 3: Sick, blind, jacked up.

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Speaker 2: If I was a religious person, I'd be like, that

622
00:41:23,199 --> 00:41:26,519
is good for him. I'm wow, that's awesome. What day

623
00:41:26,559 --> 00:41:28,639
is it's a sabbath? Hey, don't tell nobody. My man

624
00:41:28,679 --> 00:41:29,440
can see Like.

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Speaker 7: Immediately they were like you, you are not good because you

626
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did on the Sabbath, and he's like, Yo, what how

627
00:41:40,119 --> 00:41:41,679
did y'all get this love gift?

628
00:41:41,840 --> 00:41:45,039
Speaker 3: Confused with all this legalism.

629
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Speaker 2: He said, if your if your ox falls into the

630
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ditch on the sabbath, don't leave your ox there till

631
00:41:49,920 --> 00:41:55,599
tomorrow it'll be dead. Pick it up, get your friends,

632
00:41:55,599 --> 00:41:57,199
the club of y'all gonna have to work today.

633
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Speaker 3: But this can't be the pattern.

634
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Speaker 2: So so so so if it happens, just make sure

635
00:42:05,159 --> 00:42:09,320
it's not the potter. If your odds is falling into

636
00:42:09,360 --> 00:42:13,599
ditch every time it's a sabbath, that's.

637
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Speaker 3: You can't drive like that say pattern, But.

638
00:42:21,679 --> 00:42:23,960
Speaker 2: God's saying like if something happens, if they email you,

639
00:42:24,079 --> 00:42:27,639
or if you gotta go into work or you that like, okay,

640
00:42:28,760 --> 00:42:31,639
but every week, every week.

641
00:42:31,480 --> 00:42:33,079
Speaker 3: On your off day, Yo, Bosston want to.

642
00:42:33,079 --> 00:42:37,199
Speaker 2: Have a meeting, and you've never say any boundaries to

643
00:42:37,239 --> 00:42:41,960
be able to let them know. Hey, I'm gonna just

644
00:42:42,000 --> 00:42:46,320
lead that. I'm gonna back away from the camera. I mean,

645
00:42:47,679 --> 00:42:50,840
all I'm saying to you right now is if you

646
00:42:51,239 --> 00:42:53,320
get this revelation of rest, I'm almost done.

647
00:42:54,079 --> 00:42:55,760
Speaker 3: Rest becomes a resistance.

648
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Speaker 2: That'ser, Mike, what are you talking about? Eat is the

649
00:43:00,519 --> 00:43:05,719
meakest most power move you can ever make. It's not

650
00:43:05,880 --> 00:43:07,920
big and boisterous and none of it. It's like, no,

651
00:43:08,079 --> 00:43:15,440
I'm about to go rest. Yeah, I'll be back for that. God,

652
00:43:15,480 --> 00:43:17,559
you see what's happening over there. I'm about to trust

653
00:43:17,599 --> 00:43:20,920
you at your word right now while worry is trying

654
00:43:20,920 --> 00:43:23,519
to creep up my back and fear is trying to

655
00:43:23,559 --> 00:43:26,559
make me intimidated, and I don't know what's gonna happen

656
00:43:26,599 --> 00:43:28,639
with all those people and what they talking about. Father,

657
00:43:28,719 --> 00:43:31,360
you said if I trusted you and I did what

658
00:43:31,480 --> 00:43:34,119
your word says, you would fight my battles. So, Father,

659
00:43:34,199 --> 00:43:36,119
what I'm about to do is go get a massage

660
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and play golf today.

661
00:43:37,599 --> 00:43:39,239
Speaker 3: And I'm gone, y'all don't hear me.

662
00:43:39,559 --> 00:43:42,920
Speaker 2: And I'm gonna trust that as I am resting your working,

663
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I'm gonna trust.

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Speaker 6: That you're providing for the needs that I can't even

665
00:43:46,800 --> 00:43:53,719
make happen for my bick What would happen? What would

666
00:43:53,840 --> 00:43:58,679
happen if we really believed God? What would happen that

667
00:43:58,719 --> 00:44:00,480
you could be playing lasers with.

668
00:44:00,480 --> 00:44:05,960
Speaker 2: Your kids, developing a greater relationship that would last for decades.

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Speaker 3: While God.

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Speaker 2: Is telling those who have been enemies or adversaries against

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what you was working on.

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Speaker 3: He was moving them out the way.

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Speaker 2: Somebody say resistance Exodus chapter No, I'm gonna go James

674
00:44:27,679 --> 00:44:29,519
chapter four real quick, because I gotta give you this.

675
00:44:29,519 --> 00:44:33,000
This is the revelation I need you to see. Ooh, ooh,

676
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I've heard this scripture of my whole life, but the

677
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Holy Spirit gave me a new revelation on it. It said,

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and he gives grace generously. As a scripture say God

679
00:44:42,960 --> 00:44:46,760
opposes the proud, but gives grace to the humble. Okay,

680
00:44:46,960 --> 00:44:51,679
verse seven here it is so humble yourself before God.

681
00:44:54,039 --> 00:45:00,199
Now the next part requires humility first. Okay, humble your

682
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before God. Then what's the next part of the verse.

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Resist the devil and he will flee from you. One

684
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of the greatest resistance or resistance is you can have

685
00:45:16,880 --> 00:45:25,000
against the devil is to rest in his face. You

686
00:45:25,119 --> 00:45:30,320
want the devil to flee, go ahead and rest. He's

687
00:45:30,360 --> 00:45:35,079
trying to keep you up in anxiety and depression. Rest.

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00:45:36,239 --> 00:45:40,440
I'm telling y'all this light here has been one of

689
00:45:40,480 --> 00:45:44,440
my greatest tactics to fight the enemies in my mind,

690
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the enemies that come from the outside. Is to say,

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you know what, God, if your word says to resist

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00:45:52,159 --> 00:45:56,159
the devil and flee. What I'm about to do is

693
00:45:56,159 --> 00:45:58,559
about to be a lot of activity for no reason.

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I'm about to email this person. Make sure these people

695
00:46:02,440 --> 00:46:04,679
know my point of view. I'm about to go here,

696
00:46:04,800 --> 00:46:07,599
do this, try to make this, get a fifth job, try.

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Speaker 3: To go do this.

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00:46:09,000 --> 00:46:12,320
Speaker 2: Do you know what I'm about to do. I'm about

699
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to trust you, and I'm about to resist the devil

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because the devil is watch this, watch this, dank you Jesus.

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00:46:24,559 --> 00:46:29,199
When the devil came to tempt Jesus, everything he was

702
00:46:29,239 --> 00:46:33,079
trying to get Jesus to do was activity outside of

703
00:46:33,119 --> 00:46:40,760
his purpose. The way he resisted the devil is he

704
00:46:40,840 --> 00:46:43,920
had to rest and remind the devil of the word.

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If you jump from this, if you go from this,

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00:46:48,880 --> 00:46:53,960
I'll bring you. He was trying to create unnecessary activity.

707
00:46:54,840 --> 00:46:57,559
Do more work, do more work, prove to me. Turn

708
00:46:57,639 --> 00:47:00,239
these stones into pray it. Do more work, you prove

709
00:47:00,320 --> 00:47:04,199
to me. And because he was approved by his father

710
00:47:04,280 --> 00:47:08,039
before he went into this wilderness, he said, I don't

711
00:47:08,039 --> 00:47:11,800
gotta work for you to prove who I am. I've

712
00:47:11,880 --> 00:47:16,280
already been approved, I have already been called, I've already

713
00:47:16,320 --> 00:47:20,920
been I've already been seated. So the next time you're

714
00:47:20,920 --> 00:47:23,119
gonna see me work is when God gives me approval

715
00:47:23,119 --> 00:47:30,159
to do these miracles. Okay, so rest is a resistance.

716
00:47:31,360 --> 00:47:35,000
Somebody needs to say I'm ready because I'm rested. What

717
00:47:35,039 --> 00:47:38,519
if that was the truth. What if it was the

718
00:47:38,559 --> 00:47:42,400
truth that every time something hard came, you were ready

719
00:47:42,400 --> 00:47:46,719
for it because you were rested. PESSI, Mike, are you

720
00:47:46,800 --> 00:47:48,920
serious about this? Is this like a message that you're

721
00:47:49,119 --> 00:47:52,039
I'm gonna teach this every year and I have been

722
00:47:52,119 --> 00:47:56,440
for the last almost decade. The reason I'm saying it

723
00:47:56,480 --> 00:48:00,159
is because most people are looking for a miracle when

724
00:48:00,199 --> 00:48:06,199
God wants to give them a method. He's trying to

725
00:48:06,239 --> 00:48:09,599
give you a principle that will allow this not to

726
00:48:09,639 --> 00:48:14,320
be a one time thing for you. So rest is

727
00:48:14,320 --> 00:48:19,840
a resistance, and then watch this. Rest is a reminder Exodus,

728
00:48:19,880 --> 00:48:22,840
chapter twenty, verse ten. But the seventh day is the

729
00:48:22,880 --> 00:48:25,760
Sabbath day. It's a day of rest dedicated to the

730
00:48:25,760 --> 00:48:28,880
Lord your God. On that day, no one in your

731
00:48:28,920 --> 00:48:31,440
household may do any work. This includes all your sons,

732
00:48:31,440 --> 00:48:33,719
your daughters, your male your female servants, everybody work for

733
00:48:33,719 --> 00:48:37,239
your livestock, foreigners, all of that don't do no work.

734
00:48:38,599 --> 00:48:40,400
And I started to think about that, and then I

735
00:48:40,440 --> 00:48:42,760
started to think about the Christian Chicken Place.

736
00:48:49,760 --> 00:48:51,920
Speaker 3: And there's not too many companies.

737
00:48:51,480 --> 00:48:55,559
Speaker 2: That like publicly like like, hey, we're closing down today

738
00:48:55,639 --> 00:49:01,760
because we're honoring our staff and honoring the Lord.

739
00:49:03,360 --> 00:49:05,039
Speaker 3: Do you know the Chicken Christian Place?

740
00:49:07,199 --> 00:49:10,280
Speaker 2: Y'all know who they are until they sponsor us. I

741
00:49:10,320 --> 00:49:14,719
ain't saying they name momoent No, I'm just from holler

742
00:49:14,760 --> 00:49:21,519
at me. But I just want I want you to

743
00:49:21,559 --> 00:49:29,079
know every almost every other establishment is twenty four hours,

744
00:49:29,199 --> 00:49:31,400
seven days a week. How many people are buying mc

745
00:49:31,440 --> 00:49:34,840
doubles at three point thirty in the morning. Somebody is,

746
00:49:35,880 --> 00:49:42,360
but not that many somebodies. I just I want you

747
00:49:42,400 --> 00:49:47,719
to know. Like the idea is more time, more money,

748
00:49:49,119 --> 00:49:52,119
more You know that Christian Chicken Place.

749
00:49:54,159 --> 00:49:54,960
Speaker 3: They make.

750
00:49:56,519 --> 00:50:04,039
Speaker 2: Almost five times per store what all the other places make,

751
00:50:05,400 --> 00:50:10,320
being closed more times than all the mother places is

752
00:50:10,400 --> 00:50:13,960
closed and having a full twenty four hours where they

753
00:50:14,000 --> 00:50:19,639
do not bring in any revenue, less footprint on the earth,

754
00:50:21,159 --> 00:50:27,239
more productivity. Now, we could just act like it's coincidence,

755
00:50:29,000 --> 00:50:33,119
or we could say there's a blessing for following the

756
00:50:33,159 --> 00:50:36,800
principles of God. Exodus chapter twenty, verse ten. But the

757
00:50:36,840 --> 00:50:40,960
seventh day is a Sabbath day. It's so you can rest.

758
00:50:41,360 --> 00:50:44,320
Exodus chapter twenty three, verse ten. It says, plant and

759
00:50:44,360 --> 00:50:48,039
harvest your crops for six years, but let the land

760
00:50:48,440 --> 00:50:52,159
watch this be renewed and lie uncultivated during the seventh year.

761
00:50:52,199 --> 00:50:56,559
God is so gangster about the Sabbath that he even

762
00:50:56,599 --> 00:51:01,559
wants the land to rest. He said, plant it, harvest

763
00:51:01,599 --> 00:51:04,480
for six years, but let the land be renewed and

764
00:51:04,519 --> 00:51:07,360
lie uncultivated. Don't plant nothing, don't pick nothing for the

765
00:51:07,400 --> 00:51:10,639
seventh year. Then let the poor among you harvest what

766
00:51:10,719 --> 00:51:12,800
grows on it and leave the rest for the wild

767
00:51:12,880 --> 00:51:13,599
animals to eat.

768
00:51:13,719 --> 00:51:16,159
Speaker 3: The same applies for your vineyards and your olive gardens.

769
00:51:16,199 --> 00:51:18,320
Speaker 2: The children of Israel were in a place where God

770
00:51:18,440 --> 00:51:20,480
was like, Hey, I'm gonna let it be harvest for

771
00:51:20,519 --> 00:51:22,320
six years, and then I need y'all to have a

772
00:51:22,440 --> 00:51:26,599
limit and let this land rest. You already got plenty,

773
00:51:26,840 --> 00:51:28,920
there's already enough. I need you to trust me and

774
00:51:29,039 --> 00:51:33,280
let it rest. They didn't do it. They kept picking,

775
00:51:33,719 --> 00:51:37,679
they kept sowing, they kept harvesting. And what God had

776
00:51:37,719 --> 00:51:40,880
to do is he had to let them be taken

777
00:51:40,880 --> 00:51:46,519
into captivity so the land could rest. My question to

778
00:51:46,559 --> 00:51:48,480
you is what are you still working that God is

779
00:51:48,519 --> 00:51:54,440
requiring rest from? The sad truth is God allowed all

780
00:51:54,480 --> 00:51:57,360
those people to be taken into captivity. And this is

781
00:51:57,400 --> 00:51:58,039
my point.

782
00:51:58,480 --> 00:52:02,400
Speaker 3: Constant activity leads to captivity.

783
00:52:03,000 --> 00:52:05,800
Speaker 2: If you're always doing something, something's gonna trap you up.

784
00:52:07,880 --> 00:52:10,639
There shouldn't be this many energy drinks that are successful.

785
00:52:13,000 --> 00:52:17,360
Core rage monster. Just say any kind of word and

786
00:52:17,400 --> 00:52:23,559
it's an energy drink. Don't give me no emails. But

787
00:52:23,599 --> 00:52:28,840
coffee shouldn't be making that much money.

788
00:52:29,360 --> 00:52:31,559
Speaker 3: That coffee is not just because it tastes good. Stop it,

789
00:52:32,519 --> 00:52:35,119
stop it. You're tired.

790
00:52:37,480 --> 00:52:40,079
Speaker 2: Maybe not all of it, but some of it is.

791
00:52:40,480 --> 00:52:41,280
I got to do this.

792
00:52:42,840 --> 00:52:43,760
Speaker 3: I got to stay up.

793
00:52:45,400 --> 00:52:47,320
Speaker 2: I got to do this because somewhere in my life

794
00:52:47,320 --> 00:52:53,400
I'm not rested. There's pills, there's adderalls, there's all kinds

795
00:52:53,400 --> 00:52:56,440
of stuff, there's a People do all kinds of stuff

796
00:52:56,480 --> 00:52:57,920
to do what they think they need to do when

797
00:52:57,920 --> 00:53:08,760
God's already given us a gift. And today I'm asking

798
00:53:08,800 --> 00:53:14,599
you to activate your faith. If you have faith to pray,

799
00:53:15,039 --> 00:53:17,519
you have faith to come to salvation, if you have

800
00:53:17,599 --> 00:53:21,400
faith to believe in miracles, if you have faith for

801
00:53:21,519 --> 00:53:23,440
all these other things in our Christian faith. I'm going

802
00:53:23,519 --> 00:53:25,480
to ask you to add one more to that. Would

803
00:53:25,480 --> 00:53:30,360
you please have faith to rest? Matter of fact, you

804
00:53:30,440 --> 00:53:37,239
might need crazy faith to do this. What would happen

805
00:53:37,920 --> 00:53:45,119
if our love was actually rested? How would we interact

806
00:53:45,119 --> 00:53:47,400
with our children, and our kids and our neighbors, all

807
00:53:47,480 --> 00:53:50,519
the people that we were called to help. Know Jesus,

808
00:53:52,679 --> 00:53:54,960
some of us can't even interact with the people around

809
00:53:55,039 --> 00:54:01,039
us because we're just we're so unrested. You know, when

810
00:54:01,079 --> 00:54:05,199
you're not rested and you got one nerve, I don't

811
00:54:05,239 --> 00:54:07,039
know where your nerve is, but like and then it

812
00:54:07,159 --> 00:54:11,639
just be like people get on your nerves. Somebody said,

813
00:54:11,639 --> 00:54:12,639
my last nerve.

814
00:54:12,800 --> 00:54:16,360
Speaker 3: Huh the kids you made out of love?

815
00:54:18,920 --> 00:54:21,159
Speaker 2: You start from my wife. She says, go talk to

816
00:54:21,239 --> 00:54:25,719
your father, and it's like your father the eighties are kids.

817
00:54:28,159 --> 00:54:29,360
Your dad will help you.

818
00:54:29,440 --> 00:54:34,679
Speaker 3: WHOA. What she really does is said, your daughter needs you.

819
00:54:34,760 --> 00:54:42,039
Speaker 2: I'm like, hold on your daughter, our daughter? Why? Why?

820
00:54:42,119 --> 00:54:48,400
It's because when you're unrested. Maybe this is my last point.

821
00:54:50,039 --> 00:54:58,639
Rest produces restoration. If you would rest something on the

822
00:54:58,679 --> 00:55:02,159
inside of you would come back a lot. If you

823
00:55:02,199 --> 00:55:05,159
would rest that creativity, that you better I'm having writers brought.

824
00:55:05,239 --> 00:55:10,760
You're tired, and it's been tired. Listen the children of Issuel,

825
00:55:10,920 --> 00:55:12,960
he had to let the land rest. The equivalent, if

826
00:55:13,000 --> 00:55:15,400
you study it out, was the amount of sabbaths they

827
00:55:15,480 --> 00:55:20,400
skipped that they had to let the land rest. Your

828
00:55:20,400 --> 00:55:25,559
body is keeping score, and so is God. I'm gonna

829
00:55:25,599 --> 00:55:28,960
say something that's strong. I'm gonna say something that's strong,

830
00:55:28,960 --> 00:55:31,400
but I need you to hear me say it. There

831
00:55:31,400 --> 00:55:34,599
are people that I know God had to sit down

832
00:55:35,000 --> 00:55:39,360
because they wouldn't sit down. You could take that however

833
00:55:39,440 --> 00:55:43,320
you want to take it, but you shouldn't. You that

834
00:55:43,679 --> 00:55:49,840
little boopy, that little ankle sprain should not have taken

835
00:55:49,880 --> 00:55:51,159
you out for six months.

836
00:55:53,519 --> 00:55:54,920
Speaker 3: But what I'm saying is God.

837
00:55:54,840 --> 00:55:59,480
Speaker 2: Was like, you will not You won't rest, you won't

838
00:55:59,519 --> 00:56:02,960
sit down, you won't you won't stop, you won't reflect,

839
00:56:03,840 --> 00:56:11,039
you won't refrain, you won't repair, you won't restore, you

840
00:56:11,079 --> 00:56:21,639
won't renew, you won't revive. Y'all want a revival, I

841
00:56:21,679 --> 00:56:26,079
bet you it'll come if we start resting then spending

842
00:56:26,119 --> 00:56:30,199
time with God, and in that prayer, we're not struggling

843
00:56:30,199 --> 00:56:31,960
to get a word from God. He just drops it

844
00:56:32,000 --> 00:56:37,480
because it's just the context of our relationship. He's like, oh,

845
00:56:37,480 --> 00:56:39,199
I'm gonna oh yeah, yeah, you've been resting all day.

846
00:56:39,199 --> 00:56:41,920
I know you're gonna need this tomorrow. Do you know

847
00:56:42,039 --> 00:56:44,119
all of the things that have been most impactful in

848
00:56:44,159 --> 00:56:50,320
my life has happened after I've rested the ideas the

849
00:56:50,320 --> 00:56:53,840
books Relationship Goals was the first series that I preached

850
00:56:54,639 --> 00:56:57,280
off a sabbatical. So it was crazy faith. So was

851
00:56:57,280 --> 00:57:01,239
everything else that ever was. I'm just like, I just

852
00:57:01,280 --> 00:57:04,480
feel like there's an impact that God gives. I'll give

853
00:57:04,519 --> 00:57:05,440
you one last example.

854
00:57:05,519 --> 00:57:06,400
Speaker 3: The children of Israel.

855
00:57:06,480 --> 00:57:09,599
Speaker 2: They were supposed to pick up food for six days,

856
00:57:09,920 --> 00:57:13,840
but on the sixth day he put double out, so

857
00:57:13,960 --> 00:57:15,599
on the seventh day they didn't have to work.

858
00:57:16,760 --> 00:57:17,679
Speaker 3: He's that good.

859
00:57:18,960 --> 00:57:20,679
Speaker 2: He said, don't try to store it. He said, if

860
00:57:20,760 --> 00:57:23,159
you store it and you try to harvest it, it'll rot.

861
00:57:25,000 --> 00:57:27,519
And some of you have been frustrated because what you've

862
00:57:27,559 --> 00:57:31,840
been working for has rotted. You thought it was gonna

863
00:57:31,880 --> 00:57:33,159
be more for you. You thought it was going to

864
00:57:33,199 --> 00:57:35,440
create security and abundance. And God said, that's got a

865
00:57:35,519 --> 00:57:38,840
rock because you're not obeying me. But if you would

866
00:57:38,880 --> 00:57:44,920
rest let me work, I'll double it. I'll multiply it.

867
00:57:45,760 --> 00:57:48,800
I'll give you what your work did not deserve.

868
00:57:49,039 --> 00:57:50,599
Speaker 3: All why because it's my nature.

869
00:57:52,760 --> 00:57:57,880
Speaker 2: I'm the God who does exceedingly abundantly above all you

870
00:57:57,920 --> 00:58:05,639
can ask, think, imagine, or come to me. All who

871
00:58:05,719 --> 00:58:09,119
are weary and I will give you Say it with me.

872
00:58:11,760 --> 00:58:20,760
Are you tired? Are you tired today? God wants to

873
00:58:20,800 --> 00:58:24,599
give you rest. Many of you know that this is

874
00:58:24,639 --> 00:58:27,360
the time of the year, if you're new at our church,

875
00:58:29,639 --> 00:58:31,159
that I take a time of rest.

876
00:58:31,440 --> 00:58:36,440
Speaker 3: Since the beginning of our church, my.

877
00:58:36,480 --> 00:58:39,960
Speaker 2: Oversight pastor, Pastor Tim Ross, has told me it's like

878
00:58:40,039 --> 00:58:42,840
you got to take a break every summer because I

879
00:58:42,880 --> 00:58:47,159
need to make sure that you don't need that like

880
00:58:48,719 --> 00:58:52,920
you think you need it. And I need to make

881
00:58:52,960 --> 00:58:58,159
sure that your family is the thing that lasts. And

882
00:58:58,199 --> 00:59:00,400
I've watched people give their whole life to men, industry

883
00:59:00,400 --> 00:59:02,679
and lights and big and all this other stuff and

884
00:59:03,199 --> 00:59:08,880
gain the whole world and lose their soul. And every

885
00:59:08,920 --> 00:59:10,760
summer there's people like, well, I'm not going to church

886
00:59:10,760 --> 00:59:17,760
because passion, Why ain't there? Like I'm not God. I

887
00:59:17,800 --> 00:59:20,199
would really like you to know I love I'm human

888
00:59:20,239 --> 00:59:21,960
through I love that you like how I speak and

889
00:59:21,960 --> 00:59:22,639
all that other stuff.

890
00:59:22,639 --> 00:59:27,280
Speaker 3: But God can use a donkey, and.

891
00:59:27,280 --> 00:59:29,480
Speaker 2: Sometimes that's how I feel up here. He all like,

892
00:59:30,719 --> 00:59:33,320
sometimes that's exactly how I feel like He can use.

893
00:59:36,599 --> 00:59:38,079
Speaker 3: I'm just being real man, like.

894
00:59:39,880 --> 00:59:41,559
Speaker 2: I got much rather to do some other stuff that

895
00:59:41,679 --> 00:59:43,360
was more low key and different things like this is

896
00:59:43,400 --> 00:59:44,920
what he called me to do. So I stand up

897
00:59:44,920 --> 00:59:47,679
here every Sunday and do it to the best of

898
00:59:47,719 --> 00:59:51,440
my ability. Not perfection but progression. But one thing that

899
00:59:51,519 --> 00:59:54,599
I am doing is I following the method. And so

900
00:59:55,239 --> 00:59:58,480
for the next couple of months, I'm not gonna be here.

901
01:00:01,880 --> 01:00:04,159
And I want to say this because most pastors hide it.

902
01:00:04,239 --> 01:00:07,159
They do y'all know, y'all have made pastors in America

903
01:00:07,280 --> 01:00:11,159
so scared to even tell you that they're not gonna

904
01:00:11,159 --> 01:00:17,079
be there because you gonna vote whether you come or

905
01:00:17,119 --> 01:00:20,000
not to hear from God if they gonna be there.

906
01:00:21,440 --> 01:00:25,159
I'm not a slave no more. I'm free. So I'm

907
01:00:25,199 --> 01:00:27,159
just gonna I'm gonna let you. I'm gonna let you

908
01:00:27,239 --> 01:00:30,119
know right now, I'm not gonna be here. I'm gonna

909
01:00:30,119 --> 01:00:32,840
be with God. I'ma be with Natalie'm gonna be with

910
01:00:32,880 --> 01:00:35,519
them kids. I'm gonna I'm gonna be praying every day

911
01:00:35,519 --> 01:00:38,280
for you. I can't take a break from that. That's

912
01:00:38,320 --> 01:00:41,599
my job as your pastor. I go to God on.

913
01:00:41,480 --> 01:00:44,480
Speaker 3: Your behalf and ask God for wisdom. I'm asking God

914
01:00:44,519 --> 01:00:45,960
for what is the word of the year.

915
01:00:46,000 --> 01:00:47,760
Speaker 2: Where are we going? What are you saying for us

916
01:00:47,800 --> 01:00:48,119
to do?

917
01:00:48,440 --> 01:00:49,719
Speaker 3: Are we doing conference next year?

918
01:00:49,760 --> 01:00:53,079
Speaker 2: Are we not? God? How? I'm putting everything on the table.

919
01:00:53,960 --> 01:00:56,199
The reason I'm telling you this is because I want

920
01:00:56,199 --> 01:01:00,199
you to be this free in your own life, to

921
01:01:00,320 --> 01:01:05,000
create some patterns that allow you and listen. I just

922
01:01:05,039 --> 01:01:07,280
need everybody to hear me. I'm not going to speak

923
01:01:07,320 --> 01:01:11,360
for other people. I'm not now working, working, working, working,

924
01:01:11,360 --> 01:01:15,559
because I'm not working here. I am really trying to

925
01:01:15,599 --> 01:01:19,679
reset my soul. And if you love me and you

926
01:01:19,719 --> 01:01:23,119
love this church, pray for me. This has gotten to

927
01:01:23,159 --> 01:01:26,760
a place that was out of my sight. This is

928
01:01:26,800 --> 01:01:29,000
beyond my wildest dreams and imagination.

929
01:01:29,320 --> 01:01:30,960
Speaker 3: I'm just out here trying to follow God.

930
01:01:31,119 --> 01:01:34,840
Speaker 2: And I believe that we are called to represent God

931
01:01:35,639 --> 01:01:37,599
to the lost and found for one reason, what is

932
01:01:37,639 --> 01:01:44,280
it transformation in Christ? And so I would just ask

933
01:01:44,320 --> 01:01:47,000
that you pray for me. I don't want to let

934
01:01:47,000 --> 01:01:50,360
you know. The one thing a good restaurant owner is

935
01:01:50,400 --> 01:01:54,079
never gonna do is leave you without a bomb chef.

936
01:01:55,440 --> 01:01:59,039
The one thing you gonna do every Sunday here is

937
01:01:59,079 --> 01:02:02,199
you gonna eat eat. You're not just gonna eat, you

938
01:02:02,280 --> 01:02:08,360
gonna you know, as you put it twice. Hey, So

939
01:02:08,440 --> 01:02:12,519
I just want everybody to know Pastor Charles is about

940
01:02:12,559 --> 01:02:19,000
to do a brand new series that's about to and

941
01:02:19,039 --> 01:02:21,519
then Pastor Tim Ross is gonna come behind him and

942
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do a whole series like this summer you about to

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ee because God can use anybody that's willing and open.

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Speaker 3: What I'm asking us, let's grow. But I don't want

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this just to be for me.

946
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Speaker 2: I've embraced this principle so much that there are people

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that leave.

948
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Speaker 3: The church every year.

949
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Speaker 2: I take us about a gole. No pastor, shit da

950
01:02:48,400 --> 01:02:51,440
da da da. Hold on, wait a minute. Pastoring is

951
01:02:51,480 --> 01:02:58,280
the only full contact sport without an off season. People

952
01:02:58,320 --> 01:03:01,679
will cuss you, fuss you, talk about you, may YouTube

953
01:03:01,719 --> 01:03:03,199
videos about you, and you're supposed to just get up

954
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there and pray for him. Sometimes we need time to heal.

955
01:03:09,599 --> 01:03:18,360
Here be held, I'm being too vulnerable. Okay. What I'm

956
01:03:18,400 --> 01:03:20,119
trying to tell you is this is so real that

957
01:03:20,199 --> 01:03:23,360
you need it in your own life. So I'm just

958
01:03:23,440 --> 01:03:26,199
gonna ask you, we get seven days before next Sunday.

959
01:03:27,840 --> 01:03:32,320
Pick a day. Pick a day that you're gonna step

960
01:03:32,360 --> 01:03:36,559
back from the work, step back even from social media,

961
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because some of y'all it's not even the work that

962
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exhausts you, it's the comparison that does. Comparison is exhausting.

963
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Speaker 3: Just pick a day.

964
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Speaker 2: Talk to your spouse about it, talk to your friend.

965
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If it starts at least coming out of your mouth,

966
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maybe that's evidence that maybe one day it'll happen. Come on,

967
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let's be honest. Some of y'all is just in your head,

968
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and some of y'all try to figure out, So how

969
01:04:02,719 --> 01:04:05,519
do I do it? How do I er? I got you?

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You're gonna have to learn how to do this. You're

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gonna have to listen to this message every day this week.

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You may be gonna have to go back and search

973
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the script. God, give me a revelation, North, South, give

974
01:04:16,239 --> 01:04:19,760
me a revelation so that I don't I don't break

975
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this standing all over this building. The last thing I

976
01:04:32,000 --> 01:04:34,440
want to say to you, just because I don't want

977
01:04:34,480 --> 01:04:39,000
you to get too spiritual and not realize the practical

978
01:04:39,039 --> 01:04:41,239
I've tried to be practical through this whole message. But

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I want you to hear this last thing. Rest is

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good and you can have recreation. Did you hear what

981
01:04:53,559 --> 01:04:57,159
I just said. I don't want you in a room

982
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with a candle for twenty four hours, No hear me?

983
01:05:03,440 --> 01:05:12,159
Because I like, go do something recreational, Go fishing, Go

984
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take a walk in nature, go shopping within your means. Also,

985
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I want to give you this because this is just

986
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my heart as I do this, because people are about

987
01:05:28,159 --> 01:05:29,639
to try to do this and I want I don't

988
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want you to. I want to give you all that

989
01:05:30,880 --> 01:05:34,719
I can right now. Also, if it starts off as

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rest and then it becomes work, it's no longer rest.

991
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Me and Charles talk about it all the time. When

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we start doing stuff. It might start off as rest

993
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and then we start dialing it in. He became he

994
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started riding a bike, like what three or four years ago.

995
01:05:52,800 --> 01:05:55,920
Three years ago he started riding bikes, and then now

996
01:05:55,960 --> 01:06:01,440
he's like a professional bike rider. Like he'd be coming

997
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to the house and fool.

998
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Speaker 3: Like gear and stuff. And I was like, what is this?

999
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Speaker 2: And he said it used to be RESTful, but then

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it turned into work, So it no longer doesn't mean

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he can't do it. It no longer can be considered

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a part of his sabbath unless he's doing it on

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a huffy and the only way if it's a pink hoffy.

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I know you're not going hard, okay, cause sometimes golf

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might start off RESTful and then you're in a competition.

1006
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Speaker 3: Cooking, mate, start.

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01:06:40,400 --> 01:06:42,920
Speaker 2: Off rest you know what I'm gonna bake today, and

1008
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it's like the rest of the thing, the red velvement.

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It's not right. No, you stressed. The reason I'm saying

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this is because watch this. If you lie to yourself,

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you'll never live a right life. I'll never be there

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when you're doing what you're considering rest. You can convince

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your husband or your wife as RESTful, but you will

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be the only one that knows.

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Speaker 3: Don't lie to you. Don't lie to your own soul.

1016
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Speaker 2: Are you tired?

1017
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Speaker 3: Because God wants to give you rest.

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Speaker 2: If you need rest in an area of your life,

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whether you're in this room or online, would you just

1020
01:07:21,840 --> 01:07:24,559
lift your hands. I want to pray for you. Thank you, Lord,

1021
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Thank you, I thank you Lord God.

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Speaker 3: Today here we all are.

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Speaker 2: Saying that we need your rest rest for our souls. Today, Father,

1024
01:07:38,400 --> 01:07:41,719
many of us are admitting we're tired, tired of how

1025
01:07:41,760 --> 01:07:45,000
it's been done, tired of how we've had the function,

1026
01:07:45,159 --> 01:07:47,920
tired of how we've chosen to live. And today we

1027
01:07:47,960 --> 01:07:51,000
are coming to you and we're saying we want to

1028
01:07:51,039 --> 01:07:51,599
do it your way.

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Speaker 3: If you gave us a day of rest a sabbath as.

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Speaker 2: A gift, today, we're going to unwrap that gift, and

1031
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we're gonna unwrap it every week. I'm praying for practical

1032
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wisdom of how this applies to each one of our lives. God,

1033
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for those of us who need to set boundaries, I

1034
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thank you that you're giving us courage right now. For

1035
01:08:17,000 --> 01:08:20,000
those of us who need to even figure out language, Father,

1036
01:08:20,119 --> 01:08:24,880
to be able to renegotiate things that we've already put

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in place or contractor or said that we're gonna do. Father,

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I thank you that when you see your heart, you

1039
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begin to work on the hearts of man.

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Speaker 3: So today here we are, Father.

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01:08:34,880 --> 01:08:37,119
Speaker 2: Many of us. The reason why we're working so hard

1042
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is because we're trying to make ends meet. And today, God,

1043
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I'm asking you that you would give us the ability

1044
01:08:44,760 --> 01:08:52,079
to produce wealth but not have to sacrifice our health. God,

1045
01:08:52,079 --> 01:08:55,920
I'm asking you to help us as a body to

1046
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embrace your principles that are counter cultural. God, I'm gonna

1047
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go to Instagram today and ain't nobody gonna be telling

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me the rest. But your word has told me that

1049
01:09:09,880 --> 01:09:15,880
this is an ancient practice that produces eternal results. So

1050
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today I trust you. Would you calm the inner critic

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01:09:22,600 --> 01:09:27,119
in me that has judged others for not working hard enough?

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01:09:29,600 --> 01:09:33,840
Would you? Would you calm Father, and even forgive the

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01:09:33,880 --> 01:09:38,239
inner Pharisee and Sadducey that have literally mocked other people,

1054
01:09:38,319 --> 01:09:44,239
Father God for doing too much? Today, Father God, I'm asking.

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I'm coming humbly asking you to give me grace to

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start a new pattern. Let my family benefit because of

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01:09:52,760 --> 01:09:57,399
this new pattern. Let my soul be refreshed because of

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01:09:57,439 --> 01:10:03,239
this new pattern. I trust you enough, and I have

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01:10:03,359 --> 01:10:16,800
faith enough to rest. Thank you, Lord. I believe God's

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01:10:16,800 --> 01:10:18,439
doing a work on the inside of some of you

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01:10:18,560 --> 01:10:26,760
right now that won't be undone by hurry. I can

1062
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even hear the single moms or even the people with

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young children.

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Speaker 3: Like, how am I gonna do this? God's gonna give

1065
01:10:32,279 --> 01:10:35,119
you wisdom. He's gonna give you.

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01:10:35,079 --> 01:10:37,680
Speaker 2: Wisdom on nap times are gonna turn into a place

1067
01:10:37,680 --> 01:10:41,520
of rest for you. God's gonna give you some people

1068
01:10:41,560 --> 01:10:43,760
that can watch the children for a few hours to

1069
01:10:43,800 --> 01:10:46,920
be able to do so. I'm telling y'all, and some

1070
01:10:46,960 --> 01:10:50,520
of y'all are the answers to people's prayers. Some of

1071
01:10:50,520 --> 01:10:51,640
you been like, I don't know what to do with

1072
01:10:51,680 --> 01:10:53,840
my time, and God's gonna tell you. Go get your nephews.

1073
01:10:55,760 --> 01:10:57,920
Go get your nephews from your sister for a little bit,

1074
01:10:58,760 --> 01:11:02,159
take them out, take them to the park. I just

1075
01:11:02,159 --> 01:11:04,520
feel like God's gonna give give all of us a

1076
01:11:04,560 --> 01:11:11,760
peace to play. And how we all are sustained here

1077
01:11:11,760 --> 01:11:15,840
in this room under the sound of my voice, and

1078
01:11:15,880 --> 01:11:19,039
you're weary of life. I want you to know this.

1079
01:11:19,159 --> 01:11:20,960
I was almost gonna make it my last point, but

1080
01:11:20,960 --> 01:11:23,960
I didn't give you nine last points already, So I'm

1081
01:11:23,960 --> 01:11:29,239
about to go on sabbatica. God bless you. Rest is

1082
01:11:29,279 --> 01:11:38,279
a person. He said, come to me, all who are weary,

1083
01:11:38,399 --> 01:11:38,760
and I'm.

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01:11:38,640 --> 01:11:45,039
Speaker 3: Gonna give you me. I'm gonna give you rest.

1085
01:11:46,439 --> 01:11:51,039
Speaker 2: I'm rest. I'm peace in the middle of the storm.

1086
01:11:51,399 --> 01:11:55,800
I'm the way out of no way. I'm the corner stone.

1087
01:11:55,880 --> 01:12:01,199
I'm the prince of peace. Rest has.

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01:12:02,039 --> 01:12:02,560
Speaker 3: Jesus.

1089
01:12:04,199 --> 01:12:08,479
Speaker 6: If you need rest, You actually need Jesus.

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01:12:10,159 --> 01:12:12,000
Speaker 3: This is why you can't get it in nothing else.

1091
01:12:13,239 --> 01:12:15,199
Speaker 2: This is why when people try to make false gods

1092
01:12:15,239 --> 01:12:17,319
and all that stuff, they live their life working. Because

1093
01:12:17,319 --> 01:12:20,239
he said, I am rest. I'm the one that makes

1094
01:12:20,279 --> 01:12:23,239
you stop working. I'm the eternal sacrifice. Listen to his language.

1095
01:12:23,279 --> 01:12:26,800
It is finished. Think about the language Jesus talks about.

1096
01:12:26,880 --> 01:12:28,760
He's like, I'm the one that finished it all.

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01:12:28,680 --> 01:12:30,720
Speaker 3: So you could rest.

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01:12:31,680 --> 01:12:35,199
Speaker 2: All you have to do is receive me. So today,

1099
01:12:35,239 --> 01:12:38,119
your first step to walking into rest, if you're tired

1100
01:12:38,119 --> 01:12:40,439
of how life has treated you and what you've been

1101
01:12:40,439 --> 01:12:43,960
going through, is to accept Jesus. He is rest for

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01:12:44,000 --> 01:12:48,720
your soul, not just today, eternally your name will be

1103
01:12:48,720 --> 01:12:51,079
written in the Lamb's Book of life. Pastor Mike, how

1104
01:12:51,119 --> 01:12:53,000
can you do this? Because he takes people like me

1105
01:12:54,319 --> 01:12:57,399
who are liars and manipulators and addicted to pornography. I

1106
01:12:57,399 --> 01:12:59,319
have all kinds of bad stuff in my heart, and

1107
01:12:59,359 --> 01:13:03,359
God said I'll take you if you'll receive me. And

1108
01:13:03,439 --> 01:13:06,520
I gave him all my heart and he helped me

1109
01:13:06,640 --> 01:13:10,439
change my habits. Today, if that's you in this room

1110
01:13:10,520 --> 01:13:13,960
or watching online, I don't care how you got here today,

1111
01:13:14,119 --> 01:13:16,800
is the day of salvation, and I need the church

1112
01:13:16,880 --> 01:13:18,840
to begin to pray because somebody's eternity is in the

1113
01:13:18,880 --> 01:13:21,279
balance right now. You may have been walking around God

1114
01:13:21,319 --> 01:13:22,880
for a long time, but he wants you to walk

1115
01:13:22,920 --> 01:13:26,640
with him today. I want to introduce you to rest.

1116
01:13:26,960 --> 01:13:31,239
I want to introduce you to Jesus and just a moment,

1117
01:13:31,279 --> 01:13:33,560
I'm about to pray, and if you want to be

1118
01:13:33,560 --> 01:13:35,319
included in this prayer, I just want you to slip

1119
01:13:35,359 --> 01:13:37,039
your hand up on encounter through your saying pasta. I

1120
01:13:37,079 --> 01:13:38,880
want to be included in that prayer. I want to

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01:13:38,880 --> 01:13:42,319
receive Jesus as my personal Lord. And save you're online YouTube,

1122
01:13:42,399 --> 01:13:44,680
if you're watching on the Panda app, right here in

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01:13:44,680 --> 01:13:47,399
this room, everybody's included in this. If that's you, I

1124
01:13:47,439 --> 01:13:49,199
want you to make that decision. And it's the whole

1125
01:13:49,239 --> 01:13:51,960
reason that Jesus came so that you could have freedom

1126
01:13:52,039 --> 01:13:55,319
in your own life. One, you're making the greatest decision

1127
01:13:55,479 --> 01:13:57,920
of your life. Two, your name is about to be

1128
01:13:57,960 --> 01:14:00,399
written in the Lamb's Book of life. You want to

1129
01:14:00,399 --> 01:14:03,000
receive Jesus right now. Three, shoot your hand up in

1130
01:14:03,039 --> 01:14:04,399
the air all over this place.

1131
01:14:04,520 --> 01:14:06,960
Speaker 3: I want to see you. I see you, I see you.

1132
01:14:07,000 --> 01:14:09,039
I see you, I see you. I'm so proud of you.

1133
01:14:09,279 --> 01:14:11,479
I see you, I see you. I see you. And

1134
01:14:11,560 --> 01:14:13,079
more than that, God sees you.

1135
01:14:13,079 --> 01:14:15,560
Speaker 2: All the way in the back Transformation Church, can we

1136
01:14:15,600 --> 01:14:21,680
give God praise right there? Hear me? Hear me. We're

1137
01:14:21,720 --> 01:14:25,760
leaving in two minutes for that Transformation Church. Nobody prays alone.

1138
01:14:26,399 --> 01:14:28,279
So for the benefit of those who are coming to Christ.

1139
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What everybody, just lift your hands and pray this prayer

1140
01:14:30,840 --> 01:14:34,960
with me. Say God, thank you for being my place

1141
01:14:36,079 --> 01:14:39,359
of rest today. I come to you.

1142
01:14:40,319 --> 01:14:44,520
Speaker 3: I believe you lived, you died, and you rose again

1143
01:14:45,640 --> 01:14:46,079
just for me.

1144
01:14:47,119 --> 01:14:53,119
Speaker 2: Here's my life. I repent of the old way, and

1145
01:14:53,159 --> 01:14:59,039
I turned to you. Change me, renew me, Transform me

1146
01:15:00,199 --> 01:15:03,640
yours forever in Jesus' name.

1147
01:15:04,640 --> 01:15:06,680
Speaker 3: Amen. Hey, all over.

1148
01:15:06,520 --> 01:15:10,199
Speaker 6: This building, can we join heaven and rejoicing for gold

1149
01:15:10,800 --> 01:15:12,479
who have just joined the family.

1150
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Speaker 2: Welcome to the Kingdom Family. If you just made that decision.

1151
01:15:18,560 --> 01:15:21,159
As the altar workers come, I want you to text

1152
01:15:21,199 --> 01:15:23,600
save to A two eight two A two. If you're

1153
01:15:23,640 --> 01:15:25,800
watching online, that's for you too. Our team wants to

1154
01:15:25,840 --> 01:15:28,800
send you some resources to help you walk this out.

1155
01:15:29,319 --> 01:15:32,680
Remember it is progression, not perfection. And if you're in

1156
01:15:32,680 --> 01:15:35,279
this room and you need prayer. A worship team is

1157
01:15:35,319 --> 01:15:37,560
about to sing one more song as people are going

1158
01:15:37,560 --> 01:15:40,880
to grab their kids and leaving, and I want you

1159
01:15:41,479 --> 01:15:43,279
if you need prayer in this room, I want you

1160
01:15:43,319 --> 01:15:46,319
to come get prayer. There are people that need agreement

1161
01:15:46,439 --> 01:15:48,760
right now for things that are going on, a.

1162
01:15:48,760 --> 01:15:52,319
Speaker 3: Loved one, a child, hard time.

1163
01:15:52,439 --> 01:15:55,399
Speaker 2: You might need revelation and this resting and you need

1164
01:15:55,399 --> 01:15:57,239
somebody to agree with you. Come up here for prayer,

1165
01:15:57,920 --> 01:15:59,760
and we want God to do the work that only

1166
01:15:59,760 --> 01:16:03,479
he can do. I am so excited that this is

1167
01:16:03,520 --> 01:16:06,239
my church and as you go through this summer, I

1168
01:16:06,319 --> 01:16:08,039
just wanted to want you to know I'm praying for

1169
01:16:08,079 --> 01:16:09,920
you and I believe the best is yet to come

1170
01:16:09,920 --> 01:16:14,439
for us. Father, thank you for your people, Bless them

1171
01:16:14,960 --> 01:16:16,479
to have a RESTful week.

1172
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Speaker 3: And we declare, Father.

1173
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Speaker 2: God, that you will be lifted up as we live

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this life of abundance so people can know you and

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be transformed in Christ in Jesus' name, everybody say we agree,

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your heart, It's the best decision you could ever make.

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