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All right, yayo.
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Serious question here.
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Do you call it Reese's?
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Or Reese's I call it Reese's.
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Reese's Reese's The Chocolate?
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Yeah.
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Yeah, the delicious candy bar.
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What do you mean?
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Reese's.
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Yeah.
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It became a hot topic around the bonfire there in our our youth group last night.
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Because Mr.
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Walker over there.
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Well, a lot of people, Kim, my wife Kimberly does this all the time.
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She says Reese's.
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And a lot of people do that.
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In fact, you know, Halloween is also people call it Reformation Day and all that.
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Yeah.
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And a bunch of people thinking they were being hilarious were like posting memes of Martin Luther putting 95 Reese on a turtle.
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And I'm like, it's Reese's.
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Reese's, yeah.
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Or singular Reese's.
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Reese's.
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Yeah, I told him it's like It's a guy named Reese, and he came up with a peanut butter cup.
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Reese's.
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It's Reese's peanut butter cup.
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So two things.
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One, it sounds like you're ordering a Reese's down south.
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I want one of them that are Reese's.
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But then I did actually look up one of the old commercials.
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And it was Reese's.
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My wife says Reese's PCs.
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I'm like, it's Reese's pieces.
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Pieces.
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Well, first off, those came secondary.
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But anyways, we can't spend the podcast arguing about I'm sticking to Reese's just because, you know, I'm going to be prideful about this.
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Yeah, be prideful.
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I mean, you know, our whole chapter.
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I had to practice to say Reese's for like my whole life because of being bilingual.
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Oh well, see I'm Reese's.
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I'm barely uh unilingual.
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And I'm gonna have to work on this.
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But our chapter yesterday.
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Second Kings chapter five was all about pride and humility with Naaman Elisha, one of my uh favorite, most favorite biblical characters, uh, this unnamed uh little girl who was able to speak truth.
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And so I'll just I'll just humbly move forward and say agree to disagree, even though I heard on the commercial it's Rhesus.
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So biblical now.
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Uh we we jump into these things.
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And it starts with Naaman.
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Naaman was uh an army commander in the Syrian army who was an enemy of the people of God.
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Yeah.
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And God gave him victories.
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God gave him victories.
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Verse one.
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He was like, hey, there's this guy, an army commander who's really high up, right next to the king, and he's this enemy who God gave victory to.
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How do we explain that, right?
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Like God's gonna do what God's gonna do.
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Amen on that.
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That's why I was telling the church, guy's going to do what guy is going to do.
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My mom used to say this to me I'm your mom, and I go tell you what to do.
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Right.
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Our responsibility to God is to say, yes, Lord.
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Yes, Lord.
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Yes, Lord.
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And uh that that's one of those that's that's wild because you know, whether it's our enemy or we claim we think, oh, they're the enemy of the Lord, which you know, some of those are not for us to judge.
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He's the judge, but we think those who are who are enemy of the church, enemy of the cross, enemy of the kingdom.
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What if God uses them for his glory?
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I mean, just think about this story that will flesh out then through Naaman, but it began when God was using him before he ever acknowledged God.
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That's why I tell people God is working behind the scenes 24-7.
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Yeah.
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We may not see the picture, we don't, we may not understand it, but he's working behind the scenes.
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We saw that with Egypt.
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Yeah.
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I mean, God used Egypt, right?
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I mean, just think of it.
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Yeah, he used Fabro and his hardened heart to do this.
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You know, we've seen it all through the book of Kings with uh last week with Elisha, all those moments behind closed doors.
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And so once again, we find this incredible narrative within kings of God working behind the scenes, because God's you are not going to derail God.
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No, period.
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You're not.
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And God is always working, he has a plan, and we just have to say yes, Lord, to his plan.
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And we may disagree with it, we may not like his plan, but hey, guys going to be God.
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Yeah.
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Well, and that's why Jesus teaches us to love and pray for our enemies.
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Yeah.
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To pray for our enemy.
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Because what if through that prayer our Lord answers those moments and works behind the scenes, such as he did for Naaman?
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And we don't know.
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We don't know if Elisha, we don't know if anybody was specifically praying for for Naaman or for the Syrian army.
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They were probably praying, Lord, keep them out of here.
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Keep them away.
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He was victory.
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Yeah.
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Well, and here's the other thing.
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You know, we didn't I didn't talk about this yesterday, but in the verse one, when it's just talking about God doing all these things, it ended with, and he uh had leprosy.
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He was a man as a leper.
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And so on the outside, people would say, Oh, that's God smiting him.
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That's God giving him this thing because, oh, what a sinful man.
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Well, no, it was this ailment that God ultimately winds up using to show his glory and how good he is.
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And so it's not like this curse upon him.
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Just like when uh where was it within the gospels?
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And they were like, Well, when the disciples are asking him, Jesus.
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Yeah, what are the sins or his parents?
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And he was like, No, that's not what this is.
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This is a fallen, broken world we live in.
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But God's saying, Look how good I am.
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Yeah.
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And here's the uh when I talk about that story, one of the things I tell people is that how when under God will use you so he can be glory.
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So that gets us then to Yeah, that's and it takes some humility to to to understand that when when it's your quote unquote enemy.
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It's coming to you.
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But somehow they are finding blessing that you think that should be mine.
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Yes.
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But again, that that's that pride creeping in.
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Anytime it's about me and mine, it's pride.
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Yeah.
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But you were talking about, you know, God using these people then for his glory.
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I'll I'll you know, verse number two, and I'm I'm just gonna read it here now.
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Uh the Syrians, on one of their raids, as they had attacked, as they had crossed over uh borders and enemy lines, on one of their raids had carried off a little girl from the land of Israel, and she worked in the service of Naaman's wife.
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She was a slave girl.
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Yeah.
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We don't know her age, we don't know her name, but as a little girl, she was stolen from her family and from her home.
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I mean, just crushing, first off, to think about that.
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Uh uh You know, I've got a little girl at home and I would do anything, you know, to protect her.
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Um just imagine this little girl then was carted off to enemy territory and became a servant in this moment.
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And what a grudge she could have held.
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I mean, she could she had every excuse to say guy is not real.
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Yeah.
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She had every excuse to say guy is not there.
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She had every excuse to say, look what happened to me.
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That can happen to you.
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Guy is not real.
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Yeah.
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Oh, and we find that time and again.
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I love that you brought that up because you know, time and again we do find people when they bump into their personal hurt.
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Again, we live in a fallen world, a broken world.
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Other people's sins overlap into our life.
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And so when other people's sins overlap into our life, and we find pain and and hurt, it's easy then to say, God, you're not there.
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Or you don't care about me.
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You're not listening.
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Here I am, this this pain.
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You know, I was thinking in these moments.
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I don't think God causes divorces.
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That doesn't please him.
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But can he use those things for his glory?
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Can he redeem the most broken?
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Yeah, you can.
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Yeah.
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Does God cause children to die way too young?
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I don't think he causes that.
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We live in a broken and sinful world where there's disease and hurt and and and brokenness and bad people sometimes, if we're honest.
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But can God redeem that and restore that and use it for his glory and his honor?
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Yeah.
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Yeah, he can.
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Absolutely.
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And so that's this little girl who I who I I love because we find this girl totally unnamed.
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How many times in scripture do you bump into people who are unnamed and in this world unnamed, but change the world for the sake of the kingdom?
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And so once again, this this little girl became this mighty prophet in this moment because she said, Hey guys, I know this guy who, if if Naaman were over there, he would be able to heal them in the name of God.
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Yeah.
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And so she went forward courageously, didn't hold a grudge, but humbly moved forward and spoke the truth to this man of great authority.
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Yeah, I was the she also could have, she had, she really had the kind of like you said in in the message yesterday, you she had a real opportunity to also become like a a rebel about it and to be indignant about like, well, this man is one of the enemies of God.
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He's a heathen, he's not, you know, and instead of instead of taking that sort of like I need to that sort of Peter, I need to get my sword out and attack this guy who's coming after Jesus, she gave the invitation.
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I always think people don't people won't see the the the badness of their sin until they can understand the goodness of God.
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And she I love that invitation that she gave.
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Like, Master, if you could only see this prophet that we have, he'll make you whole.
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And I love that invitation.
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To me, that's such a great example of how how do you share Jesus with people.
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Yeah, and here's one of the things with with this with this young lady, um, with she believed that he can save him, that he could cure him.
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Right.
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No doubt.
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It was oh, if only if he were there, if only he goes there, he can do it.
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He can do it.
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The man of God, through the power of God, the power of God, period, can do this thing.
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And this is this girl who's in enslaved, who's in maybe brokenness, who's in this dark season of her life, and she's still trusting that God can cure this man.
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And just think though, uh, I've tried to place myself in her shoes.
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And if I'm honest, Yayo, in my flesh, I wonder where where would I land?
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Would I say, I hope this leprosy hurts him.
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He's hurt me, he's busted my family apart, he's stolen me from from my land, from my home, from my stuff.
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In my flesh, I I hope I wouldn't land there, but let's be honest, we could easily all land there.
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But she went the high road, the holy road, and she moved forward.
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She's an example of what humility is.
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Yes.
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Yeah.
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When someone hurts you, you don't try to hurt them back.
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You love them, you offer grace, hope, point them to healing.
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If only, she says, if only she only.
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You know, and then we see the king of Israel.
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We have prideful attitude, we have pride attitude saying, Who why is this man coming to me?
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Who am I God?
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Yeah.
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But then it tears his tears his his cloak, and then he gets um really angry because what he saw as uh a political move, they both missed it.
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Yeah, because it was a spiritual move.
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Yeah, but they just didn't know.
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They didn't know what they didn't know.
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Now people thought, oh, the king of Israel, he should know these things.
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Yeah.
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He didn't.
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He didn't.
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And Ham, as king of Israel, he should know who Elisha is.
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Right.
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Everything the prophet stands for, he even took the time, but hey, let's go check out.
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Let's yeah, let's go talk to the man of God, let's spend some time in prayer about this, let's see what's going on.
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The girl say, I know.
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He said, Oh, in other words, I don't know.
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Yeah, he's he he hadn't seen it.
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He hadn't he hadn't uh fully acknowledged who God is or what God was doing in that day or in that land.
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Uh spiritual blindness.
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Yeah.
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Spiritual blindness is what that absolutely is.
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He's missing an opportunity there.
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Absolutely.
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Uh I addressed a little bit yesterday the idea of spiritual blindness because I think that is so real, and it's not something that's just left behind in biblical times.
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We find ourselves and many of those around us spiritually blind today.
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Folks who just won't see or acknowledge what God is doing, or to say Jesus at best was a historical character, but not Lord, that's it's spiritual blindness.
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It's those what what Saul who became Paul had those the the the scales upon his eyes, and he was literally blind.
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And when he was baptized, when he s went all in on Jesus, when he was baptized, those scales fell off of his eyes, and he could see it's this visibility of the spiritual realm that there is so much more happening around us than you and I give credit to.
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Yeah.
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And that's why uh Paul says the battle is a spiritual battle.
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I mean, and and we have to be spiritually prepared and ready.
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And how do you get spiritually ready and prepared?
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By being on scripture.
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Yes.
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By reading the word, by praying, by fellowshipping, by talking to God.
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But sometimes we spend too much in the in the realm of what's happening to me, and in that realm of the flesh, that we ignore the spiritual aspect.
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And we need to be ready, just like this young lady, this prophet.
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She was ready.
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She had a a purpose and a plan, and she was ready.
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Yeah.
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In the middle of being enslaved, she had a purpose and a plan, and she was ready.
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I used the quote from Craig Rochelle.
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Because you would sent me a sermon, what?
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That was last Sunday, I think you would send me a sermon, and so so I I stole a snippet.
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Because if you're gonna steal a quote, steal it from Craig Rochelle, you know, and so give him credit.
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But he said, he said just last week, he said, what what you see is natural through these eyes.
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What you see is natural, but even around us now, there is a supernatural world we do not see with natural eyes.
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What the king thought was natural, political, financial, and motive, it was all spiritual.
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But isn't that everything?
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Yeah.
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Everything.
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Life is about God, life is about the kingdom.
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And so shouldn't we be weeding a lot of that out of our thought process?
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And with all things, it comes back to scripture.
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With all things, it comes back to the kingdom.
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Yeah, and the way Craig Shaw says this later is like the way you fight supernatural things is by being spiritually prepared for those supernatural things.
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Yes.
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You know, by spending time in prayer, by spending time on scripture, by worshiping, by preparing yourself spiritually, right?
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When Jesus was in the wilderness and he was tempted three times, the the enemy, the devil, that supernatural battles realm of evil in that, the devil, Hasitan, the accuser.
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We could just go through all of these names that he has given throughout scripture, but when he tempted Jesus, what did Jesus do?
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Took it to Scripture.
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Took it to Scripture.
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Are we ready to take it to Scripture?
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You know, are we ready to face this battle of reality, of this supernatural realm that there is evil out there?
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The enemy is prowling like a lion, we find in First Peter.
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Trying to devour.
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Trying to devour.
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And are we ready for that?
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Are we ready?
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Because we have a lot of spiritually weak Christians who are getting gobbled up.
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Yeah.
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Left and right.
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And we need to be ready for it.
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We need to stay watch.
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Stay alert at all times.
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Right.
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And again, we we go back to the source is by being with God with His Word.
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And how you're going to prepare yourself spiritually.
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Because we need to.
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I think another thing too is to just work on practicing humility.
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And I I think the s I think the straightest line to to a practical way to practice humility is to serve in some way.
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I think what you know, whether it's teaching the kids in your church or you know, handing out food in the food industry, whate whatever it is, like serving in some way, I think it it's humbling because it's it's you uh taking a chunk of your time and a chunk of your energy and giving it up to God.
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And that girl in that story she uh she gives of herself in a way that her that humility, I always say humility is really powerful because the the power dynamic gets completely flipped.
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She has compassion of the on this guy who's her master.
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And she, you know, she's a servant, I guess you know, we we could say a slave in his household.
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And she's giving him compassion when he's the one with all the power and the authority.
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And I I just I find that so compelling about that story.
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But that's that upside-down kingdom that we live in in the grace of of Jesus.
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Yeah.
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The first be last and the last be first.
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You know, and so yeah, no, she exemplified that, which again, she is just one of these power players within scripture for me.
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You know, one of that great cloud of witnesses that that this little unnamed girl teaches us so much.
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And it's just like a sentence or two.
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Yeah, just one verse.
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Barely mentioned, yeah.
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Yeah.
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But then you see the ripple effect of what happened.
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So they went to, you know, Naaman went to the king, and the king was like, I don't know what's going on here.
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You know, he's all angry and and pride in the way, because uh he he was again, he was thinking of all all the other business motives within this.
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And so then Elisha sends word and says, Well, you mad.
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What's going on?
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Just send them to me.
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He came to see me anyway.
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And so just send them to my there's always that tension between the the kings of Israel, who are their their priorities and their, you know, their priorities are are political, it's about power, it's about the military, it's about the economy, and then they there's the prophets, and their priority is the Lord and the word of the Lord.
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And so that tension is just always going back and forth.
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Yeah, and then what we see later on is that he goes to see Elisha, and Elisha tells him, do this and go into the Joyum River and go down there seven times.
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Seven times.
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Seven times, right?
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And then he's and then he has the problem.
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But but here's the thing, I love that uh Elisha didn't even leave his breakfast table.
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Yeah, he was true.
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He didn't even leave his breakfast table.
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He just said, This is easy.
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This is which again, that's one of those things of through the power of God, it's it's not complicated, yeah, is it?
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Yeah, like the the humility before God, it's not a complicated thing.
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We like to make following Jesus like bow bow bow, all these things.
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ABC, you do this, you do this, you do this.
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And he was that.
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Yep.
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No, no, no, no, no.
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Elisha brought it back down.
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He again, I love the idea of he didn't leave the breakfast table, he was like, ah, just go tell him seven times, jump in the Jordan, it's gonna be great.
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And yeah, he did not like that.
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And the kid didn't like it.
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Something I was saying at the church yesterday is that the kid didn't like it because he had real expectations of how he wanted to be healed.
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Yeah.
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He had an idea, and sometimes we act that way.
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I don't know how it translated over in Spanish, but in English he said, I thought he would come out and wave his hand, and I just saw like it, it's like this in a movie, like some kind of magician or something in his mind.
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Yeah, this little thing.
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We're just gonna wave his hand and now you heal.
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One, two, three.
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Yeah, pow.
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You know, and uh yeah, be healed.
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And Elasha was like, no, just have faith.
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Yeah.
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Have faith, go to the Jordan seven times at biblical time, which again, the Jordan River, that very same river that Jesus himself was baptized in.
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Go and be baptized, and you'll see how good God is.
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And then what did he respond back?
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What?
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He's like, I got rivers at home.
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Why do I have to use these rivers?
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Damascus river.
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Right.
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Uh you know, my waters at home.
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How dare I use these waters?
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And I keep saying, like, when we go with God with expectations, he's not going to do anything.
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We we put God in a box, and God does not belong in the box.
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God does beyond our expectations.
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And we don't see the blessing because we keep putting God in a box.
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But it's this stripping away of pride, it's this true sacrifice of self.
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Yeah.
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And it was this moment for him where he was having to choose, and thankfully he had some wise people around him.
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But for us to follow God, we must daily sacrifice our pride.
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Admit that maybe it's called Rhesus and not Rhes.
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That maybe my waters aren't as clean as his waters.
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He doesn't care about my comfort, he cares about the kingdom.
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And here's the thing with that, right?
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Like, we need to be willing to listen.
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Right?
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And also we gotta be careful who we listen.
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Because sometimes people will fuel a pride, or sometimes people will take us to the Lord.
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And this group of men, we're his servants as well.
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Right.
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Shout out again to his servants, again, another power structure.
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Where they're like, Well, ca is that really such a big deal to go to the Jordan?
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Like, I think if they have your leprosy.
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But what's also like we're giving these guys credit too.
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Yeah.
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But that's true.
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This young girl who who was spoken into this.
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His other servants, his traveling companions who were with him spoke into him.
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But there's there was also within this, I mean, this was a powerful man, and maybe it was his infliction of leprosy to realize I'm not as powerful as maybe I think I am.
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But even throughout this entire narrative, yeah, his pride was bucking in him.
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It bucks in me too sometimes, you know.
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And so this pride was bucking in him.
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But Elisha didn't even come out of the house.
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What is this?
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Things like that.
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What?
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I want to go swim in my pool, not your pool, you know, things like that.
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But time and again he listened.
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Yeah.
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And every time he's saying, Oh, my bad.
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My bad, let me jump in, seven times.
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Let me let me do this.
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And so he was willing to acknowledge maybe I'm wrong.
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Yeah.
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Maybe there is another way.
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Maybe there is a better way.
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You know, when we find ourselves just bucking in pride, we gotta check ourselves.
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Yeah.
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Check yourself before you wreck yourself.
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There you go.
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Is that the title of the story?
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Which is something interesting, right?
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That that's what probably makes him a good leader.
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He was willing to listen.
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He was willing to listen.
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That's why maybe God gave him so many victories.
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There's this innate humility within him.
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He probably had him already.
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And for those servants to speak to him in that way, they knew they were safe to speak to him.
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There was trust.
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He could have said, you know, you're gone, off with your head.
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Yeah, you can't.
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You're gone.
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But no, he listened.
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They had a trust, that confidence to talk to this man and this guy, uh Naaman or Naman in Spanish.
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Uh he listened, he did his thing, and then God does the miracle, but the miracle don't stop by him being healed.
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It continues by him taking.
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I want to take this and remember that there's no other God than your God.
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Yeah.
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He goes all in.
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All in.
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And even asked for forgiveness in advance.
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I love that part.
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You know, we didn't get into that part uh in the chapter yesterday because I ended on the born-again piece.
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We'll we'll get there in a second.
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But yeah, I love, yeah, he goes, he says, Hey, I know it's gonna be a rocky road ahead.
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That's that's kind of a can of worms on the sanctification topic.
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The way he asks him, like, can I go in?
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Because my master is gonna keep worshiping his gods, and I've got to I've gotta go with it.
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I've got to go with it.
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I've got to be with him.
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You know, and so there there's a lot there.
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But that'll be in part two of this episode.
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But you know, those those things are where we just simply see the grace of God.
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We want to limit the grace of God.
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Yeah.
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We we want to throttle.
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We want to give it freely to ourselves and throttle it down towards others.
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But his grace is just full blast.
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And I think this is one of those moments where it was full blast.
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So you go back to jumping in the water seven times.
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It says after those seven times, he came out, he came out, and his skin was youthful and young, smooth as a baby's butt chick.
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But chick.
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All right.
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I wasn't sure where we were going.
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Smooth as a baby's butt chick.
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That's it, that's it.
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That's his name now.
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The title.
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So it's hard for me to now say the words born again after that.
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But uh this moment simply points to Jesus.
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Naaman, had he asked for forgiveness in this moment?
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No.
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No.
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Had he cried out the name of God in this moment?
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No.
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No.
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God just said, you know what?
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Just I'm gonna show you how good I am.
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He did nothing.
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He had found these other victories previously, but even in that, he didn't know it was through the Lord.
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He didn't know it was through Yahweh.
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He was just like, Wow, check this out.
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He's kind of uh, you know, awkwardly coming to find out, like, okay, well, who is this prophet in Israel, and who is this God that they serve?
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And I think we see a lot of people coming into church that way.
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It's yeah, it's a little awkward, and they're not sure what they're doing.
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Who is this?
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What is this?
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But we have to remember, even for us, that while we were still sinners, Yahya.
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Yeah, he still has to he chose to go to the cross for us.
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I had not always this wise.
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Yeah, I which you know.
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We want us to go with God so He can do the thing first, but God already did the thing first.
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He's already doing it.
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He says, just trust in me.
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Yeah, just trust in me.
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I mean, Jesus already died.
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Yeah, strip away your pride, humble yourself, and nicodemus, be born again and be obedient.
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Be obedient each and every day.
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And each and every day we have the opportunity to do that.
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Because I promise you, when I wake up tomorrow, pride's gonna try and creep in.
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Yeah, but you know, the enemy is prowling around trying to devour us, and so tomorrow morning I can choose.
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Am I gonna be prideful, Cameron?
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And say, God, I got this.
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Or will I choose to be born again in this in this beauty and grace of of Christ?
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Yeah, which that's what baptism repres represents.
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That's what we're saying to the church is that we die ourselves and we come back as a new creation, a new living thing.
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And for those who are not be having been baptized yet, maybe this is a chance.
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And a moment to talk about those things.
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I love it.
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I'm talking about someone tomorrow with baptism.
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I got to talk with one of our middle school girls last week about baptism.
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So man, we get to be.
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I'm gonna start dunking them seven times.
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Yes, no.
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Seven times.
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But but yeah, uh if if someone's listening and they have not been baptized and they're wondering, where am I landing?
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Am I am I prideful doing this myself?
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Or do I need to strip those things away and just humbly bow before God and say, You you died on the cross for my sins, let me follow you, Father.
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Amen.
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Amen.
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Let's, you know, Nicodemus, be born again from above each and every day.
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Yeah.
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Let's go.
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Thank you, Yayo.
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Thank you.
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And for more information about our ministries or to watch our sermons, please visit chancellorbaptist.org.
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All right, yayo.
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Serious question here.
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Do you call it Reese's?
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Or Reese's I call it Reese's.
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Reese's Reese's The Chocolate?
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Yeah.
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Yeah, the delicious candy bar.
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What do you mean?
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Reese's.
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Yeah.
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It became a hot topic around the bonfire there in our our youth group last night.
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Because Mr.
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Walker over there.
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Well, a lot of people, Kim, my wife Kimberly does this all the time.
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She says Reese's.
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And a lot of people do that.
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In fact, you know, Halloween is also people call it Reformation Day and all that.
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Yeah.
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And a bunch of people thinking they were being hilarious were like posting memes of Martin Luther putting 95 Reese on a turtle.
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And I'm like, it's Reese's.
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Reese's, yeah.
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Or singular Reese's.
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Reese's.
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Yeah, I told him it's like It's a guy named Reese, and he came up with a peanut butter cup.
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Reese's.
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It's Reese's peanut butter cup.
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So two things.
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One, it sounds like you're ordering a Reese's down south.
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I want one of them that are Reese's.
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But then I did actually look up one of the old commercials.
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And it was Reese's.
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My wife says Reese's PCs.
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I'm like, it's Reese's pieces.
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Pieces.
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Well, first off, those came secondary.
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But anyways, we can't spend the podcast arguing about I'm sticking to Reese's just because, you know, I'm going to be prideful about this.
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Yeah, be prideful.
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I mean, you know, our whole chapter.
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I had to practice to say Reese's for like my whole life because of being bilingual.
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Oh well, see I'm Reese's.
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I'm barely uh unilingual.
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And I'm gonna have to work on this.
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But our chapter yesterday.
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Second Kings chapter five was all about pride and humility with Naaman Elisha, one of my uh favorite, most favorite biblical characters, uh, this unnamed uh little girl who was able to speak truth.
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And so I'll just I'll just humbly move forward and say agree to disagree, even though I heard on the commercial it's Rhesus.
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So biblical now.
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Uh we we jump into these things.
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And it starts with Naaman.
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Naaman was uh an army commander in the Syrian army who was an enemy of the people of God.
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Yeah.
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And God gave him victories.
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God gave him victories.
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Verse one.
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He was like, hey, there's this guy, an army commander who's really high up, right next to the king, and he's this enemy who God gave victory to.
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How do we explain that, right?
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Like God's gonna do what God's gonna do.
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Amen on that.
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That's why I was telling the church, guy's going to do what guy is going to do.
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My mom used to say this to me I'm your mom, and I go tell you what to do.
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Right.
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Our responsibility to God is to say, yes, Lord.
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Yes, Lord.
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Yes, Lord.
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And uh that that's one of those that's that's wild because you know, whether it's our enemy or we claim we think, oh, they're the enemy of the Lord, which you know, some of those are not for us to judge.
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He's the judge, but we think those who are who are enemy of the church, enemy of the cross, enemy of the kingdom.
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What if God uses them for his glory?
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I mean, just think about this story that will flesh out then through Naaman, but it began when God was using him before he ever acknowledged God.
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That's why I tell people God is working behind the scenes 24-7.
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Yeah.
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We may not see the picture, we don't, we may not understand it, but he's working behind the scenes.
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We saw that with Egypt.
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Yeah.
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I mean, God used Egypt, right?
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I mean, just think of it.
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Yeah, he used Fabro and his hardened heart to do this.
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You know, we've seen it all through the book of Kings with uh last week with Elisha, all those moments behind closed doors.
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And so once again, we find this incredible narrative within kings of God working behind the scenes, because God's you are not going to derail God.
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No, period.
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You're not.
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And God is always working, he has a plan, and we just have to say yes, Lord, to his plan.
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And we may disagree with it, we may not like his plan, but hey, guys going to be God.
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Yeah.
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Well, and that's why Jesus teaches us to love and pray for our enemies.
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Yeah.
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To pray for our enemy.
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Because what if through that prayer our Lord answers those moments and works behind the scenes, such as he did for Naaman?
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And we don't know.
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We don't know if Elisha, we don't know if anybody was specifically praying for for Naaman or for the Syrian army.
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They were probably praying, Lord, keep them out of here.
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Keep them away.
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He was victory.
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Yeah.
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Well, and here's the other thing.
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You know, we didn't I didn't talk about this yesterday, but in the verse one, when it's just talking about God doing all these things, it ended with, and he uh had leprosy.
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He was a man as a leper.
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And so on the outside, people would say, Oh, that's God smiting him.
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That's God giving him this thing because, oh, what a sinful man.
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Well, no, it was this ailment that God ultimately winds up using to show his glory and how good he is.
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And so it's not like this curse upon him.
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Just like when uh where was it within the gospels?
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And they were like, Well, when the disciples are asking him, Jesus.
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Yeah, what are the sins or his parents?
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And he was like, No, that's not what this is.
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This is a fallen, broken world we live in.
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But God's saying, Look how good I am.
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Yeah.
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And here's the uh when I talk about that story, one of the things I tell people is that how when under God will use you so he can be glory.
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So that gets us then to Yeah, that's and it takes some humility to to to understand that when when it's your quote unquote enemy.
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It's coming to you.
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But somehow they are finding blessing that you think that should be mine.
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Yes.
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But again, that that's that pride creeping in.
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Anytime it's about me and mine, it's pride.
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Yeah.
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But you were talking about, you know, God using these people then for his glory.
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I'll I'll you know, verse number two, and I'm I'm just gonna read it here now.
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Uh the Syrians, on one of their raids, as they had attacked, as they had crossed over uh borders and enemy lines, on one of their raids had carried off a little girl from the land of Israel, and she worked in the service of Naaman's wife.
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She was a slave girl.
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Yeah.
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We don't know her age, we don't know her name, but as a little girl, she was stolen from her family and from her home.
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I mean, just crushing, first off, to think about that.
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Uh uh You know, I've got a little girl at home and I would do anything, you know, to protect her.
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Um just imagine this little girl then was carted off to enemy territory and became a servant in this moment.
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And what a grudge she could have held.
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I mean, she could she had every excuse to say guy is not real.
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Yeah.
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She had every excuse to say guy is not there.
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She had every excuse to say, look what happened to me.
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That can happen to you.
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Guy is not real.
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Yeah.
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Oh, and we find that time and again.
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I love that you brought that up because you know, time and again we do find people when they bump into their personal hurt.
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Again, we live in a fallen world, a broken world.
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Other people's sins overlap into our life.
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And so when other people's sins overlap into our life, and we find pain and and hurt, it's easy then to say, God, you're not there.
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Or you don't care about me.
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You're not listening.
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Here I am, this this pain.
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You know, I was thinking in these moments.
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I don't think God causes divorces.
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That doesn't please him.
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But can he use those things for his glory?
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Can he redeem the most broken?
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Yeah, you can.
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Yeah.
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Does God cause children to die way too young?
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I don't think he causes that.
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We live in a broken and sinful world where there's disease and hurt and and and brokenness and bad people sometimes, if we're honest.
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But can God redeem that and restore that and use it for his glory and his honor?
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Yeah.
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Yeah, he can.
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Absolutely.
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And so that's this little girl who I who I I love because we find this girl totally unnamed.
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How many times in scripture do you bump into people who are unnamed and in this world unnamed, but change the world for the sake of the kingdom?
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And so once again, this this little girl became this mighty prophet in this moment because she said, Hey guys, I know this guy who, if if Naaman were over there, he would be able to heal them in the name of God.
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Yeah.
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And so she went forward courageously, didn't hold a grudge, but humbly moved forward and spoke the truth to this man of great authority.
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Yeah, I was the she also could have, she had, she really had the kind of like you said in in the message yesterday, you she had a real opportunity to also become like a a rebel about it and to be indignant about like, well, this man is one of the enemies of God.
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He's a heathen, he's not, you know, and instead of instead of taking that sort of like I need to that sort of Peter, I need to get my sword out and attack this guy who's coming after Jesus, she gave the invitation.
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I always think people don't people won't see the the the badness of their sin until they can understand the goodness of God.
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And she I love that invitation that she gave.
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Like, Master, if you could only see this prophet that we have, he'll make you whole.
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And I love that invitation.
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To me, that's such a great example of how how do you share Jesus with people.
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Yeah, and here's one of the things with with this with this young lady, um, with she believed that he can save him, that he could cure him.
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Right.
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No doubt.
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It was oh, if only if he were there, if only he goes there, he can do it.
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He can do it.
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The man of God, through the power of God, the power of God, period, can do this thing.
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And this is this girl who's in enslaved, who's in maybe brokenness, who's in this dark season of her life, and she's still trusting that God can cure this man.
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And just think though, uh, I've tried to place myself in her shoes.
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And if I'm honest, Yayo, in my flesh, I wonder where where would I land?
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Would I say, I hope this leprosy hurts him.
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He's hurt me, he's busted my family apart, he's stolen me from from my land, from my home, from my stuff.
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In my flesh, I I hope I wouldn't land there, but let's be honest, we could easily all land there.
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But she went the high road, the holy road, and she moved forward.
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She's an example of what humility is.
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Yes.
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Yeah.
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When someone hurts you, you don't try to hurt them back.
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You love them, you offer grace, hope, point them to healing.
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If only, she says, if only she only.
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You know, and then we see the king of Israel.
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We have prideful attitude, we have pride attitude saying, Who why is this man coming to me?
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Who am I God?
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Yeah.
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But then it tears his tears his his cloak, and then he gets um really angry because what he saw as uh a political move, they both missed it.
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Yeah, because it was a spiritual move.
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Yeah, but they just didn't know.
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They didn't know what they didn't know.
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Now people thought, oh, the king of Israel, he should know these things.
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Yeah.
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He didn't.
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He didn't.
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And Ham, as king of Israel, he should know who Elisha is.
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Right.
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Everything the prophet stands for, he even took the time, but hey, let's go check out.
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Let's yeah, let's go talk to the man of God, let's spend some time in prayer about this, let's see what's going on.
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The girl say, I know.
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He said, Oh, in other words, I don't know.
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Yeah, he's he he hadn't seen it.
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He hadn't he hadn't uh fully acknowledged who God is or what God was doing in that day or in that land.
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Uh spiritual blindness.
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Yeah.
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Spiritual blindness is what that absolutely is.
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He's missing an opportunity there.
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Absolutely.
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Uh I addressed a little bit yesterday the idea of spiritual blindness because I think that is so real, and it's not something that's just left behind in biblical times.
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We find ourselves and many of those around us spiritually blind today.
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Folks who just won't see or acknowledge what God is doing, or to say Jesus at best was a historical character, but not Lord, that's it's spiritual blindness.
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It's those what what Saul who became Paul had those the the the scales upon his eyes, and he was literally blind.
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And when he was baptized, when he s went all in on Jesus, when he was baptized, those scales fell off of his eyes, and he could see it's this visibility of the spiritual realm that there is so much more happening around us than you and I give credit to.
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Yeah.
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And that's why uh Paul says the battle is a spiritual battle.
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I mean, and and we have to be spiritually prepared and ready.
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And how do you get spiritually ready and prepared?
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By being on scripture.
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Yes.
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By reading the word, by praying, by fellowshipping, by talking to God.
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But sometimes we spend too much in the in the realm of what's happening to me, and in that realm of the flesh, that we ignore the spiritual aspect.
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And we need to be ready, just like this young lady, this prophet.
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She was ready.
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She had a a purpose and a plan, and she was ready.
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Yeah.
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In the middle of being enslaved, she had a purpose and a plan, and she was ready.
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I used the quote from Craig Rochelle.
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Because you would sent me a sermon, what?
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That was last Sunday, I think you would send me a sermon, and so so I I stole a snippet.
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Because if you're gonna steal a quote, steal it from Craig Rochelle, you know, and so give him credit.
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But he said, he said just last week, he said, what what you see is natural through these eyes.
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What you see is natural, but even around us now, there is a supernatural world we do not see with natural eyes.
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What the king thought was natural, political, financial, and motive, it was all spiritual.
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But isn't that everything?
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Yeah.
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Everything.
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Life is about God, life is about the kingdom.
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And so shouldn't we be weeding a lot of that out of our thought process?
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And with all things, it comes back to scripture.
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With all things, it comes back to the kingdom.
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Yeah, and the way Craig Shaw says this later is like the way you fight supernatural things is by being spiritually prepared for those supernatural things.
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Yes.
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You know, by spending time in prayer, by spending time on scripture, by worshiping, by preparing yourself spiritually, right?
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When Jesus was in the wilderness and he was tempted three times, the the enemy, the devil, that supernatural battles realm of evil in that, the devil, Hasitan, the accuser.
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We could just go through all of these names that he has given throughout scripture, but when he tempted Jesus, what did Jesus do?
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Took it to Scripture.
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Took it to Scripture.
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Are we ready to take it to Scripture?
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You know, are we ready to face this battle of reality, of this supernatural realm that there is evil out there?
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The enemy is prowling like a lion, we find in First Peter.
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Trying to devour.
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Trying to devour.
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And are we ready for that?
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Are we ready?
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Because we have a lot of spiritually weak Christians who are getting gobbled up.
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Yeah.
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Left and right.
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And we need to be ready for it.
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We need to stay watch.
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Stay alert at all times.
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Right.
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And again, we we go back to the source is by being with God with His Word.
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And how you're going to prepare yourself spiritually.
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Because we need to.
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I think another thing too is to just work on practicing humility.
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And I I think the s I think the straightest line to to a practical way to practice humility is to serve in some way.
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I think what you know, whether it's teaching the kids in your church or you know, handing out food in the food industry, whate whatever it is, like serving in some way, I think it it's humbling because it's it's you uh taking a chunk of your time and a chunk of your energy and giving it up to God.
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And that girl in that story she uh she gives of herself in a way that her that humility, I always say humility is really powerful because the the power dynamic gets completely flipped.
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She has compassion of the on this guy who's her master.
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And she, you know, she's a servant, I guess you know, we we could say a slave in his household.
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And she's giving him compassion when he's the one with all the power and the authority.
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And I I just I find that so compelling about that story.
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But that's that upside-down kingdom that we live in in the grace of of Jesus.
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Yeah.
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The first be last and the last be first.
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You know, and so yeah, no, she exemplified that, which again, she is just one of these power players within scripture for me.
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You know, one of that great cloud of witnesses that that this little unnamed girl teaches us so much.
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And it's just like a sentence or two.
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Yeah, just one verse.
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Barely mentioned, yeah.
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Yeah.
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But then you see the ripple effect of what happened.
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So they went to, you know, Naaman went to the king, and the king was like, I don't know what's going on here.
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You know, he's all angry and and pride in the way, because uh he he was again, he was thinking of all all the other business motives within this.
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And so then Elisha sends word and says, Well, you mad.
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What's going on?
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Just send them to me.
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He came to see me anyway.
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And so just send them to my there's always that tension between the the kings of Israel, who are their their priorities and their, you know, their priorities are are political, it's about power, it's about the military, it's about the economy, and then they there's the prophets, and their priority is the Lord and the word of the Lord.
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And so that tension is just always going back and forth.
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Yeah, and then what we see later on is that he goes to see Elisha, and Elisha tells him, do this and go into the Joyum River and go down there seven times.
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Seven times.
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Seven times, right?
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And then he's and then he has the problem.
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But but here's the thing, I love that uh Elisha didn't even leave his breakfast table.
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Yeah, he was true.
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He didn't even leave his breakfast table.
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He just said, This is easy.
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This is which again, that's one of those things of through the power of God, it's it's not complicated, yeah, is it?
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Yeah, like the the humility before God, it's not a complicated thing.
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We like to make following Jesus like bow bow bow, all these things.
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ABC, you do this, you do this, you do this.
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And he was that.
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Yep.
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No, no, no, no, no.
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Elisha brought it back down.
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He again, I love the idea of he didn't leave the breakfast table, he was like, ah, just go tell him seven times, jump in the Jordan, it's gonna be great.
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And yeah, he did not like that.
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And the kid didn't like it.
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Something I was saying at the church yesterday is that the kid didn't like it because he had real expectations of how he wanted to be healed.
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Yeah.
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He had an idea, and sometimes we act that way.
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I don't know how it translated over in Spanish, but in English he said, I thought he would come out and wave his hand, and I just saw like it, it's like this in a movie, like some kind of magician or something in his mind.
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Yeah, this little thing.
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We're just gonna wave his hand and now you heal.
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One, two, three.
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Yeah, pow.
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You know, and uh yeah, be healed.
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And Elasha was like, no, just have faith.
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Yeah.
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Have faith, go to the Jordan seven times at biblical time, which again, the Jordan River, that very same river that Jesus himself was baptized in.
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Go and be baptized, and you'll see how good God is.
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And then what did he respond back?
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What?
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He's like, I got rivers at home.
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Why do I have to use these rivers?
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Damascus river.
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Right.
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Uh you know, my waters at home.
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How dare I use these waters?
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And I keep saying, like, when we go with God with expectations, he's not going to do anything.
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We we put God in a box, and God does not belong in the box.
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God does beyond our expectations.
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And we don't see the blessing because we keep putting God in a box.
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But it's this stripping away of pride, it's this true sacrifice of self.
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Yeah.
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And it was this moment for him where he was having to choose, and thankfully he had some wise people around him.
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But for us to follow God, we must daily sacrifice our pride.
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Admit that maybe it's called Rhesus and not Rhes.
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That maybe my waters aren't as clean as his waters.
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He doesn't care about my comfort, he cares about the kingdom.
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And here's the thing with that, right?
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Like, we need to be willing to listen.
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Right?
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And also we gotta be careful who we listen.
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Because sometimes people will fuel a pride, or sometimes people will take us to the Lord.
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And this group of men, we're his servants as well.
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Right.
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Shout out again to his servants, again, another power structure.
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Where they're like, Well, ca is that really such a big deal to go to the Jordan?
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Like, I think if they have your leprosy.
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But what's also like we're giving these guys credit too.
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Yeah.
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But that's true.
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This young girl who who was spoken into this.
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His other servants, his traveling companions who were with him spoke into him.
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But there's there was also within this, I mean, this was a powerful man, and maybe it was his infliction of leprosy to realize I'm not as powerful as maybe I think I am.
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But even throughout this entire narrative, yeah, his pride was bucking in him.
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It bucks in me too sometimes, you know.
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And so this pride was bucking in him.
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But Elisha didn't even come out of the house.
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What is this?
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Things like that.
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What?
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I want to go swim in my pool, not your pool, you know, things like that.
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But time and again he listened.
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Yeah.
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And every time he's saying, Oh, my bad.
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My bad, let me jump in, seven times.
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Let me let me do this.
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And so he was willing to acknowledge maybe I'm wrong.
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Yeah.
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Maybe there is another way.
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Maybe there is a better way.
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You know, when we find ourselves just bucking in pride, we gotta check ourselves.
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Yeah.
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Check yourself before you wreck yourself.
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There you go.
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Is that the title of the story?
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Which is something interesting, right?
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That that's what probably makes him a good leader.
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He was willing to listen.
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He was willing to listen.
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That's why maybe God gave him so many victories.
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There's this innate humility within him.
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He probably had him already.
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And for those servants to speak to him in that way, they knew they were safe to speak to him.
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There was trust.
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He could have said, you know, you're gone, off with your head.
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Yeah, you can't.
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You're gone.
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But no, he listened.
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They had a trust, that confidence to talk to this man and this guy, uh Naaman or Naman in Spanish.
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Uh he listened, he did his thing, and then God does the miracle, but the miracle don't stop by him being healed.
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It continues by him taking.
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I want to take this and remember that there's no other God than your God.
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Yeah.
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He goes all in.
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All in.
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And even asked for forgiveness in advance.
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I love that part.
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You know, we didn't get into that part uh in the chapter yesterday because I ended on the born-again piece.
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We'll we'll get there in a second.
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But yeah, I love, yeah, he goes, he says, Hey, I know it's gonna be a rocky road ahead.
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That's that's kind of a can of worms on the sanctification topic.
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The way he asks him, like, can I go in?
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Because my master is gonna keep worshiping his gods, and I've got to I've gotta go with it.
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I've got to go with it.
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I've got to be with him.
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You know, and so there there's a lot there.
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But that'll be in part two of this episode.
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But you know, those those things are where we just simply see the grace of God.
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We want to limit the grace of God.
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Yeah.
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We we want to throttle.
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We want to give it freely to ourselves and throttle it down towards others.
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But his grace is just full blast.
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And I think this is one of those moments where it was full blast.
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So you go back to jumping in the water seven times.
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It says after those seven times, he came out, he came out, and his skin was youthful and young, smooth as a baby's butt chick.
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But chick.
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All right.
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I wasn't sure where we were going.
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Smooth as a baby's butt chick.
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That's it, that's it.
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That's his name now.
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The title.
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So it's hard for me to now say the words born again after that.
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But uh this moment simply points to Jesus.
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Naaman, had he asked for forgiveness in this moment?
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No.
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No.
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Had he cried out the name of God in this moment?
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No.
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No.
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God just said, you know what?
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Just I'm gonna show you how good I am.
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He did nothing.
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He had found these other victories previously, but even in that, he didn't know it was through the Lord.
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He didn't know it was through Yahweh.
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He was just like, Wow, check this out.
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He's kind of uh, you know, awkwardly coming to find out, like, okay, well, who is this prophet in Israel, and who is this God that they serve?
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And I think we see a lot of people coming into church that way.
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It's yeah, it's a little awkward, and they're not sure what they're doing.
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Who is this?
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What is this?
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But we have to remember, even for us, that while we were still sinners, Yahya.
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Yeah, he still has to he chose to go to the cross for us.
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I had not always this wise.
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Yeah, I which you know.
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We want us to go with God so He can do the thing first, but God already did the thing first.
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He's already doing it.
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He says, just trust in me.
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Yeah, just trust in me.
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I mean, Jesus already died.
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Yeah, strip away your pride, humble yourself, and nicodemus, be born again and be obedient.
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Be obedient each and every day.
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And each and every day we have the opportunity to do that.
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Because I promise you, when I wake up tomorrow, pride's gonna try and creep in.
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Yeah, but you know, the enemy is prowling around trying to devour us, and so tomorrow morning I can choose.
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Am I gonna be prideful, Cameron?
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And say, God, I got this.
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Or will I choose to be born again in this in this beauty and grace of of Christ?
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Yeah, which that's what baptism repres represents.
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That's what we're saying to the church is that we die ourselves and we come back as a new creation, a new living thing.
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And for those who are not be having been baptized yet, maybe this is a chance.
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And a moment to talk about those things.
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I love it.
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I'm talking about someone tomorrow with baptism.
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I got to talk with one of our middle school girls last week about baptism.
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So man, we get to be.
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I'm gonna start dunking them seven times.
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Yes, no.
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Seven times.
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But but yeah, uh if if someone's listening and they have not been baptized and they're wondering, where am I landing?
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Am I am I prideful doing this myself?
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Or do I need to strip those things away and just humbly bow before God and say, You you died on the cross for my sins, let me follow you, Father.
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Amen.
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Amen.
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Let's, you know, Nicodemus, be born again from above each and every day.
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Yeah.
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Let's go.
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Thank you, Yayo.
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Thank you.
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