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Guaranteed Human.

Hey, this is Stephen Ferdick.

I'm the pastor of Elevation Church, and this is our podcast.

I wanted to thank you for joining us today.

Hope this inspires you.

Hope it builds your faith.

Hope it gives you perspective to see God is moving in your life.

Enjoy the message.

Look, I want to preach about joy today, and I want to get there from a story and

then share several scriptures with you. Can I tell you story?

I just got a new car last year. I drove a Nissan Maximum for 10 years before I bought

this new car. I loved my Nissan Maxima. My car before this Nissan

Maxima was a Nissan Maxima. That's how much I liked my Nissan Maxima. I maximized

the maxima, and it was very good to me. Only thing that I ever remember happening other

than the time it cut off in an intersection was that one

day I was driving down the road a few years ago and my stereo system started doing strange

things.

It started skipping around to different tracks without me telling it to.

The volume kept increasing and decreasing. And so then I would put it back on the song I wanted to listen to, and I would turn down the volume or turn up the volume, depending on it, would go both ways without me telling it to, without me turning the knob.

And it happened for about 10, 15 minutes straight one day that I was driving,

and it seemed like my speakers, my car had a mind of their own. So I thought maybe my maxima

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