Hey, this is Stephen Fertig. 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 as moving in your life. Enjoy the message.

I thought I wanted to ask you before we sit down.

All right. I've been thinking about this for a month.

Now I haven't lost anywhere yet. About one pound. If you were going to preach right now,

let's say a Sunday morning at the Potter's house, and Pastor Joel was scheduled to preach.

Where's Pastor Joel? But he got injured doing 500 pound bench press. And they say,

Bishop, Pastor Joel's not preaching. And the praise team is finished, and Marcus has

dragged out the music as long as he can. And you've got to preach. What text do you preach?

I think I know, but I want to see if I'm right. What text do you preach?

You don't know. You don't know.

For God said she had appointed me another seed in the stead of Cain who was able to

slu. My subject is, you'll do it again.

No, I didn't guess that one. Have a seed. Have a seed, everybody. So that's in the Bible,

that verse. I think I've ever listened to Bishop Jake's preaching. You're like, does he

have the same Bible that I have? I was going to tell you this. So my oldest Elijah, the

other day, can I tell him? We're on the porch. And I quoted Bishop, quote to him. And I said,

you know, well, Bishop always says, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, one of these

little parables that you spit out like they're, you know, just this beautiful, beautiful,

beautifully crafted thing, right? And he goes, oh, that's Bishop? I always thought that

was a Bible verse. I'm saying to you is, you are so loved in the Ferdicome that my kids

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