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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.

I want to tell you something that happened to me last summer. I have a friend who lives in another country, Kin Costa. He's originally from South Africa. He resides now in London, England.

He travels the world. He comes to see me once a year. He just turned 70.

He's a good man. He has a book out called Joseph of Arimathea. Free plug for my friend.

Because he gave me the scripture that I want to use to frame our message, not necessarily to preach the scripture, but to frame the message. And I figured I owed him a book plug. So

check it out on Amazon, Ken Costa, Joseph of Arimathea.

Now that that's out the way, when he comes to see me, he will usually bring three or four

scriptures.

And we'll read the scriptures together.

He jots them down.

This is the paper that he brought me in July when he came to

see me after my break, family break, this summer. And he brought me these scriptures. We sat

on the porch and we looked at the scriptures. And the first one was Exodus 1414. And we read it

together. And he said, that's the the wrong one and so we moved on.

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