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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 share today from the same subject that I began last week about functional faith.

About functional faith.

Now, judging from your response to my announcement of Part 2 of the teaching, perhaps you

don't remember my sermon.

Let's review. We were saying that faith doesn't always guarantee the outcome, but it establishes the outlook. All things are possible

to him who believes. And so we want to take some time today in a very famous passage of

scripture. And I would ask, if you don't mind, just stand while I read

the scripture. And then the seat is yours. Somebody tithed good money so you can have that seat.

So I want you to use it. And we will give you that opportunity today. But just stand for one more

moment. And I'm going to be reading this scripture from the King James version of the Bible.

Because it's the one that I memorized it in, now I don't still have it memorized, but at one time I did, you can believe that or not.

It's absolutely true.

But we're just going to read like a little sandwich real quick from Hebrews 11 and Hebrews

12. And some of you who are really churchy, you're going to be tempted that while I'm reading

this scripture to start getting excited, don't do it, okay? Just let me read my scripture.

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