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00:52 - Let's go to 2 Corinthians chapter number three,
00:57 beginning at verse number 18.
00:58 I'm gonna read one verse
01:00 and I'm gonna teach part of this today.
01:04 And then I'll finish teaching the rest of this
01:06 on Wednesday night.
01:07 I think you're gonna want all of the points.
01:11 2 Corinthians chapter three, verse 18 says,
01:14 "But we with unveiled face, beholding as in a mirror,
01:18 "the glory of the Lord are being transformed
01:21 "into the same image from glory to glory,
01:26 "just as by the spirit of the Lord."
01:29 I wanna pause there and I wanna talk from this subject
01:31 in our time together, family, eight steps to the next level.
01:36 Clap your hands if you're ready for God's word.
01:40 So I wanna ease into this introduction
01:45 with this axiom today, family.
01:46 This is for my note takers.
01:48 Our life is lived in seasons, but it's lived on levels.
01:53 Our life is lived in seasons, but it's lived on levels.
02:02 Ecclesiastes three frames it this way.
02:07 The writer says, "To everything there is a season."
02:12 Is that right?
02:14 And a time to every purpose under heaven.
02:18 There are young seasons, there are old seasons.
02:21 There are seasons where you begin,
02:23 there are seasons where you end.
02:24 There are seasons when you speak.
02:26 There are seasons when you're quiet.
02:28 There are seasons when you sow.
02:30 There are seasons when you reap.
02:32 There are seasons when you help others.
02:33 And there are seasons when others help you.
02:35 There are seasons when you raise
02:37 and take care of your children.
02:38 And there'll be a season where your children
02:41 take care of you.
02:42 We all live in, live through, navigate through seasons.
02:48 And some of these seasons are uncontrollable and inevitable.
02:53 If you keep on living, you're gonna get older.
03:01 Some seasons are uncontrollable and inevitable.
03:09 However, even though we can't control our seasons,
03:13 not all of them, we can determine our levels.
03:17 When I say levels, I'm referring to degrees
03:22 of personal growth and spiritual growth
03:24 and development and achievement that we have
03:28 in the season that we're in.
03:30 I can't always determine the season that I'm in,
03:33 but I can determine who I am and how I am in that season.
03:38 Let me say it again.
03:40 I cannot always determine the season that I'm in,
03:44 but I can determine who I am and how I am in that season.
03:49 I can decide in that season who I'm going to be spiritually.
03:56 I can decide in that season who I'm going to be emotionally.
04:00 And while certain seasons come and go,
04:03 we have been given response ability to respond
04:08 to the seasons that we're in.
04:11 I may not be able to go into a new season when I get ready,
04:16 but I can make a decision to go to a new level
04:21 when I get ready.
04:22 And I want to know, am I talking to anybody in this room
04:26 and am I talking to anybody online
04:29 that senses it's time for a new level?
04:33 Okay.
04:35 PD, how do I know if it's time for a new level?
04:39 Here it is.
04:40 Here's the indication that it's time for elevation.
04:44 Frustration.
04:45 Did you hear what I just said?
04:50 Frustration is the indication that an adjustment
04:54 needs to be made regarding the level that you're on.
04:58 Even though frustration is agitating, it is also educating.
05:03 God uses it.
05:05 And if you and I were to say, God, take away my frustration,
05:09 what we actually would be saying is,
05:12 God, take away my ability to experience elevation.
05:17 'Cause you can't experience elevation
05:19 without experiencing some frustration.
05:21 God will make you frustrated on the level you're on
05:26 so that you can begin to passionately pursue
05:29 the level you're supposed to be.
05:32 And I believe I'm talking to some people
05:34 that have come to the conclusion,
05:36 God must be getting ready to send me
05:39 to a whole different level
05:41 because of the degree of frustration and agitation
05:46 I'm dealing with.
05:47 Y'all aren't talking to me.
05:48 I want somebody to agitate the enemy
05:51 because he wants your frustration
05:55 to infect your determination
05:57 so you end up suffering with stagnation.
06:00 But I want you to give the devil agitation
06:04 by giving God appreciation
06:07 for the elevation you hadn't even had yet.
06:10 God, you must be getting ready
06:13 to do something significant in my life
06:16 because I am no longer satisfied
06:18 with what I used to be okay with.
06:21 I am no longer okay with that which I used to settle for.
06:25 God is adjusting your appetite
06:28 and the adjustment of your appetite
06:31 is a prophetic picture
06:33 that you're getting ready to make an exit from this level.
06:36 Y'all aren't talking to me.
06:38 The things that used to satisfy you
06:41 don't satisfy you anymore.
06:43 And now you got a hunger for more
06:46 that you didn't use to have.
06:47 And you're wondering, is it greed?
06:49 Let me help you.
06:50 It's not greed, it's God.
06:57 God's got to give us a want to
07:00 so that we can want for ourselves
07:03 what he wants for us.
07:04 Am I talking to anybody that's got this revelation?
07:09 I can't control my season,
07:11 but I can determine my level.
07:14 I can't always control the season I'm in.
07:20 I can't control who I am in that season.
07:26 If I'm making sense, say yes.
07:29 The scriptures family are inundated
07:33 with examples of what I'm articulating,
07:37 but no scripture I think reveals and exposes this
07:41 like our foundational texts
07:43 here in 2 Corinthians chapter three.
07:46 In this text, the apostle Paul,
07:48 who is the author of this epistle
07:50 is having a conversation with the Corinthians
07:54 regarding spiritual formation.
07:56 Somebody say formation.
07:58 I want you to catch this because spiritual growth
08:01 is not just the accumulation of information.
08:04 Spiritual growth is the application of information
08:09 that leads to formation.
08:11 Listen to me, I didn't say even transformation
08:15 because transformation makes me different than I was,
08:22 but it doesn't mean it made me more like Jesus.
08:24 (congregation murmurs)
08:28 Am I making sense here?
08:30 Yeah, I can be different than I was,
08:33 but that doesn't mean I'm more like Jesus.
08:35 I can go from mean to nice and still not be like Jesus.
08:39 Am I making sense?
08:40 So going from mean to nice is transformation,
08:44 but it is not formation.
08:47 You see, the goal of spiritual formation
08:49 is not just to make me different,
08:52 it's to make me like Jesus.
08:54 Ha, here's what the apostle Paul says
08:57 in Galatians chapter four, verse number 19.
09:00 He says, "My dear children,
09:02 "for whom I am again in the pains of childbirth
09:07 "until Christ is formed in you."
09:12 Until Christ is formed in you.
09:20 Until Christ is formed.
09:25 He says, "What I'm trying to do is I'm trying to form
09:29 "Christlikeness on the inside."
09:33 And this is why we should all want this,
09:36 be obsessed with this, be passionately pursuing this,
09:40 because the more I become formed like Christ,
09:44 the better my life gets.
09:47 (congregation applauding)
09:50 He lived the greatest life that was ever lived.
09:56 Therefore, the more I become like him,
10:00 the more I can experience life like him.
10:04 If you wanna know how to sleep in the middle of a storm,
10:08 he did it.
10:09 If you wanna know how to bounce back from betrayal,
10:13 he did it.
10:14 If you wanna know how to resist the temptation
10:17 for destructive behavior, he did it.
10:20 If you wanna know how to bounce back
10:22 from what killed other people, he did it.
10:26 If you wanna know how to carry out your purpose, he did it.
10:30 And he did not do it just to show us what he could do.
10:35 He did it to show us what we could do.
10:38 Are you here?
10:42 He didn't just do what he did so we could be,
10:46 so we could simply admire what he did.
10:49 He showed us what he did so we could desire what he did.
10:54 He's trying to get us to see what he did literally.
11:01 We can do metaphorically.
11:03 He walked on water literally.
11:06 Metaphorically, we can walk on what other people drown in.
11:12 I believe that's somebody's testimony right now.
11:15 You are on top of something that would have been
11:18 on top of you in a previous season.
11:21 If you had gone through three years ago,
11:24 what you are going through right now,
11:27 you'd be drowning, you'd be gasping for air,
11:32 you would not be in your right mind,
11:35 but somehow, someway, you are walking on
11:39 what you used to drown in.
11:41 And other people are surprised that you're not drowning,
11:44 but they have no idea that you surprised
11:47 that you're not drowning.
11:50 You're like, I'm surprised I didn't go off.
11:52 Let me go to this side, I feel real over here.
11:57 Oh my God, I did not go off, I'm surprised.
12:00 Is there anybody here that knows
12:03 you are not where you used to be?
12:09 What he did, literally, we can do metaphorically.
12:14 He was not intimidated or arrested with anxiety
12:24 over the activity and the betrayal of another person.
12:29 He literally knew Judas was gonna betray him,
12:34 but he was so secure in God's ability
12:38 to fulfill what he promised,
12:40 he was so secure in God's sovereignty
12:44 that he looked at a man
12:46 that he knew was going to betray him,
12:48 listen to me, family, and didn't try to stop him.
12:50 He's having the last supper, looks at Judas,
13:00 knows he's going to betray him,
13:02 and does not try to talk him out of it.
13:05 He says to him, whatever you're gonna do,
13:08 do it quickly.
13:10 In other words, go ahead and get it out the way.
13:13 I'm not gonna try to convince you,
13:15 I'm not gonna try to change your mind,
13:18 because what you are getting ready to do
13:20 will not stop what God is planning to do in my life.
13:25 I don't know who this is for,
13:28 but I just wanna tell everybody
13:30 that's dealing with any sort of intimidation
13:33 that what they are getting ready to do
13:36 cannot stop what God's going to do in your life.
13:39 It's almost as if Jesus was saying,
13:43 I can't stop you from doing it,
13:45 but what you're doing can't stop
13:46 what God's getting ready to do.
13:48 I can't stop you from doing it,
13:51 but what you're getting ready to do
13:53 can't stop what God is getting ready to do in my life.
13:56 So I don't know if you're gonna put me in a grave.
13:58 What I do know is if you put me there, don't sleep on me.
14:05 I might be down right now, but don't sleep on me.
14:09 Things might not be going well right now,
14:11 but don't sleep on me, because early Sunday morning,
14:15 what he did, literally, we can do metaphorically.
14:26 Who doesn't wanna walk on what other people drown in?
14:33 (congregation laughing)
14:35 Who doesn't want to be so secure
14:38 in what God is going to do in your life
14:42 that you can literally sleep in storms
14:46 that wake other people up?
14:47 Are y'all following me here?
14:51 I mean, the disciples are on the boat panicking.
14:56 Jesus is sleeping.
14:59 The Bible says, "Wear the blanket."
15:01 (congregation laughing)
15:04 Am I making sense?
15:08 He did not just do that just to show us what he could do.
15:13 He did it to show us what we could do.
15:18 This is why we should not just settle for transformation.
15:24 I just don't wanna be different than I was.
15:28 I wanna be more like him.
15:30 (congregation cheering)
15:33 'Cause when I get like him, I walk on water.
15:36 When I get like him, Judas don't bother me.
15:39 When I get like him, are y'all following me?
15:42 I can sleep in a storm.
15:44 I don't just want transformation.
15:47 I want formation.
15:48 I don't just wanna stop bad stuff.
15:49 (congregation cheering)
15:54 If I'm making sense so far, say yes.
15:58 - Yes. - Yes.
15:59 - So this is the kind of conversation
16:04 that Paul is having with believers in Corinth.
16:08 He's trying to get them to see,
16:10 I'm trying to get you to change the way you live it,
16:13 not because this way is simply right.
16:17 He says, "I'm trying to get you
16:18 "to change the way you live it
16:19 "because this way I'm introducing you to is better."
16:22 He says, "I wanna show you better."
16:28 And so he's having this conversation with them.
16:31 I don't know if we ready.
16:32 I don't even know if I got time now.
16:34 But let me just, I'll finish at Wins,
16:37 but let me just dip my toe in the water here
16:39 because the transition he's trying to get them to make will
16:43 is a religious transition.
16:45 Uh-oh.
16:49 Yep.
16:51 He's talking to them in 2 Corinthians 3
16:54 actually about the new covenant.
16:56 (congregation exclaiming)
16:58 Is that right?
16:59 I said, "Is that right?"
17:00 He calls himself a minister of the new covenant.
17:05 He's trying to get them to see
17:07 that their old practices can't get them to a new level.
17:11 So in order to elevate them
17:14 so that they desire the new covenant,
17:16 he's got to expose them to the deficiencies in the old one.
17:20 I'm gonna say that one more time, Change Church.
17:25 In order to elevate them
17:30 and to get them to pursue the new covenant,
17:33 he's got to expose the deficiencies of the old one.
17:37 And they've got to be emotionally mature enough
17:40 and spiritually flexible enough
17:43 to get exposed to a deficiency without being offended.
17:47 Did you hear what I just said?
17:53 I said, "Did you hear what I just said?"
17:55 He's letting them know, "Hey, I'm not hating on this.
17:58 I'm telling you that this is not sufficient
18:01 for where you want to go."
18:03 And so he has to expose the deficiency
18:09 to create in them a desire to pursue God's best.
18:15 They're spiritually settling, but they don't know it.
18:24 They don't even know, Tarrio, another level exists.
18:28 So they don't have an appetite for it
18:32 because they don't know it exists.
18:35 So he has to expose to them the deficiencies
18:38 of the level that they own
18:40 and introduce them to the possibility
18:44 that maybe there's more to this
18:46 than what you're experiencing.
18:48 And just because you aren't experiencing it
18:51 doesn't mean it's not a reality.
18:53 It's just not a reality for you.
18:55 And I want to know, am I talking to anybody
19:02 that loves God more than your beliefs?
19:06 Woo!
19:10 When you love your beliefs more than God,
19:13 you will change God to fit your beliefs.
19:17 But when you love your God more than your beliefs,
19:20 when God exposes us to a deficiency
19:23 in the way we've been believing
19:25 or practicing our spirituality,
19:27 you will let go of a belief to hold on to a God.
19:31 And I promise you, God will not pry your hands
19:39 off of one thing to put something else in your hands
19:43 that is inferior to what he took away from you.
19:46 He will be a debtor to no one.
19:49 And so he will not take something from you
19:52 and give you something less in exchange.
19:55 So when he tries to pull some of these things
19:58 from out of our heart, stop fighting the process
20:02 and say, God is uncomfortable, but have your way.
20:05 I'm a little confused, but have your way.
20:08 I'm a little nervous, but have your way.
20:10 I need some clarity, but have your way.
20:12 'Cause I don't want to hold on to anything
20:15 that's holding me back.
20:16 (congregation cheering)
20:19 I want another level.
20:21 I want to know, am I talking to anybody in this room
20:24 that not only wants another level,
20:26 but you refuse to not have it.
20:30 I want to know, is there anybody that has made a decision
20:34 that this level is no longer an option?
20:37 If I'm talking to you, let me hear you give God praise
20:42 for 10 seconds.
20:43 (congregation cheering)
20:47 If I'm making sense, wave at me.
20:53 So let me get very practical here.
20:56 Let me get very practical.
20:57 In order for God to take my prayer life to the next level,
21:01 one of the things he may have to do
21:03 is expose the deficiencies in my current one.
21:10 And so when he exposes the deficiencies in my current one,
21:14 my reaction to that reveals whether or not
21:19 I love my beliefs more than God.
21:21 Or God more than my beliefs.
21:25 Are y'all here?
21:29 - Yes.
21:30 - Now, there are examples of this
21:31 all throughout the Gospels, guys.
21:33 All throughout the Gospels.
21:34 Literally, there's an instance where Jesus' disciples
21:37 are trying to perform an exorcism.
21:40 They're trying to cast out a demon, right?
21:43 So it is a child of a father
21:47 they're trying to cast a demon out of.
21:48 They're unable to do so.
21:49 The father gets frustrated.
21:51 So he finds Jesus.
21:53 He brings his child to Jesus and says,
21:55 "I brought my son to your team,
21:58 "and your team could not cast him out."
22:00 They couldn't fix him.
22:03 Jesus, I don't even have time to bother this,
22:07 asked the man, "Do you believe?"
22:09 He said, "Lord, I believe, but help my unbelief."
22:12 See, I love his honesty,
22:13 'cause what you're about to see is
22:15 he still got the miracle,
22:17 even though there's some duality.
22:19 Did you hear what I just said?
22:25 And I think sometimes we give way more credit to our faith
22:29 than we should.
22:31 We should be giving that credit to God's grace.
22:33 'Cause some stuff you got,
22:36 you believe that you didn't believe, y'all aren't talking.
22:39 The only reason you surprised is you didn't quite believe.
22:42 But my Bible says,
22:47 "He will do exceedingly and abundantly
22:51 "above all you ask or think."
22:53 My Bible says, "Your eyes have not seen,
22:56 "your ears have not heard,
22:58 "your heart has not conceived what God has in store."
23:02 I don't know who this is for.
23:03 I'm getting ready to speak this over this house today.
23:06 You are about to be surprised.
23:09 I want somebody that wants it
23:12 to throw your hands up and say, "Surprise."
23:14 Surprise me.
23:17 Surprise me this week.
23:20 Surprise me this month.
23:22 Surprise me before the year's out.
23:24 There's some stuff I said in January
23:28 that I didn't think was possible,
23:30 'cause we're in October,
23:31 but take these last three months and surprise me.
23:35 Blow my mind.
23:37 (audience cheering)
23:39 Surprise.
23:40 (gentle music)
23:44 Am I making sense?
23:51 I can't be offended by the exposure.
24:02 I can't be offended when God show me
24:05 it's another way to do it.
24:06 I can't be offended when God says, "Tweak this right here."
24:14 I can't be offended when God says,
24:20 "I've been letting you get away with that
24:22 "as long as I've been letting you get away with it,
24:25 "but that doesn't mean I'm okay with it."
24:32 I can't get offended when God says,
24:35 "This is far as you can go doing it that way."
24:39 Am I in the house today?
24:46 I said, am I in the house?
24:48 I wanna know, is anybody ready for God
24:50 to shake some stuff up?
24:51 But he can't shake some stuff up
24:54 without shaking some stuff up.
24:56 And we want God to shake some stuff up
24:58 without shaking some stuff up.
25:01 And Paul says to these people, "Corinth, listen,
25:04 "I know y'all are accustomed to it this way."
25:07 I mean, honestly, if you look at a lot of Paul's letters,
25:10 like you got some, Corinth, Galatians, Hebrews,
25:15 this is one of his major fights,
25:18 is trying to get people to let go of ways
25:23 of practicing their religion
25:26 that are reflective of the old covenant and not the new one.
25:30 I don't have time.
25:31 And even though we live in a new covenant era,
25:37 we still, many of us have old covenant mindsets.
25:40 Did you hear what I just said?
25:47 And so the same battle that the Holy Spirit
25:50 was trying to fight through Paul
25:52 is the same battle the Holy Spirit is fighting now.
25:55 And he's trying to expose to us the inferiority
25:59 of some of these practices and pull us into another level.
26:04 And am I talking to anybody that wants another level
26:09 in your life spiritually?
26:11 Lord.
26:15 Well, I want you to know that Paul not only tells us
26:23 that it is possible, he tells us how it's possible.
26:27 It's in the text.
26:28 This is what he says.
26:30 He says that we, with an unveiled face,
26:35 beholding in a mirror as the glory of the Lord
26:42 are being transformed into the same image
26:45 from glory to glory.
26:50 Did y'all hear me?
26:57 He says, you're being transformed
26:59 into the image of the Lord.
27:01 So it says, so you've been, who is that?
27:03 That's Jesus, all right?
27:05 So I'm being transformed, that's formation, into that.
27:09 But this is how it's happening.
27:11 I'm done, y'all, they tired.
27:12 Here it is, here it is.
27:14 Here it is from glory to glory.
27:18 He said, I'm gonna do it, but it's not gonna be immediately.
27:22 (congregation cheering)
27:26 You don't go from all the way here to all the way there.
27:30 He says, I'm gonna do it from glory to glory.
27:33 I'm gonna do it from level to level.
27:37 I'm not gonna do it all immediately,
27:42 I'm gonna do it incrementally.
27:44 Just because I hadn't done it all
27:48 doesn't mean I'm not gonna do it all.
27:50 I got to go, stop panicking, I'm gonna do it all.
27:54 Stop worrying, I'm gonna do it all.
27:56 Stop spazzing out, I'm gonna do it all.
27:58 Stop complaining, I'm gonna do it all.
28:01 Stop stressing, I'm gonna do it all.
28:03 I'm just not gonna do it all at one time.
28:06 But just because I haven't done it all
28:09 doesn't mean I'm not gonna do it all.
28:11 Glory to glory.
28:13 But when I get through, when I get finished,
28:17 when I put the period at the end of the sentence,
28:20 before the bell ring, before the doors close,
28:23 before the curtains fall, before the lights go off,
28:27 I will do exactly what I said.
28:30 Hallelujah.
28:35 I need somebody that want it all
28:39 to just throw your hands up toward heaven
28:40 and say, I want it all.
28:41 I want it all.
28:44 I don't want half, I don't want a third,
28:47 I don't want most of it.
28:49 I want it all.
28:52 (audience laughing)
28:55 I got four minutes, here it is.
29:02 Here it is, what Paul is saying in the New Testament,
29:09 we see in the Old Testament in Exodus chapter number 23,
29:14 verse number 30.
29:16 God, I feel this right here.
29:18 Oh my God, I feel this.
29:21 God is informing Israel of the way he's going to do
29:26 what he promised he would do through Moses.
29:30 He promised the promised land.
29:33 That's what he was gonna do.
29:37 But here in Exodus, he tells them the way he's gonna do it.
29:41 He says, I'm gonna do what I said,
29:43 but here's how I'm gonna do it.
29:45 Little by little, y'all come get me today.
29:47 (audience cheering)
29:49 Little by little, little by little,
29:53 I will drive them out before you
29:57 until you have increased enough
30:01 to take possession of the land.
30:03 I'm doing it little by little
30:07 because I've got to increase you little by little
30:11 so that you are able to handle the land
30:15 I am sending you into.
30:17 I'm gonna do it little by little, but it's gonna be big.
30:20 I'm gonna do it little by little, but it's gonna be major.
30:23 I'm gonna do it little by little, but it's gonna be grand.
30:26 I'm gonna do it little by little,
30:27 but your enemies are gonna be confused.
30:29 I'm gonna do it little by little,
30:31 but I'm gonna blow your mind.
30:33 Little.
30:35 Little by little.
30:44 He advances them incrementally
30:47 because he can only increase them incrementally.
30:52 I'm gonna have to wrap this up
30:54 'cause I know this stream is thrown all the way off here.
30:58 Here it is.
30:59 Did y'all catch that?
31:00 He says, "I've got to pace."
31:04 Ooh, thank you, Jesus.
31:06 See, that wasn't even for y'all.
31:08 That was for me.
31:08 I'm sorry.
31:10 I just, for like two seconds,
31:13 I left y'all and started thinking about me.
31:16 I started thinking about how glad I am now
31:19 that God didn't give me what I wanted then.
31:22 I know some people can pray,
31:28 like to praise God for what he did give 'em.
31:31 I wanna know, is there anybody in New Jersey today
31:34 that's got enough spiritual sense
31:36 to say, "I'ma praise him for what he didn't give me"?
31:39 (audience applauding)
31:42 Thank you for what you didn't do.
31:52 Come on, thank you for the job I didn't get.
31:55 Thank you for the house that didn't work out.
31:57 Thank you for the relationship that didn't work out.
32:00 Thank you.
32:01 (audience applauding)
32:07 (upbeat music)
32:09 We gotta go, but I feel
32:14 a little old school church today.
32:18 Can somebody take 15 seconds
32:23 and say this praise is for what he didn't do?
32:26 This not for open doors, this for closed doors.
32:31 This is not for the yeses, this is for the noes.
32:35 This is for what you didn't do.
32:38 (upbeat music)
32:40 Everybody's standing, my time's up.
32:55 I'ma have to finish this Wednesday.
32:58 Little by little.
33:05 Am I in the book?
33:06 Little by little.
33:09 He's gonna do it all, just not all at the same time.
33:13 But when he get through,
33:15 woo, I say when he get through,
33:21 when he get finished.
33:24 (upbeat music)
33:26 (audience applauding)
33:29 When he get finished, it will be just what he said.
33:43 Little by little.
33:56 (audience member shouting)
33:58 Father, I pray for every person watching and in this room
34:02 who's dealing with frustration
34:06 because they feel like things are unfinished.
34:09 Those who feel like because you haven't done it all,
34:16 you aren't going to do it all.
34:18 I pray for that person now.
34:21 May they have the blessed assurance
34:24 that you're not finished yet,
34:26 that you complete what you start,
34:31 but you do it from faith to faith and from glory to glory.
34:37 So give us the grace to manage your pace.
34:43 Give us the grace to manage your pace.
34:51 In Jesus' name, amen.
34:54 Clap your hands, family, and give him praise.
34:58 Listen really quickly, everybody looking at me,
35:02 if you're here in this room or under the sound of my voice,
35:06 maybe you tuned in or came in
35:08 because a loved one was being honored,
35:10 acknowledged and appreciated,
35:13 but as you got here, you've been pleasantly surprised.