Sermon
Pastor Joel Wolfe | Dec 28th 2025
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Father and Jesus name. Lord God, I think you right
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now that your holy spirit is just going to speak
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through me. Lord God, I think you right now that
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I have prepared the horse has been made ready for battle,
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but the victory is yours. And God, I think you
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right now that these people in this room right now
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open up their hearts. They open up their hearts and
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their minds and their souls. Lord God, they are open
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books before you, Father, right on their hearts. Divide, use
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the sword, cut out anything that needs to be cut out,
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but Father God, that they might understand the heart beat
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of you, which is love in Jesus's name. Amen, are
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you ready? Buckle up, Buttercup, it's coming. I'm fun country too.
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So if you leave church on Sunday morning and you
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don't cry your eyeballs out and laugh, I have failed you. Okay.
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So I teach parenting around here. How many of you
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have been through my parenting class? Oh, Halla, Louijah, We've
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been doing it for years. There is I like to
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give parents hacks. You know what I mean by hacks
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where there's like one line zingers that kind of fix
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a lot of things, you know, because the kids come
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to you and they're like that, and you're like, what
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do I do with that? Right? And so one of
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one of my hacks, one of my good liners is
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and I've usually given it to the parents when they're
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the kids are fighting back, you know, kind of whining
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and fussing and wanting to debate. Any of your children
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ever want to debate your word of truth, and they
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want to debate. So the one liner hack, And if
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you walk away with nothing else this morning, this is it.
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You can look at them in the eye and you
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can say, I love you too much to fight with you. Right.
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So this line of I love you too much is
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a wonderful thing that helps you bring together truth with love.
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I love you too much to let you eat that
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whole bag of candy. It sounds all lot better than
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stop eating all that candy, right, I love you too
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much to let you Okay fill in the blank. So parents,
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you can take that home, use it, spouses can use it.
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I love you too much to leave the toilet seat up. Okay,
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never mind, I didn't try that first service, didn't go
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over well second, so I think I'll take that off
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my notes. Okay, So about two weeks ago they say
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that the word that has cut the preacher becomes the
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most powerful word. And I will tell you that the
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next coming thirty minutes is a rundown of what this
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little preacher has been going through for the last two weeks.
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So my goal here is that I'm just gonna kind
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of let you in the window of my world and if,
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if by any chance, the word might partially possibly apply
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to you, grab it and run. Okay, join me in
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my pain. But there was a moment about two weeks
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ago that I had a Holy Spirit moment where I
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heard him say, Joel, I love you too much to
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let you, and then he filled in the blank. And
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when you hear that from Holy Spirit, you're kind of like,
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there's a huge piece of me that wanted to say, yeah, right,
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you love me. That is not even nice, that's mean.
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And God, a God is a god of love, and
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a God of love doesn't make me do that. No, Joel,
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I love you too much to let you. And I
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was kind of stunned. I had to work through my rebellion,
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my frustration, my everything, and I had to start listening.
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Maybe you can relate. Okay, So my story starts back
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in twenty twenty in COVID. Remember COVID, who lived through COVID.
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I think you're all old enough to have no COVID. Well,
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COVID hit, and this little girl's response was to go
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into deep intercession and warfare prayer. Anybody there with me
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during COVID, you knew something was wrong and I, I mean,
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I'd always been a little bit warfairy. I kind of
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liked praying death upon evil and all sorts of things.
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I kind of enjoyed doing that, but I got even
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more and my war cry of uncover and cover, reveal, reveal, expose,
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expose the evil in the world. It was me and
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God against all the evil that was coming out. And
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I knew he was my buddy and we were working together. Amen,
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we were just like this. Now, let me describe to
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the me part of this. Okay, So the me part
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of miss of this is I am kind of a
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little black and white. Even though I'm fun and nice
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and warm and cozy and loving, I'm pretty black and
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white right and wrong. Right, And the part of I
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also really love the concept of God being the cleansing judge. Okay,
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so that's my part of the duo. God's part of
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the duo to be honest with you, he felt exactly
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the same as I did, and I just knew it.
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So now fast forward to twenty twenty five. Me and
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God are continually like this. We're still praying, believing, warfare,
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prayer and over everything. But at this moment I'm starting
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to get a little perturbed because in reality, he ain't
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doing his side of the job. He's the cleansing jaw,
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you know, the cleansing judge, and I'm the one supposed
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to be praying and believing, and he's not holding up
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his end of the bargain. And I'm getting kind of
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mad at him, and I'm getting more and more mad
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at all the evil. Okay, so this is kind of
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my brain set. This is my mind so the other week,
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and please know that there were other issues that were
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kind of playing into this as well, where I was
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starting to misalign myself and I needed help. God loved
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me too much to leave me where I was at,
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and if I had continued, it wouldn't be good. It
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wouldn't be good for me, it wouldn't be good for
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my dear husband. Oh and it would not be good
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for you. So I decided a couple months back to
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do a deep dive into the psalms. And you know,
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the psalms are kind of like a crackerjack box. You
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open up the box and every box has a new
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little surprise in it, and you never know what your
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surprise is gonna be. So with every psalm, there's a
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new surprise about right to spring upon you. Either David
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is screaming and moaning and crying because everybody hates it,
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and then the next one, God is so good, and
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then the next one you knows, you know what I'm
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talking about, right, So you never know. So every morning.
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So this morning, this particular morning, I got me a
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little mug of tea, my tea, and it's dark outside,
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and I sat down next to the Christmas tree, and
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I had my little blanket and my little foot heater,
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and I got out my Bible and I was all
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ready to go and just taste and see what that.
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The Lord is good in Psalm fifty. So I landed
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on Psalm fifty and I open up Psalm fifty and
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here we go, right, so we're gonna read this one.
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The first verse, the mighty one God, the Lord speaks
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and summons the earth from the rising of the sun.
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To the place where it sets, and all of a
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sudden I knew we were in for a good one.
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I love it. The three names of God. The mighty
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one that is the word l that is that push him.
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He's at the top of the god food chain.
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He is the mightiest, most powerful, most holy, most incredible God.
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And then the next word there God, just plain God.
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That God word right there is Elohim. So he is
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the highest of all of the spiritual things. He is
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the top once again the food chain of the God
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out there, and he is so mighty and so powerful.
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This is how the psalmist starts. And then the next
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word Lord. Do you notice that it's all capitalized. When
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you see the word Lord all capitalized, he's referring to
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the word Yahweh, which is not only the big God,
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mighty God, powerful, almighty, holy God, but he's the covenant
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God with his creation. So there's a different meaning in
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LRD when they're capitalized. It's telling you about how much
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he cares about us, that there is a love in
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this God, a caring for his creation, a covenanting with
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you and me, who are not God. I'm kind of
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liking this psalm. I'm thinking this is gonna be a
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grand one. It's gonna be a doozy. So I take
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another sip of my tea and say, okay, God, let's go.
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Let's go. You're summoning the earth, the whole earth, all
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the peoples from Zion, perfect in beauty. God shines forth.
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Our God comes and will not be silent. Hallelujah. You're
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finally gonna do your thing. You're with me now. A
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fire devours before him and around him, A tempest rages.
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The word fire there is a word that brings about
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active judgment. The word tempest means overwhelming power. Oh yeah,
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this is a good one. This is a doozy. These
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are the kind of psalms I love. So he gathers awe.
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So he summons the heavens above and the earth. And
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here's where it takes a turn that he may judge
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his people, like wait, wait a second, judge your people.
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There's a whole world out there to judge. We're all
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here standing watching, listening to you roll in with fire
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and thunder, and you're coming after your people. There's got
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to be a typo. Gather to me, my consecrated ones
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who made us covenant with me, by sacrifice, and the
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heavens proclaim his righteousness. For God himself is judge here,
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oh my people, and I will speak, oh Israel, and
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I will testify against you. So now I'm in it
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to win it, but I'm not liking it. And I
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want to give you a little hint, people of God.
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There are some things in the Old Testament that are
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completed in the Old Testament and don't come over into
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the New Testament. That would be ceremonial laws, the sacrificial system.
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All of that does not make it through the Cross.
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But there's a lot in the Old Testament that make
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said all the way through the Cross and into today.
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And this is something that we're gonna talk about here today.
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Even though we're reading from the Old Testament, it comes
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to us into the New Testament. But here's a truth
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from the Lord. God loves you too much to let
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you do anything that is against his word. He loves
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you too much, and he will convict you privately. But
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if the private conviction won't work, he has no bones
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about taking you public. I'm like, God, are you kidding me?
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In front of all the world. You're gonna judge your
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people first, And I know Over the last couple of years,
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there's been some judging of some of his consecrated ones
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very publicly. I want to listen to him privately. So
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I don't want my stuff. How many of you have, well,
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don't raise your hand. Anybody got some stuff, raise your
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hand on the inside. I don't want my stuff drug
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out before the world. I want to be judged privately,
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and that's what he prefers to do. So let's keep
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moving on Verse eight. I do not rebuke you for
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your sacrifices or your burnt offerings, which are ever before me.
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I have no need of a bull from your stall,
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or of goats your pens. For every animal in the
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forest is mine, and the cattle on the Thousand Hills,
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I know. Every bird in the mountain, and the creatures
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of the field are mine. If I were hungry, I
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would not tell you, for the world is the whole
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world is mine, and all that is in it. Do
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I eat the flesh of bulls or drank the blood
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of goats? And what he's talking, he says it it's poetic,
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so it's repetitive. But what he's saying is, I'm not
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going to rebuke you for all of your obedience. You
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have been following my instructions about sacrifice and about all
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of that to a tee' I don't want. I'm not
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here to rebuke you about that. But he's saying that
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ain't all it's about. So now he's going to go
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on here and he's going to start unveiling what it
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is about sacrifice, Thank offings to God. Fulfill your vows
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to the Holy One, and call upon me in the
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day of trouble, and I will deliver you and you
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will honor me. This these two verse here they shift
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to the heart. I need you to be thankful. I
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need you to to fulfill your your promises to me.
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I need in the time of trouble, call upon me
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and I will be don't don't turn to anything else.
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So God is saying here, I'm not gonna rebeal you
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got all the outside going on, you are being obedient.
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I am wanting See.
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God's love for you is a little ruthless. God's love
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for you goes so deep. He's so jealous and ruthless.
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He doesn't want just the outer stuff from you.
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He wants to go down into your very depths of
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your being. He wants to own your heart too. Oh,
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and we give him his our heart. Everything comes into
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alignment verse sixteen. But to the wicked God says, and
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now I'm thinking to myself, Okay, now it's turning around.
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We're gonna get back to business. But instead he says,
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what right have you to recite my laws or take
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my covenant on your lips? By talking about his law
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and his covenant, it's very apparent he's not talking about
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the world and the earth yet, He's still talking about
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his people. But he's his word is a little harsh there.
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It's a little harsh, wicked what you hate my instruction
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and cast my word behind you. When you see a thief,
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you join in with him. You throw in your lot
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with the adulters. You use your mouthful evil and harness
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your tongue for deceit. You speak continually against your brother
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and slander your own mother's son. Now he's getting a
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little personal. You hate my instruction and cast my words
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behind you. Pastor George, you're getting a little rough on
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me right now. It's not me, it's Psal. I'm fifty.
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Beat me up pretty good. The word picture in that
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sentence is a very holy, consecrated saint walking with the scriptures,
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reading it and going mmm, eh, oh that's good. That's good. Yeah,
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not really for me, picking and choosing, casting the word
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behind you. When you see a thief, you join, I
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have stolen nothing. But I will tell you that sometimes
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I kind of work things. You know, when you have
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to share the piece of cake with your brother, and
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you kind of cut the cake a little bigger on
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one side and then the other, and then you take
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the big sign just saying you throw your lot in
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with adulters. Well, I've never had adulterree Jesus, But can
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I remind you that Jesus is teachings said, if you
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even look with lust in your heart, you've broken the law.
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Oh see, God does God that he's a little ruthless,
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isn't he a little ruthless, getting a little personal, a
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little deep, a little harsh. He loves us too much
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to let us. You use your mouth for evil, and
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harness your tongue for deceit. You speak continually against your
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brother and slender your own mother's son. And this is
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one of the nights that kind of cut me, because
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I had been experiencing some things by some people, and
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I was kind of ticked off. It wasn't fair, it
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wasn't nice, it wasn't right. I had every right to
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tell my story, did I now? Verse twenty one, these
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things you have done and I kept silent. You thought
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I was all together like you? Yeah? Wow? That first
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half of that verse, these things you have done and
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I have kept silent. The Passion translation says it like this,
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and I love it. All this you have done, and
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I've kept silent. So you thought I was just like
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you sanctioning evil. Now remember that very first verse talks
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about who God is, mighty, powerful, holy. That's not me.
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I'm right here. But this verse in twenty one says
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you thought I was all together like you. The problem
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with sin is that sometimes God keeps quiet about it.
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Why does he do that? If you were to ask
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the Lord, he would say, because I'm giving you time
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to repent, time to turn. Honey. I've been working with you.
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You know, you know my heart. Come on, conviction, come on,
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it's better over Your life is better this way. He's
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working with you. You hear a sermon, you hear a
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little voice, and you have opportunity. Because he's keeping silent,
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you have opportunity to turn but instead God's people interpret
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his silence as accepting compromise. And when we accept compromise,
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we start thinking in our head, well, maybe God, you know,
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he understands, yeah, you know, a little bit here and there,
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he understands. There's a lot of grace in the cross.
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God is God is a good God. God is a
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good God. And so we start remaking God to be
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someone like me. I'm trying to be nice, but sometimes
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the word just cuts it. Just like that. C. S.
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Lewis speaks in Mere Christianity and he says, in God,
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you come up against something which is in every respect
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immeasurably superior to you. And unless you know that, you
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know God is that, and therefore know yourself is nothing
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in comparison, you do not know God at all. That
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raises a terrible question, how is it that people who
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are eaten up with pride can say that they believe
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in God and appear to be ever so wonderful. I'm
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afraid they are worshiping an imaginary God. They're theoretically admitting
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they theoretically admit themselves to be nothing in the presence
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of this phantom God, but are really all the time
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imagining how He approves of them and thinks them far
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better than other people. For for you, my dear precious saints.
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When we compromise and God's giving us time to come
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to him and repent, we have a couple of options.
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We can either repent and come back to Him, or
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we can begin to think that God is altogether like us.
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But I am here to say God is nothing like us.
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We are to become all together like him and his
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work in our hearts and he will never stop until
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we die. Is to be coming to us saying honey,
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I love you too much to let you do this.
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Come with me and become more like me. Become all
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together like me. Become all together like me. Stop making
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me be like you. I want you to become like me.
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Oh but God, if you want me to be like you,
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I have to fit inside. I have to be like Christ.
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Christ in me. I in Christ. I don't fit on
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the wrong shape. I carry anger, I have fear, bitterness,
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I have unforgiveness. And God says, no, don't make me
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be like you. Don't show my love through your lens.
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You come. You come and become altogether like me. Break break, break, break.
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Break off everything that you carry in your.
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Heart and in your mind. That is contrary. It hurts.
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I didn't like what he was bringing to me. But
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in reality, when we modernize the Gospel, it always removes
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his holiness, and we lose the holiness of God. We
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tend to create a God of our own making. I
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spent a few days walking around in a lot of humility,
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and I'm not gonna lie. It went between what I
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call conviction and condemnation. The Bible talks about both. Conviction
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is straight from Holy Spirit. Condemnation is straight from hell.
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Conviction is the Holy Spirit saying, come on, life's better
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over here. Come on, come on, let it go. Just
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let it go and love. I don't want to love.
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They don't deserve it. Come on, let it go.
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Life's better here, y'ah. But you don't know, Yes, I
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do know.
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Let it go. It's a song, right, How many of
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you were thinking that I won't even try. My little
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Ellie can sing it real good? Okay, Come back to me.
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Where was I let it go? So it took me
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a couple days to put God back on the throne,
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back into who he was and his holiness, and realign
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myself underneath it of his child his creature, say by
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grace covered in the blood setting aside condemnation. Condemnation is
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when the judge's gavel hits and you are sentenced to death.
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Conviction says honey, before you go, before the judge, come
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on over here, let's make it right. That's what Holy
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Spirit does. So it was time to move to the
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next psalm, Psalm fifty one. I got brave enough see
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what we got here. So before you put it up
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on the screens, though, let me the very beginning of it.
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It says for the director of music. You know, there's
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always this little addendum at the beginning? Is I called
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an addendum preface? I don't know. A psalm of day
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when the prophet Nathan came to him after David had
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committed adultery with Bathsheba. Now context, David, young boy anointed
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as king, mighty man of faith. I watched the David movie.
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Even how many of you watched the David What a movie.
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I want to be just like him, this kid singing
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and going out against Goliath and the faith and the obedience.
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He was amazing, and he worshiped, and he brought sacrifices
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before the Lord and his heart is the same as God.
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Him and God are just like this, and his heart
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is close to God. And then one day he wakes
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up and he looks over the balcony and he's consumed
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with lust. He's consumed with jealousy. He's consumed with what
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he sees. And then he commits adultery, and then he
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commits murder, and then he lies about it. That's four
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of the commandments, the ten commandments, at least four right there.
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He does all this stuff, and he goes to bed,
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and he wakes up in the morning. No lightning bolts.
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He puts back on his kingly robe, puts his crown in.
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Everybody comes out, Oh, your Highness, yourhiness. Sunday rolls around
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time to go to church, kind of walks into church,
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no lightning bolts, nothing. He starts thinking, well, hmm, maybe
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God's holiness isn't what I thought it was. Maybe his
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requirement of those ten commandments are quite what I thought
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it was. And David begins to reconstruct God altogether like him.
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For a year. This went on for a year. He
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came into the tent, danced before the Lord, saying, worshiped,
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brought sacrifices, did everything on the outside, but his heart
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had moved away. He looked good, but his heart so
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one day, I don't know, during that whole year, I'm
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sure Holy Spirit, I don't know. Holy Spirit is Old Testament.
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I don't know, but you know, I think I probably
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shouldn't have done that conviction reading the word. Ooh yeah, well,
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nothing happened. I'm doing pretty good until God ended his
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silence and brought Nathan to publicly bring truth to him.
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God loved David too much to let David be comfortable
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in his compromise. And God loved God David too much
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to let David reconstruct God's holiness, lowering it down to
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his level and just walk around like everything's fine, people
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of God. God loved me too much for me to
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walk in my compromise, my unlovingness, all the things, and
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it took him breaking. Now nobody publicly came to me,
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because praise the Lord, I came to him first. But
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I'm bringing it publicly because I wanted to help you.
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New Horizon is going to be a church filled with humility.
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New Horizon is a church that fails, filled with people
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that fail. But we know exactly what to do with
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our failures. Horizon as a church, that we will not
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serve a God of our own making, but we will
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serve the God Elohim the Mighty one. Hallelujah, Yahweh, Jehovah, Jirah.
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Everything that is the God I will serve. And it
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took me a few days to put God back on
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the throne and me to extradite myself as being co ruler.
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God is altogether not like me. God is not me,
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Praise the Lord. And I am in the process of
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becoming altogether like him. Amen. So here's the cool thing.
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Remember I told you we're gonna get Psalm fifty one.
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God is holy, He's the creator of all things, He's
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all powerful ways, and his thoughts are higher than mine.
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I will not cast his words behind me, not one,
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not one single one. I will not hate his instruction,
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but I will yield to it. We must undo the
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God of our making, and instead we must all become
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altogether like him, conform to his image. That means I
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have to break. That means I have to be honest
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and confess. I'd rather get up you here and tell
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you how cool I am. Be like me because I'm
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so good. But I found myself weeping before the Lord
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in great humility. Now, is this a works sermon? No,
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thisays a heart sermon. This is a heart sermon because
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if I can align my heart well, I can move
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into twenty six and God is free to do everything
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he wants to do. So would you join me in
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a little bit of contemplation? Would you join me? After
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a second service? It was pretty cute for service. I
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made a lot of really good points and there was
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very little clapping. It's like, I'm thinking, this is not
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going over well at all. But I guess this sermon
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needs to work in our souls. I had to bring it, you, guys,
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I had to. I kept fussing at the Lord. No,
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I want to bring the fun ones makes us all
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feel happy. And God says, this will make you happy.
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This will make you truly happy, because when we let
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go of anything in our souls and in our hearts
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that are misaligned, we truly become the better version of ourselves.
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Let go of fear, people of God, let go let
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go of lust, let go of anger, let go of offense,
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let go of everything that contorts you out of the
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image of Christ. And you're constantly being preached at take
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on the image of Christ, and you're like, I'm trying, No,
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this is the image of Christ. Let it go, and
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once again, don't sing the song. But what's a better
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way to say that? Let it go? No, let go
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release it. I'm hoping the Holy Spirit right now is
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talking in your heart. Maybe you got it all together.
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I sure hope so. Maybe, but maybe there's a little
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something something Maybe I don't know. I don't know. We're
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so we gotta be great at both where the outer
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works are in place, but we don't get our salvation
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through them. We're just obedient through them. We have an
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obedient heart, but our hearts on the inside are so aligned.
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Let holy spirits speak right now. Maybe if you have notes,
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write it down, maybe he'll bring you something this afternoon
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or the next day. But here's the beauty of our God.
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Remember that covenant. Yahweh. He's so connected with you, he's
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so in love with you. He doesn't leave us in
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our brokenness. He meets us there and he heals us there,
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and he brings us into great things. David, pray to
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prayer in Psalm fifty one, and I want to pray
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it over you. I want you to pray it with me.
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I want you to pray it through with me. I'm
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going to read Psalm fifty one out of the passion,
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and then we'll be done. You can go about your day.
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I've messed with you far enough. Just take a moment,
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take a deep breath, and just listen the Holy Spirit. Listen.
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We're here because we love God, we need God, we
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want God. Let's just say we want Him all the
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way down, not just on the surface. So let this
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sink in with you. Okay, it's the passion. It'll be
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on the screens, but I don't want you to get
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lost in reading the words unless that helps you. Let
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it come in close your eyes, if you can find
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a place of humility in your soul. Pride, it is said,
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is the worst of sins, because remember it's pride that
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made Lucifer Lucifer. We have to let it go. So
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here's David. God, give me mercy from your fountain of forgiveness.
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I know your abundant love is enough to wash away
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my guilt because your compassion is so great. Take away
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this shameful guilt of sin, forgive the full extent of
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my rebellious ways, and erase this deep stain on my conscience,
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for I am so ashamed. I feel such pain and
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anguish within me. I can't get away from the sting
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of my sin against you. Lord.
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Everything I did, I did right in front of you,
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and you saw it all against you, and you above
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have I sinned. Everything you say to me is infallibly true,
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and your judgment conquers me. Lord, I have been a
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sinner from birth, from the moment my mother conceived me.
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I know that you delight, who set your truth deep
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in my spirit. So come into the hidden places of
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my heart and teach me wisdom. Purify my conscience, make
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this leper clean again.
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Wash me in your love until I am pure in heart.
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Satisfy me in your sweetness, and your song of joy
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will return. The places within me you have crushed will
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rejoice in your healing touch. Hide my sins from your face,
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erase all my guilt by your saving grace, Create a
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new clean heart within me. People of God, he is.
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So ready fill me with pure thoughts and holy desires,
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ready to please you.
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May you never reject me. May I never take from
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May you never take from me your sacred spirit. Let
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my passion life be restored, tasting joy in every breakthrough
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you bring to me. Hold me close to you with
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the willing spirit that obeys whatever you say. Then I
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can show to other guilty ones how loving and merciful
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you are. They will find their way back home to you,
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knowing that you will forgive them. Oh God, my saving God,
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this is the Yahweh we're talking about. This is the
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covening God who's chosen to lay aside his holiness to
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connect with you and me. This is his answer that
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was my part. Then my heart will once again be
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thrilled to sing the passionate songs of joy and deliverance.
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Lord godlock my heart, unlock my lips, and I will
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overcome with my joyous praise.
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For the source of your pleasure is not in my
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performance or the sacrifices I might offer to you. The
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fountain of your pleasure is found in the sacrifice of
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my shattered heart before you. You will not despise my
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tenderness as I humbly.
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Bow down at your feet. Our God is a God
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who takes our shattered hearts, shattered by sin, compromise all
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of that. People of God. Even now today, every moment
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of every day, Jesus is there standing putting your heart
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back together again. He doesn't leave you a sinner. Oh
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but Jesus, sometimes we want to stay sinners. But today,
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oh people of God, New Horizon, New Horizon. New horizon
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is filled with consecrated ones, saints that hear the Holy
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Spirit in the quiet and responds so quickly it requires humility.
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Pride is gone out of New Horizon in Jesus's name.
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Pride from this very pulpit. Pride off of this stage.
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In every way, shape and form, Pride going through this
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the rose all the way to the back, all the way.
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Pride will not reign in this house. Pride will not
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find its place. And if you like pride, you're gonna
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have to go somewhere else because it's gonna feel really
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weird around here. But humility reigns in this house. This
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is a safe house. I feel so safe with you
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that you won't judge me for telling you about my troubles,
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because I know you love me too much to let
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me stay there, and you love me too much to
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leave me there. God loves you so much it's turned
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towards him. Amen. Okay, are you left bleeding and beat up?
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Or do you feel the love of God in here.
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Realignment Setting twenty twenty five aside. God does not hold
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your past against you. But if you're gonna drag it
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with you everywhere you go because you haven't let it go,
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He'll deal with y'all through twenty six too. But I
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don't know if I want that. Amen, it's all stand.
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It's all stand. Prayer warriors, come on up. If God's
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work work in your heart, don't let it stop just
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because we're shifting. Took me a few days to process
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this one, not because Holy Spirit wasn't there to love me,
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but I needed to become contride of soul and that's
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completely contradictory to my flesh. Anybody in the room, Okay,
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don't worry him. Praise you Jesus. Let's just let the
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Holy Spirit just settle in this room. If you need
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to go, I understand, but don't let the word go.
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Thank you for listening. I pray the Holy Spirit was
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released through it. Amen. If you have some confessions to make,
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if you have some people to straighten some things about,
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if you have some forgiveness to ask for, if you
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come to the altar and you know someone has aught
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against you, go to them. Let's clean it up. Let's
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realign all the way from the outer to the inner
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in Jesus' name. Hallelujah, have a blessed a come forward
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for prayer if you'd love to just you know, even
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if you just you have an acre of pain that
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you need prayer for, or you're believing for something, come forward.
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Or if you want prayer regarding the Word, that's fine.
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Come on up. We love you. Let's worship