Sermon
Kamran Yaraei | New Horizon Church
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Transcript
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There is a when we go and help, good morning,
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when we go on help, the help doesn't come from
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our ministry. The help is from Bobo June. You may say,
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what is baba June. It sounds good, doesn't it, Baba June.
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Can you guys say Babbo June. Baba Jun means father life.
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Baba means father, June is life. And you're on growing up.
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You know, it wasn't all bad. You know, we had
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so much love. There is so much love also in
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the Middle East, but it gets twisted. And when you
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love someone you call them Baba June. You know, your aunt,
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your uncle, your cousins, even your dad, your mom. You
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could call me baba June. I could call you Baba June.
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But I didn't know. Baba June is father life, our
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father in heaven. I could go as a Muslim. And
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to make a long story short, we started the social
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media campaign last December. That was like a month ago.
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It was three million. Today is eight point five million.
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You know, we started just this month. I was looking
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at my social media just this thirty days it was
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four point five million. These are thirsty souls, most of
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them are Muslim. But my channel or Instagram is Bob
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of June and two of our friend They said, we
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want to help you start the social media to Iran.
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I will go and tell you my story too. But
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the social media. After doing many years of TV to Iran,
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because Christianity is illegally in Iran, you cannot get together
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worship Jesus. Even if you do a home church like China,
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you get arrested. The only way to really to show
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Jesus to them is one number one is Jesus appears
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to them in dreams and vision which appeared to me,
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appear to all of my family members and appearing to
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a lot of people, and nobody can stop him. And
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when he wants to appear to anybody, if Jesus wants
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to appear to anybody, he doesn't need anybody's permission in
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heaven or he doesn't need anybody's permission on earth. He
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just appears. And you say, these are Muslims. They didn't
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even prayer. I didn't pray. He appeared to me. I
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tell you the story. But after many years of that,
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just this last December, two of our young people, porstucated
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christian fled Iran went to Turkey. Seven years of hunger
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and persecution and everything in agony. Finally they went to
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Canada contacting me. They said, we watch your program. They're
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twenty eight years old. They said, we watch your program
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for years. My program was Lessens in Love to the
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TV and the government cannot stop the TV. You know
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it's on your TV. They can't. And they said, you
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want to help you with social media. I said, social media, okay,
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how do I do it? I'm not a social media person, really,
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I am not. They said, you have to do fifteen
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second messages. I'm like, fifteen second messages. I can't do
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fifteen second messages in fifteen second? What are you going
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to tell these Muslim or the young people. Their attention
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spam is three second. What you're going to do? You
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guys know they're laughing. Instagram has three seconds, like one two,
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not even three one to nope, one too, no one two?
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Oh this is interesting, but don't go over ten seconds,
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you know, just fifteen second, fifteen seconds. Just imagine if
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Apostle Paul had that man, he would have I think
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one hundred iPhones, every iPhone for different platform. I have
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two iPhones. One is for normal stuff and another one
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is for my social media. Susie knows I'm a shy person.
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I'm very introverted, and if I talk about Jesus, I
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come alive. Other than that, I'm in my shell. And
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social media never that's the biggest testimony that God lives,
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cammera and social media. It's like I should did Jesus live?
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But anyway, to make a long story short, we started,
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I said, okay, in fifteen second, really, what can I do?
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In fifteen second? I got my iPhone and I got
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really good mic. I was doing a setup and open
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my mouth. This is three months ago. I said why
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as an Iranian in FARSI ceromo ironia. I didn't know
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what I'm going to say. Next, I said why as
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an Iranian, we love the word Baba June father life.
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I said, huh, it's because there is a Bobo June
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in heaven and he loves us. And my heart for
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you is that you may hear the voice of Baba
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June thirteen second or whatever. I send it to them,
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and that video went viral and those two kids said,
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stay around Baba June, stay around father life, Baba June.
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And since then I would make fifteen second twenty second
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math messages that Bobo June loves you. You are the
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masterpiece of Bobo June. And that video today, I think
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it had two point Up to today it had two
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point two million views among Muslims in Iran. What did
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I say? You are the masterpiece? We know, hopefully we
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know we are the masterpiece. Master piece. The piece didn't
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do anything. The master worked on the masterpiece, but the
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piece waited. All we can offer is to wait and
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wait and wait while the master works in the masterpiece.
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The only thing you can offer is waiting. But you
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said ten years Jesus two thousand years ago, he said
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I'm coming soon. It's been two thousand years. I'm like
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when he said wait those who wait on the Lord,
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but Bible never. I wish it had a disclaimer on
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there those who wait seventy years or sixty years, or
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forty years or twenty years for their prophecy twenty years
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wait before the Lord. But when you wait, you become
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a masterpiece. Just imagine, if you want to go buy
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a painting. The painter did the painting in five minutes,
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or michael Angelo did it in a long time. You
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are that painting. You're that masterpiece. I am that masterpiece.
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But the question is how much this master worked on
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this piece. We talked about olive oil and good wine earlier. Today,
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sometimes I say, Lord, I don't have that much time.
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When I was looking at that, my voice made me cry.
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I'm like, but even in that, I saw one of
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my pictures. It was twenty twenty something. I was way younger.
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I'm like, I see that one place. It was all
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the puzzles, and I was just telling the Lord, these
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are the pieces of the puzzle of my life. When
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some of them they were happening, I had no idea
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that they all go together. I had no idea. Really,
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some of those pieces. I remember I was so hopeless.
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I was just trying just to walk with God. And
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I said, Lord, I'm walking with you, and you're sharing
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your heart with me. But how am I going to
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reach my people? I'm in America. I don't know how
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to do it. But then ten years ago Satellite Ministry opened.
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But I gave my heart to the Lord January twenty first,
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twenty twenty five years ago. You wait for fifteen years
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the master works in your heart, and then this door opened.
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It was satellite TV. And all I would do, I
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would just weep, you would perhaps you will get to
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know me. I don't know. We will see in next
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fifteen minutes what's going to happen. But I weep and
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I weep, and I weep and I weep. Susie all
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she dies is to she laughs and laughs and laughs
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and laughs. When the Lord touches Susie. She laughs when
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the Lord touches me, I weep. Perfect match right there,
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laughing and laughing and weeping. When we got married, Susie
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would say, is this all you do? You cry? And
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I'm like, is this all you do? You laugh? Really?
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Sometimes just to be honest with you. Sometimes, you know,
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we're just driving together. We just got married. That's another testimony.
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We met in January. I asked her to marry me
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in February fifteen, and we were married fourth of July.
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I don't you know. I don't say you guys do it,
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But for us it happened like that. But when it happened,
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we didn't know each other that much. And we're just driving.
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I remember, I would just have good shirt and my
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tears are really big, really really big. Really, if I
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cry he hits the carpet, you really can hear it.
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And it would just go over my shirt. Well, I'm
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having a moment and she's like, honey, you're ruining your shirt.
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I'm like, this is a holy moment. Who cares about
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the shirt? Now? If I don't cry, Susie will say
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after twenty years, she said, honey, your face is like this.
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I think you need to cry. Before I met Jesus,
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my cry I would cry. This is like almost like
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a poisonous tear. They were poisoned. They were so hopeless
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that would hurt me. They were out of self pity,
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they were misery. They had the tears. They had no
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hope in them. Now when I cry, I can feel
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it is coming. Now when I cry, it almost has
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joy in it. I can feel God in it, almost
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like going to spa. It is inner response. Really, you
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just yet, our heart needs that, man, Our heart needs
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to go to that inner respa. You know, I don't
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know when was the last time you got massaged and
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we said, man, we're tired, we need to go get
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some massage. Mine was maybe a year ago. But I
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really our heart need to be massaged by God every day. Really,
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some of us, we really it's not bad. Sometimes part
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of my heart is the heart of stone really master
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works in the masterpiece. You know, all these talks that
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he hear. I hope it will lead all of us
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to Christ and his work, not just necessarily among Muslim
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world or whatever, but in you because literally it's the
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masterpiece is sitting here. See when Michael Angel was just
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working in that stone, all he was doing he was
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chipping the stone. He never added anything to the stone.
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When you have a beautiful piece of rock, which we
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call diamond, all you do you don't add anything to
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diamond because diamond doesn't need anything to be added to it,
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but it needs to be chipped away and make it beautiful.
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Because of Christ, we are that right there. But we
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have to be shape and mold. And the problem is
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in our sight. He takes his time, The Lord takes
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his time. Every single life has been tailored. Every single
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light apart from our job, our education, our background, our look,
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our age, every single life was tailored. One of the
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reasons is like if our hairs are really numbered, Bible
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doesn't lie the hair. You will say, don't you your God,
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don't you have other things to do? You count the hair?
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Maybe that's why some of us are bald. You know,
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it's like, hey, at least less work for the Lord.
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You guys, the ladies are more work for him, more
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work for him. That was deep? Does it have to
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be deep? We talked about this eleven service. We said,
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it's going to be different. Let's see where he's taking me.
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They trusted me, Thank you. But really, when I was
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standing there, the Lord really got my attention about the puzzle.
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That everything, even that yesterday we went through, it's gone,
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but that piece of puzzle branded in you. We never
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curse it. We never curse our past. I came out
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of Islamic regime and Islamic religion, but I don't curse it.
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I don't curse it. It was pieces of my puzzle.
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Even sometimes when you paint, there are places that has
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to be darker, and it's okay. It's piece of this puzzle.
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If you really look at the Bible and all that
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New Testament, you know, the life of the Lord, it's
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way more than what we can see in the Bible.
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That's I always say, it just kind of like a
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little bit of his resume. It's just he put it
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there for us. It's very impressive resume. You know. I
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don't know if he would be hired on Earth. But
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impressive resume with that kind of a resume, you know,
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just killed a lot of people in Old Testament, but anyway,
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with that kind of a resume, and then he came
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to Earth to conquer, and then he gets killed. You know,
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it's like, I don't know. I want you to work
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in my coffee shop. You know, I don't know what's
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going to happen. You're going to give everything away, and
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I don't know. You're not a bit good businessman, you know,
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I don't think the way your ways are higher. But
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that doesn't work on Earth. Giving is better than receiving.
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Can I have a cappuccino? Yes? How much? Don't worry
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about it. This is extra five dollars. We call that grace.
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Not only he forgave, he gave us sunshift. And I
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was like, not a very good business man, right, that's
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our Lord, that's our king. Taking deep breath is good,
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isn't it? Let's do it? Hm? Why silence scares us?
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I don't know why. Sometimes we go through life. There
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is big chunk of silence in our life, big chunk.
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Just imagine if the music was playing and there wasn't
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any space between the note, it would be this deep
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long beep a space before the note. The Lord promises
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us something eleven I said, the will be more people,
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the spirit would be even more exciting. But he's doing
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something else right now. The question is can I trust him?
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Can I trust him when he's not very excited and
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moving rushing through me and there is silence. The Master
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just left, when the disciples they follow Jesus. Just I
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share this part, and I really feel the Lord wants
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me to share my testimony. You're going you're normal people
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and the religious people looking for Messiah. You're just fisher's
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man and fisherman or sometime in you know, Apostle Paul
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was a religious man looking for Messiah or looking just
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to catch some fish and feed your people. All this
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sudden jackpot happens and you meet Messiah is like this
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firework of Messiah. And these twelve they are saying, you,
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miserable people, we had the jack but you don't have it.
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None of you have it. Only twelve of us we
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got him. Right. Then you walk with him, and then
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you have ability even to perform miracle. You said, oh
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my God. Persian people when they're happy, they do this
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they're danced. That's the person dance. Oh my god, I
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hit the jack board. Jesus. Now people are flocking over
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to give us money because he performs miracle, and he
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allowed me to perform miracle. Right, then you walk with him,
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and then you get angry and some people they don't
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want your Jesus, and you tell Jesus, do you want
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us to call fire? Burn everybody? Because we have the
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power to do it. You gave it to us, right,
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And he's like, okay, let's just keep walking. Let's just
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they're older ladies here. Yeah, I did some of those
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things in Old Testament, but you don't understand why. But
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I'm here, it's different story. Let's just keep walking, right,
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You just keep walking like us say, seeing all the
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older Muslim they're going to go to hell, Let's just
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send fire to them. And he's like, keep walking, keep walking,
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keep walking. I'm glad they didn't have he didn't even
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have a horse. Just keep walking. I really feel the
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Lord is just keep telling me every day, just keep
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walking with me. You don't understand, you don't even understand
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what I just said. Eat my flash, drink my blood.
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Everybody left, but you just keep walking you just keep walking.
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You just keep walking. You just walk with Jesus. And
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then he start talking about I'm leaving and they're going
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to kill me. You're like your messiah, your God. Nobody
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can kill you, right, but their god just died. Just
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imagine the ups and downs as they went through. You
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and I will go through the same thing. They realized that,
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oh my god, we thought nobody could kill him. He
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was a terminator, but they killed him. He just got
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killed in a very embarrassing way without the underwear, right,
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without underwear, our God died. There would be time in
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our life we will go through this. And you feel
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like our my God just was defeated. My problem is
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way bigger. Perhaps my generational stuff is way bigger that
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my God just died. He forgot about me, those paws.
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There was this amazing to me. It's a holy pause.
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Do I trust him when there is a holy pause
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in my life? There was a holy pause. Jesus died.
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Bible said, they want backfishing, just go back fishing. We
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still love Jesus. But they kill them. And then Jesus
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comes back. See the road that they had to go,
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And then that was just the beginning. Holy Spirit was
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given to them in a new way. Still they were afraid,
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they said, we need more of Holy Spirit to be bold.
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But look at the things that they went through. In
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that sense, I have learned this much in the last
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twenty five years to really trust him when there is pause,
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to trust them when there is excitement, to trust them
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when I don't understand what he just said to me.
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To trust him when I waited for ten years or
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fifteen years or twenty years and nothing happened. All the
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things he promised me didn't happen. To trust him. But
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one thing he's just keep saying, keep walking with me,
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Keep walking with me, keep walking with me. And he
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doesn't even have to explain himself. One day I told him,
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I said, Lord, finally I could look at you and
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say you can be you around me. With close friends,
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they feel that they don't have to change around you,
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because say, father, you could be you. I bless you
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to be you. Please, I wanted you to change on
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my behalf. Do not change like going to a sergeant,
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the one that does heart surgery and say I want
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you to exactly be you. Do not listen to me,
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do as you wish, master me making masterpiece now I
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have eight minutes to share my testament. Oh thank you,
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Oh I have more. I got you, guys, I got you,
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I got you slowly, I got you. And in this
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eight minutes, I hope he does heart surgery for all
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of us. The reason I talk this way because I
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want to really express I know you guys know, but
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I have microphone. Now I want to really express his
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realness and I want to really express the reality of
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walking with the living Christ, reality of walking with the
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living Christ. When I forget that, when I get anxious,
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I try to look at his life in the Bible,
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his life apart from me, what God himself went through,
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from the creation of Adam and Eve and all the
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angels and angels disrespecting and leaving him and then trying
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to have their own movement up to this moment, and
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then him being Almighty God, the creator of the world,
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the only one that was never created. He said, I'm
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gonna humble myself go through the body of a woman.
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And he didn't magically pop out of her stomach. He
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had to go through what we all went through. Just imagine.
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Sometimes I just pictured God is like, how could you
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do that? How could you go through a body of
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a human and be born. And then the day one
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Jesus had to pee, had to eat, had to poop.
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It wasn't a holy poop. I'm sorry if I'm making
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you uncomfortable. But that's why when you tell the Muslim
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that God walked among us, they say that's blasphemy. What
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I just said, was it blasphemy? Was he one day
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old or not? Did he put himself under a care
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of another human being or not? Or they were angels
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taking care of him? He did the one that was
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never created. The creator said, I'm going to humble myself
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intoer into ald this way and exit that way. My
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question is, can I walk with him? Can I walk
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with him? He went through a lot. Can I walk
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with him? No judgment against me. But he's saying cameren,
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or he's saying your name. Let's walk. I went through
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so much. I understand what you're going through. Let's walk.
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I understand when someone else takes care of you, let's walk.
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I understand when someone puts the nail on your hand,
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Let's just walk. I understand. And you didn't do anything. Indeed,
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they crucified you, the one that you healed. Now they
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took Brabs or whatever his name was. Let's just walk.
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Let's not ask me to burn your neighbor. Let's just walk.
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Don't sentence anybody to hell. Let's just walk. My blood
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can cover a lot. Can we walk together? That one?
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I always for some reason, Susan and I we don't
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have our own children. I told you, I cried, I
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promised you, and it happened. Susan and I, we don't
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have our children. One time my mother said, came and
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how about you guys adopt? I started crying. I said, Mom,
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I know it sounds like blasphemy. I said, I feel
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Jesus is my child. Why because I had the Lord
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allowed me to have a relationship with him, Because he
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allowed Mary and some of the people around to have
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relationship with God as one day old on earth, two
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days old, three days old. Can you imagine how cute
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he was when he was one year or two years?
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He allowed certain people to have that kind of relationship.
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Can I have that kind of relationship with him? Does
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he does? He? Is he craving to be held by
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me as he was held by some people. Yes, of course.
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The reason that I like to be held because my
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father likes to be held. Does that make sense? I
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didn't know him. I was a Muslim. I was a Muslim.
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I was searching for God. But one day I found
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this Bible in a crazy way. I was thirty three
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years old. I was sick and tired of religion. I
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was a very good Muslim. I did five time prayer
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of the day. I would sometime I do fifteen times
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perie or of the day. I was extremeist, but not
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full of hate. I was very peaceful Muslim. Even in
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our small city. Everybody day, me almost and all the
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beggars in our city, they would come to my father's restore.
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I was trying to get God's attention, and since I
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was twelve years old and that didn't happen. At the
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age of thirty, I tried to run away from Iran
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from a love from religion. I really thought God is
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going to send me to Hell, or I love would
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send me to Hell. I went to Cyprus to apply
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for visa to come to America. I found the Bible
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Forceee Bible for the first time. Bible is illegally in Iran.
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I had to go to Cyprus because we don't have
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American and be se in Iran and the Lord appeared
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to me in person. And he didn't say I want
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you to follow me. I'm the son of God. He
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looked at me, he said, I will help you to
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go to America. That makes him a bad evangelist. He
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could close the deal right there and say, hey, for
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my sake, just like Paul, you're going to suffer a lot.
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And he didn't say any of that. I told you,
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if he comes here and say hey, I want to
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teach your evangelism class, we said no, no, oh, thank you.
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I don't think you're a good evangelist. No. I really
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felt him laughing. You may say God would laugh. He
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knows what am I going to say in next two minutes?
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Right then? That makes him a robot. There's a scripture
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for it. He said, when he forgives, he forgets. That
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means he's gonna forget what I'm gonna say in two minutes.
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And you guys are supposed to laugh. Now, Oh Jesus,
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do you think in heaven he will tell us joke?
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He said, No, I saw this lady right there has
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this beautiful white hat. Do you think he can put hat? Cap?
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Or no? A hat? Maybe? What? Now? He's too holy right,
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he's too holy to do a lot of things. He
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wasn't too holy to be buried as a human. Is
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he too holy? That's why for some like me, I
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really like to bring him in. I love these socks
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about it from in South Africa. You know, everybody, they're
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looking at my socks. It's not holy socks. It's just
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a normal sucks. But I love it. So does he
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Look at the way he made the butterfly and the
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flowers and everything, and he's so beautiful. Right, he can
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do a lot of things. Thank God, he doesn't have
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to get our permission. Otherwise he would always sit in
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his throne in heaven and would always worship him and
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do nothing else. He's like God, it's it's been one
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million years. Can I get off my throne? No? You
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have to stand sit there right anyway, Oh Jesus, he
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came out of the book. I really saw him. And
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three years later when I got my visa and I
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came to you as three years later, I met some
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Christians and they loved me as a Muslim. And I
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couldn't crack that quote, like why do they love me?
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I am nobody. I work as a construction worker, like
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getting six dollars twenty five seven twenty cents in nineteen
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ninety six. Why do they love me? But it was
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Christ and they led me to this prayer because I
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trusted them. But the prayer was not for me. But
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I had my own prayer. I said, Jesus, because this
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is Jesus three years prior helped me. I said, Jesus,
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I knew he was listening. Just imagine he's standing there.
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I say, Jesus, what does he say, your Muslim I
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don't talk to you? He said. He would say yes.
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I would say, I don't believe you're the son of God,
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and he would say, Son, you told me the truth.
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I know you don't believe I'm the son of God.
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Then I said, but if you are, I give you
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my heart. He said, oh, if I am, He jumps in.
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Then I said, Jesus, I don't believe your blood has
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any power to forgive my sin. But if there is
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any forgiveness to your blood, I ask you. I beg
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you to wash all my sins away. Then I said, Jesus,
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if you can build a relationship between my heart and
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the heart creator which you claim he's your father, I
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give you full permission to do anything you want to
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do with my life. That moment, I felt someone touched
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me and I wept for the first time in my life.
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At that kind of weeping, I didn't even know that
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kind of weeping exists. Two or three months later, I
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got invited to a church. I went to that church.
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I saw Jesus again. Thank you. I saw Jesus again
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and again. Some people say he can appear on earth.
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I don't know. He has some kind of a deal
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with the airline or sometime. You know, if you work
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for the airline, you always can go anywhere you want.
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He can appear. He really did. He was standing behind
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the pastor. I just looked at him. He had a
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rod in his hand, and he just walked here and
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walked on earth on air. And I was sitting in
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the first row. It was a five thousand people church.
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I didn't go there by choice. Really, the usher took
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me there, and I was very uncomfortable. He walked inside
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my body. Have you seen the movie Ghost? Really he
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walked inside my body, and the fire went everywhere, and
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I saw his hand touched my heart, fire everywhere. Holy Spirit.
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I didn't know Holy Spirit. Even after that experience. I
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didn't believe he was the son of God. It was
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too much for me. I said, now, I believe he's alive.
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January twenty first, two thousand. They took me to another
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church and people prayed for me, and they gave me
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a hug, and I saw this dark tornado inside my stomach.
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When he got here, I started screaming. I didn't know
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demon exist or deliverance exist. Maybe some of you still
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don't believe it. And I didn't know. I was Muslim.
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You know, we believed in Genie, but not really demon
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that lived in You really believe in good Genie, Muslim Genie,
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Bad Genie, and Fathergenie. That's what we believed. And when
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that tornado got here, I couldn't stop myself from screaming.
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And it was like a beast. And I knew there
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are being they live inside me. They don't want to
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go see. I didn't have any prior church experience. And
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after they were gone, my eyes were closed and I
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saw very far, very very far into heaven. I saw
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Jesus standing in the right side of a throne. Actually
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it was a wooden chair. I didn't know it was
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a throne, but it was a wooden chair, a chair
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that you wouldn't even pay five dollars for it. Really,
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it was just a normal chair. Later on, I found
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out in the Bible and he poured some kind of spirit.
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It was the spirit and milk. I knew there is
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milk in it. It came all the way from Heaven.
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It touched me and this like atomic bomb went off.
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I remember when I got up, not only my brain
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and my heart knew who Jesus was, completely, who Jesus was.
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I look at my fingernails, they had the same knowing,
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at my heart, my eyebrows, my eyelashes, they had the
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same knowing. My whole body knew who Jesus was. And
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I kept saying it was you. It was you all along.
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And that was twenty five years ago, up to the
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pieces of Puzzle, up to what's happening right now in Iran.
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People are messaging us. They're saying, when you say Bobo June,
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we cannot stop crying, and it feels really good. We
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get thousands of messages about the tears that they're shedding,
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and Jesus is appearing to them. Amen.