Sermon
The Foundation of Restoration
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Amen, Amen, Well, welcome to church once again. You are a
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beautiful bunch. Today. We're gonna we're in for a lot of fun.
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And before I turn it over to mister Pastor Wolf to lead us into the
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word, I want to let you know that August thirtieth, we have a
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mission team departing for Uganda. Right so this is our second of the last
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Sunday here, but we wanted to introduce the team too, So if you're
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from the team, just stand up where you're at right now. We have
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nine of us going Joe, Sandy, Sophia, Dale, Rummel back there,
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Duanne and I Connie, Dennis. Where Dennis go? I thought I
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saw him over here. Oh there's Dennis and Sandy back there. So this
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is the team that's going to go and represent We are going to You can
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have a seat if you'd like to. We are going to be half of
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us, or some of us, are going to be ministering at a pastor's
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conference of about four to five hundred pastors. So they're going to be keynote
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speak and speaking all day all night. So be praying for both Joe and
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Dwayne because that's what they're gonna be doing. Miss Connie over here, she's
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gonna be sewing shoes all week like crazy with a sewing machine. They hurt.
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She's gonna work with the team of my three sixty project. We showed
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you those little shoes that grow two sizes with the children when we put them
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on them, So she's gonna be thoroughly immersed in that. And at the
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end of our time that we're gonna have a shoe give we're gonna be giving
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away a couple hundred shoes. It's just gonna be an amazing time. The
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rest of us are gonna go down to Matukula and we're gonna have a medical
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project down there. We're gonna do a medical clinic for two days. We're
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gonna be leading people to the Lord, working with the pastor down there.
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We are going to be passing out medications and doing small things with that we
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are able to do down there. We're also wanting to participate in feeding people.
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So one three hundred dollars will feed one hundred people for two weeks with
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a full protein meal pack, and so we're hoping to be passing out quite
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a few of those at different places that we're gonna go. We're gonna go
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visit the well that you all paid for this last march to be able to
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be put in. It is in, it is functioning, people are drinking
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from it. We're going to hold a crusade there and pass out food for
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the community. So we're going to gather the community and dedicate it to the
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Lord. So we're going to be busy, busy people. We are on
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the ground I think eight days total. So I had a dream. Anyway,
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it's going to take us some finance to be able to do all these
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projects. And so today, as you saw the team that's here, we
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are going to give you an opportunity to sew into our projects. So if
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you would for me, we gave you this little piece of paper. It
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talks about what we're doing. I think it was on your chair when you
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came in, correct, So pull that out, take a look at it.
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It's got our itinerary on the front. I need you to take this
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home, put it by your bedside, put it in your kitchen, and
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every day between August thirtieth and September nine, I want you to pull this
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thing out, see what we're doing, and I want you to pray for
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us. Now in reality, when you're awake, we're asleep. So in
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reality, what you're what you're praying for is what we did before and what
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we're going to do the next day. Right, it's not that very second.
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And maybe when you're praying for us, pray that we're actually sleeping because
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it's a pretty quick flip and so we're probably awake all night going. I'm
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supposed to be awake right now, but it's dark outside, So pray for
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our jet lag and all of that kind of thing too. But please be
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with us on this team, Be with us moment by moment, just being
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prepared next Sunday when we come, you're gonna pray us out of here.
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And then we leave that Wednesday. We have packed up nine suitcases. I
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think it is filled with brand new free medical supplies that we're taking over.
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So we're gonna, yeah, it's just great. We go and we blow
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the place up. We don't just go and look around. We go and
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change things. So would you be willing? Would you be willing today to
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partner with us? There's four once again, four ways to give. You
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can do this by that QR code. You can do it anyway. Just
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reach in the front the seat in front of you, grab grab a enflo
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But would you be willing to help us today? Ushers, come on forward.
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We are getting ready. We have to send money. We've sent some
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last week, we have to send it this week so that they can get
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stuff purchased for us lined up and on the ground and stage, so that
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we can be ready to give this away. So would you partner with us
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here today, partner with us around the world, changing lives and in ways
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that you will probably never be able to know until we go to heaven.
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Right then we're gonna see what we stored up with just our righteous acts and
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deeds. Amen, Father and Jesus name, thank you so much for these
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people and for their willingness to give, for their willingness to be a part
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with us. Lord I thank you for the team. Lord God, I
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thank you right now that there's health and wholeness in every single one of us
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between now and the moment we land. And Lord God, I thank you
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right now that you're just going to keep your hand of safety upon us.
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Thank you Lord that this team is not just nine, but it's the entire
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body of New Horizon going forward to do things and to put our hands to
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the plow in Jesus name. Amen, thank you so much, Thank you
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so much for your participation, your willingness. We are ever so grateful.
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Amen. Pastor Dwayne, why don't you come on up and lead us in
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the word I want live. Let stand up and pray for the word.
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We have a week for you to continue to give. So if you want
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to be a part of this, we've got so much we want to do
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the shoe projects, all of our outreaches. I think our outreaches are like
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four hundred and fifty a day or something like that. So if you want
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to continue to be a part of this, you can, you know,
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you can come online and just go into the mission drop down box or you've
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gone to drop down box or whatever it is on sub splash or online or
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whatever, and just continue to help us. Also, we're collecting electronics so
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they love it if we bring stuff over there. And actually we've got one
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church we want to provide symbols for they need a whole symbol set. If
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you want to be a part of that, I've been asking you to give
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into Restored Life books. So we're having two hundred Break your Chains books printed
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and we're taking those with us. Fifty restored life books, we're taking those
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with us, one hundred and fifty communion books, we're taking those with us.
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And twenty five of the brand new child deliverance books, Set Your Child
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Free Book, those are gonna go with us as well. So it's a
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brand new book we're just finishing. So that's going with us over there.
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So that's like those are tubs and every tub is two hundred dollars to get
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there. So it's just money, money, money, money. Say I'm
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loaded, I'm overflowing, I'm abounding for every good work. And Jesus Name
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and Father, we thank you for your word today, thank you that you
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raise us up and that we are we are your ecclesia. We are your
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ambassadors of transformation, your ambassadors of reconciliation. And we just we bless the
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team today and we blessed this house that together we set our hearts on transforming
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the nations and doing our part to represent you and to bring your healing word,
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your healing ministry. We give you the praise for in Jesus name,
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or may said amen, Amen, Amen, you maybe see yeah, electronics,
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I didn't finish that thought. So laptops cell phones, stuff that still
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might work even if it's locked. Bring it in because we'll figure out way
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to unlock it. If you can strub it, great, strub it before
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you bring it in or whatever, and then we'll h they are they are
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technically they are not technically challenged over there, so they can unlock your phone,
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believe it or not. They'll figure it out. So Joel's phone,
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I sent it into Apple, her last phone, and I sent it into
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Apple, you know, because they were doing a trade in. So whatever
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she's on now, she's on it like an eight or eleven or something.
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I don't know if she's on anyway. So I sent in her old phone
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to do a trade in thing and Apple sent it back and said it doesn't
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qualify. It's a piece of garbage, you know whatever. So I sent
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it over there. Pastor Andrew got it working. He's using it today,
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so he's having a ball with an iPhone. They figured it out. So
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just you know, if you think it might work, get it in this
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week so we can get it into the luggage. Get it into the stuff.
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Right. So this is connect Sunday, by the way, So it's
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Picnic Sunday, but it's connect Sunday. That means we want you in a
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name tag. And I'm Dwayne the Bathtub. I'm not Dounding, but that's
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yeah, okay, but we want you in a name tag. We want
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you to stay for the picnic, like Joe said, and we want you
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in a name tag because it's Connects Sunday and they were raptick. We were
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doing Raffle, were doing the Rapple tickets back there. So if you have
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a Raffle ticket, We're gonna give away prizes at the picnic, so you
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gotta stay. And I think the prizes are after the apple pie contest and
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we have ice cream for the apple pie, so we will dwell together in
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fatness and that's very scriptural. So that's going on. I'm want to talk
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about restoration through the church today, and I'm just I'm blessed by you.
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I'm proud of all of you and blessed that you're here, and thankful for
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every one of you. Joel, and I rejoice over you and your friendship
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with this house and your your partnership with for the Kingdom, and your love
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for him and all that all that he's doing, all that he represents.
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Amen. I've been talking to last several sunnis about restoration and how it's God's
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plan to restore mankind and it's God's plan to restore the Earth, and that's
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really the macro plan. The macro plan is restoration. And we have our
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mission. We are comissioned agents. Our mission is in opposition to another mission,
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a mission that took over the planet, a mission that usurped first Adam
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and his governance and his dominion over the planet. And so our mission in
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Jesus is a mission against that mission. So we are comissioned to destroy the
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finish, to partner with Jesus in finishing the work of destroying the works of
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darkness, banishing Satan off the planet. And as Jude writes and as Peter
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writes, seeing to it that the powers of darkness are locked in chains until
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the day of judgment, that's really that's our assignment we are. We're on
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this assignment, and so we do both at the same time. We're building
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the kingdom and we're destroying the works of darkness. And wherever we don't destroy
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the works of darkness, the kingdom won't be built. The kingdom has to
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be built. Where we have partner with Jesus to bind the strong man and
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to plunder the strong men. So that's that's what we do, and we
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don't do it on Sunday. This is the training Center, the equipping center,
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this is the Joy Center, this is the family Center, this is
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this is so much, but it's not everything. Right. We are the
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scent ones. We're sent in the culture we're sent into. And your employment
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is one of the coolest ways for you to be sent because you are paid
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to be a missionary. Wherever you are, you are a paid missionary.
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You're a paid missionary. Have you wanted to be a paid missionary? Sent
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by an organization? You are. You're sent by Apple, You're sent by
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Microsoft, You're sent by you know, some real estate company, or you're
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sent by some organization or the carpenters Union or the Electricians Union or Boeing.
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You're sent you're your way is paid to be the ecclesia in the midst of
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darkness and to bring kingdom word, kingdom, love, kingdom values, kingdom
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principle right where you're at. You're a paid missionary and that fun and that
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cool. And so I've been thinking a little bit about the church today because
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the church the Church is the instrument of restoration to the earth, the Church
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Ephesians three, ten and eleven. His intent was that now through the Church.
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His intent was now that through the Church, the manifold wisdom should be
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made known to the rulers and authorities in heavenly realms. So the principalities and
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powers, the very thing that Paul says in Ephesians six ten through eighteen,
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the very thing that we battle with, the thing we wrestle with, the
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thing that we feel, the thing that's against the righteousness or the Kingdom of
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God or the Kingdom of Heaven. It's through the Church. It's through us,
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the ecclesia, the called of God, the set apart of God.
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It's through us that the manifold wisdom of God is now being made known.
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It's being made known through our words, our prayers, our lifestyle, our
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speech. It's being made known through all we represent and everything we do.
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We are the ones because we carry Jesus as He carried the Holy Spirit.
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We carry His Holy Spirit into everything and everywhere. So now through the Church,
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the wisdom of God should be made known to rulers and authorities in heavenly
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realms or in the spirit realm according to his eternal purpose that he accomplished.
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This was his purpose all alone. This was his purpose all along, that
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he would have a people, that he would reclaim the earth, that he
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would reclaim mankind, that he would bring. This was his purpose all along,
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and its launch began with Jesus, according to the eternal purpose that he
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accomplished in Christ. Jesus our Lord. So God shows the Church to bring
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the Kingdom of Heaven. God shows the Church to expand the Kingdom of Heaven.
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We are the blood bought. We are the set apart. We are
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the ecclesia of every region. We're the ecclesia of every region. By the
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way, I can't. I'm not the ecclesia in Los Angeles today. Somebody
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down there is going to need to do something about that weather that's coming.
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Right. So I'm not the ecclesia in San Diego. I'm not the ecclesia
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in Cabo San Lucas. I'm not the ecclesia in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania today.
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I'm not the ecclesia in Washington, DC. The ecclesia is a regional as
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it was in Ephesus, or as it was in the Grecian days, or
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it was in the Roman days. The ecclesia is a region expression. God
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needs me right here, God needs you right here. It's a regional expression
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in every region. The Church represents Heaven on Earth. I can pray over
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other areas, I can prophesy over area, other areas, but I get
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to represent Heaven on Earth right here, right here, right here. I
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get to represent Heaven on Earth. The Church is Heaven's legislators. Matthew six
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eighteen through nineteen. I tell you that you are Peter, and on this
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rock, I will build my church. You've heard multiple sermons on this.
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I won't even I don't want to go into where they were and how important
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it was, and how they were actually at the Gate of Hades. They
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were actually there, they were actually at a place called the Gate of Hades.
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I will build my church, my ecclesia, and the gates of Hades
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will not overcome it. And I will give you the keys of the Kingdom
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of Heaven. Who has the keys to the Kingdom of Heaven? Yeah,
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you do, we do. The Church does. The Church does the Body
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of Christ that called out the regional expression in a region of God's people,
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of God's set apart. People have been given the keys to bringing Heaven to
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earth. We have been given the keys to the Kingdom of Heaven. What
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would the earth do without the Church? What would the earth when the world
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would be happening without the Church? Right now? What would have happened over
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this last season in the global reset if the Church hadn't have been standing up
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in every region and standing up in prayer, and standing up in action,
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and standing up in the prophetic word, standing up to thwart the plans of
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the enemy, plans that were actually meant to thwart the growing move of God
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and the revival that God is loosing over the planet for a billion soul harvest.
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What would have happened if the Church would have said not on my watch?
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Did you know it is actually our network director. I don't know if
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you knew this, but our network director, the one that we belovedly love
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and we give in to every single month without missing a beat. It is
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chay On who directs the Harvest International Ministry and Harvest Rock Church who stood up
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against Gavin Newsom and the powers in California that went all the way to the
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Supreme Court, that actually won a victory for the entire global church in the
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United States of America, that churches will not be shut down, that worship
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will not be legislated, that the way we worship will not be silenced,
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and that the church is free to worship as she desires and needs to that
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that, by the way, that lawsuit cost them our our functioning. So
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we're under two networks. Were under Shay and World Harvests or Global Harvest Harvest
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International. We're also under Bethel, and we partner with both of them.
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We given to both, We partake of both, and we yield to both
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and glean from both. And and those two are brothers in a ministry called
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Revival Alliance. So, but I don't know if you know that that cost
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Harvest Strock Church and Shay and everything. That costs them one point three five
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million dollars to fight that to the Supreme Court. Now, I want to
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just ask you a question, where would that where? Where? What would
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have happened if they wouldn't have had one point three five million dollars? Wow,
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See, some things, some things well all things we pray for,
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but some things we need to add shoe leather and greenbacks. Two that as
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we said that there would be breakthrough that accompanies the prayer. Now, the
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beautiful joy of that is that when they won the victory to the Supreme Court,
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then a part of the victory was all of their legal fees had to
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be paid back. That's how I know it was one point three five million
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dollars is because they on an award from Gavin Newsome and the State of California
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that all of their legal fees had to be paid back. But my point
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is, what if they wouldn't have had the one point three five million in
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the first place. You follow what I'm saying, because that victory was our
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victory. That victory was the next plandemic's victory, because another plandemic might be
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coming, but there's already been in victory one that just messed up somebody's plandemic
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right there, if you know what I'm saying. But it's the church.
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It's the church. The church carries the good news of the Heaven. The
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church carries the heart of Heaven and the character of Heaven. The church calls
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people out of darkness and equips them with Heaven's DNA. The church is the
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salt and the light of the world. The Church. The church carries the
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values that actually cause society to work. If it weren't for the church,
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we wouldn't need have the values that makes society work. It's out of the
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Church that comes kindness. The world is not pushing forth kindness. Satan is
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not like Satan is not specializing in kindness. Do you understand that it's the
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values that make society work. Love, patience, kindness, meekness, gentleness,
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servitude, self control, respect for property, respect for one another,
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honor. I mean, we could go on and on about the values that
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actually all of society cherishes and it makes all of society work. They don't
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come out of any place other than the church. They come out of the
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Church. We could talk about the Dark Ages. I don't know. You
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know, if you realize that the Dark Ages were actually some people blame the
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Dark Ages on the churches. You know, it's only the Church that sustained
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culture through the Dark Ages. Go back and study again, you're gonna get
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a revelation. Stole helping me because she's the church history genius. She helped
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me to get a revelation that it was actually the church that brought life through
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the Dark Ages. It wasn't the church that brought the dark ages. If
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it weren't for the church, the lights would have gone out. That's always
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the way it is, and that's always the way it's going to be.
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And that's why the lights aren't going to go out because the church is well
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alive. The church is well alive. Now here's the crazy thing about the
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church. For all of this, the church needs people. People who are
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able to lead, equip teach, build up, strengthen those who staff and
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care for the most important organization on the planet. This is the most if
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there were ever a critical hour for the church, I would say, this
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is it. Actually. I mean, I'm sixty four in my lifetime,
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and I know that's a short little span in the view of humanity, but
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in my lifetime, this is the most critical hour ever for the church.
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There has never been a more critical hour for the church in my lifetime.
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And I don't know about you. Most of you are younger than me,
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so you could probably agree with that. But I would say, even over
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the history of our nation, there have been few times that are as critical
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for the church to rise up as a time like this. So in my
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thinking, this is not a time for us to wonder if we should support
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the church. Wonder if we should be on board with the church. Wonderful
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like we should be partnering with the church. Should we really be partnering with
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the Church? Are you kidding me? Wake up? Wake up, child
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of God. This is this could be the most important time in your lifetime
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to partner with the Church. And all of this for the most important organization
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society, All of it has had its biblical precedent in influence support making it
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happen in a crazy thing called the tide the time. The tithe is how
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people of God from the day of Abraham, Genesis chapter fourteen, God set
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a priest in Abram's life. It's the first act recorded in Abram's walk in
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covenant with God. And Abram gives of him a tenth part of increase.
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And we see that pattern begins then, and it's a pattern that goes on
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and on with God's people ten percent. And God has always used this pattern
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biblically to provide for what he wants to do on the earth. And so
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I honestly cringe whenever anybody in ministry on a platform or anywhere with a microphone
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says God doesn't need your money to keep heaven moving. That's totally true.
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To keep Jesus on the throne, totally right, the throne in heaven.
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But for God to do everything he wants to do in what we've been describing
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as a growing kingdom and a diminishing darkness. Everything God wants to do in
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the earth on the earth, he's chosen to do it through people. And
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therefore people need to eat, and buildings need to be paid for, and
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stuff needs to be supported, and so therefore God needs your money. People
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always pour money into things that excite them. You know that, don't you.
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The world is pouring so much money into them, the agendas that they're
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putting forth right now, do you think the agendas moving forth are moving forward
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without money. You've got to be kidding me. They're more than tithing.
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They are more than tithing. Tithe means ten percent. But there's people so
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sold out to their causes. Whether it's tree hugging causes, whale hugging causes,
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a gender affirming causes, whether it's whether it's library causes, whether it's
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the destruction of our university causes, whether it's climate change causes. I'm telling
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you you can name the cause. People in the world are pouring much more
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than ten percent into their cause. They're not just showing up and having a
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cheeseburger. They are bringing their wallets. They are bringing their wallets. Loving
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a cause means supporting that cause, be it a political party, a conservative
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party, a school, university, hospital, or a brick of benevolence.
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This is just the way it works in a third dimensional world. And it's
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eleven thirty and I just started appreciate it. I just wound up. I
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just got wound up. I was the barrier to blow a gasket. You
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know. I don't see it as a painful reality. I see it as
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the joy of those who are mature in Christ and an expression of childlike faith.
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It's really true, you know, Joel and I have proved it out
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so now forty years of ministry. Probably never had salaries that compare to most
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of yours. No, it's true. You know, our our first little
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spot, we joke about what our salary was, and and just kind of
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scrapping and digging and all the time, you know, giving ten and twenty
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and sometimes thirty percent of our income back to the church, and sacrificing and
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just watching God work, watching God do miracles. This is what he says.
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In Malachi three ten through twelve. He says, put me to the
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test, prove me herein see if I won't open the windows of heaven for
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you and pour out a blessing upon you. And I love the translation.
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It gives a lot more clarity to it. And we could throw this stuff
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up on the passage upon the stream. Bring the whole tithe into the storehouse.
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That's the ten percent. Bring your ten percent into the storehouse, the
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house of the Lord. Test me in this, says the Lord Almighty.
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See if I will not throw up in the floodgates or the windows of heaven
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and pour out so much blessing that there will not be room enough to store
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it. So that's one translation. And I you know, folks want to
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argue with that, because you can always build a bigger barn. Actually,
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Luke twelve condemns the man. Jesus spoke in a condemning man about a man
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who built bigger barns because his harvest was so vast. So he said,
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I'm just going to build bigger barns, And so he built bigger barns.
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But that passage says, but he wasn't rich toward God. Because he wasn't
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rich toward God, God cut his life short and he lived in futility.
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He didn't enjoy his wealth. There wasn't real fulfillment. Because the joy of
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wealth is supposed to be the joy of not just you tasting the wealth,
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but if you seeing what your wealth can do. And you can only do
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that if you're also rich toward God. God wants to give you a prosperous
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field house, family life. God wants to prosper you, but he also
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wants you to be rich toward Him and giving. Let's go back to Malachi
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because I want you to see it. I outline the nine Everybody say nine,
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We're never going to get to that today. I outline nine benefits of
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tithing. That's about as ambitious as the bike trip yesterday. I told Joel
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and the Conleys we were going to go on a little bit mike trip.
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Thirty two miles later, exhausted, fall into the vehicle, nearly fall asleep
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on their way home, can't move when we get home, Lord Jesus,
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whereas my brain, the ambition just literally overtook me. We need a healing
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but it's a healing of the brain, not only the body. Well,
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that's the same thing with nine points on the blessings the promises of tithing.
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But I promise you this, we will get to those nine. Go back
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to verse ten. I want you to see this. I like the translation
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that says because we can always get a bigger barn. But there's a translation
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that says, pour out so much blessing that you will not be able to
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manage it. The inference is that the blessing of the Lord will be bigger
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than you can manage alone. That when God's blessings upon you'll you'll need those
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to help you manage it. It's more than you can contain or manage by
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yourself. You need the help of others around you. And that might even
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be happening to you to a degree already. And you're not tithing. But
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what he's saying is now, I need you to be rich toward me.
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It's interesting with Abram in Genesis fourteen, God gave him the victory over the
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five kings first, and then out of a reflection, I'm recognizing that God
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gave him the victory, he brought the gift of ten percent to the priest
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Malkazidek, and that resulted in a greater blessing because then Melksitic blessed him.
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And it says the blesser is always blessed by the greater, So Abram,
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who was blessed, received even a greater blessing from a greater one because he
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brought the tenth part. And what blows me away? And I'll just touch
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on one more blessing. We won't go into the rest of those. But
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there's so many tucked into here. There's so many promises tucked into this,
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and we've been receivers of all of them. For forty years of marriage,
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forty years of ministry, we've been receivers of all of them. With our
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children, our home, our finance, our future, our health. We
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literally have like lived in the land of Goshen. While while actually by men's
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estimation, it couldn't be. Like Caleb says all of his friends, if
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you don't believe in God, just look at my parents. That will change
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your mind right there, because all of his buddies are coming from rich families,
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doctors and lawyers and what have you. And that's all good. If
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they've all known that we have laid down our lives to build a church.
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And yet God has built our house and protected us and helped us some of
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us just wisdom. You know. When he opens up the windows of heaven,
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it's it's not envelopes of money dropping on you. It's favor and opportunity
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and wisdom and self control. And it's also the windows of heaven mean the
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access to heavens, thoughts, values, character ideas, concepts, favor.
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It's he didn't say I'm going to open the windows of money and they'll all
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drop on you. He's opening the windows of heaven. That's been a theme
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for four weeks, the Kingdom of Heaven, accessing living in and out of
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the Kingdom of Heaven. That's been our theme. Well, I want to
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go to one more thing. Romans eleven sixteen. We have it up there,
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Roman's eleven sixteen, and it's back in Leviticus twenty three thirty, and
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it's over in another passage that I gave him. Let I give you that
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the ninety percent is blessed Proverbs three. If the part of the dough offered
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his first fruits is holy, then the whole batch is holy. Now I
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want you get over Proverbs three, Mark I few in Proverbs three, it's
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the first fus principle. This is really this is a crazy thing about tithing,
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is that years ago we figured out because we had to budget, just
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like all of you do. We budget today. We do all of our
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money on quick books. We budget everything we do. We keep track of
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every penny we spend, We keep all of our receipts. We budget like
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all of you have to budget. And we figured out a long time ago
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that God was really smart and that he wanted the tithe to be the first
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check. You're right, He wanted the tithe to be the first expense because
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if you'll leave it to the last, you may not have ten percent left
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over it. And biblically, that's called the first fruits. Biblically, he
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said, give me the first, make the ten percent the first. And
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here's what's crazy. He says that when you make the ten percent to him
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first, then he sanctifies and blesses the ninety percent. That's why the ninety
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percent with him is more than one hundred percent without. This is how our
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ninety percent is blast beyond, Like our stuff doesn't wear out, and our
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stuff lasts longer and we get more discernment and insight and understanding on our like
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our ninety percent is more. There's a miracle on our ninety percent because we've
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dedicated the first ten percent to him. Our ten percent, that's the first
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he gets the first. Yeah, but I thought Uncle Sam got your first.
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Well that's another topic. That means that you tie it off the gross,
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not the net. If you tie it off the net, uncle Sam
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got the first ten percent. But if you tie it off of the gross
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before, what was it before taxes were taken out? Okay, I'm gonna
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tie off that the four thousand before they took out my taxes and my Social
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Security and then I'm going to tie it off of four thousand. That's four
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hundred dollars. I'm not going to tie off of the thirty six hundred dollars
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that was left over because that would be second. That would be giving God
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my second fruits. So I don't want to give him my second fruits.
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I'm going to give him my first fruits. So I'm going to write in
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the first check, and it's gonna be based on what it was before Uncle
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got his. And this is how God releases miracles in your lifeless same.
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We've got a close I've gone over time and the hot dogs are frying right
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now. We've got chicken thighs on the barbecue, boneless chicken thighs. We've
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got giant hot dogs, little hot dogs, beet fought dogs. We avoided
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all portocot dogs, pork free, pork free lunch. We want you to
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stay and have fun. We're gonna be hanging out, you know, tell
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like four o'clock or whatever. We got whiffleball. We got cornhole. We
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have got We've got three cornh hole sets. We can have a corn hole
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tournament. We've got apple pie contests. We got ice cream. We have
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the jumpy house, and we have the slide for kids. We've got the
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playground. It's gonna be fun. But the most important thing is that this
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is the most critical hour for the Ecclesia who arise, and for us to
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worship not only with our hands up and with our voices, but to worship
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with our giving, to love the cause of the Kingdom of Heaven so much
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that we get behind that cause financially. And I don't know about you,
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but I you know, I care about the earth. I care about the
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earth, and I care about trees, and I care about the whales,
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and I do I care about climate, and I care about stuff like this,
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and I can learn I care about carbon and this and not. But
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you know, I think I think the answers are in the church. I
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think the answers come out of heaven. And so I'm not going to give
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my money into that stuff. I'm going to give my money to this stuff.
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I'm going to give my money in the raising up heaven, raising up
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a people of heaven, raising up influencers of heaven, raising up households of
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heaven, raising up an echlos sea of people, raising up the influencers of
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heaven who will go in. I'm going to get my money into equipping the
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people who will carry heaven. That's where I'm going to give my money.
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And so when the whale people call me, I gave. I already gave.
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When the tree people call me, when the sunshine people call me,
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or the climate people, I already gave. Where'd you give? I gave?
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And I'm pouring it in. I'm pouring it in. I want to
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be a part of building the most important people and the most important thinkers,
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and the most important legislative body and the most important movers and shakers on the
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planet. And that's only coming out of one thing. It's coming out of
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the organism and the institution and the living body called the Church of the Lord
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Jesus Christ. That's where I want to pour my money. I want to
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pour my money into that, and I want that to be raised up.
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And so Father I I just join with these people. I just know that
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you have knit us together here as a household of faith with people who love
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what you love. And we love that Heaven's growing in Heaven's building, and
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that you're using us, and that you're raising us up. You've given us
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your authority and you're giving us your wisdom. And we just say yes to
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you, and yes to funding dramatically funding the Kingdom of Heaven, dramatically funding
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the work of the gospel, dramatically funding the people and the houses and the
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buildings and the equipment and the books and the stuff that carry your message.
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Holy Spirit. We agree to be your faith ones, your mature ones in
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Jesus, and your childlike believers in Jesus name. And everybody shouted, God
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bless your church.