Sermon
The Image of Heaven
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How are we doing today? Is baptismal Sunday? What that means? If
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the pastor forgets you are dismissed at fifteen after, not you those who are
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being baptized fifteen after. If you're getting baptized and water, then you were
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welcome to jump up and go get ready, get our team in the back.
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Yep? Is that good? Ah? Let's stand pare for the warden?
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Who isn't God good? I thought it? We just thank you just
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for every moment we get to be with you. We thank you for your
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the outpouring of your Holy Spirit in our lives, and just the precious way
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you help us and guide us and direct us and go before us. We'll
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just give you the rest of this morning. In the word, we open
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our hearts to you. We ask Holy Spirit that you would teach, that
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you would keep making rama living word the posit's in our hearts in Jesus name.
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Everybody said, amen, Oh that's me. Amen. We were painting
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the building out front. You notice that, and that is somewhat in because
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the hearty board has gone bad out there. So if you're watching online,
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you haven't seen the hardy board. But God bless you anyway. But the
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hardy board has gone bad and we aren't quite ready to tear it off.
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We probably won't tear off that wall until the springtime, and so it needed
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help. So we're doing some help right now with a little bit of hate
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out there to get us through to this next season. We're pulling together all
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of our engineers right now for construction, and so our plan is to submit
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for permits before October twenty ninth, because all building codes change after October twenty
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ninth, So if you personally are getting ready to build something, get those
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permits in past anyway. That's what's going on. We're excited about all of
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that. I want to talk to you a little bit about restoration today,
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and I want to talk to you about the restored man, about the restored
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man, and specifically about Jesus, but also about you. You are the
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restored man. You are the restored person that God is using to shift the
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earth into heaven. And we've been using First Corinthians fifteen as a text.
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I'm going to go there First Corinthians fifteen twenty fourth through twenty five, So
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I want to read that to us again, and and I do want to
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mention a disclaimer. And this seems like a silly disclaimer, but it is.
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Maybe I've never said it. I don't know that I've ever said it,
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but you know, we have we have all sorts of people on this
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platform, and we have visitors on this platform. And sometimes they have like
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eighty percent meat and twenty percent bones. Sometimes they have ninety percent meat and
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ten percent bones. Sometimes they have ninety nine percent meat, one percent bones.
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Sometimes they have seventy percent meat thirty percent bones. So it is your
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it is your job as a tender to the church to rejoice over the meat
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and not sweat the bones. Even today, in your elogical estimation, because
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you are near genius yourself, you might consider what I dish out today to
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be only eighty five percent meat and fifteen percent bones. If that's the case,
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it is up to you to love the eighty five percent. It is
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up to you to discern the eighty five percent. Is up to you to
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unify with the eighty five percent and to forget about the fifteen percent. And
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if you can find I mean, you know, if you have fifty one
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percent of the stock of a company, you control the company. So I
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mean, if you can buy in you know, fifty one percent. Maybe
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you maybe this is your home. Maybe you ought to quit looking because maybe
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you've only been able to buy in forty eight percent every place else. So
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I don't know, but I'm just talking to somebody right now. So in
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your theological geniusness, maybe just think about that a little bit. And part
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of that is that we here, we hold to this growing kingdom mindset,
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and we're excited about the growing kingdom mindset. We love the growing kingdom mindset,
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but only because we find it in the word. The word keeps convincing
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us of this, and so we keep getting swooned by this silliness. So
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some people have a diminishing kingdom mindset, and I don't know why they've been
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swooned by that, but nonetheless, if they do, they sometimes those people
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that have that, they have like eighty five or ninety percent amazing things about
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them. So I just love the amazing things and eat those things up,
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and then I just set aside the other self and hug him and love him.
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Anyway, if we kept everybody off this platform that was theological perfect even
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I wouldn't be here. This would be an empty platform. You couldn't get
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up here. Did he just say that about me? I kind of did.
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Yeah, But so I mean, we just gotta we just gotta love
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each other and help each other. And as we press into him, we
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keep growing in perfect theology. That's what's cool about this is if we keep
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pressing in him, truly submitting to him, we'll keep growing in perfect theology.
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Then eventually, he says, we'll all come to a unity of the
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faith of a maturer man, the mature man, the heavenly man will all
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come into a unity of faith in the mature man, and we'll all come
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to the full knowledge of the sun. Every one of us are going to
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get theologically swooned before it's ober. Isn't that cool? Is that all right?
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Okay? I seem just a little loud Eric, because if I get
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excited, I'm written, I could blow up the speakers. But I appreciate
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the support because I need support. But okay, so first you're Indians fifteen
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twenty four, and I've been talking about this growing kingdom thing. Then the
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end comes, or then comes the end to say it with me, Then
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comes the end when he delivers the kingdom to God the Father. Now the
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kingdom the Kingdom is only known as two things all throughout the Word, but
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especially the New Testament. It's the Kingdom of God or the Kingdom of Heaven.
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The Kingdom of God or the Kingdom of Heaven. They are synonymous,
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right. So this is interesting is that he's going to bring something to such
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maturity like we just talked about out of Exhesians for he's going to bring something
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to such maturity that he's going to hand the Kingdom of Heaven to the Father.
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And actually, what I saw is I saw him as the ultimate Matthew
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twenty five user of the talents. Like Father has actually handed him five talents
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based on his ability, and he's actually invested them in you, and there's
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going to be a great return on that. And when Father brings this whole
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thing to a close, he's going to say to the Son, show me
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what you've done with what I gave you. He's gonna say, I invested
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it in all of these kids, and they've brought me a massive return,
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and he's going to say, well done, good and faithful servant. He
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is the ultimate Matthew twenty five servant. And so let's go back to it.
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Then comes the end when he delivers the kingdom kingdom of Heaven to Father,
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to God the Father, when he puts an end to all rule and
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authority and power. When he has put when he has put that's the that's
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what he's saying for. He must reign until he has put all enemies under
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his feet. The last enemy that will be destroyed is death. So we've
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been talking about this growing kingdom. It starts at the first Advent of Jesus.
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Here he is a seeds sown, and it starts with him, and
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then it grows and it grows and it grows until we get over here to
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the last day. For Strinthians fifteen, the last day, the last trump.
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On the last day, and on the last day, he conquers the
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final enemy of Adam's sons. First Adam, he conquers the final enemy of
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the sons of men, conquers the final enemy that was loosed upon Adam way
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back by his cooperation with the demonic Realm, and that his death. That's
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the last enemy to be conquered his death. And so throughout this progression of
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time, that means that through him and by him, we are conquering more
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and more and more of the enemies of the Supreme, Man, of the
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heavenly, Man of the Christ, of the One. You came to restore
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everything that first Adam lost. Not exciting. So I've called it a global
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deliverance. I've called it on a macro scale, this is a massive,
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massive deliverance. But guess what's happening during the deliverance is that we're getting restored.
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First we are restored, then the earth is restored. First we are
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restored, then the earth restored. The final summation of our restoration. Is
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this corruption taking on? In corruption? This body being translated into a heavenly
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body, a body that doesn't die. Adam had one in the beginning.
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The second atom abides in one bearing the image of the heavenly and now we're
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that's that's the final victory for us, right and so, and that also
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begins then the culmination of the restoration of the earth. So I don't know,
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is that fun? Is this okay? I'm saying this because even on
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this platform, from time to time, we will hear people talk about that
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it's dark and it's gonna get darker. It's dark and it's never gonna get
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light again. It's dark and it's it's gonna be terrible, terrible, terrible
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from now on out. And and I just I want you to see and
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understand that from my humble, non genius, uh finite, limited iological perspective,
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I don't think that's the way it's going to go. Now. It
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is dark, and it could get darker, but the light is going to
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prevail and the kingdom is going to grow. And the promises Matthew thirteen thirty
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one through thirty three, the promises that the Kingdom of Heaven. Remember,
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he's turning everything into heaven. Heaven is the model. Heaven is the pattern.
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Heaven is the plan, it's the blueprint. Heaven is the template.
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He started with a little chunk of heaven called Eden, and he's going to
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finish by turning the entire planet into a giant chunk of heaven. That's what
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he's up to. That's why the prayer, that's why your number one prayer,
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Kingdom of God Come, Will of God be done on Earth as it
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is in That's why when he came, he came to bring the Kingdom of
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Heaven. Yeah. Okay, so I've been talking a little bit about this
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macro plan. I want to talk about the restored man, because it's it's
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you know, this whole thing is based on this model of heaven, and
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Jesus is the He's the centerpiece of heaven, he's the centerpiece of man.
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He's the centerpiece of of what life was meant to be. And he came
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as the Last Adam to restore everything that the First Adam lost. And and
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there's reason for us to talk this way, and we'll get to that,
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but I just want to lay a little bit of groundwork in the moments that
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I've got, so, you know, thinking about him as the last Adam,
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the new Adam, the restored Man. And this is important because religion
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has a tendency to have us viewing Jesus in his divinity. But it's super
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important that you also understand see and view him in his manhood, because he
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was both fully man and he was and fully gone right. He was both,
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so it's important that you see that. And he set aside his divinity
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to model what the heaven life was like through his humanity, So that's important.
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First Corinthians fifteen forty five through forty nine, so it is written the
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first man Adam became a life giving being, and the Greek there and the
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King James are closer, says a life giving soul. Now, what we
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know is is when he sinned, he was cut off from the life of
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God, and he was cut off from eternity, and so he couldn't he
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could no longer give life, and the only thing that he was left to
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give was corruption. So when he fell, we were in him. When
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he fell, we were in his loins, so to speak. That's what
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the Bible says, right, we were in his loins when he fell.
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And so we bore his image. We bear or before we come to the
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waters of baptism, and before we put the image of first Adam to death
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in the burial of the waters of Baptism, we bore his image. So
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everything that he was given to and his fallenness and his corruption, and his
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death, and his decay, and his sickness and his disease, and his
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propensity to rebel and disobey. A fact is the Bible calls us and calls
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him those of us that were in Adam. Every all of us were in
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Adam sons of disobedience, because the spirit of disobedience was living in Adam,
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and the spirit of disobedience has been passed down through us, we became sons
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of disobedience. Okay, So the first Adam, through his fall, became
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a living soul. The last Atom, though, became a life giving spirit.
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The spiritual did not come first, but the natural and then the spiritual.
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The first man was of the dust of the earth. The second man
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is of heaven, as was the earthly man. So also are those of
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the earth, as is the heavenly man. So also are those who are
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of heaven. So he's talking about he's talking about image. We've already sung
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about image. It's interesting. I didn't arrange the songs this morning. Holy
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Spirit arranged all the songs this morning. But we've already been thinking about his
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image. We've been singing about his image. It's because Holy Spirit is causing
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us and calling us to gaze upon his image and the sea. That he
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is the image of Heaven. He is the new Man. He is the
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image of the heavenly Man. And we are called to bear his image.
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We are called and we are empowered to bear his image. And just as
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we board the image of the earthly man, so shall we bear the image
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of the heavenly Man. Now not only in the likeness of incorruption, but
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also in the likeness of his being, because his Holy Spirit has come to
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bring his life and his character and his mark and his anointing and his conviction
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to dwell within us. His enablement dwells within us. The enablement of Heaven
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is already dwelling in you. Is that good? So I'm you know,
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I've talked in the past a little bit about how that. I don't know
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if you're interested, but I don't know if I have time if you're interested
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either. But there's a progressive restoration that takes place too. It's really cool,
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is that. I think everybody say he thinks I think that as as
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the heavenly Man takes over and the heavenly Daughter, the heavenly Son and the
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heavenly Daughter, as we take over the planet, because this is a heavenly
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takeover. Essentially, this is all a heavenly takeover. As we take over,
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what happens is that everything begins to shift, because restoration comes first to
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the sons and daughters of God, then to the earth. And what happens
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is that everything shifts. And I think what happens is when Israel is grafted
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back in. And I think israel Is grafted back in before the rapture or
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the end, or the Second Coming, or before the last day, because
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they become one with us, and they're actually a part of everything that happens
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on the last day. You're okay with that. Okay, good one of
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you. That's good. And so it says here in for instance, you
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know, Isaiah sixty five, just a little bit of a digression. It's
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kind of fun. See. I will create new heavens and a new earth.
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The former will not be remembered, nor will they come to mind.
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Be glad and rejoice forever. And what I create, I will create Jerusalem
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to be a delight, and it's people a joy. I will rejoice over
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Jerusalem, and think the joy in my people. The sound of weeping and
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crying will no longer be heard in it, never again will be. They're
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an infant that lives just a few days, or an old man that does
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not live out his years. The one who dies at a hundred will be
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thought to be a mere child. The one who fails to reach a hundred
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will be considered accursed. They will build houses and dwelling them, plant vineyards
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and eat the fruit, and no longer will they build houses and underliving them.
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For as the days of the trees will be the days of my people,
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my and ones will enjoy long life and the work of their hands.
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They will not labor in vain. They will not bear shield and doomed for
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misfortune. They will be people blessed by the Lord, and their descends with
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them. Before and he said something crazy, I skipped it. He said,
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as the life of a tree, so it will be my children,
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and they will wear out the work of their hands. He's talking about Israel,
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So it has to be them grafted in. This isn't just like a
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metaphoric passage that's fulfilled through us. The gentile Church is a This is a
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prophetic word over them. So they're grafted back in. Righteousness is growing in
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the earth. The sons and daughters of God are coming into manifestation, and
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we are walking in more and more a greater restoration. The Kingdom of Heaven
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is growing in the earth. We haven't yet reached the final day. Israel's
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grafted back in. All these things are so cool. They are going on
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as we're takeing of righteousness. Even our life span is extended. And so
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the righteous are living longer, they're wearing out the work of their hands.
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They live so long as the lifespan of a tree. So God is blessing
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the righteous with this crazy stuff that's going on. And this is all coming
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up to the final Day. We know this happens before the final day because
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the righteous don't die after the final day. Hello, So this has to
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be happening before the final day because after the Final Day, the righteous don't
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die. But this says the righteous are still dying. It's just that they
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have long life that fun. So what I wanted to ask you today is
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why why do we want to be morling Jesus? Fifteen after okay, baptism
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candidates dismissed. You know what, I've only got about five more minutes to
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preach even Oh my word, have I helped anybody yet? Are you helped?
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What? I believe the holys favorite one to say today is that we
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need so much more than forgiveness. We need to be so super careful,
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super careful theologically the way we think about things, there is some religious persuasion
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that we want to avoid. In one of those religious persuasions is that we've
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come to God through Jesus for forgiveness, that it's all about forgiveness. But
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he could have just kept the Old Testament sacrificial system. If it was just
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about atonement and forgiveness, he could have just continued with that system. If
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really the essence of what he desired was forgiveness and atonement or at one month.
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Atonement means at one month, so through the sacrifices he would bring you
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back and make you at one with himself again atonement at one moment. He
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could have just kept that system if it was all about forgiveness. Sometimes religion
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tells you that's what it's about, but it's not about that. The gospel
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message is about creating a new man. It's about creating the image of Jesus
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in you. It's about bringing Heaven to earth. God has no contentment over
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the incomplete work of atonement. Forgiveness is I'm not calling atonement incomplete, uncalling.
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You remain incomplete. If you stop at atonement, you remain You are
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meant to be a full image of Jesus, a full image of the heavenly
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Man. And so atonement, though complete, was meant to bring you into
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a oneness with God that results in a transformation of your nature. That's why
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Jesus had to come, because the Holy Spirit had to be deposited in you
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so that when you put your old life to death, the Holy Spirit would
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come in you and give you resurrection life, and so you would become an
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image bearer of Heaven. You're an image bearer of Jesus, but you're an
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image bearer of Heaven. Everywhere you go, you're bringing the Gospel of Heaven.
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It's the Gospel of the Kingdom of what the kingdom. It's an incomplete
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phrase. If you say it's a Gospel of the kingdom and you stop,
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that's a kingdom of What's it was always called the Kingdom of Heaven. It's
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the Gospel of the Kingdom of Heaven. You're bringing Heaven. Everywhere you go.
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You carry Heaven in you. You bear the image of the heavenly Man
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who came to restore heaven on earth. That's why, that's why it's not
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just praying for heaven to come, but it's actually partnering with Jesus, looking
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to Jesus, emulating Jesus, following Jesus. You're not just born of the
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spirit, you're born of heaven. You're born of Heaven. You're born of
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a new nature, a new lineage, a new overcoming power, and that
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power is the power to bring heaven. And everything you do brings heaven into
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your atmosphere. Everything you're called to is bringing heaven into your business and your
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family, and your church and your community. If it doesn't ring of heaven,
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it doesn't ring of kingdom, because it's the kingdom of Heaven Romans eight
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twenty nine or thirty. For though for those whom he God, the Father,
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those whom he foreknew, foreknew, he knew we were going to come
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to him, he drew us, but he knew, he foreknew us.
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There was he could see down the timeline that we would choose him, that
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we would yield to him, that we would come into the sun. He
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God also predestined them to be conformed to the image of his son. We
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are conformed to the image of His Son. We're not just forgiven. I'm
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not just forgiven. Forgiveness got me into a family. Forgiveness got me into
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heaven. Forgiveness gave me access to the heart of Father. Forgiveness was the
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door to get me in hest and that I would be conformed to the image
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of his son, so that he Jesus would be the first born, not
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the last born, not the only born, but the first born among many
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brothers and sisters. He's the firstborn among all. We're we've all been brought
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into this. And those he predestined he also called, and those whom he
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called he also justified. And if the band could join me on the platform
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right now, because I don't want to go too much longer, but I
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need the musicians to come, and my beautiful wife to come, and the
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baptismal candidates hanging out around at the back door, and I need the water
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tub ready, and I'll continue to talk for a moment while everybody's coming.
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And those whom he predestined he also called, and those whom he called old,
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he also justified, And those whom he justified he also glorified. I
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love that he justified us. I love that he justified us. That means
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that he's actually declaring to Gabriel, to Michael, to Michelle, to you
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know, whatever their names are. He's declaring, treat them like they haven't
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sinned. Hey, you see Zach down there, help Zack out. Treat
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him just like you would the sun. See Angel down there. Hey,
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I need you to run over here and help Craig gets the situation. Craig,
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are you kidding me? Yes, help Craig. Treat him like he's
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never sinned, just defy. Just as if they've never ever missed the mark.
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They're hidden in the perfect one, and so treat them like they've never
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ever missed the mark. All of heaven, the resources, the resources of
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heaven are at your beckon, and they're working with you, and they're helping
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you, just as if you've never missed the mark, because you've chosen him
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and hidden yourself in him, and you've put away the old life, and
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you're constantly remembering, I've buried that person, and I live by the faith
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of the one who gave himself for me. This morning we sang about him,
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and I'll close with this, we are transformed as we behold him.
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And I was thinking this morning, worship in church is the most precious thing
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to me in my entire life. I literally go nuts over worshiping church.
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It's like the Holy Spirit goes nuts in me and on me and over me,
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and I just go nuts over it. But I was thinking this morning
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that the privilege that we have that we don't have to leave this to church,
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only that we can behold him daily, that we can gaze upon him
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daily, that we can learn of him daily, we can absorb what it
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is to be heavenly minded daily, that we can run to him daily.
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And if the power the power, and I just I end the David's tent
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and tabernacle, I end the twenty four seven Ministry of Zion and what David
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had set up. I know that David must have run there all the time
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just to be in that house and to be around the anointing, and he
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would have been. He wouldn't have been hanging out in the back. I'm
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gonna just tell you right now, if you want to be like King David,
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he would have been up at the front around the altar where the cherubim
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hung out, and he would have been where the glory came between the chair
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of him over the mercy seat. That's where David would have been. He
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wouldn't have been sipping a lot day in the back. And so I'm just
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warning you, just telling you that, and so, but you can have
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that in your house. You can have that. I turned to my garage
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into that with a moon box for years. I just you know, you
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can have that, you can have you can have a touch of Heaven in
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your life. And there's so much power in it, and there's transforming power.
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And so my closing scripture before I turned over to Pastor Joel for the
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baptism second corintins three seventeen through eighteen. Now, Now the Lord is the
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Spirit, and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is freedom,
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there's liberty. The Lord is the Spirit. And where the Spirit of the
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Lord is, and ountherwords, wherever we invite him. Now, the preceding
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versus says that the God of this world has blinded the eyes of the unbelieving,
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so they cannot see the glorious light of the Gospel of Truth. They
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can't see the Christ. But for us, but for us, we invite
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the Lord. We invite the We intentionally invite the Lord into our garage,
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into our car, into our bedrooms, into our prayer closets, whatever they
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look like, boombox and all we intentionally because if we'll invite the Lord,
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then the spirit of liberty comes and a veil is lifted off of the eyes
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of our understanding, and we begin to see him face to face. We
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with unveiled face. Look as in a mirror at the glory of the Lord.
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We look at the glory of the Lord. But we remember, as
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we do, and as we do, we really what happens is it's a
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mirror. We actually as we look at the glory of the Lord and gaze
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upon him intentionally in a spirit of liberty where we've invited him to come,
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then there's a transforming power and we become a mirror image of what we're looking
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at. We become transformed. We become an image of what we're gazing in.
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Do you want to be transformed? Stop getting up and going to work
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without having times with Jesus, Stop living a day without a glory experience around
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the arc and in the presence, all right, none of that. Looking
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as a mirror at the glory of the Lord. We are being transformed into
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the same image, the heavenly image, from glory to glory, just as
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from the Lord the spirit comes. Okay, let's stand, I know where
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jul is going to take us. Let's stand. Father. We just received
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this word right now, and we received that. We're called the glory,
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We're called to bear the image of Heaven. We are the likeness of the
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Sun that even we don't even know all about us because tomorrow's glory will eclipse
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today's. We thank you for the transforming work of the spirit as we gaze
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upon the heavenly Man in Jesus name, and everybody said, Hey, man,
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God, bless your church. Hallelujah, hallelujah. What a message.
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God is so good. This morning has been the best morning ever. Amen.
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I've had the opportunity to be in the back with the kids, and
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they are rocking at back. They're the kids are growing in the Lord and
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just getting more and more, just more and more like Him, even in
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the back hall. It's so cool. But I have a group of people
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right now that are anxious to get baptized. Are you ready to baptize them?
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Are you ready? Because here at New Horizon, If you've never been
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here at a New Horizon baptism, I just want to let you know that
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this is not normal like you've ever seen before. Because you're a part of
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this baptism. You're gonna help us pray, You're gonna help us witness this
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happen. These are your friends, these are your brothers and sisters, these
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are your people, and we have got an amazing group of people. Some
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of these folks are brand new babies in the Lord, some of them are
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rededicating their life. But every single one of them have a story to tell.
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And I'm gonna read this at a collagions haven't been buried with him in
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baptism, in which you were also raised with him through your faith, in
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the working of God, who raised him from the dead, when you were
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dead in your sins, and in the uncircumcision of your flesh, God made
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you alive with Christ forgave us of our sins, and having canceled the charge
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of our legal indebtedness, which stood against us and condemned us, he has
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taken it away and nailed it to the cross. And that's why we are
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here too, absolutely determined. So for those of you who are new with
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us, what I'm going to ask you to do is you're gonna put your
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hand for we're gonna pray over every one of these candidates. You're gonna sing
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and work ship when they go down, and you're gonna hoop and holler when
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they come up, because we are gonna celebrate, just like the angels in
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heaven celebrate when they come to Christ. Say man, all right, so
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come on out, we're gonna do this. Come on out this we have
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Cindy Ramos here, Cindy, come on over here before you climb in,
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come here, come here. How long have you been here at church?
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Eats Candy ramels, Oh, Candy, six months? Six months? I
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remember when you walk through the door the first time. Where were you at?
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Were you standing like right over here? Right? And you you came
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forward for prayer? Yes? And has that changed your life a lot?
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A lot? So it says, here, Kenny, why don't you go
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ahead and clas She's already starting to cry. Are you guys ready to pray
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this girl through? Okay? Candy? Her her husband is coming next.
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Candy says, I feel the need to baptize, to be baptized in my
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heart and in my bones. She feels the desire to get tice. She
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wants to lay down her old life and come into the new. When she
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goes into that water, she is going into the grave of her old self,
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and she is going to come back alive in the resurrection power of Jesus.
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Amen. So let's go, okay, band, are you ready,
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Let's take us there? Hallelujah, Let's put her hand towards her father and
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Jesus Name, Lord God, we thank you, we thank you. We
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thank you for her, We thank you for her family, we thank you
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for her son. We thank you for her future. We thank you that
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you have plans and purposes for her. And in Jesus Name God, we
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just pray for her. Right now, let's go ahead and shout hallelujah,
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hallelujah, hallelujah, hallelujah. Who in the river, come on, we
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come alive in the river. Praise you Jesus, Praise you Father, got
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hallelujah. So now Candy's husband, I told you he was coming. He's
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next here. So we have Oscar come on over here. Oscar, you
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and I were back in the nursery just a minute ago with your sweet son.
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So Candy came in and got prayer and her life turned around. How
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did it work out for you? I worked out the same way. I
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just came in to help her with our son, just so because it was
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a little hard for her, and I loved it ever since. And yeah,
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I haven't stopped coming. She hasn't stopped hers. So you feel like
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you need to get baptized and said, I want a new start, and
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go ahead and climb in. He says, I want a new start.
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I've been away from God for so long, and I have found him.
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I have found him. I have found him, and I have found this
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church. Hallelujah. All right, So Oscar is a husband, Go ahead
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and sit down. Yeah, there you go. You gotta get in there.
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We're gonna take you all the way down. Hallelujah. Not a dry
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piece of hair on his head, because we don't want nothing to survive from
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his old life. Right this is a burial of his old way, and
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he is gonna come forth. Let's just begin to prophesy over him. Mighty
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things. Mighty things. You have the power to raise your children in the
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in the House of God and in the ways of the Lord. And Jesus
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Name. You are a wonderful husband. You are a provider. There's more
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than enough in your household. In Jesus name, God, we thank you.
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Right now we prophesy over you that God is going to do good and
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mighty things with Oscar and Jesus name. Jesus Name live in bath halloo Jah.
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Yeah, thank you, Jesus, Praise you Father. Oh what a
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sweet family you guys ready for another one. We got eleven of them,
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so you just better be ready because we got a lot going on. Hello,
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we have Monica, Monica Hernandez. How are you. Are you nervous?
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Yes? But you know what, look at all these people. They
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love you. They love you, they love what you're doing, and they
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so believe in you. Okay, let's see. Monica want you to go
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ahead and climb in. I'm gonna read this. I want to have peace
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with the Lord. Before I didn't have a choice on baptism, but now
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I do, and I want to because I I wanted to have the Lord
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guide me to have spiritual peace and happiness that I need. So what she's
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saying is in the past, she's been baptized, but it was kind of
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a forced thing this time, this is what you want to do, right,
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This is what you want to do. Okay, all right? Hallelujah,
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hallelujah Monica. Let's pray for Monica. Let's pray for her family,
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Let's pray for her future, Let's pray for all that she is, everything
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that God made her to do, everything God made her to be in Jesus
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name. Hallelujah, Monica, you will no longer be under the power of
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darkness. But hallelujah, the flesh is going under and the spirit is going
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to come forth. And Jesus, Snap, she is drawing a line in
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the sand today. You are drawing a line in the sand and saying that
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today your life belongs to the Lord. And she's a snap. And this
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whole house right now is behind her. Hallelujah, this whole house. WHOA
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Hallelujah, La La line in the or Hallelujah, Praise you Jesus, Hallelujah.
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Everything all right, Lisa wonderful, And Lisa's a daughter of the house.
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Go ahead and climb in, Lisa. She is a daughter of the
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House. And Lisa has walked through struggles and challenges and difficulties. But the
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cool thing about Lisa, She's still walking. She is still walking. She's
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still walking through them. Hallelujah, and she is going to make her way
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ruin. It is going to be a good thing. She is getting victory
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in her physical being. She was telling me the other day about some victories
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and some healings. Hallelujah. Lisa Harrington, I gave my life to Jesus
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when I was four, and I really committed my life to him when I
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was fourteen. I was baptized at twenty years ago. But I feel the
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need to recommit to my Savior and die to my old life and live for
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him. Hallelujah. Let's put your hand towards her and just give her all
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of your love and support. Begin to prophesy over her and all that she
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represents. She is a servant. She is a servant of the Lord.
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Hallelujah, hallelujah, hallelujah. All right, Miss Sarah Holmes, come on
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over here, Miss Sarah, you and the Lord kind of go way back,
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right. Yeah, So when did you accept Jesus. I was four
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years old. You've been on the mission field, yes, and you have
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just done amazing things around here, I hope so. Yes. So why
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do you want to get baptized? Well, I wasn't. I'm not the
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same person that I was a year ago, Thank you, Holy Spirit.
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And I gave you a card for you to read so I wouldn't have to
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remember all the things that I Alright, alright, alright, I'll do it.
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Sarah is a doll, and we're just believe a full restoration for her.
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Amen. Sarah says, I'm not the same person I was a year
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ago. Gone is the orphan spirit, the spirit of suicide and depression in
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Jesus name, the spirit of manipulation, fear, and control. I'm healed,
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and I'm healing. Joy, hope, light, and first love have
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been restored. I want to be baptized in love and holy Spirit fire.
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I want to make a public deck laray should of the goodness of God in
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your life. I want you to reach your hands forward to her and that
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she finishes up with these two right here. Just begin to prophesy over her,
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complete restoration, complete healing. Everything that the enemy has tried to steal
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from you, everything that enemy has tried to take from you, from rob
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from you and Jesus name. Hallelujah, hallelujah, Yes, halleluyah Oo,
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Thank you Lord, Oh God is so good. God has raised your hands
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right now. Hallelujah, Lord God for what you do. Hallelujah. Okay,
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all right, we have Selma, Selma, come on over here.
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How are you good? Are you a little nervous? I'm excited? Oh
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that's that's better. Excited is better? Excited is better. I've gotten to
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know you a little bit back in the back hall the kids. And every
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time I see you, I just think beauty. I think God created you
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with a special kind of beauty. Let's just pray right now over her,
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right now. God has created you with a special kind of beauty. Do
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not let any lie of the enemy tell you anything less than that. You
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have a beauty that is meant to be an influence and you are drawing people
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and it's gonna be amazing. God loves you with just an undying love.
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Hallelujah, hallelujah. When did you accept Jesus when I was really young?
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But I take baptism really seriously, and I told God God, when I'm
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when I'm ready to fully die to myself, I'm gonna get baptized. So
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I fully died to myself. You go right on ahead, hallelujah. Isn't
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that the coolest thing? She's getting ready to die. We're going to a
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funeral, But this isn't a bad kind of funeral because the only thing that's
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dying here is her old self. She's gonna come back up out of that
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water filled with the Holy Ghost and ready to go forward and serve God with
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all of her heart. All right, So let's put our hands towards or.
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We're not gonna give up. We're not gonna get tired. Thank you,
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Father for this young lady. Thank you for her beauty. Thank you
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for her profession of faith. Thank you, Lord God for her decision.
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Thank you, Lord God that you're gonna give her an overcoming spirit. Lord
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God. Nothing can go hold her back, nothing can hold her back,
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nothing will trip her up. Hallelujah, Thank you Jesus, Thank you Jesus,
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Thank you Jesus, Thank you Jesus, Thank you Jesus. Hallelujah,
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Hallelujah. We come, Hallellujah, Prise you Lord, Praise you Lord.
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Oh, thank you Jesus. Come on over here, just come to me.
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Oh, there we go. So we have Edgar Gonzalez here. So
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this young man has quite a story. We could be here all night,
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probably all day and all afternoon hearing your story, right, Yeah, for
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sure. How'd you get here? How'd you come to us? One of
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my neighbors, where's Ron? Where's wrong? Where's wrong? Ron? Yeah?
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Yeah, I was walking in a neighborhood and he told me he prayed
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for me right there, and he told me to come over here, and
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I came over here like a month or two ago, and we're here now.
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Okay, I'm gonna read this and you might have to give a little
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bit of explanation. But let me just tell you. This young man was
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shot four times three months ago, and I believe he says that he believes
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that the Lord saved his life so he could be reborn and live in him.
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Come on, so tell me a little bit. How's that healing going
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on? Just tell me a little bit about this ever since, Like when
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I woke up and I just I seen my family around me, used to
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look up from being the from being from being shot. Yeah, from surgery.
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I had an emergency surgery. I got my stomach cut open from here
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to here. They got my stomach all the way open, and I look
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up and I was just I just got close to God, close to God.
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And it's been three months ago, and they said I wouldn't be able
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to be doing stuff for like six months. So I know God has been
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with me every step of the way. WHOA, Okay, you go ahead,
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climb right on in there. Hallelujah. You never know who's walking by
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you down the street. You never know, people of God. What need
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God is sending to you walking past your house. Hallelujah. How many of
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you are ready to share the Lord with anybody anywhere because you have no idea
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how it is. Hallelujah God. I pray right now. This is Edgar,
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Yes, Edgar and Jesus name God. We just pray right now that
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whatever has gone on in your life in the previous weeks and decades, we
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just pray right now your Holy Spirit to be upon him. Be upon him,
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Be upon him, Be upon him, Father God, and Jesus name.
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Satan, rebek off of him. A spirit of death is off of
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him. Come on, come on home, malon in the rim. Hallellujah,
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hallelujah, Come on out, hallellujah. Oh praise God. Just throw
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your hands in the air, praise Him, praise Him. Okay, we
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have come out. Come on, Comel comel Leonard. He says here he
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wants to be reborn through Jesus, and I want to live a life for
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him. Are you ready for this? Are you nervous? Yes? Are
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you gonna be? Okay? Do you know look at all these people.
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They love you. You are never alone. You are never ever alone.
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And Jesus loves you. He surrounds you all the time. And these people
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are around you right now, they're cheering for you. Okay, go climb
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in that baptism tank. Let's do this. Hallelujah. Let's just talk about
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the coming generation. Let's just talk about the next generation. Let's talk about
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being legacy leavers. Let's talk about the Bible that speaks more and more about
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the father's father's father's and the children's children's children. This is not a religion
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that just dies with us. This is a generational thing that we are in
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the midst of, and this is the next generation. Pour your spirit into
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the next generation. Be one that raises up the next generation. God,
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I pray over this young man. I pray over this young man. Grace,
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grace. Every plan of the enemy is broken off of this young man.
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There will be no addiction on him. Hallelujah. Come on, here
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we go in the rear. Yes, woo, hallelujah. How are you
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okay? So we have a Caleb here, Caleb, Caleb culture. How
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are you today? Are you ready for a life change? Absolutely? Absolutely?
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Are you ready to make a one eighty degree turnaround in life? Amen?
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God loves you and he wants a whole new future for you. And
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she's as name. Amen. Okay, go ahead and climb in. Hallelujah.
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Oh Father God, I just pray right now over this gentleman and she's
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his name, Lord God, I thank you for his obedience today for you,
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Lord, I just ask you right now, Oh hallelujah. There is
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a there is an amazing shift that's happening right now. There is an amazing
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shift. There's an amazing shift. There's a line being crossed. There is
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a change and a turn in Jesus name, Lord God, I thank you
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right now for this young man. I want you to just stir up your
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spirit right now in the spirit language. If you have that, I want
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you to just pray that over him. I want you just right now.
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Hallelujah, hallelujah, hallelujah, hallelujah. God's shifting some things in the atmosphere.
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God is shifting things all the way down to the cellular level on this
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young man. In Jesus name. God is shifting things, shifting things,
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shifting things. Hallelujah. Thank you, Lord, Thank you Lord, Thank
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you Lord. For Caleb. You will be a mighty man. You will
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see your eyes will not dim your strength will not abate. Hallelujah. Let's
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go. Yes, we callelle hallelujah, hallelujah, hallelujah. Thank you,
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Jesus, Thank you Jesus. Oh, God is doing a work. God
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is doing a work. Hallelujah. Come on over here, buddy, over
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here, over here, there we go. We have Miles, Miles,
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come on over here, come over here. What are you doing? Are
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you gonna get baptized? Yes? What in the world are you exciting?
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Yes? Can you tell me what the best thing about getting baptized is?
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Well? Shopping God? Yeah? Yeah, that's so good. Okay,
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are you ready now when you go climbing that water over there, what you're
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deciding is that you're going to live for Jesus the rest of your life.
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Yes. Do you want to live for Jesus? Yes? Do you love
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him? Yes? How much do you love him? A lot? Okay,
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go climbing that water. So Miles wants to get baptized because of God's
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love and mercy. He says, this is Miles once again, this is
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He's so ready, He's so ready. Hallelujah, Lord God, I thank
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you right now for this little boy. Oh, I say, right now,
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His future is filled with you. His future is filled with you.
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There is no rebellion in his future. There's no waywardness in his future.
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Hallelujah. Oh whoa, yeah, whoa, get those eyes right up.
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Hallellujah. Where hallelujah. Moms and dads, if your children have not been
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baptized this next cycle, we want to do a special one for children.
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So talk to your kids and let the office know that you're interested with your
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children. We will do a special teaching and it'll be awesome. Let's get
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these kids baptized. Amen, Hey, man, what's next here? Who's
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next? Come on out, come on out, Give her a hand,
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Come on over, Jemina, Jemina, give her a hand. So tell
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me, have you accepted Jesus as your personal savior? Yes? What does
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God mean to you? He's my life? And amen, Amen, I
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just want let's just pray over this girl right now, because just there's a
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grace and a purpose upon her right now. Hallelujah. Let me just let
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me just pray with you before you climb in. And all of these people
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are loving you right now. Father and Jesus name, I thank you for
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Jemina. God, I just ask you right now to settle upon her,
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settle upon her soul. Lord Jesus, God, I just feel, I
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sense that there's some decisions in front of you, and I just want you
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know that God has your path already marked out. He has your path marked
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out, and He has a way for you to walk, and it is
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going to be a beautiful thing. And God, I just pray right now,
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there's grace upon her. Lord Jesus, there is grace, and your
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spirit will shine so brightly in Jesus name, in Jesus name. Amen.
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Okay, go ahead and climb in. You can give that to them,
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all right. There's such a preciousness about this lady, such a preciousness.
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Raise your hands out to her father and Jesus name. Jemina, Jemina,
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Jemina, hallelujah. I don't think Jiminah knows how much she's loved. I
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don't think she knows. I don't think she knows how much God loves her.
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Right now, Just poor God's love out on her right now, Poor
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God's love out on her right now. Hallelujah, hallelujah, hallelujah. Oh
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God, the love, the love, the casts out all fear, and
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Jesus name the love the casts out all fear, and Jesus name the love
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that breaks off every power of darkness. Hallelujah, Lord God, hallelujah,
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hallelujah, hallelujah, hallelujah, Lord, Praise you Jesus. Praise your Father
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God, the love for this daughter of yours, the love, the future,
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the plans, and she's his name. Hallelujah, hallelujah, hallelujah.
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Yes, hallelujah, hallelujah, hallelujah, Praise your Holy Name, Praise your
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Holy name. Crash your Holy name? Are you kidding me? Come on
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out here, Come on out here? How are you today? Good?
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Did you plan on getting baptized today? Yes? You did? Okay?
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So what does it mean to get baptized? You die of your old self
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and you return to your new life? Oh my goodness, he's got it.
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He has got it. How many of you think he's ready? All
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right? How much do you love God? All the love I can get
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him? Well, that's a lot, I bet this young man. If
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you get close to him, he has the best hugs on the planet.
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So if you could, would you hug God right now? Yes? I
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think he'd be hugging you Are you ready to go, daddy. Okay,
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let's go, get you in there. Okay, all right, this is
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a little Jason. That's once again we got we got the generations coming up.
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We got the generation's going. Raise your hand out to him right now,
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Father and Jesus Name, Lord God, I thank you, I thank
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you, I thank you for this young life. And Lord God, I
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declare even now you are setting his course in front of him. You are
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setting his course in front of him, and God, I thank you right
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now that every strategy of the enemy, every broken thing, hallelujah, Lord
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God has broken off of him and Jesus Name, and he will live.
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He will live. He will live in your presence. Lord, he will
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live in your joy, he will live in your peace. He will live
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in your presence in Jesus Name. Hallelujah, Thank you, Lord, Thank
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you, Lord, Thank you, Lord, Thank you Lord, Thank you
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Lord. Hallelujah, hallelujah, hallelujah, hallelujah, thank you, Lord,
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Hey you, Jesus Hi you Father God, hallelujah. Live. Okay,
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that's our last one. So let's just sing right now. Hallelujah. Yes,
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praise him, Praise him. God is so good. God, is
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so good. Praise you Father God, thank you for coming. God is
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so good. I want to it. Just encourage you in your walk with
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the Lord. Today has been a fabulous day here at church. Turn around,
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hug somebody, love on somebody, Let them know that you love them
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and that you are here from them. Amen. Amen,