Sermon
The Big Mystery
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There. It is good morning church. I stand madden of the word.
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Um. Yeah, we are in the Church of a million announcement two of
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the means, and that means we're the Church of a million activities here and
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woke up in the mornings and were happened to my house. We went up
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in the morning. My wife, who has a million active niece, says,
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what are you doing today? How do you? I say, oh,
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at it after your house? You I had it there and she says,
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what can I give you an idea or two? You're the bride Christ
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here, you come to the house, We're giving you an idea or two?
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Right, So, so much going on? Somebody good to um?
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Yeah, tonight it is after shop um and so a little bit of a
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Vania was in the world. The training and then we go out and teams.
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If you're not so confident, just come five o'clock. Feel's going to
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lead the team out tonight. And if you need a little bit of confidence,
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he'll carry up with somebody that has more and it'll be fun. Amen.
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And this week you're ready for more. This is nine eighty two on
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the announcement scale. This week we got our wet Land set back rageria finished
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off, and so it was sitting it to me. This week we go
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to the city and that means that this hurdle will be out of the way,
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so we can move forward with the building. So we're believing on Wednesday
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that we'll have a good favor, they won't want to argue what we present,
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and then we can move forward. And I think we got to start
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planning for the balcony, so not only finishing the upstairs and expanding the fourrier
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and the back, and then I think we got to start working on the
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balcony. Amen. So good things, Holy Spirit, We just thank you
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for your amazing grace, thank you for your favor, thank you for the
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outpouring of supernatural endowment and empowerment. Because we've positioned ourselves to trust in Jesus,
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rely on him, believe in him, run after him with all of
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our hearts. We welcome you to flood our hearts now this morning with a
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wisdom and insight, understanding and enthusiasm into astism. Come come and animate us
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with fresh power and Jesus name. Everybody said, Amen, you may be
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seated, believe or an author's warm. I'm leaving things on the table you're
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wondering what more. I can't tell you. We were hid nine hundred and
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eighty two announcements, but I do want to talk to you about partnering with
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God and kind of what this season looks like. And when I say this
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season this morning, I'm talking about the macro season from the first coming of
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the Lord until the last coming of the Lord. So that's kind of what
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my mind is on this morning. And it's because I feel like the Holy
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Spirit wants to keep firing us up, keep encouraging us, keep stirring us
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up. And it's so important that we don't grow weary and well doing is
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so important that we continue to run. It's so important that we see how
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what our role is and how important our role is. And so for some
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of you that have been around me for a while, this will be like
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you'll have heard some of this before, and so it'll be a good refreshment,
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all right. So when we talk about the macro, kind of the
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macro that's a little different than the microme the microcosm. And I like to
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think sometimes of the microcosm theologically as the microcosm like me, And so the
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microcosm of what God is doing is a little bit different than the macrocosm,
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but we fit into the macrocosm of what God is doing. And during COVID
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we talked quite a bit about what we felt like God was saying and what
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God was doing and what God's answer was for COVID, and we believed as
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well as well with the world and with the the World Economic Forum and this
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group and that group, that it's a global reset. We believe for that
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it's a global reset. However, what we see as a global reset is
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totally different than what they see, so they see it as a global reset
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that actually empowers darkness on the planet. We see it as a global reset
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that empowers the Kingdom of God on the planet. And actually that did happen.
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You know what did happen? There was kind of an interesting reset in
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that the churches that are bold and courageous grew and the churches that were wimpy
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shrunk or closed. Did you know that that's kind of a good thing.
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I don't know, that's okay. I think that's kind of interesting. But
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thinking about this globally, I mean thinking about the kind of the macro,
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the macro time, the macro season, what we see is that the Kingdom
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of God began with the first Advent of Jesus. So we're not waiting for
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the Kingdom of God to start, or the Kingdom of Heaven or the Kingdom
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of heaven and on earth. That kingdom actually started with his first advent.
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We're not waiting forward to start after the Second Coming or what we would call
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the Rapture or the second Coming. It actually started here when he first came.
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It's just a growing kingdom. And just because we don't see Heaven on
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earth, or because we don't see what we would perceive to be aspects of
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a growing kingdom, doesn't mean it isn't growing, and doesn't mean that the
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kingdom didn't start. And remember, everything that we believe has to be based
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on scripture, not based on experience or what we see. We don't even
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walk by what we see. We transfer what we see and what is seen,
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so that what is seen becomes what we see. And so going to
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scripture and just thinking on that from a scriptural context. Matthew twenty eight.
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I'm sorry, Matthew sixteen twenty eight. Truly, I say to you,
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there are some of you who are standing here who shall not taste death until
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they see the Son of Man coming in his kingdom. And that's a parallel
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to something out of Daniel chapter fact is, it's almost a direct quote out
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of Daniel chapter two, Daniel chapter seven. So Jesus was saying that you're
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going to see the son of the Son of Man coming into his kingdom,
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in other words, ascending into his place of his throne and the beginning of
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the kingdom. When he was doing some deliverance ministry. You remember that in
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Matthew twelve he was delivering somebody, setting them free, and they accused him
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of casting out demons by the prince of demons, and he said, no,
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no, no, no, that's foolish. House divided, can't stand.
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But then he had some of their commentary on that, and one of
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them was he said, if I cast out demons by the spirit of God,
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then the Kingdom of God has come upon you. And we could give
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you, you know, ten other scriptures. I don't know what your schooling
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has been. We're all coming from different theological backgrounds. We want to persuade
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you that ours is the best. It's not the only, but it's but
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it's fairly good. Uh. And so you could have laughed right there.
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That would have been okay, because I'm about as infallible as a snail.
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But I mean, it's it's okay. We can we can. We can
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laugh at one another and take another one another a little later later. But
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there are, you know, many verses that talk about how that the kingdom
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began then and so that was the beginning of something great in God. But
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the kind of the thrust of this whole kingdom, uh is not on a
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macro scale, it's not so much about restoration, but that is the goal
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of God. Restoration is the goal of God. So essentially, Jesus is
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according to First Corinthians fifteen forty five. Everybody say three times fifteen forty five.
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So First Corinthians fifteen forty five, Jesus is the last atom. He's
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the second atom. He's the last atom. Jesus is the embodiment of God's
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solution to reclaim the earth and to restore the earth. Essentially, and this
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is part of what God is after. He's after the restoration of man first
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and then the restoration of the earth second. This is what he wants,
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this is what he desires. And on the macro viewpoint of all of this,
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we see that we're in a growing kingdom season, we're in a Satan
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being banished season, and the two of those can of correspond hand in hand.
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In other words, the more, and this is kind of interesting,
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it's not the more the kingdom grows that Satan will be banned. It's just
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more that Satan has banished that the kingdom will grow. Did you hear that?
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It's actually the more Satan is banished, the more the kingdom will grow.
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But then again, the more that the true kingdom grows, the more
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Satan will be banished, because the true sons and daughters of light will be
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about the business of banishing darkness. So the two go hand in hand,
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all right? Is that all right? So let's go to First Contends fifteen
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twenty four because because what I want you to see, let's not go there
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yet. Yeah, because they'll read it and get distracted. That means kill
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it. What I want you to see is that actually this crazy period from
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the first Advent until his last Advent is actually a period of global deliverance,
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like this is an exorcism, like there's never been and so, and I'll
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prove it to you in a minute. But I want you to see,
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like when we think on the macro scale, when we think about the macro
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development of man in Christ, and we think about us individually in Christ,
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we understand deliverance is a part of our transformation into the fullness of sonship and
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the maturity of Christ. So we understand deliverance is important. Every one of
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us need deliverance. So the act, the working out of the Cross,
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is to set us free from darkness and to give us the authority in the
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power to dismiss unclean influences out of us that have harmed us in our preconversion
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life. And what I want you to see that as much as we have
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familiarity here at the horizon about that, I want you to see that actually
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that's the picture of the global the global macro a work of God from the
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first Coming to the last coming. As well, is that we're actually more
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than a period of restoration, because the period of restoration is coming. More
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than a period of restoration, we're first in a period of reclaiming. We
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have to reclaim what's been lost and and what's happening. To reclaim, we
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have to expel or dismiss or drive out the unclean, okay with me?
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So First Corinthians fifteen twenty four, we can go there now. Then the
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end will come. Now First Corinthians fifteen. Is this passage about life and
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death, victory over death. It's about transformation, is about the last trumpet.
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It's about us being transformed in the twinkling of an eye, and it's
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it's it's about the last day. And how many of you have some familiarity
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of what I'm saying. Head's naughty everywhere, happy people beautiful. So in
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the midst of that, he says this, then the end will come.
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I say end. Then the end will come when he hands over the kingdom
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to God the Father, after he has destroyed all dominion, authority, and
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power. Then the end will come when he hands over the kingdom to the
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Father, after he has destroyed all dominion, authority, and power. For
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he must reign until he has put all of his enemies under his feet.
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The last enemy to be destroyed is death. Now the last enemy is actually
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destroyed on the last day, and the last day happens at the last trumpet,
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which corresponds with the Hebrew day on the calendar. But I want you
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to see this, that the end doesn't come until the last, until all
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of the enemies. So this is kind of interesting. So so if we
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were to look on a timeline at what's going to happen in the future,
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of what's happening now, when what's going to happen in the future, and
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it's it's interesting too. God will use very creative things, even like cinematography
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and the stirring up and the arousing of righteous motives within those who are rescuing
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children, who then tell their story, who then go to producers who then
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bring it to the cinema because it's not happening realms of authorities, so we
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expose it to the people, so the people begin to become animated to see
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evil put out. And so I'm talking about like the movie that some of
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us have been watching here recently. Are you hearing me today? Are you
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with me? And so this is what we have to see is that on
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a macro, on a macro timeline, from the beginning until his coming,
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the most important thing along that whole timeline is overcoming darkness, overcoming the enemy,
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overcoming Satan, overcoming every lie, dismissing, smashing, demolishing, expelling
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the powers, and the influence of every lie and all darkness of the planet.
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Banishing Satan off of the planet is essentially the theme all the way from
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the first advent to the last. Then the end will come when he hands
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over the kingdom to the Father, after he has destroyed all dominion, authority,
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and power, for he must reign until he's put all of his enemies
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under his feet, and the last enemies. So think about I just want
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you to think for those of us that are going to be living until that
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day, which that day's ahead of us, and I want to live a
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long time. How many of you want to live a long time? I
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want to live a long time just to entertain the idea that potentially I could
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be there toward the end of that. But I don't know. I mean,
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we got some work to do, but the Lord can do it really
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fast too. But what I want you to see, and what he wants
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you to see, is that he's reigning. And Romans five seventeen says we
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reign with him, we co reign with him. Romans eight says we're co
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ers with him, that we're more than conqueror, that he even causes bad
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things to produce good if we love him and are called according to his purpose.
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And so there's so much there's so many working things happening, so many
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amazing, exciting things happening. And I want to go to Ephesians three even
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just for fun because what you have to see and part of what I want
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to share with you today it's so important is that we are critical to this,
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like we are key right because he's actually not here in person putting all
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power and authority and dominion underneath his seat. He's not here in person doing
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that, he's here in us doing that. He's here in us doing that.
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Right. If I could get an amen, i'd get really excited.
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But I mean, I don't know. Maybe you don't agree, but I
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mean that's part of why we're doing this is we're trying to convince you to
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agree. Because until the church agree with what God's up to, this whole
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macro thing is kind of like held up. Everything is held up until we
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start to agree with God, because if we disagree with God, then we're
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like the husband and the bride, like fighting you ever fought any married people
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ever fought? I was reflecting this morning. I know it's funny, but
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I was like in the bathroom. We have dual sins and we have our
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little countertop there. And I don't know why, but my main mine started
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thinking about how cool it is that Joel likes uh the um um um baking
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soda toothpaste that I like. Does anybody use armand hammer baking soda toothpaste in
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the building? Anybody? One? Two? I see that hand? Three,
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thank you Jesus. Anybody else? Four? Five? Good? Six?
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I didn't know what you'll use, but Joanna, try this stuff.
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It's really good. So but I but I was reflecting on this, this
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idea. I was just reflecting on how weird is it that that I liked
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that toothpaste. I mean, it's nice if you use the same toothpaste.
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I mean, I know you can buy two different ones, and we have
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two different ones anyway, but but I mean, it's just kind of nice.
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You don't have to shop for two things. I don't need awkward fresh
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and crest. I mean, I just went right. I was just reflecting
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on how cool it is that we like the same toothpaste. I don't know
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why that that hit my mind this morning. That's a weird thought, but
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just taking it into the whole mindset of unity. How cool is it that
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the bride comes into agreement with the groom, that the assignment of the bride,
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the mindset of the bride, the thinking of the bride, the desires
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of the bride, the vision of the bride, that the insights of the
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bride, that all of it lines up totally with the groom. That we
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come into complete agreement with the groom. That's what we're supposed to do.
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We're supposed to come into complete agreement with the groom and the assignment on the
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groom Ephesians three eight. To me, the very least of the saints,
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this grace was given to preach to the gentiles the unfathomable riches of Christ,
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and to enlighten all people as to what the plan we're talking about, the
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plan, and Paul made clear the plan. Paul was unfolding the plan.
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Paul was writing about the plan, the very plan that we're talking about today,
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the plan of the mystery, which is which for ages has been hidden
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in God, who created all things. This plan was hidden. It was
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a mystery. It was hidden so that the multifasted wisdom of God might now
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be made known through the Church, through the Who, through the Church,
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the plan, the plan of dominion, the plan of subduing every authority and
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every ruler. And we're talking about darkness. We're talking about demonic, satanic
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plans and darkness. And his claim on the earth, his claim on the
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earth because of him usurping Adam's authority, deceiving Adam and Eve and usurping their
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authority, his claim on the earth a wrongful claim. And now God has
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woven together a plan that was hidden with mystery. He's now revealed it,
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and he's now called and empowered and redeemed a bride a church. And this
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word is ecclesia one hundred and fifteen times in the New Testament. It's ecclesia.
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It's us. It's God's called out, it's God's set apart, it's
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God's ruling body in the earth. And now that plan has been real and
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it says that plan might now be made known through the Church to the rulers
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and authorities in heavenly places, spiritual powers, spiritual it's going to be made
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known through. How's it going to be made known through? Because we're the
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ones called to overcome darkness, were the ones called to walk out what he
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overcame were the ones called to see to it that what He did is manifested
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and fleshed out. In prayer and in prophecy, and in works, and
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in ministry, and in love and in good deeds. In every way we
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flesh out his victory over darkness. In every way we flesh out His victory
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over darkness. And this is this is why, by the way, this
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is, this is why it's so important that we do what we do.
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What would the world be without the Church? What would the world be without
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the ecclesia? What would the world be? I don't mean a church.
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What would the world be without the Church, the global body of Christ,
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out of the Catholic Church, and out of the Pentecostal Church, and out
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of the Baptist Church and the Evangelical Church, the nondoms. What would the
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world be like without the Church? The expression of the Church, the prayers
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of the saints, the sacrifice of the saints, the love of the saints,
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the ministry of the saints, the prophetic utterance of the saints, the
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agreement with God. Even when we disagree on certain things, we have disagreements
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with God. Theologically, I know we do. I grew up having disagreements
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with what God was doing theologically, but I had a lot of agreements still,
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right, every believer has a lot of agreements with God as well.
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And what would the world be without the global Church, without the ministry of
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the church. The church, what we do is so essential. We are
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the partner with Holy Spirit in the plan of God to banish Satan off of
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the planet. And the end will not come until that job is done.
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The end is not coming until that is done. This is why he says
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in Matthew sixteen nineteen. You know these verses. I give you the keys
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to the Kingdom of Heaven. I give you the keys of Heaven's kingdom.
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This is the passion translation. I love this to forbid on earth what is
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forbidden in Heaven, and to release on earth that which is released in heaven.
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This is even John twenty, verse twenty. And when he had said
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this, he showed them both his hands in his side, and the disciples
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then rejoice when they saw the Lord, and Jesus said to them again,
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peace be to you, just as the Father sent me. I also send
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you, just as just as the Father sent me. Jesus came to judge
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the works of Satan Jesus came to pronounce judgment on the works of Satan.
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Jesus came redemptively to pay the price for the sin we committed, which was
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the price of death. He came to do that on our behalf, and
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he came to qualify us for the goodness of God by presenting himself before the
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Father on our behalf in his righteousness. So we hide ourselves in his righteousness,
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because this was Satan's way. That he held us was through sin,
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through messing up. That's how Satan held us. Right, let's go over
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to Clausians two thirteen. I want you to see this little picture. I
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know I'm almost out of time, but I want you to see this picture.
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I talked about it once before, but it's worth it's worth repeating because
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it's got so much relevance to it. During COVID, we had some squatters
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stay in our house and they wouldn't move out. They wouldn't pay rent because
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they didn't have to. Because of dear brother Ensley, keep him in your
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prayers, you that are watching online, god Less, dear brother Ensley would
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not allow us to evict people who would not pay their rent, and they
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didn't need to pay their rent because dear Brother Ensley told them they didn't need
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to, and so, becoming aware of their liberty, they abused the Wolf
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family and didn't pay rent for many months, and so we were owed many
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thousands of dollars, but we could do nothing about it. And so in
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addition, they brought in drug users and drug dealers and drug sellers, and
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they brought in recked automobiles, and they filled our parking lot with rect automobiles
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and a boat out in the yard, and the boat was filled with garbage.
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And so all of this is going on and there was nothing we could
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do about it until you know, COVID was over. Finally the moratorium was
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lifted, and so Brother Dwayne was not happy with Brother Ensley. God bless
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him, and so Brother Dwayne consulted his attorney, and we needed to get
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a judgment against the dear family that was there, of whom we were with
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until midnight, you until one in the morning one night, removing and praying
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over them and blessing them. So but nonetheless, what happened during that period,
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I want you to see that the courts of Heaven are from where we
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have received our understanding of court as well, and that the earthly courts operate
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much like the heavenly courts. And so this is so when we think about
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what Jesus did and we think about what was getting accomplished, there's very much
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a picture of what we would see in an earthly court, because our earthly
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courts are fashioned after this heavenly court. And so Jesus was a judgment pronounced
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on Satan. Jesus came as a judgment pronounced on Satan to judge his works
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and to destroy his works, and then further to plunder his house, which
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means to get back what was stolen. Right, and even Proverbs, even
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Proverbs six thirty and thirty one is a it's it's messianic in some ways.
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Proverbs thirty six, Proverb six thirty to thirty one has a messianic aspect that
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the thief, when he is caught, must repay sevenfold even to the emptying
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of his house. This is what this is what Jesus is after Satan has
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been caught, and he will pay sevenfold even to the destruction or the emptying
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of his house. And so this is there's there's, you know, just
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some great things that we see in that. And so this is part of
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what I want us to see all the way through this is that Jesus was
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Jesus was the judgment on Satan, and Satan was judged in Jesus, let
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me read you a verse or two like John twelve thirty. In response,
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Jesus said, this voice was not for my benefit, but for yours.
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Now judgment is upon this world. Now the prince of this world will be
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driven out, the prince of this world. So this is the beginning of
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the global deliverance. The beginning of the global deliverance is somebody had to come
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and appeal to the court of heaven and get a judgment against Satan, who
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had usurped Adam's authority and brought destruction to mankind and to the earth. Jesus
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is that one, and that was to begin this global deliverance. But he
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will reign and his kingdom will increase until such time until the end. Until
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such time he through his braid and the empowering of the Holy Spirit, have
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destroyed all principalities, authorities, dominions and power you with me. Okay,
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So what I want I want you to see that picture, though a little
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bit, is that this is you know, this is part of what was
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happening. And then what happened is that when he made us right before God,
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he empowered us to walk in the victory that he wrought on behalf of
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mankind. Right. So this is a this is a greater picture, the
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greater picture. You're not saved just to be blessed, though blessings come.
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You're not saved just to be forgiven, though you walk in abide and rejoice
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and forgiveness. You're not saved just to get to heaven. Though heaven is
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fairly important. Most of us would like to go to some kind of a
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place like that with a harp and a cloud when we pass away. That's
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good. But we actually are the partners of Jesus. We are the spouse,
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the bride, the partners of Jesus for his global deliverance, for his
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overcoming all the darkness that has been set against mankind until all of it is
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destroyed. And you're a partner in that. So every prayer you pray,
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all your agreement is so important, it's so vital. And so this is
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why we have a prayer room. This is why we have church, that
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is why we have worshiped is why we have the word. This is why
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we have nineteen small groups. This is why we get together. This is
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why we provoke one another, we build up one another, we strengthen the
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other. This is why we love one another. This is why this is
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why we pray for one another, prophecy over one another. All of this
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is because it's too easy to get weary. It's too easy to get derailed,
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is too easy to get sidetracked, it's too easy to get distracted,
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is too easy to get overwhelmed. And then if the body of Christ gets
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distracted, right, so I set up I set up my sheriff'spot. I
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call the sheriff, And so what happens is, first you get a judgment,
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and the judgment is, yes these people are trespassing, Yes they owe
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you this much money, and yes they have to repay you. So first
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you get a judgment. But then you call the sheriff, within whom is
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embodied all the power of the state of Washington in your particular accounty. So
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you call the sheriff, and you set up an appointment for the sheriff to
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meet you out at your house. And so the sheriff comes out to the
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house and it's in the power and the authority of the sheriff, who has
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the writ of the judgment, who now evicts the people that are in your
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house, who owe you fifteen thousand dollars? Right? Are you with me?
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So far? And so I call the sheriff and the sheriff doesn't come.
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That's kind of interesting right there. The sheriff doesn't come. The sheriff's
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not going to come. By the way, it's a whole another sermon.
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You've many of you have heard me preach on that stuff before. The sheriff's
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not going to come. Jesus is Jesus is the sheriff. He's not going
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to come. But he has appointed deputies. And so the sheriff gets the
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call. The sheriff makes the appointment, but the deputy, he sends a
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deputy. It's the deputy. He's going to meet me out there. The
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deputy is the problem solver. Just look at somebody and say, that's you.
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Yep, yep. You and I are deputized in Jesus. We're the
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ones deputized to overcome darkness. He said, when the seventy two, when
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the disciples came back, he said, he said, yes, I give
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you power over serpents and scorpions and over all the power of the enemy.
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This is us, He's we are the ones deputized about I call the sheriff,
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but the sheriff that he sends a deputy. And the deputy is on
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his way. And as he's driving to meet me at the house for a
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two clock appointment, he suddenly drives by Duncan do Nuts and he whips in
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there for a donut, and I'm looking at my clock and I'm like,
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where in the world is the deputy. It's not a true story. I
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mean that went up, But I think this happens a lot. This happens
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a lot in the kingdom. Is that we're the ones deputized to overcome darkness.
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We're the ones who are empowered to represent Jesus. We're the ones with
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the agreement of God in our mouth. We're the ones who pray, and
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a lot of prayer is agreement with God. By the way, this is
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the biggest thing, the biggest thing, the biggest, the biggest, the
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foremost, the most important thing to our participation in this global exorcism that's going
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to happen from the beginning until the end. The biggest participation is just coming
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into agreement with God. Now, what if you came into disagreement with God?
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Like, what if you said, what's the name of that movie?
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Now, what if you said, oh, Sound of Freedom? Oh my
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word, what is that all about? That's so stupid? Well, yeah,
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but there's you know, children being harmed, and and there's this all
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of this evil going on. Well it's going on because evil is increasing.
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Don't you know that there's nothing we can do about it. I don't see.
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I wouldn't even want to support a movie like that, let alone get
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all stirred up and angry or upset or prayerful about that. If evil's increasing,
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it's because God wants evil to increase. There's nothing for us to worry
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about. God will take care of it when he wants to take care of
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it. How do my view that? Just took a knife and twisted it
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sideways in your chest. But as you know, we do that all the
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time with stuff. We disagree with the growing kingdom all the time, we
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disagree with the growing demonstration of deliverance. All the time we disagree. We
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allow ourselves to think and believe all sorts of things that are contrary to the
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growing empowerment of the Christ and his kingdom. And sometimes it's not just that
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we failed to agree with his growing dominion, but we actually get worried about
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what we see is growing evil. We get worried about it, we get
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frustrated about it, we get fearful about it, we get we got all
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stirred up about it, when the most important thing is just we just agree.
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Agree with the word agree with God. Father, I thank you right
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now that you're exposing darkness through the Sound of Freedom. You're using this film
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to expose things that have been hidden. Father, I thank you that you
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are using it to put even the enemies of Jesus, the enemies of righteousness,
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the enemies of Adam's children, the feet of the Christ. Father.
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I thank you that you're doing it, that you're working out the dominion of
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Jesus, and that you are actually plundering hell right now. You're actually using
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this film to illuminate things that will actually put to flight the powers of darkness
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that have been using evil men, and even those evil men and consortiums and
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people, that they too will be alerted, confronted, that they will be
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convicted, that they will turn We announce mercy over them in advance, even
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as Holy Spirit is convicting them of judgment. You see how that worked.
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I just turned a sermon into a prayer, and the prayer into a sermon.
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But I want you to see that this is how we get into agreement
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with God. The most important thing for God to bring this thing to fulfillment
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is that we come into agreement with him. The word confess means say the
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same thing that God is saying. It comes from two words Homo logos.
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Say the same thing that God is saying. Don't say your thing. Don't
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say a different thing. Don't say the Catechism thing, or the Sunday School
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thing, or the Baptist thing, the Assembly of God thing, the Fourth
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Square thing, the Pentecostal thing, or the Catholic thing. Don't say that
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thing if it disagrees with God. Say what God says, Say what the
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Word of God says. Say with the mind of God says, Say what
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God wants to do. Come into agreement with that in your prayer. And
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now all at once, you've become this bride who's sharing making so the toothpaste.
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You're sharing the passion and desire of your groom. You're sharing an expression
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of your groom. You're coming into agreement with your groom, instead of your
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groom doing one thing and you doing something else. Let's stand, Oh,
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Holy Spirit, we thank you for what you're doing. Let's just pray for
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a moment. I'm gonna ask the prayer team to come and just ready themselves.
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If you're watching online, We're so glad that you've been with us.
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God has victory for you. What's crazy about? What's crazy about? Where
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the majority of the focus, the macro focus from the first Advent to the
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last Advent, the majority of the focus is on global deliverance. It's on
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deliverance. It's on dominion of a darkness on a macro, on a church
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scale, it's about freedom and restoration. Because he's called us the people of
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the Promised Land. He's called us the people of Ghosten. He's called us
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the people of Eden. He's called us into restoration. We are actually the
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four runners of the restoration that's to come. We are called to embrace deliverance
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in a microcosm, and as we taste of deliverance in a microcoism, begin
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to enter into restoration as well, so that we are the forerunners of what
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God intends to do in the entire globe when the Christ comes back. And
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maybe that's a word of encouragement you need to hear this morning, Holy Spirit,
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we just welcome you. We welcome your fuel right now, fuel on
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our prayers, fuel on our devotion, fuel on our yieldedness. Grace,
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grace, grace, grace on the new creation life within. Holy Spirit,
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we welcome you, We welcome you, We welcome your reward on us.
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The Church is actually walking in the restoration of Israel in advance. It's it's
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where this anomaly we're called out to be this special people who walk in communion
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and intimacy with our God and who demonstrate here's goodness, so that Israel will
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come back in So you're actually destined for goodness. But never forget in the
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pathway of the of the microcosm of your goodness and the goodness of God on
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you. Don't forget that you are the deputy of Jesus for global deliverance.
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Thank you, Lauren. We just put your hands up this morning and just
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receive grace right now. Just come into agreement, Come into agreement that the
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power of the Spirit, the life of the Spirit. The encouragement of the
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Spirit is rekindled within you, that you embrace this plan that was once a
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mystery that's now unfolded, to embrace your place as the bride of Christ,
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the overcoming Army. The Ecclesia of the called out fully Spirit, we embrace
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what you're doing. We say yes to what you're doing, and we position
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ourselves to be fully fully one with you, fully used of you. Thank
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you for it. As we close this morning, you have a need just
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come forward. We're going to close with the worship, and I just want
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you to allow the Holy Spirit to touch you further. If there's something on
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your heart, if you came needing a touch from the Lord, or healing
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or any special, anything special from the Lord, a word from him,
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encouragement direction. Maybe you're here giving your life back to the Lord. Maybe
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you're watching online. This is your day to come back to the Lord.
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I just want to encourage you to come and be prayed with, be encouraged.
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Don't run out in a rush and miss what God has for you.
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Holy Spirit, We welcome your abiding presence Jesus name, and then