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Love God, Love People, and Be Changed
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Welcome Just hand Away Tagalog Sermon podcast. Your daily dogs
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are inspiring and heartfelt Tagalog sermons from different pastors and
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speakers all over the Philippines. We hope that this podcast
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finds you any good ship and now here's your message.
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We have been with Pattri Mark and Jeanette him in
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and it's awesome to be with them and awesome to
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be with.
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You this morning, and we're excited about what God's doing
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all over America.
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I am in Jennifer and I've been traveling and we're
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going to share lots of stories over the next couple
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of days, and we're just really honored and excited to
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be here with you guys today.
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We have been surchainty, examining our hearts to see what
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the Lord might say fresh in this house.
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And now I, like we said, are traveling full time
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since the beginning of the year, and we just are
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going all over the country where the Lord leeds, but
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particularly we feel drawn to Kentucky.
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Jennifer and I were both born and raised in Kentucky.
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She was raised in Northern Kentucky. I was raised over
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in Richmond in Madison.
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County, and when I was a boy growing up my grandmother,
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My grandfather and grandmother a pastor in the church here
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in Somerset, and when I was a boy, we would
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always come to Somerset for Thanksgiving and we would spend
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time with them.
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And tomorrow we're going to track down that old house.
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I'll even remember where it was, but I will find
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that out.
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And we came here many times as kids to celebrate
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Thanksgiving right here in Somerset. I've got a family that
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live around Somerset. A brother lived out in between Albany
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and Bertville, right there on the Planning County line. And
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then also I have a nephew and a niece who
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have their children in the Christian.
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School right here.
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So even though we've never met, we're really pretty close
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to home.
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So we're glad to be here, and.
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We're excited to be here with Pastor and Jeanette and
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all of you, looking forward to the night and just
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tomorrow night, and just really believing that the Lord's going
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to meet with us in a really pretty incredible and
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remarkable way this morning. I really want to just share
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with you my heart. As Pastor said a moment ago,
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it's easy. Jennifer and I pastored for nearly thirty years.
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We've traveled for years.
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When we were younger, we traveled for about eight years
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full time. And I understand the rigors of the pastor
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I understand the challenges of the ministry. I've celebrated the
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remarkable high places, and yet I understand the length of
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the low.
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Places and challenge. But God is.
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Doing some amazing things all over the nation, and we're
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looking forward over the next little bit to share some
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of those stories and many of those things with you.
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God's really been moving in New Mexico, which is a
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place that would have never really imagined.
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I mean, you don't think come New Mexico very much.
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But we went there and the revival broke out among
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high school students. We had fifty or sixty gets saved
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on one night of revival.
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And those kids immediately begin to.
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Go to their schools and interact their schools with the testimony.
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Of Jesus in their hearts. And it really was amazing
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until suddenly this whole little.
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Town of New Mexico, it's called Truth or Consequences, this
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little town just begin to be an uproar about what
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God was doing. In about a hundred high school students
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and so much so the principal, the superintendent of the school,
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ultimately the police chiefs was called in to see what
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was happening with these kids.
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Luckily, when the police chief came in.
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He knew that about a half nearly a half of
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these kids were already in the juvenile system, and many
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of them were all already under probation wearing ankle bracelets.
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So the police chiefs knew all of these kids really well.
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He comes in and interviews these kids to try to
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figure out what in the world.
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Is happening to you all. He came out of there
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giving a.
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Witness to the pastor and to the parents that he
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knew these kids. He arrested many of these kids. He's
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the one who put the ankle bracelets on them. And
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he stood before them and I said, I don't know
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what's happened to these kids, but these kids are not
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the same as they were before. So I just said that.
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So the police he end, I'm telling the pastor, whatever
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you're doing, keep on doing it, because New Mexico needs
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a move of God among.
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Our young people. And I begin to say, you know what, America.
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Needs a move of God among every generation of people.
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And then and so we are seeing and I'm not
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going to try to do it all this morning, for
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which you'll be really glad.
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I'm not going to try to do it all this morning,
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but I want.
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To share with you many exciting stories that I believe
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will inspire heart.
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Also, I know that.
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There are other leaders from Kentucky that will be joining
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us tonight or tomorrow night in these services as well.
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Part of the reason why in this season that Jennifer
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and I specifically fill a call to Kentucky, it's because
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I really believe that the awakening that God is bringing
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to America may very well begin in the Commonwealth of Kentucky.
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I love that the gotation, I love that the Lord's
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statement revival is broken out in San Diego and then Rito,
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Nevada and many other places across the land.
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There are fires burning.
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All over this nation of people that are crying out
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in humility for the fire of His Holiness to be
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manifest in our lives.
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But there's something about.
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What God is doing in Kentucky that is unusual, and
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it's unlike anything we've seen across the country. And we
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are contending that God might burn something in the heart
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of Kentucky that would be so so inspiring and so
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used of God, that indeed the whole nation might begin.
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To turn back to the Lord to what God is
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doing in the great capital of Kentucky. Aven If God
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we're going to bring awakening too revival.
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To America, And if God we're going to birth it
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somewhere as he always does, why not Somerset? Why not
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right here? Why not not? And so we've just been
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examining our heart. We've been preparing our heart. We've been
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asking the Lord and entreating of you know, God, what
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would you say to what would you say to this congregation?
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What would you say to Somerset in these three services?
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What stories should we tell? What inspiring word could we give?
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What measure of hope could we release for these people, for.
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This city, for this region. And so I really begin
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to examine my heart and begin to read in my journal, write.
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In my journal, reflect before the Lord is to what
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he was saying. And one of the things that I'm
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so excited about.
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Being here for I know that Pastor.
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Mark and Jeanette and this congregation has probably done more
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intentionally and strategically to infuse the spirit of prayer into
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the state of Kentucky than any other ministry that I'm
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aware of.
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Hello, one of the things that we know that.
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Often precedes great outpourings is the overflow of prayer and
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of seeking the heart of God and through the Kentucky
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Prayer Focus and many other things strategically that your pastor
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is doing to lead the state of Kentucky.
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I'm just like it would not be unlike God at all.
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To visit first in great power the place that is
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prioritized prayer.
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In our lives.
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So in these moments together, I want to share with
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you from my heart.
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I want to share with you from my study. I
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want to share with you.
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From the diligence that I've tried to do to prepare
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for this time together.
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Because history is marked by great ben and women, and great.
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Voices of new and women that we need to hear
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about in these days.
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One of my favorite people in.
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All of history would certainly be the story of John Wickliffe.
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I love the story of John Wickliffe in his day.
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In his day, he had a radical idea. His idea
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was is that the common people should have access to
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the Holy Bibles. He believes strongly that if you were
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to put the Bible in the hands of ordinary being
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and women. This the whole world would indeed be changed.
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John Wickcliffe lived out his life. John Wickliffe did amazing
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work and diligence in his life to make sure that
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the Bible was prescribed and written in a.
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Common language, which was not easy for his.
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Time, because in his day there was no common language.
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There were many dialects and many different languages that people spoke.
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There was no common language. But it would be John
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Wickliffe and a man by the name of Jeffrey Chaucer,
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the author of the Canterbury Tales, who together they would
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begin to take this dialect and this one, and they
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begin to blend them together into the dialect of the Midlands.
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And they ultimately ended up creating a brand new language
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that would be used.
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To transcribe the Bible into and put the Bible into
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the hands of common ordinary men and women's. Little did
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they know that the language that they were developing would
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be the greatest liberty loving language of the earth, and
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that is the language of English. And they put the
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Bible there. John Wickliffe lived a rich and wonderful and
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he was buried in a little church yard in Lulworth, England.
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He had been buried for nearly one hundred years, but
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the governmental structure and even the church of its day
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still was.
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Threatened by John Wickliffe, and so they decided that actually,
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the Catholic Church said, we can no longer tolerate John
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Wickliffe preaching from his grave. So they had decided that
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they were going to take his body up, and so
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they did. What they did not realize was about a
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few years before he died. About twenty years before Wickliff died,
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he ended up given kind of a prophetic word for
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his own life.
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He was unsure of what the end of his life.
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Would be like, and he said, listen, if they burned
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my body and crushed my bones.
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To an ash and scuttered my scatter my ashes to
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the sea.
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Then my life's work will be like the Bible, and
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it will be scattered on the streams of the water
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to the outhermost corners of the earth. John Wickliff died.
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He was buried for nearly one hundred years, and the
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Catholic Church decided they were tired of his preaching. So
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they sit months at night with staves and shovels and lanterns.
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They go to his grave side.
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They were tired of people visiting the grave and chipping
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off a stone from his headstone, carrying it back to
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their villages and saying, I've got a piece of the
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grave of John Whickley.
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So they dug him up.
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It took his body after one hundred years nearly, and
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they took his body, and what remained of it they
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burned to a chris.
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What remained is a Christ they crushed to a powder.
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They took the powder and they scattered into the little
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crest behind the Laverne Church. The little string carries it
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to the savern, and the suvern carries it to the sea,
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and the sea scatters and ashes to the ends of
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the earth. And the life and the destiny of a
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man impacts the.
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World by making the.
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Book that you and I are so often they've forgrded
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available for every.
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Common man now in many languages of the earth.
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Go with me this morning, and I just kind of
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share with you the thought that the Lord has put
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on my heart for this time, for this moment together.
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If I had, if I had to labor, entitle the
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message this morning that God gave to me for this house,
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for this moment, it would be a political requeel or
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a spiritual revolution.
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It's her title.
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We are living in a culture. We're living in a
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time where people, some are saying it's time for a requiel.
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A rec reem is a fancy word for a funeral.
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A rec realm is a place where they would come
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and through some celebratory spiritual service. Remember what once was,
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but it's gone forever. There are those in America who
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believe it's time to hold a political requiem over biblical
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Christianity in America. But I just want to remind you
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this morning that one man's requiem is another man's revival.
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I just want to remind you.
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That one man's requiem is another man's work.
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And so the Lord begin to conspire my heart with
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those farse And so when I put together this morning,
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for this morning, are five guiding principles to America's great awakening.
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And as I say that, I know that the scope
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of it may sound large, But may I remind you
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that God thout history have always chosen to do mighty
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words in little places. God has always chosen to ignite
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a flame, release a wind upon an ember, to produce
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the spark in a place, and in a time when
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others may not have chosen or suspected that time at all.
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So this morning we're gonna look.
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Are we at the edge of a political requiem or
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a spiritual revolution?
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And we're gonna look at it through these five principles.
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Tonight we're gonna begin to tell more stories, to share
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other things with you.
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So here's where we begin this morning.
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And part of this I've got to read, because the
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spirit of the Lord, just being the poor, some of this.
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Into me, and I begin to write it down. And
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may I say that never before, anywhere, anytime have I.
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Brought the message to you, that I brought this message
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to anyone else.
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This is it.
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And I say that only to say what God wants
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to do in this place. I believe it's very fresh,
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it's very new. God has set kentucking in his sights
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for a mighty move of the Spirit of God.
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And we have labored and prayed for Somerset.
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We've got history, legacy, ruths family in.
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This area, and we cry out for God to move mightily.
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Here's where the.
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Lord begin to inspire us. Hear these words. I don't
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know how they're inspiration, although be to you, but.
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In my own heart. This is where I'm at. The
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Lord begin the minister to me.
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As I wrote, the subtle embrace of Night has cast
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her shaddle across the bow of the young.
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Handmaiden of liberty.
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Knight's luring embrace seems to have seduced our nation further
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into an abyss.
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Of compromise and chaos.
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The brilliant hope of the nations and the grand experiment
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of self governance seems to be reeling to and fro
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from the weight of her confusion.
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And the told of her compromise. America, it seems to
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us and to the world.
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America seems to be staggering like a drunken fool, from
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compromised values, confusing in it unsustainable standards, and a glamorization
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of chaos. Where is the leadership compelled by vision for
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America's future that is truly worthy of her good paths?
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Where are the champions of mercy? Where are the heralds
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of brotherly love? Where are those as fathers and mothers
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who have gone before us? Where are those who will
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lay down their lives for a cause greater than ourselves.
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The history of this.
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Nation, as every other nation, is marked in our destiny
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by those who have gone before us, and those who
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have gone before us have paid a great price to
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bring the nation into the expression and the experience that
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we inherited as a generation. What will we do with
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this grand experiment? What will we do with this grand encounter?
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What will we do for the cause of Christ in America?
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Where are the voices that will cut upstream and begin
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to say, there's a better way America. And if America
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will humble ourselves. The Bible says, if my people will
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humble themselves and pray and seek my face, then will
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I hear from heaven. I will forgive their sin, and
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I will heal their land.
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Goddmnd that.
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The question is not whether or not PAD will be
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faithful to hear them, But where are the leaders?
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Where are the men and women?
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Where are the commoners that have a voice on the
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end sight of them that God is.
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About to release in this generation.
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God has used ordinary people throughout the history of time.
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Martin Luther, Yes, the father of the Great Reformation, who
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nailed the ninety five theces on the doors of Vittenburgh,
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This man who next year, in twenty seventeen, we will
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celebrate the five hundredth anniversary of the Protestant Reformation, and
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it really is remarkable. But before Martin Luther was ever famous,
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Martin Luther was a little boy living in abject poverty,
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who would go through the neighborhood seeming because of the
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malnutrition in his body.
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And the poverty of his family. His own father could
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not afford to.
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Feed him, and his own mother was brutal to him.
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Martin Luther as a boy became known as the young.
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Man and the choir who had a remarkable in her.
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Voice, and yet his life was sickly, the cause of
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the poverty and the poor nutrition. Martin Lutherer, before he
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became a great reformer, was known as the little boy
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who would go through the village and he would knock
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on the doors of the homes, and then he would step.
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Back early in the morning and he would begin to
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sing to them a beautiful.
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Him or a melody if you will, and they would
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listen from the home, and he would beg them for
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his breakfast.
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Martin Luther was the little boy who sang for his breakfast.
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It was not until he sang at the home of
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the cause that missus Kata.
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She immediately recognized the voice of the young man, and
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she'd begin to say, I recognize that voice. She throws
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open the back door. She feeds him a breakfast. He
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said he had never eaten so much food it one time.
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He didn't know it was possible to have such a
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breakfast as that.
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He ate And she loved him, and.
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She nurtured him, and she prayed with him, and she
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guided him, and she helped him, and she fed him
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all the days of his life. And this little boy
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who grew up as the poor boy who sang for
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his breakfast.
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Would become a man that God would use to spark
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the greatest reformation the world has ever seen.
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Sometimes we have just talented ourselves to sue. Sometimes we
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say blind, poor, I'm from here, I don't have I'm sickly,
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I'm not the right color, i don't have the right mind.
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I don't And somehow God is not looking. God is
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not looking.
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For the one that may always be picked out first.
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It maybe that there's somebody in this church that.
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In your heart God has birthed something inside of you.
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You're carrying something that the world is wrong.
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To receive.
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Me.
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I know it's crazy, but it's true.
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One other that I Love is the story of a
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lady from the eighteen fifties. Google her, not when I'm preaching,
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because I can see you google her, and.
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I won't be able to know when you have found her.
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But she was an African American lady. I've got a
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book about this thick home that tells.
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The story of her life and the servants that she
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would preach.
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She was an African American woman. And not only that,
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she was a preacher. Oh my God. And she stood
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against slavery, and she stood for women's rights. And she
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would stand and preach. Many times when she.
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Would preach, the clergy in the room would stand and
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hiss at her. She had no right to preach. She
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was not even ordained. Can you imagine such a thing
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she cared about another that they begin to say and
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nobody will come.
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Hear her preach. The problem was everywhere she.
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Went, from Akron, Ohio, to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, presidents and kings
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and noblemen begin to show up to hear this woman preach.
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One night she preached in Philadelphia, the old hall was
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completely packed.
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People were standing everywhere. Every seat had been taken. Early,
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people were outside.
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Everybody had come to hear her preach. I want to
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read to you a quote from her sermon.
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You'll get a little bit of the idea of this lady.
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But she was strong, she.
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Was courageous, She was an African American woman, She was beautiful,
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and she had a voice for her generation. History seldom
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records those who played that safe.
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God and the woman whose name was so turner truth
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never was known for Plaget's sake. She was in the
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Philadelphia Hall and she decided she was going to preach
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a sermon one night entitled Ain't I a woman? Forty
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good thot? I like it? She gets up there, and
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the moment.
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She begins to take the platform, the clergy begin to
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stand up and protest. A few times, they even begin
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to elevate their voices so that she couldnt be hurt.
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She was intimidated by none of it. Here's what she
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said in her servants. She said, then that little man
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in that black.
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Shoe, he says women can't be can't have as much
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right as a man.
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Because Christ wasn't a woman.
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She said, then listen to she said, where did Christ
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come from?
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She repeated it, Where did? She said?
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I ask you again, Christ come from? She then said,
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he came from God.
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And a woman. Man had nothing to do. Man had
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nothing to do.
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Can you imagine standing in Philadelphia in the time in
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our nation's history that looks a radically different than our own,
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and yet she stood there and she said man had
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nothing to do with him. She said, it's the first
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woman God ever made was.
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Able to turn the world upside down alone.
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Then then she said, these women should be able to
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turn the world right back.
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Up again and get it right. And then she said,
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and now they is I skime to do it? Now?
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If I were the men.
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In this room, I would find my seat and let
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them wow.
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And every woman, whether if she admitted or not, going,
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whoa I like this woman?
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Look at her picture and you won't like her anymore
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even more. And what's really cool is at the end
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of that sermon, you know what she did.
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She went on for an iron a high talking about
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ain't I a woman? I do this, I plow afield,
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I do this.
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She went through the whole thing, and at the end
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of it, know what she did. She took her arms
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and she raised them up like this. She pulled her
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sleeves to her shoulder, and she raised her arms up.
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But she did this, and she flexed.
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Her biceps, and the biceps.
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Of her arms were the larger than to the NBA.
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And you're like, that's how it's heated, Ain't old woman?
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America is To say it acrossroads is an understatement.
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It used to be the revival was important.
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Revival has now become imperative. Starts looking for men and
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women who will not with violence, safe of future, but
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with their hearts and their surrendered lives and their committed spirits.
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Begin to say, you know what, it's time that we awaken.
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It's time that we arise.
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It's time that we become a church, a people, a
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nation that fulfills the destiny that God has given to
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this remarkable place. Whether there's the Lord beginning, I begin
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to write the moorings.
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Rhetoric in America had.
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Given way to the victory all of a loss and
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a strange generation. We are lost both the security of
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foundational principles and the sales of fundamental disciplines to keep.
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Us from crashing upon some distant shoal.
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Are we witnessing a political requiem from biblical Christianity in America?
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Or could it be that the bewildering season of our
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great compromise in chaos upon the American landscape today is
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increasingly becoming the platform.
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For America's greatest awakening. And I want to say to
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you this morning, it's not time for the requiem. It's
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not time for the funeral. It's not time for you
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to give up. It's not time for you to quit.
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It's not time for you to throw in the towel.
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It's not time for.
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You to lay down the armor.
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But rather, it is the time the surrendered hearts and
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humbled lives. We cry out for the simplicity and the
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glory of God to come and transform us into beating
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the people that we should be. He should compel us
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to become what He's called us to become. In the
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last few months, the Lord's really been tricking my heart
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the amazing story of Hoseiah in the Bible.
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And I'm not going to go through this morning.
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We may talk about us some more this week because
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it's gripping my heart.
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Listen to me, the magnificent radical love.
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Of God that he demonstrated through Conseiah and Gomer is
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the most amazing picture to me of what God is
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wanting to.
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Do in our day is any I know of.
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Joseiah was a firebrand. He was a young prophetic voice
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in his generation, in a generation of resurging prophet. Was Joseiah,
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a single man who had arisen with fire in his
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heart and eloquency on his tongue. And he was shaking
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the heart of the Israeli people, of the nation of Israel.
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And in that time he.
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Was a single man, and he had been praying for.
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A wife, prayer of every Unian name's part. And he
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was utterly amazed when God came to him one day.
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He said, listen to me, I picked that a wife
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for you. And he told her his name. He told
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him her name, said, her name is Gomer.
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Well, Joseah, I mean the neighbor is not pretty.
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Hey, look you can change you. Then, but jose said, come,
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words was the most beautiful woman in all the land.
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And so God said, I picked her for you, and Hosea,
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I was thrilled. But then God said, but I've got
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a secret to tell you, and that is her heart
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is wayward. She will never be faithful to you, she
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will be anything. And so God called Joseah to take
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on a life of quorums that he might demonstrate his
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own love to the people, is to his people who
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had turned their mouths and become wayward on you.
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We see it in the story. I'm not going to
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tell the whole story. I'm already said that once. And
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now have with her. We see her becoming faithous.
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She bears j jose have three children, each of them
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God's names, and he names the Jewelren based on the
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prophetic detriment of the nation. Gomer was never faithous jose
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She lived a deboshed, wicked life. It was amazing. We
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never read in the Bible one time, not one time,
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for Josea's heart ever fell out of love with Goldr
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even to the point where when she was old and
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her body was wrapped, she had been with thousands of men.
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And found joy in none of her.
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And she was being drug one day to the city square.
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Gomer now an old woman whose life was used up
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and spent and left over and rejected, and she was sickly,
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and she was miserable, And if you study the story,
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it's an amazing story.
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And she approached the auction.
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Slave block in such shame that the auctioneer even ordered
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that she'd be stripped naked before she's put upon the
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platform to be auctioned off.
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So here stands Gomer naked in the public.
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Square, an old woman who's lived her life her way.
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But it's brought her to a horrible end, and she's
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studying it and the people are laughing.
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The Great Andrew Murray wrote a story about this, experiencing
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the heart with such drama.
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And you can see it. She's game in there, and.
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Her head is hanging limp on her own chest, and
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she knows, and everybody else knows among the chuckles, who
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would have been for her.
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She ended up.
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Bringing maybe a quarter of what the worst of the
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common slaves would have brought in her day.
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Auctioneer was really surprised that anyone would bed at all.
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But as she stood there with her head hanging limp,
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he opens up the biddy, and surely not he hears
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her voice begin to bed.
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There's only one person that been for her, and everybody
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turned to see who was, and it was It was
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a little old man, a straw Saint Joseiah, who had decided.
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To buy back the bride of his youth. He stood there.
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He had raised the kids alone, man, and he lived
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life alone. Man.
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His love and his hart never one time flickered for
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this woman.
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The moment he had the chance to buy her back,
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he bid and heat ball he come, and he took
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his cloak and he wrapped it around her, and he
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covered her nakedness, and he told her, you're going.
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Home with me, not to be my slave. We're gonna
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get you cleaned up. You're gonna be my wife. You're
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gonna be my bride. God is restoring the family. And
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it's an amazing picture. It's an amazing And.
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At the end of that story, all beginning to say,
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and he Injosea, chapter twelve, in verse twelve, he begins to.
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Say, God begins to say, here's what, Here's what. Here's
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what jose said. Hose said, plow up the follow ground.
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Listen to me.
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Fallow ground is not moruling this ground. Fallow ground is
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that ground in our lives that used to produce fruit.
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But the field have been that abandoned and unattended.
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So Joseah said to the people of God, power up
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the follow ground. Plow it up, man, drop the plow
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deep into the soil.
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Begin to turn it over. Power up, he says, your
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follow ground. And then he said because it's time to
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see the Lord, said Hooseo was.
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Saying, Prepare your heart, Prepare your heart, Prepare your heart, because.
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God is coming again to.
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Sow the fresh seed of renewal and revival and awakening
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in America, and in my heart it's not ready.
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When the seed is sown, the seed.
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Will fall upon the hard heart like it would upon
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a hard land, and the seed will.
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Roll off when the when the, when.
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The copious rains come, the seed cannot take root. But
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jose said, plowed up, plowed up, plow up. Can I
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say to you, God is plowing.
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Up some ground in our lives. God's plowing up some
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ground in our families. God's plowing on some ground. Man,
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listen to me.
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I say to you, it's not time for America's funeral.
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I say to you, it's not time for a requiel.
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I say it's time for a revolution of the fire
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of God. I say it's time for a revival to
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come to America. I say it's God, love of God,
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to lay the plow to the root of my heart
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and make the soil soft again. So when the seed
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is sown and the rains.
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Come, the seed will saturated.
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Deep into our lives, and we will never read the same. Listen,
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I've got to close this morning. I know my time
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is closed.
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Listen to me.
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I said, break up the follow ground, prepare your heart, wife,
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because he said it's time to seek the Lord.
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He said, it's time to seek the Lord. It's time.
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Has there been a.
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Time in your life it seemed more critical for America
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than now?
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And really and truly, at the end of Tuesday.
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I have law celebrate the things over, But without God,
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where is our hope?
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Lies night didn't tell you about what is it? Lie?
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Maybe the words of Hoseiah are reminding us of the
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love of the Father, and maybe the love of the
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Father is being manifest. Maybe the Father is showing us
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his heart that he might reveal his holiness, and he's
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going to reveal his holiness that we might receive the
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greatest hears the world or seen. Time to see the
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Lord said, Why, he said, it's time to see the Lord.
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Till the righteousness of God rain upon the man. We're
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working hard. We're traveling everywhere, we're going going. Man, we're
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pulling out all the stops because this is the time
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of sow.
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Because the rain in America is coming the rain is coming, man,
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and God's going to begin to release the seed of.
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Revelation in the heart of America.
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And Americans and many nationals, for people that are in
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our nation are going to begin to hear the clarion
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call of the love of the Father.
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And they're not going to respond to the dictates of
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the church. But the love of the Father, he alone
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can change the heart.
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Uh. Let me, let me, let me very quickly give
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to you these principles nine times. Yeah, I am aware
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of the time.
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How then, we had a couple of pop.
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Church one time in the passage, and I got ready
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that phoenix, my hermon, close my Bible, a new family.
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Is there?
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A little girl end over her mom so much close Bible?
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She said, Mama, was that me?
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And her mama said that means absolutely, man, it is true.
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It is true. And the last church they took down
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the clock and the cattle. But let me say, the
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two up o'clock coring up a calendar, and.
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I follow the more moved from becoming to use it.
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And we used to apply this however applies to this,
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how you can together and one of them, the first one,
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I suppose I've already beentioned.
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But it's this.
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Well, it's perceived to be a requiem for one, it's
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a revolution for another. Now I know there's been much
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time on there.
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I'm gonna said to you when we're a pastor and
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I don't have Just a couple of weeks ago, it
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was apowesome and we came into the church.
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It's a beautiful sanctuary like this, and we came in
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like it would have been like right here where this
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stream is, right, we.
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Come in the sanctuary. And this was just a dream.
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I just was dreaming and.
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Walk in the room and up here I noticed in
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this corner, in this beautiful sanctuary, I noticed that there
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was wallpaper on the wall, but the wallpaper had become
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dry and and.
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It was building off the wall.
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So I begin to say to the pastor, you know,
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we really need to get up there, my dream, we
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really need to get up there.
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And pull that wallpaper off. It looks bad on that wall.
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And the pastors say, Dawn, we're gonna remodel the Saint Square,
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and so we're gonna take all this paper down.
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Wait, in my dream, I said, then, well why don't
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we just take it down?
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Now?
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We got people coming to church in a little bit.
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They all paper are coming to set hello.
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Let's just call him the prompt tune Sunday morning work.
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Then learn a good idea and we'll get in tearing.
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All this wallpaper on. So he said, well, let's just
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be used to our now real quickly, we tore all
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the wallpaper off. It been like in that section, we're
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talking that whole wallpaper. And when we did, we began
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to realize there was a mural, beautiful mural painted on
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the wall, but needs a wallpaper.
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And when great enthusiasm, we begin to.
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Tear the wallpaper off. And we tore the wallpaper off,
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and there was this and this mural was of.
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A young man. He goes like he's in the twenty
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He had on a T.
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Shirt and blue cheeses and they had hold of him,
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and he had tattoos on his arm, and he was
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standing right at the edge of this cliff. He was
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standing and this cliff it just went down, and this
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young man was just standing there, right on the edge,
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and the mural was right in there.
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And I saw it, and I said, what is this
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guy doing?
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What's he doing? And interestingly, in the mural he had
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all of this armor. It was like an ancient armor
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of a warrior laying at his feet. But he was
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standing at the edge of the cliff.
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And when I first saw it, I was like, can so.
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Man?
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It looked like he was going to jump. His face
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was stern and stowy.
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He was looking out to the horizon, and I thought,
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he's quit too soon, man, what's happened?
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Don't quit, don't jump. And my heart felt the emotion
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of this young man standing on this cliff's edge. And
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suddenly I began to realize, we gotta tear off more wallpaper.
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I had to see the rest of that. So we
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tore off all wallpaper down this wall, and suddenly I
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began to realize.
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Just beyond the cliff was this amazing. All the way
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down that wall there was an amazing plush valley and
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had this beautiful river running through it.
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He had orchards and fields of wheat and grain, and
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it was amazing. The whole valley was just tea with light.
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And I was like, and don't jump. Look look what's
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ahead of you. And I saw the armor, and it's like,
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he's thrown off the armor. Why would he quit? And
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we got back here and they're like, okay, we got
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to tear off on paper.
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So we tore off the wallpaper on this wall, and
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the beautiful valley runs into a great mountain range, and
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the mountain range as we turned the corner.
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This whole wall here was a vast desert.
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It was just beautiful valley, amazing mountains, desert all the
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way around here. But when we began to tear off
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the paper of the wall where the desert was, we
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begin to see that there was a like a wagon
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train of people in the distance in the desert that
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were making their way up through there.
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And so I was like, oh, man, let's see where
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they're going.
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So we tear out.
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That's the cool thing.
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About dreams, right, And so the more wallpaper will follow me,
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the more wallpaper would threw off his way.
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The little line of a wagon troading back here became.
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Larger and larger and larger and larger, until this whole
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back wall here was completely full of generations of people.
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Who were cutting up through here and who were coming across.
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And you know what, by the time I got back
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to the young man over here, the young man was
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not standing on the.
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Cliffs edge ready to jump at all.
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But he had generations behind him, and he was scoping
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the land to see their best path down into the valley.
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So I hadn't miss just.
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Just what I said, I had missed, Judge, I hadn't
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seen it. And so I began to as to the
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Lord of the dream, who is the young man?
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Who is the young man? And I'm telling you the
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one said to me in a dream, He's not a
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man at all, He's a generation. Can I begin to say?
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Every major move of God in the twentieth century began
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in the heart of the gun. I begin to feel
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in my heart God is about to do something in
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the generation of the youth. Watch the high schoolers, watch
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for a revival to come to the high schools. What's
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the elementary schools, what's the college days, what's the young couples?
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Watch what God is about to do? And a generation
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of young people who are not looking for an easy
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way out come out.
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And they had to lay down the expectations of the
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armor of their fathers and saying we've got to go
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our way, but go we must.
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And they were leading generations into the Kingdom of God.
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And so I begin to feel in my heart the
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Lord was saying what one man's funeral is another man's resurrection.
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The second principle that I want to give to you
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is the future is often hidden behind the veil the
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thinly veiled history.
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The future is often.
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Hidden behind a thinly veiled history. Students of history are
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often remarkably and made by the relations of the future
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they've discovered there. And I want to say to you,
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there's something about the past of this ministry that God's
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about to put his finger on and resurrect it for.
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The days that come ahead. Listen to me.
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I know nothing about this church, its beginnings, it's past,
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it's history, it's it's current.
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I know nothing about it, no one thing.
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But what I do now is disappearing the Lord begin
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to say, what is I'm going to take that which
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has been our past. I'm gonna bring it through a
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moment of healing and transition, and I'm going to begin
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to reach Shay. This ministry had become the transformity agent
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of God in the state of Kentucky.
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God wants to.
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Do an amazing thing in this place. I looked at
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the young man in the dream. I didn't see the
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generations who.
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Come behind him.
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I just saw him until we get it all on
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the right. And then I began to realize He's doing
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He's the third Prinsident. The future is obliguous to those
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who mistaken the dysfunction of the previous generation for the
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destiny of their own. The future is bleakest to those
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who mistaken the dysfunction of the previous.
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Generation for the destiny of their own.
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I begin to say, you know what God's going to
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do some things in Somerset. I begin to feel it
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in my spirit this morning early when I awaken and
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I pray, the Lord began to just monister to me
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in a really, really powerful way.
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And I don't know where you are, but there are
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some people.
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And Pastor and I and nobody else, and I have
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had one conversation about anything. Listen to me. There are
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people that have been discouraged. There are people that have
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been out of focus. There are people who have been distracted.
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There are people that have been mistaken.
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You've been You are the one standing at the cliffs edge.
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And others were looking at him and listen, interpreting your moment.
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But all is saying, and He's gonna come. He is coming.
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He's gonna visit this place he's gonna visit our homes.
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Man, he's gonna visit our marriage, he's gonna visit our children,
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he's gonna visit our families. He's gonna visit our church.
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He's gonna begin to equip us and empire us to
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do what we dreamed of doing. But we've never really
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captured the courage.
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To do it.
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But we now will because student Bismark. He said, the
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question is not whether America will come back to God.
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The question is will America come back to God by
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desperation or by revelation. God has been merciful to us.
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He's given to us revelation, and he's reminded us. Sure,
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maybe the future generation, Maybe the generation is before us.
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Maybe your mother, your father, maybe there was lots of dysfunction.
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Listen to me, The dysfunction of those who went before
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you does not determine the destiny within you.
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And whatever the fact thought has planted in your heart, a.
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Destiny that he's about to unlock and to unleash and
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bring you into a place you've never been before.
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So I'm gonna quit. You're gonna take me serious about
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the county.
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It's gon afford the Lord and again I've never shared
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these things anywhere. The Lord mantles generations and he annoints them.
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With the Holy Spirit.
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To accomplish the dream that He's put within them. We
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may look at the young people and we may we
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miss interpret as a dream that God has put it.
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I begin to speak with a bunch of millennials, I said,
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who named a millennials?
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Who?
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Why? Oftentimes it's the older generation who names the younger generation.
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But the name we instilled upon them is a name
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that we discern as our own dysfunction. And we've labeled
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a generation of youth and children in some ways with
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the dysfunctional term.
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This generation of young people that are among.
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Us today are highly creative, They're very smart. They're gonna
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carve their own path. And God has put a destiny
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and a dream within them.
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And God's about to unlock and new the Spirit is
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gonna be get to release the dreams that are decided
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in the command. And we may think they can't do it.
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I'm telling you that I was born in the United
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States Military. We'll strap a twenty year old into a
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fighter playing that cost a.
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Half a million dollars over there, half a billion.
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In the church we're afraid the twenty year old money.
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Because we're imposing our dysfunction on them and they don't
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know what you know, and they got the bag into
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so let them.
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Shove their way, bring them into an.
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Atmosphere, or they can just think in just salivate with
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the creative Jesus, if you.
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Will have a holy spirit, because God.
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Is about to birth something I think and talking, yeah,
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I think in Somerset.
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It's gonna be reminded. Here's the best order, pulling the
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number five. See that is what is it. I want
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to say to you.
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We need to get ready whatever happens this week, there's
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gonna be a lot of drama. We're standing this morning.
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On the end, a book can very easily become.
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America's greatest dramatic political bumble, the outcome of which we
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cannot discern from this place right here.
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But it's colomy.
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I'm telling you.
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That in the next few weeks and.
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Months two ty seventeen, we will witness, we will witness
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the beginnings of some of the greatest outportings of God.
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The world has ever seen. So listen to me.
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I'm going to share a story this week about an
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encounter that I had and how revival broke out of
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my church, and if the Lord told me not to
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keep it in the building, I had to carry it
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all up and down the Gulf coast.
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And we did that for nearly a year. And Wills
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tell someone that story. But listen to me.
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The Lord said to me in that time that he's
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beginning a movement of his spirit. You know, building will
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ever contain, no ministry will ever control. The Lord begin
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to say, I'm going to begin to rebuild the heart
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of the Father, and through the revelation of the heart
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of the Father, I'm going to.
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Release the fire of my holiness. And through the fire
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of my.
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Holiness, I'm going to begin to release I'm going to
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begin to read the greatest harmy that the world has
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ever known.
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Listen to me. About six services ended that meeting.
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We had to move the thousand see tenth and an
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open building in North Florida, and we were there and
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we were live streaming from a tent, and we had
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over eleven thousand people from all over the world trying
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to watch what God was doing in a tent in
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print the cold. You know why we had people watching
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from this time Boo Turkey, we had people watching from
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Saudi Arabia. We had a younger man that grew up
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that we knew in the church, who grew up through
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Can I say this. He was a part of a
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medical team for a very huts prince in Saudi Arabia.
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He and a prince from Saudi Arabia were watching the
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revival in a tent in Florida, sitting inside of Saudi Arabia,
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watching this revival, and the younger prince was asking the
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young man questions about Jesus and dreaming and all that
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kind of thing, and it was just it's just amazing,
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you know why, Because the whole world is teetering on
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the brink of chaos.
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A whole world seems to be in a place of
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unrest and unsettlements.
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And the moment that a sustaining, authentic, real move of
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God begins to transform a heart of a people, of
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a person, of a community of a church, listen to me,
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you would have a whole world watching in about forty
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eight hours.
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Because the world is standing on the brink.
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And I believe this morning God is saying, break up
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the follow ground, break up your follow grounds. Don't let
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the disappointment or hurt, the bitterness, anger, distraction, the disappointments,
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the hypocrites.
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Don't let those people, not one more minute cause your
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heart to become hard and unpliable.
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Allow the Holy Spirit to set the file and cut
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deep into that place, that he might bring the healing
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rains of the Holy Spirit.
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That deceeed might be sun, and the heart might receive it,
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and there might begin to be.
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This amazing productivity of the bountiful fruit.
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Of God in our lives.
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Listen to me, what if God, what if God really
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we're growing bram Rey bot it.
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Well, what if he were going to bring in the time,
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or what if God wanted to do.
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In the nation people beginning to do. I guarantee you
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right now, I can't think of another governor in the state,
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in any or the nation that was speaking as holdly
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as we heard government speaking. And that's not a political thing.
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That was That was an address to the group of benefit.
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When you have a governor stand before you saying, if
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America is lost, it's going to be carried your grave
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on the back of the power of the preacher.
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Hello, Hello, Hello, I see what I'm saying. America is ready,
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America's right, our young people are standing in them. They're
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just waiting for a generation of fathers money to part
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and release them and help them and guide them and
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believe in them and release them to do it.
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And they're going to do it great.
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We've never done it, man.
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They're going to do that exploits from God to be unbelievable.
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And and you guys have be all thank you for listening.
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