Sermon
Answers from Heaven | July 5th 2026 | Pastor Dwain Wolfe
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Hallelujah. You lived through the fireworks hangover. Hallelujah. This is wonderful.
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It's so good to see you. How many of you
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got five hours of sleep? How many of you got six?
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If you got six, okay. Amazing people. How many of
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you got seven? Seven. Some of you got seven. Wow,
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you were in a cave somewhere. That's good. How many
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of you use earplugs? That's my technique. That's my technique.
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Pastor Joel, she has an amazing pillow. Her pillow is
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like soundproof. And so she buries herself under a pillow
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every night. And it must be a powerful pillow because
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she has ears like an eagle. She can hear me
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a mile away, right? But that pillow is so effective
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that she actually can go to sleep while the bombs
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are going off. And I'm telling you, the bombs were
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going off. Debbie Lewandowski made it this morning with three
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hours of sleep. She said that it didn't stop at
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her house until four in the morning. Can you believe that?
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The Chinese are rejoicing. They made a billion dollars last
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night off of American freedom. It's just amazing, isn't it? Hallelujah.
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They rejoice over American freedom. If they didn't have American freedom,
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where would their economy be? What in the world? Anyway,
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so good to be here today, praise the Lord. We
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didn't lose any limbs. We made it through. And so
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we're rejoicing. I want to talk to you a little
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bit about answers from heaven. And maybe more appropriately, the
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reliability of the word of God. The power of the
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word of God. And the reliability of the word of God.
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At my current house, we have Puget Sound Energy. It
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used to be called Puget Power. Remember that? How many
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of you are old enough to remember Puget Power? All right. Okay,
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a couple people in the room. So it's now Puget
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Sound Energy. And how many of you, your bill has
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been increasing? Have you been noticing? Anybody been noticing? Who
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pays attention to the money in your house? My bill
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is up, you know, our bill is up like 20
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to 30%. They said it was only going to go
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up 12%. It's like 30% because they've got all this
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stuff they're throwing on there. They got the cap and
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trade carbon thing they're throwing on there. So if, you know,
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I don't know. Somehow we've got to stop the cows
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from fluffing. If we can do that, we can get
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rid of this carbon thing. Did he just say that
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on national TV? I can't believe it. But we have
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fugitive sound energy at this house. So here's the crazy thing.
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At the house before, we had underground power. We lived
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in the same house for 28 years on South Hill
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in Puyallup. We had underground power, and we never lost power.
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In 28 years, maybe once, we lost power. And that
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was probably an accident. I don't know how it happened.
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Even here, in 22 years, we've lost power one time here.
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and I attribute some of that to underground power. But
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at the new house, people in our neighborhood lose power
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all the time. Like if a little gust of wind
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blows through the neighborhood, a tree will knock over a
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power line somewhere, and they've got the power lines running
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through trees. Like if a branch falls, you could lose power.
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And so when we first moved in, I saw this,
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you know, it was a, This was a distressed sale.
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And so the sellers didn't want to tell us anything
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about the property because it was under duress. You know
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what I'm saying? They were getting a divorce. He held
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a gun to her head. It was a bad thing.
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But there was a plug out in the carport. And
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I'm like, what in the world is that plug? Well,
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I found out what the plug was pretty soon because
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everybody in the neighborhood has generators. and a branch falls,
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everybody loses power, I found out there was a generator
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plug wired into my home. Isn't that wonderful? And so
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we could just plug that thing in. And so right away,
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I had to go buy a generator. I'm talking about
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things we take for granted. Like, we take power for granted. Right? No,
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not the power bill. But we take power for granted,
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and yet it's there. We've got 240 volts flowing into
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our home. You have a lot more power flowing in
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than you actually use, right? Most of the time. Unless
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you're baking Jasmine's cookies. There's a cookie advertisement right there.
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But we've got 240 volts, you know, flowing into our homes, right?
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And we take it for granted. But taking it for granted...
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doesn't mean it's not there. It doesn't mean it's not active.
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It doesn't mean it's not alive. It doesn't mean it's
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not working. You follow what I'm saying? What I mean is,
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most of the time, you don't spend any time meditating on,
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staring at, focusing on, channeling your inner psyche at the
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light switch. Most of us don't. Most of us don't. Now,
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there might be a couple in the room that are
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struggling with this, but most of us We just take
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for granted that there's power somehow connected to that switch.
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And when we walk in the room, we just flip
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the thing on and go on about our day. We
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don't even get deep in rejoicing. Right? Because the power
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is there. And I want to talk a little bit
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today about the power that is in the Word of God.
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The power that is in the kingdom message, the kingdom
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of heaven message. the power that is in the word
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of God. And I wanna start by talking a little
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bit about how that our forefathers knew this, that our
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forefathers knew about the power and what we enjoyed yesterday
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in Chinese fireworks, what we enjoyed yesterday is actually the
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outgrowth of the word of the kingdom in our nation,
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and that's what brought the revolution, and that's what brought independence,
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and that's what brought the Constitution, and that's what brought
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the liberty and the freedom that we have. That's what
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brought the abolition of slaves. It was the working out
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of the Word of God. And a lot of us
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don't know the framework that led to 1776. We don't
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know that there were thousands of crazy, crazy preachers crisscrossing
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the entire 13 colonies, pouring out their hearts and lives
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in the 13 colonies, sharing the gospel, preaching the word,
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preaching the kingdom of heaven on earth. This was the focus.
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The focus of the early preachers was the kingdom of
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heaven on earth. It wasn't the rapture, though the rapture
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is a wonderful word. We are going to be caught
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up to be with the Lord. He is coming back.
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That's a beautiful thing. But the focus of those early
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preachers was not on getting off of the planet. It
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wasn't a pessimistic word. Let me say it that way
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as well. It was an optimistic word. They believed that
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they were living in the kingdom of heaven on earth.
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they believed that the word of the kingdom of heaven
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was theirs to dispatch and to give. And they were
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filled with optimism over this nation and over the land
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and over the future of our nation. Um, let me just,
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and there's, there's some stuff that I just discovered this weekend. So,
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and I'm like, I am an old geezer. Did you
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know that my, my, uh, facial hairs have turned white.
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I mean, that means I have come into a mark
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of ancientness that is absolutely significant. And even though I've
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got that mark of ancientness, I didn't know some of
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what I was discovering. So George Whitefield was the, we
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could say he was the fountainhead of this crazy preaching.
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And out of George Whitefield, there were thousands of preachers
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raised up, and the body of Christ, the laity, was
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completely animated in preaching and sharing the gospel message in
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a powerful way. But George Whitefield was just kind of
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an iconic guy, inspiring all of the 13 churches colonies
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in a crazy way. His evangelistic preaching in American colonies
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spanned a total of 32 years, beginning in 1738 with
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his final tour in 1770. He made seven distinctive tours
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across those 13 colonies just time and time and time again,
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absolutely devoted to the message of the kingdom of heaven
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on earth. That was what they were devoted to. And
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I want to read to you out of Isaiah 61
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because Isaiah 61 is the fountain. It's the wellspring of
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the kingdom of heaven on earth. And it's interesting in
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Matthew 10, 7, he tells the disciples, he sends them out,
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and he tells them, go and declare that the kingdom
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of heaven is at hand. We have to recognize that
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he wasn't sending them out with swords, guns, and weapons
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to kill people to say you're going to heaven, and
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that's at hand. He was telling them to go and
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declare that heaven is about to invade earth. Heaven is
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about to invade earth. The kingdom of heaven is at hand.
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Heaven is about to invade earth. That was the message,
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Matthew 10, 7, that they were to preach. Isn't that amazing?
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And before I forget it, how many of you think
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I shouldn't forget something? I could forget it, so I
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should mention it now. But I'll mention it now because
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it came to me. So I should mention it now.
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Mark 16, 20 says that as they preached this word,
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that the Lord worked with them. We could pull it
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up if we were really fast. The Lord worked with them,
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confirming the word with signs and wonders. How many of
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you know that scripture? How many of you heard that
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scripture before? All right, three of you. How many Christians
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in the room? All right, 10, 10 Christians. Praise the Lord.
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I'm feeling good about this morning. I want you to
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see this, though, because we're going to hover here in
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a moment. We don't want to hover there yet, but
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we'll hover there in a moment. We're going to hover
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over this element of understanding is that the Lord works
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with the Word. That the Lord confirms the Word. No
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word out of your mouth, no Lord working with the Word.
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Mouth closed, mouth distracted. Mouth turned away. The Lord doesn't
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work with your word. The Lord works with His word
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in your mouth. The Lord works with... Now today I
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might talk about the boat. Today I might talk about
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waves and water. We have a birthday party at the
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house today. I'm sure I'm going to celebrate some child.
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Hallelujah somebody. But there's no anointing on that word. There's
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no anointing on those words at all. And you could
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bring a word somewhere. You could bring a word and
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And you could bring a word. If you bring a
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word that is just of your own word, it may
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have relevance with wisdom or understanding, or it may be
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that you're trying to bring some kind of word of
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wisdom and understanding that isn't related to the word. There
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won't be any anointing on that at all. It'll be dry.
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Have you ever tried to teach something and it was
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dry because the anointing wasn't present? But then when you
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teach or share something that's kingdom, that's kingdom of heaven,
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it's not dry. The Holy Spirit's present on that word. Why?
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Because the Holy Spirit watches over the word. The early
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preachers knew this. These people were not like springing up
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out of some cave of darkness somewhere. We're talking about
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These people in the 13 colonies that loved the founding
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of our nation, that loved this nation, that loved what
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God was doing, they had a God-centered vision. And in
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their vision, they saw God through Isaiah 61 meeting every
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need of society and culture. This was what they saw.
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You don't have a heaven on earth message if you
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don't see God is able to answer every need in
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society and culture. That's not a heaven on earth message.
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They have this understanding and we'll get there in a
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moment out of Isaiah chapter 61. But first I wanted
Isaiah 61 chapter mention
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to drill down on the thing I didn't want to
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say I was going to drill down on. And that
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is that God's word in your mouth and not just
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God's word of repent or God's word of turn or
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burn or God's word of Jesus loves you or God's
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word of God, Jesus wants to save you. So many
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times when we think of evangelism, when we think of evangelism,
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we've allowed religiosity and the enemy to cook this, you know,
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this isn't the word I want, but to pigeonhole, that's
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the word I want, to pigeonhole us into just sharing
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that somebody needs Jesus. But the word they were sent
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to preach wasn't just that everyone needs Jesus, and it
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wasn't even the word that they should repent. The word
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that they were sent to preach, though all of that
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has appropriate times and seasons, was the word of the
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kingdom of heaven on earth. That's the word. The word
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of the kingdom of heaven. That's the word. And so
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encapsulated in that word is a lot more, and I'm
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going to get to that, because there's an anointing on
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that word that's powerful, and Holy Spirit doesn't want you
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thinking about sharing or living out, sharing verbally or sharing
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by pen, anything to do with the kingdom of heaven,
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and then staring at it with unbelief, or even hesitating
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and wondering, and being cautious about it, wondering if there's
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any power to it. Hello, I'm making a parallel here.
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I'm making a parallel here. The Word of God is
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so energized with power, you don't need to doubt that
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when you flick on the Word, the power will be
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released to make that that you're sharing alive and powerful.
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So George Whitefield, I want to go back to George
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Whitefield for a moment because we don't have this context.
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We don't understand this. We don't know this. We're so
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distant from the contemporary moment of what was happening in
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those 13 colonies that we don't see how... I mean,
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it was so energized and so powerful. Listen to this.
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In his second tour, this was the most famous tour ever.
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It spanned 15 months. He went from New York to Charleston.
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And during this period, he preached nearly every single day
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to crowds as large as 30 to 80,000 people. Every
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single day for 15 months, crowds 30 to 80,000 people.
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And out of that, and it wasn't just this, George
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Whitefield's message was a message of kingdom of heaven on earth.
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His message was centered around Isaiah 61, which I'm going
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to read in a moment. But this spawned thousands of preachers.
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This raised up thousands of churches. And many of those
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churches would have been brush arbor churches. They would have
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been what we talk about in Africa. You know, Pastor
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Joel was showing the videos in the month of May.
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Do you remember the church in Nakapirit, where they were
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gathered around a tree? That's a brush arbor church in
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America in the 1700s. People would just gather wherever and
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form a church and be turned to the word of
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God in a new and a fresh way. Isn't that great?
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I want to read a little bit more about him
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because this is back in the notes a little bit
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that I've got. In the early days of America, the
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preachers and the churches had a great role in shaping
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the thinking of our nation. Preaching in America fundamentally shaped
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the nation's founding by popularizing the philosophical and moral arguments
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that fueled the revolution. Pastors synthesized biblical theology and championed
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ideas like unalienable rights and government by the consent of
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the governed, and resistance to unjust rule. And again, this
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was springing up out of the liberty of Isaiah 61,
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the first sermon that Jesus ever preached. The profound influence
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of the American pulpit manifested through several key movements and events. First,
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the Great Awakening, traveling preachers like George Wedfield ignited widespread
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spiritual revival. by emphasizing the individual believers were equal before God.
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That movement broke down hierarchy and hierarchical speech therapy coming
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this week. religious structures, and paved the way for democratic
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thinking and questioning of absolute authority. And then the black regimen.
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A term was coined for thousands of patriot pastors who
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became staunch defenders of the American cause. They delivered political
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sermons that interpreted pragmatic historical events through political theology and
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often serving as the primary source of news and civic
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instruction in the colonial communities. Remember the Johnson Amendment of
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1964 to shut the church up and tell churches and
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pulpits and pastors that they can't influence the nation or
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the political agenda? How many of you know that was
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the devil? Hello, somebody. Yes, I said it on video.
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the Black Robe Regiment, these sermons, so they were thousands
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of pastors, preachers, and those in pulpits, but those sermons
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were widely reprinted and distributed by the Sons of Liberty.
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The Sons of Liberty were hundreds of thousands of laity
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across the 13 colonies who took those printed sermons and
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distributed them to nations the public all across the 13 colonies.
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And then there was the educating of the framers. Prominent
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clergymen actively shaped the architects of the Constitution. For instance,
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John Witherspoon, a minister and the president of the College
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of New Jersey, now Princeton, tutored James Madison, Aaron Burr,
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and numerous other founders, shaping their views on civil government
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and civic virtue. So this is crazy stuff. Most of
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these guys, and I don't know that it matters to you,
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but most of it mattered to me. I thought it
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was interesting. Most of these theologians were post-millennials. They believed
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that they were living in a millennial period where God
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was leavening the earth with the gospel, where Isaiah 61
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was coming to pass, and that the second coming or
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the rapture would come at the end of some kind
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of a period. And crazy enough, like Trump, they called
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it the golden age. It's here. It's here. You can
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find it. I'm reading this off of the internet. I
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just looked it up on the internet. So I'm not
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this smart. Here was the vision of the future. The
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vision of the future that these pastors and preachers and
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the sons of liberty had. Number one, the global triumph
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of the gospel. That the revivalists believe the Holy Spirit
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will continue to sweep across the nation's eventually converting the
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vast majority of the world to Christianity. Now, this is
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only 250 years ago, folks. This is just a short
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time ago, and God has been working, and he's not done.
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He's not done.
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He's still leavening the earth with the gospel of the
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kingdom of heaven. Number two, they believed that America was
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the cradle of of this outpouring of the Holy Spirit.
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Jonathan Edwards, you know Jonathan Edwards became the president of
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Princeton College as well. Jonathan Edwards, do you remember him?
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Jonathan Edwards and his contemporaries harbored a pro-nationalistic view that
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God had chosen the American colonies as a specific staging
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ground for global transformation. No wonder Satan's mad. No wonder
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Satan's mad. Hello, somebody. We are a special called out
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people of God. We are a special nation. And this birthing,
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the revolution and the birthing of the nation and the
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writing of the Constitution and the liberties, it was birthed
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out of the gospel of Jesus Christ. And as they
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shared and as they preached, they didn't wonder if the
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light would come on. They had a tremendous confidence that
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God was better than Puget Sound Energy. That when they spoke,
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the anointing would be present. When they ministered, the anointing
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would be present.
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Number three. They believed in a restored society because Whitefield
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and other preachers emphasized that everyone needed the born-again experience
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regardless of class, wealth, or race. They envisioned a future
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with a vastly reduced social hierarchy where walls were torn down.
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They saw a society where spiritual equality translated into civic
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equality and harmony. They saw a nation where where the
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efforts of revival would transform the values of darkness. And
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it was their preaching to black Americans and native Americans
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and to the Anglos across the colonies that inspired the
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abolitionist movement. Isn't that awesome? Number four, the rejection of
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dead institutionalism. These guys sound like us. 250 years ago,
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the rejection of dead institutionalism, Whitefield and his allies expected
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the future of the church to be dynamic, decentralized, and
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driven by individual faith rather than rigid state church hierarchy.
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By traveling across boundaries and preaching in open fields, Whitefield
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bypassed traditional parish systems, creating a blueprint for future American
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religious landscape defined by volunteerism. free choice, and interdenominational cooperation.
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Isn't that amazing? I want to tell you the word works.
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and I want to read it to you out of
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the New Living Translation. This is the sermon that Jesus
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preached as he was launching the kingdom of heaven on earth.
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This is This is his first sermon. He's baptized in water.
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The Holy Spirit comes upon him as a dove. The
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voice from Father comes and says, this is my son
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in whom I am well pleased. He goes into the
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wilderness for 40 days. He comes out and overcomes the enemy.
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He goes into the synagogue and this is his first sermon.
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He says, hand me the scroll of Isaiah. They hand
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him Isaiah. He turns and to chapter 61, and this
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is what he reads, and he says at the end
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of this, today, these words are fulfilled in your hearing.
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This is his first sermon. This is the launch of
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the kingdom of heaven on earth. This is the beginning
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of what he told the disciples, go and say this,
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in Matthew 10, 7, go and declare the kingdom of
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heaven is at hand, this is the beginning of that.
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And this is why later, at the end of his ministry,
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three and a half years after he read this from Isaiah,
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at the end of his ministry in Matthew 16, 19,
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he says, behold, I give you the keys to the
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kingdom of heaven. And he's loosing them now. He's declaring
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them to be keys his representatives, and he's releasing over
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them ecclesiastical power to every believer that as they bind
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the enemy, he shall be bound. As they loose heaven,
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heaven shall be loosed. Here's what he said. The spirit
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of the Lord is upon me because the Lord has
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anointed me. The Lord has anointed me to bring good news.
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Now remember John 20, 20 through 22. Jesus said, as
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the Father sent me, so send I you. As the
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Father sent me, and then he breathed on them and said,
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receive the Holy Spirit. This is John 20. Everybody say
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John 20, 20. What kind of vision do you wish
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you had? 20, 20 visions. 2020 vision. What kind of
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vision do you wish you had? What kind of vision
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do you have in the spirit realm? He breathes on
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them and says, receive the Holy Spirit. He says, as
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the Father sent me, so send I you. That means
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that this passage is real and relevant for us.
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This is the passage we carry in our spirit man.
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This is the passage we carry in our heart. As
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he was anointed, now we are anointed. Now the anointing
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is a different thing.
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The anointing, that means that when you open your mouth
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with something, there's actually a power that comes on the
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breath of your words. A power comes on the breath
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of your words. Whether you feel it or not, you
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might not even feel it. You know, when I walk
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in the bedroom and I flick on the power, it's
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a happy day when I don't feel it. You know
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what I mean? Like if one of the bambinos has
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come along and taken the two screws off of the
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plate and somehow accidentally I reach in and.
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Touch the side of that thing and feel the power,
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that's a bad day. I don't need to feel.
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The power to know the power's on. This is what
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he's trying to say. You don't need an earthquake, a
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goose pump, or a wiggle to know that the power
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is on. When you share the message of the kingdom,
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when you deliver the message of the kingdom, the message
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of the kingdom of heaven on earth, the power is on.
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You can have the confidence. The power is on. The
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Holy Spirit is confirming the word. You don't even need
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the word confirmed in front of you. Now, most of us,
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we're looking for the word to be confirmed in front
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of us. You don't need the word confirmed in front
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of you. The word will be confirmed. It'll be confirmed
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by cutting their heart. It'll be confirmed by bringing faith.
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It'll be confirmed by opening the eyes of their understanding.
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It'll be confirmed by shifting the atmosphere in the room.
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It'll be confirmed when they get in their car and
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drive away. It'll be confirmed when they wake up tomorrow morning...
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thinking about it. It'll be confirmed somehow. You don't have
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to wonder, is it going to be confirmed? Jesus went
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with them, watching over the word, confirming the word with
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signs and wonders. You don't have to know what the
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sign and wonder was. You don't need to check up
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on the sign and wonder. The Holy Spirit is active
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and alive. The Word of God. Hebrews 4.12 The Word
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of God is active and alive, sharper than any two-edged sword,
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piercing the soul and the spirit right to the thoughts
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and the intention of the heart. The Word of God
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is working. I remember the day and I remember many
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days when the Word of God pierced my thoughts and
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cut me in such a way that I knew it
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was God. And that alone was a sign and a wonder.
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The working of the word to cut your heart or
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to open your eyes or to convict you or to
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cause you to weep or to cause an inner transformation.
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That is a sign and a wonder right there. I
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don't need to have a leg fall off. I don't
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need to have an ear grow. I don't need to
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have any. That's a sign and a wonder right there.
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Come on, somebody. Don't you think Holy Spirit's doing that?
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Didn't He do it to you? Why are you in
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this room? Didn't He touch you in a way that
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was like you try to describe it to people and
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you're like, I don't know. It's just like, and they're
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looking at you like, oh, really? But you know what happened.
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You know the Holy.
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Spirit touched you, spoke to you, cut your heart, opened
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your eyes, shifted your thoughts, interrupted your stupidity.
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You know that happened. Yes?
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Yes? You and I need to know as they did
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from 1738 to 1776 that God's.
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Word is immutable. It is powerful. It's unchangeable. It is anointed.
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The anointing comes on the word of the kingdom. Not
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just the word of repent. You walking around with your
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Jesus son. You got your Jesus placard. Turn or burn. No,
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the message of the kingdom of heaven is so much
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bigger than that. It answers every problem in life. And
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when you bring forth problem in life and with those
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messages that are from the kingdom of heaven, sometimes you're
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just laying the groundwork for the word of Jesus. Sometimes
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you're just laying the groundwork. You're just laying the groundwork
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with all this heaven on earth stuff.
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Did you know you're called of God? Did you know
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you're favored? Did you know you've got an identity? Did
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you know there's a purpose for you? Did you know
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you're set apart? Did you know you're special? The spirit
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of the Lord is upon me because the Lord has
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anointed me. So everybody say anointed. Because anointing is powerful.
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It's special. It's the power. It is the 240 volts
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that's on the word to bring good news to the
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suffering and afflicted. Have we forgot that we are ordained
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to bring good news to suffering and afflicted ones? The leadership,
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so the woke agenda is Satan's mouth with his answers
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through the unsaved for the problems of humanity. Did you
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hear me? The woke agenda is Satan's mouth for humans'
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answers through unclean ones. But could it be that his
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mouth is enabled because ours have been too silent too long?
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There's always a leadership vacuum, right? There's always a leadership need.
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And the leadership vacuum is filled with by the enemy
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where believers won't rise up with the word of the
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kingdom or the word of truth. Are you hearing what
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I'm saying? Wherever there's a lack of leadership, the enemy
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is so joyful to oblige to fill that lack of leadership.
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And it's the leadership really for solving the problems of humanity. Really,
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What we heard last week from Pastor Gary was so good.
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He was trying to help us see that really at
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the core of what appeals to those who have been
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ensnared with the woke agenda is compassion. The core of
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those who've been brought in to the woke agenda, the
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core of what moves them, motivates them, draws them is compassion. Compassion.
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And we carry the message of compassion, and ours is
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not dry, ours is anointed. The message of the kingdom
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of heaven on earth is for every soul, and we
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have an anointed message and an anointed grace on us.
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And it's so important that we don't forget that. Because
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we are anointed to bring good news to the suffering
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and the afflicted. He has sent me to comfort the brokenhearted.
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How many around us are brokenhearted? How much of this
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agenda could be addressed if we would embrace again the
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core of this message of the kingdom of heaven? is
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to minister to the brokenhearted. He has sent me to
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announce liberty to the captives. Liberty to the captives. We
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have a message of liberty to all who are in captivity.
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Captivity of any kind. Hierarchy. racial, addictive. It doesn't matter
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what the captivity is. We carry a message of liberty
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to them. This is part of the gospel of the
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kingdom of heaven. That we cannot allow to be silenced.
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We carry a message of hope out of captivity. And
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the answer Out of captivity. And to open the eyes
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of the blind. It's not the physical blind. The physical
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blind can fit within the scope of this, but it's
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the spiritually blind. It's the darkened of a mind. We
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have the word that opens our eyes. He has sent
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me to tell those who mourn that the time of
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God's favor for them has come. Any bereaved people around you?
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Anybody sorrowing? Anybody mourning? There's a message and this message
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of favor is for every human. This message for favor
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is for every single person. God has chosen every single
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person for the favor dispensed through Jesus. And this is
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part of our message. This is the kingdom of heaven message.
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And you know what? There's an anointing on it. Every
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time you share about favor and the good intention of
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God to bring favor. And what does it say in
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Romans chapter 2 verse 4? It's the kindness of God.
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The kind intention of God can open the eyes and
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turn people to repent. The kindness of God draws us
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to repent, to turn from our own way and to
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turn to God's way. Maybe we need to recapture again
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some of this message that God wants to pour out
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favor on every person. This is the message of the
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kingdom and there's an anointing on it. Like every time
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you share it, whether you're in a good mood or
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bad mood, whether you're smiling or frowning, whether you were
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ready or not ready, the Holy Spirit is on the
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word of the kingdom. There's an anointing on the word
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of the kingdom. You don't have to question the power
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on the word of the kingdom. Stand with me. I'm
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moving into my first close. Giving beauty for ashes, joy
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instead of mourning, praise instead of heaviness. Church, church, church, church, church.
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The word works. The word of the kingdom works, not
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the word of Not just, don't be pigeonholed. You carry
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solutions for every problem. You carry through the word of
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the kingdom of heaven solutions for every problem of mankind.
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And as you share it, as you dispense it, as
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you declare it, as you share about it, the anointing
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is present to watch over those words. You know, in
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John 16, 8, Jesus said, I'm going to send the comforter.
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And when the comforter comes, he will convict the world
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in regard to sin and righteousness of judgment.
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How many of you think that happened? John 16, 8.
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How many of you think the comforter came? Well, then
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why do we need Christians? Why do we need believers?
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Why do we need preachers? Do you realize the Comforter
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is waiting for you to open your mouth? The Comforter
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is waiting for you and me to pick up a
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pen and open our mouths and bear witness to Isaiah 61,
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the kingdom of heaven on earth. The Comforter is actually,
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he actually rides on the wind of our words. This
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is why on the day of Pentecost even, on the
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day of Pentecost... Nothing was going on. The comforter was waiting.
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And then Peter stood up and preached. And then he
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said this. He said, let all of Israel be assured
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of this. God has made this Jesus whom you crucified,
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both Lord and Messiah. When the people heard this, When
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the people heard this, I could give you so many
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examples in the Word. I'm out of time. I'm working
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on my last day. When the people heard this, they
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were cut to the heart and said to Peter and
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the other apostles, brothers, what should we do? When did
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they say that? And then 3,000 gave their lives to
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the Lord right then. When they heard it. This is
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why in Romans chapter 10 it says, how can they
Romans 10 chapter mention
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hear unless there's a You know the verse. Come on,
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help me. How can they hear unless there's a preacher?
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How can they hear unless there's a preacher? We don't
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need more ecclesiastical preachers. We need more body preachers. We
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need more laity preachers. We need more. We've got a
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room full of clergy this morning. You've got the word
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of the Lord in your mouth. And Holy Spirit, who
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has been sent to convict of sin, judgment, and righteousness,
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He's just brooding over you, waiting for that opportunity for
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you to open your mouth or to pick up your
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pen and to share something about the hope that is
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woven into the gospel of the kingdom of heaven. And
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every time you do, you don't have to wonder if
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the power is on. Every time you do, the power
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is on. Every time you do, Holy Spirit is released.
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Every time you do, He's cutting somebody to the heart.
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Every time you do, He's opening up blinded eyes. Every
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time you do, He's lifting somebody up out of depression
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and out of discouragement and out of poverty and out
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of negativity. Every time you do, Every time you do,
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and you don't have to know everything, and you don't
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need a seminarian degree. All you need to know is
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that Isaiah 61 is true. It's just as true today
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as it was in 1738, as it was in 1776.
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It's the same God working, the same Jesus is watching
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over His Word, and He's confirming His Word to the
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hearts of those who hear it with signs and wonders.
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And he can shift this nation again.
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And if he's got a bunch of people like you,
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he will turn this nation again. And this nation will
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once again be raised up. And heaven will come. And
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people will rejoice. And we will see the goodness of
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God in the land of the living. Father, we devote
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our hearts to you this morning. And we devote our
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hearts to trust in your word. To say together, the
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word works. The word works. The word works. The word works.
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Today we agree. We don't need to doubt. We don't
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need to wonder. We don't need to look at the
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light switch. We can know today that the light switch
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of the Word works, that Holy Spirit power is working
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in the midst of the Word, that every time we
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share biblical principles of the kingdom, every time we share
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the truth of the kingdom, every time we lift up
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the hope of the kingdom of heaven on earth, that
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you bear witness to it with power. And we thank
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you for it today. And we say.
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Yes through me. Yes through me.
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Even as he said in John 20, 20, the 2020 vision.
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We say now send us, Lord. Send us. We will
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be your workers. Send us as the Father sent you.
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So now you send us. And we thank you for
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it today in Jesus' name. And everybody shout it. God
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bless you, church. Let's worship as we go.