Sermon
REVIVAL IS YOUR INHERITANCE | July 12th 2026 | Pastor Dwain Wolfe
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Hallelujah. Stay standing. We'll pray over the word. Good to
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see you all in church this morning. Praise the Lord.
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You look beautiful. Father, we thank you for your word.
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We thank you that your anointing is present. That you
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are stirring up, restoring, reviving our hearts. Thank you that
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we are shedding disillusionment and running after you with a
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whole heart. Thank you for the pursuit, that the pursuit
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of you is rewarded by your presence, by revelation, understanding.
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We give you the praise for it today in Jesus' name.
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And everybody said? Amen. You may be seated. Hallelujah, hallelujah.
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We have heard some messages lately to address and clarify
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some of the woke thinking and culture. Today won't be
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one of those. However, every message in the Word is
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an anti-woke message. Boy, did you miss a good time
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to laugh right there. Hallelujah. God is fully awake, but
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he isn't woke. But today, we're going to jump off
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of that for a moment and dive into something. I
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want to talk to you about us building more fully
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the presence of the Lord here and in our own
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hearts and our own lives, because I know that's our passion.
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I know that's our desire. So we'll come back to
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some of these philosophical thoughts on wokeism. I hope it's
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beneficial and fun as we do those. We have nine
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people on the preaching team. And so I don't do
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all the preaching anymore. We kind of rotate through a
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little bit. And so each one of us are meditating
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and praying into what we can bring that will be
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biblical truth that will impact or shatter or expose unclean thinking,
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dark thinking, right? So that's part of what we're trying
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to do. And we're trying to do it in the
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spirit that the Lord would use and bring, not a
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spirit of judgment or hatred or malice or animosity, but
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just based on the goodness of God and what he
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has for mankind, for culture, Today, though, I want to
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just talk a little bit about building the edifice, building
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the house of the Lord, and how this is really
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what we long for. And I'm going to put like
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an old King James castle up here, right? But this
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is what we really long for. We long for more
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of the Lord. I think you're here this morning because
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you long for more of the Lord. There is a
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tension that we feel in the Lord. And it's a
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super healthy tension in that we are overjoyed with the
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presence we receive. There's a contentment inwardly of partaking of
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the goodness of God. And how many of you did
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some eating, snacking, or something this morning? I see hands
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over here. So yeah, as we press in together, so
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I'm talking about corporately and individually, you know, we come
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to feast on Him. You know, that's part of why
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we're coming. And we come because we want more of Him, right?
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We want more of His glory, more of His presence,
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more of His touch. more of his wisdom, more of
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his counsel. We want him to show up supernaturally. We
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want him to revive our hearts and to awaken our hearts.
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So there's that tension where we're appreciative of literally every
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drop of spiritual rain, but we also have a discontentment.
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There's like a holy discontentment that's healthy. And that holy
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discontentment is that we want more. that we want more.
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And it's kind of that Exodus 33 thing where Moses said,
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I don't want to go forward without your glory. I
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kind of don't want to move off of this spot
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without your glory. And I don't know, I think that's
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part of why we come. Part of why we come
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together is we have not fully given to disillusionment. Sometimes
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we press in and we don't receive all that we desired.
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And so disillusionment wants to come. Hopelessness wants to come.
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Sadness or frustration. But we're here today and we gather
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because we've quenched enough of that that we're still believing
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that there's value in getting together. There's value in the
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body of Christ. There's value in gathering. There's value in
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coming into a place where corporately we're asking God to move.
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We're believing for God to move. We're believing for his
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spirit to be poured out upon us. And there's value
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in that. There's power in that. There's power in that.
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And sometimes we come in our weakness. Sometimes we come
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with literally all we have is hope. But somebody around
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us is strengthened. And you know, if we get around strength,
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even when we're struggling, it's better than staying home. If
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we get around faith when we're struggling, it's better than
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staying home. There's something about getting around. The Bible calls
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us lively stones. And my exhortation to you today is
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to press, to continue to press to be that manifestation
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of life. A lively stone. Because him, he, and 1
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Peter 2, we're going to read this in a minute,
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but we're just talking right now. But he is the
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chief cornerstone. He is the stone of life. And he's
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building a habitation through us unto himself that contains his glory. Essentially,
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his glory will manifest in the midst Of the lively stones.
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So we want to be. We want to be. Becoming.
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That living stone. We want that. We desire that. We
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yearn for that. That's why you're here this morning. But also.
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If we overcome. Despair. And hopelessness. If we overcome some stuff.
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We'll show up. Even when we're not. feeling all that
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lively we'll show because we know that this is the
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habitation the habitation is not the building the habitation is
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the corporate gathering the habitation is not the building but
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it's so much better together where there's air conditioning on
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a hot day it's so much better together where there's
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a roof and it's raining outside but the habitation is
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not the house you are the house You are the
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habitation of God's presence. You are the house that he's
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dwelling in. And when we come together, we come as
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lively stones, stones that are made alive by Holy Spirit, right?
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Let's read it together. And we come together to build
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this habitation for his glory. 1 Peter 2, verses 4
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through 6. 1 Peter 2, 4 through 6. As you
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come to him, the living stone. Now, he's shown to
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us in Scripture to be the cornerstone. that builds the
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house of God. He's the cornerstone that builds the new habitation.
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And the new house or the new tabernacle or the
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new habitation of God is the coming together of the
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people of God. It's me individually. I am a living
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stone now made alive by him. I am a house
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of the Lord, but I don't exist on my own.
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I exist corporately in you. I've been made one with you.
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And together we've been made one with him. Him being
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the head and us being the body fitly joined together
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as God has called us. And so he is the
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chief cornerstone of the new habitation of the house. The
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old habitation of which is in the old habitation there's metaphor.
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There's beautiful understanding, illustration, parallels, and metaphor. But the new
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house is us corporately together. We come corporately together. This
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is so important that we see that coming together is
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so powerful and it's so important. Each of us come
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as lively stones. As you come to him, the living
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stone rejected by humans, but chosen by God and precious
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to him, you also, like living stones, are being built
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into a spiritual house. It's not in vain that we're
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coming together. This is super powerful that we're coming together.
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We're being built into a spiritual house. Now, in a
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spiritual house, that's where the glory comes. The glory dwells
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in a spiritual house where we come together in his name,
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by him, enlivened, made alive by him, and we come together.
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That's where the glory dwells. That's where the glory shows.
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That's where the glory comes. And we've tasted a bit
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of that today. And it's a beautiful thing. Like if
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we avoid this, if we, like there's a glory, a
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corporate glory in the lively stones, in the living stones
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that we can't get somewhere else. And there's a glory
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on those who are refining themselves as lively stones. There's
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a glory on them that can get on me when
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I get around them. And it's because they've been working
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on the structure of their stone. You know, as you're
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building something, you know, there's something about the quality of
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the stone and there's something about the perfecting of the
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stone that it speaks to the integrity of the building.
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And as we get around one another... and others are
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further along in their maturity in the Lord, there's strength
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in that. There's grace in that. There's hope in that.
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There's life in that. There's joy in that. We are
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built into a spiritual house to be a holy priesthood.
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To be a holy priesthood. Wow. Wow. This is crazy.
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Offering spiritual sacrifices acceptable to God. So we come together
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and we exist as well individually as a lively stone.
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You are one of these lively stones. And then he
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goes on to say you're not only a lively stone,
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but you're part of a holy priesthood. You're actually part
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of a priesthood. You have a priestly calling. You have
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a priestly role. The priesthood, this speaks of something very
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set apart. Very set apart. You are no longer ordinary.
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The priest, Exodus 39.30. The priest wore a plate of
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gold over their forehead and on the plate of gold
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it said, Holy to God. They were to remember by
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being called as a priest. We're talking about Aaron and
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the Levites. We're talking about those in that tribe. They
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were holy unto the Lord. Set apart. For the heart
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of the Lord, the mind of the Lord, the work
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of the Lord. Now we in Christ Jesus have been
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called into a holy priesthood. We are lively stones and
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these lively stones have a calling, have a place, have
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a role that is so separate and set apart from
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everything we were in the world. Look at the Scripture.
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Work with Holy Ghost this morning. He's not talking about
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those that have gone to seminary. He's not talking about
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those that graduated from Bible college. He's not talking about
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those who want to be in the ministry. He's talking
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about every single believer. Every single believer is now in
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the ministry. Every single believer has been set apart by God.
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Every single believer has a ministry, a first ministry, and
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they're in the priesthood. every single one of us, hello somebody,
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and the most important calling that we have in the
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priesthood is that we offer spiritual sacrifices. That's the most
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important calling that we have, is that we offer spiritual sacrifices.
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Not physical sacrifices, but spiritual sacrifices. Physical sacrifices are follow
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spiritual sacrifices. The sacrifice of serving, the sacrifice of serving
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in any way, those would follow the spiritual sacrifices. Anything
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we would do, Holy Spirit wants to enliven, He wants
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to animate, He wants to quicken, He wants to make alive.
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And that life... as we embrace our calling as priests.
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Does that sound heavy? Does that sound crazy? Jesus fulfilled
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the priestly role and Jesus became the sacrifice as well.
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Remember that out of the Old Testament. So out of
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the Old Testament there were sin offerings, there were grain offerings,
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There were thank offerings. There were all these pictures of
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atonement and sacrifice. And the sacrifice of the Old Testament
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era was of an animal or of blood or of fat.
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If you've read about the fat portions being burnt up
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on the altar, the fat, as it was burnt up
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on the altar, it would... offer an aroma that would
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ascend to heaven as the fat portion of an offering
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was being burnt up because the fat represented sin. And
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as the fat portions would go up being placed on
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the altar and then being offered by fire before God,
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the fat portion, a picture of sin, would be like
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an incense offering before God Now Jesus fulfilled all of
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those pictures by offering himself on our behalf. And then
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we're told in the Hebrews that he became the high
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priest of his own offering, to present that offering before
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the Father on our behalf. But then he's called us
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into a priesthood as well, where in that priesthood, the
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fulfillment of that priesthood is to offer spiritual sacrifices. Now
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there's a relationship between our offering of spiritual sacrifices and
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the building up of this house, the building up of
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the edifice. There's an interrelationship. And the thing we desire,
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we all desire more of God. We desire a greater
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presence of the Lord. We desire... We want Him to
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move in such a way that it blows us all
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away and it blows the world away. Amen? And it's
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interrelated to this very thing that we're reading about in
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our priestly calling and in us embracing that we are
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lively stones, that we are lively stones, and that we
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come together to build a habitation for His glory and
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for His presence. What are the spiritual sacrifices? Let's dive
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into that a little bit. Spiritual sacrifices. First one I
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want to go to is Romans chapter 12 verses 1
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and 2. Let's go there. Romans chapter 12 verses 1
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and 2. Therefore I urge you, brothers and sisters, in
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view of God's mercy... to offer your bodies as a
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living sacrifice, holy and pleasing to God, which is your
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true and proper worship. Do not conform to the pattern
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of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of
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your mind. Let's just stop right there just for a moment.
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I want you to see those two things as coming
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together as part of one exhortation to us that more
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than anything we do, more than anything we do in doing,
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God is saying that a spiritual sacrifice that pleases Him,
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which is the most important act of our worship, is
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that we present our bodies up on the altar of sacrifice.
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And we say, Holy Spirit, not my will, but yours
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be done. Are you with me today? Every desire of
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my body, how many of you have bodily desires? Every
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desire of my body, every urge of my body, every
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thought of my mind. He's saying that when we put
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our body and our mind up on the altar of
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sacrifice and we say, not my will but yours be
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done through my behavior, through my mouth, through my hands,
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through my feet. Hello, somebody. Hello, somebody. Now, we're talking
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about activity that is outside of this building. When we
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come together, you know how easy it is when you
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coalesce with all of us together? You know how easy
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it is to walk out some of this stuff? It
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becomes 100% easier to... Walk out spiritual sacrifice when we
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come together. Because I'm lifted by you. I'm strengthened by you.
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I'm helped by you. But when we walk out these
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doors and we're gone for the next seven days, we're
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making choices that either build our lively stone, strengthen our
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lively stone, revive our lively stone, It's like, are we
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partnering with the fullness of Jesus outside these doors? Are
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we partnering with who He is and what He has
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for us? This is the most critical time. The most
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critical time is when we go outside those doors. And
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everything we do with our earth suit, with our imagination,
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with our passions, with our desires, every way that we
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fulfill appetites, every way that we have expressions... through these members, right?
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Romans chapter 6, 13 says, no longer present your members
Romans 6 chapter mention
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to unrighteousness to be used by them, but present the
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members of your body to righteousness, to the Lord in righteousness.
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All of these decisions, hello somebody, all of these decisions
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that we're making, they are either sharpening or The stone,
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building and helping form, and so that we become, and
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no matter what we do, no matter what we do,
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when we come back together, the grace on our stone,
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the revival on our stone, the life on our stone,
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it's going to be somewhat evident as we come back together.
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It's going to be somewhat evident. Because when we engage
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in the priestly ministry of spiritual sacrifices, then that incense
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offering goes before the throne. And as that incense offering
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goes before the throne, Holy Spirit descends upon us individually
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with a glory that can't come any other way. Why
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was Cornelius chosen? You know, Cornelius is the first Gentile believer.
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So we're told about the house of Cornelius in Acts
Acts 10 chapter mention
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chapter 10, Acts chapter 11, both of those. Why was
Acts 11 chapter mention
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Cornelius chosen? Because one of the spiritual sacrifices that God
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is pleased with is the giving of ourselves. This is
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Hebrews chapter 13, verse 16. The giving of ourselves, when
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we give of ourselves, it's a spiritual sacrifice, right? We're
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actually sacrificing when you give. When you give, you're sacrificing.
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Because you're saying, this that I'm about to part with,
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I'm no longer going to retain it for me. I'm
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going to give it for your benefit. That's a spiritual
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sacrifice God's pleased with. Did you know that sacrifice is
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so pleasing to God that it sends an aroma up
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all the way into the heavens? And that's why Cornelius
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was chosen to be the first Gentile believer. A Gentile
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is a non-Jew. And so as the gospel, the good news,
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the message of Jesus is going out, suddenly a vision
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comes to Peter, and Peter is told to go to
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the house of Cornelius, and it says, because his almsgiving
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His generosity has ascended to the throne as a memorial.
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And that's why God chose him. It's a spiritual sacrifice.
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You have to see this, that when you are engaged
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in spiritual sacrifice as a priest of the new covenant,
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as a priest, a representative of the ministry of Jesus,
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that as you're engaged in that, you're actually releasing an
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incense into the heavens, and that incense is sending the
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glory of God into to your life. So also when
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you turn the TV channel, so also, come on somebody,
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so also when you make choices about what to think on,
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so also when you dismiss certain imaginations, so also when
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you take control of an appetite, so also Because he
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says this is actually spiritual worship. It's actually spiritual worship
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in view of God's mercies to offer your body as
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a living sacrifice. That's to say that as some of
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these thoughts and appetites come up, that you set them
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aside and you say, I'm not going to feed that.
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I'm going to put that on the altar right now.
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I'm going to put that on the altar. I'm not
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going to feed that. I'm not going to go into that.
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I'm not going to partner with that. I'm not going
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to listen to that. As you put those thoughts, those behaviors,
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those natural desires or those natural appetites on the altar
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of sacrifice before the Lord... immediately the aroma, the incense
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of that offering is going up before the throne, and
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you are choosing to increase in glory as a lively stone.
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You are choosing that the Holy Spirit... And so there
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is a trade. Dr. Craig talked about a trade this morning.
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There is a trade. You're trading... The sacrifice of an appetite,
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the sacrifice of a thought, the sacrifice of an imagination,
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the sacrifice of one thing for the glory of God
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in your life. The fullness of God. And this is
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what we want. We want more of God. We have
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a promise of the fullness of God. We have a
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promise of revival. We have a promise of His fullness
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out of Ephesians chapter 4, 11 through 13. that He
Ephesians 4 chapter mention
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has already ordained to pour out His Spirit upon us.
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This is what He wants to do. But when we
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partner with Him, He's released to do this in a
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full way so that we become those who partake of
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His glory, contain His glory, walk in His glory, in
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a greater way. Are you with me this morning? Hebrews
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chapter 13, verse 15. Praise and thanksgiving. Praise and thanksgiving
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is actually a spiritual sacrifice. I'm up against something right
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now and my mouth really wants to curse or my
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mouth wants to be negative.
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But the Word says that if
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I bring that to an altar, if I bring that
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to an altar and put it up on that altar
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and light it on fire before the Lord... then a
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sweet aroma is going to go up before the Lord.
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A sweet aroma. That aroma is going to attract the
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presence of the Lord. I'm going to carry that presence
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with me as I come together with you. As we
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coalesce as a body, I'm going to come as a
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lively stone who's made some choices this week to continually
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praise God. Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha. Hallelujah. Hebrews chapter 13,
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verse 15. Therefore, through Jesus, let us continually offer to
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God a sacrifice of praise, the fruit of lips that
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openly profess His name. Let me read it again. Through Jesus, therefore,
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let us continually offer to God a sacrifice of praise,
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The fruit of lips, the fruit, the fruit of lips.
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The picture is your lips have become this partner with sacrifice.
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Your lips are actually bringing to God the most important
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fruit of the new covenant. Isn't that amazing? So, So
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if you saw the picture of a grain offering or
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a wave offering or a first fruits offering, if you
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saw that picture in the Old Testament, now he wants
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you to see that that picture is being fulfilled by
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the fruit of your lips. The fruit of your lips
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are actually bringing, if the fruit of your lips are
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praise and thanksgiving, then the fruit of your lips are
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actually bringing a spiritual sacrifice that ascends to the heaven,
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that gets God's attention, that sends the glory into your life,
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and that will send the glory of God into an
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atmosphere of our gathering. How many of you know the
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enemy doesn't want that? The enemy doesn't want greater glory
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in our midst. He doesn't want greater glory. He doesn't
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want greater miracles. He doesn't want greater visitation. He doesn't
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want revival. He doesn't want an awakening. He doesn't want
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the presence of God here. This inner battle, in so
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many ways, this inner battle, it finds its apex. It
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finds its its central focal point right here in our lips.
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Right here. Right here. And if the fruit of our
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lips is praise and thanksgiving unto God, being made known
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by Jesus, through Jesus, we're abiding in Jesus. How many
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of you are abiding in Jesus today? If we're abiding
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in Jesus, we're abiding in trusting Him. Amen. If we're
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abiding in Jesus, we're abiding in trusting the power of
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the Lord. How many of you believe that Jesus has
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brought us into Father and brought us into relationship with
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Father and made us sons and daughters? How many of
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you believe that? How many of you believe that Father
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has a little bit of foreknowledge? Like Father saw the
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crud before the crud happened. He saw the fender bender
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before it happened. He saw the empty bank account before
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it happened. He saw the health issue before it happened.
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He saw the negativity at work before it happened. He
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sees every single calamity coming. And Christ, your covenant representative,
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has already... provided answers for you, wisdom for you, help
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for you, breakthrough for you, strength for you, grace for you.
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How many of you trust that? So how can we
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continue swearing? How can we have a mouth of profanity
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or a mouth of cursing? James said it this way,
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how can bitter water and sweet water come out of
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the same well? We can take all of our animosity
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and all of our frustration and all that wants to
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erupt with accusation and profanity and negativity and put all
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of that up on the altar because we have a
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high priest. We have a representative. I can be a
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priest of a spiritual sacrifice of praise and thanksgiving no
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matter what I'm going through because I have a high
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priest who's already presented me victorious before Father. He's purchased
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my victory before Father. So now we're wondering why we
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don't partake of certain levels of glory. We're wondering why
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revival wanes. We're wondering why the goodness of God doesn't stay.
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We're wondering why there seems to be an ebb and
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a flow to the goodness of God. And there seems
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to be an ebb and a flow to the glory
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of God. And we wonder why there's not more presence
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of the Lord in our gatherings today. but many times
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it's because we've separated ourselves from our priestly role. And
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this is one of them, that we continually use our
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lips to bring forth sacrificial fruit, which is praise and
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thanksgiving in everything we're going through, every situation. Every situation,
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every situation, we find that we can trust God to
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get us through it. God will break through in every situation.
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Revelation 5.8, prayer is one of these. Prayer is a
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spiritual sacrifice. How am I going to spend my time today?
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How am I going to spend my morning when I
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wake up? How am I going to spend my evening?
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How am I going to spend my drive time? How
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am I going to spend this time, that time, the
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other time? Will it be for me or could I
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trade some of that in prayer? Could I trade some
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of that for spiritual engagement, partnership, productivity in the spirit
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and lift up somebody Could I intercede over somebody? The
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power of intercession, the Bible says that when you intercede,
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that is when you stand in the gap for somebody
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else and you bring them before the Lord and you
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also do battle over them in the spirit realm and
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you begin to pray over someone and you begin to
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intercede for them and you stand as that representative of
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the voice of the Lord over them and the voice
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of God restoration over them, and you begin to partner
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with Jesus in the spirit realm, the Bible says that
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it is like incense. Once again, it's like a fat offering.
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It's like the burning up of your own, what you
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could do, what your choices could be. where you could
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invest your time. It's like laying that aside. It's a
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sacrifice that pleases God. And Revelation 5, 8 says that
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it's an incense offering before the Lord. There's another part
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to this. There's another part. It's not only productive, it's
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not only amazing, it's not only rich, it's not only
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wonderful that you're praying, but you've got to realize that
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what's happening is that as the incense goes up, the
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glory is being sent down. You are sharpening your lively stone,
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and you are actually honing a deeper glory in your
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own heart and on your life because you've chosen to
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take some of your time and to set it up
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on an altar. And to trade the activities you could
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have had, whatever that would have been. Sitting with your
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feet up. turning another channel polishing the boat all sorts
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of valid stuff by the way life is full of
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valid stuff if you need something valid to do just
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pause for a moment the enemy will show you a
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couple things There's a zillion valid things to do. And
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he's the God of reasoning, so he'll visit your mind
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and help you think of all sorts of valid things
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to do. Right? Lots of valid stuff to do. Well,
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that had to be done. Or you can take some
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of that and you can trade it for prayer and
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put it up on an altar of sacrifice. And maybe
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I'll just get to that later. Maybe I don't need
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to see that show. Maybe I'll polish the boat next week.
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Maybe somebody else could change my oil while they're changing
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the oil. I'll just be over here praying. When we
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trade our time or our stuff for some of that,
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not only are we changing the spiritual atmosphere of things
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around us. But it's a spiritual sacrifice. Father is well
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pleased with that kind of spiritual sacrifice. And as the
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incense goes up, the glory comes down. And if a
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bunch of us begin to do these things, right? A
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bunch of us begin to walk out our priesthood. Now
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you already are. I know you are. That's why you're here.
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You're here because you love him. You're here because you
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want this. You're here because you desire this. You're here
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because you're passionate about him. You're here joined with me
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because we have a holy discontentment. We want more. We
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want more. And this is how he says there's a
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growing consistency in his glory. a growing consistency in His glory.
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Revelation 5.8. Let's stand. I'm going to read it so
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you know I'm scriptural. When He had taken it, the
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foreign living creatures and the 24 elders fell down before
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the Lamb. Each one had a harp and they were
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holding golden bowls full of incense, which are the prayers
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of God's people. There's more to the text. There's more.
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But I want to pull this passage out. I want
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you to see it. I want you to see the
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value of it and the validity of it. Is that
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your prayers, they don't die with your voice. They don't
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die with you. Your prayers are partnership with Jesus, the
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high priest. Your prayers are powerful. Your prayers live beyond you.
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Your prayers ascend to where, if you follow the rest
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of the passage of Revelation 5, you'll see that then
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those prayers were actually released over the earth. And they
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caused spiritual things to break through in the hearts of people.
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Your prayers are effectual. And they're received as incense. Why
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would they be received as incense? Biblical, Old Testament, understanding, metaphor,
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priestly insight. God's trying to say that it's like that
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fat that was being burnt up. It's like that wave offering,
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that grain offering. It's like that first fruits offering that
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was being presented. That incense came before God. And when
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the incense came, the glory was sent into the temple.
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The glory was sent into the temple. when we come
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together as lively stones and we come out of our
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six days of living life, but we come together and
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we come together with these elements at the forefront of
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our hearts and our lives, then when we come together,
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we prepare a habitation for His glory. And you know,
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it's irresistible We literally become irresistible. Like the incense of
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our lives coming together is irresistible. He has to come
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and inhabit. How's that? Smoke and fire. We become irresistible.
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We become irresistible. Revival is the ongoing... Entering of His glory.
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Revival is the ongoing ascent into His fullness. And this
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is what we're going to see more and more of
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as our hearts are knit to Him through spiritual sacrifice.
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I'm going to ask the Destiny team to come this
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morning and prepare as we close. Heads bowed, eyes closed
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all across the room. You might be here this morning
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and you don't know the Lord or you're restoring something
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your life back to the Lord, you've fallen away from
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the Lord, maybe you were raised in church or around
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the Lord, and you're not sure if your heart is
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right with Him, I want you to know that you
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can leave this morning with a complete assurance of salvation.
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If you're here this morning and you've never applied the
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sacrificial blood of the Lamb to you, the weight of
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the sins of your own heart. The Holy Spirit of
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Jesus is here this morning to put a seal of
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salvation on you and to wash you, to cleanse you,
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and you will leave here knowing today that you're accepted
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before God, not on the basis of your works, but
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on the basis of the Lamb of God, the one
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who gave himself for you. I'm going to pray over
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you this morning. And as we dismiss, we're going to
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dismiss in worship. Just come. Just come right up to
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the front. Be prayed for. Be ministered to. Allow someone
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on the team to lead you into knowing Jesus fully. Father,
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we thank you for this morning. We thank you for
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your presence and your ministry. We thank you for the
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ministry of the word. That you are here watching over
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the word. And you've called us into a high priestly calling.
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And we say yes to you. We say yes to
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spiritual sacrifices. We say yes to bringing our whole self
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to an altar and saying, not my will, but yours
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be done. Father, would you live through us by the
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Holy Spirit? Would you live through us? Would you guide us,
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direct us, Holy Spirit, to manifest the fullness of Jesus
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and to take us into greater depths of revival, of glory,
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of fullness? We thank you for it in Jesus' name.
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And everybody said, God bless you, church. Let's worship as
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we go this morning.