Sermon
8th September 2024 Infill Service - KV Cherian - Knowing God Through Worship
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H hallelujah.
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Oh man, that worship just took me off, and all
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that I had on my mind right now is just
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gone to say. All right, okay, so today we get
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into our topic. Before we get into a topic, knowing
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God through Okay, that means you can see the screen. Okay,
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that's a good check.
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All right.
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So we're going to play a game before that. Okay,
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so this is gonna be Team A and Team B,
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don't you know? So you say, you're very clear, this
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is Team A, all a ce Team A and Team B. Right,
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So it's an easy, very easy game. This is something
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that can would would have you guys, would have played
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it before in some other format. But this is a
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very simple game of guessing the song, all right. All right,
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So you're going to see uh lyrics, part of the lyrics,
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and you need to guess the song. So whichever team
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the lyrics would be shown first to Team ME and
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then to Team B. If you know the song, you
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need to shout it out, all right, and if you
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don't know, it's going to be passed on to the
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next team and they get a point. All right, ready, okay, good,
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can we have the first slide please? Yep, Team A,
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this is your song. Shout out, please chill. Oh my god,
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she's too good. She's too good. Okay, yes, you're right,
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you're right. Which which can you guess the lyrics?
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The name of the song? No?
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No, no, Team B? That's there, that's there. Definitely very close.
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Come on, anybody?
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Yeah, but which song? Which is what's the name of
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the song? Anybody else?
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Teammate? Come on, I still go.
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I'm still gonna give it to Team A because Jill
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was really close?
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Is Elson John Candle in the wind? Right right?
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Okay, I'm still gonna give it to you because Jill
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was spot on there. Okay, Team B, next song? Please,
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you just need to complete the last line. Okay, that's good.
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You are my all nol Jesus Lamb of God. You
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are my strength when I am weak. Familiar not familiar,
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I've never heard about it. Okay, Okay, one one, Okay,
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Team A again, this is your turn.
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Next SLI please.
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Yeah, Oh my god, Jill, I think I think this
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is unfair for Team B though she's on her role here,
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absolutely right, Jill, this is she loves you.
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Okay.
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Either I am too old in this room or I'm
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too ancient in this room, and you guys are too
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young because you don't know this song. It's Beatles, She
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Loves You. Nobody heard about this song, teammate except for Jill. Jill,
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you're the happening person in this room, right, Okay? Team
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B next slight? Please? Hmmm.
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I think Jill and Debbie.
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Should be put in a separate team.
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Anybody heard that song?
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How many feel heard that song and liked that song? Okay, yeah,
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that's good.
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That's uh.
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I think it's Farrell Williams, right happy. I hope I
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got that name right. I usually confuse the names. Last
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song for Is it for Team Team A now, yep?
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T A?
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Yeah, absolutely, Shout to the Lord, Shout to the Lord,
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all the earth familiar?
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Okay? Good?
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Is that?
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Is that the last light? John?
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Oh?
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There's one more? Right, Oh, there's one more for Team B,
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Tim B next. It's an easy one yet. Oh yes, Nikki,
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you got it on spot. I think it's Stevie Wonder,
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Yeah right, okay, you know it's it's not that I
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know these songs. I just googled up in the night
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last night, and that's how I know exactly who sang
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it and what was the no name of the song. Well,
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that's so both of the teams did really well. The
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stars of the day is Jill and Debbie and Nikki.
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Wow.
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Good, good, one good one good. Okay. It's so interesting
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when you listen to a song. I don't know about you,
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but whenever I listen to a song, a particular event
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or an emotion is evoked in my mind. You know, example, happy,
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you know, even though the most of us may not
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may never even remember the exact lyrics of that song,
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but when you play that song, you kind of automatically
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get happy.
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Right.
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There's those small, bodily micro moments if you're in workplace
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and if you're on the road, you're just going all
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over you know. I don't care who sees me, you know,
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I just want to be happy because I have a
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painful situation at worker at home okay, or a grumpy husband,
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you know, either one. So every song there's an emotional response,
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not just an auditory response, not just singing the song,
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but there's an emotion to that song. That's something I
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wanted everybody to understand. And that's why I wanted some
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songs that are very famous to be brought upon.
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I'm sure.
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When Jill thought about those songs, Jill was thinking about
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her teenagers and how fancy that was compared to the
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current age.
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But yeah, so.
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Let's start looking at some ninety five please, all right,
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let me read the verse, first verse pal a call
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to worship and obedience. Oh come, let us sing to
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the Lord. Let us shout joyfully to the Rock of
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us salvation. Very complicated terms there, especially that word shout
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that has come before his presence with thanksgiving. Let us
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shout joyfully to him with psalms. All Right, today we're
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going to look at what worship is, not according to you,
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not according to me, not according to evangelical services, not
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according to any established religion, but according to the Word
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of God. Because that's our standard. Let's let's let's take
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an agreement on that. Right, you and me agree on
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one thing, and that's the Word of God. You don't
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disagree with, not that we may disagree about the spice
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level that we eat, but were not the word of God. Right,
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So let's keep that as a standard, and let's see
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what God calls as worship.
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Right.
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I can come up with my own definition, and you
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don't have to agree to it. But let's see what God,
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God expects us worship, because end of the day, you're
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not worshiping a person, you're not worshiping an established religion.
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You're worshiping the Living God.
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Amen. All right.
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So in Psalm ninety five, it starts with come before
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his presence.
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Let's stop there, Come before his presence. Amen.
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Jesus says, when two or three gather, what does it complete?
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What did he say, when two or three gather? I
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will not be there. Oh, I think that's the truth.
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He will not be there. He will be there, Amen,
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he will be there. So when you come together with
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another believer, the presence of the Lord is already there.
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He's there, and so it is important that we gather twogether.
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It's very important because when you are alone, that's the
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right environment for the devil to play around with you.
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But when you are in the presence of another believer
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and you agree upon what the Word says about your life,
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the devil can't come there. You know why not, Because
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you're such a strong believer. You got it all right. No,
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because the Lord, who is your shepherd, he is there.
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Because that's his promise. He will be there. Let's come
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with him. Let's come before him with thanksgiving. Let us
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shout joyfully to him with sums, nothing but songs. Right,
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letter's shout is a very difficult terminologies. I will demonstrate
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you what that shout means so that you can then
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reciprocate or do. Shout is a very technically complex process
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wherein we need to draw the breadth from our lungs
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and then send it out from our mouth.
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Right, So it's like this, hallelujah. Okay, I know it's
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very complicated.
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But hallelujah. You don't have to be an a minor
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C sharp minor F sharp minor. No, you don't have
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to be in.
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A particular God. All you've got to know.
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All you've got to do is shout or the other
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example would be, you know, when you I don't know
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if anyone of y'all get angry because you all don't
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look like that.
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I look like one. You know what?
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You Usually when normal people get angry, especially somebody close,
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they usually yell.
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An if you all know what's yelling means a loud.
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Voice talking a loud voice, right, But that that shows
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that we all have the capacity to increase our volume.
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But we don't, you know, when you know, I'm yet
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to see maybe I would see soon, but yet to
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see a stadium full of quiet people, dignified people who
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are just watching Liverpool and Chelsea playing. Yes, let's go
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there and the ball, okay, pass it on, oh hit
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the goal, yeah, go go go.
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No.
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Have you have you seen any match when people are
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just standing there and their eyeballs are going that's it.
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Nothing has no other parts of the body. In a stadium,
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everybody is going bonkers. You know why, because they're celebrating,
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you're cheering. That is what means. Come, come joyfully, shout.
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Have you seen kids when they're joyful? They don't care
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what you think about them. They're gonna dance about, you know,
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sing loudly, you know, dance on the roads. Also, that
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is so important. God looks, you know, God says, Jesus says,
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unless you come to me as a child, you cannot
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even get into the Kingdom of God. You know, not
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understand these things. Man unfortunately, has a lot of pride.
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You know, no matter how humble you think you are,
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your body gives away. You can think a lot, but
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your body language clearly gives it away. What we really think.
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That's why body clues up much more.
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Than what you say. Amen.
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Number one thing is when you are excited about something,
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it shows on your face. Imagine I'm going to say this.
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You know tomorrow Rob is going to get one million pounds.
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I'm sure Rob is going to just sit there. Ah, yes,
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thank you. No, I would be excited, right, I'll be
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excited because I'm already planning what I'm going to do
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with that one million. Right, that is somehow missing in church.
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And I'll tell you why I'm missing in church, because
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that's the lie of the enemy. Because the whole point
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of all this is the enemy that let me be
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very specific, the devil wants you, wants to keep you
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from enjoying God's worship because he knows certain things that
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you don't know, or he wants to keep you ignorant
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about it. And man, I want to just jump into
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the next verse, Jonathan, Yeah, for the Lord is great
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and great, and the great King above all gods will
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come back to this verse. Next verse, please, yeah, the
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next Psalm hundred. I think, Yeah, what happens when we
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give thanksgiving and what happens when we do praise, when
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we tell when we come in first of all when
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we come together and we start saying thank you Lord
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for everything that you are to me. You have just
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entered his gates. You know you need to picture this.
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There's a big palace right and you've just gotten to
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the gates. I know I'm asking you to imagine. But
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in a spiritual dimension it is. It's a reality, just
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like you walked into this door. Is when you start
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thanking God, you enter his courtes. You enter his gates,
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and when you praise God for who he is, you
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enter his courts. I'm sure all of you know what
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a court means. Not the lawyer of that court, the
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judge and lawyer, not that the court of a king.
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You can never walk into the courts of a king,
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just like that, unless the king calls you, unless he
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gives you the audience. I know, I can't read a
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book an appointment with King Charles and say hey, buddy,
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I want to come and meet you. It will not happen, right,
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I just can't. What's happened and just meet him up.
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It's not going to happen. The gods are going to
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be stop me. Outside itself. But when you have the
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right procedure of how you do things, you will get
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the result. It's like telling you know, I can't bake
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a cake with rice, can I No? Right, you need
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certain ingredients and a step by step process. Then you
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get a beautiful cake. Otherwise you will get something else.
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So when you come into the presence of God, first
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and foremost, God loves a thankful heart. He doesn't like
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grumbling people, which I'm guilty of a lot, you know,
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but he doesn't like grumbling people. Give him thanks, enter
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his court with praise. Next worst place. Yeah, therefore God
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has been highly exalted him. Okay, I'll come back to
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this the previous worst place. We can do these two
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things only if God is our king. That's a very
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crucial thing. We may not feel like giving thanks or
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telling God's okay, praise the Lord for every single thing
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and all that you can do it. When God is
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your king. You will never see suppose we were living
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in kings at the times of the kings, right, you
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will never see another countries, the citizen of another country
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coming and praising this king. The citizen of that country
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will always praise the king there. His lives depend on that,
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because that king directly or indirectly supports his life. Literally
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his life is in the hands of the King. I'm
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sure you guys know it much better because you've had
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you still have a kingdom, format still existence. If our
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lives do not belong to the King Jesus, we wouldn't praise.
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We will struggle with it.
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Our praise will be depending on every single day, like
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the weather.
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Today, I'm having a good day.
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Praise Jesus. Brother, I love Jesus so much. Your house
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is in a terrible mess. You're sick with something, not
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going to praise God? Why did he give me sickness?
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Why did he give me that? Why did he give
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me this? We just complain. We don't praise God for that,
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and that's that's not that's not telling that God's.
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The king of your life.
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You know, I think it was yesterday my son was saying,
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you know, actions speak louder than words, and it's so true.
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We can tell one hundred things about God and claim
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all sort of claims, but.
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End of the day, what is our action talking?
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Is our action saying that no matter what my situation is,
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no matter what I'm going through, I am still going
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to praise God because he is God, he is King.
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That's not changed my situation. Yes, it's not changed, but
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God's not dependent on your pray. Issuldn't should never be
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dependent on your situation. It is dependent only on God.
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Amen.
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Come to that next verse, John, Yeah, this is in
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Philippians Philippians Tandards chapter two. Therefore this is what the
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Lord is saying. Therefore, God has exalted him, highly exalted him,
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and given him the name which is above every name.
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Next word is please at that name of Jesus, every
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knee should bow, of those in heaven, of those on earth,
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and of those under the earth, that every tongue shall
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confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of
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God the Father. If you look at the previous verse,
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verse ten, it says every knee should bow, not only
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in heaven, on earth and under earth. Maybe somebody I'll
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speak on that under the earth. But if you see
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at the name of Jesus everything bows, and the next
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verse eleven, that's the crucial one. Every tongue that confesses
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Jesus Christ is Lord. You know, if you remember how
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you got saved, it's Romans ten, verse nine. Right, you
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are saved when you confess Jesus is Lord. So if
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we really have that surrender of giving our lives to God.
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That mean we will bow down. Because worship often has
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a bodily expression. You cannot separate worship from bodily expression, definitely.
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You know. I love one thing about back in India
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about Catholic churches. You know they all have these what
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do they call it. It's like a small pedestal where
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you sit where you actually can kneel down, you know,
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when you pray, and that is a support for the handles.
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I used to love that when I used to go
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to college and I used to spend my first fifteen
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twenty minutes in a chapel close to my college and
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then go and people to People used to think I'm Catholic,
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but I was not. So that's a good set up here.
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The idea and the intention is very very good. Where
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you kneel before God's presence. And what used to amaze
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me was, you know, people who are really old used
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to be there kneeling and I used to kneel for
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ten fifteen minutes. I'm like, for today, this is enough. Lord,
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I have knelt enough for today. My knees are hurting.
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Can I go?
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I had all sort of funny conversation with the Lord,
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you know. But I used to be like, how in
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the world do these people need for half an hour?
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I don't get this. But you see, when it's an
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expression of service to God, expression of your heart, then
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you're no longer bound by the pain or what you
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can do what you can't do. But what I'm trying
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to say is, either you can bow, you know, a
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simple thing. You can bow your head. You know, when
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we pray, if you bow your head, that's a mark
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of surrender, humility, humbling yourself, you know, bow your head
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when you pray. You know, sometimes you may think, okay,
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I'm praying. If I have to pray over my food
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at my workplace, what will others think? So you don't
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want to bow your head? You just oh Jesus, yes, yes, yes,
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that's it. Sometimes people have asked me, you know, when
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at my workplace, when I'm bowing my head and praying
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over my foot, they think I've lost something down, you know,
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something fell down, you know. And I've given funny responses
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to that too. But yeah, but people can ask you
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all sorts of questions.
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But it's not for the people that I'm doing.
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I'm doing it anyway for the Lord who's twenty four
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bar seven with me, And that's the reality I live in.
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It's all a question of what is the reality that
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you live in. You want to live in a reality
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that the devil is built up around you in your
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mind saying you're all alone, nothing's going to work, You're
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going to dialight this.
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That's your choice.
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But I choose not to live in the reality of
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the lives of the enemy, but live in the reality
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that God has died for me. Jesus died to give
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me a reality called abundant life. And unless that's true,
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you cannot follow this. You cannot practice this. Even lifting
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up your hands, it's a mark of surrender, you know,
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when we lift our hands. You know there are times
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when even that in church, when I lift my hands
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and I'm like, oh Lord, you know, I'm worshiping you,
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and after in two minutes, like, Lord, my hands, can
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I bring it a little down? All of that because
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you're so conscious. You're so conscious about yourself. But in
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worship the only thing you supposed to be conscious about God.
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You know, we pray that people will become more God
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conscious than themselves when you focus on yourself. That is pride.
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You only think about yourself when you get into worship.
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Think about God because that is whom you came to worship.
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You can imagine all of this. You come and some
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of us like me, others, you know, we'll come praise God,
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shout hallelujah and all sort of actions.
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You know.
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I can stand upside down on my head ALDSA and
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praise God. You can do all of that.
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But can you come to the next verse, John, Yeah,
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next one, next, Yeah.
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This is the crucial verse in some ninety five. This
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is what I want to come to. I can do
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all of this at the end of in my worship.
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If I've not heard God, then I've lost the point.
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I'll give you an example. Does anyone know what is
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the longest flight and he frequent flyers your from your.
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Okay, okay, Australia, right, Australia.
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Right now, I'm going to book British Airways business class
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and I'm going to go to Australia.
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How many hours would that be? Twenty hours?
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That's okay, it's almost a day, all right. So I
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booked this twenty hours flight. I get into this business class,
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executive business class or maybe next to the pilot itself.
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Who knows.
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You know, I booked this flight and I go all
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the way to Australia, I reach Australia airport and book
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the flight back again to UK.
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Are you looking like I did something weird?
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No?
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I did the right thing. I went to Australia, I
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came back. I took twenty hours flight. I went there
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and I came back. But don't you think it's a
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little bit common sense that if I did all that effort,
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paid all that money, took all that twenty hours of effort,
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went to Australia. Should shouldn't I even get out of
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the airport, look around Australia and come back. That's com sense, right? No,
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I don't believe in all of that. But the point
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is this. We get into worship, we sing the songs,
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we shout hallelujahs, but we don't hear the Lord. We
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don't get that space to hear the Lord. But today,
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when I worship, what are you talking? Because the Lord speaks.
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The Lord speaks, especially when you worship him, the Lord speaks.
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And if we didn't hear the Lord, then there's something
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wrong with it. The point of worship, you know, even
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in the even in the heavens. The beautiful thing is this.
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When I was preparing for this, you know, and when
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I was walking back on the way, I kept laughing
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about it, and people would have thought I'm mad, because
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in my mind I was thinking about this, you know,
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the previous verse when we read the heavenly Ohs, the angels,
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the elders, the saints.
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Even we sang that song.
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Today everybody is bowing down and throwing their crowns, and
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they're literally on the floor. And I can see myself
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and other wonderful believers like me standing there and going, oh, good, good,
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very good, Yes, very good, Lord, Yes, Oh, praise the Lord,
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Praise you Lord, wonderful. I think still some of you
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are still to get it, but I will repeat that.
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You know, imagine this, All of us go to heaven
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and then there are these huge angels. I'll describe one angel.
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One angel is a set of him, is a fiery angel.
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Imagine the whole sun looking at you, son, sun right,
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Imagine the entire sun looking at you.
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That's the kind of description of an angel.
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And that angel is bowing down before the Lord, and
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we're all just standing there and saying yes, yes, yes,
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praise the Lord. Harley Loujah. I'm from UK, Lord, so
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don't expect too much. I'm from your brethren, from an
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Anglican background. This is how we worship.
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You.
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Just take this Nope, for all you know, the Angel
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may strike you down saying you have no idea what
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you're doing here. You know some of mysts may do
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it out of ignorance, but being in the deception of
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the enemy is the most dangerous things you know. Think
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about it. He's never made anybody feel that. When you
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go to a rock concert, just be dignified. When you
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go to a sports win, big didignified. When you are
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celebrating the birthday of your son or daughter, be dignified.
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Don't go crazy around your kids.
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No, only when it comes to worship the devil puts
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in your thought.
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Be dignified.
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Be as cold as a cucumber and straight as a stick. No,
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that clearly is the lie of the enemy, because he knows.
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The moment your soul, your heart gets connected and you
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put all in, you will be set free. Breakthroughs will happen,
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healings will happen. People are set free, broken hearts are
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made new, broken minds are set free. He knows that
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the only way to keep you set in those ways
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is say this is how you're supposed to do it.
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That's the same dirty lie that he's been telling Eve
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from the beginning. He's telling us. He's telling us the
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same don't move too much, don't shout too much, don't
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sing the song. Just look at everybody else worshiping. What
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did you gain? You're like me if you went, if
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you took the flight minto Australia and came back, you
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didn't get anything. You just spent your time which you
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could have done something else with. I don't know if
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you are aware of this, but for the general knowledge
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of everybody, we are made of three parts. It's gk question,
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not a biological question. Though we are made of three parts.
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Body soul. What's the last one?
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Not ghost? No? Okay, body soul spirit. That's all.
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Repeat that body, body, soul spirit, Body soul spirit right,
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body soul spirit. The highest of this is your spirit.
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The moment you accept Jesus, did you turn from being
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black to white?
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No?
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Really, did you become tall few inches the moment you
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accepted Christ? Or become shot or take this as a killer.
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Did you become from fat to slim beauty the moment,
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no right, nobody. Nothing changed on the outside, but something
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really did change inside. Sometimes I wonder where did that
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change happen. I still feel the same thing. I still
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feel bad about myself what I've done in the past.
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I still have anger is shoes, I'm shot tempered guy still.
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But where did the change happen? It happened in your spirit.
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Your spirit, which was dead, is now alive. Your spirit.
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You couldn't understand a word of the Bible before, even
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though you've read, but now something at least makes sense.
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That word suddenly becomes alive to you. How it's because
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of your spirit. And the more your love your spirit,
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the more your soul and your body witnesses that change.
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To give you an example, your spirit, the moment you
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walked in this door, not this door the other door,
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is going all ballistic worshiping the Lord and praising why
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and he guesses because the Lord is here even before
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you walk into this place, because He is more excited
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to meet you than you are. So the moment you
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walked in that beginning dough, your spirit is going all
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excited worship. It's like a small child meeting its parents.
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After a long time. All right, it's going all bonkers
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about it, excited about it. But your spirit has to
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pass your soul. That's how you feel. Maybe the greeter
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didn't do a good job today. So when you walked in,
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the greeter was looking like you came now, you know,
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and you felt like this is the way to greet me.
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I'm such an important person. Not even a smile. I
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don't like this, So you just come and sit in here. Right,
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So you're already upset that your emotions is already gone.
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Your spirit is like, oh my God, praise Jesus and
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all that. But your spirit is your soul is like,
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I'm not in such a good mood to praise God today.
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I don't feel like it. Let me see what the
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songs are today. It fancies me I will sing other reason.
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I'm just gonna watch everybody sing, and then the body,
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because the soul is very much controlled by your body.
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How many of your life like ice creams? See see
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I didn't even say it, raise your hands. See that
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that's the point. I didn't say raise your hands. That
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soul automatically remembered how the ice cream and the hands
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just went out. I don't think I need to say
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anything further. So your soul is so closely linked to
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your body. There are so many things that you do
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without even your knowledge. Just like today, you know you
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raise your hand even without me saying anything about it.
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But what the spirit feels, it can tell your soul,
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and from the soul it goes to your body. And
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that's how you start raising up your hands, praying. Sometimes
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in worship, you needing, sometimes you're crying. All that happens
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from your spirit. But imagine this, which is a reality,
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and a big population entire the Christian arena is this.
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Most of the born again spirits are in prisons. Are
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in prisons built by body and soul. The body and
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soul is not going to cooperate, is just going to
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say no, I don't feel like doing that today. I
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don't feel like coming to church today. Why because rainy?
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You still have a car? No, but still I don't
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want to drive right.
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All of these.
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Excuses and everything that you feel is coming from your
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soul and your body is just doing it. But your spirit,
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which is the born again, wants to do a lot,
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but it's imprisoned or restricted.
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By your soul and your body.
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And what is your body and your soul believe in it,
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believes in the lives of the enemy.
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That's where the deception is exactly.
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There's nothing wrong with your spirit, but your soul and
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your body believes in all the lies that the enemy
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has told you, saying do this, do that. So imagine
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when you go to heaven. You're in for a real shock.
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If I'm the person who's going to stand there and say, Okay, Jesus, hallelujah,
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hally and to whisper, you know, even the next person
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standing next to me will not be able to hear.
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Imagine the shock when you go to heaven because in heaven,
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when you worship, the foundations tremble. The foundations tremble because
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we're not talking about people's you know, say one million
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people just saying hallelujah, shout to the Lord. No, these
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are a huge, innumerable company of angels singing, and I
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don't want to go there if if they start singing,
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even the lowest pitch, everything will start shaking. And that
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happened continuously in heaven. You know, it's the grace of
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God that he has given us this life on earth.
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Because this is practice, rehearsal, This is the rehearsal for heaven,
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because if you don't practice here, when you go up
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to heaven, you're in for real shock. You will not
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be able to cope up with it. You'd be like,
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what in the world are these people doing. This is
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not my way, this is not how my church has
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thought me. But praise God, we have been given the
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grace and the opportunity to correct ourselves, to come out
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of the lies of the enemy and move into the
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direction that God has called. You know, one of the
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most important things this is the Lord saying, do not
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harden your hearts as in rebellion, as in the day
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of the trial, in the wilderness. So basically when his
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lights were let in the desert. Remember they came out
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of Egypt, so they were in the desert in the wilderness.
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This is the Lord saying, their hearts are hardened.
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Yes, they are people that I have called out by
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my strong arm with miracle signs and wonders, have called
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them out, but their hearts are still hardened. They don't
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want to hear, they don't want to listen to me.
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They just want to do what they feel like. It's
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like this, Saul, you're in the Saul.
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Saul.
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Saul one day had to give the sacrifice, the evening sacrifice.
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So he's the king, right, So he is like, Okay,
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I can't wait for Samuel to come, let me do it.
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He did it, and that displease God. Don't take the
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things of God very lightly. Imagine if.
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How do I say this?
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Imagine if I if I'm driving a car right, and
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I keep switching the lanes and I drive like a snake,
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and I say, I know to drive?
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Is that right? You are looking like, as it's right?
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We do it every day.
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No, no, it is wrong. We can not go on
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the road like a snake switching between lanes. How you
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feel like and say that's driving. If we give that
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much importance to earthly law, how much should be his
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significance on what God's statutes and the way God wants
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it as a prescribed way of doing things. You know,
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when Saul did that, we may think to yah, the
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prophet didn't come, so he gave the sacrifice, right, what's.
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A big deal in that?
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But no, God is displeased with that, and God rejected
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him as a king. But that didn't immediately happen, right,
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Nothing happened to Saul. He didn't die or anything, but
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he was rejected. And when God rejects, it's not an
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instant thing, because his grace and mercy is still there.
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It's expecting that you will change. You will change, You
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will change every single day. Okay, you will change today.
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He may change today, she may change. And that is
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God's voice saying, I want you to do the things
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in the right manner when we come before the Lord.
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Go before the Lord and worship him the way he
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wants us to. Because, believe me, folks, when you start
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worshiping the Lord in the way he has commanded, expect
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your miracle because where the presence of the Lord is,
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there is deliverance, that is healing, there is miracles. There
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are things which you have not even thought about. You know,
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what you've been suffering, what you've been carrying all this while,
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is because you have believed the lies of the enemy. Well,
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today I'm here to tell you break down those lives
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of the enemy. Step into what God has called you
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to do. Step into the truth that the Lord has
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revealed to you today, act upon it. Because today, if
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you hear the voice of the Lord, follow him. Do
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not hearten your hearts do not let pride harden your hearts,
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but allow the Holy Spirit to work on your hearts
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and do the right thing and worship God the way
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he has told you. Because the moment you do that,
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see God through, see the power of God manifest in
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your life, because He is so waiting for you to
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do it right. It is not God who's holding back.
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It is us holding God back. Because God will work
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the way he has set up things. God will not
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work the ways of man because his ways are higher
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than us, and he's not going to come down to it.
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He will wait for you to come up to it
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because you are his sons and daughters. You are his
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living sons and daughters. He is waiting for you today today,
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if you hear my voice and repent and come back
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to the way I've told you, see the Lord move.
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See that red sea which is before you, which says
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I will not let you pass, which says I will
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drown you today, which says you are done for it,
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which says you will have to go back to your past.
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See that red sea split into two and make a
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way for you where you will walk through and reach
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the other side, reach the promise that you have for
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God has for you in your life. Reach the destiny
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that God has for you. Reach the promise that He
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asked for you in your life. That He has promised
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you be an overcomer. Don't believe the lies of the enemy.
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Amen. Let's pray.
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Lord, We thank you for your truth which sets us free. Lord, Lord,
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let your word manifest your power. Her Lord, we pray Lord,
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every lives of the enemy, Lord, let it be burned
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from the roots.
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In the name of Jesus.
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Lord, we tear down every lie of the enemy in
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Jesus name.
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Every lie of the enemy.
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Put in our subconscious mind, put in our soul we rejected.
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In the name of Jesus, we are prooted. In the
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name of Jesus.
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Lord, let your word flow like a river in our
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hearts and minds. I pray Lord that your blood will
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wash our souls, that your blood will strengthen our spirits.
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So Lord, that when it comes to worship, Lord, that
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our bodies will not be a hindrance, that our souls
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will not be a hindrance, But accompany the spirit of
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the Living God and Lord to worship you in.
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Spirit and in truth and in freedom. Lord.
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I pray Lord that you will give us the strength,
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Holy Spirit. I pray that you'll wash us, Lord, that
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you will soften our heart's Lord to respond to you.
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Lord, Holy Spirit. I pray that you will move through us.
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Lord, that we will not be a frustration to you, Lord,
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but a sweet incense of praise to you Lord. Every
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time when we come into your presence, Lord, help us
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put our everything into.
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It, Lord, and not hold back.
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O Lord, Lord, and I thank you Lord, as we
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worship you Lord with all our soul, with all our mind,
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and with all our heart. Lord, we thank you for
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there will be open Heaven's Lord in our families, at
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our workplaces, at our at our homes, at our Church's Lord,
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everywhere we go. When we lift up our voice and
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worship you, Lord, let heaven come down.
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O Master. We thank you Lord because you are able. Lord.
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We thank you Holy Spirit for teaching us Lord, how
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to approach you, how to worship you, Lord, because you
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are the one who teaches us, Lord to worship you,
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because we do not know how to do it. To Lord,
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thank you for guiding us in your truth today morning. Lord,
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Thank you Lord for helping us continue this Lord throughout
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the rest of the days of our life.
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Of Master. Help us.
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Lord, let these words be sealed in our hearts and minds.
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Lord Lord, let your blood seal these words, O Lord,
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and let it yield a harvest in the name of Jesus.
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We thank you, Lord, because you have done it, and
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Jesus might name me.
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Pray