Sermon
2nd July 2023 - Communion Service - Simon Chaffer - The Church is built by the Master
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all I have. Somebody say, yeah, yeah, j oh, you
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know it's that's all I say. All you guess like people think pray with
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the end? Oh say, that's all we be like four already. Another
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thing is I have to feel something? No, that's right, Yes,
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the pole I've got you. Yeah, singing and cheer things you okay started?
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oh oh the gross fall, that's what it did. The senior No,
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please, Organs it's not for you. Okay, I don't go oh,
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I thought you were. I don't have to do story. So I still
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like, what's someone in New York right other way? As a small people
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a right problem? Okay, I think I'm a rich size. But so
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this morning we're talking about a new topic and the topic is the churches.
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Mhmm, yeah, John, thank can you get up on the screenplasty.
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So the title of this this messages the churches built by the Master. So
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I'm told that we we think in pictures. I know what you call that.
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I'm an engineer, not a psychologist. But I'm told were thinking pictures.
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So if I was to say the work to you dog, what do
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people see? Do they see a dog or do they see the word the
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o G. You can put your hands up and tell me. It's just
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interesting. What do we see more in Do we see a dog or do
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we see we see a dogs? If I say the cat, do we
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see a cat? Okay? Is that interesting how we see in pictures?
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I'd thought about that. I guess if I say, some people chocolate or
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cake or something else that we like, you know, that might be slightly
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bigger in our sight. But what if I say the word church, what
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do we see? Do we see a big ornate building. We went on
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a holiday a number of years ago to a place in Pembrokeshire, which is
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South Wales, round the coast. There a lovely place night to visit the
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beaches and there's a cathedral that and it's a great, big, imposing building.
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And when I was praying about this, I thought that when you say
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church, what do you see? I remember that building, or I remember
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Western Trabbit, or I remember you're with Minster, which are very big ornate
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buildings. How that's the building. It is not the church. The church
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is a group of people from every nation, every tribe, every time.
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But by love of Jesus, that is what the church is. So when
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we talked about the church is built by the Master, we're not talking about
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a physical building. We're talking about people like you and like me. I
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was praying about this word to know what to say. I saw a picture
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of Jesus building a wall. Where I come from, there are lots of
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walls in this country. Come from Yorkshire and there's lots of stone New Yorkshire,
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so they build lots of walls in them. And a builder will pick
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a stone up, he won't put it down and use a stone that clot
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in his hand. That's how he builds the wall. And I saw Jesus
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and he had some stones in his hand, but they were lively stone to
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get thrown around, and then he'd put it on the wall and put another
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on the wall. And this wall was the build up. And he just
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picked the stone up and it was like moving. And he was just moving
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the stones in his hand and putting them on the wall. Well, that's
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very interesting. His life was placing each stone specifically in a particular place,
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and it's like he was making that stone into what he wanted before he placed
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it on the wall. He didn't throw it on the wall with his hands
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and placed it on the wall. And am reminded of the scripture in one
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Peter two and verse five, which I have read it from now, which
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says, this is the new King James version. You also are living stones,
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are being built into spiritual house wholly priested to offer up spiritual sacrifice.
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It's exceptable to God through Jesus Christ. You also are living stones. But
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that's interesting. We are living stones. And then I've got the thread of
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my son, so we you me have on missen own life. I say
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later, we are living stones. If you've come into the Kingdom of God
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through the word of Jesus, you've made a committity' left given your life to
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him. He's surrendered, as you're saying today, everything you have, you
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surrendered to him. We've come into the Kingdom of God, and we are
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living stones. And God takes us, Jesus takes us and places us.
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The Greek word here for living is z a over the hyphonosa. I'm in
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the butcher now. If if Nicky was here she told me about isn't here
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today. So if online, sorry Greek South African lady. So Brittany means
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alive. And when we're in simular we're dead. But when we're in Christ,
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we're alive for evermore. We are living, not in the flesh,
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but in the spirit, whe the soul, spirit body to try human being
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m the church or the Greek word is ecclesia, which means assembly. He's
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not a physical building, like I said, because he's built of people just
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like you and me. And like I said the title of this message,
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it's Jesus the master who builds. It's not the work of a man.
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He's the work of the Holy Spirit. Jesus said in Matthew sixteen and verse
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eighteen, a very familiar passion, sieur to you. I'm not going to
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read it all, but I'm just going to focus on the piece which I
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want to emphasize. He was talking about building the church. He said,
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I will build my church, and the gates of Hell will not prevail against
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it. I will build my church. Don't take up the contents but the
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of the dialogue in Matthew sixteen, verse eighteen. But Jesus said I will
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build my church. That statement possibly well over two thousand years ago. But
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Jesus is still building this church. Again. I'm going to give another Greek
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word, so look out. So the word church here is okay, demo,
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which is the same way they use for building a house or to construct
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something, or to build something. But how do we build people into an
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ecclesia or an assembly. I'm showing a smartphone to those people who are listening
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online. I can't see smartphones are made in the factory, either in China
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or else somewhere else of that nature. Depending on what you want you buy.
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All the volunteers go in it goes to production. All these people stand
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there putting their fairest bits in and spits out smart through the end, doesn't
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it. Or you go to a car production line, all the remotor materials
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come in, all the components and st build together. He doesn't work that
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way. In the Kingdom of Go, we don't get all the bits,
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press the button. You go through a production line and come out at the
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end. It doesn't work that way. That is not God's way of doing
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things. That is a craftsman, and he shapes and molds each individual.
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Each individual is a masterpiece. I'm not into art personally. I'm an engineer.
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That's pretty boring. When we go on holiday. Oh it takes me
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to a museum or something like that. Are great, Okay, So we
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go around the museum and they have to have look some pictures or what some
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of decall's art. I usually sit down and wait quietly. All my life
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finishes looking around the museum, just because it's not my thing. But there
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are there are sculptures, you know, and I can appreciate. The traditional
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sculpture is not of the weird things that people call that nowadays they've been something's
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taking time to chisel out and to shape. And that's like God. He
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takes us in our own form and he shapes us and he molds us into
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what he wants us to be. And you know, we go through stuff
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in life in a very technical world. Now, stuff in virtual commers something
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we like that. Some of it's good stuff and some of it's bad stuff.
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Some things we know about, something we don't know about. That's all
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part of our journey. But God works in those certain ants to shape and
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to molders to people who wants us to be. Stuff happens in life,
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and some stuff is good and some to is very bad. But God takes
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those things which are bad and turns them around for good because with God,
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all things are possible. M hm. So today that's just the introduction.
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I want to talk about the journey, the shaping and the molding journey.
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And let's see what the holyt Bit wants to say to us. So if
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you look at Jeremiah one and five, the context here is Jeremy is God
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is speaking to Jeremiah the prophet about his called jeremiahs of very young manuals called
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to the nation of Israel, of those who are who are remain of those
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who have to Babylon. And God is speaking to him, and he said
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to him, before I formed you in the womb, I knew you before
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you were born. I sanctified you, I sanctified you, I ordained you
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before I formed you in the womb. I knew you before you were born.
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I sanctified you, and I I dained you. That's what God said
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to Jeremiah in that particular context, but in the context of what we talk
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about, that is true of us. God is no respect for a purpose.
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Person's what he does for Jeremias for us before he formed you in the
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womb, Maureen, he knew you. God as a plan and a purpose
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for every person in this room. Every person listened to me online now and
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have pers this message later. God is a purpose and a plan for you.
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You're not a mistake, you know, an aberration. God is a
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person and a plan for you, person purpose and plan and purpose and a
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plan for you. M m h. He's a role for you. In
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is Ecclesia. There is a role forew in his body. Everyone has a
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purpose in the body and through that body to the local community. The key
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is to find our plan and to our purpose, and we are shaped,
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and we are molded by the Holy Spirit. Mm hmmm into the people that
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He wants us to be. Not all that wants, but step by step
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and each step America. So I've distilled this down, or we've distilled this
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down into three points traditional certain if all that sort of stuff. So I'll
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just give them by three points because I bring some context development. The first
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part is development is by surrender. Development is by surrender. The second point
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is to be transformed, we need to be washed in the word of God.
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And the third point is God's timing is perfect. Just give you a
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context of where we go in this morning. So development is surrender, or
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to paraphrase that it is really death to self. And again my mind went
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to John twelve twenty four, which is also a very familiar scripture, which
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is and Jesus is speaking to his disciples about his up and coming crucifixion.
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He said, most assuredly, I say to you, unless the grain of
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wheat falls into the ground and dies, it remains alone. If it dies,
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it produces much grain. Unless a corner of wheat falls into the ground
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and dies, it remains alone. If it dies, it produces much fruit.
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It's only when we surrender airs of our lives we should previously we said
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hang on to or put round the back, that the Holy Spirit can work
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in those areas. There's certain things which are easy to surrender. Those are
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things which ties you to surrender them. We all walk with a limp and
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some sort or other because we all come from somewhere. If you're perfect,
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shave my hand afterwards, I'd like to meet you. I haven't met a
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perfect person yet. I know we're all perfect in God's sight that we change
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from glory to glory to glory. But we all walk with a limp.
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And there's certain things which are easy to release and say, okay, I'll
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give you that to Jesus. And certain things that's ads a little more challenging.
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Shall we say, if we're honest, weich just turn the mask off
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today as being the open honest today, we're all friends here have but the
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host bit takes that which is damaged and makes them which is beautiful and something
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which was barren, and the makeshift something that is fruitful, because that is
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what he does when we allow him to do so. And these are painful
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experiences in the life of the believe that the life of the Christian that's how
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it is. You know. I went to the dentist recently. Of course,
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one of my teeth had a crack in it and the roots died from
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my face. Swell out, here's some great thanks so so you've got to
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have a crown, a great thank you. So they send you to this
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bloke who gives you to your root and also he basically clears out some acid
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all the way down to the root of your two You line and go,
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oh that's nice. That hurts, But that really does hurt, you know,
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And you know, I think he said, you feel like, yeah,
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I feel about it. Yeah, oh really, yeah, I feel
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a burning Yeah, they want to do that. Then the grind down.
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What's that to be tooth? And you smell the burning smell, I said,
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the dark and smell of burning. That my too. You smell that,
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Yeah, it just smells the burning thank you. You know, as
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we go through things in life, which I'm pleasant early, that's just an
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experience I had and reminded the old adage no pain, no gain in the
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in the Christian world. If I just still that down, that is that
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the reality sometimes you have to go through some pain to walk in thruthfulness,
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because not that God wants to walk. He walks. He walks around the
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limb. He wants to walk around home, but he wants to go through
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a process. So you know that your home, and you know who made
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your hope, and you know where you came from, but you know who
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made you hope. Because then he gets the glory in speed of suddenly he
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said, this is who I was, this is who I am now.
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It's not the work of a man. It is the work of the Holy
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Spirit. It's not I was dead. I am alive in Christ. God
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has taken my life, which was a mess, and made it into a
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message. He's taken my life something which was broken and made some which is
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beautiful. And that's what'll go on to communicate to us today. He wants
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us to understand there's a process that we go through. You know, if
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you're not in that process, you need to align during that process. Keep
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on going, don't nut stuff. Nobody ever arrives. We're all of work
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in process. The Master is always doing something. That's just how it is
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impossible. Paul said in that flicking three eight. This is from the Anchipyte
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classic which is not on the script. But I don't make it work last
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night, and enough so that the only Nu King James. Furthermore, I
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count everything has lost compare to the possession of the priceless privilege, the overwhelming
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preciousness as surpassing worth and supreme advantage, of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord,
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and of progressively becoming more deeply and intimately acquainted with him, of perceiving and
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recognizing and understanding him more fully and clearly for his sake. I have lost
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everything and consider it to be be a rubbish refuge. You know that I
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might gain and win Christ the anointed One, or so I consider it all.
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Everything has lost because I want to know Jesus my Lord, become more
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deeply, more intimately acquainted with him. Yeah, that should be where we
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want to be. That should be the space that we have it. That
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should be our goal to know him. Verse nine says that I might actually
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be found and known as in Him, not having any self achievement righteousness that
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can be called my own based on my own obedience to the law, but
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possessing the genuine righteousness which comes from faith in Christ. No pain, no
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gain. We tokount everything as lost in this journey where He shapes us and
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molds us. It can be any time in our lives where it's got married,
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he's got kids, whether eighty six, you're about to transfer from this
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earth to heaven. We need to have that mindset, We need to have
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that understanding. We need to whole things lightly. We are just traveling through
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this place which is called our destination is heaven. We're here to share the
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love of God and everybody else because some places that the speaker, the preacher
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can't go to, some people the preacher and speaking of a preacher will never
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speak to. Who will have the opportunity to That's pretty well. We have
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the opportunity to go and speak someday we have the connection to do that.
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As a surrender our lies become progressively more deeply and intimately equated with him.
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I'm going through that surrender that that happens for my determined purpose is that I
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might know him, that I may progressively become more deeply and intimately acquainted with
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him, perceiving, recognizing, and understanding the wonders of his person more strongly
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and more clearly. That's Philippians three turned the amplifying mention that I may know
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him progressively. As a surrender, we get to know him more deeply.
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You're not a passionate equator your way through in the streets. Only have an
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intimate relationship with him. It's all about daily connection. As become more acquainted
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with him, we've come more acquainted with his resurrection power. Because God's power
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that changes lives. He's not the work of the man, is the work
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of this burger. Galatians two twenties says, I have been crucified with Christ.
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It is no longer I who live, but Christ lives in me and
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the life I I live in the flesh. I live by faith in the
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Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me. I've been
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crucified. I've died to self. I've surrendered all my stuff. He's no
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longer I who live, but Christ lives in me. It's like we're a
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dead hand and we're dead. We're sorry of a glove. That's what I
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was thinking. We've got a glove like a tech at love. It's a
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a an object, isn't it. When you put your hand in it,
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it's alive. Jesus takes our audits and it filtered with yourself. When we've
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become His hands and his feet, we have become the conduit of His anointing,
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a smile or a relief of his healing for somebody. But we've got
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to be in the place of surrender to be able to give something. You
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cannot give what you have of God, and you cannot go to the shop
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and buy the anointing or the presence of God. It doesn't work that way.
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You've got to get on your knees. You've got to listen. You've
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got to surrender to fulfilled with the presence of God, so then you can
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minister God's grace to those people who are around you. There's not a quick
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way. There's not a three step book. You can buy it from the
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Christian bookshop in Stain's Kanaan. It doesn't exist. It doesn't exist. There's
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lots of books about dying to self. I think I think Joyce Mayor,
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who has the Choyce Mayor Bible, really made his own death to self sept
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the corner we die to bude a lot rip. It dies, it brings
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forth us through that free the king change versus foot. You get my drift
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so we're all the journey. It is step by step, and each step
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is a miracle, and our lives are transformed step by step. So sometimes
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we don't see the incremental change what others do. The song isn't there years
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ago. Let my let that little light shine. That's let that looks art
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shine. That light is not my teeth or clean today. It is the
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presence of God in our lives. If the presence of gods and says to
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you, what is different about you? You're not saying everybody else They're not
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looking at your actions, are looking at what what you've seen. M We're
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constantly been transformed or transfigured into his very image, from one degree of one
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degree of glory to another degree of growing glory turned back in which is two
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Corinthians three eighteen, and all of us are constantly been transfigured into his very
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own image in ever increasing splendor, from one degree of degree of glory to
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the degree abroad. I'd had the work from a degree, I actually have
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a degree, but the mind. So from one degree of glory to another
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degree of glory, we have been transformed. And it's not the work of
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an it's the work of the powers grew and it all starts with surrender.
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So maybe that's where you're at today and you don't get it what's going on
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here, But that's the process he goes through. He's not a production line,
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but it's a process, and God works with us. So my recommendation
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today is to align with this way of doing things. Read this, which
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is the Word of God on my phone. I'm going to take a by
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fine now and we start with surrender. That is the door. That's a
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point. One point two is to be transformed. We need to be washed
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with the word of God. Paula speaking of Jesus and the Ecclesia seven Ephesians
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five twenty six, that he might sanctify, which is make you holy,
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purify, cleanse you, purge you with the washing and bathing of the water
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by the word. The word actually worded as a riema word, But it's
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the word of God which changes us. Doesn't change it's a bit of flesh.
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It changes our spirit. The word of God changes us. It's powerful,
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it's living. As we immerse ourselves in the word of God, a
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transformation takes place. Hebrews four, verse twelve is a very familiar scripture,
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I'm sure for The Word of God is living, powerful and sharper than any
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two edged sword, piercing even to the dividing line of soul and spirit,
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and of the joints and marrow, and discern of the thoughts and intents of
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the arem. Notice the word of God is powerful. It's sharper than the
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two edged sword piercing to the dividing of soul and a spirit. He gets
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right down to the crops, He gets right down in there that viswee go.
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Oh, no, it knows about that. That's a bit I don't
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share with people I am, but God knows. Mhmm. Interesting in the
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way that God is discerning the thoughts and intents of the heart. That's not
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your it's the heart and the center of you as a person. God sees
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past all the masks. It's the real you. We can present well to
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the world. But God sees past that facade. He sees the real us,
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and He's interested in the real us. And that's where he wants to
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be so that people he can people can see his handiwork people and see his
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masterpiece, which is you, which is me. The way that God changes
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us and works through our circumstances Proverbs for twenty to twenty two says that we
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must give attention to the word of God, my son, give attention to
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my words. Incline your ear to my sayings. Do not let them depart
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from your eyes. Keep them in the midst of your heart, in your
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heart, for they are life that we're life again to those that find them
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and their health. Where there is a medicine to their flesh. So God's
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words of medicine to your flesh. But notice, we have to give attention
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to those words. We're going to be washed with the word. You can't
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hide it around the back here. It's not going to really work because you've
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got to, you know, get in it to get washed. Put your
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toe in the bath. You're not going to get where not the wead pass
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nor they know your shower, isn't it. But bath You're going to get
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weight because look at the water. That's very nice. Should We used to
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have some dogs and they didn't like having a bath a bath. They'd look
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at the bath and then be out of the door. There you go.
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But we need to get well, we need to get into the water of
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the word. That means we need to get We need to daily wash otherwise,
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you know, we're not going to get the benefit if we don't wash
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regulation. It's somebody on the bus side of the train. They small,
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that's just a bath of life. We need to be washed in the word
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so that we can be changed from glory to glory to glory. How is
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it? You know? We start one step at a time, don't respect
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got to do it in two minutes. Okay, God, I'm ready.
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Now I've read that. I'll get it about of Simon's message. That's really
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good. So I'll give you ten minutes. Let's get a bit of wash
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him doing, and I'm sure you can sort of my problems out straight away.
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He doesn't work like that. He'll start at the beginning where he chooses
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to startle you know, your beginning mind, not at his beginning. You're
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beginning might be, well, let's deal with this bit aginning. God,
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actually I like that bit over there. Oh I'm not sure about that bit
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over there. That's the bit we don't talk about. And this that I'm
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really sure we want to deal with that bit back and then then that's where
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want to start. And you go around the mountain until they say okay,
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and they okay, we'll start that bit that is a per passion and plan.
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Even we're dealing with that our stuff like living stones. He molds us
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into the people he wants us to be into that so that in that ecclesia,
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that assembly, we fit where it puts us, bounce us. How
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good a plan it is. The breathren dwell together in unity I think starts
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from thirty three in the unity means something many to be chipped away or removed
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from one of us. You know, perish the thought that we might not
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be in the perfect distance. But you know he knows what needs to happen
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to us to make us fruitful and make us productive. I could talk by
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John pi Deem, but I'm want to do that right now. As we
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attend to the Word of God. We had changed from glory to glory,
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which is two Grinthians three eighteen a ment of it previously. So let's knowh
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to surrender on God's terms, not our turns. Let's not to get into
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the Word and be washed with the blood on God's terms, not our turns.
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If we do, we'll be changed from glory to glory. I want
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to fill that purpose and that plan on the earth. If you only hit
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a little while. Once you're out of here, you're not coming back until
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the time. So make the impact that you need to make in your generation.
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What's the generation is Eddie still here? See you have a very young
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generation children next door to older people, but we all have an impact on
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our generation. Don't miss your opportunity because I'm surrendered and got into the word
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because when we're out of it, we can't change it. There's opportunity now
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to do what he wants to do. And you might not be your plan
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at you might not be your plan, be God, what brought. God
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might have brought from the other side of the world to a play without my
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name. But you're here because because a plan and purpose for you. It's
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a step into that plan, step into that purpose. Do not miss what
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there has for you. So the final point is God's time and is perfect
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in the shaping and the molding process. Time is everything. God is never
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early, He's never late. Altho it's sometime thinking you know, it's like
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now God, now, no hear it, and then all of a sudden
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he's like, well were you well? Now is the time? Now is
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the chirost moment he had that you know, come on, God, it
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is now. It's got to be now, and it never is now unless
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you're walking here in the rhythm and miracles. And he said, now is
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the time. So now the time. So we've got to be aligned with
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him for his perfect timing. So that means we've got something called patience,
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which might be a dirty work for some people, dirty life, or I
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don't like to be patient. I want it now. I picked up this
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smartphone he happened, go into an app pressure button and immediately I get something.
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We want to order something from Anderson or something like that, a type
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of it at a press send. I can pay ext money, but immediate
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gratification. It comes tomorrow or it comes in so many hours, and I
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get where I want to get. That is the world. That is the
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way that we're doing is they're providing the service. We're in the world,
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but we're not of the world. We're in God's kingdom, God's way of
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doing things. And sometimes it might be instant. He gets on the sort
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of out, but that's not his normal. Normally is his timing. He's
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the master. He takes the time he needs to do what he needs to
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do. He's not constrained by time He created time. I started to talk
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about the pot and the clannel because it's easy to talk about, and when
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we're trying to make a part of it was a mistake. The man puts
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a player on the wheel and pumping the wheel. He's supposed to shape it,
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and it looked quite easier. But when we start doing it spread everywhere,
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so again there a part, some weird looking thing when I've made it.
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But with the Lord, it's not like that. He starts with the
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clay and it put the water to the clay, which is the word of
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God, and it starts to shape us, and it starts to mold it
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into that into that markepiece that he wants us to be. And shaping and
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molding it can be uncomfortable, almost shaped and molded as a pot. We
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have put to dry, completely dry until the next step in in the process,
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and then the clay is trimmed off from the pottery point of view,
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which is more work at the Holy Great shaping and getting us ready for the
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next phase, which if I get this right, if the initial firing or
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the biscayde firing they call it here, the pot's putting the very into a
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killm and far to a certain temperature. I felt like the heat is on
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and God's doing something, and you think, oh, I don't like this,
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mister, and it's like and then if you stay there, there's no
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very comfortable here. I'm getting a out of the hot. The pot is
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fired. God is working in our lives and it's not very pleasant as well,
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because we're being tried when we're being tested, and that's where God to
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be patient. We're want to get out of there, but there's no You
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stay where you are. You've been tried and tested. After that that that
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initial firing and the pot's cooled, then they apply a glaze, don't they.
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If we've all seen that on the TV, or you may see it
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in yourself, and we go and the pot goes to a transformation process.
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Once it's glazed, is then put into another firing process with the grape.
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The glaze is fused to the pot and it creates like a glassy surface of
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your seed. If you seen pots and God ad to us and that glaze
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when we come out, we reflect the presence from the person of God,
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the reflections of him, not of us, because that partwers a diet to
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self, and it's a life to Christ. This happens once to a pot
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if it happens to us many times as where it changed from glory to glory.
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What did Paul say? It is not the life that I live,
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it's Christ who lives in me. So when God push through this processes so
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that you can shine force, you can project because it's inside you, it's
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upon you, the presence of God, the image of Christ. Let me
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find that again. I've been crucified with Christ. He's no longer right to
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live. But Christ, who lives in me life it shine out of in
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the flesh added by faith in the Son of God. Galatians two twenty two.
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Printhians three eighteen says they're canty being transformed into his very image. So
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when you go through the process, you're transformed. It's not nice, will
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become more christ Like Jeremiah eighteen. It talks about the pot and that's when
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Jeremiah is got to speaking about Jeremiah thinking about the child, the visual,
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about what's going to do to them. But I think Jeremiah eighteen out with
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their six He says, after plays in the potter's hand, so are you
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in my hand? So in that context, we are just clay and her
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molds is any shapes, and that's people he wants us to be. We
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have a covenment with better promises through the other Jesus, not through bulls,
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sheep and goats. One Peter two nine says that we are chosen generation.
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We are a royal priesthood. We're a holy nation his own special people that
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we may proclaim the praise of Him will call us out of darkness into his
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marvelous life. And when when the light was to be without shaping and that
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moaning process, except before it starts with surrender, then washed in the world
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go through testing so that we reflect the image of Christ. It's my body
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for his life. We want to have that image of Jesus through us.
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There are some people you meet. I think the guy and let's stay in
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the number of years when I first met him, Oh, that's all was
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Jesus. It was very evidence, it was very evident. And that's what
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happened by going through the patray excuse me, that happens by going through the
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school of the Holy Spirit. He takes us from glory to glory to glory.
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It's not the work of the man it's the work of the Holy Spirit.
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Jesus builds the ecclesia, or his church so that we are people without
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spot or ricome. So wherever you are on the journey today, yeah,
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stay with it. Do not take a diversion, don't take a detail.
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Percy there, yeah or man, it's impossible, but with God all things
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are possible, which is Matthew nineteen twenty six. So let's let's wrap it
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there. I'm done dusted. What are we doing now? Oh? Community,
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I'm not done dusted. I think Chang