Sermon
Declare His Glory Among the Nations - Locally and Globally
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Transcript
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As Pastor Mike greeted again, Happy New Year, may God bless you this year.
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Sunday morning, Mother came to son's room and said, Son, get up, time to go to church.
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And he said, Mother, I'm not going to the church, I don't like the people there, they are very mean to me.
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After one hour, Mother came back to the room, Mother saw he was snoring.
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Mother said, Son, get up, today is Sunday, you must go to the church.
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And he said to the mother, Mother, I'm not going, I told you, I'm not going, I don't like the people there.
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But Mother said, I have three reasons you must go to church.
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Number one, I'm your mother, respect, obey your mother.
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Number two reason, sir, do you know the number two reason?
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And Mother said, you are a 45-year-old man.
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Third, you are the senior pastor of the church.
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I am so glad that you are here the first Sunday of 2024.
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Thank you, church.
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Thank you, people.
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Waking up early, praying, coming to the house of God with a great expectation.
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That's old America.
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But today, we are very cold and complacent.
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But I'm excited.
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I'm excited everywhere when people gather in the house of God.
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Christ the King.
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Church, this great church.
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Thank you, Mike, for your humility, your love,
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and love for the people of India and loving me, adopting RIMI in your missions program.
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We are grateful.
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1.4 billion people in India.
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80% Hindu, USA, and 15% Islam.
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Then you have 5%.
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You have everything.
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Buddhism, Sikhism, Jainism, Christianity.
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As you know, those who went to India, Christianity mainly in the southern part.
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I come from the southern part of India.
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That's why I have a southern accent like some of y'all.
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And so please bear with me.
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And then as you go to the north, less than one percentage.
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That is the focus of the ministry.
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Along with me, Pastor Kiran came.
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And please make sure you meet him.
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He's my spiritual son.
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He's one of our graduates from the seminary.
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I like him today.
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Almost 25,000 young men and women.
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God allowed us to train and scatter all over the country and many parts of the world.
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And Kiran speaks many languages.
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I asked Kiran to come and help me at the office because he speaks.
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So any information you need, he will call the Indian office or Indian missionary by phone.
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And collect the information very quickly.
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Within 10 minutes, the report is ready.
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So he's a great help.
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He has a wife, Nancy, and two children.
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My wife couldn't come.
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Her uncle passed away in New York.
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My wife grew up in Queens.
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So, and she's on the way.
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And she and her mother.
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And I came last night around 1 o'clock.
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And because I want to be here.
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I'm also leaving tomorrow for India.
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Please pray.
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I have some urgent office matters with some government issues.
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I want you to keep me in your prayer.
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And God's favor upon me.
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Working in India is not easy.
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A lot of persecutions.
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We are attacked.
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Every day missionaries are attacked.
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Last week, police came to many of our centers.
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So we are attacked at many places because of the present situation in India.
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But thank you.
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And my good friend, Dr. Eric here.
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And thank you for his family.
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And once again, thank you for the opportunity.
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I don't have much time.
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India, we preach one hour.
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But pastor only gave me 35 minutes.
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But, so, generally ask people to stand and read every verse but no time.
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Open your Bible, please, everybody.
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I'm a Bible teacher.
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Everybody, if you do, please open your Bible.
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I want to see people open Bible, either phone or whatever.
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And if you don't have a Bible with you, like Erwin Lutzer says,
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you need to pray a prayer of repentance now.
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And so, okay, I'm going to read a few verses.
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I have three points from this Psalm 96.
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Mary is going to really help me.
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And the kid, give me a warning, okay?
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When my time is over, I have 30 minutes.
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Psalm 96.
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I'm going to look at a few verses.
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Then I pray, ask God's blessing.
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Verse 3.
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The Almighty God is asking us,
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Declare His glory among the nations,
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His marvelous deeds among all peoples.
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In our language, all jadis, every person in the world.
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Then verse 9.
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Worship the Lord in the splendor of His holiness.
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Tremble before Him all the earth.
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And verse 11.
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Let the heavens rejoice.
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Let the earth be glad.
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Let the sea resound.
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And all that is in it.
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That is the passion of our God.
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Let the earth rejoice.
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Let the sea resound.
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And all that is in it.
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And finally, verse 13.
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Let all creation rejoice before the Lord.
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For He comes.
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He comes to judge the earth.
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He will judge the world in righteousness.
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And the peoples in His faithfulness.
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Almighty God, we thank you for your presence.
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You are here in our midst.
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You are our friend.
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You are living God.
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Today, speak to us through your word.
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As we listen to your word, may we take into our hearts.
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Examine our lives.
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Because of our short life in this world, Lord, people around us, our family members,
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our children, grandchildren, neighbors, be blessed through the gospel of Jesus Christ.
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In the name of Jesus Christ, we pray today.
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We pray to God, Lord, we pray to God.
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He is worthy.
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Thank you, Jesus.
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Thank you, Jesus.
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By the way, I don't have time to talk about my own testimony, darkness, how God saved me
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from darkness to light, the intense persecution I went through, how God brought my eight siblings
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to the faith, their salvation today.
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Most of them are in the ministry.
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How did I come to America?
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Went to Trinity, then going back to India.
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All that story is available.
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I have a few books downstairs.
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And I sell these books to buy, study Bibles for our seminary students.
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Many of them cannot afford.
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I saw and I teach, they have Gideon Bible, small Bible.
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I said, students, I cannot even, I cannot teach you.
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If you don't have any subheadings, how do I teach?
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So, and I buy Bibles.
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So, this is any gift to $20.
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Even if you don't have money, please take it.
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And then you can send it to us later on.
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But $20, a gift to help to buy a study Bible.
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Make sure.
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Try to get a book before you leave it today.
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Declare his glory among the nation.
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Declare his glory locally and globally.
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That is the title of the sermon.
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One of my favorite speakers, teachers in the world, Johnson, wrote a lot on missions.
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Mission arises.
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Mary, you can move on.
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I don't know whether you have the slide.
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Mission arises from the heart of God himself.
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Listen everybody carefully.
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Mission arises from the heart of God himself.
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And is communicated from his heart to ours.
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Mission is the global outreach of the global people of a global God.
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Mission is the global outreach of the global people of a global God.
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He summarized mission so beautifully.
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Then he continues to write.
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Listen, it is not on the screen.
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Our mandate for world evangelization is the whole Bible.
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It is to be found in the creation of God.
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When he says creation of God, he writes,
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because of which all human beings are responsible to him.
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Second, it is found in the character of God.
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As outgoing, loving, compassionate, not willing that any should perish,
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desiring that all should come to repentance.
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Third, in the promises of God.
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That all nations will be blessed through Abraham's seed
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and will become the Messiah's inheritance.
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And fourth, in the Christ of God.
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Now exalted with universal authority to receive universal acclaim.
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Next, in the Spirit of God.
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Who convicts of sin, witness to Christ.
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And impels the church to evangelize.
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And finally, in the church of God.
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Which is a multinational missionary community.
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And under orders to evangelize until Christ returns.
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John Stott wrote very beautifully.
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So what does glory mean?
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We talked about.
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Declare his glory among the nations.
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The Hebrew word kabod has meant importance or weight or difference or heaviness.
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But primarily it means glory, respect, honor and majesty.
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In other words, there is no God, no philosophy, no guru in the world.
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Weight like the weight of our God.
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The God of the Bible.
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Jehovah, Jesus Christ.
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And declare his greatness, his majesty to every person in the world.
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That is the command.
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Declare his glory.
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Three points.
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When we look at this 13 verses, you get three main ideas.
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Number one, we are called to declare his greatness, his glory.
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And third, the psalmist demands us we should worship him in holiness.
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Worship him with our whole adoration to this great God.
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And finally, when I look at, he's calling all people to come and rejoice in him.
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You have an abundant life in Christ.
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Three things.
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I want to share that very quickly.
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This is a psalm attributed to King David.
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Likely written around 1000 BC.
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The psalm emphasizes the celebration of God's greatness.
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Worship of him among the nations.
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And calling all people to acknowledge and praise him.
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He is coming to judge the earth in righteousness.
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The quick summary of it.
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Let's look at the first point.
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We are called to proclaim his majesty, his greatness.
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And I don't have an expository time to do this.
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But at least the highlight.
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Number one, why we need to declare?
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Because God is so passionate of his name.
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And we read in Malachi 1.11.
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I love that passage.
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Malachi chapter 1.11.
Malachi 1 chapter mention
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My name will be great among the nations.
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From where the sun rises to where it sets.
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In every place incense and fewer offerings will be brought to me.
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Because my name will be great among the nations.
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Says the Lord Almighty.
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We read, sing to the Lord a new song.
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He is worthy for this new song.
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Sing to the Lord all earth.
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Sing to the Lord.
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Praise his name.
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Proclaim his salvation.
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The redemptive work of God day after day.
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Verse 3.
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Declare.
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Look at your Bible.
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Declare his glory among the nations.
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Jadis, ethnos.
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His marvelous deeds.
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Great deeds.
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Among all peoples.
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So God is so passionate of his name.
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The next term.
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Why we should declare his great name?
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Because great is the Lord.
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Great is the Lord.
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You cannot compare this God with any other God.
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Verse 4.
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For great is the Lord and most worthy of praise.
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The Lamb of God.
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The Lion of Judah.
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He is only worthy for all of us to bow down and offer our lives to him.
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He is worthy.
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The Colossians writes, in the book of Colossians, Paul writes,
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The Son is the image of the invisible God.
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The firstborn of all creation.
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For in him all things were created.
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Things in heaven and on earth.
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Visible and invisible.
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Whether thrones or powers or rulers or authorities.
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All things have been created through him and for him.
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He is before all things.
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And in him all things hold together.
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And he is the head of the body, the church.
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He is the beginning and the firstborn from among the dead.
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So that in everything he might have the supremacy.
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For God was pleased to have all his fullness dwell in him.
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And through him to reconcile to himself all things.
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Whether things on earth or things in heaven.
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By making peace through his blood shed on the cross.
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Because ladies and gentlemen, there is nobody like my Jesus.
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Who paid the price.
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Who died for me.
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Died in my place.
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There is no one like him.
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He is worthy of our praise.
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He is to be feared above all gods.
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Amen.
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See, the grace of God is sufficient to save all people.
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The grace of God.
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Look at this.
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I don't have time to explain any of these things.
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But in Adam people are lost.
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Death, sin, law, condemnation, flesh, slavery, bondage.
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Those who are in Adam.
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But Jesus Christ.
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Look at what he did.
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He gave life.
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Justification, spirit, sonship, freedom, my friend.
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I was a young man without hope.
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I was contemplating suicide.
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My father was very violent alcoholic.
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I am the first of eight children.
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My mother suffered a lot.
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Because that's alcoholism.
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My mother became a mental patient.
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She attempted suicide.
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She was demon possessed.
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My sister Lizzie.
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Second child in the family.
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Every Friday she comes from the school.
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Around five o'clock, six o'clock.
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She falls on the floor.
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And Satan comes in.
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Takes over her body.
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And she has.
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You know my sister.
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Her face.
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Expression changes.
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Teeth all very tight.
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And she has all kind of crazy demands.
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If we don't do this.
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I will take one of the children from this home.
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All these crazy things.
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We suffered a lot.
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So many years.
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Satan attacked us.
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The deception of the.
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Of this evil.
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The evil schemes.
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But Jesus Christ.
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Changed my life.
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Changed our family.
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Two evangelists.
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Came to my room.
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When I was studying for my bachelor in business.
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They never passed high school.
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But God called them.
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They went to seminary.
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Finished their three year certificate in Bible.
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They came to my village.
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And I was a lost man.
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No hope.
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But they came and shared the love of God.
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Every day they read John 3 16.
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There is something.
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Marvelous in it.
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Saji God loves you.
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I never heard about it.
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Nobody told me.
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Even my own home.
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My dad has ever.
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Never said that I love you son.
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That's not our culture.
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Dad does everything to.
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Take care of us.
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To love us.
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But never said.
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I love you.
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And here this missionary.
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Poor missionary say.
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Saji God loves you.
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He died for you.
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Give your life to him.
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But I was angry.
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I was arrogant.
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I did not know the truth.
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There I was arrogant like my dad.
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I said get out from here.
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But they would come every day.
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Every evening.
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They would read John 3 16.
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Saji God loves you.
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And I.
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On the sixth day.
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I was drawn to Christ.
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No more argument with them.
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I knelt down with the tears.
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I received Jesus Christ into my life.
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First time.
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A burden.
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A heaviness is taken away.
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Until that time.
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I didn't want to live.
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Life was hard.
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There was no joy.
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But when I prayed.
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Jesus come into my life.
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Our God is not a dead God.
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My friend.
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He's a living God.
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The one who is rose.
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He's living.
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He's the one.
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That I prayed to.
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And I said.
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Jesus come into my life.
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I'm a sinner.
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Forgive my sin.
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And I.
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When I prayed that sincerely.
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My friend.
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God took away my sins.
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Because Bible claims.
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Bible says.
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Those who are tired of life.
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Those who are heavy laden.
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Come to me.
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I will give you rest for your souls.
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Which guru.
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Who told.
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In this world.
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Come to me.
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I will give you peace.
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No.
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Only Jesus.
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Promised that.
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Today my beloved.
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I don't know what is your condition.
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I'm so glad you are here.
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The first day.
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Of the.
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20.
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24.
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First Sunday.
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But listen.
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What Jesus said.
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He will do it.
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He's not a liar.
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What he promised.
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He will do it.
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Every day he's doing.
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For thousands.
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And thousands.
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Of people.
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All over the world.
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He did it to me.
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My family found peace.
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Today.
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We are missionaries.
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Serving different parts of the world.
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Those who looked at his face.
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Are radiant.
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Not.
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Never covered with shame.
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Look at Jesus face.
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Look at Jesus face.
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I wonder.
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I wonder why people do not follow this great God.
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Why people live in this kind of hopeless situation.
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I don't know.
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Try Jesus my friend.
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Come to him.
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You will find a peace.
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All your problems will not be solved immediately.
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He will take care of it.
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But come.
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Try.
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Try.
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Jesus.
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The grace of God.
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Is sufficient to save all people.
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Why we need to declare his majesty.
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Because the nation need to hear.
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Almost three billion people in this world.
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Unreached.
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1040 windows.
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Joshua Project is still talking about almost three billion people.
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Unreached.
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No time to talk about why we need to talk about the glory of this great God, Jesus Christ, the soon coming King.
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Deception of the false gods.
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Look at verse 5.
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For all the gods of the nations are idols.
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You know how many gods in India?
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Pastor Mike, how many gods?
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They say 330 million gods and goddesses.
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How many?
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330.
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I don't know how they, how did they count all this?
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330 million gods and goddesses in India.
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For them it's a pantheism.
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Hinduism is pantheistic religion.
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They can look at everything.
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They can see God in it.
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So they can worship temple.
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I'm sorry, mountain.
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They can worship monkey.
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They can worship snake.
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Everything is God for them.
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But these are false gods.
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I don't know why we are receiving false gods in America.
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The largest temple Hindus built in New Jersey.
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83 acres.
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The largest.
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They brought water from every part of the world.
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And Americans are going there.
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Americans are.
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Islam is growing.
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Buddhism is growing.
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And you will see Buddhist temples, Hindu temples, and mosques all over in our communities.
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We'll see.
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They are very passionate.
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What is happening in England, Europe.
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It will happen here.
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If you are silent.
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If you are, if you are, if you are, if you continue to have apathy.
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If you have no excitement in the Lord.
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They will buy our old church buildings.
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They will turn into mosques.
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That's what happened.
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Where I live in Lindenhurst.
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That beautiful assemblies of God.
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In the hands of Muslims.
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And they slowly came as a community.
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Then they changed the name very slowly.
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Very, very close to us.
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But we must be excited for Jesus Christ.
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Are you with me?
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Are you with me?
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Number one, we must declare His glory.
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The greatness of our God.
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Number two, that's why we, this church exists.
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That's why you gather.
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This is not for Sunday morning.
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Just for enjoyment.
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Sunday Christianity.
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No.
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We must be men and women so passionate, excited for Jesus.
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We must reflect through our lives.
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The second, we are called to worship Him in holiness.
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And look at some of these verses.
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So powerful.
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Verse 7 onwards.
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Ascribe.
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Look at that word.
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Ascribe to the Lord.
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All you families of nations.
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Ascribe to the Lord glory and strength.
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Verse 8.
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Ascribe to the Lord the glory due His name.
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The greatness, the majesty, the power due His name.
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And verse 9.
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Worship the Lord in the splendor of His holiness.
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So much that tremble before Him all the earth.
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Thank you, God's people coming to worship the Lord.
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You know, I believe at least three things must happen in every Sunday service.
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Number one, sing great songs.
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Pastor Zach, thank you for songs you have selected.
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Thank you for that.
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Can we put our hands and thank the worship team for them to sing three songs.
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A lot of preparation.
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Look at here.
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Six, seven people stood.
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And a lot of preparation.
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Thank you for doing it.
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We are here to worship the Lord through our songs.
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Second, preaching of the word.
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In the preaching, we must exalt to the name of Jesus.
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There must be excitement.
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Many of American churches in Ionan today, very boring preaching.
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And people sleep.
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And they don't want to come back.
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We must be excited.
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When we go over the sports, we are excited.
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Why don't we have excitement and enthusiasm in the Lord, in the presence of God?
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We came to worship the living God.
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He is here.
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I'm not saying you have to shout like me.
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But the Indians, we shout because, you know, because we don't have mics.
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You know, when we go to the villages, we don't have any mic or anything.
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We talk to 200 people.
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So we are used to that.
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Isn't it?
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Isn't it?
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He will shout much better than me.
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And so there must be excitement.
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Exalt to the name of Jesus.
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He is worthy to be praised.
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Worship him in holiness.
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When I say holiness, we must live.
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We must have a holy life.
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I'm not talking about Sunday morning.
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Hands, but make sure we have a holy life.
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That's a problem.
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And we are not really matching with our lifestyle.
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God is holy.
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We have to be holy.
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The Bible says, without holiness, we cannot please God.
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Since he is holy, we must be holy.
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That's a demand.
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That's a call to all of us.
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It's not easy, but we can.
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Only one life, my friends.
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Only one life.
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Only a short life to live in this world.
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That life, we cannot waste it.
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We must be intentional.
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We must be passionate.
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And that will, God will reward you.
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God will bless you generation to generation.
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Yesterday, I was at this funeral service.
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95 years old, Mone's uncle.
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He was a humble man back in India.
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God gave seven boys.
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Seven boys.
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They all married great ladies.
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God provided.
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And 36 grandchildren stood on the stage.
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36 grandchildren.
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There are another 13 great-grandchildren stood on the stage.
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And the stage.
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They sang.
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They talked about their grandpa.
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And they are all powerful.
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What a legacy.
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But that man.
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Four o'clock, he gets up.
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Four o'clock, he gets up.
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They were talking.
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He will pray for each person.
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Every child.
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He will call.
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Every child's name.
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Every grandchild's name.
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Every great-grandchild's name.
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Prayer works.
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If you have a praying mother, I tell you, her children will be great.
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That's what Susanna Wesley did it.
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The Wesalys claimed, the world is my parish.
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Because a mother.
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My mother did not know the Lord.
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After coming to Christ, my mother held the family in her prayer.
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And we, after her conversion, early morning, she gets up, put a mat on the floor.
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And she will begin to sing.
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She will cry.
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And most of the children will come.
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Daddy won't come.
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But we will come and join with the mom.
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And today, I believe all of the children are serving the Lord.
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Different parts of India.
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Two in South India.
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Three in Central India.
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One in the Nepal border.
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One in Wisconsin and Milwaukee.
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All of them love the Lord, I believe, because of the cry of my mother.
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So, take the responsibility.
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Fast and pray for the children.
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Children who do not know following Christ.
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Your grandchildren who are not following.
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Fast and pray.
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These are biblical things, my friends.
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Our God is worthy of worship.
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To worship is not confined to what we do in church or open praise.
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To worship is the acknowledgement of God and all His power and glory in everything we do.
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The highest form of praise and worship is obedience to Him and His word.
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To do this, we must know God.
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We cannot be ignorant of Him.
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Worship is to glorify and exalt God.
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To show our loyalty and admiration to our Father.
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Ladies and gentlemen, I am so grateful that you are here today.
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If you don't have a personal relation with Jesus Christ today, give your life to Him.
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Listen, giving your life, surrendering your life to Jesus is not a defeat.
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Surrendering your life to a company can be a defeat.
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But surrendering your life to the living God will never be a defeat.
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Here is an example.
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I was kicked out of the home.
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I was beaten up.
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My whole back was covered with blood because of intense beating the whole day.
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Daddy said, get out.
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You are no longer my son.
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You destroyed this home.
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But then my Heavenly Father received me.
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Heavenly Father, I never went back and asked anything for my dad.
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Only God allowed me to bless my parents and my siblings.
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Daddy said, I have nothing in the house.
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I never went back anything.
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Bible says, first to seek His kingdom and righteousness.
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Everything shall be added unto you.
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Did you listen to that promise?
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Bible says, first, the most important thing.
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First to seek His kingdom and His righteousness.
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Everything you need in this world is He is able to give it to you.
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That's a promise of God.
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Claim these promises, friends.
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Sometime in America, we have a system.
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We don't need anything.
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We don't need to be able to create.
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We don't need much prayer.
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You work, you make money.
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You have social security.
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You have insurance.
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You don't need to much pray and fast for healing.
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That's not the case for us.
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You don't have hospital.
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You don't have facility.
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You have to cry and fast.
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Sometimes we lose that kind of intensity and the need of God.
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Unless something miserable happened, then we cry to God.
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But I pray this first Sunday, draw closer to Him.
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Come closer to Him.
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I don't know where you are spiritually.
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Today, surrender your life.
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Give your life to Him.
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Come closer to Him.
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Rededicate your life to live a life of excitement in the Lord.
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God will bless you, my friend.
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Let me go.
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Pastor is looking at me, my face, seriously.
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There are 400 million people.
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There are 400 million people in India live in poverty.
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Nearly one in four Indians cannot read or write.
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Life is hard.
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And Joshua Project talks about there are 2150 people.
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They don't know the worship of this great God.
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That's where you are investing in India, 2157.
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And the state you are supporting is Uttar Pradesh.
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Mary, next one.
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Uttar Pradesh.
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Uttar means north.
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Pradesh means place.
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Uttar, north.
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And this is a huge state.
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250 million people.
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250 million people in one state of India, Nepal border.
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You can look at it.
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And 75 districts in that state.
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And 822 blocks, 52,000 panchayats, and over 100,000 villages or communities.
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That's where you are investing.
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I want you to know.
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This is a state you are investing.
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I want many of you to come to India and help in women's ministry, children's ministry.
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We have schools.
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You can teach, hospital, and teach.
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We have a Bible college there, teaching Bible college students.
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We have so many qualified, capable leaders in this church.
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Money is not the answer.
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I am glad, Pastor, you are a $200 monthly commitment for that work in India.
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But we have more than the money.
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We have talented people here.
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We must go.
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I don't need to tell you.
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If you believe in Christ, if you believe in the Great Commission, we are all called to go.
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And called to go locally and globally.
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Everybody may not go to India, but we are all of us called to be a witness.
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Is that true?
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We are all called to be a witness.
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That's what we read in the book of Acts.
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When the Holy Spirit will come upon us, we will have the power to be His witness.
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We are all called to be a witness.
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Starting in our own place.
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Jerusalem, Judea, uttermost parts of the world.
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Samaria, uttermost parts of the world.
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Let me move very quickly.
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God demands the praise of His people.
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And worship in holiness.
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We talked about it.
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And stewardship.
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We worship in giving.
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One of the...
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The third thing.
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You worship God in giving.
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And generous giving.
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Sacrificial giving.
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I just wrote one small book for India.
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And the power of God-sized thinking.
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In that, I added one chapter.
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Generosity wins.
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When we were without...
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We were nominal Christians.
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That time, my dad would not give much.
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Maybe one rupee, small one.
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I tell you, growing up as the oldest one, our money ended up in police station.
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Money ended up in hospital, court.
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Wasted.
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But we did not give for the Lord.
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When I came to Christ, began to give it to the Lord.
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And God blessed and blessed.
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My friend, try.
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I don't know.
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I hope you're all generous people.
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Generous.
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You try.
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In the book of Malachi, God said, God is challenging us.
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Try this.
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If we don't give it to God, we are robing God.
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These are biblical things.
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You try.
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You try.
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I'm sharing this from my own experience.
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For example, this year,
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and we have some difficulty.
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I told our office manager,
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let's give it some money.
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Even though we don't have enough budget meeting for India,
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let's give it to some ministries,
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David Jeremiah.
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And various ministries.
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He said, let's give it this year.
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End of the year.
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A man from Florida.
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I knew him.
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And he gave it $22,100 on credit card.
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I knew he never gave that much money.
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$22,100.
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My point, God is a generous God.
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My time is up.
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My time is up.
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How many more minutes?
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He said, time is up.
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Listen.
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And assemble with God's people.
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We must listen Sunday.
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Do not take lightly Sunday gathering.
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Assemble with God's people.
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As Christians, we must assemble in our churches,
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regularly in worship.
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And Lord comes together in radical abandonment
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to spreading the gospel of God
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and declaring His glory locally and globally.
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Today, there is a tendency.
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We can watch the service by Zoom.
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Staying at home.
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There is a mentality.
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I tell you, friends.
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And if you are physically weak, I understand.
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But listen, get up.
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Prepare.
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Get up in the morning, Sunday morning,
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on your knees and pray.
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Read passages.
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And get ready.
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And pray for every church member.
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Prepare yourself.
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Come to the house of God, you fellowship.
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Assemble.
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Do not take lightly Sunday gathering.
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I challenge you finally.
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The third thing I want to talk about is invite all to rejoice.
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Mary, I want to talk about this tree,
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this famous tree.
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You know it, the redwood tree roots.
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Intervined.
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Redwood trees' roots are very shallow.
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Often only five or six feet deep.
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But they make up for it in width.
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Sometimes extending up to 100 feet from the trunk.
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They thrive in thick groves where the roots can intervine
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and even fuse together.
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This gives them tremendous strength against the force of nature.
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What I'm saying, we must be united.
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We must come together.
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We must pray together.
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Listen to God's word.
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And do great things.
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Invite.
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That's what the psalmist, as we continue, the last sections.
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Let the heavens rejoice.
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Let the earth be glad.
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Let the sea resound.
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And all that is in it.
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Let the fields be jubilant.
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And everything in them.
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And let all the trees or forests sing for joy.
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Let all creation rejoice before the Lord.
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For he comes.
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He comes to judge there.
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He will judge the world in righteousness.
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And to the peoples in his faithfulness.
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Let me just read the points.
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We must evangelize.
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Well, to me, I do not preach the gospel.
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Listen, two missionaries came to me.
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Consistently.
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Passionately.
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Unafraid.
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That's why today I stand before you.
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My parents' family is redeemed by the...
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Because of their obedience today.
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And they found Christ.
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We must share the gospel.
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God gives abundant life.
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Only Jesus Christ can give abundant life.
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Then people find the joy in Christ.
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So we must evangelize so people find life.
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Finally, we must remind his return.
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God is going to come.
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Our God is going to come.
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We have that expectation of heaven.
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As we live here every day, expect heaven.
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This is a preparation for the future.
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This is a preparation for heaven.
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Our life is very short in this world.
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Very short.
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Every day, think about it.
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And invite the people to come.
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And experience the joy in the Lord.
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And here, my friends, my conclusion.
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Let us spread the message of God's greatness.
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To everyone in our community.
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Among the nations.
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Through word and deed.
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Let people see Christ.
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Through our holy and passionate life.
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Three things I talked about.
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Declare his glory among the nations.
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He is worthy.
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Number two.
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Worship him in holiness.
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You must have a holy life.
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As we come to the house of God every day.
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And through our holy life, people will be attracted to Christ.
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And finally, passionate.
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Invite people.
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Your children.
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Grandchildren.
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Neighbors.
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My prayer that this.
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We will have two services.
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I pray that we will have.
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We will start sister churches in Wisconsin.
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You can do it.
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We are a lot of people.
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Lost people in Wisconsin.
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In Kenosha.
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May we have that kind of passion every day.
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Let's.
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You all stand with me.
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I will pray.
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The worship team will come.
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Our Father, we thank you.
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Your faithfulness.
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Your goodness.
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Lord, I am here humbly standing on the labor of this saints here.
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So many years.
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The hard work.
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Faith.
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Risk taking.
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And thank you for the saints here.
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Every family I pray by name.
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Continue to bless them.
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Protect their lives.
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Whatever needs they have.
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Lord, today I pray.
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Lord, you are able.
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You are sufficient.
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Those who do not know you.
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May they know you personally.
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May they repent of their sins.
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Where they receive you.
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As Lord and Savior.
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Those who are not excited.
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Recalled in their faith.
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Lord.
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You touch them.
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In a special way.
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Lord.
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Would you bless them.
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Reek into the passion within them.
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To love you.
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Love your word.
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And share the good news.
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With their families and neighbors.
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Father, I declare every blessing upon the church.
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Protect this wonderful community.
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Lord.
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May they be salt and light.
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In Kenosha.
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And India.
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And many parts of the world.
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Lord, I am eternally grateful to you.
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For their partnership.
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For the state of Uttar Pradesh.
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May that be prospered.
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For your glory.
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We give you praise.
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In Jesus mighty name.
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God's people said.
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Amen.
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Would you put your hands together one more time.
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A praise offering to God.
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Thank you.
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Thank you.
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Thank you.
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Thank you.
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Thank you.