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God is shaping who we are
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Welcome to the Cross Power Church podcast.
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You're listening to a service from our church in Campbell, TX.
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We pray this message strengthens your faith and points you to the
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cross. Now let's join the service.
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You to be in the House of the Lord this morning like to say
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Happy Mother's Day to each and every one of our mothers this
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morning. We appreciate what you do and
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how you help us. And you know, all through our
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life, I've been shaped by a godly mom, godly grandmother,
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and even a godly great grandmother on both sides.
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Man, I, I tell the devil all the time, you don't know who you're
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messing with. Hey, man, I've been blessed way
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back and had lots of prayers prayed for me.
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And I thank God for that. I feel it every Sunday morning
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and Wednesday night when I step up here from heaven.
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They're still praying for me. Hey, man, and, and I've been
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here 17 years. You probably heard all my
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mother's stories. And I've, I'm going to go a
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different route today and talk about the way that mothers have
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have shaped us and a mother, a godly mother.
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Our number one role in our life that they play is they, they
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shape us. They shape who we are.
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We don't realize, you know, from the pick the shoes up to put
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your clothes to the tricking us. I had a mother like to trick me
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sometimes. I had a great grandmother that
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no matter what I did, she would never discipline me.
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And I knew that I could get away with anything at her house.
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And I recall one time my mother told me to go out to our house,
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we didn't live very far, that she had a prize for me.
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And she told me to bend over the bed.
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I was 3 or 4 years old. Ford told me to bend over the
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bed. She was going to bring me a
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prize. And she brought me a prize.
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It was the best. She was tricky from the time she
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did that to the time that I was 17 and she couldn't hurt me no
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more. She broke a board on my backside
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and then doubled it. She didn't quit.
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She was trying to shape me. Hey, man, she broke the board.
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I'm like, OK, are you finished? She said Nope.
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I doubled it and just kept on. But my mother didn't know, you
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know, she some mothers know how to My dad knew how to whoop.
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He'd wear back from living. He'd reach back there and grab
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some dirt, you know. But my mother, she would just
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real close. It didn't hurt.
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She thought she was really doing.
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But mom's whoopings didn't hurt. But if it didn't hurt, you
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didn't act like it hurt. She told Dad and dad, as I said,
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he would reach back in left field, right field and grab some
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dirt. And it hurt, boy, it you didn't
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want many of them. But I appreciate those things
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now shaping me. They shape us just as God shapes
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us, Amen. And so much of us and we're who
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we are today and and the influence of our mothers then
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that what they had on our life, you look back, it's still
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shaping you. You can hear those words.
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So many of the scriptures that I hold dear today I learned in the
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five feet five first five or six years of my life.
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Amen. And I've never forgot them.
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I have never forgot those scriptures taught by my mother,
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my grandmother, my great grandmother and mother's while
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you're teaching and while you're nourishing your children.
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Yes, even in the teen years when it seems you're banging your
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head against the wall and they're not hearing what you're
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saying. Anybody ever been there?
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Seems they're just not responding.
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Remember, you're still shaping just as God is shaping us today.
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There's there's many people being shaped by God today.
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And I want to preach along those lines today that God never stops
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shaping us. And I think if there's anything
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I could say about a godly mother today, it would be how they look
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ahead and they see what's ahead. The little things that
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scriptures, the things they're shaping us.
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It's not what we think it is at the time.
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I look at the way God's still shaping me today and shaping
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you. It's never what we think at the
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time. It's a far greater and a far
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bigger picture than we could ever see.
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And mothers never forget that. But let's stand in the reading
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of the Word in Galatians chapter 6 and verse 7, Galatians chapter
Galatians 6 chapter mention Galatians 6 chapter mention
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6 and verse 7, it says do not be deceived.
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God is not malt for whatever man souls that he will reap.
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That's why we got to keep shaping.
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That's why God keeps shaping us. That's why a parent's job, a
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mother's job, a father's job. It's from the cradle to the
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grave. And we hope that we will see
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some of the things we've sown and in life, we hope we will see
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that and reap that. And verse 8 says, for he who
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sows to his flesh will love the flesh, reap corruption.
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And you know, we really focus on the flesh a lot today, even as
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parents sowing things that our kids can see.
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But the apostle Paul says here, he changes the tune of things.
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He says, but he who sows to the Spirit will love the Spirit,
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reap everlasting life. That's why we sow, because it's
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not of this life that we're sowing when we sow scriptures,
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when we sow those things as mothers, as fathers, as teachers
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and preachers. In verse 9, it said us, let us
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not grow weary. It's easy to grow weary in the
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world that we live in while doing good.
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We can't grow weary while doing good.
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For a due season we shall reap. I still believe that.
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Hey man, I believe we're going to see it if we do not lose
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heart. Therefore, as we have an
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opportunity, let us do good to all, especially those of the
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household of faith. Father, we thank you for your
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word today. I pray that you would touch your
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word, that you would anoint this word, that I could bring it the
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way you showed it unto me in Jesus name, Amen.
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I challenge mothers today. Keep sowing the word of God for
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he who sows of the flesh or reap of the flesh.
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But if you're sowing of the Spirit, keep keep sowing the
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things of the Spirit because you're shaping, you're making,
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you're molding into everlasting life, something that's going to
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last as the older I get, the more I see that this life is not
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going to last. Hey, man, your body's going to
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wear out. You're going to, they're going
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to take you out to an old cemetery somewhere or they're
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going to take you to a fiery furnace and they're going to
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cremate you. And, and from the dust that we
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were formed, we're going to return again.
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The Bible says you may not really realize it now.
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You may not see it in the in those that you're shaping now,
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but it will come back and maybe in later years, maybe in the
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deep. How many has been in the deep,
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deepest, darkest trial of your life and yet what's your mother
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or grandmother? Somebody sowed into you.
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You remember those words and it began to shape you and God begin
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to meet you at the point of your need.
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Let us not grow weary while doing good for a due time.
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We shall read first Peter chapter 1 and verse 3.
1 Peter 1 chapter mention
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See, we're leading, we're not just shaping, we're not just
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harping, we're leading, Amen. If you're a godly mother today,
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you're shaping. You're leading them to what?
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Peter says that. And then first Peter chapter 1
1 Peter 1 chapter mention
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and verse 3, it says blessed be the God the Father, our Lord
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Jesus Christ, who according to his abundant mercy has begotten
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us again to a living hope. Say that with me.
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So I know you're here this morning.
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A living hope. Why do we have a living hope?
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Through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead.
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Why did he raise from the dead, He says in verse 4 to an
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inheritance. We have an inheritance.
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That's why we have to keep shaping people around us as
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mothers. You have to keep shaping.
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It's incorruptible. It's undefiled.
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That does not fade away and it's reserved in heaven for you say
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it's reserved in heaven for me this morning who are kept by the
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power of God through faith for salvation ready to be revealed
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in the last time. And verse 6 says in this you
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greatly rejoice though now for a little while, if it need be, you
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have been grieved by various trials.
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I like that, don't you? Why anybody in a trial this
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morning, Nobody you in a trial this morning.
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I like how the possible, I mean Peter how he threw that in
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there. It greatly rejoice though now
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for a little while, if need be, you have been grieved by various
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trials. Sometimes we need a trial,
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sometimes we need to walk through the valley of the shadow
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of death and learn that we have a God that fears no evil.
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Can I get a witness this morning?
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Because it's there? He says that the genuineness,
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the realness of your faith being much more precious than gold
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that perishes, though it is tested by fire, may be found to
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the praise and the honor and the glory of the revelation of Jesus
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Christ, whom having not seen you love, though now you do not see
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him, yet, believing you're rejoicing with joy,
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inexpressible and full of glory, receiving the end of your faith,
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the salvation of your souls. Isn't that a word from God this
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morning? We're kept by the power of God.
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Mothers keep shaping even in the struggles.
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I know the struggles we face in life, they're real.
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They're real because we have an adversary, We have an enemy, we
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have a devil that's fighting for your soul this morning.
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Amen. He's fighting for your child.
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So, and he's never going to quit fighting this side of heaven.
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He's fighting for it this morning.
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The question is, are we fighting for it or do we give in?
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Do we give up? I think of Jeremiah if we go to
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Jeremiah chapter 18. And the Holy Spirit took me to
Jeremiah 18 chapter mention
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this verse for somebody this morning because I know there's
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times in my life I get on the wheel.
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Anybody ever been on the wheel? And Jeremiah chapter 18.
Jeremiah 18 chapter mention
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So we learned there that we're shaping everything that we do in
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life. If you're as there's words
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coming out of your mouth and you go to a job on Monday morning or
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Friday evening, whenever it is, whatever comes out of your
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mouth, somebody's what listening they're hearing, they're
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listening to what you're doing. And what comes out of your mouth
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could be shaping somebody in One Direction or another.
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And in Jeremiah chapter 18, it says the word which came to me,
Jeremiah 18 chapter mention
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Jeremiah from the Lord saying, arise, I like that.
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The word of the Lord, you know, we come, it comes to us today.
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We say, God bless me. No, he said, get up.
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When the word of the Lord came, it said, arise.
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Why would why would God say that always may he says that all
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through Scripture, doesn't he? He says, get up from the place
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that you're at and arise and begin to take hold of that which
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Jesus Christ has already laid a hold of you.
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But you got to arise out of the place where you're at.
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And he said, go down to the Potter's house.
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I like that. And there I will cause you to
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hear my words. Think about that.
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The Potter's house. I will cause you to hear my
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words. And Jeremiah rose and he went
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down to the Potter's house and he says there he was making
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something at the wheel. I got it.
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I got the privilege of seeing that one time.
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I used to be an old Potter's house in Cumbia.
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You remember it's sister, Oh bro Joe over there.
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He made pottery, shipped it all over and as a young man I went
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in there and I began to watch it.
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I had never seen it. He would take this old lump of
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clay and he would put it on this wheel and, and it was dry at
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first. He would begin to throw that
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water on it and he would take his foot down here and he would
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touch something. He would spin it and you know,
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he showed me, he said, look how smooth is you want a line there
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and he take a little deal and hold it.
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There was a line. You want another line and he
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could do anything he wanted to it.
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You want it flat. It was pretty cool to see that.
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But but I begin to notice. And then later in years, I read
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this 18th chapter of Jeremiah and he said I went down to the
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Potter's house and there he was making something.
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You ever been on the wheel of life, just spinning like crazy
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and out of control and whatever God's still shaping you, He's
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still making something. And he said, I arose and I went
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down to the Potter's house and there he was making something at
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the wheel. And the vessel that he made was
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clay. Think about that.
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It was clay. What are you and I?
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We're clay. And he says, but there was
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something different about this clay.
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He said as we read this word, it says that it was a vessel that
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he made was clay, but it was marred in the hand of the
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Potter. When you looked at word marred
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up in the Hebrew, it's Shakath, which is to run, to decay,
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spoil, destroy. It describes something that's
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boil like this. It got all over me when I read
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it describes the clay. It's not a perfect piece of
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clay. It's on a wheel.
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It's being made, it's being formed.
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But see, it was an old bad piece of clay.
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Anybody ever been there? It maybe, maybe it felt ruined.
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It was decayed. It was corrupt.
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It was marred in the hands of the Potter.
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It was not perfect. Amen.
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Can I tell you this Christian walk?
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It is not perfect. You may be marred, you may be
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scarred, but you're still on the wheel.
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Thank God He's still spinning it and He's still making us into
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something, a vessel of honor. Anybody ever been on the wheel?
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The wheels? Not a fun place at the time.
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It goes on to say this Hebrew word of mard.
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It means the loss of function. I've just lost all function.
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Anybody ever been there? It says it was mard, and I like
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what that says. Can I read that again?
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In verse 4? It says in the vessel that he
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made of clay, it was moored, it was messed up, it was spoiled,
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it was decayed, it was out of shape and it was in the hands of
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the Potter. But I focused in on that word it
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says and the vessel that he made of clay was that's past tense.
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Come on, teachers, help me out. That's past tense.
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It was marred. But as the Potter begin to take
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the clay, see it's an image of of Jesus Christ right here that
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Jeremiah could have been seeing. It was an image of God When he
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looks down at his children, it was a type and shadow.
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Yes, it was marred. But as he began to put it on the
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wheel and he began to spin it and he began to make it into
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something that it wasn't anymore.
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Can I get a witness? Aren't you glad you're not
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marred anymore? But you was marred in the hand
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of the Potter, so he made it again into another vessel.
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I like that he made it again into another vessel.
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I look at my brother sitting over here.
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He's a he's a Texas chapter president of Northeast Texas
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Motorcycle Ministry now. And I remember the first time he
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walked in here, he was on the wheel what it being molded being
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mad. But now he's a new vessel.
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He's a leader. A man went from a follower to a
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leader. That's what God does.
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But even though we're marred, he's still making we're in the
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hands of the Potter this morning.
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Somebody ought to say man and the vessel he made of clay, it
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was moored in the hand of the Potter.
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So he made it again into another vessel as it seemed good for the
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Potter to make not what I think it should be.
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He didn't make out of me what I thought I was going to be in
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life at the end of my life. I'm not, I'm not what I thought
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I would be, but I put myself on the wheel and I said, God just
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mold me, just make me. Then the word of the Lord in
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verse five came to me saying, O House of Israel, See this is the
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kicker. This is what some of you need to
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learn this morning. This is what all Christians need
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to learn. This is what your Mama was
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trying to get you to learn. Can I not do with you as this
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Potter? Can God not put the clay that He
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created on the wheel? Oh yes He can.
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It may be through many tolls and stairs.
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It may be through you running and rebelling.
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You may come to God bleeding and broken and life all messed up,
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but He going to put you on the wheel.
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Why? Because John 316 says God so
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loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that you
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should not perish, but you should have everlasting life.
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So if it takes putting you on the wheel, he'll put you on the
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wheel. Can I get a witness this
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morning? He'll put you on the wheel.
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Oh, you need a little line there.
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You need a little straightening there.
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I'll give it to you. I'll throw a little water on you
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when you drive. So it's pretty cool.
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Go look it up if you've never seen that.
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But the word of the Lord came to me saying, can I not do with you
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as this Potter says? The Lord, he says, look, as the
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clay is in the Potter's hand, so are you in my hands.
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So are we. What does that mean?
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He can do whatever he wants with us, but he's a loving God and he
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gives us a free will, right? So many times we have to go back
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to the to the old songs. I kid my wife all time because
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she grew up a Baptist. I kid her about that.
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Also be singing old powers. I said they sing that.
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The Baptist Church growing up, she said, yeah, we sing that.
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Then they sing this. And you know, I go back to the
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old song about the three Hebrew boys that was in the fire.
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They didn't sing that one. But I found that most churches
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sing this song. And as I remember back as I was
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being molded and shaped as one of the earliest songs I
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remember, you know, Jesus loves the little children, all the
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children of the world, red and yellow, black and white.
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You can't say that nowadays. You're racist in their sight.
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That ain't what it says. Hey, man.
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But he says red, yellow, black and white.
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They are what precious in his sight.
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And then I think back about the songs we sing.
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I remember those songs that molded and made you.
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He's got the whole world. Help me in his hands.
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He's got the whole world in his hands.
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Y'all something better than I do.
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Go ahead. He's got the whole world in his
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hand. He's got you and me, sister.
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He's got you and me, brother in his hands.
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He's got the whole world in his hand.
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Y'all remember that? We need to remember that
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sometime. He's got the wind and the rain.
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Y'all are off key. He's got the wind and the rain.
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All y'all got to say is in his hands.
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I remember the other He's got the wind and the rain.
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He's got the whole world in his hands.
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Mother, he's got your children in his hands.
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Aren't you glad God puts everything that's bothering us
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in his hands? He begins to mold it, he begins
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to make it, he begins to fix it. But see, we got to we got to be
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willing to let God do that. Is it great to know that we're
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in his hands This morning, just as Jeremiah went down to the to
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the Potter, we go to John chapter 10 and we read in verse
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27, Jesus said some miraculous words right here talking about
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sheep. I taught on sheep a few
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Wednesday nights ago about sheep.
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What are sheep or dumb sheep or dumb when you look it up and you
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if you ever been around sheep, they're dumb.
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They they'll follow anything. But Jesus said this.
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He said in John chapter 10 and 26.
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He says you do not believe because you're not of my sheep.
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As I said to you, you my sheep hear my voice, and I know them,
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and they follow me, and I give them eternal life, and they
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shall never perish, neither shall anyone see when you begin
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to God, to let God shape you and mold you and make you in this
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life, and He gives you eternal life.
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He says that you will never perish, neither can anyone
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snatch them out of my hand. Isn't that, isn't that great to
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know that no one can snatch you out of the hand of God?
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But I learned a long time ago, I can walk out of the hand of God.
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I can get off the wheel and say, no, God, you're not going to
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make that part of my life. I don't need those lines in my
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life. I don't need that, that that
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sprinkler of the Holy Spirit in my life.
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I'm not going to allow you to make me say no one can snatch me
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from the palm of his hand, but I can walk out of his hand.
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I can walk out of that place. My Father, who has given them to
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me, is greater than all, and no one is able to snatch them out
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of my father's hand. And I'm the Father or one.
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So why don't you just get on the wheel this morning, knowing that
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you have a God that's trying to shape you, to mold you, and to
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make you. Mothers never forget you're
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shaping your children. Sometimes they're running crazy.
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Sometimes they're on the wheel, sometimes the Potter's throwing
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stuff their way. But most of all, we're in his
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hands. And as the song says, the Potter
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knows the clay, he knows how much pressure it can take.
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He knows how much he knows how many times around the wheel
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until we surrender to his wheel, right?
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And guess what? He never gets tired of spinning.
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He never gets tired of molding us and making us.
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Because in Second Corinthians chapter 4 and verse 7, we read
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here what's really going on. Because when we're molded and
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we're being made, it says in 2nd Corinthians 4 and seven that we
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have this treasure in an earthen vessel.
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We live on this earth, but we are a vessel and we have a
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treasure that's in it. That the excellence of power may
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be of God and not of us. What I am is not of me, it's of
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God. See, I can't, I can't, I can't
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make what God's making out of my life.
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There's no way that I can do what God can do in my life
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because I'm what flesh and blood.
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And all I do is wrestle against flesh and blood.
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And I think it's principalities of the world, but it's really
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principalities of darkness trying to live in a heavenly
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place. But he says we have this
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treasure in an earthen vessel, that the excellence of power may
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be of God, not of us. We're hard pressed on every
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side, yet not crushed in that hope.
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The the, the pressing is going to come, but you're not crushed.
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We're perplexed, but not in despair.
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Persecuted but not forsaken, struck down but not destroyed.
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Always carrying about in the body the dying of the Lord Jesus
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Christ, that the life of Jesus also may be manifested in our
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body for while we live. Verse 11.
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While we live, for he who live are always delivered to death
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for Jesus sake, that the life of Jesus also may be manifested in
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our mortal flesh. So then death is working in us,
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but life in you. Isn't it great to know that
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eternal life's working in you this morning?
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It's great to know whether you go by the rapture, whether you
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go by the grave, if you've been on the wheel and God's making
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and molding something out of your life, Guess what?
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To be absent from this body is to do what?
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To be present with the Lord. What a hope we have.
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Verse 13, and I'm going to close it says since we have the same
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spirit of faith according to what is written, I believed and
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therefore I spoke. We also believe and therefore we
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speak knowing we'll stand our feet and we'll close, knowing
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that he who raised up the Lord Jesus, what does that do to your
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spirit? He who raises up the Lord Jesus,
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Ma, ma, ma, he who raised up the Lord.
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That's the God that's got us on the wheel this morning.
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The same God that raised Jesus from the dead will also raise us
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up with Jesus and will present us with you for all things or
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for your sake. That grace having spread through
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many may cause Thanksgiving to a bound to the glory of God.
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Therefore, we do not lose heart. Don't lose heart.
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I said, don't lose heart. I left the hospital room the
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other day with my good friend James.
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He was on the incubator tubes out of every place they could
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possibly put one in. The spirit of the Lord said say
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goodbye because I'm ready. I just felt it, but see, you
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can't turn around and tell a family that that may not be
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ready and know how things work in the spirit because I, I
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caught a glimpse of him in the other side and I prayed with him
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and I grabbed his leg. I said, buddy, I'll see you on
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the other side. I knew his time of departure was
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at hand. Amen.
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I knew in my spirit the Lord spoke that to me.
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After all the prayers and pray, faith that we had prayed, he
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went to be with the Lord. But see, for many that's not a
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hope, that's grieving, but when you can see the other side, when
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you know you've been on the Potter's wheel, when you know
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the water of the Holy Ghost has been sprinkled on your life.
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And you said, God, take all of me, take everything.
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I'm yours. I'm on the wheel.
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Make with me what you will. There's a piece, a man, he
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opened his eyes and he looked at me for the last time.
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The next day he would go be with the Lord.
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You know what the Holy Spirit spoke to me, this writer.
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Do not lose heart even though our outward man is perishing.
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Verse 16 you're perishing. We hear the doctor say, you know
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what, your terminal, that shouldn't be nothing, that
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you're all terminal. We're all terminal.
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We're all going to die because it's you know, it's appointed to
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you to die. It's appointed each and every.
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We have a date with death unless Jesus Christ steps out on the
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clouds and blows the trumpet. I want to take the flight.
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I pray everyday. God just let me fly.
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I want to take that flight. Amen.
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I don't want to go by the grave, but if I do, I don't lose heart.
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Because even though the outward man is perishing, the inward
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man, if you, if you choose to get on that wheel that
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Jeremiah's seen at the Potter's house, guess what's happening.
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The inward man is being renewed. I hear these Christians talking
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about man every day. Just every day I'm being
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renewed, yet the N word man is being renewed day by day.
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You got to look at life like this for a light affliction.
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Think about all the hell that's going on in earth today.
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I see the guy the other day he had a shirt on.
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He said he said I'm sorry but I'm not apologizing.
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I've been the same gender all my life.
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We got to apologize. We're going through hell here on
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earth. But yet the Apostle Paul said
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it's but a lot of affliction. Why could he say that?
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Because he knew what hell would be like.
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He had a glimpse of both. He said I was taken up into the
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3rd heaven, whether in the spirit or out, I don't know.
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But I believe the Apostle Paul was taking some other places
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because he had a fire that a lot of people ain't got.
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He knew what was on what, what what lay beneath a man for our
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light affliction, which is but for a moment, life is but a
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vapor. Anybody learning that yet?
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But if I asked Brother Lee back there, he's a little older than
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some other, he would say life is but a vapor.
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It only seems a few days ago that I could run, I could jump,
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I could do all those. Life is but a vapor.
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What does the Bible say? And then it's it's gone for a
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light affliction, which is but for a moment this goes right.
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What I was preaching to you about the will is working for us
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a far more exceeding and eternal weight of glory.
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What's the eternal weight? Everlasting life while we do not
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look, see, this is what you got to do if you're going to live
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for Jesus because you cannot see Jesus.
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I hear all these people that have seen him and I hope they
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did because they're writing books and making millions.
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They better hope they did. But why?
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We do not look at the things which you're seeing.
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Would you close your eyes this morning and not look at what
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you're seeing? While we do not look at things
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which you're seeing, but at the things which you're not seeing?
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What do you see? Is there wary in your mind this
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morning? Do you recall the words that
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Mother spoke to you years ago? What do you see?
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What do you see when you're all alone and nobody else is around?
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And what do you see for the things which you're seeing, the
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things which you're striving for?
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He says they're only temporary. But the things which are not
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seen, I can't see heaven. I can't see the friends that's
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going on to be with the Lord, the loved ones.
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But he said that which I cannot see is eternal.
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And in chapter 5 he says, for we know that if our earthly house,
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this tent is going to blow away, right, it's going to be
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destroyed. We have a building from God.
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Boy, I love this verse right here.
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A house that is not made with hands, eternal in the heavens.
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For in this tent now we see we grown earnestly desiring to be
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clothed with our habitation, which is from heaven, if indeed
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having been clothed, we shall not be found naked.
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For we who are in this tent groan, being burdened, not
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because we want to be unclothed, but further clothed that
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mortality may be swallowed up by life.
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Now he who has prepared us for this very thing is God, who also
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how get have has given us the Spirit as a guarantee.
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You have a guarantee this morning.
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For we are always confident, knowing well, some of you say
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it's good stuff, it's in the Bible, read it.
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Hey man, it's there. close your eyes and know this.
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What are you doing right now? You're believing for that.
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What you cannot see, knowing that while we're at home in the
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body, we're absent from the Lord.
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And in verse 7 it says, for we walk by faith.
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Say that with me we walk by faith.
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I don't walk by what I see at the church house.
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I don't walk by what I see my brother doing.
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I walk by faith, which is a substance of things hoped for,
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the evidence of what I cannot see.
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In Hebrews we say it with me, we walk by faith and not by sight.
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That which I'm doing I do not want to do, but I do it anyway.
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Sometimes that's OK. Just keep walking by faith.
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You'll become that person that the Bible says you can be.
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Just keep walking by faith. Just get on the wheel.
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Let him spin you a little bit more.
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For we walk by faith and not by sight.
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We are confident, yes, well pleased.
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I love this verse right here. Rather, to be absent from the
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body is to be present with the Lord.
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Therefore we make it our aim, whether present or absent, to be
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well pleasing to him. Why don't we do this verse 10
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after you've been on the wheel because we must all appear
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before what the judgment seat of Christ that each one may receive
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the things done in the body according to what he has done,
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whether good or bad. Knowing therefore, that the
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terror of the Lord we persuade men, but we are all well known
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by God. Paint yourself and say I'm well
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known by God. He knows me, He knows my rising
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up, my sitting down, He knows all my ways and he has searched
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me. We are all well known to God and
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I also must trust or well known in your conscience.
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Father, we thank you for your word.
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We thank You that your word is truth and life.
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I have given you the word of God and what it says about who you
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are this morning. We thank God for the mothers
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that have shaped us, that has molded us, that has made us.
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And you know the greatest thing about God and he's like a
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mother. He will never quit loving you.
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Jesus loves you this morning. He's aware of everything you're
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going through. Would you somebody grasp that
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this morning? The devil's going to come and
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tell you, man, you ain't even worthy to be in this.
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You don't know about God. You're not living for God.
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You just get on the wheel and say, God, I know it.
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I agree with the devil. Devil says, oh, you can't tell.
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You're right, devil, I can't do it, but I know a man who can.
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Jesus loves you this morning as the song plays.
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Would you let him love you this morning?
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Would you get out of your mind what all you've done and what
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all you maybe said this week that ain't lining up with the
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Word of God? And just remember that Jesus
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loves you. If you need to know He loves
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you, come up this morning. Just worship him.
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Pray where you're at, wherever you worship.
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But let him shape you. Let him mold you.
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Let Him make you. Thanks for listening to the
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Cross Power Church podcast. May you know that true hope,
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peace, and salvation can only be found in Jesus.
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If you're near Campbell, TX, we would love for you to join us in
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person. You can find service times at
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