Sermon
The Eubanks
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Transcript
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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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Well, good morning. Oh, we almost got everybody to
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say that, didn't we? Good morning.
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There you go. Say, the more you put into this
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service, the more you get out of this service.
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If you sit here on your hands and look like the hogs just ate
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your little brother, you ain't going to get nothing out of the
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service, OK? We are the Eubanks.
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We're from a big metropolitan area called Bismarck, Arkansas.
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Boy, it got quiet in here quick, didn't it?
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Hot Bismarck is down there. Hot Springs.
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We we we're there now. Good deal.
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We have been traveling. We sold our houses three years
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ago or so and we are traveling full time.
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You know, God kept telling us go full time, go full time, you
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need to be out on the road. We'd stick our toe in that water
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and we'd back up and say we did it.
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God, he's no, you didn't stick our toe in that water.
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We kept doing that. Everything we did failed
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everything we tried because we tried.
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If you hadn't been, and I'm starting, it's totally different
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this morning and I if you ain't figured out in life if you'll
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shut up and get out of the way and be still, you'll find out a
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whole lot of stuff. Had an old man tell me one time,
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if you can't hear God's voice, shut up.
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Took me 40 years to figure out what he was trying to say.
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We are from Bismarck. We are the Eubanks and I'm
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trying to remember what else I was going to say.
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We are not here to entertain you.
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We are going to sing here in a few minutes.
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We ain't your entertainment. We're here to uplift his name
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because he is worthy. So you get into it.
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Pastor, we didn't even discuss. Do y'all use these pieces of
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wood over here or is that just decoration?
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All right, let let me tell you, he and I have not discussed this
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this morning and I apologize this is my fault.
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But he said take liberty. So I'm about to.
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I don't care what we're doing. I don't care what we're saying,
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and I don't care what's going on in this.
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If you need help, but if you need prayer this morning, you
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get up here. Your salvation, your need, your
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your Jesus mainline is far more important than anything we'll
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ever sing. Our whole job with this
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ministry. Everywhere we travel, we've got
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#1 number one goal. And it is to make heaven as
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crowded as possible. So without all that in mind, I
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will, I, I'm going to do something else that I never do.
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This one right here. Since y'all, how many of have
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seen us before? 1 of you put your hand down,
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Lonnie. You don't count dear friend of
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ours. This is my much better half.
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I out kicked my coverage. I'm thankful that you know I
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used to make a joke that she drives everywhere we go.
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All I'd had to do was hold the steering wheel mash gas in a
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brake. Since this happened I set over
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and be a passenger Princess and keep my mouth shut.
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So I've had people ask did how? How hard did she hit you?
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My brother, she didn't touch me or I wouldn't.
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Both eyes would be covered. So could not imagine doing life.
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Could not imagine doing ministry or anything else without this
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one. You just it take me over an hour
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to start beginning to explain what all she does for this
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family. Would you make her welcome?
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This is Jennifer Eubanks. Get you out of the way.
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Like I said, we're doing this totally different than we've
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ever done. So this one, huh?
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Oh, well, you'll know who we are now.
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So when you start throwing things at us, you'll know who to
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hit. This one is 18 years old.
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She graduated high school at 15, ranked number one in her class.
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And of course, the fact that she was homeschooled helps that out
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a whole bunch. She still hates that joke.
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She is an incredible young lady of if.
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If I remember and we have time here in a minute, I'll tell you
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how her persistence and and her dedication to God is what put us
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as a ministry together to continue on down the road
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because we we were at a crossroads roads where we were
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either going to stop or don't you do it.
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She's quick witted too. And and but we're she believes
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everything that we're singing. She is into this for God.
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She's had opportunities to do other things at 18, and she
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could, if she can hide from dad long enough to do it, because
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I'm not going to let her. But she believes everything that
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we're singing. She's born again Spirit Field,
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and we could not be more blessed as parents.
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This is Emma Eubanks. All right, All right.
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I'm going to get the elephant in the room out of the way.
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You ready? She really did marry.
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No, that wasn't the that way. Hey, we're supposed to laugh as
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Christians and have fun, right? If you can't laugh at yourself,
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you call me and I'll laugh at you.
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But all right, the eye patch. I'm going to congratulate y'all
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because since June of last year is when this happened, y'all are
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the second church and group of people that not a single person
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made a joke about my eye patch. I'm serious.
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I am very serious. There are no pirate jokes.
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There hadn't been any. Any jokes like that don't bother
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me. I'm retired cop.
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I can handle a whole lot more than that.
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But what bothered me about that? You go into a restaurant, ain't
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nobody saying the thing about it.
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You going to a church? They're making jokes and having
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fun with it. What are we doing to people
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outside of our church that's coming in here?
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Y'all need to be proud of the fact that nobody did.
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Pastor, You're, you're leading a good flock.
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That's everybody's on it. We've had a bunch of people talk
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to us this morning. Love meeting you, love meeting
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more of you here in a little while.
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But that, that's a big thing. And it's not because it, oh,
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it's spared my feelings. It ain't got nothing to do with
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that, but you bring somebody in. Why would I, as a center
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outsider, want to come be a part of a God thing if all I'm going
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to do is get hurt? I can get that in a bar.
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So y'all, y'all are with me. I like this crowd.
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So I'm going to shut up and we're going to sing now, all
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right? For Joe that lost his health,
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wealth and all the rest and as his troubles added up, he fell
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down on his knees and said, Lord, I've still got one thing
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that you love for me. You got to count your blessings.
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You'll find one if. You drive, count on the Lord,
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and watch that blessing multiply.
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Those might have, could have, should have been, are nothing
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but distressing. When you're down and down, it's
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time to count your blessings. How many all are blessed this
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morning You might go. Through hard times when you fall
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into despair, remember you're surrounded by His blessings
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everywhere. It's in a neighbors helping hand
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or in the sunshine of a smile. One blessing leads to one more.
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You'll be calm for a while. It's best to look at what you
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have, forget what you have not, and just learn a lesson from old
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job. Give thanks for what you got.
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You got to count. Your blessings.
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You'll find one if you try. Count on the Lord and watch that
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blessing multiply. Those might have, could have,
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should have been, are. Nothing but distressing.
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When you're. Down and out.
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It's time to count your. Blessings 1.
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Risen Savior 1. Perfect love one only problem.
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One is enough. You've got to count your
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blessings. You find one if you try.
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Count on the Lord and watch that blessing multiply.
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Those might have, could have, should have been.
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Are nothing but distressing. When you're down and out, it's
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time to count your blessings. Thank you that.
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Upset, lost and lone, I was living in
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sin. Empty without.
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I was dying within. And.
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Then I met the Potter and he molded this clay.
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I thank God for the changes. He made every drop of this
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world. It washes whiter.
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Than snow. 1. Such year this garment can hear
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and make you home from the cross.
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O Mount Calvary to win the stone roll.
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Night way. I thank God for the changes he
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made. How many are we thankful for the
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those changes he made in your life?
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A. Blind man can't see, the lame
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can't walk again. I've been forgiven for all of my
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sins and now the past is far behind me.
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I know I've been saved. I thank God for the changes He
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made every drop. Of his blood.
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It washes whiter. Than snow. 1.
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Touch of his garment can hear the naked woman from the cross O
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Mount Calvary to win the song roll away.
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I thank God for the changes he me.
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I thank God for the changes. He me.
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Real quick, I know we already talked about our sweet little
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Emma. And as her Mama, I'm so proud of
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her. She is incredibly smart,
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incredibly talented. But at the end of the day, as
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her Mama, I'm so thankful that she is willing to step out and
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tell others about Christ. And, and she does that and the
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Lord has given her a beautiful gift of discernment.
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And sometimes that is a heavy load to bear, but she handles it
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so well. And for a while she didn't want
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to tell us about it because she thought she was being
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judgmental. And we told her, you know, if
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the Lord has given you a gift, you use it.
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And it's not to be judgmental. It's because he's telling you
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how to discern what's happening. And so we're extremely proud of
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her, but she's going to sing this next song.
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And, and I will introduce him in a minute, but this is Terry.
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And he wrote this song when he was 17.
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And it's a, it's a simple song, but it's so poignant for today
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because we all need to just trust the Lord.
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If you've given your heart and soul over to the Lord, then
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there's no reason why we can't just trust.
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But we try to get, you know, get in the middle of all of that and
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we make things worse. But she started singing it
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pretty regularly when she was 17.
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And last year, it was really, it's kind of been her song now.
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And for the Lord to take a song that Terry wrote at 17 and that
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she could start using as a ministry tool when she was 17, I
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love to see how the Lord works. So we hope that you enjoy this
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song. It's called Trust in the Lord.
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They took the man to Calvary, nailed him up for all they see,
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and humiliate him. When they thought that he was
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dead and gone, they placed his body in a tomb and forgot about
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him. But they didn't know what they
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were in for. When the storm was moved, he
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wasn't there anymore. He had gone away.
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Well, that same spirit still moves around.
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He'll pick you up when you're feeling down if you trust in
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Him. Trust in my Lord, He'll help you
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every day. He died on the Grove to take
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your sins away. Trust.
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In our Lord, help free from your sin, no problem in life.
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It's too big for him. How many y'all know that there's
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nothing too big in my life that my God cannot handle?
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And if your life's burning down with a heavy load and you feel
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as though you cannot go on up a. And the going seems a little too
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rough. No problem in life is ever too
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tough. If you'll turn to him, just bow
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your head and pray before him you're.
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Free from your earth. Listen to Set You Free.
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And through the blood of Jesus Christ, He is already paid the
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price and is waiting for you. Trust in.
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The Lord He'll help you every. He died on the to take you sins.
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Away trust in. My Lord, He'll free you from
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your sin. No problem in life is too big
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for him. No problem in life.
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Is too big for him. Amen.
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I love that song. And Terry didn't expand kind on
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what had happened with his eye. But last year was a it was a
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wild year. And when you submit your life to
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ministry, a lot of times the devil comes at you a whole lot
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harder than anything else. And last year, so in June, he
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had a stroke in the optic nerve behind his eyes.
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So just the nerve, not a body stroke, but it's caused him to
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be pretty much completely blind, according to the doctors.
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And they say that it will not return.
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But I know a healer and it between the two of us, we went
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to the ERI don't know probably four or five times last year and
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got a lot of new diagnosis that we were not prepared for.
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And so I was pretty defeated. It doesn't take much when you
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start getting, well, you got this and you got this and oh,
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you're blind now in that eye and you can't see and it starts to
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add up and it starts to weigh on you even as a Christian, because
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I I know that the Lord has it in control, but I wasn't letting
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him have control. And so I was reading one day and
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I'm going to share this with you.
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So this verse is Matthew 1720 and 21.
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If you have faith the size of a mustard seed, you will tell this
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mountain, move from here to there and it will move.
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Nothing will be impossible. And again, I love how the Lord
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works. We were at a church and pastor
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gave us some mustard seeds. And I carry this everywhere we
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go. And I kind of at first when he
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gave it to me, I thought, why is he giving me a jar of mustard
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seeds? And I don't know why this is my
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reminder to let and I'm sorry, but to let my faith take over my
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fear because last year was a lot of fear.
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But I got to reading because that verse kind of struck me
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funny. You know, we get to we get to
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thinking about how small a mustard seed is.
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And growing up, it was always, you know, well, you just have to
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have this amount of this amount of, and I just thought, oh, OK,
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I got to have this tiny amount of faith.
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But as I started reading, you know, I, I learned a whole lot
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more and I can deep dive into things.
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But if the Lord put it in his word, I want to know why.
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There's a reason why God is sharing that with us.
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So I kind of deep dived and went on this whole thing with a
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mustard seed and I realized and I got real excited.
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I, I figured out some 4 words and I wrote them in all caps in
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my Bible. And I was chasing Emma down
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trying to share them with her. She's looking at me like what
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are you talking about? But way back when the mustard
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seed was absolutely invasive. So when it was in a field and I
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don't know if any of y'all farm, it took over.
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So whatever you were farming, if there was a mustard seed there,
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it crowded out everything. And you know it basically with
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the soil, it just dominated it. So nothing else could, could
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grow. And so farmers hated it because
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they knew that they, they wouldn't be able to control it
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or contain it and, or manage it. And so when Jesus was speaking
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about having this faith as a mustard seed, at that time,
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those readers and those listeners knew that these
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mustard seeds were uncontainable, invasive,
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dominating, and unstoppable. And so as I started, I kind of
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sat there and I pondered that and I thought, OK, all right,
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Lord, I get it. I got it.
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And I had to do like a a little self check on my face.
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So I'm going to ask you what I asked myself, is your faith this
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morning uncontainable? Is your faith invasive?
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Do you let it invade your entire life?
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Is your faith dominating? Is your faith unstoppable?
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I had to ask myself that. And I can promise you the answer
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was to no. Every single one of those
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because we've just been through so much.
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And I just let everything just take over and become a negative
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Nancy. But my God is bigger than that.
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And so this year, and I'm not one of those that like picks a
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word of the year, you know, and takes takes that.
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But these words stuck with me because if a farmer who knew
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that this little mustard seed was not tiny in his book, that
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it was what was going to dominate his field, then I can
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apply that to my life and my faith.
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So I'm going to tell you these 4 words again and just think about
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that with your faith. Let your faith be uncontainable,
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invasive, dominating, and unstoppable.
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I think we could almost change the world if all of us would let
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our faith be unstoppable. There's a lighthouse on the
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hillside there. Overlooks.
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Live scene when I'm tossed it seems out of life that must see
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the shin lanes in or out now. I will safely leave the storm if
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it wasn't. For that lighthouse.
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Yeah. Well, this ship would be known
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and I thank God for the lighthouse.
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I owe my life to Him, for Jesus is the lighthouse, and from the
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rocks of sin He. Has shown.
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The light around me that I can clear the sea.
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If it was and for the lighthouse.
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Where would this? Sure.
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Be everybody that lives around us, says Tare.
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That lighthouse? The big ships don't sail this
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way anymore. There's no use of it standing
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right. Then my mind goes back to that
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storm, and I went just in time. I saw the light, yes, the light
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from that old lighthouse that stands upon me.
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And I think for the lighthouse, I owe my life.
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To Him for Jesus is the light house, and from the rocks of sin
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He has shown the light around me that I can clearly see.
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If. It wasn't for the light house.
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Where would this ship be? I walked in this morning, heard
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him singing that, and I've drove many miles to that song.
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Kept me going. In 1970, it was #1 by the
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Hensons, and they're modest. They're not going to tell you,
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but they got it at #8 right now, so that's awesome.
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Hey man, the old is coming back and I'm glad you know it.
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It doesn't take smoke and misters and dark house to
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worship the Lord, you know, I found he's with me in the light
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and he's with me in the darkness.
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But them old songs mean something to me.
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Amen. They were rolled out of out of
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heartfelt stuff and I can understand them.
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Some of this new stuff, I don't know what they're saying.
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Is that part of getting old? Some of y'all that's older than
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me? I mean, it sounds, it sounds
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good, but I really don't know what they're saying.
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So I can't get a blessing out of it, you know, kind of like
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joining in on a picket line. Some of them don't know what
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they're doing. They're just doing it.
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You know, I'll never forget in Asheville, NC, I talked to some
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animal rights activists one time and a guy had a toboggan on and,
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and it was summertime and he was out there.
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And I said, why don't you come and look at some of these horses
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and bulls, how well they're taken care of.
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And he said, dude, I could care less.
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He said they're just paying me to hold this sign.
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I fear there's a lot of churches I'm going to get to preaching.
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I got to be quiet. There's a lot of churches like
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that. They're just holding the sign,
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Amen. But I'm glad I'm holding on to
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Jesus, Amen. He's the same yesterday, today,
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and forever. His mercy's never change, Amen.
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I'm not just holding the sign, Amen.
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The cross, This cross I'll that that I'll bear for Jesus, Amen.
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Let's stand and go. The Lord in prayer.
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Father, we thank you today for the service, and we thank you
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today for this offering we're about to receive, that it would
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be used to to help this great family get down the road and to
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meet the needs of the church and to meet the needs of the giver.
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Amen. And we just thank you for your
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love. And you said in your word that
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you give it back. And that which money can't buy.
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Good measure, pressed down, shaken together, and running
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over. You said you would open up the
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windows of heaven and pour out things that we cannot contain,
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and we thank you for that. We thank you for your love.
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We thank you for your mercy. It's in his son's name We do
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this. Amen.
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Can I get some helpers this morning?
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Kids can be dismissed to the back to the nursery and your
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classes and appreciate all those y'all give these teachers and
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helpers a hand. Amen.
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It all right. You know, everywhere we go, no
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matter what denomination we're in, no matter what city or state
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or anything else, every church has one huge thing in common.
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You'd think it would be God, but as pastor said, some of just
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holding a sign these days, You know that they all want growth.
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They all want visitors to come in.
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As long as they don't sit in my seat.
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There's never been a good way of telling anybody that that's
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tactful. Well, you know, I, I dabble in
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songwriting, so I had to come up with something.
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So, well, long story, I've been working on a song that might
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work for this, but I've only got part of it done.
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Is that OK? Is it OK if I do just a little
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bit of it that maybe this will this will help?
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Well, excuse me, but I thank. You.
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Oh y'all already heard that? I did that silliness for one
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reason. The guy that wrote that song,
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The Chair is named Dean Dillon. Dean is a incredible songwriter.
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George Strait himself has written and has recorded 76 of
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Dean's songs through the years, and most of those went #1 and
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then there's tons of other artists that have recorded
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Dean's songs. To my knowledge, Dean only writ
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wrote. I could written, wrote, write,
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writ. He put pen to paper to one
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gospel song that I know of. I've asked Jennifer to sing it
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this morning. It's a unique song.
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Pay attention to the words to it.
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It's about a fictitious a man named Jonas who has two jobs.
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He builds Wooden Crosses and he drives nails through flesh.
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Listen to the words of this. It's called lunatic, liar, or
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Lord. Oh, it took me just to have a
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day to make the cross seed bear and the soldiers 15 minutes for
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the crown of thorns. He'd wear salmon from Cyrene.
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They made him carry the cross as they marched him to the place of
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the skull and offered him wine and gold.
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But Jesus wouldn't take it. Some great setting free.
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Someone turned to me and asked who do.
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You believe? Do you take him at his word?
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For it's a double edged sword. Is he a lunatic?
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Hail, I roar. Well, me, my name is Jonas.
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My trade is nails in men, but this one always different from
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me. The other one of them with the
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first back in his right hand, I looked him in the eye.
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The guilty ones cry out for shame, but his they did not lie.
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Was too early play for the sunset, yet so dark we could not
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see. And I heard his voice cry out.
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My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?
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We just cast our lots for his clothes, for none of us were
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sure. See a little tick?
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Hail, I roar. Who we gathered in our room in
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our sorrow and despair. Mary rushed from the tomb, said
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Our Lord is not there. It suddenly appeared to us with
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spike marks on his feet, reached out his hands of blood and love
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and turned to them and me, he said.
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Now who? Who do you believe?
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Do you take me at my word? It's a double edged sword in my
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lunar take, Yes. I take him at his word.
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He's my shield and sword. No lunar take.
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He's my. Hallelujah.
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This is an old song and I know a lot of y'all probably know this,
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but I'm gonna try to do it. But we were in a church
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yesterday that was full of mold and I am feeling it this
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morning. And but this song still holds
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true because without that blood that Jesus shed on Calvary, I
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would have nothing. And he was willing to pay that
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price that a lot of us aren't willing to pay.
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And so if you know this song, you can sing along.
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But it's an old good one, The blood.
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The blood that Jesus shed for me way back on carry.
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It's. That blood that gives me
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strength from now to day, and it will never lose its purse.
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It reaches the highest mountain and it flows to the lowest, the.
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The blood that gives me strength from day-to-day, it will.
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Never. Lose its.
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It soothes my doubts and it calms all my feet in that same
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man drives all of my tears. It's that blur that gives me
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strength from day to. Day.
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It will never lose it's power it.
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Reaches to the highest mountain and it flows to the lowest
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valley. Roar.
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Of the. Lud.
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That gives me strength from day to.
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Day. It will never lose.
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It will never. Lose.
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It will. Never lose his.
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He lies awake there, all alone most every night, looking back
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on all of his mistakes. He's wishing through his tears
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that he could just go back 'cause there's a lot of things
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he'd like to change. He just can't forgive himself
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and forgive even though God already did if he can love
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someone. And find the good within, in
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spite of what they've done, no matter where they've been.
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If he can let it go and set the dead and free, if he can keep
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forgiving you and me, why can't we?
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There've been times I've been so hurt by someone.
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Else I didn't want to give a second chance.
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I let all the bitterness take control.
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And took grace into my own head. But even Jesus said, whoever's
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done, no. Wrong.
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Let them throw the first storm. If he can love someone and find
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the good within in spite of what they've done, no matter where
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they've been. If he can let it go and set the
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dead free. If he can keep forgiving you and
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me, why can't we? He was hated and rejected,
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betrayed by those he trusted, even hanging on a cross.
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He said Father, please forgive them if he can love someone and.
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Find the good within, in spite of what they've done, no matter
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where they've been. If.
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He can let it go. And.
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Set the dead of three. If he can keep forgetting you
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and me, why can't we? Why can't?
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We, you know, when they dig up precious metals, gold and
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silver, they have to clean it and they have to purify it.
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Does anybody know how they purify it?
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By heat? By fire?
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My desire is that he takes his fire and he burns me till there
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ain't nothing but His Holiness left in me.
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And that's what this song is about.
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When I first heard it, I had to do a double take.
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You know, we were talking about newer songs and, and dear friend
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of ours, matter of fact, Zach's aunt wrote, Melissa wrote this
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when I first heard it. I'm like, wait a minute.
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I thought I was getting fire insurance.
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I don't want to. That's not the point of this
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song. We're not talking about literal
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fire. We're talking about heavenly
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fire. We're talking about holy fire.
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And I want him to burn it and I want him to purify me and
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cleanse me till there ain't nothing left but His Holiness.
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Y'all y'all listen as she sings. I'm so far from perfect.
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I am riddled with flaws. I'm not living for earthly
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applause. Come and transform me.
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Renew my mind. Making me.
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Golden. Purely refined.
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So set me on fire, consume me with flames, till all that is
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holy is all that remains here in your Old Town.
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I'm taking my turn presenting my life. 1 sacrifice.
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So let it burn. I'm tired of religion and I
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refuse to play games. I'm weary from striving and
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seeing no change. I long for revival that sets man
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free. A true reformation beginning.
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With me. So set.
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Me on the consume me with flames to all that is holy is all that
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remains in your order. I'm taking my turn presenting my
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life once I revise. So let it burn.
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Burnout the metal, Burnout the. Drawers.
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Every ambition I count it has loss.
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Lord, I surrender completely to you.
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Make me acceptable. Send me on fire.
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Consume. Me with flames, to all that is
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holy is all that remains. Here in your.
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Order I'm taking my. Let's turn presenting my life 1
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sacrifice. So let it burn, let it burn, let
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it burn. Well, thank you all so much for
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letting us be here this morning. We're going to do one more song
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and get out of the way. At least that's the plan.
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Here's the deal. I can't go somewhere and tell
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you how great my God is. Sit here and sing about how my
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Savior, what He's done for me and not give you a chance to
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meet Him. I may be sitting in a room full
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of save people on their way to heaven, names in the Lamb book
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of life and every other cliche and biblical term that you can
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come up with, and that's awesome.
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But he left the 99 for the one. If there is one in here, then
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we're going to do this. A little different for me, yes,
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maybe normal for y'all. If there is one in here, please
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stop everything you're doing. Stop your mind for 30 seconds
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and listen to my voice. This world is coming to a close.
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Don't let anybody tell you the date, the time, the hour, the
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the year or anything else. They're lying.
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Just cut it blunt. They don't know what they're
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talking about, but it's going to happen and if you're not ready
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on that day, you will burn in hell for eternity.
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There is no Gray area. It's heaven or hell.
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There are churches out there that have false doctrine that
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want you to feel warm and fuzzy. Warm and fuzzy will put you in
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hell faster than everything you can do.
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If you have any doubt this morning of where you will spend
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eternity, let's fix that doubt. I want you to leave here knowing
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that you know that you know that you know that you're on your way
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to heaven. There's only one way to get
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there. Came by, you can't go to church
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every Sunday and and Wednesday and every other time that
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there's no deed that you can do. You can't clean yourself up good
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enough to make your way to heaven.
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I have had people say, well, I'm going to look, I've still got a
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few things. I'm going to clean them up in my
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life before. You can't get clean enough to
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deserve to get in the presence of God.
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He said come as you are. So this morning I'm asking you
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to come as you are. There's another group of people
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that sitting in here told you they ain't no Gray area.
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It's either A or B. So you're either unsaved and on
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your way to hell or you are saved by the grace of God and
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you are on your way to heaven. To those of us that are on our
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way to heaven, we got up here and we probably got on our knees
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and we surrendered all and, and we cried our tears and we piled
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up everything that we have in our past about that high.
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And then we got up off of our knees and a lot of us put about
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8590% of it back in our pocket and walk through these doors
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expecting to go into battle. Y'all, you don't have to carry
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around that garbage anymore. You want to experience freedom
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for the first time in your life, you come up here and unload it.
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God said, come unto me all year weary and heavy laden, I'll give
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you rest. You won't rest.
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Some of you need the rest, and I'm not talking physical rest,
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I'm talking that spiritual battle that's going on.
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And here's the other thing that I need from you see, I've always
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wondered why we close our eyes and we got to walk up and that's
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embarrassing and that's it and that's it.
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Did you know that one step that you do just to come up here and
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pray, just to come up here and shed the garbage that you're
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carrying around? Maybe just enough to encourage
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somebody over here that's not safe to get up and walk down
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here. Y'all may do it from where you
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sit. Don't care.
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I I know several people. Do you know this building ain't
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always been here. Why did I say that?
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Because the ground means absolutely nothing.
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The man made structure that this is in that ain't going to get
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you to heaven. This is for comfort.
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Same people get baptized and after and we just talked about
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it this morning pool and and I told church Christ kid one time
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we were talking and he said well I can't get saved.
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I said why he said because of baptism in our church is broke.
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I said, son, you realize that that water supply and that pipe
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is the same one that supplies water to that toilet sitting
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over there. There is no holiness in that
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water, but we can get some in you as we do this last night.
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I want you to think long and hard about where you've been.
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I want you to think about your past.
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I want you to think about the things that you've done that
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you're ashamed of. And then I want you to smile
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because the Savior, if you're born again, has cleaned those of
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you, Satan, now Satan wants you to remember these.
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God says, I've got it. I'll cast it as far as the east
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is from the West, never to be remembered again.
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If you're carrying around that garbage today, do what Jesus
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told you he was going to do. Cast it as far as he says from
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the West. Now, I ain't the brightest bulb
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in the box, but I can tell you that's a long way that I can't
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comprehend. And if he's going to y'all
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almost said it. There's another line that I use
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that I don't want to offend anybody this morning.
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So I'll a buddy of mine has to do with Walmart.
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Anyway, the bottom line is this, if you ain't saved, you get up
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here and let's get it done. And you can walk out of here
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with your head held high, knowing that your child of the
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one true king. And if you're carrying around
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and if you've got issues, you got needs this morning, you need
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prayer this morning, you got something you're dealing with.
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Well, I don't know if I got things going on.
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I tell you what if you don't know if things are going on in
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your life and then you, you do right here, you put your fingers
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right here. And if you feel that if you got
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one of those, you're going through something this morning.
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And Satan is a liar and he's out to kill, steal and destroy.
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We're going to do this last song.
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And it simply says, no matter what you've done, no matter what
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your past looks like, no matter what you've been through, you're
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never too broken to belong to him.
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As we sing this, you come. The door is open.
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Come on in as you are, all you need to bring is what remains of
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your heart. I see the ears of fear and pain
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on your face, but take a step inner in.
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You are safe in this place. You.
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Are never too broken to blow. Never too dead, never too far
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gone. When you find Jesus, you'll find
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your home. You're never too broken to move.
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Come find the perfect love that no one is no one.
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Is a. Piece so sweet it can't be put
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into words. And grace that's greater than
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the darkest of sin. Take a step in a ring.
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Let the healing begin. You're never too broken to move,
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never too net, never too far gone.
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When you find Jesus, you'll find your home.
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You're. Never too.
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Broken. To born.
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And we? Too are wounded and defeated, so
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we know how you feel. And by the wounds of our
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Redeemer we believed. We.
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Were here you're never too broken to war you're.
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Never too broken to war, never too.
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Never too far gone. When you find Jesus, you'll find
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your. Home, You're never too broken to
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blown. You're never too broken to
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blown. Never too broken.
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Wow, what a song before we close, before we close we me and
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my wife felt led to do something and she whispered there and the
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Lord was moving and I want you. Can you sing that song about
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trust again for us at closing? You know, the Bible says that we
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do not wrestle against flesh and blood, but against the against
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the principalities and the rulers of darkness.
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And it that Scripture always intrigued me because it said
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it's trying to live darkness is trying to live in a heavenly
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place. But when Jesus came, he said, I
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came to expose the darkness, the sickness, the pain.
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And in Matthew chapter 14, there was a boy that got healed.
Matthew 14 chapter mention
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You know, healing was a big part of what Jesus did.
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It's why he came. And in Matthew chapter 17 and
Matthew 17 chapter mention
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14, a boy had came, his father had brought him and he had laid
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him at, he laid down at Jesus feet.
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And he said, Lord have mercy on my son for he's an epileptic and
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he suffers severely for he often throws himself into the fire and
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often into the water. So I brought him to your
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disciples, the closest ones with you.
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I brought him to them. And they've been talking about
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all the things you could do. We kind of fall under that
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category. We talk about what all Jesus can
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do, but when it comes our time to respond, we, we, we want to
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turn the lights down a little bit and set in the darkness.
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But he said, I brought him to your disciples.
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And on this particular day, they could not heal him.
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They've been hanging out with the healer.
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They had been rubbing shoulders with Jesus.
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They had been eating and sleeping with him and, and, and
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going around and traveling and ministering.
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And yet it says they couldn't cure him, couldn't cast out the
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demon. And Jesus answered, how do you
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think he answered that? He called him faithless and he
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called him perverse, probably told him they didn't have the
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faith of a mustard seed. And he said, how long shall I
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bear with you? I wonder when God looks at the
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church today and we, we raise our hands, we clap, we tell
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everybody how God heals and all the things he does and how long
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will he bear with us? But it, it goes back right here
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to why it didn't happen. And Jesus, he rebuked the demon
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and it came out. Can I say that again?
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He rebuked the demon, we feed the demon and he said they were
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faithless. They said they were perverse and
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Jesus rebuked the demon and it came out in the child was cured.
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That say it with me that very hour.
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Then the disciples came to him privately and he said why could
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we not cast it out? Why could we not?
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He said this. You can put whatever theology
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you want on to it, but it all goes back to faith, the
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substance of things hoped for, the evidence of what we cannot
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see in Hebrews just described. But he said because of your
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unbelief, he said for assuredly I say to you, if you have faith
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as a mustard seed, not only did mustard seed take over the
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field, but you know when, when I call them planologist, I don't
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know the word horticulturalist, they say when you take this
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seed, you know they breed seeds. I don't understand how seeds
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breed and all that. But they say you can take one of
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these mustard seeds and it will not cross with anything else.
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It will not produce. So your faith doesn't produce in
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your doubt. Faith does not produce in fear.
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Y'all are getting quiet on me. And yet Jesus said, we don't see
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things in our life because of unbelief.
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For surely I say to you, you, if you have faith of a mustard
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seed, you will say to this mountain, what's your mountain?
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Would you stand to your feet this morning?
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I said, what's your mountain? You got a mountain this morning.
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Somebody's got a mountain. I want my wife to come down
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here. She's she's facing the mountain
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of cancer. And the Holy Spirit spoke to my
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wife, I want you to come down here with my wife and pray with
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her. We feel you're facing something
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too, because all of you can look on, but you're facing the
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mountain. The question is, have you, have
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you spoke to the mountain? What did he say about the
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mountain? He didn't say go believe the
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greatest doctor. He said to this mountain, move
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from here, move from here to there and be cast.
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Where? Into the sea.
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And he said this. He said in nothing.
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Say that with me, nothing will be impossible for you if you
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don't doubt it. But you believe.
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But yeah, we're so weak Christians, we're scared to
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bring it before God. We think that the doctors
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already spoken that science already had.
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No, he's fixing to rock some world this morning.
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I'm not a preacher that sits here and tells you, you come up
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here, you'll be healed. But I'm going to tell you, you
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can. I don't know if God's going to
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heal your situation. I don't know if the demons
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you're carrying around are going to come out, but I can tell you
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he can. He said we have not because we
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ask not. 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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