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2024 Conference Ep. 001 Gregg Mitchell.
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Hello and welcome back to the PHSA Podcast.
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My name is David Bigford.
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I'm the pastor here at SalmonArm.
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This is a very special podcast series where I'm going to be sharing with you messages
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from our most recent conference in Prescott, Arizona, the Beyond Limits Conference with
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a theme of to preach the gospel in the regions beyond from 2 Corinthians 10-16.
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I'm going to share all of the sermons from this conference series to include Greg Mitchell,
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our head pastor, Joe Campbell, Richard Ruby, Tom Payne, and many, many others during this
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series.
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So I'll be sharing these with you over the next couple weeks, and I hope you really enjoy
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these messages.
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If you'd like to see these messages in a video format, you can go to prescottpottershouse.com
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where all of these will be available for you to view in a video format.
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So without further ado, I'm going to go ahead and move on to the messages, and I hope you
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enjoy them.
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God bless.
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Praise God, I want to add my welcome.
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Thank God for all of you that are here.
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We are in for a powerful week.
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We had yesterday the Holy Ghost was here, and just in our pre-conference Sunday, such
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a wonderful dimension.
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God is going to meet with you this week, and destinies are going to be changed.
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There are going to be people that you will be healed tonight, and this week there are
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others you are going to be delivered.
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God's going to set you free.
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Pastor Campbell was right.
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I do like to chase demons, that's true.
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Chase them out, that's what I want to do.
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God's going to set people free, but destinies, direction, you're going to receive this week.
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Let's begin tonight by turning to 2 Corinthians chapter 10, our passage that we have as our
2 Corinthians 10 chapter mention
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theme.
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Beyond limits, the horizon is the line that forms the boundary between the earth and sky.
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Our English word horizon comes from the Greek word horos, which actually means limit.
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So what you're saying when you talk about the horizon, that is as far as the eye can
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see, that is the limit that you can see.
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That is what a horizon is.
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For centuries, people in Europe would look westward in the Atlantic Ocean, and in their
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horizon as far as the eye can see, they were convinced there is nothing more out there.
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In fact, in Spain, you know that their motto, their national motto, they had on their coins
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and the coat of arms, it literally said, no more beyond.
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They had a picture of the ocean.
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There is no more.
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But then in 1492, Columbus sailed heading west and discovered that there was more beyond.
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And when he came back to Spain, the king of Spain changed when he heard the report of
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what was out there, he changed the motto and the coat of arms to say more beyond.
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So they learned that there was more beyond the limit.
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In the text that we're going to read, this is our conference theme, Paul was dealing
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with people who were satisfied with what they had, but Paul says, my hope is to preach the
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gospel in regions beyond.
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In other words, he said, I want to go beyond limits.
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And that's what I want to preach tonight.
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Beyond limits, 2 Corinthians 10, starting at verse 12, for we do not dare to class ourselves
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or compare ourselves with those who commend themselves, but they measuring themselves
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by themselves, comparing themselves among themselves.
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There's a lot of self there in there.
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They're not wise.
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We however, will not boast beyond measure, but within the limits of the sphere which
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God appointed us, a sphere which especially includes you.
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For we are not overextending ourselves as though our authority didn't extend to you.
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For it was to you that we came with the gospel of Christ, not boasting of things beyond measure.
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That is in other men's labors, but having hope that as your faith is increased, we shall
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be greatly enlarged by you in our sphere to preach the gospel in the regions beyond you
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and not to boast in another man's sphere of accomplishment.
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But he who glories, let him glory in the Lord, for not he who commends himself is approved,
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but whom the Lord commands.
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Beyond limits, I want to begin.
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Let's talk about the greatest danger.
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After the resurrection, Jesus Christ gave us our very clear marching orders.
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You find it in Mark 16, 15, go into all the world and preach the gospel to every person.
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In Matthew 28, 19, go and make disciples of all the nations.
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Very simple.
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What does all the world mean?
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It means all the world.
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And all the nations is actually every ethnic group, but here it is a very simple command.
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Preach the gospel, that is evangelism to sinners and make disciples, train workers to reproduce
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godly ministry.
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Those two things we are supposed to do in every nation, in every ethnic group, in the
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entire world.
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That simple.
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It's not complicated.
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But more than 2,000 years later, that simple command, the job is still not done.
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There are currently about 8.1 billion people in the world.
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Six billion out of 8.1 billion are completely non-Christian today.
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Out of that 8.1 billion, they estimate about 2 billion of them have never had a chance
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to hear the gospel message.
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They say that almost 30 million people will die this year 2024 without ever hearing the
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message of salvation.
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And they estimate the last 40 years as many as 1 billion people have died and they have
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never heard the name of Jesus Christ even one time.
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So the question is why?
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If the command is simple and clear, why is the job not done?
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Is it because as many people feel in their city that demons are so big and so powerful?
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That is not true.
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Luke 9.1 that he called his 12 disciples together and gave them power and authority over all
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demons.
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So the demons are not the ones stopping the work of God.
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Is it because the politicians or rulers of nations are so strong?
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That cannot be true because Proverbs 21.1 says the king's heart is in the hand of the
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Lord.
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He directs the king's heart like a water course wherever he pleases.
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Think about King Cyrus.
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Here's a demon worshipping pervert but God moved on him.
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He made a command.
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I command you to rebuild the temple in Jerusalem and I will help pay for it.
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King Herod is opposing, arresting, killing people for preaching the gospel and God stepped
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in and said you need to stop breathing right in the middle of a political speech.
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That's actually not a bad idea.
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I'm just saying.
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Think about this.
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Of all the epistles that Paul wrote in the New Testament, do you know that percentage
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wise there actually is a very few percent of the scriptures that speak of spiritual
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opposition?
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There is a truth of spiritual warfare.
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There are a few scriptures that speak of people outside who are harming the work of God.
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But here's the point that I'm making now.
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There actually are many examples and scriptures in the Bible that show that God's people can
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be the greatest hindrance to God's work.
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Think about Jonah in the Old Testament.
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He was God's man.
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He had the command to go and declare the word of God in Nineveh but Jonah didn't want to
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do that.
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He was stopping people from being helped in Nineveh.
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There are numbers of places in text.
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I won't take the time but it talks about to even pastors and men of God who are hindering
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God's work.
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So here is a clear command.
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I want you to think about two dangers that Paul speaks about.
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He is going to talk about his vision but he says there are two dangers that are stopping
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the work of God.
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And the first is the danger of criticism.
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Criticism is expressing disapproval of someone based on their perceived faults or mistakes.
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Second Corinthians, the background, if you want to understand the book, Second Corinthians
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was written largely as a response to the fact that people in churches and pastors were criticizing
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and attacking the apostle Paul.
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Second Corinthians 10.10, for some say his letters are weighty and forceful but in person
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he's unimpressive and his speaking amounts at nothing.
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They doubted his motives.
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They said he doesn't care about us otherwise he would have showed up and preached for us
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by now.
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They were doubting his integrity and handling money and he had to answer that in Second
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Corinthians 10.
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So criticism was actually hurting the work of God.
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But you know what?
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Criticism is a universal disease.
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It's not limited to the apostle Paul back in New Testament days.
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The Old Testament, the children of Israel criticized Moses, the book of Acts, the Judaizers
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criticized everyone.
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Listen to me tonight, if we're going to do the work of God, you know the first danger
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of criticism is that by finding fault we think we're doing better than we actually are.
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I want you to get, what's going on in Second Corinthians here, they were criticizing the
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apostle Paul.
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This man was caught up to heaven, wrote most of the New Testament.
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They are criticizing him.
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You know what happened in Corinth is that Paul began this church and revival exploded.
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In those days they didn't have buildings and so no doubt there were many, many hundreds
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of house churches.
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Paul say that some of these people who are critics now, they were pastoring the churches
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that they had inherited from the apostle Paul.
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Paul was the one, he's the reason why they even have a church but now they say, yeah,
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but I don't think that he's really into it.
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They're criticizing and Paul says this is dangerous.
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Do you understand something?
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Some of you, you think criticism is the gift of the spirit.
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Yeah, you know, I'm here, you're looking around at conference and I'm, I got my eye on you
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and I doubt them and look, yeah, and you think somehow that that is holy because you see
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problems in people.
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Do you know that tearing down another person doesn't make you any better?
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You know when you look at somebody and say that guy, he's dumb and ugly, you didn't somehow
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get smarter and better looking.
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Right, but here were people, they were criticizing and they somehow, because they thought they
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saw a fault, they felt they were doing better and Paul says you're making a big mistake.
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The danger of criticism is it distracts us from our main purpose.
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Our main purpose is preach the gospel to sinners, make disciples of all nations.
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That's our job.
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But criticism will distract you from that.
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We send men out to pioneer churches and I have at various times I've had them call myself
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or one of the other pastors and inform us that someone in their city is different than
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they are.
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Do you know that they are singing 1.4 more songs than we sing in Prescott?
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And my answer is, listen, I didn't send you there to straighten out anybody.
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We send you there with a job.
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Your job is get people saved, build a church, make disciples, plant churches.
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That's it.
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Listen, there are pastors here, you like it when your people and your men criticize others
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to you.
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Pastor, I'm really suspicious about them and you go, really?
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You like it.
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You think that somehow that's validation of your ministry.
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In fact, you encourage it.
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Some of you, you teach your people, you teach your men to criticize.
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You are putting in them seeds of destruction because Paul says now here I have a job to
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do, but you're hung up on criticism.
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It's distracted you.
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Second danger that keeps us from doing our simple task is the danger of self-satisfaction.
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The critics of Paul having inherited some good things, they now assumed that they were
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good enough.
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Verse 12, measuring themselves by themselves, comparing themselves among themselves, they're
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not wise.
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They looked around and they came to self-assessment conclusions.
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You know, years ago we had a pastor in the fellowship.
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He would openly tell other people, I'm one of the best preachers in the fellowship, but
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the problem was he was the only one who thought so.
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Nobody else thought that.
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He compared himself with himself.
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We can have self-satisfaction based on past success.
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When I was a new convert I was really on fire.
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That was a long time ago.
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Had a man that was causing trouble in one of the churches and I had to be involved in
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a meeting and finally I challenged him.
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I said, you have a very high opinion of yourself.
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I said, please tell me why.
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Why do you think that you are all that?
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And he told me 20, I think 25 years ago he had witnessed to somebody and they came and
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got saved and a number of kids came from a university and they got saved.
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I said, that was 25 years ago.
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Now let's examine then you pastored here.
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What about there?
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No.
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What about there?
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No.
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And what about now?
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No.
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But you still think you are hot based on 25 years ago?
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You are comparing yourself with yourself.
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You can have self-satisfaction based on longevity.
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I have been saved.
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I have been in the fellowship for X number of years.
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Self-satisfaction because you are doing some things right.
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You are involved in the church to some degree.
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There are pastors that are here.
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I am praying that God will challenge you.
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Right now in your ministry you are preaching some sermons.
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You are there in the city.
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You are pulling a paycheck.
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You have a little bit of respect.
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But my challenge to you on the opening night, are you doing what God wants you to do?
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Are you doing all that God wants you to do?
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Because if you are simply comparing yourself with yourself and you are happy with that,
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it could be that God has a very different opinion.
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Let's talk secondly about beyond limits.
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Paul is showing us that no matter where we are at, no matter what we have accomplished,
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we cannot stop where we are at.
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His approach to ministry is our conference theme.
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Second Corinthians 10, 16 to preach the gospel in regions beyond you.
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This is not simply a geographical dimension.
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It is actually how he viewed ministry in its entirety.
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He said, I want to go beyond limits.
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Beyond limits involves a commitment to expand the kingdom of God.
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What God has done in our fellowship is wonderful.
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As of right now, we have a little over 3,700 churches in 149 nations.
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That is wonderful.
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Praise God.
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I am very grateful for that, but the job is not finished yet.
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Joshua 13, one, there remains yet very much land to be possessed.
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See Paul's critics, they were content with what they had inherited, but Paul was looking
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beyond verse 16 to preach the gospel in the regions beyond you.
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Regions beyond, this is literally true.
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As I said, we have churches at 149 nations, but there are 81 nations where we do not have
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a single fellowship church.
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I'm going to put up an image here, this graphic.
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These are the nations of the world with their populations that we do not have a single fellowship
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church in, not one.
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Our job is not to get together and pat each other on the back on what a great job we're
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doing because the job's not done yet.
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On that list, you're going to find nations like Bosnia and Herzegovina, 3.3 million people
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and not a single fellowship church.
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The Comoros Islands, 867,000 people and not a single fellowship church.
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Eritrea, 3.8 million people, not one fellowship church.
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The Central African Republic, 5.8 million people are there and we don't have a single fellowship
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church there.
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The job is not done.
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Listen, in America, we still have four states in America where we don't have a single fellowship
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church in the entire state.
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Alabama, Maine, Mississippi, Vermont, they have cities like Montgomery, Alabama, 200,000
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people, not a single fellowship church.
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Portland, Maine, 70,000 people.
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Jackson, Mississippi, 139,000.
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Burlington, Vermont, 43,000 and we do not have a single fellowship church not only in
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those cities or any other city in four states and we've been doing this for 54 years.
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Paul says that's not okay.
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Romans 10, 14, how then shall they call on him in whom they have not believed?
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How shall they believe in him of whom they have not heard and how shall they hear without
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a preacher?
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Paul said in Romans 15, 20, I have made it my aim to preach the gospel not where Christ
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was named lest I should build on another man's foundation.
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I am praying that God will speak to couples this week that you will want to pioneer.
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A pioneer is someone who enters untouched territory.
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I'm praying that there are pastors that God will grip you this week.
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You may have done some good things in the past, but God will grip you.
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You need to send again and we need to go beyond limits.
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Beyond limits, it also involves a commitment to go deeper in our calling.
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Think about the incredible ministry that Paul had.
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How many, come on, how many of us we were caught up to heaven?
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That's it, I'm done.
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You can't top that, right?
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But now Paul, he did not assess himself as having arrived, Philippians 3, 12, not as
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though I had already attained or am already perfected or reach where I'm going, but I
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press on that I might lay hold of that for which Christ Jesus has also laid a hold of
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me.
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He said, I'm not there yet.
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You know the Tartar tribes of Asia, they used to pronounce a curse over their enemies and
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that curse was, may you stay in one place forever.
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Now I'm not talking about a pastor, but I'm talking about being stuck, not making progress,
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not making growth, not going beyond in any way.
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So Paul said, that is not, you all may be satisfied with yourself.
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That's what he's telling them.
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But he said, I want to go beyond limits.
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I want to go deeper.
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Beyond limits is not just geography.
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The book of Ezekiel, the fascinating vision of the water flowing from the temple and in,
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I think it's Ezekiel 47, verse three through six, he measured 1000 cubits and the water
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came up to my ankles.
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Then he measured another thousand.
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The water came up to my knees, another thousand.
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The water came up to my waist and another thousand.
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And it was a river that I could not cross for the water was too deep.
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It was water in which one must swim.
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Here this angelic messenger is taking Ezekiel and he is taking him deeper and deeper because
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that is God's will for your life.
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Do not stop and say, good enough.
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I have all that I'm ever going to have and I am all that I'm ever going to be.
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Listen where, whatever level you are at in the church, as a disciple, as a pastor, go
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deeper.
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Don't stop.
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One man said, God always answers us in the deeps, never in the shallows of our soul.
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Colossians 4 17 and say to our Chippas, take heed to the ministry which you have received
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in the Lord that you may fulfill it, complete it.
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That's what he said.
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Listen, you've got something from God.
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Are you playing with, have you stopped at a certain level?
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He says, fulfill it.
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That is what God is speaking to people this week.
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We need to go deeper and go beyond limits.
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Let's look at one final thought in closing.
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I want to talk about true judgment.
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Paul had a correct perspective in life and ministry.
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He's writing to people who did not see things clearly or correctly.
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Paul understood two very simple things.
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Number one, the point of life and ministry is not to make ourselves look good and gain
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attention.
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There are some of you came to conference.
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You are so excited because conference gives you an unlimited possibility of selfies and
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you are going to post to the world because that's what you think we put on this conference
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so you can post and draw attention to you.
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Number 17, but he who glories, let him glory in the Lord.
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We are here to draw attention to God.
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If you want to brag, brag on God.
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Amen.
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This conference is not about us.
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It's about God.
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And Paul understood that.
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We're going to glory on the Lord.
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He understood the second thing, the goal of life is to be approved by God.
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Verse 18, for not he who commends himself is approved, but whom the Lord commends.
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That word approved, it means to be tested by fire and found genuine.
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Paul says, listen, you think you found a flaw in me and you're criticizing.
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He says, what I want is actually not your approval.
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I want the Lord to commend me.
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Think about what are you saying here?
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Listen, listen, this is important.
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The reason why he says that it is possible that we could think that we've arrived and
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we're great and God have a completely different opinion.
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Right?
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The people who have told me they heard that man tell them I'm one of the greatest preachers
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in the fellowship.
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You know why they told me that?
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Because they didn't think so.
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But that's a human opinion.
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What we don't want is we don't want to get to heaven and go, God, you have got to be
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impressed with me and God, you are kidding, right?
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Paul says, I want the Lord to commend me three ways the Lord commends us.
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Number one, he commends us with supernatural help on our labors.
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Acts eight, six through eight, and the multitudes with one accord, heeded the things spoken
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by Philip, hearing and seeing the miracles which he did.
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For unclean spirits, crying with a loud voice, came out of many who were possessed, many
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who were paralyzed and lame were healed, and there was great joy in that city.
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The commendation was not we think you're great.
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It's that something happened, something supernatural happened.
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Here people were saved, demons were cast out, bodies were healed.
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There was joy in the city.
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Why?
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Because God was attending their ministry.
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Anytime you choose to go deeper in God, anytime you choose to go beyond limits, God says,
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I will attend that with my power.
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He commends us with supernatural help.
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Number two, the Lord commends us with a distinguishing element.
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You know what struck me as I was putting this sermon together?
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In Corinth, as I said, 2 Corinthians, he is having to have a rebuttal for people criticizing
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because these men having received something, they thought we're so hot, we don't know
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even one of their names today.
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Think about that.
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They're telling, we are so good, we're much better than the apostles.
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Not one of them do we even know their name, but we do know Paul.
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You know why?
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Because God causes there to be a divine recognition.
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Hidden and private commitments before God to go beyond limits, they cause God's distinguishing
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favor.
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Joseph and Daniel, they made private decisions.
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I'm not going to defile myself.
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I'm going to honor God in prayer every day.
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I'm not going to sin against God.
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Those were private.
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No one was around.
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He wasn't tweeting out, resisting temptation again today.
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Hashtag, just say no.
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Nobody knows what he's doing, but listen, if you make a commitment to do right before
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God, pretty soon God will make sure everyone knows.
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Bible says there is nothing hidden that shall not be revealed.
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Listen, disciple, if you choose to go beyond limits, I want to go beyond.
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If you'll find new people to witness, maybe that's a new people group in your city, new
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areas, you will stand out.
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You don't have to impress the pastor, letting him know what you're doing.
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Listen, do that before God and he will cause you to be distinguished.
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Pastors, if you will commit yourself to developing in your preaching, if you will launch workers
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into the regions beyond, you will stand out.
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Thirdly, the Lord will ultimately commend us when we stand before him.
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It doesn't ultimately matter what you think of yourself, what I think of myself, because
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it's possible we could be wrong.
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Doesn't matter what other people say, good or bad, because they could be wrong.
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Every person here, every person watching online, we are one day going to stand before God personally
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and give an account of our lives.
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Romans 14, 12.
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So then each of us will give a count of himself to God.
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Listen, when we stand before God, there is no more chance to correct the record.
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All that you do, the things done in the body, your time will come to an end.
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My time will come to an end.
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And then we will stand before God with no more mulligans, no more re-dos, no more oopsies.
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Let me try again.
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That is why Paul says, now I want to go beyond limit.
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That is why we have to live now with the end in mind.
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Think about these two stories.
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1848, John and Charlotte Getty went to the New Hebrides Islands.
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That's current day Vanuatu.
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At that time, the people in the New Hebrides, they were cannibals.
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When John Getty died, they placed a plaque in his memory, and it says these words, when
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he landed in 1848, there were no Christians here.
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And when he left in 1872, there were no heathen.
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He decided to go beyond, and God blessed his ministry.
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Second story, Chuck and Kay Smith, they were pastoring a small congregation in Costa Mesa,
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California.
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And they began to hear and read of this movement of rebellious young people they called hippies.
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Kay Smith especially, she was moved.
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She would see them walking down the street, or they would drive to Huntington Beach, and
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she would look.
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They did not understand what made hippies tick.
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They didn't understand how they thought.
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It was so foreign from them.
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One day Kay Smith told her husband, who was the pastor, Chuck Smith, she said, we need
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to meet a hippie.
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We don't understand them.
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We need to meet one.
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And they asked their daughter's boyfriend, do you know any hippies?
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And he said, yeah, I met this guy.
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And he went and found a young hippie named Lonnie Frisbee and brought him to their house.
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And they began to talk to him about how hippies thought, but he had been saved, had been powerfully
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converted.
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And so Chuck Smith did something radical.
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He invited this hippie to come speak in their church.
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If you read Chuck Smith's biography, I refresh my memory this week.
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Chuck Smith in his ministry was frustrated with the Foursquare effort.
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He used to be in Foursquare Sunday night evangelistic services and no one got saved.
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So he said, I came to the conclusion the job of the church is not to win the world.
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He said the job of the church is to minister to the body.
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That's how he's thinking.
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But God prompted him to go beyond limits.
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They meet this hippie.
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And when this hippie comes and church people saw that those creatures could get saved,
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it so moved them that one family at the store witnessed to a wild looking hippie named John
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Higgins.
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John Higgins got powerfully saved and began evangelizing nonstop.
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The church exploded in growth.
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That was Calvary Chapel in Costa Mesa, California.
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But the reason why I'm telling you that is that my father, Wayman Mitchell, heard about
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what God was doing in Southern California.
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It was spreading from Southern California and beyond.
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Had come to Prescott, had a few people saved, got the first few hippies saved.
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But he heard about that and he took a few young men to Southern California to see what
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God was doing.
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My father did not understand hippies either, but he reached beyond limits.
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They went to Southern California with a few young men.
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One of those young men is here tonight, Ron Burl, 54 years ago went, amen.
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They saw Larry Reed preaching on that same Huntington Beach that the Smiths used to see
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those wild hippies on.
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And they saw a coffee house and concert ministry.
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And my father turned to them and said, this will work in Prescott.
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And came back and God did something powerful in Prescott more than just a service or a
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concert.
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He birthed something because, and this comes back to God bless Chuck and K. Smith who went
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beyond limits.
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And God bless my parents who went beyond limits.
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Amen.
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Thank God.
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But the reason why I'm telling you that is not just to recount history.
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Here's my challenge as I close.
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What could God do in you?
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What could God do through you?
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What could God birth?
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If you decided tonight and in this conference, God, I want to go beyond limits.
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Could it be that we could point back to July of 2024 when there were people that said,
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we're going to go beyond and God could birth something powerful through people just like
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us.
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I want you to bow your heads, close your eyes all across this place.
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Thank God I feel the power of the Holy Spirit here.
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I'm asking right now, we're going to pray for a number of things in a moment, but first
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of all, there are people that are here.
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You are not right with God.
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Jesus gave the simple command, go in all the world and preach the gospel.
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I'm preaching good news tonight.
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It's Jesus Christ, the most incredible story in all time and eternity.
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God loves us so much.
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While we were sinners, while we were breaking God's commands, while we were on our way to
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hell, we were bound, habits and Jesus Christ was willing to die for us so we could be set
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free from our sin.
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If you're here tonight and you would be honest, you say, Pastor Greg, I am not right with
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God.
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I am a sinner.
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I know that I'm living a life that would not be pleasing to God.
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You can fix that tonight.
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Jesus can save you.
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How many here, if you're not right with God and you want to pray.
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I want you to do one thing.
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Lift your hand up right now.
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Say, Pastor Greg, I want to pray.
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I need Jesus.
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I want to get saved tonight on this first night of conference.
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I want to get right with God.
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Lift your hand.
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Let me see it back there.
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There's a hand.
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How many others lift up your hand?
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Join this one.
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I want to get right with God.
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Thank you.
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I see that hand.
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Others, some of your backs lit.
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You were saved.
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You turned your back on God.
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Why don't you come back to God?
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Thank you.
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Thank you.
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Here at the front, God bless you.
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How many others lift up your hand?
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Hands are going up.
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You're responding.
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You need Jesus.
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Lift your hand right now.
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God loves you.
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He wants to save you.
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He can do a miracle in you.
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Thank you.
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I see that hand.
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Anybody else?
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Quickly, I'm going to ask one more time and then we're going to change the service.
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If you haven't lifted your hand yet, you want to get right with God.
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Lift it right now.
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Now's your time.
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Now's your chance.
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Lift up your hand right now.
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Thank God.
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Now I want every one of you that lifted your hand.
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If you lifted your hand, stand up to your feet.
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Stand up.
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We want to pray for you.
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Stand up.
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Thank you.
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Thank you.
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Thank you.
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Numbers of people.
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Now, if you're standing, come here.
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Make your way quickly.
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All the way from the back.
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Come here.
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At the front, we're going to have someone pray with you.
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In a moment, God can save you, can change your life.
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Thank God for these people.
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Just kneel down at the front.
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I want a lady to pray with every one of these ladies, a man with every man.
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Thank God people are coming, being honest.
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I need another lady quickly.
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You'll quickly go make your way.
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Lead them in a sinner's prayer before anything else.
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Thank God.
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Thank God.
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Just kneel down right here.
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Thank you.
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Anywhere at the front.
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God bless you.
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Thank you.
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You want to get right with God.
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Kneel down at the front right there.
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I need a lady to pray with this girl.
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God bless you, man.
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Anywhere at the front.
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Kneel down.
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People are coming.
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God bless you.
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Being honest with God.
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He's going to help you because you're honest.
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Thank God.
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God bless you, man.
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Just kneel down right here.
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I need a man to come pray with this man.
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Thank God for every one of these being honest.
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I want you all to stand up to your feet.
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My challenge on the opening night, let's go beyond limits.
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Let's believe God.
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He's going to help.
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