Sermon
Pass the Cup with Ap. Marci Glisson
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Today I want to look at John 18, John 18, and verse 36 through
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37. Jesus you know here we're going
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to see he's standing before pilot right, The governor and
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pastor read this Sunday and said Jesus answered, my Kingdom is
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not of this world for if my Kingdom were of this world, then
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my servants would be fighting so that I would not be handed over
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to the Jews. But as it is, my Kingdom is not
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of this realm, right and verse 37.
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Therefore Pilate said to him, So you are a king.
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And Jesus answered, You say correctly that I am a king.
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Listen to this. And for this I have been born.
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I've been born. And then he goes on to say, And
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for this I have come into the world to what?
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Testify to truth. Everyone who is of truth hears
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my voice. Hallelujah.
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Everyone that is of truth. Whose truth?
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Our truth. No, His truth, actually.
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The King's truth, Amen. Hears his voice, Hallelujah.
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But what stood out to me is this, he said for this I was
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born. And you know, we're moving into
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Easter Sunday at the resurrection of Christ.
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And actually, if you go through, you should go through this week
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until Sunday and read just the journey the week before his
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crucifixion, right? You should do that.
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Get that in your heart. Get it in your heart.
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Meditate on those scriptures because it'll remind you of the
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price that he paid, but not only the price that he paid to look
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at some different maybe perspectives rather than just
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the fact that he died on that cross rose again so that one day
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we could be in heaven with him. No, Looking at the perspective
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of some of these things when you read it, to see that he had a
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lot of other intentions just as well as not just dying so that
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we could be saved, but he also died so that we could what live.
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He died so that we could live freely in His Kingdom, but not
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only live freely in His Kingdom, but also to know that we have a
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plan and a purpose for our lives, that he had a plan and a
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purpose for our life. So he says here, you say
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correctly, I am a king. And for this I have been born.
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Do you know how many young people are still asking the
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question, why am I here? What am I supposed to be doing
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with my life? And if you'll take the time to
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discover the same thing that Jesus discovered is that he knew
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why he was born. He knew he had a purpose and he
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knew there was a plan and he fulfilled the assignment that
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God had for his life. And the cross was just part come
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on of his assignment and the purpose that God had for his
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life. And so as we're reading through
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these scriptures, Matthew 26, actually the whole chapter, you
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can start reading that journey of Jesus going through all the
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different things that he went through, the betrayal of Judas,
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right? Being brought before Pilate,
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being brought before, what is it, Caiaphas?
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You know, all the different things and read it by really
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just opening up your heart to discover those other
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perspectives. And so he says, listen, This is
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why I was born. So He knew His purpose now, just
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as pastor had said as well on Sunday, which let me get to that
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in a minute. But really where I want to go is
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here where we see Him in the garden, where we see Him in the
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garden in Matthew 26 verse 39. And it says, And He went a
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little beyond them, those disciples that were supposed to
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be watching and praying with Him, he went a little beyond
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them. And he fell on his face.
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And he prayed, saying, Father, if it is possible, let this cup
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pass from me yet, not as I will, but as your will.
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Or not my will be done, but what your will be done.
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And so here we see this moment where he told Pilate I know what
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I was born to do. We see the same moment during
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this whole time where he says I know what I'm supposed to do.
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I know my purpose. I know that I am going to have
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to do the will of the Father. I'm going to have to obey Him.
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I'm going to have to do the plan.
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I'm going to have to do the assignment.
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I'm going to have to do the purpose.
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But you know what? I would rather not have to be
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killed. I would rather not have to go
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through His will. His will, and what He wanted was
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that he would not have to go through this plan.
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He knew it was the plan. He knew it was the purpose.
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He knew it was the assignment. But he knew he was getting ready
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to endure suffering and death. And in his humanity, his will
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didn't want to do it in the natural.
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And we're going to see why I'm focusing on this because a lot
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of times we look back and we think, well, if God has a plan
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for us and a purpose for us and, and an assignment for us, that
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we'll never encounter anything that would be in an A place of
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suffering or having to endure through some challenges, even
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some scourging, maybe not physical, but he's saying all
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along, it's not my will. I mean, if it was up to me, I
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wouldn't want to have to do that in the natural.
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But your will be done. Your will be done.
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And what do we know was the Father's will?
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That He would die on that cross. That He would die on that cross.
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Now look at Matthew 16. Matthew 1621 through 26, it says
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this from that time Jesus began to show his disciples.
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He was preparing his disciples right?
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In Matthew 16, we're we've already read 26, so we know the
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end of the story. But I'm saying before that he
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was preparing his disciples and showing them that he must go to
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Jerusalem and what endure many things of the hands of the
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elders, the chief priests, the scribes, and what be killed and
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be raised from death to life on the third day.
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And what happened to his wonderful friend Peter, his
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disciple, when he heard this, he took him aside to speak to him
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privately. I'm reading out of the amplified
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and begin to reprimand him, or one translation says, rebuke
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him. Say, May God forbid it.
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This will never happen to you. And what did Jesus say?
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He said to Peter, Get thee behind me, Satan.
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Get behind me, Satan, you are a stumbling block to me.
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Oh, there's so much that could be said here.
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You're a stumbling block to me. For you're not setting your mind
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on things of God, but on the things of man.
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And then Jesus said to his disciples, 00 Jesus said to his
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disciples, are we disciples or followers of Christ?
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Hallelujah? Did he just say it to these
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disciples? Or is there still being
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disciples being made today? Are you a true disciple?
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Because actually this Scripture is going to show us in
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determining to us if we're truly a disciple of his.
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And so he said to his disciples, if anyone wishes to follow me as
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my disciples, he must deny himself, set aside selfish
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interest and take up his cross. I have said in churches, church
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now for over 35 years, and I've heard the statement, aren't you
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glad that you don't have to die on that cross, that Jesus paid
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it all and did it all? And I would say, yes, I'm glad
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that I didn't have to die as he died, but there's still a cross
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that I have to die on. And we forgot about preaching
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that in the American church today.
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We all have a cross. We all have a cross.
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We wear it around our neck really good.
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So he says he must deny himself, set aside his selfish interest,
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take up his cross, expressing A willingness to endure whatever
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may come and follow me, believing in me, conforming to
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me example in living and if need be, suffering or perhaps dying
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because of what faith in me. So 25 For whoever wishes to save
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his life in this world will eventually lose it through
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death. But whoever chooses to lose his
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life in this world for my sake will find it, that is life with
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me for all eternity. For what would it profit a man
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if he gains this whole world wealth, fame, success, but
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forfeits his soul? Or what will man give in
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exchange for his soul? And the title of my message is
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tonight, pass the cup. Not just let this pass cup, but
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I called it pass the cup because you could look at that term in
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two ways. You could say pass the cup.
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Yeah, I want to drink, or you could say pass the cup.
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I don't want any part of it. And I believe a lot of believers
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are passing the cup on true discipleship because they're not
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willing to carry the cross. And we're going to see this in a
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minute. So you could also say pass the
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cup. And as I was meditating on that,
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he I was reminded of another term that's been said for years.
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Or pass the buck and pass the buck.
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I like that because it all has to do with not picking up your
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own responsibility and the things that God has assigned you
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and the plans that God has for your life and the purpose that
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he has for you is that a lot of people want to just pass the
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buck. Well, I'm not willing to do that
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for the nursery, but let somebody else do it or I'm not
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willing to, you know, sacrifice my time to go and serve.
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So and so there's other people in the church can that can do
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it. So are we passing the buck of
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responsibility that actually God has for us now?
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Let's continue reading because remember, Pastor, on Sunday as I
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was going through, I was reading, you know, the whole
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chapters and going through all the scriptures and I thought,
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wow, isn't that what they did when he said on Palm Sunday,
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they came into town saying Hosanna to the king.
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But then they were saying, hell, O King Jesus, we welcome you.
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But then that hell became a bail.
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They bailed on the king. They bailed on the king.
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And people are still bailing on the king today.
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They're still bailing. OK, So let's look at a couple of
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things. So we know that Jesus came and
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knew his purpose, but he also knew that that cross was part of
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his purpose and part of His assignment to fulfill for the
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Father. But he let us know as those that
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want to be his disciples and true followers of Him, that
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there's a cross that we're going to have to pick up.
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What is our cross? That plan, that purpose, that
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assignment that God has for each and every one of us as a
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believer, as a disciple in the Kingdom of God.
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Look at John 19, John 1914 through 17 said this, I'm just
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going to continue to read here. This is where it he said now it
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was the day of preparation for the Passover week and it was
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about the 6th hour. And he said to the Jews, look
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your king. But what did they shout?
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Away with him, away with him, crucify him.
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And Pilate said to them, Shall I crucify your king?
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And the chief priest answers, We have no king but Caesar.
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And then the he handed him over to them to be crucified.
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Now verse 17, look at this. So they took Jesus and he went
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out. What did he do?
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Burying his own cross, Burying his own cross to the place
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called the Place of Skull, which is called, you know, Gal Gotha.
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Burying his own cross. He had to do it, but he expected
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that his disciples would follow in the same footsteps.
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And, you know, we talk about the fact that, oh, aren't you
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thankful that he laid down his life so that we wouldn't have to
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die? But, you know, there's people
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that are dying today. There's martyrs sitting up
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underneath the throne that have been murdered, following Christ
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and not denying him in the face of death.
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And we are living in a time where it's still happening.
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And actually, if you look at the statistics, still Christians are
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the number one religion that is martyred even in our lifetime,
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that are killed and persecuted Christians around the world.
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If you have never went outside of the United States of America,
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you need to. You need to, because then you'll
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see and realize. How blessed we truly are as a
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nation, as bad as it is even getting.
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But if we don't stand as believers come on and proclaim
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and testify of the truth, we're going to see it go the other
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way. Amen.
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So look what Jesus said. I there's so much in my heart
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just because, you know, again, we've turned American has turned
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Easter into the Easter Bunny focus and egg hunts and egg
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drops and whatever. I don't, you know, personal
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convictions, whatever, that's on you.
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But the thing about it is, is I do not want my children or
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grandchildren to think that that's all Easter is about.
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No, I want them to know the price that was paid.
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And so we don't hide eggs, we hide the rock, we hide the
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rocks. We hide rocks and, and and
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pastor teaches them about the rock and who is the rock and
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that the rock was rolled away. Come on.
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So you can be creative and not have to fall into what it's
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become because that's not what it's about.
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Amen. So John chapter 4 verse 34, look
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at this, Jesus said to them, my food is to do the will of him
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who sent me, and to completely finish his work.
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And we know that Jesus certainly said on that cross, it is
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finished. He did the will of the Father
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and he said, I have finished the work, I've stripped.
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Come on the enemy of all of his power, of everything that he
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would have against man being able to come into the Kingdom of
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God. I finished it.
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I did His will, I did the purpose and the plan that God
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had for my life. John 5:30 It says I can do
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nothing on my own initiative. As I hear, I judge and my
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judgement is just just because I do not seek my own will.
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But the what will of him who sent me?
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Are we as disciples and followers picking up our own
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cross that He has for each and every one of our life?
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And are we focused on accomplishing His will and
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getting things accomplished for Him?
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Or are we focused on come on my own will, getting things
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accomplished for my business, getting things accomplished for
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what I'm doing, getting things accomplished for this and for
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that and for that. And you're so full of trying to
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accomplish all these other things when all along he's
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saying, but what about my will? Are you pursuing that as much as
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you are pursuing all these other things because I have something
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for you to do. I have a plan for you to do.
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And Jesus said, listen, his I mean, there are 10 scriptures
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that said he was only here to do the will of the Father and that
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that was all he was focused on is accomplishing and being
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obedient to what God had planned for his life.
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Amen. Now look at Matthew 10, Matthew
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1038. We already read Matthew 16 where
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he said to his disciples, you know what they needed to do?
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Pick up their cross. Now here it is in Matthew 1038
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and 39 it says this, and he who does not take his cross.
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And follow after me is not worthy of me.
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Whoever does not take his cross, he's saying whoever, whosoever
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shall call on his name, it's the same whoever come on that he's
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talking to. He's not just talking to the
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five fold ministry. The apostles have got to do His
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will. The pastors have to do his will.
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The teachers have to surely do his will.
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The prophets of course, have to do his will.
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Come on. No, he's saying whosoever those
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that call themselves a disciple, they have a cross that they
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should be carrying. And he's saying it's time to
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pick up your cross. He's saying it's time to pick up
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your cross because he says you're not going to be worthy of
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me. And look, in verse 39, he says
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he who has found life will lose it.
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So you think not doing the will picking up your cross and we're
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going to see, I'm going to talk about this in a minute.
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And, and doing your plan and doing the things you want to do
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isn't matter, doesn't matter, he says.
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You're going to lose your life. You're going to lose your life.
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And he's not just talking about in the afterlife.
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You're going to lose your life for my sake, he says.
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And he who has lost his life for my sake will what?
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Find it, find it. So that was Matthew 1038.
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Let's look what Luke had to say. And Luke 923 through 25.
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So you need to look at these scriptures through all the
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different, you know, ones that wrote it so that you can see all
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the different angles of the details that they said
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differently. So in Luke 923 and 25 it says
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this. And he was saying to them all,
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if anyone wishes to follow me as my disciple, he must deny
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himself, set aside selfish interest.
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Just circle that in the amplified highlight it 15 times
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because we're living in the I am selfish generation and world.
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And so he says and take up his cross.
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Oh, here's a little side that the other scripture didn't say,
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take up your cross. What?
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Oh, daily. So this is not just a one time
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event. Oh, I did it.
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You know, I did it for 25 years. But now it's time for me to live
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for me. I sacrificed for 25 years
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following and doing everything that God asked me to do in the
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church. So now I'm going to go retire
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and I'm going to do for me and my interest and myself and what
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I want to do and what I desire and what I what pleases me.
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Come on. No, he says daily.
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He says daily. I have to choose to pick up my
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cross daily expressing. This is what the amplifies,
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expressing a willingness. Oh this goes back to the will.
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Willingness to endure whatever may come.
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So does he promise us that once we get born again and we're a
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believer, that everything is going to be beautifully perfect?
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Rose petals along our life as a believer and everybody's going
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to love us and everything's going to be wonderful and we're
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never going to have to suffer again?
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No, not in this life. Not going to happen.
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Not going to happen. That's a fairy tale and magical
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thinking. I don't live for the Magic
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Kingdom, I live for the Kingdom of God.
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I live for the Kingdom of God and he says we're going to have
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to endure whatever may come. And what?
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Follow me, believing in me, conforming to me, not conforming
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to what all the social influencers say about how you
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should go to church and what church should be for you.
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I mean, this is the society we're living in and people are
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listening to this garbage and they're forfeiting their cross.
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They're forfeiting their cross, They're forfeiting it.
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So he says, listen, believing in me and conforming to my example.
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Not so and so's opinion about what they think about church, it
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says, and if need be, maybe even suffering, that you may do have
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a little suffering that happens in your life.
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For what? For dying because of faith in me
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suffering, perhaps dying. And then he goes on to say, For
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whoever wishes to save his life in this world will eventually
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lose it through death. But whoever loses his life in
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this world for my sake, he is the one who will save it from
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the consequences of what sin and separation from God?
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For what does it profit a man if he gains the whole world well,
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fame, success, but loses and forfeits himself, forfeits
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himself. So what does it mean to take up
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your cross? To pick up your cross?
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It literally means that he has a plan, a purpose, and an
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assignment for each and every single one of us.
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Every single day there is a cross that we are to pick up,
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which is His will for our life. Daily, daily Am I walking in His
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will daily choosing to do what He is requiring and asking of me
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through his plan for the day, through His purpose for the day,
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through whatever it is that God is asking of me.
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And listen, we've made this into, well, He's not called me
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to go to Africa or anything. I'm not a missionary, you know,
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or I'm not a pastor. Every single disciple has a
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purpose and a plan and an assignment for their life.
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And that's assignment is found in walking the Kingdom life out
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every single day. So we can ask ourselves, am I in
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the will of God doing what he is requiring of me to do every
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minute of every day, every 24 hours in a day?
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And if I can sit back and say I I'm doing everything that God
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has asked me to do today, whatever it is, if he's asked me
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to go to Walmart and go down aisle 4 and lay hands on a
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person, guess what? Guess what?
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I'm doing His will. I'm going to go to Walmart.
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That's an assignment that he has for me.
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That's my cross that I'm to pick up today and go do today to be a
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follower and a disciple of his today.
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Or if he's asking me today to make a meal in my house for my
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sister that just had a baby and I want to be able to be a
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blessing to her, then guess what?
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That's my assignment today. That's my cross to carry today.
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And I'm being obedient to pick up my cross and do whatever he's
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telling me to do daily. And guess what?
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And today, if he tells me, you know what, I want you to go to
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that person and tell them that you're sorry and ask them to
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forgive you because maybe you did something towards them and
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they may not even know it, but God spoke it to my heart.
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I'm going to pick up my cross. I'm going to do His will.
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And I'm going to go to that person because I'm going to obey
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Him daily and say, please forgive me.
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Whatever it is. It's an assignment that he's
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speaking to each and every one of us every single day for
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whatever it is that he wants us to do.
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Amen. That is our cross.
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So he's saying that word means the cross to pick up, take, take
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hold of it, lay hold of it. You have a responsibility to lay
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hold of the cross that he has for you to carry.
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You have to pick it up just like Jesus had to pick up that cross
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and carry it through the streets of Golgotha.
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Come on and bring it to them, knowing that this I'm getting
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ready to hang. On this very.
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Thing that I'm carrying to my death.
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He had to obey. He had.
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To pick it up, he had to lay hold of the will of God for his
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life. He had to carry it upon.
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That's what it means. Carry it upon oneself every.
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Single one of us have. A cross to carry upon ourselves.
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And we've put it all. On him and he did it all and he,
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he died on that cross so that we don't have to do anything that
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is not true. It's not truth of the God's
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Word. It's not truth.
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We have a cross that we are to bear, that we are to get up
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under, that we are to take hold of, that we're to carry and walk
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out daily as a disciple and follower of Christ.
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And you know what's so sad is in the American church, a Christian
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can't even just attend service. And you think you're going to?
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Carry a cross. Or that you're going to.
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Endure until the end. If you can't even endure coming
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to a 2 hour service, come on. It's magical thinking.
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It's fairy tale. It's a fairy tale and people are
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buying the lies. They're buying the lies and we
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have to, we have to be having better moral clarity than that.
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To not get sucked into. That deception of.
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What is? Happening in the world.
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So he said carry it, take it up. What does it mean to claim as
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one's own possession? When you look that word up, to
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claim as one's own possession? So there's a cross and Jesus has
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it right there for you. And he's saying go ahead and
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claim it. Do you know how people how many
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don't claim it? How many don't claim?
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The cross for. Themselves they want to claim.
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That cross but they don't want to claim this one just saying
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make it your own take possession of it.
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It means to reach after it. That means there's something
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that you have to also strive after.
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Oh, there is no striving. We're under grace.
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Oh no, there is a cross that we are meant to carry.
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And for us to carry it, that means we are going to have to
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reach for it. We're going to have to strive
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for it. Because if we don't strive to do
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the will of the Father, everything else is buying for
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our time and we'll do everything else except that because we
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think it's free and we don't have a responsibility.
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We pass the buck, we pass the cup.
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What? Is the cross across the?
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Cross is a place of self denial in a world of selfishness that
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we are living. We are so full of.
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Self in this generation that we're forgetting the truth.
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Of God's Word. Self denial is what that cross
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stands for. Willing to die to self.
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Self-interest it. Literally means.
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To deny utterly, I have to deny utterly that I would rather be
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living on a private island. Come on.
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In my own garden tropical garden in the.
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Cool of the day. Me and God all by myself.
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Come on that. Is self denial saying I choose
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to do his will rather than what I desire, what my interests are,
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what I think the plan of God is for my life?
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It's self denial, utterly. That's what it means to utterly
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disown and forget oneself. Nobody is wanting to do that
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today, to utterly forget yourself, to lose sight.
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Of your own. Interest.
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Oh, I. Have interest in sports?
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Oh, I have interest in hunting. Oh, I have interest in boating.
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Oh, I have interest. And all of these interest could.
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Come before you. Picking up your cross daily?
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Nothing. Wrong with these things.
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If you have your priorities straight, then I'm going to do
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His will and if oh if this is what he needs me to do today,
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then guess what? The boat ain't happening.
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But see, you talk like this. And you know, it's all over
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social media. Of how you should.
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Not go to a church that tells you that you can't do things of
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yourself. That's how they say.
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It and it looks so. Sweet and lovely, but it's sly
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and. Not the truth of God.
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'S word. Self denial.
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So you know Paul said this, he said what I die to myself daily.
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And he says. That we are to what daily?
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So how do we die? The cross is a place of
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crucifixion, right? But it was only for Jesus.
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But the cross is a place of crucifixion.
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And he says each and every one of us have that cross as a
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disciple to carry and to bear under and to do the same will
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purpose and plan that he has for our lives.
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And he lets us know that this is a daily thing.
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And that you know what? If he's saying I'm going to have
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to what? Crucify myself?
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What I'm going to have to do it daily.
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I'm going to have to choose daily to deny what I want to do
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if God's saying, but I want you to do this.
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So I'm going to crucify. I'm.
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Going to die on that. Cross.
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I'm going to crucify myself today to do the will and the
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plan of God that He has for my life today, whatever that may
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be. And again, we're thinking that
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some big thing, it's not. It's daily things, daily.
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Things. That we are having to crucify
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and put under so that we are not letting self-interest rise up.
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It's daily things. That's why he says we're going
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to have to do it daily. Jesus had to do it what, once
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and for all? But we have to do it every
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single day. If we're going to carry our
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cross, we're going to. Have to do it daily.
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And we're going to have to choose to die to self daily to
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do the plan and the purpose that God has for our life.
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Amen. Do you believe that God has a
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plan for your life? Yeah.
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God has a plan for. Your life.
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He says this in Matthew 721. He says not everyone who says to
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me Lord, Lord will enter the Kingdom of heaven, but only who,
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who, what does the will of my Father.
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He who does the will. He who does the plan, He who
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does the purpose, He who does the assignments, the things that
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He has for us to do, He who has recognition that I have a cross
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that I am carrying every single day and I have to choose to do
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the will of the Father today. Those are going to be the ones
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that enter the Kingdom of God. Those are going to be the ones
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Matthew 1254 Whoever does the will of my Father who is in
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heaven, He is my what? Brothers and sisters.
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Those that do the will, Oh, we're all God's children.
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No, you're not. He says he who does the.
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Will going back to the will of the Father, that's what Jesus
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had to do when he picked up that cross.
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He had to say and make a decision.
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I'm going to do with the will of the Father, not my will, but
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your will be done. Jeremiah 29 So let's look and
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see He says, for I know the plans that I have for you.
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So he has plans for us. He has a cross for us to carry,
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declares the Lord. Plans for your what?
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Welfare not for your calamity, but to what give you a hope and
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a future so his. Plans for.
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You are for a good life, a hope and a future for you to live in
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the Kingdom full of everything that He has for your life.
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But you have to choose. I'm going to lay, hold and take
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possession of it by doing whatever it is that He's asking
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of me to do. I'm going to lay down myself and
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I'm going to pick up my cross and do it no matter what it
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takes. I'm going to disown myself, and
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I'm going to pick up His cross and carry it.
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Ephesians 210 For we are His workmanship, His own master work
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of art, created in Christ Jesus, born from above, spiritually
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transformed. Why are you spiritually
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transformed, renewed, ready to be used, ready to be used for
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good works which He prepared for us beforehand, taking paths,
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plans, paths what? Which He said so that you would
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walk in them, living the good life.
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Which he prearranged and made ready for us all.
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Hallelujah, He has a plan for us all.
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Look at Proverbs 1921. Many plans are in a man's mind.
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Many. Plans are in a man.
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'S mind, but it is the Lord's purpose for him that will stand
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and be carried out. So he lets us know.
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There's lots of plans and men have plenty of ideas and plans
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usually. But it's his purpose.
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That's going to be the thing that's going to prevail.
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And so you can have all the plans you want, but if it's not
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his purpose, then guess what? It's never going to prevail.
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It's not going to work out. You're going to forfeit your
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soul, right? You're going to gain, maybe.
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The whole world, but forfeit your soul.
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You're going to lose out because it's not his plan and never was
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his plan for your Life OK? For your wife?
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For your life or your wife if you're married.
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OK. Now look at here.
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I want to move because I really wanted to be done.
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But that isn't happening but. Maybe we.
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Can just close. With this Hebrews. 1036.
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It says this for you have need of patient endurance to bear up
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under difficult circumstances without compromising, so that
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when you have carried out the will of God, you will receive
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and enjoy the full promise. Come on up.
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Todd of what he had for you, We're going.
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To have to. Right.
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Walk through circumstances, situations.
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And the thing about it is, is we're going to have to realize
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that we should want to be doing the will of God through every
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situation. No matter what we encounter,
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there's going to be things we're going to just have to walk
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through and endure through. There's going to.
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Be things that we may. Have to suffer.
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And again, I'm not talking about sickness and disease because God
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does not put sickness and disease on you to make you
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suffer. And but there's things in this
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fallen world and things that trials and tribulations that we
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all have to walk through. And how many have seen
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Christians that don't actually walk through some situations
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properly and. In the end.
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They are bankrupt, no longer attending church, no longer
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going to church, no longer, you know, married.
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They've divorced, you know, because why?
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Because they didn't walk through some things in life properly.
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And they, you know, end. Up in destruction.
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And so again, every one of us have to say, you know what I'm
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going to in whatever I encounter, I'm going to say,
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Lord, what is your will in this situation?
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What is your plan in this situation?
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What do I need to do? Because we can be just like
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Jesus and say, I don't say and I don't do anything unless I've
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heard it and seen it from the Father.
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So again, that's why it's so important that we are in the
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Word of God and reading His truth, not listening to everyone
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else's truth. But what does His truth say?
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And that's what I'm sticking with.
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That's what I'm standing on in whatever I'm going through.
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And I'm going to navigate this by picking up my cross and
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carrying it and daily dying to what I want to do.
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I may want to respond a certain way to a circumstance or
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situation, but guess what I have to do?
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Die to self if God's saying that's not what the Word says.
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That's not what I want. You to do in this situation,
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that's not the plan that I had for you to do.
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In this. Scenario.
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And So what do I have? To do, I have to say fine, I'm
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going to do. Your will and your.
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Plan in this and guess. What we?
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Will see, we will see the fruit of it in our life and it won't
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end in destruction or death or, you know, all kinds of
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scenarios, drama in people's life that they just every, I
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mean, you know, every week there's some catastrophic,
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dramatic thing that's happening in their life.
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You know, people like that, even believers.
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Every time you talk to him, you never see him in church, but
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every time you talk to him, there's something terrible going
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on that ought to. Be able to help.
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You make a connection. Right.
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And so. Again, we must be people that
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realize during this week when you see that cross, it's yours.
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It's yours for you to pick up and for you.
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To carry.