Sermon
Dominate - The Reigning Church
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What an awesome day it is today and there was a lot going on.
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So that I'm going to need to jump right into the word.
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Amen. All right, let me let me direct
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our attention to Matthew chapter 16 and verse 18.
Matthew 16 chapter mention
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You know, traditionally when it comes to us, I am a person.
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Funny I'm saying it this way. Traditionally, you know, that we
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do not follow traditions, you know, so there are some
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traditions out there that are good, but you know, I'm kind of
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anti traditional. I'm like, you know, do we have
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to do that? And if I honestly see everyone
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doing something that technically isn't just scriptural, it's just
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traditional, then I'm like, I don't know that I'm doing that.
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I tend to push a little bit. And you know, one thing that I
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see that comes through is that there's always somebody
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declaring something at the beginning of the year.
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And I realize God is not on our our calendar.
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God is not technically completely concerned about our
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calendar. Now, I'm not saying that he's
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not aware of our calendar and that he's not aware of specific
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times that he has put in the earth because there were
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specific times to think that he's not calendar driven.
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That's not true because he said, well, you're going to keep this
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feast and you're going to keep this thing and you're and there
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was were specific days when the day of Pentecost came.
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That was a calendar day. That was a calendar day.
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And God ordained this long before man and he knew I'm going
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to drop the spirit. Passover was a calendar day and
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Jesus is the Passover lamb, so to say He's not aware.
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I know He's aware, but He doesn't have to give us a word
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January 1 every year and He may not be technically doing
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something different now. For us, a word came into our
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spirit in 20/20/20. Prior to that, we lived up
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underneath this idea in 2017 to 20, 2017, 1819 on being
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equipped. And, and who would have known
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that for those three years we kept emphasizing being equipped,
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that COVID would have come and we would have seen a generation
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of churches not equipped to not to be not equipped.
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Aren't you glad we were being equipped?
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I said we were being equipped. Hallelujah.
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Well, then it moved into raining and all of a sudden I and I
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sensed in my spirit we could talk about reigning till Jesus
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comes. Because when Jesus comes back,
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he is not coming back as a suffering servant.
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He's coming back as the reigning king.
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Hallelujah. And much of Christianity,
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globally speaking, needs to rediscover his reign.
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They need to rediscover his reign.
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This is that I think the genius, when I say genius, the Holy
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Ghost will make you look like a genius.
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That Doctor Miles Monroe did when he started writing on the
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Kingdom of God, that he knew that it was a lost context.
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And when he ministered it, it would be such a foreign concept
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to the church as a whole that it would give the appearance it was
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a new revelation. When?
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Let me just say this, there's nothing new under the sun,
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Nothing new. It's just that things can get
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lost through the years because #1 traditions #2 man can become
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complacent or #3 man can enjoy the blessings of God and then
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forget God. And in their forgetting, they
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will redefine him so that they can live their blessed life.
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Are you hearing me? And so he was very wise when he
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said rediscovering the Kingdom. And you know what?
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The King's coming back. I said the King's coming back.
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Now he is a king, His father is a king, and his father is a
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father, and his father holds position of fatherhood and
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kingship together. They're not a separate thing.
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He can be a loving father and a supreme ruling king at the same
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time. Never will Heavenly Father pull
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his crown off in order to be a loving father.
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In fact, it's his kingship that establishes his fatherhood
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because it's who he is. They're inseparable.
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He is the ruler, creator of everything.
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It's amazing. And out of his nature, which is
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Love Is All. Oh, Mama, it's all, it's
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everything. And so it's important for us to
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continue to grow in this thing called the Kingdom of God, of
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which our heavenly Father so desires for us to be his sons.
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Amen. And so this year, you know, as
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we again, just seeking the Lord. Is there something I just sensed
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in my spirit, the Lord's life. I'm still dealing with the
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church. Last year we started, we kept
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raining as our thought process, but we went into the reigning
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church and we're still going to be talking about the reigning
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church this year because God is doing something in His church.
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Now let's look at this. In Matthew chapter 16, verse 18,
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it says it this way. It says, And I say unto thee,
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King James Version, that thou art Peter, and upon this rock I
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will build my church, and the gates of hell shall not prevail
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against it. I'm going to say that again.
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And I say unto thee, that thou art Peter, and upon this rock I
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will build my church, and the gates of hell shall not prevail
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against it. It will not prevail.
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It will not prevail. So the church he's building will
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never be sounding like, whoo, it's getting so bad.
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I don't know what we're going to do 'cause his church is saying,
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I don't care how bad it's getting, it's getting.
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It's getting, it's getting. It doesn't matter how bad it's
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getting. What is happening is that the
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church is raining and it cannot prevail against us.
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Can't do it. We can say, Yep, sounds bad.
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Oh, that's not good news, but I have some good news for you.
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I just want you to know there is good news and you can take
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confidence. In fact, I just want you to get
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a little happy because our king said in this life you'll have
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trials and tribulation, but be of good because I've given you a
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Kingdom. I've just given you a Kingdom,
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my Mama. The gates of hell is the power
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of destruction, and it is of a lower position domain.
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So the gates of hell is the power of destruction of a lower
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position or domain. We know that Colossians says
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that God transferred us out of the domain of darkness.
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It is a lower position. I said it's a lower position.
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It's lower. It is not over, it's under, it
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is not above, it's underneath, it's not on top, it's on the
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bottom. And it's so far on the bottom
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that it's hard to even see that it's there.
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It's so beneath our King, so beneath.
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And this reminds me of something, man.
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I was thinking about this just before service about God.
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And I'm like the Lord, the Father, the Son, and the Holy
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Spirit, just them before anything, before he spoke.
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Let there be the heavens and the earth before creation.
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He knew the minute I create something not me, they can rebel
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and will. However, that position doesn't
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move me to not create that he was not intimidated by that,
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that he was like I'm still a higher position.
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It did not move him out of position because he's the
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supreme position. Are you hearing me?
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Prevail means this to be superior in strength to overcome
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so we can say this Scripture says it this way that that Peter
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upon this rock a revelation that I am the Christ.
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I will build my church and the power of destruction, which is a
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lower position or domain can never be superior in strength
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and overcome my church. I'm going to say that ain't can
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never be in a superior position to overcome.
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It doesn't matter if you're in a government that's a dictatorship
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that hates God, they're still not superior.
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It's not superior. So for all of our brothers and
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sisters that are in nations that they are doing everything to
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persecute, destroy the Bible, destroy Christianity or Christ
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likeness to destroy the name of Jesus, they're still operating
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from a lower position. In fact, the scripture tells us
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the Psalm says the Lord is in the heavens and he looks at the
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efforts of man and he what? He's laughing.
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He's like, really? Do they think all of that
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killing and martyring my people puts them in a higher position?
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It's not, so you understand. Unfortunately, we tend to only
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think finite man. Years ago the Lord finally
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showed me said, Son, quit living in the now.
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Go ahead and live eternal. Because when you live eternal,
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you know that things are beyond my lifetime, meaning on the
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earth when I let go of my spirit and it's gone.
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Because the reality is anything that's ever gone on this planet
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will be dealt with entire. There's not an injustice that
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God will not bring to justice. It's never going to happen.
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There's never a leader, never a person, never a moment, never an
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act, right? And we see this in the book of
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Genesis when the Lord comes down, he says, K, where's your
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brother? He said, I'm on my brother's
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keeper. I don't know.
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He said, well, his blood's talking to me.
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Now you may remove the vocal voice of a person, but you never
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remove the blood of a person in the earth and anyone's blood
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that's been spilled unjustly, any action, they will have to
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reckon with the Lord of all, the Chief Judge, the one in supreme
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power. And it doesn't matter if you do
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not see it in your lifetime. There is a lifetime in eternity
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that He is supreme and will rule and reign all these things.
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He is the Judge of the living and the dead, glory to God.
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So there is never a position that the gates of hell can be in
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a superior place of strength and can overcome, can overcome.
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You remember our new board member, John George, Reverend
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John George, when he came and ministered after COVID, he gave
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a startling statistic that prior to COVID there were so many
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churches within the United States and then after it, a
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large number shut down and never it was like 50% gone.
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They never reopened. Now when you hear that, you
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would think, man, the enemy has done something.
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Well, either they didn't know who they were or #2 the lore
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wasn't building that house anyway.
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For the Bible tells us unless the Lord builds a house, they
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that what labor. Labor in.
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Which means you can build a church that God hasn't
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authorized, but when the storms of life come, it will not stay
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standing. And to the untrained eyes it
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seems like it's a church, but to God it never was. 1 Amen.
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But we know that God's church is alive and well in the planet,
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and it may not seem to be everywhere in the context that
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we it, it looks dominant or the most powerful or the supreme, so
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to speak, because it's everywhere that we can see and
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every nation is enjoying it. It is operating in an in in
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places that may not be seen, but they're there nonetheless.
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They're some of the most oppressed nations have the
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largest growth of people coming into the Kingdom of God.
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But the Prince of the power of the air does not want you to
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know because he will not advertise for Jesus.
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Are you hearing me? Colossians 118 says this and he
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also and he or he is also the head, OK.
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He is the life source and leader of the body, the church, and he
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is the beginning, the first born from the dead so that he himself
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will occupy the first place. He will stand supreme and be
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preeminent in in how many things you understand that the biggest
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passion Jesus has today is his church is building his church.
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I said is building his church. He started this track by going
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after he preached after he was tempted of the devil came out of
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the wilderness and the power of the Holy Ghost began to preach
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this message. He said repent for the Kingdom
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of heaven as at hand. He announced a Kingdom is in
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your midst. And when he went to to Peter and
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John and and Matthew and all of his disciples, Andrew and all
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those people, when he made this declaration, come follow me now
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when we hear that, we hear it through religious lenses,
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because when we hear disciple, we think of religion.
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But when Jesus said disciple, if you read the amplified and some
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other translations, you'll know that when he says repent, it
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means change your thinking side with my party now party.
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If we say this in the United States, if I came and said,
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well, whose party are you with? You wouldn't think I'm talking
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about a church. You would immediately be
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thinking of voting, government and whose party?
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But yet these were the terms Jesus used.
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Jesus says come, follow me, side with my party, because a King's
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dominion is in the earth and you're going to want to be a
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part of this Kingdom. And they said, I'll leave
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everything to be in your Kingdom because for these they've been
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waiting for the king. The Jewish people, the nation of
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Israel, did not realize that the king would first come as a
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suffering servant because he wanted to extend his boundaries
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beyond the nation he had a covenant with.
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He wanted it to be what he always intended from the
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beginning. And we know this in Genesis
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chapter one verse 26 when it says God said let us make man in
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our image. He didn't say let's just be over
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1 nation called Israel. He said let us make man in our
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image according to our likeness and let them what rule have
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dominion. And so he says, I want the whole
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planet to be a citizenry of kings under the king.
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They're my offspring, they're of my nature.
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They rule like I do in this realm, like I do in my realm.
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Hallelujah. And Jesus has come to set that
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back in play. That's why Jesus says message of
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repent for the Kingdom of heaven is at hand, is saying dominion
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is for man, not for the devil. Dominion was for man, not for
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the devil. Dominion was for man, not for
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the devil. God never intended you to be in
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the condition you're in, in the position you're in.
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You are in a lower position because you are of a domain that
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is dark, that is in a lower position, and you are not to be
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in that position. I want to raise you up.
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I want to sit you on a throne. I want to raise you up and seat
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you in heavenly places. I'm going to put you back in the
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position that My Father ordained for you to be all the while.
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So when Jesus said I'll build my church, he's saying when he said
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to disciples, come follow me, he said side with my party.
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I have a government that's coming to the planet and you're
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going to want to be a part of it.
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That's why Isaiah prophesied very articulately.
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He said a son, a child will be born, a son will be given
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notice. The son is not born because the
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son always existed. A child will be born, a son will
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be given, and the government will rest on his shoulders,
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Hallelujah. And there'll be no end to the
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increase of his government or of peace.
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The government on shoulders are in the body, and the body is the
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church. And so God always intended to
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bring his government expression or His Kingdom through the
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church, which is much like an embassy.
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Wow. And so we see here that Jesus
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says when God gave Adam this dominion, Adam did the one thing
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that would cause him to lose his rulership, and that is to rebel
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from God. God said, Son, you can eat from
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any tree of the garden, but of the tree of the knowledge of
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good and evil, you shall not eat, for the day you eat you
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will surely. And the day he ate, through one
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man's transgression, sin enter the world.
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Death came. And this is not God's plan.
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This was not God's purpose. This is not what God wanted for
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man, but He had a plan. He had a way back so that His
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word concerning man would be fulfilled.
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Because there's no word, God says that He doesn't accomplish
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that. He doesn't have a pathway for
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accomplishment. Now, if you choose to accept Him
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or not, it's up to you, but you'll stand before holy God one
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day. And he said what I said about
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you, you could have been. All you had to do was believe.
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Because what I said. About man, I meant about man,
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and I made it for man, so much so that I sent my own son as a
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man. Because a man lost dominion.
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It required a man to gain dominion.
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This is why Jesus has to be born of a virgin, because the seed of
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man's now corrupt. And so God by the Holy Ghost
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impregnates a woman called Mary, and he grows as a man on the
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earth. He's the Son of God, yet the Son
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of man. And when the devil attacks him,
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tempts him, in the Luke's account of the temptation of
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Christ, he said, now look at all this domain, all this, all these
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governments, all these powers, all these principalities, all
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these things on the earth. I'll let you rule them.
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But all you have to do is bow down to me.
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I can give them to you because they've been handed over to me.
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In the Luke account, where did the devil receive this the day
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Adam ate the fruit? So the devil.
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Never stole from Adam. Adam abdicated his authority by
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willfully disobeying the word of God.
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And now we have sin in the earth and sin.
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We are all very much professionals, experts, we could
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say in the field of sin, so much so that we rightly know we're
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not worthy. We're not worthy and our whole
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existence. Since the day we.
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Were born, the enemy was telling us.
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You're never good enough. With God.
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And then we would do things that's not right with God and
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guilt and shame and all these things.
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But then you hear that Jesus has done something.
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I said Jesus has done something, that Jesus took your place, paid
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your price, went down the line of death.
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And paid the. Price so that you would not have
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to pay yours and that if you would just call on his name, you
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could be saved, be born again, or correctly translated would be
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born from above and you would take on the nature of God again.
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The problem is, is that when we interpret the Bible only from a
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sin consciousness, we'll live in the earth like unworthy people,
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although we're different people. And that's where.
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Religion kicks in because all of a sudden we're right with God,
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but yet we still convince ourselves we're unworthy to be
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around him. Yet all the while the Father
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saying you're only back where I said you were supposed to be.
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Why are you? Fighting against your position,
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I said let us make man in our image according to our likeness.
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And if you want to walk in true humility, then you must put on
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what we call Christ consciousness.
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Know that you're born again. No longer do you maintain this
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attitude of I'm a sorry Sinner saved by grace, but instead you
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said I was a Sinner. I was rebellious to the throne
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of God, but by the grace of God and faith in Christ Jesus, I
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became born again. And now I'm a child of God.
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I'm a believer and he renews my mind and he's made me worthy and
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he's made me righteous. And I can be what he said I am,
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and I am to walk in what he's declared me.
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And I am supposed to be on the throne with Christ and.
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When you see. That that church looks
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different. So Jesus said I'll build my
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church, which means I will personally be involved in doing
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it. But yet as the church, he is the
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head. Colossians tells us that he is
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the head of the church. He has first place.
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The word head means superior, chief, principal, one to whom
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others are subordinate. Who is the head of the church?
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What's his name? Come on, what's his name?
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We are never to debate with the head.
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What to do? We are only to say Yes Lord, yes
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Lord, yes Lord, yes Lord, yes Lord, yes Lord 'cause he's
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supreme. If we've called him Lord, how do
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I call my own shots? If he is supreme, why am I not
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speaking? Because the church he's building
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has his children that are passionate about waking up every
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day by the Spirit of God and saying, yes, Lord, I'm here
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today, use me. Whatever you want to do, I'm
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here to serve you. I bow down to you daily.
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You are my life, You are my source, You are preeminent, You
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are everything. And when those group of people
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assemble together, this is an unstoppable force on the planet,
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because Jesus is unstoppable on the planet.
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First place. Means to hold the first rank or
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highest dignity, to have preeminence, to be cheap.
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Now Jesus said this, which means then I always have to examine
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myself. We have to examine ourselves and
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say, are you first? Are we seeking you first?
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Are we putting you first in everything?
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Are we asking you? Should we take that job?
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Are we asking you? Should I date that person?
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Are we asking you are? We asking you?
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Everything. Are we asking Hallelujah, Lord,
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do I go there? Do I take vacation?
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Then do I stay home? Whatever the case.
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May be he's first place preeminent means this surpassing
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all others to have superiority. Now I know I'm saying these
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terms that are very difficult for the US citizen.
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I understand this. I understand This is why the
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Kingdom is is very difficult in all nations, because any type of
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government has some layer in God's Kingdom, but man corrupts
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it. And even in the.
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Great United States of America, where we are a constitutional
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Republic that democratically votes for our leaders, OK, we
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are not a democracy, constitutional Republic that
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democratically votes for our leaders.
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All right, it is still not better than God's Kingdom.
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And. What we have defined as freedom
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would not be freedom in the Kingdom of God.
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Now you can say anything you want to say, but you will be
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held accountable to whatever you say.
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He said he. Will hold account every idle
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word. See, in our nation, we're like
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freedom of speech. I can say what I want to.
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Which means we can complain about our government.
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Anybody won't complain about Jesus real quick.
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Anybody won't run him down. You say no, I'd never.
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Do that well, people have. People have called him a devil
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before. Said he.
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Cast out devils in the name of a devil.
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Amen. Yeah, there's many believers
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that have even cried out to God, prayed to God and then blamed
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him for stuff. Why could we carry this freedom
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of speech over into the Kingdom of God?
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See, there's this thing that we hold true to called
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independence. And.
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Independence is the most dangerous word in a Kingdom
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because in God's Kingdom there is no independence, but there is
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individuality. Because God made you.
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He created you. You've been fearfully and
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wonderly made. He did not want you to be a
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cookie cutter like someone else. He wanted you to be unique, but
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yet He created you to be with others.
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And that you? Thrive in the assembly.
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You do not thrive in in dependent.
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You thrive dependent upon others.
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When every joint brings its supply, the growth is better.
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You cannot do it by yourself. And many in our United States
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are carrying this thought of independence.
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I asked Jesus into my heart. I asked Him to save me.
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I have a personal Savior with Him.
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I love Him on my own. I'm right with Him on my own.
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And we don't think the church is a secondary idea.
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It is the heart of God. Jesus.
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Called disciples for one purpose so he could look at them and say
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I am going to build my church and if the church was not
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important then why does Paul planting so many?
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If the message was only about Jesus Christ, death, burial and
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resurrection, and you know where you're going to go when you die,
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then why did Paul have the painstaking task of going along
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with others through multiple generations where they have laid
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down their own lives so that people and nations could
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assemble around the Word of God and the head of the church?
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In fact, last. Year when we took time to spend
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on the reigning church, we had this whole timeline of the price
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people have paid not only to build his church, but to put
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together his engrafted word of God that's inspired by the Holy
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Ghost so that in every nation of every tongue, people could hear
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the word of God. Because you know, in the United
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States we're not suffering like others are.
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I mean we are much like Hebrews when he says you've not resisted
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God to the point of shed and blood.
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But there are. People in the in the world that
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are today. And we are not to.
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Turn a blind eye to that and we are definitely not should not
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squander our opportunity, but we should be the taking the lead
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because where our brothers and sisters and nations cannot do
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what we do, we need to do what we can do and not sit back and
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retire. Are you hearing me?
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Ephesians chapter one, verse 20 to 23 says this.
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And when he wrought in Christ, when he raised him from the dead
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and set him at his own right hand in heavenly places, where
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did he set him? Far above how many?
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Come on, how many all principalities and powers and
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might and dominion, and every name that is named not only in
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this world, but also the one to come?
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And he put all things under his feet and gave him to be head
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over all things to the not the individual, although it includes
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individuals to the Church, which is his body, the fullness of him
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that filleth All in all. Fullness means complete as an
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outfitting and entire ship. I like this because what this
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tells us is that Christ, who now has been given the name above
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every name, and God has put him up and seated him at his right
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hand. He is the head of the church,
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and as the head of the church, what he has done is now he has
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the authority and right to distribute a supply to His body.
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It reminds me of when I enlisted in the Army.
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When I enlisted. In the Army, there was this
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cadence that talked about getting rid of your civilian
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clothes. You got rid of your jeans and
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you put on Army greens. And we were seeing.
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This I took off my, my, my jeans and I put on these army greens
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and when I when I went into in processing, they stripped me.
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They. Stripped me of my former life.
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And they said we're making you a soldier.
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And soldiers do not walk up in here and wear what they want to
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wear. Oh, y'all don't want to hear
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this? That's fine.
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I'll preach over here. Maybe they're not going to wear
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what they want to wear. I mean, my haircut.
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Woo. As much as I liked it, it was
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gone in a blink of an eye, kind of like the Rapture.
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It was like, bam, it's off, it's out of here.
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And they next thing you know, I'm looking in a room that I
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look like everybody else. Although we're still different
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because some were taller, some were a little wider.
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I was really skinny and short. You know, we all looked a little
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bit different, but our heads were the same haircut, our pants
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were the same, our our boots were the same, our blouses were
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the same. I don't know why Army calls them
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blouses, but our jackets were the same.
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I mean, it was. We look the same, although we
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were different. And then we.
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Assembled every day. Oh y'all don't want to hear
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this? We assembled, we made formation,
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and if you didn't make formation, whoa, there's a thing
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called being a wall, and it is not good.
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I'll never forget one time I was in AIT, There's one particular
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guy that was kind of a problem and he tried to get me in
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trouble one time. Yeah.
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I mean, I'm such a good person. I was a good person.
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I was extremely nice during those days.
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I was a bit backslidden. But anyway, this guy tried to
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set up my my friend and myself anyway but he would come in past
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curfew because he was a drunkard.
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And. We didn't tell on him because
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you know, you, when you're in your own assembly, you tried to
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help your platoon get in line, and there are ways to do that in
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the Army. I'm not at liberty to tell those
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anymore. All right.
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But this particular person, we didn't use some of those
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tactics. We just let their sins surely
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find them out. And so.
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We're in formation, the whole company, and all of a sudden the
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squad leader gives his, his count of how many he has and how
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many are present. And he was -1 that drill
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Sergeant. Walk through there.
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You know, probably where is your, where's your squad?
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Where's your squad? I think they're in the bedroom.
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Next thing you know. These guys are running and the
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windows are open. They're running through the
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going up the the stairs, screaming.
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You can hear it. They get to that guy's bunk.
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He is drunk. He has wet himself.
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Sam will embarrass you people. I'm just letting you know.
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They drug him out. Threw him in.
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Front of the formation in his underwear.
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No, you're not getting. Dressed, he had to do push ups
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with a hangover. Then they cuffed him with the
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military police in front of the whole company.
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Because. That is not tolerated in our
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assembly. This is behavior not fitting.
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A soldier how much more the. Blood of Jesus, I said, how much
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more the blood of Jesus? Now this is what's awesome about
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this point. Jesus said I am giving to the
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church my fullness. I'm the.
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Head and whatever I had for the army that fit my head, it didn't
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stop. I never went to war neck down
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naked. They.
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Did not just issue me a helmet, you know, goggles, whatever
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would be on my head and then hear down nothing that would
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stink just beyond. Can you get an image of that
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real quick? Seeing a whole bunch of people
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come across like that and they're like, they're not
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wearing clothes. That would be dangerous in a
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battle, right? That'd be very dangerous.
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Yet if we don't watch out, we This is why he said put on the
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full armor of God. And in order to put on the full
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armor of God, you have to assemble.
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You have to come to the place of training.
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You have to come to where the equipment lies and the resources
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of that equipment comes to pass. And we need to know this is the
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case and everything that's been given to Jesus is ours.
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Come on, can I get an Amen? Can I get an Amen?
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Look at this. And he Matthew 2818 to 20 says
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it this way. And Jesus came up and spoke to
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them, saying all authority has been given to me in heaven and
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on and on earth. Go therefore and make disciples
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to of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father,
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the Son, and the Holy Spirit, teaching them to observe all
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that I commanded you. And lo, I'm with you always,
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even to the end of this age. Notice that he said, go into all
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the world and make disciples. Yet if you read the Acts
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account, when you're making a disciple, you are inevitably
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building a church. There's no.
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Context. From Acts.
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Forward, where discipleship is without church.
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That. Concept does not exist.
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It exists in religious Christianity.
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It does not exist in the Kingdom of God because if discipleship
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was only telling people, asking them to pray a prayer and then
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leaving and finding the next person that was lost, then Paul
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wasted a lot of time assembling people, answering letters on how
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they should live, conduct themselves now that they're in
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this Kingdom, outfitting them with all the necessary tools to
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overcome, to conquer, to equip. He would just say, now listen,
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you know where you're going to go when you die and you know
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have the best life that you can. That's all I can say.
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But at least you've asked Jesus into your heart.
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That was never the gospel. And that was.
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Never how church was supposed to be.
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The church always came and says I'm pulling you out of one
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place, I'm putting you in another.
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There's a whole new way of living, a whole new outfit, a
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whole new protection, a whole new way of doing life.
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And we're going to come together because when things come against
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us together, we'll always conquer.
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Why? Because there's still a lower
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position domain that exists in the earth, but our key has
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conquered it. And when we come together, then
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we'll always conquer it as well. We can't but conquer because
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Jesus said all authority has been given to me.
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And he? Distributed it to his church.
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So the church is the highest dominion on the earth.
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I'm going to say that again, the church is the highest dominion
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on the earth. Individual believer does not
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have the same power as a unit. As a unit in our military, we
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have different types of units. Now we all call them the Army or
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the Navy. You know, the different
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branches. OK.
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And and if you served in one of those, thank you for serving in
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our services. However, Amen.
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However, you were assigned to a unit.
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You are assigned you. You have no permission to leave
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that unit unless you ask for it. And.
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The commander could deny your transfer.
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I'm gonna preach that later anyway.
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But not every unit's the same. Not every unit's the same.
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And you know, in in my branch called the Army, we had this
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elite group called Rangers. Rangers.
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Now, we had different ranks. You know, you had infantry, you
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know, they have specialized. But then you had this group, you
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know, called Green Berets. There was red ones and Green
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Berets. And then you get to this thing
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called a Ranger. Now, everybody.
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Knew Rangers were different. Trained different.
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And not everybody was at that level.
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And it was pretty dishonouring. In fact, people who go through
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Navy Seals today and do not make it still do not say, well,
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they're just a bunch of sissies over there.
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They expect too much. They require too much out of
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you. Well, now, if you want to be in
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a unit that doesn't require that, you're still in the Navy.
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But don't be. Upset because when a Ranger
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needs to take territory. So.
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Maybe churches aren't the same either.
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Now we're all. The body of Christ.
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But maybe there's some that's being trained different.
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I know Kenneth Hagan, the head of Rhema, says.
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We are an elite group. Which means our.
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Training puts us at a different level.
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Now that doesn't diminish the whole body of Christ, but his
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expectation is are you living? And even Paul said, look, I am
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not going back. I what I've attained to, that's
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where I stay at because I'm not moving back.
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I have attained to something and I'm going to live at that level.
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And you understand, Jesus wants us to attain to a level
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Hallelujah. I said Hallelujah because there
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are people that are hungry and thirsty for righteousness for
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the body of Christ, for the church to rise up and to be all
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that it was required and and want to be.
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In fact, we want the church to dominate because God wants the
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church to dominate because we are the highest dominion in the
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earth. Now if that word bothers you,
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that tells me you have sin consciousness.
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Sin consciousness will hear the word dominate and go, Well
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brother, where's humility out? I'm going to tell you where
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humility is at. Humility is doing whatever my
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God says and he said I'm the head and not the tail.
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I'm above and not beneath. How?
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Can I call myself unworthy when he has made me worthy?
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I mean, I might as well spit his face like the Roman soldiers and
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say your blood's not enough. Just not enough.
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All it was good for is keep me out of hell.
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Can't transform my mind, can't make me different, can't help me
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overcome the enemies of this world.
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No, that's a different. Training.
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He's trained me in righteousness, I said.
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He's trained me in righteousness.
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He said that I would overcome. In essence, this word dominate
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means this to exert the supreme determining or guiding
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influence. The Church is supposed to have
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the supreme guiding influence in the planet.
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You. Natural government should not be
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telling the church what to do, especially that we're not
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essential. The government should not tell
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us when we can and cannot assemble.
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Arts and entertainment should not.
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The sports should not tell us, well, we're going to do a sport.
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You know we do church on that day.
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Oh y'all. That's fine.
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No, we should be. The most dominant, I mean, we
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need coaches to ride back up and say, you know, we need to change
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this league because there was a time that our sports didn't
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interfere with our worship. And y'all need to get back to
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the program because that y'all making this thing turn into
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idolatry. And I'm trying to teach my son
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and daughter how to work as a team, and you're trying to put
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them in idolatry that the football's more important than
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the cross. So we need to get our priorities
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right and we need to cut Wednesday's practice different
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and we're going to do in these tournaments on Sundays.
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But you got to. Rise you got to be.
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You got to know that you can exert a supreme guiding
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influence. It means to overlook from a
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superior elevation because of superior height or position.
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The church was never to do this. What we going to do?
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That's not how. We are in the earth what we
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going to do but yet is that not the church always look into
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heaven in the context of ho ho, I wish you'd come.
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It's so bad down here. The Lord's like, why did I not
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say pray this way, our Father, that art heaven hallowed be your
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name, your Kingdom, your will be on as it is.
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So if you don't have a heaven expression down there, it's
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because you're not asking. It's because you're not stepping
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out and dominating. You're not allowing the superior
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influence to a manifest in the Earth.
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Because my. Name is preeminent.
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My name is supreme. My name is above every name.
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And I've given you my name. I've outfitted you with
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everything heaven has to offer. All you got to do is walk in it
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because see, when you dominate, it'll make you dominant.
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You will be prevailing over others.
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You will have the dominant culture.
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You understand, believers are the dominant culture.
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And this is not like, oh, I'm better from a malicious heart.
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It's that God made me supreme because I'm of his nature, which
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means sickness and disease, bowel to me, poverty and lack
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Bowels to me, you know, mental health bowels to me because I
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have my health. My mental health is healthy.
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How's your mental? Health Healthy.
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I'm healthy. I have great mental health
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because He renews my mind. I wash it with the word daily.
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I let it renew my mind. I'm submitted to my Lord.
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He's supreme in authority. I just do what He says.
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I say yes Lord, I shouldn't think that way.
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Thank you, Lord, because the grace of God has empowered me to
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push that thought right out of my head.
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Yeah. We were just singing that.
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I said to Apostle Mars, remember that song?
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I'm going to wash that Gray right out of my head.
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Now I'm talking to some really older people here.
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If you know that song, you're like, if you do not know that
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song, you're like, I'm not old. If you know the song, you're
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aged, Let's put it that way. But I'm going to wash those
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thoughts right out of my head that are in line with the
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Kingdom of God. Amen.
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Hallelujah. Matthew chapter 16, verse 19.
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Jesus, after you said I'll build my church, He communicates in
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the gates of hell. That lower domain will never be
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superior. We'll never be able to bring
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some type of strength that would overcome US, ever.
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Are you hear me? COVID could never overcome the
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Church. No other plague can ever
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overcome the church. Government can overcome the
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Church. Nothing can overcome the Church.
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Ever. Oh my gosh, he said.
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I'll give you the keys of the Kingdom of heaven, and whatever
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you bond on earth shall have been bound in heaven.
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Whatever you lose on earth shall be loosed in heaven.
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Well, look, the church has the keys we're dictating.
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We are. But you'll never dictate that as
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long as your church doesn't reign.
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Your church. Is just where you come
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occasionally whenever you feel like it, because ultimately you
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know you're going to die and man, you're holding on until it
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happens. But man, when you're at a place
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that says you rule, you reign because you're seated on the
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seat with Christ. And if we do the words of Christ
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and we do the words of God and we operate in faith, then we'll
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overcome. We'll take territory.
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We'll go into this place and that place and, and no place
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that God that the enemy has set up a camp can, can withstand us.
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We'll go tear it down. We can even walk into those
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places and we can deliver all those who want it.
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Plus being somewhere doesn't mean the whole place changes,
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but it definitely give the environment for it to be changed
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if they want it. So we have the.
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Keys, John said this in 1412. Do a little speed round about
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our reigning church that we are dominant.
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We are, we are the supreme determining or guiding influence
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when it comes to the planet. We are at the elevated position.
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We are in a superior position because he has given us
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preeminence, because he is preeminent.
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John 14. 12 says Truly, truly. I say to you, he who believes in
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me, the works that I do, he will do also, and greater works than
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these he will do, because I go to the Father.
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How in the world could a St. a believer in Christ, one who has
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called on the Lordship of Jesus, not be dominant in every sector
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of society? When you go to work.
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Tomorrow know this, you are in the elevated position for every
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one of your Co workers. Every one of them.
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And then I can start calling some of y'all, some of you out
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because you have been exercising that and it's caused you to rise
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to the top and management caused you to rise to the top in
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different places because you all the while have become superior
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because of who you are in Christ.
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It's not of your own effort that did this.
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It's you're submitting this to him who already is in that
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position. Are you hearing what I'm?
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Saying in Matthew, I hear people all the time, all they're
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preaching that you know, little God doctrine, you're children of
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God. I don't know what to tell you.
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You're sons and daughters of God.
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You are ruling and reigning with him.
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So if you want to. Live substandard human
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existence. I want.
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To live the God kind of life. Because I'm a child.
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Of God I have his nature, his DNA.
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I'm not God, but I sure am His Son.
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And my daddy says this in Hebrews 12/28.
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Therefore, since He we have received a Kingdom which cannot
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be shaken, let us show gratitude by which we may offer to God an
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acceptable service with reverence, in awe.
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I am serving my king. It is not.
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It is not laborers, it is not toil, it is not too demanding.
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In fact, he said my yoke is easy and my burden is light.
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It's only heavy. It's only burdensome when you
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are doing it of your own accord. But when you do it with a heart
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to serve God, you'll never burnout.
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Never. It's impossible because as I
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serve Him, he empowers me. He anoints me.
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He pours His grace out on me, and His grace is sufficient for
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me. He's sufficient for all of us.
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There's still so much more we can do.
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And I live for the next life, not for this one man.
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I want to be like Paul. Don't you want to be like
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Paul's? A congregation where you like.
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I poured out my life like a drink, Humphrey.
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There's nothing. Left in me.
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Because I didn't live for. Now.
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I live for you Psalms. 118 Six says the Lord is for me.
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I will not. Fear.
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What can man do to me? See what kind of position we're
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in as a church. And yet all.
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Kind I'm I'm worried what if what if they come here?
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What if this happened? If God's for you.
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Why would? That's not that sin
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consciousness, not Christ consciousness, because I'm in
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the elevated position. I did not say, Jesus, you better
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put me on that seat where you're at.
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Jesus said. Son, you won't come.
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Get in the seat, I said. Yes, Lord, he said.
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Well, come on up, I'm putting you right here in heavenly
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places. I'm putting you in my.
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Seat, I'm giving you my authority.
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I'm giving you my name. Now Conquer, subdue, multiply.
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Have dominion. Do it, son.
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Do it, daughter. Show them you're my nature.
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Isaiah 5417 he said No weapon that is formed against you will
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prosper, and every tongue that accuses you in judgment you will
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condemn. This is the heritage of the
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servants of the Lord, and their vindication is from me, declares
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the Lord. Say what you want to say about
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me doesn't matter, but you better watch what you say.
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Because if it's not in. Line with the word.
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God's coming to. Talk to you Romans 831.
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Watch how we say to these things if God is for us.
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Who? Who people worried about Trump.
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What you worried about? He's a man.
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What you worried about? What can man do to you?
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I mean, people are in a frenzy about other people in the earth.
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What can man do to you? You're a child of the king.
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You're in the superior position. Doesn't matter.
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Because. God's not giving me a spirit of
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fear, but of power, love, and of sound mind.
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My gosh, we got to get some sound mindness.
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Hallelujah. How about this one?
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Romans 837 But in all these things we what, come on, preach
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with me right now overwhelmingly conquer through him.
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I'm not the Conqueror, He's the Conqueror and I conquer through
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him. He said it.
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He said believe, He said do this.
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He said step out. He said go.
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And I just went at his word. If he says get out of the boat,
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I'm out of the boat, people. You stay in the.
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Boat and say you go sink, I'm going to walk.
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And I've learned from my other brother, when the wave and the
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winds come, don't look at them. Just keep your eyes on Jesus.
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Oh my gosh. And I'll conquer winds and waves
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and obstacles as the church. We'll just move right along.
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What can the county Commission do to us?
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What can the state of Florida do to what can anybody do to us?
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We are here to do the works of Jesus and they are love and they
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are life. And when the enemy comes against
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us, it still won't prosper. That's who we.
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Are second Corinthians 214 says but thanks be to God, who always
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leads us. In.
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Triumph through Christ, man. It is the sweet smell of victory
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that's all over us. The world should.
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Be envy at us. Like many people.
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Win all the time. You understand when you are
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undefeated, everyone wants to knock you off.
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But there's. Nothing like being undefeated.
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And Jesus has never lost. Never, I said.
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Never. He's never lost to cancer.
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He's. Never lost.
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He's never lost in restoring relationships.
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He's never lost. I've had a guy come to me one
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time and he said he, him and his wife weren't doing great.
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He said, pastor, what's your success rate, you know, and
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restore marriages. I said 100% for everyone who
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does the word of God that I tell them.
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The only reason they. Don't work is because somebody
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don't want to do the word because God is the restorer.
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He's the Redeemer, he's a deliverer, He is love and he'll
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put love in you and you'll love someone you hate.
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He's awesome. Are you ready for this?
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Mark 16, last section of the Bible that we're going to touch
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today? It says this.
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And he said, go in all the world, preach the gospel in all
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creation. He who has been believed and has
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been baptized shall be saved, and he who disbelieved shall be
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condemned. Verse 17.
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These signs will accompany those who believe.
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Are you a believer? Are you a believer?
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I'm not convinced. Are you a believer in my name?
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In whose name? What's his name?
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Come on, what's his name? In the name of Jesus?
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They will cast out demons there. I don't care how much the guy
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homeless is talking to himself and have demons all over him.
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At a word, if God tells you go get them out of that person,
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there's nothing that person can do.
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But those demons are going to have to go.
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Go, have to go, They'll cast out.
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Demons. They'll speak with new tongues,
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they'll pick up pick up servants, and if they drink any
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deadly poison, it will not hurt them.
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They will lay hands on the sick and they will recover.
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What can we not do in Christ? I said, What can we not do?
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And God, his church is so important to him that He wants
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His church planted all over the place.
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And I'm going to be honest with you, I'm not the head.
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And I'm not. Judging, but I am concerned that
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there are a lot of places labeled that he's not building.
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So for me, I just want to go where he tells me to go, do what
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he tells me to do, touch where he tells me to touch.
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Go where he. Says to go.