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Remember It's Done - Kingdom Faith
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I I Hallelujah. Well, the Lords, good, Amen, are
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excited about the word today, are excited about receiving the
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word today, Amen. We're going to be doing
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communion a little bit later. And so, you know, as I was
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praying today, about an hour and 10 minutes, you know, and I
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prayed throughout the week. Really at any time the Lord can
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give me a message for service. Sometimes it's later than
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earlier. In this case, you know, as I was
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praying, I'm like, I'm not getting anything yet, Lord,
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nothing, nothing, nothing. But I trust, I trust because,
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you know, we could come in here and have service and not preach
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at all. And it could just be a totally
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different presentation. And he's not obligated to let me
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know anything. But he spoke to me and he said
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you need to remind them of some things.
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And I love the messages of reminder.
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Now, when I say that for those who know you don't check out,
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but the second thing is when I say reminder, you have to
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understand that sometimes there are people in our congregation
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right now or that will listen online that this is not
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remembering. This is I've never heard that
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before. Amen.
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Cause again, if you do not exercise even what you know, it
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will become weak. I said it become weak.
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I mean, we could do a test, although he would not allow it
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to happen. But I could have Pastor Mike
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come up here on the platform right now right in shorts.
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I could have him flex his quad. And then I could say for the
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next two years, I want you to do no, legs don't work out on them,
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just walk. We take a picture, we can
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measure his legs and then he does not do anything with his
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legs at all except walk. I guarantee in two years we're
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going to be shocked at how much smaller they are.
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So again, when we talk about remembering, remembering is at
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minimum allowing you to maintain size.
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In one sense, maintain. This puts you in a place where
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we're not going to lose size. We're not going to lose where
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we've attained to it. It strengthens us to maintain
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size. All right, So in Second Peter
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chapter 1, verses 12 to 13, as you're turning over there, I
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just want to thank you for the gifts that you gave to Pastor
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Marcy and I for pastor's appreciation.
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She mentioned it on Wednesday. I just wanted to mention it on
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Sunday. And we just appreciate you
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tremendously. I'll be honest with you.
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I sometimes wish that we wouldn't do this at all because,
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you know, at the end of the day, the Bible talks about honoring
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one another. And, and sometimes I feel like
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maybe in the church, we start creating these things just
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because, you know, we got to put them in calendars.
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Is it right to honor those that are in oversight?
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Absolutely. You know, but why do we wait
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around for one particular month to do something?
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You know, I, I feel like maybe I'm going to let our staff know,
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let it go because at the end of the day, if it's not something
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you want to do at any time, I don't want you to ever feel
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pressure that you have to. Right, because I love you,
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period. Amen.
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So mark that down. Make sure you tell Pastor
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Vanessa because he always organizes this stuff.
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All right, Second Peter, chapter one, verse 12 through 13.
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Again, if you can't remember us for who we are, I mean, it is
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what it is. Hallelujah.
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Amen. Second Peter chapter one, verse
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12 to 13 says. Therefore, I will always be
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ready to remind you of these things, even though you already
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know them and have been established in the truth which
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is present with you. I consider it right.
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Say, consider it right. We'll talk about this word.
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Consider later on. I consider it right as long as I
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am in this earthly dwelling to stir you up by way of reminder
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in Psalm chapter 33, verse 9. This is a great thing to keep us
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stirred up in, and that is this. He spoke, it was done, He
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commanded, and it stood fast. Can I get a better holiday than
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that? He spoke.
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It was done, He commanded, and it stood fast.
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Whoo, glory to God. In the age where everything's
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being questioned, this reigned supreme.
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He spoke, it was done. He commanded and it stood fast.
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Hallelujah. I said Hallelujah.
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I don't care about the shifting sands of time.
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I don't care about the ebbs and flows of culture of the world.
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I'm telling you. He spoke, it was done.
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He commanded, it stood fast. Hallelujah.
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When your king talks, I said, when your king talks, he's able
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to bring it to pass. I said, he's able to bring it to
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pass. Come on.
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You know, in Romans chapter 10, verse 17, it says this.
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So faith comes from hearing and hearing from the word of, of
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Christ. Now, I'm not an English scholar
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at all, not even close, but I do believe that this verse would
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have been better to have said so.
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Faith comes by hearing, period. And hearing or our hearing
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should be by the word of Christ, because we're all hearing, and
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hearing is what's giving us a firm persuasion of the words we
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heard of whether we believed it so much we act on it.
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We allow it to govern our lives. And there are things I have
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faith in that's not in the Bible.
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I mean, I am firmly persuaded, and I'll give you one very
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practical, I am firmly persuaded that the yellow dotted line on a
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highway is able to keep a car coming in the opposite direction
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on the other side of the road. That the one on the other side
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coming in the opposite direction has the same faith I have in my
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lane. And that is because that dotted
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yellow lines there that I am to stay on my side.
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I'm firmly persuaded I should stay on that side and never
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cross that unless you're going too slow in the Prius.
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OK, the only vehicle I get behind that they never do the
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speed limit because they're watching the little green
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battery deal of efficiency. However, but it is safe that you
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and again, I'm only packed because it's a dotted line
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because if you're gets a strike a solid one on my side it I'm
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firmly persuaded I should not because that would make me
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unrighteous. Meaning if the police saw me the
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law, the one who is able to enforce that law saw me cross
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out of my lane with that solid yellow line that I'm subject to
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a ticket. Are you hearing me and that
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comes by what hearing? How do I know this?
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I heard I was taught it is within our culture and I stay
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over on my side because it keeps me with life and the one coming
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against me towards me In life the goal is for us not to die.
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Well you understand God's word is to keep us in life.
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That's all it is. So faith comes by hearing.
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So whatever you choose to hear, except His truth and act upon,
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well guess what? That's what you have faith in
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and it can be something that's not even God's Word.
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Paul is saying your firm persuasion needs to be in the
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Word of God. Why?
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Because he spoke and it is done. He commanded and it stood fast
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and it does it for all eternity. Isn't that good news?
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Now faith comes by hearing. That doesn't mean you have faith
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just 'cause you heard. You have faith because you act
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on what you heard. Faith though comes by hearing in
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in Hebrews chapter one, verse 1. You know this.
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The amplified classic says this. Now faith is the assurance the
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the confirmation, the title deed, the amplified classic.
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I'm going to read out of the confirmation, the title deed of
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the things we hope for being the proof of things we do not see
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and the conviction of their reality.
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That's faith perceiving as real fact what is not revealed to the
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senses, meaning we believe what we heard God say more than what
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our physical senses can grab hold of.
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Again, a point is Jesus is walking on water.
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I mean in the natural senses, especially to a professional
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fisherman who has jumped out of a boat more than one time in his
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life, knows that is impossible. But as he's seeing Jesus walk on
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the water, coming to the boat and he no find realizes it's
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Jesus, he doesn't just assume, 'cause Jesus did it, I can do
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it. OK, Just because Jesus is doing
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something doesn't mean you can unless he speaks.
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Notice Peter didn't just step out of the boat and come to
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Jesus. What did he do?
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Lord, if it's you command me to come out, 'cause if I hear you
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say I can, then although I have all physical senses and natural
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experience that this is crazy and it's not going to happen,
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but at your word, come on. At your word bid me command me
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to come out. He said, come, four letter word,
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come. Peter got out of the boat and
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walked on the water as well. But what happened?
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See, he's not well versed in water walking, right?
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He's well versed in swimming, not in walking on it.
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And so when conditions arose that cause fear to enter in, he
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began to seek. I'm going to give you a
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practical lesson in faith, all right?
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Practical lesson in faith. Faith requires us to go against
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our natural senses, OK? Faith requires us to go against
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our natural senses. All right.
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How many you can ride a bike, OK, with every hand up, keep
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your hands up. How many of you have not ridden
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a bike in You haven't ridden a bike in the last six months?
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OK. You haven't ridden a bike in the
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last year. You haven't ridden a bike in the
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last two years. Oh, this is good.
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You haven't ridden a bike in the last three years. 4 and I get
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567-8910. All right, I'm looking around.
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Why is it all women now? No, there's a guy.
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All right, all right, Keith, I can't use you.
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You're you're not 100% yet. Who we got back here, Kevin.
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Come on, Kevin. Come on down, Kevin.
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Now, Kevin, let me ask this question.
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Have you ever ridden a bike? Huh.
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OK. Now, how many years has it been?
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Kevin? You think?
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Come on, Don, you live with the man.
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At least 11. All right, we'll go over here
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then. Let's get over here not to.
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Sorry. Sorry, Charlie.
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It's Charlie's bike. OK, Now he's riding a bike, but
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he hasn't ridden one in 11 years.
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And you know the saying, you know, obviously once you get on
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a bike, you know, you can just get back on the bike.
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You know, it's like, as easy as riding a bike.
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But how do you remember the first time you ever got on a
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bike? What did that look like?
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Right. Come on.
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What did that look like? Stay here.
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We're going to do a little illustration here.
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Come on, jump up here on the bike.
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All right? You can ride a bike, right?
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OK, but now remember when we first started learning how to
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ride a bike? Put your feet on the pedal.
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You got them. I got you.
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I'm going to hold you. OK, so we're going to pretend
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like you don't know how. Now, at this point, you
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understand this goes against our natural senses.
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The bike is faith. It's the vehicle that gets the
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unseen into the scene. So God gives you the bike, but
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you have to ride it all right? Now, The thing is, it's kind of
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against your senses. I mean, He can walk by himself
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once he figured that out. But now when it comes to bike
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riding, that's a whole nother ball game.
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And he can balance for a little while.
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But if he's never done it, So what do we do?
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Typically, God helps us in our faith.
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Put your feet on the pedals. And so He what goes with us as
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he begins, right? This is how we're going like
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this. He's helping you.
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Then he let's go of that, you know, and then he let's go of
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the seat. Are you ready?
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I don't know either. You're OK.
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And he's like there now. If you start to fall, he's like,
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what's he do they catch you? Right.
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I mean, if you were a good parent, you did that.
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All right. Turn the bike around.
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Turn the bike around So when you're a good parent, you're
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done. You're running behind it, like.
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And then what are you doing as a parent?
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Because the father does that. He buys you the bike.
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That's faith. He's like, you're doing it.
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You're doing it. You're doing it, you're doing
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it, you're doing it. And he's running with you,
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champion with you. You got it.
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You can do this thing. But again, when you first start,
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you're a little sketchy, little wobbly, right?
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You can be seated. Thank you.
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You help me out. Hey, Laura Wade.
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Laura Wade, you in here? Is she working?
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OK, who's working at cafe today? Who will will in here?
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Macy. Macy, get that man whatever he
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wants from the cafe after service.
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OK, So you know you started you're having to get yourself
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because living a life of faith is another environment and you
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got to steady yourself. You got to balance yourself
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right now again, you know as well as I do what happens, I'm
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coming to you. We're not done.
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But when you're riding your bike of faith, right, you're doing
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what God's called you to do all right, I'm really going to mess
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the media team up. That's fine.
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I mean, you're going, but you understand every of us when
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we're learning faith, we'll get in situations our obstacles may
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come and we I staged that. That was pretty good, right?
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Anyway, we can wreck. Well, what do you do when it
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seems like faith's not faith is still there.
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You just have to get up. You got to get back up.
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Don't abandoned your faith like some of y'all did when you were
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young. You banded it, went home and
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your mom and dad's like, where's your bike, right?
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And then your parents went, picked your faith up, brought it
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back to you, nursed your pain, right?
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But then the next day, what are you doing?
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Here we go. We're back on it.
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And the cool thing about faith is that once you learn it, man,
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you can really get moving and you can really get going, right?
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You can get going. Feel like a BMX bike guy right
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now. Yeah.
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Sorry. Excuse me.
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All right, we're going back. Now, here's the thing.
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When we if you don't watch out, if we don't stay in the things
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of God, we'll start living by the natural again and we'll find
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ourselves living on our own ability that oh legs blew up a
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little bit. Watch out now that we've lived
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in natural so that we've not lived where we're calling those
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things that be not as though they were.
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We're living based upon the blessing we've already received
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and the Bible talks about going from faith to faith.
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So again, when I get a bike now, I'm like, praise God, right?
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Jump on that thing, let's go. Because faith is always going
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and you have confidence. So when God gives you faith,
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you're like, OK, because you've conditioned yourself to live in
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the environment of the unseen. You don't no longer go by your
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senses anymore. You're like, bro, the word has
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spoken. And when you get real good in
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faith, you'll be like those BMX guys that when an obstacle
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comes, you know how to jump them, you know how to hop over
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them, you know how to slide down a place and then jump off to the
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other side. You know, you get so good in
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faith that when you come to an obstacle, you'll hit the
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obstacle, you'll do a backflip over the obstacle and land on
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the other side and keep going. Now the world will call you a
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show off when that takes place. But you know, you have practiced
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because those guys that do those kind of tricks did it through
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many trials, falls. But they said I'm going to get
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back on faith. I'm going to keep rioting.
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I'm going to beat that obstacle. I'm going to overcome that
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thing. I'm going to do that and land
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it. 11 years, people. And again, I'm putting him on a
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girl bike on top of that. Come on, now.
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Come on. See you guys.
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This is great. Yeah, this is amazing.
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You're doing so much better than I thought.
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Come on. Here we go.
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Hey, hey, hey. Whoa, whoa.
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You can take it on to the back. Man, that was like an anointed
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illustration right there. You couldn't have done that
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better because when you've been out of faith a little bit,
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although you've been on when you first get back, it's a little
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shaky. See, the reason why the devil
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wants you out of faith is because and then he'll convince
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you you you can't ever ride again.
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And when you start to try, you're a little, what do we say,
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Rusty? You got to knock the rust off.
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Are you hearing me? Amen.
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So we want to be those individuals that aren't staying
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off of faith for a number of years and then having to pick it
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up. You don't go to faith when
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trouble comes only we want to be in faith for everything, for the
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purposes, for the plans of God, for for other people, right?
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Because again, you can get so good in your faith that you can
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carry someone on it and you can carry a few people, right?
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In India they're pretty good at carrying people actually on
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their bikes. Now there's motorcycles they do
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this on, but then they also do on regular bikes as well.
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You know, you got them on the front and you got someone on the
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back and then they got a kid on the back of them and they got 2
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on their legs here and they're, it's like 5 or 6 people and
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someones pedaling, right? So again, you can carry someone
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on your faith, but you understand it's more enjoyable
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when you go with someone that they have their own faith to
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ride alongside you than you having to carry them all the
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time, right? And so, you know, put them on
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the handlebar, stick them on the back, whatever the case may be.
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But the goal is man, let's get you your own faith so you can
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ride this ride with me. Amen.
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And the greatest thing I love about faith is the skid.
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Oh my guys, they're listening to me.
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The skid, When you get going real fast down that road, a
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little bit of gravel and then you hit that brake, skid, that
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thing all the way around like that.
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I love to skid right on the top of the devil.
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Every dog on time, my faith comes to pass.
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I like to skid on him and then pump it so that my tire spins on
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his face a little bit. Boom, and then I'm going off to
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the next project. You know what I'm talking about.
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Now we move this whole analogy over to motorcycles.
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That's more power. We into more power now.
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Amen. And more power can get you a
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higher jump, a longer distance. We have the greatest power
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because we have the reigning spirit, we have the reigning
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word. And this word will never cause
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us to be defeated, be pulled back, to be destroyed, to be
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stopped. Nothing of that.
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None of that can happen because what I said, I spoke, it stood,
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it was done, I commanded, and it stood fast.
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Man, aren't you glad God's word reigns supreme?
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We know in Romans chapter 4 verses 18 to 21, it says who
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contrary to hope, who contrary to hope in hope believed so that
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he became the father of many nations.
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According to what was spoken, according to what was what
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spoken, so shall your descendants be.
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And not being weak in faith, he did not consider, say, consider
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his own body already did, since he was about 100 years old and
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the deadness of Sarah's womb. He did not waver at the promise
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of God through unbelief, but was strengthened in faith, giving
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glory to God and being fully convinced that what he had
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promised or said, he was also able to perform glory to God.
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God will do what he says. Now this word consider, we're
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going to look at it in two passive Scripture.
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It it, it has some of the same context, OK to it.
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But notice what it says here in Romans that Abraham did not
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consider. Say not he did not consider.
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So in order for your faith to see completions, you're going to
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have to have two considerations. You're going to have to have two
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considerations. Now, the first consideration is
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to what you consider, not what you consider not because the
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word consider here means to fix one's eyes or mind upon.
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So he considered not, he said. I am not going to look at the
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natural. I'm not going to look at it.
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If I'm going to be firmly persuaded, fully persuaded,
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fully convinced that what God has said will come to pass, then
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I cannot look at the natural circumstance.
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It tells me it's impossible. It tells me it can't be done.
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We have exercised this thing for years and it has never come to
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pass. But I cannot consider that
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that's not where my eyes or my mind is focused.
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Amen. Are you hearing me?
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So the first consideration in order for our faith to get to
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the place of done is that we don't consider the natural
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period. Doesn't mean we're not aware of
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it, Doesn't mean we don't know the facts of it.
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And we are not in denial of it. We're not in denial.
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We are just not considering it as the final say of what's going
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on. Because he has spoken.
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See, he spoke to Abraham. He spoke to him.
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I'm going to make you a father of many nations when he was
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still Abram. I'll make you a father of many
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nations. I'll make you a father of you
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are a father of many nations. Through you a covenant child is
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going to come. And not just you through your
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through your wife. You mean the one that can't get
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pregnant? That's the one.
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Now he has said it. He spoke.
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It is done. He commanded and it stood fast.
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Are you hearing me? So the second thing that we need
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to consider so that we can see our faith being done, that's in
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Hebrews Chapter 11, verse 11. This is his wife.
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By faith even Sarah herself received ability to conceive
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even beyond the proper time of life, for she considered him
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faithful who had promised so she did.
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The second consideration, Abraham's consideration, was to
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not consider the natural. Her consideration was to only be
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considering what he had said. In fact, the word consider means
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think on the leader's speech. It means to think on the
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leader's speech or the one who rules or governs me.
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So she said, I am going to think on what the Lord has spoken.
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That's what I'm going to think on.
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That's what she did. And when she did, she realized
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that He was faithful and faithful defined means worthy of
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trust. He was worthy of trust because
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he had always done what He said. Has God done what He said in
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your life? Come on, has He done what he
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said in your life? And you know what's so awesome
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about God? He proves it right out the gate
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the minute you become a child of God.
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Now in some cases, and in a lot of cases, honestly, God will
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prove it even while you're a Sinner, that if you get around
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the environment of God, God through his believers can say
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something on behalf of the King by their faith, prove His will,
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and He does what He says to help strengthen you when he starts to
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speak to you and say you need to receive Jesus Christ as your
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Lord and Savior. Now when you hear that as a lost
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person or person outside God's Kingdom, and then you act on it.
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We all know He does what He says because we become a new creature
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in Christ. The old has passed away.
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Behold, all things become new. Anyone truly born of God is not
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vacillating. It's a mate, a lost person that
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has never been in his Kingdom. The minute they accept Jesus
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Christ our Lord, they know. They know they have eternal life
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and their mind renewal is irrelevant to the reality of
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being a new creature in Christ. They know my God.
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I'm different, I'm different. I'm free from the shame, the
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guilt. I'm free because again, you can
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confess, Lord, with your mouth, but your heart be far from it.
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And all that was, was a confession that had no results.
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But man, when you believe, I believe it.
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I don't care how it happened, don't know, I don't understand
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it all, but I know this. He said that by his blood He has
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forgiven me of all my wrongdoing, my sin.
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He's canceled it, moved it out of the way.
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I'm going to receive that forgiveness and be born again.
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And man, when you believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, you know I'm
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somebody different on the inside.
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I look the same here. And my mind right now still
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thinks a certain way at times, but I know I have no doubt I'm a
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child of God. I'm a child of God.
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So he gives you a convincing proof right out the gate.
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Woo. And then if you get in do with
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power from on high and you receive that by faith, then
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you're talking the language of the Kingdom, constantly
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reminding you God did what he said he'd do.
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He said he didn't do me with power.
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He put power on me. I have the power of God.
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You know what evidence is? I'm speaking in other tongues.
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Once again, here are two what we call baby are, are, are.
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Yeah, elementary expressions are knowledges of God that he
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instantly confirms in US. I do what I say, Hallelujah,
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Hallelujah, Amen. So we know Proverbs 3 five and
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six says this trust in the Lord because when he's found
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faithful, he's worthy of trust, trust in the Lord.
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But how do you trust in him? Trust in the Lord with with with
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all your as your whole being and do not lean.
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So there's a consideration. So when you trust in the Lord
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with all your heart, then you're not going to consider your own
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understanding. You're you're going into this
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life of faith. I'm no longer going to consider
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the natural circumstance. I want to consider what has the
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leader spoken, the supreme King, the chief shepherd.
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And if you weren't here Wednesday night, you need to go
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online and listen. It's powerful.
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OK, So you do not lean on our own understanding in all in how
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many all your in all your ways, not in only in your trials.
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Lord, I'm in trouble. I'm having a problem here, man.
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Let me pull please. Would you send me a bike that I
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can ride? Can you send me some faith
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because I'm in trouble? Lord, He's like in all your
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ways. Because you know when we get in
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all of our ways, there's some trials we will avoid.
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There's really some trials you can just avoid all together.
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Now again, if you get in a trial that you put yourself in, God is
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so merciful to get you out. Your your father is not saying,
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well, you got yourself in in a mess, get yourself out.
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We say that, but God does not say that.
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God may say, well, you're in a mess.
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And when you're like, yeah, Dad, I'm in a mess.
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Well, you do know how you got here, right?
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Yes, Dad, I know how I got here. Well, do you want to stay?
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Honestly, Dad, I do not. Well, Dad, would you help me get
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out of this mess? Son, daughter, I'd be happy,
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thrilled, elated, ecstatic to get you out of this mess.
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And this is how you do it. And the minute you hear his
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voice on how to do it, that's all the power you need and
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you'll come out. And then he'll, he'll put you in
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a perspective that you'll won't even have to remember the
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mistake you were in. Oh my goodness.
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So in all your ways, not just in trials and tribulations, in all
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your ways. Acknowledge him and he will.
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What's he going to do? He's going to make you pass
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straight. Man, I don't know what to do.
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He'll make you pass straight. It seems like I can't see around
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this thing. He'll make you pass straight.
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He does. He's not one to just show you
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how to navigate the obstacle. He removes the obstacle.
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If a mountain's in a way, it can be removed.
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If a tree's gone down, it can be removed because the shortest
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distance, I'm getting mathematical now.
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The shortest distance between any two points is a straight
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line. God doesn't want you to wander
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way out here to come back into here because they need to teach
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you something out here. God's faith is a straight line.
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Here it is. Here it is.
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That doesn't mean things don't want to try to get on it.
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And God's not asking you to go around it because the shortest
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distance is to stay on the line. Because when the devil tries to
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throw things on your path, you're like Lord, a tree fell.
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He'll say, well, let's get a chainsaw, we'll cut this thing
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out. Well, there's a mountain.
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Well, let's get some explosives. We'll blow this thing up.
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I mean, it doesn't matter. Well, there's a fire in the
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middle of the road. That's OK.
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I got some water. We'll put it out.
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Don't get off your straight course, because what you saw at
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the end is still there. And you do not have to go
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around. If you get off, he can navigate
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you back no problem. But the shortest distance
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between any two points is a straight line.
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Isaiah 5589 says this for my thoughts.
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So we are to acknowledge Him in all our ways.
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For my thoughts are not your thoughts, nor your ways.
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My ways declares the Lord. For as the heavens are higher
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than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways, and my
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thoughts higher than your, my thoughts than your thoughts.
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What he is not saying that sometimes gets translated is
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that His ways and thoughts are so high we can attain them.
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He is not saying that in this passage of scripture.
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He is saying don't lean on your own understanding your way and
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your thought of overcoming is not how I think and my way of
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overcoming lean to me. Acknowledge me because I have a
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way of doing things that you could have never considered
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before in your life. I do things that you would have
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never thought of and I'll tell you what I want and then you can
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think like me and do it because my power will cause that faith
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to come to pass. You jump down to verse 11 and it
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says this verse 11 says, so will my word go, which so will my
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word be, which goes forth from my mouth.
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It will not return to me empty without accomplishing what I
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desire and without succeeding in the manner for which I sent it.
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So to do an illustration, let me sit here on the front of the
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platform for a minute. Let's pretend that I am God the
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Father seated on His throne in heaven at his right hand.
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Seated on the throne is Jesus Christ his Son.
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OK, The Holy Spirit is not just staying there because you know,
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He's the Spirit. He's everywhere, but He has a
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direct communication line to the Son.
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Seated at the right hand of the Father.
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You are in the earth with the Holy Spirit because God has come
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down. Glory to God, He's with us,
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Amen. And so he's in US and he's come
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upon us and he allows us to have direct communication to the
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throne room, the throne of grace that we can come to in time of
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trouble, in need. And when we when we are in help,
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we need help because all, not all of our help is trouble.
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Sometimes I just need help to accomplish my purpose.
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Sometimes I need help and knowing what I don't know.
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I mean, help is pretty general term.
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So what we do is we pray, Father, this is where we're at.
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In the name of Jesus. He's the authorized one in the
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earth. He's the king, right?
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He's the one who has died and risen again.
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He's the one who got who has received back the dominion Adam
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lost and he's extended that to us and now we function in the
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earth as his ambassador with his name to carry out God's will.
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So he communicates to the Father by the name of Jesus and we're
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saying, Lord, we're in this situation or we need to know
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this or we are going in this. We have some paths.
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Whatever. Whatever the conversation is, it
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gets to Jesus by the Holy Ghost. Jesus turns to the Father and
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says, what do you want to say? The Father says, Son, tell him
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this. Jesus then speaks to the Holy
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Spirit. We know this scripture because
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it says the Holy Spirit only speaks what he hears from Jesus.
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Jesus only says what he hears from the Father.
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The Father has the final say. So when the Father speaks to the
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Son, the Son speaks to the Spirit, and the Spirit speaks to
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you. He has sent his word.
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It went forth. Once you receive that word, then
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prayer as a king is to declare what you heard, and you say
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well, in the name of Jesus, and then you speak what you heard.
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Well, when you speak what you heard, it goes back up by the
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Spirit to the ears of Jesus, of which Jesus then will
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authenticate the sound. Oh, he will authenticate the
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sound because when that sound hits his ears, he'll know
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whether a firm persuasion is in the voice.
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And then does it have the authorization?
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He'll hear the sound of faith in the voice and the authorization
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in the name of Jesus. Jesus will then turn to the
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Father and says. What Pastor Earl, you know,
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Sandy, whomever just said in the earth and the Lord says, well,
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that's my word, that's my word. So then he says to son, it's
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granted. And then Jesus says it's
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granted. And then the Holy Spirit,
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because we saw it in the days of creation, he hovered over the
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earth waiting for the Word, and then he accomplished it.
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Then he hears from the King what I say it's granted, thank you,
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it's granted. Then it materializes from the
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unseen into the scene, and now it we fulfill the scripture that
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says is this is the confidence that we have.
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If we ask anything according to his will, he hears us and we
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have what we have said or spoken.
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So that's how your prayers are working.
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Your prayers are, Lord, what do you need me to say about this?
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And the father's like say this. The son says, say this.
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The Holy Spirit says say this. Then you say that.
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And then the Spirit comes up and says he said this.
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And the Jesus says I've authenticated that's faith.
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He goes to the to the Father says he said this.
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And the Father says, well, he should have confidence because
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that's what I said, and he's going to have it or she's going
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to have it, Glory to God, Amen. And that's anything he says
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without doubting. I said without doubting, Amen.
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So we see then here in Psalms 119, verse 15 to 16, he says, I
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will meditate on your precepts and regard your ways.
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I shall delight in your statutes.
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I shall not forget your word. The number one enemy to you
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having faith that's done is forgetting.
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Don't forget. We can't forget.
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We must meditate. We must stay with the word we
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heard. We must speak that word.
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We must be firmly persuaded, and that word is going to come to
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pass. What is a New Testament
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equivalent of this particular Psalm of 119, which Psalms 119
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is such an amazing chapter. Oh my gosh, it's such an amazing
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chapter. It is the key to life.
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I'm telling you, it's the key to life.
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Psalm 60, Psalm 6, verse 33. I mean, not Psalm Matthew 633.
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This is your new covenant equivalent, but seek first His
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Kingdom and His, and all these things will be added to you.
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The word seek means to seek in order to find out by thinking or
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meditating. So when we're seeking, we're
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trying to find out what the Father's thoughts are, which
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when we get his thoughts in ways, then we understand his
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righteousness, which righteousness is his way of
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doing it, right. And so when we understand his
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way of doing it, then they're at it.
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We have what we say. I said we have what we say and
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This is why it's so important in the dispensation we're in as a
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church is to seek the Kingdom. What's the king saying?
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What is the King? Because Jesus is crowned King,
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He has been consummated in heaven as King.
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When he went and poured his blood on the mercy seat of in
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heaven, God did a coordination and and crowned him King of
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heaven, earth and under the earth.
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Hallelujah and so when he returns, he doesn't return as a
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suffering servant, but he comes as a reigning king.
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He's already laid down his life as the lamb that was slain.
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The blood has been applied. The blood has there.
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And the reason why we remember the blood we remember the
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crucifixion is because it's what gave us access to new life.
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It gave us a spirit that's alive to God.
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It gave us spiritual ears to hear the Holy Ghost.
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It gave us the ability to know that when the king speaks, when
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the where, where there's a word of the king, there's power.
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When he speaks, it's done. When he commands, it stands
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fast. Amen.
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Hallelujah.