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Allotted Portion - Kingdom Heir
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So in Ephesians chapter one, verse seven, we're going to
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start there. I'm going to talk to you about
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your allotted portion today. All right, your allotted portion
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Ephesians chapter one starting in verse seven, it says in him
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that means in the position that he has placed you in him is this
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context where you're in him. You're in a denote a denoted
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fixed position. You've been fixed here all
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right. In Him we have redemption
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through His blood, the forgiveness of our trespasses,
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according to the riches of His grace which He lavished on us in
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all wisdom and insight He made. Come on, He made, He made known
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to us the mystery of His will, according to His kind
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intentions, which which He purposed in Him with a view to
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an administration suitable to the fullness of the times.
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That is the summing up of all things in Christ, things in the
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heavens, and things on the earth.
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In Him also we have obtained an inheritance, having been
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predestined according to His purpose, who works all things
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after the council of His will, to the end, that we who were the
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first to hope in Christ, would be to the praise of His glory.
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In Him You also, after listening to the message of truth, the
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gospel of your salvation, having also believed you were sealed in
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Him with the Holy Spirit of promise, who is given as a
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pledge of our inheritance, with a view to the redemption of
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God's own possession to the praise of His glory.
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Notice in this passage of Scripture, He says in Him a few
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times and a lot of times we talk about in him or in Christ, but
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most people don't even know what in means.
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They don't even know what it really means to be in him in our
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circles, in him or in Christ. Realities are spoken of often,
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but we are we typically take it through the lens of what we have
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in him without understanding the in we're in.
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And when I say the in we're in, we're talking about who we're
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in, because in him is in Christ. And Christ is not a last name,
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it is a title. It is a Greek title that's
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equivalent to a Hebrew title called Messiah.
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And both of those terms are to be defined as the king.
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And so we are in the king, which means we are royalty.
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Come on, we are royalty. We are in a royal bloodline, We
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have been placed in a royal family.
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We are a part of a royal Kingdom.
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We are in grafted in in him. All that's in him is in us.
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So what's fixed in him becomes fixed in US.
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And so there's an inheritance that is spoken of in these
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passages of Scripture. I find it interesting in verse
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11, which starts actually 2 words previous in verse 10, it
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says in him also we have obtained an inheritance having
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been predestined according to His purpose, who works all
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things after the counsel of his will.
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You understand God will do what He said He will do.
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And if we will find out what God has said about us and where He
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determined us to be and where He fixed us before the foundations
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of the world in His Kingdom and in His King Christ, then we can
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walk that path out and have everything destined to us or
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allotted to us based upon an inheritance.
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Based upon an inheritance. So we see then.
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And to remind you in Luke chapter 12, verse 32.
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Fear not little flock, for it is your father's.
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What good pleasure to give you the Kingdom.
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To give you the Kingdom. Yeah.
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Wow, that's so awesome. Listen to this in Hebrews
Hebrews 11 chapter mention
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Chapter 11 verse says it says without faith it's impossible to
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please God, right? So to be pleasing to him would
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bring God pleasure, right? So there's pleasure in pleasing
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all right. So it's God's good pleasure to
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what do you understand God's in faith that you'll receive what
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he has for you. He's believing that you'll get
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it. He has a confident expectation,
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a hope that you would receive. In essence, he's working
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everything out so that you have an opportunity in order to walk
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in what you've been predestined. And predestined doesn't mean it
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happens without your involvement.
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Predestined means God has a plan for every human that He saw in
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Christ. Should you accept His Son by
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faith through the death, burial, resurrection?
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If you'll do that, He'll put you on the path He predestined
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before the foundations of the world.
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But if you choose not to, then you abort your Kingdom
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assignment or your allotment with the Lord of your own free
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will. But if you'll get in his will,
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if you'll jump sides, if you'll come over into his Kingdom, then
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you will be able to walk this thing out.
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So he said fear not meaning don't be afraid, meaning it
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doesn't matter what's going on in the world, you shouldn't sit
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in fear doesn't matter what's happening in our nation doesn't
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matter what's happening in in the world doesn't matter with
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wars and rumors of war, doesn't matter with famines.
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It doesn't matter with pestilence, doesn't matter about
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those things. You are the fear not fear not.
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Fear not. Fear not.
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Fear not, fear not. Let me tell you, even to this
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level, you are not to fear, even if natural laws take away your
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liberty. Natural laws may strip you of
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your rights, but they cannot strip you of Kingdom rights.
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And when Kingdom rights are in play still, what can you fear?
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Because when Peter was thrown in jail after King Herod saw that
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the Jews loved that he killed James the brother of John.
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He said I'm going to kill Peter too, but we going to wait till
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after the Passover. And so the laws were against
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Peter. The persecution was there, but
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he fell asleep in the midst of a prison.
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He was full of peace. He had no anxiety or worry
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because even in Peter's mind, if if they take my life tomorrow,
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I'll just be present with the Lord.
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However, God was not finished with Peter and caused an Angel
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to do a prison break and bust him out of jail with the
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jailer's chain to him. Are you hearing what I'm saying?
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So in No Fear, God can deliver you, He can translate you.
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It doesn't matter what's going on.
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Why are we afraid of anything? Not when you're a Kingdom
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citizen, Not when you know who you are in Christ, Not when
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you're walking out the allotted portion.
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The Bible is very clear. You cannot be taken out by any
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enemy if you are in the plan and purpose of God and you are
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pursuing it. If you are pursuing it, God will
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allow you to finish your course. I'm not saying that the end of
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your course could not be being martyred.
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I'm not saying that because Peter was martyred.
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Paul was martyred, OK, but they finished their course is what
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I'm saying. They finished.
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However, many will never experience being martyred.
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They will can just finish their course and then leave and go on
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and be with the Lord. Are you hearing what I'm saying?
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So in essence, why would we ever be in fear when we're guaranteed
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by the King that He will accomplish in US everything He
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purposed or predestined before the foundation of the world that
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we would walk in according to the council of his will?
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Cannot be taken out, cannot be stopped, can't happen.
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Acts chapter 26 verse 18 says this open to open their eyes and
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determine them from darkness to light and from the power of
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Satan unto God, that they may receive forgiveness of sins and
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inheritance among them which are sanctified by faith that is in
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them. Notice Jesus Christ came to give
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you the Kingdom. In order for you to walk in the
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Kingdom, you're going to have to be saved or born of that
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Kingdom. We use the term born again, but
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the correct way to say that is born from above.
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In essence, Jesus is saying you must become a legal citizen of
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my Kingdom. And in order to be a legal
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citizen of my Kingdom, you have to be born of my Kingdom.
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And so Nicodemus was like, how can I be born from above or born
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again? I cannot go back into my
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mother's womb. I'm an older man.
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He says you're missing it. This is not a natural thing,
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this is a spiritual thing. And so when we believe that
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Jesus Christ died on the cross and rose from the grave, and we
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confess with our mouth Jesus is Lord, we become a new creature.
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Where? What?
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In Christ we are fixed in a position, seated on the throne,
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raised up in heavenly places. In Christ, we're seated there,
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We're placed there. In essence, He takes us into the
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family. He pulls us out of the domain of
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darkness or the power of the enemy.
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He pulls us away from the power of Satan, and He moves us into
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the family of God, where we again are royalty.
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We are a holy nation, a peculiar people, a royal priesthood, all
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right, and it gives us an inheritance.
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Look what it says in Colossians 112 through 14.
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Give me thanks to the Father who has qualified, Say I'm
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qualified, say I'm qualified, who has qualified us to share in
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the inheritance of the Saints in light.
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For he rescued us from the domain of darkness and
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transferred us to the Kingdom of his beloved Son, in whom we have
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redemption, the forgiveness of sin.
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Do you understand? We are transferred into the
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Kingdom not when we go to heaven.
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We are transferred in the Kingdom the minute we are born
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again or born from above, the minute we confess Christ as
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Lord. The sin account that we have is
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taken off our books. I said taking off our books.
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The blood that has been poured on the mercy seat now has been
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applied. You know, we talk a lot about
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grace and we don't talk enough about mercy because again, in
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order for the grace of God to get active in your life through
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faith, mercy first showed up. We say, but for the grace of
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God, really it's but for the mercy of God, grace came by
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faith because the the blood is not on the grace seat.
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It's on a mercy seat. I said it's on a mercy seat, and
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when we didn't deserve mercy, God gave us mercy.
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But mercy comes at a cost. Mercy is not free.
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Mercy comes by way of the blood. And so blood is poured on the
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mercy seat, which now can be transferred to your account.
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Why? Because of the throne of grace.
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God's empowering grace. He says, I'm going to give you
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what you don't deserve, which is forgiveness.
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And then when you receive my son, I'm going to empower you
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with the same grace that comes from my throne, which is an
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empowering grace to overcome every form of temptation.
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And it's all activated by the principle of faith you believe
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and firmly persuaded in your heart.
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So we are, we have been qualified, say qualified.
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Come on, stay qualified. We have been qualified because
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we're born again. You're not qualified because you
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were good enough. You're not qualified because you
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deserve it. You are qualified because by
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faith you received Jesus and have been given a new name and
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then been given the name, the name that's above every name.
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And what's been qualified in Him has now been given to you and
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you have a right to it based upon that.
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Hallelujah. You have a right to it because
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of your birthright. Inheritance by definition means
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an allotted portion. You need to walk in your
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allotted portion. Notice here in verse 12 again,
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it says who qualified us to share, say share.
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So guess what? You don't get all of the
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inheritance. It's amazing how many Saints
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want to be the the closest one that looks like the Messiah.
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They want to be the anointed one, the one that everyone comes
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to, the one that everyone wants to get a word from, the one that
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everyone has their hands, has their hands laid upon them.
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The one who prophesied, the one who no, we're share.
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We share in this thing. Nobody, no one has it all.
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No one was supposed to have it all.
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But when we come together as one, then it's all available.
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I said it's all available. This is why the church is so
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important, because I need your allotment.
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You need my allotment. There's times we're going to
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come together a lot. You need the allotment that's
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bestowed on me. I need the allotment that's
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bestowed on you so that when we all come together, the full
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inheritance begins to manifest. In fact, I'm quite persuaded
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that the local body has the full measure of the inheritance.
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Now, when I say that, don't equate that with the corporate
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church, Don't equate that with the corporate church.
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OK, when I say corporate church, that means every church that's
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out there that's professing Jesus Christ as Lord.
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What I'm saying is is that this church when we come together, we
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have every bit of the resource available to us and through us
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for this assignment that other bodies we're not dependent on
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those we're not because God's assigned us in this location
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where we get the full measure. How do I know this Because
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Ephesians tells us that when we come to maturity that we would
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be complete, we would develop the fullness of Christ.
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And this is you can't be this where someone in Indian, someone
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in Kenya, someone out because we're not assembling physically
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with them. This has to do with the ones
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that are assembling physically together.
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We can have a completion of all the inheritance from the Kingdom
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of Heaven to manifest through our lives corporately and not
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lack anything that's financially, that's physically,
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that's emotionally, there's not a lack when we come together,
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but we're sharing. Come on, we're sharing.
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You're going to have to learn to share.
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I said you have to learn to share.
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Got to share better. You know, you got to play well
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with others. If you're one of those that
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doesn't play well with others, you need to repent.
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Get it together, because you're going to have to learn to play
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well with others. Because God did not come and
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save you. He didn't come and save you.
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He came so that everyone can be saved, of which you're one of
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them. So the inheritance was never
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designed to be available only when you die and go to heaven,
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but was designed to be available because he died.
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I said he died. An inheritance is something you
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receive because someone has died.
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And it's amazing how many believers are waiting to inherit
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heaven. When the Lord's like, I'll get
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it down on the earth, I'll get it down there.
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You don't have to wait on this thing.
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I don't want you waiting. I want you receiving it is the
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Father's good pleasure to what give you the Kingdom, his King's
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dominion now to function in it. And he's giving you and me an
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allotted portion. And when we all come together,
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we have a complete portion of his inheritance that we get to
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function and walk in because Christ died.
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And here's what's so awesome about this inheritance we have
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because when you sit down and Reese and the reading of the
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will has come, you know, by the legal people of what is yours
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through the inheritance. What's so awesome is there's no
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way it could be corrupted because Jesus rose on the third
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day and comes and tells you Now let me tell you all that I died
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and left you. It became legal because I died
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and I'm alive to make sure you get exactly what I've died for.
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Amen. I mean, the devil has been in
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multiple will readings telling them can't have this, you can't
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have healing, that's for later. You can't have joy.
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You just going to have you can't have, you can't have, you cannot
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have, you cannot have, you cannot have, right saying these
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things. Yet they won't listen to Jesus
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in the room that says, that's not what I meant, that's not
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what I wrote, that's not what I'm saying.
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Come on. Look at Romans chapter 8, verse
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14 to 17. Come on, let's talk about our
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lot of portion. It says for all, for all who
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have been, who are being led by the Spirit of God.
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These are sons of God. So a confession of faith gets us
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in the family. Then God expects us.
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They expects us, expects us to have an ear to hear the Holy
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Spirit. What does this look like?
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The great fallacy that permeates our culture and has hit other
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nations because we are the greatest export exporters of
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missionaries to the world. And as a result of of sending
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out missionaries, many have gone out with the intent to tell
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people that Jesus died on the cross and rose from the grave
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and that is true and that if you call on his name you'll be
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saved. That is true.
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But it's all in the package of where are you going to go when
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you die? It is not a reading of the will.
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Let me tell you what is yours now in Christ because we would
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be dominating nations if this was the case, OK.
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And so because. There has been this digression
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of not talking of all the full counsel of God, just this really
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escapism. I don't want to go to hell, I
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want to go to heaven. I know I'm wrong.
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Jesus's blood forgave me. I'm going to ask him to come to
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my heart now. I know I'm going to heaven when
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I die. And that's the sum of the
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conversation. However, the Lord, when you
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received Christ, expected you to have a revelation of a thing
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called Lordship, not Savior ship.
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Christ saved us and we've said this here at Anchor Faith Church
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on multiple occasions. You can find this in the book of
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Beginnings, which is the plan for man.
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God said in Acts chapter one, when he has created this heaven
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and earth that has no sin in it. Genesis one, no sin.
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He's created the heavens and the earth, no sin in this earth He
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has he places his man there. He said let us make man in our
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image according to our likeness and let them have what dominion
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over the fish of the sea. You know the Scripture.
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Then he goes and he takes the man in the second chapter, still
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no sin, tells him to take care of the garden, keep it, all
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these particular things. And then he says this.
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He says this because I need to know you love me, because love
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is demonstrated through obedience.
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And he says to him, Adam, you can eat from any tree or man.
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You can eat from any tree of the garden, but of the tree of the
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knowledge of good and evil, you shall not eat.
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For the day you eat you will surely.
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And we've asked this question, if Adam had never eaten the
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fruit, where would he be today to be right here on the earth,
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which means Adam was never singing.
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When we all get to heaven. Adam did not have a desire to go
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to heaven because God came to the planet all the time.
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And it's amazing how many people struggle with that one thought
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because it's really not about location anyway.
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It's about being present with the Lord.
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I mean, if Jesus Christ came and manifested right here on the
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platform right now and said to you, I want to go home with you,
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would you say no, or you can go to my house, but I want to go to
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heaven. I mean, you're with Jesus,
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right? In fact, the Scripture says to
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be absent from the body is to be what?
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Present with the Lord. He is presently in heaven, but
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we know he's not staying there. The point is, is that that Adam
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was not looking for a place to go because he was already in a
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perfect place and God was with him already, but because Adam
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fell from dominion, not heaven. And redemption is to put us back
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in this dominion state, not to take us to heaven, although we
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will go there. We will transfer there for a
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time, although we won't be there permanently.
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Because I'm going to be where the Father is.
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And if you want to know where the Father is going to be, read
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Revelations 21 and 22. Because I'm going to be where
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the Father is and when I'm going to be with the Father, because
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that's all that matters. And So what we've done is we've
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gone around and we've had this expectation.
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So we said this, if Adam had never eaten the fruit, then he
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would still be on the earth, which means Jesus never would
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have needed to save us. Jesus would not need to be
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Savior. So Savior is an assignment
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because Adam fell, but he's always been Lord.
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And salvation is not about just Savior Jesus.
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It's about actually making Jesus Lord.
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Now Lord means supreme and authority.
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It's not a religious word at all.
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Yet we've made the message of Jesus religious.
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Just ask Jesus into your heart to save you.
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That way when you die, you'll go to heaven.
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Well, it's not about asking Jesus to come into your heart
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and save you alone. It's about making him Lord of
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your life where now you are yielded and submitted to his
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will because he's the one who's supreme in authority.
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This is why Romans brings a little more clarity and says,
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now listen, you want to know if you're a son of God, you're
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going to be led by the Spirit, which means you're not calling
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the shots. God is so true.
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Sons of God are having an attentive ear to hear what the
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Spirit is saying and saying. Yes Sir, because your Lord.
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It's your will, not my will. This is extremely important
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because you're not going to walk in your allotted portion of the
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inheritance if you are not yielding to the voice that you
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are supposed to be submitted because you made Jesus your Lord
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who happened to save you from your sins.
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And for some people, they say, well, that's semantics.
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It's not semantics because people who live a life according
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to Savior Jesus and those who live a life according to Lord
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Jesus live two different lives. Savior Jesus, people will be
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sick, will be carnal, will live much like the world, but will
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tell you they're going to heaven when they die.
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And when you look at them on the outside, they look like they are
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subject to the rest of the world.
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And like the rest of the world, they're up and down, highs and
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lows, no consistency in their life, none.
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But you get around someone who's Jesus is Lord.
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Oh, that person's a totally different person.
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They begin to walk in the covenant rice.
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They walk in their inheritance. They begin to walk in their
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authority. They begin to manifest the
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Kingdom in their lives to where people would say you're not even
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of this world Savior Christians, they look like the world and
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they make basically live this life.
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I'm just a sorry Sinner saved by grace.
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I mean, I sin every day too, but I'm going to heaven when I die.
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That is not what God expected. God expected that we come out of
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that darkness. We are no longer subject to sin,
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that we would be above it and then we walk in the authority
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that we have. So Romans 4814 says, and all who
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are being led by the Spirit of God, these are the sons of God.
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You have not received a spirit of slavery leading to fear
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again. Again, fear not little flop, for
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your father has chosen what come on chosen what come on chosen
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what to give you the Kingdom For you not received a spirit of
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fear again or a spirit of slavery leading to fear again,
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but you have received a spirit of adoption as sons by which we
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cry out ABBA father. Now that's an interesting word,
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adoption here because you're like, wait a minute, I thought I
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was born of God. How can I just be adopted?
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Well, this word adopted really just means you've been
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possessed, positioned, you've been put in a in a position, all
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right, says the Spirit himself testifies with our spirit that
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we are children of God. And if children, then what are
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we? What are we?
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Come on, help me out. What are we?
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We're heirs, also heirs of God and fellow heirs with Christ.
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So we're heirs of God, but we're fellow heirs with Christ, if
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indeed we suffer with him, so that we may also be glorified
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with him. And you know, the sufferings
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we're going to have with Jesus is we're going to put down our
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will to do the will of the Father.
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The sufferings Jesus did was to resist temptations, to handle
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trials and tribulations, to not speak his own mind, but to only
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speak what his Father said. Remember what he said one time
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to the crowd? He said, how much longer must I
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suffer with thee? Now they weren't beating because
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when we say suffering, most of us think, well, that's the
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beatings. Well, that what that did there
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was a physical suffering he took that is true statement.
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But again, we're not going to take 39 stripes on our back.
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So it's not physical beatings that make us the same, it is the
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context that we are denying self, denying our will to do His
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will. We take up our cross, meaning we
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take up our assignment and purpose, not our own.
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We deny ourselves like Christ denied himself.
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I don't come to do my own will, but only of the will of the one
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who sent me. OK, and so then we are heirs.
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The word heir means one who receives his allotted possession
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by right of sonship. So you are an heir because of a
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rite of sonship. Aren't you glad you're born
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again? Aren't you glad you said goodbye
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yesterday? I'm not living that way anymore.
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Amen. My wife and I don't talk a whole
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lot about our yesterday. I mean, it's uncomfortable for
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us to talk about our yesterday. There are times that we may
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communicate a little bit about our yesterday because they can
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help somebody get out of there today.
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But I don't dwell on my yesterday.
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I don't focus on it. In fact, to talk about it
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grieves me because it grieve God that I live that kind of
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existence. And that's why Jesus came, so I
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could get out of it. So I don't revel in it.
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I don't prop it up. I just get excited about what
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Christ has done. I'll talk more about Christ and
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this new life I'm in than the one I came out of.
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Now, that doesn't mean I've forgotten where I've come from.
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But I don't dwell, will I? Where I've come from.
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I don't dwell there. I've been redeemed, I've been
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changed, I've been bought and paid for.
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I'm not even the same person. It's like even kind of odd to
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talk about it 'cause I'm so different.
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OK, but verse 17 of Romans 8IN the easy read version, I like
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this. Look what it says.
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If we are God's children, are you God's children?
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Come on, are you God's children? We will get the blessings God
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has for His people. Notice this next statement.
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He will give us all that He has given Christ.
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He will give us all He has given Christ.
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Everything the Father has given Jesus, he will give.
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Everything the Father has given Jesus, he will give.
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Now notice it's still an allotted portion.
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Now there's some things you get full things of you get full
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healing, you get full provision, you get full joy.
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But then your gift, there's a portion of your gifting or your
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assignment that's connected with other people's assignment.
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And when you stay connected in those veins, then it ultimately
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releases the full measure. It's when you disconnect from
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those individuals that your your portion can dwindle.
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I'll give you a great example of this.
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I didn't think I was going to go here but I will.
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Just in a quick recap, the father gave two sons their
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inheritance because the younger one did not want to wait for his
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father to die. So when he requested that he get
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his inheritance, now he receive it.
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Now his father gave it to him while alive.
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But in order for him to give the younger son his inheritance, he
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must give the older son his as well.
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And the older son, concerning this particular nation, received
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a double portion of the inheritance.
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So the younger son received his allotted portion.
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And instead of staying with the family, with the household, he
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took his allotted portion and did it his way.
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So the minute he disconnected the allotted portion, he had
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dwindled up, died, and he became impoverished.
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Well, people don't realize when they're in connection with the
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churches. When you start to start flowing
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in your inheritance, if you get out of the place you're
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assigned, it will seem good for a while because it seemed good
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with this guy. In fact, when he first left, it
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seemed like he had hit the jackpot.
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He was in the slap will of God. He was having the best life
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ever. And if he would have been on
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social media, he'd have been posting all the great things
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that he was accomplishing. Now that he has left the house,
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but we would have recognized later on, there's very few posts
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happening what seems to have happened.
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So again, just because in the beginning stages it seems like
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it's all there, if you're not where you're supposed to be
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planted, it will eventually dry up.
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And here's the only remedy. Are you ready for this?
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The only remedy is you have to go back to the house repented.
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You have to come back repented. If you never come back in a
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position of repentance, then you'll never receive any more
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allotted portion. Wow, are you hearing me?
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He will give us all that He has given Christ.
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Well, what has Christ been given?
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Look at Matthew 18 or 28. Matthew 28.
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Amen. Matthew 28 You ready to shout?
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Because everything I'm a read is yours.
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He will give us all that He has given Christ.
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OK. 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 earth. What did the Father give Jesus?
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All where and and do you have some authority now?
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You have it because he has it. You have it because he has it.
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This is not an authority you have on your own.
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This is an authority because you're in Christ.
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You've been raised up and seated with him.
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When God looks at you, he's like that guys on the throne.
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That woman's on the throne. That's my child.
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They're speaking on behalf of my son.
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This is why he says whatever you bind on earth shall have been
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bound in heaven, and whatever you loose on earth shall have
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been loosed in heaven, because all authority has been given to
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our King Jesus, which means we share.
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Whoa, we share in that inheritance.
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We have authority over sickness, disease.
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We have authority over poverty and lack.
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We have authority over This is why, you know, when I hear the
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mantra of, you know, are, are you being depressed right now?
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You know, you know, people are are being I'm like, have they
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forgotten their authority? Now, again, don't get me wrong,
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I understand that things will attack us.
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I get it that again, you know, you hear people say, well, I
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just want to be honest. Fine, can I be honest?
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Honestly, all of us deal with thoughts.
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Quit trying to attach yourself to humanity instead of your
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sonship. I mean, if you have to get
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around those people who can let you know that they feel like
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you, they hurt like you, they deal with things like we all
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deal with stuff. That's not the point.
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The point is we overcome it and it's amazing how many people
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get, they don't want to get around the one that's like, you
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have the victory and you can, you know, walk in joy and like,
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well, you know, it seems like those people never have any.
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We have the same stuff. We just choose to not dwell on
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it. So the minute you're like, well,
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it seems like they have no problems at all, You should know
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that's a lie. In fact, if you associate with
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someone, it's seeming like they don't have any problems.
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You should probably say I ought to get around them a little bit
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more and see how they're able to manifest that all the time
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'cause I know that they're dealing with stuff like I do,
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but they seem to manifest Kingdom responses more
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frequently. But the church, well, I just
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want to be real. Just because you have real
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attacks doesn't make that more significant than we have real
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victory in Christ. And that's the goal is not to
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talk about our problems and to share our issues.
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Oh, good. I thought I was the only one.
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You're not the only one. You'll never not be the only one
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which is a double negative. So you shouldn't say that you
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will never be the only one that has problems that somebody else
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currently is not facing, which I still put a knot in off.
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We'll, we'll work it out. It's a long sentence.
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Maybe I should have put a period somewhere.
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Praise the Lord. So Jesus said all authority has
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been given to me in heaven and earth.
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Guess what, You have have authority.
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I said you have authority. Your current financial situation
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is not a problem. You have authority.
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Whatever you're going through is not the problem.
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You have authority. You just need a word from the
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King. He said go, therefore make
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disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of
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the Father Son, teaching them to observe all that I come in to
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you and lo, I'm with you even to the end of the age.
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Wow, John 14 verses 12 to 14 says this truly, truly, He says
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this twice. Truly, truly, in case you think
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he's lying about it truly, truly because Jesus not a man, God's
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not a man that he shall lie. Jesus is of the Father.
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They are one, so Jesus cannot lie either.
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So when he says truly, truly he's like, you need to listen
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what I'm saying. This is the truth.
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Truly, truly, I say to you, he. He who believes, those who
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believes, are you a believer? Come on, are you a believer?
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He who believes in me, the works that I do, he will do also in
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greater works than these he will do because I go to the Father.
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Whatever the Father has done in Christ, He has given it to you.
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You have an inheritance. This is why we are not the
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weakest thing. We are the greatest thing on
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planet earth today. We have, we have, we are the
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most attacked entity because we are the greatest example of
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God's Kingdom ever. The church is God's message to
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the world. The church is Jesus Christ is
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coming back for the church, not for individuals, but for the
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church that has individuals within it.
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He's coming back for the church. The church is the manifest
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presence of the fullness of Christ and his Kingdom and man.
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All of us when we come together and believe, we do greater works
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because all of us are doing the things that Christ did when he
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was on the planet. My gosh, verse 13, whatever.
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Now again, this whatever is not a whatever like you to make this
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up, whatever, this is a whatever in connection to His will.
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So again, we got to get it with the Bible first.
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John 5 says if we ask anything according to His will, He hears
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us, and we have that which we asked for.
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Why? Because God will always do His
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own word. And we read when we first opened
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this up in Ephesians, that God who predestined us to do a
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particular work according to His counsel, His will, His purpose,
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when we are connected to His word and His purpose.
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Jesus said, I say nothing on my own initials, but only what the
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Father says. So whatever is, is more clear to
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say whatever we're saying according to the will of our
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Father, you ask in the name of Jesus, and that will no, I do so
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that the Father may be glorified in the Son.
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You understand this, You know why many of us are not seeing
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things that are rightfully ours in covenant.
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I'm going to tell you the number one ingredient.
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Why you do not see it quicker is because your prayer actually has
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a bit of selfish desire in it. Now, what do I mean by that?
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It means this in the name of Jesus, I believe that I'm
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healed. Now that's covenant, right?
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But yet I'm not seeing healing. Well, if you have this in you
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that says I prayed and I asked the Lord to heal me and he did,
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Now you're time to take an ownership and get a little bit
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of ownership in that. And I laid hands on people and
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they received the baptism of the Holy Ghost.
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Well, you didn't do that. I mean, you did your part, but
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if you don't watch out, it can get where you were.
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P The hardest thing to do is to get people to quit looking at
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you, but you can keep it in your heart that way.
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I said you can keep it in your heart that way because when
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you're doing the works of Jesus, you want them to say, man,
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that's what Jesus would do. Not all.
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Well, you need, you know, Pastor Angie to do this.
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Pastor Angie has no power in love herself.
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Everything she has is in Christ. So we don't flock to her for a
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because of her. We want God glorified.
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Look what God did. And you know, as a church, let's
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get better at that. Let's get better at recognizing
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God even though God's working through us.
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Let's get better at that, which means then when something
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happens in essence, like today, don't go home and say, you know,
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Pastor Marcy and Pastor Angie had a word.
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They didn't. God had a word for us through
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them. Now again, this is not
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dishonouring people who are in positions, but yet the focus
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should be man. The Lord spoke to us today a
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very encouraging where it should come out that way.
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Really what happened Well, Pastor Marcy happened to get up
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again. She just became the vessel.
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But when we LED with God was doing something, then we're
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giving God glory first. Wow, that worship.
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God was so powerful in worship today.
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Really, what happened? Well, as Chelsea LED or as
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Bridget did, then you know, we're talking about the
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individuals or vessels he used. But God got glory first.
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Let's be a better church at being able to communicate what
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God's doing 1st, and then we can acknowledge the vessels by which
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He did something. Are you hearing what I'm saying?
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And we would be a lot further along if we did this because
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then ministries wouldn't dry up and die when a personality left
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wouldn't dry up and die because a personality left.
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The church is not built on personality.
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Man's church is built on personality, but Christ's church
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is built on the King, built on Jesus, and He's number one in
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our lives. And man was his presence, not
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with us today and still through the ministry of this word right
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now. So again, truly, truly says he
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who believes in me the worst that I do, He will do also
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greater works than these He will do.
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Aren't you glad you can do greater works?
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Say I can do greater works. Say I do greater works.
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Now you have to believe that you have an inheritance.
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Again, the inheritance is not what you did, it's what Christ
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did. Just enjoy the inheritance, but
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you have to work the inheritance.
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If I left you $10 million upon my death and put it in an
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account with your name on it, well, it will do you no good if
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you never go to the bank. Pull it out.
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You have. We have to work the inheritance
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by faith. It's not what I deserve.
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It's what I receive because I've come into His Kingdom and I'm
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going to enjoy it. I'm going to work this thing by
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faith. I'm going to do greater works.
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I'm going to do greater works. I'm going to do greater works.
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Why? Because Christ wants to be
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glorified. Hallelujah.
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Hallelujah. John chapter 15, verse 16.
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Jesus says you did not choose me, but I chose you and
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appointed you. Say I'm appointed that you would
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go and bear fruit and that your fruit would remain, so that
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whatever you ask of the Father of my name, He may give it to
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you. He wants your fruit to remain.
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God expects when you became a child of God is that you would
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have remaining fruit. You would bear fruit.
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You would do this. And we need to continually bear
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fruit. Keep bearing fruit, keep bearing
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fruit, keep bearing fruit, keep bearing fruit, just bear fruit.
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Hallelujah, because God chose you.
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You've been handpicked by the King and He picked you when you
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were not even desirable. Matt Hunt, would you stand up?
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Matt Hunt has the right. He has the right and the claim
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to fame to be the very first pick of Anchor Faith Church's
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flag Football League. He is the first ever first pick.
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Thank you, Matthew. Yeah.
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Now his friend just happened to. Didn't know, didn't know that he
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wasn't necessarily a strong football player.
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Right. Typically you pick first pick
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based upon ability, not friendship.
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I know you wanted me to leave that out, but it's relevant
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right now to the message. The point is is that in one
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sense he did not deserve to be first picked based upon ability
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or talent, but he has the title nonetheless.
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We understand when we were lost in our trespasses and sin man,
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we were not in a position to be first pick on God's team.
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But God being rich in his mercy man, he laid down his life.
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Why so you can become his first pick on the team.
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Now you say how do you know it's how can I be first pick when so
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many people got born again? We're all on the same seat.
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Oh, y'all don't want to hear that?
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There is no. And I used to play band, OK.
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And in band they have first seat, second seat, third seat.
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Come on, y'all who know that when you go to orchestra, not
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everybody's on the 1st and there's first seat, first chair.
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You can be first seat, second chair, OK, which means you play
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the first chair, seat part, but you're in a different chair.
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It means you're not as powerful as first seat, first chair.
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Well, there's only one chair up in heaven.
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I said there's a chair where Jesus sits.
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John, you're on it, I'm on it, my wife's on it.
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Marissa, you're on it. It's the same seat, first seat,
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first chair in Christ. We're all first picks.
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Whoa, glory to God. That way when Jesus says, I'm
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calling up Marissa, that's my best athlete right now, that's
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my first pick to move by the Spirit right now to do what I
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need to be done in my body right now to perform this task.
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Not well. I don't have anybody else.
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I guess I'll pick, Nope, that's not how it works, Amen.
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Just walk in that inheritance. We'll close with this passage of
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Scripture. John chapter 16.
John 16 chapter mention
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We have some water baptism to do today and we get to rejoice in
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that, Amen. And John 1623 to 26, it says
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this. In that day you will not
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question me about anything. Truly, Truly, I say to you, if
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you ask the Father for anything in my name, he will give it to
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you. Until now you have not asked for
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nothing in my name. Ask and you will receive, so
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that your joy may be made full, these things I've spoken to you
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in figurative language. An hour is coming when I will no
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longer speak to you in a figurative language, but will
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tell you plainly of the Father. In that day you will ask in my
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name, and I do not say to you that I will request of the
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Father on your behalf. That's a powerful statement,
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which means all authority that's been given Him in heaven and
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earth been given to you, and that the Holy Spirit is #1
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revealing the written word of God to us so that it becomes
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revelation of our inheritance. And the Father is still speaking
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to us through the sun by the Spirit of things that are
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necessary for today. That is not technically written
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in Scripture. Now, when I say that, I'm not
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saying you can get your own revelation.
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I'm saying it has to do with your own personal walk.
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What do I mean by that? I'll give you the example that
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just popped in my head from Pastor Lynette.
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Pastor Lynette Hagen was going home one day, she said.
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And she was driving. And she was, you know, kind of
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late, and she didn't have much time to go home and come back to
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the church. So she was moving pretty quick.
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And in her spirit, she heard slow down.
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In her spirit, you kept moving at that same speed.
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In her spirit, it got a little louder, a little more
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authoritative. Slow down.
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She says she pulled off the gas. OK.
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And she pulled off the gas as she was approaching a green
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light in her intersection. She pulled off the gas, slowed
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down, was coming into the light, and just before she got there a
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car blew through and ran a red light.
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If she had not listened to that voice, it would have T boned her
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and most likely she would not be in the planet today.
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Again, the Father speaks to us today that are not directly off
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pages, but they're in line with Scripture.
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OK, because God will deliver us out of our trouble.
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She didn't even know trouble was coming.
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He will deliver you from the snare of death, the valley of
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the shadow of death. He can deliver.
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And there was the case in point. And He delivered her that day
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because she obeyed the leading of the she was, because she
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could have just went on home and been with Jesus if she had not
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developed herself to hear and respond to the leading of the
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Spirit. So there are things we're going
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to ask for in his name because all authority has been given to
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us because we have an inheritance.
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We have a right to things that are ours in the King, in Christ.
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I'm not listing the mall today. You need to most of you know
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this. For those who don't, we'll
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continue to do teaching to to let you know cuz when we talk
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about healing, when we talk about provision, when we when we
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talk about you know, our attitude and, and, and taking
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captive thoughts. These are all thoughts have no
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right to rule your mind. Thoughts have no right to come
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and talk to your mind anytime they want to.
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You actually have authority to control what's in your brain.
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You have been given the authority to take every thought
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captive. Thoughts don't even have the
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right to run through your brain. That's a inherited right.
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That's part of an what the heir's portion is, that you're
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no longer having to just filter everything or be subject to
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everything that comes across your mind, nor do you have to
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say it. You don't have to give everybody
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a piece of your mind, Amen. But you can take these things
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captive because this authority we have been given covers so
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many things. And what's the most important
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about we being heirs is this. I'm going to close with this
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thought. Psalm.
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The Psalms tells us Psalms 24 believe it's verse one.
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The earth is the Lord's and the fullness thereof.
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It does not matter what all will happen in this planet because
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God has not lost planet Earth. He will redeem the planet.
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He will redeem it means he'll put it back in its original
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state. He's going to do that.
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God has not given up on the planet.
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It will come by way of global warming, but it will come to
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pass. He'll burn the planet with a
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fire. He'll burn it up and get a new
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one. OK.
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And so he's the planet's his. So it doesn't matter what
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systems are functioning today. You're not of those systems,
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you're of the Kingdom. And as an inheritor, what did
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Jesus say? The meek will inherit the earth.
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So quit saying, man, this world's going to hell in a
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handbasket. The world will not go to hell.
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The Earth will not go to hell. The Earth will be reborn.
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So just saying, it's Dad's planet.
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He's taking it back. He's taking it all back.
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Don't matter how bad it's getting.
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We have authority. We can do our purpose.
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We cannot be stopped. We will accomplish what our
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Father has sent us to do. There will come a day, and I'll
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be an eyewitness to it, along with all that are in the family
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of gods of the redemption of this Earth and the planet going
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back underneath the full authority of our King.
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It's a global takeover and we're a part of it.
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Hallelujah. Let's pray.