Sermon
Go Into All the World - Community Mobilization
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Thanks for checking out the Anchor Faith Message podcast
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from St. Augustine, FL.
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Now enjoy this message. He's called every single one of
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us to unify. To get together and to do what
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God's called us to do. And we're going to talk about
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that this morning, what it looks like, what the church is
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supposed to look like and what we're supposed to do when we
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come in this place. I love the word that Brianna
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gave, and we're going to talk a little bit about that here in
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just a minute. I have about 50 pages of Notes
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Font 18, but this is like a Font 18 message OK.
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This is like a font 20 message. Because I need you to get this.
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I need you to get stirred up. I need you to ignite yourself,
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get ignited by the Holy Ghost that we're called to this city.
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And when the when the scripture tells us to go into the world,
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it's not telling you that you have to go to India and it's not
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telling you that you have to go to Albania and it's not telling
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you that you have to go to Tanzania.
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It's not telling you that you have to go to all these places.
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It's saying you're called right here to this city.
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And not all of us are going to go, and some of us are going to
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go at sometimes, but most of us are going to stay right here and
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do what God's called us to do here.
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And if we're called to ignite this city, we have to know what
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that looks. Like.
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So let's dig into the scriptures.
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This morning I'm here to kind of rally you and Brianna came up
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with a little coach anointing, and I'm going to come up with a
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another little coach anointing, OK?
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Just to get us together. If we have to all huddle up and
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say 123 at the end, then we will.
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OK, whatever I got to do, If I got to run up and down the
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aisles and slap you on the behind to get you motivated,
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then we'll do it. OK, All right.
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Now let me get spiritual, all right?
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Now listen, this is the word that pastor, our, our shepherd,
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our lead, Shepherd said we needed to have today, OK, to go
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into all the world, what that means and what community
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mobilization looks. Like.
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So I want you right now, first thing, to just throw off the
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cares that you brought in here. Because sometimes we get so
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focused and we're going to talk about that And what the
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Scripture says in the last days can happen to you, can happen to
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me. Sometimes we get so focused on
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our own lives, our own situations, our own issues that
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we come in here and when somebody says go into the world
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or. I have to do more.
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I have to get more involved. We kind of lock up and we stop
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and we go. I can't do anymore.
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I got so much on my on my calendar.
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I got so much on my schedule. God wants you to ignite and make
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influence right where you are. And that's where you have to
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start. In your workplace, in the
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community. That's where we start.
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So right now, I want you just to open up your heart and just cast
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every care. Just throw it off.
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Just get rid of it and open your heart to receive the word of
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God. Amen.
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All right, let's go to Mark, chapter 16.
Mark 16 chapter mention
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I'm going to say a few things. While you're moving there, I
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want you to get out of your comfort zone.
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I want you to understand that your capacity, our capacity as a
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church is increasing. There is there are so many open
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doors, so many things that are happening and coming to us right
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and left. Honestly things that God is
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opening. The scripture says when God
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opens the door, let no man shut it.
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But The thing is, is we can't do all of these open doors, but we
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can do all of these open doors and and God is opening these
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things for us to walk into it because we have a body that is
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ignited, that is one that knows the message, knows the Kingdom
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of God, and we need to be able to go out and communicate it and
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get people set free. To mobilize means the action of
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a country. Or it's government preparing and
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organizing the troops for active service.
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You know the scripture says that you are his workmanship created
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in Christ Jesus for good works that he prepared already.
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That you would do it. There's such a peace and such a
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a rest in that faith of knowing that God's got a call on your
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life and what he's called you to do.
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You just have to take the steps. The Bible says the steps of a
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righteous man and woman are ordered of God.
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And so it's not just about me getting up every day and trying
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to figure out what I'm going to do, trying to figure out what
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God's called me to do. The scripture says that you know
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his voice. You do know him and you hear
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him, and the Bible says, another voice, you will not follow.
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And so you're not going to follow another voice unless you
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choose to follow another voice. So we need to put ourselves in a
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position to say, God, what is it that you're asking me to do?
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What is the the step of faith? If you're comfortable, then I'm
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just going to. I just kind of want to make you
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uncomfortable. A little bit.
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If you're comfortable in your everyday life, your job, I just
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want you to think about what kind of step do I need to take?
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What kind of step of faith do I need to step out and do?
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If we're going to take Dominion here on the earth, we got to get
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out and do it. We got to go, and there's a
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purpose for us coming here. I don't want to get ahead of
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myself, but my prayer and my passion this morning is that we
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would be ignited. To impact our community in our
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city and it's not just me being a community pastor.
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I can't do it all and I need you.
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We need you to to come in and say we're going to feed the
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homeless, we're going to do the families count class, We're
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going to step into all these doors that God's opening.
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We want to be the hands and feet.
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We want to be the ones that are doing it, Ephesians Chapter 4
Ephesians 4 chapter mention
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says. And he himself gave some to be
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apostles, some prophets, some evangelists, and some pastors
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and teachers for the equipping of the Saints and the work of
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the ministry. So we're here to mobilize.
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We're here to equip. We're here to equip you to go
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out and do the work of the Ministry.
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That's what our job is to do, not for us to always be the ones
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going out there and doing it. That's your job.
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And so I'm here this morning. To do that is to mobilize you.
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Mark Chapter 16. Let's bring some clarity to what
Mark 16 chapter mention
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Jesus said after he rose from the grave.
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It says later he appeared to the 11 as they sat at the table.
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And he rebuked their unbelief and their hardness of heart
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because they did not believe those who had seen him after he
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had risen. And he said to them, go into all
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the world and preach the gospel to every creature.
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Right there is where we start to go.
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OK, awesome. I'll finance, we'll send pastor,
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we'll, we'll send those construction workers.
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They can go do it. We'll send whoever is is called
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to do do it. And that's not what the
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Scripture is talking about. So it says.
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Go into all the world and preach the gospel to every creature,
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and he who believes and is baptized will be saved, but he
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who does not believe will be condemned.
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And these signs will follow those who believe in my name.
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They will cast out demons, they will speak with new tongues,
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they will take up serpents, and if they drink any deadly thing,
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it will by no means hurt them. They will lay hands on the sick
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and they will recover. The signs come after the going.
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The signs are not for right here, and it does not mean that
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those signs cannot happen in this church on a Sunday morning
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or a Wednesday. But you understand that you got
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filled with the Holy Ghost when you got born again.
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He came to live on the inside of you.
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But when you got filled with the Spirit, the baptism of the Holy
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Ghost, with the evidence of speaking in tongues, that is for
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service. That is for you to be able to go
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and for these signs to follow you.
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Not so that we can come up in here and do do all the gifts of
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the Spirit, but it's so that when you're in your workplace,
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you can get a word of wisdom for someone.
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You can get a word of knowledge for someone.
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You can say you're not feeling good.
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Do you mind? Can I just lay hands on you and
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and pray for you? And when and we're going to,
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we're going to squash any goofy fruit, loopy people going out
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and being all super spiritual. You have to be led by the Holy
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Ghost. That's why he's in you.
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That's why he's there to say he's the Lord of the harvest.
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And sometimes we want to be the Lord of the harvest.
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And we want to to push and we want to preach and we want to to
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push people into the Kingdom of God.
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And he says, no, I'm the Lord of the harvest, and I'll lead you
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in these things. And if we'll just walk into
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these places, in our workplaces, wherever we are, and just be
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listening and yielding to the Holy Ghost on the inside instead
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of just where's the butter, where's the stuff I got to get
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in the grocery store? Where's what I need for my daily
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task? Not just thinking about.
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You but going out every day and saying I'm going to put first
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the Kingdom of God and I'm going to be sensitive to the Holy
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Ghost and I'm going to ask him, is there something you want me
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to say? Is there something you want me
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to do? The signs are going to follow
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you when you go. We have to go.
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So let's look at what this word world means.
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Go into all the world and preach the gospel to every creature.
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We typically think it's going, but this world is cosmos, and
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that word cosmos means anything that is ordered, any system
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found in any part of society. In other words, it means every
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sector of society it is not talking about.
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You having to leave the country necessarily, and that is part of
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our vision. But when it says right here, go
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into all the world and preach and these signs are going to
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follow you, it means go into your sectors of society, go to
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your workplace place, go to your government, go to your places
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and expect God to be there and expect God to move.
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I'm going to give you the different sectors of society.
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ABCDEF&G KA is the arts. These are the different sectors
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of society that's performing. Arts, filmmaking, photography,
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architecture, the list goes on. The Arts B is business.
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Business. OK, Some of us own businesses.
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Many of us. Work in businesses.
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C is congregations, that is organizations, assemblies,
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boards, go. Ahead and jump.
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On your little HOA board? Those are fun.
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Go ahead and get on that HOA board and be a light in that
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place. D is direct media, broadcasting,
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Internet, radio, anything that has to do with media.
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E is education, education. There's lots of places we can
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jump in for education. Get on your school board.
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Jump in these schools. I'm going to talk about it.
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There's a shortage of a whole lot going on because people are
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so broken and we can step in and fill the gap and we need to be
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doing that. Families, FS Families, our
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church has many open doors for this opportunity.
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There is a a thing even on our our Saint Johns County website,
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our government website called the Fatherhood Initiative.
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And I'm going to look into that more.
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But we have a whole lot of men in this church that are taking
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mighty men and this fatherhood initiative.
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There's there's these things that our county does that our
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state will fund us for if we'll start helping these vulnerable
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people and these vulnerable families.
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And we need to start tapping into that.
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You know the Bible says the wealth of the wicked is laid up
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for the just. And so we need to start.
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Do we not have some men in this place that could father a son,
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could that could father these broken kids?
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There's so many homeless and broken and foster kids in our
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county. What are we doing?
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Are we just going to work every day and just making paint?
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Victor, are we thinking about what else we can do?
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I just happened to look at Victor.
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I love you. What?
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What else can we do? What can we?
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Who can we speak to? How can we say, Lord, I'm
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willing. I want to speak a word of life
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to somebody. I want to be available to heal
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the broken hearted. Use me.
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The last one is Government G Our political systems, our county
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meetings. Anything that's happening with
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our government, these are sectors of society that we are
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all involved in. That's what it means when it
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says go to the world, go to your cosmos, go to your sector of
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society. 2nd Corinthians chapter 4/4.
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It uses the same word cosmos for world.
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There when it says Satan is the God of this world, Do you not
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know? Do we understand that there are
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demonic forces in every sector of society?
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There is so much happening, so much influence, whether it's
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money, greed, whatever is going on though, Satan is not
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hesitating one bit to send his hordes of hell into every sector
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of society. And we're just going to come up
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in here and look cute and and hodgepodge with each other and
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and go out and go home and make sure our bills are paid, make
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sure what we're doing is done and not even think about or have
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God's heart. To go out and say, Oh my gosh,
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these people are so broken, they need help.
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How can I help them? How can I go into their sector
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of society and be a light when we go into our sectors of
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society and we're still broken and we're still heavy and we're
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still dealing with our own things?
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The Holy Ghost will still use you.
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It doesn't mean you're not going to walk through stuff in life,
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But you need to be able to put yourself in a position to say,
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Lord, I'm ready to deal with anything on the inside of me.
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Use me, Lord. I thank you, Lord, that I'm
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healed, that I'm whole, that I'm ready to be used so that I can
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hear and be sensitive to what God wants to do in my place of
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business or wherever I'm at. So this is where he the the
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demonic influences invade and the church as a whole.
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We've failed because we just want to make sure that our needs
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are met. And how are we supposed to go
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out when the scripture says take dominion and and take territory
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and take authority? If we're not doing it in our own
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lives, how are we going to do it out there?
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So we got to start making making sure we can get our, I'm telling
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you, Pastor Mike and I, sometimes when we deal with
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married couples, we talk about there's a pastor that we had
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heard years ago when married couples would would come and
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they would be having issues, he would send them away together.
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Just to spend. Time together.
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To pray, to start doing things for each other.
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You know when you get your focus off of you.
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And start giving to someone else.
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You know that the the Bible is is actually true when it says
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it's more blessed to give than it is to receive.
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That if you'll just go, you know what?
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I do have this need. I do have this thing going on,
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but but I'm going to yield and give this to some just going to
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start baking cookies for my neighbor or I'm just going to
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start going into the school and volunteering and mentoring.
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I'm just going to start getting my focus off what's happening
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with me all the time. And I'm going to go into every
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sector that's around me and influence.
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I'm telling you, people in our community are coming to this
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church and they're saying we want you, we want you to take
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over. We want you to help.
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We want you to coach. We want to give you this
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business. We want to give you this.
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We want you to come be on this board.
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They're asking us. They're coming to us.
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This church truly is a city on a hill.
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It really is that and you're part of a of a rally cry and A
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and a church that does it. We're doers of the word and you
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ought to get yourself like whatever, whatever you got to do
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to stir yourself up. Sometimes you got to move.
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Sometimes you just got to get get up and get out and do
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something. Quit thinking about you in the
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last days. That is going to be the biggest
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thing that you're going to have to guard against.
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Because the scripture says in the last days that believers,
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you, me, are going to be lovers of themselves, lovers of their
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own lives. Well, I don't want to serve
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because I have something going on, and that's just the church.
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That's just in the church. This work of ministry that
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you're called to is not we're not talking about the the, the
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nursery, we're talking about life if we can't even.
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I mean, we got to get in unity. You got to understand what what
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unity does for a body of believers.
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You know, when you see anything. My husband and I are very
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similar in this. We're not when we watch a sports
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movie. Or something where people get
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unified. I'm not talking about even they
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had to win a game. I'm just talking about the
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moment in the movie where they get in Unity.
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I mean, I'll cry and he cries. We'll sit there and cry at the
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weirdest places because there's unity there.
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When you see, when you see two people dancing and there's like
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perfect unity, it's like, oh, I want to watch that again.
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I want to watch that like 10 times When you see something
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happening, you know, people are in agreement.
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They're they're on the same page of sports team.
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Whatever it is, there's something about it.
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And the Scripture talks about it.
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And so can we can we as a body, open our hearts to say, let's
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get unified, let's do this thing, let's get out and ignite
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our city. Let's let's do what we're
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supposed to do. He not only here in the church,
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but let's go out there and let's actually do this.
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And let's 'cause people to come here when you come here.
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This is just our this is just our mobilized time.
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This is just our time to come together and say, here's your
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marching orders, here's what, here's what we need you to do.
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Make sure you're staying built up.
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Let's get in unity and we're going to look at in scripture.
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If I can ever get back to my notes, we're going to look at
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what what that looks like when a church comes together and is
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unified and even when evil people do it, what that looks
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like. So let's first look at a woman.
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A wise woman. Who saved her whole city?
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I need you to get passionate about this city.
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Second Samuel, Chapter 20, it says.
2 Samuel 20 chapter mention
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And there happened to be there. A rebel whose name was Sheba,
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the son of Bickery the Benjamite.
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And he blew a trumpet and said, we have no share in David.
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So this rebel Sheba is saying we have no share in David, nor do
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we have inheritance in the son of Jesse, every man to his tent,
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so Israel. So every man of Israel deserted
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David and follow this rebel Sheba the son of Bickery.
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But the men of Judah from the Jordan, as far as Jerusalem,
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remained loyal to their king. Verse six says David said.
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Now Sheba the son of Bickery, will do more harm to us than
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Absalom. Take your Lord's servants and
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pursue him, lest he find for himself fortified cities, and
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escape us So Joab's men with the those people and all the mighty
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men went out after him. Verse 15.
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Then they came and besieged him and Abel, and they cast up a
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siege mount against the city, and it stood by the Rampart, and
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all the people who are with Joab battered the wall to throw it
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down. So.
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So this rebel went into this city and Joab and all his men
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are going to the city and they've got these battering Rams
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and they're like, we're taking over this.
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City. We're going to conquer this city
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because we're going to get this rebel who's against David and
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we're going to take him out. So look what happens.
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Verse 16. Then a wise woman cried out from
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her city. The city, I put her city.
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Here, here please say to Joab come nearby that I may speak
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with you. And when he had come near to
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her, the woman said, Are you Joab?
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And he answered, I am. And then she said to him, Hear
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the words of your maidservant. So this woman was like a.
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Watchman on the wall of this city.
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And she said, hold on, what's happening?
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Why are you hitting? Why are you coming against our
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city with these battering Rams? What's going on?
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Hear the Joab, hear me, hear the words of your maidservant.
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And he answered, OK, I'm listening.
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So she spoke, saying they used to talk in former times, saying
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they shall surely seek guidance at Abel.
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And so they would in disputes I am coming the peaceable and
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faithful in Israel. I am among the peaceable and the
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faithful in Israel. You seek to destroy a city and a
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mother. In Israel there's something
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about a Mama, you seek to destroy this city and a mother
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in Israel, why would you swallow up the inheritance of the Lord?
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And Joab answered and said, far be it from me that I should
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swallow up or destroy. That is not so.
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But a man from the mountains of Ephraim Sheba, the son of Bakery
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by name, has raised his hand against the king, against David.
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Deliver him only, and I'll depart from the city.
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So the woman said to Joab, OK, she was like, time out, watch,
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watch what I'm about to do watch.
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His head will be thrown to you over the wall.
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She is not playing. Then the woman in her wisdom
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went to all the people. She went to all the people in
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her city. And she said, we have sin in the
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camp. We have a rebel in our city.
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There's something happening here.
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We're about to cut his head off and we're going to chunk it over
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the wall. You got me one 2-3 go.
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And they went and that's what they did.
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And and then he blew, and they then the woman in her wisdom
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went to all the people, and they cut off the head of Sheba, the
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son of Bickery, and threw it out to Joab.
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And then he blew the trumpet, and they withdrew from the city,
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every man to his tent. And Joab returned to the king at
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Jerusalem. The people rallied behind this
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wise woman, who's not even named, rallied behind her.
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And this woman saved her city, her family, herself, because she
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said no, no, we're not going to do this.
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We've got to, we've got to be like this woman and say, wait,
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there's sin in our city. Wait, wait, wait, there's
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poverty in our city. Wait, wait, time out.
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There's corruption happening here.
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No, no. We're going to rally our people
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together and we're going to go take care of this.
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We're going to go into these places that have poverty and
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we're going to, we're going to believe God for wise ideas to
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bring them out of poverty. Because it's not like you can go
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in and and build them new houses, because they'll just
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become the same if their hearts and their.
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Minds are not changed. How do we go in there?
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How do we bridge the gap? How do we bring all these
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cultures and all these people together and ignite the city?
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How do we do that? How do we become like this city,
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this woman in this city, and say, no, we're not going to
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allow this? Do you have that passion for
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your city, or do you just have that passion for your house, for
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your life? Is this the city?
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How many, How many Vision Partners do we have in here?
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That's a whole lot of you. So when you went through Vision
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Partnership class, you learned there, maybe for the first time,
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that the vision of this house is to ignite the city, impact the
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nation and influence the world. And so you sat there and you
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said, I want to be a part of that vision.
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Me, me, call me, I want to be part of this vision.
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But here we are igniting the city and we need you to get
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involved. We need you.
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When we say we're doing Osceola make a difference day, you know
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we had eighteen women sign up for that and two men originally.
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That's great, but but we had to say come on man, let's let's
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tell it was a lot of yard work and a lot of which we did that
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yesterday. And I'm going to tell you that
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that school and that that man that runs the, the stuff of the
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school was so blessed by us. And he said, I did not know you
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were going to bring so many people.
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And I said, well Joey, we've done this every year.
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We always, excuse me, we always bring a bunch of people and we
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always show up to help do this. We repainted for them.
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We we did all kinds of trimming of trees and bushes and wedding
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and and and digging, digging holes.
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We didn't have enough. Shovels.
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He's like, I'm going to have to go to Home Depot and get shovels
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for you. We did all kinds of work for
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them and they and they even the principal came out and he said,
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well, we were. Out there on the courtyard
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dancing a little bit and he called my phone and said is that
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you out there dancing and and I said yes it is.
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And so he came out there and he's like, this is amazing what
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y'all, what y'all do, what you always do.
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I talk about you all the time. I talk about your partnership
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with our school all the time. And when I go up in our
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faith-based board meetings once a month, you know that they use
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Anchor Faith Church as the model church for partnerships with
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schools. Our Superintendent, the people
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there say if you want to know how to do a partnership, you go
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see Anchor Faith because they know how to serve people.
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We're not just up in there saying let's get this done.
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What do we have to do? I'm like, send me the list.
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We got a bunch of people. We're going to knock it out for
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you. But we need everybody to hear
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the rally cry. And that doesn't mean you have
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to get involved in everything. But what is God saying for you
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to do? What is he telling you to jump
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in and be a part of? You need to quickly obey that
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and jump in. It'll bless you.
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I'm telling you, it'll bless you.
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So the Kingdom of of heaven, the Bible says suffers violence, but
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the violent take it by force. So we got to come in here like
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this woman and say, no, no, I'm we're not going to go cut
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people's heads off. That's not what I'm saying.
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We're not going to go, you know, jumping on people and acting
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awkward. But but what I am saying is that
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we're going to take it by force, through prayer, through getting
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involved, through being led by the Spirit, through loving on
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people. That's how we're going to take
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it by force. Not trying to give you a Wonder
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Woman story, not trying to just talk about a woman.
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But if I can just say, if you still have an issue with that,
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then you probably ought to just sit up in here and not go out in
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the community just yet. All right, How are we going to
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ignite the city? How are we going to do this?
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The the word ignite means to catch fire or to cause to catch
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fire, to catch fire or to cause to catch fire.
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Even in Acts Chapter 17, the the people that were coming against
Acts 17 chapter mention
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the gospel said these people who have turned the world upside
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down, they're coming to our city.
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We want people to say, is that anchor Faith Church?
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The ones who are turning this city upside down, the ones who
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have bought the mall, the ones who are transforming things.
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Everywhere I go, I show up at West Augustine.
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There they are. I show up at Osceola.
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There they are. I show up at a Flagler game.
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Where Who are these people? Why are they everywhere that I
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go? That ought to be us.
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We need to be. Let me put a Flagler plug in
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right here. We went to the women's game last
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night. There's probably about 20 anchor
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Faith people. But.
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But when we do those cheers, I need about at least 50 of you.
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OK, so I need y'all. Whether you like basketball or
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not is irrelevant. Macy literally sits there and
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asks what every single call is like.
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What is that? What is that?
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And we're having to educate. Her while we're cheering.
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But but it doesn't matter if you love basketball or not.
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Just come because our influence is happening.
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It's for the girls we have. We is destiny here today we have
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one of the girls that attends here faithfully that plays on
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the Flagler team and I'm telling you they are coming to us.
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We're feeding them. We just we just said what can we
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do? How can we serve.
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We started just feeding them. We started just, and we still do
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that. We just take them, food,
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minister to them, open our homes to them.
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And now we have even more of an open door.
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And we need to be the one stepping into that.
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And it starts by going and supporting.
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You know, we want to be cheered for.
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We want our own lives to be cheered for.
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But I need you to forget about yourself for a minute.
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I need you to go out and cheer these young gals on, OK?
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These women who are given their all on the court, I need you to
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show up and be part of it. We have fun when we're at the
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Flagler. Games come and just be a part of
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it, Acts 432 Acts 432 says Now the multitude of those who
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believed were of one heart and one soul.
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What does it look like? What should we look like?
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Neither did anyone say that any of the things he possessed was
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his own, But they had all things in common.
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And with great power the apostles gave witness to the
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resurrection of the Lord Jesus, and great grace was upon them
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all. Nor was there anyone among them
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who lacked, for all who were possessors, or of lands and
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houses, sold them, and brought the proceeds of the things that
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were sold, and laid them at the apostles feet, and they
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distributed to each one as they had need.
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I I put that scripture in there and I have a few more on unity
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because we need to understand what a big deal unity is.
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What a big deal. If we're going to actually go
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out, if we're going to take on this mobilization of of our
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community, this rally cry for us to go out and start being a
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light to people, we have to 1st understand what it means for us
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to be in unity to unify Genesis Chapter 11.
Genesis 11 chapter mention
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Here is a negative example. But such a great picture of what
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God says would happen when people get in unity.
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It says now the whole earth had one language in one speech, and
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it came to pass as they journeyed from the east, that
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they found a plane in the land of Shinar and they dwelt there.
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They then they said to one another, come and let us make
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bricks and bake them thoroughly, And they had brick for stone,
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and they had asphalt for mortar. And they said, come, let us
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build ourselves a city and a tower.
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Whose top is the heavens? And let us listen to what they
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said here. Let us make a name for
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ourselves, lest we be scattered abroad over the face of the
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whole. Earth, but the Lord.
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Came down to see the city and the tower that the sons of men
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have built, and the Lord said, indeed the people are one, and
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they have one language, and this is what they begin to do now.
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Nothing that they propose proposed to do will be withheld
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from them come. Let us go down there and confuse
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their language, that they may not understand one another's
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speech. So the Lord scattered them
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abroad from there over the face of all the earth, and they
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ceased building the city. Therefore its name is called
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Babel because they're the Lord confused the language of all the
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earth. So we see the power even in
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their their issue was they wanted a name for themselves.
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And you know, that's a big issue even in the church is that we
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want a name for ourselves. We want to do something and we
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want to be seen or we want the pastor to see us or we want
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people in our city to see us. And that that is the issue here
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is they wanted a name for themselves.
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But God said they're of one language, they're of one heart,
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they're of one mind. Nothing will be impossible for
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them. So he had to go down and confuse
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everything that they were doing. What would happen for us if we
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don't have our eyes on us? If we don't have our our focus
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on? I just want to be seen.
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I just want to have the limelight.
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I just want to preach. I just want everybody to see how
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great I am with the kids or what I'm doing in the community or
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whatever. If we get our focus off of that
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and we really get unified, it is really true that God will meet
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every one of your needs in overabundance because you've
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forgotten about your own self and you've chosen to seek first
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the Kingdom of God. That's when all your needs will
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be met. But it's when we're trying to
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put all of our stuff together and make sure all of our needs
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are met and everything's working out for us that we always lack.
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We always fall up, fall short in in whether it's finances or our
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emotions or our health or whatever it is.
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But God says just surrender. Just give your life.
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Just just seek first the Kingdom of God, and I will give you all
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of that. I will bless you with all of
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that. So nothing that they had
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imagined or purpose to do would be held from them.
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And I want to read verse 6 and the amplified it says And the
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Lord said, Behold, they are one unified.
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People, and they all have the same language, and this is only
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the beginning of what they will do in rebellion against me.
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And now no evil thing they imagine they can do will be
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impossible for them. So he's saying they were one.
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They were a unified people. They can do anything they
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purpose to do anything they purpose to do.
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Psalm 133, Psalms 133 says, Behold how good and how pleasant
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it is. For brethren to dwell together
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in unity, it's like the precious oil upon the head running down
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on the beard, the beard of Aaron running down on the edge of his
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garments. It's like the dew of Herman
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descending upon the mountains of Zion.
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For there the Lord commanded the blessing life forevermore.
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God's looking for unity. He's looking for unity with him,
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with what the word of God says. He's looking for unity in your
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families. If we could get our husbands and
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wives unified, if we could get our parenting lined up with what
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God says. If we can get unified here in
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the church, what kind of territory, what kind of things
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you think we're going to take over in this city?
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He's called us and he's looking for you to get unified.
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What? What would happen?
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Like Brianna said when she when she had a word of exhortation
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that she gave us, she said it's not just so that when we come up
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in here, we can do this, but what are you saying at your
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house? What are you saying when you get
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up every day? If if me at my house and Donna
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at her house and Marissa at her house, we wake up, all of us in
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the morning, we say, this is the day that the Lord has made, I
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will rejoice and be glad in it. And I'm not saying we have to
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say that exact same scripture, but we jump out of bed and we
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get in alignment with what God says if we all get unified with
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him, get unified with each other.
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Sometimes we're dealing so much with our little offenses right
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here. The little, the little foxes
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that spoil the vine so and so didn't say hi to me so and so
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didn't talk to me like I thought they should.
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I didn't like the way Brianna got up here and talked to.
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Us like we were a team. I didn't like that.
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I mean, we have all these little things that we nitpick and we
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come at each other and we have offences towards each other.
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You need to let those things go. You need to realize that this is
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not about you. I don't know if you knew that or
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not. This is not about you.
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It's not about me. It's about the Kingdom of God
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advancing on the earth. Why In Malachi, the scripture
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says why did God make the family and why did he make them one?
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Why? For godly offspring, it says he
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asks the question and then it tells you the answer.
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For godly offspring, why? So that the Kingdom of heaven
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would just keep advancing on the earth, just keep moving on the
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earth, and we're making influence.
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But if we're out of control and our kids are out of control and
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our life is a mess and we've got chaos all around us, how are we
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going to go out when they're when they're going to look at us
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and say, well, you're not any different.
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You're just as stressed as I am. You're just as worried as I am.
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You're in just as much bondage as I am.
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We got to make sure that we're dealing with our own selves and
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getting unified, get unified with God.
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What God says about you. He said that you're free.
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He said that you're free. Indeed, he says that you don't
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have to live in bondage anymore. You don't have to live that way
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anymore. So what you choose every day is
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up to you. So when you get up every day.
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This is on page 50. I'll get back to this in a
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minute. When you get up every day the
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Bible says today I've set before you life and death.
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Choose life, Choose life. So it so he gives you the
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multiple choice and gives you the answer.
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When you wake up in the morning, You going to choose life?
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Are you going to choose death? Oh, I have so much to do.
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Oh, I don't feel good. Whatever it is.
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Are you going to get up and go? God, I thank you.
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Lord, this is the day that you made.
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What is it that you've called me to do?
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What is it that you want me to say today?
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When I'm in a workplace? What it where?
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Where is it I'm supposed to go? Am I supposed to go this way
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now? I'm not talking about being
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goofy and saying what? Shirt.
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Am I supposed to wear today? Just put your clothes on.
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Just put your clothes on and get out there.
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Do something. Don't be kooky weird
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spiritually. Just get your Put your big girl
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pants on and your big boy pants on and get out there and do it.
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Quit leaving the house naked. The scripture says to put on
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your clothes. Put on every day.
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Not your natural clothes, but your spiritual clothes.
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Put them on. Put on your armor.
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Every day I've got my helmet of salvation on.
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I've got my breast plate of righteousness.
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I've got the sword of the Spirit.
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I've got my feet fitted with these boots that I love.
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Or the the gospel of peace. I meant my belt With the the
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belt of truth buckled around my waist.
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I can extinguish all the fiery darts of the evil.
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All of them. Quit leaving the house without
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your clothes on. Because when you leave and
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you're frazzled and you're not in unity and unified with the
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body of Christ and the word of God, then it messes you up and
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it puts you in a mental position where you don't feel worthy.
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You don't feel worthy to minister to anybody, and so you
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won't. No more, no more.
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This church how good and how pleasant.
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It is for brethren to dwell together in uni.
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That's where God commands the blessing.
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That's where the blessing is Philippians chapter 2.
Philippians 2 chapter mention
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Therefore, if there's any consolation in Christ, if
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there's any comfort of love, if there's any fellowship of the
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Spirit, any affection and mercy, fulfill my joy by being like
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minded, having the same love, being of 1 accord, 1 accord, one
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mind. Let nothing be done through
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selfish ambition or conceit, but in lowliness of mind.
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Let each esteem others better than himself.
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Do we do that. Let each of you look out not
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only for your own interests, but also for the interests of
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others. 1st Corinthians 110 Now plead with you, brethren.
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By the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, That you all speak the
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same thing, that there be no divisions among you, but that
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you be perfectly joined together in the same mind and the same
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judgment. What would it look like if we
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all had the same mind? I wish I could see all of your
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minds right now and what you're thinking and what's happening
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right now. What if we all had the same
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mind, the mind of Christ? What if we all thought on and
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meditated on the scripture says meditate day and night meditated
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on what he says about us? What if we all did that?
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Do you believe that God is searching like the scripture
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says, the the the earth. He's searching the earth looking
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for someone whose heart is in unity with his looking for
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someone whose heart is looking for a body of believers who are
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joined together of the same mind, the same heart in one
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accord. He's look, what's he going to
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do? And he's looking.
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Out. And he sees that church right
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there. That church are, they're
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unified. They're one.
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They're thinking the same thing. They're saying the same thing.
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Oh man, I got some territory for them to take over.
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I got some things for them to do.
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We got to get in unity. Acts Chapter 2 says that they
Acts 2 chapter mention
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were with one accord in one place, not doing their own
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thing. And you know Ephesians Chapter
Ephesians 4 chapter mention
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4, Pastor Mike talked about it on these Wednesday nights.
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You know when he's called us in the the ministry to equip the
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Saints for the work of the ministry, it says until we all
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come to the unity of the faith, The unity of the faith, Jesus
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said, I, Lord, I pray that they would be one like we are one.
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I pray that they would be. One.
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Now let's look at a type and shadow real quick from Second
2 Chronicles 5 chapter mention
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Chronicles chapter 5 of What this Unity.
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Looks like when a church does it.
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Second Chronicles, chapter 5, verse one.
2 Chronicles 5 chapter mention
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So all the work that Solomon had done for the House of the Lord
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was finished. And Solomon brought in the
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things which his father David had dedicated the silver and the
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gold and all the furnishings, and he put them in the
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treasuries of the House of God. Verses two through 10 is them
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bringing the ark into the temple.
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Let's jump down to verse 11, it says.
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And it came to pass when the priests came out of the Most
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Holy Place, for the priests who were present had sanctified
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themselves. Without keeping to their
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divisions, and the Levites, who were singers, all of those of
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Asaph and Heman and Jedophant, with their sons and their
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brethren, stood at the East End of the altar, clothed in white
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linen, having symbols, stringed instruments, and harps, and with
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them 120 priests sounding with trumpets.
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Verse 13 Indeed, it came to pass when the trumpeters and the
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singers were as one. To make one sound to be heard,
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and praising and thanking the Lord.
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And when they lifted up their voice with their trumpets and
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symbols and instruments of music and praise the Lord saying For
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He is good and His mercy endures forever.
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That the house. This is what happened, that the
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house, the House of the Lord was filled with a cloud so that the
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priest could not even continue ministering because of the
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cloud. For the glory of the Lord filled
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the House of God. These people were one.
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They they made one sound to be heard.
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One sound. What is it like?
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You know how you know what it's like when you hear a choir?
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When you hear a choir making one sound all in harmony?
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There's something about it. What if we're all making one?
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We're not a choir. I'm not saying we're a choir in
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here. But we're all making one sound,
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one heart, one mind. 1 unification with the word of
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God. And we're saying here we are.
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We're we're here, pastor. We're here to receive our
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orders. We're ready to ignite the city.
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We're ready to impact the nation.
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We're ready to influence the world.
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What is it? What is it?
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You've called us to come in and unify on today instead of coming
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in here for us. You know, years ago the Lord had
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spoke to me about when David used to go in and play for Saul,
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and he was tormented. And every time David went in and
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played for him, he got peace and he got relief.
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And then and then when David left, the torment came right
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back. And and unfortunately, sometimes
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we come into the church that way and we come into the church and
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we're we're hurting and we're broken.
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And we just want some relief. And we come in here and we get
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some relief and then we go out there and we're in the same
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mindset and we're in the same brokenness.
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When God has called us to live in victory every day, all the
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time at home. Coming in here is for us, the
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churches, the the pillar and support of truth.
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So we come in here, we're just getting our getting our orders,
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getting what we need to go out and do what we're called to do.
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Getting in unity, enjoying the joy of being with other
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believers. That's what we're called here to
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do. Not that every time we come up
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in here, we're having to lay our stuff down at the altar.
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We're having to get our heart right because that's where Angie
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made me mad. We're having to make all these
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internal adjustments with each other.
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When God's saying get your focus off those little foxes that keep
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spoiling your vine and get at get in here, get unified, get
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your mind on what it's supposed to be on, and let's go out here
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and take the city for the Kingdom of God.
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That's what he's called us to do.
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You know, I can sense it even right now in this body that that
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some of us are like, Oh my God, what is her deal?
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Like, why is she spitting everywhere?
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Like, like, we're so caught up. Come on, I need you to.
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I need you to get out of it. We're so caught up with our own
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stuff. I want to.
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I want to come out and just kind of shake you.
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I I just want to come out and and jump on top of you or
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something and say, can you not see the cry?
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Can you not see the brokenness that's right in front of you
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Everywhere you go? Can you not see it?
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When you're driving down the road and people are shooting you
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#1, can you not see it? People are hurting, People are
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broken. People need Jesus.
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They need the Kingdom of God. How are they going to know if we
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don't take it to them? The Bible says how beautiful are
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the feet of those who go and do it.
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You don't have to wait for a mission trip.
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This city is your mission. This city is your call.
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It's what you're called to do. It's what you're called to do.
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We got to get together and get in unity and say where we
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received the rally cry, we're going to do it.
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Let's March out and do it. Let's go out and take dominion
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in our city. People are coming to this church
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because the Holy Ghost is leading them.
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But I'm going to tell you the number one way people come.
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It's their relationship. You've got to start connecting
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with people. When years ago, when I was
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working at the detention center, hey, Cody, when I was working at
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the detention center in Tulsa, OK.
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When I went in there, they knew I was a Rhema student.
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And so, you know, they didn't know me, so.
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So they just want to make sure, don't you come up in here and
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start preaching to these people and these kids, these girls.
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And so they were like, you can't talk about God.
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You can't talk about God unless they ask you.
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And I said that is fine, that is no problem.
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That's how I like to operate anyway.
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So I said OK, and so my prayer was God with every touch, with
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every word, with every, every time I play basketball with
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them, every time I whatever I do with them.
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That they sense your love, that they sense your presence, and
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that they ask. And they did.
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And they asked several, several of them asked at different
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times. When we worked at the boys home
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here in Saint Augustine, we couldn't necessarily go up in
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there and force them to come to. Church and and force them to
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believe God. So our prayer was God.
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When we're here, God's here you're here.
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And if you're here, then they can't help but change because
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your presence is here. And we saw a lot of healing.
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These are the signs and the wonders that are supposed to
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follow you because you're truly loving people, that you're just
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going out and developing relationships with them,
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developing a friendship with them, inviting them over for
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dinner. And because they know you really
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love them, they know you really care.
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Then when you, when you say come to church with me, then they're
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apartment to do it. Yesterday I met Barbara when we
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were doing our Osceola make a Difference day and she came
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because she lives by Marissa and and they were just Marissa was
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walking her dog. You were walking your dog and
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Barbara was walking her OK walking the dog and and you know
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just started having conversation and just eventually just said
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you know you want to come to church with me and and here she
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is and not only here she is she's hooked up connected now
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and and a a member of our church and that's how it happens not
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because Marissa said oh koramaki love love and and slapped her
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and said you got a demon in you come out that's weird.
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That's weird. And it doesn't mean that you
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can't ever, and you won't ever and God won't ever call you.
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When we were at the group home one time, there was a boy who
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was literally. Possessed with a demon.
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Literally possessed with a demon.
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And there we had to put a physical restraint on him, which
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they allowed back in the day. They don't allow it now, but you
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know anyway, let me be quiet. So.
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So I can't remember I had restrained.
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Or you had restrained. I think he had restrained him
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anyway, I had looked at him and said I'm going to do it because
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we both knew there's a demon here and we got to deal with the
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demon. And so we cast that demon out.
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And when we did, when we cast that demon out, that boy who was
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flipping all around, got up and sat on his bed and was just
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limp, kind of started drooling for a minute.
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Just was kind of limp for a minute because that demon had
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possessed him. It wasn't just a demonic
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oppression, it was a possession. And so there's times that that's
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going to happen. There's times that you're going
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to need to do things like that, but you better be led by the
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Holy Ghost. Because if not, you're going to
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cause people to be like you're weird.
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And no, I don't want to come to your church.
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Never. Never.
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I'll never come. But but that's not this church.
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We need to learn how to to have wisdom and love people and
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embrace them. Love on them, no matter what
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their lifestyle is. Love on them.
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Let me wrap this up. Matthew 28.
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When it says go into all the nations and make disciples, that
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word nations is ethnos and it means every ethnic group.
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It means gentile nations who don't believe.
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So when it tells us again, go into all the world and go into
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all the nations, quit thinking it's another country.
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It's right here. It's right here where you are,
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Luke 6. But if you love those who love
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you, what credit is that to you? For even sinners love those who
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love them. And if you do good to those who
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do good to you, what credit is that to you?
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For even sinners do the same. And if you lend to those from
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whom you hope to receive back, what credit is that to you?
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For even sinners lend to sinners to receive as much back.
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But love your enemies. Love your enemies.
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Love your enemies. Do good and lend, hoping for
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nothing in return, and your reward will be great, and you
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will indeed I'm adding the word indeed be sons of the Most High,
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for he is kind to the unthankful and the evil.
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He is kind. To them, God himself is kind to
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the unthankful. And to the evil should we be
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therefore be merciful, just as your father also is merciful.
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John 435 In the Passion translation, as the crowds
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immersed from the village, Jesus said to his disciples, Why would
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you say the harvest is another four months away?
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Look at all the people coming. Now is harvest time.
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Their hearts are like vast fields of ripened grain ready
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for harvest. It's harvest time.
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Look around you. Schools are short staffed,
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businesses are short staffed, There's volunteer positions that
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are needed. And everywhere you go,
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everywhere you go, Psalm 34, verses 15 through 18, says.
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The eyes of the Lord are on the righteous, and his ears are
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attentive to their cry. But the face of the Lord is
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against those who do evil to blot out their name from the
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earth. The righteous cry out, and the
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Lord hears them, and he delivers them from all their troubles.
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Verse 18. The Lord is close to the broken
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hearted, and he saves those who are crushed in spirit.
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If He's close to the broken hearted, should we?
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Should we be? I think about the story in the
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Bible about the unjust judge and the widow that just kept going
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to him. And I think about, you know,
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things that are happening in our government that may not, that
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may be corrupt, it may not be right even in our city, that may
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not be right that the Scripture gives a picture, that she just
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was persistent. She just didn't stop.
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She wasn't moved by his. No, she wasn't moved by what he
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was saying. She just kept going.
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And finally he said because of her persistence, fine, I'll give
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it to you. And and and what are some things
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that we're getting nose on? What are some things that we're
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getting, maybe getting some kick back on.
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But we need to keep going, keep being persistent, keep pursuing
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those buildings that we need. Keep pursuing those businesses
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that should be turned over. Keep pursuing those lands in
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those houses that we should be taking.
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Don't take no. Don't quit it.
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No. Be persistent, Psalm 147.
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Three. He heals the broken hearted, and
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he binds up their wounds, healing their pain and
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comforting their sorrow. I want to go through a list of
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some of the things as we close that we do here in our church.
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We do. We are partner with Osceola,
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which I already mentioned to you, and we have a faithful
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team, really, of about four people every week.
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They come in here and pack 110 bags and they come in here on
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Wednesday and we have someone who delivers them to the school,
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to families that need them. Every week we do this our.
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Partnership with them, we We give cupcakes a business in our
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church. We give cupcakes to two teachers
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a month to appreciate them in our school.
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We're there to say whatever you need.
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We'll do it for several years in a row.
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They've needed basketball coaches.
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I coached for a couple of years. Coach Fred is still coaching
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there. They need coaches.
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I know to Tyus stepped up and and took the Murray coaching
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position. I'm telling you, people are
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falling by the wayside because of things going on in their
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personal lives and mentally people are not able to handle
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it. And we're there to help them,
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but we're also there to step in and say I got this, I'll do
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this, I'll take care of this. There's there's team after team
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after team in our city that need to be coached.
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Can you coach A-Team? Can you step in and and coach a
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cheerleading squad? Step in and and volunteer in
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these positions so that you can start to love on these people.
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Love on these kids. To Tyus and Murray, we painted I
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put on here. We painted a mural at Osceola,
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the elementary school. Todd and Brianna actually
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painted this awesome mural. The principal.
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Called anytime they need something, they'll call me and
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say, hey, you got anybody that could paint this cool?
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This new principal came in this cool, this cool mural on our
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wall because I wanted to like pop and be exciting.
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I was like, yes, we do. Todd and Brianna did that
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probably about a year ago. Was that about a year ago?
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And The funny thing was, he wasn't.
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Wasn't actually supposed to do that and kind of got a slap on
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the hand for doing it. But it looks awesome.
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It looks really good and and they joke about it,
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Superintendent, they all joke about it because it wasn't
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really in the protocol. But he he's a great principal
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and he just wanted to come in and and do something.
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But people in our body go in and say we got it.
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We've got many artists in our body that can come and come and
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do that. Our faith-based board meetings,
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we attend those, we go to those and we find out what's going on
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in the county, what's happening in our schools, how we can
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partner with other schools. You know, there's a lot of other
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schools that have needs but we're doing so much at Osceola,
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we can't take over all of them. But but there are more that we
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probably could do if we had more people say, hey, I want to help,
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I could do that. I can come pack some bags, come
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come pack some snacks. These things bring connections.
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Feeding our Pedro football team, jumping in and and and getting
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food. Say I'll make the lasagna.
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I'll do that and realize your reward is great for doing those
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things. It's not a chore.
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It's not something just like Brianna said, you we can't just
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come up here and be like I have to, have to.
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Praise God, I have to lift my hands.
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I have to. Oh my gosh, what a blessing to
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be able to serve and to be able to give.
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God truly is going to bless you. Bless not only your heart, but
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bless your life, your finances, everything when you.
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Learn how to say I'm going to take my focus off of me and I'm
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just going to give. I'm just going to give my life
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jail ministry, the jail ministry.
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We have the men's and the women's jail ministry going on.
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Pastor Marcus and some other men just went and did a Kingdom rise
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in our in our jail ministry, in our women's ministry.
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We go through a a book, a Bible study with them.
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You know those the, the women up in the jail can get on iPads and
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can talk to you. They can send you a message and
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text you and and I do that with some of the women.
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Maybe some of us could do that with some of the women.
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Just that's when I have the most conversation with them is when
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they say, hey, Pastor Angie, answer this.
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For me, what is it? What does the Bible mean when it
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says this and we are able to talk back and forth that way?
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Jail, ministry. We need more people.
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We need more people for that. Our detention centers.
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I'm going to find out about getting in our detention
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centers. We need people to step up.
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And get involved in that W Augustine, as you know man,
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we've had such a great turn out. I want to say thank you for all
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that you've done getting involved in our W Augustine
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community. You know, the new guy that came
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in and and started leading that organization said who are these
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people that show up all the time?
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Who are these people that are that are here faithfully serving
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all the time? And they said that's Anchor
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Faith Church. And he said, I want to meet with
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them. And so they came here and met
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with me and then pastor and I went and met with them.
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And they're like, we need you to actually be on the board and
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make decisions because because this Saint Augustine, this West
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Augustine youth development, and it's not just about football,
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it's about it's about transforming the whole W
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Augustine community. How can we come in there and how
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can we help do that? We need people.
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We need you. We need all.
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Of us to step up and do that? Flagler feeding money.
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Give give to that cause for feeding our teams.
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They're so blessed every time we do it, let's just keep feeding.
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I want to feed them every chance we get, every home game, some
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away games even before they leave.
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Make sure you're given towards that.
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Dining with Dignity, Feeding the Homeless partnership, That's
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another ministry that we've joined in on.
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What a blessing. If you've never been a part of
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that, you got to go through the right channels.
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But jump in and love on these people.
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We've been asked to take over Rick's family.
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Christmas on Christmas Day, right, Christmas Day where we
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minister to people love on people see them get born again
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feed them. There are things happening where
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we're we're like yeast kind of making our way out into this
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community. And I'm telling you, you want to
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be a part of it. You want to be a part of it.
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Families count. You've heard me talk about
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families count. There's some exciting thing
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things happening with that where where DCF has it and it's in the
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process of getting reviewed so that we can get it actually
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either court mandated or just judicially approved.
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So that it automatically is one that Family Integrity says you
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need to go to Anchor Face parenting class for.
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For people who are about to lose custody or have lost custody of
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their kids, we have a few people in this congregation today that
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have been through. Our family's class counts class
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and we want that to be. In fact, it's already being
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talked about because I had someone from Family Integrity
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call me the other day and said, hey, when's your next parenting
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class? I heard about it.
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We had a local shelter just a couple of months ago.
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Call us and say, hey, we heard about this mentoring you're
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doing through this family's count.
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Are you mentoring? Will you just mentor anyone?
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And I said I would love to, but I can't fit it on my schedule.
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But I wonder who could? I wonder in this body who could,
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who could step up and say I want to be a mentor to somebody
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that's living in the the shelter that needs just some guidance
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here and there and help them. That's for us.
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That's for all of us. Anila attends our county
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Commission meetings, our, our government things that are going
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on. Who else can show up for those
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things? Who else can get involved and be
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a part and run for different things that pop up, different
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offices that pop up? But we want you to know what
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you're doing. Have some wisdom, OK?
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Not just, not just. I want to be political and I
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want to, you know, just jump in here and have a voice.
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No, You want to actually have some wisdom and know what needs
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to happen According to the Bible, Saint Gerard, we help
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there, our town halls. We have people come to our town
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halls, our local parades. You know, we've we've built
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floats before in years past for our parades.
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And those were fun. We could do it again.
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It's just a way for us to be a face in the community, you know?
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I don't know if you saw recently on Facebook our mall.
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The mall was being talked about and there was somebody.
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Took a picture of the Christmas decorations.
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And said what? What's happening in there?
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And they had this. I read the thread and it's like
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I thought it was just a church. What's going on?
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And people were saying, no, there's businesses.
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They're bringing them all back to life.
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It was all pretty positive and all these people were like, I'm
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coming, I'm coming to visit, I'm coming to see it.
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I'm telling you, there's a moving, there's a shaking,
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there's an igniting happening in our city and you need to get
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fired up about it. You need to get ignited yourself
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about it. Matthew chapter 10, Matthew
Matthew 10 chapter mention Matthew 10:5–8
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chapter 10 verses 5 through 8 says Jesus sent his 12 harvest
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hands out with this charge. Don't begin by traveling to some
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far off place to convert unbelievers, and don't try to be
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dramatic by tackling some Public Enemy.
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Go to the lost, confused people right here in your neighborhood.
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Tell them that the Kingdom is here.
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Bring health to the sick. Raise the dead.
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Touch the untouchables. Kick out the demons.
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You've been treated generously, so live generously.
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Don't think you have to put on a fundraising campaign before you
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start. You don't need a lot of
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equipment. You are the equipment.
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You are the equipment worship team.
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You can come. We've got to start going to
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these places, local shelters. He is kind to the unthankful and
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the evil. God is kind to them.
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First, Peter 29 says. You are a chosen generation, a
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royal priesthood, a holy nation, his own special people, that you
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may proclaim the praises of him who called you out of darkness
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and into this marvelous light. Let me say this to you.
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You got to forget those things that are behind.
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You know, in Philippians chapter 3, it says one thing I do is
Philippians 3 chapter mention
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forget those things which are behind and I'm straining forward
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towards the mark of the call That's in Christ Jesus, you
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know, and in Joshua. God had to tell Joshua, listen,
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Moses is dead. I need you to go in and I need
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you to take the land, and I need you to understand that every
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place that you put your foot is yours.
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And I I sensed when I was studying this morning that that
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we need to to to forget those things that are behind those
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things that are weighing us down, that that are causing us
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not to to step up and say, I'm going to, I'm going to put my
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foot on the land. I'm going to, I'm going to put
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my foot in the city. I'm going to step into this
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school and and and start being yeast in this place.
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Sometimes we're still carrying the weight of our past and God
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does not want you to carry any kind of weight, any kind of
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heaviness. You going to start remembering
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to forget, remember to forget, forget those things that are
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behind and press on towards the call.
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You're anointed. The Scripture says the Spirit of
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the Lord God is upon you because he's anointed you to set the
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captives free. He's anointed you to proclaim
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liberty. He's anointed you to give them
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beauty for ashes. He's anointed you to do that.
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You know God always chose a man and a woman.
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He always chose a man. He always chose a woman.
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He's choosing and has chosen us. He's chosen you, but you've got
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to lay aside every way everything that so easily
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