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Kingdom Rise Conference - Night 4 - Pastor Earl Glisson
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Thanks for checking out the anchor Faith, Message podcast
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from st. Augustine Florida.
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Now, enjoy this message. All right.
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Y'all ready to get into the ending of our Diplomat?
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All right, let's go back over to John chapter 12 again, I want to
John 12 chapter mention
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highlight some of these verses. We've said to bring us into this
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point that we want to get to tonight.
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Just really, we've had great. I just want to thank you for
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coming to Kingdom rise. We've had a great turnout, you
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know, when we evaluate each time, we do one, you know, you
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want increase, you want to make sure that you know, more people
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are coming. Because the message is so
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powerful, right? I mean, has the kingdom, changed
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anybody's life, right? Can anyone admit?
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I was in religion and then I heard the kingdom.
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Yeah. And is the kingdom better than
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religion? Yeah.
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I mean it sets you free. It is such a free and so, you
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know, it's always good to see increase and we appreciate you
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coming taking time to get off work or arranging things with
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work so that you can be here. Cause, you know, these are our
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divine appointed times, you know, again, it's so easy to
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just get in the routine of something and then forget what's
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going on, you know, God has no problem with saying, hey, let's
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do something a little different. Because, you know, at the end of
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the day, if you've been with our sessions in the morning, you
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know, Pastor Mark gave me a great message today.
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When he started talking about, you know, free gifts and you
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know he says at the end of the day, it does cost us.
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Something, you know, because it is long as it's in our mind free
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with. There's no value and if you
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don't value something then you're really going to be in
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religion because all you want to do is wait till you go to heaven
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when you die. And that's not what God's intent
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was going to heaven. When you die is going to be
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great, you'll be caught up together and be with him, right.
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You'll be present with the Lord, that's awesome and wherever he
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is, I want to be. So when he comes back to planet
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Earth, I want to be with him. Amen.
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So things are good. All right.
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Well that being said, John chapter 12 verse 49 and 50, says
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this for, I do not for I have not spoken on my own authority
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but the father who sent me, gave me a command as what to say and
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what to speak. And I know that his commandment
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has everlasting life. Therefore whatever, I speak,
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just as a father has told me so I speak Jack Hayford.
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Third did a commentary in the Bible and he, and his studies,
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he makes some mention concerning the Apostle, John.
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Because in the Gospel of John, John uses this word eternal
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life. And when he was riding this,
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there were such persecution in the church because the, the
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apostles and disciples were really spreading the kingdom.
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If you read the book, Of Acts, you see that Philip went to
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Samaria and he went about preaching the gospel of the
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kingdom, and things concerning. Jesus, Paul himself did this as
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well. So, this was their mode of
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communication. They understood what the gospel
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really was. It was the kingdom.
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They were not trying to sell a religion, all right?
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But the Roman Empire was cracking down on Christianity so
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hard because they saw it as a government threat.
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So, John picks up the word eternal life. instead of saying
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the kingdom, Now, John can't put eternal life in there.
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Unless the Holy Ghost had told him, are you hearing me?
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This is a very good point as we begin to move forward into our
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study of Diplomat because God's desire is so that his Nation can
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influence other The Other Nation.
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When he sends an ambassador, the goal is that he can have a
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peaceful dialogue and win that other Nation over to to our
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nation's thoughts because our King his words are life their
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life. All right, so it doesn't
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surprise me that the holy ghost at the because you understand
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John's been, they tried to kill him multiple times and cannot
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kill the man. I mean he has been the subject
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of being a martyr on more than one occasion they bowled a man
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and old and he's still alive, right?
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I mean he's our New Covenant dispensation or age of the fiery
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furnace instead of them putting him in a fiery furnace.
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They put him in boiling oil and he still came out.
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So they're like, we can't kill the guy.
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Let's put him on an island. Let's exiling, we'll just cut
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him off from society, right? So it's obvious that God begins
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to talk to him because he God wants the opportunity to engage
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in conversation diplomatically, right?
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He wants to do that. Just as we've talked about some
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parables in our morning sessions, God, hid throughs, so
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that those who are hungry, could find them.
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In fact, when you look at the gospels, there are times that
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again, Jesus said, I speak in Parables to hide things because
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those who are hungry, we'll find them, but those who don't want
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them. Won't get it.
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But he says they're in there at other times.
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He started to say, he spoke to the disciples plainly.
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This is no Parable, no store. I'm just telling you.
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And one of the things he said to them plainly was, I'm going to
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die, but in three days I'm going to be raised up.
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That was very plain, very emphatic.
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Okay. But when it comes to diplomacy
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with a hostile Nation, Okay, there are only two nations in
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the earth. There's the holy nation of God,
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and then there's the nation of the devil, okay?
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Both Nations can be kind, because evil can be kind, evil,
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can even look like light. Evil can laugh.
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Are you hearing me? Okay.
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So the Lord wants this discourse, that's why he had
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Paul pain. He said, live at peace live at
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peace with all men as far as you can.
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So, you know, even though Jesus said, do you think that I came
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to bring peace? He says this.
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He said, no, I came to bring a sword divisions coming.
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Now, what is he saying, did I come to to make everybody mad
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and stir up, anger among people know, No.
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Was he trying to run people down?
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No but he knew the minute. They people receive the kingdom
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and get into the kingdom. They are going to be a different
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nature than everyone else. And all of a sudden the way they
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think behave and act or is going to look different than someone
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else. And that division can happen in
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a household between a husband and wife between parents and
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children between siblings. Definitely in the workplace.
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I mean, we Two different people. I'm a new creature in Christ.
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You're still with your father, the devil and he's a liar,
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right? You are still of sin but I've
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been made righteous, okay? And so he says, I didn't come to
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bring peace where we're all just going to get along.
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What? I brought was my kingdom and
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it's going to cause a separation, but in my Approach
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I'm going to do a diplomatically to try to help.
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Up you come over into my kingdom.
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Are you hearing me? So Jesus, then by the Holy Ghost
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obviously, says John so much attention is happening with the
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church concerning the Kingdom. At this point.
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It is going to be-better that when you address them just say
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eternal life. So it kind of it, lightens the
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blow of Rome, but here's the problem.
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If you don't know that, that's the purpose behind eternal life
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and that eternal life is really saying the kingdom.
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Because again, let's just go to a scripture that we know,
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everyone knows right, for John, 3:16 for God.
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So loved the world that he gave his only begotten, son, that
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whoever believes in him would have okay?
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But what if we put the word Kingdom there, Now you're like,
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man, I wish you would have said that, right?
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That's a that one for God. So loved the world that he gave
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his only begotten, son. That whoever would believe in
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him would not perish, but would have the kingdom, and that's
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what we're getting. We're getting the kingdom.
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I said, we're getting the kingdom.
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My point is that God has no problem with in his language, to
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communicate his side to be able to communicate In a way that
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helps the aggressive hostile Nation not being to be a little
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more peace. Are you hearing me?
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He doesn't have a problem with that.
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Does it always function that way?
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No. Because sometimes the Lord wants
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to engage her relationship with a nation, a totally different
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way. But I'm saying, it's not because
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he hasn't tried to bring peace first, try to get them to change
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their thinking first, all right, but if they don't, then
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obviously things will get a little bit different.
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Alright? With that being said, John
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obviously says here in 50, I know that his commands is the
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kingdom them In essence, I know that when my when my father
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speaks, he speaks from the throne.
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So, this is Kingdom talk. This is the government's
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position in essence. Jesus is saying, I am the
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greatest Ambassador you've ever seen on the planet, right?
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And Jesus was the greatest one. Jeremiah was a great ambassador.
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Because he represented God. Okay.
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But the reality is he talked to God a few times like man I don't
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want to do that man. I got I'm trying he even has had
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a whole conversation about. I'm trying not to do it but your
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words like a fire. Shut up in my bones, man.
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I got a preacher but I was like, shut this down.
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I'm done with this. Jesus didn't have that
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conversation with his father at all.
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He only had a conversation with his father, about his will by.
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I really don't want to be separated from you outside of
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that. Whatever.
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My father says I do because I'm not here to represent me.
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I'm here to represent my father and his kingdom.
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Right? And Jesus Is Our Lord so we
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should follow that example. We'd get in less trouble if we
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do. Amen.
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Now, I don't mean will avoid trouble, but we'll get less
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trouble. John 5:30 says this, I can can
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of my own self, do nothing. As I hear, I judge and my
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judgment is just because I seek not my own will, but the will of
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the father who hath sent me, let me do it this way.
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Now, let me read these next couple and then I'll say it,
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John 6:38, these are review for, I have come down from heaven,
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not to do my own will Will, but the will of him who sent me
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said to them truly truly, I say to you.
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The son can do nothing of himself unless it's something.
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He sees the father doing for whether the, whatever the father
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does, these things. The son also does in lat like
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manner. Okay, the kingdom Ambassador
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principle called we can't even talk about being a diplomat or
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being diplomatic. Unless you understand, you are
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an ambassador and the Ambassador ER, speaks for the kingdom and
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does not represent himself only the kingdom.
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That's what Jesus did. What's his first message?
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He publicly preaches after he came up out of the, Jordan being
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baptized by the spirit, repent. For the Kingdom of Heaven is at
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hand. Repent is not a religious word.
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It means change, your thinking. And is that not what happens
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when our ambassadors engage other nations.
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There saying you should change your thinking on what you're
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wanting to do here. Right, it also means side would
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my party. Which means why don't you come
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over to it are thinking and the way we do government and our
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ambassadors do that, you need to change your thinking on hon your
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approach towards our nation right now you might want to side
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with our party. Right, he said, repent for the,
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what kingdom of God is at hand, and then we're learning a
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powerful lesson in the, in the morning sessions about this
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Kingdom, I will mention here because not all of y'all been in
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service, but the kingdom of God, we are in.
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Okay? Is in is one Kingdom into ages.
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Okay. Jesus inaugurated this Kingdom
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to be able to come back to the Earth through Humanity.
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Remember what he said. When you pray pray this way, our
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whose father has your daddy, my daddy, he's your daddy.
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If you're born of God, if Jesus is, Lord of your life, God's not
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your daddy. If Jesus Christ is not the Lord
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of your life, you got some other make believe God and you may
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call him God and you may associate I'm with Jesus but the
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reality is unless you have laid down your life.
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And live for him. Totally.
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Then there's a false reality in your religion.
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Amen. This is total lordship but the
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your father is Jesus's, father, Our Father, which art in heaven,
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Hallowed Be Your Name, Your Kingdom Come your will be done
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on Earth as it is. And there's no rebellion in
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heaven anymore. It happened once and he got
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kicked out. And there's never been another
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Rebellion ever. Jesus said, I saw Satan fall.
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Like lightning, that was dumb. Right.
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Because the kingdom has never lost a battle.
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God's kingdom has never lost a battle.
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Hallelujah, his kingdoms. Love it is love.
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He will always do his word, his word, beats every condition
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necessary. So that God will fulfill his
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whatever he says, period. Amen.
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So here Jesus then is the greatest representative of an
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ambassador because he only does what the father says.
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That's all he's doing. That's all he ever done.
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Did, and every conversation then we can conclude now is he's
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having direct communication with the Home Country on how to
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navigate with These other nations and when we say Nations,
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we're not just talking territory landmass caused by All rights.
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A nation is not territory. Its people And if we didn't
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believe that, then nobody would in here, will be calling
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themselves. An Irish American and African
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American an indian-american. You wouldn't do that.
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Because you're not actually in India.
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I mean except for Pastor Jay right now other than that you're
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not but now he's a citizen of India.
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But we see people and that's how we identify right a people
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group. So, you know, people then
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identify on the outside. They identify also by how they
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behave their culture and even if they're not on in their home
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country, they will have a connection with the land that
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are not even of right now. I don't have a problem with that
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if you'll do that spiritually because I'm connected with the
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land and I'm not currently residing in Meaning Heavens,
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perfect government system. That I was originally a part of
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in God's mind when he created heaven and earth in the first
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place. Let us make man in our
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dimension, in our likeness, and let them have dominion.
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So, I'll be, I have a heaven realm that I rule, I gave them
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the Earth realm, that they rule. I own all this, but I'm going to
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let them because they're like me, let them rule.
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But when Adam ate the fruit sin, enter the world and the Lord had
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to step in. And so, Jesus comes and says,
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I've come to represent the kingdom because it's the kingdom
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that man, lost man, did not lose heaven.
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Man did not fall from Heaven man.
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Lost dominion and lost access to the kingdom of God.
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Amen. So God wants heaven to manifest
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in the earth and the way heaven will manifest in the earth is
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through his ambassadors, right? And so, then they are dealing
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then with a hostile Nation, those that are outside the
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kingdom of God, and they're having relations.
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Attic relations in trying to get them, to change their thinking
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in the position, they're in. Because if they actually sided
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with the kingdom, they would be a to enter into life.
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Okay, so an ambassador speaks for the kingdom, does not
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represent himself onto the kingdom, the and of the
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ambassador's the Kingdom's agent for conveying.
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Its will desires and purposes in the territory to which he, or
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she is, is assigned. We read in Ephesians that
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there's an ambassador there. Ephesians 6, I'm not going to
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read that scripture tonight but 2nd Corinthians 5:18 and 20.
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I'll read it says now. All these are from God who
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reconciled us to himself through Christ.
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That means the king and gave us the ministry of reconciliation.
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Elevation. So a diplomat when he's doing
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when he is doing diplomatic. Things through diplomacy, he is
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trying to bring reconciliation with a nation that has become
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hostile. They have had a sever in
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relationship. God has had a sever Severn
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relationship with Humanity because of the fall of Adam and
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now he's trying to reconcile them back and he uses his
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ambassadors to do. So.
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So, and he's always used this role of ambassadors.
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Someone to represent him and his word, he did it in the old
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Covenant or Old Testament, or even before the law, he's done
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that. He also does it now in this one
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and he'll do it in the age to come so this Kingdom which
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stretches between two ages. We are in an evil age now,
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meaning that, even though Jesus has stripped the devil of his
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authority, he did not take him out of the planet that comes in
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the millennial. So that tells us then is that we
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will have challenges. Jesus said in this life you'll
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have trials and tribulation but be of good cheer for I have
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overcome the world at the end of the day, as pastors, going to
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really teach on this tomorrow. Because we are in his kingdom
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that stretches to ages. Even though we're in a present
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evil age, where we still see sin, we still see this hostile
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Nation. We still see these that are
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going against an attack. God's Nation.
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It's no. Different than what we see
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happen with China. Towards the u.s. right now and
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Russia towards a u.s. right now. It's no different.
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They're hostile. They why?
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Because they want to become the global power.
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They will all other nations to what bow down to them.
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Well, you understand, the world wants the church to bow down to
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it, because the devil has only wanted one thing for God to what
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bow down to him. But we are the superior Nation.
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Not. And I don't say that in the
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Arrogant or conceited way. I mean, God is superior and
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we're of his class where the god class where the god, Khan, who
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happened to be Kings. So, the cool thing about the
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kingdom, where in, because it stretches across two Ages, which
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really when we say to, we could almost say three because it goes
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into the perfect government with a new Heaven, new Earth, okay?
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But the reality is this going in a I have no win now that Jesus
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when his resurrection it's available, we can function in
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it. We can pull Heaven to Earth.
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And how do we do this? Because we stretch over into
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this Millennial reign. Time period and pull those
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benefits into. Now, we can be healed now.
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Right? We can prosper now, have all
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their needs met now, because we pulled it over by faith because
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we're in a kingdom that is already exceeded Tom.
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I mean we're trying to catch up to where it is.
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Hallelujah. All right so we're reconciling.
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Then this Evil Nation or hostile Nation.
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Trying we won't know to get them back in.
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Good relationship with God. Not that we let our saying stay
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in your nation and just be at peace with God.
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We're saying you need to come over to this nation because your
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resistance is futile. Right verse 19 says, namely that
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God was in Christ. Reconciling the world to himself
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not counting their trespasses against them and he has
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committed to us the word of reconciliation verse 20.
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Therefore we are what we are ambassadors for Christ.
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Okay, as though God, we're making an appeal through a show
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doing, alright? So we are a diplomat them.
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We are one employed in skilled in diplomacy.
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This is I and I would say this, we are calling Called to be an
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ambassador, but many are not actually skilled in diplomacy.
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So if you're going to be a diplomat, In your office, which
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of Ambassador, which is the highest rank, a government can
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give that citizen. You're going to go and represent
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me. So again, we said yesterday,
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when you, when people see you, they don't meet you.
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They meet a nation. So you've got to quit living for
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self and you got to get rid of personal savior mentality.
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Did Jesus personally die for you?
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Yes, because you're included in everyone, he died for, I've
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heard it taught this way. You know what?
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If you were the only one Christ would have came?
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Nope, would not have if nobody would have gotten right with
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Jesus. He still would have came, even
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if the whole world would have Still rejected him, he still
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would he came because he would have been able to rightly judge
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us that I said, let us make man in our image, according to our
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likeness, let them have dominion.
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Jesus said I have made Dominion available for them again.
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All they have to do is receive it by faith, and if none of
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humanity wants to get back in that position, I'm not a liar.
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So if no one after Adam would have ever repented, and believed
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Jesus, still coming to the planet is going to die.
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Because God says, I'll do my word and what do you say?
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I'm gonna bring my seed through the woman, said he was bringing
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his seed whether you going to accept it or not.
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So don't think that Jesus just came for you.
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Jesus came because the father said, I'm sending my seed, good
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news, is you can get ill. Not, that's what's exciting.
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Is that you can get in on that. But we have really kept this
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kind of God mentality that we've had ourselves.
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Even when we come over to Jesus over, he just died for me.
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I'm so special for him. It's like man, I came cause
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daddy said I had to you just get the benefit of that deal.
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Because how do I know you're going to you're not many people
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are not accepting him, you know how many are going to be cast
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into the Lake of Fire which is the second death.
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How many? The Bible says, it keeps growing
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wide is the gate that leads and many and every one of them could
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have had Dominion could have been restored and Jesus died for
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them. So we're not more special.
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Everyone that would be cast into the Lake of Fire.
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He loved them. But he gave them what they
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wanted according to his word. If you don't accept me, this is
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the condition and love puts you in the Lake of Fire because you
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chose to be without him for eternity, just say, Amen.
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Anyway, all right, so we are to be employed.
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In diplomacy, diplomacy is the art and practice of conducting
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negotiations between nations skilled and handling Affairs,
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without arousing hostility. This I Know Why the Lord brought
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this to my spirit about the Diplomat because and I hear him
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say to me, says, son, the reason why is because my church, my
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ambassadors. My Saints are are in adequately
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trained to negotiate with the world.
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They're at their in adequately trained.
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Why? Because watch, they want to be
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hostile. Especially as the day gets
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darker, the more we're going to want to be more if you don't
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watch out hostile. But guys, not talk to asking you
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to be hostile. He's asking you to exhibit
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diplomacy and diplomacy is to try to make.
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Try to change thinking in peace. The first and foremost, all
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diplomats. The first thing is not, we going
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to blow you up. You'll do what I say that's not
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Step 1. Step One is like, can we come to
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take my have a conversation. So I'm not really sure why
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you're thinking like this. I mean, what's going on that?
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You're exhibiting so much hostility towards me, we need to
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re-establish some relationship here.
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So any Diplomat who can get hostility of a Nation back to
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very peaceful terms is always the best way to go.
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Unfortunately some Nations do not respond, and when that takes
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place even God does things different.
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We're going to see examples of this, but in these last days,
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when number one, it says, when Jesus comes back, will he find
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faith in the earth also? He said in the last days, there
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will be such lawlessness and that the hearts of many Well,
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the the love of many will grow cold, meaning the Agape
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Christians harshberger, which means when you're watching TV,
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you'll get so mad. Okay, I'm preaching so mad at
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these anti Antichrist. Legislations ungodly demonic
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things. I mean mad so mad.
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You like we got to do. Listen, the Bible's already.
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Let us show the world's going to hell in a handbasket in one
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sense, right? It's not our job, I mean, it's
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fantasy thinking as US ambassador, think you're going,
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A change everybody. In fact, the Bible actually lets
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us know more or are not going to get in.
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I mean it's that's just an unfortunate.
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Piece of information. We already have from the king.
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I mean, I feel like the church is in such a delusion right now,
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man, there's going to be this Great Harvest before the return
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of Jesus. I don't know how great it to be.
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I mean, I believe there's going to be a harvest.
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But I think there's gonna be a massive harvest in the catching
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away of the church and many I'm going to get right on the other
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side because they're going to be like Lord.
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He said, man, I was not intimately acquainted with you.
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Many people. During the tribulation because
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they have a knowledge of God going to realize, listen, can I
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just help you don't? You don't want to be left in the
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tribulation. Just voluntarily ill.
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Now, I remember telling a particular child of a parent
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that they were struggling with obeying their parents and so,
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you know, I met with them and I said, listen, I'm just going to
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be honest with you. You're you're going to have to
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submit period, this little issue that you got would submitting to
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us what you know the person over you.
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This is this is will happen forever in eternity.
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Okay and here's the thing, submissions going to happen in
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your life so you can either learn to voluntarily submit to
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your parents rules right now with peace, okay?
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Or there's going to come a day that you will be forced into
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submission. Because the police are going to
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put you somewhere. Unfortunately, they didn't
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listen to my advice and they received forced submission.
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So now they're told when to get out of the cell, what they're
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eating, what they're wearing. Now, on the inside and still be
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full of rebellious. I'm not submitting your
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submitting because you're not saying I'm not going to wear of
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this prison uniform. You're wearing the prison
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uniform. I'm not going to eat this will
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find in your Diane starve to death.
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No problem with us that it just be less taxpayer money, but you
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find them eating it, right? Now there may be a lot of
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conflict, might get into a lot of fights, might have a lot of
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prison guards, you know, tasing on whatever they do.
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They're in the prison system but it's for submission.
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You don't want to be left behind because then it's going to call
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it. Most likely is going to cost you
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your actual life. You'll have to just go ahead and
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prove it through being martyred. But if you're having a hard time
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on this side being volunteering, then you're going to take the
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mark of the beast, man. Let's just go ahead and be
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honest. That's just going to be a rough
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deal and you're going to know. I am foot my allegiance to the
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Antichrist because you couldn't do it with a God that was
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talking to you here. Just say men anyway so in these
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last days he said man there's going to be trouble trouble in
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Toms so we've got to get our diplomacy on.
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We got to be diplomatic we're already the the nation is
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hostile towards us, right? You don't take it covid shot,
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they're hostile. before that time, whether you took shots or
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not was not even a and whether you took a shot or not, I don't
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care. It's what's happening behind it?
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I mean Walmart and Home Depot can stay open.
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But all of a sudden, sure she got shut down that's hostile but
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now do they come again in diplomacy?
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What is the enemy? What's that?
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This is what we're going to do. We're going to negotiate with
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you, we need you. To close the doors.
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For a set period of time. But now because of the stress of
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this moment and the isolation, we're going to keep ABC liquor
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open. Oh, did not liquor store, stay
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open because alcoholics in their home without being able to get
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what they're addicted to that hostile government said, no, we
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got to keep feeding, what keeps them not being sober minded, we
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got to keep adding to how can San Francisco be had handing out
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heroin Two people all over the streets.
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Right. My point is, is that that can't
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make you mad. Now at the end of the day, it
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will grieve you. I get it.
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But you understand there are at all the time thinking.
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Let's just go with Jesus real quick.
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Okay, we're talking about diplomacy.
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How many times did Jesus get angry and it's recorded.
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One time you bet in the temple. So we know that the father says
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what they doing in my temple right now.
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I am not well with and my action towards this is you going to go
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up in there and you're going to knock them tables over you and
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find you a whip and you going to drive them all out and you're
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going to remind them, that there's only one we are going to
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view some Brute Force. In our diplomacy to get the
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house back. Now, did he do that?
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But how many times did he get mad at everything else?
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Okay, so that tells me then and all the stuff that God did and
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the Jesus did, in negotiating with a hostile Nation, anger was
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the least thing he did. Yet most Christians calls their
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carnal. Or angry and their uses
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scripture. But Jesus didn't do that.
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Now did Jesus have issues with the religious?
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Yeah but you know what? He didn't have issues with the
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world. So the only part of the Hostile
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Nations that he in his diplomatic approach was is those
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who actually had access to me and should know and be on that
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had an anointing because the priest the high priest could
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have the anointing come upon him.
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They were separated unto God, so they actually had access to be
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able to hear from heaven. And do different.
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But now those that are outside of the house, they did not and
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he was compassionate. The diplomacy was compassion,
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he's Healing The Sick, raising the dead casting out Devils he
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didn't go well you deserve that devil be in you.
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Don't think I don't know about you.
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Right. Don't think, I don't know about
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you. He knew about people, the woman
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comes and washes, his feet with her tears.
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Pours, all on him and the religious.
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Like, man, if he is a prophet God, you know, what kind of
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woman that is they angrily? Hear the anger in that, right?
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I can't believe it. I mean, I can't believe he's in
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my house right now. So Jesus gets diplomatic may I
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ask you a question. We got a couple people that's
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got some debts on they. Oh, right.
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He's being diplomatic. One has 10 bucks.
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He owes somebody. I'm, you know, I'm that's not
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what the scripture actually says.
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Okay. I'm paraphrasing 10 bucks.
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This was a million. Both are forgiven.
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Which one do you think? Love more?
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Because of him? He goes, I would suppose a 1
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forgiving more debt. Is you say correctly?
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He says, when I came into this house, you didn't kiss me.
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You didn't try to wash my feet. But this woman though her sins
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are many. Oh, I know about her.
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I know what kind of woman she is.
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But what she's doing right now, the World's Gonna know about it.
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Because my presence and what I've already done in the Earth
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with the kingdom has caused this one to come over to my side,
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you're still hostile. Right.
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But too many I'm telling you carnal, Christians and we I'm in
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the process of doing a book right now.
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Y'all heard me preach on equipped and you know what?
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We've said about equipped, if all you do is educate the body
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of Christ, the best you can produce as a Pharisee, It's the
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best you can do. God, never called us to equal to
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educate the body. He called us to equip the body
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and there's a difference, but most of the churches, because
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people don't read the Bible. So they have no idea about their
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Kingdom. Don't even know there any
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Kingdom. So how can they even be an
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ambassador? How can they negotiate with
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these hostile Nations? And these people that are in
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hostility towards us because the world hates us You just and the
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world hates the church. So every time the church is the
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standard of God, right? If you're going to stay in
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Ambassador, then you're gonna have to live the lifestyle
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associated with righteous. As John said, it this way, you
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have to live a life in keeping with repentance, okay?
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You're gonna have to live holy blameless, you're going to have
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to work that thing out now. Can you make a mistake?
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Sure will God forgive you. Yes, but your heart is not to
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live wrong, your heart is to actually live who you are in
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Christ. You want to renew your mind, you
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want? To please your father.
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You want to do whatever he says, whenever he says, because you
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are a good son and daughter and your example of Jesus because I
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only do what that says. I want to do because he loves
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me. I mean, he's the one who gave me
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this life. This is so easy for me to do
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this. So I'm not going to be glad by
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my flesh. I'm going to be led by the
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spirit and those who are led by the spirit.
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These So people live by the flesh where I can question
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whether you are one. Now that doesn't mean you can't
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be a Son of God and still be led by your flesh.
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Sure. Paul's like why are you so
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carnal to the Corinthian Church? I can't even speak to you about
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spiritual matters because you're so carnal.
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I mean, you're like Mere Men, your babes in Christ and the
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majority of Believers on the planet.
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Now, Or babes. And man, when things get tough,
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because we know some scripture we going to try to negotiate
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with the world like a Pharisee. So what do we do?
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We should have a standard but what's the church doing?
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Especially in the u.s. well the world is totally different than
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us. Well we want to be relevant.
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Because the more moral God-fearing Desiring to be
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wholly towards God because he made me whole day anyway and let
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that see. Then the world itself will rise
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to a level of morality. But the minute you try to come
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down and say, well, we're like the same.
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I'm just a sinner saved by grace.
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You know what the world hates the church?
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They're like, forget that I don't want to, like, you look
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too much like me. I got to do more things worse.
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This is why our world is Decay because the church is exhibiting
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such a low standard. And at like this is God, that
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the world's like we hate God, how can I be drinking in the
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club right now? And this guy's going to church
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tomorrow this will make any sense that you're You're gonna
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can look at ordering can I order you another one brother?
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Okay let's talk about the Lord. This is happening.
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This is literally happy and so weird and this guy's like
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confuse his life. I hate God.
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How in the world can I look like this guy right now?
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I mean even those people know, Something right.
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Have you ever noticed how the world wants to tell us how to be
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Believers? Well, you're a Christian.
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You're not supposed to? Well, how do you know that?
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Even the world knows the standards higher.
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Well now brother, I'm just you know, I'm just trying, that's
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not diplomacy, that's carnality. They're like forget that man.
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I gotta go worse, I look too much like God and I didn't even
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realize it and we call that Grace.
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That ain't Grace, that stupidity.
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That's what that is. Amen.
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Now here's the thing. There's growth, I get it.
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So you can't just get locked in. This is the deal with diplomacy
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diplomacy is not black and white.
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Diplomacy is following the voice of the Lord, because he knows
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what draws men. This is the issue.
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You can't just go in and, you know, just, I can't believe
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you're living like that. You're gonna have to change.
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You know what, you know, what do you know, how many servers are
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living an alternative lifestyle, right now?
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Can I say it that way? Some servers that we, I know
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they're not living. But I am I talk to them.
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I treat them like a human being. I mean I and I know I do.
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It's no I mean I mean I have one server a guy.
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He's like man I'm leaving going to New Jersey going to be up
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with my you know my you know my lover up there.
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All right. I'm like really, you know, and
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you could tell every time he served, you know, that he was
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just searching. But at the end of the day, I
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never once talked to him about Jesus, I'll be honest with you,
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I never did why? Because I'm not stupid, because
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I actually listen to the Holy Ghost and some people aren't
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ready to have that conversation. He needed just the exposure of
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my life. Of my godliness.
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I mean I won't open doors so diplomacy is I'm not talking to
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you about your sin. I'm I and he knows that I'm a
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preacher. And if he goes around and asks,
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The other servers will how much tip did you get?
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You know, when he won't be able to do?
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And he couldn't, they whenever say well, he didn't give me, I
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know they're doing, I'd given them nothing.
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Like we had like, we're supporting their habit,
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supporting their behavior. No, I'm going to show you God,
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because while you were yet, sinners Christ died for me.
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I mean, he he paid the ultimate price of blood while we are
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living the most horrific life towards his kingdom and I can't
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bless. Him with a 50 dollar bill.
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Be like why is the church giving me money like this, they give me
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more money than my own kind. Because ultimately, then when
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God starts talking to their heart, that was be like The end
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of the day you say, would you let people that are doing sin in
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the church? You're here?
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Write me. Sure.
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Did come in perfect, you still dealing with stuff now?
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But you know what diplomacy won't allow me to do.
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It won't allow me to let you start walking through the church
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and acting like how you're living is acceptable to God.
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Now my diplomacy will kick into another level.
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And my diplomacy. I have no opinion in the matter,
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but my king says so I and again, what does the world do they're
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pushing and saying, you know, that we hate this sexual sin.
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We hate any sin, sexual sin, sexual sin is not just same-sex.
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It is fornication, which is a heterosexual relationship
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without marriage. That's in.
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Now, I'm not kicking somebody out if they've done it, but what
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I'm doing is trying to demonstrate the love of God,
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preached Ruth, you're going to hear that here.
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But at the end of the day, you have to make that choice.
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And I'm not against you, I will help you, I will do everything I
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need to do because again some people in some we are really
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going out of the way. Why is showing kindness?
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Because it's the kindness of God that draws men to repentance.
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But now my diplomacy kicked into another level.
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If they are so-called brother, this is why Jesus talked to
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Pharisees. One way and there's the other
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way but carnal Christians only talk one way.
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Cause they can't discern. They can't discern.
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Jesus had a again, the guy comes up with Leprosy and he said,
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Lord, if you're willing, he obviously already heard from the
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father, he's not doing anything that the father hasn't
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authorized and the demo diplomatic approach for him and
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his Ambassador is to bring the Healthcare System of his kingdom
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to this hostile nation and show compassion.
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He could have said, son, you know why you left her?
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See You want to tell you why you got leprosy.
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Now, it may not be that Heath sinned in brought it on, it
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could be. Just because sin is in the earth
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symptoms in our body doesn't mean we've are we been in sin
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certain diseases that mean. You've been as him?
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Some can. Yes.
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But again discernment. Lets you know where that's at.
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My point is that Jesus wasn't blast it because everyone
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rightly we're having the problems they were having
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because they all were Fallen but man, Jesus had the capacity as
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an ambassador, a dad. What do you want me to say?
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How do you me to engage this National He says, well do this
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from our kingdom? Do this from our kingdom.
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That's why acts 10:38 said, look how God anointed Jesus of
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Nazareth. Who went around doing good.
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And healing all who were oppressed of the devil.
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Oh, Wow. Moses and Egypt is probably one
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of the greatest diplomatic models.
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We have God, sends an ambassador.
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Moses you're my Ambassador, I'm here in heaven here on Earth.
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I need you to go help my people. The ones I'm in Covenant with
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Abraham Isaac and Jacob, right? Which turned into Israel.
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I need to go help them, but I need to go to the government.
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So we're going to get into a diplomatic relation.
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This is the kingdom. Sod.
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This is my position. Tell them to let my people go
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just be a peaceful transfer. I'm not here, I'm not here to
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roll this nation. All the all this Kings got to do
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is let my people go. Is that not what he did?
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But the Kings light. I don't know.
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You got right? I've never met your king.
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No, I'm not doing that. So the Lord said well we're
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going to have to bring some sanctions.
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You hear what I'm saying? We have to apply some pressure
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but we need him. Change your thinking.
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Right. Moses didn't cry like a baby.
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Oh yeah. How do you know you're living
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Ambassador life? Because you're not crying like a
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baby when the Hostile Nation opposes you.
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He didn't throw at enter temper tantrum.
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He didn't get all mad every time.
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Right. No, now he went to Laura says.
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Whoa man. Whoa man.
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I didn't know I was gonna get this bad for our own people.
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But again, why did Pharaoh retaliate?
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That's what happens in diplomacy.
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Someone's trying to Muscle Up on the other.
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I mean, right now in our own Nation it was just an outside of
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China said after a little military exercise, we're ready
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to go to war with the United States.
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My friends, that is a threat. That is a threat, just saying
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that is basically saying we're not intimidated with you.
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Now, that doesn't mean they're sending them, but they're just
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saying we're ready to go. You don't want to fire shot at
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us. Now somebody's lying.
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There's a bluff somewhere right? At the end of the day and
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Pharaoh was trying to show I mean but he lived by the
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natural. He saw his Armory or me.
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He saw his wealth. He saw all this alignment a
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slave. Don't talk to me.
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Your God is not going to get them out of this deal but boy
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did Laura start bringing came back reading it.
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Well we'll just do it this way. It's like and then even the king
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of Egypt, Pharaoh has Has to ask the ambassador to get rid of
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part of the stuff. Can you get rid of the frogs
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man, and you ask the Nats to go, why?
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Cause he knows it didn't come from them.
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Right then even his own advisor starts saying, man, this you
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might want to step away from this.
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Because this this nation's got the upper hand.
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When God delivers them. Right.
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When he delivers them, he sends in one special force guy.
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Okay, just one. He sends one in at night.
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He tells his Nation, you put blood on your door post because
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he's special forces, new guy. The only way he going to get the
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doors right. If you got blood on it you don't
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get blood on it. I mean he's a new I miss his
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first mission first mission. Okay, so we're going to help him
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but blood on your doors. All right. now, listen, if
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Pastor Ramon, if they had not obeyed, That angel would have
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killed it Israelite. Because the only reason that
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first born is protected in awe is because the blood and God
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didn't put his blood on it. They had to put the blood on it.
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All right. Hallow God's in control if he
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is. Why didn't he send a painter
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first? Put it on, paint your door, the
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Lord's in control. You just just go back to sleep.
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We don't want you to do anything.
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You're a pathetic sheep. You can't do nothing man.
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And we got to do it all you. I mean, you are the most
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high-maintenance creation we've ever been around.
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I mean, that's as modern day. Christianity is an odd, you
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know? Oh, can you bring me a tea?
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Why you're here? I mean, we're right making.
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God serve us guys. Like, I'm sending my guy first
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mission. Put some blood on the door, so
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you don't kill your kid. I need you paint the door.
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No, you better paint that door. But what did he do?
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He went through one God one night.
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He was stealthy. Took out the first born. man,
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that was But is that where God? Did God ultimate now God knows
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where he was going to have to go because he has Intelligence
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already. You understand when you starts,
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when you when they went ahead of a Nation since their ambassador
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to nigga? It's because they already have
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intelligence. God already knows how pharaohs
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going to respond before even sends his Ambassador, but he
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still, what's he do? It's not, I'd it's not because I
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didn't give the king And the nation a chance.
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And they just chose the Hard Road.
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Then when the Kings like, what have we done?
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We're go kill them all now. He's like, I got man, I and this
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is why I want my nation to see when you get over in the other
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side that this can never come after you again.
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You're going to watch them die, you're never going to be
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thinking in the back is Pharaoh coming.
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You know, that's what he did to the devil.
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He stripped the devil, his power so much that you don't have to
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look back and say is the devil coming.
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Is he coming? Which means then we have
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Intelligence on what we need to do to engage.
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This is diplomacy and we're not even activating it.
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Joshua and Jericho, that's diplomatic relation.
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Diplomatic relation. Now, you say, well, I don't
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member him. Meet with the leaders know, God
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had met with them and the last 400 years because before Abraham
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at a conversation with Abraham, he said to Abraham, he said
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Abraham, you can have so many descendants it's going to be
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like, the sand of the Sea and the stars in the sky.
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He said, but here's the deal. Your descendants are going to be
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stuck in a nation. For 400 years.
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And then I'll go get them. And I'm going to bring him right
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here to watch your sin. He says, I can't bring him here
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yet because the sins of the amorites have not come to a
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fullness, which means I've been I'm going to be talking to these
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guys for the next few centuries diplomatically to repent.
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But when they don't listen, I'm taking the land.
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Because it's my Earth anyway. Are you hearing me?
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It's my Earth in you and that was what we consider a hard
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case. That when the Lord shows up, now
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they already have knowledge. Remember what Rahab said?
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We heard about you guys, we have been interior.
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Well, what's that mean? The Lord's already.
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Gave them a message from Egypt. You might want to open your
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gate. Right.
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But what do they do? They stayed shut up tightly.
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Nope, didn't do it when they could have gotten out, they
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chose know. We going to fight, we ain't
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going. And we going to trust in our
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walls and what they put their trust in.
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God, brought down and that's the same thing he did with Pharaoh,
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what? Pharaoh, trusted his Gods.
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He brought though, all those guys can predict him.
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That's what all those plays were about the amen.
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Well, what's that do for us? Let's try to close this down a
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little bit. Matthew 16, Verse 18, It's
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that's just why it's so important for you to come to
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church. Okay.
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Go ahead. Put that up.
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I'm worried, I give you the name Peter Stone, right.
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Okay. He says this because again,
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they, he's asking them. Who do people say that I am,
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right? And they say, your these
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prophets dada, dada da? He said, who do you say that?
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I am. They said, we are the Christ,
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the son of the Living God and he says, Peter flesh and blood has
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not revealed that to you. But my but by the spirit, my
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father has and then he calls him blessed and he says, listen and
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this truth of who I am meaning, I'm the Christ.
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I'm the king who's bringing the kingdom that I have no end
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according to You, all right. Will be the Bedrock foundation
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on which I will build my church, and his church is not a brand
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new term, and it's not a religious term, it was already
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in the Earth. And that's why the passion gets
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it right says this my legislative assembly.
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On Tuesdays aniela. How many Tuesday's is this at
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the county Tuesdays when they have their board meeting?
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First and third on the first and third and st.
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Johns County. They have a board of County
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Commission meeting in essence. They have an assembly Writing
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you know up in our state I went and prayed they were having an
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assembly a legislative assembly where they were creating laws
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debating to determine how we better govern the citizens.
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Are you hear me? And if you want to know what
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they mean, you got to stay connected to that.
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If you want to know what kind of laws, they're trying to pass
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because there are laws that are trying to destroy the church and
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it's in the state level. It's in county and City levels,
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and it's in federal levels because there is a hostile
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government. But we are legislative assembly.
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So church is when we come together as ambassadors in this
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Embassy, and we're hearing from the home country, on how we need
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to handle things in our own personal lives, right?
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And really God talking to you about, you is really just
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training. So you'll be a better Ambassador
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because you can't be a good Ambassador if you don't
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represent him because your behavior looks like the world
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because you're going rogue. So, he trains you to be a great
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Ambassador so that you always embody the kingdom.
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And then he will, then tell you how to actually handle
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situations in your home at work. He'll give you the capacity.
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To negotiate and that comes because you come to church and
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grow in the word. So he says, my, I'll build my
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church. My legislative assembly and the
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power of death will not be able to overpower.
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I will give you the what keys of Heavens Kingdom Realm.
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Keys plural. To forbid on Earth, that which
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has been forbidden in heaven and to release on Earth, that which
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has been released in heaven. I know the King James says bound
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on Earth. You know, and buying in heaven,
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you don't bind in heaven on. You don't bond Earth on Earth
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before you bind in heaven Heavens telling you what we have
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this is our position. Our position is bond this you
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like okay as an ambassador here's my position, we're
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bonding that because it's already there in heaven, that
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way. If Heaven said we going to lose
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this, then you're in your Isshin, we going to lose this.
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It's not my opinion. I don't have my ID come to serve
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my own will only the will of my father, right?
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And so he will tell us, I remember when we first started
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and we went over to this 312 location, we were in Gamble.
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Rogers. Shot over to this 312 location
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across from Cobblestone and we were into storefronts in a
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warehouse. And so we were, you know, first
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going to be there, 10,000 square feet.
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You know, it's going to be our new home.
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We were advertised as a big sign in some citizen of st.
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Johns County went by who Was not a by hostile Nation.
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They were called the county and says, there's a church-going in
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here. We don't like it or they doing
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right. And man we are in there painting
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getting ready for service. and then all of a sudden inspector
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from the county shows up and tells us That we can't do any
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more work and that we are not even allowed in the building.
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We're not authorized, which was surprising.
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Because when we got into the lease anyway with the owner, I
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called zoning, and I asked them about Zoni.
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It was under a what they call a commercial, the general and
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churches can be in that area. So this is a shock to me.
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So I just got into diplomacy. I'm gonna give you a real-life
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testimony. So I came up because I was in
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the back, saw him there, and I shook his hand and he said,
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y'all can't work here. You know, he was pretty stomped,
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you know, he was kind of like he got his badge here, right?
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I'm the authority don't even talk to me.
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It's kind of that kind of approach, right?
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But I was soft in diplomacy. So, what's happening?
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You know? Okay, he said, I don't shoot the
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messenger because he was expecting a response of
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retaliation. I'm like, hey, you're just doing
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your job, no problem. He got shocked by that
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statement. I said, I am a little confused.
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I mean I had called the county about it.
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They said I was, he said well, you know, you're not zoned for
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this, I said that's very surprising, but that's fine.
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Can you give me a name? He goes.
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He literally said this. You're really taking this well I
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said, sir, you're just doing your job, it's no big deal.
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I just honestly, I just need of name.
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I mean I'm going to have to, obviously, go work it out.
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He goes, wow, he goes away. Anytime I go to church, they
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died. No one's ever responded like you
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That means they yelled at them. They got mad at him.
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They were Pharisee pastors. So because I responded
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diplomatically piece trying to restore peace.
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There's obviously something going on here that I'm unaware
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of. How can we restore peace.
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I said now, listen, I got this one challenge.
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You know, can you help me? You know, I said the church will
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be here on Sunday. I have no way to be able to
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communicate with everyone that we can't be in this location.
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You know, would it be okay if we come Sunday so I can let them
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know what's going on? Obviously, the next day was
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Friday, I will get down to zoning.
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I'll find out what's going on. Then I can inform them and we
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can obviously make decisions. He says, that's fine because we
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don't even work on the weekend anyway.
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So that's no problem. Y'all can come, he gave me
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permission to assemble in a building.
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He's already told me. I'm not authorized in.
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So then I went to the county met with the zoning manager had a
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meeting and I said, you know, All them who I was.
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Oh yeah, you know, because they know all's that church, you
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know, already got the buzz about it, right?
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And everybody's looking around at the guy that's coming in as
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from that church, that's serious.
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That's how that went down. And so they showed me and gave
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me, you know, told me why, you know, it's a PUD actually.
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Okay, in though, you know, it meets, you know, it's
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underneath, you know, commercial General and Commercial
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intensive. The reality is, it's a PUD and
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these are the allowable uses and churches not on there.
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So, wow. Okay.
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I said, well, can I have a copy of that she said?
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Yep, no problem. So I got a copy of that, send it
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to my attorney because again, you're zoning manager, you're
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doing what you've been told, but I'm fixing to go up a notch,
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right? Because again, I'm being
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diplomatic, I was nice wasn't upset, nothing as far as they
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were concerned, they thought, okay, that worked out.
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Well, you know, on to the next client, well, I call my
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attorney, my attorney Lisa, and I Pastor Earle this first
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paragraph right here. Says you meet.
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Spirit of intent. And in this list of pu Dee's,
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okay, down here, you know there is a Moose Lodge which is a 501,
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c 3. And there is a federal law
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called the rluipa that prohibits communities from discriminating
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against churches that if they allow a non-profit to be in a
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location. They cannot discriminate against
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the church being in the like location.
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So because you meet the spirit and intent even though they
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don't have you in the list, aw. Obviously you meet the
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qualification you can go. Now listen, that doesn't mean
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they could throw you in jail. If all they want to do is
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interpret it that way. But I'm telling you, you do have
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a legal standing. I said I'll take that.
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So my diplomacy changed. At that point.
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I'm like I'm not leaving. I didn't leave so that point
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went to the congregation. Told them went back to zoning on
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Monday, handed them, their own zoning and I said, told them
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this whole thing that I just said with and they said we've
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never interpreted it that way. I said, well, I'm in the
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business of changing people's thinking, right?
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This was diplomacy. This is not me getting mad.
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This is not me saying, well, I guess God didn't call me to st.
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Augustine. Cause it didn't work.
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Out are, you know, I'm going to go to another community.
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Like most pastors do when they hit their first trial in a
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community because it's been three great years.
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And maybe I'll go plant a church somewhere else.
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No, I just listen to the king. At that point, they realize well
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that could be a challenge for us because I gave them a federal
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law that then they went to their County attorney about.
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So they came back to me and says you know what, we're suggesting
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that you do a major modification and that is you get your name
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added to the list. I said well I can do that.
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That's no problem. I'm doing diplomacy.
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I have no problem doing that if that's if that's what we need to
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do. That's no big deal to me.
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I mean legally. I know I don't have to Do this,
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but we'll do this. That's okay.
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It's an application fee. Be $1500.
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I said, why am I paying $1500 that I'll legally don't have to
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do the thing in the first place? I understand.
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So, Pastor us is our suggestion that you fill out the
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application and then you ask for a waiver Right.
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Okay, I'll ask for a waiver fun. So I had to go before the board,
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the five power seats, right? Of the county for doing major
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modification to get my name added to a list.
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I don't have to get attitude but this is diplomacy.
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You understand. I didn't go like I don't have to
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do it and I'm not and we going to do to church.
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And then y'all bring it along. How stupid is this?
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I could have been in the paper that way.
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But God was doing more for anchor features.
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The way I was doing it. Because I was doing it the Kings
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Way. Well, I get up there and they
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said, just tell him you're your new church.
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You don't have a whole lot of money.
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That's what they wanted me to say that.
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Was their counsel to me. Okay.
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So I got up there and I told them, you know, I said I'm, you
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know, I'm doing major modification.
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So we can be here to get Church, add it to the list, you know, we
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are church and we're asking for an exemption, you know, from
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having to pay it, I didn't tell them, we were broke because we
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weren't I said, but, you know, if that's not enough, I have
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more information that I could share now, step back and one of
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the County attorneys say, we'll go ahead and tell your
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information. I said there's a federal law by
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the name boom. And I just went off like a
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lawyer literally, I mean I had anointing for that.
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Hit me and they're all like looking at each other like this
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and they looking down the county attorney.
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And the County Attorney is looking like this and going So
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after that, they're like will waive your fee and then move
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the. So I had to go to shoot up,
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easy, a which is Planning and Zoning agency.
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I gotta go before 10 people. Now just so that I can get
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people and then they can put it in a paper.
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Because if anybody has a problem becoming we want the public on
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this stuff, that's fine. This is diplomacy, no problem.
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Went to the ten, all ten of them say we approved.
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We recommend that you be there and they add you to the less
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unanimous. Went back to the cow the board.
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Now all the while I am in the building but you know what the
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Hostile nation is doing, they're still trying to create conflict
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and one of the conflict is your an assembly, that's your, that's
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your occupancy and you are in a Mercantile.
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And the spaces were designed for Mercantile.
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And the fire rating of a wall in between Mercantile is only one
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hour, but you've got to have a to our firewall.
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Now, the building them back which was 3,400 square feet.
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It was separated from the building, which made it a four
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hour fire rating. So, I could come out of 7,000.
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Squeeze us into three and did that.
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Why we put up, she trots, three layers, deep on the other side.
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In the building. Where no one was in.
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There was no other tenants. We were the only ones in the
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building but this is diplomacy. What is this?
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This is, I understand your rules and regulations.
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I have no problem with it, even though this is a little bit
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asinine, No problem. Because at the end of the day,
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God wants us to have peace. I don't want to be considered a
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jerk. Like most Christians.
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Get so we're putting three layers of sheet, rock on one
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wall. That was pretty awesome.
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We negotiated with that because they have offices connected were
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like, man, we have to tear that uh, I'm giving you all of it
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right now. It's very difficult.
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Unless you have never heard this, but they allowed us to do
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three layers. Only on one side, to meet the
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rating, I got it completed. Wanted them to inspect.
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How to guess minister in. Okay, but they didn't make the
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inspection, they didn't come. So my conscience wouldn't let me
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do it in the church, so I held a service outside. because at the
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end of the day, I'm not in this case, the diplomacy is Wait, for
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the inspection. So they came the next week
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inspected. We moved into the space.
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I had to go back before the board.
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And at that point, we had one person have public comment.
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Have you seen their website? You know what, all they're going
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to do. They're going to just out of
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dada. Dada da, I'm says, I said sir,
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we're Beginning church. I said, most of the stuff in our
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vision could never be in this location.
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This is definitely temporary. You know, we're going to be here
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for season then, we're going somewhere else lo and behold.
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They didn't know we were going to the mall and going to take
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it. Hallelujah.
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I was right when I said this one, big enough lo and behold
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they didn't know if they had only no you know I didn't put
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that the website we taking them all.
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I didn't do that. I didn't know at that time
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anyway. Four out of five said we should
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be there. We should be there.
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So we got our pass. Now here's a sad story but true
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the one that said no State hostile towards the church.
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And the King took it personal. Six months later, they were
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caught embezzling money. They were thrown in jail and
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within two years, they committed suicide in there.
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Probably should have said, yes. You David said, Mana?
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I mean, the Bible talks about you don't want to be around an
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Angry. God, you don't want to be in his
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Wrath. Right now guys, when it came to
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covid diplomacy was different. Because I had our government
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come to me and say we need you to keep the preschool open.
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In this building, okay? Because nurses in Flagler are
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dropping their kids off at your preschool.
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Nurses that are dealing with covid patients are dropping
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their kids off in our preschool? Yes.
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Okay, we need you to stay open. Okay, we're going to clean but
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we don't want the church. I said nah.
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It's not going to happen. I can clean this facility Monday
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through Friday kids, who are going home with moms that have
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been around covid in a hospital. And you're going to act.
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Like I can't take care of my congregation on a Sunday and
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Wednesday but I diplomatically we did do compromise.
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I shut down the Mighty Men. Monday meetings, we didn't do
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any extra stuff like what kingdom Institute?
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We didn't do that. We might have kept Kingdom
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Minister because it was small number.
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We did do that. But we only did our Sunday
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Wednesday night service Kingdom Institute nithin else we did.
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So that was a diplomatic move. But you know what?
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The Hostile Nation drove by custis, Al threatened us on
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social media, they would kill us.
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I had a higher security, literally Right?
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Y'all remember that? But what happened at the end of
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the day? It all negotiated out, God moved
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on. Our governor ended up putting a
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big push for the church in general.
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We passed then the county attorney's that were involved
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with me, his full circle, the County attorneys who were
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involved with me during the very first occasion.
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And I've gone in and done many permits since then, and I've had
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them, say, I remember when you came in the first time, Will you
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quit created quite a Ruckus? I was going to come to your
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church but I was like, man, I don't know if people know I'm
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going there because you shot you set waves.
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So I did send waves my my kingdom sent waves.
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Right. My kingdom.
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So we're planning. Wow, what are we?
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What are you gonna do? Our Sur.
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We said, okay, we could take this outside.
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No big deal. We are not forsaking the
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assembly itself together. We going to do this.
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So we had this plan of going outside.
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We going to be here, this is going to happen.
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This is going to happen the same day.
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Our governor comes out and says, churches are essential right?
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Which again, I don't need his approval, but I'm just saying,
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God, did that at the end of the day?
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Next thing, you know, we're calling the County Attorney
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because we have a relationship, And we're like, what are you
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doing with? What he said.
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He said, man, we just got a hot off the press herself.
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We're looking at it, right? So the County Administrator and
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the County Attorney at the time, took it upon themselves, didn't
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even ask wrote a letter and said, anchor Faith Church can
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Assemble Lawfully based upon this order that he came out with
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dada dada and we put it on the front door.
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Yeah, put on the front door because our kingdom got into
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diplomatic relations. Are you hearing me?
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Are you hear me? This is how we have to fight.
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If you can't even take care of yourself, God's not using you to
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represent bigger things. But when you take care of
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yourself, God will start allowing you to represent
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different things. There are things we can do as
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diplomats that will stop Nations.
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I know our US government is not asking the church to pray about
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what to do with China, but I don't need their authorization.
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Because Rhema long before the wall fell down in Germany.
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God it in the spirit, by Brother Hagin in.
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Is that right? Pastor Daryl and they were
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praying. Every meeting they went, they
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were praying that the wall would come down.
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What were they doing? They were using diplomacy.
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They were fighting the battle where the battle was
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principalities and powers and it moved things around.
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So that a leader would actually get elected in our nation that
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then took they natural diplomacy and says tear that Wall down and
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the Wall came down, I'm telling you the church has to do the
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same thing, we're against principalities and Powers the.
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The bamboo curtain is what we call it when it's China has not
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come down but we could make force by it again.
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Sure we could nuke our whole place out, right?
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We can have all kinds of bombers.
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I don't have a problem with your natural show of force, but the
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church could pray and crippled Nations, because, we know Elijah
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prayed. So that, Rain would show up in
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his own nation, and it crippled it.
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So again but we're not even ask because we're not even being
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diplomatic. Always trying to do is live our
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best life now. Hallelujah, God's called, anchor
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Faith Church. He said to my wife and I I'm
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closing with this. he said, you'll be A forerunner Ministry
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told me that now 4Runner Ministry is John the Baptist
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I've always been drawn to the ministry of John the Baptist
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because and that's why I love John 3:30.
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I must decrease and he must increase.
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C z. But he announced the coming
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King. And I can't prove it.
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But it seems that we're living in the last of the last days so
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much. We know we are the closest to
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the catching away of the church ever.
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And could it be that anchor of a church literally is the
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Forerunner who right now? And st.
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Augustine Valdosta. India soon, Managua another one
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in Lyon and Porta-Potty platter Dominican Republic.
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Chicago, Connecticut, maybe at some other time as well and who
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knows at other locations. Those Ministries those that
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church anchor of a church is going to Herald the kingdom.
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John the Baptist message was repent for the Kingdom of Heaven
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is at hand. Do you believe the Kingdom of
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Heaven is at hand again? And I believe the Kingdom of
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Heaven is at hand again and that we could be living In the age
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that timeframe right at the end. I mean we're in the age.
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I'm talking about in that last of Le were the, we hear the
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trumpet sound. So I'm telling you I don't know
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how old you are but you should really try to hold out for 120
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because think about it. If the Lord did come back in
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2030 2035 2040 and you can make it to that.
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Wouldn't you want to just be changed?
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In the moment in the twinkling of an eye will not be amazing
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because somebody's going to have that experience that's going to
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happen, right? And I believe that this is the
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Mandate that we have is to take our foundation of faith that we
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receive from Rhema. And on top building on that the
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kingdom of God, when I say Bill I'm talking rightly dividing the
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word of Truth is what we learned at Rhema.
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And And now we're preaching the kingdom of God.
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That's what we're going to do, which means that he's assembling
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ambassadors, and I'm going to tell you what, the last end time
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Harvest looks like, are you ready for this?
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It's not singing. It's not, it is churches having
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people. But it's the reason they're
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there is because you as ambassadors are going out laying
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hands on the sick. Casting out Devils.
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It's this ain't the pastor show, this ain't an apostle show, this
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ain't an evangelist show, this is a saint show, it's the church
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maturing, we're all of us realize we got a part to play in
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his kingdom where ambassadors? And I can lay hands on this
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front. I could be a diplomat in this
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location right now and bring Heaven to Earth in this
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environment. And when we're all doing that,
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man that hostile territory is going to lose a lot of people.
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We won't get them all but we know this your king will not.
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Protect you. As long as you stay within your
-
assignment. I can't guarantee that you
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wouldn't die. Paul knew he was going to die
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but he couldn't die. Before it was Tom, same thing
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with you, they try to kill him multiple times.
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Wouldn't do it till it was Tom. Now most of us are not going to
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go out being martyred, but I don't want to give fantasy and
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think if you're an ambassador, you can never die.
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I'm not saying that I am saying that they can't take you.
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You would know that. That's how it's going to go and
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you would say I have fought the good fight.
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I've run the race. I've finished my course you
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would know that but that's a minority.
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Most of us are just going to live on and could be that we
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never experience the grave. Hallelujah.
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So you come to church, why to get the art and practice of
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diplomacy? So that you're always led by the
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spirit on how you're going to navigate around people and show
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