Sermon
One With Him - Kingdom Order
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Thanks for checking out the anchor Faith.
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Message podcast from st. Augustine Florida.
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Now enjoy this message today. I want to start in Ephesians
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chapter 5 verse 28 to 35. I'm going to read out of the
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passion translation. I believe it to be a
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continuation from the weekend and it says, husbands have the
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obligation of loving and caring for their wives the same way.
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They love and care for their own bodies.
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For to love your wife, is to love your own self.
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No one abuses his body, but Pampers, it serving in
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satisfying, its knees. That's exactly what Christ does
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for his church verse 30. He serves and satisfies us as
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members of his body. For this reason, a man is to
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leave the father, his father and his mother and lovingly.
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Hold to his wife. Since the two have become joined
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as one flesh, marriage is the beautiful design of the
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almighty, a great and sacred mystery meant to be a vivid
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example of Christ. And his church, Jesus said in
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Matthew 16:18, he said, but I say to you that you are Peter
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Matthew 16:18 that you are Peter and Upon This Rock.
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I will build my church and the Gates of Hell or Hades will not
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overpower it. In the series, we've done in the
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past called, I'll build my church or my church.
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Jesus says his word, my is of me in my pocket.
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Here is a handkerchief and it's mine and I could pull it out and
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throw it down. It would still be mine, but it
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would not be of me although a smile on Jesus in this context
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says I will build my church, meaning of me, it's like my arm.
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Now, if I cut my arm off, that's going to be a different story.
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Are you hearing me? I can throw my handkerchief down
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and come back and get it a month later and it doesn't matter.
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I throw my arm off my body a month, come back and there's a
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problem. I said there's a problem, it's
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going to be very difficult to reattach it without some
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Supernatural taking place. Are you hearing me because the
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blood in my body is what causes every member of my body to be
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sustained and maintain life. You cut the blood supply off and
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it begins to die. Amen.
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So then Jesus says this in Colossians chapter 1 or Paul
Colossians 1 chapter mention
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writing concerning Jesus and his church in Colossians 1:18 he he
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is also the head of the body, the church.
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He is the beginning, the firstborn from the dead so that
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he himself will come to have first place in everything.
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So Jesus is the head of the church.
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So Jesus and the church are connected.
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Just as much as my head is connected to my body.
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So, church is not something we do, it's something we are We are
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of Christ. We don't go to church, we are
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the church. So we don't go to church, we are
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the church. We are the dishes.
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Why people say, well, it's not a build in any, you're right?
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It's not, but you can't be the church by yourself.
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No more than my finger Can Be Me by itself.
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Now, we can be my finger but if it's disconnected it's not
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working well and I can't have the use of it in my hand because
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it's no longer attached. So we can boast its mind all day
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long, but it serves no purpose. I said it serves no purpose and
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it doesn't have life unless you are under understand that when
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you were born again that he wrote your name down in glory,
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it was not so that you could go to heaven, but it's so that you
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could become Um, a Son of God, a child of God and he could attach
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you to his body. I said he could attach you to
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his body turned over to 1st Corinthians.
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Chapter 12, First Corinthians chapter 12 and verse 18.
1 Corinthians 12 chapter mention
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I love this verse because if the body of Christ would get this
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verse, then we would dominate The Globe.
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Immediately we would immediately dominate The Globe says, but now
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God. But now whoo-hoo-hoo God has
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placed Place the members. Why are you searching for
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church? Let's just be honest.
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If you're searching for a church and you have to show up to
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determine if it's for you, you're not really good at being
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led by the spirit. Let's just be honest because if
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you were really led by the spirit, you can hear it first
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and show up there to the church. The one that's where you
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immediately, without any guesswork.
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Hallelujah. But you show up because you need
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to see you need to hear. Those are things that are
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seeing. We're not led by what we see or
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hear were led by what we know on the inside.
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Now if you come and you don't know yet, that's fine.
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I don't have a problem with that because God will help navigate
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you, but at the end of the day, you're going to hear hear.
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Because if you're making a decision to attach to a local
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body based upon what you see, and what you hear, and what you
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like, That is you placing yourself and not God.
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I said it's you placing yourself and not God.
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This is why he said In this passage of scripture, the hand
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can I say to the foot? I don't need you.
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Well, I'm not going to go to that when I don't like it, but
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if the Lord says, but that's where I need you.
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Hallelujah. But now, God has placed the
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members, which one of them, which one?
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Each one of them. Not just the pastor's, not just
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the apostles, not just the prophets evangelist and
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teachers, but that's the Saints. Each member he places them in
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the body, just as he desires where he wants you, what he
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wants you to do, where he wants you to be.
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Now, why is this important? Because the churches of Jesus,
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and Jesus will not abuse his body, Jesus does mutilated.
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Jesus doesn't cut it. Jesus doesn't pound on it.
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Don't abuse it. A man cutting and beating on
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himself. Has a demon probably Oh, you
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don't hear this, okay? If a man is bruising his own
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physical body cutting and beating on himself, we have
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scriptural evidence that they're probably possessed of a demon.
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No wonder men. Do they said they are not going
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to intentionally try to hurt themselves.
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So we should never intentionally try to hurt our wives.
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Because Jesus has never intentionally, never
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intentionally and unintentionally, is he hurting
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his body? That's why a lot of pulpits have
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false Doctrine when they're saying, God, put that sickness
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on you to teach something that's a lie.
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He's not abusive like that. I said, he's not abusive like
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that. No, he's the Healer.
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I said he's the Healer. Now the devil puts sickness on
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you, if you don't judge your body, right?
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Lee and you just keep ingesting, a bunch of chemicals, will guess
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what? Your body is going to respond.
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And that's not a god problem. That's a cigarette problem.
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That's a high fructose. And other things issue.
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Amen. If you don't judge your body,
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well, God's in control. If he wants me to be healthy, I
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will no no. Don't put water in your car.
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Just go ahead and fill it up with water from your, your, your
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garden hose. See how far it goes then when
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you go to the mechanic and say, well, you know, I just believe
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God would take care of it. They're like, Well, amen.
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No the Lord has given us wisdom right now?
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If we accidentally put water in the car, can he do something
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about it? Amen.
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Can't he clean it out? Does that mean the car is gone?
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Maybe not. May have to rebuild it.
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And some of us we need to rebuild some things.
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God can rebuild our bodies, but he's not putting something in
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you to harm you. He's only putting things in need
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to keep you running at Perfection.
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He plays your where he wants it to be.
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Why is this important because he loves us, he cherishes us, and
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Ephesians tells us this relationship between Christ and
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the church is like a marriage relationship and as Pastor Marcy
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said today, the reason why so much Freedom came in the house
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today is because so many marriages got right this
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weekend. But I would say this is really
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what took place and is found in Revelation Chapter 2 because I
Revelation 2 chapter mention
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believe all of us, run the risk of Revelations chapter 2 at
Revelation 2 chapter mention
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times in our own personal life. Now, Jesus is speaking to a
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church specifically, he's talking to the church at Ephesus
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and he's talking to them about the things they've done
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extremely well, but he had one thing against them, one problem,
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one issue. And it was a serious issue.
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I said it was a serious issue. He sells them in verse 2.
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He says, I know your deeds, and you're told and perseverance and
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that you cannot tolerate evil men, and you put to the test
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those who call themselves Apostles and they are not and
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you found them to be false. And you have persevered and have
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endured to my name sake, or for my name's sake and have not
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grown weary. He said, but I have this against
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you that you have left your first love.
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He said, therefore remember from where you have fallen repent,
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repent and do the Deeds you did it first or else I'm coming to
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you and will remove your lampstand out of its place.
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Unless you what? Repent then he recognize another
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thing, they hated that he hates himself and he says Those Who
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hear he'll overcome Specifically.
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Now, what's interesting about this is that he said, you've
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lost your first love when we deal with marriage.
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Is a lot of times when we come down and say I do, there are a
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lot of things we're doing prior to the.
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I do moment, we're very attentive to one another, we
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care about one another. You know, we were courting, we
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are, we are doing everything to make sure they know that I'm the
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one forever. We're nice work.
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God, we're long-suffering, we're merciful, when argument comes we
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drive where the where the we try to get rid of it as quick as we
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can because, so we can kiss, we want the kiss and make up, we
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don't want the argument. But once we've come together, we
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become one flesh. We've been in the house together
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for a year. Two years, a honeymoons, Over
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All. All of a sudden those beautiful
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feet, don't look so beautiful anymore.
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The routine of coming home to the same person.
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The routine of hearing the same voice, the routine of living
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life day in and day out all of a sudden.
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It's not that they're not the same person or that they've even
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progressed and become someone even greater in God.
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It's just that to us, it becomes familiar.
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And we do this with the church, the reason why the atmosphere
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and worships like this today is because we were renewed for
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those. You know, when you get 160
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people, they get jacked excited about their relationship with
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Another and how that is an example of their relationship
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with God and they're like, man, I'm just need to come in here
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and worship my king because I was forgetting about the wife of
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my youth and how beautiful she was and how awesome she is.
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And you know what, she's really gone through a lot in his past,
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a lot of tests. And who am I to complain about
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this? I'm actually a really blessed
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man. And the wives are saying, you
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know what, my husband has done a really good job.
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Actually, you know, when I look at all that, they've done where
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they could, what could be mad? What am I doing?
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And all of a sudden we've renew and then when we get into places
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that we don't care but you know what?
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We apply Faith to it. Then things begin to manifest
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and then when we get crazy and actually have sex with one
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another like more than the world does because we're the only
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lawful authorized people to have that kind of form of intimacy.
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Amen. I will not let the world out.
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Sleep me. It's not going to happen.
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Y'all gonna be alright. Some of y'all struggling
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already. All right.
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Good thing. We don't have to bail because I
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understand, we have kids. They need to learn.
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Don't think these teenagers aren't seeing this on Snapchat,
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Tick-Tock, don't think they have it on sitcom all day here.
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Seen his guys, holding hands girls kissing and I'm going to
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talk about sex right now in the church because we have
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children's ministry and they could be there, the youth are
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here. And they definitely need to hear
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about this because have them been sending tick-tock.
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New photos of each other around and that needs to stop.
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Are you hearing me because we'll lose our?
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First loves will, make sure to routine and we won't get up in
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here and worship. God be passionate about the one
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who laid down his life for died on the cross.
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Are you hearing me? No, we need to be an example in
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the home and then let it overflow into the church.
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Wow, because we're in the church first.
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I said we're in the church first.
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How do I know this? All you got to do is go back to
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the book of Beginnings. In the beginning, God created
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the heavens and the Earth. He makes all these great things
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then he says, let us make man in our image, according to our
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likeness. And he makes this Man Out of the
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Dust of the earth, breathed into his nostrils, the breath of
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life, and he became a Living spirit a living Soul.
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He's in the image of God, the DNA of God, he has a direct
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relationship with God and he's the only person in the planet.
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Are you hearing me? And then he says, it's not good
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for man to be alone. So he has him fall down into a
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deep sleep. He doesn't make another skin
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suit and breathe into it. He pulled out of the man from
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the side of the man. What was already contained
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within the man? And he formed a woman.
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And when Adam saw this, he said this is woman.
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She's bone of my bone and Flesh of My Flesh, man, shall leave
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his father and mother and cleave to his wife and they'll become
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one flesh. Meaning we have a relationship,
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this spirit that all of a sudden got multiplied into two.
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Had a relationship with God before we ever said I do.
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So it didn't God marriage or God Family Church.
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It's God Church. You're not going to have family.
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You're not going to have marriage and do nothing until
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you realize you're of the church that the relationship with God
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is supreme and Authority. Because when Jesus says here in
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Revelations, he said, you've lost your first love.
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He says, you've forgotten the priority that I am to be
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preeminent in all your life and your decision making and how you
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do everything you have come in. Into my presence in a
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traditional sense, knowing what to do, but you don't actually
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consult me first. You don't make me first
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priority. You show up when you want to,
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you come when you want to, you do what you want to do, then you
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consult with me. You take things that were of
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mine, do it in your own ability, and then 20 give me glory for
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it. The minute I slipped a second.
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That's a problem. And immediately we in our
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weekend of our marriage banquet. The only reason why these
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marriages were on fire is because they didn't put that
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relationship as a higher priority than their work
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relationship. Then their children
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relationships. Then the friend relationships
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because they got bored with someone they became familiar,
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they forgot to see you then since the butterflies in their
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stomach, what made them fall in love with them in the first
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place? Because in actuality, you're of
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me. How can I look at you and not
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see me? I said how can I look at you and
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not see me, this is what Jesus said how can I look at you and
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not see me because you're of me you're my church and you know
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Jesus Longs just spend time with us.
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So once your church look like you come in ready.
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Excited. Can't wait to assemble with the
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rest of the safe because God's playing at me and anchor, Faith
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Church, it pleased him so that I could grow Prosper, strengthen
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gonna be something great. He put me in his kingdom.
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So the king can oversee my life and make me a child of the king.
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So I'm a king itself because he's the king of who are those
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kings? You are those kings right now?
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Not when you get to heaven. But today today, so I Jesus said
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You pray, pray this way, Our Father who art in heaven,
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Hallowed Be Your Name, Your Kingdom Come your will be on as
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it is. We don't have to wait to heaven
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to get heaven to show up in our lives because the kings of the
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Earth have dominion again but that's when God's first.
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When he's first, when he's first when he's first when he's
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preeminent. When he's the source and supply
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of all that we are and do and know that if I Seek You first,
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then it just overflows into my marriage, it overflows into my
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relationships. They were, but I'm not even
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married Pastor. I'm just a single person within
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you ought to be the first one in church.
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You ought to be the first one. Why?
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Because you should have Paul said, listen in First
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Corinthians 7. He said, listen, it's not a
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command, it's just my opinion. But listen, if you can remain
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single do so because you don't have to deal with the spouse,
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meaning you have to care for them.
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That's someone you're going to have to be obligated.
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That's someone you got to you're not independent of you are fully
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dependent on them, you're going to serve them, you're gonna
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cater to them, you're going to prefer them, you're going to
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honor them male or female, doesn't matter in the marriage
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relationship, husband and wives are doing this.
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And they're jockeying to serve each other because they want to
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be able to be a blessing to one another.
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But when you're single, you can just focus on God and God Alone.
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So, you have to be first here. First one down in the altar.
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First one worshiping God. First one running.
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Because your whole relationship is driven by the king of glory.
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Hey men, are you running around? Trying to find your man?
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Are you running around trying to find you a woman instead of
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letting God bring them? Hey men, he'll bring them.
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I said he'll bring go and it's not on your time.
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Has on his time. As some of you need to get some
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things right before he can bring them because he has for you is
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better than you think and you don't have to settle so you need
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to be the best for them. Are you hearing me?
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But this just comes Natural. When you love God, I'll say that
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comes natural when you love God. And so, man, we get in an
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atmosphere like today. Why?
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Because we begin to remember intimacy intimacy.
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Alleluia, this is why I struggle sometimes with how churches
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become institutionally speaking. Bring it on man.
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Getting them out, just lectures. It's just lectures.
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Let me ask this, who said you had to be in your seat right
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now, and you couldn't come down and begin to worship God right
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here. Now, you're not gonna be able to
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interrupt a sermon but who says that, if God didn't move, you
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couldn't come down here and just begin to minister to him.
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They said you had to wait till an altar call to say, man, I
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need get it right? I got to come down and get
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right. Hey, men mean as long as you
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don't attack the stage, there's going to be no problem.
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If you take the stage is going to be a problem.
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It's not lecture moments. These are intimate moments.
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Why cannot are singing go longer?
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It depends on how much we just want to sing.
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And the Lord says oh they're not just doing a routine.
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Let's just sit here, this a little bit longer.
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Then the atmosphere stays and in that atmosphere people get
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healed, demons, get cast out, start running shave, a demon.
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Could come here, demon came in the synagogue's with Jesus, but
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he kicked him out. Right.
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They're not going to stand against the anointing not in
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this house. Amen.
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Why? Because God is in this place,
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and he's looking for a church that wants to be intimate.
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I mean, we're full of instruction, we're going to
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continue to grow and have those expressions.
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But I believe, God, just wants us to minister to him.
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Jesus said, In Ephesians chapter 5.
Ephesians 5 chapter mention
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The passion translation. Verse 32.
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He says marriage is a beautiful design of the almighty of great
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and sacred mystery. Meant to be a vivid example.
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Of Christ and his church. I love all aspects of my wife,
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Spirit soul and body. I love her by her spirit first
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because she's a conqueror in Christ.
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And I've seen her through her soul realm, her mind, her will
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and her emotions yield in every test to what the spirit of God
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says, to her spirit, she's an overcomer.
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That's the sexiest thing on the face of the planet.
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The body is just what houses her. and so, when I'm around
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her, I'm not intimate with her just because of her outside, but
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because who she is really on the inside, I like to drive and I
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reach over and she touches my hand.
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I like to hear your voice. When I'm traveling, she's not
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there because of technology. I FaceTime.
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If I could FaceTime, God, I would I much rather see her,
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then just hear voice. But at times of all I can do is
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hear of Our Song with just want to hear her voice.
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Because we're intimate, then there's times we come together.
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You'll know what I'm talking about coming together.
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And sometimes in those moments it's like don't stop.
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Can this thing last for five hours?
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No, all right, don't look at me like that cause all y'all going
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to movies and you're seeing, fornicators and adulterers
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relationships all the time, you don't ever see in the movies,
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husband and wives in the bed. But it's like, man, I don't want
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this to end. But we come to church.
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And we could have an intimacy with God greater than that
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moment. When we know how to make him
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first. To, where will I don't want it
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to end. What would it look like if we
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all showed up and says we're going to press in and be
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intimate with God and it just became so full of his spirit
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that were like man I just don't want to see any you're not
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going. Now maybe a guest to do that.
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I get it. You know they don't maybe they
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don't know who they are in Christ.
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Maybe they're just checking it out.
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Trying to see what fits them, you know, they don't know, they
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don't know any better. But for us, you know, we should
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give such a vivid example, not only in our personal lives in
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husband and wife, because we prefer each other, but when we
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come together in this thing that we're so passionate about God,
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let me just tell you something. If you have a bad marriage,
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you're uncomfortable with those who have good ones.
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And you don't want to hang out with them.
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So that's why some people aren't going to come and stay at a cafe
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church because we have such a great relationship in our
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worship. And so free to have expressions.
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Are you hearing me? Are you just passionate for the
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Lord? What rekindles things that are
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personal marriages old photos memories of things we did.
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Looking back at our children, when they were just babies
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putting ourselves in those moments that remind us of why we
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were together. How much more in the church
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were, like, but God being rich in his Mercy, while we were
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still sinners Christ died for me.
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He died for me when I was separated, cast-off, doomed, in
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Rebellion. But God.
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And fulfillment of his father's word.
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Gave me an opportunity that by faith.
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I could call on his name and get back into the house, not just
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getting the house. So I can go to heaven when I
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die, but get back in the house and begin to live with him.
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Now, begin to sit with him now, be a part of the vine now,
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getting grafted in now have fruit now.
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Be intimate with God, now hear his voice and at times, even get
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caught up in the spirit. And the naturally say, when's
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the last time you dated your wife?
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When's the last time you did this?
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When's the last time you did that?
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When's the last time you came to church and said, I'm not going
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to leave till I touch him. And get what I came for.
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We'll get what I came for because he wants to see me.
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He wants to talk to me. He wants to spend time with me.
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Stand to your feet. There's an anointing here.
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To rekindle your first love. And anointing.
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There's an anointing here. And you just going to have to be
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honest with yourself, just like all the marriage couples had to
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be honest with themselves this weekend.
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We're hearing a lot of great reports, great testimonies of
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how God ministered to them and their marriages are being
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strengthened and encouraged. Coming back to life more and
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more seeing hope in it, it was powerful.
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It was powerful. But right now, the Lord saying,
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but what about me? Well, by me.
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Now, there's an anointing. And that anointing is not in
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your chair. It's not in your chair.
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But that anointing is up here and I'm not giving it away, it's
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in the atmosphere, but it's going to require you to make a
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step. No husband and wife relationship
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is ever going to continue to grow stronger and stronger until
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both move. He said, well I'll move when God
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moves God's not going to not going to do it.
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Because when you are lost and dead in your trespasses and sin,
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he pursued you, the Bible said that God, Drew you to Christ.
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He did that, but the Bible tells us once you're born again.
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God, doesn't pursue you anymore. James says, draw near to God.
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And he'll draw near to you because the minute you made
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Covenant with the Lord. He said I'll never leave you nor
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forsake you he'll never leave you.
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He's never in the leaving position, he doesn't get.
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So aggravated mad with you that he slams, the door and leaves.
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He never gets so frustrated with you that he walks out and says,
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I need some time. He never gets so aggravated and
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said we going to separate for a little bit, know if separations
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happening if anger and a door slamming in somebody's leaving,
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it's on our part. Because in order for you to get
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intimate with God, you got to go back home, because he's not
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left. He's never left.
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He's been calling your home the whole time.
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So many people want to come to church and just be preached to
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the God. Just wants to minister to you
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today. Today today today today.
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Today. Today, today he wants to
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minister to you, hallelujah? Thank you Lord.
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Thank you Lord. Thank you Lord.
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Thank you Lord. Thank you.
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Lord. You know when marriage is tough.
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When the husband gets prideful, don't want to give up his right
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to be right or perceive right? And so he'll just dig his heels
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in. Wait, be stubborn stiff-necked
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going to make sure the wife bins and yields first or vice versa.
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Sometimes a wife, not going to do it.
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Not going to bend, not going to break.
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I'm not giving in this time. I'm done.
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I'm done with that. I'll never do it again.
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It's over. They're gonna have to come to
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me. I'm finished, it's over.
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Yep, when that takes place, man, marriages are in trouble,
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because it always requires someone to yield and Jesus has
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never failed us. The father has never done
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anything wrong. He loves you.
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He just wants to put his arms around you.
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She got to be out of admit, I'm just not seeking him a whole
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heart. I'm not pressing in.
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You're not first and foremost on my mind.
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I think more about my job and my work than I do.
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You have put more time in it than I do on the word, praying
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in the spirit. I put no time in it.
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You know, you know God saying, come on, come on down, I'm gonna
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feel you. I'm a minister to you.
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I'm going to touch you because I'm telling you a wave.
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An anointing fixing a flow in this place.
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And it's going to be pretty shallow.
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What do I mean? Is only going to go so far back?
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But it'll go deep and those that are in it, you understand, when
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you go to st. Augustine, you can stand on the
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beach and you can see the waves coming in, but the waves only go
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so far. It only goes so far, and if you
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are hot, if you are sweating, if you need a refreshment, the
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ocean says, this is far as I go. If you want this, you going to
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come. You're gonna have to come to me.
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You got to come to me now. Some of you gonna have to hold
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some of your Your Expressions. I need you to be quiet cuz this
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is not an individual. This is a corporate anointing.
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Because some of you a routine of how you respond to God, you
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don't do that today. This is a new and a fresh
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anointing, it will not get an old response.
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Yes, Lord. Thank you, Jesus. now, for those
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that are still standing, Outside of the altar.
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The Lord said it appears as if those who came down or saying
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that they have lost their first love.
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He said that's not the case with many.
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He said, for many, they were counted the intimacy and their
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said, I want to do it again. I want to do it again.
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I want to do it again, but I do want to give occasion to those.
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That's why I asked for it first, because hungry ones, always get
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But if you are still standing in your seat and you're like, man,
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I love God. I love him with all my heart.
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There's a fresh anointing for you.
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A place a sense. Yeah, I don't know why God does
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this but I think he does it just to remind us sometimes of just
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how great his glory is that we can get down into the full
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weight of this thing. Many of us have been in Services
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where the power and the presence of God was so tangible.
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We didn't want to leave it. The next time we come to a
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service and we didn't sense it. You wanted it but God doesn't
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live and he doesn't Express himself the same way all the
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time. His greatest expression is his
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word. It is his greatest expression
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because the Bible said he didn't send his glory and it healed
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them, he didn't say he sent his healing.
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Power and it healed him. He didn't say that.
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He sent his joy and it healed him.
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No, he sent his word because in his word is glory, in his word
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is healing in. His word is Joy.
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Whether you feel is word or not. Is word is still truth.
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When acted upon by faith, he comes to pass, but there are
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times God just will remind you Who he is in his presence.
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He see his presence alone is not enough.
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I recently, read someone say that the future of the church is
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present presence, driven churches.
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The explanation was is that they only want to minister to the
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Lord. They want to do what God wants
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to do. They're not here to serve any
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other agenda, but to do that, now honestly that sounds good
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and we do want to be in his presence but it lacks again.
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It tries to put an emphasis on the wrong thing.
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Because the reality is the presence of God can be in the
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service and nobody still gets healed.
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Nobody still gets delivered, nobody still gets saved because
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the only ones who get it are those who act Jesus was
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personally present in a crowd and everyone was touching him.
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But one woman said, if I just touch him, I'll be healed.
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And he stopped and said, power left.
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The disciples who had been with him.
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They didn't pull the power. The crowd didn't pull the power,
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