Sermon
Like the Father - Kingdom Business
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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 enjoyed this message. Well, tonight, I want to talk to
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you because I'm not preaching on love, but I'm not going to lie.
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This is a little bit of a setup. So what I'm going to preach
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tonight, probably going to show back up somewhere because I
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cannot do love till next week. So I have to preach and I said
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dad what do I say? It's just one service because
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I'm really ready to preach on love and he says you just say
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this. he said, like, the father, Now look what Jesus said in Luke
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2:49. He said, why do you seek me?
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Did you not know that I must be about?
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My father's business. As a pastor for in this
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location, 18 years pioneering. This church started it right but
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been in Ministry for almost three decades now.
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Okay, one thing that is becomes quite grieving to my ears is to
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hear Christian cliche. Okay, and that is I'm a follower
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of Jesus. But they don't even know what
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Jesus did. They don't even know who he is,
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other than he died on the cross and Rose from the grave.
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They don't know what he sounds like.
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For many of them, he's this mystical figure, to be honest
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with you, that just comes in swoops in and takes care of a
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problem when the problems really there, and then sweeps away.
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Now, you need to understand this in the world, the majority of
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Believers are going to function, like most documented, Covenant
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children are, and I'm told my, in the Bible, we have a whole
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history book of Covenant children, and how they function
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with the god that's not in the earth that they can't see based
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upon the spirit and that is when Trouble Comes.
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They go to him. He that is going to be the
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majority of the children of God in the earth, unfortunately.
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Even today. When tragedy hits we go to God.
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Now I'm be honest with you, it was I was excited, I didn't see
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it. Personally, Pastor, Mark text
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me. I was away from the TV
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concerning the Monday Night Football game.
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All right, but because that athlete at 24 was in a condition
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that no one can help. There's still an awareness that
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somebody outside us can. And those that believed did what
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should be done in tragedy, cry out.
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I mean, I saw a clip, my wife show me clip today of literally
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on ESPN there, praying, Now, they didn't say his name.
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They said it is name. Now I know who his name is, but
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not everybody on ESPN, it's listening knows the name.
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So we need to say today. Just say the name.
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Okay, Mike, but I applaud at MIT, at least and that
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particular athlete. This is how people respond in
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tragedy. He had a foundation for his
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hometown to raise toy to get toys because he was in poverty.
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He had raised three thousand dollars We see this incident
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within 24 hours, 5 billion dollars was raised.
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Now at the end of the day, the foundation is going to do it for
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a good cause but my oh my and I'm like the guy has to die on
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the field to get the money. The vision and the purpose
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wasn't enough, a tragedy had to show up.
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He basically has to die. Come back, die again and now
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he's in critical condition. So I know those are guilt
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offerings. Because all the world feels
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guilty about things going on in their lives.
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Now there's nothing wrong. I've know nothing about the
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individual, I applaud again that at least our nation.
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Once again again, when 9/11 hit we're going to pray.
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I mean when tragedy we gonna pray, you know, mass shooting
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out of school. We gonna pray all of a sudden we
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I mean, why don't we do? Think we have to understand that
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we got to get a remnant of us that know who we are and
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function in the father's business.
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All the time and not wait till tragedy shows up.
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Because when you're about the father's business, we can
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actually thwart some things even To help the process he meant.
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And I pray he recovers and we may never know the truth of what
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happened in the first place. And honestly, whatever.
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I mean, it's his own personal medical issue.
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I don't need to know, I just pray that there's something
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there that the Lord definitely would but at the end of the day
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that's between him and God. Now, right, and people are
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interceding, I get it and we pray for the family but you
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know, there are plenty of people that Are having tragedies.
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I mean you know how many murders are taking place right now.
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Right now you're not many people are going to die tonight.
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I mean there's a left going on in Chicago right now and
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Detroit. Where's the vigils?
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Perspective. Good news, is our nation still
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knows. There is something bigger
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outside them, but the church has not done a great job in the US.
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To demonstrate what Jesus did. And that's because we want to go
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to heaven. And the Lord really wants to
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keep us in the planet. For a purpose, because Heavens,
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not what, we're trying to gain sonship is what we're trying to
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gain, right? So again, let's look at this
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Luke 2:49 and he said to them. Now, Jesus is a youth.
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Okay. He's not an adult at this time.
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And as, you know, they went into town and Joseph, and Mary
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thought he was with relatives. So when they were all leaving,
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they thought he was with someone else and they get three days in,
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and realize, Jesus is not around.
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So then have to go back to town and they're looking all over the
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place for him and find him in the synagogue.
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Now he's in the synagogue with the, you know, those that were
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teachers of the law and he's explaining to them.
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What the scripture means and they are blown away, okay?
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Now that tells us then Jesus was a studier of scripture.
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I'm a follower of Jesus, Jesus studied scripture.
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So if you're a follower of Jesus, the first thing you have
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to do is you have to study scripture, because Jesus
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literally says that he found himself in Scripture, it was as
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he was reading the word, he began to realize, that's me, I
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am this. They're talking about me.
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He is the The man who knew no sin who became saying he is the
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Son of God. He had the he he was without sin
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in that timeframe. There was a opportunity for him
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to have scripture no issue. He had no sin context.
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Although when I say that he was tempted on all accounts like us
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but his his life was alive so he could understand the word.
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And begin to find himself and he studied it and he knew it.
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As a teenager and are teenagers are very proficient at
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Tick-Tock. But we're follower Jesus.
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Are you hearing me, okay. So Jesus says didn't, you know
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that I'd be about my father's business.
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Well, what's the father's business?
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When that be a good question to ask.
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What is the father's business? I mean, we have so many
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assumptions going on in the church today that we're assuming
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we know exactly what's going on. And I have come to find out.
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There are just some really very basic things that will cause you
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to be absolutely devastating for the kingdom of darkness and a
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champion for God. But the problem is it's just not
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glamorous. There's no glamour about.
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It doesn't fit the American mold of what church should be.
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But God is not concerned about that.
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God's concerned about his way of communicating demonstrating his
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kingdom. And Jesus is the example yet, we
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call ourselves followers are, you know, the church in general
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and say I'm followers of Christ, but we don't do what Jesus did.
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So Jesus obviously was a study of scripture.
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We know this because when he was tempted of the devil, what could
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he say it is written? So we know how Jesus attacks the
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devil he doesn't cry. He never once prayed to the
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father to get him off the mount the we'll get him out of the
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Wilderness, he never did that, he never said, no father don't
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you see? He's here talking to me, you see
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what he's doing to me? Will you get him out of my way?
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I mean people pray like that. Oh Lord, we got this prom Lord,
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just remove the problem. Lourdes like man, if he has some
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scripture in your mouth right now, you could take care of that
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problem. Because again, when you say his
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words, he an accident it's his power doing it but he's not
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doing it to you. Say something again, let me
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bring it down to bury Simplicity because this is not cough rocket
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science, okay? This is not complex when we
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became born again, all of the power to forgive.
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You of all your wrongdoing has already been paid for by the
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blood of Jesus that been poured out on a mercy seat.
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Heaven, yet, it stays, in its power position, not active in
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your life until you. Release some words that the
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Lord, through the holy spirit says, You must do in order for
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the power to manifest. You Must Believe in Your Heart
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confess with your mouth, that Jesus Christ is Lord.
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Now it was your mouth, your faith, you're releasing.
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That then caused God to get involved with that word and
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cause your spirit man that was dead to be driven out of your
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body and put a brand new spirit on the inside of you.
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Then the Holy Ghost came and showed up on if the inside of
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you and says you are a child of God.
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Hallelujah. Now, it's a child of God.
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Heaven or Earth doesn't matter. I'm the child of the king.
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But the power did not happen. Until I did the word.
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Till I believed it and said it. Now I didn't even have to
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understand it. I just believe I mean, how can I
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can't even comprehend how blood from another human being.
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Over 2,000 years ago, has the capacity in another realm, on a
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mercy, C be able to cause the spirit that was dead and could
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not talk to God be ripped up out of this skin suit and get a
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whole new one. And how that whole little
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Exchange took place. I couldn't see it.
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Although I was there, I felt it. Now when I say I felt that I
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didn't feel like suck up out of my body, right?
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And then the next one came in. I'm like I'm Different.
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No. I mean, it was like I'm
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Different. I mean, it was so quick.
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I mean, like a moment, the twinkling of an eye.
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So to save us so quick aside, dude, I know I'm Different.
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I am different now. Look the same on the outside and
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my thinking sure is still pretty jacked up, right.
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But I know I am different and man, if somebody came in and
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shot me right now, I'd be present with the Lord.
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I know that I don't have no guilt.
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I'm so I'm so light now. Even though I way to say the
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guilt was gone, the shame was gone.
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Right? I mean, it's like amazing.
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Then the work started. Hallelujah.
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Amen. Because Jesus is without sin but
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had to study Jesus had to speak. Okay, let's go on.
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So he's about his father's business.
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Will watch this father's business.
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His father's business is really easy for us to determine okay,
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it's not complicated. Let's go on to Luke chapter 4
Luke 4 chapter mention
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start in verse 6. Jesus said to them, I am The way
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the truth and the life. No one comes to the father, but
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through me, I love this statement because Jesus doesn't
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make things complicated. Well, how do you know that
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Jesus? The only way he said it.
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He said broad is the way Narrows away.
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Albania is, so you're so narrow-minded.
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Thank God. Thank God.
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Thank God. I mean, it doesn't take, I mean,
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if there was like this huge where do we get in at?
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But then you see this one skinny little, ah, that must be it.
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It's like a straight line. I mean, God, just draws a
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straight line. Here it is.
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He takes out all of the issues that make it complicated.
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So I am the way, not a way, he's not away, he's the way the, he's
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the truth because truth is not words alone.
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Truth is a spirit so person. Okay.
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He's the life, which means, if you're not with him, you're not
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living. Even if you're breathing.
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And no one comes to the father but through me if you had known
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me he says you would have known my father.
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Also for now you know him and have seen him now Philip and we
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know Philip had some challenges Philip said to him Lord show us
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the father and it is enough again.
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It's Jesus like wow. Okay.
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Verse 9. Jesus said how have I been so
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long with you and yet you have not come to know me.
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Philip That sounds like a little frustration.
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Now that doesn't mean it's on God.
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He's just like seriously. Me, how long I've been with you,
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Philip, and you can't figure this thing out.
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Really. Wow.
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He goes on to say this them. He says, he who has has seen me,
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has seen the father. How can you say show us the
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father? Do you not believe that I am in
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the father and the father is noticed that now.
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Do you not Then I'm in the father and the father is what in
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me the words that I say to you I do not speak on my own
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initiative but the father abiding in me.
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Does his work believe me that I am in the Father?
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The father is in me otherwise believe because of the works
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themselves. Understand Jesus the way he
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lived and the Bible says he was full of grace.
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So apparently Jesus. I didn't understand his own
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Doctrine. Because most church today, the
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minute, you're in Grace, you're out of Works, yet.
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Jesus like you don't believe me. Believe the So, there is Works
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associated with Grace. Grace doesn't mean we do nothing
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because we couldn't do nothing. Grace means you couldn't do
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nothing, guess what? Now you can do something.
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Right? I mean it's like someone
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unemployed, right? They don't have a job, you know.
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I have no money and you say, okay, fine.
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You're hired now you're an employee and you get up.
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And then they're at like, well, I can't, you're employed now.
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You do have you can't keep saying what you were when you
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were unemployed. Your employee.
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Obviously, when I was outside the kingdom, there's nothing
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that I can do to be right with God.
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But the blood brought me in, and now I can be right with God and
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do like Jesus did, which means Jesus, let's go on and read it,
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you know, just so we won't get. Don't throw too many things at
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me right now, he says this. He says, believe the works
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themselves verse 12. Truly, truly, I say to you.
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He who believes in me? The works that I do, he will do
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also. What did Jesus say, you're going
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to do? You going to have some works?
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And Greater Works than these. He will do cuz I go to the
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father, And the minute we reduce the Bible to just telling people
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that they need, Jesus to save them.
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So when they die, they go to heaven.
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We reduce the whole scripture to every other religion on the
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planet where you going to go when you die.
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Which at that point it's like well maybe Hinduism is right?
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Because we're asking the same question where you going to go
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when you die? Maybe Buddhism is correct
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because we're asking the same question, where you gonna go
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when you die, because there's something we have to do here, to
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determine what's going to happen.
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There. But the Lord's like I'm not
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asking you the question where you going to go when you die?
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I'm asking you do you want to become a son now, so I can come
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and live in you and do something in you.
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And demonstrate to the rest of the people that we already
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connected. And I don't have to get you out
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of there. I mean, seriously, how many
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people in this building right now thinks that if Jesus Christ
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came back to the planet started walking around, somebody could
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take him out? Anyone.
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Do we consider him the most powerful man on the planet?
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If God the father came down, do we think anyone can take him
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out? Will he be in a navigate this
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situation? No problem.
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Then why do we think we can cause this Christ in you?
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You have the third person of the godhead.
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So, there's nothing going on in the planet today that we cannot
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navigate because we have God on the inside of us.
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In fact, description is what can man do to you.
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In fact, Jesus said don't even be afraid of somebody kills.
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You don't be afraid of that. He said, what you need to be
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afraid of is the one who can cast into the Lake of Fire.
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What happens to be my daddy? Amen.
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Hallelujah, I'm already living eternal life.
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I'm leaving eternal life. Now I'm around sin because the
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world still in a fallen State, and they're still centered, but
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I'm living eternal life. He men.
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Now I'll get more disconnected from the effects of sin in the,
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the atmosphere sin as we continue to progress and it's
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going to be far better. There's no doubt about it, but
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at the end of the day, I'm alive unto God.
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God lives in me. I talked with him, he talks with
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me, I can say, things believe act and God can demonstrate
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through my life. I mean, really, what are we
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waiting on? Jesus, understood this person.
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I'm about I'm doing the father's business.
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He goes on and says, in verse 3, 13, whatever you ask in my name,
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I will do it. So that the father may be
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glorified in the son, if you ask me anything in my name, I will
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do it. Verse 15, if you love me, You'll
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keep my Commandments one translates.
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You'll keep my word? Well, why is that important?
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Because Jesus himself said in verse 10 he says I the words I
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say to you I do not speak on my own initiative.
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You know what the father's business is yet?
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chapter 10 starting in verse 30. It says this I and the father
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are one, you know there's an expression chip off the old
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block. Right?
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That's like the sun is just like the father, right?
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Contra John kentrell y'all know who's here with our church
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unfortunately back years ago I think it was 2005 6 somewhere in
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those years. His brother and father died on
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the same night. His brother was a police officer
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and his father was riding along and he got a call and he went to
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turn around and he was flying down the road and a car pulled
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out. And to avoid it, he went out of
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the way and it fell into a ditch that was deep and they instantly
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died. So John, because I work with him
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a healty, he calls me and he says, Pastor, I want you to do
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the funeral. Now, I've never met his father
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or brother ever. I'm said sure man.
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I mean it's tragic, this is back in Oklahoma when he was living
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there. So, you know, I flew out met
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with the family and, you know, ask them questions because, you
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know, I'm doing a funeral for two individuals, I don't know.
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The only person I know is John I never met his mom.
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Sister, nobody family. Nothing welcomes to find out,
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bro. Pastor Hagen, his wife Lynette,
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her brother. Was related to the family.
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So when the funeral comes on which he's a police officer that
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died. So this is packed house.
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I mean I'm going in the funeral you know per session and there's
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people lined up along the road. I'm like wow Lord I need your
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help, you know, because I'm doing a funeral first.
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A couple people I personally do not know and so I'm up on it and
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Pastor, hey can walk in. I'm like, wow, I'm preaching a
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funeral in front of Pastor Hagen.
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Now, his whole staff was there, you know, I mean, I'm newly, you
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know, graduated just five years ago so I'm like you know you're
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like man you sure. Do you sure want to hope the
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president of your University hopes?
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You don't flop on this deal when you have no idea.
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How about the individuals and both caskets are out.
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So you know, I'd been listening and there was you know, things
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that was happening seeing and stuff and I'll never forget
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because I had nothing. I mean, I'm sitting on the
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platform. Nothing Thank God for the Holy
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Ghost. Now I'm a man of Faith so I can
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thrive in these situations because at the end the day I
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know God will not fail so you know I don't get anxious.
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Like I don't have nothing on. I'm like Lord I trust you I
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trust you I trust you. And and and it was time for me
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to get up, right? And then there was you know some
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oh how do you say it things you just have to do you know I can't
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think of the word right now. But anyway we did those
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particular elements but now it's time for me to minister and when
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I got up to minister the Lord says if you've seen the son,
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you've seen the father Because that's really what I heard.
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I mean, honestly, that son was just like his dad.
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And so, I preach that and you'd have thought that I knew them
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personally and everybody thought I was intimately acquainted with
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them. But that's the Holy Ghost,
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right? Thank God for the Holy Ghost,
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because he knows. Well, you understand, you can't
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separate Jesus from the father. So if you want to know, who the
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father is, you have to examine the sun because Jesus says
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you've seen the father because of me.
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Okay. So when he says I and the father
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are one, this is really important because Jesus had this
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desire to only function, so that when you saw him, you actually
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didn't see him. You saw his father I'm a
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follower of Jesus. Okay.
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So, who are we seeing When we see you.
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Because if I walked up to some Christians and I'm like so
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that's what my daddy looks like. Just say Amen.
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Anyway, right? I mean I know you want to
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humanize yourself. Well, you know, but I'm not got
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you're a child of God. You are in Christ as the son is
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in the father. You're in Jesus when the father
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sees you, he sees Jesus. So do you look like him?
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Do you look like him? Series really aggravating me.
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It's really been listening to way too many my conversations
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and like talking back. We cannot tolerate talking back.
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That is disrespectful. It's time for me to get a non
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Apple watch and wear it while I preach.
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Hallelujah. He said, I am.
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The father are one. He said, the Jews picked up
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stones again to Stone him. Jesus answered, I show.
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I showed you many good. What from the father for, which
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of them. Are you stoning me?
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The Jews. Answered him for a good work.
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We do not Stone you. So did Jesus?
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Do good works. Okay, but you blasphemy because
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you being a man, make yourself out to be God.
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Jesus answered has it. Not been written in?
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Or law. I say you are gods.
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If he called them Gods to whom the word of God came and the
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scripture cannot be broken. Do you say of him whom the
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father Sanctified and sent into the world?
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You are blaspheming because I said, I am the son of.
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I am the Son of God. If I do not do the works of my
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father, do not believe me. but if I do them, Though, you do not
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believe me. Believe the So that you may know
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and understand that the father is in me and I in the father,
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you know what, the father wants his kids to demonstrate him so
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much that the lost and dying world may not believe what
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you're saying, but it cannot refute what's happening in your
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life and I out of your life and the product of your life.
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Now again, what was the worst Jesus doing?
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He's only Healing The Sick casting out, Devils raising the
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dead multiplying fish. Right.
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He's only doing. But again, all those things he's
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doing, what did he say? He says, and I'll go ahead and
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jump to it. Look what it says here in John
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12. Just so you understand that when
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Jesus is doing all those things, he says for, I do not speak on
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my own initiative, but the father himself who sent me has
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given me a command as to what to say and what to speak.
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I know that know that his command is what eternal life.
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Therefore, the things I speak, I speak just as the father Other
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has told me. So when he says, what do we
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have? Dad said, ask him.
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What do you have? Well, we found Five Loaves and
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two fish. The Lord said that's enough,
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that's enough. Yes, and Jesus can hear it by
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the spirit. So he says sit down and then the
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Lord said, sit down blessed start this.
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He gives him the plan by the spirit just because it's not
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audibly. Heard to the 5,000 men.
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Does it mean? Jesus decided?
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Oh, this is what I'm going to do.
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I'm just going to do this because Jesus is not waving a
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wand. Jesus is doing the business of
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his father. The father's business in
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simplest terms is just doing what he says, if you don't do
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what he says, then you're not about to father's business.
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Now, you may be about your Christianity.
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But you're not about the father's business because the
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father's business is only one business.
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He's only in one business. Making sure his word comes to
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pass. Father has one business.
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Making sure that his word does not return unto him void, but it
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shall accomplish that which it was sent to do.
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I'm going to prove it in the next few weeks, man.
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I'm telling you. The Bible says, God has even
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exalted his word above his own. Was tells me your name is not
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more important to Jesus. You want me to give you a little
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teaser, a little trailer for next week.
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God loves his word more than he loves you but we preach the
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Christianity of God's love is if we are the object of God.
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Now God loves you. Don't get me wrong.
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I'm not saying he doesn't love you but he loves his word.
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And that's his business because the king's business is to
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guarantee. Whatever he says.
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Hallelujah, come on and your Faith Church.
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Only go a little bit deeper. Want to get a little bit deeper,
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right? Let's give this a deep stuff
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Pastor. Okay we go give you some deep
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stuff. It's really not deep and my
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personal opinion. It's not deep.
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Okay but it's definitely not religious It's not religious.
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Okay. I love you.
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So again, Jesus says, look done your own law said that you are
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gods. And at the end of the day,
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you're upset at me only because what's happening?
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I'm only saying what gag? Dad told me to say, if Dad said
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that I'm his child, then I'm going to say it.
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I'm a Son of God has he called you that Siri talking to y'all
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to that sound? Will you mad.
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But Siri out to build, not cast her out, people, and cast her
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out. Alleluia maybe series to get
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saved and get the whole organization saved.
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Alleluia, and then they put the piece back in the Apple.
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Just kidding. There's no scriptural evidence
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that it was an apple, but it is interesting.
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That is one bite out of a fruit. I'm not here to get you in a
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conspiracies, just leave it alone.
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I have an apple soda but I'm redeemed.
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You hear what I'm saying? Hallelujah, Jesus was about his
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father's business. That's why he's in the synagogue
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because he wants to be around scripture because he wants to be
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around the word because the words life and then he only
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wants to say what the word says, because that creates life And it
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resolves problems. The father's business is not
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winning the Lost. The father's business is to
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uphold his word and for you to speak his word to someone
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outside his kingdom, as he instructs, you to do so.
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But what will cause them to do, more is when you demonstrate it.
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Jesus is demonstration of the Kingdom, because he had the
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audacity to, actually believe that him and the father were one
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And he believed that, when I say, what Dad says it has to
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happen and it did that the crowd showed up Supernatural, things
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took place, we have reduced Christianity to a confession.
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That may not even have belief with it because when you start
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taking so much out of the scripture, you make it religious
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anyway, and at the end of the day, you can say something with
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your mouth, but your heart be far from it and you're just a
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religious person. Okay, so I get concerned about
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people who've made, you've confess.
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Jesus is Lord. Because if they're not living a
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life in keeping with repentance as John, the Baptist said to the
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Pharisees, the religious ones, he said you brought a by pers
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who warned you of the day of judgment.
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And then they went talking about, you know, a you know
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Moses and all he said, well then we live a life in keeping with
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repentance, I don't see you demonstrating it.
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Now, you aren't running around telling everybody what to do,
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even Jesus said, do what the Pharisees say, but don't do what
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they do. Don't live their life.
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Because they're hypocrites. But the word they say is life if
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you'll believe and act on it and it will work because God always
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performs his word must say it again always.
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So don't come to me, your experience, where someone
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believe God his word and didn't work.
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You might want to question something else.
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Before you question God because I am amazed we say again this is
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religious cliche, right? God is all knowing God's without
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fail. God is all powerful, but ants on
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so was believing in. God didn't do it?
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Well, would it be more easy for me to think, maybe Aunt?
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So, and so, didn't have something?
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That allowed it to happen. Before blaming God.
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And then we take it out of context, Albany Sovereign, his
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ways are higher than our ways. We works in mysterious ways.
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No, he doesn't. No, he does not.
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He does not work in mysterious ways.
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He works in calculated ways that always come to pass.
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Always. But again, it's easier to
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develop a Doctrine when you're not in Scripture.
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That fits your feeling. And your unknown.
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Then it is to go and ask the tough questions.
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Hallelujah. I know some people have gone on
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to be with the Lord because they had hatred in their heart
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unforgiveness in their heart. But on their bedside, they were
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acting like they were believing. Okay, that's fine again.
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Everybody wants real Ministry to you real, right.
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Hey man guys, we're living in a society today that we, we are
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going to be the most odd looking folks on the face of the planet
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because we're just actually believing the word simply as it
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is stated. And that is an anomaly,
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unfortunately. But you know, God works with the
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remnant man, you want to be a Remnant?
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Then you always just want to be with God, I was talking with
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laura-leigh before service. I said we have a history book
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that I don't care how rebellious people were and how Oh, bad
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societies were even to the point of flooding God had somebody
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believing. Amen.
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So, just choose to be that one sound.
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Will be that one. I'll be of that group.
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I am the believing group. I am the righteous believing
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group. Everybody go to hell in a
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handbasket, but I'm the rights of the leaving group.
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Everybody back slide out of their Covenant.
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I am going to believe God, right?
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Because it's amazing what God can do with a little Hallelujah.
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So you know just because the majority seems like they're lost
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or the majority of the church seems like they're in error.
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I'm hopeful because I know what God can do with just one person.
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Amen. So again the father's business
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is to only be doing what the father says, John Chapter 14
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verse 31 He says, but so that the world may know that I love
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the father. So that who may know?
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And we're supposed to show the world.
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The father or Jesus. Are we not supposed to show the
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world Jesus? We are ambassadors for for
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Christ. Paul said, imitate me.
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As I imitate Christ. First Corinthians, 11:1, So
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we're supposed to imitate him. So how did Jesus Show The World?
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God, the Father. I do.
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Exactly. I do exactly.
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As the father commanded me. Now notice of command from the
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father may not be a miracle. Dad said when I tuck in my
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disciples tonight I need to go to the mountain and pray.
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When do exactly what he said. My dad said go to the pull up.
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Bethesda. I'm looking for one guy,
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although there's a lot of people there.
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The guy not care for them. Sure, he did.
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But we have no idea what was going on.
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See I look across this room. Not right now and all these you
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as individuals, right? The Bible says, the only person
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who knows the spirit of the man is the spirit of the man
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himself. So, here's the thing, you know,
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your heart, you know what's going on the inside, you know,
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what kind of issues are going on or not?
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Here's another six God knows too so again we say God knows my
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heart. You bet he does.
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Most of the time though those people that they're saying that
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have a problem with their heart and their they say that
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statement as a mask but God does know.
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Absolutely, okay. And Jesus the Lord knows what he
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has spoken to you about. If you're about the father's
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business, you just do it. Whether anyone sees it or not?
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because if you can't do the private stuff for the father, I
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mean, he's not going to trust you.
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Even though it's available. Come on, you have to admit, it's
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pretty intimidating to be in a public place.
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And you think you heard God say, go snatch that person out of the
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wheelchair? How's that going to work?
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Let's go to work. Exactly as the father said, But
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the reality is really don't believe that.
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So that's why we don't snatch them out.
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And that's being real, right? Which means then we have to
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become proficient at only doing exactly what the father says.
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Now, we have zealous people that do all kind of stuff, but
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they're not hearing God, they're just trying to do what they've
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heard God's done. There's a difference between
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hearing God and doing what he said and then hearing what he's
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done and trying to do it yourself.
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That's what the seven sons of sceva did.
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I mean, does God not cast Devils out of people?
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Is that God's will? Yes.
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Absolutely. It's his will.
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And let me just throw this out. Did the disciples before it?
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They were born again able to cast Devils out.
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Yes, it's not like, it hasn't happened.
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Now, I understand this is ax. I understand, Jesus died on the
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cross Rose from the grave. I understand the New Covenant is
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in play here, but at the end of the day, if they firmly believe
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in the name of Jesus, why could they not have gotten it to work?
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Well, number once, they weren't authorized because Jesus
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authorized them to go out and do this.
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Which they were only doing what Jesus said.
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So here's the thing, What Makes Miracles easy for us.
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What makes operating in the miraculous easy for us?
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What anything Z is that we only moved when we here and here's
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the cool thing. God may not want you to cause a
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deaf person's ear to open, because he has someone else he's
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gonna do because he has so many kids.
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You don't have to single-handedly do every work
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that Jesus did. But you can't you should
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single-handedly do exactly what he tells you to do.
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And put that scripture back up. If the world wants to see that,
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the Hebb that heaven's realm exists and that there is a God.
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Because again, can we be honest? The majority of prayers going up
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for our NFL player right now the majority Have no idea whether it
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is going to be answered. But they know it could be
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because they ascribe that God can do those things. now, there
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are some people who know Because they know what God's saying
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about the situation. I don't know he's not talk to me
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about the situation but he could have literally, he can literally
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be talking to someone about the situation.
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Exactly what to pray, what to do.
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And that could be just one person on the planet right now.
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And that one thing is what's going to bring it to pass.
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Now everybody that's in generally doing it and they know
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that God can and they want him to do it because I get at the
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end of the day. Who wants people to die, right?
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But there's really bring the power.
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But so that the world may know. That I love the father.
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So not only is this show the father but what else is it show
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it shows that he loves him. Hmm, say la.
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The world wants to know that Jesus loves dad.
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I do exactly as he commanded me. Not because I say I love Dad.
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So the first thing you need to change in your love relationship
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with Jesus is saying I love you. Jesus and think that's loving
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him. Maybe you're not ready for this
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series. Oh, we've been so deceived with
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our own words. How many of you told someone you
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love them? You left them.
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I'm talking dating a stay with dating.
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I'm not talking about marriage, okay?
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I'm not getting over in that. I mean, I was a kid.
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Once I slid across a little note, And I was that kid that I
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knew the answer before I slid to note because if I don't know the
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answer, you're not getting to know.
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You ain't Goin. Beerus me.
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I have done found out. You dig me?
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You want some of this right here?
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Sure enough. Yes, I thought so all my
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insiders told me. Right.
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You like them? Come on.
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How many you had at least five girlfriends?
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Oh good. Something look.
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Look, your wife doesn't care. She knows there was a life
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before her. Yeah.
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I mean he had about five boyfriends.
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Yeah man there's more women on us than the men right now.
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Five, every time I had five on the side, I got you.
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Literally had one in every country.
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Yeah, yeah, yeah. I get it right.
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Right. I mean you there were someone
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you genuinely at that time thought I could be with this
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person for the rest of my life. Then would you use the words?
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Those three words. But they're not with you.
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So we think when we say I love Jesus, that means we really do.
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And that Jesus says, yeah, I feel it.
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No, Jesus says the world knows that I love that.
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Because I do exactly. As he, what?
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What translation it says, New American Standard, as he
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commanded me? That's a tough word in the u.s.
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right now. Most congregational churches you
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don't command me, then you don't understand the kingdom.
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Because the kingdom is not sure your democracy because we're not
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in a democracy, but you think we are so most people are
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functioning that way, right? It's not a democracy.
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I mean, you have a will but life is in his word so I'm like
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command me because that's life tell me something.
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So that I can do it. Because that's life.
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All right, so then John chapter 14, John 14:23, 24.
John 14 chapter mention John 14:23
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Last scripture tonight says, is Jesus answering said.
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If anyone loves Loves who Jesus. He will.
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Keep my word. and, My father. Will love him and we will come
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to him. Oh my there's so much in this
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one first right here. I mean it's like eradicates most
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Christian Church preaching right here.
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I mean let's live this life, Jesus answered.
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If anyone conditional statement If it's a conditionals, if
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anyone loves me. what proves law, he keeps my word and My
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father says the Son and the father are one.
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How do you know dad loves you because you're keeping Jesus's
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word woman, she's word. It's the word in the beginning
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was the word. The word was with God and the
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Word was God. So I love Jesus.
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Keep the word. Well, they done me wrong, I
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don't care what they did. What does it is written?
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Say in this situation, keep that because you love Jesus, right?
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Oh, he knows I love him and keep his word when I can't do that,
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then you don't love him. Don't tell me, I don't love him.
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God knows my heart, he knows you don't love him.
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That's what he knows cuz you're not keeping it.
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Period. So quit being Faith.
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Being the fantasy. It's a fantasy.
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This is how people fall into wrong relationships because they
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fantasize that it's better, and it brings death.
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And this is why are we don't have deep convictions with God
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and walking. His fear is because we really
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think it's optional to not do what he says in any situation
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and we still love him. The day of God told me, this is
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how you prove, you love me. What how simple is that?
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I mean, my wife, if she literally tells me if you do
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this it it tells me you love me. That's simple.
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That's simple. And I'm tell you, I probably
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hadn't done that the best. I need to come up my game on it.
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Yeah. Because at the end of the day,
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if someone comes to you, to literally says this, right here,
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tells me, well, then you have an answer.
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And to not do it and try to convince them, you love them
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another way. And that they're actually wrong
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and how they. Now we're humans.
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So we can really be jacked up. I get that.
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But God is telling us and he's not a man that he shall I.
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So he's establishing to us. This is how I know that you love
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me and this is how I know the father loves you.
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And because at this is how I know we come to you again.
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Quit waiting on, trying to come to us.
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We're coming to you. I mean, that's the whole great
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thing about our relationship with the creator of Heaven and
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Earth is that he's like, can't wait to get down there.
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Can't wait to get down there, just can't wait to get in them.
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I mean, we preaching Christianity, can't wait to go
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to heaven, can't wait to go to heaven, can't wait to go, but
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yet the father saying can't wait to get down there.
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Can't wait to get with him, can't wait to be with him and
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he's not, I don't care that they're in a suit that's gonna
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still Decay and fall off and they're not in their glorified
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because at the end of the day, we can drop all that.
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I'll renew their mind as they yield to me and we'll clean that
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mess up. We'll get their whole soul round
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face and then I'll heal their body.
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I'll get that thing a fine running machine man and it goes
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State keep them in the planet as long as they're doing that
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purpose because I want to be right there with them, right?
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And they're Miss, right? Where they're at.
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But we don't want to do is where we just want to check out, go to
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heaven. Verse, I'll come to him and make
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our Abode with him. I wake up everyday and I go,
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hey, Lord. Because he's right here.
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The holy spirit's in me and the words in me, the word comes out
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of me. I wake up with the word of my
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mouth. That's awesome.
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It's can't wake up with the word of mouth if you're not in the
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word verse 24, he who does not love me.
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So, we have Clarity here. Does not keep my words.
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Who's defining love here. Because Jesus knows that I'm
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about to father's business. And the father has a one
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business. Doing his word.
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So I only do what he says. And the reason why I do what he
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says because when I do what he says It lets him know I love
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him. I love him.
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And the only reason why this is a problem in the Christian
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church, Is because before the father for Father, God was our
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father, we had another daddy and he was a liar, it's called the
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devil. And he has this way of
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convincing you. That if you don't get to do it
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your way, you're in bondage. That you've lost your freedom.
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That true freedom is do what you want to do because you got to
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take care of yourself. Jesus speaks the opposite.
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He says, man tries to save his life hill. but if he wants to
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save his life, he has to lose his life.
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The devil tricked. Adam I mean, not tricked him.
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He just told me. You said, listen, it's better to
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not do. What the father says.
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You'll be more powerful. And we lived and existence doing
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it. Our way fulfilling our own lust,
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doing our own feelings. And they had these weird because
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again, there are aspects that God created for us.
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That still feel great naturally, but in the Soul and Spirit
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realm, there's guilt shame. So I guess all clouded the feel
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so good. Mine's me an old country song.
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If Loving, You Is Wrong, I Don't Want to Be Right.
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And that's how most Christians are.
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Because they really just want Jesus to accept them as they
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are. But Jesus says, that's what I'm
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asking. Accept me as I am.
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And I would Empower you to live it my way.
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Because you couldn't obey me when you were dead in your
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trespasses and sin. Now, I made you alive and to me,
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you can You can literally do exactly as I ask you to do and
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show me all the time. You loved me.
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Because he who does not keep, who does not love me.
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Does not keep my words and the word which you hear because he
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says, and The Words, which you here is not mine.
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But the father who sent me that amazing.
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So again, it's like, Lord, you're telling me What to say
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and do and they're not even your words, their dad's words.
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And he loved me so much. He sent his word to deliver
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them, sin is worth the most powerful thing he could do for
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the for the human race. When they got into the rebellion
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was send his word. Because there's only one
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business that has. I will keep my word.
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I'll keep it. It will come to pass.
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I guard my word to perform it. And his words life his words
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truth. His word is the way.
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Wow. It's not complicated.
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So you have to ask yourself tonight.
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Am I about the father's business?
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Emma. A my keeper of his word when I
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say that, I'm not saying just reading scripture.
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I'm saying every situation that takes place you're having a it
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is written moment or that. I don't know what to do.
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So I'm coming to you because I'm about your business and this
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situation you have a word for me that will deliver me on all my
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trouble. Because you love me and I love
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you and I need your word to key. I need a word right now.
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