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Born to Finish - Kingdom Destiny
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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, turn over to Philippians chapter 1
Philippians 1 chapter mention
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Philippians chapter 1 verses 5 to 6.
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It says this is the amplifier classic.
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And again if you're doing the Well, reading plan, you just
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read this. All right, I like it.
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When the Lord gives me messages on things, we're all reading
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together. Sometimes that happens,
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sometimes, it doesn't. But sometimes, you know, when
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you're just going through the Lord begins to give an
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impression, you're like, wow, I need to preach on that.
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Now, you understand next week, with our Christmas service,
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everybody's here. It's only at 10:30.
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We have no corporate prayer that morning.
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No. Anchor Faith live classes.
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No child care at all. So you bring all your kids in
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here? All right.
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In fact, I may even just have the Come and just sit down here
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on the floor. I think I'm gonna do that.
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Just have them come and sit down and be down front with me.
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Amen. But it says, that's I faked.
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My God for your fellowship, your sympathetic cooperation and
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contributions in partnership. In vain advancing.
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The good news, the gospel from the first day, you heard it
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until now. So these people are doers right?
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Once they heard they haven't abandoned, aren't you?
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Do you need to be a believer that once you hear you don't
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abandon If you continue, then he goes on and he says this because
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of that, he says I'm convinced and sure of this very thing that
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he who began a good work in, you will continue until the day of
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Jesus Christ, right up to the time of his return.
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Developing that good work and perfecting and bring it to full
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completion in. You the Williams translation of
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verse 6 says that this way for I am certain of this very thing
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that he who began Began the good work in.
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You will go on until the day of Jesus Christ to complete it.
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So there's going to come a day when a trumpet will sound.
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And the dead in Christ will rise first, and then we'll be changed
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in a moment in the twinkling of an eye.
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And then we'll be caught up together with him in the air.
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Until that day takes place, God is doing a work in us, which
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means the day he apprehended us, the Holy Ghost came and started
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talking to us. And telling us about our need
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for Jesus Christ as our Savior and Lord.
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And when we answer Heard that call and became children of God.
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He began a work in US. I said he began to work in us.
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He did not finish something. He started something Now in the
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realm of the spirit, he deposited some finished Works
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meaning he made us righteous in Christ.
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He did that in the realm of the spirit we've been made, right?
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But now our thinking is not always righteous and we have to
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renew that and it can get in the way of what's happened and
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transpired in the spirit. Are you hearing me?
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So my spirit man has been made righteous, but my soul realm has
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to be renewed so that I can release who I really am now.
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Are you hearing me and God is doing a work in us.
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If there wasn't a work to be done, there will be no reason
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for the Holy Ghost to talk to us after we were born again.
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There's no reason for him to carry on any other conversation.
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Well, you are a child of God. That's all that matters.
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He would not be in the process of trying to renew our minds
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because that would be irrelevant.
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Okay. No there is a continued thing
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happening that we work by faith. I said by faith that God wants
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us to be blame us. He actually tells us in first
1 Thessalonians 5 chapter mention
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Thessalonians chapter 5 that we are to be blameless Spirit.
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He does that. So we do that and body, we do
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that as well. So we participate in the soul
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and body realm of perfecting our maturing Ourselves to reflect
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what he did to us in the spirit amen.
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And when he comes back he wants us to be functioning on all
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three levels. Blameless on all three levels.
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Are you hearing what I'm saying? So we need to do this.
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Now, here's the thing. God whose begun a working us
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wants to complete it. So that tells me this, there's
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no excuse for anyone to live their whole life and not know
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whether they completed the will of God for their lives.
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There is literally no excuse for a person to come to the end of
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their lives and ask the question.
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I wonder if I did God's will That people, you know, as they
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get older, I'm just trying to figure out what God wants me to
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do. Well, you need to figure it out
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because he is going to complete a work in you which means he is
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ever ready to tell you exactly why you were born.
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Are you hearing me? See, God wants to do something
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in us. Let's look at this in Hebrews
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chapter 13 verses 20 and 21. It says, now the God of Peace
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who brought up from the dead, the great Shepherd of the sheep
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through the blood of the Eternal, Covenant.
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Even Jesus, our lord, look at verse, One equip you in every
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good thing to do his will working in us that which is
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pleasing in his sight through Jesus Christ to whom be the
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glory forever and ever amen. Now, you know there's only one
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way to please. The Lord, Hebrews 11 tells us
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without faith. It's impossible to please him.
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So we are to live by faith and faith is hearing God's word and
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then acting on it. It even though we do not see it.
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We are. We have determined that the word
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of the king is the final say and we're going to believe it live.
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It act it respond to it. Even if we don't see it, even if
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we don't feel, it doesn't matter because we're going to be
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pleasing to him that in the midst of any situation or
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circumstance. We will be trusting in his word
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over anything else. We see are filled, are you
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hearing me and he actually equips us So that we can stand
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that way and believe him for things assigned to us, to be
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able to accomplish his will for our lives.
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So, when he apprehended us, and says, I'm inviting you into the
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family, it was never about a destination.
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It was always about Destiny. It was never about going to
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heaven. It was about heaven coming to
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you. It's about sonship, it's about
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purpose. It's about living your fullness.
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Light full life now and then it propels you into the life to
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come. Are you hearing what I'm saying?
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So we see then that God wants to do a work in us.
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Look at it says in Ephesians 2:10.
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It says this for, we are his what we're we're his
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workmanship. Now this comes after the verse
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that everybody quotes. It's not by any Works.
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Lest any man should A boost salvation is belief that Jesus
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Christ stood in the Gap, he became our substitute, he did
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what we could not do, he actually lived?
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The will of the father, with the right motive, right?
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Heart, he fulfilled, all the law, Died blameless.
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Without spot. Never sinned.
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Never sinned. Are you hearing me never sin
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once a man who knew no sin, but he what became our sin.
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So what we could not do in and of ourselves, he did.
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And then if we will just believe on the work he did, it will
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cause us to be made right with God, but right after this, not
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of any works, not man saying to God.
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If I do this, you have to accept me.
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That's the works of man. Here's how I'm going to do it.
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Even if it's you you're saying this is what to do.
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I can accomplish in the Lord's like you just can't do it.
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You just can't do it and we can't do it.
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We all fell Jesus did. But when he saved us it was for
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purpose. And here it is first 10 for we
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are his what workmanship created in Christ now you can t be
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creating Christ unless you're born again.
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So when we hear this word created in Christ because again,
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second second Corinthians 5:17 says that we are a new creature
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in Christ. The old has what passed away,
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behold. All things have become new so
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creative. In Christ as being born again.
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But why are we created in Christ?
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It tells us for And here we go for good.
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And that's a dirty word and most churches for good works.
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Well and I say we ain't doing works.
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You are doing works. You're doing the work of your
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father, which is his will. Jesus said, didn't you know, I'd
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be about my father's business which means don't, you know, I'm
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doing the work of my daddy. In fact, he says everything I'm
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doing is the work of my father. I'm just doing the father's
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right? And even said they say, even if
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you don't believe me, I am, I work at least believe the works,
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leave the works. and the devil has duped whole congregations
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from exercising, their sonship and convince them.
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This is about a destination when they die, which is what every
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other religion believes. But he says that we are created
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in Christ for good works, which God prepared when beforehand so
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that we would walk. And so before we even did found
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out why we were even born, he already had the plan.
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I said he already had to plan. He already had the plan
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beforehand before you even found out.
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God knew the look at this in Hebrews chapter 12, you know,
Hebrews 12 chapter mention
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well versus wanted to. It says, therefore we also since
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we are surrounded by so great. A cloud of witnesses.
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Let us lay aside every weight and the sin, which so easily
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ensnares us and let us run with endurance, the race that is set
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before us looking unto Jesus. The author and finisher of our
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faith. Okay.
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It goes on to say for the joy that was set before him.
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He endured the cross, despising, the shame and has sat down at
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the right hand of the Throne of God, Thrones are in kingdoms,
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not in religions. So we see here.
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Jesus was going to do the will of his father, because it
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brought him Joy even though that took him by way of a cross.
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Okay, so here we see that if we are going to be able to
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accomplish the purpose and fulfilled, the work and the
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destiny, and come to a place of completion prior to him coming.
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Then we're going to have to lay a few things aside.
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And I like the order of Hebrews because the order of Hebrews
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Associates us more with the only reason you can't accomplish a
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purpose because you have weights in your life.
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Now, weight is not a sin. Wait, is that which hinders you
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from accomplishing? Now, let me go and just pick on
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you from the body realm, okay? From the body realm, your body,
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you are not where you are. As far as wanting to be in
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shape. Only based upon a lack of
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discipline. And it's now there can be sins
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associated with a body. I'm not talking, but I'm just
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saying, if you had a personal goal, I could be here.
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Most of the time, the only reason it's called, we don't lay
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aside the weight that hinders us from getting there.
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For some it's laying aside certain food groups in order to
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get there and that's not sitting, that's just a wait.
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Because as long as I can participate, then I can't get
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that result. Are you hearing me?
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So I don't want to understand the same thing is, even with our
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spiritual growth and development.
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Our soul realm is that sometimes, we're not as far with
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Christ, because we won't lay aside the, the weight of
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sleeping Sleeping's await, when it hinders you from praying to
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the Lord. Or having time to read the word.
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Well, I'm just so busy. I can't just well it so you wake
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up. Go straight to work.
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You never talk with God, you listen to Christian radio and
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out like that, you're connected with God.
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You listen to someone on the radio, preaching you, you like
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you're connected with God. I mean, all that Moon, most
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Believers is just White Noise saying, amen?
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Are singing a Christian song. Does not connect, you with God,
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but that's all you can fit in. Okay.
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I mean I'm here. I'm sorry.
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You won't even bigger than that. The ones that don't come to
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church on a Sunday or Wednesday because they can't lay it aside.
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So these are and that and the author of Hebrews is like,
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listen, that's really the round that Believers are having to
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come to another level in, but he also knows Believers can also
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have some Sin Sin can manifest. Now, it shouldn't we have
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dominion over it. We've been redeemed from the law
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of sin and death. So sin should not have dominance
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over us. We should never allow in our
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mouth saying I'm just a sinner saved by grace.
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No you were a sinner, you've been saved by grace.
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Now you are a Believer you're in the likeness of Jesus cry you're
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in Christ Christ and say well I'm just a sinner with the grace
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of God. All my life He never said that
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yet. He had Grace on his life, he was
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full of grace. The Bible says, Okay.
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So there are things that wanted they do.
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They ensnare us, they hinder us from accomplishing.
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Our course, because he says, we got to run this thing with what
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endurance. The problem Wiz is, most of us
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are filtering our Christianity, through our culture.
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And I'm not talking Kingdom culture, I'm talking American
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culture, and American culture is get it now.
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We have express lanes, we have fast food, we have microwaves,
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right? We have Amazon Prime.
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Right. Many you won't even go to the
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store anymore. Well, I'll just order on Amazon.
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It'll be here tomorrow. God forbid, you wait 3 days.
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And some of you don't even go to store your doordash everything,
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right? Because you want it now and you
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want somebody to do the work. Cause God forbid, you do it
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work, but let me just say you had to work the app to get the
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doordash, so you're still not living without works people.
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Are you hearing me? Well, we want God to mature us
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without us being involved. I'm right with God, you can be
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right with God, but that doesn't mean you're, you're, you're
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moving at your Peak Performance. You're not functioning as all
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the authority, that's been assigned to you.
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You've not matured in your walk with God and God created us
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because he wanted us to finish. He is the author and finisher of
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our faith. Look what it says here in Isaiah
Isaiah 46 chapter mention
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chapter 46, Isaiah 46. And verse 9 through 11, Isaiah
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46. Verses 9 through 11.
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This is really powerful because God has us in mind.
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Isaiah 46 verse 9 and 11. It says remember the former
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things long passed? Are you hearing me?
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Remember, the former things long passed for, I am God.
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And there is no other. I am God, and there was no one
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like me. Verse 10, he says, declaring the
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end from the beginning. And from ancient times things
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which have not been done saying, my purpose will be established
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and I will accomplish my good pleasure calling a bird of prey
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from the East, the man of my purpose from a far country.
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Truly, I have spoken, truly, I will bring it to pass.
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I have planned it, surely, I will do it.
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God is a finisher. I said God is a finisher and
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when the Creator start started, he plans to finish.
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And he never fails to finish people, fail to finish and
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people fail to get in their purpose, but God's purpose will
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come to pass. It's going to happen.
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I said it's going to happen so you can look at your neighbor
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and say, what's for my life, I will allow it to come to pass.
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Now, with that being said, we need to understand that if he
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did it for Jesus. He'll do it for us.
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Are you hearing me Genesis Chapter 1?
Genesis 1 chapter mention
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What did God say in the beginning?
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Because he knew the end from the beginning, which means you go to
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the beginning to determine what the is going to look like.
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Are you hearing me? You gotta go to the beginning to
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determine what the end is going to look like.
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And for most Christian churches, they don't go to the beginning.
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They just start at the fall. The fall of Man is not the
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beginning. That's not the beginning of man.
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So, we have to be able to connect God's beginning to
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determine his ending. so it says in Genesis chapter 1, you know,
Genesis 1 chapter mention
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it verse 26 and 27 but it's good for us to see then God said God
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said, has he spoken? Has he spoken?
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Okay, so let me say, let me say it in context to keep that up in
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Isaiah. 46:9 through 11, then God said, then God declared the
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end from the beginning. Then God said, then God said, my
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purpose will be established. I will accomplish my good
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pleasure. I have spoken, I will truly
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bring it to pass. I've planned it.
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Surely, I will do it. Let us make man in our image,
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according to our likeness and let them have dominion.
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Then verse 27, God created, man in his own image in the image of
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God. He created him male and female,
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he created them. So both of them had dominion
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over all the Earth, they had no dominion over heaven.
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And Earth, if you read the back of the book, will it will still
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be around for all eternity. The Earth is just as Eternal as
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Heaven. I said, the Earth is just as
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Eternal as Heaven, the difference between the Third
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Heaven and Earth is that the Earth has to get renovated.
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But so does the first and second heaven.
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Because something's going on in the first and second heaven,
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that Revelation tells us that there will be a new heavens and
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new earth. Now, we know it's not where God
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lives because there's no problem there.
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When a problem happened, he eliminated the problem.
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Jesus said, I saw Satan fall like, lightning from Heaven.
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We're not gonna have to redo this deal.
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He just gets rid of it and Adam could have gotten rid of it as
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well. Are you hearing me?
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So let's make man in our image. According In our likeness and
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let them rule. So God has said it.
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So man is destined to rule. He's destined to rain, it's his
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Destiny. I said it's his Destiny is his
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reason for living. It's just reason I was talking
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to Pastor Jay, I'm not going to go deep into this particular
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subject, but he was having some challenges with some statements
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because the can't Kingdom will. Jack up religious thoughts and
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there are some religious thoughts in the church.
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Okay, and he says, now Pastor, I want to ask you some questions
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concerning worshiping God. Now, when he says that we're
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really meaning in context of singing now worship is not
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singing by itself. Singing can be included in
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worship. The problem is, we've all gotten
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into this little tag of Praise an and typically Praises, the
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fast worship is the slow when that has nothing to do, with
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singing worship, has nothing to do, with singing, Praise can be
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fast or slow. Worship is obeying God.
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That's what worship is. And he seeks those who will obey
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him in spirit and in truth. That's what he's saying, not
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sing to him. So, when people say we were
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created to worship, it's correct.
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If you Define worship, correct. We were created to obey his
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voice and do his bidding. Absolutely.
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But people have this thought that we were created worship,
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and when we go to heaven, will sing songs all the time to him?
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Well, this is kind of depressing to us.
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Who can't see? It's not a very good Eternal
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assignment, right? Because I'm the Joyful Noise
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guy, everybody Heavens going know it and some of you worse
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than I am, So, you're either going to have to believe that
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God is going to change your voice, right?
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But the Bible never indicates that man was created to sing
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songs 24/7 or for all eternity to God, you cannot find it in
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scripture, can't find it. I said you can't find it.
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But yet the religious will constantly say we were created
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to worship which is going to sing to him all the time.
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No, you're not. No, you're not.
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You're going to sing but not all the time.
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No, you're going to have dominion.
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You're going to rule. Newsflash, you're going to work.
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Newsflash, you're going to work. You're not and Chancellor.
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Braun has warned us, you are not going to lay around on a puffy
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Cloud fat, a naked with a harp and have wings, Hallelujah.
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Now I'm not saying we won't be naked in one sense, we're going
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to have the glory back. All right, once we won't have
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some exposure that man had but Genesis chapter 3.
Genesis 3 chapter mention
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Look what God said. In Genesis chapter 3, we're
Genesis 3 chapter mention
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talking about being born to finish it Genesis 3:15.
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It says this cuz he comes down. He said, Adam, we're already
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talked to the wife, he talks to The Serpent and while he's
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talking to the serpent, he says, I'll put enmity between Between
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you and the woman between your seed and her seed, he will
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bruise you on the head and you will bruise him on the hill now.
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Who is he? That's coming.
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Who's the see Jesus. Jesus was born to finish.
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It's good. Jesus was born to finish.
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So if God does it with Jesus, he'll do it for you.
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So let's look at God. Begins to speak about Jesus.
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Coming to the Earth before Jesus even comes.
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He already knows the destiny of Jesus, before Jesus ever shows
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up in a virgin's womb. Are you hear me and it press
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prophesied about his coming, I'm not talking like a, you know,
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five years, I'm talking thousands of years.
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This child's Destiny is being recorded.
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Are you hearing me being recorded?
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And I'm not saying just recorded in in Israel when it's free.
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It's being recorded when Israel's in captivity.
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I won't show you all examples, but we know Daniel talked about
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this child coming because he called him a rock made without
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hands, right, that that Kingdom would show up and it would
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destroy and Crush every other Kingdom, as he spoke to King
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Nebuchadnezzar about his coming, we know that Zakaria said that
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this king would show up and wrought.
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Walk ride through the streets of Jerusalem on a donkey.
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Before he was ever in the womb of his mom.
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Isaiah right here, we love to quote.
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This one in Isaiah 9:6 again, he is in dealing with captivity
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himself. He says, this for a child, will
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be born to us, a son, will be given and the government will
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rest on his shoulders. He was born to finish and his
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name will be called, wonderful, counselor, Mighty God, Eternal
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Father, Prince of Peace. There will be no end to the
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increase of his government, or a piece on the throne of David or
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over his kingdom, Thrones are in kingdoms.
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Not religions to establish it to, uphold it with Justice and
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righteousness, from then, on and forever.
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More the Zeal of the Lord will a copy of hosts will accomplish.
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Well, sure, he'll accomplish it because he knows the end from
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the beginning. What he declares in speech is
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going to happen and the reason why Jesus has to come as a man
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is because he gave Man, 2 Min on the Earth, but Adam lost.
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The Dominion gave it to the devil and he said in the father
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says no a man has Dominion. So, in order for man to have it
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back, I'll have to send my son as a man.
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I'll legally get him in the Earth.
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And he'll do the works. That I tell him to do.
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He'll worship me cuz he will obey and do only what I say.
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Amen. I mean, he's not, his mom isn't
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even thought of When these things are pinned concerning
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this child. But once Mary is about to be
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pregnant. Look what it said in Luke
Luke 1 chapter mention
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chapter 1 again, Christmas is about celebrating the birth of
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Jesus and people are going to be celebrating our savior came
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only. Recognizing this aspect of him
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is that he came so that we could be born again when the reality
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is he came so that he could finish.
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The reason Humanity was created in the first place.
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And Heaven is not that answer. And behold it says this Luke
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1:31 233. Behold, you will conceive in
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your womb and bear a son and call him.
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Jesus, you're going to name him Jesus and he will be what he
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had. He's not even in the womb yet.
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But what is he? He's great.
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He'll be called the son of the most high.
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The Lord God will give him the Throne of his father David.
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And he will reign over the house of Jacob forever and his
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kingdom. And his, what his what his, what
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his kingdom will have no end. I have no end which means then
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his seed he'll produce after his own kind and he will always be
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able to keep Kings on Thrones. Because he's the king of who are
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those kings? We are those kings.
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So again, it's spoken about this child of his Destiny notes.
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Nowhere in there. Does it say he came just to save
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us from our sins. So when we die, we go to heaven.
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He's coming terrain and he's coming to get a kingdom to
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himself. The only way he can get the
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kingdom to himself, as he has to be the one who pays the price
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for the people. Which gives them the right to
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become children of God and then he can position them back as
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God. Originally spoke.
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Let us make man in our image, according to our likeness and
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let them have dominion. Are you hear me?
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I was talking with Lola last night.
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When did we did the dining with dignity Christmas little, you
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know, get together? And she showed me a picture of a
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bear and the Ocala National Forest, bear was taller than I
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was at least my height, but probably taller.
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Okay. And she began to relate to me
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that this bear while her and her husband worse camping showed up.
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They're in a pop-up, a pop-up with canvas, right?
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She said I had to pray for peace every time I went to bed, right?
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But this bear would keep showing up every day cuz apparently it
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was its territory. Right.
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And so the picture she is showing me is the trash cans
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that says on the trash can bear proof She said but he's on the
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back side so it like Slants you know so if you're looking at the
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garbage can can it Slants this way and you would hit this clip
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and open it up? Well, he's on the opposite side,
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the high side and he opens it up.
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Bad advertising. It's not really bear proof.
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He's getting the trash out and eating it.
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So she says it rose up in my spirit.
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Well, if I have dominion over fish and birds, I should have
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dominion over bears. Now, it doesn't mention bears
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but it talks about cattle right over every creeping thing that
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creeps on the earth, people say, what is insects.
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Well, you know, bears are pretty creepy when they come up at nine
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stand up. It's pretty creepy.
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They are still animals of the earth that man had the mean,
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overall the so she said in the name of Jesus, I have dominion
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over this, you know, campsite and you have no Authority.
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I need to come back here as long as I'm here and she never saw
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the bear again. The rest of the time they were
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there. Now, if she was only thinking,
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Jesus is good for going to heaven, then the only hope she
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could have it to campsite is if he eats me.
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At least, I get to go to heaven. Right.
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Honey. Now, I lay me down to sleep.
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And we all know that prayer. Now, I lay me down to sleep.
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I pray, the Lord, my soul to keep if I die kill that bear
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eats us before I wake. People pray this right.
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Let's go. They don't know what they've
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received, they don't know. The real purpose of the Bible,
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they don't know the real reason, why Jesus, came, why he was born
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and why we're celebrating this thing called Christmas.
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Why all of a sudden we make a national holiday about someone
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that most of us at this point, at least, most of the world even
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in the United States don't even acknowledge.
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Because Santa Claus will be mentioned more than Jesus this
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season. Hallelujah.
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Okay. Well, it goes on and says this
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and Luke 2:10-11 it says, but the angel of the Lord said, do
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not be afraid for behold. I bring you good news of great
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joy, which will be for all the people for today in the city of
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David. There has been born for you, a
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savior who is, who is Christ the lord.
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Now this is a message to the Shepherds who are watching their
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flock by night and the most miss it, because they don't
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understand Christ. He's telling them today, notice
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the markers here that his focus is, we got great news because in
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the city of David now, everybody in Israel knew who David is,
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he's the great king and they know that King David is going to
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have an heir. Who's going to eventually show
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up and be king of the kingdom and redeem all of Israel.
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And they're believing this on an ash, a natural scale.
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Okay, says, he'd been born a savior meaning the king.
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Thus, the saving King has come. How do we know we're talk about
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of saving key because he says, who is Christ?
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Christ is the Greek equivalent to the Hebrew word Messiah and
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the, the Israelite people only know, Messiah as the coming
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King, who will establish his kingdom and they'll be no end to
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it. So when he says to the
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Shepherds, the King has been born.
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In the city of David. He's Lord, supreme authority.
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He's in the planet. This is why they would leave
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their flock. And go looking for him.
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And when they got there, they bow down.
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And when they were laying the Mary, this is the king.
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So this is the king. So this is the king.
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So this is the king. So this is the king.
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So this is the king, the very beginning of Jesus birth is
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centered around his kingship Jesus himself knows this about
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his kingship. Look what he tells pilot who's
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governor before he's crucified. It says, it's in John 18:37.
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Therefore pilate said to him, you are the you are so you are
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king and Jesus answered, you say correctly, that I am a king.
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Now he wasn't wearing a robe and a crown although he eventually
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wardrobe in a crowd A different role than a different crowd.
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Now, I was a nice robe that they put on him to mocking, okay, the
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crown wasn't nice. But he does have a crown.
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It's a nice one, and he has a robe and it fills the temple.
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Oh my goodness, he said for you say correctly.
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I'm a king for this. I have been born.
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No, I know that Bible scholars, you know, and Christians are
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quick, then go. Well, the Bible tells them first
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John, you know, I was born to destroy the works of the devil.
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Well, what's the worst of the devil?
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Disobedience to God. So he's come to destroy the
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life, we lived, which was people opposed to God.
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Full of sin are disobedient to God.
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He destroyed that work so that it did not it.
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No longer had dominion over us, but that we could become a child
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of God and have the ability to Now obey.
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God by the Holy Spirit, and be led by the spirit proving on
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planet Earth, that we are children of God and that we can
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rein in this life. Like I said, rain in this life
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and that sin would never have dominion over our lives, ever
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again. So Jesus is right when he says,
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I came for this purpose because the devil has an authority that
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he received from Adam because I've already been tempted to get
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it his way. He said, I'll give you all these
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kingdoms, all this domain in a moment of time, if you'll just
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do one thing and it wasn't singing Bow Down and Worship.
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Do what I say. I'll let you reign in this realm
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because the men of Jesus would have done that.
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Then you understand? The devil would have went
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straight to the Father in heaven and say aye, that's my throne.
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I want to hear that, but Jesus knows about the first Adam.
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He's read about him and he says I'm not going to make that
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mistake. In fact, what you don't know is
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I'm going to take it back. We'll take it all back and I'm
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gonna eliminate you from this realm as well.
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And I'm gonna throw you in prison.
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I'm gonna put you in the Lake of Fire and you'll be there
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forever. Are you hearing me?
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So he says, for this for this, I have, was I have been born.
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I've come into the world to testify to the truth.
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You understand, Jesus came into the world, to establish the
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kingship. Up of man again.
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In the realm of the Earth because he has kingship in
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heaven. God does Jesus comes to
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establish the kingship of man? Again in the earth, rulership?
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So, with that being said, how does this work for us to
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understand our lives? Peril, I'll Jesus.
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What do I mean by that? God spoke about Jesus before he
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was born. Then when he was born, all Jesus
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had to do was obey the father's voice to accomplish.
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So when he began in the earth, through the virgin woman, he's
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born, which again, we understand just for the sake of going ahead
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and say in it, you know, we know it's not actually December the
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25th. It was a whole nother time
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frame. A lot of people believe it's
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around more around the month of April, but the reality is, it's
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just the day, we celebrate. Great, his birth.
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Okay. Okay, the point is is the day he
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came in. He was born to finish the
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assignment but his finishing, the assignment gave you the
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right to be born two finishers. He him being born to finish his
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assignment. Didn't just allow you to be
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reborn. He was born so that we could
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finish. I said, so the we could finish,
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we could do all that. God has destined us to do.
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So, let's see what it says here in.
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Jeremiah. How do we model?
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Look with this says, before I formed you in the womb, I knew
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you. Now this is not Jesus, this is
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about Jeremiah he said before. And before you were born I
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consecrated you. And appointed you a prophet to
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the nation's, well as Jeremiah, the only one that God knew about
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before he came out. No, let's give some others.
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He actually told Rebecca or Rachel Isaac's wife, who was
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that? Rachel Isaac had, was it?
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Rachel Rebecca, thank you. I knew was our lady.
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Okay, so Rebecca has some twins. but once he say, you got two
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Nations inside you struggling for David came out And on more
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than one occasion, the Lord spoke to some women and said how
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the order of those children would function.
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In fact, even Jacob in prophesying over Joseph's, boys
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who were out of the womb, but, yeah, we're still just boys said
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and when he went to go bless them instead of blessing, the
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firstborn as they normally do with a double portion and then
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the younger he crossed hands and just like howay, you got it.
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Wrong dad, this one's the when he said, I know some, but the
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younger is going to be greater how did he knew know that Bob
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the spirit? By the spirit.
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So we know then by just some of those examples alone that God
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knows what's going on in our lives before our lives come but
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just so we can get everybody in context and we won't say, well,
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that's really just those people turn over to I Psalms 139.
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Psalms 139 verses 13 to 16 to pass.
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In Translation, says that this way you form my innermost being
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shaping, my delicate insides, my intricate outsides, and wove
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them all together in my mother's womb.
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I thank you, God, for making me so mysteriously, complex.
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Everything you do is marvelous breathtaking.
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It amazes me to think about it. How thoroughly, you know, me,
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Lord. And that's in the womb.
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You even formed every bone in my body and you created me in the
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secret place carefully skillfully shaping me from
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nothing to something. Save our nation would just read
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this. We wouldn't have, we would have
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no conversation about abortion anymore.
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Call science is not the final Authority science will lie to
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you. Before you even in the womb, I
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know you well how he knows the person before they even there.
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So the minute something starts to form in the womb, it's a
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housing mechanism. All right, he says this, you saw
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who you created me to be before I became me before, I even seen
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the light of day, and the number of days you plan for me, you
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already recorded in your book. You know, that tells us that's
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house that everybody in this room and everybody hear my voice
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right now. When they go on YouTube and
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listen to this message, they've God before he even made it to
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your mother's womb, had your name in a book and had your
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destiny. And says, this is my plan for
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them. Now, once you're born, it
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becomes your responsibility to discover it.
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And get yourself an alignment with his page because you're
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writing your own book right now, because he's recording
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everything and when judgment comes even to the Saints.
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Now what's not judgment to cast you into the Lake of Fire.
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You're free from that but it is Judgment.
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Nonetheless, to determine are you the workmen?
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Are you the workmanship that he created you in Christ to be?
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Are you doing the plan and purpose?
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He said for you to do, Because he's going to match up the
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pages. He gonna run through the
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chapters and he's going to determine because here's the
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cool thing. The same person who wrote that
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book before I got in my mom's womb is the Same Spirit.
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That's helping me write the book today so I can node without a
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doubt that I'm exactly getting the chapters right now.
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Here's the thing, all of us are going to have some chapters that
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are outside of that plan. Why?
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Because we all sinned and fall short of the glory of God.
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But at the end of the day, when we make Jesus, the Lord we can
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get on track and we can begin to produce the results.
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And let me just tell you how hard is it to know?
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The will of God. It's not It's not.
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It's not hard. Well, not pass.
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That's easy for you, you know? Well, how did I know how?
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Did I know how did I know any different than you?
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I mean I'm hearing the Lord just like you're having a here
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navigate just like you're having navigate now he might have
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called me to the ministry of particular way that he didn't
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talk to you about your purpose. But the reality is for me to be
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where I'm at right now. He didn't open up heaven, and
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show me Visions to see myself here.
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All he did was speak to me and say go to st.
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Augustine. So I followed the voice I mean I
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was doing Ministry somewhere else.
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Why did I show up here? Cause a voice told me and the
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voice was the Holy Ghost and he led me now, I've gone through
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some things while I'm here that I didn't imagine.
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But he's working it and he's working me.
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And I'm being perfected and I'm maturing and I'm becoming
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Because he knows us all. And he's a redeemer of time.
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Let me just say this. The Bible says here, it can
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redeem the time. So don't let anybody tell you
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that once Tom's gone, it's gone. That's actually not true
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statement. He can redeem even the Tom Which
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means the last chapter of my life could be his whole book.
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But it's the same requirement that I obey.
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See many of them are many Believers right now aren't even
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trying to fulfill God's plan because they think it's too
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late. I've lost too much time.
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He redeems you're talking about the God outside of time.
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I mean, seriously outside of time.
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He's outside of time. But if you love him with all
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your heart, all your mind, all your soul and all the street,
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I'ma tell you, this for you to potentially get all that he ever
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destined for you to do, you're going to have to have some
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really self-abandonment because the people who struggle with
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knowing what God wants for their lives.
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Let me tell you. The number one reason why they
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struggle, I'll give it to you. The number one reason they have
-
selfish ambitions. You can't hear as long as you
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want to do you. You can't hear.
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You can't hear as long as you keep seeing you do something.
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And God has an authorized it or even authorized it that way.
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You're not going to get in and it's not because God's not
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talking because you're like, yeah, but I don't really want
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to. I mean, I know a minister
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graduated from the same Bible College.
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I graduated from was in a, it was in a, the church that I
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youth pastor that. I mean, it was a Bible teaching
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Word of Faith, phenomenal, teacher line upon line, precept,
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upon precept. I mean, this guy was getting
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phenomenal teaching. Went through their Bible school
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then went to Rhema graduate. In fact, before he went to Rome,
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I said, listen when you get there there's gonna be a lot of
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stuff that you will have already known.
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Because you've been in this church here in the truths about
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faith and the authority of the believer and healing and all
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kinds of stuff, you're going to learn me.
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What you got to, you got to find the Nuggets now, because there's
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going to be some remembering, some are some things that are
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common to your mindset and you already know it.
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You just go ahead and press deeper to get something a
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little, a little more. That instructor deliver
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something beyond what you already know.
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Because you've learned here, well, they graduated.
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They believe they were called to Ministry, had a wife and a child
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and all of a sudden, you know, thought they were going to
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pasture believe that God wanted them to pasture.
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Well, a pastor down in the southern part of Oklahoma was
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having ministers, come to them and saying, our churches are
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dying in these rural communities, will you help us?
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He had an anointing Apostolic, really, to be able to have them
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totally hand, over the whole Ministries.
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I mean, the assets, the property everything.
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Because again, if you want me to resurrect it, then I have to be
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able to want be the one that the Lord is giving the plan to, and
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I have to have the authority to operate the plan, and they were
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doing it, and he was being successful, but he needed
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pastors to be able to Go in those locations and ultimately
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Pastor, those churches underneath his oversight.
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This guy was given an opportunity to be a pastor in a
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particular community. So, he went to interview Came
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back. That's so what do you think,
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man? You going it's just exciting.
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and this is what they said, well, You know, they're not
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offering insurance for my child. Insurance.
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Yeah, they're just not you know and able to do that.
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I said so. so, I mean God, take care of your child.
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You already know about healing. What's the problem?
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They had a selfish ambition of how something should be
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accomplished by God, instead of stepping out and trusting God to
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me, I realize more and more. That, that element obviously
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couldn't be a part of their call because they had too much
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dependency on natural things and God was calling it.
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Because again, if you go to Pastor a church, you better get
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rid of natural told, you know, being able to depend on just
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natural thing. I'm not saying we don't have
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them. I'm just saying I'm not
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dependent on it. I remember one, I'll come back
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to this. I remember one person, you know,
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talked about my family because like now they don't even provide
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insurance for their kids. Like we were bad parents.
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Well, they ain't never been to the doctor.
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We don't go to the hospital and when we've had to cause my son
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broke his collarbone and football once we pay for it.
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What's the problem? They had a fever, we rebuked it.
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What's the problem? They barely got sick.
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So we're bad parents cause we don't have insurance.
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No, I have the greatest Insurance called the blood I
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have faith in the blood. The blood is more powerful.
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I mean, I could have people stand up right now that have
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faith in the blood and in the finished work of Jesus and ever
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get more results with the word as medicine.
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Daily than anything they could have ever done in the natural
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period. Now, I'm not against doctors, I
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But if you don't need them, what's the problem?
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What's the problem? Anyway, he didn't go.
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And in turn divorced his wife. Started running around with
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other women. In and out of church,
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constantly. I'm not sure if he's in today, I
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have to check in with another Pastor.
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Find out even where he's at. And why is that?
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Because he had a selfish way of doing God.
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Can't wait till January 1st. I just had a just had to
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restrain myself. I was fixing to do another
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example, but the Lord said that's January 1st.
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I said, okay, I'll quit, are you hear me?
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God knows you as a plan for you. And you can accomplish it.
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The only reason why people do not accomplish God's plan for
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the lives of big. Number one reason is because
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they want to do it their way. They want people to recognize
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them their way. They want to get in that
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position their way they get offended when people don't see
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it their way. Let me tell you where I'm at.
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I'm still today trying to run down a minister in Virginia.
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Virginia. Because my, my wife and I
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graduated from Bible School, okay?
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And I came to Gainesville to start a church.
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The Lord says you're not ready. And so I he said, you need go
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get on staff, there was a staff. I was going to get on but
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unfortunately, somebody didn't leave.
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So the Lord says, well, they won't do what I say.
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So you're going to go somewhere else so the Lord's moving me
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somewhere else. Well, there was a particular
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pastor and Virginia Virginia Beach actually around the
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Virginia Beach area that I put in for to go be this youth
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pastor and he called me on the phone.
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He says, man, everything about you on paper is exactly what I
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want. He said this to me everything,
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he said, but for some reason, the Lord will not let me hire
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you. You know, that was pretty
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disappointing. Beyonce.
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I was like, I'm disappointed right now, right?
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I'm like, what's the problem? The Lord.
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But at the end of day, I can't argue with that.
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And the Lord actually a, probably a week later where I
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went opened up, and when I heard it, I'm like, I'm going there.
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I knew it by the spirit, I'm going and I did Just recently, I
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thought I need to find them and give them an offering and thank
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them for obeying the Lord for not hiring me.
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Yeah, so actually had the RMA office, helping me.
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Try to run this person down Trying to find them because I
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want to say I called you you didn't let me come you heard God
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right? I want to bless you.
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Why? Because, you know, I'm not mad
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at you. It wasn't your way.
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It was God's way for me to become who I am.
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He is not there to help my happiness.
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It's not his job to fulfill my dream.
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So we all need to come to this realization, as we reflect on
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the birth of Jesus, my king came and he finished the assignment.
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I'll be like my king. I'm going to finish my
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assignment May, every Christmas Propel you to say I'm going to
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finish. Instead of just looking at the
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birth of Jesus see that the birth finish something and that
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finishing gave you an opportunity to finish your
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without excuse now, to not finish your course, and again,
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the majority of you are never never going to be called to
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fivefold Ministry. So that's not your purpose.
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Your purpose is, whatever it is in, whatever sector of society.
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You need to move towards continue to do and as crazy as
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it may sound. Who cares?
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Trust God? You are created for this time to
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be that influence in that realm, in that Sphere, for whatever
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time period. Some of you may be doing
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something as an employee today. But ultimately, you going to run
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a global company, you got to be daring enough to believe the
-
impossible and take the steps to get to that place because
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whatever God calls us to do is really not impossible.
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It's possible with him. We just have to believe, amen.
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That's why I'm convinced I in this church.
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There has to be Gus City commissioners County,
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Commissioner? I even believe there will be
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state representatives in this church because they'll call
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Anchor Faith Church their home. Even though they have to go to
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Tallahassee, I even believe that us Congressman will be
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associated with anchor Faith Church, even though they'll be
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in Washington, they'll call this place their home because they
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represent this County. I believe that.
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Why? Because none of that is more
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important than what my king does, and they need to have what
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we have. I believe that there are people
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that haven't even started businesses that God wants to
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bring such creative ideas through you.
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That it will help fund all kinds of missions.
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But you got to dare to believe your existence is not just to
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take care of your home address. And if you don't see this
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through your pastor, who's definitely living beyond his
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home address and God is not a respecter of person and why
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can't I live this way? Because King Jesus live this
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way, he did not come for himself to die for himself to live for
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himself to get a blessing for himself, he came for you.
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So all of our purposes for us to finish, our course has to be
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bigger than our own household and the gifts.
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We bring got to be bigger than just our own family but it's got
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to be a gift to the world and at the end of our Lives, we going
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to talk like Paul in second Timothy 4:7.
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He said, I fought the good fight.
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I finished the course. Now how does he know he
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finished? The course if he didn't know
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what the course was. All of us can say, I fought the
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good fight, all this. Well, I fought the fight of
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Faith and Healing and beat cancer.
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I fought the fight. You know?
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When we didn't have any money that we have money, anybody can
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say that. But have you finished the
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course, The course is why you were apprehended in the first
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place. Paul said in Philippians chapter
Philippians 3 chapter mention
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3, he said I I am only trying to apprehend that which I was
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apprehended. If you'll go ahead and get big
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with your lives, right out the gate, say there's some about my
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life, that's bigger than my home address.
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I must discover it now it originated out of your house
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because your house is a training ground because if you can't do
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the house right? You're not going to do the
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world, right? But, the reason why you're
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training at the house is so you can do something for the world.
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In order to finish the course, you're going to have to apply,
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you got to be in a beat pressure.
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Because when pressure and stress comes, if you can't handle it,
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that tells us she'll capacity. Now, I'm not telling you that
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everybody's Global because not everybody's Global in the
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context that you're going to be a CEO of a Fortune 500 company.
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That's not the Pinnacle. Anyway, it's really relevant.
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What's relevant is that your influence?
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Has to go beyond your household and affect other people's lives.
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And I can't tell you how many lives that is, but it must
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affect it. Polly.
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Would you stand? Yes, I met with her the other
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day because this woman right here, God is doing some amazing
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things in Cyprus and Italy. She's in your church here in the
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same message as your hearing. And God has connected her back
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from to the cuts to some countries.
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She has been in and she's ministering a message that she
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hears from her pastor. Call the kingdom and Revival is
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starting to take place and we haven't even showed up yet.
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But she told me pastor. One of her acquaintances could
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be family member, I can't remember but in Greece and
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Crete. Actually, she gave her the
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forest. And after she read it of her own
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initiative, she said I must translate this in the Greek
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language and get it out. Now when the Lord told me to
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write the forest, I said, Lord, dr.
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Myles Monroe has written a book on the kingdom.
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It is so good. Why am I writing a book on the
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kingdom? It's like kind of silly and the
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Lord says, because I'll get your material to places, his won't go
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yours was destined for places that his is not.
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So, I just obeyed and now without my knowledge.
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This woman, who's the vision partner of this church and is
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passionate about the kingdom in her sphere of influence Beyond
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her home address. It's touching other people's
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lives and then Distributing the message.
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She's being impacted with because it's not about a name,
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it's about a message. And they're hearing the message
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and they're saying, we have to get this in our language and
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when I heard, I thought I can help them so they don't have to
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translate from a hard copy. We can give them electronic copy
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and to be easier and we're going to do that.
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Thank you can be seated. There are so many things
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happening right now. Because God wants to expand us
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and this Christmas season. You've got to catch it even
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bigger than before, that this church called anchor.
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Faith Church is destined by God before we even showed up.
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To profoundly impact the planet. We're going to finish that
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course. I said we're going to finish
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that course. Jesus said this in Revelation is
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22, I got two references and will be closed and it's both of
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them are in Revelations, will first go and Revelations. 22
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starting in verse 12, verse 13 just to reiterate.
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Jesus said, behold I am coming quickly and my reward is with me
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to render to every man. To render to every man.
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You just because he called me Lord.
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To render to every man who called all my name to be saved.
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The reward does not come just because you accepted Jesus as
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your savior. My reward is coming with me said
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to render to every man, according to what he has done,
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not what he thought about doing not what he wished, he could do.
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Not what he was hoping would take place because God is in
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control. No, but what he's done.
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And the only thing I'm doing is what he tells me to do, which
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then empowers me to do it. The grace activates and happens.
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Faith causes it to come to pass and God will say that happened
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in your life because you believed He said, I am the Alpha
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and the Omega the first and the last, the beginning, and the
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end. He was born to finish so that we
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could finish. Will close where a revelation is
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21. Verses 5 to 7.
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Is he coming? I said, is he coming?
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Is he coming? Does he have your reward?
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I said does he have your reward? If you're a doer he does Glory
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to God. Amen!
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This thing with Jesus, so powerful, I'm so glad we've got
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past the man. Be paying me sissy.
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No Purpose Driven, message that where you going to go when you
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die. And then we're running around
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trying to do our own junk. Not even knowing whether we
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doing something great or not, yet God, before we end my
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mother's womb, new us had Destiny for us, had greatness
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for us and it's talking to us how to accomplish it and all we
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have to do is believe and then he's got a reward because we do
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it. He says he who sits on the phone
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says behold I'm making all things new and he said write for
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these words are faithful and true then he said to me, it is
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done. I am the Alpha and the Omega,
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the beginning and the end, I will give to the one who thirsts
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from the spring of the Water of Life without cost, he who
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overcomes will inherit these things and I will be his God and
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he will be my son. I'm glad I'm an overcomer
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because I hear the king speak to me, and I hear what he says by
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faith because he's the author of my faith.
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I hear that word. I believe that word I stand on
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that word, then he brings that word to pass.
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I rejoice when it comes to pass and I listen for the next word
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and I listen for the next word. And I listen for the next word
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and I go from Faith to Faith, glory to glory and anchor.
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Faith Church goes from Faith to Faith, glory to glory.
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And we keep Branding and we keep touching and we keep growing and
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we keep impacting, we keep influencing we keep igniting.
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We're Unstoppable. Because our purpose is just that
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great. What an exciting life.
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We live by faith. Amen.
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So we think about a child wrapped in swaddling clothes
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lying in a Manger. His beginning met, we could
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finish. And finish my rainy.
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