Sermon
Divine Appointments - Bro Jamie Ellington 10-22-2023
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This opportunity this today, be thought of this what I bills are great and
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great, a great opportunity to show our pastors that we appreciate him. And
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I might get I might get mixed up here and say all this bear with
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me. But I feel like I think the first time we ever come here,
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you were having pastor appreciation. And then not long after that, my
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daughter and Jeremiah was getting married, Brother Jeremiah, and uh, here we
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are and mad time gets away, is it? There was a year between
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so three two years ago we were here and now we got a little grand
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baby and uh son in law and and and a church family in South Florida,
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and uh, it's amazing how things turn out. And but I appreciate
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this opportunity to be a part of this day. And I haven't known brother
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how too long. I did me many years ago we talked a little while,
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and of course I did feel a good, kindred spirit there and and
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uh but then I don't know that to see him until I think maybe will
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be come for that. We weren't coming for past appreciation. We was coming
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because my daughter had a sweetheart up here, down here, down here,
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and uh so but it's kind of it's kind of neat how that we're here
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on this pastor appreciation And I was thinking this, brother, how I feel
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like probably your church has set the gold standard of how to end up the
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past appreciation. H Man, it's sacking to none. What y'all do,
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your your pastor and pastor's wife is is sacking to none. So y'all,
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y'all got the gold standard of pastor Appreciation Day, and so I commend you
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for that. And just it's encouraging to see a church behind their pastor.
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And that's what's about, you know. The A little song says, when
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we all pull together, Amen, working together. Amen. Your load is
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my load, My load is God's load. Amen. We all pull together.
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And that's the way it's supposed to be. This ain't what I'm preaching
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tonight, but I thought about, and I'm i preaching one day, but
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I thought about old Indian how that he was a God called man in a
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time when Israel was in trouble. But then not only was there a God
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called Man, there was a group of people that were God called three hundred
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in number. And when you put a God called man and that God called
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people together, there's gonna be God giving victory every same time. And I
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tell you it's encouraging. It's encouraging to see to see what the Lord's doing
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for y'all. And uh, just it's always a pleasure to come to the
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church here and being the services and looking forward to so many years of good
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fellowship. And I even told Pastor Al today, I said, you know,
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the Lord works it out. Maybe one day we'll get to you know,
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buys a house where when we come, we got somewhere to stay,
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and we stayed a while we did. Now I'll pull my brother chip roy
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on you amen. But uh and he said, brother, I think that's
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gonna work out. That's pretty good about that. I've been thinking about that
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singing's brother. But cruse a pastor Hall and first lady, how this this
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either? I know there's been a lot said do, but why don't we
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stand this evening? They just give them a handclasp hair. I remember,
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I believe the Bible says to give honor where honors do. That's what we're
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trying to do. Right, If you have your Bibles this evening. I'll
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try not to be too long. And again my voice is is very very
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extraine and so I may have to slow down just a little bit, but
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in prayer, I feel like I want to move on my heart to preach
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from this text of the Book of Luke, chapter number two, Looke,
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chapter number two. When we were here the last time, just a few
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weeks ago, Brother Hal had said something and he said two things. And
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he didn't know this, but those two thoughts were on my mind when I
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come to church that morning. And the first thing that he said is he
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said something about a divine interference, and y'all might remember I preached about,
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you know, that divine interference or that divine interrupt But he also said something
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else. He said something about a divine appointment. Amen, and the Lord
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give me this message, Brother Hal, probably about five months ago, and
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those two messages was on my heart. But when but he said what he
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did, and I felt the prompting of a spirit to go that the direction
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that I went, I did not know that I would be back this quickly.
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And as I was praying about tonight's service, and I think we could
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probably incorporate pastor appreciation into this as well. But I'd like to preach to
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all of us to just try to encourage you here this evening. So I
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want to read to the Book of Luke, chapter number two, starting in
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verse number one. That is are normally what we read or the Christmas season,
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but that this text is good for any time. Luke, chapter number
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two, verse one. And it came to pass in those days that there
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went out a decree from Caesar Augustus that all the world should be taxed.
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And this taxing was first May, when Sirenius was governor of Syria, and
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all went to be taxed, everyone into his own city. Joseph also went
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up from Galilee, out of the city of Nazareth into Judea under the seay
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of David, which is called Bethlehem, because he was of the house and
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lineage of David, to be taxed. With Mary, his espoused wife,
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being great with child, and so it was that while they were there,
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the days were accomplished that she should be delivered, and she brought forth her
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first born son and wrapped him in swaddling clothes and laid him in a manger,
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because there was no room for them in the den. Amen, I
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want to preach tonight if the Lord would help me on divine appointments. If
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you would tonight, let's all go to the Lord in prayer. Open,
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Amen. Amen. I looked up that word appointment, and the dictionary defines
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it as a meeting that is set or scheduled or a specific time in a
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specific place. When I looked that up, I felt like the Lord prompted
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me to add a little bit to that this this evening, and that that
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I put in there, a meeting that is set or scheduled for a specific
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time, a specific place, and a specific purpose. Amen. Uh.
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You know, we have different appointments for different things. Doctors appointments, job
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appointments. The work that I do is service work repair work for a portable
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building company, and I have to call and advance to try to set up
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an appointment or a time to come and make repairs. And we're all familiar
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with how that works and what appointments are and and some appointments are are are
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not very important, you know. I mean, we could probably get by
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without it sometimes maybe even do better to do without it. But then there's
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some appointments that are absolutely necessary. But when it concerns the purpose and plan
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of God, his appointments are always very important. Amen. And in our
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text, I read this story and as I said up before. It's what
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we a lot of times we preached this ext in the Christmas season. But
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but in this text there is a great, a great message here. And
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the Lord, the Lord give me this. About five months ago and uh,
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and I'll just share that with you briefly. I was sitting at our
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home church McAll uh Pentecost of our Baptized Holdess Church. Most of y'all have
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been there, there's some of you at least, and uh. And a
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prior to that, we, you know, we've been praying about the will
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of God for our lives and exactly what he wanted us to do and where
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he wanted us to be. And a door had opened up and we had
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administered at a place, and brother, how it looked like possibly this would
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be what God would want us to do. And uh, and I prayed
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and tried to earnestly pray about that. My wife did as well, and
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it just seemed like as fast as that that are open. Of course,
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we went to this place a couple of times and was feeling after it,
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and some things happened took place, and I'm not gonna get into all that,
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but the door closed, and what I prayed I told my wife,
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I said, I'm praying God. If this ain't what I need to do,
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shut the doors as much, brother, oad campus, I would have
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loved to have done that. It was a great opportunity. But I tell
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you, I'm serious what I'm saying right here. I don't want to waste
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God's time. Ain't. And if it ain't what God wants me to do,
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I don't. I don't want to do it. It may look good,
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it may look appealing, it may look attractive, but it ain't ain't
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the will of God. I don't want it, Amen. And I'm telling
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you, I mean it looked like at one instant it looked like this thing's
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gonna happen. And all of a sudden the door shut. Amen. And
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so I'm sitting in church that following Sunday morning, and the devil's working on
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my mind. Oh you're all lost up, you're done for. I mean,
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looking there at the door closed, I know that was the devil because
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I knew what I had prayed. Amen. But to dinner it was more.
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It gets my mind. Then, And as our Sunday school teacher was
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teaching, and he asked us to turn over to a scripture and in turning
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over to a scripture, I had wrote something down on a piece of paper,
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and I in my Bible, my other Bible, and it was right
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there in Luke chapter two. And when I did, the paper you know,
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fell out, and I picked it up and I looked at it,
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and it was something that I felt like God had spoken to my heart about
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some time prior to that. And on that piece of paper it said,
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I wrote this down. God knows how to get you there. I wrote
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that down during service. The thought come to me. And you know how
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those preachers are, or you write stuff down, amen, especially when you're
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my age, you forget, so you got to write it down. But
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I forgot about it. And I believe it was God. He was a
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divine employment that morning. Really, I read that and and I had that
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text wrote down. God knows how to get you there. And I tried
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to pay attention to Sunday school teacher, but I felt like at that moment
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the Holy Doos said, read that, and so I did. And God
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begin to talk to me. Amen. God began to speak to my heart
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a personal message. Amen. And this is what he gave to me that
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that day. Uh. And our text I read to you and verse number
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one. And it came to pass in those days. Now remember my definition,
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it is a meeting set or scheduled for a specific time. It came
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to past in those days. It wasn't just happenstance, but it was divine
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appointment that at that time something was to take place. And I thought about
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that as like you to study this afterwards, had really died into it as
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deep as I possibly could. I thought about something that I never thought about.
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That is, you know, God is eternal. With him, is
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no beginning of days. With him, is no ending of days. He's
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not restrained by time limits. He is eternal in man. But the God
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of eternity, in the Book of Genesis, chapter one, verse number fourteen,
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ordained time and seasons. He established times and seasons verse fourteen. And
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God said, let there be lights in the firmament of the heaven, to
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divide the day from the night, and let them be for signs and for
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seasons, and for days and four years. Of course, we understand that
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the year is broken up. In the fourth seasons. We had that spring
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time of the year, which is a time of new life. Amen,
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then we have the summer months and that is the time of harvest and the
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time of increase. Then the fall of the year when there's declining and the
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leaves start to turn. How many like to go through the Blue Ridge Mountains
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when the leaves are turning, and you know, I don't know if y'all
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have leaves turning down here an way they will go to turning, especially when
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you get up towards the mountain, as you'll begin to see the beautiful colors.
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That they're beautiful, but really it's a sign of death and decay.
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And then of course there is the winter months of the year, which is
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a time of both death and and really our life is broken up into four
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seasons. There is that springtime, that time of new life and and and
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new birth and vitality. And then there's that summer time, the you know,
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the pride of life. Amen, And then there's the fall of the
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year. That that time, And I feel like that's kind of where I
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am right now. I'm in the fall of the year. Sometimes I feel
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that way. Sometimes I feel pretty young. Amen, I'm starting to feel
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some of that. Only most of us. I just need to lose somebody
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fat and I am getting over. Amen. We f two years old,
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next year, fifteen years old. Amen, I used to think that was
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all. But our life can be divided up into seasons. God ordained seasons,
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he said in the Book of Ecclesiastes a chapter three, to everything,
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there's a season and a time to every purpose under the heaven. He talked
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about a time to be born and time to die, time to plant,
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time to pluck up that which is plannet him has a big long list,
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and some of it has a positive idea, and then some of it has
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a negative idea. And God is saying life, sometimes there's seasons some of
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good things, and then sometimes there's season some of things that don't seem so
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good. Amen, don't pray for me to nine, I don't have much.
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Fore, God ordained seasons. God or day time in seasons, and
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in our text it was a specific time on God's time clock. There was
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something God had in store for the world, or something that was going to
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be light changing, something that was gonna be world changing a man a specific
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time. And then when you read on down now look at this. He
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said that all the world should be taxed during this time. He talks about
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a taxing. Now, how many likes tax season. Now, if you
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don't make a whole lot of money and you got kids, Amen, I
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heard of Amen. Or tax season can be a joyous time and the right
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with that. But when you amen, there's there's more than one reason why
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you're don't want to have to let go of your children. Oh you ain't
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got dependency, my mama, youngest boy, that this was the last year
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we could use him as an opinion. What am I gonna do next year?
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Amen? But it was a time of taxing. Taxing is not something
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that we look forward to. Taxing is not something that we get happy about.
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Amen. But it was a time of taxing. Hey, man,
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it was during a time of taxing. God Amen, ordained a specific time.
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And the Bible reads like this, that Caesar Augustus made a decree that
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all the world shut me taxed a man, and that God ordained taxes.
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I don't know, but but God orchestrated a plan, Amn. And it's
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specific time because he had a purpose and he had a plan and he had
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a timy for that plan. And sometimes church, that's not the good stuff,
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and that sometimes it's not the sweet, but it's another moments. It's
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not all my colities. It's the time of herd and wounds and disappointments.
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You left up that word times. It literally means weirdingly birds. That's what
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it means. It was during a time of great bird. And I don't
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know where you are tonight. You may be at a time in your life
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where life is hard and life is difficult, Amen, and then it's you
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know, and you have to push yourself and you have to make yourself.
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I know. I mean, I'm I've got a great church here and looks
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like everybody's excited about what God's doing. But I also know there's times when
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you're not here. You're you're dealing with stuff, and you're dealing with problems
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and unanswered questions and you don't know what to do about it, and like
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it comes Taxinger. I said, life becomes Taxinger. I know sometimes and
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that's like Pastor all comes in and he's got everything under control, they man,
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and he's just kind of figured out. But I guarantee you there's times
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a pastor in first Lady, they man are weeping and crying, Oh God,
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we neeeds you, Oh God, hel to help a fun Only you
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can't give a man. Sometimes life is tax singer, but it might be
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God's me. I'm getting you well, you need a fav Sometimes the season
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of clothes doors, God is saying, it's Simon, it's time. Amen.
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I've got a place. I've got a specific time. But before you
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ever be able to find what I got for your life, I've got to
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interrupt your plane. Amen. Amen, come on. Sometimes it don't even
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make sense. But God, it was going so good. I'm gonna try
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not appreciate your long business. It was during a time of taxing, and
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during this taxes it was made. The decree was made that wherever you're from
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the land of your nativity, you are to return because God's got a specific
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time. God's got a specific place. Amen. And this is where all
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we incorporate pastor appreciation. Amen. In our text, we meet about a
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man named Joseph, a godly man, just man. Amen of God.
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God, you look about life this, Amen. God trusted Joseph to raise
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his son, Amen, and didn't marry you. They found favor with God,
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and God trusted her and trusted her to be the woman that would bring
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Jesus into the world. A man a color, He's specific time and a
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specific place. And as she mad the sea and a man that God had,
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a man and a woman that had a burden nothing for the work of
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God and the Lord to getting here they did easy. I said, the
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Lord, to get here, they did easy. They were willing to make
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that journey. I said that we're willing to make that journey. I'm half
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away from it and said they're having to worry right future, I mean God
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ahead of time. And God had a place Chelsea twenty years ago? Was
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that right? Twenty years ago? Godhead a time? Twenty years ago,
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God had a place called the Bell, Florida. Amen. Oh yes,
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And you study this, you'll find out that Nazaretha was about ninety miles from
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Bethlehem. And not only that, but the Biba sitt and Mary was great
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with child. She was at the point of delivering that baby. It just
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don't make sense. I had to make a trim at a time like that
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and don't make sence. Oh that's going to walk ninety miles. Amen,
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brother, when your wife is about to have a baby. But I'm gonna
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say it again. God's got a time, Gods a place and gown.
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Say what us there? A man? Always have my voice to the I
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will send the steps of a good manner, ordered by the Lord, and
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he delighted in his way. Man, and though he fall, he shall
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not be utterly cast down, for the Lord upholdeth him with his hand.
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Hey man, sometimes we stumble underneath the load. But he said, he
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shall not be utterly cast down, for the Lord upholdeth him with his hand.
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And David said, I've been young, now I'm old. Yet him
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not seen the righteous forsake ignor seed begging bread. I read it Psalms eighty
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four. That song they would sing when they would go to Jerusalem for the
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celebration of the different feasts, and it talked about those that lived in Jerusalem,
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and even the swallow has found a place for her young, even dye
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altars, and talked about blesseders lay that can just stay right there lives.
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But most of them had to make a pilgrimage from where they live to Jerusalem
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to celebrate those wonderful celebrations in the Bible sent In the course of this journey,
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they would pass through the valley of Bacca. You don't know what that
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means, to sleep in the valley of weeping. There has been countless nights,
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probably pastor, A man, you your wife and fell asleep while you're
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way up over Haymen, the burdens along the way, not in them,
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but anybody and everybody in this church that ever came in telling me what God's
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wants you to be. Amen, man, time to get went through the
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valley of Bacca. But I like what it's said. They go from straight
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to straight, they keep pressing, they keep placinda live. I toss,
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God's got a time, and God's got a place. You may excuse me,
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Jerusalem was the place. Jerusalem was the place divine appointments. And then
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it says, and so it was. Now, I don't believe that any
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wording in the scriptures, even in the translation into the King James version,
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Brother Samuel, this is irrelevant. I believe it was God ordained. And
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I read that that day. I read that, and I made a middal
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look for the house. I've read that in description before, and so it
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was or something similar to that, And so it was. And I feel
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like the Lord brought me back to Genesis chapter one, when the Bible says
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in creation and God said, and it was amen, Amen, God said,
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and it was Sometimes I don't look, I can make sense. Sometimes
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it looks like it. And I'm not saying this disrespectful, but in our
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minds, we're wondering, God, do you really know what you're doing here?
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Do you really understand what I said? God, it's just don't work.
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Miss. I don't feel right to me and just don't look right to
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me. But I'm telling you everything that was happening, none of those ordained
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by Amen, the omnipotent sovereign God. He so stated, they man,
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yes, Sir, Amen, in Cho's Mary and Josepha, and so it
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was, God said, and it was. So it's parted a little bit
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different, but it's really the same, Amen, God or day that he
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by the errand and it why so? And so it was my bespous him
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as you made this. It don't make sense. So you made this according
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to human nature. Amen, it's just it's just out of place. But
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God had a plan, I said, God plan, my God, a
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purpose. And so it was while they were there, Amen, specific place,
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the days were accomplished that she should be delivered a specific time. And
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I like that word accomplished Heaven. It means it means to bring to its
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goal or conclusion, to carry out to perform, to finish, Oh,
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to the church, if we'll just let God have his way. God knows
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what he is doing. I said, God knows what he is doing.
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And it don't make sense to me. Amen, his ways are hard than
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my ways, as a hemorab the Areth so far by or his ways than
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mine. Man. And so it was they man that while they were there,
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the days were accomplished, that seas and the delivered. And here he
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is that specific purpose. And she broad forth her first forth son, she
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broad for Jesus. I want to tell you to church, that's all.
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Everything's all about everything that we do. A man's about bringing for Jesus came
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and God by the man and a woman and his princess family. Tell Aboul
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Florida, a man the brave funs he's talking and did not know him.
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And I tell you, Amy, way that hurts, maybe, way that
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don't make sense. Ain't it worth it up? When somebody here that's had
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a curse to change us come come. It was specifically for that reason,
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God robbery and Joseph to death for him to bring forth Jesus. I told
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you already he changed the world. He may, Amen, he changed my
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world. He changed my world. He changed your world. Ain't bad?
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Yeah, in chapter five, verse two, But thou bet for him Ephrata,
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Though thou be little among the thousands of Judah, Yet out of thee
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shall he come forth under me, that is, to be ruler in Israel,
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whose goings forth have been from old from everlasting. Oh, it was
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prophesied that Jesus would be born in bad for him Judah. Thank God,
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there was a man and a woman that was willing to be where God wanted
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them to be when God wanted them to be there, ain't mad and Jesus
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was prob divine appointments. I tell you it don't matter how life, how
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hard life is, and how how severe the test may be. If Jesus
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comes out our troubles, ain't it worth going through it? Ain't Ain't it
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worth? Wasn't it worth the journey that Mary and Joseph knee. I say
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it is because they were willing. You mean you're in the house of God
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tonight. Amen fell in the presence of God, worshiping of God. That
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could have left us alone, hey man, But I can't secret, hey
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man. He came searching and looking, ay man, he came Amen into
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a world that did not walk him. Amen. And that's God's purpose tonight,
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that's God's divine purpose that Jesus would be brought forth. They mean,
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man, and in your own personal life, in your own personal struggles,
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Listen, there's gonna be times you're gonna meet people that pastor never will meet.
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Amen. With a little cabin. They come into that store, he's
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gonna beet people that comes in there that may never ever come to this church.
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Probably first up right, but when you're in the midst of a heart,
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life is making sense. But in the midst of that, you can
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bring form Jesus to them. Hey, oh, it's great, go to
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I don't go calling the thrift store or a bargain store. To go to
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a thrist store and find a bargain. But I'm telling you, when when
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you give them Jesus, they're getting a long, bigger bargain. And they
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really oh, Lord and God, I said, they're getting a locked in
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the bargain. Then they realize, oh, I don't understand a lot of
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things. I've got questions about my own life, but I do know this,
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Hey, man, when I'm shaking my head and bringing my hands and
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I don't understand, and I don't know what to do with say, I
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serve my God that's sitting on the throne, and he knows them all from
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that I can't, I said, he knows that he from the I can't.
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Hey man, And I want to be well in I said, I
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want to be well and to me at that place and when God wants me
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to be there and Comna fell that part mass and that is the brave far
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Jesus. I'm closer than night, Paul said in the Book of Philippians Philippians,
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Chapter one, I don't bear with me. I'm preaching. I have
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a new Bible on my past. Sticky Paul says to the Philippian church in
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chapter one, verse twelve. But I wouldn't should understand, reverend, and
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the things which have happened under me have fallen out rather to the furtherance gospel.
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PAULA said, Hey, God told me I was going to be a
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witness before kings. It took shipwrecked and it took a jail, saying,
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but I'm finally where God wants me to be, so I can be a
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witness to the most powerful man in the world to bring forth Jesus, my
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Caesar. What an opportunity to reform. I'm abided and I'm close. In
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the night when they were in that, when they were in that, you
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remember Paul wanted to go to Asia and and the Holy Ghost forbid. You
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wanted to go to bith Me and the spirit suffering not I talked about this
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minute time, Holy Ghost for being spirit suffering in want. In the night,
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he had a vision a man from Macedonia saying, needs your help,
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we should come down here. Paul got up early the next morning and began
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to make his way because he was company that God had called him to preach
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the gospel. He goes, there's people saved by the river. Amen,
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there's a young lady delivered from this spirit of divination. Things are going good.
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And all of a sudden, when the master this lady saw that the
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hope of their games were lost, they called Poe in silence, put them
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in a Philippian jail, beat them with many stripes, put their feet fast
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in stocks. I could hear the devil now, pastor, how you missed
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the will of God? You ever heard that? Before that? Ah,
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you missed the will of God? There were times I was where God wanted
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me to be. I second, yes, God, But I was wondering
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at this. I don't know. I could hear the devil you missed the
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will of God, but a specific tie in a Philippian jail, a specific
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place. Paul and Silace prayed the same praises. They brought forth. Jesus
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said, and the Bible said, the prisoners hurt them. Oh, God
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hurt him too, because he's in an earthquake, and open every every door
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and loosed every change. And I don't where one person trying to get away.
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I don't where one person trying to get out of there. Hey man,
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what I said the jail was more appealing than what was outside. Well,
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no jail was a going to take his life. And all said,
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don't hurt yourself, sir. At the right time and at the right place.
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Hey man, we're not going anywhere. And that jailor con see that
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said, what must I do? That they saved that? Not he in
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his house got saved no cause of God. So if I apointment, I
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know, I don't make sin, sir. I know sometimes you don't even
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feel good. But God help me to be well. Amen, help me.
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We'll just stay mine. They brought forth Jesus, and I believe I
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believe they was more saved. It's possible because that jail was considered the jailer's
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house. Ain't that right? I ain't said it was just like this,
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but it could be. How many believes that had Oh, he'll be finding
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Lord, and they spake unto him the word of the Lord, and to
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all that were in his house. I believe they was criminals. God saved
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that day. That night the men there was criminals, and God saved because
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Paul in silence was where they needed to be when they needed to be there,
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and they were doing what they should have been doing. That they were
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bringing forth Jesus, say, God, forgive me for the many time if
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idea, forgive me for the many times I didn't. God helped me not
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to waste another opportunity, another opportunity to bring Jesus. Amen. That's God's
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plan. That's why God left us here. Amen. We talked about those
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lights, John, being a light. Amen, it was a borrowed light.
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It was a reflected light. Amen. He's the sun where the moon
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we can't produce. The light is what we can do. We can live
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close enough to the light that it reflects a lot and dye. Yes,
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he realized that the moon wouldn't shine in the dark if the sun wouldn't shine
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it. It is the sun that illuminates that moon on the dark side of
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the world. I want to bring forth Jesus don't. And again I thank
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God for a pastor and a pastor's wife that, in spite of the burdens,
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the hardships, and the disappointments, the hurts, the wounds, they
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were willing to be where God wanted him to be when God wanted him to
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be. Because really, Church, that pastor, he ain't never said nothing
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to any but he loves y'all. That's obvious, y'all can tell it.
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And I've never heard a negative word out him about the church. Man.
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I've heard some pastors beating their folks down pretty bad, you know, to
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others that's sorry, all right, But without the pastor even saying, hey,
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here day, there'd been times, had been a whole lot easier for
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him just to live. But he didn't aid he stank because he understood God's
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timing, God's place purpose. Thank you, pastor, Thank you pastors for
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and to you that are going through dark places, just as your pastor has
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brought forth Jesus to you over and over again. You go out on the
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job in spite of how hard life is, bring forth Jesus. You know
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I went. I got your standing. So if you can't continue to stay
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in understand. But I went from pastor in full time church. I'm gonna
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get personal here, okay. I went from pastor in a full time church
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to do a service work for Gracenane. I love my job, don't get
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me wrong. I got this child I reckon I've ever had. I'm my
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own boss. Hey man, I don't have to listen to people when I'm
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riding down the road. I map I do would aggravate customers from time to
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time. I got a good job. But I went from ministry full time
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ministry to drive in a service tree. Do you know what? I have
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met people that I would never have anywhere. If God would have put me
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into trouble doing service work really important, pickle the send if they had I
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was a preacher, prayful me. I'm in trouble that is just as important
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as me get behind a pool pit preaching a message. Amen. I don't
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know where you at, what you're going through, but God's got a time.
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God's got a place. God, help us not to avoid the purpose
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that is to bring forth Jesus. They could meet me and their life never
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be changed. But if they can meet the God that's sent me. Amen,
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they can meet the God that's thank God, it can make a difference
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in their life. I wondered tonight, if it's okay, would you like
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to pray? Would you like to would you like to be able to breathe
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forth Jesus even when this flesh don't feel like doing it. Lord, help
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us to know the time, help us to know the place, Help us
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to fulfill or divide purpose. Mm hmmm, help us escuses still under one.
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It gone times in Colminspas in God, the pointed time, the waves
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found down at his week, the redan light bill rade through the glue in
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a minute, you're dark. It's nice it God, it's a point it
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tidy God, the pointed time, it goes a point in time in Coulmains,
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please me see in God's abort and time, Babs found down and he's
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weak. Rainy light will raise to Nicholas and the minutes your artist, not
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God's appoint in time. God's a point and time and God's a point and
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time. Pickle bath please me. You see Gods a boy, but he's
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bound down and he's weird raining and the light will raise and la and your
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argust not. There's no doubt you're coming now in God's apointed times. Oh,
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in God's a point a time, he abays, He's see in God's
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appointy time, the way he's found down to his week rage well raising and
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in your argust not, there's no doubt you're coming now in God's appoint in
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time. In God's upon a time, he commands, He's me see in
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God's apoint time the ways bout down to He's a been the reading and will
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read through the man any minute your darkest night, there's no doubt in your
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cod Now God's apoint it time you be be called the storm of your life.
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Surrounded by pain in your hurricane, you like you'll never survive. The
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Hord will come to rescue. You can count on his hand and the safe
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you wi your selves being tended. Just hold on, help some weed.
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In God's a point a time in God the point in time he band He's
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bc in god appoint time ways now down to heaven week three years hill Rick
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and your ardest time has no down, your coming down god Apo time