Sermon
Redemptive Realities
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Wave them around, make Jesus glad, the devil mad.
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And let's say this together so, heavenly Father, I thank you for the Holy Ghost and the anointing and I thank you for the Word of God.
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It's the Word and the Spirit working together that makes me fruitful in the kingdom of God.
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I know what the Word says and I have the unction of the Holy Ghost to know the strategy on how I can receive the maximum benefit that the blood is purchased for me in Jesus' name, amen.
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Let's look at 1 Peter, chapter one, and Romans, chapter eight.
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1 Peter, chapter one.
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We'll start there, verse sub Well, we'll start with verse 17.
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And if you call on the Father who, without respect of persons, judges according to every man's work, past the time of your sojourning here, in fear for as much as you know, everybody say I do know, as you know, that you were not redeemed with corruptible things such as silver and gold from your vain conversation or manner of life received by tradition from your fathers.
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But you were redeemed.
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See, that's understood.
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You were redeemed with the precious blood of Christ as of a lamb without blemish and without spot.
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Everybody says I was redeemed.
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They past tense.
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It's not by vain religion, it's not by vain tradition.
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You know Paul had a revelation of that and that revelation got off on Peter and the rest of them.
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You know they didn't know the revelation.
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They didn't have the revelation Paul did.
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Peter says in here he says you know some of the things that Paul writes about.
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They're hard to be understood.
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You know it was kind of blowing their mind about redemption, but they did get it.
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I said they did get it.
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And so thank God for the blood of redemption.
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And then in Romans, chapter eight, one of my favorite verses, 32, he that spared not his own son but delivered him up for us all.
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How shall he not, with him, also freely give us all things?
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What a statement, and I like the NEB version.
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And with this and with this gift, how can he fail to lavish upon us all he has to give?
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Isn't that good?
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How can he fail to lavish on us all he has to give?
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And so tonight I just want to share a message entitled Redemptive Realities with you.
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In 2020, we were talking about the greatest year yet Back in the year 2000, went away to pray and God gave me starting in the year 2001,.
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He said you know, 2001 is going to be a premier year.
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It's the first in a series of years.
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And I saw in a vision 2001, 2002, comma, dot, dot dot.
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And I saw like spotlight, you know, in Hollywood, you know they have a.
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They had the red carpet and all the first time a movie is premiered, all the stars show up.
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I don't think they do that much anymore, but back in the golden age it was a big deal and they would have the spotlight out there and the limos would pull up and the stars of the show would get out and get on the red carpet.
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It was a big deal, covered by the media.
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A premiere.
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They came for the premiere.
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And so you look up the word premiere it's the first.
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It's the first, it means the first in a series, it's the never before, never before.
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And so I was thinking in the positive and, of course, what happened in 2001 was 9-11.
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And you know, I come to realize that God was giving us a picture of the countdown to His return.
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I said it's a countdown to His return, 20, I mean it's 20, 21 years ago now, every year We've been counting it down every year, and I'm not saying he's coming this year, next year, but in 2019.
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On Rosh Hashanah, god gave us a powerful word on.
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When we look back on the year of 2020, we're going to say my, my, this has been the greatest year of my life Remember that one.
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And so God was preparing us for the pandemic.
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He gave us an alternative thing to believe.
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When everybody else is falling apart, we've got our sights set.
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And who is it that paid for something better?
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Well, the blood of Jesus.
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He wants to lavish upon us things in this time.
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We don't have to go along with the garbage that's going on, you know.
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We don't have to float down the river with the garbage.
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We can go up against the stream.
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I was talking about those two times in the ocean where the current almost took me out.
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Thank God, I was able to fight the current and get back to safety.
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And that's exactly what the Holy Ghost is doing for us.
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He wants to bless us in the middle of these trying times.
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There's judgment going on in the world, the judgments of the nations.
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There are national judgments going on.
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That's what's going on in the Ukraine.
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What's going on in Russia?
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Notice, we haven't had a prayer meeting on the Ukraine.
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It's not that I don't have mercy on innocent people, the people of the Ukraine.
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There are some people there that are suffering, and I hate to see little children suffer, but they have sown a lot of horrible, horrible seed.
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They were very cruel to the Jews.
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They killed lots of them and they welcomed Hitler's troops when they marched through there on their way to attack Russia.
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And of course you know the story Hitler's armies were desecrated, they took too long and the winter hit them and they died by the.
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I think Hitler lost a million troops in Russia.
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Can you imagine the carnage?
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But they were the ones that were so cruel.
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They were cruel to the Russians, they tortured them, they plundered the country.
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So there's plenty of judgment that's necessary for these two nations.
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So I hesitate to stick my finger in the middle of any of it.
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I haven't got a revelation of which side God's on.
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I suspect he's not on either one and I suspect that they're going to have to fight it out.
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And I don't know if Putin will survive this or not.
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He might get assassinated.
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I don't know.
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I do know the church is alive and well in the Ukraine.
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My brother in sister-in-law worked there for five or six years, went back several times a year, did a lot of work in a place called Nikolayev, which is on the Black Sea.
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A million people live there and I know that we have the Ukraine is there.
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They've got a Bible school, they know how to pray and so you know it's kind of like sticking your hand in a yellow jacket nest.
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You know you don't do that unless you have a reason to.
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Sometimes, if I don't know just how to pray about it, I don't have an unction.
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We've got a lot to pray about right here and we can get this.
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Be honest with you all the news media is going crazy over this Ukraine thing and they're trying to substitute the Ukraine for the Plandemic and the failure of all their policies are just out there, like everywhere, and so they're trying to change the subject.
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Are you with me now?
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And they'd like us to forget about all this stuff because elections come up in November and we've got some.
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You know they want to distract, see, they're just distracting.
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It's just a distraction.
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We're not going to be distracted, amen.
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We're going to follow the Holy Ghost.
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All right, getting back on the redemptive reality.
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So what my point is is that God has a plan for our blessing.
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In the middle of all of the what's going on in the world.
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Let's not forget, god has redeemed us from the curse.
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He's redeemed us, and so the blood and the glory are linked.
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Or I could say it this way the blood and the anointing are linked.
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Or I could say it this way the blood and God's power are linked.
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In the Old Testament, when they wanted to dedicate and consecrate the high priest, they would shed the blood of the lamb, they would anoint the high priest and they were going to dedicate him.
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The old one died.
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Here's the new one.
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He's got to be consecrated to stand in that office of high priest.
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So they would shed the blood of the lamb and they offer a sin offering and they'd take some of the blood and they'd anoint his head and they'd anoint his right thumb and they'd anoint the right toe, the big toe of his right foot, and then, after that, they would sprinkle the anointing oil on him and anoint over where the blood was.
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They would anoint him with oil on the head, on the thumb, on the great toe, and the anointing would flow where the blood had been applied.
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Are you with me now?
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See, I have to type in shadow.
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That is something that's true right now, that God's power to change anything is available when the blood is applied, talking about redemptive realities.
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So our faith is entirely dependent upon knowledge or understanding of God's Word.
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You know, if we don't understand the covenant, if we don't understand the significance and the efficacy of the blood, then we will be tempted to settle for something far below.
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The devil has a way of just suggesting that we're not worthy.
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You know, we can believe God up to a point and then, beyond that point, we falter many times because you know he'll point out our faults, and we all have them.
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He'll point out our shortcomings, and we all have them.
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But you know, it's not according to our faults and shortcomings, it's according to the blood and the fact that God wants to lavish upon us.
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It's entirely by grace, it's entirely undeserved, there's no deserving.
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If we got what we deserve, we'd go to hell, but we're not going to get what we deserve.
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We're going to get what Jesus deserves and Jesus deserves everything and he's got everything.
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Everything belongs to Jesus and what we're in him.
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So the import of this message, or the implication and my desire is for us to take off the limits and let's expand our receivers.
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Let's get our receivers kicked into gear, because just because the world is under judgment just because nations and ethnos or people groups are under judgment because of their not serving God, when they could.
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Almost all nations know about Jesus.
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There's just a handful, just a handful of people groups that have not yet heard.
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And you know what we're involved in and they're hearing.
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We got the Carlson's over there preaching to people that never heard the name of Jesus in Bali and all in Indonesia.
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And we've got the Brassies and they're in communist China and they're also over in I can't think of the name of that other Asian country but people have never heard the name of Jesus and they have a work going and I mean it's just, it's exciting and we're going to have a Sunday where we get you called up on what our church is helping to fund.
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But you know how many more times does Biden have to hear the Word of God?
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How many more times do these Democrats need to hear that Jesus is Lord?
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You know, I just my position is I'm through talking to them and praying for them.
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I'm crying against them.
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I'm crying for their total failure, amen.
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Some of you are going to get with the program here soon.
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I'm sure we cry against them, we cry against what they're doing.
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I mean, you know, forgiveness is between them and God.
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They've.
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All they have to do is repent.
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I don't have listen.
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They've heard and heard and heard and they haven't repented yet.
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They don't get endless chances.
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In the meantime, they're killing innocent children.
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They're the reason why innocent people are being are being slaughtered Just think about Afghanistan and look at our own citizens in the Ukraine.
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Ridiculous, anyway.
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So we need to understand what the blood is done, is doing and will do in order to actually receive all that God wants to lavish.
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Opponents Got to understand that blood is in the mercy seat.
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It's up there in heaven.
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Jesus shed his blood.
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His blood was not spilled.
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There's a old him talks about the spilled blood.
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No, he didn't spill anything.
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You spill your coffee, stumble and spill something.
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That's not.
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His blood was shed and it was.
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All of it was shed and he took all of it up there to the, to the throne room of God.
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And God sees us through the blood.
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That's the propitiation.
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His blood is the propitiation for all our sins and the sins of the whole world.
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I mean, the blood was shed for Biden.
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It was shed for all the Democrats, but they don't care.
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Well, that's that's on them.
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I don't listen.
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You should know that this is America, one nation under God.
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You should know that and you don't know it because you have turned away from God.
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I don't have any obligation to pray for his salvation at all.
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There's no obligation.
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Oh, I thought we no, nobody prayed for Herod Elimus the sorcerer.
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I mean, paul went up to him and said you, child of the devil, you enemy of righteousness, will you not cease to pervert the right ways of the Lord?
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Behold, you shall be blind, not seeing the sun for a season.
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He pronounced judgment on him.
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It wasn't permanent.
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I'm thinking that this is the role of the church coming up here, that we're gonna start praying these kind of things out and striking some of these people that are doing such evil, especially against children.
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Are you with me now?
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So, getting back to what we're talking about, I wanna expand my receiver.
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As I said before recently, when I was preaching on abundance last week, I'm playing what if?
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I'm asking myself what if?
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And I think we just need to let ourselves dream what if?
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And what holds us back is we get up to a place?
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We get up to a place, a plateau, if you will, and beyond that.
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We kinda feel guilty for thinking that big.
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We kinda, if we're not careful, we turn and we think about our own lack of deserving that much.
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We ought to be grateful for what we have See.
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So we got that religious thinking.
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That religious thinking says oh, you're being selfish, you shouldn't believe, for that, that's not necessary.
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What would you do with all that?
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Well, that's my point.
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What would we do with it?
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If listen, if the child of the devil has all these trillions of dollars, shouldn't the church have that?
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I mean, we have cut ourselves short.
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God wants to lavish all this upon us.
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Why?
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Because we have a harvest to reap.
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Amen.
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I want us to break through the barriers and get out of this idea of what we deserve.
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We don't deserve anything except go to hell.
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But we're not going there.
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We're just being redeemed.
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The blood of Jesus has been shed for us and we have the blood of redemption.
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We have a covenant with God and that covenant has.
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He has got so much more in mind for the church.
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He started telling us back in 2001,.
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The countdown is here.
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Each year, each year, each year, I go back and God gives us something to believe for every year.
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For the last 21 years, I'm still stuck on greatest year yet I don't know.
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I don't feel like.
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I don't feel like that we have really done that justice in 2020 or even 2021.
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I'm still stuck on greatest year yet for 2022.
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Why do we have to have something new?
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I said, why do we have to have something new?
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Let's let this be the greatest year we've ever seen, financially, health wise.
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Every area, not just one area, every area Did the blood pay for it.
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Amen, just like tonight.
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I was just thinking about how God was so faithful Even before I loved him.
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Before, I mean, I was a little Catholic boy, I loved him as best I could.
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When I was little, I remember loving God.
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I remember my little heart burning in me going to church.
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But around the sixth grade, fifth grade, sixth grade I started cooling off and I thought you know, this is because the nuns were trying to get me to be a priest.
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They just knew I was going to be a priest.
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Well, I, I took one look at Gladys and I knew that I wasn't going to be a priest.
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She's 12 and I'm 13 and I knew no way.
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Jose, I started noticing girls and I, you know, and that girl particularly.
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I know that sounds funny, but it's true.
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And so I remember just turning away from God and saying you know, no, I got plenty of time.
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I knew there was more and I didn't want it.
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Right then I wanted to do my thing, and that's the way it was, until all the way till it was I was 33 years old and I finally got saved.
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But in that time I know, and just thinking about it tonight I was meditating while we were singing and God showing me pictures of my life and how he had intervened to keep me alive.
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He had blessed me when I didn't even love him, I wasn't living for him, and he loved me and he protected me and he covered me.
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Are you with me now?
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How much more, now that we're his sons and daughters, does he favor all these Godless people more than he does the church?
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Oh, I tell you, we have so much available.
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We just need to stir ourselves up and take the limits off and allow ourselves to dream a little bit and say what if?
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What if I had?
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What if?
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What would I do with abundance?
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What would I do if I felt so good every day that I never had to curl up and go to bed, that I never would have to limp, I never would have to feel, my back wouldn't go out on me and I had to go to the chiropractor just to move, just plug in anything you wanna plug in, and whatever you're having to overcome, what if?
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And then let's appropriate what the blood of Jesus has paid for.
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He's paid to lavish upon you everything he has.
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Yes, glory to God.
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Woo.
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John 3.16,.
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For God so loved me.
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See, this is the thing we talk about, john 3.6.
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God so loved the world, well, you're he loved.
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You Get it personal.
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God so loved me that he gave his only begotten son that if I would just believe on him, he would give me everlasting life.
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Not just and that everlasting life is not just like live forever.
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We think about the longevity of it instead of the quality of it.
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He gave us a quality of life that we have not received yet.
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I know I haven't.
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Yet I haven't received that quality of life that I know Jesus blood paid for.
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What if?
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Everybody say what if?
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What if I could receive that quality of life that he actually bought and paid for?
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Is it gonna bankrupt heaven?
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Is it gonna put God's nose out of joint?
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Just because we have better?
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Now we let the devil.
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Come in with this little religious.
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See, it's religion is what it is.
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It's religion, it's just things that we've accumulated in our consciousness that we just feel like, well, I don't deserve that.
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No, you don't deserve it.
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Get that settled, you don't deserve squat.
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But he does, doesn't he?
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And we're in him.
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See, it gets back to renewing your mind.
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It's back to renewing your mind of what the word has to say, rather than these old time religious ways of thinking.
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So, did he buy and pay so great a price for a perfect person?
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Well, of course not.
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He's the only perfect one.
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Should we do better?
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Yeah, we ought to concentrate on crucifying our flesh.
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We ought to concentrate on, you know, presenting our bodies a living sacrifice.
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But let me tell you something while we're doing that, that's not gonna hinder what he wants to do.
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He can still bless your socks off and wants to See.
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That's the other thing.
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We just keep trying to be perfect.
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We keep thinking, well, if I can just be better, I know God will.
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No, he's already.
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He's already paid for it.
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So it's a matter of are you gonna receive it or not?
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That's really what it's all about receiving.
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I'm working on my receiver.
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How about you?
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I'm expanding my receiver, I'm prying it open.
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You know, if I had a blessing and I had a receiver this big around, you know there's gonna be blessing hitting there and it's just gonna go on either side.
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It's just I'm only able to get that much.
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You know what do I need?
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I need to pull that thing and I need to make it bigger.
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You know how big the windows of heaven are.
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When we talk about windows of heaven, brother Ed de Francaire, god don't have no windows, he's unlimited.
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He didn't even like talking about it.
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He didn't even like the limitation of the windows of heaven.
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He said oh God, god doesn't use windows, he's unlimited.
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I go with Ed.
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He's up there with the windows originated now.
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So you know.
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You look at Hebrews 11,.
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All these people that are in the hall of fame of faith Abraham, sarah, moses, rahab all of them had faults, all of them were imperfect, all of them had giant shortcomings.
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And look how God blessed them.
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Uses as an example Everybody say I'm working on my receiver.
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In 1 Peter 5, talks about our adversary, the devil, as a lion walking about seeking whom he may devour.
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He's the prosecuting attorney.
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He's always accusing you.
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He's always saying you're not good enough.
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You haven't believed enough.
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You haven't done this, you haven't done that.
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He's always prosecuting you.
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He's always throwing accusations at you.
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Listen, we've got to silence that voice with the Word of God.
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It's not all about us, it's about the blood.
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It's all about the perfection of what the blood is purchased, not about us at all.
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Should we live right?
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Of course we should.
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I'm not saying that we ought to just live sloppily and unholy lives.
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I'm not saying that at all.
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That's not right.
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But at the same time, god's not waiting around for us to be perfect.
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He's waiting around for us to receive what he's already paid for, amen.
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So as we increase in the revelation of the blood of Jesus, the blood of our redemption, the blood of our covenant now what I call redemptive realities, because that's the reality, right, there is the blood as we increase in that revelation, then our receiver is gonna grow and we're gonna be able to receive more than what we did before.
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Get anything out of this tonight.
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I've gone back and looked at the prodigal son recently, I guess, because this time of the year this is the time of the years Everything's breaking forth.
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It's springtime, trees are budding, plants are growing, grass is getting green Redbud trees.
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I like the redbud trees because in February, when everything's still real cold, they start blooming purple and it's kind of a sign hey, it's not too much longer.
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Some people looking at the rat up there in Pennsylvania the groundhog glorified rat, but I always look at the redbud tree and when that thing starts busting out I know spring is right here and spring is today's first day of spring.
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And I don't know.
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In my life, especially when I was going through 10 years of trouble, this was a time when God would speak to me and give me new light on things and it just seemed like a lot of the breakthroughs that I needed and that I received were in this type of time of year.
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But the prodigal Luke 15, I'm not gonna read it tonight, I'll just talk about it, the parable of the prodigal son, and I talk about it because God gave me revelation years ago.
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It's based on that revelation.
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We started this church, but you had two sons.
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You had the older son, which I'll call junior, and the younger son, who I'll call Bubba.
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And Bubba he had it together, he knew he had something coming, and junior was the religious one.
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Junior is the type of the Christian that has never strayed.
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But yet junior does not have a revelation of who he is, didn't have a revelation of his bloodline.
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He just a servant instead of a son.
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He's too busy out there in the roundup, being with the hired help brand in the cattle.
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I think about the ponderosa.
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Remember that old show, the ponderosa?
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I know I'm dating myself now, but reruns are still on cable.
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Little Joe and Hoss, you know.
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And the older brother, adam, what's his name Anyway?
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So he's too busy out there brand in cattle when he ought to be sitting behind the desk and taking over the family business.
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It's a multi quadrillion dollar business and he's fooling around, you know, out there with the hired help.
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But you know, junior is as the older son.
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He's got the double portion.
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Let's just say that there's a nine million.
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Just to make math easy, nine million dollar worth of cash.
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Bubba said hey, give me the portion of goods that fall with them to me and I'll get out of here.
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I don't wanna wait.
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You wait till you die, old man, I want mine now.
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And Jesus is the one telling this parable.
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And the old man gave him the money, wrote the check right.
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Then he didn't say well, son, you'll have to wait till I die.
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Then you'll get your portion when I die.
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No, he gave it to him right then.
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Let's just say it was three million, because the older son, his portion, is what?
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Six million?
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Are you with me now Do the math.
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So junior gets six, and really that was not done in darkness.
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He can't give the younger son, can't give Bubba three without giving junior the six.
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What's wrong with junior?
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Are you brain dead, junior?
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This is a way that a lot of the church is a lot of the church.
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Where do the double portion?
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Where are the sons and daughters of the most high?
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Why they're in Christ.
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He said the works that I do show you do also, and greater works than these shall you do?
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I mean, then, greater.
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We ought to be able to supply the needs twice as much greater than Jesus did.
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And let me tell you I don't.
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He didn't have any problem feeding 20,000 people One time, 16,000 people another time.
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He didn't have any trouble paying these taxes.
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He didn't have any trouble being the sole support of 70 full-time ministers and their families.
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He was not poor.
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I said he wasn't poor.
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He became poor at the end, on the cross.
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He became poor.
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But during his ministry he had an endowment.
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I mean he had the gold, the frankincense and the myrrh from the time he was born.
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He had an endowment.
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Are y'all with me now?
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So the church has got to get a revelation.
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And so what happened?
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Well, okay, so Bubba goes off and blows.
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You know all of that money, $3 million.
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I say it's wine, women and song.
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You can say whatever it is, but I mean you know that's what it was.
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He got down to where he had no money.
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He had to go to work for a pig farm.
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Here's a Jewish boy working in a pig farm and he had to eat the hog food.
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I mean, no one helped him.
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There was no favor.
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No one fed him.
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Nobody had mercy on him.
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He was out there and he got so hungry he was eating what the hogs ate.
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Man, that's pretty bad.
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You talk about stink Whoo.
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You ever been to a hog farm?
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I suggest you don't.
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But anyway.
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So he said you know, if I can just go back, I'll just be a hired.
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I'll ask my father for forgiveness.
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I've blown all this money.
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I don't deserve a thing.
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Just put me out there with a hired.
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Help give me three squares and a place to sleep.
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I'll sleep in the bunkhouse I'm no longer worthy to be called your son because I've blown it.
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But the father watched, watched for him and was watching for him, watching for him, watching, saw him a great well, and before he could say anything, he said oh son, my son that was lost, was found, was dead, and now he's alive.
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Bring the best rope, get some shoes on this boy's feet, put the signet ring of authority on his hand.
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Let's kill the fatted calf, let's have a party, let's have music and dancing.
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So when that manifestation of sonship, the manifestation of the redemptive line that he was part of, and it was demonstrated to him that glory showed up, are you with me now?
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Well, who wasn't happy?
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Well, junior wasn't happy.
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Junior wouldn't come into the glory.
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Junior didn't want the glory.
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Junior was mad.
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He said you didn't even, you didn't even kill for me.
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One version says you didn't, you wouldn't even kill for me.
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A skinny goat.
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He said everything I got is yours.
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Anytime you wanted it, you could have had it.
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You got $6 million, you doofus.
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What happened?
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He didn't appropriate what he had, he didn't think big enough, he didn't dream big enough.
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He didn't say you know I'm, I'm not a doofus, I'm in charge of the family business.
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Now I need to quit going out there and branding the cattle.
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I need to be in here doing the book work.
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I need to be in here investing the funds.
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I need to be finding some more, some more places to sell these cows and buy.
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You know, I've been thinking about maybe changing the line of cows that were raised.
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He should have been taking the leadership.
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See, the church ought to be taking the leadership in this world.
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Are y'all with me now?
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Hey, so we know what God, as I got this revelation all these years ago, 28 years ago this month, that's why I'm thinking about it.
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See, I thought about it.
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Then God gave me the plan to pray, and that's what I got to pray that from the platform, father, give me the portion of goods that fall forth under me.
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When I left Lakewood, when I knew I was planning on starting this church, I hadn't talked to brother Osteen yet, I hadn't gotten permission, I hadn't, I hadn't submitted it to him, but I knew in order for me, I had to obey God and I told God I was willing, but the only thing I wasn't willing to do was go against my pastor.
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He had to give me, he had to have final approval of my plan.
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If he approved, then I would do it, and if he didn't approve, I was going to kill it.
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And he didn't approve, said it's too quick, it's too soon, you need to wait, and I killed it.
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I called everybody.
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I had three people that were going to join me and I released them.
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I killed it, just like Isaac killed.
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I plunged the knife in a glorious way and God raised it from the dead, which is why it survived, why it's thrived, even in COVID, even now.
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I mean, you know we have thrived financially.
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We have listen.
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Every need is met because there's been a revelation of what the blood has purchased.
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Are you expanding your receiver?
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Yet I'm expanding mine.
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There's so much more we need to do in the days ahead.
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I mean there's a harvest to be reaped.
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Yeah, update and upgrade.
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We're doing that.
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We've got you know.
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We're working on the sound equipment.
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We're going to be working on the outside.
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We need help in the helps ministries.
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We talked about that this morning.
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Be sure and look in the seat back in front of you and pick up one of these cards, and if you're a technical, you can.
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There's QR codes you can find.
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I can help form and also a volunteer application, or else they're available in the lobby after the service.
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But we are recruiting people to help us.
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We need more help Cause during COVID our helps ministries have kind of shrunk and now is the time to redouble our efforts and let's all get involved in helping.
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We need help.
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We need more people to help us in Children's Church.
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We need more in the hospitality department.
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We need more gatekeepers.
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We need more welcome ministers.
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We need more.
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We need more people to come down and help us during the week.
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We've got a project coming up Pressure wash the building.
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I want this thing cleaned up before Easter.
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Easter is going to be a big Easter this year.
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There's going to be a lot of visitors, a lot of new faces.
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People are going to come from everywhere because this thing is breaking open and let's be prepared for the ministry of helps.
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That's all related to what I'm talking about right now.
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That's the family business that we ought to be busy about.
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God and sons unlimited.
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Y'all get anything out of this tonight.
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Praise God, so really quick.
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Junior the oldest he and Bubba was the prodigal.
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So Junior was faithful, he didn't stray, he didn't waste his dad's money, but it was his money and he didn't waste it, he didn't spend anything and in fact he's living way below what he should, below his station.
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He had no revelation of his inheritance.
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He identified with a hired help.
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He had no revelation of his bloodline.
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He was jealous of his brother.
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He said he's wasted your living.
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No, it wasn't his living, it was his living.
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It belonged to him.
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So what?
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You just think about it a moment.
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Bubba got to come back into the family and started working again and he had a chance to possibly bring the net value of the whole Ponderosa back up again and he could have had another inheritance, probably did have another inheritance, it wasn't over.
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Why?
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Because he didn't leave the family bloodline.
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But Junior just didn't have that revelation.
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He didn't have the robe, he didn't have the ring, he didn't have the shoes, he didn't eat of the fatted cat.
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How dumb can you get and still breathe?
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But then on Bubba, on the other hand, he knew his inheritance, he asked for it, he realized he sinned, he repented, he humbled himself, he expected punishment but instead he got mercy.
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Oh, glory to God.
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I said he got mercy.
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Haven't we had mercy?
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So let's not let our shortcomings and things that we've done that we wish we could change behind us.
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Let's break off our rear view mirror.
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Listen.
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Every day is a brand new day with God.
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I mean, let's abide in the freshness of what the blood has purchased for us.
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It's not about deserves.
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It's not about deserves.
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It's about what?
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Can we believe?
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And I'm believing for more.
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Amen, praise God.
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We've been brought in around the family business.
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We're sons and daughters of the most high God.
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So, and the glory is coming for those who have a revelation of their standing.
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Amen.
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The glory is what?
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Where the blood is applied, the glory can flow.
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Or where the blood is applied, the anointing can flow.
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Or where the blood is applied, the power of God can flow.
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Apply the blood and watch God's power put you over into the next level.
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Come on, lift your hands tonight.
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Redemptive realities.
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Everybody say I'm enlarging my receiver.
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Amen.
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Did you get anything out of this tonight?
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Was it worth coming on a Sunday night?
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Amen, I just want all of you to begin to play.
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What if more and more?
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Amen.