Sermon
The unfrozen chosen - Bro Jeremy Howell 11-29-2023
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Of Acts. May I direct your attention to the ninth chapter. In the
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fifteenth verse, I want to say, it is truly wonderful to have Sister
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Donna home with us, home where she belongs. There is no doubt she
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belonged visiting with her grandchildren and her children. But it's so good to see
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her smiling face in the House of the Lord here at the Bethel ho in
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his church where she belongs. How many of you all feel like you belong
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somewhere? I hope it's here. Do you feel like you belong here?
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Well, if you don't feel like you belong here, there's the door.
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And I'm not saying that meanly. I'm just saying you can always find somewhere
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where you belong. But I'm glad you feel like you belong here. One
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hundred percent of us are saying I feel like I belong I do. I
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belong to the Family of God, and that's a membership that I will gladly
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display before this world. It's nothing to be ashamed about, ashamed of the
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Lord. I'm not ashamed of his gospel. I'm not ashamed of his word.
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I'm glad to be your family member, your brother in Christ, Brother
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Nathaniel, will you turn to Saint Matthew's Gospel chapter number twenty two and verse
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number fourteen, Brother Jesse, John Mark's Gospel chapter number three and verse number
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thirteen. Again, Brother Nathaniel, Matthew chapter number twenty two and verse number
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fourteen, and Brother Jesse Mark chapter number three and verse number thirteen. Brother
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Nathaniel, would you stand and read that to this people, for many are
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called, but few are chosen. How many of you have heard the clarion
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call of salvation and accepted it? How many of you all have heard the
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clarion call of the Spirit of God summoning us to revival. Can anybody else
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admit that the God of Heaven and Earth is calling us into higher places?
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I want to be one of those that are chosen. Brother Jesse. Read
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Saint Mark's Gospel chapter number three and verse number thirteen. And he goeth up
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into a mountain and calleth unto him whom he would, and they came unto
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him. So he called those disciples unto himself, and they came. Hey,
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if God calls you, who will benefits you to come? Right?
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If Bama calls you to dinner, did you come pretty? Quickly right,
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some of you guys probably did. But when Dad stepped on the threshold of
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the front door and hollered and said, dinner is ready, I guarantee you
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you came when Dad called. And I can hear the Blessed Savior calling us
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unto revival. May we stand and read our Golden Text Acts chapter number nine
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and verse number fifteen. The Bible said, But the Lord said, unto
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him, go thy way, for he is a chosen vessel. Unto me
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to bear my name before the gents and kings and the children of Israel.
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For I will shew him how great things he must suffer for my name's sake.
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Let's pray, Heavenly Father, we love and we praise you. We
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thank you for the opportunity to be in your house. I thank you for
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these precious people. I thank you for what they represent. I thank you
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for these ambassadors of the gospel of your kingdom and of your son Jesus.
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I pray that you would adorant this thy servants, set of gud and my
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mouth, and help me to say the things that you would happy to say,
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nothing more or less. Anoint the ears of this thy people, that
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they might hear what the spirits say unto the church. I pray, let
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these sayings go below the shoulders, Let them get into their hearts and their
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minds and their soul the spirit I prayed God that they would not be hearers
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only, but doers. Let them not deceive their self. And may the
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saints of God depart this place joyfully and not sorrowfully, in Jesus' name.
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And the church said, Amen, as you're being seated, look at your
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neighbor and say, hey, neighbor, are you one of the unfrozen Chosen.
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I want to preach to you a sermon, a message that the Holy
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Ghost titled the Unfrozen Chosen. I remember reading a meme sometime back, and
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as I read that meme, it said the Church of the Frozen Chosen,
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and it was a term or an expression referring to those people who are more
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reserved in their religious life and worship. How many of you have ever sat
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next to somebody that seemed to be a member of the Church of the Frozen
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Chosen. But I'm glad to know that I'm part of the Bethel Holiness Church,
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where the people of God are on fire. Let's lay a foundation for
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our listeners in India and other places that are unfamiliar with this sacred writing we
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call the Holy Our text is found in a New Testament book of the Holy
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Bible, the Book of Acts. The Holy Ghost has given us a few
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golden texts taken from out of this Book of Action throughout this year of twenty
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twenty three. I call this particular book of the Bible the Book of Action.
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It is named the Book of Acts because of the nature of this sacred
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writing. The author is Loot the beloved position. A beloved physician is someone
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that is most appreciated by the general public. In fact, he is somebody
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that has summoned in the times and the moments of crisis. So we have
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confidence in the author of this writing. He personally was not and our witness
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to the man or the ministry of Jesus Christ. But he interviewed many people
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that were men that have been chosen specifically to evangelize the world and to spread
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the good news of Jesus Christ coming to die in their place as a substitutionary
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sacrifice atoning for the sin of mankind both past, present and future. Jesus
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chose some people. I'm glad tonight that I can say I am not one
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that is part of the crowd of a multitude or many. But I'm glad
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to be able to say that I am one of the chosen few. It's
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good to be able to say that we are not one that finds ourselves on
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that broadway, that highway that's spiraling downward and leading souls to a devil's hell.
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I'm glad to say tonight that we can say we are part of the
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family of God, the numbered, among the chosen few that are on that
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highway of holding us loop. The Beloved Physician was fascinated with these people that
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had been chosen to evangelize the known world of that time, and truly they
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were people that I would have liked to rupt shoulders with as well. It
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is no surprise to me at all that the Beloved Physition would abandon such a
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prosperous practice as he did in order to follow the apostle Paul, and to
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tether himself or attach himself to the ministry of such a man and the other
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apostles, naming it Peter, James, and John. We find that the
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men that wrote these blessed books of the Bible were men that had been chosen
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for times and purposes specifically assigned to them by God. This past Sunday night,
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I preached a message titled My Miracle. The number one character of that
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sermon was miserable Matthew and secondary we've talked about the blind people that needed a
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miracle. Specifically, two blind men needed a miracle. You will notice that
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a bridge was burned in Matthew's life. After that, Jesus summonsed him or
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called him from his misery unto his ministry. On one side of the bridge
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that had been burned, Matthew had formerly been known as a tax collector.
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But later on on the other side of the bridge, he can look back
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upon his past and say that is in the sea of God's forgetfulness. It's
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good enough for me. My sins are gone, and now I am the
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author or the penmen of Saint Matthew's gospel. These men were all men of
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action. They would not sit in a service and not do something. They
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were very active. In fact, that inactivity of many a people in the
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modern church would sorely disappoint these men if they were able to receive what is
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going on during this worship of this generation, during the evangelism outreaches of this
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generation. These men would be terribly disappointed. In fact, if they could
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view from their dead corpses the situation at hand concerning the modern church, these
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men would roll over in their grave in shame and discuss concerning the way people
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handle church and the things of God nonchalantly. I feel like here tonight that
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is our duty and our responsibility to accept the necessity of servitude in serving our
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community and serving mankind, and tried our best to get the message of Jesus
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Christ out to a loss and died world. These people have been chosen people,
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especially the apostle Paul, which is one of the more prominent men that
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you read about in these narratives inside of this sacred writing, the Book of
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Acts. Also, the number one character in the Book of Acts is the
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Holy Ghost. How many of you know that he is the third part of
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that trying Godhead. He's always been active. He's always been highly active in
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the life of every believer, somebody that is truly a worshiper of the Lord.
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He has also been active in every church that has totally sold out,
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consecrated and committed to God. We find as we're reading the various and their
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narratives contained in this sacred writing. The Holy Ghost had been busy building the
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church that Jesus promised to leave behind. How many of you feel tonight like
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God is building a church right here in Fabel, Florida. The good news
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is we're not alone. Worldwide, the Holy Ghost is still active. He
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has not sought out retirement. Although it's been over two thousand years since he
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began to build the church that Jesus promised to leave behind. He is still
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building that bride for our Savior, and I'm glad to be part of that.
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How many of you consents the call to revival? How many of you
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consents the working of the Holy Ghost and the activity of the Spirit of God
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in our services. If you could feel that drawing unto God, you are
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a blessed person. Because there's a lot of people living in this year twenty
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twenty three that is almost over that can say. I have not yet felt
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the slightest inclination to draw nigh unto God, even though the my will promise
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that if I betraw die to God, he would draw die unto me.
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So thank God for the ministry and the workings of the Holy Ghost that I'm
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so glad that the Holy Ghost chooses men to dwell in, and that the
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Holy Ghost com minister through us and make our preaching effective. Because the message
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must go out. I said, the message must go out, and if
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it's going to go out, it needs to go out effectively. We need
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the word of God not to return unto him fulloyd. We need it to
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prosper. And I believe that the Holy Ghost is involved in any man's ministry
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or any say of God's life or testimony. You will see that it is
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a fruitful testimony, or a fruitful message, or a fruit for life.
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If you study the New Testament, you will see that God was busy choosing
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people. In fact, the New Testament is full of characters, and it
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is comprised of people that were chosen by God for specific to these responsibilities and
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task. One of them is the primary character of our message tonight. The
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apostle Paul, if you will read untext again, the Bible said in answer
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chapter number nine and verse number fifteen. But the Lord said, unto him,
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go thy way, for he is a chosen vessel unto me to bear
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my name before the gentiles and kings and the children of Israel. In the
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sixth chapter of Saint Luke's Gospel, we five the record of our Lord Jesus
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calling unto himself disciples, people that he wanted to walk shoulder to shoulder with
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him, People that he wanted to be eyewitnesses of his wife. People that
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he wanted to look upon her his ministry, and to learn his ways,
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and to become more like him. We call this discipleship. These men would
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perfectly imitate Christ. Eventually be law became when ever came about with a calling.
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As you read all down, you'll find that there were twelve that were
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chosen by him. Many were called, but on the twelve worth chosen.
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These twelve disciples that were made apostles by the alert Jesus himself. These men
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weren't Daddy called or Mala center, that were not members of the twelve frozen
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chosen Church or the dozen frozen chosen nerve. These were men that were unfrozen.
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These men were attached or tethered two a Holy Gus fireplencer. If you
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went the fire himself out, can then wat so the soudan is such a
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man without their clothes being burned. We know that that in a circle of
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chains, and John and Peter certainly had brought fire into their bosom and their
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souls had been burned as a result. You will find that those that were
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called and chosen, they were always active doing something for the Lord. If
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they were in a service, they were praying, in that prayer meeting at
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a house, they were praying. And when they were out in the community,
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they were crowd in the highways and in the headless, in the powers
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that they were preaching, and they were compelling the loss to come in and
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fact, immediately after this calling and being chosen as they were, we found
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that these men begin to reshape their errant to the glory of God. Name
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mis Simon, James and John Andrew Philip are calling you, Matthew Thomas,
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change the rest, Daddy, said Simon. Macellus. And the infamisis judas
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a spirit, you know, the one that betrayed him talking about Jesus.
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You're not gonna be that guy, are you. You're not gonna be that
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one that wants her out of the sival and stands in the shade or in
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the shadow of the church and say, I just don't see it that I
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should be part of that crowd. I don't see it that I should be
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one not gonna from that group. You're not that God, are you?
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I know that's a different sermon for another time. But when I read these
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gospels, I see where some of these being had already been following Jesus.
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We thank of Peter and his brother Andrew, and James and his brother John.
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You'll find that these men had already been called. Now Jesus fallowed.
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They were in their ships and working for themselves and their fathers. They weren't
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busy, yes, say they were active. Yes, say they weren't bending
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their next Yes, sir, planning to go fishing her the next day that
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Jesus came and he called them. At this time, they're among the crowd
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that has been called, and they have been called already. That there comes
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a time when Jesus he comes out of the mountain and he notices a multitude
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had followed him. How many have followed him to night? How many people
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have walked him to revive? We're ownly to walk out a year later?
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How many people have heard the poice of God? A color gets to the
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Kenyan minister train of bearding. That's the preacher preach the call of call the
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sit forth. That's some hurried and some did not listen, while others heard
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the call and they gathered together. How many of fallow Jesus and we don't
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know that our multitude was present, But how many they're chosen in this moment
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when the Holy Ghost is picking out ten of nature that will reshaping the community.
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Only twelve I sought the bble. I looked for more. It was
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more than a parallel to the twelve tribes of is Well. I believe it
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was indicative of only a few, just like the twelve tribes of Israel,
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or only a few that wanted a vent for God. Only a few and
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want a cue the letter of the wrong. God knew they be will owner
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twelve, I said, God knew they're gone. Owner twelve that would be
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chosen, Say that we are termine that wall. Believe in predestination lisbon God,
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do we believe that every person God has already predestinated where they will go?
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No, we cannot cancel the free will remain. It is so obvious
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to us that mankind has a free will, because some of us are suffering
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today because of the choice or the freedom of choice of others, Our Mother,
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Eve and Adam have caused this great hardship, travel and pain because of
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their choices. Oh, yes, we make some bad choices, but cannot
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tell you that God never chooses bad. There's been stocked brooklets that it made
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some bad choices. There's been some preachers that have made some bad choices.
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There's been some articles that have made some bad choices that are rutched. And
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know God made some good choices when he made the choices of these twelve men
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that he would call her apostles. Say, Matthew, put it to its
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cust for your finding. In the twenty second chapter and the fourteenth versa,
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he wrote, for many are called, but few are chosen. Many are
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called, but few are chosen. Can you say that you are one of
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a chosen few? If you can say that he who ought to thank God?
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I said, you want to praise him. Your man at the choer
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comes back her. Let you get chosen. I'm sure there were many followers
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of Jesus Christ. The Gospel writers tell us that multitudes of people had followed
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him at times. In fact, multitudes owned him. They tried to touch
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the tangible Christ, God incarnate God right there in flesh, God present,
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the omniscient, the oh knowing God, the omnipresent God was present to meet
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needs. He was present to minister the Fella Nathaniel. Only a few received
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the healings they needed because her, or the motives for why they followed the
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call. There was something that simply followed him because her he saw the good
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breakfast, or he saw a good mousa, or he said a good suppler.
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God knows him your motives, I said. God knows the thoughts are
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and the gents or your heart. God knows God you are gathered together in
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this macha simbly. God knows their purpose. I believe the Lord heard all
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of these people as they gossiped, as they slambered, as they slammered,
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as they slumbered, as they slept, as they did anything but pay attention
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to what the teacher of teachers was saying. The Lord knows the hearts of
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people. God knows who, already hearing this message, is thinking about work
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tomorrow. God knows already who has been prepared for revival. God knows already
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who is ready for something to take place in their life that has never happened
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before. God knows what's inside of man. He remembers our frame that we
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are dust. He knows the thoughts and the intentions of every person in this
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beauting. There is something special and different about these twelve tones in men?
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Wasn't that Oldmost all of them, with the exception of Tunis, It was
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all of them were willing to serve the Lord, no matter what took place
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in time. Sometime down the road, even Judas was okay with Jesus's plan
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if he was willing to overthrow her the Roman government and serve as kingdom of
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kingsa and lord of lords at that time. The truth is one hundred percent
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of the men wanted to follow God, or one hundred percent of those men
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we're willing to die for him. Jesus wanted to do it. Then Judas
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wanted to be the treasurer of Christ earthly kingdom. No, what about you?
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Are you ready for danger to go your way? Are you ready for
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your plan? Give become God's plan? Her? Well, I will tell
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you, Jesus, you pay it, You'll d be God's fail I fall
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well. I thought I'll get it over here. I thought I'll get it
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in church. Brother Carter Baucap, you got your holy ghost experience it in
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dwelling beside a hotel room. Then brother say, now you got your life
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change besides your living room couch. If I understood you correctly. In Saint
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Marge Gospel, in the third chapter and the thirteenth verse, we find that
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John Mark wrote that the Lord called unto him who he would, and they
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came unto him. Then he ordained them the twelve to be with him,
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and he sent them forth to minister. Did you get that the reason why
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God wants to do something for you is so that you can effectively be something
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for somebody else. He will save those that He's called so that they can
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help her save her to somebody else. He sent there forth to Minister.
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The Holy guess was given that they might be witnesses or martyrs for this message,
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that they would stand for in the face of their adversary's opposition and the
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devil. No matter the outcome, these men have answered the call visit.
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That's simple. Yes, it's very simple. For the early Barty used to
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sing the song and the lyrics would go like this, why don't you just
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do what the Lord told you to do? You see, when these people
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were called, they answered every person in this fielding knows how to answer a
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phone call. With the exception of the children under the age of three,
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I would say even my two year old granddaughter Natalie would know how to answer
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her daddy's phone call. She seems pretty intelligent, and she seems pretty sharp.
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These men were called upon and they answered. They didn't just answer the
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call. They stepped up for service. It was do or die for them.
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I say, with God calls Eva, it is answer, do they
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die. That's the spirit that is hindering revival in America. As people realize
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that God is going to require something of them and they answer the claric call
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of salvation, sanctification, and Holy Gooes baptism. They cannot be selfish.
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They're gonna have to be selfless. They cannot be covetous, they cannot be
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envious, they cannot be jealous, they cannot have hatred in their heart any
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longer. They've got to reach for those that hate them. They gotta love
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their persecutor. They gotta love everybody unconditionally, and they gotta love their spouses.
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As Jesus left the church. Not everybody wants to love your world like
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Christ does. But it seems like everybody wants their love the spirit of the
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world the way the public knows. Do you love the spirit of Christ or
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the spirit on the world. You were seen that these men love Jesus more
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than they loved they'll work life. They love Jesus more than they loved their
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whole life. They love Jesus more than they loved their very own life.
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The problem is today, and the love of self is s prevalent. The
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love of pleasure is so prominent. The Bible said that men would love pleasure
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more than they love God so much for fishing on the sea of Galilee and
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told it all not and being ready for service. The next morning, when
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Zebede asked us, did we mend the nets? We said yes, Oh,
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come on, John, did you catch anything last night? No,
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it's because your hold God, Your nets got a hold, and it go
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mend the net, go fishing again. They were always active, they were
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always working. They were never inactive or you gonna getting miss her. They
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were self motivators. They had a self driven wheel to do something. And
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God calls these men to do something. I believe God is calling people at
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the bead of holding his church and in his time to do or die.
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He getting nature. I said, if you're gonna either do what God taught
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you to do or you're gonna fall off the trip, you're gonna die.
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Spiritual, you know what's gonna happen in those four fishing me in there not
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to or left their fishing boats, their fathers, their families and their nursing
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and done what God told to do. Their probably would have been a change
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to Come's deal came in the love of God, some storm on the sea.
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It's either do or do. I'm preaching all the unpros and chosen.
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These men never just sat by idle. How can we sit by island and
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not do anything while the revival fire is setting our church on fire? How
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can we do anything but run? How can we do anything but seek?
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How can we do anything but pray? If your coach tell spiritually speaking his
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on pire, you will stop, You will drop, and you will row.
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I'm telling you, you'll put down the pissing net. You'll stop her
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doing what you want to do. Your troxeesecake in the tressa, and you'll
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trump to your knees on a doctor or on a concrete called in the houser,
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and you'll become a hole in rolling someone again, suppose her to be
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trucking, even if it's the third hour for the king, who will be
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in the spirit. I said, your stop her, you won't drop her,
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and you'll roll to the d of God. It's still die, I
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tell I twell. In October of nineteen ninety two, when I gave my
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heart to Jesus, I could tell, even though my fiance was in the
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process of scratch on my back while the preacher preached, A conviction was so
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strong. I knew that I must leave her, even if that meant our
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relationship being severed and over. I must do what God wanted me to do,
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or I would die. What's worse to die naturally or it dies spiritually.
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The Bible said, if you don't fear that man that can destroy that
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body, what you do fear that man that can destroy my body and soul?
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In Hell? I'm telling you this so pediaself. It's a horrible thing
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you. I'm telling all consequence I solved, I said, oscar Kean,
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solve it. He needs to do something. Samuel said, why don't do?
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Your disobedience is unacceptable. You might be living in a iteration, says
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tolerate everything, but God don't have to tolerate your stubbornness and rut. Bel
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there, I'm telling you, when God says, hit your knees, you
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hit your knees. Come up here, brother Justin. I'm definitely not commanding
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you to battle mesa face where there's nobody standing. Get right there in the
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center at all, right out there in front of this pool pit. And
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brother road Camp was to hear right now that God said, Justin, hit
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your knees and get on your face. Huh before me? That is exactly
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the response that I believe that justin road Cap would gimpa the albody God.
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And I'm talking about another choosen missile. Think about the road Captain narrative.
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Just like this soul of Tarsusa was on his road to Damascus and a lot
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appeared to him brighter than the meanday side. Now you know the end result
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is the high, lofty spirited man ending up on his face. My question
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is what let it take God to get to Oh God, faith before?
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If you chose a vessel, yes, what he do? The choice is
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his God has chosen him. But has he chosen God? You've all heard
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about those infamous wit proposals where the bride grew to be supposed that the bride
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was so ready for him and his proposal that for sure he would ask her
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to marry him, and he was so convinced she would say yes. And
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you've heard of those foolish young men not choosing to do like I've done and
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other young men have done. Just go out there with you and the candidate
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by yourself before God and the stars. Hey, I mean, rejection is
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not an easy thing with some of these men, Brother h. Nathaniel.
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They have proposed in front of celebrities. They've interrupted concerts. Some of them
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have proposed proposals that cost them five million dollars I mean and landish winnings.
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Maybe not that much, but they spent a lot of money. I've heard
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about it. Some of them are spent five thousand dollars on it. Proposal
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opportunities are your women? You know? They put them women in a bad
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situation and they dropped the knee, thinking, because there's so many onlookers,
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that this woman will serving to answer the call and that she'll say yes because
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she's in the middle of an NBA game, says the Mavericks or a Miami
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heat. I don't keep up with that stuff anymore. I hope they're still
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a team named that they rather than they handle hearing halftime, they tip the
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right people. And they tracked her out there in the midcarta and they hit
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the knee, and that girl slaps them and says no, because she knows
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her why they proposed her te they heard right there are young women are out
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here. She's more than bid that they would pressure her in such a manner,
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because no doubt she knows she's already been telling him I'm not ready.
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I don't want to hear the call. Oh come on now, I'm telling
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you a sung you talk caught her into the dinner of the church house,
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and you left God standing there because you are not ready for the call.
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I'm gonna hit to my knees with God, and I'm gonna look God in
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her eyes and say, I am a ready. I said, I have
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read, mad reproblem's what you sat. I am a ready. It's avation,
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man, there's not coming my way. I am ready. So even
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the mean spirited, arrogant egotistically I minded so that would later become the apostle
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Paul willing to hit his face when he got smacked down. He got a
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verbal smack in the face. Now I know you all worship to praise Lord
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for a while. The night before I got to the preacher, and I
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appreciate you backing me, but I want to preach just a little while longer,
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if you'll bear with me. You see, Peter at one point had
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been asked by the Lord, will you depart? Also? You will remember
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the Lord asked Peter this because others had walked away. John chapter number six
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and worse number sixty eight had said, then Simon. Peter answered him and
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said, Lord, to whom shall we go? Thou hast the words of
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eternal life. Peter was saying, where else could I go? You have
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called me, you have chosen me. Peter had not forgot her that calling.
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And the primary character of our tux Tony is Paul, and he does
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like this and speaks one tim He said, I was obedient to the heaven,
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recalling I can't understand why anybody would be disobedient to the spirit of God,
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saying now it's the call of the miracle. Now it's the time for
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repinted God. How many of the multitude and followed him all it's well chosen.
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How many present in this building tonight are children? How many in this
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building used to be children when you were little? Did you ever contemplate running
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away? Huh? Did anybody? Not? Really? Most are saying my
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sister Crystals shaking her head. Yes, I need a confession to anybody else,
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sys to Donna, our sister, Steric, Brother Gabriel, Sister Canness,
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Brother road Camp, Brother Christian, Brother Richard Jacob, all of God's
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little angels, all of the precious saints of God, at one point had
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contemplated running away. Now I know Brother the Thing or Brother Philip had got
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it worked up in their mind that they were like Huncleberry Finn and Tom Sawyer
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the younger generation from about twenty years of all the age and daw don't even
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know who I'm talking about, But I too was inspired by Huncleberry Finn one
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time to sit out on the Alipi or my little homemade manufacturing raft, and
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to see how far I would go. I remember Brother Nathaniel and better Philip
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being the adventurous type of setting out. But you know what, hain't Brother
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the Thing or you and Brother Philip or not for lone this song that considered
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running away from home. I see that y'all didn't get too far from home.
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I see you here tonight. I've heard you talk about your parents and
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your family. Why not, you know, Michael, some of y'all did
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not know where to go? I right, beer berth turning. That makeship
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right around after that first spin and after get out of sight of home,
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and I said, you know what to forget to rapt and I'm walking home.
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Oh, come on, you're not getting this. This is going over
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your head. What happened? You got a little racer up the road and
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you thought about where will I go? Didn't you? And that's what people
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was saying, God, Lord, will I go? Lord? How could
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you go anywhere but to the throne of God to obtain grace and a time
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of need? How could you go anywhere but to the cross and let the
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riby red cruise of God of Jesus wash your saphie. That's a lot of
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cod say from the bad founday, say, how's a world? This is?
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Whosoever call for the name of the Lord, How can you not say
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the name Jesus, Jesus, Jesus. Oh I will took her brother to
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Jesus asked Peter that question, because many had walked away. Brother Richard Jacob,
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think with me on that getting the imaginary picture in your mind. Let's
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imagination work, got John Avery Whitakers. Let your imagination work like Nathaniel Howell's
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let your imagination work like Brother Caleb Road caps, Brother Caleb, where would
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you tell me some of them went? Brother Road? What you say some
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of them went? Brother Nathaniel? Where does some of them go? I
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know at one point Peter was tempted to go back fishing. I know that
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some probably went to the bakery. It's just the how had it been in
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that multitude and had a decided to go away, she would have went to
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the bakery. Where in the world where are they going? Where are you
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going? Where are you going? In your mind? Why are you not
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going up the Coosta? Why are you not going in the bble, Why
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are you not going to the all? Why are you not going through the
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altar? Because I'm going somewhere else, I set up and pause up.
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We're going somewhere off. Why this politics? Nevertheless, and you won't be
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chosen if you choose to go somewhere else. One by one they walked away,
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just like those religious hypocrites that was gonna stole the woman that had been
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caught the very act of a notary. And it's something hell. They only
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brought fifty percent of the problem. Huh went the other fifty percent slide?
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I hate politics. I sure do appreciate all of our great preachers in the
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holiness movement, but I will never bows to any type of makeshift political pressure.
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I'm telling you, one by one, these people begin to walk away.
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I'm sure the disciples asked each other the question, where are they going?
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It's prayer meeting time. They're out there in power pots p before church.
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It's pair meeting time. They all munch break there ain't their snack real
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quick? They're reading the Bible and they're praying. It's pair meeting time.
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Revival service Dutch of seven thirty and there comes Jesse Howell and he's frid his
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three sons and now went in the roomb early about seven o'clock, even though
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I need to get home from birth till six. Where are you going?
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I said, where are you going this revival time? I not borrowing a
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lottery ticket. Come at the handy store. I'm telling you, I don't
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do her a lottery ticket to change her my life. I need to choose
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her for Christ to change my God. Where the where that came from?
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I don't need a thirst buster before church church Dutch of seven thirty and the
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Master's calling me, calling you. Can't you hear the rest of the Savior
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calling you. I don't need a first I need that living water. You
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say, well, I've got the satisfied by natural Thursday and Appetits not really
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that woman came to the well of Samaria with a bucket. Owner has told
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her, But you know what care which she got water from the world,
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her sign racing water from Jesus him supper. She forgot about the world.
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I say, forgot about her bucket. What you need is her the wale.
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Where are you going? God has called us to revive them? W
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are you going? Jesus is teaching? Can you imagine them? Twelve disciples?
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Sister wouldin this is the son of God, Brother ron cap If the
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multitudes will not heed his preaching and they will not teary for his ministry,
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the one that can breathe on them and say, receive the holy ghosts,
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the one that can open the ponded eye. If that was not enough,
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Sister hand to calls in the pamp out at his feet. I don't know
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why to to take their son. The truth is the free will. I
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hear the call and I want to be choosing. I'm a hold man,
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I feel the holy gours in this place. Just because you've been called does
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not mean you'll be the chosen. Just because you fail a call in his
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service tonight, just because you felt a Sunday, just because we got on
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the schedule, when somebody's printing the flower that don't you only chosen you haphazardly
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O o'clock. You're come in to dinner and you ain't really concerned about what's
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over to me and you? They Mama, don't have to serve you.
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I pull a holy ghostop in this place. Where were they going concerning about
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the tea? They did not want their follow Jesus. They get pot farlow
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Jesus. They would not follow only Jesus, and they would not obey Jesus.
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I swear we're out right now. I just will not follow sister hold
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her sister rooting into a prayer of calls at I just will not following my
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pastor in the high that's all right, you won't be telling either. Concerning
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the multitude, why don't you come? What's a half on your phone?
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And most importants? When he called, we're taking your baby to the park.
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The baby dot came, you are most importents. When he called,
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he called that some were slimmering and some were sleeping, summer flies and summer
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foolish. Fifty percent, we're doing good. Fifty percent we're not doing so
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good. With the callcade, I said, the call came, how do
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you know you're saint? Them did not hour of your life? How do
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you know this ain't your prodcream? You're a savior? Calling you before you
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got this not means your lost my party? These people would not do what
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Jesus said? Where did they go? And I was praying today and I
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wrote that down. Where did they go? And Brother Jesse, here's what
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the Holy Girt said, not to eternal life. That means they went to
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eternal death. Because Peter said, where shall I go? Thou hast the
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words of eternal life? What Peter was saying, don't only call me,
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choose me. And I want to be so close to you that I hear
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your words, because your words or words of eternal the life. Any time
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you choose brabis who were Jesus, we're gonna lose God. Who does or
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what does b rabbits representing your life? I can hear it. It's calling
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even right now. That app on your phone is calling you right now.
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He said, Well, that app is not saying. It might not be.
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But the Bible did say, let's lay aside every way in the sell
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and so easily miscetists. You gotta race to run. You gotta get the
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Pentecost because it's two days until the power of class. I said, with
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a pentecost, they tear it two days. If they showed up on your
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running day, it weren't. Hey, this is home. Way around.
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We're gonna have another Pentecosta, not over. That was the appointed time for
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that particular rearea. Everybody, well, I'll consider running away. I'll just
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get out of church. You can run, but you can't hide. Let's
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read our golden text again, brother and sisters. But the Lord said it
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to him, go thy way, for he is a chosen vessel unto me.
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That's the emphasis of tonight's message. For he is a chosen vessel unto
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me. Could the church say amen, not just so it could be said
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he's the great Apostle Paul that wrote most of the New Testament. Not so
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it could be said that he's the great Apostle Paul that was beaten and left
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for dead so many times. Not so it could be said that this is
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the great Apostle Paul that lost his head at Nero's Choklaw. He was a
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chosen vessel, Brother Nathaniel, to bear my name before the Gentiles, to
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be a missionary, to take the Gospel to the kings, and to take
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it to the children of Israel. God could have chosen anybody, but what
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it is. God knew what was under the surface of Saul. And I'm
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telling you today tonight, in this service, I felt the Holy Ghost in
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a mighty way as we had congregation on choir singing. And God, let
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me know, Sister Iris, there's somebody right here that trauma isn't even saved
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the way I felt. But He will sanctify them and fill them with the
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Holy goes not many days. Hens. If they will sell out and get
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consecrated right here, he said, I'm telling you, I will change them
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in a moment, Sister. How he changed Matthew in a moment he went
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back listening to that. You're not getting hold of your miracle. Hey,
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brother Nathaniel, what at this representative miracle coming, Brother Nathaniel. I know
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something about Brother Nathaniel. How he ain't gonna miss it. He ain't going
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I'm telling you, That's what Jacob said. I know this promise is mine.
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I'm gonna prepare for it. I'm gonna do everything I can and I
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can. He ain't know not to anything. I don't heal what to to
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your address me. I'll brother, just see, I'm gonna get away from
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you. I will not hunt your bless me. Huh. That's what Jesus
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do about soul over her conscious. He will knocked that toe when he gets
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a whole of the town, and I'll get a hold of him. I'm
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here, That's what I said. I ain't got that a hold had got
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a hold of me, but I take it. I'll try to apprehend your
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tongue. I'm trying them. That's the truth. I'm tired of the hold
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of it. The bivals here right now. You can receive the holys from
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rotting in what we're being rock now, whether kss, the houses lost in
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the spirits those other people get clost to in the spirit who say, well,
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I'm know where I need to be, saw what they needed to be
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either, but not many days he had, so he must follow her.
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How the whole of those chosen vessel the uncrosen chosen. I wish somebody's soul
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would catch on pine, catch all Pie, catch all Pine. I wish
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somebody would not be rich, and we not you or cats roll pie.
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You, like Paul, have been sent on an assignment to bring Christians back
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to God backslaughters pedicles. Paul would bring Christians back to Jerusalem so they could
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be pressured by any means necessary to denounce Jesus. Ask the personal Lord and
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Savior. That was Paul's intentions to persecute and to destroy any that he founded
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this way, so your excuses do not hold water. In fact, he
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was en route to Damascus. Why Damascus. I was praying and asking God,
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why Damascus? I think I know the voice of the Lord, something
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inside of me, not in an of a voice, but something opened my
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understanding and said, look up the definition of the word Damascus, brother Danny,
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and he said that was his destination. I looked up the word Dabascus
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and it can mean the land of the left hand side. Brother Nathaniel.
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He had bad motives that said like her to everybody else, and it seemed
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like he was gonna mean harm. He meant harm. He's gonna do harm.
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But there must have been something in the spirit of Saul eating at him
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the same way miserable Matthew was miserable. I'm telling you the reason why God
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he's doing what he's doing, Sister Howl, A little more time. There's
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somebody on the surface to the Mariems. Even Anna I sa himself can't say
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you're mean. They thank your hearts. They think you don't want it to
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but here inside your heart's excide. You know Jesus hen deal with you.
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How come on Saul knew that it was Jesus hadn't been calling him. It
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appears to sob Sister Howl that these individuals are going to the left hand side.
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Then we're gonna lose him. We're gonna lose him. Paul certainly was
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headed in the wrong direction, but God still had a plan for his young
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man, young woman. I want to tell you something that might feel like
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you are headed in the wrong direction, But God still has a plan for
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your life. I said, God has their beautiful time for your life.
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You've been called. He was en route to Damascus. Brother Jacob puts it
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to do something terrible, No doubt, he'd already beat himself up over Barton
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and Stephen. But you know what, God saved you, and the Lord
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didn't planning to hide Paul in a corner. No, Paul had a terrible
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record, did he knock? Paul had a lot to make saints afraid of.
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Paul had a lot to be ashamed of her brother Jesse. But here's
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what the Lord said. He is chosen. He's a chosen vessel. He
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has a special assignment, a special work to do for me. He's a
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chosen vessel. Unto me, appears to be contrary at the moment, But
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he's chosen. And that's how I want to close tonight. You appear to
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be contrary. You're not making all of us feel comfortable about if you're ready
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or not. We can't tell, But I'm telling you the Holy Ghost knows
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more than what you appears in this building. Those I feel like a holy
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guess wants to take this service right here. You might appear to be contrary,
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but you're chosen. The Lord has a purpose for your life. The
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purpose for Matthew's life was to take him from misery to ministry. The purpose
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for Justin Rocap's life was to take him from being a junkyard dog to a
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holy worlder. Brother just In, the purpose was not for you to keep
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seeing people get arrested for the manufacturing and sales and drugs, but that you
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would be found teaches study is to my South Florida brother, Philip. There's
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a purpose for that, buddy. I don't understand why you're fighting cancer,
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but I have not questioned God yet I feel the whole it. Ghos stand
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in this place. Paul was chosen to bear in his body the marks of
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Jesus Christ. That's what it said the Lord told Antonius. He said,
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I've chosen him to bear my name. He's gonna stand before Gentiles, He's
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gonna stand before Jews, he's gonna stand before kings and y'all remember the address
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of Apostle Paul, we most notable, Festus, Felix, and Krypton.
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You ain't getting this, you say right now, I don't know how to
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stand. Having done all the stand, all you got do is take yourself
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to the friend clause and pray. He's the one that saves, He's the
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one that sanctifi us. He's the one that baptizes my God. I'll feel
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the holy ghost unto this place. I'm preaching on the unfrozen chosen. There's
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people in this building. You feel cold, and you feel richer, and
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you feel damp. I'm telling you, God's about to set you on fire.
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If that's you, move quickly to these altars. You could get under
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your face. That's right, sister, Just run to the altar. That's
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right. Brother, run to the altar. Saints of God gathered around them,
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and lay your hands on them. Pray for him, sisters, Pray
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for sisters. Brothers, pray for brothers. I wish somebody's soul and catch
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on fire. Catch on fire. There's a special work for you to do.
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I don't want to be one of those that are frozen, one of
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the stiff to his air hearing the Bible. They are chosen, They say
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that, they are phrase that, how can this be? I wver do
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one of them chosen fu that chose it for Jesus. Use them, Oh
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Lord, don't refuse them. Sure, there's a work that I could do,
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even though it's humble. Lord, help my will. Troubles go to
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cost for great ill work for you. Jesus used me. Sweet lad my
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God, don't quench the spirit. Jesus Us, Jesus, you used to
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Paul, always did one of the us. He's a chosen boss, She's
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a chosenness the Lord. I be a witness because you will help my weakness.
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I know that I'm not worth in ordering my eyes of faith. I
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see them the card the class of Calvin. He Lord, I cry not
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be I serve he Jenesus used me. Oh, Lord, don't refuse me.
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Let's try a choice. I'll stand for the dear Jesus. Though death
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may come my way. I'll spread the gospel to the far in earth.
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But if it be, I will Lord to go across to see. Lord,
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help them to be willing to say yes. He's the lily of a
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valley, the round up the star. He's the fairest of thousands to my
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soul, He's the beautiful ways of shared. He's all the world to me.
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For most of all, he's my sun coming King Jesus. Usual,
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Oh Lord, please don't refuse me. Sure there's the work I could do
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even though it's hoble, Lord, help my will and crumble those across the
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great I'll work for thee. And here's what somebody used to tray. Dear
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Lord, I'll be a witness if you will help my weakness. Let's don't
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turn it down, church, Let's turn it. He says that the frozen
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chooses you, the DRIs changing. It's up to you. The outcome of
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this is up to you. That is called. Where you be chosen?
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Not many noble, Not many noble choose. There's a work for you to
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do. There's a work for you to do. Can you see the cheerious
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subjects being your called? But few are chosen? Men your call? But
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few are chosen. And here's yeah, yeah, go ahead, what help
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us? Let's pray a wild church, those of you that have to get
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up with two, three, four, four point thirty you've dismissed. But
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let's pray a while. Yeah, I'll come with This is up to you.
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Let's pray a while. We got about six or seven right now,
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the spirit of God's helping you. Just tarry a while, sister, how
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and I can be here for you. Just teary a lot. Go ahead
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and tell you set up on fire Lord. I don't want to be wanting
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to be I know, be one of the church to one of the children.
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You know, I wanna be one news boundarady man, I be the
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two rump it sounds. I wanna be one he can depend on when this
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new one nils around. I wanna be one that he looks, so it's
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fee fool the truth. I don't wanna be one in a ullion, just
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one of the chosen jeeves. I wanna be one who's found ready when I
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hear the trumpet sound, I wanna be one he can depend on when this
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no one else around. I wanna be one that he looks, so it's
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free full the truth. I don't wanna be one in a mullion, just
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one of the chosen. Gee. When I was a child, someone asked
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me, when you grow up, but would you like to be a doctor,
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alawyer, the president or a star with your name on the marquees.
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But I remember what Daddy was told me, no matter in the swirl,
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but you may be there's no glory and being just one of the millions,
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So stand up and be one of the chosen few. Now, I wanna
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be one who's found ready when I hear the trumpet sound, I wanna be
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one he can depend on when there's no one else around. I wanna be
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one Daddy looks so sweet, pulling true. I don't wanna be one in
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a million, just one of the chosen. And now I wanna be one
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who's found ready when I hear the trumpet sound. I wanna be one he
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can't depend on and there's no one else around. I wanna be one thy
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losson. It's me fool and true. I don't want to be one in
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a million, just the one out the chosen. I don't wanna be one
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in a bullion, just one out the chosen. You may be a man
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with great virtue, you may possess the wealth of a king, or you
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may sip he be one of the million secrets in search of the American dream.
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But soon the Lord it's coming. And this one thing, I know,
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he's not coming back. Where are the millions of secrets? But he'll
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be looking for them playing ball too and view. I don't want to be
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one who's found ready when I hear the trumpy sound. I wanna be one
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he can depend on when there's no one else around. I wanna be one
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that he looks so that's feed food the truth. I don't wanna be one
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in a union, just one of the chosen. Fear now, I wanna
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be one who's found ready when I hear the rump is sound, I wanna
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be one he can depend on when there's no one else around. I wanna
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be one that he looks on. That's fee food the truth. I don't
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wanna be one he evenna bellion for one of the chosun. I wanna be
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one you found ready when I hear the drump it out, I wanna be
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one he get it being done when there's no one else around. I wanna
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be warn mad he looks, so let's be fall the truth. I don't
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wanna be one