Sermon
UNCONDITIONAL SURRENDER | SUNDAY 16TH MARCH | KRISTEN WILLIAMS
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well what an excellent what an excellent
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Gathering God bless you
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all
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um I stalked you actually last week
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because um you know like I I uh Aaron
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Aaron gave that very strange
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introduction
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um it's one of the stranger ones I've
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had I'm not sure I ever want to send you
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a word of knowledge ever
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again but um he gave me that strange
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word and from the moment that he told me
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what was on his radar I knew absolutely
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for sure that uh that he and Sarah and
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their family would be coming here I knew
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it absolutely knew it uh so I was quite
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decisive about that but I've been
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totally indecisive about what to talk to
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you about midweek Aaron said to me hey
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can you send the
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notes and I was like oh boy good luck
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with that so I sent him two sets of
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notes uh and um and I but I warned him I
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said I may not stick with either of
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those
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um not not because I'm all over the
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place well sometimes I am but not
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because I'm all over the place but just
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because sometimes I find the Lord will
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say to me weeks even sometimes months in
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advance at that church that you're
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visiting this is what you will speak and
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I'm like praise God and other times I
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think he likes to remind me of my
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Frailty and he likes to keep me on my
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toes and says I'll let you
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know so here I am and hopefully he let
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me
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know um uh I want to I want to uh give
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honor to my wife who is sitting in the
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front row uh it was our 33rd anniversary
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yesterday so that's uh that's pretty
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good you can you can see the 33 years on
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me but you can't see it on her I also
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want to honor the mcdows God bless you
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fantastic what a what a what a faithful
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and excellent work you've done in the
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city and during the worship time I also
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want to I want to say thank you I you
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know like boy talk about a warm welcome
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I was getting welcomed by people I knew
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and people I didn't know and I I met
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Marco who I prayed for and spoken to you
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know he'd been at an event I was running
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when when he was a teenager and so just
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had the most excellent welcome that's a
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good sign isn't it um and also is that
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young lady Jess who spoke last week here
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where's she where are you Jess oh God
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bless you Jess I uh I I listened to your
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message and I took notes
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um and I agree with your pit peeve about
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when people pull in front of you or when
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you let them in and then you don't they
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don't say thank you we were driving home
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we went for a walk up near Wei beach
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yesterday and my son was driving us home
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and and some motorbikes pulled in in
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front and they didn't say thank you and
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I thought about
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you but I also I also thought about this
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quote I when I was feeling very
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indecisive Jess I almost thought what
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I'd do is I'd stand up and i' say rerun
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last week
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because I thought this quote was
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excellent pursuing the secret life with
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God calls us to die to ourselves and to
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the temptation to make it all about
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us oo isn't that an encouragement isn't
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that also a bit of a Sharp sword eh
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hello all right good very good okay you
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ready got your Bibles who's got their
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Bibles who actually has a paper Bible
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have you got a paper Bible all right
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who's got an electronic Bible okay you
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get double points for a paper Bible but
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anyway
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throughout history there have been times
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when the evil one the adversary has
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targeted particular groups of people in
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the days of Moses Pharaoh said kill all
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the baby boys you're familiar with this
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what was happening was God was raising
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up a deliverer for his people and so
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pharaoh and the evil that he represented
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were threatened by that so he said right
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I am going to wipe out this possib
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ability of Deliverance for the people of
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God before it can get started and he
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issued the statement kill all the baby
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boys but you know that God intervened
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and Pharaoh's plan failed that's good
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news isn't it similar thing happened in
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the days Around Jesus birth Herod like
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the Pharaoh uh before him said kill all
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the baby boys he had also heard that a
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deliverer this time deliverer capital D
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was coming Jesus the son of God who was
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going to not just set God's older
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Testament people free but was going to
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set everyone everywhere who would
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believe in him free so like Pharaoh he
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set out to kill this young deliverer
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with the same challenge kill all the
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baby boys but again God intervened and
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herod's plan failed praise God
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on both occasions the Lord was doing
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something powerful something important
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and in the case of Jesus something Earth
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shattering and
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worldwide and the power that was
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threatened by Jesus tried to stop it in
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its infanticide in with
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infanticide now if you look around today
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how many of you realize another battle
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rages around us it doesn't just Target
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young people it targets everybody but it
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has a particular targeting of young
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people and the evidence is all around us
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it's all around
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us there's this feeling like these days
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like I'm 57 years old I'm the proud
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grandfather now of two grandsons and I
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want more and more and more as many as
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possible grandchildren are addictive and
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uh Kelvin was boasting to me earlier
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about the fact that he's got five
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and I only have
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two yeah okay I'll work on
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it but even as a 57 year old these days
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I spend a lot of my time with young
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people it's the strangest thing
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sometimes when I get invited you know I
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get this invite hey can you come and
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speak at this Youth Event I'm like I
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almost feel like I need to send them a
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selfie you know like you you you you you
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realize don't
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you we see among our young people we see
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self-hatred we see suicidal Tendencies
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we see addiction we see depression
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despair loneliness fear
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hopelessness I saw a statistic out of
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the United States they surveyed uh
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teenage girls and found that 60% of them
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uh described how they feel about their
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lives they described using the word
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sad young people and children in
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particular seem to be the target of the
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battle that is Raging but they are not
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the only
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Target and among our young people
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multitudes of them were taken out in
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various ways and the ones that are not
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taken out live in a tidal wave of the
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sphere and hopelessness and
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depression go well that's not a very
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encouraging start to the message
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Christan I thought maybe you'd have
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something a bit more upbeat well let's
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just
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change well no no let's do this before I
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change let's do this if the devil is say
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for example waging a war on young
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people and you hear what I just said it
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can look an awful lot like he might be
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winning but is he
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winning uh down here sitting next to my
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wife as a young lady Britney she comes
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from a church that I visit regularly in
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America and this church is a
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particularly interesting Church the
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pastors of that church when I first met
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them it was uh 13 14 years ago and I was
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speaking at a conference and I pulled
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them out of the crowd and prophesied
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over them cut a long story short now
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they've planted this church and this
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church is marked by signs wonders
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Deliverance salvation and mirac Ires up
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along the front of their Church they've
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got disused crutches and uh walking
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frames and and all sorts of things from
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people that have been
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healed and so uh not last time not the
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time before but the time before that
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when I was visiting that church I was
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sitting right about where my son Isaac
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that's him sitting there in the front
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row of whom I'm very proud I was sitting
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right about where he was sitting and
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over on this side there was a a young
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lady and she had about a 10-month-old
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little boy
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and the grandfather in me was
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like and I'm looking at this little boy
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and so finally I went over and I started
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talking to her about her little boy and
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she said this to me she said Jesus has
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been good to me and I said tell me about
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that she said 18 months ago I was living
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on the street addicted to
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fentel someone from this church shared
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the gospel with me I became a follower
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of Jesus now I'm I'm I'm addiction free
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I'm in my right mind and I'm raising my
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son and so I went back and I sat down
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and I was just going wow and I get a tap
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on the
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shoulder and behind me there's a man who
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introduced himself as
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Javier Javier looks like he might be a
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member of like some sort of drug
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cartel right he had a bandan around his
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head he had you know the the right sort
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of clothing for that line of work as you
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might put it and even though we were
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sitting inside he had these big thick
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wraparound heavyduty sunglasses on and
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he tapped me on the
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shoulder and he said he said did she
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just tell you a bit of her story and I
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said yep he said to me Jesus has been
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good to me too and I said what happened
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and he he lifted up his trousers and
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there was a one of those ankle
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monitoring bracelets on his
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leg and he started telling me how he got
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that ankle monitoring bracelet I won't
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go into those details it's not really
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you know that's his story and um and it
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probably doesn't quite fit our
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context and so he showed me that and he
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told me how Jesus had set him free how
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someone had shared the gospel with him
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and he'd become a born again Jesus
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loving follower of the Son of God and I
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was like Wow and I'm just sitting there
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like H and then this young man who I
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know who's one of the worship leaders he
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comes and sits beside me and says hey
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Christen how are you and he was puffing
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and I said why are you puffing he says I
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had to ride my bike'
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to be here I said why' you have to ride
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your bike he says Ah not allowed to
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drive because i' I've got a DIY you know
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like I got I got convicted for drunk
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driving and and he I said oh really he
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says yeah that was before Jesus got a
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hold of me and so I'm sitting there and
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I'm I'm blown away by this over here and
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then by have ear behind me and now I'm
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sitting next to this young man and after
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that trip I I came home and and he had
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to he actually had to go to prison he
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went to prison for I think 31 or 33 days
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and while he was in the prison he led 30
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men to Jesus and baptized a whole bunch
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of them in a bathtub in the
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prison each of those people restored by
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Jesus is now a genuine threat to the
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adversary a genuine threat to the
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bondage and the pain and the addiction
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because every one of their testimonies
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is the antidote to what people are
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living
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in so if the devil is Waging War on
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all of us but particularly our young
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people there must be something he's
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worried about hello there must be
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something that concerns him there must
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be something that the Lord is wanting to
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do that the devil is trying to
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abort who likes a little bit of
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controversy hello just three people who
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who likes you like no I need to know the
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controversy before I who who who may may
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I be a little bit controversial
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you're like
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the he's sort of
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smiling couple of years ago a very
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prominent official in our land and I I'm
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I'm not here to criticize anybody but a
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couple of years ago a very prominent
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official in our land couldn't answer a
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simple question what is a woman that's
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right okay I'm not here to criticize
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that person and I'm not here to talk
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political affiliations but here was he
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couldn't answer the question what is a
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woman does God have an answer to that
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question and how does he answer
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it 1 chronicles 16 uh 2 Chronicles 16:9
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says this the eyes of the Lord range to
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and fro throughout the Earth to give
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strong support to those whose Hearts
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belong completely to
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him how does God answer the question
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what is a
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woman he gets a hold of a
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woman willing to surrender her life
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fully and wholeheartedly to
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him and he fills her with his power he
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fills her with hope he fills her with
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strength and dignity and purpose he sets
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her free from the confusion and the
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bondage and the fear and the addiction
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and all the Mucky stuff that swirls
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around he gets a hold of a young lady
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say and he fills her with the Holy
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Spirit he sets her free and he turns her
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from slavery and fear and worry and
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bondage to the opinions of
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others into the dignity and hope and
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Liberty of walking free and being who
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she was created to
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be this woman then becomes in our day a
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living reflection of John
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1:5 where it was said of Jesus the light
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shines in the darkness and the Darkness
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cannot overcome it so all God looks for
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is he looks for I I I mentioned a young
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woman but it works for every age he
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looks for a woman willing to say here is
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all of me and he fills that woman with
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his presence with his
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power and turns her into a light shining
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in the darkness and that woman will be a
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living Nightmare and a threat to the
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purposes of the
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devil what is a
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man well about 25 years ago it became
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very common to belittle men in the
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media about 25 years ago in the media it
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became very common to make men whether
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it was a sitcom or an advertisement to
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make men look kind of dumb to make them
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look kind of like
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buffoons to make them look like they
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really weren't in charge of anything
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that was going
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on and this became very trendy very
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popular more
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recently we now have terms like toxic
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masculinity now I'm not saying that
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there isn't a form of masculinity that
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can be toxic but this term toxic
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masculinity is everywhere it's
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proliferating and so now no one seems to
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know what a man should
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be well I don't want to be too masculine
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CU I don't want to be
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toxic how does God answer the question
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what is a
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man the eyes of the Lord range to and
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fro throughout the Earth that he might
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give strong support to a male heart that
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belongs completely to him he gets a hold
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of a man he gets a hold of a man who is
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fully surrendered to him
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he gets a hold of a man willing to say
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here is my whole life and he sets him
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free from Fear he sets him free from
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boredom he sets him free from lust he
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sets him free from Pride he sets him
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free from addiction and he fills him
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with fiery love burning purpose dignity
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and
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hope turning him into living proof of
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the resurrection of Jesus and that
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everywhere that man goes like my friends
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at that church in America everywhere
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that man goes he starts to become the
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antidote to the confusion and the pain
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and the dysfunction that we see
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everywhere around
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us Jesus is just looking for people
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willing to say here's all of me and he
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says right I'll take a hold of that and
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I will use you in ways high profile or
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low profile in front of people and
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behind the
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scenes I will use you to establish my
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purpose on the earth one person at a
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time I'm starting with those directly
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around you in my opinion that's what the
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enemy fears we got a bunch of younger
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ones over this s
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side imagine God getting a hold of them
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even more imagine every one of them
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living fully surrendered filled to
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overflowing with the power of the Holy
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Spirit imagine them becoming
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impervious to the to the plans and the
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Ws and the garbage that the enemy pulls
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in imagine it being like water off a
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duck's back
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imagine their eyes filled with light and
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hope imagine their hearts filled with
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joy imagine them being free from the
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fear of trying to that causes people to
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try and fit in with everything around
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them and they actually are free to be
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who God made them to
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be it's a really good point Christian
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thank you I receive that
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Amen in my opinion that's what the devil
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fears so what's
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next what's the lord's response going to
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look like what is ahead of
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us I believe two main simple things are
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ahead of us do you want to hear them
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four people want to hear them do you
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want to hear them we doing okay yeah
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good good good
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okay there are two main things that we
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are going to
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see among the church and many who will
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be added to the church and we are going
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to see this even
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particularly like on on hyper super
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steroids among the young
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people firstly The
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Towering overwhelming revelation of
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Jesus's
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King these days I'm in a different
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Church often in a different town every
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week last week I was in Christ Church
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next week I'll be in Nelson this week
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I'm here with you find
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people different churches have different
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emphasis you go into this church and
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they might emphasize that you go into
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that church and they might emphasize
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this all of that is going to start to be
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absolutely overwhelmed by The Towering
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Revelation as Jesus Christ as the
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Undisputed King of the
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universe Philippians 2 8- 11 and being
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found in appearance as a man he Jesus
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humbled himself by becoming obedient to
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death even death on a
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cross therefore God exalted him to the
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highest place and gave him the name that
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is above every name that at the name of
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Jesus every knee should bow in heaven
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and on Earth and under the Earth and
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every tongue confess that Jesus Christ
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is Lord to the glory of God the Father
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end of story every knee shall bow in
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heaven in the Heavenly realms on the
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earth and even beneath the Earth the
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Demonic realm every knee shall bow Jesus
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is the Undisputed King look at this
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Colossians
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2:15 having disarmed the powers and the
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principalities that's the the the
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spiritual forces of evil in the Heavenly
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Realms having disarmed the powers and
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the principalities he made a public
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spectacle of them triumphing over them
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at the cross
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Hallelujah this is King Jesus we are not
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here worshiping a God we picked from a
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multi-choice set of options he is not
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one of many there are not many Pathways
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to many Heavens there is one Heaven
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There is one Throne there is one God
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there is one way Jesus is the Undisputed
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King the church is going to stop dibbly
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dabbling and and in this little idea and
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this little idea and it's all going to
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become back to the central issue of
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Jesus as the Undisputed for Everlasting
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King all the other distractions and all
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the other emphasis are just going to
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begin to burn in the fire of this
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Revelation the beauty the power the
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Majesty the grace the the nothing
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compares to Hess of Jesus Christ he is
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not one of many he is the only only one
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his love his victory his Supremacy his
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Mercy his
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righteousness and all of this is going
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to lead to the second
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thing an
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overwhelming willingness and desire to
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surrender everything to
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him the grace to lay everything down at
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his feet in total surrender
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to not just sing songs like you're the
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only thing that
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matters but to actually begin to live
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this
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way to actually begin to go you are the
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worthy King how could I withhold
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anything from you and your way is better
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anyway I got born again out of an
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atheist family just before I turned
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18 I got born again into a charismatic
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Anglican Church in West
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Oakland and we used to go in there on
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Sunday
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nights and sorry you're on the wrong
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side for my story all the young people
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were on this
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side and all the older people were on
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that
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side and if you arrived late as a young
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person you wound up in the confused
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bunch in the
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middle and I remember they on this side
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of the church they had some stained
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glass
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windows one was the
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cross one was the empty tomb and one was
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the Ascension of
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Jesus and they used to sing this song
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what can I give to you the words went
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what can I give to you for the things
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that you've done and I sat over
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there wondering what had happened to me
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boiling my eyes out looking at these
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stained glass windows crying my eyes out
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going Lord I want to give to you
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everything then as a new Christian I
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discovered
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Petra how many of you remember
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Petra to interpret for you Petra was
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like a really excellent rock band Back
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in the Day Christian rock
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band and I bought a Petra
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tape
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tape tape half of you don't even know
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what a CD is anymore tape
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and I put it into the stereo in my 1975
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Mitsubishi Galant
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1850
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Coupe that I had upgraded to a 2 L
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engine and gained no performance
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whatsoever and I used to drive around
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West Oakland and Petra would sing This
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Means
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War but they also had this song and the
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words went I am
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available I will go where you say go
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I'll stop when you say I should drive
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around West Oakland with my oversized
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sunglasses that I bought from the
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chemist at Blockhouse
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Bay Drive around
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Oakland weeping and crying and bellowing
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out I'm available I'll go where you say
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go this revelation of Jesus is going to
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lead to an Unstoppable overwhelming
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desire to surrender everything to him
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we're going to stop singing quote
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worship songs that are about
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us and we're going to sing songs like
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holy holy are you Lord God
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Almighty all right let's bring this in
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for a landing Aaron's looking
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nervous he's
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not Revelation 121 1211 sorry says
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this and they overcame
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him by the blood of the
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Lamb the word of their testimony and
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they did not love their lives to the
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death this was written by a man called
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John the Bible refers to him as John the
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Beloved everyone say John the
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Beloved that only appears in the
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writings by
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John that's fun isn't it he called
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himself John the Beloved and Jesus were
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like fair enough put it
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in John had been exiled to the island of
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Patmos
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for the testimony of Jesus and he was
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there on the island of
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Patmos and he had this crazy encounter
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that we know now as the Book of
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Revelation he wrote it down and in the
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middle of that he wrote down that verse
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I just read John saw a future
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generation that would overcome the evil
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one by the blood of the Lamb that's
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Jesus on the
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cross that's the foundation of
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everything that's the door by which we
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enter that's the foundation upon which
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we
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stand he saw that they would overcome by
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the blood of the Lamb by the word of
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their testimony the effect the change
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the the the story of the transforming
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work of God that just comes out of every
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human life as we walk with him some of
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us have dramatic
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testimonies some of us feel like we
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don't I remember one time my daughter
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saying to me after we'd been at a youth
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thing that she'd come to me with and and
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we'd heard one of these testimonies well
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I you I used to do drugs and I used to
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do this and I I did that and I did the
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other thing and now I'm a Christian and
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and she said to me she said dad I don't
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really have a
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testimony and I talked to her and she
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said basically she said I don't really
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have a testimony because I haven't got
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that sort of a
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story she said and her story is
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basically she can't remember a day when
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she didn't know the
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Lord and every parent in the room goes
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that's the testimony I want that's the
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testimony I want for my children my
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grandchildren my great grandchildren if
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I Endure come
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on the blood of the Lamb the word of
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their
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testimony and they love not their lives
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so much is to shrink back from death
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which is not some sort of
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cosmic Death
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Wish it's a Jesus you are
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better I don't love my life as much as
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you I I am trusting that even if even if
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I lay down my life day by day as a
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Living Sacrifice that you'll make the
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journey worth it and if there is ever a
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time that I would lay down my life
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physically in death that you will pick
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it up they love not their lives so much
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as even to shrink back from Death they
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found something more valuable than even
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their Earthly
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lives they lived Fearless lives of Hope
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and purpose and total surrender to Jesus
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and in doing so filled by the Holy
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Spirit they overcame the the evil one in
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the Fulfillment of John's ancient
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prophetic
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word worship team would you like to
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return please thank you Marco and
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joy and the rest of you who
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unfortunately I don't know your
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names you know what's important to
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know how you doing by the way are we you
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doing all right good good so a few
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serious faces out there that's maybe a
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good
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sign I believe when John wrote that
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Revelation 1211 he saw a future
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generation not a particular
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generation he peered into the
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future and he saw that there would come
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a generation who would overcome the evil
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one by the blood of the Lamb the word of
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their testimony and they love not their
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lives so much as to shrink back from
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Death I don't believe he saw a
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particular generation and I'll tell you
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why 1 Peter 3:12 as you look forward to
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the day of God that's the return of
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Jesus and speed it's
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coming I don't believe the day of the
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Lord is fixed I believe the father
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knows but I don't believe the day of the
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Lord is fixed which sounds like a
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contradiction but haven't got time to
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try and go into
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that I believe that sometimes we are
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here and we're just waiting God when
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will you send Revival
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I'm all about Revival I believe that
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there is one more Revival coming and
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it's
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worldwide I believe there is one more
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coming and it doesn't conclude until
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Jesus splits the sky and
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returns but I think that the Lord is
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also
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going I'm waiting for
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something I'm waiting for this
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generation fueled by the overwhelming
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revelation of Jesus as the Undisputed
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Everlasting King
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a generation that will
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come and set themselves before him and
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say Lord everything that I have
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everything that I love everything that I
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want everything all my strengths all my
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failures all my weaknesses all my hopes
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all my fears I put them all at your feet
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have all of
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me and what a
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privilege what a privilege to bring our
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lives every day of the remainder of Our
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Lives whether we have one more or 15
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,000 more or whatever what a privilege
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to bring those and set them at his feet
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and say Lord use
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me and to do that very
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thing if if one or some or all of us
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were to do that very thing in this
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room I believe it sends a shock
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wave through the kingdom of
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darkness I don't think they
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fear if we come in and we just tick a
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religious box and go away going I've
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done that for the week praise God
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yeah but if we were to drive away walk
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away cycle away skateboard away from
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here having laid Our Lives before the
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Lord and then we do the same thing every
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day for the remainder of our
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days 2 Chronicles
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169 the eyes of the Lord range to and
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fro throughout the
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Earth that he might give strong support
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to those whose Hearts belong completely
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to
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him which simply is those who followed
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fully in the footsteps of
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Jesus who laid down his life for us to
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pay the price that we could never have
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paid in a thousand lifetimes of trying
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so that we could be made right With
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God all across the place can I ask you
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to close your eyes
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please maybe just take a moment to try
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to be less aware of the physical
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circumstance around
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you and maybe more
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aware of the
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Unseen God who is in the
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room maybe if you you're here and this
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is all unfamiliar to you you can pray a
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simple humble prayer like this Lord if
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you are real please show
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me there's nothing to lose by praying
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that
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prayer Holy Spirit I ask that you would
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be doing what you love to do even right
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now begin to
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release the
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overwhelming
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revelation of Jesus Christ Christ the
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Undisputed
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King open our eyes to see him Holy
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Spirit open our eyes to see his
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Mercy his
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righteousness his
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faithfulness his
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everlastingness open our eyes to see
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Jesus Grant to us that Spirit of wisdom
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and revelation
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that we might know him
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better and holy spirit I ask also that
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you would release Grace in this
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room not Grace for a moment of surrender
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in a church service but Grace for an
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enduring
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surrender an enduring surrender to say
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Lord my day is yours today and to do
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that every day of Our Lives
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until we see him face to
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face keep your eyes closed just for a
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moment in about 30
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seconds I'm going to invite you to
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stand if you want to say Lord Jesus I
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Surrender everything to
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you whether you've done it 100 times or
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whether this is the first
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time in about 20 seconds I'm going going
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to invite you to stand and say I'm
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standing as evidence that I am
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surrendering aresh
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today and we're going to pray for
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everyone who
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stands but I want you to make up your
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mind right now whether you're going to
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stand or not I don't want you to stand
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because three people beside you stood
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and I don't want you to sit because
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three people beside you
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sat make up your mind right now
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and if it's the honest decision and
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conclusion of your heart to say yes Lord
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I want to surrender my life aresh to you
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today to offer you myself as a Living
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Sacrifice then right now without looking
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to see if anyone else does or doesn't
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stand would you stand to your feet
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position yourself standing not before me
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not before even the church around you
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imagine yourself standing before the
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Lord Here I Am Lord here's All of
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Me All my yesterdays all my tomorrows
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all my fears all my hopes I give it all
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to
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you Lord here it is I give it all to
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you Holy Spirit I pray that you would
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meet every person
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standing I pray a double portion on
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every young person
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standing I pray a double portion on
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every young person standing Lord let
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there be a double portion of your
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anointing and your strength released to
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them Holy Spirit I pray that every chain
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would be
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broken that every bondage would be
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broken in the name of Jesus I pray God
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that you would ignite fire on the inside
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of every person standing a fire of love
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for you a fire of Divine Purpose that
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will burn hot enough and bright enough
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to last for an entire
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lifetime I pray holy spirit that even
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right here in the middle of the lint
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Journey that this church is doing the
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Journey of of denying
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themselves the Journey of stepping back
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from the Indulgence of the world around
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us I pray that you would meet them right
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now right here in the midst of that with
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fresh fire in the Holy
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Spirit Lord I give you all of
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me here is my heart here is my mind here
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are my hands here are my feet I give you
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all of me in Jesus
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name come on only you can make an
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offering of you to the
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Lord I can offer me you have to offer
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you
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spirit of God spirit of
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God spirit of
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God confusion and self-hatred broken in
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Jesus name I
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pray demonic assignments of
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fear broken in the name of Jesus God
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you've not given us a spirit of fear but
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of love power and a soundness of mind
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mind let there be an impartation of Hope
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in the name of Jesus let there be an
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impartation of Hope in the name of
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Jesus father we thank you we love you we
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want more of you
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we want the grace to give you more of
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us lord it's our privilege to give you
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our
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lives what a delight to surrender back
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to you the thing that you gave us
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what a privilege it is that I can bring
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this and no one else can bring it and I
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give it to
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you now just stay exactly as you are
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Church open your eyes in in a moment uh
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we're going to have some more worship as
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uh joy and the team lead us and maybe
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we'll have an opportunity to come and be
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on this really large altar today and and
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and pray for those who want to just a
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couple of things I want to say to a
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couple of people sorry Jess I know I've
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already picked on you um and you
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probably know this already but just as a
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word of confirmation you're going to
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have to do more of that there's a real
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anointing of God on you that's more than
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the anointing to be articulate it was
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actually as I was listening it's the
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anointing that enables his words to
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somehow be intertwined in your
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words and so I want to encourage I want
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to encourage you with that message of
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the secret place I want to encourage you
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in the secret place but I also believe
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that you are going to be sent on
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assignment to various places with a word
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from God some of those assignments will
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be here in what I assume is your home
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church but you will also you'll go out
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from time to time and you'll take other
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people with you all right so you are you
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have got a a a call on your life and a
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Grace on you to uh to to preach the word
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of God okay and I believe many people
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are going to know the Lord because of
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the way that you have conducted yourself
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with him God bless you
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Jess um you
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there I see I see this picture of
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concrete foundations being poured you
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know like when they build a house and
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they they mark it out and they pour the
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concrete I see
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foundations and to me whenever I see
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something like that it's it speaks about
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um Ephesians 2:20 which says Apostles
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and Prophets are the foundation with
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Jesus is the Chief Cornerstone know and
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what I see is I see the Cornerstone of
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Jesus in your life and I see foundations
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being laid that many many others are
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going to stand on all right
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it's it's an Apostolic call all right
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that's what I see on you an Apostolic
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call so just just hold your hands out
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Lord I pray that you would release to
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him even more a couple of your young
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ones stick your hands on his shoulders
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there Lord release to him more of your
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presence in the name of Jesus more of
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your presence in the name of Jesus more
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Lord Lord in Jesus name thank you Lord
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that he would uh that he would follow in
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that Apostolic tradition that
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foundations would be laid and many
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others would stand on them in the name
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of
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Jesus and I thank you Lord for that
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Cornerstone being so established in his
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life that he will never deviate even 5%
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away from
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it thank you Lord thank you Lord thank
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you
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Lord thank you Lord
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well I'd like us to have an O
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opportunity to pray for people and maybe
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do some worship but I think you should
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give some instructions cuz I don't know
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how we're going to do that