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Moving In Faith | Moviéndose En Fe, Special Guest Dr. Renny McLean, Podcast 105 Parte 1
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Welcome to Burning Lab Podcast. A daily refresh
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for your life. Jesus is the center of everything
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we do. Burning Lab Church. I am so honored to
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be here. Very honored to be here. To be in the
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house. of the Lord, and to be a part of, well,
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I'm just going to say it, to be a part of Apostle
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Daniel's life, he is, that's worth laughing at.
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He is truly an example of biblical humility.
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It's almost hard for me to believe that this
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is 2025 and I've known him for what would be
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15 to 16 years. Back then my hair was black,
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totally black, and now I'm a little older. and
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to see him grow in the Lord and to see all of
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you here that have stuck with him and his family.
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You too must be saluted. Thank God for all of
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you. It would be remiss of me if I didn't do
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this. There is a woman in this house, an interesting
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woman, an unusual woman. I've been with her for
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44 years. We met when we were 10. Oh, I can't
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say 10. This is a miracle. But we met when we
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were very young. We've traveled the world together.
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We've passed it together. We had a Bible school
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in London. She was the co -founder of everything.
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And so, putting it in a nutshell, when I was
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18, I met my rib. I wasn't looking for a rib.
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I was only 18. But God put us together, and so
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I want to show her off to you. Dr. Marina, stand
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up please. The Lord bless you. The Lord bless
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you. The Lord bless you. Well, I want to share
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with you something that's very very important
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How many of you here know? relevancy Relevancy
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is a very interesting word Relevance Significance
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very important. Every one of you here, no matter
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how old or how young you are, you are of great
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spiritual significance because of the time that
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we are in. When something new starts, it has
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to have a foundation. And so I wanna just put
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something in the foundation of your church. You
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already have a foundation, but I'm gonna add
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something into it and build a little bit upon
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it. If you have your Bibles with you, please
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go with me to Matthew chapter 16. Matthew 16,
Matthew 16 chapter mention
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and we're going to start from verse 13. And before
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I read this to you, the revelation Come forward
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with me down. I want you to catch me in the spirit.
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Stay by me. Come close to me. I will not bite
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you. Stay here. All right. All right. All right.
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Now listen to this. This is important. The continuation
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of Jesus is a revelation. We are going to forever
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learn who He is. I feel old every time I say
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this. I got saved in 1969. By the look of this
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church, most of you were not even in existence
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then. and I was called to ministry in the year
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1972. I had a supernatural experience. I have
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seen the Lord. As clear as you see me, I have
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seen the Lord. I've been to heaven. That's how
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my ministry was born. Through supernatural experiences.
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But hear me, that was over 50 years ago. The
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issue is, do I know him now? What is the revelation
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of Jesus now? the significance of the church
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to every generation is the revelation of Jesus
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in the now. Today there is what I call a lot
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of historical knowledge. But there's very little
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now knowledge. Because you don't have the now
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knowledge of Jesus if you've not had an encounter.
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And encounters are continual. You never park
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in an encounter God can deposit something in
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you, but it can take you years to unpack Because
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there's so much of him to be revealed There's
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so much of him that the church doesn't know or
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I dare say even believe. So the question is,
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what is the now revelation of Jesus? And I'm
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speaking like this to give you a foundation or
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something, I'm gonna say. There are different
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levels of knowledge. an intelligence. There's
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what I call doctrinal intelligence, which simply
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means the knowledge of the scripture. Do you
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remember when Jesus would speak to the Pharisees
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and they would try to get under his skin? What
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did he always say? Go search the scriptures.
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Today in the church world, there's very little
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searching of scripture. because we've parked
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in the past truth so we're not in the present
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truth of Jesus. And then there's what I call
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prophetic intelligence. That is the knowledge
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of the future. That's what we call prophetic
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intelligence Are you following me with this?
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Now let me make it even clearer That's why the
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Bible says He who was He who is and he who is
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to come Excuse me, I gotta be calm prophetic
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intelligence. When he came 2 ,000 years ago,
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he came as the lamb. In the future, he's not
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coming as the lamb. Prophetic intelligence. And
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then there's what I call revitory intelligence.
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Revitory intelligence is simply this. It's the
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ability to understand the now and the future
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of God and interpret it to the present. Not many
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people can do that. But there is somebody who
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is in you who wants to give you that level of
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intelligence. His name is the Holy Spirit. And
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Jesus said, when the Holy Spirit comes, He will
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tell you and show you what is to come. He who
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was, He who is, and He who is to come. Now, How
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we know Him affects the transition of the church.
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See, let me give you a simple example. In the
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earth, there are priests and there's a high priest.
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But in heaven, there's a great high priest. a
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mega priest, an unusual priest. His priesthood
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is in the heavens while ours is in the earth.
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So our priesthood is tied to us knowing him.
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Our sonship is taught to him. But it's how we
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know him. Because everything in the Bible, connected
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to God, revolves around one word. Identity. That's
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the first trick the devil pulled in the garden.
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He said to Adam, you will be as God. Adam forgot.
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He was the image and likeness of God. Watch this
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now. Where you stop relating to God is where
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you start to backslide. That's the key to spiritual
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power, identity. So when our identity is gone,
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we're a powerless people. So the question is,
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who is Jesus in this now? My God. Who is Jesus
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according to prophecy? And where is the church
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in prophecy? They can't be separated because
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He's the head of the same body which we know
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as the church. So we're going to go into the
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word today. And it starts out like this. Math
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remember that Matthew. What did I say Matthew
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16? Matthew 16 verse 13 and this is what it says
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When Jesus came into the region and I want you
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to mark that word region of Caesar where I Philippi
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Now I want you to understand, oh my God this
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is so powerful, I want you to get a hold of this
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truth today. Israel was under Roman rule, under
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Roman occupation. And one of the things that
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was done then is when you take over a territory,
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you bring your world to that region. So a lot
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of Jewish things, as we would say, really were
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not there. Notice the terminology, Caesar I Philippi.
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Israel was heavily under Roman rule. Notice the
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term Caesar, Caesarea. Notice the terminology,
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as in Caesar. You good? Now, this is how they
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were. This is a very powerful truth. Their understanding
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of gods was that the gods were territorial. They
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had no concept of the Almighty. Like in Egyptian
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culture, there was the god of denial. The sun
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was a god. I better be careful. See, that's why
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in... That's how we got the day Sunday. It's
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all paganized. Monday was after the moon god.
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So the region what we're looking at is very important.
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So they came into this region where there were
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multiple statues of Roman gods. And it's in that
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context he asks the question, who do you say
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that I am? Isn't that interesting? Back then,
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they had a choice of gods. Interesting thing,
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their gods were man -made. So Jesus said, visualize
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now, looking around, Zeus here, Look at all these
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gods and statues. I remember to a Jewish mind,
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he said, don't worship any what? Images. So you
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can imagine how a Jewish mind saw this. So he
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then said, who do you say that I am? Now please
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listen because this is powerful. Who do men say
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that I the Son of Man am? Mark that in your Bible.
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Mark it in your Bible. In Hebrew, the term Son
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of Man is code for the word Messiah. And I was,
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Jesus gave away in the question that he was asking,
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but they couldn't see it. Please listen to this.
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Because today, Today, this is what the world
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is asking. In the light of what we see in the
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earth, who is Jesus? Who is Jesus? In other words,
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relevancy is being lost. Respect is gone. Reverence
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is gone. Now, Jesus is considered an historical
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figure. Watch this now. And that's why to a lot
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of people right now, the church is a thing of
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the past. The church. and its relevance. Who
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He is in the heavens is what we are in the earth.
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That's the only way the kingdom can come. Now
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hear now what He goes on to say. Some say John
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the Baptist, some say Elijah, and others Jeremiah
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or one of the prophets. Now listen to this because
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it's powerful. The Pharisees didn't like him
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But the Pharisees respected him as a teacher.
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But the people, because of these miracles, called
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him a prophet. That was an exciting amen. Did
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you get this? This is very important. Because
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Moses said, There's going to come a prophet like
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me. He wasn't a teacher, but it was what their
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intellect could take. That explains today why
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most people can take teaching but they cannot
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take a prophet. These are things that must be
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understood. So who do you say that I am? And
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why do you say it? What's my evidence? And it's
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very interesting. He didn't ask people who didn't
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know him this question, he asked this question
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to those who followed him. Not everybody that
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follows you is your disciple. We learned that
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from Facebook today. Because you follow me, it
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doesn't mean you are my disciple. We are told
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to make disciples, not followers. It always makes
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me and Marina laugh. When they say, We followed
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you from afar, we've known you for years. Now
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see how I hear that, I don't have any connection
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to you. You're just a follower. You're not a
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disciple. You don't know what I teach. You've
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not received the impartation. You're just a follower.
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So I can't take you as a follower into my holies
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of holies because you don't know me. Okay, now
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when he asks this question, They had already
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seen him raise the dead. They were there when
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he turned water into wine. And yet, all they
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could do was relegate him to a prophet. They
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didn't know him. Hear me clearly. It is possible
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to come to church and not know Him. It's possible
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to sing and shout and not know Him. And I want
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you to listen to this real good. One of the key
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words today for you to have spiritual sanity.
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In the days that we are living in, is the word
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no. Not no, but KNO. Sorry, K -N -O -W. You must
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know in order to stand. You have to, I feel it
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in the spirit. You have to know when the doctor
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gives you a bad report, you've got to know by
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those stripes you were healed. When you sow your
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seed, you've got to know that if you sow, you
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are going to reap. You have got to know when
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you lay hands on the seed, they are going to
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recover. You have to know. I said you have to
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know because there is no doubt where you know.