Sermon
Removing The Poison
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You're listening to the Cross Kingdom Sermon of the Week.
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We hope you enjoyed this message from Justin Carpenter twelve
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twenty two. Come on, are you revelatory people? If you
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don't know what that means, you're dull. I was watching
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an interview with Bob Jones from twenty years ago and
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that was one of it. He's like, you're dull boy.
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That's what he told John Paul Jackson. As they returned
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from a trip, they got to the airport, they were
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literally supernaturally transported to the airport. They were on the
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plane and they realized they left the hotel and got
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into the plane within like three minutes, and John Paul
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says to Bob Jones, do you Bob, do you do
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you realize? He goes, YEP, I was trying not to
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think about it. And then and he goes, Bob, either
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those two guys were angels that took our luggage or
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we don't have any suitcases and they took they took
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it the vehicle as well. They come back from the
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trip and his pickup truck is literally parked in the
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front parking spot at the airport. Bob jumps in John
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Paul jumps in the passenger seat. He drops the visor,
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grabs the keys and fired it up. And John Paul
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was like, Bob, how'd you know the keys were gonna
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be in the visor? He goes visor vision, You're dull boy.
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True testimony. Oh man m I love the testimonies of
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the Lord. Oh. By the way, Monday tomorrow, we are
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doing the first major move for the property. We are
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actually paying for the electricity to be installed on the land,
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so the utilities are starting. It's gonna it's still gonna
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be about ten weeks, but we're we're finally moving forward.
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So we will we will be getting a groundbreaking date
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and uh and we'll have a we'll have a big
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celebration out there. It's it's been a long journey and
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this campus will it's gonna be a continued journey of
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taking the land because I I personally believe that as
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the principalities and powers are coming down over this region,
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it coincides with the timeline of us taking this land
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on this campus. So if you all recall about two
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thursdays ago, I was in my prayer time and I
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was praying, and I was like, Lord, what in the
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blazes is going on like so many people are under attack.
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There's there's accusations and discord, everybody's butt hurt and fighting
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and division and all over the Body of Christ. And
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I'm like, Lord, what is going on? And I clearly
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heard the word poison. I said, what is behind this?
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And I heard poison? And so I want to talk
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to you this morning about removing the poison. My goal
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for you this morning is if you realize in the
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next three and a half hours as I'm teaching that
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if you have poison, you're gonna say, okay, Lord, I
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need to be cleansed. And you've heard the statement what's
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true in the natural's true in the spirit, right Well,
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guess what even in the natural in our country right now,
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for the first time, we're actually seeing the poisons remove
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from our food. We're seeing the poisons removed from some
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of the some of the jabs, and so we're literally
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the Lord is also dealing with the poison that's in
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the body of Christ. Because we are absolutely supposed to
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be a community that has such a gape love that
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that love within our tribe alone, the community, the Body
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of Christ at large, is literally a bullhorn for the gospel,
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and it's not if you get online right now, we're
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devouring each other, we're attacking each other. We're sticking our
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nose in everybody else's business. Here's a key right away.
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If you don't want people getting their nose into your business,
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don't post your life on social media because you're giving them,
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you're telling them you want to be invaded. Don't get
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upset if you post on social media and somebody said something,
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I love you. Oh, by the way, I come a
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little bit of So I kept seeing a nineteen fifties
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pickup truck, early fifties. Who's had a nineteen fifties pickup truck? Dave,
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you had a fifties pickup truck. Okay, So what I
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got from this. One of the things about the fifties
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was that there was a massive healing movement going on
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in the fifties AA Allen and all these guys. And
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I believe that I was seeing that pickup truck because
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the Lord wants to increase that gift of healing in
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your life. And also, pickup trucks pick things up and
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carry them from point A to point B. So you're
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also called to be a resource. So bless y'all. Sorry,
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I'm scraping around here, Okay, removing poison. Proverbs eighteen twenty one.
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Death and life are in the of the tongue, and
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those who love it will eat its fruit. Y'all, we
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have no idea what happens when we choose to bless
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or we choose to curse. You have no idea. I
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shared this first service. But Micah, my youngest son, he's sixteen. Micah,
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when he was little, he was quite feisty, and he
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had a temper. And I was like, well, my bloodline,
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my dad's side had a temper. Lisa's bloodline had a temper.
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I'm like, Lord, we got to make sure we get
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rid of all this iniquity because and I mean Micah
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used to try to beat the snot out of Coal.
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I mean it was it Coles four years older. And
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finally one day I was like, Cole hit him back. Yes,
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the pastor said that transparency and uh, and Cole broke
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down and say I'll never hit my little brother and
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literally had tears and uh. But Lisa, we we were like,
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all right, Lord help us. And the Lord specifically told
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Lisa start telling him who he is, declare over him.
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Who he is, and so like we we instead of
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focusing on the negative and and lasering in on that
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and making room for it, we kept correcting him by saying, hey,
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that's not who you are. You're loving, you're kind, you're
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in speaking life, blessing his spirit, and guess what, like,
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within a small period of time, he totally stopped doing
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that behavior. And one day a few years later, Lisa goes, Micah,
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what was it that finally snapped you out of all this?
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And he goes, well, I started to believe what you
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were saying to me, y'all. What if we spend more
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time blessing each other, encouraging each other, looking for the
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gold in each other, instead of trying to divide the
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house and tear each other apart. What if you actually
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realized every time you smack talk somebody in the body
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of Christ, that they're actually made in the image of God,
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and you're telling God you don't fear him and you
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don't fear what He created. Matthew twelve thirty six. I
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tell you, on the day of judgment, people will give
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an account for every careless word they speak. I don't
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know about y'all, but being prophetic in nature. I have
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a tendency to speak before I think at times, which
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means sometimes I can have careless words. That scripture should
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put the fear of the Lord in all of us.
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We need to be quick to listen, to speak slow
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to become angry James. And too many times we are
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quick to speak and slow to listen. We are more
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concerned about what we think you should hear, or what
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I think you should hear, versus even listening. When we
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listen to somebody, we're more concerned about listening to them,
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hearing their heart, connecting to their spirit than the revelation
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we have that's going to change everybody's life. He's not
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impressed with your gift. He gave it to you. Character
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will always be greater than gifting. I'm not saying don't
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pursue gifts. We need them so we can destroy the
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works of the evil one. But don't make that an idol,
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because your gift will take you straight to the scene
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of the crash, because your character will not sustain it
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James one twenty six. If anyone thinks he's religious and
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does not bridle his tongue but just his heart, this
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person's religion is worthless. In other words, if you think
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you're spiritually mature and all you do is smack talk,
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you're deceived. That's Justin's version of it. James five eight
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to twelve says, but no human being contame the tongue.
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It is a restless evil, full of deadly poison. With
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it we bless the Lord and Father, and with it
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we curse people who are made in the likeness of God.
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From the same mouth come blessing and cursing. My brothers,
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these things ought not to be. So does a spring
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pour forth from the same opening, both fresh and salt water?
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Can a fig tree, my brothers beare olives and grapevine
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produce it figs? Neither can a salt pond yield fresh water. Man,
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When we get into conflict, when there's conflict with us,
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if we could just remember that the person in front
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of us is created in God's image, and Jesus shed
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his blood for that person as much as for you,
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What does that do to us? Listen? I know we
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all have people in our lives that at times are stinkers.
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They're hard to love. But guess what. The love that
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He put inside of you is supernatural. It's not natural
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and maybe you're actually trying to love people in your
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own soulish love versus his agape love. And that's why
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you fail to preserve and to stay connected with them,
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because you can't. You won't yield your soul. You all
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with me Colossians three eight. But now you must put
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them all away. Anger, wrath, malice, slander, and obscene talk
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from your mouth. Do you know what Peter did when
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he wanted to deny Jesus to show that he didn't
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know Jesus. He started cussing, he started swearing. Now, I
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know none of us have ever said a bad word,
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including me. I was watching out for the lightning. But y'all,
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in this season, the Lord is pruning us. Why because
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he is moving and what he's doing, he's moving closer
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to us. There's an intensity of him being intentional and
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moving closer to us. And what you get away in
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the outer court with you will kill you. In the
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Holy of Holies, you cry out, you say, I want
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to know God, I want to move in power and
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authority will Authority has everything to do with relationship and
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how close you are to him. It's authority is not
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just a gift, it's the fruit of intimacy with the father. See,
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the enemy could care less about your power. He didn't
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lose his power, he lost his authority. And every time
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we partner with him, and every time we choose to
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let poison come off our tongue, we're forfeiting the authority.
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He's called us to walk in And I have news
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for you. You want to see people get free, you better
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have freedom in the area that you're trying to see
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them set free, or you will be mocked. Romans three thirteen.
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Their throat is an open grave. They use their tongues
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to deceive the venom of asps is under their lips
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for a service, I said, man, I didn't know there
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was a scripture for politicians. Y'all. If y'all want to
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get more positive and start blessing more, keep the news
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turned off. That's all I can tell you. I'm not
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saying be ignorant, put your head in the sand, but
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I promise you you'll have a much better day if you
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don't listen to the communist news network Psalms one forty,
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verse three. They make their tongue sharp at serpents, and
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under their lips is the venom of asps I was
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let me rabit trail real quick. I saw this video yesterday,
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and this is all about perception of your reality. It
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was a weather channel, you know how they love to
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make everything look, you know, look worse than what it is.
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This lady was in a canoe and she's rolling in
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the water and the camera angle it's like the town
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looks like stinking, you know, Noah's day. It's flooded and
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she's getting through the canoe and all of a sudden,
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two dudes walk by in the waters like this deep
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and they walk right by the camera. Well, but that's
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exactly what the enemy does with us. You get into
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a situation with somebody there's conflict, and the enemy says, oh,
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this is what they meant. You start having a conversation
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with them that they never had with you, and you
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start filling in the blanks of something that never happened.
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It's called imagination, and the goal of that vain imagination
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is to get you offended, so then that ultimately you
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will betray them, because if you get offended, guess what
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betrayal is on the doorstep. Titus three one and two
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remind them to be submissive to rulers and authorities, to
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be obedient, to be ready for every good work, to
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speak evil of only some people. Oh wait a minute,
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it doesn't say that, does it, To speak evil of
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no one, to avoid corareling, to be gentle, and to
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show perfect courtesy toward all people. This is how we're
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supposed to be treating each other. Have you all read that?
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That's in Titus. Some of y'all have been right to
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the point of losing relationship. I'm not saying be a doorstep.
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I'm not saying compromise, But there are situations in real
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relationships where you need to figure out where you're going
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to stand and what you're going to be okay with
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because unity in Jesus doesn't mean complete agreement. And I
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can have a different perspective of something and still love Jesus,
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and we should still be able to be friends. Unless
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you've been bitten by a religious spirit, then you're running
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after knowledge with no love, and then you become a legalist.
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Y'all having fun. I'm having fun because I've already repented
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for all this stuff when I put the sermon together,
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and this is my second time. James three thirteen to eighteen,
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who is wise and understanding among you by his good conduct.
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Let him show his works in the meekness of wisdom.
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What is wisdom first and foremost, it is what meek.
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But if you have bitter jealousy and selfish ambition in
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your hearts, do not boast and be false to the truth.
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This is not the wisdom that comes from above, but
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is earthly, unspiritual, and demonic. So for those of you
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that think there are no demons and they don't mess
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with you, here's your sign, bitter jealousy and selfish ambition.
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If you're operating in that, you're under the influence. I
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mean that in the most gentle, meek, humblest way possible.
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But it says for where jealousy and selfish ambition exist,
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there will be disorder and every vile practice. But the
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wisdom from above is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, open
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to reason, full of mercy and good fruits, impartial and sincere,
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and a harvest of righteousness is sown in peace by
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those who make peace. Y'all, do you know how many
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church splits happen because somebody doesn't get their way and
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they take that as a personal attack of their identity,
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and then they cause division. I've got. I can't tell
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you how many ministers that I'm friends with in the
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last three years have gone through church splits. I'm headed
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to Washington State to do a conferences fall, and that
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gentleman had gone through two splits. Listen, if you're in ministry, great,
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guess what. It's not your ministry. If you're legitimately and
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called to full time ministry and you're in that ministry,
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that's God's ministry. You're building that ministry with him. It's
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not yours. Cross Kingdom doesn't belong to me. And if
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God moves me out to go someplace, guess what it'll
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be another overseer that comes. And if I did my
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job with feeding and leading, then it will flourish with
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me here or without me here, because it's not being
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built on me, my gift or my charisma, but it's
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being built on the foundation, the cornerstone of Jesus right.
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For nation will rise against nation and kingdom against kingdom,
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and there'll be famines and earthquakes and various places. Y'all realize,
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up until we got technology, there was no way you
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really knew where an earthquake was unless you were where
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the earthquake was. Dold you like that. And now there's
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an earthquake app and every time an earthquake goes off,
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you can know where that earthquake is. If you ain't
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have anxiety, I would not recommend having that app because
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there's a whole lot of earthquakes and it's quite shaking.
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Y'all laughed a little better than the first time. Don't
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say anything, ben They will deliver you up to tribulation
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and put you to death, and you'll be hated by
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all nations for my namesake. And then many will fall
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away and betray one another and hate one another, and
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many false prophets will arise and lead many astray. And
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because lawlessness will be increased, the love of many will
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grow cold. But the one who endures to the end
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will be saved. And this Gospel of the Kingdom will
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be proclaimed throughout the whole world as a testimony to
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all nations. And then the end will come. Y'all. Every
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one of these birth pains, every one of these signs,
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are present today and they're increasing. You're seeing a falling
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away in the church right now. You're seeing people that
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actually they had their eyes and their trust more in
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leaders than in Jesus, And when those leaders fell, it
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destroyed their faith. It says judgment starts first in the
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house of God. What are we seeing God's cleaning house? Why?
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Because he's a good father, he loves us, and he's
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dealing with the poison. What's it take to offend you?
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I think I asked this a couple of weeks ago.
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Do you offend easily? Or do you have thick skin
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and a soft heart? Can you overlook an offense? Can
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you respond with humility and love? Are you willing to
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look wrong for the sake of the gospel? Are you
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going to vindicate yourself at the expense of somebody else?
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Because make no mistake, we are all tried as believers
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in every one of these areas. You can stay offended
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and pack up your legos and go home, and many
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times people do that. That's probably why there's thirty five
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thousand denominations. Last time I checked, there wasn't thirty five
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thousand Jesuses though, right, No one's gonna die and stand
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before Jesus and he's gonna go Oh, my words, you
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had the perfect theology. I am so impressed with your doctrine.
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Not gonna happen y'all we know in part we prophisy
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and part we don't have it all together. Somebody asked,
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I was in a story yesterday or Friday. The gentleman said, hey,
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I don't know if I ever asked you about this.
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Do you believe in a rapture? Two hours later? Now
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one hour later, I told him I believe that the
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rapture in the second coming or one event. Now, that
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statement I just made right there could literally divide a room.
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But every viewpoint of eschatology has holes in it, so
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I refuse to camp out on minor things. I believe
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Jesus is returning in bodily form, and that's what I
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care about. All of our team believes Jesus is coming
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back in bodily form, So I don't care of your
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pre trib a' millennial, post millennial, pan millennial. That means
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it's going to pan out, doesn't matter. He's coming, and
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the birth pains are showing that it's getting sooner than
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we think. And I want to live a life that
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literally continues into eternity with fruit. I want to have character,
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not just be a character. Then they'll deliver you up
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to tribulation, put you to death. You'll be hated by
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all nations for my namesake, y'all, do you understand some
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people are gonna hate you because you love Jesus. And
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it's okay, it should be. We'll get over it. And
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then they'll fall away and betray one another, hate one another,
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many false prophets, and lead many astray. And because lawlessness
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will be increased, the love of many will grow cold.
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That word for love is agape. It's not your love.
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And there and there's a gape filio, there's there's three
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different loves. Uh. In fact, when Jesus is talking to
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Peter in our English language, it just says love, but
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he actually asked him, asks him in more than one
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type of love. As he was restoring him. He goes
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on to say, but the one who endures to the
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end will be saved. This gospel of the Kingdom will
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be proclaimed through the whole world as a testimony to
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all nations, and the end will come. Listen. Offended people
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will ultimately betray people. That's why the enemy works so
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hard to get you offended with somebody else. The moment
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you get offended and stay offended, you're going to begin
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to do the work of the enemy, and once we're offended, accusation, gossip, slander,
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and character assassination will be the fruit. The love of
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many will grow cold. Interesting if you look at that
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Greek word a god pey, a god pey, a gope,
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it means charity, love, love feasts like the love feast
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mentioned in the New Covenant, it means affection or benevolence.
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Pride and religion go hand in hand. Pride covers the
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religious activity blinds you to the fact that you've been
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given over to a religious spirit. Remember, the religious spirit
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makes you feel spiritual without true transformation. It is using
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God's word to execute your own will, and your pride
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will blind you from seeing it. So the religious spirit
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will make you feel spiritual without true transformation. You're going
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to use God's word to execute your own will and desires,
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and your pride will blind you from ever seeing any
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of it. Well, three says therefore, whatever you have said
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in the darkness in the dark shall be heard in
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the light, and what you've whispered in private room shall
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be proclaimed on the housetop.
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Hey, I don't know if you heard this, but Joe, yeah, Joe,
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Joe just did this and this and this and this
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and this, But hey, make sure you bray for I'm
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okay because I'm bearing spiritual at this moment. I turned
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my gossip into a prairie quest.
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You know the best way of never having anything shout
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from the mountaintop. Don't say it? Is it gonna edify?
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Is it gonna bring comfort? Is it is is it loving?
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Is it true? Is it praiseworthy? Does it have virtue?
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This is Philippians four eight. The things that we're supposed
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to be thinking about, the filter that's supposed to be
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on our mind and in our hearts. And we're all guilty,
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they're not. If he counted our sin, we're all smoked.
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But what happens if we shift the tide in the church?
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What what if just this three hundred people says, not
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on my watch, you're not prophetic because you can see
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dirt in somebody's life. Hello, we all got dirt, people.
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But when you actually can see with God's eyes and
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see the gold in someone and begin to prophesy to
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who God created them to be, then you can actually
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be used to bring life to proclaim His word. Romans
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twelve fourteen to twenty one. Bless those who persecute you,
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smack them in the face, and then turn your cheek
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and smack them again. No, wait a minute, hold on,
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Bless those who persecute you. Bless and do not curse them.
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Rejoice with those who rejoice, weep with those who weep.
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Live in harmony with one another. Do not be haughty,
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but associate with the lowly. Never be wise in your
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own sight. Repay no one evil for evil, but give
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thought to do what is honorable in the sight of all,
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if possible, so far as it depends on you, live
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peaceably with all belove it. Never avenge yourselves. What does
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that mean? You don't get to vindicate your name? But
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then if you're over there, But what about my reputation?
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They think we're all nut jobs at Cross Kingdom. I
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just you know, people are jerking and shaking and moving
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and rolling and flopping. I just do. Jesus made himself
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of no reputation, so guess what, you don't have to
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carry the way to one. And if you're wanting to
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make yourself have a reputation, that's because you've not dealt
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with your pride, and your identity is still as an
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orphan rather than a son. Beloved, Never avenge yourselves, but
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leave it to the wrath of God. Do you know
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how many people I know and that have sued other
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believers took them into court and justified it. And Paul's like,
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why don't you just be wrong? Why are you taking
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your brother into court? Do you not know that you're
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going to judge angels and you can't judge this earthly matter? Y'all?
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Every one of us have been made a little bit
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lower than the angels, right, but when we hit the resurrection,
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part of our our inheritance is we literally become equal
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with angels, and we are brought into that divine counsel
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to rule and reign with Christ. To the contrary, if
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your enemy's hungry, starve them, I mean, feed them. If
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he's thirsty, give them salt. No, if he's thirsty, give
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them something to drink. For by so doing you'll heat
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burning coals on his head. Do not be overcome by evil,
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but overcome evil with good y'alls. They're poison. Do you
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have poison on your tongue? Do you have poison in
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your heart? Do you need the Lord to move in
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your heart and mind this morning to remove poison? It
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doesn't belong. Jesus paid for it. We don't want to
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be miserable, do we. You ever meet any Christians that
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need a B twelve shot of joy? You ask them
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how they're doing. They say they're doing great, but their
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face makes them look like they ain't. One more scripture,
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I'll start landing. Finally, all of you have unity of mind, sympathy,
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brotherly love, a tender heart, and a humble mind. Do
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not repay evil for evil, or reviling for reviling. But
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on the contrary, bless for those. I'm sorry. Bless for
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to this you were called that you may obtain a
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blessing for whoever desires to love life and see good days.
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Let him keep his tongue from evil and his lips
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from speaking deceit. I want to challenge you the next
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time somebody ticks you off, are you reminded of someone
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who ticked you off? Say Jesus, will you give me
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your perspective of this person? I don't like their shenanigans.
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What's going on with them? Lord? Why are they responding
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this way? What's going on in their life? Happen to them?
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And Lord, how do you want me to pray for
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them so you can bless them and that the goodness
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of God would lead them to repentance. When it says
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we're to pray for our enemies, that doesn't just mean Lord,
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I don't like Bob, but would you, you know, maybe
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lighten his load a little bit. He seems like he's struggling.
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He's being a real jerk towards me. So would you
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just kind of would you help Bob out a smidge. No,
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that's not how he's saying. To pray. You pray for
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that person the way you would want to be prayed for.
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You bless that person the way you want to be blessed.
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And I promise you that if you'll begin to pray
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for those that you're in conflict with, this issue of
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offense and for giveness, bitterness and all this nonsense will
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never take root in your soul because your weapons of
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righteousness are in your right hand and then your left,
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and they are not carnal. And when you're feeling self pity,
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woe is me? Oh everything's wrong. I think that's what
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sounds like in heaven when we go into intercessory whining. Bye,
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It's like, can you translate that going to Thanksgiving the
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moment you see a lack and all of a sudden
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you're tempted to fear lack. Say, Lord, I thank you
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that there's good works attached to the works you've called
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me to. There's an abundance, good of provision attached to
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the good works you've called me to. Lord, I thank
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you that as I walk with you and I'm obedient
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to your will, provision comes. There is no lack with you,
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because you are the God of abundance, and all the
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promises are yes. And amen, Lord, I thank you for today.
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I thank you that I live in Kerville, Texas. I
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thank you I live in Texas and not another state.
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How's that I'll probably get our live stream cut now
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it's jealousy. They'll deal with it. But seriously, move in
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the opposite when you're starting to feel heavy hearted, start
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giving thanks, start praising. Move in the opposite and stay
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there until that breaks. And besides, y'all, faith is not
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a feeling. You have to stewart your heart, And when
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you begin to feel negative emotions, simply understand that that
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emotion is the bridge back to your belief and it's
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an opportunity to be renewed in your mind, because you
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cannot have a feeling without a belief behind it. So Lord,
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take me down this bridge of fear. Where is this
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coming from? Because you said that you didn't give me
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a spirit of fear, but of love, right a sound mind.
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If your mind's not sound, you're not right in the head.
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You're like that old boy from Brave Heart. This is
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my island. You may need some ministry. A gentle tongue
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is a tree of life, but perverseness and it breaks
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the spirit. Whoever guards his mouth preserves his life. He
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who opens wide his lips comes to ruin. I said
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last scripture, I gave you a couple more. It's bonus points.
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Let no corrupt talk come out of your mouths, but
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only such as is good for building up, as fits
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the occasion, that it may give grace to those who hear.
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Let your speech always be gracious, season with salt, so
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that you may know how you ought to answer each person.
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And I'll leave you with this. The reward for humility
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and the fear of the Lord is riches and honor
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and life. Anybody want riches honor in life, then the
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prerequisite to getting that reward is genuine humility in the
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fear of the Lord. What do I say? Stay humble,
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stay hungry, stay teachable, stay accountable. You keep those characteristics
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in your life. I can promise you you'll persevere, you
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won't fall away, You'll make it through, and in thirty years,
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whatever God's called you to, you'll still be doing it
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and hopefully there'll be a smile on your face. All right,
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let's stand our keyboard. Mic is gone, Wayne's gone? Can
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you play your guitar in real quick? Yeah? Let's just
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take a minute and really allow the Lord to examine
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us and ask him where we've had poison? Because I'm
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telling you, see, we what we minimize on earth is
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actually a big deal in heaven. What you think is
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a little a little weakness, a little sin, that's not
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that big of a deal. It's actually what's keeping you
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from your promotion because by your deception and your pride,
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you perceive it to be small, and it's actually a
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very big thing. And God is too good to give
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you a gift that he has to turn around and
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judge you for afterwards. Are you being crushed this morning? Great?
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Because oil comes in the crushing takes fifty pounds of
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olives to have one gallon of extra virgin olive oil.
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Are you being shaken? Awesome? Everything will be shaken, except
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for the Kingdom. It can't be shaken. Did the Lord
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put somebody in front of your face this morning? Awesome?
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Forgive them, But you don't know what they did to me.
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I know what Jesus did for you. Fire always falls
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on sacrifice, and if you desire to walk and see
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His kingdom advance, then it costs. There's a cost to intimacy, y'all.
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There is a genuine cost to intimacy. And I believe
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there's an invitation this morning for God to begin to
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use us in a much more significant way as we
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draw close to him. So, Lord, and the prayer team,
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would you come up as as I pray? So Lord,
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would you forgive us for turning on each other? Would
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you forgive us for being fruit inspectors? That's your job.
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You said, we're to love everyone, and Lord, we acknowledge
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that actually the way we love others prophesies to how
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we really love you. So Lord, would you come with
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your light, come with your presence? Lord, would you by
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your spirit convict of sin, righteousness and judgment? Lord, don't
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let anyone leave this room that does not know you.
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If your battling this morning, trying to figure out if
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you even know Jesus, don't leave here. Anybody up front
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here can help you surrender your life and trust him.
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Some of y'all are in a wrestling match this morning,
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right now, even as I speak, and you're wrestling with
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surrendering your heart to him. You're wrestling with truly, truly
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surrendering at all. So Lord, I pray for that grace
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to wash over them. Would you overshadow us with your
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presence this morning? Would you release your ministering spirits. Some
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of y'all may need to pick up a phone this
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afternoon and have some brave communication with somebody. Some of
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y'all been waiting for loved ones to call you, and
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you need to call them, which means you got to
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humble yourself and stop being right and love. So Lord,
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would you release grace this morning for the forgiveness of debts, Lord,
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regardless of what kind of debt it is. Somebody that
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rejected you and cussed you out, told you what they
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thought of you. Lord, forgive them because they don't know
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what they're doing. M and give us for every idle
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word that we've spoken, Lord, forgive us for every time
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that we have cursed. Thank you for listening. For more
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