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Prophetic Evangelism (Creative Outreach)
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You're listening to the Cross Kingdom Sermon of the Week.
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We helped you enjoyed this message from Justin Carpenter here.
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We've also been declaring this each week since this has
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been put together since our retreat. So say this with
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me here at Cross Kingdom. We are a community that
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is rooted in the Word. We honor God and others.
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We pursue spiritual growth, We love the broken. We are
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eager to serve and live a life of radical generosity.
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That's who we are. Hurrah. And then if you had
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put up the breakdown of what we gave to them,
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I mean the sixty eight thousand and one Kim mentioned
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earlier about us a percentage of our revenue. What's that?
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It's not there? Go to the still photo and the
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very bottom. It should be there. It was in the
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I did drop it in there now not that one
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it says sixty eight thousand and gives a breakdown. It
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was there. I'm sorry one secon y'all, Matt knows where
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it's at. That's a little better. Huh. Doesn't look like
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creepy faces are coming out at you behind the cross
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there we go. Okay, just real quick, So last year
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we gave sixty eight seven and thirty seven dollars and
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eighty six cents to Overland Missions, Mercygate Ministries, Atlason Arrows,
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Streams and Burkina Fasso, the Pregnancy Resource Center, Orbis Ministry,
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Streams Ministries, Commissioned Minister's Network, Prodigal Road Ministers and then
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C KC Tribe for food assistance, rent assistance, emergency and
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car repairs and gift cards for groceries. And we help
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people hold on to their homes. And so the it is, y'all.
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Here's here's the thing. Our total debt as a ministry
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is like two grand that's all we got left on
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a youth building. And one of the beautiful things is
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the less debt you have, the more you can actually
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put money into people, because we're here to build people.
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Uh oh, I love y'all. But man, that's exciting. I
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mean people people don't give to church because they think, oh,
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where's it going, what are we doing? Oh we're changing lives.
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Well amen, sorry, and I love y'all, and I love y'all.
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He leads the Men's Ministry of Your Wondering. His name
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is Ben Street Beeck. All email complaints go to Ben
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at Crosskingdom dot Org. Are y'all having fun yet? This
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has been amazing? I told Sean. It said, man, I
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end up with the same amount of time to teach,
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whether it's first service or second and I love it.
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And I love the fact that things like, even though
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we have you know, tooth services, it's not always the same.
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So you double dippers, We got any double dippers in
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there this morning? There's a few, so coming on the cuffs.
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Are sorry. Thursday night, waking up until Friday morning, I
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had a dream, you know, like Martin Luther. I had
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a dream. I had a dream, and I actually had
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an open vision inside of the dream. And it's been
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it's been a long time since I've had an open
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vision inside of a dream like that. I can count
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on one hand how many times that's happened. And in
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the midst of that, so I found myself on a
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road that I grew up on called Highland Road, and
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I look off and there's this massive tornado. It's not
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dark like typically you would think of like warfare dreams
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and tornadoes and storms and stuff. There's this massive tornado
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trying to come towards me, and I look and two
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other tornadoes are forming, and so I thought it might
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be a good time to find some shelter. And so
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I look down when I'm about to start to run
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towards this neighborhood, and I look down and I'm in
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a suit. I thought, huh, that's weird, because y'all don't
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ever see me in a suit, and not since Bible College.
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And I start to run, but I realize that those
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tornadoes can't get to me, and I'm like what, And
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then I realized it's extra bright around me, and I
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look up into the sky and in a massive open
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vision there is a warrior angel that's in flesh but
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dressed in his armor. I'm talking like Roman time, just
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like when Paul's talking about Ephesians, say, you know, the
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helmet of Salvation has that armor on. And this dude
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is huge, I mean massive, and he is and I'm
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watching him in this open vision and he's running and
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he's like he's going from like rock to rock and
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just flying through there. And I realize that this angel
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is running into battle to protect me, to keep these
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storms from coming at me. Clothing has to do with
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spiritual preparation and having a suit. Typically, clothing wise has
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to do like with an office like in you know,
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Fivefold Ministry. And then the scene changes and all of
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a sudden, I'm there on Highland Road again, and Todd
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White's next to me. You all know Todd Wright, right,
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he's a wild man prophetic evangelism. And there's a bunch
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of young people with Todd. And I'm sharing this dream
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and open vision with Todd in this next scene, as
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if it was the night before that I had it.
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And then Todd oft into the distance in the field
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there's wild beast. They were dark and they were almost
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like a mixture of between cattle and a wild beast,
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and Todd goes, you want to charge him? And before
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I could answer, not really, all of a sudden, we're
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running at these beasts and I come out third person
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where I'm watching all of us run towards these beasts,
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and Todd he literally got like he's like Superman to
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go plow this beast over. And at the last minute,
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every one of these you know, demonic looking dudes, all
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of a sudden got fearful and they ran away out
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of the field, and that was the end of the dream.
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One one of the in the process of that of
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the dream that was for earlier when I had all
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the young people come. I really believe that there's a
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call and a mandate and an outpour and coming for
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the young people. And and we can't argue people into
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the kingdom. Jesus never argued anybody into the Kingdom. I
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like to call it show and tell. Paul said, hey
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about these people talking, He goes, I want to find
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out who they are, because the kingdom's not just in word,
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but in power, and we need to present the gospel
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of the Kingdom with the with the power of the Kingdom. Well,
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it's not it's we can't just intellectually debate and argue
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people into the Kingdom. It's the Holy Spirit that convicts
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of sin, righteousness and judgment. And it's remember the Jesus.
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Well I don't because I'm only going to be forty
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eight in April. But who was around when the Jesus
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movement happened? Like you, bless y'all, I'm so and you
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were you're brave enough to put your hands up. Y'all
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are young, not old. And but no, like I mean
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the Jesus People movement, think about this, God began to
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pour out over a bunch of hippies, and all of
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a sudden you had these strange looking people invading the churches,
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and they didn't know what to do with it. They
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in fact, a lot of the churches shut the doors
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and wouldn't let them in. And we know, I mean,
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y'all saw the movie, the Jesus People movie that yeah,
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Jesus Revolution anyways, great movie. But are are we okay
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with God moving the way he wants to? You know,
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he's not gonna ask permission, by the way, and when
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he starts to do things we don't you know, it's
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not like we can schedule revival. Oh hey, next week,
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we're gonna have an outpouring. I already talked to the Lord. No,
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that's not the way it works. And we are at
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this tipping point right now, at this precipice, this tipping
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point where you have this intense transition that we're going
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through with massive shaking, massive pruning, massive exposure in all
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the mountains of influence. I mean literally, I said this
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first service, I said, I said, you poor conspiracy theorists.
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I said, you're running out of conspiracies because all the
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things that everybody got hammered on are literally being exposed
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in our country right now, and the massive corruption, political
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corruption and finances are being exposed. But I'll take now.
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Don't don't be It's both side, y'all. Don't think it's
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don't there's corruption on both sides. It ain't just one side.
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But the point is it says anything that can be
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shaken will be shaken, but the kingdom can't be shaken.
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And so let me say this very gently, I don't
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care about your political viewpoint this morning. There's right and wrong,
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good and evil. Are you with me? And God says
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whatever you do in secret will be shouted from the mountaintops.
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Doesn't matter what denomination you are, what political affiliation you are.
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He is on the move out of love. He is
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pruning right now. He is shaking. Why because I've said
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this before. If he starts to pour out with intensity
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and his glory is being poured out, you have to understand.
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The greater the glory, the swifter the correction. And so
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anytime God begins to move, you typically will see a
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season of significant repentance happening beforehand. Are you all tracking
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with me? Okay? But with my dream? In Exodus twenty three,
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twenty nine to thirty, it says, I will not drive
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them out from before you in one year, lest the
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land become desolate and the wild beast multiply against you.
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Little by little, I'll drive them out from before you
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until you have increased and possessed the land. Yeah, I'm
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telling you it's time to possess the land. And you're
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gonna You're gonna begin to see the young people set
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an example of what it looks like to advance the kingdom.
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You're gonna begin to see the young people move in power.
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And because it's the gospel, that's the power under salvation.
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And this isn't just for young people. But I know this.
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When God is stirring, when God is moving, and God
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gives an invitation, don't think yourself to be bigger than
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what you are. You can miss your visitation. Jesus wept
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over Israel and said, and what he say, how I
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would love to gather you like a hen does its chicks.
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But you missed your visitation. So you have a free will.
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Every one of us do. But I think there's a
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grace right now for us to go deep and allow
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the Lord to prune us, to realign us, and to
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refocus us on what really matters in this hour. And
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I got to tell you it's not necessarily the American dream.
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It's the Gospel. It's us rising up as the Church
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becoming the backbone in this country again. Because whatever change
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happens in this next however many years, whatever good change happens,
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it will only be sustained by the Church waking up.
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It says, righteousness exalts a nation, but sin is a
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reproach to any people. And I've heard it said this way,
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God lights the altar, but we got to trim the wick.
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We're responsible again, this issue of responsibility over the earth.
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The heavens, even the heavens are the lords. But He's
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given the earth to the sons of men. There's an
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estimated eight billion people on planet Earth right now. Out
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of that eight billion, approximately two four It is hard
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to talk up here this morning, isn't it. Approximately two
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point four billion people identify as Christian, making Christianity the
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world's largest religion. It's about a third of the world population.
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Now check this out. There's a term called unengaged unreached
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people group. Anybody familiar with that term right now? According
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to Finishing the Task, there are one hundred and eighty
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nine unengaged, unreached people groups numbering over five point seven
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million souls that are still beyond the reach of the gospel.
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These one hundred and eighty nine ethnic groups are perhaps
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the neediest of the needy, as they are unengaged, which
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means no one, no church, no missionary, no mission agency
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has yet taken responsibility to tell them about Jesus. The
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frontier people group is According to the Joshua Project, there
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are four thousand, seven hundred and eighty nine frontier people
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groups numbering over two billion people. These groups have less
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than point one percent Christian of any type, So these
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they're not They've been exposed, but it's zero point one
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percent that identify as Christian. They have very little access
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to the gospel. Two hundred and eighty four of these
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people groups have over one million people, and thirty six
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of them have over ten million people. If we could
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engage these mega frontier people groups, the gospel may be
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able to spread to surrounding unreached, unengaged in frontier people groups.
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Y'all think about this. Only thirty six percent of people
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in the church will have shared anything about their faith
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in the last six months, and the number one beast
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to kick out of the field if you will is fear,
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because the statistics show that the main reason why people
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don't ever share their faith is because of fear. Now,
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isn't it interesting? I asked this first service? Isn't it
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interesting that I asked some? I asked y'all for service,
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not y'all, you know, the other part of the body.
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I said, hey, what's what's one of your favorite foods?
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And people were pizza and rabbis or whatever, And I said,
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how many of you told somebody about your favorite restaurant
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in the last six months? How many times did you
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tell them about your favorite restaurant? How many people did
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you tell them about your favorite restaurant? And I saidden,
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I bet you did that without fear. But then when
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it comes to telling people about your best friend, your savior,
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all of a sudden we get this crazy intimidation and
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fear that comes Where do you think that comes from?
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It ain't Jesus. But what if our love and intimacy
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with him killed that fear because perfect love cast out
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all fear. What if some of your fleshly strongholds right now,
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in this moment could literally disappear by simply an upgrade
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of love for the Lord in that area of your life,
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because He motivates us by love. Right. So in other words,
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what if you actually started loving Jesus more than you're
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loving that sin in your life? Y'all with me, haven't
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made anybody madg yet, Just wait, I have time. It's
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usually unintentional, by the way. So in the United States
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there are sixty one million, nine hundred thousand Catholics. There
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are eight million, four hundred and fifteen thousand in the
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National Baptist Convention. There are six million, nine hundred and
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twenty thousand Mormons. For service, I said, that's a lot
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of bicycles, but nobody caught the joke. That was a
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little better. I thought I'd go for it one more time.
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In the United Methodist Church there are five million, seven
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hundred and fourteen thousand, eight hundred and fifteen people. In
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the Church of God in Christ, there's five million, four
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hundred ninety eight hundred and seventy five people. In the
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Evangelical Lutheran Church there are three million, three hundred and
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sixty three, two hundred and eighty one people. Assemblies of God.
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Anybody come out of the assembli as a god background. Oh wow, okay,
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well you were at one point a part of that
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two million, nine hundred and thirty two thousand, four hundred
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and sixty six people. And then the African Methodist Episcopal Church,
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I honestly didn't even know of that denomination was two million,
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five hundred and ten thousand. So what am I saying?
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According to Barna Group, there's about eighty million adults in
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the United States that identify as charismatic or Pentecostal. So,
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in other words, about thirty six percent make up the
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spirit filled charismatic movement if you will. And I know
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there's different flavors inside, and we can all argue with
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each other in the charismatic movement just as easy as
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anything else. But only roughly about thirty six percent. So
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what have you ever gone to a place and like
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you shared, like let's say, Todd White, everybody, you know,
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everybody's hands went up with Todd White. Go across Kerrville
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and go to the Methodist Church and say, hey, have
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you heard of Todd White? You might get one or two.
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But our little, our little circles are not as big.
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You know, they're big to us because that's the center
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of our lifestyle and our focus are y'all with me?
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But there when you take a step back and look
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from a higher plane, you realize it's it's not as
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big as what you thought. And if only thirty six
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what's that? Yeah, that's what it said. Lisa is wondering
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if I pulled a statistic accident like I did a
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few weeks ago, and a couple of people came up
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to me and said, did you know your statistics were
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adding up to like one hundred and thirty three percent adults?
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That's what it said, according to the Barner Group. You
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can fact check it. If my son, if Cole, was here,
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he would send me a text. She's anyways, moving on.
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You took his place. Thank you. I will double check
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that statistic and I will post later. She said she
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thought it was eight million. No, it's more than it's
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more anyways, moving on. I'm not trying to fib on statistics.
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I'm not being Washington. So Matthew nine thirty six to
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thirty eight, when he saw the crowds, he had compassion
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for them because they were harassed and helpless, like sheep
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without a shepherd. You know what interesting? The Hebrew word
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for shepherd is rowe, and it means to see, and
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it says like sheep without a shepherd. Then he said
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to his disciples, the harvest is plentiful, but the laborers
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are few. Therefore, pray earnestly to the Lord of the
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harvest to send out laborers. Unto the harvest who prays
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that consistently. I mean, like I you know, when I
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read that, I'm reminded, like, hey, I don't know the
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last time, Lord, please. I mean, we're always praying, you know, Lord,
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bring more servants. But like harvesters. And what's interesting and
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in our Western mindset, we always think that if you're
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going to surrender your life fully like the song we saying,
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let me get on the altar. We always think that, Okay,
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I have to leave what I'm doing and I have
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to go become a missionary. We're not saying that because
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that's for you to surrender your life and actually function
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in your destiny and what God has called you to.
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It may not be the mission field, but I can
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tell you this that as we are seeing a three
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to one closure versus startups with churches in the United States,
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and we're looking at these different things, we need to
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be praying for harvesters. We need to understand that if
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the harvest was plentiful twenty twenty five years ago, what
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do you think it is now. And God is dealing
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with us right now in the dispensation of gentiles, and
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it says when the fullness of the gentile number is full,
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that he actually begins to turn his heart toward towards Israel.
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It's not a mistake that all of a sudden we
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see Israel popping up over and over and over, and
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even regardless of what you think strategically or anything, I
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found it very fascinating that all of a sudden we
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were gonna go rebuild Gaza. There are times where if
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you go back and look at the life of Samson,
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Samson would go and pick a fight with the Philistines
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and no one understood, but it said it was the
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Lord behind it. Sometimes God will pick a fight and
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it doesn't make sense to us. I'm not saying that's
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the situation, but it could very well end up being that,
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and we don't technically understand it. There are sovereign acts
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of God happening right now because of the timeline of
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history we're in, So don't get too ticked off over
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some of these leaders, because where we're at, prophetically, you're
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about to see a whole lot of end time stuff
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begin to line up, and we're at this tipping point
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with this final harvest. It's like the parable of the
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Midnight Cry. We're somewhere between that eleventh hour in the
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in the Midnight Cry. And I was reminded when I
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was putting this together Rt. Kendall, I forgot what year
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it was. He was in London at a conference and
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this was in the height of the charismatic movement, when
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the charismatics thought, this is it, This is the this
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is the this, it can't get any better than this.
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And RT. Kendall stood up and said, you think you
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have Isaac, but you have Ishmael. But Isaac is coming.
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And I'll never forget that word, because number one, he
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ticked off a whole bunch of charismatic leaders when he said,
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you don't have Isaac, you have Ishmael. And years later,
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leader after leader, some of them have passed away now
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came to RT and said, RT, do you really believe
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that's a word from the Lord, because this can be it.
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Isaac is coming, and I believe that wholeheartedly. I believe
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that that prophetic teaching that he gave back in the
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early two thousands is absolutely accurate. And guess where Isaac was.
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He was on the altar. That means we lay down
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our lives, We lay down our right to be offended,
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We lay down our right to have sacrifices. Don't talk sacrifices.
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Don't get offended, they don't get angry, they don't get
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full of bitterness. They're a sacrifice. They don't hold on
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to disappointments, they don't hold on to what they thought
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should have happened. There's a resilience because when we die,
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he lives. To the degree that we give up our lives,
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we find our lives in him. So the quickest thing
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to do in your life when you have a cycle
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of defeat is to let it go, give it back
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to the Lord, because then you'll actually find what you've
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been trying to find. And it's not been working out.
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It's it's it's asking him to pull down our strongholds.
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It's asking him to kill the fear when it comes
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to sharing our faith with others. I said this earlier,
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pen and tell her, Uh, you know, the magicians Penn
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is an atheist, and at one point he said, if
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you Christians actually believe what you say, how much do
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you have to hate the loss to never tell them
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about Jesus. Let that sink in. If we really believe
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the Gospel of the Kingdom, if we really believe that
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Jesus is the only way, the only truth, and the
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only life of the Father. If we believe that only
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one road leads to the Father, but then we never
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tell anybody. Listen, I'm not bringing this to condemn you.
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I'm bringing this to challenge all of us, including myself,
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that we need to be There was a time with
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Lisa and the kids when they were little man. Lisa
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was like, justin, would you just please let us have
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some family time because we'd get out into the streets
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and it was on the only thing I was missing
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was those long dreadlocks like Todd. I mean, it was
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like I was no one was safe around me. I
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was constantly high beams are on. I'm just like, who
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can I minister to? Who can I tell? And I
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realized that same tenacity, that same dry begin to wean,
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and it's like, we have to we have to be
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conscious of this. We have to stoke the fires, because
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guess what, in the midst of you praying and saying, Lord,
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bring more harvesters, you might find him tapping you on
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your shoulder. Son, Start talking, daughter, start sharing the gospel,
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compelled by love, compelled by His love. We we just
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for over an hour ministered unto the Lord, took communion,
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talked to and and then literally started popcorn character you know,
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prayers of the characteristics of God. Christia was gonna sing
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this weekend and she to pull out last minute, and
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all of a sudden we saw on social media somebody
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had a big rock on her finger and she got engaged.
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Do you think it's gonna take much for her to
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talk about being engaged? Listen, the truth is offensive. If
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you speak the truth in love and someone gets offended,
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it's okay. They're not mad at you, they're mad at
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the truth. Don't get in the way, right, that was good,
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justin okay. You know, over the years, we've had power evangelism,
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serving evangelism, friendship evangelism, sharing Jesus without fear. How many
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people remember William Faye, where his whole focus was addressing
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issue of fear. We've had all of these styles of sharing.
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In nineteen ninety three, eighty nine percent of Christians who'd
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shared their faith agreed this is a responsibility of every
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Christian that was nineteen ninety three. Today, just sixty nine
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percent say it's their responsibility. LifeWay study, don't fact check me. Interestingly,
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it says, which one of the following describes how you
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believe most non Christians feel about evangelism. This was a
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LifeWay research done. They said, who feels it's pushy? Thirty
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seven percent said they felt like they felt evangelism was pushy.
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This is Christians, by the way. Fourteen percent said it
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was rude, seventeen percent, it's hope filled eighteen percent. It's
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worth hearing once seventeen percent, it's worth exploring twenty two
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percent they are open to it, six percent none of these,
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and thirteen percent were unsure. Y'all, this is the church.
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I pray that there's an intimacy in our community that
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can't be quenched. That we say, Lord, did I leave
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my first love? Lord? Is there any part of my
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life where I've left my first love? Fear is a
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horrible motivator, but his love is amazing. It says, it's
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goodness that draws us to repentance, and all of a
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sudden goes into a place where, by relationship, you no
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longer want to do this thing, not just because it's
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not gonna work out for you very well, but because
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it actually creates a stumbling block, a separation and your
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intimacy with the Lord. That's that's a huge difference of well,
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I'm gonna stop doing this. I don't I don't want
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them to kill me, versus I don't want to lose
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my intimacy with the Lord and this is not worth
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putting in the way of my relationship. You know. It
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says he's a jealous god, He's an all consuming fire,
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and he longs to be with us. Yeah, we have.
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If we're not careful in this season, we're gonna be
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more distracted and more offended with everything else going around
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us that we're not even gonna have time to cultivate
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a prayer life, because we're going to be so concerned
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about the external rather than the internal life. And the
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only way you grow, and the only way you grow
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in intimacy, the only way sanctification truly takes place is
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the inner life. I've said this many times. We're all
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going to give an account for our life, and no
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one's gonna be there with us, no one. I won't
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be able to blame Lisa for anything. It's going to
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be really tough. No. As I begin to land the
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plane here, I want to ask you a question. Do
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you understand the gifts that God's put inside of you?
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And I'm being serious, like, do you understand the gifts
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that God's given you? And do you understand that every
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one of those gifts is designed to destroy the works
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of the evil one. You're not gonna need any of
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these gifts of the spirit in heaven. There's there's not
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gonna be any prophecy in heaven. Hello, we know in part,
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we prophisey in part, but we're going to be fully
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known when we're there. There's not going to be a
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need for healing, because we'll be healed. Do you understand
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the way that the gifts that you have, the gifts
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that God's placed inside of you, do you understand the
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way they work? Do you understand the laways work regardless
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of where you are with intimacy with him? And that's
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a dangerous thing. It can be one of the dangers
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of the past with prophetic evangelism is that people got
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more caught up in the manifestation of the gift, and
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the Gospel was left behind. Are y'all with me? That
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they got they got more focused on the manifestation of
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a word of knowledge, or of word of wisdom, or
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healing or a prophetic word. And many times there was
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no seed being planted with the gospel. It's not one
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or the other. It's word and spirit. We have to
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stay balanced. It's Jesus always did show and tell, right,
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whether he was preaching to the masses or walking alongside
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of the twelve disciples. What if every one of us
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found one this year, just one to begin to pour
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our lives into as we can not a ton, I mean,
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just one person. There's like three hundred of us between two, sir.
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What if three hundred people said, you know what, I'm
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taking responsibility for the great commission. I'm taking responsibility and
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I'm just gonna go find that one. I'm gonna I'm
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gonna light this place up with the fire of God.
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I'm gonna go grocery shopping, and I'm gonna find a
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healing on Aisle ten. Remember that time, Becky, where's Becky?
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Becky and I Becky thought I was crazy when she
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first met me. But she was the one coming from
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the bar. We were we were in true story, right
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she she'll tell you she when she first started coming
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to a divine whisper, I was teaching it at Impact
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back in twenty twelve, and Becky was coming. She was
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a bartender, and Becky was coming drunk. And uh true,
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I'm not. I'm not. She tells you this, I'm not
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throwing her under the bus. And in a moment, I
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watched God radically change her. I mean, she got radically saved.
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And she's looking around at the church and wondering why
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everybody else didn't have the same things she did. Y'all,
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we can see this region turned upside down for Jesus,
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not for us. For him, there's a tipping point coming.
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There's a snowball coming, and and there's an invitation for
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us to be a part of that tipping point. Or
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we can allow the lawlessness, the spirit of lawlessness. That's
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that's that's expanding to cause our love to grow cold,
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and then we'll miss our visitation. Oh yes, it was
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Isle eight, by the Green Aisle eight. We're in Iol
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eight Word of Knowledge. We did a a treasure hunt
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and I heard the Lord say, go to Isle eight
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and Walmart. So Becky and I we show up to
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Isle eight. Nobody's there except for two Walmart employees, a
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man and a woman. And I told her, I said,
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I think we're supposed to approach the woman, and so
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I prayed. I said, Lord, not out loud. I said, Lord,
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if if we're supposed to minister to this woman, would
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you have the guy leave? And within like a minute,
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the dude like just stop stalking and just walks off.
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I was like, oh, wow, okay. And so we walk
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up to her and we're like, hey, do you need
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do you need prayer? Do you need healing for anything?
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Because we were praying earlier and we felt like Jesus said,
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come to isle eight at Walmart? And she goes, is
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this isle eight? I said, I sure, hope so, and
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literally she had just been praying that like the day
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before and said, God, do you even see me? Y'all?
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The I know we're in danger right now in the
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charismatic movement of the prophetic becoming a total sham because
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of how many prophetic leaders that have been exposed for
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no character, for lying with words of knowledge for data
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mining and all all this stuff. And the enemy would
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love nothing more than for us to throw the baby
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out with the bathwater. But if you throw out the prophetic,
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you throw out your relationship with Jesus, because in John
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Tenny said, my sheep, hear my voice, the voice of
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a stranger. They will not follow. Revelation nineteen ten says
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the testimony of Jesus says the spirit of prophecy. If
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we throw out prophecy and despise prophecy, this is why
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in Thessalonians it says, do not despise prophecy. There's got
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to be a reformation of the prophetic and being accountable
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for the words that we give. And if we blow
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a word, if we gave it on the church platform,
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you get your butt back on that church platform, and
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you take accountability for your word. Out of love. And
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I want to say this on behalf of leaders in
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the church. Please forgive us for not holding other leaders accountable,
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especially when it comes to prophets. I have. I've carried
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a burden for reformation and the prophetic for years. But
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it's relationship if you miss this, more than anything, It's
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about relationship with Jesus. It's a conversation with the King
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of Glory. It's the prophetic is interacting with him, having
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a conversation. When you get a prophetic word from someone
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and it's legit and not pulled off Facebook, then that
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is an invitation, through intimacy and relationship with him to
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become something. It's an invitation to go deeper with him.
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It's relationship. Hearing his voice is all about relationship. If
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you don't hear his voice, you've got a one way
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conversation going on. All right, I can't talk anymore. It's
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if I can get Yeah, if you play the keys, y'all,
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it's us absolutely returning to first love. And then out
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of that expression, we can't help but want to introduce
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other people with the parroteans that come up, who thank you?
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Remember when God took a portion of the spirit that
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was on Moses and put him on the other people,
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and the two guys were in the tribe and they
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prophesied that was the proof of the back of the
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Holy Spirit coming upon them, and everybody got mad wanted
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to shut them up, and Moses said, no, I wish
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that all gods people were prophets. Can you unmute the keys.
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Oh Lord, I thank you for messing us up today. Father.
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Would you continue to stir in us? Lord? Would we
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hear that that we would hear the winds glowing from
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our secret place? Lord, make us love sick. Lord, send us,
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you said, pray to the Lord of the harvest, because
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the workers are few. Lord, send us we are here.
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Send us. I pray right now, Father for an thank
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