Sermon
Unstoppable
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I think we've reached, if you want a title for it, it's unstoppable, unstoppable, unstoppable.
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I think we've reached a moment in this church's life where this church is not going to be
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stoppable anymore. We've reached that point now. It's not going to be possible to extinguish
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this church. This church has reached a place where the gates of hell cannot prevail anymore.
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This church will not die. You can try and kill it, it won't die. You can have all the leaders
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leave tomorrow, it won't die. This teaching is about what God is saying about this church
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and he wants us to know it. It's very odd to say this about a church. Usually people don't say
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things like this about the church, but if God wants to say it, who are we to stop him from saying it?
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So we've reached a point at Acts 29 where this church has become a prevailing church
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and it will last years and years and years and it's unstoppable.
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It's one of those numbers 23 moments, so if you turn to numbers 23, verse 9 and 10.
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I need more volume because of the mask, man. Numbers 23, verse 9 and 10.
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Where's Evan? Numbers 23, verse 9 and 10.
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This is Balaam. Balaam was supposed to curse Israel and he goes up a mountain and he looks at them
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and then he says from there, for from the top of the crags I see Israel, from the hills I behold him.
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Behold the people dwelling alone and not counting itself among the nations.
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Who can count the dust of Jacob or number the fourth part of Israel?
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Let me die the death of the upright, let my end be like his. And so it's almost a sense that even if
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someone came to curse us, someone came to destroy us, we would still not be extinguished. It is not
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possible. People will begin to long to be part, not of Acts 29, but to be part of something like this.
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The weight of what I'm saying is incredible. It means that
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something has been established so deep now that it cannot be removed from the earth.
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If you're on your phone and you're not paying attention, please pay attention
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and stop what you're doing. Yeah, because what if this message is from God?
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What about numbers 24, 5 to 7? Numbers 24, 5 to 7.
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How lovely are your tents, O Jacob, your encampments, O Israel, like palm groves that
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stretch afar, like gardens beside a river, like aloes that the Lord has planted, the cedar trees
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besides the waters. Water shall flow from his buckets and his seed shall be in many waters.
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His king shall be higher than Agag and his kingdom shall be exalted. Again, it is his idea
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of Balaam being taken to another part of the cliff and he looks down at Israel and instead of cursing,
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he begins to say, man, you guys have turned this place that was a desert into Eden.
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And that your king, as in whoever leads you, doesn't matter, whoever leads you,
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will be greater than King Agag. Agag was a king who was supposed to be the king over giants.
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Your king will be greater than Agag. And so it is his idea that we've come to this place now
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where there isn't any going back.
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Because there'll always be a remnant in this church that'll carry it forward. And the great
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thing about a remnant is that every successive generation gets more potent because it's like leaven.
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In the Old Testament, how they used to deal with leaven is they would let some ferment and then
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they would take a pinch of it and put it in the new batch. Meanwhile, the old one still keeps
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fermenting. So it would never lessen in its fermentation, it would keep increasing.
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This is one of those Matthew 16 verse 21 moments where Jesus suddenly realizes that Peter knows
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that he is Christ, the son of the living God. And chapter 16 verse 21 says, then Jesus set his face
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like flint towards the cross and he began to tell them, I need to go and die.
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The point is we've reached that moment at threshold where now even if all the leaders of all the house
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churches disappeared tomorrow, this church would not have a problem going forward in great strength
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because a new wave would come up. So this is an Isaiah 51, 1 to 5 moment where you're supposed to
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look back at the quarry that you were cut out from. You're supposed to look back at Abraham your
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father and Sarah your mother. And God goes on to say in Isaiah 51 verse 2, out of one solitary man,
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out of one solitary man I have created a nation. And we're not talking about me, we're talking about
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how God took nothing and made something out of this. I'll show you some pictures. I'll show you
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some pictures that will encourage us, I think, because it's encouraged me. Because what we are
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doing is unstoppable now, unstoppable and the earth will continue to benefit for generations.
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I hope you can own this. If you cannot own it, let me suggest to you that the reasons you cannot
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own it is because you are not engaged but are on the outskirts. And if that is you,
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please, this is your birthright, this is your inheritance. You being on the outskirts doesn't
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rob you of your inheritance. That's a strange thing. There's nothing negative in what God has
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to say to us today. He's not saying, oh you need to be engaged and stuff like that. He's just saying
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this is your inheritance. Doesn't matter whether you're standing far or whether you're standing in
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the center. This is what has happened to you. Or at present you don't have faith for it.
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To believe it. That's fine too. He's not condemning you for it. He's just telling you where you're at.
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Try to own it. Try to own it. I was watching this movie. I think it was on the Gucci family
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and how they squandered their wealth. And then there are other families that
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own their inheritance where they begin to say this is important. I will preserve this. This is,
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people have worked for this. I'll take care of it. That's what I mean by own this.
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And engage.
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Any questions before I go on? This is the moment we are in.
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What a privilege. Do you know what a privilege it is for a pastor to say
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that we have reached a point in our lives where we are unstoppable. That this church
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will last for years and years and years. And we've reached a place where we will prevail.
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The gates of hell cannot overcome us and that this is unstoppable. Do you know what a privilege
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that is? Do you know that even churches in the book of Revelation couldn't say that because they
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dried up? And don't for a moment think this was done by me. It's not possible. It is the work of
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the spirit amongst the people. A pastor does not make a church. He can lay good foundations
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but he can't make a church. He can't make a church. He can't make a church. He can't make a church.
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He can't make a church. He can't make a church. He can't make a church. He can't make a church.
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He can lay good foundations but this is the work of God amongst the people. You need to own this.
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You need to carry it well. You need to participate in what God is saying. If he says it's unstoppable
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then what is waiting? If he says it's unstoppable then think of what is waiting.
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Make adjustments. Posture correctly so that you can participate in what God is doing.
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You reach critical mass where now there's no going back because you've understood as a church
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the mission of the spirit. You've understood the movement of the spirit.
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You understood the mission of the spirit. You understood the movement of the spirit
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and you understood what it means to be men and women of the spirit.
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And if you haven't, don't worry, if you're part of this church it is going to flow over you.
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Whether you stay in it or not is completely up to you but you cannot avoid it. It's like standing at
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the beach. The wave will come, your feet will get drenched. The degree to which you get drenched
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is completely up to you but you will not be deprived of it. Nobody at present connected with
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this church will be disqualified regardless of whether you're a one-time visitor or a 20-time
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visitor. Fact remains that this is going to wash over you. How much you engage is completely up
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to you but you will not miss it. Poor Jeremy, he's going to Toronto at this time.
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Oh poor guy. But it doesn't matter who leaves, it's unstoppable. Any questions?
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If you're on the outskirts, how do you engage?
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If you're on the outskirts, how do you engage? I think part of the responsibility is upon the
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rest of the family to engage those that are on the outskirts. So it is my job to go and say to Sam,
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hey Sam, why are you disengaged? And pull him in. Sometimes pull him in struggling, sometimes pull
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him in willingly, sometimes bribe him with a burger but get him engaged. Does the burger work?
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Okay. Yeah, that was easy. It would work with me too. Yeah. Be men and women of the spirit. Yeah.
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Second last movement of the spirit. Movement. So how do you engage those that are on the
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fringes? One, as a group of people trying to draw them in. Two, making them jealous.
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Paul talked about it. He says one of the ways to engage people is to make them jealous. He said,
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when my Jewish brothers see what is happening amongst us, it will make them jealous.
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And three, by always trying to give people a taste of what is happening.
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A taste of what is happening. People won't eat something till you tell them it tastes good
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and then they have to taste it. So those are three ways to engage people but it won't be taken away
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from them. The opportunity will always be there. I can't find a word in this thing which condemns,
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which says, ah, you won't qualify. Everybody qualifies but the degree to which you engage
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and it's my responsibility to call you out when you don't engage so that you don't think you're
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engaged when you're not. But it still won't rob you. So why does God think we are unstoppable?
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Here are some of the reasons he gave. One, he said you are a good seed
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and you are beginning to willingly die to things so that my life can resurrect what is required.
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You are a good seed. You are a good seed and you're willingly dying to things so that
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my resurrection life takes over. You're willingly dying to things. You're willingly dying to your
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jobs. You're willingly dying to your security. You're willingly dying to putting your family,
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your work, your possessions, your money first. You're willingly dying to self. You're willingly
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dying to being the authority in your life. You're willingly dying to controlling your time. You're
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willingly dying to keeping your homes as if they were your castles. You're willingly dying
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and because you're willingly dying, it makes my resurrection power unstoppable. This church is
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willingly dying. It's reached a mass where if there are 50 people in this church, it's almost
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like 40 are doing it. The 10 that don't will still get the same benefits. It's gotten to that point.
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This is great, man.
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Always, oh yeah, we won't go there today. There's nothing to condemn today. We'll condemn next week.
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So one of the things God is really thrilled with is that death is a crucial part of this church.
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Dying to things is really something that this church is dealing with because as long as the
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casing on a seed is not destroyed, its potential as a seed is aborted and the strange thing is
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when seed falls on ground, the casing is destroyed and the seed sprouts and he's saying,
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you guys are doing this. I see how selfless you are. I see how you're not greedy. I see how
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you're not afraid. I see a lack of fear and I see great belief and very little unbelief. When you're
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pushed into situations, instead of backing off, you actually step into water. I'm seeing it. It's
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become unstoppable now. Do you know how long he hunts for a people like this?
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Every generation he goes looking for a people like this. Where does that come from? First
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Chronicles 16, 9. What does it say? My eyes roam to and fro looking for someone who is loyal to me
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on whose behalf I can prove myself strong and he's finally found it. He can't say what he said in
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Isaiah. I had looked for a people and I could not find one. He can't do that anymore
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and he's thrilled with that. Someone should write a song saying, father you can't say that anymore.
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You can't say that anymore because he's found a people but it's the people he created.
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The shepherd should feel be like his sheep. That's why I'm wearing a mask
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because all of you are wearing masks. I'm just kidding. That has nothing to do with nothing.
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Moving on. Children born here will become sons that give their lives away.
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Children born here and when I say children I don't mean the Sunday school kids alone.
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Anybody new that comes here, it'll be that same scripture from Isaiah 9, 6, until as a child is
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born but until the son is given. Your children will come here and they will give their lives away.
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You watch these kids. You watch the three kids of the dirks, the kids that Subin and Shikha have,
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Phoebe. You watch these kids. You watch what's going to happen to them.
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You parents will think to yourself, my god what did I do wrong because they're giving things away.
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They'll empty themselves. They will empty themselves. Why? Because they have learned from you.
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I wish you live long enough to see this.
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Any questions?
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From, sorry go ahead.
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Yeah, the person that is not engaging hasn't tasted because of not coming in. It's not because of a
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lack of incentive. It's not because of a lack of opportunity but sometimes I hold myself back from
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engaging because of my fears or because of my prejudices and preferences. Well then, it is my
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job to then grab him by his wrist and drag him. You're supposed to be dragged man.
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So to be dragged into the thing. So I would rather have us take the onus
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and keep trying, keep trying and failing. When it fails, you're not responsible but it won't be a
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lack of trying. Rather than put, for some strange reason, God is not in a mood to blame anybody
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today. He's saying, hey if someone is disengaged, you go get them and keep dragging them in till
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they come. I'll hold them responsible when they keep saying no but that's not your problem. Your
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problem is to keep dragging them in and changing however you need to so you can accommodate them.
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Because I would rather as a pastor put the blame on the person who's not engaging
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but my boss says no, you go engage them.
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From now on, any seed you sow will be impregnated with the word multiply. From now on, any seed you
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sow will be impregnated with the word multiply. I'm not talking about spiritual seed. I'm saying to you because this thing has become unstoppable.
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Always remember guys, the way this thing works in the kingdom is very simple and it's very true.
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And we don't think it's real but the sooner we believe it, the easier it is.
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Heaven comes upon a people and then God is saying right now you have become unstoppable.
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It's a people who are affected. It's not an individual. It's a people who are affected.
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Inheritance is always given to the entire family. That's the great thing about it. So every seed that
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you sow, be it spiritual seed, be it financial seed, be it relational seed, every seed you sow
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will be impregnated with the word multiply. Will be impregnated by God with the word multiply so
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that it becomes almost impossible for things you do not to bear fruit.
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Try it out. I'm trying it out. I'm seeing tremendous results.
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Anywhere I sow, I'm getting fruit that I don't
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haven't worked for. I'm talking about any kind of fruit.
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So
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why is this going to happen? Because multiplication really, multiplication is basically
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the transfer of the life of God
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into a situation or a people, into a people or a situation. That's what multiplication is.
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That's how we become unstoppable. He has somehow been able to create us as a people amongst two.
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He can do this and he's saying, hey, it's unstoppable now.
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He says, if Jacob left, you wouldn't miss a beat. The quality of teaching might go down
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a little for a little while and even that will come up because Jacob's a good teacher.
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He is. You can smile behind those masks. My God, tough crowd.
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Any questions?
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Position yourself. One of the ways things multiply is
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by positioning myself correctly, and what do I mean positioning myself? How do I position my
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new world as that wonderful one. So, I'm going to give Finland my PowerPoint and don't forget
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my race book. It's이라고 SBS headquarters
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there. And we have lots and lots and lots stuff to look at so thank you for watching.
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in relation to God, in relation to the body,
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in relation to what God is doing.
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How do I, multiplication, if you want multiplication
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to really hit you hard, three things.
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How do I position myself with God?
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Am I in relationship with him
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so that his life that is being transferred
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and his life is overflowing flows through me
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and things begin to just get so saturated
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or irrigated or fertilized with his life
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that they begin to multiply?
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Second, how am I relating to the body?
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Because God works upon a people.
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It is God who worked with Israel
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to give them their inheritances,
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but the inheritance was given
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as a promised land to a people and then it was allotted.
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Same principle applies continuously.
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Please don't think that's not true.
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It's absolutely true.
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It is pointless having an inheritance
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that you do not cultivate.
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What's the point of getting a piece of land
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that does not bear anything but thorns and thistles?
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It is still your inheritance,
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but you won't even be able to sell it
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because inheritances are not sold.
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In the kingdom, inheritances are not sold.
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You can't get a property in the kingdom and say,
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I'm gonna wait till the price of land goes up
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and I'll sell it.
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You cannot sell your inheritance in the kingdom of God.
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You can only cultivate it.
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And at the end of the day,
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an account must be given for the cultivation
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of your inheritance.
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And then how do I position myself with the kairos of God
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or the movements of God on earth?
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How am I positioning myself?
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What if Jacob is saying the absolute truth
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and that we have become unstoppable?
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How do I position myself?
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What do I change?
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What arrangement do I make?
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What do I give up?
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How do I position myself to be caught up
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in this whirlwind from heaven?
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What adjustments do I need to make?
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Okay, so how do you figure it out?
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So when something happens, we have a general picture of it.
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We know how to position ourselves
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for what might happen with Ukraine.
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We know how to position our cars
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so that we get to the
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Esso station quickly
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because the price of gas fell by two cents.
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It's now $2 instead of $2.09.
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We position ourselves generically, continuously in life.
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And in the same way in the church,
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the generic spiritual pictures that God is presenting.
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And let's just start there.
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Let's just start there.
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As in, and don't ask me to spell it out
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because one of the things God wants his church to do
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because we've gotten to this place,
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it's okay, Father, so what are you doing
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at this particular stage?
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Just looking at some of the messages will give you an idea.
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Just looking at some of the movements will give you an idea.
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The thing is, one of the things that may change
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is we will not be spoon fed.
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We'll have to go look.
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What are you doing, oh God?
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I'm continuously looking at your lives and saying,
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what are you doing with this person or that person, Father?
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Is this the right time?
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Should I push?
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Should I not push?
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Should I wait?
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I'm doing that with each of you on a regular basis.
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This is why I get paid the big bucks.
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I'm trying to see three months ahead to see
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whether Tooney and Annali should come back now
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or now or now.
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That's how you position.
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It is hard work, but my God,
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we're grown up enough for some hard work now.
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There are enough spiritual generalities in this church
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for us to begin to figure out where we're going,
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where the spirit of God is going,
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the movement of the spirit.
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The other thing that'll happen in this church
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because of the unstoppable nature of what God is doing
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is that your lives will abound with great expectancy.
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Your lives will abound with great expectancy.
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Your lives will abound with great expectancy.
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Why?
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Because God is saying, you know my nature.
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And anybody who knows the nature of God
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will now begin to engage in great exploits.
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Daniel chapter 11.
Daniel 11 chapter mention
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Those that know their God will do mighty exploits.
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Great expectancy will begin to grab your heart.
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When great expectancy comes, with that comes
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a greater faith to attempt things you would never attempt.
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Daniel chapter 11 talks about how those that know
Daniel 11 chapter mention
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their God will do mighty exploits.
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Great expectancy.
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What you used to expect was five things.
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Now you expect eight things
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because you have the faith for it.
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You have the faith for it.
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It's unstoppable.
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Hey, this is the work of the spirit of God.
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So what the spirit of God begins to do
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is it begins to extend your ability to see what God has
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or what is possible in God.
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He begins to extend it.
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We went from $1,800 at Pilgrim to $6,500 here.
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That's not twice, that's not even thrice.
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That's like four times almost.
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How do you do stuff like that?
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How do you do stuff like that when it's COVID
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and nobody is, it's not like everybody was coming to Acts 29.
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How do you do stuff like that?
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Expectancy increases.
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When expectancy increases,
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the largeness of your faith increases.
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When the largeness of your faith increases,
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exploits increase.
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You cannot do this in isolation.
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It is something that begins to sweep an entire people.
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And if you're connected, it becomes easier.
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If you're not connected, you have to struggle harder.
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But it's still yours.
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Any questions?
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Daniel 11, 32.
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Here's another thing that God is saying will happen.
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Your eyes of faith will see the storehouse
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behind your storehouse.
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As in, your eyes of faith will begin to see
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the little you have and not despise it.
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And you will have the ability to take risks
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with your resources.
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You will have the ability to take risks
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with your resources.
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You will not despise the widows' little children
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or little jug of oil,
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because you know that the storehouse behind the jug of oil
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is greater than the granaries of the Egyptian Empire.
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Your view of how you see abundance is going to change,
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because it will no longer be based on your lack
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or your plenty.
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You will be able to see the storehouse
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behind your storehouse.
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Resources will begin to flow,
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because when God becomes unstoppable,
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you will be surprised at how resources are available.
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When God becomes unstoppable,
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resources are always available.
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Resources to do the things he wants you to do
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become available.
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You won't have to raise funds,
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you won't have to bake,
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you won't have to wash cars.
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Unstoppable.
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It's impossible to function on earth
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in the kingdom without resources.
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Impossible.
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A lack of provision will shackle kingdom activity.
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A lack of provision shackles kingdom activity.
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Provision is required,
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and provision will come.
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Most of you are great givers.
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Most of you are great givers.
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I don't look at who gives how much,
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because I don't want to be influenced
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in what I say or do or in my relationship with you,
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but most of you are great givers.
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Some of you who are capable are not giving.
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I don't know who, but I know that is true.
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But most of us are great givers.
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But now watch as the unstoppable begins to take over,
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and your ability to receive resources
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and expend them will increase.
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Why did I bring up this thing of some of us are not giving
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even though we have the capacity to give?
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Because you will find it difficult to handle the resources
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that comes our way.
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If you haven't learned to give,
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you will not learn how to handle the resources
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that come your way.
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They will turn to gravel,
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or they will go into your bank and stay there,
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and it will rot.
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It will rot, and it will rot you.
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That's the strange thing with giving.
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If you haven't been giving,
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then when the resources are released,
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because this is part of the unstoppable church we've become,
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I literally want to change the name of the church
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to unstoppable, but that might create its own problems.
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What will happen is if you aren't a giver,
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if you haven't been given,
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even though you have the ability to give,
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if you haven't been giving, as this begins to happen,
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the money will rot with you, or it will turn into gravel.
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As in, it won't taste good.
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Just be aware of that.
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These are side realities,
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but it still doesn't opt you out of what God is gonna do.
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I want to show you some pictures.
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Go ahead, next one.
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He already showed you this.
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You know, this picture here, the one...
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I wish I had a pointer.
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That first one there.
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Oh, there's a little one there.
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I want to show you what unstoppable looks like.
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This is how Bahrain started.
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This was Bahrain in 2009.
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Let me tell you why unstoppable happens.
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Unstoppable happens because people grab the vision of God,
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and it doesn't matter what it costs them.
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They'll continue to do it again and again
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and again and again.
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They'll continue at it.
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There's a relentlessness, there's a persistence.
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That is unstoppable in you
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because you have recognized what needs to be done.
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That was 2008 or 2009.
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All these other guys have gone.
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The only ones remaining were Dano and this guy called Brian.
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Then Dano began to establish the foundations of the church
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and Bahrain.
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That was the group that started.
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Used to go down once every three months.
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Look what it is now, man.
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This is unstoppable.
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If this is what it was then,
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you cannot even imagine what's going to happen next.
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We have become good seed.
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Any of you planted anywhere
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will not be able to stop production.
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This is the church in Dubai.
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Move to the next one.
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What's the next one?
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Mongolia, same thing.
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Met two people.
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One of the things to be unstoppable is,
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God, you said it, we obeyed.
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No questions asked.
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You do not need to explain anything to us.
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Whatever you say, we will do, we will go.
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No questions asked.
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No planning if you're not asked to plan.
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Go to Mongolia.
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Even today, there's a Bible college in Mongolia
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called Tellios that we started here
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to graduate students.
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Guess what this is?
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Mongolian leaders from all over Europe.
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Between 2013 and 2019, this happened.
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Never thought, who would have ever thought
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that this tiny church would have influence
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among Mongolian leaders from all over Europe.
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We have become unstoppable.
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Jacob, aren't you scared of saying this
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because it sounds prized?
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I would never dare say it.
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I struggled, I woke up at six this morning
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to write this message,
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and I had more than four days to prepare a message.
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I went through all my old notes,
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thought, let me cut and paste and make a good message.
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But I had to wait till this,
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because this feels uncomfortable to say,
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but we are a church that has become unstoppable.
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Next picture.
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This is just the past.
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Met a skinny looking guy.
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Through Derek.
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I was also skinny then.
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That went to this, went to this.
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Unstoppable.
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It is not possible to stop this church anymore.
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What do I mean when I say church?
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People, us, it is not possible.
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This church cannot be stopped.
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Good seed, man, good seed.
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You are good seed.
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Whether you want to fall on the ground and be planted
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is up to you, but you are good seed.
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Next one.
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Look, look, look, look, look how things happen.
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I'm not even supposed to meet this guy.
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He's not someone I'm supposed to meet.
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I'm only supposed to meet him.
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And he was the only one who couldn't speak English.
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Even this guy could speak English.
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But it starts here, then it goes here,
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then it goes here, and then it goes here last week.
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It is unstoppable.
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Remember this thing, guys.
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One, God loves working with remnant.
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You have become a remnant, you are good seed.
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Two, he will keep doing this again and again the same way.
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Start from small, make it big.
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Unstoppable.
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Please believe me when I say
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that if all the leaders left tomorrow,
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you would still continue what God has started.
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Because it's a movement of the Spirit
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and the mission of the Spirit,
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and the work of the Spirit in people understanding
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that they are men and women of the Spirit.
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This is all wrong, I would rather keep correcting you.
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That's not how God is seeing it.
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Move.
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2009, met this guy.
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Didn't know who I was, I didn't know who he was.
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2020, just before COVID broke out.
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A whole denomination, 13,000 people.
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How does this church influence that church?
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You're talking about 80 churches, a whole denomination.
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How?
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Something is afoot, guys, and this is the past.
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And God has never said this about us, this is the past.
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Keep going.
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I wanna show us our beginnings.
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Yesterday I was driving Finn and Evan on River Road,
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and as I was driving over River Road, I thought to myself,
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man, Evan has no idea where we started.
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There was a tiny little room like this,
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that was the size of the room.
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More than eight people would break fire laws.
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But to get to eight people took us two years,
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so it was all right.
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But that led to this,
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or these two would always turn up, unfortunately.
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So you had to have a full service.
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This led to that, led to that.
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This is our roots, guys.
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You need, now in retrospect,
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I was just thinking that Feb 16th or thereabouts
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was the 16th year of us being around,
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because we started Feb 2006.
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Now when I look back,
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now when I look back, I realize
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why God took his own sweet time growing this church.
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Because now he's gotten to a point 16 years later,
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which is a very short time for a church,
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and he's saying to us, hey, your roots are so deep,
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and you have understood how to do things so well,
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that now this is not possible to stop.
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You're unstoppable.
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Man, if you're part of this church,
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count yourself blessed, hey.
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Count yourself blessed, hey.
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It's so wrong saying things like this about our own church.
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Next one.
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Dayton, small group.
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It'll grow.
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Same way, unstoppable.
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Anyone that connects, unstoppable.
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These guys, brilliant.
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Jeremy introduced me to them.
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I met them in Toronto.
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You watch.
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Within the next year,
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what will happen in Toronto among young people there.
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And everything goes back to one thing.
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I am igniting a revival amongst 20s, 30s, and 40s.
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You will see that connection too.
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I'm glad Jeremy's going back.
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LA, you will see the influence that'll happen there.
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Nashville, small group.
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Unstoppable, unstoppable.
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Across the earth, guys.
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Across the earth.
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Across the earth, think of it.
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You engage, you will go.
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So one of the best ways to not go is to not engage.
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I knew a lady, I think Joe knows her too.
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She was once prophesied over,
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someone went and prophesied on her saying,
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if you stop chewing gum,
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God will make a profit out of you.
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She got so scared she started chewing gum like crazy.
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So, so.
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If you engage, you will go.
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So the best way not to go is to not get engaged.
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Yeah.
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Don't, not get engaged, huh?
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Yeah.
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Okay, moving on to the next one.
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Next one.
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Next one.
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These are places that,
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some places you just water, right?
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UK, South Africa,
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Lithuania,
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Burma, Indonesia.
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Keep moving.
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Malaysia,
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Nepal,
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Kenya.
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I mean, it's crazy.
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Just think of it, guys.
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How many are we?
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How many of you?
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Why am I showing you these pictures?
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Because we are some of the most understated,
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non-presumptive people,
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so we don't realize what God has already done.
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I'm the only presumptuous guy in this church.
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Everyone else is humble.
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This is when you say, no Jacob.
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But not a peep out of anybody.
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My God.
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Next one.
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Australia today is a result.
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Australia,
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the things that are happening in Sydney and Brisbane today,
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Sydney has about 15 people in their church,
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Brisbane has five.
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What is happening in Sydney and Brisbane today
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was because of a trip done ages ago
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where you had no one to meet.
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And the only person I met was this one guy.
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And he was gonna shut down his church.
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And I go meet him and I give him a word.
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And in the word it says,
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you're gonna shut down your church.
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God is saying,
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keep it open.
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It blew his mind.
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He said, come and tell the church about it.
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And he went and confessed before the church
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that the church was gonna shut.
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The next, he was going to make an announcement on Sunday
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that the church was shutting.
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That was like, what?
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10 years ago, 11 years ago?
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Guys, one of the things we must remember,
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unstoppable doesn't mean immediate.
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Unstoppable means it is inevitable.
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Think like this, hey?
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Sometimes things may take eight or nine years,
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but it is inevitable.
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Brisbane, Christ Church, New Zealand, Hanoi, keep going.
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Look at the number of generations in this church, hey?
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We've got five generations of men at present.
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We've got people who were there before us,
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people now, older, younger, younger, younger.
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When I say five generations,
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I do not mean five generations of kids.
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I mean people that are growing in the ways of God.
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Please understand what I mean by generations.
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I do not mean generations as an eight.
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I mean people that are growing in the ways of God.
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I was watching last time's video,
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and I see Ruth come up and talk,
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and I'm thinking to myself,
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I've known this lady for 30 years.
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And to hear how she was doing was a blessing to my heart.
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And then you've got Jeremy,
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who puts his shoes on the pulpit.
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Sorry, Evan.
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You've got Mia and Phoebe doing their thing.
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Okay, moving on.
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This is why New York is so absolutely doable.
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This is the first time we went to New York,
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and Sheldon just reminded me
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that we were standing in Times Square and praying.
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One of the things that we said in prayer is,
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Father, what David Wilkerson could not complete,
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you have sent us to complete.
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I had completely forgotten about that.
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34 neighborhoods in Manhattan
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will have a house church in each of those neighborhoods
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in the next four years.
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Unstoppable.
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I was so blessed with this word as I read it.
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I thought, Father, it's not possible to do this.
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I don't even know how to get 34 people.
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To get two people is difficult.
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God is saying, hey, unstoppable.
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Every neighborhood in Manhattan by 2026
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will have a couple that understand your ways
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of doing things, Acts 29,
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and you will plant a seed so deep
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that Manhattan will not be the same
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for the next 60, 70 years
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because it will continuously have my presence
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because of what you're doing.
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You have become unstoppable.
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I am so encouraged with New York.
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I am so confident of what will happen there.
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Any cost is payable then, guys.
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Guys, very few in this church know
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the cost I'm paying for this.
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I'm talking about financial cost.
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I'm talking about physical cost.
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I'm talking about spiritual cost.
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I'm talking about spiritual cost.
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You have no idea.
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One day I'll tell you.
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But it runs into thousands and thousands,
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and it runs into a lot of things
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that this is not the time to talk about.
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But it is worth paying the cost.
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Why am I saying that to you?
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Because you will have to pay the cost, too,
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when things become unstoppable.
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Then all this raising of hands will have to be...
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That's a karate move in case you didn't know what that was.
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Yeah.
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Okay.
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Okay.
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Okay.
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Okay.
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Okay, next one.
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This was a place called Ras Al-Kaima.
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It's the highest point in UAE.
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We stood there and we stopped certain things
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that are going to happen in UAE
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and then began to increase the number of people
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who were in the church.
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And then we started to see the number of people
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then began to install people that needed to be installed
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to take charge of things in UAE and in Oman.
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I put this picture here because this is in Abu Dhabi,
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a neighboring emirate.
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Three years ago,
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these two decided that they would move to Abu Dhabi,
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move their business.
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When they rented a hall,
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and they said, we're gonna start church.
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They rented a hall, sat there for three hours.
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We had a full-fledged service, nobody else came.
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I put that picture up because it's unstoppable.
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I want you to know that in a few months from now,
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I'll show you what the picture looks like.
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I want this picture as proof it is unstoppable.
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There are other things happening.
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Sometimes God changes rulers to open up nations.
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There's a new ruler who now has reign over Saudi Arabia.
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Guess where I'm going a few months from now, to Jeddah,
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which was impossible to do some weeks ago.
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There is no nation that will be spared this church
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and its influence because of its unstuffability.
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Hi, walk right in.
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Any other pictures?
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Yeah, we got keys, man.
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We got keys.
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Run with it.
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End of this month, guess where we're going.
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Betty and Heidi and Jeevan are going to Bangladesh.
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Bangladesh.
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Guess where Jill is going, back to Japan.
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She doesn't know it, but she knows it now.
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That's why there was a moment of silence there.
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What's happening?
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Next one.
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Oh, sorry, I don't know how this got in there.
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What happened?
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Oh, the white shoes.
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Yeah.
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Yeah.
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The previous life, you made the...
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This one?
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No.
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Oh, this one?
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I think how we do things will still be small,
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that becomes big.
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That one small unit will go different places
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and begin to replicate the same thing.
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One of the things, when I was talking to Jeevan
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about the church he wants to,
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I was saying, I need to push you out
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so you can start building a brand new church.
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He said, Jacob, I don't want to do it in a building.
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Because he said the only way to do it
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is do it the way of house churches.
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So many of the things we do, unstoppable,
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will be going back to the blueprint of the New Testament
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and do it the way the New Testament does it.
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Here are some things to guard against.
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We won't go into details, I'm just writing it down.
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Guard against Leviathan, which is a king,
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or children of pride.
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Children of pride.
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Guard against Leviathan.
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So that when I have brought you into places
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where you had wells that you did not dig,
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vineyards that you did not cultivate,
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houses that you did not build,
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houses that you did not build,
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may you not turn around and say that my hands achieve this.
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Guard against Leviathan, king of the children of pride.
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So why am I calling it Leviathan?
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Because these are powers.
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These are powers that will attack
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anything that is unstoppable.
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These are powers that will attack.
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Think of what I'm saying, guys.
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That this church has become unstoppable.
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Something that is unstoppable and at the command of God
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to do whatever he wants.
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Job 27.
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To do whatever he wants, Job 27.
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Verse 11 and 12?
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No.
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Job.
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It is in Job.
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Maybe it's 32.
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Job.
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There's another thing where he says,
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I take the clouds and make, Job 37.
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Verse 11 and 12.
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Job 37, verse 11 and 12.
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He loads the thick clouds with moisture.
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The clouds scatter as lightning.
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They turn around and around by his guidance.
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To accomplish all that he commands him
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on the face of the habitable world,
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whether for correction or for his land or for love,
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he causes it to happen.
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That's what I mean by unstoppable at his disposal.
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If unstoppable and at his command,
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then know that there will be powers that oppose
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and also know that powers will oppose.
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How do powers oppose?
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So when God deals with something, he deals with the people.
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And when he deals with the people,
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he may first begin to influence the leaders,
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but he deals with the people.
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When the enemy attacks,
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the enemy tries to attack individuals who have influence
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so that what can be done through an individual
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will begin to spread in a group of people.
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That's how the enemy works.
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God works with the people,
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the enemy works with individuals.
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He uses individuals to begin to affect the entire batch.
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So there should be a way we begin to understand
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that there are powers that will come against us.
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One of the powers is Leviathan, king of pride.
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Second one.
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A tolerance of Jezebel.
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A tolerance of Jezebel.
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What does that personify?
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It personifies a defiance
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and a hissing against order.
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A hissing against order.
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A tolerance or fear of Jezebel.
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Often what happens in a church
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is sometimes it's not even tolerance.
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It's just a fear of hurting people
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that prevents you from dealing with it.
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A tolerance or a fear of Jezebel.
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It is a power, it is a spirit.
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It has the ability to defy order,
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to break down structure,
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to bring in, to lower standards.
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It hisses at order.
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Literally like a snake, it hisses at order.
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Three.
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This is scary for Acts 29, we gotta guard against this.
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Godliness without power.
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Godliness without power.
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Where we have such rich teachings
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and we know how to go and give those teachings elsewhere,
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but we don't have power.
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Godliness without power.
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We've got to solve that one
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because very often the ways we function,
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power doesn't seem to be as evident as it should.
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Power doesn't seem to be as evident
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when Jesus walked the earth.
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There's a gap there in our lives that must be spanned.
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These are things to guard against.
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Next one is aversion to growth through training.
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Aversion to growth through training.
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Why is this important?
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Because if you don't grow through training,
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you will, even though you are a son,
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be treated as a slave because it says in Galatians 4,
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till the son comes to an age of maturity,
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his inheritance cannot be given to him
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and he's as good as a slave.
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Aversion to growth through training.
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And the last one.
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In other words, aversion to growth
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or aversion to training?
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People want to grow,
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but they want to grow without training.
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And that won't happen.
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Pardon?
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Instruction and discipline,
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but not discipline as in punishment,
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discipline as in don't eat chocolates throughout the day.
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Don't start your day with dessert, that kind of stuff.
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Yeah, which of course I would never do.
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And the last one, this is a very odd one.
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I think I should say it.
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This church will do serious damage
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to Freemasonry.
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I don't even know what that means,
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but this church will do serious damage to Freemasonry.
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It'll be one of the battles we win.
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Serious damage to Freemasonry.
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I don't know what it means or how it'll play out.
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Meaning, I know what it means,
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but I don't know how it'll play out.
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We see that as an enemy we will beat.
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Okay.
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Let me conclude.
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I think we have a very good time.
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I think we have a very good time.
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I think we have a very good time.
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I think we have a very good time.
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Okay.
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Let me conclude.
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Each of you is a valid spirit, man or woman.
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You're good seed, says the Lord.
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I could take you today with all your warts and pimples
-
and plant you and you would bear good fruit.
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Just listen to that.
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You are valid spirit, men and women.
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I could take you today with all your warts and pimples
-
and you would still end up
-
you would still end up bearing fruit.
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You have nothing to prove.
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You just go as seed that already has my nature,
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understands my ways, knows the movement of my spirit.
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You have nothing to prove.
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You go as seed, you carry my nature.
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You're an only requirement that I'll keep asking of you
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is to die and be nothing, to die and be nothing,
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to die and be nothing.
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You keep doing that, I'll produce a crop.
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Because that's what a seed does.
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A seed has in it the gene package that I put in it
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that will perpetuate after my kind says God.
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And you're already that.
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And you're already that.
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Your job is to keep dying
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to everything that has to do with self.
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Keep becoming nothing.
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Any one of you I could take
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and you would be able to, here's a crazy thing.
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Anyone who's engaged with Act 29,
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let me just put that as a qualifier.
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If you're actually engaged with Act 29,
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if you understand the ways of Act 29, if you don't,
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and if you're a newbie, you're forgiven.
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But if you have engaged, anyone in this church
-
who's taken and planted anywhere can produce the same thing.
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Just think of that guys.
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I could take Jill, I could take Echo, I could take Finn,
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I could take Chava, I could take Sam,
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who's only been here for a while.
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I could take any of you and put you in a certain ground
-
and you would produce the same thing through your personality.
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The personality would be different.
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But you would produce the same thing
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because the essence is already entered.
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That's why it's unstoppable.
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That's why it's unstoppable.
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I remember listening to, what's her name?
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Matt, what's your wife's name? Rachel.
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I remember listening to Rachel in Vernon.
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We had gathered all the leaders of Vernon around
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and Rachel was beginning to tell Vernon
-
about Act 29 and how Act 29 functions.
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I texted Matt saying,
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man, you have no idea what you're doing.
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I said, I'm going to tell you about Act 29.
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I said, I'm going to tell you about Act 29.
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I texted Matt saying,
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man, you have no idea what your wife is doing here.
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Rachel doesn't attend services too often.
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She's got her hands full.
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But as I was listening to her in Vernon,
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I thought to myself, how did she get this?
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Some of you were there.
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She's a Vernon girl.
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Something has happened, guys.
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This is unstoppable.
-
This is the end.
-
So I'll end with this one line.
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Genesis 1, 28, the first part.
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God blessed them and said to them,
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be fruitful and multiply
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and replenish the earth and subdue it.
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God blessed them
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and said to them,
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be fruitful and multiply
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and replenish the earth and subdue it
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because I give you permission
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because you have become unstoppable.
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In your core, in your nucleus,
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you have what it takes.
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Sure, part of Jacob's job is to keep correcting,
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keep adjusting,
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but you need to know
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and place what Jacob is saying against the backdrop
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of what I'm saying right now,
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that you have become unstoppable.
-
You will perpetuate my kind.
-
Your children will not look like you.
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They will look like me
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because you've gotten it.
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Any questions?
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No?
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Any comments?
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Anyone wants to add anything?
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No?
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Okay.
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Thank you.
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Thank you.
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Yeah.
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Anyone else wants to add anything?