Sermon
Present God Unashamed
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What's the serious name?
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Yeah, present God present God
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Okay
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That one right but
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Last week's sermon he finished off with one one
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Request to all of us. He said I remember this one so loud because he repeated twice
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He said it's from Habakkuk chapter 2
Habakkuk 2 chapter mention
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The verse is like a climb
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Climb the lookout tower scan the horizon wait to look at what God says
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Climb the lookout tower scan the horizon and wait to look at what God says
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And Jacob started this series as we know the God who is present with us
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He's Emmanuel God. He is there with us and that's who he is
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He always wants to be with us and then all the promises if you write them on the paper
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And then if you look at all you look at God's heart in those promises
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You will see that he never leaves you nor forsake you in fact Jane started off this
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this
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Service saying Lord you are our face-to-face God our father is face-to-face father that he never turns his face back
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That's what who he is
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And then now we started to learn how to present this God who is with us who is present all the time
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His presence and then who is always with us. How can we present this God to the world?
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That's what we started into
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Learning and last week Jacob started to ask us this question. Okay, Lord
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How are you presenting to myself so that I can present you to the world?
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That's where we have looked at and now today we want to ask you a question
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And now today we're gonna look at today. We're gonna look at how can we present?
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God to the world and then what can stop us from doing that and then how can we overcome those?
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Okay, so for that let's let's read
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second Timothy chapter 2
2 Timothy 2 chapter mention
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second Timothy chapter 2
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Verse 15
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Yeah
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Yeah, do your best to present yourself to God as one approved a
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worker who does not need to be ashamed and
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Who correctly handles the word of truth?
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Do your best to present yourself to God as one approved a worker who does not
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Need to be ashamed and who correctly handles the word of truth
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We have to understand that these three are three different stages three different things that as a as a Christ follower
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We have to be aware of
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So the first one
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Approved and then the second one
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Unashamed and the last one
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Handles the word of God
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Correctly
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Handles the word of God correctly
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To me coming from India presenting God is one of the one of the one of the primary thing in the church
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Because our church the back in India the church I grew up our churches is in a community where we don't have many Christian
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congregations
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So that's where once we have we we start to experience the power of God
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We start to experience the experience who God is in our life
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We start to experience the love and then we start to sing that love to the world
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Every day every church every Sunday
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Especially my life and my brother and then my sister my family and our church Sunday school team and this is what we were doing
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It's like we go out and then we preach the gospel. We present God in a different different
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Congregations that's where we were we were doing
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But then after but then before doing that that's the primary thing that we every every Christian
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We need to every Christ follower every son
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We need to live in that life the first one approved and then acts 29
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We have lived in that love life such a wonderful time at a such a wonderful level
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Am I right or not
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Approved we start to learn the love of father that like how father accepts us his children how he never
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He's always chair facing God. He's always face to face God
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He never he's always there for us and then and then we start to live in this life. In fact in 2019
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We have started this this year saying access granted
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Because we are approved
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We are approved into the presence of God now we can go boldly and with confidence
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Because what Christ has finished on the cross we have lived in this one with such a powerful life
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Especially especially in my life. I have lived this one. I still struggle, but it is such a place to live
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Because nothing can separate me from the love of Christ because when I accept to Christ
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He comes into my spirit and then his spirit and my spirit become one and then they can never be separated because
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That is the promise and that is the seal that God has placed upon my spirit with the power of the Holy Spirit
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Approved you're approved
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You're approved into God's presence
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You're approved to call him as a father
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You are approved as his son and daughter as a much-loved child
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You ask him he never says anything he's always behind
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Whatever you say he wants to do it for you because you're approved
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Because you because you're approved because access is granted to his treasures
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In fact, the Bible says that you're approved and he has given you the keys. He has given you the keys of the kingdom
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You're approved. That's why whatever you unlock God is gonna open it and whatever you close and God is gonna close it
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You're approved
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That's why when the body comes and then prays together because our prayers is approved and the God is God
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We are experiencing answers and that's what all the stories that we are learning today in the church
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because we are approved and
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Never miss out that day never miss out that that's what the enemy says enemy says that enemy always
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Confuses or brings a doubt into heart that no you're not approved because your lifestyle is completely different what God expects
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And never buy into that lie
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We don't have to prove to anyone that you're approved all you got to do is live and and celebrate
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What Christ has approved upon your life?
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You're approved
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You're approved not because of our actions
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You're approved because what Christ has done
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You're approved not because of your love towards God
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But because his love towards you because he that he is the one first who loved you
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you're approved and
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Then for weeks and weeks and then months and months over and over turnups and everything
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This is where we have we started to learn we started to encourage each other
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we started to help each other to live in this life of approval because
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God has approved us
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Christ has approved us
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We are approved because of
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His sacrifice upon cross I believe that how many of you really really trust that amen amen
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Amen, so today we're gonna look at this one because this one it's been
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In fact last week someone if you go and hear a Jacob sermon almost like 40% of the sermon lies here
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Because he was talking about how to handle the word of the word of God correctly in a different in a different terms
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And then we are learning in the house church, and this this is where we are spending time
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But today I want to talk about this one unashamed
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Unashamed how to live a life of an ashamed person how to present God
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How to be a worker how to be a son who does not need to be ashamed of God
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It's a very critical topic when God spoke to me about this one
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I was I was trembling I was in tears because I don't know about this the only prayer I prayed about
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I don't know if I can bring the right words
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Because you know my heart
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Because it's a very critical very very sensitive topic
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How can we live as a life how can we live as a son or daughter who is not
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Unashamed who is not afraid who is not unashamed of who he is
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I
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Guess to me personally personally this is something that stops me from presenting God to the world because I'm sometimes I'm
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I don't know. I don't know if the results are okay if the results when I present God
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I don't know if it comes back okay or not
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And to me when I go back and then check myself and then sometimes I'm not sure
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Maybe I may Baba you have to help me how to present you
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So let's look at this one unashamed how can I present God
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How can it be a son or daughter that can present God who can present God
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In such a way that I don't need to be ashamed of God
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I want to tell you one statement the power to present God the power to present God to the world
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Comes from how you present yourself to the Lord
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The power to present God to the outside world comes from license
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To the Lord
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The power to present God to the outside world comes from license how you present yourself to the father
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I started to look I started to dig down dig deeper. I started to read it from Genesis for this message. I
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Started to scan through Genesis. I want one question that I started to ask is Lord
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How have you presented yourself to the people in the first place?
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I know you have presented to presented yourself
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Us through the through Christ that I know
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That is amazing. But I want to see how God started to present himself in the old testament from the beginning
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And we know the story from the beginning
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I thought
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I when I started to read Genesis when I came to the story of Abraham
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If you look at the promises that God gave to Abraham
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He never talked about his name
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God did not talk about his name or his glory to Abraham
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All he said I will bless you. I will make your name great. I will make your descendants
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Great, I'll give you an inheritance. It's all about Abraham and God is standing for Abraham
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You want to read Abraham's blessings?
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Where are they Genesis chapter
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Yeah, Genesis chapter 12
Genesis 12 chapter mention
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Chapter 12 verse 1
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Can someone read it for me, please
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Chapter 12 verse 1
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Uh, can someone read it for me, please
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And whoever presents you I will bless you
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Then all people on earth will be blessed too
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Yeah, it's not about God's name. It's about the promise that God wants to give to Abraham
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So he said I'll bless you I'll be with you you will going to take over the land that's a blessing
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That's a promise. That's a promise. I'm making with you and that's what happened for the three generations
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Three generations even if you read Isaac's life story Isaac's life story every time when God said something it was always about the blessing
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It was always about the promise that God has entrusted to Abraham
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All the Isaac's lifestyle life story
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It's about the promises that that God made to Abraham and then now to Isaac and it's always about blessing Isaac
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And then I came to Jacob and it's the same story even in the life life of Jacob too
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God never brought his name is like I will bless you. I will be with you
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I gave this promise to your fathers and I will make sure that you will live in this one
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But one time in Jacob's life one time in Jacob's life something happened and it's just Genesis chapter 32 verse 22
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Genesis chapter 32 verse 22 if you guys know this story, we all know this story. This is where Abraham wrestled with the god
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Do you guys remember the conversation?
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No, not Abraham Jacob Jacob wrestled with god. Let's read Genesis chapter 32 verse 22
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Verse 25 when the man saw that he could not overpower him
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He touched the socket of Jacob's hip so that his hip was wrenched
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As he wrestled with the man
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Then the man said let me go for it's a daybreak, but Jacob replied
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I will not let you go unless you bless me take the man
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The man asked him. What is your name?
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Jacob he answered then the man said your name will no longer be Jacob
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but Israel because you have struggled with god and with the humans and have overcome and Jacob said
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Please tell me your name, but he replied. Why do you ask my name? Then he blessed him there and then he left
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That's a very interesting conversation
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That's a very interesting incident where Jacob he left everyone
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He left his his wife and then and the people and all the property and all the positions that he got
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And then he was all alone. He was wrestling with god and then god changed Jacob's name
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And in fact Jacob's decision at that time was like I will not leave you unless you bless me
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He was wrestling for the whole night
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And then after he wrestled god wrestled with god Jacob asked what is your name?
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And the bible says that he
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Bible says that why are you asking my name, but he did not reply. He did not answer his name
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Because on that day Jacob's intention was to be
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To to reconcile with his brother to to get to to to get what god has promised that's it
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And none of them asked who he is and now let's read exodus chapter three
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Exodus chapter three and worse
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Four
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Words four onwards
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Yeah, can someone help me please
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Yeah
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Yeah, and also exodus chapter six verse two
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What
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Yeah, keep going
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Yeah
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What did he say he said I am the lord I appear to abraham to isaac and to jacob as god almighty
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But my name but by my name the lord I did not make myself fully known to them
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I did not make myself by fully known to them, but then now when he met when he met
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Moses he said I am the lord I am the god I am the god of abraham
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I'm the god of isaac. I'm the god of jacob and now I came here to redeem my people
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So here when god met moses he he started to reveal his name he started to reveal who he is in fact in fact
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Chapter three verse three if you keep reading moses says from verse 11
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But moses said who am I
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Who am I that I should go to pharaoh and bring these relates out of egypt and god said I will be with you
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And this will be my sign to you that
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Is I who have sent you when you have brought the people of egypt out of egypt
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You will worship god on this mountain and then moses said to god suppose
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I go to these lights and say to them the god of your fathers has sent me to you
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Then they asked me what is his name? Then what shall I say to them?
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And god said I am who I am
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I am who I am. This is what you have to say to these lights. I am has sent you
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So this is where god god first started to reveal reveal who reveal his name
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And then as the centuries goes by then you see jesus christ and then what christ has done on the cross because what christ
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Has completed and finished on the cross and then now he has fully revealed himself through the christ
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And that's what paul writes. He is the image. He is the visible image of an invisible god
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And he started to he started to know he started to explain himself he started to demonstrate his love
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He demonstrated his love. He expressed his love
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He he he shown himself fully through jesus christ to us and what a privilege it is for us to known him fully
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And that's where that's that's where our unashamed life begins
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If we want to live that life our life begins from begins at knowing who he is fully
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Knowing him knowing how he has loved you
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And that's what the approved
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Lifestyle starts where?
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When you know that when you start to live that
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That's where the unashamed life begins because you know him fully because he's always there for you because you know him
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But the beauty the beauty begins when we always trust and we always know that god is always there for us
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and now
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The lifestyle of unashamed begins when you start to say now lord i want to be for you as well
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You are for me, but I want to be for you
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You are for my existence you are for my love, but I want to be for you
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too
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And that's what sons does they do
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Sons always want to fulfill what the father's desires are
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And this is the time that the church needs to start to say yes
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I have lived that you are for me. I have lived that you are there for me
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I've lived that you're never live not for sick. You're always there and now I want to live for you too
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And that's what david did
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When david conquered the conquered he conquered jerusalem and then he was on the top of the tip of the
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The highest point on the jerusalem and then he looked at one side and then he looked at the other side
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And then he said apa your tent has followed us your your ark of covenant followed us
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And now I want to do something. I want to build a house for you
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And that's where god god steps in and then he says you won't be able to build a house for me
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But your son is going to build a house for me and through your descendants i'll bring messiah
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Presenting god
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If you want to start present god to the world, that's where you that's where the switch starts aba
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I want to live for you too. I want to live for your cause too and all the new testaments. That's what paul writes
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That's what peter read peter one and peter two this week if you have time and you will start to understand that how peter
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Encourages the body to say that aba we live for your your your desires
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We live for your purposes and this is how I want to step into your step into the yoke with you
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Knowing him fully and then trusting him that he knows you fully and then stepping into saying aba
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I want to partner with you
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I want to step into with you. I am for you, too
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I am for you, too. In fact, in fact, that's what jesus says
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He said the harvest is plenty
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And the workers are few
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He has sons
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Step flipping that and asking him saying him. I want to be for you too as well god help me
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Help me to step into this help me to step into this
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Next one
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Let's
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Read philippians chapter two verse 10
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Philippians chapter two verse 10
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And
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Yeah, we know the end now
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the end is
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At the end that day every knee will bow down
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Every tongue will confess
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Every knee after every day. There is one statement that said every knee
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After after after every knee
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Yeah, yeah, can you repeat? Yeah
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every knee
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Yes, every knee in heaven and on earth will bow down one day and every tongue will confess
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Every knee and every tongue will confess
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That means all of our friends all of our relatives
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Everyone in heaven and in earth one day are going to bow down and then confess that he is the lord
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But there is only one difference if they confess that today then they will be with him forever
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Never
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That day everyone is going to confess but some because they have seen him on that day
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And but some but for us we have seen him even before that and then now we start to bow down to him
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And that is why as a church we need to step into that and then start to present god
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Because one day everybody is going to come and then everybody is going to kneel down
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Every every tongue is going to confess but the only difference is are they going to this side or the other side?
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So nobody's going to escape from that day
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So the church's call to do step into this presenting god and then say guys one day you're going to come to the presence of god
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One day you're gonna you're gonna kneel down
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Better with that today
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Better be that today
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And i've experienced it
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So always keep that in your mind always keep that in your mind always put that put that put see the end because our god
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He has already shown us what's going to happen so that we can run to it so that we can walk towards it
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The next one let's do second quote in chapter five
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Second Corinthians chapter five verse 20
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Second Corinthians chapter five verse 20
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Yeah, in fact verse 19 the second part of verse 19
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Says he has committed to us the message of reconciliation
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And we are therefore christ ambassadors as though god were making his appeal through us
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The third one begins from trusting that he has committed you he has trusted you
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With this message of reconciliation the problem comes here god has already trusted you and me
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But somehow the world has taught us the church history has taught us that it was only it was only
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Set for the pastors and the preachers and the missionaries and that
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And somehow we missed it somehow
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We missed the whole picture and then we have set this one to only pastors and then only preachers and then we have set back
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We have we have we are like, okay, that's their job
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But the word of god teaches us that he has trusted us he says he has he has committed this this mission to all of us
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And you and I to everyone the ministry of reconciliation
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What are we reconciling?
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This to god the creation everyone is god's god's son. Everyone is god's daughter and then we are reconciling them to him
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And that's where we need to trust that wherever we are you and I are trusted with this ministry
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the ministry of reconciliation
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The ministry of reconciliation because you are reconciled to god and then now it's our duty
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So that that that's what the verse 20 says
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We are therefore christ ambassador as though god were making his appeal through us
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You're the only ambassador that god chose in your in your life
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In the area of where you are
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We have to trust that
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We cannot escape from it
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I go to work you go to work. I go to school you go to school wherever we are
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You're the ambassador. That's what god sees
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This is my son and now i'm sending him as an ambassador to there
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And then god wants to appeal to them through you alone
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That's why that's why that's why sometimes it's very hard for this life
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Some of the situations are very hard for us because some things I have always struggled with this in my life
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I've always struggled. I've always cried in the presence of god. I always have this question. Why me? Why me? Why me?
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Because god has trusted me with the ministry of reconciliation
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If not me then who can do this
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And that's where I have to take one more step
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I have to walk for two more miles with my with my colleagues or with my friends so that I can do this ministry with them
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I have to take extra step because because that that's where christ love falls flows out of us
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Take a step
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Trust that you are called even though you don't trust yourself
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You don't the problem with us is like we don't trust ourselves that we are not good enough
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We don't know how to share gospel. We don't know how to live this one. That's where the problem comes
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But put that aside and then see that god is looking you looking at you as you are the ambassador
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For him for his ministry right there
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Are you in the church are you in the are you outside in the business world you are the ambassador you have to look into that
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Matthew chapter 5 verse 16
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Let's let's read from verse verse 13
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Yeah
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Yeah, thank you so if you if you look at this you're the salt of what not the church
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You're the salt of the yeah
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We are very good salt for the church and church groups and the house churches me especially
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And we are the light of the house church, no we're the light of the world
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That's what jesus that's how god looks at us that's what jesus that's how when he looks at us
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That's what he does. It's like you're the light of the world. That's why you cannot hide yourself
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You're the light of the world you're the light of the salt you're the salt of the earth
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And that's where that's where this unashamed lifestyle begins
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Trusting that yes, i'm chosen for this trusting that yes god has brought me this country trusting that yes god has brought me this country
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Trusting that yes god has placed me here trusting that yes god has called me here about what what should i do
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What needs to be done in my life? How can I change this help me about that's where it comes in
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Otherwise, otherwise we'll be like we'll be hiding we'll be hiding and then we'll lose our saltiness
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There are so many christians in the church
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Losing their saltiness are are hiding their light
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What what powerful revelations that god has given to them for years and years and then young people like us the next generation
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We need them, but they were hidden
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in the house
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And they were not they were never brought out
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They were never brought out
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Some of the stories are some of the simple points that i've learned here when i share with my friends
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It's like a life changing for them and i go like oh is that powerful?
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because they don't know it
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and god has revealed it and then we are hiding them under the basket
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And the church it's a time for us to lift the baskets and then say this is my light
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This is the light of the lord and this is who god is we need to do that
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In fact the verse 16 says in the same way let your light shine before others that they may see your good deeds and glorify
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your father in heaven
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How long are we going to hide this light?
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How long are you going to hide the the revelations that god has done in your life or brought to your knowledge in your life?
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How long how long are you going to are you going to not share the stories that god has done in your life?
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I think it is time for us to bring this one because as I was preparing for this sermon god has
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He brought me a prophecy that god gave to axe 29 when chard was here
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The the prophecy was like god is going to give you a language a love language a new language for the church to communicate
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To the world that was the prophecy I wrote in my notes
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I think this is the time that we need to learn this new language
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We need to we need to lift our baskets and then show the world who the father is because we know how to live the approved life
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So let's go to the next one
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Next one
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Matthew chapter 11 16
Matthew 11 chapter mention
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Matthew chapter 11 16
Matthew 11 chapter mention
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Yeah, can someone help me please
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Thank you can someone read 12 verse 39 after 12 was studying Matthew
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Generation
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Thank you verse 16 and verse four
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Yeah, yeah, thank you uh hebrew chapter three was 10
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Why I was angry with that generation I said that us are always going as they and they have no not no money
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Yeah
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So if you if you check out these four verses what you can see is Jesus Christ
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He knows the generation where he was in
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He knows the generation he knows how wicked they are
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He knows he knows what they expect
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He knows the the condition of the generation he knows how perverse they are he knows how how far away they are
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And yet he started to bring the solution to them
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We are afraid
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Sometimes to present God because we don't know this generation. We don't know the people whom we are talking to
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We don't understand the generation as the church it is our duty. It is our responsibility to know which generation are we in?
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Now it's already generation z outside
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And they don't come from the families. They don't come from Christian families and one recent study a ministry
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They did a study and then they said the generation z the latest the new generation. They don't even know the gospel
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They don't even know the how many books in the bible because they do not come from
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The church or Christian homes
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They're all into virtual reality they're all into new technology
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But how do you meet them? How do you explain? How do you answer their questions? Because their questions are different
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Jesus Christ knows there's the generation
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We have to know the generation not just by the news or not just by the articles but by the spirit
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Abba i'm getting into this Abba. I'm going outside Abba. What can I do? Who are they? What can I provide?
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Because that's what Jacob taught last week
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How he has presented to you and then now going and then presenting that to others
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So so we have to learn we have to know about what's happening in the country we have to know about what's happening around us
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Canada is a great place because the whole world is in front of Canada
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Canada is a great place because the whole world is in front of Canada
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Just this morning I read an article there is a university in Kamloops
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hundred countries students from hundred countries
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Celebrated their orientation the first day in Kamloops yesterday on Friday
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A Kamloops university hundred countries students from hundred countries
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Hundreds of hundred countries
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The writer of the article said he he said he was just was walking through the
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Through the people and then he has he heard so many languages small small groups and then meeting and then they're talking
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Different different languages that he never heard the languages
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We need to know what's happening. We need to ask the Lord Lord. This is my heart and how can I step into this one?
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And the next one
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The problem one of the fear for us is
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Is because present in God when we talk about present in God when we talk about sharing who Christ is
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We only have few set methods
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We only know few set ways that were that were good in the in the Christian world
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preaching church
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Or maybe doing some kind of a
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Church or maybe doing Sunday schools or this but that's not that's never the case for God
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See
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I feel ashamed if someone asks me to go and play piano and then worship the Lord and present God to others because I don't know it
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And that's the problem that's why we are ashamed sometimes we are not comfortable
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We are not confident because we are stepping into someone else's shoes and then trying to present God
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Whereas God has prepared in a completely different way
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To present him
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So this is the time that you and I need to
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Look into our lives and look into how God has wired us and then how we can present God in the ways in the shoes
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In the in the plants and in the ways that he has created us
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I was I was having a coffee and then um
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In front of me a father and a daughter they both came a young kid
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They both came and they said can we sit I said sure and then he opened a book and then he's reading a book to
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To daughter and the title of the book is the stories of the lamb
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The stories of the lamb
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But it's actually a lamb. It's like it's like an animal story
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And then I was thinking I was thinking ha I wish I should ask my sister because she writes beautiful stories
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And then maybe I should go and encourage her to write stories that someday fathers can buy the stories of the real lamb
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The ultimate lamb and then read stories too because my sister knows the story
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That's what that's what Saul did to David Saul asked David to have the have the the armor of the
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Of the military of the army
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So that he can go and defeat the goliath, but Saul did not choose it because it's not comfortable to him
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He won't be able to face the giant
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What he knows that's what he did
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And then today the church if as a church if you want to take this language
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If you want to take who God is and present to God everyone each one of us
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We have to find ways that creatively that what God has how God has placed and prepared us
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To bring out these these stories
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Imagine if someone can write a curriculum for the for the third world countries people in india how who father is who god is
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Imagine if someone can write an article about what has what christ has finished on the on the cross
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Or imagine if you write your story or the miracles that god has done how god has brought you
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For people it's very hard to believe in miracles, but if you look at your life, you're the greatest miracle
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I'm the greatest miracle now. I believe in miracles because I don't know how I how can I come here? It's so impossible for me
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Wherever you are
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Wherever you are that's what that's what the the Israelites did
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They were as slaves and and wandering for 40 years
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And wandering for 40 years and then when they came to the country when they came to the promised land
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They had to become a nation. They had to learn different skills
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They had to they had to work and they had to bring out the art they had to
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do constructions
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Bring it out as father
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So many years there are the desires that god has placed in your heart and then you don't know how to bring it up
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You're like, okay
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Maybe i'll bring it up bring it out maybe for the next birthday or maybe for the next year
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But now this is the time guys
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This is the time that we need to bring it out because we're not going to do in the in the ways of the world
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Or we're not going to do in the set ways
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We're going to do how god has called us how god is preparing us and find find
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And and progress in the meaning and purpose that god has called
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You
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Strip your mind from all the past ways and past theology are the ways that that only these ways that the ministry can be done. No
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Find ways and ask the father
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Say lord, i'm ready. I'm for you. I want to do this. Is this the right way?
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Bring it to the body. Is this the right way? I want to bring this one out. I want to bring this truth out
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Is this the right way?
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Because he's there for you and now we can be for him too
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The last one
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Exodus chapter three
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One can do all of this
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One can do all of this anyone can do all of this
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Like starting from the first point where
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We know him he knows him and then we know him
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He knows us he called us by name and then I go and then say I am for you lord
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I want to live and then we start to live that life and then we start to be bold we start to
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Ask the innovative and creative ways how I can bring out the truth to the world and then I can start work
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I can start bringing it out. But the last one I want to say is
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But still you get you can meet you you you can be discouraged
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Because the ways and the because the things that you're doing may not be fruitful
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Because the ways and the because the things that you're doing may not be fruitful
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Let's read
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Exodus chapter three
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Okay, extra chapter six verse eight
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I
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Will bring you to the land
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This is what the lord said to moses. I'll bring you out bring you to the land. I'll
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land I swore with the
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Uplifted hand to give to abraham to isaac and to jacob. I'll give it to you as a position. I am the lord
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Or six it said go to the Israelites and then tell this one then moses reported to this to the Israelites
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Moses went and then reported this to the Israelites, but they did not listen to him because of their discouragement and harsh labor
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Moses went and then told all the Israelites. Hey, this is what the lord said
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We're going to go out of this place because lord the lord is going to help us to get out of this place
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And what is lights did was?
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They did not
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Listen to him because of their discouragement and harsh labor
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When you go and talk to your friends or when you go and then present god to the outside world
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They might not accept it
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because of the discouragement from the enemy and because of the harsh labor because of because of the torture or because of the
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Labor by the enemy placed upon them all these years
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It might not be super exciting for them because they won't be able to believe it
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I went and then I told in nandigama that hey god is father
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He loves you and then they could not believe four people came to me and then said we don't have fathers
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We were orphans, but how can we understand who father is?
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And i'm a sinner I cannot understand how father loves me
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Because of their discouragement happened in the life because of their condition because how the enemy tortured them for these years
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They cannot understand sometimes but then look what god said to moses
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Okay, israelites when you went and talked to the people they did not listen, but now moses
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Then the lord said to moses go tell pharaoh king of egypt to let the israelites go out of this country
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You went and you told them they did not listen then now he said go and tell the pharaohs
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Go and then talk to them go in and tell them let my people go
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Go
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So when we go in and talk to our talk to the people when it did when it didn't happen
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Then we have to go and ask the lord lord who is in charge of that
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Because we don't fight with the flesh and blood
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We wrestle we fight with the
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Principalities that's where we need to go. That's why the church is trained to do that
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That's why god has brought you here and then
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We we build up our muscles so that we can go and then talk to the pharaoh
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We can go and talk to these principalities we can pray against them and then say hey
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Let my people go enough is enough
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That's the calling that we need to step into that's the calling that god is calling us
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Don't worry about the discouragement that came like when people did not accept it that's okay
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Because we have a greater call we need to pray against the all the principalities and that's when you start to see how the
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How the pharaoh how the principalities there was and there were having the authority can release them
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Because when we pray that's what christ does
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Amen
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Now now imagine what god can do through through our church
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The best example I was looking I was looking in the bible and then paul he preached the gospel in different ways
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He brought the law and then he started explaining gospel from the law he talked to jews he talked to gentiles
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He was in the palaces talking to kings and he was in the prison
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Writing letters he found every opportunity to present the gospel in a different ways
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whatever possible
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And then now imagine if our church if the generation if us can step up into this and bring the bring the god we have
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experienced in a different and innovative methods
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To to reach the people and god is doing this in the world the bible app it was it was installed in billion devices
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Came from a 16 year old guy
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A 16 year old youth guy youth
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A 16 year old youth guy youth
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Young kid he said I want to bring this
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This bible to my friends and they don't want to read the paper
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I want to make an app and then do it and the pastor said okay
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Then we have some programmers in the church. We'll do it together and then now it is one of the best company in the united states
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The pastor received the best ceo award recently a pastor
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craig rochelle
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Started with a 16 year old kid desire to bring it out in a in a different way and that's where we need to step in
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Think about the amount of blessing that god has
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Down pour down into your life
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How can we bring this one out?
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How can we bring the truths out?
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The harvest is plenty the workers are few
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Thank you
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Yeah, let's pray
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I really want to pray for the church that that we don't hide our light
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Because this is the shining light the truth that we have