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Fuel 'Em Up//12PM// Elder Brett Rodway
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Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the Love Quest International
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Church Podcast, where we seek to love all nations, equip the
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church, mobilize the equipped, and serve all.
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We're super glad you're joining us from whenever and wherever
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you're at in the world. Welcome to the family to get
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your Bibles ready, get some water, get some coffee, maybe
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some tea, and get ready to receive.
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Let's get into it. Amen.
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Amen. God, it's so good.
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It's so good and how amazing to be able to be in a place with
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others who love Jesus and to celebrate him, celebrate his
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goodness, celebrate his kindness, celebrate his work in
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our lives, celebrate the love that he's poured out in our
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hearts to celebrate him and to do it together with those who
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love Jesus. I love it.
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Thank you, Pastor Terence and Pastor Julia, for the
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opportunity it is to be able to share today at this noon
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experience. And thank you so much for your
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commitment to being obedient to the call that God has given you.
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And we are recipients of your faithfulness.
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We appreciate you, we love you. Will you give them a round of a
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hand? Our pastor, Pastor Terence,
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Pastor Julia for those that may be visiting.
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Pastor Terence and Pastor Julia Richmond are the senior pastors
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and founding pastors of Love Quest International Church and
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they're a blessing to us. They're away this week and so I
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have the privilege to be able to share the word of God with you
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today. Last week we were remembering.
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Pastor Terence spoke on Count Em Up and was remembering the
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goodness of God, remembering the great work of God and taking
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that time to remember. And if you remember in Luke 17
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there was a story of some lepers.
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How many lepers were there? There were 10 lepers and they
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were all given the word from Jesus to show themselves at the
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temple. And as they went, all ten were
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healed. All 10 received healing from the
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leprosy and how many came back? One.
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One came back, one came back. It says in Luke 17 verse 15.
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One of them when he saw that he was healed, turned back.
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He turned back from where he was going.
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Glorifying and praising and honouring God with a loud voice.
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Say loud voice with a loud voice that's right.
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There was loudness to his praise.
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There was a loudness to his praise.
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There was there was you could be heard.
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There was a loud voice of praise and he lay face downward at
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Jesus feet thanking him over and over and he was a Samaritan.
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There's there's a key here for your breakthrough.
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Just a minute. If you, if you could listen with
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me, I'm going to praise the Lord for a minute, OK?
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Do you agree? What?
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What? You didn't hear me?
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Oh, what you're saying is my praise can only benefit me in my
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head, but it benefits you when you hear it, right?
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There's something about you declaring the goodness of God
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with your mouth where you say, man, God's been good to me, man,
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I got to tell you how he's worked in my life.
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I want to encourage you. So there's something about that
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loud voice declaring the goodness of God, Pastor Terrance
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said in last Sunday's message. When you remember who God has
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been, you regain confidence in who God will be and all that to
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say, take the time to remember. Take time to remember what God
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has done. Take the time to consider how
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he's worked in your life, in your family's life, in the life
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maybe of your friends. But take that time to remember,
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because when you remember who God has been, now you've got
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confidence in who he will be. You take that confidence and you
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bring it into your presence. So count them up.
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That's what Pastor Terence spoke about last Sunday.
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Count them up. There's a a good old hymn and he
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goes, I won't sing it, I'll just tell you the lyrics.
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There you go. Now come on, now come on.
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But it says count your blessings, name them one by one,
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count your blessings, see what God has done, count your
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blessings, name them one by one and it will surprise you what
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the Lord has done right. This is taking the time to count
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the blessings, to recognize what God has done and completed
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already, to take the time to look back and to see the
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faithfulness of God, to see the goodness of God, to see how He's
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moved and blessed, to see how He's protected you.
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Some of the greatest miracles in your life are the disasters God
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prevented to sometimes, you know, looking back, Pastor Tara
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talked about last Sunday. You know, looking back, also
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recollect the things He's kept you from.
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Perhaps that near miss, but the Lord moved.
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Perhaps it is that business opportunity that got away, but
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God was protecting your soul because He cared for you.
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There's near miss opportunities, but God was looking at you and
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desiring your blessing and your keeping for this moment so we
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can have a praise for the things that God has prevented in our
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lives. Pastor Tara said.
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We look forward with hope, with faith, believing, but we look
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backward with gratitude. In our looking back, we're
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recognizing how God has moved, but they take that and look
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ahead now with hope because of what he has done.
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We are not turning back. We are building a memorial.
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At times in the Old Testament they would set aside markers
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that would be a marker to recognise what God had done, how
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God had moved. When they went through the
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Jordan, they took stones for the riverbed and set them up as a
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memorial to say, hey, when you see this, tell your children
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that God took you out of Egypt and brought you into this land.
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It was a memorial. It was a positioning that was to
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be a reminder for generations of the goodness of God.
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So we're not turning back. We're building a memorial to
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recognize who God is. Psalm 103 verse 2 says bless the
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Lord, O my soul, and forget not all his benefits.
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It's like I'm going to bless God, but I'm also going to tell
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my soul, Don't you forget, Don't you forget God's goodness.
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Don't you forget what He's done? Don't you forget how he's moved
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upon your life, how His peace has guarded you, how He has
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moved into into your heart and transformed you.
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Don't forget, soul, all that God has done.
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It's a charge to remember the goodness of God.
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It's a charge to my soul that says, yes, I will remember what
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you've done and how you've moved.
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I will remember those times when I felt alone.
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But then you would come, Lord, and bring presents when I felt
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like I had gone too far and strayed too far away.
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But you said no when I felt I had turned away from you.
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But you drew me back. That's the kindness and the
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goodness of God. Remind your soul.
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Remind your soul of his goodness.
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And the pastor, Taran, said recognition triggered
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remembrance in this man who'd come back in that story from
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Luke 17, the leper who had been healed and came back,
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recognition of who God was triggered His remembrance and
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praise always begins with recognition.
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When we take the time to recognise who God is, when we
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take the time to remember who He has been in our lives, how He
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has worked in our lives, when we see Him even in our troubles and
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our trials, but realise He's actually the one who made the
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way of escape. When we take the time to
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recognise who God is, it will release praise in our hearts.
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So we're in remembrance. But our remembrance has a
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purpose and that purpose is to fuel them up.
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So we had to count them up. Now we're going to fuel them up.
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Fuel them up. The remembrance is a reminder
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not just to remember the past, to prepare us and propel us into
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what God has for us. And so we remember.
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I want to share a story about a church from the New Testament
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and it's the Church of Ephesus. Ephesus is in around where
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Turkey is today. In that area and around 60 AD,
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Paul writes a letter to the Ephesians and he had actually
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been been with them. He actually spent about three
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years there sometime earlier and helped build the church up was
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an encouragement to them. In Acts 20.
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We we actually read the story about his last farewell to them
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because he knew that he was going to go to Rome.
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And in this letter to the Ephesians, he makes some
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powerful points. And I'm going to let you kind of
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figure out what you think the the theme is.
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OK, in Ephesians 115 it says for this reason, because I've heard
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of your faith in the Lord Jesus and your love for all God's
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people. So Paul's writing says, man, you
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guys have got such a great reputation of how you love.
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Your reputation goes before you, this love you have for all God's
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people. Chapter 2, verse 4 but God being
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so very rich in mercy because of his great and wonderful love
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with which he loved us. Wow, that love of God poured at
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us. Visions 317 to 19.
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This part is a prayer that Paul's praying.
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He says then Christ will make his home in your hearts.
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As you trust in Him, your roots will grow down into God's love
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and keep you strong. And may you have the power to
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understand, as all God's people should, how wide, how long, how
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high, and how deep His love is. May you experience the love of
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Christ, though it is too great to understand fully.
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Then you will be made complete with all the fullness of life
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and power that comes from God. Ephesians 5 verse one and two
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says imitate God therefore in everything you do, because you
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are His dear children, live a life filled with love, following
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the example of Christ. He loved us and offered Himself
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as a sacrifice for us. A pleasing aroma to God.
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Wow, I love that part Imitate God.
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Imitate God, how you live your life.
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Imitate God, imitate God, be like your father, imitate God.
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That's a big one. We'll talk about that one day,
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I'm sure. Imitate God, imitate God.
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All right. And then in Ephesians 6, verse
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23 to 24, these are the last two verses of the letter, and it
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says, peace be with you, dear brothers and sisters, and May
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God the Father and the Lord Jesus Christ give you love with
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faithfulness, and may God's grace be eternally upon all who
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love our Lord Jesus Christ. OK, so here's the test.
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What was the main theme from these verses?
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Anybody. OK, good, I made it clear.
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All right, I just want to make sure it was all the
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highlighting. It's all the, all the
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highlighting. I did right.
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Love here. He's writing in 60 AD and
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saying, man, you love God, God loves you love, love, love,
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love. You're rooted in love.
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You're grounded in love. His love is great.
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There's love around 35 years later here we have in the Book
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of Revelation now that was written 35 years after that
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letter was written to the Ephesians.
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And in chapter 2 and 3, Jesus is speaking and speaking to the
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seven churches and the first one is Ephesus.
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In Revelation 2, verse one, it says, write this letter to the
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Angel of the church in Ephesus. This is the message from the one
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who holds the seven stars in his right hand, the one who walks
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among the seven gold lampstands. Just you know, from chapter 1,
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the gold lampstands were representatives of the churches,
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the seven different churches that he was writing to.
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In verse 2 it says, I know all the things you do.
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So Jesus was aware of the activities of the church.
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He knew the doings of the church, what they were involved
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with. I have seen your hard work and
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your patient endurance. I know you don't tolerate evil
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people. You have examined the claims of
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those who say they are apostles but are not, and you have
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discovered they are liars. You have patiently suffered for
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me without quitting. That's pretty good.
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You work hard. You got discernment to be able
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to, to figure out who's lying, who's not lying.
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You're enduring, right? You've got endurance.
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These are great things to do, right?
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You would think these are really positive, right?
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And they are. They've patiently suffered
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without quitting here in verse 4.
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But I have this complaint against you.
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You don't love me or each other as you did at first.
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Hold on, didn't know we just read a whole letter, this whole
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letter to the Ephesians and he's talking about your love is
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great, you love others. Here's the love of God poured
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out love, love, love, love, love. 35 years later, you lost
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your love. You lost your love.
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You love for God and you love for others.
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You lost that you forgot. You didn't remember.
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You didn't remember that love, that first love that pulled on
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you, that drew you into the arms of Almighty God, the love of God
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that had been poured out. Love.
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They'd forgotten. They'd stop remembering.
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They had missed the memorial. 3540 years is about a
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generation. So a generation later, they've
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forgotten. They've forgotten that first
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love. You don't.
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You don't love me or each other as you did at first.
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Look how far you have fallen. Turn back to me.
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So here we see. Turn back again.
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Just like the leper who had been healed.
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Turn back to give a praise. Jesus is saying, turn back
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again. Turn back to me.
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Turn back and do the works you did at first.
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If you don't repent, I will come and remove your lampstand from
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its place among the churches. You warn a child forcefully to
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not run on the streets, not because you're being mean, but
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because you love them. You want their protection.
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And in the same way Jesus is saying you've got to stop this,
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come back, don't run on that street, turn around, come back.
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Come back to that first love. Turn around and remember again.
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Remember again what he has done for you.
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Remember how he is love is poured out for you.
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Remember that first love, that first love, that moment.
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Do you remember that time when you first said to Jesus?
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Jesus, I love you, I receive you come into my life that first
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love, that first love, that first love that drew you into
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the arms of God. So he's calling us to return to
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remember First Corinthians Chapter 11, verse 23, Paul's
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writing about communion. Communion is a memorial of the
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goodness of God. It's a memorial that we have
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even to this day in the church because it reminds us of the
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fulfillment of the new covenant and the love of God that's been
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poured out for us by the blood of Jesus, by his body broken,
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and that we can walk in the fullness of his resurrection in
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life. And in First Corinthians 11,
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Paul's writing and he says, for I pass on to you what I received
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from the Lord himself on the night when he was betrayed.
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The Lord Jesus took some bread and gave thanks to God for it.
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Then he broke it in pieces and said, this is my body which is
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given for you. Do this in remembrance of me.
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Verse 25 In the same way he took the cup of wine after supper,
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saying, This cup is the new covenant between God and his
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people, an agreement confirmed with My blood.
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Do this in remembrance of me as often as you drink it.
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For every time you eat this bread and drink this cup, you
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are announcing the Lord's death until he comes.
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So here we have within the church a memorial instituted by
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Jesus. We call it communion and we do
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it to remember so that we don't forget all we have received.
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We don't forget what he has completed.
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But rather in that memorial, in that time, we're remembering
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Jesus sacrifice for me. His body was broken, his blood
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was shed, poured out so that I can live.
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My sin is dealt with, my relationship with Almighty God
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is reset through Jesus. And so we remember.
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We remember in this memorial. We remember so that we can have
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our faith fuelled again. Every time I take communion, it
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fuels my faith. Every time I take those
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elements, it fuels my faith because it's a reminder not just
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of his sacrifice, but of his covenant that he made, that I
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get to walk in because he is kind, He is loving.
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He gave his life that I might live.
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So I remember how you remember. Stalls you or launches you.
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OK, Any of you guys had people who their best time of their
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life and they'll still talk to it 10/15/20 years later?
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Oh remember high school right? Anybody remember the back of the
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day? Hey hey, it's good to remember.
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Don't get me wrong, I don't mind remembering, but they got stuck
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there. In fact, for some of them, the
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music they listen to is still stuck back there.
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All right. It doesn't mean you can't listen
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to the old songs. I'm not saying that, but don't
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get stuck there. But don't get stuck there.
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They got stalled. Some people receive, have an
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encounter or a trauma in their life and it becomes this, this
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stall in their life that they've stalled, like a car has stalled.
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It's run out of fuel. Sometimes I test the limits of
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my fuel gauge, right. And yes, it has happened once
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where we're driving on a highway and it's stalled and, but they,
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but people become stalled like that.
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They run out of fuel, they run out of gas and it stopped them.
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But how you remember? See, when you remember things in
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your past, do you remember just the negative or do you see how
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God made a way out? Do you see?
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Do you remember His goodness? Do you remember His goodness
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that helped you through? Do you remember that He brought
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along somebody to come alongside you and encourage you?
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Do you take the time to remember in a way that launches you, that
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actually brings you not out of this stalled position you've
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refuelled and now it's launching you into the next possibility,
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out of a stalled position, into the launch position.
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Remembrance is not a call to nostalgia.
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It's fuel to ignite belief. See, when we get stuck, that's
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when we have not allowed our remembering to actually be fuel
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to proceed and it you don't even have to get stuck by a bad
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thing. Sometimes you get stuck because
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the past was so good. I've met people who will tell
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you about all the cool things that happened.
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You know, hey, back, you know, when we were young, God was
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doing this and we saw these people saved and we, we saw
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miracles and we were there when this happened and that happened.
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Powerful. But do you allow that
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remembrance to go? Oh, I wish I was back there.
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Or do you allow that remembrance to propel you in faith that God
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can do it now? God can do it today.
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God is more than able now to do it.
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It's great to remember those things, but God is able now see
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because we remember and then we believe.
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We remember. And in our remembering, it is
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fuel for belief. It's fuel to believe God.
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It's fuel to be able to step out in faith.
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It's fuel to be able to move ahead for the now for this time,
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John 20 and verse 30 and 31. This is the end of near the end
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of the the gospel that John wrote.
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And he says there are also many other signs and miracles which
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Jesus performed in the presence of the disciples, which are not
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written in this book. So there's lots of other things
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that he did that didn't make it into the book.
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But these are written, say these are written in order that you
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may believe that Jesus is the Christ.
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You see, these were written so you would believe they aren't
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written. So you have information.
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They're not written. So I go, Oh yeah, I know that
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bit. I know that verse.
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I've memorized that verse or yeah, I can, I can figure out
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the timeline of Jesus. I've kind of gone through all
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that. It's not for that purpose.
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It's so you believe this is the author saying I wrote this.
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So you would believe that Jesus is the Son of God, that Jesus is
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more than they will, and that through believing and cleaving
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to and trusting and relying upon him, you may have life through
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and in his name. You see, the purpose of remember
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is to believe. The purpose of of the gospel is
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that you might believe that you believe that Jesus is the Son of
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God, that you believe and receive the life that he has for
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you, that you would believe. We remember the things that God
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has done that you might believe, believe now, not believe just in
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the past because your parents did it, not believe because your
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grandparents had a great experience, but you to believe
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now you see, God didn't give your family bloodline
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experiences and encounters with him to be left on the shelf.
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They're memorials. They're memorials, they're
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memorials I shared shared in the 9:00 AM experience about some of
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the things God had done through my grandparents and, and, and in
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their lives. And, and, and there are things I
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know that God has done through my parents and Stacey's parents
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and their lives and encounters with God.
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And then I was reminded when I first came to when we were
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courting. She's now my wife.
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It's OK, But we were caught. We were, we were.
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Well, I did not caught it. We were dating and getting to
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know each other. I lived in Australia, she lived
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here long distance. It worked.
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Yeah, definitely good for me. And I came over for three weeks
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because we'd met in Australia and her, because she had some,
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some family members there that she was visiting with her mum.
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And six months later I came over to visit her family.
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Because you have to make sure they're not too crazy.
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Now they're going to be a little bit crazy, but they're too
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crazy, right? Every family's a little bit
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crazy. And, and so during that time, I
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went to church and, and one of the Knights that were having a
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youth gathering at a house and I was there and one of the pastors
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gave a word to me and I went, well, that's, that's a lot.
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OK, All right. Now, seven years later, we're
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married. Thank you.
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And it's 2005. And we actually would have been
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eight years later, because I think it was 97 when we we had
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that first encounter. And 2005 we're married and we've
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just found out that Elder Stacey is pregnant with our first born.
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And yeah, but you know, we were a couple of months in the
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pregnancy. We didn't know for a while to
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few other things. And we hadn't really even, I
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don't think we'd even told my mum and dad yet.
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No, we hadn't. We'd kind of kept to ourselves
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for the first little bit and we'd gone to Sydney, Australia
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and we're just finished actually, I think.
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Were we going in or we're just finished, We're on our way in.
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We're on our way into this service in Sydney.
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And this elderly gentleman says, oh, excuse me, yeah.
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Hi. Do you have children?
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And we said no, but knowing, yeah, that she was pregnant, but
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OK. Well, the Lord's given me this
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word, and then the word was a confirmation of everything that
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God had said in 1997 through this other man, from someone in
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a different person, in a different continent at a
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different time of our life. Don't ask me for the details of
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it right now. God's still working it out.
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But what it did was tell me God cares about the details of your
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life. You see, in my remembering of
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that, I was remembering. Wow, God, look at you.
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You did. You knew I needed that.
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You knew we needed to hear that from someone else as a
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confirmation that you are operating, you are doing things.
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See, God cares about the details of your life.
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We we remember so we can believe.
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And that in that believing God is moving, but belief must be
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fresh for every generation. I said earlier, it's not good
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enough that you believe just because your grandparents
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believed or what your parents believed or what do you believe
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in God? What are you calling on God for?
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What do you believe? How are you pressing in to what
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God has for you? What do you believe he's capable
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of? What do you believe that He can
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provide? How is your belief fuelled?
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You see, remembrance fuels our belief.
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It gives us a fuel to be able to get going again.
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As long as we don't stay stuck in the past, as long as we
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remember well, we don't remember to stay lost in our past.
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We remember the goodness of God to propel us forward because God
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is a present God. The scripture says He's not the
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God of the dead because he's the the God of Abraham, Isaac, and
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Jacob. He was a God of generations.
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He's a God. He's alive and at work now.
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He's the same God right now, same God back then, same God
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right now, same God back then, same God right now.
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Amen. So we believe that God is able.
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We we remember, we believe. And now we speak.
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In Acts chapter 4, verse 19 and 20, Peter and John had actually
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healed a cripple and then had declared the goodness of Jesus.
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And then the the Pharisees and Sadducees brought them in and
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questioned them about Jesus and told them you're not to speak
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about Jesus. And then they beat them.
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So imagine that you just get beaten for just talking about
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Jesus. They beat them and then said,
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don't you talk about Jesus anymore?
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Don't you talk about Jesus? And here's their reply.
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But Peter and John replied, do you think God wants us to obey
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you rather than him? We cannot stop telling.
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Cannot stop. We cannot stop telling about
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everything we have seen and heard.
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Can't stop, Won't stop, can't stop.
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I don't know where that one goes anyway.
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But can't stop, I can't stop. Can't stop declaring the
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goodness of God. I can't stop sharing the love of
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God. I can't stop telling people
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about how good he is. I can't stop.
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We believe, therefore we also speak.
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So in our remembering, we remember the goodness of God.
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The remembrance of the goodness of God fuels our belief.
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Our belief rises up within us and now because we have
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believed, so we speak. We speak the goodness of God.
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In 2nd Corinthians 4 verse 13, it says, yet we have the same
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spirit of faith as he had who wrote in Scripture.
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I believe, therefore I spoke. We also believe, therefore we
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also speak knowing that he who raised the Lord Jesus will also
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raise us with Jesus and will present us with you in his
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presence. So we believe, therefore we
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speak because we know that knowing comes out of our
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remembrance, right? It's fuelling us, it's fuelling
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us, it's fuelling us, it's fuelling our belief, it's
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fuelling how we see God. I said in the in the first
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experience, I said don't be afraid of stealing other
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people's encounters with Jesus. We're one big family anyway,
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right? So if you're not sure, you're
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saying, man, I, I got a little bit, but I don't steal it from
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others. I'll give you a few of ours and
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steal those remembrances because then you can bring that into
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your life. You know there's great men and
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women of faith who have pressed in, who obtained the riches of
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God. Learn from them, learn from them
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that God is more than able lay a hold of that, Pastor Tara said
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on Wednesday. There's 3 powers of the voice of
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faith. Firstly, the voice of faith
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breaks silence. Faith, I broke your silence.
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The voice of faith breaks the silence.
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It's breaking through the silence here in Acts 4 verse 29.
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This is a continuation After they had left and been beaten
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and and told them we've got to, we can't but speak of the
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goodness of God. They came together and they
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prayed and this is the last part of the prayer that they had
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there with the other believers of Jesus.
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And they said, And now, Lord, observe their threats and grant
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to your bondservants full freedom to declare your message
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fearlessly, while you stretch out your hand to cure and to
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perform signs and wonders through the authority and by the
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power of the name of your holy child and servant Jesus.
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And when they had prayed, the place in which they were
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assembled was shaken and they were all filled with the Holy
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Spirit, and they continued to speak the Word of God with
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freedom and boldness and courage.
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You see, the threats were put there to silence them.
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Don't you speak in the name of Jesus.
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Be quiet. That's a threat to us.
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Jesus is a threat. And the voice of faith said
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we're breaking that silence. Now these were real threats.
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They could. They just put Jesus to death of
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the cross. These weren't idle threats by
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somebody who had no power. Remember that when they were
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threatened, they were threatened by people who had already showed
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that they would follow through on the threat.
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But that attempt to silence them was broken because of the voice
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of faith in the voices. Faith said, Lord, we want to
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preach your word with boldness, with courage, with strength.
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The voice of faith speaks. To the voice of faith releases
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faith in others. Do you know how much your story
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builds the confidence in others? First Thessalonians 5 verse 11
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says so encourage each other and build each other up just as you
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are already doing. How much more powerful is it
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when you hear other people sharing the goodness of God?
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Man, at the end of the week, it's like, guess what?
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This is what Jesus did this week.
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We'll go wait till next week. Maybe this week is like man, I
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was dealing with the pressure of finance, but man, the peace of
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God, just man overwhelm me and I may not have that final answer,
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but man, I've got the peace. Wait for instalment too, right?
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Because I'm believing God, because I already know that God
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provides. I already know that he is the
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provider. So now I'm building.
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We're building each other in faith.
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And the voice of faith builds and builds and builds.
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It grows and grows and grows. Because your faith encourages my
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faith. My faith encourages your faith.
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And we keep remembering the goodness of God through
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testimony. We keep remembering the goodness
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of God. We keep building 1 upon the
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other. You'll imagine how fired up we'd
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be, imagine how stirred up you'd be in your spirit mean how that
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would stir you when you start encouraging each other and
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building 1 on top of each other. Third, the voice of faith, open
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cities, Acts 8, verse 5. It says Philip, for example,
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went to the city of Samaria and told the people there about the
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Messiah. What do you do?
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He told them. The voice of faith speaks.
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Crowds listened intently to Philip because they were eager
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to hear his message and see the miraculous signs he did.
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Many evil spirits were cast out screaming as they left their
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victims, and many who had been paralysed or lame were healed.
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And so there was what great joy in that city.
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The voice of faith opens cities speaking.
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The voice of faith open cities. It opens, it opens, it opens.
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First of all, it opens our hearts.
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And as we build up one another, it opens our hearts to be able
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to share it out and speak it out.
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And as our words go out and we encourage one another, first of
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all each other. And then as we go outside and we
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start saying, man, I tell you, God's been good to me this week.
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I tell you, God's working in my life.
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That voice of faith builds and builds and builds, and so we
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remember. We believe, we speak, we've
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exposed. The enemy wants to trap us in
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our memory, but the memory and remembrance is actually to
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propel us in belief. We're equipped because we're
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laying a hold of that belief and we're running with it.
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I tell you, this is exciting. This is powerful.
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I don't know if you had a chance this week to remember this week.
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Remember, I don't know if you had a chance this week to build
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your belief this week. Remember in such a way that you
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see how God moved and recognizes the same God today as He's
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always been. Man believe God, believe God and
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in your beliefs speak out to one another, encourage one another,
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build your faith build up your holy faith by encouraging each
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other with a Word of Faith. Maybe it's just just in your
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family. Start talking about man.
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I'll tell you I forgot about this, but you remember God did
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this man I man I I just remembered I God answered that
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prayer and I haven't thought about that for so long, but God
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answers my prayers. Build your faith step into it.
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I encourage you engage. We are stepping into a dimension
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of God that if we do not take the time to remember, we might
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miss it. There are many who have prayed
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for revival who did not see it because they thought it would
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come in a package that they would understand.
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But God is doing a new thing. He's doing a new thing and right
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now our hearts are being prepared for what He's about to
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do. Now.
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I encourage you, we're in a time to build our belief.
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We're in a time of opening our mouths.
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We're a time where God is moving in power through our
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remembrances to equip us and fuel us for the now.
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We're not remembering to remember.
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We're remembering to fuel. It's like an athlete.
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There are athletes who eat and there's athletes who eat to
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fuel. There's a difference.
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An athlete who just eats will eat whatever.
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An athlete who eats to fuel will think about how their balances
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between their protein and the carbohydrates and their starches
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and all the stuff that other people know, I don't know much
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about, but they're, but they're, they're, they're, they're
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fuelling for purpose. We are, we are fuelling for
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purpose. We are fuelling with purpose.
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We're fuelling to be able to run.
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We're fuelling to be able to run with the vision, run with the
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purposes of God, run with what he's called us to.
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We're fuelling to run. I encourage you fuel to run this
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week. Take the time to remember so
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you're fuelled up to run, not to stay at the same level no more.
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There's too much to do. There's too much for us to do.
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To stay sitting back, stalled in our faith.
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There's too much to do. There's too much.
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God has given us this great purpose.
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There's there's too much for us to sit still any longer, to sit
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back any longer. We're in lunchtime.
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I thank you, Lord. Thank you, Lord, that your word
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is alive and powerful. Lord, I thank you that you were
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doing a great work in this house, Lord.
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I thank you, Lord, for what you have begun here at Lovequest is
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to impact this city. Lord, I thank you and rejoice in
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you, Lord, because you have given us the tools.
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You've given us remembrance, Lord.
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You've given us the word to believe.
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I believe, though, You've given us the tools to be able to run
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with it, to run with the coal, to run into what you're calling
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us to. Lord, I pray that each one here
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will be stirred up out of this comfort level, out of comfort,
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into coal, out of comfort into the place of God's greatness,
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out of comfort into the coal of the love of God, because the
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love of God is sometimes uncomfortable.
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Lord, I thank you. This house is a house that
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honours your presence. This house is a house that
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honours what you're doing now. Thank you, Lord, for our pastors
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who speak the Word in truth Have prepared this way.
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Lord, I thank you, Lord, that we are running together the vision.
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Lord, we stir up the gift of God.
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We stir up the call. We stir up again our
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remembrance. We stir up again the remembrance
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of that first love. We stir it up again.
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Stir it up, stir it up, stir it up.
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Lord, we're stirring the gift of God.
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Lord, we're stirring into remembrance those encounters
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with you, those encounters that we've sat on for too long.
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I thank you, Lord, You're stirring today.
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You're calling us up. You're calling us higher.
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You're calling us up into new dimensions, Lord, that our
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belief in you is it stirred up. Oh, so we're encountering Jesus
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kind of faith when we step into our workplace, we're
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encountering a Jesus kind of belief.
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When we're coming home to family, we've got a Jesus kind
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of faith that's stirring us up. Lord, Lord, we have a voice that
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declares the goodness of God, a voice that breaks the silence, a
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voice that stirs the city. Lord, a voice of faith that
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loves, that declares, that walks in the goodness of God.
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Lord, we encounter the risen Saviour.
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Lord, I thank you, you're stirring.
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Thank you, you're stirring. I encourage you, stir yourself
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up in prayer. Now, Lord, if you, you could
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pray in the spirit, pray in the spirit, whatever mechanism you
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have to pray, just stir yourself up.
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Start to recite the word in your prayer.
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See, I am the head and not the tail.
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I am the redeemed of the Lord. I am filled with the Spirit of
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God. The same Spirit that raised
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Christ from the dead dwells in me.
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That's just the Spirit of God that dwells in me.
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It's the same Spirit that dwelled in Jesus.
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I thank you Lord. Thank you, Lord for your
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goodness. Thank you Lord, for your great
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love. Lord, I stirred myself up that
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love that I've received as a love that others need.
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I stir the belief and a memory of the love of God, Lord.
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I stir myself up, Lord. I thank you that we're stirring.
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Thank you, Lord. We're stirring the goodness of
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God. We're through our remembrance.
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We're stirring up into that place.
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We're stirring up, Lord, stirring our hearts, stirring
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our memory, stirring ourselves into the goodness of God.
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The things you have for us, Lord.
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Lord, we're fuelling up for the future.
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We're fuelling up for the now faith now kind of faith, Lord.
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We're fueling up from the word. We're fueling up from the
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declaration of those who believed in you and trusted in
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you. We're stirring ourselves up,
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Lord. We pick ourselves up off the
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floor and we get going again. We pick ourselves up from that
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stall position and we're ready to run.
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Lord, we thank you. Lord, we stir up.
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We stir it up. We stir it up.
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We thank you, Lord. Thank you Lord, You're fueling
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us. Fuel us with your fire.
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Fuel us Lord, with our remembrance.
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We're fueled, Lord, we're fueled for what you called us to.
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You fueled us up, Lord, you fueled us up to run in Jesus
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name, Amen. Thank you so much for tuning
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into this week. 'S sermon We pray you were
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But until next time you know the drill.
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You know the motto, get your love fixed man and we'll see
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