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Fuel 'Em Up//9AM// 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. Well, thank you very much to
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Pastor Terence and Pastor Julia for the honor to be able to
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share this morning here at Love Quest Church.
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It's always a blessing to be able to share in this house.
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That's our house, but the house that God called you to build and
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in faith and obedience, you stepped up and did the call.
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Thank you so much. Thank you.
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Who remembers our message from last Sunday?
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Do you remember what it was called?
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Count them up, count them up. We're counting up the goodness
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of God, right? We're taking time to remember
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who this this week found themselves taking time to
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remember the goodness of God, right?
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Taking that time to remember how God has moved, maybe in your
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life, maybe in your your family's life and how God's
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goodness follows us. I want to review real quickly a
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few things that Pastor Terence talked about last Sunday as it
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then leaps into what we're sharing today.
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If you remember in Luke chapter 17, there's a story of the how
Luke 17 chapter mention
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many leopards were there? Do you remember 10, right?
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And how many came back? One 10 received, one was
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grateful, 1 turned back to remember.
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In Luke 1715, it says one of them, when he saw that he was
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healed, he turned back. He turned back, he turned back,
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glorifying and praising and honouring God.
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With a loud voice. You say loud voice with a loud
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voice. Remember from last week, loud
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voice. There's something about how he
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declared the praises of God. There's something about how he
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shared the goodness of God. It was with a loud voice.
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He declared it. It came out of his mouth.
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It wasn't just a thought. I'm thinking how good God is.
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Did you get that? No, of course you didn't.
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You could unless you read my maybe you read my mind, I don't
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know. But but there's something about
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declaring. How do others hear the goodness
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of God without your declaring? There's a glorifying and
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praising and honoring God with a loud voice and he lay face down
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with a Jesus feet thanking him over and over.
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He was a Samaritan. Pastor Terry has talked about
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last week. He says there's a Samaritan.
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He was an outsider. And yet the outsider was the one
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who recognized the goodness of God and came back with gratitude
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and Thanksgiving of heart. It was that returning back.
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And we were encouraged to turn back and remember.
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Remember last week we took moments to pause.
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Remember that thing God saved you from?
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Take time to pause. Remember the things that he kept
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you from, to thank Him for those open doors, but also to thank
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Him for the closed doors. And we take took these moments
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to remember because in our remembrance of the goodness of
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God, we can put a praise on our lips.
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Pastor Tara said. When you remember who God has
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been, you regain confidence in who God will be.
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In our remembering of what he has done, we remember that he is
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able. And now in my current situation,
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I have confidence in who he will be on my behalf.
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Count them up, Count them up. Count up the blessings.
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Count up the ways guys moves. Yeah, there's that old hymn for
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this is this is for some of those hymn lovers out there.
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Thank you. Thank you, older John.
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Count your blessings. Name them 1 by 1.
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Count your blessings, see what God has done.
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Count your blessings, name them one by one, and it will surprise
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you what the Lord has done. Come on, see, this is that
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taking stock, taking a moment to remember the goodness of God,
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how he's moved in your life, how he's worked in your life, the
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goodness of God, of how He's given us salvation and peace and
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love. A love that I can't conjure of
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my own understanding is a love that's been poured out into my
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heart by God. If I just take a moment to think
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about that, to consider the times where I had peace, when
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peace didn't make sense. Count your blessings, count all
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of them. Rack them up, put them, put a
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memorial on them, put a remembrance to them, and it'll
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surprise you how much God has been in your detail.
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Why does it? Why does that him say it'll
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surprise you? Because we don't always take
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that time to remember, Pastor Tarrant said.
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Some of the greatest miracles in your life are the disasters that
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God prevented. That near miss that God
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intervened in that business deal that you thought you'd missed
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out on, but God was protecting you.
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The thing God prevented in his kindness and his love.
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Pastor Tara says we look forward with hope, but we look backward
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with gratitude. We are not turning back.
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We are building a memorial. See a memorial.
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There's memorials in different parts of the city to different
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things that occurred. And sometimes there's like a War
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Memorial. And some of those are for wars
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over 100 years old. Some our memories are even
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further back than that. But the purpose of the memorial
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is to be a lasting reminder. And in your life, we look back
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to have a memorial of the goodness of God.
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That means it's a lasting reminder, an enduring reminder
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that God is more than able so we don't forget.
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A memorial has time connected to it and so we take the time to
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remember so that we have a memorial, but we also take the
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time to tell the goodness of God to help others have that same
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memorial. Psalm 103, verse 2 says bless
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the Lord, O my soul, and forget not all his benefits.
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Why did the psalmist have to remind himself?
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He had to say, I'm going to bless God and I'm not going to
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forget. I'm going to remember all the
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good things God has given, all the ways God has moved in my
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life, all the way He's preserved me and protected me.
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I will bless God. I will give a Thanksgiving to
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God, and I will. I will tell my soul, Don't you
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forget it. Don't you forget what He's done.
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Don't you forget how he's moved? Don't you forget it.
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You keep a memorial. You keep that remembrance of
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God. You keep that position of
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remembering. And then Pastor Terence says
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recognition triggered remembrance, and praise always
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begins with recognition. We're still in review.
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Just seeing that recognition triggered remembrance.
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When he recognized that he had been healed, it triggered A
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remembrance to turn back to Jesus.
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And in the turning back, he brought with him his praise.
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One of the things we have to remember is who God is.
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In the scriptures there are some great descriptions of the glory
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and immensity of who God is. Ezekiel sees God on a cloud, and
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the glory of God is like a rainbow light, and he is
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powerful in presence. In Revelation 1 we see Jesus,
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the resurrected Jesus, and his voice is like the great waters.
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His hair is white as wool, his eyes ablaze with fire, His
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tongue is as a sword. This is the greatness of the God
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that we serve. Yes, he came as a baby.
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Yes, he came that we might have life, and yes, he died, but in
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his resurrection he walks in power in complete fulfilment of
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what he was called to do. So we might have life.
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So we have a praise from that position of recognizing who God
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is. And so today we're going to talk
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about fuel them up. Fuel them up.
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We did count them up and now we're going to talk about fuel
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them up. How do we fuel?
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How do we provide fuel for our faith, fuel in our life, fuel
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through to be able to walk out the call that we've been given.
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The first step is remember. I want to give another example
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of remembrance. And it's actually a church, a
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church in the New Testament. There's a Church of Ephesus.
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And around 60 AD Paul writes to the church at Ephesus and we
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call it the book Ephesians. And he says some amazing stuff.
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It's one of my favorite books to read, but I want to, I picked
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out a few verses that I want to go over that you can hear hear
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the tone and the message that Paul is writing here in 60 AD to
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the Ephesians. He says in Ephesians 115 for
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this reason, because I have heard of your faith in the Lord
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Jesus and your love for all God's people, man.
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They had love that for God's people.
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That was now their their reputation.
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I hear Paul Paul administered there over time and and had
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actually had had an X20 his his last visit with them.
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But this is about a couple of years after that when he writes
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this letter and he says, man, I'm hearing of your love for all
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God's people in Ephesians 2, four it says, but God being so
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very rich in mercy because of his great and wonderful love
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with which he loved us. They were hearing this from
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Paul. Man, he loves you so much.
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There's so much love for you, this great love with which he
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loved you. Ephesians 317 to 19 is a part of
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a prayer that that Paul writes in Ephesians.
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He says, then Christ will make his home in your hearts as you
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trust in him. Your roots will go down into
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God's love 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, how deep his love is. And may you experience, I love
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that. May you experience the love of
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God, 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. Wow.
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Can you imagine reading that in your, your local message?
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This is a letter written by Paul.
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And here they are standing up in church saying, Oh yeah, love
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that's that's deeply rooted and to know his love is so deep and
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so wide and we are made complete in all the fullness of life and
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power that comes from God. What a promise.
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Ephesians 5 verse one to two. It says imitate God therefore in
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everything you do because you are his dear children.
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Live a life filled with following the example of Christ.
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He loved us and offered Himself as a sacrifice for us.
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A pleasing aroma to God. Wow.
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And then these are the last two verses of the book.
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Peace be with you, dear brothers and sisters, and May God the
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Father and the Lord Jesus Christ give you love with faithfulness,
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and may God's grace be eternally upon all who love our Lord Jesus
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Christ. Now, have you seen a pattern in
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these verses? Did they do a good enough job to
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show you the pattern of these verses?
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OK, just checking, just checking the love of God.
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And they had love for others. And as I was looking, I was
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like, wow, there's the word love seems to have been put in the
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Ephesians more than even like Corinthians or or or Galatians
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or Philippians. He's talking about love.
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He's reminding them of the love of God.
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He's excited how they're expressing love to others and
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have love for all the Saints. And so around 35 years later.
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About 40 years is usually considered a generation.
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Jesus is speaking in the Book of Revelation, Revelation chapter 2
Revelation 2 chapter mention
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and verse one. The Jesus says, write this
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letter to the Angel of the church in Ephesus.
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This is the message from the one who holds the seven stars in his
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right hand, the one who walks among the seven gold lampstands.
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In the end of Revelation One, we learned that the lampstands were
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the churches, were a symbol of the churches, He says.
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I know all the things you do, you're doing.
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These are the works you're doing.
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I know those things you do. 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've examined the claims of
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those who say they're apostles but are not.
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You've discovered they're liars. Oh, these guys were good.
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They had discernment. They worked hard.
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They had patient endurance. They could.
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They could see through people who didn't belong.
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They had discernment and understanding.
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You have patiently suffered for me without quitting.
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That's good, right? That's good.
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But I have this complaint against you.
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You don't love me or each other. What happened?
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What happened 35 years later, 35 years later, you're known for
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loving the sense. You're known for love.
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You have a reputation to love others.
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And here, 35 years later, to that church, that same church,
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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've fallen. This is 35 years later.
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Turn back to me and do the works you did at first.
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If you don't repent, I will come and remove your lamp stand from
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its place among the churches. But he's calling them and
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saying, remember, Remember where you were.
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Remember that first love you had.
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Turn back and remember. Yeah, that's right.
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That's what Paul wrote to us. That's right.
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I remember. He said we're rooted in love.
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Actually, a call is love. I remember.
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I remember my parents saying, I remember my grandparents told
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the story about I'm not going to forget that.
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Here's the beautiful part of this, he says, Look how far
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you've fallen. That means you can get back up.
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Somebody doesn't give you a warning because they want you to
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get injured, right? Mum and dad don't say don't run
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on the road because they don't care for you.
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They warn you because they want you to be whole.
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And so Jesus is saying here you've fallen, come back, return
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back, repent, come back, turn around and remember that love.
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Remember he's calling to a whole church.
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Remember, look at those things you did at 1st and remember, see
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what had caught them, what had what had positioned them.
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You know, they were so good at the hard work.
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They were so good at discerning and judging and and yet they'd
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lost that love and their turn back was a callback to love.
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They've turned back to remember as a callback to a love walk, a
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callback to wholeness, a callback to gratitude, a
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callback to praise, a call back to walk in that love of God that
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had been shed abroad in their hearts.
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And so we remember how you remember, stalls you or
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launches you. Key here is how how you
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remember. You ever met people said this a
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little earlier with some people, but have you ever met those
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people who the best memories that they're they're reminisces
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that when they're thinking of the best times of their life is
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like back in high school. Those were my years.
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Yes, I was on the the the hockey team or the football team.
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That was the best time of my life.
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My best friend, my best connections.
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That was that was the day. But they get stuck, Stuck in
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their old habits, stuck in their old preparations, stuck in what
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they thought was the best life, stuck in this position where
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that was the light, that was the time their best memories were
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from 30 years ago, 20 years ago. They they got stalled in their
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remembering. Have you ever heard other
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believers and perhaps those who've been a little bit older
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and say, oh, I remember when we had this guy and this guy and
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this happened. Oh, those were great days back
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then. I wish I was back there.
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See, saying there, those were good days, that's fine.
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But they're saying, I wish I was back there means you're stalled
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in that time. You're stalled in that
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revelation, that understanding. That's what's got you stuck.
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But how you remember is important because if you
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remember that, and so those were great days and now I'm here and
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God's more than able, that launches you.
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Your memory then launches you. Remembrance is not a call to
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nostalgia. It is fuel to ignite belief when
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we remember the things God did. So I took some time this this
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week after the great message we have from Pastor Terrance on
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Sunday and had a time to talk with my parents and share some
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stories and hear some stories again.
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And some of them actually one of them I don't think I ever
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remember hearing before. That's the funny fun thing about
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talking to old people who've been around a bit.
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You know, it's like, OK, I've lived with you for a long time.
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I don't even remember that story.
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OK, and they're sharing share the story with about my Gran on
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my dad's side and in her late 60s.
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She said, OK, well, you know, my kids are gone and and doing
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their thing and everything. So OK, I'll Lord, what do you
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want us to do? And she had raised my dad and
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his his brother as a single mother and just had picked up
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jobs everywhere she could get to to make things me.
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And she got connected with a pastor who who would take a
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group of people and they'd have to get around the world tickets
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when you used to be able to get a round the world ticket and
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there would be different stops along the way.
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And it's usually about a group of 15 people.
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She said, OK, Lord, I'm going to do that.
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I'm going to do that. So what all they had to do is
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they had to provide the the ticket by a certain day and then
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they could be a part of it. And this one time she had picked
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up work as a nanny and other things, and but she was short a
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certain amount of money, quite a bit of money, and the money was
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due the next day. And so she said, OK, Lord, if
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you want me there, you know where I am.
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That night there's a knock on the door and it come a couple
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that she knew and they they love the Lord, but we're not
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attending a church at the time, but still wanted to tithe and
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they had remember the old Bible covers.
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I don't know if you remember with the big zips on them.
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They open it up. You remember and and opened it
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up and there was a bunch of cash that was their tie.
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The Lord told us to give this to you.
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It was exactly what she needed for that ticket the next day.
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See, now I can say, oh wow, that's good.
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I'm so glad God did something back then or I can take that as
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fuel and say, but the same God's alive today and he's more than
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able, the same God is able to do greater mighty things now.
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My grandfather on my mum's side and and grandma and grandpa on
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that side were in ministry and they were believing God for a, a
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building that would become a revival centre and they were
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going to have a, a Bible college out of it.
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They had a church, but they were believing God.
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They were always just renting and they, they believed God for
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that. They found the place and they
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were, they were had to put a deposit down and they still
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didn't have the money for the deposit, but they believed God.
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They believed God and then two days before it was due, God
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provides same God. See, this is remembering in a
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way to fuel and ignite your belief.
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And maybe you don't have those stories.
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Steal them. We're all one big family anyway.
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OK, it's all right. You know, I, I steal people's
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stories of faith all the time, right?
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I, I don't retell them as my own.
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I don't do that. But.
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But I steal them so that I can be fuelled by them.
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Elder John got me a great book. He, he knows I love The
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Revivalist and a great book by John G Lake about his story.
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And I'm reading these stories and I've got yeah, God, you can
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do that. Lord, God, you are the God who
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heals. Yeah, you heal back then, You
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heal today. Lord, God, you are the God who
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provides. You provided back then, you
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provide today. Lord, you are the God who is
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more than able. You did it back then, you do it
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today. I just wrote down a few names of
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of people who's like John Wesley, Sadhu, Sander Singh,
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Watchman Knee, Reinhard Bonke, William Seymour, Amy Sample
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McPherson, John G Lake, Catherine Kuhlman, Yong Echo,
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the Cambridge 7 Smith, Wigglesworth, Elias Letwabo
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Simeoni Zimbabi Simeoni Zimbabi was part of the East African
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revival that God did in the 1920s and 30s.
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See, see, Gee, don't, don't, don't, don't just take it from
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the people, you know. See, God is moving everywhere.
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All who believe will kill the children of God.
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It says it's John 112 and God is moving and God has moved.
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Understand that. So you can take those promises
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and you can bring them to the now.
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And we remember, so we believe, we remember to believe in John
John 20 chapter mention
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chapter 20 and verse 30 and 31. This is near the end of the
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Gospel of John. And he says there are also many
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other signs and miracles which Jesus performed in the presence
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of the disciples, which are not written in this book.
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But these are written. So say that with me.
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These are written in order that you may believe, believe,
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believe. See, these are written so you
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believe. These are written so that you
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would believe that you would believe.
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The purpose of the history, the purpose of the remembrance is
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that you believe, in order that you may believe that Jesus is
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the Christ, the Son of God, and that through believing and
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cleaving to and trusting and relying upon Him, you may have
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life through His name, through who He is.
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Our remembrance is so we believe.
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We return to Him so we may believe.
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Our turn back is so we may believe.
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Isaiah 30 and verse 15. Sorry, before you go, go back.
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One belief must be fresh for every generation.
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You cannot live on your grandparents faith.
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You cannot live on your parents faith.
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You can be encouraged by it. It can encourage your faith and
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lift you and you recognize it. But it's you who believe.
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You are the one who has to believe what God has said and
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apply it. You're the one who believe.
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A fresh belief, a fresh faith that God is more than able, a
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fresh faith that he is who He said he is.
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A freshness to that faith. Belief must be fresh.
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Isaiah 31st, 15. I love this verse, for thus said
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the Lord God the Holy One of Israel, in returning to me and
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resting in me, you shall be saved.
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He was calling Israel to turn back to him, and in that turn
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back He would give them rest. He would give them the place of
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Holmes. Same God right now, same God
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right now, same God right now. Yes, now, believe it.
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Same God, same God right now, same God back then.
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He is more than able. So remember, believe, speak
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Dynasty Wednesday, this past Wednesday, which was our last
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one, Pastor Terence spoke about speaking the Word of God,
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speaking Acts 4 verse 19 and 20. Peter and John had been
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investigated by the the Sadducees because they were
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preaching in the temple and they were charged.
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They were actually beaten and then they were charged.
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You can't speak in that name of Jesus anymore.
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Jesus is a threat. Jesus is a threat.
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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 about
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everything we have seen and heard.
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We remember the goodness of God, the way he's moved, what he's
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done in our lives, how he's engaged us.
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We remember it fuels our belief and then we cannot but speak of
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the goodness of God. I love that word.
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Cannot Peter and John have been with Jesus said they'd gone
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through all the UPS and the downs and the trials and the
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the, the messages and the miracles and the and and and
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the, the death, the resurrection, the confusion, the
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lack of hope. Then in the resurrection, the
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renewed hope and now the empowerment of the Spirit of God
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of Pentecost. And they said we've sinned too
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much. No, no, no, no.
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I've seen too much. You want me to not speak?
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I've seen too much. I've seen too much.
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I've heard too much. I can't do that.
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I can't help but speak of the goodness of God.
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We believe, therefore we also speak.
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This is a quote from Second Corinthians chapter 4, which is
2 Corinthians 4 chapter mention
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actually quoting A Psalm. I think it's Psalm 112.
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It says, yet we have the same spirit of faith as he who had,
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as he had, who wrote in Scripture.
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I believed, therefore I spoke. So 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 along with you in his
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presence. Say this after me.
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I believed, therefore I spoke. I believed, therefore I spoke.
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There's a connection. And he says knowing it was out
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of his knowing of who God is, out of his knowing the goodness
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of God, out of his knowing the love of God, out of his knowing
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the nature of who God is, out of that knowing.
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We also, we also believe, therefore we also speak knowing.
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See that knowing of God, that knowing of who he is was that
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motivation that says because I know who he is, because I
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believe in him, because I have believed, I can't but speak the
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goodness of God. I cannot but speak of his love.
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I cannot but speak of how he good he is.
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I cannot but speak of his love. So how do we position this?
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You know the we've exposed that remembrance when we don't
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remember, like the Church of Ephesus when they lost their
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remembrance of that love, that first love, right?
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We've exposed that when we forget, we can fall short of
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what He's called us to. But we've been equipped that in
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our believing, in our turning back and remembering the
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goodness of God and pulling it forward, that He is more than
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able. That actually in our remembering
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and not getting stuck in our remembering, but letting
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remembering be fuel for belief. We have the power for now, the
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power to be able to walk the walk He's called us to.
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And out of that He is more than able.
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Out of that belief. Therefore, we speak.
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We speak to one another to build each other's faith.
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We speak to those around us to share our faith.
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We speak out the goodness of God.
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You know what, How much that helps one another.
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I was sharing with some people and and hearing their stories.
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I'm like, yes, that's exciting. And then I share my stories of
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how God's been faithful in my life and that's turns them up,
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man. We get, we come here every week
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and I'm like, Mark, guess what happened this week?
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Ah, it's so good you got to hear it.
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You know what, I was stressed out.
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I'm not knowing where we're going to get this finances for.
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But let me tell you what God did.
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First of all, he gave me this piece that was rock solid man,
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that piece, that piece, that kind of piece.
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And then, and then guess what he provided You see in your
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testimony, don't you forget that the peace is a gift as much as
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the provision, because that's that God kind of living.
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That's that God kind of living. A God kind of living of love and
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joy and peace and patience and kindness of goodness and
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faithfulness, gentleness, self-control.
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That's that God kind of living. In the next experience, we're
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going to continue on a bit more about the three powers of the
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voice of faith. Pastor terrorists laid these out
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on Wednesday and we're going to go into those in a bit more
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detail. But today I want to encourage
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you, stir your faith by remembering.
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I'm not sure if you, maybe you went here last week.
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So let this be an encouragement to you for this week.
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And if you were here last week and you didn't take some time
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just to remember, sit quietly and remember or, or, or sit with
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someone in your family and remember.
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And not, not the, the, the troubles, we all have troubles,
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but the faithfulness, the goodness, the goodness in the
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trouble. And let that fuel your faith.
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Bring it to you now. Bring it to your present
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situation. Bring it into your current
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space. He is the same God back then,
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the same God now. Same God, Same God, Same God,
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same God. Lord God, I thank you.
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We will not forget. We'll build a memorial to fuel
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our belief. Not a memorial to hold us in the
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past and stole us, but a memorial that launches us and
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ignites our belief. Lord, we will learn how to
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remember well. How to remember your goodness,
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how to remember your kindness, How to remember how you kept us.
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How to remember that the same God who did the great things in
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the scriptures in a generations past is the same God now and the
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same God to come? Your hand is not shortened.
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You are more than able a Lord. We remember, we remember, we
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remember, we remember, we remember and we believe.
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Believe in our hearts, Believe your word, believe you're the
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God today who's more than able believe who you say you are in
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the word. We search your scriptures to
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know who you are. We search the scripture so we
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can pray, knowing that you are the God who heals.
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You said I am the God that heals you, Lord, That's the God I
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serve. You're the God who brings
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liberty and freedom. Lord, that's the God I serve.
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You're the God who makes confused minds clear and sound.
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That's the God I serve. You're the God who destroys fear
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and builds faith. That's the God I serve.
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Lord, you're the God who provided for Abraham Isaac and
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Jacob. Isaac in the middle of a
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drought, He received a great and bountiful harvest.
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That's the God I serve, Lord, You're the God who is able to
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provide all the money my grand needed for that ticket the day
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before, because that's the God I serve.
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Oh, you are the God who protects us, who keeps us in that near
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miss. That's the God I serve.
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You're the God who is thoughtful of the detail.
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You say not even a Sparrow force, and you don't see it.
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And so in the details of our lives, you see it.
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That's the God I serve, the God who sees the God who sees.
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That's the God I serve. You're the God who poured your
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love in our hearts, who made the way through Jesus, that
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sacrifice, who in sacrifice redeemed us.
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That's the God I serve. And you are the God who in
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resurrection power took authority over death and hell
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and all the works of the enemy. That's the God I serve.
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And you are the one Jesus who declared all authority in
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heaven. And our earth is given to me.
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That's the God I serve. Lord, we remember.
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We remember, We remember and we will not be shaken from it.
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We remember and we shall not be moved.
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We remember and we shall believe.
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We remember and we shall speak. We remember, Lord, we remember.
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We remember. We remember your goodness.
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We remember your kindness. We remember that first moment we
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received you, Lord. Lord, we remember that moment
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where we received the love of God, we receive Jesus.
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We remember our first love, we remember how you transformed us.
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We remember your grace that's given for us.
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We remember that all of our sin has been cleansed by your blood
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because you loved us. We remember you made a way that
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we would know you Almighty God. We remember the love of God that
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we experienced have first embraced us, that we had fallen
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away from You, that we were far from you.
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You reached out. We remember you reached out,
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Lord, and you drew us close. We remember your great kindness,
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we remember your great love. We remember, Lord, we remember
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those moments of intimacy with you sitting at your feet.
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Remember those times of dedication.
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Remember those times when we said, Lord, all of you, Lord, we
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remember and we will not be silent anymore.
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Lord, we remember. You, your love, Your goodness.
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We remember. Our belief is fueled.
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Our belief in you is ignited. Our belief in you is growing.
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Our faith rises. Our faith rises.
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Our faith rises. Our faith rises.
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Our faith rises. Our faith rises.
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Our faith rises. Because you are so good.
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Holy Spirit of God, Jesus said you will bring to remembrance.
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You'll bring it to our remembrance Lord this week.
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Bring to our remembrance, Lord, those moments we may have set
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aside, we may have put on the shelf.
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Bring it to our remembrance where you've moved, where you've
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transformed us. Bring it to our remembrance so
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we can run, run, run with passion, Run with you.
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Run with your call. Because we took the time to
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remember. We took the time, the set a
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memorial, the set a benchmark so we can run.
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Lord, we remember, we remember, we remember, we remember, We
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remember. Lord, we remember.
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Praise the Lord, give the give the Lord a praise.
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We remember. Hallelujah, Hallelujah.
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Thank you so much for tuning into this week's sermon.
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We pray you were challenged, equipped and encouraged.
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need to find us. But until next time, you know
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the drill. You know the motto, get your
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love fixed man and we'll see y'all real soon.