Sermon
Holy is... Holy Is! (1130AM) - 3.30.2025 (Elder John Swain Jr.)
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Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the Love Quest International
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We're super glad you're joining us from whenever and wherever
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It's go time. Let's get into it.
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He's holy, He's holy, I told. He's holy.
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Holy. You know, sometimes God will
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flip it and reverse it. OK, sometime they put the
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response to the message before the message so you can live in
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the response while you listen to the message.
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So then when the message is over, your response goes to a
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different level as a result of the message we ever see.
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Pastors, thank you again for an opportunity and trust with
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atmosphere and a house like this.
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It's important to recognize that what we just saying because he's
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holy, I'm holy. So get to know me, right?
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That's kind of the part of the heart of the message I'm talking
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about later on. OK, but I'm going to, I'm going
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to go here with it. Like begets like.
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OK, what does that mean? Holy has a character to it, and
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anything that's denser than the character can't commune or pass
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through. OK, the reason God says that
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we're holy is because we rise to the level of who He is, and then
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being on the same level, we can then get to know Him as He is.
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What happens when you mix fire and wood?
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What happens to the wood? You lose the wood, it burns, but
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you lose the wood, right? What happens when you put fire
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with fire? Now when you put fire with wood,
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the wood becomes fire, but then you lose the wood.
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What happens when you put fire with fire?
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The fire becomes fire and the fire becomes bigger, but there's
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no loss in the fire because fire can roll with fire any day of
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the week. God is saying holy is called us
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to be holy because it's in that like state of, of being that
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we're able to participate with him in life and we not be lost
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in the process, that we're not consumed in the process of
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fellowshipping with Him and being with Him.
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So those words have significance and impact connected with what
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I'm talking about today. The title is holy is as holy is
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because holy is about being not doing.
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It's about being not achieving. I talked about it earlier today
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and I said this. I said do birds bark now?
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Come on now, how y'all slow on that one?
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All right, harder question. Do fish meow?
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Oh, I got something talking about.
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OK, why not? It ain't in their nature, you
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know that. Not because you've heard every
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fish. Not because you've heard every
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bird, but because you know the nature of a fish is not to.
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And if a fish is meowing you, you say this, that's not a fish.
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You more kind of say that than oh, that's a fish than meows.
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Why? Because it ain't a fish nature
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to meow. And the fish ain't trying to
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swim around going. I hope I don't meow today.
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The fish not doing that. The fish is just fishing too
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often. In understanding holiness, our
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focus is on, I hope I'm not unclean today.
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I'm focused on not being dirty today, But focus is on the
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dirtiness #1 #2 the focus is on doing something to get holy as
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well. Holy is a nature.
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It's something that's in you. It's something that God has made
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you to be. You don't have to when you when
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you've given your life to Jesus and he's come to live inside of
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you through the through the Holy Spirit of God, you don't have to
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try to be holy, no more than a fish has to try to fish.
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You put a fish in water, what's it going to do?
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Swim. You put a fish out of the water
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on land, what's it going to do? Swim.
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It just ain't no water to help it.
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It looks like a flop, but the fish is still swimming.
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It don't matter because my nature is to swim.
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I swim on land. I swim in water.
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I just swim. And what happens?
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The fish on land continues to swim on dry until, until, until
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he's back into the environment that's conducive for him.
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His very nature will bring him back into an environment that's
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conducive for him to prosper and succeed.
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That's what it means to be holy, right?
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The fish don't try to put on running shoes to get accommodate
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the dirt. The fish just says I'm going to
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keep fishing no matter what condition I'm in.
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Why 'cause that's my nature. So it is with holy.
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The Old Testament talks about being unclean more than holy.
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It does say there are some things that are holy, but it
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talks a lot about this will make you unclean, this will make you
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unclean, this will make you unclean because there's no holy
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really in people. We were made to be holy in the
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image, but there was no holy power on the inside.
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It's like you go to a garage, you see a Lamborghini sitting
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there with no engine. It's made to be a Lambo but
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don't have no Lambo juice in it to actually power the thing.
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When we in the New Testament about the Holy Spirit come to
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live in US and our lives being transformed and our spirits
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being made new. So now we got the juice to be
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the holy that we were made to be.
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The New Testament focuses on a Holy Spirit and holy people, not
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how unclean you are. Holy is rest.
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Genesis 2-3 says then God bless the 7th day and made it holy
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because on it he rested from all the work.
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How do I be holy? Rest in his promise, rest in his
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word, rest in what he's done, rest in what He's given you,
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rest in it. How do you rest?
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God? I thank you.
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How do you rest? I'm just going to breathe for a
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minute because that what am I doing?
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I'm telling everything about me. There ain't no need to panic.
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Ain't no need to fear because I know God is holy.
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I know he is here. I know he is near and I'm with
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him and we're going to walk this thing through.
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Watch me. Watch what God will do.
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Watch it. The idea is it's the resting in
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the promise is the way you activate holy.
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Holy is a let can you come up here, Adam real quick, this is a
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non union production. Don't tell your agent.
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OK, right. So act like you on a mountain
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and you snowboarding. OK, now, if you on a mountain
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snowboarding. OK, got to explain it because
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you get different people here. Mountain big, pointy, there's
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snow makes it slick. He'd get on the board and down
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the mountain. OK Now if he's on a slope on a
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snowboard, OK, he's going to do what he's going to slide, so
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move forward. Just move that way.
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He's going to move forward right, right.
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He snowboards better than I just want to let y'all know, OK, he's
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top counted a snowboarder one anyway, Dad, humble brag.
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Go back right. Go back right.
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So if you know anything about a snowboard on a mountain, the
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only thing that stops him from moving forward is if someone's
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resisting, right? OK, so they're going to act like
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you coming down the mountain, press into me.
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OK, Now, if I'm resisting he it's not that he's not going
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down the mountain, it's just that I'm resisting.
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All I have to do is what let and what happens?
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He moves automatically instead of being a snowboarder.
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Call it holy. That's you.
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That's God in you. It's in there.
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My being offended. All I have to do is say I
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forgive and holy flows through. OK, I don't have to do this.
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I don't have to say, oh, I forgive, let me fry some holy,
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let me get in some holy. Let me move some holy down.
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I don't have to do all of that. The system is set up already.
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Holy's already there. All I have to do is just let and
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holy flows through. And if you know anything about a
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snowboarder, one lap is never good enough once you get down to
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the bottom. Your first thought is, I got to
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let some more come down today. Are you ready?
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How long does a snowboard aboard for?
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As long as the snow exists and as long as the mountain is open.
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That's holy. Holy will press through to your
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life as long as you will let it and give it place.
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And if holy presses through your your life in a situation and you
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say, man, that was amazing Holy Ghost, let's go back again and
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recycle at the top. And now let's go do another one
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of holy through another area of your life.
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Holy is who we are. It's about the let holy's about
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the rest. When I let I rest, when I rest,
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I let when I say God, who's going to rest now Holy's able to
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flow through and do the work the holy's called to do.
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God, how do I be more holy? Rest in its promise, rest in its
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written word, rest in his spirit, rest and knows God is
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called to lead you rest, rest. Thank you Lord. 11 face for rest
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is a laughing face. Laugh is the indication that
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you're resting. It is.
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Sometimes you just need to laugh.
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Who told you you got to laugh only because something funny?
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You go to work when you don't want to, not just because you
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want to, right? Who said you only can laugh was
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because something funny? It's my laugh.
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I can laugh anytime I want to come in.
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Come in one more time, OK? Now just play the role now.
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Now he's an actor. I know not between you, but All
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Kingdom. So he's an actor, OK?
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He can come from craft service. That's where the food is.
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And act like you're eating the craft service.
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He's eating the craft service, Right.
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OK, now get on your phone on your way to the on your way to
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the set, Right? And then he says, all right,
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Adam, we're ready for you. Hit your mark.
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Come on, hit your mark. And his first line is Adam's
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character laughs. I laugh.
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Know what was funny about it? You hear what I'm saying?
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He laughed because he chose to knock, because something was
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funny. He didn't need no momentum into
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the laugh he was eating on his phone.
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Mark. That's my mark.
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Adam, here's your mark right here.
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Ready. Rolling speed.
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Ready. All right.
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Ready. Action Go.
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That levels are too real, I think.
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I don't know about that one, right?
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You could have a seat, right? What I'm saying is rest is the
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choice. That joy that comes in.
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Rest is a choice. You don't need to feel it to
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release it. You don't need to feel it to let
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it go. You don't need to feel it to
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enter into it. You can choose to enter into it.
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Just by choosing to laugh and have joy.
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You will enter into the rest that releases holiness.
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The Bible says you say, how did Jesus make it through the cross?
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Because of the joy that was set before him.
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He endureth the cross, despising his shame.
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He rested in it. And then the Holy Spirit was
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able to come. Holy Spirit was able to come and
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in His Holiness break him free from bondage and put him in
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resurrection. Holy is rest, Holy is whole.
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We're holy because He's holy. Holies relationship.
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Leviticus 19, one says this. The Lord said to Moses, speak to
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the entire assembly of Israel and say to them, be holy because
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I the Lord your God am holy. See, that's Old Testament, not
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just New Testament. You know the Old Testament says
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that just shall live by faith, not just the New Testament.
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That's for another time. Each of you must respect your
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mother and father, and you must observe my Sabbaths.
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I am the Lord your God. Do not turn to idols or make
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metal gods for yourselves. I am the Lord your God.
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Notice all that comes after holy.
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Why? Because man.
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It says that each of you will respect your mother and father.
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Lack of respect for your parents.
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Man gets in the way of holy and when you carrying that do you
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get access denied into the presence of your father and
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that's what he's most concerned about.
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What about but my daddy and my mom are treating me wrong.
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Don't worry. Respect the office.
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Respect what you've called them what I've called them to.
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Don't let daddy get in the way of your holy because now that
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holy would allow you to give access to me.
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And believe me when you get here, we going to take care of
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all of that. Trust me, relationship is
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important in holy. Holy is unity with God.
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It's seamlessness with His Kingdom.
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That's kind of what I was talking about before.
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Holy begets holy. Romans 11/16.
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It says this if the part of the dough Deborah shout out.
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If the part of the dough offered as first fruits is holy, then
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the whole batch is. If the root is holy, so are the
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branches. If you ever confused about your
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being holy, don't look to you, look to the root.
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Don't look to you, look to the starter, because it's the
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condition of the starter that determines the batch.
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As long as I'm part of batch. If starter was holy, holler at
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your boy holy all day. If the root is holy, then the
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fruit is holy because it comes out of the root because it's
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about letting the roots let the fruit come forward.
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In a starter and a dough, you put yeast or leaven in it and
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then it just lets it rise. Rest is key to holy.
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Holy is magnified through the word.
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Ephesians 525 says this, Husbands love your wives, just
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as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her to make.
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A holy sacrifice is required for holy not sacrifice to do, but
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sacrifice to let. When a husband sacrifices for
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his wife, could she be holy? He is saying, I'm going to let
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my desires come second to gods. I'm going to let what?
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I won't come second to God's design for his daughter.
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I'm going to lay down my life so that his life can shine through.
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Her sacrifice is required for holy to make a holy cleansing
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her by the washing with water through the Word, and to present
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her to Himself as a radiant church without stain or wrinkle.
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So your holiness is in your best interest.
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The purpose of his holy is so that he can get a better holy
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back. It's not without you going to
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get any benefit out of it. God is saying I man, I got the
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system rigged. I'm holy.
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You'll be holy because I'm holy. When you holy, she holy.
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When she holy you get back better holy than she was before
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you started sacrifice for her to be holy.
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So you get a better holy than you started with and all you had
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to do was just let and rest. The system will perpetuate
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itself when you let. Now let is an let is active
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because fear wants you to not let.
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So you have to stand against fear and let offence wants you
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to not let. So you have to stand against
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offence and let. Holy is magnified through the
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Word. How do you increase being holy?
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Get into the Word of God, not only the written word, but the
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Spirit, the prophetic words, and the Spirit of the living God as
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the Holy Spirit reveals it to you.
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That in itself will do a washing to make you manifest or let your
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holy come through. We had an example earlier about
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a diamond. It's hard for me to say diamond
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forever. Now I got to say a diamond
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anyway. If you know, you know.
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So like a diamond already has brilliance in it.
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You don't have to go get brilliance and put it in it.
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It's already there. God has put the brilliance in
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the diamond already and he's given light to shine through the
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diamond, to magnify the the brilliance.
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All you got to do is let the diamond shine.
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Hold it up. You ready?
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Follow those and Garrett engaged or marry for particularly
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engaged new fiance's. All you got to do is just let
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it. I'm just letting it right now.
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Y'all see that? I'm just let.
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Look at how sparkle. I'm just letting it.
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All you got to do is just let, OK.
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Dirt on a diamond doesn't change the brilliance in it.
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It just gets in the way of you seeing its brilliance.
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It's still there. So if I want the breeze of the
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diamond to shine, all I have to do is make sure the dirt is
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removed. OK, got it.
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That's the letting part. The letting part of what God is
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saying is keep the dirt off your diamond and the shine will come
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through. You don't have to go find a
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shine. Figure out a shine, Change shoes
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for a shine. You got it in you already.
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I want to draw your picture to this picture by the diamond.
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If I have a diamond and it's dirty, which means the
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brightness is not coming through the holy that it is, it's in
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there. It's just I can't see it.
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It's in there. The world can't experience.
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It's in there and I'm trying to make sure it comes out and I
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start doing something to it. OK, What am I doing?
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Anyone. I'm shiny.
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What did you say the word dirt in there any place?
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Because the focus ain't on the dirt.
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It's on the diamond when you are standing to get.
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The issue is not I'm trying to get rid of offense.
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I'm trying to let love flow. The focus is on the diamond, not
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the dirt. It's the perspective.
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Makes all the difference in the world because if you had a
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diamond and all you saying is I'm just dealing with dirt, I'm
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removing dirt. When you're going to remove dirt
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off a dime, you're going to remove dirt off a lump of coal.
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You're going to remove dirt off a bunch of things and still
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never get the brightness of a diamond.
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That's why the focus is on the brightness, not the dirt.
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Your folks ought to be on the holy that you are, not the dirt
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that you're kicking back and pushing back and walking free
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of. And I'm going to tell you this,
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that if you get a very high quality diamond, it will shine
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even through the dirt. The quality of holy you got is
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the highest quality of holy. You'll be holy because I'm holy.
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There's no higher quality of holy than the Father that begot
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you. So even when you're dirty, you
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still got some shine. If you focus on the shine, not
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the dirt on the diamond, not the dirt on your life, it doesn't
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mean you ignore the dirt. And you know who's looking for
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dirty diamonds? Folks who know the value but are
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convinced the owner doesn't. The folks who are looking for
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dirty diamonds are the folks who know the value of the diamond
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but are convinced that the owner doesn't.
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I got A50 karat pink diamond covered in dirt.
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The folks who's looking for that are like, like, you know, that's
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just a lump of coal, right? You know, once dirt get on the
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diamond, it never comes. The diamond is ruined.
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The diamond is ruined. Yeah, it is.
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Trust me. It ain't worth nothing.
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It's just worth dirt. Dirt ain't worth nothing.
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But I'll give you $100 for the dirt.
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That's more than anybody pay you for dirt.
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Just give me the lump of dirt. They won't even say diamond.
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And if and if you don't know what you got, you traded for 100
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thinking you got over. But what you did was you got cut
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out of your inheritance. You know the reason that dirt
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cannot damage diamonds? Do you know one of the reasons?
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Because diamonds are already formed under pressure.
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Diamonds are some of the hardest substances in the earth.
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Your holiness is battle tested under pressure.
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Dirt can't stop it unless you let it.
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The holiness you carry has that hardness, that resilience, that
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strength, that toughness. Like a diamond.
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If you bury a diamond under a mountain of dirt, you know what
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the diamond says. I'm still a diamond.
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I'm still a diamond. Because you don't need to gas up
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it's own shine. He knows what it is.
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As a matter of fact, the diamond's talking to the dirt on
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top of it. You know, I'm a diamond.
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You just dirt. I'm a diamond.
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It's, it's being who it's called to be.
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That's what it means to be holy. Holy is our holies magnified
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through purpose and grace. Second Timothy one verse 9.
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He has saved us and called us to a holy life, not to do holy
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life, not because of anything we have done, but because of His
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own purpose and grace. How do you be holy?
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Rest in the God's purpose and grace.
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You receive the grace of God, the grace to forgive, the grace
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to restore. You don't know what I've done.
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You don't know how much I've done it.
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Receive the grace of God. Paul who was Saul, Saul who
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became Paul because Paul was already in Saul the whole time
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Saul was Saul. Christmas production need to be
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there. Saul murder.
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People. But he says in his.
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Letters I have wronged no man. How can he say that because of
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the surpassing grace that I've experienced, the grace is
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greater than any of right of wrong I've done?
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Grace is the diamond, the wrong is the dirt.
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You can't stop a. Diamond from being a diamond.
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Put it under a whole earth full of dirt.
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The diamond not going to break and it's still going to be a
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diamond. Purpose and grace causes you to
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walk and be in and exuberate holiness because you're being
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you, who you called to be. And purpose is not occupation,
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it's identity. A fish don't have a job, it just
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be a fish. The only fish, only job the fish
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got made is to be ate by somebody or some other fish.
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I don't know. That's not even a job, that's a
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privilege. Where that came from I.
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Don't know Holy is our foundation for Kingdom family.
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Hebrews 2 verse. 11. Both the one who makes.
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People holy and those who are made holy are of the same
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family, so Jesus is not ashamed to call them brothers and
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sisters. Holy is the foundation.
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For Kingdom family. Put that on top of.
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Your mind when you come to church.
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And you see somebody. And you're like, is holy on your
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mind? All I got to have.
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It is on your mind. Is holy on your.
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Mind. Or is it what you can do for me
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on your mind? Brothers and.
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Sisters is the foundation of our Kingdom family and holy is the
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foundation of that relationship. If you are putting holy first,
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then all the other aspects of relationship will be rightly
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ordered. Pastor preached that pretty.
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Good on Wednesday, go look at the tape.
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Holy is a generational matter. First, Peter. 1 Concerning this
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salvation. Verse 10 Concerning this
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salvation. The prophets who spoke of the
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grace that was to come to you searched intently and with
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greatest care. Something diamonds are worth
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searching out. So it's holiness.
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It's worth finding out, trying to find out the time and
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circumstances in which the Spirit of Christ in them was
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pointing when he had predicted the sufferings and the Messiah
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and the glories that would follow.
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What's the glories that will follow?
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Christ in us, the hope of glory, Christ in us, the holiness of
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God. Christ in us, the living Spirit.
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We're living and working through us.
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It was revealed to. Them that they were not serving
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themselves. They were not serving.
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Themselves but you. The prophets of old.
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Didn't serve themselves, they were serving you.
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They were searching out. For you.
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They were walking with God. For you, your holy ain't just
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for you, it's for the next generation to come.
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They need a witness and an example, a testimony, and they
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need your momentum. Continue the diamond.
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Metaphor. If I treat well my diamonds,
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good quality diamonds, and I treat them well, when I pass
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away, I pass on an inheritance. That kick starts the next
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generation. So it is with your witness of
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holy to your family when you give them an example of holy
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respect, mom and dad, holy walking, forgiveness rather than
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offense, holy rest in the peace of God.
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When you pass that on, then they are able to walk in a level of
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holy that surpasses what you were able to walk to the walk
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in. Verse.
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That section ends this. But as just as.
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Verse 15 But just as he who called you was holy, so you be
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holy, and all you do for is written, be holy because I am
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holy, be holy because of the generations that are dependent
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on you, that are counting on you not do holy, be holy not.
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Do holy be. Holy not do holy be holy.
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Holy is not doing. Right, it's shining bright and
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your God identity. Revelation 2210 is my last
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verse. Revelation, 2210.
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Then he told me. Talking about Jesus, No, this
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John is experiencing encounter, I believe, with an Angel here,
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he says. Then he told me or the
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representative of the Kingdom. Then he told me, Do not seal up
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the words of the prophecy of this scroll, because the time is
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near. Let the one who does wrong
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continue to do wrong. Let the vile person continue to
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be vile. You ready?
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Listen to this part. Let the one who does right
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continue to do right, and let the holy person continue to be
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holy. What that suggests?
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To me is that you can do right and possibly not be holy.
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Because Holiness is. Not in the doing.
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But what it all? Suggests to me that if I am
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being holy, than doing right is like my, like a fish's swim.
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Doing right is like a dog's bark, doing rights like a bird's
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chirp. If I'm being holy than doing
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right, it's part of my nature and flows from it.
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I could put. On a bird suit and go.
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I'm. Doing right in terms of a bird,
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but nobody would meant to do you OK.
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Passing them you got to. You got to Fact Check them
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Broad. You have speaking up there, man.
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Do put on the birds too. Try to convince us he was a bird
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by his outward doings when we can tell by his nature he
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wasn't. How you can?
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Tell by you what you wasn't because he couldn't make a bird.
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The test of. Nature is whether you can
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duplicate your DNA. That's why.
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Discipleship is essential to carrying out holiness.
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It's the testimony of the holiest we have comes from a God
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that makes others like it in his image.
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And through discipleship, people see that the holy we have is a
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holy that He is, and the holy that we are is a holy that He
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is. It's not a put on, it's a being.
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Because it can be. Replicated in the lives of
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others, so holy is. Holy Just.
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Is and that's the encouragement and the admonition for all of us
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here today. There's other scriptures.
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Without Holiness, you won't see the Lord.
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Holiness is like the uniform to get in the locker room after we
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won the championship. Holiness is the access.
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Holiness is the thing that keeps you clean and pure and and like
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you to get in there. Holiness is like the TSA check.
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I don't have the four oz so I can get on the plane and go
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someplace. Holiness is the don't put
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holiness above love and relationship, but holiness is
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the quality and character of our being that allows us to live in
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an environment with a God who only knows good, who only knows
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love, who only check that, who only is good, who only is love,
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who only is grace, who only is glory, who only is honor.
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Have you ever gone to? Some place and he was like
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stepped into it and he was like, oh, I am not dressed right for
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this. So, my soul, you look in.
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The leaf rather than enjoy what you are invited to participate
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in because you don't feel that I'm dressed for it.
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I don't fit the environment. God is saying holy is the swag
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of everything that I do in heaven.
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So I'm going to swag you up with some holy.
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So when you come in here, you can know.
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You can go in the kitchen, the bedroom, dining room, any place
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in heaven because you'll fit right in.
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Because holy is the character and nature of all it is.
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We are. And all this that we do here.
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Hey, man, holy, it ain't that deep.
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It's practical. I'm going to close with this one
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for those people who knew. People make Holies.
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Some kind of You got to be some brilliant person who's as
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handsome as Elder John, as smart as Elder John, and as brilliant
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as Elder John, and as with a marriage like Elder John.
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And if that's not that, I can't be holy.
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OK, I. Was talking to Pastor Dylan.
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It's my brother. He pulls that stuff out of me.
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Every pilot needs a six. Every pilot needs a wing man
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because there's stuff I can't see, but he can, and there's
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stuff he'll shoot down that if he doesn't, I'm dead.
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That's my 6. And my wing man there.
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He helps bring out of. Me helps increase my vision to.
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Be able to see behind. Me in ways that I can because
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he's looking behind and being behind, so he's chopping it up
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in there. Love you man.
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Your good brother we chopping up back there.
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And and. He says questions.
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And dust up man, look, I don't know what's pulling on.
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You know exactly what God is saying, doing and he said this,
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this is. For the new people, if holy is.
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About just letting the brightness of the diamond shine
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through, which means polishing. OK, there's different kinds of
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polishing. There's there's Electro.
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Sonic polishing. You put it in the machine and
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has waves and it. OK, there's.
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Chemical polishing. There's special clothes, but if
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I got a diamond, you know what also is polishing?
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If you're a beginner. And you just gave your life to
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the Lord and you. Don't think you.
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Qualify for Holy. This is.
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This is holy too. Don't feel you got to.
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Be something when you say your testimony, holy when you
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forgive, holy when you fall and you get up, holy when you keep
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showing up, when you feel like you're under qualified, holy
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when you say I want to be accountable, holy when you say
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this. I didn't understand that but I
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want to. Please just be slower and
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explain it to me. Are you ready in this
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environment? English is not my first language
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but I want to know please help me holy.
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I don't want. To go to church because I've
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been hurt by the people. Church ain't never hurt nobody.
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This ad was brought to you by me.
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It's people. In the church that have hurt
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people. Don't confuse the two, I don't.
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Want to come to church because people hurt me there.
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But I thought. Because you asked.
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I'm going to sit here. Mad and just hurt because of
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what I've been hurt. You know that's still holy.
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A diamond begins. As a lump of coal, not a
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diamond, folks. It begins as something you burn
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that has noxious gas that will kill people.
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It's only after. Years, and only after being
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under pressure does the cold become the diamond.
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The fact you come and. Start with dirt Don't mean
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diamond ain't in you don't mean holy ain't there.
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They don't. So if you're just beginning and
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you feeling all those kind of ways, holy.
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When this guy right? Here is my son when he was
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conceiving his mama's womb. He was no less my son then than
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he is right now. He was no more my son then than
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he is right now. If you've just given.
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Your life to Jesus today. And if you haven't?
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I encourage you to. It's as simple as saying Jesus.
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Thank you for what you. Did for me.
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I want to live as a child of God.
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I want to know God is my father. I accept all that you've done,
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both paying for the sin and all the benefit that comes.
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Help me live this out. I want to be part of the family.
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If you haven't and you. Prayed that prayer from your
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heart, then that means you have been born again.
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And whether? You know it or not, what's been
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what has exploded on the inside of you like an atomic bomb is
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holy. So don't you disqualify
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yourself? Because you're just starting and
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I tell you this. And I'll close and.
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If you ever feel. Discouraged.
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And you ever feel like people don't want you, You just come
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around here. And if anybody in this?
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Church treats you wrong, which I'm sure they won't.
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We do hard in culture to make sure we know we carry the
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pastor's heart, the pastor's hearts to love people well.
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But if you feel uncomfortable, concerned, or just whatever, you
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come sit next to me and we'll be holy together.
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You understand what I'm? Saying holy works as a people,
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not just individually. A diamond that's best.
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On a setting with baguettes, not just by I'm saying, you know.
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What about a solitaire? Diamond what usually comes with
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a marriage with it, so it's not just by itself either.
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OK. You qualify, Father.
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Let's pray. Father, we thank you for this
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time. We thank you for what?
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You're doing. Here's a prayer I.
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Want to have everybody pray? Ready.
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That's this. OK, and I want.
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You. I want you to lift your head up
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when you pray. You don't have to keep your eyes
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open. Lift your head up when you pray.
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Why? Because you're holy.
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No one, No one wears a diamond like walks around with a diamond
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like this. That's this.
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This is the prayer we all going to pray.
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You ready, Father? That's a lot.
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But it's. If it's for me.
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Which it seems it. Is.
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I'm willing to take it. All but just help me know,
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understand, live it out. I know I'm.
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Going to make. Mistakes.
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But help me to. Remember, my mistakes are a
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failure. My mistakes are just.
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Learning. And sometimes the.
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More I fix, the more I make mistakes, just the faster the
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learning. And the more people.
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I can help. So again, like I say.
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I don't know about all this holy.
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But Holy Spirit, I'm. Willing to let you be holy in me
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and through me. Just like God.
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My father. In Jesus name, Amen, I'll be
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back. Quick man.
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What a great message. Some of us are going to start
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talking differently about ourselves this week because we
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heard something that shifted us. Amen.
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Look, we may be out of time. We're never out of holy.
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And so till next time you know what it is, get your love fixed
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man. Amen.
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Thank you so much for. Tuning into this week's sermon,
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