Sermon
Anointed, Disruptive and Prospering (1130AM) - 3.2.2025 (Pastor Terrance Richmond)
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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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It's go time. Let's get into it.
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Two things before they ate from that tree.
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There was no temporary. There was no darkness, it was
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just holy. And now in our humanity, we let
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temporary drive our lives. Once you see something the sin
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was they did not obey. But here here's how sin showed
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up again is they had knowledge of sin, the knowledge of sin
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caused them to sin, he says here's a very crucial question.
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God says who told you that? And it was almost like whatever
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they heard or whatever became they became aware of from eating
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from that tree caused them to see themselves different,
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therefore causing them to see God different all from one
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decision they saw themselves that a loving father says you're
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holy. We tamper with sin and we see
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ourselves different, unworthy. This is what shame does dirty,
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and that knowledge separates us from God.
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Today is very crucial, starting with myself, just from this
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morning, I am not the same God forget fit, not forget.
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But if it wasn't for February, this morning wouldn't have
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happened to a brother. And and and I cannot get when
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God just opens this thing up like this, like you can't stay
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the same. I don't understand how people
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can say they know God but stay the same.
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I don't see how people can come to church and stay the same.
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I don't I don't see how they can we, we, we can encounter God and
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stay the same. Did you really encounter God?
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You're anointed in this hour. You must be aware that you are
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anointed, and you are anointed to be disruptive and you are
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anointed to prosper. But I have an announcement other
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than what you are. The holy fire of God has
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arrived. Come on, we can get the eclipse
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off the screen and get to the Word.
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The holy fire of God has arrived.
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Yeah, you're anointed because the anointed 1 lives in you.
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And if I read what Jesus was anointed for, he was an absolute
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disruption. Now 100% of you looking at me
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like disruptive. Every last one of y'all are
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disruptive. It just, it just depends on what
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you disrupt. Every last one of y'all have
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disrupted God's plan in your life at some point.
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Every last one of y'all have disrupted your peace and
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somebody else's peace. You've disrupted your sleep,
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you've disrupted your wholeness. Everybody in here knows what
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disruption is. So do not play dumb when it
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comes to saying you're anointed to be disruptive to darkness.
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You ready? Everyone has been disruptive to
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light. Everyone has been impacted by
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darkness and you brought darkness in somebody's life.
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Even as a believer. You brought doubt, you brought
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fear, you brought shame, you brought brought confusion, you
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brought double mindedness. Everyone has brought darkness
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into someone's light and light light.
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And I'm telling you man, it is time for you to be light.
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Be salt, be who God's called you to be, and stop being who you
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think you need to be in order to have peace.
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I told them I, I 100% challenge 100% of you look at your plans,
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look at your dreams and look at your agenda.
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And then I want you to be honest with yourself when you look at
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them. Do you not have a hope that that
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thing is going to bring you something?
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Job, spouse, children, vacation. Now when you think of vacation,
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don't tell me what all you plan to do.
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Tell me what you hope vacation brings.
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Don't tell me, tell me through telling yourself in your head
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probably peace, joy, a break from blank.
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When you think you're going to start a business or get a job or
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start a career, you tell me you you not planning to do that so
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it can bring you what security. Let me help you.
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Everything you list God already gave.
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Now I can I get it. God ain't making it rain and
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just throwing money out of heaven.
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But in your mind, you think security is money.
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You think more money going to bring peace.
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You think relationship. You think children can make you
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feel more like a woman or a or a Mama or a where I grew up, it
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took a village, so I had hecka Mamas and hecka aunties and
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hecka uncles. I want you to see this.
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You believe if you strive and thrive for this, it's going to
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bring this. None of this is God here.
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God go because he says seek me first and then all this shall be
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added. OK, so whatever it may be in
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your life, I want you to think of all your beautiful goals, all
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that stuff you submitted to God and all that stuff you believe
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it for. Let me tell you, there are some
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of those things. He's like awesome.
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But ain't it funny how God don't need you to have in in order for
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him to want you, but you need to have in order to be closer to,
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OK, follow me today. Follow me today.
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If you don't follow me ever again, just follow me today, OK?
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Why is it that you think this is going to bring this?
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You ready? What I'm here to challenge you
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for? What you're saying is this is
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going to bring this. But what you really want is
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this. You want the peace, the joy, the
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security. And let me tell you, half of
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y'all would not go to work if you knew you could have
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financial security. Peace, love, hope, all of that
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satisfaction you can get rid of loneliness.
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If you could not do all it is to get this, sign me up.
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So what you're saying is the real thing.
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You really want peace, joy, love, patience, kindness.
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But those are the fruit of the Spirit, not the fruit of work.
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You ready? Those are the fruit of Spirit,
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not the fruit of a spouse. Those are the fruit of the
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Spirit, not the fruit of Italy. Oh, wait a minute.
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So what you what? What you think, what the world
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has done is emphasize this. And there's a great longing in
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all of us to want this. But let me tell you, the way to
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this is not this, but because we're in our humanity and what's
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publicized is we got to do this, to have this.
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And that's why many people arrive to this and actually go
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further from this. Oh, no peace now.
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And here it is. If this is your source to get
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this, then This is why you'll do anything to keep this because
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what you're saying this has my peace.
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So you'll find women or men to will tolerate abuse because that
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person, although abusing brought them some type of security or
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comfort. You go to work every day because
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you got to make sure you keep this because it's going to bring
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this. And let me ask you this, if you
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take away this, let me ask you, what's your quality of life?
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This is why God says, seek me first.
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Do not build your life on that because that cannot sustain you.
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But the loving Father we have, he'll let you build your own
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sand castle. I'm about to, I'm about to show
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you who you are today. It's super simple.
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It's it's just like super simple, but the World and the
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enemy has done an amazing job in making believers frown on this
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four letter word. We frown on it.
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I don't see too many T-shirts rocking.
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I see T-shirts blessed and highly favored.
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I don't see too many T-shirts and people that's proud to just
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publicly rock these 4 letters they like, man.
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I don't see 4 letters up there. I do.
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What do you see? I'm gonna try to review.
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Why y'all put y'all going too fast?
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Come on, you. I reveal it and then you read
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it. You know what I'm saying?
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All right? Come on, girl.
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Thank you. Hey, locked in.
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Come on. OK.
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If if we are heading back to the garden, then we got to really
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look at what was there. We didn't need nothing but God.
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We didn't need nothing but His presence.
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That's what He made you for. You want purpose?
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OK, you ask? Ask a bird what His purpose is.
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You know what I'm saying? Why?
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We don't know. Let me My purpose can't be
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forever changing. The mountain's purpose don't
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never change. The ocean is still waving.
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You ready? Fish always got a home.
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Until we take it out. Why we still wondering?
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You ever see a fish out the water looking for purpose?
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But we find, but we find purpose in the ocean.
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Oh, when I'm here, it's just like one with the Earth, right?
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I, I, I, I hike because I connect with nature.
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All that new age stuff, like huh, why we lost, Why you don't
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know where home is, why you think it's sex?
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Husband degrees is going to take it.
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Money going to take care of you. You think I'm waiting for this
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building to get done, to have purpose?
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The building ain't my purpose. It's God's home, but God ain't
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waiting for the building to have a home.
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You you think I'm losing? I'm, I'm, I'm losing sleep over
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the over raising money for this. What?
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Because guess what, just like that building was abandoned.
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Praise God. Hopefully we don't abandoned it.
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Hopefully we don't build nothing.
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Nothing. Hopefully we don't build nothing
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for God that the world can come swoop up and turn it into what
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it wants to. Yeah, you're anointed, but you
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didn't need to be anointed in the garden.
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You need to be ready. You need to be anointed to be
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garden. Like, let me talk to somebody.
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God's on this so we can be like but he's trying to get us back
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to is and was and guess what, to come.
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You think he the only one is and was and to come.
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We we we was he trying to get us is and we are to come.
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But the if the if he was is and to come, then we got to know
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what we was. We got to know who we is and we
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got to know who's coming. We've mastered.
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We know that's what our hope is is in the in the glorified body
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that's to come. We know we was in the garden,
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but most of us think only Adam was in the garden.
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Well you don't read your Bible because in chapter 1 of Genesis
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and God made man, he didn't make humanity until the next.
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I was before Eve, but Eve was. God had to grab, just like Paul
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was in Saul. Terrence was in the garden.
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Yeah, yeah, my Mama named me, so whatever, Like whatever.
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My name was in the garden. But you get what I'm saying.
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It was no Adam in Genesis 1, but our humanity needed a name.
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But before Terrence, it was just holy.
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OK, let let us make man in our image and in our what's God's
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image and what's God's likeness? Holy.
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OK, so when he says let us make man in our image and our
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likeness. And then God said, and then
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after he made us, he couldn't just give dominion to nobody.
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And now they may let man have dominion over the fish of the
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sea, you know, over the over the over The Who.
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Who's he? He's he's, he's he's talking to
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his his likeness and his image. He's not talking to Adam.
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And he looked around and he said, OK, I'm gonna make all of
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this. There is no man.
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So God form man this stuff that we think we somebody because
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this is, you know, acne gone. So we somebody now.
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I was holy before acne. You know what I'm saying?
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Sorry. Anybody got acne?
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Remember, you don't. You don't got acne.
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You holy with acne. OK, Hallelujah.
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Hallelujah. OK.
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Right. So he formed and then here he
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goes. He didn't do this to nobody else
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or nothing else. He came down.
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Who did he? Just breathe in the dust.
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He breathed himself. Wait a minute.
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So you telling me that I I came out of him?
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OK, OK, so if I came out of him and he is holy, then what did
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he? He put holy in human.
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OK, so let me tell you this. My kids are human because they
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came from human. You, you're not going.
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My kids aren't animal. So.
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So God's not human. God is holy, but we are trapped
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in humanity and most of our diet is from humanity and carnal and
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what we can see. But the Bible's always Paul's
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saying hey, hey, not by what you can see or what is temporal.
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You are an eternal being. So then we'll just feed off of
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whatever the world tell us we are and we just grinding and we
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just for all temporary stuff that can only serve humans.
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And we're passing up one of the greatest experiences that we can
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have on earth. And that is not only being in
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his holy presence, but that is living holy.
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But there's this great separation that he's holy and we
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are jacked up people. So do you see, if you have a sin
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conscious and sin view of yourself, then no wonder you
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can't hear from God because God only talks holy.
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That's what God's not really. He's going to send a human man
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or a human woman to remind you that you're free from your sin.
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And that's in his word, God. God Rhema doesn't spend time
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trying to remind you you're not a Sinner anymore.
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He's holy. His mind's not on sin, so he's
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not sitting here having a conversation with you about sin.
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How he deals with how he talks about your sin is you are free
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from it. So he sends preachers, humans to
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connect with you and they have to yell, you're you're free.
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Hello. You're you're no longer a slave
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to fear. Hello.
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He sends anointed people to be anointed, to spend time to talk
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to people who choose not to hear.
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And he anoints us to be patient. And then maybe one day you'll
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walk out of here and stop selling yourself for cheap and
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hurrying up to get a man or hurry up to get a job.
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Hurry up to hurry up to all that, because you hurry up
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because you don't know who you are, Because when you understand
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you holy, the creator of the heavens is earth and earth is
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holy. So then if I understand that if
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a holy God created the heavens and the earth, and if all my
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needs are provided through a holy God, it's probably
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beneficial if I just live in my holiness.
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He said seek me all these things.
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Seek me first, my righteousness, my Kingdom, all holy, all holy,
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holy, saved you, holy graced you, holy covered you.
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And when you die, you going to return holy.
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Let me, let me, let me spend $3030 on my book.
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Find out who I am. Let me, let me follow all these
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inspirational speakers. Find out who I am and find my
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purpose in. And the Lord said, whatever you
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behold, behold in you holy, you are God.
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God. God asked me to come by here to
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remind you He ain't the only one holy.
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Oh, it takes courage and confidence and relationship to
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talk like this because even in the churches, we want to make
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sure that God is holy. And this is how you come to a
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holy God. I'm wretched, I'm a Sinner, I'm
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undeserving God. I, I don't deserve you because
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you're holy. I don't deserve you because
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you're holy. I'm, I'm, I don't even deserve
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to be in your presence because you're holy.
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I don't even deserve all these blessings because you're holy.
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I mean, show me where Adam fell on his face like Peter did.
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Show me where Adam felt undeserving.
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I know he gave us only a couple chapters with Adam in his
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perfection because I believe those couple chapters can only
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be revealed. You got to walk to God in order
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to be placed back where Adam was.
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Or you could be like Adam and Eve and live a life with banana
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leaves on form of godliness but denying the true power of His
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Holiness. Holy you are.
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I mean, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. I got to skip all this.
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In the last days. There's a heavy anointing upon
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us that would destroy the yoke and remove the burden.
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It is the anointing. It is not true.
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It it is nothing else is going to dissolve the, the, the, the,
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the, the fruit of sin except the anointing.
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You know how the devil know that?
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Look at where he got some of his greatest talent and influence.
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And music is influenced by the church.
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There is no music industry, there is no music industry
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without the gospel see You know I'm saying when you stop giving
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the devil fun and we get a devil everything and stop being
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religious and be like oh y'all doing y'all too loud at church
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where you talking about? But you don't complain about the
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world. So the world stole fun see?
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And so the devil has taken what's holy and he's wrapped it
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in something else. And we we spent so much money on
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on it. Tupac was anointed.
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Whitney Houston was a you notice God don't take away the gift.
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The anointing worked in the reverse because look at how many
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of y'all follow the like, like people at the top.
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Let's get, I get it, like little, little Bob, Bob like all
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limits. But but the church is a part of
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those 200 million followers. The church.
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And then you go look at some of our artists.
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You don't even follow some. But I'm an anointed artist.
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What you when last time you followed me, huh?
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Yeah, You don't follow the anointed.
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You'll follow the perverted version of the anointed because
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it has more flair and and more charisma and more man, we got
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drip, we got swag. We we all lay up in here.
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But you see, he wraps it up. There is no music industry
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without the church. There is no you ready.
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There is no swag in art without the church.
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Like, like if you really want to get down to what's at the core
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of some of the sounds that move your soul, that's why we got
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choirs out here that ain't got a church home.
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Because they they know, they acknowledge choir, they
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acknowledge gospel but don't want to be accountable to the
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gospel but want the sound of the gospel.
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And you can go on and on and on down the list of how many people
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started off in the church. We can't keep living ignorant.
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Sin is the separator and separation births ignorance.
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Holy you are holy. We are because holy he is.
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These are things that I went over this morning.
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I'm trying to like speed up so I can get a couple new things to
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you when we get out of here. Great revival precedes great
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cleansing. I will tell you right now, love
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quest. We've, we've been saying revival
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has landed. Revival has landed it, it, it
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has, but there's a, there's a, there's a, there's a fire that
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has landed in this house that it is, it's is something different
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because there's been a great cleansing in this house and
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there's been a core of people who have sacrificed in, in, in
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laboring and here it is. Some of you didn't.
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That's OK, but you're going to benefit from the labor of, of
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some of the people that have been in here night after night
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after night. Nothing wrong with it, nothing
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wrong with it. But what I'm telling you is man,
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you better start hearing from God.
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God is way more interested in some other stuff and you want
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him to be interested in your stuff.
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There comes times and seasons where you just got to trust God
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with it, like and and nobody, just like nobody is, is trying
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to be a crackhead, but they just like one hit.
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Nobody's trying to be a slave to the workforce, but just one just
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I just want, I just just let me just get enough to get and I
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promised God when I set this up and when I set that up and when
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I set this up and when I set that up, then God, I because I
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know I got a call in all my life, but my calling can wait
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while I try to set this up. Show me where that's at.
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Like somehow at minimum you can't do both.
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You can't be faithful to call and you can't be faithful to
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what God has allowed you to do to support call.
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Labor should never lead you away from call.
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And and what is easy to do is to say what I'm doing out here is
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call to an extent. But you know what else is a
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call? Building the church.
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You know what else is a call? Gathering with the Saints.
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You know what else is a call? Giving, forgiving, helping each
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other out. It's a call.
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But God don't blame, is he? Like, Dang, I knew this was
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going to happen when you became aware of sin.
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The Holy Fire has landed. OK, OK, OK.
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We cannot carry the oil if we don't know that the vessel is
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holy. So it's one thing to tell me you
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anointed. It's another thing to understand
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what's carrying the anointing has to be in a certain
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condition. Like no longer will you be able
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I'm I'm about to say it like this, like real harsh.
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I don't care. Wifey might be watching.
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I don't really care right now, but you can't carry the oil and
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be screwing people. You you can't be carrying the
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oil and be masturbating. You, you can't be carrying the
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oil and robbing people. You can't be carrying the oil
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and cussing people out. You can't be carrying the oil
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and being disrespectful to your spouse.
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That time is over because the portion that he has poured out
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is holy and we see in the Bible what happens when folks
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mishandle the oil. I'm telling you, church, don't
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listen. This is not the time to to try
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God and play with God. The, the, the issue is we don't
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know us because we don't know him.
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You want to know the world's props?
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Stop following the world to this quick fix weekend or seminar or
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or, or or, or or going to a ball game or.
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You're going to get to know yourself through a book.
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You're going to get to know yourself through.
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Yeah, you can read a book to understand your talent.
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Books serve great purpose, so I'm not excluding any of it, but
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I am excluding it when it's the it's a source you use more than
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God because man, what, what did they read when they didn't have
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no books, but they walk with God when they didn't have no Bible
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or anything, but they walk with God when, when they, you know
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what I'm saying? We got way too many options and
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God has fallen further and further and further down the
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list of needs, right. Jesus was a Carpenter and I, I
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mean, he seemed to find time for God like you ready and the
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church he was building and battling.
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The other issue is we don't know him because we don't know us.
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I'm gonna skip that and I'm gonna jump to this.
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We've been trying to find ourselves outside of holy.
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We have been looking for ourselves in carnality.
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We have been looking for ourselves through flesh.
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And Elder John, ain't it crazy of how we confirm God showed up?
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Do you know because you got a new car that could not be God.
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That could just mean you went to work.
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For real though, like we all over the place of what's God?
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Because in the Bible I read people who was in famine and saw
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God was president. I see people blessing the Lord
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at all times in the Bible. I don't I don't see an increase
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in attendance when folks get jobs and raises and bonuses and
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stuff. No, no, in this world you you
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see less of people when they get blessed.
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We read Romans 8 now the mind of the flesh.
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I think that's where we left off, Marie, that Gee, a couple
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more and we going, yeah, I don't know.
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Now the mind of the flesh is death both now and forever.
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Somebody say now and forever because the mind of the flesh,
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it pursues sin. What is the mind of the flesh?
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I'm going to tell you in a few minutes.
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But the mind of the spirit is life.
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The mind of the spirit is life. The mind that is wooed by
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controlled by led by the spirit, it's life.
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And what peace, the spiritual well-being that comes from
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walking. That's why I can be in beautiful
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iskia and and and and roam and and be like I cannot wait to get
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home. Some of y'all like Oh my God,
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why I got to go home. But for me that that's not where
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God is for me. I find my most piece where I'm
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supposed to be. I like Italy was cool, but I
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couldn't be married to that. I want to travel the world and
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just see everywhere. I just, I don't know where I
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want to go. So I'm going to go everywhere.
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I'm just hitchhike everywhere. And I want to eat pastries in
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Europe and I want to, I want to, you know what I mean, try
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barbecue in the South. And I want, I just just, I want
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to wander. I want to go to this church
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because this church has this and this church has that and this
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church has cute girls and and handsome guys and their music is
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really good over here. It's just too long.
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And then this church over here, they let me out right at the at
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the right time. This church over here, I can
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only go there because I work during this time or this church
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is good because it's close to my house.
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But you'll drive to where to get what?
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You'll sit in a plane for 1516 hours and in 45 minutes too far
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go to Europe on a plane. And when you fly, when you take
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off, I'm a drive from here to Vancouver as many times as it
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take for you to get to Europe. And we going to see how many
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times I get to church before you get to Europe.
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Let me stop playing with y'all today.
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The mind of the flesh with its sinful pursuits is actively
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hostile. Now.
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I don't know nobody here that loves hostility.
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Not get it. You like I want all the smoke.
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Bring it. You want to mess with me?
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I'll show you what's up. You know what I'm saying?
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But but a hostile environment is not a safe environment, am I
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correct? So when God says you are
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actively hostile, you ain't safe for him to be around.
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Oh, I can't hear from God. But you live by the flesh.
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Guess what that means He don't talk to unsafe people, so he'll
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talk to a safe person to talk to you.
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And here's what the devil has done.
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He has caused you to be offended at the safe person.
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That's why I got to find leaders that's over my life that that's
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cool with God like that. I need somebody that's cool with
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God like that more than I need somebody to just teach me about
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where Jesus was born. You go to school for that.
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I can YouTube for that. But where I plant my feet, my
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roots, I need that man and that woman to be talking to God like
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this all the time. You're not going to wow me
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because you know you read the Bible 58 times but you can't
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tell me what God is doing today. I need a word, even if it scare
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me, hey, I need to go to church and somebody say hey, don't go
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there tomorrow because there's death.
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You're right. Some of y'all like, oh, I
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wouldn't want that word, why wouldn't you?
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OK, cool, just show up tomorrow to death and be like, wow.
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But then somebody got a word of knowledge, a word of wisdom.
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That kind of house where the fire is and where it's stirred
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up and you in that place and you really pulling on the anointing
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of the house. Man, you'd be you'd be surprised
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how God will save you through safe people.
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Yeah, that was like, let's get them offended at people who walk
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in with God because they use the TPT.
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Shut up. We pick in churches now what
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translation of the Bible they use.
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Not if God is there. I'm sorry, that ain't even what
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today's message is about. Because we're not looking for
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holy, we're looking at forms of godliness.
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It says your flesh cannot. Those appetites of the flesh
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cannot please God. Can I tell you I didn't learn
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this in in seminary. I learned this by being fleshy,
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by being carnal. By screwing around, by smoking
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dope and by drinking and by being hungover and throwing up
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and hurting girls. And that's how I learned this of
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what the flesh does, watching too much TV, porn, Instagram.
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That's how I learned that. Oh, yeah.
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But ain't it funny how you can read that and be like, man,
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that's crazy. No, that's you, the appetite of
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your flesh. You want to do what you want to
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do and the timing you want to do it.
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And you want God to show up when you want to show, when you want
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him to show up instead of walking with God and he's
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enough. Here's the carnal mind.
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The carnal mind is not set, period.
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That's why he says a double minded man, an unset mind,
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cannot possibly think that whatever he or she is praying
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for, it is going to come because why?
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When you're praying with double mindedness, you're praying a
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carnal prayer. It's not said, it says it's not
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fixed and it's not focused on God.
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Who is it focused on? You, the author and giver of
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life. Therefore the carnal mind
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cannot. I want to learn how to hear from
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God. OK, you don't need to go to a
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conference. Let me, let me save you some
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money. Put it, put it in there for the
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remnant. Therefore the carnal mind cannot
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receive. Oh, oh, no wonder 1/4 of the
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room is worshipping. Watch this.
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The carnal mind cannot receive or experience or transmit life.
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The carnal mind is a breeding ground for fear, doubts,
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unbelief, worries and anxieties. Oh no, you can get over
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anxieties by taking this pill, not overcoming fear.
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So I need a pill so when fear shows up, I can respond to fear,
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calm. But my response, my calm
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response is not overcoming fear. It's just I'm chill and I got to
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keep taking that pill so I don't lose my grill.
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You see what I'm saying? Instead of a holy God didn't
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make you like that and he is trying to get you back to how he
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made you and you can't God cannot bring you the freedom
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when you're trying to hold on the coping.
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OK, OK, you see this, The carnal mind is a breeding ground.
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What does a breeding ground mean?
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Somebody tell somebody tell me a place where things can not just
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give birth, but to what grow. And in order for something to
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grow, it needs to have roots. So anxiety has roots in your
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mind, so the only way is to uproot what's causing it, not to
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take a pill to calm it. OK OK.
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Everything is skyrocketing when it comes to health in this
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world. Being a Christian here it is, is
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not about conduct and behavior modification.
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OK, All right. Now, I'm not going to tell you
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how long I'm going to be, but I'm, I'm almost closing, OK?
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Almost so in, in, in two hours. Don't tell me you said you was
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going to close in 10 minutes. I said I'm almost closing.
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OK. Being a Christian is not about
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conduct. So what if I told you God's like
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awesome for coming in the house. Now here's my question.
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You spent money, resources, time, energy, what you going to
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do? Now I'm talking to the church,
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not the person who is seeking God.
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We should all be seeking. But I'm talking about I'm not
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talking about new believers who who are ignorant of a lot of
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what is required to follow God and all that.
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I'm talking to you believers who show up every week.
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Now what? What you going to do?
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The the church got to stop being as worse as the world is.
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Being a Christian is not about conduct and behavior
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modification. Being a Christian here it is is
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about living in his image and likeness, which is holy, which
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is holy that that's what it's about.
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You ready? If you live holy, you'll follow
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Jesus, but because you don't want to live holy, you're just
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satisfied with being a Christian.
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Excuse me? You can't just be satisfied with
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being wife. No, no, no, Julia, Pastor Julia
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if you're watching no, no, no, thank God you are not satisfied
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with just the title wife like some are with Christian, but you
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actually are wife. That's why he said he that a man
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that finds a wife not finds a a woman with the title wife.
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He finds someone that is a wife, right.
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You didn't go to a building and be like man, this could be a
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school I'm about to enroll. Some of y'all didn't even get
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it. Some of y'all didn't even get it
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right. The building ain't the school
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because it got classrooms. A wife ain't just because she a
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woman, and a Christian ain't just a Christian because you
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come to church. You see how we try to do all the
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work. I don't got to remind my wife
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every day be a wife. She don't got to remind me to be
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a husband. I'm husband, not a husband.
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I'm husband, she wife. That's how they talked in the
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Bible. Go look.
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Actually they said Lord, that's in the Bible, right?
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B he made us beings, but we're we're we major in doers.
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I'm a doer. I'm a doer.
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No, I can't say that that don't sound right.
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That don't sound right. Nope.
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Can you say that in church? Somebody going to crucify me?
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Hallelujah. Yeah, yeah.
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New ears pay close attention. God isn't the only one holy.
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That's that's like a massive statement to come out of
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somebody's mouth. Now I'm looking for any
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doctrinal searcher. Whatever.
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You tell me what's wrong with that after church.
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OK, Don't tell me. Elder John, raise your hand.
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Go tell Elder John. OK, Look, let me.
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Let me. Let me.
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I just want to help everybody. Because when you walk out of
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here, you need to know this. So when you go on your next
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date. Hi.
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What's your name? John?
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What's your name, girl? Holy, holy and anointed.
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Holy, anointed. First name, Holy last name,
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anointed middle name. Righteous.
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Hallelujah. Holy, righteous anointed.
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Yes, here it is. Here it is.
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PT. How you?
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How you going to talk to the devil like that?
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How you going to talk to me like that?
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How you going to say God ain't the only one holy?
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I'm just speaking what he said. Sorry you didn't read that part.
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God isn't the only one that is holy.
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Just like in my household. I ain't the only one human in my
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bloodline. The Richmonds all human.
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Why? Because I'm human, but then also
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the man of faith talking spirit. Now.
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Now I can see I'm giving birth to spiritual children, not just
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biological children. So my kids have faith because
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they household got faith. My kids got joy because they
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daddy got joy. My kids got hope because they
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daddy got hope. What you birthing?
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You are human because your parents are human who remember
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this? Why are you acting like an
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animal? That's my Mama when I why are
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you acting like a buffoon that's my Mama would say something like
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crazy like that. Why you actually say something?
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Why are you acting like a ho? Yeah y'all know don't act like
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y'all gonna be cussing. I didn't just cuss I just yay
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ho. Have you ever had someone why
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they acting like that? What you're saying is why are
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they acting out of their humanity?
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Why are they acting like animals?
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When you see people murdering why are they acting like so?
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Church. Why are you always acting human?
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Why are you stuck there? How much life you missing out
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on? Watch first Peter, first Peter,
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so then prepare your hearts and minds for action.
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Oh oh stay alert and fix your hope firmly on the marvelous
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grace that is coming to you. Oh, oh for when Jesus Christ is
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unveiled. Oh, oh, a greater measure of
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grace will be released to you now.
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Hold up. He is, was, is and to come.
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So greater measure was released, greater measure is released and
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greater measure will be released.
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But here's why. Because he's unveiled when we're
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in heaven, what's coming, we will be in our holy.
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So He don't need to be unveiled, but He has to be unveiled now.
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He has to be revealed. Our eyes have to be open and
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it's when our eyes open. That's why I can't act the same
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no more because Jesus Christ has unveiled Himself to me.
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And I remember my change. I went to church all my life,
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but it wasn't until June 2007 I left the ways of the world when
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it came to my lifestyle because He unveiled Himself to me.
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And so I went from where I was in May 2006 and in June 2006, I
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walked in a greater measure of grace.
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And I am telling you in March of 2025, I, as He has unveiled
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another measure of His identity to me, I am stepping into
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another measure of grace. Here it is, here it is, you
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cannot be the same when he unveils himself.
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The only reason you should want to come to church is your prayer
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is unveil yourself and it said it will be released.
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It is say it will be put in your hands.
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I am telling you there is a greater measure of glory that
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has been released. Watch it as God's obedient
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children never again shape your lives.
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Come on, PP pro presenter Sorry next slide shape your lives.
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The other sorry shape your lives by the desires that you followed
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when you didn't know better. So when you walk out of here
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today, there's a greater level of accountability, Saints.
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So don't come here setting up no wisdom sessions because you are
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eating the fruit of your defiance.
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I'm telling you now, here's the wisdom.
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Never again shape your lives by the desires flesh carnal that
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you followed carnal flesh when you didn't know better.
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God has a grace for not knowing better.
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You are a baffoon if you walk out of here today and continue
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to make some choices of your flesh that go against God's will
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and his life for you and not walk in the spirit of life.
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I'm sorry you chose this day to come, but you didn't choose this
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day to come. God chose this day to come.
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Look at this when you didn't know better.
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What's yours. Use now instead.
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Shape your lives to become like the holy One who called you, who
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called you Holy one right now. For scripture says because it is
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written, you shall be holy. For I am OK.
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You remember my statement over there, right?
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God ain't the only one holy, He said You shall be holy.
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What is holy? Set apart.
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I can't act like my cousin's me. If my cousin's me.
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I ain't acting like him. Why?
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Because now I know better. You shall be holy.
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It is say in, in anywhere. Say set apart, it is say.
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You shall be holy. Long dress, you shall be holy.
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Turban, you shall be holy. Cover your face, you shall be
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holy. No lipstick, you shall be holy.
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Don't slip up and curse. Oh, but when you be holy, it
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will shape you. That's why he just told you,
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look, look, he says shape your lives.
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Don't shape your lives by the desires that followed you, but
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let holiness shape your life. So holy is absolute purity.
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He is unstained by sin and evil. He is perfect in every way and
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perfectly good all the time. God's never not good belonging
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to To be holy is to belong to or come from God.
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Anybody else come from God? I know I did.
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So what is being born again if you ain't being holy?
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Big question. Sin had reign in your life
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because you were separated from holy.
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Now Holy One came back in what you being?
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Holy is consecrated and sacred and spiritually perfect or pure.
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So spiritually perfect. So because of the blood of
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Jesus, I am perfect. Because of the blood,
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spiritually perfect, That's how he sees me.
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Perfect. Hard to believe.
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Yet this man, humanity, not perfect, but in Jesus, perfect.
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That's what the Bible says. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
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Untainted by evil or sin, sinless, saintly, regarded with
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or deserving deep respect, awe, reverence.
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You see that holy deserves deep respect.
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Oh, why we settle for less. Holy deserves awe, holy deserves
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reverence, and holy deserves adoration.
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So if this is the year of the fear of God, how can it be?
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How can you ever receive the benefits of living in the spirit
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of the fear of God without walking holy?
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I'll close with this one. Exodus 19 Now, Therefore, if you
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will obey my voice in truth and keep my covenant, then you shall
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be my own peculiar possession and treasure from among and
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above all peoples separated. For all the earth is mine.
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Here it is, and you shall be to me.
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Don't miss it. You shall be to me a Kingdom of
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priests, a holy nation consecrated, set apart, not
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trying to fit in the world, not trying to get accepted, not not
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trying to get people who don't even see God see you.
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So those family members that that that ain't saved or don't
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want nothing to do with God, leave them alone, just love
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them. You're different.
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You can't, you can't come to Jesus and keep keep the O you a
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holy nation set apart to worship of God, to the worship of God.
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This is what we do is why He set us apart to worship Him In
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everything we do, it should bring worship how we talk to
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people, it should bring Him worship in our business affairs,
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it should bring Him worship. These are the words you shall
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speak to the Israelites. We are His people.
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You are our God, make us. Ain't it funny how we sing that?
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But we like make us holy you are.
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Then on Monday I don't want to be holy like you are.
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We just be singing y'all. We are his children.
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Life will always be frustrating and unsettling when merely
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trying to change and make moves. In order to have, feel and
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arrive versus live, repent, seek and be.
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Life will always be frustrating and unsettling when merely
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trying to change and make moves and shake in order to have, feel
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and arrive versus live, repent, seek and be.
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Want to know who you are? A holy people separated by God.
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For God wanna know who you are. A holy people.
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A peculiar people. You should be strange.
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You, you not weird, strange. You should have some lonely
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times. You ready?
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You should find peace in singleness.
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You ready? It wasn't Adam's idea to have a
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woman. God saw and it wasn't.
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Here you go. Elder John, please tell me.
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By knowing the nature of God, Was God saying Adam needs a
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woman because he God's not enough?
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You're holy and I'm here to speak a declaration over every
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believer in here. You will suck at sin.
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Let hey, hey, hey, hey, let. Let me prophecy.
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You are the worst Sinner in the world.
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You suck at sinning. Terrible Sinner.
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I'm not glorifying your sin. You're holy.
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You're peculiar. You're set apart.
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You're different. You're God breathes.
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Come on. You're an overcomer.
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You're more than a conqueror. You're a resurrected being.
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You are wise. Favor of the Lord surrounds you
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like a seal. You are fearfully and
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wonderfully made. You are the apple of His eye.
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You are his Son. You are his daughter.
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You are redeemed, you are saved, You are washed.
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You are the righteousness of God.
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Come on, begin to pray. Right where you are.
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Right where you are. You are set apart.
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Come on. You can sag your pants and still
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be holy. You can rock your hat to the
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side and still be holy. You can have gold teeth and
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still be holy. Huh.
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Come on, you're holy. Come on, you're holy.
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Come on, Church. Come on.
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We're worshipping a holy God as his holy children.
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Come on Holy Spirit, purge that sin conscious, sear the sin
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conscience in our minds. Come on, you gave us the spirit
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of holiness, not the spirit of fear.
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Come on, open your mouth Saints, never the same.
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I'm washed by the blood of Jesus.
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The devil is under my holy feet. In Jesus name.
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Yes we are. We we take our identity back.
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Lord God, we are holy. No, I'm not ratchet, I'm holy.
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Only a holy child can come to his Holy Father.
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Bold. Thank you so much for tuning in
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