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Delivered And Delusional // Forward (Part 3) // Pastor Michael Todd
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Welcome to Transformation Church podcast, where we represent God to
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the lost and found for transformation in Christ. We're so
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glad you're here and wherever you're listening from, we believe
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God will transform your life. Do today's message.
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All right, y'all, get y'all bibles out. It's time for
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the word today. I'm gonna do a quick work in
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this place today. But this is about to be strong
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because the Holy Spirit told me that the anniversary was
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a line of demarcation. I want to put this in
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your heart and your mind. After this Sunday, everything changes.
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Y'all.
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Didn't hear what I said because I just came out
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of a lighthearted, like movie moment. Hear what I'm saying.
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Welcome to Transformation Church Today. We're going forward. The message
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today changes everything because this year, as a church, we
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have decided we are going forward. Say it again, we
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are going I called my brother Travis before I announce
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the word of the year to y'all because the name
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of their church is Forward City, and I was like,
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I got to tell you before I tell anybody.
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Brother, we going forward this year.
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And it's there's something about making a decision before you
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get to a place that I'm not staying here.
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I'm gonna say it again.
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There's something about making a decision before you get to
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a place that this will not be where I camp out.
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So some of y'all like, I want to make six figures, great,
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but you need to make a decision that six figures
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will not be the stopping point. It will be a
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place of praise, it will will be a place of celebration,
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it will be a place of Some of y'all be like,
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I just want to be a better person. Okay, that's great.
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We want you to progress in that, but that cannot
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be your stopping point. You have to decide I'm going
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forward even when I reach my goal.
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And most people stop.
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Because they dream, they have a vision, they have four
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to a spot, and then they go blank. And I
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have seen the church be paralyzed because they get to
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a certain place and then they stop believing God the
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way they did before they got to the place that
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they're at right now. But today, I want you to
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know that as a church, we're going folk. This is
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not the pinnacle of ministry. Relationship Goes is not my
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best book. Oh God, I have not impacted the world.
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How I'm gonna impact the world. Me and my wife's
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marriage is not the best it's ever gonna be. It's
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better than it's ever been. Don't get it twisted. But
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this ain't it we are going Some of y'all can't
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even see it. You're just so happy to not be
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surviving anymore that you have stopped believing for more. You're
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so grateful, And I'm glad that you're grateful for being
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out of Egypt, that you haven't seen past the wilderness.
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Oh God, you.
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Have stopped believing that God can take you for Just
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because he did exceedingly abundantly above all you could ask
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a thing does not mean that's all he can do.
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Just because he saved you out of that doesn't mean
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that he wants you to stay in a lookewarm state
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of just being in this place. This is where you
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have to decide that I want the full plan of
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God for my life, not just the saved plan. There's
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a difference from him saving you and you learning to swim. Okay,
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if somebody gets in a boat that can't swim, gets
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thrown over, the boat is drowning. I'm about dae, I'm
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about to die, and somebody saves you. You are grateful
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for that bowie or that life raft.
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Thank you for saving me.
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That does not change your situation every time you get
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on a boat.
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The only way you are unafraid of water is that
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you learn.
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And too many believers are now taking the life raft
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that they got saved with and relaxing on it. You
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become so comfortable with it now you don't put your
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booty in it.
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And you laying back with.
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A mocktail, talking about this is the life. And God said,
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you still don't know how to swim.
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You still don't know how to get to shore. You
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still don't know how to get to the boat.
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And today I want all of us to decide in
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my life, in my marriage, in my spiritual walk.
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I'm moving shouted at me, Fau.
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And that's why Philippians three twelve said this is our
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verse of the year. I don't mean to say this
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like I'm all read. He achieved all these things. I
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haven't reached perfection. That's how I'm coming at you today.
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But I press on to possess the perfection for which
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Christ Jesus first possessed me. No, they're brothers and sisters.
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I'm not trying to act perfect. I'm not achieved all
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of this, but I focus on this one thing forgetting
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the past and looking shot it at me forward to
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what lies ahead. I press on to reach the end
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of the race and receive the heavenly prize for which
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God through Christ Jesus is calling us. Look at your
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neighbor and say God's calling you. Yeah, look at your
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neighbor you didn't like as much the first time, and
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now tell them God's calling you.
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That's awkward at it? Okay, here we go.
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I started to think about the children of Israel and
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how we get a picture of what God wants to
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do in all of our lives when we walk through them.
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I want you to go through Isaiah verse five forty
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three and read from fifteen all the.
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Way to nineteen. But this is your study at home. Okay.
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I want you to take this, but let me paraphrase
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it for you. What's happening is God is reminding the
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children of Israel.
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I'm a big God. I took you out of slavery.
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I literally parted the seas, had free Willy and everybody
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going on the sides of y'all. Way, y'all walked through
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on dry land. He said, I'm the God that took
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you out of wilderness. I'll make ways out of no ways,
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I move mountains. I remember who I am. And he's
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telling them that I'm the one that brought your enemy
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out and blew them out like a candlestick. I took
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care of all your back.
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That's who I am.
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And he's telling them this because they're in a moment
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of forgetting who God is right after he did a
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huge miracle. Have you ever forgot how God brought you
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through something right after He just brought you through something
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like literally, it's a part of the Christian walk. So
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God reminds us in his word like I'm a big
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God and I can take care of you.
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And now he tells them watch this.
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In verse eighteen, he said, I did all that, but
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forget all that I did all of that. I brought
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you through that situation. I changed your life, I brought
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you out of poverty.
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I transform your mind and your heart.
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Yeah, I did it, but forget all that. Now. Why
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would God tell us to forget all the great things
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He's done? Because we want everybody to remember all the
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great things we do.
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Just think about it.
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You right now, still reminding people that fifteen dollars you
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lit them in high school?
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You remember when I lent you that fifteen dollars? Like
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you still? Come on, It's human nature for.
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If I do something good, I don't want.
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You to forget that. But usually people like that.
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The only reason they don't want you to forget because
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their plan is never to do anything greater for you.
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Okay, y'all missed it.
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The reason I gotta keep telling you about that one
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gift I gave you that one Christmas in nineteen seventy two,
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it's because I don't plan to buy you nothing in
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twenty twenty six. Come on, let's be honest. The reason
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I tell you that, hey, you remember that time I
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invited you because I don't plan on going out with
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you again. But God's saying all the great things that
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I've done for you. I want you to focus on
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forgetting it, cause it will cloud your ability to see
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what I'm about to do forward.
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Oh God, I don't have the time to do it
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like I want to.
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But some of you are being held up watch this
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in your future because you are committed to nostalgia. I'm
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gonna have to do a whole message on it. But
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some of y'all right, now, get more excited when your
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Facebook memories come up. Everybody's talking about what happened in
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twenty sixteen, Like God's not. In twenty twenty six you
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reminisced I was smaller than that's because you just kept
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a eating. You've been eating since twenty sixteen. Oh, excuse me,
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what I'm saying. What I'm saying is what I'm saying
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is twenty sixteen or whatever day does not have to
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be the glory days.
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The glory days is wherever God is now. Y'all missing it.
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The glory days is wherever the cloud is now. And
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God's calling us forward. He's saying, come here, I got
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more for you. That's for all my super saints, my
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senior saints that are saying that maybe God's done with
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me your ladder, your later.
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Years shall be great. What if fifty to eighty was
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the pinnacle of your life. There's some senior saints.
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In here, there's some people that are going up in
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an aging great. What if everything you desire to do
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I still did, and he did it in the last
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thirty five years of your life.
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You would have squandered it.
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In the first forty you would have tricked it off
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in the first forty y'all, come.
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On, be honest.
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You would have shook something and wasted it. But God said,
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in my grace, I'm gonna give them enough bumps and
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bruises so that they know that this not last thirty five.
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Okay, somebody shot at me. Forward. Everything is ahead of you, Travis.
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Everything is ahead, Jared, everything is ahead. I've been saying
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it every day. I'm not even looking at what's going.
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On right now.
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Everything in my life, every good thing is ahead. Faith
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is forward. God is not looking at your past being
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like I wish you could get back there. Faith is forward.
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What building is he gonna give us next? Who are
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we gonna buy? What church? Are we gonna buy? A building?
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Forward?
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Y'all don't hear what I'm saying? Where is God? Where
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is God going to pour out next? Because faith is
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faul But that means you're gonna have to forget and
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stop idolizing what he did.
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You have made your last season and idol now.
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And if God doesn't do it like that, he's not
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moving anymore. Pastor Mike, why are you telling me this?
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Because I don't want you to be paralyzed? In this
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season where God wants to take you forward. What he's
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done is nothing compared to what He's about to do.
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That's all I wanted to tell you today what God
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has done in this church, in your life, in this ministry,
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and it is nothing to be compared to what He's
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gonna do. And now there's two sets of people in
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this room. When I say that, some people that landed
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on a heart full of faith. And people heard that
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and was like, that's what I've been saying, God, That's
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what I've been feeling.
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That's what I know. God, I'm doing that.
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I know, like something in you gotta expectation. And then
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there was other people.
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In here, but he ain't done it yet and I
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know that.
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I mean, he always say that all the crazy to
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have it as it is, it don't be having in
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And then what am I and the Bible says according
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to your faith? I just want to put the Bible
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back and for it.
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Let it be unto you according to Jah. If you,
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if you have.
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The ability to take the ingredients that God gives you
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and you know how to cook these ingredients turn into
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Gordon made meals in the right.
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And God saying some of.
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Y'all need to get y'all faith up, because I'm.
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Telling you this is gonna be the year.
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And you stop listening to people who have already become
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pessimistic about the promises of God. You better get around
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some people with faith that said this gonna be the year.
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Which month is it happening? This gonna be the year
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where your husband at? Is this gonna be the year?
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Where is the bright through coming from? Where are the
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people that believe that God can do it? Because everything
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is ahead of me, My faith is fall. Okay, let
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me stop. All right, You ain't seen nothing yet. You
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ain't seen nothing yet. Say it out loud. You ain't
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seen nothing yet. Put it on the screen.
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You ain't seen nothing yet. I've been saying it all week.
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When I've been walking these red carpets and movie premieres
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and Kelly Rowland asking me for a min God said,
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you thought this was gonna happen. You ain't seen nothing yet.
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When I'm meeting the Amazon executives and there's people over
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here and people asking me about other deals and other stuff.
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God said, you thought this was a game. You ain't
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seen nothing yet.
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When I'm walking through the mall in Atlanta, and a
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lady starts crying because of the deliverance she's experienced and
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never been here before.
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But she said, this is a sign from God.
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I needed God to speak to me today and I
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was going to buy some shoes, and God gave her
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a sign of confirmation. And God said, you thought that
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was something you ain't seen nothing yet, because everything is ahead.
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Say it with faith, everything is ahead. I can't wait
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for tomorrow, y'all. Oh, I can't wait for next week.
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I can't wait.
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For next month because you.
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Ain't seen you better keep watching. This is what God
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is telling the children of Israel.
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He said, I did all of that, ain't never been
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done before, will never be done again. But if you
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follow me forward, you ain't seen nothing yet. But they
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didn't have the faith to believe him. These these group
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of people were in wilderness for four hundred years. They
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were in slavery for four hundred years. This means generations.
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They grandmama's and grandfathers, and great grandfathers and great grandma
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They were all bound mentally. And I know some of
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you are first generation chain breakers. Yeah, I'm talking to
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a specific group of people in here.
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I know some of y'all are first generational.
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You're breaking curses and poverty, mindsets and bad.
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Habits, and it's hard.
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It's a hard fight because it's in your DNA.
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It's been in my bloodline to hustle.
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Oh, come on, y'all, y'all don't want to have real conversation.
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It's been in my bloodline to have a backup plan.
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It's in my blood to rely on some type of
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substance to my bloodline to almost tell the truth. Come on, you, y'all,
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it's in my bloodline. I have two or three on
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the side, just in case the main one messing up.
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And these people have seen.
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The hand of God delivered them out of slavery, but
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they stopped moving forward after deliverance. Hear what I just said.
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You can be delivered and not move forward. Some of
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y'all not in the clubs no more. But you not
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following Christ either, So you.
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You're good because you're not there no more.
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And God said six years ago you stopped following me though,
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and the children of Israel. I need y'all to hear me.
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I need you to get the picture. We talk about
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the deliverance. He's a great delivery. We make songs about it.
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But it is possible. Watch this, write this point down.
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You can be delivered and still delusional. Come here, camer
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did you hear what I said? You can be delivered
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and still delusional. You can literally be out of a
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situation and act like that was where you were supposed
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to end up. Do y'all know that the wilderness was
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not the destination.
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It was the.
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Process to change their minds.
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And some of y'all are mad.
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Because you're in a process that God's trying to use to.
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Change You'm I hate this job, but you're late. You're
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always late.
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So he's trying to get you to stop being late
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at the Pigley Wiggly.
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No, no, no, you're in a process.
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Of working at that grocery store or that post office
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because he's trying to get something out of you that's
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still in you before.
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He takes you to where he promised you.
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And you were delivered out of the drug game. You
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ain't selling dim bags, but you are bagging groceries, and
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you mad, and you think God has forgotten about y'all
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heard what I said, and you think God has forgotten
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about you, and he's trying to renew your and now
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you're mad and you stop moving forward because you thought, well, God,
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I'm not doing this no more.
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I'm not as bad as I used to be. God,
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you changed my life.
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But being delivered does not mean you not delusional. And
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there are too many people in the body of Christ
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right now that aren't what they used to be, but
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are not what God wants them to be. And now
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you're coming up against aggressive frustration. Your faith is frustrated
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because you think God has forgotten about you in a
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wilderness season, and the problem is you won't obey him
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in the wilderness.
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You stop moving forward. And today I just got to
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challenge you.
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That being delivered and being delusional turns into self sabotage.
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Okay, let's let's break it down.
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Some of y'all are working out now, and you still
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reward yourself for donuts after every.
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Workout session. That's delivered and delusional. Do y'all see what
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I'm saying.
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Some of y'all are excited about relationship goes, the movie
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coming out, Got the got the movie Gotta he said,
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and you're still answering late night calls from your ex
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and you know Valentine's Day is coming, and he just started,
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what's up a big head?
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Yep. On the first he.
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Gonna hit you with the hay hey, what you doing?
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He got a plan all the way to the fourteenth.
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There's no pressure, no pressure, no pressure, and you're still
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answering them.
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Call that is delivered.
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And Dalulu, you started saving money, yet you leave all
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of the notifications to your favorite stores.
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Up on your phone.
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God told you get your money in order pay off
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the credit cards, but you don't cut off the notifications.
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That is now you done started the savings account. I
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got four hundred and sixty two thousand dollars in there.
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You see, you couldn't even take the thousand on it.
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Some of y'all faith.
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Said, whoa, whoa, my God.
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For a hundred sixty two thousand, I'm trying to take
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you forward. You dog's gonna say for sixty two And
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then you that thousand came out.
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You said, no, not me, No, I mean no, I
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mean somebody shutting me forward.
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I declare that's somebody's real thing in the name of Jesus,
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that they're gonna.
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Have more than enough. Ah, get on my nerves.
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Stop doing hard drugs, the bad ones. But you can't
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go to sleep without that dark drink, delivered but still
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ain't broke no more made out the hood. We ain't
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going back there, but you still hide money under your mattress.
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There's somebody mac Look what what what?
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What ain't none now?
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I mean the twenties and fifties, Yeah, some of y'all.
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It's a shoebox. What I'm saying to you is there
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there is something.
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That followed you out of Egypt that is keeping you
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out of the Promised Land. I'm gonna say it one
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more time. There is something that followed you out of
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Egypt that is keeping you out of the Promised Land.
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And today I want you to know that being delivered
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from one thing is not the same as being delivered
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into the promise.
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I'm trying to move you forward today, Church.
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Like you've stopped lying, but you haven't started being transparent.
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So you're delivered from lying, but you haven't started offering
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up information to the people that you're accountable to, so they.
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Still got to ask you.
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They still gotta say, bro, how you doing with pornography?
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Oh well, last week instead of saying bro, I messed up.
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So you've been delusing y'all. Don't get me I'm not
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a liar no more.
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But ah don't.
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I don't willingly bring in accountability. It's time for all
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of us to move Say it with me for because
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you can come out of Egypt, but Egypt has to
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come out of you. Where are you still embracing Egypt
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in your life? Where in your life are you still
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embracing Egypt? God delivered you from something, but you have
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not let it go. And it's keeping you in the wilderness.
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It's keeping you in wandering, It's keeping you going in
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a cycle. When you look at the map of the
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actual place that they were supposed to go from and to,
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it was an eleven day journey.
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How do you get lost for forty years?
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But I could ask some of y'all, how have you
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been lost in relationship issues for forty years? How have
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you been a gossip since sixth grade? You're sixty five
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and every circle you've ever been in your mouth is open.
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No wonder God came to I'm not saying this is true,
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but what I heard, and I'm telling you this so
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you can be praying you're.
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You're a nasty soul. If y'all hear what I'm saying,
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how do you get lost for forty years.
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It's because you stop focusing on forgetting and you stop moving.
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And today I want to save our church from being delusional.
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I don't want to be delivered and delusional. I don't
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want to think that I don't have blind spots. I
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don't want to think that God can't still work on me.
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I don't want to think that God's not moving me
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to a place. And so this is how you move forward.
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The Bible tells us in Romans twelve two, this is
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the reason our church was formed, and it says, and
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do not be conformed to this world any longer with
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superficial values and customs. This is the amplified version. But
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be transformed and progressively change.
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I love that word. As you mature spiritually.
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By the renewing of your mind, focusing on godly values
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and ethical attitudes, so that you may prove for yourself,
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not for nobody else, what the will of God is,
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that which is good and acceptable and perfect in His
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plan and his purpose for you.
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This is how we move forward. Church, mature spiritually.
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Write it down because you hear it, but you're still
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not gonna pick up your Bible. You hear it, but
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you still not gonna ask for real accountability. Well, they
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didn't answer the phone that one time I called them,
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so I ain't calling them no more. What you gotta
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get desperate to protect what God placed on the inside
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of you.
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Focus on godly values. Check your attitude.
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This is what the spirit the Bible says right here,
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do it for you and don't compare yourself to anybody else.
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Pastor Mike, why are you saying this?
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Because I figured out the one thing the children of
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Israel did. They stopped listening to God's standards. So the
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reason that they wondered is because they stopped listening to
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His standards.
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Everybody says standard.
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It's hard to do anything without a standard, like without
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a speed limit on telling.
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Us how fast to go.
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Some of y'all would go three miles an hour and
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others of y'all would go one hundred miles an hour
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because without a standard, it's left up to how we feel.
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Did y'all hear what I'm saying? So God sets stant.
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The reason Moses went to the mountain was to spend
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time with God to get the ten commandments, which were
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could be called the ten standards of how to live,
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to give to the people so their minds could be
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renewed before they went into the promised land.
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Okay, I'm delivering you out of Egypt.
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I'm giving you standards to transform your mind so that
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then you'll be able to hold on to the promise
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when you get it. I'm delivering you out of a
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bad relationships.
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I'm gonna give you.
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A standard of celibacy, a standard of integrity, a standard
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of actual accountability so that when you walk into marriage
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you can actually sustain and have a healthy marriage. I'm
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delivering you from guttony. Nobody wants to talk about it.
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And I'm giving you a standard of eating healthy, of
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not always let me stop, because this is the only
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reason I can talk about this, because this was my
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real journey. I'm giving you a standard of being accountable.
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I'm giving you the standard of working out so that
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when I call you to be on twenty seven flights
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in thirty days to go spread the gospel and do
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what I called you to do, that you could stand
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up and still preach on Sunday. I want you to
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be able to hold the promise when I call you
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into it. This is a standard. Do you know what
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this is? It's one court. Any country you take it to,
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this will be one court. Any kitchen you go into,
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this will be one court. The reason it says one
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court is because it was made to a specific specification
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so that people who are using this never had to
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question what they were using if they measured it against
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the standard. So if somebody says I need two courts
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without this, it's a guess. No. I mean, I know
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a cub could potentially what three cubs minus a little
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bit could equal.
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I never have to guess because there.
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Is a This is a.
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What is it? No, it's a standard.
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I don't care what you call it, but this is
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a standard. I can measure and build something based on this.
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How many feet of rope do I need to buy
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a lot? Cain't nobody buy nothing with the standard of
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a lot. They need something that is consistent.
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To measure it up against. Okay, this.
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Is a you said, a tape measure, but it's a grab,
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Dad Travis.
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It's a standard.
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So if I need fifteen feet by looking at.
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The but if Charles come here, but I was like, Charles.
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I need you to go fifteen feet from here to
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there right.
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Now. I don't know what made him start doing that
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almost there? Fifteen feet? Huh? Hey man? And did you
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see how confident he started? Because without anything to.
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Measure it up against, it looks right.
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If you don't got to stand it around, it's like that.
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Look about fifteen feet, that's a good fifteen What that's what?
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I'm about six feet and if you lay me down twice,
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that would be about twelve minus my head to my neck.
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Yeah.
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And this is how people do relationships without a standard.
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This is how people do their money without a standard.
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This is how people try to raise their kids without
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a Let me show you one more.
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This what is it? You got it?
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This is a standard. This is something to be measured
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up against. How do I know what to do in
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my marriage?
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The standard? Oh god? How do I deal with people
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hating on me? How can you not clide back in?
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What am I measuring with?
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The standard?
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How are you dating? How are you handling your money? Them? Standards?
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Getting quiet? The standard? Y'all know what I'm saying. How
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do you forgive? How do you pray? How do you
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love your enemies?
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How are you ready to give on any occasion for
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any need? How do you produce finances that get you wealth?
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And so many people have chosen uncertified measurements.
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To base their life off of.
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And today, all I want you to know is that
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a good standard stays the same in every situation.
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Come on, you hear what I'm saying.
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The thing about that ruler is it don't change. Yeah,
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that ruler been the same since I've been in kindergarten.
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When I'm in kindergarten and they say one foot, I
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know one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten,
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eleven twelve inches equals a foot?
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Why because it's a stamp.
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When he went fifteen feet, if I was to go
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fifteen feet, the difference would be we have different foot sizes.
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Do y'all hear what I'm saying. Charles got half my foot,
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Hey man, it's the truth. My foot can't get every
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shoe his foot, Every size is available for him.
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So if we start walking from.
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The same place, but we start measuring based off.
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Of what we think, come on, come on, let's go
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fifteen Charles one, two, three, four, Look how far I'm
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not ahead of him?
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Ay?
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Nine? Ten, I'm gonna be off the stage. Huh.
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Thirteen fourteen, fifteen. We stopped and we thought we did
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the same thing. We thought we served the same God,
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we thought we prayed the same way, We thought.
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We believed the same thing, But.
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Because there was not a standard, we ended up in
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two different places. Today, all I'm offering you is the
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chance to not live in delusion, actually be delivered from
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whatever has been holding you. But keep moving forward because
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you stay focused on the standards standing.
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All over this building.
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Oh my god, how some Mike, why are you saying
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this coincite with no standard.
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Leads to sabotage.
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If you can see the promised land, but you don't
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obey the standard, You're gonna self sabotage. And I'm seeing
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so many believers right now self sabotage because you don't
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have a standard to bridle your tongue.
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Somebody pops off on you.
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Guess what they about to get popped?
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Y'all know what I'm saying.
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Excuse me, but I'm gonna take off my Christian for
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a second. How this is the moment where your Christians
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should be showing.
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Before everybody starts moving. I need you to hear me
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say this.
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I believe we have an opportunity to dive in to
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the only thing that doesn't change the word of God.
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The Bible says it like this, put the scripture on
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the screen. The grass withers and the flower fades, but
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the word of.
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Our God.
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Will stand for that measurement stays the same forever. So
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I don't have a choice on what God says about relationship.
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There's a standard.
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I don't have a choice of what to do with
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my money if I'm actually going by the standard. The
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reason I give and I tie, and I do those
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things and knockus. Some preacher manipulated me to give him.
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No no, no, no no no no, he not the standard.
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It's the word of God.
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That's the reason that I pray for my enemies, is
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not even because I won't to.
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Y'all.
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Soo faith, you're like, I just love praying for my es.
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I want a bunch of them, can we be honest?
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But the reason I don't is because I live my
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life based on next week. I want you to come
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because I'm gonna give you the standards of this house.
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Moses came down to give those ten commandments or the
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ten standards, and it was to move them into the
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Promised land next week.
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I don't have ten. God didn't give me that much.
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But I have eight and I call them the Grade eight,
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and I've labored over this for eleven years. What I'm
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saying is we're about to change as a church because
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of these eight standards. And at the end of next
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week's service, you're gonna have an opportunity to be a
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part of what God is doing.
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Why.
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Because you can't build a house without you missed it.
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Let me just help them. Every construction site I've ever
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been on, every home build I've done, all the construction
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of this place, and everything anybody was walking around, they
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walked around with one of these. Because if you can
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have a great vision for something, but without one of
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these a standard, I don't know what to order. I
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don't know how much would we need. I don't know
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where to put all the nail nails. I don't know
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where to put the studs. I don't know where to
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And without the standard, you cannot build a house. I'm
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here to tell you, without a standard, you can't build
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God's house either. And so many churches want everybody to
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figure out what they do here, this church will be
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a church of standards. No, no, no, no, no, I'm just
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gonna tell you right now. And there's some churches who
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don't care, and I want you to go find them
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and show up and be everything God has called you
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to be.
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There.
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Matter of fact, I believe in this so much that
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we have little cards that are called not your cup
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of tea cards. I realize everybody, this is not your
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cup of tea, And that don't mean you ain't gotta
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drink tea because you don't like this type of tea.
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So I'm gonna help you find your tea.
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And I literally have tons of churches in the area
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and around the country on there that we know personally
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would be great places for you that have different dynamics.
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And we want you to just get plugged in somewhere
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where that you can actually get involved and be a
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part of what God's doing. But here, we're gonna have
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a standard.
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Generosity is a standard.
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We will never let you come here and you don't
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feel the hand of God extending to you is not.
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We're always gonna give.
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We're always gonna love people who don't believe. I always
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want atheists in the building.
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Oh God, there's a church people. I feel your spirit rising. Well,
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they're gay, they're transgender, They're God's children.
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Less claps don't matter who were you before God found you.
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There will always be a standard. And next week I'm
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gonna I'm gonna invite you into living in this with me.
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Because you ain't seen nothing yet. Put that big you
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ain't seen nothing yet on the screen. This is what
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I want you to remember. You ain't seen nothing yet.
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Did you hear the stats that they gave earlier of
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what God has done in this church. You ain't seen
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nothing yet. Put those stats, all of them back on
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the screen. I just want you to I just want
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you to think what God has done in the last
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eleven years.
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I just that's crazy.
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Thirty thousand, six hundred and eighty baptism, ninety four point
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three million hours viewed on YouTube, two hundred and thirty
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three million.
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I don't even know how to say that number. A
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lot of millions of views.
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Thirty six million, three hundred and sixty one thousand, five
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hundred and one daughters given away in total generosity that
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we can record, Yeah, and one hundred and ninety three,
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eight hundred and twenty salvation. On this eleventh anniversary, we
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celebrate that we have been representing God to the lost
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and found. For transfer You're a Mason in Christ. But
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now put my other screen up there.
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But you ain't seen nothing yet.
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You check back with me in ten years and as
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we get this army. We started this vision with three
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hundred people, and now there's almost three thousand in here
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and countless watching off.
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What could we do.
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If we started building based on the standards of God.
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God's gonna build this church, Amen, and He's gonna do
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it with you.
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Lift your hands all over this house.
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Father, I thank you for every person under the sound
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of my voice today. I thank you that their faith
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was encouraged and they're seeing your need for their full Yes. Father,
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I pray that right now that every person that is
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stuck in a wilderness, that right now today something's happening
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in their heart. God, I believe that you are not
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just delivering us, but you're taking us into the promised Land.
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And today, Father God, I pray that anybody who has
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been stuck, who has been circling, circling in the same foolishness,
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who's been stuck in delusion.
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Thank you Father.
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Today there is a change happening from the youngest to
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the oldest. Change us, renew us, transform us, and do
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it from the inside.
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Out.
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Let it start in our mind and let it affect
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our habits. Today, God, for all you've done and all
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you continue to do, we say yes, there's somebody under
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the sound of my voice right now with your eyes
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closed and you just meditating on God. You have not
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said yes to God yet. You're literally in this place
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right now, and you have never accepted Jesus or you
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did a long time ago, but you walked away from Him.
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Today God saying you want to move forward, move forward
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with me. I don't care where you came from, what
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happened to you, what you did. Today is the day
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of salvation. And in this moment, God saying to you,
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you ain't seen nothing yet. I want to heal you,
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I want to deliver you. I want to bring you
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into freedom, and I want to bring you into promiseling.
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Somebody lost their home, somebody stopped dreaming, somebody stopped believing God.
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And today God said, I'm resurrecting. I'm resurrecting.
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If you want to accept Jesus or rededicate your life
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to Him, whether you're watching in this room or online,
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today is the day on the counter of three. As
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the church begins to pray, because I need you to
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begin to believe there's eternity in the balance right now.
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Somebody's not promised another ten years, but today they're right here.
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And I'm telling you right now, your spirit is moving.
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Right now.
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That anxiousness you're feeling, that's the Holy Spirit coming to now.
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Calm you and say, this is the day.
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This is what I've been building everything towards you accepting me.
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Right now.
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If you're in this room or you're watching right now
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online today, I.
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Want you to receive Jesus on the counter. Three, just
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shoot your hand.
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Up saying pastor want to be included in that prayer.
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One you're making the greatest decision of your life. Two,
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your name is about to be written in the Lamb's
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Book of Life. Three lift your hand if you want
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to receive Jesus in this room. I see hands, I
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see hands. I see hands, I see hands, and more
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than that, God sees you come on transformation Church. Let
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us give God prays. You can put your hand down.
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I don't want to embarrass you. I'm not gonna make
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you say everything that you've ever done, But one day
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I'm believing you'll be in community to confess those things
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out loud, because that's.
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Where your healings coming from. But as a church, we
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all pray.
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Together for the benefit of those coming to Christ. What everybody,
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just lift your hands and say God, thank you for
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sending Jesus to deliver me. Today. I confess I need you.
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I have sinned, but I repent and I turn to you.
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I believe you lived, you died, and you rose again
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with all power us for me today. Here's my life.
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Change me, renew me, transform me. I'm yours forever in
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Jesus' name. Amen. Hey, can we.
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Celebrate all over that? Y'all gotta come on with me.
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Let's celebrate every person that made a decision for Jesus. Hey, listen,
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if you've just decided to accept Jesus, I want you
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to text saved to eight two eight two eight two,
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and our team wants to send you some information and
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celebrate with you and listen all over this place. There's
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thousands of you in here and thousands online. I'm about
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to come off stage and I want to pray for you.
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Start putting your prayer requests in the chat. I'm gonna
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pray specifically for you by name. But our altered team
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is coming up right now, and if you need prayer
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for anything, for finances, for your family, for your mind,
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for peace.
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I don't want you to.
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Leave this place without getting agreement. The Bible says that
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the prayers of the Righteous day work, and today you
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can get prayer. I love you, Church. This is our anniversary.
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This is us celebrating all that God has done through
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our faithfulness.
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And so thank you for honoring this moment.
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If you got any old throwback pictures of what God
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has done, put them up online and let us know
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some of your favorite moments. And don't forget to celebrate
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because God's Church is alive and we're.
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About to build this house. Amen. I said, We're about
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to build this house. Amen.
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Remember this Wednesday relationship goes us out everywhere, and I
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want you to watch it and celebrate with us. And
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I want you to go out and live a transform life.
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Hug three or four people and tell them you love them. Amen,