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Why Do I Feel So Out Of Control // Receipts: The Proof Is In The Fruit ( Part 10) // 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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Today? I wanted to preach a message and.
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I simply want to give you the title now, and
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I'm gonna remind you of it in.
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Just a second.
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I want to I want to preach a message called
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why do I Feel so out of control? And I
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know this is something that we don't talk about often,
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but there are areas of our life that we feel
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like we just can't get control over. Okay, we're a
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hot church, humble, open and transparent. Does anybody in here
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have at least two areas in your life?
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It's like, why can't I get that under control? All right?
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All right, thank you Holy Spirit. I'm in the right place.
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Why do I feel so out of control?
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And this year?
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God told us this is a year that we would
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maximize and focus on the word fruit.
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And as we.
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Do that, I was like, all right, Lord, how do
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we get fruit? He said, you have to sow the
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right seeds. And I'm not just talking about finances. I
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want you to hear what I'm saying. You cannot get
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fruit in the area of your marriage. If you do
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not sow seed in the area of marriage. You cannot
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get fruit in the area of health, and not so
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seed in the area of health. You cannot become everything
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that God has called you to be in a healthy
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manner and not so seed in that area. And I
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would just like to come up to many believers and
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ask them, are you nuts because you are believing for
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something in an area that you have sown no scene
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in Many of us want friends and we do not
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sow seeds of normal.
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You not normal.
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You won't even say hello when they say hello. You
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won't answer the text message when the two people you
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was trying to.
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Be friend text you. You busy and booked like that.
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No, But for some reason, I'm just giving a very
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frivolous example to let people know this is.
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Not the year to believe for where you have not sown.
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Yes, God can supersede and step over boundaries and do
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things that you didn't deserve. That is not the common practice.
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That's why he gives us principles in his word. He
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gives us principles because sometimes he'll pop.
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Out and do the unexpected. So you know he can,
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but he know about.
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To pop out every time and do the unexpected when
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you want steward what he gives you.
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All the time.
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Okay, So why do we feel out of control so
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many times? Is because we have not sown the right
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seed in the area that will give us. Watch what
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we're talking about today, self control. Okay, Okay, I need
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you to lock in.
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I need you to check in with me for the next.
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Forty minutes because this one is going to scrape against.
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Your flesh.
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Because when anybody bod he starts talking about self control,
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they're actually coming at the parts of us that comfort
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us the most.
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The areas that comfort us.
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The most are the places where we usually don't have
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self control. Where do you go when you're emotionally outraged?
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Where do you go when you don't feel like anybody
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sees you? Where do you where do you get a snuggle.
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When you lose?
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That is the place where usually we have not figured
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out how to let the Holy Spirit empower.
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Us, even when we have an excuse to do it,
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that we don't do it. So today I just want
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to let you know if something comes.
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Up to your mind like that im and you like
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start feeling that on the inside, all those faces you
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won't make, but you feel.
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All of those things that make you want to click
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out and go watch somebody else's message that's going to
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speak to your blessing.
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What I'm saying to you is God is blessing us.
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In ways we can't even feel it, Oh God, because
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we won't get self control, we won't let the Spirit
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do the work on the inside of us to actually
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live and walk in self control. So today I'm gonna
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try to gently walk us through what the Holy Spirit
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provides for us at salvation Galatians five twenty two. But
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the Holy Spirit produces this kind of fruit in your life, love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness,
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and self control.
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You didn't even say it. Say it with me self controul.
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Say it like you won't it self control, say it
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like you need it self control.
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Why would the Holy Spirit produce self control? I started
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to look at this thing, and I begin to.
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Be confused because just by the mere words self control,
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it feels a little confusing.
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It feels like.
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Self control should be initiated by me.
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So is it spirit in power or is it me.
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Is it my self control? Isn't me just saying I'm
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not gonna do this no more. I'm not gonna do
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this no more. Mine to look at me in the mirror.
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I'm not gonna do this no.
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More because because honestly, I've done to have a phone.
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Okay, how many people told yourself you not doing it,
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told other people you not doing it, wrote it on
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your mirror, put it on your refrigerator, set it a
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hard and somehow I'm in the right place today.
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So self control, but the spirit produces self control. So
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I went on a deep dive of trying to think,
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how could I explain.
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And how could I never let God's.
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People be seduced by the lie of the enemy, that
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God cares more about what our self wants than what
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the spirit wants. And I really do believe I have clarity,
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and I found it in the word of God. I'm
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gonna give you a couple of scriptures that if you
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have this thing in your back pocket at all times,
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it's gonna save you. It's gonna be a way of
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escape for you. Let me give you one that helped
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me and helps me to this day. Proverbs twenty five
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twenty eight, the wisest man that ever lived.
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According to the Bible, Solomon wrote.
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This, and he says this, a person without self control
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is like a city with.
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Broken down walls.
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Get a mental image of a fortified city back in
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the day, which was the only means of protection.
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No cameras, no ring doorbells, no guard dog. It was
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your city was.
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Actually known by how strong its.
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Walls were.
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Because there was always an enemy trying to take your land.
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So if you did not have fortified walls, you were
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very vulnerable and could actually be taken advantage of at
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any moment because.
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You did not have. Everybody listen to this word protection.
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This scripture says, having no self control is like being
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a city with no protection, all your value vulnerable.
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At every moment. You ain't got no self control.
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One text message can set you back ten years.
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One because you have no self control. What you're doing nothing.
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What you're doing.
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Ten years of mental, emotional, and physical sometimes abuse because
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there is no self You're at the doctor for diseases
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that don't even run in your family, asking God for
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a miracle.
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For something that.
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Happened while you worked at the mall, and every day
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for three years you ate at that food court.
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Okay, I'm talking too real.
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Right now, because you didn't have self control to walk
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past andy hands.
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She said, oh my coming, Oh my god, you've been following.
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Me because you didn't have self control not to get
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the sugar dip pretzels with the sever cream and the
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shruckberry lemonade.
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Come on, y'all, you'll become watching.
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Your vision becomes vulnerable, so God can have asked you
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to do something. But because you were vulnerable, you were
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like a city without Waltz. You had no self control.
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You literally get pillaged, plumaged, and stolen from all the time.
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Not because you're a bad person, not because you don't
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hear from God. It's because you have not allowed the
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Holy Spirit to work the fruit in you of self control.
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And I want you to think about the.
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Area of your greatest robbery and ask yourself, do I
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have self.
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Control around that area?
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Whereas God trying to build watch this protection for you.
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So when I read this, this is what came out.
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Write this down as a point. Self control is safety.
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If you would view self control of being able to
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actually not do everything you feel like doing, not buying
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everything you feel like buying.
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Not going every place you feel like going. If you
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actually could.
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Get that practice in your life, God says, you'll be protected.
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You're gonna be safe. Self control is safety.
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And the reason I wrote it down like that is
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because I've never thought about self control being a good thing.
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Really, because of the word controlling it.
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Can we be honest anytime anybody talks about control, unless
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of Jenny Jackson singing the song, I don't want nothing.
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To do with it. You want to control me, You
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wanna tell me what to do. You don't know what's
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best for me.
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And now I bring a worldly thought to a kingdom principle.
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God said, one of the nine receipts I want you
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to have is self control.
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He said, he wants us to have self control.
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And because we have been controlled by people, controlled by systems,
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controlled by other things that weren't in our mind, in
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our best interests, then we apply worldly experiences to kingdom principles.
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And so many of us shy.
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Away from self control because I'm actually free to do
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whatever I want to do. And God said, are you really?
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Because if you have to drink, are you free.
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If you can't deny the sale? No, no, no no, But
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you aunder saying back the body, what these candles are
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ten dollars? Right now? They're ten? Somebody was just convicted
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for real. You got four hundred candles for an apartment.
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You have a candle for every square foot of the
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place that you live here.
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Think about it, y'all.
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Then God asks you to do something with resources, and you.
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Don't have cash, you have candles.
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You're and you're too prideful.
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To get on the side of the apartment complex with
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a table. See, they don't know what real obedience of psch.
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God told you to do something, and you sitting there
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ritch in candles, paint in candles, and monks burned twenty
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days at a time.
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I'm just trying to.
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Paint the picture of Sometimes our obedience is delayed because
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we have not been protected by self.
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Control tawo Timothy one seven. Here's a revelation.
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Check this.
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We've said this scripture a lot of times, but we've
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not correlated to self control.
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Look at this.
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God has not given us a spirit of what fit
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all yellowboski tie shit about a Honda, But what.
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Kind of spirit did he give us?
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Long power and und If you look that word up
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in the original language and you can even read it.
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In the ESV version, it says God did not give
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us a spirit of fear, but of power, love, and
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self control. Why would God give a self control instead
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of fear.
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The opposite of fear. I didn't give you fear. I
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gave you self control, because what.
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Fear is is undisciplined thoughts.
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All fear is is.
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Thoughts without self control. So you walk into a dark room.
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Somebody's about to come off the ceiling. Somebody's about to
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kill me. There's a sniper on me right now. Oh
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my God, I'm dying right now. I'm dying right now.
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None of it happened. None of it happened.
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You just walked into a dark room, and all you
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need to do is flip on the switch.
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You had a power to turn the light on.
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I feel this city, but without an undisciplined thought life.
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You automatically. God did not give us the spirit the
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spirit of fear.
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So self control is a spirit empowered by the Holy Spirit.
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Like do you see the spirit of fear needs to
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be replaced with the spirit of self control.
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You're afraid of the future.
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I need to train my thoughts around what God says
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about the future. I'm afraid to get married because what
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I saw happened to so many others.
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I need to train my thoughts.
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I need self control. This good already, y'all. This feel
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real good. Okay, so proverb sixteen thirty two. I'm just
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trying to give you a lot of Bible.
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It's better to be paid than powerful.
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I could preach a whole message on that just right there,
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but check out the second part. But it's better to
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have self control than conquer a city.
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A kingdom principle. Write this now is self control is
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better than success. Hear what I just said to.
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You, because some of us, we can look at your.
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Facebook feed and see all you want to do is
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be successful. Every other quote.
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What a millionaire would do with his day? What starting
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a new podcast?
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Millionaire? Mindset by me like a womb.
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Okay, you need to gash at me.
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Still, you need to pay me back. I'm sorry, y'all.
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I feel good up here. I'm not trying to come
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against anybody's dreams.
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What I'm saying is God says success should not be
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more important to you than self control. Because whatever the
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men of this world and the women of this world
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deem successful does not equate in heaven. Money's nothing in heaven,
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Oh God. Houses are nothing in heaven, Bitcoin and investments
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in For one case, the Bible says it like this,
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Why would you store up your riches and all this
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earth stuff. You can't take this with you instead? Why
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didn't you put it in the kingdom. Why wouldn't you
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put it in something that will last eternally.
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I'm saying we all.
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Need money to success, to live and to actually help
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people and all that stuff. That's not what I'm saying.
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I'm just saying is if it's in priority over God.
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God said it would be better for you to have
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self control in your little apartment than run the whole city.
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This made me check my motives, desires.
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And wants.
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Because a lot of times I don't be asking God
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on my crazy car, crazy faith card.
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For more self control. If I go back to the
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building and put.
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Them cards off of there, I bet I'm the see
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houses and debts paid off, and and and be able
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to bless my mama with a car and do all.
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The other things how many people put God.
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I want to be able to not talk crazy God.
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I want to be able to.
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See somebody that I knew did me wrong and treat
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them with kindness.
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Oh that's something.
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Money came by, Holy Spirit.
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I want to be able to walk in a room.
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And since the needs of the people can be led
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to the person you want to speak to and give
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them words of knowledge and not weird way, but that
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will encourage them to live and not die. I've seen
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people write sonnets on things.
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But not on transformation.
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And God saying it's better for you to have self
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control over this than to run the whole city.
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Okay, why is this important, pastor mic?
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Because self control write this down is the only thing
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that combats compromise. When you have self control, you are
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fortified and you do not get played by the enemy
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when compromise tries to come in.
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Oh god, see, most people don't understand what compromise is.
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Has any okay, has anybody ever gone to a game
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or gone to a play, or gone to something and
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somebody will give you a comp ticket, like a ticket?
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Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, you want to come to the fair.
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Oh yeah, I run the fair.
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Let me give you some comp tickets like what it
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means is free.
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And then that word compromise. The word in there is promise.
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When you experience compromise.
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What it means is you give the promise away for free.
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You are compromised.
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So the reason God doesn't want you in that relationship
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with them is because when you get with them, your
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purity is compromise. You about to give away your promise
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for free. He won't even take you to chatters, and
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he has you sneaking through a back door of his
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frat brother's house.
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You don't even own our house, can't come pick you up.
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He sends you fifteen dollars for an Oprah, and he
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has you.
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About to give.
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Your promise away. Compromise got people in the church manipulating
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people to stroke their ego because they won't actually do
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something of value, and they're sending people in cycles of
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depression and allegiance and all these different things. Don't you
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realize being a part of that got you compromise.
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The only thing that can come back compromise is self control.
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You know what I do respect you, and I believe
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that you are fine. Not I believe I have faith.
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Matter of fact, I have seen with my own eyes.
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Come on, you don't gotta be ridiculous.
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I would like to live in harmony with you as
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Adam and Eve did in the garden with.
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Nothing, believes in between nothing.
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Come on, y'all, let's be You don't have to deny.
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But every time I talk to you, something in me weakens,
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and the conviction I have kept that this would only
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be for the person I marry be comes very What
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were we talking about again?
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You see what I'm saying, y'all acting like that don't happen.
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Some of y'all are the people that I say, you're
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wear down, People that the first time you'll know is
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super strong. But if they just ask you enough times,
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if they ask you watch this.
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At the right time, we will give away the promise
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for free. How do we not compromise? We get everybody
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say self control?
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Ah okay, so again the sermon title was why do
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I feel so out of control?
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Let me tell you what control is to.
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Have power over influence, to direct people's behavior or the
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course of an event. My question to you is what
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is controlling you? And I need you to answer that
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question honestly right now in your life? What is controlling you?
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Is it food?
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Is it finances? Is it people's opinion? Is it an
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image you made in your head when you were thirteen.
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What's controlling you? Is it social media? Is it?
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Is it?
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Is it a desire that secret? What is controlling you?
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Is it fear to not ever live the life you
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came from. Okay, let's be honest.
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Because sometimes the thing that's controlling us is not a thing.
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It's an idea that we'll never go back to, and
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so we'll run ourselves ragged trying to be something.
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That we're not.
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And statistics tell us that what you're running from usually
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is what you've become.
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And I know there's some people ain't no control to me.
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I can do whatever God tell me to do whenever
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I tell well, God tells me to do it.
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Is your past relationship still control for you because you're married,
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but you're on Facebook looking at your high school sweethearts?
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I wonder what the kwanda doing? She got three kids?
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Now look at I look at them little.
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I just know there's an area that all of us
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may need to be real about right now that's controlling
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more of our actions than the spirit is. I did
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all this talking to bring you to the point to
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at least let you know you may need some self control,
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You may need to let the Holy Spirit work in
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you at a whole nother level so that he can
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fight for you in the areas that you failed in
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over and over again. Because some things, let me be
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very clear, some things are a decision. Some things are
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just you need to decide.
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I ain't doing this no more. Everything don't need prayer, Oh.
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God, Everything don't need a prophetic word. If you have
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a propensity towards something and you go to a place
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that says that thing on the outside.
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Of it, on the marquee, y'all need a purpose that.
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But there are other things that are more.
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How can I say this? They're strongholds. I don't just
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see it in me. I saw it in my dad.
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It's generational.
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And today I want to let you know that there
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is a.
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Remedy for that that has been given by the Holy Spirit.
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Let me lighten it up right now, because some of
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y'all think that you're all about to get exposed.
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And you are. But let me just bring it up
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for just a second.
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How many people were alive when the Atari poeng came out?
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How many people Atari like video games? Okay? I need
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to know, okay, okay, how many of y'all? Yeah, Because
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I wasn't alive when that? Anybody said, But how many
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y'all was your game system when you were a kid? Nintendo?
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How many people come on Super Nintendo? Okay, okay, all right,
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some of y'all weren't here yet, there's some people in
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here that's like, what are you talking about?
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Okay, maybe this will get you.
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How many people knew about a Sega Genesis?
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Yeah, Sonic all the rings? Okay?
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Yeah?
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How many people know about the Sony PlayStation? I ain't
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talking about this new thing that stands up. I'm talking
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about the great one, the box with the circles young
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when you had to take the CD out and lick
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on it. And then y'all know nothing about that. Okay,
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y'all know what I'm saying. And then how many y'all
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know about the Nintendo sixty four when the sixty four
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came out?
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Okay? And then we go Xbox, and then we go
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what's the mother one's GameCube? People who have a GameCube?
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I have questions about anyway?
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And then we's and then okay, we'z and then and
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now it's gone to like the PSPs, the personal computers,
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the switch, the get yet like wow, PS fives, you
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know what we can all agree that no matter how
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much the technology and the graphics have upgraded from the
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Atari poem all the way to the PS five, every
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system still.
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Has a controller.
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What it means is it doesn't matter how much you upgrade.
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Something still will have control in your life. So this
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is what I'm gonna tell you. Write it down.
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The fight of your life is versus sin control or
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spirit control. This is what's fighting every day you wake
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up to control you.
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And my question is who is controlling you?
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Do a serious evaluation on your life right now when
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you wake up ding ding is a battle who gonna
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win today? My spirit controlling me or my sin nature
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controlling me?
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And some of us have been living in one so
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long we didn't even know it was an option. We
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war governors like, this is what I do?
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Oh, that's natural because.
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We were all born into our sin nature.
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Okay, how can I show y'all this Galatians five seventeen.
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Listen to this. The sinful nature wants to do evil,
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which is just the opposite or.
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The opponent of what the spirit wants. And the spirit
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gives us desires that are the opposite of what are sinful.
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Look at this word nature. That word means natural.
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Our natural ideas will be sinful, our natural wants will
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be sinful.
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It's because of the world we were.
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Born into after Adam and Eve disobeyed God. Well, I
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am a good person. Yes, you are a good person.
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Yet your nature is sinful. I need everybody to hear
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me say this so clearly. These two forces are constantly
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fighting each other. Watch this, So you are not free.
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I just want to stop right there.
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The sin nature and the spirit nature are fighting every day.
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So you're not free. So you're not free to carry
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out your good intentions. Oh this is good.
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Bible intentions don't matter if you have the wrong controller.
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Can you put my example on the screen real quick?
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I need you to see this because I was like,
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how can I depict to you what it looks like
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when you are controled by the spirit and when you
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are controlled by the flesh. I need everybody to hear
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me say this real quick. Your spirit man has to
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actually get strong enough to be able to defeat your
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flesh man daily, not at church, not once a week,
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not once a year, every single day.
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Some of y'all need to change your alarm to a
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boxing bell, ding ding ding, y'all don't hear me.
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Just to remind yourself, it's a fight.
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I don't hear Some of.
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Us wake up so nonchalant, like.
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Oh, today's gonna be a great day, depending on who
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you let win.
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This is what I call the battle for my life.
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And every day that I wake up, I gotta decide
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who's gonna win.
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See, the problem is.
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We all start here, everybody starts being led by the flesh.
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And this is the thing I came to actually tell you,
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is that when you get saved, your spirit man, your
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spirit comes alive.
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It doesn't win.
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It's the first time it says, but it's a newborn baby.
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This is why we read the word, this is why
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we come to church. You've been led by your flesh
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for thirty two years.
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And you'll be like, why do I still struggle with
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these temptations. It's because your spirit man comes alive. But
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every day if you do not feed it the right things,
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it gets beat the hell up. I need to say
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it just like that, because some of y'all come to prayer,
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but that forty five minutes of prayer has not been leading.
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Your thoughts all day. The shade room has.
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So you know, more about what rapper is sleeping, what
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what rapper and what government official has cheated on their wife,
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and you know more about all of these different things.
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That is feeding a nature gluttony.
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Oh oh, this nasty eating.
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And it doesn't have to be that salacious.
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It could be a text message that says something like this,
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did you hear about them?
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Hear about them?
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I'm over here trying to read songs, Siri, text them,
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tell me more.
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And at that moment, well, I don't know if it's true,
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but or if somebody starts a sentence to you like this,
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I don't.
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I don't really I don't really be gossiping. But if
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they tell you what it's not. Last night, my daughter
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GG came to me with white stuff.
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All over her hands, and I was cleaning up something
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else and I said, Gg, what is that? She said, Daddy,
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is not pain.
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And that's how many times we look because I'm trying
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to hide what I'm telling you.
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It is.
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God.
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And so when I wake up in the morning, I
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have good intentions, but I may be sin control. Watch this.
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Sin control is.
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Making decisions based on what feels natural to your flesh.
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So your sin nature wants to do evil, your sin nature.
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Your sin nature gives desires, and your sinful nature is
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fighting for control. That's what pride and selfishness and gossip
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and throwing shage and judgment comes from. But spirit control
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is watch this, write this down. It's making decisions against ourselves.
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If you are spirit controlled, you are making decisions against
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your natural inclination. I want to cuss you out, but
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Pastor talked about kindness last week, and you better be glad.
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I watched that surface and guess who won in that moment?
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Your spirit want.
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My question is how many battles do you forfeit? Because
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you don't even try to let your spirit fight.
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You've already decided this is just the way I am.
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This is how my family is.
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And I came to tell you a person without self
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control just.
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Like a city with their walls torn down.
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It's just the moment's notice that everything valuable in you
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can be pillaged because you have not allowed the Holy
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Spirit to develop self control in you. I heard this
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poem said one time. It says two natures beat within
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my breast. One is foul and one is blessed. One
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I love and.
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One I hate. The one I feed will dominate.
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There's certain movies I can't watch, not because they're not creative,
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and not because I don't like the trailer.
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I actually love the trailer. That's why I want to
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watch the movie.
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I think sometimes Christians be like denying reality, like that's stupid,
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Like that aroused my flesh. I want to see if
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right when they was about to take the thing off
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and then it cut off and then somebody pumps somebody.
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I want to see how that all ends. I want
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to see how that materializes in real life.
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I want to actually know. Can we be honest? You
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want to go see that?
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Nah? Bro, it's all good, man, Nah, I don't want
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to see that. Let's go see mahna.
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Oh this is real, bro.
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I'm not going down.
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You're a girl, man.
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I'm not about to go to.
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See more model with you, all right, corew man, I
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mean I can't go.
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Why you don't understand I used to be controlled by
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my sin nature and my sin nature, I don't know
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about yours. It doesn't need much to eat to get
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very strong.
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Oh my god, I only need a little bit. I
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don't need. I don't need, I don't need a feast.
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I just need to taste, and when I when I
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live on that line, when when I when I get
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that close, I become a compromised or I'm in a
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place where I can give away a promise for.
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Free, all that God has done in my life, and
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one website could take away my credibility to stand up
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here and transform millions.
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Of people's lives. The reason why everybody in my circle
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got the codes to my phones can go in my email.
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Not because if I'm a grown man, I'm the pastor
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I'm the leader. Moe could ruin me today. I'm putting
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it on camera just so y'all know. If anything happens
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to me Modida.
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I just call him.
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But I need to be honest.
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I live so open with the people around me, and
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they can tell.
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You because all my flesh needs is a little secret.
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All my flesh needs is a little side money, don't
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I mean? This ain't wrong. Other people do this all
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the time. But because of the call on your life,
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many can, but you cannot.
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And without self control, you mean I would throw away
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my marriage for fifteen years, twenty four years of knowing.
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Her to satisfy my flesh.
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When I'm angry, I'm gonna throw away the model I've.
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Been to my daughters of how a man is supposed
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to treat and protect him.
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You mean, I'm gonna throw away what.
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I've built for Ava, Bella and Jia and MJ for
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a moment at a club. But that's where everybody's that's
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where everybody's connecting.
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At I guess I'm not supposed to connect with you.
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Oh, these are real decisions I've made. Oh No, the
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after parties at the club can't go there. Oh because
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you're a pastor. No, because I'm a man of God.
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See, this is a difference. There's a difference between my
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position and my person.
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There's a difference between my conviction, my calling, and without
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self control, I am like a city.
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Oh my wall's torn down.
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And the saddest part of most believers is you can
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see where the walls used to be.
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Godly.
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I can hear in your voice where you used to
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have a conviction.
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I can hear in your voice where you used to
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have a boundary. I can see in the way you
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live where you used to draw a line.
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And all I see is rubble where there should be righteousness.
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Church.
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Today, I'm giving you an opportunity to choose.
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What is the choice.
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Every day you wake up, you start a neutral This
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is why I start every day praying, because when I pray,
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it honestly becomes a habit. But habit can be a
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bad thing too, because every day I could get up
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and scroll. Okay, come on, y'all if the first thing
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that I do is see what everybody else is doing
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and not ask God what I should be doing. So
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maybe I don't need a habit that's negative. Maybe I
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need accountability. Maybe I need that little Bible.
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I have to be like ding dang June four.
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And maybe before I open up my phone, or maybe
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before I turn on the news, or maybe before I
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do this, I just thank God and I pray, and
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I spend a little time, not because I'm trying to
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be religious, because I'm trying to be protected.
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Oh my God, I need everybody to hear there's a
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difference between all I pray. I gotta prayer. God, God, God, Father, God,
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you don't care nothing about that. Your heart was not
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in that at all.
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But just saying, Father, today I'm tired, and I know
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I'm susceptible to anger.
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Father, I have been on edge about the financial situation.
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I'm going through.
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So your word says that you're a prince of peace,
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and today I'm asking that you would lead to be
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to make decisions that would rest in your peace.
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And God.
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Also, I don't feel good about myself right now. I
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got on the scale yesterday and after the holidays, it
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had I don't know if it's.
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Broken or not, but no, I'm talking about real prayers,
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like it had a few more numbers than I was expecting.
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And that actually has nothing to do about me being healthy.
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It has everything to do with how I see myself.
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And since I was young, I've always had self esteem
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issues based on the way I look. And today, could
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you just remind me that I'm beautiful?
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Father?
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I never had anybody tell me that I was beautiful
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without wanting something in return.
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So today God, could you just remind.
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Me in your word that I'm beautifully and wonderfully made.
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And last, thank God, Today.
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Thomas is going to be at the office and I
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hate Thomas. Come on, y'all, see, y'all don't want a
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real relationship with God. God. I know we're not supposed
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to hate, but if the line is strong, dislike, I
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really hate Thomas. And today God, I can feel it now.
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If he says is one thing to me out out
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the side of his mouth.
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But I desire.
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To be like you and look like you, and so
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it is gonna be difficult for me to be kind
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to Thomas today.
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I'm not asking for the weak. Lord, that would be
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too much, that would be.
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That would be an outrageous request. But today's Lord, come
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on y'all. But today, Lord, our Father, who are in heaven,
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holy and hallow, would be your name, Thy Kingdom, Come,
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Your will be done here on earth as it is
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in heaven. Give me this day enough for Thomas. Did
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you just see, like I actually displayed for you what
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a life led by the spirit looks like.
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And I'm just giving you an example. But all I'm
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saying is, if you do not.
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Listen to the Spirit of God, it then leaves you vulnerable.
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We're getting out of here. If you get accountable, watch this.
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Your accountability turns into discipline.
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And what you do in a disciplined life. I'm gonna
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have to do a whole series on this.
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I'm gonna have to do a whole series on this
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thing and bring this chart back every week because I
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need to teach all of these But what I'm just
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trying to get you to see today is the value.
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There are certain things that have happened on my health
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journey that I would not have been able to do
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without a trainer. I had accountability. Watch this that turned
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into me being controlled by somebody.
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Else for an hour and a half every day.
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There is nothing that Victor tells me to do that
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I want to do.
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There has never been one time that he was like,
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all right.
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Do the burpies and I was like yay that he
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was like, all right, twenty pounds more and I was
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like amen. Every time my flesh wants to rise up.
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But the accountability turned into discipline so much so that
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last Sunday, me and Pastor Will work out every Sunday
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morning together. And last Sunday morning, early in the morning,
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my coach called me and told me he wasn't gonna
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be able to be there now there's like three o'clock
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in the morning because we work out at five on Sundays.
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I almost called Will and told him coach is sick.
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The jim at my house all the way still work.
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But it was a test.
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Had the accountability turned into discipline, and I said, Will,
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I can train us if you down and I was
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playing that.
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He said, you unqualified men of God. But he was like, I'm.
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Down, And for an hour and a half at five
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am with no trainer, my discipline turned into my desire.
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So this is where we go on the last one.
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I don't know when it happens. I'm not sure of
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the magical moment that God says, oh, the switch flipped.
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But if you are accountable long enough and the things
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that the spirit tells you to do, it will become
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a discipline long enough that at some point.
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It becomes your desire. And everybody wants to know when
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it becomes a desire. I have no clue.
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I don't know when you will desire to actually be
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content in the season God has.
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For you to be in.
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But if God is telling you right now to be
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accountable with a budget, and he's saying, oh, that means
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you're gonna have to be disciplined with how many times.
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You uber eat this week? Well, God, I don't want
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to leave my house.
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You know what to do.
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And the truth of the matter is you're tired of
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being single, but you don't be nowhere to meet nobody either.
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It's all connected. I just want you to know.
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Maybe wing stop as yo, I'm trying to make light
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of a very large subject.
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But I'm saying, maybe God is trying to call you.
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To something to give you something else, and at some
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point that discipline is going to turn into a desire.
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It works the other way too. But I feel like
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I've said what God wants me to say today.
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Because I'm gonna show you one more scripture and this
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thing bless me to the point where it has become
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a life scripture for me. Let me just let me
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just show them the two examples of the spirit empowered
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and the self empower Okay, because somebody just needs to
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get this, y'all, give me seven minutes and then.
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We're gonna move to our crazy faith offering. Then we're
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gonna get out of here. Okay. Is this helping anybody can?
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Y'all?
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Okay, it's it's a lot to unpack, but I feel
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I feel very called to finish this.
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Okay, So listen. Self control? Does everybody see it? Self control?
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This is what I'm gonna say. A self control can
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be a spirit empowered life of faith.
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When you are self.
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Controlled, that is spirit empowered life of faith.
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Or you can have self control.
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Which put it up, it would be a sin empowered
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life of the flesh.
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You choose.
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Either every day, I'm gonna wake up and do the
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things that let me live a spirit empowered life of faith,
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so the spirit controls me, or I'm gonna live a
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sin empowered life of flesh and sin controls me.
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This is why it's important what you listen to.
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Why I'm in the gym, I mean, I gotta turn up,
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I gotta put There are certain stuff. The reason why
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TC has started making music and we just didn't do
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worship music is My plan is in the next five
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years to give people so much good content that does
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not lack excellence and creativity, but still can replace some
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of the things that lead.
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Me to sin.
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There is only so many times you can listen to
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lay your body down before you are no longer vertical.
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I don't care, and I'm using just example. There's only
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so many times that you can listen to certain sonics
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with words and you and and you're putting your spirit
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man in unnecessary fights.
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You're going through real stuff. But you're like, I'm gonna
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clear my head. And once you put in your head in,
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what is it leading you to why you so angry
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but you put a knock if you bump.
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Every Why are you ready to fight everybody?
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Y'all hear you every time? Where are you feeding?
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If you're depressed? I understand it. I have empathy for you.
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I know it's a hole that you feel like you
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can't get out of. But if you continue to put
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in sad songs, if you continue.
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To stroke, that does disase.
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The reason I love this artist is because they just
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I identify with them.
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Do you want to keep identifying with it? Is this
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where you want to stay? I mean, I get that
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it feels good to be known and noticed.
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But and sometimes we'll settle for a connection which turns
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into compromise. Some of the things that comfort us are
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connections that end up compromising us. And God is telling
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you it's time for you to get up. It's time
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for you to be everything. I'm sending people in and
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every time you get up, just a little bit you
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bring down. Because an artist has creatively personified your season,
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I'm just asking everybody. I'm telling you there's a better
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choice to live a spirit and powered life of faith.
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That's self control. So break it down practically past the
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mic today when I'm giving in this crazy faith offer.
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This was not a decision that was informed by my
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sin nature. Matter of fact, my sin nature been trying
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to tell me, boy, that's the dumbest thing you could do.
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You know, it's Christmas time, right, and you know what's
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gonna happen next year?
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And you do you know what God? What God said
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he was gonna do the last time you gave. Have
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you seen all of that? Oh? Oh maybe he did?
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Maybe maybe maybe I'm the only.
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One that feels trepidation sometimes when we step out in faith.
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But I bet Peter felt it too when Jesus said
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come over, Come over the edge of the boat and
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do what nobody else is doing.
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If it's you, I don't know. This is running out
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here and everything is that.
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If it's you tell me to come, he didn't say
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it's Jesus.
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Son of David.
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The Bible records that Jesus gives a one word response
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without identifying who he was.
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While Peter was.
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On a boat with others, they all heard him ask
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the question, YEA, if it's you tell me to come,
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All Jesus says come. He didn't say Peter, Come, He
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said come, which leads me to believe he was talking
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to everybody on the boat. He wasn't just talking to Peter,
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but Peter was the only one with crazy.
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Say y'all are hurt, and he didn't go like gods
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didn't y'all hear.
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Jesus asked us all to come, like, what are y'all doing? Like,
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get up, I'll go if you go, probably trembling. I've
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watched somebody drowning this stuff before.
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M hm mm hmmm.
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I would have tested it, y'all. Ye Jesus, this is
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really y'all.
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This is really working. This is really working.
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This, this, this, this, And Jesus says, why you stop
-
looking at me? I told you to step out in
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crazy faith, and you started looking at your situation.
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I told you to step out in crazy faith.
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You started looking at your account. I told you to
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step out in crazy faith. You start looking at other
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people and what they were doing. Why did you stop
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looking at.
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And He saved them?
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He said, when are you gonna get the faith that
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I know you have? This is what it looks like
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practically to live a spirit empowered life.
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Of faith.
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I might not have any evidence from anybody else, but
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I still have to obey God. I believe that God
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is telling many of us in this room an area
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that the Holy Spirit needs to be allowed to develop
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self control on the inside of us. Can you get
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that last scripture on the screen so I don't have
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to run up there? That says, let the Holy Spirit,
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I'm forgetting the address right now. There's one more scripture,
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because this is the key to the whole thing, and
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then we're gonna give it. We're gonna go home. But
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I believe this is gonna transform people's entire lives because
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when I saw this scripture, it changed the way that
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I found out that I could live a spirit empowered life.
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Galatians five twenty five. Since we are living by the spirit, everybody,
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say this next word with me. Let say it with me.
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Left one more time left. Since we are living by
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the spirit, say it with me. Let That means somebody
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has to allow it, since we are not living a
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life controlled by our sin, and we're gonna live a
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spirit empowered life.
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Of faith, since we live about the spirit. That's what
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it is. He said, Let, which means you have the control.
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And some of us have not allowed ourselves to follow
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the spirits leading.
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Since we are living by the Spirit.
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Everybody say, let let us follow the spirits leading, oh,
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in every part of our lives.
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I'm gonna tell you something.
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That is very exposing to me and the Holy Spirit's relationship.
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I let the Holy Spirit dress me. This outfit today
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was not the outfit I wanted to wear. I had
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another one that was a killer.
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It would Ooh.
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I'm gonna be honest every time I get on this platform.
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I asked my wife, and I asked the Holy Spirit
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what am I supposed to wear? Because when I read
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the scripture put it back on the screen and see
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some of y'all think this is two dig But I
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just want to be honest with you, like of how
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I actually lived this out. Since we are living by
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the spirit, let us follow the spirits leading in every
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part of our lives.
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I haven't perfected this. I don't. I don't.
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I forget sometimes. Matter of fact, sometimes I wake up
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and I let my sinful nature.
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Control.
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I'm angry and frustrated all that, But what I'm saying
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is in every area I can.
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Remember too, my bad spirit, what am I supposed to
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do here? Today?
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I told my daughter Ava, who's that she's leep?
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I love you?
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She was laying down, You're like, oh, Daddy brings you Okay, Hello,
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that's okay.
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I love you. Eva.
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She rocks with me almost every Sunday morning from my
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five am work out.
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She get up.
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She loves being with her daddy on Sunday morning and
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she make me hold her in praise and worship. I
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only got thirty more days of doing that because she
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is getting heavy, but I love it. So today I
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told Ava, I said, today is our crazy faith offering
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and we're believing God for crazy fruit.
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And she was like okay.
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Ava has been carrying around a box of money she
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got for her birthday.
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And she is very quick to.
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Tell anybody how much money she has in cash and
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how much money she has in Target gift cards. And
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today I said, hey, baby, you know we give as
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a family every year, Like, I want you to pray.
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This is the first year you've had money when it's
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time to give to God. And her eyes getting big,
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and I.
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Said, Ava, I said I want you to pray and
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asked the Holy Spirit what you're supposed.
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To give in the offering? Okay? And she was like okay.
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So then she came to the church. I was getting dressed.
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She came to the bathroom. She said, she said, hey, Dad.
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I said, hey, baby, I said, did you pray about
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what God told you? She's like twenty dollars.
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I said, oh, you prayed about it.
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She said no, that's just kind of what I she was,
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My daughter's gonna tell me the truth. She said, that's
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what I you know.
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She just kept me light.
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And I said, okay, if that's what the Holy Spirit
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told you to give, I just want.
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You to be obedient. She said, fifty dollars. I said,
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what are the fifty dollars? Dad, fifty dollars and she
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said it would so, I.
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Said, doing it, I mean, all gentle and quiet and software.
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She just yelled at me fifty dollars. I said, baby,
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this is what I said to him.
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I said, Daddy just wants you to listen to the
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Holy Spirit and obey, and if he doesn't tell you
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to give anything, don't give anything. And she got surprised
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when I said that, because what I'm trying to teach
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my daughter is that it is a pleasure to be
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able to hear from the God who created the sun,
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and the fact that he would.
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Still talk to his son. I'm privileged that you.
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Would ask me for anything when the very breath that
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I breathe in.
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Is the breath you gave me. That's so I said, baby,
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just obey God.
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I'm going to tell you like I told my natural daughter,
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from now until the end of the year, if God
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asks you to give something over and beyond your tithes
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to participate in this season where we believe that God
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is doing the work, not just on the church and the.
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People on our hearts.
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In a season where everybody's thinking about what they're gonna get,
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We've decided to change the priority of what we're gonna give.
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And if that means we gotta sacrifice something to obey God,
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it's worth it. Maybe the key to all of this
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is self control.
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Maybe the spirit.
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Wants to lead us in a way that has nothing
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to do with an amount, but he's like, well, they
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even listen to me.
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Last story.
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And the reason I share these things is because I'm
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really walking this out with you. This is not past
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the mic paid in the shade, got a seventeen million
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dollar contra track to pass the transformation.
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This is not I can not have an NBA contract.
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This is me believing God every day to do what
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He's called us to do. There was one time when
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we first got in this building that the Holy Spirit
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challenged us to give the largest amount that we had
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ever given. And I remember coming off this stage and
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coming right over here and giving that amount.
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I looked at Natalie.
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Tears were in my eyes, not because I was hurting,
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because I was scared.
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I'm not even playing life.
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Lord, either you gonna come through or we're gonna be
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living at this church. Sometimes you just gotta be honest
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with God. Scott came and got me. I don't remember
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if you remember this.
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Scott came and got me and said, there is.
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This guy that came from Maryland that needs to put
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something in your hand. I said, oh damn, God bless him.
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You know people sometimes like God told me to do this.
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Da dah da da.
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And he's like, I didn't know if I was gonna.
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Get to see you.
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Didn't look unassuming everything.
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It was literally sixty seconds from the time I put
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the money in the bucket to the time I met
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this guy.
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He said, I don't need anything. I don't want a picture,
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I don't want nothing. I just God just told me
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a five year and be obedient. I go to the back.
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It was to the penny, the exact amount, Maam, I
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telling the truth. He deposited the check the exact amount that.
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I gave sixty seconds earlier.
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I don't want you to clap because I got the amount,
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because it could have been three dollars. You don't know
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what I gave. You're assuming it was large. It was
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large for us.
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It wasn't the amount. It was because I was obedient.
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I realized that God had already spoken.
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He had already spoken to my answer while I was
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still in trepidation about obeying him, so much so that
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that man had to buy a plane ticket, get off
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of work, go to a bank in a different state, draw.
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Out the butt.
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He had spoken to the solution.
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While I still was deliberating about my problem. And I'm
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dared to think what would have happened if I would
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have at the last moment like that, we can't do this.
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It wasn't that the man wouldn't have gave me the money.
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He probably still would have. I would have missed an
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opportunity to understand God's faithfulness.
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What I know now can't know. Nobody take from me
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the way I give today, the way I obey God
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today it's from experience.
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So today, if nobody's ever given you the opportunity to
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believe God on this law, today's the day.
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Six hundred thousand dollars six dollars obedience.
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It's more valuable than the value of the currency. What
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everybody's stand all over this building today, I want to
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pray for you. I'm gonna ask the worship team to
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come up. He listen, We're gonna leave in just the moment.
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I don't want anybody moving right now.
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To please not distract anybody unless it's an emergency.
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We understand emergencies. I just want you to just take
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this moment. I know we're a little over. Next week
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will be right right on time. But I just wanted
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to let you know that this is a special thing
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and I felt it was worth communicating in this way.
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Today I'm believing for every family, for every for every person,
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for every inmate, for every addicted person, for every person
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that just gave their life back to Christ, for every
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person that's trying to figure out this journey. Today, I
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just want to let you know that our God is
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in the business of.
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Blessing you beyond what you think is possible. And today
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I just.
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Want to pray one simple prayer. Everybody, listen to me.
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I want to pray one simple prayer for you. Is
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that in the area of self control, when God asked
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you to do something, you would be one word obedient.
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Some of you.
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He's going to ask you to stop going to that
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place and you're gonna have to refigure out your life
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because your life is centered around this place, and you
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know what's going to lead you into sinful things.
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And sinful things is not an everyday thing. It's a drift.
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If you take an anchor off of a boat, you
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can come back in forty five minutes, and I promise
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you it won't be in the same location, not because
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a huge wind came in. It's just a current that
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allows you to drift to the wrong place. Today we're
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dropping an anchor on our firm foundation. And if God
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tells you to do anything, I need to be specific
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right now.
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I'm not talking about the offering yet.
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If he asks you to do anything, if he asks
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you to give up that fast food, if he asks
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you to go on a fast, if he asks you
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to start the Bible study, if he asks you to submit,
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if he ask you to do anything, you need to
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make a decision to obey. And when it comes to
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this crazy fruit offering, if he asks you to do anything,
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I just.
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Want you to do one word.
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What is it okay when you obey God? The consequences
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of obedience with God. See, everybody thinks consequences is a
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bad word. Consequences are not a bad word. Where you
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do the right thing, the.
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Consequences of obeying God are so amazing.
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I'm a living testimony to y'all. He don't do all
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the things you want him to do. He never will.
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That would make a must and not God.
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But he does stuff that I don't even think I
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would even pray for. Today, I'm believing. Write down on
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these cards, watch this, not just things.
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Put your things on there. I'm fine with that. But
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today I'm asking you.
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Would you add to your crazy faith card online and
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in the room, would you add the things and the
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areas you need self control in and see if by
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this time next year, a boy, this time next year,
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God hasn't given you more peace where there was grief.
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God has not actually let your.
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Words line up with the word instead of your words
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line up with your experience. Let's use this moment to mature.
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Can I pray for you? Would you lift your hands
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all over this place, Father, for every person that is
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under the sound of my voice in this norm or online,
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watching on rebroadcasts, or from a penitentiary right now, I'm
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asking that your Holy Spirit would invade that place, not
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just the room they're in, but their heart and their
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mind and their spirit. Today, God, I'm asking that you
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would be so evident with them, not just in a
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church service, but you would be evident in every area
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of their life. And today, after hearing this message, we
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are deciding to let.
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We are deciding to let you lead us.
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Lead us in our marriages, lead us in our finances,
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lead us on our jobs, lead us in our relationships,
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and lead us Father, and what we watch and what
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we listen to and what we wear. Lead us, Holy Spirit,
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because when you lead us, you lead us.
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From things to things.
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You are God that leads us from sin, God into freedom.
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You're a God that leads us Father from the pain, Father.
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Into the promise.
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He're the God that brings us from isolation into family.
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You are the God that can bring us from a
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dry place to a place with an abundance of rain. Today,
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lead us Holy Spirit. I'm asking for every person that
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needs self control that what they really need is a
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spirit empowered life of faith. Let them take journey in
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their faith Father that they will never recover from us
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like this crazy faith journey you've taken me on. God,
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I thank you for strengthening.
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Me to believe you.
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Today, even as me and my family are going to
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give God. The only reason I have faith that you
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can heal any other area in my life is because
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I've seen you do it before. You are a God
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that has moved to be four and today God, I
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thank you that I do not have to wonder if
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you're still moving. I got proof all around me, seen
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you move mountains, and today I believe you can do
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it again.
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So for anybody that is leaning into fear right.
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Now, you have not given us a spirit of fear,
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but one of power, love.
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And self control. Make our minds sound. Today.
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We trust you, we believe you, and we thank you
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that you are a firm foundation.
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Transform us and Father.
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For anybody that wants to receive you as Lord and savior,
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I feel like I need to do it in this moment.
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There's anybody in here that has been controlled by their sin.
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Nature. You didn't even have the option to choose freedom.
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You've just been controlled by sin.
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Today God is coming to set you free. No longer
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does that addiction, or that abuse.
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Or that mishap have to define your life.
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Today Jesus enters in because of a sacrifice that was made,
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and if you just receive it, your whole life can
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be transformed. I need the church to be praying right now.
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The war that has been going on for your life.
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The enemy thought he had you, but today Christ.
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Is intervening.
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And today you will no longer be come controlled by
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the sad nature. Today you're making a decision to be
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controlled by the flesh. Today, if you want to make
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a decision for Jesus, I just want everybody to pray
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this prayer with me.
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I want you to.
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Say, God, thank you for sending Jesus to interrupt.
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That was set out for my life. Today. I need
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you as my Lord and savior.
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I believe you lived, you die, and you rose again
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with all power. And today I give you control, Change me,
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renew me, transform me.
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I'm yours in Jesus' name.
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Amen.
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Can we thank God for every person that made that decision?
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Glory of God.
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This is what freedom is about to feel like for you.
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Listen to me.
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No longer will you be controlled by your flesh.
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You will be controlled by the spirit.
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If you made that decision, I want you to text
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save to A two A two A two.
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If you're watching them line, you're.
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In the room.
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And now we're going to walk into a moment of faith.
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Today we can give some of you be like, man,
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I wasn't gonna do it, but this week, I'm actually
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gonna go to the bank tomorrow and I'm gonna actually
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do the thing, and I'm gonna actually Okay, all right, lord,
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I heard you.
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Dang, you had to be so loud. We could have
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talked about something else, you know. I know.
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Wednesday night we're gonna be right here giving. Next Sunday
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the boxes will be out you can give. But right now,
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this is a sacred moment for me, and I want
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the team to come. And there's boxes right here, there's
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boxes in the sides, there's boxes in the back, and today,
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what do you gotta do some of y'all.
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God's changing the amount right now. Some of y'all are
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watching online.
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And you wrote the check and you already went to
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the website and typed it in the Holy Spirit.
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Been talking to you the whole time. Obey God and
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however you want to come.
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This is gonna be the time where some of y'all
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are just gonna worship because God's gonna give you clarity
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for other things.
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The biggest thing about this moment is not money, it's obedience.
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Obey God. Some of you need to write down what
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He been telling you to write down. That's gonna be
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more valuable. And I'm so proud of people that are
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taking the opportunity to start tithing and be consistent, be
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disciplined with what God has told you to do.
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Whatever God's telling you. Right now, it's time to move.
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Father, bless every seed that will be sown. And I
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thank you, Father God, that you would do what your
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word says. Would you open the windows of heaven and
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pour out blessing. I didn't say money, I said blessing
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that they would not have room enough to receipt. Prove
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that you God, and.
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What you can do with a little bit of faith.
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Would you be the miracle working God that takes mustard
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seeds at moves mountains. Today we trust you and we
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believe that crazy fruit can only come from a crazy seed.
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So today we sow and crazy faith. Have your way
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in Jesus' name. We agree.
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Somebody say it been from all over this building as
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we worship.
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Let's come and let's give. I have thanks to Yes,
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you have all that.
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Mirical signs and blinders fall on me, fall on me.
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Come on, we say, I have faith to be.
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Put it all in your hands.
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Gave me.
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Come sign I trust is fall as you give me.
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For you have all.
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Mile it will fall me ulliam I have. Then when
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I'm sewing into you, you have on.
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Me a yeah, they will.
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Find me I have been mean you have all me s.
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This will b.
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Full.
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I have.
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Gee as you have all.
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Mirco si they will find on me.
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You mean you have all you.
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Never inside.
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Size, you will pull me.
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Album you really go inside cost size.
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It's fine'll keeping.
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It's you mean if you are the signs, you.
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Have a.
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P go so.
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Cost signs. It's bad.
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Follow me. They will call me fin coody fray.
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With me.
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That's the thing I called solid the ether focus my will.
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That's the thing I called solos.
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On the days of the I with the das of
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the pas of.
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My will.
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Will then the odds of.
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The days.
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The game. You're working on something, you sing to it.
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It is a shop. I see shop on the days of.
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The games.
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Be a you as in hin a ray ships for
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the your top heading and your che chin.
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Can you che ps p? Is it call it for?
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You have this time?
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This way happen this way? Can you come?
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You come?
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You met? I see he is away her.
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Praise why pas Molly.
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Le shall Folly were still hoddy.
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The snow fighting. He's my.
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Gets my fu gets.
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Selling seeing him move you move them out now, baby,
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I see you do. It made a win, but that
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was snowing. I see you do it, said to see
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you move the bile, Oh yeah, I see it.
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Till you joy.
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There's no yeah, yeah, that's your big ros said, I
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see you see mon.
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Pounds of me.
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I see you do you may joy when there was nobody.
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I see you do.
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I see till I see you you pot down, Holly,
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I see you do.
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See take that away twitters and my dad, I see.
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I see you go.
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Sound you see dosssss fussing genus des boss's colsman.
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What s your fad that you keself?
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Stays attitude.
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Attitude so letting him work.
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Relive your face, watch your work, get for your good,
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for those head.
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I believe it's trust.
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He's not done with what he startity. No, he's not
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done till less good.
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Come on speaking over your little turney, let him turn
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your face. I'm gonna watch him do it working for you.
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He's not done with any style. He's not done until
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he's good.
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He's not done.
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So we say hello to our fruit.
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We say, how pleas hello, joy, Hello, hello, strength, Hello,
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how you if.
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You serve the Lord of the harvest.
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Lifted up, come saying hello hello hello, straight hell yeah.
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Right before we get out of here, come on, we
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lift it up in faith, we say this court's not
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my future.
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You are.
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You know, I'm WoT say sick. This is not you
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see Jesus not nice. You based not by house rays yes,
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and you are ways called beati.
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And this time I know you know.
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Last time I can tell you sez he's.
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Ss is not on the strange play stops.
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Sheeezes s shesus.
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To joy stop you joy, joy coming, joying coming.
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God.
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We thank you that you are our future, the Lord.
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What we see here on this earth, the situations we
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may find ourselves in is not the end of our story,
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but it is ultimately you and for that we're grateful.
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I want to take a moment to close our service.
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I know we've got a bunch of people who are
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still watching online.
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I just want to say thank you for joining us
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for service today.
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And I want to encourage Pastor Michael said it, but
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this is just the start of this season.
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Some of you.
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God is gonna continue to speak to you. We'll still
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have opportunities for you to give. You can go online
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and give, and I want to encourage you to just
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do exactly what Pastor we said, be obedient and what
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God would have.
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You to give.
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I'm gonna take them away to pray for us as
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we close our service.
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God, I thank you for every gift that was given
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today and that will be given.
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I thank you that you see the heart, you see
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the sacrifice.
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I thank you Lord.
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I pray against any remorse or any guilt walking out
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of here, any lies that the enemy would try to
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send if you shouldn't have done that, or look what
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went wrong. No, God, I think you there will be
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joy and peace as we walk out of here. I
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thank you, Lord Jesus that the seed that has sown today.
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Lord God, may we see a return Lord and ways
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that we can't even imagine.
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In peace and joy, in contentment, in confidence.
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God, I thank you that what happens today we will
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see the fruit of in our life. But I thank
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you for every person who gave their life to Christ
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today that it will be a fresh start. And I
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thank you Lord, I pray over this holiday season or
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that grief would not be the portion, but it would
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be joy.
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Lo.
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We give you all the praise, all the glory and
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all the honors of Jesus that we pray. And everybody said,
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come on, everybody saying, hey, listen, we love you so much.
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Thank you for being here.
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Go out and live a transformed life. We'll see you guys.
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Thank you for joining us today.
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If you said that prayer and accept it Jesus into
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your heart, it's the best decision you could ever make.
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