Sermon
D.R.E.A.M.
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You're listening to a message to go from acts church.
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We hope this message will light up your day.
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But I really believe that it will come a time
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when the things that the world cannot do to help
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the church will be the answer. When there was a
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curse that came down on the earth, God separated the language.
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But when there was a blessing that came.
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By the way of the Holy Spirit, he gave them
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punks the five.
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Pillars.
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That is good for the whole country, but also good
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for one church. Right, even if it's just one church
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doing d R EAF and you were involving nobody else,
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it's still good for one church. So dream d R
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e A M is from Fabruary twenty twenty five to
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February twenty thirty. Fabrue twenty twenty five is now we
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are declaring the ciples. First, that's d and then M
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will be missions. We want this movement to be a
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mission minded movement. All the earth will know and that
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will be declared in twenty thirty. For the rest whatever
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else after twenty thirty, the Holy Spirit will lead us
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after He has strengthened us in all these five areas.
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Let me tell you why I need to share this
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in the last six months and even today. This is
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like a refresh button, you know, after you play a game,
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video game, you know, and then you refresh. Everything refreshes.
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So we've been doing this for some time. We've we've
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been playing this video game for some time, and then
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we feel like God is putting his finger to the
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refresh button and he wants to refresh the whole movement
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because once upon a time, maybe xkl was doing this,
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and then maybe X Manma was doing that, and then
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maybe x Chang Mai was doing this. And while we
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serve the Lord together, we might not be together, and
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so it's very powerful when we move as one, very powerful.
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So I feel like the Lord says to me, Kenneth,
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as the leader of the movement, I want you to
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refresh the button, press the refreshed button so that the
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whole ex family is on the same page. There's nobody
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doing number three, and then someone else doing number four,
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and someone else doing number seven. No, we refresh the
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button and bring us all back to number one, and
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we start from there together, roll out everything together for
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the next five years at least, okay, at least means
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it can be more than five years with no one
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missing out. No, I don't want anyone to miss out.
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Suddenly we forgot X, me and No, I don't want
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that to happen. Okay, no one left behind, no one leading,
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also too far ahead.
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Okay, we all move together.
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The secret is to work on getting more centralized, even
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as we get more decentralized. Our care, you know, someone
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to before. Even when it comes to exercise, the call
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is very important. And when you don't have a strong call,
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other problems come. You can't run properly, you can't walk properly,
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you can't do any properly.
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The care.
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So there are days where the training, yeah, we're not
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seeing deglect the other parts of the body. But make
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sure that your care is strong. And so the Lord
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is saying to us twenty twenty five, make sure the care,
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what we believe in together is strong. You understand the call.
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Once the call is right, everything else will start to flow.
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And then, of course strengthen your arms or so strengthen
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your feet. But the call, the call, the care, So
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there's time to come back to the care, time to
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come back to the centralized. The secret is to work
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on getting more centralized even as we get more decentralized
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because the power of decentralization is found in the centralization.
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Many languages actually in the in in terms of the
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earthly language. But one language of heart, one language of spirit,
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one language when when you when you go back home
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and tell your people why they should do it, I
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pray they don't hear just you know what you're trying
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to say. But why you're saying, you hear the heartbeat
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of God when you're saying it.
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Very important.
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When there was a curse that came down on the
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on the earth, God separated the language. But when there
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was a blessing that came by the way of the
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Holy Spirit, he gave them pangs. One language unites, so
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we need to speak the language of the spirit, same
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language wherever you go. So yeah, yeah, that's right language
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same Oh i'd see. Oh I heard this also in.
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Language. I heard this also. Yeah, we're speaking the same.
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And when we visit anybody, you don't even feel like
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you're outside your your own home. You feel like, wow,
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I feel like I'm at home. I'm at home because
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it is home, and we speak, we understand each other,
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you know. Yeah, that's very very important. Okay, So uh,
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let's move on to five to twenty two, six February
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to February. We are declaring disciple ship or disciple first.
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Why did we use disciple first?
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Why?
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Because when you move around, you want to declare two things.
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One is I am firstly a disciple, before I'm a pastor,
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before I'm an evangelist, before I'm apostle. I am a
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disciple of follow up price. Firstly, Then you're also saying
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I also firstly want to make sure I'm discipling others. Okay,
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I'm not raising up a drummer first. Oh, this is
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just the drummer. Just go get a drummer. No, before
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I get a drummer, I want to get a disciple
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who can play drums. Therefore, when you're the drummer, actually drums,
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he drums as a disciple, not because he saw some
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other drummer in the world and then today he wants
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to repeat back the same movements. No, he has a
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heart to serve the Lord, and he drums according to
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his heart beat, which is for the Lord.
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Amen. And then you won't have any problems with you know, flesh.
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So you can actually be a disciple with the Holy Spirit,
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because it's a doctrine. You just doctrine that you follow
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the doctrine, so you're a disciple, your follower. But without
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the Holy Spirit, that there's no power. So we want revival,
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so there will there will follow, but we'll just make
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sure we get our discipleship right first, and then the
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Holy Spirit will take our obedience and he will go far.
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Okay.
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And of course he talks about prayer because revival always
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is uh followed.
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Uh.
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So a lot of people are trying to witness without
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the Holy Spirit. You can't, you can't. Uh, you can't
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just say, baila, you know no. It is a spiritual thing.
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And so the Holy Spirit, when it comes upon you
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and me, we will become a mighty Ivagalism's force.
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Can we believe it? For this year? Yes we can. God.
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We will not limit God to our dream, but.
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We will say that we will build on each letter,
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build on each move of God in our lives. Okay,
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I'm prophesying now to all of us that this is
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what is going to happen, all right.
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Twenty twenty nine.
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Action action means social action means let's see our cities transform.
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So we're not looking just as church anymore.
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We're looking at business, business, company schools, community centers, old folks,
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young people, you know, drug addicts. I don't know, but
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I really believe that it will come a time when
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the things that the world cannot do to help the
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church will be the answer. They'll say, you know what,
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how come a pastor, we've tried this? Are we usually
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one billion ring gator to try to help the drug
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edicts of Malaysia? And then we you know, we got
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only five percent success? But how come you guys? I
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really believe that God is going to do a movement
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of community transformation like never before. So how does it start?
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It starts by disciples saying, yes, Lord, here I am
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send me. And as you step out, the Holy Spirit
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feels you because you're ready to serve Him. And then
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you you want to tell everybody about the goodness of God.
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And then people will say, hah, you only priest gospel
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to be here.
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How about good works? How about changing the city?
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You know, we don't want to be here so holy
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and righteous and so spiritual that we bring no change
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to our community.
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The poor, still up, the still dryggs. What's going on? Why?
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So the light is so full of light in the
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church and then there's no light outside. So again not
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to say that we cannot do it now. We can
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start now already, but it will come a time when
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you will start to begin to feel the earth. The
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light will shine everywhere, even and especially outside of church. Okay,
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we want to make the difference, all right. It is
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the final one, and it's missions. We want to after
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we have succeeded making disciples filled with the Holy Spirit,
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shared to as many people in the country. You know,
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now there's no more, no, no, no one else to
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share with it. Right, You've done all the social action,
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You've loved the people around you, you've brought transorhivision, and
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now you've got to say, oh, is there any anyone else.
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That we have to reach. Yeah, it will be cross cultural.
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It will be outside your comfort zone, outside your color,
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outside your creed or rather your your your language.
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Uh is going to be outside.
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So we want to be a church planting and community
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prospering church. We want to take the success that we
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have that God has given us over four years and
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now say let's spread it out to the rest or.
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Let's branch out. Let's take this.
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You know, I think Kentucky Fried Chicken had to be
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successful Firus before they can branch out. McDonalds had to
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be successful to where they are before they can branch out.
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They branch out because they were confident that it works
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and refranchise franchise only because it works somewhere.
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If it didn't work somewhere and people.
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Weren't saying finger looking good, they'd be like, Okay, let's
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just stay here. But because he was finger looking good
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and people from overseas were coming to America and eating
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KFC and wow, it's so good. I wish it was
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in Malaysia.
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That's how.
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I pray that people everywhere will come and taste you
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wherever you are and go like, can I start this
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in Tibactu? And you say, of course, because we are
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not using cultural standards or cultural values, we are using
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biblical values. If it's cultural, then it will be limited
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to culture.
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Or this one.
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Cannot work in Indonesia, So sorry, past the can this one?
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Can?
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You don't understand the sale problems are no, no, no, no,
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we're not it's not culture. It's not culture as in
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like earthly culture, it's biblical culture.
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Are you with me? You can take scripture and you
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can apply it anywhere, all right.
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And that's why every time when I speak to you
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are I don't just like to speak opinions. I like
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to speak to you from obedience that comes from the
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word okay, so that you don't have to tell me
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that past this word doesn't work here. Maybe strategy can
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change methods, but the word is the same everywhere, okay.
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When I first received this from the Lord almost thirty
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years ago, I thought it was just for our youth organization,
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you know, to bring it around Malaysia. So even though
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I had the dream in my heart for thirty years now,
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I never shared it really with X. And then when
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I retired as the senior pastor of X, and I
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am now going to focus on Malaysia because there's so
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many to reach in Malaysia, so much to do in Malaysia.
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I felt the load saying to me, revive the dream
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the ram.
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But he says, bring X together with you, because X
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is a force now, a force of prayer, a force
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of manpower, a force of even finances. Bring bring X
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and make X a blessing to the nation. Make X
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a blessing to the nation. And that's why I started
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to tell X about it before that I never really
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apprecied about it, never said very much about it.
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Some people heard dream but don't know dream what.
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That's why now we even did a hoodie, right, you
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know how you saw the hoodie at the conference you
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established since nineteen ninety four, that is when I first
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got the.
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Vision dream Malaysia.
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All right, But ladies and gentlemen, brothers, this is it
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can also be dream Indonesia, Dream Singapore, because it's not
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just a dream for a country.
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That's plucked out from the sky.
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It is d R I mean, which country doesn't want
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to have strong discipionship, Which country doesn't have revival, Which
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countries doesn't want to have effective evangalism, Which countries doesn't
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want to social action that can transform your nation? Which
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country doesn't want to be a missions minded country? So
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it does not ex Malaysia Onia. It's what I believe
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almost every pastor dream about the five.
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Pillars.
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That is good for the whole country, but also good
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for one church. Right, even if it's just one church
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doing d R EA and you were involving nobody else,
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it's still good for one church. Maybe maybe you can
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even boil it down to one family. As for me,
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in my house. I will serve the Lord. I've got
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three kids. Here we go disciple them. I want my
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whole family revived. I want us involved in vangialism. I wonder,
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as you know, I want to If my son is
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a doctor, I will tell him, you know, go into
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the medical field and no, change the medical field for
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the Lord. You know, I a action and then am missions. No,
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we'll go on missions together. And we love the other cultures.
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We love the other colors, we love the other people
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of the world that got made. You can even apply
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to a fair mearly. So I thought to myself, Wow,
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this is God. But you know what I was about
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to share with you is when I caught it them.
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No one taught me it. No one's showed me that
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it was the Holy Spirit. And the reason why I
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know is the Holy Spirit is because of the order.
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You thought maybe persecuted had to write the word dream out.
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So I started with D and you thought it was
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his wisdom that brought about R as a second. No,
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every one of them lined up, one after the other,
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and I knew it was the Holy Spirit because are
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did not come first. Some people think our revival, you
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know what revival? Sometimes is is a cop up, cop
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cop out? Why why did I say that? It's because
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God already said make disciples right, So what does the
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disciple look like?
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We read our bible?
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Okay, Now, even without the revival, you're supposed to read
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your bible, give to God, tithes and offering, uh, serving
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church witness for God, be kind to the poor.
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Okay. Disciples do this.
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Just because their disciples now, because the church now is
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doing less and less discipleship. We appreci on Sunday and
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then we think that's discipleship, right, and then it's done,
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and then we hope people catch it right and then
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half don't. We gonna tell me if you know, sometimes
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when we leave a room after inspiring message, we can
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still forget until we practice it. But that's not the
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best pictures we have heard. We only remember one word
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or one sentence. The rest we forgot, and if we
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don't practice it even worse. After a while, a little while,
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we totally it's gone. Yeah, the bird of the air
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comes and takes the seat by the wayside gone. And
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then unless it's good seat on good ground, then you
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will take root bare fruit.
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Okay.
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So this is this is important that some people ask
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for revival because they want God to do the discipleship.
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Why do I say that? So when the Holy Spirit comes,
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boom revival. Oh, I want to read the Bible. You
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see the hypo write, Oh I want now to pray.
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Then the revival gone, we stop praying. No, no, it
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doesn't work that way. So the revival when it comes,
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it comes. Yes, the kind of revival that comes to
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a country, it comes for a period of time to
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get everybody back to discipleship busy. Because you don't need revival,
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or rather God to have to do the discipleship for
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you and for me.
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We've got to do it ourselves.
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But the revival that I'm talking about is not just
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that one time Holy Spirit falling on the country and
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causing everybody to just suddenly become not themselves suddenly. I
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can't wake up every morning for quiet time and turning tomorrow.
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I can wait because the revel hit. But most revivals
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only last for a while. Because what God is after
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his revival in our that maintained forever, not the dependence
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on the one time God. Please pour something out you understand,
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because because if you are the one time revival every
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ten years or no then you are asking.
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God to do the job of discipleship for you. We cannot.
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We are to do the discipleship. And there are days
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where we say, yes, Lord, revive that brother. I'm trying
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to tell him to read the Bible blah blah blah.
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But you know, if I is it hard, holy sweet
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priests come upon him, give him. But you know, let's
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not depend on the one off, one time, you know,
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revival I want. I want that from Malaysia. Malaysia needs that,
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but we cannot depend on that. We've got to move
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on and we've got to start going from our to
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eat evangelism because almost every revival you study, evangelism is
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the result. You start seeing millions coming to the Lord
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right because of the Holy Spirit. And then they begin
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to look outside the church and go like, I want
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to change the society. I want to change the old
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folks home, I want to change the orphanage.
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People start to have a heart so big, so that's action.
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And then finally, now that we see work here in
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our land, we want to see it expand. And that's
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how people take what they have, the success they have,
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the formula that they have, and they go out to
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say as it worked for me here, I want to
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see work for you here, right, or work for me here,
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I want to see it work for you there. All right,
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So every letter needed to make the dream. Let's move on.
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It's a big picture, very big picture, but small plan, okay.
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So all of us share one big picture, and then
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we go back to our small plants, small homes, and
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we work the big picture out. Because I want everybody
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to understand, even back in your church plans, that you
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are not You might be small in number, but you're
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part of a big movement who serves a big God
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who has given us a big vision. We're not small,
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We're actually big and the biggest days I hear of us. Really,
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So I want you to feel like family, or feel
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like we're one in this, not only here in some
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small place, in some you know whatever, seemingly God for
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second place, no where, I'm.
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Part and parcel of a move of God.
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There's a lot of work to do, but I believe
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that God is with us, and he will help us,
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and he will give us all that we need.
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Amen.
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I can tell you again and again how He chose
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child disciples who are all not what we think they
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should be. Someone asked a question before many years ago.
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If you were Jesus, would you choose Peter? If you
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were Jesus, would you choose Thomas? If you or Jesus,
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would you choose you? But he did, and we want
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to give him all the glory because here alone will
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bring this dream to pass by his strength and by
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his anointing. But he still looks for men and women
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who will say yes. And this continues even when you
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go back home. There are people who doesn't look like
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they're the next guy, or doesn't look like they will
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say here, I am Lord sent me.
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But it begins with us. And I pray that you
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all understand this.
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