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A Perspective of Possibilities | Ps Graeme Politanski
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Hey, welcome to the City Point Church podcast.
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Thanks for joining us. Every day is an opportunity to
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take hold of. So we hope this message inspires
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you and build your faith that it helps you have more of a God
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perspective for your day. Enjoy.
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Jesus is pretty good, isn't it? Yeah, Name above all names.
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I'm wondering, Pastor TJ, where were you when God created the
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moon? Can it, Pastor Chris, before you
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go, where were you before God created the rainbow?
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No idea. Pastor Mel, where were you
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before God created the sun? I'm wondering where was the gods
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that other people worship? Before God created the four
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corners of the universe, where was Lucifer before God breathed
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him into existence? You see where I'm going, right?
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Who's the name above every name? Jesus.
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Come on, Jesus is the name above every name.
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There is no wonder why this community is going to come and
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bow before the name of Jesus. There is no wonder why every
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church is yet and very soon to be full beyond its brims and its
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borders. Amen is because His name is the
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only name that actually matters. He's the name that gives life to
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people, that brings healing to people, that brings restoration
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to people, that brings clarity of mind to people, that restores
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emotions to people, that saves people's eternity.
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And He's the one who created them in the first place.
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So if He can create us in the 1st place, he can restore us,
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Amen and he can bring His people back to himself.
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He's the name above all names and there's a deceiver out there
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and he's a deceiver because he is actually a loser.
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Already lost, already lost. I'm not trying to play big right
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now. He's already lost because Jesus
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blood was all powerful and it was what it was.
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You know, Jesus going to the cross wasn't the saddest day.
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It was the most victorious day. It was the day when where Jesus
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declared himself, where he said there is no principality or
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power or temptation or ruler. There is nothing above me,
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everything is beneath me. And then he went one step
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ridiculously forward from there and he said, and all that
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believe in me, everything is also under their feet.
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Amen. Isn't that insane?
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Insane. Or why don't you take your seat?
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I'm just going to go nuts, go crazy.
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Let's read. I want to I want to preach a
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message called the perspective of possibilities.
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The perspective of possibilities.
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I think it's important that you and I look at rot life
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correctly. You know, sometimes we allow
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through our perspective, we allow our situations, our
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feelings, circumstances, all the things of this world dictate to
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us. When they have no authority to
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do that, it has no place in our wise except for that what we
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give it. But when you and I have a God
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perspective, we only then see possibilities.
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Let me tell you, God does not look at you and I and see
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problems. God looks at us and sees the
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possibilities. He sees everything He has
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created you to become and be He. He sees the power that is being
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infused into your spirit through the Holy Spirit of God.
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He sees the washing that has happened, and he sees the
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possibility of you becoming everything He originated for you
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to become and for you to be a man.
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It's only us that doesn't see that.
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And so tonight, this message is about a perspective of
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possibilities. And in the Holy Scriptures,
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Psalms 14, two, it's not up on the screen.
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It says the Lord looks down from heaven upon the children of man
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to see if there is any who understand, who seek God
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powerful, who understand not who just know about, not those who
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have heard, but those who understand really who God has
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created them to be. Is there any like that in this
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place tonight? They might understand this a
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little bit, a little bit. Psalms 102 verse 19 up on the
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screen it says for he looked down from the height of his
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sanctuary, which I don't even understand or can't even grasp
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where that is because he formed the universe.
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He looked down from the height of his sanctuary, from heaven.
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The Lord viewed the earth. The Lord views our situation,
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our circumstance, your life, and the things around you from His
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throne in heaven. And when He looks at your world,
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He has an invitation for you and I to transfer from an existence
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of our human understanding into a reality of truth that is in
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his perspective. He gives us an invitation to
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transfer the way we look into a new way of looking.
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He invites us. It's an invitation empowered
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through the Holy Spirit, but it's an invitation really
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through the blood of Jesus Christ that we would change our
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perspective of our situation, our relationships, our jobs, the
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world around us, our schools and our universities, that we would
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have a God heavenly perspective when we walk in there every day.
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When you get out of that car and go to uni, you ought to get out
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and go. What does a child of God see
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today? Man, there's a lot of people
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here. There's a lot of souls waiting
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for you today. God, would you show me which one
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you want me to speak to? When you get to your workplace
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and you open the car of your Lamborghini and you hop out.
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I'm. I'm a cars person.
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This is just the way I think. The door.
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The car of your Lamborghini. This is a mighty car.
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It's a heavenly car. You don't know what a car really
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looks like. Yeah, it's a car within a car.
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Oh, you don't think there's wheels within wheels?
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Anyone read your Bible? Come on, come on.
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Wheels within wheels. Anyway, you open the car of the
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door of the car and you have the door of that car and you jump
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out and you about to approach your workplace.
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But before you open the door of the workplace, you look at the
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signs, you turn around, you look at the community, all the
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traffic. God, you placed me here today.
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You placed me in this place. I've got my holy on.
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And you open the door and you walk in, right?
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I'm here. What do you want me to do, boss?
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I can do that and I'll do it so well that you will see God in me
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because I'm a man or I'm a woman of excellence.
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And when I come to the table, I come to the table with the
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Father and with the Son and with the Holy Spirit.
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I bring more than my giftings. I bring the gift giver into this
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place. You walk in and you go.
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I have a message for you. You thought you had a job for
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me. Well, I've got a job for you.
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Yeah. Has anyone, does anyone follow
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Jay Johns? The the Preacher?
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Jay Johns. Amazing man of God.
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Get your phone out right now. Go to Pod Bean.
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Download Jay Johns. You need to watch it.
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It's good. He's a good man of God.
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But he tells his story of when he's on a plane and he sits in
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the plane and it's an awkward situation.
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There's a stranger beside him. He's like, hello.
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Hello. It's all Orchid.
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Oh, what do you do? Oh, I'm a secretary.
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Blah, blah, blah. They talk.
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Well, what do you do? Wow.
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What do I do? Well, I work in an intergalactic
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society and I'm one of the children of the owners of this
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society. And what The job that I have is
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about transforming people's worlds.
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I have the ability and the authority and the commissioning
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to take someone's life and transform who they are through
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the power that has been given to.
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And he just goes on because he's got the best job on planet
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Earth. Let me tell you, when you have a
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God perspective, when you really know who you are, let me tell
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you the world around you shifts, the atmosphere, fear shifts
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because you are in the room. No wonder why the church prays
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and Bribe has the biggest service it's had since its
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launch. What it shouldn't surprise us
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with the church prayed. What else is going to happen
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when the church prays? You know what, what, what do you
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expect that when your child is struggling at at school and you
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get the family around the table or whatever you do, but with
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before you go to bed and you pray with your child that their
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whole school life would from that day forward change What?
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What else would you expect but that complete change?
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Like we are praying to the author and the finisher of all
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things. Amen.
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We are the head. We're not the tail.
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What that means is that when we walk and when we talk, we walk
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and we talk like we're the head, like we have all authority.
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We have the authority of the galactic universes or whatever
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is going on out there. We have it's backing and it's
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authority. Because where was I when God
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created all things? I was a twinkle in his eye.
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And when he formed me, he said, and it's all yours, son.
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And I say thank you, father, I'm going to use it.
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Amen. I'm going to spend my life,
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You're going to spend your life working out the best ways to use
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everything that God has given you.
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Let me tell you, you have a mission on your life.
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There is no greater call. There is no greater
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commissioning, whether you're at uni, whether you're at home,
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whether you're in the middle of an argument, whether you're
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looking in the mirror and you're thinking, where is my hair?
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Where's it gone? No matter your situation, that
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just that's just me. No matter your situation, when
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you walk out of that room, when you get up in the morning, when
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you pray, when you think, when you make your coffee, you have
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the greatest call on planet Earth in the universe.
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There is no greater mission to be part of.
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And let me tell you something, it's not God's mission.
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It's yours and it's mine. Amen.
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We are Co missionaries with the author and the finisher of all
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things. Anyway, that was the first one.
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So God looks down at us and he sees possibility.
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Could you imagine seeing what God sees?
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Like I love, I love worship. I love worship.
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When I'm struggling to worship, I always go to the same picture
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and I just imagine Jesus on the right hand of the throne.
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And I imagine that throne, and I can't even see who's on it
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because of the glory of the Lord, the splendor of God.
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And I see Jesus just shimmering through the glory of God.
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And then I just look around and I just see millions and billions
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of Saints, like a sea of Saints. And I have a problem every time
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I'm in worship and I get this imagery.
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I don't know whether I should be kneeling, whether I should be
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standing and rejoicing or kneeling and worshipping, or if
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both are the same and I just don't know what I am to do.
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But I'm overwhelmed with the goodness and the glory of the
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Lord the the heavenly perspective to be able to see as
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God sees you know Jesus. We we know that the Bible
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teaches us because doubting Thomas in the Bible, you know,
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when Jesus rose from the dead. The news went around to all of
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the disciples. I'm going to see if I can drink
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as loud as you this morning, Rach, what an amazing word this
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morning. Wasn't it fantastic?
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And what was I saying Nothing important.
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All right, doubting Thomas. So Jesus rose from the dead.
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The news went around and people heard before the the disciples
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and and they heard that Jesus was walking the streets.
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And Thomas said, you know, if I see the holes in his hand and in
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his feet and in his side, then I'll believe.
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And then Jesus walks through a wall.
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What do you do in that situation?
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Right, so Jesus walks through the wall and and shows Thomas
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the holes in his hands. And so we know that then, you
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know, later in Scripture, it tells us that Jesus in bodily
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form ascended into heaven and, and everyone there wasn't just
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the disciples that they like, lots of people saw him ascend
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into heaven. It's actually documented and and
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so he ascended into heaven. So we know that he is there on
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the right hand of the Father right now.
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And sometimes in that imagery, it's as though we view Jesus
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like pouring out his blood or something.
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It's in some forms of suffering, even though he's in the glory of
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God. But let me tell you that God,
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that Jesus is in heaven and before he can even see you and I
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on planet earth, he's looking through billions of people that
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have been redeemed because of his sacrifice.
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Does this make sense? Let me tell you, it's all good
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news. It's all good news from the
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birth. Christmas just around the
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corner. I can't wait till Christmas
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message is going to say good until I just love the Christmas
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Today so many people give their lives to God.
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It's just what a celebration. But from the birth it's good
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news. To the cross it was good news,
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to his resurrection it was good news and to his coming again.
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Let me tell you, this is all good news.
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This is all good news for you and I.
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To have a God perspective is to have a perspective of
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possibilities. And if you're struggling with
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that, the prayer is, is God. Would you, would you give me a
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new way of seeing? Would you give me a new vision
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of life? Would you give me God eyes so I
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can see possibilities and not just issues and problems?
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The enemy wants the church to be more focused on our problems
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than on the victor. But God has come to set you free
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and free indeed. Amen.
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What that means is freedom number one.
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Salvation. Freedom number 2 is your daily
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walk in Christ. I am free indeed.
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I am free from this indiction, indeed.
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I am free from this mindset indeed.
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I am free from this mind battle indeed.
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I am free from this weakness indeed.
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I am free from apathy indeed. I am free from a lack of vision
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for my life, indeed. Amen.
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So this is what it is to be really free.
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You can only have that freedom in Jesus.
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It's, it's his. He's the author of it.
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He is freedom. You don't get that freedom
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anywhere else. We've already established so
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easily tonight, just so easily that God is that our God.
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Jesus is Lord of all, right? So we've already established
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that. That means He is the only answer
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for the freedom that we could possibly be seeking.
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Does that make sense? It's really simple, isn't it?
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Takes all complication out. God sees not just what has been
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or what is, but what is possible.
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When we look at ourselves or others, we see what they have
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done or what they are doing. But God sees the possibilities
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of who we can become and where we are going.
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Does this make sense? It's flipped.
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We see past and present. God sees the possible present
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and future. Does that make sense to have
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eyes like God? There's a story in the I love
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this story. This is a good story.
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I want to keep it to myself. Actually, just close this up.
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OK, another story. Let's talk about Moses Phineas.
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Can everyone say Phineas? There's a story in the Bible, in
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the book of Numbers, about a man named Phineas.
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Phineas has got eyes to stop a curse that was about to come
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over the Jewish people. Israel was about to answer the
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promised land after 40 years in the desert.
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Has anyone felt like you've been dealing with the same thing for
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40 years? If that's the case, you need a
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bit of a Phineas spirit in you tonight.
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Zimri. Everyone says Zimri.
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Who comes up with these names? One of the leaders of the tribe
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of Simeon laid with a non Jewish girl, Cosby.
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Cosby. I didn't.
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I didn't. I haven't heard Cosby since I
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was very, very young watching that TV program.
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Yeah. Anyway, just keep moving.
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OK. So Zimray laid with a non Jew, a
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Jewish girl, a non Jewish girl, Cosby.
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Imagine the names of their children.
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It was one of the Midianite King's daughters at the entrance
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of the Tabernacle. OK so basically God told the
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Israelites not to have relations with non Jewish people because
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it would because it's there. That was sinful nations and the
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Jews are God's chosen people, but the Jews got to such a place
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after 40 years of wondering, and we get this to this place as
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well, where you even wonder, is God actually here with me?
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I'm 45 years God old God, where? Where have you been for the last
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40 years? We've seen miracles for that
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person. We've seen you, your glory, the
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glory of God on a a mountain. And we've we've seen their face,
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you know, reconfigured because of the glory of God and the
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presence of God. We've seen water coming out of
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rocks. But God, what have you done for
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me? This tells me that seeing it in
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someone else's life is not enough for me.
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And I'm sure you might agree with that.
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It's great that we have miracle services and we see undeniable
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miracles. But what has God done for me?
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And the enemy loves this state of mind because it's the state
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of mind that has thrown away the possibilities of a God who's
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does makes all things new. And you no longer have a
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possibility perspective of what could God do with us if we just
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stayed the course? You no longer have that
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perspective, but you have a now perspective.
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What has God done for me now? I feel like this now this has
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happened to me. Where is God right now?
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Well, let me tell you, if God removed himself, you would know.
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Read the book of Genesis. He holds the world in his hands.
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He is the one that separates the land from the sea.
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He does that. He still does that by the way.
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He is the one that holds darkness back.
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Read the book of Job. He holds darkness back from your
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life. This is what we call mercy, the
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mercy of God. He is holding darkness back so
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that I can sort stuff out. He's doing that for us.
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Before you're a believer, before you're a Christian, He is even
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surrounding you, man, you can get real deep in theology on
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this, but he is surrounding people.
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That's why they're hearing this message may be here tonight.
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And you don't know Jesus and you're wondering where is he?
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Well, he's all around you right now.
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He's protecting you because there is a devourer out there.
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He has no real authority except for what he's given to him.
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And we declared before that where was he before God made
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him. But he is a devourer.
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He's just there, ready to go, being held back, ready to go to
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devour our lives. Where is God?
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He is everywhere for you. Our very breath is God's grace,
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sustaining love, our very breath.
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Well, why doesn't He just take me then?
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I've had enough. Because He still sees
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possibilities for you see, when he, when he formed you and me,
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he formed us with an immense abundance of possibilities.
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And the deeper we get into him, the more layers we RIP off.
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It's like the giant just comes out.
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I feel like I need to go to the gym right now.
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The more you press, the more the giant comes out.
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Anyway, another story for another day.
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So here we had an Israelite lane with a non Jewish woman right at
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in the tent where all the elders of Israel were is a mockery.
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A complete mockery. Phineas.
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I could just imagine it. Cups.
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They used to have cups of tea. I could imagine the camp of the
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elders sitting around on a box because they used to make boxes.
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And anyway, this is my imagination.
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I'm just sharing a little bit of the enemy.
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And so here's Phineas. He's all the elders of Israel.
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They're all way holy. Phineas have his cup of tea.
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You thought this was the UK thing?
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This is the Israelite thing. And so here's Phineas having his
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cup of tea, herds a little, here's a little hustle in the
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tent just over there. And he stands up and he says,
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how dare you in the House of the Lord, grabs his spear.
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And the Bible says straight through both of them.
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Now you might go, well, that's a bit nasty.
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It was actually a legal right for him to do that in those
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days, because back in those days the statutes of the Lord were
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supreme. A wonder in our lives of the
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things of the Lord Supreme. Would you be prepared to get a
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Phineas spirit inside of you to pick up a spear tonight and ram
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it through a few things in your life?
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Well, that doesn't line up with the Word of God.
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Who cares about my cup of tea? Well, that addiction, where did
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that even come from? I can't even remember when that
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was formed, but Oh well, would we get a bit of a Phineas spirit
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in US tonight and say, As for me in my house, it's that's an
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interesting, interesting. I love what Pastor Mel brought
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out about this a month or so ago, a few weeks ago.
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But As for me in my house, this is my house.
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Welcome to my house. He's he's Graham again.
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And over here I have my Christmas tree room.
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Over here I have my musicianship room.
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I love it, love it, love it. Over here is my cup of tea room.
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And this is my my full front room.
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What everyone sees of me, we don't say, As for me in my
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house, we will serve the Lord. And so everyone looks at me like
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I'm serving and I'm doing a good job, but I'm not prepared to put
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a spear through my idol music worship and playing bass or
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whatever it might be. Cars.
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I'm just trying to show you Graham's world, right?
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We're all prepared to put a spear through the cup of tea
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room. What's with that anyway?
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But you might not be prepared to put a spear through Christmas
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tree room. Do you see what I'm saying?
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When we are prepared to declare As for me in my house, we what
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we are really saying is this door, it's opened.
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It's free for the Lord to access this door.
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It's open, free for the Lord to access this door of my life.
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It's Oh, OK. Yeah, Rachel preached about that
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room. But I I do have a Phineas spirit
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inside of me. You know what?
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I'm just going to do it. I'm in good mind right now.
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I'm going to open that and I walk away.
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Just say God just gently with me and he goes, the doors open, let
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me in. Amen.
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Amen. So what do your eyes normally
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see? We can see people's faults and
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sins, our own faults and sins, or have God eyes to see the
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possibilities like Phineas. To have God eyes is to see what
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is happening now and to have a perspective of possibility for
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your future. Albert Einstein Mazie man, time
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is relative. It's only worth depends upon
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what we do as it's passing. If we have eyes of judgement, I
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argue we are devaluing the time given to us.
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You can quote that. Put pasta Gray underneath.
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To have a heavenly perspective of life requires placing value
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upon our God-given time. Let me tell you if you really
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grass hold. This is why Mel and I are we
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have no qualms at all about things like finances, asking the
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church to give. You're not given to us.
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We don't we don't benefit at all from it.
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But what we We have no qualms asking.
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We give, so we do it too. We have no qualms asking people
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to serve at all. We have no issue at all asking
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people to go a bit above and beyond.
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No issue at all. We look after people so they
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don't burn out, but we've got no problems asking.
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When you really grab a hold that we are part of the greatest
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mission, you can't afford to allow a second go by without
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intentionality upon it. You can't afford to live another
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10 years without open the Christmas tree door.
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We just can't afford that. Your life is too precious.
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You are too precious. God values you so much, He said.
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I need you to fulfill, to help me fulfill the mission.
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Isn't that amazing? I love that Jesus left.
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Because it shows to us how much he cares because he left,
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because he is like, I can't do this on my own.
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I'm in one place at any time. Holy Spirit, go and use my
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people. They're all over planet Earth.
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When, when they say yes to you, Holy Spirit, this unity, we will
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flood planet Earth with the transformative power of God.
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We will flood our our community with the your streets man, what
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we did on Friday. So pal, who enjoyed that?
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I really enjoyed that. There's a man mowing his lawn
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and I'm like out with a bottle. Please don't call the police.
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And then it started raining. So I'm under a tree.
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God, just give me fire. Literally I was like, God, I
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need 5 minutes to do that street and then to run home.
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But anyway, God didn't give me the 5 minutes.
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And I was thinking about that. It was like God's like what?
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Do you not know what you're praying for or, or what you know
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you want 5 minutes now? But before you wanted me to rain
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the heavens down like I'm sorry. So anyway, I was under a tree
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for about 4 minutes and I'm like, you know what, just
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embrace it Grey. So I did, I got a bit of Phineas
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about me. So time is too precious.
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Precious to be spent on the problems, the lack, the hurt,
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the shame, the sin, the waiting. Let me tell you, all those
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things need to be dealt with, they need to be worked through,
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they need to be healed in our lives.
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But we need to get to it because time is you.
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You are just too precious. Phineas saw these things.
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But Phineas had focus on the promise and the possibilities.
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The psalmist in Psalms 102 said, Oh my God, do not take me away
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in the midst of my days. Your years are throughout all
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generations of old. You laid the foundation of the
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earth, and the heavens are the work of Your hands.
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They will perish, but you will endure.
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Yes, they will all grow old, like a garment, like a cloak.
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You will change them and they will be changed, but you are the
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same and your years will have no ends.
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What we do with our years has an eternal effect on other people.
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Amen. I have two lollies on platform
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1's a backup. If you look at this, if you look
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at this right, it's just your faith is outstanding.
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If you look at this lolly as your world, your whole life,
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your existence of around 90 years, if you're my dad, you've
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got 10 more. The writing on the packet of the
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things you focus your life on, there is writing on.
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I know you can't see it, but this, this packet has writing
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all around it. The writing on the packet are
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the things that we often focus on.
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It says here my hurts. That past event.
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You remember Grey, That's what it says.
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It's crazy. It's like a sentence.
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It has a person's name, but I won't say that person because
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I'm struggling with that. It has some words that were
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spoken over me when I was a kid, things that happened.
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There's some good stuff here. I had a victory when I was about
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20 years old. It was nice.
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I won the lottery once, spent it all 15 Mustangs don't really go
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any faster. There's this other one, love,
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it, turned out fake. We wrap ourselves up with these
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types of things, our hurts, our shames, but we think we're OK
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because we have some wins along the way.
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But they're earthly winnings. They're not satisfying wins.
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They're just like, of course you won the lottery.
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You've been doing it for 30 years.
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You've got to win at some point, right?
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But you spent the more than what you won.
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So it's, it's, it's life. It's life satisfaction, things
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that don't endure. That's what how we look at our
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lives. We look at the wrapping and we
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read. We read our scripts.
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We play these over in our minds. Soon as someone bit of road rage
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happens on the way to work, our perspective changes.
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No longer possibilities, but what?
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What's not possible? We just reread the real.
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We let her flick around again. But if we throw our lives for a
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moment on the floor, we now have a God perspective.
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Those defining moments that you focus your whole earthly life
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on, they're still there. They're still there, but now
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there's so much more in the scheme of life.
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There is family, there's existence, there's purpose,
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there's possibilities, there's there's so much more in the
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scheme of life. But I'm still wrapped.
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But really, if we could have a God perspective, we would see so
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much we we generally focus our lives on the words on the
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rapper. Yet there is so much more to
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obtain if we could let go and allow God because He sees us
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truly and He sees our possibilities.
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But sometimes we just need to pick our lives up for a moment.
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Unwrap it. God has this amazing ability
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that when he looks at you and I, he doesn't look at us through
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the wrapper. He looks at us through the
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blood. What does he see?
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He sees a clean slate every morning.
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Every morning. You thought, oh bad Christian, I
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sinned yesterday. Every morning, a new beginning
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for you. It's all right.
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I got knocked down. I'm up.
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New beginning. I'm here to do it again.
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I lost the vision for a moment. It's all right.
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I'm up. Thank you God for your grace.
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But I'm I've got a new beginning every day.
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It's a blank canvas. You know what that means?
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You can rewrite your story. And when you have Jesus with you
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and you see yourself as God sees you, you start writing a new
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story. You start wrapping yourself not
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only with possibilities, but fulfilled fulfillment of what
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God has done in you and through you.
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You start putting some of that on there.
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Start looking at yourself every day before you walk in that door
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through these. Oh well God, I'm really nervous
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today. Bit scared or this happened and
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that happened. But I remember yesterday when
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you came through for me. I remember when I spoke to that
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person on the street and they actually said, yes, I would like
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to know Jesus. I remember, you see?
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See how the rappers starting to change?
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The possibilities of your life are now endless because you now
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see you as the Father sees you. Amen.
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I don't want to chew it with the bite.
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To see as God sees is to see the possibilities.
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Michael. Big name says.
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How do you say that? Elsler?
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I think that's it. Elsler.
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The bad news is time flies. The good news is you're the
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pilot. Ouch.
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I think that's awesome. I'm the pilot.
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You know what? You can change direction here
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tonight. There's no one else dictating to
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your life. You actually do have the
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authority over your life. You have free will over your
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life. You have say over your life.
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You have power over your life. You have authority over your
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life. And when you line that up with
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Jesus Christ, nothing is impossible for you because of
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God in you. Amen.
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You are the pilot. Let's change the direction, God
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of possibility of love, that when God looks at our lives as
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Christians, he sees us as victors.
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He sees us as spiritual giant. Any spiritual giants in the
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place tonight, He sees you as a spiritual giant.
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He sees the fruit of his Son's redemption.
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I love that everything His Son did, He sees it fulfilled in you
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and I. He sees forgiven.
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He sees a child of the Lord God Almighty and He sees you washed
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clean. This is because He sees us with
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the pure eternal blood of Jesus Christ that shed on the cross
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that was and is and is to come. His blood is washing all the
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time and will always wash us until the return of Jesus.
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And I'll just finish with this. Romans 47 says blessed are those
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who lawless deeds are forgiven and whose sins are covered.
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Lift your hand if your sins are covered in this place here
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tonight, Amen. Isn't that?
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Isn't that reason to lift up the name of Jesus to declare him?
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And you know what? You've listened to this great
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message. And maybe you're not in the same
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same way of thinking as some of us might be here tonight.
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You might be like Pastor Gray. I'm hearing your words, but my
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world is so saturated with sin. Is my, my thinking, my mind.
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It feels like it's cloudy. I feel like I'm troubled all the
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time. I can't even think straight.
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I can't even think of who I could be in my future.
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My life is all about getting through my day or my week.
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Maybe you're looking at the end of 2025 and you're like, thank
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you God, bring it faster. And just to get through life is
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a is a serious thing. Let me tell you, we've declared
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tonight the one who clears the vision.
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Why? Because He made it in the first
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time in first place. He is the one that can give you
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the back that possibility of what life could be for you.
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He is the one that will break the power of everything that
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clouds your mind. He is the one that has the power
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to break judgement from others and self judgement as well.
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He is a redeeming God and wants to redeem you tonight.
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And if you've never given your life to Jesus, you have to run
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to Him tonight. There is no other way.
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There is no other God. There is no other situation.
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There is no other message, there is no post.
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There is nothing out there that is greater than the invitation
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that I am sending here tonight. Because the invitation I am
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sending tonight is the one is to the one who was there before all
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things. And he looks down from his
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throne in heaven actually does. I'm not talking fairy tale.
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The evidence is all around. The Book of Job tells us.
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That's where I just got my sayings tonight from.
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Where were you when the rainbow was from?
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Where were you when the planets were put in place?
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Where were you when the universe was made?
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Where were you when the waters were separated from the land?
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It's all from the Book of Job. And in the book of Job, it just
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shows that God is the author and the finisher and that everything
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in our life is worth surrendering to him because God
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then restore Job. It's a great story to read, and
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God wants to restore your life here tonight.