Sermon
It's Time to Come Out — Josiah Spall
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Transcript
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Welcome to the Southwest Apostolic Church podcast.
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This podcast is brought to you by the Southwest Apostolic Church,
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located at 3161 South Rowena Street in Indianapolis, Indiana, 46241.
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The podcast will feature preaching,
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from our pastor and from other ministers, so we hope you enjoy it.
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Without further ado, let's get right into it. God bless.
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Amen. Isn't it good to be in the house of the Lord on this Wednesday night?
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Thank you, Jesus. Amen. There is no better place you could be than in God's house tonight.
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Amen. You made the right decision when you said, I'm going to go to church on this Wednesday night.
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Hallelujah. Because the Bible says when two or three are gathered together in
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his name, there he is in the midst of them.
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You see, there's a lot of social gatherings that God is not in the midst of.
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But all it takes is two or three to be gathered together with our focus and.
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Our attention upon his name.
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And whenever we focus, whenever we gather together and put our attention upon him, he shows up.
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And whenever he shows up, anything can happen.
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Amen. Whenever Jesus steps into the room, there is no telling what God can do in that place.
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Hallelujah, Jesus. Amen. David said in Psalms chapter 27 and verse 4,
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one thing, everybody say one thing,
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one thing if I desire to the Lord and that will I seek after that I may dwell
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in the house of the Lord all the days of my life to behold the beauty of the
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Lord and to inquire in his temple.
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Amen. The house of God is more than just a gathering place.
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Amen. But it is a place where we gather together, and in that place we can behold
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the beauty of the Lord, and we can inquire in his temple.
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I don't know about you, but I've come to church tonight for more than just to
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mark it off my calendar that I came to church.
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But I've come to inquire, amen, of what is in the temple of the Lord. Amen.
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I want to behold the beauty of the Lord, amen, that is in this place tonight,
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amen, with God's people, where he is. If you could grab your Bibles,
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let's turn to Psalm chapter 40.
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Amen. I give honor to your pastor,
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his wife, family. I love and appreciate Brother Young so very much.
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If there is anything that I have learned about your pastor, it is that not only
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is he a man after the heart of God, but he has a heart for people and he loves people so much.
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Amen. And God can use somebody like that. I give honor to you,
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Pastor Young. I don't take this lightly.
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And I just want the Lord to have his way in the remainder of this service tonight.
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Psalm chapter 40, verse 1 and 2, I waited patiently for the Lord.
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He inclined unto me and heard my cry.
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He brought me up also out of an horrible pit.
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He brought me out of an horrible pit, out of the miry clay, and set my feet
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upon a rock and established my goings.
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Psalms chapter 68, we'll be reading verses 5 and 6.
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It says, A father of the fatherless and a judge of the widows is God in his holy habitation.
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God setteth the solitary and family together.
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There it is again. He brings out those who are bound with chains.
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But the rebellious dwell in a dry land.
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And man, as I was on my way driving here from Evansville, Indiana this afternoon,
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there was one word that I just could not get out of my mind.
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And that word was cycles, cycles. And man, I feel like God wants to break some
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sin cycles in people's lives tonight.
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Amen. Or maybe it's some generational cycles, whatever it is, whether,
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it's addictions, whether it's struggles that you've had for a long time or temptations
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that you continuously fall to or hidden sin, amen, that you just cannot escape.
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Amen. I believe God wants to break some cycles, amen, in somebody's life tonight.
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Hallelujah. He can bring you out.
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He can bring you out. Amen. For a few moments tonight, I'm going to preach on
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this thought. It's time to come out.
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Amen. It's time to come out.
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If we could all lay our Bibles down, amen, and all of us all across the house,
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if we could lift our hands together and lift our voices for just a moment,
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amen, let's pray that the Lord has his way in the remainder of this service.
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Come on, let's all bind together right now. Lord, in the name of Jesus.
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God, we ask, Lord, that your perfect will would be accomplished in this place.
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God, we don't want to leave this house the same way that we came,
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Lord. But, God, let every chain that needs to be broken be broken tonight.
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God, let every stronghold be brought down.
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In the name of Jesus, Lord, let somebody, God, come out of the cycle,
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Lord, that they have become accustomed to living in, Lord. Break,
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Lord, every cycle of sin, every cycle of addiction, God, every struggle, Lord.
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In the name of Jesus, Lord. We pray, God, that your will would be done in this
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place. We're not going to fail to give you all the praise, honor,
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and glory for it. Amen. Let's clap our hands to the Lord before you're seated tonight in Jesus' name.
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Oh, you're worthy, Jesus. Hallelujah, Jesus. Amen. Be seated tonight in Jesus' name.
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Hallelujah. The first part of Isaiah or Psalm chapter 68 in verse 6 says,
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God setteth the solitary in families.
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Solitary is referring to an isolated individual, one who is lost,
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one who is without friends, wretched, forsaken, lonely.
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Amen. It's referring to an outcast. Man, it says that God setteth the solitary in families.
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This word family actually is referring to a house or a household.
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Amen. And this is exactly what God does. God looks for the solitary one.
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He looks for the lost individual.
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Amen. The wretched, the forsaken, the isolated one.
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And he brings them into a household, a family.
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Amen. The house of God, the church, the people of God is a household.
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It is a family.
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The Bible says in Ephesians chapter 2 verse 19, "...now therefore ye are no more strangers,".
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And foreigners, but fellow citizens with the saints and of the household of God.
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Amen. We are gathered together here as the body of Christ. Amen.
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We are a family. Amen. That is a part of a household, the household of Christ.
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And all throughout the life and ministry of Jesus, while he was here upon this
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earth, he was looking for the strangers. He was looking for the solitary ones.
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He was looking for the lost ones.
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He was looking for those who were broken, those who were wretched,
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those who were forsaken. And his purpose was to bring them out of where they
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were living and to save them.
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His purpose was to bring them out and to bring them into a household.
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Amen. To bring them to a home. To give them a family.
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Amen. This is why the Bible says that Jesus would leave the 99 sheep,
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and he would go after that one lost sheep.
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Amen. Jesus came, the Bible says, for the lost sheep of the house of Israel.
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Amen. He came to seek and to save that which was lost. He didn't come for the
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righteous. Amen. He didn't come for those who were perfect or for those who
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thought they had it all together. No, my friend, Jesus came to save those who were lost.
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Jesus came to save those who were broken.
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Jesus came to save those who were in need of a.
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Hallelujah. Amen. There's a
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scripture in Psalms that says he gathers together the outcasts of Israel.
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That's who God is interested in. God is interested in the outcasts.
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Amen. God finds interest in the ones that nobody else believed in.
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Hallelujah. God finds interest in the ones that nobody thought they would ever
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amount to anything. Amen.
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He's interested in the solitary ones, in the lost ones. Amen.
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The broken ones, and he's interested in bringing them together and planting
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them in the household of God, giving them a family.
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Man, the remainder of that verse says, God set at the solitarian families,
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and he bringeth out those who are bound with chains.
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Hallelujah. He places them in the house of God, and he brings them out of the
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chains that are attached to them.
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Hallelujah. You see, the purpose of God bringing his people into his house is
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so that he can bring them out of their bondage and of their chains and of their sinful lifestyles.
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Whenever God brings an individual into the house of God, he does it with the
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purpose of bringing them out of their bondage.
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God does not bring people here so that they can leave the same way that they came.
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But God's desire, amen, for every individual in this house tonight,
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amen, is for you to leave different.
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Amen. He wants to bring us out of our chains. He wants to bring us out of our cycles, amen.
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He wants to bring us out of whatever, amen, bondage that might be in our lives.
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Hallelujah, Jesus. He wants to break the chains of sin in your life. Amen.
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No matter what you are bound by, I want you to know I know a God who is bigger,
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and who can bring you out.
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Hallelujah, Jesus. All throughout the Bible, amen, our God is known for bringing
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people out of their situation.
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Amen. Our God is known for bringing people out of bondage, bringing people out
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of pits, bringing people out of prisons, bringing people out of sin,
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bringing people out of brokenness, out of confusion, amen, out of idolatry.
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In the Old Testament, the Lord brought Lot out of Sodom and Gomorrah.
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He brought Joseph out of the pit and out of the dungeon.
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He brought Moses and the children of Israel out of bondage in Egypt.
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Hallelujah. He brought David out of the deep miry clay. He brought Elijah out
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of a cave and out of depression. He brought Jonah out of the belly of a whale.
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Hallelujah. He brought Daniel out of the lion's den. He brought Shadrach,
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Meshach, and Abednego out of the fiery fir.
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In the New Testament, Jesus brought the woman at the whale out of fornication and adultery.
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Amen. He brought the man with the legion of devils out of a life of torment and oppression.
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He brought the woman with the issue of blood out of sickness and health issues.
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He brought blind Bartimaeus out of darkness. He brought Saul out of a life of
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persecution and hatred toward the church.
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He brought Peter out of prison. And he brought Paul and Silas out of chains
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that they were bound by in prison.
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It does not matter what you are bound by here tonight. Our God can bring you out.
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I'm going to say that again. It does not matter what you have walked into this place.
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Attached to your mind, attached to your spirit, our God can bring you out tonight.
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Oh, hallelujah, Jesus. Oh, come on, let's worship the Lord right now.
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Oh, we worship you, Jesus. God, we give you glory and honor and praise, Jesus.
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Hallelujah. I want to remind somebody tonight, our God is still bigger.
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He's still bigger than every sickness and every disease. Amen.
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Our God is still bigger than cancer.
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He's still bigger than diabetes. He's still bigger than heart problems.
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He is still bigger than lung problems. He is still bigger than psychological
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issues. He is still bigger than every virus.
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Amen. Our God is still bigger than every battle in your mind.
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He's bigger than depression. He's bigger than anxiety. He's bigger than torment. He's bigger than fear.
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He's bigger than bitterness. He's bigger than anger.
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He's bigger than lust. He's bigger than hatred. He's bigger than pride.
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He's bigger than shame. He's bigger than condemnation.
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My God, I feel the Holy Ghost.
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Our God is still bigger than every addiction.
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Hallelujah. He's bigger than alcohol. He's bigger than drugs.
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He's bigger than nicotine.
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He's bigger than pills. He is bigger than every ungodly and impure addiction.
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Amen. Our God is still bigger than emotional hurt and pain.
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Hallelujah. I'm going to say that again. Our God is still bigger than emotional
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hurt and pain, scars that you may have had because of things that have happened to you.
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Come on, there might be people in this house who have been deeply wounded by
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some circumstances that have happened in your life.
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I want you to know tonight our God is still bigger than every wound.
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He is bigger than every hurt.
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He is bigger than the pain that you are carrying. Come on, maybe you've walked
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into here and you've carried generational curses that have been attached to your family for years.
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Our God is still bigger but every generational cycle and curse that the devil
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has told you, you can never escape, you can never...
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Oh my God, I feel the Holy Ghost. I'm a priest. I'm a priest.
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Hallelujah. Maybe it's been attached to you for a long time.
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I want to tell you right now, it does not matter how long that spirit has been
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attached to you, that addiction has been attached to you, all it takes is one encounter.
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All it takes is one moment in his presence, and everything can change.
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Hallelujah. Hallelujah. I'm reminded of the man that was possessed with the
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legion of devils in the Bible.
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The Bible says that he had been possessed with devils for a long time.
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Amen. A legion, many people believe that that number of devils is around 5,000 to 7,000.
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No doubt that man had done a lot of wrong to get to that place in his life.
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Where he was possessed with thousands of devils. It had been that way for a
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long time, but all it took was one encounter.
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All it took was one moment in the presence of the King of Kings,
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where he didn't let the devils keep him from running to Jesus and worshiping,
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but in spite of how bound he was, he ran to Jesus and began to worship.
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And in that moment when he was worshiping, God set him free completely.
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Hallelujah from the devils that he was possessed by. It had been a long time,
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but all it took was one moment where God completely liberated me.
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You say, you don't understand, Brother Josiah. You don't understand I've had
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this struggle in my mind.
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You don't understand how long I've struggled with this secret sin.
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Come on, you don't understand how many times I've fallen back into the same
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cycle. Well, I don't care how long.
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All it takes is one encounter. All it takes is one moment.
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And Jesus can completely and totally liberate you.
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He can completely and totally set your mind free.
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Oh, Jesus. Hallelujah.
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Come on, I feel like there's some people that have had some things happen to
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you, and you've questioned, why has this happened to me?
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Why have I had to walk through this? Why have I had to go through this?
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And it's attached some scars to your life. But I feel like telling somebody,
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when you get on the other side of this, you're going to have a testimony that
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so many are going to look to, and you're going to realize, this is why I had to go through that.
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This is why God took me through that this is why God allowed this to come on
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it's just building a bigger and greater testimonial that you can share with somebody someday.
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Oh, Jesus. Jesus said, the spirit of the Lord is upon me because he hath anointed
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me to preach the gospel to the poor.
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He has sent me to heal the brokenhearted,
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to preach deliverance to the captives and recovering of sight to the blind,
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to set at liberty them that are bruised, to preach the acceptable year.
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Hallelujah. Everywhere Jesus went throughout his ministry, these things were
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taking place. People were being delivered.
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People were being healed. Blinded eyes were being opened. Hallelujah.
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And I want you to know that Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, today, and forever.
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And everywhere the Spirit of God goes, everywhere Jesus shows up,
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these things can still take place.
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Why is Jesus here tonight? I believe he has come here on this Wednesday night
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to heal somebody's broken heart.
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I believe he has come here on this Wednesday night to deliver somebody's mind
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from being held captive by the enemy.
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My God, I believe he has come on this Wednesday night because he desires to
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perform a miracle in somebody's life.
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Oh, hallelujah. Hallelujah. Hallelujah.
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Hallelujah. He was in the middle of night in Acts chapter 16.
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Hallelujah. Paul and Silas had been beaten and they were thrown in prison,
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amen, for preaching the gospel of Jesus Christ.
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Amen. They were truly faultless, but they did not let the circumstances that
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they were in keep them from praising God. Amen. They were bound with chains.
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Their hands and their feet were.
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Amen. But they did not let that stop them, amen, from worshiping him.
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And in spite of the pain that they were in, in spite of the prison that they
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were in, they made up in their mind, we're going to praise God anyway.
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And so they gathered together, Paul and Silas. Maybe they hooked up.
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They began to pray, and they began to sing praises until something began to
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change in the atmosphere.
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And the Bible says that there was a suddenly, there was a great earthquake.
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Amen. All of the doors were open, and everyone's bands were loose.
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He was in that moment when they made up in their mind, I'm not going to let
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this circumstance that I am in depict how I worship God, but I'm going to worship God anyway.
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And whenever they did that, God loosed them. God set them free.
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God broke the chains that were binding them.
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I want to tell somebody on this Wednesday night, if you make up in your mind,
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I'm not going to let what I'm going through keep me from worshiping God.
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I'm not gonna let this storm silence my voice of praise. I'm not gonna let this
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pain that I'm in keep me quiet, but no, I'm gonna worship God anyway.
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I'm gonna praise him through the struggle. I'm gonna praise him through the pain.
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I believe God will set you free and break the chain.
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How do I get out tonight? Maybe you're asking that question.
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And that meant that question tonight. How do I get out of these chains?
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Come on, how do I escape this pain that I am feeling?
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Jesus said in John chapter 14 and verse 6, I am the way.
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He said, I am the way, the truth, and the life. No man cometh unto the Father but by me.
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You know what the way out is? The way out is through Jesus.
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The only way out is through Jesus. Come on, somebody. The way out isn't through a pill.
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The way out isn't through another drink. Hallelujah. Come on,
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the way out isn't through nicotine or drink.
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You got to get to Jesus. You got to call upon Jesus.
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You got to say, Jesus, I need your deliverance. I need your help. I need your strength.
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The Bible says, if the Son, therefore, shall make you free, ye shall be free indeed.
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Amen. Jesus, my friend, can make you free tonight.
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And whenever Jesus sets you free, he will set you free indeed.
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God does not deliver people halfway.
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Amen. God does not deliver people halfway, but when God sets you free,
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he will deliver you all the way.
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You will be truly free indeed.
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By me, if any man enter in, he shall be saved, shall go in and out and find pasture.
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The thief cometh not, but for to steal and to kill and to destroy.
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But I am come that they might have a life, that they might have it more abundant.
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He said, I am the door. You've got to come through me.
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You've got to obey the gospel. Neither is there salvation in any other, the Bible says.
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For there is none other name under heaven given among men, whereby we must be saved.
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Jesus is the door, my friend. The only way in is through Jesus.
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The devil comes. Why? To steal, to kill, and to destroy.
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I mean, I want to remind somebody tonight, the devil hates you and wants to
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destroy your soul for each other.
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But my God, the God that we serve cares for you.
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Our God wants to save you. Our God wants to keep you. Our God wants to heal you.
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And he wants to deliver you. I once heard a preacher say, why in the world would
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you submit to a devil that hates you and wants to destroy your soul for eternity,
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when you could simply submit to a God that loves you and wants what's best for you,
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and wants to save your soul for eternity.
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Hallelujah. The way out is through Jesus. Hallelujah. Jesus is the door.
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The way out, hallelujah, the way I'm going to get out is by going through the
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door and getting in. Going through Jesus.
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Getting in the church. Getting in the kingdom of God.
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Well, how do I get in? How do you get in the door? If the door is locked, what do you need?
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Keys. Hallelujah. A key is the way you get in a closed door.
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Matthew chapter 16, the Bible said in verse 17, Jesus answered and said unto
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him, Blessed art thou, Simon Barjona, for flesh and blood hath not revealed
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unto thee, but my Father which is in heaven.
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And I say unto you, Thou art Peter, and upon this rock I will build my church,
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and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it.
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And I will give unto you, Peter, what the keys to the kingdom of heaven.
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And whatsoever thou shalt bind on earth shall be bound in heaven.
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And whatsoever thou shalt loose on earth shall be loosed in heaven.
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Peter was given the keys to the kingdom of heaven.
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You know what that tells me? Peter knew what it took to open the door.
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Peter knew what it took to unlock the door. Peter had the keys of salvation.
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Amen. We preach about it a little on Sunday night, but on the day of Pentecost,
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the birthday of the church, hallelujah, the first church service ever recorded
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after the death, burial, and resurrection of Jesus Christ.
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It was on that day that God's church was born. People were filled with the Holy
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Ghost. And people were speaking in other tongues as God gave the utterance.
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The crowd began to ask, what meaneth this? What is going on? Some mocked.
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Some were saying that they were drunken with wine. But Peter,
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the one who had the keys to the kingdom of heaven, stood up and began to preach to them.
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The Bible says that Peter, standing up with the eleven.
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Lifted up his voice and said unto them, in Acts 2.14, Ye men of Judea,
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and all ye that dwell out of Jerusalem, be this known unto you,
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and hearken to my words, for these are not drunken as ye suppose,
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seeing it is by the third hour of the day.
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But this is that which was spoken by the prophet Joel.
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Hallelujah. And it shall come to past in the last days, saith God,
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I will pour out of my spirit upon all.
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Hallelujah. And then we see Peter, he was declaring to them that this was the
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fulfilled promise. Amen. This was the prophecy fulfilled that God was going to pour out his spirit.
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And Peter began to preach to those Jews, Jesus. He began to preach to them the gospel. Amen.
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The death, burial, and resurrection of Jesus Christ.
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And he began to preach to them that the one that they had crucified was not
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just a man, but that he was both Lord and Christ.
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Hallelujah. And it was in verse 37 when they heard this, when the Jews heard
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this anointed preaching, there began to be a pricking of their hearts.
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They were pricked in their heart and said unto Peter and to the rest of the
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apostles, men and brethren, what shall we do?
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Then Peter said, this is what you need to do. I've got the keys.
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I've got the answer to what you need. I've got the way for you to get out.
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And to get into the church, you've got to repent.
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You've got to be baptized, every one of you, in the name of Jesus Christ,
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for the remission of sins, and you shall receive the gift of the Holy Spirit. Hallelujah, Jesus.
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And then these Jews heard the word of God preached to them.
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And what happened? They were pricked in their hearts.
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You know, the Bible says, it likens the word of God to a sword.
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And it says the word of God is sharper than any two-edged sword,
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piercing even to the dividing asunder of soul and spirit.
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Sometimes whenever the word of God is going forth, because it's a sword,
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we begin to feel that pricking.
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And we began to feel that sword pricking at our hearts and convicting us and
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saying, I'm trying to talk to you, amen.
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I want you to obey what I'm trying to say, amen.
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These Jews were feeling that same conviction, amen. They were feeling that same
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pricking, and they wanted to know what they needed to do to get out of the lifestyle
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that they were living in, to get out of the chains that they were in,
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amen, to get out of the condemnation.
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And so they asked Peter in the arrest of the apostles, men and brethren,
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what is it that we needed to do?
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Peter, amen, he said, I got the keys. Amen, I know what you need to do. Jesus gave them to me.
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He began to unlock the door of salvation. Amen, for the very first time when
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he began to preach to them, you've got to repent.
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You've got to be baptized in the name of Jesus Christ for the remission of your sins.
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And it is a promise that he will fill you with The gift of the Holy Spirit.
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Hallelujah, Jesus. May I say to you, the message has never changed.
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The keys have never changed.
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They are still the same.
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Amen. You've still got to repent.
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Hallelujah. Repentance is more than saying I'm sorry.
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The word repent in the Bible literally means to change one's mind.
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Hallelujah. I once heard it said that in the old days, whenever the military
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was marching one way, the guards would holler out, repent,
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and everybody would turn around and begin walking the other way.
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That's what true repentance is.
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Amen. It's not simply saying I'm sorry and going back to the same old ways,
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but it's saying I'm sorry and meaning it.
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It's saying, God, I'm willing to change.
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I'm willing to lay aside my sin. son, whatever it takes for me to escape this
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bondage that is in my mind, God, I'm done with it. I'm tired of living this way.
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I'm tired of this ruling in my mind. Hallelujah. And if you will do that,
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God will forgive you. Hallelujah.
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Hallelujah.
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Hallelujah. But it doesn't stop there. It's got to go beyond that.
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And the Bible says that you must be baptized in the name of Jesus Christ for
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the remission of your sins. Here's an example that I heard once and I love to give.
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And man, if I was to be preaching to you with purple Kool-Aid,
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and all of a sudden, for some reason, I would trip and spill this Kool-Aid all
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over the carpet, that would be a bummer, first of all.
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And it would leave a purple stain on this carpet. it.
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And I would see it and I would feel bad in my heart. And so I would go to your
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pastor, say, Pastor Young, I apologize.
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There is a purple stain in the carpet. And you would say, I forgive you. And he would mean it.
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And I would be forgiven. But the stain is still there.
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What does it take to remove the stain? You've got to get water and you've got
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to get something that will remit or remove the stain.
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You see, whenever we mess up, we fall, we make a mistake. We come to God and
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when we repent, and what does God do?
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He doesn't push a true repentant heart away. No, he forgives us,
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but it doesn't fix the stains on our heart.
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And that's why we've got to be baptized in the name of Jesus Christ for remission of your sins.
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Amen. That's what baptism does. It truly remits, it removes,
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amen, it washes away your sins.
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And it is a promise that if you do this, if you repent, I mean,
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if you're baptized in the name of Jesus Christ for the mission of your sins,
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God's desire is to fill you with the gift of the Holy Ghost.
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Amen. Musicians come, I'm getting close to finished. Hallelujah. Hallelujah, Jesus.
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Amen. When you obey the gospel, hallelujah, of Jesus Christ,
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the same God who brought Joseph out,
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the same God who brought David out, the same God who brought Paul out,
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amen, can bring you out too.
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Psalm 68, verse 6, I'm going to read it again. God sets the solitary in families,
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and he bringeth out those who are bound with chains.
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Amen. I believe that God wants to bring somebody out of some chains that they're attached to tonight.
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Hallelujah, Jesus.
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Hallelujah, Jesus. Amen. When Israel was in Egypt, he brought them out.
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When Joseph was in prison, he brought him out.
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When Daniel was in the lion's den, he brought him out. When Peter was in prison, he brought him out.
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When Paul and Silas were bound in their chains, he brought them out.
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And if God did it for them, he can do it for you too.
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Amen, let's all stand all over this house together. Amen, let's stand together right now.
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Some of you are bound tonight. Hallelujah. Amen, maybe nobody else knows about it.
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Maybe you smile on the outside while you're fighting battles on the inside.
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Bound by fear, bound by shame, bound by guilt, bound by addiction,
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bound by bitterness, bound by depression, bound by unforgiveness.
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Maybe you're bound by a past that you can't seem to escape.
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I wanna tell you tonight, God did not bring you to this house to leave you in
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chains, but he brought you here so that he could bring you out.
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The same God who opened the prison doors in Acts chapter 16 is in this house tonight.
Acts 16 chapter mention
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The same God who filled people with the Holy Ghost on the day of Pentecost is in this house tonight.
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Amen. The same God who delivered legion, amen, is in this house tonight.
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The same God who healed the woman with the issue of blood, amen,
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who healed a blind Bartimaeus.
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Is in this house tonight and our God is still bringing people out.
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You don't have to leave tonight the same way that you came.
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Amen. You don't have to leave tonight carrying the same burden.
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You don't have to leave tonight bound by the same chains.
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But Jesus is the way, my friend. Hallelujah. I said Jesus is the way,
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my friend. Jesus is the way out tonight.
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Hallelujah. Peter gave us the keys. He said, repent and to be baptized every
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one of you in the name of Jesus Christ for the remission of your sins.
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And you shall receive the gift of the Holy Ghost. Amen. It is a promise.
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And maybe these things have already
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happened to you and you've just simply fallen back into some cycles.
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Amen. I want you to know tonight that God can break every cycle.
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Amen. He can break every chain, whatever sin it is. Amen.
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I want you to know tonight that God wants to bring you out. Amen.
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Let's all pray together right now.
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Amen. All across this house. Amen.
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All across this house. Could we lift our hands and just begin to talk to the
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Lord right now? Come on, I feel like the Lord is talking to some people in this house.
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And I don't know what it is. You know what it is. Come on, you don't know what
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it is that God is dealing with you about.
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Come on, maybe it's unforgiveness tonight. Maybe it's bitterness tonight.
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Come on, maybe it's anger. Maybe you've come and you're just carrying hurt and
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pain from some things that have happened to you in the past.
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Come on, I wonder if you could just begin to release that and put it in the
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hands of Jesus right now.
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Come on, I wonder if you could just release the hurt right now and say, God, I give it to you.
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God, I place it in your hands, Lord. I don't want to carry this weight any longer.
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I don't want to carry these burdens any longer. God, I give it to you right
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now, Lord. Come on, he wants to break some chains for some people tonight.
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Come on, he wants to break the chains in your mind tonight.
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Come on.
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Come on, if you feel like talking to the Lord, could you step out of where you
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are? Can we just come up here, gather together for just a few moments?
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Come on, can we come up here and lift our hands and just say,
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Lord, I give my all to you.
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God, I don't want to hold anything back from you, God. But I give it all to you at this moment.
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Come on, I'm inviting you to come right now.
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Come on, don't worry about what anybody else does. Maybe you could just come
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and just have a conversation between you and the Lord.
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Say, God, I need you tonight. I need your help tonight, I need your strength
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tonight, come on, that's,
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it.
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Come on, just give it to him tonight, just give it to him tonight,
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come on, you're gonna have a testimony, you're gonna have a story to tell,
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if you just yield your heart to him right now.
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Thank you for listening to our podcast. Southwest Apostolic Church is a place of refuge.
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If we can help you, we'd be glad to do it. Pastor's cell number, 317-469-3100.
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If we can help you, we'd be glad to do it. God bless.