Sermon
Making a Disciple
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I'll tell you, there's such a sweet anointing in here today
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and you and you don't always experience that in church.
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And what you have going on here is, is it's special, it's God
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ordained. The Middle Peninsula needs this
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church. There are hurting people out
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here that need what you have. So I just want to encourage you.
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Great, great worship, great worship.
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This morning. If you have your Bibles, we're
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going to turn to the book of Acts chapter 18.
Acts 18 chapter mention
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And before, before we begin, I'm like, it's sort of an oxymoron
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story, but this, this, this atheist was arguing about God
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and his greatness. And we've sung about his
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greatness, his goodness, and his atheist wanted to confront God.
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And this Christian said, well, OK, go ahead and confront him.
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And he goes, well, I can do anything God can do.
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I'm a scientist, I'm a doctor. And he says, OK, well, what can
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you do? And they brought in a mentally
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ill person. He says, I can give this person
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drugs. And I'm not, I'm not minimizing
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medical practice at all. And he can calm this guy down
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and he can function and so forth.
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He goes OK, and we just want touch.
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God says I touched him and it's whatever was bothering him is
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gone. He goes well, OK.
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He said well this this person is sick so I can give them
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antibiotics, I can do this Prednisone, drop Poison Ivy,
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etcetera. So on.
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He goes, OK, God just waved his hand and the guy's maladies were
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healed. And then finally, the last Test
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is this atheist wanted to put to God.
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He goes, what else you got? God just reached down and picked
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up some dirt and formed a man, and he became a living being.
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And the atheist says, that's nothing.
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He reached down and grabbed the dirt.
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And God says you get your own dirt.
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So anyway, sometimes things fall a little flat.
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But all right, Acts 18 today we're going to be talking about
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the making of a disciple and we're going to begin.
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And I'm reading for the Message Bible, so it may read a little
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different depending on what translation you're you're
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reading from verse 24, a man named Apollo's came to Ephesus.
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He was a Jew, born in Alexandria, Alexandria, Egypt,
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and a terrific speaker, eloquent and powerful in his preaching of
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the Scriptures. He was well educated in the way
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of the Master and fiery in his enthusiasm.
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Apollos was accurate in everything he taught about Jesus
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up to a point, but he only went as far as the baptism of John.
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He preached with power in the meeting place.
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When Priscilla and Aquila heard him, they took him aside and
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told him the rest of the story. When Apollos decided to go on to
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a Caya province, these Ephesian friends gave their blessing and
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wrote a letter of recommendation for him, urging the disciples
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there to welcome him with open arms.
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The welcome paid off. Apollo's turned out to be a
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great help to those who had become believers through God's
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immense generosity. He was particularly effective in
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public debate with the Jews, as he brought out proof, after
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convincing proof from the Scriptures, that Jesus was, in
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fact God's Messiah. Aren't you glad that aren't you
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glad today that Jesus is the Messiah?
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Amen. We're redeemed, we're born
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again, we have heaven for our home and it's for eternity.
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That's good news. Look at your neighbors say
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that's good news and what are we to do?
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Jesus said go into all the world and share that message.
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You got good news tomorrow on your job site to tell somebody.
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I've got good news wherever I go and and God opens opportunity
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up. But the first point I want to
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make today about making a disciple is disciples have
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potential. Everyone has potential.
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Potential is what's the intelligence test IQ.
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Intelligence is like IQ. Someone may have a very high IQ,
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but they may act like a complete idiot.
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We know they usually end with PhD at the end of their name
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sometimes, but potential doesn't guarantee you're going to
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fulfill what it is you can't fulfill.
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It takes a discipline and drive and, and in the church it takes
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the anointing of the Holy Ghost. So here we have Apollos who is
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from Alexandria, Egypt, which at the time was a had a university.
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It was a great learning place. It was a great institution of
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higher learning. So Apollo's has learned from
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these schools that he went to in Egypt and he knew he knew what
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he knew he was the Bible says in verse 24 he was an eloquent man
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and mighty and the and the and the word mighty is donatos,
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which means he was powerful and capable connected.
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And this word connects to the Greek word dunamis, which if you
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read in the book of Acts, when that power fell, it was the
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dunamis of God. It was like dynamite.
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It was explosive. It brought about change in the
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disciples. You had this man named Peter who
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denied Christ three times, all of a sudden is telling the Jews,
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you did this to Jesus, you did this, and you have slain the
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Lamb of God. And this is a guy who just 40 or
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50 days before had go, had gone and, and denied his Savior 3
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times. So what changed was Peter all of
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a sudden was anointed by the Holy Ghost.
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And I can't, this is God's service.
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So he tells whatever he tells me to do, we're going to do.
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This is not my service. It's not John's service, it's
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his service. So we have to, we have to know.
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But anyway, Apollo's had a presence about him and I and I
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believe when he stepped in a room, it just kind of commanded
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attention. I worked with a guy, he was a
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within Rico police. He, he was a Sergeant major in
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the United States Marine Corps. His name was Lt.
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Parker. And if you, if you go to ever,
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ever go up to Quantico, I've heard I haven't been up there,
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but I want to go, my wife has been, but I want to go up there
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and see the memorial. And I encourage anybody that can
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go up there to do that. I haven't been able to do that
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yet. But anyway, Lt. was the kind of
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guy who had a very boisterous voice, ice blue eyes.
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But when he belted something out, it was like, and he at the
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time, he was just an officer. He wasn't even of rank in the
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police division. When he would say something,
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people paid attention. I can be on a domestic call and
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the couple just going back and forth and then the mom steps in
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because the grandkids are there. And then L and then Lt. could
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show up and go, Mama, what's going on?
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And everybody just shuts up and you're like, how does he do
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that? Well, he had a, he had a very
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command presence. He had commanded troops in Iraq.
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He had done what what he had done in the past and it it came
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for the future. And what God does with us, he
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uses what abilities we have. Not everybody has that command.
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If if you ever worked in law enforcement or the military, you
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know, there's some people that are elevated be way beyond their
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abilities. They're promoted way beyond
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their abilities. They, they just, they're in over
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their head. The guys in, in, in the unit
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know it. The guys on the platoon know it.
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Everybody knows it. And I'll tell you, the guy who
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got promoted who shouldn't knows it.
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Amen. Anybody help me here.
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But anyway, he was mighty in the scriptures, educated in Egypt,
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eloquent in speaking. And which means he was eloquent
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in writing and speaking. In other words, today's
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vernacular, we would say he had a way with words.
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He had a way with words. What you know, we should pray
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when we're, when we're trying to reach someone on the job site or
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wherever. God, give me the right word,
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because one word from you can penetrate a heart and you know
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it. The results are not your
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responsibility. It's not there's a guy at work
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who's currently living with his girlfriend and he's he's
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divorced and he's living with his girlfriend and, and you
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know, at times you got to be bold, right?
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So we have another guy who's who's a believer, who works in
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our control room where I work now at the federal courthouse.
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And he was talking to him. He says, so you know, you're
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going to you're going to go ahead and and make her an honest
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woman. You know, that was a nice way of
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saying you're going to marry her.
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And no, you know, we're doing great.
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We got this blah, blah, blah, blah.
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And and this is bold. He goes, so you're just going to
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continue to live in sin, huh? And you know, I told this guy,
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my friend Jeff, I said, that's pretty bold to say to another
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grown man. He goes, he goes, it's the truth
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though, right? I'm like, absolutely.
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And and sometimes people need to hear the the cold hard facts.
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This is what you're doing and it's sin.
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It's wrong. You need to repent, you need to
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get right with God and you need to make your situation right.
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All right, that was free. Wasn't even in my notes.
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God uses the gifts he places within us in his Kingdom for the
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advancement of his Kingdom. Start with what you know.
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Apollo's only knew of John's baptism.
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So let's let's sort of unpack that for a minute.
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So what did what did John the Baptist preach?
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Repentance. Repentance.
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He was making a way for the coming Savior.
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He said, I'm the I'm the voice in the wilderness, make straight
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paths. He's coming.
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So he preached repentance and then he water baptized, which
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was symbolic of death, burial and a resurrection.
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So already he's pointing everything to Jesus.
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This is going to be the way it's going to be.
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This is how it has to happen. And as the one is revealed from
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heaven, I have to decrease, but he is going to increase.
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And that's I was telling somebody recently I had the
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opportunity to speak at my church and they said, oh, you
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did such a great job. You know, it's always nice to
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hear you do a good job. But I just say, you know, the
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biggest struggle I have is I need to Get Me Out of out of the
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way because if I can Get Me Out of the way, I can do something.
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No, God can do something. Remember my dad, You were
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talking about dad years ago. And I don't know why, but my dad
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didn't really care for Jerry Falwell for some reason.
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But he said, you know, one thing I did do like about it,
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something he said he saw him on TV.
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He said when I'm in the bathroom shaving in the morning, and if I
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can get past that dude right there in that mirror, I can get
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something done today. Isn't that the truth?
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We can get in our own way. But when, when we're talking
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about making disciples, know this Jesus is making us.
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You're not, you don't have to do this by yourself.
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The Holy Spirit is coming along and he's helping us to move
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forward. No one's going to say, oh, man,
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I'm glad I made it to heaven. I, I, you know, thank God I was
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able to do it. You didn't do anything except
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say, yes, he's going to get the glory.
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The crowns that we have on our heads are going to go with his
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feet because he's worthy. Hallelujah.
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You know, when we're worshipping, I get amazed
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sometimes. You know, there's kind of people
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that are because of a lot of times because of their
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backgrounds, they're a little stoic.
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You know, it's like, OK, a little reserved, Hey.
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And that day, your knees going to bend and your hands are going
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to be up. Hallelujah.
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We're all going to be worshippers, he said in Matthew
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311. I indeed Baptist, is John the
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Baptist. I indeed baptize you with water
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unto repentance, but he's coming after me is mightier than I,
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whose shoes I'm not worthy to bear.
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He shall baptize you with the Holy Ghost and fire.
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So Apollo's was talking about the way of the Lord, which means
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the route or the highway to the Lord.
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He understood John's ministry. He understood what John was
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saying and but it only took him so far.
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It takes the anointing of the Holy Ghost.
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And like you said about Peter, Apollo's needed to be taught
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about the Holy Ghost. And I and I believe that once
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once a body understands this and they grasp that message that the
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gifts of the spirit flowing, I think we need to see the
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supernatural because it draws you let people start coming in
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these doors and you start laying hands on them and they start
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getting healed right in the service.
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It's going to change your reputation in the community.
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Hallelujah. So what God, what what gifts has
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has God imparted in your life? You may sit there and go, well,
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I don't really, you know, I'm just, I'm just a stay at home
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mom. I'm taking care of the baby.
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Nah, you're ministering to, you're mentoring a new life.
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You are, you are super important because that's the next Jesus
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doesn't come back in our lifetime.
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That's the next generation that's going to take this
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message forward. Don't you minimize the ministry
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that you have. That's right.
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We attend New New Kent Christian Center and recently we, our
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pastor wanted to start another church.
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So we started a new church called the Foundation
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Fellowship, which meets on Saturday night and it meets at
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New Kent Christian Center, which is kind of strange, but it, it,
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it enabled the church to get started without having to have a
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building, etcetera, and things like that.
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But our church, one of our pastors is Jay Bolan.
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He, he said, you know, what are we doing if we're not reaching
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our community? And, and our pastor, Wayne Meade
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says the same thing. He said we have a food, we have
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a food pantry right up the road. You got a food pantry.
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What is God speaking to your heart to do to further the
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gospel and to help build this local body?
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There's things. There's a food pantry right up
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the road. Even if so, you know, you have a
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food drive once a month and you say, you know, bring your canned
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goods. We're going to be a blessing.
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What you're doing when you do that is you're ministering the
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love of God to the needy. I mean, this is where the rubber
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meets the road. It it's, it's where our our, our
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religion takes traction. Remember, potential is just
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having or show in the capacity to become or develop into
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something in the future. If Apollo's needed the baptism
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and the Holy Spirit, how much more do we?
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Jesus said in John 15 verse four, I am the vine and you are
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the branches. He who abides in me and I in Him
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bears much fruit. Without me you can do nothing.
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I am so aware of that in my life.
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I know John Michael is so aware of that.
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I know Ken Kramer is so aware of that and others that have
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ministered to us and us to them at times.
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Without him I can do nothing. The second point is a disciple
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has to be teachable. Verse 26 says he began to speak
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boldly in the synagogue, whom when Aquila and Priscilla had
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heard him, they took him unto them and expanded to him the way
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of God more perfectly. You know, the synagogue was not
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always a hospitable place to believers, if you'll, if you
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think about the apostle Paul, a lot of times he was run out of
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town. He was beaten.
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But Aquila and Priscilla expanded the way of God more
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fully. All of us need people speaking
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into our lives. And, and you know what, you
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know, amazing thing about God. Sometimes he will take somebody
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who we think is so insignificant in the body and they'll go, you
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know, and maybe they pose it as a question, you know, pass
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rightly, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.
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And there's time that we may go. And then two days later the Holy
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Spirit brings that conversation back and going, that was me
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talking to you. That's good.
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So we can't, we can't be here this morning and think, I don't
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have anything to say. I don't have anything to offer.
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We all do, We all do. And I believe that's where the
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power of God is going to flow when the body starts being the
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body. Amen.
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All right. I've read, I read the Scripture.
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I, I, I try to read it through the Bible through every year.
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I'm on a reading plan every year and I've, and I've done it, but
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I can tell you every time I do this, I get my, I read it on my
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phone. I get my phone, I get my coffee
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because I have to have caffeine and I start sipping, but I can
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read something and go, I read this before.
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Well, of course you have, you've read the Bible through you've
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read it before, but then all of a sudden I'll go, never saw that
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before. Why, why?
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Why is that? How does that happen?
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It happens because this word is a living thing.
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It is a living Organism. It is, it is, it is the life of
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God in US and it and, and it's new, it's fresh.
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And then the Holy Spirit is speaking to us and brings and
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that's why the world, the natural man can't understand
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that because they they're not born again.
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They can't grasp that yet. They just think it's just a nice
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religious book. But with us for us, it's alive.
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The word says it's powerful. It can separate soul and spirit,
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bone and marrow that cuts. Amen.
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And sometimes it cuts for healing.
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Sometimes it's cutting things out of our life that we God says
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you don't need that. Has God recently told anybody
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put that out of your life? He has me, He has me things I
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was hanging on to. He said you don't need that.
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And it may be it may just be something that happened in the
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past. You don't need, you don't need
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to be thinking on that. You don't need that.
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You know, I could meddle, but I won't.
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But as we read the word and we read the word and we study the
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word, what happens is some things in scriptures are, are
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are taught and then other things are caught.
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And that's why sometimes when you're hearing a message
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preached. You can go Rob, he's going to
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preach on this. I've heard that before.
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And then all of a sudden the Spirit of God who energy comes,
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comes in roaring in and it's like, Oh my gosh, how did I
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never see that before? And it's because it is alive and
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he is alive. Praise God.
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Being teachable means we need more.
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I'm going to, I'm going to brag a little bit on my youngest son,
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Anthony. He's a decent basketball player,
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plays for Providence Classical School in Williamsburg.
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And at the beginning of this basketball season, I know I
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really sound like I'm bragging, but I am.
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It's it's OK. It's true if it's true.
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If it's true, it's true. He was scoring how many?
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What's the most points you scored in one game?
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32 points in one game and the and the total score they had was
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47 and and then there was 47 to 29 I think was the win.
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So he scored more points than the opposite team all together.
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But anyway, while it was fun watching him do what he does,
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he's very quick. He's handles the ball well.
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He loves the game, pulling up, busting threes right in people's
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faces, which is a dad. You just love that stuff.
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Is the is is some of the other players that were newer to the
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game and much, much taller than him.
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We needed them to become more involved in the offense to get
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better. So the coach is coaching them
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up, coaching them up. And as the year went went along.
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If you if you like basketball, you follow basketball at all or
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you ever have, you know, there's a transition in the game, get a
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rebound. The transition game is moving
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that ball back down the court in one game.
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I'll never forget it. I'm sitting there with my wife
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and we're watching and I'm I'm like, Oh my gosh, She said,
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what's wrong? I said the team is finally
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getting it. They're seeing the lanes.
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Anthony's coming down the court. Pass, No, look, pass in this guy
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throws it to the guy over here, throws it to the guy over there.
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They're starting to come together as a team.
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And sometimes in the body of Christ, we're that way.
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You know, one person is taking the ball.
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John Michael, he's came. He came to Middlesex.
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I'm going to take this ball and I'm taking it down the court.
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And now all of a sudden he's pulled all of you in with him.
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And now it's like, you're going to do this, you're doing that,
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you're doing that, you're doing this and God's move and, and
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things are happening and next thing the win is not about a
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superstar player. It's about glory to God.
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He's used all of us. That's so good because we're not
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going to be judged on how famous we were or how good we looked
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while we were doing what we were doing.
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We're going to be judged on faithfulness and the person who
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was faithful, I don't care if they were off wallflower the
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whole time they were in in the body of Christ.
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They're going to get a great reward too, maybe more than some
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pastors. And I want to talk about Aquila
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and Priscilla, just for a second.
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Your journey may not have you seated in a prominent place.
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Think about this. They could have heard Apollo's
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preaching and going, he don't have the Holy Ghost.
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Come on, that's good. He ain't got the Holy Ghost.
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Well, you know, one day maybe, but he could he, he can preach
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as far as he can preach. But you know, really, he
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couldn't preach his way out of a wet paper bag.
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No, they didn't do that. They said this is God's man.
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This is the man who's going to help Paul, who just left
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Ephesus, who was going to come back to Ephesus.
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This is a man who can refute the Jews the way Paul did.
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And now all of a sudden God's into addition and then
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multiplication because more people are coming into the body
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like that. And they were just tent makers
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because that's what Paul's trade was.
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They were tent makers. So what we have to do is check
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our egos at the door. Oh, I'm pastor of Saul Church.
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I know John Michael doesn't think like that.
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That's why I can say that I'm super apostle to Middlesex.
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He doesn't. He doesn't feel that way at all.
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If you didn't get a promotion, whether it's work or in the
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local body which you thought you should, you know, I, I really
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should be. I, I, I should be running the
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sound. I should be.
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No, nobody's fighting for that, I'm sure.
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But that was probably a bad example.
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I should be doing XYZ, you know, the past, you know, Oh, I loved
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it this morning. John, Michael and I were in here
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talking 20-30 minutes, 20 minutes before the service start
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and the men are over here praying the men, most churches,
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it's the women. But it just, I'm telling you,
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there's something about men getting here early and lifting
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up the service, lifting up the community.
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That's why you had the environment you have.
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That's good. So I want to encourage you in
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that. But while you may not in your
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mind have a prominent place, promotion comes from the Lord.
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Amen, Amen. I got things in my life I'm
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waiting on right now. Anybody waiting on some things
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in the Lord. I got some things that I'm
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working on and saying, OK, God, I'm, I'm here, I'm here, I'm
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ready. What, what do you got for me?
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And it's just like, well, ain't it ain't happening.
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It's not taking place yet. But I got to be patient.
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I got to wait on him because I have tried to kick doors down
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before. And sometimes you can, and then
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sometimes they just don't go because God has got to do a work
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in you first. Oh Hallelujah, Amen.
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What gifts should you be imparting to others?
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Remember, potential is just capacity to develop into
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something in the future. It's up to you and me to work
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that out. Now.
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I talked about a Priscilla and Aquila.
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Let's look at Paula's. He could have said, I'm up here
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in front of hundreds of people teaching the word of God.
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Who's these people that they are coming and telling me you don't
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know about the Holy Ghost. We got to get you.
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We got to make sure you understand salvation that you're
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preaching about the Holy Ghost. Again, it's that thing of check
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your ego at the door, leave it there because God wants to use
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the body. Good friend of mine said heaven,
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I can hear him say it now, Dallas Plemons God.
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And and this is when a lot of major ministries were having
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major moral failures from the top, top men.
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And he said God is taking the anointing away from these
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so-called superstars and putting it back where it belonged all
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the time. And that's on the body.
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He never intended us to preach or worship.
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Yeah, and it's the easy trap to fall into.
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Thirdly, a disciple is empowered to build up others.
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We, we, we said. When Apollo's decided to go on
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to Akaya Province, his Ephesian friends gave their blessing,
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wrote a letter of recommendation for emerging disciples there to
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welcome him in open arms. The welcome paid off.
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Apollo's turned out to be a great help to those who have
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become believers through God's immense generosity.
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He was particularly effective in public debate with the Jews as
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he brought out proof and convincing proof from Scriptures
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that Jesus was God's disciple. Your discipleship may include
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endorsing others to go where maybe you can't.
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Maybe there's limitations logistically that you can't go
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somewhere else or to a foreign country to be a missionary.
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But maybe God's saying, you know what, this person needs this,
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give it to him. They need a vehicle, give it to
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them. They need a computer, give them
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one. If they're using it for my, my
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Kingdom, Hallelujah. Having reputable people put in a
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good word for you goes a long way.
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And it paid big dividends to southern Greece.
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Apollo's built up the believers in southern Greece.
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People were encouraged, taught, strengthened with by God's great
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generosity, he being mightily convincing the Jews publicly
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showing that that Jesus was the Christ.
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And you know, let's, let's just pray and ask God.
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Help me, Lord, regardless of what I think or see on their
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faces, help my words strike like a hammer.
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Let whoever I talk to, even if they curse at me after I share
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the word, let me just leave that in your hands because that word
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is alive. Hallelujah.
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You can depend on the word to back you up.
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Don't worry about who gets credit.
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In First Corinthians 35, Paul wrote when the Corinthian church
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was talking about, well, I follow Paul, well I follow Paul,
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Well I follow Jesus. I follow John, Michael, I follow
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Natalie. And Paul goes, is Jesus divided?
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He said Paul planted, Apollo's watered, but God gets the glory.
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So the bottom line, it doesn't matter in in this sense, what we
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are doing as long as we're doing what God told us to do.
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What matters is God gets the glory.
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He or she who's doing whatever they're doing isn't the isn't
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the, isn't the end result. They are just a facilitator.
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And guess what? God loves you so much.
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He's he's like, come on, let's go.
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You and me. I got something for you today.
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There's somebody hurting in this community.
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I want you to minister to Hallelujah.
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We all have the capacity to build others up today and this
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week. Ask God, Lord, what can I do to
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use the gifts you've given me for my community, for my
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neighbor? Maybe the community's too big.
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Maybe you can't think think that big right now.
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What can I do to help a Co worker?
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What can I say? It's going to make a difference.
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Hallelujah, let's pray Hallelujah, Hallelujah, Holy
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Spirit. This is this is the time of the
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service where, where we, we have tried to submit and be a
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transparent and only say what you want us to say and no more.
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Well, Lord, right now we get out of the way because it's, it's we
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want to make room for you. We want to make room for you to
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move in our hearts, in our thinking, or even in our
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desires. Would help us to get our minds
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off of us and our agendas. What?
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What do you, Holy Spirit, want to do?
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First of all, in my life, in the ministries in this church's
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life, and then in the workplaces, in the homes where
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small children are being reared, in the job site in the region,
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in this state, in this nation, and throughout the world.
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Lord, in the large salt churches, comprehension of what
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you want it to accomplish or bring the gifts if there's
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anything lacking. Holy Spirit, we ask you to bring
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those gifts in. We pray them in right now.
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I'm going to get everybody to stand there.
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Hallelujah, Lord, you're the great one.
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You're great and mighty. Lord.
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Lord, we lift our hands to you. We praise you for who you are.
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We bless you, Lord. Our voices will cry out to you.
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You are the Lord of armies. You are the great and mighty
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one, the Alpha, the Omega, beginning and end.
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You're all together lovely. You're all together powerful.
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You're everywhere at one time. Lord, we just pray for this
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community right now. That you would bless Middlesex
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County, Matthews, Lancaster, Gloucester, surrounding region.
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That you would use Salt Church to be a catalyst, a hospital to
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bring in lost and hurt and die. Or give grace.
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Give grace to your servants here.
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Lord, we ask if you would give grace.
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Give us a humble heart. Let us confess sin when we
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commit them, because we all do. Let us be quick, Holy Spirit, to
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acknowledge when we met, when we miss it, the Lord let us get
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right back up and get back on track.
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Hallelujah this morning. If you're here and you have a,
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you have a need in, in your physical body, would you just
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lift your hands straight up? You have a physical need in your
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body. All right, everybody else, look
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around. If you if your hands up, leave
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your hand up. I'm going to ask the ladies to
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go where the ladies are men to go to some of these men.
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And we're going to we're going to pray, pray, pray for them.
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Can you help us? Can you help us pray for these?
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These two ladies need ladies praying with them right here.
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And I know this isn't comfortable, but I didn't come
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to make us comfortable this morning.
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It's not why we're here. We're here to do business.
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And this is Kingdom business. Amen.
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Amen. Amen.
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Sure. Should you got her.
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All right, ladies and men, if you're comfortable sharing what
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it is you need prayer for, that's fine.
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If you don't, that's fine. But we're going to ask God to
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touch your body right now because this is where God wants
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the power to flow, not from here, but in here.
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Amen. All right, let's look.
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Let's just start praying right now.
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Ask and pray. Hallelujah, Lord, we just thank
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you. We thank you, Lord, that you're
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the healer. Thank you, Lord, you, you
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restore, Lord, a good part of your ministry on this earth.
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Lord, you laid hands on the sick.
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If you said we will do the same thing and they shall recover, it
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may not be instantaneous in May. Lord, we ask for miracles.
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We ask for creative miracles to be done in bodies right now.
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We ask Lord, that your anointing would flow.
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We give you glory already. We expect, Lord, we expect you
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to answer because you are faithful, you are righteous and
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you've given gifts to men. Distribute your gifts right now
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in Jesus name. We just thank you.
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Hallelujah. Now lift your hands and thank
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you. Amen.
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Hallelujah, Lord, we just glorify you.
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We praise you because you said if two or three are gathered in
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your name, you're in the midst. We believe right now, Lord,
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things are changing in bodies. Healing is coming right now.
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Hallelujah. We believe you, Lord.
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Hallelujah. You are mighty to save.
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Mighty to save, Hallelujah. Healing is part of salvation.
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Mighty are you, O God, we brag on you, Hallelujah, Hallelujah.
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Touch my body, Lord, there's things that need fixing,
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Hallelujah. And I believe you for it.
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And we give you praise and Thanksgiving in all the glory,
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because it belongs to you. We will not touch your glory in
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Jesus name, Amen. You can be seated.
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I live in you.