Sermon
The Audacity Of Grace | Pastor Scott Thomas
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this message god is the absolute master
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in choosing the unqualified to do the
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unexpected
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this is his resume he's done this since
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the beginning of time the Bible is
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loaded with these kinds of stories y'all
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remember teenage he used teenage David
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in order to go kill the big giant
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Goliath like he he used a runt in order
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to knock down this this giant that that
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that doesn't that doesn't mix uh that
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what about Jacob the the the the second
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born the second born god violated all
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the cultural norms and gave him the
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birthright he was the one that hyper
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exceeded what what about Sarah who was
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barren and she's given birth at
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75 if you're 75 you got one more in you
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that's all I got now at
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75 at 75 and what does she do she births
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she birs the nation of
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Israel i mean thi think about that the
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virgin the ver
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virgin
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Mary
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births
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Jesus god God is is always mixing it up
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and he's flipping it and spinning it and
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doing the most amazing with the least
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expected that's what he's always done
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there's a Virginia boy named Scott who
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pastors a church called Lakeland and in
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Lakeland Florida called Freap Chapel
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that makes no sense that's the audacity
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of God what does he think he's
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doing and his audacity of grace is all
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over your life as well
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he it's he's choosing the unqualified
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that the people that would would not be
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expected to do the unexpected that's
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just audacious grace it's the only way
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to explain it that his reach is further
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than what people ever anticipated in
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fact I will tell you this god believes
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his ability in you more than you believe
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in his ability in you
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god sees you different than the way you
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see
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you god sees you as able and possible
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and can do it and we see ourselves just
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tripping and so small and a failure and
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a mess and unqualified
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i know I'm in your house right now
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that's okay we go have some coffee and
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talk today because this is exactly who
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he is it's what he does and and and this
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is what's so crazy it's this audacious
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grace that he puts on our life that he
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then turns around and assigns you and I
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the honor of being the ones to share the
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message of Jesus and the hope of Christ
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to the world like like us like in in my
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head shouldn't he be bringing somebody
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else to do this job because I'm just
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glad I'm a I'm just glad I'm going to
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heaven now i I just got my stuff fixed
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but God says "No now that you said yes
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to me now I want you to be a me my
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messenger." And I'm going "No you don't
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understand like I don't have it together
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like that i I'm I'm not professional
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enough i don't know enough i'm not
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qualified to do that." But he says "No
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if you said yes to me it's good you can
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go let's get the job done." He transfers
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to you and I there's no one else to do
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it there's nobody else going to carry
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the message and the hope of Jesus to
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other people the people you work with
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and especially the one that gets on your
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nerves that one god says "I put you
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there to deliver this message to them."
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Who else is going to do it
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i I I can't come to everybody's work and
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say "Everyone get your Bible out let's
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talk today." That's not going to work
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but you and I over lunch or standing by
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the cop here or sitting around the
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office or or or so we we have the
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opportunity to engage and share the good
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and amazing wonderful news with Jesus if
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you don't do it then
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who who are we who are we expecting to
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do
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it it's not going to happen if you and I
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don't 1 Thessalonians chapter 2 verse 4
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and check this verse out here's what it
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says in fact everyone read it with me
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here we go we speak as messengers
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approved by God to be entrusted with the
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good
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news you're a
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messenger the message is on you the
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message is in your heart the message is
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in your mouth it it it's in what you've
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experienced in Christ you are the one
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that's supposed to be telling others
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about Jesus i am the one you know that
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stats tell us that
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96% of believers have never led anybody
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to
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Christ it's
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like I got saved but then that's where
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it ended and nobody told me the church
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didn't really equip us to understand
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that now we are supposed to go share the
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good news with other people as well it's
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It's good that I'm saved i'm so glad I
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said yes to Jesus but I got to do
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something with this it's like get the
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faith keep the faith but just don't keep
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it to yourself like like give it to
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somebody else as well we've got to share
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this good news now we're we're not we're
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not perfect we're not sinless we're not
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professionals at this we're just people
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who have experienced the lifechanging
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reality of Jesus is anybody glad that
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you know Jesus as your savior if you are
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would you put your hands together and
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just celebrate right there that man I'm
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I'm just
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Woo now if you know Jesus has his hands
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full cuz there's a lot more work to do
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in you would you keep right on clapping
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right now because we got
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Yes would you tell your neighbor he's
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working overtime in your situation just
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tell him he's he's he's got he's got a
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lot going
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on the Bible is absolutely loaded please
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hear me the Bible is loaded with
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examples of God doing his greatest work
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through
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crazy messed up broken people ain't none
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of us got it all together person beside
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you's got issues just as big as yours
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yes they do yes no you think they're
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more saved than you are whatever that is
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you think they got it more together than
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you do y'all looking up here at the guy
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holding the mic thinking he's got it
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together you so crazy
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i'm as messed up as you are i got issues
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i got battles inside my head like you
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got battles inside every one of us do
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that it the goal is never to get rid of
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those issues the goal is to stay focused
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on Jesus and those are two things come
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differently completely you you got to
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make sure that he's our focus the Bible
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says be ye holy as I am holy do you know
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how you become holy you become holy not
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by pursuing holiness you become holy by
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pursuing Jesus
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and in the process of going after Jesus
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something begins to change in your life
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but in holiness is never our goal that's
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never my goal because I will find ways
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to be holy without Jesus
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i'll think if I give more money I'm holy
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i think if I if I serve somebody then
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I'm now worthy of heaven we're trying to
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earn our way if you get anything but
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Jesus in your mind you've got to make
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sure Jesus is the focus of your heart
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that's but but he still works with
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messed up people because we mess up
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we fall down
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but we get up donna McCclark told that
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she told us told that to us years ago
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and some of y'all don't have a clue who
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Donna Mccclan is and that's okay y'all
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need to get a life and Google that boy
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that's all I got to say
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we we we don't have we don't have a
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theology degree but we do have a
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testimony
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has he done anything in anybody's life
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that you say "You ain't going to believe
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this." Okay good good good i I I don't
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know the books of the Bible but I know
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Jesus that that's a you you don't have
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to have Genesis Exodus Leviticus Numbers
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you don't have to all that down in order
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to be able to share your story i can't
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quote scripture but I've got a story
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that what Jesus did in my life and I can
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share that right there i'm I'm not the
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pro i'm I'm not the professional i'm not
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the perfect Christian but I am the
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perfect example of what Jesus's love can
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do in somebody's life i'm in process i'm
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going somewhere i'm not where I used to
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be i've got a peace that I didn't have
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i've got a rest i got a joy i've got a
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hope that just wasn't there before and
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that's what he's done in my life i want
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to give you a few examples of people
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that Jesus used that's probably going to
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be a bit shocking to you but we're going
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to do it free lifestyle can we just go
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there and we we if you brought somebody
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new with you today you might want to
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lean over to him and apologize to them
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for the pastor today for for like he's a
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little bit you know he's he's not always
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Yeah all of that because let's just go
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here the first the first example we have
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of God using like he used who was the
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demon-possessed
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preacher and and the Bible tells us in
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the in the book of Mark chapter 4 that
Mark 4 chapter mention
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Jesus looks over to his disciples one
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day and he says as he he says this
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phrase "Let's go across to the other
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side." Now sidebar come with
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me how many of y'all grew up where you
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used to hear that phrase "They from the
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other side of the
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tracks?" Y'all know what I'm talking
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about how many of y'all were the people
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who actually lived on the other side of
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the tracks cuz that's where we live yeah
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okay yeah so you all understand me like
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we on the same page i thought you were
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we I thought we were neighbors i thought
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I saw you yeah we were we were those
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people in in Jesus's day rebbitically it
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was understood culturally whenever the
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phrase was pulled out across the other
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side they were on this side on the
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western side of the Sea of Galilee and
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across the other side would have been
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the eastern side of the Sea of Galilee
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and that was pagan
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country for my Bible students that are
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here that would be where the docopolis
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started there and it went south the 10
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cities that were pagan that were Greek
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inspired a lot of Roman there were some
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Jews that were scattered through there
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but for the most part it was
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paganism on this side of the Sea of
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Galilee was was a lot of Jews and a lot
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of people who worshiped the God of
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Abraham Isaac and Jacob but but on the
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other side so to go to the when Jesus
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said "Let's go to the other side," they
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going "Oh Jesus what is wrong with you
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why are you going there?" And so Jesus
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goes "Row row row your boat." And here
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they go and they went to the other side
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and guess who met them when they got to
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the other side the Bible says in Mark 5
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as soon as they landed the welcoming
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committee was a demon-possessed
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dude yeah the maniac of
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Gera gda by the way when you go with us
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to Israel in November I'm going to take
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you to Gera and I'm going to show you
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where this story took place ain't
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nothing like in the world gera is is
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here where where they meet this this man
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and the Bible gives us a description of
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this dude this dude was out of his mind
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crazy he was living amongst the
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tombs they tried to chain him several
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times he was breaking out of the chains
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they would hear him welling and
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screaming and yelling all throughout the
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night he was he was just haunting the
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people throughout that region and this
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was the welcoming committee the Bible
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says he was cutting himself he was
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screaming he was just a mess and he
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shows up and he confronts Jesus when
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when Jesus pulls up on the on the boat
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and as soon as he confronts Jesus Jesus
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starts talking to the guy and the demons
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start talking out back out of him now
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how y'all would have probably swam all
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the way back to the other side if you
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The demons start talking back to Jesus
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and pushing back and Jesus goes "We're
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going to deal with this." And all of a
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sudden he casts the demons out i wish I
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had time to get into this story he cast
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the demons out of this man into the pigs
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oink
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oink why the pigs because Zeus was the
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number one worshiped god in those
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regions and the sacrifice they used for
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Zeus were pigs
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so he cast the pigs that the the demons
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into the pigs the pigs run off the side
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of the mountain into the water and drown
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and there goes all the sacrifices that
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were being anyway it's a whole another
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story just a side note for what it's
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worth but here's what I want you to
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understand the man is completely
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delivered someone shout completely
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comes back to his right mind he's so
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humbled he's healed like man I I was a
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mess just a few minutes ago but I met
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Jesus and something has changed inside
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of me and and and Jesus is getting ready
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to leave and the guy goes "Wait wait
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wait wait wait take me with you." And
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there's room in the boat can I please go
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and Jesus pushes back on the guy jesus
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says "Absolutely not." In fact Mark 5:1
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19 says this "But Jesus said "No go home
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to your family and tell them everything
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the Lord has done for you and how
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merciful he has
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been." No you you want to come with me
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but but you're it it the goal is not for
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you to run from your life and then just
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hide with me the goal of your life is
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not to take what I've put in you and
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begin to tell other people about it
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that's the focus of what I'm trying to
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do with
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you go tell your story you go me yes
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you're the perfect one the
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demon-possessed preacher the guy that
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shows back up in the dopolis people go
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"Oh no." And he's in his right mind and
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he's got a smile in his face and there's
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peace in his heart and he's telling
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people who Jesus is and how he changed
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his life and here's what's amazing with
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that whole deal is Jesus comes back to
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that area two chapters later in Mark
Mark 7 chapter mention
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chapter 7 and the Bible says that masses
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were showing up to meet Jesus and he
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began to perform miracles everywhere in
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other words the man did his job and his
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message and his story was so powerful
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all of the dopolis this pagan city
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wanted to show up and see a man who
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could change a guy like that how many
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you know that a lot of us in this room
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were the guy like that the gal like that
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like when you walk back in with peace in
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your on your face and joy in your heart
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your family is going "What you smoking?"
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Like they they ain't ready for that
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right there like I I wasn't expecting
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that and that's why your message and who
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you are and what Jesus has done in your
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life is so powerful because people
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remember you before Jesus
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and they remember you and now now
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they're meeting you after Jesus and
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there's a whole different person that
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they're running into you got the
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demonpossessed preacher that God used
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what about this one there was another
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one called uh the getaround girl
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evangelist the getaround girl evangelist
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that's my that that's the way I that's
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what I called her that the Bible refers
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to as a Samaritan
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woman the Bible says that Jesus was
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going somewhere one day and he goes 30
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miles out of his way 30 m it's one thing
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if you drive I hate to drive five miles
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out of the way anywhere jesus wasn't
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driving he was walking a 30 mile detour
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uh-oh now that didn't end no detour that
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was intentional he goes 30 miles out of
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the way and there's a he goes to Samaria
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now you got to understand the tension
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that I'm sharing with you already jews
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and Samaritans don't mix that's a no no
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samaritans were considered half breeds
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that's how they were referred to half
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breeds that that and and and they
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worshiped differently than the Jews and
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there was this clash and the Samaritans
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hated the Jews the Jews hated the
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Samaritans that's why the story when
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Jesus tells the parable of the good
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Samaritan it was so contradictory and
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conflicting in culture because it was a
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Samaritan that was actually saving you
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you got to read your Bible anyway so
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Jesus now in this he goes and he visits
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the woman at at the well and she's there
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by herself drawing
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water and and and and as
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he's her standing there drawing water
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and we're going to understand more of
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her story in just a minute it it we
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understand some things about her because
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it probably means that she's an outcast
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to the community the fact that she is
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alone and not with other women there was
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a time a day that women would go
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together to for fellowship and for
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protection and they would draw water
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together the fact that she's by herself
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drawing water at a different time of the
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day would show she didn't mix with the
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ladies she was a loner she was one that
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was not welcome she didn't fit into the
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to the housewives club y'all understand
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like it it was a different kind of thing
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that she was pushed out and and and and
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the Bible tells us that she had been
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married five times she was living with
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number six but she was about to talk to
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number
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seven she got around girl she got around
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that's And so so the Bible says that
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that now she's having this encounter and
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John 4:39 tells us as Jesus is talking
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to her says "Many Samaritans in that
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city believed in Jesus because of the
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woman who said "He told me everything
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I've ever done." Jesus has an encounter
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with this woman at the well sharing his
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heart with her hearing her heart hearing
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her fears and her concerns and he loves
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on her and gives her hope and gives her
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a strength that even though you've been
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with five and you're living with number
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six I'm telling you now God's plan for
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your life is good he loves you right
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where you are and she went running back
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into town y'all i got something to tell
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you and everyone's like "Oh my god here
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she comes look oh no who is this?" And
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she starts talking about this man that
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just knew her past and changed her life
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and the Bible says that people begin to
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come out of the city based on what she
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said based on her testimony based on the
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one that was ostracized and overlooked
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and laughed at and mocked and gossiped
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about now she's this evangelist she's
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sharing y'all ain't going to believe
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this and the people showed up and
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encountered Jesus and gave their lives
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to him because of her story the woman
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was culturally unacceptable folks it was
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out of order and I want you to know your
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life may have been out of order too and
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there's some folks that you ran with and
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there was some places that you were and
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your reputations and all that world and
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I'm telling you right now despite where
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you've been what Jesus has done in your
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life is powerful enough for you to step
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back in those places and share this hope
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and share this joy and share this peace
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and people will listen tell somebody
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people will listen just tell them people
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will listen why why why would they
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listen because there's audacious grace
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on your life to do this you shouldn't
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have been picked i shouldn't been picked
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what am I doing here right now i'm a
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Virginia boy that just learned to wear
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shoes three years ago but I'm telling
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you right now that when God puts his
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hand on your life and he comes alive on
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the inside of you he will radically
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transform who you are and give you an
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authority and an influence that you
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never knew
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possible your story is more powerful
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than what you think it is where you've
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been and what he's done in your life
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will touch hearts and one word from you
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of I can show you a man that can give
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you some peace ladies and gentlemen that
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changes things in so many people's
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lives what
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about what about the third one the wild
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and out
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witness this is a good
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one lady was named Mary Magdalene
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from the city of Magdala mary Magdalene
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yeah and by the way I'm going to take
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you to this city in November also we're
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going to stand right there it's amazing
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spot
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jesus Jesus cast the Bible tells us cast
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seven devils out of her seven devils
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some going "Well I know someone that's a
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little bit low that they going to have
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to go higher." Well Jesus can handle all
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of them but but seven devils se seven
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devils out of her and so transformed her
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life that when Jesus throughout his
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ministry she kept showing up she was
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there for all the watching miracles
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happen to the point that when he died
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she was there she was at his tomb
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waiting on him looking for him to be
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resurrected on the third day and she was
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the first to encounter him when he rose
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from the
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grave whenever Jesus came back from the
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dead she mistook him she thought he was
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a gardener and Jesus called her name
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Mary and immediately she understood who
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he was and here's what Jesus told her
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that day this woman who had been
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possessed messed up listen to what Jesus
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said to her john chapter 20 go to my
John 20 chapter mention
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brothers and sisters and tell them I'm
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going to my father and your father to my
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God and to your God
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he chose Mary the former demon-possessed
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woman the wild and
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outwitness to be the one to go and
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proclaim the gospel that he has risen
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the very first one to share the good
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news of his resurrection was a woman and
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this is what's so powerful because
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culturally that's a no no if you were
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writing the Bible and you were
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fabricating not telling truth but you
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were trying to make the story sound
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better and give it influence you would
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never let a woman be the first one that
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would share the good news because her
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voice was discounted in these days you
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would have chosen a man to proclaim it
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but no Jesus said "I'm turning the
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tables i've got audacious grace and I
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know how to use anybody i can mess up
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culture i can play with their heads i
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know what I'm doing." And he did that he
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chose this woman who had been written
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off before but you see when people
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remember the past they can't explain the
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present be without Jesus being the one
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who changed their life and he used her
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to tell the good news of
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Jesus here here's the last example that
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I think is really cool it's it's the
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assassin
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preacher some of you say "I think I know
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him." Well I I that's that's horrible to
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think but but but the assassin preacher
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and and and just to give you context
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this guy his name would have been
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Saul saul of Tarsus you know him as Paul
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we talk about him being the quarterback
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of Christianity right but but but but
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Saul before he was Paul he was a mess
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some of y'all's best friend is who I'm
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talking about right like like he was a
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mess he was a master of the law he knew
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he knew that the the law and I don't
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just mean the penal law i'm talking
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biblical Jewish law he was a master at
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all that and he was a persecutor of
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Christians he used that to go after
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Christians y'all you don't even
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understand this guy basically he was the
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John Wick of the first century Jerusalem
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church do you understand like he he was
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he was that he was busting in door y'all
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don't know who John Wick is but that's
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okay some of y'all do where's my where
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where's the people who know okay enough
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said he He was kicking down doors
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busting in places and arresting
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Christians and throwing them in prison
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that's exactly who Paul was in fact when
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Stephen one of Jesus's disciples was was
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was stoned to death whenever that
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happened the Bible says that they the
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people who did the stoning laid their
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coats at Saul's feet when they went and
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did it as if Saul was the one that was
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presiding over his death lay them down
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and go take care of it i'm not getting
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my hands dirty but you kill him under my
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watch that's who Paul was that he he was
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feared in that entire region and while
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Saul was on the way to Damascus to
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extradite some more Christians for
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persecution and for prison God knocked
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him off his ass his donkey his his he he
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knocked him he knocked him off and the
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Bible says that that bright light shine
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knocked him to the ground
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knocked him i'm just I'm just I'm
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talking King James knocked him off and
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knocked him to the
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ground a bright light shone on him god
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began to speak to
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him he's blinded for three
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days and then he's led to a man who
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begins to tell him about the good news
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of Jesus radically turns his life over
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to
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God and everything changed in fact the
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Bible says in Acts 26:16 here's what God
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said stand up i have appeared to you for
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a reason i'm appointing you to be a
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servant and witness of what you have
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seen and of what I will show
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you god caught him on the way to do
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something wrong and intercepted him it
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wasn't because Paul was just Saul was
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just this good-hearted guy no no he was
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good at doing wrong that's like him
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intercepting you while you on the way to
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the club in Eore and you have this
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encounter on I4 with God and all of a
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sudden you find Oh my God what is going
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Yeah that that's what I'm talking about
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right
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now and God chose Saul watch and God
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chose
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you let me remind you if God can use
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John Wick to write twothirds of the New
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Testament
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then he can use your life too yes sir
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that's audacious grace
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unexplainable grace is that favor that
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move that presence the residue of God on
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your life that can't be earned can't be
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deserved it's it's that and by the way
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some of y'all going "Well I I I just
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really don't know if I can relate with a
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possessed preacher or or a get-around
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evangelist or a wild out witness or or
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or or a John Wick preacher." Well then
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let me remind you God also spoke through
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an ass when he talked back to Balum i
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don't know how you need to relate in
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this all I'm trying to tell you is God
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can use anybody and everybody to get his
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message across and that's what God's
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plan is for your life and my life we are
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his
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witnesses yes we are the ones who are to
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carry this good news everywhere we go i
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want to close with this today there's
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there's a purpose and there's a mission
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for your life you got to know this
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anybody remember Charlie's Angels
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boy I do too
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it was a good program it was a good
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program and a great poster i'm just
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saying like y'all remember posters back
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in the day we used to put posters on our
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on our on our walls yeah mom and dad
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didn't let me have that one i promise
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you that but I'm just saying my friends
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had it that's all I had to say
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you never met Charlie no one ever saw
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Charlie all you saw was the angels and I
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really didn't care about Charlie i just
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wanted to see the angels
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anyway but Charlie was always Charlie
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always had the mission
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angels yes
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Charlie those everybody who remembers
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Yeah see he's like "Oh my god I'm going
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to binge watch it." Yeah I know
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get all of a sudden now he gives them a
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mission
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charlie is sending these three beautiful
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ladies into the most dangerous
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situations they're having to like they
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riding boats and jumping out of
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airplanes and they're pulling guns and
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they're wrestling men that are 290 lbs
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to the ground and choking them out like
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a like these three it was crazy what
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they did never saw Charlie but they were
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living life on mission and they would go
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into dangerous places because Charlie a
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man they had never seen but they fully
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believed
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in said "I got a mission for you." And
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they went out and they put their life on
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the line to accomplish the mission of
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Charlie ladies and gentlemen the one who
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put everything on the line for us his
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name is Jesus and I have never seen
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Jesus
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physically but I can attest to his
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reality in my life amen the peace the
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rest the hope the wisdom the strength
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that I I I I I feel his I feel his
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pleasure i feel his joy i I I there's a
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reality of him in
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me the the word
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angel in the Bible is
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messenger charlie's angels were
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Charlie's
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messengers god's
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angels are his messengers and you and I
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have been called his
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messengers and if those three girls
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would do that for a man they've never
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met and put their lives on the line then
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why would I not put my reputation and my
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life on the line for the one that I've
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never met but I know his reality and I'm
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living my life on
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mission you and I are here to build the
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reputation of Jesus and to build his
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kingdom that is the reality of your full
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purpose in life whether you do that in
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the business arena you do that in
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education you do that as a stay-home mom
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dad whatever that looks like you you
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have an occupation that pays you but
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don't get it twisted your purpose and
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your mission is to build Jesus's rep and
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to build his kingdom as a believer that
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is it because there is a day coming that
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everything we have down here will not
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amount to a hill of beans as my daddy
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used to say but we will see Jesus face
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to face and I want to be able to tell
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him I was on mission man i was doing
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what I could to build your name and to
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build your kingdom this is why we're
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here that that it's it's it's just
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living that that that audacious
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bodacious gracefilled life that's what
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we're here to do not because we're great
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but because he's great not because I've
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got it together just because I'm
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grateful for what he did in my life and
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I want someone else to experience the
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same joy this same hope can anybody in
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this room admit that your life is better
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now that you know Jesus it's not that
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your problems all went away but but
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you're better now yes why would you not
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want a co-orker a family member a
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neighbor why would we not want them to
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experience Jesus like
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that matthew 5 Jesus said this "Let your
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light shine before people that they may
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see your good deeds and give honor to
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your father in heaven."
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rep Jesus out
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loud your our our living evidence it's
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not that I'm walking around with a Bible
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slapping people on the head in fact if
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that's what you do please leave your
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Bible at home do not do that
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we don't need any more foolishness out
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there related to No no it it's it's it's
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the choices that we make it's the
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attitude that we have it's it's our
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mouth
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it's it's all of that there's something
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different about my life i I want to live
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my life people go "There's something
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different about you." And they look to
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God because he's the source of all of
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this in my life psalm 96:3 here's what
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here's what David wrote "tell every
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nation on earth the Lord is wonderful
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and does marvelous
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things." Start with everyone you know
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don't you have to go find a stranger
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just somebody you know co-orker a
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neighbor that one that you think "Oh
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there's no way they would ever." Yeah
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well people said that about Saul also
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and now here he's the one that God is
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using that you and I are still drawing
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from his experiences with God there's
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something God has done in you that the
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world needs to hear so here's the
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message here's the message start praying
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for
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someone in fact we've got Easter on the
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way and this is a great time to begin to
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prepare your heart for who am I going to
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invite
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who will I invite to come meet
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Jesus i want you to begin to pray for
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someone and then and then and then
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here's something else you can do you can
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you can share your story i didn't say
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quote scripture i said share your story
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right right i just got to tell you what
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he did in my life i'm I man I got a lot
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of things I'm still struggling with and
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I'm still dealing with but boy I've got
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a hope and I got a peace and I got
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answers like I never had i got a
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community life is stronger and better
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most importantly I know that I'm good
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with God when when when you can begin to
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share just a hope again you don't have
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to quote scripture if they ask you
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what's the what's the 27th book in the
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Old Testament i don't know and right now
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I don't give a rip i just got to tell
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you who he's been to me
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ladies and gentlemen we we pray for
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people we share our story and we invite
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them to come and experience the reality
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of Jesus would you please stand to your
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feet
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i've got I got a message for you today
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charlie's
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calling he's got a he's got a
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mission and I just need you to
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understand that there's no room to opt
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out of this
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mission if you proclaim Christ as your
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Lord and
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Savior then you are living with a
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mission on your life i mean me too just
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because I preach on Sunday doesn't mean
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I well my duty is fulfilled no I've got
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to go out and I got to tap people on the
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shoulder hey how you doing i have to
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start those conversations i've got to
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shake hands i've got to begin to invite
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people i I I No one gets an out on this
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and I'm challenging you today i I'm
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praying just a a holy wonderful loving
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conviction that hits your heart like it
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hits mine that just irritates you that
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all of a sudden you're walking through
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Walmart and you see someone you ain't
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seen for three years and all of a sudden
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your heart starts to beat rapid and you
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know oh my god I'm supposed to invite
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them oh my god I that moment is
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beautiful it's wonderful it shows that
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heaven is working in you to impact glory
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your purpose and your mission are on
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point don't discount
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this in fact is anybody glad that God
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that somebody told you about Jesus
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just think about if someone said "Ah I
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just don't really want to invite him
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yeah I don't really want are you kidding
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me we're all here as the result of
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someone else's serving Jesus let's make
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sure that we have that voice and that
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heart i can't lay off of this enough
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we've got to go out and find where they
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are and tell them the good news about
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Jesus father today I pray that you would
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work in all of our lives not to just
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work in us but work through us i pray
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that you would stir us and burden us to
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reach for other people that don't know
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you yet god if you can use Mary
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Magdalene if you can use the Samaritan
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woman if if if you can use David if you
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can use
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Saul if you can use a maniac that was
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that was possessed and out of his mind
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but turned his If you can use these
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people surely you can use me today god I
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give you me i give you all that I am and
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and I give you especially all that I'm
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not where I fail where I come up short
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things I don't know i I don't have this
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together god it's that that I give you
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and I just If you can use anything then
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use me for your glory i want to live my
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life on mission i want to live it on
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point and I want to be your voice your
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heart and I want to be that hope dealer
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that everywhere I go every room I step
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into that Jesus steps in there with me
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and I realize that I have the
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opportunity of introducing people to a
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brand new
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life god I pray you forgive us a
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boldness stir inside of us holy Spirit
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work in us to affect and impact your
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kingdom i give you thanks for all this
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today in Jesus name everybody said
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"Amen." Amen amen amen you can put those
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