Sermon
Believe & Confess | Pr. Kenneth Chin
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Believe and confess the keys to releasing the redemptive power
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and promises of God. Do you know that there's so
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much more in God that we haven't experienced? So much more?
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You know. I'm in my fifties now, and as I
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retired from being a senior pastor of X Church, the
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Rod told me to get back into serving the nation.
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So I'm praying now and planning. But yesterday at a funeral,
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it was so cool. I was at a funeral, but
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I was early, an hour early. They were going to
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open their doors at child noon, but we were there
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eleven fifty eleven fifty five and the doors didn't open
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until about one actually, so we're there waiting. But then
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the next person to come was doctor Chew Paster, doctor
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Chew Waning Gi, the founding pastor of s I b
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k L. And so we got to talk and Bassa
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Choo said, Kells, I'm retired now he's seventy nine. I'm
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retired no froms IBKL and I passed it on and
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now the lot told me to serve the nation and
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look at him as a whole. He told me that
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the same things. And he said, yeah, hey, let's do
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it together. Let's do it together. He says, I got
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five hours. Look, give me five hours. I said, what
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are they? He said, Number one is relief. I need
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to relieve more and more pastors because you're feeling very tired.
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Number two to refresh. I got a refresher passes. In Malaysia.
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SIB is very blessed financially, very bus Choose said to me,
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there's no problem it comes to money. Uh. And yeah,
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you know a lot of the top businessmen are in SIB.
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And so they said, we're very blessed. And number two,
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we want to refresh. So they actually give pastors retreats
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for free. So just in two different places in Malaysia,
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they had two retreats, one for two hundred and twenty pastes,
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one for two hundred and seventy pastors, and they paid
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all the bill. Uh. And there's more to still spend
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because the lord said, no, come on spending on the
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country and I and I know that there's my calls
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as well. And so he said that number three is rebuild,
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and so we need to help rebuild the churches that
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have fallen down. And number four is revival. Number five
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is regeneration. I think he has Number five has to
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do with old folks are older, older people. But I
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said numberfore revive. He said, pass, it's about young people. Uh,
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the using this station, need the lot and he look
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at me.
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Is it?
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I don't know what to do. I don't know what
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to do. But now that I'm sitting down here at
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this uh funeral that I'm not supposed to come to,
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because I just came back from uh a Perth passed.
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You went to visit pastor Philipline because past Philipline is
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getting a treatment for cancer. Uh and uh, passive Philibiline
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is much better now cancer is gone. But but Passifilibi
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Linn I heard just kind of went through hell because
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of the treatment. Uh. And but the picture was sent
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back to us and passive Lillian is doing better, and
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hopefully he will get to go back to Skyline sib
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in Goal maybe the next six months. He's now in Perth.
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And so Pasta Chu and his wife, doctor Lee Chu
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went to Perth to visit and then came back. But
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he came away a sow truth. So I know I'm
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not supposed to come. No, I supposed you know. It
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was as bad as that, he said, Perth, Perth, so dry.
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I don't know why people are my great there anyway.
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So yeah, I said, eyes, you don't know why. Uh
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and but uh he said to me and in his
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hoarse voice, and he said, Kenneth, Kenneth, you have always
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been the youth man, always been the youth man. I
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know you as the youth man in Malaysia. So even
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though you're older now, right, Kenneth, I'm sure, I'm sure
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you're still calling the youth. I said, yeah, that's my
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calling and calling. And no matter how old you are,
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calling is still calling, you know, even your Sunday nine.
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If it's a calling, you call. So I said, doctor chu,
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uh you know sure, he said, Let's work together and
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do more. I'll open up the different doors for you
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around Malaysia and let's do it. So you know, when
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God is in a picture, the best is still yet
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to come. That's what I'm trying to say, the best.
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There is no retirement in God, only for refirement if
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anything else are So I want all of you to know,
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all the way from the front to the back that
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you ain't seen nothing yet. The best of God is ahead,
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and we need to know the secrets of how we
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open up these promises because they are there. The promises
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are there, is never left. The breakthroughs are waiting to
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break through, and the blessing is ready to be released.
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And all that God has prepared for us is for us.
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But we need to understand and learn, or relearn or
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be reminded of keys. There are keys that opens doors.
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You can't kick it down, you can't cry in front
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of it, let it open. No, you can't do any
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anything like that. There are keys. If the whole of
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the Bible is a key, and within that is hundreds
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of keys of how you can experience more of God.
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Can I hear a good Amen? All right? So I
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want to share with you two keys that has been
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very real to me as I was recovering. The Lord
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said to me almost every day, sometimes you will say
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to me once a week, he says, Kenneth, if you
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really want to see your healing quicker and fuller, you've
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got to do these two things. Believe and confess. Believe
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and confess. Okay, So let's look at the scriptures, and
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we'll start with that, and then we'll move on here
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in Romans ten, let me read the Word of God
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to you. You can turn to your bibles. There's a
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good practice. The reason why we tell people to tell
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you their bibles, just look at it. It's because when
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you go home, there is no screen at home, there
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is no projector at home, but you can turn. So
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when you practice turning, then when you go home, you
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got to hey, where the pasted leaders to. I can't remember,
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you know, but you will remember because your memory will
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go like, oh, I turn to the right of my Bible. Oh,
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I turned to the left of my Bible, and I
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turned to something called Romans. You know. It's a good practice,
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all right, So let's read the word of God. But
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what does it say. The Word is near you in
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your mouth and in your heart. That is the word
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of faith which we preach that if you confess with
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your mouth the Lord Jesus, and believe in your heart
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that God has raised him from the dead, you will
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be safe. Wow, you will be safe. For with the
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heart one believes unto righteousness, and with the mouth confession
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is made unto salvation. The next light for the scripture says,
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whoever believes on him will not be put to shame.
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I love this verse. You will never be put to
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shame if you believe on him, for there is no
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distinction between you and Greek. For the same Lord overall
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is rich to all who call upon him. For whoever
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calls on the name of the Lord shall be safe. Okay,
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let me remind all of you that this is a
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very very good scripture to use when anyone comes up
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to you to say or ask, how do you know
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you're saved? How do you know? How are you so
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sure that you're safe? So if anybody asks you that question,
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you must come back to these verses. The Bible says,
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if you believe in your heart and confess with your mouth,
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you will be saved, all right, For it says that
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with the heart one believes unto righteousness, and with the
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mouth confession is made unto salvation. Okay, So all you
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need is believe, confess. That's all the Bible says, and
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you will be safe. Is not your money, it's not
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your giving, is not your attendance at church. It's not
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where you serve. It's not how much you fast, it's
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not how much you pray. It's just believe and confess.
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All right, let's move on. Let's now talk about redemption.
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All right. The next light talks about redeem redemption and redemptive.
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So I'm very big now on living the redemptive promises
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of God. What is that? What is that? The redemption
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or the redemptive promises of God? These are promises that
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are for us as a free gift of God. We
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did not work for it, We did not pay money
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for it. We did not do anything except to believe
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and confess the redemptive. So this is what happened. There
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was a big exchange that happened at the Cross. Okay. Now,
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almost every morning, almost every morning, I will take communion. Okay,
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I will wake up here early in the morning. The
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Holy Spirit will wake me up. Every time there is
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an early morning service. He wakes me up at four
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o'clock in the morning. Okay, because like this morning, he
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woke me up at four, I'm more like four twelve.
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And then you know, I ended my quiet time at
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six thirty. So but this is all the Holy Spirit.
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I by myself, I don't have strength to do this,
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and so I took it a communion. I take it
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every day, and then I do this, I say, Lord,
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thank you for the bread and the cup. Now I'll
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say this, Lord, your body was broken for me. You
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paid the price I couldn't pay. Your blood was shed
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for me. Your blood is so powerful. Your blood cleansed
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me from the darkest sin and deepest stain. And I'll
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move on because of the redemptive knowledge. Right, I will say, Lord,
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I am told to take communion and remember you. So
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this is what I want to remember. I want to
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remember that you went to the cross for me. I
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want to remember that you took my place. I want
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to remember that you exchange. This is where it becomes
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really really fruitful for my heart and mind, when I
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go into a series of what God did for me.
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So I would do this. I'll do this. This is
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this to tell you the background of how I do communion.
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I said, Lord, thank you that you gave me your
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righteousness and took my sin. That was an exchange. I said, Lord,
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thank you that you exchanged your blessing for my curse.
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Before I knew the Lord, I was cursed, and then
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he took away my curse and replaced it with his blessing.
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I said, Lord, thank you for your heaven that came
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and invaded my hell. I said, Lord, thank you for
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a future that took over my past. I said, Oh,
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thank you for your light that took over my darkness.
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I said, Lord, thank you for exchanging my weakness for
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your strength. Lord, thank you for exchanging my sickness for
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your health. And I go on and on because I
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understand what happened on the cross is that there was
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a huge, big exchange that I did not deserve. But
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what the word of God says is that we have
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been redeemed. He bought us, He redeemed us. Now, when
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is the last time you ever used the word redeem?
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It is when we go to the supermarket or the
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mall and then we are buying something and then the
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salesperson said, this one you can redeem for a free gift.
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Where where to get the free gift? You go to
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the third floor or the fourth floor. What do I do?
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You go to customer service and you show this. As
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long as you show this, you get free gift. And
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we all Malaysians love free give not even show whether
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it's gonna be worth your time. Ah, you are laid
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a ready for meeting her. But the voucher says, redeemable
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by tomorrow. And you look at the time, you look
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at the day, and you say, I need this free give.
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So you go finding the escalator, going to a place
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you never plan to go, not even worrying if you're
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gonna be laid for the meeting. Right when you get
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into your carlator, you know you're gonna give your your
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your friend the same answer on my way. And then
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you go to the escalator. The escalator is not working.
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You have to walk up this escalator now. But for
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the free gift, we will go third floor. You now
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appear and you look at the lady and you say, hello, sister,
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I'm supposed to come for my free GIF. Oh yes, yes, yes,
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And you ask, is it a tesla? You know what
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she was gonna ask. She's gonna ask, show me the voucher.
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No voucher, no free gif. Hey, the voucher is cheap.
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This is a piece of paper. In it write cheap nothing.
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But as soon as you exchange it, the thing that
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comes back to you is not another piece of paper.
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It's definitely more valuable. And I tell you what, that's
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what Jesus did for us. He redeemed us. There had
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to be an exchange, no voucher, no, no Jesus, no salvation.
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Which other religious leader you know are exchange not one?
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The exchange had to happen. I don't care how cheap
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the voucher is, how cheap that piece of paper they
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printed the voucher. The exchange had to happen. Jesus, Salvation, righteousness, right,
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blessing and all that I alas do me very important.
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So I want to tell all of you here in
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this room there is so much more in Christ to experience,
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so much more. Turn your neighbor says, so much more?
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All right. Maybe you're here thinking, oh yeah, but you
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know I've been a Christian long time and I've not
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experienced it so much more. In fact, is gone from
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bad to worse. Life seems harder than when he started. Okay, whatever,
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it's fine. I'm here to encourage you. I'm here to
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encourage you that if you could live these two things
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I'm about to tell you, you're gonna see results. Huh. Okay.
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So that's my purpose of sharing you my love for
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you in this room. And why do I love you?
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Because Jesus loves you and he doesn't want any Christian
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he has stuck. Okay, so I'm gonna share some things
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with you. I hope you really encourage you. All right,
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So let's look at Revelations five nine to ten, and
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they sang a new song saying you are worthy to
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take the scroll and to open his seals. Okay, a
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young man here needs a toilet. Do keep saying you
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say you do, dear sh sh okay, very far, for
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you have redeemed us to God buy your blood. Do
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you see that redeem and redemption is a word from
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the Bible, And towards the end you will see it
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again when you go to heaven, because revelation is all
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about heaven. When you go to heaven, you're gonna hear
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it again. And I hope that by the time when
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you go up by, you will say to the Angel,
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I understand redemption. Why Chris pass Kenna taught us? You
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know no, of course you knew it even before I
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thought you. But I want you to understand this. To God,
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this is this is, this is the gospel. You and
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I had nothing, and we deserve nothing, accept punishment and
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we earn nothing. We could not work for our salvation.
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It was a free gift. All understand Very important. So
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how much more does God have in store for you? Freely? Freely? Okay?
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So he has redeemed us to God by blood. Okay,
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Next one, Galatians to twenty. I have been crucified with Christ.
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It is no longer I who live, but Christ lives
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in me. Do you see the exchange. It's not your
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life anymore, His life in you. Amen? So good? Right?
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So good? Okay, Now let's talk about okay, after I
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talk about the redemdemption, because there's so much in this
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redemption we haven't seen yet. That's why I want you.
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I want you to get so much in this redemptive
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thing that God has given us that we haven't experienced yet.
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So I want to just excite you. All right. Now,
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let's look at these tow uds righteousness and salvation because
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Romans tend that we just read earlier talks about it
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right with the heart one one believes, and too, righteousness
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and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation. Okay,
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So let's talk about this too, all right, because there's
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a lot too unpacked even in righteousness and salvation. Here
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we go. Righteousness, The next slide says, equals what is it? Right? Standing?
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Or right relationship aligned with God. That means that you're
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now a friend of God. You suddenly are from an
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enemy became a friend. You know what's the difference. I
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tell you what the differences are totally before. But i'll
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tell you again. When you have a piece of cake
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on the table, all right, when the left side, the
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guy on your left side, takes a piece of cake,
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you s call him, hey, why do you take my cake?
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You're stealing my king. The guy on your right hand
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side takes the same amount of cake, eats it. Come on,
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let's share that, all right. The difference is one is
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stealing and one is sharing. The difference just this one
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is the enemy, one is a friend. So all this
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time you and I have been enemies with God, so
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we had no right to his cake. Whenever we touch
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any thing of God, we are stealing because we're enemies.
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But then today we become a friend of God. Everything
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we take is sharing. You know, I said, wow, hey,
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you tell your friend. It takes takes more right the
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enemy spit out what you speed up what you do? Great?
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What a difference. So to be aligned with God, to
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be a friend of God, to be at peace with God,
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to be in right, standing, right or very Ill tell
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you what. Almost everything in the Bible has got promises
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for the righteous. But you and I were not righteous.
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But now because we are righteous in Christ, every blessing
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has come for us. So when you say the righteous
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shall never beg for bread, that's you. But before that
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you head to beg the righteous shall never be put
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to shame, there's you. So every promise in the Old
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Testament for the righteous is suddenly yours because you and
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I have become a friend of God. But is it
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your righteousess or is it Christ? Righteous is Christ? So
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when God sees you, he sees his son. Okay, let's
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look at this word imputed to us, because I want
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I want you to just get all these concepts in
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your mind, because you and I never work for it.
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So whatever you're going to get in the future, from
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today onwards will not be just by works or by
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your smarts or intelligence. You know nothing. It's going to
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be imputed. The righteousness was imputed to us, so will
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every other blessing. All right, those of you who are
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looking for a wife, that wife will be I'm not
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talking to people who married her, those who are no
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one thing a wife Uh, don't make the Lord impew
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to you. Those of you are looking for getting a husband,
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made the Lord impew to you. Rest, rest, don't work
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so hard. Don't don't even work so hard. You know
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that the way Adam found Eva was when he fell asleep.
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I'm not talking to the guys that you should sleep,
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you should rest. So those of you who want a
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husband and a wife, I just write down your past
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is lifting up his hands, and I'm being serious, made
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the Lord impalty to you stress free. Yeah, the the
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is the merry one who saying, amen, what's going on? Sire?
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Let's look at a scripture Romans fourth Trainings. Really, for
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he did not waver. Abraham did not waver the promise
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of God through unbelief, but was strengthening faith hallelujah, giving
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glory to God and being fully convinced that what he
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had promised he was able to perform, and therefore it
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was accounted to him. Now, this whole scripture here is
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on accounts, this warning past. The joy was sitting right
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in front of me, So I said, I told everybody,
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Joy is very good accounts. Yeah. When she was a
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student of accounts, her notes were sup perfect, better than
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the teacher's notes. Then her classmates her will borrow her notes,
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and when they borrow Joyce knows her, they get a A.
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I'm telling you this is is if people know they're
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nodding a head right. So I said, if you're you're
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didn't understand this was an accounting words. These are accounting words.
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Now I can see past Sarah here she is really
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she's like Without her, I think I'll be lost on Seriously,
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Sarah when it comes to accounts. He seriously, Sarah, thank
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you so much. It's a lot. Blessed you, lo bless
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you with a good husband, good children. He should be saying, Amen,
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I don't know why. Amen, Allelujah, Praise God. Amen means
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so being let me be done. It's done a really halleliah, Amen,
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Praise God. Yeah, you hate chining a bit. It was
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a counter to him his accountancy accounted. He see, Abraham
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just believed. All he did was just believe, and he
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was accounted to him for righteousness. Didn't do anything else,
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didn't do anything else accounted. So once he got this righteousness,
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he got everything else. Okay, And now now he was
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not written for his sake alone, that he was imputed
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to him, So that's why you get that imputed to him,
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but also for us. So it's not just for Abraham,
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so for all of us. Okay here, good Amen, come on,
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not just Mayby. So whatever Abraham got, you can get. No. Oh,
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I get very excited about this. So I get very
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excited about this. I'm a man. I'm a man who
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have lived without a salary for thirty years, just living
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my faith. God said to me, don't take a salary,
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so I didn't take it. I don't even have EPF,
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no no EPF, no socks. So but every morning I
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find myself thanking God. How a man without salary could
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afford a house there is now today valued at two
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point two million. So so I'm sitting on in front
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of you talking as a millionaire. You don't trying to
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say it's only God. Two cars park in front. Bought
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a car without money passender. You know, we bought a
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car for her and she now gave it to her
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Mother's mother can have a car. But how do people
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without salary able to give their parents a car? God?
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And these all small small things compared to what he
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has in Stall. He got so much in Stall. My
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wife's boyfriend once upon a time. Yeah, yeah, you know
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it wasn't on fire for God. He was a Christian.
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But you know they can be Christians going on fire
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for God? Might son not be a Christian? So my
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wife wanted to she's on fire, you know, my wife
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not on fire? And today I want to go for missions.
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And then her boy friends that don't be so on
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fire and passionate? What for? What for? You know? He
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just wanted to make money. So my wife said, I
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don't think this relationship can continue. I'm so sorry. I
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need a man that is on fire for God to
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match my fire. Otherwise you guys are gonna steal my fire.
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All right, you're gonna tell me to go to church.
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I don't go to missions that you know, you know
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I can. Jesus is my first husband. And so she
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found me, but she told me. She told me. Years later,
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this boyfriend of us said to her, Sandra, if you
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leave me because he's rich, and he's rich, Sandra, if
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you leave me, or you would never travel the world.
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And by at that time was poor, not poorer than
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mean I was. I was. I was so poor that
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when the robber came to rob our house, you robbed
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the robber, the robbert. Do you want to come to
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the house and head throw all the others. Don't touch
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that house. Don't touch that house. You go into the
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house with pants, you come up with our pants raw.
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Of course the guy is poorer than us. Okay, all right, yeah, yeah, right.
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We were so poor at the cockages. I could see
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my grating to the next house. You know, I thought.
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I asked one of courriages. I said, cocush, are you
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leaving my house? He said, you're not even crumbs. He's
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in this house. I'm that's ooking. But then, you know,
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so then when we got to travel the world because
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of God, because of Jesus sending us around the world. Right,
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my wife's passport is filled every pagere without finishing five years.
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You know how five years only you change your passport.
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We had to change it the third and three and
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a half years we had to change it. God is
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the one that rewards and restores his redemptive power. Ladies
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and gentleman, you don't know what is in this gift.
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This gift of salvation that came to us is more
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than we can imagine. Of course, Heaven is greater than
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anything on earth. I'm telling you right now, those setters
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for second best. God has got only the best you
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with me. And it's not by because I'm more special.
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I did more. No, no, no, no, because I believe,
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I really do believe that this is the kind of
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God we serve. So you want to know in Greek?
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What the word imputed do you mean? I give you
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the Greek now, not that I'm a Greek scholar, so
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you can find a so on GPT do you want
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to get the word? The word is Lord gees on my.
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Oh my, here I see, oh my guy, I know
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how you're hungry. He's not lor my guy. Is Lord
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Jesus My? What does he mean imputed to you? God
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has Lord Jesus my you? Ah, does any bad work
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come out? God has Lord Jesus my you. He gave
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you credit. Now all the students here who understand that
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by the middle of the money dea, you have no
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more money. And then Maggie me becomes your best friend.
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You know what Lord Jeesus mine is. It is looking
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at your account and going like, oh my God, how
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am I gonna last the month? No? You know where
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our confidence grows. Our confidence grows when the pay comes.
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And then we see our confidence going down and down
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as our bank account goes down and down, and then
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we are now at negative territory. No good. But then
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your mom decided to Lord Jesus mine, you didn't do nothing.
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You didn't earn it. Right, the fact that you lived
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in your mother for nine months rentfree. You still owe
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your mother. Okay, your mom, your dad, your dad sender,
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Lord Jeesu mine, just because you're a son. You haven't
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come back to wash the house, clean the toilet. Nothing.
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Now I can see my dess Okay, that signs no. No,
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don't say don't don't look at you. Don't children, give
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them a break, you, Lord Jesus mind just because you
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know why God, Lord Jesus mine for you, because you
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are his child. Credit does only go credit. Please, you
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don't have to live in the negative. Once upon a
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time all our lives were negative. And then when Jesus
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came from from heaven, he broke through our negative and
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made it positive. That's the sign of the cross. All
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of you are Christians, are you must be positive? Stop
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being so negative. You once who are minus? Without him?
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Now you're a plus. Do you know what plus plus means?
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I added value to you, So don't call your wife negative.
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Don't call your girlfriend or boyfriend minus. That's why they
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call it. Are you bringing your plus one? Why they
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say plus one? Next day sho say you are you
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bringing a negative one? Ah? You know why they say
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that because you keep completely but your girlfriend you bring
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your negative? And not why because I always negative? No,
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nobody says that, Are you being your plus one? Plus
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means are that person is supposed add value in your life? So, ladies,
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young ladies, young guys, are you before you married her,
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make sure you get a plus because sometimes you cant
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marry into into a place where by her they're so
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negative they just zap the you know whatever, the strength
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out of you. Yeah, okay, the husband, why don't don't
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don't agree so fast that I said, yeah, yeah, husband,
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just sitting next to you. Why my wife is agreeing
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so fast? Lord Jesus mine ever since I've known Jesus,
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are he has? Lord Jesus my life like crazy. I
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don't deserve, you know, nineteen nine point nine percent of
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the things I tell you, I don't deserve ninety nine
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pot nine nine nine nine nine nights. You know I don't.
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But he has he has Jesus is a plus in
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my life. He's a positive. Can you hear a great man?
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Next slight says for all of sin and fall short
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of the glory of God. You know what fall shot means?
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Fall shot is another accounting term. Have you ever fall
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short before? Fell shot before? Chinese? No matter how you count,
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your notes are in your waldador, cowl again, cowl against him?
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Fall shot? And then a friend come behind you, are
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you know? And push some money into your hand. Whisperings,
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put your hand behind, put some money into your hand,
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and then you say, oh, just enough. That's what God
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is doing in our lives. He is making us His
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grace is sufficient, always sufficient. A lot of us in
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this room now we've got bills to pay, and what
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just to get my money? You're owing big time in
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your relationships, to your parents, to your children, to your neighbor,
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to your family members, to your staff, owing big time.
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Someone here should be saying to somebody you haven't said
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sorry for a few weeks. Now you should be saying sorry,
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you owe that person big time. Sorry, Okay, we owe,
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we owe big time. But you know who is the
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one that makes it sufficient, Who's the one that helps
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pay our bills gives us a strength to do it Jesus,
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so it's imputed to us. Everybody. Okay, all right, I
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haven't even come to the exciting part of this message.
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All this. I tell you what. I there, just warm
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my money? Is it good? Okay? Okay? If you'll think
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this message too longer, Y just stores get up and walk?
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No what then come better? Okay? We've known about righteousness, righteousness,
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you and I, You and I all must have. We
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want righteousness, and Jesus gives us, gives it to us
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free off charge. And from righteousness comes everything else you
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ever dreamed of. Okay, everybody, Okay, Now let's look at salvation, salvation, righteousness,
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and salvation with the hard one believes and too, righteousness
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with the mouth confession is made unto salvation, righteousness, salvation
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all stay with me. What is salvation now? Most of
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you think that it's only getting saved and going to
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heaven when you die. Can I tell you it's more
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than that. Salvation starts already while you're alive. It's PhD, pardon, healed,
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and delivered, all three in one. I'm telling you right
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now that means I don't just say oh, Jesus came
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to save me. And salvation just means I'll go to heaven.
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I'm forgiven, I'll go to heaven. No, no, no, no no.
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Salvation also includes healing. And that's why when I'm on
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my seat at home with my heal of my left
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foot still needing healing, I say, Lord, I know you
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have saved me, and salvation means you have also healed me.
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And so the Lord have you say, Kenneth, you must
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believe and you must confess every day I try to
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do that. We're healed and we are also delivered. This
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is for you. It's for all of you in this room,
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not just I'm going to heaven when I die. Amen. No, here,
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right here, where you are, heaven can come. Eternal life
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doesn't start only in eternity. It's called eternal because it
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starts now. E turnover, no beginning, No anyone he started ready?
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But are you living a life and life more abundantly?
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That's the question. Who himself bore our sins in his
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own body on the tree that we haven't died to
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since might live for righteousters by who strikes you were healed?
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For spirit? Two twenty four? Do you see healing, and
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the body on the tree died to sins, and by
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his stripes you were heal. All in one verse. How
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let's check out another one? Some swe zero three. I
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love someone in ze tree. I memorized it and I
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use it quite often. Bless the Lord all my soul
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and all that is within me. Bless his holy name.
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Bless the Lord all my soul, and forget not all
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his benefits. Oh hey, listen, everybody right to the back.
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Do you know there are benefits becoming a Christian? Yo,
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don't be extra humbula. Oh no, you know. I just
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love Jesus and he saved me, and this is all
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I need. Yes, it's a terrible life I'm living here
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on earth, but you know, one day I'll get to heaven.
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And you know, my marriage is not really working. But
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Jesus all right, because Jesus is all about Salvagian. He
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doesn't really care about my marriage. I know, he doesn't
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really care about my happiness. He doesn't really care about
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my health. Who said? Who said there are benefits being
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a believer in Christ? What are the benefits? Number? One
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forgives all my iniquities. Hello, ladies and gentlemen, or not
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some our dear prime minister. I know I broughte him.
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You'll know his story. It was all in the newspaper.
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He received a full partn a full pardon. There is.
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The pardon went all the way back to his first
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court case, all the way back to his first conviction,
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nalifying everything, including his prison record, all exponge, all done
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and gone, as if he's never sinned. That's how he
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became a prime minister, because the King had power to
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not just partly pardon him, quarter pardon him, three quarter
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part of him. He pardoned fool pardon. That's what God
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did for you and me, full pardon. That's why the
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word justified. You know how you remember it? Justify sounds
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like just as if I never sin That's that's the
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way I remember it. At least I'm justified, just as
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if I'd never done any wrong. Who did it for me?
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Jesus wipe the slate clean. He's not like some of
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the people that you know, street the floor and you know,
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try to sweet for people to see and then the
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rest sweep under the drain, sweep under the coupet. No, no, no,
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Jesus was not into that. He's wiped it clean, and
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you can't even find us under the carpet. He can't
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find that. You try to find, you can't find it
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because He's done it all for us, redemption once and
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for all, but forgiving, for forgiving of iniquities is not
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the only one. He healed all our diseases part of
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the benefit. No, did he say, some of your diseases
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are all you know what I think is happening. We
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maybe don't believe it. I gave you two keys, right,
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what the keys again? Believe with all your heart and
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confess with your mouth this, this is both the problem
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and the answer. Somehow you look at it. You know,
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I just saw a pastor dieary day of cancer. You know,
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so a lot of these things start to affect your mind.
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And got to know he Christians right, and we began
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to doubt. That was never our role. We were never
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told by God to think so hard about it and
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make a decision that is totally opposite from the word.
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But too many of us think too hard. The Bible
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says trust in the Lord with all your heart and
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lean not on your own. But a lot of us
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are living Christian life wanting to understand before we move
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that's our problem. God's word doesn't say believe with your mind.
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He says, believe with your too many of us are
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trying to make sense up here. When you are to
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be like Abraham, just abandon yourself to the Lord. Just
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be fully convinced that what he says he will do.
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You know, I tell you this a if I'm ever
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sick and I have to die from the sickness, I
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will still. I tell you, I'm confessing to you right
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now so that you can hold me to this, these
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words that I'm saying to you, because I've said this
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so many times. I've seen so many of my Christian
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brothers and sisters go home to be with the Lord
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at the hospital, even you know, And I say, Lord,
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if it ever happens to me, if you ever allow
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it to happen, I want to decide now to believe
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you to the very end that you are my healer
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and nothing will change that. And then came a statement
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in my mind that I put it into my notes
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tucked away for me. One of you will read my
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diary one day. But he says, I rad die believing
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than to live doubting. Leave the healing to God, leave
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the breakthrough to God. But for me, my role is
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to believe and to go all the way faithful until
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the very end. Because there are some questions I will
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never be able to answer this side of eternity. But
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when I get to God, God will tell me why.
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You understand, But I pray that you will be your
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anthem as well. I rather die believing than live doubting,
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because doubt has no power. At least believe. So he forgives,
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He heals, and he redeems your life from destruction. Who
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wants to destroy you, the devil? So I call it deliverance.
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He delivers you out of the devil's hands. Somebody say, amen,
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these are his benefits? Have you been experiencing it? Because
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he said, I can't to give you life and life
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more abundantly. It is my desire that all of you
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live abundant life now next life. How does how does
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all these blessings come to us? I'm not even sure,
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but it is write English? Is it? How does or
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how do we? Okay, okay, you understand what ty say? Okay,
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How does all these things? How do all how do
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all these things? How do all these blessings come to us?
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Is what I want to leave with you because I
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tell you what some of you are. Your blessings and
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breakthroughser are just round the corner. In fact, this week itself,
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I'm believing for some of you to have customonies. Mh okay.
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Number one, believe in your heart. Number one, believe in
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your heart. Simple, let me not explain further. I call
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this belly faith. Belly faith, faith from our inner most being,
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faith from our bowels, from the heart. Ladies and gentlemen,
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brothers and sisters. I want to let you know this,
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Every wonderful, powerful miracle that's ever happened in my life
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did not come from my brain. He came from my belly.
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Because that's what God says people. People have asked before,
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where does the Holy Spirit live? He lives in your
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in most part, the Bible says. Out of your belly
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will flow rivers of living water. Another transition is out
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of your inmost parts or inner most part will flow
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rivers of living water, or out of your heart, meaning
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the heart of hearts. When the Lord said to me, Kenneth,
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give up your law degree. I was a lawyer for
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three and a half years. Give up your own law degree.
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Come follow me. I've got many young people for you
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to reach. How many of you think that I gave
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up my law career from my brain, because if you
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use your brain, you will never give it up. Had
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to come from somewhere deeper. When we started ex church
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with only three people, I left as I bekl I
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was their youth pastor. How many of you think that
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I started X Church with my brain because you know,
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starting a church with the street will it's not easy.
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My uncle needed a job, but before he could get
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a job, he needed a car. The Holy Spirit said, Kenneth,
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give your uncle your car. I said, God, this is
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my only car. God say, it's the old car. It's
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as old as you know at that time, twenty seven
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years old. I said, God, is my only car. What
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do I drive? God says, do you trust me? I said, yeah,
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your uncle needs your car. Your uncle needs the car more.
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Without the car, he can't get a job. He doesn't
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really know me. You know me. So let the one
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who doesn't know me that well get the car. Because
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he doesn't have faith enough to see any other open door.
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You have faith, and all the doors are opened for you.
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So I gave him my car. The next day, a
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secretary called me. She said, my boss asked me to
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call you a. How's your boss good? Uh? He said,
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do you need a car next day? Twenty four hours?
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I said, ah, yes, she said yeah, my boss wants
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to give you this old color see another o CAA Yeah,
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so sorry again he says a car in our company
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And my boss says, yeah, give it to a Passela.
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It's a really three years old. I say, a three
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years Oca, like brand new way compared to my twenty
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seven year OCA. And I drove it for two three
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years and the company continued to pay for the road
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tax and the insurance. You know, sometimes when we don't
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believe and don't release, we don't you see, so you
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we rather stay on with the old car because we
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can see, instead of obeying God's voice and then realizing
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that so much more are you assuming barely? Faith is
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a faith that stirs you. Yeah, when we start the
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ex London, you think what's from here? The ring it
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issever compared to the poundser will stop you from starting
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any church in London. I can go on and on.
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We have like so many stories to tell you. My
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prayer is that you will have the stories, because your
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best stories are ahead of you. All you need to
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do is believe. But what can I believe mine? See?
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Too many of us want to have clarity in our
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mind before we move. How many of you know that
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God has a move here? Let's look at the John seven.
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On the last day, that great day of the feest,
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Jesus stood and cried out, saying, if anyone thirst, let
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him come to me and drink. He who believes in me,
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as the scripture has set, out of his heart will
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flow rivers of living water. There is a river inside
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of you. Listen, there's a river inside of you that's
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waiting and wanting to flow. And all you need to
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do is believe. And then out of your own belly,
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out of your own innermost being, out of your own heart,
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will flow. Is not the mind, It is not the mind.
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He didn't say out of his mind will flow rivers
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of living water. See, I think, why why you keep
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talking about this? I know we got it. I want
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to make sure you got it because too many of
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us are still living for the mind. The Bible says
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you are transformed by the renewing of your mind. So
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your mind and my mind needs to be renewed before
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you can be transformed. There were Okay, next one, for surely,
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I say to you, whoever says to this mountain be
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removed and be cast into the sea. And that's not
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doubt in his heart, but believes that those things he
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says will be done, he will have whatever he says. Hello,
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whatever is whatever. No, God, you don't put a limitation
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of whatever. But there are conditions before that. And that's
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the Bible says, don't doubt in your mind. So I
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explained this to you since some of you might be
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struggling with this. You said passive, But doubt is natural thing, right? Yes,
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do you understand now when I say this to you?
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Are you can still doubt in your mind but not
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in your heart? Meaning, oh God, I've got a thousand
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and one questions in my mind, but in my heart
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I'm settled. I'm at peace that this is you and
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I will do it. So that's where they get confusing. Hey,
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how comes God says don't doubt? Then some pastors say, yeah,
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it's okay, little be of doubt is what you know. No,
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there is a mind and there's a heart. There's a
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belly in the the brain. Your brain will continue to question,
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but your belly must be at peace. Your brain will
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continue to ask why, how, who are where the money
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is coming from? And I tell you what, There's something
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that works insider that surpasses understanding one. So let's look
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at heart faith versus head faith. Head faith has really
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no power because it moves nothing. You can think that
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that the cows come Homer. Nothing is moved, no results.
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Head faith says, I know, pastor I know, but actually
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inside you don't know. You get this. I know how
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to do this. One plus one is two two plas
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two is four. I know, I know, I know. Right,
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your faith is in your head, but inside you don't
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have the peace. You're still scared. You with me, everything
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is is like a termol hell right, you won't see results,
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but there are days are where your hate is still questioning.
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But your heart says, I know, do you get this.
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I'll do it again for you as you understand that
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hate might say I know, Heart say I don't know.
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I don't really know. You know. Sometimes you take people away,
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say you say I know in the meeting, the Christian meeting,
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and you say I know, I know, Okay, let's do it,
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say but I'm not sure. But in front of everyone.
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Now he's talking Christian talk. Yes God can, Yes, God
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is great. Yes that's something impossible. Yes, yes, you know
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hate man. I was like, oh no, I don't think so.
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But the other way around, you got your hat saying
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I don't know, I don't know why I know, and
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I know that I know, I know, I know, I know,
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I know if I if I don't do this, I
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can't sleep well. Now, how many have you ever been
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there before? God told you something and then you don't
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want to do it because your behavi is just really
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messing you up. And then you go in your car.
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Maybe he said, give fifty ring gearbare to the offering
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back maybe oh lie, And then you look around, Yeah,
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this church looks so rich. I saw pastor driving a
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big car. So your hate going on? Okay, So you
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made up your mind you will not obey. And then
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you're when you're when you're going away, driving your car,
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going back, falling asleep at home. You can't sleep because
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he's still going on. He's not going on here, it's
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going on here. Why did I say? Why did I
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do it? Why did I pray for my friend before
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she left? Now? No, I can't pray for her anymore.
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It's like, yeah, you think it's here, it's here. So
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the way forward is if you want to see greater
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things in your life, you got to ask God. God
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help me with the belly fade. Because I've been relying
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on my brain too much. I've been trying to decipher.
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I've been trying to understand, and yet the Bible keeps
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telling me you don't lean on your own. The bottom
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few words, it's not because we've thought through things that
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things happen. You think I thought through ex Melbourne, I
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didn't think true. In fact, sometimes that it is because
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we didn't think true. If I ask a person and
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a person can answer me all the questions I get
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scared of because they thought through so much, then they
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want to do is taken away faith. I like to
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hear people go like, I don't know why I think
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it won't work out, but you don''t know why. It's
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stirring inside. I'm not showing it. Somebody about I cried.
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They're talking about here. Your brain doesn't make you cry easily,
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and people don't touch your brain, and then you cry
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people that your heart and you cry. God moves you know.
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The Bible says that Samuel the Prophet said to well,
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God said to Samuel the prophet, man look at the
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outward appearance. God looks at the heart. He's always after
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the So it's okay to have one or two questions
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in your brain. Make sure that your heart moves with God.
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Can I give you another Greek word? This one? I
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don't care. I can't remember the Greek word, sorry, because
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it's just coming back to my memory. Do you know
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what compassion is in the Greek? The meaning of compassion,
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You know, when Jesus was very tired and then he
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still was able to minister to the people because he
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had compassion on it as sheep without a shepherd. The
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word compassion in the Greek is movement of bowels. That's
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that's the exact meaning of compassion means, sir, you cannot
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but do something. How many of you are the last
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time you had a movement of bowels? Very better? Now?
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Little bit, little bit, right now, I feel like it's
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coming out. Feel like it's coming out. You can sit
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the han, sit the hand, then go home and sit
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on your toilet and go for it. Right. But some
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of us in this room, you know, all of us
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are have all experienced the movement of the bowels where
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you cannot hand anymore. It's not even speaking to you,
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and you're moving sideways in your chair trying to use
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your muscle right down there to cary ho ho ho.
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No matter how dirty the toilet, you will still go,
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you will still go. I've been to some toilets before
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the total So the tea you went back, you better,
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I think when it come out now as the opener,
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no no, no, pas, the can let's go home. I'm
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just saying, I'm just saying compassion. The word Greek movement
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of bowels means you cannot but do something about it.
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People can offer you what you steak, but when your
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stomach is growling with having to go to toilet, the
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wu steak will be a curse more than a blessing. Yes,
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I'm telling you seriously. That's why Jesus couldn't but minister
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even though he was tired physically, because when you're moved,
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you see a beggar at the street in your mind.
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My mother, my mother told me, I don't trust these
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fellows all are because you know they're probably packing the
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bmre blue at the back. You know, uh, you know,
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I know, don't try, don't tryst okay, don't tries. Don't tries,
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don't try, don't trust right you try away? You try away?
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Now your brain has told you don't. My mother told
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me do My teacher told me door, my grandfather told me, don't.
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Everybody told me don don't. Don't believe it's for us. Ah,
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you give the firing it and then spoke. Many will
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told you that day. I don't know why you turn
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back and stick give their firing it. Yeah, it's always
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here that turns you back, isn't it. We need that,
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and God will give it to you because He will
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speak to your inner most being. The Holy Spirit is there.
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He's the one stirring with me when you move in
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that way. I'm telling you right now, almost everything, if
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not everything that I've ever seen in God as a
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miracle as a testimony, has always been here. Never. Oh
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so sorry, some of you may be watching or hearing
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on the audio. I just pointed to my stomach. Faith
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must come out from the belly. And I tell you
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go to any restaurant, it's always more expensive as sashimi
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raw fish. One is firing in they are one fifteen.
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Why belly. The belly always has more value. Did I
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just make you hungry? God will move you and you
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need to move with God. God will move you, and
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you need to move with God. Christianity is hard faith.
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I know how you're look at your watches because it's
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almost time to go. But bury me for a woman,
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because I only speak here once every two years. But
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if you have to go, just stand up and go
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in and come back. Okay. Christianity is heart faith. Christianity
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has never been mind faith. And those who come to
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Christianity with their brain, you see them backslide easily. Huh.
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When problem come, trouble come, they're gone. They're the first
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one to go, because it's never gone deeper with me,
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all of you in this room, I pray that you
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did not come to crisis because you know somebody gave
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you a lollipop and did not. I pray you don't
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don't come to crisis because you know there was a
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big concert somewhere and you moved by emotions, came up
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with your friends, and then accept the Christ. And then
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later on when the first sign of trouble, you are
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the first one to go. It's always been. Belly is
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a heart. Faith is a belly faith James one six
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to eight. Let him ask in faith with no doubting.
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For he who doubts is like a wave of the sea,
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driven and tossed by the wind. For let not that
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man suppose he will receive anything. Wow, that strong words
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from the Lord. Why he's a double minded man? How
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do you become a double minded man? When your mind
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thinks something, your heart think something else. Right, you need
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to after a while align it, ask God for help.
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Next one, Okay, I'm going to draw to my last leap.
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Believe in your heart. You need to believe. Number two,
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Coness with your mouth. I only have got two points.
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The rest is all just to convince you that what
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I'm saying is true. Confess with your mouth now. Believe
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in the heart that it's a really difficult for some
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of you. But I want to say to you that
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confess with your mouth is something that all of you
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know that you don't do enough. You don't. I say
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you don't do enough. We know why because I don't
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do enough. Confess with your mouth. Let's read the word
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of God, so Jesus said to them, because of your unbelief,
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that's why you couldn't cast out the spirit of epilepsy.
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For surely. I say to you, if you have faith
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as a must seed, small muster see you will say
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to this mountain, move from here to there, and you
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will move and nothing will be impossible for you. What
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do you do with a mountain? I asked the eight
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am the same question, and about half of them say,
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move it. Wow Am movie No. I said, thank you
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for that answer, but before you can move it, that
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you need to speak to it. So the Bible says
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very clearly, you will say two day's mountain and then
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only moves. A lot of us are standing in front
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of our mountainer and wish, I wish one day, I
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wish one day, I wish one day. Do you know
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that before one day can come, day one has to happen,
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and day one is today. You start speaking to your
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situation for years and years, do you know, friends, I
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don't want to start again now. But I come from
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a broken family. I don't have a mom since I
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was one year old. Means that I haven't been calling
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anybody mommy. Your young people, please don't take it for granted, mommy, mommy, mommy,
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because it was so natural. I never got to call
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anybody mummy because my mom and my father divorced, had won.
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My father was a drug edict for thirty years. What
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you see today is by the grace of God. And
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you know why some of us may not end up
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in the fullness that God has worse because we keep
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allowing people to say you are good for nothing. Who
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do you think you are? You're from a broken home.
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What you will understand, You're from a poor family. You
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are so poor. I'm telling you I was actually an
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illegal immigrant, not for fifteen years of my life. You
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know how how it happened. So my father went to
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Singapore to try to confront my mother. My mother already
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has a new boyfriend, and she introduced a new boyfriend
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to my father. His name was Bernard. I tell you
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that some lady's never learned, so so a Burner meet Bernard.
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Of course, my father's show name is Mike Bernie, as
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for most of you know him as Mike Bernie, the
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manager of Sudirman and all that kind of okay, So
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my Bernie is his famous Malaysian name, but Bernard Chin
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is his real name. Bernard met Bernard. So my father said,
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if you really want to leave me, give me your children.
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I want my children back now. My father didn't even
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know how it's going to take care, wisdom, drug, edding,
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no job. And my mother willingly gave because her new
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boyfriend said, I don't want anything to do with your past,
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because you can't imagine a mother giving up her children.
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But she wanted a new life. She didn't. They want
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to go back to my father. Here you go, this
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is your daughter and here is also your son. The
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daughter one he knows because before my mother left, she
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was pregnant with me, but he never knew she was pregnant.
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She went to Singapore after after eight months, you know,
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she was pregnant for one month. After eight months, gave
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birth to me. My father never knew who's this boy.
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Thank god, today people look at me and said, he
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you look like my Bernina, you know, Hallelah, Praise God.
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Otherwise I couldn't come up from the rubbish dumb listen.
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I can go on there on illegal immigrant means that
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all the top schools that was coming my way. My
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father said no, no, no, no no, I if you go to
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top school at the first school that was offered to
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me was Saint John's top school before Saint John's. All
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the top guys go there, and no way you know
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where I ended up Passard School. There's something you was there? Yeah,
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see you made you made my life? You know worse
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I thought by nowady? You know Passado School? No, no, no, okay,
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it's gay, but Passarow School. You know why because nobody
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goes to Passado School. So hi his son there? Why
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Why couldn't he he gave me to be legitimate because
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he has to take me back to Singapore staying my
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passport every six months and for a drug eddic who
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did him money? He couldn't, So I was no longer
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going back to Singapore. Didn't get my passports stamp every
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six months. You get your passport stamer to come back
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into Malaysia. I didn't get it. Stand for fifteen years,
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I always had to be in hiding, scared of some
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officer coming and my dad. So I can go on
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and on and tell you this sad. Sorry, I tell
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you what the Lord is saying. You can make up
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your own destiny. Don't allow these mountains to remain in
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your life. Don't stand there. Oh woe it's me. You
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don't understand most careful. Hello, the Word of God says,
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stand in front of your mountain, and don't wish. Please,
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don't wish. I wish you you know, I wish you know,
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in front of a birthday cake. And no you're not
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talking about this wish. Just don't wish. Don't even cry,
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don't even worry. Jesus say, is how many of you
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will worry and change all your destiny? No way. You
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stand in front of your mountain and you speak, and
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you don't settle for second best from the Lord. You don't.
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You trust in the Lord, You depend on him, you
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allow him to sometimes. I think the trouble is we
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speak to our mountains, but it doesn't happen. Don't be
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God of time. The timing must be the Lord's. He
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will do everything in his own. He will make all
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things beautiful in his time. You speak it, and you
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leave the rest to him speaking, leave the rest everybody. Okay,
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we don't confess enough. But how does salvation come on fashion?
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None of you can wish for salvation? You speak it
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into being, You believe in your heart and you speak.
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Is this okay? Because I think some of us got
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some homework to do today. Maybe your parents aren't safe yet.
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I got a friend who spoke into his parents' abvision,
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you know how. He told me later and this was
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very close to my heart because the man that came
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to know the Lord, he was my head master and
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I was so naughty in school. I will visit the
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principal's officer once a month, and he promoted her to
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seventeen stripes. After the seventeen stripe bar he had no
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more Strengthy, this is Kenneth you again. Why can't you
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be a good boy at Kenneth? Okay hand right hand
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bam bam bam bam bam, five strokes, couse pinity, left
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hand bam bam bam, five more strokes. Pay turn around,
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but talks my life growing up? No father, no mother,
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didn't know how to get attention. Maybe right. This same
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headmaster who whagg became a Christian after that? Huh why
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because his children, who are my friends living in Melbourne
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now every night, before the parents fall asleep, they speak
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to the pillow pillow when my dad lays his head
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on you, I want you to speak to him with you.
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I don't know who he taught him out the brainer
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because we know what I don't know whether dad's gonna
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drink coffee or that's gonna drink tea. I don't rebody's
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gonna use this cap or that cap. I don't nobody's
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gonna drink drive his car or that car. But every night,
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same pillow. So rogers Yaw told me Kenneth. Every night
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me and my sister lay hands with the pillow and
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say give them dreams of Jesus. Speak to pillow a friend,
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what geologies is? It's just faith, simple childlike faith. God
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wants them save. God wants my parents save more than
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I want them to say. I'm gonna start speaking instead
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of they will never come to know the lot one
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now past it. You're also speaking but negative negative negative.
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You're speaking against your parents are vision they will never
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come puss it. You don't understand my parents is you know,
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very staunge whatever, they go to the temple you six
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times a week. In fact, there was another guy. His
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father was the chairman of the temple, and he was
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told the same thing, just speak speak Okay, I know
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my time is up. Did you get me? Let's way
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some for the tree was five? Why are you cast down?
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Oh my soul? You know the scripture? You know, Christian
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can also be down this courage, I hope not depressed,
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but Christian can also be depressed. Shouldn't be like know
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because if Jesus is leaving you or you shouldn't be depressed.
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But anyway, let's just say that your worst case scenario.
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You're depressed, your cast down? Why are you disquieted within me?
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He says the next line, hope in God, for I
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shall yet praise him the help of my countenance and
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my God. You know what what the help of countenance mean.
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Let's say your continence right now, and look at you are.
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You're not smiling, You're read it? Okay, everybody on this Okay, countenance,
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try to do that, Try to do it. Okay. He
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is the help of your countenance. He comes and there
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he helps you. He lifts you up. It is the
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best facial lifting that anybody can ever ask for. He
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is the help of my countenance without him with him,
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without him with him. But before you can get there,
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even though times are bad, I can still smile because
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He makes me smile. But before I can get there,
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the Bible says, why are you cast down? Or my
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soul cast down? Disappointed? Discourage? Next line, why are you
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disquieted within me? You know what discouragement does to you
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and me? He causes uth to be silent. The devil
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wants to rob your praise. He wants to rob your thanksgiving.
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He wants to rob you in such a way. Why
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you stop talking? Have you seen people very bubbly? Wing? Oh? Sadly?
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You see them? Hey, Kenneth, what's the way, Kenneth? How
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are you okay? Hey? Why are you so frustrated? Who's
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that a frustrated? They don't be so angry at who's
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that angry? You know what he's he's he's confirming everything.
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Have you seen your bubbly friend just unbubbly. It happens
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to all of us. It just shuts us up because
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that enemy wants to take our power away. Some of
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you could be in your marriage. She could be like,
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really frustrated with your spouse. Before that, you're talking, Hey, Siam,
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help me out with the bait. Ba Hey, Siam, help
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me out with the clothes and bead, Hey, dear, help
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me out with children. After a while, you get so frustrated.
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I don't want to say yeah, have you been ever?
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I don't talk. I say no, no, no, use right,
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and then and then when you start being quiet, your
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marriage starts going. After a while, the husband wife don't
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even know each other anymore. So I tell young couples,
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I ready you argue with a ready you argue, then
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to give silent treatment, because when you argue sometimes you
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get to understand each other a little bit more. And
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then finally when you finish, you go like, oh, okay, sorry, dear,
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Oh sorry, I didn't know that you were hurting. I
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didn't know that you were upset when I did that
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or when I said this, you talk. Okay. I don't
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have enough time. Maybe i'll end with one two slides
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and then I'll be done. There's seven more sides. I'll
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do it. There's just two more. If believing is the electricity, ian,
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can you can you help me with that? Who's helping
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with that? Okay? Slide number one hundred and slide number
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twenty eighty eight. If believing is the electricity, confession is
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the switch. So how many of you know are when
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you go off his room, you turn off all the lights,
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You turn off all the lights. The lights are off.
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Now do you know that the electricity is still running?
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The power is still moving behind the walls. This is
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what God is. He never stops loving you, He never
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stops caring for you, he never stops interceding for you.
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He never stops being for you, not against you. You're
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with me right now. You're all here. Do you know
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that your house there, electricity is to moving behind the
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walls is going You mean just because you turn off
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the light, the electricy stop then be suddenly shut down. No, No,
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God's power is flowing, flowing, flowing. Confession releases the power.
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It's a switch that when you come in here your
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words hold that one, turn on the switchland, Oh how
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did that happen? Lectricity hits the bout on and many
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Christians who go around who don't know how to turn
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on their switch, blessing, asking for forgiveness, praying for somebody.
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Mouth must be open, so it just it just does
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something amazing. It's called a contact point. And confession has
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to work together with belief. The next light just says,
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don't just believe, confess, don't just believe cornfess. Last one
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is this faith comes by hearing and hearing by a
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word of God Romans ten seventeen. This is my last one,
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because that's all the time we have faith comes by
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hearing and hearing by the word of God. Okay, so
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you say to me, pastor, you just gave us two keys,
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belief and confess, believe and confess. It looks like you
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have to start with believe in first and then confess
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true true. But sometimes the belief is not strong enough,
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so you have to learn to confess until you believe.
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That's why when you look back in Romans ten, Romans
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ten says it starts first with the mouth, and then
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it goes with the heart, and then it says for
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in the lext line, and with the heart one believes
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unto righteousness, and with the mouth confession is made to salvation.
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It actually shows me if you read it back again
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when you go home, that he started with the heart,
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then goes through the mouth, and then he starts with
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the mouth and then goes with the heart. That means
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that it can be either. It depends on what you need.
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So sometimes we don't feel it, but we also don't
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speak it. The Christian way of doing it is to
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speak even when you don't feel. God. I can't feel it,
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but you're good God. I'm not healed. In fact, I'm
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in pain. But you're still my healer. Do you understand God,
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I'm broke, so broke that I think you're borrowing money
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from my friends, But you are my provider, you know. God,
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I'm I'm lost and confused, but you are the shepherd
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that leads me. And you be in a confess because
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there were many times when I myself did not have
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enough juice inside here, and I had to preach to myself.
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That's why yours should never ever unnecessarily miss church, because
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when you come, there's preaching that goes on, and when
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the Word of God goes forward, you get to hear.
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And what happens is that faith comes by hearing. Means
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you start to believe in your heart as you hear.
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See that. That was very cunning. And I'm going to
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do this one more minute and then I'm going to close.
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That was very cunning. He wants you to feel it
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and then do it right. And the Bible says if
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we don't go by feelings, we go by faith.
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