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I Am Foolish, Praise God | Elder Terence Atkinson
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You're listening to a message to go from acts church.
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We hope this message will light up your day.
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This morning. The title of the message is I Am
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foolish Praise God. So how many do you like to
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be foolish? You know it's a strange thing right to
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be foolish. You'll understand what I mean by this by
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the time this message is over. How many of you
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feel you're not good enough? Don't put up your heads,
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because I think most of us do, if not all
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of us do. We feel we're not good enough. We're
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not good enough to serve the Lord. We're not good
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enough to be leaders in the House of God. And
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let me tell you a leader in the House of
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God is you know what he is? A seven? So
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when you say, oh, I don't want to be a leader,
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ask yourself this question. Are you telling God God, I
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don't want to be a seven? I remember many years
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ago past I said, Terrence, I want you to do
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this this I said, no need for title, no need
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for him, I'll do the work pass I said, you
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need to step into the ministry of that title because
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it comes with a specific annointing. So let's let's hear
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what the word of God has to say for the
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message of the cross verse eighteen. For the message of
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the cross is foolishness to those who are perishing, but
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to us who are being saved, it is the power
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of God. So you know, how many of you have
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witness to people and people say walk yes, So you
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know that's the Cantonese term for don't talk nonsense, don't
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talk foolishness. You know what are you talking? This man
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died in rose again? Are you crazy? How many of
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you faced that before? Okay? One, two, three, okay, some
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of you? All right? The word foolishness comes from the
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Greek word moros, moros, and you know what he means.
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Let me give you what the English what the present
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day a word means. Moron. I am a moron. Praise God.
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I don't mind being a moron to the world. You see,
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God has decided to use my foolishness or my moronness
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to his benefit. And you know, the Bible says that
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we are being saved. And this word saved comes from
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the word sorrows. So sorry, it comes from the word soso.
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I have this record. It is by this group called
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Digamo and key of course, those of you that do
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not know what a record is. It's a vinyl. I
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see one gentleman at the back who not see his head,
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Praise the Lord. I'm not speaking to you know, I'm
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not telling stories. Okay, there's such a thing called a vinyl.
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It's coming back. And there was this title of Digamo
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and Key. It was Commando Soso and the Light and
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the Light Brigade. So I always used to wonder, what
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in the world is Commander Soso. Do you know after
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forty years I found out. I just found out the
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word soso means saved. And the other thing is it
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is the power dunamis God is not a god that
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is powerless. It is the power of God for those
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of us that are being saved. Okay, let's okay, For
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it is written, this is verse nineteen. I will destroy
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the wisdom of the wise and bring to nothing the
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understanding of the prudent. You know, I really struggle with this.
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Why did God want to destroy the wise or the
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thoughts of the wise? Why did he want to bring
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that wisdom to nothing? So you know, every time I
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ask the Lord a question, he will give me an answer.
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So he gave me an answer and you know when
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I ask the Lord this question, and usually I ask
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this question when I am praying for the message. On
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my morning walks. I'll get up five five thirty in
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the morning, nobody's out there, and I'll walk and walk
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and walk, and I'll talk to God about the message. Lord,
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what do you want me to share? Foolishness? Foolishness? Yeah, yeah,
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you're foolish, Praise the Lord. Okay. And then God said this,
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you know, in Genesis chapter three, verses four to six.
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In fact, just before we there we go that I
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just want to see the new American Standard version says,
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for it is written, I will destroy the wisdom of
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the wise, and the cleverness of the clever I will
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set aside. So how many of you are clever? One?
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That's a trick question, Okay. You know. The thing is this,
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God wants to do a work, and the work that
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he wants to do is quite unlike what we think
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it's going to be. So if we have our bibles,
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just just turn to Genesis chapter three, verses four to six,
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and let's see what it says, all right, and then
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you'll begin to understand something. This is the Lord's answer.
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Genesis Chapter three, verses four to six. Okay, not so
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easy to turn me with a with a mic in
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your hand. Oh okay, here we are. And it says this,
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The serpent said to the woman, you will not truly die,
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for God knows that the day you eat of it,
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your eyes will be open, and you will be like God,
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knowing good and evil. So when the woman saw that
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the tree was good for food and was pleasant to
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the eye, and a tree desirable to make one wise,
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she took its fruit and ate, and she also gave
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to her husband with her, and he ate very generous
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of her. The Bible says that only when he ate
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the realization came in. Know do you know that if
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he did not eat and a woman ate, his righteousness
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would have covered his wife, because the Bible says it
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didn't happen when she ate, it happened when he ate.
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So basically, what did man want to do? Man wanted
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to be like God? Do you know that God wants
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us to be like God, but not the way man
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wanted it. God wants us to be his children. He
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wants us to be in obedience with him. But man
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wants to be God. Man doesn't want to be like God.
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Man doesn't want to be like the child of a God.
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But what did men want to be? Man wanted to
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be God, so men wanted to be wise. Never ever
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put yourself in a position where you are in the
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hands of the Lord in the way that you're coming
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against him, because he will play. You know, have you
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seen and I've seen this all right. We've got a
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little puppy in the house. She's not a puppy anymore.
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She's three years old. She's a rescue shizu. Okay, a
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little rascal of a dog. So sometimes it sees a
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lizard running on the ground, you will run up to
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the lizard and you'll take the lizard, and he doesn't
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do anything. It plays with the lizard. We push it here.
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Then you'll look at it. And when it moves, he
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let it run. Then he'll run. You'll catch it and
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bring it back. It plays with the lizard. You know what,
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God gave me an idea that this is how he
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plays with those that set their minds against him because
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they think they are wise. So God wants to show
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just what wisdom is all about in this world today.
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You and I we live in a hey. People don't
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even know what a woman is? I saw this congressional
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hearing in the US where they had women doctors there.
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These are doctors, these are scientists, these are people people
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who are supposed to heal you. So they asked this question,
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what is a woman? Can you describe a woman? Please?
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And these doctors you know what their answer is anyone
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who says they are a woman? AHH. Did you ever
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wonder how the world could have become so crazy? The
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Bible says that God gives them over to their foolishness. Now,
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I'm not knocking those who may be in. The Bible
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says you love people. That's what we're supposed to do.
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But the Bible doesn't call us to be dumb. It
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doesn't call us to close our eyes. People are assigned
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sexuality at birth? Is that true? People are so where
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the animals are concerned? So the animals assigned gender to themselves?
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Or do they know which is male? Which is female?
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Why is mankind so off? And you know you want
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to do that for yourself, that's fine, go ahead. But
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when you start passing laws to put people in jail
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who call you for what you are, the world has
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really gone crazy. You know, laws are being passed. If
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guy says he's a she and you call him a hee,
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you get put in jail. This is what it means
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when God is giving them over to their folly, When
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God removes his presence from their thinking, they go and
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they call it wise, you know, they call it wisdom,
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they call it being. You're not fourbic of some kind.
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You're not hate. You're not preaching hate. You know to
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many people that they would call what I'm saying now
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to be preaching hate. It's not. Hey, Look, your children
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are so important. Those of we are Father's Day right.
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Your children are so important. Can you imagine in one
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of these countries or in several of these countries. Now,
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if the boy says he's a girl, the school can
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actually inform the government. And if the parents say, hang
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on a minute, the government has a right to take
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the child away. And that's not all. Before the child
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can even understand what gender is all about, they can
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send a child for operations to remove body parts. Are
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you aware this is the world that we're living in. Fact,
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this is what Scripture says the last days, because the
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last days will be like Sodom and Gomorrah will be
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like what happened then, people not exactly having it right
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up there. And you know what is the thing they
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say about me, I'm the one who's a moron. Praise
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the Lord. I will be foolish. I don't mind because
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God calls me foolish, and he says that's not a
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bad thing. Praise the Lord. Riots going everywhere on around
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the world. Do you know that at this moment, their
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riots going around all over the world. What are they
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fighting against democracy? They're fighting for democracy. And in a
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fight for democracy, what you do you go into people's shops,
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you loot the shops. Wow, that's been democratic, all right?
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Do what you want. What about what's going on? Do
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you know what's actually going on right now? As we
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are speaking right now, there's a little country in the
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Middle East that's taking out all the missile capabilities and
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the air force capabilities of a much larger country. Even
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as I'm talking right now, that's what's happening. And when
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I say, I'm not talking about the time, I'm talking
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about at this second, this very second, the planes are
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going to take it out. The world has come to
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a stage where no one knows right from home. Let
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me tell you what God has to say, where's the wise?
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Where is the scribe? Where is the disputor of this age?
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Has not yet? Has not God made foolish the wisdom
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of the world. You and I must never be caught
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in this situation where we don't speak the truth. Hey,
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if somebody comes up to me and says, I'm a cat,
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all right, if you believe you're a cat, go for it.
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If you're forcing me to call a cat. No, I
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won't get caught up in that delusion you say, because
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you cannot force me to believe what you believe. You
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cannot force me to believe what you believe. You know,
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that's the wonderful message about Jesus Christ. You go and
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you share the word of God. You know how many
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people have told me, Oh, you're so silly? What none since?
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Is this praise the Lord? I'm foolish a glory in
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being that, because the Bible says is power of God
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unto salvation. God has chosen somebody foolish like me to
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share the word of God. God has chosen this moron.
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I'm not using words that's not in scripture. God is
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using this moron to put to shame the wise of
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the world for since the wisdom of God, the world
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through wisdom did not know God. God wanted the wanted
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us to have everything. You know what this scripture means.
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This scriptures saying that people did not want to know
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God the way God wanted to be known. People wanted
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to know God according to their understanding. People wanted to
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know God on the same plane, but they didn't want
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to know God the way God wanted himself to be known.
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So they said, no, I want to be like God.
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I'm going to eat that fruit. I'm going to disoby this,
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disobey this, this, this Lord and Master. I'm going to
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disobey him because I want to know him the way
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I want to know him. Scripture says, the wisdom of God,
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the world through wisdom did not know God. So because
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of that, the world doesn't know who God is. Because
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it's wise. Do you know the world is wise? Scripture
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is saying that the world is wise when somebody does
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not want to accept the Lord. When you share you
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know what you tell him you're a very wise person.
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I'm wise, but I disagree with you. The Bible calls
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you shadow word. The Bible calls you wise because the
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Bible says that because you're wise, you don't see who
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God is. God has turned the world on its head.
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God's thoughts are not our thoughts. God sees differently, all right.
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In Isaiah fifty five Versus eight to niner. God's thoughts
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are not our thoughts, neither his ways our ways. God
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does things differently. So when you go up and you
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lay hands on someone and say, in Jesus' name, be healed,
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conventional wisdom in the head says, what's the matter with you?
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It's not gonna work. But God's wisdom is, if you
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have faith in Jesus Christ and you lay hands on
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the sick, they will recover. I've told you this before.
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We used to share with our children. Jesus can heal.
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Jesus can heal. Jesus can he If you lay hands
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on the sick and pray, Jesus will heal. And as
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our younger one fell on her mouth, fell on a chin,
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and her bottom teeth punctured the top of her lip.
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There were two holes there because there were two teeth,
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two holes, and so I, you know, she was crying
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and yelling, and I took the towel and I put
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it to her face, and of course that white towel
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was red with blood. And my elder daughter, who knows
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one thing, in the name of Jesus, the person can
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be healed. This is her faith, all right, her level.
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She's four years old. She didn't like the crying, so
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she goes up to Ashley, not with words of love,
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not with words of care, but like in a real
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fed up tone, be yielding Jesus name. She didn't like
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the crying. Immediately actually starts laughing. And then I look
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at her mouth. I cannot find the two holes that
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I saw originally, and she stopped crying. Conventional wisdom, it's impossible.
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But Jesus has made a difference. God has made us
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to think differently. Hey, how many of you are having
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problems in your work? Have you thought about giving it
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up to God? Have you thought about sharing it about God?
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Do you know that God protects us the way no
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one else protects us? You have no idea what I
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mean when I say that. Ready, I was sharing the
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word of God in Clang. I was sharing the word
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of God in Clang, and I had a call from
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one of my bosses, very irate, very angry. This is
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on a Sunday, because of some ridiculous thing, all right,
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and of course I'm sharing the elder Mabel answers the phone,
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and he's rude to her. He's rude to her. After
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I finished sharing the word of God, I called him.
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I said, I was sharing the word of God in
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church and when you called and you spoke to my wife,
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this is what you said. You know what he told me.
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You decide now who is more important? Your God more important,
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or your job is more important. When he said that,
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at that moment, I knew who was more important, and
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the word of God came. It was a prophecy. I
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told her, I say, you watch and see what's going
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to happen. This is what's going to happen, and it
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will happen soon. Because God knows how to protect his children.
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God knows how to protect his word. Less than three
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months later, it only took three months. The very thing
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that I said was going to happen happened and the
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story was over. God knows how to protect God sees
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things differently. God makes it clear that it is the
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wisdom of the world that causes man not to know God.
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The wisdom of the world causes man not to know God.
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If you do not know who God is. You got
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to ask yourself whose wisdom are you relying on? Men
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SATs there thinking on themselves as the mover and the
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shaker of their lives. Guys, if you are thinking that
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it is you that moves your life, you put yourself
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in a situation where nothing will happen, nothing good will happen.
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You may make a whole lot of money. The world
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may see you as successful, but one day you will say,
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like this man who said, better to be a pauper
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than to be a billionaire in a grave? You know
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who said that? Steve Jobs. Bible says like I said,
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For my thoughts are not your thoughts nor your ways.
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My way, says the Lord. For as the heavens and
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the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my
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ways higher than your ways, and my thoughts higher than
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your thoughts. Do you know that I always look to God,
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and I tell God every morning I can't do it
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without you. That puts me in a very very good position,
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because every problem that comes my way there is a
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solution in the name of Jesus. You ask my colleagues,
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I have fit electronic things I have done. Um, you
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know electronic doors, you know, corded doors, all these things
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which I have got no experience, no idea, no, never done.
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Before the problem is given to me, I say God,
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can you help me? And booming idea comes in my
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head and I just do it and it works fine.
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How is this possible? It's God. Some of the things
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that God has showed me to do is really quite
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extreme ordinary. Is it my own intelligence? No, it's God.
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You know. Scripture in Romans one twentis is even as
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they did not like to retain God in their knowledge,
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that's the world today. You know, in the US, for example,
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you got these democrats, right, Sorry, are there any Americans here? No?
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But if they are, will still say it. The Democrats
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are communists. They don't love God, they hate God. If
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you don't believe me, just listen to them every day,
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what they say and what the scripture says. And even
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if they did not like to retain God in their knowledge,
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God gave them over to the to a the best
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mind to do things which are not fitting. That's the
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reason why let's move on. In verse twenty two, it
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says for Jews request the sign, and Greeks after wisdom
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seek wisdom. But we preach Christ crucify to the Jews
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a stumbling block and to the Greeks foolishness. Okay, But
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to those who are called both Jews and Greeks, Christ
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the power of God and the wisdom of God. Wow.
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You know, when you study what goes on, what does
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it say again? It says for Jews seek a sign.
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Do you know why the Jews do not receive Jesus Christ.
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Why they don't believe that Jesus Christ is the Messiah
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because the sign that they were looking for was someone
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who was going to come and take away the Romans.
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They believed that the sign that they were seeking for
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was kind of like a David's sign, a boy who
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will come, take a stone, slinging on the on the
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and cliath will fall, and then they would be living
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their own kingdom and ruling. That's the kind of sign
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that they were seeking for. So they could not believe
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that Jesus was the Messiah because Jesus did not come
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and says, sling the stone against the Romans. He said,
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sling the stone against the evil in your heart and change.
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You See, Jesus was not interested in the other person,
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so to speak. He was interested in you and I.
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You see, we are interested in changing somebody else? Why
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not when we pray, God, you got to change that person?
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You know what Jesus wants us to do. Every time
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we get this urge to pray for someone to change, it,
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Jesus is saying, what can you do to change you? See?
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Let that person be that. I'll take care of that person.
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But I'm interested in you. I'm interested in how I'm
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going to impact your life. I'm interested in how I'm
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going to change you. Does that mean we are self centered?
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That kind of self centeredness is okay right, because you're
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not being self centered for yourself. You're being self centered
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to listen to what Jesus has to say about you.
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Do you realize that when you change according to what
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Jesus wants us to do, everything else falls into place.
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How many times have you prayed for someone to change?
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Okay you sid I'm asking, Okay, you can put up here.
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How many times have you prayed for someone to change?
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They don't be shy, put it up Okay, Okay, there's
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quite a lot of you, all right? And how many
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times has the Lord told you you change? Have you
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ever heard that? You haven't Internet I'm telling you you change.
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So the jew seeker side. Now, the Greeks were different thing.
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The Greeks were the ones who used to ask for
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something to add to their intelligence. The Greeks thought that
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they were really, really clever people, and what did they want?
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They wanted to add to their intelligence. You know what
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is this word intelligence? It comes from the word so force.
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Guess what word it is in English philosophy. The Greeks
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were seeking for philosophy. Oh I think I'm wise. If
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I sit under the tree and the apple does not
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fall on my head, that makes me wise. They were
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looking for some kind of philosophy. Was Jesus a philosophy?
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Jesus was not interested in being something to add to
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somebody's intelligence. In fact, quite the opposite. I'm a moral
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praise the Lord. Are you beginning to see and understand
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why I say that?
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Is it?
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Because God is not interested in adding to somebody's intelligence.
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You know what? Was God interested in adding to someone's life,
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adding change to your life, making your life worth something
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not just to yourself, but to God, bringing you back
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into fellowship with him. So, but we preach Christ crucified
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to the Jews a stumbling block you know, that's why
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the Jews could never receive the Lord. It was a
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stumbling block to them because you're talking about someone who
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was going to say, pray for your enemies, whereas they
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wanted to take their enemies out. Who were the enemies
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of the Jews at the time, the Romans. They wanted
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to take the Romans out. You know what Jesus was saying,
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pray for them. Jesus was saying, love them. Jesus was saying,
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love is the way. But we preach Christ crucified the
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Jeswus coming lock and to Greek's foolishness. You know why,
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to the Greeks foolishness. The Greeks, because they were wise,
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could never believe that someone who died could come back
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to life. You see, they would not believe until they
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could see. So one wonders what wisdom in the world is.
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Wisdom in the world is what you can see. If
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you can't see, it's not wise. If you can't see it,
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it's not worth it. Really, I got so I was
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asking the Lord Lord, give me and give me something
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that's profound, so that I could, you know, ask a question,
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all right, how many of you know what gravity what
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is gravity? What is gravity? What's gravity? Okay, that's that's
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that's very scientific. Okay, anybody else? What is the famous one?
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What goes up? Let's come down? Gravity? Right? You know
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what you've described to me. You have described what gravity does.
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I didn't ask you what gravity does. I ask you
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what gravity is? So can I ask you what is
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it that makes it behave that way? Wisdom of the
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world can't tell you that. But Scripture says it's God.
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You know what Scripture says, it is God who holds
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all things together? Why Why are you and I not
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atoms that split apart? Why are you not not molecules
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that just disperse? What holds us together? You know, if
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you actually keep going down and going down with magnifying,
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with the magnifying of of microscopes, you will find that
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when you get down to the barest thing where it's
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atom and atom, that's like some kind of myst or
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something that holds it together. What holds it together? If
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you say opposites a track, no, no, no, yeah, opposites
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a tract right? Correct? Why you're telling me what it does?
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But why why do opposite attract you? See, the wisdom
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of the world will never agree and never want to
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admit that's God, because when you drill it down to
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its barest minimum, there's only one answer you can come
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up with. It's God. It's God because the foolishness of
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God verse twenty five is wiser than men, and the
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weakness of God is stronger than men. You know, even
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God is like taking is like it's like just telling you,
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even if I were to be foolish, you're not in
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my class. You're not in the same class. Even if
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God is saying that even if I'm weak, the strongest
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of your strong cannot come near to what I am.
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That's what God is saying for in verse twenty six,
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it says, for you see your calling, brethren, that not
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many wise according to the flesh, not many mighty, not
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many noble are called. Why is it that the most
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intelligent people in this world, a lot of them do
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not acknowledge Jesus christ Ry not they are So Yeah,
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I look at these debates sometimes, you know, there's these
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debates that there are these debates of the the atheists
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against Christians. Have you seen I think recently there was
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one quite a number actually, And it seems so important
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to debate is okay, you don't need to know Jesus Christ,
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you don't want to believe in God, that's up to you.
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Go for it. Because what does the Bible say? Bible says,
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because you profess to be yourself to be wise, what
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are you a woo? Because at the end of the day,
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somebody is going to meet Jesus, whether you believe it
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or whether you don't. Not many mighty, not many noble
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are call. That's why you see many of the intelligent
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people in this world that think too highly of their
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mentality do not know Jesus Christ. So I'm a moron.
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Praise the Lord. I praise the Lord that I'm foolish,
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that I am not India category. So when somebody says, ah,
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you don't know anything, praise the Lord. That will be
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my response now, because you see, Jesus has told me
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and call me as a person who knows nothing. I'm grateful.
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But God has chosen the foolish things. God has chosen
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the foolish things of the world. I am foolish. Bible says,
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I'm called. You know what is called the word called.
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The word call means invited. I'm invited. God chose the foolish,
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all right, And in this case the word is morol, sir,
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meaning the moron. God chose the moron, the stupid, and
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the foolish. I'm not making this up. This is actually
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what it means. God chose the moron, the stupid, and
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the foolish. I'm foolish. Praise the Lord. God chose me,
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a foolish man to put to shame in the intelligence.
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If I'm going to be a moron, let me be
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God's moron. God has chosen. God has invited me. That's
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what Scripture says. If I'm called by the Lord, you
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know what I am. I am invited to be this
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and the base things of the world, that the things
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which are this, the things which are despised God has chosen,
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and the things which are not to bring to nothing
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the things that are. You know, when I became a
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Christian so long ago, I was punched. You see, I
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came from a time where people did not react just
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in words. Okay, I came from a time where it
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was quite I've been punched in the face because of
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Jesus Christ. Guess what, I still have my front teeth.
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It didn't mean I was punished in the face by
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a boxer, by the way, bare knuckles, and I'm okay.
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I didn't bleed, I didn't faint, I didn't fall on
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the ground. Because Jesus, we came to christ at a
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time where people would you know, you talk about the internet.
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Do you know that there was a time in life
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without the internet, that the world traveled very fast, very sure,
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and very strongly. I came from that time where the
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message of who I was followed me all the way
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to Singapore where I went to study. People would talk
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against me. Oh, oh, you are the one. How did
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they know? No internet? Then? You know, I'm talking about
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nineteen eighty the internet, but they still knew and they
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would speak against me, and they would say lots of
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bad things about me. You want to know something, today,
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those people that spoke those things about me say, please
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forgive me. I was very wrong. That's the way it is.
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I was thrown out of the house when I became
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a Christian. Get out my parents. My father threw me
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out of the house. Yes, you know what happened. There
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came a timement, knock on the door. Aren't you going
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to church? It's this time already? How is this? Because
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God is true. God is real. My sister was the
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first one to become a Christian. Okay, And when she
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became a Christian, my father did that. You get out
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of the house, my elder sister. Okay, she was maybe
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eighteen at the time. You get out of the house midnight. Wow,
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what kind of father is here? Then he wanted to
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protect her, So you just look at me. You also
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get out. What did I do? I didn't do anything.
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I wasn't even fighting against her. I wasn't doing anything.
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You also get out. So at twelve o'clock at midnight,
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my sister and myself left the house, walk walk walk
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walk until we found a friend's place and we stay
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with a friend. What else could they do? They didn't
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know what to do with us. That was the time
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that we went through. There's the time that that that
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that that uh, people would would would complain about us
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and seek the police onto us, all because we were
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sharing Jesus. They would say, oh, you're disrupting families. Police
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report this, that and the other police came and checked,
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and we're still here. We're still here. This was the
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time God chose foolish people like me. If you are
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feeling you can't serve the Lord because you're not good enough.
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You know what is the first thing I will tell you?
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Praise the Lord because you are not good enough. And
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you know when you're not good enough, you know what
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that happens that puts you in God's reader as this
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is the person I want. That's what scripture is telling me.
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God didn't choose the wise. Who did he choose? He
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chose the foolish. What does it say, did God chose
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the noble people? No? God chose the people who were
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not noble. Any princes here, anyone, any anyone here has
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a prince or princess and year are you the prince
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or the princess? Any kings here? Any I? I'm going
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to get a nephew in law. Okay, he's going to
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marry my niece. And his name is king. It's Kingla
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but he's pronounced king. So so yeah, so any of
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your know, God chose ordinary me. So if you are
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saying that I can't be a leader, I think I'm
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putting to rest that once and for all. A leader
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in church is what h seven. If I wash the feet,
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you do Likewise, if I don't wash your feet, you
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have no part of me, Oh, my head and my
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body as well. Peter was saying, what did Jesus tell
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him It's okay, feed's good enough. What is the Lord saying?
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If I, your leader, can do that, it's okay you
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can as well. How many of you have always don't
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put up your hands? How many of you have always
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felt that you cannot serve because you're not good enough?
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I hope today's word is killing that thought once and
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for all, because if that has been your thought, Scripture
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is saying, that's what God wants, that no flesh and
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why does he want it? That no flesh should glory
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in his presence? Do you know what this means? That
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no flesh should glory in his presence? That nobody can
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take away from the greatness and wonderfulness and awesomeness of Jesus.
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God has chosen this method so that no one can
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have anything to boast about, because the Bible says, but
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of Him, you are in Christ, Jesus who became for us.
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What the wisdom from God? I am foolish praise the
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Lord because of him I am in Jesus Christ. And
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he is my wisdom and righteousness and sanctification and redemption.
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You know verse twenty nine. The ultimate aim is nothing
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can rise above, or claim to be greater, or set
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it set itself up as better than Jesus, so that
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all of us his children may glorify and worship only
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one Jesus. That verse thirty one, as it is written,
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he who glories, let him glory in the Lord. I
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am foolish praise the Lord, because if I have to
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glory in someone, I will glory in Jesus. This is
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probably one of the toughest words that I've ever had
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to share, because it's not so easy to share this part.
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So I really wanted to understand what this meant. And
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then when I went into the actual meanings, I say,
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this sounds like me, moron, sounds like me foolish. I've
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been called all these things before. I've been called all
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these nasty words before, and now I will wear it
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like a badge because Jesus calls me the foolish in
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this world to do what glory.
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