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Sunday Morning | Eld Terence Atkinson
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You're listening to a message to go from axt church.
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We hope this message will light up your tea.
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The title of the message is Sunday Morning, Sunday Morning. No,
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what's good about Sunday morning? Well, if you take it
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in context of Friday, Sunday is good. Okay. On Friday
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night they crucified Lord on Calvary, but he said, in
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three days, look again, I'll be alive. You see, when
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problems try to bury you and make it hard to pray,
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it may seem like Friday night, But Sundays on the
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way to everyone of our Friday nights, there's a Sunday
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Morning and wants to speak to us today and to
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let us know that throughout our difficulties, whatever they may be,
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however tough as situations may seem, there is Sunday morning.
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There is Sunday morning. I'm going to read from John
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chapter twenty, and I think the verses, Oh yeah, you
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see that, go back, go back, go back, go back,
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discipleship revival. Oh I like the hour in red. I do,
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because that's what's activated now. Right, we're talked about revival.
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So this message is also about reviving your spirit. Because
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I told you that revival is personal. You may think
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that revival is somebody else. You may think revival is
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with a whole group of people. But let me tell you,
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Revival is personal, all right. Revival is personal. So this
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goes to that. Now, reading from John chapter twenty, and
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it says, now the first day of the week, Mary Magdalene,
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Mary Magdalene went to the tomb early while it was
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still dark, and saw that the stone had been taken
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away from the tomb. In fact, this message I just
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want to share with you, Ah, I want to talk
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to you in terms of turns to you are and turns,
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And in this passage I will describe three turns that
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Mary took, three turns that Mary took, and how it
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eventually ended up with something good happening for her. So
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now she goes to this tomb. Now, how do you
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know that she knows that something had changed, that she
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would look at the tomb and see the stone rolled away?
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And what did she do next? What the scripture says
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she did next while you still do and I verse two,
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she ran and came to Simon Peter and to the
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other disciple. Who's the other disciple? John? Okay, because John
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is speaking in the third person. He didn't want to
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put his name down there. So the other disciple he
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ran to Peter and John Okay, whom Jesus loved, and
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said to them, they have taken away the Lord out
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of the tomb, and we do not know where they
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have laid him. Wow, how did she know? If you
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study the gospels, you will find that Mary was one
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of three women I think only three women women who
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was there witches throughout his march carrying the cross to Calvary.
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And she was one of three who saw him being
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nailed to that cross and being lifted up. And she
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was one of three who remained there until he gave
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up his spirit. And she was one of three who
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saw him being taken down by the cross and put
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in the tomb. Mary was there? Did it ever strike
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you as stranger? The disciples won't there? Do you know
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that the disciples were not there? There is no record
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in scripture that the disciples were around when Jesus put
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in the tomb. There was no record of the disciples
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being around at the moment he died. Don't talk about
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the disciples. What about his brothers and sisters. There's a
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record of his mother being there, Jesus looked at John
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and said, behold your mother, and to Mary, behold your son.
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And that was before he died. But after that no record.
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You read it and see. But this Mary stuck around.
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She did not falter. I want you to know something,
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This is very important. What did she do when she
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saw it happen? She ran to Peter and John? My
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first question to you, that was the first turn. Okay,
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she saw the first turn, she she ran. Now what
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did she do? You ran to Peter and John? Can
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you run to others when you want an encounter with Jesus? Guys,
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I've been knowing the Lord for forty five years, and
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do you know that the only one you can rely
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on for your relationship with Jesus is you and Jesus.
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You do not grow stronger on your presence in church.
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Does that mean I don't need to come to church. No,
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it means you need church. Do you mean your presence
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is strong when you're in the company of believers? Bible
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tells me that Satan conceived sin in the presence of
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angels that were worshiping the Lord. So I ask you again,
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can you run to someone else when you need an
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encounter with Jesus and see, many of us need Jesus' help.
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Many of us need his assistance, Many of us need
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to look at him. First. Let me tell you something
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about Mary Magdalen. Okay, few things you may or may
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not know, but it gives you an insight into this
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personality that was quite extraordinary. Number one, do you know
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that church history says she was a prostitute? You know
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which church history are not Catholic church history, because some
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pope in the fifteen hundreds declared that she was a prostitute.
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Does scripture say that? Scripture does not say that. Scripture
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does not equate her to that kind of a lifestyle.
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But you know that in Luke one look eight one
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to three, she is described as one who traveled with Jesus.
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You and I can only get to a place where
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Jesus is important to us if we live with him daily,
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out of sight, out of mind, You and I. If
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we don't get into a regular relationship with the Lord,
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we miss it. We shortcut and circumvent our own Christian living.
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She was with him, and you want to know what
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happened when she was with him. Jesus had an impact
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on her. You want Jesus to have an impact on you.
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You say, Ah, I can't change. Oh I need to change. Oh,
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I'm such a rotten person. He I'm a rotten person.
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That's okay. It's okay for you to be truthful to God. God,
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I'm a rotten person. But it's not okay to stay
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that way. But if you want to see something happened
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in your life, you must have that connection with him.
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She traveled with Jesus. Ah. She was the one who
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poured oil and anointed his feet. This is in Luke
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seven thirty six to fifty. Wow. Mary anointed his feet
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with oil from the alabaster flask, that nice perfume. I
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was thinking to myself, I don't think if Jesus was here,
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I'd ever washed his feet with my hair, mainly because
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I don't have any No, but come on, think about it.
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I mean, would I do that? I don't know, you know,
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but she did not think twice about it. Hey, she
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broke the flask. You know why she broke the flask.
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Nobody was ever gonna use this flask again. It was
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for the One, and that's all. I have reserved my
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best for the one. And I'm not talking about the matrix.
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I am talking about Jesus. So she broke the flask.
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Nobody's gonna use this flask anymore. It was meant for him.
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I'm using it on him. I'm anointing him, I'm giving
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him the best. This was someone who traveled with Jesus daily.
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He changed her life. So you say I cannot be
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that good, You're wrong. You can be that good. What's
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the key? You got to travel with Jesus. In Luke
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eight one to three, it says she supported Jesus ministry.
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Now that tells me she could have been quite wealthy.
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She didn't. Well, the perfume that she put on Jesus
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feet was not cheap, the Bible says, so how could
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she afford it? Well, she was. Maybe that's why the
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church thought that she was a prostitutor. Maybe prostitutes were
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wealthy in those days. But there's so many other reasons.
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There's so many other She could have inherited the money
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from her father or her brother, or her siblings or somebody.
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She could have been a great business woman herself, because
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there were women who actually, you know, did business, could
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been all these things. But whatever it is, she wasn't
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afraid to use that money on Jesus. Now. In Luke
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eight to three, eight one to three, it also says
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she was possessed by seven demons. Hmm, So you and
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I can be so rotten and be so changed, isn't
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that wonderful? Someone who was possessed by demons loved the
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Lord so completely. You can be so possessed with everything
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that's not right, But when you walk with Jesus daily,
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you can be somebody that does everything right. See. I
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want you to know that your life is not stagnant.
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Your situation, it's not set in stone. The troubles that
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you are having is not permanent. If you can believe it.
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If you can believe it, you can change. You can
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have great things happen in your life. And of course
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Mark fifteen forty she witnessed his death on the cross,
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And as I was telling you in Mark fifteen forty
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seven and Matthew twenty seven sixty one, she witnessed his burial.
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This was the one that the Church of the Early
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Church so wrongly attributed to a wrong lifestyle. But I
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want you to know it doesn't matter what people say.
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The only thing that matters is what God thinks of you,
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and what does he think of you? I had a
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taste of it this morning. Not he He said, I
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loved you and I loved this word in spite of
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who you were. In spite that means God did not
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think of who I was, what I was, how good
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I was, how bad I was. He just loved me,
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just as he just loved you. And my prayer this
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morning was for me to come to XPG today and
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see people give their lives to Jesus, because a lot
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that would be the greatest wonder to see people receive
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the Lord. I'm going to tell you this, and I'll
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be very honest with me, very straight. How are you
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going to see people come to the Lord if you
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don't invite them, if you don't get them in to
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hear God speak to their heart? How will they get
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saved If you're not bringing them into church to hear
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the word of God. You should be sharing Jesus with
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them out of church. I had a testimony. This was
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from Klang. This was last week. How one lady came
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up to me and she said, you know, I've never
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shared the gospel in memory because I'm not so good
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in mendoring. But then you said, whether you can talk,
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whether you can't talk, just tell them about Jesus. And
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then if they want to receive, Okay, if they don't,
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that's their business. You see. Your business is to tell
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is their business to take it up, whether they want
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to or not. Don't be concerned whether somebody receives the
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Lord that doesn't receive the Lord. You make sure they
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hear here, make sure they hear. So she said, I
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remembered what you said, you know, so I didn't care.
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I just told her you need to receive Jesus to
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be safe. Guess what she said, Yes, what stage cancer?
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And this lady said yes, And she said, I was
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so afraid to speak, but I remembered what you said.
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Don't care about that, just do it. We must have
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that kind of attitude. That's what you call having the
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tick skin. We should have the tick skin when it
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comes to telling people about Jesus. Hey, my job. But
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you know, I was just telling elder people in the
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car today. If someone were to come up to me
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and say, you must prove to me that Jesus is
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Lord before I receive him, I said, no, I don't
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care to prove anything to you. I'm just to tell
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you you want to believe, you don't want to believe.
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That's your business. I've done my part because I'm not
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going to get into any own you can prove to me.
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I don't need to prove anything you don't want to
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receive in this your business, non, I got other people
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to talk to. Do you know that Paul actually told
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the Jews that because you don't want to hear I
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leave you alone, I will now go to the Gentiles.
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And even that they got angry. They get angry when
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he talked to him about Jesus, got angry when he said,
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I don't talk to you anymore, I'll go to the Gentiles.
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That also, they got angry. Guys, God's on your side.
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Now let's look at John twenty verses six to ten,
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and it goes on like this. Then Simon Peter came okay, okay, okay,
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Peter went out okay in the other disciple. They both
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ran together, right, But Peter was a big man. John
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was not. So who rifles John John and ri first.
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But the thing about Johnny is John was a little
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bit of a kun kongs at first. At first, okay,
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he refused to go in from the outside. He looked,
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they're not go in. Peter on the other side, on
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the other hand, was a slow guiler. Finally got there.
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What he did do He just walked in. You gotta
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love Peter. Peter just always fit first. But you see,
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Peter walked on water. So Peter walked in. He got
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into the situation. I want to tell you how many
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of us we'll walk into the situation. I want to
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give you testimony. On December eighteen, twenty twenty five. I
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remember the date so clearly. I was doing work in church,
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fixing an electric dough. So I was going up the stairs, down,
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up the ladder, down the ladder, up the ladder, down
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the ladder for six seven hours. I was having so
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much of difficulty because I thought I was wrong. It
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wasn't me that was wrong. The panel was put okay.
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In the process of doing that, I hurt my knee,
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my right knee, and I was limping ever since, limping, limping.
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In fact, when I did the play, it was it
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was a real torture because I was you know, it
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was quite painful. And those of you can remember the
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last time I was here. If you all saw me
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try and climb up the stairs. It was very difficult.
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So this was three weeks ago and I was saying
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that this hurt me so much. I had to open
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up the school early every Wednesday morning. For me to
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do that, I had to get down on the floor
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and unlock the glass door at the floor. Why can't
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they be like China, China? Hear? Yeah, true, in China
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the glass door the lock is here. In Militia, everything
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is on the floor. Problem is I get done. I
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cannot get up. This is really the problem. And for
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me to get up, I have to hold the handle
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and pull myself up. How many of you know I
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now I'm not liked. Issue is I could break the glass.
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So I thought, okay, never mind, I'll become like the
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last airbender. I'll get myself a staff. So I actually
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bought the stuff from Indonesia. Staff came four feet so
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that Wednesday I carried the staff in the church into
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the place. I unlock, put the stuff on the ground
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and pulled myself up. Yeah yeah, I should ever say,
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oh yeah, this can worker. God wanted to see to
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what extent I would go to do my responsibilities in
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spite of my bad knee. That Wednesday itself as I
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was walking to the lift. I was met at the
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lift by the professor of physiotherapy in Cyberjaya University and
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he said, you're having a problem with your knee. I
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said yeah. I said, I've had it x ray. Then
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the doctor said, oh, it's it's an age issue, muscles
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around my knee. I have to go for physio and
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you know, so I was really you know, that's what
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I thought it was. This is now mine, you come
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and see me. So next day I went to see him.
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This is the next day. Next day I went to
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see him. Then he saw me walking and I was
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really limping and struggling. You know how I used to
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walk like this? Okay, anyway, I saw him. He checked
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me out and then he said, so you had your
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knee x ray. Say yeah. The doctor didn't say any
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doctor is some muscle thing that kind of stuff. He says, no,
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you have a dislocated me. For four months, I had
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a dislocated kneecap and I did not know my kneecap.
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My right kneecap had fallen about two inches below my
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left knee cap. So this is where it's supposed to be.
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It was here, but because of the swelling. I couldn't
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tell and I can't imagine how come the doctor whom
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I went to see and took X ray could not
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tell me. So he just told me, you know, it's okay,
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something that can be resolved. You just relaxed, and you
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know there are So he didn't give me. He didn't
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give me warning it and he says, Oka, can I
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move your knee? Wow, that's amazing. He says, you just
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give it about a week, you'll be fine. Then he says,
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I want to see you again. So the next time
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I saw him, he put me with some of these machines.
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This is these Korean machines which ems and tens and
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electric these things. Is that is to break up the
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fluid in the knee and send it to the limboes
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and to heal the muscle, you know. So he did that.
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So he says, you know, most people will be paying
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something like two hundred dollars a minute or something like this.
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What is two hundred for every five minutes. I was
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using it for behlf an hour. So he did it,
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and he says, I think you'll be okay today. In
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the last two days, I walked twenty five kilometers I'm fine.
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My knee is fine. And I told the congregation on
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that Sunday before I saw him, there was this lady
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that came and asked me, I saw you struggling with
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your knee, and I heard what you said on stage.
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You know what I told him on stage? I said,
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if God has to give someone mobility, he will give
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someone mobility to me, someone like me who doesn't care
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about his knee, who will dance before the Lord. And
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you see me, I worship the Lord moving from side
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to side. I'm sixty five years old and I continue
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to worship the Lord in dance. So if God is
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going to give mobility, who will he give it to?
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Someone will use it for his glory as somebody will
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stand still. Guys you're like young, do not worship the
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Lord like you're a cayo, Okay, because when you grow old,
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you need to show God that you will use the
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mobility he's given you for his glory. I said it
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that Sunday Monday. I was here Monday, I was completely healed.
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And today I can walk up the stairs, walk down
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the stairs. I praise the Lord. I can now go
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for my morning walks kilometers and kilometers which I have
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not been doing for four months. God is on your side.
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Are you willing to go in or not? I give
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you another testimony? Are right? So two years ago? Oh yeah,
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he goes with one of those old stories. No no, no, no,
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this is an old story that has a current ending. Okay.
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Two years ago I went for a check up. The
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results came back very bad. You got a high calcium score,
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which means you at risk cover heart attack. You have
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sugar of seven, which means you are diabetic. You have
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high cholesterol. You have protein discharge meaning that kidney God
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issues also all these things right, So I was very
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down and UH, I shared with Pasta. They've given me
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this medication. I just cannot bring myself to start taking it.
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He says, Terence, ticket is going to be okay. So,
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based on his encouragement, I started taking uh a sprint
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for for for blattening and a little bit of stating
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for cholesterol. But the sugar. I told the doctor give
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me a few months. I do want to take this.
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So I started to change my lifestyle. So then I
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also put my name into going start you know, since
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I'm retired, start with the government hospital for my heart.
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That process took me two years. Why it took me
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two years because they lost my file, my medical records,
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which you know they lost it. And then when I
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went back another time, I say, if you don't put
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me on, I'm just going to write to the Ministry
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of Help. Immediately they gave me. So, okay, I took
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my blood test, I went for my check up. I
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got the results. Let me tell you what the results are.
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ECG normal, BP normal, that of a young man, by
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the way, sugar normal, liver normal, normal, cholesterol issue, kidneys normal.
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God healed me, and the doctor said, I'm discharging you. Guys,
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this is what you need from the Lord, someone who's
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going to help you when things are tough, when situations
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are bad. Why does he do that? You think I'm
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talking about me? Guys. He does it for you, He
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does it for anyone. The reason why I give this
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testimony is to show you God's word works. If it
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works for me, it'll work for you. You think I'm
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I give these testimonies to get some kind of personal glory.
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Am I going to give you a healing? Am I
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going to answer your prayer? No? So what's the point.
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The point is he he'll do it for me. He'll
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do it for you. Okay, let's move on. Okay, all
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that from Peter going in there, Okay, all right, So
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now in verse six to ten, it says this he's
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now Peter ran in and he stooped down, and he
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saw the linen clothes lying there, yet did not go in.
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Then that was a John. Then Simon Peter came followed
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him and went into the tomb, and he saw the
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linen clothes lying there. You know that when Lazarus came
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out of the tomb, he had his clothes, the you know,
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the bindings and the bandage and all that around him,
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and he hobbled out the two. You know that Jesus
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didn't do that. When Jesus rose, put the burial clothes
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around him, just flattened. Because no burial clothes holds your
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Lord of mind. Nothing could hold Jesus. And I want
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you to know that the Bible says his the face
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calf was folded and put on the side and the head.
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Do you know what that how that is important to us? Hey,
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God's always got his eyes on you. Jesus has got
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his eyes on you. Nothing is covering He's from looking
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at you. Hey, that cloth is still on his face.
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You will be blamey sid But what did the Bible
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say the cloth was folded? That tells me another thing
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about Jesus. He's very neat. How come the cloth just
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throw thrown on the floor. I don't need you anymore. No, no, no,
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Jesus folded it nicely, put it in the side. Jesus
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very neat. So when you come into the house of
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the Lord, if you see rubbish on the floor, do
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not wait for somebody else to clean it up. Is
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the house of the Lord, you go and clean it.
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You know what, You follow the example of Jesus. He's
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very neat. Now you don't have a cloth in front
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of his eyes. He can see you. That's what this means. Okay,
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Now I'll move on and go a little bit faster.
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So he stooped, looked lying there. A Verse six, s
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Peter came to the tomb handkerchief, nod in his head,
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not lying there. Verse eight. Then the other disciples came
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in into the tomb. He went in also saw and believed,
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for they had yet did not know, For as yet
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they did not know the scripture that he must rise
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again from the dead. Then the disciples went away and
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went to their own home. You know what surprises me.
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Neither of them stop to have a word with Mary
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and say Jesus' reason? Who was it who called them Mary?
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Did they stop to say anything to me? No? They
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saw for themselves. Okay, believe ballad la. Guys, when you
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have a problem, is your friend. The first person you
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tell it to. You know what happened. After you finish
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the story, they go home, Which is why the first
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person I tell my issues too is God. He's the
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first person you always speak to when you have an issue.
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Am I saying that counsel speaking to the your CPC
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speaking to pastors? Wrong? No, tell it to God first?
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What is that respect? He's the boss. Tell it to
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him first. Then when you tell his lieutenant, who's the lieutenant?
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The pastor's the CPC. You're also covered by scripture. You
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know why because the Bible says the prayer of a
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righteous man abulent march, where two or three agree upon
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anything that should be done for you. So now even now,
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when you go to that person, you are also doing
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what is right. But if you go to that person first,
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if I was Jesus, I'll say that follow an ilure.
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Who's got the power? I got power? Who's got the power? Jesus,
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You got to go to him first. Wait, any no
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matter how small the issue is, go with him first.
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Every time I go into a pack, into a you know,
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a complex that my word is packing seriously, then I
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say this prayer, Lord, you always find me packing? Can
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you find me packing? And immediately somebody will pull out
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in front of me and I'll just drive in. This
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happens all the time. When I go walking in the
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morning and it starts to rain. In the name of Jesus,
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I look at Jesus first, stop the rain until I
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finish my walk. And it happens every time. Jesus first,
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because people don't appreciate your problem like you appreciate your problem.
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So they went back. I just cannot imagine. When I
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was reading this, I was thinking, what's wrong with this guyser?
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But you want to know something. Jesus saw it too.
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Jesus also saw their reaction, and Jesus said, I won't
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stand for it. It is Mother's Day, right, isn't it
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one of I don't know whether Mary Magdalene was a mother,
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but she is a woman. She was an extraordinary woman,
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And you know women of substance the extraordinary. So let's
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read on. But Mary stood outside by the two weeping,
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and you know she stood aground. She needed Jesus. She's
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in verse eleven. And as she wept, she stooped down
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and looked into the tomb, and she saw two angels
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in white, one on the head, one of the other
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feet where the body of Jesus had lain. And when
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they had seen her, they asked her. They said to her, woman,
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why are you weeping? Hmm? Mary stood a ground. She
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needed her Jesus. Her devotion was fully invested, by the way,
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because when the disciples ran ran away, most of us
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would have been uh and ties to run away with
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the disciples? What where? What did you go? Y? Not?
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But not Mary? She was fully invested in the Lord.
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Are you fully invested in the Lord? Are you fully
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invested that you will not leave until you get your answer?
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You see, that's why a lot of us sometimes don't
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get what we're looking for, because we go away together
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with the others. Hey scripture says she was fully invested.
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Her devotion now attracted the intention of the spiritual realm.
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Do you know that when you do not move your ground.
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Heavens open the spiritual becomes natural. Do you know that
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it's there? In scripture? She stood at ground. There was
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one person. The child is in hospital. The child was is,
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you know, very sickly at the moment. And when I
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went to see the parents, and what do I share
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with them? What do I tell them? And then I
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just spoke this and just came out of my mouth.
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He said, we can be on your side, praying together
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with you, believing together with you, praying along with you.
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But let me tell you. The one who needs the
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miracle is you. And how do you get that miracle?
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I said, when you can have a devotion so strong
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and unwavering that you can push through the multitudes, get
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down on your knees and say, if I but touch
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the hem of Jesus, I will receive my healing, meaning
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that it's not the crowds, it's your personal great will
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you let go, because if you let go, you lose out.
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Don't let go this woman, she didn't run away with
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Peter and Jane and Peter and John. She stood there.
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She was fully invested in Jesus. And because of that,
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the spiritual realm opened up to heaven, and her eyes
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were opened to two angels who said, a woman, what's wrong?
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Why are you crying? And she answered them and said,
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And she answered them and said, because this is a
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verse thirteen, She said to them, because they have taken
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away my lord, and I do not know where they
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had laid him. Now when she said this, so the
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first turn was that now the second turn. When she
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said this, she had already opened up the spiritual realm.
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You know, when the spiritual realm opens, you can see angels.
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How many of you rejoiced that you can see angels? Okay,
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let me tell you. We can see angels. You can
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see demons also, Okay. So if you want to know
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why sometimes we don't see to me angels, is because
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if if we can see the spiritual realm, we can
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we can actually see the spiritual realm. Okay, that's for
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a different that's for a different topic. But here we
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see that. This is the second turn, all right, the
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second turn. You see, as she said this, she turned
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around and saw Jesus standing there, but she did not
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know that it was Jesus. I do not know whether
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she turned around like this or she turned around like this,
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because she if she saw somebody standing there, she might
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not have recognized rite who he was. If she had
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turned around like this, she might have recognized. So second
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turn she turned around all right. Because she refused to
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let go her confect. Her confession attracted the only one
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who could answer Jesus. The second term put her in
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the presence of Jesus. I'm just describing actions so that
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you can break down the story. Second turn put her
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in the presence of Jesus, and she expresses the need
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to know more about the Lord, and I do not
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know where they have put him. Sometimes we are unaware
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of just who we're talking to. The Lord is standing
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by her side. Sometimes angels can just look like ordinary people.
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I remember that I was writing from Clang to kl
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to Clang, sorry, after my studies. I was doing it
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so my studies the class finished late, and I was
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riding back on my Kawasaki gto This is about ten
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ten thirteen in the night. And those days when you
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ride to Clang, no lights, okay, the street is dark. Okay.
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So those of you that no motorcycles, there's a reserve tank. Okay.
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Those were the days before fuel gages on the Dicense.
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It so you put it normal, you fill up, so
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when your bike runs out of fuel, you turn it
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to reserve tank. You still got some gas left, right.
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I did not turn it the last time I filled up.
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So my bike ran out of patrol somewhere between Charalam
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and Klang, fifteen kilometers away by ten thirteen in the night.
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I say, Lord, give me strength, Okay, give me strength.
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A few minutes later, one man comes up to me
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behind me and he says riding. He says, you're out
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of petrol. I say yeah. He says, worry, I'll take
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care of it. He when he looked around, he found
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a box. You know the drink boxes that juesday the
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box are? He tore it opened. He pulled out his
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fuel line from his motorbike, filled it up with fuel,
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put it into my tank, and I told him, thank
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you very much. I'm so appreciative. Where do you live? Say,
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I live in Tolopuolai. Okay, those of you inclined you
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nola huh, I live in Tolopuula Where in Tolopulai he
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gave me the dress. Thank you so much. I'm so
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grateful I got back. You know, you know how much
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that did? It the delay was only about ten minutes.
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I ran out of fuel. Next day I went searching
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for him in the place where he told me. I
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could not find him. I couldn't find his address. I
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went around. I really tried to find him. I couldn't
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find Could that have been an angel, I don't know.
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Maybe I got the address from but whatever it is. See,
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this is how God sends people to help us when
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we need it, all right, And now, so that second
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term put her in the presence of Jesus, and then
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Jesus said to her, woman, why are you weeping? Whom
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are you seeking? There's a reason I always use this voice, okay,
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because when I got saved, I got saved in a hut,
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literally in the junk, in a estate with four people,
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and during their worship, just simple people who worship the
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Lord for four hours, two hours worship, two hours message
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to ours worship. The presence of the Lord came down
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and I heard the Lord, and his voice to me
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was this deep, calming voice, so much of character, strength, power.
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So that's why when I, you know, speak Jesus, I
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like to to. So anyway, whom are you seeking? And
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then she said, supposing him to be the gardener. Jesus
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looks like a gardener. Something wrong with her eyes. I
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think those days no glasses. But whatever it is, that's what.
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Maybe she didn't really look properly. She could have been
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looking down or what. I don't know all right, but
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what is it is? She said this, sir, if you
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have carried him away, tell me where you have laid him,
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and I will take him away. I want Jesus with me.
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This is the third ten. I want Jesus with me.
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That's why maybe maybe that's why we are slow in
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getting our responses, because do we say I want Jesus
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with me. This is what Jesus did, and Jesus said
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to her Mary that voice. She turned and she said, rebuni,
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I feel the hairs on the back of my neck.
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Standing at this point rebuni connection. She refused to let go,
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and what happened there was connection, Jesus responds. When Jesus responds,
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our eyes are open to understanding. Our eyes become clear,
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our direction becomes clear, our way forward becomes clear, a
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path forward becomes clear. We see clearly. You know what
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Jesus response was, do not cling to me just yet,
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because I have not ascended to my Father. But go
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to my brother and say to them, I'm ascending to
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my father, to your father, and to my father, and
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your father to my God and your God was eighteen.
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Then Mary came and told the disciples that she had
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seen the Lord and that he had spoken with her.
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Did Peter or Jahn say Jesus, No, None of them
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saw Jesus. Tell about a week later she saw Jesus,
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and I want to tell you something. A complete devotion
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arrested Jesus from his plan, because Jesus had finished his
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work in disarming and destroying the devil and breaking him
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to pieces, and now he said, I want to ascend
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to my father. But on that way up to the
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he met her. And he had to make a pit
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stop before even meeting with the Father, before meeting his
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mother and family, or apostles or his other disciples, all
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of whom he met only a week later. You can
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only touch Jesus with faith, And this showed the difference.
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When we are not willing to let go, we will
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receive from the Lord. We will hear him call our names,
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and in that voice of just calling our name comes
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all our answer, comes all that we need, and we
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will change and then what did Jesus do? Jesus made
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her an evangelist. Did you know that? Go and tell
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all those people I'm alive. Go and tell all those
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people you've met me, Go and tell them. Is that wonderful?
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When we meet Jesus, we change guys. I hope this
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message has blessed you as much as it's blessed me.
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The preparation of which you know, and that morning walk
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is so important because I hear from the Lord, and
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for so long it was so difficult to do. So
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you've got to understand why I'm so happy that God
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has healed me, because nothing stops that.
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