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Put Your Foot Down | Pastor John Greiner
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Go ahead and do what we always do here at Glorious Way and let's lift our Bibles up and wave them around and make Jesus glad and the devil mad and say this together.
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Say, Heavenly Father, thank God for Wednesday night.
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I'm hungry and thirsty for more.
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And the word says, I shall be filled.
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Filled with the wisdom of God, filled with revelation, filled with knowledge of the Word of God, so that my faith is growing exceedingly.
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And we give you praise for it in Jesus' name.
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Amen.
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Let's look at Joshua chapter 1 and also Ephesians 1.
Joshua 1 chapter mention
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And we will read our foundation scriptures from there.
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We'll start with Joshua first.
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Verse 1.
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Now after the death of Moses, the servant of the Lord, it came to pass that the Lord spake unto Joshua, the son of Nun, Moses' minister, saying, Moses, my servant, is dead.
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Now therefore arise.
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Go over this Jordan, thou and all this people, unto the land which I do give to them, even to the children of Israel.
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Every place that the sole of your foot shall tread upon, that have I given unto you, as I said unto Moses.
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From the wilderness and this Lebanon, even unto the great river, the river Euphrates, all the land of the Hittites, and unto the great sea, toward the going down of the sun, shall be your coast.
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There shall not any man be able to stand before thee all the days of thy life, as I was with Moses, so I will be with thee.
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I will not fail thee, nor forsake thee.
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And then over in Ephesians chapter 1, the great Ephesian prayer, and I pray that all of you take advantage of these Holy Ghost prayers and Ephesians and Colossians and Philippians.
Ephesians 1 chapter mention
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These are wonderful ways to pray for yourself and others.
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I pray this prayer every day.
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And I won't read the whole prayer.
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I'm just gonna uh talk about verse 22, and and we'll we'll put who it who it is.
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God.
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God has put all things under Christ's feet and gave him to be the head over all things to his church, which is his body, the fullness of him that filleth all in all.
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Notice God has put all things under the feet of Christ.
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So tonight I wanted to share a message, a simple message to stir you up.
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Put your foot down.
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That's uh, you know, the Father has put everything under Jesus' feet, and we are his body, so we're the where the feet are.
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I mean, we're where the rubber meets the road.
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And so basically, when when we see that, it it's God challenging us to put our foot down on something.
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Of course, it you know, in our Western civilization, we don't quite uh get the significance of that uh thought uh as they did in Bible days.
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But in Bible days, it was a common thing that that when you it's symbolic that when you subdued your enemy, you put your foot upon their neck.
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And I tell this story back in the first Gulf War, uh back in the 90s, early 90s, when we the first Gulf War, uh Saddam Hussein had a brother and he was all decked out in his military uniform, his boots, and his pistol, you know, on his side, and these poor guys had been captured and they were kneeling down on the ground, and uh and their face was toward the ground.
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They weren't touching the ground, but they were they were not looking at him, they were looking straight down, you know, bent over, subservient.
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And uh he had his pistol out and he came down there, and if one particular guy he just reached up, this was on the news.
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I watched it on the evening news, and he put his his boot on top of the head of one of them and shoved his face down in the dirt and pulled his gun out.
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I guess he executed him, I don't know.
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But uh that is that's symbolic of the display of authority.
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And we all know the believer's authority is authority is delegated power.
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So God is has put everything under our feet.
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He's given us authority over all things.
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Every principality, every power, every every might, every dominion, every name that's named is under our feet in the name of Jesus.
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And uh it's high time that we put our foot down on some things and move forward.
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I mean, unless we put our foot down, then they have uh the ability to stand around and give us trouble.
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You can imagine.
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I mean, you know, if you don't do anything about a rattlesnake and it's right in front of you, I mean, you've got to do one of two things.
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You've got to kill it or you gotta jump higher than it strikes, you know.
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So anyway, I've I've done both.
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Uh but anyway, so here in Joshua, uh these verses are so very special to me personally because they God spoke these verses to me uh on the early morning hours of 23rd of January 1999, uh 27 years ago, 27 and a half years ago.
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Uh I'd gotten a call at 2 a.m.
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that Brother Osteen had fallen very ill and they had uh rushed him to the hospital.
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And uh Gladys uh we, you know, she got up out of bed and she started praying in tongues, loud and angry, biting the devil, walking up and down the front of the bed.
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And I'm just now hanging up the phone, and that God spoke these words to me.
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He said, Moses, my servant, is dead, now therefore arise.
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And I knew exactly uh where those verses were.
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And I also knew that he meant Brother Osteen was gone.
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Now they didn't turn the machine off till that afternoon, so it's kind of awkward for me to say that he was gone when he was gone, but I just go by what the Holy Ghost told me.
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And uh and at that moment I I received my inheritance.
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Somebody said, Oh, you got his mantle.
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Oh no, I would never presume to say I got a mantle.
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He had lots of mantles, and I didn't get mantles.
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I got a I got an inheritance that I sowed to.
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And it was a supernatural experience that I won't go all into detail about tonight, but but uh it in there it says, everywhere the sole of your foot shall tread, I have given you.
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And so um, and it goes on, and God drew boundaries for uh Joshua.
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There were there were definite boundaries.
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You know, over here is the Mediterranean Sea, over here is a Euphrates, over here, you know, he's got it all bounded, the boundary.
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He didn't he didn't give him Germany, he didn't give him the USA, he didn't give him France, he didn't give him Turkey, he gave him a particular, uh a particular uh amount of land that was his uh to uh tread on, so to speak, to take authority over and to drive out those people that were living there.
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See, that's right all by itself, that's judgment.
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That's God separating.
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I mean, God, everything, God owns everything.
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You know, he owns all the whole world.
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Nobody has a right to any land anywhere except for God.
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God, and then we're just caretakers.
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We are not, we don't own it.
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We might have it, you know, we have our ownership in today's day, but really we don't really own it.
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I mean, you've got title, you know, to your house if you're a homeowner, but I mean, really honestly, when you're a Christian, everything is his.
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And we're just car, we're just caretakers.
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But um, so God drew the boundaries for Joshua when he empowered him to possess the land.
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And of course, that's a type and shadow.
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The land is the type and shadow of our inheritance.
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It's not necessarily property, it can include property, it can include home and all that, but it's our inheritance, it's a broad category.
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Our inheritance is health, it's prosperity, it's uh having a uh a great uh family life, and so forth and so on.
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We we've got things that God has uh given to us, but unless we put our foot down and actually possess that.
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See, in other words, it's one thing for us to admire it.
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We can see it over there.
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Oh, isn't that a beautiful land?
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Oh, isn't that a wonderful thing?
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Oh, but until we put our foot down, then you know it's no better than it's not ours, then, because we don't possess it.
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I mean, so it's up to us to possess that which God has already given.
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As a matter of fact, if God didn't already give it to you, then you can't possess it, no matter what you do.
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You can't stick your foot over someplace that He doesn't uh order.
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So that that tells me then that we need to walk by the Holy Ghost.
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We need to walk in the witness of the Spirit and move in a direction there.
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God says, This is yours, and then we get there and we put our foot on it, and we put our foot down and we take our authority over all the uh trespassers, the poachers, the squatters, whatever, whatever is existing on our uh land.
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So uh this is a type and shadow of our inheritance, and so he's saying, you know, it's time to put your foot down, Joshua.
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I gave you this.
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You know, you've been 40 years out here in the wilderness.
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Moses couldn't get you in here.
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Now it's your job.
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You get these people in there and you you get your foot, you get your foot to move in now.
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In other words, you're gonna have to possess what I've given you.
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Isn't it amazing?
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See, the difference between what he's given us and our possessing it is our faith.
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See, it takes our faith to possess it, it takes our identif identifying what belongs to us.
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We've got to find out what belongs to us.
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So much of the time we deal with the immediate at the expense of the important.
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Because that's what the that's how the devil works.
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He he lights a dumpster fire to get us concentrated over here.
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You know, here's a big old dumpster fire, it's burning, and and over here he's stealing, killing, and destroying while we're looking at the fire over here.
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So, no, let's let's let's let's let's get concentrated to putting our foot down uh in the areas that uh that God has given us.
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So I've got one, two, three things here just to kind of stir you up.
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And you know, if you've heard this before, and I've preached it before, quite frankly, but if you've heard it before, then this is just water for what you've heard, and and uh you get a better, a greater understanding of it and uh reminder that you've got to stir yourself up.
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You've got to put your foot down.
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I can't put my foot down where yours belongs.
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I can't do it for you.
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I'd love to be able to.
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Sometimes I see people kind of dancing around, dancing around them.
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You know, I want to get out there and do it, them do it for them, but I can't.
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And uh and so uh uh so we got three things here.
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Put your foot down.
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Number one, uh take steps to know what's yours.
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Take steps to know what's yours.
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As I mentioned, it doesn't do one bit of good for you to step on something that doesn't belong to you.
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In fact, it could be, you know, it could be a problem.
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You know I've had people try to step on the stuff that belonged to me, and it didn't turn out too well.
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You know, it just isn't it's funny, a lot of people just think they can pastor so much better than you.
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You know, you've got the Monday morning quarterbacks, you're Monday morning pastors.
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And uh and so uh in Genesis 13, let's look at that real quick.
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Talking about put your foot down, know what's yours, find out what is what it is.
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Well, you know, God told Joshua exactly what was his and what belonged to Israel.
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In Genesis here uh 13.
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God's talking to Abraham.
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He said, Arise, walk through the land in the length of it and in the breadth of it, for I will give it unto thee.
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I will give it unto thee.
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So he's talking about the same land he talked to Joshua about, but it wasn't ready to transfer ownership yet.
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He just told him now, as the head of this covenant, go tread upon that land, mark it.
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You know, it lets me know that if Abraham hadn't marked it, Joshua couldn't have possessed it.
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Abraham had to mark it.
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Abraham by faith walked up and down the land, and he never dwelt there.
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He sojourned in the land, but he never called it home.
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He never could uh uh sink roots down and own it, no, other than a place to bury his wife.
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That was it.
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And so uh Abram removed his tent and came and dwelt in the plain of Mamre, which is in Hebron, and built there an altar unto the Lord.
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So uh take steps to know what's yours.
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And Genesis 2.15 uh God told Adam to dress and keep the garden.
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To dress and keep it.
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I mean, yeah, he's got the garden, he's he's born, he's got it, and it's all his.
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And God said, now you've got to do something with it, you've got to dress it and keep it.
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And he didn't.
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He let he let the devil come into his garden and tempt his wife.
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He let that stood, and the devil was not a snake at that point.
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The devil is some kind of upright creature.
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Of course, we know he's a spirit, but he had he had a form, and he walks up in there and tempts, and all he had to do was do what God told him to do, dress and keep it.
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And he didn't.
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So uh we need to dress and keep what God's given us our marriage, our home, our children, our grandchildren, our career, our our business, our ministry, our finances, our church.
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I mean, it just takes, you've got to be super vigilant right now.
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Because the devil is a roaring lion, he seeks whom he may devour.
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Uh, I like what Brother Hagin used to say.
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He's looking for open doors.
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That's all he's doing.
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He's going down the street and looking for open doors.
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I mean, you know, you you can watch some of these thieves back in the old days, they'd go through a parking lot looking for unlocked cars.
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And back in the, back in my day, when I was a teenager, nobody locked their cars or their doors.
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You didn't even lock the door at your house.
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You'd closed it, but you didn't lock it.
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I mean, the only lock we had was that little hook, you know, on a screen door, you know, who's that?
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What's that gonna keep out?
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It'd keep out maybe a cat, but it ain't gonna keep out a robber, you know.
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Well, we didn't have any robbers, hardly.
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I mean, there were there was crime, but it hardly, hardly existed.
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And uh, but you know, the devil is looking for open doors.
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We can open the door and the devil can come in.
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So we have to be vigilant to dress and keep what God has given us.
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So put take steps to know what's yours and watch over it.
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Uh thank God for what God has given us.
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You know, be grateful every day what God has given you.
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Worrying about what He what you haven't yet attained or what you haven't yet identified.
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I mean, you know, there's always more to come.
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God is always looking to give you more, He's always wanting to do exceeding abundantly above all you've ever dared ask or think.
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Hallelujah.
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All right, so take steps to know what's yours.
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Number two, take steps.
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This is talking about put your foot down.
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See, I mean, if you're gonna step, you've got to put your foot down on something.
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Take steps to discover what else God wants to bring you.
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See, I mean, it's not all there is.
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What you've got's not all there is.
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What level you're at is not the last level.
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There's always another level.
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There's always more, there's always greater, there's always better.
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Jesus came, he said, I I came to give you life and life more abundantly.
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That's Zoe, the God kind of life, the life that God lives, the life that got as God lives it.
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And when you look it up on your uh concordance, it's it means superabundant in quantity, superior in quality.
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So you just think about quality of life.
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You have a quality of life right now.
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Guess what?
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God's got a better quality for you.
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And who's limiting God?
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Well, most of the time it's us.
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We just we get a little embarrassed, you know.
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Oh, well, that's just greed.
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No, it's just listen, we're something in us is created to attain to the maximum that God has for us.
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I mean, we're his kids.
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There's nothing he'll withhold from us if we'll take care of our attitude and obey him and do the things that we know to do.
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I mean, we have to be blessed to be a blessing.
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And there's always a greater level of blessing available to us if we'll just quit.
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You know, like Brother Osteen used to say, you know, anybody can shoot low and make it, you know.
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You aim high, you know.
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Get your rifle on that target over here.
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You can hit the ground real easy.
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But if you aim at that target, say, and that target's always moving higher.
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When you get to know God, he wants to give you more.
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I think about in 1 Chronicles 4, Jabez, you know, uh, he was named sorrow.
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His name means sorrow.
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Boy, his mother really loved him.
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She had a lot of trouble giving him birth, so she named him accordingly.
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And uh his middle name was trouble.
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So anyway, uh, pretty bad.
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ST, uh, get over here.
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But Jabez, he said, you know, God, I I I want you to enlarge my coast.
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What I got, I thank you for for it, but I want more.
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I want to enlarge my coast.
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And God heard that prayer.
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I mean, he got, I mean, God gave him more.
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I mean, he it delighted God that he was wanting to see uh how much he could possess where he could be a bigger blessing.
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I mean, you know, uh, as you're faithful in little, God will make you ruler over much.
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I said, as you're faithful over little, God will make you ruler over much.
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Hallelujah.
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I just remember, you know, after going through some of the things I went through financially.
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Uh, you know, I've I've told the story many times of wound up with unemployed and moved back to Houston, and somebody paid for my move.
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I couldn't even pay for the moving van.
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Somebody came to Corpus and packed, and she was in the moving business and she packed us up for free and had brought the boxes.
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I mean, you talk about, and here I am a businessman.
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I'm used to fending for myself and providing for my family, and I got to a place where I was broke.
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I mean, I was below broke.
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I was below the below the floor broke, and moved in with my sister.
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And uh, and so then we finally, you know, we just little by little, you know, just kept kept believing God, kept chipping away at it, you know, and and uh finally got to the place where we had a rent house on our own and we were paying rent every month, and and God said, I'm gonna build you a house.
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And I didn't even want a house.
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I mean, I was building houses, but I didn't want to, I didn't have any desire for myself for the houses that I was building.
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I was building houses in West University Place.
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The cheapest house that I built was almost$400,000, up to, you know, six.
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I think the last one I built was priced at almost$700,000.
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I looked it up uh last year and it was pri it was appraised at$2.5 million.
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So, you know, it was the biggest house and the nicest house I'd ever built, and it never sold.
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It went, you know, the bank took it back.
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I lost a bunch of money on it, you know, but somebody made money, it wasn't me.
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Uh but anyway, getting back to him telling me I'm gonna build you a house.
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Well, eight years, seven years later, he built me a house, and I'll never forget.
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You know, we we went out to look for a home and and we looked at used houses, house, pre-owned houses, what we thought we'd do.
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I couldn't find anything that fit.
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I remember one time I walked in one house and it stunk so bad, it made your eyes water like the like the rodeo.
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I mean, there's so many animals in that house that had left their deposits behind.
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And I mean, it how do you put a house on the market to sell and leave it like that?
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I'm a home builder, but I've been you gotta be crazy.
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So anyway, I I was driving through a subdivision one day, and it's kind of, and I said, What is that?
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I've never noticed that subdivision.
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I walked went in there, you know, and it was some houses that had been there a while, and then I came on this street, and it's brand new construction in the middle of houses that were four, five, six years, ten years old.
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And uh, and it was a house that was going up, you know, and so I stopped my car and got out of the out of the car, and I walked up to the front corner of the house, and and uh the the front corner of the house was about this tall above the, it was it was tall, almost three feet, so I had to grab a hold of the corner and horse myself up.
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And as soon as I stuck my my foot through the studs and got to standing inside the house, the Holy Ghost hit me like a ton of bricks.
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Witness of the Holy.
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I mean, in the witness, it was stronger than a witness.
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It just went woo-whoo! And I was standing in the master, one of the master closets, had two master bedroom closets, bathroom closets.
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And then I walked through the bathroom into the bedroom, and it, oh, it was nice.
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10 foot ceiling and all downstairs, 12 foot in the living room.
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They were framing the second floor up.
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And I walked outside, it's a three car garage on an interior lot.
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It had a portachet that you drive under in front of the garage.
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Uh, when it's raining, you just get your groceries and come in.
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The house without even getting wet.
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And I mean, it was so far exceeding abundantly above that I of anything I even dared to be looking at, and yet God said, This is yours.
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See, sometimes you got to find out what belongs to you, and then you got to find out what's better.
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And that was a whole lot better than I was looking for.
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And you know, the long story, make it a long story short, we've been there 30-something years, you know.
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And we bought that house, and we got to finish it up.
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I got to be the customer and be a thorn in the side of the builder.
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It was such a pleasure to give him.
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Made that long list of things that he needed to pay attention to.
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Anyway, so take steps to discover what else God wants to bring in.
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And uh and he'll make you ruler over much.
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Uh, you know, that's why we pray much in the Holy Ghost.
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When you pray much in the Holy Ghost, God can show you things.
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God can expand and enlarge your vision.
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God can update and and uh and upgrade what it is that you are believing for.
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Uh oh, it was, I think, in May of 2018, no, March of 2018.
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Uh right after I'd had open heart surgery, I still uh I don't think I'd even gotten back to church to preach yet.
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It was for Easter.
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I I preached for the first time Easter Sunday 2018.
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And uh and so just weak as water, you know, just coming through that whole thing and just trying to feel like anything, you know, you just things you take for granted.
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But anyway, I was in my study praying in the Holy Ghost for about an hour.
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And as I prayed, I I began to see this big wall on the other end of a big field, like a football field.
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It was a pretty pat, but it was a pasture.
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But on the other end of this pasture was this huge wall, it's like maybe 10, 12 feet tall, covered with vines and brambles and bright briars and nettle.
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It's really what it was, sticky stickers and stuff.
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And I and I didn't know what I was looking at, and I kept praying in the Holy Ghost, praying in the Holy Ghost, and directly uh a big door began to open out of that wall, and it there was a doorway, and it looked to be like six foot wide, it's about 18 inches, two foot thick, big, heavy door, and it opened toward me, and I could see through onto the other side of this uh wall, and the Holy Ghost began to speak to me, and uh he said that that door that you've been seeing as you prayed in the Spirit is a door that I have reserved for you, and it is a door into the regions beyond.
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You know, Paul talked about in 2 Corinthians 10.
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In fact, it'd be good to see that real quick, because that's the verse I had when he told me the regions beyond.
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And this is a regional center, by the way.
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And uh so I'm sensitive to the word region, 2 Corinthians 10, 16.
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Well, we'll just read verse 14.
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For we stretch not ourselves beyond our measure, as though we reach not unto you, for we are come as far as to you also in preaching the gospel of Christ, not boasting of things without our measure, that is, of other men's labor.
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See, in other words, treading on somebody else's property.
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See, he's talking about stepping on somebody else's possession.
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But having hope when your faith is increased that we shall be enlarged by you according to our rule abundantly, to preach the gospel in the regions beyond you.
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See, Paul wasn't satisfied with one region.
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He he had a vision beyond, regions beyond you.
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And not to boast in another man's line of things made ready to our hand.
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In other words, I'm not looking to possess somebody else's territory.
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I'm not gonna walk on somebody else's ministry, but I am gonna preach in the regions beyond you.
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I know there's regions beyond you.
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See, that's what God was speaking.
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And he said, I've I've reserved that.
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He went on to tell me, he said, you're gonna preach the gospel.
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They they're filled with religious uh ideas, religious tradition.
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And really, you know, all those years I started trying to figure out where is that?
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Where is that?
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I took a trip to South Texas.
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I drove over all over South Texas thinking, well, maybe it's down here.
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You know, where is where's the region beyond?
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I don't know.
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But uh, you know, with the region beyond is Oklahoma, and the region beyond is Maine, and the region beyond is Louisiana, the region beyond is you get the picture.
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I mean, we're we're we're on, we're in those territories that God gave us right now.
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I mean, we're absolutely uh this is a fulfillment of what God spoke years and years ago, you know, eight years ago.
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Come on, lift your hands right now.
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Thank God.
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God's faithful, he knows what he's doing all the time.
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We don't always know.
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We know in part, and uh, and you have to be patient.
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And uh we're making plans to to keep on going to the regions, whatever other regions there are.
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I believe there's gonna be an explosion of opportunity now coming up before between now and the time of the election and even after the election.
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Uh everybody say the regions beyond.
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Well, see, God's got something beyond for you.
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All right, and then the last one is take steps to overcome every obstacle.
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See, because I when you, you know, Paul said in another place, there's a great door and effectual of open unto me, and there are many adversaries.
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I mean, for every door that God opens, there's adversaries standing there to trip you up, trying to keep you out of that place, trying to stop you from entering into that which is the next step for you, the next, the next uh uh region for you.
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And uh and so it takes faith steps.
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Everybody say faith steps.
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See, what's a faith step?
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Believing and speaking and then acting.
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And so it wasn't very long.
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I mean, we didn't have long to wait.
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I mean, I had to get finished getting well in 2018, then 2019, we had a good year, and and and then you know what happened at the end of 2019 was all this COVID stuff into 2020 and a stolen election.
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And we spoke, and we said it was, we spoke it, we prayed against it.
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And if you said that uh out loud, people would mock you and people would persecute you for saying it.
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And now we know it's true.
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We absolutely have proof that Obama is a treason, treason.
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He's treat he's he committed treason, he's the head of the whole thing, him and Clinton.
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So uh I look forward to the day when they have to pay their debt.
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It might not be in this life, but it will it will happen.
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So um uh in Luke 10, 19, Jesus gave his disciples, he said, uh let's look at it real quick.
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We're talking about faith steps and put your foot down.
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We have a part to play, I guess, is what I'm saying.
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God does it, but we we can He won't do it without us.
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Luke 10.
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All right, Luke, quit hiding.
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Luke 19.
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Cool hand Luke.
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All right.
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Jesus told him, it says, Behold, I give unto you power.
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That word power is exodusia, it's it's uh authority.
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Authority is delegated power.
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See, they had delegated power.
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It wasn't their own, it was delegated to them.
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Behold, I give unto you power.
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See, he had the power.
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If he he had the power to tread upon serpents and scorpions, or he couldn't have given it to them, but he gave he did, he gave it to them.
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He said, I give unto you power to tread on serpents and scorpions.
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How many of you know he's not talking about insects and snakes?
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He's talking about demons, serpents and scorpions, and over all the power, that word power is dunymus of the enemy.
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The enemy has supernatural power, but we have superior authority over it.
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He has supernatural power.
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To say that he doesn't have it is is wrong.
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Yes, he he does have it.
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And if you're gonna fight uh a battle in the natural against somebody that's got supernatural power, well, you're gonna lose every time.
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So we've got to get into the arena of what?
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Faith.
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And faith is the in the arena of the spirit, faith is where we have authority.
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Are y'all with me now?
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So he said, tread upon serpents and scorpions, and uh and over all the dunamis of the enemy, and nothing shall by any means hurt you.
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Nothing.
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See, we have nothing to fear.
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Never be afraid of the devil.
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And we ought to know his ways.
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We ought to not uh underestimate uh what he does, but that doesn't mean we admire him, that doesn't mean that we're afraid of him.
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It means that we know, if you don't know your enemy, you're gonna get defeated.
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You have to know your enemy.
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I mean, that's part of that's part of why we have the CIA and the NSA and all these letter agencies, they're supposed to know our enemy.
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I think they know the, I think they know conservatives and Christians better than they know their enemy.
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I think they've been studying us too long.
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I think they turn their gaze over to the Middle East and places like that.
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But uh so you tread upon serpents and scorpions, you walk upon trouble.
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Everybody say, I'm walking on demons.
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I'm walking through trouble.
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I'm walking, I'm moving through resistance.
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See the idea that you're not gonna have resistance, forget about it.
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You're gonna have resistance.
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You're gonna have, and so you're gonna have to walk by faith, not by sight.
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You're gonna have to have some words in your mouth, and and you're gonna have to have some courage to take another faith step.
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And uh, you overcome the devil by the blood of the Lamb and the word of your testimony.
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And so what's left is for us to just put our foot down.
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How many of you willing to put your foot down in new territory?
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Come on, lift your hands and receive tonight.
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Glory to God.
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Are you encouraged?
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Well, praise God.
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Let's not stay where it's comfortable, let's not stay behind in the, you know, in the R and R, you know, I mean, these all these soldiers that I remember having buddies that were, I didn't have to fight Vietnam.
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My my number didn't come up.
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I had a lot, they had the lottery, so my lottery number never was called.
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And uh so I didn't have to go to Vietnam, but I had buddies that did go, and they and after they fought a while, they'd get a little RR time.
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They'd send them to Hawaii, and they send them, you know, they lay on the beach for a couple of weeks and got arrested.
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You know, some of them didn't want to come back.
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They wanted to stay on R R.
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No, we can't stay on R and R.
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We got to keep on moving, keep on moving forward, defeating the devil.
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Hallelujah.
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Do you get anything out of this tonight?
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Well, come on, let's just lift our hands.
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Father, we thank you for the word of God.
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Thank you, Father, that uh we are uh moving forward.
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We're not gonna stay silent, we're not gonna stay still, we're not gonna give in or give up, but we're overcoming, we're taking uh we're putting our foot down in the territories that you have given us, Lord.
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And we're Lord, we're determined to uh possess what you've given us and all the that and and get a revelation.
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And what else is next?
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In Jesus' name.
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Amen.