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Well, Lord, we're going to step in whatever you want, whatever you want done.

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Get that across to us. Help us see it and understand it in Jesus' name.

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All right. Well, he's not telling me right now what this is all about.

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So, let's move forward and maybe he'll... maybe he'll enlighten us.

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I'm sure he will. It's just a matter of we got to hear.

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Thank you for those of you that are joining us live stream.

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We have a real heavy presence of the Holy Spirit here.

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And that doesn't happen just because there's always a reason.

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And I'm hesitant to move forward because I can't figure out the reason.

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I'm not hearing anything, but maybe it'll show up later.

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So, we're going to start in and see what he shows us.

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We're on page 37. I want to finish.

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My plan was to finish this booklet tonight. We'll see where that goes.

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If the Holy Spirit's got something different for us to do or handle, then we will do that.

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For those that were waiting for the Q&A session from last week, I apologize.

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It took us till yesterday to get it up.

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We were debating on editing it and pulling some stuff out because we got into some heavier stuff

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that I didn't know for sure if we wanted to leave on the video or not.

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It ended up we left it on there, but we ended up talking about Nephilim and the last days

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and what that could look like and so forth.

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So, sometimes people are not interested in that.

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And I guess if that's you, then that's okay. Just bear with us because some of us are interested in that.

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Jesus pointed it out specifically.

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He said as it was a Noah's time, it'll be in the last days.

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Noah's time, their biggest problem was the hybrid issue that had taken place between fallen angels and human beings.

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And yes, they were marrying and giving in marriage, but the interesting part was

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if you go back and study it, they were marrying and giving in marriage with hybrids.

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So, as it was, it will be, so we got on that subject.

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So that got kind of heavy. We might return to it again at some point.

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But tonight, I don't think we will.

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Page 37. We're talking about being empty, swept and garnished.

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Let me ask this question. How many of you have read the remainder of the booklet?

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You've already gone through it. Okay, that won't help me.

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So we'll have to go a little slower.

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A stern warning God Jesus gave us is once someone is set free, they cannot be left empty, swept and garnished

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because it will cause it to get worse in the end.

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So we started on the Scripture and then we got off into what our demons, what our fallen angels,

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and we spent the time there. I just felt that was supposed to go in here.

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It will be laid out in the beginning of the next booklet.

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It's not in this one. I was expecting to wait, but we didn't wait. We talked about it last week.

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What is, what are demons and so forth.

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But we started here. So let's go to that Scripture, Matthew chapter 12 verse 43 through 45.

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And when the unclean spirit has gone out of a man, he walketh through dry places seeking rest and findeth none.

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Now we explained a little bit of that last week talking about demons being spirit beings who are without a body.

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Where fallen angels, angels have a body.

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The thought is demonic spirit beings are spirits without a body.

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So they're always searching for something they can dwell in. They prefer human bodies.

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We talked about the dry places and human beings being 75% water seeking rest outside of a house.

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They cannot find rest.

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So verse 44, then he saith, I will return to the house from once I came out.

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And when he come, he findeth it empty, swept and garnished.

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Then goeth he and takeeth with himself seven other spirits more wicked than himself.

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And they enter in and dwell there. And the last state of the man is worse than the first.

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Even so shall it also be also unto this wicked generation.

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I'm not used to talking King James. I got to slow down and get the words in the right order.

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So when a demon is cast out, they're going to return to see if they can get back in and they're going to look for three things.

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Empty, swept and garnished. Go to page 38.

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He's looking for rest. He went out of the person top of page 38.

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He left the person. He's looking for rest.

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And he's coming back because he's not finding rest.

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And the place he's living in is dry compared to what he was in when he was in the human being.

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So he's referred to as an unclean spirit, which is a lewd, impure or demonic spirit.

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Sometimes King James calls them devils.

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There's different words, but here it's referred to as an unclean spirit.

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Unclean, sometimes when a spirit manifests, you can smell them. Not always.

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Now what's interesting, when a presence comes, whether it's God's presence or demonic presence.

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See, who's around? Molly, can you grab a mic in the back there?

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And I know it's early, but I want to do something here to make a point because we say,

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well, why does God call him unclean or why did Jesus call him unclean?

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Because that's not just a spiritual description. They're not a clean spirit. They're an unclean spirit.

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They stink. You could use the word they don't shower, they don't bathe, they don't whatever.

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I don't know how it works in the spirit realm, but demonic spirits stink.

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And the word unclean or impure, not cleansed, lewd, foul, it's like a foul odor.

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The most accurately it represents or smells like sulfur.

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That's usually the thing that smells the most like sulfur.

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If you've ever been to Yellowstone with the boiling pots and the wind comes,

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it's like, I'll take your breath away, the sulfur smell. That's close. It resembles it.

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It's really foul. It's really rude. You don't always smell them, but sometimes you do.

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But bring the mic up if you would. I'm going to have you guys share what happened the other Sunday

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because when God's presence shows up, sometimes you can smell it.

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How many of you have ever smelled God's presence?

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Oh, cool. So we had these three girls were sitting over.

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Well, you're not a girl, as far as I know.

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So we'll say these two girls and this handsome young man were sitting over there.

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Was it last Sunday or Sunday before? Two Sundays ago.

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Tell me what you smelled during and when, when did you smell it?

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So I think it was when Heidi was like prophetically singing over the north.

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So what was it happen?

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Yeah, it was over. It was over that and like it kind of drifted in, you know, really.

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For me, it was kind of like really light at first and then it was like boom.

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It felt like I was trapped in the middle of a field of just beautiful smelling flowers.

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It was like so strong to the point where I turned the Katie.

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I'm like, do you smell this? I asked Caitlin, do you smell this?

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They're both like, yeah. And I'm like, what is that smell?

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I look behind us. There's like, no, I don't think there's anyone behind us or anything.

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So I'm like, this is weird. It was like just such a beautiful sweet.

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I can't even describe it. It's just...

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Cool. Pass it on. See if she can describe it.

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I would describe it closely to like, it smelled like lilacs or roses to me, like fresh cut flowers.

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That aroma and it would come in like waves when Heidi would get going.

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It would get really strong and then it would get less and then it would come stronger again.

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Kind of came in waves.

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Yeah.

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So for me, it was more so like, like they said it would go come in waves, but it smelled like...

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Fresh cut flowers, but like someone's perfume.

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I thought it was like, just someone's perfume and I was like, wait, there's nobody around me.

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Like, what's going on? I've never had that, but it was, it was different.

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So now when she was done singing and doing her thing, did the smell go away?

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It faded.

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So it wasn't somebody's perfume?

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No.

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Because somebody's perfume wouldn't have faded.

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No, I sat and I was like...

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Yeah.

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I thought it was dieta at first.

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Yeah.

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If dieta is watching, we could give you credit.

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They thought you smelled that good.

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But it was when the presence of God got really heavy, sometimes you can smell it.

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Different things will happen when God's presence gets really heavy.

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At the modular, it was during those early years when we were having a move of the spirit while we were in the modular.

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People would show up and it's 15, 20 below.

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And as they come across the parking lot, they'd smell the same thing.

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And they'd come in just dumbfounded, confused.

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It's 15 below. I know there's no flowers out there.

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Are you spraying something?

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No, it's the presence of God.

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Unclean spirits are just the opposite.

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They are foul smelling.

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They are rank. They're yuck.

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This spirit went out of a man.

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Notice the definition of man here.

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I want you, because this is going to be interesting.

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The word man and the word house.

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Man here refers to anthropos.

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It's a human being, whether male or female.

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So it's not just talking about a male.

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So it could be the one.

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Generically?

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Generically, okay.

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To include all human individuals, okay.

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The countenance man face that is human being.

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So, literally one of the definitions of the word man there

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is to have a man face.

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Rather than a dog face or a cow face.

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Or it's a man faced being.

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I just find it interesting how they describe that.

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The spirit is seeking rest.

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It's wanting intermission. It's wanting rest.

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The therapist says to cause or permit one to cease

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from movement or labor in order to recover

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and collect his strength.

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So when a demon spirit, a disembodied spirit

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is out of a body, they can't find rest.

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They are continually in movement or labor

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trying to recover because they were never meant...

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Remember in 1 Corinthians 15, Paul says

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that we were never meant to be unclothed.

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Speaking of the body.

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We've got this body here, but it's fallen.

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So when we go to heaven, we're going to have a new body

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and we're going to be clothed with a new body

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because we're not to be unclothed.

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Well these, you know, in some ways it's like

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you feel sorry for them.

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They're unclothed spirits.

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They're trying to get into a body

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or something that resembles it

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because it gives them the ability to rest.

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It gives them strength.

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Number two there in the bottom, page 39,

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to give rest, refresh, to take rest,

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to keep quiet of calm.

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If you go up top page 40,

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rest means intermission or cessation

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from any motion, business or labor.

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So obviously when they're out of a body

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they are continually in motion.

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They're continually going.

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There's no rest for them.

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They don't like it.

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Let's just say it that way.

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They don't like to be out of a body.

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So verse 44,

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he says, I'm going to go back to the house

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from where I came out.

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When he has come back to that house

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he finds it empty, swept and garnished.

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Because it's so miserable

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for him out there outside of body

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he goes back to see if he can get back in.

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Why would he go back

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to that person?

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And here's a thought.

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Just take it for what it's worth.

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These things are at war

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and fighting all the time

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because they're opposite of God's kingdom.

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God's kingdom is peace and unity

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and it all works together.

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That kingdom is the opposite.

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So they're at war and striving

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and struggling at all times.

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If he

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goes to a different human being

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that human being may already

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have some spirits.

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You think they're going to let him in?

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Or it in, whatever it is?

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I'm calling it him, but it in?

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No, they've already

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claimed their ground.

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It's going to go where it thinks

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it's easiest to reestablish

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which is back to the original house.

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It knows it can get back in.

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Now,

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let's go off into a little bit of

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side thought here, because I haven't

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talked about it much, but this is a good place

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to bring it up.

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There are

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some, I'll use the word famous

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ministers

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who absolutely, and they know the word

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and they're big in the word

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and this, that and the other.

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A couple of them are faith ministers

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and so forth, but absolutely

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do not believe once you're saved

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you can have a demonic spirit.

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One very influential one.

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I've never heard him say it, but I don't

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listen to him too much. He's good, far

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as I know, but there's a few things

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I disagree with.

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He's out of Colorado.

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From my understanding

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he is dead set against humans

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ever being able to have a

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demonic spirit. Once you're saved

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it's no longer possible.

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Pardon me?

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Humans or Christians?

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Once you're saved.

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And the direction

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they usually come from is

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everything in the gospels is still

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Old Testament, so everything Jesus was dealing

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with was before the cross and the resurrection

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and the power that was given to us

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by the Holy Spirit and so forth.

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You got me? Okay, I'll just keep talking.

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It got me online. We lost my sound

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in here. It might be the board, so

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they'll figure it out.

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When they look at this, like

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from Jesus' perspective and what he's

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saying here, they say he's

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describing an Old Testament

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issue.

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Okay, so here is where I come

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and this is why I come from this direction.

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Because in the cross,

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in the resurrection, everything

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in salvation has been bought

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and paid for for us.

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I mean, that's a done deal.

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So I'm going to give you two, three reasons

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why I disagree. Number one,

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by his stripes, we were healed.

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He carried away every

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sickness and every disease.

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Why do Christians get sick and get diseases?

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It's over. It's done. Jesus

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bought and paid for it completely.

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But yet we all know

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people get sick

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and die. People get sick and struggle

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with diseases. People have heart

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conditions and they live that way for 20 years

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and they're Christians. They're serving God.

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I thought it was a done

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deal.

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Well, it is a done deal by

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faith.

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We have to appropriate it

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by faith.

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And we could just list here for

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the next hour, peace,

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financial prosperity,

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the promise of success

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in everything

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we touch. That's what word blessing means

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to have success down the road of life.

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Everything you do, everything

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you touch, you are

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by God, he already

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bought and paid for all of us

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to be successful in it.

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Freedom from

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every form of bondage.

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No depression, no

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discouragement.

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This has all been bought

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and paid for on the cross.

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Well, why aren't we just

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automatically living in it?

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Because we're not.

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It comes by faith.

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So why would

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freedom from

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genealogical things,

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ancestral things,

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the curse,

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it specifically lists the curse.

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Paul talks about it specifically

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saying Jesus became a curse

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for us.

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So the curse

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would go away and the blessing

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of Abraham would come on us.

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Well, why do some Christians just

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seem like they live cursed lives?

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No matter what they try

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to do, it never works for

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them.

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Well, I thought we're free of the curse.

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Well, we are.

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God bought and paid for

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that. But like everything

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else, we have to learn

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to apply that by faith.

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The same way we have to learn to

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apply being free of demonic stuff

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by faith. Okay, that's one

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reason I say, nah, I ain't buying it.

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Second reason is

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it's

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it's the old argument of

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well, healing isn't for today.

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Well, I'm sorry I've already been healed.

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You're too late in giving me that information.

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The baptism of the Holy Spirit

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we're speaking in tongues is not for today.

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It passed away with the apostle.

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I'm sorry you got to me too late.

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I'm there.

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I got it. I know how it works.

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I know what it's all about.

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God doesn't speak to us.

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The Holy Spirit doesn't speak to us.

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God doesn't speak to people anymore.

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Again, I'm sorry.

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You got to me too late.

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It's like I think

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it was Jerry Savelle. He went into

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a bookstore to buy a Bible and he wanted

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a specific kind. There's different kinds

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of amplifiers and he was looking for a specific

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kind is what my memory says.

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And so there was a young man who was going through

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college

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and it was Christian college. I think he was going

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to be a minister. So he asked him where the

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Bibles were and so he took him over to the Bibles

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and he pulled the one out and he started

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reading Mark 16, the last

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verses of it. These signs

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will follow them that believe and started

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listing it off. And

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that wasn't the one he was looking for. Grabbed a different one.

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And the young guy was standing there

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watching them and watching what he was reading.

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And he told them

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you know that

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those scriptures you're looking at there

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weren't in the original. They were

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added later. And that is one

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of the theories that they were added later.

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So they're not even in the Word of God. They don't

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work.

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And his answer was marvelous.

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He looked at him and he said

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really

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did anybody tell God because

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they've been working for me all this time.

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So in other words someone should clue God

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in that these don't work anymore.

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You got to us

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too late. Well Mark 16

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they that believe will lay their hands on the sick.

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They'll recover the cast out demons. They'll speak with

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new tongues. Well none of that's for today.

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I'm sorry you got to me too late.

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I've seen it all happen.

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So it's

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the same way we look at that

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it's like

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well Christians can't have demons.

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Here is the problem.

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That's what I was taught

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all my life growing up. I was

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taught that in Bible college.

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And that was one of the reasons I had so much

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difficulty when I went into

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the ministry and got in that situation.

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Because I knew

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nothing

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about deliverance.

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Because my denomination

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never touched it.

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Because there was no reason to.

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Christians can't have

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demons.

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And if someone's got demons if you just get

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them saved all the demons have to leave. Because the Holy Spirit comes

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and when the Holy Spirit comes all

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demons have to leave.

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That was the teaching.

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Can't find it in Scripture.

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But that was the teaching.

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So I rested very

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confidently in the fact you get

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somebody saved. You never have to deal with deliverance.

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That's why we don't dwell on it. You don't

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learn anything about it.

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That's why that first

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person that I talked about the first

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night.

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That just blew me away.

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Blew the head pastor

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away. I was assistant pastor.

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I blew the head pastor away.

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Because we were of the same denomination

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when I was raised in.

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And here you've got a demon.

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Obviously a demon talking

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through a young lady who

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we know was born again.

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So

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we stopped the

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whole thing and got her saved

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all over again just in case she messed

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something up. Didn't do it

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right.

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And got her baptized in the Holy Spirit again

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and we had her speaking in tongues.

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Now she's clean.

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And here came that

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spirit.

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Just laughed at us

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like a bunch of idiots.

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Which totally

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messed up our theology. We're

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lost now. Because we're in

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uncharted water. Why?

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Because Christians can't have

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demons. Well

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what's this?

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It's a mess.

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And we got to deal with it.

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So I remember in fact I went back

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and looked at some of the notes

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after we couldn't get it out.

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And then we went into that three day prayer

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and fasting. During that period of time

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the head pastor called

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the district office

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and said here's our problem.

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Is there anybody

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in the district who can help us? Well

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we're in a denomination that doesn't believe

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Christians can have demons. So how many

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people you think there can help us?

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Zipple.

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Because they're in the same boat we are.

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Just get them saved. They'll be fine.

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We did that.

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Are you sure? Yes

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we did that.

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Well get them baptized in the Holy Spirit

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then. We did that.

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And this thing

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is just ripping us apart.

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We need help.

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And I looked up the

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notes. I had written some notes and I wanted to be sure.

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I looked up the notes and I remember

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that morning he came into my office

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looking kind of dumbfounded.

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And he said

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well I called the headquarters

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and looking for help

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and here was

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their answer.

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We don't know what you have going on

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but if this girl is saved

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she can't have a demon.

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That's not possible.

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So we recommend

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you get her to such XYZ

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psychiatric hospital.

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She has

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mental problems.

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Well that's why we didn't

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have any clue what we were doing

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because

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the denomination never taught

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us what to do.

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So

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well Christians can't have demons.

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I'm sorry you got to me too late.

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I've cast out hundreds of them

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out of Christians.

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We've had some in the last few weeks.

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Since the beginning of the year.

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Well it can't be.

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Well I'm sorry you got to me too late.

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It is.

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So let's quit arguing whether it can be

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or can't be and let's find out

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what the truth is here.

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And I could give you some other reasons

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but

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let me hit

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one more argument.

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The stuff that Jesus taught on

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applied to the Old Testament

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once he rose from the dead and we got

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the baptism of the Holy Spirit

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a lot of what Jesus taught

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on no longer applies to us.

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That's one of the arguments.

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I don't buy that for a single second.

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Because

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much of what Jesus taught

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on was different than what

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they thought it meant in the Old Covenant

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the Old Testament

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law and he was preparing

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us for where it was going.

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If all he was

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doing was talking

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his time backward

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he was doing the disciples

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a huge injustice because he wasn't

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getting them ready for forward.

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Stop and think about that.

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He was getting them ready

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to start the church.

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The whole future of Christianity

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hung on 12 men.

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If all he

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was doing was looking now

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and past.

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Not getting them ready for the future.

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He wasn't saying anything to get them ready for the future.

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This whole thing of

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when the Spirit leaves it goes looking and then it comes back.

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That's all past. That's nothing for the future.

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If all Jesus did

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was deal with present and past

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he was really

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misleading those 12 guys.

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But when you read their writings

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all they have to say is

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this is what Jesus did. This is what Jesus said.

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This is how it worked for Jesus. It's got to work that way for us.

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This is the way it works for us.

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Because Jesus, because Jesus.

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So I totally

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disagree with that theology too of

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well Jesus didn't get them ready for the future.

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No, he did.

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And this is one of the things he got them ready for.

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You're going to have people

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you get set free and they're going to get

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re-inhabited and he explained to them

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why and what was going on.

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So I wanted to put that

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out there because I know

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that there's famous people

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well-known people who say

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Christians can't have demons. I was raising

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an entire denomination. Who taught that?

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And they might still believe that. I haven't checked.

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But they might still believe that.

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The problem is

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it kind of goes

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like where the faith movement hit the ditch.

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You have to acknowledge

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what's real and then

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apply faith to it.

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This thing of

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Are you sick?

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Oh no. I'm not sick.

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No.

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Calling it by faith.

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Not sick.

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How dumb does that look?

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Of course you're sick.

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You can own the fact

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you're sick.

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And by faith

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claim the truth

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by his stripes you're healed

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and this thing will leave

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my body.

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Is your back hurt?

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No. No.

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I ain't going to confess anything negative.

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You don't have to.

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It hurts.

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And see that whole thing

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of the faith movement made us look like idiots.

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Receive your healing.

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Call your healing.

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But if your eyes bulged out

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and hanging on your cheek you might want to say

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I'm believing for healing

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on that but I do have a problem.

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Just stop and think about it.

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How can you believe for healing if you don't have a problem?

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So.

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Now you got my point, hopefully.

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I believe

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this scripture is as true today

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as it was in Jesus' time

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as as true as it was in the Old Testament.

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The only thing there is they couldn't get him out very well.

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That was the problem.

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So let's go back into this.

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I've made him a point there I think.

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I will return to the house

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finding an empty swept and garnished house.

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Now this is interesting.

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He's calling the man

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a house.

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It expands

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the definition of it.

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A house is a dwelling

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by implication

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a family

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a home, a house, a temple.

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Of course our body is a temple.

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That's strong.

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Go to the fairs on the bottom of page 40.

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It can mean a house

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physical house

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an inhabited house

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or a home

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any building

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whatsoever.

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Can buildings be haunted?

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Absolutely.

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Absolutely.

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If they can't find

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access to a human being

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somehow a building

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gives them some rest.

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I don't know how

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or why I don't know.

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But right there in the definition

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we see it.

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A house, the house of God

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the tabernacle.

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Oh my goodness.

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You mean churches can have demons?

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Remember that?

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I shared the story of the first church I was in

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and had a demon right up above the pulpit

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it was like a high ceiling 15, 18 feet

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perched right up at the top

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right above the pulpit there was a demon.

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And that was his place

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and he wasn't going to leave.

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You say that's not scriptural.

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Oh look, it is.

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Demons can actually inhabit

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churches

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physical

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buildings.

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They prefer people.

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But right there in the definition.

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Flip over to page 41.

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A human body

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as the abode that demons possess

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it

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tents, hunt, a huts

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nests, stalls

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lairs of animals.

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Isn't that interesting?

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A place where one has fixed

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his residence

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inmates of a house

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all the persons forming

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one family

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or a household. Now remember

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house can mean

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a man

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the family of a man

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a physical building

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including a church

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a human body

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top page 41

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tents, huts

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nests, stalls, lairs

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of animals.

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Now that's interesting.

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You say well that can't be scriptural.

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Well, I think it is because when Jesus cast out the legion

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he threw them into pigs

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animals.

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So demons are

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interested in animal

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bodies also.

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The place where one has fixed

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his residence, his settled abode

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to be

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the...

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Skip the word. I'm not doing well with those tonight.

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Number two, the inmates of a house

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all the persons forming

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one family or a household.

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Okay, so now according to

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Ther's definition

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there is a generational

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sins of the fathers

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familiar spirit being described.

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It

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not only it cannot be

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in a human being or one man

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it can be in the family.

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Read it again.

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Inmates of a house

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all or in other words

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all the persons forming

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one family

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or a household.

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You can have

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family demons

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or demons that run in the generations

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of a family.

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And here again, he says it again

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the family of God

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the Christian church, the church of the

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old and new testaments can have

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demons.

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Probably the most

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prevalent demon in a church

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is the spirits of religion.

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They just

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you know I have to laugh a little bit

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I told Mary so I'm going to

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point

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something out that happened.

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Oh, I don't remember

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service back. I don't think it was one

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of these nights. I think it was a service.

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Whatever.

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Traditions of men

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get in

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and they get in when we're not even

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expecting it. And when these traditions

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are considered

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once they're made

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holy

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so to speak

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now you have a religious

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approach

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and since it's not God

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a demonic spirit will just suck to that

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and they

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will help empower

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that religious approach.

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And it happens here. It tries

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to happen in every church. So I'm

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going to have a little bit of fun now.

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The other night I prayed

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and I wasn't done

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talking yet. See now

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typically when I pray

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we're done.

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This time I

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prayed before I was done

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and as soon as I was done praying some people

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got up and put their coats on. They were ready to leave.

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You know what that is? It's religion.

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It's tradition.

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It's how we do it here.

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Well, so I'm thinking

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I need to start doing it differently just

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to break that whole thing up or it's going to become

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a tradition

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and now we're

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now we're headed down the wrong road

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and it's not

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anybody's fault. It's just

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it's the way we normally do it.

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Well, here is where the problem comes in.

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If the way we normally do it starts

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being looked at as holy

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for instance

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the way we dress when we go

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to church.

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There are certain ways to dress and there are

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certain ways not to dress.

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If the congregation

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actually starts

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looking at

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a certain type of attire

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is holy and the

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other is unholy

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what do you have?

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You got religion.

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A spirit will grab that

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because it's not God.

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The only thing I can find is scriptures

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we're supposed to dress modestly.

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So

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and that can be open

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to interpretation according to the culture

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but there are certain ways

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that people probably

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shouldn't dress when they come to church.

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However

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God has more grace than we do.

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But there is a goal

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I mean put enough clothes on

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so we don't see everything.

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I would consider that

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a good thing to do.

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I think it's scriptural.

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Do you have to wear a dress?

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Do you have to wear a nice pantsuit?

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Do you have to wear a suit and tie?

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Do you have to wear

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dress pants and a dress shirt?

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See a lot of these things

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the culture now has

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shifted some but when I started

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in the ministry I wore suits

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all the time.

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Because that's what was

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expected and if I didn't

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wear one I heard about it.

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You know what that is?

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That's religion.

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But they called it, you know, well you're not wearing

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a suit. Disrespect.

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Respect is of the heart.

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It's not what we

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hang on the outside.

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It's of the heart. We got to go

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back to the heart again.

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So in

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reality in my early years

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of ministry I was functioning

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in a spirit of

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religion.

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I was raised in it.

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I don't remember ever seeing

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my dad go to church on Sunday

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or maybe on a Wednesday night

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he did. But a Sunday or a

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special meeting or we had revival meetings

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or anything like that he always

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wore a suit.

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Always. The preacher

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always wore a suit.

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I went into the ministry in that

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denomination. We always

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wore a suit to a service.

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And when the day came

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I'll never forget it.

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It was a Sunday night

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early years in Colorado

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Sunday night the Lord said

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I'm telling you to wear a t-shirt

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and jeans tonight.

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And I'm going I can't do that.

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T-shirt and jeans.

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Yep, just a plain old white

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t-shirt and jeans.

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You wouldn't believe

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how hard it was for me

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to do that.

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I did it.

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And I thought

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they're going to throw me out.

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That was my beginning

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of going oh

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so I'm caught

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in religion too.

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You know we all think we're

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so free.

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So here you've got

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there can be

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all kinds of spirits.

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There's some churches that

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just plain have a spirit of adultery in them.

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And there's

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too many couples in the church who get caught

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in it.

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It's a problem.

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This church don't have it so you don't have to

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look around at each other and see if there's one here. There's none here.

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But I've been

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in them. And

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literally you walk into the place, you sit down

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the praise team starts singing

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and you start noticing

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the opposite sex

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who isn't your wife or

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the opposite sex notices other men.

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It's just like it just starts happening.

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It's like, what in

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the world is that?

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And then

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I watched a couple of times

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where

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I knew they weren't married.

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They're kind of smirking

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at each other, winking at each other.

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And I'm going, something's wrong here.

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This ain't right.

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Something's wrong.

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Any kind of

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spirit. Now typically it's a religious spirit.

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But any kind of spirit

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can inhabit a church.

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Old or New Testament

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is the definition.

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The family of God.

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And then number three there on

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page 41, your stock.

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That's another way of saying your family

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or the descendants of a person.

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So there again, he's referring

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to generational spirits.

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So notice the definitions

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of the word house. It can mean a person.

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A person's home. Haunted houses.

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Personal demon problems, things like that.

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A person's family.

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A person's descendants. It can be

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a corporate setting.

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It can be a building

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beyond the person's home.

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It can be referring to the family of God.

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It can be referring to a church.

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So when

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the spirit in this

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case left

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it left a man-faced

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person, Jesus said. It left

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a human body. It went roaming.

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And then Jesus gave us a whole bunch

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of insight by choosing the word he

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chose for house.

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He said, however, when they go back

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which means

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that whole broad thing

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that they could look for to get back in

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they could have left.

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Can you cast the spirit out of a house?

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Yes, you can.

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But it's going to try to come back

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and the ones who own it are going to decide

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whether it gets in or not.

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Are certain houses haunted?

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Absolutely.

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Can you get them out?

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Absolutely.

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Do they need to be guarded

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once the spirit's out?

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Absolutely because it's going to try to loop back

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and try to figure it out.

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The scripture doesn't say this.

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This is just by personal

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experience.

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Anywhere from two to four weeks

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it's going to come back around.

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Some are quicker. Some are like even

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seven to ten days.

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Most of the time it's like 14 days,

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28 days.

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They're going to come back around

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and try to get back in.

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That's not scripture.

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That's just personal experience.

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So it says, verse

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page 41.

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They will come

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speaking of. They're absolutely moving.

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Page 42.

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The spirit will literally show up

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to look inside the person.

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They've been out wandering. They come back.

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They're looking to see what's going on.

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It's empty swept. It's garnished.

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The word empty

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means to take a holiday or be at

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leisure

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to be vacant.

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Now take that picture, that word picture

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and plug it into the picture we've been seeing

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in the Old Testament of the land

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of Israel. The promised land.

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And how that they

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needed to go in and not only

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take the land, but then

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inhabit. Fill the land.

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Don't leave it empty.

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That picture

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applies to us in that empty

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means, okay, you had

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spirits cast out. This is

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not the time to go

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on a spiritual vacation.

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That's right.

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To take a spiritual

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holiday. That's been so hard.

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I mean, this thing, it's been

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tormenting me and I feel so free now.

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I'm just going to relax and enjoy

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this and do nothing. Do not do that.

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It's looking for

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you to do that. Because you are

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not spiritually

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remember in the Old Testament, they kick enemies out

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and then they had to fill that land. The same

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is true here.

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You kick something out. You have

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to spiritually expand and

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fill your territory.

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Whatever they were in,

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let's say there, just as an example,

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let's say they were a spirit of lying.

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You're going to have to

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fill that whole realm

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of the temptation to lie, the habit

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to lie,

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lying,

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you're going to have to fill that realm

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with what? Truth.

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If you leave it alone,

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well, I had a bad spirit of lying.

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And

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what are you doing about it?

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Are you making yourself

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live in truth?

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Are you filling yourself with

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the word of truth?

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Are you letting the Holy Spirit

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who's called the spirit of truth

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come in and inhabit and fill

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that?

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If you don't make a special emphasis

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on truth,

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if you had a problem with the spirit of lying,

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a special emphasis on truth,

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you're going to leave

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that area empty. Well, I'm just going to try not

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to lie as much. I just feel so free.

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It's so freeing

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just this. It's going to be so good.

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I'll just try not to lie. No, no, no.

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You have to fill that area

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and you fill it with the opposite

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of whatever the spirit was.

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If the spirit

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was a spirit of

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religion, tradition,

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you're going to have to fill it

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with the opposite.

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Say, how would you do that?

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Whatever you were holding

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as a tradition, you got to knock it off

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and do something different. The Holy Spirit will lead you.

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You might have to wear a different kind

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of clothes at church.

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You might have to change your

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hairdo.

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You know certain denominations have certain

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hairdos. Have you ever noticed that?

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I think

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it's funny.

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Mary and I had a game

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in Colorado.

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We try to guess what church they went

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to by how they dressed in the hairdos.

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And

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sometimes we

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kick up a conversation. It like Sunday

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night after service, we go to McDonald's,

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get the kids something to eat this, that, and the other.

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And other people were coming out of churches, so they'd sit there.

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So sometimes

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we kick up a conversation with them.

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Hey, you're all dressed up.

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We just came from church. You guys come from church too.

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Oh, yeah, we do. What church you come from?

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We were

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seeing who was right.

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Maybe it wasn't the purest motives.

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But I said, they're Baptist.

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She said, oh no, they're not Baptist.

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They're such and such. Well, it's fine

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out.

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So we had this ongoing game going

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on. But it's

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funny. They

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will dress a certain way. They will walk

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a certain way.

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They will handle themselves

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a certain way.

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You say, well, if you get set free of that,

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what do you do? You got to knock

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that off. Whatever

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those things are.

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For instance,

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some denominations, churches,

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women can't wear pants at all. They got to

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wear long dresses.

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Well, if you get delivered from

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a spirit of religion,

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you're going to have to do something

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about that. Because if you keep up the same

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old habit pattern,

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your house is going to be empty.

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You didn't fill that with

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truth, with the opposite,

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the freedom.

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I'm not saying go out and buy

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miniskirts and start flaunting. I'm not saying

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that. But you're going to have to break

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out of the tradition somehow

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because the tradition

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which became holy

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when I was growing up,

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women couldn't cut their hair.

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When my mother

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cut her hair the first time, my

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grandfather, her father

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thought she might have been going to

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hell.

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Because 1 Corinthians 11 and the tradition

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they had, and so forth in the Jewish

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culture.

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See, once

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something like that

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that tradition becomes

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holy, now it's religion.

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And

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since it's false, a spirit

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will grab that and try

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to keep you in bondage to it.

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If

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you get set free from a spirit of religion

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you're going to have to break

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your religion mindset and

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fill your land

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with freedom.

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Does that make any sense? Did I explain

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that good enough so you get that?

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Whatever it is.

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It's empty.

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Therese lexicon calls empty

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cease from labor, free

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from labor, leisure

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to have leisure for a

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thing or give oneself a

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thing has to do with leisure.

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It all goes back to taking

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a spiritual holiday.

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Page 43, how does

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that apply to a Christian? When a demon

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was driven out, a huge spiritual work was

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accomplished and new territory in the person

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and their temple and their land

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opened up.

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This person is taking a spiritual break from

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any work they could be doing on

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themselves.

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They are taking it easy.

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They are taking the posture

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of spiritual leisure.

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They're not growing.

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They're not doing any spiritual

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work of any kind.

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In other words, they're not working.

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In other words, they're not working on much

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of anything to mature, grow and develop

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their spiritual life in their

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newfound freedom. They're just kind of

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sitting back lazy complacent or

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still just submitting. They could be just submitting

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to the religion or whatever it is.

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They're on a spiritual holiday

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vacation. You can't do that.

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If you get a spirit cast

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out, it was holding you

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bondage in some area. You have

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to change that area.

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You can't leave it the same.

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If you leave it the same, you're

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inviting them back in. It's like putting the welcome

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that up.

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Because they come back and it's

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not inhabited. It's empty. This person's on spiritual

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vacation. They haven't changed in anything.

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Number two, swept.

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To brush off meaning

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to broom, to sweep.

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Bottom of the page

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swept. What does it mean? They've cleaned

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some things up.

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Maybe they've gotten some things out

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of their life that helped cause the

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problem in the first place. They've cleaned

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some things up.

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But did they fill it

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with something else?

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Or is it still empty?

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It's empty, but cleaned

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up. See now, if that doesn't describe

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religion.

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Outside

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their whitewashed sepulchres, inside

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their stinking of dead men's

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bones.

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See, we're cleaned up.

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We present well.

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In fact, look at the next one. It goes

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along with that thought. To put

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in proper order, that is to decorate,

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to adorn, to garnish.

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There's lexicon there. It says to put

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an order, to arrange, to make ready,

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to prepare, to ornament,

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to adore. Metaphorically

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to embellish with honor, gain

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honor. How do you...

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Let's go to a church setting.

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Or let's go to relatives

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who are safe setting, who've been

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wanting you to get saved for years.

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And finally now you've gotten

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saved.

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How

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can you gain

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honor from them?

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Decorate yourself

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to be like

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them.

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This is in the physical,

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in the mental, in how

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we live.

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If they come

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you know,

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they say, hey, you're saved now, come

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to church with us. Okay, go and church

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with you. So you're watching them.

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And they come to church holding their

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Bible like this.

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And you look around and all the

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guys coming in hold their Bible like that.

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We'll decorate.

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And you start holding

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your Bible like that.

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And you will do exactly

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what it says there. You'll gain

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honor, you'll be embellished

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with honor. They're going to look at you and say,

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see, look at how fast they're

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changing.

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Isn't that awesome?

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Do you know one of the reasons

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when I

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came out of Bible college I

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refused to hold my Bible like

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this. I always carried it like this.

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That was the reason.

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I had recognized

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a spirit of religion

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and anybody

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with any

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how would you say, spiritual clout

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any pastor

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or

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official or whatever

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when they showed up

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carried the Bible

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like this.

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And something

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inside of me said something's wrong with that.

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Why are we copying

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each other?

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So I carried it like this.

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And I had people

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pointed out.

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That's an odd way to carry

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your Bible. See, now that's

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when you know you're really caught in religion.

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It

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actually makes a difference

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how I carry my Bible.

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This is more holy

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than this.

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Really?

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But see if

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we will conform

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and get our hair cut the right way

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where the right dress is

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where the right dress suits

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start

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doing what everybody's doing.

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Garnish.

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Ornament up a little bit.

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Put things in proper order

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decorate yourself a little bit.

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It will bring you honor

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and acceptance.

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That's what the demons

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are looking for.

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They want it empty.

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You're on a spiritual holiday.

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It's clean.

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Some things have changed in your life.

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But you haven't filled

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that area with the spirit of God

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or the opposite necessarily.

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But

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you're picking up

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ways to get

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at a boys.

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That's what they're looking for.

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Your prime candidate, they're going right

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back in.

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That's why I am and just

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it's just a small thing, but that's why I'm encouraged

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that we have people that wear

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all kinds of things to this church.

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We have some ladies

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who sit in church with stocking caps on.

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I think it's

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awesome, Molly.

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I think it's awesome.

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Sometimes during hunting season

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it hasn't happened in this building, but in the other one

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we had guys come in

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full orange.

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They were out hunting and they came in

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full orange and I pointed it out

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and I said, that's awesome.

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That's awesome.

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We're not

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so

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tied to a certain

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way we have to be

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to be accepted.

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That's one of the things demons

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look for.

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Because it falls into

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tradition and Jesus said, by your traditions

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you make the word of God

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of no value.

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We should be as different

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from each other as day as night.

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Why?

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Because that's how God created us.

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There's no two people

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the same. Do you ever look at anybody

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and see yourself in their face?

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Sometimes there's some resemblance, but nobody

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has your face.

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Nobody has your fingerprint.

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Nobody has your eye scan.

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We're all custom built.

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So why

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does the church think we all have to conform

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down and be a certain way?

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Because they got a spirit of religion.

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That's what it is.

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Garnish.

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This is referring to have prepared or made their house

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ready by decorating.

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It's like decorating for a guest

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or a party.

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Main problem, letter G

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at the bottom with this person after receiving

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deliverance. The main issue is they're not

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engaged spiritually. They're on vacation taking

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a spiritual holiday. They're not

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giving themselves to any form or

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effort to fill the spiritual emptiness that

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was left by the

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human leaving.

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They're not growing. They're not changing

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to become what God wants them to be.

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There's not

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spiritual movement.

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It's this attitude, page

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45, number one that causes the problems.

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And then it lists some things

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that they should be doing.

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The scary part is verse

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45, then go with

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he and take it with himself.

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Seven other spirits, more wicked, they enter

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and dwell there. And the last state is

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worse than the first.

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So shall it be unto this wicked generation.

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And it just takes

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those words apart in page 45

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and 46.

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Dwell on page 47

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means to house permanently or to reside.

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When they go back

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in and take up dwelling, the second time around

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was seven spirits worse.

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And now you got eight of them.

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If you had one, now you got eight.

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If you had ten, now you got

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80.

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If you had

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100, now you got 800.

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Because each one

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is going to try to do that.

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And their

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mindset

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is this time it's permanent.

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Remember I said last week,

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why would they go get seven

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more wicked than themself?

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Because they're trying to set it up.

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They never get cast out again.

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They have ownership.

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Their mindset is to dwell.

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Which the word Jesus

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used there means to house

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permanently.

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And the end result for that person

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is more evil or aggravated. It's worse

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than it was before.

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So while we're going through that

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I'm still looking for why the anointing

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was so strong to begin with.

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While we're going through that

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something stood out to me.

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Our

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feeling

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the need

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to conform

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not to God

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but to human standards

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to human traditions.

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The first Sunday

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I showed up

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for a we called it Easter service

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at that point. Resurrection Sunday.

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What's the tradition?

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Women get new dresses

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women get all dressed up

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guys get all spiffed up

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they wear their suits this that and the other.

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The first

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Sunday I told Mary said we're not doing it.

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This is wrong.

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And I don't I didn't wear a suit

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I don't remember what I wore but I didn't wear a

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I didn't wear a t-shirt but

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I didn't I wasn't that brave yet.

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But I didn't wear a suit

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I dressed down.

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It was

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it almost through the service

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in a ditch.

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Because people were

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so used to

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the tradition.

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It's wrong pastor

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do we need to give you a raise you don't have

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enough money to buy your wife a new dress.

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What's wrong

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pastor your children

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your daughters not wearing a new dress

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your sons are not in suits

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you know little guys

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when we conform

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when we conform

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to a human standard

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it's one of the three things

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it fits kind of two of them but the

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it's one of the three things that opens

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us up to demonic stuff

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now here

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is what was going through me

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and I'm sure we've all made that

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mistake and I'm sure we could all

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ask forgiveness and repent for it

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and say yeah

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Yeah, we might be living right now, certain ways, not because God's asked us to, but because

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of people around us, because of the church we go to, but whatever. We need to stop that.

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That's not God. But here's what was going through me. Not that. As much as, and I've

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said it two, three times, the rejection that happens when you don't measure up to the expected

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tradition or standard, it could be going to your in-laws for Thanksgiving. There's all

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kinds of traditions around the holidays. What if you don't conform? What happens? Some families

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may be nothing. Most families, especially if it's strong patriarchal or matriarchal, more

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matriarchal. In other words, it's strong mother or grandmother dominated. You show up breaking

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the traditions. They're going to let you know it. Right? Patriarchal does it sometimes,

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but mostly it's the old grandmas who've done it this way for 50, 60, 70 years and hell will

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freeze over if we're changing it now. Everybody has always brought a dish to add to the

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meal. You went to Walmart and just bought something? You didn't make it yourself? What kind of

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gatherings do you think this is? Is that all we mean to you? And you've heard some of

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this stuff. You came without a certain kind of gift. You came without being dressed

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a certain way. And here is what happens. We get our feelings hurt. Sometimes we nurse

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that wound. And we hang on to it. And then times we will start skipping certain events,

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whether it be church or family or whatever. Because somebody said something, somebody

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did something, we didn't measure up somehow. You know what is starting to take place? Unforgiveness

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is starting to build. Bitterness is starting to build. Could even be a smack of rebellion.

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I'll show you. I ain't doing it. I ain't doing it that way anymore. You go ahead

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and blow your little hissy. It's fine with me. I just won't show up. And then we'll lie.

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Are you coming? Oh no, I got my, my, my, my. Truth is, your feelings are hurt. You're

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angry. The last time you showed up, not conforming to everything, you heard about

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it. And you made up your mind, but you'll never tell them that. You'll lie to them. Well,

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you know, we, we thought we're going to go out of town this time. We got some friends

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who invited us and blah, blah, blah. Is that the real reason? No. You might be

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doing that, but it, you know, the Lord pointed something out to me a few years back that

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is, it's this right here. He asked me this question. Can you say something that's true

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without saying the truth? That was the question he asked me. I really had to

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ponder that because like, is this a trick question? What, what is this? I really had

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to ponder that. And I started running scenarios and then he started pointing it

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out to me. It's when we will say something that might be true, but it's not the real

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reason we're making the decision the way we're making it. The real reason might

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cause an explosion, might cause us to have to, let me give you an example. I say

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something that'll offend somebody in the church. Okay? They're going to leave the

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church over that rather than dealing with it and communicating about it and

01:05:28.760 --> 01:05:32.880
fixing this. No, they're just going to leave the church. So I ask them, are we

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okay? Is everything okay? Why are you leaving the church? Well, so-and-so goes

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there and they're part of the family. And you know, we've thought for a long

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time it might be, and that could all be true. It might be nice to be closer to

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family when we go to church and this, that and the other. So we decided to just

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do that and, you know, hope you're good with that. You know, it's more of a

01:06:00.240 --> 01:06:07.020
personal decision as why. That might be true and they might have been

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thinking about that for years. But the truth is, they're offended with me. And

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they're not going to say it. So now the big question is that I'm not going to

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answer is this. Does that, does God consider what they said a lie even

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though it's true? Does he consider that a lie or not? Because folks, we do it

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all the time. Rather than cause a bigger problem, rather than cause more

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waves, we will say something that's true. But we won't say the truth. Hey, you

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coming over to the house this afternoon, we're in and done a Super Bowl.

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Super Bowl's coming and we're going to have people over. Why don't you come

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on? Well, then the day comes. They didn't want to come. There could be

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any reason they didn't want to come. Well, I don't think we're going to be able to

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make it. You know, the kids didn't sleep well last night. Could be true. And I

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don't know. We don't want to put them through that. So we're just going to

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stay home. Could all be true. The kids didn't sleep well last night. But

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the truth is what? What is the real reason? Hey, maybe didn't want to go.

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Could be anything. But we will give something that's palatable. Now, we

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did that because we've already been hurt. And we don't want to get hurt

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more or again. And we know good and well. If we tell grandma, what you said to

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me last Thanksgiving, hurt my feelings, embarrassed me, made me feel like a

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fool in front of the whole family. I am not interested in your

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Thanksgiving. Grandma's going to tell the whole family. And now the whole

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family is going to be all over us for how wrong we are. We don't want to go

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through it. So we'll make up something or plan something. That's true. But

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it's not the truth. It's not the real reason. So at the base of that is a

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wound, is hurt. At the base of that is fear. You're absolutely right. At the

01:09:05.670 --> 01:09:08.290
base of that is fear. Because we're afraid it's going to happen again or

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something worse is going to happen if we actually say the truth. At the base

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of that could be from God's perspective, even though what we're saying is

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true could be lying. He could consider that a lie. Because the real reason

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you're not going to Thanksgiving is not because your friends across town

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invited you. Even though they did invite you and you might even be going

01:09:31.430 --> 01:09:35.090
to their house for Thanksgiving. The real reason you took them up on

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that is not because they invited you. It's because of what happened. You're

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in the middle of this. We have a person who's hurt, who could be

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unforgiving, could be getting better. Unforgiveness could be growing,

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could be lying. And then we wonder why we're not living in freedom. And

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we've all experienced that. We've all experienced that. One way or

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another, I could give you all kinds of examples from my personal life. All

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experienced it. Rather than filling that part of us with truth, with

01:10:45.940 --> 01:10:57.320
transparency, we dress it up. We garnish it. We're trying to make

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ourselves palatable to the person, to the church, to the in-laws, to

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whatever, without really saying the truth. So we dress it up. We make

01:11:10.220 --> 01:11:15.120
it look good. Since we're harboring an offense, since we're harboring a

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wound, that part of us is not spiritually full of God. Can't be,

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because we're not living in truth. So I can't say what's true. It

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totally. There'd be a blow up in the church like you wouldn't believe, or in

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the family, or in the marriage. It's just better if she doesn't know. And

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what I told her was true. I did have to stop and fill gas, and I got

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talking to a guy at the gas station on the way home. That was true. But

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the other couple of things that took a little longer, she doesn't need to

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know that, because if I tell her that, this isn't going to go well. We've

01:12:07.880 --> 01:12:10.960
all been on the receiving end of that, and we've all been on the giving end

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of that. And that sets us up for spiritual trouble. And I think

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that's what God wanted pointed out. So we can pray about it and deal

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with it. Right now. For those of you online, right now. Confess your sins,

01:12:44.000 --> 01:12:50.720
confess your faults, so you may be healed. And we don't have to remember

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at all. But we can confess it and say, Holy Spirit, show me whatever I

01:12:57.060 --> 01:13:03.460
need to deal with, at least from here forward. If there are some heavy

01:13:03.460 --> 01:13:10.860
wounds from things past, then we need to get healing. And God will heal us.

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He's not going to beat us over the head and say, Well, you did it wrong. So now

01:13:14.820 --> 01:13:19.340
you can suffer. No, he'll heal us. And he'll fix that. He'll bind up that

01:13:19.340 --> 01:13:24.660
broken heart or that wound. And he'll fix it so we can go on doing it

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the right way. So if this identifies, there's always some kind of action

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that's good. Even for those of you who are online. There's some kind of

01:13:38.720 --> 01:13:42.100
action that's good. I'm going to ask the people here who identify with

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this to stand. And we're going to pray together. You can do the same

01:13:46.080 --> 01:14:03.020
thing. Get off the couch, stand up. We're going to pray together. We're

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going to ask God to forgive us for anything we did wrong in that whole

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scenario. We're going to forgive whoever the other people are, whether it's a

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church we've been at, whether it's other Christians, whether it's a family

01:14:21.440 --> 01:14:24.560
situation, whatever it is, we're going to forgive them. In other words, we're

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going to turn them over to God. He's going to deal with it. It's not

01:14:27.560 --> 01:14:31.840
letting them off the hook. It's getting it off of us. We're not

01:14:31.840 --> 01:14:35.400
wanting to punish them anymore. We're not wanting them to get

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theirs. We're setting them free. It's between them and God. And

01:14:39.840 --> 01:14:42.480
whatever God decides with them is good with us. We're going to

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forgive them. We're going to send it away. So, we're going to

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ask forgiveness. We're going to give forgiveness. And then

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we're going to ask the Lord to help us be more aware of

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this in the future. Okay? So, repeat after me. Dear

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Jesus, I love you. I love you and I want to obey you. You are

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truth. Your holy spirit is the spirit of truth. And I want to

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conform to truth tonight. I ask forgiveness for the times I

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was not truthful with how I felt or how I perceived

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something that happened to me or that I was a part of. I ask

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you to forgive me for giving false reasons for what was

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going on inside of me. And I forgive them for what was

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said and what was done. I turn that over to you, Lord. However,

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you want to handle that. That's up to you. I forgive them.

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And I'm asking that as I now submit myself to you,

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Father, to you, Jesus, to you, Holy Spirit, and as I resist

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and want nothing of the kingdom of darkness active in me

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because of these things that have happened

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and what I've done. I command any demonic thing that has

01:16:57.530 --> 01:17:12.390
access to me in any way. Leave me now. And Holy Spirit,

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you're the teacher, the counselor now. Fill this realm of my life

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with truth, with wisdom, and insight to know how to be honest,

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to be truthful, without attacking someone else,

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just expressing my perspective, but saying what the real truth is.

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Cleanse me. Change the way I think. Change my habit patterns.

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I am determined to be more like you and to change in this area.

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In Jesus' name, amen. You can be seated. Just wait a minute or two.

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That was really big. If you could feel that in the spirit, that was really big. So just wait a bit.