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But we are in the middle of a big shift, and we want to get on the same page so that this

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thing happens the best it can.

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So go to page two with me.

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There's a few things I'm going to bounce through here this morning and just kind of lay some

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principles out.

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And then there's a specific thing I'm supposed to deal with at the end.

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So we have to understand the basics of vision, or the principles of it, to be able

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to hang the rest of the information on.

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So that will start laying some of those principles this morning.

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And since you can read, I'm not going to read this whole book to you.

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You go ahead and do that at home.

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I'm going to try to pick pieces here and there, but we'll read a few things from the beginning.

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Right at the top.

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The ultimate purpose for this book is to take a more focused look at the vision of

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Word of Life.

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The goal is to expand our understanding of Word of Life's vision.

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The better we can understand it, the more easily we can engage with it.

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The people being engaged with the vision is paramount to this church's success.

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It's always about the body being involved.

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Next paragraph, Word of Life's vision, this book is the second of two books, so it explains

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what I just explained.

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Go down to the fourth paragraph.

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In a concise definition, vision means to see.

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The vision or visions for our lives in this church become the most effective and powerful

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when a person sees what God is trying to reveal to them.

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That's the whole book in a nutshell right there.

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That's what vision means.

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For you to see what God has you here for and how to accomplish it.

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Proverbs 29, where there is no vision, no redemptive revelation of God is how the amplified

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says that.

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The people perish.

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Different versions say different things.

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For a person to get saved or get redeemed, that one refers to the redemptive revelation,

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vision.

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You see the need to get saved.

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For people to get saved, they have to receive some sight or some vision from God.

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They have to see, I need a savior.

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They get a vision right from the beginning, even though it's more of an understanding

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and a knowledge for most of us.

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We just know we can, you know, you can use the word, we can see, I need a savior.

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Different translations, and we'll get into that as time goes on.

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Where there is no vision, one of the translations says people throw off restraint.

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In other words, we'll just do whatever we want.

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We're not going to go with any kind of restraint because there's no vision of what we're supposed

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to be seeing or headed for.

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So once we see what we're supposed to run toward, then we discipline our life accordingly

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so we get there.

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Next paragraph in the middle, vision means to see.

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The Holy Spirit must give us redemptive revelation or revelation before we can even be saved.

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So what do you think the demonic realm is going to do?

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Next verse.

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The God of this age has blinded the mind of the unbelievers so they cannot see.

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See there it is.

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So they cannot see the light of the gospel of the glory of Christ, who's the image

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of God.

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And if they can't see it, they won't see their need for a God, and they won't

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get saved.

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See, so the whole thing of vision goes right from the beginning of us getting saved.

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Vision, or the overall thought of seeing, go to the bottom there.

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Vision sees the purpose and the sub-purposes of our life.

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And we'll touch those briefly this morning and more so not next Sunday

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because next Sunday Igor is with us.

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Igor and Tanya is back with us, so it'll be the following.

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But we'll get to them.

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The purpose and the sub-purpose, these are the what?

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So during the service, I'm keep asking, Lord, am I supposed to...

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I thought I heard you that I'm supposed to get into this.

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Am I supposed to get into this?

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Because the thing I'm looking at this morning is purpose.

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And it came up a couple of times in the band.

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It came up in prayer.

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Mary brought it up.

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That word, purpose.

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When Heidi was praying, what did she pray?

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The purpose.

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And I thought, yep, we're going to go there.

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The purpose is the what that we're supposed to be doing.

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Page 3.

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Vision also sees the process or the steps needed to do the what.

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That we're going to refer to as the how.

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Because we can say, well, I know what God wants me to do,

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but I don't know how to do it.

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Well, he'll help you see that too.

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The two have to work together.

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But you don't have to know how to do something

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if you haven't seen what you're supposed to be doing.

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The what has to come first.

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Now this is a big principle right there.

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God will show the end or the big picture to us.

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When he shows you the what, he will reach out.

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If this is where we are now,

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and way over in the other side of the platform

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is where he wants you to be

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when you're really fulfilling the reason you're on this earth.

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When he shows you the what, and it can be early in life,

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it can be shortly after you're saved,

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he will show the end to you.

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The reason for that is now you have a long-term focus,

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and it will keep you on track as long as you keep heading for that.

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That's why he shows you.

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This is what I'm supposed to be doing before I'm done.

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Now keep it in that context,

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because many times, all of us, we confuse that with now.

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Oh, the Lord showed me I'm supposed to be...

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So I'm believing it happens tomorrow.

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It won't happen tomorrow.

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And you'll get frustrated,

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and you'll do things trying to force it to happen

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that will be mistakes,

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because this is a walk through lifetime thing.

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Look at the Scripture there, Habakkuk 2, verse 3 specifically.

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For the vision is yet for an appointed time.

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He has a time designed for you to get here.

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It's not random.

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I'll give you an example of that in a bit.

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But at the end, it will speak.

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And it won't lie.

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Though it tarries.

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It's like, well, when has this ever...

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I've been going after what I feel God is supposed to have me doing

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for years, and it's just not happening.

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Though it tarries,

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wait for it, keep your focus.

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Because it will surely come.

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Now notice, there's one very important word here.

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You're going to say Scripture contradicts itself.

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He just said, though it tarries, wait for it.

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Because it surely will come.

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It will not tarry.

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The appointed time for it will not tarry.

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But from our perspective, it's like, oh my goodness,

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are we ever going to get there?

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And I'm going to use Moses as an example.

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Moses, the people who brought him into this world and so forth

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knew he was sent to deliver Israel.

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Moses knew that.

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Some place deep in his heart.

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Now Scripture doesn't give us this history,

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but secular history gives it.

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Moses was raised as an equal son with Pharaoh's son.

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So all the advantages of Egypt,

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which at that point in time were huge.

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Egypt was the prosperous land of the world.

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All those were available to him.

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So he had all the schooling.

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He had all the insight that they were allowed to have

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as they were growing up in the suns.

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He was groomed to be a leader in the nation.

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Now he wasn't the biological son,

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so his brother was going to be Pharaoh.

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But Moses was made the general of all the armies of Egypt.

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Now this is secular history.

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So he had huge, what you would say, clout in Egypt.

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Everybody knew Moses.

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And everybody knew the importance he carried.

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Moses knew he was supposed to deliver his people.

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At some point in the game,

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he found out the Israelites, the slaves,

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he was one of them.

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And at some point that revelation came to him,

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and when he was 40 years old,

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he was seeing that I need to deliver these people.

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And he tried to push it too quickly.

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And it got him into a whole pile of trouble.

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He ended up leaving the country

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because he had to abide by the laws like everything else.

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And he killed a man who did not deserve killing,

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which means he's going to have to either get imprisoned

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or killed himself.

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So he ended up fleeing the country.

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Well, you say, well, why would Moses get so...

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how would you say passionate

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that he'd actually kill a person?

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Because he was seeing where he was supposed to go.

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So then God had to retool him out of Egypt thinking.

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He shoved him in the wilderness for 40 years.

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And retooled him.

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So that when the time came,

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he wouldn't depend on his military training

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or the strength of the arm of flesh,

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but he would depend on God to get him out.

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So when you and I see something

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that God's asking us to do,

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calm down.

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There's going to be a process.

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And depending upon what he really showed you,

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this might be the culmination of your life,

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your life's work that he showed you

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to get you targeted so you're on the flow.

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It's the bottom of page three.

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These are the five things we're going to be covering in this book.

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God-given Purpose, Core Values, Vision,

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Assignments, and Mandates in Accomplishing the Vision.

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So jump with me to page four.

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We'll skip the top because it's...

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I'm just explaining some things there

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of why I wrote it the way I did.

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You can read that yourself.

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The God-given Purpose,

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this is what we're supposed to focus a bit on this morning.

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We have to...

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The first thing that vision must see is purpose.

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We must know our purpose,

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or you can use that word destiny,

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the reason for being on this earth.

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If we don't see why we're here,

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what we're supposed to accomplish,

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we'll never see where we're supposed to be going.

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What we're running toward or working toward.

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So the last line in that paragraph,

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what is our purpose?

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What is your purpose as an individual?

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What is our purpose as a church?

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First comes the revelation of what and then the how.

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The what is often seen more easily

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and completely than the how.

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It's going to be done.

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We can say, oh, this is what I'm supposed to do.

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But how do we get that to happen?

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I have no idea.

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And many times people will see the what

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right from the beginning.

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They'll see the entirety of it.

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But the how plays out

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in what we call the short and the intermediate term vision.

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And we'll talk about these as we go on.

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Every day, every month, every year,

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we feel like we're just trying to get there.

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But remember, a good man's steps are ordered by the Lord.

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We're actually, as we're seeking him,

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and okay, what do I do next?

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He's taking us there.

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I'll give you a living example of that.

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When we were in Colorado,

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okay, I'll jump around a little bit.

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When we were in Colorado,

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we were just trying to follow God

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and do on a daily, weekly, monthly basis

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what he wanted us to do.

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Well, he undoubtedly, without any question,

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led us into doing therapeutic foster care.

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You've heard us talk about that.

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And at one point, we had 12 children in our home

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and all teenagers, mostly girls.

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It was really exciting.

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And I can honestly say that was never my dream of ministry.

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And it felt like it went on a long time,

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but in essence, it only went on about 7 or 8 years

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of our life.

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And here we are.

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We're trying to go for what God wants done

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and we're doing what?

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But what we learned in that 7, 8 years

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prepared me some, prepared Mary much more than I

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because she's the one who's basically over it

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for mission 61.

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See, part of our vision has always been

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to help people who are struggling,

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getting out of addictive type of things

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or trying to get plugged back in life.

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They made a mistake and now they're caught in a bad spot

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and how do they get plugged back in life.

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And that's all been part of our vision.

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So let's go do it.

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And God's saying, you got no clue what you're doing.

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You're going to face things there

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that neither one of you have ever seen before.

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So while we're going from point A to point B,

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we're going to educate you.

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And you get to do foster care.

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That's not what I'm called to.

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From God's side it is.

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Because it's getting you ready for the purpose.

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Now here's what's interesting.

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And I don't know, I trust Calvin and Brian enough

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in their accuracy to...

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It's in the book.

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I trust them enough, it's in the book.

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And I don't know how this is going to look

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or how this is going to work out.

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But our focus has been ministry,

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basically church ministry, church-based kind of ministry.

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And he made the statement in one of his prophecies.

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He said that she's been designed to be put over an orphanage.

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So we've been trying to get to Africa to have an orphanage.

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And it just, you kick on the door and it just don't open.

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It just don't open.

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And it's been in her heart since she was a little girl

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which goes with purpose.

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I'll get there in a second.

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But it was put in her heart since she was a little girl

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to take care of orphans.

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So he made that prophecy.

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He said, I hear God telling me orphans, orphanage.

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This is going to be a huge part of the ministry.

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In fact, he said this will become the crown jewel

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of word of life in TBO.

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Orphans and orphanage.

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Well, how in the world are we going to get to Africa?

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And because that's where most orphanages are.

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Well, maybe it's a different part of the world.

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I don't know.

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And then one day just moving forward

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and she takes a step and she goes,

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who are the people that comprise the greatest bulk of Mission 61?

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Orphans.

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People without family, people without fathers,

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people without mothers,

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people who are struggling to stand up in society

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because they've been kicked down so hard over and over.

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So we don't have to go to Africa.

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This is the orphanage.

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So as you're going for the end,

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there's all kinds of maneuvering God does with you.

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You can't skip that to go there.

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Because if you skip that,

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you'll drop the ball when you get there

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because you're not ready for it.

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Just remember that.

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That's a huge point right there.

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We have to remember that.

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We have to know that.

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So here's another huge point.

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Go to page 5.

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Let her see.

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Vision will first of all help us see a need.

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Those needs that stand out to us

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are likely part of the purpose we're on the earth to fulfill.

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It's the what that we're supposed to address.

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The need.

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Moses saw the need of the children of Israel being set free.

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And he thought in his training and his genius he could do that.

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And he was taken the wrong approach, number one.

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And he was too early, number two.

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Now here's a huge principle with you going toward

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and this church going toward what God wants us to accomplish.

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The average person, and I think it's because we don't know this principle.

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We either get ahead of God, like Moses.

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Or we get frustrated because we're not getting there fast enough and we just quit.

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And then we get behind God.

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Okay, so now this is how God works.

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The children of Israel were brought out of Egypt.

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The scripture says,

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to the day that it was prophesied they'd come out.

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And the prophecy was 430 years earlier.

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So that one's kind of hard to arrange on your own.

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So 430 years earlier God said,

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well I see where my people are going and I'm going to deliver them and bring them out.

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And the scripture says, to the exact day that it was prophesied they came out.

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So how in the world does God work that?

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This is how he works that.

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God works on the basis, we're all here to fulfill a need.

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To be the answer to a need.

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That's why you're alive.

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You know, if sin hadn't entered the world we'd have different purposes.

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But sin came and this world needs us.

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People around us need us.

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God needed to get the children of Israel out.

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On that day.

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So about five days ahead he started scratching his head and going, how am I going to do that?

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No, God works with eternal purpose.

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He said, okay, if that's the day we got to bring them out.

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I'm going to design someone.

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Psalms 139.

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When you and I were in our mother's womb,

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God designed us for the reason we're here.

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He gave us the gifts we need.

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He gave us the personality traits we need.

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You know, the Lord just told me when I was studying it this week and some things, you know,

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the flesh and the demonic always are sitting there trying to talk to you.

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And they jumped up and they started telling me some things about my personality.

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And the thought starts going, well, yeah, why can't I be more like so-and-so?

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And the Holy Spirit stopped me right in the middle of it.

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And he said, be quiet in your thinking.

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I wasn't saying this out loud, I was thinking this.

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He said, be quiet.

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He said, the traits you have, I gave to you.

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That doesn't mean you can't file them and brush them up a bit, you know.

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No matter who we are.

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He said, but the traits you have, I gave to you

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because those are the traits that are needed to do what I've asked you to do.

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If you were like so-and-so, they couldn't do it.

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So when we were in our mother's womb, he was,

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if you read the Amplified or some different versions and study the original words,

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it's like he wove us together in a tapestry.

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And a tapestry, boy, how do you describe a tapestry?

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It's many, many different colors of like in, if you're a knitter,

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you bring many, many different colors and put the patterns together

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and it makes a tapestry.

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Some of you are wearing clothes that look like a tapestry.

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They're all different colors, all woven together and put together that way.

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That's how you and I are created. Why?

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Because there's a need out here someplace that God's making us to fulfill.

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That's our purpose. That's why we're here.

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In Moses' case, it was to get the children of Israel out of Egypt into the Promised Land.

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So God said, I am going to create one who's going to do that.

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Now he never creates just one. He doesn't put all his marbles in one basket.

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And that's just not good business. God doesn't do that.

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But let's just stick with Moses for the moment.

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I'm going to create one and he decided to go with this one, Moses.

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So he looked at his traits and his life

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and then God and his wisdom and ability for knowledge

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looked at the fact that, you know, sometimes I think the devil knows the Scripture better than us

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because he's had thousands of years to look at it and he's trying to see what's coming to.

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Well, he knew the prophecy that these people have to be delivered.

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And he knows how God works.

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God sees the need, backs up in time to the point, the running start he needs

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so that this person will be ready for that.

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Well, apparently the devil figured that one out.

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That's why the children were being killed.

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That was the demonic trying to head off the deliverance of Israel.

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That's why we had to put Moses in the basket

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and get rid of him, so to speak, so he wouldn't die.

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And he ended up, Pharaoh's daughter found him in the river, floating down the river

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and took him in and you know the story.

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So God sees all this and he sees there's going to be a tent made on Moses' life and everything else.

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So he backs up. How many years will it take with the traits I'm putting in this guy

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because he's living in a fallen world and he's going to have wonderful traits by me

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but he's going to do all kinds of stuff wrong until he figures it out.

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And he has obviously got to be a very strong leader

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because he's going to lead well over a million people.

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So he can't be a soft touch here.

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So we're going to make a really strong leading man

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and then he's going to have an attempt on his life

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and he's going to end up not actually living with Israelites.

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He's going to end up living with Egyptians in the world system

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which is going to really mess with his thinking

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because now he's going to be coming not from an angle of faith and believing in God.

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He's going to be coming from an angle of, I can do this.

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So he's going to mess things up.

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So then we're going to have to have some time to get that out of him.

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Reteach him.

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And since he is being made such a strong leader, it's going to take a while.

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We're going to have to beat on him for a while.

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But we need him by this season

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and it's got to be ready to go on this day.

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How long is it going to take?

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He backed up 80 years.

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He said, here's the guy I'm creating to do that.

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Here's his purpose.

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So we're going to stick him in the earth here

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and we're going to let it play out,

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but it's going to take me 80 years to get him ready.

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Moses was created to deliver the children of Israel.

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God sees the need and he backs up

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and creates the person to fulfill that need.

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That is true for every one of us.

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Paul says in Ephesians 1,

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you were chosen from the foundation

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or the recreation of the world.

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For what?

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To be saved.

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Well, yeah, that's part of it.

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He needs to get in your life if he's going to lead you

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and guide you and help you.

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But he didn't send us to this earth

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so that the ultimate end is we get saved.

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He sent you and I to this earth to do something.

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There's a need, there's a whole

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that you're perfectly designed to plug and fix.

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Which drives the devil nuts

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because he's trying to stop all these.

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From happening.

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And he's not God.

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You think, you know, Scripture says

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confusion doesn't come from God.

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Well, that's one confused puppy.

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Because he's trying to, he's chasing his tail

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trying to shut down what God's doing.

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And God says, well, you know,

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I needed someone there to do that.

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So let's back up and here's the amount of time we need

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and they'll be ready by then.

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That's how we have to view our life.

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Your purpose is to meet a need.

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It's why you're alive.

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Might be more than one need,

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but it's why you're alive.

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And as we go through life,

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we're getting closer and closer to that ultimate purpose.

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And for different people,

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it happens at different points in their life.

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For Joseph, it happened at age 30.

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For Moses, it happened at age 80.

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For Abraham, it happened at about 100.

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See, so it happens at different places,

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but God has that all figured out.

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Vision will help us to see the need we're created for

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and then as we start walking toward what we're supposed to do,

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we will see how we're supposed to meet that need.

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So now let's go to the main thing the Lord wanted to

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to have emphasized here this morning.

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Scriptures on purpose will take us there.

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So let me make the statement before we read some of these Scriptures.

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If we will find what we're here for and attach to it,

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all kinds of wonderful promises kick in to get us there

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and all kinds of hell breaks loose against us

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because it sees us going there.

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So we immediately are on the receiving end

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of all kinds of covenant promises

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because God says they see it.

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Now we're going there. We're going to make it happen.

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And the devil says, oh no, they see it.

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Put a target on their back.

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We got to take them down before they get there.

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So the two kingdoms kick into gear.

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If we are in God's purpose and stay walking,

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nothing will stop it. Nothing will stop it.

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Nothing.

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If we are not in God's purpose trying to do a good idea

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we have or a good thing we have in mind,

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God himself will fight against us

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because he doesn't want us doing that.

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He wants us doing what we're here for.

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So follow, let me just point out

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and you only have to read the underlined parts.

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You can read the whole thing and study them out

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when you get home.

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But first one there,

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I have raised you up for this very purpose.

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He thwarts the purposes.

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We'll start at the beginning.

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The Lord foils the plans of the nation.

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He thwarts the purposes of the peoples.

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Why? Because they're not in agreement with his purpose.

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Third one, I cry out to the most high to God

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who fulfills his purpose for me.

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The Lord will fulfill his purpose for me.

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In his heart a man plans his course.

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But the Lord determines his steps.

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You say, well, what if the man's not walking with the Lord?

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Then the Lord will fight against him.

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To get him back so he can get into his heart

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and get him walking the steps of the Lord

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because that man or that woman was designed for

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to meet a need and as long as they're doing their own thing

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they'll never get there and then the earth will suffer because of it.

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So you can have all the plans you want

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but the Lord's going to determine it.

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Now the next verse says it even better.

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Many are the plans in a man's heart

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but it's the Lord's purpose that prevails.

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This goes along with what Jesus told Paul

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when he blew him off his horse in the road.

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He said, why are you kicking against the pricks?

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Which means he was literally pushing against,

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kicking against stuff that was hurting him.

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It was damaging him but he kept doing it.

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Well, Paul had plans according to what he had been taught.

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But the Lord's purpose is going to prevail.

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So we're going to get your attention, blow you off your horse

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and we're going to talk to you about this.

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There's a time to every purpose.

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Remember, we can't just make something happen

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because we want to make it happen.

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There's a timing here that God has

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because he sees what we're here for

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and he backed up to get us ready when we get there.

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So there's a timing. Remember that.

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There's a time for every purpose, the bottom one.

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Now go to the next page.

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The Lord of hosts, this is Jehovah Sabaoth,

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half sworn saying,

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as I have purposed, so shall it stand,

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this is the purpose that is purposed upon the whole earth.

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So in context, he's revealing part of the reason

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he calls himself Jehovah Sabaoth,

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the Lord of War, service and the appointed time.

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That's what that name means.

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Is because he will go to war for you

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to get you in your purpose.

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Read that again.

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He half sworn.

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Now when God swears, that means it's done.

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He gave his word on it.

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As I have purposed, so shall it stand.

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Now in context, he's talking different situation,

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but that's how he works.

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He backs up, I got a purpose for you,

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gets us going,

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and then he will go to war

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on our behalf or against us.

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Remember, we just read those verses.

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Yeah, you go ahead and make whatever plans you want.

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I'm going to squash them like a bug.

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Until you start doing what I want you to do,

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you're going to struggle.

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And I've heard people say,

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why do I struggle so much in life?

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Someone else does the same thing I was planning to do.

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It just works for me.

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And me, it's like beating my head against a wall.

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You're not in your purpose.

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You've got a great idea.

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But God's going, shut that down on him.

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Shut that down on her.

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That's not what they're supposed to be doing.

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Well, if we'll back up and go,

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okay, this isn't working.

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And actually get in step with God and say,

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okay, God, what am I here for?

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All of a sudden, things can change

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because he goes to war on our behalf.

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The Lord of Horses has purposed

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who shall disannull it.

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The next verse, underline,

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my purpose will stand.

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And I will do all that I please.

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What I have said, that will I bring about.

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What I have planned, that I will do.

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Oh, jump down a little further.

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It's Acts 5, 38, and 39.

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Gamaliel understood this.

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And he was a Sanhedrin in with the Jews.

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But he understood this.

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And when it came to the, we talked about this,

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I think last week, when it came to the Christians

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and the Christian church,

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the, you know, the religious leaders,

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the Jewish leaders wanted to kill them all

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and stop the church.

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And this was his advice.

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He said, leave them alone, let them go

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for if their purpose, there it is again.

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If their purpose or activity is of human origin,

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it will fail.

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Why?

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Because God will stop it.

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And there's people that live their whole lifetime frustrated.

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They never get, let's use the word ahead.

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They never get ahead in what it just like they're,

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they're living, they're succeeding as far as

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surviving is concerned.

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But they just never get there.

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It never just kicks in gear and just flows for them.

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Well, you're into something that's human origin.

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It's not the reason you were created.

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And it just keeps failing over and over.

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But back to the verse, if it is from God,

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if the purpose or activity is from God,

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you're not going to be able to stop this.

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See, so if we will link in with what God's

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asking us to do, we are guaranteed success.

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Because God will go to war for us to make it happen.

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1336 there in Acts when David had served

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God's purpose in his own generation.

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There was a reason David was created.

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You know, anybody who knows the story of David

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knows the general reason David was created

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to get Israel set up and take the enemies down

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so that they could be a world power

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under Solomon and build the temple

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and get everything going the way it was supposed to go.

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But there were too many enemies

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that were continually trying to squash Israel.

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And God said, we're going to put a stop to that

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so he created David.

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I mean what teenager in his right mind

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goes down into a pit bare handed to kill a lion?

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What is wrong with you boy? Go get some help.

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I mean, but see that was in him, that warrior of

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oh look at there's an opportunity.

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Let's go kill that sucker.

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Oh I guess I'm alone. Well I'll do it alone then.

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That's why they think he was around age 17 or 18

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when he did the giant thing, Goliath.

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So now put yourself in Saul's place.

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See now Saul had the spirit of God on him.

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He lost that later when David became a threat.

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Saul became jealous and was afraid

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David was going to take the throne

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and he started doing dumb stuff

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because he was motivated by the wrong motivation.

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But when they were facing the Philistines

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Saul had the spirit of God on him.

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He could recognize things.

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So now put yourself in Saul's position.

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You have an entire army of men here

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who have been camped across the valley

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from another entire army

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and this giant comes out and taunts you every day.

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Everybody here in your group is scared spitless

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including yourself.

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I ain't going out there. See how big he is?

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So he's trying to get someone to take up this challenge.

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Long story short

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this 17-18 year old kid

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fresh off of watching sheep

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shows up

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and says, I can do it.

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What king in his right mind would even consider that?

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You have no military training.

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Who are you again?

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If you think I'm going to turn the future

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of the entire kingdom over to you

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you're cuckoo.

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That would be the average person's thinking.

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Saul saw something in him

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and had to be by the spirit of God

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because nothing else makes sense.

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Saul saw something in him

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and said, yep,

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we're going to put the entire future

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of the entire nation of Israel

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in a 17 year old kid's hands

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who doesn't have any military training.

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Dress him up in my armor.

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Saul was a big man.

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David wasn't that big.

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This didn't work. David said, get this off of me.

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I'll be dead if I stay in this.

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What are you going to go after him with?

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I got a slingshot.

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Oh yeah, you're just inspiring confidence here.

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It's like, slingshot, eh?

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What are you going to use for ammunition?

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Well, I'm going to go to the river

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and I'm going to grab a few rocks.

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What king in his right mind would say,

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yep, we're buying into that plan.

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This really sounds like from God.

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He bought into it.

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And David took another step forward

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for the reason he was on this earth.

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To kill Goliath was the reason.

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One of the reasons he was here.

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Overall, he was here to be a warrior.

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Why are you here?

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Bottom of page six.

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And we know that all things work together for good

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to them that love God,

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to them that are called according to his.

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I hear that verse quoted.

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Rarely the last part gets quoted.

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All things work together for good to them

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that love God and we love God.

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So we're believing.

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Finish the verse.

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You can love God

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and not be walking in his purpose.

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The guarantee of things turning out well

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are not the fact you love God.

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That's part of it.

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You got to hook up with God.

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You've got to get saved.

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You've got to tie in to God.

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But it's also tied to

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are you and step with me

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going where I want you to go

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to do what I want you to do.

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Because if you are,

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I will fight for you.

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And there goes Gamaliel's statement.

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Hey, if this thing's of God,

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just back up and let it happen

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because you're fighting God.

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Gamaliel knew this principle.

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God wants everything to work out good

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for his children.

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I mean that you see in Scripture

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over and over and over.

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One of the big reasons it doesn't

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is because we're not in his purpose for us.

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We're doing our own thing.

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I don't see Jeff here.

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He was sitting on the drums this morning.

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That's all right. We don't need him.

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I don't want him to play drums right now.

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I just want to refer to something.

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The reason this young man is alive

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is not because Mary and I had such great faith.

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We were scared spitless

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when he got spinal meningitis as a baby.

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And as a good,

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logical man

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who at that time we couldn't afford health insurance

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and the doctor said,

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if you don't have him back to the clinic

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so we can air-flight him down

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to Children's Hospital in Denver

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within an hour,

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it was by four o'clock he wanted him there.

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He said, by 4.30 there will be a sheriff

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on your doorstep

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and we will take him from you.

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Because I had asked,

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I want to go back and pray over him.

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Because he wanted to immediately send him off.

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He said, this kid's got spinal meningitis.

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If you don't get him to Children's Hospital,

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he'll be a vegetable or dead.

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I'm going to send him now.

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I said, well,

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I don't know if I want to agree with your prognosis here.

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I said, I got some people.

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I want to take back to my wife

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and we want to pray together.

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And there was another couple who prayed with us.

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He was a total unbeliever.

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He thought I was nuts.

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He said, okay, I'll give you one hour.

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If he's not back here in one hour,

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I'll send the sheriff.

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He'll come get him.

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Long story short,

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he was healed.

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And he never went to Children's Hospital.

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Because by the time we got back there at 4 o'clock,

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he was whole.

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Not because we had such great faith.

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When we were praying with the other couple,

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the Holy Spirit dropped it in my heart.

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And I didn't even know what I was doing.

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I was just trying to follow the spirit.

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I'm way back over there going,

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we're supposed to be doing this stuff over here,

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this ministry stuff.

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And we're about to go bankrupt because

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we can't even afford the helicopter ride down there.

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Much less.

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He's probably going to be there.

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And if he lives,

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then he's going to be a vegetable.

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I mean, this is a nightmare.

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So we're back here.

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While we're praying over him,

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they came out to the car

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and he's in the car seat

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doing his spinal meningitis thing,

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flailing and eyes rolled back and

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that whole thing.

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This is life or death for us.

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This is life or death for you

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in your life and in different areas you're facing.

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Holy Spirit dropped it in my heart.

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He asked me a question while we're praying.

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He said,

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Have you given me everything?

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Have you given me everything?

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Think I was able to say

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God to my knowledge.

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I'm sure there's areas that are

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not there yet.

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But to my knowledge,

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our whole lives

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have been built around one thing.

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What you've asked us to do.

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And the thought that went through me at that point,

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I'll just be honest,

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because we're all human.

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And the thought when after I said that,

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and I prayed that,

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the thought that went through my mind was,

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and boy, to this point,

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it's been kind of shitty at times.

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We're all human.

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And there were parts of my life

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I was not impressed with.

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This is God.

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Holy Moly.

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This is nasty.

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But it was God.

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Because he's trying to get us ready

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for where we're going.

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Which by the way,

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end of the long story,

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the whole previous of our life

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where we're going is right here.

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And what he's trying to accomplish

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is right here in Minnesota.

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Anyway, so that thought went through my mind.

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And now it's hard to stay in the spirit

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because, you know,

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bad attitude wants to come up.

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Well, if this was God,

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why is it...

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Take those thoughts captive.

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Shut them down.

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I said, yes,

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to my knowledge,

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we have done everything.

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And I'm asking on the basis,

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I knew covenant by that point.

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I'm asking on the basis of covenant exchange.

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We've given you our life.

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Now I'm asking,

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you give us his.

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Give us a miracle.

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It was about five minutes

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from there back to the clinic.

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On the way back,

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God gave us a miracle.

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Based on one thing.

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One thing.

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Had we been off doing our own thing

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saying, yeah, I know I'm supposed to be doing this

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or that.

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I know I'm supposed to be doing something in ministry,

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but you know what?

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That whole thing,

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I'm not interested in that.

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I'm going to go do my own thing.

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That boy would either be dead

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or a vegetable.

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Because we read the scriptures.

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When you're in God's purpose,

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he won't let you be stopped.

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It must take place.

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That's why

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when she was laying in the hospital,

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there's one reason why she's alive

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and doing well.

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One reason.

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Of course, she knew this principle.

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And she's running all the questions through her mind

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why she should stay on earth.

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Because she's got to make a choice here.

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Doctor gave her six months

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if she does chemo and radiation.

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Maybe a few years.

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Other than that, six months.

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So I asked the doctor.

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You know, I'm a dumb farmer at heart.

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So I asked the doctor.

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I said radiation.

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Where you point that?

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That kills everything, right?

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Yep, kills it all.

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We'll kill the cancer.

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I said, what about everything around there?

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Like, isn't there some important stuff

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in there that should live?

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Like maybe the liver and intestines?

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You know, there's some stuff there we don't want dead.

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Well, the only reason we would do that

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is for her quality of life.

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It'll buy her more time.

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So you're going to give her more time to suffer

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because you killed her intestines

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or whatever else is there.

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You know, just...

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It doesn't always take a brain surgeon to think it through.

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So she's laying in the hospital, asking the questions.

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Or being asked the questions, running the questions

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to remind, why do you want to stay here?

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She had all kinds of answers.

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Of course, to a mother and a grandmother, it'd be the children.

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That answer is not good enough.

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There's a lot of mothers who have died

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because their goal was to stay for their children.

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You will not find...

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No, we're told to be fruitful and multiply and reproduce.

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But the thing that God wants us in is our purpose

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while we're doing the children thing

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and the family thing and the grandchildren thing.

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They are not the purpose.

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They're part of it.

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But they're not the purpose.

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Or a woman who cannot have children has no purpose on earth.

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If children are the purpose, women are here.

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Then women who can't get married, don't get married,

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don't have children, whatever, well, they're worthless.

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We might as well go with what the Democrats want to do

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and assist them in suicide.

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That's coming up in this next round.

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They're already talking about Minnesota becoming

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an assistant suicide state.

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In case you're wondering, well, why did he bring that up?

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Because that's where they want to go with it, this next term.

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Well, if a woman has no purpose, let's help her out.

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She's miserable, just kill her.

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See, the purpose for a woman or for a man

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who never got married, never had children, whatever,

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the purpose is not built around the children

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or they have no purpose.

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God has a different purpose for them.

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And children can be part of it

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or they don't have to be part of it.

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But God has a purpose for them to walk out.

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And she finally landed on

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you, you promised us revival.

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You say, what's revival? People getting saved,

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people getting healed, people getting delivered

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and on and on and on, people's lives

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turning around, not only on earth but forever.

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You promised that to me.

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And I haven't seen what I want to see there yet.

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That's why I want to stay.

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Bangal, right answer.

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Because that's what you're here for.

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And if you will do what you're here for,

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there's nothing that will get in your way

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that can stop you.

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Period.

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This is huge, this purpose thing.

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This is huge.

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So let me wrap this up.

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I'm gonna wrap it up with some scriptures.

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This one I quoted to you, I'll read it

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to Ephesians chapter one verse four.

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Just as he has chose us in him

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before the foundation of the world

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and he goes on and explains that,

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salvation and so forth, that's all part of it.

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We gotta get saved to walk in this.

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Verse nine, having made known to us

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the mystery of his will.

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According to his pleasure, I think I'm in the NIV here.

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According to his good pleasure,

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which he purposed in himself.

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Verse 11, in him also, we have obtained an inheritance

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being predestined or being picked

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according to his purpose.

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Who works everything out,

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who works all things.

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If you want all things to work,

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you gotta get in a position where God can work all things.

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Who works all things according to

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the counsel of his will, his purpose.

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Jeremiah, no, this is Psalms 139.

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Before I formed you,

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before you were formed,

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my mind's elsewhere, back up.

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For you formed my inward parts,

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you covered me in my mother's womb,

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I will praise you for I am fearfully

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and wonderfully made, and it goes on to describe

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how in the secret place of the mother's womb

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God puts the tapestry together.

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He's creating a person

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to meet a need.

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And he's giving them everything they need

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to do that.

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Jeremiah 1, verse 5,

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before I formed you in the womb,

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I knew you.

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So he knew what he wanted us to be

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way before we ever got conceived.

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Before you were born,

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I set you apart.

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And then he gave Jeremiah his purpose.

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That principle, since we're chosen

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from the foundation of the world,

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which is probably before we were conceived.

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That was a joke.

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In case you didn't catch it.

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Since we were chosen early

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when we were formed in the womb,

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he knew us already

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and what we needed to become

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to meet that need.

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God has a purpose for every person

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sitting here.

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Every one of us were created

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to meet a need.

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And he worked it all together

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to make you capable

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of meeting that need.

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Well, I couldn't do it.

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God's purpose you can do.

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You're designed specifically to do it.

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God's purpose for this church

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we can do.

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Because we're designed specifically for it

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and he's gathering the people to make that happen.

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His purpose for this church we can do.

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Now if we get out of that

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and start going a different direction,

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we may struggle.

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But if we can stay in that vein,

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bring it on.

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We're ready.

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And it will keep doing what it's supposed to do

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which we'll get into that week's coming.

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Right now the question he wanted me to ask you

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now that you have that basic understanding

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of a few principles there

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what's your purpose and are you in it?

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Why are you on this earth?

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What's the reason?

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And don't go religious on me like

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well, I didn't want to be a pastor.

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We don't need some of you as a pastor.

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You're living nightmare as a pastor.

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There's more reasons to be on earth

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than well, I'm not an apostle

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or a prophet or a pastor.

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That's religious thinking.

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Some of you were designed and created

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it always goes back to kingdom.

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Always with God.

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It's not about our pleasure on this earth.

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Always goes back to kingdom.

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Some of you were designed and created

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to be successful businessmen

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so you can fund a purpose.

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But there's a key with that.

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You can't keep most of it for yourself

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and be pleasing to God.

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Why tithe? Good.

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That's not a bad thing. It's a good thing.

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But if God really prospers some of us

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we have way more than we know what to do with.

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Why do you think he gave you that?

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To give it to your kids?

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I doubt it.

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Because they will find a way to spend it.

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And I'm pretty sure most of it won't go for the kingdom.

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Some of you are designed to be a plumber.

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You say, why would God want my purpose to be a plumber?

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Well, we all have the basic design of our job

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is to get people saved and to pray over and get them healed.

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I mean that goes for everybody.

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Whether you're a plumber or businessman or whatever.

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Our underlying reason, we haven't gotten to that yet

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but our underlying purpose is to promote

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and push the kingdom of heaven forward.

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Kingdom of God forward. That's for all of us.

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But while we're doing that we have sub-purposes.

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Your sub-purpose might be a plumber.

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While you're doing what God's asking you to do

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and witnessing to people and helping people, you're a plumber.

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Well, why would God make me a plumber?

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I don't know, ask him. It might be to help that person

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who can't afford it to get their house fixed.

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Because they're pipe broke and it got cold

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and we're a grandma and we're alone

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and we can't afford to fix this.

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That might be your purpose.

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You say, I can't give my labor away free.

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You can't or you won't.

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Because if you were in your purpose

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helping people along, maybe that's your purpose

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to help people all along the way.

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And God will give opportunities and He will test you

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and He'll throw spots you into spots where it's like

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if I'm going to take this job on

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I could even lose money over this

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and He's going, yep, you could.

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Let's see what you do with it.

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Is this all about money or is this about that person?

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See, and that's how our sub-purposes break out

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and you know what?

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If you will take care of the reason you're here

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money will never be a problem.

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You might go through dry seasons

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but I mean in the end

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you're not going to have a money problem

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because God is going to make sure you fulfill your purpose

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and the laborer is the first one to eat of the harvest.

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Right? Now what Jesus said?

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What are you here for?

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Do you know in your heart what you're here for?

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And are you doing it?

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You say, well how will I know?

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Let me give you the answer to that really quick.

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Here's the condensed version.

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If you remove finances

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the desire for more or the lack of

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either way you can serve money.

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Poor people serve money, you know that?

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Well I know this is a valid need

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but we don't have enough to give to it.

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Well so you're serving money, not God

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because God asked you to give to it.

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Well we don't have enough so now who are you serving?

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And people who want to get a lot of it

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you know that's who we usually say

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oh they're just doing that to serve money.

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Well they might be.

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So remove finances

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remove your mother and father's

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goals for you

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and with that

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remove the relatives plans

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for your life

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and try to deal with any

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pride shame or fear

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first three things that enter the human race

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even get rid of those three as a motivation.

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Pride shame or fear.

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Remove all those

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try to separate yourself from them

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and say God what comes up

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in my heart that I really

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this is a need

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that needs to be taken care of

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in the human race, in our community

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wherever

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this is something that I would

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love to do.

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But there's no money in it

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so I can't know remove finances

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and then about finances this is about

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your purpose you do your purpose

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finances take care of itself.

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Well what would mom and dad say

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mom and dad need to get their nose out of your business

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once you're an adult.

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Sorry mom and dad

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but

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once they're an adult you need to let them be an adult

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before God

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because when they're a judgment

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he's not going to say where's the mom

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I'd like to talk about

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what he did I'd like to talk to the mom

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he can talk

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to him about what he did

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so let him make his choices

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you can try to guide him

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but let him make his choices

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and our lives

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are never supposed to be a family

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discussion or decision

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let's get the relatives together

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and decide what would be best

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you will miss God by a thousand miles

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because now you're coming

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totally from a human perspective

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and get pride, shame

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and fear out of there and say God

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show me

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what I

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would love to do this is

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what I gravitate towards

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now anybody with any spiritual insight

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if they know you well at all

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they already see it in you because remember

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it was put into you as a baby

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in the womb

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and as you walked out life

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this particular thing keeps

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surfacing in you

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even as a little kid

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why is it some little girls

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run

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to someone who's been injured

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Because they love to care-take them. And others throw up at the sight of blood.

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Why is that? Purpose. They already have something built into them. They just need to focus it down

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and find it. And the biggest trick in this society is you're taught to choose your life's work

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on the basis of finances. What money are you going to make doing that?

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And we have so many Christians who've missed God because we've been taught

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to decide on the wrong basis. You can find your purpose really quick. I've always wanted to be.

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It's like a homing beacon in you. It's like a bird in migration.

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You have this longing and desire to go there. It's in you. God put it in you when He put you

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together so you wouldn't miss what the need is here that you're going to meet and fulfill

01:05:12.810 --> 01:05:19.470
and take care of. There's no rocket science to this. It's like a bug door light.

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You will just go there if you get out of the man-made decision-making process.

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What would cause someone to want to be a police officer in this culture?

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And from a little kid on up, that's what they want to do. It's what they want to be.

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When I grow up, I'm going to be a policeman. And they grow up and become one. You know why?

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That's their purpose. Sub-purpose. Their real purpose is to minister the kingdom of God.

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But while they're doing that, they need to plug a hole. What's yours? Are you in it?

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I don't care how old we are. We can be five years left in life. You got five years left.

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Don't look at it like, well, I only got five years. No, I have five years left.

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Let's see God do something. That's the question that we're supposed to take home and think about.

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What's my purpose? And am I doing it? And that's how you find it.

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Remove everything that society tells us how to make that decision.

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Because remember, we're living in a society that is largely under the rule of evil.

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Do you think the demonic realm in their wisdom would give you the keys to finding

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how to serve God? Of course not. They're going to give you the instruction on how to get you

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as far away from God as possible. So most everything you hear from your high school

01:07:02.910 --> 01:07:08.750
counselor and from the college people and so forth is a bunch of Bahu'i on how you find

01:07:08.750 --> 01:07:15.470
your purpose on this earth. Because they are following the teachings of men who without

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the Holy Spirit scripture says it's foolishness and even demonic in its core.

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I'm not against education. You know, if you're going to be a police officer,

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I sure hope you get an education and know how to shoot a gun. It's helpful, man.

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You're pointing in my direction. I got to have the confidence you're not going to hit me.

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You know, so I'm not against education. If I need a doctor, I'd prefer to have someone who has some

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kind of education. You know, it doesn't inspire confidence in me if I ask that,

01:07:55.980 --> 01:08:01.360
have you ever done this before? No, I don't even know what I'm looking for,

01:08:01.420 --> 01:08:06.280
but we're going to go in there and figure it out. It's like, maybe I'll find a different doctor.

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But find your purpose first, then let God educate you. Some of us are very frustrated in life.

01:08:26.890 --> 01:08:31.310
You need to step back and say, am I doing what God asked me to do? What I'm designed and built for,

01:08:31.890 --> 01:08:39.770
am I actually doing it? And some of you are really, you're flying, you're sailing.

01:08:40.810 --> 01:08:46.570
So you need to take a step back and say, okay, God's prospering this in me in every way,

01:08:46.590 --> 01:08:51.590
including my own peace. I feel really good with what I'm doing. I'm accomplishing something.

01:08:52.210 --> 01:08:56.930
You need to step back and ask, okay, so why am I, why am I really in this? What am I supposed

01:08:56.930 --> 01:09:04.090
to do with this? You're in the vein, but now we've got to navigate that vein.

01:09:05.550 --> 01:09:16.210
This church, every church, has to step back at times and say, are we still doing what God asked us to do?

01:09:17.210 --> 01:09:22.050
Because sometimes it goes really easily. And then other times, since we got a big target painted

01:09:22.050 --> 01:09:28.210
on our back, it's like all we see is enemy. And we got to break through the line to keep

01:09:28.210 --> 01:09:32.170
going because we know we're supposed to go that way. So it's not, you can't measure it by

01:09:34.090 --> 01:09:42.130
how easy things go. I mean, if Paul would have measured whether he's doing the right thing by

01:09:42.130 --> 01:09:47.890
how easy it went, he would have quit early on. I mean, how often do you have to get beaten with

01:09:47.890 --> 01:09:54.750
rods and whipped and stoned and left for dead before you get the message? Well, he never

01:09:54.750 --> 01:10:03.530
got the message because he knew his purpose. So Lord, that's the question I felt you asked

01:10:03.530 --> 01:10:11.150
me to leave with us. What's our purpose? Well, we know our general purpose to promote

01:10:11.150 --> 01:10:19.050
the kingdom and advance the kingdom of God. What's our sub-purposes? Why are we in this church?

01:10:21.390 --> 01:10:30.780
What are we supposed to be contributing to this church? Is it just money? Is that it?

01:10:32.620 --> 01:10:43.790
Not belittling money. It takes money to do things. But is that it? Is it more? Why am I here?

01:10:43.990 --> 01:10:49.930
What is my purpose of being here? What is the purpose we're headed for? Lord, we're in a mighty

01:10:49.930 --> 01:10:57.390
shift of your spirit. This church will not look the same a year from now. And it's time right

01:10:57.390 --> 01:11:06.110
now for us. It's time right now for us to step back and go, how do I plug into this? What am I

01:11:06.110 --> 01:11:21.510
supposed to do? Maybe your purpose is to get on the cat team and the faith and freedom march

01:11:22.210 --> 01:11:28.490
and change this state for God's glory. Maybe that's your purpose for being here.

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Then do it with all your heart, all your might. Be willing to pay the price of sacrificing

01:11:39.430 --> 01:11:58.470
something so you can do it. But do it. Whatever it is, there's a purpose for you. Not only in

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open our eyes and our hearts to see it, to know it. And Lord, there's been so many attacks

01:12:11.760 --> 01:12:20.660
on people from abuse to neglect. I mean, there's been so many attacks on children that

01:12:20.660 --> 01:12:24.900
when they become adults, they're just struggling to live, much less figure out what am I here

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for God for. In the name of Jesus, I call all that junk to go silent in them and allow them to

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find who they are. Not who the abusers said they were, not who the rejecters said they were,

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not all that junk. Find who they are and what the craving of their heart is in Jesus' name.

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Amen. Amen. Amen.