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So it's been two weeks, so I need to re-review just a little bit here.

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Get us on the same page. We're talking about vision.

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We talked about purpose. This morning we're going to deal with sub-purpose.

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And usually I don't wear a jacket. I didn't wear a tie this morning, so I didn't get quite as dressed up.

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But people know that when I dress up like this,

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it's because I have something really important

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to say, so pay special attention.

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It's not that other Sundays I don't have anything important,

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but this is a little bit more important.

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If we can understand, not only the church's purpose and sub-purpose,

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but if you can understand your purpose and what we'll talk about this morning, sub-purpose,

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everything else in that book that you have hangs on this.

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This is the heart of the whole thing, especially sub-purpose.

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This, you know, we won't be going through that book page by page by any means,

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but there's some key things we need to understand.

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This is one of them. So let's go back and review.

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We talked about purpose. Purpose being the reason we're on this earth.

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As individuals, the reason churches are formed, etc.

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It's the thing God wants us to accomplish while we're here.

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And it could be more than one. It could be numerous things.

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But there's going to be one big focus.

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It's the need you, as people, individuals, I were created to fill.

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Meet that need.

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And we talked about that. We gave you some examples from Scripture on that.

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Churches are the same thing as individuals.

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I don't want to dwell as much on individuals.

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That's in the other booklet or book.

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Once they're 170 pages long, I got to quit calling them booklets.

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It's in the other book.

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Deals more with individuals on expanding the vision is what that one's called.

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This one dwells more on word of life.

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But a person and the church and how God works with them are so similar,

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they kind of just splash back and forth.

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Every Christian church has the same purpose.

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That's on page 12 of your booklet.

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I don't care if you're a Catholic church, a Methodist church,

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a Lutheran church, a Baptist church, it makes no difference.

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Scripturally speaking, we all have the same purpose

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we're supposed to all accomplish the same thing.

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Every Christian, the same thing is true.

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Every Christian has the same purpose.

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To promote and advance the kingdom of God.

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That's the purpose.

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And again, it's in that expanding the vision book

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where that's explained more deeply.

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This is what makes us different.

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It's our sub-purpose.

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Now, sub-purpose is what lies beneath...

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If you have a structure, you have a substructure.

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And the substructure is tied to the structure.

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Depending upon how big the structure is on top,

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you've got a big substructure.

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If you're dealing with tall building, Sears Tower,

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things like that, skyscrapers, huge substructure

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under the ground, we never see.

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If you're dealing with terrain, you have sub-terrain.

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And the government figured out that you can sell

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the land that the people see on the top,

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and you can sell the minerals

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that are sub-terraneous.

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And they're worth something too.

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During the Depression, the state of North Dakota

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pulled kind of a dirty trick.

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Usually the mineral rights went with the land,

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but people were trying so hard to hang on to the land

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that, you know, make a long story short,

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the state of North Dakota separated them,

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and you could actually buy the mineral rights

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on somebody's land.

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They wouldn't own them anymore.

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They'd own what you see on the top.

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You could own the sub-terranean realm.

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It didn't seem like a big deal until

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oil and things like that were discovered,

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and they come in and they rip your field up

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because they're going for what's underground,

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and there's not one thing you can do about it.

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You don't own what's underground.

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You own what's on top.

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Isn't that exciting?

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So anytime you've got something on top,

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you've got something underneath.

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We have a purpose. We have a sub-purpose.

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It's the deeper level.

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Still reviewing.

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Churches and believers' sub-purpose

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is the individualized plan

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of how God's going to use you.

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The big purpose, we're all supposed to do

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the same thing.

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But how you do it, how you do it,

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how I do it can be extremely different.

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That comes in the sub-purpose.

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That's what's underneath

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holding the whole thing up

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and making it work.

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That's what makes us individuals

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is how God wants to do it through you.

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He wants to do the same thing through you

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as He's doing through me, as He's doing through anybody.

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But how He does it is totally different.

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It's designed by God that way.

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He built it into us.

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Psalm 139, I believe, he built it into us

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when we were in the mother's womb.

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That's where he wove us together.

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And that's where our...

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I say this, it's like a homing beak

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and it's like a migrating bird.

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It's, if we will get rid of the clutter

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in our life, we will be drawn

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to the reason we're here.

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It will be what we want to do.

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And the same as for churches.

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If we'll get rid of the clutter,

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we will slide right into what we're here for,

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what we're supposed to do.

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He instilled it into our heart.

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And there's a scripture that, it's psalms 37, verse number 4.

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And it's often misquoted, in my opinion.

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It says, well, God will give you the desires of your heart.

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We like to quote that from the American church's perspective.

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Selfish.

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Well, I've always wanted, and doesn't the scripture say

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that he would give me what I want?

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No.

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It's not what it's talking about.

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There are desires he put in your heart.

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He will give you those desires

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if the word in the King James is delight,

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which is really a bad translation.

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If you delight in the Lord,

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he will give you the desires of your heart,

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the desires he already put there.

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The word delight means to be soft and pliable.

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It doesn't mean to be happy.

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Doesn't mean that.

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If we would directly translate it according to definition,

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it would say, if you will be soft and pliable,

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in the Lord.

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He will give you the desires of your heart.

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They're already in there.

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But until we get soft and pliable

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and let him get in charge,

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they won't come out.

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So, it's easy.

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Just got to...

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just what happened in praise and worship.

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Got to give it up.

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So here's a little chart we made.

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We're talking about the general purpose this morning, the sub-purpose.

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Once you have those two, everything else just falls together.

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I'm not going to take the time to describe it much.

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We'll be coming back to that a bit.

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Vision...

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Let me back up.

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Vision is simply seeing that little graph in our life.

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We see why I'm here.

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We see what I'm supposed to accomplish

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and how it's supposed to work through me.

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And then built on that, he'll give you different assignments,

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projects you're supposed to take care of.

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He'll give you different commands, things that he is not giving you an option on.

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You do it this way.

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And vision, when we say, well, you know, we got to have a vision.

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Word of life's vision.

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Vision is merely seeing what we're supposed to do

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and how we're supposed to do it.

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It's the same for you.

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Vision is just simply seeing

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what you're supposed to do

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and how you're supposed to do it.

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Some of you are supposed to promote the kingdom of God by being a carpenter.

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Some of you are supposed to promote the kingdom of God by being a singer.

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And not necessarily in church.

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By being a football player.

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You pick it.

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You've got the seven mountains.

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You've got the seven realms of society.

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He will plug people into all of them.

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And that's how he is going to reach into those areas and advance his kingdom.

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So, some people will say, I don't know why I have such a desire.

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I never had the desire because my dad made me pay for everything I broke.

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But some of my friends had such a desire to be racers.

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You know, whether it was motorcycle or car or snowmobile or whatever.

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They just love to race.

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And that's okay.

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Till you break something and it costs you thousands of dollars.

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And dad says, I ain't paying for it.

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You wanted to do that.

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I'm going, oh that takes care of that.

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I had a scrambler motorcycle, a dirt bike.

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And we got together one Sunday afternoon.

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And there was two guys who were just kind of like daredevils.

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They were adults.

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They had the money to fix what they broke.

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So we all got together and then we picked some hills

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and they were going to see if they could climb them.

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And they tried in the worst way to get me to climb it.

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And I said, I ain't doing it.

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I said, even if I could, I'm not going to.

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Because if I mess my bike up, I lost my bike

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because I don't have the money to replace it.

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Well, we're going to do it anyway.

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And I remember this one guy, he eventually made it.

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It was a difficult hill to get up.

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And he eventually made it.

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But he made it almost to the top.

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It stopped on him.

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It dug in the ground.

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He couldn't hold it.

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He tried to lay it over, but it was steep enough.

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It started sliding.

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So then it caught and started rolling.

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Rolled all the way down the hill.

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And I said, that's exactly why I'm not going to do that.

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Well, I'll just fix it up.

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I said, you know, that's good.

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Fix it up.

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What gives someone a desire to do that?

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Because God needs people in that community

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who will promote His kingdom.

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You can't affect that community if you're not in it.

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But if you're in it because you just want to have fun,

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well, you still can't affect the community.

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There's more to it than that.

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Vision is simply seeing, getting a revelation of who you are,

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why you're here.

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Now, if you'll go to page number 16,

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we're going to jump in.

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Well, that's where we're going to start.

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16 and 17.

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And I want to point something out to you.

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Most of the points here in our sub-vision,

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our sub-purpose, it is a sub-division purpose,

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but our sub-purpose on 16 and 17

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actually are supposed to be in every church.

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But it's become one of the reasons of how we do it

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and what he's asked us to do

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because so many other churches refuse to do it.

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Everybody should be doing it.

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It should be actually part of the purpose,

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but there's so many who aren't

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that God picks certain people in certain churches

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and says, you emphasize this.

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So we've been asked to emphasize and focus on some things

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that's simply because they're part of the gospel.

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They're part of what God promises us,

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but churches and believers are ignoring them.

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So go to page 17.

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Now, I have a confession to make.

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Could you bring that up on the screen, if you would, please?

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The booklet, page 17, slide down.

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There should be a letter E there.

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So you got D, 1, and E.

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Not all your books have that.

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I was at TBO and it's one of these things of technology.

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I was at TBO and it was the night

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before we started using this

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and Abby was at the office

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diligently working to get them printed.

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And I'm sitting there and the Holy Spirit

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taps me on the shoulder and says,

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you should have put letter E under sub-purpose.

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And I'm going, thanks a little late now.

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So everything's all hooked together

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and she's printing off my computer at home.

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So I take my iPad and I grab some stuff

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from our vision, that part of it right there.

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And I plugged it into the document and sent it.

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So while she's printing, some of you have that

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and some of you don't.

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If you don't have that, please write it in.

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Especially letter E.

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I think it starts with number 1 under D

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and then letter E.

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And it's supposed to be underlined

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like the other ones are,

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but I was in a hurry so I didn't.

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So let's start with that one

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because it colors everything else.

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And we'll go back up to top page 16

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and just give you an overview of this.

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A large aspect of our sub-purpose

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at Word of Life,

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now we're talking to church now,

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is we are a how-to church,

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which puts a lot of demand on the leadership

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because we're supposed to know how to

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do some of this stuff.

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And it puts a lot of push on that.

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Now I want to take you to page

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oh, go to page 27.

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I want to just refer you to something.

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The vision of a person's family

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comes out of mom and dad,

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or however the leadership structure is set up.

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It could be mom or dad,

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or mom and dad.

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The reason your family runs the way it is

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is because that's how you feel

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God wants you to run it.

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That's your sub-purpose.

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It's part of how you're supposed to do things

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and promote the kingdom.

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Well, when it comes to ministries,

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this one, this book is talking about church,

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when it comes to churches,

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the reason a church runs the way it does

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primarily goes back to the pastor.

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It's what's in the pastor's heart.

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That's why if you hire someone

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who does not have what that church,

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what the church's focus is,

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the church's emphasis is,

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they don't have that in their heart,

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it usually becomes a problem.

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Because every church is supposed

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to flow a certain way.

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Now, we all supposed to do the same thing

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in the general purpose.

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But how we do it?

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Remember, there's cowboy churches,

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there's recovery churches,

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there's missions churches,

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there's all kinds of different ways

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God uses a church.

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That's all good.

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We're not a cowboy church.

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We do give to missions,

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but it's not our main reason for being.

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The main reason that boils inside of me,

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which produces this,

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and it boils in Mary also,

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is people need to know how

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to do this stuff.

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Jump over to page 28.

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I'm going to take the time to refer to this.

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Remember I said this stuff's put in you

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in your mother's womb?

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Then as you grow older,

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if you just get the clutter out of the way

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you'll be drawn right into it.

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It's very easy.

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Remember a vision

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or to see how something should be done.

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That whole big graph there

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is birthed out of a person.

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We're at the bottom of page 28, letter E.

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What does it mean to be a how-to church?

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To understand this means

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we need to see a little of how it came about.

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So this is how it came about for me.

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It originated in me.

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I was born in a Christian home.

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My parents belonged to the Assemblies of God

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and that's neither here nor there.

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It's just my history. It's who I am.

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So I was exposed to more full gospel things

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than if you were born...

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like Mary was born in Lutheran.

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She wasn't exposed to as much full gospel stuff.

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I was exposed to more

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even though a lot of times it didn't happen.

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I was exposed to it. I knew about it.

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Went to church a lot.

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That's explained on the bottom.

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So I got to listen to a whole lot of different ministers

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in my growing up years

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and how they would present things.

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Page 29.

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Third paragraph down. It's indented a little bit.

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We were always being shown from the Bible,

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from the Word,

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what we're supposed to do to be a Christian.

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But rarely did anybody address how to do it.

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We're supposed to love each other.

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Okay, cool. What does that look like?

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Well, you know, we're supposed to love each other.

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So what does that mean? How do I do that?

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Well, just love them.

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It's like, boy, you're just going deep quick here.

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We're supposed to have faith in God.

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Okay, what does that look like?

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Give me what it means to believe.

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Well, you believe.

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We're believing God for stuff, so what are you doing?

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How does that come out of you?

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Well, you just believe.

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Okay.

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Well, what I'm doing isn't working.

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Well, you just keep believing.

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You haven't told me anything but what I'm supposed to do.

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It's like a bad teacher at school.

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Trying to teach you math.

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Well, you just divide the bottom number by, you know,

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divide the top number by the bottom number.

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Well, how do I do that? Well, just do it.

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Well, I don't know how to do it.

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Well, it says right there, just 20 divided by 5.

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Give me the answer.

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Well, what's wrong with you?

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Everybody who comes to the math class should know how to divide.

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We'd say, what's wrong with that teacher?

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Well, I'm growing up saying, what's wrong with the church?

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We give all these things, oh, you're supposed to do this.

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You're supposed to live like that.

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Nobody's saying how it's supposed to be done.

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Which made me question if they knew themselves.

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Knowing what I know at this point, I'm reading now the fourth paragraph,

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I can look back and say what was the beginning of me seeing my sub-purpose for life.

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I was starting to see the vision of what I was supposed to be.

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I remember it began with questions about how these things are...

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about how we are supposed to do these things.

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Then it moved into frustration and aggravation.

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You've got to be really careful when that happens because that's when you get critical.

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Start talking bad mouthing.

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I watched people around me stumbling through life,

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trying to do what they were being taught out of the word.

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Well, God wants you healed. Let's pray for healing.

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Okay, it didn't work. Now what?

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Well, let's pray again.

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Just believe God.

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Okay, it's still not working.

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How do I do this?

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Well, we're just going to pray.

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And that's why the answers we get are about that thick.

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We don't give many answers because we don't know how to do it.

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So I watched people being taught,

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oh, we do this, do that, didn't know how to do it.

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And in church, oh yeah, they're in agreement

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and in their personal lives, it's a disaster.

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Yet they were struggling to make it happen in many areas of their lives.

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Once I knew I was going into the ministry, this became my theme.

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Why? Because that's what he created me.

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That's the need he wants me to fill.

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To whatever degree I can show people how to do this,

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which requires me to figure it out before I try to tell them.

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I'm not going to just tell people what God has for them.

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God wants you prospered.

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Well, that's good. How do I do that?

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Well, you've got to work hard.

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Well, I know a lot of people work hard and they win bankrupt.

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They win broke.

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How do I prosper?

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Well, the Bible says God will make us prosper.

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Cool. What do I do?

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Well, you just need to get a job and work.

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I know a lot of people who've got jobs and work really hard

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and they're on the edge of financial destruction all the time.

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And they're Christians.

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So apparently, that doesn't work.

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And see, the worst thing you can do as a junior...

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This started to boil in me in junior high.

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The worst thing you can do in junior high or early high school

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is bring that up to a bunch of adults.

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You know, you're not helping me know how to do this

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and from my observation, what you're doing doesn't work.

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I learned the hard way not to say it that way.

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So that thing started boiling inside of me.

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So as a result, what flavors everything we do is, yes,

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this is what God has for us.

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This is some of the ways of how to do it.

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And we don't by any means know all of them.

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We know just the very thin slice of the pie,

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but we know enough to make it work.

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And other people have been taught different things

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that make it work.

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And through the whole group of the body of Christ,

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we can make it work.

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But the only way that you're going to know how

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is you have to be shown how.

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Otherwise, it's just one wreck after another.

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So go back to page 16.

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So here is the overview of who we are, our sub-purpose.

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We are a full gospel church.

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And then there's a number.

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The rest of this page kind of tries to explain that.

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Now, every church is supposed to be a full gospel church,

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because we all read the same Bible.

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So the only reason this has been pointed out to us

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to be this is because so many are not,

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and there's a need in this area for full gospel churches.

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It's one of the reasons you're here.

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Most of you say the same thing.

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I can't find anything that goes along with what I feel

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God wants me to serve him like.

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I believe in some of these things,

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and there's nobody else out there doing it.

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So you end up here.

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That's how God works, because he pulls people together

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of like-mind, like-vision, and molds us together,

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and then we work together to do what he's asking us to do.

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That's why the last message I said,

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this church is not for everybody.

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Not everybody has it in their heart

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to be pulled the direction God's pulling us.

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That's okay.

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I just want to do what he's asking me to do.

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How big it gets is not my issue, it's his.

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Follow me?

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The general purpose that every church is to accomplish,

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we emphasize the fullness of the gospel.

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It could also be said we emphasize Pentecostal,

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Charismatic, prophetic, faith aspects of the gospel, etc.

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So what is the general purpose?

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So go back to page 12.

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Let's just remind ourselves of this.

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This is what every church is called to do.

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Top of page 12, defining word of life,

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vision, jump down to Roman numeral one.

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God-given purpose for word of life.

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Letter A, every Christian church has the same

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general five-fold purpose in this scripture.

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Every church is supposed to evangelize

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or get people saved.

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Okay?

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When we're evangelizing someone,

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you can...

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some churches don't even try to get people saved,

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which means they're even missing that one.

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That's the core one, that's the biggest one.

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But when you're getting people saved, you can say,

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okay, let's say the sinner's prayer,

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let's get you saved, I don't know.

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Someone who is of the full gospel persuasion

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will not stop there.

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Okay, you're saved, good.

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Now you're going to get to heaven.

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No, you know what you need next?

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You need the baptism of the Holy Spirit.

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So let me help you get into that.

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You need to be baptized in water.

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Now many churches do that, but some don't.

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Not the scriptural way.

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Baptized in Scripture means immersion.

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It doesn't mean you had something squared on your face.

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That's not... you can't find that in Scripture.

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It means immersion.

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And there's other churches that do that.

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But you need to be baptized in water.

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You need to be baptized in spirit.

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You're saved now.

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You need to be delivered to some things.

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Everybody who's got their head screwed on straight

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knows you got some demons.

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See, now only full gospel people will talk that way.

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Because we've seen that.

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We've experienced that.

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So that is who we are.

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That is what God asks us to promote.

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There's people in all kinds of churches this morning

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who are struggling to live a victorious Christian life

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because they're still demonically bound as a Christian.

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And they need some deliverance.

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And you can't even bring it up in their church

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because they're going to think you're nuts.

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So there's a need.

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So what does God do?

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He creates someone to help fill that need.

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It's all part of evangelization.

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And by the way, I noticed when you were walking in,

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you were limping.

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Now that you're saved,

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it's your inheritance right to be made whole.

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It's guaranteed and promised to you.

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Let's pray for you.

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See how a full gospel person

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will evangelize a little differently

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than someone who's not.

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Worship. Every church is called to worship.

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There's many different ways to worship.

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It's supposed to come out of our heart.

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Jesus said...

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Not Jesus.

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Yes, Jesus said,

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they that worship must worship in spirit and in truth.

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So it's supposed to come out of our spirit

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and it's supposed to be done...

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How would you say honestly,

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transparently, truth?

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Not playing a game, not putting on a mask.

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We go to church, everybody stands,

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we sing songs off the wall.

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There we're worshiping. That's not worship.

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Worship is when it comes out of your spirit

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and you honestly engage.

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You say, well, not all churches are like that.

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They're supposed to be.

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But I agree, they're not.

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For instance, they got caught on that one course this morning.

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Well, that's where they were supposed to get caught.

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And do you notice the longer they stayed there,

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the heavier it got in here?

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The more the presence of the Holy Spirit built,

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that's worship.

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They could have sang it once, moved on,

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and we would have never experienced

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the presence of the Holy Spirit like we did.

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So a full gospel person says,

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there's always more

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to tap into here.

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Not every church believes that.

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And that's between them and God.

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Not my issue, it's between them and God.

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I'm just saying, this is how we think.

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Partnership.

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I'm not going to take the time to read

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1 John 1-3, but it really describes there

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what we have seen, what we have heard,

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what we have gazed at,

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what we have touched with our hands.

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In other words, we not only heard about it,

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we saw it happen.

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We not only saw it happen, we've studied this.

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And we've been personally involved.

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We've watched it happen through us.

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This we proclaim concerning the Word of Life.

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If you don't like healings, miracles,

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supernatural encounters with God,

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you're not going to like this church.

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Because that's who we are.

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I love supernatural encounters with God.

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And when His presence shows up so heavy,

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it's like, man, it's hard to breathe.

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Oh man, give me more of that.

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Now I'm going to make a statement.

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From my perspective, could be wrong,

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but from my perspective,

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most people who call themselves Christians are afraid of that.

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Because they never experience it in their life

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or in their church.

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Sometimes people would get up and walk out

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in the best part of the service.

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As far as I'm concerned, it's like,

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oh man, God's in the house.

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They just get up and walk out.

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You talk to them later, they go,

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oh that just freaked me out.

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I don't know what's in there,

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but man, I could feel it.

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I've never felt that before.

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And it's just weird.

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Would you ever go to church?

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Oh yeah, I go to church,

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but I've never felt anything like that.

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That's why we're here.

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That's part of our sub-purpose.

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To create an atmosphere that will bring the presence of God

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that people can partner with.

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He can do more in one minute of you being in his presence

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than I can do in a lifetime of trying to help you.

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It's just unbelievable what he can do.

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Discipleship.

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Not just hearing what God can do,

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but doing it.

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And proclaiming it.

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Ministry. Service.

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In some churches,

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men do all the ministry

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and women clean up the mess.

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That's between them and God.

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If that's how they feel they should run it,

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that's none of my business.

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But what I see Scripture saying is

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Jesus was the greatest champion of women

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who ever came to this earth.

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Paul says he took them and elevated them

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to equal status with man.

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Marriage is separate.

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There's an order there

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because Adam and Eve and Eve sinned and so forth.

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There's an order there.

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So pull marriage out of the picture.

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Just men and women serving God.

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Women can pray for healing as much as a man can.

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Women can prophesize as much as a man can.

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Women can have visions as much as a man can.

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Women can raise a dead as much as a man can.

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Women can be on the board of the church

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as much as a man can.

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Scripture says men and women,

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there's not male, female.

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We're all equal.

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From God's perspective,

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when it comes to ministry,

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he's not looking at your sex.

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It's everybody's got the right

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to flow and to minister and to move.

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Okay?

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That's different than a lot of churches.

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Well, we ain't gonna let the women.

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You remember what Eve did.

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Yeah, I know what Eve did.

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You remember what Adam did?

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Eve got tempted and made a mistake.

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Adam was standing right there

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and willfully chose to do wrong.

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So if you have two children,

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one makes a mistake and crashes the car,

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and the other one decided

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to drive down your driveway at 90 miles an hour

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and see if they could make the corner.

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Willfully!

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Which one are you gonna cut more slack?

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So don't come beating on women.

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To me.

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Yeah, Eve made a mistake.

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But Adam, that jerk.

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What the world were you thinking, man?

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When God forgives us,

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he forgets.

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That's who we are.

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Ministry service.

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I can name churches I had friends

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part of that when the people were teens

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or early 20s, they made a mistake.

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Either they didn't know, couldn't figure it out,

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something was going on, but somehow she got pregnant.

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Didn't make any difference what they did

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from that point forward.

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That man was limited to only doing a few things at church.

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He was not allowed to do everything anymore.

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He could never be on the board or be in leadership.

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Because when he was 21, he made a mistake.

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That's just a recipe for a good old boys club.

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That's all it is.

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Because if they actually ask forgiveness,

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God doesn't even remember what they did.

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So why are we holding it over their heads?

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They're 73 years old.

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Hello, cut them some slack.

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Well, that's really different.

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I know that's part of our sub-purpose.

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That's who we are.

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What does full gospel mean?

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Let's jump through these really quickly.

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It means we believe everything, page 16, number two.

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We believe everything presented in the New Testament

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is available for all of us today.

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Nothing passed away.

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Nothing went away.

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It's all here for us today in the New Testament.

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The five-fold, we believe all five-fold are active.

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They should be represented in every church.

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Apostles have not passed away.

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Prophets have not passed away.

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They're here.

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We make room for them to operate.

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The baptism with the Holy Spirit

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is an experience apart from salvation.

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It's subsequent to salvation.

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It is for everyone.

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Primary purpose is not to speak in tongues.

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Primary purpose is to receive power.

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And if I would rewrite this book,

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I would go back and add in what we talked about

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coming out of Matthew.

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And when you...

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John the Baptist was talking...

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I'm going too fast.

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John the Baptist was talking about

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what Jesus was going to do

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and how he was going to baptize us

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with the Holy Spirit and fire.

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The Holy Spirit is here to clean us up.

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And as he cleans us up, he empowers us.

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We don't get baptized in the Holy Spirit

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so we speak in tongues.

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That's a different aspect of it.

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But the heart of it is

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he's here to clean us up and help us

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and empower us.

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And it does not happen

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when you get saved.

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You receive the baptism in the Holy Spirit.

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I can show you four or five examples in Scripture.

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Just bam, bam, bam, bam in the book of Acts.

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It's not how it works.

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It's subsequent.

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And once we've experienced it, we can say,

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oh yeah, that's different.

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That's something separate from getting saved.

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That's who we are.

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So we don't believe.

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Well, you got saved.

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You had the baptism in the Holy Spirit.

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No, you don't.

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I was saved for years before I got baptized

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in the Holy Spirit.

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In fact, it was one of my

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trump cards I was holding in my back pocket

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so I wouldn't have to go in the ministry.

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Seriously.

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As a young boy,

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I knew, I just knew,

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I'm supposed to be minister.

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And I didn't want to be minister.

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These people did not impress me.

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And I saw a lot of them

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because remember, I was a church a lot.

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And it was stressed,

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if you're going to be a minister,

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you need to be baptized in the Holy Spirit.

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Well, I was saved.

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I didn't want to go to hell,

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so I was going to heaven.

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But I was not baptized in the Holy Spirit

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in order to have any intentions to be.

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Because as long as I'm not,

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I don't have to go in the ministry.

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So I have a legitimate out.

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In the fall of my eighth grade year,

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he snuck it in on me.

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And I remember,

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I still remember it.

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It was on a Wednesday night.

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We were at church.

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Everybody was praying.

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They had a, it was a good tradition,

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a habit of everybody

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knelt down by their chairs

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and prayed at the end of service

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for five, ten minutes.

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I'm an eighth grader.

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I don't have a care in the world.

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I have a good family.

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I've got all the food.

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And yeah, I haven't got nothing

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to pray about, Ron.

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I just goofing off.

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Got to kneel down

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because of mom and dad.

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See, you're sitting there.

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That ain't going to go well.

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So I'm kneeling down, goofing off.

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So I had nothing else to do.

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So I heard some people

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speaking in tongues around me.

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I thought, I'm going to imitate that.

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I wonder if I can do that.

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So I imitated it.

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Tried to say what they were saying.

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And I did that for maybe a minute.

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And then this thought

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went through my mind really strongly,

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which now I know where it came from.

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And you'll recognize right away.

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Thought went through my mind,

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you need to stop doing that.

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You're making fun of God.

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Well, you know where that thought came from.

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Stop it.

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You're hanging out too close

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to the edge of the water here.

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You could fall in.

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Stop it.

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And I don't know,

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maybe a German side of me.

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I don't know what it was.

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I just...

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I think I even whispered it.

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I don't believe that.

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God knows what I think.

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I can do what I want.

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And the next word...

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Pow!

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It shifted into gear.

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And I could...

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It just overwhelmed me.

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And I'm speaking in tongues.

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This, that, and the other.

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And the first thought

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that went through my mind

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shows you where my mentality was at.

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So God doesn't always go,

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you don't have to be good enough for God.

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He'll work on the good enough later.

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First thought went through my mind.

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Ah, crap.

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Now I got it.

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I got to go into ministry.

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That's how I got it.

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So if you're looking for a real holy experience,

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you may not want to come to me.

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Once we're baptized in the Holy Spirit,

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we believe all nine gifts

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are available to people.

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Full gospel means we believe in healing,

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miracles, signs, wonders, dreams,

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visions, supernatural manifestations,

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and experiences.

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They're available to everybody.

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You don't have to be good enough.

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You don't have to be a certain kind of person.

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They're available to everybody.

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Number three is that it is the Holy Spirit,

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the third person of the Trinity

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who works all these things in us.

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He's the one who anoints us with power

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for all these things to take place.

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Therefore, we try in this church

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to stay in step with the Holy Spirit.

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That's why they were singing

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and they almost quit.

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And I thought, no, you can't quit yet.

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So I got up and came up here.

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I thought, I ain't going to let you quit.

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This is where it's supposed to go.

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And then they came back again.

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Then I said a couple of things

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and they went a couple more

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and then they started going down again.

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I said, no, keep this going.

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Because that's the direction

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the Holy Spirit was going

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because he was working on some of us.

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In that presence,

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some of you were being really bothered

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with the question,

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you need to give it all over to God.

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Why aren't you?

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The Holy Spirit was working on you

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and he wanted that atmosphere

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to stay intact.

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The presence, the anointing

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of the Holy Spirit

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is really, really important here

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because it's really, really important to me.

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Bottom of that page, Top of 17,

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we believe that he personally

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communicates with us

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to accomplish what he wants done.

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He's able to speak to us

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in many ways.

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For you to understand why we emphasize

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that so much,

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you have to understand

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how he trained me.

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So up until I got baptized

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in the Holy Spirit,

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I was kind of a goof-off.

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As you probably figured out

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from my reaction

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to the baptism of the Holy Spirit,

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I was like, oh, man.

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Kind of a goof-off.

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But once, that was the fall

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of my eighth grade year.

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Once that took root

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but over the winter,

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by the next summer,

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everything had changed in me.

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Not because I was trying

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to change a thing.

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It's because he was starting

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to change me.

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Okay, so I grew up

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on a farm ranch setting.

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We had a few thousand acres

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of ground that we worked

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and we had a lot of cattle,

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which I didn't care for the cattle in.

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I never did like cattle.

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But they have to have hay made

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for them and so forth,

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so I was very active in that side.

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So between those two,

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and at that point,

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we still summer-fellowed

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50% of the ground.

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So in other words,

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you plant half,

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and the other half,

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you would keep the weeds down.

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You'd have to work at every couple of weeks

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if you had a wet summer.

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Keep the weeds down

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so the moisture would replenish.

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And then you would plant that

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the next year

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and the stuff that you took

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the crop off,

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you would summer-fell that.

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So half of our ground,

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we were working all summer long.

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Keep the weeds down

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and let the moisture accumulate.

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It's how they did it back then.

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Now they do no till farming,

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so it's a whole different thing.

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That's how we did it.

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So between cutting hay,

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raking hay,

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working on the field all summer long,

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I spent days and days,

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hours and hours.

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We'd try to get breakfast

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and if dad was up at 4.4.30,

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he'd get everything fixed

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and greased and going.

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And he never required me

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to be up there standing

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and watch him do that.

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Thank God.

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He'd come in for breakfast

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around 7.

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That's when I got up.

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We had breakfast

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and then everybody's out the door

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about 8

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and suffers not till 9 at night.

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So the average day was 12, 13 hours.

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That's 6 days a week.

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That's just the way it was.

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Most of that time you're riding

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on a tractor,

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a swath or a combine,

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a truck.

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You're driving.

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You're doing something.

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And a lot of it is kind of

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mindless work.

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It doesn't take a lot of concentration.

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So what happened over that period of time

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is the Holy Spirit

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started moving in on me

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and I started experiencing his presence.

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Worked with me.

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I'll get there.

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Between my freshman and sophomore year,

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there was a demonic attack on me.

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I almost died,

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which made me very serious.

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I realized, oh,

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this isn't the game.

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This is for real.

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Well now, not only was he trying

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to move in on me,

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I started reaching back.

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And the hours

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and the hours

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and the hours of sitting,

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driving,

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that the presence of the Holy Spirit

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would just come

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so heavy.

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I would just weep

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and weep for hours.

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Many times I had to turn around

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because I missed where I was supposed to go.

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I couldn't see.

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Can't see where I'm going.

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I had to loop around and hit that again.

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I missed a whole bunch of weeds.

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It just would go on for hours,

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days at a time.

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That was my secret place,

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like Igor was talking about.

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That's where I met with God.

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Now he didn't talk to me much back then.

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But man, I learned to recognize

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when he was around,

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when his presence would come,

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when his anointing would come.

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I got so sensitive to that

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over the next eight years,

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six, eight years

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before I left home and went off.

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That is why

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it is extremely important

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that at church

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we sense the presence of God.

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That was the groundwork

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he laid for me.

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Because it's in the presence of God

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he works.

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That's where he changed his lives.

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You can listen to me till the cows come home.

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Might be like water off a duck's back.

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Do nothing.

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You sit in the presence of God

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and get real with him for five minutes.

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You will never be the same person again.

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Never be the same person again.

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And I sat in this for hours and hours and hours.

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I began to understand

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I could feel what he felt.

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He began teaching me that.

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What he was feeling I would feel

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and I can't go into that,

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but he started showing me.

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He didn't say much to me,

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but he just let me sense him.

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And what he was dealing with

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and how he was approaching things and so forth.

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And folks, I just...

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Once you've experienced that,

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it's a joke to live without it.

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It's like a bad joke.

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Once you've experienced

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how it's supposed to be

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and the intimacy you can have

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and Almighty God himself

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comes and starts dealing with you.

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Once you've experienced that

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to sit in church

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and he don't show up at all,

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he's like, pfft,

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give me a break.

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I'll quit the ministry and do something else.

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We're not doing it. This is a joke.

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Now I'm, again,

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other churches do what they want.

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They're going to answer for it between them and God.

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But I'm with Moses.

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If your presence doesn't go with us,

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I ain't going.

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I ain't going. I want nothing to do with this.

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If your presence doesn't show up,

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churches where the Holy Spirit

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should be free to do what he wants to do

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and manifest and get into our dirt

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like he did this morning

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or encourage us and so forth.

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So we have a strong...

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It's who we are. It's what drives us.

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It's what makes us who we are.

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It's about the presence of God.

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And, you know, sometimes we put on the sign out front,

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come and experience the presence of God.

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And I had somebody get upset with me about that.

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Who do you think you are?

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Do you think there's not the presence of God

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in other places?

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No, he's around, but he sure don't manifest much.

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For those of you who were here when Igor was here,

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remember the first thing he said

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on that first Sunday morning?

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God put him on a mission to go visit all kinds of churches.

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They had visited 52 churches in one year.

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Every Sunday they're a different church.

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And he could count on one hand with fingers left over.

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How many had the presence of God show up in the service?

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See, it becomes our sub-purpose, not because

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oh, you think you're special.

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No, it has nothing to do with us being special.

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It has to do with our heart is after God

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and I want more than to just learn about him.

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I want to experience him.

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I want to breathe what he breathes.

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I want to feel what he feels.

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I want to experience him.

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I just don't want to hear about him.

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I don't have to waste a Sunday morning just hearing about him.

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Page 17, letter B.

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We strongly emphasize praise and worship,

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especially in church setting.

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Obviously that's scriptural.

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I don't think I have to convince you of that.

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Our belief is,

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as long as you don't do damage to someone else,

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praise and worship, how you want to praise and worship.

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If you got a flag, watch who you're wrapping in the head.

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Because it could interfere with their praise and worship.

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If you want to lay on the floor and praise and worship,

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you lay on the floor.

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If you want to dance, you dance.

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If you want to raise your hands, you raise your hands.

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If you want to do the heaven forbidden thing in a lot of churches,

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if you want to shout, you go give it.

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You shout.

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You praise and worship according to what's coming out of your heart.

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And let's go there.

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Otherwise it's not real praise and worship.

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I mean, anybody can sing songs.

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That's not praise and worship.

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Singing songs is not praise and worship.

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It's engaging with God.

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That's praise and worship.

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Scripture says he takes pleasure in the prosperity of his people.

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Yes, we believe in prosperity.

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If you want to believe in poverty, you go ahead.

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I'm fine with that.

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I have a number of scriptures listed there.

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I have a whole bunch.

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The Scripture says the Father takes pleasure in the prosperity of his people.

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The first word that came out of Jesus' mouth at his first message

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had to deal with prosperity.

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He was teaching the people how to prosper.

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He said, blessed are those who.

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The word blessed means to be empowered to prosper

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and have success down the road,

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which makes you happy, which deals with emotions.

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It's all in the definition.

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The first thing that Jesus declared was prosperity.

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Because the thief comes to steal, kill, and destroy.

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He comes to take it away.

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But Jesus said, I've come to give you more than you can handle.

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Give you life abundantly, beyond what you can handle.

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So, yeah, do we believe in prosperity?

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Absolutely we believe in prosperity.

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I'm running out of time, so I don't have time to sit on it.

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Letter D, everything that Jesus brought for us

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on the cross is available to us,

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and it's our covenant duty to pursue these promises

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and live in them the best we can.

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So, here you should have a number one that says,

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we are a faith church.

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Absolutely we are a faith church.

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Second Corinthians 5.7 says, we walk by faith,

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not by sight.

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Romans 4.16 says, faith is the guarantee of the promises.

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Hebrews 11.6 says, without faith,

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it's impossible to even please God.

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Luke 18.8 Jesus said, when I return,

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will I even find faith on the earth?

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Hebrews 12 talks about the faith that boils in us

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and it perfecting and working in us

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and how we understand that everything that God does,

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we understand it by faith.

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And even how he created the earth,

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we understand that by faith.

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Let me give you one scripture.

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Can you jump off of this, Vanessa,

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and go to Romans 10, verse number 9 and 10?

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So, go back to the how to.

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Well, you need to believe God

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because this is what his promises are

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and that's all good, but how do I do it?

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How do I believe God?

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See, that flows through everything.

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What does it mean to believe God?

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How do I talk if I'm believing God?

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What do I think if I'm believing God?

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Explain faith to me.

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Explain what it means to believe God.

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Someone put a challenge out for you.

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Jesus said it this way.

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Your work is to believe.

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True faith and belief is work.

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If we can't explain why that's work,

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we're probably not believing.

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It's like taking your car to a mechanic

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and there's a knocking in the engine.

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And he lifts the hood and he looks at it and says,

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oh, yeah, we can fix that.

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Well, what do you think it is?

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I have no idea what it is.

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Well, where are you going to start?

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How much is this going to cost me?

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I don't know where to start.

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I don't know. I'll go on YouTube

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and I'll look something up.

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Maybe we can figure it out.

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We'll take care of it for you.

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Don't worry about it.

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Close the hood and go someplace else.

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Hope it runs till you get there.

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You say, why?

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He doesn't know how to do what he claims he can do.

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Can you explain faith to me?

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How it works?

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How it changes the way we're supposed to think?

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The way we're supposed to act?

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The way we're supposed to talk?

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How we're supposed to focus ourself?

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Why does faith become work?

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If you can't explain it,

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you probably aren't doing it.

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A good mechanic can explain

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what he has to do to fix the car.

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Someone who has no idea

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probably can't fix the car.

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Follow the line of thinking there.

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Romans 10, verse 9.

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It's not up yet.

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I thought it was there already.

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There it is.

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Because if you acknowledge and confess with your lips

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that Jesus is Lord and in your heart believe

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adhere to trust and rely on the truth

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that God has raised him from the dead,

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you will be saved.

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You're in the Amplified.

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Could you go to New King James?

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And then go to verse number 10.

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These are our basic salvation scriptures.

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For with the heart we believe to righteousness

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with the mouth confession is made unto salvation.

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So Paul is saying to get saved,

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you've got to have two things.

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You've got to have belief

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and you've got to speak it out of your mouth.

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Confession is part of faith.

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Well, you're not one of these

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name it and claim it people.

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Absolutely I am.

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So are you if you're saved?

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If I ask you, are you saved?

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Yeah, I'm saved.

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You just named it and claimed it.

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Well, do you think Jesus rose from the dead?

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Yes, I believe Jesus.

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You're claiming it.

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You're claiming you believe that.

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You just named it and you claimed it.

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You have to have confession to have faith.

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You can't pray for God to intervene

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in your marriage and then walk away

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and say, I doubt this will ever change.

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You are not in faith.

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You're in unbelief.

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Just saying, that's one of the components.

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So now I want you to notice something.

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Jump back to verse 8.

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But what does it say?

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It says the word is near you in your heart

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or in your mouth and in your heart.

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This is the word of faith which we preach.

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People ask, are you word of faith?

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Absolutely, I'm word of faith.

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Paul was word of faith.

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Now I'm not word of faith of the organization.

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You know, there's an earthly organization

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called word of faith.

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I'm a word of faith.

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What does that mean?

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It says faith is in my mouth

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and if it doesn't come out through my words

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it's going to be useless.

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God spoke in Genesis 1 and things appeared.

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That's faith.

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He was using faith.

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So the whole concept of, well, yeah,

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go back to the last verse.

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Getting too excited.

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The whole concept is, are we faith?

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Well, there's only one other option.

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Unbelief.

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Well, I'm not talking about that.

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I'm talking about extreme faith.

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If you understood what faith meant

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there is no such thing as extreme faith.

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There's strong faith.

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There's powerful faith.

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There's faith that works.

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There's weak faith.

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There's unbelief.

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There's, you know,

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the disciples came to Jesus and said,

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why couldn't we cast the demon out?

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What did he say?

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It was because of your lack of faith.

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So do I want strong faith?

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Absolutely.

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I want what Paul is preaching about there.

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I want it to be strong.

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And then letter E, you need to write that in in the book.

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You can go back to the book now.

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Letter E, you need to write in the thing that kind of flows

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through our whole sub-purpose.

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This is how we do it.

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We come from the perspective of how to,

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how do you praise and worship?

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We are going to explain that and describe that

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and demonstrate that and participate with that

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the best we know how.

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How do you prophesy?

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We will explain that, describe that,

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participate with it and try to help you do it

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the best we know how.

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We want you to not just hear what's available

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and believe it, but to live in what's available

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and do it.

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And the thing there is that's the how to emphasis.

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So now we are going to take this

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and turn it a whole different direction

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because this is what I felt he wanted me to do at the end.

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Could you bring up 2nd Corinthians 1 verse 3?

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I think verse 3 and 4 would be fine.

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New King James is great.

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When it comes to why we are here,

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there is a lot of people who feel like

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they have messed up why they are here.

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So God can never use them

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for what he created them to do.

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They have done things wrong.

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They have made mistakes.

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They have messed things up.

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So the main purpose,

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advanced the kingdom of God,

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the sub purpose of how God wants to do it through them,

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he can't do it through them anymore

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because they are broken.

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Made some bad choices.

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Made some mistakes.

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They are broken.

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They can't do it.

01:00:52.240 --> 01:00:53.760
Okay, I got a break right there.

01:00:53.940 --> 01:00:55.040
And I got to go do something else.

01:00:55.620 --> 01:00:56.920
You have been being criticized

01:00:56.920 --> 01:00:58.320
for the way you worship.

01:00:59.540 --> 01:01:01.840
Do not give into that.

01:01:02.960 --> 01:01:05.080
You worship God with all your heart.

01:01:05.760 --> 01:01:07.840
And you engage with him.

01:01:08.400 --> 01:01:10.860
Don't listen to what people have to say.

01:01:12.900 --> 01:01:15.340
Anybody can stand at a distance

01:01:15.340 --> 01:01:16.760
and throw stones.

01:01:17.860 --> 01:01:19.260
You just let him bounce.

01:01:20.480 --> 01:01:22.080
And you worship God with all your heart.

01:01:22.900 --> 01:01:24.080
Because you were questioning,

01:01:24.360 --> 01:01:25.800
should I keep doing this this way?

01:01:25.900 --> 01:01:26.380
Should I not?

01:01:26.940 --> 01:01:28.220
Maybe I'm out of line.

01:01:28.500 --> 01:01:29.580
You are not out of line.

01:01:30.780 --> 01:01:32.860
You just worship God the way you feel

01:01:32.860 --> 01:01:33.940
you're supposed to worship God.

01:01:34.600 --> 01:01:36.160
And what's going on with you

01:01:36.160 --> 01:01:37.180
as you're being thrashed?

01:01:38.320 --> 01:01:40.000
You are not under attack,

01:01:40.940 --> 01:01:41.460
demonically.

01:01:42.280 --> 01:01:44.020
He's growing you.

01:01:46.120 --> 01:01:48.000
So don't confuse those two.

01:01:48.620 --> 01:01:49.740
Because it can feel like,

01:01:49.760 --> 01:01:52.980
why does my life not come around?

01:01:54.080 --> 01:01:55.320
Oh, he's rebuilding it.

01:01:57.060 --> 01:01:58.280
So just understand.

01:01:58.520 --> 01:02:00.280
He's rebuilding, he's reshaping,

01:02:00.460 --> 01:02:01.340
he's reforming you.

01:02:02.120 --> 01:02:03.120
Let that happen.

01:02:03.900 --> 01:02:06.020
Because again, there's been some confusion there.

01:02:06.620 --> 01:02:08.600
Right? And I'm taking authority over this

01:02:08.600 --> 01:02:09.760
and I'm trying to stand against the devil.

01:02:09.880 --> 01:02:10.600
This is not the devil.

01:02:10.920 --> 01:02:13.080
This is God changing you from the inside out.

01:02:14.280 --> 01:02:15.960
So that's just a word of encouragement.

01:02:21.850 --> 01:02:23.230
I'm going to talk flowery.

01:02:25.390 --> 01:02:27.090
You are not too broken.

01:02:29.030 --> 01:02:30.610
You are not

01:02:32.150 --> 01:02:34.790
too broken, too damaged.

01:02:35.670 --> 01:02:38.050
God has huge things

01:02:38.050 --> 01:02:39.610
for you.

01:02:40.030 --> 01:02:42.210
Absolutely huge things.

01:02:43.530 --> 01:02:44.850
So now take that thought

01:02:44.850 --> 01:02:47.490
and listen to what I'm going to say here.

01:02:47.590 --> 01:02:48.870
Bring Seton Corinthians back up.

01:02:49.650 --> 01:02:50.890
God takes

01:02:50.890 --> 01:02:53.370
our mistakes,

01:02:53.950 --> 01:02:55.230
our brokenness,

01:02:55.230 --> 01:02:56.770
our failures,

01:02:58.330 --> 01:02:59.230
our junk,

01:03:00.290 --> 01:03:03.210
and he weaves them right into

01:03:03.210 --> 01:03:05.270
what he wants to use us for.

01:03:05.890 --> 01:03:08.890
They don't disqualify us.

01:03:10.250 --> 01:03:13.330
They actually qualify us

01:03:13.330 --> 01:03:14.950
to do more.

01:03:15.510 --> 01:03:17.270
God does not know defeat.

01:03:18.190 --> 01:03:19.710
He doesn't sit on his throne and go,

01:03:19.790 --> 01:03:21.250
oh great, there they went and did it.

01:03:21.630 --> 01:03:22.510
Well now they're useless.

01:03:22.670 --> 01:03:23.810
Now we got to find someone else.

01:03:23.810 --> 01:03:25.050
You know what he does, he says,

01:03:25.130 --> 01:03:26.530
oh well they went and did it.

01:03:26.610 --> 01:03:27.910
So we got some work to do on them.

01:03:28.310 --> 01:03:29.990
But now they're going to understand

01:03:29.990 --> 01:03:33.290
an aspect of this rotten, stinking world

01:03:33.290 --> 01:03:35.010
that they never understood before.

01:03:35.450 --> 01:03:37.310
And I'm going to use them

01:03:37.850 --> 01:03:39.590
according to what just happened.

01:03:40.650 --> 01:03:42.210
Bless be the God and Father

01:03:42.210 --> 01:03:43.330
of our Lord Jesus Christ.

01:03:44.950 --> 01:03:47.250
How is it anointing on this?

01:03:48.270 --> 01:03:50.370
The Father of mercy is the God of all comfort.

01:03:50.610 --> 01:03:51.030
Next verse.

01:03:52.290 --> 01:03:54.550
Who comforts us in all our tribulation

01:03:54.550 --> 01:03:56.550
that we may be able to comfort those

01:03:56.550 --> 01:03:58.870
who are in any way in trouble.

01:04:00.030 --> 01:04:01.250
With the comfort

01:04:02.410 --> 01:04:04.650
which we ourselves

01:04:05.710 --> 01:04:06.970
were comforted by.

01:04:08.390 --> 01:04:10.190
Well when do you need comfort from God?

01:04:10.730 --> 01:04:12.030
When you went and messed it up.

01:04:15.580 --> 01:04:16.140
Next verse.

01:04:18.660 --> 01:04:20.320
For as the sufferings of Christ

01:04:20.320 --> 01:04:22.580
abound in us, so our consolation

01:04:22.580 --> 01:04:23.440
abounds through Christ.

01:04:23.540 --> 01:04:24.540
So Paul is talking about himself.

01:04:24.720 --> 01:04:25.120
Next verse.

01:04:27.140 --> 01:04:28.420
For if we are afflicted

01:04:28.420 --> 01:04:30.840
it is for your consolation

01:04:30.840 --> 01:04:31.440
and salvation.

01:04:33.340 --> 01:04:34.500
Which is effective

01:04:34.500 --> 01:04:36.700
for enduring the same sufferings

01:04:37.180 --> 01:04:38.160
which we've suffered.

01:04:39.100 --> 01:04:40.740
Or if we are comforted

01:04:40.740 --> 01:04:42.120
it's for your consolation

01:04:42.120 --> 01:04:43.880
and salvation. Go to the next verse.

01:04:45.000 --> 01:04:47.040
And our hope for you is

01:04:47.040 --> 01:04:48.600
steadfast because we know

01:04:48.600 --> 01:04:50.700
that you are partakers of sufferings

01:04:51.760 --> 01:04:53.720
as also you will partake

01:04:53.720 --> 01:04:54.780
of the consolation.

01:04:55.140 --> 01:04:56.200
So we've got sufferings.

01:04:56.320 --> 01:04:57.300
God's going to comfort us.

01:04:57.440 --> 01:04:57.660
Why?

01:04:58.080 --> 01:05:00.020
So we do not want you to be ignorant

01:05:00.020 --> 01:05:01.540
brethren of how this all works.

01:05:02.000 --> 01:05:04.100
Our trouble which came to us in Asia

01:05:04.100 --> 01:05:05.820
we were burdened beyond measure

01:05:05.820 --> 01:05:07.460
and he goes on and talks about

01:05:07.460 --> 01:05:10.700
the way we receive comfort

01:05:10.700 --> 01:05:13.340
we are now able to give

01:05:14.420 --> 01:05:14.980
comfort.

01:05:16.360 --> 01:05:18.800
He doesn't disqualify us

01:05:18.800 --> 01:05:20.340
if we've been a drug addict.

01:05:21.100 --> 01:05:23.160
He will get us free from it

01:05:23.160 --> 01:05:25.220
and then use that

01:05:25.220 --> 01:05:27.780
weave it right into why we're alive

01:05:27.780 --> 01:05:30.760
so that you can now go to someone else

01:05:30.760 --> 01:05:32.600
who needs what you got.

01:05:33.860 --> 01:05:35.620
This whole religious thing of

01:05:35.620 --> 01:05:37.100
you got to be good enough for God.

01:05:37.340 --> 01:05:38.820
It's such a pile of garbage.

01:05:40.300 --> 01:05:42.400
We have to be sincere with God.

01:05:43.180 --> 01:05:44.880
We have to give our lives

01:05:44.880 --> 01:05:46.700
and let him be Lord and master.

01:05:47.380 --> 01:05:49.720
But everything that we did

01:05:49.720 --> 01:05:51.280
that was a pile of rubbish.

01:05:51.480 --> 01:05:53.320
We messed it. We messed it up.

01:05:53.500 --> 01:05:54.960
We sinned. We made a mistake.

01:05:55.260 --> 01:05:57.940
Whatever. God takes that

01:05:58.760 --> 01:06:01.400
and weaves it right into our life

01:06:01.400 --> 01:06:03.620
and says now you're going to minister to people

01:06:03.620 --> 01:06:05.380
you'd have never ministered to before

01:06:05.380 --> 01:06:07.680
because you didn't understand them before.

01:06:08.180 --> 01:06:09.620
Now you understand them.

01:06:10.820 --> 01:06:13.520
It doesn't disqualify us

01:06:13.520 --> 01:06:14.920
when we mess up.

01:06:15.560 --> 01:06:17.700
If we will come back to God

01:06:17.700 --> 01:06:20.120
and surrender be pliable.

01:06:21.480 --> 01:06:23.020
Let him work in us.

01:06:23.640 --> 01:06:26.140
It actually qualifies us

01:06:26.140 --> 01:06:27.200
for more.

01:06:34.500 --> 01:06:35.940
And some of us

01:06:35.940 --> 01:06:37.780
I think even here maybe online

01:06:37.780 --> 01:06:39.040
some of us even here

01:06:39.040 --> 01:06:40.900
have struggled with this.

01:06:41.040 --> 01:06:42.620
You might have been Christian for twenty thirty years

01:06:42.620 --> 01:06:43.960
you might just be a new Christian.

01:06:44.360 --> 01:06:45.620
And you struggled with this.

01:06:46.900 --> 01:06:48.860
Well how can I do anything for God?

01:06:48.860 --> 01:06:50.660
I did blah blah blah.

01:06:51.680 --> 01:06:53.120
Well did you ask forgiveness?

01:06:53.420 --> 01:06:53.680
Yes.

01:06:54.460 --> 01:06:57.320
Are you growing so you get free of it?

01:06:57.460 --> 01:06:57.860
Yeah.

01:06:59.630 --> 01:07:01.380
Well then what God's going to do

01:07:01.380 --> 01:07:03.480
is he's going to take whatever blah blah blah was

01:07:04.360 --> 01:07:06.000
and he's going to use that

01:07:06.590 --> 01:07:08.340
through you to now

01:07:08.860 --> 01:07:10.560
touch people and help people

01:07:10.560 --> 01:07:12.280
you would have never helped before.

01:07:13.360 --> 01:07:15.180
It didn't disqualify you.

01:07:16.060 --> 01:07:17.660
It actually qualified you.

01:07:19.340 --> 01:07:21.220
Now yeah you've got to get free of it

01:07:21.220 --> 01:07:22.440
you got to be an overcomer

01:07:22.440 --> 01:07:24.200
you can't give to someone else

01:07:24.200 --> 01:07:24.980
what you don't have.

01:07:26.960 --> 01:07:29.120
I mean you got to be free of it

01:07:29.120 --> 01:07:30.840
but once you're free of it

01:07:31.580 --> 01:07:33.540
you can reach into people's lives

01:07:34.460 --> 01:07:35.500
in a way that

01:07:35.500 --> 01:07:37.460
if someone who never went through that

01:07:38.100 --> 01:07:38.340
can't.

01:07:39.540 --> 01:07:40.800
There's people sitting here

01:07:40.800 --> 01:07:42.460
you can reach into people's lives

01:07:42.460 --> 01:07:43.120
I can't.

01:07:45.240 --> 01:07:46.460
I've never been an alcoholic.

01:07:47.920 --> 01:07:49.080
Never been hooked on drugs.

01:07:51.020 --> 01:07:52.280
I've never murdered anybody.

01:07:53.960 --> 01:07:55.220
I've never beat my wife.

01:07:56.620 --> 01:07:57.540
Wanted to some days.

01:08:01.400 --> 01:08:03.300
That really messes with the Atmos right now.

01:08:05.320 --> 01:08:06.840
But I never gave in to it.

01:08:09.600 --> 01:08:11.460
Some of you know I could go on listing

01:08:11.460 --> 01:08:11.600
something.

01:08:12.640 --> 01:08:14.980
Some of you have done those kind of things

01:08:14.980 --> 01:08:17.760
and you say I'm too big a sinner

01:08:17.760 --> 01:08:19.540
I'm too wretched of a person for God

01:08:19.540 --> 01:08:21.440
to be able to use in anything.

01:08:22.260 --> 01:08:23.500
God don't see it that way.

01:08:24.240 --> 01:08:26.320
He says in like the chorus

01:08:26.320 --> 01:08:27.580
we got stuck on and that

01:08:27.580 --> 01:08:28.740
I knew where it was going

01:08:28.740 --> 01:08:30.000
and that's why we got stuck on it.

01:08:30.120 --> 01:08:32.040
He's saying if you will let me

01:08:32.040 --> 01:08:34.060
bring you back to the cross

01:08:35.220 --> 01:08:36.800
and you will humble yourself

01:08:37.580 --> 01:08:39.640
and let me start working in you

01:08:40.620 --> 01:08:41.580
everything the...

01:08:41.580 --> 01:08:43.180
you've read this someplace before

01:08:43.180 --> 01:08:44.900
everything the enemy meant for evil

01:08:45.780 --> 01:08:47.060
he will turn to good.

01:08:50.710 --> 01:08:52.730
It's time some of us get this

01:08:54.690 --> 01:08:55.650
false condemnation

01:08:56.590 --> 01:08:57.550
false humility

01:08:59.030 --> 01:09:00.730
this barrier that says

01:09:00.730 --> 01:09:02.150
well you don't know what I've done

01:09:02.150 --> 01:09:03.590
I really don't care.

01:09:05.030 --> 01:09:06.470
Did you clean it up with God?

01:09:06.690 --> 01:09:07.990
Well yeah I've cleaned it up with God

01:09:07.990 --> 01:09:10.430
but I don't know if God

01:09:10.430 --> 01:09:11.130
will ever use me.

01:09:11.530 --> 01:09:13.730
He'll use you more if you get over yourself

01:09:14.490 --> 01:09:16.250
and get over that bad belief

01:09:16.250 --> 01:09:18.290
that says well only the qualified

01:09:18.290 --> 01:09:19.170
can do this.

01:09:20.190 --> 01:09:21.890
Everybody's qualified through the blood

01:09:21.890 --> 01:09:22.650
of Jesus Christ

01:09:23.710 --> 01:09:26.090
and the Holy Spirit's given to prepare us

01:09:26.090 --> 01:09:28.170
to make us go there

01:09:28.650 --> 01:09:29.850
so we can do.

01:09:30.590 --> 01:09:31.970
So if that's you I just want to agree

01:09:31.970 --> 01:09:32.550
with you in prayer.

01:09:33.130 --> 01:09:34.710
You don't even have to come to the front.

01:09:35.370 --> 01:09:36.470
If that's you just stand

01:09:36.470 --> 01:09:38.230
let's all get an agreement

01:09:38.230 --> 01:09:40.210
saying you know what's enough of this

01:09:40.750 --> 01:09:42.470
laying back, holding back

01:09:42.470 --> 01:09:44.370
I feel bad about myself

01:09:44.370 --> 01:09:46.850
if I could go back 20, 30, 40 years

01:09:46.850 --> 01:09:48.090
I would do this different

01:09:48.090 --> 01:09:49.650
then maybe God would do something.

01:09:49.910 --> 01:09:51.730
That's all a pile of lies.

01:09:53.050 --> 01:09:54.470
All a pile of lies.

01:09:55.790 --> 01:09:56.890
The only thing

01:09:56.890 --> 01:09:57.790
that's stopping you

01:09:57.790 --> 01:09:58.590
is you.

01:10:00.370 --> 01:10:01.750
Because if you've gone to God

01:10:01.750 --> 01:10:02.850
and said God forgive me

01:10:03.450 --> 01:10:04.510
I'm so sorry

01:10:06.030 --> 01:10:06.950
he don't remember

01:10:06.950 --> 01:10:08.810
what you're talking about when you come back

01:10:08.810 --> 01:10:10.430
the next week and say oh God forgive me

01:10:10.430 --> 01:10:12.630
I'm so sorry I have no idea what you're talking about

01:10:12.630 --> 01:10:14.330
I forgot your sin and I forgave it

01:10:14.330 --> 01:10:16.350
and I cast it as far as these from the west

01:10:16.350 --> 01:10:17.330
I have no clue what you're saying

01:10:18.910 --> 01:10:20.170
we're our own worst enemy

01:10:22.050 --> 01:10:23.370
so if you feel

01:10:23.370 --> 01:10:24.930
okay grabbing the hand

01:10:24.930 --> 01:10:25.910
of the person next to you

01:10:26.390 --> 01:10:28.690
that's fine I just want you to agree with someone

01:10:28.690 --> 01:10:29.570
if you want to.

01:10:29.570 --> 01:10:31.390
Lord in the name of Jesus

01:10:31.390 --> 01:10:32.650
we come into agreement

01:10:33.270 --> 01:10:35.390
and I call that these lies

01:10:35.390 --> 01:10:37.710
get broken off these people

01:10:39.590 --> 01:10:42.010
enough of handicapping

01:10:42.010 --> 01:10:43.590
and paralyzing

01:10:43.590 --> 01:10:45.250
people who are

01:10:45.250 --> 01:10:48.130
not only designed from the mother's womb

01:10:48.130 --> 01:10:49.630
to accomplish something

01:10:49.630 --> 01:10:52.030
and to meet a need and to do great

01:10:52.030 --> 01:10:54.070
what scripture calls great exploits

01:10:54.070 --> 01:10:55.850
do great things for you

01:10:55.850 --> 01:10:57.850
not only handicapping

01:10:57.850 --> 01:11:03.170
We are living and paralyzing them, but tormenting them all their life because I was such a bad person.

01:11:03.530 --> 01:11:05.070
Stop it in the name of Jesus.

01:11:06.510 --> 01:11:07.490
Stop it.

01:11:08.610 --> 01:11:10.730
We are washed by the blood.

01:11:11.870 --> 01:11:18.030
Scripture calls us justified. That means just as if we've never sinned.

01:11:20.150 --> 01:11:23.730
Just as you are just as if you've never sinned.

01:11:23.730 --> 01:11:29.550
And that's why Scripture says you are the righteousness of God in what Jesus did.

01:11:30.950 --> 01:11:36.230
Lord, help us see who we are in this one little area.

01:11:42.600 --> 01:11:48.540
I am not disqualified from anything God has for me.

01:11:49.980 --> 01:11:51.920
You need to repeat that with me.

01:11:51.920 --> 01:11:58.560
I am not disqualified from anything God has for me.

01:11:59.780 --> 01:12:04.240
Devil? Say that. Devil? Now repeat after me.

01:12:04.640 --> 01:12:09.820
If anything, God says, I'm more qualified.

01:12:17.760 --> 01:12:23.040
Now folks, you need to keep that in your heart and in your mind and find Scripture.

01:12:23.200 --> 01:12:26.680
Besides the one in 2 Corinthians 1, find Scripture that supports that.

01:12:26.680 --> 01:12:29.720
And you need to speak to yourself.

01:12:30.400 --> 01:12:36.160
Every time those feelings come of, oh, I wish I could, but 28 years ago I did this.

01:12:36.380 --> 01:12:39.220
So now I'm disqualified. You need to speak to that and say, shut up.

01:12:40.680 --> 01:12:44.520
If it's your own mind, if it's demonic input, whatever it is, shut up.

01:12:45.900 --> 01:12:49.220
I am a new creation in Christ.

01:12:50.260 --> 01:12:55.820
Old things have passed away. Behold, all things have become new.

01:12:55.820 --> 01:13:03.980
I am not disqualified. I am more qualified by His grace and by what He did.

01:13:06.000 --> 01:13:13.180
You get on that like fly on fly paper. You just stick to that and you beat that false belief into the ground

01:13:13.180 --> 01:13:19.220
till it quits affecting you. You kill that thing. That is not of God.

01:13:21.680 --> 01:13:22.280
Amen.