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Since we're on the whole pastor thing, let me piggyback off of that.

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It's not just Vern and Mary. It doesn't even just sit right with me when I say it, my goodness.

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It's Pastor Vern and Pastor Mary.

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I want to talk to the young people here real quick because I've been noticing that some of the older people are able to catch it.

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But just recently, maybe a few weeks ago, I had a conversation with a young person in our church.

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They were in my office and we were talking about something completely different.

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And the person kept on referring to pastors as Vern and Mary, Vern and Mary.

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And literally mid conversation, I paused the person and I said, listen, I said, just time out.

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Can you please for my sake, if you honor them and you respect them as your pastors,

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can you refer to them as Pastor Vern and Pastor Mary?

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This person looked at me and they're like, oh my goodness, never thought.

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And I was like, yeah.

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So, you know, honestly, and I say that because I hear so many people so comfortable with you guys

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and they just call you Vern and Mary, Vern and Mary.

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And it's just every time somebody says that, I'm like, ugh, how can you say that?

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I refer to you as pastors because not only do I honor you and do I love you, my wife and I both.

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But I respect you guys as my pastors and I submit under your shepherd like leading.

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So thank you. Thank you for that.

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How was everybody doing this morning?

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Fantastic. Excellent.

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I want to close out our series on offense, accusation and betrayal.

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And today I want to cover accusation and betrayal.

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I got a lot of notes but I'm believing the Lord that we'll get out of here in a good time.

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But I want to share something before I get into the message.

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And this is what I want to share.

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I felt the Lord speak this to me this morning and I say this to encourage us.

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As we were worshiping, I saw some people come in that I haven't seen for a long time.

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I haven't seen them for some time.

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And I got excited inside.

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I said, oh my goodness, I missed them.

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And I want to come up and I want to hug them. I want to say hi to them.

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And as all these things are running through me as I'm worshiping the Lord,

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the Holy Spirit spoke something to me.

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And he said, son, he said the same way that you feel towards these people

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is the way that I feel towards you when you guys gather corporately.

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The Lord said, I can't wait. Yes, we can take this personally and on a day-to-day base.

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Of course, God wants to meet with us day-to-day.

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But the emphasis I felt the Lord give me this morning is he said on Sunday,

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he said, when you gather together corporately,

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he said, you don't know how much I long and I wait to see you, to meet you,

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to hug you, to tell you, hey, I missed you last Sunday.

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That was so far ago.

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It's another Sunday that we can gather together.

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And I share that to encourage you and come with that heart posture.

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Come with that heart posture on Sunday.

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You're not here just to waste two, three hours,

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but you're here because your Heavenly Father desires to meet with you.

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There is a longing to see us once again.

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Amen?

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You with me this morning?

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Are we awake?

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Are we ready to listen to the word of the Lord this morning?

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Praise God. Let me pray and we'll get into the message.

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Father, we thank you that your word is truth.

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Father, we measure ourselves to your word.

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Your word is what measures us, God.

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And we thank you that there is no fault.

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There is no wrong that is found in your word.

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But your word, it is living God.

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It is living.

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And I pray, Lord, today you would give us grace to hear, Lord.

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You would grace us to hear your word today, God.

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That it would cut our hearts deep, Lord.

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Let the speaking of your word, the preaching of your word,

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let it cut our hearts deep this morning.

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Surgically, God, I pray.

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Surgically, you would cut us that we would remember

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and that we would begin to implement that which you are

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to speak to us today in Jesus' name in the body of Christ says.

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Amen.

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I'm going to have you open up your Bibles to Matthew 10.

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We're not going to read out of there yet,

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but I'm just giving you a head start.

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The Gospel of Matthew chapter 10 starting at verse 24.

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How many of you were here for the first three parts of this series?

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Raise your hands.

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Okay, so quite a few people.

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I encourage you after today, maybe some time,

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listen to these messages back to back to back to back

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because there's technically four parts

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and we have them on our online.

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I encourage you to listen to them

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because there's something that I really want to emphasize today

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as the Lord leads us to why we need to catch this as a body.

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This is not just a good idea.

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This is not just something that, you know, I thought of,

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but this is literally something that our Lord Jesus experienced

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and this is something that is bride is to experience as well.

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I talked about the first three part series

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or the first three parts of this series.

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I talked about offense.

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What is offense?

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How do we identify offense in our lives?

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How do we combat offense?

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All these things, I listed it in the first three part series.

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Today, I'm talking about accusation and betrayal.

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And these series, I've titled them as the last few hours.

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If you study the life of Jesus,

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if you study the four Gospels,

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Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John,

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it's technically one Gospel,

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but we're just so used to calling them the Gospels.

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The Gospel of Christ.

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You will find that in the last few hours of the life of Jesus,

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these are the three things that the Lord experienced

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with great, great intensity.

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To the point of where our Lord,

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I've been saying this throughout the whole series,

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but I'm really wanting to drill this into you.

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To the point that our Lord Jesus was sweating blood

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from the level of intensity that he was facing.

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He was facing offense, his own people,

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his own disciples were offended and scattered.

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Jesus faced offense, he faced accusation.

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From his own people, our Lord faced accusation.

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I'm going to be touching on that today.

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And he faced betrayal.

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By his own people, he was betrayed.

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By the Jewish people,

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let's not even just talk about the disciples.

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The Jewish people, the teachers of the law,

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the Pharisees of Pharisees,

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the ones that knew the Bible from cover to cover,

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they're the ones that actually betrayed him

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and said, let's crucify him.

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These are the things that our Lord experienced

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to such a great level of intensity

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that he was sweating blood.

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Just think about that for a minute.

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Honestly, just think about that.

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And I want to emphasize something to you today,

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that this is not just something that our Lord

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has experienced, but we as his bride,

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we as his bride,

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and I'll give you scriptures to why I stand on this,

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we as his bride are experiencing it right now.

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But friends, we're coming to a time

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of where it's intensifying to the measure

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that our Lord experienced in his last few hours.

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I want you to catch that,

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and I want you to be sober to that.

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So let me give you a little bit of the definition,

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the both Hebrew, Aramaic,

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and the Greek definition of what accusation means.

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There's multiple different meanings and definitions of it,

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as I've been studying this.

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So I'm just going to list them off here,

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and if I feel the Lord wanting me to pause on one of them,

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I will.

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But to accuse is to insult.

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It's to slander,

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passing judgment,

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to condemn.

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To accuse somebody is to condemn somebody.

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Oftentimes, when one is accusing,

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oftentimes it comes from a false perspective.

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And I could probably say most of the time,

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I'm just sharing with you

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what they were writing.

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I'm being graceful about that.

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Oftentimes, when you're accusing,

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it's coming from a false perspective.

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It's bringing falsehood.

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It's defaming someone or something.

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This both applies to an individual

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in a corporate setting,

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if you want to think of it that way.

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To accuse is to hinder someone's progress.

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Stop for a second and think about that.

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To accuse someone,

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or to be an accuser of someone,

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is to actually hinder somebody's progress.

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So, accusation is me...

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Let me give you an example.

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If I'm accusing Pastor Vern,

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can I use you an example?

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You're not going to be offended, right?

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Praise the Lord.

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If I'm going to accuse Pastor Vern

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and saying, hey, listen, Pastor,

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the prophecies you've had,

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man, they ain't real.

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I'm accusing him.

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Do you know what that does?

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That actually begins to hinder his progress.

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It begins to challenge his faith.

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And I'm going to go somewhere with this

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of where we're even more hinder in our progress

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is that when somebody is very close to us,

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remember, I said accusation,

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and I'm going to talk about this more and more,

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but accusation and betrayal will come from places.

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Let me just give you a sneak peek of my notes.

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Accusation and betrayal will come from the places

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we least expect them.

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Remember that.

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I said accusation and betrayal

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will come from the places that we least expect them to.

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So when you have somebody, for me,

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for an example, if I'm accusing Pastor Vern,

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I consider us to be really close.

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I do consider us to be really close.

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So if Pastor Vern finds me accusing him,

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it's actually going to hinder the progress of his faith

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and standing in faith for the things

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that God has promised would be.

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You catching what I'm saying?

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So to accuse is to hinder somebody's progress.

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To accuse is to treat somebody abusively.

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I said to accuse is to treat somebody abusively.

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To accuse actually means to devour somebody.

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Eating them up.

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They use them in the strongs.

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They use like a word picture of like biting, eating somebody.

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So when I'm accusing somebody,

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it's like a lion that is after a prey

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and I'm devouring that zebra.

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You catching what I'm saying?

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I'm bringing you all these definitions

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so that you can understand,

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you can be enlightened in your heart

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of what accusation actually is

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and what it looks like to be an accuser.

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I should say what you end up doing

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when you are accusing people.

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Now I want to make a quick side note

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and then I want to say something that blew my mind.

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I want to say this.

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Gossip, gossip is a form of accusation.

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I said gossip is a form of accusation.

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Now the question may arise and you will, Igor,

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how do I know when I'm gossiping

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and when I'm sharing something?

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This is where I draw the line.

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This is where I draw the line.

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If what you are saying about somebody else

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is of edification to the person, to the hearer,

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then most of the time, I'm not saying all the time,

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most of the time you're not gossiping.

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For an example,

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when me and my wife when we're discussing things,

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let's say we're discussing a situation.

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Let's not make it personal.

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Let's say we're discussing a situation.

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And I'll tell my wife.

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I'll say, hey, Soloshka,

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just want you to be careful

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or I want you to be aware of this and that or the third.

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I want you to be aware of that.

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I'm bringing this to light for my wife

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so that when she steps into that situation,

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she is not sideswiped.

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Did I gossip?

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Some will say you did,

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but scripturally I didn't.

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I edified my wife.

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I brought to light some things to let her know.

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Here's another example.

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When I used to pass her at my father's church,

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oftentimes speakers would come

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or I'd be introduced to the speakers before.

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I'd get to meet him, I'd sit over a meal with him,

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whatever the case may be.

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I'd go back to my dad and I'd say,

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hey, dad, so and so and so,

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da, da, da, da, boom, boom, boom,

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be, papa, whatever the case may be.

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Some will say, well, you gossiped about that speaker.

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I didn't gossip.

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I brought to light the things about that man

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or that woman that was going to speak at our church.

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And I edified my father in letting him know,

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hey, I want you to be aware.

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There was people that I just straight up said,

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I said, dad, don't invite him.

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Just don't do it, dad.

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You're going to regret it.

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And I'll tell you the same thing, man.

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If you ever get any Russian speakers, let me know.

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Because some of these guys just,

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it's like you can't carry him off the church

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unless the pulpit goes with him.

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And it's like, my God, man, seriously.

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Here's something that when I was studying this,

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blew my mind. Listen to this.

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To be an accuser or to find yourself,

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I guess it's the same way,

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to be an accuser or to find yourself accusing somebody

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is actually compared to be equal with Satan.

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Now pause for a second. Listen.

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To be one that is accusing somebody else

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or to be found in a situation

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that you're involved in accusation.

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You're not the one receiving it.

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You're the one that's actually giving it.

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Is compared to Satan himself.

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The scriptures say that he is the accuser of the brethren.

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That's what the scriptures say.

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And in Strong's the word,

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Sitna, I'm probably mispronouncing that,

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but I'm Russian. That's okay.

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The Strong's word, Sitna,

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which translates accusation.

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That's what the word translates.

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Sitna is accusation.

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It means to be an opposition

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for someone or for something.

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Now the word opposition in the Hebrew and Aramaic,

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that word actually relates itself to the Greek,

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or I'm sorry, to the Hebrew and Aramaic word,

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as Satan, which is Satan.

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You catching what I'm saying?

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So all this here, the word Sitna means accusation.

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And then accusation basically finds itself,

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it relates itself as being the one that's an opposition.

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And that word in Strong's opposition

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actually relates itself to being Satan.

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It's compared to being like Satan.

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You are literally doing, if not being,

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let's just put it this way,

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you are being a man that's allowing Satan to come in

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and to do his work.

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That's accusation.

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So now you got people in the church world

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that feel as though they're called

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to open up YouTube channels

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and begin to portray everything

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that this church, that church, this gathering,

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that gathering, them, everybody's doing it wrong.

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Not realizing, not realizing,

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the call actually ain't from God.

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The call actually ain't from God.

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And we see this in the life of our Lord Jesus.

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We see this in his disciples.

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We see this in the Pharisees.

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The Pharisees thought that what they were doing,

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they were blinded.

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But why were they blinded?

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Because they were offended.

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Friends, don't forget.

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That's why I want you to listen to the other three messages.

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In those messages, I stress this.

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Offense is the doorway.

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It's the doorway to

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accusing. It's the doorway to

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betrayal. It's the doorway to everything negative.

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When you find yourself being offended

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at a person or at a situation,

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I'm telling you, 99.9% of the time

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when you're offended, you don't even realize

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you're accusing.

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Seriously.

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Because you think you're coming from the perspective

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of they wronged me. How dare they?

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How dare they do that?

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So you're coming from this perspective that you're in the wrong,

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not realizing you have now just put on the clothes of selfishness

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and you're beginning to speak thinking, thinking

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that you're tearing open the heavens,

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you're pulling back the veil and you're exposing everything,

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not actually realizing, my God,

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you are actually doing exactly what Satan does.

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The accuser of the brethren.

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Friends, let that settle in you.

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Let that, let the fear of God settle in you.

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If you are ever sitting and gossiping about somebody,

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remember I said gossip is a form of accusation.

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So let that literally drop in you that when you're sitting

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and gossiping about somebody else,

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I'm going to make this really personal.

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You ready for this?

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Making it really personal.

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In the church.

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If you're sitting with somebody else and you're talking about

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the pastor or what she wore or what he said

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or somebody else in the congregation of how they acted,

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I want you to have this in mind when you're doing that.

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According to scripture, you're compared to Satan himself.

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You are literally compared to Satan himself.

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That's what the scriptures say.

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It's not what Pastor Igor said.

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It's not what Pastor Vern, Pastor Mary, Pastor...

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That's what the scriptures say.

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That's what God the Father says.

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Because he calls Satan the accuser of the brethren.

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That's what he calls them.

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You still with me?

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Still good?

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Yes.

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The word...

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Betrayal or to betray.

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I'm giving you both these definitions and then we'll get into it.

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I want to show you some of this in the life of Jesus.

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The word betray means to hurl, to delude

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as of causing someone to fall.

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To give over.

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To be a traitor.

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And then to deliver or to hand over.

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In a nutshell, if I could take the word betrayal

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or to betray in a nutshell.

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The best way that I could describe that to you

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after studying both in the scriptures

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and just that word and all that

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is to be one who betrays is to leave something

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you have believed or have had for a time.

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It's to believe something you've had

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or to believe in someone that you have known

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and then to leave them, completely leave them

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and what you've actually done is you've created a divide.

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To betray is actually to divide.

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Literally.

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We see that in the scriptures.

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When you are betrayed by somebody

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you've actually created a divide.

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Can I say something?

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There's a right way to leave the church.

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Yes there is.

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There's a right way to leave a church.

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Can I say that there's a right way to leave a relationship?

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Can I say that there is a right way

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to leave your workplace to a new job?

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There's a right way to all these things.

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There is a right way and a right approach

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that we as Christians can take towards these things.

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But to be in betrayal or to betray

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is literally to leave something you've had for a while.

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It could be maybe when I say a while

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you can say six months, you can say six years,

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you can say sixteen years.

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I'm just putting that in there.

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Let the number in your head be what you think is best.

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But it's to leave something and be divided from it.

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And this is what I want us to understand.

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That accusation and betrayal are like relatives.

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Seriously.

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It's like two peas in a pod.

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It's like peanut butter on jelly.

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It's like ice cream and french fries.

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I don't know what you country folk eat out here.

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Say it again?

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Close to lunchtime.

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Yes, I'm stirring you.

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I'm stirring you to a hunger.

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The natural hunger.

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Accusation and betrayal are relatives.

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And they go hand in hand.

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And one automatically follows the other

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and people don't even notice it.

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You know, to betray somebody does not necessarily mean that,

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you know, let's say me and Kim were brother and sister

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and we're living in the same house and I betrayed her.

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Betrayal doesn't necessarily mean that I've left

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the physical place where Kim and I used to be.

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To betray somebody can be at a distance.

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And the way that it comes is by me accusing them.

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See, accusation and betrayal are literally their relatives.

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It's like Uncle Bob and Uncle Joe, they're always together.

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Always.

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They're working on cars together.

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They're woodworking together.

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Whatever they're doing, it's together.

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Where Uncle Bob goes, you find Uncle Joe there.

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That's literally accusation and betrayal.

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And these things, both accusation and betrayal,

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they come from offense.

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Literally.

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If you can live an unoffendable life,

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which if you listen to the first three series, that's by choice.

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That's by choice.

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God ain't going to magically snap his fingers

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and all of a sudden you're an unoffendable person.

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Because even Jesus Christ, his son,

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who was God, yet in the flesh incarnated,

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was a man, had to guard his heart from being offended.

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There is not a magic wand that God will go like this

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and say, poof, you're no longer offended.

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It's a choice you literally make day to day,

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month to month, year to year, decade after decade.

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It's a choice you make.

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You can have everybody pray over you.

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You can have anointing oil.

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You can have Billy Graham come and pray for you.

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You can have Benny Hinn pray for you.

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Offense is a choice.

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You can either be offended or you can choose to stand against it.

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So if we can live unoffendable lives,

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we will not ever find ourselves in accusation or betrayal.

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Remember that.

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Friends, remember that.

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Because some of you are sitting here and you're thinking,

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you're thinking, man, I don't want to accuse.

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I don't want to do the work of the devil.

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I don't want to be the devil himself and do his work.

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I don't want to betray. I love what God is doing.

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I can just feel that, that some of you are like,

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yeah, I don't want to be found in that camp.

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Then friends, choose, choose to live an unoffendable life.

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Choose that.

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Ask him to help you.

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Is the road going to be bumpy for you to learn that?

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A hundred percent it is.

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It's bumpy for me.

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I haven't heard anybody that it's easy for.

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Honestly.

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It almost seems like...

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I've actually had a lot of people come up and tell me this.

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Ever since we got into the series,

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it almost seems like you have more opportunities to get offended.

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It's like as soon as you start talking about it,

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the devil is like, all right, let's do this.

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You're going to go to Walmart.

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You're going to offend you there.

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Go to your workplace.

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We're going to offend you there.

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You start talking about this stuff.

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And the devil sees that God is trying to deal with some stuff.

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He's trying to purify his bride.

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And he's like, all right, let's do it.

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I'm in this thing.

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Matthew 10, 24.

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Chapter 10, verse 24.

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I'm going to read it now.

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Listen to what the Lord says.

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This is Jesus talking.

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It's not Pastor Igor.

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Well, Jesus writing.

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Pastor Igor is talking.

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This is what the Lord says.

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He says,

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Verse 25.

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It is enough for a disciple that he be like his teacher.

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And they servant like his master.

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If they have called the master of the house,

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is that, am I saying that right?

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Bells of them?

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See?

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Somebody's got to give me...

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Okay, let's continue.

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How much more will they call those of his household?

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Verse 26.

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This is why I bring up that scripture.

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Okay, this is why I stand so hard on this.

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Is that if Jesus faced these three things with great intensity

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in the last few hours, friends, not days, okay,

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not days, the last few hours of Jesus' life,

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if our Lord faced these things,

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this scripture right here tells me,

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oh my goodness, we're going to face him with such intensity too.

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Because he says a disciple is not above his teacher,

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nor above his master.

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In other words, the Lord is saying,

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hey, listen, if I experience this and I'm your rabbi,

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he's talking to his disciples,

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and I don't know about you,

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but I'm a disciple of the Lord.

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So I take this as him talking to me.

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He's saying, hey, Igor, listen.

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If I faced what I faced in my days,

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that means that you're going to face him.

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Because he says a student is not above the master,

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and it's enough, it's enough.

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Listen, it's enough for us to be like him.

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It's enough.

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It's enough for us to be like Christ.

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If we could put on the character of Christ,

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if we could walk as he walked,

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if we could talk as he talked,

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that's what God the Father says, that's enough.

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That's what I want you to do.

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Don't do any more, don't do any less.

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Just that right there.

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Be like my son.

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And being in that, that tells me,

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according to what Jesus is saying here to his disciples,

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okay, Lord, if I am like you

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and I'm going to be facing things that you faced,

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these three things are not going to be eliminated,

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but yet they will be intensified

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to the measure that you faced.

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Because what the Lord says

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when he's talking about the end times,

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he says if those days were not cut short,

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he said if those days were not cut short,

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he said no man would be able to stand.

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But he said for the sake of the elect,

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for the sake of the elect,

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I have chosen to cut him short.

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Is that sitting with you?

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I want you to really,

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I want you to understand that because friends,

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we right now across the body of Christ

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are experiencing these three things.

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We are experiencing these three things.

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Remember our last Sunday,

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I was telling you about our good friends

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that live in a different state?

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They are literally in the midst of these three things

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in such intensity that they've like,

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oh my goodness, we've been in the ministry

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for over 20, I think they were like

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over 25 years, over 30 years,

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they've been in the ministry.

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And they're like, we have never faced something like this.

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And this is, I truly believe,

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and the Lord has made it clear,

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it's a simple precursor

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of what's happening across the body of Christ right now.

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Do you guys know how many ministries right now

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are just being battered?

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And I'm not talking about small ministries,

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I'm talking about large ministries.

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And the way that I determine between the two

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is when God allows them to go past

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and become international.

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I'm not saying they're better than us.

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I'm not saying they're better than somebody else.

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When I call a ministry a large ministry,

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I see it as, okay, there's a call on their life

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to go international.

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These ministries are being battered like crazy.

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To the point, I'm not going to get too much into it,

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but I want to draw you a picture

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of how real this thing is.

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To the point that there's people

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that have been in the ministry

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for so many, so many years

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and have successful ministries

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believe that they are called

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out of the ministry to get on the other side

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and become an accuser.

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Not realizing.

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They think that what they're doing is the right thing.

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Seriously.

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Not realizing, oh my goodness,

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I am actually compared to Satan himself.

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This is a real thing.

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This is a sure real thing.

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People are going to get even more offended.

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And when offense begins to rise up,

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we're going to see accusations through the roof.

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And automatically, like I said,

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accusation and betrayal,

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it's like Uncle Bob and Uncle Joe.

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Where accusation is, you'll find betrayal.

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I promise you that.

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Where accusation is, you will find betrayal.

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I gossip about somebody.

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Do you know what I just did?

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Let's say I'm gossiping about somebody to Nancy

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and I'm talking to Nancy

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and I'm talking about somebody else.

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Do you know what I've just done?

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I have just created a mindset in Nancy

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about the person that I am talking about.

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I've divided her and that person that I'm talking about.

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Do you understand that we have power in our tongue?

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When people come up,

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not saying I'm perfect at this,

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but when people come up to me

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and they ask me about other ministries

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and they'll say, hey Igor,

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so what do you think about this in this ministry?

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If I literally have nothing good to say,

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if I literally see like, oh my goodness,

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they are just haywire,

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I'm not saying I'm always good at it,

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but I'm definitely going to look better.

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I say, no comment.

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I got no comment.

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I plead, was it the fifth, right?

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I plead the fifth.

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I knew that one.

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Thanks Gene.

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I plead the fifth.

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Because you know what happens

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if I actually begin to tell him my opinion,

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I am now forming the way

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that they are going to perceive the ministry.

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We have power in our tongue.

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I said we have power in our tongue.

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Some of you are like,

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well, I don't really have a circle of influence.

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You'd be surprised the level of influence

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you have in people's lives.

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I'm telling you, we'd be surprised.

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Some of you are like, well, I'm not a speaker.

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You know, I'm really quiet.

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You know, I'm to myself.

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Yeah, but in that to yourself,

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in that one month when somebody comes to you

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and you say something,

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you have just formed a perspective

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in their minds by sharing about somebody or someone

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or a something.

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In that one month that you spoke to that person at work,

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your co-worker,

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you have formed the way that they perceive McDonald's now.

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You still with me?

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Open up your Bibles to John 12.

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I want to show you this, okay?

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So the Lord said,

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we are not above the teacher.

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We're not above the master.

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If Jesus faced these things,

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and I want to show you in Scripture that He did,

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then we are too as well.

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John 12.

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John chapter 12 verse 1 to 5.

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Let me jump down.

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Okay, I'll read all five of them.

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Then six days before the Passover,

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Jesus came to Bethany where Lazarus was

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who had died,

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who had been dead,

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who He had raised from the dead.

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There they made Him a supper,

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and Martha served,

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but Lazarus was one of those

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who sat at the table with Him.

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Then Mary took a pound of very costly oil

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and spikennart, anointed the feet of Jesus.

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I love this story. Love this story.

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Absolutely love this story.

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Anointed the feet of Jesus

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and wiped His feet with Her hair.

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And the house was filled

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with the fragrance of the oil.

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Verse 4.

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But one of the disciples,

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Judas Iscariot.

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This is where I want to emphasize

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of where Jesus was facing offense.

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But one of his disciples,

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Judas Iscariot, Simon's son,

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who would betray Him said,

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why was the fragrant oil

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not sold for 300 denari

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and given to the poor?

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This he said, not that he cared for the poor,

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but because he was a thief

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and had the money box

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and used to take it,

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used to take what was put into it.

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Okay?

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We are seeing a picture here

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of one of the most

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profound things that Jesus actually says

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what she has done will be spoken of

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for generations.

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I'm using my own language.

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For generations.

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Jesus said what she has done

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will be remembered forever.

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That's why I love that story so much.

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There's more reasons why.

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But I want you to...

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I want you to understand something.

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Here there is this moment that Jesus

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is calling a milestone marker, so to say.

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And in the midst of a milestone marker,

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one of his own that's very close to him

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is offended by what's happening.

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Now I want you to understand something.

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By this time, Judas was very offended.

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Very offended even before this time.

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That's why already at this point

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they called him a thief.

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Because he just helped himself.

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He was offended because his expectancy

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was okay I'm going to follow this guy.

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Because he teaches different.

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He walks in power.

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He does miracles.

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I've never seen something like this.

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He's walking on it.

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He's doing all these things.

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I'm going to follow him.

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But in the mindset of Judas

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was he was thinking natural.

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Because Jesus was talking about

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overthrowing in his kingdom.

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The Lord taught on the kingdom.

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A lot.

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But Judas is thinking natural.

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He's thinking he's about to overthrow

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Rome.

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He's going to sit.

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And I get to be right there with him.

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Where what the Lord was talking about

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was completely different.

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And when that clicked

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in Judas' head that oh my goodness.

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I've been misinterpreting this thing.

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I have been completely

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not having discernment

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of what he's talking about.

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And now we're literally because

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what the Lord says is what she's done

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is to prepare him for his burial.

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It's like there's a light bulb

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that went off in Judas' head.

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And he's like oh my goodness.

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Hold on a second man.

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I didn't sign up for this.

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I did not sign up for this.

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So here the Lord is actually facing

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offense as we are.

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I'm telling you.

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Oh my God.

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You speak in places.

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I will say one of the hardest jobs

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is to be a pastor. Not going to lie to you.

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Would you agree with me?

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One of the hardest jobs is to be a pastor.

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Just had a conversation with my brother-in-law

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who's in the trades. He's a mechanic.

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Him and I had lunch

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like last week Monday or something like that.

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And he's asking me. He's like hey how's the ministry?

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And I said bro, I said it's way different

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than installing windows man.

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Way different.

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Though I've been in the ministry for

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six plus years now we've been in the ministry.

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But it's different when you're full-time.

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There's just like a shift.

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And it's like

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one of the hardest jobs

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I'm not saying this to complain.

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I love what I do. I love that God

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has called me to this. Hear me right here.

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But I'm saying it's one of the hardest things

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because why it's hard

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is when you have to confront and say truth

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you know that you know

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that you know that who you're telling it to

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or to whom you're telling it to

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there's a very high chance

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of them being offended.

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There's a very high chance.

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My intent is not to offend

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people, but my intent is

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to make sure that we're walking in the light.

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So here the Lord

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is in this moment of where

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he's literally saying that what she's doing

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is actually so profound

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preparing me for my burial

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and one of his own gets offended at him.

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Friends, we're gonna see that.

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I said

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we're gonna see that.

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We're gonna see

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a move of God in the most intimate

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places of where God

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is really doing something.

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He's setting down mile markers.

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There's like something that God is really

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emphasizing and marking us in.

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We're gonna see people that are very close

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to us. I pray we don't.

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But if Jesus experienced it

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I'm expecting

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let me be wrong. Let me be wrong.

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But I'm expecting

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people that are in the inner circles

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to be offended at what's being done.

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But the choice is yours.

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The choice is mine.

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I'm not saying that you're

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predestined to be offended. No, you're not.

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But it's yours when it happens.

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Because

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if there's things that God

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is dealing in you that he's asking

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you to die for and you're choosing

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not to die to those things

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and when God is beginning to

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move on something and he's trying to deal with you

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but now here we are at a mile marker

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you haven't dealt with it yet

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and God moves and all of a sudden

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you're offended because you chose

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not to deal with it and now you are

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choosing to be offended with what God is doing.

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You catching what I'm saying?

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I'm talking about

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inner circle people.

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How many of you are a leader here?

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Raise your hand if you're a leader in the church.

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Raise your hand high.

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I'm talking to you guys.

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I said I'm talking to the leaders.

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I'm talking to pastors.

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I'm talking to people that you're

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called.

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If Jesus, I'm not saying

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that you're going to be that person

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but what I'm telling you is if the Lord

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experienced it in the most inner circle

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that tells me

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and puts my alert up

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that people that are even close

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in leadership are running with me

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running together

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have the opportunity

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to do exactly what Judas did.

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You catching what I'm saying?

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Watch this.

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John, is this still good?

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John 13.

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Open up to John 13

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verses 18 and 30.

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I love

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here in the pages of Bibles.

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I'm telling you, I love that.

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John 13.

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And then this again.

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This is the Lord speaking.

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He says, I do not speak

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concerning all of you.

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I know whom I have chosen.

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But the Scripture

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that the Scripture may be

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fulfilled. He who

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eats the bread with me

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has lifted up his heel against me.

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By the way, he's talking about...

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You guys know who he's talking about, right?

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Okay.

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Verse 19. Now I tell you

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before it comes

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I am telling you

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before it comes.

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Let me take the words of our Lord

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and let me reiterate that to you.

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I am telling you before it comes.

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I am telling you

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that we are going to face

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these three things.

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We are to some degree

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already facing them. We are.

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But I'm telling you

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before it comes

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we will face these things

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at a great intensity.

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At a great intensity.

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And our response to it

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is going to be key. Very key.

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Now I tell you before it comes

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that when it does come to pass

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you may believe

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that I am he.

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Most assuredly I say to you

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he who receives

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whomever I sent receives me

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and he who receives me

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receives him who sent me.

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When Jesus said all these things

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he was troubled in his spirit.

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There's a significance there. I'm not going to get into it right now.

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And testified and said

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most assuredly I say to you

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one of you

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will betray me.

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You guys know that story

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but let me just... I'm not going to keep reading.

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I want to draw you a picture here.

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Imagine you're sitting

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with the people you have just been doing

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ministry with for three and a half years.

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Close band of brothers.

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Close band of sisters.

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And you're sitting around this dinner table.

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There's this beautiful spread

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and you're sitting around there

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and of course you're teaching because

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you're the leader of the pack

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and you're imparting, you're saying things

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and then all of a sudden

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in your spirit you're troubled

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because you realize

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oh my goodness, right now

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I have to identify

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one of my closest people

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to everybody else

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that they're going to betray me.

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Pause and think for a second.

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How many of you would actually do that?

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Publicly.

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No, you wouldn't.

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I love the boldness

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I love the boldness.

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But I don't think you realize

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how much the Lord actually loved Judas.

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That's what we can't forget.

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I don't think we realize how much the Lord

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loved him.

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To the point

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listen friends, listen, listen to me.

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This is our Lord. I'm talking about our Lord

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how lowly he is.

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Okay, listen to this.

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He even

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stooped down

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to wash the feet

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of his betrayer

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after he already knew who it was.

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Because what you just said, Molly

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tells me that you wouldn't stoop down

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and wash their feet.

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Love it.

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I love that woman of God.

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But this is the lowliness of our Lord.

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He loved Judas

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to such a measure

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though he knew that

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oh, you're about to betray me, man.

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You're about to go and accuse me.

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What we're seeing here is two things.

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Remember I said when there's betrayal, there's accusation found. They're relatives.

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Uncle Babong, Uncle Joe.

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They're always together.

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And here the Lord has troubled

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in his spirit, I gotta now

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expose

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him to everybody else

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that he's about to go and accuse me

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and betray me

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for the sake of the scriptures

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to be fulfilled.

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This is my stance.

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I believe the only reason why the Lord

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did what he did was for the sake

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of the scriptures to be fulfilled.

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That's why I believe the Lord did it.

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Because he loved him so much.

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Come on. How many of us have been in circles

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where somebody does something

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and you don't want to embarrass your friend

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and that's just embarrassing your friend.

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You don't want to say something.

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Maybe your friend has a little line

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or something on their pants

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and you don't want to embarrass them in a public setting

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because you're like, man, if I say that, they're going to be embarrassed.

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But now we're talking about

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you're sitting with all your friends

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in a corporate setting and somebody you love

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you gotta in front of everybody

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say, you're gonna betray me.

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Yeah, not many of us would do that.

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We wouldn't. Why? Because we love them so much.

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So I believe Jesus loved

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Judas so much

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that the only reason why he did it was

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for the sake of the scriptures

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to be fulfilled. That's the only sake.

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He said, I don't do what I want to do.

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I do what I see him do.

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And he said, I know I gotta fulfill the scriptures

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and I gotta do this right now.

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So here in John 13

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what we're seeing is actually Jesus

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facing accusation and betrayal

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because what follows after

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is that Judas leaves now the upper room

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he leaves

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the band of brothers

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and the Bible says he goes into darkness

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some scholars say this is a form

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of him basically

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actually the scripture says that

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Satan entered him

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and he went into the darkness.

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Now why did Satan enter him? Because he accused.

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He accused. Remember I said

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accusation is literally compared to

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accused is compared to being

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Satan himself. Remember that?

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So he went

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and accused our Lord

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and in that accusation

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he was betraying. Sold him

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next to nothing

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sold him next to nothing.

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Friends, I say all this

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to say that if Jesus

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faced these things. Here I'm giving you scripture

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Matthew 2614. Let's open up to that.

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Quick. Matthew 2614

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Matthew

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2614. Are you still patient with me?

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Praise God.

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Matthew 2614

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Then one of the twelve called Judas Iscariot

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went to the chief priest

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and said, what are you willing

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to give me if I deliver him

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to you? And they counted out

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for him 30 pieces of silver

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next to nothing.

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Literally next to nothing.

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And they counted it out

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to him 30 pieces of silver.

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So from that time

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he sought opportunity to betray him.

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Friends, yeah

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it is wow.

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I want us to understand something

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here, okay? Let me emphasize this to you.

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And I'm not trying to

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I've been asking for the wisdom of God on this

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and I believe I have the spirit of wisdom

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when I'm presenting this to you.

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I'm not wanting you

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to begin to look at each other and say, oh

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who's going to betray me?

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Who's going to accuse me?

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That's not what I'm trying to do.

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But what I'm trying to really show

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you scriptural, okay?

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It's not Pastor Igor's opinion.

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It's not Pastor Verne's opinion. This is

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scripturally, scripturally.

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If you study the life of Jesus

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and the way that these three things came

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by the way, these three things

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produced persecution.

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That's what they produced.

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I'm offended. I'm accusing.

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I'm betraying. And out of that

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comes about persecution.

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You seen how that all ties in?

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And it's like a chain reaction.

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Literally, it's a chain reaction.

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When one's offended it's like taking a rope

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and doing one of these and you see that thing go

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whoop and it gets all the way to the end.

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That's what it is.

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When I'm offended, it becomes

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to start a chain reaction.

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I don't realize. Now I'm accusing.

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I don't realize. Now I'm betraying.

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And I don't realize

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that now I'm actually persecuting.

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And I want us, this is what

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I want us to catch, okay?

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That the way that it happened

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in the life of Jesus was

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not from an outside source

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but rather from

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an inside source that used

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the outside source.

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Remember that.

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You ready for this? I'm going to give you a prophetic word.

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We're not going to be persecuted by the government.

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We're going to be persecuted

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by our own brethren

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that are going to use the governmental system

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to go against us. Remember that.

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I said remember that.

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It's from the inner circles.

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It's the guys

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and the gals that you're going to run with

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and are running with.

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They're the ones. Other churches.

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Now, I'm not saying it's you.

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That's why I'm trying to catch what I'm saying.

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I'm not saying you should be alert.

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But have wisdom and be sober

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to not be offended at your brethren.

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Because if you're going to be offended

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at your brethren friends, you will find yourself

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in the camp

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of the inner circle using

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the outside sources, using

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YouTube, using podcasts

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to actually persecute

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the ones that are standing

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and God is finding faith in.

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You're catching what I'm saying?

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We see this in the life

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of our Lord.

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It was not the Roman government

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that was persecuted in Jesus.

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It was his own people. The Pharisees.

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The Hebrews of Hebrews.

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They're the ones.

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The ones that were waiting for the Messiah.

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Friends, these are the guys

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that knew the scriptures better than I do.

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They're the ones

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that are waiting for this Messiah.

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And finally he comes and they miss it.

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Because they're offended

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at the measure of power

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that he's walking in.

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And that he's claiming to be God.

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Though the scriptures in Isaiah, in Ezekiel,

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in Daniel, all these small prophets

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are prophesying about God

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coming to earth

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incarnated in the flesh.

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But yet they missed it.

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Because they were offended

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at what the Lord was saying.

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They were offended

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at what their ears were hearing.

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Because their ears were not hearing

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what they wanted to hear.

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And even Nicodemus admitted

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he said, we know, we know

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that you are the one sent from God.

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Nicodemus said that.

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And Nicodemus wasn't a low teacher.

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He was one of the top guys.

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They looked up to him. So that tells me

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if Nicodemus knew that,

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then the high priest Caiaphas knew that.

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Friends, this

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this offense,

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this accusation,

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this betrayal, which then will produce

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persecution, it's not going to come

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from the government. It's going to come

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from the body of Christ

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itself using

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the outside sources.

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Remember that.

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Remember that.

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Do you understand the level

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of unity that we need to walk in?

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Do you understand

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do you understand

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how important it is for us to be unified?

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To think alike.

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I'm not saying I'm trying to brainwash you.

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When I say think alike,

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do you know what I say first and foremost?

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I am more concerned about your destiny

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being fulfilled. And I hope

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you're concerned more about my destiny

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being fulfilled. That's what I mean by thinking alike.

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If we can have that mindset,

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Philippians 2

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esteem one another, recognize each other's

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lanes, if

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we can have that mindset like Christ

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did, friends, we will

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naturally walk in a level of unity

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and even when we have the

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opportunity of being offended, we will

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actually come and if you listen to one of the series

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we will combat offense.

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We will communicate. We will

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reconcile. We will recognize.

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We will do all these things so that we

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do not find ourselves

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as being the inner circle

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persecuting the church

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using outside

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sources.

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If the Lord faced that.

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If Jesus faced that

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I am

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excuse me, I am expecting to face it the exact

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same way.

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It wasn't the Roman government that was persecuting

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him. Actually

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Pontius Pilate was ready to let him go.

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He said, I

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find no fault in this man, washes

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his hands, goes I got, man this guy looks

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as clean as, you guys want this guy

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Barabbas?

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But yet the same people

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few days before

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that were crying out, Hosanna

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Hosanna, Hosanna

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are now offended

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and they're crying out, Crucify

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Crucify, Crucify

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That's the reality.

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That's the reality.

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That's the reality friends. I don't

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want you to look at each other and be like

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but I want you to look at each other and be like, yo listen

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I don't want to be offended at you

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and I don't want you to be offended at me.

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Let's walk this thing out together as a body.

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I'm getting close to an end listen to this

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the Lord told me this when he gave me this message over

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a year ago when I got into studying the

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last few hours of the life of Jesus there's

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something that the Lord spoke to me there's a few things but

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here's some of the things that he said to me

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he said son

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he said in the days ahead

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he said you're not going to be accused

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for the false things that you say and you

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do he said you will actually

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be accused for your accuracy

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I said Lord I said what do you mean by that

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he said open up my scriptures

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and look what my son was accused for

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Jesus walked around

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and he said I will destroy that temple

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in three days I will rebuild it what was

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he referring to

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his body

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you know what they did

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The scriptures say that when he was in the courts of Caiaphas, the high priest, the Bible says that many witnesses arose.

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Many witnesses. And they said this, and they said that, and they said the third.

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But the Bible says that none of their false witnesses were in agreement until, until one of them said,

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this man said that he would destroy the temple and rebuild it in three days.

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And then there was this bear of witnesses.

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The Lord said, son, as my son was accused for his accuracy, he said, get ready.

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Because you're going to be accused not for your inaccuracy, but for your accuracy.

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Because I might say something that might offend you. I might say something that your level of discernment has not maybe reached.

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And you're going to say, well, how dare Pastor Igor says that?

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Rather than reaching out to me and talking to me, you're going to go get a band of people and you're going to go against me saying, that's a false prophet.

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He prophesied something in my life that did not come to pass, not realizing that maybe what I was saying had nothing to pertain to your future.

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Are you catching what I'm saying?

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Everybody's so excited to be accurate in prophetic words. I say, time out. Do you understand the consequences that we are going to face when you have a prophetic word that's accurate as day?

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Everybody wants to grab a mic and prophesy, but nobody wants to pay the consequences. Ain't that funny?

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Everybody wants to be up on stage and preach a message, but ain't nobody want to take accountability. Ain't that funny?

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Everybody wants to be notoriety and popularity and all these things, but nobody, nobody, nobody wants to go low and be with him alone. Nobody.

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Friends, this is the reality of these things. This is the reality of these things. I'm going to tell you one more thing.

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And then if you got something, I'll have you come up. Tell you one more thing here.

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As the Lord was giving me this message over a year ago, I was studying, I was in it, I was looking at things. The Lord was showing me things.

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He said, son, after he told me the accuracy portion, he said, son, he said, they are going to dig. When he said they, I don't know who he referred to.

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I'm understanding it's the accuser of the brethren. He said, they are going to dig into your past and they're going to pull things from your past and make him manifest as though they're now.

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We see that in the life of Jesus, too. Jesus is performing miracle signs and wonders.

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And what do his own people that know him, that know him, they say, that's just a carpenter. Come on, guys.

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He claims to be the most, it's just a carpenter. That's Mary's son, man. He just built me a table last week. What are you talking about?

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You see, they couldn't pull any sin against him because he was a sinless man.

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But what they could do is that they could pull the things of his childhood, the things that was before his ministry.

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They could pull those things, bring them to the surface as though they are now.

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As though they are now. So, do you know what I did? I took my wife. I said, we got to have a dinner together. We sat down.

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And there's things in my past. Nobody knows. Nobody needs to know. I know I look like a perfect person.

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But the blood of Christ has set me free. It has washed me. It has made me new. I know that I look good, but it's because of the blood.

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That's why it's because of the blood. I got a story too. I got a story too.

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Though I was born and raised in a Christian home, I got a story that not many need to hear. Anywho, my wife and I are sitting.

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And I told her, I said, I got to share with you some things that I was involved in BC before the cross.

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And she said, why? She's like, you told me that some of this stuff, you don't need to tell me.

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And I said, I agree. And I still stand that some things is just, why do I need to...

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Oftentimes we overshare. I'll be honest with you. We want to be, but it's like, just pull back a little bit.

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I sat down and I began to tell her a bunch of stuff. And I said, this is why I'm telling you this, sweetie.

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I said, because when the hour comes, when God raises up for the sake of His glory, when God brings us up to a level, there's a reason why I don't have social media.

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I told her, I said, when God raises us up to a generation to be a voice, okay?

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To be a voice, not to be this idol that you worship. Simply when God raises us up, like John the Baptist, to be a voice for a generation.

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I said, so much, I want to tell you these things ahead so that when it hits and they pull things from my past and they say, look at this guy.

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Do you know what he did? Do you know what he was involved?

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And now you're telling me he's a leading voice in a move of God?

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I told her I need to tell you ahead because if there's anybody, if there's anybody that I need to stand with me, I said it needs to be you.

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It needs to be you. Husbands and wives listen to me. If there's anybody that needs to stand with you, it's got to be your spouse.

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It's supposed to be. I'm going to tell you one last thing, Pastor, and then if you want to come up, you can.

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This is what I'm going to tell you. Our way forward. And this is going to take us years to learn this and take us years to cultivate this.

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Remember this. This is not just a snap in the finger and it's going to happen. Our way forward.

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If we don't want to find ourselves being offended, if we don't want to find ourselves being accused, if we don't want to find ourselves accusing or betraying,

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we have to have to walk in transparency and vulnerability with one another. We have to.

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Pastor, I believe that we have to do that. First thing that I told pastors when him and I met,

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if you were here 2024 Open Heavens, when the Lord spoke to you, partnership with me and my wife.

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First thing that came to me is I said, transparency and vulnerability.

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We got together for dinner that one time or lunch or whatever it was.

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And the pastor asked me, Passover and asked me, he said, he says, what do you, what do you think?

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Or what comes to you when you hear partnership? What is God trying to do?

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I told him, I said, pastor, you're my witness. Pastor Mary is my witness too.

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I said, pastor, I said, transparency and vulnerability.

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We have to be transparent and vulnerable with one another if we want to walk this thing out correctly.

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This goes to the rest of the body of Christ. This goes to the rest of us and those that are still yet to come.

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We have to, and there is a difference, and I'm not going to get into it right now,

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but there is a difference of what it means to be transparent and what it means to be vulnerable.

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By the way, by the way, our Lord did it.

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Read the gospels. Jesus was transparent and he was vulnerable with his disciples.

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Over and over he told them, I'm going to be crucified, guys.

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And even in the garden, he was being vulnerable with them in the garden.

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Here he's praying, turns around and they're sleeping and he's being vulnerable.

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Can you not pray with me? I need you right now.

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I need you. This is one of the most critical points in my life.

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And you're sleeping.

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You with me this morning? Pastor, I'm going to invite you up here.

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I'll say amen to my message and then whatever you want to say, I can go sit down.

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No, you stay right there. I just want to make one point and then you can close however you want to do that.

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Excellent message, by the way.

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Praise the Lord. Praise the Lord.

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Question for all of us.

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When we got saved, were we immediately sanctified?

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So if we struggled with some kind of sin before we got saved,

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did we struggle with anything after we were saved?

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Okay, here's the hypocrisy of the church.

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And he said something absolutely true, but I want to take it just that next step.

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Here's the hypocrisy of the church.

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For someone who is in deep sin BC before Christ and then they get saved,

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we put them on the platform because now they have a testimony.

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For someone who struggles with sin after they're saved,

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we crucify them and kick them out. We want nothing to do with them.

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We were human before, we're human after. We were in sin before.

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Anybody sitting here and saying, well, I've never had any problem with any sin since I got saved?

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You're a liar, man.

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Otherwise I want to know the man.

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But the hypocrisy steps in because the church decides what's big sin and what's little sin.

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The sins we all live in every day, God understands. They're just little stuff.

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Well, he doesn't really see them.

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The fact that I yell at my wife, he doesn't really see that.

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The things that we're doing are never considered big sin.

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There's somebody else's there into the big sin.

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And see, here's the thing, an excellent message, I just add this thought on.

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There isn't a person sitting here who doesn't struggle with something today.

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And what we struggle with today is as much sin as it was before we ever got saved.

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It's the same thing. What gives us the right to condemn each other because we're saved?

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But before we were saved, oh, now they're our hero.

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Have you heard so-and-so's testimony before he got saved?

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Oh!

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Well, have you heard about so-and-so who they just hung out to dry and are trying to take his marriage license?

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His ministry license away because he's struggling with something?

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Well, yeah, that's right. He shouldn't have hypocrites. That's hypocrisy.

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Praise the Lord. I want to do something then as we close.

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If you maybe got... maybe you're sitting next to somebody that you feel highlighted in your spirit,

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but I want to do something. Can we just get some soft music to play?

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I want us to close out with praying for one another. Can we do that, Pastor?

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Can we do that?

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I'm going to give you like 30 seconds. Maybe you're like,

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Oh, man, I feel like I need to go pray for this person.

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Get with somebody. I pray that you get with somebody.

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And I'll lead us in prayer up here, but if you just get with somebody, lay your hands on them.

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And let's just pray for one another as we close today's service.

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Let this be a step of faith that we are making,

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saying that, Lord, we don't want to be found in the company of the inner circle

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that's going to begin to accuse and use the outer sources to accuse the inner circles.

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Am I making sense with what I'm saying?

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I'm not forcing you to do it. If you don't want to do it, that's fine.

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You can be dismissed.

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But if you're... if it's on your heart to take this step of faith like,

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Yep, I want to go lay my hands on my brother. I want to go lay my hands on my sister.

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And I want to start now praying for one another. Can we do that?

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Yeah? Can you turn on some soft music? I'll pray from here.

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You guys can move right now real quick. I'm giving you 20 seconds.

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If you need to move, just get with somebody.

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19, 18, 17, 16, 15, 14, 13, 12, 12, 12, 12, 10, 9, 8, 7, 6, 5.

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All right.

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Father, we thank you, Lord.

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Father, we thank you for your word.

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Father, I thank you that your word is truth, Lord. And it leads us, Lord.

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Your word does not lead us into temptation, but it leads us away from temptation.

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And Father, I thank you that your word is truth, my God.

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Father, I thank you that your word is sharper than a double-edged sword, God.

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It is sharper than a double-edged sword, God. And it pierces. It penetrates.

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It divides, Lord. It judges.

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Lord, we do not measure ourselves to the standard of man, but we measure ourselves to the standard of your word that you have set into motion, my God.

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Father, I thank you for this body of Christ.

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Father, I thank you for your Holy Spirit that is here, that is welcomed here.

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He is not quenched here. He is not hurt here, but He is welcomed here, God.

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And we thank you. We thank you, God, that you trust us with yourself. We thank you, Lord.

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Father, I thank you for my brothers and my sisters that are sitting in the chairs.

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God, I thank you for every individual that is watching online and that is to watch online.

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Father, I bless them in your name.

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And Father, I pray that you would give them, Lord, a spirit of wisdom and revelation, a spirit of discernment, God, that the Lord enlightens and gives us eyes to see against this nasty spirit that is against the body of Christ, even now, God.

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That is a raging nasty spirit, my Lord, and I pray, I pray, God, that you cause us to stand fast.

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So stand fast, says your word. So stand fast, says your word, God, and we are choosing this day.

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We are choosing this day, God, as we have laid hands on our brothers and our sisters.

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We are choosing this day to stand fast together as a family.

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Thank you, Lord.

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Thank you, Lord.

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Grace us, God.

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I pray grace over us, Lord.

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Grace, grace, grace us, Lord.

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Grace us, Lord.

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That we walk through this thing.

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Grace us, Lord.

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That we walk through this thing.

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I pray, Lord, that you would give us strength when we've been wrongfully treated.

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Father, I pray that by your spirit, that even when our own close brethren, when they wrong us,

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Father, that we would have the ability to forgive them

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and to respond rightly, God, the way that your scriptures say,

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cause our dependability to be on you, oh God.

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May in those moments, may we see your faithfulness, not ours.

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Grace us, Lord.

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Grace us as a body, Lord.

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Grace us to walk this thing out.

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We love you and you know that, God. You know that we love you.

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If there is repentance, Lord, that we are needing to repent to a brother or a sister, Lord,

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give us the ability to do that. To ask for forgiveness, Lord.

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Give us the ability to do that.

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Because what you are trying to do is far greater than what we just call unity, Lord.

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The earth has not yet seen what Jesus has prayed for in John 17.

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The earth has not yet seen, Lord.

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But we're coming to that, Lord. And you are trying to establish...

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You are trying to establish a John 17 church

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Father, as I am in you and you are in me, let them be in us, oh, God.

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We thank you, Lord. We bless your holy name.

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Holy Spirit, help us.

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I just keep praying that because we need the Holy Ghost.

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Can you pray in tongues for just a moment? I just... I feel we need the Holy Ghost.

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If you got to go, if you got to go, you can be dismissed, but I just...

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I want to sit here for a little bit. Just pray in the Holy Ghost.

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Because we need the Holy Spirit to walk this thing out.

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Father, I pray you cause reconciliation in this body.

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Let a spirit of repentance and reconciliation hit this body

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in the name of Jesus.

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With our children, oh, God, with our children, oh, Lord.

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Let it be, God. Let it be, Lord.

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Let it be, Lord. Let it be, Lord.

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Holy Spirit, we need you.

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We need you, Holy Spirit.

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You are our counselor. Spirit of truth.

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I feel the leadership of the Lord to pray for just across now, not just ours,

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but I feel the leadership of the Lord to pray for the body of Christ across the world.

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Because there is great, great persecution that certain houses of worship are facing even now in this hour.

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Can you just begin to pray in the spirit?

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And if you get something, if you get something, cause people watch us online.

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If you get something, I'm going to have you actually come up here and pray it into the mic.

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Just begin to intercede for the body of Christ across the world. I just feel that.

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There is this great intensity that has increased.

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Where there is great offense.

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And I pray that God would give these people an opportunity to repent of their offense.

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And there is great accusation and betrayal happening.

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Father, we pray for our brethren.

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We pray for our brethren, Lord, across the body of Christ, asking you God, asking you God,

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that you Lord would turn the hearts, that you God would turn the hearts.

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That those that are offended at certain situations, at certain outcomes, God,

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that you would grace them and turn their hearts to a heart of repentance and forgiveness.

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We pray this Lord across the body of Christ.

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We pray, Lord, that those that have been the accuser would now come to the understanding

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that I am actually not doing the work of the Lord.

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But this is coming from a place of hurt. This is coming from a place of misunderstanding.

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Father, I pray you turn their hearts.

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Father, I pray that this betrayal and this division that has occurred,

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I pray, God, that you would supernaturally begin to mend and heal this.

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Across the body, Lord, I'm asking you.