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So, tonight, if you have your Bibles, go with me to the book of Romans chapter 8.

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And I want to stir your faith just for a few minutes here tonight.

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And praise God.

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Y'all okay tonight?

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Y'all still love Jesus in this house, amen?

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All right.

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That's great. Praise God.

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So, book of Romans chapter 8.

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I call this the most spiritual chapter of the entire Bible.

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Because a couple of reasons.

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Number one, well, what we're getting into here tonight,

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but there's four words for the word sons of God or children of God.

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How are you guys doing? Good to see you.

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Bless you guys.

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And so the word sons of God,

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there's four different words in the Greek language.

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Number one, there's a word paedion, and it just means infant.

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And then paese, which means toddler.

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And then there's a third one, which is tecon, which means adolescent or teenager.

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And then the most advanced is adult, which is the word huios.

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And the only two times it's ever used in the entire Bible are both in this chapter.

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In Romans chapter 8.

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So what that speaks to us is this is how you grow spiritually.

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So it's only mentioned twice.

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And the first time it's used is in Romans 8, 14.

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And the second time it's used is in verse 19.

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But neither of which are we going to get into tonight.

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But I just tell you that for this reason is this is how you grow spiritually.

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So grab the person next to you, shake the devil out of them, or whatever.

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Shake some brains into them, whatever.

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And just say, grow up, please grow up.

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Would you please grow up?

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Jeez.

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Alright.

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So Romans 8 says there is therefore now.

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No condemnation.

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Everyone say no condemnation.

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So the first steps towards spiritual growth is learning to walk in no condemnation.

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Right?

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And so as to those who are in Christ Jesus, to those who do not walk according to the flesh,

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but according to the spirit.

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For the law, the spirit of life in Christ Jesus has made me free from the law of sin and death.

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It says, for what the law could not do, and that it was weak through the flesh,

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God did by sending his own son in the likeness of sinful flesh.

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On account of sin, he condemns sin in the flesh.

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That the righteous requirement of the law might be fulfilled in us who do not walk

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according to the flesh, but according to the spirit.

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For those who live according to the flesh, what do they do?

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Come on, everyone say it out loud?

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No, it says right there.

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For those who live according to the flesh, they... three words.

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Set their mind.

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You don't have to guess.

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It's already up there for you, okay?

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So if you didn't even bring a Bible, I mean just look up, okay?

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Those who live according to the flesh, come on, what are those three words?

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Set their mind.

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Come on, look at your neighbor and say those three words to your neighbor.

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Come on, set their minds, okay?

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So back in the 70s, there was a famous comedian.

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His name was Flip Wilson, and he used to say, the devil made me do it.

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Is that right?

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The devil made me do it, right?

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And today, many people have that mindset, oh, the devil made me do it.

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No, the devil didn't make you do nothing.

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You set your mind.

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You either set your mind on the things of the flesh,

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or you set your mind on the things of the spirit.

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Is that what it says?

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Those who live according to the spirit, what do they do?

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They set their mind.

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So in other words, you can think your way into the flesh,

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or you can think your way into the spirit.

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Come on, is that what that word, that scripture is saying?

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In other words, your thoughts make you spiritual,

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or your thoughts make you carnal.

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We'll just let that sit there for a minute.

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Those who live according to the flesh,

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it begins with the direction you point your thoughts.

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Now, I was born in St. Paul,

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but when my mother married a farmer,

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when I was nine years old, we moved to western Minnesota,

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and he was a gunsmith.

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And when he taught me gun safety,

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I mean, we had over 200 guns in the house,

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and they never went on a school rampage shooting.

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Isn't that amazing, huh?

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But we had over 200 guns in the house,

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and he began to teach me about healthy respect of guns,

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and he began to teach me about gun safety,

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and he began with the sight on the gun.

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And he said,

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Tom, you're never going to point the gun this way,

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and the bullet shoots that way.

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Is that right?

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Because where the sight goes, the bullet follows.

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Is that right?

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So where you set your thoughts, according to this verse,

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come on, somebody,

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you set your thoughts, that's where you will go.

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Is that right?

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And so we'll come back to that in a second.

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So verse six says,

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for to be carnally minded is death,

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but to be spiritually minded is what?

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Life and peace.

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Is that what it says?

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Because the carnal mind is in enmity against God,

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for it's not subject to the law of God.

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So here he talks about, from verse one to verse eight,

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he's talking about your thoughts,

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your thoughts, your thoughts, your thoughts,

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your thoughts, your thoughts.

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Eight verses about your thoughts.

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Verse 14 comes, and he says,

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for as many as are led by the Spirit of God,

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they are the...

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Huios, the mature sons of God.

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That's what it says in the Greek.

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The mature or the Huios,

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the mature adult sons of God.

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This is not a baby child of God.

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You understand?

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This is a mature son of God.

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So what does that mean?

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So the number one step towards your spiritual maturity

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is not laying hands on you.

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All those things are good and important,

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but you grow spiritually

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by you learning to grab a hold of your thoughts.

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Come on, right?

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So you grab a hold of your thoughts,

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and you either think thoughts of the Spirit

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or thoughts of the flesh.

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Is that right?

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So verse 14 begins to tell us,

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listen, this is where you go

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and this is where you'll end up.

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What? You'll be led by the Spirit.

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Is that right?

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And then verse 19 comes along,

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and verse 19 is the second time it uses that word,

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and it says, the Spirit Himself,

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verse 16 says, the Spirit Himself

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bears witness with our Spirit

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that we're the children of God.

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If children or sons and heirs

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and heirs of God,

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you know, some of you ladies say,

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I'm a daughter of God.

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Now the word calls you a son.

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Amen?

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The word of God calls you a son.

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If I got to be a bride, you got to be a son.

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Suck it up, all right?

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So, if I'm the bride of Christ,

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you got to be a son.

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I don't figure it out, whatever, all right?

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All right.

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And if children and heirs of God

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and join heirs with Christ,

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if indeed we suffer with them,

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that we may also be glorified together.

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For I consider the sufferings

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of this present time not to be worthy

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to be compared to the glory

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that shall be revealed in us

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for the earnest expectation

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of all of creation eagerly waits

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for the revealing or unveiling

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of the mature sons of God.

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Second time in the whole Bible

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it's ever used.

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Amen.

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So this is what God spoke to my heart

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here today to share with you tonight.

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Where are you fishing?

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Where are you fishing?

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Come on, prophesy to your neighbor.

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Say, where are you fishing?

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Okay.

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So where are you fishing with your thoughts?

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Where are your thoughts pointed?

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Where is the direction of your thoughts?

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Where are you fishing?

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And so, you know,

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when many people talk about repentance

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and all of these different words,

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they don't realize the majority of those words

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in the Greek language that it was written

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are all words about your thoughts.

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The word repent means to change your...

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Ah!

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Isn't that where your thoughts are?

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You know, the word devil...

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excuse me, the word Satan means accuser.

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But the word devil means

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to throw an object at your mind.

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I'll say that again.

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The word devil just means...

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all the word devil means is

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one who throws an object at your mind.

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Come on, right?

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That's all the word devil means, right?

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Many people think that the word devil is his name.

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No, that's his job title.

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His job title is to throw thoughts at your mind.

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Come on, right?

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So, in other words, the battle is in your thoughts.

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Is that right?

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Now, I've said this for years.

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And more than 10 years...

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the Lord showed me this more than 10 years ago.

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The greatest battle in human history was

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on Golgotha, there where Jesus died.

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Is that right?

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Is that true, right?

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The greatest battle is on...

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it was at the cross, right?

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On Golgotha.

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And the word Golgotha means

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the place of the skull.

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I'll just try this church over here.

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Sorry.

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You go back to sleep, alright?

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The word Golgotha means the place of the...

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Ah, so where is the battle?

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Ah, so it's at the skull, amen?

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That's where Jesus was crucified

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at the place of the skull.

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And he says, repent.

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In other words, change your mind.

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Everything is pointing at your thoughts,

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your thoughts, your thoughts, your thoughts.

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Amen?

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Romans 8, God's talking about your spiritual maturity

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and God is saying, come on, come on.

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Stop fishing over there.

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Because if you fish over in depression,

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you're never going to catch joy.

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You know, you're not going to go down.

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You know, you're not going to go over here

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in one of these little lakes

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and be like, you know,

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you got your little daredevil out there

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that's about a half inch long

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and you throw it out.

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You're like, oh my gosh, I pulled out a marlin.

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Why?

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Because you're fishing in the wrong place

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if you want to catch a marlin.

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Is that right?

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Is that true?

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And many people,

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they spend all of their effort

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and all of their time

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and they're fishing in a place

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where they're only going to catch something bad.

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Come on, amen.

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When I was a kid, we had an old slew out.

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I don't know if you guys even know it.

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Everyone know what a slew is?

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Okay, everyone knows.

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So there's an old slew not too far from where I live.

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And I remember saying to my stepdad,

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man, we should go fishing out there.

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He said, no, there's nothing out there

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but a bunch of old bull heads.

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And I thought about that one day.

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I was thinking about that this morning.

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I remember him saying that.

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All there's out there,

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you're not going to catch any walleye,

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you're not going to catch any northern,

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you're not going to catch any bass

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or anything like that.

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Why?

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Because they're not in that lake.

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So if you're going to fish in a lake

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that's just nothing but a bunch of bull heads.

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Come on, talk to me somebody.

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Then you're not going to pull out something good.

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Is that right?

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So stop focusing your heart

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in your heart's energy and your thoughts

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while fishing in depression.

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I'm going to just keep fishing in depression.

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Maybe I'm going to catch something good out there.

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Or I'm going to fish in anger.

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That's what I'm going to do.

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I'm just going to keep fishing out

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in this pool of anger.

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And it's never going to end up good.

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You understand?

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Why?

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Because you're only going to catch one thing.

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Is that right?

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So the only thing you're going to catch

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is more anger.

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Is that right?

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And so that's what God began

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to start to speak to me about here

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even this morning when I was praying

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is about where are you fishing.

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And part of revival is

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it's a change of the way we think.

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That's why I loved what

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Pastor Vernon Mary we're talking about here tonight

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about the changing of patterns.

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Amen.

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That's with that.

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Guy at the beautiful gate.

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The Bible says he was in that condition.

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What does it say?

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38 years it said?

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Something like that.

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So can you imagine?

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38 years, one pattern.

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Is that right?

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And many people they have patterns in their lives.

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They do the exact same thing.

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You understand?

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Even church people.

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I said even church people

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they get in those patterns.

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You know, by God I go to the same place.

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I park in the same spot.

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We've got a relative that

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he drives the same road

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because there's only one way to get somewhere.

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How many of you know someone like that?

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Raise your hand, anybody?

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And there's only one way to get there.

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And what is it?

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It's a mindset.

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I said it's a mindset.

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Amen.

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And so many of these New Testament words

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that we know of and we speak about

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most of these words all have to do

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with your thinking.

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The word devil, the word Satan,

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the word condemnation.

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All of these different words

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are talking about your thoughts, your thoughts,

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your thoughts, and your thoughts. Come on, right?

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So go over from there

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from Romans 8.

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Since you're in Romans, go over to Romans 12.

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Hallelujah.

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Forgive my voice here.

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This happened in

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Wisconsin, so I blame Wisconsin.

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No, I'm just kidding.

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I was in Wisconsin.

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I kind of pushed it too much.

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Romans 12

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Romans 12

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says this,

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I beseech you, therefore, brethren,

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by the mercies of God

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that you present your bodies

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of what?

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A living sacrifice, right?

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Which is acceptable to God,

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which is your reasonable service,

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and do not be conformed to this world,

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but be what?

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Transformed.

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So underlining in your Bible

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the word transformed, it's the Greek word

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metamorphosis.

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What do we know that's metamorphosis?

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Anybody?

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Ah, a caterpillar to a butterfly.

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Ah, so

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God says be

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metamorphosed

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by laying on of hands

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and casting demons out of each other.

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Is that what it says?

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No, it says

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be metamorphosed

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by

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getting in a prayer tunnel.

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Is that what it says?

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Oh man, I must have misread that.

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Be metamorphosed,

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be completely transformed

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by what? What does it say?

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Ah, wow.

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Look at there.

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I think God knows what he's talking about.

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Look at that. Be completely transformed

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by what?

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The renewing of your mind.

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That, what? You may prove.

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Is that right?

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That you may prove what is a good

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good and acceptable

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imperfect well of God. Is that what it says?

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Right? So now go over

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to Ephesians.

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I know this church loves the word, so

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Ephesians.

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So Ephesians,

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now you got to know this first, going

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into Ephesians because

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the book of Ephesians is the only

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book of the New Testament that Paul doesn't

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bring correction to.

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So Paul writes all of these letters.

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He writes a third of the New Testament.

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Correction, correction, correction, correction.

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He corrects the Romans. He corrects

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the Corinthians twice. He corrects them.

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And then he goes on. He corrects

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the Thessalonians. He even

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corrects Timothy. He corrects

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all these different people except

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for the

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Ephesians. Ah, now going into

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it, this is the most spiritual church

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of the entire New Testament.

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And in chapter 4, so

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chapter 1, he starts to talk about

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the identity in Christ. Chapter

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2, he talks about their inheritance

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in Christ. Chapter 3,

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he prays. Chapter 4,

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it goes on and it says this.

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Oops, lost my

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place.

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Ephesians 4 says this

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in our Bibles.

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Verse 11,

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And he himself gave some to be apostles,

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some prophets, some evangelists,

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some pastors and teachers

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for the equipping of the saints,

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for the work of the ministry,

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for the edifying of the body of Christ

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until...until what, Paul?

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Until we all come

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to the unity of the faith

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and the knowledge of the Son of God unto

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a...

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a what? Now

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underline that. That's an old

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1600 11

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English word. We don't use that

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language anymore. A perfect man.

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We say a mature

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man.

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So that's how it would read in

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2025. It would say

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until we would all come to the knowledge

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of the Son of God to a mature

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man. Ah, here we all, all the way

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back again at Huios. Amen.

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And he says this and

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he says to the measure

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of the stature of the fullness

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of...ah,

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so he's talking about getting to the place

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of fullness. That we should no longer

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be children. Look at your neighbor and say

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stop being a child. Okay?

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Alright?

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No longer be children. Now how do children

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act, Paul? He says they're tossed

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to and fro, carried about

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by every wind of doctrine, by the trickery

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and cunning craftiness

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of deceitful plotting.

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Is that right? And then Paul

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says these words, but speaking the truth

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in...love

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may what?

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Look at your neighbor just kind of whisper

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please grow up today. Okay?

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Alright?

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And he says grow up

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right? So he says

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grow up in all things into him

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who is the head, even Christ.

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Is that right? Verse 16

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from whom the whole body joined together

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and every joint supplies into the effectual

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working of every part

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does it share causes growth

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to the body. Ah,

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for the edifying of itself in love.

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Now watch this.

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This I say therefore

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and testify in the Lord that

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you should no longer walk as the rest

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of the Gentiles or the nations

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walk and the futility of

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their thinking

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or their mind, right?

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Having their understanding darkened

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and they're alienated from the life

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of God because the ignorance

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that's in them because the blindness of their heart

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being past feeling

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had given themselves over

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to lewdness to work all uncleanness

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and greediness, but you've not so

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learned Christ if indeed

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you have heard him and been

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taught by him as the truth is in Jesus

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that you would

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what?

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Put off your former conduct

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the old man. Now who's the old man?

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Is that your father?

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No, it's your old thinking.

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It's that old stinking thinking.

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Is that right? That you

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would put off what? Your

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stinking old thinking.

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Come on, right? Which grows

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what?

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Corrupt according to his deceitful lust

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verse 23

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and be renewed in the

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spirit of your mind, right?

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And then he says these last words

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and that you would put on

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the new man that was created according

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to God in true righteousness and holiness.

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So go back one verse

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my friend if you could

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be renewed in the spirit of your mind.

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I remember many, many years ago

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I was praying in the spirit one time

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and I said, Lord, what does that mean?

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What do those words mean?

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And the spirit of God spoke to me

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and he said these words. It means

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the direction you

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point your thoughts.

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You got to get this. If you forget everything

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else I say tonight, don't miss this.

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Okay, alright?

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And be renewed in the spirit of your mind

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is the direction you point

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your thoughts.

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It is the sight of your gun.

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Come on, right?

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It is the direction

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you point your thoughts. Now, years

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later, almost 20 years later

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I was

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read this Greek theologian said

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he got to this verse and he said

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exactly what the spirit of God

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spoke to me. He said this is actually

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talking about the direction you are

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pointing your thinking.

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Come on. So where

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are you fishing?

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Where

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are you fishing?

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Where are you fishing

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on thoughts about yourself?

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Where are you fishing on thoughts

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about other people?

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Are you with me? Amen?

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Because many times people

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they have a skewed mentality of themselves.

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You know, because

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we've studied so much on Christian

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dream interpretation and what is God

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saying in a dream. Many people don't know

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your own dreams will speak

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about your thinking.

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You know, if you ever had a dream

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how many of you ever had a dream

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that you lost your teeth?

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Okay, look around the room. It's one of the

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most common dreams you have

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and one of the dreams that people

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have is they lost their front teeth.

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So what does that mean to lose your

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front teeth? Your front teeth have no

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purpose other than how you see

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yourself.

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That's the only purpose is your

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front teeth. You understand? It's

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your perception of how

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you see yourself. Amen?

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And so that's

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where God is beginning to speak to you

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about how do you see yourself?

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And so that's where, how do you fish

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and how do you see yourself?

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I saw a funny

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a funny picture

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someone put on

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a meme on Facebook

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and it was a picture of

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this overweight guy, right?

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And this underweight woman

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and this overweight guy

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he looks in the mirror and he kind of

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sucks his gut in and he pulls his arm up

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and the mirror reflecting on him

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showed like this adonis

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he looked like a bodybuilder

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so that's how he was seeing himself

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and the woman who was already thin

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she looked at herself in the mirror

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and she saw herself as overweight

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and I began to think wow, it's how

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we perceive ourselves

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come on, right?

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And that's just like a micro

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of how we perceive ourselves

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how do you perceive yourself

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in the world

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how you perceive yourself is how you

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will begin to speak and minister

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to other people

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is that right?

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And so that's where we have to change

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where we're fishing even with thoughts

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about ourselves. Number two

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we have to change with our thoughts

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of where we're fishing

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regarding God

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come on, amen?

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And so if you've

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maybe you've had a toxic relationship

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with your natural father

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and all of a sudden you hear the word father

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and it brings a toxicity

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in your thinking, you have to change that

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and say no

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he's a good, good father

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like the song, amen?

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And so you have to change that thinking process

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why because you're not fishing

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out of that toxicity pool anymore

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is that right?

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And so where do we begin to see it?

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We begin to see it in the word

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we begin to see it in the word

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we let Jesus come alive

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in the scriptures to us, amen?

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And so when we let Jesus come alive

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to us out of the scriptures

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it transforms everything

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we've seen out here

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everything we've experienced

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out here in relationships

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whether it's in a relationship you've had

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maybe you've been in a toxic marriage

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maybe it's a toxic relationship

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with family members whatever it might be

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you have to begin

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to fish out of a different pool

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now I didn't know it

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but I grew up

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in some of a toxic

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relationship with my father

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and I didn't know that

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because when that's all you know

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that's all you know

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anybody in the house had the same thing

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come on raise your hand

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don't look so holy at me, alright?

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and so I had to change that

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and so I remember

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when I was first saved

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one of the first things God began to speak to me about

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is you cannot

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look at your natural father

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as an example of who I am

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and so I had to let

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the father of the scriptures

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come alive to me and that's how God

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relates to me

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it's not out of performance

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but it's instead out of belief

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and response to him as well

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is that right?

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so I had to change the way I thought

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so everyone say change the way you think

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amen

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so we have to let the word of God

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get in us. Now 120 years ago

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John G. Lake said these words

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he said the word of God goes into the

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vortex of our brain

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and even changes the actual brain cell

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itself. Now I thought this was interesting

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I saw this of

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Dr. Carolyn Leif. I was reading something of hers

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and she said each morning when

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you wake up you have new baby nerve cells

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that are born inside your brain

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that

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we have to use wisely as

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it removes bad thoughts

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and wires in good ones

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it's called neurogenesis

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research shows at 75

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that 98% of mental

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physical and behavioral

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illnesses all comes

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from your thought life

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this staggering

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eye open statistic means

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only 2-25%

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2% of mental or physical illnesses comes from the environment or genes.

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2 to 25% are real. The other 75 plus percent is all your perception.

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Where you've been fishing. Where you've been fishing.

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Come on, everyone say, where have you been fishing?

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Right? So we have to change the way we think.

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So there's something about the way that we... we have to stop perceiving things that way.

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Like, for example, some people have a poverty mindset.

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Nobody in Minnesota does, but just other places, right?

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But some people have a constant victim mindset.

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Come on, talk to me, right?

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That's why you can... you can throw billions of dollars at poverty.

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And guess what? It's still poverty.

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Jesus even said it. The poor you have with you always. Is that right?

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So it doesn't matter how much government throw at it, it still doesn't help.

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Why? Because it's a mindset.

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I said it's a mindset. Amen.

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And it takes a word of God that has to break that mindset.

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That was one of the mindsets I had to break.

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Even as Pastor Eatwear was talking about the offering and stuff.

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And so as he was talking about the offering, I was thinking about that.

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I thought, yeah, I remember a day when I had a poverty mentality.

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Come on, right? I even went to Bible school and got an A in the class on prosperity.

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And I still got a big F spiritually.

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You understand? You can get an A in the class and still get an F in real life.

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Isn't that something, right?

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And because I had a poverty mentality. You understand?

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And I had a constant victim mentality.

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And so I had to change that thinking into an abundance mentality.

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That's why I love hearing stories of different people and different times.

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I just heard another story of a young woman. She's in her mid-twenties.

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And in 2020, during the lockdowns and stuff, she just went scouring through YouTube.

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And she just said, I'm just going to start a business.

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And she made like, I think it was like $13 million in three years in digital products.

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Come on, somebody. Is that awesome, huh?

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But here she was. You know, she had to break a mindset.

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She talked about it. She said, all I grew up around was poverty.

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Everyone had nice shoes and a nice shirt and they didn't have two nickels to rub together in their pocket.

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Right? What was it? It was a mindset.

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See how quiet I got in here when I said all of this, right?

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It's a mindset, right?

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And so I grew up in a home of sickness and my wife knows that.

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And my family would talk constantly about sickness, constantly.

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I mean, that's all they lived on in every conversation, every meal, every day.

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What do you have? Well, don't get too close to me.

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You know, I don't want to get it and, you know, you know, all of this different stuff.

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And it's this mindset of sickness. You understand?

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And so in 1982, I was, excuse me, 1980, I was in a wrestling accident in Western Minnesota

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and I broke my neck and all my mom was talking about, oh my gosh, oh my gosh, oh my gosh, oh my gosh.

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And then she and the doctors too got into agreement and they were all talking about how this could, you know,

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incapacitate you and you're going to have lifelong arthritis and all of this stuff.

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But then in 1982, two years later, here I was in excruciating pain

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going to chiropractors all over the Twin Cities, different parts of Western Minnesota

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in pain all the time and I got radically saved.

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And when I got radically saved, this was the first thing that came alive to me as a revelation.

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And my spiritual mom gave me a book called Healing the Sick from T.L. Osborn

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and that book just came alive to me.

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And what was happening? Ah, the Word of God, just like Lake said,

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went into the very vortex of my mind and it had to, like Pastor Mary said,

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it had to change the pattern.

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Now I had had up until then 16 years of one pattern.

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Every year we get sick.

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Every wintertime you get sick, you get, you know, whatever it is, you get pneumonia,

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whatever it is, every single year.

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Get two flu shots.

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Then you got to get a shot for the flu shot, you know what I mean?

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But it was this mindset in my home and the moment that my spiritual mom gave me that book,

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it was like it just broke that thinking over my knee.

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Come on somebody, hallelujah. Amen.

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And that's where I believe that the Spirit of God wants to do in these revival meanings.

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He wants to break over your knee that old fishing pole that you've been fishing on that wrong pond

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that's full of bull heads.

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Come on somebody, whether it's sickness, whether it's poverty, whether it's victim,

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you're a victim all the time. Here a victim, there a victim.

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Old McDonald was a victim, E-I-E-I-O.

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And a victim, victim here and a victim, victim there.

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Here's a victim, vote for a victim, everybody's a victim.

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Bad joke.

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Amen. What is that?

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It's a mindset.

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Come on, talk to me somebody.

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How many of you know somebody that's always a victim mindset?

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I mean they can't go to Chick-fil-A and not be a victim.

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They go into Chick-fil-A and they're already a victim.

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You understand? What is it? It's a mindset.

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I said it's a mindset.

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Come on, look at your neighbor, say stop fishing in that pond, okay?

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Praise God.

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So go over to 2 Corinthians.

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2 Corinthians.

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Hallelujah.

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2 Corinthians chapter 10.

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Hallelujah.

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2 Corinthians chapter 10.

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Oh man, I was going to share something.

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I got to find this, hang on one second.

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Oh yeah.

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I'm going to rattle some religious cages if I find this thing.

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Just tell your neighbor, just say, you know,

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he'll shoot your religious cow if he'll shoot mine, alright?

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Oh yeah.

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You know, there's mindsets that we get in the church

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because of people make up religious crap.

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You understand?

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And some people get these stupid mindsets and stuff,

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and they say, I've been to some churches,

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Susie and I have ministered in some churches,

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and they've said, well, you know, I want to do this,

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but I only want to do what God wants to do.

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You know, I want to buy this new car

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only if God wants me to buy it.

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You know, I like this, you know, this red car.

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We had this one lady come up to us in California,

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she went and she said, you know, I want to,

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I want to, you know, buy this new car

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only if the Lord wants me to buy it.

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And I said, what does it look like?

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And she tells us the name of the color

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and everything of the car.

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And I said, okay, let's ask this next.

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Who's driving it? You or God?

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Come on, who's driving the car?

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And she's like, well, I am.

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I go, oh, okay, then God doesn't care what color.

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But if he's driving it, he's going to pick the color.

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Okay, you understand? Come on, somebody.

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Some people have got this weird mindset.

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Come on, somebody, get delivered of that thing.

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Okay, I don't even know if it's time

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we have to lay hands on people.

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I think we got to slap it out of their head, all right?

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Excuse me, brother, this is from heaven.

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Second Corinthians 10 says this.

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Now I, Paul, myself, I'm pleading with you

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with the meekness and gentleness of Christ,

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who in the presence and the lowly among you

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and being absent and bold toward you.

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But I beg you that I am present,

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that when I am present,

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not only be bold in the confidence

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by which I intend to be bold against some

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who think of us as if we walked according to the flesh.

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For though we walk in the flesh,

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we do not war according to the flesh.

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Okay, now watch this.

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For the weapons of our warfare are not

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carnal or natural,

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but they're mighty in God for the pulling down of.

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Okay, now wait a second, now wait a second.

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So strongholds.

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The word stronghold in the Greek,

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what it means is this,

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is it's a prison that keeps people

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behind bars in their thoughts.

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That's what a stronghold is.

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It's somebody who's kept behind bars

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in their thinking, amen.

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So here he goes on to say for

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the weapons of our warfare are not carnal.

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They're not natural.

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And he says casting down arguments

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and every high thing that exalts itself

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against the knowledge of God

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and bringing every demon, right?

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Is that what it says up there?

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Let's see that.

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And bringing every demon to the captivity.

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Is that what it says?

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Come on, help me.

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Every what?

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So the pulling down of strongholds,

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is it up there?

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Ah, so the pulling down of strongholds

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is where's your thoughts again?

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Ah, it's in your thinking.

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Bringing every thought

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to the obedience of Christ.

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Is that right?

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So he goes on to say,

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bringing every thought to the obedience

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of Christ, et cetera, et cetera, et cetera, amen.

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So this is all about our thoughts,

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our thinking.

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What are we thinking?

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So we can choose to be spiritual

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or we can choose to be carnal.

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Amen.

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We can choose.

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We can change everything.

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This is another thing

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the Lord began to show me was

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years ago I had read this

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that your tongue

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is attached to the middle of your brain.

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So where the tongue goes in,

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basically am I butchering that,

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am I pretty close?

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Yeah.

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So the tongue is attached

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to the middle of the brain.

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So the tongue is like the keyboard

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of a computer.

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Okay.

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How many of you got a computer?

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Okay.

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How many of you ever heard of a computer?

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Okay.

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Okay.

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This is new thing.

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Okay.

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All right.

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So your tongue is your keyboard

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to your computer.

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Okay.

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So help me here tonight.

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So when you sit down,

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how many of you ever sat down on God on the computer?

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Raise your hand.

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Anybody?

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Okay.

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So many of you have.

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All right.

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Praise the Lord.

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We're doing good here.

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All right.

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And you get on the keyboard

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and you write something down.

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Does it stop and say,

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do you mean this?

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Or does it give you a response back and say,

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are you positive you mean this?

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Come on.

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Raise your hand.

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Oh, it never says that.

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It just enters it into the computer.

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Is that right?

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Guess what?

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What your tongue says,

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your brain just believes.

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I'll say it to this church over here.

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What your tongue says,

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your brain just believes.

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So you are like the greatest prophet of your own life.

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Right?

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Is that right?

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So how do we renew our minds?

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How do I put on the new man?

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One of the best ways you can do it is get on the keyboard.

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In other words,

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put God's word in your mouth.

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When you put God's word,

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God's words in your speech,

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come on somebody,

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it begins to change the way you think.

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Is that right?

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And I didn't know any of this stuff.

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When I got saved,

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I didn't have a good Holy Ghost church like this.

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There was nothing out in western Minnesota.

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And my parents, for sure,

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my parents were like Shiite Lutheran.

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They had underwear that were Lutheran.

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So that's how Lutheran they are.

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So on the Lutheran scale,

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they're in the 10.0 Richter scale.

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So for sure,

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my parents weren't letting me go to the Holy Ghost church.

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So here I am trying to grow spiritually,

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and I was getting no help at home.

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So I had to dig down deep

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into God's word by myself.

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And eventually I ended up

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going to Moorhead State my first year,

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and went to a great church there,

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and all of that stuff.

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And so that stuff helped me.

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But even before that,

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God began to show me

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how I had to change the way I thought,

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began with my mouth.

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It began with my own words.

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And I began to start to have to change things.

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And I remember,

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when I went to North Central Bible College,

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we used to call it North Central Bridal College,

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but that's a story for another time.

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And so when I went to North Central Bible College,

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I went and I was in a class.

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It was the first semester,

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and I didn't know what I was doing,

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and I was amongst all these preacher's kids.

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And I'm like,

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God, you just got to help me here.

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And I was in this class,

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and the teacher went and said,

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we're going to do a fake service.

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We're going to do like a mock church service.

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Somebody's got to sing a song.

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Somebody's got to take an offering.

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Somebody's got to do a special song.

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Somebody's got to read announcements.

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And somebody's got to preach.

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And so everybody's heads goes down, right?

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Like, oh, God, don't let them look up at me, right?

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And so the teacher said,

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listen, if you don't volunteer,

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I have to, you know, start to elect you.

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And so it's not by choice.

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You understand?

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And so, man,

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my knees were having fellowship with each other.

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I'll tell you what right now.

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My heart is beating out of my chest.

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And I just raised my hand.

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I'll never forget that day.

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And I raised my hand and I said, I'll preach.

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And my head is like, are you nuts?

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And in my best friend next to me,

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he goes, oh, thank you, Jesus.

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He goes, thank you, God.

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Thank you, brother.

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He's like, I'll buy pizza tonight for us all.

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Thank you, man.

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And so all my friends around me are like,

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aren't you nervous to preach?

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And I said, I knew it was a defining moment of my life.

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And I said, no, I never get afraid.

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And my head is thinking, you've never preached before.

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How could you never get afraid?

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You understand?

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But what was I doing?

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I was keying in what I wanted to see.

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I was picking up my fishing rod from fishing in sickness,

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disease, poverty, victim, anger, depression.

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Come on, talk to me somebody.

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And I just said, listen, there's nothing,

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but bull heads over here.

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I'm on a fish where I want to catch something.

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Come on, amen.

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And the moment I made that change,

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everything changed in my life spiritually.

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But it began when I had to put the word in my mouth.

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Everyone say, put the word in your mouth.

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Amen.

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So it's really connected to your thoughts.

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Can I get your keyboardist?

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I forget his name.

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Sorry, there you are.

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Thank you, brother.

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And so it's really connected to our thinking.

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How do we think?

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Where are we fishing?

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And that's where I believe many times we've seen people

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even get healed that way.

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I remember we were ministering up in Browerville.

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Susie and I were ministering in Browerville.

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We rented a building up there.

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And there was some churches in the area

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that didn't want revival, so we said,

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we're bringing it, whether you want it or not.

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We're going to have a riot or a revival.

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One of the two, right?

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And so we went and so Susie and I rented this facility

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and we brought a worship team with us and all of this.

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And so we just began to advertise.

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God was going to move.

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And so we had a young man that called the office

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and Susie answered.

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And this young man said,

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I saw one of your videos on YouTube.

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And he said, I want to tell you,

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if nobody gets healed tonight, I'm getting healed tonight.

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That's what he told my wife on the phone.

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He said, if nobody gets healed, I'm getting healed tonight.

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I just want to let you know that.

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And so we thought that was awesome, right?

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We were like, man, that's great, you know?

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And so we get there to the service

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and people came from everywhere and stuff.

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And this young man had been in a car accident

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or something.

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He had gone through the windshield of the car

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at like 60 miles an hour.

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Horrible situation.

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And he had broken his back

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and he was confined to a wheelchair

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and he was just in a horrible place.

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It just really, really a lot of pain.

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And we went in the middle of the message.

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He come wheeling down the front.

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And we just grabbed his hand

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and we just lifted this man up.

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Just like you read.

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Silver and gold have I none.

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Rise and walk in the name of Jesus.

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And we lifted him up.

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And the power of God hit that young man.

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He was just instantaneously healed.

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And it was the first time he walked

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in something like 10 or 12 years.

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Come on somebody, give the Lord a hand. Amen.

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Amen.

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The devil is not as powerful as he's been telling you.

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I said, the devil is not as powerful

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as he's been talking to you about.

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He can't stop you. Amen.

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He can't defeat you.

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He can't stop your prosperity.

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He can't stop your healing.

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If he could have, he would have already done it.

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Come on talk to me somebody.

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The devil cannot do what he's been talking

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to your head about.

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You only have one way to go

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and that's the place of victory.

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I said, there's only one way for you to go

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and that's the place of victory.

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to victory.

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Come on somebody. Amen.

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Victory is your destination.

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Amen.

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And that's the mindset that the Lord

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wants you to have. Amen.

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Instead of, well, let's just, you know,

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kind of see what happens. Let's just throw the bones

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and hopefully something good comes out.

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You understand?

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Instead of, we're not playing

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Christian, you know, roulette here.

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You understand?

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But instead, it's a mindset.

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It's a mindset.

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I said it's a mindset.

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I remember we were ministering in Florida.

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We were ministering in central Florida

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in a place called Aubrandale.

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Aubrandale. And we went and we

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we did an event with a large ministry,

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another large ministry.

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And God TV called us

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and asked to come and put the whole thing

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on God TV. And so we said, sure.

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And

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and they're like, we'll put you

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on God TV and we won't charge you.

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I said, good, you can come to our conference

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and I won't charge you.

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How's that?

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I thought it was kind of rude, but anyways.

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So,

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they went and they came and

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and so this one night

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there was a

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woman that was dying of cancer

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and

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she called the ministry and

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she was in the hospital. The doctor said

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you will not see Monday morning.

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You'll be dead before Monday.

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Say your goodbyes to everybody.

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And here she was, full of cancer.

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I mean, full of cancer.

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She was not even gray.

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She was like a brownish gray

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colored all over.

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And she smelled so bad

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it would almost made

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you throw up. That's how bad.

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And she smelled like rotten meat. I don't know how to describe it.

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So

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she told her doctor, I'm going to have my son

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bring me to that revival meeting

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and I'm going to be healed.

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And so the doctor said

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you may be dead trying to get to the church.

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She goes, what's the difference if I die here

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or die there?

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I'm dead either way.

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So I'd rather die trying to get to church.

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Come on, amen.

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And so she gets her son to take her

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and

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they put her like kind of in the

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section behind Susie and I

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and I'm not exaggerating. Susie will

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verify this. I'm not being evangelistically

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speaking here, alright?

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But about 75 people

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literally got up and moved

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when she sat down

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because the smell was so bad.

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She smelled like death.

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So it came time for

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ministry time and it was the night

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that we weren't preaching

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this other evangelist was.

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So

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this woman comes down

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to the front and

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in the confusion of everything

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she got bumped and she fell

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and usher

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Mr. on top of it and so

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crap, she hits the ground and I'm like

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oh god

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just take us out

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of here right now Lord, you know.

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And so the evangelist

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kept on ministering to other

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different people

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and he looks at Susie and I and he says

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will you minister to her? And so we're like, yeah cool.

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So we go over to her and the cameras

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were following this other evangelist

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and so Susie

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and I go over to this woman

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God's honest truth

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and the son is not a Christian

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and so the son is cussing at her ushers

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and it was a lovely sight

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all right.

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And it was really, really toxic

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the whole situation and so I said

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to the young man, the son

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I said you go sit down

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because I remembered in the scriptures

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when Jesus put them out. Is that right?

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Of their own house by the way

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is that right?

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So the young man said this is my mother

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and I said I don't care this is my meeting

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you go sit down.

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And so we grabbed that woman

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by the hand we lifted her up

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and she was screaming and crying

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in total pain full of cancer

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I said lady

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we came to bring you healing tonight

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we came to bring you healing

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tonight I said look at me

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take a deep breath

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relax and let it go

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and she took a step up

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and she went

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and she took one step forward

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and color came back

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into her face

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and she was healed

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and she took off shouting and praising God

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and the Lord healed her come on give Jesus

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a great big hand

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but

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I believe it was because

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of her mindset that she came

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It's time to get healed. Instead of like, well, we'll just kind of see what happens, you know.

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Okay, sara, sara, whatever will be, will be. You understand?

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But what if we said, I'm going to change that. I'm going to just make an attitude adjustment.

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You know, many people, when it comes Sunday morning church, we see it all the time.

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Doesn't matter if we're in Minnesota, Michigan, we are just in Michigan, Indiana, Florida, Oregon, or even Canada.

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It doesn't matter. Many people, they kind of come with that tire kicking.

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Well, let's just see if anything happens. You understand?

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Almost like God is their little performer boy. You understand?

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But what if God was trying to say, I'm just wanting to see faith inside you to grab a hold of something.

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I want you to fish in a pool of expectation.

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What if that's what God was looking for? Just what if?

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What if he was looking for us to fish in a different place?

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So Father, tonight in the name of Jesus, we thank you, Lord, that you are good and your mercies endure forever.

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Lord, we just want to say thank you tonight that you're speaking to us about spiritual growth.

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You're speaking to us about change. You're speaking to us about breaking patterns.

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And so Lord, tonight in the name of Jesus, we want to pull those strongholds out of our thinking down.

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Those prisons that we have erected inside of our own thinking.

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And Lord, tonight we just change those thought processes now by faith.

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And so Lord, we make that adjustment on the inside and we say, Lord, we believe.

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Lord, we believe in the name of Jesus.

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God, we give you thanks for it tonight, for all that you're going to do in the name of Jesus.

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If you're here tonight as a guest, a visitor, whatever, and you've never been born again,

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you've never made Jesus, Lord, of your life, and tonight God's tugging at your heart.

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If that's you, and maybe you've been backslidden, maybe you've been away from God.

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You once knew the Lord, but the fire went out of your heart and you want to come back to Jesus.

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If that's you, whether for the first time or rededicate your life, I want you to quickly raise your hand.

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If you want to give your life back to Christ and receive that free gift of eternal life.

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Thank you. Anyone else? Quickly, if that's you. Anyone else tonight? Quickly.

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If God's tugging your heart. If that's you. This is your chance. Praise God.

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Just stand up, sweetheart. Yeah, just stand up. Come. Come.

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The Lord wants to minister to you. I want to pray for you. Is that all right? Yeah, come.

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Yeah, come right here. Just stand right here. Just lift your hands.

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Lord, tonight. Anyone else do you want to join her? This is your chance.

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Don't miss your opportunity. Hallelujah. Come on, everybody.

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Pray with us and agree. Pray this out loud and meet it with all your heart.

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Pray this, say, Heavenly Father. In the name of Jesus, I receive forgiveness of sin.

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Cleansing of the past. Fill me with your Holy Spirit. In Jesus' name, I'm saved.

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Born again. On my way to heaven. Because Jesus is in my heart. Amen.

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Thank you, Father, tonight. Amen. Come on, give the Lord a hand. Amen.

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Praise you, Lord. Thank you, Jesus.

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So, He explained to us tonight how our tongue or our mouth is the keyboard to our brain, right?

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It attaches right to the middle of the brain, okay?

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So, He started in on things He does every day, maybe numerous times a day,

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depending upon what pond He's trying to get His fishing rod out of.

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And there was a lot of amens. But as I'm sitting there, the Holy Spirit said to me,

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but they're not using their keyboard. They're agreeing with you, but they're not using their keyboard.

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Can you do something for us here? Let's do it together.

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In the world of declaration, when you're saying, okay, I am going to call where I'm going.

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You do it all day long. Can you lead us in so that they get an idea of,

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okay, what do I put on the keyboard of my mouth to determine the direction I go?

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Yes, yes. You know, just like I prophesied to my sister over here,

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you know, part of the prophetic word the Lord gave me up was to love the process.

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You know, many times we don't embrace the process of change.

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How many of you know, how many of you have ever...

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If you didn't feel growing pains as a kid, how many of you have seen people with literal growing pains?

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Anyone seen that? You see a teenager and they're like,

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Mom, my legs hurt or my, you know, my arms hurt. Why?

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Because they're growing faster into their physical body. Guess what?

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The same thing is happening spiritually. So I'm going to do this.

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Everyone just stand your feet. Just give me a little more juice just because of my voice.

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Thank you, my sis. Hallelujah.

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So I'm just going to lead you in a few that will help you and bless you.

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And so just stretch your hands toward heaven. Come on, pray this out.

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Say this out loud. Say, in the name of Jesus, I embrace change.

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I love it. I love it when God stretches me.

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I love it when God changes me into the image of Christ.

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I can do this. There's nothing wrong with me that the word of God cannot change.

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There's nothing wrong with me that the power of the Holy Spirit cannot transform.

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So from this night, I'm going to grow. I'm going to grow in the likeness of Jesus.

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I'm going to see healing in my body. I'm going to see miracles in my life.

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I'm going to see miracles in my finances. This month, I'm going to see my finances change.

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Come on, say it out loud. I'm going to see miracles this month in my finances.

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In the name of Jesus, I am going to be used this month by the Holy Spirit in spiritual gifts.

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And my flesh, I refuse to listen to it. I'm going to be bold and I'm going to see God move.

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I'm going to see God use me in evangelism. I welcome it. I'm not afraid of it.

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I'm called to do this. I can share Jesus. I can tell my story.

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And God is going to bring me this week one person I can tell my story and it's going to touch their lives.

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In the name of Jesus, I'm bold in the Lord and in the power of his might.

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I refuse to walk in fear. I refuse to walk in depression.

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I choose to laugh in the joy of the Lord. In the name of Jesus.

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God is working in my family. Come on, say it with faith.

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God is working in my family. In the name of Jesus, all my family is coming into the kingdom.

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Every devil in Minnesota is not going to be able to stop it.

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Because all the angels in Minnesota are ministering to them now and even as they sleep in the name of Jesus.

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Angels are ministering to me now and when I sleep tonight, they will minister to me all night long in Jesus' name. Amen.

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Come on, give the Lord a hand clap if you believe it.

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Alright, so he just gave you the keys to direct your future.

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In Jesus' name, whatever the situation is, you must declare it.

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The word of faith is in your mouth. Call those things as are not as though they were or as though they're done.

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So, whether you're having a good day tomorrow or not, you call the direction your future must go.

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You don't go, oh, that was nice yesterday, but today really sucks.

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No, today in Jesus' name, I'm calling where I'm going to go.

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And depression leaves me. I'm not going to be afraid. Whatever the situation is, you call it and speak to it.

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And then you do it on Monday and then you do it on Tuesday and then you do it on Wednesday.

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And I always have people ask this question, well, how long do I have to do this? Until it changes.

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Why would you quit early? You just keep speaking to it until it obeys you.

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Sometimes things go quick, sometimes I've had to speak to things for over a year.

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And all of a sudden the old mule started to turn.

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And other things go quick. He just gave you the keys to direct your future in Jesus' name, Declaret.