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Amen! There's a lot of new faces this morning. So hello, if you're new this morning, I do want to acknowledge that as well.

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We're glad that you're here. If it's your first time, second time, third time here, we love the Lord here. Amen!

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We love Him here. We love Jesus, and all we want is Jesus. How many of you have been here for 80% of the series?

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Can you just raise your hand if you've been here for 80% of the series? Praise God.

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I say that because when you get into a long series, a lot of the times you can lose some people that may have not been here for a greater measure of the series,

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because I might be saying some things here today and you're like, doesn't make any sense.

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And it's like, well, got to go back and listen to some of the series that we've been on.

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So I encourage you to go back on our website. You will find some things that will give you some more clarity and more content,

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or context, or whatever you want to say. See, my English, man, I've been learning, but it's not so good.

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It'll give you a more understanding of what I'm talking about.

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So let me do just a quick Sunday overview, and they're going to jump right in it.

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I'm going to try to get you out of here by noon. Can't promise you, but we'll try.

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Last Sunday, we touched on a few things. I said why we're in the second phase of the series,

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and that is we're walking through the life of our Lord.

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Literally, we're walking through the life of Jesus. We're going through the Gospels, Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John,

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and we're looking at everything that the Lord did was lowly.

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Every decision that the Lord made was lowly. There was a constant progression of our God that kept on going low, low, and low.

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And today, the two main things that I want to talk about when we get to them is I'm going to show you,

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scripturally, not just explain to you, I'm going to show you scripturally,

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that when Jesus entered into the ministry, His way into the ministry was very lowly.

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It was very lowly. And then more to that, the way that even the Lord did ministry,

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the way that the Lord preached, the way that the Lord cast out devils, the way that the Lord healed the sick,

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raised the dead, all these things, when we read the Scriptures and we see the way that Jesus actually did ministry was very lowly.

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So last Sunday I said this thing and I want to say it again because one of the reasons of why we're walking through the life of the Lord

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is that I want you to know Jesus. As your pastor, I want you to know Jesus.

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I don't want you just to know of Him, but I want you to actually know Him.

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Big difference. I don't want you just to walk away on a Sunday and say, well, that's cool. That's a cool fact that our pastor said about the Lord.

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I want you to leave every Sunday. This is literally my goal when I'm preparing for messages. My goal is Lord, help me.

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Help me to stir and provoke the people, to challenge the people that when they hear about you, they go home

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and they now begin to implement and they begin to seek you out on their own. I desire for you to know the Lord. That's my desire.

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So when I said this thing last Sunday is that which we behold, we actually become. You guys remember that last Sunday?

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That which we behold, we actually become.

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I said this last Sunday just repeating myself. The reason why majority of the church in our day and age looks like the world is because we're beholding the things of the world.

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We're beholding the things of the world, not realizing that we're actually becoming like the world.

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So I want us to behold the Lord because if we behold Him, we'll become like Him.

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We also talked about the behaviors of goat and sheep. I got a lot of people that texted me last week or this week. It was great, man. It was awesome.

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But I showed the difference of goat and sheep. The behaviors of a goat, let's just call them not so lowly.

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And the behaviors of the sheep that are very lowly. I'm not going to get into any of that if you want to listen to that.

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So yes, I'm calling you a sheep. I'm not calling you a goat. I'm calling you a sheep.

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I also touched... This is where I felt the Lord had us parked last Sunday.

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Is I touched Matthew 25 where I really expressed that God is found in lowly places.

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God is found in lowly places. We oftentimes seek Him up here. We oftentimes think, okay, I got to be up at a pulpit.

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I got to be out evangelizing. I got to be out praying for the sick and this and that.

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And all those things are good. I'm not disregarding those things. Those things are necessary.

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But oftentimes you can get so caught up in these things that you actually miss God in the low places where He's actually found.

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Had a conversation with somebody yesterday as somebody who's in full-time ministry.

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One of the things that my wife and I always keep ourselves in line and in check.

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We do this for one another is we make sure we're not caught up in the ministry of things.

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Let me give you an example. When I used to travel a lot for ministry, there was times in my ministry where the anointing of God comes on you and rests on you.

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And for three, sometimes even three or more days, the anointing doesn't lift.

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Friends, I didn't sleep. I used to literally, my sleep would be, and you're up.

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Not recognizing everything that's going on. And then as soon as the anointing begins to subside, then you get a reality check.

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And you're like, oh my back, oh my legs, I'm tired, I'm hungry. All these things.

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So the thing that my wife and I do, and this is to you guys as well, because some of you are in ministry.

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Some of you are doing things for the Lord. You got to keep yourself in check that you don't get caught up

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in the whirlwind of ministry and praying for people and doing all these things.

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Were you missing the thing that's more important? And that's literally being tucked away with the Lord.

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You following me? It's very lowly.

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We talked about the Lord, the very little that the scriptures talk to us about Jesus in his teen years and his youth years.

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The very little that we find in the scripture, we actually find that Jesus was very lowly even as a young boy.

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Very lowly. We talked about that last Sunday.

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And the last thing I said is that I wanted to kind of emphasize again today is, you know, we talk about lowliness.

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We do all these things, you know, and we've been in this series.

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But I want us to really be real with ourselves.

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Because I said lowliness of mind, the best way that we can measure and ask ourselves, am I lowly?

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The question is, are you embodying the scriptures?

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And we talked about that last Sunday as well.

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Coming out of James 2.

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To be doers of the word.

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Not just hearers of it.

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We can measure ourselves by being real with us and being, hey, am I actually embodying what death to self looks like?

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Am I embodying grace?

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Am I embodying mercy?

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Am I embodying repentance?

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Am I embodying forgiveness?

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All these things that we can find in the scripture that fall under the camp,

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where I should say under the blueprint of lowliness of mind.

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I want us to be real with ourselves.

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And not lie to ourselves, because we can do that.

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Amen?

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Alright, let us pray and then we can open up our Bibles to Matthew chapter 3.

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So Father, we thank you.

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We thank you, Lord.

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We thank you, Holy Spirit.

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We thank you for the scriptures.

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We thank you for this time.

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And I pray, Lord, that you would give us ears to hear and eyes to see.

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That you would meet us, Lord, where we are at.

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You would meet us where we are at, Lord.

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Each and every one of us, God, we are in a different place in our life, God.

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And I'm asking you that you would meet us where we are at this morning.

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Unveil our eyes to see, Lord.

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Unveil our eyes to see Jesus.

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Let us behold Him.

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Let us behold the Lamb of God who takes away the sins of the world.

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And Holy Spirit, where I am limited as a man,

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I pray that you would go deep into the depths of the heart of men and women this morning.

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Wash over us this morning, Lord, by your word.

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Wash over us this morning by your word.

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In Jesus' name, if you agree with me, would you say amen?

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Amen.

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Matthew chapter three.

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How many of you have your Bibles this morning?

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Amen. Praise God.

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Pastor, I'm not being legalistic here, I promise.

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I'm just encouraging the people.

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That's all I'm doing.

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Matthew chapter three.

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So we want to... I want to show you...

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I want to show you a few things here that literally describe the lowliness of how our Lord Jesus

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entered into the ministry.

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By a show of hands, by a show of hands, how many of you

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know that you know, that you know, that you know

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that God has called you into full-time ministry?

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Raise your hands, lift them high.

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Lift them high.

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I got to see your hands, like high, please.

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Okay.

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Okay.

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Higher.

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Can you do it higher for me?

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Thank you.

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I'm being serious here.

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Keep them up.

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Okay.

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Thank you.

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You can put your hands down.

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For those that lifted your hands, pay very, very close attention to what I'm about to talk about.

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Pay very, very close attention to what I'm about to talk about.

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Let me ask this question.

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How many of you know that God has called you in some facet of ministry?

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It doesn't have to be full-time ministry.

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It could be part-time.

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It could be serving.

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Lift your hands high.

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Can you do that for me?

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Okay.

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I need you to pay attention to what I'm saying.

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Okay.

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Not for the third group of people.

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How many of you know that you are called to preach the gospel?

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How many of you know that you are called to be a worshiper?

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I mean, everybody's hands should be up right now, actually.

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There you go.

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Thank you.

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Thank you.

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Thank you.

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Listen to this because oftentimes if you we read the way that our Lord entered into the

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ministry, the way...

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Think of it this way.

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For 30 years, the Lord was doing life.

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You know, life like we do it.

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He had his family.

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He was breaking bread.

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He was doing all these things.

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And then all of a sudden, there comes a time in his life where now it's time

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for him to actually come to the forefront for his destiny to be fulfilled.

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To be unveiled, so to say.

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And in this time that God is literally that Jesus is being unveiled.

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Think of it this way.

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From the seeker place, the Father brings him forth.

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And now the Son of God is being brought to the forefront, is being brought to the

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platform, so to say.

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We got to pay attention to the way that he actually entered into the ministry.

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We got to pay attention to that.

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Because we have this...

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We, and I'm putting myself into this because this is the way that I thought it,

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we think that entering into full-time ministry should be this big grand thing.

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There should be fireworks because, well, here comes Pastor Igor strutting down.

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Look at him.

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We think there should be different things.

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And it's like, no, no.

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If you study and if you look, the way that our Lord was actually presented

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into the ministry to enter it, and we pay attention to some of the details

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of how lowly it was, it'll get your perspective changed.

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And you'll be like, man, I don't even know if I want to do ministry anymore.

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And you want to know the truth?

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It's going to be a hard thing I'm going to say.

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I would rather have you think that way than say, yeah, I'm going to do ministry.

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You think that's weird, Pastor.

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No, I'd rather have you think, I don't know if I want to go there.

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Because here's the truth. Listen to me, listen to me.

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Here is the truth.

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Even though you might be saying, I don't know if I want to go there.

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If it really is a destiny on your life, it's not up to you if you're following the Lord.

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Did you hear me?

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Sorry.

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It's restricted me, Pastor.

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So here we see Jesus, the Son of God.

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Remember from the first series, or from the first two Sundays ago.

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Here we see a God who created all of creation.

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He was there. The scripture says, in him and through him were all things made.

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Now this same God steps down into creation, born of a virgin, all these things.

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Remember, I'm just trying to get your mind to think.

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Now we have this God.

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You would think, okay, if you're God, okay, I saw your loneliness here, but now it's your time.

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Now it's your time, God.

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You're coming up to the forefront to do ministry, full-time ministry.

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Now we're thinking, okay, now God's not going to be lowly, but yet still in that, our Lord enters in lowly.

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Listen to this. Let me read it here.

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Matthew chapter 3, verse 13.

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Now Jesus came from Galilee to John at the Jordan to be baptized by him.

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Pause, pause for just a second, just that first verse there.

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Now Jesus travels to the Jordan where John the Baptist, the baptizer as he's known,

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is now baptizing multitudes of people.

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How many of you know who John was to Jesus? Can somebody tell me?

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So here we got God, the Son of God, who has entered or is being introduced into the ministry,

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is now being baptized not by a Pharisee, not by a scribe, not by some high person that's influential.

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He is being baptized by his cousin.

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Who is actually deemed to be a lesser than in society.

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You guys ever studied the life of John? He was weird, man.

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This brother was eating locust and honey, I mean, wearing fur.

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This dude, I can imagine if a John the Baptist in that day walked in,

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I guarantee you this row right here would clear.

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They'd say that dude's weird.

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Big old beard, hair is like crazy.

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My brother the other day said, he goes, dude, he goes, you look like John the baptizer.

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I said, thank you. I take that as an appreciation, man.

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Look at this hair, man. It's flowing.

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So John the Baptist is this guy that's deemed a lesser than in society.

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And now the Lord comes in.

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You said something, didn't you?

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All right. See, we love that you guys are back.

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Honestly, can we give one more round of applause?

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Seriously, I am so thankful that you guys are back.

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Thank you. We love our pastors.

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So John the Baptist is a lesser than in society is a cousin of Jesus.

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Now has the privilege to baptize our Lord.

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How many of us, just think of your cousin right now real quick.

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Just think of your cousin real quick.

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That's right. Yep.

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Cousin Steve, cousin Bob, whatever their name is.

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Imagine the Lord is telling you, you need to be baptized by your cousin.

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Just imagine that for a second.

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How many of us would actually do that?

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I mean, honestly, how many of us would actually allow our cousin

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who everybody else says is weird?

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He's different.

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He's eating locust and wild honey and he lives out in the wilderness

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and he's dressed in camel hair and his belt and all this stuff.

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And it's like, how many of us would actually do that though?

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Like honestly, like be honest with yourself.

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I'm gonna be honest with you. I don't know if I'd do it.

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I don't know if I'd do it.

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So the Lord comes into the scene

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here we read verse 13.

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Then Jesus came on reading it again.

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Then Jesus came from Galilee to John at the Jordan

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to be baptized by him.

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Now verse 14.

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And John tried to prevent him

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saying, I need to be baptized by you

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and you are coming to me.

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So now we read that John recognizes.

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John recognizes, because remember what

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the Gospel of John, he records

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that John the baptizer said,

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behold, so here Jesus is walking

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and John records in his Gospel.

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He says, behold the Lamb of God

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that takes away the sins of the world.

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In other words, John the baptizer is prophesying

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and he's saying, here is the Messiah

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that the prophets and the fathers have spoken about.

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Now remember there's multitudes at this point.

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There's multitudes at this point that are around John.

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So John makes this prophetic statement.

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He makes this call that everybody would hear

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and then he says, listen Jesus,

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I can't baptize you.

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I should actually be baptized by you.

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So John even recognizes the lowliness of our God.

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In other words, he's saying, Lord listen,

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this is not the way that I think

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you should answer into full-time ministry.

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There has to be another way, Lord.

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There has to be a different route.

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There has to be somebody else

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that it's of a higher status in society

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that maybe is a little more influential,

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that maybe their ministry is a little bit bigger

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and all this stuff.

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And Jesus simply replies to him there in Matthew.

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He says, no, no, no.

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Let it be so that all righteousness would be fulfilled.

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In other translations it says,

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let it be so that the scriptures would be fulfilled.

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In other words, let it be this way

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because the scripture, all righteousness,

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talks about the lowliness of our God.

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It talks about the nature of our God.

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So Jesus is saying, he says, listen John,

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let it be so that my nature can be shown

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to the multitudes that are around you.

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Of how lowly I am.

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See, even in his entrance into the ministry,

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the Lord is lowly.

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There is a constant progression of our God

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that keeps going lower and lower

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and lower and lower still.

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Brought into the ministry by a cousin

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that society deems worthless.

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Remember, remember friends,

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that when the Pharisees and the teachers of the law

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when they came to John, the baptizer,

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and they asked him, they said, who are you?

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They said, who are you?

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He said, I'm not a Messiah, I'm not the Messiah,

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I'm not a prophet, he just said, I'm a voice.

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So let me now bring this together.

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Jesus was baptized simply by a voice.

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By a voice. That's it.

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It wasn't Benny Hinn. It wasn't Billy Graham.

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It wasn't Ray Harbonke. It wasn't somebody

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that was well-known.

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It was simply by a man that said, I'm a voice.

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That's it.

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I carry no other title. I have no reputation.

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And that's by whom our Lord was baptized by.

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And the more to that, here he baptizes him.

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The scripture says John baptizes him.

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And all of a sudden when Jesus comes out of the water,

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the Bible says the heavens rip open.

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The heavens rip open and now a dove descends

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and rests on our Lord.

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Now you're saying, well, that's not grandpastry

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or that's not lowly pastor Igor.

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That's grand. No friends. It's lowly.

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And let me tell you why it's lowly.

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You're ready for this?

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This is from open heavens if you were here

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this last year or 2025.

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I talked about this.

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The only three times that God the Father

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stood up from his throne and audibly spoke

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in the life of Jesus.

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In the 33 years that our Lord lived,

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there's only three times that the scriptures record

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that God the Father stood up,

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audibly spoke that the heavens tore open.

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There was only three times.

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And do you know what, every time it was around?

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It was around death.

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All three times that the Father spoke audibly

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in the context of what Jesus was doing

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was a very low thing and that was death.

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Being baptized, dying to be raised with Christ.

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Mount of transfiguration.

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What was the context around there?

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The Lord was talking about his suffering,

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about his death.

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And then in John 12 we see the third recording

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of where Jesus has given the parable of a seed

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that dies.

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And if it, if and only when it dies,

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then it only produces.

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So though it seems grand that the heavens tear open

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and hear the Father speaks and everybody hears,

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but we got to understand the only reason

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why it made the Father do that

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was in the context of being lowly.

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You want to hear God talk to you in your life,

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audibly?

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You got to go low.

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You want to hear the audible voice of God

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in your life?

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You got to go low and you got to progress.

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Progress to go low.

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And even when and even when God speaks

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and multitudes hear, you're not swayed by it.

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Because the Lord wasn't swayed by it.

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I said our Lord wasn't swayed by it.

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You know what happened next after the heavens

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tear open and the dove descends?

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You know what happens next?

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The scriptures tell us and Mark records this.

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I believe it's chapter two.

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Mark records this and the Bible says

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all this grand stuff happens.

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Jesus doesn't stand there and say

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I'm speaking in Russian there real quick.

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Do you know what the scripture says?

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The scripture says that the spirit

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drove him into the wilderness.

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The spirit of God then drove our Lord

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into the wilderness.

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It wasn't days later, it was right after.

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It was right after.

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We think the entrance into the ministry

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is going to be this grand thing.

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As soon as I get into full-time ministry,

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watch me.

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I'm going to be doing things.

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God's like, yeah, but that's not how it works in my books.

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I'm going to tuck you away for years.

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I'm going to hide you for years until I know.

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And I will even delay.

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I believe God will even delay our destinies

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until we're ready.

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No, no, you didn't hear me.

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I'm telling you, you didn't hear me.

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I said, God will delay your destiny

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until your heart is ready.

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God will delay the things that he wants you

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to walk out and to fulfill.

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He will delay it, not for his sake.

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Don't worry about it.

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God's got plenty of people.

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He has a remnant that will obey him

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on to death.

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They will obey the Lord.

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It's not for his sake that he's losing something,

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but if you're being delayed,

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it's simply for you.

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You're missing out.

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Until your heart is ready

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and tucked away when you're with them

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and you're tucked away.

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Then when your heart is ready,

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God will begin to expose you.

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I've even seen it in my own life.

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Let me give you an example.

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In the earlier days of my ministry,

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God would bring me out.

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I'd go do this big conference.

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I'd go do this huge youth group.

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And then all of a sudden, he tucked me away.

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And I'm like, but God,

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you saw everything that was going on.

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People delivered.

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People healed.

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All this stuff.

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But God's like, yeah, but your heart's not ready yet.

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I saw the way that you responded.

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I saw the way that your body changed

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when all this stuff happened.

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You're not ready yet.

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I simply showed you what's to come,

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but you're not ready yet.

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And then it went even more.

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You guys ready?

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I'm sharing for my own life here with you.

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And then God calls me and my wife

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for two and a half years, tucked us away.

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Friends, I went from preaching to two to three times a month

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to preaching five times in two and a half years.

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And you know what the Lord was talking to me about

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in that time?

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He said, son, he said,

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you love this pulpit right here

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more than you love being with me by yourself.

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See, this right here,

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this tucking away can never, listen to me,

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this is living a lowly life.

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This is living a lowly life.

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This right here being tucked away with the Lord

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should never, I said should never exceed this right here.

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Should never exceed it.

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This right here tucked away with the Lord

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should never exceed the laying on of hands

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and the manifestations of the Spirit

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and the signs and the miracles and the wonders.

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You know what problem we have in the church?

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We have people chasing signs, miracles, and wonders.

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When I read the scriptures, the scripture says

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that signs, miracles, and wonders they shall follow.

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They shall follow.

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So why are we chasing them?

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That is not lowly.

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That is a pride thing in your heart that has to be addressed.

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The scriptures tell us they follow us.

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We don't chase them.

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To live lowly is to be tucked away

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and it should never exceed God right here.

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Right here, Lord.

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This should never exceed this in the public eye.

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And when it does, things are going to go awry.

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And that was a rhyme and you can quote that.

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Our Lord gets baptized, raises from the water.

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The spirit of God descends on him.

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Then, then, the spirit of God drives him into the wilderness.

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All these things are speaking about the lowliness.

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Our God is still progressing.

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He's still going low, driven into the wilderness

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by the spirit of God.

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And the Bible says for 40 days and 40 nights

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he wrestled with wild beasts.

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Tempted by Satan.

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Fasting.

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Some of us can barely fast for a day.

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Our Lord fasted for 40 days

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and on top of that, he had good old Satan

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sitting there and tempting him.

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You see, it's interesting

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because when the Lord was brought into the wilderness

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there is things there that occurred in the wilderness

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that we oftentimes miss.

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The scriptures tell us in Genesis 3

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that Adam and Eve were tempted with three things

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by the serpent.

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Those three things are pride of life.

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Oh, I'm sorry.

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Lust of the eyes.

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Thank you so much.

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Lust of the eyes, lust of the flesh,

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and pride of life.

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Those are the three things.

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If you actually read and you pay attention

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to what Genesis 3 says,

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the way that the serpent actually tempted Adam and Eve,

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those are the three things.

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Now when you read Jesus being drawn into the wilderness,

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the same three things that Adam and Eve were tested with,

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now our Lord is being tested with those same three things.

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Pay attention to it in the scriptures.

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Read your scriptures.

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The same three things that Adam and Eve failed in,

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now our Lord has to go back

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and think of it this way.

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He has to now clean up their mess.

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That's why the scripture says that he is the greater Adam.

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They say Jesus is the greater Adam.

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So our Lord goes back into the,

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or gets driven by the spirit into the wilderness,

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is now tempted by the same three things

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that Adam and Eve were tempted by,

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yet the Lord actually succeeds in it.

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You know, the scriptures say this,

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and let me read this.

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I'm going to go ahead of my notes here

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because I need to connect this.

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This is in...

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Open up Matthew 5. Let me read this quick.

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Matthew chapter 5, verses 17.

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Matthew 5, 17.

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Here the Lord is speaking.

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And he says,

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Do not think that I came to destroy the law

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or the prophets.

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I did not come to destroy, but to fulfill.

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I want you to pay attention to something here.

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The things that Adam and Eve...

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I want to show you the lowliness of the Lord.

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I want to show you his lowliness

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so that you would behold him.

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The things that Adam and Eve

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did not succeed in.

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Our Lord goes back

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because he's lowly.

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Remember, he's God.

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Okay, friends, let me give you this perspective first.

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He's God.

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He can do all things.

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He can flip the script in a snap of a finger.

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You know that he has the ability

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to flip the script in a snap of a finger.

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He can do whatever he wants.

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He's God.

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He is the Lord.

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And you would think,

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okay, you're God, you're high, you're mighty.

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Would you not have just flipped the script

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and not have to have your son go all the way back

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as he steps into creation?

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Now the son has to go all the way back

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and he has to restore

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that which was lost in the Garden of Eden.

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Now our Jesus has to go back,

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think of it as back to the Garden of Eden

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and he has to be tempted

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with the three same things

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that Adam and Eve were tempted with.

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Now our Lord restores that.

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He accomplishes it.

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And he says, he says there in Matthew 5,

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he says, listen, I have not come to abolish the law

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and the prophets.

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Do you know what law he's talking about?

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He's not just talking about the physical law.

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He's talking about the spiritual law

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that was set by the Father into motion

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since the creation of the world.

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Because the law and the prophets

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when we read what Moses did,

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Moses went up to Mount Sinai

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and he got his ten commandments up there.

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Though it was a law to be instituted

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to people to live by,

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we got to understand where Moses got it.

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It was a spiritual law

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that God the Father set into motion

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and then he brings it down

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and he institutes it into our realm of living.

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So Jesus comes and he says, listen,

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I have not come.

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Think of it this way.

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I have not come.

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When he is saying I'm not here to abolish the law,

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the Lord is basically saying

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I have not come to flip the script.

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I'm not here to flip it.

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I'm actually here to fulfill it.

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And the Lord fulfilled the whole law

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because he was lowly.

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Romans 6 says the wages of sin is death.

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That's a spiritual law.

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I said that's a spiritual law.

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The Father set it into motion.

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The wages for you to pay

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for your sin, you have to die.

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That's the only atonement that you have.

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It has to be

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bloods of goats, lambs and bulls

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that will only actually wash you away.

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But now on the scene comes the Lamb of God

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whose blood is far more sufficient

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than the blood of bulls, goats and sheep and lambs.

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Now we have the Lamb of God

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that comes and actually fulfills the whole law

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for the wages of sin is death.

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But the gift of God,

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I said the gift of God is eternal life.

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So our Lord is lowly.

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He didn't come in, flipped the script when it got hard.

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You know, we oftentimes do that.

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How many times do we flip the script in our life

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when things get hard?

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When we got to address something in our life

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that's really personal,

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whether it's a conflict with somebody

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or we're in an argument

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or we're gossiping about somebody.

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Friends, we're gossiping about somebody

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and we in those moments,

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we flip the script.

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You know how we flip it?

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Well, I really wasn't gossiping.

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I was just sharing.

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Stop flipping the script.

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Stop flipping the script, man.

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Go low.

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Go and admit to the person.

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Listen.

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I've been talking about you in a bad way.

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Would you please forgive me?

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I repent going low.

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The Lord did not flip the script.

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You want to live lowly?

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You can't flip the script in your life.

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You can't flip it and think

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and find justification

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in the way that you're flipping it.

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Well, Lord, I didn't flip it fully.

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It's kind of like this.

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This is lowliness, friends.

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If we say, Lord, conform us

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into the image of you,

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then stop flipping the script

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in your life and go low.

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You got to issue with somebody.

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You go and you talk to them.

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Don't go tell Betty

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and then Betty tells Stacey

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and then Stacey runs and tells Pastor Vern

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and then Pastor Vern runs and tells me.

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Don't do that.

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You got an issue. You come and you talk to them.

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Hey, man.

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Hey, woman.

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But we, but we think, well, I'm so low.

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I'm not even going to go and talk to them.

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I'm going low.

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I don't want to address this.

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I'm going low.

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I'm not going to deal with this.

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Friends, I'm being honest. That's how we think.

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Don't lie to yourself.

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Don't lie to yourself.

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We are all susceptible

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to fall into that. You got an issue.

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You're offended. Go and talk to them.

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Amen.

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The Lord did not flip it.

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The Lord fulfilled it.

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Back to Adam and Eve.

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Addresses that.

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You know what's interesting?

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Listen to this because I got to read it for you.

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Open up Mark.

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Let's go Mark 4, I think, is where it is.

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Is this still good?

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Mark 1. I'm sorry, not Mark 4.

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Mark 1.

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Where is it here? Where is it here?

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I have it in my notes and I may find it here quick.

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I'm so sorry.

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Give me a minute here.

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Maybe it was Matthew.

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Anywho, I'll find it later.

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This is what's interesting.

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I'll find it later for you and we can put it up.

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Is that

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the first time

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that we see the mention

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that Jesus walked in power?

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Pay attention.

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The first time

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that we see the scriptures tell us

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that Jesus walked in power

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was only after

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he came out of the wilderness.

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The only time

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we find the scriptures

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begin to say

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that Jesus walked

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in power

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was after

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he went so low

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that then

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the Father said, I can trust you.

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I can trust you

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to now walk

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in a measure of power

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where the Lord would look at you

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and you'd be healed.

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Where the Lord would speak a word

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and you'd be healed.

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Can I... oh man, I feel the Lord on this.

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Can I tell you...

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because we're always praying God and we want these things

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and we want these things

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and I'm going to be real with you.

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I can't wait

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for the day in my ministry

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that I don't lay hands on people

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but I come out on pulpits

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and people get healed.

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Do you know why it's not occurring yet?

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Because some of you are like, well, why isn't it occurring?

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Do you know why it's not occurring yet?

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That means that God hasn't found trust in me yet

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to that level.

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I'll be honest with you.

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Does God trust me? I know he does.

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But there is measure of God's

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trust that he has to give to us.

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So we're here

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praying for these things

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and then we don't see them happening.

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So then we question, well, does God hear my prayers?

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Does God hear me when I'm praying

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for people? Why aren't these manifestations

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happening? Friends, ding ding ding

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the only time that the Scripture

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says that Jesus

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walked out in power was only

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after, was only after

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he was in the wilderness

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for 40 days and for 40 nights

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tempted by the devil,

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wrestled with wild beasts. Then

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the Father said, now I can trust

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you to go out

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and let the reputation of who you are

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spread.

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Only then

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only then

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the Father found

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trust.

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You want to see manifestations

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of that? You better go

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solo in your life that even when

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these things happen, you're not standing

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as you're just going. Because Lord, this

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right here, this right here

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is more important than this right here.

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And that's what the Lord Jesus was about.

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He wasn't swayed

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by the power. He knew

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and he said, I only do

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what the Father does.

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I only do what I see my

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God do, what I see my Father

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do. And for us to be able

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to use language like that, you

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got to know him here.

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You got to know him tucked away.

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You got to know him in the Scriptures.

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You got to know him here

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to be able to make

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a statement like that and actually

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have that statement be true.

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See, that's

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very lowly.

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That's lowly.

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Do you know how I can recognize when somebody

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is walking in lowliness? When I

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begin to see a level of trust

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of God in their lives.

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That for me is a recognition

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that person is lowly.

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Do you know how I know our pastors

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are very lowly? Because I can

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recognize that God trusts

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them more than he actually

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trusts me.

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Lowliness

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will produce

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a measure of power

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in our lives that we

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have never experienced before.

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I hear stories of Catherine

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Kuhlman. She comes out

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to the platform and without even

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saying anything, she comes out

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to the platform and I think

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Benny Hinn said 46 people just stood

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out of wheelchairs.

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She didn't have to say anything

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but because God

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trusted this woman of God

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to such a measure that all she

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had to do is just come out on the platform.

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Boom! Demons are manifesting. Boom!

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People are being healed. Boom! And that

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didn't sway her. She just continued

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preaching Christ and him crucified.

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She continued to talk about the Holy

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Spirit. She didn't draw the attention

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and see, look, look how many people

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are being healed. Look what's happening.

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No, she just went on.

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Because she's low. Wasn't swayed

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by the eyes of men and women.

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She just went low knowing

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that God trusts her.

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We can live lives like that.

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I said we can live

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lives like that.

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We can go low. This is not just for

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a certain chosen people. If you were

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called by God, which I believe

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each and every one of you were

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because he died on the cross for you.

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Just like he died for me, he died

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for you. And we have an

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opportunity to go so low

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that we're not swayed when all these

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manifestations happen.

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Now what the problem is

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is that we oftentimes stop

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and we behold

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the manifestation more

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than we behold the manifestor.

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You didn't hear me.

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You didn't hear me. Let me

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say it so that this penetrates through your skull.

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We oftentimes

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we stop and we behold

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the manifestation

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more than we behold the manifestor.

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That's not

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lowly.

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I don't find that in the life of our

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Lord. I don't find

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him stopping and saying look.

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And some of you are saying well I don't

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do that. I don't stop and say look

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friends, it's not what you do in the external

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it's what happens in here.

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It's what happens in here.

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Lowliness of mind is not

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an external thing. It is an internal

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thing. Right in here and right

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in here.

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That's lowliness of mind.

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So our God

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goes low.

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Comes out of the wilderness in power.

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That to me is an indicator

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that if we as a church

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can go low

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as I believe God is calling us

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to go low, this is

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the blueprint for the end time

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revival.

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We talk about

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Joel 2.

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We talk about Acts 2.

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The outpouring of the spirit

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and we're excited for those stuff. And I

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am too. But here is my question.

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How do we get to that?

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How does God begin to

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trust us with such an outpouring

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that it says every

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man, every woman, every boy, every girl

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shall prophesy. Dreams

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visions, miracles, signs, wonders

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all these things are happening.

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How do we get there?

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You got to go low like the Lord did.

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You got to make decisions in your life

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that are very lowly

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decisions

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to see that

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measure of outpouring in our

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lives.

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I'm telling you I can't wait

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for the day when God begins to trust me

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with himself to the measure

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that I can come out on pulpits and people just get healed.

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And I'm going to keep preaching Jesus.

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I'm going to keep preaching the Lord.

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I said I'm going to keep preaching Jesus.

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And we'll let the Holy Spirit do what the Holy Spirit

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does.

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You with me?

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When the Lord was

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in the ministry

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when the Lord was in the ministry

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the way that he even did ministry was very lowly

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the way that

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he prayed for

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people with unclean spirits

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Oh, thank you Lord. The way that

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he prayed

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for unclean spirits and people with devils

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was very lowly.

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Me and Pastor were talking this week in the office

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and I'm sharing with him some of this stuff.

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And Pastor goes, hey, go read

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what was it? Mark, I think you told me to read.

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Is it in Mark it's recorded?

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Where that boy

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was demon possessed

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and the scriptures say, I think this is recorded.

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Let me tell you where it's actually recorded.

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This is Mark chapter 9 verse 14.

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I believe it's Mark chapter 9 verse 14.

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There's many deliverances and I'm not going to

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read all of them, but I just want to quickly tell you

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just for the sake of time.

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When this young boy for many years

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was possessed by devils

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and the father of this young boy comes

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to Jesus and he says,

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you got to deliver my son, man.

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Your disciples tried, they couldn't.

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I mean, you got to deliver, you got to deliver

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my boy. And it's interesting

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there that when Jesus

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the scripture

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says that when the multitudes

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when they started coming

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to see what's going on.

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This ruckus, because there's a young boy

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that's like flaring and all this

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manifestation is happening.

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The scripture says that the crowds were running.

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They were running. They weren't there yet.

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They were still running

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to where the Lord and his father,

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this father of the boy was.

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The Lord actually cast out the devil

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before all the

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rest of the crowds came.

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Jesus did not wait.

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He didn't stand there and wait and say,

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alright, devil, come on. Wait for everybody

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to gather and he says, watch what I'm going to do.

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And he cast out the devil. The Lord

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specifically did it

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in a way where the crowds weren't even

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there yet. Because Jesus

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wasn't there to entertain.

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Jesus wasn't beholding

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the manifestation, but he was

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beholding the manifestor.

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The way that our Jesus cast

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out devils, I mean so many times

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we read in scriptures. The demon

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says, oh, we know who you are. You're the son

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of God. And he says, shut up.

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Out of him.

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Get out.

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He wasn't standing there because

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here's the problem that I see even in the

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Pentecostal world. People that are

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so heavy in deliverance, they

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make it as though it's an entertainment.

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That's exactly right.

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Friends, I have

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fellow ministers that I've watched.

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They handle deliverance

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like it's an entertainment.

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And they'll

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step on their feet and

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they'll stand all proud and they'll

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look and they'll do this stuff.

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And I'm like, what

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have we come to?

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Why are we treating a deliverance

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like it's an entertainment for

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others to be scared and

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for others to have their ears tickled?

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It gives us

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something to talk about

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when we leave Sunday service.

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Does it not?

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What?

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Man, we had a girl manifest.

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We had a dude that manifested.

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He was foaming out of his mouth.

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And it gives us something to talk about.

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Why?

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We're treating the manifestation

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as though it's this entertainment

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for a whole body of Christ to look at.

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That's why you see me so often

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when things begin to occur in our church

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services. I've been saying this for years.

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This is not a spectacle

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for you to look at and

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gaze. What's going on?

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This is not a spectacle.

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If it happens, let it happen.

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Let it happen. I will not restrict

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that. I will let and I believe

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you will let demons manifest because

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people are tormented by them. I'm not

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going to tell people, wait, everybody's

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looking.

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But at the same time,

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from a crowd's perspective,

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we're looking at it as a spectacle.

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It's not a spectacle.

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It's not a spectacle.

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That is not lowly.

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That is not lowly. The way that the Lord

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cast out devils was lowly.

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He didn't wait for the crowds to run.

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He didn't wait to let the devils

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go and rattle off who he was.

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He silenced them.

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Out. Get out. I know who I am.

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You get out. I don't need you to tell me

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who I am.

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I've seen people in the deliverance ministry.

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They'll stand and the demons manifesting

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and the demon is saying what it said to

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the sons of

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the sons of

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Sceva. I've seen demons

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do that. They're claiming

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you're so and so and you're mighty

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and the person's standing there and he's

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observing and letting the demon

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Why? Why do you

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need to hear a reassurance from a

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demon of who you are?

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Why are we listening to an

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unclean spirit telling us

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who I am when the Holy Spirit

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right here will tell me who I

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am?

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But the problem is that we're out here

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and we're looking for reassurance

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of who we are in Christ because

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here we're nowhere to be

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found.

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So we're not hearing the Holy Spirit

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tell us who I am. Who are you?

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We're waiting for others

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to tell us who we are. We're

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waiting for devils and unclean spirits

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and people within the church to say

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oh man you are mighty

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you are powerful, you're a child

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of God, you're this, you're that, the third

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and it's good. I'm all about encouraging

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and exhorting one another, but

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if that's where we get our butter and our

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bread, we're missing it.

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We're missing it. This is where I get my

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butter and my bread and here is just

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the confirmation. Cool that you told me

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that. Thank you. Thank you that you said

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that I look like Jesus. I appreciate that.

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But right here, but right here I know

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that I am not yet conformed

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to the full image that God has me to be.

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That's right.

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Are you following me?

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I said are you following me?

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The way that the Lord even did

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deliverance was lowly. The way

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that the Lord healed people

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was lowly. You

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read the scriptures for yourself and you

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will find time and time

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and time again. Jesus would heal

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the leper, Jesus would heal somebody

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sick and he would say these words

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I charge you not

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to tell anyone.

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I

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said the Lord

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says I charge you

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not to tell

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anyone.

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Go and give your sacrifice.

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Go and bring

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your sacrifice before the teachers.

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They'll see it.

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They'll see that you were a leper

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and now you came and you're healed.

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They'll see that you were blind

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and then you see they'll see it.

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Can I tell you something?

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The Lord actually never

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advertised his ministry.

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I said the Lord actually

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never advertised his

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ministry. He did not have

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Instagram. He did not

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have Facebook. He did not

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have TikTok. He did not have

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posters. The Lord did not have

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a creative department

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in his church. Now I'm not

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saying it's wrong to have those things.

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But I'm trying to

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stress to you of how

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lowly our God is.

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He went so low

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that the Father trusted him

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with such a measure of power

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of heavenly power that

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he walked and the scripture says

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news of him spread.

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Friends, we're living

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in 2025. Do you know

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what the best advertisement still is

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to this day? Word of mouth.

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We're living in 2025

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and the same

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advertisement that has

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shown time and time

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and time again that it's

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successful is the word of mouth.

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The Lord went lowly.

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So low that God

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trusted him. And he

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walked out. The scripture says

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he walked out of the wilderness

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in power to begin his ministry.

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You still with me?

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Yes.

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The Lord

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went so low in his ministry

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even to the heights of his place

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he never neglected the low

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people in society.

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It's interesting to me

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I've been around enough ministers

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that have large churches. It's interesting

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enough to me that when somebody

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gets to such a high and lofty place

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Yeah, I'm going to stop right there.

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I'm not going to go there further.

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Yeah, thank you Lord.

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The Lord went lowly.

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That he even sat with tax collectors

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with prostitutes

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with sinners

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with all sorts of people the Lord sat

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and broke bread with them.

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He sat with them.

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He never got to a place where he would look

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at a tax collector and he'd say no, no, no man.

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We ain't doing this thing.

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But he actually said

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Hey, let's go break bread.

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Let's go sit down.

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Let's talk.

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But here's where we were talking about this

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the other day. Here's where

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things in the church go awry.

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People preach that.

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That God is lowly.

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That God meets you where you're at.

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And those are all true things. Those are all true things.

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But I want you to pay attention to something

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that often times churches miss the touch.

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Yes, the Lord goes and he sits

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with people that are sinners.

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Yes, he sits with people that are

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tax collectors, all these low

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people that are living in complete sin.

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But here's something that we never touch on.

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The Lord doesn't sit there

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and indulge with them in their sin.

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The Lord comes, he meets them

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and then he takes them higher.

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Listen to me.

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You want to invite me? You want to invite pastors?

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I'll come sit with you. I'm not calling you sinners.

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Just understand my analogy here.

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I'll come sit with you.

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But if I or somebody else

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in the ministry sees sin in your life,

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do not expect me to be

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indulging in the sin with you.

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I'll call you higher as your pastor.

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I'm not going to condemn you. I'm not going to say

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that you're this, that and the other.

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I will simply call you higher.

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Am I saying it right pastor?

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The Lord was never too high.

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He met people where they were at.

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He sat. He broke bread.

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He did these things.

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But then he called these people higher.

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He didn't indulge with them and we don't talk

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about that enough. Do you know that?

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Here's the thing about the Lord

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when he was in the ministry.

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Is that he would often times

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the scripture says he often times

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withdrew. This goes back

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to what I'm saying. He was never swayed

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by the crowds. The Lord was actually

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never swayed by how

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many eyes were on him and friends.

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There was multitudes.

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There was multitudes.

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Read the scriptures. There was

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thousands when he

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multiplied the bread and the fish the first

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and the second time. It's plural.

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It wasn't 1,000. It was

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thousands that came.

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But the Lord was never swayed

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by it. He lived a lowly life

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which means that

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when he would preach, after

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he was done, the scripture tells us

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that he often times withdrew

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himself. Couldn't

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find the Lord.

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His disciples sometimes for days

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couldn't find the Lord. He withdrew.

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Why? To be with the Father.

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I heard a man of God that I've met.

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We've broke bread together. Awesome man.

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He's got a ministry in California.

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He told me an advice one time. He said

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you got to do this. This is like early

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to like 2020, 2021 is when

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I met him. He said listen.

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He goes this is what I do. He goes

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before we do a big conference.

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He goes I'm away with the Lord

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for like two, three days. I'm away from my family.

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I'm away from and I go and I tuck myself

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away. Whether it's in a cabin, whether

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it's somewhere and he goes I'm with him.

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And then he goes after the conference.

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He goes I go for another two, three

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days after the conference and I

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go be with the Lord by myself. And I'm

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like why? He goes because when God begins

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to move and you begin to

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see God move in such a way, he

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says I want to stay on top of my pride.

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He

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said I want to stay on top of my pride.

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So he goes we'll have a conference

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for six days. You see God

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do some mighty, mighty miracles and

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he goes you have to walk out of that

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conference and he goes I keep my heart

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in check and I go and I tuck myself away

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with the Lord for two, three days. And I allow

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the Lord to humble me. I allow the

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Lord to realign me so that when I come

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back I'm not macho macho man.

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Recognizing that if it wasn't for

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God, if it wasn't for my lowliness

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and God being able to trust me,

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none of this would have happened.

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Right.

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To be tucked away with them friends.

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I know we've talked about this our whole

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series but I'm telling you that's where

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a lowly life begins.

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That's where a lowly life begins.

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The lowly life doesn't begin

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here. The lowly life begins

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here and then this

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here will launch us

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into being lowly out here.

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I don't know how else

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to stress it to you.

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But the Scripture says that

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He withdrew himself often.

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We're coming to an end here.

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The way that the Lord chose

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His disciples, the 12 apostles

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was lowly.

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You ready for this?

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We have churches

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and we have people in the ministry

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that want

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people to be a part of their

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ministry teams. They have to be perfect.

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They have to be excellent. They have to be this, that and the third.

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Where the Lord

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chose a bunch of young

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20-year-old dudes that were

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fishermen. That were

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tax collectors.

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These were people of a low

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deemed society. Now, the question

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is did they love the Lord? I'm sure

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they did. I'm sure they did.

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But even the

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so-called team members

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that Jesus chose

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to be His 12 apostles was

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lowly. Friends, we're going to talk

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about this more next Sunday. He chose

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somebody on His own

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team to be the one that is actually

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going to betray Him.

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You didn't catch it. You didn't catch it.

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No, no, you didn't catch what I just said.

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I said, our God is so lowly.

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He chose

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Judas Iscariot to be

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a part of the inner circle,

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the 12

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to be the one that's going to

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betray Him. That's lowly.

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The scripture tells us that He knew

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that this was the guy

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that was going to betray Him.

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Yet He still invited Him

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to sit in the inner circles

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to break bread, to do this, to do

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that, to be in charge of the

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money, to be a treasurer.

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We miss that.

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Our Lord is lowly.

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He's lowly.

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So He chooses

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these 12 guys that are completely

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incompetent.

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You probably wanted somebody that maybe

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did four years in seminary. I'm sorry.

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Never did Bible college.

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I don't know if He chose right or not.

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Time will tell.

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You know.

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Alright, praise God.

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He chose lowly people

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to be a part of His team

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to be the inner circle

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to do what He wanted to get accomplished.

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That's our Lord.

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That's our Lord.

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How do we apply that

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to ourselves? Why don't we stop choosing

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the people that we think is bad?

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Why don't we allow the Lord

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to highlight in our hearts

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who should be a part of our teams

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in our church?

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I said something to some of our team

01:00:12.800 --> 01:00:13.920
members that are a part of our

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social media and our merch

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department. We're going to actually

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rebranding that name, but any who.

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I said something to all the people on that team members.

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I said here's the number one thing I'm looking for.

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I'm looking for your consistency. That's it.

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Everything else I'm not worried about. If you can be consistent

01:00:28.840 --> 01:00:29.880
that to me is good enough.

01:00:30.520 --> 01:00:32.300
But sometimes we have a whole resume

01:00:32.680 --> 01:00:34.280
before we actually bring somebody on.

01:00:35.020 --> 01:00:36.480
Well, did you check off this one? Did you

01:00:36.480 --> 01:00:37.980
check off that one? Did you do that one?

01:00:39.780 --> 01:00:40.720
We got to be able

01:00:40.720 --> 01:00:42.740
to allow God to highlight

01:00:42.740 --> 01:00:44.460
in our hearts who He wants to be

01:00:44.460 --> 01:00:46.480
a part of our ministry teams. Who He wants

01:00:46.480 --> 01:00:48.180
to be a part of certain things that we're doing.

01:00:48.460 --> 01:00:50.620
You're still with me. Let me read

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this last thing and we're going to pray here.

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This is something that I want you

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to walk away with today.

01:00:56.260 --> 01:00:57.760
Lowliness of mind

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to live lowly, okay?

01:01:01.140 --> 01:01:03.240
Lowliness of mind or to live lowly

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is to do

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things

01:01:07.420 --> 01:01:09.740
that God is asking us to do

01:01:10.480 --> 01:01:11.100
knowing

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they will be unnoticed

01:01:13.180 --> 01:01:14.380
by man.

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Let me say it again.

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Let me say it again.

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To live lowly

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to live of a lowly mind

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we have to know

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that I'm going to do

01:01:28.000 --> 01:01:30.540
things that God is asking me

01:01:30.540 --> 01:01:31.240
to do

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that will go completely unnoticed

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by man.

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Man won't notice it.

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I won't get the cheers and the hurrahs

01:01:39.840 --> 01:01:41.780
and the claps. I won't get the honor.

01:01:42.000 --> 01:01:43.560
I won't get... but here's what I want

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you to focus on. If we can

01:01:45.580 --> 01:01:47.520
live a life like that, I want you

01:01:47.520 --> 01:01:49.420
to understand something and nothing

01:01:49.420 --> 01:01:51.000
goes unnoticed from God.

01:01:52.080 --> 01:01:53.320
We have to.

01:01:53.460 --> 01:01:54.480
You want to live lowly.

01:01:54.860 --> 01:01:56.300
You have to get to a place

01:01:56.300 --> 01:01:59.040
in your life where you know

01:01:59.040 --> 01:02:00.880
that it's enough that God

01:02:00.880 --> 01:02:01.460
saw me.

01:02:03.240 --> 01:02:04.740
That is lowliness.

01:02:05.040 --> 01:02:06.520
We have to mature

01:02:06.520 --> 01:02:08.740
to the level of whatever

01:02:08.740 --> 01:02:11.020
I'm doing, whether it's cleaning toilets

01:02:11.020 --> 01:02:12.720
whether it's serving people

01:02:12.720 --> 01:02:14.460
whether it's paying for somebody

01:02:14.460 --> 01:02:16.620
whether it's preaching, it doesn't matter.

01:02:16.900 --> 01:02:18.260
We have to mature

01:02:18.260 --> 01:02:20.700
and we have to live this lowly life

01:02:20.700 --> 01:02:22.420
knowing that I'm

01:02:22.420 --> 01:02:24.020
doing this regardless

01:02:24.020 --> 01:02:26.160
if people notice it or not.

01:02:26.340 --> 01:02:28.180
I'm doing it because I know

01:02:28.180 --> 01:02:30.340
and it's enough for me that my God

01:02:30.340 --> 01:02:31.000
notices me.

01:02:33.120 --> 01:02:34.240
That's lowliness

01:02:34.240 --> 01:02:36.220
of mind. That's living lowly.

01:02:37.900 --> 01:02:40.000
And that's when we begin to catch the

01:02:40.000 --> 01:02:41.920
revelation that I've been talking about

01:02:41.920 --> 01:02:43.260
ever since we started this series.

01:02:43.920 --> 01:02:46.020
That I am worthless without the Lord

01:02:46.020 --> 01:02:47.360
but now I know

01:02:48.040 --> 01:02:49.800
He counted me worthy

01:02:49.800 --> 01:02:51.060
to die for.

01:02:53.060 --> 01:02:53.920
When I can

01:02:53.920 --> 01:02:56.440
think that God, as long as you notice me

01:02:56.440 --> 01:02:58.240
I can actually begin to catch the

01:02:58.240 --> 01:03:00.500
revelation of you counted me worthy

01:03:00.500 --> 01:03:02.320
to die for. That's why

01:03:02.320 --> 01:03:04.160
it's enough for me that you notice me.

01:03:05.120 --> 01:03:06.160
That's why it's enough

01:03:06.160 --> 01:03:08.100
for me if nobody noticed that I just

01:03:08.100 --> 01:03:09.900
swept the whole church. That's why

01:03:09.900 --> 01:03:11.560
it's enough for me, God, that you notice

01:03:11.560 --> 01:03:14.120
that I did something in a random act of kindness

01:03:14.120 --> 01:03:16.260
and nobody else noticed but God, you did.

01:03:17.620 --> 01:03:18.300
We have to

01:03:18.300 --> 01:03:20.160
mature to that level

01:03:20.840 --> 01:03:22.020
if we want to walk

01:03:22.020 --> 01:03:22.720
lowly.

01:03:24.100 --> 01:03:26.500
You with me? Let us stand for prayer.

01:03:30.280 --> 01:03:31.520
Father, we thank you.

01:03:33.860 --> 01:03:35.360
Father, we thank you.

01:03:36.200 --> 01:03:37.880
We thank you for your son.

01:03:39.040 --> 01:03:40.320
We thank you, Lord,

01:03:40.460 --> 01:03:41.940
for the life of your son, Jesus.

01:03:41.940 --> 01:03:43.980
We thank you, Jesus,

01:03:44.300 --> 01:03:46.320
that in everything that you have done

01:03:46.320 --> 01:03:47.920
since the time that you created

01:03:47.920 --> 01:03:49.480
the heavens and the earth,

01:03:50.000 --> 01:03:51.980
since the time that you've created man

01:03:51.980 --> 01:03:53.940
in your own image, Father, you

01:03:53.940 --> 01:03:56.100
and your son have gone low

01:03:56.100 --> 01:03:58.160
and low and low and we thank

01:03:58.160 --> 01:04:00.120
you for it. We thank you that

01:04:00.120 --> 01:04:02.360
you have shown us the example

01:04:02.360 --> 01:04:03.860
of what it means to be lowly.

01:04:04.120 --> 01:04:05.880
We thank you, Holy Spirit,

01:04:06.660 --> 01:04:08.300
that as we behold the Son

01:04:08.300 --> 01:04:09.940
we will be conformed

01:04:09.940 --> 01:04:10.920
into the image of Him.

01:04:12.720 --> 01:04:14.300
And, Father, I'm asking you

01:04:15.340 --> 01:04:16.720
that your Word, Lord,

01:04:16.820 --> 01:04:17.640
that your Word

01:04:17.640 --> 01:04:20.140
would wash over us, God.

01:04:21.320 --> 01:04:22.460
Light it up in us.

01:04:23.160 --> 01:04:24.740
Light it up in us, O God.

01:04:26.960 --> 01:04:28.700
Let us begin to embody

01:04:28.700 --> 01:04:30.560
the very Scriptures, God,

01:04:30.640 --> 01:04:31.760
that we would be a church

01:04:31.760 --> 01:04:33.640
that is found so low, God,

01:04:34.080 --> 01:04:35.380
that you would trust us.

01:04:36.240 --> 01:04:37.580
That you would trust us.

01:04:39.500 --> 01:04:41.340
That you would trust us, O God.

01:04:45.220 --> 01:04:46.340
Lord, we desire

01:04:46.340 --> 01:04:47.560
to see a manifestation

01:04:48.080 --> 01:04:49.960
of your spirit like no other

01:04:49.960 --> 01:04:50.540
in this house.

01:04:52.160 --> 01:04:53.240
You have said

01:04:53.240 --> 01:04:55.600
that this house is a house

01:04:55.600 --> 01:04:56.700
of miracles, Lord.

01:04:56.840 --> 01:04:58.000
You have prophesied that

01:04:58.000 --> 01:04:59.800
and you have told that to us.

01:05:00.160 --> 01:05:01.820
You said that this is a house

01:05:01.820 --> 01:05:02.920
of miracles.

01:05:03.300 --> 01:05:05.060
And now, God, you are giving us

01:05:05.060 --> 01:05:07.020
the blueprint of what it means

01:05:07.020 --> 01:05:08.760
to walk as a house

01:05:08.760 --> 01:05:10.760
of miracles. And we thank you

01:05:10.760 --> 01:05:11.380
for it, Lord.

01:05:12.900 --> 01:05:14.740
Father, we thank you for it.

01:05:15.040 --> 01:05:16.540
You are laying out the blueprint

01:05:16.540 --> 01:05:19.020
in front of us as a local body

01:05:19.020 --> 01:05:20.920
of the desire you have

01:05:20.920 --> 01:05:22.760
for this house. Father, you

01:05:22.760 --> 01:05:24.660
desire to have this house be

01:05:24.660 --> 01:05:25.640
a house of miracles.

01:05:26.880 --> 01:05:28.240
So we thank you

01:05:28.240 --> 01:05:30.460
that you are laying in front of us a blueprint

01:05:30.920 --> 01:05:32.440
and we are asking you, God,

01:05:32.520 --> 01:05:34.560
that you would find trust in us

01:05:34.560 --> 01:05:36.300
as individuals, Lord.

01:05:36.860 --> 01:05:38.100
And as a corporate body

01:05:38.100 --> 01:05:39.600
that you would find trust in us

01:05:40.820 --> 01:05:42.520
to be that which you have called us

01:05:42.520 --> 01:05:43.060
to be, Lord.

01:05:44.260 --> 01:05:46.300
And you are saying to us to rise up.

01:05:46.600 --> 01:05:48.680
You are saying to us to rise up

01:05:48.680 --> 01:05:49.380
to come up.

01:05:50.940 --> 01:05:52.120
And we thank you, God.

01:05:52.900 --> 01:05:54.120
We thank you for your mercy.

01:05:54.300 --> 01:05:55.320
We thank you for your grace.

01:05:56.100 --> 01:05:58.480
We thank you for your word. Let it cut us deep.

01:05:59.460 --> 01:06:00.660
Holy Spirit, I ask that

01:06:00.660 --> 01:06:01.900
as we leave this morning

01:06:01.900 --> 01:06:03.960
that you would not stop

01:06:03.960 --> 01:06:05.480
what you have begun. That you would

01:06:05.480 --> 01:06:07.280
minister deep. And you would

01:06:07.280 --> 01:06:09.800
highlight the areas in our

01:06:09.800 --> 01:06:11.860
life that we are not going low yet.

01:06:13.040 --> 01:06:14.360
Because you desire

01:06:14.360 --> 01:06:15.360
to trust us.

01:06:16.080 --> 01:06:17.280
You desire

01:06:17.760 --> 01:06:18.880
to trust us.

01:06:23.400 --> 01:06:24.580
We love you, Lord.

01:06:26.480 --> 01:06:27.400
And we bless your name.

01:06:28.740 --> 01:06:28.960
Amen.