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It's so good to see everybody. And I am excited this morning. I don't know, maybe excited is not the word.

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I am... I don't even know what word to use. Let's just say I am. Let's just leave it there.

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To get into the series that we're going to get into today, and it's probably going to carry us sometime into March,

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is where the series is going to carry us. And the name of the series is very simple.

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It's called Forerunner, Vision, and Lifestyle.

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Today, I'm just going to give a very soft introduction, but I might be a little slow with speaking today,

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not because I don't have enough notes. I got plenty of notes.

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By the way, didn't my wife do wonderful today? Can I just... I mean, seriously.

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I'm sitting there and I'm like, I'm married to that woman. Come on, somebody.

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That's right. That's right, man. Hey, it's okay to brag about your spouse. It really is, honestly.

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Yes, it's okay to brag about your children sometimes, too. Just sometimes.

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But I want to do like an introductory, give a little bit of the history on and so forth.

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But the reason why I might seem very slow, kind of hesitant today,

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because what I'm going to start talking about for these next few Sundays,

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is something that is very, very, very dear to my heart.

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It's very dear to my wife, Tanya, her heart.

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It is something that we have been living with, living like.

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It is something that we've been carrying in us, probably from the first...

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And the end of our first year of marriage, that then kind of...

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It was somewhere in between the end of our first year into the second year of our marriage,

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is where the Lord really began to deposit this in us and really began to speak this to us,

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and we began to carry it.

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And it's very dear to us, because this is something that I know, that I know, that I know,

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that God has entrusted us to carry, to teach, to show, to impart on and so forth.

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You fill in the blank.

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So this is something that's very dear to me.

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I mean, this is where...

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I'm going to be sharing a large portion of my heart during these series,

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just because this is just something that's very dear to us.

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So if I cry, that's alright. You know that it's dear to me.

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But forerunner vision and lifestyle is a way that my wife and I have lived for probably close to a decade now.

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We've been married a little over 10 years.

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So close to about a decade now, we've been living this type of lifestyle.

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We've been teaching this. We've been imparting this.

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We've been carrying it, because God clearly told us some years ago.

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He said, I am choosing to partner with you on this vision.

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That's what the Lord told us.

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It's not that we were so somebody good or we were...

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It's just the Lord graciously chose to partner with us in on this.

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And so these next few Sundays, I'll be teaching on that.

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I'll be going into the depth of the points of the vision on and so forth.

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But I want to bring about some clarity.

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Because when we start talking about vision, it can bring about a confusion.

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So I just want to right out of the gate.

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I want to say something and let this sear your brain, let this sear your mind.

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When I'm talking about forerunner vision, because we're going to be...

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We're introducing this to our house.

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We're going to begin to implement this in our house here.

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We're going to begin to teach it, impart it, practice it, put it into practice on and so forth.

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But when I say we are teaching a vision, what we are teaching or I should say

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what I'm going to be teaching for the next few Sundays does not listen.

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It does not replace the vision of word of life that God has already given.

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I don't want to stir any confusion in a people of like,

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oh, okay, so whatever Pastor Vern and Mary carried, we just scratch that.

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We go recycle it. No, no, no, no, no.

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What Pastor Vern and Mary have heard from the Lord since God commanded them to plant this church back in 2004 remains.

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Us teaching forerunner vision and lifestyle, imparting it, practicing it out and so forth is not a replacement vision.

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It's actually in addition to what God is already doing here.

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It is a complimentary thing that we are introducing to this body because I believe, I do believe this will produce some things of God,

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both in you as individuals and us as a corporate house.

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The reason why I say it with confidence and I believe that is because first and foremost, I saw it work in my life.

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I can't teach you something or I can't impart something or I can't show you or preach on something if I haven't seen it work in my life.

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Because then that just makes me a hypocrite and how to want to be a hypocrite.

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So again, we are not replacing the word of life vision.

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The word of life vision, I mean, if you don't have one of these, I highly encourage you to get one.

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They're free. Out in the foyer, when you walk out to the left, you'll see a little like shelf of booklets.

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I think there's only like four that can fit in that shelf.

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If we don't have any more by the end of today, I'll make sure that our usher team or whoever restocks that.

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Abby, you can always restock that too, right?

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Where's Abby?

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Where's Abby? I'm missing her.

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Can you always restock that too?

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Yeah, we have plenty of people that can restock that.

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Highly encourage you.

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Thank you, Kevin. You can restock that.

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I appreciate that, Kevin.

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That's your job.

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Okay. Did you guys hear that?

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So if it's not restocked, who do we go to?

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Kevin Murray, to be more exact.

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You just signed yourself up for something, brother.

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It is not a replacement. It is an addition.

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It is a complimentary thing to what God has already established in this house.

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Pastor Vern, again, on page 44 of the vision book.

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Let me open it up here real quick.

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Because I want to just show you just how much.

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And I wish I had Pastor Vern with me here this morning.

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Because we could go back and tell you when him and I first sat down.

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We weren't even on staff. We didn't even know that we were going to be a part of the church.

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And I shared some things about what God has entrusted my wife and I to walk in.

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And these are Pastor Vern's words.

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Now I quote, he said, that's hand and glove.

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With what God has had us do here at Word of Life.

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That's what I quote him. He said, it's hand and glove.

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Means that it complements.

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Your hands sometimes get chilly when it's negative 15 degrees.

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So you put a glove on.

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You hear me? Somebody said, hallelujah, praise the Lord.

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In the vision book, if you hear some pages, if you want to write them down,

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I'll just say them real quick, but we have a context here.

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Pastor Vern does such a really good job of breaking down what vision is.

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I mean, honestly, I've sat around many men and women of God that talked about vision.

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I have. I've been privileged to sit around many women of God with, you know,

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we like to measure people that they're anointed by the size of their ministry.

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Did you see that? They have a thousand people. They must be anointed.

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I just want to give you a little bit of a news flash.

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I've been around some men and women of God.

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Well, some men and women that have churches that are a thousand people

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and they're not very anointed. I'm just going to be honest with you.

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You can't measure the anointing of the God of how many people are sitting in chairs.

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I'm just going to be honest with you.

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Just going to be honest with you.

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You can find it all through Scripture.

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Now, I'm all about let's fill the seats. Let's get thousand people.

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I'm all about that. Let's go for it.

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But in my mind and in my heart and knowing the Scripture and knowing the Lord,

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God does not measure. Oh, they got a thousand people.

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They're probably very anointed. Nope.

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I've been around those people.

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But back to my point.

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I've sat around men and women of God that have talked about vision

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and I've been blessed by it.

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But I can definitely say top two on my list

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when it comes to talking about vision is Pastor Vernon Mary.

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The way that he describes vision in this book,

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I'm like, my God, this is gold.

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This is gold. And we have access to it here at church.

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We have literally access to gold right here at church.

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And some of you are thinking, why are you talking about Pastor Vernon so much

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when he's not here? Are you trying to know?

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I'm not trying to do anything. I'm honoring our pastor.

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But I'm also trying to tell you, we got gold in our church

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and we're not taking advantage of it.

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That's what I'm really trying to tell you.

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We got a man and a woman of God that have laid down their lives

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and because they laid down their lives, God would trust them

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with the riches of heaven.

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And some of us are like, oh, our pastors are so cool.

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Yes, they're cool, but there's gold in what they teach

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and what they show and how they live.

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Did you hear me this morning? Awesome.

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So if you want to know about vision, read it,

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because I'm not even going to get into deep teaching on vision

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and all that today, but Pastor really breaks it down nicely here.

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But here's something that I've always measured vision to

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or I should say this way of how committed an individual is

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to a vision, whether it's a vision that God has given you

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for your business, whether it's a vision that God has

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given you for your family, whether it's a vision that God

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is asking you to come under because you have something

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to offer to like a church, so to say.

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Here's the way that I've always measured it from my own life.

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To the degree that I commit myself to a vision,

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to that degree my lifestyle will become that way.

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Does that make sense? Let me say that again.

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If I truly believe that the vision that we walk in here

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at Word of Life is a vision given by God,

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the vision should actually become my lifestyle.

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You see, you can talk all day long how you're

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committed to the things of God. You can.

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Remember I say this a lot. It's easy to be a Christian

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on a Sunday. Friends, it's easy to be a Christian

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on a Sunday. Let me say that again.

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It is easy to be a Christian on a Sunday.

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Just show up, put on a tie, shine your shoes, smile at

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people, make sure there's a mint in your mouth.

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You're good. You're good.

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Lift your hands during worship once in a while.

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Clap when the guy up here, the Ukrainian guy

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running around saying clap and you clap.

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You're good. You've done it, man.

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It's easy to be a Christian on a Sunday.

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But I've measured by myself to the level that my life

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begins to be around the things of God.

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Let's say vision in this example.

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Vision when my lifestyle becomes that.

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That's when I know that I'm actually committed to something.

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And I watch people.

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As your pastor, I watch you not to find some kind of fault

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in you, not to find something like,

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I watch you because I've had a lot of you come up to me

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and they're like, we're so committed to this church.

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We're like, we're gonna like, yeah, man.

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Cool. Thank you.

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I appreciate the words of exhortation.

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I appreciate the support.

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But the greatest support that I could get

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is not you telling me how committed you are,

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but me actually seeing, wow,

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their lifestyle is changing

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because they're committed to the things of God.

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So when I teach on forerunner vision,

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I cannot not say that it's also a lifestyle.

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Now each of us, we can't measure ourselves to each other.

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We just can't do that.

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You'll literally go into a ditch.

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You can't measure yourself and say, oh,

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I can't commit myself to the degree that Pastor Igor

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and Pastor Vern and Mary and Pastor Tanya commit themselves.

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I work. I run a business.

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Of course you can't.

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Of course you can't commit yourself to the measure that we do

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because God has called us to be in this position.

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That's why it's dangerous for us to measure ourselves

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to each other.

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Because to each of us, a measure is given

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and the commitment of God has asked of us.

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Does that make sense?

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So you can't come down on yourself and say,

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well, I don't do enough.

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It's never enough.

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Seriously.

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People ask me, well, how much do I pray until it's enough?

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I say it's never enough.

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There is never, friends, when it comes to the seeker place

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and it comes to being with God alone,

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there is never enough.

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Because people are like, well, when do I leave?

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Like when do I, like maybe an hour, maybe two, maybe three?

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Is that going to be enough for God? It's never enough.

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But it's not about the enough.

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It's about how often you do it.

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It's how committed you are to it.

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It's how your life revolves around it.

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You hear me this morning?

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So to be committed to a vision

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is to actually begin to build your life around it.

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And I just want to quickly read here

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what Pastor Vern wrote in our vision book.

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This is on page 44.

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Now, what I'm saying here, I did not pull from this.

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I only read it and I'm like, see, it's hand and glove, Pastor.

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This is what he wrote.

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He said, people don't lay down their lives for a program,

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but they will if God has asked them to do something.

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This one point is usually the difference

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between success and failure.

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When God asks us to do something,

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there is always a cost on our part.

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This goes off to what I just said.

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If we believe that this vision, word of life vision,

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is from God, friends, it's going to cost you something.

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It's going to be inconvenient at times.

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It's going to be hard at times.

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It's going to be hands to the plow and no looking back.

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I said hands to the plow and not looking back.

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Can I just quickly warn you?

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And I feel the Lord on this.

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Can I quickly warn you?

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Don't put your hands to the plow if you're not ready to work.

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I love how my wife said it this morning.

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She said, not only are you making yourself look like a fool,

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but you're making God look like a fool.

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Because you said, well, God told me I need to do this.

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And then you put your hands to the plow

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and you've recognized, wow, it's not easy to plow these fields.

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And then you kind of do one of these and you kind of turn back.

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I fear for those people.

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So I want to warn you.

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Before you put your hands to the plow,

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make sure that you know, that you know, that you know

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that it's God.

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And if it is, hallelujah, I will cheer you on.

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And even if you turn around and you go back,

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I'll cheer you on. I will cheer you on just in a very different way.

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It will be like, don't go to hell, brother.

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I'm cheering you on.

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You still with me?

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Praise God.

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So forerunner vision is a lifestyle.

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And this is something that my wife and I have been living.

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This is something that we've been teaching.

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And we even have some friends here.

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We have some friends in the back that have been with us

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since the beginning, that's Ruvim and Nati.

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Can we just quickly just honor some people here?

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We have Oscar and Natasha that are here as well.

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Just some dear friends that are...

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and I know there's even some watching online

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that were literally with us and they can attest

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that this is a lifestyle that my wife and I have been living.

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And that's not why I brought them in here tonight.

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I did invite them. I said, guys, you should come to church.

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Church is fun. So they're like, okay, we'll come.

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So, but it is a lifestyle that we've been living.

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And I want...

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I want our house to begin to, as individuals,

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I want us to begin to build our life around Christ

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and not fit Christ into our busy schedule.

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Amen?

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So let me just share some points just to show you how

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forerunner vision is literally hand and glove

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with what God has placed into word of life.

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I'm gonna go to page 60 here.

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Now, again, friends, I just...

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I want you to know something that, again,

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we've been carrying these things.

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So I'm talking to you about not something recent

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that God has given us.

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I'm talking to you about something that we've been

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entrusted with for almost a decade.

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And then reading the vision book

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and meeting Pastor Vernon Mary, it's like, oh, my goodness.

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This is so good. We're not the only weird ones.

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Something that we have ever since forerunners

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even came about, and I'll give some of the history

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of it today, but ever since forerunners came about,

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we knew in our hearts, we knew as clear as day

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that what God has given us, this lifestyle, this vision,

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God has given it to us for now and for the end time church.

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That's literally the way that we felt the Lord deposited.

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We knew that when we begin to establish forerunners,

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when we begin to live this lifestyle,

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we knew that God, you are giving it to us now.

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It is for now, yet at the same time, it is for the end times.

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Now I want to quickly read what God has spoken in this house.

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Listen to this. This is in the vision book,

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page 60, starting at letter A.

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I'm just going to read it, and then you guys

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can read everything else.

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It says, this is what the Lord is speaking to this house.

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He says, you are a last day's church.

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That's what God spoke to this house.

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He said, you are a last day's church.

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That doesn't mean that we don't have the things for now,

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because we as a house, we have things from God now

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for the current events, but he's trying to tell us something.

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And I love, because Pastor Verne explains that

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in the vision book, and I'm not going to read all of it.

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I'm just giving you a little bit of a teaser,

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that you get it, you read it,

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you take some notes, and you begin to get familiar

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with the vision of this house.

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And as soon as you begin to be familiar with the vision

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of this house, you're going to be like, oh man,

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I got to change this, I got to change that,

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I got to reprioritize this in my life,

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because if I believe this is a vision from God,

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there's some things that I got to change.

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And not all of it has to be at once.

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I'm just going to be honest with you.

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Not all of it has to be at once.

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Baby steps, small pieces to the puzzle.

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The other thing...

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Oh, let me quickly mention this,

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and I just want to give a little bit of a teaser,

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because when Pastor Vernon Mary, when they come back,

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him and I might touch base a little bit on this.

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Forerunners is think of it this way.

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Actually, don't think of it this way.

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Let me back up here.

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Don't think of it this way,

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because some of you are going to go there right away.

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Forerunners is not a home group.

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When I begin to teach and talk about forerunners

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and how it looks like right away in people's minds,

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it's going to be like,

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oh, that's just like a home group.

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It's not a home group.

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And you're saying,

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well, why are you so hard against a home group?

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Because I feel like the title of home group

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has been so mistreated in the church.

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We began to treat it as

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let's just get together and drink a cup of tea.

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Let's just drink together and read the Bible

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and just feel good about ourselves.

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You know what I mean?

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We went to church on a Wednesday instead of just a Sunday.

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You know what I mean?

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It's like, not a forerunners.

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It might look.

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Some of you would be like,

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oh, it kind of looks like a home group.

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It's not just a home group.

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It's more than just a home group.

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But the way that forerunners was established

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and was established in our home

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is where it was established.

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And we had meetings in our home.

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And I'll get into the history here a little bit of it.

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But when the Lord was speaking to us

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and he said, this vision, this lifestyle

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is for now and it's for the end times.

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There is actually a prophecy and Pastor Vern

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will talk about this a little bit more.

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But there's a prophecy, if I'm not mistaken,

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came from the mouth of Pastor Vern.

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And he can quote me or he can correct me on this.

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That actually talks about end time revival

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around coffee tables.

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Has anybody heard that before?

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Felicia, you know your mom and dad well.

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Did it come from Pastor Vern?

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It did come from Pastor Vern.

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And it was like in the early 2000s, right?

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It was along.

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It was like back in Nam as...

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back in Nam.

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It's when phones weren't around yet, Jim, by the way.

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Yeah, phones weren't around at that time.

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Yeah, that was dialogue.

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You know, and all that.

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So there is a prophetic word that I'll have Pastor Vern

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talk a little bit more about.

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But it talks about end time revivals around coffee tables.

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And that's probably the more descriptive way

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that I could explain to you in a nutshell

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of what Forerunners is.

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The other thing that we always stood on in Forerunners

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and what we taught and we walked in

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was the attitude, the heart posture

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of a bride of Christ church.

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That was literally our attitude.

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When we would get together at our house

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or at different houses that would host it,

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our attitude was we are coming as a bride of Christ.

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And we desire to walk in a bridal identity.

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Do you know there's a difference of just being a church

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and actually being a bridal identity church?

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Walking in a bridal identity,

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if you go to churches that walk in bridal identity,

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they look different.

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They look different.

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Literally, they look different.

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So we've always walked with that.

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It's been our heart posture, it's been our attitude,

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it's been our approach of Lord, we are your bride.

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And we desire to be without spot.

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We desire to be without blemish.

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We desire to be without defect.

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So Holy Spirit, search our hearts,

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convict us, and if you find anything in us

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that is evil or unclean, rid us of it.

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That was our attitude.

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That was literally our attitude

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when we would get together at our home

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or in other homes that would host it.

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Now listen to this.

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This is in the vision book.

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And by the way, that attitude

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and that heart posture came out of Proverbs 31,

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starting at verse 10, all the way to verse 31,

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which talks about the virtuous wife.

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And someday in the future, I'll teach on that as well.

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Not right now.

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But someday in the future, I'll teach on

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the bride of Christ, the bridal identity.

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Which literally all comes out of Proverbs 31,

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starting at verse 10 to verse 31.

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But listen to this.

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So again, like I said, our attitude was always,

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we are the bride of Christ's church.

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Now in pages, let's go to page 61

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of our vision book.

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I said, let's go and nobody's even flipping.

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Oh, wow!

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Look at that!

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Vanessa!

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You are wonderful.

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I'm not a blessed person.

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Thank you so much.

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Look at this.

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Page 61 at the top there.

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Let her see.

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It says, you are a bride church.

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Do you see what I mean that

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what God has entrusted us with

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the forerunner vision and lifestyle

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is literally...

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And I'm only giving you just a few friends.

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I'm just giving you a few.

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It's literally hand and glove.

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It's not a replacement vision.

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It's not all.

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This vision failed.

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So we have to bring in a new...

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No, no, no, no, no, no, no.

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This is simply a vision that's

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complimenting and adding to

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the fire that's already here.

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We're just...

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Think of it this way.

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Think of it this way.

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We're just some dry logs

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that just came in

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and we threw ourselves on the fire.

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And I said dry logs.

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You know why?

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Because a dry log is a dead log.

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You didn't hear me.

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We did not come in as wet logs.

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We came in as some dead logs

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and we threw ourselves on the fire

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so that the fire of God

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would burn even brighter here.

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Now I encourage you

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that you become a dead log

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and throw yourself on the fire.

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Now that's going to sound really bad

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if somebody takes that out of context, by the way.

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They're going to say,

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what is that pastor preaching in Word of Life?

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He's saying, yeah,

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I'm not even going to go there.

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We...

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So yeah, it's wild.

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Let me read actually page 48

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of the vision book.

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So again, God speaks to Word of Life

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and he says you are a bright church.

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And ironically,

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he told us,

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my wife and I

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and the people that were with us,

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we had a team of people.

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Our attitude was

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you are the bride of Christ

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and you walk with that attitude

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and you learn that attitude.

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You learn what it means

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to be a bride of Christ.

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Here in...

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This is page 48 down

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at letter C again.

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Look at that, C.

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It stands for Christian.

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C.

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Sorry, guys.

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Sometimes the things I think

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should stay there

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and I speak them out.

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So I apologize.

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So here,

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page 48, letter C.

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It says, Word of Life

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is called to be a bright church.

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This is back in 2025.

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See?

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I was just testing you.

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I was just testing you.

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Good job.

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So the Lord spoke to this house.

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Pastor Vernon Mary came here

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with their family

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and they established the church in 2004.

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Was it spring of 2004?

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Spring of 2004.

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See, my memory is good.

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They established it in spring of 2004.

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2005, not 2025,

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2005, God speaks to them

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and says you are to be a bright church.

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And there's a lot that I think

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we can teach

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and go deeper there,

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but again, in due time.

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So yeah, I'm trying to show you all these points.

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Honestly, there's so many more.

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Once I start teaching on this

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and if you actually read your vision books,

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you'll understand,

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oh my goodness, they are so similar.

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And we didn't even know each other.

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I didn't meet...

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My wife and I did not meet

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Pastor Vernon Mary until 2003.

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It's the first time we met him.

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And we've been walking with this

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for about...

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Did I say 2003?

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Maybe we should wrap up church early today.

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All right.

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Father, I just...

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Let me just pray.

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Father, we just thank you, Lord.

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We thank you for this time.

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We're asking you that you would help us

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this morning, Holy Spirit.

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In Jesus' name.

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Amen.

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Amen.

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Yeah, 2023.

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Did I say 2003?

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All right.

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Well, maybe.

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Anywho, so there's a lot of similarities

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between forerunner vision

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and word of life vision here.

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Something that forerunner vision

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really falls down to, I should say,

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the three main points of the vision

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come do three things.

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And that is, we call them banners.

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That's just what we used to call them.

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We just call them banners.

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And you might say,

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well, why did you call them banners?

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Because a banner is something

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that you hold over yourself.

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It's something like, think of it this way.

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If you're an American,

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you hold an American flag over you.

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If you're a Ukrainian in Ukraine,

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listen, in Ukraine,

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you hold your flag over you.

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In America, you keep your flag

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where it needs to be.

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Did you hear what I said?

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You're like, hold on a second.

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Yeah, I said that.

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In America, you wave your flag

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because it represents who you are.

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It describes, he's an American.

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See, now that I'm a citizen, I can do that.

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So a banner is something

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you simply hold over yourself.

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So we would call these three main points.

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We would just call them banners.

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And one of them was Luke 7.

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It's Luke chapter 7 verse 35 to verse 50.

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And in a nutshell,

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I'm gonna literally break these down

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as the series go and I'll be teaching on them.

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But in a nutshell, what Luke 7

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starting at verse 36 to verse 50,

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what it talks about there,

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it talks about a sinner woman.

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It talks about a prostitute

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that came to wash the feet of Jesus.

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What the Lord spoke and showed us

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is that is something,

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first of all, let me say this,

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that is something that is very foreign

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to the church in our day and age.

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And that is ministering onto the Lord.

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It's very foreign to the church.

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Because people are always expecting

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God to minister to them,

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which is right.

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It's biblical.

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We should have that approach and that attitude.

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But did you know that we as the saints of God

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actually have, and not even just saints,

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I'll just say a people.

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Let me just put it that way.

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Because some of you are like,

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well, I'm not a saint,

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so that probably doesn't make me...

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Let me just say a people.

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We as a people of God

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have a privilege to minister onto Jesus.

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We have that privilege.

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And Luke 7 literally breaks it down for us.

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And I'm going to be teaching on that.

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The other one is John 3,

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chapter 3, verse 27 to verse 30.

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And there in that place,

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we find John the Baptist talking about Jesus.

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We find John the Baptist being approached

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by the Pharisees,

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and they're saying,

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who are you?

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And all this, that whole story.

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But John 3, verse 27 to 30,

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teaches us and shows us

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what it means and how it looks like

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to be friends of the bridegroom.

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Through, listen, listen,

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through breaking of bread.

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Through coming together

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and breaking of bread.

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And becoming friends of the bridegroom.

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Becoming friends of Jesus.

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You know, there's not many friends of Jesus.

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Did you guys know that?

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Did you guys know that?

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There's not many friends of Jesus

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in our day and age.

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That's pretty, I'm sorry,

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that's a pretty hard,

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like I say it and I'm like,

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oh man, I just got wrenching when I say it.

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But that's the truth.

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That's the truth.

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To be a friend of Jesus

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is a price that very few are willing to pay.

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To be a friend of Jesus

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is a price that very few are willing to pay.

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And those that have paid it

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won't even see their full reward

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until they get to heaven.

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Let me say that again.

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Those that have paid the price

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to be a friend of the bridegroom

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won't even see their full reward

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until they get to heaven.

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The fourth, or I'm sorry,

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the third point is that of Ephesians 4

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which talks about the five-fold ministry.

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And in a nutshell,

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it's the edifying of the body,

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it's building, it's maturing the saints.

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In forerunner vision and lifestyle,

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we are after my life.

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My life, what I'm after when it comes to people

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is I desire for people to mature

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in the things of the Lord.

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That's my desire.

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That's my desire.

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That's my wife's desire.

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We desire to mature in the things of the Lord.

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To get past the petty things.

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There is...

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I'm just gonna preach to the choir here.

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It's obvious.

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There is so much immaturity

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in the body of Christ.

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There is so much immaturity

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in the body of Christ.

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Now, are you ready for this?

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Gossip is a form of immaturity.

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Strife is a form of immaturity.

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Do you know why?

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Because out of those things,

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the reason why people gossip,

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the reason why people do these things

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is literally if you really boil it down,

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it's insecurities.

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They're offended.

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When you begin to mature,

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the insecurities begin to all of a sudden

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not bother you anymore.

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Do you know when you're mature

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or maturing in Christ?

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Is when the things that used to bother you

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where you were insecure about,

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all of a sudden you don't even pay attention to them anymore.

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That's a form of you actually maturing

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in the things of God.

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So the third point of forerunner vision

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in lifestyle is maturing the saints.

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It's building the saints.

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It's recognizing that everybody

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who believes in Jesus

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is born again,

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is filled with the Holy Ghost.

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They actually fall into one of the five.

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Did you know that?

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Each of us here fall into one of the five,

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of the five-fold.

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Some of us might even operate in two of them.

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Amen.

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Apostle,

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prophet,

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evangelist,

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pastor, teacher.

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Let me give you the best way to learn this.

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Apostle is the thumb,

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because if we didn't have a thumb on our hand,

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you'd be messed up, bro.

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I'm just kidding, we can pray for you.

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A prophet is the pointer finger

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because prophets always point.

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That's how I just remember this.

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An evangelist usually stands out out of the bunch.

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That's why we got our middle finger as the evangelist.

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A pastor is the ring finger

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because we'll usually pastors marry.

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And a teacher is the pinky

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because we always seem like

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all teachers are nobody.

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I'm just telling you that's how I remembered it.

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I don't think that teachers are nobody.

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I think teachers are needed, but the way that we view them

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is like, ah, he's just a teacher.

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No, no, we need those guys. We need them.

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So each of us literally can

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operate in one, if not more,

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of the five-fold. Each of us.

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Let me give you a little bit of a sneak peek.

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I'm going ahead of the series here.

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Did you know that each of you

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in some way or another

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are actually leaders?

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Did you know that?

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In some way or another

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you are actually leading people.

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You're saying, well Igor,

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I'm retired, man. I just

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sit at home. Are you married?

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Well, yeah. Well, then you're leading your wife.

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Do you have kids?

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Well, yeah. Well, then you're leading your kids.

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But my kids, they've moved on.

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They're grown up. They're married.

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They have their own kids. Do you know that

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your kids might move on, get married, move out

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and all this stuff, but they're still looking

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at you and they still recognize you as mom and dad.

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You're still leading them to somewhere

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or another. Each of us

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have a sphere of influence.

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We do. Some of us have greater

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because God has found trust in us

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to have a greater realm of influence.

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Some of us have less.

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We don't compare each other to one another.

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We simply walk in the measure that

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God, I said, that God

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has entrusted us in walking.

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So those are the three

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real main points

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of full runners.

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And I want to just briefly because

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we're going to go past the noon here. So let me give you

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like 10 minutes and I'll give you

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a brief history of four runners.

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Are you guys okay with that? Yeah?

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But like 10 minutes I'll give you that brief history of four runners.

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So like I said, Tanya and I, we got

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married in 2015.

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Sometime at the end of 2015,

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the Lord

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met me in our kitchen. That's another

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story for another time. Things started

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to happen. Early

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2016,

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my father-in-law, Tanya's dad, graduated

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to heaven. He went to heaven.

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And I thank God, I thank God

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that he met us before

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my father-in-law passed away.

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Because when my father-in-law

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passed away, nobody was expecting it.

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Like my wife already said, she was very

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close with her. We're in the second

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year of our marriage and this happens as a husband.

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I'm like, ah, what do I

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do? You know what I mean? It's like, you just can't do

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nothing. You just sit there and you cry sometimes

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with her. You sit there and you pray. You just

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you do what you best know how to

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do. So

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2016 is roughly

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around that time. In 2016

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we began to just unofficially

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begin to live a lifestyle

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when I say unofficially

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is like we didn't know that forerunners was

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a thing. We just began to live a life

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of prayer, fasting.

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We began to live a life of ministering

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on to the Lord. And honestly

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nobody taught us that. Nobody taught

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us how to minister on

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to God. We just did what we

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knew how to do. And God would show

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up. The Lord would show

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up. So we would randomly

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even in our apartment, we randomly

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would have people come over. I mean, do you guys

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remember that? We would randomly come over to

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our apartment. And there was three things

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that always were there.

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And that was prayer

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and worship, ministering on to the Lord.

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There was

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the breaking of bread, of getting around

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tables and fellow shipping. And

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there was always a time of ministry to one

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another. Which is Ephesians

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4. Edifying, maturing

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helping

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people grow. Those three things were

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just there and they were natural.

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We didn't necessarily even strive for them.

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We just would have people over at

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our house. It'd be fun. We'd eat

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some food. We'd laugh.

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Sometimes when it was unofficial,

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sometimes we would end the night with prayer and worship.

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Sometimes we just had really great

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conversations and people went home and they felt blessed.

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It

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wasn't until

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2017, you can quote me here,

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or correct me here, 2017

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we bought our first home.

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Right? 2017 we bought

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our first home. My wife, Tanya,

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was very, very pregnant

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with our first son, Benjamin. Very pregnant.

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I mean, like, we literally bought the house

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and like a month later, Benjamin was born.

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It wasn't until in our new hope house,

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our first home that we bought

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is that where forerunners really began

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to grab traction and things began to really

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happen. Now I'm giving you a nutshell

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of the history here. Here's

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so you know. So we have, we're in our house

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2017, about

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early 2018, Benjamin is still

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under, he was under six months

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I think. He was still a baby. He was under,

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let's just give myself some more grace.

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He was under a year old.

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Okay? So

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mothers, if you're listening to me, I want you to hear

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something here.

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My wife had a child that was

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under one years old

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and we would have people

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over at our house a minimum

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listen, a minimum

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of four days out of the week

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and you know what?

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We would feed them, we would

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minister to them, we would worship

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with them, we would pray with them, we would pour into them.

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Minimum four days a week

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people would be over at our house

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and the three components would always

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be there. When people would come over

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we would talk, we would break bread,

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we would pray, somebody would

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start weeping. Here's

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a little joke that I'll tell you that we had

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at Four Runners. My wife would go to

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Costco regularly and she would buy

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bulks of the tissues,

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bulks of them. Because

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we would go through tissues, you're like, why?

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Because when the Lord sometimes touches you, you got snot

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coming out of your nose.

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We would

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buy bulks of these tissues.

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Now I'm just sharing with you this history.

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I'm not saying this is exactly how things are going to look

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as we go forward. I'm just sharing with you history

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just to bring about

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why this is so dear to us.

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It was about

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2018.

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Benjamin was already about almost two years

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old, right? And you were very pregnant with

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Noah. Very pregnant with our second son

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Noah. I'm sorry?

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Was it 19?

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Oh, maybe I'm getting ahead of myself.

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It was around 18. Let me

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step back. It was around 18 before

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Four Runners became official. It was around

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2018 that we would

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randomly organize

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these prayer nights at our house.

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And we'd have

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no joke. We'd have people coming from all over

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the Midwest. We had people coming from South Dakota,

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from North Dakota, from Nebraska.

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I think we even had some people coming from Iowa.

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I don't even know these people.

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But because they heard

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that there's a prayer and something at so-and-so's

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house, they would show up. We would have

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anywhere from 40 to 70 people

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on the weekends.

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And half of the... in my house, now again,

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my house was not big. It was not

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big. It was just a 2,000

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square foot house. The living room was not

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that large. We sat like sardines.

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But we didn't care.

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We didn't care.

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We just wanted Jesus.

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And again,

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when these... we used to call them

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Jesus nights, if you remember. We used to call

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them Jesus nights. And people would come.

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And I have these people I don't even know.

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They're coming into my house.

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I don't know them. They're coming into

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my home.

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By the grace of God. This is a testimony

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that I walk with. By the grace of God

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for those, I don't know, how many years,

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four or five years that we were doing it?

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For those four or five years,

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nothing was ever stolen

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from my house. That's God.

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I said,

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that's God.

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I ran a business.

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I had an office with some personal

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things. By the way, years down

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the road, the office became the place where

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deliverance would happen.

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We'd be in a living room and we'd be praying

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and all of a sudden the manifestation comes

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and people that were on the team at that time, we would

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look at each other and we'd be like, yeah, go to the

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office, man. And we would drag that person

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in the office and we'd cast out devils in the office.

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Yeah. It's a testimony of

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God. Nothing was ever stolen.

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Did we have some

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carpet ruined? Yeah, we did, but that's

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okay. It's part of the cost. Do we

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have some things broken? Yeah, little things

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here and there. Do we have a lot of water

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bottles left over that we had to clean up? Yes, we

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did. That's all part of paying

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the cost. That's all part of the sacrifice.

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You're doing this not for yourself.

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You're doing this for the Lord.

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If we believe that this

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vision is from the Lord. It was

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about 2018 is when

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Four Runners became official. I'm really

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trying to skim through here. Give me like

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five more minutes. It was

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about 2018 when Four Runners

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became official. And I remember

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I heard from the Lord, because everybody

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kept on asking us, because this started happening more

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and more, and people kept on asking us. They

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said, well, is this going to become

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like an official thing? Are we going to gather here

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regularly? We should totally do that.

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Come on, not realizing

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the logistics of things. Friends,

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I'm talking about literally, I'm not bragging.

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I'm just, I'm testifying of the faithfulness

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of God. Every time people

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came, 40 to 70

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people, do you know from

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whose wallet the money came for to pay for

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the food? It was ours.

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Pizza gets expensive.

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We're talking about your drop

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on 150 bucks

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a few times a week.

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I'm not bragging. I'm not.

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I'm simply showing you

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the faithfulness of God.

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Our business at that time

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began to increase, and all of a sudden I'm like, cool.

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Have them come over five days a week.

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We can afford it. This is awesome.

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God

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showed provision, not because

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it's just like Tanya

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mentioned today, and just like Amanda Hill said.

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He'll give you the provision when you begin to go

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there. We just began to win there, and

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all of a sudden our business began to be

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blossoming more and more. More

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and more people needed windows.

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It was great. It was fun.

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2018

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forerunners became official.

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I remember that night

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the Lord spoke to me. We were in prayer. There was like

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15 people, and I just felt like

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I need to talk to my wife

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before I say it to them, because we had about

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15 people that were regulars. They were

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literally there every time.

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There was around about 15 people.

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I remember that night

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when the Lord spoke to me, everybody went home.

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By the way, people stayed at our house.

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We have a saying in our

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Slavic community, it's a minimum

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of four hours when you spend time with us.

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You're like, whoa, dude,

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what do you guys talk about? The Lord.

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The Lord.

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That's what we talk about.

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We don't talk about, yeah, we might laugh

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about, you know, this happened at work, or did

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you hear that? And there's laughs.

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But I can easily say 90%,

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if not more, about our conversations

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revolved around the Lord.

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So we just have a joke. We say every time

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you get together with Igor and Tanya, it's a

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minimum of four hours. And some of you that

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have spent some time with us, and I'm willing to

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spend time with more of you just to let you guys know,

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some of you that have spent time with us, you can

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say amen to that.

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And I don't hear the people saying amen to that.

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Come on, guys.

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I'm leaning on some of you

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here.

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So when the Lord said that

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that night, again, Benjamin

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was about two years old, Tanya

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was very pregnant with Noah.

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We laid down in bed, and I turned to

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my wife, and I'm like, if my wife agrees,

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it has to be God, because she's very

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pregnant. We had a toddler.

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And I turned to my wife that night, and I

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remember I told her, I said, hey, I said,

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so in the sky, I said, I think, I'm like,

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I think we need to make this thing official, where

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it becomes a regular on a weekly basis.

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Do you know what her response was?

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She said, yeah, let's do it.

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I was like, whoa, hold on a second.

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Then I began to second guess.

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Very easy.

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It was like, yeah, let's do it. And from

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that moment, we began to make this official

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where it was a weekly thing. People would come

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to our house. It used to be on Saturdays,

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then it was on Sundays. And friends, I'm

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telling you, what we saw, again,

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time is against me. What we saw

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God do in Forerunners

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was incredible. I haven't even seen

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some of that stuff in churches.

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I haven't seen some of that stuff

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in churches. Do you know why?

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Very simple answer for you,

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because people came hungry for Jesus.

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It wasn't because Igor

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had some awesome sermon, or

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somebody on the piano played some awesome

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song. It was simple.

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People that would gather in homes,

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you're sitting like sardines.

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There are 70 of you.

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You smell sweat. You're like,

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man, somebody just ripped one.

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But you're like, I don't care.

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I don't care. I want

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Jesus. And God

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would show up.

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I'm saying God would

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show up. I'll say it now.

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I never said it before, but I'll say it

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now. Friends, half the times, because God

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entrusted us with it to steward

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these things. I'll say it now. Half the

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times, I didn't know what I was doing.

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I didn't

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know what I was doing. In those

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moments, you'd hear me praying. Tongue is

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a little bit louder.

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I don't know what I'm doing right now.

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But God

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honored the hunger.

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God honored

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the hunger. We were just a bunch of...

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By the way, we were in our early 20s

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when we were doing this.

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We were in our early 20s when we started

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doing this.

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And then from there, when this started

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happening, people started showing up to the church.

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God was showing up. People were hungry.

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We saw signs,

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miracles, wonders. We saw

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deliverances. We saw salvations.

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We saw salvations.

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I said, we saw

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salvations.

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We saw people have

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questions answered that used to

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just literally condemn them.

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Like, well, why is God? And in those

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times of sitting around the table

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and talking about the Lord,

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people would actually receive

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answers of like

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light bulb going off in their head.

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That's why we pray in tongues.

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Yes.

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That's why we do so and so.

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Yes.

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We saw what

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forerunners produced, even just

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aside from the church that we were attending

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and pasturing at that time, which was my father's church.

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But to us,

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it's such a dear thing and we know

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that I know

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that I know

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that this is for now

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and for the end-time church.

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I'm going to share one more thing and then we'll close out

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in prayer. There was a time

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where forerunners went from 40 to

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70 people and it literally

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dwindled down to just four of us.

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And this was around the time when God actually

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began to call my wife and I out

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into what we call a season

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of consecration. He began to hide us.

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And literally, it's not

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that we were doing something wrong.

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It was the Lord's working.

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People just stopped

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showing up. It was just like, what is going on?

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Cricket, cricket, cricket.

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And it even came

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to the point of where it was

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just for about a year, year and a half, actually two years.

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I'm sorry, it was about two years.

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Where it was literally just my wife and I.

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It was just my wife and I.

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And there was even nights

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depending who attended to the kids that night.

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It was just either me

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or it was just Tanya.

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And I've learned something. I've learned something.

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It's in those moments

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when the dust settles, when the

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people leave, the attention of other people

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leave, it's just you and you

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alone. That is where you're actually

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tested. Is this vision

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from God or did you just fathom

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something in your mind?

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It's easy for us in a church

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like this to agree

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yeah man, this is a vision

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of God, man. Come on, we feel

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each other's energy. We feel the

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stirring and the brewing of the Holy Spirit.

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But what about when you

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go home and it's just you?

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Nobody else is watching.

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Nobody else is paying attention

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to how you're worshiping,

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to what you're doing, but it's simply

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God looking from heaven

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and he's saying, do you

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actually believe this

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vision is from God?

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Do you believe it's from me?

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It's in those

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moments where I learned are

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actually far more important

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though the moments with all the people

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is great, but it's right here

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in the moments where it's just you

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and your wife is where the character

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is built. And you stand

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your ground and you say, God, I

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know that I know

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that I know that what you've given

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me is for now and for

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the age, excuse me,

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for the days to come.

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For the days to come. There

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is something that God spoke to us

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when things began to dwindle down. It was just

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four of us. And my good friend Timothy

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and his wife, Tanya, they can attest to this

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because they were the ones that were with us.

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Because at that time we already sold our house,

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we were looking for another home, so we were living

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with my mother-in-law at that time

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and our friends, Timothy

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and Tanya, they opened up their house

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and they said, hey guys, just come do

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forerunners at our house. And we were

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it was a far drive.

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It was a far drive, minimum

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once a week. We'd go down there

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and we did what we felt God asked us

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to do. Minister unto him

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become friends of the bridegroom

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and edify one another.

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And in those moments, and I want to

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share just with you real quick and then we'll pray

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it was in those moments

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where it was just the four of us. I felt

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the Lord say something to me that ran

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through me and even now as I'm saying it, I'm like

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wow, he said this.

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He said, what you're doing now

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is far more important

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than you even realize.

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He said, what you're doing now,

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what you're learning to do now,

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what you're doing,

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what you're practicing, what you're

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maturing in, he said, what you're

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doing now is actually far more

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important than you even realize.

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Friends, I am

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convinced.

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I am convinced

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that the end time revival

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will look a lot different than what we think

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it's going to look like.

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I'm going to end it there. Let's pray.

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And then we'll carry on to next week.

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Father, we thank you.

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Lord, we bless you.

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We exalt you, God.

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We are grateful. We are

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grateful for your word. We are

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grateful for the

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moving of your spirit, for the brewing

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of your spirit. Father, we are

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grateful. We are grateful

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that you would unveil our eyes to

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see, that you would open up

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our eyes to see that the flakes

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on our eyes would fall off, God.

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And we would see clearly like the

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Apostle Paul. Father, we love

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you. We bless you.

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And we thank you. We thank you,

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Lord, that you love us today.

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We thank you that you are

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merciful and that your mercy

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renews today for us, God.

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So, Lord, as I

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bless our people today, Lord, as I

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bless your people, God, I pray that

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you be with them as they leave

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the doors of this church.

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Would you stir in their hearts,

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God? Would you have them

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measure themselves of how

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committed they are to the

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vision and the things of you,

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Lord? Holy Spirit, measure

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them. Show them that

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they would measure themselves

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of how much they are

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actually committed to what you

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are asking of them

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and of this house. And we

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pray all of these things in Jesus' name.

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Amen.