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We're going to do something here. I'm going to... I want the band to stay up here.

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And there's something I feel the Lord is asking me to share.

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So if you want to sit during that, then when we're done with me sharing a couple of principles here,

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we're going to have the band repeat what they just sang.

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And it might take on a little bit different meaning to you.

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We are, as the body of Christ, not this church, as the body of Christ,

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there is still a major shift happening in what he is leading us toward

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and the outpouring of his spirit and what's coming in our future and so forth.

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And it's not just about the moving of the Holy Spirit of the last days.

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It's going to center around that, but there it's like a spoke, spokes on wheels.

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It's going to affect many, many different things.

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And the thing that happens too often in churches, in the body of Christ,

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is we get locked down in the way we want to see things happen

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or the way we're used to it happening, and we don't allow the Holy Spirit to lead us on.

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And what comes out of that obviously is religion and tradition,

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but ultimately what comes out of that, you miss where the Holy Spirit is going.

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And whoever doesn't get on board, he just goes on without you.

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This is explained in Scripture. I'm going to go to Matthew 11.

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I'm not going to read everything here, but I'm going to bounce through some things.

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Things were changing and so different with Jesus' ministry

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that John the Baptist was questioning if he's the one.

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Now he should have known he's the one.

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I mean, if you go back and what happened with the water baptism and everything,

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if anybody should have known Jesus was the one, it was John the Baptist.

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However, he sent his disciples and asked, are you really the one?

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Because there's some weird stuff going on that we haven't seen before in Israel.

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And Jesus' answer was, he said, verse 5,

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The blind see, the lame walk, the lepers are cleansed, the deaf hear, the dead are raised,

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the poor have the gospel preached to them.

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So in other words, the things of God are moving, they're happening.

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That'd be a good Scripture to bring up in most churches in America.

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Are you really the one we're looking at? Well, tell them.

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When you look at me, the blind see, the lame walk, lepers are cleansed, the deaf hear,

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the dead are raised, the poor have the gospel preached to them.

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How many churches in America do we have that happening?

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Not my point this morning, but that's for free.

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Verse 6, Jesus said, blessed is he who is not offended because of me.

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See, it was so different that John is going, wow, what is this?

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So we read on a little bit here, then Jesus talks about John some

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and John's ministry and him being the forerunner

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and being the one who prepares the way.

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Verse 12, from the days of John the Baptist till now,

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which wasn't long, that wasn't like 500 years,

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that wasn't a long period of time.

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But from that time, John the Baptist was ministering

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to Jesus' ministering.

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He said, the kingdom of heaven is suffering violence

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and the violent take it by force.

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Two different things going on, both dealing with violence.

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All the prophets and the laws prophesied until John,

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if you would receive this, verse 14,

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he is Elijah who is to come.

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He who has ears, let him hear.

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Let him hear.

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So now he thinks, you know, John is, they're going to take that back to John.

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John's already questioning.

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Now he's saying, by the way, John, you're Elijah, which was to come.

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That will really stretch him.

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So you talk about something new.

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Verse 16.

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He says, but here's the issue.

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What do I compare this generation to?

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It's like children sitting in the marketplace

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and calling to their companions and saying,

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so it's, this is how it used to happen.

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We played the flute for you and you used to dance.

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We mourned for you and you used to lament.

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Now the problem is we play the flute for you

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and you're not dancing.

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We mourn for you and you do not lament.

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This is new. What's going on?

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Verse 18.

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John came neither eating or drinking.

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They say, oh yeah, you can't eat or drink.

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That guy's got a demon.

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Jesus came mixing with the people who had problems with alcohol

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and wine-beer and tax collectors and sinners.

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And they say, what's his problem?

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So in other words, as God starts moving,

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certain people will never be satisfied.

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They will pick and they will criticize no matter what God does.

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That is a trend of Jesus saying,

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this is what this generation's like.

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Things are shifting, they're changing.

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We played the flute, nobody's dancing.

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Huh, that's new.

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We mourned, nobody's lamenting.

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Huh, that's new.

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John's living one way, that ain't good enough.

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Jesus living another way, that ain't good enough.

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What's going on?

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A shift, if there was ever a shift on this earth when Jesus was here.

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But the principles hold true.

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So what did Jesus come out of that saying?

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Verse 20, he began to rebuke the cities

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which most of his mighty works had been done in.

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Why?

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Because they weren't accepting what Jesus was bringing.

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It was new, it was different.

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Even though the things Jesus laid out, he said, look what's happening.

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This is all godly stuff that's happening.

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The people weren't accepting it.

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And he says, this is not good.

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It's going to catch you on the day of judgment.

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And now I'm just going to skip some things.

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I'm going to jump down to chapter 13, verse 52,

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because here's the principle that I want to drive in this morning.

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When God, by his spirit, moves our command to stay and step with the spirit.

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Walk with the spirit, stay and step with the spirit.

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Galatians 6, we have to follow in.

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When God shifts, he doesn't stay doing it the way he's always done it.

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And here's the danger, it can go one or two ways.

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We can do with what they were wrestling with with Jesus

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and just reject the new stuff that's going on and say,

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yeah, we're not following that. No, that's not God.

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And lock down in our religion and tradition

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and just not go there.

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Or, like the verse we're about to read,

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we take everything that we've learned from what God has done

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and we throw it out because now he's doing a new thing.

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Like that stuff back there was all worthless.

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And you know where the balance is?

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It's in the middle.

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Christians love to get out of balance and hit the ditch.

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When I was growing up, we would sing

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two, maybe three hymns out of the hymnal.

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We wouldn't sing all the verses in each hymn because that wasn't tradition.

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We'd sing the first, sometimes the last,

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if we were really into it the first, the third and the last.

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And then we'd sing a couple of choruses

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that started at 10 o'clock

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and by 10, 15, 10, 20 that was done, period.

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Then the charismatic move came

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and these people threw all those rules out.

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Well, that can't be God.

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Let me ask you this.

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There were lessons learned in Asusa Street, early 1900s

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God's not doing it exactly that way anymore

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but there were lessons learned of how the spirit moves in the early 1900s.

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Do we remember any of them?

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Or did we just throw them all out when the healing move came?

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There was lessons learned in the healing move,

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in the charismatic move, in the faith move.

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There was lessons learned.

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Is the healing move like it was in the 50s?

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Is that still going? No.

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Is the charismatic move in the late 60s and 70s still going the way it was? No.

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Is the faith move going the way it was? No.

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God moves on,

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but we have to be very cautious not to...

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There's an old saying I grew up with,

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not to throw the baby out with the bathwater.

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You know, we get so excited about getting the old water out

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that we don't pay attention to what's going with the old water.

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And we just throw the precious things away also.

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There was things that were learned in the healing move of the 50s

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that still apply today.

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Do we have any clue what they are?

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There were things learned in the charismatic move.

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Do we have any idea what they were?

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No, it's not being done like it happened in the charismatic move.

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But do we have any idea what those lessons were?

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There were things learned in the faith move.

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Do we have any idea what they are?

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Most of us would probably have to say,

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no, I probably don't know one lesson that was learned.

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That's the danger in the other ditch.

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Let me read it to you.

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Jesus in chapter 13.

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All parables from the beginning.

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Parable of the sower, this is how the kingdom works.

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The purpose of parables, he explains it.

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It was for the future salvation of Israel.

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If you tie it to Romans 11.

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Parable of the sower explained, so this is what it's like.

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The parable of the wheat and the tares.

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He's talking about growth. He's talking about movement

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and how then when God's spirit moves, everything moves,

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including the demonic realm, they're going to get involved too.

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Parable of the mustard seed. Don't give up when God moves.

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Even though it might be a small thing that starts and you let that baby grow

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and nurture it, because it will become a huge, huge tree

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that will do great things in your life.

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Watch out for leaven.

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Parable of the leaven. Watch out for leaven.

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Don't let little things that shouldn't be in your life stay there

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because they will grow too.

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Parable of the tares. He explained it.

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Verse 36. Verse 44.

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Again, the kingdom is like a hidden treasure.

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You go find it. Verse 45.

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The parable of the pearl of great price.

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If you want these things where God's going, you're going to have to pursue them.

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You're going to have to seek them.

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Parable of the dragnet as you go...

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That's verse 47.

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As you go pursuing and seeking these things

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and giving yourself over to God,

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you're going to gather all kinds of things.

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Some of them are good.

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Some of them you need to let go of.

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But...

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Verse 52.

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Then he said to them.

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Therefore, what for?

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Everything he just said.

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This is how it works when God moves.

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Therefore,

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every scribe or teacher, depending upon what translation you're reading,

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instructed concerning the kingdom of heaven

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is like

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a householder who brings out his treasure,

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things new

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and things old.

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When you're dealing with heaven

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and you're instructing about

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the kingdom of God and heaven and that whole thing,

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there's going to be new things that need to be dealt with.

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There's going to be old things that need to be dealt with.

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Chapter 11.

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They didn't want any of the new things.

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They wanted to stick with the old things

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and just, we're not changing.

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This is how we've always done it.

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This is what we're comfortable with.

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And we're not changing.

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Chapter 13.

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Jesus goes through numerous parables

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and says this is how it's going to walk out

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as I work in your life.

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But in the end,

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you must hang on to the new

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where the spirit's going

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and you must hang on to the lessons of the old.

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You have to bring both out

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if you're going to stay balanced.

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Like I said, we used to have

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15 minutes of worship max

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and then we'd move on

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because the service had to be over in an hour.

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Well, I really like that.

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That's nice.

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But you know what?

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The Holy Spirit ain't there anymore.

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That might have been great for then.

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Might have been exactly what God wanted.

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But you know what?

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He's not there anymore.

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And if we don't move with Him,

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He will leave us out

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and go to a people who will.

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There are new things

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that God is emphasizing

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and taking us into

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and we have to go with them.

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Mary's going to talk about some this morning.

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However, we don't take the lessons

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that we learned in faith.

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We don't take the lessons that we learned

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in the charismatic move.

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And there were some good ones

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and there were some bad ones.

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And it's like, hang on to the good.

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Don't do that.

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The charismatic moves known

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for getting really weird.

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Casting demons out of

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windows, panes and door knobs

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and your car didn't start

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so the kingdom of darkness

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has settled under the hood in your car

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and they'd hold prayer meetings over the car.

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Maybe just put some gas into it

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that might make it run.

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Just weird things.

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Even in ministry,

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there was weird things that happened.

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If you didn't throw up,

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you didn't have a demon cast out.

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That's not what we hold on to.

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But there were some good things

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like the understanding of flowing in the spirit,

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the gifts of the spirit being revived,

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being able to flow with God.

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That came out of the charismatic move

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that we hold on to.

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So the whole point is this.

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As God continues to shift

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his worldwide church,

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there's going to be things he's going to lead us into

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that are going to challenge us.

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They're going to challenge our traditions.

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They're going to challenge our religion.

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They're going to challenge our comfort zone,

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our convenience.

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They're going to challenge us.

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That's God.

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That's God because his mercies are new

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every morning.

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Which means he's doing something new

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every day.

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So we have to learn to flow

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with what God is,

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even though it's going to be like,

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that's different, that's weird.

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We've never seen it like that before.

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But at the same time,

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we can't let go of the valuable

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godly lessons that were taught to us

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over the last few hundred years.

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You know, some of the best books to read

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are the ones that were written by ministers in the 1800s.

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Oh, we're so far past them.

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Are we?

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Really? Are we?

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Kind of arrogant talk is that.

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They knew things that we have

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long since forgotten,

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but would be very valuable.

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So we need to take the holy things

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that God showed them,

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and we need to hang on to the holy things

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God is showing us,

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and keep our focus right here.

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And keep growing and walking

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and believing and learning.

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Because the last thing

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that I want to happen is we miss

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where God's going.

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We're not going to miss this.

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We're not going to miss this.